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Bouxwiller: Alsace off the Beaten Path
Upper Church
Bouxwiller is the centre of the so-called Hanauerland in Alsace,a picturesque small town of about 4,000 inhabitants in Northern (Lower) Alsace, département Bas-Rhin. The centre consists mostly of half-timbered houses, walls painted in the typical ochre and reddish colours, and narrow lanes. This quaint little town would deserve more attention, but it is rather unnoticed by most visitors because it is located too far away from the tourist areas on the wine route. Its history is closely connected with the German County of Hanau, which is the reason why the area is known as Hanauerland.
Hanau? Isn't that somewhere near Frankfurt?
Indeed, it is. At some point in the late middle ages, due to the last daughter from the noble house of Lichtenberg, the area became property of the Counts of Hanau to form the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg. Its history is quite complicated, in particular after King Louis XIV of France annexed Alsace. From 1680 onwards, the territory was under French suzerainty. Contracts, in particular the Westphalian Peace Treaty, guaranteed the rights of the Count of Hanau, including religion – the country had introduced the Reformation and followed the Lutheran faith. However, Louis XIV intended to return the Roman-Catholic faith to these areas. French soldiers and civil servants and new settlers who moved in were French-speaking and catholic. Conversions were encouraged, the Lutherans found themselves under tight pressure. Nevertheless the Lutheran faith remained.
The village of Kirrwiller with its two churches:
Catholic (left) and Lutheran (right)
The King's measures to protect and promote Catholicism included the rule that, as soon as seven families lived in a village or town, the local parish church had to be opened to them. Most churches became simultaneous churches, which means that the Catholics used the choir for their mass, while the Protestants used the nave for their services – not at the same time, of course. In some places this arrangement has remained to this very day, while in others one of the two confessions was later able to build a church of their own like, as depicted above, in nearby Kirrwiller.
Only in Buchsweiler (I am using the German name here as it was in use at that time) the problem did not occur: The town had two churches. The Upper Church on the hillside, unused since the Reformation, was given to the Catholic parish community while the Lutheran Protestants kept the Lower Church in the centre of the town.
Niederkirche
This church plays a certain role in my dissertation and a couple of other publications, hence my particular interest in it – and the need for new digital photos.
Bouxwiller is tricky to reach by public transport, though. There is no railway line, and bus connections are not too frequent. Hence I grabbed the chance when an excursion by coach was offered, and quickly signed up. This excursion was organized by an association of church music supporters and focused on the organs. It involved seeing the churches in Bouxwiller and Wissembourg, lunch and a guided tour of the town in Wissembourg (unfortunately not in Bouxwiller!) and, first of all, private concerts for the group with a top-class organist who also explained the instruments. I love music so this was a welcome plus.
Interior of the Lutheran Niederkirche with the Silbermann organ
Niederkirche, the "lower church", dates from the early 17th century, 1613–1614 to be precise. It is classified as the first new protestant church that was built in the whole of Alsace. Since then it has undergone some refurbishments and changes, though.
The baroque spire on top of the steeple is an addition of 1728. The steeple appears rather oversized when looking up from nearby. However, since it is standing at the lowest point of the "bowl" the town is located in, it has to be this high in order to be visible over the rooftops. In particular since the Roman Catholics had the Upper Church on the hillside which overlooks the whole town.
In the interior, for example, it is not clear whether, and since when, the altar had not been standing in the east but in front of the pulpit. The large organ and the Prince's box below are additions from 1778. The instrument was created by a famous master organ builder, Johann Andreas Silbermann. Trust me, its sound is fabulous.
While everyone else took their seats on the pegs down in the nave, I was up on the gallery to take photos when the concert started, so I sat down up there all by myself. It felt like having a concert played for me alone…
Autumn colours along a country road in Hanauerland
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Biking the Kraichgau for the First (and Probably Last) Time
The Kraichgau is hilly. Very very hilly. And not really suitable for bicycles unless the rider is a trained sportsman/woman.This was no news to me. Nevertheless I had to learn this truth the hard way…
I attended a conference in Bretten at the Melanchthon Academy. Since Bretten is so close, I commuted from home every day. On the last day, the conference was scheduled to end at lunchtime. The weather forecast promised us the most fabulous Golden October. So, how to make use of this glorious weather? Go on a bike tour.
In the morning I took my bike with me on the S-Bahn, packed some picknick supplies and enough water. After the conference ended, I boarded my bike and headed towards Karlsruhe. The plan was following the marked bike trails parallel to the S-Bahn line and bike as far as I'd enjoy it, and board the S-Bahn at the nearest stop if I'd get too tired. In the back of my mind I had the ambitious plan, though, to cycle all the way home… which would sum up to more than 30 kilometres.
Using a map for cyclists with marked tours, I found my trail. Leaving Bretten, I already had to climb the first long ascent. The Kraichgau lived up to its reputation as a landscape of rolling hills: up and down, up and down...
Those hills almost killed me. I was trembling all over. A rest on a bench and the first half of the picknick helped, as well as the decision not to tackle the ascents by force but to get off the bike and push it (that's why they call it "pushbike"?) as soon as the ascent got harder.
The landscape was bathing in sunshine and autumn colours. The leaves are currently turning colour, the most beautiful phase of autumn is setting in. Some are still green but many are already golden.
Reaching the village of Wössingen, I had to make a decision: Either to board the tram there, continue along the track via Jöhlingen on the longer route which had nasty ascents marked on the map, or take the direct route through the forest over the ridge named Hohberg, which aslo had ascents marked on the map. I picked my courage and energy, and opted for the Hohberg route. Since my general direction was down towards the Pfinz valley, I hoped there would be a short ascent and a much longer descent. And so it was. It was a relatively short stretch to push uphill.
This route took me straight to Berghausen in the Pfinz valley. I had covered half the distance to home because I live on the opposite side of Karlsruhe, but the worst part was over. From there onwards the trail would be flat except for a few bridges.
I am very proud of myself: I made it home on my bike. For an unsporty fattie like me, a bike tour of 30 kilometres is something to be as proud of as of a marathon run. Since the whole ride took me, including two breaks, three and a half hours, it somehow equals a marathon…
But the next bike tour will take place in the Rhine plain or on a valley bottom. Certainly not in the Kraichgau!
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Flehingen: 2 Villages, 3 Churches, 2 minus 1 Castles
The village in the Kraichgau hills that is now named "Flehingen" actually consists of two separate villages: Flehingen and Sickingen. In the 1930s they were united and Sickingen lost its name. Each of the two was owned by a noble family with the same name, both with the status of Imperial Knights, thus rulers of a territory within the Holy Roman Empire. Each of the families had a castle in their village which was later refurbished into a palace. Flehingen castle now serves as a centre for seminars and conventions. Sickingen castle, though, is demolished and gone.
Flehingen
Schloss Flehingen substituted an older water castle that was burnt down in 1504. It was rebuilt in the 1560s and then refurbished several times. The crest above the portal shows the date 1722. It belonged to the local noble family von Flehingen, later Wolff-Metternich zu Gracht.
The palace consists of four wings around what used to be an inner courtyard, and four towers at the corners. It used to be surrounded by a moat with water, as the bridge to the main portal still indicates.
The interior of the palace cannot be visited. There is no need to grieve because of that, though, because there is absolutely nothing inside that would be worth visiting. In the 19th century the noble owners sold it to the municipality. The building then served for several purposes and was in the end converted into a home for difficult boys. In recent years the interior underwent more changes, the courtyard was covered with a glass roof and the rooms were turned into guest apartments: Schloss Flehingen nowadays serves as a centre for seminars and conventions. A side building, erected in the early 20th century, contains the dining hall and kitchen. Then there is a modern building with seminar rooms and other side buildings with more accommodation.
The protestant church of Flehingen was built in 1825. It substituted an older predecessor which was in bad shape and too small for the growing community, or better communities: Since the late 17th century both Protestants and Catholics used the church. The old governors, the Knights of Flehingen, had introduced the reformation in Flehingen around 1530 but their heirs, the von Wolff-Metternich, were Roman Catholic and enforced their faith. Both communities alternated in the use of the church until the Catholics built their new parish church on the opposite hill in 1910. The main altar still shows the case of the former tabernacle at the foot of the cross.
The church contains a number of 16th and 17th century tombstones of Knights and Ladies of Flehingen that originate from the burial vault underneath the old church.
The church is closed except for services, an appointment with the parish is needed to see it. Since the parson is not living here but in Zaisenhausen the average visitor will not want to take the effort. In case you have special interest in the church, contact the protestant parish in Zaisenhausen.
Along the street that leads to the train station, a post office was installed around 1900. The building has long ceased to be a post office, it is a residential house. However, the facade still bears the (renewed) crest of the German Empire and the inscription "Kaiserliches Postamt" (Imperial Post Office).
A few years later the Catholic parish community built their kindergarten, new church and parsonage next to it. The Catholic community of Flehingen finally fulfilled their dream of having a church of their own shortly before World War I after having shared a church with the Protestants for more than 200 years. They bought some real estate on the hill opposite the centre of the village and the Protestant church and first built a kindergarten and housing for the nuns who run it in 1905. A few years later they started the church. The architect was Johannes Schroth, a renowned architect from Karlsruhe. He designed the church and the adjacent parsonage in a mix of neo-Romanesque and art nouveau style. The three buildings form an impressive group that overlooks the village.
The Catholic Church of St Martin was consecrated in 1911. The interior shows almost byzantine forms. World War I and the following economic crisis inhibited the completion of the decorum. Only in 1932/33 the vaults could be painted. The frescoes by Franz Schilling are still pre-Nazi but the spirit of those times can already be anticipated.
The church is the main catholic parish church and can be expected to be open in the daytime, but if you want to make sure better contact the parish in advance, address and everything are on their website: http://kath-se-sickingen.de/html/pfarramt597.html?& They are in charge of both catholic churches in Flehingen and Sickingen as well as three other villages.
Sickingen
Border stobne with
Sickingen coat of arms
Sickingen used to be a village of its own with a castle of its own, home to the noble family von Sickingen. The family had to sell their property in the 19th century and finally died out. The castle, later a water palace, fell in ruins and was finally demolished. There is nothing left of Sickingen Palace. It was located in the valley by the creek where the modern festival hall has been built. Only the village church remained.
In 1936 Sickingen lost its independence and was united with neighbouring Flehingen. Worse than that, Sickingen even lost its name and became part of Flehingen. Painful for the Sickinger inhabitants because these two villages have always been rivals. It's only small comfort that in the meantime the same has also happened to Flehingen in the 1970s when the united village became part of Oberderdingen.
The memory is kept alive. Information boards, actually in German and English, have been placed by the stair to the church. The inhabitants are proud of the history of their village and its knightly family. The Knights of Sickingen had the status of imperial knights and then barons and ruled a territory with property not only here but also West of the Rhine around the Nahe valley and in the Palatinate Hills. They were related to the neighbours von Flehingen and used the same crest. The most famous representant of the family was Franz von Sickingen, imperial office, robber-knight and supporter of the reformation, a colourful figure who died a dramatic death in 1523 after his campaign against the mighty Archbishop of Trier failed.
The Catholic Church of St Maria Magdalena in Sickingen is the oldest of the three churches in the double village. Its construction took place in the earliest era of the reformation. Rumours have it that this church was the first ever protestant church building but... there is a "but".
Several Imperial Knights in the Kraichgau region were among the followers of Luther and among the first territorial rulers who introduced the Protestant lore in their villages and churches. The construction of the church dates from 1523 (date in the vault of the choir). One member of the Sickingen family, the (in)famous Franz von Sickingen, is known as an ardent supporter of the reformation. However, the village of Sickingen did not belong to him but to his uncle Konrad who wisely stayed away from his relative's military adventures. Thus, although Franz had Lutheran church services celebrated in his realm already in 1522, the church of Sickingen must be considered a catholic church. However, the village turned protestant soon after.
Details are not known, there is a lot of confusion about the history of Sickingen, both the family and the village. Even genealogy is not clear, every researcher published a different version of the family tree. The archive is lost so this will remain unknown. Next-door Flehingen got its first Lutheran preacher in 1530.
The church in Sickingen stayed Lutheran-protestant until the early 17th century - again, the excact date is unknown resp. the dates given are contradictory - when the Sickingen family converted to the Roman Catholic confession. Since then the church has been Roman Catholic.
Lucia von Andlau (+ 1547)
As usual at residences of noble families, the church contains their tombs. The Sickingen tombs in the choir, however, are elaborate art works high above the usual level. These are the church's greatest treasures with their exquisite stone carved figures. The defunct are presented almost life-size, the men dressed in armour, the women in festive clothing according to the Spanish court fashion. To be noted:
- tomb of Lucia von Andlau, died 1547, wife of Franz Konrad von Sickingen
- tomb of Hans von Sickingen, elder brother of Franz Konrad, died 1547
- the 7 metres high quadruple monument of Franz the Younger von Sickingen and his wife Anna Maria von Venningen and, above, their son Schweickard with his wife Maria Magdalena von Kronberg, created around 1610
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Aaron Miller is the Rides editor for Supercompressor, and can be found on Twitter. His dad owned the first Dan Gurney-edition Cougar XR7 in Dallas, but it wound up upside down on Central Expressway.


Does the Holy Spirit Want to be the Center of Attention?
A dear friend of mine is an excellent teacher and much-loved by our community, but he is also a very humble man who does not like it when people make a big fuss over him. In some ways, he'd like to be able to do his ministry and fade away without being praised. His being dragged into the limelight against his will recently, paired with the arrival of Pentecost, brought me a new insight about how the Holy Spirit might feel. The Holy Spirit is known as "the shy member of the Trinity"1, but He is often fêted these days by those who tend to a more Charismatic or Pentecostal bent; and our more Spirit-focused siblings have brought Him to the attention of the rest of us. But the question is, does the Spirit really want to be the center of attention?
Consider, when Jesus introduces the Spirit to the disciples in John 14, Jesus makes the following statement: "When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak whatever He hears. He will also declare to you what is to come. He will glorify Me, because He will take from what is Mine and declare it to you." (Joh 16:13-14 – HCSB) In speaking on this passage, C.H. Spurgeon makes the point that, "It is the chief office of the Holy Spirit to glorify Christ."2 These statements make it clear that the Spirit, for all His indispensable ministry and power, prefers to be out of the limelight. It is also of note, that there is no prayer recorded in Scripture for the Holy Spirit to come to us. Neither is there any prayer in Scripture where anyone specifically asks God to send the Spirit on people; courage, yes, wisdom, yes, power, yes, but not the Spirit (see here the prototypical "Spirit prayer" in Ac. 4:23-31). Perhaps we need to rethink how we pray and how we glorify the Spirit, giving primacy to the One whom the Spirit glorifies and thanking Him for His silent, hidden ministry while allowing Him to stay out of the limelight.
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1. Frederick Dale Bruner and William Hordern, The Holy Spirit: Shy Member of the Trinity. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Augsburg Publishing House, 1984.
2. Charles Haddon Spurgeon, "The Holy Spirit's Chief Office", The Spurgeon Archive < http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/2382.php > (accessed 2017-05-30).


In the 1600s, African slaves were brought to Statia to cultivate the land which was divided into 70 plantations. It took almost three centuries before this cruel practice was abolished and one of the tangible reminders of this period that can still be found are the trade beads, also known as slave beads. These colourful and decorative glass beads were used between the 16th and 20th centuries as a currency to exchange for human cargo as well as ivory, gold and other goods desired in Europe and the rest of the world. They formed an important piece of an early trade network linking Europe and Africa. The beads did not have a set design and were made according to demand throughout Europe, although the Venetians dominated production. They were produced by creating flowers or stripes from glass that were then cut and moulded onto a core of solid coloured glass. The success of this form of currency can largely be attributed to the high intrinsic value African peoples placed on decorative items as the art of glass making was uncommon in Africa, making them unusual and precious. For the Europeans the beads proved to be a cheap and efficient means of exploiting African resources. And although most beads are cheap, common and simple, it's still a great pleasure to find these echoes of the past in the sand, especially after a fierce storm. Just remember that in the old days a handful of these insignificant baubles were as prestigious and valuable then as a fist full of diamonds today. Slaves would fight fiercely over these beads as marriage could be bought when a slave had amassed enough beads to wrap around a woman's waist.


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Amate Reposado has all the quality of the Amate Silver, but it's been aged in American white oak barrels to develop a more full, robust flavor.
To make Asombroso Añejo 5 Gran Reserva, we age our silver tequila for five years in new French oak barrels. This imparts rich vanilla, caramel, and toffee tasting notes to the tequila.
Asombroso La Rosa is a Reposado tequila that's been rested for three months in French oak casks that were previously used for Bordeaux wine. The Bordeaux casks give La Rosa a pink color and add a sweetness to the spicy and peppery agave.


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State of the State: With no budget, Gov. Rauner repeats calls for reform, 'grand compromise'
Doug Finke
doug.finke@sj-r.com
SPRINGFIELD — On Wednesday, Gov. Bruce Rauner called on lawmakers to work past the "difficult" 2015 year in the Legislature and work together to reach a "grand compromise" in 2016 to turn around the state.
However, during his 35-minute state of the state speech, his second as governor, Rauner repeated the need to pass components of his "turnaround agenda" that has so far resulted in gridlock at the Capitol, leaving the state without a budget in place seven months into the fiscal year.
That budget gridlock was reflected by the hundreds of protesters who chanted slogans outside the House chamber while Rauner delivered his speech. They were members of the Responsible Budget Coalition, which has tried to underscore the damage being done to not-for-profit human service organizations and higher education because of the budget impasse.
"If each of us commits to serious negotiation based on our mutual respect for our co-equal branches of government, there's not a doubt in my mind we can come together to pass a balanced budget alongside reforms," Rauner said. "To achieve grand compromise, we must cast partisanship and ideology aside. We must break from the politics of the past and do what is right for the long-term future of our state."
Earlier in his speech, though, the Republican governor again called for changes in the state's workers' compensation program and changes to civil liability lawsuits. He did not get into specifics, but the changes proposed by Rauner last year were dismissed by Democrats who said they would hurt middle-class workers.
Rauner also again called for addressing high property taxes, which he said makes Illinois unable to compete.
"To create true long-term property tax relief for our taxpayers, we've got to give local governments a way to control costs," Rauner said.
His proposal last year called for allowing local governments to restrict what could be collectively bargained with public employees and ignore the prevailing wage act on public works projects. Democrats who control the legislature said those ideas were non-starters.
Rauner on Wednesday also renewed his call for constitutional amendments to impose term limits and change the way political boundaries for state lawmakers are drawn.
"The only reasons not to do this are pure partisan politics and a desire to cling to power," Rauner said.
'Just not fair'
Calling it "one of our biggest taxpayer-protection initiatives," Rauner said the state must take steps to control the cost of state worker compensation, a reference to the stalled contract talks with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union. The administration is seeking a ruling that contract talks have reached an impasse, which would allow it to impose the administration's terms.
"Unfortunately, the compensation demands being made by AFSCME are out of touch with reality,' Rauner said.
He said the union is demanding an additional $3 billion in overall compensation for a work force that already is paid 30 percent more than for comparable work in the private sector.
"This is just not fair, and it's time we restore balance between taxpayers and state government," Rauner said. "We need to install common sense into our union contracts."
AFSCME responded with studies that show Illinois state workers are not overpaid compared to either the private sector or other states and disputed it is asking for $3 billion more in compensation.
Speaking to Democrats in the chamber, Rauner said he understood "that union leaders and trial lawyers are putting pressure on you to keep the status quo."
"But if we don't offer a competitive environment for businesses, pretty soon the unions won't have any jobs to unionize and the trial lawyers won't have any more businesses to sue," he said.
'Open' Madigan
As expected, Rauner said he would support a pension proposal advanced by Senate President John Cullerton, D-Chicago, that would save the state about $1 billion a year. Under the plan, employees would have to choose whether they wanted to keep 3 percent compounded raises in their pension benefits after retirement or have future pay raises count toward their pension benefits.
After the speech, House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, said he wants to see the specific proposal in writing, but added, "I'm open on all pension questions."
Rauner also said he will work closely with Cullerton on a new school funding formula to direct more money to low-income and rural school districts. He added the proviso, though, that the new formula would have to be structured "without taking money away from any other districts."
Rauner outlined 10 long-term goals for improving education that included more money for early childhood education and creating more choice options for students in poorly performing schools. Another point, he said, would give school districts "more flexibility when it comes to bargaining, contracting and bidding, to save taxpayers money while enabling districts to pay higher teacher salaries."

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Misguided Defectors/Fanatics?
Posted by Alvan Shane on Dec 12, 2019 in Politics/Economics | 0 comments
If you're like me you hold your values tight believing they're right and just. The world would be a better place if everyone was on a similar path. For me, the values are conservative. For others, liberal. Who's right? Which will produce a more perfect world, a world with more equality, opportunity, social justice and personal freedom for all peoples, colors and ethnicities; a world offering hope for all abilities and all classes?
To be clear, we live in a special kind of democracy called democratic republic. It isn't oligarchy nor real democracy in the most elemental sense, since it's representative rather than direct.
The republic thrives on a capitalistic free-enterprise economy managed by a federalized, constitution-driven government, as opposed to parliamentary monarch-driven. Both systems try or tend to limit government to certain specific responsibilities, to leave the people as free and unrestrained as possible in their daily lives, living their dreams and pursuing their happiness.
Final point: we've been based on capitalism from the start, not socialism. The first offers ownership of property, rights of due process and maximum freedom for the individual. The other limits ownership of property, controls all aspects of due process and prioritizes the group over the individual, serving the needs of the many at the expense of the individual.
Conservatives want to keep things the same and look for ways to improve while liberals think things must change before they can improve. Conservatives believe the system is optimal offering maximum hope and opportunity to the masses; liberals say its faulty, favors few over many, locks in status quo for the few.
Conservatives recognize flaws and seek ways to fix them within what they feel is a superior system of governance. Liberals, frustrated with the current state of affairs, want to toss it for ideas they hope will be better.
Both positions are over-simplified to focus the issue: can we implement ways/means within our existing system to achieve a better society, or must we radically change to something else? As a conservative I believe even with flaws we're still one of the best places for keeping people safe, secure, respecting their dignity, allowing them to thrive, rewarding their labors/deeds.
The system liberals look to for improvement/more equality is some kind of socialism. They under-value capitalism, focusing instead on its problems and biases which, they think, will disappear under a faux-socialist approach. Two things are obvious: our existing system and form of government is being misjudged and under-valued; the solution being sought overthrows it with an odious form of potential totalitarianism in bloodless coup.
The last time a minority of disgruntled legislators and congress-people tried to have their way & enforce their will on a majority concerning issues they favored that others didn't, issues unconstitutional in nature, ended not in bloodless coup, but civil war.
Today, at this hour, we have a majority of one House acting in flagrant disregard of the rules, procedures and protocols of that body and, in fact, taking many steps that are unconstitutional.
They have illegitimately/illegally passed a bill of impeachment unfounded and unproven against a duly elected president who they don't like and are determined to bring down.
This bizarre turn of events was set in motion on his inaugural day and amounts to the biggest example of congressional malfeasance and outright skullduggery ever perpetrated or even contemplated by that body. It is a naked affront to our nation's protocols, laws, constitution and people and amounts to nothing less than open rebellion, sedition and treason.
I'm not a constitutional scholar or lawyer, but judging from the parade/charade of persons credited with being such who gave testimony on the constitutionality of this action, I don't want to be. They were nothing more than a cabal of partisan hypocrisy.
So goes the efforts of these plotters/schemers who, by virtue of their positions and authority, think they can run roughshod over rules of evidence, due process, jurisdictional boundaries and the wishes and preferences of the American people. These fanatics are mostly democrats who control the House. By their actions they bastardize any notion of propriety as they proclaim a false mandate, barely populist if that, with no legal authority or legitimate mechanism for pursuing this indictment. All they've done is create political chaos leading to anarchy.
Liberal democrats believe they're on a righteous path doing what's necessary to get immediate results. What they'll get is a political schism of disastrous proportion wherein any hope of bipartisanship will be lost. They think they're right, that their ends justify the means. They don't seem to care or understand our republic as we know it may be forfeit.
If the republic falters and becomes a hybrid version of the many other systems that have gone down before they'll have squandered the majesty/brilliance of one of mankind's most populous, prosperous nations for what? Socialized capitalism? Hybridized socialism? 1-Party oligarchy? Democrat operatives working to these ends are either hapless fools or seditious culprits hellbent on destroying our republic in exchange for Big Brother Socialism or New World Order Totalitarianism. Either way, liberty, democracy and freedom will be lost.
Ignoring the law and constitution were the first steps. Allowing personal animosities to undermine the gravitas of normal protocols/procedures proved how power corrupts. Over-riding the people's will is causing confusion and upheaval. Slamming these doors, burning these bridges smacks not of dissent but desertion! It's no respect/duty/honor for all that's gone before, on a sham hope of better governance, a utopian fantasy that can never be.
I started this piece talking about values. Did our founders want dignity and freedom for the individual? The right to practice his/her religion of choice? Did their template and model evolve to one of the greatest countries on earth? Is there any example of a socialist state, now or in all of history, that approximates America? Is there a better demonstration of exceptionalism today, than our own?
The founders believed in personal responsibility, rugged individualism, an active and productive citizenry, a limited federal government leaving as much authority as possible with the states. Do liberal values encompass these? Do they promote these winning attitudes and characteristics?
I will keep to my conservative values, believing they will lead to a better life for all. We are a work in progress, an experiment that given time and attention will eventuate into an even more wondrous place. Not a perfect place, but one to which we'd rather go than to the nonsense and insanity of these misguided leftist democrats, liberal dissenters, fanatical deserters and self-absorbed fools . . .


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Points for Prayer: Darfur, Sudan
If you wish to write your own prayers then you can find some prayer points below:
Protection for the people of Darfur. Thousands of people continue to be displaced from their towns and villages by militia attacks. Even in the displaced camps, people are still being attacked by Janjaweed fighters. Displaced people are calling out for protection from the international community.
Yet proposals to give greater UN support to the small African Union protection mission are stuck in a diplomatic impasse. Pray for the civilians in Darfur who face violence and insecurity.
Peace in Darfur. 2.5 million people have been displaced from their homes by violence and are living in sprawling displaced camps Darfur and in neighbouring Chad. They will only be able to return home and rebuild their lives when peace comes.
A rushed peace deal negotiated last year - the Darfur Peace Agreement - has failed to halt the violence. In fact, by splitting the rebels, it has made the situation more insecure. New effort is needed to re-invigorate the peace process. Pray that western governments will find the determination to bring peace.
Relief for the people of Darfur. Because of the attacks on villages, millions of people in Darfur depend on humanitarian agencies to survive. Yet these agencies are often denied permission to fly into many areas where communities are in need. Many aid workers have been attacked in Darfur by bandits and militiamen. Pray that, in spite of the violence, aid agencies are able to operate safely and that food gets through to those who so desperately need it.
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Entering the church can be a difficult step for new comers and so we have a welcoming and sides-persons team to ease the way. The sides-persons also help with the flow of the service by taking the collection and acting as ushers for communion. As a church we have responsibility to do things in good order and must record numbers of attendees and the giving.
Collection – usually taken just after the peace on communion Sundays or at the end of the service on other Sundays.


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What is Herbal Phentermine?
Speak with a doctor before using any weight loss supplement, as it may be contraindicated with other medications.
Phentermine is typically prescribed by a physician.
When combined with exercise, herbal phentermine may be helpful in promoting weight loss.
Herbal phentermine is a popular supplement among overweight individuals.
Herbal phentermine may cause intestinal issues in some users.
Phentermine has known side effects such as insomnia.
Herbal phentermine may be taken to promote weight loss.
Prescription phentermine is used to promote weight loss.
Most diet pills have a variety of side effects.
Written By: Jessica Saras
Edited By: Michelle Arevalo
Herbal phentermine is a type of over-the-counter supplement that is designed to work like the approved weight loss medication known as phentermine. Used as an appetite suppressant, prescription phentermine is an orally-administered amphetamine drug that, when combined with proper diet and exercise, has been shown to promote weight loss. It does so by releasing certain chemicals in the brain that control appetite and increase metabolic rate, which, in turn, reduces hunger and assists in breaking down fat.
Although approved for use since 1959, phentermine, like most diet pills, has many known side effects, including insomnia, dry mouth, diarrhea, headache, and elevated heart rate. Despite these issues, however, the effectiveness of the drug makes it a popular choice for severely overweight individuals. It is often prescribed by physicians.
Due to the side effects associated with prescription phentermine, several companies in the vitamin industry now promote an all-natural alternative to the medication. This product is often referred to as herbal phentermine. Available without a prescription, it is sold online and in health food stores, with a one-month supply typically costing $60 US Dollars (USD) or more.
The companies that sell herbal phentermine often promote it as a safer, more effective alternative to the prescription drug. According to these retailers, the herbal supplement works just like the prescription medication, yet has none of the unwanted side effects associated with it. Consisting of a variety of amino acids and herbs — such as green tea, alpha lipoic acid, and piper nigrum — the herbal version is claimed to increase its users' metabolism and energy, while also suppressing appetite and burning calories.
In terms of ingredients, herbal phentermine contains several substances that are known to promote weight loss. For example, clinical research indicates green tea may slightly increase a person's metabolism. Also, alpha lipoic acid is a powerful antioxidant that is known to help regulate blood sugar content and reduce sugar cravings.
Despite these beneficial ingredients, many of the other substances found in herbal phentermine have not been shown to cause weight loss. In fact, few studies have been performed on the product's main ingredients, a substance known as L-Carnitine. Studies of other ingredients, such as piper nigrum and biotin, also do not indicate that these products promote weight loss in any way.
In many countries, vitamins and supplements are not subjected to the same requirements as other prescription and over-the-counter medications. As a result, consumers who use this product do so at their own risk. User should consult a doctor before using this product, since the long-term effects of herbal phentermine, as well as its safety in general, are largely unknown.
What Are the Most Common Side Effects of Phentermine?
How Do I Use Alpha Lipoic Acid for Weight Loss?
What Are the Symptoms of Phentermine Withdrawal?
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Green tea is a natural diuretic and recommended as a drink for weight loss. However, one must drink a certain number of cups of said tea to enjoy its weight loss benefits. How much green tea will aid weight loss in this capacity depends on how much is used per pill.
Rather than worry about the side effects of such pills, why not just exercise?


The Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 (CAR) place duties on those who have responsibilities for the maintenance of work premises, including schools, to manage the risk from asbestos.
In 2013/14 HSE undertook an inspection initiative in schools outside of local authority control. The initiative followed the same protocol as the 2010/11 programme but targeted a different sample of schools. The aim of the initiative was to assess the level of compliance with CAR in a carefully structured random sample of schools.
HSE Inspectors visited a total of 153 schools - 131 in England, 11 in Scotland and 11 in Wales. A range of school types were included – foundation, voluntary-aided, independent, academies and free schools. This report summarises the findings and identifies key messages to help all schools manage the risks from asbestos-containing materials (ACMs).
HSE's statistics unit collated the results of all the inspections and a detailed report is available online. Overall, the duty holders' awareness of their legal responsibilities was 9% higher than the level found in the 2010/11 inspection programme, with 95% of schools having a full or broad understanding of the requirements.
Dutyholders' awareness of their legal duties is a useful indicator of compliance – and raising awareness has been an important element of ensuring ongoing management of asbestos. Much work has been carried out by stakeholders across the school sector to raise awareness of the duty to manage asbestos. However, while good awareness and good compliance was noted in the majority of schools inspected in 2013/14, there are some key lessons that can be shared across all schools.
The results of these inspections should make clear to schools that managing asbestos requires ongoing attention. Schools have access to a wealth of guidance setting out clear and straightforward steps to achieve and maintain compliance. Where duty holders fall below acceptable standards HSE has taken, and will continue to take, enforcement action.
Schools should focus particular attention on the following issues.
An asbestos management survey is an effective way to help school duty holders to manage asbestos in their premises. A proper survey provides accurate information about the extent, type and location of asbestos, and the condition it is in, so that risks can be assessed and priorities set.
85% of the schools visited had carried out an asbestos management survey. In some schools, however, the records were not up to date or did not include all the buildings. Enforcement action requiring improvements on this issue was taken against eight schools – compared to two in 2010/11.
Where refurbishment work had been undertaken in some of the schools that had recently become academies, the asbestos register did not always reflect current information about presence, location and condition of ACMs.
All school duty holders should have up to date records of ACMs in their school. The management survey is an essential part of these records - its purpose is to locate ACMs that could be damaged or disturbed by normal activities, by foreseeable maintenance, or when installing new equipment.
The Regulations require duty holders to have a written plan of the actions and measures necessary to manage the risks from ACMs. 77% of the schools visited had an asbestos management plan, a 14% improvement on 2010/11.
Eight Improvement Notices were served requiring either the production or improvement of an asbestos management plan. Those improvements included better monitoring procedures, incorporating procedures to manage contractors, and formalising existing precautions that were in place.
Schools should have a site-specific asbestos management plan. Where the status of a school changes from local authority control, the management team needs to be fully conversant with the plan and should satisfy itself that local knowledge has been incorporated.
Employers must ensure that adequate information, instruction and training is given to their employees to allow them to safeguard themselves and others when carrying out work that may disturb asbestos. For just under half of the schools inspected, in-house staff did not routinely undertake maintenance work. Amongst those schools where in-house staff were engaged in such work, 63% have training in place. In 2010/11 our findings showed that 49% of schools with in-house staff engaged in such work had provided the appropriate level of asbestos training. While the increase in training since 2010/11 is encouraging, greater attention is needed on this issue.
The employer of staff at the school should ensure that adequate training is given to in-house maintenance staff whose work could foreseeably expose them to asbestos. Equally, dutyholders should ensure that they only use contractors that are trained to a sufficient standard.
The key group of personnel at risk from asbestos is tradespeople - particularly those undertaking maintenance activities. This includes for example electricians and plumbers, but also in-house maintenance personnel. It is imperative that up-to-date information on location and condition is available and provided to those who may damage or disturb ACMs, to prevent the release of, and exposure to, asbestos fibres.
Just over half of the schools inspected (54%) had a comprehensive system in place to ensure that anyone who may disturb ACMs would be provided with information on any asbestos that may be present. This reflected only a slight increase on the findings for 2010/11 (50%).
Duty holders in schools must ensure that anyone who may disturb asbestos is made aware of its location and condition. Methods commonly used include permit-to-work systems, labelling ACMs clearly, and providing a plan with the locations of all ACMs marked on it.


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This is a nice silver tone metal box from a Hungarian estate. It is hand hammered with an applied figural scenic design on the top. Measurements are 3-1/4 x 6" x 1-1/4" and the lid is hinged. There is a hallmark on the bottom but I have been unable to identify it. Very nicely done and in very good condition.
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The Chairman of the Ministry Tender Committee of the Ministry of Industry & Commerce on behalf of Lanka Mineral Sands Limited has called for International Competitive Bids for sale of Heavy Mineral Sands in Pulmoddai, Sri Lanka.
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Rangers have been unlucky - but Mark Warburton is still talking nonsense
Mark Warburton's comments didn't make any sense and revealed his weaknesses as a manager.
By Callum Hamilton Feb 8, 2017, 6:46am PST
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Our manager, regrettably, is at it again. Some odd comments were mentioned in his latest interview to Rangers TV, where Mark Warburton defended the team's recent form on the grounds that we had been playing well but merely suffering from the natural variance of football.
Variance does, of course, exist. If we look at two extremes of variance in games, we can look at Poker and Chess. An amateur enthusiast for Poker would win plenty of hands of poker against Doyle Brunson in a heads-up game. They'd even have a reasonable chance of turning a profit against him, if the game lasted for ten or twenty hands. Yet if the game lasted for a thousand hands, they'd be well down in money. This is how variance works - you can get screwed despite playing well sometimes, but over time, quality shows through. Chess is the opposite example - an amateur would be likely to lose 100 games out of 100 against Magnus Carlsen.
Both of these games are essentially purely mental. If you think, you will note that any sport involving dexterity, physical technique and athleticism leads a lot further forward towards the Chess side of things. None of the folk reading this are likely to beat Andy Murray at Tennis, no matter how bad a day he's having. None of them would go the distance with Floyd Mayweather in boxing, a sport that is towards the higher end of the spectrum of variance than most physical ones.
So, where does football lie? Well, upsets happen all the time, and the game is incredibly complex, being a team sport with few clearly-defined passages of play. There are things you cannot control, and must play in the hope that they don't foil your good work. Broadly speaking, there are three things - injuries, refereeing errors, and the performances of other teams. Anything else is up to you. Just as Doyle Brunson can win Poker games through psychology, mathematics and concentration, so can footballers through superior skill, effort and teamwork.
Human error, individual mistakes, missed chances and so on are not part of this variance. They are, but they cannot be considered the same because they are within our control. It's no good saying "did the manager order Rob Kiernan to completely fail to track his man?" He does it every week, he bought him despite knowing his weaknesses, and he has failed to coach the mistakes out of him. Is Efe Ambrose, for instance, a great defender who is on the receiving end of some bad variance when it comes to human error? No, he's a defender who makes a lot of mistakes - IE, he is a bad defender. Good players bury chances and cut out mistakes - if it's variance, there are a hell of a lot of them on a good run of form.
This is why Warburton's assertion is so curious. In the three things they cannot control, Rangers have been unlucky. Niko Kranjcar was crocked for the season. After Joey Barton's departure, the lengthy injury-or-whatever-it-is to Jordan Rossiter left us without any midfielders who could defend. Danny Wilson hasn't been able to stay fit, either. We've also been neutral or slightly worse in the profit/loss from refereeing errors, and Celtic have embarked on a quite ludicrous run of form which is unlikely to be replicated. All of that is poor luck - IE, the variance of random factors outside of our control. Variance suggests that if the season were able to be run again a thousand times, the average gap between Rangers and Celtic would be smaller than it is right now.
By putting the notion of finishing chances and defending accurately as variance, Warburton is quite simply talking nonsense. Taking a shot or putting a ball into the box is not a random gamble - it is a combination of athleticism and technique which is affected by tactics, mentality, form, team shape and many other factors, all of which are to a large degree within the control of the manager and player.
You don't need any stats to prove this - any intelligent observer of football can note that Rangers get few players in the box and have a poor team shape in both defence and attack. Our players simply do not get into good positions at either end of the pitch, and that means those shots are more dangerous at our end and less dangerous at our opponents'. Warburton points to corners, too - if we win a lot of corners, shouldn't we perhaps be training to be better at them? The sample size must be high if we're getting so many in every game.
Other statistics point to failings in the coaching. Rangers shoot from outside the box far more than any other team in the league, which helps to explain why they often outshoot opponents. Expected Goals has become a fashionable trend, and while those figure might suggest that Warburton has a point, both the manager and that particular statistic have similar flaws. They ignore the opposition. 'Danger areas' can be a good guide, but who is more likely to score - a player attempting to turn and shoot from sixteen yards through a crowd of bodies who is being jostled by a tough centre-back, or a player in acres of space striking the ball in his stride from twenty yards? The opposition matter. And as their defence is invariably better organised than our attack, our shots are mostly taken from poor positions where they are difficult to score from.
You could even put that down to luck, if you wanted. Sam Allardyce had a similar outlook to Warburton in his quotes, and a mathematical look at football will tell you that shots from outside the box have little 'chance' of going in. Allardyce, therefore, instructed his team not to bother. Warburton's team do it with wild abandon. Of course, the fact that mathematics as brutal as this do not take into account whether the player taking the shot is Andrea Pirlo or Derek Lyle tell you that it's probably not a great way to think about the game, but Warburton isn't even practicing what he preaches.
Ultimately, that's the flaw with such a fatalistic way of looking at the game. It minimises things we can control, assuming that all players have the same ability and that both teams are equally well-organised. At best, it's a desperate manager making a plea with what seems to fit his general philosophy - midfield and possession focused, do the basics right and you'll get the rewards. Basics meaning passing, touch and pressing rather than shooting, crossing, movement, tackling, positioning or heading, but hey, that's his way of playing the game. Warburton is appealing to his strengths - we're doing the underlying things right, and if you think like I do, we'll start getting the results soon.
Another reason why variance is important might concern Warburton's replacement. Some fans, looking at the lack of an obvious candidate and assuming a replacement would be Derek McInnes, Tommy Wright or similar, feel less inclined to ditch our current manager. The assumption is that Warburton is at least a progressive coach who might get through in the end, whereas McInnes and Wright would do more with our resources but be unlikely to overachieve and move things forward enough to challenge Celtic. "What's the point of being 12 points behind instead of 27?" is a common refrain. Well, if we have been unlucky with certain factors, then variance in the opposite direction might put such a manager within touching distance. Warburton's side, ultimately, are playing poorly enough that variance is not an issue. The gap is too large to be made up by even the most improbable run of injuries and refereeing blunders to our rivals. A more solid manager would at least have a puncher's chance.
Of course, probably more likely and far worse, is that the comments reveal a manager who is dogmatic and stubborn in the face of all evidence against his position. Rangers are doing what Warburton considers to be the basic, underlying things correctly. It's just not having any effect, because we're very good in the middle third of the park but hopeless at either end. Warburton can try to fix the results however he wants, but when Rangers so consistently serve up the same problems that everybody can see, it's an insult to everyone's intelligence to pretend that Celtic are 27 points ahead on the good old luck of the Irish.


The purpose of this Announcement of Opportunity (AO) is to solicit the participation of scientists affiliated with institutes located in the ESA Member States in the NASA WFIRST Formulation Science Working Group (FSWG).
The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is a NASA observatory designed to perform wide-field imaging and surveys of the near infrared sky. It will combine investigations of dark matter and dark energy with those of exoplanets. The current mission design makes use of an existing 2.4 m telescope, which is the same size as the Hubble Space Telescope's primary mirror. WFIRST will have two instruments, the Wide Field Instrument (WFI), and the Coronagraph Instrument (CGI). As the primary instrument, the Wide Field Instrument will measure the properties of a billion galaxies and will preform a microlensing survey to discover ~2,600 exoplanets over the course of the mission's nominal 6-year lifetime. The Coronagraph Instrument will be used to investigate some dozens of exoplanets over the course of the mission. A description of the scientific objectives and the current WFIRST design is to be found in the Wide-Field InfraRed Survey Telescope Report by the Science Definition Team.
NASA has indicated an interest in a European contribution to this NASA-led mission. Such participation could include both ESA-provided items following a "Mission of Opportunity" proposal to the Science Programme of ESA and subject to approval by the Science Programme Committee (SPC) and contributions that would be funded directly by the Member States under ESA's coordination. In order to further develop the mission's development, NASA has established a science team and would welcome European participation to this team. Information on the current FSWG and Science Investigation Team (SIT) members and the SIT topics can be found on the NASA WFIRST website.
Full details of the appointment requirements and conditions, the required contents of the proposal, the evaluation criteria and format of the proposals is given in the AO document. It is foreseen that up to two European scientists will be appointed to the FSWG.
The ESA Announcement of Opportunity for European Scientists to Join the WFIRST FSWG is available here together with an invitation to respond to this AO.
Prospective proposers must submit a mandatory Letter of Intent (LoI) before the deadline indicated in Table 1. Their purpose is to allow ESA to prepare for the eventual evaluation process. Proposals not preceded by a corresponding Letter will not be considered. The AO gives details of the content and format of the LoIs.


Do these changes in tariff reforms make much of a difference? Probably not—and definitely not if the Doha Round agreement concludes and begins to cut most-favored nation (MFN) tariffs starting in January 2013, the likely start date if a WTO deal is reached by early 2012… US light truck tariffs would be phased down from 25 percent to 6.1 percent in 2019. So for light trucks, the US MFN tariff would be lower than the KORUS preferential tariff beginning in January 2014.
This entry was posted in Politics, Preferential Trade on 22 December 2010 by jdingel.


It's not quite supper time in Olga's kitchen, but it's time for cake. When Eric and I arrive, she pulls out three different homemade desserts, plus cheese, butter and hot cocoa.
All six of Olga's children are home for the sheep round up, along with some of her grandchildren.
The lamb is in the oven, and Olga goes outside to dig up some potatoes. She urges us to visit the canyon in the backyard, so her daughter, Guðbjörg, takes us there.


2016 Has been one of the greatest and most challenging years. I have experienced immense joys and successes, along with a terrible loss. I am raw and open, and immersing myself in work to grow and move beyond. I have new projects that are developing, however, I need to raise money to support those endeavors. I am offering a limited-time discount on all portrait and photography services. I have also created a new series of self-portraits that are being offered here for the first time to the public. More information below.
These sessions can be used to capture portraits, pets, families, dancers, events, or whatever else you want documented. You can set the date now or take advantage of the special pricing for a session later this year. Gift certificates are available.
ElbowSpace is about making room for whatever it is that is important to you. A new series of self-portraits, this series is a detour away from the photography most are used to seeing from me. There is a backstory to the name that you can read more about in the gallery.
More about these prints Here!
As I mentioned above, it's been a challenging couple months. I celebrated my 40th birthday. I graduated from Sonoma State University with a bachelor's degree in psychology and statistics. My daughter grew taller than me and became a middle-schooler. And, most staggering, my father unexpectedly passed away.
He and I always had a beautiful, hilarious, antagonistic, and deeply loving relationship. I never felt like I lived up to his expectations, but I also knew that his way of showing his love was by pushing me further and harder. He was never an easy person, but he was my father and there is a huge hole now in the lives of all of us who were close to him.
My life has been this whirlwind of milestones, both high-highs and really low-lows. I now am trying to redefine who I am and where I am going, while struggling constantly with indecision, stress and depression. In times past, when I've had to peel myself up off the floor, jumping into new work has always been the best distraction, and that's what I'm writing about today.
I've got new projects beginning to evolve, however, I need to raise money to get them off the ground. I'm starting this fundraising project by offering what I know best: photography. I hope you will consider purchasing a new print or investing in a 2016 photo session. If you have any questions feel free to contact me any time.


The crew of the Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed last month killing 157 people, repeatedly followed procedures recommended by Boeing, but were unable to regain control of the jet, according the investigators' report released on Thursday.
The initial report, unveiled by Ethiopian Transport Minister Dagmawit Moges, cast further doubt on the system controlling the Boeing 737 MAX 8 model, which has been grounded worldwide for almost a month.
"The crew performed all the procedures repeatedly provided by the manufacturer, but was not able to control the aircraft," said Dagmawit Moges, unveiling results of the preliminary probe into the crash.
The report recommends "the aircraft flight control system shall be reviewed by the manufacturer," she said.
"Aviation authorities shall verify that the review of the aircraft flight control system has been adequately addressed by the manufacturer before the release of the aircraft for operations," she added.
The release of the report came after the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced a review of the certification of the automated flight control system on the 737 MAX.
Boeing is reviewing the report.
The Ethiopian Airlines flight was headed to Nairobi on a clear morning on March 10 when it plummeted nose-first into a field outside Addis Ababa just minutes after take-off, having reportedly experienced erratic steep climbs and descents.
Citizens from over 30 countries were on board.
Similarities quickly emerged between the crash and that of an Indonesian Lion Air 737 MAX 8 flight in October last year which killed 189 people.
Scrutiny has centred on an anti-stall system, developed specifically for the latest versions of the planes, that has given pilots problems.
Dagmawit did not make specific reference to the automatic anti-stalling system, but did mention a "repetitive nose-down" movement of the aircraft.
The Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) is designed to automatically lower the aircraft's nose if it detects a stall or loss of airspeed.
Boeing issued a bulletin reminding operators of emergency guidelines to override the anti-stall system after the Lion Air crash.
The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that pilots had shut off the anti-stall system, but switched it back on because they could not regain control, citing people briefed on the preliminary findings.
Dagmawit did not give details of what happened in the cockpit during the fateful final minutes of the flight, but said takeoff "appeared very normal" and that all the crew had the requisite qualifications to operate the jet.
The head of the accident investigation bureau Amdiye Ayalew said the full probe would take six months to a year, but that there had been no sign of "foreign object damage" to the aircraft.
"Within this one year we'll analyse whether other problems are existing on this aircraft," he said.
The head of Ethiopian Airlines Tewolde GebreMariam said he was proud of the efforts of the pilots in trying to stop their jet from crashing.
"We are very proud of our pilots' compliances to follow the emergency procedures, and high level of professional performances in such extremely difficult situations," he said in a statement.
Meanwhile Boeing, seeking to win back public confidence in the planes, on Wednesday released photographs of its chief executive, who joined a test flight of a 737 MAX with the company's updated anti-stall system.
Boeing last week gathered hundreds of pilots and reporters for a presentation on proposed MCAS changes -- including the system no longer repeatedly making corrections when pilots try to regain control.
The company is anxious to win approval for a remedy that could get the planes back in the air.
But the FAA, which faced harsh questioning last week at a congressional hearing regarding its oversight of Boeing, said it expected the plane maker to submit the proposed fix "over the coming weeks" after it undertakes additional work.
The FAA said Monday that Boeing needed to undertake more work on the proposed fix before it could be submitted for review.


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greywarden-of-the-north Asked: Hello! I was wondering if you could remember how much Gilmore charged Pike to get her armour enchanted with a silence/muffle sort of enchantment? I have a Gunslinger in my party who wants to do a similiar sort of thing with their weapon, and I was going to use this as something to base it off of.
In Episode 14, Sherri and Gilmore told Pike that, while they couldn't enchant the armor she already had, she could get a custom commission (2:59:25). That's because the enchantment would need to be so strong that it could be the only enchantment that the armor had. It would take a month to enchant, and would cost around 8000 gold.
Specifically, Gilmore said that it would allow her to move freely in the armor, though he didn't say it would silence her movement. That sounds like the armor would likely no longer give her disadvantage on dexterity/stealth checks because it wasn't as stiff/physically difficult to move in, not because it was quieter. So, this may not be the best jumping off point for a silencer/muffler spell for your Gunslinger. Good luck!


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Europe|U.K. Police's Plan to Tackle Domestic Abuse: Blunt Knives
U.K. Police's Plan to Tackle Domestic Abuse: Blunt Knives
A protest in April by family members of victims of violent crimes, who are calling on the British government to do more to tackle knife and gun crime.CreditCreditWill Oliver/EPA, via Shutterstock
By Geneva Abdul
LONDON — In an attempt to tackle domestic violence, the police in a British county came up with a startling plan: Replace the sharp knives in victims' kitchens with blunt-tipped instruments to prevent their partners from stabbing them to death.
While the blunt-knives proposal was only one among many by the Nottingham City Council to tackle knife crime, it was immediately singled out for criticism by medical experts and advocates for domestic abuse survivors, who called it "ludicrous" and ill conceived.
The proposal by the Nottinghamshire Police, in the East Midlands of England, comes as Britain struggles with an epidemic of knife crime outside the home, which some analysts say is fueled by reductions in the nation's police forces under austerity and cuts to social service programs.
In Nottinghamshire, the police say domestic abuse cases involving knives make up 17 percent of all the county's reported knife crimes. In an effort to address the issue, the Nottinghamshire police bought 100 knives specifically manufactured without points to replace kitchen knives in the homes of Britons who have been attacked or threatened with a knife, a police spokesman said.
The initiative was part of a larger strategy to tackle the level of knife-related episodes taking place in homes across the county, officials said. The knives would still be sharp enough to cut food, the police said, and the results of the small-scale trial would be evaluated at the end of the year.
"It is only one small part of the whole range of what is done to safeguard and protect domestic abuse survivors," Superintendent Matt McFarlane, who leads the Nottinghamshire police's knife crime strategy, said in an emailed statement on Thursday. The police also said they were uncertain if this was the first time such a program was seriously considered anywhere.
But at least one critic said the proposal betrayed a lack of understanding about domestic-abuse issues that was literally laughable. Jessica Eaton, a psychologist and founder of VictimFocus, a research consultancy in forensic psychology, feminism and mental health, said that when she first read of the proposal, she thought it had come from an article in The Onion, the satirical newspaper.
"The problem is not the sharpness of the knife," she said. "The problem is male violence."
She said in a phone interview on Thursday: "The risk comes from the offender, not the knife. We know that blunt trauma can cause death. Just because a knife has been blunted doesn't mean that it won't pierce the skin or kill someone."
Charlotte Kneer, the chief executive of Reigate and Banstead Women's Aid, a refuge and charity based in Surrey, England, agreed that the Nottinghamshire police's approach was ill advised, further perpetuating the myth that domestic violence was a "crime of passion."
"Domestic abuse is about control," she said by phone. "Perpetrators know exactly what they're doing."
The Nottinghamshire Police in England proposed putting blunt knives in the homes of some domestic abuse survivors to save lives.CreditNottinghamshire Police
Ms. Kneer said she had been attacked with kitchen knives twice by a former partner. The second time, the attacker placed a plastic bag over her head. "Do you want to ban all plastic bags?" she said. "It's just not the answer."
Samantha Billingham of the Survivors of Domestic Abuse support group, told the BBC: "I think it's quite ludicrous. The blade of the knife is still there."
But Paddy Tipping, the Nottinghamshire police and crime commissioner, told local news media: "It is an excellent initiative. Some research shows that women are attacked around 19 times before they leave their home."
One domestic abuse survivor, Fiona McCulloch, 38, of Chilwell, England, also told The Nottinghamshire Post that the plan was "100 percent positive." She added: "To have a blunt knife in my situation, it would have taken that risk away."
This week, the Ministry of Justice said that the number of people caught carrying knives and other offensive weapons in England and Wales had reached a nine-year high. Offenses involving such weapons have risen by 34 percent, to 22,041, since 2015 — the highest number since 2010, according to the ministry.
The number of domestic abuse cases recorded by the police in England and Wales has also increased, and reports estimate that two million adults across England and Wales ages 16 to 59 experienced domestic abuse in the past year.
For years, social and domestic abuse has taken a hefty economic cost on society, experts say. In 2016, a report by the British government sought to quantify it. It put the estimated cost of domestic abuse in the year ending March 2017 at 66 billion pounds, or about $84 billion, in England and Wales.
This year, the British government published a landmark domestic abuse bill that advocates say has the potential to overhaul how the police and courts confront the issue head on. It would introduce a statutory definition of domestic abuse, establish a domestic abuse commissioner and ban the cross-examination of victims by their abusers in family courts.
A joint committee in Parliament is expected to publish a report on the draft legislation on Friday, when members of Parliament will scrutinize its contents.
As the negative reaction grew on social media, the Nottinghamshire police began walking back the proposal, saying, "It's just a very early idea and may not ever be rolled out." None of the blunted knives had been handed out yet. If the program does go forward, the authorities said, the knives would be place in "appropriate high risk domestic situations."
Ms. Kneer said she doubted that the police plan would reduce knife-related domestic abuse crimes in the home, and that it would have no impact on knife crime in the streets.
She said the solution should not rely "on a blunt knife in the kitchen drawer."
Follow Geneva Abdul on Twitter: @GenevaAbdul.


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Bobby Long was born in Wigan near Manchester, grew up in Wiltshire, and, at eighteen, moved to London. Years later, in 2008, one of the songs he wrote on made its way onto the "Twilight" soundtrack. A year later, Bobby moved to the United States and his career has taken off ever since. Bobby Long recorded with ATO records, toured with bands such as Iron and Wine, and performed at festivals, such as Bonnaroo and Austin City Limits. He moved over to Compass Records for his last album "Ode To Thinking," which was made possible by a hugely successful PledgeMusic Campaign, receiving support from over 750 pledgers. In between albums, Bobby also wrote two poetry books. Now, when he is not too busy singing "Moana" songs to his son, Bobby finds himself recording a new record and still playing gigs. Bobby Long lived in London when Sofar Sounds started there, but played his first show on Long Island, where he said "everyone here is as normal as me," which he loved. Songs to check out are "Serpentine," "Nautical," and "Maserati," which will be released on his new record.
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