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Florida gives College World Series opener away
Gators blow chances late, lose to South Carolina 2-1
OMAHA, Neb. -- Christian Walker, cleared to play with a broken wrist a half-hour before the game, scored from first base on two throwing errors in the 11th inning and defending champion South Carolina beat Florida 2-1 in Game 1 of the College World Series final Monday night.
In a finish that looked a lot like their 13-inning win over Virginia on Friday, the Gamecocks (54-14) performed defensive magic late, throwing out two runners at home plate in the bottom of the ninth and another in the 10th.
Walker, who fractured his left wrist in the win over Virginia, singled up the middle to start the 11th. Florida catcher Mike Zunino threw into center field as Walker stole second. Walker took off for third and was awarded home after Bryson Smith's throw from the outfield bounced away from Cody Dent and into the stands.

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Become a researcher
Are you a curious person who's driven to learn and know more? Do you thrive in the university environment? PhD studies give you the opportunity to ask questions, find answers and start to understand a subject to its core. Choose doctoral studies at Stockholm University and be part of the future in your field.
Stockholm University is a leading research university that conducts basic independent research and applied research in the human and natural sciences. Our research produces internationally recognised scientific breakthroughs.
Doctoral studies take four years and result in a PhD, the highest academic degree in Sweden. There is also a two-year research study program which ends in a degree of licentiate.
As a doctoral student, you are steeped in the scientific method. In short, you learn to think critically and analytically, choose the correct method to solve problems independently, and deepen your understanding of research ethics.
Doctoral studies give you competence in independently conducting research, a deep understanding of the subject area, and the ability to communicate knowledge and create the conditions for teaching others.
More about PhD studies at Stockholm University
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The Swedish Council for Higher Education has written a guide to doctoral studies.
It has information on the rights, responsibilities and conditions of doctoral studies. It also has practical tips and advice.
Here is a collection of films on new research at Stockholm University
Here is information on the guidelines for research and doctoral studies at Stockholm University:
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Here is a short description of the research done by our four faculties – natural sciences, law, humanities and social sciences. For more information, visit their websites:
Research at the Faculty of Natural Sciences
Research at the Faculty of Natural Sciences covers many areas of knowledge, from subatomic particles to the universe at the boundary. Many of the departments have made discoveries and breakthroughs which are known the world over.
Doctoral studies are offered by each section in a number of different fields.
Here is an up-to-date list of the subjects with links to more information, contact people, and study plans.
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What is the best part about researching in the natural sciences, specifically chemistry in your case?
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Can you give an example of how society has gotten better because of chemistry research?
"Of course you have to mention the development of pharmaceuticals and vaccines. But another area where chemistry has been fundamental is in developing new types of batteries for cars and other vehicles, environmentally friendly lubricants, nanotechnology for computing and other engineering applications. Chemistry research is behind a lot of socially useful applications. The demand for new, young researchers is only going to grow! Get your PhD in chemistry!"
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Subjects in the humanities include philosophy, history, art and literary studies, journalism, linguistics, East Asian languages and cultures, and Swedish as a second language for the deaf.
The faculty has high ambitions to cut across disciplinary boundaries, as shown by the example of the Medieval Seminar which attracts researchers from history, art studies, classical and Nordic languages, archaeology and cultural geography, for example. Other interdisciplinary include the Centre for Gender Studies and the Centre for Fashion Studies. Prominent research fields in the faculty include feminist film theory, modern socio-political history, the Swedish and international history of ideas, modernism in poetry, postcolonial literature and European philosophy of the 1900s.
Many of the humanities' research groups are at the leading edge of research. Thirty of the university's research areas have been named as nationally leading and in high regard internationally. In the humanities, eight research areas have been selected:
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The Faculty of Law conducts research that is nationally leading and highly respected internationally. The innovative and socially relevant research is characterised by academic freedom: free choice of research topics, free development of methodology and free to be published.
Research at the law faculty is both broad and specialised. Breadth ensures a sustainable research environment and provides a knowledge base for education. Specialisation creates new knowledge and insights – a basis for ensuring a leading national and respectied international position in a time when society is in flux.
Doctoral study plans in jurisprudence include the following specialisations:
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Research at the Faculty of Social Sciences
Stockholm University has Sweden's largest social science faculty. The faculty conducts high quality research within different disciplines and multidisciplinary fields. A strong connection between research and real-world societal challenges means that researchers have an impact on the wider world.
Creating a sustainable, long-sighted research environment that values both breadth and depth means taking into account each field's own methodology, approaches to qualitative and quantitative research, and unique traditions.
The format for doctoral studies in the social sciences varies by subject. In some, dissertation work is done mostly independently, and others use more of a research-group model. The study plans also varied: some feature more structured, unified study plans while others are more flexible.
The Faculty of Social Sciences has fifteen departments with full educational programs and research and an additional seven research institutes.
Each department with doctoral studies has a set deadline for applications. If there is funding, the departments announce their open positions in connection with these dates. For more information on application deadlines and the availability of funding, check the respective department's website or Open positions.
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Keeping Southern Living magazine Southern: The Mr. Magazine's™ Interview with Southern Living's Editor in Chief Eleanor Griffin: We are born and bred Southerners and We Will Always be Based in the SouthSeptember 26, 2009
Southern Living, the south's largest magazine, is sporting a new look this week. The Time Inc.'s southern publication is under the helm of a woman editor for the first time in its 43 years history. Eleanor Griffin, editor in chief, of Southern Living, a native southerner, came to the magazine from its now departed sister publication Cottage Living, the magazine she founded at the company once know as Southern Progress. She has one mission in mind: Keep it Southern.
This is the second magazine that Time Inc.'s Lifestyle Group restyles and redesigns in less than two months. Last month it was Cooking Light, this month it is Southern Living. The pace of change begs the question why and why now? I asked Eleanor Griffin this question and a host of other questions including the one that is on every southerner's mind: are those Yankee New Yorkers messing up with our Southern Living and they moving the magazine up North?
Well, here are the headline sound bites (or what Eleanor refers to as bumper stickers) from my interview with Eleanor Griffin followed by the usual informal and lightly edited interview with Ms. Griffin.
Eleanor Griffin's Bumper Stickers:
We are born and bred Southerners and we will always be based in Birmingham, Alabama
I am not messing with the DNA of the magazine. I'm tinkering a little bit more with the presentation.
We also talk about "Keeping it Southern" because I never ever want to be just another service magazine. I want to always, always be Southern Living.
Time Inc. is fertilizing us and I mean that in a positive way, no negative connotation. Time Inc. knows enough to let us do what we do best.
Southern Living still swings a pretty big bat in ad revenue and circulation.
The fun challenge here is to edit a magazine for people with shorter attention spans but still give them the richness they look for in a magazine like Southern Living.
No one has that differentiated Southern voice like Southern Living does.
New York (that is Time Inc.) recognizes that yes, they're going to help us, but we know country ham and biscuits, we know barbecue, we know Southern football.
I want to seduce the reader, and I mean that in G-rated way. I want to give them something pleasurable, I want to give them a memory, I want to give them an experience.
And now for the Mr. Magazine's™ interview with Eleanor Griffin, editor in chief of Southern Living magazine:
SH: Why now? Last month Time Inc. restyled Cooking Light and now Southern Living and the rumor mill in the southern United States is that there is something going on at what used to be known as Southern Progress Corp. A lot of people are leaving, losing their jobs, and at the same time all of these changes are taking place. Is Time Inc. taking over literally and moving Southern Living from here to New York?
EG: No, we are still born and bred Southerners and we will always be based in Birmingham, Alabama. As for the change, primarily two factors come into play: one, Time Inc. is giving us the resources. They've given us resources to spend money and improve the magazine; and the second thing is coming in as a new editor, I'm old and ornery enough to want to put my stamp on the magazine and they gave me permission to do so. The reason we changed now is that it was part of my deal coming to Southern Living. I was born here and I worked here for 30 years, however I wanted to make the magazine a little more contemporary.
SH: I saw the October issue of Southern Living and somehow it had the feel of Cottage Living. Is it only me, or is this the plan?
EG: I will not argue with you. It's still very Southern Living; that is our goal. But I've brought in a touch of informality–and that's on purpose–to reach out to our younger readers. That's intentional.
SH: How did you do that?
EG: We did the dreaded focus groups and listened very closely to my mail and my email, and I was hearing from a younger reader that said, "Oh, I like Southern Living, but I don't have the time for it I used to. I'm too busy. I wish you had more for the novice." Two of the areas they mentioned were that they assumed that we assumed they knew more than they did on cooking and gardening, so that's how we started two columns. One of which is "Gardening 101" and the other is "Southern Living Cooking Class". I kind of expanded that thought to kind of break it down a little bit. Then, I added "Half-Hour Hostess" to our food section, which is busy people who want to entertain after working all day, and we also added "Done In A Day", which is a quick home project. I'm very proud of it because Southern Day Homes projects are Bedazzlers and sewing walls, and they look so dated. This is very, very stylish and much more contemporary.
SH: One thing that stopped me while flipping through the pages of the magazine is the fact that there is a lot of "How-To" with the exception of one or two of the feature articles, I asked myself, "Are we missing that storytelling aspect Southerners are known for? Are we moving toward a direction of making Southern Living a "How-To" magazine rather than a "Know-How?"
EG: That's a great question: absolutely not. We did a lot of "How-To" in the magazine because I want a younger reader to know that you can find solutions in Southern Living, not just pretty pictures and recipes. I want her to know we have solutions. But to your point, you will see the soul of the South in this magazine. We had Pat Conroy, who we've gotten terrific response to in August. We had the Rosenwald Schools in September, and I've got the Everglades in November. So, granted, I didn't have the signature soul of the South story in October, but if anything, you're going to see more of that in the months to come. One example is we're starting a new tradition in January that we're going to have the "South Ten Comeback Neighborhoods." I'm very pleased about that. You'll see more historic preservation. We're trying to do it all. My problem is that I don't have the pages I need due to the economic and advertising situation. But, we're very pleased that advertising started to come back in the fourth quarter because I want to do it all.
SH: One of the things that I have noticed with the October issue is that you've gone places where, if my memory serves me right, only for a brief, short moment in the history of Southern Living, which was back in the late 80s I think when the late Nancy Woodhall was the editorial director, dared to change the yellow color of the name to purple and other things and that did not last long. Do you expect any response from readers that all of a sudden the yellow nameplate is gone, it's white. You have pink cover lines. Are you messing with Southern tradition? Or, as your editorial says, "Keeping it Southern?"
EG: We changed the logo color this month only because I had so much yellow on the cover that it was a little redundant. So we will probably 9 times out of 12 be yellow. This is done for graphic reasons. I am not messing with the DNA of the magazine. I'm tinkering a little bit more with the presentation. We will always be the South's lifestyle authority. We will always be the go-to place for recipes, and how to put your house together. All we're doing is freshening the delivery methodology so it's delivered a little bit quicker and little bit more precise—not dumbed down—but, just a little bit quicker. As one of the biggest things I've learned from our reader mail, and speaking to these young women saying, "I love being a Southerner, but I don't have time to do things that my mom did. I don't have that kind of time. Can you break it down for me." And that's kind of the genesis of our signature column "Mama's Way or My Way." Sometimes we have a guilt thing that we Southern women want to do it all, kind of the Martha Stewart concept, and that's not possible anymore. So "Mama's Way, Your Way," although it's just starting out as a food column with the apple dumplings the traditional way, and a quicker way, that column may grow to come into other areas such as homes and gardens, for example.
SH: That's a great column, if you really want to reach that dual audience, especially with the mother/daughter relationship that exists in the South.
EG: I speak in bumper stickers. With the staff we speak about "Modernized, but in Moderation" and we talk about "Update but not Upscale." We also talk about "Keeping it Southern" because I never ever want to be just another Service magazine. I want to always, always be Southern Living. The fourth building block is a phrase we all use called "New Icon, Old Icon" and that's that in every issue of the magazine, there should be some stories that an old icon, like on classic garden in Raleigh, North Carolina that speaks to a traditional reader, or a party in The Grove at Ole Miss, but then we have new icon stories on a loft in downtown Austin. So, the mix will always tilt toward old icon, but it's just going to be leavened with some of the new icon things we're doing.
SH: Which is something you mention in your editorial in the October issue that you're respecting the past and looking to the future.
EG: Absolutely. Southern Living has been too successful for too long without my help. I am not going to come in and mess it up. My job is just to continue the vision and just update where we need to be. Two other areas that are we are updating, we're doing a three page "Go To the Source" section where in the past we weren't as helpful as we could have been on sourcing because we all want it at the click of a mouse now. We've also introduced a recipe index. And again, these are not earth shaking changes, they're just ancillary improvements to make this magazine more useful everyday. The third thing I'm real proud of is we've introduced the "Made by Southern Hands" shopping page, and you being Mr. Magazine, know that one of the pages magazines do worst are the awful popcorn product pages. I think they're a total throw away waste of time, but I feel like "Made by Southern Hands" so differentiates us because it's showcasing Southern crafts people that someday may be the next Kate Spade. That's a great way of presenting current things women love, which is shopping, but differentiating it that it's got to be by a Southern, small, crafts-person. It's not Michael Kors.
SH: I'm sure you're hearing all the rumor mills that all the Southern Progress magazines are no longer a domain of their own, that the folks from New York are running the show. What message can you send to the mass audience, outside the media people with the rumor mills, that this 43-year-old magazine isn't having its roots cut and grafting some new identity (heaven forbid, a Yankee one) in this magazine.
EG: I'd like to say that Time Inc. is fertilizing us and I mean that in a positive way, no negative connotation. We are in what's called the lifestyle group at Time Inc., which groups us with Cooking Light, Real Simple, This Old House and because Cooking Light and Southern Living are two of the largest and most profitable titles, we are getting some resource dollars to continue to do what we do best. I've gotten some extra money to help me do some things that I need to like hiring a photo director, just kind of editorial improvements the reader may not notice the underscoring, structural changes, but they will notice they're getting a better magazine. So, also you can say that you have 87 people who are born and bred Southerners down here, I'm a native Kentuckian. We do what we do so well, and we will continue to do it because New York recognizes that yes, they're going to help us, but we know country ham and biscuits, we know barbecue, we know Southern football, we know all those touchstones that national cultural magazines don't necessarily touch on and Time Inc. knows enough to let us do what we do best and they've been very helpful so far. Southern Living still swings a pretty big bat in ad revenue and circulation and that's why Time Inc. has invested resources in us because the larger titles aren't getting the money now, and I'm taking it and running with it and delivering a better product each month if I can.
SH: Is the restyling and redesign of Southern Living an attempt to catch up with the changing editorial?
EG: I think that's a great point. I don't like to say we're written in sound bites, I would never say we're simplified, but we are written a little bit punchier, and we're working extra hard on reader entry points because I know one of your questions was we are getting used to seeing things on a screen and digitally with shorter attention spans. The fun challenge here is to edit a magazine for people with shorter attention spans but still give them the richness they look for in a magazine like Southern Living. It's a bit of a balancing act, but I feel like it's working out with both our signature one page columns and then the longer reads, which we're known for and will continue to be known for.
SH: How are you going to enhance this new approach, this new print identity for the magazine, via the websites and the mighty arm of Time Inc. and AOL? What are doing to use technology to enhance the print edition of the magazine?
EG: First of all, we're working very closely on our website, and we're putting much more original content on our website. We're doing more, particularly in our Homes area. Our galleries and our slide shows do extremely well. On the food side we are hooked up, as you probably know with MyRecipes.com, which leverages us with a much larger audience. Our Home stories, they start you with SouthernLiving.com and those leverage you to MyHomeIdeas.com, which is an aggregate website of our sister publications. Again, not only for more audience, but for richer experience on the site. I think just as Condé Nast had success with Epicurious and Concierge.com, the aggregate site, we're having similar luck where we aggregate our sites into MyHomeIdeas and MyRecipes.com. That seems to be the way to go these days.
SH: So you differentiate between the magazine experience and the brand experience on the web?
EG: I'm a magazine junkie, not quite as much as you are, but I'm probably in the top ten, I surf a lot too. I think the best magazine websites may start out as a vertical, but they need to funnel you into titles with similar appeal. Because if I'm looking for a travel story or a recipe, I really don't want to go to eight websites, I want it all at one click. In the same way, when you're buying a air ticket, it's such a pain to bounce back between Expedia, Travelocity, and Orbits. I like to go to Kayak and all those windows pop up with my ticket. Same thing with MyHomeIdeas and MyRecipes, I like to go to one site and it gives me aggregate from the title I like and other titles with a similar look and feel.
SH: What makes Southern Living, today, as relevant as it was 43 years ago when it was started for Southern women?
EG: I wish I could just read you my November editors note, which I just wrote about that very topic. We're even more relevant today than we were 43 years ago because there are so many magazines, so many websites, and so many TV channels clamoring for our time. We're the one voice that says, "Yes, we are a lifestyle, shelter magazine but we speak with a Southern accent, we know your values, we know your traditions, we're edited for you, and again, a eye for the past and a respect for the future." No one has that differentiated Southern voice like we do. I think that's what makes us relevant, it will make us relevant 10 years from now.
SH: Are there any plans to reach that woman, besides the traditional web and print that will enhance that Southern Living brand?
EG: We've got several brand extensions going. We're doing quite a bit right now in licensing. We have seven licenses for towels, furniture, paint, which we are expanding through licensing. That's probably our number one brand extension right now for this magazine.
SH: What do you expect once this issue hits the newsstands on September 29th, what are you betting on from the audience?
EG: I'm expecting quite a bit of email based on what Mary Kay Culpepper (the departing editor in chief of Cooking Light magazine) based on her experience at Cooking Light. I'm expecting my very oldest readers to not email me, they're going to write me and say they're a little disappointed. But I think the vast majority are going to go, "It's about time. Thank you for taking the magazine I love and just freshening it just a little bit, not messing with it, but just making it a little bit fresher for the busy life I live. I went through it with Cottage Living where some people though, "Oh, gosh, I thought it was going to be retirement cottages on the Coast, I'm not happy." But the vast majority were, "I love this magazine." And I expect the same reaction here. You can't include everybody all the time, but I have a staff that has worked very hard for six months to really tune into where the modern young Southerner is going and we think we're on tap to what you're looking for.
SH: In the midst of all these changes, Southern Living is known for the white cake cover every December. Am I going to see my white cake on the December cover?
EG: I knew you were going to ask me that. I'm testing two white cakes. The answer is yes, but we're testing an old icon which is a very traditional white cake and then we're testing kind of a young sexy one and I'm going to see which one wins and go with my gut. But you will see a white dessert. I will put it that way.
SH: You are known to say that you want to "seduce the readers." What is Eleanor Griffin recipe to seduce Southern Living readers?
EG: My thought is, Samir, it's such a busy, hectic world and if you open up a magazine and I'm just giving them a cheesecake recipe, that's fine but I feel I short-changed them a little bit. I want to seduce the reader, and I mean that in G-rated way. I want to give them something pleasurable, I want to give them a memory, I want to give them an experience. When I talk about transforming or transporting, a mediocre magazine gives you a cheesecake recipe and a paint color. Those are a dime a dozen. We talk about seducing the reader, but in a good way. We talk about transforming the reader a little bit too. It's not just ink on paper. But a magazine that speaks to readers, transforms them and transports them either to a place they'd like to live or like to travel, that's the best of print journalism. Solving a problem is good, but transporting and transforming is the goal of all good editors.
SH: Thank you.


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Most years since I started this blog I have published a particular post originally called "Being Thankful for What We Know and Appreciating Why It Matters." That message remains timely, especially given the gravity of everything I have laid out in recent posts. First though I want to provide a few updates since the last post. I had an opportunity last week to speak with Security Policy expert Frank Gaffney in a recorded conference call about the implications of what I had found in the Tarbiyah Project and how closely it aligns with the actual, to be mandated, meaning of success or achievement under the new proposed federal legislation. https://soundcloud.com/alice-linahan/women-on-the-wall-esea-and-the-the-tarbiyah-project
As I wrote in the last post, the alignment between the actual mandated implementation I covered so carefully in my book Credentialed to Destroy and what Tauhidi described was breathtaking and clearly no accident. I covered systems thinking extensively in that book, but although it was created at the troublingly ubiquitous Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), some of its creators were always connected to Michigan's Institute for Social Research and Research Center for Group Dynamics. http://www.rcgd.isr.umich.edu/history/ Michigan is where Tauhidi received both his Masters and Doctorate and its School of Education has always been a national leader in shifting K-12 education toward the behavioral sciences. To truly make education into a science of human development it certainly helps that the current Dean Deborah Ball also chairs the Spencer Foundation Board of Directors.
That would certainly explain the alignment I found. Establishing the Group Mind and making it influential, then guiding, and finally motivating, as the definition of increasing Proficiency toward being an 'Expert' was laid out recently here. http://www.epiconline.org/essential-skills-and-dispositions-development-frameworks/ Lots of influential entities there and 3 of the essentials are from 21st Century Learning: Creativity, Communication, and Collaboration. The 4th, Critical Thinking, has been renamed as Self-Directed Learning. That would be the same term Tauhidi used in his Tarbiyah Key Outcomes & Indicators. It's probably not accidental that Tarbiyah's Essential Learning of Noble Character and Moral Literacy is the Self-Directed Individual, especially since the other 3 Cs are also in various desired new personal character traits with their names in Arabic script.
Finally, Congress just released a Framework for its new ESEA legislation http://edworkforce.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=399784 that also aligns with Tarbiyah and the goal of turning the student, at an internal, neurological level, into a designed, predictable system. That's the 'success' within the legislation. I now have everything I need to prove those assertions after the legislation is passed and signed. Here's the long-standing goal, taken from work on Burmese culture and Buddhist values, attitudes, and motivating beliefs funded by the CASBS with a shout out to Ralph Tyler, the creator of NAEP, the 8 Year Study, and so much more we still encounter today.
"Which brings us to the importance of this symbol for the integration of Burmese society. For it is through their reverence for this common symbol of a shared ego ideal that the Burmese, I believe, come to identify with each other, as Freud puts it, they 'have put one and the same object in the place of their ego ideal and have consequently identified themselves with one another in their ego.' [no individualism left as the West knows it] And this is how Burmese society achieves its highest degree of integration. To the extent that members of a social group identify with each other, to that extent is the group characterized by social integration."
That would be why Black Lives Matter in 2015 and All Lives do not. With that let's go back in time. Remember all we have covered since forcing a required Group Mind and also the 2014 passage of WIOA, giving all governments unprecedented economic powers for planning society.
I had actually outlined another barnburner story but the day before Thanksgiving is no time to serve up indigestion. So I thought I would write a tale of appreciating why individual liberty has mattered in the past and why Freed Markets resulted in mass prosperity would be a nice tribute. And I do not mean that in a Pollyanish sense. One of the books I am tackling this holiday week is Robert P Moses' radical equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project. I want every child to learn to the best of their ability. I want to really appreciate the desperation that is driving this Equality for All even if it guts the economy philosophy. It is why I read what attracted Van Jones to the Green Growth Economy as a manifestation of his self-confessed preference for Communism.
I think the history lessons of the Predator State declaring its Goals for People and then using its powers to coerce are too easy to forget. It's not an ideological preference. It's a factual story. A repeated pattern once government reaches a certain size of the economy. I think history consistently bears out the truth of what Nobel Prize-winning economist Friedrich Hayek said in his 1945 lecture Individualism: True and False. I give extra credit for people who have first hand experience in what led to most of the great tragedies of the 20th Century. It's called Walking the Walk and there is great validity to the hard-earned wisdom it imparts.
"There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is a condition of a free society, the second means, as De Tocqueville described it, 'a new form of servitude."
There is just no getting around the fact that government officials and their Business Allies deciding they get to fine tune personalities and reset Values, Attitudes, and Beliefs to guide an Individual's Future Behavior is a 21st Century form of servitude. Especially when the inappropriately named Positive School Climate is now a tool to retrain each student's filtering Mindset. The worldview they will use from now on as they encounter daily reality. With their preferred non-Axemaker Mind and habits grounded in emotion. All quite consciously cultivated and monitored.
But we now know all this up front and that really is something to be Thankful for. As an active pursuer of these plans and blueprints this is decidedly unauthorized knowledge that was not supposed to become available. A 2012 Deerstalker Gold Star Award for Me. The most common question I get from frustrated parents especially is Why? What I am saying simply rings too true with their daily reality to discount it. But why the Deliberate Operant Conditioning towards a Future that's not really about prosperity?
Like I have said, I take great comfort in putting all this in its Historical Context and its real Self-Dealing Context. Because honestly that is where it belongs. So I am going to quote you a passage from Hayek's 1944 book The Road to Serfdom (page 176 in my 2007 copy). He really nails the drivers behind making education miseducation. Notice he also nails down the frequent unholy alliance between government and the media. Simply refusing to report or cover accurately anything that might caste a poor light on desired government policies. My bolding and snark is in the brackets.
"Facts and theories [Sustainability, Man-made Catastrophic Global Warming, Diversity, Social Justice] must thus become no less the object of an official doctrine than views about values. And the whole apparatus for spreading knowledge–the schools and the press, radio and motion picture–will be used exclusively to spread those views which, whether true or false, will strengthen the belief in the rightness of the decisions taken by the authority; and all information that might cast doubt or hesitation will be withheld. The probable effect on the people's loyalty to the system [Peter Senge just swooned that we so understand the essence of Systems Thinking and Why It Must Be Pushed] becomes the only criterion for deciding whether a particular piece of information is to be published or suppressed. [Benghazi; Actual Employment Numbers]
The situation in a totalitarian state is permanently and in all fields the same that it is elsewhere in some fields in wartime. Everything which might cause doubt about the wisdom of the government or create discontent will be kept from the people. [Hard not to think of Candy Crowley and that 2nd Presidential Debate]. The basis of unfavorable comparisons with conditions elsewhere, the knowledge of possible alternatives to the course actually taken, information which might suggest failure on the part of the government to live up to its promises or to take advantage of opportunities to improve conditions–all will be suppressed. There is consequently no field where the systematic control of information will not be practiced and uniformity of views not enforced."
There you have the incentive of Government officials for using education for merely Competent, Mentally Hobbled Citizens. Especially ones who are being bred to see a Duty to the State. And the Business Angle. They are politically connected and want special privileges and protections from their Cronies. That's not Capitalism though. It's Mercantilism where there is no mass prosperity. It is what Adam Smith rejected as he accounted for Britain's phenomenal 18th century economic growth.
So enjoy your friends and loved ones on this cherished American holiday. Whatever happens in education in 2013, we WILL understand what is really going on and what the likely consequences are actually going to be.
And that really is something to be Thankful for.


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The bearded gent in the peacoat had no problem identifying us as the website in question (if you're a reader, hit us up, pal), but his lady friend wasn't so sure: "I would go with that.. that's great... because I don't know it." Well, you do now! Take yourselves out to a nice romantic $200 dinner and think of us. Unless you're friends or siblings or something, in which case, ew.


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Those words have always helped me when my expectations (delusions) don't quite stack up with reality. I've been trying to live my life in such a way that I take what is given rather than pine over what is not.
I heard someone say that reality is a brick wall and Zen is the simple act of learning to stop bashing into it. The more I practice Zazen, the more I remember that the world is as it should be. Every moment is perfect just as it is. It's only natural that some moments will be happy and some will be sad, but each has worth--- I shouldn't run from one or lust after another.
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After giving all indications that he would be there for the Summit, however briefly, President Chavez himself said today that he may not go due to "his medical leave", something that is not new. This is a clear indication that the condition of the Venezuelan President has not improved and the opinion of the medical Doctors is finally prevailing for his own good.
This confirms the latest Bocaranda information that says that the Venezuelan President is not getting any better and that traveling is damaging his health. Meanwhile the country plods along without anybody running it and infighting within Chavismo to see who will replace Chavez.
This admission by Chavez proves that he can't run the country and the conditions given by the Venezuelan Constitution to temporarily replace him are currently present. But Chavez does not dare give up his post for fears that he will never come back to it.
He did not participate in the celebration of the ten years of the 2002 events and now he can't go to Cartagena, where he wanted to be seen once more as one of the leaders of Latin America.
Clearly, Chavez is not well, he wanted to be the center of attention once more. But he will not be able to.
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Police in Sweden had to intervene after a foreign visitor to a spa and conference center grew angry because a visiting Santa Claus was wearing a gray instead of red costume.
No one was arrested during the incident in Vallsta, some 300 kilometers (180 miles) north of Stockholm, early Tuesday.
But police said in a brief statement that the foreign guest grew agitated over the Santa outfit and argued with the center's staff. They did not say where the foreigner was from.


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Pindar pĭn´dər [key], 518?–c.438 BC, Greek poet, generally regarded as the greatest Greek lyric poet. A Boeotian of noble birth, he lived principally at Thebes. He traveled widely, staying for some time at Athens and in Sicily at the court of Hiero I at Syracuse and also at Acragas (modern Agrigento). His chief medium was the choral lyric, and he set the standard for the triumphal ode or epinicion. Of his complete works 45 odes survive; these make one of the greatest collections of poems by a single author in Greek. His fragments are exceptionally numerous and some of them widely famous. The epinicia celebrate victories in athletic games: there are 14 Olympian odes, 12 Pythian odes, 11 Nemean odes, and 8 Isthmian odes. Each was written to be sung in a procession for the victor, usually on his return to his home city. The outstanding feature of each ode is its narrative myth, which is always connected with the winner. The myth makes appropriate the elevated moral tone and religious flavor characteristic of Pindar's poems. His style loses a great deal in translation. It has a high-flown diction and an intricate word order, dependent partly upon the complexity of his metrical requirements. Pindar wrote on commissions, but he was quite independent of any meretriciousness, because of his lofty conception of the poet's vocation.
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Pindaric ode refers to a verse form used primarily in England in the 17th and 18th cent. The form, based on a somewhat faulty understanding of the metrical pattern used by Pindar, originated with Abraham Cowley in his Pindarique Odes (1656) and was later used by John Dryden, among others. It is characterized by irregularity in the rhyme scheme, length of the stanzas, and number of stresses in a line.
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See his works (tr. by L. R. Farnell, 1930–32); his odes (tr. by R. Lattimore, 1976); studies by F. T. Nisetich (1980) and K. Crotty (1982).
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text: Choline, an essential nutrient similar to the B vitamin and found in foods such as liver, muscle meats, fish, nuts and eggs, when given as a dietary supplement in the last two trimesters of pregnancy and in early infancy, is showing a lower rate of physiological schizophrenic risk factors in infants 33 days old. The study breaks new ground both in its potentially therapeutic findings and in its strategy to target markers of schizophrenia long before the illness itself actually appears. Choline is also being studied for potential benefits in liver disease, including chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis, depression, memory loss, Alzheimer's disease and dementia, and certain types of seizures. Robert Freedman, MD, professor and chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine and one of the study's authors and Editor of The American Journal of Psychiatry, points out, "Genes associated with schizophrenia are common, so prevention has to be applied to the entire population, and it has to be safe. Basic research indicates that choline supplementation during pregnancy facilitates cognitive functioning in offspring. Our finding that it ameliorates some of the pathophysiology associated with risk for schizophrenia now requires longer-term follow-up to assess whether it decreases risk for the later development of illness as well." Normally, the brain responds fully to an initial clicking sound but inhibits its response to a second click that follows immediately. In schizophrenia patients, deficient inhibition is common and is related to poor sensory filtering and familial transmission of schizophrenia risk. Since schizophrenia does not usually appear until adolescence, this trait - measurable in infancy - was chosen to represent the illness. Half the healthy pregnant women in this study took 3,600 milligrams of phosphatidylcholine each morning and 2,700 milligrams each evening; the other half took placebo. After delivery, their infants received 100 milligrams of phosphatidylcholine per day or placebo. Eighty-six percent of infants exposed to pre- and postnatal choline supplementation, compared to 43% of unexposed infants, inhibited the response to repeated sounds, as measured with EEG sensors placed on the baby's head during sleep.


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Continuing its 20+year legacy, the church's New Life Worship offers 10 new songs to encourage the body of Christ to stand up and proclaim that God alone is strong.
The live CD/DVD Strong God releasing from Integrity Music Aug. 13. The lead song is also helping those affected by the recent devastating Colorado fire.
New Life Church in Colorado Springs, CO, is known for originating some of the best-loved anthems being sung in the U.S. church, including songs like "Overcome," "Great I Am," "I Am Free," "Your Name," "My Savior Lives" and many more.
For the new project, worship pastors Brad Parsley and Jon Egan (Desperation Band) introduce the next generation of New Life worship leaders and songwriters, while collaborating with well-seasoned leaders and writers like Cory Asbury, Michael Farren, Jason Ingram, Meredith Andrews and Mia Fieldes.
"The health of New Life Worship is rising again," says Egan. "For five or six years, we were really just focusing on healing and restoration. But over the past two years, we've felt God calling us to raise up a new generation of musicians, worship leaders and songwriters. This new season can be seen and heard on Strong God."
The new music has also helped with the healing for those that suffered loss from the most destructive Colorado fire in history. About 100 families from New Life Church, which served as a temporary evacuation shelter, were affected by the fire, with some members completely losing their homes.
As the church is looking for additional ways to support the community as a whole, Egan shares, "We gathered around those affected, prayed and sang 'Strong God' together as a reminder that we're all about declaring the greatness of God in the midst of trouble and despair. We know what that's like, so we can sing it fully knowing the truth behind the words."
"'Strong God' is really a banner for and over our church," continues Egan, who wrote the song along with Ingram and Andrews. "Father to the fatherless, Defender of the weak… With us in the wilderness, Faithful to provide. It reflects our heart and vision for our church and our community."
Produced by Michael Rossback (Gungor, Paul Baloche) and mixed by Ben Gowell (Jars of Clay), the 12 new tracks on the Strong God CD and "deluxe" CD/DVD will also be available as a long-form video at iTunes and on an iTunes LP® that includes bonus resources and more.
Strong God CD/DVD track listing, along with the featured worship leader, follows:
1. Jesus Reigns (featuring Jon Egan)
2. All To Him (featuring Cory Asbury)
3. Victorious God (featuring Brad Parsley)
4. Strong God (featuring Jon Egan)
5. More Than Enough (featuring Abby Merkel and Nico Perez)
6. More Than Enough (Reprise)
7. Ascribe (featuring Cory Asbury)
8. Unassailable (featuring Jon Egan)
9. Unassailable (Reprise)
10. Who Compares (featuring Brad Parsley)
11. Love Divine (featuring Rachael Kiehne and Jonathan Moos)
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Miley Cyrus' Parents to Divorce
Singer Billy Ray Cyrus and his wife Tish are divorcing after 19 years of marriage.
"This is a personal matter and we are doing what is in the best interest of our family. We ask that you respect our privacy at this time," a rep for the pair told ET Thursday when news of Tish's divorce filing became public.
Perhaps in response to the split, daughter Miley sent the following message to her father via Twitter:
@billyraycyrus since your text and email obviously aren't working would you like to talk like this?— Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) June 13, 2013
Billy Ray and Tish filed for divorce previously in 2010, but reconciled months later.
"As you can imagine, this is a very difficult time for our family," the couple told ET at the time of the filing. "We are trying to work through some personal matters. We appreciate your thoughts and prayers."
Pics: Miley Cyrus' Family Before the Split
Billy Ray and Tish have three children together (Miley, Braison, and Noah) and raised two from Tish's previous marriage (Brandi and Trace).


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US government efforts to protect computer networks with continuous data monitoring systems are beginning to make progress. By automating the detection and remediation of the most common types of cyber attacks, government official say they hope to free up the time and brain power of human IT personnel to work on the most pressing and dangerous online threats.
Both the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Defense (DOD) have been at the forefront of work on automated threat detection and resolution technologies. One of the key continuous monitoring and remediation systems now being deployed across the federal government is Einstein, said Phyllis Schneck, DHS deputy undersecretary for cyber security in the department's National Protection and Programs Directorate.
Speaking at a recent industry Cybersecurity Summit, Schneck said the DHS has already deployed its Einstein 3 continuous monitoring and mitigation software across its enterprise and parts of the federal government. Additional deployments will promulgate the system across the entire federal government and ultimately, participating commercial firms and owners of critical national infrastructure, Schnek said.
Einstein has been around for a while. Its first initial deployment in 2004 focused on network flow monitoring, while the program's second version provided passive intrusion detection. Once Einstein 3 is active across the government, its automated monitoring, detection, and remediation systems will allow agencies to free up their IT personnel to focus on the most vital and pressing challenges, she said.
[For more on DOD's cyber defense initiatives, see DOD Cyber Architecture Takes Shape.]
On the DOD side, the Navy is also participating in federal continuous data monitoring programs, said Shaun Khalfan, chief of the cyber security and infrastructure team in the Navy CIO's office. Khalfan noted that, among other things, the service seeks a host-based system. Another requirement is building in asset-management capabilities from the beginning for any new systems. For example, this will be important in tracking and managing tactical networks and the machines that operate on them as they may not always be connected to the Navy and DOD's major networks, he said.
Continuous data monitoring and built-in security are also key parts of the Navy and Marine Corp's Next Generation Enterprise Network (NGEN) program. One problem with many past DOD and government IT programs is that security was often bolted on or cut due to budget concerns. Khalfan noted a NGEN goal is to "bake in" security from the beginning, at the source-code level at the earliest parts of the development cycle.
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For the Marine Corps, another goal for NGEN is continuous monitoring, explained Ray Letteer, chief of the service's cybersecurity division. Detecting and mitigating threats can be a challenge for the Corps because, like the Navy, many of their tactical systems deploy and operate outside main service networks and then plug in, either remotely or when the equipment returns to base.
The Marine Corps recently deployed a new system that automatically scans and remediates any new equipment being activated on a base. Letteer described a test at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina where a commercial laptop was activated on site. Within 45 seconds, the system had scanned it and alerted base IT staff that the device was noncompliant with DOD security standards. He noted that such systems allow the military to free up IT staff to work on more challenging and critical issues.
The software compliance/detection system is scheduled to be deployed across the Marine Corps by this December, he said.
NIST's cyber-security framework gives critical-infrastructure operators a new tool to assess readiness. But will operators put this voluntary framework to work? Read the Protecting Critical Infrastructure issue of InformationWeek Government today.


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Optimism returns to Napa Valley, after a long, dark recession
I was chatting with Bill Harlan yesterday and he made two comments (among many others) I thought were particularly interesting:
1. Napa Valley is basically all planted out. Remaining land is too steep or otherwise geologically inappropriate for grapes, or else the local laws prohibit it from development.
2. The slump in demand for high-end Napa wine has pretty near bottomed out. Within a year, demand will begin to soar again. This is being helped by interest in export markets, particularly Asian.
Concerning #1, it had never occurred to me to ask anyone if Napa is all planted out, until Bill said so (and if anyone should know, it's this man, whose eye constantly ranges over the Napa landscape, looking for things no one else sees). Strange; it's such a basic question. I guess I took one look at all that empty space (well, not really "empty," as it's filled with forests) in the Mayacamas, and those less-forested slopes of the Vacas, and figured anyone with enough moolah could move in and plant it.
But no. Bill disabused me of that notion. So let's accept the fact that what we see in Napa Valley, in terms of vineyard acreage, is pretty much what we're going to see 10, 20, 50 years from now.
What's the implication for prices? Right off the bat, even a layman (which is what I am when it comes to economics) can see that, if demand increases and supply is static, then price must rise.
And demand is rising–not just because, as Bill pointed out, China now has skin in the game, but because the evil Recession is petering out (actually, it was officially declared over last October), and people once again are starting to spend. Granted, the beleaguered middle class (that's me) continues to stuggle, but then again, we were never the ones that bought Harlan and all the other cult wines in the first place. That was rich people, and they're the first ones to recover as the economy improves. From everything I can see, the wealthy are spending again on all manner of toys, and that includes super-expensive wine.
So that touches on Bill's #2 prediction, that the slump in Napa high-end wine (which we knew occurred after 2007, through anecdotes and confessions) is over. We'd have to see the actual sales figures for all the cults–Harlan, Screaming Eagle, Colgin, Bryant, Araujo, you know the list as well as I do–to know for sure. But I keep my pulse on the industry pretty tightly, and I can tell you that confidence is back at the top houses. Prices are once again inching up, which would have been unthinkable three years ago. There's optimism in the air.
And this optimism isn't based on simple faith, it's based on something more fundamental: the knowledge of proprietors that they possess the most valuable commodity in American wine: "Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon." No four words have the same cachet. None ever will. Pinot Noir (from California and Burgundy) may be the sizzle of the moment (and deservedly so), the contrarian wine even some Cabernet winemakers in Napa collect in their cellars, and that critics love to praise. But Pinot cannot rival Cabernet for sheer seriousness, and besides, for a wine to be famous it must be irrevocably connected to a place. Where is the place in California for Pinot Noir? You cannot name just one. Yet "Cabernet Sauvignon" is as yoked to "Napa Valley" as "Queen Elizabeth" is to "England."
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"People with Tattoos Drink More Alcohol, Shows New Study From France"
Not only more alcohol, but better, I would hope, if they can afford it. And lest you think tattooes are only for prisoners and skateboard kids, I would remind you to check out the arms of players in the NBA, NFL and MLB. Tatts have gone upscale. I always said that people with tattoos had greater discernment about the finer things in life than the skin art-challenged (as we call the non-tattooed), and now we have proof. Now (speaking of cult Cabernet), if I can only lure Jayson Woodbridge down to my Oakland tattoo artist to get that chest art he says he wants…
Pinot cannot rival Cabernet for sheer seriousness? Them sounds like fightin' words.
Interesting observation about tatoos. But look: Most body art is derived from art in another medium (e.g., comics, heraldry, grafitti, bullfight posters). Hence I have seen very little body art that's really original.
Here is a great report from yesterday that gives more detail on this subject from SVB: http://www.svb.com/2012-wine-report/?utm_source=pm&utm_medium=sm&utm_campaign=2012-wine-webinar
The hierarchy is pretty simple and pretty well known:
1. Bordeaux
2. Champagne
3. Burgundy
4. Napa Valley Cabernet
5. Everything else
The fact that the Chinese will be buying up Napa Cabs maybe good for the high-end California wine glut but it in no way signifies that the recession is over no matter what the Political pontiffs may be saying.
Come back East and follow a wholesale delivery truck to a few retail stores and observe what is being delivered.
You will see a large percentage of Bag in the Box wines being wheeled into store after store.
There may be glimmers of light and hope but it ain't over.
@Patrick–I agree with Steve regarding tattoos being an original art form. They are not always unique (especially if you walk into a shop and pick something from a book that dozens of other people have chosen), but they can be. I have my husband's signature on my inner forearm. Not the tattoo artist's writing, but my husband's actual signature. Perhaps another woman out there took samples of his handwriting and did the same thing but somehow I doubt it.
@Tom–Love the list. Love your blog.
Hi folks, thanks for enlightening me on the originality of tatoos. Can you point me to a book or some other illustration of what you consider original? This matters, because I'm an author of art books and I am certainly open to revising my opinion.
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On Tuesday, I spoke at the Global Diaspora Forum, a gathering at the State Department that brought together representatives from diaspora communities around the world, from Haiti to Tanzania. I had the opportunity to talk about ways USAID is rebuilding our engagement with diaspora—in areas like philanthropy, entrepreneurship, and volunteerism—under the framework of the Diaspora Network Alliance. And I shared my appreciation for the unique relationships, knowledge and skills that diaspora communities bring to development.
In the aftermath of the last year's earthquake in Haiti, diaspora volunteers worked with Tufts University to help translate text messages from people trapped in rubble—information we fed to our search and rescue teams on the ground in Haiti that helped save lives. In South Sudan, we worked with skilled, educated Sudanese diaspora volunteers to develop local capacity in health and education. As the referendum for independence approached, we supported polling stations abroad so that members of the southern Sudanese diaspora could participate.
I was reminded at the Global Diaspora Forum of my own family's experience. My parents immigrated to the United States, and I still recall the pride my father took in sending money in blue aerograms back home to our family in India. In 2010, global remittances were valued at over $340 billion, but I know firsthand how much more they're really worth. So often a result of long hours and sacrifice, they mean the chance for a child to afford her school uniform, or the chance for a young person to take out a loan and open up a business. And when they allow a family to buy food or medicine in a difficult time, they mean the difference between life and death. That's why we're committed at USAID to making sure each dollar saved and each dollar transferred reaches its recipients at the lowest transaction cost possible.
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Soon we shall gather to remember two major instances in the history of the People of God. The first remembrance is the liberation from the slavery in Egypt, where God gave enough signs so that people could come to recognise Who is the Most High God above all gods. The second celebration is that of the Jewish master teacher Jeshua (Jesus Christ) who came together at the upper room to remember the Exodus from Egypt but also to install a special moment, namely bringing some symbols in the light of the evening.
Some disciples close to this master teacher had seen how their master had come typically to the Jews in the end of their age as Prophet, (teacher) as Priest ("when he offered up Himself," `Heb_7:27`.) and as King. (When he rode into their city at the close of his ministry.) But those disciples could see how the moment of glory was very short and how their Jewish brethren did not receive their master in any of these forms.
For a short time they had walked with him and had witnessed miracles. For them it was clear they had some one in front of them who was
"a teacher sent from God".
They looked up at him, but still expected him to be a warrior who would defeat the Romans and would become their "King" or ruler.
The Jewish "Feast of Passover" commenced on the fifteenth day of their month Nisan and lasted seven days. Though before that day, there was the the killing of the lamb on the 14th of Nisan, which shall be this coming Friday, March 30, Erev Pesach or Fast of the First born, followed by Nisan 15, 5778 or Pesach 1.
Having the Friday and Saturday the remembrance moments of the liberation of the Jews and the Gentiles, we should jubilate. You could think we should be sad, because Jesus would be slaughtered as a lamb, but we do know that by his offering we were bought free. By his offering at the stake freedom came over mankind, him making an end to the curse of death. And that should bring happiness in our hearts, also three days later mankind got the proof that a man could get out of the dead.
In case Jesus would have been God we would not have any proof that man could resurrect from the death. But now with this man of flesh and blood, the world could see how God had lifted him and has given him a very special place.
Jesus had told his disciples a lot about how to behave and how to treat others, like the homeless, the poor, the needy and how to handle the material provisions, wealth, prosperity, riches, but also poverty and to be prepared to live a life for God. They had heard strange things, like that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. They also had heard that when when their master, the Son of Man, would be sitting on his glorious throne, they who had followed him would also come to sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. (Matthew 19:27-30)
They were so convinced they would come to see that kingdom in their lifetime, but that night this man talked about his death, him leaving them. He took bread and spoke about this being his body. They knew Jesus did not turn the bread into his literal flesh and the wine into his real blood. Jesus' fleshly body was still intact when he offered this bread and wine. Jesus' apostles were not really eating his literal flesh and drinking his blood, for that would have been cannibalism and a violation of God's law. (Genesis 9:3, 4; Leviticus 17:10)
According to Luke 22:20, Jesus said:
"This cup means the new covenant by virtue of my blood, which is to be poured out in your behalf."
The apostles never thought that the cup presented to them literally would have become "the new covenant". They knew that would be impossible, since a covenant is an agreement, not a tangible object.
Hence, both the bread and the wine have to be looked at as only symbols. The bread symbolizes Christ's perfect body. Jesus used a loaf of bread left over from the Passover meal. The loaf was made without any leaven, or yeast. (Exodus 12:8) The Bible often uses leaven as a symbol of sin or corruption. The bread therefore represents the perfect body that Jesus sacrificed. It was free of sin.—Matthew 16:11, 12; 1 Corinthians 5:6, 7; 1 Peter 2:22; 1 John 2:1, 2.
The red wine represents Jesus' blood. That blood makes valid the new covenant. Jesus said that his blood was poured out
"for forgiveness of sins."
Jesus made it clear that humans can become clean in God's eyes and can enter into the new covenant with Jehovah. (Hebrews 9:14; 10:16, 17) Jesus was convinced that God would accept his offering and consider his act as a covenant, or contract.
Let us come together Friday night to remember that special sent one from god who was willing to give his life for our sins.
Preceding articles
Preparing for the most important weekend of the year 2018
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Additional reading
- Commemorating the escape from slavery
- First month of the year and predictions
- Entrance of a king to question our position #2 Who do we want to see and to be
- Seven Bible Feasts of JHWH
- Preparation for Passover
- The Atonement in Type and Antitype 2 Going forth to Jesus
- 9 Adar and bickering or loving followers of the Torah preparing for Pesach
- Making sure we express kedusha for 14-16 Nisan
- This day shall be unto you for a memorial and you shall keep it a feast to the Most High God
- Days of Nisan, Pesach, Pasach, Pascha and Easter
- Yom Hey, Eve of Passover and liberation of many people
- 8 Reasons Christian Holidays Should Not Be Observed
- Shabbat Pesach service reading 1/2
- Who Would You Rather Listen To?
- Solution for Willing hearts filled with gifts
- Celebrations pointing to events of ultimate meaning
- Most important day in Christian year
- Thinking about fear for the Loving God and an Invitation for 14 Nisan
- The Symbol of Blood in Christianity & Upcoming Easter Special
- Bread and Cup
- Remembering Passover
- My Christian testimony: leaving behind the new age deception
- Everything Jesus had to say about the homeless, wealth, prosperity, poverty, riches, the poor, the needy and giving
- Nisan 14 Sundown March 30, 2018
- The Last Supper: What did they eat?


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It's tough to find examples of successfully challenging the boss, even tougher to find stories of leaders who specifically ask to be challenged. The most common is a tale of Alfred P. Sloan at General Motors. During a meeting in which GM's top management team was considering a weighty decision, Sloan closed the meeting by asking." "Gentlemen, I take it we are all in complete agreement on the decision here?" Sloan then waited as each member of the assembled committee nodded in agreement. Sloan continued, "Then, I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what this decision is about."
What Sloan was looking for was something many of us seek to eliminate: dissent. There's a lot of discussion on how leaders ought to cast a vision, gain buy-in, or steer a group to consensus. There's a lot less discussion on how leaders ought to cultivate a culture that values the right kind of criticism. That criticism is what Sloan was looking for, and what research tells us we need in order to make the best decision.
When ideas are still being developed or decisions still being considered, criticism and constructive conflict are vital to testing the value of the ideas and helping increase that value. Conflict is an indicator that diverse viewpoints are being considered and that the competition for ideas is still ongoing. During this competition, ideas are strengthened through further research, consideration or through the blending of different ideas into one stronger concept. By contrast, when everyone in a group always agrees, it can indicate that the group doesn't have very many ideas, or that they value agreement more than quality suggestions.
In one study of conflict and decision-making, participants were divided into three experimental conditions (control, brainstorming, and debate) and formed into teams within those conditions. Each team was tasked with generating ideas for the same challenge: how to reduce traffic congestion in the San Francisco Bay area. The "control" teams were given no further instructions and told to develop as many ideas as possible. The "brainstorming" teams were given the traditional set of brainstorming rules, chief among those rules was the notion that all judgment should be suspended and no idea criticized or debated. The final, "debate" teams were given a set of rules similar to the "brainstorming" teams but with one important difference. Instead of deferring judgment, they were told to debate and criticize others' ideas as they were generated.
When the results were calculated, the winners were clear. While teams in the brainstorming condition did generate more ideas than the teams given no instructions, it was the teams in the debate condition that outperformed the rest, producing an average of 25 percent more ideas than the other two conditions in the same period of time. Even after the teams had disbanded, the influence of criticism on generating ideas continued. In follow-up interviews with each subject, researchers asked the participants if they had any more ideas for solving the traffic problem. Each participant from the control and brainstorming conditions did have one or two more ideas, but participants in the debate condition gave an average of seven additional ideas per person. Teams that utilized conflict in their process consistently outperformed teams that focused on cohesion. In a summary of the study's results, the researchers write "Our findings show that debate and criticism do not inhibit ideas but, rather, stimulate them relative to every other condition." The researchers had discovered what Sloan seemed to already know, that cultivating criticism and dissent could yield more quantity of ideas, and that quantity could help make better quality decisions.
Sloan wasn't the first to recognize that dissent and criticism could help strengthen decision. One organization has been doing it for centuries: the Catholic Church. Starting with Pope Sixtus V in 1587, the Catholic Church assigned one special dissenter to find and present reasons for why nominated candidates should not be canonized as saints. This person was referred to as the Defender of the Faith, or more commonly the "Devil's Advocate." Taking special care to consider a dissenting view provided an alternative perspective that strengthened their decisions. From 1857 to 1983, when the Devil's Advocate policy was removed, 98 individuals were named saints. From 1983 until today, over 500 hundred people have been granted sainthood. While it's difficult to compare the quality of decisions before and after the reform, the impact of the policy on the Church's decision-making process is clear.
If assigning a lone dissenter to be the bearer of bad tidings may not suit your team, consider the technique used by a notable but vastly different organization: Pixar. During the long process of creating a blockbuster film, the teams at Pixar rely on criticism to make their work stronger. To keep the benefits of criticism without the negativism, Pixar uses an idea called "plussing." Plussing means that anytime someone comments on another work, that comment must contain a "plus" — a way to improve or build on the work. Plussing gives the director or animator something they need besides just a critique, it gives them a place to build from and improve their work. Through plussing, Pixar has found a formula for keeping criticism positive, while positively improving the quality of their work.
Whether you rely on centuries old techniques like the devil's advocate, new methods such as plussing, or just choose to postpone meetings until someone brings in a counterpoint, your teams will make better decisions when you cultivate a little positive criticism.


text: Some odd news courtesy Variety. Bravo is breathing life into "Death Becomes Her." Twenty years after the theatrical debut of the film, Bravo and the pic's helmer, Robert Zemeckis, have begun eyeing a smallscreen adaptation. Zemeckis is on board to exec produce the hourlong drama project along with Jack Rapke and Jackie Levine, though a writer has yet to be tapped. The TV version of "Death Becomes Her" will be produced by Universal Cable Prods. and Lupara Prods. Universal released the film in 1992 and, by airing on Bravo, the cable adaptation will remain in the NBCUniversal family. "Death Becomes Her" centers on two rival women who both attain eternal youth. Pic, starring Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn and Bruce Willis, earned $58 million Stateside and $149 million globally. Good to know Zemeckis is on board again, but I doubt we should be expecting to see Meryl being a part of it. Thanks to everybody for the heads-up!