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Disaster has become big business. Talking to immigrants stuck in limbo in Britain or visiting immigration centers in America, Loewenstein maps the secret networks formed to help corporations bleed what profits they can from economic crisis. He debates with Western contractors in Afghanistan, meets the locals in post-earthquake Haiti, and in Greece finds a country at the mercy of vulture profiteers. In Papua New Guinea, he sees a local community forced to rebel against predatory resource companies and NGOs.

What emerges through Loewenstein’s reporting is a dark history of multinational corporations that, with the aid of media and political elites, have grown more powerful than national governments. In the twenty-first century, the vulnerable have become the world’s most valuable commodity. Disaster Capitalism is published by Verso in 2015 and in paperback in January 2017.

Profits_of_doom_cover_350Vulture capitalism has seen the corporation become more powerful than the state, and yet its work is often done by stealth, supported by political and media elites. The result is privatised wars and outsourced detention centres, mining companies pillaging precious land in developing countries and struggling nations invaded by NGOs and the corporate dollar. Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein travels to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea and across Australia to witness the reality of this largely hidden world of privatised detention centres, outsourced aid, destructive resource wars and militarized private security. Who is involved and why? Can it be stopped? What are the alternatives in a globalised world? Profits of Doom, published in 2013 and released in an updated edition in 2014, challenges the fundamentals of our unsustainable way of life and the money-making imperatives driving it. It is released in an updated edition in 2014.
forgodssakecover Four Australian thinkers come together to ask and answer the big questions, such as: What is the nature of the universe? Doesn't religion cause most of the conflict in the world? And Where do we find hope?   We are introduced to different belief systems – Judaism, Christianity, Islam – and to the argument that atheism, like organised religion, has its own compelling logic. And we gain insight into the life events that led each author to their current position.   Jane Caro flirted briefly with spiritual belief, inspired by 19th century literary heroines such as Elizabeth Gaskell and the Bronte sisters. Antony Loewenstein is proudly culturally, yet unconventionally, Jewish. Simon Smart is firmly and resolutely a Christian, but one who has had some of his most profound spiritual moments while surfing. Rachel Woodlock grew up in the alternative embrace of Baha'i belief but became entranced by its older parent religion, Islam.   Provocative, informative and passionately argued, For God's Sakepublished in 2013, encourages us to accept religious differences, but to also challenge more vigorously the beliefs that create discord.
After Zionism, published in 2012 and 2013 with co-editor Ahmed Moor, brings together some of the world s leading thinkers on the Middle East question to dissect the century-long conflict between Zionism and the Palestinians, and to explore possible forms of a one-state solution. Time has run out for the two-state solution because of the unending and permanent Jewish colonization of Palestinian land. Although deep mistrust exists on both sides of the conflict, growing numbers of Palestinians and Israelis, Jews and Arabs are working together to forge a different, unified future. Progressive and realist ideas are at last gaining a foothold in the discourse, while those influenced by the colonial era have been discredited or abandoned. Whatever the political solution may be, Palestinian and Israeli lives are intertwined, enmeshed, irrevocably. This daring and timely collection includes essays by Omar Barghouti, Jonathan Cook, Joseph Dana, Jeremiah Haber, Jeff Halper, Ghada Karmi, Antony Loewenstein, Saree Makdisi, John Mearsheimer, Ahmed Moor, Ilan Pappe, Sara Roy and Phil Weiss.
The 2008 financial crisis opened the door for a bold, progressive social movement. But despite widespread revulsion at economic inequity and political opportunism, after the crash very little has changed. Has the Left failed? What agenda should progressives pursue? And what alternatives do they dare to imagine? Left Turn, published by Melbourne University Press in 2012 and co-edited with Jeff Sparrow, is aimed at the many Australians disillusioned with the political process. It includes passionate and challenging contributions by a diverse range of writers, thinkers and politicians, from Larissa Berendht and Christos Tsiolkas to Guy Rundle and Lee Rhiannon. These essays offer perspectives largely excluded from the mainstream. They offer possibilities for resistance and for a renewed struggle for change.
The Blogging Revolution, released by Melbourne University Press in 2008, is a colourful and revelatory account of bloggers around the globe why live and write under repressive regimes - many of them risking their lives in doing so. Antony Loewenstein's travels take him to private parties in Iran and Egypt, internet cafes in Saudi Arabia and Damascus, to the homes of Cuban dissidents and into newspaper offices in Beijing, where he discovers the ways in which the internet is threatening the ruld of governments. Through first-hand investigations, he reveals the complicity of Western multinationals in assisting the restriction of information in these countries and how bloggers are leading the charge for change. The blogging revolution is a superb examination about the nature of repression in the twenty-first century and the power of brave individuals to overcome it. It was released in an updated edition in 2011, post the Arab revolutions, and an updated Indian print version in 2011.
The best-selling book on the Israel/Palestine conflict, My Israel Question - on Jewish identity, the Zionist lobby, reporting from Palestine and future Middle East directions - was released by Melbourne University Press in 2006. A new, updated edition was released in 2007 (and reprinted again in 2008). The book was short-listed for the 2007 NSW Premier's Literary Award. Another fully updated, third edition was published in 2009. It was released in all e-book formats in 2011. An updated and translated edition was published in Arabic in 2012.

Palestinians can’t live freely in their own country

Another day and another glorious sign of Zionist democracy:

A Palestinian man who is married to a Jewish woman and whose son served in the Israel Defense Forces was recently informed that he is ineligible for a permanent visa to live in Israel.

“I can’t buy a home here like a human being, I can’t open a business for fear that they’ll soon kick me out,” said Adel Hussein, who has lived most of his life in the West Bank city of Tul Karm, but now wants to live near his son in Israel.

“There is no explanation as to why they’re not letting me be a permanent citizen. My son served in a combat unit – is that not total loyalty to the state?”

The Interior Ministry’s Population, Immigration and Border Authority said it did not have the power to grant Hussein’s request for permanent residency.

“Mr. Adel Hussein is a resident of the Palestinian Authority,” the authority said in a statement. “In 2005, in light of the fact that he is the father of an Israeli citizen and that he argued that his life was in danger [in the West Bank], it was decided as part of a legal proceeding and a ruling by the head of the Population Administration at the time to approve Mr. Hussein’s 5a temporary residence visa.

“Mr. Hussein is asking to change his status to that of permanent resident, but in light of a 2003 temporary order, it’s impossible to approve that request, nor is it in our discretion to do so.”

Hussein, whose wife and son moved from Tul Karm to Dimona in 1996 because he feared for their lives in the West Bank, said he soon plans to submit a request to renew his temporary visa.

A temporary visa granted to him in 2004, after he petitioned the High Court of Justice, has since expired.

“The visa was extended every year [for five years], and the intention was that after five years he would become a permanent resident by virtue of being the father of a soldier serving in the IDF,” said Hussein’s lawyer, Didi Rothschild. “So far, our requests to the Interior Ministry to have his status changed to permanent resident or Israeli citizen have been rejected.”

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This is my first go at blogging. I'll be writing about and posting pictures of my before and afters as a DIY re-modeler, gardener, recipes, projects both personal & for the shop and more!

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Sunday, 21 January 2018

Belfast - Harbour Estate and Victoria Park

 We haven't had much time or energy for walks lately but late yesterday afternoon we had a quick trip over to Laganside and Victoria Park. There's plenty of wildlife around and I watched these Oystercatchers for a while before they all decided to fly off.

 The Sam Thompson Bridge leading to Victoria Park in East Belfast.

 Short Brothers building with one of the giant Belfast Shipyard cranes in the background.

 The Sam Thompson Bridge.
Named after Sam Thompson (1916- 1965) from East Belfast, who worked in the shipyard, was a trade unionist and later playwright.

 From the bridge towards the harbour.

 Ice on the water.

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Botanical Beauty card - Trimcraft

 A little bit of sunshine today boosted my creativity for a while :)
I made this "pop out front" card with Trimcraft's lovely new Botanical Beauty papers and Tropical themed dies. I added some First Edition Kale washi tape on the front and inside along with Simply Creative gems and Dovecraft Crystal Glitter Glue :)

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The World Design Summit is in full swing in Montreal and Indigenous peoples are sitting down with architects and designers from 80 countries and hoping some of what is learned here will help the city to be more Indigenous.

“The exhibition is a showcase of the best projects from around the world that is either built up by Indigenous people or non-Indigenous,” said Philippe Meilleur, executive director, Native Montreal.

“But who had really found a right approach to build up the project by considering the need of the people who are out there and through the culture of Indigenous peoples.

The exhibition is to promote a new perspective on urban Indigeneity.

It explores the achievements of Indigenous culture in architecture and design in Canada and around the world.

Meilleur said he wants Montreal to visually represent Indigenous people across the city.

And create an environment where they can reconnect to their culture.

“Across Canada Indigenous culture is much more present than in Montreal, in Montreal there is none,” he said. “I believe by showcasing real examples that have been built in a lot of countries around the world and in Canada that Montreal is going to step up their game and say we can do ambitious projects.

Internationally renowned architect Douglas Cardinal was the summit’s keynote speaker.

Cardinal said architecture is much more than a building – it must improve people’s lives.

And he strongly supports the idea of Indigenizing a city like Montreal – and using young Indigenous people to do it.

“They have tremendous creativity that is much part of our culture,” Cardinal said. “We brought up people where we realize the power was never out there — the power is always here. The more people turn back to their traditions, their culture, their teachings, more opportunity they will have of facing the future in a good way.”

Alain Fournier, an architect based in Montreal, worked with Native Montreal and presented a project where each of the 11 Indigenous Nations in Quebec will be presented a walking stick.

“So we have shown through our project called Speech Silencing Arms at Place d’armes where De Maisonneuve (a statue) is in fact welcomed if you want by Indigenous peoples who were there.”

Officials at the design summit are hoping that Montreal uses Indigenous designers to help the city move towards being Indigenous.

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Tuesday, August 23, 2016

This summer has been hot, so very hot.  You may have been one of the people fighting the crowds for good sand space at one of the Massachusetts' beaches.  Maybe you are a beach person and were fine spending half a morning packing, paying to park, then trying to find some sand of your own and hoping that you will be able to get some good water time in before the high tide.  But maybe you had no choice so you fight the good battle.

Alternatively, perhaps you are like me, a pool girl at heart.  If so, maybe you are paying for a health club membership with pool privileges, or hoping that the neighbor will let you and the family take a dip. Now, after weeks and weeks of high humidity and blazing heat, you have decided that this is the last year without a pool.  The decision being made... when do you start the process?

So often, people think the right choice is to start fresh in the spring with constructing a pool.  The truth is... now is the time to act.

Why?  Well, for a few different reasons actually.

First, pool company schedules are a little more flexible in the fall.  In the spring, pool companies are inundated with construction, openings, and generally getting pools up and running for established customers.  If your pool company is not busy in the spring, you may want to question why that is.  Crews are limited as much resources are going into the service side of a company.

Come September, many people are starting to close their pools which means less service which frees up crews for construction.  For those that are remaining open, the slightly cooler weather brings with it less difficulties with operation such as fewer water treatment issues and fewer filter cleaning service calls.  Again, all of this means less backlog for new construction.

Secondly, and even more of an issue for spring construction is the New England weather.  Last year, we battled with having snow on the ground in May, while this year brought cold and rain well into the swimming pool season.  It is as the old saying goes, don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.  Unpredictable weather in New England, particularly in spring, makes swimming pool construction schedules somewhat of an Olympic event.

While this doesn't mean a spring pool is not doable, it does make the timeline much more open to delays, so if you are looking to swim by a date certain, then you absolutely should consider starting the process in the fall.

It is now August and you're thinking that you are going to spend the next eight weeks writing checks and watching construction and then you will have to wait months before you are able to enjoy your pool.  Well, that is possible, but it is also possible with a warm fall and the help of a pool heater that you may at least be able to enjoy a few weeks of fun before the cold weather shows up.  Even if you aren't able to enjoy the pool this year, finishing the project before the winter months roll in still means that you will be able to opened and swimming as soon as the spring air comes to Massachusetts.  Wouldn't that be better than losing out on a whole two months of swimming time?

With fast turnaround for estimates, we can be breaking ground in your backyard before you know it. Call today to set up your free in home estimate.

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

The whole world is in a tizzy this morning about what happened to the Olympic pool in Rio and we cannot help but chuckle because it took us all but a minute to figure out the problem.  Why, because we see it constantly and the call goes something like this:

 I woke up this morning and my pool is mint green.

Further inquiry and we soon learn that water was added then the pool was shocked.  So, why do we ask those two questions?  It's all in the chemistry.

See when minerals, such as copper or iron, mix with Chlorinated water, the effect is that the water turns green.  It is almost instant.  Don't believe us?  Check out this YouTube video of the reaction - click here.   So we can tell you exactly what happened.  The pool likely is being shocked with high dosages of liquid chlorine overnight so that it is sanitary for the swimmers come morning.  Water is also probably being added as well, but here is where someone dropped the ball.  No one added the a mineral bonding agent, such as our Pool Magnet, before shocking the pool.  Ergo.... Green Water.   If you are a blonde, I bet you are now shaking your head in understanding because you have likely had green hair at some point in your life.

Still don't believe us?   We had a client who called us in a panic due to an impending pool party at his home.  He had added water and shocked the pool and woke up to find this!

Looks pretty familiar, doesn't it?  So, how fixable is this and how quickly can it be done?  It is really all in the filtration.  For a normal size pool, it can take about 48 to 36 hours of non-stop filtration after treating the pool with Pool Magnet.  For an Olympic size swimming pool, our bet would be about a week.  Now, is it dangerous to the swimmers?  No, other than the danger of not being able to see the bottom, there is no health risk to water turned green by minerals in the water.

While we would definitely bet minerals have something to do with the green, there is an alternative theory.  It could be algae.  We have all heard the news saying it happened "so fast."  Well, here is the thing, if it IS algae (and we still don't think it is), it really didn't happen so fast.  Algae hides in cells and is generally present before it is ever visible.  Phosphates, like such may be found in skin products, and nitrates, which tend to build up when water is in constant use and not always balanced as well as it should be, can both exacerbate algae growth in a pool.  So even when water chemistry "appears" to be fine, it may not prevent algae growth.  Algae will cause water to turn dark green and cloudy, think of a pond.  You cannot test for algae, so it is a culprit that often is there without anyone knowing until one day POW you wake up to a green swamp instead of your blue sparkling pool.  Why do we think it is still metals?  It is all in the color.  Based on the photos shown of the pool, the green doesn't have that deep, dark swamp look to it.  It has more of the minty green color we see in mineral laden pools.  Also, it wouldn't take much to confirm that it is algae verses something else.  All one would have to do is brush the side of the pool and see what looks almost like a "puff of smoke" coming off the wall.

Other alternatives, there is always that possibility that there is something weird in the water, perhaps not something that we see here in the states, but to us, it looks like your everyday copper problem.

So here at Aquaknot Pools, we will continue to watch the saga unfold and maybe send an anonymous suggestion that they get a few cases of Pool Magnet Plus sent to Rio.


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Monday, 28 January 2013

Medvedev and Obama’s plain speaking on Syria

Medvedev talking to CNN in Davos

The Kremlin’s staunch support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is fading.
The White House’s comatose stance on Syria will be dragging out.
These are my perceptions of the two positions as expressed in the past 48 hours by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in Davos and U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington.
Medvedev’s interview was aired Sunday on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS.
Obama spoke separately to the New Republic magazine and on CBS 60 Minutes.
Transcripts of the Qs & As on Syria in all three interviews follow.
ZAKARIA: Let me ask you about Syria.
MEDVEDEV (through translator): Why not.
ZAKARIA: You have said that you, (that) Russia wants to be neutral in the conflict. You're not supporting the Assad regime, but the reality is that the Russian army has trained the Syrian army. There are long ties there, and you have influence with the Syrian government. Very few countries have it. If you believe -- what I'm trying to understand is that it is not in Russia's interest for this conflict to go on, for it to become one in which more and more militant Islamic forces participate and Jihadist groups form. After all, it is directly to your south and could move into Dagestan, Ingushetia, and Chechnya. So, why would you not, from a purely Russian national interest point of view, try to get the Assad regime to understand that it must find a compromise and that Assad must step down?
MEDVEDEV (through translator): Let us discuss. From the outset, the Russian Federation was not an exclusive ally of Syria or President Assad. We had good relations with his father and him, but he had much closer allies among the European states.
We never said that our goal was to preserve the current political regime or making sure that President Assad stays in power. That decision has to be made by the Syrian people.
The Syrians are a multi-ethnic and multi-religious people. Thus, we need to have all present at the negotiating table -- Sunnis, Shia, Alawites, Jews, Christians. Only this way could you have a genuine national dialogue.
If you exclude someone, then the civil war will continue, and the war that is already under way. And in it, in my view, both sides are responsible -- the Syrian authorities and the opposition, which, by the way, is largely represented by Islamic radicals.
ZAKARIA: But why doesn't Russia try to broker some such agreement? Why don't you take the lead?
MEDVEDEV (through translator): I personally called Assad a few times and said you need to start reforms; you need to sit down at the negotiating table. I repeat one more time. In my view, unfortunately, the Syrian authorities turned out not to be ready for this.
ZAKARIA: Can Assad survive?
MEDVEDEV (through translator): I think that with every day, with every week, with every month, the chances of him surviving are becoming less and less. But, once again, it should be decided by the Syrian people -- not by Russia, not by the U.S., not by any other country. The most important thing right now is to support the process of national reconciliation.
ZAKARIA: But you agree with me, what is happening in Syria -- the current situation -- is bad for Russia, because it is becoming more and more Islamic, it is becoming more Jihadist. And you will say -- we are 8,000 miles away in the United States. You will face this in your backyard. So, it is an urgency for you to do something.
MEDVEDEV (through translator): It's hard for me to disagree with you. But I believe the situation is so troublesome for everyone because the representatives of radical Jihad will not only penetrate into Russia, they (also) travel to Europe, and they try to infiltrate the U.S. So, this situation is bad for everyone.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF CHRIS HUGHES: The last question is about Syria. I wonder if you can speak about how you personally, morally, wrestle with the ongoing violence there.
OBAMA: Every morning, I have what's called the PDB—presidential daily briefing—and our intelligence and national security teams come in here and they essentially brief me on the events of the previous day. And very rarely is there good news.
And a big chunk of my day is occupied by news of war, terrorism, clashes, violence done to innocents. And what I have to constantly wrestle with is where and when can the United States intervene or act in ways that advance our national interest, advance our security, and speak to our highest ideals and sense of common humanity.
And as I wrestle with those decisions, I am more mindful probably than most of not only our incredible strengths and capabilities, but also our limitations.
In a situation like Syria, I have to ask, can we make a difference in that situation? Would a military intervention have an impact? How would it affect our ability to support troops who are still in Afghanistan? What would be the aftermath of our involvement on the ground? Could it trigger even worse violence or the use of chemical weapons? What offers the best prospect of a stable post-Assad regime? And how do I weigh tens of thousands who've been killed in Syria versus the tens of thousands who are currently being killed in the Congo?
Those are not simple questions. And you process them as best you can. You make the decisions you think balance all these equities, and you hope that, at the end of your presidency, you can look back and say, I made more right calls than not and that I saved lives where I could, and that America, as best it could in a difficult, dangerous world, was, net, a force for good.
Obama and Clinton on CBS 60 Minutes
STEVE KROFT: The biggest criticism of this team in the U.S. foreign policy from your political opposition has been what they say is an abdication of the United States on the world stage, sort of a reluctance to become involved in another entanglement, an unwillingness or what seems/appears to be an unwillingness to gauge big issues. Syria, for example.
OBAMA: Yeah, well--
KROFT: I mean, that--
OBAMA: Well, Muammar Qaddafi probably does not agree with that assessment, or at least if he was around, he wouldn't agree with that assessment. Obviously, you know, we helped to put together and lay the groundwork for liberating Libya. You know, when it comes to Egypt, I think, had it not been for the leadership we showed, you might have seen a different outcome there. But also understanding that we do nobody a service when we leap before we look. Where we, you know, take on things without having thought through all the consequences of it. And Syria's a classic example of where our involvement, we want to make sure that not only does it enhance U.S. security, but also that it is doing right by the people of Syria and neighbors like Israel that are going to be profoundly affected by it.
And so it's true sometimes that we don't just shoot from the hip.
CLINTON: We live not only in a dangerous, but an incredibly complicated world right now with many different forces at work, both state-based and non-state, technology, and communications. And, you know, I'm older than the president. I don't want to surprise anybody by saying that.
OBAMA: But not by much.
CLINTON: But, you know, I remember, you know, some of the speeches of Eisenhower as a young girl, you know? You've got to be careful. You have to be thoughtful. You can't rush in, especially now, where it's more complex than it's been in decades. So yes, are there what we call wicked problems like Syria, which is the one you named? Absolutely. And we are on the side of American values. We're on the side of freedom. We're on the side of the aspirations of all people -- to have a better life, have the opportunities that we are fortunate to have here. But it's not always easy to perceive exactly what must be done in order to get to that outcome. So you know, I certainly am grateful for the president's steady hand and hard questions and thoughtful analysis as to what we should and shouldn't do.
OBAMA: You know, there are transitions and transformations taking place all around the world. We are not going to be able to control every aspect of every transition and transformation. Sometimes they're going to go sideways. Sometimes, you know, there'll be unintended consequences. And our job is to, number one, look after America's security and national interest. But number two, find where are those opportunities where our intervention, our engagement can really make a difference -- and to be opportunistic about that. And that's something that I think Hillary has done consistently. I think the team at the State Department's done consistently. And that's what I intend to continue to do over the next four years.


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If your Wooden is painted, you need to also factor in the costs of portray as element within your common servicing regimen. The expense of repairing the Wooden differs dependant upon the kind. Having said that, typical Value to repair a Wooden panel is $one hundred ninety to $215.

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  The Rev. Andre St. Germain during daily worship at the Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Newton. (Globe Staff Photo / Suzanne Kreiter)

Study faults Melkite church

Small, scattered diocese says it is tackling problem

By Michael Paulson, Globe Staff, 1/11/2004

When a team made up largely of retired FBI agents crisscrossed the nation to examine how well the Catholic Church is doing at protecting children from sexual abuse, the auditors gave high marks to all four Roman Catholic dioceses in Massachusetts, even commending the scandal-tarnished Archdiocese of Boston for its outreach and training programs.

But the auditors were less impressed by the work of the one Eastern rite Catholic diocese in Massachusetts, the Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Newton, which the auditors said last week is one of just 19 dioceses around the country that are not yet complying with the church-approved "Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People."

The Melkite diocese, which despite its name is neither Greek nor based in Newton, has declined to cooperate with a nationwide study of the scope and nature of abuse by Catholic priests and has failed to perform background checks on its employees or to train its priests, deacons, parents, and others who work with children to spot signs of abuse.

In a lengthy interview Thursday at the eparchy's headquarters in Roslindale, the diocese's two top officials insisted that they are fully committed to protecting children from abuse. They said that, in the 28-year-history of the Melkite eparchy, they are aware of only one instance in which a minor was sexually abused by a priest, and in that case, which they learned of three years ago, they immediately removed the priest from ministry.

But the officials, Bishop John A. Elya and the Rev. Andre St. Germain, expressed some reservations about the national regulations approved by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. St. Germain said the rules have proven cumbersome and complex to implement for one of the more unusual Catholic dioceses in the country: a small collection of 35 churches and 47 priests dispersed through 18 states and administered with an annual diocesan budget smaller than that of many Roman Catholic parishes.

St. Germain said, despite the concerns, the Melkite diocese expects to soon begin running criminal background checks on its workers. But he noted that unlike Roman Catholic dioceses, which are located in one city or region, the nationwide Melkite diocese must find a way to do background checks on employees in multiple states and in a way that honors privacy in a small organization. He said a Melkite priest who is a former police detective is trying to set up a mechanism for running the checks with the FBI.

St. Germain said the diocese, with an annual budget of roughly $700,000, cannot afford to develop or purchase its own abuse-prevention training program and has now decided instead to ask for assistance from Roman Catholic dioceses in the parts of the country where Melkite churches are located. (In Boston, the Roman Catholic archdiocesan spokesman, the Rev. Christopher J. Coyne, said in an interview, "We'd certainly allow our brother and sister Melkite Catholics to participate.")

Although the diocese is headquartered in Boston -- its name comes from the fact that when founded, it was based in Newton -- the biggest concentration of Melkites in the country is in the Detroit area, and the largest church is in North Hollywood, Calif.

Diocesan officials -- and there are just the bishop, the priest, a secretary, and a 90-year-old part-time chancellor -- clearly have some reservations about elements of the national program. St. Germain said he is concerned that the training programs teach children to "watch out for Father," and that some of the rules in place in Roman Catholic dioceses could be perceived as prohibiting some of the physical expressiveness -- including hugging and kissing -- that is common among the eparchy's priests and parishioners, most of whom come from Lebanon, Syria, and other parts of the Middle East.

"At coffee hour, just about every kid will come over and want a hug or a kiss -- our parishes are very demonstrative and tactile," St. Germain said. "It's not unusual for the Easterner. If you told the priest he positively, absolutely had to keep his hands off, there'd be misery in that parish."

St. Germain, who is among a minority of Melkite priests who are married, said he is "appalled" by the scandal in the Roman Catholic Church, saying, "I have grandchildren, so it hits home." He said the Melkite church has a strict code of conduct, imposed in the mid-1990s, for priests that prohibits children in rectory rooms and requires that doors be open when adults are meeting with minors.

Elya said he does not believe the Melkite diocese is immune to scandal, saying, "We are part of America, and whatever happens to America will happen to us." But he said he has a lay review board with lawyers, judges, and psychologists, and he pointed out that in the one case to confront the Melkite diocese thus far, he immediately removed the abusive priest from ministry and notified Rome of the case. He said the priest is now writing religious books and is prohibited from having contact with minors. St. Germain said the eparchy will not participate in the nationwide survey of abuse, conducted by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, because the questionnaire is too detailed.

"The bishop was in the hospital having bypass surgery, so it was me, and I had no access to those records. And when the chancellor came around and we started looking, we could find very little about it," St. Germain said. "So look, one guy is not going to affect their study."

Eastern Catholic churches were overrepresented among the list of dioceses not yet complying with the bishops' charter, according to the audit released last week. Of the 19 dioceses out of compliance, eight were Eastern Catholic churches. "All the Eastern Catholic churches are relatively small, but they share with the Roman Catholic church a concern that the credibility of the ministry is at stake," said the Rev. Joseph Loya, a professor of theology and religious studies at Villanova University, who researches Eastern Christianity. "No one is sloughing this off."

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Tertullian’s question is a good one. What does Athens have to do with Jerusalem? A lot, actually. We can argue whether or not Greek philosophy should influence Christian doctrine, but that Greek philosophy has influenced Christian doctrine is indisputable.

Most of you don’t care about Plato. Maybe you were forced to read some of his writings in college. At best, you may remember something about a republic, a cave, a philosopher king, and maybe even “forms.” How could someone whose books you couldn’t understand have an impact on the way you think?

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Do you see where this is heading? Most Christians see the world in these same terms. We long to become disembodied spirits in heaven. This world is temporary, distractingly material, and gross. We want to get away from this earth, away from these bodies, and spend a disembodied eternity floating on clouds.

As a side note, this type of thinking is partially responsible for the grand cathedrals in Europe. They were designed to draw our eyes and thoughts away from this world and onto the mysteries of heaven. Beautiful, awe inspiring, and handed down to us compliments of Plato.

Of course, everyone who thinks this way believes that we get this worldview from the Bible. But the biblical world is different. In the Bible, the world is created to be good. Though the world is stained by sin, God’s creation still retains its goodness (it is in bondage to decay, but it looks ahead to the day of redemption—see Rom. 8).

The biblical story does not move from nasty materiality to blissful disembodiment. Rather, it moves from God creating a gloriously physical earth to God re-creating a gloriously physical earth. Look at Jesus, for example. In many ways, he validated the goodness of God’s material earth by taking on flesh. Jesus was not defiled by his body. And when Jesus rose from the dead, he did not vaporize and ghost off into space, celebrating his escape from the physicality of earth. He appeared in a resurrected body; a body that could pass through walls and suddenly appear and disappear, but that could also be touched, that could eat and (presumably) digest food (he ate fish with his disciples post-resurrection).

Plato would have us believe that this world doesn’t matter so much. Let’s transcend it. Let’s escape it. Let’s meditate and get our heads in the clouds.

But God placed us on this earth for a reason. God encased us in flesh for a reason. And when Jesus returns, he is not going back on his commitment to physicality. He won’t be feeling embarrassed about all of the sluggish limitations of matter and therefore create a new world in which we can all float around as thoughts or ghosts. Instead, he’s going to go with a world that is much like this one. A new heavens and a new earth that features a great city.

So don’t be so Platonically minded that you are of no earthly good. Be here, where God placed you, where he commissioned you, where he is empowering you.

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  1. Mark, I loved this one. This topic is somewhat of a biblical hobby horse of mine; attempting to paint a picture of heaven (and new earth) that is more physical, tangible, more a reflection of the way God works and interacts with us through relationship on earth. I get so excited when I think about a NEW earth, NEW heavens, NEW us, with Jesus casting perfect light in all His magnificent glory. Have you ever heard of the band My Epic? I think you would really enjoy them. The song called “Rich” speaks of “wearing the glory the things of earth have always hinted at.” Brilliant. Thanks for helping us think this through!

    p.s. I love playdoh

  2. Very well written post Mark. This topic is so important to grasp in my opinion. Christians must obtain Hebrew eyes in order to interpret a Hebrew book correctly. The sad thing that I see, is that the Plato/Greek mindset is so firmly rooted in the church, that we can teach sermons like this and it still won’t alter people’s thinking that heaven is NOT our eternal home. The rapture has replaced the resurrection. The escape, spiritual mentality is just too prevalent. It’s in lots of hymns, popular books, and sermons. Many would even include it as an essential part of “the gospel” when sharing Jesus with a stranger. If you see things differently you’re basically an outsider.


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A couple days ago, I blogged about Craigslist’s faulty theological foundation. Basically, Craig Newmark built Craigslist on the belief that people are basically good, so if you give them a platform for interaction, everything will work out. But because the Bible is correct in saying that people have a sin nature, things are bound to go wrong on Craigslist, even as they go wrong in every area of life.

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In this post, I’d like to briefly explore the economic impact of sin. In other words, sin is expensive. Certainly sin tears apart our relationships, our psychological health, and most significantly, our relationship with God. But sin also costs money.

In the case of Craigslist, the site has been used as a marketplace for prostitution, which has forced Newmark to make preventative changes to the site. Scammers have also been using the site to swindle sellers out of their goods, which means that Newmark’s team has had to add security measures. All of this means increased expenses.

In his excellent book Truth and Transformation, Vishal Mangalwadi talks about visiting a dairy in the Netherlands. When he walked into the dairy to buy a glass of milk, he found no attendants—there was only a cashbox in which to leave his money and make change if necessary. He observed that this is the most cost-efficient way for the dairy to sell its milk, but once enough people took their milk without paying (or even stole the money from the cashbox), the dairy would be forced to hire an attendant. This means money out of the dairy owner’s pocket, which means higher cost of production, which means higher prices for the costumers, and on and on it goes.

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Mangalwadi also describes an experience he had while traveling through eastern Europe by train. He couldn’t figure out the automated ticket dispenser, so he asked a couple of young ladies how it worked. “We don’t know,” they told him. “But don’t worry about it. Just hop over the turnstiles. We’ve been travelling like this for weeks and no one has checked our tickets.”

Do you see where this is going? Once enough people hop the turnstiles and begin travelling for free, the railroads will be forced to hire clerks to check tickets on the trains, which increases their expenses, which in turn ups the price of a train ticket.

Sin is expensive.

The point is, not only was Craigslist built on the faulty premise that people are basically good, but the reality that people have a propensity toward sin is costly in every way. Think of how much money companies would save if they didn’t have to hire security guards. Or how much cheaper our goods would be if stores didn’t have to build compensation for a predicted amount of theft into their prices.

Sin is bad, and we all end up paying for it.

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The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (AGNR) recognized two AREC faculty members, Professor Jorge Holzer and Professor Dale Johnson, with awards for their research and creative work.

Holzer received the Integrated Research & Extension Excellence Award for his efforts in developing an integrated research and extension program. It focuses on three major policy themes that are significant in Maryland and the Mid-Atlantic region. They include the Chesapeake Bay’s fisheries and seafood industry, harvest allocation and recreational fisheries, and bycatch reduction.

He has also collaborated as lead economist in the Maryland Department of Natural Resources' work with the Environmental Defense Fund. There, they have assessed the potential outcomes of adopting rights-based management in the blue crab industry. Holzer’s research has been published in leading agricultural and resource field journals.

AGNR also awarded Johnson with The Dean Gordon Cairns Award for Distinguished Creative Work and Teaching in Agriculture. He is a principal agent and farm management specialist at the Western Maryland Research and Education Center and an affiliate faculty member at AREC.

Johnson has held over 600 multi-day workshops and seminars, and with over 12,000 participants. He has also created more than 90 fact sheets, farm management guides, curriculum, and journal articles among other educational materials. Johnson has also helped establish or support extension agencies in eight other countries to help improve the financial decision-making of farm businesses to encourage success in a free-market economy.

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01 Jan Happy New Year from our team at ArlandCom!

Happy New Year!

A new year represents new opportunities, and that is certainly true at ArlandCom.  2016 is slated to be one of the busiest, if not the busiest, in our eight year history and we could not be more excited.  But before we look ahead at the many things to come and where we are going, it’s a good idea to look back on 2015, a year in which ArlandCom experienced immense growth.

Our mission at ArlandCom is to tell our clients’ stories, but in the process, our company’s story has added a few chapters of its own.  In May, Joshua and I spent a memorable week in Shanghai for the first-ever CES Asia where we captured interviews from exhibitors and communicated the excitement of the inaugural event through the medium of video.  In October we took on similar tasks, venturing to France for CES Unveiled Paris.  Over the last six months, we said goodbye to friend and colleague Blake Lofgren (who has embarked on a sales career) and we welcomed three new members to our team – Production Coordinator Nicole Wilson, Account Director Sam Klemet, and Administrative Assistant Kellie Beadle.

This expansion now gives Arland Communications more than 30 years of collective communications experience, and our five-member team is ready for new challenges.

The foundation of ArlandCom is deep-rooted relationships and we’ve had the honor of developing with outstanding clients such as LG Electronics, DISH, the Advanced Television Systems Committee, Pearl TV, and the Consumer Technology Association.  We are excited to see those relationships continue to grow and are motivated to build on new relationships that blossomed in 2015 including software firm Central Logic, ACTIVEON action cameras and the Indiana Broadcasters Association – where I have assumed the role of Executive Director and ArlandCom will serve as IBA’s association management firm.

So needless to say, the past year has been a banner one for Arland Communications, but we are not allowing ourselves to sit back and soak in the success.  We are getting right to work in 2016.  The tone of our 2016 will be set January 6 – 9, at CES 2016 in Las Vegas.

This is a milestone CES for me, personally.  It will mark my 25th year at the annual consumer technology show and Arland Communications will be working with more than a dozen clients to show off the latest and greatest in technology.  Several weeks later, our team will be back in Vegas for the NAB Show, the world’s largest electronic media show rooted in the great work of the National Association of Broadcasters.

These opportunities allow us to keep a pulse on the next exciting waves of technology and to share how our clients are helping to drive change.

The New Year is traditionally highlighted with resolutions and ArlandCom is no different.  With our new, more robust team, we expect to do more and be even more responsive for our clients.  Joshua and Nicole will lead the charge on expanding and enhancing our video and creative services activities, producing unique, quality content.  Sam and I will work together on the public relations side of things, helping companies best tell their story and introduce their products and ideas to the world through media campaigns and event management.  Together, our team will work to enhance the Indiana Broadcasters Association.

Also new in 2016, you’ll hear and see more about what we are doing at ArlandCom.  Through blog posts like this one, an enhanced presence on social media, and videos that will give you behind-the scenes views, you will get a better understanding of what we do every day and why we love what we do.

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As part of the Art at Work programme, students from BACA and PACA took part in a Game Jam hosted by Lighthouse as part of Brighton Digital Festival.

Lighthouse partnered with world-class games designers, Hide&Seek, to stage an intensive Game Jam to build new games for Brighton Digital Festival. The students worked with games designers from Hide & Seek to develop a series of new games that were showcased at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery as part of a Digital Late event during Brighton Digital Festival.

Some of the new games made in the Game Jam were in the form of Hide&Seek’s Tiny Games – small, quick-to-understand games, that sit in the real world, inviting participation. The games had an inherently Brighton flavour, and were showcased at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery as part of the Digital Late event.

Tiny Games is a smartphone app that enables you to play fun, social games in the real world. You tell the app where you are, who you’re with, what’s to hand and how you feel, and it supplies a game to fit.

The Game Jam went really well. Can’t say I’ve participated in an education event before that has run so smoothly. Hide&Seek were remarkable and the young people got deeply engaged with the making of the games. The day flew by! Hide&Seek were also really happy with how the day went and commented on how incredibly engaged all the young people were, so thank you to everyone. They all really got into designing games, really good games! Everyone will have contributed to a game that will be designed and made for the museum.  A few of the students hadn’t been to Brighton Museum before, so we achieved an aim of Art at Work to get more students into the city and using cultural venues! Lighthouse staff

The Game Jam provided an exciting learning environment that has a real-world outcome. Participants learned new game design principles and developed creative skills, through developing exciting new games.


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December 31, 1996|By Jill Hudson | Jill Hudson,SUN STAFF

Officials at the Howard County Detention Center said yesterday that an inmate attempted suicide Sunday only 15 minutes after being placed in an isolation cell.

James N. "Buck" Rollins, director of the jail, said a corrections officer found a 32-year-old Laurel man hanging in his cell about 5 p.m.

Rollins said the man was taken to Howard County General Hospital and Maryland's Shock Trauma Center, although he never lost consciousness.

The inmate was returned to the jail later that day. He has been jailed since Dec. 18 when he was charged with stalking and resisting arrest, Rollins said.

He was being held on a $25,000 full bond.

This was the third reported suicide attempt at the jail this year, Rollins reported.

In December of 1995, a Howard jail inmate, Edward Leroy Bennett, a 31-year-old Baltimore man, committed suicide there by hanging himself with a bedsheet from a ceiling water sprinkler in his cell.

That suicide was the jail's second since 1991 and came to light only because inmates wrote letters to the news media. In April, Bennett's family filed a $3 million negligence suit against the county.

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Let's talk about the future of our families

February 23, 2005|By Robert M. Franklin

IT'S BEEN an unusual Black History Month.

The black community needs trusted leaders and popular celebrities sounding the alarm over the worsening condition of African-American families living in poverty. Just as I prepared to celebrate Bill Cosby's courage in alerting the black community to numerous signs of internal decay, serious allegations of his bad behavior toward women surfaced. He has denied wrongdoing and charges against him have been dropped.

Mr. Cosby may be one of America's best comedians, but he sure knows how to make people mad. Like a restless revival preacher, he has been criss-crossing the nation, delivering an impassioned moral plea for better parenting and adult responsibility, a call that demands more than the usual "Amen, brother."

In the black church, oral communication assumes a call-response format. Worshipers don't listen passively to a sermon; they talk back to the preacher. Although his remarks were aimed at a small percentage of black parents, his call is one that every American adult should heed. This is what we should do.

First, we need to begin a village-wide conversation about the future of our families - not just in the black community, but in all of our villages. The data tell us that marriage, family and child well-being are in trouble across all American communities.

Responsible civic leaders should convene town hall meetings to address questions such as: What do we expect from every father and mother? What can we guarantee to all of our children? What things do people who are considering divorce need to think about? Where can people who are being abused in relationships turn for help? How can we intensify our efforts to educate young people about the risks of unprotected sex? How can we protect the traditional family while respecting the aspirations and rights of our homosexual neighbors?

We don't need these village conversations to become talk fests. We need information and stories about what other communities are doing to help their kids and preserve their families. That means we'll need university scholars and not-for-profit leaders with expertise in these fields to help keep the conversations informed.

Second, we need curricula and training materials that can help community leaders educate everyone about the nature of "healthy relationships." That may be a value-laden term, but everyone can acknowledge the difference between relationships that encourage people to flourish and those that cause harm.

For the past year, I have served as a consultant for the Annie E. Casey Foundation to convene focus groups of clergy in low-income black communities. One of the most surprising and disturbing things they report is that our kids don't know what it means to have a date. They assume that dating automatically involves sex.

Third, money will be needed to ensure that community leaders are trained to lead village conversations and that follow-up resources are available. Here is a role for local business and philanthropy. Money will be necessary to train personnel, provide materials, monitor effectiveness of the conversations, and record and evaluate the progress of the effort. It could yield benefits that far exceed its modest financial requirements.

What local communities should do after the conversations occur will emerge from the clear thinking and good will in the room. Each community will determine what it must do to sustain this focus on nurturing healthy children and citizens.

Clearly, some people are so worried about family life that they're willing to march in the street. Others are just as worried but not so sure about what marching can accomplish. Mr. Cosby might agree that growing anxiety about families and children is a good thing. It means that we've noticed what is going on around us. But I'd like to find a more productive way to channel that energy. Responding to Mr. Cosby's call with concrete, ongoing action would be a noble way to express our faith, hope and love.

Robert M. Franklin is presidential distinguished professor of social ethics at Emory University's Candler School of Theology.

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Baltimore files new complaint against Wells Fargo

City claims property damages, extra costs from foreclosures

April 08, 2010|By Robbie Whelan

Lawyers for the city of Baltimore have prepared a new complaint in their lawsuit against Wells Fargo, which contends that the bank steered black borrowers into subprime loans, then foreclosed on hundreds of city houses, leading to blight and higher public safety costs.

The city suffered a setback in January when U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz dismissed the suit. Motz said the connection between the Wells Fargo foreclosures and urban problems was "implausible when considered against the background of other factors leading to the deterioration of the inner city," and called the suit overly broad.

City Solicitor George Nilson said Wednesday that the new complaint, which was filed Wednesday, outlines specific property damages - including millions in costs to city fire and police services - to more than 200 vacant, foreclosed properties spread out over 36 city blocks.

The new complaint also separates damages incurred by the city in the form of lost property taxes, Nilson said. When the foreclosed homes became vacant, the city alleges, many of them lost much of their value and drove down the value of nearby homes, leading to lost property tax revenue for the city.

Wells Fargo's attorney, Andrew L. Sandler, said Wednesday he thought that Motz's reasons for dismissing the last version of the case were "pretty clear," and said the case has no merit. A spokeswoman for the company said Wells Fargo stands by its lending practices, which it considers "fair and responsible."

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