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Welsh fare: A selection of traditional recipes Hardcover – January 1, by S Minwel Tibbott (Author)5/5(2). First published inPat Welsh's Southern California Gardening has sold well o copies and received great critical acclaim.
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Find incredible Welsh Books at The Works. With a fantastic selection of Books about Wales including fiction books, biographies and sports books, you will be spoilt for choice on what to read. Browse our range of Popular Welsh Books below. About the Author. Gilli Davies has worked with food for more than 30 years, with many cookbooks based on local food culture in Wales and Cyprus, including the Flavours of Wales series, and a part TV series, Tastes of Wales/5(52).
This impressive selection of leisure books offers exciting reading to current learners, as well as those wanting to reacquaint themselves with the language, and people who may be fluent Welsh speakers but lack confidence in reading the language. As a learner myself, I very much look forward to reading these books.".
Database of Welsh language and Welsh interest books from the Welsh Books Council. Books can be ordered through the council for delivery from a bookstore of choice.
Bilingual site (Welsh-English). The Four Ancient Books of Wales is a term coined by William Forbes Skene to describe four important medieval manuscripts written in Middle Welsh and dating from the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries.
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Iolo Manuscripts: A Selection of Ancient Welsh Manuscripts, in Prose and Verse, from the Collection Made by the Late Edward Williams, Iolo Morganwg, for the Purpose of Forming a Continuation of the Myfyrian Archaiology; and Subsequently Proposed as Materials for a New History of Wales5/5(1).
Historical Works from Medieval Wales is the fourth volume in The Library of Medieval Welsh Literature series. It introduces readers to the genre of medieval Welsh historical texts on the basis of a broad selection of annotated passages, which range from an account of the legendary origin of Britain to the fall of the last native prince.
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This included The Welsh Review (–), and Dock Leaves which later became The Anglo-Welsh Review (–) and continues (from ) as the New Welsh Review.
This book, a selection of folk tales, true tales, tall tales, myths, gossip, legends and memories, celebrates and honours unique Welsh stories.
Some are well known, others from forgotten manuscripts or out-of-print volumes, and some are contemporary oral tales. They reflect the diverse tradition of storytelling, and the many meanings of chwedlau/5.
An English-Welsh pronouncing dictionary, with preliminary observations on the elementary sounds of the English language, a copious vocabulary of the roots of English words, and a list of scripture proper names = Geiriadur cynaniaethol Seisoneg a Chymraeg, yng nghyd a sylwadau rhagarweiniol ar seiniau egwyddorol yr iaith Seisoneg, llechres o'i gwreiddeiriau, a geirfa o enwau priodol ysgrythyrol.
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Q: Editing Fields in Event Mode with FullCalendar + Javascript Good afternoon, I'm creating a simple calendar using the FullCalendar plugin, I'm almost done, but now I need to click on the desired event to show the information of the event and that there is an updated option in the image below you can see how are currently
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Now, continue with my codes up to this point, however, please note that I have already defined one updated button and the method that is used, but still  is not reaching at method. What I need is find out how to display the original data of the event and give the user a possibility to change and save this on database.
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    function __construct(){
        parent:: __construct();
        $this->load->model('calendar2Model', 'model', TRUE);
    }

    public function index(){
        $this->template->set('title', 'Agenda');
        $this->template->load('layout', 'calendar_v.php');
        //$this->load->view('calendar_v.php');
    }

    public function getEvents(){
        $data = $this->model->get_events();
        echo json_encode($data);
    }

    public function updateEvents(){
        $param['id'] = $this->input->post('id');
        $param['inicio'] = $this->input->post('inicio');
        $param['fim'] = $this->input->post('fim');
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        echo json_encode($r);
    }

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        die('');
    }

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        $id = $this->input->post('id');
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    }

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    function __construct() {
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        $this->db->delete('eventos');
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            return 1;
        } else{
            return 0;
            }
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Kristen Stewart Dishes About 'Twilight: Breaking Dawn — Part 2'
by UInterviewNovember 6, 2012, 12:00 amNovember 6, 2012, 12:00 amNovember 6, 2012, 12:00 amNews >
As Robert Pattinson, 26, discussed loud kissing scenes with Jimmy Kimmel, his girlfriend Kristen Stewart, 22 appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to talk about Twilight: Breaking Dawn — Part Two.
Leno asked Stewart about where the Stephenie Meyer-created series picks up in the next and final installment. "Popped one out, pretty concerned with that," she replied. "Me and Edward are doing quite well, people keep trying to kill my baby. But I'm now super spectacular so I can take care of that, being a vampire."
Stewart was less blase about the twist ending to the Twilight series. "It's so shocking," she promised. "Every time I see it or even think about it I get giddy. It freaks me out." But fans of the books shouldn't worry that the films will go in an entirely different direction. "It's easy to skim over. But you can find the root of our little twist [in the book]."
Among the other topics discussed were fans in Tokyo and the sex toys and fish-flavored Tootsie Rolls Stewart claims she purchased along with a mask to avoid paparazzi. She also discussed her ad campaign for the Balenciaga fragrance, Florabotanica.
Twilight: Breaking Dawn — Part Two, also starring Pattinson, Maggie Grace, Dakota Fanning, Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene, Billy Burke, Nikki Reed and Kellan Lutz hits theaters on November 16.
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I love this challenge because it encourages bloggers and our readers to appreciate what they already have. We all know times are hard and we need to cut back on the shopping. Lord knows I am trying. Today I am going to talk about a gift from my Mama but I was so impressed with her DIY skills that I just have to rave about it.
I had wanted a dressing table for ages, so that doing my hair and make up was easier and I could store everything in one place neatly rather than all over the place. I really didn't expect to get one for christmas my parents were dead sneaky about it. So the dresser started out like this.
Functional yes but not really much to look at you would agree. My bedroom has a bit of a boudoir feel and my Ma said she wanted to make sure the gift was a perfect fit. She is awesome with DIY and customising things for their own personal touch. So she set to work. She sanded it down and treated it.repainted and varnished.
You have to agree it turned out amazing! Black to match my room more and the mirror I already had. I also love that she changed the handles to add a little sparkle into my life. These crystal style handles make opening drawers much more fun.
The mirror was also sanded down and painted as it was originally white.The feather boa isn't attached but I have nowhere else to put it and everyone needs some glamour. The leopard print jewellery case was also from my parents but the Christmas before.
I also love this vintage bush and mirror set. I picked it up for just £1. I love the colour and pattern. I always see these in charity shops and think they must have a tale to tell. How many young ladies dressing tables have they adorned before?
I also love this vintage 60s dresser set which I need to start using a little more. I also got this for Christmas from my parents but you can pick them up at lots of vintage stalls. Keep you eyes open.
What do you think? Did she do a good job?
Wow... this is lovely.... I think I need to get a dresser... this one looks so stylish and functional!


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Join the Twitter Platform Team to hear what's new and how to make your solutions come alive. In each city, we'll also be featuring talks by local industry leaders who will tell us about the technologies they're using to build the best apps and solutions.
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BOOK REVIEW: "The Many Sides of Peace" challenges one to live Gospel nonviolence
by Pat Ferrone,
Pax Christi Massachusetts
I have a long-standing habit of underlining, or in other ways noting, challenging or profound thoughts expressed in some of the books I read. This initiates a kind of 'lectio divina' in which I then reflect on the text and allow it to enhance or alter previously held ideas. Happily, Brayton Shanley's new book, The Many Sides of Peace qualified for just such appraisal. Many underlined, notated, starred passages can be found in my copy of his book, elucidating points that hadn't occurred to me in my years of soul-searching and peacemaking.
Though my bias of friendship with the author should be noted, I insist that this beautifully rendered apologetic for an all-embracing and whole-hearted approach to living Gospel nonviolence, is a 'must-read.' Beginning with the first page, one enters into the company of a veritable Cloud of Witnesses who have resonated with the compelling call of Jesus' radical invitation to "Come follow me…" From the gospels and the prophets arise the words of admonishment and the call to forgiveness and metanoia; from seekers of truth of long-ago history to the present day, we hear voices that ring with authority and insight, reminding us that if we truly desire Peace on Earth, only the means of boundless, nonviolent love will seed this hope and, ultimately, bring about transformation.
In his writing, Brayton never shies away from the observation that these are, indeed, dire times. He in no way avoids the deviltry of individual causality, nor the accretions of dominative power built into the very structure of society, which contribute to the bereaved moaning of so many in the global community. He identifies the dead-end approaches we employ to deal with individual enmity and global issues of violence when fear is operative and the means of loving action based on imagination and creativity are abandoned. It is then that we are more likely to acquiesce to the idea that a little violence here, a bit more there, will remedy the evil perpetrated by the treacherous 'other,' the intransigent dictator, the greed of corporate machinations or governmental secrecy and the plague of war.
Brayton's years of immersion in scripture, self-reflection, analysis, and plain hard work, lead him to suggest that this Way blossoms as we align ourselves with the needs of our suffering brothers and sisters, and by fidelity to the holistic means of prayer, study, physical work, protest, and the nurturing of the nonviolent community -always in celebration of the essential goodness of our God-given lives, and of all creation. With clarity, he details the grounded life of nonviolence lived with his wife Suzanne, co- creator with him of the rural, "green," Agape community in western Massachusetts. Guided by the Spirit of the Divine Feminine, and with the energizing company of other truth-seekers and supporters, Brayton presents convincing evidence that a sustained commitment to seeking God's will is possible, and yields much fruit.
There's trust on these pages that slowly by slowly, one will be blessed with the grace and strength to witness to the perfidy and pain of our suffering world, and to participate in its healing. I would suggest that you seek out a copy of the book, published by RESOURCE Publications (Wipf and Stock Publishers), and ponder its thesis. Better yet, read and discuss it in the company of others committed to peacemaking, as will be done by our Pax Christi MA board, beginning in September.
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A gem of a book! Brayton Shanley provides inspiration, perspective, and practical advice for the seeker of Peace. Drawing on 30+ years of devotion to simple living and bearing witness to the Gospel truth of Jesus's nonviolent love, he delivers an exciting, hopeful perspective that will be helpful to seasoned nonviolent activists as well as those who are exploring or newly embracing this life pathway. Highly recommended. ******
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A Political Prisoner Speaks
by Jalil Muntaqim
In seven years, by 2023, the US will be 40 percent minority, and 50 percent of the entire population will be under 40 years old. These are the demographics that can not be ignored as progressives move forward building opposition to institutional racism and plutocratic governing.
In my thinking it is incumbent on today's activists to take in account what America will look like in ten years, so we will be better positioned to ensure the future will not be governed by deniers of change. In this regard, I am raising dialogue toward building a National Coalition for a Changed America (NCAA) comprising social, economic and political activists who are prepared to build a future-focused America based on equitable distribution of wealth. It is imperative that progressives seek the means to organize greater unity and uniformity in ideological and political objectives toward the construction of a mass and popular movement. It is well established the most pressing issues confronting poor and oppressed peoples' are wage inequalities, housing displacement, dysfunctional public schools and student debt, climate change, the criminalization of the poor—mass incarceration, and the militarization of the police. In each are negative racial and economic implications creating social conflicts and confrontations.
However, the most pervasive and devastating causes for all of these issues is the unequal distribution of wealth. It is well researched and recorded the wealth disparity, income gap between whites and blacks is 40 percent greater today than in 1967, with the average black household net worth at $6,314 and the average white household at $110,500 (NYT, "When Whites Don't Get It" by Nicholas Kristof). When we account for how economic disparity impacts educational opportunities or criminal behavior in the black community, we are better able to identify the overall, pernicious problem. The Brookings Institute reported last July that: "As poverty increased and spread during the 2000s, the number of distressed neighborhoods in the United States—defined as census tracts with poverty rates of 40 percent or more climbed by nearly three-quarters." The report continued: "The population living in such neighborhoods grew by similar margins (76 percent, or a million people) to 11.6 million by 2008-2012." (NYT "Crime and Punishment," by Charles M Blow).
Obviously, America is in increasing economic crisis, especially when considering, "According to a recent paper by the economists Emmanuel Saez of the London School of Economics, almost all of the increases in American inequality over the last 30 years is attributable to the "rise of the share of wealth owned by the 0.1 percent richest families." And much of that rise is driven by the top 0.01 percent. "The wealth of the top 1 percent grew an average of 3.9 percent a year from 1986 to 2012, though the top one-hundredth of that 1 percent saw its wealth grow about twice as fast. The 16,000 families in the tiptop category—those with a fortune of at least $111 million—have seen their share of national wealth nearly double since 2002, to 11.2 percent." (NYT "Another Widening Gap: The Haves v. the Have-Mores," by Robert Frank).
Can there be any serious disputing the reality this so-called democracy is actually a plutocracy, and the governing plutocrats has us all hustling and scraping for the crumbs, demanding a minimum wage increase, when we should be demanding control of the means of production. Hence, it is necessary for progressives to realize the future of our struggle must be based on participatory democracy, direct-action engagement. It is important for the more educated and experienced activist to teach the younger activist, and young people in general need to know the future belongs to them, and we are concerned about what that future will look like and how to make it productive. It is essential we figure ways to bridge differences between the evolving demographics and growing minority population.
For instance, I am heartened to see young people taking to the streets, challenging the common impunity of politics, repression and violence. Indeed, Black Lives Matter! However, I am not confident these protests will result in anything substantial in terms of institutional change or build a sustainable movement. We remember Occupy Wall Street (OWS) had created similar national attention, but void a national organization, leadership, or agenda (demands), it was a matter of time before OWS would dissipate and disappear after police removed the public nuisance.
In this regards, I am asking activists to post on their Facebook page and other online sites these musings, for open discussion and dialogue. Specifically, I suggest that young people across the country enter open debates about the future of specific issues that have captured national attention. Obviously, it is necessary to build a mass and popular movement to effectuate real, institutional change in the country. This was a vital lesson from the civil rights movement, challenging the institution of Jim Crow. Therefore, I am urging young activists to consider organizing toward a "Million Youth Independence Day March" (MY-ID March) for July 4, 2016 in Washington, DC, making the following demands:
De-Militarization and De-Centralization of the Police, Demand Community Control of Police;
Debt Relief for College Students, Lower Tuition Cost for College Education;
Support the Manifestation of the Dreamers Act—Stop Deportations and the Splitting of Families
These three issues, as they have become part of the national dialogue and challenge to the plutocratic government, are able to unite an universal national determination. A one issue protest/campaign is not sustainable when confronting an oppressive/repressive government policy supported by right-wing corporate interests. However, these interwoven issues reach three demographics of young people, each directly challenging institutions of government. Again, it is important to use the current unrest to forge a unified and uniform national youth movement.
Secondly, politically, we need to consider how best to ensure these issues become a major factor in the national debate, possibly imposing them into the national election of 2016. In this way, inspiring and encouraging a mass and popular youth movement, organized during the election year of 2016, we empower the youth in being future-focused. It is well established it was the youth who were instrumental in getting Obama elected as President.. Despite our collective disappointment with his presidency, the lesson learned is the power of the youth when united and determined to accomplish a task. Again, recognizing in 7 years the electoral demographics will be drastically changed, it is time to prepare for that eventuality, even if some do not believe in electoral politics. Therefore, during the election year of 2016, not a single candidate will be permitted to conduct a public forum without being challenged by these issues. These would be acts of participatory democracy and direct-action engagement. Needless to say, to hold a national rally and march in Washington, DC, during the July 4, 2016, weekend tells the entire country young people will divorce themselves from the status quo, becoming independent of the Republican/Democratic party politics.
In closing, it is anticipated this proposal will raise questions concerning the potential for the development of a National Coalition for a Changed America (NCCA). Permit me to say that this proposed organization is only a suggestion. I firmly believe that building a national coalition is necessary to establish a mass and popular movement capable of forcing institutional changes, including the ultimate goal of redistribution of America's wealth. I request this paper be widely distributed and discussed. I am prepared to enter discussion with anyone interested in the potential development of a National Coalition for a Changed America. Lastly I humbly request activists to review what I wrote in Toward a New American Revolution.
"Our First Line of Defense IS Power of the People!"
Remember: We Are Our Own Liberators!
In fierce struggle
Jalil A Muntaqim
Attica, February 2015.
Jalil Muntaqim is a former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. For over forty years, Jalil has been a political prisoner, and one of the New York Three (NY3), in retaliation for his political activism.
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How to read file using StreamReader Class?
StreamReader class allows you to read text files easily. Its implementation is easy and it is widely popular among the programmer. However, there are dozens of way to read text file in C# file handling but StreamReader Class is more popular in list.
StreamReader class uses UTF-8 Encoding by defaults.
StreamReader class is designed for character input in a particular encoding.
Use this class for reading standard text file.
By default, it is not thread safe.
Read those data using StreamReader class.
In this chapter you learned StreamReader class with complete programming example. In the next chapter you will learn  TextWriter Class in C#.


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Q: Wix localization file change output directory I've added en-us.wxl file to my project. At the moment I do not want to localize it.
I just want to keep all ui strings in one file. And i want to be able to replace the standard text in some dialog without replacing the entire dialog.
For example, change button text in WaitForCosting.dlg from "Return" to "Continue".
But when i rebuild my project, i wondered that output directory changed. In "TargetPath" property was added culture name, like from "Release/setup/" to "Release/setup/en-us".
That's not what i need.
How i can return target path without culture name back? I found no answer in google.

A: Set the WixLocalization/@Culture attribute to an empty string.


We had dinner with David's sisters and cousin from out of town the other night and the topic of the new year came up. We went around the table and each one of us shared our new year's resolution. David's was to spend more time with his friends. He's notoriously bad at making time to hang out with his buddies, even if it's just going to grab a coffee. So last night, we had them over to ring in the new year. The evening was full of good conversation, laughter and some enlightenment.
2. Hot spinach and artichoke dip. Yummy!
3. Sausage rolls which were delicious and devoured before I was able to take a photo.
4. Prosciutto, sage and Parmesan puffs.
5. Honey-lime and buffalo wings.
6. Decadent chocolate cream cheese cupcakes with buttercream frosting for dessert and lychee martini to quench our thirst.
David is well on his way to fulfilling his resolution. Mine on the other hand may not be so easy and best saved for another post.
Bake in a preheated 350F oven until bubbling and golden brown on top, about 20-40 minutes.
Put the butter and scant 1 cup (220ml) water into a heavy pan.
Heat slowly to melt the butter, then turn up the heat and bring to a rolling boil.
Meanwhile, sift flour and salt together.
As soon as the liquid comes up to a boil, tip in all the flour and salt and take pan off heat.
Beat vigorously with a wooden spoon until the mixture comes together as a paste and leaves the sides of the pan.
Spread on a plate and let cool.
Return the paste to the pan (or place in a bowl) and beat in the eggs, a little at a time, unitl soft, shiny and smooth. The mixture should have a dropping consistency (you may not need all of the egg).
Beat in prociutto, sage and cheese until evenly incorporated.
Spoon the mixture into a pastry bag fitted with a 1/2-inch (1-1.5 cm) plain tip and pipe into small 1 1/4-1 1/2-inch (3-4 cm) circles on the baking sheet, spacing them about 2 inches (5cm) apart to leave room for expansion.
Bake for 20-25 minutes or unitl the pastries are well risen and golden brown.
Pour 2 oz syrup from can and vodka into cocktail shaker.
Using light sour cream and light mayo for the dip tastes just as good.


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Madascincus arenicola — вид сцинкоподібних ящірок родини сцинкових (Scincidae). Ендемік Мадагаскару.

Поширення і екологія
Madascincus arenicola мешкають на крайній півночі острова Мадагаскар, в районі міста Анціранана. Вони живуть в прибережних заростях, що ростуть на піщаних ґрунтах, на висоті 25 м над рівнем моря.

Збереження
МСОП класифікує цей вид як такий, що перебуває на межі зникнення. Madascincus arenicola є рідкісним видом, якому загрожує знищення природного середовища.

Примітки

Сцинкові
Тварини, описані 1930
Плазуни Мадагаскару
Ендемічна фауна Мадагаскару

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Construction is underway on the $152 million Smithfield Bypass project, led by the Highway Albem Joint Venture.
Member for Barron River Craig Crawford said the project would significantly reduce traffic on the Captain Cook Highway (CCH) by diverting through traffic on to the new bypass and supporting jobs.
"This is a project that is supporting jobs for Far North Queenslanders, and for the duration of this project, that means about 115 jobs" Mr Crawford said.
He said the design phase for this project had recommended bringing forward a future stage of the Smithfield Bypass.
"By doing this work now as part of the current construction plan, we will improve the wider road network's functionality, improving road safety and saving costs on future works," he said.


Each molecule gets its own flashing barcode.
How do you identify one molecule among tens of thousands? Traditionally, scientists dye molecules in various colors. But what if each individual molecule had its own unique identifier? Researchers at Duke University are trying to make that a reality by labeling molecules with short strands of light-up DNA. The team discussed their invention, which they deem "temporal barcodes", in a paper published this month in the journal ACS Synthetic Biology.
"The idea is everything has its own heartbeat," said Shalin Shah, the lead author of the paper who is a Ph.D. student in electrical and computer engineering at Duke University. The technique invented by Shah, along with Duke computer science professor John Reif and postdoctoral researcher Abhishek Dubey of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, would allow researchers to identify thousands of molecules at a fraction of the cost of other methods. Unlike dyes or stains, the temporal barcodes wouldn't fade over time.
As researchers found molecules they wanted to study, they tweaked the length or the number of repeating sequences on one of their strands. When that strand collided with a free-floating strand, previously stained with a fluorescent dye, it would briefly light-up. Each molecule ended up with its own unique flashing pattern, which acted almost like a fingerprint or barcode.
In an email to Engadget, Shah compared molecules to old black and white films. "You want to give it color, that's what our temporal barcodes can do," said Shah.
Using computer simulations, the researchers found that they could distinguish as many as 56 different molecules with their own unique flashing barcode. But if scientists opted for different colors of fluorescent dyes, the researchers think that number could increase to thousands.
What's next for the technology? Shah told Engadget that the researchers at Duke want to use artificial technology to scale up their technology even further. Rather than dealing with the daunting task of manually identifying thousands of temporal barcodes, the scientists want to figure out how they can use AI to automatically tell them apart. They also hope to apply their method using cellular or protein components.


Crown of the Polish Kingdom, or just colloquially the Crown (Polish:Korona) is the archaic name for territories of Poland, distinguishing them from territories of Grand Duchy of Lithuania or vassal territories like Duchy of Prussia or Duchy of Courland, which had varying degrees of autonomy.
The term Crown was used in the times of Kingdom of Poland until the end of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795.
Depending on context, this term can also refer to The Crown, the term used to separate the government authority and property of the government from the personal influence and private assets held by the current monarch of the Commonwealth. In the Commonwealth, that often meant to distinguish between people loyal to the elected king (royalists) and people loyal to powerful magnates.
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Annual Hon Barry OKeefe Virtual Memorial
The Annual Hon Barry O'Keefe AM QC DUniv(ACU) (Honoris Causa) Virtual Memorial Lecture
Guest speaker, Ms Libby Lyons, inaugural Chair of the Aged Care Workforce Industry Council and former Director of the Federal Workplace Gender Equality Agency, will be speaking on the topic of "Is the Fair Work Act really fair?".
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Libby Lyons is one of Australia's most powerful advocates, with decades of leadership experience in corporate affairs and issues-based advocacy.
Libby's experience includes heading up BHP's Olympic Dam corporate affairs, as well as senior executive roles at Atlas Iron, CITIC Pacific Mining, Alcoa of Australia, the Western Power Corporation and Telstra.
In April 2021, Libby completed her appointment as the Director of the Commonwealth Government's Workplace Gender Equality Agency. Over her tenure, Libby was listed in Apoliticial's 100 Most Influential People Working in Gender Policy (2018 & 2019) and was featured in 200 Women Who Will Change the Way You See the World. Libby has a strong personal commitment to public service and started her career as a primary school teacher.
Most recently, Libby was appointed a member of the National Aged Care Advisory Council. Her other roles include the inaugural Chair of the Aged Care Workforce Industry Council and Chair of Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE) Ltd. She is Strategic Counsel for CGM Communications and the State Chapter Chair in Western Australia and national board member of Chief Executive Women.
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The company also has distributors in Finland, Italy, Spain, China, Australia, and our suitcases will reach other European markets very soon.
AS E-Piim Tootmine (E-Milk Production Ltd.) has cooperated with EAS in the recent years to develop their company in a broader spectre: they have modernized production, marketing and management of production.
The Estonian Waste Recycling Competence Centre , which is a non-profit association that grew out of the project, connects the largest companies in Estonia who deal with recycling waste, coordinates and develops the reuse of waste and the manufacturing of products from waste.
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Rokeby, William
Rokeby, William an Irish prelate, was a native of Rokeby, in Yorkshire, and a doctor of the canon law. He was a brother to Sir Richard Rokeby, lord treasurer of Ireland. He received his early education at Rotheram and finished at Oxford, when he was presented by the monks of Lewes, in 1487, to the rectory of Sandal, near Doncaster. At the close of the 15th century he was nominated to the vicarage of Halifax, in Yorkshirei in 1498 was constituted lord chancellor of Ireland, and afterwards advanced to the see of Meath, in 1507. On February 5, 1511, he was translated by pope Julius II to the see of Dublin, the temporalities of which were accorded to him in June following. In 1514 this prelate confirmed the establishment of a college of clerks, founded at Maynooth by Gerald, earl of Kildare, which was subsequently remodelled. In 1520 he was despatched by the lord deputy and council to Waterford for the purpose of pacifying such discords and debates as existed between the earl of Desmond and sir Piers Butler. Archbishop Rokeby died November 29, 1521. See D'Alton, Memoirs of the Archbishops of Dublin, page 178.
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Ukraine struggles with tragedy, global conflicts – and its reputation
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It only took a few hours of examining the crash site of flight 752 outside Tehran for a team of Ukrainian experts to ascertain that the Ukrainian Airlines jet had been brought down by a missile, security officials in Kyiv say.
In Ukraine, the tragedy has been met with a shocked sense of deja vu on two fronts. First, there are the inevitable comparisons with MH17, brought down over the east of the country by a Russian missile five years ago. But there is also an overarching sense of confusion over how – yet again – the country has been dragged into a conflict not of its own making.
"Ukraine seems to have a dark cloud over it," said Alina Polyakova of the Brookings Institution. "It's fighting a war against Russia, and has become part of the political war in the US. This tragedy again puts Ukraine in the middle of conflicts that have nothing to do with it."
While the plane's shooting down had a terrible cost in human life, Ukraine's unwanted starring role in the US impeachment disaster has come with costs to military aid, political alliances and reputation.
"It's a catastrophe," said Pavlo Klimkin, who was the country's foreign minister until last August. "Ukraine now has the reputation of a place that can cause all kinds of trouble. It's the opposite of everything we were working for."
The Trump administration's engagement with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been borderline contemptuous. Zelenskiy has still not been offered a White House meeting, and a recent planned visit from secretary of state Mike Pompeo meant to show support to Ukraine was cancelled due to the escalating tensions in the Middle East.
The way the Americans shared evidence with Ukraine over the missile that hit the plane seems to fit the pattern. On Thursday, sources in Washington were briefing journalists that they had evidence the Iranians had shot down the plane. Sources in London briefed the same to the Guardian, and Canada's Justin Trudeau was confident enough to make a public statement blaming Tehran.
But nobody had bothered to share the evidence with the Ukrainians, leading to Zelenskiy authoring a plaintive Facebook text on Friday morning calling on western nations to share their intelligence.
Eventually, he had a meeting with the head of the US embassy in Ukraine, Kristina Kvien, which in itself tells a story. She is a temporary replacement for William Taylor, who returned home recently after appearing at impeachment hearings and questioning the decision to withhold military aid for Kyiv. He, in turn, replaced Marie Yovanovitch, who was abruptly withdrawn from Ukraine by Donald Trump after a series of allegations by the president's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, against her.
The wreckage of the Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 which crashed near Tehran, killing 176 people.
At home, Zelenskiy has been criticised for remaining cautious while other leaders accused Iran publicly, but it is hard to see what he could have done without being shown evidence.
It is also possible that his cautious rhetoric on who was responsible for shooting down the plane actually played in Ukraine's favour. It meant the Ukrainian investigation group on the ground was given access to the site, where they appear to have found enough evidence of a missile attack to bounce the Iranians into publicly admitting on Saturday morning what they had known since Wednesday.
Without that hard evidence, the Iranians may have decided to play the same gruesome and offensive game as the Kremlin has over the shooting down of MH17, denying involvement in defiance of all the evidence.
But even if Ukraine's sad involvement in the Middle East tensions will not drag on for months and years, there remains the longer-term issue of how to handle relations with the US, and it is not clear what Kyiv can do to extricate itself from the mess.
Trying to remain neutral in US domestic issues led to Trump's notorious threats to withhold aid to the country. But currying favour by giving Giuliani and others around the White House what they want could result in a new round of distrust with a new US administration, should Trump lose the election later this year.
"Who wins the election will mean a lot for Ukraine in terms of solidarity and engagement," said Klimkin.
He said "creative ideas" were needed for Ukraine to re-establish good ties with Washington.
Privately, Zelenskiy and his team must be praying for an uneventful year, followed by a change in the White House and a new chapter of US-Ukraine relations under a Democratic president. On the basis of the past few months though, Kyiv may not get what it wants.
"I don't even know what to expect next. When will the country finally have a period of being lucky?" asked Ukrainian journalist Kristina Berdynskykh in a post on Twitter.


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The Preacher as Last Comic Standing?
by Dr. Alyce McKenzie on Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Preachers hear lots of feedback after they preach.
"You could be a hypnotist; you have such a soothing voice." (Is this really a good thing?)
"I like your new robe." (If you can't say anything good about the sermon, mention the robe)
"I couldn't hear a word you said" (This is why we should have had the sound system replaced and not just "repaired" by a church member's uncle's son-in- law)
Another comment often heard by preachers is "You could be a stand-up comedian."
What is the appropriate response to such a comment?
"Thank you, I think." (Sounds insulting to the compliment giver)
"Not if my family wants to continue eating on a regular basis," sounds like false modesty (or maybe just realism)
"Thanks be to God!" sounds blasphemous.
I am a fan of the show Last Comic Standing. I wouldn't stand up in a pulpit and recommend to parents that they have their children watch it, because it is, of course, often profane and vulgar. But for me, stand- up comedy is a fascinating genre – both because of its delivery and its content. Preachers can learn some positive lessons, as well as some cautionary tales, from stand- up comedians.
Ways Preaching and Stand-up Comedy are Alike
Both involve a strong sense of vocation willing to ignore sensible advice from others that maybe something else would be a more prudent pursuit (more lucrative, less stressful, etc.) We're familiar with what people give up to pursue a preaching ministry. We may not be as familiar with the jobs, time and normal lives people give up to pursue the vocation of comedy.
Both preaching and stand-up comedy involve the reality of careful preparation and the appearance of spontaneity.
A comedian who forgets her next joke and pulls her I phone or (God forbid, an index card) out of her pocket to look it up is dead on the stage. It's not so bad when you're a preacher. You can consult the old school index card stuck in your Bible and continue your train of thought without the whole room getting off at the next stop. But for both comedians and preachers, it takes a tremendous amount of work to make one's delivery look effortless.
This is why, when I'm the guest preacher for a week and preach every morning at 8:30 am, I can't stay out till midnight eating pie (though, believe me, I would love to) or meet a conference attendee for an early breakfast. I'm internalizing my message and need alone time. Content is not enough. Delivery is integral to the message. Careful preparation maximizes the artist's ability to connect with those to whom she or he is speaking.
Comedians and preachers both need to manage their insecurities and ego needs, or their addiction to affirmation will assassinate their art.
Both can get that needy light in their eyes like an American Idol contestant waiting to hear from Simon Cowell. It's the look that says, "My whole life has been a lead- in to your opinion of me and my whole future rests upon your opinion of me. Please, oh, dear God, please, think I'm as wonderful as I'm afraid I'm not."
Comedians who show their neediness are "trying too hard." The secret to being funny is, of course, good material that connects with the experience of your particular audience. The deeper secrets are confidence and timing. By confidence, I mean not just the appearance of indifference to whether or not people laugh, but the real indifference to whether or not people laugh. If they don't laugh, they are comedically challenged. You're not. You continue to love them, but with a tinge of pity. Under no circumstances do you doubt the essential ridiculousness of life, of which their not laughing at your carefully crafted remark is just another example. Under no circumstances do you doubt your role as the reliable purveyor of the gift of comedy to them. Hold your head high as your witticism hangs like expelled gas in the air of the sanctuary. The comedian who stands on the stage with the needy glint in his eye is on the verge of a slow and painful death in front of others. The preacher who preaches with that needy glint in her eyes, heads to the back, ostensibly to shake hands and greet worshipers, but actually to beg for biscuits like a pathetic little dog.
In both comedy and preaching, humor is a gift that potentially has healing properties. In the case of preaching there is heightened danger that it could also have hurtful properties.
Both preaching and stand-up comedy rely on what I call the "knack for noticing," the habit of close attention to inward life and life around us. In stand- up comedy, the comedian derives her material from being on the lookout for the absurd and the ridiculous in life within and around her and then hyperbolizing it to the breaking point.
Ways Preaching and Stand-up Comedy are Not (necessarily) Alike
Their Purpose
I can't speak with authority about what stand-up comedians view as the purpose of their craft since I'm not one. I've experienced their work as an audience member and can speak to the various impacts it has had on me. It can make me laugh at myself or picture a ridiculous situation that is uniquely familiar. It can help me escape for a few moments, from an overriding anxiety. It can make me uncomfortable with certain attitudes and life patterns, as, for example, when a comedian did a bit on how his owning an Infinity instead of a Ford Focus contributed to thousands of hunger related deaths a year. It was only funny in a "this is dark and too true to be funny, but I'll laugh nervously along with everyone else: "heh, heh, heh," sort of way. Comedy can make me laugh without wondering about its purpose. I'm guessing the question "What is the purpose of my comedy?" is not always foremost in a comic's mind. But I could be wrong about that.
I do know as a preacher that the question "What is the purpose of my comedy? does have to be a primary consideration. Lots of things make people laugh that are not the gospel, that undermine the gospel. The preacher activates the same knack for noticing and hyperbolizing that the comic does, but for the purpose of pointing up the human condition's habitual tendencies and patterns in the context of God's creative, forgiving grace. Throwing in humor to mask weak biblical work or sloppy theology is a cop out. It's an insult to the genre of comedy as well as that of preaching.
The Source of the Speaker's Confidence
Humor is a gift; it can be a means of grace; it has healing properties. I consider the ability to see the humor in life and convey it to others is a talent that can be used to build up the Body of Christ when it is used in a loving way. This perspective comes out of my recent work with 1 Corinthians in which Paul tells us there are many gifts but one Spirit. (1 Corinthians 12:27-31) The spiritual gifts include teaching, knowledge, interpreting the present in light of God's will, leadership, and healing (both physical and emotional/spiritual). The spiritual gifts are the road, our talents are our car and Love is the destination.
Lessons to be Learned:
Attentiveness and Respect for the Power of Humor
Do be attentive to the ridiculousness of life and respectful of the gift of humor
Do activate the dynamic of stand-up comedy as you go about your day: on the lookout for the absurd, the ridiculous in life within and around you and then hyperbolizing it to the preaching point.
The more varied and interesting your life experience, the more you have to draw from in using humor.
Voice, the unique perspective and contribution you have as an artist, is the product of that to which you are attentive. That goes for comedians and for preachers. What patterns are there in the things you notice and think are preachable, memorable, hilarious? What draws your attention?
Mary Katherine Hilkert, Roman Catholic theologian and author of Naming Grace, says that in preaching we name grace around us and we name that which is not grace. Humor, when appropriately used in preaching, is a naming of grace in our own thoughts, relationships and world. Humorless preaching results when we're not attentive to the full range of God's involvement with the world.
When someone comes up to you after you preach and says "You could be a stand-up comedian," let's hope they don't mean "because you were vulgar, used profanity, insulted my ethnicity and probably will never be allowed to attend another Thanksgiving dinner in your childhood home."
Let's hope they mean "You used the gift of humor in such a way that you gained and held our attention, lowered our defenses and allowed the good news to touch our minds and hearts."
Here are some things to remember so people mean option #2 rather than option #1.
Things Not to Do
Don't try to be a stand-up comedian; you're not one. You're a preacher.
Don't like making people laugh more than you like preaching the gospel.
View your sense of humor as a gift, not a personal possession. "What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as if it were not a gift? " (1 Cor 4:7)
Be willing to sacrifice the satisfaction of making people laugh if a joke is a distraction from the point rather than an accessory to it.
Don't make fun of people or groups of people unless you're including yourself and even then, be careful. Making fun of general human tendencies and traits that we share is safer. Some stand-up comedians, though by no means all, assume that it's open season for jokes about their own gender, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, etc. Be careful about that as a preacher. Others may resent being lumped into your category with you. Just because you're making fun of yourself doesn't mean you're not making fun of them too.
Don't say things about your family you wouldn't want them to hear, banking on the fact that they don't go to church, will never look your sermons up on the web, and will never buy the DVDs.
So next time someone comes up to you after you preach and says "You could be a stand- up comedian," what are you going to say?
"Thanks, I think."
"Not if my family wants to continue eating on a regular basis."
Or "Thanks be to God for the gift of humor!"
I don't like any of those. #1 is too wishy washy. #2 is too self-denigrating. #3 is too sanctimonious.
I'll keep working on it. If you think of a better response, let me know.
Dr. Alyce McKenzie is Le Van Professor of Preaching and Worship at Perkins School of Theology and Director of the Perkins Center for Preaching Excellence at SMU.


Q: For quite some time, I've used a picture-editing feature which came with Windows XP. When I clicked a thumbnail in the My Pictures folder, Windows XP showed a larger picture. When I right-clicked the picture and chose "Edit," a menu appeared, offering options like cropping, incremental angle shifting, color shifting, contrast, brightness, sharpening, the latter four with sliding scales.
This feature suddenly disappeared, and I can't find it in your book. In fact, what I see now is exactly what is detailed in your book — the Paint program appears. What happened to my photo editor?
A: It sounds like you had a third-party photo-editing program installed, as the features you're describing don't come with Windows XP. Paint is the only image editor bundled with Windows XP. And, as you've discovered, it pops up when you right-click a photo and choose Edit.
As you're aware, Paint is pretty rudimentary. Until Windows 7 arrived, Paint has never been able to crop a photo, for example.
First, if your PC always behaved like that, the editor might have been installed on the PC when you bought it.
Second, digital cameras and/or scanners frequently install image editors during their installation process.
You might try scanning your Start menu's nooks and crannies to see if any program names ring a bell.
If you can remember the exact wording of some of the editing program's menus, you might try googling them to see if something jogs your memory or reveals the program's name.
Posted: September 9th, 2009 under Windows XP.


Do believers in a divine designer really believe in a God of the gaps?
Some opponents of intelligent design say that because it draws on what is in their view an inevitably theological explanation, it must be a kind of "god of the gaps" way of reasoning. One such critic says that "A theory such as ID posits what is pejoratively known in philosophy as a 'God of the gaps': in short, it slots the concept of a God into any feature of existence which science or reasoning cannot explain (for the moment)." Proponents of intelligent design maintain that this is a mistaken analysis of their position. Which of these two competing claims is correct does not interest me here. The point is that once a person is found guilty of using "god of the gaps" argument, they are at fault and should withdraw their argument. That much at least is accepted by proponents and opponents of Intelligent Design. What does interest me, however, is the way that some (but surely not all) opponents of belief in God may be tempted to read far too much into the objection that someone is using a god of the gaps mentality.
Let's imagine that the following is true: God does not intervene in the world. Once upon a time people who were more ignorant than we are thought that gods, angels, demons, spooks or spiritual forces lurked behind everything that we didn't have a handy natural explanation for (like comets or volcanoes). But in fact, this is all god of the gaps reasoning, and God doesn't intervene in nature at all. Never. There is a true natural account for everything that goes on in the universe that we know of.
If you don't think that's true, relax. We're imagining, OK? I don't think that the above is true, since I'm one of those crazy people who thinks that at least some miracles have taken place. But let's suppose that the above account were true. Here's where things take a step off the cliff of logic. Take the above account, and then add the following statement: "Therefore, since God isn't required to explain any phenomenon, we have no need of the God hypothesis at all, and we have as good as shown that he need not be thought to exist." God, some have said, can now be treated as a redundant hypothesis that explains nothing at all. Nothing.
This is where things turn pear shaped. Often I think that people who are very good at the work of science should stick to science and not venture out into metaphysics (I'm sure this is by no means true of all scientists, many of whom might be quite good philosophers too). This is what can happen when such a venture goes wrong.
Science has been spectacularly successful in probing the nature of the physical universe and elucidating the mechanisms by which the universe works. Scientific research has also led to the eradication of many horrific diseases, and raised hopes of eliminating many more. And scientific investigation has had another effect in a completely different direction: it has served to relieve a lot of people from superstitious fears. For instance, people need no longer think that an eclipse of the moon is caused by some frightful daemon, which they have to placate. For all of these and myriad other things we should be very grateful.
But in some quarters the very success of science has also led to the idea that, because we can understand the mechanisms of the universe without bringing in God, we can safely conclude that there was no God who designed and created the universe in the first place. However, such reasoning involves a common logical fallacy, which we can illustrate as follows.
Take a Ford motor car. It is conceivable that someone from a remote part of the world, who was seeing one for the first time and who knew nothing about modern engineering, might imagine that there is a god (Mr Ford) inside the engine, making it go. He might further imagine that when the engine ran sweetly it was because Mr Ford inside the engine liked him, and when it refused to go it was because Mr Ford did not like him. Of course, if he were subsequently to study engineering and take the engine to pieces, he would discover that there is no Mr Ford inside it. Neither would it take much intelligence for him to see that he did not need to introduce Mister Ford as an explanation for its working. His grasp of the impersonal principles of internal combustion would be altogether enough to explain how the engine works. So far, so good. But if he then decided that his understanding of the principles of how the engine works made it impossible to believe in the existence of Mr Ford who designed the engine in the first place, this would be patently false – in philosophical terminology he would be committing a category mistake. Had there never been a Mr Ford to design the mechanisms, none would exist for him to understand.
It is likewise a category mistake to suppose that our understanding of the impersonal principles according to which the universe works makes it either unnecessary or impossible to believe in the existence of a personal creator who designed, made, and upholds the universe. In other words, we should not confuse the mechanisms by which the universe works either with its cause or its upholder.
John C. Lennox, God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? (Oxford: Lion, 2007), 43-44.
Amen. And I would also add that the mere fact that some entity is explanatorily idle (not that I think God is explanatorily idle) is not by itself good reason to deny that it exists. In fact, it's not necessarily even grounds for withholding belief that it exists.
Suppose we concluded, for example, that we could explain everything in the world without invoking human persons (suppose we concluded that we could have a comprehensive explanation of everything that merely appealed to subatomic particles, their properties and their interactions). That, by itself, would be no reason to withhold belief in the existence of human persons.
Where it is appropriate not to believe in an entity that turns out to be explanatorily idle are cases in which the primary grounds for believing in it would be for explanatory purposes. If scientists came up with a well confirmed gravitational theory that explained all the same phenomena that dark matter is invoked to explain without appealing to dark matter, for example, then that would be a good reason not to believe in dark matter. The sole reason to believe in dark matter is to believe in it as an explanatory posit. But we do not believe in human persons because we accept them as explanatory posits. I'd say (to tie into your previous podcast) that belief in human persons is simply one of those deep, pre-theoretical beliefs that we have about the world that is properly basic.
Likewise, most people to not believe in God because they accept him as an explanatory posit. Some arguments for theism treat theism as an explanatory hypothesis (just as some arguments for the existence of other minds treat the hypothesis that there are other minds in that way). But that is not how belief in God is typically accepted. And, for that reason, many atheistic arguments to the effect that theism is irrational or unwarranted because theism is (allegedly) explanatorily idle are misplaced. They illicitly treat theism like something it is not – an explanatory hypothesis to be accepted or rejected solely on the basis of its explanatory power.
I haven't listened to / read many of your podcasts/posts on dualism yet, but I've been wondering how this relates to ID. The ID proponents all seem to be against materialism in the philosophy of mind (definitely against eliminative materialism) and seem to want a personal/agent type of cause accepted into science. Can this fit in with your physicalism wrt humans? I guess I don't see why not, presumably you still think God is an agent-cause of some kind – but if I understand the Christian physicalist position (and I don't really) it might make the analogy from human to divine design a bit suspect. And even if we think the design inference is an 'inference to the best explanation' presumably there's still an analogy hiding in there somewhere, re: agent causation. A subtext to my question is whether you think there's anything in the fairly recent Christian defences of dualism e.g. Taliaferro/Goetz: Naturalism, Moreland: Recalcitrant Imago Dei(?) If you can decipher this, thanks.
Andre, most vocal published proponents of Intelligent Design are north American envangelicals. It's my view that a dualist view of humans is part of their cultural baggage that they started out with, and have never given up.
But in short, you certainly don't need to be a mind-body substance dualist in order to believe that some non material things or beings exist (like God). I guess I don't see how the design inference has much (if anything) to do with the substance that the designer is made of, so there shouldn't be any problem with a human design / divine design analogy.
As for the recent work on dualism, I've read some of what Goetz has to say (but not a lot), but I haven't read Moreland's material. I think that when it comes arguments to dualism, there's little that's new under the sun. Plantinga's modal argument is new I guess, but I don't think it establishes anything.
I'm trying to work out what the issue is myself. My concern is at least partly to do with the response that some materialists seem to have to ID: they can't conceive of a non-material cause. I think I've heard Richard Dawkins and/or Peter Atkins on this. As soon as someone starts using an analogy for design, e.g. involving Mr Ford, they'll say that since "mind" is now known to be physical (at least in the case of human minds – you never know what those crazy aliens are doing) ID folks can't just go and invent a new category of 'intelligent causation' (or similar) – as the only "intelligent causation" we know anything about turns out to be physical.
The problem is perhaps with the category of 'design' (in an interventionist, or 'non-Deist' sense). It depends on your view on how the mental realm gets created and the causal relations involved. But if it's all physical and/or just some kind of simple emergence from the physical, then the concept of human "design" as separate to law/necessity & chance (a la Dembski) seems rather weakened. If mind is reducible, then so is design; and then what we're left with is at best difference between 'categories' in degree (of complexity) rather than in kind. It makes the analogy woollier.
Well I don't think that proponents of ID need to include any reference to the non-material in their case. All they need (and indeed all they claim to have) is reasons to believe in design at a cellular level. Obviously humans – even with minds that supervene on the physical – did not have a hand in this, so who did?
Of course, people can project all sorts of things into the black hole of what the deigner was – aliens from another planet being the choice of some. But the only point ID seeks to make here is that whatever it was, the design was intentional and could not have arisen without an intelligence behind it.
When we're talking about humans, it's true that some physicalists don't believe in mental causation (e.g. epiphenomenalists) – however plenty do. Nonreductive physicalists are an obvious example.
I certainly can't say that I've ever encountered a book about physicalism and how God's still ok & allowed to cause stuff, just because I don't think I've encountered a theistic physicalist who ever felt it necessary to defend the idea that anthropological physicalism posed a problem for theism and (for example) miracles.
I guess if one rejected dualism because he declared that it was logiclly impossible for the non-physical to ever interact with the physical, then he would have a problem affirming traditional monotheism. I don't say that, however, and that's not why I'm a physicalist. Mind/body interaction is a really hard thing for a dualist to give an account of, of course. Typically they just say that no account is required, or that none is possible.
Those who think religionists slot God into everything they don't understand (yet) have completely missed the point. We slot God into EVERYTHING, including things we do understand.
Glenn wrote: " I'm one of those crazy people who thinks that at least some miracles have taken place". Please name one that you believe has occured within the last milennium.
T.A.M., well I didn't say that any miracles have occurred in the last millennium, so I don't know why you supposed that I must think that any at all had taken place in that time. I don't challenge people to name a big bang that has happened in the last milennium, but of course I understand that if I did, it would not be any real challenge to those who believed that at least one big bang had taken place at some point.
However, if you're interested, I'd say that this case of a purported miracle looks interesting enough.
IMHO, snake oil my friend. My wife is a speech language pathologist. I just asked her to listen to review the "purported miracle". She was, understandably, reluctant to diagnose without having examined the patient. She said it sounded like he had a tension in his larynx, which could be faked. I asked her whether this could be considered a miracle. Her response: "sure, if you believe in miracles but I would look for a non-miraculous explanation". … and she wouldn't know David Hume from David Beckham.
TAM, You call it snake oil and your wife offers a diagnosis after having decided that it can't be a miracle. According to the account the man offered, it was not tension of the larynx but the result of a serious disease, and his doctors had advised him that he may never speak normally again – yet your wife decided that this is false, and it was tension of the larynx all along. So in other words, you say that he is misrepresenting the facts.
They guy has written a book about his experience. Why not look further into it?
Or, to be a bit more honest about what you're doing, why don't you just say up front that anyone making a claim that they have personally been involved in a miracle is, like this guy, lying? I mean, whatever the scenario offered to you, whatever the reported facts, it's not a miracle. Right?
It's not a lie if he believes it's true.
I must admit that I find supposed miracle healing one of the most offensive religious superstitions. If your God can truly heal, why doesn't he heal every single child suffering from cancer tonight? Presumably he could do it with one hand tied behind his back. Oh well, I guess little kids suffering from neuroblastomas are just part of His master plan ….
Are you suggesting that he may have had a mere strain of the larynx, but he himself believed that years ago he had some sort of disease that seriously affected his speech, and he sincerely believes that doctors gave him the prognosis of likely not being able to speak normally again?
Really? Surely your claim really suggests that he lied. And that's what you have to say about every miracle claim: These people are wicked, deliberately deceiving others when they know better.
Yes, I am suggesting that chicanery is always more likely than a "miracle". But no, I don't suggest that chicanery is behind every miracle claim. One need look no further than "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" to see that history is riddled with supposed miracles that have natural explanations.
I have previously commended a reading of Edmund Standing's "Against Mythicism: A Case for the Plausibility of a Historical Jesus" from Think: Philosophy for Everyone 9:24 (2010)and I will do so again.
Well I have to say, I'm still scratching my head over the thought that he had something like a strain and yet believed all the terrible things that he claims to believe about his condition.
Essentially, this means that any claims that suggest that a miracle have occurred will be deemed false by you. What, then, is the point of asking for examples of miracles?
1. Cure all kids around the world suffering from cancer.
2. Revelation in the form of Bible verses encoded in DNA.
3. Jesus on CNN tomorrow night. That would shut up the atheists wouldn't it? But why stop at that. Your God could just take over all television networks for as long as he liked.
4. I wake up tomorrow morning and can comprehend string theory.
5. My 7 and 4 year old boys stop fighting and whining, just for a day. Now that would be a miracle.
So in other words, if it was claimed that in individual got his voice back miraculously, and even if it was a bona fide miracle, you would, no matter what, know that it didn't happen?
Wow… do you not think you're at all dogmatic? Even a little?
All [my] sarcasm aside, let's assume (for the sake of argument) that the preacher vocal cors were irreparably damage and "miraculously" regenerated during his speech. Why is it more likely that the Judeo-Christian god is responsible than a thousand celestial fairies acting in unison? Just wondering.
As long as someone is willing to admit that you're wrong, I don't see how you they can be fairly called dogmatic. I (like Richard Dawkins) freely admit that it is possible that the Judeo-Christian god exists. Do you admit that it is possible that there is no god? If you won't make this admission, it is you who is being dogmatic. If you will make this admission, we just disagree on the relative probabilities of the two assertions.
T.A.M., nobody is claiming that the occurence of a miracle proves or shows that the Judeo Christian God is the right one.
What's more, you're obviously mistaken when you say that unless a person is willing to admit that they could be mistaken about something then they are dogmatic. There are many claims that it is not sensible to doubt at all (e.g. "I see a tree," "squares have four sides," "I am happy," "there is no limit to the number of odd numbers"). Analytic truths, obviously demonstrated empirical facts, properly basic beliefs, nobody has to say that they could be wrong about these in order to avoid the "dogmatic" label. If you've been listening to the podcast lately you'll know of the account of theism as a properly basic beliefs, and it's simply unreasonable to require people to doubt their basic beliefs. You may as well doubt that you know anything at all.
If however a person has no a priori reason to reject the possibility of miracles and yet they always do, then I don't see how they can avoid the label of dogmatic.
But surely anyone who claims that a limb had been regenerated would be lying.
Re: The voice guy – what circumstances surrounding his recovery would have persuaded you that he had actually been miraculously healed? Are there any such circumstances at all? Any at all? Or would you say that anyone who claimed that such circumstances had come to be was actually just lying?
and also.. just because there is CURRENTLY no "acceptable" evidence for a Bigfoot, do we automatically conclude there can be no such thing and give up looking, investigating and critically analysing any evidence?
That miracle is pretty weak Glenn. And lets face it you are in no position to judge whether or not it is a hoax. Perhaps if you could provide a link to interviews with his doctors, or to the original medical records when he was assessed. Basically you are expecting people to believe an account of a miracle based on one persons say-so and a recording. Questions – how often do people recover from his exact condition? I have no idea – I am not a doctor. Had this ever happened to him before – ie. did his voice have good and bad days? – I have no idea, I only have access to one recording. It *may* be a miracle – but if that is the best you can provide then I can see every reason for skepticism.
Max, the guy has a website and sells a book about it. Sure, he makes money from the book – but the point is, it's not like he's coy with providing as much of the evidence as he possibly can.
The conditions you're implying are really just conditions that suggest dishonesty on his part – maybe, you suggest, it was a condition that comes and goes. But according to his account this is false.
In short, I fully grant that if the facts are not as stated, then it's a weak case. But then, that's the issue.
If I saw the other evidence I might be convinced. I am sure miracles continue to happen – I just think that the weblink you provided on its own is unlikely to convince anyone.
If a miracle is defined as 'an event which is genuinely* observed to have occurred, and for which no natural explanation exists' then of course I observe many such events, and so do you, and so indeed does every one of us.
I propose to observe one tonight, when I shall retire to bed, place my expensive Sennheisers over my ears, and listen to Idil Biret playing Chopin's Piano Concertos 1 and 2.
The pleasure I shall experience cannot be explained naturally, and is therefore — in at least one sense of the word — a 'miracle', even though it can be observed by only one person, in this instance myself.
This annoys me. The logic here is that since he (the guy in the video) could have possibly misled people (whether on purpose or accidentally) then he therefore must be misleading people (whether on purpose or otherwise).


25th Jan 11:41 Absurdly complex licences and a raft of underhand techniques means the tide of pop-ups and tracking programs keeps growing. In 2001, a colleague asked me to fix her computer, which was acting "strange". She spent most of her time on websites she knew should be advertisement-free - including the site of the university where we both then worked. Yet she'd get annoying pop-up ads anyway. These ads couldn't be coming from the university; it didn't sell ads at all. So who delivered them? Her computer turned out to be infected with Gator - the first of a series of programs that track users' online behaviour and show extra pop-ups. It was my first encounter with adware-type spyware - programs that watch what users do online, then try to exploit it for their own benefit. Adware vendors defend their practices as "targeted advertising". True, their ads are generally related to what a user is doing. But that doesn't make them useful or desirable to the user. Uninformed consent Adware also compromises users' privacy. To decide which ads to show, programs must track what websites users visit. But users have no way to know where this data will be stored or who will be able to access it. Some adware vendors boast of terabyte-sized databases of users' online activities. Adware vendors are devious, particularly in their attempts to get their software on to users' computers. Rarely does a user grant informed consent to receive pop-ups. Instead, adware vendors resort to trickery to infiltrate users' PCs. Many bundle their adware with programs users actually want - hoping that they won't read all the fine print. In other cases, the fine-print mention is too convoluted, euphemistic or hidden for any user to understand. I've dissected dozens of spyware and adware programs and their legal agreements. I've videoed what happens when you "agree" to their installations. Often you don't get what you expected. Or agreeing to one program somehow lands you with dozens. If a user grants "consent" via a provision buried 10 pages within a 50-page document, has the user really agreed to the installation? If a program describes its features in vague euphemisms ("targeted offers") rather than clear admissions ("pop-up ads"), can a user be expected to understand? I say no. But US law operates under the fiction that these terms are valid. Truly fixing spyware will require reminding judges that hidden terms have no proper place in consumer contracts. Clicking "agree" to an "agreement" that's hundreds of pages long and written in obscure legalese isn't what users would call acceptance. It's more like defeat. Meanwhile, adware vendors continue to use licence agreements to their advantage. Massachusetts's Clickspring requires users to agree to install "additional ... third-party applications" - without telling users what those programs are. To date, vendors have largely got away with this sleight of hand. But litigation against Direct Revenue, a New York-based company that promises to provide "useful content and free software in exchange for the opportunity to deliver highly targeted behavioural messages and optimized [sic] search results" may yet rule these tactics impermissible. Other adware installs without any consent, by exploiting defects in Windows or Internet Explorer. And a few vendors install even if users specifically refuse it: pressing "no" is ignored. At the height of the adware mess, an NCSA survey found that 61% of computers were infected - and only 8% of users knew they were. Security researcher Richard Stiennon estimated in 2004 that advertisers paid more than $1bn (pounds 500m) a year for spyware placements. Fortunately, there are some signs of contraction in the adware world. Gator (later renamed Claria) last year left the business, realising it could never clear its reputation while serving annoying pop-ups. Litigation - such as a major investigation by the American Federal Trade Commission of Washington-based Zango that yielded millions of dollars in fines - put other vendors on the defensive. Nonetheless, new adware vendors are ready to step into the gap. Last year saw the rise of Netherlands-based DollarRevenue, whose huge adware bundles often crashed users' computers. In addition, new programs continue to appear. But spyware isn't just about serving up unwanted and intrusive ads: other developers have more worrying designs on your PC. One natural project is stealing users' passwords. If an attacker gets a user's eBay password, he can sell items under the user's identity. Thanks to the user's good reputation, buyers will be willing to pay for the promised merchandise. But the attacker simply pockets the payment without ever sending anything. Others target passwords to stock brokerages. A typical strategy is to buy preselected small-cap stocks via hacked accounts, bidding up the value of those companies and yielding profits to attackers who purchased other shares in advance. Stealing bank passwords and PINs allows an even more direct theft. The rise in spyware also helps fuel other online scourges, most notably spam. Using spyware-infected PCs makes detection harder: with more spam-sending computers, it's difficult to identify spam based solely on where it comes from. Many spyware programs take extreme steps to escape detection. Last year security experts at Sunbelt Software studied an Italian program called Gromozon which modifies Windows with a rootkit to cover its tracks, creates its own user account, and automatically renames its files. The longer Gromozon and kin stay on users' computers, the larger their profits. I've seen much of the spyware onslaught first-hand - in part as a researcher testing spyware, but also especially in litigation. There were early successes, such as the New York Times and Washington Post winning an injunction to stop Gator. But these days litigation has progressed to improper installation methods. The US Federal Trade Commission has sued half a dozen vendors for spyware-related practices. State attorneys general in New York and Washington have also brought major cases, and private attorneys jumped in too. These efforts have helped to curb the practices of the most well-known spyware vendors, but so far they've largely left lesser companies unchecked. Would new laws be helpful? Draft US federal legislation was initially slated to prohibit a variety of deceptive practices. But special interests sought to water down the legislation. Similar changes occurred in the handful of US states that ultimately passed anti-spyware laws. It turns out that spyware vendors have powerful allies: ad networks want the freedom to track users' activities in great detail, and even mainstream software vendors aspire to install software without thorough disclosures. Weak legislation Ultimately no US federal bill was passed and state laws have been narrow and weak. Outside the US, legislation has been even more limited: drafts were considered in Australia and the Netherlands, but none was enacted. So you have to fend for yourselves. My advice? Install all available security updates to Windows and other software, as these close holes that might otherwise let attackers in. Then modern antispyware software can find and remove any infections that slip through. Finally, think carefully about what software to install. Ask a tech expert whether a program can be trusted; or Google the program's name to see what others say. These steps won't stop spyware, but they can help to keep unwanted programs off your PC. • Ben Edelman studies web advertising as a Ph.D candidate at Harvard University. benedelman.org No responsibility can be taken for the content of external Internet sites.


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Bringing in the 60's in Vegas!
My mom turned 60 this year! She loves the slots, so my dad planned a birthday brunch for her with friends and family at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.
I wanted to incorporate Vegas decor but red, black and white didn't really feel like my mom. These pastel, sparkle papers were much more her style.
My mom and auntie. Weren't they the cutest?
After hunting down old photos with the help of family, I had a collection of four different "eras" of her life: childhood, dating dad, being a mom, being a grandma. I found table tent cards online and decorated the front and back for centerpieces.
My sister ordered the most delicious cookie favors from Milk Jar in Los Angeles and drove them to Vegas. I think there was a mixture of 15 different flavors in this box! Other than the cookies themselves, I was most impressed by their presentation and the gold foil letterpress card.
"Nancy" confetti and chocolate, silver half dollars were sprinkled all over the brunch tables.
A birthday is never complete without a tiara and Mardi Gras beads!
My mom never wants much for herself and so I thought words of appreciation, memories and birthday wishes from friends and family would mean a lot to her. Working on getting these together now and I will share the compilation of all these notes on a later post!
My talented sister, Sara, surprised our mom with a family portrait she drew. Needless to say, I've never seen my mom more in awe than when she opened this gift!
Working on all of the photos and seeing all of the words and wishes for my mom really shows what a remarkable, selfless and beautiful life she has lived, 60 years young. My mom loves with all her heart and is one of the main reasons us kids have such a great life. I hope she felt honored, appreciated and loved on this special day. It was a party to remember!
this is just the best! How you find time to do all these wonderful things simply amazes me! Your mom is adorable!
Love your comments! Thank you Marylee!
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