It's also a central part of medical training in the United States, having been established around the same time as the U.S. medical school system was being established in its modern form. Today, the VA is the largest provider of health care training in the United States.


You were just two years out of a vascular surgery fellowship when you got the job as Chief, following the sudden death of then-VA Chief Nick Halasz. Was this role an accident or did you come to UC San Diego knowing that you want to work at the VA?


I've always felt a kindred spirit with the veterans, so when this opportunity arose, I grabbed it. I never served in the military, but I feel that working here is my way of giving back. I know a lot of people who have gone to all corners of the world to serve the underserved, but you don't have to go other parts of the world to serve the underserved. They exist right here in our own community.


In recent years, scrutiny of the VA has focused on how long veterans have to wait to see a doctor or receive a treatment—existing patients are supposed to see a doctor between 14 and 30 days after requesting an appointment. The issue made the headlines in 2014, when instances of altered numbers were uncovered.


The wait times problem stems from what we like to refer to as unfunded mandates—where expectations were placed on VA medical centers to provide a certain level of care, but appropriate resources weren't available. In situations like that, leadership teams are vulnerable. I think most medical centers were doing their best to comply with the mandates to see patients within a certain amount of time, but they just didn't have the resources to do it.


In terms of surgical care, I don't think our wait times are that different from wait times at other facilities in the community. I was challenged a few years ago to address this issue in a public forum for a reporter. I checked with other healthcare systems in the area, like Kaiser Permanente, which is a similarly organized healthcare system to the VA. And a lot of their wait times were not terribly different from ours, especially for surgical procedures. At the San Diego VA, the current average wait time to see a primary care physician is 1.35 days, to see a medical or surgical specialist is 5.11 days, and to see a mental health provider is 2.47 days.


Primary care has been the focus of increased resources over the last several years, to the point that our primary care colleagues can often offer same-day access. The challenge is, when the primary care doctors see everybody so quickly, they generate lots of patients that need surgical referrals. And then the next piece of the machinery has to work at the same level, or at the same speed, or at the same capacity in order to keep everybody happy. Specialty care—both medical and surgical—has been under-resourced. As an example, we still have the same number of operating rooms here as when we opened in 1972.


Nope. When you have a limited number of ORs and OR time, you are forced to make choices about who gets their procedure first. Every day, we triage aneurysms and cancer patients and heart surgery and do our best to work in more elective procedures such as knee replacements, hip replacements, and cataracts. Wait times are most challenging for orthopedics and ophthalmology, both of which offer surgical care to patients with non limb- or life-threatening problems. These are the types of patients who often do not get surgical care within the 30-day requirement—even in the community.


The San Diego VA plans to build additional operating rooms and a hybrid suite, with construction beginning in 2019—will that help?


Yes. But the whole project will take 5-10 years. Until we have more ORs, we cannot expand our internal surgical capacity. We've been requesting OR project funding for a while. Our project competes with every other major VA project across the country. So, if there's a VA elsewhere in the country that has a more critical need, it'll probably get priority. Congress has to budget a certain amount of money, and these projects are literally approved at that level.


The wait time issue is inextricably linked with the Choice Program, which was enacted by Congress in 2014, and allows some veterans to see private doctors (at government expense), but only in cases where they have to wait more than 30 days for an appointment or drive more than 40 miles to a facility. Since it was enacted, approximately 30% of veteran's medical care is provided outside the VA system. Is the Choice Program the right approach to improve veteran's health care? Or does it exacerbate problems instead of fixing them?


My strong opinion is that the VA provides the best care to our veterans and should be resourced and staffed to do that. And where there are deficiencies, there should be great attention given to ensuring staffing and resources are made available. Because I think the veterans are best served at the VA.


We have found that most of our surgical patients choose to stay here, even if we tell them that their surgical care cannot be provided within a certain period of time. They choose to stay in the queue and wait the extra time. And we like that. We feel like that the doctor-patient


1256601  within said segment, said capillary aperture having a top end, a bottom end, and a longitudinal axis, said top and bottom ends being located, respectively, beneath said top surfaces of said segments and above said bottom surfaces of said segments, said longitudinal axes being perpendicular to said surfaces and being equi-spaced within each of said segments, each of said polymer flow channels having an enlarged inlet comprising a wall extending upwardly and outwardly from said top end of said capillary aperture, said wall of said enlarged inlet intersecting with adjacent walls in a closed, interlocking network of ridges on said top surfaces of said segments, said walls being continuous, smooth surfaces of curvature which exhibit a converging pattern while proceeding from said top surfaces to said top ends of said capillary apertures, and each of said polymer flow channels having an enlarged outlet comprising a wall extending downwardly and outwardly from said bottom end of said capillary aperture, said wall of said enlarged outlet intersecting with adjacent walls in a closed, interlocking network of ridges on said bottom surfaces of said segments, said walls being continuous, smooth surfaces of curvature which exhibit a diverging pattern while proceeding from said bottom ends of said capillary apertures to said bottom surfaces, said ridges of said enlarged inlets and said ridges of said enlarged outlets defining a plurality of equilateral polygonal sectional areas on their respective surfaces, said equilateral polygonal sectional areas being hexagons, the length of said capillary aperture being approximately 1.5 times the combined depths of said enlarged inlet and said enlarged outlet, the measure of the included angle formed by said walls of said enlarged inlet and said enlarged outlet being from 30° to 90°;


e. a divided flow spinneret plate having two distinct, symmetrical segments, said segments being formed by leaving unpierced an area equal to that of said section from said plate, said segments each having a top and a bottom surface and a plurality of polymer flow channels, each of said polymer flow channels having a capillary aperture formed in said segment, said capillary aperture having a top end and a longitudinal axis, said top end being located beneath said top surface, said longitudinal axes being perpendicular to said surfaces and being equi-spaced within each of said segments, and each of said polymer flow channels having an enlarged inlet comprising a wall extending upwardly and outwardly from said top end of said capillary aperture, said wall of said enlarged inlet intersecting with adjacent walls in a closed, interlocking network of ridges on said top surfaces of said segments, said walls being continuous, smooth surfaces of curvature which exhibit a converging pattern while proceeding from said top surfaces to said top ends of said capillary apertures, said ridges of said enlarged inlets defining a plurality of equilateral polygonal sectional areas, said equilateral polygonal sectional areas being hexagons, the length of said capillary aperture being approximately 3.0 times the depth of said enlarged inlet, the measure of the included angle formed by said wall of said enlarged inlet being approximately 30° to 90°, said plate having a means for securing it to said divided flow breaker plate;


f. a divided flow sealing means for providing a sealed distribution space between said segments of said divided flow breaker plate and said segments of said divided flow spinneret plate and located therebetween; and


g. a spin pack body having a lower shoulder which supports said divided flow spinneret plate and having a means which secures said spin pack body to said divided flow top cap.


a. an unpierced center section, said section being wide enough to form a visible split between said multiple ends as they leave said plate; and


b. two distinct, symmetrical segments, said segments being on each side of said unpierced center section of said plate, said segments each having a top and a bottom surface and having a plurality of polymer flow channels, each of said polymer flow channels having a capillary aperture formed in said segment, said capillary aperture having a top end and a longitudinal axis, said top end being located beneath said top surface, said longitudinal axes being perpendicular to said surfaces and being equi-spaced within each of said segments, and each of said polymer flow channels having an enlarged inlet comprising a wall extending upwardly and outwardly from said top end of said capillary aperture, said wall of said enlarged inlet intersecting with adjacent walls in a closed, interlocking network of ridges on said top surfaces of said segments, said walls being continuous, smooth surfaces of curvature which exhibit a converging pattern while proceeding from said top surfaces to said top ends of said capillary apertures, said ridges of said enlarged inlets defining a plurality of equilateral polygonal sectional areas, said equilateral polygonal sectional areas being hexagons, the length of said capillary aperture being approximately 3.0 times the depth of said enlarged inlet, the measure of the included angle formed by said wall of said enlarged inlet being approximately 30° to 90°.


a. an unpierced center section, said section being wide enough to form a visible split between said filaments as they leave said plate; and


b. two distinct, symmetrical segments, said segments being on each side of said unpierced center section of said plate, said segments each having a top and a bottom surface and having a plurality of polymer flow channels, each of said polymer flow channels having a capillary aperture formed in said segment, said capillary aperture having a top end, a bottom end, and a longitudinal axis, said top and bottom ends being located, respectively, beneath said top surfaces of said segments and above said bottom surfaces of said segments, said longitudinal axes being perpendicular to said surfaces and being equi-spaced within each of said segments, each of said polymer flow channels having an enlarged inlet comprising a wall extending upwardly and outwardly from said top end of said capillary aperture, said wall of said enlarged inlet intersecting with adjacent walls in a closed, interlocking network of ridges on said top surfaces of said segments, said walls being continuous, smooth surfaces of curvature which exhibit a converging pattern while proceeding from said top surfaces to said top ends of said capillary apertures, and each of said polymer flow channels having an enlarged outlet comprising a wall extending downwardly and outwardly from said bottom end of said capillary aperture, said wall of said enlarged outlet intersecting with adjacent walls in a closed, interlocking network of ridges on said bottom surfaces of said segments, said walls being continuous, smooth surfaces of curvature which exhibit a diverging pattern while proceeding from said bottom ends of said capillary apertures to said bottom surfaces, said ridges of said enlarged inlets and of said enlarged outlets defining a plurality of equilateral polygonal sectional areas, said equilateral polygonal sectional areas being hexagons, the length of said capillary aperture being approximately 1.5 times the combined depths of said enlarged inlet and said enlarged outlet, the measure of the included angle formed by said walls of said enlarged inlet and said enlarged outlet being from 30° to 90°.


b. a top cap having means thereon adapted for connection to a polymer source and having a flow inlet passage discharging to the interior of said filter assembly which is positioned next downstream;


c. a breaker plate having a top and a bottom surface and having a plurality of polymer flow channels, said top surface having a recess upon which said filter assembly is mounted, each of said polymer flow channels having a capillary aperture formed in said plate, said capillary aperture having a top and a bottom end, said top and bottom ends being located, respectively, beneath said top surface and above said bottom surface, each of said polymer flow channels having an enlarged inlet comprising a wall extending upwardly and outwardly from said top end of said capillary aperture, said wall of said enlarged inlet intersecting with adjacent walls in a closed, interlocking network of ridges on said top surface, and each of said polymer flow channels having an enlarged outlet comprising a wall extending downwardly and outwardly from said bottom end of said capillary aperture, said wall of said enlarged outlet intersecting with adjacent walls in a closed, interlocking network of ridges on said bottom surface;


d. a spinneret plate having a top and a bottom surface and having a plurality of polymer flow channels, each of said polymer flow channels having a capillary aperture formed in said plate, said capillary aperture having a top end, said top end being located beneath said top surface, and each of said polymer flow channels having an enlarged inlet comprising a wall extending upwardly and outwardly from said top end of said capillary aperture, said wall of said enlarged inlet intersecting with adjacent walls in a closed, interlocking network of ridges on said top surface, said spinneret plate being provided with a means for securing it to said breaker plate;


e. a sealing means for providing a sealed distribution space between said breaker plate and said spinneret plate and located therebetween; and


f. a spin pack body having a lower shoulder which supports said spinneret plate and having a means for securing said spin pack body to said top cap;


said spin pack assembly being further characterized in that the longitudinal axes of said capillary apertures of said polymer flow channels are perpendicular to said surfaces; said walls of said enlarged inlets and said walls of said enlarged outlets are continuous, smooth surfaces of curvature which exhibit, respectively, a converging pattern while proceeding from said top surfaces to said top ends of said capillary apertures and a diverging pattern while proceeding from said bottom ends of said capillary apertures to said bottom surfaces; and said ridges of said enlarged inlets and of said enlarged outlets define a plurality of equilateral polygonal sectional areas selected from the group


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2003 – Dixie Chicks: The South Carolina House of Representatives pass a resolution urging the Dixie Chicks to make a public apology for derogatory statements about President Bush, and back it up with a concert for the families of troops serving in the Iraq conflict.


2002 – Foul weather forces teen pop icon Britney Spears off the stage in Mexico City after only four songs. Spears later issues an apology.


1990 – The BBC issues an apology after one of its radio stations broadcasts a profanity-laden Madonna live performance.


1987 – Here’s a sticky situation. Kris Kristofferson was given a plaque by a Vietnam veterans’ group after playing a benefit concert for it on July 4. Later the award was found in Kristofferson’s trashcan. He apologizes for the apparent disrespect today and later donates $1,000 to the Vietnamese Veterans Association.


1966 – John Lennon tries to put out the fire he started when he noted that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus by apologizing at a televised press conference. Meanwhile, the city of Memphis asks the Beatles not to play any concerts there and the price of Capitol Records’ stock drops.


1966 – In the Philippines, President Ferdinand Marcos pulls the Beatles’ police protection after his wife claims the band snubbed her by not attending one of her parties. Later, an angry mob attacks the Fab Four. “We watched ourselves, not arriving… ” -George Harrison On July 3rd, the day prior the show, The Manila Sunday […]


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His office is always full. Many MS patients. But, many young children with Autism. He believes that both MS and Autism are caused by Lyme Disease. And, of course, I live in one of the Lyme Disease capitols of the world, so, he sure has the market available to him.


After this last visit, I am truly convinced of his sincerity and not wanting to take advantage of anyone. But, am just not certain his treatments actually do work. This is what he recommends for me:


CureOrBust wrote: Personally, i think thik is the best way. If you get an improvement, its a bonus. I will be waiting to see your results, either way.


When I asked him to justify hyperbaric O2 treatments, he said that it would help lesions heal, ward off anaerobes, and help my anemia. Am open to this possibility. He also claims that it is a popular MS treatment in the UK. Not according to any of the searches I've done here, it isn't.


As far as B12 injections for my anemia goes; I test within mid-low normal ranges, but he does not accept the conventional standards. Another alternative doc, that I've consulted with over the past two years warns against high doses of B12. Because methylated or not, he claims that non-organic toxins that may be present in the body, get methylated into, 100 times more toxic, organic forms. So I told him, no on B12 injections. And, that I would just start taking the liquid chlorophyll, that my nurse-midwife's nutritionist had recommended, years ago. It had seemed to work, as it brought my lab values up high enough for what was required for the homebirth.


Have not agreed to taking any of the supplements he recommends, except the Samento. He claims that it will help prevent more viral replication of the EBV:


Only one drop a day in a glass of water. Because he warns me that I'll herx from it, if I don't go slow with increasing the dosage. I will research some of those other supplements, tho. Maybe even try to find more suggestions on hyperbaric O2, as well.


Oh, and this doctor does not recommend antibiotic treatment, either. As usual, am left with lots more questions and few answers


Am just glad I get some partial insurance reimbursement for this alternative doctor, while I continuously attempt to figure out what to do.


Its interesting that he leans towards lyme, but reccomends against antibiotics; the normal treatment for lyme.


As for the hyperbaric o2 treatment, i have read that this is an effective lyme treatment. However, it has historically not been all that effective for ms.


Really? Lesions cause by neuro-lyme are very similar to MS damage, but lyme disease is caused by a particular pathogen, as is MS but a different one, or ones. If treated properly, lyme disease can certainly be eradicated by antibiotics.


He also claims that it (hyperbaric oxygen) is a popular MS treatment in the UK. Not according to any of the searches I've done here, it isn't.


Some MS therapy centres here do have the treatment available but think the only thing it does is give the person doing it a sense of well-being, not help their MS symptoms.


If you have anaemia, you need iron supplements, if you have pernicious anaemia you need B12 injections, period.


Alternative doctors have there place, but there are times when you can't beat the real thing. I would suggest you read my husband's website and then write to him: http://www.davidwheldon.co.uk/ms-treatment.html One thing is for certain, CPn is very difficult to unearth and people often show negative when they are far from it. I was tested a couple of weeks after starting treatment, when antibody levels could have been expected to have risen, but he reading was the lowest possible and if I had been reliant on my GP for prescribing, she wouldn't have done it. I would be useless by now, since I was deteriorating so fast.


I wish I'd had some time left with him to ask him the "whys" about why he doesn't prescribe antibiotics. Especially because he treats Lyme. Had also wanted to ask about LDN, too. By the time he had presented his protocol and answered questions about that, our time was up. I may e-mail him and ask him about these things, too.


What he had told me when he ordered a Western Blot (my third) was that he doesn't agree with interpretations as negative, if even one band comes back positive. That you either have it, or you don't. And, none of my bands have ever tested positive on any of the tests. Just have to think it if it's viral, it can only be EBV, based on those positive results.


Good to know about the hyperbaric O2 treatment. Had met some on a Lyme Disease forum, awhile back, who swore by it, too. Had never heard anything about it for MS, let alone that it's not effective. Will have to do another search for the person you are referring to using it, here.


CureOrBust wrote: Its interesting that he leans towards lyme, but reccomends against antibiotics; the normal treatment for lyme.


Your posts on this forum are some of the first that I began reading. Going back and reading all of them, and your husband's info on his website; have been on my "To Do" list for the longest time, now. And, I even recommended your posts and husband's


1256603  is still important to see that these rituals serve multiple characteristics of enlightenment simultaneously. A particular Zen ritual may foster a sense of humility and selflessness, while simultaneously giving rise to mindfulness, self control, courage or wisdom. And then (skipping a bit) the effects of a single Zen ritual may be one thing for a novice practitioner, while quite another for someone more advanced in the practice. Character differences also mean that what one practitioner might glean from a ritual to shape his or her character will be lost on another." That makes sense.


"In contemporary ritual studies, the view that ritual goes beyond the task of expressing or communicating cultural values to effecting fundamental change in a person's perception of self and world is called ‘the performative approach.’” The performative approach to ritual is that it changes you. It not just expresses something, but it is actually changing you actively. So rituals perform a transformative function that is not captured in reductive interpretations that remain at the level of belief or concept. One is imagining and visualizing oneself in a particular way. Stepping inside the ritual space, you become a buddha. You become an elevated person, in the same body.


"Zen rituals are about postures, gestures and patterns of movement. To make sense of this basic dimension of Zen, we need to engage its fundamental corporeality by understanding Zen as a specifically embodied practice." And that's true. The practice is very, very much a physical practice, and the transformation that takes place in the practice comes through all the physical gestures that one makes through the rituals.


Now I'll speak briefly about the jukai ceremony. In the ritual of jukai, the people who are going to be receiving the precepts enter the space, offer a sacrifice, and offer their whole bodies to the Buddha. They make prostrations. They offer incense. It's a sacrifice, a total offering of the self. They are venerating the Buddha, because when you venerate the Buddha, you become the Buddha.


Then they go to the ordination table, and they make a prostration, as if the ordination table were the sacred ordination table of the Buddha's time. The ordination platform in Buddhism is considered a very sacred place of the presence of the Buddha. So they make a prostration to it.


Then the officiant of the ceremony invokes a company of sacred beings. There's a lengthy invocation – a calling forth –of the buddhas in all directions, the dharma in all directions, the sanghas in all directions, Shakyamuni Buddha, the bodhisattvas and ancestors, Dogen, and Suzuki-Roshi. Then we invoke the triple body of the Buddha: the Dharmakaya, the Sambhogakaya, and the Nirmanakaya. The Dharmakaya is the nameless, shapeless, unknowable, universal being, body of Buddha. The Sambhogakaya is the purified shape of that Buddha in the spiritual worlds. The Nirmanakaya is the way that Buddha appears in this physical world. These mythical, spiritual beings are invoked.


Then we invoke Maitreya, the Buddha of friendliness, who is the future Buddha. Buddhism has a specific vision of a time in the future, in which friendliness, compassion and cooperation among all creatures will be the hallmark of that eon. (Buddhism has this vision. It always gives me great hope.) Then all other buddhas are invoked.


Then homage is paid to the Lotus Sutra, since this ceremony comes from Dogen's time. Dogen really loved the Lotus Sutra, and it is the Lotus Sutra that reveals that the practice is much more than the one-dimensionality of the practice that teaches: cultivate the mind and heart, achieve enlightenment, and then be liberated and happy. The Lotus Sutra reveals that that was just the cover story, that the whole process is way more cosmic than that. In reality, it's a way bigger question than that, so that is why the Lotus Sutra is invoked at this point.


Then all the bodhisattvas are invoked. They are qualities of our own heart: wisdom, compassion, the quality of activity, and finally prajnaparamita, which is the total vision of reality that shares and sees all of reality as one being. As we chant that, we imaginatively think we are bringing these beings here, into the room, in order to help us perform this ritual.


Then there is the ritual of purification. First, you purify the mind and heart. You purify the mind and heart by chanting three times the verse of confession: "All my ancient, twisted karma, through beginning-less greed, hate and delusion, born through body, speech and mind, I now fully avow." Then the officiant says, "Now you are purified." This is a mind-boggling concept, don’t you think? You say a few words, and that's it! Your endless karma, from boundless, past lifetimes, has now been dissolved by chanting these words! By virtue of saying these words in the presence of these holy, sacred beings, with full faith and imagination – in that moment anyway – we have let go of all of our karma, and we are purified.


Then there is the purification of the body, which is done with water. There are, actually, highly secret mantras and mudras that only certain privileged people know, to make this water into the kind of water that will purify the body. The water is then sprinkled all over, purifying the space.


This purification with water is a very common trope in many rituals, in all kinds of religions. It's actually exactly the same kind of thing as baptism, which was based on the pre-existing ritual of purification. The Jewish ritual of baptism pre-dated the Christian ritual. In the original baptism ritual, people would throw away their clothes, and they would put on fresh, white garments. They would go into a river, they would be immersed, and they would be given a new name – just as in the jukai ritual. And they would come out a new person. There is a statement by Paul which is very amazing and mystical, where he says, "You die in Christ when you are baptized. And then you are reborn." And that's exactly the idea in jukai. You are purified with water. You let go of everything of the past, all the conditions of the past, and you are purified. Now you are ready to receive the precepts, having been purified in the body, purified in the mind.


In Zen, the symbolism is that when taking the precepts, you are taking on the blood of a new lineage, a new ancestry. The bloodline is the pure, ethical conduct, which in Zen is called enlightenment. Conduct is awakening. It's the essence of the Buddha's heart. So when you take the precepts, the idea is you are now entering a new lineage. You're a new person with a new name, new clothes. You are remade.


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physical education concepts in three diﬀ erent countries. Charles Follen, Charles Beck, Francis Lieber. In Germany, in the 1860ʼs, there was


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(March 30, 2009)—The Charles County Special Education Citizens Advisory. was selected as the winner. David Bradshaw, a physical education teacher at Maurice J. McDonough High School, was chosen as the secondary winner. In the support staff category.


Charles Beck or Karl Beck was a German-born American classical scholar, Harvard professor and friend of Charles Follen.


Beck Hansen (born Bek David Campbell; July 8, 1970), known professionally as Beck, is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist.He rose to fame in the early 1990s with his sonically experimental and lo-fi style, and became known for creating musical collages of wide genre styles.


The professor, Harley Shaiken, is a Professor of Social and Cultural Studies at the Graduate School of Education and is a member of the. put on the line because of the emotional, mental, and physical stress that this university is.


The German contribution to American physical education: A historical perspective. may also have been the inception of Charles Beck (1798-1866), a classical.


Jordon Beck of Lake Linganore will attend the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City along with Towson University’s marching band. Beck, 22, and a fourth-year special education major. military justice, physical fitness, first aid.


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Charles Beck who was a student, friend and follower of Friedrich Jahn teamed up with a friend and they made their way to Switzerland, France and eventually America. George Bancroft who had opened the Round Hill School in America had been looking at and studying the German system and immediately hired Beck to teach Latin and Physical.


Dr. Charles Beck is a cardiologist in Wichita, Kansas and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Kansas Heart Hospital and Via Christi Hospital on St. Francis. He received his medical degree from University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson and has been in practice for more than 20 years.


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1256604  are my pride and joy. They steal my heart and soul every day of the week. There is no comparable exciting experience than to open a thermometer case for the first time, with that smell filing the air, and to stare at a beautiful Blackguard in person for the first time… It’s a magic moment.


I’m at the 10th annual Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase in, uh, Woodstock (New York). I’ve followed the yellow brick road – well, not yellow, not a road, more like what once was a walking path, but, as always happens at the Woodstock fest, has become an ankle deep wade to the Valhalla of the acoustic guitar universe.


You know, that spot you reach by motoring down the Levon Helm Memorial Highway, cruising past the Big Pink, and sliding into the parking smear (it’s too ill-defined to be called a “parking lot”) at Albert Grossman’s estate. Yep, he who managed the likes of Bob Dylan, The Band, Janis Joplin, Odetta, Peter, Paul and Mary, Gordon Lightfoot, and Ian & Sylvia. Before entering the hallowed halls that play host to the finest guitar makers on the planet—so fine that they have to take turns appearing at this fest, you have to slip into the living room where the guitar playing clinics are held. It’s the very spot where the cover photo for Bob Dylan’s 1965 album, Bringing It All Back Home, was shot. You look around, making sure that no one is watching you, and snap a selfie. Because, well, you have to.


Yeah, this place is dripping in mojo. And, yeah, it’s the best acoustic guitar festival ever held. The host is Baker Rorick, of the local roots (roots of roughly anything you want in music) band, the Sunburst Brothers. The “Bros” include writer John Millward (author of Crossroads: How the Blues Shaped Rock ’n’ Roll—and Rock Saved the Blues, one of my favorite music-related books) and Jake Guralnick, son of Peter Guralnick (who’s written all of my other favorite music related books: Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom, Searching for Robert Johnson, Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, etc.) “Deep” doesn’t begin to express this festival’s connection is with the acoustic guitar universe.


And, that man behind the curtain, working some Ozian magic? He’s my Fretboard Journal co-conspirator, photographer Scott Ptak. Scott has set up a photo studio in the midst of the mayhem that is the Woodstock festival. We’ve conspired to offer you photos of some of our favorite instruments at the festival. Yes, we loved every guitar that we played. And, yes, we could only select a few of our favorites. As you’ll see, we selected instruments that dazzled our eyes, but first, and foremost, they dazzled our ears.


So, please, bask in the glory of these instruments, knowing that many more of these stunning creations await you at the next Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase, in … 2020. After 10 consecutive years of astonishing success, Baker and company are taking a year off (and, it had better be only a year).


So, pull back that curtain and behold the magic of the Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase, and the alchemy of photographer Scott Ptak.


Besieged by precarious bureaucracy and white-collars, a strange youth has arisen in Ankara, the capital of Turkey. The children of that city, where there is not much to do, have created their own world, dedicating themselves to music, films, books, art and profound conversations. Zeynep Kayan is one of the personalities coming from this course of existence. With her hoarse voice that tranquilizes, Zeynep is born to tell stories by captivating one’s attention immediately.


Although the photos and videos that she creates include melancholy, humor is not abandoned. She creates fragmented tales that are surrounded by faceless, torn corpses, and heroes with costumes. After graduating from Communication and Design in Bilkent University, she had her MA degree in Fine Arts at maHKU, Netherlands. Besides Istanbul and Ankara, Zeynep also exhibits her constantly, altering pieces in other countries.


These days she is excited for the new space “Torun” that she has founded with three other friends. And while Spring has arrived to Ankara, we met with Zeynep in her house, which is in a neighbourhood where mostly retired citizens and families live. Before this, we went to the gallery, where she has been working on establishing an archive.


The curiosity about how I look like orientated me. I had the urge to see myself using a medium with different visualities that I came up with. Actually, it was that simple.


You mainly take photos from the photos that you have taken before by never leaving them as they are. You tear off and unite them layer by layer, shooting the videos and photos again from the computer screen; using the repetition, piece-whole relation, by coalescing. Why?


I think that I don’t do anything original. It is crucial for me to take photos over and over again from the same one. When I tear a photo and reshoot it, it makes me feel like I’m experimenting ways of seeing and playing with form. Every time it modifies due to the help of this act and transforms into something else. When one researches about the history of art, it is obvious that almost everything has been done. Besides theories like “object of desire”, I give “the original” more importance in terms of transformation and variation/repetition.


Lately, this became a bit complicated that makes me think more. More than using just one medium, contrariwise, I would use what it is necessary to express myself better. In time, I want to deal more with performativity/performance art. Music may be also included in a deliberate way.


Music inspires me a lot. I also have works in reference to music. For example, there are things in my mind related to wind, the sound of it. First of all, I’m really impressed by wind itself. Secondly, the song “Wild is the Wind” really affects me. I listen to it repetitively. From time to time it enters into my dreams, as well. Besides that, I really don’t know how I will use music. It’s a big part of me. Making my own music is also another dream.


Last year was a busy year for you with lots of exhibitions. You also worked on making the archive of Gallery Nev Ankara. As an artist, what kind of experience is it to work in a gallery?


It’s really important to me. I’m being fed by that archive. Besides the exhibitions I follow there, I have the opportunity to see a well-done publication about an exhibition before the opening.


While observing the portfolios of the artists, I analyze the change in their works. It is like being a big brother in a way. Sometimes I write down a sentence that I see from these works and after a while an inspiration will derive from those specific words. In a letter of Yüksel Arslan written for Ali Artun, there was a drawing that gives important references to his work, postcards sent from NY by Hüseyin Alptekin; one may see what Abidin Dino had done and the change in him… With that archive I’m able to see the historical change in Turkey´s art history. Gallery Nev has a historical approach. This archive is like a treasure and I feel lucky.


After studying Communication and Design at the university, you finished your fine arts master at maHKU in Utrecht. How did you change in this very period?


Everything changed immensly. In a way, I identified myself. At this program one was expected to investigate herself/himself during the act of producing. This education helped me to understand how spontaneously I worked. I analyzed my boundaries. I worked differently before that. It was more like running across with a beautiful light/image and capturing it.


First, I was a little bit asocial, staying alone by myself for a period. Then nothing started to occur around me. This feeling of spontaneity vanished. There was a time during which it became hard to create. I then analyzed myself and saw that I became able to use this depression in a good way for my work as a tool. Before that education, I wasn’t interrogating myself as much as I was supposed to. There, I did that. Even though I like spontaneity in regards to being an artist, I should be more precise about what I come up with.


You have told me that you used to give importance in which city you live in, but now you think the ‘what’ and ‘how’ is more important than where you do it. What changed your mind?


When I was in Netherlands for MA studies, I was following the art scene of that city. All my friends, instructors had graduated from fine arts, unlike me. After getting used to that scene, turning back made me feel that I had gained a distance from everything. I wasn’t familiar with the art scene there and it was necessary for me to learn more about the art history in Turkey. This used to make me feel isolated. After coming back, I realized that


1256605 The D.O.P San Marzano tomato was born in a well-defined territory that includes 41 municipalities: the most important areas are the Agro Sarnese-Nocerino, Acerrano-Nolano, Pompeiana-Stabiese and Montorese. Only in this specific land you find the best conditions for the cultivation of San Marzano seedlings. In fact, the Mediterranean climate and the fertility of this land rich of volcanic debris are the essential elements for the perfect maturation of the San Marzano and the unique intensity of its flavor.


San Marzano tomatoes are known and appreciated all over the world not only for their unique taste, but also for their many health benefits. Suffice it to say that in America the name San Marzano is a synonym for tomatoes. For this reason, unfortunately there are many attempts to counterfeit this product.


Solania DOP San Marzano is a symbol of the authenticity and genuineness to bring all over the world.


The San Marzano Tomato from the Agro Sarnese-Nocerino has been awarded with the Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) since 1996, and thus it is protected against imitation, misuse or evocation, or against practices that could mislead consumers regarding the true origin of the product.<|endoftext|>Aligned to the countrywde mission “Swachh Bharat Abhiyan” for ensuring commitment to Cleanliness and Jago Grahak Jago, a Consumer Welfare movement, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), FACE in association with National Industry Partner Cargill India and other multi-stakeholder bodies Consumer Body VOICE, National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI) will be organizing a Safe Food Walkathon on Sunday, 13th March 2016, as a part of the Food Safety advocacy programs of Surakshit Khadya AbhiyanTM. The initiative is a Pan India Food Safety Awareness & Capacity Building Campaign to strengthen nationwide action on Safe Food for All.


Shri Ram Vilas Paswan, Hon’ble Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution launched the CII Surakshit Khadya AbhiyanTM on 21 July 2015 at Krishi Bhavan.


Subsequent to the launch of Surakshit Khadya AbhiyanTM, CII has started a series of “Safe Food for All” Walkathons and food safety programs with special sessions aimed at raising Consumer awareness on how to read and understand labels on the food packaging like “Best Before Dates”, “Expiry Dates”, “Storage Conditions” and the importance of appropriate Hygiene Practices, in addition to training sessions for Street Food Vendors, and industry.


The Walkathon would encompass several parallel activities comprising interactive demonstrations like those of appropriate Hand wash Practices, Personal and Food Hygiene Practices, Thematic Performances, Painting Competitions towards ensuring Safe Food.


The 6th Walkathon is scheduled in Pune on Sunday, 13th March 2016, Government Polytechnic Pune. We are expecting 1000+ people from all walks of life including industry people, Academia, General Consumer, street food vendors, senior citizens etc.


We are inviting VIPs and celebrities from sports and entertainment sectors to flag off the Walkathon. There would be parallel activities like sit and draw competition, Skits, quiz etc. We are also organizing a Competition for school students where they can participate in Painting & Dance Competition during the Walkathon. The theme for the competition would be “Safe and Hygienic Food for All”.


I would like to extend a cordial invitation to you to take advantage of this unique opportunity and participate in the Walkathon. You may send in your confirmation or nominate your colleagues at the earliest. Kindly note that there is no registration fee for the programme, however prior registration is must.<|endoftext|>It seems insufficient to judge photographer Henry Bond’s Lacan at the Scene as being merely good or bad, when what it is, really, is audacious. Bond presents 79 forensic photographs of British crime scenes from the 1950s. He examines visual clues in the images—a stiletto shoe, a handful of hairpins—and “diagnoses” the killer according to Jacques Lacan’s taxonomy of mental functioning as perverse, neurotic or psychotic. Embroidering his project are astonishing passages about Georges Bataille’s meditations on perversion and Walter Benjamin’s study of photography. Part of Slavoj Zizek’s “Short Circuits” series, the book is a bricolage of the sacred and profane.


The photographs themselves are nightmarish. Something terrible has happened in these rooms; strewn newspapers, a phone off the hook, and a beautifully set table are silent witnesses and clues. Bond explores these objects’ meanings, hoping to shed light on the killer’s motivations and psychology. In one image, he homes in on a cup of cold tea on the nightstand, the one item out of place in a meticulously tidied room. The killer convicted of the murder was the butler; the victim, his mistress (she was stuffed in the room’s wardrobe). The killer, it appears, brought the cup of tea into a room he’d already fastidiously cleaned, “to someone he knew to be dead.” Bond reads the gesture as an announcement of the “triumph over the designated law of master and servant”—a transgression which is the hallmark of a perverse killing.


While Bond’s interpretations occasionally strain credulity, his sensibility enthralls. His goal isn’t police work per se, but to reveal how humble objects at the margins of crime scenes become powerfully allusive and lend themselves to a narrative. Like a still-life painter, Bond illuminates the simple things we see every day, and in the process he allows us to discover our rich and various responses to them.


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But when it comes to many other sports, I’m less of a fair-weather fan than just a late-blooming fan. The major tennis events are fun to see in later rounds, after the wheat has separated itself the chaff. Same goes with basketball. When medals are on the line during the Olympics, I’m there. And I’ve even been known to put up with a Super Bowl or two, but mostly just to watch the outrageously-expensive ads.


Those same tendencies have exposed themselves recently with the World Cup. Now I played many years of AYSO soccer growing up. And when I was stricken with the chicken pox during the 1990 World Cup in Italy, I watched nearly every match (mostly because they were on TV when I couldn’t sleep at night). But I’m not what you’d call a big soccer (sorry, “football”) fan. I don’t own a soccer jersey, nor do I follow the sport. This year, I caught a match or two on TV, but hadn’t really paid that much attention.


But when it got down to the semifinals—with just four teams left out of 32—I found myself a little more interested. I watched as Italy defeated the host German team over the weekend in the waning minutes of overtime. And I cared enough to check the score of the France’s match against Portugal while at work Wednesday. When I got home, I thought I’d fire up the official FIFA 2006 World Cup site for video highlights of France’s victory. But when I tried to load the highlights using Firefox, instead of streaming kicks and blocks, I could barely make out the words “undefined/undefined” in white text on a grayish background. No luck.


As my colleague Cyrus Farivar has been covering at the Mac User blog, many users of the better platform have been having trouble playing videos from the Yahoo-hosted World Cup site. Always interested in a challenge, I decided to think like the majority of the world (it is the World Cup, after all), and give in to the Dark Side. I fired up my MacBook, launched the virtualization software Parallels Desktop for Mac, and then booted up a copy of Windows XP in a little window on my desktop. Windows prompted me to allow it to install the Flash plugin, which I did. I then picked the match I wanted, and the highlights played beautifully. So, for the people out who are asking why anyone would want to to install Windows on a Mac, there’s an example. Hardly worth the money if all you


Now one thing I learned from this card is I am not good AT ALL with border rubons! The one I used from Basic Grey was beautiful but I MURDERED it, the poor little thing. Oh, well I still love this card!


Thats it for now! If you have any questions feel free to leave a comment or email me! Thanks for stopping by! Have a good weekend.


Good morning everyone! Today I have a quick card I put together, enjoy! But before I get to the pictures, this goes with a few challenges! The first one is the Do you stack up? Challenge #34 where the challenge is boy or men only. Next is over at Paper Pretties Blog where the challenge was to make a background. And last but not least is the challenge over at the Paper Variety! Now on to the card.


This card is an A2 sized card, I will more likely be sending this to Operation Write Home (OWH) and you can read more on that here. The background of my card is gray cardstock and I stamped on it with an Imaginisce stamp in Color Box black ink.


The yellow patterned paper is from a clearence sale at a LSS. and the graph paper is K and Company. The sentiment is a Studio G Cling and its stamped in Color Box black ink also.


That's it for today and that's for sure because I'll be off to the opening day of the New York State Fair! Have a good day, thanks for stopping on by.


Hello everyone, today I have a cute card to share with you today! This is for a challenge over at the Christmas Crafting Blog. The challenge was to use some cute images and christmas obviously. So, here is my take on the challenge, and you still have time to enter it's a monthly challenge!


The whole card measures to be 4 1/4" by 5 1/2" (an A2 sized card) made of white cardstock. The background was a cute patterned 6x6 paper I got on clearence at a LSS. The blue paper on top of pop dots is cut to be 4" by 5 1/4" also picked up from the LSS. Then another layer of the snowflake paper (same as background) which is 1 1/2" by 4".


My little penguin here was stamped in black Color Box ink and colored in with colored pencils, man I WISH I had copics!! Lol. I cut out the penguin out with my Creative Memories oval cutter set. The sentiment stamped in same ink is an inkadinkado wood mount stamp that I cut out the swirls that were around it.


This is an A2 sized card base made of kraft cardstock. I used two McGill punches (flower and circle) on some of the papers I picked up from a yard sale (believed to be pocket full of posies by DCWV). I arranged the punche outs so no two of the same papers would touch, this part took me a while lol.


I then pulled out my creative memories oval cutter to cut the oval frame out of kraft cardstock. Then I stamped the sentiment, a hero arts stamp from a flip book, in Colorbox Dark Brown ink. I trimmed it down and hand cut the tails on the end.


Today I have a quick card I threw together using some scraps, you may even recognize them from past cards. Here it is!


Here's what I had before to choose from. In addition to the paper scraps I also used a stamp from Hero Arts (one of those flip book ones) called friend and I stamped it in Colorbox black ink.


At the bottom I used my exacto knife to put small slits in the back of my patterned paper to thread my trim (which happens to be kite string) in a criss-cross pattern.


A close up of the stamps, ink, and kite string! Along with these items I used orange, white, and purple cardstock.<|endoftext|>You can now add carbon fiber to the list of finishes available on select Stampede Sidewind Deflectors and Vigilante Premium Hood Protectors. This new finish instantly adds a high-performance look to any vehicle. For more details and application compatibility click here. Stampede Automotive Accessories designing and manufacturing the highest quality Accessories. Download the complete 2016...


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Thank you. To every single person who has showed any and all support with my mental illness: thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I do not think I am capable of fully expressing how grateful I am for your warmth. It has helped enormously, even though I am not always in the state to say it. Every single kind word is heard and appreciated. This post does not undermine that at all.


I know that sometimes it will be a drag to hear, yet again, that my mental health is in a rut. I know that you sometimes feel as if you are repeating yourself when you try to support me. I'm sorry about that. I am trying, and you are trying, and I hope that we can help each other try.


This post is my attempt to help you try. I hope it clears up some of what is going through my head when I tell you that today is a sad day. And I hope it clears up the words you can say to truly help me feel better.


Please don't ask me if I am okay. If you have to ask, the answer is probably no. And then I will lie and say that yes, of course I am okay, because even now it makes me supremely uncomfortable to admit when I am suffering. Instead: tell me that you are thinking of me. Tell me that you understand life is hard right now, and that you love me anyway. Tell me the kind things you think I already know, because chances are I have forgotten them. A reminder will never go astray.


Please don't tell me you are here if I need to talk. That is so very lovely of you, but if you feel the need to say it, that probably means I am drowning in anxiety at this very moment and am spinning excuse after excuse about why you will hate me if I email you. Instead: you could email me first. Reach out. Make the invitation. Perhaps I won't email you back, because another person making the first move does not eliminate anxiety altogether. But it does help alleviate it, if only the slightest bit.


Please don't tell me I should stop worrying, or that there is nothing to be sad about. I know I should stop worrying. I know there is nothing to be sad about. The fact that I cannot stop obsessing over and crying at tiny things is why I was diagnosed with these disorders in the first place. Please don't make me feel like an idiot for something I have no control over. Instead: acknowledge the things I am sad about or anxious over. Even if it is nothing, even if today is just an inexplicably grey day, that does not make my emotions less valid. Remind me of that. Let me know that it is okay to be like this. I forget, too.


Please don't constantly ask me to answer your message. I realise that I am a slow responder. I am not the best at answering emails or messages or questions, especially when my mind is fogged. But there is nothing that ratchets up the anxiety more than constant repetition. Instead: the best, most wonderful words in the English language are "no pressure". I put so much pressure on myself already, especially fuelled by the assumptions of the pressure I think you are going to put on me. Please tell me that I can move at my own pace and you will still love me anyway. That is the most freeing thing in the world.


I will reiterate: if you have said any of the things above, know that I adore you to no end, still, no matter what. All of us make mistakes. It is not your fault. Please keep trying. So will I.


And, at last, when you are in doubt, here are the words that will help no matter what, in any situation when my mental illness is getting the better of me:


This is perhaps the most beautiful and open-ended question I have ever received. Someone I love said it to me and I tucked it away, because I wish everyone had the sensitivity to know that this was exactly what I needed to be asked. It is productive and proactive. If you truly would like to help me, invite me to tell you what I need, specifically, to help me with healing right this very moment.


That is okay. When I say I don't know, usually it means I just want your support. Sometimes that is the best thing you can give. Sometimes it is the only thing you can give. My mental illness is me hanging onto a rock face by my fingernails, with a hundred-pound weight on my back.


Your support is not going to haul me onto solid ground. But it will lessen the weight. And sometimes, that is enough.<|endoftext|>I just watched the AT Indie movie


1256607  money from companies with a financial interest in separate vaccination, and had also received payment from legal firms representing parents of autistic children. Several other groups failed to find any evidence of measles in the intestines of autistic children. Epidemiological studies showed no association between MMR vaccination and autism. But the damage had been done. The scare caused the vaccination rate in Britain to drop below the crucial figure of 90 per cent required to maintain “herd immunity” and the country saw a dramatic rise in clinical measles infection. Measles is generally a benign, self-limiting condition, but a small proportion of infected children will develop meningitis or encephalitis and suffer permanent brain damage or even death. There is no doubt that children died as a result of Wakefield’s claims. He was eventually struck off by the General Medical Council, and is now based in America, where he works in a private autism clinic, and remains a hero to parents of autistic children. He wasn’t the only casualty: John Walker-Smith, one of eleven co-authors, the “senior clinical investigator” of Wakefield’s Lancet paper, and a distinguished paediatric gastroenterologist, was also struck off by the GMC – after he had retired. (Britain takes a peculiar delight in the defrocking of the great and the good.)


Collins invokes the concept of “downward discrimination”: “even a minor expert can recognize certain kinds of mistakes even if they are not acknowledged by the party making them”. Collins, while acknowledging his own lack of medical expertise, observes that his general knowledge of science “is enough for me to say that the observation of half a dozen autistic children with measles virus in their gut could not establish a link between MMR and autism. In fact, it amounted to no evidence whatsoever on the relationship between MMR and autism.” Like Thabo Mbeki’s take on AIDS, this was a counterfeit scientific controversy: “There simply was no science on Wakefield’s side and this was a shameful episode in newspaper history.”


In America, celebrity “autism mom” Jenny McCarthy appeared on CNN’s Larry King show to tell viewers how her son developed autism after the MMR vaccine: “I came home, he had a fever, he stopped speaking, and then he became autistic.” Autism activists claimed there was a conspiracy involving the vaccine manufacturers and the epidemiologists who rubbished Wakefield’s work. “The crucial point,” writes Collins, “is that conspiracies are all that we are left with: however much parents feel they have the evidence of vaccination’s dangers before their very eyes, they are wrong. The only kind of expertise left to us in such a case is meta-expertise. What kind of meta-expertise is it? Is it ubiquitous discrimination – the ability to see a shifty look in the eyes of doctors and epidemiologists or some such? Let us hope not because that is far too unreliable a basis for a decision of such magnitude.” If Jenny McCarthy and her supporters truly believe in such a conspiracy, we would need, observes Collins, “the equivalent of a Watergate investigation rather than the felt certainties of a parent, however emotionally convincing those feelings are”.


The MMR story also shed light on the shockingly poor standard of reporting of health issues in the British press. What I find more worrying, and an issue which Collins fails to raise, is why the Lancet decided to publish Wakefield’s paper back in 1998. The journal rejects the vast majority of submissions without even sending them out for peer review. Wakefield’s study was small, uncontrolled, anecdotal, the sort of meretricious stuff that usually doesn’t get past the front desk. Why, then, was it sent out for peer review? How did it get past peer review? Peer review – the practice of sending papers out to be reviewed by experts in the same field – is, according to Richard Smith, who edited the British Medical Journal (BMJ) for many years, “slow, expensive, ineffective, something of a lottery, prone to bias and abuse, and hopeless at spotting errors and fraud”. What motivated the Lancet editor, Richard Horton, to go ahead and publish Wakefield’s paper? Richard Smith observed: “The values of both science and journalism, for example, might favour publication of a weak study with a conclusion that could cause a ‘scare’ among the public – because publication and debate are fundamental values to both. In contrast, medical values, which put a strong emphasis on ‘doing no harm’, might favour waiting until stronger evidence emerged. “Did Horton get carried away with a hot new sensational story for the soar-away Lancet? The warning signs were flashing red even as the Lancet went to press: in an invited commentary on Wakefield’s paper, published in the same issue, Robert Chen and Frank DeStefano, vaccine experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, wrote: “Vaccine safety concerns such as that reported by Wakefield and colleagues may snowball into societal tragedies when the media and the public confuse association with causality and shun immunization.”


The Lancet and the BMJ are old rivals. Richard Smith gleefully recounts: “In one phone call in December 2002 I had to tell the editor of the Lancet that I had compelling evidence that two major trials he had published were fraudulent.” As the MMR story unfolded, there was a Gadarene rush on the part of Wakefield’s co-researchers to dissociate themselves from the paper. In 2004, ten of Wakefield’s eleven co-authors took the unprecedented step of writing to the Lancet to “retract the interpretation” that MMR vaccine might cause autism: “We wish to make it clear that in this paper no causal link was established between MMR vaccine and autism as the data were insufficient.” In the same issue, Richard Horton wrote: “It seems obvious now that had we appreciated the full context in which the work reported in the 1998 Lancet paper by Wakefield and colleagues was done, publication would not have taken place in the way that it did. These are difficult judgements to make in hindsight.” Wakefield was struck off by the GMC in January 2010, and a week later, the Lancet announced in its editorial section: “we fully retract this paper from the published record”. If you go to the Lancet website now, the word “RETRACTED” covers all five pages of the paper in large bold red capitals, the word written diagonally across the page.


Ben Goldacre wrote about the Wakefield saga in Bad Science (2008): “It was the perfect story, with a single charismatic maverick fighting against the system, a Galileo-like figure; there were elements of risk, of awful personal tragedy, and of course, the question of blame.” For Goldacre, the story is emblematic of the British media’s lamentable understanding of scientific stories: “Science coverage is further crippled, of course, by the fact that the subject can be quite difficult to understand. This in itself can seem like an insult to intelligent people, like journalists, who fancy themselves as able to understand most things …”


Collins, although he does not admit it in Are We All Scientific Experts Now, started out as a keen “Wave 2” defrocker of science’s priestly caste. His views are now closer to “Wave 1”. He argues that now we need a “Wave 3” of science studies: “To understand science one has to set aside scientific fraudsters, scientists who are driven primarily by greed and scientists who are driven by fame. We have to set aside the muscular capitalists who proclaim that science is primarily about the generation of wealth. We have to set aside the theoreticians who allow themselves limitless licence to speculate, and the wild-eyed Darwinists. We have to set aside media scientists, lobbying scientists and small groups who meet to slap each other on the back because they are all so clever and can see the future. Like the paedophile priests, none of these represent what the profession of science is about … we have to look for those whose prime goal is to find out what the world is made of.”


Collins, in the end, is a great defender of the idea of science: “In their moment-to-moment actions scientists may act in a mundane way but the spirit of science is still ‘divine’. It is what science is aiming for that matters and so long as this ideal drives the actions of most scientists most of the time, then Wave 1 of science studies was not so far out in its respect for the norms and values of science ... The trick that has to be learned is to treat science as special without telling fairy stories about it. This is the project called ‘Wave 3’ of science studies.” Individual scientists may be venal and self-seeking, but “science” is characterised by honesty, integrity, universalism, a willingness to expose one’s ideas to the scrutiny of others and “disinterestedness”. None of these descriptions apply, for example, to anti-vaccine campaigners. Collins however, seems to regard all “scientists” as belonging to one single, recognisable group. This strikes me as an oversimplification. I am not entirely convinced that the lessons Collins has learned from his long study of gravitational-wave physicists apply, for example, to medical researchers. I suspect that Collins’s tame physicists embody the lofty ideals of science more than these and other science sub-groups.


We are not all scientific


1256608  Rome. It reminds me of Paul's warning to the believers in Galatia when he wrote: "If anyone preaches any other Good News than the one you welcomed, let that person be cursed." In these admonitions we see the heart of a shepherd protecting the flock from wolves those who would drag believers back to the bondage of law and ethnic salvation.


In the context of such warnings the apostle speaks of God crushing Satan under their feet as they do right and stay innocent of any wrong. This again speaks to me of a shepherd protecting his flock from wolves. When we listen to the smooth talk and glowing words of false teachers we wander from the sheep fold. But when we obey Christ, and stay in the fold, we are not only protected from attack but realize that God is crushing the enemy of our souls.


I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a deacon in the church in Cenchrea. Welcome her in the Lord as one who is worthy of honor among God’s people. Help her in whatever she needs, for she has been helpful to many, and especially to me. Give my greetings to Priscilla and Aquila, my co-workers in the ministry of Christ Jesus. In fact, they once risked their lives for me. I am thankful to them, and so are all the Gentile churches. ... Greet each other in Christian love. All the churches of Christ send you their greetings. -Romans 16:1-4,16 NLT


I love how Paul singles out several women in Rome as he commends Phoebe to them. I think that it is sad how some religious groups have rejected the ministry of women using the words of Paul to disenfranchise them. Interesting to note that this discrimination does not exist in the Kingdom of God. Even those who reject women in "church" leadership accept their leadership in the corporate world. Women like Phoebe must be honored in every part of God's Kingdom.


As Paul ends his letter to the Romans he mentions many by name - in between verses four and sixteen he mentions dozens. This speaks to me of how close Paul's relationship to these Romans was. He speaks of Jews who were in prison with him and he greets several house churches. He mentions hard workers and people who even risked their lives for him. This fellowship that he has with them seems so alien to the ones that I have often encountered at churches.


Help us Lord to know how to acknowledge and bless the ones who have meant so much in our spiritual life.


But before I come, I must go to Jerusalem to take a gift to the believers there. For you see, the believers in Macedonia and Achaia have eagerly taken up an offering for the poor among the believers in Jerusalem. ... Dear brothers and sisters, I urge you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to join in my struggle by praying to God for me. Do this because of your love for me, given to you by the Holy Spirit. -Romans 15:25-26,30 NLT


Thousand of missionaries over thousands of years have been inspired by the travels of the Apostle Paul. Many who preach the gospel in other lands solicit donations for the work that they do in those places. I support several friends in other lands. That said, it is interesting to note here that the offering given to him was for "the poor among the believers in Jerusalem". I so admire this kind of love and care for distant believers, be they workers or those needing care.


I must admit, I find it easier to support those who serve overseas with money and often neglect to support them in prayer. Sometimes I think that is because I do not see their lives all that different than I see mine. Unlike Paul, these do not seem to struggle with enemies who try to kill them and thwart their ministry. That said, I believe that we are called by God to join in the struggles of others by praying for them. In this we show our God given love for those both near and far.


Open our eyes to the ways that other struggle Lord. Help us to join those struggle by praying for them.


I am fully convinced, my dear brothers and sisters, that you are full of goodness. You know these things so well you can teach each other all about them. Even so, I have been bold enough to write about some of these points, knowing that all you need is this reminder. For by God’s grace, I am a special messenger from Christ Jesus to you Gentiles. I bring you the Good News so that I might present you as an acceptable offering to God, made holy by the Holy Spirit. ... My ambition has always been to preach the Good News where the name of Christ has never been heard, rather than where a church has already been started by someone else. -Romans 15:14-16,20 NLT


Paul is beginning to wind down his letter to the Romans. He has spent much of his message speaking about the equality of the Gentiles and the Jews with respect to salvation. In a sense he is imparting his ministry to the ones that he himself has ministered to as he reminds them that he knows first hand that they are full of goodness. I love the way that Paul's ministry resembled the ministry of Christ. Like Jesus he made disciples by pouring himself into others.


I think that the apostle is calling the Romans to a similar process of disciple making. He builds them up by saying that they know his teachings so well that they are able to teach them to others. In these few words he seems to be inviting them to join him in the mission of pouring themselves into the lives of others. It reminds me that teaching is not enough unless what we have learned is shared with others in the context of a loving, disciple making, relationship.


Help us to make disciples the way that you made them Lord. Help us to follow the example that Paul writes of.


Therefore, accept each other just as Christ has accepted you so that God will be given glory. Remember that Christ came as a servant to the Jews to show that God is true to the promises he made to their ancestors. He also came so that the Gentiles might give glory to God for his mercies to them. -Romans 15:7-9 NLT


Ever think about the way that Jesus came to the earth? Who could have ever imagined that the Messiah would come as a servant and not as one who is served? The image of Jesus washing the feet of his disciples at the last supper challenges every concept of leadership that most people embrace. I think that this is one of the reasons that people did not recognize God when he came in the flesh. Most were expecting a warrior lion and not a servant lamb.


And as much as the Jews were amazed by this, I think that even more were amazed when the gospel began to be proclaimed to the Gentiles. Spiritual life had always been a purview of ethnic Israel and many had trouble believing that salvation extended past their borders. I wonder if we, like ancient Jews, are guilty of embracing a gospel that is too narrow in scope? Perhaps we would do well to heed Paul's admonition to accept each other as Christ accepts us?


"I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit." -Romans 15:13 NLT


One of the greatest misunderstandings that believers labor under these days is that we should love our neighbors as ourselves. The commandment to love God and love our neighbors is often promulgated by some as the Great Commandment. In the gospel of John, we read that the Lord Jesus gave a new commandment to love as He loves. Paul seems to echo that sentiment here when he says that we should "accept each other just as Christ has accepted you".


This kind of love and acceptance is the kind of love that glorifies God. Jesus said "If you love only those who love you, what reward is there for that? Even corrupt tax collectors do that much." Before anyone ever confessed their love for God, He loved them first. When we were alienated and hostile towards Him, he pursued us in love. We would do well to examine the way that we love and determine whether our love life is the kind that glorifies the Lord.


Glorify your name in all the earth. Pour out your Spirit again that we might love in a way that glorifies your name.


We who are strong must be considerate of those who are sensitive about things like this. We must not just please ourselves. We should help others do what is right and build them up in the Lord. For even Christ didn't live to please himself. As the Scriptures say, “The insults of those who insult you, O God, have fallen on me.” Such things were written in the Scriptures long ago to teach us. And the Scriptures give us hope and encouragement as we wait patiently for God’s promises to be fulfilled. May God, who gives this patience and encouragement, help you live in complete harmony with each other, as is fitting for followers of Christ Jesus. -Romans 15:1-5 NLT


These verses remind me that peace comes at the hands of the strong. Those who are confident in the Lord do not feel a need to constantly defend themselves or attack the beliefs of others. People who are spiritually strong demonstrate God's love for others in patience and encouragement. These who pump spiritual iron do it for others and not for themselves - their prayer and study of the scriptures is not to help themselves but to help those who struggle.


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Tactical used to mean heavy duty. Now, it's a marketing term. Obviously, the more something costs the better built it's going to be.... In most cases. I wouldn't replace my TLR1 with something off of eBay, but my uses are a little different in nature than most.


I don't think of it as a necessity either. Personally I would just love to have a flashlight instead of the laser sight. I'm a pretty good shot without a laser. The laser sight is helpful for most people, but you cant really use it if its to dark to see what your trying to aim at. But if you have a flashlight at least you can see what your trying to shoot.


Something that would noun like the laser that's already out there that would use the lights similar to the Taurus Curve would be great!


I also don't think a mounted light is necessary, and I'd only attach it when I go to bed, but to have it and not compromise your grip would be of some value.


I'd hold off on flashlights for now. LEDs are going through some changes to make them better and there have been patents filled recently for a flashlight powered strictly by body heat. I'd imagine that in a few years we'll have one that the warmth from a gun barrel would keep charged nicely.


That said I'd NOT want the light on the gun unless it had another purpose as well such as the blinking lights that disorient people. I just don't see it being too practical. You need light to move around and you don't want to walk around with the gun out unless you are doing a very specific range activity.


mkiker2089 wrote: I just don't see it being too practical. You need light to move around and you don't want to walk around with the gun out unless you are doing a very specific range activity.


Unless you are clearing your home after you heard glass breaking in the middle of the night. I would prefer to have my firearm at the ready instead of in the holster with my hands on a separate flashlight. If you are using your firearm mounted flashlight for routine utility lighting, then you are special.


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