New evidence gathered by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft at Mercury indicates the planet closest to the sun has shrunk up to 7 kilometers in radius over the past 4 billion years, much more than earlier estimates.
The new finding, published in the journal Nature Geoscience Sunday, March 16, solves an apparent enigma about Mercury's evolution.
Older images of surface features indicated that, despite cooling over its lifetime, the rocky planet had barely shrunk at all. But modeling of the planet's formation and aging could not explain that finding.
Now, Paul K. Byrne and Christian Klimczak at the Carnegie Institution of Washington have led a team that used MESSENGER's detailed images and topographic data to build a comprehensive map of tectonic features. That map suggests Mercury shrunk substantially as it cooled, as rock and metal that comprise its interior are expected to.
"With MESSENGER, we have now obtained images of the entire planet at high resolution and, crucially, at different angles to the sun that show features Mariner 10 could not in the 1970s," said Steven A. Hauck, II, a professor of planetary sciences at Case Western Reserve University and the paper's co-author.
Mariner 10, the first spacecraft sent to explore Mercury, gathered images and data over just 45% of the surface during three flybys in 1974 and 1975. MESSENGER, which launched in 2004 and was inserted into orbit in 2011, continues collecting scientific data, completing its 2,900th orbit of Mercury later this month.
Mercury's surface differs from Earth's in that its outer shell, called the lithosphere, is made up of one tectonic plate instead of multiple plates.
To help gauge how the planet may have shrunk, the researchers looked at tectonic features, called lobate scarps and wrinkle ridges, which result from interior cooling and surface compression. The features resemble long ribbons from above, ranging from 5 to more than 550 miles long.
Lobate scarps are cliffs caused by thrust faults that have broken the surface and reach up to nearly 2 miles high. Wrinkle ridges are caused by faults that don't extend as deep and tend to have lower relief. Surface materials from one side of the fault ramp up and fold over, forming a ridge. The scientists mapped a total of 5,934 of the tectonic features.
The scarps and ridges have much the same effect as a tailor making a series of tucks to take in the waist of a pair of pants.
With the new data, the researchers were able to see a greater number of these faults and estimate the shortening across broad sections of the surface and thus estimate the decrease in the planet's radius.
They estimate the planet has contracted between 4.6 and 7 kilometers in radius.
"This is significantly greater than the 1 to maybe 2 kilometers reported earlier on the basis of Mariner 10 data," Hauck said.
And, importantly, he said, models built on the main heat-producing elements in planetary interiors, as detected by MESSENGER, support contraction in the range now documented.
One striking aspect of the form and distribution of surface tectonic features on Mercury is that they are largely consistent with some early explanations about the features of Earth's surface, before the theory of plate tectonics made them obsolete—at least for Earth, Hauck said.
So far, Earth is the only planet known to have tectonic plates instead of a single, outer shell.
The findings, therefore, can provide limits and a framework to understand how planets cool—their thermal, tectonic and volcanic history. So, by looking at Mercury, scientists learn not just about planets in our solar system, but about the increasing number of rocky planets being found around other stars.


The Obama administration's proposed curbs on power plant emissions have helped open the door to an international climate change deal, the United Kingdom's energy secretary said yesterday.
In an interview with ClimateWire, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Davey called the contentious new carbon dioxide regulations under U.S. EPA "fantastic." And while there has been little evidence yet that China or other major emitters are following suit with their own fresh targets, Davey said he is optimistic.
"I am absolutely convinced the Chinese have taken a decision that they must pursue a clean energy future," Davey said. Movement in the United States to ratchet back greenhouse gas emissions, he added, "gives the political space for a deal to be done."
Nations have pledged to develop a new climate change agreement to be signed in Paris in 2015. Under it, all countries -- including big developing countries like China, India and Brazil -- will be expected to contribute to emissions cuts after 2020. But working out the details of what could be the world's first truly global climate agreement has been slow-going and contentious.
A midyear negotiating session in Bonn, Germany, last month moved the ball forward by inches with an agreement to circulate "elements" of a draft deal. Leaders have called for a draft text to be completed at a December summit in Lima, Peru.
Davey, in Washington, D.C., this week to "explore where we are going with the international talks," called this year critical to ensuring success in the next. Coming off of meetings with U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, Davey said he believes momentum is picking up.
"This is a key year," he said. "You've got to create the political space, and if you don't do it now, it's too late."
After barnstorming the United States, Davey said, he has plans later this month to visit both China and India, where he argued big changes are afoot. In China especially, he said, leaders are discussing a peak year for carbon emissions. He noted that U.K. researchers and others have pinpointed 2020 as a possible peak year but allowed that it could come somewhat later.
"I'm not suggesting they're going to be able to peak in 2020. That's some stretch from where they are now. But maybe some could expect them to peak in 2025," he said, calling that target "very credible and very doable."
Meanwhile, a major element in building momentum for Paris will be a U.N. summit slated for Sept. 23 ahead of the General Assembly meeting in New York. But expectations for that meeting also are shaky. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for leaders to bring "bold pledges."
U.K. Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Davey. Photo courtesy of gov.uk.
Yet few countries are likely to announce new targets, because they are not formally required until early next year. Some leaders -- like Australia's prime minister, Tony Abbott -- don't even plan to attend. Critics have already begun to dismiss it as a talkfest.
Davey, though, said those who want a climate deal should not discount the importance of talking -- particularly among heads of state. He noted that the last time leaders gathered to discuss climate change was at the 2009 summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, where a frenzied, last-minute meeting produced a result that left many unhappy.
"In order to make progress, we need the political leaders of the world to come together well ahead of the negotiations to make it clear that this is a priority for them. So I think it's terribly important that they talk," he said.
One issue that advocates hope will see concrete movement in September is money. A newly formed Green Climate Fund (GCF) aimed at mobilizing and dispersing money to help protect countries from the impacts of climate change and develop clean energy is just starting to call for pledges. Developing countries hope to raise $15 billion in pledges from rich countries this year.
According to Reuters, Norway plans to unveil its preliminary pledge at the September summit, but the country so far stands nearly alone. The United States has not yet pledged, and leaders have made no secret that they first want to see how serious China, India and other major developing countries are about making emissions cuts. Other nations, meanwhile, are waiting to see what happens in the U.S. elections in November before deciding how much weight to put behind climate finance.
Davey described the United Kingdom as "close to giving serious consideration of pledging" but declined to say when or how much. He also maintained that his country is not waiting for China or others to put their carbon cards on the table.
"That has not been our constraint. Our constraint has been knowing what we are pledging money to," he said, adding that a May meeting of the GCF that finalized a number of open questions about its structure made serious progress. The United Kingdom, he said, "will be in the vanguard of people who pledge."
Davey also joined the growing number of political leaders insisting that a 2015 deal in Paris need not be the absolute answer to climate change. Asked whether a deal in which countries' targets are still not enough to avert a temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius over preindustrial levels can still be called a success, Davey said that it could.
"If we can get an ambitious global deal in 2015 that is applicable to all, I think that will be a major step forward," he said. "I'm not going to set out targets for that."


I have searched everywhere for Atelier characters but haven't found any. In fact, all I found was scripts and a rip of Atelier Iris 3's graphics.
Also, My ISP prevented me from posting this, should I switch?
Switch your ISP? I'm guessing you don't live in America.
No, it just seems to cut off my internet for a bit every other day, probably switching locations.
Anyone wanna help me with Atelier character sprites?
You have to help us, help you man.
Post example pictures of what you're looking for.
Dude, this is so vague that it shouldn't even count as an actual request.
That's like if I were to ask for my sister to buy me shoes, and she comes back with purples ones, but I actually wanted pink shoes. And then I make her take them back to Payless and exchange them. But I still don't tell her that I actually want pink shoes.
You ask for Atelier Characters, Which ones, which series specifically, since there's a LOT of Atelier games, who are you looking for, what is it you want, Iris is not the correct one, then which one,Atelier Marie, Atelier Elie, Atelier Lilie, is it sprites that look like the characters of Atelier Rorona, Atelier Totori, Atelier Meruru, Atelier Ayesha, Atelier Escha & Logy? Or is it Rips of the DS Spin-offs, The Salbsburg, the GB ones? be specific, There's quite a lot of e'mm and it's gonna drive me crazy!!!!
I'm actually looking for character sets for RMVXA.
Would it help if I requested a certain character? Say, Lionela?


The purpose of the undergraduate chemistry program at the University of Utah is to provide the key knowledge base and laboratory resources to prepare students for careers as professionals in the field of chemistry, for graduate study in chemistry, biological chemistry and related fields, and for professional school including medical, dental, law and business programs.
Students will have a firm foundation in the fundamentals and application of current chemical and scientific theories including those in Analytical, Inorganic, Organic and Physical Chemistries. Majors to be certified by the American Chemical Society will have extensive laboratory work and knowledge of Biological Chemistry.
Students will be able to design and carry out scientific experiments as well as accurately record and analyze the results of such experiments.
Students will be skilled in problem solving, critical thinking and analytical reasoning as applied to scientific problems.
Students will be able to clearly communicate the results of scientific work in oral, written and electronic formats to both scientists and the public at large.
Students will be able to explore new areas of research in both chemistry and allied fields of science and technology.
Students will appreciate the central role of chemistry in our society and use this as a basis for ethical behavior in issues facing chemists including an understanding of safe handling of chemicals, environmental issues and key issues facing our society in energy, health and medicine.
Students will be able to explain why chemistry is an integral activity for addressing social, economic, and environmental problems.
Students will be able to function as a member of an interdisciplinary problem solving team.
general periodicity patterns of (organic/inorganic) molecules, and the ability to design synthetic approaches to such species.
common laboratory techniques including pH measurement, acid/base titrations, UV/Visible spectroscopy in both emission and absorption mode, calorimetry, and colorimetry.
the use of the techniques mentioned above to solve chemical problems.
the acquisition of solubility vs. temperature data and the calculation of ΔH, ΔS, and ΔG for dissolving a salt at a given temperature.
how to use radiotracer methodology in the laboratory.
alpha, beta, and gamma emitting radionuclides.
carry out an organic reaction, including isolating, purifying, and characterizing the product.


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When Romance Met Comedy
27 Dresses doesn't deserve your hate and neither does Katherine Heigl
Caroline Siede
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When Romance Met Comedy When Romance Met ComedyWith When Romance Met Comedy, Caroline Siede examines the history of the rom-com through the years, one happily ever after (or not) at a time.
The first time I saw 27 Dresses, I felt such a strong emotional connection to its put-upon, self-sacrificing protagonist that I had to excuse myself to go sob in the bathroom after a scene in which her kindness is betrayed by her little sister. There are far more important (and far less embarrassing) stories of seeing yourself represented on screen, but, alas, this is mine, and it's always given me a sense of deep affection for the lovable but imperfect 27 Dresses. When people discuss the downfall of the romantic comedy circa the late 2000s and early 2010s, I often hear 27 Dresses and its star Katherine Heigl name-dropped as examples of the worst the genre had to offer. In both cases, however, I think the label is a bit unfair. 27 Dresses isn't the best rom-com ever made, nor is Heigl's the genre's brightest star, but neither deserves the enormous amount of baggage they've come to carry.
Yet that baggage is irreparably linked. The downfall of Heigl's public persona largely stems from a 2008 Vanity Fair profile tied to the upcoming release of 27 Dresses. That's the place where Heigl first noted that she found Knocked Up—an unexpected smash hit that had been released the year before—to be "a little sexist," a comment she would spend years having to publicly contend with. Her critique was valid ("It paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as lovable, goofy, fun-loving guys"), as was her critique of a weird Grey's Anatomy storyline that saw her character break up her friend's marriage and fall into bed with him. But in both cases, the perception was that Heigl was simply acting ungrateful toward the projects that made her famous.
Coupled with a feather-ruffling Grey's salary negotiation the year prior and a really weird response to a question about why she hadn't submitted herself for an Emmy nomination the year after winning for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama, the cumulative weight was enough to get Heigl branded as "difficult" and "unlikable." 27 Dresses was supposed to launch her as the latest rom-com queen in the vein of Kate Hudson and Reese Witherspoon. Instead, it was the start of a downhill slump, both on TV (she left Grey's in 2010) and in film.
Some of that is just timing. Heigl had the misfortune to launch her rom-com career as the genre was on its last legs. But there's no doubt that the "difficult" label stymied Heigl's career as well. In light of our current era in which forthrightness from female celebrities is more in vogue, a lot of Heigl's comments now seem far more innocuous than they did at the time—particularly when it comes to pointing out sexism and negotiating a higher salary. Interestingly, the Vanity Fair profile is mostly written in praise of the refreshing candidness of the then 28-year-old star, particularly in her willingness to publicly defend her friend and Grey's co-star T. R. Knight after an onset controversy in which Isaiah Washington called him a homophobic slur. As Heigl explains in the profile, "As women, we have more of a tendency to be people-pleasers, and I know a lot of women who are not vocal about what makes them happy. I was like that in my early 20s, but not anymore. I spent a lot of time not being clear about who I was and what was important to me. It's easy to be taken advantage of if you're not honest."
Which brings us back to 27 Dresses, a film that's mostly about the space women do or don't claim for themselves in a world that's all too happy to endlessly consume their emotional labor and give very little in return. Heigl plays Jane Nichols, the sort of person who puts everyone's needs before her own with such quiet efficiency that few realize just how much she's doing for them. That makes her the ideal bridesmaid, a role Jane has fulfilled in 27 different weddings, including two that take place on the same night in the film's opening scenes. Jane's also spent years in hopeless unrequited love with her do-gooder boss, George (Edward Burns), but when her party-girl little sister, Tess (Malin Åkerman), swoops into town and wins his heart instead, Jane's inability to express her own feelings means she's soon handling all the logistics of planning their rushed wedding.
Though it eventually became the most mainstream of romantic comedies, 27 Dresses originally started life as a more grounded coming-of-age drama. Before dismantling rom-com tropes in 2006's The Devil Wears Prada and even more so on The CW musical-comedy TV show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna had been shopping around 27 Dresses as its own rom-com deconstruction. McKenna's original plan was for Jane to end up alone, self-actualizing without a man by her side. But as McKenna explained to Decider on the film's 10-year anniversary, "We sold it right at the beginning of the 2000s when romantic comedies were pretty synthetic. So it needed to have those familiar moments, those familiar beats. That was always a struggle for me because I really wanted it to feel real, but it also really needed to have this more satisfying, conventional love story."
McKenna stepped away for a while, leaving the script to be reworked by other writers. After the smash success of The Devil Wears Prada, however, she was invited back to the project to write a sort of hybrid version of her original idea—one that kept the studio-mandated happy ending but brought back the sister dynamic and character study elements that McKenna had originally been interested in. With choreographer-turned-director Anne Fletcher (Step Up) onboard to helm the project, McKenna told Decider that she was able to "relax into what the movie was going to be" and have fun working on this more heightened version of her original idea.
You can feel that compromise in the final product, and it holds 27 Dresses back from being a true rom-com classic. That being said, the film has a lot more thematic meat on its bones than most of the other rom-coms of its era. For starters, Jane is a really interesting rom-com character, the sort of archetype that feels more common than it actually is. She's not exactly mousy or overlooked, though she has hints of those qualities. Reviews of the film often described Jane as pathologically wedding-obsessed, but while she's endearingly non-judgmental of the tackiness of her friends' wedding day choices, the film's wedding theme is more a metaphor for Jane's extreme self-sacrifice. A closet full of ugly bridesmaid dresses represents the baggage Jane carries around in her naïve idea that if she gives everything she has of herself, one day everyone she's ever helped will return the favor in equal measure.
Jane's Giving Tree-esque life philosophy certainly doesn't represent the female experience (McKenna has said it's "one of the least autobiographical things" she's ever written), but it definitely represents a common one—particularly in a world where women are often explicitly and implicitly expected to do extra emotional labor for those around them. McKenna wrote the script based on a preternaturally selfless friend who had been a bridesmaid in 12 different weddings. And while my own bridal party experience is limited, I spent a lot of my teen and early twentysomething years following the misguided idea that non-stop one-sided caretaking is the way to create strong relationships. (Spoiler alert: It's not!) Indeed, the best thing about 27 Dresses is that it sees Jane's extreme magnanimity as a flaw, not a virtue. The point of 27 Dresses isn't that the world needs to learn to appreciate Jane, it's that Jane needs to stop the self-sacrificing caretaking that has been her unhealthy default since her mom died young and she took on the burden of raising Tess when her overwhelmed, grief-stricken dad failed to step up to the plate.
Like My Best Friend's Wedding, 27 Dresses is the rare rom-com that presents its female lead as someone who's truly, deeply flawed, not just someone with a likable, quirky personality. I've always felt 27 Dresses is a modern day update on Jane Austen's Sense And Sensibility, one that says that the older, emotionally repressed sister—not just the younger, flightier one—needs to change. Jane and Tess' complex sister relationship is the emotional heart of the film and a key part in Jane's journey to self-actualization. McKenna calls this storytelling model "and-a-man," where a romance is part of the story but not the heart of it. Like a superhero saving the day and earning a love interest in the process, Jane earns her love story only after she does the work of learning to stand up for what she wants in life.
To play the "and-a-man," Fletcher brought on board James Marsden, whom she'd worked with while choreographing the Hairspray film. Having played the losing half of a love triangle in The Notebook and Enchanted (and to some extent Superman Returns and the X-Men franchise), Marsden finally got his chance to play the guy who gets the girl in 27 Dresses. He stars as wedding columnist Kevin Doyle, a man who's as eloquent about weddings on the page as he is cynical about them in real life. That Kevin and Jane both "work the wedding circuit," but have very different opinions on weddings is a fun oil-and-water premise around which to build a love story. But 27 Dresses is more interested in being a female character study than a rom-com, and Kevin feels really underdeveloped and at times downright creepy in the way he aggressively finagles his way into Jane's life in order to write a story about her.
It doesn't help that the film's romantic climax is too rushed and the wedding-set ending comes too close to implying that Jane's arc was solely about finding fulfillment in becoming a bride instead of a bridesmaid. Still, Marsden has charm to spare, as well as strong chemistry with Heigl—particularly in the montage where she tries on all her bridesmaids dresses and in the drunken "Bennie And The Jets" performance that's become one of the film's best-loved scenes.
Heigl, meanwhile, gets to play a little bit outside her normal acting sandbox in 27 Dresses. Ginnifer Goodwin would later make her own rom-com career playing the "Jane" archetype (particularly in the similar but far inferior Something Borrowed), but whereas Goodwin's inherent earnestness is a natural choice for people-pleasing characters, Heigl brings a little more edge to the role. In place of humble kindness, Heigl's performance emphasizes the almost manic desperation lurking just beneath Jane's calm exterior. It's a funny comedic choice and a smart dramatic one as well, giving the film some real weight when Jane finally unleashes years of pent-up emotional repression.
If the overall story arc is a little synthetic, there's a lot of enjoyable stuff around the margins of 27 Dresses. The production and costume designers have a lot of fun dreaming up wacky wedding aesthetics (Krysten Ritter's goth wedding is a particular highlight). The film fits in some jabs about the sameyness of modern weddings, as well as some smart observations about the pressure people can feel to recreate their parents' love stories. (That Tess rushes into an engagement shortly after noting her mom was her age when she got married is a nice bit of subtle character building.) Perpetual rom-com best friend Judy Greer turns in one of her best rom-com best friend performances as a character who actually gets to play a substantial role in Jane's emotional arc, not just serve as a quippy sounding board. Plus the film handles the Tess/Jane/George love triangle with some lovely grace notes, particularly in the scene in which Jane and George finally kiss only to realize they don't actually have any romantic chemistry.
To be clear, there's nothing wrong with disliking Heigl as a performer or 27 Dresses as a movie. Those are by no means feminist requirements, and it's not hard to see why such an aggressively mainstream romantic comedy isn't for everyone. (If there's a Heigl film that does deserve all the hatred that's aimed at it, however, it's the far, far more toxic The Ugly Truth, which came out the next year and kicked off a run of abysmal Heigl-led projects, many of them with sexist undertones even more egregious than Knocked Up.). But the responses to 27 Dresses and its star also demonstrate the impossible tightrope women so often have to walk. Demur Jane was deemed too passive a character by many critics, while outspoken Heigl was labeled too difficult a celebrity persona. That 27 Dresses is a rom-com that's specifically about that tightrope makes it a unique entry to the genre, no matter how familiar it feels elsewhere. As McKenna told Decider, "The core thing about [27 Dresses], which I always loved, is learning to stand up for yourself as a woman and say, 'No, I'm not going to extend myself and do this favor for you' and risking not being likable is something that women still struggle with. That to me was always the heart and soul of it, and I think that's something that continues to be relevant."
Next time: Bollywood meets Hollywood in Bride And Prejudice.
The Devil Wears Prada pulls off the perfect romantic comedy look, even though it really isn't one
My Best Friend's Wedding rewrote the rom-com happy ending
Something Borrowed and the phenomenon of rom-coms that hate women
Contributor, The A.V. Club. Caroline Siede is a pop culture critic in Chicago, where the cold never bothers her anyway. Her interests include superhero movies, feminist theory, and Jane Austen novels.

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"Education is one of the great joys and solaces of life. It gives us a framework for understanding the world around us and a way to reach across time and space to touch the thoughts and feelings of others."
Blog 1: John Green and the Labyrinth?
For the past several years I have enjoyed viewing and sharing the "video blogs" done by John Green on a variety of topics, usually related to a work of literature or the historical background that adds to a class reading. So, at the prompting by a couple of students, I took up the challenge of reading one of his works--Looking for Alaska—a book about a high school junior, Miles "Pudge" Halter, who leaves his home in Florida to attend a boarding school in Alabama. At Culver Creek Boarding School he becomes friends with a motley group of adolescent iconoclasts, all of whom are witty, funny, vulgar, somewhat self-destructive, and each searching for an identity.
While I realize you have not read about the three religions mentioned by the "Old Man" in the book—Judaism, Christianity, and Buddhism—you have had ample exposure to religious beliefs in your home, in school, and in church youth group. Please write a response of at least 200 words to this important issue, a question that you will inevitably confront as you increasingly deal with others who have not received the teachings you've been exposed to in your formative years.
You can post your "essay" here as a comment, so others will have the opportunity to read and respond. Or if you prefer, you can directly e-mail me your response.
The way in which I would escape from this labyrinth of suffering is quite simple; I accept it. From a biblical worldview, we live in a fallen world. Therefore, suffering is inevitable. The best way to escape it, in my opinion, is to accept it. We all die. Our friends and family, while necessary for happiness, are not eternal. God, on the other hand, is. So if one is to escape, he must first focus on that which is eternal. The acceptance of death and sin should not scare us. They should be, in fact, welcomed, as they are the very things which cause man to turn to a greater power, and ultimately, his salvation in Jesus Christ.
I'm not afraid to die. I'm not looking to die but I'll accept the day that it comes. It is something that is planned, God knows the time,place, and day. I think God puts struggles in our life so that we come to him for help. I think he guides us towards him so that we can find him and have a relationship with him. It's odd to not have control of your life but for someone else to. We can't comprehend everything that God can, so we must trust in him. God shows his love to everyone one day or another.
To end suffering you need God on your side. You can do many things by yourself. But when it comes to things now a day's many people don't want everyone to know about their problems. They try to hide them from everyone and pretend like everything is ok even when it's not. Most often people turn to the more worldly accepted things. Instead of praying to God and reading their bible or even going to a consular. They start one thing just to try to help ease their pain and suffering. But in the end one negative things leads to another. Pretty soon their doing things they would never have imagined themselves doing. Most times people can stop those things but sometimes the stuff they got involved with overcomes them. It becomes something they need to live day today. This could be even something little but they can't control it themselves. Most often we think we can handle things on our own. When all we need is a little help. Or even someone just to talk to. If we would just turn to God in the time of our hardships everything would be resolved. Even though things might not go the way you want them to. But this is real life you're not always going to get what you want.
I was taught and now believe that we, as Christians, will suffer and there's no avoiding it. Suffering is basically part of being a follower of Christ. The only way to get out of this suffering is to learn to forgive, even if others don't forgive you. We are promised eternal peace after we make it through these hardships of life and while we endure our suffering; we should never blame God for the things that may be taken away from us, nor blame Him for the pain that is inflicted on us. As much as I believe that we must forgive, I also believe that our suffering will only truly end when we die. That will be the beginning of our new life after life on Earth. Therefore we cannot escape suffering in this life that we are currently living until we are reborn in the Spirit but until that time comes, we should pray to the Lord, thank him for every day that we are still alive, and ask him to give us the strength and the courage to withstand anything that the devil and this this world may throw at us.
I agree completely with the paragraphs above. They pretty much took the words right out of my mouth, and I honesty don't know what to say right now, because of how spot on they are.
Escaping the labyrinth is a tricky task, many people try and just forget that they are in a labyrinth, or accept it. I think the best way to get out of a maze(labyrinth) is finding the right path for yourself. Like many paths they are points at which the path may get rough, or it may be paved. Some path's may always be rough or almost always be paved. But myself I am still looking for a path to follow. I may need guidance as many people need when they are searching for a path to follow.
God gives us struggles and trials to make us stronger and better Christians. When we face these things we can't take them on our own. We need God to help us through them and to give us the strength to keep going. This being said, to escape the "Labyrinth", we need to go to God, and get help from Him. He will help us through things and give us hope and a will to move on. I personally, haven't gone through any serious trials or suffering. However, I believe that being Christians, they will come. So when they do, i will just have to pray to God and ask Him to help me through it.
I personally don't consider this life to be completely horrible. Yes, bad things happen and people get treated unfairly etc. but people have so much to be grateful for and they just turn around and complain about it. Some people make the biggest deal about every little thing that goes wrong so others always see them as suffering, and miserable, and just hating life. We all go through rough patches and life can be tough, but if we always look on the bad side of things then there is no room for hope. We can't expect hope to come crawling in from somewhere unknown, we have to know that through every bad thing comes something good. So many of us always see ourselves as the victim of life or "labyrinth" when in all actuality we are putting this feeling on ourselves. Feeling sorry for ourselves doesn't make pain of suffering go away. It draws attention us so we can have sympathy and other people can join in our sadness. We need to stop focusing on negative things that bring us down and be grateful for what we have. Sometime of us just need to learn what's important and what's not and be grateful for all that they have. Once we figure out how to be grateful for our necessities, we can help others learn. We must remember what's most important in life and not be so concerned on getting out.
God creates strugles and tough situations in our lives to make us stronger and better Christians. When we are forced to deal with these things we can't handle them on our own. We need God to give us the strength to keep going. Also to escape the "Labyrinth", we must to go to God, and ask for his help. He will give us hope and a will to move on. I haven't been through any serious trials and suffering but im sure i will sooner or later. when they come along i will have to turn to God for help.
There is no way that we can escape suffering as long as were not in heaven. God gives us suffering as a way to test our faith and also as a way for us to realize we need him more than anything. If we didn't have struggles then we wouldn't even need God. The Bible even says that Christians will suffer more than anyone else. It also says that God will never give us more than we can handle. As long as we trust in God, then we will be able to make it through the suffering the world gives us up until we can escape the suffering and live with Him.
This Labyrinth of suffering is seemingly inescapable. There's so many things in life that make not escaping a enticing option, some people don't even desire escape. What I have found to be the answer is the Lord Jesus Christ.
When I was thirteen I was diagnosed with a disease that was slowly degrading my esophagus. I was being overcome and the cells in me were turning cancerous. By the time I was in my 20's I would have esophageal cancer. That was my primary Labyrinth of suffering. I didn't tell anyone because I didn't want pity. I was breaking, staying up all night in pain for days. Until a little over a year ago I was healed by the Lord. I was prayed over and my disease left me. I no longer had medicine, doctors, or death hanging over me constantly. I was freed by the love and mercy of God. That was my escape. I have the outlook that everyday I now live is so precious and perfect. It is something to find joy in. I am alive and I am free.


To research and write content for 'Diamonds with a Story' – a content marketing platform created by international mining company, Rio Tinto. The results must adhere to a strict brand style guide, set word counts and marketing messages as outlined by Pubmarket.
As an established content marketing strategy was already in place, The William Agency sought to get under the skin of the project and learn the guiding principles behind it. Armed with this understanding we created three pieces of content for 'Diamonds with a Story;' two news stories highlighting Rio Tinto's diamond jewellery brand, Nazraana, and an interview feature with jewellery designer Preeti Jain, who is directly involved in creating collections for Nazraana.


I hope everyone is enjoying this truly glorious season. For us Portlanders, it means the start of rain season. The start of what I like to call the Pac NW Uniform: jeans, rain boots (Hunter, most likely) and a black puffy coat of a reputable brand. So yeah, I'm actually kinda pissed about it but – que sera sera. I live here.
A couple weekends ago, my whole family gathered in lovely Spokane, WA for a visit to my alma-mater Whitworth University. I played volleyball there a decade ago a little while ago and was being honored for my contributions to the team! GO ME.
Here I am in the fieldhouse, with a picture of my thighs me hitting a ball in the background. We also watched the volleyball game and my HOW THE SPANDEX HAVE CHANGED.
In all seriousness though, it was a pretty special and important moment for me and I am still shocked that I was even considered.
We also attended a Whitworth football game! A first for me.
All in all, pretty dang sah-sweet.
But then we all went to Manito Park and Amy and Shannon met us and my heart exploded with love for my family and of course, Tate was his usual adorable self.
Then we got a family pic taken from the worst angle EVER but whatever.
Before leaving, we sat Tate on a bench to see if he'd let us take his picture and it actually worked!


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2. What's On in the UAE
By Sala Shaker
With the ongoing and incremental easing of social-distancing regulations in the UAE, local galleries and institutions are slowly starting to re-open their doors, welcoming visitors seeking tangible interactions with material culture. Others, whose doors have yet to open are focusing instead on launching online platforms, easing access to their archives, or commissioning digital works. Here is a highlight of some of these exhibitions and online initiatives.
Please note that some galleries now require online booking. We recommend visiting their website for more accurate information.
Dubai:
Jameel Arts Center
Artist's Room - Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Larissa Sansour and Taysir Batniji
Closes January 3, 2021
For the summer 2020 iteration of its Artist's Room programming, the Jameel Arts Center presents three capsule shows by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Larissa Sansour and Taysir Batniji. All three shows deal with issues related to the ongoing occupation of the Palestinian territories and the Golan Heights.
A 'private ear,' Lawrence Abu Hamdan melds political inquiry with acoustic investigations. Beyond their artistic merits, his audio investigations conducted with London-based research group Forensic Architecture have been used as evidence by Amnesty International. In This whole time there were no land mines (2017), the Turner prize co-winner presents an audio-visual rendering of the "shouting valley" in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights. This valley's "acoustic leaks" allow families on both sides of the 1967 border to communicate with each other. Using found mobile phone footage and audio recordings dating from 2011, Abu Hamdan recreates the moment when, on the occasion of the 63rd anniversary of the Nakba, 150 Palestinians protesters in Syria breached the border and marched onto Israeli territory. A powerful demonstration of their right to return, four of the protestors were then shot and killed by Israeli soldiers.
1. Larissa Sansour, In Vitro (2019). Install shot at Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai. Photo by Brent Galotera
Drawing heavily on the cinematic languages of sci-fi and spaghetti westerns, Larissa Sansour is concerned with envisioning an alternative to the current lived reality and social conditions of Palestinians. Presented in the Danish Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, Larissa Sansour' In Vitro (2019) posits nationalist sentiment in an post-apocalyptic context. Set in Bethlehem, ravaged by an ecological disaster in the near future, In Vitro focuses on two protagonists in a bunker as they attempt to acclimate to this changed environment. "When the world is no longer as we know it," she says, "does the vocabulary that we have or that we use for our nation-building or national identity really matter anymore? Has it become obsolete as a result of the biggest disaster that could ever happen?"
2. Taysir Batniji, To My Brother (2012). Install shot at Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai. Photo by Brent Galotera
At once self-effacing and poignant, Taysir Batniji's To My Brother (2012) series of etchings constitutes the third Artist's Room. Married in 1985, Batniji's brother died two years later at the hands of an Israeli sniper during the First Intifada. To commemorate his fallen sibling, Taysir Batniji revisits his brother's wedding album. Inkless and monochrome works on paper, his carvings mimic the texture of an erased drawing left by his brother in one of Taysir's textbooks to recreate these family portraits, vestiges of happier, earlier times. His drawings revel in a melancholy for a now long-gone past, while laying the material foundations for a brighter, technicolor future in the Occupied Territories.
'Michael Rakowitz'
Closes November 22, 2020
Marking his first solo exhibition in the Middle East, Michael Rakowitz, whose colossal Lamassu towers over London's Trafalgar Square as part of its Fourth Plinth commission, is now taking over both levels of the Jameel Arts Centre. Similarly to his 2019 exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, Michael Rakowitz is a mid-career show, surveying the Iraqi-American artist's concerns with architecture, history and food. Both playful and nostalgic, Rakowitz explores political and cultural histories, tracing parallels between the Beatles' career and the rise of pan-Arabism in the 1950s.
3. Michael Rakowitz, The Breakup (2010 - ongoing). Courtesy of Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai. Photo by Daniella Bapista
Lawrie Shabibi
'Upsurge: Waves, Colour and Illusion'
Closes September 1, 2020
A multi-generational multimedia show, Upsurge brings together the likes of Moroccan modernist master Mohamed Melehi and Emirati avant-garde painter Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim, with younger faces to explore materiality and vision within Op Art, a form of conceptual art that primarily relies on optical illusions. The artists featured play with mediums ranging from stone, marble, acrylics and metal, to evoke organic motifs like waves, water, sand and abstracted hieroglyphs. The show is a tantalizing exploration on perception within abstract art, and the broader function of vision.
Abu Dhabi:
Warehouse421
'The Stonebreakers'
Curated by Murtaza Vali, this exhibition highlights the history and infrastructure of maritime trade in the Arabian Gulf. More specifically, all three artists exhibited in The Stonebreakers—Shumon Ahmed, Ranjit Kandalgaonkar and Hira Nabi—interrogate the "vexed politics of representation related to ship-breaking," an arduous practice performed by underpaid migrant laborers. In response to Warehouse421's location, itself situated in Abu Dhabi's historical Mina Zayed, a few yards away from discarded dhow boats, the show is concerned with South Asian coastlines. All three artists focus respectively on Bangladesh, India and Pakistan and work around the idea of the "purported objectivity of the documentary image" in mixed-media works. The titular reference to Courbet positions the seemingly particular politics of ship-breaking into a larger discourse on exploitative labor practices and its representation.
4. The Stonebreakers, Installation shot. Image courtesy of Warehouse421.
'The Cup and The Saucer'
The Cup and The Saucer marks Hashel Al Lamki's first solo exhibition. Curated by Munira Al Sayegh, the exhibition explores disruption within a unit. Taking its point of departure from the idea of disruption and separation when a cup is lifted from its saucer, the show investigates disruptions occurring within the individual, but also the individual as separation from a larger unit. In this back and forth, between that which is fluid (the self) and that which is fixed (structure), a tension arises that seeks belonging.
5. The Cup and the Saucer, Installation shot at Warehouse421. Image courtesy of Warehouse 421.
Warehouse421 is still closed to the public but an overview of the exhibition will be available on their website shortly.
Sharjah:
Sharjah Art Foundation
'Art in the Age of Anxiety'
Closes September 26, 2020
Curated by SAF Director of Collections and Senior Curator Omar Kholeif, Art in the Age of Anxiety explores the altered states of collective consciousness that emerged with the advent of the technological era. The exhibition presents more than 60 works spanning sculpture, prints, video, virtual reality, robotics and algorithmic programs developed by more than 30 international artists such as Trevor Paglen, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Cao Fei and Wafaa Bilal.


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Hale Thomson, F.
British Galleries
James Powell & Sons
E. Varnish & Co.
British Galleries, Room 125c
London (probably, made)
Hale Thomson, F. (inventor)
James Powell & Sons (manufacturer)
E. Varnish & Co. (inventor)
Ruby and white glass, silvered
CIRC.248-1965
British Galleries, Room 125c, case 3
This trumpet-shaped vase is a purely decorative object, designed to impress. It seeks attention with its silvery surface, and the use of ogee-shaped arches suggests a slightly adventurous exotic taste on the part of its owner. The method of making double-walled silvered glass was complex and made more so by the introduction of coloured glass.
Materials & Making
The process of making double-walled silvered glass was patented by Edward Varnish and Frederick Hale Thompson in 1849. A number of glassworks, such as that of James Powell & Sons of Whitefriars, London, made the blanks. A stemmed vase or goblet shape was formed, with the glass-blower stopping short of opening out the mouth. Instead, the top of the vase, still sealed as a bubble-shape, was reheated and 'dropped' inwards to form a double-walled interior. This plain, undecorated vase was then supplied to E. Varnish & Co., where it was filled between the walls from the foot end with a solution of silver nitrate and glucose (in the form of grape juice). The final stage was to seal the hole in the foot with a metal disc, in this example marked for Varnish's Patent.
The silvered glass exhibited by E. Varnish & Co. fascinated commentators on the 1851 Great Exhibition. Varnish's salvers, vases, globes and goblets were bold in size and presentation, using non-tarnishing silver, ornamented with coloured casing, cutting and engraving. The process 'added a richness and beauty of colouring to that material of which few could deem it capable of receiving' (Illustrated London News).
'E. Varnish & Co. Patent London' inscribed on the metal rim and on an inserted metal plug in the base
Makers's mark
Height: 46.9 cm, Diameter: 18 cm
Probably made in London by James Powell & Sons
Vase, England (probably London), possibly made by J. Powell and Sons under the patent of F. Hale Thomson and E.Varnish, 1849-1860
Chen, xie jun. World Exposition Museum. Shanghai: Shanghai wen yi chu ban she, 2010 ISBN 9787532140503/G.107. 95,97,99,105,pp. ill.
Labels and date
British Galleries:
Stylistically and technically this vase demonstrates the flair of British manufacturers in the 19th century. The arched decoration suggests the Moorish (Islamic) architecture of Spain and northern Africa. This is combined with colouring and cutting in the manner of glass from Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic). [27/03/2003]
Production Note
E. Varnish and F. Hale Thomson patented the silvering process used in the manufacture of this vase.
Glass; Vases; British Galleries


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Be Careful What You Wish…
Falling Ghost – Be Careful What You Wish For
When we were approached by Regent Street Records to work with a brand new act emerging from Manchester, called Falling Ghost, we didn't hesitate. Have you heard his voice?!
FALLING GHOST is the solo project of Manchester based multi-instrumentalist and producer Daniel Sweeney; formerly singer-songwriter with the band SYLVIA. With SYLVIA Daniel recorded two albums, toured both the UK and Europe and achieved national radio play (BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music). Their music was described as "Daring and Original" by Ivor Novello winning producer Jon Cotton and as "absolutely amazing" by Janice Long of BBC Radio 2.
Working with Danny Sweeney has been a blast and we're really excited that you can now hear his beautiful vocals too, as his first single 'Be Careful What You Wish For' was released on 8th September.
Looks like we're not his only fans…
"Sweeney's lyrical voice has immense potential and I'm certain this is merely the beginning of something that will stand alongside his city's iconic predecessors" – For The Love of Bands.
We've been assisting Falling Ghost with PR and Digital Marketing with a bit of Social Media and a Website on the way. We've even got him a couple of radio shows and gigs booked too!
Check out the new video for "Be Careful What You Wish For"
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We think you should follow Falling Ghost on Facebook, Twitter & Instagram to keep an eye on upcoming gigs and releases.
Falling Ghost is up for bookings all over the UK so if you're a venue manager or promoter and would be interested in booking Falling Ghost please email carla@carlanamarketing.com
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Richard Hare – "Subsume" – revolutionary insight and deep thought!
Experimental or avant-garde music albums are not for everyone. The listening experience is often complex, weird, and explicitly challenging. The most impressive of these albums will leave the adventurous...
by Staff May 9, 2020
Experimental or avant-garde music albums are not for everyone. The listening experience is often complex, weird, and explicitly challenging. The most impressive of these albums will leave the adventurous listener with a lasting impression, an imprint on their psyche, and maybe also a profound alteration in how they conceive the term 'music'. Many avant-garde artists rattle the concept of music as an art form, leading to some groundbreaking leaps forward. Hence when embarking on the journey of listening to such unpredictable creations, you have to trust in the expected transitory turns up ahead so that you may arrive safely at the destination. One such album is "Subsume", by Richard Hare.
To start with, sound designer Richard Hare, created this 16 track album using nonmusical objects. "I have captured ordinary sounds from in and around my home and IT office, like dropping RAM on the floor, hitting a rubber-band ball with a hammer, a barcode scanner beeping, the timer on my toaster oven, etc. to create sonics involving no actual musical instruments," explained Richard. "These are then altered with effects and pitch changes to create sounds that no longer resemble their origin and mix them into moody music."
Richard, who aspires to creating movie, TV and video game soundtracks, describes the style of the music heard on "Subsume", as a horror movie soundtrack or very dark ambient music. However this album is more than that. It can be considered a concept album, investigating the inner workings of the human psyche.
The narrative concerns itself with the plight of the Main Character which encounters the The Shadows inside a hypothetical mind. The two coexist until it becomes clear that the intent of The Shadows is sinister. Each subsequent track take us through the evolution of this coexistence, in which the Main Character struggles to maintain its sanity.
Right from the start, with the opening track, "Vertebrae", the sound emits a uniqueness that could only protrude from the mind of an uncommon musical creator. Ultimately there is so much occurring, and you need to focus on the unusual instruments as the story unfolds in your mind.
You will often find yourself pondering the source of the sounds – a daunting task to say the least, as Richard has transformed them beyond recognition in most cases. Precisely interpreting the meaning of each song is another intimidating endeavor, considering firstly that this is instrumental music, and secondly it has been made with nonmusical instruments.
Luckily in the album footnotes, Richard Hare comes to our rescue with carefully detailed descriptions of each track. Over and above the tonal textures and nuances, the tracks here are percussively impacting, and it is those percussive shifts and intensities, to my mind, which triggers our emotions beyond anything else.
The fractious beating of "Divergence" and "Recluse", for example, is in strong contrast with the sublime slow boom of "Perpent". And once you read Richard's descriptive notes, you'll fully understand that the sounds cohesively follow the narrative from start to finish.
As you move forward through each of the 16 sonic creations on "Subsume", you'll begin to grasp the revolutionary insight, exotic sounds, bizarre noises, and deep thought that makes Richard Hare a unique storyteller. All of this makes the album an exquisite work of invented instrumentation, sound design, emotion, and intellect.
Describing each track, as you would on a regular pop music album, makes no sense at all, with the kind of epic aural experience we're presented with on "Subsume". It could certainly be attempted, but would never do any justice to either the creator, or the work itself. This is truly a recording that needs to be experienced in the first person.
It's rare that you run across an album which is a complete singularity within the context of its chosen art-form. "Subsume" is such a work. What becomes palpably clear throughout this recording, is that Richard Hare is seriously concerned about the condition of the human mind and its effects on our existence. This is a complex masterwork that will thoroughly reward the open-minded listener.
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Civil partner Visa UK and its extension – Basic Requirements
The UK civil partner visa is available to applicants who wish to join their British or settled civil partner here in the United Kingdom. If you are not sure whether you are eligible for the visa, please see the information below. Also, you can contact our Immigration lawyers to assess your situation.
There are cases when the individual is outside the UK and wishes to apply for a UK civil partner visa. Then they should submit an entry clearance application to the British High Commission/Embassy/Consulate in the country of nationality. Besides, they can do that in the land of origin of the applicant. There may be a case when you are already in the UK and have received your current visa for over six months. Then you can switch to UK civil partner visa from inside the UK by submitting your application to the Home Office, UKBA.
The immigration rules for an application
The Immigration Rules for an application for Indefinite leave to remain (ILR) as a UK civil partner visa of a person present and settled in the UK have been changed from 9 July 2012. If you received your UK civil partner visa before 9 July 2012, you could make your application for ILR to the Home Office, UKBA, on the completion of two years. Imagine that your initial entry clearance or leave to remain a civil partner under the Immigration Rules was granted on or after 9 July 2012. Then, you would have to complete five years of residence in the UK under UK civil partner visa before you submit your application for ILR to the Home Office, UKBA.
The following immigration applications you can make to the Home Office, UKBA, as a UK civil partner visa of a British Citizen or a person present and settled in the UK:
Entry Clearance As A Civil Partner
Switching to Civil Partner Visa
Extension Of Stay As A Civil Partner
ILR as a Civil Partner
Essential requirements – UK civil partner visa
All applicants must be 18 years old or over.
Also, the civil partnership must be recognisable under
The relationship as a civil partner of a person who is presented and settled in the UK must be genuine and subsisting.
An applicant must meet the financial requirement. The UK civil partner of the applicant must earn at least £18,600 gross per year. As an alternative, he must have savings of £62,500 if the UK civil partner of the applicant has no earnings from employment, self-employment or other means of income or receiving income from a pension, a property portfolio, or both.
A person must meet the English language requirement. Furthermore, he/she has to show knowledge of the English language at CEFR level A1 according to the UK Immigration Rules. However, the applicant may have an exemption from the English Language requirement. He needs to be a national from a majority English-speaking country.
An applicant must pay the Immigration Health Surcharge
Nationals from certain countries must pass a Tuberculosis Test
The applicant must have an adequate place to stay.
Moreover, the UK civil partner has to have accommodation in the UK without recourse to public funds.
Exemption from financial requirement
The applicant may be exempt from meeting the financial requirement of £18,600 or above. For that, the applicant's partner needs to receive one or more of the following:
Disability living allowance;
severe disablement allowance;
industrial injury disablement benefit;
attendance allowance; or
carer's allowance; and
The applicant has an exemption from meeting the financial requirement. The applicant must provide detailed evidence that their partner can adequately maintain and accommodate themselves, the applicant, and any dependants in the UK without recourse to public funds.
Adequate accommodation requirement
Adequate accommodation will not be regarded as appropriate if:
it is, or will be, overcrowded;
or it contravenes public health regulations.
If the applicant meets the requirements for entry clearance as a civil partner, the applicant will receive an initial period not exceeding 33 months. However, this is subject to a condition of no recourse to public funds.
UK civil partner visa extension
You may extend this visa for a further term of 30 months. However, you must demonstrate that your relationship is genuine and subsisting and continue to meet the financial requirement.
The Home Office changed the Immigration Rules whereby those applicants whose leave to remain as a partner expires on or after 1 May 2017 will have to meet the English language requirement at level A2 of the CEFR when making an application for renewal of their visa.
If you hold a marriage visit visa, you must return to your home country and apply for entry clearance as a civil partner.
The immigration lawyers at LawPark are experts in dealing with applications for a UK civil partner visa. You may need legal help from immigration lawyers in London to prepare and submit your UK civil partner visa request. So, we are ready to provide you with a friendly, reliable, efficient and professional immigration service.
UK civil partner visa route leads to settlement (ILR).
If our team of professionals works with you and your application for a UK civil partner visa, you can expect to enjoy the following services:
We will provide you with detailed instructions regarding immigration regulations and the procedures required by the Home Office and the UKBA relevant to your case.
You will get answers to any questions about your case while identifying its benefits and drawbacks.
A team member will explain all documentation you need to submit alongside your application for a UK civil partner visa.
We will complete the application forms and answer any questions that you may have.
Our lawyers will draft a cover letter supporting and submitting a UK civil partner visa application.
One of our immigration lawyers will communicate with the UKBA and the Home Office to ensure a quick decision regarding your UK civil partner visa application.
We will protect your interests during the entire process. We will keep the information for you while the application is pending with the Home Office.


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Larry J. Baribeau, age 77, of Tomah, WI, passed away Sunday, April 7, 2019 at the St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, MN.
Mass of Christian Burial will be held Saturday, April 13, 2019, 10:30 a.m., at Queen of the Apostles Catholic Church in Tomah. Father Kyle Laylan and Monsignor Richard W. Gilles will concelebrate. Burial will be held at a later date at the St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery in Tomah. Family and friends are invited for visitation Friday, April 12, 2019, from 4:30 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. with a 4:00 p.m. rosary at the Torkelson Funeral Home in Tomah. Family and friends are invited for visitation on Saturday from 9:30 a.m. until the service at the church. The Torkelson Funeral Home of Tomah is assisting the family with arrangements. Online condolences may be offered at www.torkelsonfuneralhome.com.


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OPEN LETTER ABOUT SENATOR'S 2017 PRAISE OF FILIBUSTER!!! ALSO WHY DON'T YOU SUPPORT THE RIGHTS OF UNBORN LITTLE GIRLS? Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota
Office of Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota
Dear Senator Klobuchar,
I noticed that you signed a 2017 letter strongly supporting the filibuster.
Why are you thinking about abandoning that view now?
Does your change of view have anything to do with Biden now being in office?
Democrats distance themselves from previous pro-filibuster stance, citing GOP obstruction
More than half of current Senate Democrats and VP Harris signed 2017 letter supporting filibuster when GOP was in control
By Tyler Olson | Fox News
As progressives push hard for Democrats to eliminate the legislative filibuster after gaining control of the Senate, House and the presidency, many Democratic senators are distancing themselves from a letter they signed in 2017 backing the procedure.
Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Chris Coons, D-Del., led a letter in 2017 that asked Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to preserve the legislative filibuster. As it's existed for decades, the filibuster requires 60 votes in order to end debate on a bill and proceed to a final vote.
"We are writing to urge you to support our efforts to preserve existing rules, practices, and traditions" on the filibuster, the letter said.
Besides Collins and Coons, 59 other senators joined on the letter. Of that group, 27 Democratic signatories still hold federal elected office. Twenty-six still hold their Senate seats, and Vice President Harris assumed her new job on Jan. 20, vacating her former California Senate seat.
Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., speaks as the Senate Judiciary Committee hears from legal experts on the final day of the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020. Coons has softened his support for the legislative filibuster in recent years after leading an effort to protect it in 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
But now, the momentum among Senate Democrats is for either full abolition of the filibuster or significantly weakening it. President Biden endorsed the latter idea Tuesday, announcing his support for a "talking filibuster."
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"I don't think that you have to eliminate the filibuster, you have to do it what it used to be when I first got to the Senate back in the old days," Biden told ABC. "You had to stand up and command the floor, you had to keep talking."
The legislative filibuster has been a 60-vote threshold for what is called a "cloture vote" — or a vote to end debate on a bill — meaning that any 41 senators could prevent a bill from getting to a final vote. If there are not 60 votes, the bill cannot proceed.
The "talking filibuster" — as it was most recently seriously articulated by Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., in 2012 — would allow 41 senators to prevent a final vote by talking incessantly, around-the-clock, on the Senate floor. But once those senators stop talking, the threshold for a cloture vote is lowered to 51.
Harris' office confirmed to Fox News Wednesday that she is now aligned with Biden on the filibuster issue. She'd previously taken an even more hostile position to the filibuster, saying she would fully "get rid" of it "to pass a Green New Deal" at a CNN town hall in 2019.
Coons, who led the 2017 letter along with Collins, has also distanced himself from his previous stance.
Vice President Kamala Harris attends a ceremonial swearing-in for Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., as President Pro Tempore of the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. Harris has changed her stance on the legislative filibuster since signing a letter in 2017 backing it. (Michael Reynolds/Pool via AP) (AP)
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"I'm going to try my hardest, first, to work across the aisle," he said in September when asked about ending the filibuster. "Then, if, tragically, Republicans don't change the tune or their behavior at all, I would."
Fox News reached out to all of the other 26 Democratic signatories of the 2017 letter, and they all either distanced themselves from that position or did not respond to Fox News' inquiry.
"Less than four years ago, when Donald Trump was President and Mitch McConnell was the Majority Leader, 61 Senators, including more than 25 Democrats, signed their names in opposition to any efforts that would curtail the filibuster," a GOP aide told Fox News. "Other than the occupant of the White House, and the balance of power in the Senate, what's changed?"
"I'm interested in getting results for the American people, and I hope we will find common ground to advance key priorities," Sen. Tim Kaine. D-Va., said in a statement. "If Republicans try to use arcane rules to block us from getting results for the American people, then we'll have a conversation at that time."
Added Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va: "I am still hopeful that the Senate can work together in a bipartisan way to address the enormous challenges facing the country. But when it comes to fundamental issues like protecting Americans from draconian efforts attacking their constitutional right to vote, it would be a mistake to take any option off the table."
"Senator Stabenow understands the urgency of passing important legislation, including voting rights, and thinks it warrants a discussion about the filibuster if Republicans refuse to work across the aisle," Robyn Bryan, a spokesperson for Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., said.
FILE – In this Oct. 26, 2018, file photo, Sen.Bob Casey, D-Pa., speaks to reporters in the studio of KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh. Casey has reversed his stance on the legislative filibuster since signing a 2017 letter in support of it. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
Representatives for Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., pointed to recent comments he made on MSNBC.
"Yes, absolutely," Casey said when asked if he would support a "talking filibuster" or something similar. "Major changes to the filibuster for someone like me would not have been on the agenda even a few years ago. But the Senate does not work like it used to."
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"I hope any Democratic senator who's not currently in support of changing the rules or altering them substantially, I hope they would change their minds," Casey added.
Representatives for Sen. Angus King, I-Vt., who caucuses with Democrats, meanwhile, references a Bangor Daily News editorial that said King was completely against the filibuster in 2012 but now believes it's helpful in stopping bad legislation. It said, however, that King is open to "modifications" similar to a talking filibuster.
The senators who did not respond to questions on their 2017 support of the filibuster were Sens. Joe Manchin. D-W.Va.; Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.; Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.; Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H.; Michael Bennet, D-Colo.; Martin Heinrich, D-N.M.; Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio; Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.; Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.; Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii; Cory Booker, D-N.J.; Maria Cantwell, D-Wash.; Maize Hirono, D-Hawaii; John Tester, D-Mont.; Tom Carper, D-Del.; Maggie Hassan, D-N.H.; Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill.; Jack Reed, D-R-I.; Ed Markey, D-Mass.; Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.; and Bob Menendez, D-N.J.
Some of these senators, however, have addressed the filibuster in other recent comments.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., on Wednesday was asked if she supported changing the filibuster threshold by CNN and said she is still opposed to the idea. "Not at this time," Feinstein said.
Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020, during the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Hirono has changed her opinion on the legislative filibuster since signing a 2017 letter supporting it. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Sen. Maize Hirono, D-Hawaii, meanwhile said last week she is already for getting rid of the current 60-vote threshold and thinks other Democrats will sign on soon.
"If Mitch McConnell continues to be totally an obstructionist, and he wants to use the 60 votes to stymie everything that President Biden wants to do and that we Democrats want to do that will actually help people," Hirono said, "then I think the recognition will be among the Democrats that we're gonna need to."
The most recent talk about either removing or significantly weakening the filibuster was spurred by comments from Manchin that appeared to indicate he would be open to a talking filibuster. He said filibustering a bill should be more "painful" for a minority.
Manchin appeared to walk back any talk of a talking filibuster on Wednesday, however.
"You know where my position is," he said. "There's no little bit of this and a little bit — there's no little bit here. You either protect the Senate, you protect the institution and you protect democracy or you don't."
Manchin and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., both committed to supporting the current form of the filibuster earlier this year. Sinema was not in the Senate in 2017.
Senate Minority Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said their comments gave him the reassurance he needed to drop a demand that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., put filibuster protections into the Senate's organizing resolution.
But with Manchin seeming to flake at least in the eyes of some, other Democrats are beginning to push harder for filibuster changes.
I read something you said back during the campaign:
"In the first 100 days I will remove Trump's 'gag rules', which I can do with no need of congressional involvement," she said. "I will reverse funding decisions right away, and make sure that we only nominate judges for confirmation who are consistent with the law" of Roe v Wade.
Senator I wanted to tell you about an opportunity I had back in 1995 and it dealt with corresponding with Carl Sagan about the issue of abortion. I know this is an issue that you care deeply about.
Carl Sagan pictured below:
Recently I have been revisiting my correspondence in 1995 with the famous astronomer Carl Sagan who I had the privilege to correspond with in 1994, 1995 and 1996. In 1996 I had a chance to respond to his December 5, 1995letter on January 10, 1996 and I never heard back from him again since his cancer returned and he passed away later in 1996. Below is what Carl Sagan wrote to me in his December 5, 1995 letter:
Thanks for your recent letter about evolution and abortion. The correlation is hardly one to one; there are evolutionists who are anti-abortion and anti-evolutionists who are pro-abortion.You argue that God exists because otherwise we could not understand the world in our consciousness. But if you think God is necessary to understand the world, then why do you not ask the next question of where God came from? And if you say "God was always here," why not say that the universe was always here? On abortion, my views are contained in the enclosed article (Sagan, Carl and Ann Druyan {1990}, "The Question of Abortion," Parade Magazine, April 22.)
I was introduced to when reading a book by Francis Schaeffer called HE IS THERE AND HE IS NOT SILENT written in 1968.
I was blessed with the opportunity to correspond with Dr. Sagan, and in his December 5, 1995 letter Dr. Sagan went on to tell me that he was enclosing his article "The Question of Abortion: A Search for Answers"by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan. I am going to respond to several points made in that article. Here is a portion of Sagan's article (here is a link to the whole article):
(both Adrian Rogers and Francis Schaeffer mentioned Carl Sagan in their books and that prompted me to write Sagan and expose him to their views.
Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan pictured above
"The Question of Abortion: A Search for Answers"
by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
For the complete text, including illustrations, introductory quote, footnotes, and commentary on the reaction to the originally published article see Billions and Billions.
The issue had been decided years ago. The court had chosen the middle ground. You'd think the fight was over. Instead, there are mass rallies, bombings and intimidation, murders of workers at abortion clinics, arrests, intense lobbying, legislative drama, Congressional hearings, Supreme Court decisions, major political parties almost defining themselves on the issue, and clerics threatening politicians with perdition. Partisans fling accusations of hypocrisy and murder. The intent of the Constitution and the will of God are equally invoked. Doubtful arguments are trotted out as certitudes. The contending factions call on science to bolster their positions. Families are divided, husbands and wives agree not to discuss it, old friends are no longer speaking. Politicians check the latest polls to discover the dictates of their consciences. Amid all the shouting, it is hard for the adversaries to hear one another. Opinions are polarized. Minds are closed.
Is it wrong to abort a pregnancy? Always? Sometimes? Never? How do we decide? We wrote this article to understand better what the contending views are and to see if we ourselves could find a position that would satisfy us both. Is there no middle ground? We had to weigh the arguments of both sides for consistency and to pose test cases, some of which are purely hypothetical. If in some of these tests we seem to go too far, we ask the reader to be patient with us–we're trying to stress the various positions to the breaking point to see their weaknesses and where they fail.
In contemplative moments, nearly everyone recognizes that the issue is not wholly one-sided. Many partisans of differing views, we find, feel some disquiet, some unease when confronting what's behind the opposing arguments. (This is partly why such confrontations are avoided.) And the issue surely touches on deep questions: What are our responses to one another? Should we permit the state to intrude into the most intimate and personal aspects of our lives? Where are the boundaries of freedom? What does it mean to be human?
Of the many actual points of view, it is widely held–especially in the media, which rarely have the time or the inclination to make fine distinctions–that there are only two: "pro-choice" and "pro-life." This is what the two principal warring camps like to call themselves, and that's what we'll call them here. In the simplest characterization, a pro-choicer would hold that the decision to abort a pregnancy is to be made only by the woman; the state has no right to interfere. And a pro-lifer would hold that, from the moment of conception, the embryo or fetus is alive; that this life imposes on us a moral obligation to preserve it; and that abortion is tantamount to murder. Both names–pro-choice and pro-life–were picked with an eye toward influencing those whose minds are not yet made up: Few people wish to be counted either as being against freedom of choice or as opposed to life. Indeed, freedom and life are two of our most cherished values, and here they seem to be in fundamental conflict.
Let's consider these two absolutist positions in turn. A newborn baby is surely the same being it was just before birth. There 's good evidence that a late-term fetus responds to sound–including music, but especially its mother's voice. It can suck its thumb or do a somersault. Occasionally, it generates adult brain-wave patterns. Some people claim to remember being born, or even the uterine environment. Perhaps there is thought in the womb. It's hard to maintain that a transformation to full personhood happens abruptly at the moment of birth. Why, then, should it be murder to kill an infant the day after it was born but not the day before?
As a practical matter, this isn't very important: Less than 1 percent of all tabulated abortions in the United States are listed in the last three months of pregnancy (and, on closer investigation, most such reports turn out to be due to miscarriage or miscalculation). But third-trimester abortions provide a test of the limits of the pro-choice point of view. Does a woman's "innate right to control her own body" encompass the right to kill a near-term fetus who is, for all intents and purposes, identical to a newborn child?
End of Sagan Excerpt
When I was in high school the book and film series named WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE HUMAN RACE? came out and it featured Doctor C. Everett Koop and Francis Schaeffer and they looked at the issues of abortion, infanticide, and youth euthanasia and they looked at comments from such scholars as Peter Singer and James D. Watson.
C. Everett Koop pictured above and Peter Singer below
Peter Singer, an endowed chair at Princeton's Center for Human Values, said, "Killing a disabled infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Very often it is not wrong at all."
James D.Watson
In May 1973, James D. Watson, the Nobel Prize laureate who discovered the double helix of DNA, granted an interview to Prism magazine, then a publication of the American Medical Association. Time later reported the interview to the general public, quoting Watson as having said, "If a child were not declared alive until three days after birth, then all parents could be allowed the choice only a few are given under the present system. The doctor could allow the child to die if the parents so choose and save a lot of misery and suffering. I believe this view is the only rational, compassionate attitude to have."
On August 30, 1995 I mailed a letter to Carl Sagan that probably prompted this discussion on abortion and it enclosed a lengthy story from Adrian Rogers about an abortion case in Pine Bluff, Arkansas that almost became an infanticide case:
An excerpt from the Sunday morning message (11-6-83) by Adrian Rogers in Memphis, TN.
I want to tell you that secular humanism and so-called abortion rights are inseparably linked together. We have been taught that our bodies and our children are the products of the evolutionary process, and so therefore human life may not be all that valuable to begin with. We have come today to where it is legal and even considered to be a good thing to put little babies to death…15 million little babies put to death since 1973 because of this philosophy of Secular Humanism.
How did the court make that type of decision? You would think it would be so obvious. You can't do that! You can't kill little babies! Why? Because the Bible says! Friend, they don't give a hoot what the Bible says! There used to be a time when they talked about what the Bible says because there was a time that we as a nation had a constitution that was based in the Judeo-Christian ethic, but today if we say "The Bible says" or "God says "Separation of Church and State. Don't tell us what the Bible says or what God says. We will tell you what we think!" Therefore, they look at the situation and they decide if it is right or wrong purely on the humanistic philosophy that right and wrong are relative and the situation says what is right or what is wrong.
This little girl just 19 years old went into the doctor's office and he examined her. He said, "We can take take of you." He gave her an injection in her arm that was to cause her to go into labor and to get rid of that protoplasm, that feud, that little mass that was in her, but she wasn't prepared for the sound she was about to hear. It was a little baby crying. That little baby weighed 13 ounces. His hand the size of my thumbnail. You know what the doctor did. The doctor put that little baby in a grocery sack and gave it to Maria's two friends who were with her in that doctor office and Said, "It will stop making those noises after a while."
(Adrian Rogers pictured above)
Pine Bluff, Arkansas
My wife was born in main hospital in Pine Bluff, Arkansas
They took that grocery sack and Maria home and one hour passed and two hours passed and that baby was still crying and panting for his life in that grocery sack. They took that little baby down to the hospital there in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and they called an obstetrician and he called a pediatrician and they called nurses and they began to work on that little baby. Today that baby is alive and well and healthy, that little mass of protoplasm. That little thing that wasn't a human being is alive and well. I want to tell you they spent $150,000 to save the life of that baby. NOW CAN YOU EXPLAIN TO ME HOW THEY CAN SPEND $150,000 TO SAVE THE LIFE OF SOMETHING THAT SOMEBODY WAS PAYING ANOTHER DOCTOR TO TAKE THE LIFE OF? The same life!!! Are you going to tell me that is not a baby? Are you going to tell me that if that baby had been put to death it would not have been murder? You will never convince me of that. What has happened to us in America? We have been sold a bill of goods by the Secular Humanists!
Carl Sagan was elected the HUMANIST OF THE YEAR in 1982 by the AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION
Carl Sagan asked, "Does a woman's "innate right to control her own body" encompass the right to kill a near-term fetus who is, for all intents and purposes, identical to a newborn child?"
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