EVERETT — A Snohomish County judge called John Reed a coldblooded killer who devastated two families and dragged his own family into an extensive cover-up after he fatally shot his former neighbors in Oso, a married couple with whom he had an ongoing dispute.
Weiss on Friday sentenced Reed, 55, to life in prison without the possibility of release. The sentence was mandated by state law after Reed was convicted of aggravated first-degree murder in the death of Patrick Shunn, 45.
Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe did not seek the death penalty against Reed, making life in prison Reed's only possible punishment.
Jurors also found Reed guilty of second-degree murder for killing Shunn's wife, Monique Patenaude, 46, who was fatally shot on the morning of April 11, 2016. Her husband was shot once in the head later that day.
Reed had been in a property dispute with the couple and was apparently angry that Patenaude had reported that Reed had been squatting on property he sold after the deadly 2014 Oso landslide that killed 43 people.
Reed declined to address the court and was stone-faced through the sentencing. His parents, who face charges of aiding Reed after the murders, and his brother, who has already been convicted of rendering criminal assistance to him, sat in the gallery behind Reed.
Shunn and Patenaude were remembered as adventurous soul mates who loved their families, friends, animals and the planet. Despite their differences with Reed, the couple went to check on him after mud, trees and other debris swept down a mountainside and destroyed much of their neighborhood in 2014, said Shunn's father, Michael Shunn, who read aloud a letter written by Shunn's brother, Eric.
"Any individual in their right mind would not have committed such a heinous execution, a premeditated murder of two of the loveliest people you would ever want to know," Patrick Shunn said.
Vi Lindberg, Patenaude's sister, remembered how her sister and brother-in-law cried after accidentally killing a mole, and how they adopted a neighbor's abandoned cat. She also spoke of how the couple ran down the road after the Oso landslide to make sure Reed had survived.
"These kindhearted, life-loving people were murdered by a person they showed care for. Monique pleaded for her life, and he still shot her again and again," Lindberg said.
During his trial, Reed claimed he shot the couple in self-defense after they confronted him at his former property. He claimed he "panicked" and enlisted his brother, Tony Reed, to help him bury the couple's bodies in a remote area near their home and stash the couple's two vehicles.
John Reed was arrested July 15, 2016, after Mexican investigators located him in Sonora and expelled him from the country. He was taken into custody at the border by the U.S. Marshals Service and booked into jail in Arizona before he was extradited to Washington to face the murder charges.
Reed had an ongoing feud with Shunn and Patenaude and threatened to shoot them after they cut brush next to his property in 2013. Sheriff's deputies described Reed as an aggressive neighbor angered by various people after the deadly Oso landslide next to his property.
After the slide, Reed voluntarily sold his property to Snohomish County for $245,700 under a flood-mitigation program, but, according to Patenaude's complaints, continued squatting on the property.
When Patenaude returned home from running errands in Arlington on April 11, 2016, Reed shot her three times. Shunn was fatally shot in the head later the same day when he returned home from work. The next day, neighbors found the couple's livestock untended and reported Shunn and Patenaude missing.
John Reed enlisted the help of his brother and parents, then fled to Mexico with his brother, Tony Reed. Tony Reed turned himself in to U.S. Marshals on May 16, 2016, and later led police to the bodies of Shunn and Patenaude.
Detectives determined that on the night of the shootings, Reed drove to Ellensburg, where his parents and brother live. He stayed there for an hour and returned with Tony Reed, arriving back at the slain couple's property around midnight.
Tony Reed later told detectives he saw Patenaude's body in her Jeep while Shunn's body was inside his Land Rover.
The brothers waited until 3 a.m. April 12, 2016, to each drive a vehicle up North Brooks Creek Road, where they buried the bodies and then dumped the Jeep and Land Rover over a steep embankment several miles from the burial site.
The brothers walked back to John Reed's former property and, over the next two days, allegedly tried to conceal and destroy evidence of the killings.
They returned to Ellensburg, drove to Arizona, then crossed the border into Mexico, sparking a massive manhunt.
Tony Reed, now 51, later pleaded guilty to two counts of rendering criminal assistance and was sentenced to 14 months in prison.
The brothers' parents, Clyde Reed, 83, and Faye Reed, 79, both of Ellensburg, were also charged with rendering criminal assistance. They are expected to enter guilty pleas and to be sentenced on July 19, court records show.


The House of Melody is the first German Voguing House founded in 2012 by Mother Leo Melody. The thirteen-member crew, based in Düsseldorf, Paris, Cologne and Berlin, is distinguished by the individuality, ethnic background and diverse mix of dance skills of each member. Next to teaching regular classes and workshops in whole Germany, the House actively organises workshops, panels, session and dance events with international guests at venues like Tanzhaus Nrw, Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf, Musuemsnacht Köln, Tanzhaus Nrw, Sophiehsälle and Hau in Berlin.
On stage the talented crew performed for Udo Lindenberg, Cakes the Killer, Zebra Katz and at Cooperate Events & Tv Shows like Got to Dance, 5 Gegen Jauch , Schlag den Raab, Audie, Converse Fleurope Interflora 2015 or Sky Mira Award 2014.


Greek food, much like food in most countries, has regional influences. Boureki is a potato and zucchini gratin served without a crust, except in the Chania region of Crete. There it is prepared more like a pie with a crust and served as a main course, accompanied by bread and a Greek salad.
We ate dinner on a couple of occasions at a local eatery Amex Tamam Restaurant. We were impressed with Boureki, and several of the other dishes so I purchased their cookbook. I plan to share some of the delicious dinners in that book later - but today, we are making Cretan Boureki.
In my years of cooking, I have learned to read recipes well beforehand. While reading today's recipe, I noticed the pastry dough instructions were incomplete. A little internet searching and a solution presented itself in the form of puff pastry sheets. I promise to attempt the traditional dough when I return home and will let you know my results.
The two main ingredients of this pie are potatoes and zucchini which contain a lot of water. To keep you pie from becoming a sloppy mess, remove as much water as possible by lightly salting these ingredients ahead of time and allowing to sit for at least 10 minutes. The salt will draw out moisture. Then strain the vegetables, or wrap in a paper towel, and give a gentle squeeze.
The original recipe says to cut the potatoes and zucchini into rounds. The Boureki I ate had shredded vegetables, which aids in the moisture removal. The recipe also calls for a Greek "cottage cheese" but suggests ricotta as an acceptable substitute. Live, Laugh, Love, and Eat like a Cretan.
Please the zucchini and potatoes in separate bowls, lightly salt, mix and allow to stand for 10 minutes.
Strain or wrap the vegetables in a paper towel and lightly squeeze to remove moisture. Preheat oven to 360 F.
Coat a square baking dish, approximately 9" x 9" with butter. Line the bottom of the pan with one sheet of the puff pastry allowing extra to hang over the sides.
Place 1/2 of the zucchini in the pan, then layer 1/3 of the mint and 1/2 of the cheese. Cover with 1/2 the potatoes and 1/3 of the mint. Repeat the layering process starting with the Zucchini and ending with the potatoes.
Place the second sheet of puff pastry on top and pinch together with bottom sheet. Whisk the egg yolk with the olive oil and then brush on top of the puff pastry. Sprinkle with sesame seeds, cover with foil and bake for one hour. Then remove foil can continue baking for 30 minutes or until the dough become his golden brown.
Serve with bread and a Greek salad for a nice vegetarian meal.


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Chinese muscle flexing in the South China Sea is old hat but the bullying has now gone too far. Earlier this month, China closed off part of the South China Sea close to Vietnam, the Taiwanese intelligence agency has now said, as reported by Reuters. This offers another explanation for an exercise that Beijing has called military drills. Last week, China had warned ships to stay off an area in the disputed South China Sea between its southern province of Hainan and Vietnam. Partly countering this version, Taiwan's National Security Bureau told parliament that a Chinese aircraft had crashed and Beijing declared the area off limits while its forces searched for it, and also to conduct drills. The bureau's director-general Chen Ming-tong told parliamentarians he couldn't give further details as it involves the source of their intelligence. Taiwan's security bureau added that China was trying to "test the bottom line" of other claimants to the South China Sea and the United States while the global attention is on the war in Ukraine. China has not announced any military aircraft crashes in the area. While the Vietnamese foreign ministry complained to China about the drills, the latter trashed it saying it was "lawful for China to conduct military exercises on its own doorstep".
China Battles Covid-19, Local Cases At 2-Year High
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As for VO, I tend to use really snappy settings with fast attack and decay (let's say about 1ms attack and 25ms release). Mind you, I'm talking the low dynamic range of TV here. I know that attack is pretty fast for the transcients, but in my experience it is still very understandible and it keeps me from too high peaks in my end limiter. Ratio and treshold differs from time to time, using my ears for each individual voice, but I don't often go beyond 2 or 3 in ratio, and I definetely almost never use more than 6 dB gain reduction.
On set/sync subs, I almost use the same starting point, often making the release a little bit longer and playing with ratio and treshold to find out how I can control the dynamics without getting outdoor scenes too 'pumpy'.
However, again I am talking TV here, with a limited dynamic range (and forgetting how some stations compress the hell out of everything before broadcast). To be precise, most TV stuff I have to mix ask maximum peak of -9dBfs to -10.8dBfs. I have very little experience on mixing cinema stuff, so all experience on this field is very welcome.
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Works by Stephen Macedo
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Primates and Philosophers. How Morality Evolved.Frans de Waal, Stephen Macedo, Josiah Ober, Robert Wright, Christine M. Korsgaard & Philip Kitcher - 2007 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 69 (3):598-599.details
Liberal Civic Education and Religious Fundamentalism: The Case of God V. John Rawls?Stephen Macedo - 1995 - Ethics 105 (3):468-496.details
John Rawls in 20th Century Philosophy
Liberalism in Social and Political Philosophy
Deliberative Politics: Essays on Democracy and Disagreement.Stephen Macedo (ed.) - 1999 - Oxford University Press.details
The banner of deliberative democracy is attracting increasing numbers of supporters, in both the world's older and newer democracies. This effort to renew democratic politics is widely seen as a reaction to the dominance of liberal constitutionalism. But many questions surround this new project. What does deliberative democracy stand for? What difference would deliberative practices make in the real world of political conflict and public policy design? What is the relationship between deliberative politics and liberal constitutional arrangements? The 1996 publication (...) of Amy Gutmann and Dennis F. Thompsons Democracy and Disagreement was a signal contribution to the ongoing debate over the role of moral deliberation in democratic politics. In Deliberative Politics an all-star cast of political, legal, and moral commentators seek to criticize, extend, or provide alternatives to Gutmann and Thompson's hopeful model of democratic deliberation. The essays discuss the value and limits of moral deliberation in politics, and take up practical policy issues such as abortion, affirmative action, and health care reform. Among the impressive roster of contributors are Norman Daniels, Stanley Fish, William A. Galston, Jane Mansbridge, Cass R. Sunstein, Michael Walzer, and Iris Marion Young, and the editor of the volume, Stephen Macedo. The book concludes with a thoughtful response from Gutmann and Thompson to their esteemed critics. This fine collection is essential reading for anyone who takes seriously the call for a more deliberative politics. (shrink)
Abortion in Applied Ethics
Affirmative Action in Social and Political Philosophy
Health Care Justice in Applied Ethics
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[Book Review] Liberal Virtues, Citizenship, Virtue, and Community in Liberal Constitutionalism. [REVIEW]Stephen MACEDO - 1991 - Ethics 102 (3):397-399.details
Perfectionism and Neutrality: Essays in Liberal Theory.Bruce Ackerman, Richard J. Arneson, Ronald W. Dworkin, Gerald F. Gaus, Kent Greenawalt, Vinit Haksar, Thomas Hurka, George Klosko, Charles Larmore, Stephen Macedo, Thomas Nagel, John Rawls, Joseph Raz & George Sher - 2003 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.details
Editors provide a substantive introduction to the history and theories of perfectionism and neutrality, expertly contextualizing the essays and making the collection accessible.
Autonomy in Political Theories in Social and Political Philosophy
Rational Reasonableness: Toward a Positive Theory of Public Reason.Gillian K. Hadfield & Stephen Macedo - 2012 - Law and Ethics of Human Rights 6 (1):7-46.details
Why is it important for people to agree on and articulate shared reasons for just laws, rather than whatever reasons they personally find compelling? What, if any, practical role does public reason play in liberal democratic politics? We argue that the practical role of public reason can be better appreciated by examining the confluence of normative and positive political theory; the former represented here by liberal social contract theory of John Rawls and others, and the latter by rational choice or (...) game theory. Citizens in a diverse society face a practical as well as a moral problem. How can they have confidence that others will reciprocate their commitment to supporting governing principles that depart from their own ideal conceptions of truth and value in order to be reasonable to all? Citizens face a practical problem of mutual assurance that public reason helps them solve, and solve as a matter of common knowledge. The solution, on both views, requires citizens' reciprocal commitment to basing law on a system of shared reasons. Both views place public reason at the core of liberal democratic politics in conditions of diversity, and for quite similar reasons. Our argument illustrates the complementary roles of positive and values-based analysis in constitutional design. (shrink)
Transformative Constitutionalism and the Case of Religion.Stephen Macedo - 1998 - Political Theory 26 (1):56-80.details
Rational Reasonableness: Toward a Positive Theory of Public Reason.Gillian K. Hadfield & Stephen Macedo - 2012 - The Law and Ethics of Human Rights 6 (1).details
The Politics of Justification.Stephen Macedo - 1990 - Political Theory 18 (2):280-304.details
Justification in Epistemology
Multiculturalism for the Religious Right? Defending Liberal Civic Education.Stephen Macedo - 1995 - Journal of Philosophy of Education 29 (2):223–238.details
Multiculturalism in Social and Political Philosophy
Liberalism Beyond Toleration: Religious Exemptions, Civility and the Ideological Other.Stephen Macedo - 2019 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 45 (4):370-389.details
I address the long-standing problem of toleration in diverse liberal societies in light of the progress of same-sex marriage and continued vehement opposition to it from a significant portion of the population. I advance a view that contrasts with recent discussions by Teresa Bejan, Mere Civility, and especially Cecile Laborde, Liberalism's Religion. Laborde emphasizes the importance of state sovereignty in fixing the boundaries of church and state, emphasizing the priority of public authority and constitutional supremacy. I argue that emphasis on (...) priority needs to be complemented by a recognition of the importance of forms of reconciliation that go beyond 'mere civility'. Reflections on toleration in the liberal and democratic traditions – including in the canonical discussions of Locke, Rousseau, Smith and Tocqueville, and in more recent political science – have recognized that the health of liberal democracy benefits enormously from the educative and morally formative resources furnished by religious c... (shrink)
Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved: How Morality Evolved.Stephen Macedo & Josiah Ober (eds.) - 2009 - Princeton University Press.details
"It's the animal in us," we often hear when we've been bad. But why not when we're good? Primates and Philosophers tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity's most valued traits: morality. In this provocative book, primatologist Frans de Waal argues that modern-day evolutionary biology takes far too dim a view of the natural world, emphasizing our "selfish" genes. Science has thus exacerbated our reciprocal habits of blaming nature when we act badly and labeling the (...) good things we do as "humane." Seeking the origin of human morality not in evolution but in human culture, science insists that we are moral by choice, not by nature. Citing remarkable evidence based on his extensive research of primate behavior, de Waal attacks "Veneer Theory," which posits morality as a thin overlay on an otherwise nasty nature. He explains how we evolved from a long line of animals that care for the weak and build cooperation with reciprocal transactions. Drawing on both Darwin and recent scientific advances, de Waal demonstrates a strong continuity between human and animal behavior. In the process, he also probes issues such as anthropomorphism and human responsibilities toward animals. Based on the Tanner Lectures de Waal delivered at Princeton University's Center for Human Values in 2004, Primates and Philosophers includes responses by the philosophers Peter Singer, Christine M. Korsgaard, and Philip Kitcher and the science writer Robert Wright. They press de Waal to clarify the differences between humans and other animals, yielding a lively debate that will fascinate all those who wonder about the origins and reach of human goodness. (shrink)
Evolution of Morality in Normative Ethics
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Multiculturalism for the Religious Right? Defending Liberal Civic Education.Stephen Macedo - 1995 - Philosophy of Education 29 (2):223-238.details
Just Patriotism?Stephen Macedo - 2011 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 37 (4):413-423.details
Patriotism is subject to searing moral criticism, but is it necessarily a vice? The article offers a conditional defense of patriotism. It acknowledges that even at its best, patriotism is a dangerous virtue and prone to abuse. Nevertheless, we ought to acknowledge the truth that a just patriotism is possible, and we should seek to specify and bring about its conditions. Just as it is permissible to form deep attachments to imperfect others, so, too, it is not always wrong to (...) feel a special attachment to and responsibility for one's own country. Even so, addressing patriotism's manifest dangers requires enacting practical institutional reforms. These include greater protections for rights of political dissent and contestation, insulating the school curriculum from politicization and bringing more attention to the nation's shortcomings, and greatly expanding the role of international institutions and perspectives which furnish a salutary check on national self-preference. (shrink)
Patriotism in Social and Political Philosophy
Community, Diversity, and Civic Education: Toward a Liberal Politicalscience of Group Life*: Stephen Macedo.Stephen Macedo - 1996 - Social Philosophy and Policy 13 (1):240-268.details
Although liberals too often forget it, the health of the liberal publicorder depends on our ability to constitute not only political institutions and limits on power, but appropriate patterns of social lifeand citizen character. Liberal character traits and political virtuesdo not, after all, come about "naturally" or by the deliverance of an "invisible hand." Even Adam Smith did not think that, as we will see below. Harry Eckstein gets closer to themark by suggesting that "stable governments…are the productof 'accidental' conjunctions (...) of conditions which do sometimes, but rarely, occur in actual societies.". (shrink)
Community, Diversity, and Civic Education: Toward a Liberal PoliticalScience of Group Life.Stephen Macedo - 1996 - Social Philosophy and Policy 13 (1):240.details
Primates and Philosophers.Stephen Macedo & Josiah Ober (eds.) - 2006 - Princeton University Press.details
"It's the animal in us," we often hear when we've been bad. But why not when we're good? Primates and Philosophers tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity's most valued traits: morality. -/- In this provocative book, primatologist Frans de Waal argues that modern-day evolutionary biology takes far too dim a view of the natural world, emphasizing our "selfish" genes. Science has thus exacerbated our reciprocal habits of blaming nature when we act badly and labeling (...) the good things we do as "humane." Seeking the origin of human morality not in evolution but in human culture, science insists that we are moral by choice, not by nature. -/- Citing remarkable evidence based on his extensive research of primate behavior, de Waal attacks "Veneer Theory," which posits morality as a thin overlay on an otherwise nasty nature. He explains how we evolved from a long line of animals that care for the weak and build cooperation with reciprocal transactions. Drawing on both Darwin and recent scientific advances, de Waal demonstrates a strong continuity between human and animal behavior. In the process, he also probes issues such as anthropomorphism and human responsibilities toward animals. -/- Based on the Tanner Lectures de Waal delivered at Princeton University's Center for Human Values in 2004, Primates and Philosophers includes responses by the philosophers Peter Singer, Christine M. Korsgaard, and Philip Kitcher and the science writer Robert Wright. They press de Waal to clarify the differences between humans and other animals, yielding a lively debate that will fascinate all those who wonder about the origins and reach of human goodness. (shrink)
Reply to Flathman.Stephen Macedo - 1998 - Political Theory 26 (1):85-89.details
Authors Meets Readers: Martin Powers in Conversation with Sandra Field, Jeffrey Flynn, Stephen Macedo, and Longxi Zhang. [REVIEW]Sandra Leonie Field, Jeffrey Flynn, Stephen Macedo, Longxi Zhang & Martin Powers - 2020 - Journal of World Philosophies 5 (1):188-240.details
Sandra Field, Jeffrey Flynn, Stephen Macedo, Longxi Zhang, and Martin Powers discussed Powers' book China and England: The Preindustrial Struggle for Social Justice in Word and Image at the American Philosophical Association's 2020 Eastern Division meeting in Philadelphia. The panel was sponsored by the APA's "Committee on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies" and organized by Brian Bruya.
Toleration on Trial.Russel Hardin, Ingrid Crepell & Stephen Macedo (eds.) - 2008 - Lexington Books.details
Defenses of Toleration in Social and Political Philosophy
After the Backlash: Populism and the Politics and Ethics of Migration.Stephen Macedo - 2020 - The Law and Ethics of Human Rights 14 (2):153-180.details
In the U.S., and elsewhere, populism has been democracy's way of shaking elites up. We can view populism in part as a revolt of the losers, or perceived losers, of globalization. Yet elites have often paid too little heed to the domestic distributive impact of high immigration and globalized trade. Immigration and globalization are also spurring forms of nativism and demagoguery that threaten both democratic deliberation and undermine progressive political coalitions. The challenge now is to find the most reasonable – (...) or least unreasonable – responses to the new politics of resentment: ways that recognize that egalitarian liberalism and social democracy are national projects and preserve progressive political coalitions, while also acknowledging our interconnections, duties, and moral obligations to those beyond our borders. (shrink)
Against the Old Sexual Morality of the New Natural Law.Stephen Macedo - 2001 - In Robert George (ed.), Natural Law, Liberalism, and Morality: Contemporary Essays. Oxford University Press.details
Philosophy of Sexuality in Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality
Books in Review.Stephen Macedo - 1991 - Political Theory 19 (3):456-461.details
Capitalism, Citizenship and Community*: Stephen Macedo.Stephen Macedo - 1988 - Social Philosophy and Policy 6 (1):113-139.details
The authors of Habits of the Heart charge that America is losing the institutions that help "to create the kind of person who could sustain a connection to a wider political community and thus ultimately support the maintenance of free institutions." Bellah fears that "individualism may have grown cancerous – that it may be destroying those social integuments that Tocqueville saw as moderating its more destructive potentials, that it may be threatening the survival of freedom itself." Proponents of the liberal (...) free market order should, I will argue, take seriously the concerns that motivate Bellah and company: citizens of a liberal regime cannot live by exchanges alone. Liberal constitutionalism depends upon a certain level and quality of citizen virtue. But while the need for virtue is often neglected by liberal theorists, it is far from clear that the actual workings of liberal institutions have drastically undermined virtue in the way Bellah's dire account suggests. That analysis serves, moreover, as the springboard for a radically transformist argument that seeks, not so much to elevate and shape, but to transcend and deny, the self-interestedness that the free market exercises. Having argued against Bellah's analysis and prescriptions, I shall attempt to show how the phenomena he describes are open to an interpretation that is happier from the point of view of a concern with virtue. I shall end by using Tocqueville to suggest that combining liberal capitalism with intermediate associations like voluntary groups and state and local government helps elevate and shape self-interest, promoting a citizenry capable of and insistent upon liberal self-government. (shrink)
In Defense of Conditional Funding of Religious Schools.Stephen Macedo - 2007 - Law and Ethics of Human Rights 1 (1):382-428.details
The Article defends against various objections, the practice of funding religious schools and other faith-based social service providers, but only on condition that they comply with various public regulations and requirements. Critics of conditional funding—including Moshe Cohen- Eliya—argue that conditional funding is coercive and unfair to poorer religious parents, is often divisive or ineffective, and it threatens the autonomy and integrity of religious communities by putting a price on some of their religious practices; it would be better simply to prohibit (...) the disfavored educational practices targeted by funding conditionalities. I argue that typical funding conditionalities are not objectionably coercive as long as they are designed to advance defensible public purposes. Unfairness to the poor should be addressed by general redistributive policies. The Article allows that funding conditionalities might undermine religious communities' integrity, and cause social divisions, but that these concerns are speculative and not an adequate basis for disallowing in advance conditional public funding of faith-based institutions. (shrink)
Human Rights in Social and Political Philosophy
Liberalism and Group Identities.Stephen Macedo - 2003 - In Kevin McDonough & Walter Feinberg (eds.), Citizenship and Education in Liberal-Democratic Societies: Teaching for Cosmopolitan Values and Collective Identities. Oxford University Press.details
The essays in Part III of the book, on liberal constraints and traditionalist education, argue for a more regulatory conception of liberal education and emphasize the need for some controls over cultural and religious educational authority. In the last chapter, on liberalism and group rights, according to Stephen Macedo, while the commitment of liberalism to individual freedom and equality is far more easily reconciled with group-based remedies for group-based inequalities than the critics of liberalism allow, the liberal commitment to freedom (...) of association imposes limits on group recognition by insisting on intragroup openness and diversity. The chapter has two main parts. Section 15.1, Liberalism, Education, and Group Identities, rebuts the charge that a liberal public philosophy embraces a narrow individualism that is incompatible with tackling group-based forms of inequality, and surveys some of the myriad liberal reforms of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s that promoted more equal respect for differing group identities, especially in schools. Section 15.2, Special Exemptions and the Rights of Traditional Communities, focuses on the difficulties raised by "traditionalistic" groups that seek special accommodations in part because they reject liberal values of equal freedom for all, and makes the point that a liberal regime should not seek to be equally hospitable or accommodating to groups that accept and those that reject educational policies designed to promote the equal freedom of all persons; various examples are presented and discussed. (shrink)
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Liberal Virtues: Citizenship, Virtue, and Community in Liberal Constitutionalism.Stephen MACEDO - 1991 - Mind 100 (3):398-400.details
Populism, Localism and Democratic Citizenship.Stephen Macedo - 2021 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 47 (4):447-476.details
This article articulates and explores a localist conception of citizenship that stands in contrast to more liberal, neoliberal and cosmopolitan conceptions. A localist orientation, and some real sy...
Ragione pubblica, democrazia e comunità politica. Un riesame delle critiche.Stephen Macedo - 2010 - Philosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche 14:23-50.details
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Conspiracism and Delegitimation.Russell Muirhead, Nancy L. Rosenblum, Matthew Landauer, Stephen Macedo, Jeffrey K. Tulis & Nadia Urbinati - 2020 - Contemporary Political Theory 19 (1):142-174.details
Civic Liberalism.Thomas Spragens, Stephen Macedo, Joseph Hamburger, Colin Bird, Andrew Levine & Bert van den Brink - 2003 - Political Theory 31 (1):125-135.details
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The NFHS Network and Facebook have reached an agreement to stream 15 state high school football playoff games live on Facebook Watch during the next three weekends. Fans can add these games to their watchlist by following the NFHS Network LIVE Page.
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The NFHS Network-Facebook football coverage concludes on December 9-10 with two championship games from the VHSL and two championships from the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC).


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As the competition in the NBA tonight is on the repertoire were only three meetings. Still, it was enough to see the spectacle. The spectacle was directed by Stephan Curry .
On the other hand Andrew Wiggins has 19 points with 5 rebounds and shot 7-17 from the game, while Karl Anthony-Tauns finished with double-double of 17 points and 11 rebounds. Nemanja Bjelica again played even 33 minutes, the match ended with a solid 8 points and 9 rebounds and field goal 3-5, 1-2 and half for three points, but with very poor 1-4 from the free throw line. However, it did not help, " Wolves ".
Team Miami Heat struggled more than she took off her scalp Utah Jazz taking at the triumph of the score 92:91 in their American Airlines Arena . For those Erika Spolstre on the ground there was Dwayne Wade who ended up in hospital due to illness son, and his place in the starting lineup was filled by John Richardson and scored 8 points. However, the role of Dwayne Wade took Tyler Johnson who ended the match with 17 points and shot 8-12 from the game. At his level was and Chris Bosh who has enrolled 25 points and 11 rebounds and shot 9-18 from the game.
Goran Dragic does not play since arriving in Miami not nearly as well as it once did the team Sansa , Slovene tonight rooms for 14 points and 4 assists with bad shooting percentage, only 5-12 from the game. On the other hand Derik Fejvors has completed his double-double with 25 points and 12 rebounds, and Gordon Hayward with a point and jump less, but it was not enough.
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Q: Count up variable/table name with while loop I'm reading multiple tables with the same measurement variable. I want to compare the variables of tables with each other. Because there are so many tables and with each one I'm doing the same things, I wanted to automate the process with a while loop. But I don't know how to replace the 1 (in the variable and the table) with the k.
data_1 = readtable('file_xy')
data_2 = readtable('file_zy')
data_3 = readtable('file_zz')
...

k=1

while k < 50
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How can I read and process all my tables automatically?

A: As you've noticed, copying lines of codes tens (let alone hundreds or thousands) of times to do the same thing can (and should!) be automated in most cases. What you're doing is creating dynamic variable names, which is bad, very bad, not to mention requiring you to copy-paste the same line of code 50 times. Instead, read all files using a simple loop.
There're several other, smaller, points of improvement, I'll outline them below in the code block.
% First, select the directory where your files are
input_dir = "C:\path\to\your\folder";
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Temp and p are now both matrices, with your original Temp_1 in Temp(:,1), p_1 in p(:,1) etc. This assumes Temp and p to be rows, as per the dimensional argument in mean.
You might have to play around with the dimensions, as I don't know your data size. But in general, this should give you a good starting point on how to read multiple files and store them efficiently, using preallocation.
Note that whilst you can use a while loop, given that you have a fixed number of iterations, being the number of files, there's not much need to. I'd only use a while loop if the number of iterations is not fixed, for example in optimisation problems, where the code stops based on reaching some condition.
Finally: MATLAB has great documentation including lots of examples. If you don't understand a function, go to there as a first point of access.
Good luck!

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Such lovingly made treasures. You are appreciated!
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My favorite piece is your gift tags they are so unique.
I liked everything on the page but I really thought the Victorian TEA POTS sugared ornaments we adorable.
I love all of your goodies. I bought a purse from you this past spring and got lots of compliments on it! I really love the cup and plate in your give away. Where did you get it?
Beautiful website selling wonderful items. Your kitchen towels are Sweet!
I LOVE your site. I think I have way too many favorites including the oven dresses. However, tonight my favorite is the wild rose sugared ornaments. Soooooo very pretty!!!! I will be sure to visit often and do my Christmas shopping here.
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I love this site and all of the links. I found it while googling Irene Marshall. I have lived in southern CA. & I as well as many of my family members and friends have lots of china and lamps painted by Irene. I would love to find more. I believe she is retired but do not know if she is still alive and well. If anyone knows of her I would appreciate an email notice. Thanks again for your website and beautiful displays.
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'Make people more reliant on themselves': Bernardi on tax-deductible nannies
Senator Amanda Stoker is calling for nannies to be made tax-deductible.
The proposal is designed to facilitate more options for new mums and dads who may be looking to return to the workforce. Rectifying Australia's slumping fertility rate and cracking down on the cash-in-hand nanny black market would also be an aim of the policy.
Senator Cory Bernardi says this is the wrong way to go about generating choices for parents after they have had kids.
"I think there is an attractiveness to looking for a better way and making people more reliant on themselves," says Bernardi.
"If we cut people's taxes, then they can spend their money how they like and the government won't have to subsidise them."
"It means that parents who want to stay at home and sacrifice and look after their own children should be in a position to be able to do so, because their utility bills would be lower and they would have lower taxes."
Mr Bernardi says the system disproportionately encourages people to return to employment after having kids and is calling for this to shift.
"Right now, every incentive is for people to leave their children and pay someone else to raise them and look after them, while mum and dad busily work," he says.
"Anyone whose had a parent at home with them when they get home from school or stay home with them during the day, knows the benefits of that."


Problems with the gti. When started up in the morning it Revs itself up and splutters for about 15min until warm then drives fine.
If I attempt to drive it when cold it's all over the place almost stalling and sounds as if I'm revving the knackers of it !
I did fit a de-cat pug sport 2 weeks ago and the problem arose around this time but I'm guessing that would be just coincidence ?
Any one else had similar issues ?


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The documents describe Criswell as an emotionally disturbed teen trying to escape an unhappy home life. The Juvenile Court judge transferred the case to Superior Court, which he said is equipped to ensure Criswell receives the help he needs.
''The experts all seem to agree that the incident stemmed from the total collapse of the child's ability to cope with his own unendurable life situation,'' Piedmont Judicial Circuit Juvenile Court Judge Kevin Guidry wrote in an order following a June 4 closed-door hearing.
One mental health expert testified that Criswell was not a threat to himself or others when she evaluated him, and the teen's junior ROTC instructor said Criswell ''was welcome back in his classroom,'' the judge said in his order.
''All experts agreed that the child was attempting to escape and had no intent to injure anyone; he simply had not thought out the consequences of his actions or any alternatives to what might happen should his plan to escape go awry,'' the judge wrote.
Before he unsealed the order late Friday, Jackson County Superior Court Judge Joseph Booth blocked out details of Criswell's problems outside of school.
Jackson County Sheriff Stan Evans testified in Juvenile Court that while he negotiated with Criswell, the teen first requested an airplane to Panama, then a boat to that Central American country.
''The sheriff told the child that was not going to happen, and that the two of them would be leaving together, alive or dead,'' the order states. ''The child then demanded help for seriously sick relatives. The sheriff promised to try to do what he could to help the sick relatives. At that point, the child disarmed the bomb and handed it to the sheriff who delivered it to waiting bomb technicians from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.''
Prosecutors stressed the seriousness of Criswell's actions as they argued that the teen should be prosecuted as an adult.
Nearly 1,700 students at the high school, as well as faculty and staff, were evacuated during the bomb threat. A GBI bomb technician testified that Criswell's homemade explosive device had a ''dead man's switch,'' which would trigger an explosion if Criswell was shot or overpowered.
Guidry concluded in his order that it seems likely that Criswell could make a case he was temporarily insane when he brought the bomb to school, and that Superior Court has the means to ensure the teen would get the help he needs.
Criswell continues to be held at the Gainesville Regional Youth Detention Center.
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Прикамский — посёлок в Пермском крае России. Входит в Чайковский городской округ.

География
Посёлок расположен рядом с рекой Камой, примерно в 6 км к юго-западу от города Чайковского.

История
Населённый пункт построен в 1980-х годах взамен деревни Ольховка (она известна с 1673 года как починок Волховка). С 30 мая 1964 года существовал совхоз «Прикамье», созданный на базе одноимённой сельхозартели (его контора находилась в деревне Ольховка).

Прикамский до декабря 2004 года являлся административным центром Ольховского сельского совета, с декабря 2004 до весны 2018 гг. — административным центром Ольховского сельского поселения Чайковского муниципального района.

Население

Улицы
В посёлке имеются улицы:

 Биатлонная ул.
 Лесная ул.
 Луговая ул.
 Молодёжная ул.
 Нагорная ул.
 Ольховская ул.
 Ольховское ш.
 Пионерская ул.
 Пионерский пер.
 Родниковая ул.
 Солнечная ул.
 Сосновая ул.
 Спортивная ул.
 Цветочная ул.
 Энергетическая ул.

Топографические карты

Примечания

Населённые пункты Чайковского городского округа

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EchoStar XII, também conhecido como Rainbow-1, Cablevision-1 e Echostar 12 (E*12) é um satélite comercial para telecomunicações em órbita geoestacionária construído pela Lockheed Martin. Ele está localizado na posição orbital de 61,5 graus de longitude oeste e é operado pela EchoStar. Seu propósito original era transmitir sinais de televisão digital em alta definição para a rede Voom de transmissão direta por satélite. O satélite foi baseado na plataforma A2100AXS e sua expectativa de vida útil é de 18 anos.

História
Parte de uma série de satélites comerciais AS 2100, O Rainbow-1 foi construído pela empresa
Lockheed-Martin com um custo aproximado de 100 milhões de dólares (USD).
O satélite possui painéis solares, tem uma massa de 2760 kg (massa no veículo de lançamento: 4328 kg), e é capaz de transmitir nas bandas C e Ku.

Rainbow-1 está ainda em órbita posicionado à 61.5° W de longitude, sobre o equador terrestre. O satélite está atualmente sendo usado pela  Dish Network HDTV para transmissão de sinais de televisão usando DVB, com transponders de banda Ku.

Echostar (pertencente à Dish Network) é a atual proprietária do satélite. Por isto, o satélite foi rebatizado com o nome de Echostar 12 (or E*12) em março de 2006

Lançamento
O satélite foi lançado com sucesso ao espaço no dia 17 de julho de 2003 às 23:45 UTC, por meio de um veículo Atlas V lançado a partir da Estação da Força Aérea de Cabo Canaveral, na Flórida, EUA. Ele tinha uma massa de lançamento de 4 328 kg.

Capacidade e cobertura
O EchoStar XII é equipado com 36 transponders em banda Ku para fornecer telecomunicações DTH para o território continental dos Estados Unidos.

Ver também
 EchoStar

Satélites de telecomunicações
Satélites geoestacionários
Satélites


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in the same area is also the tv station of "arte". we went in there and drank a coffee and then walked on to the buildings of the european parliament and the european court of human rights. ...and even some more of the european parliament, and the european court of human rights.
then we got to the big cathedral which one can enter and go up to a observation deck. according to wikipedia, the cathedral's height is 142 metres. climbing all the stairs in the narrow hallways was quite exhausting. remember, we had not much sleep, and additionally we drank a gluehwein before climbing the stairs. but we made it, and it was worth it. one has a very nice view over the city and also the cathedral itself is very impressive.
at about 12:00 we met tony again - though he had about four hours of sleep he didn't really look recovered actually. but i guess that's what we just looked like too. we went to a "brasserie" and had a "tarte flambee" (aka "flammkueche") which is a traditional local dish, and is somehow like a pizza, but yet different (unfortunately i forgot to take a picture of it).


Is the conversation really about organization?
Take away our buildings and our branding, our programs and our structures, our worship bands and our sermons, until all that is left is Jesus and his people and… I believe that we would still have all the necessary components for church (tweet, Phil Rice).
People continue to ask why I'm not part of the local church, and in the asking is precisely why. We have lost a sense of church beyond organization and branding. I have not left the local church (tweet, Phil Rice).
These are a few thoughts that have sparked some passionate and productive conversation about the church gathered. I thought I would take a moment to add to that conversation. I would just like to say at the onset, thank you to everyone who has already vulnerably shared their thoughts and perspective on the subject. So let's deepen the convo… yeah?
We are greeted at the door or foyer [fancy word for entryway] and are ushered into a [hopefully] friendly and warm environment of people mingling and catching up on a week's worth of highlights. Typically what follows includes a time of corporate worship, where we join the gathered assembly singing songs to God, led by an organist, a rock band, or something in-between. We are welcomed by a man or woman of the community who stands up at the front of the group to communicate the happenings of the larger community and invites us to pray for specific needs there in.
We are then invited to participate in donating financially to the community by the passing of a plate or basket. A leader of the community will then stand and share with us, his or her thoughts on a particular passage of scripture, value, or vision for the community. Usually, a song is played at the end of our time together, giving us a chance to reflect on or internalize what was communicated. Then we head back out to mingle for a few more minutes, grab a cup of coffee from the coffee pot [or espresso machine, or perhaps pour over bar?], pick up our kids in a different area of the building where they have gotten to have their own time together. And finally, we head home or to lunch or to wherever we go.
Whether you've attended a gathering like this or not, you've been exposed to pieces and bits of such a gathering. Both the symphony and the rock concert give participants a place to lose themselves in music, lyric, sound. The CEO of a company will regularly gather the team in-order to communicate a value or practice. Every year United Way invites entire cities to donate finances as a means to help those in need.
And we love all these things! And rightly so! There is purpose and intention behind them.
There are also times where the music doesn't quite hit us in deep places — a symphony goer that finds themselves at the rock concert, a CEO or manager has too many meetings [or not enough?], too regularly, and of course… if someone is asking us to donate to something that we don't have a value for, we may give once, or twice… but if they knock on our door for the 7th week in a row, I imagine we will [very politely] communicate that this will be our final donation to the cause.
A different way forward [just a few Phil Rice thoughts]?
There are many communities or individuals that my church example and say, 'Yeah, that sounds about right [with a few adjustments here and there].' And, you know? Many people fit right into this world and need not look elsewhere.
Some might even say, 'Well, our church is different, because we do ABC instead of XYZ.' Or, 'Phil, your description of church was about as vanilla as it gets and I'm offended by how you portray it. Our weekly meeting is way more exciting/intimate/deep/rich/provoking than that!' And that's totally fine! You can be offended at me. But the fact that you relate to my description in any way, communicates that there are several key rhythms that most of the church prescribes to, yeah?
Something I've observed is that some people don't fit. I'm not talking about not fitting in one church [read "organized church gathering"] over another… I'm saying… they've tried them all and they don't fit the model. And that's okay too.
What happens if I don't fit the model?
Look into overseas missions — what nation do you have a heart for? let's send you!
There is nothing wrong with shaking things up a little! These are good options. And they are perfect for some! But… they are not for everyone and I think it's important to add more dimension to the conversation.
What if we gather around the problem we're solving for?
As disciples of Jesus, there are so many areas of society in which we belong. We have so many diverse opportunities to bring our perspective and our light into our world.
If this is really true, then why would we think that we must all gather the in the same way?
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I will not be measured by what others expected of me, I will be measured only by what He asked if me.
Thanks Andrea! Yes, I think the questions you are asking are so important. It's not that we reject what has been, simply because we are bored or want a fresh perspective. It's honestly not even about rejecting a particular model or process. It is asking the question, is this the best way to approach rhythms of church for the call the Lord has given me [and the people around me]? If so, fantastic! If not, let's ask the Lord to guide our path into that which we have not necessarily seen.
When approached with the question, So, you're dismantling church?, my response has been… absolutely. Again, not in order to be hostile or just to push people's buttons, but to really work out the question, why do we do what we do? And, are there more helpful rhythms of togetherness that correspond to the path down which he is leading me [us]?
Thanks for joining into the conversation Andrea, I really appreciate your thoughts.
Phil, this is an insightful look at a few questions I have been dissecting within myself lately. Inherently, is there anything wrong with the way church is done? Probably not. Yet my greatest spiritual growth has taken place in the context of Biblically based intentional community, and was not the result of a sermon series or program. But I'm not trying to throw the baby out with the bathwater here.
My deep questions are more along the lines of "Why do we do what we do?" and "Is this the only way the Word illustrates us gathering?" and "Am I seeing growth and maturity in my life as a result?" I agree that we are called to life together, to gather regularly, and to submit to spiritual authority. Yet sometimes the traditional Sunday morning experience is not engaging, challenging, or even encouraging.
I believe in the Church. But it's not just a one-size-fits-all scenario. Copy and paste doesn't work within the context of relationship – not in our relationship with God, or our relationship with His Body. Again, not bashing church or how people choose to attend or gather. Just throwing my thoughts into the mix here.
Andrew thank you for your thoughts and perspective. I really appreciate your honest feedback.
As far as comparing the CEO role to a lead pastor, I'm merely comparing roles of the visionary of one organization and another, speaking to the ways they both lead by casting vision to their group [I have close friends in each profession and I have deep love and respect for them, the work they do, and the organizations they lead].
Of your other statement regarding the constraints of organizational church. I'm not saying to not commit yourself to people. I think it's vitally important that we commit ourselves to one another. I'm simply saying that the styles in which we gather can look different to fit who we are and what we do. A small home gathering of a group of believers in a persecuted nation will look vastly different from a mega-church in America. A small tribe of people who feel committed to a particular mission will gather in a way that most suits the mission. For my family and those in close spiritual friendship with us, we have found that in order to be light in our worlds, gathering outside of the traditional model of church is most helpful for where God has brought us. And I believe that it is important to affirm others who may feel similarly. I think that so many forms of church are necessary for all of the different kinds of people, callings, works we are building for/around.
I hear many voices communicating how to belong to organizational churches, but I don't as often hear voices communicating that Christian togetherness can also form around dinner tables, spontaneous backyard cook-outs, book clubs, or even group therapy sessions. So this is the piece of the puzzle my family is working through. How do we first gather [as followers of Jesus] around everyday rhythms of relationship rather than gathering first around events and organizational structures? I'm not saying that this is the only question to wrestle through, I don't think it is. But it is the piece that we desire to work out.
Does that help to clarify a bit? Totally fine if you still don't agree. I just wanted to make sure I was communicating clearly enough. Thanks for helping me [hopefully] hone my thoughts a little more.
I do respect you Phil and appreciate your contribution to the community. I don't think your thoughts are coming from a bad place, just wanted to offer my thoughts and respectful disagreement.
The thought that the institution of church is helpful for some but not important to others who are just inherently "different" and don't need those constraints is also problematic. What is the difference between two committed people living together for a lifetime without the old, worn constraints of "marriage" and a married couple? In appearance, maybe very little, but at another level, in my opinion, just about everything is different. Rejecting the distasteful, mundane institution may make one feel "free" from those constraints, but it robs one of the joy of learning to be submitted to a bigger picture outside of and not created by the self. When I am frustrated or feel like I don't belong in the constraints of marriage or church life, it's an invitation for me to be challenged by God in the pride inside of me, my tendency to want my own way.
Just as I think it's disingenuous for a Christian to say they personally don't feel called to Prayer, I find it also disingenuous for a Christian to say aren't personally called to church.
Eugene, I'm always so thankful for your thoughtful commentary.
When I say, "His path for me" I'm simply referring to the reality that at the end of my life I am accountable to him over the expectation of another person or a culture.
This is the beauty and mystery of our experiential relationship with God. He is with each of us and yet all of us together — he relates to both the individual and the gathered body of Christ. He says of the foolish virgins in Matthew 25, Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you… If he is inviting us to know him in such an intimate way, then we must take personal responsibility for what he says to each of us specifically — as we also weigh our direction and decisions with biblical truth and the input of others we trust.
That being said, I am glad that you bring up this point. I explicitly agree. My [our] need for a different way forward in terms of gathered model to fit our or our groups personal call is not an excuse for me [or even my group] to be isolated and cut off from relationship and connectedness to other Christ following individuals. Jesus calls us to relate together, to one another. It's honestly why I feel like this conversation is so important.
Even surrounded by a community of people, someone who doesn't necessarily fit the mold can feel isolated and alone. For that individual, though surrounded by people, they may still not be a part of living "together". Since writing on this topic, I've had some really neat conversations with some who have felt this way. I think the conversation alone helps people not feel the pressure to be like everyone else, allowing them to take a step back and assess where the Lord would have them plant and grow.
Just a few more thoughts. Thanks so much Eugene!
Thanks, Phil. Your description of American church life as a fly-over is pretty accurate. I appreciated how you show that other "gatherings" and organizations have similar rhythms and patterns. And it is true that many don't fit into these rhythms. As a pastor of nearly 35 years, I have often felt that I don't fit the "one-size-fits-all" church. We have often organized and institutionalized God right out of our lives. Yet, God has never allowed me to leave it. But that's a different story. And I have planted a slightly different model of a church, as have many others. I appreciate how you question the form and organization the modern church has taken. Is the corporate form we've used for church biblical, practical, useful? It seems to me, your foundational question is about what is the core theology of corporateness, to be gathered in the name of Christ. And well you should. But near the end of your blog, you offer as partial response to that "His path for me is what determines the rhythms and patterns of my life." I would offer that that too has equal problems. It is a reflection of modern, radical, individualsim, which has little biblical support. You may not be advocating the "just me and Jesus" lifestyle but it sounds like it. The New Testament is filled with "one another" and "together" commands. How do we deal with those? Thanks for sparking thought.


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DOI: 10.2174/1574891X10666150414124825
Title:Leptospirosis in an Urban Setting: Cases Diagnosed at a Private Medical Center of Western Colombia, 2008-2012†
Author(s): María M. Ramirez-Ramirez, Olga M. Leon-Castaneda and Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales
Public Health and Infection Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnologica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.,Colombia
Keywords: Colombia, epidemiology, Leptospira, leptospirosis, urban.
Abstract: Introduction: Leptospirosis has reemerged as significant threat particularly in developing countries, including those in Latin America. Data from Colombia is still limited and there are no published studies in the Western area of the country. Methods: Data on suspected cases were collected over the study period (2008- 2012). Cases were diagnosed clinically and confirmed by ELISA IgG and microscopic agglutination test (MAT) (titers ≥1:400). Results: During the study period 264 suspected cases of leptospirosis were found. From those, 8.33% (22 cases) were microbiologically confirmed. Number of suspected cases increased in the period from 20 (2008) (40 cases/100,000 consultations) to 58 (2012) (120 cases/100,000 consultations). Regard sex distribution, 62.5% were males, 14% in the age group 21-30 y-old, from confirmed cases 95% live in urban areas of Pereira, 25.7% own dogs and 13.2% cats, 32.3% reporting rats at home as well 22.7% at work places. From confirmed cases 72.7% were hospitalized. Clinical findings found were: fever (60.2%), myalgias (47%), and headache (41.9%), among others. All the cases corresponded to Leptospira interrogans. Regard the serovars, in these patients 6 were identified: Australis (54.5%), Icterohaemorrhagiae (45.5%), Canicola (45.5%), Panama (45.5%), Pomona (36.3) and Grippotyphosa (1%). Thirty nine percent of the patients received antimicrobial therapy, 50% ceftriaxone. No deaths occurred. Conclusion: Leptospirosis is an emerging infectious disease that has changed from an occupational disease of veterinarians, farmers, butchers, and other animal handlers to a cause of epidemics in poor and decayed urban communities in developing countries, including those in Latin America such as Colombia.
Ramirez-Ramirez M. María, Leon-Castaneda M. Olga and Rodriguez-Morales J. Alfonso, Leptospirosis in an Urban Setting: Cases Diagnosed at a Private Medical Center of Western Colombia, 2008-2012†, Recent Patents on Anti-Infective Drug Discovery 2015; 10(1) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1574891X10666150414124825
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