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Friday, November 03, 2006

Tis the season for family pictures! This family is adorable... look how cute those girls are. Ramey called me to do her family photos about a month ago, and I asked where she was from and she said Pleasant Grove... I knew a Ramey from Pleasant Grove when I worked at JMR (where I met my husband) but knew it couldn't have been her if she had four kids with one being ten years old. So when she stepped out of her car we kind of shrieked becasue it was her and she was blown away because I was the photographer. She said when she met Dan she instantly fell in love with him and his girls, who couldn't with those mugs? And they totally look like her, I believe things are meant to be sometimes.


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Wednesday, 26 August 2015

God's Indwelling Spirit

     In trying to understand and explain the Holy Spirit’s role, we can observe two extremes: (1) those who attribute nearly every emotion and experience to the direct working of God’s Spirit; and (2) those who refuse to even consider the possibility that the Spirit may function beyond His long-completed work of inspiring the Bible. This brief article does not attempt to answer all the difficult questions surrounding this admittedly complex issue. As one studies the biblical doctrine of the Holy Spirit, like any other aspect of God, the vastness of the subject can be overwhelming. To what extent is the Spirit currently involved in our lives, and exactly how does He work?
The Spirit and the Word
     There is no question that a crucial function of the Holy Spirit has been the transmission of the divine will from the heavenly throne to man on earth. God’s revelation was delivered by the Spirit to specially chosen individuals (Eph. 3:5; 2 Pet. 1:21) until that message was complete in its written form (cf. 2 Tim. 3:16-17; Jude 3; Rev. 22:18-19). The word of God is now the medium through which the Spirit representatively accomplishes His work (Eph. 6:17; Heb. 4:12). But does the Holy Spirit have a role to play beyond the instrumentality of the Bible?
The Gift of the Holy Spirit
     We learn from Acts 2:37-38 that when the Spirit’s message of truth (preached by Peter) convicted the hearts of sinners and instructed them to repent and be baptized, at least two things were to happen as a result of their obedient response: (1) the remission of sins, and (2) receiving “the gift of the Holy Spirit.”1 The questions are, what is the gift of the Holy Spirit and is it still available today?
     Although the miraculous outpouring of the Spirit is also called “the gift of the Holy Spirit” in Acts 10:45 (cf. 11:17), most would agree that the special circumstances of Acts 10 are not typical for all baptized believers.2 In fact, for the first five and a half chapters of Acts there is no record of anyone possessing the miraculous power of God’s Spirit except the apostles (2:43; 4:33; 5:12). Grammatically “the gift of the Holy Spirit” can refer to either a gift the Holy Spirit gives (subjective genitive), or the Holy Spirit Himself as the gift (objective genitive), or it could be a combination of these two possibilities.
     The first consideration is a gift that is given by the Spirit. Notice in Acts 2:38-39 the words “gift” and “promise” in connection with the remission of sins at baptism for those who are called. We are called by the gospel (2 Thess. 2:14) and are partakers of God’s promise in Christ through the gospel (Eph. 3:6). Those who are called “receive the promise of the eternal inheritance” (Heb. 9:15). By obeying the gospel we “receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified” (Acts 26:18). The Bible tells us that “eternal life” is both the promise of God (1 John 2:25) and “the gift of God” (John 4:10, 14; Rom. 6:23). Salvation by God’s grace is also called “the gift of God” (Eph. 2:8). Since salvation is not possible without the remission of sins (1 Cor. 15:17-19), and remission of sins is not available apart from baptism (Mark 16:15-16; Acts 22:16), could it be that “the gift of the Holy Spirit” is the promise of eternal life which is received when one’s sins are forgiven at baptism?3
     Another consideration is the Holy Spirit Himself as the gift. The apostles declared that “the Holy Spirit” is given to those who obey God (Acts 5:32), and the Holy Spirit is said to indwell God’s children (1 Cor. 6:19). It is true that both the Father and the Son indwell Christians (1 John 4:12, 15-16; 2 John 9), but they do so representatively “by the Spirit” whom we have been given (1 John 3:24; 4:13). Biblically, grammatically, and practically the subjective/objective genitive options are not mutually exclusive but readily harmonize.4 This is further clarified when we consider the expressed purpose of God’s indwelling Spirit.
The Indwelling Spirit
     The Bible teaches that after we have heard and believed the word of truth and have entered Christ, we are “sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory” (Eph. 1:13-14). We can only be “in” Christ if we have been baptized “into” Him (Gal. 3:27), and then we are said to be “sealed” with the Spirit, who is our “guarantee” or “pledge.” Also note that He is referred to as “the Holy Spirit of promise” (cf. Acts 2:38-39), and is mentioned in the context of “the forgiveness of sins” and obtaining “an inheritance” (Eph. 1:7, 11).
     In the Bible the word “seal” signifies proof or authenticity of ownership (cf. 1 Kgs. 21:8; Est. 8:8; Rom. 4:11). Because we have this seal, the Lord “knows those who are His,” with the accompanying expectation of spiritual purity (2 Tim. 2:19). We are to glorify God in our bodies because we now belong to Him and have His Spirit abiding in us (1 Cor. 6:18-20). To live in sin is to “grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption” (Eph. 4:30). “The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God” (Rom. 8:16). Note that the Spirit does not bear witness to our spirit, but with (summartureō), meaning “to testify or bear witness together with another, add testimony.”5 In addition to our own spirit, which confirms whether or not we are living in accordance with the Lord’s revealed will, the Holy Spirit Himself searches our heart and bears testimony to God. I might deceive myself but not the Lord.
     The Holy Spirit also serves as a “guarantee” or a “pledge” of our inheritance (cf. 2 Cor. 5:5). That is to say, as long as we have God’s Spirit dwelling within us, we have the assurance of eternal life. Is it possible, then, to lose this guarantee? The Bible warns us not to “grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed ...” (Eph. 4:30). The Lord turned against His erring people in the past when “they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit” (Isa. 63:10). After violating God’s will, David prayed: “do not take Your Holy Spirit from me” (Psa. 51:11). While the Spirit is our seal, testifying to God that we belong to Him, God will not recognize as His those who continue to practice iniquity (2 Tim. 2:16-21). Since it is possible to forfeit salvation by falling back into a sinful life (cf. 2 Pet. 2:20-22), it must therefore be possible to lose salvation’s guarantee.
Ø  Salvation is possible only when sins are forgiven (1 Cor. 15:17-19).
Ø  The sins of a penitent believer are forgiven at baptism (Acts 2:38; 22:16).
Ø  Salvation is therefore granted at baptism (1 Pet. 3:21; Rom. 6:3-5).
Ø  Salvation is both a promise and a gift of God (Rom. 6:23; 1 John 2:25).
Ø  The Holy Spirit is both a promise and a gift of God (Eph. 1:13; Acts 5:32).
Ø  The Lord saves those who obey Him (Heb. 5:8-9).
Ø  The Lord gives the Holy Spirit to those who obey Him (Acts 5:32).
Ø  The Holy Spirit serves as a guarantee of God’s gift and promise of salvation (Eph. 1:13-14; 2 Cor. 5:5).
Ø  The Holy Spirit, therefore, must be given at the same time salvation is granted, namely at baptism (Acts 2:38; 5:32).
Ø  Since continued faithfulness is necessary to maintain one’s salvation, continued faithfulness must therefore be necessary to retain the indwelling Spirit (1 John 1:7; 2:3-6, 15-17; 3:24).
Other Functions
     Are there other functions that also may be ascribed to the indwelling Spirit? Romans 8:26 tells us that “the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses.” While this is undoubtedly accomplished through the instrumentality of the word (Rom. 15:4), the passage goes on to explain that the Spirit makes intercession for us when we do not know what we should pray for as we ought (vv. 26-27). Could it be that the indwelling Spirit is how God enables us to withstand and escape seemingly insurmountable temptations? (1 Cor. 10:13). Is this what Paul had in mind when he prayed that God would grant us “to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man” (Eph. 3:16)? The Holy Spirit most certainly does not take away a person’s free will or remove one’s responsibility to evade sin, but even the most devout Christian cannot conquer sin by his own fallible strength (Jer. 10:23; Rom. 7:14-25; 1 Cor. 10:12). Note the cooperative effort when you put to death the deeds of the body by the Spirit (Rom. 8:13).
     While we surely want to be open to anything the Lord has provided to aid in our spiritual walk, at the same time we ought to be sensible enough not to attribute things to God or to His Spirit for which He is not responsible. Contrary to what many seem to believe, the Holy Spirit is not God’s agent of providence (cf. Heb. 1:14). When people confidently affirm, “I know God did this”6 or “the Holy Spirit led me to do that,” how can they be sure? If it has not been revealed in God’s perfect word, how do we know these emotional and subjective “leadings” are not from one’s own subconscious will, or from the subtle influence of others, or even from the devil? Many conflicting doctrines, subsequent divisions, and inappropriate behaviors have been accredited to and ultimately blamed on God and His Spirit. Since each one of us will be held accountable for every careless word spoken (Matt. 12:36), we must be careful not to presumptuously credit God with specific things that cannot be substantiated in His inspired word.
     While it is important to note that the Holy Spirit is distinct from the word of God, at the same time the Spirit and the word are inseparable. Without the Holy Spirit we would not have God’s word (Eph. 3:3-5; 6:17), and without God’s word we would have neither knowledge of nor the possibility of receiving the Holy Spirit (Acts 19:2; Eph. 1:13). The word of God is “the sword of the Spirit” (Eph. 6:17) which effectively works in those who submit to it (1 Thess. 2:13; Heb. 4:12). The Spirit-inspired word teaches us how to become children of God, and once we have obeyed and been saved by it (Jas. 1:18, 21; 1 Pet. 1:22-23), we are given the gift of the Holy Spirit to testify to God that we belong to Him as the redeemed in Christ and to guarantee our salvation as long as we abide by His teachings (Acts 2:38; 5:32; Rom. 8:16; Eph. 1:13-14). How do I know that I have God’s Spirit living within me? The Bible tells me so.
--Kevin L. Moore

     1 Unless otherwise noted, all scripture quotations are from the NKJV.
     2 There are at least three different manifestations of the Spirit in the New Testament. (1) The baptismal (full) manifestation was received by Christ (Acts 10:38), and to some degree by the apostles (Acts 1:4-5; 2:1-4) and Cornelius’ household (Acts 10:44-47); it was direct and temporary. The purpose was to confirm Jesus’ identity and message (see Tempted as We Are), to equip the apostles to carry on the Lord’s ministry, and to verify God’s acceptance of Gentiles (see Holy Spirit Baptism). (2) The secondary manifestation was received through the laying on of apostles’ hands (Acts 8:14-17; 19:6; Rom. 1:7-11; 2 Tim. 1:6) and was indirect and temporary. The purpose was to provide a means for God’s revelation and its confirmation in the absence of the complete New Testament (see Questions 2). (3) The ordinary (non-miraculous) manifestation is received by all who obey the gospel (Acts 5:32; 1 Cor. 3:16-17) and is abiding. The purpose is to establish a new relationship as the redeemed belonging to God (see Questions 1).
     3 This could extend further to include all other spiritual blessings available in Christ as well (Acts 3:19; Eph. 1:3).
     4 At the end of the day, whether or not I believe it or fully comprehend it or can adequately explain it -- it is what it is, and the reality of what the Lord does is not jeopardized or thwarted by my personal ignorance and limitations.
     5 Harold K. Moulton, The Analytical Greek Lexicon Revised 382.
     6 We can know that God providentially works in our lives (Rom. 8:28), but we cannot always be certain about the specifics (cf. Esther 4:14; Philemon 15). For an outsider's perspective on this, see Libby Anne's "The Most Unconvincing Evidence for God Ever," <Link>.

Related articles: Wes McAdams' Understanding the Spirit's Role

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Wednesday, 19 August 2015

Harmonizing Luke and Paul (Part 2 of 2)

     Luke makes a clear distinction between the brothers of Jesus and the apostles of Jesus (Acts 1:13-14). Who, then, was the James whom Paul seems to include among the apostles and identifies as the Lord’s brother (Gal. 1:19)? Before this question can be answered, at least three more questions need to be considered: (1) Is adelphos (“brother”) used here in its literal sense, or is a more general usage intended? (2) What is meant by the term apostoloi (“apostles”) in this context? (3) Does ei mê (“except”) necessarily include James among the apostles?
     1.  If adelphos is used here in a more general sense, it is possible that the Lord’s “cousin” is intended and thus Paul may be referring to the apostle James, son of Alphaeus (Luke 6:15; Acts 1:13). The word adelphos, according to H. K. Moulton, may be used in the broader sense of “near kinsman or relative” (Analytical Greek Lexicon Revised 6). There was a Mary (not Jesus’ mother) who was the wife of Cleopas and mother of James and Jose[s/ph] (Matt. 27:56; John 19:25). If “Cleopas” is the Graecized form of the name “Alphaeus,” as some suggest, it is possible that James, son of Mary and Cleopas, is the same as the apostle James, son of Alphaeus. Furthermore, the wording of John 19:25 may suggest that Mary, the wife of Cleopas, was the sister of Jesus’ mother, which would then make Jesus and the apostle James first cousins.
     This view, however, is considerably weakened by the number of unprovable suppositions upon which it is based, plus other information that argues strongly against it. First of all, there is no evidence in the New Testament that the word adelphos (“brother”) is used in a broad sense to include near relations. Paul was familiar with the word “cousin” (anepsios), as we see in Col. 4:10, and could have used that word in Gal. 1:19 if that is what he intended. While the Hebrew ach (“brother”) is used loosely in isolated cases to designate male relatives of various degrees (cf. Gen. 13:8; 14:14; etc.) and is translated into Greek as adelphos, the New Testament usage does not appear to be as general (cf. BAGD 16). Even in the Old Testament, the context makes it clear whenever the word “brother” is used in any but its normal sense, which we do not find in Gal. 1:19. The word adelphos simply means “a brother (whether born of the same two parents, or only of the same father or the same mother)” (J. H. Thayer, Greek-English Lexicon 10).
     Furthermore, the idea that James was the cousin of Jesus depends on the assumption that three rather than four women are mentioned in John 19:25. If it is concluded that Mary is the sister of the Lord’s mother, the problem is the unlikelihood that two sisters would have the same name! Since Salome was also present on this occasion (Mark 15:40), could she not be the sister of Jesus’ mother (making the sons of Zebedee [James and John] the Lord’s cousins)? Another difficulty is the uncertainty that the names Cleopas and Alphaeus are identical, and even if these appellations are derived from the same source, there is no evidence that they belonged to the same person. Finally, if James and his brothers were merely the Lord’s cousins, it is hard to account for the fact that they were regularly in the company of Jesus’ mother (Matt. 12:46-47; 13:55; Luke 8:19-20; John 2:12) rather than their own mother, who was still living at the time (Mark 15:40-41). When Paul speaks of the Lord’s “brother,” he is apparently referring to James, the literal half-brother of Jesus.
     2. The next question is how the word apostolos (“apostle”) is used by Paul in Gal. 1:19. If it is used in a generic sense, then it is possible for James to be called an “apostle” without being included among the twelve. In the New Testament the word apostolos generally refers to one who is sent and thus can be used in the sense of a delegate, envoy, or messenger (BAGD 99). Epaphroditus, having been sent by the Philippi church, was their apostolos or “messenger” (Phil. 2:25). Brethren who were sent to distribute relief aid were called apostoloi (“messengers”) of the churches (2 Cor. 8:23). Barnabas and Saul are called apostoloi (“apostles”) after being sent out by the church at Antioch (Acts 13:3; 14:4, 14). Jesus Christ, having been sent by the Father (John 17:3), is described as the apostolos (“apostle”) and high priest of our confession (Heb. 3:1).
     While it is plausible that James is referred to as an apostolos in the broad sense, it is not likely. For one thing, James does not appear to have been sent out anywhere, but remained in Jerusalem (Acts 12:17; 15:13; 21:18; Gal. 1:19; 2:9, 12), although it seems he did “take along” a believing wife (1 Cor. 9:5) and may have gone out to the areas surrounding Jerusalem (cf. Acts 8:14, 25; 9:28). But Paul appears to be consistent with his use of the word apostolos in his epistle to the Galatians (1:1, 17, 19; 2:8), the most obvious sense of which is not generic. Therefore apostolos in this passage evidently means “apostle” in its official, customarily understood sense.
     3. The final consideration is the meaning of ei mê in Galatians 1:19. The combination of ei (if) and (not) is used in a negative statement to mean “except” or “but.” In Galatians 1:19 the footnote of the ASV suggests “but only” as an alternate translation, and Hugo McCord renders this verse: “I saw no other apostle, but I did see James (the Lord’s brother).” If this is what Paul had in mind, then James is not included among the apostles and the problem is solved.
     Bear in mind that the easy answers are not always the right answers, but the integrity of scripture is not impugned when alleged discrepancies are more carefully investigated. It is reasonably clear that when the accounts of Paul and Luke are interwoven, the harmony of events may be summarized as follows. Paul went to Jerusalem about three years after his conversion. He was briefly introduced to the apostles, but spent most of his time with Peter and preached to unbelievers in Judea. He did not get to know the other apostles during this visit, but he did become acquainted with James, the Lord’s brother. Luke and Paul highlight different aspects of the same historical events, but they complement rather than contradict each other.
--Kevin L. Moore

Related articles: Barry Newton's Did Paul Agree with Luke?

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Wednesday, 12 August 2015

Harmonizing Luke and Paul (Part 1 of 2)

     The activities of Paul after his conversion at Damascus are briefly detailed in Galatians 1:15-24. The problem is, Paul’s version of events is different from the historical information provided by Luke, and the two accounts are difficult to harmonize. Apparent discrepancies include the following:
First, Luke gives the impression that Paul went to Jerusalem shortly after his conversion (Acts 9:26), but Paul says there was at least a three-year interval (Gal. 1:18).
Second, Luke reports that Paul “was with them at Jerusalem, coming in and going out” (Acts 9:28)1 and preached “in Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea” (Acts 26:20), whereas Paul claims that he “was unknown by face to the churches of Judea ...” (Gal. 1:22).
Third, Luke mentions that Paul met “the apostles,” implying that he met all of them (Acts 9:27), yet Paul affirms that he saw only Peter and James (Gal. 1:18-19).
Finally, Paul seems to include James “the Lord’s brother” among the apostles (Gal. 1:19), while Luke does not (Luke 6:14-16; Acts 1:13).
     The first two difficulties are reasonably simple to resolve. Luke’s purpose in writing the book of Acts was not to give an intricately detailed description of the early church’s activities. In fact, he covers approximately 32 years of history in only 28 chapters. His brief historical overview is easily filled in with information recorded elsewhere in the New Testament. The statement, “And when Saul had come to Jerusalem …” (Acts 9:26), does not indicate whether this was immediately after his initial stay in Damascus or after a few years. No time period is specified, therefore no discrepancy exists between the respective accounts of Luke and Paul.
     Next, how could Paul have preached “in Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea” (Acts 26:20) and yet be “unknown by face to the churches of Judea” (Gal. 1:22)? First of all, Jerusalem is often distinguished from the rest of Judea (Luke 5:17; 6:17; Acts 1:8; 2:14; 8:1; 26:20). Secondly, Paul was preaching to non-Christians in Judea, not to the churches (Acts 9:29; 22:18; 26:17-23). Again, Luke’s version of events is easily harmonized with Paul’s.
     A more challenging dilemma is Luke’s intimation that Paul met all the apostles (Acts 9:27), while Paul claims that he saw only Peter and James (Gal. 1:18-19). The word translated “to see” (NKJV) in verse 18 is historeô, which actually means to visit for the purpose of getting to know someone (BAGD 383). The NASB renders this word, “to become acquainted with.” Paul did more than just casually observe Peter. He spent time with and got to know him.
     When Paul writes that he did not “see” the other apostles (Gal. 1:19), the word he uses here is eidon. Like historeô, the term eidon has a broader range of meanings than simply to view with one’s eyes. It can also carry the idea of experiencing something or visiting with someone (cf. Luke 8:20; 17:22; 1 Thess. 2:17; 3:10). For Paul, “seeing” (eidon) the brethren in Corinth meant spending time with them (1 Cor. 16:3-7). It is also used in the sense of getting to know someone (cf. Luke 9:9; 23:8; John 12:21; Acts 28:20). Paul wanted to “see” (eidon) the saints in Rome, which involved much more than just looking at them (Rom. 1:10-15). Paul seems to be saying in Gal. 1:18-19, considering that eidon is so closely connected with historeô, that he simply did not get acquainted with the other apostles. Apparently he was briefly introduced to them (Acts 9:27), but he only spent considerable time with and got to know Peter and James.  Thus, the accounts of Paul and Luke are not inconsistent.
     The final and more difficult challenge is determining which James is referred to in this passage and whether or not he was actually included among the apostles. There is more than one person identified as “James” in the New Testament. One is John’s brother, the son of Zebedee and Salome (Matt. 4:21; 27:56; cf. Mark 15:40), killed by Herod Agrippa I in the year 44 (Acts 12:2). But it is highly unlikely that he is the one considered by Paul in Galatians 1:19. Another of the twelve apostles was also called James, namely the son of Alphaeus and Mary (Matt. 27:56; 10:3; Mark 3:18; Luke 6:15; Acts 1:13). He is probably the one also known as “James the Less” (Mark 15:40). Could this have been the James identified by Paul in Galatians 1:19 as the Lord’s brother?
     Jesus was not an only child, and he did have a brother named James. Joseph had no sexual relations with Mary until she had given birth to Jesus, her firstborn son (Matt. 1:25; Luke 2:7). If Jesus had been her only child, he would have been described as her huion monogenê (“only son”) rather than her huion prôtotokon (“firstborn son”). There is a strong implication here that Mary had other children after Jesus was born. Moreover, the Gospels reveal that Jesus had at least four half-brothers and at least two or more half-sisters, and the brothers were named James, Jose[s/ph], Simon, and Judas (Matt. 13:55-56; Mark 6:3).
     It is interesting that among the apostles were those who also wore the names James, Simon, and Judas (Luke 6:15-16), and attempts have been made to identify them as the Lord’s brothers. One argument against this conclusion is the distinction made between the apostles and the brothers of Jesus (Acts 1:13-14). But this objection is not conclusive since the same apparent distinction is also made regarding the apostle Peter (1 Cor. 9:5; cf. Mark 16:7). However, that the half-brothers of Jesus were not counted among the original apostles is evident from the fact that even after the twelve had been chosen (John 6:67), the Lord’s brothers did not believe in him as the Christ (John 7:5).2 The next article will consider this further.
--Kevin L. Moore

     1 Unless otherwise noted, scripture quotations are from the New King James Version.
     2 Neither is there sufficient data to support the hypothesis that Joseph and Alphaeus were brothers and James was the product of a Levirate marriage between Joseph and Alphaeus' widow.

Related Posts: Harmonizing Luke & Paul Part 2James and the Law of MosesThe Epistle of JacobWhat did Paul do in Arabia?

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Ten Charges by GV-CHP Against One Auburn Man

Nevada County Deputies eventually pulled over an Auburn man who did not initially yield to officers near HWY 49 and McKnight Way Monday. The man gave the Deputy a false identification and appeared to be under the influence. The Deputy turned the stop over to the Grass Valley CHP and the officer determined the driver 24 year old Anthony Ryan Givens of Auburn to be under the influence of a controlled substance. CHP Officer Justin Barnthouse says once the vehicle was taken for impound, drugs were found.

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Givens was charges with 3 felonies and 7 misdemeanors, 4 of the charges were for outstanding warrants. Givens was booked into the Wayne Brown correctional facility.

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Wednesday, 30 March 2011

The Unlikely Messenger

“Come and see the man who told me everything I have ever done. Could he be the Messiah?” (John Chapter 4 vs. 29) What a powerful message from an unlikely messenger. This is the message the Samaritan woman with dodgy past went and shared with her fellow country men and women after she had met Jesus. Wouldn’t it be nice if all Christians adopt this invitational attitude?

Just tell people your experience with Jesus and invite others to come and experience it themselves. That won’t be difficult. Would it? Except of course you haven’t really experienced anything after encountering Jesus. And in that case many would question what sort of encounter you’ve had with Jesus, bearing in mind that no one encounters Jesus and remain the same.

Two enemies whose worlds would ordinarily never connect discover at the well that they needed each other. They ended up having a mutual benefits; Jesus had the message of the kingdom being delivered to the people His people hated, and who hated them. The Samaritan woman on the other hand had her past guilt and shame gone. Yet this meeting wouldn’t have happened at all if Jesus had kept the status quo. The status quo is you are a Jew and I am a Samaritan. And we’re enemies. Jews and Samaritans don’t meet let alone talk, and if the Samaritan is a woman that is even worse. Sometimes the only way to see the glory of God is to tear down the long held rules, customs, traditions and history. In other words, we need to challenge or question the status quo. Though both Hebrews the wall that separated the Jews and the Samaritans is comparable to what in our present day separates the Israelis and the Palestine.

It is therefore quite strange that Jesus and the disciples decided to travel to the enemy territory. It’s hard to imagine that this all a chance encounter. Was Jesus up to something? His intention was to break down the “barrier” between the Jews and the Samaritans. Jesus intentionally crossed the enemy line to be the bridge between the Jews and the Samaritans. In their conversation, the Samaritan woman was quick to mention the negative (what separates them) i.e. a Jew and a Samaritan. Jesus was focused on the positive (what brings them together) i.e. both ancestors of Jacob. He then gradually hammered home his kingdom message and in the end the woman got it. The woman was surprised that Jesus knew everything about her. Even more surprised is that despite Jesus knowing all her past he still accepts her. Do you get the lesson here? Come as you are.

It must be the duty of all Christians to break down “barriers” wherever we find them. That is what our Lord Jesus did and so must we. So much opportunities and blessings are missed because we are busily erecting barriers along the lines of friendship, families, tribes, communities, and nations. I can’t do this with you because you’re of different; nationality, tribe, or a race. It’s quite surprising that some Christians can’t do anything in common because they are Evangelical, Charismatic, or Orthodox. As Christians our role is to build bridges not create barriers. For healing and peace to prevail we have to do all we can even if it entails crossing the enemy lines. Jesus shows us that we need one another. We must constantly seek to bring people together not to separate them.

The meeting of the two had profound positive effect on the Samaritan woman. In haste she forgot about the water she came to get from the well and went to town with this message “Come and see the man who told me everything I have ever done. Could he be the Messiah?” (John Chapter 4 vs.29). Was she not the same woman who has been ostracized and shunned from society? Before she met Jesus she couldn’t even come to the well to get water with her peers for fear of ridicule let alone have conversation in public. After she met Jesus all her guilt, shame and fear are gone. She could now stand in public and talk about the Messiah. Indeed no one encounters Jesus and remain the same.


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Sunday, 1 January 2012

Don’t wait too long to invite them back

   Some came from far away towns and cities. Others came from very close by towns. Some were families and relatives.  Others were friends and colleagues. Some were excellent guests and we enjoyed their presence.  Others were horrible and we’ve already decided never to have them in our homes again. I am talking about the guests we had for the Christmas.

   Apart from the personal invite the church also invited some personalities and neighbours to special church activities such as nativity play and carol service during the festive period. Many would have had excellent feedback. The question is how do we move on from here? Are we going to wait till another Christmas before we extend another invitation?

   Obviously, some relationships were cemented and new ones created. Many will nurture such relationships through the social media-facebook, twitter etc. But there’s nothing wrong with extending such social encounter to spiritual encounter. So instead of waiting till another Christmas why not invite them to church services and activities.

   Perhaps the events of the festivities might have left some people bruised and needing healing and therapy. Chances are that some would now consider faith in God, marriage counseling, debt counseling, healthy lifestyle, overcoming loneliness etc. I believe the church has the capacity to deal with such issues. The longer you wait the difficulty it becomes to invite them. There can’t be perfect time than now.  Let’s start inviting them back.

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Gamasutra has published a postmortem for the hugely successful Bioshock; nothing contained within is particularly shocking (though comments have groused that they left out some big snafus), though I think it's always interesting to see what participants in the creation process have to say about the success (or lack thereof). The article goes beyond game elements and gets into things like how design teams were organized. But where does Alyssa Finley, project lead, have to say about the problems the Bioshock team ran into?:

Our goal when we set out to make BioShock was very clear. We wanted to get to the next level, moving beyond our suite of critically acclaimed games to make a blockbuster. A lot of factors aligned to make this possible: the commercial backing of 2K; the game design knowledge we'd acquired from building System Shock 2; the technological familiarity with our Unreal-based engine that we'd built with previous games. But we still had to figure out how to make it all big-blockbuster big. A lot of our problems came from underestimating how big the task of making a triple-A product for multiple platforms and multiple regions really is. And other problems came from over-estimating our capacity to solve those problems using our existing procedures and staffing levels. If there's an over-arching theme of our development, it's that we, like many other developers, believe that ultimate success in this industry comes from iteration. You have to build, evaluate (and have others evaluate) and be prepared to throw things away and rebuild.

It's not terribly long, clocking in at 4 pages, and worth a read — even if you weren't a particular fan of the game. Postmortem: 2K Boston/2K Australia's BioShock [Gamasutra]


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Israeli settlers on the West Bank have discovered a new way of getting their message across: Violent shoot 'em ups based on the Six Day War and Biblical history.

Israeli settlers in the West Bank have stumbled on a new way to get their message across: computer games. An advocacy group for religious settlers called the Residents' Councils of Samaria and Binyamin recently commissioned a series of religious- and nationalistic-themed video games. The target audience for the games is Israeli youth—all four of the Residents' Councils' games are Hebrew-language only.

To an American audience, the content of the games seems strange.

In the first game, Judah Maccabee, players are cast in the role of a Maccabee who sneaks into a Greek camp to obtain the "sword of Apollonius." Another game, Ahab in Samaria, lets players slay invading soldiers attacking the biblical Kingdom of Israel. The third game currently available, Ammunition Hill, casts the player as an Israeli soldier invading East Jerusalem in one of the bloodiest battles of the Six-Day War. A fourth game that is still being developed allows players to play a scout on a hang glider who guides the ancient Israelites to the Promised Land. Whether hang gliders actually existed in the early Biblical era is, of course, open to debate.

All four games were developed by an Israeli firm called Virtual 3D that primarily markets archaeological software. To date, Virtual 3D's best known project is a virtual reconstruction of the Second Temple.

The games themselves are web productions done up in Shockwave, with freeware downloadable versions available for PC consumers. In all honesty, the game play will underwhelm most players: All three games currently online are low-tech first-person slash n' shoots in the vein of Doom and Wolfenstein 3D.

The Residents' Council posted a clunky Hebrew-language explanatory intro to their games online:

Hello Dear Grandchildren,

I know you love computer games, so I madea special Bar/Bat Mitzvah gift for you:

A series of three-dimensional computer games.

While playing them you will discover many interesting and important things about the Land of Israel, Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel, and its history.

And most importantly: This is your chance to take part in historical events! [...]

Grandpa Abraham

The Residents' Council did not respond to an interview request by Fast Company as of press time.

According to an interview in the English-language West Bank settler publication Israel National News, Residents' Council head Itzik Shadmi intends for the games to be used as propaganda:

In education, one sometimes needs to take roundabout routes to reach the target in a better way. The road may be longer but it holds promise for better results. Today's youths are surrounded by external stimuli that change rapidly all around them, and we must be aware of this.

The use of video and computer games as propaganda has a long history that includes products by groups including the U.S Army, Hezbollah, and the Iranian Republican Guards.

For more stories like this, follow @fastcompany on Twitter. Email Neal Ungerleider, the author of this article, here.


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No, I'm not making a joke about how SimCity's makers doubtless wish they could hit "undo" on last week's embarrassing, disastrous launch. (Though I don't doubt that's the case.) I'm saying I think SimCity actually needs an undo button. You know, Control+Z. A shake of the smartphone. A little button with a backwards-curving arrow on it.

Over the weekend, I finally had a chance to play the game for a couple of extended periods of time, and an undo feature was the first thing I found myself missing. The first time I accidentally created (or, in the game's goofy parlance, "plopped") a convention center two blocks from where I'd intended, I reflexively went for Control+Z and found, to my chagrin, that it didn't work.

I remember having the same instinct when playing the game at a preview session a little while back. The reflex to hit undo is simply ingrained in my process at this point. When I'm recording music or writing a score, working in Photoshop or writing an article for Kotaku, the ability to move forward and backward in time has become a vital part of my creative process.

I'd hazard a guess that I'm not the only one who, upon starting SimCity, found himself reaching for the undo shortcut. And yet the game offers no such option. That's not new for SimCity, mind—impermanence is at the core of the series, and the new game is no different. As always, the bulldozer is your undo button.

It's one thing to live with conscious decisions, and quite another to live with accidental mouse-clicks.

But there is a difference between the new SimCity and the old games, and it's one that I fear will have a significant chilling effect on my long-term enjoyment of the game. It's tied, as I'm finding most of the other things I don't like about SimCity are, to SimCity's always-online, cloud-based gameplay.

Past SimCity games did have a sort of undo button—you could reload your past saved games and undo everything you'd done since you last saved the game. As a result, it was actually freeing that the game didn't let you immediately undo a bad placement or unfortunate strategy. It was possible to spend a half hour seeing if you could correct an error, and then, if you'd really hosed yourself, reload a save and try again. If you did manage correct out of the mistake, it was particularly rewarding.

In the new SimCity, that's impossible. You live with every mistake, and so far for me, that's made the game less enjoyable. I like that in SimCity, as in past games in the series, my decisions have consequences. If I decide to encourage gambling in my city, my crime rate will go up. If I run a profitable mining industry with oil power, my skies will grow brown with pollution.

But it's one thing to live with conscious decisions, and quite another to live with accidental mouse-clicks. The new SimCity has a relentless, often compulsive forward momentum to it. That, coupled with a lack of true control over the flow of time, leaves me feeling powerless in a way that I don't really enjoy. Mistakes that in past SimCity games would have been a worry-free excuse to experiment instead feel like a frustrating waste of time and resources.

Ever since I first played it, I've been concerned that SimCity would feel somewhat transient. As every city is in a constant state of flux, and without the option to create discrete saved games, I worried that it'd all feel a bit like writing in the sand.

Now that I've played the game for a longer period of time, I've found that feeling has only grown more pronounced. SimCity encourages me to experiment, but once I'm done experimenting, my only options are to live with my mangled results or clear the slate and start fresh. As a result, I feel like a stone skipping across the surface-tension of a potentially deeper game. I've yet to feel as though I'm actually building anything in this city-building game.


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Shard, a platformer meant to be played with a friend, was still incomplete when its creator passed away. Now, two of his collaborators are trying to finish it.

Roger Morash died along with his wife, Valerie, and their pets on January 23rd, due to “acute carbon monoxide poisoning.” Morash had been a former Harmonix developer, and had at the time been working on a game with artist Anita Tung, called Shard.

Shard was to be a co-op puzzle platformer, and Tung had been working on it with Morash for three and a half years. “I hadn’t met Roger before working on Shard,” Tung told Kotaku. “He’d actually found my work online, noticed I was local, and got in touch about hiring me as a contractor to develop Shard’s visual style and in game art.”

She and a musician who had also been working on the game, Kasson Crooker, told Gamasutra that they’d been encouraged to complete the game after Morash’s death by their local dev community. “It’s really the support from various game development communities that has encouraged us to keep producing the game itself,” Tung told Gamasutra. “We would never attempt to do this without the advice and support of so many incredibly knowledgeable and experienced people.”

Shard’s latest gameplay video, uploaded before Morash’s death, shows a beautiful, vibrant world made out of triangular scraps of color that look like pieces of tissue paper floating in the wind. The game is highlighted by Crooker’s contemplative, synth heavy music. Players would use their special abilities to complete platforming challenges together, swapping them as need be:

Although completing Morash’s vision without him is a challenge, at the time of his death, Tung had been working with him on a demo that would show the progression of the game from start to finish. “He made it clear from the beginning that he wanted me to bring my own ideas to the game, as opposed to following a script that he’d already laid out,” she said. “The original idea was his alone, but one of the primary reasons that I’m comfortable continuing work on Shard is that the design documents and core pillars of the game are things that we worked on together very closely.”

Crooker told Gamasutra that they’d also been working closely with Morash throughout the project:

[Crooker had] previously worked with Morash at Harmonix, and was brought in at around the same time as Tung, focusing on the music and sound design.

“As Roger was creating and customizing the game engine and editor for Shard, that gave us a great deal of control over the exact tools we’d need to bring the audio alive,” says Crooker. With that freedom, Crooker was able to exercise his interest in blurring a game’s score with its sound design, as well as mixing vintage synthesizers with traditional instruments like classical guitar and strings.

In talking about the game, Tung said that what made it special was Morash’s passion for collaborative gaming. “A lot of our discussions and gameplay iterations were devoted to encouraging the players to interact with each other and work together, as opposed to being able to go through the game individually,” she said. “We were very excited to build something beautiful and strange that needed to be experienced with another person rather than alone.”

If you want to follow Shard’s development, you can sign up for a mailing list on its official website, as well as follow its Facebook page and Twitter.


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[5/2/17] Trojan Softball Suffers Another Loss At home

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Submitted by Manson Softball Coach, Kendra Farnsworth

After a long season cursed by weather, the Lady Trojans finally got to play a few games on their home field at Singleton Park Monday. The Liberty Bell Mountain Lions traveled to Manson for two games.

Bianca Alexander pitched game #1. She had one strikeout and gave up 18 hits. The Trojan defense struggled to get outs. Liberty Bell scored 5 in the first inning, 16 in the second and 12 in the third. The Trojans did score 5 runs. Jasmine Pascacio and Diocelina Cervantes each had a single and a run scored.  Devyn Smith also had a single. Alondra Chavez,  Gladys Rodriguez and Libbey Ireland each scored a run as well. The final score of game #1 was 5-33.

Diocelina Cervantes pitched game #2 for the Trojans. The first inning was rough. 11 runs scored on three errors by Trojan defense. She only allowed one run in the second and four in the third. The defense looked better in this game. The Trojans had two outs at home and Devyn Smith threw out a runner stealing second base. Karina Mendoza made some key plays at shortstop and Libbey Ireland also had a nice catch in left field. Unfortunately, offense was a struggle in this game.

Megan Clausen hit a screaming double way out to left center field that scored Karina Mendoza, the only run of the game. Karina also had a hit in the third inning. The final score of game #2 was 1-16.

The Lady Trojans host Waterville Thursday evening for the final games of the season. Thursday is also senior night for our three seniors, Karina Mendoza, Jasmine Pascacio and Bianca Alexander. We are looking forward to honoring these three ladies and the talent and spirit they have brought to our team.


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f(x) Krystal and SJ Siwon and Eunhyuk to be Music Core's MC's

f(x) member Krystal and Super Junior members Choi Siwon and Eunhyuk will be this week's MC's for Music Core.

Last week, Wonder Girls and Yong Hwa took the spots of MC's and this week, another round of new MC's will take the place of Yuri and Tiffany of SNSD who are taking a break from their MC duties.

Meanwhile, Todays Music Core will be featuring hot comebacks from SS501, Goodbye stages from After School and 8eight, also Super Junior, CNBLue, 4minute and many more will be present on stage.


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Storage Cabinet

A while ago at work we had a discussion about how to design a storage cabinet (for hard drives) that was both practical and cheap. The idea we ended up with was taking some sort IKEA furniture, putting in a power supply, and then adding a bunch of SATA-to-USB converters.

However it appears that a company called Addonics have already had that idea – except their stuff actually looks professional. I am sure it would be possible to build a nice little storage cabinet using their Storage Tower, a NAS Adapter, and some other bits.

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Ab, Eb, Db and C – spread over different octaves with different instrument voicing and percussion – the bass line is a repeated descending arpeggiation of the four notes with a simple melody voice above that is ornamented by another voice. Both voices then move in parallel motion.

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Water Pipeline Rejected

New Mexico – State Engineer John D'Antonio has denied a water rights application that would have cleared the way for a proposed pipeline to transport water from the Pecos River Basin in eastern New Mexico to Santa Fe and other cities along the middle Rio Grande corridor.

Berrendo LLC submitted an application two years ago to change the place and proposed use for 6,600 acre-feet of water from wells near Fort Sumner. The company had said the pipeline would be good for the Fort Sumner area and was necessary to provide drinking water for the fastest growing parts of the state.

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Our Surveillance Society: What Orwell And Kafka Might Say

Jun 8, 2013
Originally published on June 9, 2013 11:48 am

President Obama says he's not Big Brother. The author who created the concept might disagree.

Addressing the controversy over widespread government surveillance of telephone records and Internet traffic Friday, Obama said, "In the abstract, you can complain about Big Brother and how this is a potential program run amok, but when you actually look at the details, then I think we've struck the right balance."

But for many commentators, revelations this week that the federal government is sweeping up records of communications and transactions between millions of Americans sounds uncomfortably like the vision of the British novelist and journalist George Orwell.

His novel Nineteen Eighty-Four portrayed a society in which the state constantly tracks the movements and thoughts of individuals. Its slogan is "Big Brother Is Watching You."

"Throwing out such a broad net of surveillance is exactly the kind of threat Orwell feared," says Michael Shelden, author of Orwell: The Authorized Biography.

The phrases "Big Brother" and "Orwellian" have been commonplace in news coverage and social media this past week. Orwell's novel, a bestseller upon publication in the 1940s, has remained a classic because it seems to crystallize what life under totalitarian regimes looks like.

Obama — and many others — insist that the U.S. is not living under such a regime. The government is not listening to everyone's telephone calls, Obama said on Friday, nor is it using the information to spy on innocent Americans.

And, even in the tradition of prophetic literature that warns of the dangers of bureaucratic power run amok, there is an awareness that the protection of the state, while intrusive, is necessary.

Based On Experience

Although set in the future, Nineteen Eighty-Four was based on Orwell's observations of Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany, as well as his own experiences as a broadcaster and colonial officer in the British Empire.

"He was so good at picking up on trends that he picked up our whole future," says Shelden, who teaches English at Indiana State University.

In particular, Shelden says, Orwell's time as a policeman serving in Burma showed him how governments seek to keep track of people and what they're up to — the more complete the file, the better.

"What he saw was that over time, surveillance would become pervasive," Shelden says. "He just took that idea and expanded it in Nineteen Eighty-Four to basically a police state."

Although Orwell's ideas struck some as paranoid, the British government in 2007 opened up its file on the author. It turned out the spy agency MI5 had tracked him from 1929 until his death in 1950.

Big Data = Big Brother?

Orwell certainly would have understood that officials would point to the unending threat of something like terrorism as a justification for ongoing, widespread surveillance.

"He could see that war and defeating an enemy could be used as a reason for increasing political surveillance," Shelden says. "You were fighting a never-ending war that gave you a never-ending excuse for looking into people's lives."

What would have surprised Orwell, he says, was not that governments are collecting huge amounts of data about individuals, but that private actors are as well.

Even if it didn't turn out that the federal government has a direct pipeline into Verizon, Google, Yahoo and other such companies, those companies would control huge amounts of information about Americans on their own.

It's not just the corporations performing surveillance. What Orwell calls the "proles" in his novel — the average citizens who help the state keep an eye on everybody — are also tracking and documenting each other's movements in real life these days.

With the advent of smartphones and widespread surveillance cameras, no conversation or movement in the public sphere can be considered private.

On Wednesday, a woman posted a picture of a man she said she'd sat near on a train, who'd been bragging with friends about affairs they'd had without their wives catching on. By Saturday morning, the image had been shared more than 170,000 times.

"We have the capacity now to be a huge nation of informers," Shelden says.

Kafka's Binocular Vision

Image collection by everybody can have its uses. The sharing of images of the Boston Marathon helped law enforcement quickly home in on the alleged perpetrators.

The mixed feelings people have about the balance between privacy and security would have been familiar to Franz Kafka, the famed 20th century author of novels and stories about bureaucracies that are out of touch and out of control.

There are many elements of the current situation that are Kafkaesque, says Stanley Corngold, an emeritus professor of German and comparative literature at Princeton University. Kafka raises questions not only about governments collecting massive amounts of information "like a giant vacuum cleaner," Corngold says, but what they do with it.

In Kafka's novel The Castle, the authorities can't find the document that would determine whether the person who's been brought in is wanted, or not.

"They have piles and piles and piles of documents, but they don't do anything with them," says Corngold, a Kafka translator and scholar.

But though Kafka is remembered for creating situations in which characters helplessly seek to appeal judgments when they're not even sure what the charges are, he also recognized that the people are often, in fact, guilty.

"Kafka has the uncanny ability to see the point of view of both parties," Corngold says.

In stories such as "The Great Wall of China," Kafka recognized that people look to the state to protect them from "barbarians," recognizing that they're not capable of fending off outside threats on their own.

"At times, he mocks the illusion of an effective, centralized authority," Corngold says. "At other times, he suggests that without its aid, we cannot cope with the 'barbarians.'"

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Monday, October 18, 2010

Will QE2 Sail into a Better Economy?

As we all know, Ben Bernanke believes the unemployment rate is too high and the inflation rate is too low. He’s certainly right about the former. However, regarding inflation, booming gold and commodity prices and the sinking dollar suggest that U.S. inflation will be rising in about a year, not falling.

Does the Fed head look at market-driven prices? Surely he does. But it’s equally certain that this will not deter him from pump-priming QE2. Underneath it all, Bernanke believes in the false Phillips Curve tradeoff between inflation and unemployment.

But an interesting question is: How weak is the economy? There’s a lot of pessimism about this, but Friday’s report on retail sales was very strong. Retail sales are up three straight months for a 7.4 percent annualized rate. Year-to-year retail sales have increased 7.3 percent. That’s a strong showing.

Today’s report on industrial production showed a surprise drop of two-tenths of 1 percent. However, the 12-month change for production is 5.4 percent, a healthy pace. Inside the report, the production of business equipment continued to rise, and registered a 10.1 percent yearly increase. That is very strong. Business equipment is a key indicator of capital-goods spending and investment, which is crucial to the economy.

And in the last available factory-orders report for August, orders for non-defense capital goods (excluding aircraft) came in 20.2 percent above year-ago levels, with shipments registering a 13 percent gain. Even backlogs are up 4.1 percent year-on-year. This strongly suggests that despite the tax and regulatory threats, highly profitable businesses are in fact expanding — even while they are not yet hiring all that much.

Another indicator of potential economic strength can be gleaned from the money supply measures. M1, which is transaction money, has grown 10.2 percent at an annual rate for the three months through September. This tracks the pickup in retail sales. Broader money, called M2, has increased 6.7 percent annually over the past five months. During the first five months of 2010, M2 declined 2.2 percent at an annual rate.

So the pickup in money demand could be signaling a better economy after the spring and summer slowdown. Perhaps consumers are moving to beat the tax man who could come crashing down January 1, 2011, unless the Bush tax cuts are extended. Perhaps strong business profits are stimulating growth more than we think. And despite tepid job creation, personal incomes are rising.

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Duhtaschek: the NHL can ‘idiot-proof’ the CBA, but it can’t ‘competition-proof’ it

The Globe and Mail's Eric Duhatschek looks into his crystal ball at the close of a very disappointing week in collective bargaining news, suggesting that, regardless of whether the lockout ends sometime this month, sometime next month or after a salvageable season is scuttled for the sake of winning an abstract argument and/or ego war, the NHL will eventually "lose," and will "lose" for one reason:

As soon as the ultra-unified Jeremy Jacobs, Ed Snider, Craig Leipold, Ted Leonsis or whichever other owner finds himself present at the signing of an eventually inevitable CBA leaves the room satisfied with their "win," those gentlemen will instantly revert to the aggressively competitive owners of big boys' toys that they really are, and they will proceed to direct their general managers to out-compete their fellow owners for high-priced players' services, no matter how high the inflationary costs upon both themselves and the league as a whole may be:

The players will win because the minute the ink is dry on a new collective agreement, agents and general managers will find clever ways to circumvent the spirit and language of the new deal.

This is the unchanging way of the NHL world, where 30 teams annually compete for one prize. Team owners get frustrated by losing and eventually instruct the people who work for them to do whatever it takes to stop losing.

So you get a situation where, in the 1990s, the Boston Bruins discovered the loophole that killed that collective agreement. The Bruins – run by a notoriously tough bargainer, Harry Sinden – devised a complicated system of paying high-end entry-level players a series of A and B schedule bonuses that virtually quadrupled their salaries. Contracts for Sergei Samsonov and Joe Thornton became the model for other clubs to skirt a system that was supposed to keep salaries down in the early stages of every player’s career.

Ah, lest we forget, the man whose team is closest to the cap at this point is one Jeremy Jacobs, with, per Capgeek.com, $1.33 million in cap space under the $70.3 million upper limit (Team #2? Minnesota. Team #4? Calgary. Team #5? Philadelphia. Why are these guys trying to shoot themselves in both competitive feet again?)...

In the 2000s, the Columbus Blue Jackets killed the entry-level system and all its prohibitive restrictions by signing Rick Nash to a second contract worth $27-million (all currency U.S.) over five years, a practice that eventually brought riches to all the top players in that category.

The Detroit Red Wings started the process of signing players to long-term contracts (Johan Franzen, Henrik Zetterberg) to mitigate the effects of their annual salary-cap charge. Others hopped on that bandwagon until the New Jersey Devils gave Ilya Kovalchuk a 17-year deal two summers ago and the NHL said enough. The league kicked the contract back on the grounds that it was a blatant attempt to circumvent the salary cap. In many respects, that contract got the league to where it is today – stuck on an issue, contract length, that threatens to undermine the 2012-13 season.

The point is this: Whatever language Bettman and deputy commissioner Bill Daly come up with in the next collective agreement, whatever restrictions they impose, whatever they do to regulate a system designed to keep the playing field relatively even, it won’t matter. Teams will find a way to get around them. They always have. They always will.

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The U.S. Has More Guns, But Russia Has More Murders

Sep 21, 2013
Originally published on October 9, 2013 3:39 pm

The U.S. and Russia have been taking lots of jabs at each other.

Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized President Obama's plan for a military strike in Syria, and the Russian leader then denounced American "exceptionalism" in a biting op-ed in The New York Times.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., fired back Thursday with his own op-ed in the Russian paper Pravda, entitled, "Russia Deserves Better Than Putin."

Even Monday's shooting at the Navy Yard in Washington, in which a gunmen killed 12 people, has become part of the feud.

Alexei Pushkov, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in Russia's parliament, used the shooting to mock the United States as it was happening.

"A new shootout at Navy headquarters in Washington — a lone gunman and seven corpses. Nobody's even surprised anymore. A clear confirmation of American exceptionalism," Puskoy tweeted.

But while Pushkov sneers at U.S. gun laws, how do the stats look in Russia?

According to Gunpolicy.org, Russians have far fewer guns than Americans — and far more homicides.

There are fewer than 13 million firearms in circulation in Russia, compared with an estimated 300 million in the United States. That works out to about 9 guns per 100 people in Russia and closed to 100 guns per 100 people in America.

The most recent homicide statistics for Russia show that there were 21,603 killings in 2009.

According to the FBI, the United States had 13,636 homicides in 2009 with a population that is more than twice as large. More than 80 percent of those killings were gun-related.

It's difficult to make a direct comparison of gun homicides in the two countries because Russia doesn't break down its murder statistics.

Russian Gun Laws

Russia has tough gun laws on the books. It's illegal for Russian citizens to own automatic and semi-automatic guns. It's possible to apply for a handgun or shotgun license, though citizens are required to provide reasons such as hunting or target shooting.

Applicants face strict background checks, including criminal history, a full psychological evaluation and a medical exam. They must pass a test on firearm laws and safety.

Each weapon is then registered by the police during a home visit. Police take bullet patterns, test bullets and cartridges so bullets can be matched if the gun is used in a crime. A license lasts five years, after which applicants must go through the whole process again.

In spite of these laws, the country does have periodic mass shootings by people thought to be mentally ill.

Last November, after a five-day drinking binge, 30-year-old lawyer Dmitry Vinogradov posted a message online referring to humanity as "compost."

Shortly after, he walked into the Moscow pharmaceutical company where he worked and opened fire, killing six colleagues and critically injuring another. He was jailed for life last week.

Move To Ease Gun Laws

The Right to Bear Arms, a Moscow-based organization that has more than 5,000 members, is trying to make guns more easily available in Russia.

"Our citizens are deprived of normal tools of self-defense, and that plays an important role in public safety," Maria Butina, the group's 24-year-old founder, told The Moscow News.

But she has a long way to go in convincing the public. A poll by the Levada Center in 2011 showed that 80 percent of Russians are opposed to easing existing gun laws.

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PHOTOS: Unclaimed Veterans Honored in Camp Mabry Ceremony

Apr 28, 2014

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Twelve U.S. servicemen whose remains were left unclaimed by family or friends received full military honors on Sunday morning in front of the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall at Camp Mabry in Austin.

Veterans, joined by active military personnel and civilians, prayed for those honored at the ceremony. Keynote speaker, state Rep. José Menéndez, D- San Antonio, spoke solemnly of the service and sacrifice of those who had served their country. Later, the men received a three-volley rifle salute, while a bugle played taps.

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The memorial service was held with the assistance of Austin-area members of the Dignity Memorial Network and the Missing in America Project. Its goals are to locate, identify, and inter the unclaimed cremated remains of American veterans.

The twelve veterans honored were:

  • Capt. James Holver Hook (1903-1984)
  • Pfc. Donald George Danylock (1955-1989)
  • Staff Sgt. John Sidney Clevlen (1922-1982)
  • Pvt. Ernest Joseph Bellot (1936-2004)
  • Capt. David B. Douglas (1910-1998)
  • James Ferguson Childress (1925-1986)
  • 1st Lt. Robert Allen Rach (1924-1996)
  • Hospital Corpsman William G. Mayes (1928-2005)
  • Cpl. Donald W. Klein (1924-2001)
  • Technician Fifth Grade Edgar R. Potratz (1914-1998)
  • Spc. Fourth Class Jerry Wiedemeier (1944-2006)
  • Spc. Fourth Class Jeffery Alebert Huebner (1959-2003)

View more photos on the KUT Austin Flickr page.

Members of the military ceremoniously handled the twelve urns during the service.
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We live in a world where, sadly most producers work out of their mothers basements, constantly regurgitating the same old tired beatz over and over again, like people won’t notice. Luckily for you, three producers in Philly, who go by the name Noize Trip seek to change the status quo. Though they all come from vastly different backgrounds, these guys work together like a finely oiled classic car, meshing their talents to produce new and fresh sounds on a daily for the likes of; The peas, The Roots, Macey Gray, not to forget the delicious Fergie and Se7en. Most days you can find them at Larry Gold’s, toiling away amid a myriad of vinyl, hot tube gear, and computer screens tethered to a handful of computers and laptops.

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The Refrigerator Doth Runneth Over

I don’t know how people with big families do it. At our house, it’s just Hubby Bryan and me, and there never seems to be any room in our refrigerator. I guess when there are more hungry mouths to feed the contents of the fridge go down pretty quickly.
At this time of the year, I am always making more room in the refrigerator for fresh produce. There is no more space in the designated produce drawers, and the lowest shelf also overflows.

And not all the produce goes into cold storage. There is always a pile of tomatoes on the counter, along with a ripening avocado. Inside the cupboard there are a few onions and a small bag of new potatoes.

But the storage issue is a good problem to have. I love that there’s a multitude of veggies to choose from for our meals, and we often find ourselves making a meal just out of the fresh produce.

Monday night was a good example. It’s been designated as Salad Night at our house, and I generally just heap two large serving bowls with fresh romaine and top it with assorted vegetables and other accouterments. This time around, that included garden-fresh tomatoes, thinly sliced onions, sugar snap peas, mushrooms, toasted chow mein noodles and sliced chicken breast. Drizzled lightly over top was this dressing: in a jar or container with lid, combine ¼ cup sugar, ¼ cup salad oil, ¼ cup red wine, vinegar, 2 tablespoons soy sauce and 1 tablespoon peanut butter. Shake well to combine. (I find that heating the peanut butter in the microwave for a few seconds helps it combine better.)

Even though I always come home with a bag full of stuff from the Farmers Market — the reason for the burgeoning refrigerator —it seems like there is always something else I want to try. I’d love to hear from some readers about their favorite Farmers Market picks and how they prepare those veggies and fruits.

In the meantime, here’s a fritter recipe that was a side item at last week’s Salad Night, and a couple of recipes from local Farmers Market vendors Paul and Leona Marco of Bigelow.

Zucchini Fritters

Grate 1½ pounds zucchini; place in colander over sink. Add 1 teaspoon salt and toss gently to combine. Let sit for 10 minutes. Using a clean dish towel or cheese cloth, wring out the zucchini to get out as much moisture as possible.

Combine drained zucchini with ¼ cup all-purpose flour, ¼ cup grated Parmesan, 2 tablespoons finely minced onion, 1 small clove garlic, finely minced, and 1 large egg, beaten. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Scoop tablespoons of batter into the pan, flatten with spatula, and cook until golden brown, about 2 minutes. Flip and cook on the other side until golden brown. Serve with a dollop of sour cream or Greek yogurt on top.

Grilled Onion Blossom

Heat grill to medium-high heat.

Peel 1 large sweet onion and partially cut into six wedges, being careful not to cut all the way through. Place onion on a large sheet of foil and gently pull onion wedges apart.

Sprinkle with 3 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese. Drizzle with 2 tablespoons steak sauce.

Wrap tightly with foil. Grill 40 minutes or until onion is tender and lightly browned.

Quick Cucumber & Red Onion Salad

Cut 1 large red onion into thin slices. Peel 2 large cucumbers and cut into quarter-inch slices. Place in bowl and sprinkle with coarse salt, freshly ground pepper and 3 tablespoons rice wine vinegar. Toss thoroughly and chill in the refrigerator for half an hour.

Prior to serving, sprinkle with ¼ cup loosely packed fresh dill and toss again.

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Saturday, May 13, 2017

Planked Wood Wall Art - Butterfly

Get ready creative people.

Get a bundle of lath and your wood burner out

and lets make

a large rustic, wood planked butterfly!

Wouldn't this be a fun piece for your porch or patio area.

It would be so cute in a girl's bedroom.

I have mine in the entry.

Although it looks as if it were cut and pieced,

I actually used my wood burner to get the effect.

I thought it was time saving but achieved the look

I was going for.

I was inspired by Olive and Grain

You should see their beautiful pieced reclaimed work.

I cut a piece of utility panel 30.75" x 48".

I laid out my lath boards and used power grab adhesive.

Put weight on your boards and let dry overnight.

The most time consuming effort

was in calculating measurements,

and I've done that for you ,

so it should go smooth!

Here are the pattern marks.

Measure in from the sides and mark with chalk.

These are the lines you will use to wood burn.

After the wood burning,

I gave the whole piece a light brown wash.

Now for the fun paint part!

I used greys, blues, off white, ivory,

and even a metallic gold for one board.

You know you want to try it!

I sure hope you do.

It's so good to have your hands busy.

Trying new and different techniques

gets your creativity flowing!

Monday, April 17, 2017

How to Paint Large Feather Art

I got my paintbrushes out!

It's so relaxing and energizing at the same time.

I've been so busy learning to design patterns

on the computer and have them printed onto fabric.

Here is a sample of a watercolor flower that I painted

and then put into digital format for fabric printing.

Since I had so much fun painting my blue jay feather,

I wanted to share some steps with you guys

in case you would like one too

for this Spring and Summer.

I used 4 picket fence boards from Menards.

They are Saw Tex Fence Pickets for 99 cents each.

Base paint off white

lifting your brush at the edges to reveal

unfinished wood .

You can see the faint pencil sketch of the feather

outlined on the boards.

Here is a template for you to look at

and rough sketch.

Then starting at the bottom

with the lightest color,

I work my way to the darkest color on top.

The paints are wet so they blend as they go.

Here are some of the paints

that I used.

While your paints are still wet,

pull from the center out,

blending as you go.

With an up and down motion,

punch in some black horizontal stripes.

Then you can go back over and soften a bit

by pulling your brush down lightly.

Blend the black out more as you get to the bottom

of the feather.

Keep your paint application lighter there.

Now for some finishing tips:

Pull in some off white background paint

to make clean cut in sections.

Use a smaller flat brush.

Add some gray fine feathers on the bottom

with a liner brush.

You can also drag

some white dry brush or black dry brush

over top if you want more lines.

Also run a dark gray or black center line up the middle.

Hope you try it!

I hope to be back with another

paint project soon.

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Thursday, September 27, 2007

Many have mentioned that my posts have gotten real boring. I agree. I have this mental block that's stopping me from doing anything more than the banal.

I told a friend that I feel like I need a bungee jump. From a great height. I feel if the shock is great enough, I will dump all that pisses me off below at point 0 and swing back up free. Forgive me. A recovery attempt is on the cards, I promise you that. But for now, I really can't do much.

Wake me up when September ends.

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

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A comment post - T20 World Cup Finals:

it is stupidity of illiterate people ,, follow the example of australia, newzealand,, how they are cooll
by Bhupinder Singh on Sep 25, 2007 10:39 AM | Hide replies

south easter asian coutries are fool , bunch of fool, they are getting excited by the media and m n c to sell their product and create furore and excitement in their mind , cricket is not life, it is j ust fun and part of game, one lose and one win,,,we should take it friendly,,, not burning, abusing and slandering anyone,,pakistan are worse criminal for disobaying the humanright of minority, women and children,,,,
Yeah. How they are cool.

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by raghunatha shetty k on Sep 25, 2007 01:50 AM

which is the game in which looser & gainer will feel happy after end of the game.?

raghunatha shetty K

Answerer will be gainer and not looser.

Oh btw, WE WON!! Brilliant match it was.

Saturday, September 22, 2007

Random Rhetorical Question 2

Just because I believe in fate, do I have to be comfortable not knowing what it is?

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Neil Gaiman writes a chilling yet reassuring piece on why Ghost Stories still have relevance in the 21st Century:

Technology does nothing to dispel the shadows at the edge of things. The ghost-story world still hovers at the limits of vision, making things stranger, darker, more magical, just as it always has ....

There’s a blog I don’t think anyone else reads. I ran across it searching for something else, and something about it, the tone of voice perhaps, so flat and bleak and hopeless, caught my attention. I bookmarked it.

If the girl who kept it knew that anyone was reading it, anybody cared, perhaps she would not have taken her own life. She even wrote about what she was going to do, the pills, the Nembutal and Seconal and the rest, that she had stolen a few at a time over the months from her stepfather’s bathroom, the plastic bag, the loneliness, and wrote about it in a flat, pragmatic way, explaining that while she knew that suicide attempts were cries for help, this really wasn’t, she just didn’t want to live any longer.

She counted down to the big day, and I kept reading, uncertain what to do, if anything. There was not enough identifying information on the Web page even to tell me which continent she lived on. No e-mail address. No way to leave comments. The last message said simply, “Tonight.”

I wondered whom I should tell, if anyone, and then I shrugged, and, best as I could, I swallowed the feeling that I had let the world down.

And then she started to post again. She says she’s cold and she’s lonely.

I think she knows I’m still reading ....

I guess you wouldn't believe me if I said that I'm not who you think I am, would you? No. I don't think I can pull it off.

Read the full article here.

Monday, September 17, 2007

Robert Jordan passes away

The man who gave the world 'The Wheel of Time' series died yesterday, 16th of September 2007.

I'm currently into the 6th book in his series of 11. Although the series remains unfinished, I will read the rest of it whether or not the publishers manage to come out with the 12th final installment based on his notes that he left by in case of this eventuality. As an ode to the man who gave me a tale beyond all mythologies and legends. Rest in Peace, Dragon.

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose.... The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of time.
But it was a beginning.

Seriously. Why should the students be involved in this be called 'victims'?

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Running along the tracks of Saturn's rings,
I jogged from stone to stone till I leaped over
to Andromeda and back.
I stretched out while on a ride upon Haley
breathing out Aurora Borealis.
Heavy Breath. Radiating Breath.
Listening to the celestial symphony
that floats on Qausar radio waves.
Warm up.
Paused for a drink at the Great Dipper
before dashing off into a sprint
racing into the Crab Nebula
and beyond.
Timing myself. Waiting for an Event Horizon
So I could just about slip past Light.
Slip past Time herself,
Into the grave of vision.
Into the cradle of all life.
Into the Black Hole.
And back.
I lose again.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

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Sunday, September 02, 2007

I'm Thinking

As Destiny and Fate weave deceitful illusions of a future sparkling with hope, it's bad enough that we burn our souls today for a tomorrow that will not be. Worse is the fact that we simultaneously reach out to the comforting void of yesterday that just isn't there. In this perpetual balancing act, what is lost forever, is the meaning of the word 'Now'.

It's surprising when you realise that 'The Moment' has no weight of it's own without Consequences or Regrets. Whoever told you that he 'lived for today', lied. There is no life structure without a foundation or a purpose. Whether this is a good thing or not and your decision to believe this notion or dismiss it is your choice. As the Oracle says in The Matrix, "Because you didn't come here to make the choice. You've already made it. You're here to try to understand why you made it."

Disclaimer: No I have not lost my mind. Not yet anyway. Why? Screw you!I too have the right to be philosophical sometimes!


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Now, La Loma has moved to the heart of downtown across from the historic Brown Palace. We offer the same menu and many of the decorative touches our loyal guests have loved for decades including exposed brick with wooden accents, large, stained glass windows, and the photo of Savina Mendoza. “The restaurant is filled with character and charm,” according to Mark Brinkerhoff, William’s son, who joined his father in running the restaurant in 2005. La Loma’s famed barrel-aged tequila is still in the bar, and the atmosphere continues to be cozy and warm, welcoming parties of any size to enjoy their favorite dishes.

La Loma’s goal is to make wonderful food accessible to all of Denver and beyond. The Brinkerhoff family strives to maintain simply great food and provide world-class hospitality to their guests. La Loma will remain consistent for everyone, from the families we have served for years, to Denver’s newest residents—not just serving them excellent food, but adding a whole new generation of loyal guests who count La Loma as part of their family tradition.

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Jackson Gillman has been interpreting Rudyard Kipling stories for the past 10 years, offering entertaining day-times sessions for elementary school students as well as evening sessions for adults. Jackson is a talented engaging entertainer who has thoroughly absorbed Kipling’s character as well as many of his stories. His skill can really bring a story to life and we happily encourage any guest interested in a Kipling Evening to get in touch with him, http://www.jacksongillman.com


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4 New Wedding Favors for 2015

Can you believe it’s already 2015? Here at Landmark Venues, we are so excited for a brand new year of beautiful weddings at each of our locations. Many of our soon-to-be brides and grooms this year are already asking about new trends for the new year and how they can make their wedding truly special. Never fear, our event stylists have you covered! Read on for our list of the top four wedding favor ideas that will be a hit this year!

Give ’em the Good Stuff

Especially after the New Year, most of us could probably say that we could use to be little healthier than we were in 2014! Instead of giving your guests overplayed candy or cookies, start them off right with a mixture of natural granola or gourmet nuts. This couple at Celebrate at Snug Harbor served up their treats in cute, mason-style jars and added a colorful touch with different colors of ribbon tied around the top.

Photo by Paul Francis Photography

Bring in the Bubbly

Instead of giving your guests boring match boxes or personalized coasters, why not switch it up a bit and send them some specialty sodas? This Liberty House couple gave their guests various kinds of soda that they absolutely loved! Being soda drinkers themselves, this was a great way to tie in some of the couple’s personality into their wedding favors.

Photo by Andrew Franciosca Photography

Hand Out a Little Honey

For a rustic, country-inspired affair, small mason jars filled with honey are just the ticket for a cool wedding favor for 2015. We love how this Stone House couple, Tommy and Polina, included a cute play on words on their wedding favors! You can either fill the jars yourself as a DIY project or order them from a site like Etsy online.

Photo by Off BEET Photography

Don’t be Afraid to DIY!

If you’re on a budget for your wedding or just like to get a little crafty, don’t be afraid to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty and make some DIY wedding favors! We love these homemade candy apples made by this Stone House couple… and so did guests! Be sure to make a few varieties so that guests can pick their favorites. Also make sure you practice far in advance… you don’t want to be stressed the week before your wedding trying to make 150 candy apples!

Photo by Ting Yi Studio

Still looking for more favor ideas? Feel free to reach out to your event specialist at Liberty House, Stone House, The Ryland Inn or Celebrate at Snug Harbor to find the perfect favors to give to your guests on your big day!


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Major plans to conserve and celebrate the rich heritage of one of the North East’s most historic landscapes have secured £2.2 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) towards a £3.4m scheme. The Land of Oak & Iron project focuses on the Derwent Valley and the surrounding area – from Derwent Reservoir to the River… Read more

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HLF Bid Submitted’ ‘In July 2015’ ‘The Round 2 Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) bid has been submitted! Currently awaiting decision for this £3.4 million programme.’ Thanks to your contributions and everyone’s hard work the Land of Oak & Iron Team have successfully submitted the Round 2 funding bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). The scheme will now… Read more


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I started Palumbo Landscaping in 1995 and incorporated in June of 1996.  My first taste of landscaping came when I was only 12-years old helping a contractor landscape my parents house.  It wasn’t necessarily the landscaping itself that caught my attention but rather the lack of attention to detail that was missed.

I thrive on detail and perfection and decided to apply those skills through the art of landscaping.  Due to the fierce competitive pricing within the landscape industry I was lead to believe that consumers would always choose price over quality, when in fact I’ve found just the opposite to be true.  Though I admit I cannot compete with the “Dollar Menu” landscapers who thrive on quantity vs. quality, I provide a service that is truly unmatched and in most cases is simply not even available.

When hiring Palumbo Landscaping to complete your project you are in essence hiring an absolute perfectionist, Joe Palumbo himself.  I will meet with you to estimate your project and be there onsite throughout the completion of your project.  I will make sure all your needs have been met and the quality of my work has exceeded your expectations.

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Terrorism Cases in Civilian Courts: Balancing the Powers of Government

Leonie M. Brinkema, Judge, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia

Mon, 04/28/2008
4:30 PM, Dodds Auditorium, Woodrow Wilson School

The John Marshall Harlan '20 Lecture in Constitutional Adjudication honors the 1920 Princeton graduate who served on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1955 until 1971. Harlan was the eighth Princetonian to serve on the court. In 2003, Associate Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was the inaugural Harlan Lecturer. Justice Dieter Grimm, former Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany and current Rector, Wissenschaftskollege, Berlin, gave the second Harlan Lecture in 2005.

This year's Harlan Lecturer, Federal District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema, became one of the country's leading experts on terrorism trials the hard way: she presided over the trial of former "twentieth hijacker" Zacarias Moussaoui. This has been the highest profile terrorism trial held to date in the United States, and Zacarias Moussaoui is the only person tried and convicted in a US court for participation in the 9/11 plot. During the trial, Judge Brinkema revealed an extraordinary judicial temperament and showed how it was possible to handle even the most challenging case - the case of an accused al Qaeda member determined to kill Americans -- with a strong commitment to the rule of law.

Judge Brinkema notes that our legal institutions are fully capable of responding effectively to terrorism cases using traditional constitutional values and established methods of balancing competing interests, such as those between national security and individual rights. The challenge raised by international terrorism is how we respond to it.

Judge Leonie Brinkema was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1993, and was the first woman to serve on the federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia. She is a New Jersey native, and attended Rutgers University before receiving her law degree from Cornell Law School. Judge Brinkema worked as a trial attorney in the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice, both in the Public Integrity Section and in the Office of International Affairs. She also served as an assistant US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia before being named a US Magistrate. As a District Judge, Judge Brinkema has earned respect from her colleagues, from the lawyers who appear before her, from her devoted law clerks, and from the jurors whose well-being she is known for guarding.

For more on Judge Brinkema, see this article about her, which appeared last year in the Washington Post. The biographical information on this LAPA page was adapted from her alumna profile at Cornell

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