Are You Really Going to Let Someone Talk to Your Friend Like That?
I was recently speaking at a high school. The topic was Drops of Awesome and my mission was to convince the students of two things.
You are so much better than you give yourself credit for.
You can improve who you are and become who you want to be almost instantly, depending on the next tiny choice you make.
The kids were amazing and receptive and the energy was fabulous on a level I'll remember for the rest of my life. I hope they were as affected as I was.
This wore on me and eventually we stopped hanging out. But then I told the girls about a much more destructive friend I made in my young adult years.
She constantly put me down, told me I wasn't good enough, that my efforts always fell short. When I succeeded she told me it was luck and when I failed, she said I deserved it and she'd always known I was incapable of doing anything well.
As I described this friend to the kids in this high school class, there were several audible gasps.
"That is so mean!" one girl exclaimed.
These teenagers were more than a little horrified that I'd let someone talk to me like that, which is good, because those kind of put-downs are horrible. I should never have let anyone talk to me that way. In fact, I should try to stand up against that kind of negativity whenever I hear it, regardless of who it's directed at.
What made getting rid of this nasty friend so tricky was that she wasn't some outside person. It was my own inner voice, holding me back from success, setting me up to fail, kicking me when I was down.
I would say terrible things to myself that I'd never say to a friend or even an enemy. Do any of these sound familiar?
-Of course you're late. You're always late.
-No surprise. You made a crappy dinner again.
-I swear you're the only parent incapable of remembering to turn in a field trip form on time.
-You look so fat today.
Would you ever say things like this to another person?! Would you ever stand back and watch someone say things like this to one of your friends?!
So, you toss a box of cereal on the table when you get home from work and tell the kids to eat quickly because you're already late for baseball.
Do a few things for me this week, precious please.
Notice when you're being a jerk to yourself.
Don't let anyone talk to your friend like that.
Eat some cereal for dinner so I can feel better about myself.
Sunbeams are warm and lovely, vibrant and life-giving. But if you get too close, they will incinerate you.
This was my line of thinking as I drove away from church last Sunday after my first week teaching a room full of Sunbeams with my husband Dan. Our new calling is to teach the three-year-olds at church, including my sweet, occasionally potty-trained daughter "Wanda".
We taught them that they were children of God. We also taught them to sit in their chairs for the lesson and for sharing time, that dresses should be used to cover our bodies, not our heads, and OH-FOR-THE-LOVE-if-two-of-you-sit-still-at-the-same-time-for-30-seconds-I-will-buy-you-all-a-pony.
That's what we taught them.
What they learned was – Sister and Brother Thompson love us, sharing time is long, and moving up to big kid primary is a lot like getting kicked out of the Garden of Eden. One week you're playing with cars and trucks and snacking it up in luxury, and the next you get to follow up sacrament meeting with an hour sitting in hard chairs in a huge room full of big people, followed by another hour orbiting hard chairs in a prison cell with two crazy dancing grownups waving pictures from the gospel art picture kit. HUZZAH! By the sweat of their brows, indeed. Big kid primary is hard work. For everyone.
And it's a big change from the Young Women organization, where I've been serving for the past six years. I like to think of it as mini Relief Society, only better. You get to teach them the gospel and they actually learn it. There's something amazing about being part of their lives right at the time that they're deciding who they are and what they really believe. Also, in the Mia Maid class, the girls are loving and sweet and they notice everything about you.
In primary they notice things about you too.
Halfway through sharing time I noticed one little boy staring up at me intently. He was stroking the hair on my arm.
"It keeps me warm, I guess." He looked unconvinced, squinting his eyes suspiciously.
"No. I think it's because you're gonna grow up to be a daddy." He then reached down and plucked one of the hairs from my arm. And then another. I didn't scream. I didn't even tear up.
With the Young Women, I'm a fashion maven. In sunbeams, I'm a Yeti with man arms. Oh, how far we fall.
The class pretty much ate us for lunch. There was crying, yelling, jungle-gyming it all over the chairs, kids lying on the floor moaning, refusing to participate. It was amazing.
But I refuse to give in. Dan and I brought our four man-arms home, rolled up our sleeves and got to work. We have a plan. We have activities. We have stories. We have cheddar bunnies, and scarves that can be used for dancing or tying people to chairs. We spent this Saturday night preparing and packing the bag and then repreparing and then repacking the bag. We were almost ready.
Look at their FACES! Look again. For realz. I cannot stand the cuteness. It cannot be stood for.
Yes. I have the best calling. Ever. Sunday may be total chaos and the only thing they learn might be that we love them. But that's okay. We will sing and play and look into those little faces and know that we're doing a good work. And we will wear long sleeves. And carry hand sanitizer.
I have a thing about dead animals. They make me cry.
When I'm driving down the road and I see a deer carcass or a dead bird smashed to the asphalt, its wing flapping in the wind, I gasp and tears well up. I hate to see animals hurt or killed.
It's not like I'm a huge animal lover. I am not a cat lady and as I've been working on the edits for the third Drops of Awesome book this week, my editor needed to point out that I hadn't included any questions about pets in a book that asks questions to help the user write her autobiography. It just didn't occur to me.
But I can't stand the thought of a dead animal.
Even though I passionately hate the mice who sneak into our garage, it is gut-wrenching to me to dispose of their bodies from the traps. I fall apart.
So, today when I saw a large squirrel dead but still perfectly formed lying in the middle of the road next to Wanda's bus stop, I lost it a little. It. Was lost. My friend Stephanie and I had just returned from a bike ride and we had no kids with us. I knew that as soon as they got home on the bus, they'd see the poor squirrel and I wanted to spare them that trauma. Even worse, what if a truck drove by and smashed it to pieces and we had to walk by it's caked-on guts every day for the next six months? I couldn't bear it.
I told Stephanie I'd dispose of it if she'd provide the shovel and moral support.
Then, just as I was approaching the beast, she suggested that maybe he was just stunned and as soon as I touched him he might jump up and run toward me.
We decided on a two-part approach. First I would poke said beastie with the tip of the shovel. If he made no movement, I would proceed to phase 2, wherein I would push him with the shovel across the road and into the drainage ditch for the coyotes to mange.
There was something about the soft feeling of the shovel touching the squirrel's belly that sent a shiver through my whole body. It wasn't pretty. I asked her to stop recording.
And caught my finest hour in pixels.
Because that's how heroes DO!
The kids hopped off the bus and I headed home and retired to the solace of my favorite chair in the corner by my favorite window, working on work and watching Wanda and her friend as they played outside.
When what should fly past my ear but a giant bug. No. Not a bug. A bird. A freaking bird was inside my living room.
It landed on the window sill a few inches from me, flapping it's wings frantically and slamming into the window over and over again.
I screamed and dropped my water bottle on the floor, wetness spilling everywhere. The bird also started spreading "wetness" all over my window sill. Bird poop. In my living room.
I called Dan for moral support but he was in a meeting. I took some semi-hysterical video tracking the bird.
I heard my neighbor laugh from her house next door.
"Do you need my help?" she asked.
While I was waiting for her, I closed all the blinds in the house except the ones on the window where the bird was thrashing and opened the front door to entice him out. I grabbed a broom and started shooing the bird toward the screened-in part of the window, thinking if he was near the screen, I could push it out and let him free.
I can't adequately describe the feeling of adrenaline that was coursing through my body as I worked to get this crazy bird out of my house, a bird who moved sporadically, frequently startling me, and who I knew could fly up in my face at any moment, freaking me out and very likely pecking the flesh from my eyes in a Hitchcockian display of terror.
It's like that feeling you get when you're poking a dead squirrel in the middle of the road with your shovel, knowing he could jump up, run along the handle of your shovel and start climbing up and down your face while you scream and flail around like a psychobot.
After I moved the bird where I wanted him, I put down the broom so I could have two hands free to remove the screen. As I did this, he dropped out of sight behind my long, dark curtains. I quickly closed those curtains as well, those curtains which hang in an area behind the end table, an area that has become the dumping ground for my church bag, the kids' piano books, and a bunch of other stuff. Arg.
With the blinds all shut, the living room had grown dim.
The bird was in the mess. In the dark. And he'd gone silent.
Did he die of fright and fall into my church bag to fester? My neighbor had arrived by this point and she helped me pull items one by one out of my bag, looking for a dead bird.
In the dim light we moved the chair. The end table. The piano.
We never found the bird.
I see the writing on the wall. At some point in the next couple of weeks, I will move a cushion or a piano book and BAM! Dead rotting creepy bird carcass!! It's an exciting game we're playing here.
My neighbor asked if there was ever really a bird or if I was possibly losing my mind. After SquirrelGate 2016 earlier this morning, I almost doubted myself.
Then I showed her this.
A minute of me hysterically trying to creep up on a bird that never quite makes it into the video.
So the bird is real. And the squirrel is real. And the terror is real. I wanted to find the bird so badly at first, but I'm at a point where I don't so much want to find it now. Ever.
They say these things happen in threes. I don't think that's possible. Because if I have another run-in with a helpless and/or deceased animal today, I will perish as well. And then there will be four dead animals.
I've been thinking a lot lately about finishing things. I'm not talking about finishing a race or finishing a college degree or finishing your grass roots campaign against the evil sheriff of Nottingham. (I ask you, Brother. Are you gonna finish what you started?!) I'm talking about flushing the dang toilet and putting your blow dryer away when you're done with it. I'm talking about WHERE ARE MY SHOES??!!
I am great at cleaning my house. Super great. I have a lot of practice because I'm also really good at trashing it. I go through phases where I'm really consistent about cleaning as I go. And then I have a hardship like a toothache, or a busy week, or a good YA novel, and I fall off the wagon.
I do better at being consistent when I'm counting Drops of Awesome, when I'm congratulating myself for every small thing I get done, but due to some of my habits and routines, I have set up a system where I need to do a million more Drops of Awesome each day than I should really have to. I make my life harder by not following through and completing basic actions. So I have to go back and clean up after myself over and over again.
Take my blow dryer, for example. I frequently have to go "clean my vanity," which involves putting my makeup, blow dryer and face wash away. This only takes a couple of minutes to do but it's a couple of minutes I could be doing something else. And there's really no reason it should be its own task at all. Part of drying my hair should be putting away the blow dryer.
Can you imagine using your blow dryer and then just dropping it to the ground as soon as your hair was dry, with the machine still running? No way. Part of "drying your hair" involves turning off the dryer when you're done. I also always place my blow dryer on the counter rather than just releasing it from my hand and letting it crash to the floor.
I get a Drop of Awesome for turning it off then and another one for placing it on the counter.
Then I look at that action and ask myself, how can I kick this up a notch? How can I get one more Drop of Awesome by taking this action just a tiny step forward? I call this a Drop Kick.
So, for me, the blow dryer Drop Kick was to, in one motion, unplug the blow dryer as I'm turning it off and place it under the sink, never letting it touch the counter. Because this was a revolutionary move and so out of my usual routine, I would say, "Drop Kick!" every time I did it. It was me, improving one of my daily routines, just a Drop.
Soon it became a habit. And I almost never have to "clean the vanity." It has become self-cleaning.
Now, you may be great at blow dryer follow-through. I'm so happy for you. But is there anything in your life that you could kick up a notch to make your day go more smoothly?
For two of the kids, this has made a big difference. The front door clutter is down and they have a much easier time finding their stuff when they need it.
It's a subtle difference but the cute catch-phrase really helps the medicine go down. And we're building new, improved habits every day.
What do you want to Drop Kick this afternoon? Pick one thing that you could do a tiny bit better!
I love the way Wanda's mind works. I'm sure I still love the way Laylee and Magoo's minds work too, but unlike with Wanda, I'm not privy to a constant stream in voice and writing of every thought that has ever passed through their brains. I have an open internet connection to Wanda's thoughts. The older kids send me text messages.
Yes. It's a song written about local law enforcement when Diocletian was emperor of Rome. Those were serious times.
She spends a lot of time thinking and overthinking everything and then telling me about it. Take this simple homework sheet for example.
The teacher read Goldilocks and the Three Bears and then asked the kids what they thought about it.
Check yes or no. Was it good or bad?
And it makes sense. It IS sort of a sad and mean kind of story. Chick breaks into a family residence, uses or destroys all their stuff while they're out battling the obesity epidemic with some family exercise. When she's caught, she books it. What kind of a story is that?
Sad, mean, and sort of enjoyable.


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Q: Script Calls Wrong echo I am trying to return data from my database. The query will return a zero or one. If the data returns one (if psv1=1) I want to echo 'Data found'. If the data returns a zero (if psv1=0) I want to echo 'No data found'.
When I run my script I always get 'No data found', even when psv1=1. I also tried to change $res[0] == 1 to $res[0] > 0 but it didn't work.
$result = mysqli_query($db_handle, 'SELECT psv1 FROM cus WHERE id="1" AND user_id="'. $_SESSION['user_id'] .'"');
$res = mysqli_fetch_row($result);

if ($res[0] == 1){
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}
else
{
echo "No data found";
}

A: According to the Manual, mysqli_fetch_row() will return NULL on failure or else an array of strings corresponding to a row of data as an enumerated array.  I suggest also testing that mysqli_query() does not return FALSE as per the Manual's recommendation by way of numerous examples here. So, a better test would be to code something like the following with $query having been set to the specific query:
<?php

$result = null;
$res = null;

$result = mysqli_query( $db_handle, $query ) OR die( mysqli_error( $db_handle ));

if( ( $res = mysqli_fetch_row( $result )) === NULL ) {
     // Nothing to fetch
}
else
{
     echo ($res[0] == 1 )? "Data found." : "No data found";
}

A: I wonder if you need both conditions in the WHERE. Are you meaning to have id and user_id. Suggest removing:
id="1" AND

Can only be a guess, but seems unlikely condition.
On checking no results returned, may I suggest trying:
$result = mysqli_query($db_handle, 'SELECT psv1 FROM cus WHERE id="1"
AND user_id="'. $_SESSION['user_id'] .'"');

$res = mysqli_fetch_row($result);

if(mysqli_num_rows($result) > 0){

echo 'Data found';

}

else {

echo "No data found";

}

See related SO answer on mysqli_num_rows

A: You should use mysqli_fetch_array($result, MYSQLI_ASSOC):
$result = mysqli_query($db_handle, 'SELECT psv1 FROM cus WHERE id="1" AND user_id="'. $_SESSION['user_id'] .'"');
$res = mysqli_fetch_array($result, MYSQLI_ASSOC);

if ($res['psv1'] == 1){
    echo 'Data found';
}
else {
    echo "No data found";
}

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My first poultry experiences were with a gang of three itinerants - a rooster, a brown hen, and a white hen. They appeared from the next-door paddock one day, liked what they saw, and stayed.
Like a totally indulgent human parent, I had no idea of chook-discipline. I let them run riot through my garden, and roost in the trees next to the house. Aargh! That noise - rooster crowing in the moonlight!
Now my hen-house has been repaired, a proper run has been constructed, and I am the proud owner of some new, well disciplined chooks. And thanks to my friend Krystina, the chook version of TV's super-nanny, I am more than twice as wise.
She explains it rather simply - chooks have two passions in life, to scratch and to peck. My job is to provide resources for both. Chooks also like to be secure at night. They do not get bored in chicken runs, though the odd afternoon spent scratching in the Hazelnut Orchard would be a treat.
My new poultry pack consists of one silver barred birchen rooster, two large barred Plymouth Rock hens, and four smaller black bantams. It's a cosy fit on the hen-house perch at night, and already the Moosey kitchen is over-egged - omelets, crepes, eggy cakes, and eggy salads appearing at every meal.
As instructed by my chook super-nanny I shut the chooks in their hen-house for the first six days (with food and water, of course). Then came the Saturday morning when the little chook-door was officially opened. I lurked by the netting with my camera, ready to capture the first glorious moments of freedom - what a sight! The air was filled with gurgles of chook-delight, as all the birds scratched and rolled in the dirt.
Annie - Young black hen with gold lacing.
Amelia - Young all-black hen, small comb.
Donna - Young all-black hen, bigger comb.
Daisy - Young black hen, silver neck feathers.
Harriet - Barred Plymouth Rock, older bird, with hole punch (ouch) in foot.
Hilda - Barred Plymouth Rock, older bird, pristine feet.
Brewster - Silver barred birchen rooster, a young cockerel enjoying his first hen-experiences (far preferable to the pot or the freezer).
Thanks very much to Krystina for providing such well-behaved birds, and for her strong words of advice.
My chooks eat layer pellets, a bit of grain for an afternoon treat, and lots of kitchen left-overs like rice, cooked potato peelings, lettuce, cabbage, silver beet and other greens. Gourmet treats include over-ripe avocados and tomatoes and a ghastly concoction made with seaweed powder, oatmeal and plain yoghurt. Eek!


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Electric Nurse är ett svenskt mikrobryggeri i Landvetter startades av sjuksköterskan Ida Engström och elkonstruktören Peter Robertsson  som började brygga kommersiellt 2012.
Electric Nurse har ett experimentbryggverk i Landvetter utanför Göteborg där de tar fram prototyper som sedan bryggs i större skala på olika bryggerier.

I sortimentet finns produkter som  Pale Ale, DIPA, Dark Skull, och Dark Divinity. Sedan 2018 buteljerar man vissa öl på burk däribland många av experimentölen.

Referenser

Externa länkar

Electric Nurse

Svenska bryggerier
Mikrobryggerier

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Flow Cytometry Basics Guide
Chapter 5 - Optimizing your Experiments
Autofluorescence
Live/dead Exclusion
Doublet Discrimination
Cell Collection
Permeabilization and Fixation
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Cells have a natural level of fluorescence, called autofluorescence, which can be a problem in flow cytometry data analysis. Cellular autofluorescence can be due to the presence of collagen and elastin, cyclic ring compounds such as NADPH and riboflavin, aromatic amino acids and cellular organelles such as mitochondria and lysosomes. The level in cells can vary due to variances in the levels of these cellular compounds and organelles that give rise to the fluorescence. In general, larger cells and more granular cells have increased autofluorescence due to an increase in the number of fluorescent compounds.
Autofluorescence Wavelengths
Most autofluorescence is detected at shorter light wavelengths with most absorbing at 350-500 nm and emitting at 350-550 nm. This is especially true for mammalian cells, which contain many compounds that excite by the 488 nm laser and emit in the FITC range. Autofluorescence can therefore be a problem in these light ranges as the signal to noise ratio is decreased resulting in reduced sensitivity and false positives. In addition autofluorescence spillover into another channel can mask low expressers.
The level of autofluorescence can be determined using unstained controls. As there is less autofluorescence at longer light wavelengths, fluorophores which emit above 600 nm will have less autofluorescence interference. The use of a very bright fluorophore will also reduce the impact of autofluorescence.
Fig. 23. Autofluorescence. Natural levels of autofluorescence can vary between different cells types. Lymphocytes (red) have less fluorescence than granulocytes (blue).

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Zelda: BOTW Is The Second Highest Reviewed Game Of All-time Shannon Grixti March 6, 2017 So, the top 10 all-time reviewed games on Metacritic has stayed largely the same for the last 5-10 years with only Grand Theft Auto V and Super Mario Galaxy 2 being able to break in.
"saria giving the fairy ocarina to link / link trying to play ocarina" "Friendship by =SaiyaGina on deviantART I like how Link is so obviously doing it badly." "galerie zelda - Page 6"
As for Fairy fountains there are a few. One is in the Sacred forest meadow in the middle, you have to take a ladder to get on top of the maze then jump into the hole in the middle.


The Kenya national football team will take to the Mumbai Football Arena pitch on Saturday evening to take on New Zealand in their first match of the four-nation Hero Intercontinental Cup being staged in India.
It's all systems go for Kenya for the match that kick off at 5:30pm Kenyan time. Coach Sebastien Migne linked up with the team after a visa hiatus. Thika United defender Dennis Odhiambo and Vihiga United's Bernard Ochieng who are the latest callus also have joined Stars camp in Mumbai.
On paper, Kenya will be the favorites for this evenings' clash as they are ranked 111th world wide, 22 positions above the Oceanic nation New Zealand.
In the first match, Sunil Chhetri scored a hat-trick as India pumped in 5 goals past a hapless Chinese Taipei.


Certain theorists of architecture and cultural-studies scholars have pointed out the mutual interrelationship of physical characteristics of dwelling in each region with the lifestyle of its indigenous residents. Therefore, a better understanding of the physical characteristics of residences would clarify how cultural and environmental circumstances affected settlement practices of local residents. As a primary abode, the very first experiences and memories of the human beings are framed via dwelling has important role in forming their worldview. Therefore, understanding the forming factors and their impact mechanism on form and spatial structure of vernacular dwelling would play an important role in understanding the Quality of residential life.
Today shortage of designerly attention to lifestyle and the attractive nuances of vernacular architecture are at the grassroots of identity crisis and lack of quality space in residential architecture. Thus in this research, existential reasons of these elements in Boshrouyeh houses is investigated. Boshrouyeh is a city in southern Khorasan province, which seventy percent of its historical residences have still sustained and considered as one of the intact valuable urban fabric in the whole province.
Historical residences and valuable urban fabric they have formed have been greatly endangered by the unconscionable contemporary interventions. The shortage of current available resources calls for a further analysis of the constructional and spatial elements of these houses particularly in this specific region. While modern housing practices have totally chosen a different language, still there is much to learn from vernacular housing in sense their behavioral suitability, privacy, multiplicity of spatial functioning and climatic logic.
The main objective of this research is to identify residential spatial typology and the formation of each type's characteristics in the study area. The research has employed a combined strategy of descriptive, interpretive and historical methods. The data has been collected via field surveys and questioners and interviews were conducted with the residents.
2. Typology of space and dwelling patterns.
Keywords: Boshrouyeh, Vernacular Architecture, Spatial type, physical characteristics of house, Culture.


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Vine Deloria Jr., A Giant in Indian Country,
Posted by Caracoli on June 15, 2009 at 11:34pm in What does it mean to be "indigenous" in the Caribbean today?
Vine Deloria Jr., giant in Indian Country, dies at 72
Vine Deloria Jr., a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe who was one the nation's most influential scholars, died on Sunday. He was 72.
As best-selling author, Deloria spoke authoritatively on tribal sovereignty and self-determination. As a historian, he promoted Native science amid conflicting Western views. And as an advocate, he worked on countless initiatives, legislative and otherwise, to protect sacred sites, ancestral remains and artifacts and the federal-tribal relationship.
"I cannot think of any words I could possibly say that even begin to capture the significance of this man and his work among Native people and on our behalf for the past half century," Richard West Jr., the director of the National Museum of the American Indian, said in a message quoted by Indian Country Today.
"If you mark down the great figures of the American West in recent times, he belongs there because of his role in reshaping Indian country," Charles F. Wilkinson, a professor of law at the University of Colorado, said in a statement "I think in the last 100 years, he's been the most important person in Indian affairs, period."
"Vine Deloria Jr. has added more to the public understanding of Native people than any other leader of his time," Wilma Mankiller, the first woman principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, wrote in ICT earlier this year.
Deloria was born in 1933 in Martin, South Dakota, near the Pine Ridge (Oglala Sioux) Reservation. His father was Vine Deloria Sr., a descendant of Sitting Bull. The family had a background in religion and were considered leading Indian Episcopalians. Deloria Sr. was an ordained Episcopalian priest as was his father, Philip DeLoria, who was one of the first Sioux tribal members to become an Episcopal priest.
Religion proved to be a strong theme in Deloria's life. After serving in the U.S. Marines, he obtained a master's in theology from the Lutheran School of Theology in Illinois in 1963.
The following year, in 1964, he joined the National Congress of American Indians as its executive director. For three years, until 1967, he worked to reverse the federal government's termination policy. "It threw a real chill in Indian Country," he said in a video message delivered at NCAI's annual conference in 2004, noting that the policy was so poorly developed that Congress once offered to move 10,000 Turtle Mountain Chippewas from North Dakota to Minneapolis and find them jobs.
NCAI's job, he said, was to point out the "illogical" consequences of the policy, while fighting members of Congress who promised to save bigger tribes from termination in exchange for eliminating small tribes in California and elsewhere. NCAI's answer was always a firm no, he recalled. His work on the issue set the stage for another one that has remained in place ever since: self-determination.
In 1969, Deloria published his first book, "Custer Died for Your Sins." A bestseller, it turned him into a national figure and symbol of the burgeoning, and often tumultuous, Native rights movement. Subtitled "An Indian Manifesto," the book helped change the public's consciousness towards American Indians.
The decade following "Custer's" publication saw the enactment of a series of landmark laws that gave tribes greater control over their affairs, led to the return of millions of acres of tribal land, established the national tribal college structure and reaffirmed the United States' treaty and trust obligations to Native people.
In 1970, Deloria obtained a degree in law from the University of Colorado and thus began his lifelong affiliation with the school. He served as a professor of history up until his retirement in 2000 and continued to remain a visible member of Indian community in the Denver and Boulder areas. He gave his papers to the Denver Public Library lived just east of Denver, in Golden, up until his passing. He also helped to establish the Native American Rights Fund, located in Boulder, in 1970.
Deloria eventually wrote more than 20 books, including "God is Red" in 1973, which advocated for the return to traditional ways, and "Tribes, Treaties, and Constitutional Tribulations" a 1999 book that traced more than 200 years of Indian legal and policy developments.
With the publication of "Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact" in 1997, Deloria turned his eyes towards prevailing scientific views of the peopling of the Americas. He forcefully, but humorously, derailed the theory that all of the ancestors of American Indians came across the Bering Strait.
The book was indicative of Deloria's ability to challenge Western notions in a way that gave prominence to Native thought. His efforts led to the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act in 1990 and the 1989 law that authorized the creation of the National Museum of the American Indian, which opened in Washington, D.C., in September 2004.
"Many aspects of federal Indian law would not have developed in as positive a direction as they have without his foresight and guidance. Certainly this is true of Indian education, repatriation and the modern exercise of sovereignty. ICT columnist Suzan Shown Harjo wrote.
She added: "He encourages Native and non-Native people to respect and learn from indigenous traditional knowledge, the wisdom of which is more apparent with each major environmental catastrophe and with each new discovery of Indians by Western science."
Deloria was showered with many accolades during his life. One of the most recent was the American Indian Visionary Award from the ICT newspaper, for his life of achievement.
"In Indian country the name Vine Deloria Jr. is a household word," his niece, Faith Spotted Eagle, wrote. "His quotes are on walls and often roll off the tongues of young Natives doing reports and speeches. Most importantly, he writes what we all would like to say. I read somewhere that someone said that an act of genius ''is saying what we are all thinking.''
"That is what Uncle Vine does," she said. "He speaks for a nation of Natives."
More on DeLoria's Life:
Vine Deloria Jr. passes after a life of seminal work (Indian Country Today 11/14)
Vine Deloria Jr., Champion of Indian Rights, Dies at 72 (The New York Times 11/15)
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Vine Deloria Jr., 72; Native American Activist Wrote 'Custer Died for Your Sins' (The Los Angeles Times 11/15)
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Indian scholar made officials rethink ways (The Denver Post 11/15)
Indian movement icon, educator Deloria dies (The Denver Rocky Mountain News 11/15)
Vine Deloria, Indian historian and activist, dies at 72 (AP 11/15)
Vine Deloria Jr., Renowned Author and American Indian Leader, Dies at 72 (University of Colorado 11/14)
Passing of Vine Deloria (Maori Party 11/14)
Indian Country Today Articles from January 10, 2005:
Wilma Mankiller: An original thinker with a warrior's spirit
Suzan Shown Harjo: Selective memories of Vine Deloria Jr.
Faith Spotted Eagle: Deksi (Uncle) Vine
Charlie Wilkins: Visionary thinker and wordsmith par excellence
Hank Adams: A Vine Deloria Jr. collaboration: The first decade
John Mohawk: Vine Deloria Jr.'s unfolding legacy
Philip Deloria: Tales of a remarkable father
Norbert Hill: A hero to many
Deloria hailed as 'visionary' for role in Indian affairs (03/11)
Vine Deloria is ICT's American Indian Visionary (01/10)
Column: Vine Deloria refuses honorary degree (05/25)
Permalink Reply by Maximilian Forte on June 16, 2009 at 1:11am
There is no overstating the monumental stature of Vine Deloria Jr. His influence has been critical even for the strong criticisms of anthropology that he articulated in Custer Died for Your Sins, especially his chapter "Anthropologists and Other Friends". He was also important in backing Ward Churchill for his job at the University of Colorado, the same university as Deloria's. While ICT praises Deloria, they have also been one source for astonishing condemnations of Churchill, that were then used by the extreme right and the anti-Indian element. Yet, I can think of no other indigenous scholar who stands as close to Deloria as does Churchill, and I wonder if people in this network followed Churchill's recent trial at all. Of especial interest to Tainos, who have suffered similar vile racial criticisms, one of the favourite ways that critics of Churchill attack him is to call him a "fake Indian."
Permalink Reply by Caracoli on June 17, 2009 at 12:00pm
Taino Ti Max
Vine Deloria Jr was one of our visionaries, Also I see that Ward Churchill will be on a HBO special scheduled for June 29 2009 with others talking about free speech
Caracoli
Permalink Reply by Anita Pagan on June 24, 2009 at 9:44pm
I loved his books Red Earth, White Lies, Evolution, Creationism and other Modern Myths, God is Red and Custer Died for your Sins.
A brilliant mind...
Permalink Reply by Iris Antongiorgi Concepcion on March 8, 2010 at 4:24pm
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Q: Delete using left outer join in Postgres I am switching a database from MySQL to Postgres SQL.  A select query that worked in MySQL works in Postgres but a similar delete query does not.
I have two tables of data which list where certain back-up files are located.  Existing data (ed) and new data (nd). This syntax will pick out existing data which might state where a file is located in the existing data table, matching it against equal filename and path, but no information as to where it is located in the new data:
SELECT ed.id, ed.file_name, ed.cd_name, ed.path, nd.cd_name
FROM tv_episodes AS ed
LEFT OUTER JOIN data AS nd ON
ed.file_name = nd.file_name AND
ed.path = nd.path
WHERE ed.cd_name = 'MediaLibraryDrive' AND nd.cd_name IS NULL;

I wish to run a delete query using this syntax:
DELETE ed
FROM tv_episodes AS ed
LEFT OUTER JOIN data AS nd ON
ed.file_name = nd.file_name AND
ed.path = nd.path
WHERE ed.cd_name = 'MediaLibraryDrive' AND nd.cd_name IS NULL;

I have tried DELETE ed and DELETE ed.* both of which render syntax error at or near "ed".  Similar errors if I try without the alias of ed. If I attempt
DELETE FROM tv_episodes AS ed
LEFT  JOIN data AS nd.....

Postgres sends back syntax error at or near "LEFT".
I'm stumped and can't find much on delete queries using joins specific to psql.

A: As others have noted, you can't LEFT JOIN directly in a DELETE statement.  You can, however, self join on a primary key to the target table with a USING statement, then left join against that self-joined table.
DELETE FROM tv_episodes
USING tv_episodes AS ed
LEFT OUTER JOIN data AS nd ON
   ed.file_name = nd.file_name AND
   ed.path = nd.path
WHERE
   tv_episodes.id = ed.id AND
   ed.cd_name = 'MediaLibraryDrive' AND nd.cd_name IS NULL;

Note the self join on tv_episodes.id in the WHERE clause.  This avoids the sub-query route provided above.

A: Use the DELETE... USING syntax:
DELETE FROM tv_episodes USING data WHERE
tv_episodes.file_name = data.file_name AND
tv_episodes.path = data.path AND
tv_episodes.cd_name = 'MediaLibraryDrive' AND
data.cd_name IS NULL;

A: Instead of
DELETE ed
FROM tv_episodes AS ed
LEFT OUTER JOIN data AS nd ON
ed.file_name = nd.file_name AND
ed.path = nd.path
WHERE ed.cd_name = 'MediaLibraryDrive' AND nd.cd_name IS NULL;

please try
DELETE FROM tv_episodes
WHERE cd_name = 'MediaLibraryDrive' AND
  (tv_episodes.filename, tv_episodes.path IN
    (SELECT ed.filename,
    ed.path
    FROM tv_episodes AS ed
    INNER JOIN data AS nd
      ON ed.file_name = nd.file_name
        AND ed.path = nd.path
    WHERE nd.cd_name IS NULL)
  )
  ;

JOIN is not valid in a DELETE query according to the postgresql documentation.  You might need to concatenate the left and right parts of the IN expression.

A: As bf2020 points out, postgres does not support JOINs when conducting a DELETE query.  The proposed solution of a sub-query made me think of the solution. Refine the SELECT query from above and employ it as a sub-query to a DELETE query statement:
DELETE FROM tv_episodes
WHERE id in (
    SELECT ed.id
    FROM tv_episodes AS ed
    LEFT OUTER JOIN data AS nd ON
    ed.file_name = nd.file_name AND
    ed.path = nd.path
    WHERE ed.cd_name = 'MediaLibraryDrive' AND nd.cd_name IS NULL
);

Sub-queries can often be inefficient consuming time and CPU resources with some database systems, especially MySQL.  From my experience I try to avoid using a sub-query due to that inefficiency plus that such queries are sometimes an easy way out to honing one's skill like learning JOIN syntax.
Since postgre does not permit delete queries using join, the above is the solution that works.


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Indian Driving, Shopping Malls and Soccer: Week One at EDI
Our first group excursion was to one of the biggest malls in Ahmedabad called Alpha Mall. Joe, one of our colleagues from Boston University, had a shopping spree so we left him to his own devices. Myself, George (another Boston student) and Tony to continue to roam the western influenced shopping centre and found some cool Indian shops. Making a few purchases and all equipped with the classic kurat top – a long sleeve shirt, that comes in three sizes, knee level, above the knee, and waist level – we went to check out the food hall and to meet the others. Gujurat is a Hindu state so the diet is strictly vegetarian, and no meat was on sale. There was an array of different veggie dishes on our table. By far the most impressive was Rocky's masala dosa, a massive pancake stuff with potato masala and served with a few sauces. Chris caused some hysteria as when we were about to drive off he was missing. We search for a good 15 minutes in the supermarket only to see him coming down the escalator chewing gum like nothing was wrong.
On day one, there was an introductory talk to the EDI interns by Dr. Umesh Menon, and we met our supervisors afterwards. Joe and I were set some reading, to understand what services EDI had to offer and the particular cluster we would be working in. Most of the reading was done by the afternoon and whilst waiting for the last document to be emailed to us we decided to chill.
After another presentation and a few more discussions, the picture we were painting of EDI and the work needed from us became more vivid. There seemed to be a degree of autonomy. This continued throughout the week; it was down to us to promote and probe the supervisors to channel us in a direction. It wasn't until Wednesday that a more detailed plan of what was expected of us for the next three weeks was conveyed to us, and that's when the real work began.
Apart from work, the evenings have been eventful. At 18:30 we meet some of the locals on campus for a game of soccer. It gives us the chance to bond with the lads and also show off our skills and dominate the pitch. Afterwards there is a civil banquet, which consists of dal, a sabjee, rice and a chapatti (flat bread). Since we are a diverse bunch the conversation is bases around the difference in our cultures.
Our first week has been filled with great learning experiences in both culture and business. For next week, we are looking forward to visiting the blacksmith cluster we are currently studying to perform field research and implement our action plan.
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Entrepreneurship Development Institute Internship 2014 – Sixth Week, Addison and Bradley
September 16, 2014 /in India, Uncategorized /by stevexyc
Addison and Bradley leave us with their lasting thoughts on their time interning in India….
After 4 weeks of background research and conducting interviews in the Varanasi cluster, we had all the information we needed for our 3-year business plan, process documentation* and promotional material. The final 2 weeks of the EDI internship were used to compile all of these documents together. Whilst long days, hectic schedules and a lot of chai were needed to produce these documents, we thoroughly enjoyed our work and were motivated by the fact that these documents could improve the three-handloom clusters under EDI. At the end of the internship, we gave a presentation on our findings and recommendations to students and senior faculty members of EDI, which was well received. Our main recommendation was for the clusters to set up a Marketing Team which would implement and oversee marketing initiatives in order to strengthen brand equity.
In the last weeks of our internship, we used every opportunity to explore more of Ahmedabad which included Sunday markets, Hindu temples, and Indian cuisine. The Sunday market was a blessing for anyone looking for last minute gifts and also a curse for anyone who can't avoid a good bargain or two . . . I unfortunately fell into both categories!
As our internship drew to an end, it was unfortunately time to say goodbye to all the wonderful people and colleagues we had met along the way. Nevertheless, we all enjoyed the farewell meals, and welcoming Sharmishta (Newcastle University Business School's International Relations Manager) to Ahmedabad.
From auto-rickshaws to handloom clusters, the 6 week internship with EDI is one that I will never forget. Whilst it's hard to sum-up an experience like this one in a blog, it can easily be done in a word – people. The people I've met and worked with along the way – EDI employers & students; Boston & Newcastle University; citizens of India and especially the other interns – have made this experience possible, and better than I could have imagined. An internship in India has offered me a diverse cultural experience leading to new friendships, and enhanced my international network. In addition, I have gained practical and professional marketing experience, and developed as a global citizen.
It is for the above reasons and many more that I strongly recommend this internship – and any other Global Experience Opportunity (GEO) – to anyone who wants to build an exceptional international portfolio.
* The purpose of the process documentation was to produce a clear and accessible standalone document which outlined all EDI interventions within the three-handloom clusters. This allows EDI and other parties to easily review past interventions.
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Self-Employed Women's Association – Week 6
I cannot believe that the internship has finished. I sit here in the EDI campus just a few hours away from my flight home and I am still trying to take it all in. I have had an amazing time, and I have met so many wonderful people here, from students and teachers to managers and RUDIben (self-employed women who sell RUDI products). It has given me a completely new perspective on how businesses can work, and has shown me the true determination and power of the women involved with SEWA and RUDI.
I have personally found our last week of the internship the best out of all of them. It started off on Monday with the presentation of Tim's and my 5 year business plan for the Surendranagar District of RUDI. To finally show our finished product and receive such positive feedback made all the hours that we spent working on it worthwhile. In the evening we met up with Sharmishta and all of the intern's supervisors at a beautiful restaurant to be served a feast of Gujarati dishes. Sharmishta had the chance to meet our supervisors to whom we had all grown very close, whilst we filled our bellies with some delicious and rather strange food.
But our work had not quite finished there. Tim and I were then informed we would be making a trip to another district that had just started up so that we could create a short report on it and come up with a few recommendations on how they can improve. So on Tuesday, Dimpleben, Tim, and I set off to Rajasthan for two days.
It was great to be out in India again, peering out into the countryside and visiting various centres that provide support to so many people. A few hours later we arrived at our destination and were warmly welcomed by a group of RUDIben and their children who took us on a tour of the village, stopping off at various houses to be served sweet chai and spicy food. When we returned to the centre, we gathered the information we needed, helped the RUDIben load the car, and went to stay the night at one of SEWA's manager schools before setting off back to Ahmedabad.
On the Thursday I spent my time writing the report and playing football with the Indian students with Jordan and Addison. We had come to look forward to the 6 o'clock kick off like eager children on Christmas Eve.
Friday came quickly, the last day of the internship, who could believe it?! The SEWA interns had a meeting where we showed our work and discussed the internship with our supervisors. They were all impressed with our work and effort over the course of the internship, and us with their kindness and help along the way. We also had the chance to talk to a couple of people who had been brought into SEWA to come up with a strategy for the next ten years; one of whom was a professor from Cambridge who was from the midlands, so after a brief while of talking football about Birmingham (whom I support) and West Brom, we discussed our work with them. To get more praise for our work from such people made Tim and me even happier, it really made us proud of our work. But things weren't all so positive… we then had to say bye to Dimpleben, with whom Tim and I had grown so used to going into work and seeing her smiling face and hearing her little jokes. But Dimpleben wasn't the only person who we were saying goodbye to; Addison left that afternoon, followed by Jordan, Jamie, Harriet, Su and Alex who set off on their travels around India. Lola and Bradley left in the evening, leaving me alone for Sunday.
But it wasn't all so bad; I went to a market with a few Indian friends I had made on the campus and bought a kurta for my little nephew, and I cannot wait to see him in it! I had my last meal out which consisted of plenty of chicken and rice and returned back to the campus to pack my bags and write this blog.
It has been a truly memorable 6 weeks and I can look back on my experience with a fondness for this crazy and wonderful country I never thought I'd have. India has been so welcoming and friendly, and I have gained so much invaluable knowledge and seen sights that you cannot see anywhere else. I know I will return one day, and sooner rather than later I hope.
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Self-Employed Women's Association 2014 – Week 4
Rather than the usual Monday morning, this week we were treated to a trip to the Calico Museum of Textiles, one of the most popular tourist attractions in Ahmedabad, and considered essential to our work (I was informed that my supervisors would not allow me to leave the city without paying the museum a visit).
The museum was based on a carved wooden house, traditional to Gujurat, which was over 200 years old and could be broken down and transported, which is a very interesting detail.
Once inside the museum, we were bombarded with textiles on every wall, floor and ceiling. The early sections boasted fabrics and cloths from the 15th Century. As our guide pointed out, some of the shapes were not the most flattering, but "they did their best." As we moved deeper into the museum, we learned more and more about different embroidery and decorative techniques, from the very small and neat cobblers' stitch (developed by cobblers using hooks to sew leather shoes), to the precision of the Punjabi embroidery style, whereby the embroidery would count the threads the stitch would cover to create perfect geometric designs.
The traditional techniques of people in Gujurat and other Indian states were all on show in the museum. One large hall was completely covered in an intricate canvas tent from the Mughal period, along with modesty screens, which they used to allow women to observe without being seen.
Each room in the museum had a different theme and so we were able to walk from a room of quilted, 3D designs to one in which everything was covered in tiny beads, painstakingly sewn together in complex designs and patterns. In some of the later rooms we learnt more about styles such as tie dye and weaving. One technique involved the weaver dyeing every single thread individually in multiple colors so that once they were all woven together a design was created. The artisans creating such pieces would have no written instructions, but would translate designs from their mind's eye to the loom. Other hand-embroidered pieces would take two artisans up to three years to complete, with each embroiderer starting from opposite ends and working towards the middle, creating a symmetrical design. Each stage in designs such as this were passed on through song, with the artisan creating the design, singing the instructions to their partner at the other end.
I think we were all thoroughly impressed by the meticulous skills of these artisans, and their patience!
On Tuesday night we decided to go out for dinner to celebrate the return of our very own prodigal sons (also known as the EDI boys). The plan was to meet at the beautiful Kankaria Lake; however, some of us got a little side-tracked, staging a daring rescue of an injured bird with the help of our trusted rickshaw driver, Manglesh. Instead of going to the lake, we instead went to a veterinary clinic that accepted injured animals off the street (for the cynical amongst you, they had a huge enclosure full of pigeons so I'm confident that they didn't just put our little bird down). There we encountered an adorable little dog, locked in a cage with a bandaged leg, yapping inconsolably. When we asked why no one had changed his bloody bandage, we were informed that it was in fact rabid. Oh.
On Thursday I was lucky enough to visit Jamie's work place, known as Gitanjili. Here I had the chance to meet some of the waste pickers who had joined SEWA and now worked making recycled stationary. I was immediately impressed by all the Gujurati Jamie had learned, as she was able to hold a pretty decent conversation with the women there. I, however, had absolutely no clue what was going on, but managed to make friends whilst learning their special paper counting technique (which was actually much harder than it looked!) Overall, Jamie and I had a lovely time, with Jamie conducting interviews with some of the workers whilst I struggled to get the right paper flicking technique. That was until The Rain became ridiculous. Yes, I have deliberately capitalized and italicized The Rain in line with my new found respect for the beast.
At around 4 o'clock, one of the ladies came upstairs to ask how Jamie and I were planning to get home. We were confused by the question until we looked down the stairs and saw the water level standing at lower shin depth on the street outside, despite the fact that the road was sloped.
Initially Jamie's supervisor Neelimaben was going to come to our rescue, offering to take us in her car to a point where the water wasn't so bad so our rickshaw driver could collect us. This plan was quickly scrapped, however, when we saw the parade of broken rickshaws outside the gate, including one which had been washed onto its side. Eventually we decided that we would have to brave it and walk to meet our rickshaw on higher ground.
As we made our way through the gate we were met by our very soggy rickshaw driver sans rickshaw (he had, however, brought along his trusty radio wrapped in a plastic bag). He informed us we would have to walk through knee deep water to get to the rickshaw. He lied. Jamie and I are not the tallest people in the world anyway, but by the time we made it to "the puddle," things had become somewhat worse. The water was up to the tops of our thighs and we had to wade a good 100 meters through it. Never have I tried harder to put mind over matter. I still refuse to think about what must have been in that dark brown water…
Nevertheless, Jamie and I survived the ordeal and lived to see another day (meaning a hot shower involving epic amounts of hand sanitizer and soap!)
So yes, just another quiet week in India…
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Entrepreneurship Development Institute Internship 2014 – Fourth Week, Jordan
On his return from a tiresome field trip spent conducting research, Jordan updates us on his first week back in the EDI centre…
Clip clop came the sound of Alex's and my footsteps as we reached our adopted home – Ahmedabad. The previous sixteen hours had been a typical Indian train journey consisting of around twelve hours' sleep and four hours of eating. Upon arrival at EDI, Alex and I headed to bed to gain some post-fieldwork recuperation.
Wednesday was a good day. After being advised to rest, Alex and I decided to have a relaxing day in Ahmedabad's city centre for the first time. A typically eventful auto rickshaw ride saw us arrive at the exclusive Alpha mall, allowing for some retail therapy and, of course, McDonalds.
Thursday through Saturday was a return to reality, and we documented all of our fieldwork research in a structured fashion. Solidifying a detailed outline of each document was the main priority for the Thursday, with Friday and Saturday being used to get the bulk of our first draft of the process documentation and the business plan done.
Sunday arrived quickly, as work had made the days fly by, and an early start was the order of the day as a heritage walk had been organised with everyone from Boston and Newcastle, along with some EDI students in the city centre, for 9:00 am. Waterproofs at the ready, the auto rickshaw journey to Ahmedabad centre began. The tour included a variety of interesting aspects about the city, from the wide array of secret passageways throughout the city, to the Jain temples (somewhat of an area of expertise for Alex and me post-Chanderi). Needless to say, after the appetite-inducing walk, the group headed to Alpha mall to indulge in Pizza Hut and Subway. Following on from this, the group wanted a taste of the real India, and so we naturally headed to the Western-style amusement arcade within the mall, fairground rides included.
Overall, Week four was a good one. We made big strides towards the completion of our internship project, along with enjoying a bit of relaxation that was the goal set on the train back to Ahmedabad.
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Reserve Bank of India – Fourth Week
Week four had a slower feel due to the lack of a mid-week adventure for the whole team, but it was just as exciting as the others. While the beginning of the week was rather uneventful, we were lucky enough to have our first hands-on experience with the Indian wildlife on Wednesday without even leaving our office. It caught us by surprise – we originally mistook the squeaking in the wall as a sign that our air conditioning system was failing us, until we saw a head pop out. It was horrifying and humorous, and nobody was sure how to handle it. What we thought was a rat soon spread its wings, and as it left the comforts of the wall, we left the comforts of our office, confused and amused. It was a bat, and nobody knew what to do until a brave local managed to corner it, capture it, and release it back into the outside world. Everything was well again until another bat flew out of the wall while a maintenance team was trying to fix a leak in the room.
Other than Chris and Courtney conducting surveys and field work on Thursday, the team's first outing of the week occurred on Saturday with a visit to Symbiosis International University's School of Banking and Finance on the outskirts of Pune. Symbiosis was unique compared with the other universities in the area because of its very diverse student body with people from all around the world. During our visit, we observed many presentations from faculty members about their research on financial inclusion while many of the graduate students presented their field work on the issues of microfinance and financial inclusion. During the Q&A session, Vicki raised a question about whether or not India could adapt a similar system to Kenya's mobile banking system. To our surprise, a Kenyan graduate student at Symbiosis was in the audience. He got up and spoke about Kenya's system, mentioning how their decision to adopt mobile banking technology wasn't based on extensive research and collected data; instead, people asked the mobile companies for the technology, and they made it work. In his opinion, India has the capability to do this as well, and he said that people just needed to act on it and make it happen. In other words, his philosophy was best summarized with Nike's company
motto: Just Do It. Everyone in the room was very impressed with the way he spoke, and we were glad to hear his perspective on an issue relevant to financial inclusion in India. After the presentations, we were asked to come to the podium and speak about our own experiences in India and at RBI. We were asked about the differences and similarities between our homes, education, and life experiences, though as a member of the audience stated at the end, "we're all human." After all of this, we were treated to a fantastic lunch at the Symbiosis guest house on top of a mountain
with fantastic views of the surrounding landscape.
At this point in the trip, we are beginning to realize just how little time we have left. We hope to make the most of it by continuing to immerse ourselves into the Indian culture, and it's safe to say that we're all very excited for Thursday's visit to meet RBI's Deputy Governor and see the central offices in Mumbai.
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Entrepreneurship Development Institute Internship 2014 – Third Week – Addison
July 29, 2014 /in India /by stevexyc
EDI sent us (Bradley and Addison) to Varanasi to investigate the local branch of the Producer Company, an organization of weavers, dyers, master weavers and other members of the crafting process. Our last days there were challenging but very productive. After finalizing our objectives and completing the last of our interviews, we spent our final day touring Varanasi. The tour was a great way to see Varanasi and the surrounding area. We started by checking out a temple dedicated to Gandhi that included a stunning 3-D map of India in the middle of the temple. After purchasing more souvenirs than were necessary, we headed to a handicraft store to buy even more! The handicraft store sold everything from historical paintings of India to diamond encrusted jewelry. Whilst we were tempted, we stuck to our student budgets and purchased enough chai to last us a lifetime. If you haven't tried chai yet, you need to visit India!
Since a trip to Varanasi wouldn't be complete without purchasing a lifetime supply of authentic handloom products, we asked our employers to bring some stalls and scarves for us to try. After weavers from the Producer Company Limited bought scarves to our hotel room, we realized the true potential of such a personalized service. Consequently, we aim to offer such a tailored service to other tourists in Varanasi to attract more international customers to the Producer Company Limited. After purchasing 15 scarves between us, you only have to ask Addison and I how successful this business could be!
After 2 amazing weeks in Varanasi, it was time to fly back to Ahmedabad. Although we thoroughly enjoyed our 42-hour train ride to Varanasi, we felt it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity not to be repeated anytime soon!
Our first couple of days back in Ahmedabad have been really nice and have allowed us time to catch up with our friends on the SEWA and EDI internships. To celebrate our reunion, we went for a group meal to BBQ nation, a full buffet of skewers of chicken, shrimp, lamb, and fish. It was all-you-can eat and was, in fact, just too much to eat!
-Bradley and Addison
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Entrepreneurship Development Institute Internship 2014 – Third Week – Alex
Chanderi Week 2:
It was during our second week in Chanderi, when things really began to heat up, literally and figuratively. Not only were the temperatures warmer-than-average temperatures–due in part to the delayed arrival of the monsoon season–but also this week we really bit our teeth into our primary research. We had set out to interview the following stakeholders within the Chanderi Handloom Cluster:
Weavers (Shareholders and Non-Shareholders)
Designers (Head and Local Designers)
Local Association Managers
BVS Director
BVS Dyers
Chanderiyaan
Chanderi New Design Center (Raw Mango Producers)
Traders (Silk, Cotton, and Jari)
We wanted to get access to every level of the value chain from raw material to the finished good. Our mission was to evaluate the operations of the PCL so that we could identify and correct any inefficiencies within its structure. We did so through objective surveys, case studies, and personal interviews. We knew that we would be leaving Monday morning of the next week, and fitting in all of the interviews was a challenge in itself. Jordan and I had taken a 7 day work week, but we were able to fit it all in and even began to formulate a few great recommendations for the PCL. I will reserve those for next week's post. Wish us luck on the train ride back!
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Entrepreneurship Development Institute Internship 2014 – Second Week – Alex
Chanderi Week 1: Orientation
After a 16 hour train ride through Gujurat and Rajastan, Jordan and I (Alex) had arrived in Chanderi at around 2 pm. We had done some preliminary research about the illustrious handloom industry and the region we would be investigating. In doing so, we had found that the town is actually part of the Jain Teerth and is home to many Jain temples. Also dotted around the city are a handful of palaces and edifices dating back to the 1400's. Jordan and I were excited to explore everything that the medieval-walled city had to offer.
Besides taking in the people, the food, and the sites, week one was quite an intensive work week. We had taken the first three days to orient ourselves completely with the Chanderi handloom cluster, which meant walking many miles in a day to the homes of different weavers, designers, traders, and local associations. We set out to learn the ins and outs of the cluster's operations, so we would have a better idea of where the Chanderi Handloom Cluster Development Producer Company Limited (PCL) fit inside of it. Once Jordan and I had felt comfortable with the general logistics of it all, we began to dig into the PCL, speaking directly to the CEO to gather information regarding its financials, operations, and market linkages. By Friday, we had completed the first part of our data collection process. The weekend, of course, was reserved for some site seeing.
-Alex Silberman
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Self-Employed Women's Association 2014 – Third Week
This week at SEWA has been a fascinating learning experience. The SEWA unit I work for is called the SEWA Manager ni School. Like its name says, it provides the members of the organization basic lessons on different aspects of business and the economy that will help them better manage their micro enterprises. The difference between this school and any other management school is that its target audience includes literate, semi literate as well as illiterate women. All of them, however, are still the primary sources of income for each of their households through various forms of economic activity.
One of the modules that is taught to the SEWA members is about financial management. Because the module was created some time ago, my task is to give insight regarding what topics are still relevant or not, propose new ones and make the respective changes. Once this is done, I will include it in a larger more comprehensive micro enterprise development module, which I will also review and modify. In order to better understand how these modules work, I was able to sit on one on Monday and Tuesday. I was really glad to meet the women upon whom the module has a direct impact. Because many of them are illiterate or semi literate, the classes are required to be very interactive and include activities such as role playing and various games. I was amazed at how quickly these women were able to work as a team without having met each other before.
The sessions are normally given in Gujarati which is the local language. However, Salmaben, the instructor, asked them to speak in Hindi so that Gunjan (my coworker) could translate to me. I could not express enough how grateful I was for the extra effort they put forth just for me. One of the words I learned, together with the SEWA members was "Udyogsahsikta." In Hindi, this means "entrepreneur," but the beauty of it is that "Udyog" means business and "sahskita" is related to courage. Together we learned that to be an entrepreneur, one must be courageous and accept all the risks that come with starting a business. As we, the interns, approach the halfway point on our journey, we could not be more amazed at how much we have learned and grown as travelers, business students, and people. I cannot wait for what the next three weeks have in store for us.
-Su Lau
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Nationally in Colombia, a total of 47 771 suspected cases of Zika virus infection (ZIKV) have been recorded. Cases have been identified in 282 municipalities of the country and in the past week, 5065 suspected cases were reported. A total of 8890 pregnant women are among the suspected cases.
A total of 2090 cases have been confirmed as ZIKV.


"What happens if someone steals one of my domain controllers?"
"You flatten and then rebuild the entire forest."
Not very comforting, I know. Consider this example. A customer once liked to display all of the company's shiny computer gear behind a large plate-glass window that faced the street (complete with labels indicating the telephone numbers of all the modems, but that's a different problem). One day, some thugs decided to help themselves to a computer, so they smashed their pickup truck through the window, snatched the first computer they saw, threw it into the back of the truck, and sped away. It just so happened that this computer was... a domain controller! The customer called the police and described the truck and the theft. The police found the thieves, recovered the computer, and returned it to the customer, who proceeded to reconnect it to the network. Alas, a very unwise decision.
Extract password hashes from the Active Directory® database (no need to crack the passwords themselves now—see "Frequently Asked Questions About Passwords" for more information).
Install a malicious self-replicating virus or other malware.
Add rogue user, service, and administrator accounts.
Create or modify logon scripts.
Honestly, this is a machine you can no longer trust. And if the bad guy still possesses the computer, manages to reconnect that Typhoid Mary of a domain controller (DC) back to your network, and forces a replication to the other DCs in the forest... well, it frightens me to think of the possible ramifications.
Back in the days of Windows® 2000, Microsoft published some best practices for securing DCs. Part 2 contains a section called "Recovering from the physical breach of a domain controller." Ten thickly worded pages guide you through numerous manual and time-consuming (read: potentially error-prone) steps for working the bad guy out of your forest. I suppose all that might succeed, but you really can't trust that forest anymore. Rebuilding it from the ground up is your only practical choice. Yes, FDISK is your friend.
Regular readers of my articles and attendees at conferences where I've presented know the point I'm making here. In the case of DC physical security, the question usually arises when customers begin placing DCs in locations outside the central headquarters. In the United States, where connectivity is amazingly cheap and highly reliable, we rarely need to bother with placing DCs in far-flung offices with only three people, two cats, and a creaky vending machine disgorging year-old pretzels (when it's in the mood).
But in other areas of the world—areas where bureaucracy-laden telcos, often remnants of governments now long gone, dispense bandwidth as if it were a glittering emerald encased in pure platinum (with stratospheric monthly charges to match)—organizations must make a security-versus-usability trade-off. Security prefers that all DCs remain safe in a central datacenter and all authentication traffic traverse the WAN; usability demands that DCs be placed where the people log on because WAN links die so frequently. In this scenario, I hope you agree with me that usability wins. If the people can't log on, they probably can't do their jobs; secure environments are useless if idle workers can't access them.
Therefore, you have to accept the risk and situate domain controllers as close to the people and resources as possible. I have four suggestions for mitigating risk.
Cage that beast. Numerous manufacturers offer steel cages in which you can encase your remote DCs (See MSN Search results). Limit your selection to those that include some form of physical anchoring, such as a large heavy chain attaching the cage to a bolt or eye screwed deep into a concrete floor. Be sure the cage includes a decent lock—an electronic lock is best, one that can audit all access. Remember, you're protecting not only the hard drive but the whole computer.
Consider multiple forests and selective authentication. Surely you've learned that Microsoft stopped recommending single forest/single domain Active Directory designs long ago. Yes, we were wrong about that. Because the forest is the true security boundary, implementing multiple forests helps contain the spread of any compromise, but to make multiple forests useful, you need to implement trusts. Typically, those are unidirectional: central corporate resource forests trust distributed user forests. There is the potential that the central forests might be trusting a compromised forest—at least for a period of time—and therefore could themselves become compromised.
A feature known as selective authentication lessens the risk. It's an authentication permission set on the security descriptor of the resource computer object located in Active Directory, not on the security descriptor physically located on the resource computer itself. Controlling authentication in this way provides an extra layer of protection to shared resources by preventing them from being randomly accessed by any authenticated user in the trusted distributed user forests. Now, if one of these user forests is attacked and requires a rebuild, you don't have to rebuild the entire trusting forest also—only the machines in that forest enabled with selective authentication of principals in the attacked trusted forest. See the second article I've highlighted in the "Security Resources" sidebar, Security Considerations for Trusts, for more information on selective authentication.
Deploy read-only domain controllers. A third alternative, scheduled to be available in the forthcoming release of Windows Server®, code-named "Longhorn," is to use read-only domain controllers in branch offices. The unattended version of the DC promotion utility gives you the option. A DC promoted this way contains a read-only replica of the Active Directory database. When users log on, they are authenticated via Kerberos referral from a full DC; the read-only DC caches password hashes only for those users in the branch office. This somewhat reduces the scope of the threat to a forest—if someone steals a read-only DC, then only the branch-office user accounts will need to have passwords reset.
Forests and domains represent geography (geography is stable and doesn't move—much).
Organizational units mirror your administrative model (types of machines and people).
Security groups follow your organizational chart.
Selective authentication, not mere trusts, controls and limits access.
This design is simple, it's effective, it removes the politics from the design, and you don't need to pay an army of too-smart-for-school suits—er, I mean consultants—to pretend to labor over a customized design "just for you" that's really the same thing they did for the previous 1,000 customers, but still costs you dearly.
So protect those domain controllers! No, they don't store your company secrets, and yes, they're pretty much just plumbing in your network. But when you recall the painful inconvenience and overwhelming urgency associated with malfunctioning plumbing, I'm sure you'll agree that repeating such an experience is certainly something to avoid.
Law #3: If a bad guy has unrestricted physical access to your computer, it isn't your computer anymore.
Steve Riley, a senior security strategist in the Microsoft Security Technology Unit and contributing editor for TechNet Magazine, jets around the world to speak at conferences and spend time with customers to help them get and stay secure. His latest book is Protect Your Windows Network (Addison-Wesley, 2005). You can reach him at steve.riley@microsoft.com.


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Do we really have to pay $4,000 for the airline's mistake?
Do we really have to pay $4,000 for the airline's mistake?
Bridget Burke's family vacation to Greece goes off the rails when someone cancels her tickets home. Now she's asking if she has to pay for the airline's mistake.
Our return flight from Santorini to Boston via Madrid didn't go as planned. When we arrived at the airport, one of my sisters could board the flight, but two of us couldn't. An airline representative told us our tickets were "canceled" and the ticket agent showed us her computer screen and it would not allow her to ticket us and or issue boarding passes.
My father was on the phone with Expedia for over six hours. During this time, my sister and I were sitting at the airport with no idea as to how we were going to get home.
We received no support from the airline or Expedia. Both Expedia and Iberia blamed each other for this mistake, and no one took responsibility for their actions. Eventually, Expedia told us that it appeared the ticket numbers had been changed, which caused the tickets to show up as canceled.
However, Expedia would not rebook us on a flight home. Instead, Expedia said we would have to wait 48 to 72 hours so they could research this issue with the airlines. This was not an option.
I paid $4,076 for a new flight back to Boston. This experience caused extreme stress, financial woe, angst and distress as it split up a family. I don't think I should be responsible for the airline's mistake. Could you help me get a refund for my tickets? — Bridget Burke, Scituate, Mass.
Expedia should have helped you get home. After all, it was your online travel agent. Shouldn't it take responsibility when something goes wrong?
You and your sisters experienced a delay on your outbound flight. That's not unusual. But it looks as if British Airways made a mistake. It rebooked your flights without letting Iberia or your travel agent know that you were still coming to Santorini. That left Iberia assuming you'd stayed in Boston, and it canceled your return flight, which is a standard airline policy.
Here's where things break down: Expedia should have taken a quick look at your itinerary and rebooked you on a new return flight, no questions asked. Not making you wait 48 to 72 hours.
I'm so proud of how you handled this! You asked an Iberia representative to give you a written notification of the mistaken cancellation. That way, you had proof that British Airways' mistake had led you to be denied boarding on your flight home. After several hours, you made arrangements to return on your own but kept a complete paper trail.
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US— Time Inc and Starcom USA have become the first clients of Mediamark Research's (MRI) print ad ratings service, which has been in development since last July.
The AdMeasure service fuses data from MRI's Survey of the American Consumer, its Issue Specfic Readership Study and the ad readership research carried out by MRI Starch to report audience levels for all national ads one-third of a page or larger in 640 consumer magazine issues.
MRI claims AdMeasure will elevate magazine audience measurement granularity to the level of TV and the internet. Metrics reported by the service include the number of readers who saw, read and took action over a given ad.
The agency set out to develop print ad ratings last year, following moves by the Magazine Publishers of America to introduce their own service providing syndicated issue-by-issue reporting of key demographic data, as well as recall measurement for individual ads and purchase intent for all ads.
Commenting on the launch of AdMeasure, Starcom USA's publishing activation director Brenda White said it was "a step in the right direction".


2018 Is The Year We Make Information Actionable!
If we assume that security isn't a security problem but really a resource problem, then how can we start to address it from a defensive perspective. The most important thing we can do is to develop actionable information that can be acted on in an automated fashion. There is some great thinking going into this concept within the IACD initiative at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (see here: https://www.iacdautomate.org/), but I think it is also important to talk about what we can change today—right now—to make a difference in cyber security.
I often talk about the imbalance between what larger companies with larger budgets and more people can do versus the other 99% of companies—this disparity must be addressed immediately, and we can't let perfect be the enemy of good. It is great in theory to say that we need to find a way to start forcing smaller companies to invest in cyber security, but that isn't reality. Smaller banks, hospitals, doctor's offices, investment firms, and electrical utilities just simply do not have the resources to approach cyber security in any form or fashion that is similar to their larger counterparts—and I would argue they never will. However, there is a shift in mindset that needs to occur around how those companies with the ability to invest can support those that can't. While many of these companies are in fact competitors, having a business ecosystem that can maintain the trust and confidence of its consumers is a greater good. Further, pretending that the fortunes and futures of these companies are not linked in a number of ways (supply chains, vendors, partners, etc.) is like an ostrich sticking its head in the sand.
So, the key question is how can we make information actionable and make a difference today?
There are two parts to this question: (1) What "information" are we talking about? (2) What does it mean to make that information "actionable"? First, when it comes to information, and as I stated in a previous blog posting, the information we are discussing has to do with the infrastructures being used by the "bad guys." The purpose of sharing this information should be focused primarily on requiring more resources for the bad guys to be successful. Today, an attacker can set up a fake DocuSign phishing attack, hit a thousand companies over the course of a couple weeks, and have success compromising 20 of those companies. Such a small amount of resources were required here with a big payoff. The information in this case would be the domain name and URL of the phishing attack and the IP address of the server that houses it. When a phishing attack like this occurs, it is almost always due to a compromised host that can then be used for other purposes by the attacker.
Most smaller companies (99% of the companies by our calculations) have no ability to benefit from these capabilities because they don't have a team of security analysts that can consume the information. They don't have Splunk or ArcSight or AlienVault or (name your SIEM) installed. They have no ability to purchase or consume threat intelligence. They have very limited firewalls or other security infrastructures installed. They are surely not logging network traffic or netflow and archiving it in any searchable form. Spoiler alert: Many of the largest companies aren't doing most of this very well either.
Dark Cubed is on a mission to change the world in cyber security by developing the capability to generate, share, and act on this information—all without assuming that our customers will have the time or ability to manually take action. We automate the sharing of real-time network information and make it fully anonymous to protect our customers. We have developed innovative algorithms and machine learning capabilities that identify threats in our customers' networks in near real time, we integrate years of threat intelligence and lessons learned into our monitoring, and we allow for our customers to be automatically protected from threats that would previously have slipped in under the radar. 2018 is going to be a big year for Dark Cubed. We are getting ready to launch a new capability and it is going to be big. This new capability came out of discussions among our team about how we can better help companies of all sizes be successful in our mission of changing the future of cyber security.
Stay tuned for more information as we begin to announce what we have been working on!
How Do You Sniff Out Cyber Threats?
I read recently that the nose isn't very good at maintaining awareness of the smells around us constantly, however it excels at detecting changes in smells. Kind of strange to think about, but it explains how someone can live in a house with a deadly natural gas leak for hours or days and not realize it. This may be a strange thought to start out a blog on cyber security, but thinking about how we relate to the world around us can help to develop new ways to improve the speed, scale, cost, and accessible of security. So how do you sniff out cyber threats?
There's no denying that modern business is conducted increasingly online. That being said, the safekeeping of customer data, financial information and other confidential materials has become important for ensuring customer loyalty and business success.
Here at Dark Cubed, we're excited to announce release 12.0 of our Cyber Security Platform.
We generally release updates of our simplified cyber security platform each month. Since launching with release 1.0 in April of 2016, we've made strategic progress and we're especially proud of this release.
Cyber Security Monitoring In 15 Minutes? Really???
If you've read anything about Dark Cubed, you know that we pride ourselves on being different. We have built a powerful cyber security platform that is easy to install and use.
"no way." It's too simple.
Most people hear claims like that and think, "no way." It's too simple. They are jaded. I don't blame them. Most people discount those claims as marketing hype… if it is powerful, it cannot be easy to install or use. It has to be hard and expensive.


(Aaron) I was just thinking that verse, "Perfect love casts out fear" in light of what you're saying, where we carry the very reality of His existence to cast out non-existence. Like even with the boat we talked about the other day, Peter's in it. The Lord calls him; he steps out on the waves. And the waves attack His existence, Christ's existence. If Peter looks around and says through the prison of self-consciousness and all that and says, "You don't exist. You don't… so he fell 'cause he took his eyes off of His existence. Because His existence sits on… It's a greater reality that sits on top of natural reality, and natural reality… Everything in natural reality says, "He does not exist." So we carry the very proof of His existence. It's amazing.
(M) Ok. What we do in selfishness is we want to build our own vision, our own… We want to become what we want to be and call it God. They tell you to exist without needing. They tell you how to get everything so you can exist and you can prosper, but that is not way. The way is what I said earlier; to be more concerned, for Christ to be more concerned, about another person's existence than you are about your own. And that's how you exist; by that. But see, and I've tried to explain this before. He gives me, I'll call it a vision or knowledge of the you, and I am the source of your knowing yourself, and coming to be yourself. That's radical. That's radical, John. You, we are the source of another's identity.
(M) And even so now, of us, if there's…If in a marriage there's a demand for every privacy, you lose your existence if you give it. You have to defend your right to have privacy. Nobody has the right to my heart. I exist.
(M) Nobody has the right to the secrets of the heart. If I give it of my free choice, that's ok. But you cannot demand that I owe you my secret heart, and I had to come to know that.
(Jennifer) I think it triggers whatever bitterness and vengeance against parents is there that hasn't been faced or dealt with in any way, because the end of all of those… You were saying jealousy is murder, but any of those things left alone and nurtured end up in murder, and not just murder as we think of it. And I say this because my bitterness and my desire for revenge against Him, against God was so huge. I said it before and I put it in a post; I didn't care if I went to hell as long as he was sitting next to me. It's the complete nihilism of your world. That, I think, is the ultimate in Satanic hatred for humanity, because ultimately humanity as a whole was chosen by God. Were we not? So, it's not just the Jews, although they have a special I would imagine, but Satan's not interested in our worship. I think ultimately if he can catch somebody that way and kill them off and have them destroy themselves, that's fantastic. But Satan is that, I think that level of nihilism; he knows the world is going to burn and he doesn't care. As many people as he can have burn with him, he's happy.
(Carole) So they can exist.
(M) Oh, as the only one.
(M) Whoa. I didn't see that.
(Carole) That's the battle. That is the fight.
(M) Whew. This is so big.
(Carole) I'm just back on Yahweh and the breath that Mike talked about, because I know that so pierced me, and so that every time I breathe, I'm breathing… When I pulled back those draperies in Berchtesgaden and I gasped, I took in the breath of God, and I existed.
(J) It was like He was giving mouth to mouth with those mountains.
(Carole) He didn't breathe on me. He breathed in me, and gave me life of existence.
(Carole) Do you see what I'm saying?
(J) Mouth to mouth with the mountains!
(Carole) And I'm thinking we went to Vienna to see Sandy after that. I didn't know any of that. I hadn't connected any of that. That's why I knew it.
(Carole) That's why I knew it even though I didn't know it.
(M) You didn't know what you knew. You just knew.
(Carole) I didn't know what I knew. God had breathed my existence into me, though I existed to Him all along. That was never an issue. It didn't exist to me.
(Carole) His chastening, all of that, to put me in a place of such desperation and need to exist. This morning we exist in Him. That's when we exist, and we are outside of Him, and we are… We, meaning many, many, many, many, many are trying to find their existence somewhere else. And they can't, but, they will do whatever they need. They will destroy. They will do anything.
(M) God, tell me why somebody would have it laid out; the love, the existence, the vision. Why would, why would they kill it?
(M) …you. It's that… And I wonder if it isn't just that.
(Carole) "My worth," and that is exactly what God wants to do! He had completely torn down everything in me at that point. I don't mean everything like I'm done, but you know, at that point, that day, that moment.
(Aaron) Thinking when John was sharing kind of your question, the verse John 8. I'm gonna bounce around. "Jesus said, if you were Abraham's children, you would be doing the works Abraham did, but now you seek to kill me." He goes down and He says, "Why?" See, they wanted to kill His identity, His existence, destroy His existence off the face of the world. This is to the Pharisees, "You are of your father the devil. Your will is to do your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning and has nothing to do with the truth." And then later in John 10 it says, "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy" existence. "I came that they might find life and have it more abundant." "I came that they might have" existence. And I was thinking what the amazing thing to me about John's story is he broke the heritage of non-existence, and brought existence; the reality of his existence into that.
(M) He said it. "Perfect love casts out fear." It's violent. And He says it's violent in Song of Songs, because I exist when I love.
(J) That's it. That's it.
(Aaron) And that love, that perfect love is the Father's love for the Son that only dwells in union that casts out. God is love. His existence is that love that casts out non-existence, that there is no love; and I don't exist because love doesn't exist. Martha's question, going back to something you said earlier. So about the mother looking at the child and everything, and the child's response is knowing he's seen? So it's we exist when we know we're seen and loved. That's what you did. You saw them and loved them. You saw him in love.
(J) The ministry of existence.
That's the first commandment made alive. "Love God… and THEN… your neighbour." In the Spirit's mind this is a creative commandment. By loving God, who created us by the perfection of Love, we somehow (by that same Love in us) we create our neighbour back and into and towards His very image.
A: "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy"… existence. "I came that they might find life and have it more abundant." "I came that they might have" existence.
Carole's cry of liberation is just shocking.
This Truth is so very amazing!!! …I could just listen to your sharing all day long!!!!
May our Father God continue blessing each one of you!
Dear Martha, when I read …"if in a marriage, there's a demand for every privacy, you loose your existence if you give it", I thought about the great mystery in Ephesians 5:29-33. I have often pondered the wonderful unity of Christ and His church, likened to a marriage. I somehow understand that unity does not mean uniformity, because then you also lose your existence.
Yet, somehow, this is also the platform where we "lose ourselves" in love.
Perhaps the secret here is that we CHOOSE to give our hearts. I also think that if we are not sufficiently healed, we can throw our pearls to swine.How dependant we are on Holy Spirit.
I am afraid of doing intellectual gymnastics, and so I remain blessed by your impartation, and walking out the mystery in wide eyed wonder – having made all the mistakes possible, being awed and blown away by every glimpse of Him, as revealed in this very podcast – ALWAYS leading to greater freedom.
Only Truth, in the person of Jesus Christ can do this for us!He certainly is not like any idol: He exists, He sees, and in His prophets, He also speaks.
Great grace to you in Jesus Christ.


First non-native tourists found a route to the Pacific Ocean in an 1803-06 odyssey along Missouri and Columbia Rivers. As a modern explorer you can trace the journey more quickly at Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center.
The Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center is a 25,000 sq foot building and includes permanent exhibits, 158-seat theater, hands-on education room, and retail store. Make sure to explore the Center's trail system. Several of the trails lead to the Missouri River and offer incredible views of what the first travelers must have seen.