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Hamilton Co. coroner shares ideas to reduce gun violence
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The Hamilton County coroner spends a lot of her time speaking to various groups. She is very candid about attacking the culture of drugs and violence sweeping across the area.
The Hamilton County Coroner said more needs to be done to stop gun violence in Cincinnati.Dr. Lakshmi Sammarco was the keynote speaker Friday for the Woman's City Club of Greater Cincinnati.Watch this story"We have seen an uptick in gun violence and gun related deaths do we have an explanation, no," she said.Sammarco told group members her focus was on crime scene investigations in Cincinnati"We're getting the feeling this is more gang-related," Sammarco said.The drug trade is part of the gang culture. Sammarco said heroin use is rampant and increasingly deadly."It's cheap and easy to get and you can get it on about any corner," she said.The coroner said the number of autopsies speaks to the danger. She said her office can perform five to 10 autopsies per week or at least an average of one per day.Sammarco is quick to say, despite the drugs and the violence, we need an increased focus to prevent violence, but we don't need to panic. Over a longer period of time, like 10 years, Sammarco said there is a decreased homicide rate, and based on what she's seen decreasing gun violence.
The Hamilton County Coroner said more needs to be done to stop gun violence in Cincinnati.
Dr. Lakshmi Sammarco was the keynote speaker Friday for the Woman's City Club of Greater Cincinnati.
Watch this story
"We have seen an uptick in gun violence and gun related deaths do we have an explanation, no," she said.
Sammarco told group members her focus was on crime scene investigations in Cincinnati
"We're getting the feeling this is more gang-related," Sammarco said.
The drug trade is part of the gang culture. Sammarco said heroin use is rampant and increasingly deadly.
"It's cheap and easy to get and you can get it on about any corner," she said.
The coroner said the number of autopsies speaks to the danger. She said her office can perform five to 10 autopsies per week or at least an average of one per day.
Sammarco is quick to say, despite the drugs and the violence, we need an increased focus to prevent violence, but we don't need to panic. Over a longer period of time, like 10 years, Sammarco said there is a decreased homicide rate, and based on what she's seen decreasing gun violence.


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March 31, 2016 By eJP
By Rabbi Sid Schwarz
During the first week of March some 60 people gathered under the aegis of a new national initiative called the New Paradigm Spiritual Communities Initiative (NPSCI). NPSCI is sponsored by Clal: The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership as part of its mission to make Jewish into a public good. Funded by the William Davidson Foundation, NPSCI is co-sponsored by Bend the Arc, Hazon, the Institute for Jewish Spirituality and Mechon Hadar.
The gathering was anything but conventional. In fact, the invited participants were given only the barest of details about what would transpire. We called it a "Consultation" and, once convened, we used the language of a "conversation for possibility." For over a year we developed a data base of individuals who were leading initiatives that might represent a new model for Jewish spiritual communities in America. In our invitation letter to a sub-set of that database, we indicated that we wanted to explore what might be a significant new phenomenon in American Jewish life. The Consultation was designed to better understand what this phenomenon looked like. Clearly, what attracted the invited participants was the interest in meeting other, like minded innovators, social entrepreneurs and "creatives" working in the Jewish space.
The significance of this first gathering cannot be underestimated. For generations, Jews have thought of synagogues as the institution that nurtured their religious and spiritual lives. But as growing percentages of people describe themselves as "spiritual but not religious," synagogues that do not nourish souls are suffering from a loss of relevance and declining membership numbers. This is happening at a time when trends in American society (e.g. effects of internet culture, the erosion of social capital, partisanship replacing the "public square"), are making the need for spiritual community greater than ever before.
American Jewish life is in a time of transition that calls for bold, new thinking and the development of new models for identification. Membership and affiliation patterns that have sustained synagogues and other legacy Jewish institutions for more than a century are eroding. At the same time we see a dramatic growth of interest and energy in new expressions of Jewish community. Some are focused on learning. Some are focused on social justice. Some are focused on contemplative practice and spirituality. Some are focused on food and environmental sustainability. Some are focused on prayer. Some look like synagogues; some do not. Each sector has seen one or more organizations emerge that have either seeded the phenomenon or have created a network to sustain and support the phenomenon.
What the sectors have in common is that they utilize a particular idiom unique to contemporary American culture that attracts other Jews with similar interests. The richness of the Jewish heritage is literally being re-invented in our time by the way in which Jewish wisdom is being applied to the challenges that confront our world today. If properly nurtured and encouraged, these "communities of meaning" can form the nucleus of an American Jewish renaissance.
Our working definition for new paradigm spiritual communities are groups that use the wisdom and practice of Judaism (chochma), to help people live lives of sacred purpose (kedusha) and inspire people to contribute to a more just and peaceful world (tzedek). The context for this work are covenantal communities (kehillot) in which a group of people intentionally enter into a mutual obligatory relationship, commit to a common mission and give of their time and psychic energy to support the viability of the group and the material and spiritual needs of the members of the group. What we discovered at our inaugural Consultation was that despite the wide variety of Jewish groups that we convened, the vast majority resonated to the definition of spiritual community that we proposed. Some are already doing awesome work integrating the elements of chochma, kedusha, tzedek and kehilla. Others saw that integration as aspirational. The "conversation for possibility" opened up a door for us to imagine how this emerging phenomenon could be advanced and supported.
The New Paradigm Spiritual Communities Initiative (NPSCI) will be creating forums where the people leading contemporary efforts to re-define Jewish life and community for themselves can come together, learn from each other and be supported in their efforts to create communities of meaning. NPSCI will gather together individuals whose work and/or thinking can advance an understanding of this phenomenon from many different sectors of the Jewish world. Participants will benefit from seeing their particular endeavors in the context of a changing socio-political landscape and a rapidly changing Jewish community. There will also be participation from significant thinkers and practitioners beyond the Jewish world that will enrich and broaden our conversation.
In the course of the next year NPSCI will be engaged in several efforts. First, we have engaged Dr. Tobin Belzer, a leading sociologist based at the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California, to do a study of the new paradigm spiritual community phenomenon in the Jewish community. Second, we will be sponsoring a weekly blog on new paradigm spiritual communities which will appear every Monday on our website, www.npsci.org. We hope to be a catalyst for a broad range conversation among those interested in the phenomenon to comment on the weekly blog. Anyone can subscribe by going to the website's Home Page. Third, we intend to convene on a regular basis the individuals driving the phenomenon to network with each other, to identify best practices and to upgrade organizational capacity.
While many of the new paradigm spiritual communities are being created outside of the walls of American synagogues, we believe that synagogues that care about being relevant and compelling to Next Gen Jews will benefit greatly from participating in this effort as well. We welcome all those who want to learn and who have something to teach.
Rabbi Sid Schwarz is the director of the New Paradigm Spiritual Communities Initiative. A senior fellow at Clal, he is the author of Jewish Megatrends: Charting the Course of the American Jewish Community, Judaism and Justice: The Jewish Passion to Repair the World and Finding a Spiritual Home: How a New Generation of Jews can Transform the American Synagogue, all published by Jewish Lights.
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The working definition for new paradigm spiritual communities is indeed very inspiring. Please permit me to simply repeat it for emphasis.
"Our working definition for new paradigm spiritual communities are groups that use the wisdom and practice of Judaism (chochma), to help people live lives of sacred purpose (kedusha) and inspire people to contribute to a more just and peaceful world (tzedek). The context for this work are covenantal communities (kehillot) in which a group of people intentionally enter into a mutual obligatory relationship, commit to a common mission and give of their time and psychic energy to support the viability of the group and the material and spiritual needs of the members of the group."
Thank you for the thinking and resources.
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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has released its latest Economic Outlook, which suggests that it will be no sooner than end of 2021 that the global GDP reaches the pre-pandemic levels.
The way global and local economies will behave depends on various factors, including the speed of Covid-19 vaccination rollout and the tenacity of health and financial policies. If implemented effectively, these factors will lift global GDP by 4.2% in 2021 after a fall of 4.2% this year.
The bounce-back, according to the report, will be strongest in Asia. A graph proposing GDP projections for various nations and areas showed that China was the only nation on the list to enjoy real GDP growth in 2020, with 1.8%, 8% in 2021 and 4.9% in 2022.
In comparison, the United States, having suffered a 3.7% drop in 2020, is set to achieve 3.2% and 3.5% real GDP growth in 2021 and 2022 respectively.
The United Kingdom, compared to most countries on the Outlook's graph, got affected more heavily suffering a GDP reduction of 11.2% in 2020, with only Argentina showing worse results – 12.9% drop.
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Despite the bleak outlook in terms of GDP growth in 2020, the OECD report projects a rise, provided the prospect of vaccines and better virus management.
Although the OECD Chief Economist Laurence Boone, Secretary-General Angel Gurría said on Tuesday there was hope, she added that the "situation remains precarious, especially for the low-skilled and for struggling small businesses."
"Governments have been vindicated in the support they provided to shield people and firms. With rock-bottom interest rates expected to persist, governments can and need to sustain it to prevent long-term scarring effects of this crisis. The economic consequences will be with us for years to come. Governments must address decisively the effects on the most vulnerable, especially children and the young," she added.
In order to overcome the damage to economy by the coronavirus pandemic on economic, the OECD called on policymakers to secure action in the following areas:
Strengthen public health services by investing in health workers, prevention strategies and capacity. Implement effective test, trace and isolate programmes. Start planning vaccination campaigns now. Co-ordinate internationally to ensure affordable vaccines and treatments are available wherever needed.
Support the vulnerable by expanding social safety nets and improving training for youth and the low-skilled. Ensure that children from disadvantage backgrounds are equipped for the digital age to give them equal opportunities.
Support businesses by providing grants and equity rather than loans adding to existing debt. Assist companies to invest in their future by, for instance, facilitating the adoption of digital technology.
In that, despite a high degree of uncertainty, quicker and more certain recovery awaits countries with effective testing, tracking and isolation programmes and vaccination programmes.
The Outlook suggests that the Chinese economy will grow strongly and will account for over one-third of world economic growth in 2021.
The OECD economies will only partially recover from the 2020 crisis, growing at 3.3% in 2021. In comparison, European and North American economies will contribute to global growth in a smaller way in proportion to their weight in the world economy.
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Going to the Empire Games was great fun, particularly because the stadium was already bedecked in sky blue and white, the colours of my beloved local football team.
They move there in a year or so and I see that Jonathan Edwards, the top triple-jumper, has clocked what I wrote last week.
"It's ridiculous that a stadium as great as this is being handed on a trowel to Manchester City Football Club who could well win the Premiership next year," he almost said.
The Manchester Evening News won the Gold Medal for Imaginative Journalism on Friday though, covering the front page with an appeal to the English Minister for Sport, Dick Caborn.
"Dick," it said, "open your eyes."
That was about it, really, apart from saying he was in Manchester that day and he should have a good look around at the enthusiasm with which people like to sell tourists as much beer as they can.
Then it said the Commonwealth Games had been an overwhelming success. It accepted that the running track has to go (it's been rolled up and despatched to Birmingham) and that Manchester could never stage the Olympics on its own.
I must add here that Manchester City Football Club could not countenance a stadium where a running track meant their fans would be too far away from the action, should there be any.
Then it said the Minister should "take a good look around you."
So what is that Dick has to open his eyes to? Is it that the Manchester Evening News, as part of the Guardian Media Group, was one of the Games' sponsors?
Well, so was Imperial Leather and at least they made sure there was nice soap in the portaloos.
The whole point about the Olympics is that it invites bids from CITIES, not countries, that six of them bid every four years and that they have to actually create some of the facilities so they can be judged. It means that five cities have improved sporting facilities every four years that they wouldn't otherwise have budgeted for, though they could have done.
I thought perhaps I would have stopped being so cynical about these empirical games in Manchester by now, but I haven't. About five years ago I wanted to write a piecette saying: "We don't want the Commonwealth Games here..."
But they've gone ahead and by Didsbury I think they've done it in their own Manchurian way.
The games end on Sunday night and I'll be watching the fireworks again at the closing ceremony from the apartment where she-who-makes-real-chips lives. No doubt we'll be having chips again, but at least she doesn't drink and she's never been to Ibiza.
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Chord Maps - How to Choose Chord Progressions
Updated: Jan 2, 2020 • Interesting
Chord maps are the secret to the musical universe. All musicians face a set of similar challenges when it comes to writing chord progressions.
We've already provided a shortcut on musical key characteristics, which helps you match specific emotions to certain keys to achieve the feeling you're looking for in your song. But what about after that?
You still need a chord progression or two for your song! These chord diagrams make it simple to choose your starting point and travel along in any way you like until the progression resolves back at the root.
The Old Ways of Finding Chord Progressions
You've likely been down this route before. There's a lot of advice out there and while it's not bad advice it's just confusing, especially for those who haven't mastered music theory.
We aren't all using classical notation on paper and figuring out which chords can match our specific inversions and then checking to see where they naturally resolve next. Nor do we know how to bounce our way around the Circle of Fifths.
What the heck am I supposed to do with this?
The easiest method is to find a song that has the feeling you like and to yank the chord progression from it. The problem with this is you end up sounding like everyone else, because even professional releases are doing this in order to produce a sense of familiarity.
That's not necessarily what you want when you're on your way up the ladder. Especially since it's all usually pretty basic progressions. You don't want to come off as an amateur or a copy cat.
So what's the solution that's not insanely complicated?
Chord Maps
The absolute best way is to use chord maps. You can follow along a generalized map for all musical keys, or you can use one relabeled specifically for the key you're writing in. I recommend getting comfortable with the generalized one:
That looks scary at first. If you want to simplify it until you familiarize yourself with it, don't worry about the green bubbles around the outside and just focus on the big blue ones. The only risk with only using the big blue boxes is all of your songs will start to sound like other existing songs and like each other after a while.
It works like this...
Choose any chord and then follow the arrows in whatever direction you like until you land on the home chord.
By the time you add in the outside bubbles and start playing with some of the chord inversions and adding the suspended chords, etc. you'll see that the options are nearly endless and they all sound good. Now you'll never fall into the realm of copy-cat land where everyone's writing the exact same song over and over again.
The best part is that you're going to expand your instrumental repertoire. Your skill level will increase as you learn how to play all these chords from memory. This will speed up your ability to memorize other songs too.
Eventually you'll memorize this chart and start whipping out progressions out of mid-air. Your band mates are going to think you're a music theory genius.
But the truth is you're just a chart savant! But they don't need to know our little secret... Have fun!
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Macro economic commentary – February 2018
Author: Ntsekhe Moiloa.
Early in February the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that US average hourly earnings rose year-on-year by 2.9 percent in January 2018. The market consensus was for a rise of 2.6 percent. The upside surprise sparked a fear that labour constraints would drive up overall inflation faster than previously expected. The consequence of that, investors seemed to deduce, was that the US Fed would be compelled to raise policy rates faster than previously anticipated.
Beyond this data point there was hardly anything else to spark worry. Inflation remains sensible and interest rates remain close to long-term lows. While property affordability is stretched, property prices are not climbing at a runaway pace. Recent US tax breaks are expected to be beneficial to corporate profits despite burning a bigger hole in Uncle Sam's pocket. So why did the S&P500 enter correction territory, declining more than 10 percent?
Over the past few decades it has rarely been the economic reality that has precipitated market meltdowns. The cause of meltdowns has often been an accumulating risk somewhere in the capital markets. In 1987, Black Monday was triggered by a growing mass of portfolio insurance strategies moving the same way as increasing numbers of futures were shorted due to spot prices sliding. The scale of money committed to portfolio insurance ensured that the shorting turned into a vicious cycle. In 2008, collateralised debt obligations and their close cousin, collateralised loan obligations, sent markets into a tailspin. This past month it was ETFs designed to capitalise on low market volatility. Investor delight in the persistently low level of the Chicago Board of Exchange Volatility Index (VIX) seemingly knew few bounds, and investing in VIX exchange-traded funds became a crowded trade. Amongst the variations of VIX exchange-traded funds were inverse VIX ETFs which would lose money if the VIX level spiked but otherwise made money for investors.
Inverse VIX trades made money for long enough to lull many investors into a sense of complacency about the product type. There were at least a few people who warned that the construction of the VIX was open to manipulation. Thus, the abnormal and persistently low levels of the VIX should have raised greater suspicion or at least caution in the minds of anyone investing in products tied to the index. But where there was money to be made, a sort of hubris set in. The Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus carries the myth of Icarus, the son of a master craftsman who made him a set of wings constructed from feathers and wax for their attempt to escape from Crete. Before their attempt, Daedalus warns his son to neither fly too low nor too high, for complacency could see them plunge into the sea while hubris would see them come too close to the sun and melt the wax. So it was with investors who ignored warnings that such unusual levels of the VIX presented elevated risk, with some investors reportedly investing in inverse VIX exchange-traded funds on a geared basis. A number of those inverse VIX exchange-traded funds went to zero in the February correction.
It is useful to step back for a little perspective. Even at the lows of the correction, equity indices were still higher than they were 2 and 3 months earlier. Furthermore, there was no indication of systemic risk such as we saw during the Great Financial Recession. The path of interest rate policy in the US has not been fundamentally altered; in fact, there is no indication that the US Fed is likely to pause its baby-step march toward higher policy rates.
Locally, the likely direction of policy rates is more likely sideways to down than up. Economic growth remains pedestrian at best while consumer price inflation printed lower at 4.4 percent from a previous print of 4.7 percent on the back of a lower rand fuel price. Food and non-alcoholic inflation at the consumer level moved lower and likewise producer price inflation moved from 5.1 to 5.2 percent on the back of food and fuel.
While policy rate directions may differ in the near term, it is worth remembering that in most regions of the world interest rates are closer to multi-decade lows than highs. For that reason we think that an overlooked and mounting risk to the global economy is the sustenance of companies that continue to survive largely on the back of cheap borrowing. The longer a low interest rate environment persists, the greater the risk that capital is misallocated to enterprises of this nature. Like inverse VIX exchange-traded funds, these could easily become a crowded trade with negative consequences.
Deutsche Bank reports that over the past two decades the number of zombie companies in the FTSE All World Index has tripled on the back of a low interest environment. Zombie companies are defined as having price-to-sales ratios below 3 as well as an interest cover ratio below 1 for at least 2 years running. At 2 percent of companies presently, it does not seem like a great number, yet a closer look at distributions shows that three-fourths of such companies are concentrated in the energy and financial sectors. Moreover, Europe leads in the number of such problem countries, North America comes second, the rest of the world third and Asia Pacific fourth. These statistics suggest the potential for a vicious cycle; to counter capital misallocation interest rate policy normalisation should not be delayed, especially in those regions (like Europe and North America) and sectors (like finance) that have been at the heart of quantitative easing, but central bankers are likely to be hesitant of being accused of spooking markets.
It is not only the investment markets that pre-occupy the minds of policy makers. At the end of February, the Chicago PMI showed business activity expanding at a softer pace. In particular, purchasing managers expressed concern about input costs and warned that they could soon pass the costs on to consumers. American central bankers face being forced to weigh cost push inflation against investment market stability.
In mid-February the Deputy General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements, Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva, along with a senior economist at the BIS, Jochen Schanz, delivered some remarks at a conference in Skopje, Macedonia. Their remarks were titled: How to transition out of a "Goldilocks economy" without creating a new "Minsky moment"? A Minsky Moment is essentially a crash in asset prices that comes about after a long period of increases that attract the entry of speculative positions. Their remarks focused on the first eight days of February when the market corrected as we have mentioned earlier. A part of their remedy involves an enhanced communication strategy; according to Pereira da Silva and Schanz, investors have to be told clearly that volatility can be expected as normalisation proceeds. Presumably talk of a soft-landing lulls market participants into thinking that volatility will remain low throughout a normalisation super-cycle. The BIS representatives laud the communication strategy of the FOMC of the US Fed regarding caps on reinvestment into assets that formed part of the overall quantitative easing program in the United States. There remain at least two difficulties with open-mouth operations. The first is that they cannot account completely for how severely contemporaneous economic data can alter market expectations despite central bank assurances; and secondly, they cannot account for chaotic behaviour from politicians as we have witnessed in places as different as Washington, D.C. and Pretoria, Gauteng.
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Bob Shayler reported on Facebook on 11-23-2017 that Mr. Gordon Papas has passed away.
Darn. Gordy must have been well into is ninities, but still. Thare aren't many PHS teacher left.
Gordy was a good teacher and a good person. He was the informal social director for the faculty & staff — arranging for dozens of parties, some even after his retirement. He and his wife always provided the entertainment. It was fun working with him and he was primarily responsible for the cohesiveness of the staff. He was also the proud founder of the Pacific High Association of Retired Teachers (Old PHARTS) who met periodically for breakfast at Denny's on Marina Blvd.
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Q: Retrieving width and height from a bmp I have a few .bmp images inside a directory and want to loop through them to see if the width and height are of a certain amount. Since I am not using a webform, I can not use, using System.drawing; How the initial code looked like was,
 string[] temp = Directory.GetFiles(link);
            string[] localImages = extractHeroImages(temp);

            for (int i = 0; i < localImages.Length; i++)
            {
               Bitmap img = new Bitmap(localImages[i]);
                if (img.Height != 185 || img.Width != 185)
                {
                    Console.Out.WriteLine("Error: " + numErrors + " /n current width of     " + localImages[i] + " is: " + img.Width + " height is: " + img.Height + "\n");
                    numErrors++;
                }
            }

This code worked when I was working on a web form of this program but when I wanted to create a utility for it, it crashed on this part of the code and can not find a way around it.
Is there a way I can get the width and height without using a webform?
Thanks in advance!

A: You can manually add the System.Drawing dll to the project. Just right click the project in the Solution explorer and select Add Reference....

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At the Student Osteopathic Medical Association (SOMA) Spring Convention in Washington, D.C., ACOM's SOMA Chapter was awarded the Excellence in Community Outreach/Service Award. ACOM SOMA outgoing President Carlos Garcia Galinda and outgoing National Liaison Officer Mayen Gonzalez accepted the award on behalf of the chapter.
The Excellence in Community Outreach/Service Award is granted each year to the chapter in each region that demonstrates a commitment to their communities through various service activities. ACOM's SOMA chapter is heavily involved in the community. Their goal is to provide the Dothan community with access to care and resources and to promote the osteopathic philosophy.
ACOM SOMA hosted and organized monthly Dothan Rescue Mission visits to provide free healthcare screenings and counseling, visits to House of Ruth in support of domestic violence victims, participated and helped organize Walk a Mile in Her Shoes in the fight against domestic violence, and co-organized the Senior Prom at Wesley Place ALF with the Geriatrics Interest Group.
ACOM SOMA is incredibly appreciative of the immense support given to ACOM students and is proud to continuously serve the Dothan community. The chapter hopes to increase outreach efforts and try to further meet the local community's healthcare needs any way they can.


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U.S. Vice President Pence To Visit Estonia, Georgia, Montenegro In Show Of Support
Vice President Mike Pence (file photo)
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence is on his way to Estonia to begin a visit to three countries that have expressed concerns about Russia's intentions in their regions.
Pence is scheduled to arrive in Tallinn on July 30, and will make subsequent stops in Georgia and Montenegro, the White House said.
Senior U.S. administration officials said the trip is viewed as a follow-up to President Donald Trump's visit to Europe in early July.
Trump stopped in Poland and Germany to express support for NATO while on the same trip holding meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin in an effort to improve ties with Moscow.
Early in his administration, Trump had unnerved some allies when he failed to explicitly mention Article 5 of the NATO treaty -- the provision stating that an attack on one NATO country is an attack on all members of the alliance.
But on July 6 in Warsaw, the U.S. president said the United States stands "firmly behind" Article 5 and criticized Russia for its activities in Europe.
Estonia and Montenegro are members of NATO, while Georgia has expressed hopes of joining the Western alliance.
Along with underscoring the U.S. commitment to the three nations' security, Pence also will likely express support for U.S. trade and investment with the countries, U.S. administration officials said.
The officials added that Pence also will stress the virtues of freedom of speech, democracy, and religious tolerance.
While in Estonia, Pence will meet with Prime Minister Juri Ratas as well as with leaders of Latvia and Lithuania.
In Georgia starting on July 31, officials said Pence will highlight U.S. support for the Caucasus nation's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Georgia has seen Russian encroachment on its territory. In 2008, Russia's army invaded Georgia and seized control of two of Georgia's breakaway regions, South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili said on July 27 that Pence's visit will demonstrate that the United States continues to support Georgia in building a stronger military force.
Margvelashvili said the Georgian army will start two weeks of exercises with the United States and other partner countries on July 30, the day before Pence's visit to Tbilisi. Pence is scheduled to meet with U.S. troops.
"The vice president's presence here is definitely showing that this is not only about military exercises, but it is also showing unification with our values, with our foreign policy targets, and showing a clear message that we are together," Margvelashvili said.
On the last stop, Pence will welcome NATO's newest member with his stop in Montenegro, which only joined the alliance in June.
On August 2, he will attend the Adriatic Charter Summit in Podgorica. U.S. officials said.
Pence will highlight the U.S. commitment to the Western Balkans and stress the need for good governance, political reforms, and rule of law in the region.
The leaders of Albania, Bosnia -Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia are also scheduled to attend the summit.
With reporting by AP, Reuters, and Interfax


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Роберт Эдвард МакГиннис (, , Цинциннати, Огайо, США) — американский художник и иллюстратор. Проиллюстрировал более чем 1200 обложек книг и более 40 постеров к фильмам, включая «Завтрак у Тиффани» (1961), «Барбарелла» (1968) и несколько фильмов о Джеймсе Бонде и Мэтте Хелме. Является членом Зала славы Общества иллюстраторов c 1993 года.

Биография
Роберт Эдвард МакГиннис родился в Цинциннати (Огайо, США), но вырос в штате Вайоминг (США).

Макгиннис стал учеником в студии Уолта Диснея, затем изучал изобразительное искусство в Университете штата Огайо. После военной службы в морской пехоте он занялся рекламой. Случайная встреча с Митчеллом Хуксом в 1958 году привела его в Dell Publishing. Там он начал карьеру, иллюстрирую книги в мягкой обложке, написанные такими авторами, как Дональд Уэстлейк (под псевдонимом Ричарда Старка), Эдварда С. Аарона, Эрла Стэнли Гарднера, Ричарда С. Пратера, а также Майкла Шейна и Картера Брауна.

Визитной карточкой художника стали изображения соблазнительных роковых женщин. Каллен Мёрфи, главный редактор Vanity Fair упомянул Роберта в своих мемуарах про иллюстраторов и карикатуристов.

Женщина МакГинниса сбросила оковы своего времени. Этого не найдешь даже в работах иллюстраторов 80-ых годов. Можно легко сказать, из какой эпохи женщина, изображенная на обложке того или иного художника. Чего не скажешь о женщине МакГинниса. Она могла бы прямо сейчас прогуляться по самым модным районам Нью-Йорка, Лондона или Парижа...

В 1985 году МакГиннис был удостоен звания «Романтический художник года» по версии журнала «Romantic Times» за обложки для книг в романтическом стиле.

В 2014 году вышла книга «Искусство Роберта МакГинниса», которую написал Арт Скотт в соавторстве с самим художником. Раньше я делал много разных вещей, — говорит Марк Фрауэнфельдер в введении, — я любил ловить форель, походы и спорт - но теперь все, что я хочу делать, это рисовать. Я не могу сказать почему, но на протяжении всей истории было так, что художники никуда не уходят; они рисуют до дня своей смерти. Они привязывают кисти к рукам, они подпирают себя предметами, но они рисуют. Эти слова оказались правдой. Роберт МакГиннис больше 90 лет, но он до сих пор рисует.

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Журналист Кингстон Пирс в материале для проекта Crime Reads, как и многие другие, обратил внимание на особенных женщин в изображении Роберта.

Он предпочитает портрет сюжетным сценам, а его работы отличаются точным использованием цвета и особенно гибкими и сочными женщинами, которые так часто становятся центром его полотен. Женщины, которых Vanity Fair однажды охарактеризовала как «смесь греческой богини и людоеда Урсулы Андресс».
Чарльз Ардай, редактор нью-йоркского издательства Hard Case Crime, которое специализируется на книгах в мягкой обложке в винтажном стиле, выпустил несколько книг за полтора десятилетия, сотрудничая с МанГиннисом.

Да, были и другие художники, которые рисовали красивых женщин, но нет ничего лучше, чем женщина от МакГинниса. Длинноногие, безмятежные, отчужденные, невозмутимые, выгибающиеся, смертельно опасные или загадочные и чувственные женщины Боба похожи на потусторонние существа, захватывающие дух и совершенные.

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Evangelical Theology: A Biblical and Systematic Introduction
by Michael F. BirdMichael F. Bird
Evangelical Theology is a systematic theology written from the perspective of a biblical scholar. Michael F. Bird contends that the center, unity, and boundary of the evangelical faith is the evangel (= gospel), as opposed to things like justification by faith or inerrancy. The evangel is the unifying thread in evangelical theology and the theological hermeneutic through which the various loci of theology need to be understood.
Using the gospel as a theological leitmotif—an approach to Christian doctrine that begins with the gospel and sees each loci through the lens of the gospel—this text presents an authentically evangelical theology, as opposed to an ordinary systematic theology written by an evangelical theologian.
According to the author, theology is the drama of gospelizing—performing and living out the gospel in the theatre of Christian life. The text features tables, sidebars, and questions for discussion. The end of every part includes a "What to Take Home" section that gives students a run-down on what they need to know. And since reading theology can often be dry and cerebral, the author applies his unique sense of humor in occasional "Comic Belief" sections so that students may enjoy their learning experience through some theological humor added for good measure.
Michael F. Bird is Academic Dean and lecturer in theology at Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of Jesus and the Origins of the Gentile Mission, The Saving Righteousness of God, Evangelical Theology, Romans (Story of God Bible Commentary Series), The Gospel of the Lord: How the Early Church Wrote the Story of Jesus, and editor of The Apostle Paul: Four Views. He also runs a popular theological studies blog called "Euangelion" and can be followed on twitter @mbird12.
a biblical and systematic introduction
By Michael F. Bird
Copyright © 2013 Michael F. Bird
Prolegomena: Beginning to Talk about God
§1.1 What Is Theology?
§1.2 What Do You Have to Say Before You Say Anything?
§1.3 What Is the Gospel?
§1.4 The Necessity and Goal of Theology
§1.5 Is Theology Possible?
§1.6 Sources for Theology
§1.7 Toward a Gospel-Driven Theological Method
§1.8 A Final Word
Prolegomena is where you clear the deck on preliminary issues and show how you intend to set up a system of theology. It is what you say before you say anything about theology—in other words, a type of pre-theology, or a first theology. Topics dealt with here include defining theology, giving a definition of the gospel, stating the purposes and goals of theology, and outlining a theological method. These chapters lay the foundation for the rest of the volume that will explore the subject of God according to the gospel of God with its accompanying witness of the Holy Scriptures and Christian tradition.
"We have been studying cheerfully and seriously. As far as I was concerned it could have continued in that way, and I had already resigned myself to having my grave here by the Rhine! ... And now the end has come. So listen to my piece of advice: exegesis, exegesis, and yet more exegesis! Keep to the word, to the scripture that has been given to us."
"Where exegesis is not theology, Scripture cannot be the soul of theology, and conversely, where theology is not essentially the interpretation of the Church's Scripture, such a theology no longer has a foundation."
"An evangelical theology is one which is evoked, governed and judged by the gospel."
§ 1.1 WHAT IS THEOLOGY?
What exactly is theology? If the question is posed in a multiple-choice format, we could choose from the following options.
a. The name of the eighth full-length album by Sinead O'Connor, released in 2007.
b. What my father tells me to stop doing and to get a real job.
c. The study of God.
d. All of the above.
The answer is option (d), "All of the above." However, option (c), "The study of God," is technically the more correct answer, and we can unpack that a bit more. The Compact Macquarie Dictionary defines theology this way: "The science which treats God, His attributes, and His relations to the universe; the science or study of divine things or religious truth." Saint Augustine in the fifth century defined theology as "rational discussion respecting the deity." Charles Ryrie, a dispensationalist theologian, says theology is "thinking about God and expressing those thoughts in some way." According to Baptist theologian Robert Culver, "Christian theology is study or organized treatment of the topic, God, from the standpoint of Christianity." The Anglican theologian Alister McGrath asserts that "theology is reflection upon the God whom Christians worship and adore." The Swiss theologian Karl Barth contended: "Dogmatics is the self-examination of the Christian Church in respect of the content of its distinctive talk about God." All of these definitions are generally correct; however, a more precise and robust definition of theology is given by Jaroslav Pelikan, who regarded theology as, "What the church of Jesus Christ believes, teaches and confesses on the basis of the word of God: this is Christian doctrine."
To put things simply, theology is the study of God. It comes from the word theos, which is Greek for "God," and from logos, which is Greek for "word." It is the attempt to say something about God and God's relationship to the world. It is thinking about faith from faith. In a sense, theology is very much akin to the study of philosophy, worldview, religion, ethics, or intellectual history; it is a descriptive survey of ideas and the impact of those ideas.
But there are at least two key differences that distinguish theology from other intellectual disciplines like philosophy and religion. The first difference is that theology is not the study of ideas about God; it is the study of the living God. Christian theology, then, is different from the study of seventeenth century French literature, ancient Greek religion, and medieval philosophers because the Christian claims that he or she is in personal contact with the subject of study. It is one thing to discuss William Shakespeare in the classroom, but it would be quite another thing to do that if Shakespeare was standing in the classroom with you. Theology, then, is not an objective discipline (i.e., a detached study of an object) like the physical sciences, nor is it a descriptive discipline like the social sciences. Theology is speaking about God while in the very presence of God. We are intimately engaged with the subject of our study.
Second, theology is studied and performed in a community of faith. Theology is something that is learned, lived, sung, preached, and renewed through the dynamic interaction between God and his people. Theology is the conversation that takes place between family members in the household of faith about what it means to behold and believe in God. Theology is the attempt to verbalize and to perform our relationship with God. Theology can be likened to the process of learning to take part in a divinely directed musical called "Godspell." To do theology is to describe the God who acts, to be acted upon, and to become an actor in the divine drama of God's plan to repossess the world for himself.
Evangelical theology, then, is the drama of gospelizing. By "gospelizing" I mean trying to become what the gospel intends believers to be: slaves of Christ, vessels of grace, agents of the kingdom, and a people worthy of God's name. Dedication to the art of gospelizing is crucial because "evangelicals need to recapture a passion for biblical formation: a desire to be formed, reformed and transformed by the truth and power of the gospel." To pursue Kevin Vanhoozer's image, the task of theology is to enable disciples to perform the script of the Scriptures, according to advice of the dramaturge the Holy Spirit, in obedience to the design of the director, Jesus Christ, with the gospel as the theme music, and performed in the theater of the church. The company of the gospel shows what they believe in an open-air performance staged for the benefit of the world. The purpose of gospelizing is to ensure that those who bear Christ's name walk in Christ's way. Consequently, theology is the task for disciples of Jesus to begin excavating the manifold truth of the gospel and to start reflecting the spiritual realities that the gospel endeavors to cultivate in their own lives.
§ 1.2 WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY BEFORE YOU SAY ANYTHING?
1.2.1 INTRODUCTION TO PROLEGOMENA
1.2.1.1 DEFINITION AND TASK
For Christians, theology is studying God as he is known according to the perspective of the church's faith. Now if you are going to engage in a study of God, before you formally begin, you need to say something about how you intend to undertake such a study. This is what theologians call "prolegomena." The designation "prolegomena" derives from the Greek word prolego, which means "things spoken in advance." So theological prolegomena is what you say before you begin to say anything about God.
Prolegomena is a type of pre-theology theology. It lays the groundwork for engaging in a systematic study of God. The task of developing a prolegomena has a long and distinguished history. When many of the Christian apologists in the second and third centuries tried to talk about Jesus and God to Greeks, they did so by appealing to a shared theory of knowledge in philosophy in order to commend the Christian faith. Justin Martyr appealed specifically to Plato and Stoic philosophers as containing wisdom that agreed with Christian beliefs. This established a common ground for a discussion about God between a Christian leader and a philosophically minded pagan. For many early Christian thinkers their main task was apologetic, defending and commending the faith, rather than constructing a preface to a system of doctrine. Yet the idea of establishing a theory of knowledge, often called "epistemology" (i.e., the study of knowledge and knowing), has remained at the forefront of prolegomena. A prolegomena ordinarily addresses questions like "Is there a God to be known?" and "How do we know God?"
1.2.1.2 PROLEGOMENA IN CHURCH HISTORY
The form and function of prolegomena has usually been driven by the reigning philosophical framework of the day. For instance, in the Middle Ages, Thomas Aquinas (1224–1275) held to a view about there being "portals of the faith" in philosophy, which gave access to Christianity, and dealt with "the Nature and Domain of Sacred Doctrine." Aquinas was writing at a time when Europe was experiencing a fresh encounter with Aristotle's philosophy. Aquinas's ideas were built on that philosophy, and by switching the default background philosophy from Plato to Aristotle, Aquinas precipitated the need for a different prolegomenon couched in the terms of the new philosophy. For example, Aquinas used philosophical proofs taken from Aristotle to argue for the existence of God. Philosophy established that there was a God to be known; Christian theology then explained what this God was like.
During the Reformation there was a concerted effort to make Scripture the bedrock of all knowledge of God rather than to rely on philosophical specters or humanly devised systems of thought. Martin Luther spoke ferociously against any reliance on philosophy in Christian theology. John Calvin began his theological textbook with an account of the "knowledge of God." The first thing Calvin did in his Institutes of the Christian Religion was to ascertain how it is that persons can actually know God. His answer referred to the revelation of God through nature, Scripture, and the testimony of the Spirit. Calvin emphasized, predictably, the Scriptures: "If true religion is to beam upon us, our principle must be, that it is necessary to begin with heavenly teaching, and that it is impossible for any man to obtain even the minutest portion of right and sound doctrine without being a disciple of Scripture."
The key Reformation contribution to the subject of theological prolegomena was the assertion that theology should commence with a description of the mode of God's self-communication of himself to his creatures. We have to remember that the Reformers themselves were not immune from the philosophical currents washing over Europe at that time. The return to Scripture as an authority was possible only amidst the politics of emerging city-states, was indebted to budding rationalistic philosophies, grew out of a new humanism with its penchant for critical history, and was arguably an acute expression of medieval nominalism that was skeptical toward religious authority.
While the Reformers claimed to have thrown off the weighty yoke of medieval philosophy (esp. Platonic and Aristotlean realism), they had done so only by smuggling in a more anthropocentric philosophy that would eventually flower into a refined philosophical rationalism. While exposing the weaknesses of making ecclesiastical authority the ultimate ground of truth and moving religious authority to the sphere of inscripturated revelation, the Reformers paved the way for the same attacks on ecclesiastical authority to be leveled at Scripture as part of the questioning of religious authority. Thus the Reformers' return to Scripture did not remove the problem of philosophical imposition on theology; in fact, it eventually yielded an even more antireligious philosophy in succeeding centuries.
Although the Reformation brought about a spiritual renewal in both the Protestant and Catholic churches, it was largely based on a crisis of authority, specifically, religious authority. Earlier, the Renaissance had been a movement of cultural rebirth within segments of medieval Europe, where new intellectual forces in science, literature, and art began to flourish. The explosion of learning combined with new discoveries in science led to a questioning of the source of intellectual authority. One feature of the "Northern Renaissance," in contrast to the "Italian Renaissance," was that it was interested in deepening religious convictions. The intellectual tools of the burgeoning humanities were rigorously applied to religious matters, which led to a questioning of religious authority with specific skepticism leveled at many claims of the Roman Catholic Church. The most immediate result was, of course, the Protestant Reformation. However, post-Reformation intellectuals began not just questioning the claims of religious institutions like the Catholic Church, but they started questioning the very notion of a religion of revelation. Beliefs that did not purportedly align with the scientific method or looked as if they were rooted in myth and superstition were regarded as unreasonable. This "Age of Reason," otherwise known as the "Enlightenment," marked a period characterized by rationalism, empiricism, the advance of human learning, and the questioning of religious dogma.
The Enlightenment eventually established the intellectual period that is commonly called "Modernity." We could say that Modernity lasted from the fall of the French Bastille in 1789 to the Fall of the Berlin wall in 1989. Modernity had several philosophical characteristics. First, reason itself was viewed as universal and unassailable. Truths ascertained by way of reason—as opposed to beliefs derived from tradition or superstition—were universally and incorrigibly true.
Second, the two main schools of thought within Modernity were "rationalism" (knowledge is arrived at by building on self-evident truths) and "empiricism" (knowledge is attained by building on sense data). Both schools assumed a certain foundation for all knowledge. It was on the basis of these foundations that one could establish further truths.
Third, there was a large emphasis on intellectual and cultural progress. It was thought that the world could be made better through reason. Once we got the foundations right, once we refined our methodology, there would be no limits to what humanity could discover or achieve. This could be seen in the way that people spoke of the "assured results" of science, philosophy, medicine, and so on. Progress was the great "meta-narrative" or big story of Modernity that saw itself as leading Europe out of the so-called darkness of the Middle Ages and into a time of intellectual light.
Fourth, Modernity also led to "naturalism," which is distinguished by the rejection of all supernatural explanations and the belief that the universe is a closed system of cause and effect. The upshot of Modernity was that it resulted in religious skepticism, deism, and atheism. Symbolic of this age is that during the French Revolution, Notre Dame was rechristened as the "temple of reason" and a Parisian courtesan was enthroned as the goddess of reason. God had been displaced by a human-centered reason. Ironically, Christian theology, once queen of the sciences in the great universities of Europe, now struggled to sustain its existence in the wake of criticism and neglect.
In the post-Enlightenment era, Christian theology had to find a way to do theology in light of the modernist critique of religion based on divine revelation. Before theologians could even begin to do theology, they had to establish that there was a God to know, that Christianity was reasonable, and that Christianity was scientific. Many theologians retreated from the challenge and embraced the modernist perspective in relation to religion. It was possible to salvage Christianity by adopting basically one of two options.
First, one could become a deist and believe that God created the world but thereafter left it to its own devices thereby eliminating the supernatural altogether. Or, second, one could adopt a more "liberal" approach, where Christian theology was the attempt to provide a grammar and philosophical explanation for the religious feelings that people experienced. That led to a denial of key doctrines like the incarnation, it required a reinterpretation of miracles as symbolic myths, and it altered what was meant by redemption. Not all theologians bowed the knee to Modernity. Some theologians attempted to meet the challenges of Modernity by using the very weapons that Modernity was employing against Christianity. It is here that we enter the golden age of the prolegomena, when theologians in the modernist era strove to demonstrate the rationality of Christian theism as part of their preface to Christian theology.
Excerpted from Evangelical Theology by Michael F. Bird. Copyright © 2013 Michael F. Bird. Excerpted by permission of ZONDERVAN.
Acknowledgments.................... 11
Abbreviations.................... 13
Preface: "Without the Gospel" (John Calvin).................... 16
Why an Evangelical Theology?.................... 19
PART 1 PROLEGOMENA: BEGINNING TO TALK ABOUT GOD.................... 27
PART 2 THE GOD OF THE GOSPEL: THE TRIUNE GOD IN BEING AND ACTION.......... 87
PART 3 THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM: THE NOW AND THE NOT YET................. 233
PART 4 THE GOSPEL OF GOD'S SON: THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.................... 341
PART 5 THE GOSPEL OF SALVATION.................... 489
PART 6 THE PROMISE AND POWER OF THE GOSPEL: THE HOLY SPIRIT............... 609
PART 7 THE GOSPEL AND HUMANITY.................... 649
PART 8 THE COMMUNITY OF THE GOSPELIZED.................... 697
Epilogue: Urgent Tasks for Evangelical Theology in the 21st Century........ 807
Select Bibliography.................... 813
Scripture and Apocrypha Index.................... 853
Subject Index.................... 880
Author Index.................... 905
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It is rare for a biblical scholar to produce a systematic theology of the breadth and depth of this book. Warm-hearted yet with a critical and engaging style throughout, Michael F. Bird presents a theology that is robustly biblical, doxological, and woven through the breadth of the evangelical ecclesial traditions. Providing fresh interaction with concepts from the wider theological world while persistently mining the biblical text, this theology takes no short cuts in offering an evangelical theology that has everything to do with the gospel. -- Jason S. Sexton, Research Associate, USC's Center for Religion and Civic Culture, Los Angeles
Taking its bearings in the gospel story of Jesus, Michael Bird's Evangelical Theology is unique among the current crop of one-volume systematic theologies. Bringing the sensibilities of an exegete and biblical theologian to the task of systematics, Bird pursues a drama of redemption approach: doing theology through telling the story. While championing the expositional realities of the biblical text, Bird also keeps a keen eye toward the creedal inheritance of the church and the contributions of the theological tradition. Broadly Reformed and self-consciously evangelical, Bird's accessible and conversational style will be sure to win him a wide reading among students, pastors and teachers. -- Michael D. Williams, Professor of Systematic Theology, Covenant Theological Seminary
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He joined Entertainment News serving as a reporter in 2005. Then, he promoted as a producer and hosts of arts and entertainment series, "ON THE SCENE."
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Received prestigious National Arts and Entertainment
Bathke was nominated for over ten Emmy Award. Once he also hosted the Emmy Awards telecast. In 6th December 2015, he received the prestigious National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Award
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