PaymentWorks was inspired by the simple vision that we could create a supplier information management (SIM) solution to meet the growing information and collaboration requirements of companies and their suppliers, with a solution that was easy to use, and did not require a large investment of time or money to deploy. To achieve this, we imagined that companies and their suppliers would be able to connect and communicate with each other as easily as people connect on LinkedIn or Facebook.
PaymentWorks represents the culmination of my 25 years in the B2B payments industry at companies such as American Express and OB10 (now Tungsten Corp) and the opportunity to work with a great team including Alan Greenblatt, our co-founder and CTO, who has led development teams at companies such as Microsoft, Metatomix, and Adobe, Shawn McCarthy, our VP of Sales, who has held top leadership posts at CBord and WEX, Allen Carney, our Marketing leader, who has been VP of Marketing at companies such as Kofax, 170 Systems, and Lotus Development and, Paul Pedevillano, our CFO, who has taken several companies public.
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For the fishing enthusiast, a medley of vintage fishing scenes in blocks which measure approximately 6.5" x 5.5" each.
This listing is for one panel that measures approximately 22.5" and contains 18 blocks, 6 different designs that repeat 3 times - Multiple panels available.
All orders will be cut in one continuous piece, unless otherwise requested.


By combining the selectivity of targeted treatment with the cytotoxic potency of chemotherapy drugs, ADCs hold the promise to revolutionize disease treatment, especially for cancer. However, the path toward ADC success is not without challenges. Using lessons learned from the past decade of ADC development, scientists are developing strategies for the third-generation antibody-drug conjugates by selecting the right target antigens, designing new payloads, optimizing linkers and engineering conjugation chemistries.
In this first installment of our 2-part ADC program, PEGS Boston's 9th Annual Engineering Antibody-Drug Conjugates invites scientists to present their design strategies in increasing therapeutic index through novel payloads, alternative platforms and new linker conjugation technologies.
This talk will focus on the discovery and optimization of silvestrol analogs as a novel class of antibody-drug conjugate payloads. The key learnings around drug metabolism will be discussed and how this can be avoided through engineering of the antibody or small molecule. Finally, several stable conjugates were advanced into in vivo studies and efficacy and safety data will be presented.
Inhibitors of kinesin spindle protein (KSPi) have been developed as a novel payload class in antibody-drug conjugates. To increase tumor selectivity of ADC metabolism, a tumor associated protease with a unique cleavage sequence is utilized for lysosomal ADC cleavage and release of active metabolites with an appropriate profile matching the KSPi mode of action.
ADC technology is limited by the diversity of chemical payloads that retain activity in this targeted delivery format. Our group has identified NAMPT inhibitors as an ADC-compatible drug class with a distinctive mechanism targeting cellular metabolism. We report the development of a hydrophilic, cleavable linker for NAMPT inhibitors that enables targeted delivery. The favorable activity and toxicity profiles of the ADCs in preclinical models demonstrates a promising advance in the field with potential clinical utility.
Carl Uli Bialucha, PhD, Director, Oncology Biotherapeutics, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Inc.
Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) are multi-component drugs that leverage several mechanisms of action including immune-modulation of the tumor microenvironment. Our investigations have focused on dissecting the role played by the antibody component vs. that of the payload and the specific molecular mechanisms that drive immune-modulation by anti-mitotic ADCs. Our data further our understanding of the complex pharmacodynamic changes induced by ADCs and highlight avenues for rational combination strategies.
Affibody molecules are small (58 aa), folded and robust non-Ig based affinity proteins. We have recently developed drug conjugates based on engineered affibody molecules with specific affinity for the HER2 receptor, coupled to the small molecule drug DM1. Affibody molecules allow for site-specific drug attachment and easy control over DAR. We found that the drug conjugates were potent agents for treatment of xenografted human tumors in mice.
The combination of two specificities against targets co-expressed on cancer cells has the potential to improve specificity of targeting and increase the therapeutic index of antibody-drug conjugates. In this presentation, data will be presented on a 1+1 bispecific antibody-drug conjugate against two cancer stem cell associated targets. The discovery, in vitro screening and in vivo validation of this construct will be presented.
Cancer immunotherapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors (CPI) and interleukin (IL)-2 has demonstrated clinical efficacy but is frequently accompanied with severe adverse events caused by excessive and systemic immune system activation. Here, we addressed this need by targeting both the CPI antibodies αCTLA4 + αPD-L1 and the cytokine IL-2 to tumors via conjugation or recombinant fusion to a collagen-binding domain derived from the blood protein von Willebrand factor A3 domain, harnessing the exposure of tumor stroma collagen to blood components due to the leakiness of the tumor vasculature.
Solid tumors are evasive and heterogeneous, lacking surface tumor markers that are expressed consistently and abundantly. Unlike surface-based targets, levels of certain proteins in the cancer cell secretomes are selectively increased in the tumor microenvironment, but not normal environment. ImmunoBiochem is leveraging these targets for the selective delivery of highly-potent payloads directly to all cancer cells in the tumor, as well as various tumor-supporting cells, overcoming the challenges of heterogeneity, resistance and poor tumor penetration.
Homogeneous full-length antibodies and Fab-fragments pyrrolobenzodiazepine conjugates with a drug to antibody ratio of one are presented. These ADCs are prepared using dual-maleimide pyrrolobenzodiazepine dimers that have been engineered to re-bridge two adjacent cysteines at the antibody hinge, at an engineered position in the CH2 domain and at the Fab cysteines forming the intrachain disulfide bond.
This talk will describe the development and application of the next-generation maleimide class of reagents for the construction of ADCs. It will include a discussion of optimized dibromomaleimide and monobromomaleimide platforms for the rapid formation of robustly stable ADCs, by either rebridging the native disulfide bonds or conjugating to ThiomabsTM respectively. Insights into the application of these approaches for the construction of multispecifics will also be made, along with new enabling conjugation platforms.
We will introduce a new antibody-conjugation technology that enables site-specific payload attachment to native antibodies without engineering. Using this approach, well-defined ADCs can be generated directly from antibodies 'off-the-shelf' within less than two days and that have a drug-to-antibody ratio (DAR) of 2. We will provide a comprehensive set of data demonstrating that the ADCs generated with our new technology retain their binding properties, are highly cytotoxic to target over-expressing cell-lines and are stable with no drug-loss over extended periods.
In NexMab conjugation technology, metal-ion binding peptide motif is introduced at the C-terminus of antibody heavy chain for the site-specific conjugation of payload. This talk will present the high structural stability and in intro/vivo efficacy of HER-2 targeting ADC, constructed by NexMab conjugation method with DAR 2.


The Little Style File is so excited to share a fun Valentine's Day event hosted by our friends at the Land of Nod and A Little Photo Studio! On February 8th from 10am - 1pm, you can head to the Chicago Land of Nod for a free Valentine's Day Photo Booth.
That super cute background? Totally a Land of Nod rug!
Don't miss your chance to get fun and fab Valentine's Day photos of your kiddos and do a little discounted shopping while you're at it! To find a Land of Nod Valentine's Day Photo Booth event near you, click HERE and visit the store page closest to home.
Above images courtesy of A Little Photo Studio.


I recently went into the library for the first time in forever. Our library has a drive thru, so I typically place books I want on hold and pick it up there. Otherwise, I go inside for one book and walk out with like 7. When walking around this time, I spotted Top Ten by Katie Cutugno. I really liked Fireworks, so I immediately grabbed this one off the shelf.
Gabby and Ryan have been best friends since freshman year. It is now the night of their high school graduation and they decide to talk about their top 10 moments of high school.
The book is broken up by each top ten moment. The moments are not in any order which can be a bit confusing. For example, I think number 9 is the first time they hang out, but then you find out that they had met previously. No information is given about that until I think number 3. And there are also times where, let's say, number 8 is Spring of Junior year, and then number 7 is fall of Junior year. It can be a bit confusing to follow.
Gabby and Ryan's friendship is a bit different. He is a varsity hockey player as a freshman, and she is an anxious loner (with one close friend). But for some reason, their friendship works. At the beginning, Ryan and Gabby hook up on graduation night. Not knowing anything about their past, I was rooting for them. But as their past got revealed, I just got a bit annoyed with them.
I didn't quite understand why a lot of their top moments were top moments. To me, it shared a lot of bad moments from their friendships. While I'm sure they had great ones, otherwise they wouldn't have been best friends, most moments involved them fighting, or not talking or misunderstanding each other. It made it a bit difficult to root for them to be together.
I think that Cutugno's writing saved this story a bit. She did write it in a way that kept me intrigued and involved in their relationship/friendship, even if I didn't like them much.
Unfortunately, I think this is my least favorite book of Cutugno's. I liked the idea behind it and her writing was still enjoyable, but the story itself didn't sit well with me. I didn't much care for Gabby or Ryan and felt their friendship was a bit dysfunctional. The ending also felt like it came a bit abruptly. My friends and I always comment with endings like this by asking if the author had a page limit that they had to wrap up by, and this definitely felt like it. It's not a bad book, but just not one of my favorites.


The last few days before Christmas saw a flurry of Christmas activities for our family. We visited the Victorian Christmas fair in Nevada City, were dazzled by the Zoo Lights display at Oakland Zoo, were entertained by a production of the Nutcracker and checked out the giant gingerbread house at the Fairmont Hotel. Phew, what a lot of Christmas fun! Of course, on top of all that there was last minute shopping, wrapping and decorating. It's amazing we weren't all Christmased out by the big day.
Every December Oakland Zoo lights up the night in a festive way with its Zoo Lights display. We haven't made it there in the past but this year it happened to appear as an activity on our advent calendar. So one night last week we headed off to the zoo after dark and took in the spectacle of lights.
Elfie Pokie Nokie has flown back to the North Pole to stay with Santa for another year.
On day twenty two we found Elfie playing a game of Uno with one of Ava's teddy bears. From the look of that hand I'd say that Elfie has picked up some of Ava's cheating techniques. The good old "shuffle the cards so that you get all the good ones" trick!
Christmas is now over for another year but I'm still a little behind with the Christmas posts - as usual!
As soon as the girls woke up on Christmas morning they knew that they'd made Santa's nice list thanks to the trail of sparkly, snowy footprints he'd left in the hallway overnight. You can find out how Santa left these footprints here. The footprints lead all the way from our Christmas tree in the lounge room, down our entry hallway and out our apartment door. The girls followed the footprints and discovered that, just like previous years, the footprints lead all the way to our nearest fire stairwell which was obviously Santa's point of entry.
It has now been three weeks since Elfie Pokie Nokie made his appearance back in our home and it seems he's been having just as much this week as the last two.
On the fifteenth day Elfie was pleased to discover that we finally had a Christmas tree. We found him perched up near the top after a night of tree climbing.
While those iPhone shots tend not to be as high quality as the photos taken with my real camera, they often end up becoming my favourites. They're usually more candid and capture brief moments in time when I wasn't actually planning on taking a photo. Plus the right Instagram filter can make a big difference.
While my photos may be everywhere digitally, I don't really have that many printed photos in my home. The era of digital photography has all but brought an end to that. There's no need for bulky photo albums filling up book shelves or shoe boxes of photos stashed away in cupboards. Whenever I want to see my photos I can just look on my computer, iPad or phone. While I love the convenience of digital photography and the easy, space saving storage I've got to admit that I do miss having printed photos around. Not albums and albums worth mind you, just the special photos that make me smile.
That's where Social Print Studio's Printstagram comes in handy. Printstagram offers various high quality printing options for your Instagram photos including archival quality prints, mini books, stickers, posters and greeting cards. The Social Print Shop has a great range of display options for your printed photos. I quite like the concrete photo block shown below.
On our advent calendar there are always two activity vouchers that the girls just can't wait to get their hands on. The first is visiting Santa at Macy's which came up on the advent calendar a week back. The second is choosing a tree from a Christmas tree farm. They've been waiting so patiently for their second favourite voucher and it finally appeared yesterday.
Elfie Pokie Nokie has now been back in our home for two weeks and just like last week this week has seen him getting into all sorts of things. He's been building, playing board games, reading books, hiding in various strange locations and even been fishing. Thankfully he didn't manage to catch any of our fish!
On Elfie's eighth day in our home he got into the Lego Duplo and built himself a little fort - and spread quite a few blocks all over the floor. Of course, this was right after the girls and I had picked up all of the Lego and Duplo blocks and packed them away for the evening! The girls didn't seem to mind though and were quite impressed with his building skills.
A recurring voucher throughout our advent calendar is one that entitles Ava and Lola to make Christmas crafts. We've worked on a few things so far (which I will be sharing soon) but today I wanted to share my favourite: waterless snow globes.
I've been seeing homemade snow globes popping up all over Pinterest and I really love the look of them. They're simple to make and they look really effective, especially when grouped together.
A Christmas activity that appears in our advent calendar every year is visiting the sugar castle at the Westin St Francis Hotel in San Francisco. After visiting Santa at Macy's last Friday we braved the rain and wind to make a detour on the way home and stop by the hotel for a look at the castle.
Each year in December the Westin St Francis on Union Square displays a beautifully made castle crafted entirely of sugar in their main lobby. Each year the castle is added to or modified slightly from the previous year. The fairy tale castle is always surrounded by a picture perfect little village and a (not made of sugar!) model train that chuffs its way around and around. The castle itself also revolves so that all sides can be seen from any one spot.
The lobby of the Westin is rather dark which makes for a dramatic setting for the castle. The fact that it was a very gloomy night outside made it even more atmospheric, although a little hard to photograph without a tripod.
Ok, so that title could be a little misleading.
It has been really cold here lately, even technically cold enough at night that it could snow. But it hasn't. That would truly be amazing and would make this frosty cold weather we've been experiencing worthwhile.
So, while it hasn't actually been snowing here, we did get a chance to play in snow, right here in Berkeley, over the weekend. On Sunday the annual "Snow? In Berkeley?" event was held in Berkeley's Gourmet Ghetto. A parking lot was transformed into a mini Winter wonderland complete with real snow for the kids (small and big alike) to play in.
Lola and her, umm... snowman!
For the last few months Ava has been taking karate classes with a small group of kids in a nearby park. Yesterday was the day for her official white belt test. The rest of Ava's class actually had their test back when we were in New York so yesterday's test was just all for Ava.
It was a pretty cold day, probably no more than 6 degrees celcius, but the sun was out so it was quite pleasant in the park. Of course, when the wind blew it was pretty chilly but luckily the wind stayed at bay for most of Ava's test.
Ava takes herself pretty seriously when she does her activities, especially when she sees it as a competition so she was very focused during her test and put in a lot of effort. She even did a good job of ignoring Lola who was making a lot of noise trying to copy Ava off to the side. It all paid off in the end when she was awarded her white belt and a certificate. She's all about the certificates, our girl. Certificates and trophies. If there's a certificate or trophy on offer Ava is in!
Yesterday's advent calendar activity was the one that the girls had been waiting for: visiting Santa at Macy's. They could not wait to go see the man in red and tell him in person that they'd like American Girl dolls for Christmas.
After school we headed to Macy's to visit Santa in Santaland. It may have been cold, windy and pouring with rain but that wasn't going to stop us in our quest to see Santa. The gloomy weather combined with the train ride did send Lola off to sleep though which meant that she was a little grumpy when we arrived.
The Elf on the Shelf appeared in our home on the first day of December. Since then he's been flying back to the North Pole every night to report to Santa and coming back again in the early hours of the morning. Last year when he'd fly back to our home he'd find a comfy spot on a shelf, the Christmas tree or door handle to hang from. This year, however, he's been a little cheekier and has been getting into all sorts of things.
On the first day the Elf appeared in the advent calendar. This is the spot that he always appears on the first day and also the last place he appears before flying back to the North Pole after Christmas.
Yesterday's activity on the advent calendar wasn't really related to Christmas. In fact, it was related to another holiday that falls this time of year: Hanukkah.
In the afternoon we caught up with friends for a little Hanukkah party. Ava has been learning about different cultures and traditions at school and this week's focus has been on Hanukkah, so she thinks herself quite the expert. She's been telling me all about how to light the candles on the menorah and how to play with a dreidel; two things she was looking forward to doing at the party.
Our delicious afternoon tea consisted of potato latkes with apple sauce, brisket, cinnamon buns, Hanukkah cookies, fruit and chocolate "gelt" coins.
It's the first day of December and that means it's the first day of the advent calendar. Ava and Lola have eagerly been waiting the arrival of the advent calendar so they were pretty excited this morning when they walked out of their bedroom and discovered it hanging in the hallway.
As usual I have filled our advent calendar with vouchers for Christmas themed activities rather than the traditional chocolates. And as usual first up in the advent calendar was a voucher to write and send letters to Santa, something which Ava has been very eager to do for weeks.
Today we headed down to Silicon Valley, home of some of the world's largest and most influential tech companies. While down there we visited the headquarters of one such company: Google.
Google's corporate headquarters, known as the Googleplex, sprawls over a large area of land and features many low rise buildings. We had a bit of a drive around looking at the buildings, but the main attraction, especially for the girls, was the collection of Android lawn statues located in front of Building 44. The statues were a huge hit with the girls as they're all based on the deliciously sweet code names of Android mobile operating system versions: Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich, Jelly Bean and Kit Kat. What kid wouldn't love statues of such delicious treats?
Here's a look at the girls with the Android statues. Oh, and that silly hat that they're wearing? That's a "Noogler" hat given to new Google staff, otherwise known as "Nooglers". Hats with propellors are always the best!
"Dr Lola, there seems to be something up with my belly. Can you tell me what it is?"
"Hmm... Let me just check with my stethoscope, Patient Mummy."
"Just as I thought... It's a baby!"
Thanks to Dr Lola's diagnosis (along with that of actual real doctors!) I'm very happy to announce that the Mason family will have a new member joining us in late April 2014.
We're all very excited and can't wait for our little one to arrive. Ava and Lola can't wait to be big (and bigger) sisters.
So far I've been feeling pretty good and the baby is a healthy size and right on track for growth.
After all the bad luck the first half of the year had in store, it looks like the second half of 2013 has turned around for us. 2014 is looking pretty good from here too!
Yesterday Ava had the day off school so we decided to head into the city.
We met up with some friends and headed to the Children's Creativity Museum. As we arrived kind of late in the day (the girls had medical check ups and flu shots in the morning) we didn't have much time to explore the whole museum. Instead we headed straight to the Animation Studio and created our very own claymation movies.
Now, the girls and I visited Children's Creativity Museum during the Summer vacation last year but for some reason I never got around to writing a post about it. Last time we visited we created a claymation movie as well so this time around Ava thought herself quite the little expert! In fact, she actually did make her claymation character without any help and filmed the entire thing on her own too. Might have to send her down the road to work at Pixar!
Ava makes her claymation penguin.
Start with the "guts" and cover it with a coloured "skin".
Our second full day in New York got off to an earlier start. Tonight we'd be staying with our friends Daniela and Sam so we packed up what we needed for the night and headed from the east side to the west side via Central Park. The girls were pretty happy to walk through the park after being surrounded by buildings for the last few days.
Well, Halloween is done and dusted for another year.
The girls had so much fun dressing up and going trick or treating with their friends. This year both of the girls decided to go for slightly scarier costumes than they have in the past. Ava dressed as a vampire and Lola was a bat; a vampire bat, of course!
Today Ava and Lola celebrated their friend Solly's 3rd birthday with a party in a nearby park.
The girls wanted to give Solly something special that they had made themselves so we decided to bake some cookies. To make the cookies special the girls personalised them with drawings.


When the Act on Promotion of Women's Participation and Advancement in the Workplace came into force, the percentage of women in managerial positions at INTAGE Inc. was 16.67%. Now, this percentage has increased to 22.95%.
If we include women in specialist positions not engaged in line management (collectively referred to as "executive positions" at INTAGE Inc.), the percentage is 25.10%, or one in four employees.
Not only are women employed as divisional heads (referred to as "Group Leaders" at INTAGE Inc.), others are also actively involved as group managers, general managers, and directors.
There are also a number of female employees serving as Group Leaders while raising children.
The Group Leader of the Human Resources Group, for instance, is actively involved at work while raising children at home.
Looking at the ratio of new female recruits over the past five years, this has ranged from a low of one in three new employees to a high of twice the number of new male recruits.
Marketing research is one of the core areas of business at INTAGE Inc., and is an occupation in which employees can play an active role regardless of gender.
Although some of the products we handle may be oriented to males and some to females, there are no gender-based differences in our actual business operations.
If anything, female employees have perhaps a stronger customer point of view.
At INTAGE Inc., there are absolutely no gender-based differences in employment conditions.
Almost all employees who are having or have had a baby return to work after taking maternity/childcare leave (over 90%), and play active roles at work while utilizing our system of reduced working hours for parenting.
This has been commonplace at INTAGE Inc. ever since the active participation of women in the workplace was first advocated long ago.
Some male employees also take childcare leave, enabling them to cooperate with their partners in raising their children.
At INTAGE Inc., it is also perfectly acceptable for male employees to leave work early to pick up their children from preschool.
Naturally, the same goes for female employees leaving work early.
In this way, INTAGE Inc. has developed a working environment in which female employees can continue to work without being concerned about their stage in life.
1. Present situation at INTAGE Inc.


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Q: Multiple application entry points Recently I was trying to add unit tests to an existing binary by creating a extra (DLLMain) entry point to an application that already has a main entry point (it is a console exe). The application seemed to compile correctly although I was unable to use it as a DLL from my python unit test framework, all attempts to use the exe as a dll failed.
Has anyone any ideas or experience in adding extra application entry point with any input as to why this would or wouldn't work?

A: There are some problems which you should solve to implement what you want:

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*The exe must have relocation table (use linker switch /FIXED:NO)

*The exe must exports at least one function - it's clear how to do this.

I recommend use DUMPBIN.EXE with no some switches (/headers, /exports and without switches) to examine the exe headers. You can compare the structure of your application with Winword.exe or outlook.exe which exports some functions.
If all this will not helps, I'll try to write a test EXE application which can be loaded as an exe and post the code here.
UPDATED: Just now verified my suggestion. It works. File Loadable.c looks like following
#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>

EXTERN_C int __declspec(dllexport) WINAPI Sum (int x, int y);

EXTERN_C int __declspec(dllexport) WINAPI Sum (int x, int y)
{
    return x + y;
}

int main()
{
    printf ("2+3=%d\n", Sum(2,3));
}

The only important linker switch is /FIXED:NO which one can find in advanced part of linker settings. The program can run and produced the output "2+3=5".
Another EXE loaded the EXE as a DLL and calls Sum function:
#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>

typedef int (WINAPI *PFN_SUM) (int x, int y);

int main()
{
    HMODULE hModule = LoadLibrary (TEXT("C:\\Oleg\\ExeAsDll\\Loadable.exe"));
    PFN_SUM fnSum = (PFN_SUM) GetProcAddress (hModule, "_Sum@8");
    int res = fnSum (5,4);
    printf ("5+4=%d\n", res);
    return 0;
}

The program also can run and produced the output "5+4=9".

A: I don't know for sure, but I would guess that Windows simply refuses to load an EXE in-process and a DLL as a new process, plain and simple.
These questions appear to contain more detail:

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*Can the DllMain of an .exe be called?

*DllMain in an exe?
The simplest way to get both behaviours in one executable image is to design it as a DLL, then use rundll32.exe to execute it standalone. There's no need to write your own wrapper.

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Wonder Woman In The Pulpit
It matters that Mary and Jesus are often inaccurately imaged with light skin in the West. It matters that pastors preach on Jacob, David, and Peter but not Rahab, Tamar, and Priscilla. And it matters that, Sunday after Sunday, women don't see preachers who look like us in the pulpit.
Women in Marriage & Ministry
By Wendy Francisco | June 05, 2001
The widespread misunderstandings and mistranslations resulting in gender hierarchy are damaging to people, marriages and the body of Christ. I am going to start by diving into the most famous (or infamous) passage on marriage in Ephesians Chapter 5. It's amazing to discover what this passage really says!
Women Illuminating the Word
By Joanne Nystrom Janssen | June 05, 2005
When Minneapolis-based calligrapher and graphic designer Diane von Arx Anderson was invited to work on The Saint John's Bible, the first handwritten illuminated Bible in 500 years, it did not ever cross her mind to refuse.
Women and Their Roles in the New Testament
By Ben Witherington | July 21, 2017
This lecture examines all the major passages that address women and their roles in the church and in society.
Women and People of Color in Christian Academia: A Reflection on the Future of Evangelicalism
By Emily Louise Zimbrick-Rogers | December 29, 2016
The recent election has prompted significant reflection for many evangelicals, including notable contributions from Christianity Today managing editor Katelyn Beaty[1], Fuller president Mark Labberton and Fuller president emeritus Richard Mouw[2], and Northeastern assistant professor of New Testament Esau McCaulley[3], who writes about being black, evangelical, and an Anglican priest.
Womanist Liberation for All
By Mimi Haddad | September 05, 2020
Though demeaned and exploited as outliers, their suffering is known by the God who sees, who vindicates their demands for equality, and who endures their abuses on the road to Calvary.
Why Womanist Theology Is Vital to Me
By David Hart | February 26, 2020
Womanist interpretation seeks to use the Scriptures to explore and empower the construction of black womanhood, the experiences of black women as it relates to the world, and the black community and church.
Why We Need to Model Egalitarianism for the Next Generation
By Anne Marie Scherer | April 21, 2021
What is modeled for us can affect what we believe is possible. It is important for churches to model women's equality to create a more equal future for the next generation.
Why We Need to Correct for Patriarchal Bias in Bible Translations
By Tim Krueger | December 04, 2017
Evangelical tradition places a high value on the biblical text, which is a good thing. But too often, we buy into a myth that our favorite translation is God's true Word, pure and untainted by bias. Changes are seen as a threat to God's truth, motivated by a social or political agenda.

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Splinting immobilizes a limb that may be broken or severely sprained to prevent further injury and ease pain until you can see a health professional. Splinting may also be helpful after a snakebite while you wait for help to arrive. There are two ways to immobilize a limb: tie the injured limb to a stiff object, or fasten it to some other part of the body.
For the first method, tie rolled-up newspapers or magazines, a stick, a cane, or anything that is stiff to the injured limb, using a rope, a belt, or anything else that will work. Do not tie too tightly.
Position the splint so the injured limb cannot bend. A general rule is to splint from a joint above the injury to a joint below it. For example, splint a broken forearm from above the elbow to below the wrist.
For the second method, tape a broken finger to the one next to it, or immobilize an arm by tying it across the chest. Again, do not tie too tightly.
These splinting methods are for short-term, emergency use only. They are not substitutes for proper medical evaluation and care. Your doctor will provide you with a splint or cast that is appropriate for the type of injury you have.


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musings from the back porch
"I Feel Limited"
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Reconstruction Part Two
"Every revolution has its counterrevolution – that is a sign the revolution is for real." C. Wright Mills
The issues "central to Reconstruction are as old as the American republic and as contemporary as the inequalities that still afflict our society".
Eric Foner Reconstruction:America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
Recently I spoke with a Black friend about the Confederate statue that stands in the center of our square. "When you drive through town, what do you think when you see that statue?" "I feel limited. It says to me that there are limits to what I can ever accomplish."
Those words would be very familiar to W.E.B. Du Bois. Dubois was born in 1868 in Massachusetts and was educated at Fisk University and a PHD from Harvard. One of the founders of the NAACP, he was a scholar in languages, economics and history. His book, Black Reconstruction in America: 1860-1880 , published in 1935, countered the historical analysis of the day and created a storm amongst white historians. His voice was ultimately dismissed. It wasn't until the 1960's that his description of Reconstruction began to overthrow the conventional wisdom.
Du Bois, as Eric Foner would do in 1988, put Blacks in the center of the story of Reconstruction. He argued that it was black laborers in the South and abolitionists in the North who ultimately brought about the Civil War. The Northern abolitionists and the underground railroads of Harriet Tubman and Josiah Hensen were a "safety valve" for slaves who began to escape to the border states. This was a huge economic loss to the Southern planters and they could see the end of slavery if they did not take action. They chose secession and war to keep their valuable property. In the years of Reconstruction after the war, the struggle continued as Blacks persisted in moving forward and upward with the initial help of allies in the North. If their efforts had not been so violently hindered, perhaps the statue would not be there today.
Odyssey of Freed Slaves in The South Library of Congress
A timeline
In order to see the connections between the tumultuous events of Reconstruction and the racial justice issues of today, a timeline may be helpful. Kendi, Guelzo, Foner, and Du Bois helped me create this one.
1863. Emancipation Proclamation (Foner dates Reconstruction from Lincoln's action)
1865. April 9. Lee' surrender at Appomattox was the beginning of the end
1865. April 15. Abraham Lincoln's assassination
1865. May 29. Andrew Johnson, newly inaugurated, issued his Reconstruction Proclamation which pardoned all but the highest levels of Confederate officials. The Confederates immediately elected their sympathizers to the constitutional conventions and passed Black codes that essentially created a South very similar to the one before the war. Even though the 13th Amendment had been passed and barred slavery, Kendi quotes a Black veteran who said,"If you call this freedom, what is slavery?"
1865. December 18. The 13th Amendment officially added to the Constitution. Slavery was outlawed.
1866. A coalition of Radical Republicans and moderate Republicans (Kendi labels this group as "Anti-Black" for reasons of their self interest in keeping Blacks from fleeing North) were able to push back on Johnson's actions and move Reconstruction in another direction. They overrode vetoes and passed two key pieces of legislation.
Extension of The Freedman's Bureau
1866. The coalition group passed 14th Amendment (ratified in 1869)
Major change to how the Constitution would be applied in our country
Citizenship clause (gender appeared for the first time)
Due process clause
Equal protection clause
1866. May: Memphis white mobs killed 48 Blacks and gang raped at least five Black women (Kendi, Foner, Guelzo all confirmed this information)
1866. May: The Louisiana governor endorsed the Radical Republican plan to reconvene the Constitutional convention to give Blacks the right to vote and to keep those who fought in the Civil War(the "rebels" from voting. At the convention attended by many Black soldiers, fighting in the street broke out. New Orleans police killed 34 Blacks and 3 radicals in what General Phillip Sheridan called "a massacre".
1867. Klu Klux Klan began their reign of terror
1867. New state constitutions were required for readmission to the United States
1867-1869. State constitutional conventions were held
1869. The 15th Amendment was passed
Race could not be used to deny a man the right to vote
Ramifications
The ramifications of Reconstruction are dramatically displayed In this abbreviated timeline and the images. The leniency of the President and the radical actions of the Congress set up another war, one of moral, economic, and political issues. The Reconstruction period would not end until 1877 (Foner). There were more events to be noted as well as characters, Black and white, who played important roles. The world turned upside down for everyone in the South, and the nation itself would also never be the same.
"Over a century ago, prodded by demands of four million men and women just emerging from slavery, Americans made their first attempt to live up to the noble professions of their political creed—something few societies have ever done. The effort produced a sweeping redefinition of the nation's public life and a violent reaction that ultimately destroyed much, but by no means all, of what had been accomplished. From the enforcement of the rights of citizens to the stubborn problems of economic and racial justice, the issues central to Reconstruction are as old as the American republic, and as contemporary as the inequalities that still afflict our society." Eric Foner, Reconstruction:America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877.
Musings from the Porch will continue to explore Reconstruction and its issues, personalities, and themes in the days ahead.
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maryvfw says:
Thank you Ruth! You paint a very clear picture of the turmoil of the times. Greed has been a major driving force in our country, and it continues today. Demonizing a group of people involves creating fear and lies about the people while it satisfies the desire for wealth and power for the for the demonizer. I think it is very important to see the reality of what was done to African Americans. The cruelty was sickening, but the full weight of the cruelty is not revealed often. We have to know about it in order to avoid other occurrences of cruelty toward an easily identifiable group. Hitler had no trouble identifying the Jews as "other" in order to bring people together and give him power. They all lived in a walled area and practiced their faith and cultural customs. They were the perfect people for his purpose.
Barbara Phillips says:
Thank you for the extensive research and understanding that enabled you to produce this accurate and informative timeline. The timeline provides the "bones" for understanding the relationship among these historic events and the opportunity to consider more deeply the echoes today of those events of the past.
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Broadway has a new play about Enron. Where's the one about Madoff?
By Daniel Gross
The plot of an engaging play debuting on Broadway this week is ripped straight from the Wall Street Journal. In the opening scene, high-living finance types celebrate an accounting technique that promises to make their business a fortune. There are off-balance-sheets, conflicts of interest, credulous Wall Street analysts, a hands-off CEO, and a dorky, greasy-haired finance jockey who becomes a buff stud before crashing. When they're not screwing each other, the venal, vain executives are screwing over shareholders.
The protagonist (played with flair and great energy by Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz) isn't Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld or Bear Stearns CEO Jimmy Cayne. It's Jeffrey Skilling, the now-jailed CEO of Enron. The play, Enron, sends up what was, until 2008, one of the greatest debacles in American financial history. The play's talk of George W. Bush's candidacy and deregulated electricity markets is definitely dated. But the human foibles it lays bare—the greed, arrogance, and hubris of financiers, the temptations of off-balance-sheet debt, the corruption of the business establishment, and the refusal to take responsibility—are very much au courant.
This show's arrival on Broadway, nearly nine years after Enron's implosion, raises a larger question. In our Law & Order, ripped-from-the-headlines times, why has the American entertainment machine been slow to turn the financial drama of 2008 into prime drama in 2010? There are projects in the works, to be sure. Andrew Ross Sorkin's Too Big to Fail, a chronicle of the demise of the system, was sold to HBO; Michael Lewis's The Big Short, a tale of a few misfits who bet against the subprime-mortgage market and won, has been optioned by Brad Pitt and Paramount. But it could be years before either is made. As Lewis noted: "It's hard to turn Wall Street into onscreen drama."
It's particularly tough to turn the recent crisis into good entertainment. Blogs, in-depth newspaper reports, CNBC's wall-to-wall coverage, and several dozen nonfiction books have made the players into too-familiar characters. Also, the best and most enduring Wall Street entertainment hasn't been post-crash autopsies, but ripping bubble-era tales. Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities started as a serial in Rolling Stone in 1984 and 1985, and came out as a book in 1987. Oliver Stone's Wall Street was released in December 1987, just two months after the crash. It may be that artists need to wait a very long time before tackling the recent crisis. It's easy to forget that It's a Wonderful Life, a film that was essentially about the bank crisis of the early '30s, didn't reach theaters until 1946. The old formula goes: comedy=tragedy + time. But as last week's charges against Goldman Sachs show, this tragedy isn't even over yet.
The most ambitious efforts so far to make dramatic lemonade out of the financial lemons have come from Britain. Enron started out in London, the brainchild of 29-year-old Lucy Prebble, creator of the British series Secret Diary of a Call Girl. Last fall the BBC aired a snappy, one-hour narrative, The Last Days of Lehman Brothers, with James Cromwell in the role of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. The Britishisms can be off-putting—characters refer to Lehman as "Lehmans," and Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis, a Georgia native, has a drawl that sounds more Cornwall than Cobb County. While many of the scenes are true to life, there's plenty of fantasy. At one point, Fuld and his assistant quote Revelation 18:3 to each other: "Because all the nations have drunk of the wine of the fury of her fornication … and the merchants of the earth have been enriched through the might of her luxury." On the real Wall Street, the only time big shots use the Lord's name, it's to take it in vain.
Unfortunately, the latest financial inferno has yet to produce villains who can hold our attention for a couple of hours. At first blush, Bernard Madoff's epic Ponzi scheme would seem to be fodder for at least a television series. But the Madoff who emerged from his brief confession and several books is a banal, unrepentant liar who acted largely on his own. There are no depths of soul to plumb. The FX series Damages, in its third season, centers on the Madoff-esque Louis Tobin, but he confesses and is sentenced in the first episode of the season; by the third, he's committed suicide. Ted Danson's Arthur Frobisher, the coke-snorting, Enron-style villain of the first season, gets as much screen time as Tobin. It's as if an old villain had to be revived in order to maintain the audience's interest.
Hollywood is recycling lots of old villains as new, postcrisis heroes. The trailer for Oliver Stone's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps shows Michael Douglas' Gordon Gekko being released from jail in the present (but not without an empty money clip and his brick of a 1980s cell phone). Grizzled, shorn of status, and eager to repair severed family ties, Gekko is shocked to find that the greed he once celebrated now runs rampant and has become institutionalized. Nowadays he's supposed to be one of the good guys.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleepsis one of the few big-budget pieces of crisis culture. But there's some clever stuff done on the cheap. NPR's This American Life in April aired a hilarious two-minute show tune, written by Avenue Q co-creator Robert Lopez, about a hedge fund's bets against subprime mortgages, "Bet Against the American Dream." And actors at Iceland's Reykjavik City Theater recently began a dramatic reading of a 2,250-page report about the country's financial crisis. If you think it's tough to grasp this stuff in English, try it in Icelandic.
In these chastened, indie-budget times, why bother to invent new villains and story lines when old ones are essentially interchangeable? Adam Haslett's Union Atlantic, an engaging but not-too-ambitious novel about bank bailouts, is very much of the moment, even though Haslett said he wrote the first scenes in the wake of the Enron debacle.
Enron proves that you've got to add a lot of bells and whistles to enliven a story that is essentially about meetings and people pushing buttons on computers. There are dance routines, a musical number about commodity prices, a sketch involving light sabers, and plenty of other shtick: The board of directors is costumed as three blind mice, and actors with dinosaur heads eat debt fed to them by Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow. In a closing scene, Skilling is confronted by employees at a funeral. He's disgraced, alone, uncomprehending—and yet we don't feel for him. There's only so much lipstick you can put on a greedy pig.
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As a dating coach, pretty much everywhere I go there are guys that are wondering how to get a girlfriend to embellish their lives. They want love, attraction, lust, someone to watch movies with and of course, someone to make love to. Unfortunately, the guys that say they need a girlfriend … well, most of the time, they are also the least likely guys to get one.
That's because a lot of the time, those guys come from a place of need. If you've ever heard the term "being needy", then that's exactly what we're talking about. If you've ever said: "If only I had a girlfriend, then everything would be O.K. and I'd be happy", then you"re looking for a girlfriend in order to fix your life. This is a huge mistake, but we'll fix it!
The primary step in actually getting a girlfriend is to come from a place of abundance and happiness. Girls will be attracted to you if you're already content with your life and you're not looking at them to fill some emotional or physical need that needs filling. Why is that? Well, for one, being needy screams of desperation. Being desperate means that no one else wants you, which consequently lowers your social status and makes you very unattractive. Not to mention, being needy is just annoying, repelling and definitely not something you want in your life.
That being said, there is a huge difference between being needed and being wanted. If you go completely in the opposite direction and you pretend you don't care at all for a girl, you definitely won't be any closer to getting a girlfriend in your life. Everyone wants to feel wanted… but for the right reasons. When you're with a girl that seems to be girlfriend worthy, then make sure she knows, consciously or unconsciously, why you like her.
For example, if she makes you laugh, then just laugh. You can also tell her that she's witty or cute when she's clumsy… depending on the circumstances. All that matters is that the girl in question knows that you're interested in her for the right reasons. If you simply want a girlfriend as a status symbol, because you feel that she'll fix everything in your life or simply because you believe that you'll have more chances of sleeping with her, then she'll very likely reject you at your first approach.
Instead, make sure she knows why you like her, and have genuinely good reasons that you disclose slowly and subtly over time. Do not, under any circumstances, start professing your love, listing all the reasons why she's the love of your life. You may have seen such a scene in a movie, where the guy gets the girl by telling her every last little detail about why he likes her, but in reality (and remember, that's where we live), that simply doesn't work.
In fact, it's quite the opposite. Having someone profess their undying love for you is… well, kind of awkward at best and repelling most of the time. Instead, the next time she does something you like, simply let her know that you noticed it and you enjoy what she did. Then move on and act as if you never said anything. Eventually, she'll realize that you like her for the right reasons.
So how can you make the switch from being needy to being happy without a girlfriend? Well, the path will differ for many, and on your journey, you're likely to find a girlfriend without even trying. However, let's assume you're already coming from a place of abundance, you're already happy with your life and you want a girl for the right reasons… then what?
Assuming you already have a girl in mind, the next step you need to take is to spend time with her. The more time you spend with her, the more you are to form a relationship with her. The one commonality that couples have is the following: they all spend a lot of time with each other. Even in long distance relationships, the couples usually end up talking to each other for hours every day. Therefore, if you want any chance of getting a girlfriend, you're going to have to see her a few times a week.
Even though how often you see each other is very important, it's actually the progression that is even more important. Allow me to explain. When you first meet a girl, you're usually going to go out once or twice per week together. Then, as things progress, you'll end up spending 3-4 days a week together, at which point the relationship will naturally turn into a boyfriend and girlfriend relationship, assuming there is attraction involved.
The problem that many guys encounter is that they simply go completely overboard too quickly. Although the progression rate varies tremendously from person to person, if you start calling a girl and asking her to hang out every single night, you'll come across as needy, which as we covered, is not what we want. Instead, I advocate spending as much time as you want together without it feeling forced. If you lead a relatively empty life and she's really busy, then you'll want to match her busy life and hang out maybe once a week at the start. By contrast, if she's free most of the time, then you can can progress much quicker. Ideally, find a girl with as much free time as you, that way you won't be bored when she's busy.
Finally, the last crucial part of getting a girlfriend is building attraction. Without attraction, you'll forever get caught up in the "Let's just be friends" zone which is far from what you want when you like a girl. Remember that attraction is a fire that can be ignited if you mix the right elements together. Make sure to read up on the numerous articles on how to create attraction on How-To Seduction, and refer anyone in need to this how to get a girlfriend article.


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Maury Povich felt betrayed by NBC when he retired, refusing to do so
Is Maury Povich Feeling cheated? A report says he is not happy about how his retirement was managed on NBC. Gossip Cop Investigates
'Pivod Povich has blocked NBC'
According to National Investigator, Povich is deeply dissatisfied with how NBC has retired him. He was selected for his final interview with ABC, presumably as a way to get revenge. One source said, "You can imagine how rude he was when he read that he was canceled!"
It is learned that Povich was given the opportunity to appear Today To discuss the end of his long career, however, he dropped out on NBC. Instead, he walked across the over corridor Good morning America. Allegedly his bitterness got him the best.
A bittersweet finish for Maury Povich
It is true that Fennel Air is ending after 30 years. In a statement DeadlineNBCUniversal's EVP called the ending a bittersweet: "Maury and I decided two years ago that this season would be the show's farewell season, and although his retirement was bitter, we were happy to spend more time on the golf course."
The same is echoed in Povich's own statement. His contract expired six years ago and he was ready to retire, but NBCUniversal agreed to another deal. Povich explained, "Although I told them I was ready to lead a supportive life, because of the loyalty of NBCUniversal and my more than 100 staff and crew members, Tracy Wilson and I agreed to one more agreement."
Critically, Povich props to NBC: "I am very proud of my relationship with those who have worked on NBCUniversal and the Maury show." By his own confession, Povich was ready to leave years ago. He is not deceived by any cancellation. He was ready to call it a successful career.
Lots of morning drama
Syndication is a fertile ground for tabloid drama. The Investigator Maintains that Savannah Guthrie is controlling Today Away from Hoda Kotab. In fact, they are good friends. It was also believed that NBC was replacing Rachel Maddo with Chuck Todd, but she was in a better position. Meet the press.
This tabloid always misses the mark of the NBC story. It has hatched an internal investigation into Jimmy Fallon's bullying. The Fever pitch The star is not facing an Ellen DeGeneres style investigation. Repeatedly, this tabloid proves that it knows nothing about what happens on NBC. There is no reason to believe this story.