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Adrián Villaseñor Galarza, PhD
Awakening to Earth within: A Planetary Imperative
As we tend Earth's seed within, we ready the conditions for Her blossoming. Earth is born anew in human form.
Connecting with the fertile dimensions of our planetary moment suggests that the Earth as a whole is evoking a more thorough engagement with the mind's deep layers. In a way, the global arena has become a mirror that constantly reflects back what's taking place within. This is a unique opportunity, an ever-present reminder to sharpen a more discerning view of who we truly are that breaks through layers of self-enclosure and reactivity into the living, breathing presence that sustains us all, the Earth. Seen from a contemplative perspective, the compounded crises we're facing serve as resounding bells that announce that the time is now to heed the call of awakening. This may not be too farfetched, especially when considering the larger evolutionary cycles of the human family.
Some scholars of religion suggest that we are at the brink of a second axial age, a sort of watershed of religious and spiritual upsurge with the potential to clear a viable pathway forward. Akin to the first axial age of roughly 2,000 years ago that saw the emergence of many of the founding figures of the world's religious traditions, this second tipping point is a similar fertile moment taking place in a rather different historical context. The rapid disruption of Earth's systems by human activity is so thoroughgoing that it has rushed in a new geological era known as the Anthropocene. The "human era" — term that in itself exhibits the self-aggrandizing tendencies of the modern mind — and its avid exchange of goods and culture via a technologically interconnected system serve as the background that informs current spiritual insights and developments.
The never-seen-before challenges posed by the compounded crises of the early stage Anthropocene make addressing the fundamental disorder that keeps Earth from blooming in the heart of industrialized citizens all the more urgent. Psychotherapist and professor Joe Loizzo poignantly summarizes the pervasive quandary as follows,
the malignant view that we're all isolated, alien beings at odds with others in a hostile world, a delusion based on identifying and reifying our worst-case memories and instinctive stress reactions as "me, myself, and I."1
Even though it may seem as an immutable trait of our human makeup, this narcissistic, overly-protective, competitive, isolated sense of self can and should give way to a more permeable, relational understanding of our role within Earth's matrix. Fortunately, there is an antidote for the entrenched malaise of a distorted "I," as teachers and sages throughout history have taught us. This antidote gradually takes us on a path of greening the Self.
Greening the Self
Teacher, deep ecologist, and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy takes note of three recent developments that pierce through the illusion of our diminished sense of self.2 The first development has to do with the psycho-emotional effects impinged upon us by the looming collapse of Earth's systems and coming face to face with mortality at rather unthinkable scales. The second development is rooted in the so-called new paradigm sciences that, based on a systemic view of life, reveal patterns of relational self-organization at virtually all scales of existence. The third development refers to a resurgence of non-dual spiritualities. The current axial age is bringing forth an omnipresent sense of the sacred in a wide variety of wisdom traditions that inform a more ethical relation with ourselves and the world.
These breakthroughs take us beyond an exclusive self-enclosed processing where our circle of interest is dictated by the "I, me, mine" storyline into the depths of what we'd otherwise consider "other." Such expansive process of care and identification is akin to decomposing organic matter — the breakdown of rough and coarse materials is gradually followed by the emergence of finer, nutrient-rich particles of life-giving soil. Just as a single spoonful of healthy soil contains billions of microorganisms, this enlarged sense of self is made up of the entire community of Earth and beyond. As we compost stale layers of self-absorption, hyper-individualism, competitiveness, and reactivity, we deepen into the path of a greener Self. As we tend Earth's seed within, we ready the conditions for Her blossoming. Earth is born anew in human form.
Awakening to our Earthly expression entails conceiving of the planet not as a pile of resources waiting to be exploited, but as a Great Mother worthy of praise and respect. The Earth is a bountiful source that ceaselessly provides to Her children without asking anything in return. This all-encompassing capacity for nurturance and sustenance is related to what in Mahayana Buddhism is referred to as prajnaparamita or The-Mother-of-all-the-Buddhas. Prajnaparamita, translated as the "perfection of transcendental wisdom," is both a series of scriptures centered around the notion of discriminative insight and the personification of the Great Mother that reveals reality as it truly is by way of clarity of vision and wisdom. Shariputra, student of the Buddha, refers to prajnaparamita as "an ever-flowing fountain of incomparable light, and from every conscious being on every plane of being, she removes the faintest trace of illusory darkness."3
The increasing amounts of suffering endured by the planetary web of life driven by the industrial mind represent the death of insight and the reign of shortsightedness. Yet the very matrix that withstands the effects of our confusion, Great Mother Earth, imparts the clear vision (prajna) that cuts through the veil of separative consciousness, as the Indian sage Sri Aurobindo referred to the deluded view of the ego-self. Consciously reweaving the body–mind into Earth's matrix provides the necessary support for regaining clarity and health at multiple levels, while facilitating the emergence of ecologically sound behaviors. The Earth is a luminous source of somatic, psychological, and spiritual nourishment.
For Patanjali, viveka khyateh or "discriminative discernment" is the crown jewel of yogic practice that enables the light of reality to shine through.4 With the ability of clear vision comes the discernment of what is real from what is cloaked by delusion and conditioned by suffering. Reality, for the Buddha, is a radically interdependent sea of relationality composed of things devoid of isolated essences but filled with the radiance and warmth of an omnipresent light. Before attaining such penetrating vision, the Buddha was sitting under a fig tree steeped in meditation when Mara, a personification of devious temptation, demanded to know under whose authority was he attempting the ultimate realization. The Earth roared in support, making Mara flee, as the soon to be awakened prince touched the ground that sustained him.
A Planet-wide Heart
The clear insight into the deep ecology of reality naturally activates a kind, sympathetic, and caring attitude toward oneself and others. This compassionate stance is not to be confused with morbidity or pity, but with an open heart that allows being with things as they are, whether seemingly sorrowful or joyful. Compassion, however, is particularly present when the tides turn toward suffering, as one of its definitions is the ability to "suffer with." A genuine aspiration to ameliorate suffering and oversee the welfare of all springs forth from the heart of compassion, connected in turn to the throbbing heart at Earth's bosom.
The capacity to remain connected to the heartbeat of unfettered compassion is represented by the Buddhist ideal of the bodhisattva. Within the tradition, the bodhisattva is an archetypal hero of awakening, a dormant seed spread throughout the world that sprouts into altruistic thought, word, and deed. Transcending the barrier of the atomized self, this innate disposition of our shared humanity shows that, in a deep sense, there's no personal release from suffering, no individual salvation.
Given the radical interdependence of all phenomena, an individual would achieve its own liberation only insofar as everyone else does. Shantideva tells us, "For as long as space endures and for as long as the world lasts, may I live dispelling the miseries of the world."5 As long as Earth suffers, humans are bound to share the same fate. Equally, as we act for the benefit of our planet-home, we gradually green the Self.
This planet-wide compassion is both an aspiration and a state of mind cultivated by way of engaged contemplation. The ability to remain open to the world, in all its light and shadow, while still actively nurture a caring, compassionate attitude toward ourselves and the Earth allows suffering to reach a mature expression, ultimately transforming into an elixir of wakeful connection and service. The bodhisattva way — a combination of compassionate ideals, contemplative skill, and altruistic service — is an effective and much needed antidote to better face our planetary moment.
Greening the Self, going from a reactive ego-self to a more transparent sense of identity in intimate communion with Earth's living web and beyond, seems to be a planetary imperative. In other words, Self-realization is what the whole planet is conjuring from each of us now.
The recognition of the deep ecology of reality along with a compassionate intention that oversees the cessation of suffering suppose a radical shift, a sort of conversion in the mystical sense where world and self are born anew. No less than a profound transformation of how we see ourselves and the natural order is needed to skillfully navigate the many crises upon us.
The contemplative mind, attuned to things as they are, is primed to finetune the sword of discernment and grow in compassionate service as it deepens its ability to disarm its own destructive actions that systematically endanger the planet.
1. Loizzo, J. (2012). Sustainable happiness: The mind science of well-being, altruism, and inspiration. New York, NY: Routledge, p. 541.
2. Macy, J. (2007). World as lover, world as self: Courage for global justice and ecological renewal. Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press.
3. Cited in: Hixon, L. (1993). Mother of the Buddhas: Meditation on the Prajnaparamita Sutra. Wheaton: Quest Books, p. 17.
4. Yoga Sutras of Patanjali 2.28 cited in: Aranya, S. (1983). Yoga philosophy of Patanjali. Albany: State University of New York Press, p. 203.
5. Shantideva, Wallace, V., & Wallace, B. (1997). A guide to the bodhisattva way of life. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, p. 144.
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Smoking cessation is the only intervention which will halt the accelerated decline in lung function seen in COPD (see diagram). It is effective at all stages of the disease.
No medication has been shown to prevent the long-term decline in lung function.
The task of the clinician is to determine the patient's position on the smoking cessation cycle and use this knowledge to move the patient at least one step around the cycle.
Advise smokers about the risks of smoking and benefits of quitting and discuss options.
Assess their readiness to quit, degree of nicotine dependence and explore what would motivate them to quit.
Assist cessation this may include specific advice about pharmacological interventions or referral to a formal cessation programme.
Arrange follow-up (by you or someone else) to reinforce the message.
Smoking cessation counselling is effective especially if combined with nicotine replacement therapy (NRT). This is covered in the guide for Primary Care Nurses which has been produced as a supplement to this POEM.
Annual influenza vaccination is recommended for all patients with COPD. The evidence for pneumococcal vaccination is less convincing but vaccination every five years will help prevent pneumonia in these patients with already reduced respiratory reserve.


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Clarks Originals x Record Store Day 2013
Next Saturday, 20th April, sees the taking place of Record Store Day 2013. From its inception in 2006, Record Store Day has taken place yearly since to celebrate and promote the culture of the independent record shop, sadly a dying breed in this digital climate. Various artists submit special releases only available through independents and the day is a real showcase of the independent store and what they bring to, and how they are important to, music lovers of all generations and musical leanings.
Record Store Day has a resonance for me due in part to Adrian's passion for music and the physical product, and also the fact that he works in an independent and thrives on the more homegrown, DIY elements of musical culture which are all too quickly swallowed up and made faceless by the corporate nature of commercial industries. It is so easy to simply download a musical track, illegally or not, but the thrill of holding a record in your hands is one I can relate to on some levels, and one that can't be replaced by a tune on an iPod; in my opinion anyway.
I don't have the same elements of passion for music that Adrian has, I don't own any records (he has enough for us both) yet one of my earliest memories is looking at the brightly coloured sleeves of my dad's record collection and pestering him to put "Tubular Bells" on (one of my favourites). I remember sitting for ages pulling out all sorts of different records from the rack and poring over the images; the wonderful colours of the covers of the Beatles Sgt Peppers album and a Cat Stevens record, the Beatles White Album which contained a cutting from a paper the day after Lennon had been shot, which dad had kept with the album since before I was born, a Barclay James Harvest box set which had a pin badge and other ephemera inside, less a record than a little slice of a band's history. Things you remember, that a digital download couldn't possibly touch.
I think the point I'm trying to make here is that you don't have to want to collect records, or be the biggest music fan, to appreciate the importance of supporting your local independent. I was really thrilled to learn that one of my favourite brands, Clarks, will be supporting this years Record Store Day and have brought out a special range of desert boots to coincide with it. Here's what Clarks have to say:
"Celebrating our natural connection with authentic music scenes across the globe, we begin a new venture this spring as proud supporters of Record Store Day 2013. We're taking it back to the Californian roots where Record Store Day began, presenting the surf-rock duo - Best Coast through the production of an exclusive 7" vinyl and a live in-store performance on Record Store Day this April 20th.
A collection of must-have vinyl inspired Desert Boots represents our Record Store Day dedication, alongside a series of documentaries with Michael Kurtz - co-founder of Records Store Day, Marijke Bruggink - Header designer at Clarks Originals and Best Coast, online from 1st March. So alongside our Best Coast record released on Record Store Day, we're bringing you a plethora of vinyl inspired collectables!"
You can view and shop the range here, as well as viewing a video about the collaboration here.
What do you think of Record Store Day? Will you be supporting your local independent?

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Sherman "Sam" Emil Toner
Sam Toner was born on January 24, 1937 in Slayton, Minnesota to Emil and Anna Moen Toner. He grew up in Slayton and graduated from Slayton High School in 1955. Sam was a member of the Minnesota National Guard from 1959 to 1965. On June 23, 1962 he and Connie Lubke were married in Pipestone, MN. Following their marriage they made their home in Slayton. Sam worked at Nordins SuperValu in Slayton and in 1970 he became a partner in the business and in 1996 he purchased the grocery store. Sam retired and sold the store in 2003. Sam and Connie enjoyed many winters in Arizona. Sam passed away on Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at the age of 83. He was a member of the Slayton Presbyterian Church where he served as elder and trustee. He also was a member of the Slayton Chamber of Commerce, the Slayton Kiwanis Club and the Slayton Volunteer Fire Department. Sam enjoyed fishing, coin collecting, vintage cars, playing Pinochle, shooting pool, bowling and traveling.
Survivors include his wife, Connie Toner of Slayton, MN, three children, Kari Donlan her husband, Michael of St. Paul, MN, Kristen Toner Mankato, MN, and Mark Toner his wife, Terri of North Oaks, MN, two grandsons, Zachary Toner and Alexander Toner, and one brother, Charles Toner of Denver, CO. He is preceded in death by his parents, and sister, Eleanor Berglund.
In an effort to keep everyone safe a private family service will be held at the Slayton Presbyterian Church in Slayton, MN on Saturday, December 19, 2020 with Rev. Dave Hollis and Rev. Rollin Haynes. Interment will be at Slayton Memorial Gardens in Slayton, MN. To send condolences visit totzkefuneralhome.com. In lieu of flowers or donations, the family ask that those that are able donate blood and support their local food shelf.
Per MN Executive Order, masks will be required and social distancing and occupancy limits are to be followed.


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Entertainment Bollywood 26 Jun 2019 You will not see the ...
Entertainment, Bollywood
You will not see the same story: Sonakshi Sinha on Dabangg 3
Published Jun 26, 2019, 2:33 am IST
Updated Jun 26, 2019, 2:37 am IST
The actress is tight lipped about the love triangle that is reportedly a part of Dabangg 3, but says it will be something different.
There has been speculation about a love triangle in the Salman Khan-Sonakshi Sinha starrer Dabangg 3, which also stars Kichcha Sudeepa among others. However, Sonakshi, who has been a part of the first two parts, is not revealing too much about the plot.
"There is speculation, but then it is a different story because it is the third part. You will not see the same kind of story that you saw earlier. There will be different characters in the film. All I can tell you is that, it is new and it's going to be an entertainer with a bang," says the actress.
As for the special song Munna Badnaam Hua involving Salman Khan, she says, "An artiste comes and does a song in the film in every franchise and it is a highlight of the film. There is no munni but a munna this time and hence it will be wonderful," she opines.
Sonakshi is also gearing up for her next release Khandaani Shafakhana. "I want to work silently and then come back with a bang. It is a very relevant subject and I don't know if films can bring out a big change, but it does make people think," says the actress.
—Sanskriti Media
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Two Na'vi protested outside Vedanta's AGM.
Two Na'vi from James Cameron's film Avatar today paid a visit to British mining company Vedanta Resources' Annual General Meeting in Westminster, London.
The Na'vi joined tribal rights organization Survival International in a demonstration against Vedanta, over its controversial plan to mine the sacred mountain of India's Dongria Kondh tribe.
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The Dongria Kondh tribe have been described as 'the real Avatar tribe' because their plight closely parallels that of the aliens in James Cameron's blockbuster.
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package org.estatio.dom.agreement;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.UUID;

import javax.inject.Inject;

import com.google.common.eventbus.Subscribe;

import org.joda.time.LocalDate;

import org.apache.isis.applib.annotation.DomainService;
import org.apache.isis.applib.annotation.NatureOfService;
import org.apache.isis.applib.services.scratchpad.Scratchpad;

import org.estatio.dom.EstatioDomainObject;
import org.estatio.dom.UdoDomainRepositoryAndFactory;
import org.estatio.dom.communicationchannel.CommunicationChannel;

@DomainService(
        nature = NatureOfService.DOMAIN,
        repositoryFor = AgreementRoleCommunicationChannel.class
)
public class AgreementRoleCommunicationChannelRepository
        extends UdoDomainRepositoryAndFactory<AgreementRoleCommunicationChannel> {

    public AgreementRoleCommunicationChannelRepository() {
        super(AgreementRoleCommunicationChannelRepository.class, AgreementRoleCommunicationChannel.class);
    }

    public AgreementRoleCommunicationChannel findByRoleAndTypeAndContainsDate(
            final AgreementRole role,
            final AgreementRoleCommunicationChannelType type,
            final LocalDate date) {
        return firstMatch("findByRoleAndTypeAndContainsDate",
                "role", role,
                "type", type,
                "date", date);
    }

    public List<AgreementRoleCommunicationChannel> findByCommunicationChannel(
            final CommunicationChannel communicationChannel) {
        return allMatches("findByCommunicationChannel",
                "communicationChannel", communicationChannel);
    }

    public Iterable<? extends EstatioDomainObject<?>> findByAgreement(final Agreement agreement) {
        return allMatches("findByAgreement",
                "agreement", agreement);
    }

}

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We are gathered this weekend to celebrate the life and legacy of the great Robert Ingersoll. At such a time of backward-looking, there are two senses in which we wonder whether his work has stood the test of time. First, is it still well-known? Are readers still conversant with Ingersoll's Some Mistakes of Moses? In his day, his lectures of this title were so well beloved (and hated!) that people seemed to regard them immediately as public property, not the possession of the speaker who had created them. So they rushed pirate transcripts into print and circulated them, much like bootleg CDs made from rock concerts and circulated among fans today.
Second, we have to ask if the value of the work is abiding. If not, the work is as well forgotten. Sometimes a book with no value stubbornly hangs on because, as the writer of the Pastoral Epistles said, people's ears are itching to hear what it has to say, however worthless. A case of this would be Nicholas Notovitch's bogus Unknown Life of Christ, a supposed Tibetan account of the Asian travels of Jesus. Debunked decades ago by the great Orientalist Max Müller, this book continues to be reprinted and avidly devoured by New Agers who find the premise attractive (--which is apparently their sole criterion for truth!). Occasionally Freethought works circulate in the same manner, having outlived their usefulness. For instance, Kersey Graves's The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors is now something of an embarrassment to the cause, since more accurate information on comparative mythology makes many of its claims seem untenable.
Into which of these categories does Ingersoll's Some Mistakes of Moses fall? I am glad to report that its value and its power remain undiminished after 120 years, like gunpowder kept dry and ready to fire. It is no mere relic of outmoded polemic. Unfortunately it is generally treated like one, though we owe Prometheus Books a great debt for keeping it available to new generations. One gets the impression that the book is in danger of relegation to the same airless limbo as all the other relics on display in the Ingersoll Home: tokens, mementos, time capsule fodder. This neglect is possibly partly the result of the incautious, tactless manner of Ingersoll, no longer politically correct, though I confess that his scathing style one of the book's chief attractions for me. Ingersoll understood that, if a proposition is ludicrous enough, we lend it undeserved credibility when we respond too politely. This has certainly been my own policy, for instance, in my contributions to the Internet Infidels collection of replies to fundamentalist Josh McDowell.
But Ingersoll's great book on the Pentateuch certainly does not deserve the obscurity that is gaining upon it. Its scholarship is by no means out of date, as a close, literal reading of the biblical text never is. Ingersoll must have known that the sands of critical opinion shift and drift, and that, even as Christian faith is perilously founded upon historical and exegetical uncertainties, so is the rejection of faith. That is to say, Ingersoll's critique of the Bible and its deity are not predicated upon any particular critical theory, whether in fashion or out. He refers throughout the book to Moses as the author of the Pentateuch, but only in a conventional sense. He shows how the book must have originated long after the time of Moses's supposed dates. But who was the author? My title makes reference to one of the critical theories of Pentateuchal authorship, the famous Graf-Wellhausen theory that the 5 so-called Books of Moses were a textual fusion of four earlier documents. "J," the Yahwist Epic, consistently used Yahweh as the divine name. "E," the Elohist Epic, calls God "Elohim" until the burning bush story and then switches to Yahweh or combines the two. "D," our Book of Deuteronomy, is a law code prefaced by a summary of J and E, already sown together in the Deuteronomist's time. "P," or the Priestly Code, is another vast legal corpus prefaced by stories of the Patriarchs and Moses. This elegant and illuminating hypothesis held the field for over a century. It is only being questioned by critical scholars in our day, though there is of course no thought of going back to Mosaic authorship, let me hasten to say. Had Ingersoll made use of the JEDP hypothesis, he might have been hailed as an astute biblical critic. But if he had, his polemic would have depended on a thousand critical points of debate and would have waned as the theory itself waned.
And besides, it was unnecessary. Colonel Ingersoll was, after all, a military man, and he knew you don't shoot a mouse with an elephant gun. He was not primarily an educator in the right understanding of the Bible. Old Testament critics did and do explain the sources of the Pentateuch, form criticism, and other such matters, because they want Bible readers to plumb the depths of this ancient document unimpeded by the dogmatic blinders of the past. Biblical inerrantism was and remains the worst enemy of the proper appreciation of the Bible. But Colonel Ingersoll was fighting the war for intellectual liberty on a broader front.
Note, if you please, Ingersoll is no Bible-hater, no village atheist with a tin ear for the beauty of scripture. No, he would doubtless say, we are more likely to stand conscience-stricken at Isaiah's oracles against the exploitation of mortgaged farmers, more likely to warm to the Gandhi-like insights of the Sermon on the Mount, if we do not feel foolishly obliged to pretend that the stupefying pedantry of Leviticus or the bloodthirsty genocide of Joshua are on the same level with them! To listen to some Freethinkers, one might imagine the Skeptic's task to be the mirror image of the fundamentalist's: to make the sublimities of the Bible appear as barbaric as its superstition and priestcraft. This seems to me the bizarre and superfluous approach, for example, of the recent broadside Queen Jane's Version. Today's Freethought debaters and polemicists (I am happy to be one of them) could stand to emulate Colonel Ingersoll's balance. He was not like Dracula, recoiling in fear and loathing from scripture, and we shouldn't be either. Not only is it neurotic; it causes us to play right into the stereotypes our opponents have of us. Personally, I approach my debates with the likes of William Lane Craig and Craig Blomberg not as an enemy of the Bible, but as a champion and partisan of the Bible. I love it! I read it as we read all other ancient books, like the Iliad and the Odyssey. I love them, too.
No, Ingersoll's point was that the Bible had become an idol and a tool of oppression wielded with great force and subtle skill by the Grand Inquisitor. It was a bottomless cornucopia of false hopes and empty threats for those cowed, like Dostoyevsky said, by miracle, mystery and authority. His aim might be summed up in a memorable phrase from the Reverend Jim Jones: I've got to destroy this paper idol! Ingersoll had to demonstrate what the Bible is not by showing inescapably what it is. How did he show that the Bible could be a sure guide neither to nature nor to the supernatural?
Ingersoll first shows the untenability of the seven-day creation account as compared not only with the fossil record but with what else we know of ancient history. We need much more history than a single week allows. Knowing that supposedly critical theologians are merely apologists retreating to plan B, Ingersoll then cuts off the escape route of allegory. He will not allow apologists to make the "days" of creation into long periods of millions of years, for then we must ask how plants can have flourished for so long in their allotted "day" with no animals or insects to eat them and help them reproduce? Etc., etc.,. And what of the Sabbath? Were the Deists right, then? Did God take a rest of millions of years after finishing the creation?
So the Genesis One creation story is wrong; it contradicts all known data. If, like Jerry Falwell said on a TV show with Carl Sagan, one proposes simply to close one's eyes to the scientific data and to believe the Bible instead, Ingersoll shows one is no better off--since then which of two contradictory accounts is one to believe? The Garden of Eden story contradicts the seven-day creation story in every particular. It is simply impossible to believe both at the same time. (Fundamentalists, for all their vaunted attention to the letter to the text, either never notice the problems or resort to pathetic spin-doctoring to sidestep them.) Since it is merely the presence in the biblical text that requires the reader believe in either one, the poor biblicist is painted into a corner! You must choose! Yet your choice of either undermines the reason you took either one seriously in the first place!
But Ingersoll, canny tactician that he was, knew his enemy's path of retreat. He knew the next ploy would be to shorten the line of defense by cutting loose the natural data of the Bible, its erroneous statements about the age and shape and workings of the world, and to defend the inner courtyard instead: to claim that, though the Bible's teaching might be clothed in the terms of an ancient world-picture, its affirmations on morality and religion were still to be regarded as infallible. This is still the approach of sophisticated Evangelical Protestants and Roman Catholics today.
Ingersoll at least implicitly made the same point in the case of biblicism in morals. Once biblicists led the way, or tried to, demanding that all follow the dictates of the Bible. In the ancient monolithic culture of Israel and Judah, whose mores we may be sure the Bible reflected rather than determined, there was no great gap between the law and people's lives. But in modern pluralistic America, biblical law has become highly problematic, and it is easy to recognize dogged biblical literalists as fanatical. The counterpart to the Flat Earthers in the realm of biblical law would be the Christian Reconstructionists like Gary North and Rousas Rushdoony, who want to live in an America where adulterers, smart-mouth kids, and loud-mouthed atheists would be executed.
Presupposed in all such public rhetoric, whether from Falwell or from Congress, is an unacknowledged fact: again, the standard has changed! The poor Bible is following, not leading. Of course supposed advocates of biblical morality (except for our Reconstructionist zealots, who thus constitute the exception that proves the rule) do not advocate genocide or slavery any more than they believe the earth is flat, even though the Bible says all these things equally. When pressed about these distasteful teachings, they will start arguing for "progressive revelation." God, we will be told, had to take the ancients as he found them and work with what he had. He couldn't shock their system too severely all at once. Well, this is just absurd; both Old and New Testament writers had more advanced moral standards available to them in their environments, as surviving records show. They were retrograde even at the time.
Once upon a time, some fundamentalists could see that the Bible condoned and even commanded slavery. It was easy for them to recognize that, since they themselves owned slaves. Other biblicists' consciences proved better than their creeds, but they couldn't afford to realize that. They harmonized the contradiction by managing to read the Bible as an anti-slavery text. The Civil War has come and gone, and now all biblicists recognize slavery as a despicable evil; they say that the Bible merely "tolerated" slavery for the sake of the ancients' hard hearts. Once all biblicists recognized that the Bible assigns women a secondary role, but when Suffrage came along, some were able to re-read the Bible as an egalitarian document. In both cases, biblicists find themselves, as they did in the case of natural science, playing "catch-up." Their strategy is to follow the distinctive morality of the Bible as long as it does not become as offensive to them as it is to "unbelievers," and when it does, they reverse course, claiming that the Bible, understood rightly, is as enlightened as secular morality any day. What damning faint praise! And what pathetic self-deception. By such a process of gradual assimilation liberal theology was born from fundamentalist: by and by, all that made Christianity a distinctive option, even if an obnoxious one, has bled out, and Christianity has humanized itself by moving ever closer to Humanism. Why not just go all the way?
Colonel Ingersoll--the title always reminds me of the Dayton Tennessee Scopes Trial, immortalized in the film Inherit the Wind, because of the titular elevation of both protagonists, Brady and Drummond (Bryant and Darrow) to the rank of honorary colonel in the State Militia. It was silly, and yet it was right on target as Colonels Brady and Drummond blasted away at each other with salvos of unequaled oratory. Colonel Ingersoll, too, fought on that battlefield. And what a delightful coincidence that the chief theoretician of 19th century American fundamentalism was Benjamin B. Warfield!
I think it is Warfield's kind of thinking that Ingersoll has in view when he repeatedly asks if we must be damned to hell for not believing this or that biblical absurdity. Did fundamentalists ever claim belief in biblical inerrancy was a condition of salvation? It sounds like Ingersoll is bayoneting a straw man. But I don't think he is. You see, Warfield was trying to close the door on liberal theology, which might otherwise tempt his Princeton Seminary students. Liberal theology said you could very well accept Jesus as savior without believing in the infallibility of scripture: two different issues, no? But Warfield said you were not much of a disciple of Jesus, not much of a follower of Christ, if you picked and chose which of his teachings you felt like accepting. And as it happens, Warfield reminded his students, Christ and the apostles can be shown to have shared the contemporary Jewish scholastic doctrine of scriptural infallibility. Had Christ not addressed the point, we would be left to our own best speculations, but as it is, like it or not, a good Christian must share his Lord's doctrine of scripture. Doesn't this imply that anyone who fails to share this belief is no disciple of Jesus? And thus damned! In case you hadn't noticed, fundamentalists simply do not believe what they say they believe and think they believe: that one is saved by the simple grace of God. There are too many shibboleths for that.
First, of course, the renewed propagation of Ingersoll's own Some Mistakes of Moses. It is as winsome and as powerful as the day it was written. Second, the funding of translations of several foreign language classics of biblical criticism which have, thanks to Christian control over religious publishing, never been rendered into English before, notably the works of Bruno Bauer and W.C. van Manen. And third, the publication of what I call a Skeptic's Annotated Bible, a study edition of the Old and New Testaments with notes and articles detailing the prescientific and fictive character of most of the narrative, as well as the shocking moral and religious ideas tactfully smoothed over by Christian study editions. Introductory essays would explore the questions of who chose the books to go into the Bible, why and when, the political issues involved, etc. Where this and that Bible passage point in a "heretical" direction, the Skeptic's Bible would hasten to point it out. Cross-references would highlight contradictions, not paper them over. A critical, scientific, and skeptical perspective on the Bible would become clearer than ever, and the Freethinker would have at his fingertips all the ammunition he requires for the battle into which our brave Colonel led us these many years ago.


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Находится на расстоянии примерно 19 километра по прямой на юг-юго-запад от районного центра города Петровск.

История
Официальная дата основания 1830 год. В канун отмены крепостного права в ней насчитывалось 56 дворов и 313 жителей. По данным 1910 года в Якобьевке насчитывалось 127 дворов и 825 жителей.

Население
Постоянное население составило 44 человека (русские 89%) в 2002 году, 42 в 2010.

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Concern America has trained 90 community members to provide health and environmental health services to a population of 20,000. The program is located in the isolated, war-torn region of Chocó, in the northwest of Colombia. Connected by the Atrato River and its many tributary river basins, the communities located in this vastly rural and forested region are continually caught between and severely affected by the numerous armed factions operating there. The civil war, material poverty, and a broken governmental health system have led to a severe health care crisis, where many live as far as 10 hours of difficult travel from the nearest health center.
Beginning in 2004, the program has trained over 90 Health Promoter Practitioners and Midwives, including those receiving specialized training in women's health, dental health, and environmental health, working with the program and providing health care, health education, and sanitation measures to their communities. Over 20,000 people receive health services in 40 rural communities, the majority of which are Afro-Colombian and Indigenous, including Embera, Waunnan, and Senue communities.
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"I think, the goal of financial inclusion always remained unachievable because, of the difference between the distance. The policymakers sitting in the air-conditioned rooms couldn't understand the real obstacles people on the roads and farms face in 40 degrees Celsius."
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We, at ETBFSI, have compiled a list of 30 stories that we felt created an impact. Today marks three years of our launch on May 16, 2019. We hope that you loved reading these stories, as much as we enjoyed reporting them.
Are NBFCs on the Red Queen treadmill?
Alice never could quite make out, in thinking it over afterwards, how it was that they began: all she remembers is, that they were running hand in hand, and the Queen went so fast that it was all she could do to keep up with her: and still the Queen kept crying 'Faster! Faster!' but Alice felt she could not go faster, though she had not breath left to say so, Carroll tells us.
India's payment revolution goes offline
Just 12-15 years later the situation changed like never before. While ATM cards through the POS terminal were settling down, digital payment based on UPI changed the game. Schools, colleges, universities and all the utility payments are online these days.
No for normalisation. RBI governor hums Aaj phir jeene ki tamanna hai..
"As the great Lata Mangeshkar – whom we lost recently – sang in her immortal voice: Aaj phir jeene ki tamanna hai. Together with the spirit behind the next line of this beautiful song, she has conveyed an eternal message of optimism," he said in the policy statement on February 10. Aaj phir jeene ki tamanna hai, aaj phir marne ka irada hai was sung 57 years back to explain the wavering mental state of a beautiful and talented dancer Rosy, in an unhappy marriage in the movie Guide.
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While the Finance Ministry is preparing for the Halwa Ceremony and before sending the Union Budget for printing, there are questions from North Block to Dalal Street and Asia and Europe.. Will Union Budget 2022 offer surprises? What will be the focal point of the budget? Will it be corporate or consumer? I think, Finance Minister may not spend more due to financial constraints…Here is my view.
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We often speak about protecting nature but do very little. So, I think, on the first day of the year while crafting our resolutions and making our plans for the next year, let's add nature, environment and climate change. Let ESG or sustainable finance not just remain a box to be ticked, because climate change is real.
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For this item's main hand variant, see Augmented Blade of Nymora.
For this item's standard variant, see Blade of Avaryss.
A lethal blade once belonging to the demon Avaryss.
The augmented Blade of Avaryss is a level 85 Melee off-hand weapon made by using an augmentor on a Blade of Avaryss. Like the non-augmented blade, it has tier 90 accuracy and tier 80 damage.
Weapon gizmos charged with perks can be used to enhance the weapon's abilities. As a one-handed off-hand slot item, the Augmented Blade of Avaryss can hold 1 gizmo, allowing up to 2 perks.
The Augmented Blade of Avaryss uses charges stored in the universal charge pack. When the charge pack runs out of charges, the item loses stats and gizmo effects, and can also no longer gain any equipment experience. Function will resume when the pack is recharged with divine charges.
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2 1,160 9,675 Disassembling this item has a 50% chance to return installed gizmos.
3 2,607 29,025 Disassembling this item gives double materials.
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5 8,286 116,100 29,025 5.52 This item drains 10% less charge when used.
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I grew up in a small town, as I've mentioned in past posts. My high school was so small, I graduated with 71 people. The house I grew up in had blueberry bushes, an apple tree and a pear tree in the back yard. I had chickens as pets. There was a farm next door, and the pasture from that farm extended behind my house. At any given moment you could look out the kitchen window, which faced the back of the house, and see horses, cows, sheep and goats grazing behind the fence on the edge of our back yard. There was a corn field across the street; there were cabbage and peppers grown in other fields down the street as well. On a summer day you would routinely see farmers driving tractors on our street, and they rode so slowly I could pass them on my bike as I did my paper route.
I grew up in the boonies, you get the picture. When I was in high school it was a very big deal when Burger King built a restaurant in our town. Now the town sports a multiplex cinema and a Walmart--which actually bums me out. I wish my hometown could have escaped all that development--though it did manage to escape becoming a low level nuclear waste dump, so that's good. When I was half way through high school my parents bought a house in an even smaller town—a town that still does not have a Walmart, a Burger King or a multiplex.
Like many other small town kids, I wanted to check out the city. Even though my parents forbade it, my friends and I used to cruise around in nearby Hartford or Springfield. My parents' perception of Hartford was that of a city with drugs floating down the street and into my hands and mouth. "Mom, there aren't piles of drugs lying around in Hartford. Do you realize that there are drugs in our town? You don't need to go to a city to get drugs, you just need to go into the bathroom at school." My parents didn't understand that it was fun to be among buildings that were taller than the two story houses in our country bumpkin town. It was fun to watch people walk along the streets, and to check out people sitting in other cars when we were stopped at traffic lights.
Today I had an appointment in Providence. I've lived in Rhode Island for six years now, and still haven't really explored Providence all that much. I'd long given up on being able to navigate in Providence. The moment I pull off the exit into the city, my sense of direction escapes me. I study my road map at traffic lights, and anxiously spot the "do not enter" signs and the "one way" signs that always seem to point in the opposite direction of the way I want to travel. I round the blocks over and over again, taking ages to find what I am looking for.
I scoped out the address of my appointment on Mapquest before I left the house. I studied the map until I felt confident that I knew where I was going. I parked my car next to a broken meter on Union St, and walked to my appointment on Westminster Street. I looked up at the old buildings and wish I'd thought to bring my camera so I could capture the gargoyles on this one building not far from Kennedy Plaza. I looked at the lights that were strung up over Westminster St, and remembered how festive they look at night when they are lit up. I stopped to look at a photo exhibit in a storefront window by Caleb Portfolio, and when I walked away from it I wondered how many people walked by it without even looking at the pictures.
I listened to a street musician playing a Lenny Kravitz song on his electric guitar. I smelled the exhaust from buses going up and down the streets. I felt my shoes skip over the cracks in the sidewalk. I watched people rushing in and out of buildings. I looked in the windows of the storefronts. I realized just then how much I miss exploring cities on my own. I came to a realization that I am an adult, not having to explain to my parents why I could possibly want to explore a drug infested city. Tomorrow I am going back to Providence to spend the afternoon tooling around in the city with my camera. I'll be sure to post pictures of what I see.
I was the same way...my graduating class was 55 :) It was always fun to go to Madison just because it was soooo different from my little town of 2000 people.
I still love exploring cities. I love the lights and the excitement.
My cousin graduated with 20.
sounds like fun. I grew up in a town wiht one flashing light and you can throw a baseball across town. Now the resurvied the county and it's 3 times as big now. Oh and they have a SUPER Wal-mart. most of the orange/grapefruit/ and lemon groves are gone, and lastly, the fruit juice cannery shut down. SIGH!


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Relay for Life gets underway in Anderson
Supporters of Relay for Life began their laps Saturday morning at the Shasta Speedway in Anderson.
Relay for Life gets underway in Anderson Supporters of Relay for Life began their laps Saturday morning at the Shasta Speedway in Anderson. Check out this story on redding.com: http://reddingne.ws/2pR70S6
Record Searchlight Published 6:05 p.m. PT April 22, 2017 | Updated 8:18 a.m. PT April 24, 2017
U.S. Army veteran Gordon Bailey, left, and Navy veteran Ray Fleming, also a 20-year cancer survivor, walk along the racetrack during Relay for Life on Saturday afternoon at the Shasta Speedway in Anderson.(Photo: Hung Vu/Special to the Record Searchlight)
Some 35 Relay for Life teams from Redding, Anderson and Trinity County began walking around the track at the Shasta District Fair grounds at 9 a.m. as part of the annual fundraiser to fight cancer.
The 24-hour relay was set to end at 9 a.m. Sunday. At 9 p.m. Saturday - the 12-hour mark - participants and spectators planned to hold the emotional Luminaria Ceremony, for friends and family who've died from cancer, those now battling the disease and anyone who has overcome it.
Luminarias are lanterns with a small candle set in a small paper bag weighted with sand. They're often decorated with names and messages.
People who made a luminaria donation help the American Cancer Society in its effort to save lives.
Kylie Simas, 10, left, Addison Nehls, 6, and Brooke Ehn, 9, work together on the coop walk on the racetrack during the Relay for Life on Saturday afternoon in Anderson. (Photo: Hung Vu/Special to the Record Searchlight)
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Combat Mission Battles for Normandy (CMBN from here on) has been patched to v1.01 and it was about time I sit down and enjoy this one.
Mesmerized by Doubler's fantastic research on the battles fought over bocage country in France, I wanted to see if CMBN stands as a good tactical simulation of this particular type of fight.
So here is the map where I commanded two platoons of American infantry in a particularly vicious battle.
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Q: Synthesizable delayed buffer in VHDL I am trying to generate a synthesizable buffer in VHDL for a time-to digital project in FPGA.
I have been looking around but cannot find any set-up out there.
I have been recommended that stackoverflow has very good answers.
Could you please give me some tips for this course work, and I would be very greatful to any approach you might come up with.
Thank you a lot in advance!
Regards

A: Doing time-delay-circuits (TDC) is somewhat hard right now.
Basically, it boils down to having HDL that describes multiple registers all reading the same signal. You then need to apply a keep directive, e.g. equivalent_register_removal for Xilinx. You will possibly also need a timing ignore constraint on the signal you are sampling.
You then need to carefully examine the fabric of your FPGA and make sure your flop flops are placed in the same slice across multiple sites that can all be connected through the same kind of wire (check FPGA Editor), i.e. will have the same time delay.
You can build a minimal test design for Xilinx in FPGA editor. Once you have the routing down, you can then formulate appropriate constraints for your UCF file and build much bigger, more complex TDCs.
I'm only familiar with Altera from a few years ago. But Altera doesn't give you an interface like Xilinx's FPGA editor, so you're on your own determining the placement of your flops. I saw a presentation once about a university work group doing TDCs with Altera and ultimately it boiled down to measuring the resolution by using input stimuli to check whether the design was routed according to their wishes. If it was not, they would adjust some timing parameters out of sensible bounds, rinse and repeat.
The last step of course is to sample your signal in the synchronous part of your design (where the counter is) and read the counter plus flip flop contents when the event you wanted occurs (i.e. rising edge, falling edge). Then you have major time units in your counter and minor time units as a bitfield in the flip flop state.
If you want even spread among your flip flop delays, you will need to carefully examine the delay length of paths between the flip flops and adjust for your overall clock period.
So basically, counter * clock_period + index_of_highest_set_bit_in_flip_flop_state * path_delay is then your delay time.
You will also need to check the FPGA datasheet to know your minimal timings, i.e. the fastest toggle time the input buffer can achieve, the minimal setup and hold time of your flops etc.