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From 2010 thru 2012, I recorded dozens of our worship gatherings and conferences where me and my friends had the opportunity to minister. Nearly any time I knew we would have an hour or two to worship, I wanted to capture it. I knew that when we got together in an atmosphere of freedom, dedicated to authentic communion with God, special moments would happen and I wanted to just have a history of those moments to keep.
Aside from the special night of worship we had in May of 2011 that became Jump Into The Wonder, and the occasional sharing of a tune online via soundcloud, YouTube, or social media, most of those moments had never been heard again by anyone but me (and maybe me showing my wife!).
My goal, and the goal of all the amazing friends of mine who have worshipped with me at these gatherings, has always been to be open and vulnerable with our hearts to God and all those in the room, to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit even it means looking foolish, and to not be afraid to take risks on instruments and with our voices as we respond to His goodness. To share that vulnerability with the world can be a little frightening, kind of like sharing an intimate conversation with a good friend or your spouse with the whole word. Those kinds of conversations aren't always neat, aren't always meticulously planned; sometimes they just happen and they are messy and maybe they don't even make sense to others who would listen on.
A few months back I stumbled upon some of those old hard drives and listen backed to some of those times of worship and was really moved. After taking nearly a year off from regular worship leading, I had realized that what we had together in those moments was really special and it was worth sharing with other ears. One of the things that made our times so special was that we were blessed by the pastors and others in leadership to just go on and not be in a hurry to leave the moment. Extended instrumental prayers, spontaneous and prophetic songs, and all sorts of things that weren't part of "the page" in front of us happened regularly.
After taking a step back, I realized that though it happened regularly for us in those gatherings, it doesn't happen regularly for everyone. There's a growing groundswell of believers who are hungry for that deep communion that happens when we get off the page in worship.
My hope is that the "songs" on this collection would encourage listeners to not be afraid of exploring more of God's heart in worship and in prayer. There's some musical errors, there's some tempo issues, there's a good dose of our imperfections as humans on these spontaneous songs, but there's also freedom, the power of the Spirit, musical risk, and beautiful sacrifices of praise. When you are wildly in love and you are trying to express that love, its messy, unpredictable, and full of emotion. I just want to bless your own spontaneous expression of that wild love and encourage you to create your own song or prayer in the instrumental sections of songs or along with the instrumental tracks.
Along with those moments of spontaneity, I've also included a couple bonus studio tracks (Kingdom of Love recorded in 2010, and A Flowing River and a Tree recorded in 2012) that represent our efforts to try and bring a thoughtful message and intentional response that is still full of life and the Spirit.
The album will be available for free/donation via noisetrade and also for purchase via iTunes, Amazon Mp3, and most digital music stores on Monday June 30th.


Scalp biopsies are short procedures performed under local anesthesia which allows a small 4 mm cylindrical sample of hair and skin to be obtained from the scalp.
A "punch" is a sharp circular instrument that allows a core of skin to be taken. Once the sample is removed from the scalp, it is placed in a liquid solution called formalin and then sent off to the laboratory. A suture, also known as a stitch, is generally placed in the scalp at the site where the biopsy was performed.


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The Masked Singer UK Host and Panelists Announced
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ITV has announced the host and panelists set to join The Masked Singer UK, a brand new version of the international smash hit series. Comedian and presenter Joel Dommett will take the helm as host of the brand new UK version of the global hit coming to ITV in 2020.
Dommett has presented I'm A Celebrity… Extra Camp, Hey Tracey! and Singletown for ITV2 and will lead the show as host of the surreal and surprising guessing game that will see 12 famous faces compete to pull off the best performance, with their identity elaborately and imaginatively concealed behind the mask. Although they won't be judged on their singing, the celebrities will still need to give their best performance to avoid being eliminated and their identities revealed.
Viewers at home will be lead in their quest to discover who the celebrities are by a lively and multi-talented panel made up of award-winning broadcaster Jonathan Ross, global superstar and chart-topping music artist Rita Ora, TV favorite Davina McCall, and Hollywood actor and comedian Ken Jeong, who also appears on the panel of The Masked Singer in the US. The panel will have to try and guess the masked singers' identities before they are unmasked as they leave the competition.
Host Joel Dommett said: "I'm incredibly excited and proud to be hosting The Masked Singer for ITV. I've been a huge fan of the show in the US and being a part of it here is a dream come true! The panel is brilliant and it's an incredible idea – I think the UK is going to love it. In all seriousness this is my best chance to become friends with Jonathan Ross and I'm not going to mess it up."
Jonathan Ross added: "I am thrilled and excited to be in pole position as the mystery singers show us what they've got. I loved the American version of the show so can't wait to try and uncover the mystery UK superstars hiding beneath the masks. It should be great fun!"
Rita Ora said: "I'm so excited to be part of this incredible panel, bring it on! I'm a huge fan of The Masked Singer, it's such a fresh and original show. I can't wait for it to come to the UK and to get started – it's going to be so much fun."
Davina McCall said: "I love this show! I'm so excited and I can't wait to join Rita, Jonathan and the inimitable Ken on the panel and see just what amazing costumes and performances our celebrities will be bringing to the show."
And Ken Jeong said: "As the smartest judge on the US Masked Singer, it is truly an honour and privilege to take my talents to the UK! As everyone knows, I am extremely knowledgeable about UK culture, and I can't wait to see my favourite British singers dressed in beautiful costumes based on their native kangaroos and dingos."
The Masked Singer UK will be executive produced by Claire Horton, Derek McLean and Daniel Nettleton.
McLean and Nettleton said: "The Masked Singer is one of the greatest global TV guessing games. We knew we needed to assemble the very best panel of showbiz detectives to lead what will be one of the most exciting TV whodunnits ever. We hope that Jonathan's lifetime of sofa guests, Davina having her finger firmly on the pulse of Pop Culture, Rita's stellar performances and A-list address book, and Ken's left field take on proceedings will help the ITV audience uncover who is behind the mask."
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Rights under the Option are either activated ("knock-in") or deactivated ("knock-out") when the Spot Price of the Underlying reaches a specified level during the Exercise Period.
An Option where the Underlying is a basket of stocks, commodities or indices, etc.
An Option that is exercisable against the best performing of a given number of Underlying shares or indices. For example, an investment which at Maturity offers exposure to the best performing Underlying over the Term of the investment. Also see Worst-of Option.
The price for which a Market Maker or broker is willing to buy a Warrant or Structured Investment.
One of the best known mathematical models for calculating the value of a Warrant or Option.
A bond is a debt instrument that is usually issued by a government or a corporate entity. Most bonds have a fixed Maturity and offer a fixed coupon or interest payment. Bonds are often used in creating Structured Investments (typically Zero-Coupon Bonds or medium term notes).
The level that the Spot Price of the Underlying must reach so that the holder of an Option or a Warrant does not suffer a loss. As at the Expiration Date, the Break-even Price of a Call is equal to its Strike Price, and the Break-even Price of a Put is equal to the Strike Price minus the price paid to acquire the Option or the Warrant.


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Happy 11th Kitzmas!
A beloved holiday tradition returns.
Anti-evolution, Attack on science education, Creationism, Evolution denial, Evolution education, History, Intelligent design creationism, NCSE
Friday Forage
As an organization, NCSE is focused on science education—and as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, it tries to stay out of politics as much as possible. With the recent Republican National Convention making headlines though, politics was definitely on my mind this week (and no doubt your mind too!)
Grand Canyon, NCSE
How I Spent My Summer…
NCSE's annual raft trip down the Grand Canyon just returned, and Teacher Scholarship winner Brandon Haught has a blog post up already, which he allowed us to repost. Enjoy, and consider donating to the scholarship fund to support future trips like this.
Creationism, Evolution, Evolution education, NCSE, Science and religion, Young-earth creationism
Statistical Testing of Common Ancestry: Something To Be Embarrassed About?
David Baum, a biologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, corresponded with NCSE staff about a challenge he and his colleagues faced. He shared this account of his experience trying to publish research which, in part, attempted to put certain creationist claims to the test.
NCSE
What the Intern Knew
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you may have been wondering where I disappeared to recently. Was I off on another maternity leave? Traveling the world? Silently moping in my office? Actually no, I've been working with our web developers on the new website you see here today.
How did I end up entangled with the website? Isn't my specialty climate change? Well it is, but it turns out I have hidden skills—and one of them is working with websites. I owe it all to internships.
July 4 in the Grand Canyon
There are worse places to spend Independence Day than rafting on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon is an iconically American site, one full of American history and the spirit of independence and exploration. Native tribes believe that the first humans emerged from one of the springs that feed into the Canyon.
Anti-evolution, Creationism, NCSE
Civility, Enemies, and Opponents
The big blue Institute for Creation Research logo at the top of the page stood out from all the other colorless, bland papers and letters. What the dickens was Duane Gish, ICR debater extraordinaire, writing about to Jack Friedman (right), NCSE board member and chair of the New York Council for Evolution Education?
Top 5 Creationist Claims About Grand Canyon: #5 Fossil Footprints Show Animals Fleeing the Flood
Back from the NCSE Creationist Grand Canyon Trip
Additional Advantages of NCSE Grand Canyon Trips
Top 5 Creationist Claims About Grand Canyon: #3 How Fossils Show "Mass Kills" From Noah's Flood
Top 5 Creationist Claims About Grand Canyon: #1 The Great Unconformity Was Caused By Noah's Flood, Part 3
From the Canyon to the Classroom: Scott Hatfield
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Welcome! This page offers some thematic ideas if your book club is meeting to discuss Horus and the Curse of Everlasting Regret. Have fun!
In what time period does this story take place? What do you know about this time period? How might it affect the story?
What would be different about this story if it took place today, in our time period?
Peter, Tunie, and Perch encounter conflicts with two different sets of characters: the twins Larry and Russell, and Detective Shade and Mr. Reid. What are the differences between these duos? What makes them act the way they do?
Would you like to live forever like Horus? What would be good or bad about it?
Bats Make your own Perch!
Depending on how rowdy you want your book club meeting to be, there's always the popular wrap-up-your-friends-in-toilet-paper-to-make-them-mummies activity! I think this would be a lot of fun--maybe after the book discussion!
If you're looking for something you can easily pick up at the store, there are a few brands that were around in the USA in 1934.
Cookies as Per Chapter 5 In Chapter 5, after Tunie, Peter, and Perch meet Horus for the first time, they drink tea and eat N.B.C. butter cookies. N.B.C. stands for National Biscuit Company, which is what Nabisco was once called! Unfortunately, Nabisco has discontinued production of butter cookies, but animal crackers are a nice substitute. They were around before 1934!
Eleanor's Elegant Baked Goods In Chapter 2, Tunie is working at Eleanor's Elegant Sweet Shoppe and making the calligraphy cards for the following baked goods: Strawberry Torte http://allrecipes.com/recipe/7409/strawberry-torte/, Powdered Lemon Drops http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/lemon-snowball-cookies-recipe, Chocolate Hazelnut Wafers (I can't find a good recipe to go with this one; they seem readily available in the grocery store!), Bacon Cheddar Scones http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/bacon-cheddar-chive-scones-recipe.


County Commissioner Rusty Orick announces a special called Campbell County Commission meeting.
By Lindsey Hutson After 26 years of serving on the LaFollette Library Board, Joy Robinson is saying goodbye.
If you don't have a Jerry Kitts story or never heard a Jerry Kitts story, then you've really missed out.
Tuesday was a winning day for the Campbell County Lady Cougars.


by State Library of Victoria, this site promotes literature for teen.
Project Gutenberg Australia hosts free ebooks which are in the public domain in Australia. There is a great deal of information about the History of Australia and the Exploration of Australia.


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import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Optional;
import java.util.function.BiConsumer;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import com.sequenceiq.freeipa.client.FreeIpaChecks;
import com.sequenceiq.freeipa.client.FreeIpaClient;
import com.sequenceiq.freeipa.client.FreeIpaClientException;
import com.sequenceiq.freeipa.client.FreeIpaClientExceptionUtil;
import com.sequenceiq.freeipa.client.FreeIpaGroupType;
import com.sequenceiq.freeipa.client.model.Group;

public class GroupAddOperation extends AbstractFreeipaOperation<Group> {

    private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(GroupAddOperation.class);

    private static final Map<String, Object> NONPOSIX_PARAMS = Map.of("nonposix", true);

    private static final Map<String, Object> DEFAULT_PARAMS = Map.of();

    private String group;

    private BiConsumer<String, String> warnings;

    private FreeIpaGroupType groupType;

    private GroupAddOperation(String group, FreeIpaGroupType groupType, BiConsumer<String, String> warnings) {
        this.group = group;
        this.warnings = warnings;
        this.groupType = groupType;
    }

    public static GroupAddOperation create(String group, FreeIpaGroupType groupType, BiConsumer<String, String> warnings) {
        return new GroupAddOperation(group, groupType, warnings);
    }

    @Override
    public String getOperationName() {
        return "group_add";
    }

    @Override
    protected List<Object> getFlags() {
        return List.of(group);
    }

    @Override
    protected Map<String, Object> getParams() {
        switch (groupType) {
            case NONPOSIX:
                return NONPOSIX_PARAMS;
            case POSIX:
            default:
                return DEFAULT_PARAMS;
        }
    }

    @Override
    public Optional<Group> invoke(FreeIpaClient freeIpaClient) throws FreeIpaClientException {
        FreeIpaChecks.checkGroupNotProtected(group,
                () -> String.format("Group '%s' is protected and cannot be added to FreeIPA", group));
        try {
            LOGGER.debug("adding group {}", group);
            Group groupAdded = invoke(freeIpaClient, Group.class);
            LOGGER.debug("Success: {}", groupAdded);
            return Optional.of(groupAdded);
        } catch (FreeIpaClientException e) {
            if (FreeIpaClientExceptionUtil.isDuplicateEntryException(e)) {
                LOGGER.debug("group '{}' already exists", group);
            } else {
                LOGGER.warn("Failed to add group {}", group, e);
                warnings.accept(group, "Failed to add group:" + e.getMessage());
                freeIpaClient.checkIfClientStillUsable(e);
            }
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Valuing Life
By The New Republic
Smoking: Making the Risky Decision
By W. Kip Viscusi
(Oxford University Press, 184 pp., $24.95)
Fatal Tradeoffs: Public and Private Responsibilities for Risk
(Oxford University Press, 320 pp., $37)
Let us begin with a few numbers. On a usual day in America, thirty Americans are killed at work, fifty-six are killed at home, and 133 die in car accidents. About 4,000 Americans die each day as a result of cancer. Tobacco smoking contributes to about 30 percent of these deaths. By contrast, occupational hazards help account for about 4 percent of cancer deaths; medicines and medical procedures, for about 1 percent; pollution, for about 2 percent. If we look at government regulations designed to reduce risks to human life, we will find that expenditures range from $10,000 to more than $1 billion per life saved. Some health and safety regulations save hundreds or even thousands of lives per year, at low cost. Others save less than one life per year, for a price of millions of dollars. The result is a crazy-quilt pattern, with a total regulatory bill well over $200 billion.
If we compare the various risks that we face with the amount that we spend to reduce each of them, we will find it impossible to justify our current system. We do not operate with a clear sense of priorities, and we do not proceed against the most serious problems. To be sure, we are overregulated, but we are also underregulated. Interest groups exercise extraordinary influence over regulatory policy. Regulatory outcomes are often a product of sensationalistic anecdotes rather than a careful investigation of risks. The huge disparities in our laws--some call for absolute protection, others for mandatory technological advances, others for open-ended balancing--cannot produce a sensible system. Often they create chaos and irrationality.
In such circumstances, regulatory reform should be one of the highest priorities of government in general, and of the new administration in particular. With the right tools, we could save millions, even billions of private and public dollars annually. We could make such savings without any loss in regulatory protection. In a period of economic distress and international competition, moreover, there are few more important tasks. We could use the savings to pay for important social programs. We could even (believe it or not) significantly reduce the deficit. With the right tools, we could also offer better protection to our citizens. We could educate people about risks, thus encouraging inexpensive methods of risk reduction. We could direct our attention to serious risks that Americans face on the job, on the highway, at home and in the air and the water. The government can do much more to protect people from pesticides, from industrial air pollution, from tap-water contamination, from indoor air pollution.
From what I have said so far, it should be clear that risk regulation is a natural area for economists. How should we assess the private and public costs of current risks, and of various strategies for risk reduction? W. Kip Viscusi, an economist at Duke University, is well versed in economic theory, but he is also unusually scrupulous about the facts. His new books are distinguished by an insistent focus on the real world. Viscusi wants to know the actual costs and the actual benefits of different regulatory strategies. He wants to ascertain which strategies have worked, and why.
If we are thinking about protecting American life and health, Viscusi is right to focus our attention on smoking, for the risks here are far higher than for most other environmental hazards. The dangers are well documented: about 300,000 smokers die as a result of their smoking each year. On average, smokers lose ten to fifteen years of life. Smokers have a 10.8 times greater chance than non-smokers of dying from lung cancer; a 6.1 times greater chance of dying of bronchitis or emphysema; a 5.4 times greater chance of dying of cancer of the larynx; a 4.1 times greater chance of dying of oral cancer; and almost double the chance of dying of heart disease. Studies also suggest that people exposed to tobacco smoke ("passive smokers") face a 34 percent greater risk of lung cancer than do non-smokers who are not similarly exposed. This means that passive smoking produces about 2,500 fatal cancers each year--a number that exceeds the number of people killed by all airborne pollutants regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency (with the exception of asbestos).
The core of Viscusi's approach can be captured very briefly. In considering what government should do about smoking he argues, we should ask just one question: Are smokers adequately informed of the risks? If people smoke without knowing that it is dangerous, we have a problem: but if they are fully aware, the government has basically done its job. Viscusi's approach leads him to an intriguing empirical investigation of whether people really do know the relevant risks. His striking finding, based on survey evidence, is that people are indeed aware of the risks of smoking. If anything, they believe that the risks are greater than they are. The actual risk that a smoker will get lung cancer because he smokes is somewhere between 5 percent and 10 percent, but people generally think that the risk is 43 percent; even smokers think that the risk is 37 percent.
According to the conventional picture, smokers are tools, addicts or automatons, blindly following glossy advertisements and ignoring information about risk. Viscusi thinks that this picture is all wrong. In the light of his findings, he says that our real goal should be to make sure that the market tot risks works well. To this end, government should try to ensure the spread of accurate information about risk designed to tell people the truth about risks rather than to persuade them to slop smoking. Government should encourage competition in the market for slier cigarettes. It should create a uniform vocabulary containing warnings about differing risk levels for different cigarettes. Finally, it should test cigarettes on its own or develop standards for enabling companies to do so. Through these routes, government can promote an efficient market for smoking--one in which companies compete with one another, smokers are informed, people are flee to choose and government avoids paternalism, which is the special bane of economists.
Fatal Tradeoffs generalizes many of the claims in Smoking. It is organized into three parts. First, Viscusi tries to figure out how we should value losses of human life. To this end, he explores how much workers "demand" from employers in order to be subject to risks of death and ill jury. How much is a salary increased for a worker who faces risks? Viscusi concludes that the usual worker receives compensation for a fatality of somewhere between $1 million and $2 million, and about $10,000 for non-fatal injuries. These results are based on actual worker choices to take jobs in risky employment. Outside the labor market, the implicit value for life, calculated by examining the "price premium" for more satiety, ranges from $600,000 (for smoke detector installation) to $4 million (for automobile accident risks). Viscusi also offers evidence from surveys in which people are asked about the dollar amounts they would require to face added risk. Here the amounts generally fall within the range of $3 million per statistical life.
Next, Viscusi tries to understand how people react to risks. His primary claim is that people often perceive risks mistakenly but not randomly. For example, they tend to overestimate the risks of low-probability events (at least if these are highly publicized, such as airplane crashes or nuclear power plant disasters) and to underestimate the risks of high-probability events (such as stroke and heart disease). People also tend to use a "reference point," based on their current conception of risk levels. Even when given new information, they tend to stick close to the reference point, and this can produce big errors. And people show a status quo bias, in the sense that they will require a lot of money to be subject to a risk not present in the status quo, while they will pay relatively little to eliminate an equivalent risk in the status quo. This asymmetry helps to explain the seemingly inexplicable fact that our government regulates new risks--in the environment, the workplace and elsewhere--much more stringently than it regulates existing ones.
Finally, Viscusi looks at the real-world effects of risk regulation. He shows that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, at least in the last two decades, has had a small but significant beneficial effect on workplace injuries. Many lives have been saved. By contrast, there is no clear evidence that the Consumer Product Safety Commission has increased safely for consumers. In a provocative chapter on the Reagan and Bush years, Viscusi concludes that the record was extremely mixed. The first Reagan effort was based on a belief in across-the-board regulator relief rather than sensible regulatory reform guided by a careful assessment of the real consequences of different approaches. Deregulation became a goal in itself, unaccompanied by a clear understanding of what government should be doing. Viscusi agrees that an important executive order by Reagan that required cost-benefit analysis produced some improvements. Still, Reagan and Bush did not attempt to change the governing law, and they took insufficient steps in the direction of cost efficiency and cost-benefit balancing. Thus we lost the impetus toward meaningful regulatory reform.
In issuing recommendations tot the future, Viscusi emphasizes that private markets fail to deal adequately with risks, especially in the area of environmental protection. Laissez-faire is a nonsensical prescription. But regulatory approaches should always be based on a selection of the most cost-effective option. We should base our efforts on a careful balancing of both costs and benefits. Viscusi recommends fundamental legislative reform, which he thinks necessary to achieve the appropriate balancing.
These are careful and informative books. They are filled with interesting ideas and (even better) a wide range of empirical evidence. Viscusi offers much to ponder for anyone interested in environmental protection, consumer safety and workplace risks. Moreover, his prescriptions make a good deal of sense. They could even help form the basis for a bipartisan--even a nonpartisan--effort to reform our laws and our practices and finally come to terms with the pervasive risks to life and health.
And yet there is a basic theoretical weakness in both books. Viscusi's entire framework is based on neoclassical economics. He does not seriously defend that framework; at times he takes it as self-evident, and seems unaware that it is a framework, requiring a defense against alternatives. (This is an occupational hazard for economists. I doubt that there is any point in regulating against it.) In a nutshell, the framework is this: government should try to reproduce the outcomes of well-functioning economic markets. To be well-functioning, a market requires both adequate information and true competition. If people are perfectly informed about risks, and if they run those risks anyway, government's task is at an end. It must respect the preferences that reveal themselves in private consumption choices. Government should ensure that consumer satisfaction with respect to risks (like consumer satisfaction with respect to everything else) is achieved. It should, like Nabisco or Diet Rite, see consumer satisfaction as its whole raison d'etre, its guiding aspiration.
In the area of risk regulation, there are some initial oddities in Viscusi's presentation. Even within his own framework, he underemphasizes both the problem of information and the effects of one person's risks on others. Viscusi's own data on smoking show that many millions of people, smokers and non-smokers alike, continue to underestimate the risks. The fact that, in responding to survey questions, most people seem to have an accurate picture, or even overestimate the risks, does not mean that all is well if many people are insufficiently aware of the dangers. In a world with Medicare and Medicaid, moreover, the illness of any one of us is a bill for many or even most of us. In such a world, one person's decision to run a risk imposes costs on many other people. Certainly we should try to redesign our insurance and welfare programs to create better incentives for people to take care of themselves, but whatever we do, it seems likely that taxpayers will pay for people who need medical assistance.
In the particular context of smoking, there is an important additional consideration, given that passive smoking is a significant source of harm. Even if we accept Viscusi's basic premises, we must use steep excise taxes to ensure that the high social costs of smoking are built into the product's price, and are paid for by the company and the smoker rather than by the rest of us. Viscusi's own evidence shows persuasively that this can be an effective response to smoking and to other risk-creating activity. His treatment of risk regulation devotes too little attention to the possibility that an interventionist system of "risk taxes" or license fees (for high-polluting gasoline, greenhouse gases and much more) could well be justified as a means of stopping people from imposing dangers on the rest of us, or from making the rest of us poorer.
But Viscusi's premises are even more dubious. He seems to think that a democratic system should try only to mimic the outcomes of well-functioning markets. This is an odd conception of democracy, which few serious theorists of democracy have held. Viscusi is entranced with the economic notion of "consumer sovereignty," in which government respects the consumer's willingness to pay for various goods (including risks to life and health), and bases all its policy judgments on that foundation. But the notion of consumer sovereignty is quite distinct from the notion of "sovereignty" as a democratic aspiration. For a democracy, the sovereignty of the people entails respect for the public's deliberative judgments as these have been reached on the basis Of a principle of political equality (that is, not merely on the basis of market considerations). It does not entail treating people as consumers with respect to everything of importance, including their lives and their health.
To be less abstract: Viscusi thinks that his empirical evidence shows that the value of a life is somewhere between $1 million and $3 million. He thinks that we can prove that workers "value their lives" at a certain amount by seeing how much employers have to pay workers to get them to run certain risks. This is false. Employment decisions usually reflect no considered judgment about the valuation of life. Workers may run a risk, but not because they believe their life is really "worth" $1 million. They run a risk, rather, because they need a job, and because a job with certain benefits and certain risks is the best job that they can find. For a worker who needs to feed her family, a decision to run a 1 percent risk of fatality in return for $5,000 does not mean that the worker "really" thinks that her life is worth $500,000. Perhaps the worker has inadequate information about risk levels; perhaps the worker, even if well informed, is unwilling to think seriously about the fact that she has placed her life in real danger. (This is a far from uncommon human reaction.) It is true that employers must pay more to get people to take risky jobs, and it is even true that some workers trade off health and other benefits, but the typical worker (or consumer) cannot fairly be charged with having reached any judgment on how much her life is worth. For this reason, some of Viscusi's ingenious and rather obsessive arguments about how much people value their lives ultimately appear a bit fantastical, more in the spirit of Jonathan Swift than Adam Smith.
Markets operate against large inequalities in the distribution of wealth, and they are based on the principle of "one dollar, one vote." Democratic politics, by contrast, operates on a principle of political equality, by the idea of "one person, one vote." Hence the outcomes will be very different. Moreover the results of politics often reflect something other than the economic self-interest that is characteristic of market behavior. Quite apart from inequalities in the distribution of wealth, political behavior at its best involves a process of deliberation and reason-giving that should play a large role in our decisions about risks to life and health.
It is wrong, therefore, to think that government's only task is to replicate the performance of well-functioning markets. Of course, lift" cannot be valued infinitely by those designing environmental regulation. This would be a recipe for irrationality (and national bankruptcy). Of" course, politics often contains large distortions of its own. But a democracy has a broader deliberative function. It should be helping to decide what levels of risk people should be facing in different places, not merely taking private preferences as a fixed basis for policy, or treating market choices as if they reveal a context-free judgment about what lives are worth. There is no algorithm or formula to make such a decision for us. Much will depend on the setting in which the risk is run. A voluntary risk is different from one faced involuntarily. It matters, too, whether exposure is an essential part of desirable human activity, whether the risk affects average people, whether alternatives are available and so on.
These criticisms may seem unhappily abstract. But if" we put 'considerations of this sort together with what Viscusi and others have shown about risk regulation, we can begin to discern a concrete and dramatic agenda for government reform. That effort should have five elements: (1) an open and democratic discussion of the choices at stake in risk regulation: (2) a large-scale shift from "command-and-control" regulation to economic incentives for achieving democratic goals; (3) a new emphasis on receiving and disseminating information, and hence on personal responsibility for risk reduction; (4) a more systematic and long-term set of priorities; and (5) better government institutions.
Most fundamentally, we need to pose and answer some basic questions. In the light of what we know about the risks from the greenhouse effect, what sorts of sacrifices--in the form of increased prices or banned products--are we willing to make? How much should we pay to reduce, say, sulfur dioxide levels by 10 percent? Congress and the president should make these decisions openly. In the past, we have pretended that greater protection has no costs, or yielded to powerful groups on various sides, or blamed some evil person said to be entirely responsible for our problems (the automobile industry, the loggers, the environmentalists). A weighing of the good and bad consequences of government action is an inescapable part of law, environmental or otherwise. This weighing should be done explicitly and publicly.
Democratic goals should be set democratically, not through a mimicry of markets. Still, in trying to achieve democratic goals, we may borrow from the economists and insist that innovative market-based incentives are generally the best strategy. Such incentives could include cash rewards for reducing risk and cash penalties for imposing risk (as in the "green taxes" so popular in Europe but now absent from American environmental policy). Lamentably, Congress has often favored not incentives, but "command-and-control" regulation, in which government selects the particular means for achieving environmental ends. This form of regulation is both ineffective and inefficient. Our government must intervene, at state and national levels; but it should use flexible and inexpensive tools. Our present approaches are wasting literally billions of dollars. By far the better approach is to use economic incentives to encourage environmentally desirable conduct, and to let the market decide on the question of means. A cash penalty for pollution is a wonderful way to stimulate new environmental technologies.
A system of revenue-neutral (or revenue-enhancing and thus deficit-reducing) incentives is surely to be favored on economic grounds. Indeed, the tax system might well be reformed so as to decrease taxes on individuals and corporations while increasing taxes on risk-creating activities. (Europe offers several examples, such as carbon taxes in Finland and the Netherlands.) Even more important, a system of incentives is much better from the standpoint of democracy. Economic incentives place the right question squarely before the public: How much risk reduction do we want, and at what price? Such a system allows far less room for the interest-group maneuvering that has so often undermined environmental policy. The very generality of the question makes it much harder for government to offer special favors to industry. Whenever government is dictating means, special favors are all too common.
It is also crucial for government to provide and to seek sound information about risks and to encourage a sense of personal responsibility for environmental protection and other forms of risk reduction. Happily, economic incentives tend to create the right reactions on this score. If polluters will have to pay for the harm they cause, we can be assured that all relevant interests will be concerned to find out exactly what that harm is, and to minimize it.
I have suggested the need for a large-scale reallocation in our priorities. Too often our system has been weirdly episodic, producing a "pollutant of the month" syndrome that devotes limited dollars to the wrong problems. We need to know which risks are most severe, and we need to address these risks. Current knowledge shows that smoking is by far the most serious cancer threat; we should take steps (including persuasion and steeper excise taxes) to diminish that threat. Excessive and underpriced automobile use is a large source of pollution, of mortality and of millions of serious injuries each year. A stiff gasoline tax, perhaps accompanied by income tax relief for lower- and middle-income taxpayers, would be an appropriate response. At the same time, a new reform strategy would ensure that we cease to devote large resources to relatively small problems. Some EPA and OSHA rules actually spend many hundreds of millions of dollars to save a minuscule number of lives. Our limited public and private funds should be used for more serious problems, such as tap-water contamination, increasing energy efficiency, promoting renewable energy sources and converting from agricultural pesticides to other, safer methods of controlling pests.
And we need new institutions. When it comes to risk regulation, both the legislature and the executive branches are too fragmented. This fragmentation prevents sensible reform. Congress should create a new "risk oversight" committee, designed to give a clear overview of existing problems, to show what we are getting for the money we spend and to make recommendations for reallocating priorities. Similarly, a highly professionalized institution within the executive branch should be created to compile and disseminate information about risk levels and expenditures, to draw attention to high-priority items and to supervise executive branch decisions in order to ensure coordination and rationality.
These are only a few of the ways in which we might make long-needed changes in the laws and the regulations governing solid waste, hazardous waste, clean air and clean water. The really important tact is that we now have a rare opportunity to promote environmental welfare while promoting economic goals. We must not let it slip away.
Cass R. Sunstein teaches at the University of Chicago Law School. His new book, is forthcoming from Harvard University/Press.
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Irina Krush won the U.S. Women's Championship seven times from 2012 - 2015. Krush has entrenched herself as the figurehead to elite American women's chess play by earning the title of Grandmaster in October 2013. America's only active female GM says she doesn't spend much time contemplating her current chess success or failures -- "I'm more attached to my future accomplishments." Born in Odessa, USSR (now Ukraine) in 1983, Irina learned to play chess at age five, emigrating with her parents to Brooklyn that same year. Krush attended Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn, where she participated in one of the top high-school chess teams in the country. It has been a rapid climb for Irina since then, including exceptional showings in the 2002, 2004 and 2008 Chess Olympiads, as well as a gold-medal performance in the 2013 Women's World Team Championship -- a result Krush called the best of her career. In addition to her chess studies, the 2008 Samford Chess Fellowship recipient enjoys tennis, reading, writing, yoga and music. Krush has a degree in international relations from NYU, though she is currently concentrating on chess. She said she enjoys the challenge of playing other Grandmasters most: "When you beat a strong GM, that's when you feel like you can play chess.
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At 78, Paulene Stone, the former Vogue cover model, has still got it. Words by Jonathan Whiley.
Paulene Stone has still got it. The style, the sass, the je ne sais quoi.
Now 78, the former Vogue cover model has been married four times, battled cancer three times and, mercifully, is not about to go gently into that long good night, thank you very much.
Her life is as riotously colourful as any Kandinsky canvas.
What's more, she makes for fabulous no-nonsense company. And she dishes up delicious showbiz snippets with a candour few can match.
Then again, for a woman who was dubbed "the embodiment of the Sixties", would you really expect anything less?
Welcoming me at her beautiful Belgravia home, she cuts a stylish, but slight figure.
"I'm a very conservative eater, but I have to eat regularly since my various cancers, as I can drop three pounds on a light eating day," she says.
But she remains a sprightly presence as she nips to prepare tea.
Having had a stroke last year and lost much of her core strength due to cancer, she decided to find a personal trainer recently. He now comes twice a week for hour-long sessions.
"I realised my bottom had gone flat and I nearly got blown under a bus in the wind because I wasn't strong enough to hang on to the pavement," she says.
The big break
Born in Guildford on the night of the London Blitz, she quit school at 16 and began commuting daily to London from Goring-by-Sea.
I wonder when she became aware of her own beauty.
"I didn't!," she says. "I still am not!"
Her 'big break' came when she was persuaded to enter a modelling competition in Woman's Own, and won.
The prize was £100 and a three-week course at the acclaimed Cherry Marshall Modelling Agency in St James's.
"When I completed the course, she gave me a list of all the photographers she wanted me to go and see… I was very diligent and did it and I got a job and from the first week, I never stopped working," she says.
One of the photo sessions was with a then unknown photographer by the name of David Bailey.
A snap he took of Paulene crouching down with a squirrel in 1960 became iconic and secured Bailey a contract with Vogue.
Now the picture sits in the upstairs bathroom of the Belgravia home.
She moved from Hampstead to Chester Row in Belgravia after the death of her second husband, the Oscar-nominated actor Laurence Harvey. He died from cancer in 1973 aged 45, 11 months after they married.
"I was living in America at the time," says Paulene.
She then married Hard Rock Café co-founder Peter Morton in 1978, and they divorced in '86.
"I rented it at that time. In the '80s there were lots of movies being made in London and they all wanted to stay on Chester Row, so it was full all the time with really famous people.
"One musician turned the basement into a sound studio. There was the man who made a film with Baryshnikov about the ballet. Then I had Pierce Brosnan. A bit of the ceiling fell down on the end of the bed when he was staying," she remembers.
Love and tragedy
She met actor Mark Burns at a party one night.
"He was so nice; handsome, intelligent, kind and my number one fan. He thought I was fabulous, so that was good and we just hit it off. He used to make me laugh and I was hanging around with Americans and they don't really make me laugh," she says.
They married in 1995 with a reception at Mosimann's in Belgravia, but 12 years later Mark succumbed to lung cancer.
A decade on, Paulene encountered further heartbreak when her second daughter, bounty hunter Domino Harvey – daughter of actor Laurence – died of a painkiller overdose, aged 35.
Tragedy has certainly spliced the glamour of yesteryear, when Paulene was partying with the likes of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton and hell raiser Peter O'Toole.
Paulene says she wouldn't want to be a model now, despite the huge sums of money involved.
"I started off with £2.50 an hour and that was quite generous, then it went to £5 an hour and I when I finished I was getting £25 an hour in 1978," she says.
Today her local haunts include Daylesford, La Poule au Pot, Paolo Moschino ("my cushions all come from"), jeweller David Thomas ("he remade my engagement ring to Laurence, which I love) and she attends the Church of St Barnabas every Sunday ("the vicar, Father John, is divine).
This article was first published in Belgravia magazine.
Find similar stories in the People section of our website.
You may like to read Hello Sweetie in which Joanna Lumley talks about the Sixties when everyone was skinny and only the rich could afford to get drunk or stoned.
In Liz Hurley on Chelsea, the actress, model and businesswoman talks about her favourite haunts in the neighbourhood.
Or read Mary Quant and the King's Road about the exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum running until February 16th 2020.
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The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
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The Hate U Give deals with the way in which police brutality and systematic criminalisation of black bodies damage African American communities, depicting the struggle often felt by people of colour between who they are and how they are perceived by the world. The events of the novel are particularly resonant in light of recent cases of police brutality which have resulted in the death of victims such as Trayvon Martin, which sparked the activist movement, Black Lives Matter. The Hate U Give follows Starr Carter as she negotiates the fallout from the horrific police brutality suffered by her friend Khalil. The novel explores Starr's journey to finding her voice so that she can explicitly challenge police brutality against African Americans.
The Hate U Give is a fresh commentary on the media-constructed narrative that often surrounds the deaths of young African Americans at the hands of the police. The victims of police brutality are usually presented in the media as 'thugs'. Thomas challenges this by reorienting the word 'thug'.The title The Hate U Give takes inspiration from Tupac Shakur for whom 'Thug Life' stands for 'The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everyone'. The character Khalil explains how 'what society give us as youth … bites them in the ass when we wild out' (39). This refers to a cycle whereby the youth are subjected to forms of violence such as constant unwarranted police attention and unnecessarily punitive actions. This violence occurs in such a sustained way that it warps their future, moulding them into perpetrators of violence. A lack of opportunities caused by systematic discrimination leads these young people to join gangs and sell drugs for money. Ironically, the pursuit of a higher quality of life that motivates involvement in gangs helps to worsen quality of life in the community to which those young people belong. Thomas' portrayal of Khalil deconstructs the media's stereotypical portrayal of young black men and provides a humanity that is often denied to young black men. Khalil is a drug dealer, yet we learn in the text how his drug dealing is the only way he has of paying off his mother's debts to the local gang leader. Khalil is therefore portrayed as a victim shaped and trapped by his violent environment rather than simply as a threat or a villain.
The novel personally resonated with me due to the fact that it deals with the notion of having a double identity. As a diasporic individual, I have often found my identity torn between two culturally different worlds. The Hate U Give is shaped by W. E. B. Du Bois' concept of 'double consciousness' (Du Bois 7). Du Bois argues that there is a constant tension between how black people identify themselves and how they are identified by a society in which white people are dominant. Indeed, Starr constantly feels like she has to hide her 'blackness' when entering her school, primarily a white space. She states how her 'voice is changing already… I can never, ever let anyone think I'm ghetto' (195). She feels the need to change her voice in order to not reinforce any stereotypes of blackness. This illustrates the pressure she feels to represent her race in a space where she is a minority. She has to dissociate herself from Garden Heights, her primarily black and more impoverished neighbourhood, in order to be accepted by her white peers. This fear is not just internal but is validated by her experience: when she re-blogs a post about the lynching of Emmett Till on Tumblr, her white friend Hailey unfollows her. Hailey embodies white fragility through her refusal to even acknowledge the systematic discrimination against African American people that is in evidence around her.
I came across The Hate U Give in an attempt to rediscover my love of reading after a year of not branching beyond my university set reading list. The Hate U Give belongs to the Young Adult genre, and such books are often ignored by the syllabi of universities – perhaps due to a perceived lack of depth. However, I found many parallels between Thomas' The Hate U Give and the texts I was studying at university, contradicting the assumption that it is shallow. For example, Nella Larsen's Passing also explores racial discrimination in the US. Passing deals with a black woman who passes for a white woman in public. This takes the cultural assimilation undergone by Starr to another extreme. Yet The Hate U Give provided a more contemporary outlook on current racial hostilities in the US. It's important not to exclude the distinctive perspective of young black people from the discourse; to assume that there is a singular homogeneous black experience would be a gross oversimplification. Moreover, I was transfixed by the use of the first person narrative voice which, unlike Passing, could directly and explicitly challenge the systematic racial inequalities and police brutality in the US. The first-person narrative in The Hate U Give intimately places the reader more directly in the narrator's perspective, creating something of a kinship between the audience and narrator. The reader can therefore empathise with Starr, who within her own narration of her thoughts and feelings, denounces systematic racism and the police brutality depicted in the text.
This novel could be taught in a course related to gender studies or postcolonial studies, where its contemporary outlook on the systematic discrimination against African American people, stemming from the remnants of colonisation, would provide an important touchstone. The Hate U Give could also be taught in a course related to Young Adult Literature as it reorients the Young Adult genre, a genre dominated by the narratives of white people. The Young Adult genre is often overlooked in academic contexts, yet The Hate U Give engages with concepts explored in several academic texts written on race and taught in universities. As well as the aforementioned connection to Dubois, we can consider Frantz Fanon's Black Skin White Masks, which illustrates how for the 'black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.' (4) For Fanon, the black man has to appropriate the culture and language of their coloniser, which is echoed by the depiction in The Hate U Give of Starr having to change her behaviour when entering her school, a space in which she is not part of the dominant racial group.
The Hate U Give provides a subversive take on the current systematic discrimination against African Americans, and undertakes an important deconstruction of the media narrative surrounding police brutality against young black people. It therefore provides a more contemporary outlook that is lacking in the syllabi of postcolonial studies in universities. Furthermore, Starr serves as an empowering character through her journey to using her voice against the racial injustice in the US. This provides a useful tool for the current youth as to how they can use their own voice to challenge systematic discrimination against racial minorities.
Du Bois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk.Simon and Schuster, 2014.
Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. Pluto Press, 1986.
Larsen, Nella. Passing. Courier Corporation, 2012.
Thomas, Angie. The Hate U Give. Kindle ed., Harper Collins,2017.
Tupac Shakur. "2Pac Interview about Definition of Thug Life." Youtube. uploaded by Thugg Staz,. Nov 15, 2009,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX8Hv0ImG4Y.
Jasmine Thakral is a third year undergraduate student studying English Literature and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. She is currently on a year abroad at McMaster University in Canada. She has a keen interest in literature written by women of the Asian diaspora.
Published: December 24, 2018 (updated: February 7, 2019)
Filed under: #Adolescence, #America, #Black, #Class, #Colonialism, #Contemporary, #Family, #Gender, #Gentrification, #Identity, #Literature, #Race, #Violence, #Whiteness
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Captain Morgan`s Revenge – 10th Anniversary Edition has received a fresh remix and remastering by original producer Lasse Lammert at his LSD studios and will be coming with a rejuvenated artwork. Alongside the 'Live At Summer Breeze' bonus disc, this re-release will be a true gem for all collectors, new fans and nostalgics alike!
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Did you know that Michelangelo wanted nothing to do with Sistine Chapel? In 1510, when 33-year-old Michelangelo was asked by Pope Julius of Rome to decorate the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he was reluctant. For one thing, he considered himself a sculptor rather than a painter, and he had no experience with frescoes. For another, the biggest challenge was fitting human figures into the traingular spandrels on the ceiling. To paint a picture on a curved ceiling split into sections required amazing imagination and the ability to adapt to perspective distortion. Young Michelangelo was ambitious but the Pope was asking for too much. If he failed, all his errors would be on display for the rest of the Rome to laugh at.
Working on the Sistine Chapel
To overcome the limitation, Michelangelo for the first time used the fresco painting technique. He first had to learn the technique to create the twelve Apostles and some filler decorations. But, soon he realized the ceiling wasn't going to look magnificent enough and so he obtained permission from the Pope for something more ambitious. Michelangelo then came up with a vast painting of three hundred figures illustrating the nine scenes from the Book of Genesis.
Michelangelo and his assistants used wooden scaffolds that allowed them to stand upright and reach above their heads. In fact, to reach the chapel's ceiling, Michelangelo himself designed the scaffold, made out of a flat wooden platform attached to the walls with brackets built out from holes in the wall near the top of the windows, rather than being built up from the floor.
The Sistine Chapel project was so physically demanding, that Michelangelo wrote a poem about his two years of misery. "I've already grown a goiter from this torture," it read, "stomach's squashed under my chin," that his "face makes a fine floor for droppings,"he went on to complain. "I am not in the right place—I am not a painter,"he ended with the note that he shouldn't have changed his day job as a sculptor.
Why Is Creativity So Crucial?
Twelve years later, another Pope hired Michelangelo to paint him the front wall of the same chapel. Michelangelo painted The Last Judgement, between 1537 and 1541.
Today, Rome's Sistine Chapel remains to be one of the most iconic masterpieces, with five million visitors a year craning their necks to admire High Renaissance art.
External restrictions are the biggest deterrents of creativity. We feel boxed by restrictions, when in fact, we must take the most of the limitations imposed on us and search for a way around restrictions. We're constantly told to be more creative, to 'think outside of the box'. How? Where does it come from?
Creativity is unstructured. It requires no following of rules or patterns. Ultimately, the process comes down to changing your perspective and seeing things differently than you currently do. Ask yourself:
Can you design a building in the middle of an ocean?
Can you tell a story in six words?
Can you paint a curved picture on a 40m high ceiling?
Or, will you dismiss the idea, because it's practically impossible to do so?
Limitations can lead to original solutions. But, first, it requires mental liberation. One must be liberated from barriers in order to overcome the barriers. Creativity is the best response to limitations. Don't think outside of the box, because there is no box, and so there are no limitations.
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Pink Heart String: Lalaloopsy Large Dolls Gets A Makeover And You'll Love It!
Lalaloopsy Large Dolls Gets A Makeover And You'll Love It!
It's been a long long time since my last post about Lalaloopsy. If you haven't read about my previous posts, my daughter Bella and I loves these cute dolls. Bella has her own Lalas but unfortunately, they were burned when our house succumed into fire last December. But that's okay. What's important is that we are all safe.
Well, the Lalas did not make it. Of course, expect Bella to cry over her toys because for kids, these are their important possessions. But we assured her that we will get her new Lalas. That is why I browsed through the web to check on the latest Lalaloopsy. And I was so happy to see the gorgeous make over of Crumbs, Jewel, Spot and Storm.
They are super cute! Instead of the hard plastic hair, these new Lalaloopsy large dolls already have hairs that can be combed and styled. You know, like the ones we see on Barbie dolls. When Bella saw this, she was so excited to get a new Lalaloopsy doll. Of course, we can't buy that now yet because 1) we need to restore a lot of stuff first and dolls aren't a priority and 2) it is not yet available in the country.
For sure, by the time these dolls are available in the Philippines, we have already recovered from the loss due to the fire. And we can get Bella one of these lovely dolls.
Another thing that I noticed is the new box. Too bad it got rid of the lovely handles which we collected (but were burned). But it still looked lovely!


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Kotoko facing Ghana FA ban after violence following defeat to Berekum Chelsea - Videos
Berekum Chelsea
Kotoko
Aduana Stars
Accra Hearts of Oak
Asante Kotoko
Brian Amofa
Giants Asante Kotoko could face the Disciplinary Committee of the Ghana FA after their supporters threw projectiles on the field during their shock defeat to Berekum Chelsea, halting the Premier League match for several minutes on Sunday.
Angry supporters of the Porcupine Warriors were furious over decisions of the referee in their match against the visiting which led to some throwing stones and sachet water directed at the match officials.
Some also tried to force a gate to the pitch open before security officials intervened to halt the action which could have spiralled out of control in the match.
Kotoko lost for the first time this season after falling to a surprise 1-0 defeat at the Baba Yara Stadium on Sunday.
The Porcupine Warriors were hoping to continue their winning run but a seventh-minute strike by Kofi Owusu ensured that Chelsea earned the famous win.
It is the same scoreline that Berekum Chelsea recorded when they visited Kotoko's arch-rivals Hearts of Oak on matchday one.
The Blues had been written off ahead of the game. Fair enough, due to Kotoko's explosive start to the season earning two straight wins compared to their's one win and a draw.
But they had other ideas as they executed their strategy to perfection. Chelsea made the best possible start in the afternoon and found the back of the net in the 7th minute.
Kofi Owusu received a brilliant pass inside the box from Jeorge Ranchi and he beat Felix Annan with a shot into the left bottom corner.
Watch video of Kotoko fans throwing object on the field


As you adventure through Alderstone and progress on to the challenging Dungeons (available after the completion of Normal Mode), you will begin to receive rewards from something called Item Sets. Item Sets are a collection of items that grant special bonuses if worn together. Item Sets can range from two rings and a necklace, to a full set of eight pieces of gear (Helmet, Shoulders, Chest, Cape, Gloves, Boots, Main-Hand Weapon and Off-Hand Item) and any combination in between. The bonuses from an Item Set are only available while the required pieces of the set are equipped.
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Living in Truth, Beauty, and Goodness
Values and Virtues
by Jeffrey Wattles
Foreword by Stephen G. Post
Truth, beauty, and goodness are more than traditional ideas--they are living realities bearing dynamic potentials for a future we can help create. As we grow, these supreme values increasingly guide our thinking, feeling, and doing. No matter what your philosophical, religious, or spiritual orientation may be, having a philosophy of living centered on these ideals will enhance your understanding and integration. Seasoned by the author's experience in leading thousands of students through experiential projects, Living in Truth, Beauty, and Goodness contains all the essential ingredients to help you develop your own personal philosophy. Your guides are Darwin, Socrates, Jesus, Bach, and other world-class pioneers whose strengths and insights can inspire you to develop a resilient and virtuous character. As you explore truths in science, philosophy, and spiritual experience; beauty in nature and the arts; and goodness in morality and character, you will be encouraged to transplant what is proposed here into the garden of your own concepts and then creatively to put the emerging meanings and values into practice.
Jeffrey Wattles is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Kent State University. He authored The Golden Rule (Oxford University Press) and has written articles on religious experience, environmental aesthetics, and the concept of purpose in cosmology and biology. Professor Wattles has led more than three thousand students through experiential projects in introductory philosophy, world religions, philosophy of religion, philosophy of religious experience, aesthetics, and ethics. His wife is Japanese, and their son works in Tokyo.
"Wattles makes a significant contribution to the exciting reemergence of the value triad of truth, beauty, and goodness--a powerful philosophical technology that can be used for both personal growth and social service. Wattles grounds his message through insightful biographical explorations of the lives of exemplary leaders who have lived out these most intrinsic values. Highly recommended!"
--Steve McIntosh, Author, The Presence of the Infinite: The Spiritual Experience of Beauty, Truth, and Goodness; President, The Institute for Cultural Evolution
"This is no ordinary book! Combining religion, philosophy, science, art, and ethics in a practical, how-to endeavor, Wattles invites readers on a transformative journey. The ideas have been trial-tested in the lives of his students over the decades, as the anecdotes and stories note. The insights and instructions herein make this a book I plan to reread often!"
--Thomas Jay Oord, Author, The Uncontrolling Love of God
"Jeffrey Wattles's timely new book provides an inspiring paradigm of an open-ended learning style that constantly transcends its borders. Drawing upon significant thinkers and doers, as well as his own academic and personal experience, Wattles charts a journey inspired by the ideals of truth, beauty, and goodness to illustrate how these ideals can become integral to one's being. In so doing, he challenges us to incorporate these themes in our own life's journey."
--Kathleen M. O'Connell, Author, Rabindranath Tagore: The Poet as Educator
"This is a must-read for seekers of truth in a postmodern, post-Christian culture. Wattles invites the reader into integrative thinking, erasing the false dichotomy between science and religion. The grace with which he introduces seminal thinkers such as Darwin, Aristotle, [and] Jesus is refreshing! Stories from his journey and students encourage us to practice a philosophy of living in truth, beauty, and goodness!"
--Mary B. Blessing, Episcopal Priest, Rector of St. Philip the Apostle Episcopal Church, Scotts Valley, CA
"Having used Jeffrey Wattles' first book, The Golden Rule, in both my Sunday School and sermons at the Haven of Rest in Akron, this book has moved up to the next level of spirituality. It encapsulates what God's love is meant to be for each person no matter where they are in their spiritual life. It explains and eliminates God's true essence through clear and solid spiritual concepts. Through Jeff 's book, God is not far off and distant but is close, helpful, and a true comforter for you in all situations and circumstances. The biological and theological become combined and easily understood."
--Richard King, Southeast Church of the Nazarene; Board Secretary; Sunday School Teacher; Lay Preacher


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