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26/12/2018 Gay Blog / Gay Lifestyle / Gender / Social Issues / World News
'Having a penis and competing as a woman is not fair': Navratilova inflames transgender fury
Tennis legend Martina Navratilova was forced to apologize for comments she made on social media saying that natural born men who 'proclaim themselves female' should not be allowed to compete against women.
Navratilova's remarks came in response to a question from a Twitter follower who asked her about transgender women in sport.
"Clearly that can't be right. You can't just proclaim yourself a female and be able to compete against women," the nine-time Wimbledon champion wrote. "There must be some standards, and having a penis and competing as a woman would not fit that standard."
The 62-year-old who is widely regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time triggered an uproar on social media with transgender community branding her comments as "bullying" and "discriminatory."
As soon as she posted her message angry responses and calls to apologize flooded Navratilova's twitter account, forcing her to delete the initial post.
Canadian transgender cyclist Rachel McKinnon was among the most outspoken critics who said that the tennis legend should be "accountable for public transphobic comments" made against people of alternate birth gender.
Navratilova's opinion on the topic came as a shock to many, as being an open lesbian herself the tennis star has always been a LGBT rights campaigner.
Following an avalanche of criticism the former tennis great apologized for her tweet promising to "educate herself on this issue."
Some social media users however expressed support for Navratilova suggesting she was forced to deliver an apology after being "intimidated from telling the truth."
Source: https://www.rt.com/sport/447315-martina-navratilova-transgender-comments/
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Germany must confront Muslim anti-Semitism
Jews are being told not to wear their skullcaps in public – that is dreadful advice.
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Despite all the rhetoric about 'Never Again', too many people in positions of authority are ready to ignore and even acquiesce to displays of anti-Semitism. This cowardly behaviour was strikingly illustrated recently by Felix Klein, the German government's anti-Semitism commissioner.
Last week, Klein told the media that due to a spike in anti-Semitic crimes, he 'cannot advise Jews to wear the kippah everywhere all the time in Germany'. That's another way of saying that Germany has become a dangerous no-go area for people who look Jewish.
Thankfully, Klein's call to capitulate to anti-Semitic scum was greeted by a storm of outrage from inside and outside Germany. For many Germans the call to render Jewish people invisible was a step too far. In response to this pressure, Klein backtracked. And on Monday he called on all citizens to wear the kippah next Saturday, to coincide with the annual Al-Quds Day in Berlin.
Al-Quds Day is an annual worldwide event to register opposition to Israel's control of Jerusalem. Some of its participants have on occasion directed their hostility not only towards Israel, but towards Jewish people in general.
Part of the reason why the German political establishment finds it difficult to deal with anti-Semitism is because it is wary of talking about where it is coming from. According to official accounts, the rise of anti-Semitism in Germany is a consequence of the growth of the far right. The mainstream narrative is that old-school German nationalists and the new Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party are responsible for recent spikes in attacks on Jewish people.
The interior ministry says anti-Semitic hate crimes rose by nearly 20 per cent between 2017 and 2018, while the number of physical attacks against Jews rose from 37 in 2017 to 69 in 2018. And according to interior minister Horst Seehofer, 90 per cent of reported anti-Semitic incidents were perpetrated by supporters of far-right groups.
This narrative, which associates populism with the rise of anti-Semitism in Germany, is constantly reproduced by the media throughout the West. But like most officially sanctioned narratives about populism, this one distorts some of the issues at stake.
The leaders of the Jewish community and many German Jews dispute the claim that almost all anti-Semitic attacks are perpetrated by the far right. More than half of German Jewish respondents to a 2018 EU survey indicated that they had experienced anti-Semitic harassment during the previous five years. Of these respondents, the plurality – 41 per cent – believed that the perpetrator of the most serious incident they experienced was 'someone with a Muslim extremist view'.
So why do official German statistics paint such a different picture? The answer is very simple. As James Angelos recently uncovered in the New York Times Magazine, German officials have adopted a procedure whereby, when the perpetrators of an anti-Semitic incident are unknown, they are automatically classified as far right. This point was acknowledged by Klein when Angelos asked him about the reliability of the official statistics. Klein admitted the methodology was 'flawed' and said he had 'already started the discussion within the government to change that'.
But the problem here is not just a methodological one. The German political establishment is neither prepared nor willing to deal with manifestations of anti-Jewish hatred within Muslim communities. Klein's readiness to instruct Jewish people not to wear skullcaps is symptomatic of this wider dishonesty and cowardice within official circles.
No doubt far-right anti-Semitism exists and constitutes a real problem. But it is a problem that has been made far worse by officialdom's acquiescence to Islamic anti-Semitism. Arguably, the hostile attitudes directed at Jewish people by sections of the Muslim community have emboldened old-school German anti-Semites to feel free to express their sentiments.
The takeaway message of the 'don't wear a kippah' scandal is that the real threat facing Jewish people in Germany is not the attitudes and behaviour of old-school, nativist anti-Semites, but the acquiescence of German officialdom to new forms of anti-Jewish hatred.
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Hon. James J. Florio To Receive Leadership Award
Contact: Elaine Clisham (eclisham njfuture org) , Director of Communications, 609-393-0008 ext. 102
New Jersey Future's Cary Edwards Award honors governor's lifetime of commitment to a well-planned New Jersey
TRENTON, April 12, 2018 — New Jersey Future announced today that James J. Florio, the 49th governor of New Jersey, will be presented with the organization's Cary Edwards Leadership Award as part of its Smart Growth Awards celebration.
"It's difficult to count all the ways Jim Florio's efforts have made New Jersey a better place," said New Jersey Future Chairman Peter Reinhart. "During his time in Congress and as governor, Jim Florio was a visionary in seeing the future needs of New Jersey. In the many years following public office, he has continued to be a major voice and leading policy advocate for a better future for the people of New Jersey. Every day, we breathe cleaner air, drink cleaner water, can redevelop on cleaner land, and have a robust regional and national passenger and freight rail network, in no small part because of Jim Florio. This honor is so well-deserved."
Governor Florio first sought elective office in 1969, winning a seat in the New Jersey General Assembly. In 1974 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey's 1st Congressional District, where he served until 1990. During his tenure in Congress he authored the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act, known as the Superfund law, the nation's primary program for cleaning up hazardous waste sites; played a key role in the drafting or passage of virtually every major piece of federal environmental legislation; and played a key role in every piece of railroad legislation passed during his tenure.
During his tenure as governor of New Jersey he signed into law the Clean Water Enforcement Act, one of the strongest environmental laws of its type in the United States. He was responsible for shepherding the original agreement to study the idea of constructing a new rail tunnel under the Hudson River, an initiative that came to be known as Access to the Region's Core. And he expanded the scope of activity for NJ Transit, enhancing its distinction as the only statewide commuter transit network in the country.
A hallmark of Gov. Florio's public-service career has been to emphasize the importance of, and to advocate for, coordinated planning at the state level. He believes that public investments in infrastructure should guide private development, not the other way around. It was during his tenure as governor that the first State Development and Redevelopment Plan was adopted — committing to paper for the first time the policy that state investments in transportation, housing and water and sewer services should be made first in already-built areas, rather than in the new, lower-density suburbs and exurbs that had been growing during the mid-1980s.
Since his return to the private sector, Gov. Florio has continued to use his voice to elevate conversations on the big issues that will affect New Jersey's future, including the importance of coordinated planning and the need for investment in upgrading infrastructure in our older communities in order to support growth.
"There are few people who inhabit the idea of 'public servant' more fully than Jim Florio," said New Jersey Future Executive Director Peter Kasabach. "He cares deeply about New Jersey, and his efforts both in office and since have been with the singular goal of ensuring that our children and grandchildren will have a great state in which to live, work and play. All of us at New Jersey Future join in celebrating the governor's dedication to New Jersey's future."
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The award will be presented at New Jersey Future's Smart Growth Awards Celebration June 6.
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History and mere stories
In one of my special hymns for God's children of any age we sing that
"This little light of mine,
I'm going to let it shine.
You in your small corner,
And I in mine."
Have you ever noticed that in a curious reversal of emphasis a modern person of any faith, gender or political persuasion would now also urge you to do that? The only difference is that you are to stay in that small corner and keep the light to yourself.
The 'small' corner of the hymn refers to our size and limited ability, while the corner we are now sent to is more like the 'out' chair in the corner of the world at large. We are to confine our light to that.
Many among us may see this as an antichristian bias, a repression of our view and a rejection of the truth. All other views are admitted, but not the Bible. A quasi-new form of anti-Semitism includes Christians among those who should no longer participate in the public debate, since they claim to speak about what is true objectively and to hold a universal truth across continents and oceans, gender and even time lines.
The newly assigned corners are not within a common space at all. They are little worlds by themselves. In post-modern thought, in multi-culturalism and in religious pluralism the common dimensions of our world, such as reason, facts and mankind are given up as mere Western constructs, which inhibit the affirmation of individual truths, personal views and real diversity. Consequently the Bible is also assumed to permit only stories of personal interest outside of the criteria of truth, reason and the real world.
This means that any possibility of a common reality is denied. Truth can never be written with a capital 'T' again. Facts are reduced to visions one may have and hopes projected outward. You see something your way, and I will see it my way. We each have not only our own definition, but there is nothing out there for sure to define anything in the first place.
For long now I have been very uncomfortable with Christians using the term 'story' for both the Bible and their personal experiences as Christians. That term bows to the accusation that there is really no actual event in the public space of creation. The only things happening take place in a person's field of vision, sensation or interpretation. The objective is abandoned; the subjective is all that remains. Use of 'story' makes the Bible and historic events similar, if not equal to fairy tales: "yours in your small corner, and mine in….my head"
And that is totally contrary to what makes Christianity different from religions: the relation to facts of creation and redemption, of birth, death and the resurrection, of wind battering the boat, before Jesus stills it in the storm; of 5000 stomachs filled, of doubting Thomas being satisfied with the evidence he demanded.
By contrast, Buddhism happens in your meditating head; Islam knows no distinct acts of God and no creation outside of God, since everything is from and in God; African tribal religions know no history: everything is a repetition from the past. Only the Bible speaks of real events, open to believers and unbelievers. This is no story, but history. We do not have a narrative in our corner, but a creator and a creation that none escapes. There is an account of what is evidently real, not merely a narrative that recounts what I happen to see in my corner with my blurred vision.
I don't for the life of me know why Christians have so often adopted the loaded language of relativism, denial and finally indifference. Stories are cute and touching, while history is sharp, heavy and consequential. Stories can be closed and forgotten, history continues even when I sleep. A narrative is imposed, history reveals. A story can be embellished, is perhaps allegorical and may teach the moral of kissing the ugly frog anyway. But the Bible treats real people in real history. Francis Schaeffer always urged people to consider that the only reason to become a Christian is that it is true to the real world.
Any embellishment is in the area of language, not in content. Poetry in the Bible has meaning, because it refers to what is found in prose, in the material world of cause and effect, of words and meaning. What could possibly be an embellishment when the prophets denounce Israel's sins? Did they have a pleasant time in Babylonian captivity? What is so lovely about Jesus lamenting the disciples' "oh, so little faith"? In what way could Jesus' tears and anger at the tomb of Lazarus be an embellishment? The Pharisees did not think so, for they sought how they might kill him again.
The beauty of the Bible is found in its accuracy to reason, facts and mankind in the flow of real history. It is a beauty far greater and totally different in kind than any dream, wishful thinking or search for meaning through foreign travel, drug trips, fame and success, or esoteric religion.
The resurrection was no metaphor for optimism, but a conquest of sin and death that includes a real lunch with disciples and lengthy explanations in Emmaus before ascending to heaven where he was then seen standing (Acts 7). The whole emphasis of the Bible is not to be a collection of stories or the narrative of a people in search of an identity.
If it is not history, against all the historical evidence unearthed through years of scholarship, the 'little light' will go out and you will stand in your corner looking rather foolish while holding on to your story.
But that is exactly what modern man wants you to believe and experience. For then you will never come out of the corner, make no annoying claims about truth and rattle no one's preference for repeating their personal story.
Neither Christians nor believing Jews ever lay down on the couch to tell their story. They worked in the midst of people to declare the truth of God and creation, of life and love, of work and hope in word and acts. "They turned to the living and true God from idols, waiting for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead – Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath." That's history and not a story.
Academic Voyeurism
While the sociologist peeks through the keyhole into people's lives to establish patterns and statistics, reality shows throw open the door to let you enter freely, exposing you to other people's lives, problems and battles. There is something almost pornographic about it, even when, under that cover, lives of 'folk like us' are choreographed much like wrestling matches on TV. It is a strangely entertaining access to the sadness, pain and perversion of what such people do with their lives.
Sitting in a chair to observe what goes on behind doors, now thrown open, is part of the academic calling. We study, observe, measure and evaluate. That is very helpful to shed light on the real world, but should not remain a clinical analysis of facts and events. After describing reality we also, by virtue of being one tragic and confused human race, compassionately prescribe remedies. We seek real solutions for problems. Moral discernment and effective remedies go further that an academic interest in facts. They originate in the wider horizon of God's word and work. We note what is and are told what ought to be.
The comments of a polite anthropology professor in Iowa exhibited what amounts to an academic voyeurism. He said there is no culture that represents Islam, but only various manners in which people apply their own views of Islam to their lives. Through the centuries and across vast stretches of land Muslims have lived differently. It is therefore inappropriate and inaccurate to speak critically about Islam, its views and claims and culture.
Part of that is true. We do interpret before we arrive at understanding (though that is not even permitted in Islam). People prioritize according to their views, experiences, local possibilities and inherited religious customs. But that does not mean that one cannot critically speak of Islam, Christianity or Communism. We start with the text rather than peek into people's lives. The worldview expressed therein, the mandates given there will find divers expressions with a pretty common core in matters of God and man, life and death, authority and truth. With the help of the text we then notice the root of hope and despair, life and neglect, fatalism and accountability, and how Man should relate to reality.
For that academic, study may yield a story of events: So many births, so many deaths, such a variety of behaviors. But it takes a particularly callous person to be as impersonal as a camera, merely observing what comes to pass without ever thinking about what ought to be done. Where is the soul that feels, laughs and weeps and then acts in the midst of the human condition? It has died in the embrace of neutrality
There are no mere facts. All events are created or prevented, lives are changed and wrong is defined and then opposed by a person, for both moral reasons and for the sake of the human being. The moral/cultural realm is a matter of personal stories, but they are always exposed to, encouraged, corrected or critiqued by chosen worldviews. Nothing happens of itself.
The human being is exposed to real history, with people full of laughter and in tears who require admiration and critique, comfort and confrontation, and require the sound of a clearer bell than the drumbeat of repetition, resignation or death. Even the academic, voyeur though he may seek to be, will have his reactions when someone else refrains from helpful action at the time of his own needs. We just don't manage to live without complaining, when, in true humanity, we object to Islam or any other view being critiqued as a worldview that does not sufficiently fit reality in its central assertions about life in the real world.
No Little People
A collection of 18 sermons by Francis A. Schaeffer bears the title of a central Biblical theme that has encouraged people in every generation around the world. In God's view Man is distinguished from all things and animals around him as the coronation of creation. He is made a little lower than the angels. He has been given a mandate to subdue the earth, to household it, to have dominion and to create. There are no little people in the perspective of the Bible.
All religions of the world, outside of the Old and New Testament, have as a final purpose for human life a peaceful surrender to the status quo of a normal life. The faithful learns to submit and to accept, to abandon his personality and mind to become united with others in a fellowship of the humble and the dying. Acceptance of history, the will of God, of nature or the wisdom of the ancient is part of the way to become detached from the moral challenges of each day.
Only the Jew and the Christian knows of a calling from God to be human, to create, to make individual choices and to seek justice in a world in which two central realities are affirmed: The human being is made essentially different from all else, and God is not identified or satisfied with the now really fallen, damaged, broken world of nature and of Man.
Man, male and female, is a person. Man thinks, feels and acts and speaks, has emotions and is able to love. No other part of creation shares these distinctives. Man is in the image of God. He was not brought forth from nature, the stars or any form of mere energy or matter. There is more than 'life' here, for there is speech, reflection, transcendence and self-awareness. But there are no little people.
There are also lies, ideology, deception and make-belief, which only persons can advance. These are the roots of the problem of a world out of joint, fallen and full of problems such as hate, envy, anguish, selfishness and death. It is no longer the world God had made 'in the beginning'. Adam rejoiced over Eve, but now Cain kills his brother Abel. God distinguishes among people between good and evil, not between great and small, recognized or overlooked, struggling or accomplished, strong or fragile like a flower stuck into an old garden wall and blown roughly by the wind.
When all religious and secular standards judge a person by his or her accomplishments towards the end of life, the God of the Bible gives value to the person from the beginning. Man has not, only 'perhaps' even, become someone but is a person from conception on forever. It matters who you are, not what you have produced, earned or been noticed for.
Francis Schaeffer sees in the Bible the description of real life, of 'true truth'. It is a series of letters from the creator to the creature, when other forms of knowing God had become flawed in consequence to the rebellious fall of Adam and Eve in real history. They were evicted from the presence of God in Eden. But the word of God carries the information needed to understand what is different about our being, our life and our calling.
On this basis Schaeffer deeply admired human accomplishment in the arts and in life, among craftsmen and inventors, poets and musicians as well as in intimate human relationships. His affirmation of human beings was not concerned so much about humanity as an abstract, but was expressed to any of the many thousands of individuals who came to talk, listen and argue with him through the years. They found a person who honored them even when they disagreed with his ideas and told him so. The human being was to Schaeffer both glorious as the crown of God's creation and flawed by foolish, evil and sinful choices. Observing him or her in the street, in museums and in science gave Schaeffer a taste of the life of Man in history. All conversations, whether over tea in his chalet, in the elevator in some Italian hotel or on the occasion of a Washington dinner brought to life the Biblical picture of people.
Schaeffer would marvel at the movement of a farmer loading hay with a pitchfork on his wagon, or the owner of a vineyard binding up the vines. He watched with fascination a small child struggling for control over a crayon to finish a drawing. He admired Clara Haskill's hands on the piano and the Renaissance frescoes on the wall above the sick in a Sienna hospital. But he also did not ignore the cruelty in personal choices, individual acts and wicked ideas in the inhuman 20th century, in which he was born and lived on both sides of the Atlantic.
Schaeffer saw people in their valuable humanity that is so much the center of Biblical teaching. The word of God, the promise of salvation by Christ's finished work on the cross, the prophetic words calling us to repentance all focus on the central affirmation of God's real existence as an infinite-personal God. By that he understood that while we have a material body not totally unlike other things and beings in nature, we are not neighbors to the tree or ox. We are people. Man and woman were made to complement each other. And both were made by a loving personal God to live as persons in the image of God.
There are 'No Little People', for this Biblical perspective confirms real life, where we are all choice makers, creators for better or for worse. "Little" people see themselves as insignificant, close to the earth, easily forgotten and replaceable by someone else. For Schaeffer, as for all Christians, each person is unique by virtue of his unique personality. Each individual has a name and a face and through his life adds to the shape and flow of history.
Schaeffer arrives at this view not through singling out great models for life, he does not encourage someone's vanity or false self image. He does not speak to favor or even mark out celebrities. He did not believe that anyone needed that in order to know how to live as a human being. He saw no reason for the more recent fads that suggest a girl can discover her own potential only from a successful woman rather than a person; or that celebrities deserve attention, when all they are known for is 'being known by a multitude of people' (from Latin celebritas for 'multitude', 'fame' and celeber meaning 'frequented', 'populous') until they are replaced by more recent stars.
There are no little people in the Bible. Beyond all statistics of chemical elements in our body, all skill in our physical abilities and all refined social interaction lies the affirmation that human beings are different. We alone are persons, actors and creators through the choices in our lives. Human beings have been made in the image of the eternal person of God. Here and in the all the rest of what the Bible teaches about God and Man in history Schaeffer found the only possible intellectually and practically satisfying explanation for human uniqueness.
Francis Schaeffer preached his sermons first of all to himself. 18 of them are published in this volume. Schaeffer had become a Christian when he read through the Bible at the end of High School and discovered in it the coherent and reasonable answers to the basic questions raised by human beings anywhere. They are the questions about life and death, about reality and imagination, about good and evil, about fate and freedom, and the individual and the group. They are raised by anyone in all kinds of settings. At the time he had studied Greek philosophers (a subject then being taught in public schools of working class Germantown, Pa.). Later, after college and seminary, he would prepare men going off to World War II and ship builders to work well and to live rightly. University students were encouraged to conquer existentialist doubt as well as the fascination with the ideologies on the right and attractions of the left, which strongly influenced the thought forms of a new generation. He addressed the moral and military questions of Vietnam, but also the consumer culture of materialism of the West and the search for exotic religious experiences of the East.
In Europe he preached in the International Presbyterian Church, which he started when people became believers through his work and others joined. Schaeffer was very much a church person, and though he became perhaps better known through his work with students and his writing he understood the church with a membership of the wise and ignorant, the young and old, the lonely and whole families to be a part of the bride of Christ around the world. He did not merely have chapel services. There was, until his death, a community of believers with baptisms, weddings and funerals. They all came to listen, to learn and to live. They often discussed over dinner Schaeffer's emphasis in the sermon on the true truth of God's word, the historic death and resurrection of Christ and a life in the power of God's Spirit.
Some of them knew first-hand the trips on psychedelic drugs. All had experienced relativistic morality and 'done their own thing' in search of their personal alternative, 'god' or otherwise. They discovered what it was like to be constantly afloat and without satisfactory answers to the most important question about the Whence? What? Wither? of man's existence. After more than three generations of being exposed to Nietzsche, Darwin and irrational religions, in which the human being is always crushed to near nothingness, the clarity of the intellectually honest and mortally coherent appeal of Biblical Christianity is surprising and an enormous present.
Schaeffer had been pastor in two churches in Pennsylvania and one in Missouri. When he moved to work in Europe after World War II people from all kinds of backgrounds and many nationalities heard these sermons. Most carried the scars from real battles and now reached for the solid anchor Schaeffer had himself previously discovered in historic Christianity. The God of the Bible and the Son of God in history are, by the power of the Holy Spirit, the sole starting point and continuing base of true and comprehensible answers, well-founded hope and a meaningful life.
The gathering of believers and others in church was in Schaeffer's mind and prayer always something unique. Here we came not to discuss, but to worship, to listen and to take our stand in the stream of the people of God through history.
Most of us had scars from earlier battles. They had been physical in the experienced destruction in war and displacement of lives, homes and goods. On a deeper level, intellectual battles had taken their toll, when the inherited order and certainties had been displaced in politics and law, in commerce and the arts. Instead of providing a corrective to the intellectual explorations and cultural risks the churches had abandoned its foundation and had then increasingly supported both national goals and humanist manifestos. The certain knowledge from God about Man, Meaning and Morals was made impossible due to the embrace of the so-called scientific theology of liberalism with its kinship to Darwinism and idealism. The 20th century gave birth to horribly evil consequences of the humanistic beliefs about the progressive goodness of man and nurtured a belief in the absence, or death, of God. We were left with the presence of mere matter, but without meaning. Plays, films, but also the lives and opinions of many exhibited this, before the cultural climate would replace the resulting pessimism about God with a blind optimism about personal, privatized and privileged pursuits. Having more and more things, embracing loopy ideas about life, health and beauty and youth, exploiting greater opportunities to travel for distraction and legalizing easy ways to abandon the unborn child and the unwanted mate characterize the new market to which the liberal church adjusted its appeal.
Schaeffer's eighteen sermons in this volume cut through all this with a content that does not invite you to another world, a new community and more happy experiences by an embrace of irrational feelings. Instead the focus is on the lasting truth of the Bible, the faithfulness of God, the sufficiency of the work of Christ and the reality of God's Spirit in history. Edith Schaeffer remembers today that often parishioners in churches would complain that Schaeffer never gave an invitation to believe or to 'come forward' at the end of a sermon. You won't find one here either. Nor will you find concerns about church growth, fund drives or attractive programs. Even denominational particulars or the testimonies of famous converts are absent. Schaeffer thought any way to manipulate people was wrong, even when it was to help them recognize the truth of historic Christianity.
The only reason to become a Christian was and is that it is true: true to the real world, to real people and to real history. "It is a special annoyance of mine that men try to separate philosophy from religion. This is a false separation, because both ultimately seek the meaning of life." The thirst of man can only be satisfied when he has answers to these two questions: What is the meaning of life? And How to address the basic dilemma of man that he is great and wonderful at the same time as he is evil against an absolute, not merely a cultural moral standard. Only the Bible gives an answer to these two questions in establishing man's guilt by choice before his creator and then offering the solution of Christ's substitutionary death for sin and the bodily resurrection for eternal life.
The one way one can discern truth from falsehood and god-words from knowing God is to apply the content, which God has given of himself in space and time history by revelation. We then believe what can be truly and reasonably comprehended from Scripture.
This confidence, which Schaeffer expressed in such terms to answer serious questions and not only personal emotional needs made him an interesting person. It was not a gimmick, a model or a method, but a deep conviction. He was not slick. He revolted against false appearances of leadership, growth statistics and any show, in which he saw the dangers of pretense, performance and praise or men. He had been there and found it dishonest, dangerous and finally condemning. Instead he urged us to pray for those 'extruded' by God to leadership and importance in the church almost against their desires and gifts.
You will find here sermons that take you through the Old and New Testaments. They will introduce you to the man David, for better and for worse: king of Israel, mighty warrior, sensitive poet and great sinner. You will discover the shepherds' response to the angels on Christmas night in a new light. Joseph, who was sold into Egypt by his brothers, will stand in a wider context of David and Christ. The wonder of the events on the Mount of Transfiguration will become clearer in its broad historic significance after tying Moses, who had died, with Elijah, who had ascended to heaven and is alive, to Jesus in glory. In this way the disciples could understand the promise of the work of Christ at the second coming for both the dead and the living.
The whole Bible, that verbalized prepositional truth from God to man, in its correspondence with reality is the basis for the confidence Schaeffer had in the truth of Christianity. He understood it to be from the same one author, God, and therefore compared Scripture with Scripture, established links between the Testaments and explored the meaning of words in their continued use and imagery. He saw a similar continuity between creation and redemption, between life now and after death and then after the resurrection. "The same meaning to life exists at this tick of the clock as in eternity." For truth is true to both God and man, in history now and later. There are no separate worlds or separate truths.
Schaeffer understood that for truth to have any say or claim it must be very different from merely personal truth or religious truth, which are ideological. They are an idea about truth, but do not relate to the world of facts, data, the miracles in the Bible and the resurrection in time and space. They pretend, much like Hinduism pretends, that reality is an illusion; or Islam pretends, without historic evidence, that Allah is merciful and just in a world where pain, death and cruelty really exist.
The truth of Christianity is rooted in God's existence; our faith and our performance do not make it so. And yet, after the fall of Adam and during this time of faith and waiting, the temptation is always to turn this around. God becomes our private interest and source of pleasure, while man becomes the performing artist, the manager, the leader, the visible symbol of power. In God's kingdom there are 'No little people', when God calls us to greater things. Yet there can only be "one good fighter for Jesus Christ: the person who does not like to fight."
Three central things constantly stand out in reading through these sermons. First, there is the love of God, who through the text of the Bible gives revelation to shed light on our lives. God's holiness, grace and power, his compassion and abundant grace are recognized in the flow of people's lives. God works always with weak servants: The greats of faith are people like drunk Noah, lying Abraham and Isaac, idolatrous Aaron, frustrated Moses, but also Rahab the converted harlot and Nicodemus the parliamentarian, who comes only under cover of darkness to find the light.
Second, there is a deep awareness of what a mess the fall of Adam and Eve created. Separation from God is very real. Most of us have not seen God, for man was evicted from Eden. The fall of Adam has shattered all harmony and left broken vessels, for we are also separated from ourselves and from nature. We are at a considerable loss to understand what all this thing called 'life' is all about. Yet we are called to lean against such fractures through compassion, watchfulness and generosity. The Bible reveals to us that what we have or are in the present is not final, but part of a process to be completed later. There are encouragements to the weak and warnings to those strong in their own eyes. Temptation pulls at our hearts and minds and lingers at our feet.
Third, many of the sermons integrate God's word with surrounding and daily realities of life. Here lies their practical application to confront the uncertainties of our life as well. For we continue that dilemma of being people in a real history which none of us has made, but to which we all contribute. The discussion of the benefits and limits of democracy to encourage what is good and to limit what is evil flows from a broad understanding of Biblical reality. But such uncertainty and required responsibility rarely create moral character; they rather lay it open.
Schaeffer often saw the extremes of many sides and the dangers of leaning, as a rider on a horse, too far against a problem until he falls off the horse on the other side. In the account of God's miraculous deliverance from certain death of the three men in a fiery furnace he reminds us of the unique event, which contains no promise from God of a life free from problems, hardships and even death. A miracle is not the normal event in the lives of believers. A miracle is a special act of God in the context of many other actors who may stand in the way for the time being. Texts, such as Hebrews ch. 11, show that there are no general promises of safety for God's children outside of being kept by God in his family.
Yet this should never lead to a sense of resignation and acceptance of evil. History is not our master. Circumstances should not determine our choices. We are not called to go with the flow, to embrace the average, or the convenient, or the smooth. David's lawful and unlawful vindications distinguish between the need for justice on moral grounds and King David's own failures as a man. Both have continuing consequences in the life of the nation and in the lives of members of his family. A broad tapestry is in the Bible spun to show how complex reality becomes and how unfair much of it is "under the sun" for everybody, when it is measured merely between birth and death.
By contrast, a fatalistic religion sees everything as resolved or already as God's perfect plan. Like any utopian temptation it avoids dealing with reality and focuses with a blind faith on unreality. Only a romantic perspective can suggest that life is fair and that all problems are of our own making. Most religions suggest this as an explanation. On the other hand, when reality is more honestly observed, a cynical perspective remains: There is no justice anywhere and everyone must swim or sink.
Schaeffer shows that the Bible does not promote either of these tow reactions. Instead God promises real justice in history when Christ's reign commences with the second coming. He avoids the loss of compassion inherent in the utopian faith of the first and the loss of moral orientation suggested in the second.
Most interestingly Schaeffer treats intellectual and moral problems of any age in the context of Biblical answers, yet without either merely citing Biblical texts or condemning those who are wrestling with real existential problems and have come tentatively to alternative answers. His description of the problems of communism is in no way outdated by the collapse of the Soviet State. Theological liberalism, Roman Catholicism, secular rationalism are also each unveiled to show their flaws in the central concern to understand human life in a flawed, often raw and unfinished history.
As Amos addressed the hollow religious institutions of the northern tribes, which disregarded the law, the prophets and the covenant of God, Schaeffer points out in several sermons the dangerous neglect of practiced Christianity in the church. He wonders where humility is practiced and experienced within the church on the basis of confident certainty about God, people as individuals and a broader understanding of the difficulties of life in a fallen world.
With the fitting insight from the Bible into the human condition we must be willing and able to serve a needy world, to bind up her wounds and to offer real material, intellectual, artistic and spiritual help. We can pray for wisdom to do that and to carry it out faithfully, for in God's mind and hand we are "no little people"
1. Introduction to a new edition (September 2003) of No Little People by Francis A. Schaeffer, Crossway Books, Good News Publishers, Wheaton, Il 60173.


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The White House announced Thursday that a tentative deal has been reached to avert a freight rail strike. The deal includes a 24% wage increase for railroad workers by 2024 — the biggest jump in more than four decades, according to the Washington Post.
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New Zealand's future electricity supply was given a boost On the up down under New Zealand spotlight the first to see the light of every day, New Zealand........ This service is funded by Immigration New Zealand, who also provides settlement information by phone (0800 776 948) and via the New Zealand Now website. Come to some of the free information sessions covering topics of interest to people new to New Zealand.
It's an acceptable way of meeting people, but were you to try it at any bar in New Zealand, all you'd get is awkward small talk before people shuffle back to their group.... Small country: big stars! With only 4 million people in New Zealand, it is pretty hard to secure a place in the celebrity magazines. And it's not like the 40 million sheep are going to help!
Small country: big stars! With only 4 million people in New Zealand, it is pretty hard to secure a place in the celebrity magazines. And it's not like the 40 million sheep are going to help!
This service is funded by Immigration New Zealand, who also provides settlement information by phone (0800 776 948) and via the New Zealand Now website. Come to some of the free information sessions covering topics of interest to people new to New Zealand.
John Oliver, a British comedian in American television, made some jokes about New Zealanders pronouncing Eminem like (as read in German) Imimim.


I hesitate to call it a 'prop' at this point because it feels so much more like the 'real thing', but the object itself is complete, it's just waiting for the text to be written inside. Two more layers of stain 'finished' the job, a little bit more crimson paint, but I'm fairly satisfied with the final product, it has a slightly aged look, with suggestions of things that might, or might not, be blood stains and fire damage.
Hoping to work on and maybe even execute a prototype work for this series that will give the book some "screen test" time soon, we shall see.
Base layer of stain down, metal-leaf done, all that was left was a few more layers of stain and some other adornments. As seems to be typical, once the leather is wet, the "look" goes quite dark, so I had to let things dry over a day to really tell how strong the effect was.
For these layers I also added a few embellishments, some very faint traces of alizarin crimson acrylic paint, and just a touch of india ink in some places. The wet surface nicely suffused these tints into the grain of the leather and the end-product (eventually) had some subtle suggestions of burn-damage or blood stains.
Final pics in a day or two, and hopefully some test-shots "in-studio".
The book is all but finished, figured I'd break up the "in progress" photos into a few posts.
After imprinting the covers, I decided to allow the book a few days to rest and dry, just to make sure the imprint stayed – it did nicely, and meanwhile I experimented with some of the water-based (I think acrylic) stain I had on hand for the leather, and the metal leaf I was planning to use. I "concluded" the best approach was to apply a base stain, then do the metal leaf on the lettering, and then work up the effect from there.
And then it was time for the metal leaf!
1. With a ridiculously tiny brush, line the inside of the letters with some adhesive.
2. Let that get tacky for a few mins.
3. Place down some metal leaf on top and use a soft brush to adhere it.
4. Use a coarse brush to brush away the excess and texture what leaf has 'adhered'.
The results looked pretty good, nice and rough, though a little brilliant. The plan was for the subsequent layers of stain to reduce that intensity (the antique glaze helped a little). I applied some of the 'sealer' to the letters as well and I'm honestly unsure as to what effect that had.
And next up, the next round or two of staining, blood and ash!
Little behind but things are coming along well. I acquired some simple leather-stamps to imprint text on the cover, and while I know I don't have quite the right type of leather for this operation it still worked out fairly well.
The plans for the back and front covers were made well ahead of time, and some happy errors on the back cover taught me a few lessons and ended up acquiring the look I wanted.
A week later the imprint has held beautifully, even if it fades a bit once I begin staining/"decorating" the cover the text should just become more intense. That's sorta this week's project.
More to come as I stain the cover and possibly attach some metal leaf to it … we shall see.


Nordstrom Anniversary Sale Public Access is here! Long time readers of this blog know that this is THE sale of the year and the best time to get a jumpstart on your fall wardrobe. Everything in the sale is brand new merchandise that hits the store at reduced prices. When the sale ends on August 5th, the prices will go up – so yeah, it's a no brainer to take advantage of these amazing deals over the next two weeks…..
Nordstrom is known for their amazing customer service and they truly pull out all the stops during Anniversary Sale time. As always, I love buying online and picking up in store, but did you know they also offer same day delivery for $15 for customers within 10km of a store? When I do go into the store I always love seeing what the personal stylists are loving – yes I realize this is my job, but it's always fun to find things I may have missed. Huge shout out to Barb, personalize stylist at the Nordstrom in King of Prussia, for helping discover some amazing deals at the beginning of Early Access.
Because this legendary sale is so massive, I have broken down my top picks into categories with sizing notes on pieces that I have first hand experience with wearing. If you have a question about fit or size, please leave a comment and I'm happy to help you out! But first, what are my favorite purchases, you ask? Here you go!
Ten Things I Bought and LOVE from the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale….
Ok and because I am a denim junkie I also bought these because the wash and hems are AMAZING.
Crossing my fingers that these booties are in stock in all of your sizes because you will live in them all fall/winter season. The top flaps down (see photo in shoe section below). And I love these perforated booties equally as much!
Statement flats. Done. Add these outfit makers to your cart.
Everyone needs a great cardigan. I bought this cashmere one because it's timeless. Here is a less expensive version.
Every year during the sale I buy a Rails button down because they are so well made and buttery soft. Size up (I have a small). A great save version is this one.
These leggings make me excited to work out. The end.
These turquoise earrings are en route to my house.
You won't regret this not-so-basic thermal.
And don't forget the jewelry!
And if you are STILL with me, you can bet I have full posts on what to buy your kids and your guy too!
That's all I've got. Shop your little hearts out!
Thank you to Nordstrom and ShopStyle for partnering on this post.


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Baskin School of Engineering showcases research advances on October 17
Data science, mobile and pervasive computing, and regenerative medicine are featured topics at BSOE's annual Research Review Day at UC Santa Cruz
Peter Skomoroch
Mary G. Baker
The latest developments in three exciting areas of technological innovation--data science, regenerative medicine, and mobile and pervasive computing--will be presented by faculty in the Baskin School of Engineering at the school's annual Research Review Day on Thursday, October 17, at UC Santa Cruz. In addition to faculty research presentations, the event will include plenary talks by industry experts in the three focus areas and a graduate student poster session. The event is free, but advance registration at rr.soe.ucsc.edu is required.
"This event provides an overview of exciting and innovative research that our faculty and graduate students are doing in several areas as we develop technology for a changing world. Topics in this year's focus areas are changing the technology landscape in Silicon Valley and around the world," said Art Ramirez, dean of the Baskin School of Engineering.
Invited speakers include Peter Skomoroch, principal data scientist at LinkedIn; Mary G. Baker, senior research scientist at HP Labs; and Robert Klein, president of Klein Financial Corporation. Skomoroch will give a plenary talk on "Data Science, Measurement, and Intuition," discussing the implications of current trends in data science and why a solid foundation of science, theory, and intuition are more important than ever in a world of big data.
Baker's plenary talk on mobile and pervasive computing, "The Sound of Silence," will explore how sensor-equipped smart phones and wearable devices have opened up a world of new applications and experiences for consumers. The Sound of Silence is an HP project using audio to support easier content sharing and other group activities.
Klein, former chair of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, will give the plenary talk on regenerative medicine, titled "A Start Towards Solutions for the Crisis in Communication and Funding on Scientific Research."
Faculty presentations will take place throughout the day. Speakers include Lise Getoor, professor of computer science, on "Big Data Science;" Herbie Lee, professor of applied mathematics and statistics, on "Learning from Data with Bayesian Statistics;" Neoklis Polyzotis, professor of computer science, on "Odyssey: A system for evolutionary analytics over big data;" Sofie Salama, research associate in biomolecular engineering, on "Using stem cells to study brain development in a dish;" Camilla Forsberg, associate professor of biomolecular engineering, on "Understanding hematopoietic stem cell trafficking to improve stem cell therapies;" Josh Stuart, professor of biomolecular engineering, on "Searching for the wiring diagram of a single tumor;" Katia Obraczka, professor of computer engineering, on "Towards the Internet of the Future;" Matthew Guthaus, associate professor of computer engineering, on "Ultra-low power computation for mobile and embedded sensor systems;" and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, professor and chair of computer engineering, on "New directions in packet switching for pervasive mobile computing and the Internet of Things."
All presentations will be held in the Engineering 2 Building on the UCSC campus. Faculty presentations will be followed by a reception and graduate student poster session. Additional information about Research Review Day, including a detailed program with a complete list of presenters and topics, is available online at rr.soe.ucsc.edu.
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The Germanic origins of this shotgun may be seen in its engraving and carving.
Circa 1855 Roos (Mexico/Germany) Percussion Shotgun (muzzle-loading/ black powder/ shot ammunition) This circa-1855 gold inlaid, engraved, and carved shotgun came from U. Roos and Sohn in Stuttgart. Its Germanic origins show through in the firm steel engraving and in the deep wood carving. Guns from other countries of origin, including France, England, Spain, and Italy, are equally identifiable by their distinctive art work.


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Q: Convenience method to get sub-indices of array in javascript Is there a convenient way to get say the first n number of indices from this array:
var alphabet = ['a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j','k','l','m','n','o','p','q','r','s','t','u','v','w','x','y','z'];

and store it in another array, say alphabet2 = ['a','b','c']; without having to brute force with a loop? Thanks

A: Use the slice method:
> var alphabet = ['a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j','k','l','m','n','o','p','q','r','s','t','u','v','w','x','y','z'];
> alphabet.slice(0,3)
["a", "b", "c"]

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Many studies in criminology cast doubt on the effectiveness of prison sentences as a means of crime prevention. For this reason, the influence of prisons on inmates—especially with regard to deterrence and rehabilitation—is a topic that requires serious rethinking. This is especially true now, as many countries are experiencing a rise in crime rate, both in the number of incidents and in their severity. Moreover, the data show that most inmates who have been released from prison end up returning, sooner or later, on similar charges.
There are many causes for the rise in criminal activity, but they all share a common denominator: the inability of our society to provide a proper education on how to be a human being, how to be humane. On the one hand, our children are exposed to crime, violence, aggressive behavior, and competitiveness at a very young age. On the other hand, the institutions charged with educating our children neglect core values and instead, wrongly focus on grades and tests.
Parents contribute to this wrong focus as well, by asking (usually when the child returns home): "How was school? What did you learn? How did you do on the test?" In other words, grades are also the parent's primary concern.
In addition to the pressure of grades and tests, our children are also under constant social pressure. They have to cope with fierce competition, struggles over social status, envy, lust, violence, and drugs—phenomena we treat as "necessary evils." But are they really so?
What if, instead of tests and grades, we focused on educating our youth on how to be human beings, on how to be humane? What if the primary goal for our children was for them to become educational role models, good persons who know how to communicate with others properly, who know the difference between right and wrong, good and bad?
Is this where we have gone wrong? Can it be that we are not raising children to be humane from the moment of birth? Is it possible that they are not being educated to resolve problems in the family, and thus do not receive the necessary tools and knowledge that will benefit their own children, the next generation?
All too often, we hear of children being physically abused by their parents; yet, emotional abuse is more frequent, though seldom reported. The logical conclusion is that such children will be ill prepared to become parents themselves, unless they receive good examples elsewhere; for example, through an education where they are taught how to be good parents, taught to understand what kids are like and how they should be treated. Even the best of parents find it difficult to provide good examples for their children.
In today's homes, children grow up watching violent movies and TV series; they often play violent computer games with stories of violent crimes and sexual assaults. At school, they find themselves in a ruthless society that threatens their personal safety; where the more powerful are more successful; and where, in the end, they are judged only by their grades.
What's more, good grades are not enough. They need to have better grades than their peers in order to be respected and appreciated. This is how success is measured in today's school system. Those who are born with natural talents learn how to use those talents against others, according to the examples they see. The weaker ones use their cunning and politeness to compensate for their relative lack of talent. Seemingly well behaved—but really not—they simply come to know their limits and master the art of getting what they want, within the boundaries of society's laws, but just as maliciously.
Our children don't grow up in a vacuum. Society's patterns and rules continually shape our children, and as such, carry the most responsibility for how our children turn out. Society's "shoulders" carry the collective weight of the next generation.
We can't afford to continue to neglect the most important thing in life: learning how to be good people in a good society. For example, we are not educating people about how to be good spouses and how to maintain healthy, family life; otherwise, families will continue to fall apart. We're not teaching people how to relate to others; we need to give them the sense that they are part of an integral society where all are interdependent. Any person, in any society, who doesn't feel mutual dependence will act out of egoistic drives and thus do what is good for himself or herself, even if it's illegal and even if he or she knows that a punishment awaits after the fact. Such people are dangerously uninhibited because they did not receive the right examples.
This law of general participation is called "mutual guarantee" because the condition of integrality requires that everyone be everyone else's guarantors. This is why we need to show everyone how these laws operate. We see that Nature, ecology, and everything else that happens in our integral, global world are pushing us to become partners. However, we are not ready to meet this condition of mutual guarantee because we have yet to receive the education that will allow for it. This is the source of all our troubles.
Through Integral Education, we can prevent people from breaking the law. As part of Integral Education, we can inculcate models of good connections that are taught at school, even at the kindergarten level. For example, instead of sitting in rows of desks in front of a teacher, children will sit in a circle, communicating with each other and learning to understand one another. They will experiment with rising above their egos in order to connect and build a group. This will be similar to an elite unit or a sports team where everyone has to unite and understand each other in order to succeed; that is, attaining success only through their joint efforts and tight bonding.
We need to teach people how to be their own police officers. They need to know what is required of them in order to live successfully in an integral world. With practice according to what they learn, the correct actions will become a habit, a second nature. Every unusual incident in the integral classroom will be "treated" through a court-type discussion. In mock trials, the children themselves will determine what was right and what was wrong by presenting all the arguments in the matter—first one way, and then another. Through this process of scrutiny from all sides, everyone involved will be moved and personally affected, gaining impressions beyond the previously narrow view of "self." Until our children mature through this process, they are not educated in the human sense of the word.
Education in the human sense of the word means that a child receives and experiences examples from real life situations. Integrally, this will be done through discussions, court hearings, and role-playing. There will be a judge, an advocate, a prosecutor, and a jury. The entire process will be filmed, and the children will later watch the video and analyze their behaviors.
With everyone participating in the discussion, along with role changes and scene re-enactments, the children will quickly discover how their views can change from those of just a few moments ago. This makes for a very enriching process, one that gives the children the opportunity to "absorb" several different roles and characters. This way, they learn to understand others even when the other's views are opposite. This is important because as a child experiences the "view" from both sides—first from the defendant's side and then from the prosecutor's side—he or she grasps that there may well be another opinion that is completely opposite to his, but nonetheless still valid.
Also as part of Integral Education, the children will go on many outings to places like banks, hospitals, factories, plants, and even prisons. Through these outings, they will see how people work and what motivates them.
These outings will also be analyzed regarding the purpose of such visits. Here too, children will learn that the whole world is connected, that everyone creates something for everyone else. In this way, they will broaden their horizons.
If we begin to rear our children with Integral Education and persist with this approach throughout their school years, we will all move much closer to a balanced society, a good society where everyone's personal safety will be restored. We will not fear sending our children to school or letting them venture out in the evenings.
An integral society is one that always thinks of everyone—a mutuality where everyone benefits, unlike a democratic society that focuses on the individual, maintaining that any one individual can do anything he or she wants as long as it's not harmful and as long as the activity doesn't cause anarchy. In an integral society, though, the benefit of everyone must come first, before individual, egoistic calculations.
Rehabilitation is often accepted as one of the reasons for imprisonment of those who have violated society's laws, along with deterrence and punishment. Yet, no significant effort is made to achieve that reformation, to turn law-breakers into good citizens. Thus, incarceration is really either a matter of punishment or a matter of public protection, depending on the situation.
Further, studies show that the majority of those who do time in prison eventually return, usually on similar charges. And, for far too many, prison becomes a way of life, despite disgraceful conditions and lack of dignity. This, then, begs the question: Is punishment in itself an acceptable justification for incarceration, or is society obligated to provide a means by which inmates can become corrected human beings according to the laws of an integral society? What is the correct role of prisons?
In the remote past, there were countries for which jailing was never implemented because the citizens knew that it served no useful purpose. Instead, for example, if a person was caught stealing, then that person had to work in order to make payment for the offense. Each crime had its appropriate corrective punishment, but it was never incarceration. However, even this approach will not achieve the goal. If we want to truly correct our situation for the better, then we must understand that the needed correction is not in punishments, neither in material matters; rather, it's in education, whether inside or outside of a prison population.
This is why prisons must become schools. During their free time, inmates must be educated; they must learn psychology and history; and most importantly, they must learn what it means to be a human being. Though Integral Education, they will begin to see how our world is interconnected; they will learn the nature of the connections that exist among everyone. Precisely because inmates are under the care and authority of the prison, they must be taken through an intensive educational program, one that is designed for successful reentry into our global, interconnected and interdependent world.
Human traits divide into two primary groups: internal, which we received at birth by heredity; and external, which we acquired through education, through the environment, the media, and society in general. Neither group depends on the individual, even though both design one's personality and determine one's fate. Therefore, a prisoner cannot benefit from his or her positive traits because the prison environment doesn't provide any support by way of good examples.
Therefore, the rehabilitation framework must change drastically. In this new framework, for example, inmates will be divided into groups of 15-20 with a lead psychologist assigned to work with them and organize them. They will watch lectures and engage in mutual discussions on such topics as: the structure of human society; the structure of the human being; human relations; human psychology; our nature according to our perception of reality and our behavior with one another; the ego that always governs us; and how we can look at ourselves from aside, with constructive criticism.
Every inmate needs to become a good psychologist, one who understands him or herself and can see the world from different angles. Once released, an inmate who received such training can become an Integral Education Youth Instructor, because he or she has experienced the negative path and has been reformed in prison. Once out of prison, such a person becomes an asset to society because of the acquired ability to deeply sympathize with both ways of life. This makes for a very special person, one who is now a very positive and beneficial element in society.
Thus, a prisoner who trains to become an integral educator is no longer an ordinary person. In the process of training, he or she becomes a special individual, and this is how the training should be organized and conduced. Successful completion of the training is the primary condition for prison release.
Once released, the inmate will pass on to others what he or she learned, serving as good examples of the integral method. Graduates will join the staff of juvenile delinquency facilities, where they will have the opportunity to demonstrate over the next six months whether or not they can educate the delinquents, change them, and set them straight.
In summary, while in jail, each inmate will take mandatory training in Integral Education. In fact, such training is not just for prison inmates; everyone must eventually go through this training. Otherwise, without this training, it will be impossible to correct any of the crises we are currently experiencing in education, in economy, or in families. Like never before, we are experiencing a psychological crisis and a crisis in health, with a startling increase in drug abuse, depression, and despair. As long as we fail to break the egoistic interests that profit from these global, social crises, we will not see an end to them.
Prisons can serve as great examples to the rest of the world. If we succeed in prisons, we will also succeed in what seems to us as "normal" society. The goal of turning prisons into the equivalent of universities in order to "construct" human beings is nothing short of a revolution in social perception. The criteria for youths and adults, men and women, are all the same. Whatever crime is committed, the offender needs only to feel, understand, and see him or herself as an integral and interdependent part of the environment. This is the foundation from which an inmate continues to grow.
By announcing and promoting the inmates' success in the media, society at large will see what it needs in order to correct itself. In this way, everyone will learn that there is not such a big difference between those on the "inside" and those on the "outside." This is because in regard to the laws of the world, the laws of Nature, ecology, and human relations, we are all felons. All of us are to blame for what is happening in the world. There are no victims here; we're all equally responsible, both for the good and for the bad.
We are living in an integral world that is now presenting itself as round, without beginning or end. So, there is no one in particular to blame. All the negative phenomena we now observe in human society are caused by everyone. Therefore, we must all achieve the nature of a uniform, integral society; we must all begin to relate differently to ourselves, to others, and to Nature—which created us, and everything else as well.


We are very pleased to announce that Silver Mountain Founder and CEO, Sunny Gill was the winner of the E2E Next Big Scale Up Entrepreneur to Watch Award, at yesterday's E2E Entrepreneur Awards 2018 ceremony held in Birmingham, UK.
Sunny was listed alongside 4 other dynamic Entrepreneurs in the city. The award was presented by entrepreneur, investor and founder of En Route International, Alison Cooper.
The awards were organised by E2Exchange who are an established network of highly successful entrepreneurs; creating an exchange between entrepreneurs, investors, experienced non-executive directors, business leaders, government influencers and professional service providers.
The evening included a panel session with entrepreneurs and industry leaders, Jason Wouhra OBE – Director & Company Secretary, East End Foods; Paul May – CEO, Patisserie Valerie; Alison Cooper – Founder, En Route International; Rob Wilson – CEO Toast Ale; Richard Morris – CEO Spaces and Regus UK; and Shalini Khemka – Founder, CEO and Board Director, E2Exchange.


The most successful small businesses are able to put together a clear, concise marketing strategy that really works for their company. However, it's easy to get caught up in the daily marketing acts like sending out emails, writing social media posts and more and to lose sight of the big picture.
So what are the key components of a great marketing strategy?
You should be able to specifically define your target customer. This might mean that you need to turn down other potential customers or clients that are a bad fit for your company. It takes time to learn how to specifically define your customer and to get the discipline needed to turn others down, but it's necessary when you're in the early stages of a business.
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usiness owners get overly complicated with how their business is categorized, but it's best to start off with a simple, narrow definition to start off with.
What unique benefits does your business provide to its customers or clients? The benefits you provide deliver on things that your target customer actually wants. Remember: benefits are different from features. A benefit is a real, tangible use for your product. Features are nifty aspects of your product that may or may not provide real benefits.
Who is your competition? While you can't spend all of your time worrying about your competition when you're in the startup phase, it's at least important to familiarize yourself with your competition and their marketing strategies so that you can focus on your differentiating factors.
Why are you better than your competition? The differentiating factors that you discover should be a key focus in your own marketing strategy so that people know how you're different from your competitors and how that could benefit them. List all the ways that you are different from your competition and prioritize these ways by how important they are to your target customer. Those are the differences you should focus on.
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I am an Associate Investigator in the Biostatistics Unit at Group Health Research Institute (GHRI) located in Seattle, WA and an Affiliate Associate Professor at the University of Washington Biostatistics Department. My research brings together statistics and machine learning methods to address health science and biomedical problems, with a special emphasis on analyzing complex longitudinal data and overcoming missing-data challenges. Much of my methodological work is focused on developing and evaluating statistical inference approaches for observational data, such as data collected from electronic health care records. I am also interested in developing new machine learning methods and extending current best-practice methods, specifically for creating individualized treatment strategies and selecting which pieces of information are important to include in statistical analyses. I collaborate with scientists in a broad range of areas including cancer screening, chronic pain, depression and suicide prevention.


Keywords used all accross Momocs are introduced here in bold. No 3D yet but different families can be handled: outlines, here in a first-quarter moon ; open outlines, here is the sterile valve of an olive stone; configuration of landmarks; here, hologous points from a mosquito wing.
Morphometrics is the ugly job of turning beautiful shapes into quantitative variables. They are all single shapes defined by a matrix of object: visualize it, apply morphometric operations, handle the data it contains, but in the end, a __ morphometric method__ will turn coordinates into coefficients.
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The Robert Bosch Foundation – a private charity focused on supporting natural and social sciences and international ties – was in Tehran this month to meet with potential partners and scout deals for Germany.First stop was the Sharif University of Technology, where the foundation met with 10 professors. A sign above one entrance featured cartoon cavemen with the slogan, "Don't reinvent the wheel!" Yet, for a long time, Iranian scientists could do little else because international sanctions made high tech imports so difficult.Such morphometric operation on coordinates produce a collection of coefficients: a are generic in that they do not depend of the nature of the shape.For instance, centering a configuration of landmarks or an outline, or calculating their centroid size is, mathematically, the same generic operation.
The first and simplest method of absolute dating is using objects with dates inscribed on them, such as coins, or objects associated with historical events or documents.


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Barlow Island ist eine kleine Insel im Archipel der Südlichen Shetlandinseln. Sie liegt 1,5 km westnordwestlich des Kap Smith, der Nordspitze von Smith Island.

Die Benennung geht auf den britischen Polarreisenden Henry Foster bei seiner von 1828 bis 1831 dauernden Antarktisexpedition zurück. Foster benannte ein vermeintliches Kap an der Ostküste von Smith Island als Cape Barlow. Vermessungen des Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey von 1951 bis 1952 ergaben, dass ein solches Kap nicht existiert. Aus Gründen der historischen Kontinuität wurde der Name auf die hier beschriebene Insel übertragen. Namensgeber ist vermutlich der britische Mathematiker und Physiker Peter Barlow (1776–1862).

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Imagine for a moment that your home has been damaged, and you and your family need to move out for a few months while it's repaired. The more you think of it, the more the extra expenses add up – rent, extra groceries because you have a smaller fridge, extra commuting costs, and on and on. Luckily there is insurance for this: loss of use.
The American Insurance Association defines loss of use as the extra expenses incurred because of property damage. Three types of coverage are usually included: additional living expense; fair rental value; and, in most states, prohibited use (i.e. you can't access your home because of something happening around it, even though there is no damage at your place). Essentially, you can claim any expenses or loss of rental income caused by your property being out of commission.
Even if not flooded, there is still a loss – loss of use. Image from National Underwriter, November 2015 issue.
Loss of use is a coverage that is associated with natural catastrophes more than anything; the most likely reason you can't stay in your home is because of a flood, wildfire, earthquake, or hurricane. But, and this is a big but, for the cover to be valid, the damage must be caused by an insured peril. Almost every homeowner's policy in the US excludes flood and earthquake. Wildfire is also a very common exclusion. If a home is damaged by these natural disasters, not only is the damage not covered by insurance, neither is the loss of use. Homeowners need to make sure they have those perils covered if they want to be insured for loss of use.
Policies from the California Earthquake Authority offer loss of use for a little additional premium. The terms are okay, too, with no deductible and a standard limit of $25,000. For flood, though, it's not so good. National Flood Insurance Program policies do NOT cover loss of use. If your home floods, and you're one of the minority who actually has flood insurance, you will not be able to claim any loss-of-use expenses. After Sandy, how much was spent by homeowners in the Northeast in the months after the storm before they even began on the repairs?
Property insurers should not only be leveraging new technology and analytics to offer flood insurance in the United States – they should be thinking of making flood a standard peril, and delivering real value to homeowners with coverage that will really help them if they need it. Loss of use is an example of the coverage gap that needs to be filled by a responsive insurance industry.


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One of the few remaining traditional British pubs left in London, this pub was built in 1845, on the site of the original prison cells of Millbank Penitentiary, which is now home to the art museum Tate Britain. The pub is rumoured to be haunted by prisoners and prison staff from the Penitentiary. Guests will be able to monitor the spooky goings on via the pub's live CCTV feed of its spooky cellar.


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Participants of the UEFA CyberCup Championship were announced
The football cyber championship will be held on April 25 and 26 as part of the preparation for the UEFA Europa League final match at the Baku Olympic Stadium.
The registration of the championship covers the period from April 12 to 22. Before registering, it was reported that only 128 people were eligible to participate in the championship. Taking into account the majority of applications, the Organizing Committee has increased the number of participants. The first 256 registered applicants have had the chance to show their skills at the championship. Please note that selected participants will be sent an email confirmation letter.
The draw for the cyber championship will take place on April 24. The game will be organized based on the rules of FIFA 19. The championship is supported by Azerbaijan Cyber Sport Federation.
Rules of the race can be found at https://finalbaku2019.az/en/cybercup by clicking on the rules button.
The winner of the first place in the cyber championship will receive a 1,000 AZN prize, and the winner of the game will be given a chance to represent AFFA's cyber football team. The owner of the second place will receive a prize of 500 AZN. The third placeholder will be presented by the official "Molten" ball of the UEFA Europa League 2019 as well as the signed form.
Detailed information about the cyber championship can be found at https://finalbaku2019.az/en/cybercup/.