God's Gal: How Broken Do I Really Want To Be?
How Broken Do I Really Want To Be?
The thought first occurred to me this week at the worst possible time.
It was my brother's birthday this week. So, we took our once-a-year trip to his favourite restaurant... Quite the shmancy place.
And just as I'm digging in, this question poses in my mind: How broken do I really want to be?
And sitting there in that restaurant, eating some pretty yummy food... I really didn't want to be that broken. Honestly, "empty my hands" was not really my prayer at that moment.
It's now overflowed into everything in my life... This question. Do I really want Him to empty my hands, fill my heart, capture my mind?
I might want the last two, but if that comes at the cost of emptying, breaking... How broken do I really want to be?
But broken is beautiful. So shouldn't the question be: How beautiful do I want to be?
This doesn't mean if you give away your Mazda, God will send you a brand new Porsche. Here's the deal: The brokenness is the bonus and blessing.
And you'll find, the more you break, how much bigger your life feels. When you break, you realize how small you are and how big God is.
Breaking is humbling, breaking is hurting - yes. But breaking is freeing. Breaking means having faith that He'll fix you.
But breaking means nothing left. Breaking means poor, meek, persecuted, mourning, hungry and thirsty.
This month is blog month at Compassion International.
Can I encourage you to break just a little today? It doesn't have to be a lot, don't worry... Just whatever you're comfortable with.
You can stop on by this page on the Compassion website.
The rest is up to you... How broken do you want to be?
Choose a child to pray over. Pray that they find a sponsor, pray that they grow up to be a man or woman after God's own heart.
And if you feel like breaking a little more, call over your family. Huddle around the computer and find a child with the same birthday, birth year, name, or country of origin as you and/or your family members. Talk about God's heart for the poor.
And if you feel like breaking more still, sponsor a child. You really, really will never regret this decision.
Yes - breaking will hurt, but it's a promise, he will make you whole again, more whole than you've ever felt before.
how broken do you want to be?
Hi sister! So you're a God Gal too? Awesome! I'm bloggin' for Compassion as well this month - and I sponsor a child as well. I see you sponsor more than 'a child'! That's so awesome! I'm working on the money to sponsor more. I see you follow Katie (on earth as it is in heaven) on her blog! I'm trying to sponsor a couple children thru her program, Amazima.


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The Hell Bent Kid
Number: 9781504011716
Tags: Western
Publisher: Open Road Media
Hailed by the Western Writers of America as one of the top twenty-five Westerns ever written: The harrowing story of an innocent young man pursued across west Texas by a relentless posse
A crack shot more skilled with a rifle than are men twice his age, eighteen-year-old Tot Lohman has no intention of using his genius for evil. But when a fight erupts at a schoolhouse dance, Lohman is forced to defend himself, and a young rancher named Shorty Boyd winds up dead. The Boyds are numerous, powerful, and vicious, and they want revenge. With no one else to turn to, Lohman sets out across canyon country to reunite with his ailing father in New Mexico Territory. The journey will be long, hot, and perilous, and to survive it, this mild-mannered boy must become the cold-blooded killer he never wanted to be.
Based on real events, The Hell Bent Kid is a tale of pursuit as stark and mesmerizing as the Southwestern landscape in which it is set. Unrelenting from first page to last, it ranks alongside The Ox-Bow Incident, True Grit, and The Searchers as one of the most unique and artful stories of the West ever told. In 1958 it was adapted into the film From Hell to Texas, directed by the famed Henry Hathaway and starring Don Murray, Diane Varsi, Chill Wills, and Dennis Hopper.

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Q: Why do I get a certificate error on Ubuntu but not on Windows? In a java application, I'm trying to read an RSS feed from google alerts (https://www.google.com/alerts/feeds/...).  On my laptop, running Windows 10, it works fine.  Visiting the URL of the RSS feed also works fine from a web browser on Windows.  But when I try running the java application on an Ubuntu server (16.04.06) I get the following exception:
javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building       failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification   path to requested target
I can work around this by finding the certificate that my web browser trusts and storing it in the trust store than my java application is using on the Ubuntu server.  However, this doesn't seem like the right solution.  I think this is a root certificate that should be trusted by the operating system.  In my web browser it is described as "GlobalSign Root CA - R2."  When I run the java application on my Windows 10 laptop it is somehow finding a certificate that it trusts.  This leads me to believe that the certificates on my Ubuntu server are out of date, or something.
It there a better or more proper way of solving this problem than storing the certificate I found in my web browser in the java application's trust store on the Ubuntu server?

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On Thursday, October 18, 2018, the Board of Directors of the Old Town School of Folk Music voted to put its building at 909 W. Armitage -- the School's historic home, where classes have been held for 50 years -- on the market.
On Monday, October 22, the School issued a press release and shared it on Facebook and via email. It was the first time most students, faculty and staff heard about the sale.
The press release said the Armitage building would be sold to "seed" an endowment fund, with classes to be terminated there once the building is sold in mid-2019. The announced plan was to move most of the Lincoln Park classes to the School's two buildings in Lincoln Square.
A group of students met in Lincoln Park and began organizing to fight the sale of the Armitage building.
One long-time student started a petition on Change.org ("Save The Old Town School of Folk Music") requesting answers and asking that the sale be delayed until it could be explained and the community engaged. The petition eventually collected over 7,000 signatures. You can still sign it!
On Thursday, October 25, Bau Graves (OTSFM Executive Director) and Kish Khemani (Chairman of the Board of Directors) posted a letter to the community on the OTSFM website acknowledging the uproar and reiterating that the building was being offered for sale. A similar letter was sent to faculty and staff.
On Monday, November 5, Save Old Town School sent a letter to the administration asking to meet and for an explanation of their decision-making. The next day, Graves agreed to set up a meeting, but it has not yet been scheduled.
On Wednesday, November 7, at the start of a meeting for Old Town School faculty and staff to meet with members of the Board of Directors, Save Old Town School presented a printed copy of the change.org petition in a large binder. You may read the cover letter if you are interested.
This is what a petition signed by 6,300 people looks like when printed out and placed in a binder! Save Old Town School representatives presented it to members of the Old Town School of Folk Music Board of Directors on Wednesday night, November 7th, along with our request that the proposed sale of 909 W. Armitage be put on hold until the School's community is given more information about the sale and has an opportunity to provide input.
On Saturday, November 10, teachers, students and concerned members of the community held a rally at 909 W. Armitage protesting the sale of the building. Despite short notice, well over one hundred people showed up to wave signs, make speeches, and sing songs. See our blog for more details.
On Thursday, November 15, non-faculty staff members were offered a "voluntary separation incentive" to leave their jobs this year in return for some weeks of pay based on years of service. The School's letter warned that if not enough people would take the buyout offer, there could be layoffs.
On Monday, November 19, Save Old Town School sent a follow-up letter to Graves and the Board, calling for an open meeting for the entire Old Town School community to discuss the School's future.
On Sunday, November 25, board chairman Kish Khemani informed faculty and staff via email that Bau Graves would be taking a leave of absence to focus on his health. The email further explained that Deputy Director Rashida Phillips would step into the role of Acting Executive Director effective Monday, November 26th, and that board member Jim Newcomb would be serving as a special advisor to the Administration on a day-to-day basis.
On Thursday, November 29, at a meeting of the School's board of directors, Save Old Town School appeared at the board's invitation to present each board member with printed copies of 136 letters collected through the "Letters to the Board" campaign.
On Monday, December 3, the School announced that the board of directors voted to "extend the discussion period" regarding the sale of 909 W. Armitage until March 31, 2019. It also announced that the store at 909 W. Armitage would be closed in January 2019.
On Thursday, January 3, 2019, the School announced that Bau Graves was retiring due to health issues.
On Friday, February 15, the School announced that Jim Newcomb had been appointed interim Chief Operating Officer.
You can find links to news stories about all this on our "In The News" page.


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I always have to be careful that these things don't make me angry. What do you think Lisa, is it a fair representation?
Oh yeah. It is simply presented, explained a bit, and three people and their day-to-day lives are shown. I didn't have any problem and while I was watching the last woman I kept thinking "Wow! It happened to someone else, too!".
It's not empowering, I didn't learn anything new (except the treatment the first woman received), there is no discussion, it's just a camera showing you these people and a part of their lives.
Cool! Thanks for telling me, I'll check it out.
I was reading some of the comments on the website with the documentary. Too much ignorance.
I thought it was interesting. I'm like the first girl, never knowing what's going on when I've lost time.
There were parts more difficult to watch than others, but I'm glad I watched it.
It was very informative for myself, since I'm still new to a lot of it.
I'm glad you watched it. During the police officer's story I fast-forwarded to the last woman, so I didn't watch all of his, mainly because I hate men and find it hard to believe anything they say (I'm working on that in therapy, too).
I can't imagine going through therapy the first woman did. Too much, too fast.


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Reports: Electoral Map Was Key to Trump's New Stance on NAFTA
President Trump backed off plans to scrap the North American Free Trade Agreement after seeing a map showing that states that voted for him would be hurt by the move, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross gave Trump a map noting that farm and border states that heavily backed Trump in last year's election would lose jobs if the U.S. ended the trade deal, the report said.
The president was also reportedly influenced by a deluge of calls to the White House from business executives. Trump agreed not to abandon NAFTA during Wednesday phone calls with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, saying he would seek a renegotiation instead.
Reports emerged last week that Trump was considering an executive order announcing his intent to do away with NAFTA. He planned to announce the move during a campaign-style rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, the 100th day of his administration.
Trump frequently bashed NAFTA on the campaign trail during the past year. But he admitted Thursday that eliminating the 1994 pact would have been a shock to the system.


Lisa Stiefel is the founder of The Multicultural Life. She has had a life of travelling a lot growing up, participating in a European exchange student program in high school. It was her interest in language and culture that drove her travels.


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Timothy Esposito, an STC Associate Fellow, is a principal technical writer at Oracle Corp. in Philadelphia, PA. His technical communication career began nearly 17 years ago when a past employer tasked him to first conduct, and then improve, a training class. Currently he works on teams with members living across the globe, from India through Europe, and across the United States.
After joining STC in 2005, Timothy started a scholarship program for undergraduates, for which he helped earn the Philadelphia Metro Chapter a Pacesetter Award. He has helped plan the PMC Conferences since 2008, as well as the Regional TechComm Competition with New York Metro and other chapters. He has been on the PMC board of directors for more than 10 years, serving as Treasurer for five years, as Vice President, as Webmaster, and now as President. He earned a Distinguished Chapter Service Award in 2015.
At the Society level, Timothy participated in the 2012 and 2015 budget review committees which reviewed all the submitted budgets for both SIGs and chapters. In 2015, he joined the STC Community Affairs Committee (CAC) as their webmaster and published several Best Practices articles on the CAC website (www.cac-stc.org). For the CAC, Timothy has worked with chapters to transfer their web hosting to STC, and to troubleshoot technology issues. Also, he has hosted and co-presented CAC webinars on topics ranging from managing chapter finances to attracting new members. After serving on the Scholarship Task Force, Timothy joined the new Scholarship Committee in 2016. Timothy's book reviews have appeared in Technical Communication since early 2016.
Candidate Statement
STC provides unique services that benefit its members and the industry. The Society's continuing education and networking opportunities set members on the path to becoming leaders in their workplaces and the profession.
In my role as technical communicator, I aim to make people's lives easier. STC has introduced me to best practices that have improved, and that continue to inspire, the products I offer my clients. Further, volunteering with STC has enabled me to develop essential leadership skills. Now I would like to use those skills to assist STC and to guide new members into similar leadership opportunities.
Like all organizations, STC is a living entity, powered by the individual members and their contributions. As our world changes, STC must evolve to match the new needs of its members. I hope that by joining the board, I can help guide that direction, making the Society a stronger and better community, while improving the industry of technical communication.
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This topic explains the term local function, and shows how to create and use local functions. MATLAB ® program files can contain code for more than one function. In a function file, the first function in the file is called the main function.... Is it possible to write a GUI from inside a function? The problem is that the callback of all GUI-functions are evaluated in the global workspace.
10/12/2017 · This Video is created to provide knowledge about how to plot a piecewise function using Matlab. Hope this will help students. In calculus, we have to graphically represent functions through... In the edit window that comes up, put in your code for the script, and then put in your code for your functions in the same file. Then click to Save the file.
29/09/2012 · @hai: please don't post duplicate questions. If you didn't get answers you liked for your previous question ([admin: now this question]), then you should edit it to make your problem clearer. – gnovice Apr 26 '10 at 15:26 how to make a doll look scary function at the interactive session prompt or in another script or funtcion m-file, MATLAB searches through a list of directories that it has been told contain functions until it finds an m- file with the appropriate name.
It's worth mentioning I'm entirely new to Matlab, so I'm still trying to make sense of everything. how to prepare functional resume In the edit window that comes up, put in your code for the script, and then put in your code for your functions in the same file. Then click to Save the file.
how to make a periodic piecewise-defined function in matlab?
Ali - this seems like a homework question, so please show what you have tried so far. Presumably you are required to create a function that is similar to hist or histogram.
It's worth mentioning I'm entirely new to Matlab, so I'm still trying to make sense of everything.
fun. MATLAB file or directory containing MATLAB files. If fun resides within a package and/or class folder, then pcode creates the same package and/or class structure to house the resulting P-files.


No matter what you ride, you won't believe what Transylvania has to offer. You want rooty, rocky, teeth-jarring technical singletrack? We've got miles of that. How about hair-raising mountain road descents? Not a problem. Lung-busting gravel grinds that never seem to end? Yep, got those too. You like 360 panos while you glide along the parkway? Got 'em. Or maybe you prefer fast, fun flowy trails that will have you grinning from ear to ear and dying for more. Oh yeah, we've got tons of that stuff.
Simply put, no matter what kind of bike you ride, Transylvania offers you some of the greatest riding you'll find anywhere in the country, and a temperate climate where you can ride most of the year. That's why athletes train here, companies test products here, and our college has a cycling team that keeps winning national championships. And it's why, year after year, more and more cycling enthusiasts make Transylvania County a must-visit destination.
Transylvania has been home to a dedicated crew of riders for years, but it began to gain more national attention back in 2011, when BIKE Magazine came here to test the latest bikes and equipment for their annual gear guide, "The Bible of Bike Tests." The magazine's staff praised not just the diverse trails of Pisgah and DuPont, but also the bike-friendly vibe that Transylvania County has cultivated.
A couple of years later, the popular blog Singletracks added Brevard to its Top Ten Mountain Bike Destinations in North America, along with locations such as Moab, Utah and Whistler, British Columbia. That same year, the city of Brevard opened the Bracken Mountain Recreation Area, featuring 7.1 miles of hiking and biking trails that connect Brevard directly to Pisgah National Forest. Two years later, Trek Bicycles came here to test its new mountain bikes, attracting about 30 journalists and editors from around the world who praised the incredible riding in Transylvania.
That same year, the folks at The Bike Farm brought the Red Bull Dreamline to the Oskar Blues REEB Ranch. The two-day BMX dirt jump event brought in some of the best riders in the world to compete on a course designed and built specifically for them. The course, while toned down a little, is now the REEB Ranch bike park. There are kid zones, big hits and everything in between.
The county has also seen incredible growth in the road cycling scene. The Assault on the Carolinas road ride in the spring is capped at 1,000 riders and sells out every year. The spectacle of 1,000 riders pedaling through downtown Brevard is a sight not to be missed, as riders embark on a grueling 100K that takes them into South Carolina and back over Caesars Head. The charitable event raises funds for the Rotary Club of Pisgah Forest, which supports numerous local charities. The WNC Flyer, hosted by the Blue Ridge Bicycle Club, is another 1,000-rider sell-out event that starts at Brevard's Oskar Blues Brewery. The ride takes cyclists throughout the French Broad River valley and raises money to support and promote cycling in the region.
In 2016, Cycle NC returned to Brevard for its third annual Mountain Ride, a two-day cycling festival that was hosted by Brevard College. The Transylvania Tourism Development Authority recently released a new road cycling map to help riders discover our spectacular mountain roads. There's also an ongoing effort to convert the unused railroad between Brevard and Hendersonville into the Ecusta Trail, a proposed 18-mile multi-use path. And every year, Transylvania is home to some of the greatest mountain biking events in the region: The Pisgah Stage Race, Pisgah Mountain Bike Adventure Race and the Swank 65, just to name a few.
In fact, every weekend there seems to be a ride, a race or trail work being organized, and every year it just keeps getting better. There's a thriving cycling-centered community, with group rides almost every day of the week, and three bike shops to keep your wheels turning. There's also a great local beer scene, and restaurants that can hook you up with everything from sushi to barbecue.
Sound too good to be true? It's not. It's Transylvania, a truly one-of-a-kind place that is a dream destination for bikers. If you want to know more, there's a ton of information in this magazine, but it doesn't begin to tell the whole story. Be sure to stop by the local bike shops and visit these tourism-oriented websites: www.explorebrevard.com; www.biketransylvania.com and www.transylvaniaexplorer.com.


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Q: Can't run local Rails server: ActionView::Template::Error (Webpacker can't find application...) I started a new project on rails (Rails 6.1.1) and when I ran the server, everything looked good (congrats you are on rails screen). I then created a static page controller, along with an index.html.erb file, and now when I run the server, I get the following error:
Webpacker can't find application in /vagrant/src/takk2/public/packs/manifest.json. Possible causes:
1. You want to set webpacker.yml value of compile to true for your environment
   unless you are using the `webpack -w` or the webpack-dev-server.
2. webpack has not yet re-run to reflect updates.
3. You have misconfigured Webpacker's config/webpacker.yml file.
4. Your webpack configuration is not creating a manifest.
Your manifest contains:
{
}

Along with the following code extract:
<%= stylesheet_link_tag 'application', media: 'all', 'data-turbolinks-track': 'reload' %>
    **<%= javascript_pack_tag 'application', 'data-turbolinks-track': 'reload' %>**
  </head>

  <body>

The bolded line is the one that raises an error (but even if I remove it, I still get the same error and "" is then marked instead.
And this is what my terminal throws out:
ActionView::Template::Error (Webpacker can't find application in /vagrant/src/takk2/public/packs/manifest.json. Possible causes:
1. You want to set webpacker.yml value of compile to true for your environment
   unless you are using the `webpack -w` or the webpack-dev-server.
2. webpack has not yet re-run to reflect updates.
3. You have misconfigured Webpacker's config/webpacker.yml file.
4. Your webpack configuration is not creating a manifest.
Your manifest contains:
{
}
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     6:     <%= csp_meta_tag %>
     7:
     8:     <%= stylesheet_link_tag 'application', media: 'all', 'data-turbolinks-track': 'reload' %>
     9:     <%= javascript_pack_tag 'application', 'data-turbolinks-track': 'reload' %>
    10:   </head>
    11:
    12:   <body>

app/views/layouts/application.html.erb:9

I browsed a ton of threads, but nothing has worked so far. Those are the things I have tried:

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*setting extract_css to false in webpacker.yml

*updating node, reinstalling webpacker and yarn

*removing the  stylesheet_link_tag and javascript_pack_tag

*changing my application.scss file to application.css

I read this thread that suggests to "clean all packages of node and re-install the correct described in dependencies of package.json", but I am not sure which package.jason to even look at.
Any help will be appreciated.


There's a lot to dissect in the aftermath of Tiger Woods' fifth Masters title, leaving golf fans with tons of reasons to celebrate the 15-time major champion's accomplishments. One of the things likely not on the front of most people's mind was that Tiger's victory all but locked up a spot on the 2020 U.S. Ryder Cup team at Whistling Straits.
Of course, even without a victory, a healthy Tiger would almost certainly get a captains' pick, like he did in 2018 for the Matches at Le Golf National and 2010 at Celtic Manor. The Masters victory boosted Tiger up to No. 1 in the (very) early Ryder Cup points standings on Steve Stricker's squad.
Tiger—who also moved up to No. 6 in the world with his win—discussed earlier in the week that his goal was to be a playing captain on his 2019 Presidents Cup team, and Sunday locked up that possibility, as well, if Tiger's healthy and willing to do it. Tiger will captain the U.S. team, along with his vice captains Fred Couples, Steve Stricker and Zach Johnson, against Ernie Els' International squad at Royal Melbourne this December. There hasn't been a playing captain in the short history of the Presidents Cup, and Arnold Palmer was the last playing captain in the Ryder Cup in 1963 at Atlanta Athletic Club.
If Tiger were to tee it up in the 2020 Ryder Cup, it would be his ninth appearance in the biennial matches. Curiously, the United States have only come out victorious one of those nine tries (1999, The Country Club). Tiger also boasts a less than stellar record at the Ryder Cup, going 13-21-3 overall, but he is 4-2-2 in singles. One of his more forgettable singles matches came against his playing competitor on Sunday at Augusta National, Francesco Molinari, as the Italian earned the clinching half point for the Europeans at the Miracle at Medinah in 2012. Molinari teamed up with Tommy Fleetwood to defeat Tiger three times in 2018, too, in two four-ball matches (alongside Patrick Reed) and once in foursomes (with Bryson DeChambeau).
Perhaps a Molinari vs. Tiger rematch is in the cards at Whistling Straits. It's too early to dream up those possibilities, but a healthy Tiger will have golf fans even more pumped for the 2020 Ryder Cup, and the 2019 Presidents Cup if Tiger plays on his own team, which seems like a true reality.


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Deborah Hill Cone: Why tech giants need kick in the software
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in the last few days that Facebook is going to focus on what he calls "meaningful interaction". Photo / AP
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When you're a columnist you need things to loathe: jeer figures, doofuses, a rota of wallies at which to direct one's righteous outrage.
I used to have no shortage of anger targets, but since I got hooked on bloody meditation I find myself feeling inconveniently and career-limitingly peaceful.
But through the wind chimes, I've got a new cause. I want to sign up to the tech backlash.
Just a year or so ago the conversation was about which Silicon Valley CEO was more Jesus-like? Who was running for president? So much has changed since then. Fake news, hate speech, Trump and Twitter.
There are so many reasons the tech giants should get their comeuppance I have made my own little list.
1.) These companies (Apple, Alphabet, Facebook, Amazon) have simply been allowed to get unhealthily large and dominant with barely any checks or balances. The tech firms are more powerful than the telco AT&T ever was, yet regulators do nothing (AT&T was split up). In this country the Commerce Commission spent millions fighting to stop one firm, NZME (publisher of the New Zealand Herald) from merging with another Fairfax (Now called Stuff), a sideshow, while they appear stubbornly uninterested in tackling the real media dominance battle: how Facebook broke the media. I know we're just little old New Zealand, but we still have sovereignty over our nation, surely? [Commerce Commission chairman] Mark Berry? Can't you do something? The EU at least managed to fine Google a couple of lazy bill.
2.) Some of these tech companies have got richer and richer exploiting the creative content of writers and artists who create things of real value and who can no longer earn a living from doing so.
3.) Mark Zuckerberg's mea culpa, announced in the last few days that Facebook is going to focus on what he called "meaningful interaction", is like a drug dealer offering a cut-down dose of its drug, hoping addicts won't give up the drug completely. Even Zuckerberg's former mentor, investor Robert McNamee said in the Guardian that all Zuckerberg is doing is deflecting criticism and leaving users "in peril."
4.) These companies have created technology and thrown it out there, without any sense of responsibility for its potential impact. It's time for them to be held accountable. Last week Jana Partners, a Wall Street investment firm, wrote to Apple pushing it to look at its products' health effects, especially on children. Even Facebook founder Sean Parker has recently admitted "God knows what [technology) is doing to our children's brains."
5.) While it's funny when the bong-sucking entrepreneur Erlich Bachman says in the HBO comedy Silicon Valley: "We're walking in there with three foot c**ks covered in Elvis dust!" in reality, many of these firms have a repugnant, arrogant and ignorant culture. In the upcoming Vanity Fair story "Oh. My god, this is so f***ed up: inside Silicon Valley's secretive orgiastic dark side" insiders talked about the creepy tech parties in which young women are exploited and harassed by tech guys who are still making up for getting bullied at school. (Just as bad, they use the revolting term "cuddle puddles") The romantic image of scrappy, visionary nerds inventing the future in a garage has evolved into a culture of entitled frat boys behaving badly. "Too much swagger and not enough self-awareness," as one investor said.
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6.) These giant companies suck millions in profits out of our country but do little to participate as good corporate citizens. If they even have an office here at all, it is tiny. And don't get started on how much tax they pay. A few years ago Google's New Zealand operation consisted of three people who would fly back and forth from Sydney to manage sales over here. Apparently, Apple has opened a Wellington office and lured "several employees" from Weta Digital. But there is little transparency about how or where these companies do business or how to hold them accountable. There is no local number to call, there is no local door to knock on. And don't hold your breath that our children might get good jobs working for any of these corporations.
7.) Mark Zuckerberg preaches that Facebook's mission is to connect people. But Johann Hari's new book Lost Connections: Uncovering the real causes of depression and the unexpected solutions, out this week, provides convincing evidence that in the digital age people are more lonely than ever. Hari argues the very companies which are trying to "fix" loneliness – Facebook, for example - are the ones which have made people feel more disconnected and depressed in the first place.
8.) Is all this technology really making the world a better place? At this week's CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas some of the innovations were positive but a lot of them were really, quite dumb. Do you really need a robot that will fold your laundry or a suitcase that will follow you? Or a virtual reality headset that will make you feel like you are flying on a dinosaur (Okay, maybe that one would be fun.)
So that was my five minutes of hate. I suppose I should do a cleansing loving-kindness meditation now, but not sure I feel like sending any metta to Mark Zuckerberg.
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Home Sport GAA REVEALED: Laois footballers' All-Ireland Round 3 Qualifier opponents confirmed
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REVEALED: Laois footballers' All-Ireland Round 3 Qualifier opponents confirmed
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The Laois footballers will face Offaly in Round 3 of the All-Ireland Qualifiers following this morning's draw on RTE Radio 1.
Laois did not enter the Qualifiers last year until Round 4 but are now just one step away from reaching the stage just before the Super 8s once again.
This game is scheduled to take place on Saturday June 29 and Laois are due to be in at home to Offaly but this will be confirmed by the CCC on Tuesday.
Laois last played Offaly in Round 4 of the All-Ireland Qualifiers in O'Moore Park in 2006 which Laois won 1-9 to 0-4.
Offaly were beaten by Meath in Round 1 of Leinster but have since enjoyed wins over London and Sligo in the Qualifiers thus far.
Laois were originally drawn away to Westmeath but because the teams had already met, that could not happen again, so Westmeath were drawn against the next side out, Clare, instead.
Laois and Offaly already met in Division 3 this season where goals from Evan O'Carroll and Paul Cahillane helped Laois to a 2-12 to 0-15 win in Tullamore.
The Laois footballers recorded a thrilling win away to Derry on Saturday to book their place in Round 3 of the All Ireland Qualifiers.
In front of a packed stand in the Derry Centre of Excellence, John Sugrue's side eked out a 1-13 to 0-12 win to progress.
Laois squandered a litany of goal chances in the second half and when Derry struck the front in the final ten minutes, it looked like the game was getting away from Laois.
But up stepped substitute Eoin Lowry and he found that killer touch that saw Laois advance to the next round.
The winners of these games will be drawn against one of Galway, Meath, Cavan or Cork with the winners of that advancing to the Super 8s.
The Round 3 draw in full is as follows:
Mayo v Armagh
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Laois v Offaly
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Robert N. Ouellette
POLAND — Robert N. Ouellette, 64, a resident of Lewiston Junction Road in Poland, died early Friday morning, April 22 at his home.
He was born in Lewiston on June 5, 1951, a son of Joseph N. and Elizabeth (Miller) Ouellette. Bob was educated in Lewiston schools, graduated from Lewiston High School in 1969 and remained a lifelong resident of this community. He was a military veteran, having served his country in the army during the Vietnam War until his honorable discharge.
On Aug. 18, 1978, he married the former Karen Reny of Auburn, and together they settled in Poland to raise their family. Bob worked since 1999 as a school bus driver for RSU 16, the Poland, Mechanic Falls and Minot School District. He thoroughly enjoyed his job as a bus driver. He loved the students and they adored him as well. In addition to the daily trips to start and end each school day, he also loved transporting all the school's sports teams throughout the school year to all of their away games, and he also simply enjoyed watching and following the successes of those teams.
Since the year 2000, he also spent every summer bussing campers to and from Camp Cedar in Casco. Bob enjoyed the company of man's best friend, his dog, Zeus, and was an outdoorsman who enjoyed hunting, camping and fishing, especially time spent fishing with his own Dad. He was a loving, devoted and hardworking husband and father who will be greatly missed.
He leaves behind his wife, Karen Ouellette of Poland; his only child, Amy Ouellette of Marlborough, Mass.; and his father, Joseph Ouellette of Lewiston.
He was predeceased by his mother, Elizabeth; one sister, Anna; and a brother, Mike.
You are invited to share your thoughts, condolences and fond memories with Bob's family by visiting their online guest book at www.thefortingroupauburn.com.


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One of the key findings of the August 2003 Northeast Blackout was the need to modernize the electric grid. Upgrading older, less reliable electromechanical switches (cyber dumb) with highly reliable modern Intelligent Electronic Devices - IEDs (cyber vulnerable) was a cornerstone of this approach. The grid is certainly more reliable but much more cyber vulnerable because of these upgrades. The Aurora demonstration by the Idaho National Laboratory caused physical destruction of a diesel generator by exploiting the IED cyber vulnerabilities. Even with the NERC CIPs, there is still little control system cyber security training or addressing of Aurora.
One of the key findings of the 2010 San Bruno natural gas pipeline rupture that killed 8 was the lack of automated control valves (cyber vulnerable) to shut off gas following a pipeline rupture (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110205/ap_on_re_us/us_pipeline_explosion_warnings). Ironically, the San Bruno natural gas pipeline rupture was most likely due to an automated control valve causing a pressure increase the pipeline with poor welds could not handle. In this case, the SCADA system sent a signal to the control valve controlling the flow of gas to San Bruno to fully open. Unlike the electric industry with the NERC CIPs, the natural gas pipeline industry has no requirements for cyber security training.
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Established in 1982 and later relocated to New Giza, El Alsson British & American International School offers both British and American education to all grades according to international standards. The school prides itself on its stature as one of the best international schools in Egypt.
After so many years since its establishment, the school still enjoys a reputation for quality education and excellent customer service.
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Home The War State Trump Nominates 'Embodiment of the Military-Industrial Complex' Patrick Shanahan to Lead Pentagon...
Trump Nominates 'Embodiment of the Military-Industrial Complex' Patrick Shanahan to Lead Pentagon – Jake Johnson (05/13/2019)
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In a move critics warned could further deepen the ties between the sprawling and immensely profitable private weapons industry and the U.S. government, the White House announced Thursday that President Donald Trump will nominate former Boeing executive Patrick Shanahan to head the Pentagon.
Shanahan has been serving as acting secretary of defense since the departure of former Pentagon chief Jim Mattis in January.
"When Patrick Shanahan was selected by Trump for a Pentagon post," The Nation's John Nichols tweeted Thursday in response to Shanahan's nomination, "the Seattle Times wrote: 'Shanahan, 54, has no military or political experience. He is, however, familiar with defense procurement from the business side.' Very, very familiar."
In a column last year, Nichols described Shanahan—who worked at Boeing for 31 years before becoming Trump's deputy defense secretary—as "the embodiment of the military-industrial complex."
"His main claim to fame in the deputy post was his ardent advocacy for Trump's 'space force' scheme," Nichols wrote. "So what experience does Shanahan have? He is, literally and figuratively, the embodiment of the military-industrial complex about which former President Dwight Eisenhower warned Americans at the close of his presidency in 1961."
Trump has nominated the military-industrial complex to serve as Secretary of Defense. https://t.co/VBx2XOMrsh
— John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) May 9, 2019
As NBC reported, Trump's decision to nominate Shanahan—who must be confirmed by the Senate—comes "just weeks after the Pentagon's internal watchdog cleared the longtime former Boeing executive of allegations he provided his old employer… with preferential treatment. Shanahan was accused of pushing Boeing fighter jets on the Air Force and Marines."
The National Priorities Project (NPP) highlighted Shanahan's potential conflicts of interest in a series of tweets following news of his nomination.
"Patrick Shanahan, former Boeing executive, is poised to keep running the Pentagon as Defense Secretary with President Trump's nomination," NPP wrote. "Conflict of interest? Boeing is already the second-largest recipient of private contracts from the U.S. military."
"Last year, the average taxpayer paid $102 for contracts with Boeing, " the group noted, "compared to just $40 for public housing and homeless assistance."
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Effects of acute injury characteristics on neuropsychological status and vocational outcome following mild traumatic brain injury
Brain Inj. 1999 Nov;13(11):873-87. doi: 10.1080/026990599121070.
R E Hanlon 1 , J A Demery, Z Martinovich, J P Kelly
1 Department of Psychiatry, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. r-hanlon@nwu.edu
Despite recent attempts to define acute injury characteristics of mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI), neuropsychological outcome is often unpredictable. One hundred MTBI cases were prospectively collected, which were consecutive referrals to a concussion clinic, and the roles of various acute neurologic variables were examined in relation to neuropsychological status and vocational outcome. Significant differences were found between subgroups of patients classified by (1) mechanism of injury (i.e. acceleration/deceleration trauma in which the head strikes an object (HSO) versus acceleration/deceleration trauma in which the head does not strike an object (HNSO) versus trauma in which an object strikes the head (OSH), and (2) type of injury (i.e. motor vehicle collision, fall, assault, motor vehicle-pedestrian collision, falling object, sports/recreation). There was no difference, with respect to neuropsychological status or vocational outcome, between patients who had positive findings on computerized tomography (CT) versus those who were CT negative. Additionally, there was no difference between patients who had suffered brief loss of consciousness (LOC) and those without LOC. These findings suggest that selective acute injury characteristics may be used to classify subtypes of MTBI patients.
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This is the final part of our series on Facebook tips for New Zealand Businesses, well as final as it can be. Facebook is a constantly changing environment and keeping up with all the changes can be a bit daunting.
Get the Social Media Marketing basics right and always be professional on your page, keeping up with the changes will happen as you become more confident with your Facebook page.
How to create milestones – If you want to add more content to your page and create a more engrossing experience, Milestones are the way to go. Usually, Milestones are reserved for important moments in your company's lifetime. It's good to highlight these with images of moments (such as when the company was founded) to tell its story.
This way, you add a human touch to the company, and those who go through your page will become more invested in it. Remember that milestones can be presented in one- and two-column formats.
Below is an example from Lego that shows a photo of where it all began. Your business may not go back as far, but it's good to acknowledge a beginning.
How to add interests lists and page owners – Alongside the numerous other features you have on your page, there is the option to create a featured "likes" list as well as link to the Facebook pages of page owners, a move that can help improve subscriptions for that page. To add "likes" or page owners, simply go to "Admin Panel," select "Update Info," and go to the "Featured" section. You can add more featured "likes" and featured page owners that will appear on your page.


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Last month, Egyptian authorities banned the screening of a film depicting a love story between a Muslim man and Coptic Christian woman. Cairo Exit, a film by Egyptian-American Hesham Issawi, was slated to be screened on February 27 at the Luxor African Film Festival, but was refused permission by censorship authorities and withdrawn.
Under current Egyptian law, films must obtain permits from the Censorship on Artistic Works authority in order to be screened. Violators can be sentenced to jail. Sayed Khattab, the head of the authority, has stated that festival administration did not include the film on their list of films sent for approval. He added that the film "could have created problems in its present form." Interfaith relationships remain a controversial subject in Egypt, where violent clashes between Muslims and Copts continue to this day. In addition to interreligious romance, the film also features taboo depictions of premarital pregnancy, virginity fraud, and prostitution.
The film was previously banned from screening during Hosni Mubarak's reign, at least in part due to a subplot involving a Coptic woman working as a prostitute. Even before it was finished, Issawi had to resort to guerilla filmmaking tactics to complete the film, shooting much of it without permission using handheld cameras and even sending a false screenplay to censorship authorities. Following the revolution, Issawi expressed optimism that the film could now be screened in his homeland. But one year later, little has changed for both the movie's situation in Egypt and the religious tensions that have made its themes so contentious.
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Chick-fil-A And Bigotry: One Aspect Of What Marriage Is
By Briggs on August 3, 2012 • ( 28 Comments )
"Chick-Fil-A Shattered Sales Records On 'Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day'" so reads the headline at Business Insider.
Many are not so happy about this. In a unintentionally hilarious video (especially when he points to a distant group of young people and comments on them), the CFO of Vante—now ex-CFO—berates a young woman working at Chick-fil-A and calls the company a "hateful" corporation.
An employee who self-labels herself as a "closeted gay woman" wrote in the Daily Beast, "Customers sang 'God Bless America' in the dining room. They vocalized their support for 'family values' in a way that made me want to vomit." And don't miss the interesting argument of this young woman.
Many other are saying that those who oppose gay "marriage" are "bigots." This is a false charge and (at least) based on a misunderstanding of what marriage is.
My dear readers, marriage is not a contract between two people. It is an understanding between two people and society. And not just the society of the United States. Marriage is an understanding between two people and everybody else.
This is easy to see. Except in rare instances, a man and woman who marry do not sign a contract with one another. At best, they fill out a form which informs their local government of the union. And this is only necessary because of certain housekeeping matters, such as tax, visitation rights and the like, that differ by locality the world over, and differ in a locality by time. But the pair are not married in their eyes, or ours, by a civil contract. They commit to one another; they swear an oath; they promise before God; they unite in love.
Consider: when this pair, now married, travels far from their homes, they are not required to prove their marriage by document. The custom and naturalness of the bonding and their word of it are proof enough of the claim of marriage. Documents are only required when the couple want to make themselves subject to the housekeeping matters of the new locality.
When a married couple encounter others, here or abroad, they expect to be treated as a married couple, in virtue of the oath they swore. This is because the couple expects others will honor the understanding that a man and woman who mate are a couple. However, if it becomes known that the two people have not made the marriage oath ("We're just living together") then everybody treats this non-pair, now just two separate people, in a different way, even if this treatment is only a subtle change.
What those who scream "Bigot!" are asking is thus not to be allowed to join together in pairs (or in groups, etc.), because that is already allowed. What they are asking is that everybody else, especially here in the United States, but also abroad, change their behavior. Despite suffering from other flaws, this vacates the common argument given that "If you don't like gay marriage, don't marry somebody gay." The change in the definition of marriage is not only a difference in the kind of two people it joins, but it must also change the way society (every society) and the couple interact. Supporters are thus not asking for the right to join, but are asking the government to force everybody else in society who don't support gay "marriage" to change their behavior.
Now many, the majority as it stands, in the USA, a certainly the majority of the rest of the world, have a natural law or a religious or other philosophical and theological understanding of what marriage is. This means that those who hold these views, if gay "marriage" is legalized, will be forced to either reject those views or to not voice them or to not act on them in certain situations. Of course, those that actually reject their philosophy will be small in number. The majority will continue to hold their view. Legalized gay "marriage" may force these folks to change their bookkeeping behavior, but it cannot change their fundamental behavior.
To these people, a document from the government does not make a marriage, and they will not (at least internally) treat it as such, no matter how much this is desired. The victory won in courts will not translate to a moral victory. It will also not translate to all those other places in the world which will continue to hold to tradition.
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George Boggs says:
Being a Bayesean myself (via signal detection theory), I rarely disagree with you on technical matters. But marriage is more than a contract and more than an understanding. It's a covenant.
A covenant is not a contract, it's the establishment of a kinship relationship. When the covenant is established, one party becomes a member of another person's family, clan, or tribe.
The fact that government is involved in marriage is more an accident of history than anything else. I suspect government got involved when secular courts undertook adjudication of estates. The legal use of the word "covenant" has evolved since then, but, even in that context, covenants still retain an aura of "specialness"
Briggs says:
George Boggs,
And we don't disagree here either.
49erDweet says:
The second false charge allowed to remain unchallenged is that lack of support, or disapproval, equates to "hate" of something or another. This is simply childish emotion speaking, not logic. If one support the Raiders when they play against the Broncos, then in that world one must ergo "hate" Denver? No, Brigss is spot on. those making the noise are demanding "everybody else . . . . change their behavior" – and beliefs or they will hold their breath and turn blue in the face.
Is society possibly being too sensitive in not pointing out the lack of intellectual honesty displayed by those expounding that illogical fallacy? Yeah, I think we are. They are being dishonest. We must tell them we know it and reject their infantile ranting.
Dr. Briggs,
We see eye to eye on the mechanics of the bookkeeping and expectations-management aspects of marriage, but I propose that your reservation on redefining marriage is cultural, and is readily resolvable as an issue of protocol.
For example, do you treat Muslim man and his four wives as married? They have done the proper bookkeeping and oaths or their locale, so these marriages are legitimate. Culturally, this arrangement is likely different than what you would expect, so you may have an issue how to treat this arrangement, which is protocol. (In this case it may help to understand that the man married the four women individually; the women didn't marry each other.)
You may have to adjust your "fundamental behavior", which merely means developing a new protocol, or learning one that society may have already developed.
I sympathize with the reluctance to have to learn a new thing, and then have to learn when that thing should be employed, then have the bother of dealing with this each time it arises.
V/r.
GoneWithTheWind says:
I understand the take no prisoners and kill everyone tactic the gay activists have adopted. There hope is to intimidate and control anyone who, in their opinion, opposes their agenda. What I don't understand is why after using this for years against the Boy Scouts and other religious groups they still think it works or wins converts to their cause. I do not know if the gay movement has leaders or if they meet and discuss tactics but if they do I think it's time they rein in the radicals and their scorchered earth rhetoric. Surely a diplomatic approach will be more effective. The reality is that today and in this country there has never been a more accepting and positive environment for gays. Why then with so much going their way would they prefer to wage hateful alienation over a more moderate dialogue? As a bystander it appears to me that the radical gay activists are on a suicide mission and show no evidence they have thought this through.
I find it hilarious that the oh so tolerant are having a hysterical tantrum calling people that don't agree with them hateful bigots. It's like the thief that accuses everybody else of being a thief.
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j ferguson says:
When SWMBO and I applied for a license to marry in Northern Virginia, there was a line on the form following the word Race. I filled it with Marine Marathon.
We were then told by the clerk, that this would be fine if we intended to marry in some other jurisdiction, but not this one. I asked for the choices. None seemed quite accurate given my somewhat complex ancestry so I asked if non-black would do.
"No. Get with the program. You know perfectly well, Mr. Ferguson, what we're trying to do here."
I tried fractional Native-American. That didn't fly either. So I caved.
I have a very lovely young niece who lives in a homosexual relationship. Despite my numerous tactful inquiries over the years, she has never really articulated how her life would be different if she were to "marry" her inamorata, so to this day the practical effect on the lives of those at the center of the controversy of allowing homosexuals to marry others of the same sex is a mystery to me.
Now the chicken sandwich controversy isn't at all about homosexual marriage, as far as I can see. It's about the right of the owner of a business to speak as he pleases and not have government officials pervert procedural and government processes to force that person to pretend to conform to a certain belief.
I think that many of the supporters of the restaurant would have rallied behind the restaurant regardless of the content of the comments made by the owner: it's about the right of a business owner to not face arbitrarily abuses by local tin-pot tyrants.
RickA says:
Dr. Briggs:
In Minnesota, I cannot get married unless I apply for a marriage license.
Minnesota wants to make sure that both people are old enough, not cousins (or closer), not married to another person, etc.
Does your analysis change if two 14 year olds are married under say Kansas law (lets say they allow 14 and over to marry) – but that marriage would not be allowed in Minnesota (under 18 need consent of parents).
Ditto for cousins – some states allow 1st cousins to marry, most don't.
If their state says they are married I would treat them as married, if I ran into them abroad – even if my state didn't recognize them as married.
Isn't gay marriage similar – some states license it, some don't?
I am trying to understand the difference between how society views 14 year old marriages or 1st cousin marriages (which varies by locality), and gay marriage (which varies by locality).
Come on Briggs. Let the poofters get married and let them be happy. Get back to laughing at bad science, it's more fun.
Worth a browse, people:
http://www2.hu-berlin.de/sexology/ATLAS_EN/html/history_of_marriage_in_western.html
Especially liked "As late as the 10th century, the essential part of the wedding itself took place outside the church door. It was not until the 12th century that a priest became part of the wedding ceremony, and not until the 13th century that he actually took charge of the proceedings. Nevertheless, it remained understood that, even as a sacrament, marriage sprang from the free consent of the two partners, and that therefore neither the parents nor the priest nor the government could affect its validity. It thus became possible for couples to get married secretly if they could not obtain anyone else's approval. ".
michael felong says:
Terrific post, great comments. Having said that, There's something to be said for the concept of marriage as a contract, say, five years with options to renew. One of the advantages of treating marriages as contracts is that, as it is now, marriage is a" contract" the terms of which are decided years later by people not a party to the original contract and with agendas of their own.
You really, really should stick to statistics and science…
I'm pretty sure the majority of gays couldn't care less about your worries, and wouldn't mind being treated by people as if they were "just living together." They don't want to "promise before God" or any such thing. They simply want the civil contract you dismiss as a formality, to enjoy the rights that law gives married couples.
Give them the "housekeeping" and legal enforcement of non-discrimination based on sexual orientation, and they will not mind you internally enjoying your moral victory.
But, Jaime, they *do* mind. If all they wanted was the civil contract, they'd be lobbying for civil unions. But that's not enough. They want other people to change their behavior.
D. Logan-Scott says:
RE:"My dear readers, marriage is not a contract between two people. It is an understanding between two people and society"
I agree that this is what marriage has become, but from a fundamental viewpoint marriage is a contract. A man agrees to purchase exclusive rights to the woman's reproductive organs and their produce in exchange for a lifetime of financial support. This is why a man could divorce a barren woman and adultery was considered theft.
In 1860, British courts ruled that the child is the possession of the mother rather than the father (as was previously the case). This ruling began the gradual change from these fundamental principles of the marriage agreement to a union not based on contractual trade but on the level of dedication felt by both parties.
In the 150 years since we now find marriage begun and ended on what is basically a whim with neither party having any real material stake in the relationship. I cannot vouch for this statistic, but I have heard that 75% of marriages are ended by the woman on grounds as ephemeral as "dissatisfaction".
The fact that marriage is no longer seen as a binding contract based on trade is why I see heterosexual marriage as a farce and gay marriage even more so. It lacks any real world foundation. But if people want to play that silly game, be they straight or gay, then so be it.
Some commenters seem to lack awareness of how ancient societies functioned. Even though in past centuries the male of a household appeared to hold the dominant "leading?' position, powerful fathers often took steps to ensure favorite daughters were not ill-treated in matrimony. History is replete with examples of social and economic maneuverings designed to circumvent tradition to the benefit of a wife.
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Noblesse Oblige says:
So here we have a society that is unable to discuss rationally, much less deal with:
— a debt of potentially existential proportions
— a floundering jobs-generating economy
— a housing market, and its associated construction industry, in the tank for 4 years with no meaningful change in sight
— a monumental immigrant issue that begs for resolution
— an educational system that is failing to prepare our children to fill the high paying, high tech jobs needed to compete in the world market
— a powerful and well funded clique of science-Mandarins who claim more infallibility in their science than a Pope speaking ex cathedra on matters of faith.
…. and we do we get off on? Chick-Fil-A.
The problem with marriage is married people. A good many don't seem to stay married, and I don't see how gay marriage would make anything worse. Let's let people be people.
I support the CEO's right to have a personal opinion that runs contrary to mine.
George Steiner says:
Some of you have twigged to the real issue. Which is the next step. The next step in the gay agenda is to promote gay as better than hetero. Coming soon.
Are you looking forward to it George?
Sylvain Allard says:
Mr Briggs,
I do agree with some part of your argument and in other parts your argument is very weak.
Usually, the first reason peoples get married is because they love each other. This is true whether the marriage is between a man and a woman, between two men or between two women. Secondary concerns for people to get married is contractual where it concerns taxes , hospital visitation rights, who gets to take the decisions in life or death matters, etc. Nothing here warrants anything against same sex marriage.
Civil union which is the same thing as marriage except the oath isn't made in front of God, Allah, Jehovah, but in front of a government representative. It was first created to permit people who were either atheist, not religious or divorced to get married and benefit the contractual part of the marriage.
I can't actually imagine a single instance where I would have to change my behavior toward a couple would they be married or not, gay or not, even if this change was subtle.
«…have a natural law or a religious or other philosophical and theological understanding of what marriage is. This means that those who hold these views, if gay "marriage" is legalized, will be forced to either reject those views or to not voice them or to not act on them in certain situation.»
Why does anyone have to reject their beliefs because two guys or women are married?
Does it change anything in your life if they live in a house across from you? No. What does it change in your life that these people are married or not? Nothing. Gay marriage can only be civil. The Catholic Church or any local priest or imam cannot be forced to marry gays, at least here in Canada; this would actually violate the personal freedom of these religious organizations.
Milton Hathaway says:
I look at the whole thing as kinda sad. It seems clear to me that what the gay/lesbian community wants is acceptance, and it seems they've placed all their chips on legalized same-sex marriage. Why else would they reject 'everything-but-the-name' civil unions?
I don't understand this emphasis on same-sex marriage from a practical standpoint, either. Recent pre-Obama history has demonstrated that much of the liberal agenda can be achieved through incrementalism, slowly boiling away those disagreeable societal norms and old-timey principles. Why get in people's faces? Why characterize your opponents as afflicted with physchological disorders (one of the kinder comparisons) or being disciples of history's worst mass murderers and dictators? Has this approach ever changed an opposing principled mind? Or, looking at it from another angle, what the heck is wrong with your choir that such preaching is deemed necessary? Are they that lacking in commitment to the cause that they need to be fired up this way?
But the saddest thing, I think, is that the gay/lesbian community believes that acceptance can be legislated or adjudicated. According to their own pronouncements, this belief derives from the perceived similarity in the gay/lesbian experience to the black experience in America. This claimed similarity largely escapes me (and appears to offend many). To me, a better comparison would be the abortion debate since the Roe v Wade decision, at least in terms of societal acceptance. Abortion is legal, but you certainly can't claim it's achieved broad acceptance. (Admittedly the comparison breaks down when one realizes that the pro-choicers don't give a hoot about acceptance; in fact they actually seem to relish the lack thereof.)
If happiness is the goal, I think the gay/lesbian community should give up on same-sex marriage and accept the peace and contentment that can be derived from 'everything-but-the-name' civil unions, and rely on classic liberal incrementalism as their hope for the future. That's clearly a more promising road to societal acceptance, and has the advantage that they don't have to live with all that anger and rage.
Happiness is finding the right wall to beat your head against.
John B says:
Mr Briggs: I see you generalise about the World,but you are not up to speed.
There is, here in the rest of the World, not the unique, standard definition of marriage that you suggest – nor has there been for some time.
There are two definitions of marriage: religious marriage conducted by clergy in a place of worship with its moral baggage plus the house keeping; civil marriage conducted in secular surroundings by an employee of the State with the house keeping but without the moral claptrap.
In some Countries it is only the latter which is recognised, and in most Countries the only specification is that the (civil) marriage be between two people – gender irrelevant.
In France it is usual for people married in other Countries who wish to settle in France to have a French civil marriage to ensure the union is recognised under all aspects, particular property inheritance, of French law.
Here in Europe your notion that, " When a married couple encounter others, here or abroad, they expect to be treated as a married couple…" is somewhat quaint.
In Europe when a couple encounters others, the "others" care less whether they are married or not, often assume they are not, because it is nobody's business, and the couple doesn't care what the "others" think anyway.
As for, " The change in the definition of marriage is not only a difference in the kind of two people it joins, but it must also change the way society (every society) and the couple interact."
Society has already changed, although the USA as ever in such things is at the back of the field: it is just the usual die-hards with fixed ideas who want things to stay the way they want them to be.
Steve Crook says:
I confess to being confused by the whole debate (I'm a borderline atheist).
There seems to be to be two aspects to marriage.
Firstly, there's a religious ceremony. It should be up to the religious organisation to determine who they're prepared to marry in that ceremony. I'd oppose anything that suggested otherwise.
There's also a legally recognised contract being formed. The regulations for this are created and enforced by the state. It happens that, when you marry in a church you normally complete both parts.
In the UK at least, it's possible to get married without actually having a religious vow at all, or to marry in a religious ceremony that is not recognised as marriage by the state.
Over here, what people seem to be getting hung up on is the word itself, with 'people of faith' objecting to the word being used to describe a purely civil contract. There's also some concern that once gays are allowed to marry there will be the inevitable equal rights challenge to force churches to marry gays.
That said, I'm sure that somewhere, there's already someone preparing to campaign for the right to *legally* marry their pet 🙂
Bob Ludwick says:
The real point of the Chick-Fil-A 'controversy' was explained succinctly by Dr. Theodore Dalrymple in an interview with 'FrontPage Magazine:
" Dalrymple: Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to. "
george kaplan says:
I support gay marriage on the democratic grounds that it offers more misery to more qualified citizens. As for the Gay is better" meme, it's hard to say.
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The soon-to-be 31-year-old should find a market for his services despite being hobbled by injuries in 2017. Bennett openly hinted at retirement last season while he was battling a shoulder injury with the Green Bay Packers. He was eventually cut by the Packers after a disappointing seven-game effort that yielded just 24 catches, 233 yards and zero touchdowns -- and the ire of the Packers' front office.
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