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- Irish News
- May 19, 2019, 08:00
Plans are being drawn up for changes to the park: we want to hear from readers
Irishwoman praised by Dutch prime minister for 'open disclosure' campaign
- Health
- March 26, 2019, 19:16
Adrienne Cullen died as a result of medical negligence in the Netherlands
Brexit Borderlands: The Irish Times maps Ireland's border crossings
- Irish News
- January 15, 2019, 17:30
'The Irish Times' looks at impact of Brexit on the lives of people in shadow of the Border
Bono draws card for John Hume's 80th birthday
- Irish News
- January 18, 2017, 19:29
U2 singer pays tribute to former SDLP leader's role in bringing peace to North
Former ambassador made UK's European commissioner
- Irish News
- July 9, 2016, 01:00
Sir Julian King served in Dublin from 2009 to 2011 and in the Northern Ireland Office
Post-Brexit poll shows gulf between young and old voters
- Irish News
- June 27, 2016, 14:51
Britain split on EU along lines of age, education, income and ethnicity
Nama to offer Mayo council Westport House loans
- Irish News
- October 24, 2015, 01:00
Agency withdraws loans secured on estate from €1bn sale to American investment fund
PSNI recruitment fair cancelled due to dissident threat
- Irish News
- October 13, 2015, 12:47
Owner of Waterfoot Hotel decides not to hold event in interests of 'staff and customers'
Case on alleged assault of garda during protest due in 2016
- Irish News
- October 7, 2015, 20:04
Taoiseach was attending Fine Gael meeting in hotel as water protesters gathered outside
Cancer campaigner honoured by UCC fellowship
- Business
- October 3, 2015, 01:00
Columnist Charlie Fell fought for more research into the disease until his death
Homeless man found dead last week is buried in Cork
- Irish News
- September 30, 2015, 19:45
Alan Murphy was found on Dawson Lane, near Leinster House at 7am last Friday
Mayo-born London pub landlord sentenced for tax fraud
- September 8, 2015, 15:07
Patrick O'Donnell given 20 month suspended sentence and 300 hours unpaid work
British threat to Stormont 'not supported' by Government
- Politics
- September 6, 2015, 12:46
Charlie Flanagan describes threat to impose welfare cuts as 'a departure from devolution'
Paul Mason: 'Post-capitalism will set you free'
- August 1, 2015, 01:00
Channel 4 News's outspoken economics editor says capitalism is bust – and the way forward is through co-operation and sharing
Brian Friel to be honoured at cross-Border festival
- Culture
- July 20, 2015, 01:00
Lughnasa International Friel Festival to take place in Donegal, Derry and Belfast
Family of Tunisia shooting victims gathers to mark loss
- July 18, 2015, 01:01
Three relatives among the 30 British citizens killed in attack on beach at Sousse resort
Irish drug addict jailed over double murder in London
- Crime & Law
- July 17, 2015, 18:53
Paul O'Shea (37) stabbed and beat two men to death in King's Cross flat
EU debate will expose fissures in British society
- July 17, 2015, 01:00
The Greek crisis has invigorated those who want Britain to leave bloc and go it alone
Public service to run into problems if no deal on welfare cuts in North, says Villiers
- Politics
- July 16, 2015, 01:00
Secretary of State emphasised Tory lack of desire to take control of North's welfare rules
Tories outline plans to curb trade union power
- July 16, 2015, 01:00
Strikes could not take place in key sectors without approval by 40% of members
SNP decision to vote against fox-hunting at odds with Sturgeon's previous stance
- July 15, 2015, 01:04
DUP bemused at decision to abandon the vote, saying it was prepared to negotiate support for change 'as long as they're serious ab(...)
IRA informer Martin McGartland's MI5 case to be held in secret
- July 15, 2015, 01:00
Exposed British secret service asset alleges that MI5 failed to properly protect him
Peter Hain says Northern Ireland is 'nowhere near reconciliation'
- Politics
- July 14, 2015, 22:51
Former Labour NI secretary of state spoke at the Sinn Féin-organised gathering in the House of Commons in London
Formaldehyde revealed as disease risk to undertakers
- Health
- July 14, 2015, 01:01
US study finds exposure to substance used in sector is linked to motor neurone disease
Britain to oppose use of EU-wide fund in Greece
- Economy
- July 14, 2015, 01:01
British chancellor George Osborne will not allow its €1bn share of the fund being loaned to Athens
Former Ukip MEP Ashley Mote jailed over expenses
- July 14, 2015, 01:01
Mote sentenced to five years for European Parliament expenses fraud
SNP MPs to oppose relaxation of hunting ban in UK
- July 14, 2015, 01:00
Move likely to fuel Conservative demands for greater powers for English MPs
London Letter: Tube drivers on collision course over strikes
- July 10, 2015, 01:00
Little sympathy among the 3.5m people left above ground during night services dispute
British welfare cuts to hit poor Catholics worst, says MP
- July 9, 2015, 21:20
North of England Labour MP Helen Goodman questions social consequences of budget
Child abuse perpetrators to be named by UK inquiry
- July 9, 2015, 17:36
Judge to be given full access to files from public bodies and power to compel witnesses
Plan to deny full Commons voting rights to NI MPs pushed back
- July 9, 2015, 17:16
Cameron committed to granting stronger voice to English MPs, says spokeswoman
Osborne's clever presentation conceals important changes
- Economy
- July 9, 2015, 01:15
Wage rises to lower-paid helps mask effects of welfare cuts
George Osborne produces one of the most radical British budgets
- Economy
- July 8, 2015, 22:45
Tories take advantage of majority with wage rises for low-paid but also cuts to welfare
'It may not have broken London, but it did break some of us'
- July 7, 2015, 19:07
7/7 commemorations: 10 years after bombings many families are still picking up pieces
Greece 'cannot take unilateral action' – George Osborne
- Europe
- July 6, 2015, 18:59
British chancellor of the exchequer says UK will not contribute to another IMF bailout
'Telegraph' criticised by watchdog over Sturgeon article
- July 6, 2015, 17:09
Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon was victim of 'significantly misleading' story during election campaign
Dancing queen: The Dubliner running a ballet school in London
- Generation Emigration
- July 5, 2015, 00:00
When Dubliner Therese Schweppe started her ballet school in London, the response was overwhelming
Trial date set for doctor, nurses over abortion death
- Social Affairs
- July 3, 2015, 13:19
African woman living in Ireland died after procedure in London
London 'chemsex' parties face gay club scene with HIV fears
- July 3, 2015, 01:00
Drug-fuelled sexual encounters are gaining popularity via social media
English law veto could lose support in Scotland
- July 3, 2015, 01:00
Sturgeon says English MPs' extra power could encourage Scottish independence
Welfare cuts are greater threat than republicans - McGuinness
- Politics
- July 1, 2015, 22:00
North's Deputy First Minister says reforms pose danger to Assembly and Executive
EU has built up 'strong' defences to guard against Greek contagion
- Europe
- July 1, 2015, 21:27
Uncertainty must be resolved to ensure economic stability in EU, says Mark Carney
UK politicians divided over Heathrow runway
- Transport & Tourism
- July 1, 2015, 17:59
Airports Commission recommends London airport should get a third runway by 2030
David Cameron facing both ways, but his aims on EU are clearer
- June 27, 2015, 01:00
Leaked diplomatic note reveals British prime minister's strategy for keeping UK in the EU
EU reaches deal to relocate 60,000 migrants
- Europe
- June 26, 2015, 06:42
Merkel describes crisis as the 'biggest challenge I have seen in my time as chancellor'
First steps in negotiating new deal for UK within EU
- Europe
- June 26, 2015, 01:00
Cameron makes pitch on membership to leaders in Brussels amid Greek crisis talks
UK's road to a renegotiated EU deal will be an arduous one
- Europe
- June 26, 2015, 01:00
BBC claims British PM has already backed down on EU demands but No 10 begs to differ
London Letter: health service can save big by changing little things
- June 12, 2015, 05:00
NHS needs to look at how money is wasted in order to curb spending
Mark Hennessy: David Cameron's clarity on EU talks will divide party
- Opinion
- June 12, 2015, 04:02
New grouping in Conservative party likely to recommend to voters that UK should quit EU
David Cameron to push for English-only voting plan
- June 12, 2015, 01:00
Proposal would reduce voting rights of Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish MPs
Eurosceptics urge bias audit for BBC referendum coverage
- June 11, 2015, 01:00
UK Conservative MPs insist broadcaster's output on EU vote should be monitored
Rigging bankers face jail, warns Mark Carney
- Financial Services
- June 11, 2015, 01:00
Bank of England governor Carney tells bankers 'the age of irresponsibility is over'
US study links Alzheimer's to brain protein levels
- Health
- June 10, 2015, 22:11
Research could lead to up to a decade's warning of disease
British Labour Party leader candidates make case in Dublin
- June 10, 2015, 01:00
Contenders to succeed Ed Miliband go before GMB union at Citywest
Who are the main contenders for British Labour Party leadership?
- June 10, 2015, 01:00
Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper, Mary Creagh, Liz Kendall and Jeremy Corbyn all line out
Tory ministers cannot get straight answer on EU vote
- June 9, 2015, 01:00
David Cameron yet to decide if ministers will have to quit cabinet if they back No campaign
Irish man fails in compensation bid against British government
- June 8, 2015, 12:52
Victor Nealon spent 17 years in jail but was released after decision by Court of Appeal
Celebrating role of religious in helping Irish emigrants in Britain
- Social Affairs
- June 6, 2015, 01:00
A book detailing the Catholic Church's work with emigrants was just launched in London
Building on the reputation of exciting, young architects
- Construction
- June 5, 2015, 01:25
Ireland is the focus of the 'New Horizon' exhibition at London Festival of Architecture
Poor working conditions may drive GMB union to vote for 'Brexit'
- Work
- June 5, 2015, 01:01
Union leader warns of discontent if Cameron's EU negotiations affect workers
London Letter: Labour soul-searching continues
- June 5, 2015, 01:00
Party left reeling grapples with conundrum: Was it the messenger or was it the message?
British union leader warns on EU referendum
- Economy
- June 5, 2015, 01:00
Ahead of Dublin conference, GMB leader warns of action if workers' rights affected
Cancer now leading killer of men in Britain
- June 4, 2015, 01:00
Women still more likely to die from heart diseases than any other cause, study finds
Andy Coulson acquitted of perjury as alleged lie found irrelevant
- June 4, 2015, 01:00
Former 'News of the World' editor says prosecution was a gross waste of public money
A crowded House of Commons remembers Charles Kennedy
- June 4, 2015, 01:00
During the hour there were many moments when politicians held back tears
Everything and nothing changes as fiercest battles still ahead for Cameron
- June 2, 2015, 01:02
'Buoyed' prime minister returns from whirlwind tour of Europe's capitals
Give Me a Crash Course in . . . Brexit
- Irish News
- May 30, 2015, 01:03
Despite polls showing that most Britons would actually prefer to stay in the EU, the British dislike the concept of 'Brussels', ma(...)
Sitting down on job taking toll on health of British worker
- May 29, 2015, 05:00
London Letter: Hours spent in a seat raises cancer, heart and diabetes risks, study finds
Some UK demands will require treaty change, says Hammond
- May 29, 2015, 01:00
'We rule nothing out,' British foreign secretary says of EU negotiations
British attempt at EU renegotiation will not be a simple matter
- May 28, 2015, 01:00
Domestic affairs of other member states will affect any debate
Cameron delays plan to repeal Human Rights Act
- May 27, 2015, 21:24
Queen's speech refers to EU vote taking place before the end of 2017
Why Britain's EU referendum would benefit from 2016 timetable
- Opinion
- May 27, 2015, 00:02
Mark Hennessy: 'United front on display from the Conservatives will face challenges long before the text of the bill clearing the (...)
English fans barred from travelling to Dublin soccer match
- International
- May 26, 2015, 17:01
Those banned must surrender passports and sign in at police stations on match day
Cameron to use political capital to press EU demands
- May 26, 2015, 01:00
British PM moves fast to open talks with EU leaders on UK membership terms
Stiglitz pours cold water on Ireland's 'partly delusionary' optimism
- Economy
- May 25, 2015, 02:00
Nobel-prize winning economist blames failure of political leadership for reign of austerity
Globalisation has led to more inequality, says economist Joseph Stiglitz
- Economy
- May 25, 2015, 01:00
Nobel-winning economist criticises negotiations to agree new EU-US trade deal
Antony Beevor: the United States' second World War crimes
- Books
- May 23, 2015, 01:00
'I hope we can conceal this,' George Patton wrote about murders of German prisoners that have been airbrushed out of US accounts o(...)
Liz Kendall adds zest to Labour's leadership race
- May 22, 2015, 01:00
Leicester MP is scathing of party's aimlessness under Ed Miliband
Tory tough talk on migrants clashes with surge
- May 22, 2015, 01:00
Obsession with laws to clamp down on illegals overlooks their valuable input
Malaria drug to be repurposed for the heart
- Health
- May 21, 2015, 22:23
Hydroxychloroquine found to reduce heart rate significantly in 'chance observation'
Tougher controls to be unveiled to crack down on illegal immigrants in UK
- May 20, 2015, 20:01
Cameron intends to take stronger line on immigration now he is free from Lib-Dems
Labour MP Tristram Hunt will not stand for party leadership
- May 20, 2015, 19:51
Hunt boosts Liz Kendall's ambitions by saying she has 'confidence and courage' for post
Controversial John Bercow back in Commons hot seat
- May 19, 2015, 01:00
Despite Cameron's attempts to shaft him, Bercow stays on as Commons speaker
UUP rules out pact with Conservatives
- Politics
- May 18, 2015, 22:10
Nesbitt says MPs will not back Cameron's welfare cuts to carers
Irish Travellers win case against JD Wetherspoon
- May 18, 2015, 12:48
Group barred from Coronet pub on Holloway Road, North London, in 2011
London Letter: Tory minority in Lords set to trouble Cameron
- May 15, 2015, 01:00
PM could opt to stuff red benches with peers but move would likely draw unnecessary flak
Unions may have bigger role in electing next Labour leader
- May 14, 2015, 01:02
Harriet Harman says party can be rebuilt 'to take the fight to this Tory government and to stand up for Britain'
Prince Charles's letters reveal a man of many interests
- May 13, 2015, 21:07
Correspondence with ministers ranges from army shortages to fate of the albatross
Emboldened David Cameron gets set for EU renegotiations
- May 13, 2015, 01:00
British prime minister may hold referendum earlier than expected
Nicola Sturgeon leads vastly enhanced SNP team to Westminster
- May 12, 2015, 01:00
Scottish Nationalist Party newcomers soak up atmosphere at centre of UK power
David Cameron uses new cabinet to build ties with Conservative right
- May 12, 2015, 01:00
Mayor of London Boris Johnson comes into cabinet as minister without portfolio
Villiers: Sinn Féin should 'stand by what they agreed' on reform
- Politics
- May 11, 2015, 19:47
Northern Secretary warns Executive will become increasingly dysfunctional without budget
'A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves'
- People
- May 11, 2015, 07:32
Caitlin Doughty has written a surprisingly uplifting book about working in a San Francisco mortuary. Her message? The West needs t(...)
David Cameron moves on new human rights act
- May 11, 2015, 01:00
Michael Gove ordered to draft new version of act in bid to combat European legal influence
Labour figures seek to turn back clock and adopt 1990s playbook
- May 11, 2015, 01:00
Blairite criticisms and Chuka Umunna attack have illustrated tensions in the party
Theresa Villiers eager to retain post of Northern Secretary
- May 11, 2015, 01:00
British PM David Cameron likely to keep DUP onside despite Tory commons majority
Sturgeon calls on Cameron to cede more powers to Scotland
- May 10, 2015, 16:43
SNP leader says her party's 56 MPs will form most visible opposition to government
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon cautious about new push for independence
- May 9, 2015, 01:19
Scots have redrawn the political map and finding deal with Tories will be hard
Analysis: Hard task for PM in quest to solve EU conundrum
- May 9, 2015, 01:00
Daunting task faces Cameron faces in dealing with Tory rebels and sceptical EU leaders
Miliband says farewell to a journey that started five years ago
- May 8, 2015, 19:57
As he stood at the lectern the former Labour leader must have been thinking of what might have been


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Utah NBC affiliate pulls gory 'Hannibal' TV show
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A Mormon church-owned NBC affiliate in Utah has pulled the "Hannibal" TV show because of its graphic violence.
The first three episodes of the serial-killer drama that aired on KSL-TV became increasingly graphic and "extremely gory," drawing complaints from many viewers and rising eyebrows among station executives, said Tami Ostmark, KSL-TV vice president of marketing.
KSL executives were somewhat uncomfortable with the "Hannibal" show after viewing the pilot and promos but decided to give it a chance, Ostmark said.
"We knew it would be graphic," Ostmark said. "But as the episodes went on, it just got more graphic and gory."
NBC declined comment Wednesday.
"Hannibal" is the latest show the TV station -- owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which has its worldwide headquarters in Salt Lake City -- has judged to be unsuitable for its audience.
In the fall of 2012, the station opted not to run "The New Normal," a sitcom about a gay couple who invites a surrogate mother into their home. Since 2002, the station hasn't aired "Saturday Night Live." KSL will fill its Thursday 9 p.m. time slot with a special edition of its newscast, Ostmark said.
Utah residents will still be able to watch the show on Utah's CW30 affiliate, which will air it Saturday at midnight, said Richard Doutre Jones, vice president and general manager of KTVX (the ABC affiliate) and KUCW (The CW affiliate).
The CW30 also airs "The New Normal" and "Saturday Night Live."
outre Jones said there are many people that want to watch "Hannibal" and that since it's at night, adults can make "adult choices" about what to watch, he said.
"There are a lot of shows on a lot of stations and a lot of networks that are more gory and violent than Hannibal," Doutre Jones said. "It's a well-written, well-done show. I have no issue carrying the show."
The show is a prequel to the 1991 movie, "Silence of the Lambs," in which actor Anthony Hopkins earned an Oscar for his role as Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist-turned-serial-killer. NBC pulled an episode of the show earlier this month out of sensitivity to recent violence, including the Boston bombings. The episode featured a character who brainwashes children to kill other children.
KSL's Facebook page shows the decision to yank Hannibal has mixed support. Many applaud the station for protecting them and their children from stumbling on to the graphic violence, but others criticize the station for censorship and point out that viewers can change the channel if they don't like a show.
KSL-TV isn't coming under as much fire as it did in August 2012 when it opted not to air "The New Normal." At the time, executives said the program was inappropriate to air during family viewing time, the dialogue was excessively rude and crude and the scenes were too explicit.
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation sharply criticized KSL's decision, and NBC defended the program, noting it makes "a statement about the changing definition of the nuclear family."
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It's the thrill of the mediation process that Christina Bains likes most about her labour relations work. Now a mediator with the Labour Relations Board of B.C. in Vancouver, the 30-year-old says she always had an interest in the field going back to the time when she took a postgraduate HR diploma program at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT).
"Even then I gravitated to the labour relations piece of it," she says.
Bains started out working with BC Ferries on the administrative side of mediation. While it was good exposure, she wanted to get more directly involved in the bargaining process, she says.
So she decided to apply for a two-year internship with the Labour Relations Board. The program included a six-month stint with a union and another on the employer side.
"It was kind of neat to gain a full perspective on the process and get a sense of what both sides are thinking," she says.
Now that she's with the LRB full-time, she thrives on the variety. "Every day I'm dealing with a different industry. It could be a mine one day, a care home the next, and a manufacturing plant the next."
Having been in the field for more than three decades, Ian McCardle, a labour relations specialist with Pesce & Associates HR consultancy in Toronto, says what he enjoys most are the strategic and tactical components. "It's always fascinating and frequently challenging. Sometimes you're on the sharp ends of things between what management and unions want."
He likens the exercise to a rugby game. "While the rules and player positions are fixed, every game is different."
While some might think labour relations is all about hammering out collective agreements across the table, it's actually much more broad-based. Duties can include a range of administrative functions such as grievance management, arbitration and facilitation.
Larger organizations often maintain in-house labour relations specialists. Alternatively, labour relations professionals can serve as consultants. Because it is a heavily legislated area, many labour practitioners today are lawyers.
There are several different pathways into labour relations, says Bob Barnetson, associate professor of labour relations for Athabasca University in Edmonton. "A number will start out as workers in a unionized environment and volunteer to be a member of the bargaining team to develop their skills and knowledge."
Another route is to work in an HR capacity with a company and gain experience by working on grievances or negotiating collective agreements.
Many in the field have a bachelor's degree in HR Management. A number have also gone through the process of acquiring their Certified Human Resource Professional (CHRP) designation. "They often find CHRP to be helpful in their career," Barnetson says.
Another route is to pursue a career in law and practice with a firm that represents trade union workers or employers. In that role practitioners are typically called in during the latter stages of collective bargaining.
There are a number of universities and colleges with HR programs that include a labour relations component. Athabasca University for example offers a BA degree in HR and Labour Relations. This three-year distance education program is designed for working professionals looking to gain additional credentials while being employed, Barnetson explains.
Whatever path you take, good practitioners are typically thoughtful, pay attention to detail and take a long-range view of things, Barnetson says. "Even when it's possible to win a particular issue, you might end up damaging the long-term labour relations climate. Having a strategic perspective is an important aspect."
People need to have a high degree of maturity and the ability to de-personalize the situation, as well as be able to compromise, McCardle adds. "However, it's definitely a job that can be time consuming and try one's patience at times."
Bains acknowledges that mediation work tends to be very intense over short periods of time. But she prefers a fast pace. "When parties come to us it's to resolve an impasse. The best part of the job is, the next day I get to do it all over again."


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This weekend is dedicated to studying… and maybe a project or two. I'm kind of obsessed with chalkboard right now except I don't have it in my life at all! Let's change that. Look at all these great ideas with chalkboard that people have incorporated into their own homes. My favorite is the first one on the left.
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The Reprobate Mind
- The scriptural concept of the reprobate mind is most readily examined in kjv@Romans:1:21-32
- kjv@Romans:1:21 depicts an adoption of a vain imagination of God that causes our heart/relationship to God to darken.
- kjv@Romans:1:22 suggests that the vain imagination is asserted/taught as an enlightened form of wisdom.
- kjv@Romans:1:23 suggest an outright shift of attitude where the nature of God once being thought of as un-corruptible becomes corruptible down to the level of a man or animal or insect.
- kjv@Romans:1:24 suggests that God has not prevented the mind from pursuing this reprobate course and that there is an immediate and direct correlation between this cooperate mind set and the lusts of the heart.
- kjv@Romans:1:25 suggests that spiritual truth becomes to them as a lie.
- kjv@Romans:1:26-27 minus spiritual truth immediate sexual perversions manifest.
- kjv@Romans:1:28 because they reject any revelation of the true nature of God outright they take on a destructive nature inherent with the reprobate/vain image.
- kjv@Romans:1:29-31 lists a sampling of the behavioral traits adopted.
- kjv@Romans:1:32 suggests a desired tolerance and inclusiveness, may even suggest an extra sensory boost of knowing that God is against it.
This is not the first mention biblically of the centrality of the imagination related to God's image filter:NONE imagination . kjv@Genesis:6:5 says that it is only evil continually and kjv@Genesis:8:21 says that it is evil from our youth. kjv@Jeremiah:7:24 suggests that we walk where our imagination leads. kjv@Romans:3:23 all men fall short of this truer image.
kjv@1Corinthians:3:19 says the wisdom of this world (collective), better understood as a craftiness, is foolishness to God. strkjv@Proverbs:1:7 true wisdom is despised, strkjv@Proverbs:2:2 must be listened to and applied, strkjv@Proverbs:2:10 comes in to the soul not out from, strkjv@Proverbs:11:2 is with the lowly, strkjv@Proverbs:14:8 is to understand ones way, strkjv@Proverbs:17:16 is not purchased but absorbed, strkjv@Proverbs:21:30 is not against God, strkjv@Proverbs:30:3 is learned.
God's wisdom compositely associates foolishness with strkjv@Proverbs:1:22 simplicity and delight in scorn and hate for knowledge, strkjv@Proverbs:3:35 self promoting by shaming others, strkjv@Proverbs:9:13 clamor, strkjv@Proverbs:10:8 prating, strkjv@Proverbs:10:23 making sport of mischief, strkjv@Proverbs:12:15 always being right in own eyes, strkjv@Proverbs:12:16 making ones wrath immediately known, strkjv@Proverbs:13:19 making it an abomination to depart, strkjv@Proverbs:14:16 rage and confidence, strkjv@Proverbs:15:5 anti-establishment, strkjv@Proverbs:17:10 defiant, strkjv@Proverbs:17:24 universally focused, strkjv@Proverbs:18:2 self discovering, strkjv@Proverbs:18:6 contentious, strkjv@Proverbs:19:3 perverted and peevish toward God, strkjv@Proverbs:20:3 meddling, strkjv@Proverbs:26:5 wise in own conciet, strkjv@Proverbs:26:11 returning to folly, strkjv@Proverbs:28:26 trusting in own heart, strkjv@Proverbs:29:9 persistently contending, strkjv@Proverbs:29:11 brashly speaks mind, strkjv@Proverbs:29:20 hasty.
Sound's pretty much like a modern college class room doesn't it?
kjv@Genesis:3:5 the serpent introduces the idea that God is withholding/suppressing the god-like potential they'd otherwise achieve. The Bible is filled with descriptions of man' corruption filter:NONE corrupt and the many many images that we've created. kjv@Titus:1:15 presents a mindset where truths are held at best as only relative and at worst as defiled, nothing is held as pure or absolute.
kjv@Ephesians:4:19 suggests that it was they themselves that gave themselves over to this as well.
kjv@Romans:8:20 tells us that God did not will for this change, but once we had made the decision instead subjected us to the consequences of such because of some greater long range hope. kjv@Proverbs:1:20-31 depicts man in denial as being allowed to eat the fruit of his own way, become filled with his own devices, and the onset of the calamity that inevitably follows.
kjv@Proverbs:9:1 pictures wisdom as an open invitation that is to be willingly accepted, kjv@Matthew:22:1-12 dramatizes this invitation as a public wedding invitation but further places a obligation of additional responsibility.
kjv@Jeremiah:9:3 our tongues bent like a bow proceeding from evil to evil, kjv@Jeremiah:9:5 our tongue being "taught" to decieve (taught by whom?). kjv@STRING:false False teachers, false christs, false gods and images, false prophets, false brethren, false apostles, false witnesses, false accusers, false balances, false science.
kjv@John:3:19-21 doing truth requires an examination of ones deeds in the light of God's truest image, an image that is by all current means passionately rejected and refuted. kjv@Ephesians:6:12 states that the true carnal command structure is on the level of much higher principalities and powers.
kjv@Genesis:3:6-7 the first manifestation after the fall was sexual shame. kjv@Genesis:6:2-4 within the first eight generations the fallen angels sought to shame the daughters of men making necessary a world wide flood. kjv@Romans:1:24 mentions the dishonoring of their bodies between themselves through lust. Could it be that much of what we romanticize as "free love" is actually "free shame" and attempted domination?
Much of satanic and demonic and pagan worship ritual is centered upon the sexual dominion over the innocent and virgin (Even supposed UFO abduction). How much more the offenses of rape and sexual abuse and gang banging, adultery, stalking, incest and pedophilia and serial murder?
The knowledge not retained here kjv@Romans:1:28 is better viewed as recognition or kjv@2Timothy:2:25 kjv@Colossians:2:2 acknowledgement similar to the reverence and acknowledgement spoken of in kjv@Proverbs:3:5-7
Filled G4137 cram packed/replete with these behaviors, branching out far beyond the more obvious sexual natures.
kjv@Proverbs:1:10-19 the enticement is a universal sense that never comes to fruition because of individual greeds. kjv@Isaiah:5:20 if for just putting all things on one tolerant relative level the result is the same.
The reprobate mind is similar if not the same as the carnal mind, the deceitful heart, the vain imagination, the darkened mind, and other assorted references throughout. carnal mind heart imagination darkness wisdom wise fool idol. It can also be found in the religious kjv@Titus:1:16 except the truer image be found in Christ kjv@2Corinthians:13:5.
It is clearly indicated throughout the entire context of the Bible that God has made His true image known perceptually by creation kjv@Romans:1:19-20, kjv@John:5:39 by scripture, kjv@John:14:9 by His Son, kjv@John:15:26 by His Spirit. kjv@Galatians:3:24 indicates that God has morally legislated against this nature in order to prove both it's inescapable existence via the Law and man's complete inability to solve the maze issues without Him and His correct image in totality.


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The Duchess of Windsor's Pork Cake Recipe
Slender and severe, the Duchess of Windsor is the last person I would have expected to come out with a cookbook. If Victoria Beckham herself were ever to get into the cookbook game (the exceptional suitability of Posh Spice as a title notwithstanding), I wouldn't be more astonished than I was when I first came across this one—which, as it happens, is a Southern one. Some Favorite Southern Recipes of the Duchess of Windsor (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942) is full of dishes not typically associated with royalty—or with staying slim. We're talking hoppin John, crackling-studded cornbread, and a ham hock every other page.
This, once you learn a bit more about the Duchess, isn't so surprising. Baltimore-bred Wallis Warfield wasn't one to hide her roots. The first meal she ever served her future husband when he was the Prince of Wales included black bean soup and fried chicken. Forget finger-lickin', it must have been throne-abdicatin' good: Less than a year into his reign, given the choice between a king's existence and marrying the American divorcée he loved, Edward VIII of England chose Wallis.
Accepting the diminished titles of Duke and Duchess of Windsor—and a plum stipend from the Crown—Edward and Wallis lived out the rest of their lives as international socialites. In the foreword to her cookbook, the Duchess wrote of her pride in spreading the Southern food gospel to the many countries she visited—taking special pleasure in having "served on [her] table Southern dishes which appeal to the Duke."
I have to wonder if the pork cake could have been among his favorites.
The Duchess's pork cake belongs to a sturdy breed of confection known as war cakes—recipes developed for eggless, butterless, hardscrabble times. Dark and dense, the many variations follow a basically unchanging formula: raisins and spice to mask the paucity of the batter, plus an offbeat stand-in for butter. M.F.K. Fisher's version calls for a can of tomato soup; the Duchess uses half a pound of salt pork.
Once I got over the brutish name, it really didn't sound that bad. I imagined fruitcake stripped of its glacé fruits (I never liked those anyway), with a low hum of umami throughout: an early, unironic model of the now-ubiquitous bacon dessert.
The cake wasn't too hard to put together. The Duchess, a self-confessed cookbook hoarder, was a pretty diligent composer of recipes, too. The only real challenge was breaking down the salt pork, an unrendered hunk of salt-cured fatback that, unlike lard, doesn't simply melt away on kneading. The recipe assumes you own a meat grinder, which, 67 years after publication, is no longer a safe assumption. Luckily, a food processor will do: I used mine to blitz the coarsely-chopped chunks of fat after I'd rinsed them of salt and shaved off their rind. After a brief soak in boiling water, the piggy puree disappeared into the dough just as it was meant to.
As it turned out, the most challenging part of making the pork cake lay in eating it. What I had imagined as a murmur of umami played out as a pretty insistent oink. The cake was spiced well, its fudgy texture thickly fruited, and the molasses provided just the right level of sweetness. If not for the dirty, swinish note at the end of each bite, it would have utterly won me over.
It's not clear if the Duchess herself was won over, either. All profits from the cookbook were to go to the war effort, and it's possible that her version of war cake was included because the times demanded it. But I like to think that the recipe meant something to the Duchess—that is, to the scrappy Wallis Warfield of the impoverished upbringing, who, when she was all grown up, fried chicken for the heir to the throne.
So I don't know what the Windsors thought of the pork cake. I'd like to know what you think, but there are some things to keep in mind before you try it yourself. For one thing, however economical this recipe was in 1942, it isn't now: I spent $13 on the cake, and could have let Duncan Hines bake me some Devil's food for the price of the pork alone. And for another, our reliance on super-refined foods has forever changed our national palate. Raised on pillowy white bread and all-butter pastry, I couldn't handle the cake's porkiness, and the molasses—which, once upon a time, people sopped up with cornbread—tasted less sweet than vegetal when I ate it straight.
So be forewarned. Wallis Warfield won herself a king with her cooking, but you might want to have a backup dessert.
Pork Cake
Adapted from Some Favorite Southern Recipes of the Duchess of Windsor
- 1/2 pound fat salt pork
- 3/4 cup boiling water
- 3/4 cup molasses
- 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 2 cups raisins
- 1 cup currants, washed and dried
- 3 1/2 cups sifted flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 1/2 teaspoons cloves
- 1 1/2 teaspoons nutmeg
Rinse the salt pork in water to remove any visible salt. Cut off and discard rind. Coarsely chop salt pork and place in the bowl of a food processor. Pulse until reduced to a thick paste.
Place pureed salt pork in mixing bowl and add boiling water.
Add molasses, brown sugar, raisins and currants and let stand until cool.
Preheat oven to 325°F. Mix and sift flour, baking soda, and spices together three times. Add to molasses mixture and beat until smooth.
Turn into long narrow loaf pan (10-by-4-by-3) and bake for 2 hours or until skewer inserted into center of cake comes out clean.
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She sits in front of me, a walking contradiction. A cigarette between her lips and a pack in her lap, a lighter in another hand flipping it on and off. She knew that drove me crazy and that I wanted her to stop but she got off on driving me crazy so I let her. This time I let her. I could tell the storm in her head was a little too much for her to bear today. I could see the blizzard in her eyes and tornado right on the tip of her tongue. She was a fiery combustion on most days but a cyclone of hurricane and angst on days like these. And the most damage she did was to herself.
"You shouldn't smoke this much. I don't have to tell you how unhealthy it is." I tell her.
"F**k off. I don't like you very much." She says taking a long hard puff of her cigarette, that I'm pretty sure went as far down in her lungs as it possibly could. Poison seeping into its walls. She looked me in the eyes as if challenging me to stop her from this self inflicting harm. I don't know what would hurt her more; me stopping her or letting her continue to do what she was doing. But one thing I knew for sure, I wanted her against the wall.
"It's okay you don't have to.", I say. She wasn't ocean's water, she was the stormy raining sky. She was a downpour of defiance and sass.
"You think you know everything, but you don't. And stop leaving your body to corrode. You need to stop letting them steal you from you so easily. You give yourself on a fucking plate. You are the kind they devour. The kind they relish while tearing apart piece by piece. The kind they ravage and enjoy. Stop please stop."
The ash from the burning cigarette was falling off the edge at the end of her fingertips. And i felt like so was she; falling off the edge. Or was it me? I was the one falling for her. There was no saving me from the fall but I wanted to save her. She had enough damage done to her, another fall and I could feel that would break her. Shatter, more precisely. Her head and heart were already pretty disintegrated.
"Don't tell me what to do and what not to do. Who the fuck do you think you are?" She roars. So headstrong and untamed. "Just let me be. This body is mine, let me do whatever I want with it."
"What about the soul that houses in it?"
"What about it? Do you want it? Take it. All those that came before you wanted the same. Everybody wants a piece of it. Take it, whatever's left of it. I don't need it anymore. I don't fucking care." She threw away the cigarette she was smoking and reached for another
from her pack.
"Why not?"
She contemplated for a second, flipping the lighter on and off between her fingers. She looked at me. She was unraveling me with her eyes and I felt it. I was a frightened boy trapped in a man's body and she saw it. She kept staring at me quietly, and I felt weak. She was looking at me like she was deciphering me, like a code that cracked the moment she laid eyes on me. A part of me was afraid of what she'd find. Or if what she would find be worthy of her. Her gaze was scrutinizing. Maybe I should have just let her smoke, I mulled over my decision. She stopped playing with her lighter and eased back into her chair, her legs sprawled casually in front of her.
"Okay.", she finally said. And her rain met with my athirst river.
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Ecologists make first image of food niche
The ecological niche concept is very important in ecology. But what a niche looks like is fairly abstract. Now, for the first time, Wageningen and British researchers have concretely visualised this. The ecologists have been able to determine the position of fourteen fish species in relationship to their food in a four-dimensional food diagram. Their pioneering work was published in this month's issue of the scientific journal Theoretical Ecology.
The ecological 'niche' concept was first used in 1927 by the well-known animal ecologist Joseph Grinnell. He defined the niche of an animal as its place in the biological environment and its interactions with food and enemies. The idea that the ecological role of animals is determined by their position in an abstract 'niche space' has since inspired many ecologists.
More than eighty years after Grinnell's formulation, Leo Nagelkerke of Wageningen University and Axel Rossberg of the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) in Lowestoft (UK) have made it possible to measure this niche space in concrete terms for a select group of fish species: the barbs in Lake Tana in Northern Ethiopia (see diagram).
The researchers determine the position in the diagram from the characteristics of both the fish and their food. The diagram shows that the fish species 'Cr' (Labeobarbus crassibarbis) is close to the food type 'benthic invertebrates (small bottom-dwelling animals) and algae'. The characteristic 'Barbel' (the length of the whiskers near the mouth) is highly developed in this fish species and previous research has, in fact, shown that barbels are important to eat this type of food. The food itself has a very low score on the characteristic 'Pelagic' (swimming in the water column), which is correct for bottom-dwellers.
Ecological niche
Visualising an ecological niche is an important step in bringing together theoretical and abstract ecology and observations from the field. Leo Nagelkerke from Wageningen University says that this method can help to identify and protect species that have a unique food niche. According to Axel Rossberg of Cefas a lot of ecologists have been working on the structure of the food niche and the position of species within it for a long time. "Using this new imaging technique we can answer questions of this kind via direct observations."
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- contractions or tightenings
- a "show", when the plug of mucus from your cervix (entrance to your womb, or uterus) comes away
- backache
- an urge to go to the toilet, which is caused by your baby's head pressing on your bowel
- your waters breaking (rupture of membranes)
The early (latent) stage of labour can take some time.
Non-urgent advice: Call your midwife or maternity unit if:
- your waters break, or
- you're bleeding, or
- your baby is moving less than usual, or
- you're less than 37 weeks pregnant and think you might be in labour
These signs mean you need to see a midwife or doctor.
Latent phase of labour
The start of labour is called the latent phase. This is when your cervix becomes soft and thin, and starts opening for your baby to be born. This can take hours or, for some women, days.
You'll probably be advised to stay at home during this time. If you go to the hospital or maternity unit, they may suggest you go back home.
Find out more about the stages of labour and what you can do at home during the latent phase.
Call your midwife if you're unsure or worried about anything.
What do contractions feel like
When you have a contraction, your womb tightens and then relaxes. For some people, contractions may feel like extreme period pains.
You may have had contractions during your pregnancy, particularly towards the end. These tightenings are called Braxton Hicks contractions and are usually painless.
As labour gets going, your contractions tend to become longer, stronger and more frequent. During a contraction, the muscles tighten and the pain increases. If you put your hand on your abdomen, you'll feel it getting harder; when the muscles relax, the pain fades and you will feel the hardness ease.
The contractions are pushing your baby down and opening the entrance to your womb (the cervix), ready for your baby to go through.
Your midwife will probably advise you to stay at home until your contractions become frequent.
Call your midwife for guidance when your contractions are in a regular pattern and:
- last at least 60 seconds
- come every 5 minutes
If you're planning to have your baby in a maternity ward, phone the hospital.
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Backache often comes on in labour
You may get backache or the heavy, aching feeling that some women experience during their period.
A "show" can signal the start of labour
During pregnancy, there's a plug of mucus in your cervix. This plug comes away just before labour starts, or when in early labour, and you may pass it out of your vagina. This small amount of sticky, jelly-like pink mucus is called a show.
It may come away in one blob or in several pieces. It's pink in colour because it's bloodstained. It's normal to lose a small amount of blood mixed with the mucus.
If you're losing more blood, it may be a sign something is wrong, so phone your hospital or midwife straight away.
A show indicates that the cervix is starting to open. Labour may quickly follow or may take a few days. Some women don't have a show.
What happens when my waters break
Most women's waters break during labour, but it can also happen before labour starts.
Your unborn baby develops and grows inside a bag of fluid called the amniotic sac. When it's time for your baby to be born, the sac usually breaks and the amniotic fluid drains out through your vagina. This is your waters breaking. Sometimes when you're in labour, a midwife or doctor may offer to break your waters.
If your waters break naturally, you may feel a slow trickle or a sudden gush of water you can't control. To prepare for this, you could keep a sanitary towel (but not a tampon) handy if you're going out, and put a protective sheet on your bed.
Amniotic fluid is clear and a pale straw colour. Sometimes it's difficult to tell amniotic fluid from urine. When your waters break, the water may be a little bloodstained to begin with.
Tell your midwife immediately if:
- the waters are smelly or coloured
- you're losing blood
This could mean you and your baby need urgent attention.
If your waters break before labour starts, call your midwife. Use a sanitary pad (not a tampon) so your midwife can check the colour of the waters.
If labour doesn't start after your waters break
Most women go into labour within 24 hours of their waters breaking. You'll be offered an induction if you don't because, without amniotic fluid, there's an increased risk of infection for your baby.
Until your induction, or if you choose to wait for labour to start naturally, tell your midwife immediately if:
- your baby moves less than usual
- there's any change in the colour or smell of any fluid coming from your vagina
You should take your temperature every 4 hours when you're awake, and tell your midwife if it's raised. A raised temperature is usually above 37.5C, but you may need to call before this – check with your midwife.
There's no evidence that having a bath or shower after your waters have broken increases your risk of infection, but having sex might.
How to cope when labour begins
At the beginning of labour, you can:
- walk or move about, if you feel like it
- drink fluids – you may find sports (isotonic) drinks help keep your energy levels up
- have a snack, although many women don't feel very hungry and some feel, or are, sick
- try any relaxation and breathing exercises you've learned to deal with contractions as they get stronger and more painful – your birth partner can help by doing these with you
- have your birth partner rub your back – this can help relieve pain
- take paracetamol according to the instructions on the packet – paracetamol is safe to take in labour
- have a warm bath
Find out what happens during labour and birth, and what you can do for pain relief in the early stages of labour.
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CHRIS POWELL: Malloy's excellent plan to reduce energy costs
While details still need to be settled, Governor Malloy has offered a compelling vision for the future of energy use in Connecticut -- greatly increasing the accessibility of natural gas.
The surge in domestic production of natural gas is well known, though its sustainability remains in question, as it relies on the possibly polluting technique of "fracking," breaking into underground gas reservoirs with jets of chemically treated water. Not well known, as the Malloy administration notes, is that Connecticut's natural gas infrastructure is terribly weak for a densely populated state.
While about half the homes in neighboring Massachusetts and Rhode Island use natural gas, only 31 percent of Connecticut homes and not that many more businesses here do, according to the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP). While gas trunk pipelines run through the state, the lower use of natural gas results largely from the lack of spur lines.
That's what the Malloy administration aims to address with more than a billion dollars' worth of gas main construction, financed by some combination of assessments against current and new gas customers and state bonding. The new mains would be routed first toward the likeliest potential heavy users of gas, like factories, schools, office buildings, and hospitals, and then to residences.
The plan already has generated controversy as home heating oil dealers object to any state encouragement of a competitive fuel. But natural gas service is inevitably a public utility requiring government support and regulation, just like electricity, which is also a competitive fuel, if, for many years now, an uneconomic one in Connecticut. Heating oil dealers themselves long have benefited from government-supplied infrastructure, as there would be no heating oil deliveries without roads and no heating oil systems in homes in the first place without the electricity that operates them.
Of course if the Malloy administration's plan is ever implemented and gas main construction is undertaken in a big way, some neighbors of the new mains will complain about temporary inconvenience or appearance or the long-term danger of natural gas. Gas is more dangerous than heating oil. But accidents are rare and people who use gas choose to take the slightly higher risk. Indeed, choice is what the administration's plan is all about, for with choice come efficiency and lower prices.
Not only that, but in pursuit of this greater competition and efficiency in energy, many construction jobs would be created for the new gas mains -- DEEP estimates as many as 7,000.
The first step is to decide where the construction money is to come from. This won't be easy, since the state budget is still running a big deficit and state government is too heavily indebted already. But this project is almost sure to save money, so maybe a way can be found to borrow against and repay from that savings.
The Malloy administration has come up with a great idea that will not only save money for state residents but make the state more attractive to business. It should be pursued urgently by the administration and the imminent session of the General Assembly.
If the proposal of the National Rifle Association to post armed guards at every school in the country is really so crazy, why, when it opened this week, was the new Sandy Hook Elementary School in Monroe surrounded by police officers and lauded as 'the safest school in America"?
Why weren't the shrill, emotional, and not always relevant advocates of gun control denouncing the school authorities and the police for exposing the children to more weaponry?
Or might armed security for schools and other vulnerable targets actually be a first step in addressing the country's gun violence problem, and might that problem really be a little more complicated than wishing 300 million firearms away and pretending that certain gun-control proposals will do more than disarm the law-abiding?
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Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne is just fine today after a crash in Switzerland's canton Solothurn. The boss was reportedly traveling at around 60 miles per hour in a 599 GTB, when he rear-ended a Renault driven by an elderly motorist on the A1 motorway. According to a report, the impact caused the Ferrari's airbags to blow up, blocking Marchionne's sight. Subsequently, he lost control and slammed into crash barriers. Police say Marchionne had been unable to slow the car in time for an unexpected traffic jam. No one was hurt, but the $275,000 car was totaled. Marchionne later blamed the crash on Italy's pro-union political climate, but also raised Fiat's profit forecast. (Thanks to David for the tip.) [Reuters via Swissjourno's Weblog]
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Twenty years ago, Peter Thoms, founder and portfolio manager of Africa Capital Group, embarked on the journey of a lifetime that took him from Morocco to South Africa.
For several months, he traveled by boat, by train, by bush taxi and he hitchhiked, visiting 25 African countries along the way, including Kenya, which recently issued its first Eurobond.
That deal was 17 years in the making but could not have proved more popular, since Kenya succeeded in raising $2 billion in a hugely oversubscribed issue that the country's president described as a huge "vote of confidence" for Kenya by the international investment community.
Thoms was recently in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi—which, he said, has changed beyond recognition in the past two decades—and he also visited Rwanda, which issued its debut Eurobond in 2013, one year before marking the 20th anniversary of the horrific genocide that ripped the country apart and claimed close to a million lives. Here's what Thoms has to report on these two rising African nations:
Kenya Badly Needs Foreign Investment
Many investors who bought the Kenyan bond may have done so because it offers them yield in a world of low interest rates, but the popularity of the bond will no doubt encourage more foreign investment into Kenya—investment, Thoms said, that the country badly needs.
"Kenya has huge infrastructure projects on tap and if it is to continue sustaining a high level of growth, then it must invest heavily in infrastructure," he said.
Today, Nairobi is a sprawling city that is "groaning under its current infrastructure" because it's growing at such a rapid rate. The city and the rest of the country badly need to upgrade in all areas, not least the electricity grid, and there are huge plans afoot to move toward geothermal power and away from hydroelectric power.
"For all of this and more the Kenyan government is going to have to continue raising external funds and attracting investment, but the success of the bond bodes well for that," Thoms said. "And if the Kenyan government wants to keep attracting external funds, then its ability to service its external debt will be important and probably the factor by which foreign investors will judge Kenya's credibility."
Security Concerns Remain
The World Bank recently lowered its forecasts for Kenya's growth to 4.7% from 5.2%. That's still impressive compared to much of the developed world, but there's no doubt that security is a huge issue. Some governments have issued travel advisories for Kenya and earlier this year, the U.S. embassy in Nairobi repatriated some of its staff members as it beefed up security against the threat of attacks by Islamist militants.
There's little doubt that the terrorist acts that have occurred in Kenya are having an impact on the economy, particularly on tourism, which makes up about 14% of Kenya's GDP, Thoms said.
Nevertheless, "day to day life goes on there despite the security threats," he said, and other industries such as manufacturing, financial services and telecommunications are now gaining importance. With greater investment, these will become even more important, he said, and perhaps even supercede tourism one day.
Determination of Rwandan People
Twenty years ago while on his African odyssey, Thoms was all set to visit the gorillas of Rwanda made famous by naturalist Dian Fossey. But just as he was getting ready to travel there from Kenya, the civil war erupted. He hasn't yet seen the gorillas, but Thoms is highly impressed with everything else he saw on his recent visit to the Rwandan capital, Kigali.
"This is a very young nation and there's a new generation of Rwandans who are determined to make something of their country," he said. "There's a huge level of enthusiasm for the future of Rwanda, and though it still faces a lot of difficulties – not least a dicey Western border and the fact that it's a landlocked nation – I believe Rwanda has great potential."
Between 2001 and 2012, Rwanda's economy grew at a rapid pace of more than 8%, and poverty significantly reduced. Rwanda has not been able to rely on commodities like other African countries to drive growth, but it has been making a name for itself in other ways, notably in information technology.
All these factors helped Rwanda sell its $400 million Eurobond with speed and ease in 2013. Proceeds from the bond were used to fund large-scale projects including the country's national carrier, RwandAir, and a large hydropower plant. Rwanda's goal is to become a business friendly country, Thoms said, and the government has been making great strides in ensuring that happens in order to continue attracting much-needed foreign investment.


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On Jan. 28, President Barack Obama addressed the nation with his State of the Union, a speech that was highly focused on job growth and greater opportunities for our nation going forward, and made only brief mentions of technology.
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The Fed Has Failed (and Will Continue to Fail), Part 1
The Fed's policies have been an unqualified success for financiers and an abject failure for the bottom 99.5% who have to work for a living.
After five long years of politicos and the financial media glorifying the Federal Reserve's policies as god-like in their power and efficacy, let's take a quick look at the results of these vaunted policies: ZIRP (zero interest rates), (QE) quantitative easing, both of which are ways of shoving nearly limitless, nearly-free money ( a.k.a. liquidity) into the banking sector, where all this free money is supposed to filter into the global economy, working miracles of prosperity.
Let's start with a chart of the Fed's balance sheet, which reflects just how much money the Fed has created and pumped into the financial system. $4 trillion is larger than the entire GDP of Germany, and roughly 25% of U.S. GDP.
Next, let's look at the effect of the much-glorified Fed policies on full-time employment: If you call a return to the levels of 2005 (despite a 7.5% increase in population) a success, then what would you consider a failure?
Let's recall that the Fed's policies are unprecedented. Keeping interest rates near-zero for five years and pumping $4 trillion into the system are both completely off the scale of central bank policy in the U.S.
Next, let's look at the participation rate--how many people of working age who are actively in the workforce. The trend is ugly; the percentage of the civilian population who are working or actively seeking work is plummeting.
Next: real median household income: this is household income adjusted for inflation.Another ugly chart, as real median household income is back to the levels of 1990. Once again: if you reckon this a success, then what would you consider a failure?
How about the annual change in disposable income? we can assume that "prosperity" and "recovery" mean disposable income are rising at a healthy clip, right? Alas, the rate of disposable income growth is sinking toward zero. The Fed's policies of bailing out "too big to fail" banks and QE/ZIRP have correlated to the most stunning drop in disposable income growth in decades.
How about financial sector profits? Hey, now we're finally getting somewhere-- these are through the roof. We finally found something with a positive correlation to Fed policies--financial profits are hitting all-time highs. Yee-haw, we have a winner.
Last but not least, how about the stock market? Here is a chart of the Fed balance sheet and the S&P 500 since 2009. Ding-ding, we have another winner--stocks are also hitting all-time highs.
Source: Zero Hedge
The most charitable assessment we can make of Fed policy is that the "prosperity" it created is at best, ahem, grossly concentrated in the most parasitic and politically powerful sector: finance. Why should we be surprised that the Fed, itself a servant of the banking sector, should devise policies that enrich the bankers and financiers?
Let's be clear about one thing (to quote the president): the Fed's policies have been an unqualified success for financiers and an abject failure for everyone who has to work for a living. The Fed has not just failed to rectify the nation's obscene inequality in wealth and income; it has actively widened it by handing guaranteed returns to the banks and financiers while stripmining what's left of the middle and working classes' non-labor income, i.e. interest on savings.
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The Nearly Free University and The Emerging Economy:
The Revolution in Higher Education
Reconnecting higher education, livelihoods and the economyWith the soaring cost of higher education, has the value a college degree been turned upside down? College tuition and fees are up 1000% since 1980. Half of all recent college graduates are jobless or underemployed, revealing a deep disconnect between higher education and the job market.
It is no surprise everyone is asking: Where is the return on investment? Is the assumption that higher education returns greater prosperity no longer true? And if this is the case, how does this impact you, your children and grandchildren?
We must thoroughly understand the twin revolutions now fundamentally changing our world: The true cost of higher education and an economy that seems to re-shape itself minute to minute.
The Nearly Free University and the Emerging Economy clearly describes the underlying dynamics at work - and, more importantly, lays out a new low-cost model for higher education: how digital technology is enabling a revolution in higher education that dramatically lowers costs while expanding the opportunities for students of all ages.
The Nearly Free University and the Emerging Economy provides clarity and optimism in a period of the greatest change our educational systems and society have seen, and offers everyone the tools needed to prosper in the Emerging Economy.
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Things are falling apart--that is obvious. But why are they falling apart? The reasons are complex and global. Our economy and society have structural problems that cannot be solved by adding debt to debt. We are becoming poorer, not just from financial over-reach, but from fundamental forces that are not easy to identify. We will cover the five core reasons why things are falling apart:
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Complex systems weakened by diminishing returns collapse under their own weight and are replaced by systems that are simpler, faster and affordable. If we cling to the old ways, our system will disintegrate. If we want sustainable prosperity rather than collapse, we must embrace a new model that is Decentralized, Adaptive, Transparent and Accountable (DATA).
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This spiral galaxy is ESO 510-13, located about 150 million light-years away. It's a lot like our own Milky Way, with one crucial difference - the fierce gravity of its neighboring galaxies has warped it into a helix.
As massive quantities of gas and dust coalesce to from spiral galaxies, they normally carve out a relatively flat disc known as the galactic plane. In much the same way that all the planets of our solar system orbit the Sun on roughly the same plane, a spiral galaxy's stars will orbit around the central, supermassive black hole in something very close to a plane. While that's the norm, galaxies like ESO 510-13 are far from unheard of, and this image from the Hubble Telescope gives one of the best views of how spiral galaxies can become warped out of their initial disc.
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