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The original nature of man as 'fallen' can be understood as that origin and starting point of our existence as the manifestation of the separation of Self as one and equal. This is about that primordial separation from which we have come a long, long way up to now where we virtually have no remembrance of how long we have been repeating the same mistakes, the same patterns, living the same li(v)es and seeking the same answers as to why we haven't been able to live a fulfilling, peaceful, joyful life. And that's where it all began, when we have considered that the rather disturbing and horrible things going on inside our minds and so in our reality is some kind of a 'fall' or a 'course' that we have to seek to escape, ignore or seek to be saved or hide from it all in the opposite polarity in all things that relate to positivity, light & love as consciousness 'revolutions' and 'evolutions' that promote the avoidance of everything that would be considered in our minds as bad/negative/destructive –however, who/what or rather HOW did we come to define the 'negative' and 'positive' in our reality?
What I truly consider necessary is to understand our starting point in this process of investigating how we have accepted and allowed ourselves to act, speak and think in ways that are not best for all, to only act in the mindset of 'what's best for me' as the reverse of life, and this is all because we have listened to our minds as our thoughts, feelings and emotions to dictate who we are, what to do, what to believe, etc. which means: we haven't lived in self-awareness, we haven't lived by principles that consider what is best for everyone and ourselves, we haven't paid attention to how we dictate our lives based on our beliefs with which we create the world-system, constructs and institutions in this world as our image and likeness; we have created our own traps and laws as knowledge and information that we then use to excuse our own thoughts and actions without questioning where did it all come from? It is about realizing that we cannot rely in the answers given any longer – instead we have to focus on understanding the mechanism, the 'tool' with which we think, and that is the Mind.
Apparently, the Consciousness as Personality is a 'Higher Form' of Being, because – it can 'Reason'. But, in fact – it has No Reason. Reason would be the Ability to Directively, Always, Manage All Existence in a Cooperative Way with Respect, Understanding the Inherent Equality as the Life Force that Animates the Form. But the Consciousness Refuse to Consider this. Because that would mean, it Must Give-Up its Self-Interest which is Focused on the Continuous Systematic Production of Energy and Feelings by Systems that the End-Result as Consciousness Never Sees, Never Understands, Never Considers.
Frankly, to be the End-Product as Energy and Feeling – without Understanding the Mechanics of Production: is the Height of Ignorance, and is the CORE Cause where All Life Forms and Life itself is Ignored. – Bernard Poolman
– See more at: http://creationsjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/12/day-258-vampires-in-soul-of-sacred.html#sthash.dEzEtNM0.dpuf
How we operate in the mind is – and this you can observe for yourself – we constantly and continuously create a process of friction and conflict within ourselves, we generate and perpetuate 'all bad things' in our lives and so in this world, which becomes then our 'fallen' state or condition: it is not a curse, it is not some divine punishment, it is not only preprogramming – it is the laws, rules which come from thoughts that become our ideologies with which we start defining 'who we are' and 'how things must be' which lead us to exist in conflict, always seeking to be at the point of least discomfort, the least effort, the least conflict, the most 'love' or 'feeling good' as all things positive that we eventually become addicted to. It is then in this self-created 'fall' that we start vehemently seeking all things to seemingly 'escape' from seeing, facing and realizing the consequences of our original starting point which is that of friction and conflict, of not cooperating with each other, of evil as the reverse of live which is defined in our minds as negative, seemingly 'bad' which is nothing else but acting/thinking in ways that are harmful/abusive/deceptive to oneself, which carry consequences that we can all witness and are participating it as our lives and how this world-system mostly operates: deception, corruption, hatred, abuse, control, etc.
These are not things we have to fear and hide from, this is what we create ourselves with our very own thoughts and experiences in our minds, this where we have led ourselves to in self-interest and disregard of everything and everyone else as equals. So, fearing it or denying it is only prolonging the necessary process that comes when realizing what we've done and become. Nothing to feel guilty of, that can be self-forgiven – experiencing real shame is not an experience in itself, but a profound decision to understand what I/we have created, done and become and make a decision to never again repeat the same mistakes, that's a constructive way to live shame and transform guilt into a process of self-correction.
One of the reasons why throughout this process we initially focus on dissecting, investigating, understanding the 'evil' as the reverse of life existent within ourselves and the world-system as a whole, is to see, realize and understand how each one of us through acting based on what we think, feel or believe have come to act and co-create this world in a way wherein we have only regarded 'my personal interest' and disregard everything and everyone else. We learn how to seek culprits, point fingers and blame others for how 'bad' things are or what 'they' have done unto 'us' – not realizing that there's not 'us vs. them' because for a master to exist, slaves had to comply to such role as well.
We tend to avoid looking at or rather fear focusing on our consequences, which is not to get fixated on everything 'bad' in this world – it is rather to understand how we came to create these consequences, what we have done, what we haven't done, where have I actually been directly involved with the consequences in my own life.
The Sole Purpose for the Human Existence, being that: as a Slave – Producing the Energy Necessary for the Multi-Dimensions Existence, in Form. – Bernard Poolman
Read the entire explanation at: http://creationsjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/12/day-254-secret-geometry-of.html#sthash.Co7M2FpI.dpuf
This is also why we expose how in seeking only 'the positive' we are only creating a Band-Aid solution to a very deep in-jury we have inflicted upon ourselves from the beginning of our time, never in fact knowing the real story behind our purpose and meaning of existence in this reality – this is not something 'negative' or 'bad,' it is how things are in fact. The only way to understand why we would we or anyone act in a deliberate harmful and abusive way is through understanding how our mind works and operates, its origin and purpose, which is why I consider that it is vital to investigate Desteni and so understand that all 'the bad' and negative in this world is our creation, so we simply stop creating an experience toward this 'fallen' perception of man, stop thinking we 'will never change' or that it is human nature and as such it is unchangeable – and instead direct ourselves to do the truly revolutionary move of challenging such beliefs, challenging everything we've known till this day and focus on our own process of understanding what it means to live in Self-Honesty, to not be dictated by pre-ordained thinking patterns, emotions or feelings but instead deliberately think, act and speak according to what will be supportive for each other as equals.
It is also self-evident how our reality is the result of our disregard of each other as equals, from giving to one another what we should have always given to each other in the recognition of another as myself –we haven't applied any of this because we allowed ourselves to focus only on the individual, the survival, the 'how I feel and experience myself' which is nothing else than giving priority to who we are in the mind as emotions and feelings – the negative and positive experiences respectively – all energy based. What I have learned at Desteni is that participating in these experiences is in fact once again confirming our separation and enslavement, our 'fallen' experiences that we then tend to use as an excuse to focus on 'getting well' or 'being positive' rather than looking at physical reality and questioning ourselves why we have created this generally 'negative' state and condition for everyone? Why do we have to constantly seek all the 'good' things in life instead of giving this to each other as a living right? Why have we kept each other oppressed, marginalized and uneducated about our true potential when we work in consideration of what is best for all?
When we believe we 'fall' for example and create a negative experience about it, we are in fact only caring about 'how I FEEL' and how I Experience myself through thoughts, emotions, feelings that I then believe are in fact 'real' and so confirming and recreating one's own 'fall' as explained in the previous blog, which is nothing else but a self-created experience that we then hold on to as an excuse to not actually stand up, review why we fell, how we fell, what can we then lay out as a practical solution to prevent oneself from committing the same fault/ mistake and so continue walking, continue living the process of self-correction.
When we allow ourselves to define 'who we are' through the veil of emotions, feelings as beliefs, desires, fears, worries, obsessions, we are in fact only contributing to the problem in our reality, we are not contributing to establish solutions, because solutions come in the form of practical plans of action such as stopping participating in emotions with which we make ourselves feel bad and miserable – which is the same process when we go into a 'high' experience seeking to look only at the positive in this world, thinking about all that makes us feel good and that we've defined as beautiful or comfortable in our experience – this is what creates the most problems in fact, because in this we ignore our starting point which is the actual reality that everyone can confirm right now just by going outside of your house and looking at how we relate to each other, how our money system operates, how we have to exist in a constant survival mode, how wars are waged within ourselves, toward each other and between nations, how we use information to manipulate, how we learn to lie and deceit to earn the most… all of this is what we have created as our image and likeness of our original separation from being in fact living as one and equal from the beginning of our existence.
This doesn't imply that we must remain fixated on only looking at how 'bad' we are as that would also be an excuse to remain enslaved, which is also useless without understanding such consequential outflows what we create. We have to stop believing that 'we were born this way, we are screwed for life' type of excuses. What we focus on at Desteni is daring to first look at that 'evil' aspect of ourselves, evil as in the reverse of live, understanding why and how we have come to exist as and create these high levels of self-abuse, neglect, self-harm, hatred toward one another and so once we start understanding how we create such destruction through our everyday distractions in the mind, losing track of living principles, we can then start practically writing and structuring How we can stop participating in all of these destructive distractions and establish/build a new track where we can step aside of our own cave, to see that the 'fall' must not be a continuous experience of feeling damned, but can only be a moment to reflect further on how we came to such 'fall' or entrapment, and how we can now focus on getting back on track, stop all distractions, stop self-destruction and align ourselves to that which we realize is best for all, best for oneself which begins through precisely using writing, self-forgiveness and self-corrective application to give ourselves the direction that we realize we always should have given to us, to live by the principles where equality is realized at a practical level.
This is then part of the understanding of why we haven't just lived 'heaven on Earth' and why we desperately sought it by avoiding all that we perceived as evil/bad/negative, which we end up creating as a consequence of not realizing that we haven't built any actual foundation – such as a world-system based on living principles of life in equality – to provide a good life for each other here on Earth; we haven't yet collectively worked on establishing supportive platforms of education to understand our minds and so understand how this world is a reflection of every single pattern of separation that we exist as within ourselves, which is also one of the purposes we are so adamant in sharing the importance of understanding our minds and so realizing the responsibility that resides in each one of us to contribute to this process of self-change through self-honesty and self-responsibility, learning how to honor each other as life.
Some other examples of how we trap ourselves in our mental polarity
Seeking 'peace' is nothing else but a controlled and ongoing state of 'preventing war' instead of getting rid of the concept of war and peace to realize the positive and negative connotations to it and how such 'states of being' are only experiences in the mind, where one is defined by the existence of the other – in this, we forget to look at the reasons why wars are waged, why we have come to believe that a 'solution' to a conflict comes through death and destruction, why we have come to believe that wars are a good way to 'restart the economy' or how wars can be a way to honor a nation… and so realizing that peace is not something to fight for, but a process of creating a world-system where we never again fall in the trap of believing that war brings any supportive results in our reality. The same applies then to love and hate, good or bad, weak or strong – dissecting each of these words to understand why we create our own highs and lows is the most empowering thing we can do, so that we are no longer controlled by energetic experiences as thoughts, feelings, emotions but instead focus on establishing a real stability in our lives through focusing on practical solutions in physical reality.
An example, if we see that money is a collectively accepted concept existent as debt and as such a fictional instrument of control to keep the majority on survival mode while creating 'power' for a minority, then we realize that it makes sense to step by step start aligning this money-construct to become something that is actually supportive to enable everyone to live in dignity. A practical way to do this is for example to provide money for everyone that doesn't currently have an assured income and provide better wages for everyone as a beginning and stepping stone to continue then correcting the entire construction/concept that we have all created as what 'money' is and redefine its creation, use and purpose the same way that we can redefine words to stop reacting to our own creation of money, judging it as 'the root of all evil' and as such, start focusing on how we can give another use to money to provide a everyone access to live in a dignified manner and investigate all the alignments and corrections required to be able to collectively agree to do just that.
They key point is to understand then how we came to create money as the apparent 'root of all evil' which is the image and likeness of our need to control to have 'more' than others and so consolidate the idea of power, and so start looking at and structuring ways to perfect the creation of money so that it no longer is issued by private corporations for the purpose of perpetuating power and control, but that it functions merely as the administrative and practical tool it always should have been from which debt and its profitable creation in the form of interest can cease to exist – this will only be possible when we collectively agree on money becoming an actual way to ensure the supportive management of resources and how we interact with them to have a dignified life.
As we can see, sorting out the money problem involves a process and so it will also take a process to do the same with ourselves in our minds, to understand first how we created the problem, why, how we have become the problem itself and so create a practical plan to change ourselves once that we have faced, self-forgiven and understood the point in which we have created our own fall and never really moved from it until now that we are opening up the ability to change ourselves.
The only reason why we have to begin with and first focus on the consequences we have created, the actual negative/bad/destructive aspects of our reality is because we have conditioned ourselves to neglect them, to avoid seeing the truth of ourselves, our reality and so only resorting in that which makes us 'feel good' or 'think positive' which is the apparent 'way out' from our own damnation. But the problem is that we have accepted and allowed such evil/negative/bad as who we are which lead us to accept the fact that seeking the 'positive/good' was a solution – it is not, it is only jumping from pole to pole which is also why most of our problem-solution-reward processes in our world-system have been another way to evolve the problem, because there had never been solutions based on what is best for all and embracing all aspects of ourselves/our reality as oneself, but instead we have always generated solutions where some are benefitted and others are not, perpetuating the divide and conquer mentality as well as the polarity of 'good vs. evil' and once again back into the programming of thinking and perceiving this reality through the mental-filter of 'good vs. bad' which is what we have trapped ourselves into always experiencing conflict of doing good things or bad thins, never considering plain common sense of what I require to do to live in consideration of what is best for all. This we do through the process of self-honesty: not 'ignoring' the bad, not avoiding it but understanding it, self-forgiving it and laying out solutions and corrections that we can implement at an individual and collective level which won't be founded upon going into the 'up' or 'high' experience as something 'positive,' but simply aligning to the principle that exists within each one of us as part of this physical existence, the principle that we can see would enable us to co-create a reality where we can fulfill each other's necessities, where we can actually express ourselves to our utmost potential which exists in each one of us as a potential to be developed – it is a seed waiting to be watered in each one of us.
Now that we have the understanding of 'the evil' or 'the fall', we can then focus on forgiving the 'fall' which is the equivalent of existing in separation, existing in the mind, existing of consciousness and so walk this physical, practical, constant and consistent process where we can apply ourselves to correct our 'nature' and for the first time prove to ourselves that we can live as equals in this world.
For all of this, an individual process is required, which is then how our starting point can be realized not as a damnation, an eternal curse, but a general misalignment to the principle of Life in Equality, which is who/what we really are as part of this existence from which we have separated ourselves through knowledge, information, words, experiences – all of it in the mind. An analogy here is that it is no different to seeing a detuned guitar and each one of us being part of the strings that are 'out of tune.' So tuning ourselves as each string that will make the guitar have a harmonious sound is our responsibility, and it will not be about creating a 'greater experience' about it or about making ourselves 'superior' for walking the process of 'tuning' ourselves, but simply to align ourselves to how we all realize in common sense will make the guitar sound better, to fine-tune ourselves to be actually 'sound' and support the actual creation of music that can come from such guitar – the strings being each one of us and the guitar as our body, our reality as the platform that enables the expression of the strings which is this world along with all living beings that are here and that already cooperate and exist in self-awareness, the same as the world body that has been waiting for us to decide to begin aligning ourselves so that we can altogether sound ourselves in harmony as a whole.
As we can see the realization that we are out of tune is the first step, Then we have to see whether we are high or low in the tone so that we can understand how we will fine tune each string, and just like we all know when a guitar is sounding 'good' we can all also have such principle of what would be best for everyone in this reality such as providing each other the necessary support to physically live well and have a dignified life, to support each other the way we would want others to support ourselves, to not harm or abuse each other but to rather realize what we can do and create if we work together with this starting point and principle of considering what is best for all, to give to one another as we would like to receive and through that we can eventually get to realize ourselves as equals which means: stopping living in the positive or negative aspects of how we define what we do, but to simply focus on understanding how have I detuned/misaligned myself, how to correct myself to tune myself back to my alignment based on what is best for myself and all so that I, in conjunction with everyone else, get to be sound and able to express ourselves as we always should have done, because we all want this for ourselves, we just haven't taken the actual steps to do so beginning with ourselves as individuals, as that's where the initial split was created in our individuality: in our minds, mining our physical substance to power up our friction and conflict – this is the actual self abuse that requires to be stopped within self-first.
What expressions can come from aligning ourselves? That's up to us, but first point is to take that first point of responsibility to align ourselves, to fine tune ourselves and the rest is yet to be walked. It is important to note that the tuning might not be a given answer – it won't be a feeling, a though or an emotion. We have to actually take the responsibility to create the ways in which we can physically test out what works, what doesn't, what points to consider, how to see the changes through space and time – it is all about a physical process of stabilizing ourselves and supporting each other to do the same and so push ourselves to share with each other how it is possible to truly live to our utmost potential – this is yet to be seen and realized, but we have to start somewhere and so we begin here, with ourselves.
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Supportive Reads:
- First 100 posts on:
Heaven's Journey to Life
to understand more about this process of separation
Creation's Journey to Life
Supportive Material:
The Soul of Money Series:
- The Infinity Secret: Consciousness as the Light and the Dark
- The Heart of Love
- The Inequality of Resource Distribution within All Bodies of Existence
- Divide and Conquer: The Majority Enslaved by the Minority
- The Interconnection between Thoughts, Energy and Light
The Secret History of the Universe
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ORANGE BEACH, Ala. (AP) Authorities say they"ve found the bodies of two Louisiana brothers who died in the surf on the Alabama coast.
Police say the bodies of a 12-year-old boy and his 19-year-old brother were both located Saturday after a search. They apparently drowned.
The two went under Friday night in a resort area in Orange Beach, Alabama.
Police haven"t released the names of either young man. But Steward Spencer tells The Advocate the victims were his grandsons, 19-year-old Steward Spencer III and 12-year-old Joshua Spencer, both of Baton Rouge.
Spencer says the older boy tried to save the younger one in rip current, but both were swept out.
The grandfather says the family went to the beach on a vacation on Thursday and was supposed to return home Sunday.

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1987 Chevrolet S10 Blazer - Clean Shaven
And Back To Blazin'
Owner: Brian White
Ride: '87 Chevy S-10 Blazer
Hometown: Conway, Arkansas
Club: Kontradictions
Unfortunately, more then just a few buildup stories begin like Brian White's '87 S-10 Blazer. The Cliffs Notes for the story go something like this: man sees truck, man buys truck, man falls in love with truck, man dumps tons of money into truck, and then some uninsured idiot hits truck. Rather disappointed, Brian piled his truck in the backyard and let it sit. The truck bug had already dug its teeth into Brian, though, and he couldn't go without a sweet ride. He went shopping for a new truck and picked up an '01 Silverado Extra Cab that he began customizing. The entire time he worked on and drove his fullsize, something just didn't feel right. The poor Blazer sat for a couple of years, dreaming of the day Brian would come back into its life. Sure enough, Brian realized that he had to pick up where he'd left off. He was compelled to return to his roots: mini-trucking. So he sold the fullsize and began to put his Blazer back together, one piece at a time. As you can tell, he went all out the second time around and left nothing to chance.
Brian's Blazer now sports a frame-laying drop up front, thanks to Chassis Tech upper and lower control arms, Belltech 2-inch drop spindles, and 2,500-pound Firestone airbags. Out back, Brian and his buddy Barry Wiser of Wiser Suspension notched the frame, built a custom-linked cantilever setup, and installed Belltech shocks to ensure that the rear end was firmly planted to the pavement. The Blazer airs out via 3/8 Parker valves to help tuck the 18x8.5-inch Billet Specialties Shadow wheels wrapped with 235/40R18 Sumitomo HTRZ II rubber deep into the fenderwells.
The Blazer wears a Reflexxion steel cowl-induction hood, an FBI phantom grille, and Street Scene signal mirrors. The molded ground effects, front bumper, and roll pan add to that clean look Brian wanted. The door handles, tailgate handle, emblems, antenna, wipers, body lines, gas door, taillights, roof rack, and door jamb seams have all been smoothed over, hence the name "Clean Shaven." Brian's Blazer sports a huge 67-inch hole in the roof, also known as a ragtop, that he installed himself. Some other nice little touches are the flush-mounted LEDs in the front bumper cover. Brian opted for '90 Cadillac taillights mounted diagonally in the tailgate to let people know he was stopping. Brian, Jay Lucey, Jack Jumper, and Nate Garraputa executed all the body modifications before Jeffrey Bryant got a hold of the paint. The two-tone paintjob is a combination of '02 Volkswagen Silver and '02 Subaru WRX Blue, with custom-mixed green and orange graphics splitting the lines.
Now Brian turned his attention inward to finish off this seven-year trek. The dash was smoothed and painted by Jay at AC Sport. The rear seats were ditched and the front seats were replaced with a pair of Recaro Racing seats, which were wrapped in suede and tweed by Buddy's Upholstery. After adding a Billet Specialties Meteor steering wheel, a Trenz billet mirror, an FBI billet dash kit, and a painted steering column, Brian wrapped the rest of the interior in gray tweed and suede leather. When Brian finally got a glimpse of his finished truck, we're sure he was very pleased that he decided to ditch the fullsize and come back to his ever-faithful Blazer. Don't you think he made the right decision?
The Low Down
Wheels/Tires 18x8.5-inch Billet Specialties Shadow wheels / 235/40R18 Sumitomo HTRZ II tires
Chassis/Suspension Belltech 2-inch drop spindles / Chassis Tech tubular upper and lower control arms / 2,500-pound Firestone airbags up front / 2,600-pound Firestone airbags out back / 3/8-inch Parker valves / custom cantilever-link setup in the rear / step-notched frame / Belltech shocks in the rear / total lowered height: 9 inches in the front, 14 inches in the rear
Body Modifications Reflexxion steel cowl-induction hood / Street Scene signal mirrors / 19-bar FBI phantom grille / headlights recessed 1-1/2 inches to fit phantom grille / '90 Cadillac taillights mounted diagonally in the tailgate / flush-mounted LEDs in the front bumper cover / molded ground effects / molded roll pan / shaved door handles / shaved tailgate handle / shaved emblems / shaved antenna / shaved wipers / shaved body lines / shaved gas door / shaved taillights / shaved roof rack / shaved doorjamb seams / 67-inch sliding ragtop / fuel door relocated to inside of truck under the old jack cover
Custom Paint Two-tone using RM Diamont Standox paint in '02 Subaru WRX Blue and '02 Volkswagen Silver / custom-mixed green and orange graphics
Engine/Performance GM Delco 3.08 ring-and-pinion / 150 amperage Stinger alternator / chrome and billet dress-up accessories / Optima Yellow Top battery relocated to rear of cab next to the air tank / Magnaflow exhaust system
Interior Smoothed and painted dash / Recaro Racing seats wrapped in suede and tweed / removed rear seats completely / upholstered headliner in gray tweed / wrapped all interior panels in gray tweed / painted steering column / billet dash pieces from FBI / Trenz billet mirror / Billet Specialties Meteor steering wheel
Special Thanks Jay at AC Sport / Jack and Nate at Street Sweeper Customs / Jeff at McCormick's Body Shop / family and friends for all their help and support
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Editor's note: Christiane Amanpour is anchor of CNN's "Amanpour." This open letter to the girls of the world is part of the "Girl Rising" project. CNN Films' "Girl Rising" documents extraordinary girls and the power of education to change the world. Watch it June 16 on CNN.
By Christiane Amanpour, CNN
(CNN) - Dear Girls of the World,
There are more than 7 billion people in the world. Half of them are women and girls.
Just imagine the whole world rising, as it will, when all women and girls are empowered.
It has to start with education. All the number crunchers have it right on this one: education = empowerment, from here in the United States to Uruguay and Ulan Bator.
The United Nations, the World Bank and any organization you can think of say that an educated girl is a girl who can get a job, become a breadwinner and raise herself, her family, her village, her community and eventually her whole country. All the stories and statistics show that a healthy society is one whose women are healthy and productive.
Look at what women and girls are achieving for Rwanda, 19 years after the genocide there. The country leads the way in Africa in every way: education, health, the economy, the environment and in elected politics, powered by the force of its women. It is an amazing story. In contrast, the Arab world, which is so rich in natural resources such as oil and gas, is way behind in all development indicators, because half their populations, their women, are denied basic rights. It's why the Arab Spring must liberate and fully empower women, for the good of those countries.FULL STORY


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SPEAK OUT: Abridging one right restricts all rights
Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority, used grammatical, legal, and historical approaches to determine the meaning of the statement "A well-regulated Milita, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
As a result, DC's laws that effectively ban all handguns and require any guns in one's house to be rendered inoperable have been struck down.
This is a historic moment for the protection of our rights. For decades, a clearly articulated privilege prominently featured in the Bill of Rights has been undercut by various authorities. Finally, the Supreme Court has halted the erosion of the right to keep and bear arms and insisted that the government recognize and accord a minimal amount of respect to this civil right.
Those who cherish rights such as privacy that so famously emanate from a Constitutional penumbra should be thankful. If the Court had instead effectively abrogated an expressly articulated right, where would the less explicit rights stand? Those who were awake in their high school history classes or keep up with current political events should be well aware that is in our best interest to interpret individual rights broadly and limit the power of the state to circumscribe them.
At one time the right to free speech did not include allegedly obscene materials. Laws were promulgated that outlawed pornography, but the government also attacked those who were trying to disseminate the most rudimentary principles of contraception and women's health.
The right to vote has been denied to a variety of citizens for any number of reasons over the course of our history, and the fight continues even today to institute same-day registration, eliminate intentional and unintentional disenfranchisement, and restore voting privileges to reformed felons.
If the irresponsible exercise of a Constitutionally protected right creates situations that society deems unacceptable, they must seek to find a remedy that does not foreclose that right. The abuse of religion to legitimize violence or abuse cannot lead us to outlaw particular sects. We must instead punish the violence and abuse.
If we object to our children being exposed to sexually explicit themes, we cannot criminalize racy movies or magazines and thus muzzle the creators of these media. Instead we institute protections such as the movie ratings system and require stores to keep their merchandise from being visible to passers-by.
Finally, the right to keep and bear arms has been accorded the same protections. Despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth heard in some corners, our ability to confront violent crime perpetrated with firearms has not been destroyed. If we have a problem with criminals using weapons, we must punish the criminally violent acts and keep only the criminals from obtaining weapons, through the use of mechanisms such as background checks.
The Supreme Court has reminded us countless times that any restrictions of a civil right must be narrowly tailored to achieve the desired purpose. Categorically banning entire classes of weapons and criminalizing the right to self-defense obviously abridges the right of the people at large and cannot be tolerated.
Exactly where the boundary between infringement of a right and reasonable precautions lies has not been determined on this issue. The editors at The Patriot Ledger complained that the decision in D.C. vs. Heller would result in a flurry of litigation and leave states unsure as to the constitutionality of their gun control measures. While this will be a long process and the line in the sand will indeed remain blurry for some time to come, would anyone truly advocate another approach?
The Supreme Court properly ruled on the narrow question in front of it and declared two provisions of DC's gun control laws to be unconstitutional. It would be an extreme case of legislating from the bench and a sign of a breakdown in our federal systems if the Court had decided to take up consideration of the endless array of state and federal regulations.
If legislators are left in doubt about the constitutionality of their provisions, perhaps that should lead them to sobering moment of reflection instead of cries that their work is made harder because they are in violation of the Constitution of the United States.
Nicole Mammarella, an occasional contributor, is a graduate student in genetics at Harvard Medical School and is an active member of several gun rights groups. She lives in Quincy.


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The UNIDO Country Office in Indonesia was established in 1970.
Within UNIDO's mandate to foster economically efficient, ecologically friendly and socially desirable patterns of industrial development across developing countries, the UNIDO development cooperation programme in Indonesia covers four thematic priorities: poverty reduction through productive activities; trade capacity building; energy for productive use and energy efficiency; and environment management.
These four thematic areas are in line with the projects identified in the UNIDO - Indonesia Country Programme. This approach also complies with the contours and tenets of the Indonesia – United Nations Partnership Development Framework (UNPDF) 2011 - 2015. The programmatic objective of the framework is to achieve sustainable livelihoods and combat climate change. The framework is also fully aligned with the national medium-term development priorities (RPJM) 2010 - 2015, which aims to address issues regarding poverty reduction, investment and business, climate change, energy and environment.
The Government of Indonesia in its national development priorities have highlighted strategic development goals in order to build and consolidate international development partnership in the pursuit of promoting Indonesia's visibility as an emerging economy.
The programmatic intervention of UNIDO in the context of Indonesia's development priorities aims at creating an enabling environment to bring about necessary changes required as well as ensure a holistic approach in the implementation of technical programmes.
UNIDO Field Office
Mr. ALQARARAH Esam Odeh Saoud
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PARENTS' NIGHT OUT: Mardi Gras Ball with Buckwheat Zydeco in the Hilltowns!
Winklepicker Festival
Mardi Gras Ball w/ Buckwheat Zydeco
& After-Party w/ The Primate Fiasco
Saturday, Feb 18th @ 7pm in Ashfield, MA
Continuing our Parents' Night Out promotions, Hilltown Families has a pair of tickets to giveaway to one very lucky couple to the Winklepicker Festival Mardi Gras Ball with Buckwheat Zydeco at the Ashfield Town Hall (412 Main Street), followed by an after-party with The Primate Fiasco next door at Elmer's, in Ashfield, MA on Saturday, February 18th at 7pm. Deadline to enter to win: 2/15. Details below.
Italy has Carnivale, Brazil has the same. Germany has Fasching, New Orleans has Mardi Gras… Ashfield has Winklepicker! – And while those other festivals are all tied to the last possible blow-out moments before the contemplative days of Lent, out here in the Protestant hinterlands, Winklepicker is tied to the hardest part of the year – when the novelty of winter has worn off, warmth is still half a globe-turn away and you'd like something to do besides plow snow and rake roofs.
Winklepicker stirs all the warmth of music, dancing, community, eating and drinking up together in one big, roiling pot. Winklepicker celebrates warmth and fun in the coldest, plainest days of the year. This inaugural year, the third weekend of February also turned out to be the weekend that precedes the above celebrated festivals, and the theme of Mardi Gras in New Orleans was picked as the inaugural theme for the weekend.
This year's festival includes: Creole Cooking Workshop; Exhibit of Mardi Gras costumes; Mardi Gras Kids Music Camp; Concert with Chris Smither; Gospel Brunch; and a Mardi Gras Ball with Buckwheat Zydeco (after-party with The Primate Fiasco). Find out more at www.winklepickerfest.com.
Grammy Award-winning American musical legend, Louisiana vocalist, and accordion and organ master Buckwheat Zydeco is the preeminent ambassador of Louisiana zydeco music. The New York Times says, "Stanley 'Buckwheat' Dural leads one of the best bands in America. A down-home and high-powered celebration, meaty and muscular with a fine-tuned sense of dynamics…propulsive rhythms, incendiary performances." This high-energy band will lead a night of dancing and Mardi Gras revelry that you won't want to miss, so put on your dancing shoes and join Buckwheat Zydeco as he heats up Ashfield Town Hall. Then stay for the After Party with The Primate Fiasco. The Ball begins at 7pm; after party at 9:30pm. – Not familiar with Buckwheat Zydeco, sample his music here… but be sure to put on your dancing shoes first!
Your chance to win a pair of tickets to the WinklePicker Festival Mardi Gras Ball with Buckwheat Zydeco at the Ashfield Town Hall (412 Main Street), followed by an after-party with The Primate Fiasco next door in Ashfield, MA, on Saturday, February 18th at 7pm is easy & simple! To enter to win simply:
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IT'S THAT SIMPLE! — Deadline to enter to win is Wednesday, 02/15/12 @ 7pm (EST)
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- Erin Klett of Greenfield, MA
Erin has won a pair of tickets to the WinklePicker Festival Mardi Gras Ball with Buckwheat Zydeco at the Ashfield Town Hall (412 Main Street), followed by an after-party with The Primate Fiasco next door in Ashfield, MA, on Saturday, February 18th at 7pm – and should contact us at email@example.com for directions on how to claim tickets…
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We have found fun things to do to lift the winter blues on this Web site: Fire and Ice arts walk the other night in Easthampton and the Holyoke Winter Carnival are just two of our recent winter-blues-busting outings. There's really no need to look further than Hilltown Families for fun events during the week and on the weekends!
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The connections we've made with other families through Hilltown Families over the years keep us going over these winter months! There is always somebody out there to join us sledding at the golf course, skating on the lake, or cross-country skiing in the yard! Thanks for helping us build community in what could be a very isolating geographical area one email at a time!


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Chozen's Bobby Moynihan on His Character's Sexuality: "It's Not What the Show Is About"
FX's new comedy Chozen touts itself for featuring "the world's first gay, white, animated rapper," but star Bobby Moynihan says his character's sexuality never defines him.
"It's not what the show is about. It's not very heavy-handed on the politics or anything," the SNL star tells TVGuide.com. "There's a couple lines in the second episode where he wanders into an LGBT meeting and they're asking him if he's gay or bisexual and he says, 'Why are you trying to label us?' ... I feel like it's not such a crazy thing anymore and it shouldn't be."
When the series picks up, Chozen is fresh out of jail after being set up by frenemy Phantasm (Method Man), who didn't appreciate how much the rapper hogged the spotlight in their old group. But in the end, jail seemed to help Chozen, who is now in touch with his sexuality and has a singular purpose in life: total rap domination.
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While Chozen does its best to avoid using the rapper's sexuality for laughs, the series doesn't hold anything back in its skewering of the hip-hop industry. "What's that Biggie video where he's in the hot tub and all the girls are dancing around him in bikinis? ... There is a lot of making fun of those," Moynihan says. "But Chozen's version... is hot dudes in little gold shorts and bear masks."
While the rap culture Chozen satirizes can feel a little stale compared to the bourgeois postmodernism and vulnerability of Drake, Kanye West and Jay Z, there are traces of more current hip-hop sensibilities visible in Phantasm. Unlike his old partner, Phantasm has made a huge career for himself as a rapper, embracing the current nuances of the genre. Even though Phantasm is the one who sent Chozen to prison, the pair somehow becomes the show's Ross and Rachel. "Are they going to rekindle that friendship they had, or are they going to be nemeses for the rest of their lives?" Moynihan says. It's an interesting take on the rap beef and the will-they-or-won't they dynamic, and one that's sure to be drawn out for a while since any reconciliation would give Chozen's rap career a big boost. And where's the comedy in happiness?
Chozen revels in watching its hero fail at his plan to succeed. But no matter what terrible things Chozen says or does in his attempt to be rap's next big superstar, Moynihan says he always has the best intentions. "To me, it's like Eastbound and Down the cartoon," Moynihan says. "There are these crazy. insane characters who are doing these crazy, insane things, but they're somehow very endearing and you want to see them succeed."
Much like Eastbound's Kenny Powers, Chozen's career journey is counterbalanced by his bizarre, yet banal domestic drama - including fights with his sister Tracey (Kathryn Hahn), reconciling with friends Crisco (Hannibal Buress) and Ricky (Michael Peña) and pursuing a relationship with frat boy Hunter (Ike Barinholtz). Chozen's home life puts a sad perspective on his rap dreams, reminding viewers that he isn't nearly as fabulous as he believes. But don't tell Chozen that. The man's got a hot temper and no filter.
"Sometimes when I'm recording the lines, I'll improvise ... and I go, 'Well I know they're not going to use that because that's too crazy.' And then that's what's in the show," Moynihan explains. "There are some lines when I hear it on Chozen, like I can't believe I said that. My mom's going to kill me."
While Moynihan is excited by Chozen's in-your-face comedy, there is one scene in particular he's a little worried about. "I believe there's a scene, pardon my French, where [Chozen's masturbating] to Guy Fieri's Diners, Drive-ins and Dives,"Moynihan says. "I was like, 'This guy is going to kill me. I like Guy Fieri. He's been nice to me. I've played him on SNL and he's reached out to me and now I'm doing this. I gotta give this guy a break.'"
To make the situation even more uncomfortable, Moynihan voiced Fieri in the scene in addition to Chozen. "It was a little weird. It got a little crazy that one," Moynihan admits. "I said a lot of things I wish I hadn't said."
Moynihan's voice gets a bit of a break during Chozen's raps, which are performed by series creator Grant Dekernion. Music is a huge part of how Chozen stands out from the slew of other bad-behavior comedy out right now. The songs are embedded in various ways - as performances by characters, fantasies revealing someone's inner thoughts and desires or simply a catchy way to advance the plot. But whenever Chozen gets musical, the show clicks, giving it an organic ease that the dialogue sometimes lacks. But given time to find it's footing, it's likely Chozen can mimic lead-in Archer's success.
Chozen premieres Monday at 10:30/9:30c on FX.
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Earlier this year a Chicago lawsuit hobbyist with lots of money and neighbor-management issues got the Illinois Appellate Court ("Precedent? We don't need no stinking precedent!") to strike down the Chicago Landmarks Ordinance based on its "vagueness," so naturally someone else thought they could pull the same sort of isolationist garbage elsewhere, namely Seattle.
They just LOST BIG TIME. Read about it on PreservationNation:
Turns out the Washington Court of Appeals rejected the "vagueness" challenge by recognizing the OBVIOUS: Landmarking is a process that encourages the preservation of historic sites, districts and structures, based on the criteria that those sites, districts and structures possess. This is not vague, it is entirely specific: you cannot detail what needs to be preserved in all situations because each sites, district and structure has its own individual characteristics that make it significant. Landmarking treats buildings like individuals, not categories.
The court said it better than I can, explaining that the supposedly "vague" standards, "gain specificity from application to a particular landmark and particular proposal."
Or even better, they noted that because "each landmark has unique features and occupies a unique environment, it is impracticable for a single ordinance to set forth development criteria or standards that could apply to every landmark."
This is what I have been saying all along (see my post "Appellate Nuttiness" on January 31, 2009).
Now, I understand that people, and even judges, are more comfortable with absolutes and doctrines and everything being the same. But everything isn't the same, or I could use my Epson printer inks in the Hewlett Packard, but I can't.
Turns out a vagueness challenge is one of the first things you learn, sort of a Lawsuit 101. See Gary Cole's blog here.
Here is what the court said:
"The doctrine of vagueness does not require a statute to meet impossible standards of specificity"
The crude medicine of basic zoning and building codes offer predetermined absolutes and specific standards: you must set back 5 feet, you are limited to this square footage, you are required to have this many exits, etc. Everything is the same and every building is treated the same, and you know what is going to happen before it happens and there is no vagueness. It is the sort of straightforward rules and procedures one needs to successfully operate a pre-school day care facility.
But for grownups, the world has nuances.
People are individuals, not numbers.
Communities are individual as well.
Oak Park does not equal Evanston and Palo Alto does not equal Santa Barbara and Mystic does not equal Marblehead and Nashville certainly is not equivalent to Knoxville.
Within Chicago, the Villa does not equal Wicker Park and the landmark review process will not follow the same path on an Astor Street Georgian Revival that it will on a South Shore Foursquare.
Landmarking is a PROCESS, and reviewing changes or additions to landmarks is also a PROCESS, and the rules are defined individually for each landmark. Every Chicago Landmark, when designated by the City Council, includes a list of significant architectural and historical figures so that every owner knows what is important about their building. But what is appropriate for a bungalow may not be for a Queen Anne, and vice versa.
Here's one for individualism. Thanks, Washington state.
"Connor is denied on each and every count. I hope the good judges of Illinois' Supreme Court read the decision.
Deprivation of substantive due process – NOPE, landmark preservation is a legitimate state interest.
Regulatory taking – NOPE the safeguarding of the public interest in legitimate in this sphere (they got RFRA wrong)
Hidden indirect tax, fee – NOPE even had the SLPB required the stipulations Connor's alleges (which they didn't) it would've been in the service of mitigation in protection of the Ordinance 11022.
Wrong application of the Law 20 – NOPE as the hearing examiner properly applied SMC since under SMC and Standard 9, Connor's proposal would adversely affect the landmark and there were alternatives available. Connor's argument rests on his insistence that the "owner's objectives" are not subject to review (who is this guys lawyer!?) "A party who purchases a property subject to agreed upon landmark controls cannot thwart those controls by defining his objectives under SMC entirely in terms of the return he wishes to make on the property" (hearing examiner with court concurrence)
"The Landmarks Preservation Ordinance is impermissibly vague because it does not tell me exactly what I can do with my property" – REJECTED – Can Conner ascertain the requirements for an acceptable project? – YES – The LPO contains both contextual standards and a process for clarification and guidance as to individual sites.
LPO and Ordinance 11022 describe specific features to be preserved with corresponding contextual standards for application.
"The doctrine of vagueness does not require a statute to meet impossible standards of specificity" I like this one the best.
"Clear Error" NOPE – Court reviewed hearing examiners review which was based on publicly passed Ordinance 11022, not the Report on Designation used by the Board.
Scope of the Designation? Is the site protected? Connors – " 'Satterlee House and Satterlee Residence' is proof the city council intended only the house and not the site to be recommended…!"
Lets all hope Hanna and Mwroka's cases are as ham-fistedly argued as Connor's was.


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FDO hires contractors for work outside the scope of the maintenance team. These contractors perform a variety of services including construction, landscaping, estimating, project management and consultation. Construction projects include new construction, alterations, and additions or betterment of existing structures and infrastructures. To submit the proper request form see the following list of frequently used documents.
Frequently Used Documents for Contractors
- Major Capital Planning Checklist [pdf]
- Minor Capital Planning Checklist [pdf]
- Public Works Service Agreement Checklist [pdf]
- Contract Change Order Procedures (In Development)
- Building Permit Checklist [pdf]
- Current Projects
- State University Construction Management Sample Forms
- FDO Forms
Project Status
To check the status of your project, see our Projects page.
Floor Plans
Floor plans are kept of all buildings on campus at FDO.
Guide for Campus Department Owners
Download the powerpoint: Guide to Department Owners [pdf]
Step One
Department owners create needs for building renovations, classroom alterations, office space improvements, parking structure additions, athletic structural needs, erection of signage and information kiosks. Once a Department Chair and the Space Advisory Committee approve the concept, submit your construction request via the i-Service Desk who will create a Work Order in TMA describing department's need.
Step Two
TMA work control coordinator submits the Work Order to the Building Permit committee to determine if the request requires a building permit process or classify the project as normal repairs and maintenance for facilities management in-house trades group. If classified as a project, the committee assigns a Project Manager (PM) to coordinate with the Department Owner (DO) on the details of the construction process.
Step Three
The PM develops a project description, conducts initial feasibility study, creates a project estimate, and meets with the DO to discuss, review, and approve initial budget funding. If funding is committed, the PM proceeds to prepare a formal conceptual study of the details of the project.
Step Four
Depending on the complexities of the project, the PM may employ outside services such as feasibility consultants, architectural engineers, project estimators, environmental specialists, geotechnical surveyors, and historical professionals. All of which is geared towards the creation of a precise and detailed Scope of Work (SOW) of the project.
Step Five
(For projects $600,000 and above. For projects less than $600,000, see step eleven.)
From the Schematic Design Phase, the project will now proceed to the Preliminary Design Phase where specifications, plans, and drawings are approved by the CSU Office of the Chancellor (CPDC), Plan Check Consultants, California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), State Fire Marshal, and other state regulatory boards.
Step Six
Approved drawings, plans, specifications, SOW are submitted to the Public Works Contracts Officer (CO) for the Bidding Phase of the project.
For projects above $5k, advertisement at the California Contracts Register is mandatory with the exception of direct contracts under $5K, JOC Projects, and when The University uses the SB/DVBE provision, Gov. Code Section 14838.7 and asks two or more SB/DVBE Contractors to submit a bid for projects under $250,000.00 or the cost limit reference in Public Contract Code 10105.
It is also necessary to place legal ads at local newspaper and trades circulars as well as builder exchanges.
A Pre-Bid Meeting shall be announced and all licensed Contractors and Subcontractors are invited. The project is discussed in detail followed by a Job Walk at the site. All issues for clarifications shall be addressed through an Addendum which shall be part of the Contract as referenced.
The Bid Opening shall be set approx. 30 days after the Pre-Bid meeting. During the Bid Opening, the bids are evaluated and a bidder is determined based on CSU and University guidelines. Then the contract is awarded.
Step Seven
A Pre-Construction meeting is set by the PM. The Contractor, Subcontractors, Consultants, University Information Technology Services (ITS) and Department Owners are invited to discuss protocols, access, phasing, planned work activities, parking, schedule of values, notice to proceed, Critical Path Method (CPM) construction schedule, request for payments, request for information (RFI), change orders (C/O), escrow, percentage of payment retentions, stop notices, notice of completion, and all issues that may come up in the performance of the Contract.
Step Eight
The Construction Phase is managed by the Project Manager with the help of the University Construction Inspector. The Inspector is responsible for the planned activities are being followed, prevailing wages are implemented, State codes are meticulously installed and projects inspected by government agencies such as the State Fire Marshal. The PM is responsible for all construction issues and that the project finishes on time and on budget.
Step Nine
Project Close Out. Final inspection is done by a committee usually composed of the Project Manager, University Inspector, Department Owner, Architect / Engineer, Consultants, and CSU representatives.
Step Ten
Beneficial occupancy can be given to the Department Owner despite of punch-lists being performed by the Contractor as long as normal activities will not be affected. Full occupancy usually follows. The Project Manager instructs the Contract Officer to file a Notice of Completion and all approved invoices and retentions paid. The PM submits request to FDO Space Planner for updates to CMMS Program. The Project Manager submits a Project Evaluation and shares lessons learned in the performance of the project. Fire Marshal inspections are necessary for all projects indicated by the Building Permit process.
Step Eleven
(For projects below $600,000)
The schematic and preliminary designs will be reviewed by the PM with the DO for final approval of the SOW and the full commitment of the budget funding for the construction phase of the project. Timelines will be identified by the PM to coincide with department needs to arrive at the best window of opportunity for construction and determine occupancy by the DO.


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Dr. Denise Hutchinson-Bell, Director of Adult Basic Education, and CBC President Dr. Beatriz T. Espinoza review VAST guidelines.
Coastal Bend College is the recipient of a two-year Adult Basic Education (ABE) Innovation Grant from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board worth over $321,000 as part of the Eagle Ford Community College Consortium.
The Consortium project, called VAST (Vocational Advancement for South Texas) is led by the Alamo Community College District in partnership with Coastal Bend, Laredo, Southwest Texas Junior and Victoria Colleges. These five community college districts are partnering together to help educate and train the region's under-educated and under-skilled population into one that will be ready to work in well-paying occupations related to the Eagle Ford Shale.
"Overall, CBC's goal is to use these grant funds to help adults gain the skills and knowledge they need for life. They will be independent, self-sufficient individuals who can contribute to the workforce and the communities they live in," said Dr. Denise Hutchinson-Bell, Adult Basic Education Coordinator at CBC.
VAST aims to help ABE students, with or without a GED or high school diploma, who are eligible to work in the United States, obtain jobs in high demand occupations. Many of these students have limited education or English skills, and therefore, have had limited access to college credit programs. Removing these barriers and helping ABE students embark on a career path is what CBC aims to do when the program begins in summer 2013.
CBC will offer career pathway training and education in the following high demand occupational areas: certified nursing assistant (CNA) to Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN), welding, commercial truck driving (CDL), and drafting and design. Students enrolled in these career pathways under VAST will earn either continuing education credit or college credit. Upon program completion, students will earn a level one certificate and be qualified and ready to enter the workforce.
"CBC is fortunate to be in a position to have great partners and offer much needed training in our 9,400 mile service area and region. These training programs are clearly aligned with the workforce needs of the industry in our region. Graduates will have great job options available to them," said Dr. Beatriz T. Espinoza, CBC President.
Financial assistance is available for those who qualify, and most VAST career pathways can be completed in about a year. VAST is set to launch in summer 2013 at all Coastal Bend College campuses. For more information, please contact the CBC Adult Basic Education Office at (361) 354-2767.


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"The Basque people have always lived in this part of northern Spain and southern France. They were here before the Romans arrived before the time of Christ. They were apparently here even before the Iberians arrived in the rest of Spain. The Basques themselves would claim that they have never been conquered, though, judging from the amount of borrowed words from Latin to euskera, the Basques obvious mixed with the Romans around the time of Christ.
But from Roman times to the present, the Basques have been "a group apart" in Spain. They were never really conquered by the Visigoths, nor the Moors, and have always rebelled against Spanish domination as well. In terms of physical features ( high incidence of O blood type and RH negative factor), archaeology of that region, and their unique Basque language, euskera, they are clearly an ancient people who have lived in this corner of the world and maintained their unique identity down through the centuries, even millenniums. The Basque language, euskera, is a linguistic mystery in that it has no clear relationship to any other language in the world!
The Basques are a unique and ancient people located in northern Spain and southern France at the border of those two countries and the Bay of Biscay (Atlantic Ocean). The entire Basque region is the same size as New Jersey.
In France, their land is among the poorest regions in all of France. In terms of concentration of Basques, the land along the coast is more tourist driven (and wealthy) but more sparsely Basque (even though "Basque tourism" is mentioned prominently). As you move away from the coast and into the surrounding hills and mountains (foothills of the Pyrenees), the traditional Basque culture is much more evident and common.
French Basque Country is a very small portion of their complete territory -- less than twelve percent of the total land surface and about nine percent of the total population.
The three small regions within French Basque County, along with their major cities are: Labourd -- Bayonne, Basse-Navarre -- Saint Jean de Pied-de-Port, and Soule -- Mauleon (French spellings).
Spanish Basque Country is the much larger area -- about eighty-eight percent of the total land area and ninety-one percent of the total population. In Spain, the area of the Basques is comprised of two of their seventeen autonomous regions. One of those regions is called Navarra (Spanish spelling). The other region is known as the Basque Country. Interestingly enough, the Basque Country (the autonomous region within Spain) is among the wealthiest of all the autonomous regions in Spain.
Navarra, historically the traditional Basque kingdom, makes up over half the total land area of the Basque people and a little over eighteen percent of their total population. Their main city is Pamplona. Over half of their total population of 500,000 people lives in that one city.
The Basque County is comprised of three small regions -- Vizcaya, Guipuzcoa, and Alava. Vizcaya has over forty percent of the total population of the Basque people and over seventy-five percent of those live in "greater Bilbao", their major city.
Guipuzcoa is the most "Basque" of all these regions, though many smaller towns and villages through the entire Basque area would beg to differ.
Note: "Basqueness" is now measured in terms of the percentage of Basque speakers (regardless of ethnicity) in a given region. In the latest census figures (2006), forty percent of the people from Gipuzkoa are considered Basque-speakers, twenty-six percent are "almost" Basque-speakers, and thirty-three percent are Spanish-speakers.
Alava is the only of these three regions not to share the Atlantic coast. It is also the least Basque of the three areas, but the capital city for the entire autonomous region is located in Vitoria.
Traditionally, the Basques are known as fishermen (sea), sheep herders, and subsistence farmers. Until the early nineteen hundreds, their way of life was largely unchanged. Although there are larger cities in the Basque Country (think Bilbao or Pamplona), Basques, for the most part, live in small towns, villages, and farm houses.
During the Industrial Revolution, they began to take on a more prominent "world role" due to large deposits of iron and coal along with their skills as ship-builders. Then during the Franco years in Spain (1935-1975), Franco actually encouraged businesses to move to the Basque Country in an attempt to dilute the strong Basque influence there. As a result, the autonomous region, the Basque Country, is now among the most powerful economic regions in all of Spain and many small businesses and industry dot the landscape -- both in towns and cities as well as in the countryside.
Obviously, due to their ancient history, the Basques would be considered "pagan" for most of their existence. Nevertheless, the Basque word for God is Jainkoa and means "the most high God" (very similar to the Canaanite term "El Elyon", shared by Melchizedek to Abraham in Genesis 14). So at one time in their past, they, like the majority of the ancient people of the world, had the concept of single, most important god.
The Basques were among the last peoples of Spain to embrace Catholicism. When they did so, however, they did in mass. For many years, the Basque Country was the most Catholic in all of Spain. They contributed leaders to the Catholic Church, including Saint Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits.
What is difficult for many American Catholics to understand is that the Catholic Church around the world has a mission strategy of syncretism. They accept the "traditional beliefs" of the new people, and then try to re-create those in a Catholic form. Catholics would say that they are successful in that. Others might tend to disagree.
Another aspect of Catholicism in Spain is that it is very much a cultural Catholicism for the overwhelming majority of people. To be Catholic means to participate in the big events of the Catholic Church (infant baptism, first communion, confirmation, marriage in the Catholic Church, burial in the Catholic cemetery, and then the Mass for the dead on the anniversaries of their passing.
"Finally, down through the centuries the Catholic church has played a prominent role in the governing of Spain since 350 A.D. right up through the 1970s. They have insisted that to be Spanish is necessarily to be Catholic, and since the decline of the Roman Empire, they have lobbied subsequent national leadership to embrace the Catholic faith as their own and as a force for unity with Spain. Even General Franco used the imposition of Catholicism to "unite" all of the Spanish nation under his leadership. As a result, When Franco died in 1975, many Spaniards rejected the Catholic Church as well as Franco's failed agenda. The Basque Country went from the "most Catholic" to the "least Catholic" of all the autonomous regions of Spain in a 20-30 year period following Franco´s death.
Most Catholics still claim Catholicism if they claim any religious affiliation at all, but it is, for the most part, a cultural Catholicism only, and even in that limited sense, any real allegiance to the church has been greatly weakened."
"From a materialistic point of view, the Basques would seem to lack little. They have most everything modern man could desire. Their land, though not their own nation, is beautiful. It is true that Spain is struggling, as is the rest of Europe, with the current economic crisis. But within the nation of Spain, the Basque Country continues to be at the top of the list in terms of wealth, economic opportunity, etc. The only real negative within the Basque Country (and indeed all of Spain) besides rising prices is the high rate of unemployment among young people. The future for that segment of the population does not appear to be so bright.
But below the surface, there are a number of issues creating real tensions.
First of all, the Basques are a very proud people -- proud of their history, their culture, their current standing in the world. And there is much for which to be proud. But as they go back to reconnect with their pagan past, many of those influences are not healthy. Even within the syncretistic Catholic Church, many traditions and celebrations exist that are not healthy, and the Church´s emphasis on biblical teaching (rather than church tradition) is very weak overall.
Spain, as a whole, and the Basque Country as well went from being a very conservative country morally, under Franco, (at least, officially) to a very "open" country under democracy. Alcohol, drugs (for those who can afford it), sex, marriage, issues of sexual orientation, abortion, and "machismo" (poor treatment of women) are all social issues of concern in contemporary society.
Third, the Catholic Church of Spain, since the beginnings of the Counter Reformation have consistently indoctrinated its people to believe there are only four valid religious options: Catholic, Muslim, Jewish or "cult group". As a result of this constant message, the evangelical church continues to struggle to be understood by Spaniards and Basques as a whole, much less to be trusted or respected. And where the evangelical church is growing today in Spain, the overwhelming majority of growth comes from the immigrants from South and Central America, not from Spanish nationals and certainly not from the Basque people within the Basque Country. Though the evangelical churches within the Basque Country are growing (which is great news!), the makeup of the members within those churches is less and less "Spanish", and much less Basque within the Basque Country. There is still no Basque speaking evangelical church in all the Basque Country that this author is aware of......not even one!"
Lastly, there is a desire among some Basques to have their own country. E.T.A. is a group of freedom fighters or terrorists who have killed around 900 people in the past fifty years in an attempt to force that break-away from Spain. E.T.A. declared a permanent cease-fire in the the fall of 2011. Many are hoping that that initial decision will lead to the disarming and disbanding of E.T.A. so that this region can pursue their desires by political means and free from the cloud of violence. The truth is that there has been much violence in the past 150 years throughout Spain and now much healing and much genuine forgiveness is needed.
Praise God for the growth of the evangelical church within Spain. Pray for greater numbers of native Spaniards and certainly greater numbers of Basque people within the Basque Country.
Pray for a greater understanding of the need to reach out to the Basque people in their own language, euskera, so that in time, Basques could reach out to other Basques in culturally relevant, Basque forms.
Pray for the missionaries within the Basque Country who are searching for strategies and ministry models to reach the Basques in their own language.
Pray for a need for greater implementation of discipleship models and missions understanding within the evangelical community as well as a growing sense of unity within that group.
Pray for a renewal among the Catholic Church of Basque Country and Spain. That church is very different from the US version, but certainly God can bring renewal and revival to that group of people as well.
Pray for a new movement of prayer, the International Day of Prayer for the Basque Country, that would capture the hearts of intercessors around the world.
Pray that God would call Basque believers to Himself that would feel a keen burden to share that same "good news" with other Basques around them.
Scripture Prayers for the Basque in Cuba.
|Profile Source: Jeff Shadowen
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Business giant, Lee Lacocca once said, "The only rock that stays steady, the only institution that works is the family." This simple, yet profound, principle is one that has not only withstood the test of time but is also the foundation of emerging brain science.
Here is what we know: We know that strong families are the building blocks of strong communities, and strong communities are the building blocks of strong nations. Thanks to leaders like Dr. Jack Shonkoff, we know that relationships with other human beings are not a luxury for children, but an absolute necessity. But you do not need to be a Nobel Prize-winning economist or a world-renowned neurologist at Harvard to be able to recognize that children do best when raised by loving and protective parents. For many of us, we need only to reflect on our own life experience to understand the impact that a loving embrace or encouraging words have in times of stress.
Despite these certainties, millions of children in the world are growing up without the care of a protective and permanent family. These children live in institutions or on the streets; they have been torn from their families because of war or disaster; or they have been bought and sold for sex or labor. And worst yet, the number of children who suffer such fates is rising. For this to change, governments of the world need to not only recognize that children have a basic human right to a family; they must also establish and enforce laws and systems to protect this right. It is for this reason that the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI) is proud to support the U.S. Government's Action Plan on Children in Adversity.
Under the plan's tenets, the millions of children outside of family care will have the opportunity to benefit from programs that prevent them from being separated from their families and quickly reunify them when separation proves inevitable. The Plan also makes the commitment to pursue adoption, foster care, kinship and guardianship for children whose biological families are unable or unwilling to care for them. This is a major step forward and holds promise not only for the futures of children, but the future of nations.
Kathleen Strottman is the Executive Director of the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI). Prior to working at CCAI, Kathleen served for nearly eight years as a trusted advisor to Senator Mary Landrieu and then as an associate at Patton Boggs, LLC. As the Senator's Legislative Director, Kathleen worked to pass legislation such as the No Child Left Behind Act, The Medicare Modernization Act, The Inter-Country Adoption Act, The Child Citizenship Act of 2000, The Adoption Tax Credit and the Family Court Act. Throughout her career, Kathleen has worked to increase the opportunity for positive dialogue and the exchange of best practices between the United States and countries such as China, Romania, Russia, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Ethiopia and India. Kathleen regularly presents at national and international child welfare conferences and has appeared on CNN, FOX News, CBS, NBC, C-SPAN, PBS and numerous other media outlets. She is also a regular contributor to Adoption Today magazine.


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CVC Highlight: Evil foreign bodies and more cautionary tales
This critical care specialist shares 13 lessons he learned the hard way while practicing emergency medicine.
For many diseases in veterinary patients, the diagnosis is straightforward once you have the clues to add the possibilities to your rule-out list. Here are a few of my hard-learned lessons that I hope will help you when you see patients on emergency.
1. Migrating foreign bodies are evil, particularly porcupine quills. A single quill left behind may end up in the brain, lung, or pericardium-several days to months after the porcupine encounter. So do your best to find and remove them all.
2. Only serious problems cause pleural effusion. Pyothorax, heart failure, and cancer are common causes of pleural effusion, but you can help patients in distress with thoracocentesis. If you're not afraid to perform cystocentesis, don't fear thoracocentesis; it can be lifesaving.
3. Pericardial effusion is more common than you think. It's an often missed diagnosis by referring veterinarians. Clinical clues may include a patient with collapse, jugular venous distention, vomiting (perhaps within the week preceding presentation), hyponatremia, ascites (especially in animals with chronic pericardial effusion), and a large vena cava seen radiographically (conversely, in animals with hypovolemic shock, the vena cava looks small on radiographs). In a crisis, pericardiocentesis can be lifesaving.
4. A drop in a patient's total solids indicates bleeding. Remember that because of splenic contraction, the hematocrit doesn't decrease right away with hemorrhage.
5. The type of fluid you choose in an emergency seldom matters, except in animals with heart failure or severe hypochloremia.
6. Wounds aren't always what they seem, especially in patients with impalement injuries. Be aggressive in exploring stick wounds whenever you can; sticks leave a long track of debris that can quickly lead to sepsis.
7. Dog breeders may know more than you do about some reproductive issues, so listen to their concerns and treat accordingly.
8. A fever doesn't always indicate an infection-so if a febrile patient doesn't improve within 24 to 72 hours of treatment with a reasonably chosen antibiotic and supportive care, stop and reevaluate.
9. Your diagnosis is probably wrong if a patient isn't responding to antibiotics.
10. Cats that are in heart failure are hypothermic. So if you see a dyspneic cat with a temperature > 100 F, think respiratory disease. If its temperature is < 100 F, think heart failure.
11. Animals with head trauma can make amazing recoveries. So give them at least 24 hours to show improvement with treatment.
12. Age is not a disease. While age-related diseases exist, an ill older animal may live quite awhile if the disease is managed appropriately.
13. If you can't have fun doing it, it's not worth doing!
Scott P. Shaw, DVM, DACVECC
Department of Clinical Sciences
Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
Tufts University
North Grafton, MA 01536


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Baseball icon Don Zimmer dies
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Don Zimmer wasn't a fixture in baseball forever. It just seemed that way.
He played alongside Jackie Robinson on the only Brooklyn Dodgers team to win the World Series. He coached Derek Jeter on the New York Yankees' latest dynasty. And his manager once was the illustrious Casey Stengel. Zimmer even managed the Red Sox.
For 66 years, Zimmer was a most popular presence at ballparks all over, a huge chaw often filling his cheek. Everyone in the game seemed to know him, and love him.
Zimmer was still working for the Tampa Bay Rays as a senior adviser when he died Wednesday at a hospital in nearby Dunedin. He had been in a rehabilitation center since having seven hours of heart surgery in mid-April.
"Today we all lost a national treasure and a wonderful man," Rays principal owner Stuart Sternberg said in a statement.
Zimmer started out as a minor league infielder in 1949, hitting powerful shots that earned him the nickname "Popeye." He went on to enjoy one of the longest-lasting careers in baseball history.
And oh, the stories he could tell.
"I loved listening to him every day," Billy Connors, a coach under Zimmer with the Chicago Cubs, told The Associated Press.
Zimmer played on the original New York Mets, saw his Boston Red Sox beaten by Bucky Dent's playoff homer, got tossed to the ground by Pedro Martinez during a brawl and was Joe Torre's right-hand man as the bench coach with the Yankees.
"I hired him as a coach, and he became like a family member to me. He has certainly been a terrific credit to the game," Torre said in a statement.
"The game was his life. And his passing is going to create a void in my life and my wife Ali's. We loved him. The game of baseball lost a special person tonight. He was a good man," he said.
Zimmer batted .235 in his big league career, but numbers could never define all that he meant to the game. He had tremendous success — earning six World Series rings as player, coach and manager and going to the postseason 19 times.
Zimmer's No. 66 Rays jersey had been worn recently by longtime Tampa Bay third base coach Tom Foley in tribute. The Rays hosted the Miami Marlins on Wednesday night, and Foley was crying in the dugout.
Earlier this season, the Rays hung a banner in the front of the press box at Tropicana Field that simply read "ZIM."
There was a moment of silence at Dodger Stadium for Zimmer before Los Angeles played the Chicago White Sox.
"On behalf of Major League Baseball and the many clubs that 'Popeye' served in a distinguished baseball life, I extend my deepest condolences to Don's family, friends and his many admirers throughout our game," Commissioner Bud Selig said in a statement.
Zimmer's biggest admirer was his wife "Soot" — they were married at home plate during a minor league game in 1951. Two years later in the minors, Zimmer's path took a frightening turn — he was beaned by a fastball and left in a coma, and doctors had to put metal screws in his head.
He recovered well enough to wear a lot of uniforms during his 56 years in the majors. He played for the Dodgers, Mets, Cubs, Cincinnati and Washington. He managed San Diego, Boston, Texas and the Cubs.
"Probably the best baseball man I knew," Connors said.
Yankees executive Hank Steinbrenner echoed that sentiment.
"I loved Zim. I loved his passion. He was a great, great guy. He was a great baseball guy," he told the AP. "Everybody loved him."
Steinbrenner, son of late Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, said Torre and Zimmer were the "perfect team" during New York's run that brought four titles in a five-year span.
"Joe was low-keyed. Zim would get fired up. He was a bench coach for real," Steinbrenner said. "He was an extremely important part of the 1990s success."
Zimmer hit 91 home runs and had 352 RBI in 12 seasons. He started Game 7 when Brooklyn beat the Yankees for the 1955 crown and was an All-Star in 1961.
The next year, he played under Stengel on the 1962 expansion Mets, who famously went 40-120.
"Don't blame them all on me," Zimmer once said. "I got traded after the first 30 days."
Zimmer was the 1989 NL Manager of the Year with the Cubs and was at Yankee Stadium for three perfect games, by Don Larsen in the 1956 World Series and by David Cone and David Wells in the late 1990s.
"It's a sad day for the game of baseball," Pittsburgh manager Clint Hurdle said after a 3-2 loss at San Diego. "Don impacted lives from the time he put a uniform on in the minor leagues until today."
Zimmer is survived by his wife; son Thomas, a scout with the San Francisco Giants; daughter Donna, and four grandchildren.


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There are numerous examples of incest in the Bible. The most commonly thought-of examples are the sons/daughters of Adam and Eve (Genesis 4), Abraham marrying his half-sister Sarah (Genesis 20:12), Lot and his daughters (Genesis 19), Moses' father Amram who married his aunt Jochebed (Exodus 6:20), and David's son Amnon with his half-sister Tamar (2 Samuel 13). It is important to note, however, that in two of the above instances (Tamar and Lot) one of the parties involved was an unwilling participant in the incest.
It is important to distinguish between incestuous relationships prior to God commanding against them (Leviticus 18:6-18), and incest that occurred after God's commands had been revealed. Until God commanded against it, it was not incest. It was just marrying a close relative. It is undeniable that God allowed incest in the early centuries of humanity. If Adam and Eve were indeed the only two human beings God created, their sons and daughters would have had no other choice but to marry and reproduce with their siblings and close relatives. The second generation would have had to marry their cousins, just as after the flood the grandchildren of Noah would have had to intermarry amongst their cousins. The reason incest is so strongly discouraged in the world today is the understanding that reproduction between closely related individuals has a much higher risk of causing genetic abnormalities. In the early days of humanity, though, this was not a risk due to the fact that the human genetic code was relatively free of defects.
It seems, then, that by the time of Moses, the human genetic code had become polluted enough that close intermarriage was no longer safe. So, God commanded against sexual relations with siblings, half-siblings, parents, and aunts/uncles. It was not until many centuries later that humanity discovered the genetic reason that incest is unsafe and unwise. While the idea of incest is disgusting and abhorrent to us today, as it should be, we have to remember why it is sinful, that is, the genetic problems. Since this was not an issue in the early centuries of humanity, what occurred between Adam and Eve's children, Abraham and Sarah, and Amram and Jochebed, should not be viewed as incest. Again, the key point is that sexual relations between close relatives must be viewed differently pre-Law and post-Law. It did not become "incest" until God commanded against it.


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