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The following essay is the Foreword to Karl Barth's Theological Method by Gordon H. Clark. Clark's book - which is the best available on Barth - may be obtained from the Foundation for $18.95.
Swiss theologian Karl Barth (1886-1968) must be ranked as one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century. That, of course, is a dubious distinction, since Adolf Hitler, V. I. Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Tse-Tung must be ranked among the most influential politicians of the twentieth century; John Cage and Elvis Presley among the most influential musicians; and Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol among the most influential painters. For several decades in the middle of the century, Barth was a main attraction in the theological vanity fair, and his influence, now diminished, has not disappeared. Indeed, the Karl Barth Society of North America, founded in 1974, is flourishing, from all accounts, and many neo-evangelicals, some of whom are in the (neo) Evangelical Theological Society, are trying to revive the Barthian corpse and corpus.
Despite, or perhaps because of, the volume of his work (his unfinished Church Dogmatics is nine times as long as Calvin's Institutes and twice as long as Thomas' Summa Theologcae), Barth remains an enigma to many Christians, for several reasons. First, his theological views changed over the years, even during the decades in which he wrote Church Dogmatics. Educated in modernism, liberalism, and the historical-critical method by Adolf von Harnack, Wilhelm Herrmann, and other members of the theological company of Korah in Germany, Barth's first voice spoke modernism fluently. In his own words, "I had made myself a committed disciple of the 'modern' school, which was still dominant up to the time of the First World War, and was regarded as the only school worth belonging to."
After leaving the university, in 1909 Barth served first as a pastor in Geneva, and then, from 1911 to 1921, in Safenwil, Canton Aargau. During and after World War I, a conflict that shattered, in general, the naive optimism of many modernists and liberals, and, in particular, Barth's faith in his modernist teachers, Barth emotionally reacted against modernism and attacked it. During the second major phase of his thinking, roughly the 1920s, he was indebted less to the nineteenth century German theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher than to the nineteenth century Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. In the 1930s Barth retreated from the paradoxical extremes of the 1920s and advocated a theology that he said was more in line with the Reformation.
These turns in his theology are confusing enough for the reader, but there are other, far more important, reasons for Barth's continuing opacity. A second reason that Barth remains a conundrum to Christians is his style. His turgid prose, not clarified by his English translators, does not lend itself easily to understanding; one might say of Barth's own theology, as he said of someone else, "your enterprise... has neither head nor tail, and where one looks for the middle there is darkness."
Now there are three principal reasons why one's writing may be unclear: (1) confusion in one's thought, which is exhibited by confusion in one's writing; (2) insincerity, as George Orwell explained in his classic essay, "Politics and the English Language," which motivates a writer to disguise his true intention and meaning by using words in equivocal and subversive ways; and (3) a guiding philosophy which holds that the assertion of contrary and even contradictory statements is genuine philosophy and theology. Karl Barth seems to have been guilty on all three counts.
Ambiguous Language, Insincere Thought
Let us address the matter of insincerity first. One of the things that makes Barth so puzzling to Christians is that he perfected the art of using all the right words to say all the wrong things. Barth claimed to be standing squarely in the "Reformation tradition"; he had offered some "correctives" to Calvin, such as saying that all men are elected in Christ to salvation, but Barth clearly claimed to be a child of the Reformation. This deception - and it is an incredible deception by which Barth may have deceived himself as well - is seductive. Barth wrote frequently of grace - G. C. Berkouwer's book was titled The Triumph of Grace in the Theology of Karl Barth (Barth wished the title had been The Triumph of Freedom in Jesus Christ); he relentlessly attacked modernism; he defended the revealed Word of God; he even defended the ideas of sola Scriptura and solo Christo - but in his mouth the meaning of these words changed, just as the meaning of "election" changed.
In Barth's theology the "Word of God" is not to be identified with the Bible, which contains errors and myths (or sagas). The meaning of Scriptural authority, Barth wrote, "is not the 'fundamentalist' one, which would have it that the sacred text as such is the proper and final basis of knowledge." In fact, "The concept 'truths of revelation,' in the sense of Latin [or Greek or Hebrew, presumably] propositions given and sealed once for all by divine authority in wording and meaning, is theologically impossible." Barth's theology, all the while emphasizing "revelation," makes propositional revelation impossible. Revelation is not a proposition, but an event. "The Word of God still happens today in the Bible," Barth wrote, "and apart from this happening the Bible is not the Word of God, but a book like other books." (The reader should understand that the beatnik and hippie "happenings" of the 1950s and 1960s, like Barth's theology, were effects of the philosophy and theology of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.) The "creation story" is a myth or poem, as Barth explained in a letter to his grandniece; evolution does not contradict Genesis. Evolution is what scientifically happened. And had a newspaper reporter been present when Christ rose from the grave, there would have been no news to report.
Barth on Justification
Barth, echoing Luther and Calvin, taught that justification is by faith alone, but in Barth's mouth, neither "justification" nor "faith" (and perhaps not even "alone") meant what Luther and Calvin had meant. In 1964 Thomas Nelson and Sons published Roman Catholic theologian Hans Kueng's book, Justification: The Doctrine of Karl Barth and a Catholic Reflection. Kueng wrote: "There is no essential difference between the Barthian and the Catholic position." Barth praised Kung's book in a letter to Kung that was printed in the book itself, for Kueng, Barth wrote, understood his doctrine of justification as Barth wished it to be understood. What was that understanding? It was nothing new; it was the same doctrine of justification put forward in the nineteenth century by Anglican turned Roman turned Cardinal, John Henry Newman. In
Kueng's own words:
God's declaration of justice is, as God's declaration of justice, at the same time and in the same act, a making just.... The term "justification" as such expresses an actual declaration of justness and not an inner renewal. Does it follow from this that God's declaration of justice does not imply an inner renewal? On the contrary. It all comes down to this, that it is a matter of God's declaration of justice and not man's word: the utterance of the Lord, mighty in power. Unlike the word of man, the word of God does what it signifies. God said, "Let there be light" and there was light.... The sinner's justification is exactly like this. God pronounces the verdict, "You are just." And the sinner is just, really and truly, outwardly and inwardly, wholly and completely. His sins are forgiven, and man is just in his heart.
Barth himself wrote:
Certainly we have to do with a declaring righteous, but it is a declaration about man which is fulfilled and therefore effective in this event, which corresponds to actuality because it creates and therefore reveals the actuality. It is a declaring righteous which without any reserve can be called a making righteous.
Barth not only did not stand in the Reformation tradition, he opposed it. He rejected sola Scriptura, sola gratia, solo Christo, and sola fide, all the while smiling with the words on his lips. It is impossible to believe that Karl Barth did not know what he was doing, as many of his defenders have suggested. They have praised Barth for his grasp of the history of theology. Surely, then, Barth was aware of the source of his doctrine of justification. Barth's defenders impute to Barth a degree of stupidity that has never before been reached in the annals of theology. But Barth was not stupid, as his defenders imply. The result of Barth's systemic equivocation is a sort of evangelical mysticism. Although he uses many Christian words and phrases, Barth's theology is not Christianity. It is, just as modernism itself is, another religion. Barth is a wolf bleating.
Dialectical Theology
But Barth's insincerity is not the whole reason for the obscurity of his theology. His theology itself is dialectical. It prides itself on the assertion of contradictories. It sees contradiction as essential to theology. Barth is always saying "Yes" and "No" to the same things. His theology involves theses and antitheses, with no resolution of the two. God is "wholly other" than man. In Christ God is "wholly hidden" and "wholly revealed." There is an "infinite qualitative difference" between time and eternity, God and man, but yet we cannot speak of God in the abstract. In this respect, Barth remained indebted to Kierkegaard all his life. And in this respect, Barth's dialectical theology must remain opaque to any reader. No person can believe contradictions, knowing them to be contradictions. But contradictions and dialectical theology are useful, not only for confusing one's readers, but for allowing one to accomplish a purpose without clearly stating what the purpose is.
Barth's dialectical theology permitted him to use old words and phrases - Biblical words and phrases - while giving them new, and quite un-Biblical, meanings. What the liberals had done partially with phrases such as the "divinity of Christ" and what the Roman Catholics had done with terms such as "justification," "church," "saint," and "grace," Barth was able to do with the entire theological discourse of the Reformation. His equivocation was not occasional and partial, as in liberalism, but throughout and complete. Barth made Protestant theological equivocation systematic and systemic.
Although his theology was deliberately inconsistent, Barth's actions displayed an underlying consistency. Barth wanted to make room in the church and in the world for irrationality and socialism. Barth saw Christ as a "form of the Word of God," and he emphasized Christology as the key to understanding "revelation." But Barth also wrote in Church Dogmatics, "God may speak to us through Russian Communism, through a flute concerto, through a blossoming shrub or through a dead dog. We shall do well to listen to him if he really does so." In the light of such statements, one wonders why Barth was so concerned in 1934 in the Barmen Declaration to deny that God can speak to us through Adolf Hitler. The likely answer - the answer that explains his vociferous condemnation of Nazism in the 1930s and his deliberate and lifelong refusal to condemn Communism, and even his praise for Communism - is not his theology, but his political philosophy: Barth was a lifelong socialist of the Marxist variety.
Barth the Socialist
Although his theological views changed over the decades, Barth's political views did not. Barth's socialism colored his theology, in ways that many of his readers did not understand. In 1956 Barth explained in an interview, "I decided for theology because I felt a need to find a better basis for my social action." His theology was a tool to be used in furthering his socialism; a justification for his political views. While at Safenwil, Barth was "Comrade Pastor," according to his biographer. "Socialism," Barth claimed, "is a very important and necessary application of the gospel." In 1916 he wrote that the "capitalistic order and... the war [are] the two greatest atrocities of life." In the first edition of his commentary on Romans, written during World War I, he declared that a time will come "when the now dying embers of Marxist dogma will flare up anew as world truth, when the socialist church will rise from the dead in a world become socialist." In "Jesus Christ and the Movement for Social Justice," an essay Barth published in 1911, he explained the relationship between Jesus and socialism:
If you understand the connection between the person of Jesus and your socialist convictions, and if you now want to arrange your life so that it corresponds to this connection, then that does not at all mean you have to "believe" or accept this, that, or the other thing. What Jesus has to bring us are not ideas, but a way of life. One can have Christian ideas about God and the world and about human redemption, and still with all that be a complete heathen. And as an atheist, a materialist, and a Darwinist, one can be a genuine follower and disciple of Jesus. Jesus is not the Christian world view and the Christian world view is not Jesus.
This separation between "Jesus" and ideas Barth maintained all his life, whatever form his theology appeared in. He never escaped the influence of Schleiermacher. Barth's view of revelation as "event" or "happening" rather than as information or ideas may be traced to his statements in the essay cited above.
Barth vehemently attacked capitalism and private property as well, and wrote often of the "class struggle":
Class contradiction, says socialism, is the daily crime of capitalism. This system of production must therefore fall, especially its underlying principle: private property - not private property in general, but private ownership of the mean of production.... the boundless competition between individual producers must fall; and the state, the whole, must itself become the producer and therefore the owner of the means of production. Jesus is more socialist than the socialists.... Jesus' view of property is this: Property is sin, because property is self-seeking.
This last statement logically implies, of course, a condemnation of private property in general, not merely in the means of production. Since socialism is defined as common ownership of the means of production, Barth qualifies as a socialist in either case, and as a Christian in neither.
Barth the Communist
Skipping ahead nearly 40 years, one finds Barth praising the good intentions of the Communists and even specific Communist dictators, such as Joseph Stalin, butcher of the Ukraine. Writing in "The Church Between East and West" (1949), Barth defended his vocal anti-anti-Communism:
[I]t is pertinent not to omit to discriminate in our view of contemporary Communism between its totalitarian atrocities as such and the positive intention behind them. And if one tries to do that, one cannot say of Communism what one was forced to say of Nazism ten years ago - that what it means and intends is pure unreason, the product of madness and crime. It would be quite absurd to mention in the same breath the philosophy of Marxism and the "ideology" of the Third Reich, to mention a man of the stature of Joseph Stalin in the same breath as such charlatans as Hitler, Goering, Hess, Goebbels, Himmler, Ribbentrop, Rosenberg, Streicher, etc. What has been tackled in Soviet Russia - albeit with very dirty and bloody hands and in a way that rightly shocks us - is, after all, a constructive idea, the solution of a problem which is a serious and burning problem for us as well, and which we with our clean hands have not yet tackled anything like energetically enough: the social problem.
Then, in a revealing statement, Barth declared that Communism was not - and by its very nature could not be - anti-Christian:
[I]n its relationship to Christianity, Communism, as distinguished from Nazism, has not done, and by its very nature cannot do, one thing: it has never made the slightest attempt to reinterpret or to falsify Christianity, or to shroud itself in a Christian garment.... There is nothing of the false prophet about it. It is not anti-Christian.
Finally, writing in 1963 to his friend the Czechoslovakian Communist and theologian, Joseph Hromadka, Barth lamented the fact that he, Barth, had been accused of pro-Communist sympathies, even by such liberal theologians as Emil Brunner and Reinhold Niebuhr. He defended his lifelong socialism: "I have, however, always spoken out loudly and consistently as an opponent of western and especially Swiss anti-Communism, against the cold war, atomic armament, ten years ago against the remilitarizing of West Germany...."
Despite his apparently orthodox words, Barth's dialectical theological enterprise was always shaped by his prior and lifelong commitment to socialism. He chose theology as a basis for his social action. The theology of the nineteenth century could not do so, in Barth's view; a new theology was necessary.
Clark on Barth
Karl Barth's Theological Method is not an attempt to present either an explanation or a critique of all of Barth's theology. Dr. Clark focuses on the method by which Barth developed that thought, with the understanding, of course, that if the method is faulty, the result cannot be good. In his usual efficient, dispassionate, and surgical manner, Clark dissected Barth's jugular, with predictable results: Barth is dead.
Dr. Clark, always the scholar and gentleman, did not mention in this book the fact that Barth in June 1961 refused to answer questions that Dr. Clark and Dr. Cornelius Van Til had posed to him one year prior to Barth's 1962 tour of the United States. We should, however, take notice in this new edition not only of Barth's refusal to answer Clark's questions, but of the insulting manner in which he stated that refusal. Collections of Barth's letters show that he answered many questions of less importance and in much less time; but perhaps those questions were not as probing as Dr. Clark's, or perhaps his other questioners were not despised "fundamentalists." Dr. Clark had posed two questions to Barth:
Was it reasonable for Paul to endure suffering in his ministry (or is it reasonable for us) if all are in Christ and will perhaps be saved anyhow, and if, as you once said, [Ludwig] Feuerbach and secular science are already in the Church?
In your Anselm (E[nglish] T[ranslation], p. 70) we are told that we can never see clearly whether any statement of any theologian is on one side or the other of the border between divine simplicity and incredible deception. Does not this make theology - your own included - a waste of time?
The questions were forwarded to Barth by Carl Henry, editor of Christianity Today, via Geoffrey Bromiley, Professor of Church History at Fuller Theological Seminary and co-translator of Barth's books. Barth replied directly to Bromiley:
I cannot and will not answer the questions these people put.... even if I had the time [Barth had a year] and strength I would not enter into a discussion of the questions proposed.... I cannot respect the questions of these people from Christianity Today.... Such a discussion would have to rest on the primary presupposition that those who ask the questions have read, learned, and pondered the many things I have already written about these matters. They have obviously not done this.... The decisive point, however, is this. The second presupposition of a fruitful discussion between them and me would have to be that we are able to talk on a common plane. But these people have already had their so-called orthodoxy for a long time.... These fundamentalists want to eat me up.
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and the pure in heart.
and hunger and thirst for your righteousness.
as we follow where Christ may lead.
5:25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
6 Let the one who is taught the word share all good things with the one who teaches. 7 Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. 8 For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.9 And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. 10 So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.


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Better in context
A good meme takes a snippet of something and makes it funnier or more interesting out-of-context.
Like television shows, I prefer the trashy, funny ones. What I can't really stand are the memes that take themselves too seriously. Something "deep" like a moody black and white photo with a long quote laid over it. I often look up the original context for the quote and find the quote is either: a) fake b) wrongly attributed c) sliced up to make it more palatable. Worst of all, the meme is very rarely as funny or interesting as the original context.
Take the Bob Dylan quote above. Here's the original 1991 interview. Dylan was asked if he was more happier at 50 than 30:
"Oh, man, I've never even thought about that," Dylan said, laughing. "Happiness is not on my list of priorities. I just deal with day-to-day things. If I'm happy, I'm happy – and if I'm not, I don't know the difference." He fell silent for a few moments and stared at his hands. "You know," he said, "these are yuppie words, happiness and unhappiness. It's not happiness or unhappiness, it's either blessed or unblessed. As the Bible says, 'Blessed is the man who walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly.' Now, that must be a happy man. Knowing that you are the person you were put on this earth to be – that's much more important than just being happy.
Emphasis mine. The meme maker, in this case, cut out the most interesting part of the quote, the part with actual tooth ("yuppie words"!) that separates it from being a Hallmark sentiment.
This Patti Smith meme was of particular interest to me, as I used the first part in the "Build a Good (Domain) Name" section of my book, Show Your Work! The text is actually "correct" — Smith did say all those words — but the "life is like a roller coaster" cliché comes later in the speech.
What the meme doesn't tell you is that Smith got the advice from William S. Burroughs — not the first name you think of associated with the word "clean":
When I was in my early twenties, I was lucky to have William Burroughs as a friend and mentor. Once I was with him and I asked him this question: "What should I aspire to?" and he thought, and he said: "My dear, a gold American Express would be good." But after that, he said very thoughtfully, "Build your name." And I said, "William, my name is Smith." And he said, "Well, you'll have to build a little harder." But what William meant when he told me to build my name. Build a good name — because a name is not to get famous. He wasn't talking about celebrity — he was talking about let your name radiate your self, magnify who you are, your good deeds, your code of honor. Build your name and as you go through life, your name will serve you.
At the risk of sounding like an old fart, I encourage people — especially young people — to do "a 30-second fact check" on self-serious memes like this.
Good net citizens:
Source-check what they share
Share from the best source possible
Provide source/claim context to people they share with when necessary
It takes almost no time at all: just put quotation marks around a distinctive part of the text and enter it into a search box. You'll learn more a lot more from looking up the source of these memes than you will from the memes themselves.
Be the light or reflect it
The darkest known substance: Vantablack
"The sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that."
"What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness."
Seeing a lot of "We're fucked" tweets lately. These tweets are not necessarily wrong, but I don't see their point.
"Doom is inevitable," as Seth recently put it. "Gloom is optional."
Life is bad enough. Twitter is already worse than bad. I'm not asking you to blow sunshine up my butt, but if you're going to tweet, "We're fucked," at least follow it up with the "eat trash be free" raccoons:
I am, believe it or not, one of the least optimistic people you will meet. I'm not kidding. You don't want to see what I write in my diary. (That's why I write it in my diary.)
But I'm here. And I have people who depend on me to be here. So I gotta keep going, somehow.
Edith Wharton said, "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
You don't have to have your own light. You can reflect someone else's. That's what I'm doing, here, and elsewhere: I'm trying to find the light and reflect it. I'm trying to be a reflector, not Human Vantablack.
We all want to scream into the void. We all feel the need to express the dread. But, it's like Zadie Smith says, "Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself."
"It's not dark yet," sings Bob Dylan, "but it's getting there."
So either be the light or go find some and reflect it.

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Some group homes have a no physical contact rule-that can include hugs.
Many kids in foster care (as many as 1 in 5 but more on the numbers later) don't live with a foster family, but instead live in something called a "group home." It's a form of institutional or residential placement that I know from personal experience is NO place to grow up. The white, concrete walls resemble a jail cell more than a bedroom and there are rules against giving other people hugs. Yes, you read that correctly - not even hugs are allowed under the "no physical contact" rule that still exists in some group homes today.
Kids benefit from a parental figure at every stage of their life – something a group home can't provide, and certain kids are more likely to miss out on this by being placed in a group home setting. Boys are more likely than girls to be put in group homes, and teenagers more than young kids. The same goes for kids of color compared to white kids.
What's going on with these numbers?
The recent KidsCount report says almost 18% of Michigan kids in foster care are in group home settings, more than the national average. Michigan's Department of Health and Human Services on the other hand, says that number is closer to 6%, or 845 kids, much less than the national average.
DHHS says about 1,200 kids in the juvenile justice system in Wayne County are included in the Kids Count numbers, which would account for a lot of the discrepancy. Either way, there are many kids in foster care not living in a family setting, even though that would be best for their development.
"Treatment must be customized," says Cameron Hosner, the Executive Director of the Judson Center. He's the former president of Vista Maria, a group home in Wayne County, but he says these are not ideal placements for most kids because they can't provide the kind of individual attention kids need.
Justin M., who was in a couple group homes when he was in foster care, agrees, "The group home is worried about 20 to 40 kids and ensuring all their needs are met. A family [placement] might need to worry about 3 to 4 youth." Justin, who is now in college, says the structure of a group home makes things like getting a drivers license – a typical milestone for teenagers - nearly impossible. When staff are so busy trying to manage a huge group of kids, one kid's needs gets pushed aside. This can lead to many kids leaving group homes ill-prepared for adulthood.
Group placements cost 7 to 10 times more than placing a child with a family. Although kids shouldn't be in group homes for more than 3-6 months, the average time for Michigan kids is 7 months, according to DHHS.
If group homes are so bad for kids, how do they end up there?
Sometimes, they're the safest option. There are kids who can benefit from around the clock care, especially when dealing with the effects of extreme trauma. That care can be lifesaving for kids who need it, but not too many kids do. More than 40% of kids in group homes don't have a documented reason to be there.
"In the vast majority of cases, children live with foster families (often their relatives) until a permanent home is found," says Bob Wheaton of DHHS. "Michigan has successfully reduced the percentage of foster youths in group homes in recent years." But the court monitors that watch over Michigan's foster care system say that depending so heavily on relatives that aren't licensed foster care families, instead of group homes, also puts kids at risk. The monitors say "a disproportionate number of foster children living in unlicensed relative homes suffer from maltreatment."
Many colleges are making more of an effort to support students who come from foster care. But Professor Angelique Day says that's way too late for most kids, since half of all kids in foster care don't even graduate from high school.
The advocacy group Children's Rights sued the state of Michigan over its foster care system more than eight years ago because of the number of kids who were left with abusive families, or harmed once they got into foster care.
It makes sense that young people who have been abused or neglected would be more likely to get in serious trouble. But the numbers are nonetheless pretty amazing. Almost half of the minors in the state's adult prison system get there from the child welfare system, and a child with a history of abuse and neglect is 55 percent more likely to be arrested.
State of Opportunity aired a documentary yesterday on foster care. All this week, we're publishing a series of articles that explore specific aspects of the foster care system, and some of the challenges kids within that system face.
Imagine being removed from your home, from the only place you've really ever known. You're taken away from your parents, your toys, your bed, maybe even your siblings, and told that you have to live here, in this new place with these new people. Imagine what that must feel like.


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The database administrator creates a database named "salesforce".
User CAPSTORM\greg runs CopyStorm using integrated security (e.g. a domain user login) and creates all database tables in the [CAPSTORM\greg] schema.
His default schema is [CAPSTORM\noah].
All SQL table references have to include [CAPSTORM\greg].
Though a database administrator can get around this problem by making the default schema be [CAPSTORM\greg] for all CopyStorm database users, this is not a great idea. The core problem with this process is that the ownership of shared Salesforce backup data is tied to a real person — when that person wins the lottery or moves to a new position someone else will need to own the data.
Core Principle: The owner of a SQL/Server Salesforce database should not be a Windows Domain Account.
Create a new SQL/Server database.
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Give this user ownership of the dbo schema in the CopyStorm database.
Make the default schema "dbo" in the CopyStorm database.
Always run CopyStorm using the non-domain user.
Create a group with read-only access to the salesforce database with a default schema of "dbo".
When a domain user needs access to the SQL/Server Salesforce database, make them of a member of the group created in the previous step.
If your organization is smaller, the only essential best practice steps are 1-3.
If your organization chooses to use domain accounts for all SQL/Server authentication that's OK, with the caveat that the CopyStorm database will require permission updates when the person tied to the domain account decides to retire.


CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwired - March 14, 2014) - PHX Energy Services Corp. (TSX:PHX) ("PHX Energy" or the "Corporation") has declared a cash dividend of $0.07 per common share designated as an "eligible dividend" within the meaning of subsection 89(1) of the Income Tax Act (Canada), and payable on April 15th, 2014 to shareholders of record at the close of business on March 31, 2014. The ex-dividend date is March 27, 2014.
PHX Energy's Canadian operations are conducted through Phoenix Technology Services LP. The Corporation maintains its corporate head office, research and development, Canadian sales, service and operational centres in Calgary, Alberta. In addition PHX Energy has a service facility in Estevan, Saskatchewan. PHX Energy's US operations, conducted through the Corporation's wholly-owned subsidiary, Phoenix Technology Services USA Inc. ("Phoenix USA"), is headquartered in Houston, Texas. Phoenix USA has sales and service facilities in Houston, Texas; Traverse City, Michigan; Casper, Wyoming; Denver, Colorado; Fort Worth, Texas; Midland, Texas; Buckhannon, West Virginia; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Internationally, PHX Energy has sales offices and service facilities in Albania, Peru, Russia, and Colombia, and an administrative office Nicosia, Cyprus.
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Each year-end at Mission Adelante we have a time to process the current year and dream and plan for the coming year. Last weekend our Ministry Community Staff had time to evaluate and celebrate 2017 and work hard towards 2018.
I enjoy many things in my work, and being surrounded by friends who dream and work hard everyday to better serve the community is one of them. The three representative cultures of our staff greatly enrich the team: U.S., Nepal, and Cuba. We have been able to experience the challenges of diversity but, at the same time, the power of God to use our differences to teach us more about Himself and push us to grow in love from the deepest places of our hearts.
Next year we will be starting our Art and Music program, and we will continue improving our Kids, Teens, and ESL programs for all the cultures that live in KCK. And we long to see new groups of disciples from different cultures born. I invite you to please join in prayer with us and be a part of what God is doing through Mission Adelante. The miracles we see and enjoy are not possible without your support in prayer and in many other ways.
Help us finish 2017 strong! Volunteer with your family, small group, or business at Adelante Thrift. For more information or to sign up, go to www.adelantethrift.com/volunteer/ .
Do you have a gently-used keyboard or acoustic guitar that you're not using? Adelante Arts Community needs it! We are in need of two keyboards and three acoustic guitars for our new program. Please email Gissell Vazquez at gissellv@missionadelante.org if you would like to donate an instrument.


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Invitation for public comment - ACMS meeting, July 2013
This consultation closed on 30 May 2013.
Notice inviting public submissions under Regulation 42ZCZK of the Therapeutic Goods Regulations 1990
Proposed amendments to the Poisons Standard referred by the delegate for scheduling advice
The delegate of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Ageing hereby gives notice that the proposed amendments to the current Poisons Standard contained in this notice will be referred for scheduling advice to relevant expert advisory committees.
Accordingly, the following scheduling proposals are open for public submissions. Submissions must be relevant to the proposed amendment, must address a matter mentioned in section 52E of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 and be received by the closing date.
Persons wishing to make a submission are strongly encouraged to submit them in electronic format (word or unsecured PDF) to the email address provided below by 30 May 2013.
Email: SMP@health.gov.au
Scheduling Secretariat
Public submissions received after the closing date may or may not be considered by the advisory committee(s).
Public submissions must include the name of the person making the submission and preferably an email or postal address.
Please note that the submissions received on or before the closing date will be published following removal of confidential information. It is up to the person making the submission to highlight any information which they wish to be considered as confidential. Material claimed to be commercial-in-confidence will be considered against the guidelines for the use and release of confidential information set out in Chapter 6 of the Scheduling Policy Framework (SPF), issued by the National Coordinating Committee on Therapeutic Goods.
The relevant expert advisory committee(s) will then consider all valid submissions and provide advice to the delegate in relation to the proposed amendment. After considering this advice, the delegate will make an interim scheduling decision. This interim decision is expected to be published on 26 September 2013 at Reasons for scheduling delegate's interim decisions and invitations for further comment and will be open for further submissions from only the applicant and persons who made a submission in response to the original invitation received on or before the closing date. For more information on the scheduling process please see the SPF.
The current Poisons Standard is available at The Poisons Standard (the SUSMP). Queries can be directed to the Scheduling Secretariat at SMP@health.gov.au.
1. Proposed amendments referred by the delegate for scheduling advice for consideration by the Advisory Committee on Medicines Scheduling (ACMS)
Loratadine Proposal to reschedule loratadine from Schedule 2 to unscheduled in oral preparations containing 10mg or less in packs containing not more than 5 daily doses for the treatment of seasonal allergic rhinitis in adults and children 6 years of age and over, with a warning labels recommending a daily dose not exceeding 10mg loratadine for adults and children with body weight over 30kg, or recommended daily dose not exceeding 5mg loratadine for children with body weight 30kg and under.
Vortioxetine hydrobromide Proposal for new Appendix L entry for Vortioxetine hydrobromide
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require 'fog/compute/models/aws/snapshot'

module Fog
  module AWS
    class Compute

      class Snapshots < Fog::Collection

        attribute :filters
        attribute :volume

        model Fog::AWS::Compute::Snapshot

        def initialize(attributes)
          self.filters ||= { 'RestorableBy' => 'self' }
          super
        end

        def all(filters = filters, options = {})
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          end
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          end
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        def get(snapshot_id)
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          end
        end

        def new(attributes = {})
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end

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Irish and English Grammar and Verse
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4206-4208
1850-1900 (Circa)
3 volume(s) (3 volumes paper) : paper
The volumes were probably sold in the sale of books of Lord George A. Hill, Dublin, 1902, and subsequently became the property of J. Milligan. Bought from him by the Library in 1903.
For further information see Pádraig De Brün and Máire Herbert, Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in Cambridge libraries (Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp. 34-43.
Irish (cultural identity)
Irish and English Grammar and Verse, GBR/0012/MS Add.4206-4208. Cambridge University Library.
Irish and English Grammar and Verse, GBR/0012/MS Add.4206-4208. Cambridge University Library. https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/repositories/2/resources/5392 Accessed February 01, 2023.


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More Bad News for Trump Is Great News for America!
By Dustin Rowles | Politics | June 27, 2016 |
Covering the Donald Trump campaign used to be so depressing. He was winning primaries, and no matter what stupid shit came out of his day-glo yapper, his polling numbers never dropped.
But now? I know there are a lot of our readers counting down the days until it's all over, but the way I see it, it's 5 more months of watching Donald Trump inflict damage upon himself. Or 3 more weeks, at least, should Donald Trump throw his hands in the air and quit at the Convention (oh, what sweet, sweet justice it would be).
Every day now seems to come with another round of news that's terrible for the presumptive Republican nominee, and his pain is like a little hit of dopamine. It keeps me going. I am fueled by Donald Trump's dropping poll numbers.
The news cycle hasn't been kind, either. Two new polls, for instance, show that Hillary Clinton is widening her lead over Donald Trump, with one showing a 12-point margin of victory. That's goddamn landslide territory. That same poll showed 2/3 of Americans were uneasy with the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency. Two thirds! That means that 66 percent of Americans at least have their brains partially screwed on.
Meanwhile, it's probably not the kind of op-ed that will change anyone's opinion of Trump, but Aziz Ansari's NYTimes article — in which he tells Trump to go fuck himself — should help shore up the millennial vote. He's also not wrong to be afraid for his parents in the event of a Trump Presidency:
The vitriolic and hate-filled rhetoric coming from Mr. Trump isn't so far off from cursing at strangers from a car window. He has said that people in the American Muslim community "know who the bad ones are," implying that millions of innocent people are somehow complicit in awful attacks. Not only is this wrongheaded; but it also does nothing to address the real problems posed by terrorist attacks. By Mr. Trump's logic, after the huge financial crisis of 2007-08, the best way to protect the American economy would have been to ban white males.
Elsewhere, George Will — whose love of baseball has always been endearing in spite of his politics — took his ball and went home, leaving the Republican party over its decision to nominate Trump as is nominee. He's not having it.
Trump's response to Will's departure is starting to sound like a broken record. He's like the Republican Cookie Monster: He has a very limited vocabulary of short words he just repeats over and over. SAD. BAD. COOKIE.
George Will, one of the most overrated political pundits (who lost his way long ago), has left the Republican Party.He's made many bad calls
George Will is not the only recent Republican to run away from Donald Trump. Henry Paulson, the treasury secretary to former President George W. Bush., has added his name to the growing list of Republicans who will be voting for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump:
"When it comes to the presidency, I will not vote for Donald Trump. I will not cast a write-in vote," Paulson wrote. "I'll be voting for Hillary Clinton, with the hope that she can bring Americans together to do the things necessary to strengthen our economy, our environment and our place in the world. To my Republican friends: I know I'm not alone."
Brent Scowcroft, a top national security adviser to several former Republican presidents, has also endorsed Clinton, which I suspect is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, it's nice to see some Republicans endorsing Clinton over Ronald McRacist in their party. On the other, I don't want anyone on the liberal side getting the idea that they're endorsing Clinton because she's a Republican in Democrat's clothing. (I'm looking at you in the comments. You know exactly who you are!).
Meanwhile, there's yet another attempt by Republican delegates to change the rules so that they can vote their conscience and nominate someone else besides Trump at next month's convention. It's all well-and-good, but unless they can find someone else to rally the party around, that rebellion is going nowhere. Still, it's gotten Trump's attention, and he's now using some of his limited campaign funds to cover travel and lodging costs for volunteers and delegates attending the Cleveland convention to ensure he gets their vote. He keeps promising to inject more of his own cash into his election bid, but maybe Trump's not as bad a business man as we might have thought, because even he's not been willing to gamble on himself, yet.
The Convention, by the way, is likely to be a shitshow, as a number of top Republicans have said that they will not speak, participate or even attend July's Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Trump can't even depend on serial rapist Ben Roethlisberger to speak at the Convention, unless it's about going for two after every TD.
Finally, this wasn't really Trump sticking his foot in his mouth, but the sight of it is sure to provoke many, many more gaffes in the coming days and weeks.
Still, as bad as it may look for Trump — and it's only Monday! — it's important to heed the advice of Jon Oliver and not get complacent come November, because there are "no fucking do overs!"
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Aug. 4, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- When the veterans who fought and sacrificed for this nation return home, they sometimes face a difficult transition back to civilian life. Since 2003, Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP) has worked tirelessly to help these warriors live successful, independent, and healthy lives. However, these veterans are not the only ones who face obstacles and challenges during the road to recovery. Some have started families and are raising children, many of whom have seen firsthand the physical, mental, and economic challenges faced by their wounded parents.
With WWP's commitment to serve warriors for a lifetime, their families and caregivers are included. The need for support and programs for children grows, with the understanding that the entire family needs to be part of the recovery process. In cases where there is a need outside WWP's scope, the nonprofit will work alongside and support other regional and national veterans service organizations. These partnerships enhance existing WWP programs with services and support.
One of WWP's partners that helps children of wounded veterans is the National Military Family Association (NMFA), which hosts Operation Purple® Camps (OPC). These weeklong summer camps are offered for free to children of military service members – wounded, active, or retired – and are a place where they can connect with other kids like them. The name of the camp represents mixing the colors of Army green, Coast Guard blue, Air Force blue, Marine Corps red, and Navy blue. Operation Purple Camp has served more than 58,000 military children since its inception in 2004, and more than 40% of campers in 2015 were part of families served by Wounded Warrior Project.
Eric Bird is one warrior served by WWP and NMFA. A retired United States Air Force veteran, Eric first connected with WWP at an adaptive sports camp, which Eric said "taught me how to live my life, work around my disability, and stay active. It changed the path forward in my life."
Eric made it clear that while he has made progress in his recovery, it is still ongoing. "My injury has had an impact on my life, no question," he said. "I have issues with my post-traumatic stress disorder still. There are nights that I wake up freaked out at times, and it wakes the family up. My wife is my caregiver, and she understands it completely. My little ones don't understand as much as my 13- and 16-year-old children do. How do you explain that to them at such a young age?"
His children are his world – that much is clear from the way his voice lifts when mentioning them. Eric's struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has affected him as a parent. "I went from big and strong in their eyes, to going in and out of a wheelchair as my injuries require. They see my PTSD, but they don't really understand it. We don't talk about what happened to Dad."
It was a family friend who first turned Eric on to the programs offered by NMFA, specifically Operation Purple Camp.
"We had friends who had gone through it, and their kids go to camp with mine," Eric explained. "WWP gave us an overview of what it was going to be, and I thought it sounded cool. But how was my son going to react? I wanted to see what these kids would experience and go through, and how helpful and fun it would be for them." Eric is not the only parent who has seen his children affected by the wounds of war. Marlee Purcey and her husband Scott, who served in the Army National Guard, are also struggling with post-deployment issues.
"My husband has severe PTSD, breathing issues, and arthritis in his back and knees," Marlee said. "The PTSD is from him being convoy security, seeing vehicle accidents, and witnessing people who were executed and left on the side of the road. He saw friends' vehicles blown up, and he took on small arms fire."
Marlee said her beloved husband will experience bursts of anger, triggered by the stress that still haunts him from his service. She knows however, that there is help for him and for their children.
"I wanted our son to go and have fun, try new things, realize he isn't the only one who has a wounded family member," she said. "Every time he comes home, he has lost his voice from screaming with joy, and it takes a few days to recover it. I love seeing his excitement."
The children who attend OPC experience an environment supported by fully-trained counselors and camp staff, who help children adapt and overcome the stressors of military life. OPC works hard to help the children of military families cope and feel comfortable with their parents' deployments, injuries, and recovery.
Marlee said the camp not only gave her son a wonderful experience with new friendships, but it also helped him overcome some fears and work toward new goals and achievements.
"He was originally afraid of horses and now loves them," she said. "He is always excited to go and can't wait to attend again. He wants to spend all summer at camp."
Eric said his son had similar experiences at OPC, with an almost immediately noticeable shift in attitude and outlook.
"He loved every single minute of it," Eric said. "He's not the most social kid, but he came out of his shell. His confidence was noticeably higher coming out of the camp; it's an experience that can help build his character, and that's priceless. He was able to spend time around other kids who have experienced the same things he has – other kids with parents like me. He's already asking me if he can go next year."
Marlee and Eric both had similar perspectives on what they would tell warriors who have children who might enjoy a week away at Operation Purple Camp.
"These camps are made possible because of our networks with warriors," Eric said. "I would say, 'Reach out and ask. WWP can help get you connected, and they share news about this sort of thing.' From my experience, WWP keeps family in the picture as well, because they understand my PTSD affects the family as much as it does me. That's why WWP supports this organization, and it helps my kids attend for free."
"I cannot stress enough that this is an awesome opportunity that lets children know they are not alone in having a family that may not be considered 'normal' by others," Marlee said. "There are other children at these camps who the kids can relate to, and they gain friendships that may last a lifetime."
Every day, wounded veterans face similar challenges when they return to civilian life after military service; the visible and invisible wounds have taken their toll on even the toughest members of the armed forces. WWP meets warriors in all stages of recovery and provides mental and physical health services, employment training, and continuing education programs to aid in their recoveries.


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Andra Day Receives Huge Honor From Billboard
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Singer-songwriter Andra Day will be honored as the recipient of the Powerhouse award at Billboard's 2016 Women In Music event.
Day will also perform at the Dec. 9 event in New York City, which will be broadcast on Lifetime on Dec. 12.
Via Billboard.com:
Inspired by the raw, honest vocal greats of music history (everyone from Billie Holiday to Lauryn Hill), Day saw her 2015 debut album Cheers to the Fall nominated for Best R&B Album at the 2016 Grammy Awards and its single, "Rise Up," nominated for Best R&B Performance. The motivational "Rise Up" hit No. 6 on Billboard's Adult R&B Songs chart and No. 10 on Billboard's Hot R&B Songs chart, and serves as the theme song for the film We Will Rise: Michelle Obama's Mission to Educate Girls Around the World, which also stars Meryl Streep, Frieda Pinto and CNN's Isha Sesay. In addition to performing at the Democratic National Convention in 2016, Day appeared with the legendary Stevie Wonder in an ad for Apple TV last year, performing "Someday at Christmas," which topped the Billboard & Clio Music Top Commercials chart. Day also earned three BET Awards and an NAACP Award this year.
The 11th annual event will also honor Madonna, Shania Twain and Halsey.
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Proximo Woodblade is a secondary character in The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. You can meet him in Chapter II, at the Kaedweni camp, if you chose to side with Vernon Roche.
Proximo is responsible for the fighting in the arena, which is a form of entertainment which very much pleases King Henselt. He is also responsible for the reward offered in the announcement hanging on the Notice board for getting rid of the Rotfiends which plague the areas around the camp.
Proximo, the arena master, had a talent for oration and the fights he organized were famous in all of Kaedwen and beyond. Blows rained down, armor fragments and teeth flew left and right – in other words, the audience found his arena to be equal to the merry dancing of a fair day.
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