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ANTI – Teaching the Tough Truths

I am somewhat humbled by the responses, emails, and comments I have gotten over the last couple of weeks concerning the series I am preaching. ANTI is a series in which we are tackling some real issues that are tough, sensitive, and honest. This series has been an emotionally charged and draining series for me. The toughest part of dealing with these types of issues as a pastor is being real, personal, and honest. Authenticity and transparency are necessary when you speak to the issues that people struggle with in their daily lives.

Over the past two weeks (since I last blogged) we have dealt with sexual immorality and divorce. The Bible has much to say about these issues. The truths of these issues are hard to face because we know the reality of life. The Church as we know it has not addressed such issues in a Biblical manner. Sure we have heard things are wrong, but have we heard why or what to do about it or how to treat someone when they have failed. The truth is that too often we tiptoe around such issues because we are afraid to offend someone or we bash people about these issues because we enjoy offending people. Either way, the Lord is not pleased.

So over the last two weeks I have tried to approach some sensitive issues that are raw and real in the lives of people in personal and honest manner that allows people to deal with the reality of where they are. The right reasons for dealing with these issues are because of their response to God not because of their response to me or my opinions or condemnations.

I think the most encouraging things I have heard have been from those who have dealt with some of these issues directly. One person simply told me after the sermon on sexual immorality “I wish I would have heard that sermon when I was 16.” Another person simply wrote, “I’m thankful you had the courage to send a positive and truthful  message to our teenagers of what God’s word says about sex and some tips on how to deal with compromising situations, but also that our church is here to help them and not condemn them.  They need that. “

The last email really hit me as I heard from one person in the congregation. They said, “If I would have heard the sermon on pornographic material when I was a younger man, I wouldn’t of had to struggle with what became a full-blown addiction by age 16. I don’t know how many people are telling you how good you are doing, but trust me; you are affecting everyone in the service because no Christian deals with murder on a daily basis, we deal with the things that the modern church is afraid to speak of.”

This blog is not about me or the wonderful job I am doing. I don’t necessarily even agree with that part. I do believe, however, that people need the church to be real and honest and open and to the point about issues the church has either said nothing about or has simply ranted and railed about. It is time we just opened up tough topics with grace and love and laid out the truth.

I challenge church leaders to step out there. Honestly, it is a little unnerving to stand in front of a group of people and be real about the issues of sexual immorality, divorce, etc. It is hard to do, but it is worth it. The feedback I get makes it worth it.

Here are some things you have to do it…

  1. Be real. If you can’t be real about you, you can’t help others be real about them.
  2. Say what is there; not what is not there. Speak to what the Bible says not what it does not say.
  3. Don’t hold back on any truth.
  4. Be full of grace and mercy. After all, Jesus was.
  5. Don’t apologize. We cannot apologize for the standard Jesus died to attain for us.

So I challenge Christians to ask themselves these tough questions…

  1. What am I for? Not what am I against?
  2. Do I define my spiritual life by what I do not do? Or by what I do?

This week’s sermon will have a little bit of an interesting twist to end the series. I hope you will be there. If you are interested in hearing the past sermons here is the link to my podcast. They are titled under ANTI – and honestly they are a tad long. I would say I am sorry about that, but I am not.

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Our client is a luxury watch retail group in Asia. The group currently owns and operates 41 retail stores in Asia.

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The client was looking for an experienced sales person who not only possesses a warm personality but also has a strong affiliation with horology and a passion for watches. In addition, the budget given was below market rate.

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Gemini Consultants in Singapore posted the job on various platforms and Gemini website. At the same time, Gemini’s consultants conducted a thorough search on candidates who had a background in horology. After a tedious search, Gemini’s consultants found an ideal candidate. Gemini’s Consultant then observed how the candidate was serving the customers in the store and approached the candidate.

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The client was very pleased with the candidate and immediately arranged a second interview. This placement has given huge confidence to our client and they were impressed with the role Gemini’s consultants had played in determining the right match between candidate and position.

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This or that

In the west, everything has a name and is set into groups. It’s all classified. I gather this is set into the history of western thought. Some people would probably trace this back to Aristotle. Some people think Descartes was behind the development.

various ideas, drawings and bits of writing hanging by bulldog clips and pegs. The intended effect is of a messy, live sketchbook

This means that inherent to our world view is a sense that all objects are distinct. They have boundaries, edges. There is another view, though, that everything is part of one great wheel of existence and the edges between things are not always clear.

I decided that the western approach to this can be expressed by dichotomy of this and/or that. Everything is either this or that, one or the other.

Before the show began I photocopied an old letter press printing ‘fist’. They’re those pointing fingers that seem to crop up in slightly arbitrary places on old documents when something needs to be pointed at. I used thinners to print the photocopies of said fist on to two separate sheets of cartridge paper next to the words this and that. I’m not that inspired by this. I’d thought it would express something interesting but in the end it didn’t really do that much for me. I didn’t feel inspired to mess with it further. I think that’s the main key with making an idea work. There are some that you want to play with and develop and some that just don’t grab you, as I already waffled on about at some length in my last post.

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Tuesday, July 26th, 2016

Down Under kicks off the session with a pool party!!

Down Under kicks off the session with a pool party!!

Good morning, good moooooorning! Humming Bird here! It’s a beautiful, sunny second day of classes and we here at camp are just ecstatic about the day ahead of us!

Last night we enjoyed a wonderful cabin night! Here’s what everyone did….
LCH made cardboard cars
Avalon had a scavenger hunt that led them to the pizza oven
Loons went for a dip in the lake
Wombles made dinner and s’mores with a fire at the lake
Chateau Fiasco worked in the glass beads and glass blowing studios
Atlantis went on a creek walk and made s’mores
Treasure Island made pizza in the pizza oven
Forbidden Planet did a Dungeons and Dragons role play
The Burrow did a fairy scavenger hunt
Down Under had a pool party and played getting to know you games with M&M’s
French Quarter made s’mores around a fire
Paquatahnee made cookies and a hand tree
Valhalla did tie dye and made a mural
Shangri-La made paper lanterns and s’mores
Haley’s Comet pottery with Kirsten
Wabanaki made tie dye and hair ties
Camelot did screen printing with Sandy
Fiddler’s Green took a tour of a local firehouse
Taj Mahal did a big circle to get to know each other
Alive had a trivia night

Check out photos of the activities that our devoted counselors worked hard to set up!

Today we awoke to the smell of… what’s that? PANCAKES!!! PANCAKES!!!!! PANCAKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yum 🙂 🙂 🙂 Thanks, Chris and Lilian! We’re enjoying a sunny, sunny day here at camp, so everyone has their sunscreen and water bottles and hats as they walk to and from their classes! Later tonight we’ll gather on Deer Meadow’s Field for LLAMAPALOOZA(/Meg’s Rodeo… whichever you prefer!) Stay tuned for pictures tomorrow!

For now, I’ve gotta go check out the water fountains… they make excellent bird baths on a hot day like this!

Humming along,

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Kitsch: Lava Lamp

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

It’s not too late to purchase a lava lamp. Invented in England in 1963, this instantly recognizable home accessory is probably the greatest and most captivating example of kitschy objects. Kitsch is defined as art, objects, or design considered to be in bad taste because of excessive garishness or sentimentality, but sometimes appreciated in an ironic way.

What is that stuff moving around in a lava lamp? According to the Oxford dictionary, it contains a viscous (thick) liquid in which a brightly colored waxy substance is suspended, rising and falling in irregular and constantly changing shapes. But I’d rather look at one than read about it.

This moving light provided hours of entertainment when it was popularized in the psychedelic sixties. Actually, the word psychedelic associates perfectly with a lava lamp because it visually relates to something with a dense, vivid color or a swirling abstract pattern, like a psychedelic t-shirt.

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I always wanted a lava lamp.

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A few days ago, I tweeted that something new and exciting was coming from Ionic:

This is not that thing. You’ll have to stay tuned for that! trollface

Instead, I am excited to share the Ionic Playground, a fun new tool that makes it incredibly easy to build Ionic apps and demos in the browser, without having to install anything. To use it, just visit

The Ionic Playground has a simple HTML, CSS, and Javascript editor with a live app preview that updates immediately with new changes. You can preview the mobile version of the app, share your work with anyone in the world, and fork other apps to add your own personal touch.

Try out the Live demo of the app shown above!

Mobile development made easy

One of the biggest challenges in using Ionic and other mobile development tools today is getting all the dependencies installed for mobile development. You need Node.js, Cordova, the Ionic CLI, platform tools for Android and iOS, developer accounts for each platform, etc.

Yet, we think one of the biggest advantages of web-based mobile technologies like Ionic is the ability to offer rapid app development right in the browser, without having to install a thing. The Playground finally takes advantage of that potential.

My hope is that the Playground will be widely used for education. We are starting to see Ionic being used to train the next generation of mobile developers, and tweets like this continue to blow my mind:

The Playground will make an awesome tool for teaching people to build mobile apps without having to worry about all the difficulties of actually building, testing, and deploying on a device (not to mention registering and configuring iOS/Android developer accounts!). Plus, students can work alongside a teacher, and immediately see the impact of their work, which is incredibly rewarding!

Beyond education, the Playground will make it easy to demonstrate issues in Ionic for development purposes, quickly build prototypes and demos, and try out new designs.

Next steps

We have a lot of ideas for the Playground, including adding snippets for common Ionic components, starting real device projects from a demo, and integration with the View app. Please let us know what you think about the Playground today and if you have any crazy ideas on how to make it even better!

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  • JonathanW

  • http://www.raymondcamdencom/ Raymond Camden

    Very cool. Query – how do we find the ‘apps’ (playgrounds, whatever) that we built? So I make something – click form – how do I get back to the original? Like maybe I want to compare. I could bookmark of course, but is this meant to be ephemeral? Like, if I build something and want to link to it in a blog, would you consider that a (kinda) bad idea?

    • Ben Sperry

      This is in the works for future versions! We wanted to get this out sooner than later, and then iterate over time on it (much like how we do with everything else!). 🙂

  • DenzilDoyle

    Codepen for Ionic! 😀

  • Anthony

    Amazing ! Going to try this out now.

  • Andrew Clinton

    So this is pretty much amazing. Keep up the good work guys!

  • Leo van den Bulck

    Nice, I love it how you guys are constantly innovating and coming up with cool ideas!

    • Ben Sperry

      Thanks Leo. Our main motivation is making sure that building with Ionic is the most enjoyable experience as possible. Playground just moves us closer in that direction!

      • Leo van den Bulck

        Well you’re definitely getting there. The tools you’re building and the ecosystem around it are fabulous, and so is the community. I’m now in the process of designing my first serious app with Ionic, love doing it. Great stuff.

  • Matt Kremer

    Great work guys, I love the “MVP”ness of this 😉

    • Ben Sperry

      Thanks Matt! 🙂

  • maleeb

    good job, build an embed for external sites (like codepen) 🙂

    • Andrew McGivery

  • Kemoel Lima

    Very good!

  • Austen

    This is awesome! Developing with Ionic continues to “feel good”, and it is only getting better! Thanks

  • Joshua Berk

    This is awesome. Would be even better to see you do a true integration with Cloud9!

  • David

    Very cool – so how does this intersect with Creator? I mean it is in the browser too and why not have novice (for education) and advanced (actual dev) roles to access Creator… Novice role you would see something like this and advanced being where you have an editor side by side w/ full blown Codiqa level editor (and beyond) (or where Creator is or was going) and you can use the creator components via drag and drop or code or then just edit them simultaneously and it all stays in sync etc.

    • yesimahuman

      We actually just hired someone to focus full time on creator, so expect lots of awesome stuff coming there soon.

      I do see a world where they are both one thing, but not sure yet how that’s going to work. The benefit of playground is that it’s so *simple*. Creator is quite a bit more complex (which can be good since it lets you do some interesting things without coding), but it’s really hard to beat a simple code editor with live preview like this.

      Stay tuned!

      • loic knuchel

        I don’t see a service merging Playgroud & Creator. To me, they answer differents needs and publics. But it could be cool to import Creator projects in Playground and vice versa…

  • loic knuchel

    Codepen for Ionic ! Great ! 😀
    And with some more feature it could be really AWESOME !!!

    Here is my wishlist :

    – Collaborative editing (I organize mob programming Ionic sessions and it would be an awesome tool if we can collaborate on one app)
    – Multi-file support like a real editor. To me it’s a must have to create app more complicated than a “Hello World”
    – Create new project from app (ionic start myApp
    – Download app (Ionic view or Android apk !)
    – Discover, vote and bookmark apps. It could be a great way to share a discover components or designs
    – Have mocks for Cordova plugins
    – Versionning (with ability to navigate in history like framapad :

    I’m giving a Ionic formation in july and I would love using it 😀
    Thank you again for all the awesomeness

    • yesimahuman

      Thanks so much for the suggestions, cool ideas are exactly what we wanted to spark from this quick release. Cordova mocking would be awesome, might be able to include some of the mocks from ngCordova…Some of those others will be coming eventually!

  • Matheus Cruz Rocha

    Great work guys, this is awesome to help the people at forum, to teach somebody. Just Amazing.

  • Daniel Møgelgaard Pedersen

    Just missing typescript support, then it would be perfect.

  • loic knuchel

    I’m a huge fan of , so if you could have similar feature and you encourages people of submitting their components / UI, it would be so greaaaaaat 😀

    • Nnalue Henry Chibuzo Dungar

      Great Idea, I am a big fan too.

  • @NotWasteOurTime (on Twitter)

    Impressive! And good taste for design

  • Nick Green

    Love it! Great for a brainstorm to demo in 60 min workflow!!!

  • Alex Muha

    Очень здорово! Молодцы, так прдолжать!

  • McLovin

    This is awesome. How can we add content into our playground? IE, I have a .GIF for a wait spinner that I want to use. Do I need to host that elsewhere or can I upload it and use it?

  • David Castro

    For developing heavier projects in the browser, I recommend Cloud9. allows me to develop even from a low powered netbook.

  • adalberto Joco

    Amazing news, thanks !

  • Alain Boudard

    Awesome tool !
    What about code completion ? would be great for usual components, but then it’s not really the point I guess 🙂

  • Franco Gilio

  • Alex

    There is a bug in the demo app in Preview Mode when viewing it on the iPhone in Safari (iOS8). If you do a screen edge swipe from left to right to go back a page then it looks like the event fires twice and the animation flashes twice. Is this a problem with the demo or an inherent issue with the tool in its current iteration?

  • Dylan

    Awesome! It would be great to have the ability to write Jade instead of HTML too 🙂

  • Ańuj Jain

    Nice work team. I was waiting for such great tool….!!!!

  • faizalheesyam

    Ionic is the only development framework that I found have a complete ecosystem to work with.. with powerful CLI, tools for previewing/testing/debugging, the serve lab idea is awesome! you have Ionic View, the upcoming Ionic Push, and now the Playground.. this is like Codepen for Ionic! development is fun again! feels good to know I’m on the right track with the right community..

    honestly, its not easy for me before as a front-end web developer to enter the world of hybrid mobile development.. there’s always a missing pieces, there’s always something lack somewhere.. something can be too powerful, but not n00b friendly, something can be very easy to understand, but not powerful enough.. I have to mix and match tools from here and there, just to come up with something.

    but now, I have Ionic.. Thank you guys…

  • Federico Rodriguez

    Amazing! Just when you thought it couldn’t be faster to start an Ionic project with the CLI and the starter templates… Great tool to show your boss what Ionic can do! Starter templates for Playground would be nice. Keep up the great work!

  • Lukas Menges

    Great work! It´s an easy starting point for a new app. But will be there a download button? So that you can complete your work local?

  • kevin jose

  • Uttam Panara

    Really It’s much more easier to live experiment. I like it. Thanks

  • Jewon Bong

  • Madhes

    Nice tool, Hereafter we don’t need plunkr.

  • David

    Nice Tool
    Thanks Ionic Team

  • Robert

    Nice! Great start. Now I’m waiting for Coffeescript, SASS and Jade support 🙂

  • Can Tecim

    Its beautiful idea, Now we can test and deploy features into our project very fast. Keep it up guys i’m very exciting

  • Rahul Singh Thakur

    This is super awesome. I have been using it for past 2-3 hours and am not able to execute angular codes in it. Do we have this as an enhancement planned or is it something that I missed

  • Nicholas Blanchard

    This is cool but will we ever get support for things like slim/haml and sass? One of the main reasons I use codepen over other similar services.

    • yesimahuman

      Possibly sass in the far future, but probably not jade/haml/slim just because we don’t recommend it for ionic dev and trying to pick between one is going to be impossible.

      • Nicholas Blanchard

        Thanks for the quick reply 🙂

  • satish11nov

    You guys are awesome !!!

  • Jiyuu

    Well done Ionic team! However, it may be a stupid question, but… what’s the differences between your tool and another such as CodePen? I don’t get it.

  • hxtheone

    Nice tool, and could you please add vim mode to the editor? may it be the best tool to build ionic app!

  • Mark Bolden

    This is awesome!! You guys are keeping it 100 with your commitment to innovation!!

  • Jordan

    Love it. 😀

  • Sneha Mohanty

    Hey guys and gals, to see the full and easy way of installation and setup of an ionic app ( npm , ant , cordova and all of it ), please visit my blog –

  • moussaoui91

    Is Ionic Playground Open source?

  • Bla

    Do we have a list of more demo apps on playground?


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Amazon EC2 – What happens next?

So now you have unbounded programmatic access to computing and storage resources via EC2 and S3. Anybody who has a moderate amount of programming skill (skilled in the art as the patent people say) and has access to a credit card can slap together their own grid in no time at all. More importantly you can resell a grid to a vertical market.

Now a whole plethora of companies have been trying to flog Open Source stacks to corporate America, and to my mind corporate America (and corporate everywhere else) is not ready to take these companies offerings on board for a number of reasons,

  • Certification is no good without delta change detection. Your stack might be good the day it deploys, but is it good after 6 months of production tinkering?
  • Most customers need some kind of customised stack, rather than an off the shelf offering, so configurations proliferate and the costs for both the vendor and the customer escalates
  • None of these guys wants to play nice with the rest, so how do you integrate stacks from different vendors
  • Isn’t Open Source supposed to be free as in beer 🙂

However the whole game changes if instead of offering an installable package you offer a managed EC2 image with all the good juice pre-canned and ready to go, and you manage the customers application deployment on top of that image and then cut a new precanned EC2 image with all the good stuff in one bundle. Tinker away all you want and deltas can easily be identified by comparing the production image with a clean install of the original.

Customisation becomes delta management with everything being a managed delta of a base kit and integration of different stacks can be easily tested because the base infrastructure is already deployed into an image ready for merging.

Expect to see lots of people offering layered services on EC2 fairly rapidly with simple Apache, MySQL and J2EE and ESB instances appearing in short order and more complex three tier and N-tier packagesÂ  following on rapidly. Also expect the monitoring and management vendors to offer layer packages that plug straight into these environments.

Can Google trump this?

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Halloween: To Trick or Treat, or Trunk or Treat?

Pumpkins, leaves changing colors, less daylight; all of this can mean one thing – Halloween is quickly approaching! Children will be dressed as a pumpkin, their favorite superhero/character, a ghost, etc. School parades, tricky trays and the ever popular trunk or treat and trick or treats! This leaves the question of which is better: to trick or treat, or to trunk or treat?

Growing up, you’d see the PSA’s on trick or treating on the television this time of the year. We were told to always make sure you trick or treat with an adult, and to always dump your candy at home and have your parents check it prior to consumption. Needless to say, I always thought this was so my parents could take the candy they liked, and I’d be stuck with the popcorn balls and pretzels (don’t worry; they only took the Mary Jane’s!). With trunk or treat, there are not as many worries for parents.

Most trunk or treats are organized by either a school or a church. They gather in their parking lot, and have their vehicle trunks decorated. Sometimes there is a theme, other times you just decorate for Halloween or the season. Pumpkins and scarecrows are often a popular choice! Then comes the fun part! Games, prizes and candy!

It wouldn’t be Halloween without some fun and games! Those who decorate their car often make up fun games for the children who visit them. It can be as simple as a bean bag toss, or as messy as bobbing for apples! If a child wins the game, they are often given a prize or extra candy! Most probably opt for the extra candy, but it’s the decorator’s choice!

Trunk or treat also helps to bring the community and the Parish together. Connecting church and community together is a great way to bring fun and safety to those with a young family. Your children are in a safe environment, where they can go from car to car without major worries.

As you can see candy is involved in both trunk or treating and trick or treating. The trunk or treat has a controlled environment where most people know one another; there is more trust with the parents that the candy will not be tampered with, and that it is in a safe, well lit area. What kids like the best is that trunk or treats are not held on Halloween, but rather the weekend before. That means they are able to acquire extra candy!  It’s a win-win for both parent and child.

Now, don’t think that Parish Giving is not able to assist with your parish’s trunk or treat! We have our forms that make signing up convenient for everyone involved! All you need is 5 minutes out of your busy schedule to sign up, and a form of payment if needed! You’ll receive a confirmation in your email that it was a success and you’re all done. We know you have other things to do during your day, so we wanted to make signing up for events one less hassle!

Have a Happy and Safe Halloween!

Youth Ministry – Top 5 Reasons as to Why Your Church Should Have One

Youth Ministries seem to be popping up more frequently around the Catholic Church. Growing up, my family’s church didn’t have one. I never understood the importance of gathering with my peers and having discussions about faith, and fun activities to do with one another. So I thought I’d share 5 reasons as to why your church should have one so today’s youth doesn’t miss out on all the fun!

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Does Delta Airlines New Policy to Zip Tie Luggage Containing Firearms Violate Federal Law?

delta-airlines-logo is reporting that Delta Airlines has quietly changed its policy related to passengers who are flying with guns. According to the NBC Affiliate in Fort Lauderdale

The airline will now have special tags to alert ground handlers to not put bags carrying weapons on the general carousel.

The baggage will go directly to a baggage service agent who is required to perform an ID check on the passenger who picks up the luggage, sources told NBC 6. The agent must then use zip ties to secure the bag.

This policy was apparently implemented after the shooting that occurred in the Fort Lauderdale airport, after the criminal retrieved his luggage, went to the bathroom to load his firearm and then proceeded to murder five people and injure six others.

Interestingly enough, it appears that Delta may be in violation of federal law by implementing such a policy.

18 U.S.C. § 922(e) provides:

It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to deliver or cause to be delivered to any common or contract carrier for transportation or shipment in interstate or foreign commerce, to persons other than licensed importers, licensed manufacturers, licensed dealers, or licensed collectors, any package or other container in which there is any firearm or ammunition without written notice to the carrier that such firearm or ammunition is being transported or shipped; except that any passenger who owns or legally possesses a firearm or ammunition being transported aboard any common or contract carrier for movement with the passenger in interstate or foreign commerce may deliver said firearm or ammunition into the custody of the pilot, captain, conductor or operator of such common or contract carrier for the duration of the trip without violating any of the provisions of this chapter. No common or contract carrier shall require or cause any label, tag, or other written notice to be placed on the outside of any package, luggage, or other container that such package, luggage, or other container contains a firearm.

(emphasis added).

Tags that are usually put INSIDE the luggage to indicate the firearm is unloaded.

It would seem, at least based upon what NBC is reporting, that Delta’s policy is potentially in direct contravention with what is prohibited by federal law. Perhaps Delta was unaware of the prohibitions against marking luggage containing firearms before it implemented its policy.

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8 thoughts on “Does Delta Airlines New Policy to Zip Tie Luggage Containing Firearms Violate Federal Law?

  1. Is a zip tie “other written notice”? Arguably not. DIA does something similar, no zip ties yet, but they put a small round yellow sticker on the luggage tag after they PET scan the bag containing the declared firearm. Of course, it has the same effect as a “label, tag, or other written notice” in that it discloses that there’s a gun in the bag, but nevertheless, might not violate the statute. The prohibition should be phrased “or any notice or indicia of any sort.”

      1. They put a CAGPT tag on the luggage. Since CAGPT is no longer used for high value protection, it is exclusively used to indicate a firearm within, that violates the law.
        I would argue that even the zip tie policy violates passenger rights as it is intended to prevent access to personal belongings outside of secured areas.
        It’s like getting to your car legally parked in the pay lot to find it booted. Then you have to wait for security to free your car.

  2. American kind of does the same thing now. A red tag on the outside that says “Return to BSO” and the standard white tag inside the case. It was hand delivered to me as well, as I was confused when it did not come out the normal place. (Also TSA/airline lost both the TSA approved locks for the case as well, safety first…)

  3. TSA allows wire clippers under 7 inches in length to be carried in carry-on luggage. Once Delta releases the bag to you THEY have NO CONTROL over it. Just clip the ties off and hand them to the agent for proper disposal. This is not a violation of any law that I know of. Beware in NY, NJ, MA, CA.

  4. It seems that Florida and 4 other states prohibit CCW in non-secure areas of airport. But accessing your personal belongings in baggage area should be perfectly legal and I was told not to do it by Delta employee.

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Seagate and HTC Jointly Announce VR Power Drive to Create a New VR Experience

Seagate, a world leader in data storage solutions, and HTC VIVE, an innovation world leader in the field of smart mobile devices and virtual reality (VR), have jointly launched the Seagate VR Power Drive at the 2018 HTC New Ecosystem Conference in Shenzhen, China, helping VR device users expand their storage capacity and battery life.

Virtual reality is developing with great speed and momentum in China, and VR applications are emerging one after another in the fields of entertainment, education and healthcare, etc. According to a report jointly released by iResearch and Greenlight Insights, China will become a main VR market globally. In 2016, the VR market in China reached RMB 3.46 billion (about US$550 million). With high growth rate, the VR market in China is estimated to exceed RMB 10 billion (about US$1.6 billion) in 2018. In the next five years, the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of the VR market could exceed 80 percent. Moreover, by 2021, China is forecast to become the largest VR market in the world, and the whole scale of the industry could reach RMB 79.02 billion (about US$ 12.64 billion), with the VR headset device market forecast to be RMB 29.75 billion (about US$4.76 billion). With the overall market for VR hardware expanding, the market of content, including VR games, VR films and television, as well as live streaming, are also growing rapidly, bringing more comprehensive entertainment experience to users.

Tailor-made for the high-end, all-in-one VR device VIVE FOCUS™, the Seagate VR Power Drive combines an external mobile media storage and portable battery into one solution. It helps users extend their use by providing them with plenty of additional storage space to carry and back-up their VR and mobile content as well as additional battery life.

Seagate VR Power Drive offers a storage capacity of 1000GB for users’ digital content. With its integrated MicroB cable and USB-C adapter, the drive can easily connect to the VIVE Focus without the help of a computer allowing users to directly access their library of files stored on the VR Power Drive from their VIVE Focus. Additionally, the built-in 5,000mAh battery of the drive allows users to extend the battery life of their VR device any time anywhere. The Seagate VR Power Drive also provides its users with a belt clip to increase the portability of the drive.

HTC smartphone users can expand the capacity of their mobile phones by connecting directly to the Seagate VR Power Drive to access and view, and backup their mobile content or extend the battery range of their phones with the flick of a switch to activate the power bank feature.

Seagate VR Power Drive

“Since the establishment of the strategic partnership with HTC Vive this January, we have been working together and committed to jointly developing solutions for VR devices. Today, we are delighted that we have devised the Seagate VR Power Drive, which is tailored to the Vive Focus, by applying Seagate’s unique storage expertise to meet VIVE Focus users’ increasing needs for data.” said Jim Murphy, executive vice president, worldwide sales and marketing, Seagate Technology. “Seagate has been paying close attention to the development of emerging application fields. We’ll continue to collaborate with industry-leading partners in accordance with the actual demands in the application market and join hands with them in the development of innovative storage products to deal with storage challenges together. In the years to come, we will continue to cooperate with HTC Vive, and further optimize storage solutions according to the characteristics of VR applications to better meet the special data needs of Vive products and bring Vive users the optimal experience.”

“We are extremely happy to form this cooperation with Seagate to offer a brand new type of accessory to the VIVE Reality ecosystem. As VR users become more mobile and smart phone users consume more rich media, the two things they both need are longer battery life and larger storage,” said Alvin Wang, president of HTC VIVE China. “The Seagate VR Power Drive is the perfect device to serve this need. Doubling battery life while putting hundreds of high-resolution movies in your pocket are benefits every modern user can see value in. This is just the beginning of a long and fruitful cooperation.”

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11 Killer LinkedIn Tips for HR Managers

LinkedIn is an HR Manager’s best friend. But how effective are you when it comes to using LinkedIn for HR? How you communicate on the platform can either hook the perfect candidate or scare them away. These easy-to-follow tips will help you nail outreach, the follow-up and scheduling an interview every time.

While this post aims to help HR managers whose first language may not be English, these tips are best practices and can apply to everyone. As with anything sweet, remember to take this guide with a pinch of salt (idiom alert: check out more idioms here), and adapt it for your own needs.

1. Do Your Research, Then Do Some More

Great outreach always stems from great research. As an HR manager, you need to show candidates that you have taken the time and done your homework, or you risk getting no response at all. Don’t just read the candidate’s LinkedIn bio, check their education and work history, and their strengths, skills, and endorsements. What groups and influencers do they follow? Find commonalities and include them in your outreach messages.

2. Ditch Message Templates

As a recruiter, you’re constantly outreaching to possibly hundreds of candidates every week. It can be tempting to craft generic message templates to simply copy and paste. However, candidates can tell immediately if the message is personal to them or just a template.

Taking the extra time to craft a personal message can greatly boost your success rates during the recruitment process. Focus on commonalities such as mutual connections, past experience, education, or influencers and groups that you both follow. Use the great research you did in the first tip, to craft a highly personalized message that shows you took the time to research each candidate.

3. Get Your Point Across In Less Than 150 Words

Think Haiku, not epic novel. Aim to keep your message shorter than 150 words. Why? Well, any longer seems like too much effort to read. In general, if you have to scroll down to read the whole message–as in the example above–your message is simply too long. Be clear, concise and straightforward. This can greatly improve your talent acquisition strategy.

4. Say Yes to You, Your and Yours

Tip4_You vs We

LinkedIn is a social media platform, so treat it like one. The best messages are not only short and sweet but strike a tone of familiarity. This can be accomplished by directly addressing the candidate with you, your and yours.

Be honest: How often do you send messages using phrases like these?

  • We have an excellent marketing department.
  • We are looking for candidates that fit our company profile.

By changing the pronouns from we to you, you can make your message much more personalized and engaging to the candidate. Let’s reword the core statements of the above examples:

  • Marketing skills like yours make you perfect for this role.
  • Your skills would be well suited to this position.

Give it a try with your next outreach messages.

5. Don’t Waste Time On Personal Introductions

This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be personal. It simply means that introductions such as Hi, I’m head of HR at (company)” are unnecessary. In a LinkedIn chat window, your name is in the header. If a candidate wants to find out more, then they can always check out your profile. In the example, above, the recruiter reiterates their name and the job offer that’s already in the header. It’s much more effective to use the first line to really grab the attention of the candidates by talking directly about them like the following examples:

  • Your recent article published on Medium last week really grabbed my attention.
  • I really enjoyed the last post you shared in the Content Marketing group
  • The resources you linked to in your recent post were really informative and useful.

Make it about them, not you.

6. Don’t Be Generic When Complimenting Candidates

As a candidate, it may feel nice the first time when you get a flattering message on LinkedIn. But after the first 25 or so, it gets old really fast. The most common line is something like “I’ve come across your profile and I have to say I’m impressed”. What are you impressed by? If you are not able to be specific, top candidates are not going to be impressed by your outreach and wait for a more personalized message. To improve your talent management, be specific, be honest, but don’t be generic.

This example above tells me as a candidate that the recruiter did not do enough research: they did not talk about my background, specific skills or any commonalities we have.

7. Suggest A Specific Date For A Call

After the initial interactions with a candidate, it’s time to delve deeper to see if they are an ideal fit for your company and the role. Often the next step is scheduling a call. When you do this, avoid leaving the candidate hanging with vague statements such as “it would be great to chat with you…”

Instead, say something like: “We would love to talk with you in more detail. I’m free to call Wednesday from 3 pm onwards, Thursday at 10 am, and Friday at from 9-10 am. Do any of these time slots line up with your schedule?”

By naming specific dates you drive the conversation forward and encourage the candidate to take action.

8. Don’t Ask For Other Candidate Recommendations

It may be tempting to ask a candidate if they know anyone in their field that would fit the job. But resist the temptation, as you want to make candidates feel special, not replaceable. If you have already connected on LinkedIn, then you can see a candidate’s professional network anyway.

9. Address Candidates By Their First Names

Tip9_No Surnames

I get quite a lot of messages starting with “Dear Mr. Wells...” – Aside from making me feel a little like a James Bond villain, it just feels too distant. LinkedIn is a social network, so treat it like that. A well-crafted message can still retain politeness by addressing someone using their first name–just make sure the message that comes after hits the right register.

10. Send News to Candidates From Your Company Page

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Ok, but how can this help me as an HR manager? Well, during the application process you can encourage candidates to follow your company page. By updating your LinkedIn company page with news and events, candidates can keep up-to-date with the latest information without having to visit your website each time. Not only this but even if a candidate is not successful, encouraging them to follow your company enables you to stay connected if a suitable role arises in the future. Pretty nifty, right?

Still not convinced? Well, the more candidates that follow your company page, the more visible your company becomes on LinkedIn. Over time, this means your company will appear in more and more job searches.

Don’t have a LinkedIn company page already? No problem. Let’s create one in a couple of clicks. Firstly, click on Work menu icon next to your profile image, then Create a Company Page.

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Fill in the details on the next page, just like you would for your own LinkedIn profile, adding a company logo and banner. It’s really that simple.

Tip10_image3_company page

Hey presto.

11. Join Groups / Follow Influencers

This is a tip that takes a little time to come to fruition (idiom alert: how many do you know?). On LinkedIn, like most social networks, you can join groups and follow influencers that are relevant to your industry. By doing this you increase your company’s visibility on the platform. Remember your goals are:

  • Contribute to groups with useful information
  • Become a topic/industry authority

Don’t just post job ads in groups, share useful information, articles and research. If LinkedIn users react positively to your posts, you can always invite them to… you guessed it… follow that company page we just created. Remember, the one where you can also post your jobs. This is a much more elegant talent acquisition strategy.

Bonus Tip: Make Typos An Endangered Species with Grammarly

In the age of technology, typos should be a thing of the past. Yet, all too often, I see LinkedIn messages full of typos. Enter Grammarly.

Grammarly is a free browser plugin that checks for grammar, syntax and convention errors in your writing. With the notable exception of Google Docs, it automatically checks your texts in almost all common applications including Gmail, and of course LinkedIn. Never send a message with a typo again.

Mastering LinkedIn for HR: Putting It All Together

Ok, that’s quite a few things to bear in mind. But even following a few tips will quickly make you a master at LinkedIn outreach. Let’s return to one of the more generic LinkedIn messages from a recruiter and rewrite it using some of the tips from this post:

Hi Tom,

Your copy in your recent Shopify article “The Ultimate Guide to Facebook Messenger Ads” was really crisp and well written. Writing skills like yours would be extremely well suited to a dynamic, new content marketing role that has opened up at “My Awesome Company”.

Recently, a few marketers have joined us from Searchmetrics where I see you spent some time.

You could learn more about this opportunity on the 14 and 15 July - days we have set aside for Skype sessions with interested candidates. Let me know if you are interested in learning more and we can schedule a time for the session.

All the best

In around 100 words, we have managed to:

  • Create an attention-grabbing first sentence
  • Specifically compliment the candidate
  • Use their past experience to connect
  • Actively suggest a day to go from LinkedIn chat window to actual call

Messages like these are a joy for candidates to read. Follows these tips to boost your HR efforts on LinkedIn and delight your candidates today.

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09 Oct 2018

Freedom, Boundaries, and Development: What is the ‘new normal’?

Written by Will Skis

“The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.”

       Attributed to SOCRATES by Plato, according to William L.

      Patty and Louise S. Johnson, Personality and Adjustment, p. 277

This quote is often used to examine the relationship between elder and child in society. I like it because it shows that even way back in Ancient Greece, crotchety old fellows would still grumble about ‘kids these days’. Even super bright ones like Socrates!

 Adults, it seems, have always felt that the youth of their day lacked the respect that they themselves showed toward their elders. In the modern, high population, Internet enabled global context, do they have a point? Is today’s modern generation of youngsters actually becoming less responsive to authority, less respectful, and luxurious?

I felt, at school, teachers were needlessly gruff and grumbly themselves. I liked having fun, and I didn’t see it as mutually exclusive to learning, so I wanted the teachers to all be fun too.

It turned out that life doesn’t work that way, and I suppose that is the toughest lesson we all have to learn. There are times in life where you have to work, or wait, or not have fun in general. And its necessary to survival. The cranky teachers seem a little different now that I am a teacher myself. I must say I understand where they are coming from as I get a little bit older and have to manage unruly classrooms. Gruff and grumbly may not be ‘fun’, but it certainly is more effective in positions of authority.

As Victoria Prooday puts it in her excellent blog “Why are our children so bored at school, cannot wait, get easily frustrated and have no real friends?”:

 “To be able to delay gratification means to be able to function under stress. Our children are gradually becoming less equipped to deal with even minor stressors, which eventually become huge obstacles to their success in life.”

 This impact on children and teenager’s behaviour has as much to do with parenting and teaching as it does with technology. The modern media landscape has been discussed in other blogs in this series  and contributes to a sense of disconnection from ‘real life’ educational contexts like the ol’ brick and mortar classroom. ‘Waiting patiently’ is all but non-existent.

 It is in the world of unbridled choice that authority begins to lessen. After having taught at lots of different schools as a casual over the last few years, it is certainly a trial by fire in managing people who do not see you as any kind of authority figure at all, because they do not know you. As a trust begins to form as you keep returning to teach day in and day out, respect and authority become a natural part of teacher practice.

Australia in particular, having always had a reputation as an ‘easy-going’ country, is seeing results slide in maths and science subjects. And the mood of the older teachers is one of resignation to a fact: our students are getting less disciplined, and therefore less academic. Some students from refugee nations such as South Sudan are even being sent back to strict African boarding schools. Because coming to relatively laissez-faire public schools is attempting to bridge too large of a cultural divide. Still, Australia remains the most expensive place for foreign students to study, particularly in urban private schools and our nation’s universities.

 Teachers are expected to give a lot and bridge a lot of divides. Lack of respect for authority is not ‘the new normal’, it has been a commonplace feature of schooling for decades. Boundaries are certainly changing. However core educational principles such as hard work and critical thinking remain as important as ever. Technological overstimulation is a new phenomena. Its solution lies in detaching students from the tangled frameworks of information they have been privy to their whole lives. Re-evaluating our approach to acceptable behaviour in classrooms in an interconnected world will require a careful and calculated approach from teachers, parents and community members alike.

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A Guide to a Realistic, Simple yet Elegant Bohemian Wedding

If you are a lady who loves simplicity, the classic olden charm and everything earthy, “Bohemian” wedding theme is yours to explore. Here we have put together A Guide to a Realistic, Simple yet Elegant Bohemian Wedding where you can collect ideas to start organizing your big fat wedding. From welcoming invitations, beautiful wedding settings, adorning as a bride, dressing up your bridesmaids, photoshoot with your beloved to thanking door-gifts and all the nitty gritty details covered for you to be inspired.

The Invitation

The hype and anticipation of the wedding is set with the first impression your wedding invitation gives. The invitation can be a warm welcome to your friends & family miles away and give them a peek of what awaits at your wedding. Tribal prints, rustic jute twins, feathers are some details you can incorporate in the invitation design.

The Wedding Setting

You can perhaps create a wedding all by yourself with the help of your girlfriends and buddies. Get creative and splash your personality. Note, a Bohemian themed wedding is all about simplicity with a creative twist.

∇ The Wedding Reception Table

Ferry lights, macrame wall hanging will colorful flowers, elegant glass jars with candles in an outdoor could be the perfect place for your guests to assemble for a reception. As the evening sets, ferry lights and candles start to glisten like fireflies adding a romantic atmosphere.

∇ Cake

“Bohemian theme” is all about the imperfections just like life. You do not need a spotless white fondued cake. An unfinished icing, irregular tiers twirled around with vines of aromatic dried leaves and flowers add the charm. With so many freelance bakers flooded in social media, you can simply show a snap of this cake and get it booked within minutes.

∇ Bohemian Decor

Teepees were the homes of Native Americans and a woman was in full control of everything happening inside it. So own your wedding, girl! All you would need is four long poles, hanging flowers and a bohemian mandala mat to recreate this trendy decor. Create an elegant entrance to your outdoor wedding with curtains, lamps and candles. Spread a boho mat, throw a few pillows, light up candles in a jar, add blooming flowers and you can create simple lounge areas around the outdoor setting.

∇ Dream catchers, Feathers & Knots

Dream catchers are believed to capture good dreams. Hang dreamcatchers on the trees or ceiling to signify your beautiful dream that has come true. Easy and quick decor such as bow-knotted twines can add an elegant touch to the surrounding that could signify the new knotted bond you have created. Leaves & feathers on strings will also add a sophisticated grace to your wedding setting.

∇ Quirky Decor

Jazz up the wedding with these fun and quirky details which your friends and family would appreciate and applaud. “Take a shot & Take your seat” – some tequila could loosen up guests or perhaps you could make a non-alcoholic shot to avoid unexpected twists & drama. Add funky lovey-dovey quotes all around to add a little humor.

The Bride

It is your special day and your time to shine. Simplicity is the greatest elegance. A bohemian bride is all about keeping it eccentric and eclectic. From Wedding dress, statement jewelry to bouquets, scroll throw for a list of inspirations.

Wedding Dress

You do not need a tight corset that chokes your breath or a big puffy gown that restricts your sazz. A flowy maxi dress with lace, knots and light texture speaks volumes of elegance. You can dance, spin, twirl and be merry. That’s what a Bohemian bride is all about, a free-spirited woman 🙂

As the wedding dress is simple and effortless, you can adorn yourself with rustic jewelry to spice it up. A chunky beaded necklace, to an Arabian goddess themed anklet and head-chains. Choose gold, rose-gold coated jewelry as it keeps the look natural and earthly. Pearls, white gems and beads reflects the beauty of a glowing bride as well.

Flower Head bands

Blown out curls with head-crowns makes a bride look endearingly gorgeous. Wreaths with dried flowers, wild flowers, simple white flowers are a stunning adornment. You will be the walking greek goddess captivating the sight of all.

When choosing a bouquet, ensure the size and weight is effortless for you to carry. Go for warm toned feathers, light-weighted flowers such as Baby’s breath, Heather, Leptospermum, Limonium, Queen Anne’s Lace, Waxflower and etc. Easy to carry as well as an appealing beauty.

The Bridesmaid

Give squad goals with your beauties! You can choose a carefree and casual style where your girls dress in their own style with a similar color palette and bohemian vibe with lace and hats. Or you can go for a sophisticated style with your girls wearing long shimmery warm-toned dresses. If not hit the runway and dress your girls in a similar dress and flower wreaths for an ultimate squad shot.

The Wedding Photoshoot

All you need is a huge bohemian carpet with ferry lights. Dance around with your love and let the photographer craft his magic. Create a woven white backdrop with dried flowers and leaves. Throw in some leather pillows and cushions. Tada, the backdrop is ready for your photoshoot. Snap around the beautiful decor you created for your wedding and capture them in pictures together with your beloved.

The Wedding Doorgift

Let your guests DIY their own gifts or maybe even grow them. Have a jar of sweet aromatic powder and a quirky quote to instruct. Scents have a great way of capturing memories so let your wedding be etched in their memory through the fragrance. A cactus plant sustains without water which could be a nice edition in their homes with your wedding memory. Create customized glass mugs with wooden covers with their names carved on it which will never fade for a long long time.

Some Outdoor Venues in Singapore:

These outdoor venues could just make your wedding look like a beautiful fairytale. The outdoor & indoor areas in the venue gives you the flexibility and space to have a variety of decoration and activities. Photoshoots, the wedding, the aftermath party and everything could happen within the venue. The White Rabbit, Astonishing B&W Estate, Villa Paradiso are some stunning venues. Find more at Venuerific.com!

Venuerific is Asia’s largest event venue marketplace currently in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines, and Indonesia. We are a young and dynamic team that loves introducing people to all manner of amazing, trendy, beautiful, professional and truly unique venues. Visit Venuerific.com to start planning your event now!

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South Korean women v the patriarchy

Feminists battle a culture of misogyny

“MY LIFE IS not your porn,” read one poster. “We should be able to live, not survive,” declared another. The women brandishing them in the centre of Seoul, South Korea’s capital, wore red clothes and large sunglasses. They had covered their heads with baseball caps or broad-brimmed hats. The headgear and glasses serve partly to ward off the sun, but mainly to make the protesters unrecognisable to men who might be hostile to their cause: the fight against molka, videos which are filmed using cameras hidden in public toilets, school changing rooms or even women’s homes, and then posted on the internet. The cameras, disguised as clocks, pens or light bulbs, are bestsellers. Police register thousands of cases every year, but perpetrators are rarely caught and punished. The protesters (pictured) believe that this is because officials do not take women’s concerns seriously. “Stop the unfair sexist legal system,” runs one of their chants.

The red-clad women, who have turned out in their tens of thousands on several occasions since the spring and are planning their final protest of the year in late December, are the most visible part of a wave of activism against sexism in South Korea, where spycams in toilets are not the only problem vexing women.

Despite its material wealth, South Korea was ranked 118th out of 144 countries last year in the World Economic Forum’s measure of equality between the sexes. The average South Korean woman makes only two-thirds as much as the average man. Several cases have come to light recently in which companies deliberately and systematically discriminated against female job applicants, even though that is illegal. A group of male executives at KB Kookmin Bank, for instance, lowered women’s scores and raised men’s on a recruitment test, to ensure more men were hired. The case wound up in court, but the executives received only suspended sentences; the bank was fined a mere $4,500. Although young women are better educated on average than their male peers, many of them are pushed out of the workforce after having children, either for lack of good child care or because companies simply will not take them back.

In terms of appearance and behaviour, women and men are held to wildly different standards. A newsreader caused a scandal earlier in the year when she chose to read the morning news wearing glasses, rather than contact lenses. Many firms, it subsequently emerged, had an informal ban on female employees wearing glasses. A YouTube star who used her make-up tutorial channel to announce that she was giving up make-up to join the “corset-free” movement, which challenges unrealistic beauty standards, received a torrent of online threats.

Abuse from actual or would-be romantic partners is rife. A survey by the city government in Seoul found that four-fifths of women had experienced controlling behaviour (such as boyfriends telling them what to wear or whom they could meet). More than half had suffered unwanted (physical) sexual advances and nearly two-fifths outright violence. “Misogyny is still common sense in South Korea,” says Yun Kim Ji-yeong of Konkuk University in Seoul. “People do not accept that women are worth the same as men.”

But women are increasingly challenging this conviction. It is not just the anti-spycam protests. Many are cropping their hair, crushing their eyeshadow and throwing away their lipstick—and posting videos of their rebellion online. Emboldened by the global #MeToo movement, a string of prominent women have spoken out about experiences of abuse. Young South Korean women, long wary of using the term “feminist” in conversations with parents or boyfriends, are starting to make their voices heard. “I definitely spend more time talking to my friends and my parents about these things than I did two years ago,” says a 20-something student.

So far, tangible results have been few and far between. In September Lee Yoon-taek, a theatre director, was sentenced to six years in prison for sexual assaults on nine women during acting lessons. In another prominent case, Ahn Hee-jung, a former provincial governor, was cleared of a rape charge in August. The judge cited his accuser’s efforts to find his favourite breakfast on the morning after one of the alleged rapes as an indication that the encounter must have been consensual. Criminal complaints about sexual discrimination or assault remain vastly more likely to ruin the reputation and career of the victim rather than the perpetrator. A recent move by Seoul city hall to roll out daily anti-spycam checks of public toilets in the city may reassure some women (as well as keep bureaucrats busy). But it does not get to the root of the problem.

More personal than political

Many activists emphasise the importance of shared personal experience in strengthening the movement. Kim Han Ryeo-il, who set up a feminist café and bookshop in Seoul’s Gangnam district last year, says she wanted to create the kind of place she wished had existed when she was a single mother in dire straits after a divorce years ago. Her café hosts weekly meetings for women to talk about feminism.

A feminist co-operative in Sannae, a small village in a socially conservative region, has similar aims. The centrepiece is a meeting spot named “Salon de Mago” after a goddess of female creativity, which overlooks the village’s main street. Women from the area drop in to talk about conflicts with fathers and husbands and, often, domestic violence. Drawings and cartoons in which they have recorded their experiences are dotted around the room. Some depict rape scenes. “It’s a safe space for people to express themselves,” says Tali, one of the activists. Besides running the café, the women provide sex education in local schools. They also offer a discussion group for men, even though most of the male attention they get is hostile. “They say we are dividing men and women,” says Eerie, her colleague. A flyer on the table describes the insults and threats the women have received in the course of their work.

Ms Yun Kim believes the individual focus of the movement is its strength. Bottom-up organisation, via social media and word of mouth, makes it unintimidating and easy to join. She thinks the anti-spycam protests have drawn such crowds because they speak directly to women’s daily experience. “If you cannot even be safe from intrusion in the bathroom or in your own home, then where are you safe?”

Yet the focus on personal experience may impede feminists from seeking alliances with other groups battling social conservatism, such as activists for gay rights, or indeed sympathetic heterosexual men. The organisers of the recent anti-spycam protests, for example, specified that only “biological” women should take part. Yet such alliances may turn out to be crucial politically. Speaking out about mistreatment is one thing; changing a culture is another.

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20 Things You Probably Didn’t Know

1. Singapore is the most expensive place on earth to own a car.
2. Singapore is one of two cities in the world with a tropical rainforest.
3. A day on Mars is about half an hour longer than a day on Earth.
4. Russia’s president Putin has worked in the KGB’s foreign intelligence service.
5. A rollercoaster has no engine.
6. About 10% of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
7. One in every foru Americans Has appeared on Television.
8. About 80% of women wear the wrong size bra.
9. Sri Lanka has the highest number of snakebite deaths in the world.
10. Ethiopia will be celebrating millennium in September 2007.
11. The first print ad for Johnnie Walker appeared in 1883.
12. A puma has about 75% killing efficiency.
13. Uganda has the source of River Nile.
14. About 80% of your poo is water.
15. Shower chairs make for some kinky shower fun.
16. 70% of all Land Rovers ever made are estimated to still be on the road.
17. The Pima tribe in Arizona has the highest rate of diabetes in the world.
18. It takes around 10 litres of milk to make 1kg of cheese.
19. More people get killed by dogs than by sharks.
20. You swallow about a quart of snot everyday.

5 thoughts on “20 Things You Probably Didn’t Know”

  1. I’m not sure about number 5, does each carriage not have its own mini electric engine to pull itself along? Or is it like rail guns with the use of magnets and electricity

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Monthly Archives: March 2017

Talking Math Life with Christelle Vincent (now for something slightly different, part I)

Readers, I realize that you may be tired of hearing about my life.  I mean, PhD+Epsilon is about early-career mathematical life, but when I write, it’s usually about my life/career, which is only one of many options. Thus, this week … Continue reading

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Growing Roots

  I don’t have much to say about math at the moment. Classes are proceeding. Papers are too. Committee work has continued to intensify. Hiring for two positions has taken an enormous amount of time and energy from the whole department. … Continue reading

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Math Train: 64 Hours of Amtrak and AMS Southeastern Spring Sectional

This blog comes to you from near the end of an epic train trip to/from an excellent AMS Southeastern Spring Sectional Meeting at the College of Charleston. Train time is not a novelty to me—I spend a lot of time … Continue reading

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55. Orthodoxy and Other Faiths: Roman Catholicism, Part Two – The Great Schism

“Cardinal Humbert [of] the holy, primary, and apostolic see of Rome, to which the care of all the churches…pertains… [to] the glorious emperors, clergy, senate, and people of this city of Constantinople…I find great evil” [in this city… Therefore] know…that we thus subscribe the following anathema… unless they should repent. AMEN, AMEN, AMEN.”

Please remember again that what follows, like all history, is complex and subject to interpretation, and we’re leaving out much. Furthermore, I’m no professional historian, just a “popularizer” – which means I’m trying to be brief enough that people will actually read this! And, of course,  I’m writing from the Orthodox point of view. So, dear reader, if you think I’ve gone astray or forgotten something important, please add a comment at the bottom of this article.

Cardinal Humbert, the Papal emissary, placed this Papal bull * (greatly abbreviated here) on the altar of the great church Hagia Sophia in Constantinople on Saturday October 16, 1054, then walked out crying, “Let God be the judge!” The full text also mentioned that there was great good in the city, but it included a list of false accusations of heresy and misbehavior. 2 of them, however, were accurate: 1) of using leavened Bread for the Eucharist (really?!) and 2) “of refusing to acknowedge the procession of the Son from the Father”. This was important – see below. The anathema applied directly to Michael Celularios, whom Humbert described as “falsely called Patriarch of Constantinople”, and his “followers”. The big issue here, of course, was whether the Orthodox Church would accept the Pope as having “the care of all the churches”. Patriarch Michael quickly returned the favor and excommunicated Cardinal Humbert and implicitly the Pope.

  • In case you’ve wondered, a “bull” was a “bulla”, a leaden seal which authenticated its source. An anathema is a formal excommunication.

The year 1054 is usually given as the date of the Great Schism. Actually it wasn’t. For one thing, Cardinal Humbert did not excommunicate the other 4 Orthodox patriarchs, who were not under the jurisdiction of Constantinople. (I wonder if he realized that.) For another, when he laid the bull upon the altar at Constantinople, unknown to him the Pope had died, so technically the anathema didn’t count. The Great Schism was a process, not an event. There had already been the Photian Schism in the 9th century when Rome and Orthodoxy broke Communion for some time – this also over the issue of Papal supremacy and universal jurisdiction, after Pope Nicholas I attempted to depose Patriarch Photios of Constantinople. Orthodox consider Photios to the left, a brilliant scholar, a saint and defender of the Faith. Likewise for some time after 1054, many Orthodox and Roman Catholics did not break Communion – in parts of the Middle East and the Aegean islands, for example.

But back to the story.

What led up to the Great Schism.

Last week we looked at how cultural and historical differences caused Eastern and Western Christianity to diverge in “styles”, the West more legal and emphasizing external authority, the East less authoritarian, moving by consensus. These might have been held together in the Church for mutual benefit. So why did this lead to Schism? Here is a very partial and cursory look at the reasons.

1 Lack of mutual understanding. For several centuries, few in the Latin West could any longer speak Greek, and hardly anybody in the Orthodox East cared to speak Latin. As you know, words do not translate easily from one language to another. Many nuances are missed. (Try to translate English into Korean, and vice versa. Surely they didn’t say that? Well, maybe they didn’t.) Also, travel on the Mediterranean had become very difficult because of  surrounding Saracens and pirates – here green and white show what was left of Christian lands in the 10th century. You know what happens when people don’t talk person to person. (I often wonder if impersonal e-mails and texts and twitters are causing most of our contemporary problems.)

2 After the fall of Rome and the western part of the Empire to north European pagans (my ancestors!), how easy it was for Easterners to look down upon and ignore the West as barbarians. (Do we ever consider, for example, how Iranians with their 3000 years of civilization and imperial history must view us “upstart” Americans and our pretensions?) And when in the year 800 Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne, who could scarcely read a word, as emperor of a new competing western Roman empire… well, you can imagine.

The “Donation of Constantine”, a document fabricated in the 8th or 9th centuries, probably in France, which claimed that the Emperor Constantine had given the Pope of Rome authority over all Christians and even political power over the West. (They were never quite able to pull that one off!) This was little used in polemic before the Great Schism, but to the Papacy it justified their claims. Papal supremacy was news to the Orthodox East which had never known any such thing. Indeed when Rome first began to claim universal jurisdiction, the Orthodox didn’t take it seriously for a while.

And then the “Filioque”, the phrase “and the Son” which the West added to the text of the Ecumenical Creed. This seems to have originated in the 6th century in Spain, apparently out of a desire to counter the Arian belief that Christ was not truly God. To make it crystal clear that God the Son was equal with God the Father, they added “We believe in the Holy Spirit who proceeds from the Father and the Son.” This was then strongly promoted by Charlemagne and the Franks (who were Christian by now) where Arianism was particularly strong. Rome resisted. To make the point, Pope Leo III had the original Creed without the Filioque carved on 2 silver (some say bronze) tablets and placed in the old Saint Peter’s Church in Rome. But in 1014, under political pressure, Rome gave in, and the Filioque became part of the Roman Catholic Creed, and has been ever since. Only 40 years later Rome was chastising Orthodoxy for not using it!

In the Orthodox view, the Papacy is the big eccesiological problem. The Filioque is the big theological issue. We haven’t talked about it, so let’s stop and take a look.

The Filioque

Why all this fuss about 3 little words? Here are our issues with the Filioque:

1 It violates the canons of the Third Ecumenical Council of 431 which specifically forbade and anathematized any who make additions to the Ecumenical Creed. (Where have we heard that word “anathema” before?) The assumption behind this addition clearly was that Rome by herself has the authority to overrule the Church’s ecumenical Tradition and canons. If Rome does not have that authority… well, you figure it out for yourself.

2 It is contrary to the Scriptures. Christ is “the only begotten of the Father” John 1:14 “But when the Comforter comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father…” John 15:26  Was it Saint John of Damascus who wrote that we have no idea what is meant by “begotten” and “proceeds”, but we hold to it because that’s what Scripture says! Nor, by the way, do we know precisely how Christ sends the Spirit. God only knows. My old Methodist seminary professor said that we do well not to inquire too much into the “family life” of God.

3 The Filioque throws the Holy Trinity out of balance. In the Scriptures the Father is the Source of all things – see Genesis 1. By “promoting” the Son, the Holy Spirit is effectively “demoted”. This chart should say “Roman” Catholic, but it’s all I could find online. The following is my personal opinion: I think this explains why in the West, both Roman Catholic and Protestant, the Holy Spirit comes and goes, so to speak. There have been alternating periods of “Spiritual revival” followed by periods of “Spiritual dryness”. Scholasticism then mysticism,  legalism then the Charismatic movement and so on. Presently it’s going dry again. Have you been to a typical American Mass lately? (I don’t want to offend Roman Catholic readers, but where has the sense of mystery and holiness gone?) Meanwhile Orthodoxy continues quietly, calmly, in unity led by the Spirit. Often this isn’t obvious from the outside. One needs to experience it from the inside. After I got accustomed to the Orthodox Liturgy, I discovered that it was the most Spirit-filled thing I had never known. Some years ago we had a Pentecostal visitor at our Sunday Liturgy at Saint Nicholas. I wondered how he would react. Afterwards he said, “You’re more formal than us. But you’re doing exactly what we do: 2 hours of praising God in the Spirit.”  I don’t mean to brag. This is not the result of our effort. Actually it’s our lack of effort. It comes, I think, simply because we have never “messed around” with the Creed. That is my opinion.

Results of the Great Schism in the East

The Schism between Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism might have remained an issue mostly for bishops and theologians except for one thing: the Fourth Crusade and the sack of Constantinople. In 1204 Crusaders (who on previous quests had ravaged only the Middle East – Muslims, Christians and Jews alike) attacked Constantinople. Innocents were massacred, churches and homes pillaged and burnt, nuns raped, relics destroyed or stolen. (That’s why many eastern relics are now in the West.) I cannot imagine that this was at the direction of Rome. Nevertheless, the Latins took advantage of the situation. Baldwin I of Flanders was declared emperor of Constantinople. They set up a Latin hierarchy. After 57 years the Latins were driven out, but this so weakened the Roman (“Byzantine”) Empire in the east that it never recovered its strength.

The Turks took advantage, and in 1453 “The City”, as it had long been called in both East and West, fell easily to them. The longest lasting and perhaps most influential Empire in history was gone. The Orthodox (Greeks especially) have never forgotten nor forgiven. This left among Orthodox people a permanent and popular hatred and distrust of Rome and the West which remains to this day. When I was in Greece in 1985 the speakers (well educated lay theologians) at the conference I attended made sure we Westerners understood: “Do you know what the Crusaders did to us?” Lost Byzantium. Centuries of Turkish oppression.

So in the end the Orthodox people rejected any who tried to make peace with Rome and the West. There were later attempts to reunite Roman Catholicism with Orthodoxy. (I phrase it that way because Orthodox believe that the Roman Catholics left us, in doctrine, in ecclesiology.) But by the 15th century the state of Orthodoxy was so weak that we went as beggars. Bishops appointed by the Patriarch and the Emperor went to a council in Florence seeking reunion, but actually it was because the Emperor wanted Western military help against the surrounding Turkish armies. The Orthodox bishops “sold out” – there’s no other way to put it – except for Mark of Ephesus who refused to sign. When they returned home Mark became a popular hero, while the others were driven out of office. (I told you last week that all Orthodox are guardians of the Faith.) The popular saying was “Better the Turkish turban than the Papal tiara”. The Turks might give Orthodox a lot of trouble (as they did), but at least they wouldn’t try to destroy the Orthodox Faith. And that’s where things stood till modern times.

I warned you last week that it was going to take 3 articles to finish this. (Just wait till we come to the 10 gazillion Protestant denominations!) Last week’s question was “Is the Pope Catholic?” The answer will lie in our different understandings of “Catholic”. Stay turned.

Next Week: 1) Results of the Great Schism in the West: new  doctrines and dogmas 2) What we still have in common 3) Movement toward unity 4) Hindrances to unity

  1. Fr. Bill, Thank you so much for this series of essays. I was hoping to find clearer understanding of the differences between Orthodox and Roman Catholic. Now I hope to understand the different Orthodox churches that seem to come under different umbrellas – there’s Greek, Russian, Antiochian, Eastern. I am so confused. I can’t seem to figure out where I might want to go visit. I’m in Brooklyn NY

    1. You’re welcome. If you’re confused now, wait till I try to describe Protestantism. Briefly, all Orthodox Churches believe exactly the same things. Likewise worship is almost identical, though with different national or regional music. Once you get accustomed to that a person feels at home anywhere. I walk into a church in Greece and almost immediately know where they are in the services. Antiochians and OCA (formerly Russian) are almost always in English. In other jurisdictions it varies. People are usually friendly, I think, but sometimes in churches with many new immigrants they’re hesitant. That’s about it.

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