Six Proven Health And Fitness Benefits Of Whey Protein - Clean Nutrition Co.
Whey protein has undeniably made its mark in the health industry over the recent years, and although fitness and health professionals are continuously taking advantage of the benefits the protein offers, you may still find yourself asking: what exactly is whey protein?
Essentially, milk is made up of two different proteins: casein and whey. As whey is considered to be a complete protein, containing nine of our essential amino acids while also being low in lactose, it can be removed from the casein protein so we can bask in the bountiful range health benefits it provides. Ranging from effective weight loss to potential anti-carcinogenic properties, here are six proven benefits of whey protein.
When it comes to the fitness and training rewards of whey, gym-goers may be surprised to hear how the protein can significantly advance their results. Coupled with active resistance training, whey protein can increase the synthesis of protein in the body.
A study published in 2009 concluded that the consumption of whey protein in young, healthy men, following a resistance training session, stimulated skeletal protein synthesis to a greater extent than casein or soy.
This means people incorporating whey protein into their training scheme can potentially see greater muscle growth over time compared to those using alternative proteins or if they were solely undergoing the resistance training with no supplementation.
Not only can whey protein be a useful tool in the process of resistance training, but it has also shown potential to significantly assist with weight loss. For example, following the intake of a whey- protein supplement, a randomised study concluded that a 500 calorie diet coupled with whey protein resulted in a significant difference in regards to body fat loss compared to individuals only on the low calorie diet.
On top of this, subjects on the supplement also showed a greater preservation of lean muscle. This means, for those trying to get a leg-up in the weight loss game, whey protein may prove to be a useful tool.
Protein has a reputation for being an important element when it comes to weight loss, although whey protein may have an advance effected. Whey protein can increase the concentrations of satiety-related hormones in the body, leading to feelings of fullness. Needless to say, this effect comes in handy when trying to lose weight.
Known to be a weight loss, muscle growth, and even a cholesterol-lowering tool, whey protein proves to be an asset to have on your fight towards a healthy lifestyle. A study investigating the effects of whey protein on various bodily components established that those consuming whey protein over 12 weeks had a decrease in cholesterol compared to those consuming casein. This signifies that whey protein has the ability to lower the amount of LDL cholesterol (the bad cholesterol) within our body, which would otherwise lead to artery wall hardening and a variety other health complications that we would much rather avoid.
An anti-carcinogenic? No…Whey! (sorry). Whey protein is a train that just won't stop. This benefit has been the subject of research for many years with the protein showing some promise with regards to its anti-carcinogenic properties. An investigation involving rats, the incidence of colon cancer, and the consumption of whey protein produced some interesting results that may offer an insight into the prevention of cancer. In summary, the study concluded the rats that were fed a casein diet had a higher chance of developing colon tumours compared to rats on a whey based diet. More research needs to be done and is continuously being undergone to further examine this relationship, but needless to say, these are fascinating results.
Aside from cholesterol-lowering effects, whey protein can benefit the heart in more ways than one. In overweight or obese individuals, whey protein has shown the ability to reduce blood pressure and support general cardiovascular health. As blood pressure is typically a precursor for a variety of chronic diseases later in later, this blood pressure effect that whey protein can offer, while simultaneously increasing weight loss and lowering cholesterol, is an effect that can help transform and shape a healthy lifestyle.
The list of benefits that whey protein can offer its users is rather extensive, and yet, scientists are still uncovering many different therapies that incorporate the benefits of whey. It seems we are only scratching the surface of this milk-based protein, so there's simply no telling what the next 10 or 20 years of scientific research could deliver.


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With my second novel in The Elencheran Chronicles, I always intended to write a longer, more epic storyline. Fezariu's Epiphany was the perfect way to start for me but with A World Apart I wanted to push myself even harder and the confidence gained from my first novel gave me the freedom to do this.
On page 99 we are in the first part of the novel where childhood friends – Demetrius, Eleyna and Halcyon – are growing up together in Dove's Meadow but as they mature they slowly begin to grow apart. On this particular page we are in the midst of an event that will prove pivotal to Eleyna's future and that of her two friends. She has fallen down an abandoned mine and broken her leg. Demetrius and Halcyon have been unable to find her and Halcyon's furious father, who works down nearby mines, has sent both boys home.
Halcyon walks Demetrius home and lets him face his father and grandfather alone. Demetrius' grandfather, Granicus, is furious with Demetrius as he has missed his military training while searching for Eleyna, but his father, Lacuna, manages to assuage the uncomfortable atmosphere in the air. Leading up to this moment Demetrius had been at the centre of a tug of war between his father and grandfather. Granicus wants him to be a soldier, his father a shepherd. Granicus has won the exchange and the gulf between Demetrius and Lacuna has grown.
When Demetrius returns from the abandoned mine believing Eleyna to be dead, it is his father that provides him with comfort; he is the one that Demetrius turns to rather than Granicus. The void between father and son is resolved somewhat in this moment but Lacuna has still lost his son to Granicus' training. While Granicus heads for the mine to help the townspeople, Lacuna cares for his devastated son.
As for Eleyna, this moment in the novel is when she changes her own perspective on life. Having previously been the little girl that tries to keep up with Demetrius and Halcyon, Eleyna vows that she will be better, stronger and more independent. She laments her weakness in being so helpless in the abandoned mine and from this point on she is determined to never be helpless and vulnerable again.
The childhoods of Demetrius, Eleyna and Halcyon are what shape them as adults. I wanted to put great emphasis on the closeness and unity of the trio during their time in Dove's Meadow. When Demetrius leaves to join the army having lost Eleyna to Halcyon, it is very much the beginning of the end for that idyll they had once known.
A decade goes by before they are reunited, no longer as friends but as enemies. Eleyna has gone from that weak and helpless girl to becoming the Ivory Rose – the most feared pirate in West Elenchera. Halcyon is her dutiful second in command, while Demetrius is a disgraced soldier charged with hunting down and killing his two friends.


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What HIAS cares about.
Patrick Cleburne
HIAS, The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, long since shifted its focus from helping immigrating Jews to trying to transform its host society with the most alien possible imports.
So HIAS backs bills allowing Haitians to come JTA.org February 9, 2010 is not surprising.
The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society is backing measures that would allow Haitians awaiting immigration visas to come to the United States and work. HIAS says the bills introduced last week in both houses of the U.S. Congress would address the plight of 55,000 Haitians whose family-sponsored immigrant petitions have been approved by the U.S. government but who have waited up to 11 years for visas because of backlogs
Of course, the Elliot Abrams remittance argument is used, but HIAS cannot even deploy that without lying:
"Allowing Haitians to enter the U.S. will not move them ahead of other immigrants on the waiting list, rather it would allow them to leave the devastation of Haiti and send remittances back to the country," said HIAS
How can accelerating the admission of the Haitians not "move them ahead of other immigrants on the waiting list"?
There are almost 10 million Haitians. Moving 55,000 here will make no difference to Haiti. It will make a difference here - the illegal population Obama amnestied is only four times that amount. That is what HIAS wants.
What a contrast to the sane and responsible attititude of the Government of the Bahamas:
Bahamas to return migrants to quake-ravaged Haiti
By MIKE MELIA The Associated Press Monday, February 8, 2010
More than five dozen Haitian migrants detained as they sailed north through the Bahamas will be returned directly to the earthquake-ravaged country, the Bahamian prime minister Hubert Ingraham said.
"We will do all we can to assist Haiti except we cannot absorb Haiti's population in the Bahamas," Ingraham told The Associated Press.
What a contrast as well to the equally sane and sensible Prime Minister of Israel who said recently of African immigration:
They are causing socio-economic and cultural damage and threaten to take us back down to the level of the Third World. They take the jobs of the weakest Israelis.
The difference is that the Prime ministers of the Bahamas and Israel care about the well-being of their countrymen.
The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society does not care about Americans
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Islamic State Murders 10 Christian Hostages in Africa to 'Avenge' Baghdadi
The Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) released a video on Tuesday purportedly showing the execution of eleven hostages, ten Christians plus one Muslim. The group said the murders were in retaliation for the deaths of ISIS leaders Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Abu al-Hassan al-Muhajir.
Baghdadi, the supreme leader or "caliph" of the Islamic State, was killed in Syria by U.S. special forces on October 26. The next day, U.S. airstrikes killed ISIS spokesman Abu al-Hassan al-Muhajir.
ISWAP said two additional Muslim hostages were spared from execution. The full group of 13 hostages appeared in a video released on December 17 in which they asked the Christian Association of Nigeria to negotiate with the Islamic State group to secure their release.
The office of U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a statement of concern on Tuesday evening, offering condolences to the families of the victims and expressing the support of the United Nations for Nigeria's government and people.
"The Secretary-General recalls that attacks by a party to an armed conflict that target civilians, aid workers, and civilian infrastructure violate international humanitarian law. Those responsible for these atrocities must be held accountable," the statement said.
Within a few hours of the publication of the ISWAP execution video, Islamic State affiliate Boko Haram attacked a predominantly Christian village in Nigeria, killed seven people, and abducted a teenage girl.
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Navy: Don't access personal e-mail at work
By Frank Tiboni
Acceptable use IT policy explains the do's and don'ts.
Management and Workforce -- FEND
"Navy to clamp down on misuse of tech"
Navy employees can no longer access personal e-mail accounts, including Yahoo Mail and Microsoft Hotmail, from the service's networks without approval.
That is one of six rules in the Navy's new acceptable use of information technology policy issued in July. The "Effective Use of Department of Navy IT Resources," states that the service's military, civilian and contractor users cannot:
* Automatically forward official Navy e-mail to a commercial account or use a commercial account for official government business without approval.
* Install or modify computer hardware or software without approval.
* Circumvent or disable security measures, countermeasures or safeguards, such as firewalls, content filters and antivirus programs.
* Participate in or contribute to activity that causes a disruption or denial of service.
* Write, code, compile, store, transmit, transfer or introduce malicious software, programs or code.
* Use peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing applications, such as Kazaa, Shareaza and OpenP2P without approval and only in support of Navy missions.
"This policy is intended to promote effective and secure use of IT resources within the Department of the Navy and is an integral part of the department's information assurance efforts," according to the policy released by the Navy Department's Chief Information Officer's Office.
The policy especially called attention to the dangers of P2P applications, software that permits users to share files including music and pictures with other users without centralized security controls or oversight. "Unauthorized use of P2P file-sharing can result in significant vulnerabilities to Department of the Navy information systems including unauthorized access to information, compromise of network configurations and denial-of-service," according to the policy.
Some Navy employees do not know they should no longer access personal e-mail at work. However, The Periscope, a publication of the Navy's submarine base at Kings Bay, Ga., published a story Sept. 8 about the service's new IT policy.
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Washington, D.C., to run entirely on renewable energy by 2032
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Scientists transform sunlight into a liquid fuel that can be stored for 18 years
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Herreanthus Schwantes, in Gartenwelt 32: 514 (1928)

Type : Herreanthus meyeri Schwantes

Liste des espèces
Herreanthus Schwantes est, à ce jour, un genre monotype.
 Herreanthus meyeri Schwantes

Genre d'Angiospermes (nom scientifique)
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Giuseppe Carlucci (1710 ca. - 1790 ca.) was an Italian professor and astronomer. He was one of the first professors teaching at the University of Altamura (1747-1812).

Life
Giuseppe Carlucci was born in 1710 ca., probably in Altamura, since some contemporaries stated that he was from Altamura. He was primicerius of Altamura Cathedral and, most importantly, he was one of the earliest professors of the University of Altamura (in 1749, he was appointed as professor of philosophy and geometry). He was described as a professor "of supreme justice, probity and humanity". Luca de Samuele Cagnazzi, in his autobiography, remembers him as an open-minded person, who "hated the superstition promoted by silly priests". Moreover, he studied mathematics and philosophy on his own, since at that time there were few people with knowledge in the above subjects.

Marcello Papiniano Cusani, rector of the new University of Altamura, had to propose the names of skilled professors to the Court of Naples; those professors had to be both skilled and morally irreproachable. As a proof of his scientific skills, Giuseppe Carlucci wrote a short essay in which he proved the certainty of the Earth's motion, dismissing the beliefs and opposition widespread at that time. His work was greatly appreciated in Naples, and particularly by the Cappellano Maggiore of Naples, Msgr. Celestino Galiani who praised him in a letter written on 30 November 1748:

In this work, Carlucci exhibited a remarkable level of scientific skills, and proved that he was updated on the latest scientific authors and developments of science. Most importantly, he knew about the different interpretations given to Isaac Newton's Principia at that time in England. Carlucci died in 1790 circa, probably in Altamura, and was replaced by his pupil and assistant Luca de Samuele Cagnazzi.

He was member of the Accademia dei Venturieri di Monopoli and, during their meetings as well as in class, he used to explain that apparently supernatural phenomena could often be explained through science; one of those were the "phantoms", which were just vapours and miasma coming out of the decaying corpses.

The Ragionamento filosofico
The only work that, at the current state of research, can be attributed to  Giuseppe Carlucci is the Ragionamento filosofico intorno al moto della Terra, written and spread in 1748, but published anonymously only in 1766. The scholar Barbara Raucci suggested that the essay wouldn't have been published if Giuseppe Carlucci hadn't met Emmanuele Mola in the Accademia dei Venturieri di Monopoli, who decided to publish it in order to educate those who didn't have any knowledge of astronomy and mathematics, and to pleasure those who already had that knowledge. In the preface, written by Emmanuele Mola and published together with the work, it is written that the author is unknown, while in the last part of the preface it is written that this work was snatched away from its author and published.

Carlucci's work consists of two parts; in the first part, Copernicus and Isaac Newton's theories are explained, while in the second part he refutes the defensive theses of those who defended the geocentric system both through scientific and theological reasoning. Moreover, Carlucci proved that he knew of the most recent theories interpretations on astronomy and physics, including the theories of William Whiston and James Bradley and even Baruch Spinoza's pantheism.

Carlucci defends the heliocentric system by employing some reasonings which were quite common among the enlightened scientists and dating back to Galileo Galilei. He wrote that the Holy Scriptures had been written to spread moral values and they were meant to be understood by "vulgar and rough people"; they weren't meant to provide details on how nature or the universe works. Furthermore, he stated that, for the Catholic Church, denying the validity of the heliocentric system means to foster derision among the unbelievers.

Freemasonry

The frontispiece of Giuseppe Carlucci's work is not particularly decorated. There is only a drawing, depicting a book, a compass, a square, a lamp and an inkwell. The scholar Barbara Raucci hypothesized that it denotes the Freemasonry, and that Giuseppe Carlucci (or whoever published the book) may have joined a secret society. According to some scholars, it is likely that, in the mid-18th century, there was already a Masonic lodge in the city of Altamura.

Career
 Professor at the University of Altamura (1749-1790) - replaced after death by Luca de Samuele Cagnazzi.
 Member of the Accademia dei Venturieri di Monopoli, nicknamed il Grave.

Works
  (written in 1748, and published anonymously in 1766)

References

Bibliography

See also
 University of Altamura
 Altamura
 Luca de Samuele Cagnazzi

18th-century Italian scientists
Academic staff of the University of Altamura


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New post on the meaning of "For the husband is head of the wife the way Christ is head of the Church"
Christians today still struggle over the meaning of Paul's statement, "For the husband is head of the wife the way Christ is head of the Church." What way is that? For husband to be head is a wonderful thing, but it does not mean what we usually think it does. This short piece shows how Paul challenges men not to rule their wives but to care for and love them as Christ loved the Church.
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What does the word "head" mean? And what did it mean when the Apostle Paul wrote it in the first century? Twice in the New Testament epistles, the Apostle Paul uses the Greek word kephale (head) in reference to the relationship between husband and wife. In Ephesians 5: 23, the text says, "For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the Church," and in 1 Corinthians 11:3 we read "the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is the man."
These verses have comprised a major part of the hermeneutical battle between egalitarians/feminists and complementarians/hierarchists for a number of years. Those who argue for hierarchy in marriage argue that Paul intended kephale to signify that God wants the husband to hold some kind of authority over his wife. Kephale would then be translated as "authority over," "leader," or "ruler" of his wife[2]. Indeed, this understanding is a difficult to avoid for those who speak a language in which "head" has the metaphorical meaning of "person-in-control." Head does not literally mean "boss or authority" in English. Literally, it means the round part of your body comprised of your skull and face, at the top of your neck. The question we must ask is, did kephale have that same metaphorical meaning in first century Koine Greek?
Egalitarians, in contrast, argue instead for understanding kephale as "source" or "origin," as in the headwaters of a river. This reading draws on the Creation account in Genesis 2, in which ha'adam (the human being created out of the dust in verse 7) is divided in two to build 'ishshah (woman) and 'ish (man). Thus, for egalitarians, the man is the "source" of the woman, but not her ruler.[3]
Writers, theologians, pastors, and lay people have debated this for years—but I propose a third alternative. I agree with Andrew C. Perriman that neither position (kephale as authority, or as source) is "quite satisfactory."[4] [5] If kephale had the meaning of either authority or origin in ancient times, it was not used that way very often. Further, the arguments on both sides beg the question of why, whichever meaning Paul intended, he didn't use the words for "ruler" or "source/origin" directly, since plenty exist in the Greek. If Paul meant to command a husband's authority over his wife, he could have communicated this using the far more common and intuitive archon (ruler or power)[6], exousia (authority), despotes or oikudespotes (used in the gospels to refer to the master of a household or landowner), or kyrios (lord). The Greek language includes many more words than English and precise word choice can be used to express nuances that English cannot.
Indeed, use of the word kyrios, the term used for Jesus throughout the New Testament, would have seemed completely natural if that was the role Paul intended for the husband. Kyrios was also the more common Greek term for the master of a household. So when people argue that the Bible says a husband is the head of the household, that is simply not true. First, it says that he is the head of the wife, not the household, and second, in the time that Paul wrote, the word kyrios would have perfectly and precisely communicated the idea of head of the household. But Paul, guided by the Holy Spirit, instead chose a different word. Why? Because Paul did not mean head of the household or authority of any kind, but something different.
What kind of kephale is Christ?
Theologian Richard Cervin asserts, "(Paul) does not mean 'authority over' as the traditionalists assert, nor does he mean 'source' as the egalitarians assert. I think he is merely employing a head-body metaphor."[7] I agree. This metaphor is clear throughout Eph. 5:21-31, which begins with the injunction for the members of the Christian household to "submit themselves one to another in reverence for Christ," continues with the head-body metaphor throughout, and ends with a quotation from the Creation account, "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and shall cleave to his wife, and the two will become one flesh" (Gen 2:26).
Head plus body equals one flesh.
That kephale is "merely" part of a head-body metaphor, however, still raises the question of what role the head plays that is distinct from that of the body. Doesn't man's placement parallel to Christ still imply his superiority and privileged position?
Kephale is used in the context of man and woman in only two Pauline passages. However, Paul used it to refer to the relationship between Christ and the Church in several others. A look at those verses points, surprisingly, to a different meaning of kephale than is typically argued by either side in the hierarchy/equality debate.
A key to understanding Paul's use of kephale lies in the use of a related word in Eph. 1:9-10:
For [God] has made known to us in all wisdom and insight the mystery of his will, according to his purpose which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite ["bring together", NIV] all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth (RSV) (emphasis added).
(The word translated "unite," anakephalaio, is literally, "to head up." The word is alternatively translated as, "to sum up," "to unite," or "bring several things together in one." See the kephale in anakephalaio?)
Paul used kephale in the sense of a body part in a head-body metaphor. His reference to the body is present in all the verses referring to Christ as kephale. The head performs not as a ruler but as an agent who creates unity, growth, and completion. Notice what the head does in each of these passages:
Colossians 1:17-18: "He is before all things, and in him all things hold together, and he is the head (kephale) of the body, the church…."
(The head holds all things together.)
Col. 2: 19 (Paul is speaking of someone who pursued "idle notions"): "He has lost connection with the head (kephale), from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow."
(The head holds all things together, promotes growth.)
Ephesians 4:15 (Paul tells us that in Christ we are no longer infants, blown here and there): "Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the head (kephale), that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work."
(Head hold all things together, promotes growth in love, enables each part to do its work.)
Ephesians 1:22 "And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way."
Ephesians 1:22 is particularly helpful in understanding the difference between kephale as ruler versus as one who unites or causes the body to grow. In this verse, Christ is one with the church, which is his body and his fullness. The things that are subjected (hypotasso in the active voice) to Christ are under His feet (certainly at the extreme end of the body), not His head. Thus Christ as head does not subjugate, dominate, or rule the body, but reigns in unity with it.
One more passage, Colossians 2:9-10, Paul sets Christ as kephale in juxtaposition to the worldly forces of archon (rule), and exousia (authority): "For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and you have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head (kephale) [of] every rule (arches) and authority (exousias)…." The reference to Christ as kephale cannot be read as another word for ruler or authority: Along with philosophy, empty deceit, and human tradition, the passage makes it clear that none of these "elemental spirits of the universe" is in harmony with Christ (verse 8).
Literary Context
For the hierarchists, translating kephale as "authority over" in Eph. 5: 23 seems to follow from the immediately-surrounding injunctions that wives submit themselves (hypotasso in the middle voice) to their husbands (Eph. 5:22, 24). They read the passage as commanding, "Women, be subject to your husband, because he is your ruler." That is not what the text says, however, and this interpretation rips the verse from its context. In order to understand this sentence fragment (which is what Eph. 5:22 is in the original language), you must read the entire chapter, both before and after this verse. In the long following passage (Eph. 5:25-31), kephale is clearly used in a head-body metaphor enjoining the husband to imitate Christ, not in ruling his wife, but in serving and caring for her:
23 For the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the Church, He is Himself the savior[8] of the body…. 25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up on behalf of it, 26 in order that he might sanctify it, cleansing it with the washing of water by the word, 27 so as to present the church to himself glorious, without a spot or wrinkle or anything of the kind, but in order that it might be holy and without blemish. 28 So ought also husbands to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hates his own flesh, but he nourishes and cherishes it, as also Christ the church, 30 because we are members of his body. 31 "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and shall cleave to his wife, and the two will become one flesh" (my translation).
In addition to confusion of the meaning of kephale, part of the problem in understanding this passage stems from the tendency for translators to separate verse 22 (literally, "wives to your own husbands as to the Lord") from verse 21 ("being submitted to one another out of reverence for Christ,"). The verb, "submit yourself," is found only once, in verse 21 and not at all in verse 22, and is directed to the entire Christian community (see Ephesians 5:15-20). Read in this larger context, Paul now can be seen as directing all Christians to submit themselves to one another (voluntarily "esteeming others as better than yourselves," Philippians 2:3); wives to their own husbands, not because he is her ruler, but because his role as head is to give himself up for her, to nourish and care for her, and to love her as his own body.
Leading further credibility to the interpretation of kephale as one who serves rather than be served is seen in the following verses (Eph. 6:1-9). Paul's directive on how the Christian family "submits itself" to each other continues, including children/fathers and slaves/masters. In each pairing, the dominant agent (father/master) is directed to give up the power and prerogatives of his status in order to serve his children and slaves, just as the husband sacrifices himself for his wife.
A careful reading of the verses referring to Christ as kephale reveals the word to mean neither "authority over" nor "source," but rather suggests a power that unites, nurtures, and serves. Its use in a head-body metaphor encourages both husband and wife to work together to return to the creation ideal of "one flesh" unity, a unity in which the human union of marriage parallels the heavenly union of Christ and the Church.
[1] © Carrie A. Miles, 2014.
[2] Joseph A. Fitzmyer, "Kephale in 1 Corinthians 11:3," Interpretation 47 (1993):56-57, Wayne Grudem, "Appendix I: Does kephale ("head") mean 'source' or 'authority over' in Greek Literature? A survey of 2,336 examples," pp 48-80 in The Role Relationships of Men and Women: New Testament Teaching (George W. Knight, ed: Revised Edition; Chicago: Moody Press, 1985). D.A. Carson, Exegetical Fallacies (2nd ed.; Grand Rapids: Baker, 1996).
[3] Stephen Bedale, "The meaning of kefalh/ in the Pauline Epistles," Journal of Theological Studies 5 (1954): 211-215; F. F Bruce, 1 and 2 Corinthians (London: Marshall, Morgan and Scott, 1971), p. 103. Berkeley and Alvera Mickelsen, "What does kephale mean in the New Testament?" in Women, Authority and the Bible (Alvera Mickelsen, ed: Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1986), 97-110.
[4] Andrew C. Perriman, "The head of a woman: The meaning kephale in 1 Cor. 11:3," Journal of Theological Studies 45 (1994):602.
[5] In an unpublished article, Troy W. Martin offers a succinct summary of the arguments on both sides. "Performing the head role: Man is the head of woman."
[6] Mickelsen.
[7] Richard Cervin, "Does kephale mean 'source' or 'authority' in Greek literature? A rebuttal," Trinity Journal 10 NS (1989): 85-112.
[8] Referring to Jesus as "Savior" is language borrowed from the Greco-Roman honor system. A savior was someone who provided a great service to another, often at the cost of his own life. David A. deSilva, Honor, Patronage, Kinship and Purity: Unlocking New Testament Culture, Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000.
Will Amnesty International Now Be Defending the Rights of Pimps and Sex Abusers?
I have been a supporter of Amnesty International since 1970, when a young man at my high school organized an effort to pressure the Soviet Union to allow Russians Jews to leave the country. Suspicious of some of the projects Amnesty has undertaken recently, however, I have grown erratic in keeping up my membership.
My support of Amnesty ended today with Amnesty's announcement that they would fight for "full decriminalization of all aspects of consensual sex work." This tragic, and stupid, mistake suggests that the people running this organization do not know what they are doing. Perhaps for all their human rights work, they have never actually been to a developing country?
According to the NY Times, Amnesty says that "its research suggests decriminalization is the best way to defend sex workers' human rights." But a leaked early version of its proposal contended that "sexual desire is a fundamental need and that punishing buyers 'may amount to a violation of the right to privacy and under the rights to free expression and health.'" Amnesty is arguing not just to decriminalize the prostituted person, but also to decriminalize the buyers and the pimps. In fact, they seem to be more concerned about the freedom and health of the john than that of the prostituted person.
Have any of the 500 delegates to the Amnesty conference ever talked to anyone involved in human trafficking? The more we learn about the sex trade, the more we learn that there is very little or perhaps no sex work that is actually consensual. Despite the "hooker with the heart of gold" and "Pretty Woman" myths, no one plans to become a prostitute. Most sex workers in American cities get started as girls (mostly) and boys (in increasing numbers) who ran away from abusive family situations and/or aged out of foster care. These vulnerable children are picked up by pimps, seduced, and then coerced into prostitution. These pimps are the very people Amnesty would be protecting.
Have the Amnesty delegates ever been to a developing country, where small girls are sold into prostitution by their impoverished parents, and beaten, starved, and raped into servicing dozens of men a day? Do they know the life expectancy of a prostitute? Has anyone at Amnesty ever read "Half the Sky?" And Amnesty wants to protect the human rights of the inhuman managers of these brothels?
The leaked proposal call sexual desire a "fundamental need "- another expression of ignorance. Sex itself is certainly not a need. Sex is a drive, and a compelling one, but one can survive many long years without ever having sex. Calling sex a fundamental need comes close to calling in a right, which comes close to calling it an entitlement. No one has a need, right, or entitlement that allows them to violate the body of someone else. Even if they pay for it. Oh yes, that's another thing we have learned – the sex worker usually gets nothing in exchange for his or her service. It all goes to the pimp or brothel owner.
In developing countries, it is difficult enough to get local police to enforce laws against prostitution. It is extremely naïve to believe that by decriminalizing the sex trade, it can be managed. Decriminalization will only legitimize the pimps and give them more power, the police less.
I also think of the impact of legitimizing sex work on the community. Burbank is an unincorporated area near downtown San Jose. Because of its unincorporated status, strip clubs and adult movie theaters and bookstores were allowed there. These businesses drew large numbers of the unattractive element whose human rights and sexual desires concern Amnesty. Residents regularly found used condoms, and sometimes "consensual sex workers" and their customers, on their lawns or in cars parked in front of their houses.
I agree with Salman Rushdie, who said in response to an earlier controversy at Amnesty International, "It looks very much as if Amnesty's leadership is suffering from a kind of moral bankruptcy, and has lost the ability to distinguish right from wrong."
Even more, I agree with Francis A. Boyle, a professor or international law and former Amnesty board member, who said, "We should be protecting human beings, and not sex work." Being forced into sex work through poverty, abuse, or abandonment is already a violation of a person's human rights. If Amnesty is concerned about the welfare of prostituted women and girls, they would do better to work to free them from the greed and lust of the people they now propose to defend.
If you have an opinion on this matter, go to Amnesty International USA Facebook page to express it.
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The deadly effects of proof-texting
Proof-texting is taking a biblical verse out of context in order to argue a point. I attended some sessions at the local Society of Biblical Literature conference, March 30 – 31, 2014, and learned about how deadly proof-texting can be. Dr. Alice Yafeh-Deigh, an assistant professor at Azusa Pacific, gave a paper on 1 Cor. 7:4 and it's impact on the transmission of HIV/AIDS in Africa.
Paul's intention in 1 Cor. 7 was to free people from the awful mess that marriage had become in the Greco-Roman world. In Ephesians 5, he copied Jesus and the Creator in establishing, "For this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and they two will become one flesh," as the ideal of marriage. He directed husbands to treat their wives with self-sacrificing love, and to give up their own desires for the sake of their wives. In 1 Cor 7, he said that marriage was not a requirement, that fathers did not have to marry off their children unless the child herself wanted it, and that Christians were called to peace, not to the rigid requirements of earthly laws and customs.
Answering a question from the Corinthian church about whether married couples should practice sexual abstinence, Paul, in advising against it, affirmed the goodness of marital sex. He wrote, "For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does." Paul intended this to signify the mutual consideration and respect that was to characterize the Christian marriage.
To say that a wife has authority over her husband's body was a radical statement deeply affirming of women. Unfortunately, according to Dr. Yafeh-Deigh, in Sub-Saharan Africa the first half of this verse is used as a proof-text to deny women the right to say "no" to sex with HIV-infected husbands. Hence, this verse is used to effectively condemn to death the believing wives of adulterous men.
It is appalling that Paul's words would be twisted to argue that an HIV-infected man has a "right" to sex with his wife, knowing he would infect her with a deadly disease. It is even more appalling that Christian leaders would support him in this. This is proof-texting at its most deadly, and a slander on the body of Christ.
See a press reference to my work on Mormonism
Virginia Postrel cited me in Bloomberg View. Here is the link:
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In the blog post (link below), Gibbs suggests that Philippians 1:5-11 is a psalm. Indeed, the NRSV shows 6- 11 in poetry form. When we sing it, include Phil 1:1-4 as we…ll. In New Man, New Woman, New Life, we use these verses to define submission in Ephesians 5:21: "Submit yourselves one to another in reverence for Christ."
Phil 1 1-4 "If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of other."
Now read Gibb's post:
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Jesus and Men
Because traditional gender norms so obviously restrict women's freedom, the extent to which norms of masculinity limit men is often overlooked. Jesus' teachings free men as well as women. Jesus' statement that men should not treat women as sexual objects (Matt. 5:27-28), addresses concerns about sexuality that play a dominant, and unpleasant, part in men's lives. "Aggressiveness, virility [and] sexual prowess" were important parts of a man's claim to honor in the Greco-Roman world (Osiek and Balch 1997). Placing sexuality back into its Creation context as a tool of relationship, not as a contest in which "manhood" is judged, Jesus began to redefine what it means to be a man.
Similarly, Jesus redeemed men from a system that pressured men to: measure their worth in terms of material wealth (Matt. 6:19–20; Matt. 4:8–10; Matt. 19:16–26); subordinate themselves to the absolute power wielded by powerful patriarchs (Luke 9:59–62); participate in the endless cycles of strife, competition, and vengeance typical of honor/shame cultures (Matt. 5:38–41); or struggle to dominate, control, and be honored by other men (Mark 10: 35–45; Mark 8:27–33).
Violence against women, India
From Bishop, Pollachi, Tamil Nadu, India. I invite you to answer his question. Let's get a conversation going on this vital topic:
Dearly beloved spiritual friend and honourable servant of God
Christian greetings in the sweet name of our lord and savior Jesus Christ
Dear friend when you are coming to India for SEMINAR teaching ministry, please inform to me
Very recently the brutal rape and murder of 5 year old girl in Delhi City in India is yet another reminder that urgent and concerted action is needed to make sure that girls and women in India feel safe on the streets, in school, at work and at home.
Data indicates that a total of 48,338 child rape cases were recorded from 2001 to 2011. Of the total 24,270 reported cases in 2011, a staggering 7,112 or 30 per cent were girls up to 18 years of age. This might be just the tip of the iceberg since many cases go unreported.
The Government has taken important steps, like the Criminal Law Ordinance. Prior to that, it had also passed the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. This is promising. However, as recent cases suggest, a lot more needs to be done to enforce the laws.
Tell us what all needs to be done so children especially girls are safe in India?
How to ensure that girls and women are valued and respected in private and public spaces?
Let us know your thoughts. It is time to speak out! Please sent your opinion and advice.
Please, kindly pray for India
Yours in christ
Bishop, India
From DAvid Wanyonyi
This from Apostle David Wanyonyi, Kenya (dated April — Carrie apologizes for the delay in posting!):
Dearest Empower Family,
Lovely greetings in the Name of our King of Kings and Lord of Lords Jesus Christ. We want to wish you a powerful celebration as we celebrate the risen Christ on Sunday Morning. This is to inform you that the New Man New Woman Seminar that we proposed to have the first week of this Month was not done due to the election we had the 4th March 2013 in Kenya. We changed it to be done this last week of this Month. We started the seminar yesterday (28-30)-03-2013.
We are speaking to 40 Families in Restoration Ministries Nambale. We are hosted with Bishop Andrew Simiyu the Senior Pastor of this Ministry. He is a wonderful man of God. We are on our second day of the seminar. The teachings have been longed for so long to reach these people. We were welcomed with a lot of anticipation, many brothers and sisters are receiving this teachings with a lot of surprise. They were taught that man and woman after sinning, God Cursed them. But they were surprised to hear that they were not cursed but instead the serpent was cursed. They only received the consequence of their disobedience. They were also taught that women were not supposed to talk before men, they were to keep quiet. They were surprised when we started discussing together and in the start they were shy, but at the end of the first day things started to change by God's Power. Here in this region of Nambale, women are taught that they should not eat with men, they eat in their kitchen, they the women were surprised when we shared meals together as a family of God.
This is what happened on the last day of the seminar. The men promised to change, not to use their wives simply as workers, but as Ezer Kenegdo (help face-to-face, or equal to the man). Women started feeling the Love of God through their husbands. Men and women started walking together with their wives and we thanked God for the reunion that we saw in this seminar.
There was reconciliation between the husband to their wives and a repentance in both parties. We thank God for what he is doing in this teachings and we thank you so much Dr. Carrie for releasing this revelation that God had given you in this book. God Bless Empower, God bless Dr. Carrie, and God bless all who lay their hands in supporting this noble Ministry.Prayerfully we are looking forward to see many families being renewed to the partner of God.
With best regards .En Agape.
Yours in His Everlasting Love,
Apostle David Wanyonyi, Empower International Ministries Kenya.


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Facing a new flood of COVID patients, Colorado nurses say the stress is unsustainable
Harold Burch lives in a home with a spectacular view in Paonia, a rural part of Colorado's Western Slope. But that's been little consolation to Burch, 60, as he's battled a cascade of health problems during the pandemic.
"It's been a real rodeo," Burch says. "It's been a lot of ups and downs and lately it's been mostly just downers."
Burch has battled chronic osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and had two major intestinal surgeries. One specialist he was seeing left her practice last year. Another wouldn't accept his insurance. Then, Nov. 1, he started experiencing major stomach pain.
"When we talk terrible problems, I can't leave the house," he says. He says he hasn't eaten anything substantial in three weeks.
Burch had to wait that long to be seen by a primary care doctor. He says the doctor told him: "'If things were different, I would tell you to go to the hospital and be diagnosed, have some tests run and see what's going on with you.' But he says, 'as of today, Delta County hospital is clear full. There are no beds available.'"
The COVID variant delta has overwhelmed the Colorado county of the same name. Hospitals on the Western Slope have been slammed for weeks, and the statewide picture is similarly grim. As of Monday, 1,294 patients were hospitalized with COVID-19, according to the state's coronavirus website. Half of the state's hospitals said they anticipated a staffing shortage in mid-December; more than a third of them anticipated ICU bed shortages at the same time.
And behind those numbers, patients — and health care workers — are feeling the impact.
Burch's doctor told him he might have to wait hours in the ER, perhaps with people who have flu or COVID-19 symptoms. So Burch stayed home.
He's fully vaccinated. But just 57% of people in Delta County have at least one dose of vaccine. And 84% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Colorado are not vaccinated.
"It's really frustrating because I did the right thing and like so many other people have, and we're being just kind of like told, 'unless you have a really serious problem, like a heart attack, a stroke or something like that, we really don't have time to mess with you,'" Burch says.
Diann Cullen is a 72-year-old retiree from Broomfield, Colorado, whose doctor told her that her hernia surgery would have to be postponed for weeks feels similarly. She says her reaction was: "Extreme frustration, actually anger … He flat out told me we can't even do it because of too many COVID patients."
A system in crisis
Burch's situation is not uncommon this fall, as the state faces its second-worst COVID-19 surge for hospitalizations and deaths. Hospitals are under tremendous strain and that means delays and changes from normal care, as strapped providers do more with less.
"Hospitals across Colorado are in critical condition. We have been at 90%-plus capacity in our ICU and acute care beds for weeks now. And unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be an end to that situation in the near future," says Cara Welch, a spokesperson for the Colorado Hospital Association.
What's pushing hospitals into crisis is dealing with a surge of COVID patients on top of other patients who have delayed care, all with a shortage of staff, says Robin Wittenstein, the CEO of Denver Health, which runs one of the state's biggest hospital and clinic systems.
"They're coming into hospitals now sicker than ever before. And they're coming in larger numbers than we've ever seen before," Wittenstein says. "Our system is on the brink of collapse."
At the academic medical center UCHealth, ICU Dr. Abbey Lara says the crush of unvaccinated patients means patients face longer waits or they don't get much-needed diagnostic tests. In the worst-case scenario, "patients who could have survived something had their life cut short because they weren't able to access care," she says.
And when there are too many patients being treated by too few staff, Lara says, that ratchets up the difficulty for health care workers.
"I just worry that there's going to be not only a lot of turnover in the near future," Lara says. "But I think that access to health care is just going to get even worse in the future."
Nurses in distress
The situation is driving more nurses to speak out, like at an event earlier this month held across the street from Longmont United Hospital, in Longmont, Colorado, about 50 miles north of Denver.
Critical care nurse Stephanie Chrisley told a crowd that normally a registered nurse would care for two ventilated, sedated, critical care patients.
"And the last few weeks we have regularly had RNs taking three, and sometimes four patients, at a time," she says, which prompted boos from the crowd.
That's unsafe, she says, and now the nurses are looking to unionize. Longmont United says it is focused on the well-being of patients and staff and that its top priority is high-quality care.
Chrisley, a mother of two, says nurses need more hands on deck.
"I have lately been in a state of chronic stress over the crushing guilt that I feel to ensure my patients get the care they need. And yet, somehow still care for myself and my family," Chrisley says.
Kris Kloster has been a nurse for 32 years, much of that in the ICU. So she's seen layoffs and staff reductions even before the pandemic hit. Now ICU nurses are dealing with colleagues quitting, restrictions on visitors, worries about catching the virus, anger from some patients who do not believe they have COVID-19.
At the same time, they must cope with suffering and deaths. It's been "soul sucking," she says. "That's the hardest I've ever worked."
Kloster has been speaking out in hopes that Coloradans will understand the physical, emotional and psychological toll on nurses.
"This kind of staffing, this kind of stress is not sustainable," Kloster says. "And something has to change."
Nearly a third of the hospital's registered nurse staff has left since the start of July and many have not been replaced, she says.
The stress nurses and doctors feel is compounded when they feel powerless to take what they regard as an ethically correct action in treating a patient.
There's a term for that, "moral distress," says Dr. Barbara Statland, a hospitalist at Denver Health. The tension comes "because you can't do what you feel is ethically proper. And I'd say that health care workers have been riddled with this."
'They saved my life'
Despite the stress and distress, many frontline providers are hanging in there, continuing to care for patients every day. That made the difference for at least one COVID-19 patient who said he was able to get care — just in time.
Rob Blessin from Fort Collins caught the virus this fall and spent 30 days in an ICU ward with pneumonia at North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley. The 58-year-old described the efforts of his doctors and nurses as heroic, some working nine or 10 days in a row, many taking overtime.
"They saved my life. I do feel grateful for everything they did," says
Blessin says as more coronavirus patients got admitted staff struggled to keep up. "There was just so many people there and very few staff," he says.
Blessin says he landed in the hospital because he was swayed by internet misinformation and didn't get vaccinated. It's a decision he came to regret.
"I guess my recommendation would be to get vaxxed, you know, even if you're totally against it. Don't fall into the internet hype," Blessin says.
After his experience being hospitalized for a month due to the coronavirus, and having talked with his physicians there, he now plans to get vaccinated.
This story was produced in partnership with KHN and Colorado Public Radio.
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Church was crazy this weekend. We'd had a pretty quiet weekend at home, and so it didn't seem like any big thing that Sunday morning was Music sunday at church. But the bell choir was performing, and the kids were singing. And before you know it, the kids were bonkers during service. I mean like full on, multiple timeouts. Jake didn't want to sit still, I pulled him to the nursery after all the boys had sung.
They sang God's Love is Amazing from the new VBS Weird Animals, coming to our church at the end of June. Here's a little video snippet recorded by my friend Lori, hope this works. Post by Messiah Lutheran Church.
It's getting fun to prepare for this summer. Not sending Chris to ABA Day Camp this year is proving to be more exciting...and more expensive. Both Chris and Sam are old enough to do a lot of fun things. And we're getting started with planning all kinds of schemy things and the boys are getting pretty excited. It's hard to choose. Which do you choose? Something expensive but fun, or less fun and cheap?! Well, it maybe a bit of both around here. I know that I don't have it in me to entertain Chris for 7 straight weeks alone.
But getting ready for VBS hasn't stopped the boys from going bonkers. They acted like idjits all through church. Jake got dragged off to the nursery. Sam got 2 timeouts, and Chris even got 1. Ugh. By lunch, Eric and I were exhausted. What is it about Spring that makes them lose their ever loving minds?!
So we All needed a nap. But we don't let Chris nap on school days anymore unless he's really sick, and I know he won't be going to school the next day either, because if he naps at all he's up until 10 and his whole schedule is off. So we stopped napping him. Unfortunately, like on this day, it means that all of us need a nap But Chris. As he's gotten older, he's let us nap, but he still doesn't always have a good grasp on the definition of quiet time. Still, on this day, for once, he let the rest of us rest. And we all woke in a better mood.
In the mean time, we're also beginning to enjoy the weather we have. And so Sunday after supper we planned on taking a walk around the block. The boys were still wearing their church shirts, and they looked pretty adorable. So I asked to take their picture by the pretty blue-violet irses from Grandma's in bloom. The big boys wanted to ride their bikes. And Jake was hysterical, he kept on trying to grab the boy's bicycles. He was cracking me up!
This was the sweetest pic I got. The only one where Jake actually looked at Daddy and I jumping up and down making idiots of ourselves to get a good picture.


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Discover, stylized as DisCover on the cover, is the debut album by Serbian rock band Cactus Jack.

The album was recorded on the band's concert held on 23 December 2001 in the Coupe club in their hometown Pančevo. It features 19 covers of songs by various rock acts. The album features two bonus tracks, "Hard to Handle" and "Tush", with Dragoljub "Paja" Bogdanović as guest vocalist. Bogdanović, who would in 2015 become Cactus Jack's frontman, was at the time member of the band Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers.

Track listing

Bonus tracks

Personnel
Vladimir Jezdimirović - vocals
Stevan Birak - guitar
Miodrag Krudulj - bass guitar
Dušan Gnjidić - drums

Additional personnel
Dragoljub "Paja" Bogdanović - vocals (on tracks: 18, 19)
Moma Cvetković - producer
Zoltan Totka - photography

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Taiwan Scrambles To Ward Off Chinese Jets As Xi Jinping Meets Top Brass
HomeWorldTaiwan Scrambles To Ward Off Chinese Jets As Xi Jinping Meets Top Brass
Chinese-claimed Taiwan has complained for a year or more of repeated missions by China's air force near the democratically governed island, often in the southwestern part of its air defence identification zone, or ADIZ, close to the Taiwan-controlled Pratas Islands.
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Taiwan's air force scrambled again on Sunday to warn away 27 Chinese aircraft that entered its air defence zone, Taiwan's defence ministry said, the latest increase in tensions across the Taiwan Strait as China's president met his top generals.
Taiwan calls China's repeated nearby military activities "grey zone" warfare, designed to both wear out Taiwan's forces by making them repeatedly scramble, and also to test Taiwan's responses.
Over a four-day period beginning on Oct. 1, when China marked its national day, Taiwan said that nearly 150 PLA military aircraft entered its ADIZ, not territorial air space but a broader area Taiwan monitors and patrols that acts to give it more time to respond to any threats.
The latest Chinese mission included 18 fighters jets plus five nuclear-capable H-6 bombers, as well as, unusually, a Y-20 aerial refuelling aircraft, the Taiwan ministry said.
The bombers and six of the fighters flew to the south of Taiwan into the Bashi Channel which separates the island from the Philippines, then out into the Pacific before heading back to China, according to a map the ministry provided.
Those aircraft were accompanied by the refuelling aircraft, suggesting China refuelled the shorter-ranged fighters inflight, a skill that the country's air force is still working to hone to enable it to project power further from China's shores.
Taiwan sent combat aircraft to warn away the Chinese aircraft, while missile systems were deployed to monitor them, the ministry said.
There was no immediate comment from China, which has in the past said such moves were drills aimed at protecting the country's sovereignty.
However, Chinese state media reported that President Xi Jinping had held a three-day meeting which ended on Sunday with the country's top officers to discuss how further to strengthen the armed forces through talent cultivation.
While the read out of his remarks made no direct mention of Taiwan, Xi did stress the need to modernise the military in order to be able to win wars.
"It is necessary to make great efforts to strengthen scientific and technological literacy and improve the actual ability to win modern wars," the official Xinhua news agency cited Xi as saying.
"It is necessary to strengthen practical experience and encourage and guide officers and soldiers to experience the wind and rain, see the world, strengthen their muscles and bones, and develop their talents in fiery military practice."
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The president-elect Donald Trump has asked roughly 50 senior President Barack Obama administration appointees to remain in their posts after his inauguration to ensure continuity in government, his incoming White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, said on Thursday.
The officials include the highest-ranking career officials at key national security agencies like the Pentagon and State Department.
Deputy Defence Secretary Robert Work and America's third-ranking diplomat, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Thomas Shannon, will serve as acting chiefs of their agencies until successors for the top jobs are confirmed the Senate, Trump's spokesman said.
Trump's selection for the Pentagon, retired Gen. James Mattis, is expected to be confirmed on Friday shortly after the inauguration ceremony, along with retired Gen. John Kelly for Secretary of Homeland Security.
Senate debate on Trump's choice for the CIA boss, former Rep. Mike Pompeo, is expected to start on Friday.
It is unclear if Pompeo will receive an immediate confirmation vote.
At the State Department, Shannon will be in charge until next week as a Senate vote on Trump's choice for Secretary of State, former Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson, is not expected until Monday or Tuesday.
Also staying will be Brett McGurk, the Obama administration's point-man for fighting the Islamic State group, Nicholas Rasmussen, the National Counterterrorism Center Director, and Adam Szubin, the Treasury Department's top official for terrorism and financial intelligence.
Spicer said Chuck Rosenberg, the Drug Enforcement Agency administrator, and Susan Coppedge, the State Department's ambassador-at-large to combat human trafficking, would be left in place for the transition.
The National Institutes of Health said its director, Dr Francis Collins, was asked to stay on at least temporarily.
Republicans and Democrats are still negotiating over Trump's nominees and Mattis and Kelly may be the only ones to make it through on Friday
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Mt Tongariro awakes, first eruption in 100 years
(Stuff.co.nz) LATEST: Volcanic activity at Mt Tongariro could continue for weeks, months or even years after Tongariro rumbled to life after being dormant for 100 years last night.
Although this comes after weeks of increased geothermal activity, last night's eruption was a total surprise, so "we have to expect the unexpected", GNS volcanologist Michael Rosenberg said.
The mountain erupted at 11.50pm last night, sending ash across roads and prompting a potential threat warning for central North Island regions.
The eruption threw rocks and spewed ash from the Te Mari craters, near Ketetahi hot springs, on the northern side of the mountain, GNS Science said.
A trucker, Bryn Rodda, said he saw part of the eruption.
I could see this big cloud, it looked like a fist basically, at an angle across the sky…and at about the wrist section of the fist there was an orange ball of flash that I saw, that was all I could see," he told Radio New Zealand.
Threats have been issues for the Central North Island, with Civil Defence saying volcanic activity could pose a threat to Waikato, Hawke's Bay, Gisborne, Manawatu-Whanganui, Bay of Plenty and Taranaki.
People living in those areas were advised to stay indoors with all the windows and doors closed and listen to the radio for updated emergency information and instructions.
This comes after a smaller eruption on White Island which happened yesterday.
It was the first eruption to occur on the mountain in more than 100 years, but if past trends are anything to go by, it could be the first of many more to follow, Rosenberg said.
Eruptions occurred intermittently from 1855 through to 1897, and it could not be ruled out that this was the start of a prolonged period of activity in the area, Rosenberg said.
"We have to expect the unexpected. We really can't predict what this will lead to," Rosenberg said.
"This has taken us by surprise. It's gone from some little earthquakes that seemed to be tailing off, then all of a sudden this has gone boom.
"We really didn't expect that there would be an eruption apparently out of nowhere."
Teams from GNS would be assessing the volcano by air today and would be gathering samples of ash and rock. If they do not contain magma, then it is indicative that magma has not broken the surface, and may soon do so, Rosenberg said.
Prime Minister John Key is being updated on the eruption by Civil Defence and other Government sources.
He described the volcanic activity as moderate but said Tongariro would continue to be closely monitored.
If the situation required evacuations or an emergency response, Civil Defence would take responsibility of all emergency services.
"At this stage it is very much monitoring," he told TV3's Firstline programme.
The Desert Road section of State Highway 1, northeast of the mountain, and State Highway 46, to the north, had been closed due to the ash.
Motorists were being advised to avoid travel in the area. The road closures would be reassessed at daylight.
Light ash had been reported as falling on SH1 and SH46 and as far as SH5, near Te Haroto and onto Napier city.
An incident management centre had been set up at Whakapapa DOC visitor centre, and local council, police and Department of Conservation were meeting in Taupo this morning.
There had been no further volcanic activity reported since last night.
Civil Defence has not activated the National Crises Management Centre.
Inspector Ian Harris, of police central communications, said search and rescue teams would be sent up the mountain at dawn to check that no one had been stranded in huts.
There had been no reports of injuries or damage because of the eruption and no evacuation notices had been issued, he said.
However, GNS Science duty volcanologist Michael Rosenberg said some people in the Lake Rotoaira area had self-evacuated following the eruption.
There had been reports of "red hot rocks being thrown out of the crater", several loud explosions and lightning when the eruption occurred and ash had fallen 5cm deep on SH46, he said.
The eruption had been "really unexpected".
"You can measure and monitor but sometimes mother nature will do her own thing."
GNS Science planned to send observers to the mountain later this morning, Rosenberg said.
FLIGHTS AFFECTED
Civil aviation director of meteorology Peter Lechner said the eruption would affect regional flights.
Hawke's Bay airport was closed until further notice, according to tweet from MP Craig Foss.
"The ash cloud is obviously stretching from the moutain out towards the east, so by about 9 o'clock this morning we expect that plume to cover probably Gisborne south through Hawke's Bay, perhaps into the northern Wairarapa.
"So air travel into those areas, namely Gisborne, Hawke's Bay aerodrome, and of course Taupo aerodrome will probably be affected by the ash," he told Radio New Zealand.
Airlines would need to decide whether they would continue flying in and out of that area, Lechner said.
"It's up to them to stay clear of the ash. If they can find a clear way through that's fine."
Flights overhead, such as from Auckland to Wellington, would not be affected. Those flights were usually at about 30,000 to 35,000 feet while the ash plume was about 20,000 feet, Lechner said.
If the weather patterns continue, the ash could be pushed out to sea by about 6pm tonight, Lechner said.
"As long as there are no further eruptions, that's a good thing."
There were five reported eruptions from the Te Mari craters between 1855 and 1897 but they had been dormant until now, the GeoNet website said.
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julesvenning says:
This was very predictable post Christchurch quakes and White Island eruption, also Ruapehu ones in recent years and inevitable with the geothermal nature of our country. Yet we have a government signing off on mining and fracking on the East Coast?
14/11/2009″According to GNS, the Taupo volcano first began erupting about 300,000 years ago and it is a given that it will do so again one day. A repeat eruption of the size of either the Oruanui or Taupo eruptions would "devastate most of the North Island", according to GNS.
Taupo is part of a belt of active volcanoes known as the Taupo Volcanic Zone that runs from Ruapehu northeast to White Island and on towards the Kermadec Islands. Together they form part of a chain that includes most of the world's 600 active volcanoes in a ring circling the Pacific Ocean."Geological and Nuclear Sciences (GNS) volcanologist Dr Gill Jolly
Come on people the PM has no science degree. Listen to the voices of informed science and the Greens and act now to preserve our whenua.
Aroha says:
Weeping for Timi Te Heuheu perhaps?
Rua says:
hope everyone in the region are safe. The ash is probably corrosive. Best to wash it off cars and other metal objects..