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Distributive Justice: People Claim They Want More Income Fairness Until They Realize It Hurts Others
Distributive justice is the subject of social, and therefore political, debate, but like 'sustainability' no one really knows what it means so it can mean anything to anyone. And therefore be used by everyone for their agendas. Socialists in New York City are against the mayor's plan to take people who are clearly mental ill in the homeless population and hospitalize them, for example, they say it is distributive injustice, while proponents say it is a way to decriminalize mental illness among the homeless and therefore compassionate and just for the most vulnerable.
It is not just elites who can't figure it out. Everyone on surveys claims they want less 'inequality' - at least until they find out that distributive justice will mean harming those who are not part of the In Group.
There is no free lunch, as get-richer-quick schemers who gave money to Bernie Madoff and Sam Bankman-Fried have learned, and that is the problem. You can't create distributive justice without selecting an In Group who will get money and an Out Group who must pay - even if they did nothing wrong. California Governor Newsom has a new In Group scheme to pay people of color reparations for slavery. Slavery was never legal in California but anecdotal evidence says it basically existed, much like it did in Manchester, England and China.(1)
Yet if quasi-slavery - indentured servitude - counts, as Governor Newsom now says it does, then half of white America should also get reparations because up to 70 percent of immigrants prior to the Revolutionary War who were not slaves were indentured servants. My first ancestor in the U.S in 1736 was one of them.(2)
Nearly everyone acknowledges that there is resource inequality but nearly everyone also acknowledges that the counterpoint of inequality, communism, has failed every single time.(3) That may be why people embrace fixing inequality - they feel like they should embrace it so they can self-identify as being awesome - but then hesitate when they see that they will be harming someone else.
'I am not suing you, I am suing your insurance company' and 'the government is going to pay for it' are great examples of people removed from recognizing that other human beings are penalized when trial lawyers suing over a handicapped ramp being off by a quarter-inch or because a river has too much water win a settlement. Everyone pays.
Yet few seem to mind it. However, if it is someone you know paying - a family member, a friend - most will hesitate to penalize them. Like demonizing Republicans in nearly every university, it is easy because you don't have to see them in your neighborhood.
A new analysis examining the effects of conflicting realities around distributive justice uses fMRI, so it is in the exploratory section rather than the science section, and it found that sympathy for harm and sympathy for redistribution were in different regions - striatum and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, respectively. And that participants brains lit up in ways that made it seem like they were willing to harm others if the inequality was great.
So taxing the super-rich should be easier than taxing the middle class. Except in actual behavior that may not be the case. The Governor of California has banned conventional cars and is forcing all ride-share drivers to switch early. But lobbied against a proposal to tax the super-rich to subsidize his mandate, even though it would only have affected people with a whopping $2 million in annual earnings and up. Despite the benefit being great and the harm being small, his brain apparently does not light up at all, because he hates Uber more than he loves helping the poor.
(1) You don't need official slavery if you can force people to work for little money anyway. That is why England was among the first in Europe to ban slavery. They didn't need it because they had poor people trapped on an island. Spain, on the other hand, was last to ban it because they had a lot of control and investment in South America, where 96% of slaves sent to America went. Good luck finding an Out Group to penalize when virtually everyone in South American countries whose ancestors lived there during that time can claim slavery or native status in their family history.
In California, the Governor has deflected the 'no slaves' problem by stating it is about racism. and everyone has experienced racism in California. There is no clear persecutor but it is politically safe in one of America's most politically non-diverse states. What are white voters whose taxes go up again going to do in retaliation, vote Republican? No, he got 60% of the vote during his releection despite having to survive a recall election a year earlier.
(2) There is no rational metric for his plan, which makes it arbitrary and capricious and therefore illegal from a state official. Individuals without a political axe to grind see it as simply unfair because some are harmed, including some who are victims.
(3) The reason there was just a Thanksgiving in the U.S. is because of mass starvation and almost total extinction among early European settlers because they tried communism. Only when they gave each family their own land to work was there enough food they could have a harvest to be thankful about.
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ASTRO 'Rise Up' and drop gorgeous teasers!
Yumi Kim , July 12, 2018, 2:58 p.m.
ASTRO is gearing up for their upcoming comeback. The boys have been dropping teasers to excite fans. On July 13, ASTRO released a series of images for 'Rise Up' that prove to us all that they are handsome and talented. ASTRO take on a more mature and manly concept as they pose for the camera.
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Younger drivers could see the cost of their insurance fall in the coming months, helped by growing numbers of 'black box' telematics policies, according to Comparethemarket.com.
The comparison website said that across the motor insurance market generally, competition appears to be letting up, which could pave the way for further price hikes for motorists in other age groups.
Across all age groups, the price difference between the average policy on offer and the cheapest they could get if they shopped around is at its widest levels in 2015 so far – reaching nearly £100.
The Premium Drivers report from the website is based on actual quotes that people have received and it includes both comprehensive and third party cover.
It found that the gap between the average premium that drivers aged under 25 are being offered and the cheapest they can get on the market is narrowing, therefore competition is heating up in this segment of the market.
The difference for under-25s between the average premium on offer and the cheapest has decreased from 21.2% in August 2014 to 19.2% in August 2015.
The average premium being offered to a driver aged under 25 is now £1,154.54, while the cheapest quote for this age group is £924.59, the website said.
Comparethemarket.com found that more than three-quarters (77%) of under-25s are seeing at least one telematics premium crop up in their cheapest five quotes – up from 62% in 2014.
It said signs that telematics policies are becoming increasingly commonplace and competitively priced are helping to drive up competition between insurers for customers in the under-25 age group.
Among all age groups, Comparethemarket.com found that the average cheapest policy costs £517.73 – which is a £75 increase compared with a year ago.
There is also a £97.95 difference between this and the average premium on offer, at £615.68.
The report said that in general, drivers can expect to see hikes in the cost of car insurance in the coming months, amid continued high levels of personal injury claims that add to the cost of everyone's policies.
Mr McCulloch said that in the current tough market conditions, insurers are even more likely to steadily raise the cost of people's renewal quotes.


By Amanda Tonoli | April 21, 2018 at 12:10a.m.
Earlier this week, during a roundtable discussion at Choffin Career and Technical Center with local lawmakers, Meranto said failures in the district are a result of the middle-class abandoning the schools, with families who can afford to move their students out of the district doing so thanks to programs such as open enrollment.
The responsibility for educating students, McWilson continued in his letter, "belongs to the highly paid professionals who work in Youngstown City Schools" — not district families.
Youngstown City Schools CEO Krish Mohip said, in a district news release Friday, he agreed that race is a factor in public education.
Mohip added that although the effects of poverty are a challenge, they are not a life sentence.
"We as a district must stop making excuses for why our children are not achieving and do the work necessary to fill in any gap that exists, including food, safety and love," Mohip said in the release.
Mohip's comments come two days after The Vindicator reported the Ohio Department of Education is investigating him after the former chairman of the Academic Distress Commission made allegations of "inappropriate conduct with a female attorney and/or job applicant," according to ODE records.
But Meranto said Friday that his intent in talking about disparities in the district was essentially to echo Mohip's sentiment.
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This may be the end for Freedompop, the low cost wireless "backup" hotspot service I've been using for years — at least it probably is for me (started with the Photon back in 2010). For the most part their hotspot service has been a decent value for me while traveling and giving me LTE connectivity to all my devices, but I can no longer endorse or recommend it. The free service of 500MB per month is not really enough data making their $3.99/mo rollover option a better choice. I have also encouraged a few other users to add service which increases the amount of free monthly data added to my account each month (now have a decent reserve that will expire if the rollover option is canceled).
In October, the company implemented a service charge of .98 cents on top of the $3.99 monthly (tolerable), but this month they have upped that to a $2.99 "Administrative Fee. Since most phone plans now offer a data plan addition, it is not as critical to opt for the Freedompop service and definitely not worth paying a higher monthly fee for the same rollover (Virgin Mobile is $10/mo). I inquired with Freedompop's "weak" customer service department just to be sure before canceling my Freedompop LTE device … or at least switching to their free 500MB per month service. Will probably do that later this month. This is too bad … as I doubt I am alone an question whether Freedompop will survive?
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La Sociedad de Mejoras y Ornato de Bogotá es una entidad privada que tiene como fin mejorar el medioambiente urbano de Bogotá. Fue creada en 1917. En la actualidad su sede se encuentra en el Museo del Chicó.

Servicios

La Sociedad de Mejoras y Ornato de Bogotá cuenta con un amplio archivo fotográfico con imágenes históricas de Bogotá.

Premio Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada

Desde 1938 entrega el premio Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, llamado así en honor al fundador de Bogotá, a una persona o institución cuyas acciones hayan favorecido a la ciudad o a sus habitantes.

Entre las instituciones galardonadas se encuentran la obra del hotel Tequendama, el Banco de Bogotá, el Museo del Oro, Unicentro, Gloria Zea, la emisora HJCK, Maloka, la Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano,el Banco de la República y Corferias,

Algunos de las personas que han recibido el premio son el educador Agustín Nieto Caballero, el expresidente Virgilio Barco, el historiador y político Germán Arciniegas, el expresidente Carlos Lleras Restrepo, el constructor Pedro Gómez Barrero, la teatrera Fanny Mikey, el periodista José Salgar, la política Elvira Cuervo de Jaramillo, el pintor Fernando Botero, el exalcalde de Bogotá Enrique Peñalosa y el arquitecto Rogelio Salmona.

Véase también
Historia de Bogotá

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Página oficial de la Sociedad de Mejoras y Ornato de Bogotá.

Medio ambiente de Colombia
Organizaciones ecologistas

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Tag Archive for Goosebumps
Thanks, SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, for the kind review!
July 21, 2014 / jimmy / No comments
I was glad to hear from my editor at Macmillan, who passed along a quick review blurb of Scary Tales: Nightmareland from School Library Journal.
I was concerned that because this is part of a series, only the first book would get any kind of critical attention. You know, read one, read them all. Each story is different and independent. New setting, new characters, new twists and turns. So I am very grateful to the editors at School Library Journal for taking another look at the series. Thanks, folks.
Did you read that Jack Black is playing R.L. Stine — the real guy — in the upcoming "Goosebumps" movie? That's just too fabulous for words. Last year in Austin I got to hang out with Bob Stine in his hotel room. We hung out on the deck, shooting the breeze, then headed over the to Texas Cemetery for a late-night reading in the dark, surrounded by tombstones. It was a pretty perfect night for me, a memory to keep, and I'm glad to see R.L. Stine mentioned in this review, which is from the August edition of SLJ.
PRELLER, James. Nightmareland. illus. by Iacopo Bruno. 112p. (Scary Tales). Feiwel & Friends. 2014. Tr $5.99. ISBN 9781250018939.
Gr 3-6–The latest spine tingler in Preller's spooky chapter book series is sure to inspire a few chills. In this tale, a boy receives a new video game called Nightmareland. It warns users to "Enter at Your Own Risk," a challenge that Aaron likes. He soons finds himself entangled in a world that seems like so much more than a mere game. Some genuinely creepy moments make this ideal for readers who can't get enough "Goosebumps" and Alvin Schwarz tales.
Category: Scary Tales / Tags: Alvin Schwarz, Best scary books for kids, For fans of Goosebumps, Genuinely creepy, Goosebumps, James Preller, Nightmareland, R.L. Stine, Scary Tales, Spooky chapter books
How I Survived a Night in a Texas Graveyard with R.L. Stine
October 29, 2013 / jimmy / One comment
For a minute there, I wasn't sure.
I didn't know.
I was not exactly confident that we would make it out alive.
The hordes kept shuffling toward us out of the darkness, closer and closer they crept . . .
Art by Iacopo Bruno, from Good Night Zombie (Scary Tales #3), by James Preller.
Well, okay.
Let's backtrack a minute.
I was in Austin, Texas, on a Saturday night, scheduled for a reading in the Texas State Cemetery with R.L. Stine. A creepy literature crawl in a graveyard. What mad genius, I wondered, devises such things?
I met Bob in his 15th-floor hotel room — yes, he lets me call him "Bob," a name that no one under the age of seven actually bears anymore, they're all named "Brendan" and "Colby" and "Luke." We sat and chatted for half an hour or so, the old days at Scholastic, our experiences with school visits, this and that and whatnot. Time passed amiably. At seven, we crept to the cemetery, where we quickly learned that Austin was more than good beer, righteous food, and great live music.
It's a town that loves books.
Forty-five minutes ahead of schedule, hundreds of R.L. Stine fans had already gathered amidst a sea of tombstones. It was an incredible vision. Many sat under the high flood lights, but others sat on the edges, and waited patiently in the graveyard's deeper, darker, gloomier pastures.
My task was to serve as the opening act, like a lone slice of cucumber on a plate. Bon appetit! Bob was the hearty main course and the reason they came, so ravenous. By 8:00, it was time to get the show started. I spoke, elicited a laugh or two, told them that the scariest thing I ever encountered was kids who didn't like books (because they grew up and voted, and sometimes even got elected to Congress). I read the "Bloody Mary" section from Home Sweet Horror, the creepiest part of the first book in my SCARY TALES series. I had the sense to keep it brief, with no intention of messing with Texas. Next I had the pleasure, the honor, to introduce the beloved author, R.L. Stine.
Beloved? Revered? Idolized? Worshipped? Words fail me. What I witnessed was that deep connection between reader and book. I saw what it was all about. The power of the word.
The crowd, I mean to say, went a little bananas.
They love him, you see. On a deep and profound level, the books of R.L. Stine had impacted these people — and they were there to see the man, to shake his hand, to thank him, to tell him what those stories meant to their lives.
The first books they ever really, really loved.
Goosebumps. Fear Street. The most trusted name in book-learnin': R.L. Stine.
After the reading, it was time for us to sign. They don't really do lines in Texas, unless, I guess, it's for dancing. Somebody should have brought a fiddle. Fortunately a couple of good-natured cops came by restore order (at the end, after thank you's, they even asked us both to sign a few books for 'em, which we gratefully did).
Of course, R.L. was the star attraction. I mostly sat nearby, making sure Bob had water, a Sharpie, a small flashlight to see, and, sure, I even signed a few books of my own, basking in that borrowed light. I took a few lousy snapshots, which you see here.
The entire night was a revelation and a confirmation. The power of story. The impact of books. And how lucky I was to do this job, to be in this place, to share in these moments.
Near 10:00, the last of the line had finally wound down. Time to go.
We headed to the car through the big iron gate, which swung shut behind us with a clang.
Bob smiled. "It was a good night," he said.
"Yes," I agreed. "It was."
And I thanked R.L. Stine — Bob, my friend — for the gift of letting me share a small part of it. And to see again what it can mean to write a book, and for that book to be read, and for it to be loved by someone, by anyone, somewhere, anywhere.
It's a beautiful thing. Even in a graveyard. Even at night. Especially with R.L. Stine.
Category: Happenings, Interviews & Appreciations, Scary Tales / Tags: Bloody Mary ghost, Fear Street, Good night Zombie, Goosebumps, home sweet horror, Iacopo Bruno, James Preller, R.L. Stine signing, Scary Tales, Texas Book Festival, Texas State Cemetery

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Wild Neighbors: The Fine Points of Gull Identification: Why Bother?
A western gull, aggressively panhandling at Drakes Beach in Point Reyes.
It's been a long time coming, but there was one identifiable point in my life when I realized I was no longer a Serious Birder. That was two years ago, when Gulls of the Americas, a Peterson Reference Guide, was published, and I didn't buy it. I still haven't bought it. In fact, I passed up a discounted copy at the end-of-Cody's sale.
Not that it's a bad book, for what it is. You'll note that Houghton Mifflin called it a reference guide, not a field guide. This thing is a doorstop. The authors, Steve Howell and Jon Dunn, included detailed text descriptions and photographs for every distinct plumage of every species of gull that regularly occurs from Point Barrow to Tierra del Fuego, plus hybrids, waifs, and strays. That's fine. I still don't want it. I just can't take gulls that seriously.
I suspect the roots of gullmania go back to the '70s, when the Thayer's gull was elevated from a race of the herring gull to a full species, and birders had to work out its subtle field marks. Then came a spate of books, like the National Geographic guide and Kenn Kauffman's Advanced Birding, that dealt with the plumage changes that gulls undergo as they mature.
Birders began to go out of their way—to landfills, to the Great Lakes in winter—to see newly identifiable rarities. European taxonomists got into the act, splitting the herring gull six ways from Sunday. Some of the newly recognized taxa showed up in North America, and observers had to consider Vega gulls and yellow-legged gulls.
The Howell and Dunn book is the logical culmination of those trends. They refer to "cycles" of plumage rather than "years," and that usage has caught on. Last week, on one of the regional birding listserves, somebody reported a gull at the mouth of the Mad River as a probable first-cycle Thayer/Kumlien's intergrade/hybrid. I applaud the observer's field skills, but I don't care. It was still a gull.
Gulls have very little appeal for me, especially the big white-headed jobs: western, glaucous-winged, herring, California.
They're just feathered appetites: raucous, greedy, untidy—corvids without the smarts. You want to know how intelligent gulls are? More than once I've seen a western gull attempting to eat a starfish bigger than its head. The gull was standing around with one arm of the starfish down its throat, maybe waiting for the little sucker feet to lose their grip. Not the kind of thing a raven would try, even on a bad day.
It's not really about intelligence, though. Albatrosses can't tell floating plastic junk from fish but that doesn't tarnish their mystique. Terns, skimmers, jaegers, and skuas, all close relatives of gulls, are cool in their various ways. Even the smaller gulls have redeeming features: I'd love to see one of the polar exotics, like the ivory or Ross's gulls, or the swallow-tailed gull of the Galapagos. But at this point in my life I wouldn't go across town to see a slaty-backed gull, which is pretty much a western gull with a bit more white in its primaries.
Did I mention that gulls hybridize at the drop of a hat? Western gulls have a 200-mile-long hybrid zone with glaucous-winged gulls on the Oregon and Washington coasts. Glaucous-winged gulls hybridize with glaucous gulls and herring gulls. Herring gulls also mate with lesser black-backed gulls and the California gull.
So we're talking about birds that, while separable in the field, may not even be valid species, depending on which of the many definitions of species you're using. But the obsession persists.
Another listserve had a lot of traffic recently about a lesser black-backed gull that had been spotted in Fresno County. After a couple of days, someone noticed that the gull didn't look healthy. Then a message was posted that the bird had begun listing badly, and that birders who wanted to see it while alive and countable should hurry. I don't doubt that some people charged off down I-5 to see the poor creature before it expired, which it did shortly after that posting.
At bottom, I suspect, gullmania is an outlet for the kind of hypercompetitiveness to which birding has long been prone. Fine for the young and compulsive, but, as Mr. Goldwyn said, you can include me out.


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M3 Rock Festival – Friday Review
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Last Friday night, the M3 Rock Festival started its Friday night KIX off party in style, with not one, not two, but 5 great bands to kick off this awesome annual pilgrimage of classic hard rock. The weather was abysmal, but that did not stop the record crowd from pouring into the Merriweather Post Pavilion
Baltimore's Bad Seed Rising started off the show, with a tight set of heavy tunes. These young rockers sound great and have a lot of potential. If you haven't checked them out yet, visit their Facebook page here.
We missed the first few songs from Winger, as we were busy talking to KIX frontman Steve Whiteman (Interview coming to HRH soon). We missed hearing the new Winger tunes from their new album Better Days Comin', but we did see the band perform most of their classic hits including: "Can't Get Enough", "Down Incognito", "Madalaine" and "Seventeen". Kip Winger and company sounded great.
Lita Ford was up next, and Lita's set was not without some surprises of its own. Lita's former Runaway band mate Cherie Currie joined her on stage for some Runaways classics including "Cherry Bomb", "American Nights" and "Queens of Noise". It was a great rock moment, and completely unexpected.
Nothing could have prepared me for what came next. Extreme took the stage at M3 for the first time since the very first M3 in 2009. From the very first note, Extreme was on fire! Gary Cherone was looking great, and sounding even better. Nuno Bettencourt was a lot of fun to watch, as he laid down his incredible guitar licks for those classic Extreme tunes. Extreme pulled off one of the best performances of the weekend, and easily the best of the Friday Night KIX Off party. I can only hope that Extreme will put out some new music, and tour, even if it is on a limited basis. This one off performance was not enough. Hopefully they will get an invite to M3 2015.
Speaking of new music, Hagerstown heros, KIX were the headliners once again at M3 and deservedly so. 2014 was the first time we have heard NEW KIX tunes at M3, and the new songs "Can't Stop The Show" and "Love Me With The Top Down" were great. KIX has a new album coming out in July, and it can't get here soon enough. Once again, KIX's set was outstanding. Steve Whiteman's vocals were perfect, and Brian Forsythe and Ronnie Younkins guitars were great as well. KIX is the one band that I always look forward to seeing at M3 every year, and they did not disappoint.
The M3 Rock Festival got off to a great start, and as great as Friday night was, Saturday was even better. More on that soon! Check out our photo gallery from the Friday Night, below!
Bad Seed Rising Cherie Currie extreme Kix Lita Ford M3 Rock Festival Winger


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Colorado Buffaloes vs. Washington Huskies - 11/23/19 College Football Pick, Odds, and Prediction
Ben Morris November 19, 2019 3:17 pm
Washington Huskies at Colorado Buffaloes
Saturday, November 23, 2019 at 10:00 PM (Folsom Field)
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It perhaps wouldn't be fair to say Washington coach Chris Peterson is on the chopping block, but after a few seasons in which the Huskies (6-4, 3-4) reached the brink of their high expectations, they look like just a middle of the road Power 5 team this year. Their finish to this season will do a lot to prepare them for a critical year for Peterson and the program.
Defense has been the hallmark of Washington under Peterson. The Huskies looked like themselves in their most recent game on Nov. 9 against Oregon State, coming away with a 19-7 win. They held the Beavers to just 119 total yards and 1 of 13 on third-down attempts. On offense, they got 174 rushing yards from junior back Salvon Ahmed, who has 886 rushing yards and nine touchdowns on the season.
Colorado (4-6, 2-5) lost five in the row and fell to the bottom of the Pac 12's South Division before snapping their losing streak on Nov. 9 against Stanford. With two games remaining, the Buffaloes are looking to end the season at .500.
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Senior receiver Tony Brown has been a consistent target this season for Colorado, with multiple catches in each game. He has totaled 656 yards and five rushing touchdowns. Against Arizona on Oct. 5, he ran for 141 yards and also added a 15-yard touchdown reception.
The Huskies are having a disappointing year, but the Huskies are a team that has really looked like a good team that could play good in this game. The Buffaloes are one team that has not been able to play good on the offensive side of the ball and that makes it easier for Washington to win this game. Final Score Prediction, Washington Huskies win and cover 31-14.
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If you live in any large community in Montana other than Helena, you've no doubt read in your local newspaper this week about the annual round of "failures" in Montana schools.
These stories, while mostly fair, do exactly what No Child Left Behind was intended to do: give the impression that public schools are failing their students. Every year, parents and members of the community are told by the media that their children probably attend a "failing school." By extension, almost as if it were planned, the privatizers move in with their calls for "school choice," vouchers, and for-profit schools.
I'd guess most people don't understand what the Annual Yearly Progress measure required by No Child Left Behind really means, but here is a brief primer of what it means to be a "passing" or "failing" school.
Results are measured in math, reading, and graduation rates.
A school can fail if its total population fails to meet the measurements.
A school also fails if any sub-group of students (those in poverty, those with special needs, those of distinct racial groups) fails to meet the benchmarks.
A district (high school or elementary fails if any school fails.
Every year, the benchmarks become more challenging to reach. This year, a passing grade meant that 94.8 of students needed to be proficient in Reading and 90% in Math, while 85% of students needed to graduate.
The sole measurement of Reading and Math scores is a single test that students know has no academic impact.
Even better, the tests are different in every state, so a student deemed "proficient" in Mississippi may have been reading a child's text while a student in Massachusetts was reading Tolstoy. No, really.
There are 41 different ways a school or district can fail to meet the requirements for Annual Yearly Progress. Fail one measure, and you are a failed school.
The result? Every AA district in the state of Montana, despite comparisons that show our students as among the best in the nation, failed to meet AYP this year.
No Child Left Behind is a broken system that has been overdue for reauthorization by Congress for six years." She continued, "We need an accountability system that provides meaningful information to educators, parents, students and communities about the educational outcomes in Montana's public schools.
No Child Left Behind was a disastrously-conceived policy, one that ignores the reality of public schools while punishing schools and their students for failing to meet impossible benchmarks. While it has absolutely failed students, it has absolutely succeeded in enriching testing companies, emboldening corporations who want to plunder our schools, and diminishing public faith in our most democratic institution, our public schools.
At the same time, another truly pernicious impact of No Child Left Behind, though, might be that it's made something that shouldn't be political—increased student achievement—so politicized that we have hard time talking about it. Those on the right look at the test data and argue they are evidence for privatization schemes, and those on the left tend to ignore what the data do show: some of our students are struggling and too many are failing to graduate across the country, at a time when a high school diploma is increasingly a bare minimum for finding a career.
The data suggesting our students need to be better prepared for college and career is true. The analysis of graduation rates suggests we need to do more to intervene—as early as 2nd grade—to ensure that more students make it to their diplomas.
Schools can do better and must do better. It's unfortunate that the climate created by No Child Left Behind and its annual reporting makes that more difficult, rather than supportive of schools that need help.
When we talk about "failing schools," we should be talking about punitive federal policies like NCLB that are doing exactly that.
We already have adopted them.
NCLB was co-sponsered by who?
Yep, he's even in the picture. And he was wrong.
Misguided reliance on " no child left behind, done in a one-size-fits-all testing, labeling and sanctioning of schools. was total rubbish.
it has undermined many education reform efforts. Many schools, particularly those serving low-income students, have become little more than test-preparation programs.
Oh, it's even worse than privatization; at the end of the day, the feudal lords that we now call Corporate American really want to create a permanently ignorant underclass that can be returned to a form of modern day serfdom where they do all the scut work of the world for no pay and no benefits, leaving a very small – and terrified – middle class that exists only to do the brain work that the upper classes are too lazy to do for themselves.
Blah Blah Blah, The blame game continues. I wonder what would happen if Schools passed? Would you take credit or attack the measurements? We'll never know because holding teachers accountable for anything is like pushing water upstream. Don is the brilliant guy with a million excuses.
You're the pseudonym without the courage to even defend your nonsensical position.


Commissioner Kreidler sat down with TVW's Christina Salerno yesterday for a Q&A on health care reform, including this week's three days of arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court and the shape of the state's upcoming Health Benefits Exchange.
What would change if they overturned the act?
People are directly benefiting from parts of the act today. People can stay on their parents' insurance until 26, they can get preventive care with no deductibles — all of that would go away. (Attorney General) Rob McKenna's lawsuit would undo all of that. The entire law may go down. We'd be back to square one, which is a system that's failing us as a country and as a state. For many individuals, it was making a difference between life or death decisions.


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Kazuhiko ( or ) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:

 , politician
 , a video game producer
 Kazuhiko Chiba, Japanese footballer
 Kazuhiko Hasegawa, film director
 Kazuhiko Hosokawa, professional golfer
 Kazuhiko Ikematsu, freestyle wrestler
 Kazuhiko Inoue, a voice actor
 Kazuhiko Iwaike, known as K.A.Z, Japanese musician, guitarist and songwriter
 Kazuhiko Katō (born 1937), manga creator who uses the pen-name of Monkey Punch
 Kazuhiko Katō (1947–2009), nicknamed "Tonovan", record producer, songwriter, singer, member of Sadistic Mika Band
 Kazuhiko Kishino, actor and voice-actor
, Japanese rower
 Kazuhiko Matsumoto, adult video director
 Kazuhiko Nishi 1980s Vice President of Microsoft's Far East operations
 Kazuhiko Nishijima (1926 – 2009) particle physicist
, Japanese politician
 Kazuhiko Shimamoto, Manga artist
 Kazuhiko Shingyoji, footballer, Blaublitz Akita (previously called TDK S.C.)
 Kazuhiko Sugawara, speed skater
 Kazuhiko Tabuchi, Olympic fencer
 Kazuhiko Tokuno, Judo champion
 Kazuhiko Toyama composer of music for manga
 , Japanese baseball player
 Kazuhiko Wakasugi, fencer
 Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, film director

Fictional characters
 Kazuhiko Yamamoto, a character in the novel Battle Royale - see List of Battle Royale characters
 Kazuhiko Akiyama, a character in Sasuke (TV series)

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 26170 Kazuhiko, a main belt asteroid

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About Justina: On-Stage and Behind-the-Scenes
Dr. Justina Taft Mattos was raised in Hawai'i and is an alumna of the University of Hawai'i at Hilo, where her studies focused on Theatre Arts as well as Hawaiian language and culture. After receiving her B.A., she went on to earn her M.A. in Theatre from the University of Oregon, where she researched and wrote on the use of theatre as an educational tool. In writing her Master's Thesis, she focused on Native American, African American, and Chicanx educational theatre efforts in Western Oregon and Northern California. She returned to Hawai'i to earn her Ph.D. in Theatre History and Criticism from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, where her research focused on the history and development of Hawaiʻi's local theatre tradition.
While theatre about life in Hawaiʻi is her passion, since her return to Hawaiʻi Island she has been commissioned to direct plays by both local and non-local playwrights for several theatres on the island. Recent productions she has directed on the Big Island include works by such diverse playwrights as William Shakespeare, Edward Sakamoto, Lee Cataluna, Lisa Matsumoto, Eric Anderson, Maurice Zimmer, Lanford Wilson, Eve Ensler, Jonathan Larson, and Allison Gregory & Steven Dietz.
In addition to directing in traditional theatre settings, Justina has also worked in less traditional formats, using community actors to develop live or videotaped dramatic vignettes and presentations for organizations such as 'Imiloa Astronomy Center and the UH Hilo College of Pharmacy. She has also helped to found the KEAKA Hawaiian Language Theatre Festival.
Dr. Mattos teaches for the Performing Arts Department at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo.
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Chasing Pastel de Nata in Lisbon
Gail Palethorpe
A lava of creamy, sweet, warm, egg-y baked softness oozes down your chin, over your fingers and slides around in your mouth, with the hint of cinnamon and the crunch of perfect layers of puff pastry. A "pastel de nata" (Portuguese for "cream pastry") will leave you weeping in joy and your mouth greedily salivating for more.
This palm-sized mouthful of heaven is the most iconic symbol of Portugal, with many bakeries keeping the recipes in the secret vault. Not all are created equal, so it does take a lot of gorging on these delectable tarts to find that perfect one for you.
Basically a baked egg tart of custard, made from cream, egg yolks, sugar, flour, and possibly a light touch of lemon zest, it's baked to perfection, with the top of the custard caramelized. The caramelizing gives the yellow custard dark brown or black spots of a slightly different texture to the hidden goodness below it. The locals insist that it's sprinkled with cinnamon to give it the true flavor. A "nata" can be indulged in at any time of the day: a couple for breakfast, midmorning snack, a light sweet lunch without a main course necessary, an afternoon delight, or a whole tray for dinner.
Portugal has a plethora of traditional luscious pastries and deserts, from the pastel de feijâ (think of a tart with a white bean filling, dusted with icing sugar...mmm) to the pastel de laranja (sticky and sweet, this one is of oranges). The origin of pastel de nata dates back more than 300 years, when some monks in the Jerónimos Monastery in Belém (a parish west of Lisbon) got creative. They would use egg whites to starch their clothes and had to come up with something t o do with all of the egg yolks left over.
You can even check out the monastery, as today it's a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The selling of tarts to the public soon become an income for the monastery, and when it closed down in 1834, their original recipe was sold to the local sugar refinery that would eventually open "Fábrica de Pastéis de Belém" in 1837.
The locals in the bakeries do understand if you say you want "a custard tart" but it's better to know how to order one properly, if you want the full Portuguese experience of a mouthful of sugary creaminess. If you want only one, ask for "pastel de nata", but if you want to be the piggy and order more for a true nata fix, then ask for "pastéis de nata".
The only time they are called "Pastel de Belém" is when you are in a pastelaria in Belém. And don't forget to ask for cinnamon to sprinkle on top, but then again, this may be a Porto tradition, to rival its big sister of Lisbon. In fact you will find pastéis de nata in Brazil, plus other countries where there is a significant number of Portuguese immigrants.
Everyone has their own quirky tastes and personal preferences, but the main things to look for in "that" perfect nata include a flaky yet crispy pastry, with hints of buttery goodness, a sweet yellow custard halfway between silky ooze and firmness, a caramelized top, with brown or blackened spots, and it should be warm, fresh from an oven if possible. Like in Greek mythology, pastel de nata will beckon you as the siren mermaids did to the fishermen, from every bakery and cafe window you stroll past. They are cheap and deserve to be worshipped with every mouthful.
I would like to say I struggled doing the research for this article, but that would be one big fat lie, as I have a very sweet tooth. Three of the best of these edible symbols of Portugal that I found were to be had at:
1. Pastéis de Belém aka "Fábrica de Pastéis de Belém"
Yes, you will have to join the tourist hordes queued up at the door to taste their famous treat that is not only oozing custard, but history as well. It's only a jump, skip and maybe a hop from the Jerónimos Monastery in Belém, and you can either run away with your horde in a box or sit down at a table in situ and gorge the minute you receive your order.
2. Confeitaria Nacional
Praça da Figueira, Lisbon
Opened in 1829, this establishment is more of an institution for both locals and tourists, as it is one of the oldest and most historical pastry enclaves in the heart of the city.
3. Manteigaria
Time Out Market and Bairro Alto
This is a franchise of nata cafes that can be found all over Portugal. In Lisbon there is one in the Time Out Market and another in Bairro Alto that is not far from the market place. Don't throw your nose in the air because of the fact that it's a franchise, as your taste buds will attest to the fact that they make some of the best natas to be had in Lisbon. This is especially true at the Bairro Alto cafe that is open to midnight if you are in dire need of a sugar fix after one too many drinks in a bar.
To really differentiate the nuances between natas, you should savour at least one a day as you meander around Lisbon, preferably whilst sipping espresso and watching the passing parade.
Gail Palethorpe, a self proclaimed Australian gypsy, is a freelance writer, photographer and eternal traveller. Check out her website Gail Palethorpe Photography and her Shutterstock profile.
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Edge Computing Market Overview:
According to Market Research Future (MRFR), the global edge computing market size is projected to reach USD 22,453.9 million, registering a 28.4% CAGR from 2018 to 2024 (forecast period). The report summarises the market opportunities and market consequences that emerged as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Edge computing is a ground-breaking method for optimizing cloud computing systems. It refers primarily to technologies enabling computation to be performed at the edge of the network. Such services are performed on downstream data in terms of cloud services and upstream data in terms of IoT services. Edge computing is essential for aligning data acquisition and control functions, high bandwidth content storage, and applications closer to the end-user. Edge sites are located as close as possible to end-users as a logical endpoint of a network as part of a wider cloud computing architecture. Nevertheless, the position of the edge for IoT can vary depending on the service required by the end-users. Services requiring low latency will have a different advantage than services needing less urgent data processing.
Edge Computing Market will overcome latency problems and allow companies to make better use of the opportunities offered by cloud computing architecture. Edge computing provides a shorter period of open communication channels due to improved latency that allows longer battery life for battery-powered IoT devices. Edge computing also enables efficient data management, as data processing and data filtering can be performed at the edge of the network, providing cleaner data sets for cloud-based data analytics.
In addition, edge processing power and data storage capabilities can be used in artificial intelligence applications that need faster response time and real-time data processing. Resilient data communication is assured with the aid of edge computing as it provides more data communication paths than a centralized network ensuring business continuity in the event of failure. Another critical aspect of edge computing is scalability, which enables companies to scale up or scale down IoT devices across the network.
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Market Dynamics:
The expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) and rising public security concerns are boosting market development. The IoT trend is expected to gain strong demand in the coming years, taking into account the organization's digital transformation initiatives. Fast growth and growing adoption of IoT within organizations are expected to benefit the edge computing market. The increase in the number of high computing connected mobile devices, due to IoT, has allowed organizations to capture and store large volumes of data in the repository. This further increased the need to process, store, and analyze data to perform specific tasks, thus increasing demand for edge computing applications.
Edge computing is expected to see a significant rise due to the tremendous increase in the number of intelligent applications. Edge computing, along with the 5 G boom in many sectors, as the need for faster data processing, is increasing. Verticals such as consumer electronics and healthcare are in demand for high-speed data processing at the edge or source of data generation. Microdata centers are expected to be deployed near the 5 G network tower to facilitate edge computing. For example, the 2018 Winter Olympic Games represented the first large-scale deployment of the 5 G network, enabling spectators worldwide to watch matches in real-time.
However, the acquisition of talent and expertise, a deeper understanding of edge computing technology, the complex infrastructure of the edge computing network, and addressing the increasing number of cyber-attacks that threaten privacy and data protection are some of the obstacles for players offering edge computing solutions may limit market growth in the coming years.
The global market for edge computing has been segmented into technology, deployment, component, application, and vertical.
By technology, the global edge computing market has been segmented into mobile edge computing and fog computing.
By deployment, the global edge computing market has been segmented into on-premise and cloud.
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By application, the global edge computing market has been segmented into IoT, data caching, analytics, environment monitoring, augmented reality, location services, and others
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The geographical analysis of the edge computing market has been studied for North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the rest of the world.
North America dominates the edge computing market due to the rising adoption of edge computing by companies to achieve scalability, minimize latency, and implement efficient data processing at the edge network. Among the North American countries, the US holds the largest market share due to the growing adoption of edge computing solutions in the surveillance, automotive, healthcare, and education sectors.
Europe was the second-largest market due to the growing adoption of edge computing solutions in countries like the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Germany, France, and Sweden.
The Asia Pacific accounted for the third-largest market share and is projected to experience the fastest growth due to the adoption of edge computing solutions in India, Australia, China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and other Asian countries.
The Middle East & Africa and South America are set to gain significant market growth, with key players concentrating on investing in this region, offering edge computing solutions to small and medium-sized enterprises.
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EDWARDSVILLE - The SIUE volleyball team was listed among the top 25 NCAA Division I programs with the awarding of the Team Academic Award by the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA).
SIUE, which earned designation on the AVCA Academic Honor Roll for being among the nation's elite, was one of 163 NCAA Division I programs honored with the Team Academic Award for the 2017 season. The Cougars graduated six seniors from a 23-7 team that finished second in the Ohio Valley Conference for a second straight season.
As a team, SIUE finished the 2017-18 academic year with a 3.674 grade point average, which was tops for the department. Sixteen SIUE volleyball players earned a grade point average of 3.0 or better during the 2017-18 school year.
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Ananda is a spiritual teacher and founder of the Shakti Yoga Path for Self-Realization. She started her spiritual journey in 1970 and has been teaching meditation and Advanced Meditation Courses for over 40 years to Thousands of people internationally. She spent many years in Silence and long meditations, which enables her to share her knowledge and experience with many people in her courses. She has also received training in Timeline Healing and has since then helped many people with this wonderful life-changing process.
Born and raised in Germany, Ananda has always been interested in painting. As a 5 year-old prodigy she declared: "I want to become a painter!"
Soon afterwards one of her drawings was disqualified from a children's competition, as the judges did not believe that a child could have painted such a picture!
Later she studied philosophy and education and is a graduate of Hamburg University.
In 1970 she was initiated into Meditation and soon became a meditation teacher. Her spiritual Masters called her a a light, a very spiritual woman, a multi-talent, a Brahmaghyani and Yogi-Rani.
Over the past over 40 years Ananda taught Thousands of people Meditation, Advanced Courses, Vedic Mantra Meditation and Silence Retreats - in India, Pakistan, Kenya, Dubai, and all countries of Europe.
In spite of her many travels and other activities, Ananda never gave up painting. Among others also Sri Sri Ravi Shankar commissioned some paintings from her - and she held several art exhibits and sold paintings to many destinations all over the world.
Ananda is also a gifted singer - viz."Sacred Chants of Devi" and "Durga- Mantras for Protection" and architectural artist. Her work in architecture design can be seen at the Art of Living Ashram in Bangalore. Ananda is well known for her inspired Devi and Madonna paintings, which shine with an illuminated beauty.
Prints of her paintings are also available on other websites, including:
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Davorji is also a musician and Jyotish, Ayurveda & Vastu consultant and he and Ananda also create music together. Viz. "DURGA – Mantras for Protection."
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Points: 156168 Posted: Feb 17 2013 at 4:48pm
I stop watching . Where are his remains ? I hope they allow his mother choose the man Burial .
Gkisses
Location: CrackaIsland
I still cant look at this dude as a hero because he killed innocent ppl. If he had went and killed the cops that did these things it would make more sense to me... but he went the SOA route. If he had commit another act of violence against said cops daughter instead of murder which is just as extreme I don't think he would be getting as much support or sympathy as hes getting from some.
Why are people so focused on calling him a hero?
He is not a hero. But he made America stop, look and listen at an issue long overdue
Unfortunately, not really. It's still going to disappear very quickly. The LAPD has been the most hated entity in America for decades and nothing changes. Nothing will change. All of that b.s. they talk about how many colored cops they have now is b.s. bc they're just as bad.
I agree .
Gkisses wrote:
that's how i feel too...he should've Nat Turner'ed the guys on the force. he muddied his message with all of that. it was actually a complete waste.
Because thats an undeserving title imo and thats how hes being portrayed in this thread and in some other forums. His actions will be long forgotten very soon and the things he was trying to bring attention to will continue. His act of killing innocent ppl made it easier for them to write him off as being crazy.
I didn't say he created change in the LAPD
Of course he didn't, that's one of the reasons why I called him "naive" in one of my earlier posts
But it's clear that THEY know the eyes of America are on them. They all seem so naively stunned by the reaction of many Americans who "supported" him in his conquest against the LAPD
The pot is boiling and this just added more heat
My friend of over 20 years works in the Homocide Unit . The man is ready to get the heck out before he hurts a white cop . The enviroment is even more Hostile towards Black co workers .
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Katrenia wrote:
Once a person can no longer defend himself, character assassination is easy.
Is any of this shocking??
What kinds of negative things could your ex say about you if it were know that YOU could no longer dispute their stories??
exactly what I was thinking. he had so many supporters but now that he's gone a whole bunch of bullsh*t and plants (yes plants) are gonna show up with stories on how fucced up he was to discredit him. Even if he was a self hating individual he was a self hating individual who still attempted to do the right thing on his job. Not to mention....just because u put somebody on don't date him girl don't prove anything. He could be crazy...you could be bitter...who knows. Errybody tryna get their 15 minutes.
what's gonna happen now is a media version of photo shop. they gone paint sh*t to look a certain way.....except in this case people won't automatically scream photoshop. They'll take "the news" as truth.
Especially bolded....


A ceremony was held in Tam Dao district, the northern province of Vinh Phuc on March 20 to receive a certificate recognising Soong Co folk singing by San Diu ethnic group in Lap Thach, Tam Dao and Binh Xuyen districts and Phuc Yen city as a national intangible cultural heritage.
Soong Co songs have been maintained for hundreds of years in Vinh Phuc's folk cultural treasure. They cover subjects such as love, love for nature, loyalty, respect for parents and grandparents, and humanity.
San Diu people sing these songs on every occasion, including during arduous working hours, on the fields, around a fire and even after dinner.
In order to preserve Soong Co singing, the province advocates developing ecological tours in combination with giving tourists an insight into local ethnic culture.
During the ceremony, 26 Soong Co songs were performed by 12 clubs in and outside the province.
The organising board presented one A prize to a Soong Co club in Son Nam commune, Son Duong district, the northern province of Tuyen Quang; two B prizes to a club in Dao Tru commune, Tam Dao district and another in Trung My commune, Binh Xuyen district, Vinh Phuc province.


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The excusable doesn't need to be excused and the inexcusable cannot be excused.
Michael Buckley wrote those words and they contain an important challenge. We're forever trying to make excuses for things we need not make excuses for and are forever trying to excuse the inexcusable. Neither is necessary. Or helpful.
We can learn a lesson from how Jesus dealt with those who betrayed him. A prime example is the apostle Peter, specially chosen and named the very rock of the apostolic community. Peter was an honest man with a childlike sincerity, a deep faith, and he, more than most others, grasped the deeper meaning of who Jesus was and what his teaching meant. Indeed, it was he who in response to Jesus' question (Who do you say I am?) replied, "You are the Christ, the son of the Living God." Yet minutes after that confession Jesus had to correct Peter's false conception of what that meant and then rebuke him for trying to deflect him from his very mission. More seriously, it was Peter who, within hours of an arrogant boast that though all others would betray Jesus, he alone would remain faithful, betrayed Jesus three times, and this in Jesus' most needy hour.
Later we are privy to the conversation Jesus has with Peter vis-à-vis those betrayals. What's significant is that he doesn't ask Peter to explain himself, doesn't excuse Peter, and doesn't say things like: "You weren't really yourself! I can understand how anyone might be very frightened in that situation! I can empathize, I know what fear can do to you!" None of that. The excusable doesn't need to be excused and the inexcusable cannot be excused. In Peter's betrayal, as in our own betrayals, there's invariably some of both, the excusable and the inexcusable.
So what does Jesus do with Peter? He doesn't ask for an explanation, doesn't ask for an apology, doesn't tell Peter that it is okay, doesn't offer excuses for Peter, and doesn't even tell Peter that he loves him. Instead he asks Peter: "Do you love me?" Peter answers yes – and everything moves forward from there.
Everything moves forward from there. Everything can move forward following a confession of love, not least an honest confession of love in the wake of a betrayal. Apologies are necessary (because that's taking ownership of the fault and the weakness so as to lift it completely off the soul of the one who was betrayed) but excuses are not helpful. If the action was not a betrayal, no excuse is necessary; if it was, no excuse absolves it. An excuse or an attempt at one serves two purposes, neither of them good. First, it serves to rationalize and justify, none of which is helpful to the betrayed or the betrayer. Second, it weakens the apology and makes it less than clean and full, thus not lifting the betrayal completely off the soul of the one who has been betrayed; and, because of that, is not as helpful an expression of love as is a clear, honest acknowledgement of our betrayal and an apology which attempts no excuse for its weakness and betrayal.
What love asks of us when we are weak is an honest, non-rationalized, admission of our weakness along with a statement from the heart: "I love you!" Things can move forward from there. The past and our betrayal are not expunged, nor excused; but, in love, we can live beyond them. To expunge, excuse, or rationalize is to not live in the truth; it is unfair to the one betrayed since he or she bears the consequences and scars.
Only love can move us beyond weakness and betrayal and this is an important principle not just for those instances in life when we betray and hurt a loved one, but for our understanding of life in general. We're human, not divine, and as such are beset, congenitally, body and mind, with weaknesses and inadequacies of every sort. None of us, as St. Paul graphically says in his Epistle to the Romans, ever quite measure up. The good we want to do, we end up not doing, and the evil we want to avoid, we habitually end up doing. Some of this, of course, is understandable, excusable, just as some of it is inexcusable, save for the fact that we're humans and partially a mystery to ourselves. Either way, at the end of the day, no justification or excuses are asked for (or helpful). We don't move forward in relationship by telling either God or someone we have hurt: "You have to understand! In that situation, what else was I to do too? I didn't mean to hurt you, I was just too weak to resist!" That's neither helpful, nor called for. Things move forward when we, without excuses, admit weakness, and apologize for betrayal. Like Peter when asked three times by Jesus: "Do you love me?" from our hearts we need to say: "You know everything, you know that I love you."
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Celtics Edge Lowly Knicks
October 21, 2018 by Digital Sports Desk
Boston 103, New York 101
Where: Madison Square Garden, New York
Recap for Digital Sports Desk by Field Level Media
NEW YORK – Jayson Tatum scored all six points for Boston in the final minute Saturday night and finished with a team-high 24 points as the visiting Celtics held off the New York Knicks for a 103-101 victory. Tatum also had 14 rebounds for the Celtics, who have won two of three to open the season. Marcus Morris and Kyrie Irving had 16 points apiece for Boston while Aron Baynes and Terry Rozier had 10 points each.
Tim Hardaway Jr. scored 24 points, and Enes Kanter had a double-double (17 points, 15 rebounds) for the Knicks, who have dropped two of three. Trey Burke added 11 points.
The last-minute loss was the second in as many nights for New York, which fell to the Brooklyn Nets, 107-105, on Friday, when Hardaway missed the potential game-winning 3-pointer as time expired.
The Celtics led by as many as 16 in the first quarter, but the Knicks pulled to within 50-48 at the half and tied the score seven times in the third quarter before taking their only lead at 65-64 on Hardaway's free throw with 3:48 left in the period.
The Celtics led 77-70 after three and expanded the lead to 10 points with eight minutes left in the fourth before the Knicks chipped away again. Back-to-back 3-pointers by Hardaway tied the score at 89-89 with 4:14 remaining. Irving scored five points in a 7-0 run, but New York pulled within 97-95 on a pair of free throws by Lance Thomas with 1:16 left.
Tatum's dunk with 59.1 seconds remaining made it a two-possession game. Thomas responded with a 3-pointer 10-seconds later, but Tatum drained a contested turnaround jumper to give the Celtics a 101-98 lead with 21.1 seconds left. Burke's dunk closed the gap to one again before Tatum hit two free throws with 7.9 seconds to go.
Tatum dodged potential disaster with 1.9 seconds left, when he fouled Burke on a desperation 3-pointer from just inside half-court. But Burke missed the first free throw. After making the second, he intentionally missed the third. The rebound bounced beyond the 3-point arc to Al Horford, who dribbled out the clock.
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Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the Principal Sects and Heresies.
« Cerdo, Gnostic teacher Cerenthus, opponent of St. John Christopher, martyr of universal fame »
Cerenthus, opponent of St. John
Cerinthus, a traditional opponent of St. John. It will probably always remain an open question whether his fundamentally Ebionite sympathies inclined him to accept Jewish rather than Gnostic additions. Modern scholarship has therefore preferred to view his doctrine as a fusing together and incorporating in a single system tenets collected from Jewish, Oriental, and Christian sources; but the nature of that doctrine is sufficiently clear, and 155its opposition to the instruction of St. John as decided as that of the Nicolaitanes.
Cerinthus was of Egyptian origin, and in religion a Jew. He received his education in the Judaeo-Philonic school of Alexandria. On leaving Egypt he visited Jerusalem, Caesarea, and Antioch. From Palestine he passed into Asia and there developed τῆς αὐτοῦ ἀπωλείας βάραθρον (Epiph. xxviii. 2). Galatia, according to the same authority, was selected as his headquarters, whence he circulated his errors. On one of his journeys he arrived at Ephesus, and met St. John in the public baths. The Apostle, hearing who was there, fled from the place as if for life, crying to those about him: "Let us flee, lest the bath fall in while Cerinthus, the enemy of the truth, is there."
The value of this and other such traditions is confessedly not great—that of the meeting with St. John in the bath is told of "Ebion" as well as of Cerinthus;—but a stratum of fact probably underlies them, and they at least indicate the feeling with which the early "Churchmen" regarded him. Epiphanius, by whom the majority are preserved, derived the principal portion of his statements partly from Irenaeus, and partly, as Lipsius has shewn with high probability, from the now lost earlier work of Hippolytus on heresies.
His doctrines may be collected under the heads of his conception of the Creation, his Christology, and his Eschatology. His opinions upon two of these points, as preserved in existing works, support the usual view, that Cerinthus rather than Simon Magus is to be regarded as the predecessor of Judaeo-Christian Gnosticism.
Unlike Simon Magus and Menander, Cerinthus did not claim a sacred and mystic power. Caius the Presbyter can only assert against him that he pretended to angelic revelations (Eus., Theod.). But his mind, like theirs, brooded over the co-existence of good and evil, spirit and matter; and his scheme seems intended to free the "unknown God" and the Christ from the bare imputation of infection through contact with nature and man. Trained as he was in the philosophy of Philo, the Gnosis of Cerinthus did not of necessity compel him to start from opposition—in the sense of malignity—of evil to good, matter to spirit. He recognized opposition in the sense of difference between the one active perfect principle of life—God—and that lower imperfect passive existence which was dependent upon God; but this fell far short of malignity. He therefore conceived the material world to have been formed not by "the First God," but by angelic Beings of an inferior grade of Emanation (Epiph.). More precisely still he described the main agent as a certain Power (δύναμις) separate and distinct from the "Principality" (ἡ ὑπὲρ τὰ ὅλα αὐθεντεία, v. Suicer, Thes. s.v. αὐθ.) and ignorant of τὸν ὑπὲρ πάντα θέον. He refused in the spirit of a true Jew to consider the "God of the Jews" identical with that author of the material world who was alleged by Gnostic teachers to be inferior and evil. He preferred to identify him with the Angel who delivered the Law (Epiph. and Philastr.). Neander and Ewald have pointed out that these are legitimate deductions from the teaching of Philo. The conception is evidently that of an age when hereditary and instinctive reverence for the law served as a check upon the system-maker. Cerinthus is a long way from the bolder and more hostile schools of later Gnosticism.
The Christology is of an Ebionite cast and of the same transition character. It must not be assumed that it is but a form of the common Gnostic dualism, the double-personality afterwards elaborated by Basilides and Valentinus. Epiphanius, the chief source of information, is to many a mere uncritical compiler, sometimes following Hippolytus, sometimes Irenaeus. Now it is Christ Who is born of Mary and Joseph (Epiph. xxviii. 1), now it is Jesus Who is born like other men, born of Joseph and Mary; He differs from others only in being more righteous, more prudent, and more wise; it is not till after baptism, when Jesus has reached manhood, that Christ, "that is to say, the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove," descends upon Jesus from above (ἄνωθεν ἐκ τοῦ ἄνω Θεοῦ· ἀπὸ τῆς ὑπὲρ τὰ ὅλα αὐθεντείας, Iren.), revealing to Him and through Him to those after Him the "unknown Father." If, as Lipsius thinks (p. 119), Irenaeus has here been influenced by the later Gnostic systems, and has altered the original doctrine of Cerinthus as given in Hippolytus, that doctrine would seem to be that he considered "Jesus" and "Christ" titles given indifferently to that One Personality Which was blessed by the descent of the Holy Spirit, the Power on high (ἡ ἄνωθεν δύναμις). This Power enables Jesus to perform miracles, but forsakes Him at His Passion, "flying heavenwards." So, again, it is Jesus, according to one passage of Epiphanius, Who dies and rises again, the Christ being spiritual and remaining impassible; according to a second, it is Christ Who dies, but is not yet risen, nor shall He rise till the general resurrection. That passage, however, which allows that the human body of Jesus had been raised from the dead separates its author completely from Gnostic successors.
The Chiliastic eschatology of Cerinthus is very clearly stated by Theodoret, Caius, Dionysius (Eus.), and Augustine, but not alluded to by Irenaeus. His silence need perhaps cause no surprise: Irenaeus was himself a Chiliast of the spiritual school, and in his notes upon Cerinthus he is only careful to mention what was peculiar to his system. The conception of Cerinthus was highly coloured. In his "dream" and "phantasy" the Lord shall have an earthly kingdom in which the elect are to enjoy pleasures, feasts, marriages, and sacrifices. Its capital is Jerusalem and its duration 1000 years: thereafter shall ensue the restoration of all things. Cerinthus derived this notion from Jewish sources. His notions of eschatology are radically Jewish: they may have originated, but do not contain, the Valentinian notion of a spiritual marriage between the souls of the elect and the Angels of the Pleroma.
Other peculiar features of his teaching may be noted. He held that if a man died unbaptized, another was to be baptized in his stead and in his name, that at the day of resurrection he might not suffer punishment and be made subject to the ἐξουσία κοσμοποίος (cf. 156I. Cor. xv. 29. He had learned at Alexandria to distinguish between the different degrees of inspiration, and attributed to different Angels the dictation severally of the words of Moses and of the Prophets; in this agreeing with Saturninus and the Ophites. He insisted upon a partial observance of the "divine" law, such as circumcision and the ordinances of the sabbath; resembling, in this severance of the genuine from the spurious elements of the law, the school which produced the Clementina and the Book of Baruch. He did not even scruple (acc. to Epiph.) to call him who gave the law "not good," though the epithet may have been intended to express a charge of ethical narrowness rather than an identification of the Lawgiver with the πονηρός of Marcion. Epiphanius admits that the majority of these opinions rest upon report and oral communication. This, coupled with the evident confusion of the statements recorded, makes it difficult to assign to Cerinthus any certain place in the history of heresy. He can only be regarded generally as a link connecting Judaism and Gnosticism. The traditionary relations of Cerinthus to St. John have probably done more to rescue his name from oblivion than his opinions. In the course of time popular belief asserted that St. John had written his Gospel specially against the errors of Cerinthus, a belief curiously travestied by the counter-assertion that not St. John but Cerinthus himself was the author of both the Gospel and the Apocalypse. It is not difficult to account on subjective grounds for this latter assertion. The Chiliasm of Cerinthus was an exaggeration of language current in the earliest ages of the church; and no work in N.T. reproduced that language so ingenuously as the Apocalypse. The conclusion was easy that Cerinthus had but ascribed the Apocalypse to the Apostle to obtain credit and currency for his own forgery. The "Alogi" argued upon similar grounds against the Fourth Gospel. It did not agree with the Synoptists, and though it disagreed in every possible way with the alleged doctrines of Cerinthus, yet the false-hearted author of the Apocalypse was, they asserted, certainly the writer of the Gospel.
The Cerinthians (known also as Merinthians) do not appear to have long survived. If any are identical with the Ebionites mentioned by Justin (Dial. c. Tryph. 48), some gradually diverged from their master in a retrograde direction (Dorner, p. 320); but the majority were engulfed in sects of greater note. One last allusion to them is found in the ecclesiastical rule applied to them by Gennadius Massiliensis: "Ex istis si qui ad nos venerint, non requirendum ab eis utrum baptizati sint an non, sed hoc tantum, si credant in ecclesiae fidem, et baptizentur ecclesiastico baptismate" (de Eccles. Dogmatibus, 22; Oehler, i. 348).
The following primary and secondary authorities upon Cerinthus may be mentioned: Irenaeus, adv. Haer.; S. Hippolytus, Refutatio omn. Haeres. ("Philosophumena"); Theod. Haeret. Fab. Comp.; Epiphanius, Epit. Panar., Haer.; Philastrius, de Haeret., Corp. Haeresolog.; Augustine, de Haer. lib. viii.; Pseudo-Tertullian, Lib. adv. omn. Haeres. x.; Eus. Hist. Eccles.; Neander, Ch. Hist.; Ewald, Gesch. d. Volk. Israel; Gieseler, Eccles. Hist.; Lipsius, Zur Quellen-Kritik d. Epiphanius; Dorner, Die Lehre v. d. Person Christi; Milman, Hist. of Christianity; Robertson, Hist. of Christ. Ch.; Westcott, Canon of N.T., p. 243 (ed. 1866); Zahn, Gesch. der N.T. Canons, vol. i. 220–262, vol. ii. 973 etc.
[J.M.F.]
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Most of my friends aren't druids. This isn't a unique situation; in fact, I'm certain it's the norm for people in a minority religion largely composed of converts. But thanks to this blog, to prayers I post publicly on Facebook, and to my general oversharing, my non-druid friends interact actively with my religious life, often in ways that surprise me. When I write a prayer to the Matronae, for example, I don't expect it to be deeply meaningful even to other polytheists who don't have a relationship with them, much less to my monotheist or atheist friends. And yet they leave kind, appreciative comments, etc. Or, like my friend Mira, they stop by my office for a technical question, and before leaving ask,"why haven't you posted as many of your meditations lately? I miss them." I realize this sounds like a humblebrag, but that honestly isn't my intent: I truly am surprised and humbled by others' reactions. I hesitate to say this, because it sounds so clichédly #blessed, but it feels like a gift of the gods to be able to do the work and know that it means something to others. That public showing is important to me both personally and politically, and the loop of reciprocal appreciation greatly buoys my commitment to it.
Recently my husband's family experienced a loss: one of his cousins passed away tragically. As I sit here revising this post, we're in Omaha for a memorial service, but we got the news a couple weeks ago. It was rather a shock; I've never heard such plangent grief in Jarod's voice.
When there is death, I often pray to Manannán that he take care of the departed soul, ferrying them across the ninth wave, or wherever they need to travel in order to arrive at the place of their god(s) and their people. This takes many forms; sometimes I sing, sometimes I take a trance journey, sometimes I stand at my altar and make offerings. But it's always private, internal. On the evening of the news, however, as I was headed into the dining room to pray, I paused: Brooke was Jarod's cousin, so shouldn't I at least offer to include him?
He thought for a moment, and then said that, yes, he'd like to be included. And so I lit a candle and prayed to Brigid for a healing, inspirational fire, and then turned my attention to Manannán. I prayed, I sang, I gave offerings of rosemary and salt. But it was difficult. Throughout everything was a nagging doubt: did I look like a loon? Jarod's always been very respectful of my beliefs, but he doesn't share them at all. And so I kept experiencing a double consciousness, trying to stay focused on the moment and the prayers, but also wondering how Jarod was experiencing this small ritual. Was he getting something out of it? And, more selfishly, what was he thinking about me?
It was a sobering moment: we've talked about having kids of our own, and if we should, I would want to raise them to honor the gods and the spirits. And even if we should never have kids of our own, I want to be open and clear about my beliefs and practices to our godchildren (and their parents agree on that, even though they're not pagan — they want their children exposed to a variety of religious traditions). I'm a competent public ritualist and bard, but I realized that I don't know how to handle these more intimate situations. It's very important to me to welcome people in, but I have a lot of practicing to do, and confidence to learn.
A day or two later, as I was walking to work, I listened to Bob Boilen interviewing singer-songwriter Jens Lekman on All Songs Considered. I've always liked Jens Lekman — he has an introspective, plainspoken style that's terribly inviting to me, and an excellent sense of musicality that's sometimes contrary to expectation — so I was excited to listen to the interview. In it, Boilen asks Lekman about his open style, how he lays bares emotions that are often held close to the vest, and Lekman acknowledged the sometimes difficulty of his task: men in our society, he said, are not supposed to show those emotions so baldly.
And that got me to thinking about the great gift of my gay community. I don't mean to paint this monolithically; if you know one gay man you know one gay man. But the men I sing with in the Chorus welcome and encourage emotional honesty. We are open in our joy and in our grief, and we support each other: one of our members died unexpectedly just after the new year, and more than 40 of us showed up on a weekday morning to sing through tears at his funeral. So often our culture views marginal status as a weight to be borne, but in this case I view my homosexuality as an absolute gift. Already outside society's norm, it's so much easier (though still, to be clear, a struggle at times) to shed the masculine expectation of stoic endurance, and instead to grieve openly and love outrageously. I'm indebted to the gay men I share the stage with for their love and support, and the ways they've taught me to be myself.
In the last year, starting with the shooting at the Pulse nightclub and then continuing with deaths among friends and family, and with increasing political uncertainty about the future and safety of friends and family, I've heard this concern more and more from all corners of my social circle: how are we to express concern and love, over and beyond the various barriers of propriety and authority that we set up to separate us from each other and protect us from each others' emotions? And I've noticed those barriers breaking down. Colleague, friend, student, professor, whatever: people more baldly expressing their pain and uncertainty, but also their concern and love. It seems good, seems like an evolution of honest emotion.
In "Evening Prayer," Lekman's narrator's friend says, "It's helped me a lot to have a friend like you: when I saw you worry, I knew I had to be strong." While I very much understand and, often, live that truth, I'd also invert the formulation: having friends and family who express their real love and concern gives me permission to not be strong. I usually play the role of strong supporter, but all these disparate moments — the interest of my nondruid friends in my faith, my difficulty in showing my practice to my husband, the unfettered support of my Chorus brothers — remind me to recommit myself to not being strong: to be uncertain, weak, sorrowful, and to know that others will buoy me up, as I hold them up in my turn.
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Posted on February 27, 2017 February 27, 2017 by Mike BierschenkPosted in UncategorizedTagged community, death, family, friends, gay, homosexuality, honesty, Jens Lekman, openness, prayers.
That was an outstanding post. Thank you for your thoughts and insights.
You're very welcome indeed — I'm glad you enjoyed it.


US President Donald Trump in his speech at the State of the Union on Tuesday vowed to build the controversial border wall. He stated that the attempt by the Democrats at "ridiculous partisan investigations" was a threat and can damage the US prosperity.
Trump called illegal immigration "an urgent national crisis," but stopped short of declaring a border emergency that would allow him to bypass Congress for wall funding. Instead, he urged Democrats and Republicans to find a compromise by a February 15 deadline.
With various Democratic-controlled House committees ramping up scrutiny of his administration and personal finances, Trump warned, without offering evidence, that efforts to investigate his administration, along with the possibility of US involvement in wars abroad, would endanger the U.S. economy.
His remarks came as Democrats who now control the House planned a series of probes into the Trump administration and a special prosecutor investigates Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow. Russia denies meddling and Trump has said there was no collusion.
Many Democratic women lawmakers wore white to celebrate 100 years of women having gained the right to vote. Republicans cheered on the president, while Democrats held their fire and applauded mostly at non-partisan moments, such as when two Holocaust survivors were recognized.
Despite a lack of concrete progress in persuading North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program, Trump said his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would take place on February 27 and 28 in Vietnam. It is expected to be either in Hanoi or Da Nang.
He also hailed allied gains against ISIS terrorists in Syria and reiterated his plan to withdraw US troops from that war zone, despite comments earlier in the day from a top US general, Joseph Votel, that a US pullout could prompt a resurgence in the militancy.


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