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"Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." ~Calvin Coolidge
In your personal and professional life, almost nothing in the world will take the place of persistence.
Persistence is more valuable than planning, IQ, knowledge, genius, and talent. Have you ever noticed that some "not-so-smart" people appear to be more successful than some really smart people? It can be frustrating if you're one of those "smart ones". And, it's easy to attribute good luck or chance as the reason these "dumb" people have made it. But, if you investigate further, chances are you will find that these "dumb" people have worked really hard for a really long time.
What's the level of your persistence on a scale of 1 - 10? Do you start things but not finish them? Do you get easily side-tracked if you run into an obstacle?
Here's the good news, persistence is a HABIT and like any other habit it can be intentionally developed.
Guess how long it will take to develop persistence? The answer is you don't care. Do you know why? Because you are PERSISTENT- it might take a year or or could take 10 years and that is the point. YOU will persist!
Challenge yourself to persist at the little things first, whether that is a few extra pushups or situps, jogging ten more minutes or working later or getting into the office earlier. Make a game of it... and as you persist time and again at the little things the habit will become stronger.
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First, THANK YOU! It's been an unbelievable (first) run at the podcast and Martin and I are extremely grateful. We started this with the goal of just twelve initial episodes and with this one we have just hit 35!!! It's been an amazing and enlightening journey and it's not over just yet. Martin plans to return after a few months... his goal is to practice what he preaches and put more attention, energy and focus on the completion of his upcoming book, The Pressure Paradox.
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Q: Console Output In Windows Forms Application CASE 1
    Process processo = new Process();
    processo.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
    processo.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
    processo.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
    processo.StartInfo.FileName = "ftp";
    processo.StartInfo.Arguments = "-s:comandos.cmd";
    processo.Start();
    processo.WaitForExit();
    output = processo.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();

CASE 2
AllocConsole();
Process processo = new Process();
processo.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
processo.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
processo.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
processo.StartInfo.FileName = "ftp";
processo.StartInfo.Arguments = "-s:comandos.cmd";
processo.Start();
processo.WaitForExit();
output = processo.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
FreeConsole();

Why the ouput is not the same using the case 1 and 2 ? The Alloc and FreeConsole are functions from kernel32.dll... Im using a windows forms application.
The comandos.cmd connect to the server and use a "dir" command.
Have a way to use AllocConsole() without show the console window ?
First output is:
User xxx
archive1
archive2
cd Folder
dir
quit
Second output is:
open xxx
User xxx
331 User ok
230 Password ok
cd Folder
archive1
archive2
226 transfer complete
xxx bytes received
quit
221 GoodBye

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(Reuters) - Rolls-Royce (RR.L) said on Thursday that turbine blades of its problematic Trent 1000 engines were wearing out faster than expected, grounding additional Boeing Co (BA.N) 787 widebody jets for early repairs.
Rolls-Royce said the issue may cause "additional short-term disruption" to customers in some cases, dealing a fresh blow to an engine program that has been dogged by design issues for the past two years.
The exact number of engines assigned for earlier-than-expected repairs related to the turbines blades on Rolls-Royce's package C series engines was not certain, but it could be as many as 30 or 40, a spokesman said. That is a small slice of the total Trent 1000 fleet.
"The guidance issued today is part of our ongoing management of the intermediate pressure turbine blade issue and applies only to the minority of engines which have not yet had replacement turbine blades fitted," the spokesman said.
The problematic turbine blades were already slated to be replaced, but were discovered to be deteriorating faster than expected, the spokesman said. The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is expected to publish a formal requirement for repairs in the coming weeks, he said.
EASA did not immediately respond to a request for comment, nor did the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.
Boeing spokesman Paul Bergman said safety remains the top priority as Rolls-Royce completes the replacement of intermediate pressure turbine blades on Trent 1000 engines.
Rolls-Royce's civil aerospace president, Chris Cholerton, said over the summer that problems with the Trent 1000 engine had left some Boeing 787 Dreamliner planes grounded.
Separately, the compressor in the Trent 1000 package C engines is also not lasting as long as expected, requiring inspections and forcing airlines to ground aircraft while the checks take place. Some 380 of the affected engines are in service.


and it is never relieved.
that in my boundlessness you wander.
thrusts a dagger into the love's flesh.
of the feverish desperation of searching.
nor the silence blatantly playing the flutes of our bones.
because in this world the running has no cessation.
Why did we forget that we are whole and only one?
Forever? It does not exist!
It doesn't exist "two" out of time!!
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So good to read and enjoy the effect of true love!


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The Chin Is In; Former Steelers Coach Bill Cowher Selected Into the Hall of Fame's 2020 Class
Bill Cowher lived up to his word, never coaching again after leaving the Steelers after the 2006 season.
Now, 14 years later, he will enter football immortality.
The former Steelers coach was informed Saturday evening during the CBS's pregame show that he'll be part of the Hall of Fame's 2020 class.
The coach known as 'the chin' led the Steelers to their 5th Super Bowl championship in 2005, leading the black and gold to a title win in Detroit 21-10 over the Seahawks in Super Bowl XL.
Cowher was talking about Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson with Phil Simms when Pro Football Hall of Fame president David Baker came out and surprised Cowher from behind.
Baker is the one who knocks on the hotel door to let new inductees know they've been voted in the HOF, and Cowher seemed to realize what was happening.
"This isn't right that this is happening now," Cowher said with a smile.
Baker then told Cowher he was in the Hall's 2020 class. Cowher's wife and daughter came out to hug him. The crew on the CBS set then all came to congratulate him.
Cowher surprisingly kept his emotions together well as he was told about the honor.
"I'm a blessed man, and I've been very blessed to be surrounded by some pretty special people," Cowher said.
He became the Steelers head coach in 1992, taking over for Hall of Fame coach Chuck Noll, and led the black and gold to a number of division titles as well as AFC Title games, but was not able to get over the hump.
He did in the 1995 season but the team lost to the Dallas Cowboys 27-17 in Super Bowl XXX, and it was until 10 years later with second-year QB Ben Roethlisberger and retiring running back Jerome Bettis that the team was able to grind out three road wins and get the team to the dance.
The team struggled in 2006, and in true fashion the team rallied to finish 8-8, with a final day overtime win over the Bengals in Cincy to knock them out of the playoffs.
The Hall of Fame is doing a superclass in 2020 to celebrate the NFL's 100th season. The rest of that extra class — which includes 10 seniors (players who last played more than 25 seasons ago), three contributors (an individual other than a player or coach) and two coaches (who last coached more than five seasons ago) — will be announced Wednesday.
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If you like to be jolted out of your seat, 'Don't Breathe' should do it for you.
More than any other genre, horror movies give filmmakers permission to indulge their Id, which may be the reason that even some of the worst horror movies have interesting—and often alarming—things to say about the world. Don't Breathe, a new horror-thriller from Ghost House Pictures (co-founded by Sam Raimi), isn't one of the worst, but its vision of the world is plenty alarming and, plenty believable, because the film taps into so many unsettling truths about our society. It's set in Detroit, and concerns three young thieves who break into the ramshackle house of a blind Gulf War vet who, allegedly, has a significant stash of cash inside. The trio—their names are Rocky (Jane Levy), Money (Daniel Zovatto), and Alex (Dylan Minnette), assume the job will be easy, since their victim (played with ominous calm and exactitude by Stephen Lang) is blind. But the Blind Man is no dupe, and he's got every inch of this old, dark house memorized. And let's not forget, the man is a war veteran: Blindness hasn't taken away his considerable observation skills or his warrior strength.
With all its economic misery and urban decay, Detroit has become an ideal setting for horror movies, including the freaky, if overrated, It Follows (in which Daniel Zovatto also appeared) and the languid vampire flick Only Lovers Left Alive (although itself not a proper horror film). The Blind Man is the only person left in his Detroit neighborhood, which has become a modern-day ghost town: houses boarded up, yards overgrown with weeds and tall grass, streets empty and eerily silent. The decayed city becomes a tapestry on which the movie can project its themes. Capitalism has failed, and in its wake are poverty, crime, and underwater mortgages; the war, of which this victim/predator is a veteran, never really ended. Tragedy begets tragedy, and all the bad things in Don't Breathe, including every criminal act, are linked to a chain of other preceding bad things.
Ultimately, the real horror isn't a madman chasing you through his house with various weapons, or a dungeon full of terrifying secrets, but the failure of economic systems to keep us financially stable, the truth that war never sustains any lasting sense of power (especially for the soldier, a mere pawn, whose skillfulness, adept though it may be, is rewarded with the loss of his sight). Encroaching decay lives all around us, and Don't Breathe makes smart use of such bleak realities. The fact that the three kids are thieves at all (this burglary attempt is, they're hoping, the final score, the one that will set them up for life), is because they see it as the only way out of Detroit, out of failed dreams and a lifetime of poverty. Rocky lives with a neglectful mom who sits on the couch and chain-smokes. She's promised her young sister that the two of them will move to California one day, and the money she nets from this burglary will fund the move.
Rocky proves to be resiliently focused on the money, even when the three kids become trapped in the house, and even though it quickly becomes obvious that the Blind Man isn't going to let them go. He's a vengeful spirit inhabiting a powerful, agile body, and his house is fitted with all kinds of secrets: narrow little passageways, a maze-like basement, hidden compartments under the tile floors. Not to mention the fact that they're totally isolated, and no one will hear any cries for help. But also, they can't really cry for help because of the whole robbery thing.
As a thriller, Don't Breathe works us over effectively. And while it has its share of "jump scares," the director, Fede Alvarez (whose directing debut was the 2013 Evil Dead remake) also knows how to use silence to his advantage, ratcheting up the tension with nary a sound. For this reviewer, who grew up loving horror films of the 70s and 80s, Don't Breathe is probably the best of its modern-day ilk, but it's still unpleasant and grim, except for the occasional perverse touches, ingeniously concocted by Alvarez and his co-writer Rodo Sayagues. (I can't reveal them without spoiling.) Perhaps I'm lost in a nostalgic haze that's been scored by John Carpenter and photographed by Dean Cundey, but I wish Don't Breathe had been more fun. Fun or not, it is, however, plenty scary.
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Exceptionally good location! Condo is on a corner with lots of windows and light. Breathtaking views of the stone lined lake and championship one of a kind golf course, the King & Bear. Open plan with 10' ceilings and 8' doors throughout and a 2 car attached garage. Excellent quality concrete block construction. These are not your every day condominiums! Come and see these unique Coach homes . Tenant in place for immediate income. Purchase is subject to lease.


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Rabies is one of the most well known zoonotic diseases in the world, and is transmissible between a wide range of animals from dogs, cats, bats, etc. and can infect any mammal.
Rabies was first recorded way back in the Mesopotamian Empire in 2000 B.C. In this culture, if an owner with a rabid dog did not take proper precautions against the dog biting others they would be fined. Rabies came to the new world in 1769 starting with a case in Boston. The majority of cases, 99%, are transferred between infected dogs and humans through bites, specifically the saliva. Rabies is considered one of the most concerning diseases of history and modem time. In 1885 a vaccine was developed in France by Louis Pasteur and Emile Roux for humans.
One of the worst parts about rabies if its prevalence throughout the world and ability to rapidly disseminate.
Vaccination within 6 days of infections has been seen to have a 100% success rate for survival.
In 2010, 26,000 people diseased from rabies within the world. This is a significant decrease from the 54,000 deaths in 1990.
First signs and symptoms of the flu such as fever, headache and dizziness, but can progress to confusion, anxiety and agitation.
Many people who are infected completely depersonalize in the later stages, reverting to pure "rage" personalities, attacking, biting scratching people and foaming at the mouth.
Rabies infection is the main disease cited in sci-fi and fantasy for "zombie-like" behaviors and many story lines utilize signs and symptoms similar to rabies as zombie indicators. So… the zombie apocalypse is coming!
Did you know? The global life expectancy has increased 6 years since 1990. The average life expectancy is 70 years based on a range of 62-79 years worldwide.


Question: What's the best thing you've seen in Irish agriculture in the last year?
Asked by to Ronan, Laura, Erin, Dara, Catherine, Caitriona, Alan on 9 Nov 2016. This question was also asked by .
In a general sense, I went to the 2016 Ploughing Championships and it was amazing to see the advancements and ingenuity across the Irish farming sector there. But the thing I've seen specifically in my work that I would rate as the best is the willingness of farmers to work with us to voluntarily make their land more hospitable to pollinators and wildlife. We have one farmer that reduced grazing on a patch of land to provide more wildflowers for bees. Another organic farmer grew Phacelia as a cover crop to provide more flowers for bees. The ideas and methods used by these farmers are amazing and it's wonderful to work with them through the Pollinator Plan.
Irish farming is demonstrating remarkable resilience in 2016 despite poor weather at times in some parts of the country, unfavourable market conditions for some major commodities, and the knock-on adverse effects of the Brexit referendum result in June on the sterling-euro exchange rate in the latter half of the year. It is thus reassuring that the industry remains committed to improving the sustainability of Irish farm production, through initiatives such as Origin Green, which are going to pay off in the longer-term.


It's time for 'Japan by Prefecture' again! This is the series that aims to provide the highlights of each prefecture of Japan, along with my personal favourites and suggestions from readers. This week, we're looking at Fukui (福井県).
Fukui Prefecture is part of the Chubu Region (中部地方). I've actually never been to Fukui, but I hear about it all the time from my friend Sophie who used to live there. Check out her blog: Postcards from Fukui. Here, Sophie recommends the top 10 places to visit in Fukui and shares snippets of her life living in Fukui Prefecture.
The capital of Fukui Prefecture is Fukui City (福井市). The city is most famous for Eiheiji (永平寺), a temple which is the headquarters of Soto Zen. I've heard lots of really good things about Eiheiji and Zooming Japan also recommended the temple in last week's comments. Eiheiji was founded in 1244 by Dogen Zenji (道元禅師). Dogen Zenji was the Buddhist scholar who introduced Soto Zen to Japan in 1228. The temple complex consists of more than 70 buildings and structures, connected to each other by covered walkways. It is actually possible to spend a night or two at Eiheiji and live with the monks who reside there, but this is not really an experience for tourists – rather something for someone who is really looking to learn more about Buddhism and the inner workings of temples in Japan.
Another, slightly unusual, attraction in Fukui Prefecture is the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum (福井県立恐竜博物館), recommended in last week's comments by Japan Australia and Kei. The museum is located in Katsuyama (勝山) and is the only dedicated dinosaur museum in all of Japan. Apparently it is also one of the "World's Three Great Dinosaur Museums" (source). Katsuyama is the centre of dinosaur research in Japan and home to the country's largest excavation site which is just a few kilometres from the museum.
As Zooming Japan also mentioned last week, Fukui Prefecture is home to a number of interesting castles, including Maruoka Castle (丸岡城) which is the oldest standing castle in Japan, built in 1576. The castle is also known as Mist Castle (霞ヶ城 / Kasumi-ga-jo) due to the legend that whenever an enemy approaches the castle a thick mist appears and hides it.
If history is your thing, another interesting site to visit in Fukui Prefecture is the Ichijodani Asakura Clan Ruins (一乗谷朝倉氏遺跡). These are the ruins of the castle town of five warring lords of the Asakura family who ruled Echizen for 103 years. The castle town was founded in 1471. In 1967 excavation and research work started, and the town was once again discovered. Now, visitors can see old samurai residences, houses of merchants, and beautiful gardens.
One final place I think is worth mentioning is Tojinbo (東尋坊). Known for spectacular views, and an alarming suicide rate, Tojinbo cliffs are a slightly strange but nevertheless beautiful tourist attraction on the Sea of Japan in Sakai (坂井), Fukui Prefecture. There are some legends surrounding the area. One legend has it that a corrupt priest from a local temple enraged the community so much that they dragged him into the sea at Tojinbo and his ghost still haunts the area. Another legend says the name Tojinbo was the name of a Buddhist monk. This monk was disliked by everyone and fell in love with a beautiful princess named Aya. Apparently the monk was tricked by another admirer of Aya and was pushed into the sea. Following this his angry ghost caused a violent storm once a year, until finally a memorial service was held for him.
The majority of Fukui Prefecture's popular souvenirs (or 'omiyage' / おみやげ) are craft-based rather than food-based. Fukui is known for paper making, and at the Echizen Washi Village (越前和紙の里) you can even have a go at making paper crafts to take home. Echizen also has a Bamboo Doll Village (越前竹人形の里) and a Pottery Village (越前陶芸村). Takefu in Fukui Prefecture is home to the Takefu Knife Village (タケフナイフヴィレッジ) which would be an interesting place to pick up souvenirs (just think about how you're going to get them through customs first!). Of course, each town has its own snacks and sweets too, and one of the more interesting ones I've found are 'Yes, we can' cakes from Obama City (小浜市).
Next week I will be writing about Yamanashi (山梨県). Have you been there? What's good to eat there and what omiyage should I buy? What are the best sightseeing spots or hidden gems? Please do share your thoughts below, and join me next week for Japan by Prefecture!
Yamanashi is famous for its grapes and peaches. It is also the centre of Japan's wine industry.
I dig that photo of Eiheiji. It'd be worth it going there for that alone! Great description.


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Fort Lauderdale office building to break ground by May
By Paul Owers
Sun Sentinel |
The 550 Building is planned for 550 Andrews Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. (Blackhawk Properties & Investments)
An 86,257-square-foot office building in Fort Lauderdale, the largest to go up downtown in nine years, is due to break ground by May.
The 550 Building at 550 S. Andrews Ave. will have six floors of offices, a ground floor restaurant and a retail area known as The SOLO Shoppes.
The building also will have an attached parking garage with 663 spaces.
The last large-scale office project to be built in downtown Fort Lauderdale was the AutoNation building, which opened in 2008.
Blackhawk Properties & Investments LLC, which paid $3.6 million for the Justice site in 2013, announced last year that construction would begin in summer 2016. But the project was postponed when Blackhawk had the chance to add to the development by acquiring a neighboring site owned by former Fort Lauderdale mayor Jim Naugle, according to Joseph Byrnes of Berger Commercial Realty.
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Berger is handling the office and retail leasing. Completion now is expected in spring 2018.
Lauderdale-by-the-Sea condo sells out
Just more than two years after launching sales, Minto Communities said it has sold out of the 51-unit final phase at Villas By The Sea in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea.
The 117-unit project consists of four, four-story buildings along either side of El Mar Drive. The first two oceanfront buildings opened in stages in 2006 and 2008.
Minto of Coconut Creek waited for the housing market to recover from the bust before starting the two-building second phase.
Buyers camped out to buy units when the builder opened the second phase in December 2014 at prices ranging from the $500,000s to more than $1 million.
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Broker to join Douglas Elliman
Howard Elfman, broker/owner of Weichert Realtors in Fort Lauderdale, said he will be joining Douglas Elliman Real Estate as a broker associate.
Elfman said he sold his 46-agent brokerage to Abraham Chehebar, who will continue to operate it as Weichert. Terms were not disclosed.
"I wanted to concentrate on new construction projects, and Douglas Elliman brought a lot of marketing and expertise to the table," Elfman said.
Elfman, immediate past president of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Realtors, said he owned the Weichert firm for 15 years.
Class to cover cyber breaches in HOAs
[More Real Estate News] 30-story towers and more proposed for Searstown site in Fort Lauderdale »
A free course will be held March 1 in Boca Raton addressing cyber breaches in community associations.
Insurance and legal experts will cover such topics as how to communicate the breach to residents and what an association's financial obligations are if a breach occurs.
Ask a real estate pro: You signed agent's agreement, so grit your teeth and pay
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Charlie Weis ready to ride away from Florida equestrian estate
The course provides continuing education credit for licensed community association managers. The instructors are Kevin Davis of Kevin Davis Insurance Services, Matt Reedy of Plastridge Insurance and attorney Lisa Magill of Kaye Bender Rembaum.
The event will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Plastridge Insurance, 2100 N. Dixie Highway.
Reservations are required. Send an email to Seminars@KBRLegal.com.
Powers@Sun-Sentinel.com, 561-243-6529 or Twitter @PaulOwers


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Domestic Enterprises Ready to Supply Textiles to Restaurants, Hotels, Medical Organisations
By Kseniya Voronina in Business on 14 March 2016
Secretary of State of Kazakhstan Gulshara Abdykalikova paid a visit to the KazTexExpo automated trade-industrial complex to assess its work in meeting domestic demand for textiles and the role it plays in Kazakhstan's growing system of vocational orientation and education.
Member of the Council of Business Women of the Astana Chamber of Entrepreneurs Saule Shauenova, meeting Abdykalikova, said Kazakh enterprises are ready to supply domestically produced textiles to medical organisations, hotels and restaurants.
"The KazTexExpo complex assembles world-renowned Zoje sewing equipment, as well as produces clothing and knitted and crocheted products. The complex uses the latest technologies and actively participates in dual trainings in mechanical engineering and textile industries and develops professional standards and educational programmes. It also provides an internship platform for colleges and universities. We can fully meet the textile demands of Kazakh hotels and restaurants, as well as medical organisations, by sewing working clothes, school uniforms, business wear for men and women and outerwear for children," explained Shauenova.
Abdykalikova stressed the importance of human capital development, which President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has called one of the preconditions for becoming one of the 30 most developed countries in the world.
"It is important for pupils to choose the right sphere for their future career. First-graders usually dream of being cartoon characters; in the fourth grade they start thinking about their future profession. Later, in eighth grade, pupils have two or three possibilities in mind and in high school they usually know where they want to study and what profession to choose. This decision is often influenced by family members and friends, but today we are seeing a new system – a very important method of vocational orientation, which has already been attended by 75,000 children. Now we need to let all children go through this programme," Abdykalikova said.
The secretary of state recalled the request of the President of Kazakhstan to establish free vocational education starting in 2017.
"Special training for professionals working in six key sectors of economy is being held in the country's top 10 colleges and universities as part the State Programme for Accelerated Industrial-Innovative Development for 2015–2019. Later, more educational organisations are expected to join the programme. To date, 29 educational complexes covering over 20,000 pupils from fifth to 11th grade have been established in nine regions of the state to provide career guidance and help in professional self-determination of young people," said Abdykalikova.
It was reported that currently, more than 70 percent of open vacancies in the labour market are in the operating and technical spheres. The greatest number of vacancies (14 percent) are meant for support personnel, as well as for highly skilled workers in large and small industrial companies, construction, transport, communications and geology.


Who or what is God? How can I know if there is a God? And if there is a God, how may I come to know this divine being, so different from me, and so separate from my world, my life experiences, and my inner life? In the postmodern spiritual supermarket, how do I distinguish the true God from the fakes? Whom should I trust?
The God I have in mind today is the living God revealed in the Bible: the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who himself is also God, and whose Spirit is also God.
God is personal, and to be trusted. God is good, and will never lie. Overlook this crucial point, and reality ceases to make sense.
Millions of people claim to believe in God. All the church creeds begin with such an affirmation. Jews, Christians, Muslims and philosophical theists all believe in God.
But what does such an affirmation mean? One thing is certain: belief in God does not arise directly from sense perception. I cannot, in any normal, natural sense, see God. Nor can I touch, taste, smell or hear God directly through sense perception. But I am convinced that God is real and personal, and that he knows me intimately and exhaustively, and that he loves me, and communicates with me every day, even though I am merely me and he is the greatest of all possible beings.
If you are a Christian, then you believe in God as he is revealed in Scripture, and you have certain claims on God (e.g. that he will keep his promises), and God also has certain claims on you (e.g. that you will discover his promises, and trust his Son, and obey his commands, and imitate God).
Above all, God wants you to know him, and he helps you in this task in many ways. He makes Scripture known, secures your salvation, unites you with Christ, enables prayer, indwells you, creates the church for your fellowship and nurture, reveals his will, equips you for service, and graciously provides for all your needs.
Theology is also about clarifying and protecting and preserving the truth about God for this generation and the generations to come. Indeed, God calls everyone who follows Jesus "to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God's holy people" (Jude 3).
Jesus himself commands us to "make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you" (Mt 28:19-20).
That includes what the Bible teaches us about God. What would you say if I asked you to describe God to me?
In talking about God, we often tell stories about what God does (in history, or in personal experience), or we describe what God is like (his attributes or characteristics, such as holiness, love, righteousness, mercy, omnipotence, omniscience, infinity, patience, and so on).
We can classify these attributes in various ways: attributes of greatness and goodness; attributes of freedom and love; attributes which we can and cannot share (communicable and incommunicable attributes).
At one level, [analogy] is elegant in its simplicity. But it also has depths and complexities that invite reflection … For that reason alone, theology is a practice that can engage our intellectual abilities for a lifetime.
At the heart of the Christian doctrine of God is the affirmation of God's one-in-threeness, otherwise known as the doctrine of the Trinity.
Christians have always understood that God who came to our world in the person of Jesus Christ is the God of the Old Testament, and so we refuse to surrender our conviction, along with the Old Testament people of God, that there is one God.
But at the same time, the church has always refused to surrender the belief that Jesus Christ is God, and yet separate from his Father in heaven.
Don't be anxious if you can't fully comprehend the concept of the Trinity. As Michael Lloyd puts it in his excellent book, Café Theology, if we could easily grasp the idea of the Trinity with our finite, temporally framed minds, affected as they are by finitude, sin, moods, hormones, limited experiences, and the effects of digesting our last meal, we would not be comprehending the infinite, eternal God.
We should expect the God who made our rich, complex, incomprehensible and yet surprisingly knowable world to possess a corresponding richness, complexity, diversity, and delightfully explorable depth. And that is precisely the case when we come to thinking about God.
The doctrine of the Trinity is an idea from beyond human wisdom and ingenuity. We should expect to be baffled as we seek to know the living God. We should expect to be lost in wonder, love and praise. Indeed, if a magnificently true idea about God fails to stretch our minds and instil wonder, it probably won't stretch us!
So you should expect the biblical teaching on God, and mature Christian reflection on the biblical teaching, to add to your understanding of God, deepen your appreciation of the reality of God, expand your categories of thought, burst open regular modes of thinking, and compel you into realms of fresh insight.
The doctrine of the Trinity – the living God's three-in-oneness – reminds us of the surest thing there is, the fundamental reality at the heart of reality itself: that the God who reveals himself through Scripture and in the person of his Son is relational, that God is love, and that this pure, perfect, unequalled, unsurpassable, unchanging, unending relationship which exists between the three persons of the Trinity is the relationship from which everything else draws its true purpose, and from which everything that ever exists flows.
You can divide up a molecule. You can split an atom. You may even be able to split the quark. But you can never divide up the love that the Father has for the Son, and the Son for the Spirit, and the Spirit for the Father, and the Father for the Spirit, and the Son for the Father, and the Spirit for the Son. That is indivisible. That is the surest thing there is. That is the starting-point – and the goal – of all things. Here we stand on holy – but utterly firm – ground. And the view from here is stunning.
God is love, and God loves you. If you are "in Christ," the phrase Paul frequently uses as shorthand for the doctrine of our union with Christ, by grace through faith, then the Bible says that you "participate in the divine nature" (2 Pet 1:4) – not through rigorous rituals, or harrowing hardships, or generous giving, but simply because God loves you and God's own unique love "has been poured out into [your heart] through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us" (Rom 5:5).
Furthermore, God does not want to keep you at arm's length but draw you to himself. If at times you feel isolated, alienated, excluded from God's presence, know that it is God's desire to draw you to himself, into his presence, into his kingdom, into his divine reality.
Neither does God want to dissolve your unique personality into God, which is the stated goal of most other religious traditions.
they are themselves in their relationship with one another. They never dissolve into an amalgam of divinity. They never cease to be three … Their oneness is no threat to their threeness. Their intimacy is no threat to their individuality.
So too with you and me, in our union with God in Christ. Our sin is dealt with, our human nature regenerated, our destiny transformed. Our selfishness is gone, but never our selfhood.
We will forever relate to the Triune God, and to one another in the new creation, as unique and individual and eternal persons.
It is no accident that the Bible, which begins with a simple statement of the reality of God, and the power of God in creating all matter and anti-matter, and everything that exists, described at one point as a "formless and empty" universe, ends with the words of Revelation 22:21, with a simple statement acknowledging the Son of God, whose grace rests with the people of God, in a renewed and perfect universe filled, as it always was and always will be, with the glory and purpose and love of the Triune God.
Sermon 671 copyright © 2016 Rod Benson. Preached at Lithgow Baptist Church, Australia, on Sunday 8 May 2016. Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, New International Version (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011).
 George Kalantzis, "Who is God?" in Gary M. Burge & David Lauber (eds), Theology Questions Everyone Asks: Christian Faith in Plain Language (Downers Grove: IVP, 2014), p. 51.
 A philosophical theist is one who believes in "God" but does not link that belief with any religious faith.
 Daniel L. Akin et al (eds), A Theology for the Church (revised edn; Nashville, TN: B&H Publishing, 2014), p. 7.
 Jonathan R. Wilson, A Primer for Christian Doctrine (Grand Rapids: Wm B. Eerdmans, 2005), p. 20.
 Wilson, p. 23; see also Michael Lloyd, Café Theology: Exploring Love, the Universe and Everything (third edn; London: Alpha International, 2012), pp. 287-295.
 Based on Lloyd, p. 287.


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TRIPOLI, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Palestinian refugees should capitalize on the wave of popular revolts in the Middle East by massing peacefully on the borders of Israel until it gives in to their demands, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Sunday.
He was giving his first major speech since a popular uprising in neighboring Egypt forced President Hosni Mubarak to resign, an event which electrified the Arab world and prompted speculation that other Arab governments could also be toppled.
Fleets of boats should take Palestinians ... and wait by the Palestinian shores until the problem is resolved, Gaddafi was shown saying on state television. This is a time of popular revolutions.
We need to create a problem for the world. This is not a declaration of war. This is a call for peace, he said in a speech given to mark the birthday of the Prophet Mohamed, a holy day in the Islamic calendar.
The white color has decided to get rid of the green color, Gaddafi said. These countries should be united against the white color because all of these white countries are the enemies of Islam.
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Philip I of Taranto (10 November 1278 – 26 December 1331), of the Angevin house, was titular Latin Emperor of Constantinople (as Philip II) by right of his wife Catherine of Valois–Courtenay, Despot of Romania, King of Albania, Prince of Achaea and Taranto.

Born in Naples, Philip was a younger son of Charles II of Anjou, King of Naples, and Maria of Hungary, daughter of King Stephen V of Hungary.

First marriage
On 4 February 1294, his father named him Prince of Taranto at Aix-en-Provence, and on 12 July 1294, Vicar-General of the Kingdom of Sicily. These dignities were a prelude to Charles' plan to bestow upon Philip an empire east of the Adriatic. The day he was invested as Vicar-General, he married by proxy Thamar Angelina Komnene, daughter of Nikephoros I Komnenos Doukas, Despot of Epirus. Threatened by the Byzantine Empire, Nikephoros had decided to seek Angevin patronage, and agreed to the marriage of Thamar and Philip. The two were married in person on 13 August 1294 at L'Aquila. Upon their marriage, Charles ceded to Philip the suzerainty of Achaea and the Kingdom of Albania, and all his rights to the Latin Empire and the Lordship of Vlachia. Nikephoros gave, as his daughter's dowry, the fortresses of Vonitsa, Vrachova, Gjirokastër and Naupactus, in the territory of Aetolia, to Philip, and agreed to settle the succession, on his death, upon his daughter rather than his son Thomas. Upon the death of Nikephoros (c. 1297), Philip took the title of "Despot of Romania", claiming Epirus, Aetolia, Acarnania, and Great Vlachia. However, Nikephoros' Byzantine widow, Anna Kantakouzene, had Thomas proclaimed Despot of Epirus and assumed the regency.

War of the Vespers
As Vicar-General of Sicily, he was part of the invasion of that island during the latter stage of the War of the Sicilian Vespers. His army was defeated in 1299 at the Battle of Falconara by Frederick III of Sicily, and he was held prisoner until the signing of the Treaty of Caltabellotta in 1302.

Balkan adventure
In 1306, Philip of Savoy and Isabella of Villehardouin, the Prince and Princess of Achaea, visited Charles' court in Naples. Philip of Savoy was accused of disloyalty and failure to support Charles in a campaign against Epirus. As Isabelle had not sought her suzerain's consent before marrying him, Charles deprived the two of Achaea and bestowed it directly upon Philip of Taranto on 5 May 1306. He made his only personal visit to Achaea shortly thereafter, accepting the homage of his vassals at Glarentza, and carrying out an unsuccessful campaign against the Despotate of Epirus. He left Guy II, Duke of Athens, as his bailli in Achaea. Meanwhile, Philip and Isabella relinquished their claims on Achaea on 11 May 1307 in exchange for the County of Alba.

Second marriage

In 1309, he accused Thamar of adultery, probably on a falsified charge. This freed him to take part in a complex marital pact. Catherine of Valois, the titular Latin Empress, had been betrothed to Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy, titular King of Thessalonica. This engagement was broken, and she married Philip on 29 July 1313, at Fontainebleau. In exchange, her maternal lands of Courtenay and other estates on the Continent were ceded to Hugh's sister Joan, who married Catherine's half-brother, Philip of Valois. Hugh V was betrothed to Joan, later Countess of Burgundy and Artois. (Hugh died before the marriage could be solemnized; Joan married Hugh's brother and successor Odo IV, Duke of Burgundy instead.) Philip ceded the Principality of Achaea (over which he retained suzerainty) to Matilda of Hainaut, who married Hugh's brother Louis of Burgundy on 29 July 1313. This donation was rather restricted: should the couple die without heirs, the Principality was to revert to the house of Burgundy, while Matilda enjoyed the usufruct for life. Nor could Matilda marry again without her suzerain's permission. To complete the separation of Eastern and Western claims, Hugh ceded his rights to Thessalonica to Louis, while Louis renounced his claims on his parents' inheritance in favor of Hugh. The engagement of Philip's eldest son Charles of Taranto to Matilda of Hainault was broken off, and he was engaged to Jeanne de Valois, younger sister of Catherine of Valois; his father also ceded to him the title of Despot of Romania and the claims thereto appertaining.

Guelph-Ghibelline War
In 1315, Philip was sent by his brother Robert of Naples to lead an army relieving the Florentines, who were threatened by the Pisans under Uguccione della Faggiuola. The Florentine-Neapolitan army was badly beaten at the Battle of Montecatini on 29 August 1315; Philip's younger brother Peter, Count of Gravina and his son Charles of Taranto were both killed.

Frankish Greece
The death of Louis of Burgundy without heirs in 1316 upset the Angevin plans for Achaea. Matilda was  invited to marry John of Gravina, Philip's younger brother, by their elder brother, Robert of Naples. When she declined, she was kidnapped and brought to Naples. By long persuasion and threats, she was compelled in 1318 to consent to the marriage, whereupon Frederick Trogisio was sent to Achaea as a new baili. In 1320, Eudes IV, Duke of Burgundy, after several protests, agreed to sell his rights to Achaea and Thessalonica to Louis, Count of Clermont for 40,000 livres. However, Philip, financed by Philip V of France, bought the claims for the same sum in 1321. In the meantime, the refractory Matilda of Hainaut was brought before the Papal court in Avignon, where she revealed that she had secretly married the Burgundian knight Hugh de La Palice. Her marriage with John was annulled on the grounds of non-consummation, but the revelation of her secret marriage again furnished a pretext for the confiscation of Achaea by the Angevins. It was, of course, bestowed directly upon John of Gravina, in exchange for 40,000 livres, the price paid to the Duke of Burgundy. Matilda spent the rest of her unfortunate life as a prisoner of the Neapolitan state, to prevent the resurgence of her claim.

Philip continued to plot the recovery of the Latin Empire, making an alliance in 1318 with his nephew Charles I of Hungary for that purpose, but to no effect. In 1330, the last of his sons by his first marriage died, returning to him the title of Despot of Romania. All his rights and titles passed on his death two years later to his eldest son by his second marriage, Robert of Taranto.

Family
Children of his first marriage (1294), with Thamar Angelina Komnene, which ended with a divorce (1309):
 Charles (1296–1315), Vicar of Romania, killed at the Battle of Montecatini
 Jeanne (1297–1323), married to Oshin of Armenia and then Oshin of Korikos.
 Philip (1300–1330), Despot of Romania.
 Maria (1302/04–1368), Abbess of Conversano.
 Beatrice (1305–1340), married to Walter VI of Brienne, titular Duke of Athens.
 Bianca (1309–1337), married to Infante Ramón Berenguer of Aragon, Count of Prades.

Children of his second marriage (1313), with Catherine of Valois:
 Margaret (c. 1325–1380), married Francis of Baux, Duke of Andria. By Francis, she was the mother of James of Baux, Prince of Achaea and titular Emperor of Constantinople.
 Robert (1326–1364), Prince of Taranto, titular Emperor of Constantinople (as Robert II).
 Louis (1327/28–1362), Prince of Taranto and King of Naples by right of his wife.
 Philip II (1329–1374), Prince of Taranto and Achaea, titular Emperor of Constantinople (as Philip III).

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The Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety is a department of the Government of Western Australia. The department was formed on 1 July 2017, out of the former Department of Mines and Petroleum  and Department of Commerce.

A restructuring of the Western Australian government departments was part of Mark McGowan's election campaign and, in the month after taking office, the number of government departments was reduced from 41 to 25.

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Should It Be Legal To Sell Your Organs?
By Jessica "Lulu" Lipman
Jessica "Lulu" Lipman is a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania studying English.
Every day, eighteen people die waiting for an organ transplant. Today, there are more than 113,000 people waiting for a life-saving transplant [1]. Organ transplants are a feat of modern medicine, in which a failing organ from one person is replaced by a healthy organ from a donor. Nearly any organ can be transplanted, including kidneys, corneas, lungs, skin, and pancreases [2].
When a patient's organ is failing, the individual is placed on a waitlist for a new organ. As organs become available, a matching system distributes the organs based on criteria such as genetic compatibility, location, and condition of the new organ.
The most commonly needed organ is kidneys and the median wait time for a new kidney is 3.6 years [3]. For many people, however, this is far too long. While they wait for a new kidney, the individual is dependent on dialysis.
Many factors make it extremely difficult to receive a transplanted organ in the United States. First, for a living person to donate an organ, it can cost between $5,000 and $20,000, and the donor will have to miss approximately six weeks of work. Moreover, many chronic conditions, like high blood pressure and obesity, prevent a vast majority of Americans from being able to donate [4].
Current legislation also makes it more challenging to receive an organ. The National Organ Transplant Act (NOTA), which was passed in 1984, prohibits organ donors from receiving any compensation. Although the law was enacted to ensure that at-risk and poor individuals do not sell their organs for a quick payday, it also has created barriers for people to get the organs they so desperately need [5].
Thus, people urgently in need of organs are forced to look elsewhere to receive a life-saving donation. A black market has emerged as an alternative way to acquire an organ, and one kidney can sell for upwards of $200,000. The World Health Organization estimates that at least 10% of kidney transplants are as a result of a black-market transactions [6]
Most of the organ black market exists outside of the United States, in countries such as India, China, and the Philippines. The practice of American patients travelling abroad to purchase an organ is known as "transplant tourism." Although it is illegal to buy or sell an organ in any country except Iran, developing countries have less strict regulations and oversight, therefore making it easier to buy a viable organ. Not only does transplant tourism have blatant ethical concerns, but those who received an organ from abroad suffer much higher rates of complications and infection [7].
The organ black market takes advantage of impoverished and vulnerable people who feel like they have no choice but to sell an organ. These individuals are approached by "brokers" who facilitate deals between the potential donor and recipient, taking a hefty commission. Brokers make big promises to donors, but, after the operations, they realized they have been deceived on their payment and are unaware of the side effects of the procedure [8]. The organ black market exploits both people who are desperately in need of life-saving transplants, as well as poverty-stricken individuals who will do anything to support themselves financially.
Because of the issues that both current legal methods of organ donation and the black-market pose, there has been discussion around how to combat the growing problem and seemingly endless shortage of organs. One suggestion is to legalize the consensual buying and selling of organs in the United States.
To understand how a legal organ market could work, people look to Iran, where receiving compensation from kidney donation has been legal since 1988. Any Iranian in need of a kidney is first put on a waiting list for six months, in hopes of receiving a kidney from a deceased organ donor. If a kidney does not become available, a team of doctors will screen potential donors and try to find the right candidate for the procedure. The donor will receive about $1,200 from the government for the kidney, and usually more money from the recipient or a non-profit organization [9]
On paper, the Iranian system seems like a good solution to the organ shortage, especially considering there has not been a waiting list for a kidney since 1999. However, the system has many shortcomings. 70% of people who donate kidneys are impoverished, meaning that the system exploits poor individuals, the same population targeted on the black market. Additionally, due to inflation, donors have been receiving less and less compensation for their organs. Lastly, because of lax regulations, it is unclear if the ability to sell organs legally has diminished the black market. Some doctors have argued that the system just makes it easier for a black market to function [10].
Should the United States legalize a system where a donor can be compensated? The answer seems more complicated than yes or no. Currently, in the United States, it is legal to receive money for the donation of plasma, sperm, egg, and bone marrow. Thus, the question of where should the line be drawn on what a person can be legally compensated becomes fuzzy [11].
It can be argued that an American system of legalizing the sale of organs would be better regulated than Iran's system. Although this could be true, there is no way to know for sure. At the very least, legalizing organ purchasing would shorten the ever-growing transplant list and provide monetary incentives to an already established industry.
A legal organ trade in the United States is unlikely to appear any time soon, which begs the question of what to do in the meantime, as the organ shortage continues to worsen. One simple way to incentive organ donors is to create an opt-out system. In Austria, for example, every person is automatically registered as a donor unless they specifically opt-out or are not eligible. Therefore, 90% of Austrians donate their organs after they die, as opposed to just 15% in America [12]
It is unclear if it will ever be legal to receive compensation for organ donation in the United States. What is apparent, however, is that the lives of those waiting for an organ can be saved if the United States can find a solution to the problems surrounding organ shortages.
The opinions and views expressed in this publication are the opinions of the designated authors and do not reflect the opinions or views of the Penn Undergraduate Law Journal, our staff, or our clients.
[1] "Transplant Trends" (ND) United Network of Organ Sharing. https://unos.org/data/transplant-trends/
[2] "Organ Donation and Transplantation" (2 Feb 2017). Cleveland Clinic. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/11750-organ-donation-and-transplantation
[3] "Organ Donation and Transplantation Statistics" (ND) National Kidney Foundation. https://www.kidney.org/news/newsroom/factsheets/Organ-Donation-and-Transplantation-Stats
[4] Collins, Sam. "Why More Than 120,000 Americans Can't Get The Organ Transplant They Need." (20 Nov 2014). Think Progress. https://thinkprogress.org/why-more-than-120-000-americans-cant-get-the-organ-transplant-they-need-a7db72f8bfac/
[5] Fry-Revere et al. "America's Organ Transplant Law Is Criminally Unfair to Donors" (23 Oct 2014) The New Republic. https://newrepublic.com/article/119963/us-organ-transplant-law-needs-reform-let-donors-get-reimbursed
[6] Wagner, Lindsey. "Organ Trafficking: More Than Just a Myth" (11 Nov 2014). The University of Utah. https://law.utah.edu/organ-trafficking-more-than-just-a-myth/
[7] "Organ Trafficking: The Unseen Form of Human Trafficking" (26 June 2018). ACAMS Today. https://www.acamstoday.org/organ-trafficking-the-unseen-form-of-human-trafficking/
[8] Prochertchoo, Pichayada. "Kidney for Sale: Inside Philippines'' Illegal Organ Trade" (19 Oct 2019) Channel News Asia. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/kidney-for-sale-philippines-illegal-organ-trade-12007722
[9] Hammond, Samuel. "How Iran Solved its Kidney Shortage, and We Can Too" (12 Sep 2018). Niskanen Center. https://www.niskanencenter.org/how-iran-solved-its-kidney-shortage-and-we-can-too/
[10] Krishnan, Madhumitha. "Legalizing Trafficking: Iran's Unjust Organ Market and Why Legal Selling of Organs Should Not be The Resolve" (3 May 2018) Berkeley Political Review. https://bpr.berkeley.edu/2018/05/03/legalizing-trafficking-irans-unjust-organ-market-and-why-legal-selling-of-organs-should-not-be-the-resolve/
[11] Berger, Alexander. "Why Selling Kidneys Should Be Legal." (5 Dec 2011). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/opinion/why-selling-kidneys-should-be-legal.html
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Dr. Dumas and I just returned from the annual American Association of Orthodontics (AAO) conference in Philadelphia. For those of us in Detroit we can equate this to the "auto show" of orthodontics. The meeting brings together the orthodontic industry and leaders in the field for a four-day weekend of new product launches and informational lectures on the latest and greatest. The AAO meeting is held every year at a different location during the first weekend of May. I was fortunate enough to attend the meeting last year in Honolulu, where I presented my research and was actually PAID to attend! The meeting this year was held in the beautiful City of Brotherly Love, a place that I had never been before. Two of my very good college friends grew up around Philadelphia so I have heard for years how amazing the city is. I must admit, we had a great time; our hotel was just around the corner from the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall. There is something special about being in a place where you know a significant historical event has taken place. I went for a morning run on Sunday and was thinking to myself that Ben Franklin very well may have walked down the very streets that I was running on (they were very old cobbled streets, which makes for precarious running). We did not get much time to explore the city because we spent the vast majority of our time at the Pennsylvania Convention Center either listening to intriguing lectures, or researching new and innovative products to bring back to the practice.
The buzz around the meeting was 3D scanner technology, 3D printing, and cloud computing. Now, any of you who have spent time in the practice will know that we have been using 3D scanners in order to create our robotically-bent SureSmile wires for over 5 years. Recently, we have utilized 3D printers to fabricate aligners to allowing patients to get out of braces sooner by fine detailing the teeth with our clear aligners at the end of treatment, or to treat those patients who may not have been as diligent with their retainer wear as they should have been. Two weeks ago we made the huge leap in converting our whole practice management software to the cloud. During the conversion, we threw Ortho2 (the software company) a curveball because for the first time they would not only be converting an office to the cloud, but also merging patient databases for 3 offices. For the past 18 years, each office has had its own database, making it difficult to communicate between offices. The conversion and merger allow us, for the first time, to have a single patient database across the entire practice. Our practice administrator, Laura Force, was instrumental in the conversion and merger. Without her, we would have been like lost puppies. Laura was such a rock star that Ortho2 invited her to help explain the software to new and potential customers at the AAO meeting.
Converting our software to the cloud means a patient can call any office and be scheduled easily at the office of their choice. You may also notice new and different ways that we can communicate with you. Stay tuned for updates on our software conversation. There are some innovative tools integrated that we will begin to use soon, one of them a morphing tool. The morph allows us to take the initial patient photos and all of the photos in between and create an animation of the transformation that we can email to you! For the doctors, the cloud means that we can effectively work from anywhere, checking patient files and images even if we are not in the patient's home office that day, we are always just a click away.
The last piece in our digital puzzle has been our use of Invisalign. We love the Invisalign product, as do our patients, but nobody loves the impression process. Because Invisalign is such a precise process and requires a high level of detail, we must take impressions with more accurate material. This material, unfortunately, takes longer to harden than our normal material and results in a less than fun experience for the patient.
We are excited to announce, that starting in a few weeks we will no longer need to take impressions for Invisalign! We purchased three new iTero scanners at the AAO meeting that will allow us to scan a patient and submit the "digital" impression for Invisalign trays. The scan is done with non-x-ray, visible light like a camera. It takes only about 12 minutes and the result is a more pleasant patient experience, a quicker turnaround time, and better fitting Invisalign trays.
Dr. Dumas and I are self-admitted orthodontic and technology nerds. There is nothing more exciting for us than getting a new toy in the practice, especially one that will allow us to deliver a better patient experience. We are excited to offer this new service to our patients and hope that you all will enjoy it as well.


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As far as G-d and I are concerned, I'm a Jew. Halachah, on the other hand, rules differently. How do I approach that contradiction?
'Worst times since the Nazis'
Antisemitism on rise across Europe 'in worst times since the Nazis' | Society | The Guardian.
Not sure I linked this yet, but even if I have, it is worth a read. The Guardian, being Britain's leading neo-Fabian daily, is not big on religion or a particular friend of Israel, so when it runs a post flagging how bad anti-Semitism is getting in Europe, it is time to pay attention.
Technology and Tikkun
In Silicon Valley, there is a sense that tech companies are doing God's work. Software can solve the world's biggest problems, many tech entrepreneurs believe, if only it is put to the right use.
via Can Technology Save the World? Experts Disagree – The New York Times.
My first reaction to this quote was "G-d's work? Really? No arrogance or irony?"
And then I thought about my friends who work in the Valley, and realized that something else is happening. Amid all of the wealth, ambition, and engineering is a deep-seated need among many (but by no means all) in the Valley to find a higher meaning in what they are doing.
Is life aught more than the next line of code, the next reference design, the next product launch? Or is there, should there, be something more to what we are doing?
It is relatively easy for the great engineer-entrepreneur-philanthropists of technology to find a path to meaning: Bill and Melinda Gates, Irwin and Joan Jacobs, Marc Benioff and Lynn Krilich and others like them have placed their fortunes at the service of the greater good. But how does a system engineer or mid-level manager in a high-growth, high-pressure tech enterprise inject meaning into their lives?
Fact: there are apparently no synagogues within a decent walking or driving distance for anyone working in Mountain view, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Milpitas, and huge chunks of San Jose and Cupertino. And the problem is not that there are no Jews in those communities.
Food for Hebraic thought…
Anti-Semitism and Free Speech
Let's be realistic: anti-Semitism is already being discussed on campus behind the thinning veil of"anti-Zionism." It is time for us to flush the haters into the open, compel them to drop their pretense, and say what they really mean. Frankly, I'd rather be able to see my enemy in the clear than have him camouflaged behind the fig leaf of BDS or "Palestinian" nationalism.
If we are going to allow anti-Semitism (whether open or under the rubric of anti-Zionism) to enter the legitimate realm of campus discussion, we must also allow open and free criticism of Islam, Christianity, the Queen, radical feminism, and every other sacred cow on campus.
And while we are doing so, let us recommit ourself to free speech. Let's stop protecting each other from hurt feelings and grow some thick skin. The existence of the university as something distinct from the fifth through eighth years of high school is the need to expose young adults to all kinds of ideas so that they can improve their critical reasoning. Otherwise college becomes like the Internet: four years of your life spent with a bunch of like-minded people.
Recognizing the Limits of Reason
Brooks may overpraise British Enlightenment thinkers—who include Jeremy Bentham, the founder of utilitarianism and a thoroughgoing rationalist—but he is right in noting that the Enlightenment has not entirely neglected the limits of reason. Regarded by many as the supreme Enlightenment philosopher, Immanuel Kant was quite explicit in stating that there are questions that human reason cannot answer. One could go back further and note that Aristotle—commonly regarded as one of the greatest Western rationalists—insisted that virtuous conduct was a matter of habit and character just as much as rational deliberation.
"Review: Mr. Brooks' Miracle Elixir"
Prodded perhaps by its headlong rush to liquidate religion, modern science conveniently forgets that there are limits to the powers of reason and observation. That this truth is espoused by two of the Enlightenment's shining stars can come as no comfort.
Whether Kant and Aristotle genuinely apprehended the possibility that there was in fact something higher than rationality, logic, and observation is hard to say. But they had the humility, imagination, and intellectual honesty to acknowledge that there were walls beyond which we cannot peer with the tools available to our limited intellects.
Why Our Children Don't Think There Are Moral Facts – NYTimes.com.
This is a brilliant, thoughtful, and deeply disturbing article that bodes ill for our future. Moral relativism, whatever its advantages in enhancing tolerance, may well prove to be a bauble we cannot afford.
NYT: Why Our Children Don't Think There Are Moral Facts
Rules and Virtue
Unlike Kant, the emblematic modern who claimed that the rightness of our deeds is determined solely by reason, unsullied by need, desire or interest, Aristotle rooted his ethics in human nature, in the habits and practices, the dispositions and tendencies, that make us happy and enable our flourishing. And where Kant believed that morality consists of austere rules, imposing unconditional duties upon us and requiring our most strenuous sacrifice, Aristotle located the ethical life in the virtues. These are qualities or states, somewhere between reason and emotion but combining elements of both, that carry and convey us, by the gentlest and subtlest of means, to the outer hills of good conduct. Once there, we are inspired and equipped to scale these lower heights, whence we move onto the higher reaches. A person who acts virtuously develops a nature that wants and is able to act virtuously and that finds happiness in virtue. That coincidence of thought and feeling, reason and desire, is achieved over a lifetime of virtuous deeds. Virtue, in other words, is less a codex of rules, which must be observed in the face of the self's most violent opposition, than it is the food and fiber, the grease and gasoline, of a properly functioning soul.
via Garbage and Gravitas | The Nation.
This is a fascinating discussion, and I have quoted this article elsewhere. Accepting the author's précis of Kant and Aristotle at face value, one must ask a question: how do we get to that virtuous behavior unless we have a guide to what that behavior is? And how do we practice that behavior consistently without a codex of rules?
Man is neither automatically virtuous nor automatically vicious. Both instincts are inexorably intertwined. The pathway to the better angels of our nature is not the only logical path, nor is it the easiest. We need more than the beauty of the mountains of virtue to attract us to climb their heights.
Church, State, and Faith in Education
I think we all can agree that there should be a separation of church and state. Where we might have a divergence of opinion is in someone – including the state – telling me what I can or cannot teach my child.
The community, via the state, can tell me that my child must learn about evolution in school. It cannot tell me what I can and cannot teach him in the privacy of our home or in the confines of our house of worship. While I am not a constitutional lawyer, it seems reasonable to me that trying to enforce such a restriction would be an outright violation of the Free Exercise clause of the First Amendment.
For the record, some of the best discussions we have in our house are about the apparent contradictions between Darwin's Theory of Evolution and the common English translations of Genesis, and how Jewish scholars (starting with Maimonedes) reconcile the two. But that's another topic.
The Ambiguity of Science
If there are moral facts, the ethical ambiguity of science must be among the most important of them. It may be true that humans cannot flourish under tyranny, at least of a severe kind; but if the realistic alternative to such tyranny is anarchy, which also thwarts any prospect of human flourishing, there is a dilemma that no scientific advance can resolve.
Afraid to be Right
But such confidence is not to our liking anymore. We believe that truth is a form of hegemony. We suspect that pluralism may require perspectivism, or at least a denial of the possibility of objectivity. We wish to be right without anybody else being wrong. We prefer questions. And we like commentaries to be comments.
Leon Weiseltier
"Comes the Comer"
The Jewish Review of Books
Has our desire to avoid hurting people's feelings made us afraid to be right, afraid to assert our convictions in the face of what we know to be wrong? And if we are, what does that make us?
Logic and Truth
In the course of an absolutely stunning deconstruction of Ayn Rand libertarianism, the Nation strikes a bone-deep blow to the corpus of several schools of ethics, not least utilitarianism, that contend that logic and reason are adequate paths to a functioning moral code. (Emphasis mine)
Rand also liked to cite Aristotle's law of identity or noncontradiction—the notion that everything is identical to itself, captured by the shorthand "A is A"—as the basis of her defense of selfishness, the free market and the limited state. That particular transport sent Rand's admirers into rapture and drove her critics, even the friendliest, to distraction. Several months before his death in 2002, Harvard philosopher Robert Nozick, the most analytically sophisticated of twentieth-century libertarians, said that "the use that's made by people in the Randian tradition of this principle of logic…is completely unjustified so far as I can see; it's illegitimate." In 1961 Sidney Hook wrote in the New York Times,
Since his baptism in medieval times, Aristotle has served many strange purposes. None have been odder than this sacramental alliance, so to speak, of Aristotle with Adam Smith. The extraordinary virtues Miss Rand finds in the law that A is A suggests that she is unaware that logical principles by themselves can test only consistency. They cannot establish truth…. Swearing fidelity to Aristotle, Miss Rand claims to deduce not only matters of fact from logic but, with as little warrant, ethical rules and economic truths as well. As she understands them, the laws of logic license her in proclaiming that "existence exists," which is very much like saying that the law of gravitation is heavy and the formula of sugar sweet.
It goes without saying that this is also a gutting indictment of Objectivism.
On the Mideast and Betrayal
Iran Remains the Threat in the Middle East :: Middle East Forum.
A fascinating read generally by Professor Efraim Inbar of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. It is a short but poignant dip into understanding why focusing on ISIS as the main threat in the region may miss the real problem.
But apart from that, I read this passage with some fascination:
Moreover, many of the Arab states failed to modernize and deliver basic services, allowing for alternative Islamist structures to do a better job in providing education, medical and social work services to the impoverished masses.
If that sound familiar, the Palestinian Authority has been accused of the same. Inbar continues:
It is worth noting that the Muslim Brotherhood was established as early as 1928. Ever since, it has developed grassroots by trying to take care of the masses, while subverting the statist order in Muslim states with the goal of building a new Caliphate. Pan-Arabism – a popular ideological inclination among the Arab elites – also undermined the legitimacy of the statist order, reinforcing Pan-Islamist impulses.
All of this suggests something rather nefarious. It implies that there is an Arab elite that is cynically using the Arab refugees from Israel in an effort to drive the Jews out of the region, thus clearing the way for a Caliphate that includes Israeli territory. The Arab refugees ("Palestinians") would get their own state for a brief moment, only to be absorbed into the new Caliphate, their rights forgotten.
That's a nasty scenario, it borders on the aluminum-foil-yarmaluke-under-the-watch-cap paranoid, and I am not sure I buy it. But I will file it away, because it bears watching. As the region faces the triple threat of a resurgent Persian empire from Tehran, the scourge of ISIS, and the neo-Ataturkian ambitions of the Turks, I suspect fault lines long buried beneath a sea of anti-Zionism are about to rear their heads again.
If you are a grateful graduate of Oxford University or Yale University, even if you are an atheist, thank G-d before you thank the alumni and teachers. Because if it were not for G-d and the faiths that worship him, your alma mater would not exist.
Have a nice 4th of July weekend, and a Good Shabbos
Faith and Markets
"The attempt to domesticate the uncertainties of the future by turning them into calculable risks was discredited by the crash. A mode of thinking that was supposed to be supremely rational has proved in practice to be little more than an exercise in harebrained cleverness."
Review: Mr. Brooks's Miracle Elixir | The National Interest.
The next time a Bond Trader starts criticizing you about your faith, ask him to tell you what he thinks the cult of risk management is, if it is not a secular religion, complete with prophets, adherents, ritual, and holy wars.
Scientists and Scripture
Fossils and Faith: Understanding Torah and Science by Nathan Aviezer, Klav Publishing, November 30, 2002
Genesis and the Big Bang: The Discovery Of Harmony Between Modern Science And The Bible by Gerald Schroder, Bantam, November 30, 1991
I trust science and believe in (and trust) God, and the more I look around the more I find that I am not alone. Applied physicist Gerald Schroeder out of MIT and solid state physicist Nathan Aviezer from the University of Chicago (both now in Jerusalem) are two examples of observant Jewish scientists who feel the same way.
Each man explores the issues at the intersection of faith and science, taking a physicists' look at what he sees are the essential compatibilities of the evolutionary narrative and the account of creation provided in the Torah. The cases they make are thought provoking, but will undoubtedly pose issues for both atheists and biblical literalists. Atheists will see their efforts as rationalizations after-the-fact, more elegantly and persuasively argued than the case for Intelligent Design, perhaps, but in the end no more convincing to skeptics. For their part, observant Jews and literalist scholars are likely to take issue with how both scientists reject the idea that the account in Genesis as literal history.
Yet I approach their efforts a bit differently. I believe that there is an answer to the apparent conflict between the scientific and scriptural accounts that legitimizes them both, and I see both Schroeder and Aviezar as laying the foundations for a theoretical and scholarly exploration of where that link might be. They are, like good scientists, putting forth hypotheses and rationales to support them. They are not declaring quod era demonstratum, but they are going beyond mere credo.
The open-minded among atheist, agnostics, and the faithful would do well to read through the explorations of these scientists. They provide a valuable starting point that, if nothing else, lays the groundwork to prevent extremists of both sides taking control of the agenda.


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Telsa Profits Fall Short of Expectations
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Tesla's shares dropped in after-hours trading after the company posted its fourth-quarter earnings report, revealing profits that fell short of Wall Street's expectations.
CNBC reports that following the posting of Tesla's fourth-quarter earnings report, the company's stock fell in aftermarket trading. Tesla cited a number of reasons for its less than stellar performance, such as a decline in revenue from the sale of regulatory credits, lowered prices across all Tesla vehicles and higher import duties on Chinese manufactured parts.
CNBC noted the company's performance in comparison to Wall Street analysts expectations:
Adjusted EPS: $1.93 versus $2.20, according to average estimates.
Revenue: $7.23 billion versus $7.08 billion, according to average estimates.
The company did, however, report that its cash position had improved significantly by $1.45 billion despite having to spend $230 million to repay convertible bonds this quarter. Tesla aims to increase its vehicle delivery rate by 45 to 65 percent in 2019, delivering 360,000 to 400,000 vehicles.
Jessica Caldwell, Edmunds' executive director of industry analysis, does not see a bright future for Musk's electric car company: "Things really aren't going to get any better for Tesla in the US than they did at the end of 2018," she told CNBC. "Turning a profit, creatively addressing production challenges and getting the Model 3 to the masses were huge milestones, but keeping up this momentum is going to be virtually impossible."
Caldwell stated that Tesla will be facing tougher competition from established automakers such as Audi, Porsche, and Jaguar in 2019: "Tesla's in an awkward purgatory between being a startup and a mainstream automaker, and the biggest open question heading into 2019 is where the company really goes from here," Caldwell said. "Tesla is used to owning the spotlight, but for the next year we might see a lower-key Tesla as the company takes baby steps to keep things moving along while it plans for the future."
Whether Tesla will have to raise more cash to cover its $920 million bond payment on March 1 remains to be seen. Tesla assured investors that they have "sufficient cash on hand to comfortably settle in cash our convertible bond that will mature in March 2019."
Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolan_ or email him at lnolan@breitbart.com
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