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Cost-capping in environmental cases. A High Court ruling on the legality of the rules
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Tue, 19 Sep 2017
On Friday, a High Court decision ruled on the legality of recent changes to cost-capping in environmental and planning cases. Jenny Wigley considers the main points:
Changes to the environmental cost-capping regime brought in earlier this year were challenged by RSPB, Friends of the Earth and ClientEarth on the basis that they breached the Aarhus Convention and related European legislation that incorporates aspects of Aarhus into domestic law. Under CPR Part 45, individual claimants in environmental judicial and statutory review cases (a definition which includes many, if not most, planning cases), benefit from a cap on their costs liability of £5,000 (£10,000 for organisations), with a reciprocal cap on their ability to claim costs from the other parties of £35,000. The recent changes introduced in February allow defendants to examine claimants' finances and to seek variations to the cap, apparently at any stage in the proceedings. Environmental groups were concerned that the changes would unlawfully deter potential claimants from bringing legitimate claims. This was for two main reasons: First, the ability to vary the cap introduces uncertainty as to a claimant's potential costs liability. Second, there was concern over the fact that the claimant's finances could be made public.
The decision of Dove J handed down on 15 September, has made clear that, to be Aarhus compatible and to allow sufficient certainty at an early stage, any challenge to the cap must be brought in the acknowledgement of service and, ordinarily, be determined on the papers at the permission stage. The only exceptions to this being where the claimant's financial information is shown to be untrue or misleading or where there is a significant material change in the claimant's finances affecting whether or not the proceedings would be 'prohibitively expensive'. Any hearing into the claimant's finances must be in private and the question of whether a claim is 'prohibitively expensive' for a claimant has to be considered taking into account the claimant's own costs liability in addition to any adverse costs liability. It is not yet entirely clear exactly how all this is to be implemented in the context of the current rules as the Court is currently awaiting submissions on remedy[1]. It is one to watch.
The judgment in RSPB, Friends of the Earth and ClientEarth v. Secretary of State for Justice [2017] EWHC 2309 (Admin) can be read here;
and Jenny Wigley's profile is https://www.no5.com/barristers/barrister-cvs/jenny-wigley--planning-and-environment/
[1] Having said this, the Court was satisfied that Part 45, properly read alongside other provisions in the CPR does currently have the effect of requiring any application to vary the cap to be made at the earliest stage.


These muffins are just another reason why I love baking and getting creative in the kitchen.
For as long as I can remember, I've always wanted to replace the shortening used in the original recipe with something healthier. Since I've always had good luck with coconut oil, I decided to give it a shot and added coconut flakes for good measure. Might as well commit all the way.
The swap worked beautifully. You can definitely taste the use of coconut alongside the bananas. It's a pretty dreamy combination. One that I don't even mind getting up for. In fact, these have been my go-to the last couple of days. I was smart enough to freeze them immediately after making the muffins and have been enjoying a delicious muffin one bite at a time.
These would be fabulous breakfast treats for your entire family. Just in time since school is about to start again or may have already started where you live.
Please do yourself a favor and whip up a batch this weekend. You will thank yourself all week long.
Coconut oil and ripe bananas are the main reason why I can't get enough of these muffins. They're so moist and baked to golden perfection. An amazing breakfast treat!
1. Grease a muffin pan thoroughly. Set aside.
2. In a stand mixer, combine sugar, coconut oil, eggs, and vanilla. Mix on medium speed for 3 minutes or until well incorporated.
4. Slowly add milk, soda, salt, and flour and mix until creamy. Fold in coconut flakes.
5. Divide batter equally between the muffin cups, sprinkle with additional coconut flakes, and place in the oven. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Let muffins cool for 5 minutes, then invert them onto a cooling rack and let rest until completely cooled.
I love that these muffins are healthier Kathi! Coconut oil is such a smart substitution and boy do these muffins look GOOOD! Perfect for breakfast OR snack!
They're in the oven, so I can't comment just yet on the result, but the batter seems very dry?! Hope they turn out like the pic!
Great recipe. I also added a handful of mini chocolate chips to mine.
Magnetic generators however are minus the above challenges.


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There are films that stay in your mind and you never get tired of watching them. Their message moves you and after watching them you feel that you have experienced something unusual. Something that touched your heart and left you changed. It seems to me that Crash is exactly one of such films.
Any real city, you walk, you're bumped, brush past people. In LA no one touches you... We're always behind metal and glass. Think we miss that touch so much, we crush into each other just to feel something.
It is amazing how well the director, Paul Haggis, managed to present how the life of one person can influence the lives of the people around. The main characters seem to have forgotten about it. They live in a bubble, surrounded by the noises of the multicultural metropolis. It seems to them their actions have no meaning and even though there are thousands of people around them, they feel lonely.
However, even if they do not realise it, their life paths are constantly crossing and they crash into each other almost every day. Sometimes the power of this collision is so great that it makes them think about the others and they wake up as if from a dream. Other time they wish they could confront the others, contact them, express their emotions – but they are unable to do it because they live behind metal and glass.
What can a Mexican worker and the wife of a district attorney have in common? What joins two young car thieves with a black film director? And what do they all have to do with the murder of a young black boy? Apparently nothing. But everything is hidden deep inside the characters' hearts: hatred, racial discrimination, prejudices, and fear. These emotions control the lives of the Los Angeles citizens and distance them from other people.
This powerful story has everything a great film should have: talented director, famous actors such as Sandra Bullock or Terrence Howard and wonderful, moving music. Most importantly however the film has a message: it asks universal questions and does not look for easy answers. It makes you think.


Happiness in all walks of life is often more about stopping than starting. More about subtracting than adding. More about letting go than holding on.
1. Criticizing everyone and everything.
Life isn't perfect. People make mistakes. Let go of unfair expectations. Stop criticizing yourself and others for being human. If you feel like everyone is judging you all the time, realize that human beings often feel this way when they are too busy judging themselves.
Criticizing has a big brother: the know-it-all-syndrome. The older you grow, the higher you rise in your chosen field, and the more you achieve, the more likely you are to think you know it all. When you catch yourself thinking and speaking with intense finality and little tolerance for new ideas, stop yourself and take a deep breath. If you do not, you will alienate the world around you and become more and more disconnected from reality with each passing day. Few things are sadder and leave a person unhappier.
When something negative happens, view this circumstance as a chance to learn something you didn't know. Don't wish it never happened. Don't try to step back in time. Take the lessons learned and step forward. You have to tell yourself, "It's OK. You're doing OK." You need to know that it's better to cross new lines and suffer the consequences of a lesson learned from time to time, than to just stare at the lines for the rest of your life and always wonder.
No, not all the puzzle pieces of life will seem to fit together at first, but in time you'll realize they do, perfectly. So thank the situations that didn't work out for you, because they just made room for the situations that will. And thank the people who walked away from you, because they just made room for the ones who won't.
7. Fearing everything for any reason at all.
Sometimes we're afraid we'll fail. Sometimes we're subconsciously afraid we'll succeed, because then we'd have to deal with all the disruption (growth) and change that follows success. And other times it's our fear of rejection or simply our fear of looking like a fool. So it's easier to hesitate, to wait for the perfect moment, to decide we need to think a bit longer or do some more research or explore a few more unnecessary alternatives.
Meanwhile days, weeks, months, and even years of our precious lives pass us by. And so do our dreams.
The best way I've found to let go of fear is to stare it down. Connect to your fear, feel it in your body, realize it and steadily address it. Greet it by name if you have to: "Welcome, fear." And then take action! Whatever you've been planning, whatever you've imagined, whatever you've dreamed of, don't wait another minute. Get started! Take the first step. Do something. Do anything. Learn as you go and watch as your fears slowly subside.
8. Spending time with people who drain you.
It's not always where you are in life, but who you have by your side that matters most. Some people drain you and others provide soul food. Don't jeopardize your dignity and self-respect by trying to make someone accept, love and appreciate you when they have proven that they are incapable of doing so.
When you leave the wrong people behind, the right things start happening. What would happen if you surrounded yourself with people who made you better? What would happen if you started spending time with the RIGHT people?
What could you stop, subtract, or let go in life that would make you feel happier and more at ease? Please leave us a comment below and let us know.
I'm still working on #1 and #2. What gets me out of the know-it-all syndrome is reminding myself that ignorance is what leads us to believe we know everything about a certain subject. The truly brilliant ones are the individuals who understand how overwhelmingly complex even the most deceivingly simple thing is.
So true!! Absolutely fantastic and powerful. I love each and every one of these, but especially #7 and #8. Sometimes letting go and walking away is the only way to win… Thank you for this once again and have a beautiful day!
With so much negative energy out there these days, both in society as well as online social networks, it's nice to be reminded of some best practices for putting on a smile. We should all remember to be kinder to ourselves and let go of the needless stress factors that make us unhappy.
As for me, I need to let go of some unwarranted expectations that are driving me nuts.
This is your best column ever hands down! So much of what you say is common sense, yet it is so easy though for our judgement to get cloudy when life isn't going our way or were not getting what we desire. I have always been a person that wants control, thinks he knows much yet I see I have much to learn!
Thank you for your insight love to meet you both buy you dinner and talk more someday.
Great post! The point on letting go of control is something I struggle with. I am a control freak sometimes, and I know I need to settle down a bit. Thanks for the reminder.
Thank you for this powerful message. I would add: worrying about what others think of you.
I've been absorbed lately about how much my siblings don't care much about me. Coming from a family of 8, only 1 of them phoned me on my birthday. This posting has brought me to reality and helped me alot today. Thank you.
Fantastic post, I've been trying to work on some of these the past several months, especially #4 and #8.
I just divorced someone who exhibited ALL of these for many years. Wow, you guys nailed this one today.
Love this column, look forward to every one, and get something from every one of them.
Once again like minds connect. I was just writing about letting go in my journal this morning. I have come to appreciate my husband leaving our lives. It hasn't been easy and it has been traumatic especially for my youngest child. I am truly seeing this for the learning experience it is. I know we'll be fine as we concentrate on creating the kind of life we want and need. It's wonderful what can happen when you come out of the shadows of another person's storm and anguish. I wish him peace on his journey but his part of my story is over and I'm really excited.
Fantastic message today. I needed to hear each and every one of these. I am printing this so I read it everyday. Thanks for reminding us that the simple things we do (or don't do) are the most important.
I think it's important to let go of attachment. For example, let's say you applied for a job. Do you go on the interview and then let it go? Or do you think about the job and interview day and night? Do you build scenarios in your head around the job? If you attach and obsess about the job, you could push it away from you. This is called a paradigm shift.
Let go of attaching to people, places, things, outcomes, and situations. Do this, and you'll be happier.
A beautiful article inspiring us to live a more valuable life… a more fulfilling one… to remain detached from the outer world and stay focused on our inner self, and enhance the quality of our lives. Thank you.
Another great one guys! Virtually all symptoms of codependency; that I might recommend curing the source of, over treating the symptoms…understand codependency! Peace!
These are all feelings & thoughts that I've had at one time or another during my life.
I was just fired from a job that I had been at for 12 years. The reason given was "attendance" issues. However, in hindsight, I realize that it was because of my need for perfection from not just myself, but everyone else. I alienated a lot of people!
But I've learned from this and now that I "see" it, I can start to let go of it!!! Love your site!!!!!
1. You cannot complain your way way to happiness.
2. Anytime you want to be in control, go outside and tell the wind not to blow. See what happens.
3. Knowing it all. Go outside and convice a bird not to fly. You are smarter, more advanced, better educated, more well-rounded, better looking, will live longer, know how to read and write, have more money, have more possessions…but you will NEVER fly. The bird will always know more about flying.
I do not have 30 days to live.
I do not have great financial debt.
I do not have great physical pain.
I do not have time to change my life.
I do not have to stay where I am.
I do not have too many bills to pay.
I do not have a past that cripples my future.
I do not have a terrible marriage.
I do not have a conspiracy against me.
I do not have an usupportive family.
On the note of controlling everything, and the traffic comparison – I do have to say…I live in Los Angeles. I have spent one too many nights traveling back home from the west side where it takes 2 hours to go 14 miles. This type of stress for some reason is VERY hard for me to manage, the traffic here just gets under my skin, so FOR ME, this may not work for everyone else, I do get off the highway and take alternate routes. That relieves my stress, actually, because while I cannot control that it is still going to take me a long time to get home, I would rather be inching along on surface streets with things to look at, then inching along or in gridlock on the 10 freeway. I find it more calming to get off and take those alternate routes than to stay locked in on the highway. I know, silly, but just thought I'd share!!
Wow! As is so often the case, seemingly simple concepts can end up being huge and staggeringly complex, kinda like an iceberg. The comments relative to this post certainly seem to bear that out. If I may, a word about "knowing it all", "control" and "positive change" and in the interest of brevity please forgive the cliche comments. The quest for and attaining of knowledge is both positive and necessary, "A wise man knows what he knows and and knows what he doesn't know". "Control" of environmental variables as well as the inherent "to do's" i. e., have to do, need to do and want to do is essential for balance which leads to, among other things, happiness. The proven path to control entails the sequence of "information leads to knowledge leads to power leads to control". Finally, when you have achieved some modicum of "control" of your environment a good rule of thumb to embrace will be, "significant (positive) change will not occur until the status quo is intolerable"- not unpleasant or even undesirable but intolerable. Today you guys really opened a seemingly basic and simple topic that may be foundationaly significant enough to warrant further discussion.
Great post. Thank you very much. Just wish it didn't hurt so much in this moment.
really don't know how to live yourself.
when you don't even know the questions.
thoughts as pure, clean, enlightened.
elevated above other misinformed souls.
are guilty of committing these deadly sins.
by Bob Crawford of Akron, Ohio.
This is a good post. Letting go is good and relates to sacrifice. I am sure at first it's difficult but with time everything soothes. life has so many hiccups but i am sure following this post would grant some relief.
I started following you guys a year ago, and I just have to say, you give me a little bit of hope every day. Thank you!
Here's another one – manners. I always feel better if I use my manners and be polite. As the saying goes "it's nice to be nice". Great post and hope we can all take something from it.
@Vincent: That's spot on! The complexity of any situation is circumstantial.
@Greg: Hey, someday, if we're visiting your city, we'd love to grab dinner.
@Liz: Sometimes the people closest to us in blood relation are not the closest people to us. It doesn't make them bad people, and it doesn't make you bad either.
@Sandra Hamlett: I'm so inspired to hear how you're handling such an emotional situation. You truly have your head on your shoulders. Letting go and forgiving the past is the clearest path for the present moment. It doesn't mean forgetting, it means forward thinking.
@Amandah: Very true. Attachment is the opposite of letting go. When we attach ourselves to "the way things should be" we miss the beauty of how things are.
@Mark Whittington: Yep. I recently read a book on codependency. It's a daunting, depleting state to be in.
@Beth: Seeing these issues is the first step to correcting them. Good luck with the next step.
@David Rapp: As always, you knocked it out of the park. Spot on all the way around. Your tactic with #4 is something I practice whenever I'm feeling down.
@Steven: Learning is what we're all doing, right now. Living is learning.
@Bob Crawford: That's lovely. Great points. Thanks for sharing.
@Rebecca: It's inspiring to hear you've been journeying with us for over a year now. =) We're happy to have you.
I started with point # 8, letting go people who drain…who always talk about negative things in life, and my happiness quotient rose exponentially… it certainly works.
Great one! Where can I get those lovely pictures that's shown with each message?
#8 How do you get rid of a mother who is draining?
The last one is the most important in my opinion; please listen carefully.
WOW, WOW, WOW! Thank you.
Gossiping is a real drain on the psyche. Once I stopped gossiping about other people, I started feeling more confident about myself because I didn't care what other people said about me. It was like magic how that happened.


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Asia-Pacific – Fault Lines in Papua: Part I
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By John M. Gorrindo
Indonesian Correspondent
Dani Hubla tribe, West Papua
The long list of names Papua has been given over the past one hundred years is testament to the interminable struggle and territorial chaos that has plagued the easternmost part of Indonesia. Under Dutch colonial rule, the territory was called Dutch New Guinea or West New Guinea. Once wrested from the Dutch by the emerging republic of Indonesia some sixteen years after World War II, Indonesia's founding father and first president Sukarno renamed it Irian Barat (West Irian). After deposing Sukarno in 1965, Indonesia's second president, Suharto, found Irian Jaya (Victorious Irian) a more glorious name lending itself to a greater sense of Indonesian territorial integrity. With the fall of Suharto's thirty-two year New Order regime- and with some deference to the Papuan people in mind- a successor to Suharto, Indonesian President Wahid, recast the name to simply Papua. And finally, subsequent to Special Autonomy being granted the region by Jakarta in 2002, some members of the homegrown Papuan nationalist movement finally took matters into their own hands, and in an act of defiance, claimed a name of its own- West Papua.
Though the historically convoluted turmoil in West Papua is well understood and amply documented in international bodies such as the United Nations, academic circles around the world, and inside the state departments of the world's leading capitals, the island's agonized peoples have received scant attention or support from the international community. Realpolitik determines the world's crisis agenda, and since World War II, Papua's struggle to simply avoid annihilation let alone achieve a small measure of autonomy has yet to be put on anybody's overburdened triage list.
In part this is a measure of how conflicted the world truly is as full-blown wars and fears of nuclear proliferation have put a vice-like grip on those leading actors who populate the world's diplomatic stage and captured the attention of everyone else whose mission it is to seek peaceful resolution to the world's greatest problems. But that doesn't begin to explain anything about West Papua itself, or its history.
The hands-off policy towards West Papua on behalf of the United Nations as well as world and Southeast Asian regional superpowers has been much to the advantage of Indonesia's domestic policies, its nationalist economic development, and most ironically even to its emerging democracy. Even though gross human rights violations, economic and racial discrimination, and rampant inequalities significantly characterize Indonesia's treatment of the indigenous population of Papua's black, Austro-Melanesians, the world has been content to look the other way, choosing rather to celebrate Indonesia's vaunted modern progress. It has been a conscious choice on the part of the international community.
The saga surrounding the incorporation of West Papua into greater Indonesia provides a profound lesson for any student of 20th century geopolitics. But prior to opening that Pandora's box of intrigue any serious investigation has to contemplate a question more fundamental to understanding the current fate of the remote region- how does a scattered population of three hundred ethno-lingual groups living in one of the world's most intractable wildernesses take the forced journey required to bridge the chasm from the Stone Age to the 21st century in the span of a few decades and survive?
Consider this: Recent scientific expeditions into the remote mountainous interior of West Papua continue to discover still untouched environments where the unique animal life found there are approachable and can actually be handled. The terrestrial fauna experience no fear because they have never even been hunted by a human being. Pictures of biologists cuddling docile giant rats or endemic egg-laying echidnas would otherwise be thought of as having been staged, the animals so-darted with tranquilizers. Then, of course, there is the elusive hunt to photograph the some four dozen or so species of Birds of Paradise and Bowery birds that constitute the most beautiful related collection of winged creatures in the world. "Lost World" is a term often used to describe these only recently chartered wildernesses.
There are equally amazing reports of solitary individuals appearing from out of the swamps or jungles of West Papua who belong to tribes whose existence is still unbeknownst to even the other tribes in the area.
The answer to the survival question of an isolated collection of small tribes in a vast wilderness rich in natural resources lies in the fact that some of those tribes have not been as isolated as one might think. Coastal Papuans have had significant contact over periods of hundreds of years with several European and Asian powers- both in trade and as colonial subjects. They have learned foreign languages, been educated according to Western practice, and have adapted to the ways of invading colonial powers. Tribes of the interior were much more removed from the rest of the world. This profound difference in terms of historical contact with outsiders has created a fault line of its own in the history of Papuan Nationalism.
Geographically, West Papua occupies only the western half of a greater island, its eastern portion being the independent nation of Papua New Guinea (PNG). With no thought given to ethno or geographic boundaries, their shared border lies along the 141st parallel, and virtually splits the island- which is the second largest in the world- in half. Along West Papua's one thousand meter spine runs the nearly unbroken chain of densely forested mountains known to the locals as the Pegunungan Maoke, or Snow Mountains. The Maoke's grandest glacial covered palisades are the tallest peaks to be found between the Americas and the Himalayas, some reaching altitudes of over 5,000 meters. Once reaching sea level, the labyrinthine river drainage flowing down the Maoke's steep southwestern facing escarpment on route to the Arafura Sea deposits its muddy load into vast deltas, creating the largest area of lowland swamps on the planet.
From snow-covered summits to mosquito-ridden swamp, such environmental extremes were considered impenetrable for hundreds of years by European explorers and colonial interlopers. Even though the Dutch had established themselves in the territory nearly four hundred years ago, it was only in few very small port settlements scattered along the coast that served as trading posts to other colonial holdings such as the nearby Malukus to the west. Missionaries and anthropologists made the first foyers into the wilds of Papua, but it wasn't until the early 20th century that explorations into the interior were organized, and only in 1938 that the now-famous tourist destination of the Baliem Valley, home to the Grand Valley Dani, was first encountered by the Western world. It is in the greater highland areas like the Baliem Valley that to this day the largest percentage of indigenous Papuans still lives.
Indonesia's proclaimed independence in 1945 nearly coincided with the discovery of the Baliem Valley. West Papua soon found itself caught up in the revolution of decolonization that was sweeping across Africa and Asia, with Indonesia being in the vanguard. The Dutch were finally forced both militarily and by means of international pressure to cede the bulk of their East Indies holding over to the newly formed Indonesian Republic- all except for West Papua. In 1949 at the Hague, Netherlands, the Dutch and Indonesian governments signed The Round Table Council Agreement and as a concession to "Netherlands nationalist feeling," Indonesia agreed to leave Papua under Dutch occupation. Indonesia continued to fight hard against the provision, though, resurrecting the argument vociferously and to growing effect throughout the 1950's.
Indonesia's claim to Papua was based on the legal principle of "Uti possidetis juris". Originating with Roman law, the principle was picked up again with the 19th century rise of nationalism in Europe and consequently both during the negotiation of the Versailles Treaty after World War I , the Yalta Treaty after World War II (though the Soviet Union did not abide by it), and the formation of the United Nations in 1945. "Uti possidetis" declares that new states would adopt the boundaries of their colonial predecessors. The United Nations helped administer this boundary-shaping principle during the sweeping decolonization that followed directly after World War II. During that revolutionary period which reshaped the geopolitical map of the world order, independence leaders such as Sukarno, Nasser, and Nehru seized upon the principle in their struggles to secure national boundaries for their new nation states.
After the signing of the Round Table Council Agreement, President Sukarno was quick to draw upon this rationale in his repeated calls for the incorporation of Papua. In addition, Sukarno declared Papua as part of Indonesia as historically defined by the sphere of influence established by ancient empires of maritime Java and Sumatra, most importantly those of Srivijaya and Majapahit. Not stopping there, Sukarno added divine justification:
"The Indonesia nation is the totality of all the human beings who, according to geopolitics ordained by God Almighty, live throughout the unity of the entire archipelago of Indonesia from the northern tip of Sumatra to Irian."
There also existed the geopolitical fear on Indonesia's part that the Dutch would use Papua as a base from which it would do everything it could to subvert Indonesia's territorial integrity by sowing seeds of separatism for instance in the nearby Malukan islands, where significant portions of the people were resistant of being incorporated into Indonesia and still held sympathies for the Dutch.
Territorial integrity became Indonesia's highest priority during the country's fledgling years. Sukarno never ceased to press the international community on the Papuan issue and made it a centerpiece of his agenda as advanced to all world leaders he contacted. It became evident to the world's powers that Indonesia was willing to go to war with the Dutch over territorial possession of Papua if the Dutch could not be otherwise persuaded to cede their last holdings in the archipelago.
With the rise of a new global nationalism based on the principle of self-determinism, history was on the side of the Indonesian Republic. The Dutch struggled to hold on to Papua but by the mid-1950's had quietly self-conceded that it had to choose between handing over Papua to the Indonesians, or help the Papuans to become independent and sovereign. Time was of the essence. Those elite Papuans who had been given education and civil service positions in local Dutch administration were further primed for leadership of a free Papua. But this gesture toward the Papuans was more mercenary than not. First and foremost, the Dutch in no way wished for West Papua to fall into Indonesian hands. There was not unanimity of support for Papuan independence amongst the Dutch themselves, though, as Dutch business interests were fearful of losing their existing and future contracts with the Indonesian government. Indonesia was adverse to the Dutch as colonialists, but hadn't gone as far as to turn away their investments.
The Netherland's push to prepare Papuans for self-governance came too little, too late. Cold War politics would intervene to evacuate the Dutch and seal Papua's fate. In 1961, the Dutch were pressured by the newly elected Kennedy administration of the United States to virtually hand over Papua to the Indonesians. By the time Dutch preparation for Papuan independence had begun in earnest, the Cold War had quickly evolved into a worldwide struggle between the United States and the communist blocs of the Soviet Union and Communist China.
Compounding this was Indonesia's strategic place in the greater conflict. The geopolitical repercussions had an overriding affect on the Papuan situation. The Kennedy administration was concerned that siding with the colonial Dutch in the struggle over West Papua would alienate President Sukarno, helping to deliver Indonesia into the communist sphere of influence. Kennedy demanded the Dutch take heed to Cold War priorities and fall in line with American foreign policy objectives. A free Papua was not in the offing, Kennedy signaled in a now declassified letter to the Dutch government. Indonesia would declare war over anything less than full incorporation of the vast territory, and Kennedy didn't want any further destabilization in greater South East Asia than already existed in neighboring Indo China as the Viet Nam war was in its nascent stages.
Isolated internationally and not willing to go to war with Indonesia alone, the Dutch were forced to accede to the U.S. negotiated New York Agreement and became signatories with Indonesia in August of 1962. The agreement transferred responsibility for the territory to Indonesia following a brief transitional period under the United Nations Temporary Executive Authority (UNTEA). The plan also provided for "an ascertainment" of the will of the Papuans on their future political status to be held under UN supervision. Implementation of the plan and the handing over of Papua into co-administrative hands of the Indonesian government was made in May of 1963.
The UN's position as overseer turned out to be one of inherent political weakness. They were powerless to prevent the sham elections of 1969- ironically known as "Act of Free Choice"- where a small cadre of some one thousand hand-picked Papuans was given the power to choose on behalf of the greater population of Papuan people between self-determination and becoming a part of the Republic of Indonesia. This in lieu of a true plebiscite- and it is reported that those Papuans who actually voted in the "Act of Free Choice" did so at Indonesian gun point. Incredulously, the electoral results were unanimous save one vote in support of incorporation into Indonesia. Even more striking was that no one in the international community- including the United Nations- filed any complaint as per this final and deciding phase of the New York Agreement.
Suharto was Indonesian president during the "Act of Free Choice" elections, and it was his administration that designed, arranged for, and supervised over them. No checks and balances were in put in place as the Indonesians were in full control. Firmly supported in the West for his anti-communist leanings, Suharto was given free license to proceed in West Papua as he so chose. The fate of West Papua was a fait de complet, and the "Act of Free Choice" just so much pro forma protocol whose outcome had been predetermined.
In the form of "Act of Free Choice," the international community had betrayed the only opportunity Papua has yet to have in becoming an independent state. Not a single nation protested the sham elections. Nor did the UN. And to have the greatest democratic force in the world, the United States, be the determinate factor behind the betrayal fully exacerbated the treachery. Realpolitik had determined the victor and the vanquished.
(NOTE: this article is part one in a series and is to be continued)
Mr. John M. Gorrindo, who serves as an Indonesian correspondent for The Seoul Times, is a native-born Californian. As holder of a MA degree in music composition from the University of California, he made Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia his home after serving as a volunteer English teacher there. He also a writes fictions and composes music. Some of his writings and music can be found at Fringing reefs and Vertical Walls: http://johngorrindo.blogspot.com
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Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi celebrates the kick-off a promising collaboration with Abu Dhabi Media
Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi, one of the leading higher education institutions in the UAE, collaborates with Abu Dhabi Media, the UAE's leading public service broadcaster and media company, to provide high-level internship opportunities for its students in the field of media.
The announcement of this collaboration came during an event that was held at Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi and was attended by His Excellency Mohamed Al Nuaimi, Director General of Executive Financial Affairs and member of the Board of Trustees at Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi; Professor Silvia Serrano, Vice-Chancellor Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi; Haitham Al Kathiri, Acting Executive Director of Abu Dhabi TV Network; and representatives of the Abu Dhabi Media
During the event, students were informed about Abu Dhabi Media's various career opportunities within the media industry, as well as the possibility of acquiring important practical experience to qualify them for job recruitment in the future.
This promising cooperation aligns with Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi's commitment to offering a supportive environment that facilitates career exploration, as well as equipping students with the knowledge, skills, and expertise necessary for entering the competitive world of professional careers.
Professor Silvia Serrano, Vice-Chancellor Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi, said: "Both Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi and Abu Dhabi Media share mutual commitment towards nurturing talents, empowering youth and developing their skills, know-how and competencies. I look forward to this collaboration yielding mutual fruitful outcomes, between Sorbonne university Abu Dhabi and Abu Dhabi Media."
Haitham AlKathiri, Acting Executive Director of Abu Dhabi TV Network, said: "Abu Dhabi Media continues to play a pivotal role in bolstering the national media sector by attracting skilled individuals and focusing on developing up-and-coming talents, all in order to build a promising new generation that supports the process of development and growth in all fields related to the media sector".
"Our collaboration with Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi is based on our commitment to supporting students and young talents, as we view this as a national responsibility and a priority in the field of media. This cannot be realized without employing our media and production platforms, which are capable of adopting the best practices and work towards facing challenges to produce new ideas and distinguished productions that cater to the needs and taste of all our audience members. All of this comes in line with Abu Dhabi Media's strategy for producing valuable, entertaining, and diverse content, and providing an innovative and creative work environment for all the talents that support these future directives," he added.


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The Linux Foundation announced that Canonical, Kylin, Linpus, Mandriva, Neoshine, Novell, Oracle, Red Flag and Red Hat are certified to LSB 4.0. A directory of LSB 4.0-certified distributions and applications is available from the Linux Foundation.
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In February, while working for Carswell Gould I took the following photos for two press releases being announced by Stagecoach South.
The press release these images were released with is below the pictures.
The bosses of one of the South's biggest bus companies are putting residents of the Waterlooville area first, following an investment of some £1.5m in a new fleet and improved frequency.
Stagecoach South is this month (February) launching an improved Route 39, which now runs every 10 minutes between Wecock Farm and Havant via Waterlooville, Crookhorn, South Downs College, Asda and Leigh Park.
To celebrate the launch Stagecoach South's Portsmouth Operations Manager, Bob Jackson, and Managing Director, Andrew Dyer, are inviting those living along the route to a very special launch party on Saturday, March 9.
On that day between 10.30am and 2.30pm Stagecoach will create a VIP (Very Important Passenger) bus stop in the Waterlooville Precinct. Those who visit the bus stop, complete with its own red carpet, will get the chance to experience a section of route 39 on one of the brand new buses in VIP style for free. The VIP bus, decorated with a giant bow tie in true red carpet style, will run between Waterlooville and Wecock Farm and feature, games, food and drink.
• Waterlooville Megarider weekly tickets, which Stagecoach were first to introduce in this area, available on the bus at a reduced rate of £10 until the end of April.
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In an X Games first, Harley-Davidson Snow Hill Climb will make its debut at X Games Aspen as a medaled event alongside ski, snowboard and other action-sports competitions. The new medal sport will close out X Games Aspen 2018, which airs January 25-28 on ESPN and ABC.
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Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha hands back list of questions to a reporter March 26, 2019, at Government House.
BANGKOK — Junta chairman Prayuth Chan-ocha on Tuesday urged everyone to respect what people voted for, in a response from media inquiries about whether his party should form the next government.
Gen. Prayuth also called for peace and order in the days leading up to King Vajiralongkorn's coronation in early May, and said he would continue to rule as the prime minister until a new government is in place.
"I respect every vote from every person who came out to vote on that day. I sincerely thank them with my heart. I'd like to thank the media, too. I'd like to tell everyone today that I feel more comfortable," Prayuth said. "This is not about holding on to power or perpetuating my power. If I wanted that, I wouldn't have allowed an election to take place."
"What the people voices say, let it be that way. Learn to respect people's voices," he added.
Prayuth was speaking at Government House after his weekly cabinet meeting. He was handed a list of questions from reporters at the beginner of the news conference, including his take on the ongoing attempts to form a government, whether the 250 unelected Senators will vote for him as the new prime minister and a fiery op-ed written by ex-leader Thaksin Shinawatra.
However, the junta leader handed the paper back to reporters and said he is not involved in political affairs.
"All the questions submitted by the reporters, I'd like to return them all. I'm not answering any of these questions," Prayuth said. "I'd like to also clarify to the media that I am not involved in the formation of the government. Those matters are entirely the business of political factions."
Instead, he said people should focus on maintaining an orderly society for the coronation of His Majesty the King.
"I want to use this opportunity to lead Thailand toward sustainable peace under the principles of King Rama IX, Queen Sirikit, and King Rama X," Prayuth said.
His party, Phalang Pracharath, is currently seeking allies to form a coalition government, despite placing second at Sunday's election in numbers of MP seats.
When reporters asked whether he's in a better mood today because he will get to serve another term as prime minister, Prayuth said the question "makes me uncomfortable."
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THEREMIN #1 is now available for pre-order through Comixology!
Read the preview over at IGN.
Check it out everyone, Curt Pires (writer, LP) and Dalton Rose (artist, Sacrifice) have a new comic coming out through the fantastic Monkeybrain, and the first issue is now available to pre-order.
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Tweet This, Facebook That
SmallBusiness.com has an interesting post about how the uses of Facebook, Twitter and Reddit differ depending on the subject:
Platform usage is context-dependent. Entertainment events are more likely to be discussed on Facebook, while sporting events (and live news events), like the NFL Kickoff or the Napa earthquake, are more likely to be discussed on Twitter. Reddit tends to be the dominant platform for political and international discussion.
Timing is crucial when posting to certain social networks. Facebook tends to be the dominant platform to discuss and publish stories 2-3 weeks around an event; but Twitter and Reddit are more reactive, dominating 2 to 3 days around an event.
Within 24 hours of a major event, 85% of sharing occurs on mobile devices.
This next one was very interesting:
News events like the Napa earthquake and the Ferguson riots are highly localized with sharing. Missouri saw a 7.7x surge during the riots.
Back in the early days of blogging it became trendy to "liveblog" at conferences. Basically attendees would send out rapid fire blog posts sharing what they were seeing, hearing and learning. While it still happens that action has been largely replaced by people Tweeting their experiences and using a hashtag so that their observations will be group with other attendees' in a stream of conference-related information that any Twitter user can see. That's why every conference now has a #ID printed on everything so that everyone knows which one to use and they can generate some real-time conversation.
Facebook is also used at conferences but usually it's people posting photos, letting people know they're there, or at the end of the day saying things like "Had a great day at JonCon. Can't wait for tomorrow's session on excellent enemas!" It's not nearly as spontaneous and, to use a real world analogy, is the conference yearbook vs. Twitter being the conference newspaper.
What does all that mean? If you're using social media for business, church, non-profit, school, club or whatever, you need to make sure you utilize the proper social media channel at the right time. If you don't you'll be whistling in the wind.
This entry was posted in Business, Social Media and tagged current events, facebook, social media, twitter on October 30, 2014 by Jon Lowder.
Push Button Publishing
Here's a very cool little piece at Wired showing how Blogger spawned a lot of the current "push button publishing" services we know today:
At the close of 1998, there were 23 known weblogs on the Internet. A year later there were tens of thousands. What changed? Pyra Labs launched Blogger, the online tool that gave push-button publishing to the people. It was a revolutionary web product made by a revolutionary web of people who went on to build much of the modern net. Here's how Pyra propagated.
The "family tree" you find when you click through to Wired does a great job showing how the people behind blogger went on to create/influence Twitter, Square, Adobe Creative Cloud, etc.
This entry was posted in Web, Web/Tech, Weblogs and tagged blogger, push button publishing, square, twitter on April 17, 2013 by Jon Lowder.
The Ultimate Water Cooler
An interesting quote from the editor of Details in an interview about what he reads:
Once I get into the office and turn on my computer, I actually go to Twitter first thing. I'm not terribly prolific, but I like to see what's trending. If you go to CNN.com, or any news outlet, they're controlling what you're seeing. On Twitter, it's a worldwide list of what's trending, and that's interesting. I hunt and peck by subject—I don't follow that many people—you can do it sort of mindlessly. If I see a name or subject, I'm curious as to why it's trending, and it's a guessing game I play with myself before I click through to see what it is. It represents the ultimate water cooler: anything from a sports figure to a political figure to a celebrity to a cause to "I'm a Belieber," whatever it is. That's my first conversation of the day, eavesdropping on this great global discussion.
This entry was posted in Interesting, Social Media and tagged information professional, reading, twitter on November 13, 2012 by Jon Lowder.
Is 140 Enough?
Twitter, the source of much derision for anyone who doesn't use it, was built at a time when SMS texting was the primary form of non-verbal communication on "mobile devices" so it was designed to work within the 160-character confines of the system. Since then Twitter has grown like kudzu and most people use it with anything but SMS – the Twitter website, web-based tools like Tweetdeck or mobile apps of various persuasions. That development has led to people suggesting that Twitter increase the character limit which has led, in turn, to others defending the 140 character limit. Here's a simple argument in favor of keeping the limit:
And, that's how we have learned to use the service. Or, as GigaOm's Mathew Ingram put it the first time Manjoo made this argument: "The point the Slate writer misses (or hints at, and then discards) is that if it did this, it wouldn't be Twitter any more."
What truly makes the character limit so crucial to Twitter being Twitter is the brevity it forces on its users. Ask any writer and they'll tell you that brevity is hard – any fool can take two pages to tell you how to install a light bulb, but it takes some work to tell you in one sentence. Is 140 characters really "writing"? Not in the traditional sense, but if you haven't used Twitter you have no way of knowing how creative and witty people can be in so little space and it's truly a wonder to behold when it's done well. (See the Washington Post's Gene Weingarten for a good example, although the fact that he uses a turd as his icon might be a little off-putting to some of you).
The character limit also promotes sharing, because the less space someone has to write the more likely he is to simply provide a link with a quick (hopefully witty) intro. So rather than reading an unnecessarily long missive about a subject you get to read a quick intro and then view the source piece itself. Here's an example from Weingarten:
"Women may not be any smarter than men, but they are definitely less stupid." My new column:http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/maga …
Sure, some folks use Twitter poorly, but some people who own Porsches drive like granny going to church and that's not the car's fault. Hopefully Twitter will stick to its guns and keep the 140 character limit. As the article linked to above points out, Twitter can expand and improve its service (i.e. photo sharing, links to expanded posts, etc.) without altering its fundamental 140-character DNA, and if they're smart that's exactly what they'll do.
FWIW, here's a link to probably the worst Twitter account in existence.
This entry was posted in Social Media and tagged 140 character limit, social media, twitter on June 21, 2012 by Jon Lowder.
Online Confessional
If you follow any of the media outlets on Facebook or Twitter you've probably noticed how they use social media to find interview subjects for their stories. One of my kids was interviewed for a story a while back because I saw a local business writer's post on Facebook asking if anyone had teenagers who were having a hard time finding work, and if they'd found a job how they'd done it. Nothing earth shattering about reporters using social media to find story subjects, but I have to say I was somewhat surprised by this post on AP's Twitter feed:
Have you stolen from a grocery store or other retailer to get something for the holidays? If so, contact@sarahskidmoreap for an interview.
Why would anyone actually reply to this? Even if you weren't worried that it was a setup wouldn't you be horribly embarassed to admit something like this? Well, maybe not. Given some of the things I've seen over these last few years on social media I'm certain there are plenty of people out there who are totally devoid of shame and crave any kind of attention they can get, so this would be right up their alley.
Sign of the times I guess.
This entry was posted in Current Affairs, Media, Social Media and tagged ap, associated press, online confessional, twitter on December 19, 2011 by Jon Lowder.
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This entry was posted in Funny Stuff, Media and tagged news, trend, twitter on July 29, 2011 by Jon Lowder.
One of the things I have set up at work is a system to monitor feeds from various information sources like Google Alerts, RSS Feeds, Twitter feeds, Facebook feeds, etc. One thing I've noticed is that some of the local media outlets let errors creep into their headlines when they translate them for their social media feeds. I know they try to get out a lot of info in a short amount of time so I understand typos and bad grammar creeping into the stories themselves, but I don't think it's too much to ask that headlines be done right. Lest you think I'm referencing one or two isolated incidences let me just stroll through my Twitter feed and give you a sampling from the past week, followed by my initial thoughts upon reading the offending headlines:
@myfox8: High Point Police Officer Seriously Injured After Being Rescued from Wrecked Patrol Car http://t.co/BfEhYWK
"Please God don't let me be rescued by the same people."
@WXII: Homes Evacuated By Gas Leak At Vacant House http://bit.ly/p2qBzY
"What does a gas leak look like when it goes door-to-door?"
Here's an interesting comparison; look at the previous gas leak story headline and compare it to this one at myfox8:
@myfox8: Hwy. 70 Closed in Whitsett Due to Gas Leak http://dlvr.it/bpXgc
A little more accurate wouldn't you say?
@myfox8: Fire Closes Wright Brothers Visitors Center Temporarilyhttp://dlvr.it/bx7SR
"Did the fire have a key?"
@myfox8: Overturned Grain Truck Closes I-40 Ramp on US 421http://dlvr.it/bvSyt
"It's a helluva truck that can pick itself up and direct traffic like that."
To be fair, with the possible exception of the first headline, the questionable construct of the headlines won't cause you to misinterpret what the stories are about. Also, there are probably 100 stories linked to on Twitter without questionable headlines for each headline that contains the kind of error that would make your average 8th grade English teacher turn red with frustration. And, again, I understand how much info they're processing and getting out to their respective audiences, but I still think there must be a lot of old-school editors out there shaking their heads in wonderment at what has become of their industry.
So, is it unrealistic to hold media companies to the same editorial standards for their social media as we do for their traditional media?
This entry was posted in Media and tagged headlines, media, twitter on July 22, 2011 by Jon Lowder.
I'm still kind of bummed that I had to beg out of taping my "Aha Moment" when they were in town (work and life in general got in the way), but I'm glad to see that Winston-Salem's uber-Tweeter, Kristen Daukus, had a great time recording hers:
and showing the Aha Moment folks what Ribfest was all about:
There are some great stories from other Winston-Salem folks if you browse through all the clips recorded by the Aha Moment team. Just search on "Winston-Salem + aha" on YouTube and you should find most of them.
Here are the people I've met in real life (my apologies if I missed anyone):
SueMo
Here's someone many people in Winston-Salem have probably seen in real life even if they haven't met him – Robert Moody of the Winston-Salem Symphony. BTW, I consider it one of my great failings that I haven't gotten over to see the Symphony in the seven years I've lived here. I'm gonna have to do something about that.
After viewing most of the videos I had a BIG Aha Moment – there are a ton of really interesting people in Winston-Salem I haven't met yet and hopefully I can rectify the situation in the near future.
This entry was posted in Social Media, Winston-Salem and tagged aha moment, social media, twitter, winston-salem on June 28, 2011 by Jon Lowder.
Everyone Should Have a Printing Press
I just read an interesting interview with Evan Williams, founder of Twitter (and Blogger) that had a great quote:
In response to a question from the audience about Twitter empowering people to publish and act as journalists, Williams — who founded Blogger and later sold it to Google — said that "lowering the barrier to publishing" has been something he has spent most of his career on, and this is because he believes that "the open exchange of information has a positive effect on the world — it's not all positive, but net-net it is positive." With Twitter, he said, "we've lowered the barriers to publishing almost as far as they can go," and that is good because if there are "more voices and more ways to find the truth, then the truth will be available to more people — I think this is what the Internet empowers [but] society has not fully realized what this means."
I like Fred Wilson's take on this too:
When I started blogging back in 2003, I would tell everyone how awesome it was. A common refrain back then was "not everyone should have a printing press." I didn't agree then and I don't agree now. Everyone should have a printing press and should use it as often as they see fit. Through things like RSS and Twitter's follow model, we can subscribe to the voices we want to hear regularly. And through things like reblog and retweet, the voices we don't subscribe to can get into our readers, dashboards, and timelines.
If I look back at my core investment thesis over the past five years, it is this single idea, that everyone has a voice on the Internet, that is central to it. And as Ev said, society has not fully realized what this means. But it's getting there, quickly.
This entry was posted in Media, Social Media, Web/Tech and tagged blog, information, internet, publishing, twitter on November 18, 2010 by Jon Lowder.
Twitter Fight!
So, the Winston-Salem ballpark has reemerged as a hot button issue because of this:
The Citizens Baseball Stadium Review Committee got its first look last night at financial information about the progress of BB&T Ballpark during a discussion that was not open to the public.
The committee voted unanimously to close the meeting because, it said, the financial information that the members would discuss — likely the stadium's revenues, expenses and profit through June 30 — is confidential and protected by North Carolina law.
The Winston-Salem Journal objected to the closing of the meeting. Earlier yesterday, the city rejected a request by the Journal for the financial information supplied by the team to the city.
In a letter to the Journal, City Attorney Angela Carmon wrote that "disclosure of such confidential, competitively sensitive business information could cause substantial competitive harm or otherwise adversely impact the business interests of the Ballpark Entities."
The Committee's decision to meet behind closed doors led to a scathing column from the Journal's Scott Sexton and then a little tete-a-tete broke out on Twitter between Mayor Joines and Sexton:
A little later this appeared on the Journal website:
Mayor Allen Joines said today he will talk with the Winston-Salem Dash to see if the baseball team can release some financial information that might not otherwise be publicly available…
Joines said that the private information in the financial data includes vendor contracts, and that the team is in the process of negotiating those.
"The bottom line is, we need to determine what are the critical things the public would like to know," Joinessaid. "I don't think they want to see a vendor contract. I think they want to know what the attendance was and what the general total revenues are. Hopefully we can get something that is a compromise that we can share."
This entry was posted in Current Affairs, Winston-Salem and tagged bb&t, twitter on October 15, 2010 by Jon Lowder.


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Discipleship in Community: A Theological Vision for the Future
By Mark E. Powell, John Mark Hicks, and Greg McKinzie
Jesus said, "Go and make disciples." So, what exactly are we doing?
Western churches face a difficult future marked by numerical decline and evident signs of shrinking cultural influence. But Discipleship in Community wisely asks the church to go back to basics. What does it mean to follow Jesus? What does a life of discipleship look like?
Trusted scholars Mark Powell, John Mark Hicks, and Greg McKinzie invite you to consider how good theology can lead to better, more intentional discipleship. In Discipleship in Community you will learn
• how the language of Trinity matters to everyday disciples;
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• how the Bible is more than a book of facts and how it guides us into a relationship with God;
• how baptism and the Lord's Supper allow us to experience God's saving power; and
• how local churches can encourage intentional discipleship.
MARK E. POWELL is a professor of theology at Harding School of Theology in Memphis, Tennessee, and the author of Centered in God.
JOHN MARK HICKS is a professor of theology at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee. He is the author of six books, including Meeting God at the Shack.
GREG MCKINZIE is the executive editor of Missio Dei, an online journal for missions, theology, and practice.
"When I return from speaking at a Churches of Christ event and tell my pastor or academic friends, they often ask me, "What do the Churches of Christ believe?" From now on I will say, read this book. But this book will do something else: it will introduce the Churches of Christ to the broader movement with which they have many deep affinities—evangelicalism. That will be good for all of us." —Scot McKnight, Northern Seminary
"The gospel. Obedient discipleship. The church's saving mission. While offering a stirring vision of what the always-reforming church has been and can become, Discipleship in Community seizes the pulsating heart of Scripture. It avoids scholarly minutiae, offering practical advice for how individuals and congregations can remain faithfully rooted in the activity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit." —Matthew W. Bates, Quincy University
"In an age in which religious affiliation continues to wither, Christian communities are burdened with the charge of effectively communicating who they are and why that matters. This book does precisely that for the heirs of the Stone-Campbell Movement by lifting up discipleship not simply as a theme from the past, but as the way forward to a hopeful future. I commend the authors for approaching their tradition with such care and concern. This book represents institutional charity—that is, love of a tradition—at its best." —Daniel Castelo, Seattle Pacific University
"Discipleship in Community is a vital and careful plea for the reexamination of theological commitments within Churches of Christ. A fair and attentive book, the authors offer constructive proposals for a new, yet thoroughly biblical, vision of how to emerge from the current crisis facing those who embrace the restoration tradition." —Arthur Sutherland, Loyola University Maryland
"In Discipleship in Community, Powell, Hicks, and McKinzie provide a perceptive analysis of the key theological ideas of our heritage. Beyond analysis, the gift of this book is its usefulness in showing how these historic ideas may shape our hearts and lives for and through obedience. In this sweet participation in the practical life of the church, we follow Jesus, who makes all things new." —Carisse Mickey Berryhill, Abilene Christian University
"The future of any tradition depends on its ability to draw upon the resources of its own past to overcome or adapt to whatever challenges the present and future may bring. That is precisely what this volume does. Churches of Christ need not surrender their unique identity in order to transcend the liabilities that beset many of their congregations. Rather, they may affirm the keenest insights of their founders while moving beyond them in ways that draw upon the equally keen insights of the broader Christian tradition, both past and present." —John Nugent, Great Lakes Christian College
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Marco Pinotti (* 25. Februar 1976 in Osio Sotto) ist ein ehemaliger italienischer Radrennfahrer. Er wurde sechsmal italienischer Meister im Einzelzeitfahren (2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 und 2013). Nach Ende seiner Laufbahn als Aktiver wurde er Sportlicher Leiter.

Radsportkarriere
Seinen ersten italienischen Meistertitel gewann er 1998 im Mannschaftszeitfahren. Marco Pinotti fuhr als Amateur insgesamt 28 Siege ein und bekam 1998 beim Team Polti als Stagiaire die Möglichkeit zum Sprung in den Profibereich. Daraufhin bekam er einen Profivertrag bei dem italienischen Radsportteam Lampre-Daikin. 1999 gewann er mit seinem Teamkollegen Raivis Belohvoščiks das Paarzeitfahren um den Grand Prix Europa, und ein Jahr später siegte er auf einer Etappe der Polen-Rundfahrt. Er nahm dreimal an der Tour de France teil, wobei sein bestes Ergebnis 2001 der 52. Platz in der Gesamtwertung war, bei der er auch einmal Etappenzweiter hinter Rik Verbrugghe wurde. Bei der Baskenland-Rundfahrt 2003 gewann er eine Etappe und sicherte sich den ersten Rang in der Bergwertung. Ab 2005 fuhr er für das spanische ProTeam Saunier Duval-Prodir. Er siegte noch im selben Jahr erstmals bei den italienischen Meisterschaften im Einzelzeitfahren.

Zur Saison 2007 wechselte er zum deutschen T-Mobile Team. Für diese Mannschaft gelangen ihm Etappensiege beim Giro d'Italia 2008, bei der Baskenland-Rundfahrt 2009 und bei der Tour de Romandie 2010. 2012 wechselte er zum BMC Racing Team und gewann das abschließende Zeitfahren des Giro d'Italia 2012. In dieser Disziplin startete er auch bei den Olympischen Spielen in London und belegte Platz fünf.

Nach dem Ende der Saison 2013, die für ihn mit einem schweren Sturz bei der Tour Méditerranéen begonnen hatte, beendete Pinotti seine aktive Radsportlaufbahn als Radrennfahrer und wurde einer Sportlichern Leiter des BMC Racing Teams. Nach Auflösung dieser Mannschaft wechselte er zur Saison 2021 in dieser Funktion zum Team BikeExchange.

Persönliches
Pinotti hat einen Universitätsabschluss (Master) als Ingenieur, den er 2000 nach fünfjährigem Studium an der Universität Bergamo erwarb.

Erfolge
1999
 GP Europa (mit Raivis Belohvoščiks)

2000
 eine Etappe Polen-Rundfahrt

2003
 eine Etappe Baskenland-Rundfahrt

2005
  Italienischer Meister – Einzelzeitfahren

2007
  Italienischer Meister – Einzelzeitfahren

2008
 eine Etappe Giro d'Italia
  Italienischer Meister – Einzelzeitfahren
 Gesamtwertung Tour of Ireland

2009
 eine Etappe Baskenland-Rundfahrt
 Mannschaftszeitfahren Tour de Romandie
 Mannschaftszeitfahren Giro d'Italia
  Italienischer Meister – Einzelzeitfahren

2010
 eine Etappe Tour de Romandie
  Italienischer Meister – Einzelzeitfahren

2011
 Mannschaftszeitfahren Giro d'Italia

2012
 Mannschaftszeitfahren Giro del Trentino
 eine Etappe Giro d'Italia
 eine Etappe Österreich-Rundfahrt
  Weltmeisterschaft – Mannschaftszeitfahren

2013
  Italienischer Meister – Einzelzeitfahren

Grand Tour-Platzierungen

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Teilnehmer der Olympischen Sommerspiele 2012
Radsportler (Italien)
Olympiateilnehmer (Italien)
Italienischer Meister (Radsport)
Bahnradfahrer
Italiener
Geboren 1976
Mann
Sportlicher Leiter

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The musical scales I use don't have eternal values or legimitacy. Physically, they're a finite set of frequency ratios respect to a base frequency. Which set of frequency ratios I choose to play or to reproduce, that's up to myself. Often they just happen (in nature, in interaction with strings / pipes / skins / bells / machines or while talking / laughing and so on…) , and then I can add some other frequency ratios by experimenting. I can reproduce some of them again and again if I want, may it because they remind me of something or just because I like the way (or I feel excited / thrilled / charged by the way) my body resonates physically to the simultaneously emitted frequencies. This sensation can stimulate my curiosity when unknown and for sure my feeling of familiarity when known. That's the way I give birth to my scales. Often they die the next moment. Which is not a pity. They can get reborn. I found out that the human capacity to remember and recognize them is incredibe, when sufficiently trained.
To experiment with frequency ratios, I first used to sing while taking a shower: I added my voice frequency to the frequency of the ventilator. I felt the vibration of the larynx. Others might agree with me that dissonant frequency ratios are uncomfortable on the larynx. Then I experimented (and still do experiment) with a #fretless #guitar and the #Haken #continuum #fingerboard. What is still waiting for me are the violin or the trombone. The interesting quality of these instruments to me is their flexibility: They allow adaptive frequency-changing note-playing.
It happens that I find certain frequency ratios more interesting than others and associate characters to them. I do not inevitably prefer always consonant over dissonant ratios because dissonance means agitation to me, which I sometimes find attractive, like entrophy.
I'm looking forward to measure them and to write them down from the moment on when I will be able to use the #Santur with smoothly movable individual bridges which I'm building on my own. This instrument which will have (compared to the fretless guitar) more numerous #strings will allow me to tune it in a scale by coping each note of the scale with an open string. It will open my #research to #timbres more widely. I might post more about #tuning the fretless guitar and the Santur in the future.
Playing #music with #instruments is fun!