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“The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever” (Ps 12:6-7).
King David loved the Scriptures. In Psalm 19:7-11, he writes “The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb”. In this brief passage he describes the Scriptures using various terms for them. Today we generally refer to them as “the Bible”. The Scriptures he possessed were copies, but they were still Scripture, still the Bible. Indeed, it was David himself who was inspired by the Spirit of God to pen those words in Psalm 12:6-7, heading this page. Even though at the time God inspired David to write this Psalm, it’s possible that there were no extant original Scriptures, except for the Law which had been placed in the Ark of the Covenant by Aaron. Thus, God indirectly told David and all who love the Bible ever since, that he has preserved his words in copies.
The Scriptures Preserved in Copies
The Ten Commandments
For example, when God gave Moses the Ten Commandments, he personally wrote them on two tables of stone, and gave them into Moses’ care. When he went back down the mountain to the people of Israel, Moses saw them engaged in idolatrous sexual worship. Consequently, he smashed the two tables of stone in his anger (Ex 32:19), and thus, the autograph (i.e. original) of the Ten Commandments was destroyed. When he had resolved the problems caused by the people’s idolatry, he went back up the mountain to God, where he received a second set of two tables containing the Ten Commandments (Ex 34:1, 28). Therefore, the Ten Commandments that the people of Israel received was a copy of the autograph, written by the hand of Moses (Ex 34:27-28); nobody except Moses even saw the original. All they had now was a copy of the original. That copy was placed in the Ark of the Covenant.
It has been objected to me that this second issue of the Ten Commandments was not a copy but a second original. In a sense that is true, but the fact remains that the original autograph that God wrote with his own finger, was smashed to pieces, and is no longer extant. The second writing of the Ten Commandments was done by the hand of Moses, and was a copy of the autograph, albeit given directly to Moses by God as if an original. So, this copy was a perfect copy, corresponding perfectly with the original; it was thus inerrant and authoritative. But this perfect copy written on tables of stone, has also long since disappeared.
The Book of the Law
Following God’s giving the Ten Commandments, he gave the whole law to Moses; it was the pattern by which the people of Israel were to live. It is contained in the books Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. These books, sometimes referred to as a whole as the Torah or the Pentateuch, were written down and the original placed alongside (“in the side of”) the Ark of the Covenant, the copy of the Ten Commandments being inside the Ark (Deut 31:9, 24-27); these two tablets were the only item within the Ark itself (1 Kings 8:9). Copies of the Law were made, according to God’s instruction, for each king, so that he would read it all his life and remain faithful to God (Deut 17:18-20).
The king wasn’t told to take the Original from the Ark and read it; he was told to write out a copy. And God didn’t say “Well, king, I can’t give you the original; but I can give you second-best. It’s bound to have errors in it because it’s been copied, but I hope you’ll be OK with that. Because it’s only a copy, you might be challenged about your faith, and you might doubt that you even have my words. But it’s the best I can do for you; the originals are all gone. Sorry….” God was/is quite happy with copies. He regarded the copies that the kings were to have made as being totally reliable, and as Scripture; in his instruction here given, he made no distinction between original and copy. They were one and the same to him.
Although the autograph still existed, at least until the time of Rehoboam (1 Kings 14:25-26), it wouldn’t have been accessible for copying because the Holy of Holies where the autograph was kept was closed to all except for the priest who entered it once a year; so all the copies of the Law were made from copies from the very beginning. Over time and after many copies of copies being produced, by the time of the Maccabees there were several different Hebrew manuscript textual traditions, and there were also several Greek translations of the Hebrew manuscript textual traditions, all existing at the same time as each other, all in circulation, and all accepted as Scripture.
Several centuries later, and after many years of Israel’s apostasy, when reformation was underway during Josiah’s reign, and the temple was being restored, we’re told, “And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it…..And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king….and read it before the king” (2 Kings 22:8, 10). It’s unlikely that this “book of the law” was Moses’ original because that would have most likely been taken to Babylon in the Ark of the Covenant, along with all the other Temple paraphernalia. It would more likely have been a copy, hidden by a godly priest or a Levite during the reign of one of the apostate kings. And it was old, because Hilkiah found it in the temple when the priests were cleaning it out and removing all the idolatrous objects.
The Prophecies of Jeremiah
Next, we turn to the prophet Jeremiah. In Jeremiah chapter 36, God told him to commit all the words that he’d spoken to Jeremiah to writing. So Jeremiah called Baruch and he dictated the prophecies to him, and Baruch wrote them down (Jer 36:1-4). This was the original, or autograph, of Jeremiah’s prophecies.
Jeremiah then instructed Baruch to take this autograph and read it to the people in the temple. Subsequently the original scroll was taken by the king and he cut it up and threw it, piece by piece, into the fire. The original was destroyed (Jer 36:5-26).
Following this, God told Jeremiah to rewrite the prophecies on another scroll. “Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned. And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and cause to cease from thence man and beast?”(Jer 36:28-29).
Once again, we see that God makes no distinction between the original and the copy. Indeed, he said to the king “Thou hast burned this roll” – the copy, which Jeremiah held in his hand, was equated by God to the roll which had been destroyed. God regarded the copy as his word, just as surely as he regarded the original.
Still in Jeremiah, this time in chapter 51:1-58, God gave a dire prophecy of the coming destruction of Babylon. Jeremiah then wrote the words of the prophecy in a book and gave it to Seraiah (a Jewish official and one of the captives in Babylon), with the instruction that when he returned to Babylon, Seraiah was to read the prophecy aloud and then bind a stone to it and toss it into the Euphrates River, which flowed through the centre of the city (51:59-64). And in so doing, he was destroying the original autograph of this prophecy against Babylon. Why didn’t Jeremiah tell Seraiah to write out a copy and throw that into the River; why did he allow the original, the autograph, to be lost forever? Didn’t he realise that unbelievers centuries later would refuse to believe the bible because there were no autographs?
The only conclusion we can draw is, again, that God is OK with copies of copies of scripture; so we should be too.
So, in every copy of scripture that has ever been made, all the prophecies of Jeremiah were made from copies, sometimes of copies of copies. They were never made from an autograph. There was never an original autograph from which they could be made. And there never has been a Hebrew collection consisting of all original autographs. There has never been an original Old Testament. And God doesn’t care. Israel didn’t care. They had copies and, for them, that was just as authoritative and binding as the autographs. Being copies of the inspired words of God, they, too, were regarded as inspired Scripture. Despite the many Hebrew and Greek textual traditions in circulation, and the variations between them, the copies of scripture that they had were all regarded by God and Israel as authoritative scripture.
The New Testament
Turning to the New Testament, we find further assurance that copies of inspired Scripture are still, in themselves, inspired Scripture, and that it is not important to have the original autographs. When writing to Timothy, Paul said “…from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Jesus Christ” (2 Tim 3:15). There is no way that Timothy would have possessed or even seen an original of the Old Testament. Yet Paul still regarded what Timothy possessed or had access to as Scripture. And Paul could say with absolute confidence that Timothy possessed the words of God in his copy because God promised he would preserve his words (Psalm 12:6-7). “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away” (Matt 24:35).
And all the authors of the NT regarded the available copies of the OT as inspired scripture, writing in their God-breathed gospels and epistles such things as “But all this was done that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled” (Matt 26:56). And “And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself…..did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us by the road, and while he opened to us the scriptures?…..Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures. And he said unto them, Thus it is written…..” (Lk 24: 27, 32, 45).
Jesus also knew there were no autographs and it didn’t worry him. He said such things as “Did ye never read in the scriptures….” (Matt 21:42); “Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures…” (Matt 22:29); “Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me” (Jn 5:39). He knew that the scribes and Pharisees only had copies; but he still regarded these copies as Scripture.
So we see that neither Old Testament Israel nor New Testament Church were concerned about original documents.
It’s sad that Evangelical Christians, who profess to be the Bible’s friends, think they know better. Conservative and evangelical churches and colleges, so-called “bible believing” organisations, have placed a fatal qualification on their declarations about their belief in the bible, using statements such as, “We believe the scriptures in the original autographs to be the infallible word of God”. This statement actually undermines the authority of the bible and suggests that the scrolls, parchments, books, and complete bibles, used by both Israel and the Church, are doubtful. It suggests – to me, at least – that we can’t really trust the bibles we have – even the King James Bible. If only the autographs are infallible Scripture, what is it that we have now? What have the people of God been trusting in if only the Originals are infallible?
Our modern versions are merely “best guess” bibles, the readings of which are voted on by a small committee of textual critics, and which change every few years according to the whim of the committee members. The Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament is up to its 28th edition, each edition being changed, updated, and “improved”. And it will continue to change because there are no autographs against which it can be checked.
The obvious implication of these changes and new editions is that all the earlier editions, which were referred to as being “the original Greek” are now wrong to a greater or lesser degree; consequently the bible versions based on them are also wrong to that same degree. Therefore they are not infallible; therefore you can’t base doctrine on them. Furthermore, the Church since the 1st or 2nd centuries following the demise of the last original gospel and the last original epistle, has been without a reliable, authoritative, Bible – all they’ve had are unreliable copies. I say “unreliable” because, since they’re not the autographs, according to the statement of most Evangelical organisations, only the originals are infallible. So the Church has only had an “approximate” bible for most of its existence. Until the end of time, if contemporary scholarship is correct, there will never be a truly reliable, infallible, authentic, Bible. And therefore God has left the Church without an infallible written guide.
The Divine Preservation of the Holy Scriptures
Professor Bart Ehrman perceptively asks what should make him think that God had inspired the words of scripture if he knew that God hadn’t preserved them (Ehrman, B. 2010). But unlike Professor Ehrman, contemporary Christianity seems not to have recognised this problem; they don’t appear to have seen the implications of their teaching that only the autographs are inspired. Evangelical teachers blithely tell their audiences that only the autographs were inspired, without giving them the assurance that God has preserved his words in the copies of scripture, so that they, too, are the inspired and inerrant words of God.
David Cloud, however, assures Christians that God has preserved his words, and that these words are found in the King James Version of the Bible. In his “Way of Life Encyclopedia”, entry entitled “Preservation – Bible”, he writes: “The doctrine that God has preserved His Word through the ages. The same God that inspired the Scripture has promised to preserve it – not merely its teachings but its very words. To argue for a divinely-inspired Bible that no longer exists is vain jangling. The bottom line in this matter is that the same Bible that claims to be inspired also claims to be divinely preserved. Our faith in this is not based on common sense (though it is sensible to believe that if God gave a perfect Bible He would preserve that very Bible); our faith is based on the promises of a God that cannot lie.
Many evangelicals and even fundamentalists write volumes defining and defending what the Bible says about its own inspiration, but they are strangely silent about preservation. They take the position of faith in regard to inspiration but retreat to the position of scepticism in regard to preservation” (Cloud 2008, 455).
The Scriptures Have Never Been Lost
Despite claims by skeptics and other enemies of God that the Bible is riddled with discrepancies and contradictions, the evidence for the reliability and trustworthiness of our King James Bible is astonishing. The thousands of manuscripts in Greek, thousands more in Latin copies, versions in Syriac, Coptic, German etc., and the quotations from the bible in the writings of the early church leaders, all proclaim that the King James Bible is the preserved words of God. The Old Testament of the KJV is comprised of Hebrew documents of the Masoretic Text of Jacob ben-Chayyim ibn Adonijah printed by Daniel Bomberg (1524), and the New Testament is comprised of Greek documents known as Textus Receptus, and agrees with the majority Byzantine family of texts. And the whole of Judaism and Christianity were built on accurate copies of copies of the autographs. Add to this the resultant rapid spread of Christianity across the Roman empire and further, and the archaeological findings which give support to the Bible – the absence of autographs and presence of discrepancies (some real, some perceived, some misrepresented) in the texts and versions becomes a non-issue.
Ehrman, Bart, 2010, “Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (and Why We Don’t Know About Them)”, publ. HarperCollins Publishers, NY.
“Way of Life Encyclopedia of the Bible and Christianity 5th Edition”, Entry “Preservation – Bible”, 2008, p. 455, by David W. Cloud, publ. Way of Life Literature, Port Huron, Michigan.
Some of the information and ideas in this article are essentially from, and inspired by, a DVD entitled “Is Your Bible Missing Something?” Volume 2, by David W. Daniels, 2015, publ. Chick Publications, Ontario, California.


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WHEREAS, across America, African Americans more than any other race, are more likely to be shot and killed by law enforcement officers; and
WHEREAS, according to the Guardian, in 2015, 1,134 deaths were at the hands of police officers; and
WHEREAS, African Americans between the ages of 15 and 34 make up approximately 2% of the total US population, but made up more than 15% of all deaths logged in 2015, and
WHEREAS, not all law enforcement agencies require their officers to undergo chemical, drug and/or alcohol blood testing after shooting incidents.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the NAACP work to enact legislation that will make it a federal requirement to test law enforcement personnel when they discharge their firearm; and in the event of an officer shooting, whether or not the victim dies, that within two (2) hours of the officer discharging his/her fireman, testing shall be completed for any chemical and/or controlled substance, including alcohol in their system.
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that the NAACP develops guidelines to assist units in working with local law enforcement agencies and officials to implement similar policy on local level.

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The Republic of Adkins Station is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, anti-smoking policies, and parental licensing program. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 16.051 billion Adkins Stationians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.
It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Boca Grande. The average income tax rate is 92.6%.
The strong Adkins Stationian economy, worth a remarkable 1,166 trillion Aris a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Tourism industry. Average income is 72,702 Aris, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.
Libraries are now installed with jacuzzis and mini-bars, there's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt, citizens wishing to leave the country must surrender half their wealth to the government, and foreign governments are looking into weaponizing the infamous Adkins Stationian bee. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Adkins Station's national animal is the butterfly, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
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This project prepared a watershed assessment for eastern Tehama County, gathering and assimilating existing information on the physical, cultural, and demographic characteristics of the Tehama East watersheds. While the final publication is primarily a report on the conditions of the watershed, it is also an opportunity to educate and prioritize future projects. This assessment also includes the Tehama East Watershed Assessment Atlas, the purpose of which was to present to the public a collection of digital databases associated specifically with Tehama County’s cultural and natural resources. These publications have assisted the RCDTC’s efforts to develop means of assessing and implementing projects throughout the studied watersheds.
Using the information gathered in the Tehama East Watershed Assessment, the RCDTC later published the Tehama East Watershed Management Plan, a document prioritizing various management actions to improve watershed conditions in eastern Tehama County. Guidance and assistance addressing the conclusions and recommendations outlined in the document were provided by a Technical Advisory Committee with members from private industry and public agencies as well as other stakeholders, including private landowners.
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Drug targeting an enzyme responsible for insulin resistance found to cure type 2 diabetes, preliminary study reveals.
-Researchers from a recent study, conducted by the University of California, studied the effect of a drug on insulin resistant mice.
-As per the study, the daily dose of the drug was found to cure type II diabetes in the insulin resistant mice.
-The novel drug was found to target the action of LMPTP (low molecular weight protein tyrosine phosphate) which is found to bring about insulin resistance.
-The study proved that LMPTP is a key promotor of insulin resistance and inhibitors to the same would help to treat type 2 diabetes effectively.
-No significant side effects were observed. The experts would now check the efficacy of the drug on the humans through clinical trials.
-Findings were published in The Nature.
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The literature supports intereferon with the two recently FDA approved oral medications that can be used in combination with the current antiviral regimen or to replace the injectable component of the regimen, peginterferon alfa.
The two new products are Olysio (simeprevir) capsules and Sovaldi (sofosbuvir) tablets. Both work by stopping the replication of the Hepatitis C virus.
Olysio 150 mg capsules are a once-daily treatment that must be used in combination with pegylated interferon (peginterferon alfas like Pegasys or Pegintron) and ribavirin. It cannot be used as monotherapy, which means it can’t be used alone. Sovaldi 400 mg tablets are a once-daily treatment that can be used without the injectable peginterferon alfa. This is novel in hepatitis therapy because the peginterferon alfa injectable often contributes to patients not finishing their course of Hep C therapy due to the unfavorable side effects.
Based on a side-by-side review if disparate studies, Sovald appears ti be more versatile than Olysio as it is approved for treatment of genotypes 1, 2, 3 and 4. Also, for genotype 2 and 3, Sovaldi can be taken with ribavirin alone, excluding the need for interferon altogether. (Interferon, perhaps the most dreaded component of HCV therapy, is administered by injection and many side effects. On the other hand, Olysio must always be used in combination with interferon and ribavirin for the duration of either 24 weeks (for treatment-naive patients) or 48 weeks (for patients previously exposed to HCV therapy). However,iti cannot be used with many retroviral drugs. These drugs are less toxic. Currently, one in seven patients on Incivek or Victrelis abandon therapy prematurely due to high levels of toxic side effects — including severe anemia and serious decreases in blood platelets or neutrophil levels. Additionally, the FDA has warned that Incivek can cause potentially life-threatening skin rash, particularly in patients with cirrhosis (scarring of the liver).
Using the two together is beginning to be explored, with early results showing efficacy in even hard-to-treat HCV.patients.

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The gauzy fabric that Khujasta wears over her sari is called an odhani.
Every night for 52 nights the sly domesticated parrot encourages his master's wife Khujasta to meet her lover under cover of darkness. Just before she leaves, he mentions a topic from a tantalizing tale; she becomes so curious that she cannot go out before hearing the whole story. By the time the story ends, dawn breaks, and it is too late for her to go out unnoticed. The gold sky and geometric tile patterns are derived from Persian sources while Khujasta's figure shown in profile and style of dress are purely Indian. The artist has chosen to tilt the carpet up in defiance of realistic perspective to show off the fine arabesque motif. The checkered bedspread calls attention to the empty bed and Khujasta's longing to be with her lover.
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Listen to Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson Cover Bob Dylan’s ‘Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright’
Despite the criticisms that Bob Dylan had for Merle Haggard and other country legends last year, during Dylan's MusiCares Person of the Year acceptance speech, there are no hard feelings. The Hag and Willie Nelson recorded a cover of Dylan's 1963 song "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" for their new album, Django & Jimmie.
Press play on the video above to hear a snippet of the cover and see Haggard and Nelson in the studio, recording the song.
In Dylan's speech, in front of artists and industry professionals, he said, in part, “Merle Haggard didn’t even think much of my songs. I know he didn’t. He didn’t say that to me, but I know way back when, he didn’t. Buck Owens did, and he recorded some of my early songs … And that trumps anything else out of Bakersfield. Buck Owens or Merle Haggard? If you had to have somebody’s blessing, you can figure it out.”
Haggard took the high road, tweeting, "Bob Dylan, I've admired your songs since 1964. 'Don't Think Twice' Bob, Willie and I just recorded it on our new album," following the controversial remarks. He also didn't seem too personally affected by Dylan's harsh words.
"I don't know what the f--k is wrong with Bob," Haggard tells Broadway's Electric Barnyard. "I've always liked his music. And his writing was just impressive to me because I was a songwriter and struggling ... and I love to hear him sing, and I loved to hear him play the guitar ..."
For his part, Dylan later said that his words were taken out of context.
“I wasn’t dissing Merle, not the Merle I know,” Dylan explains. “What I was talking about happened a long time ago, maybe in the late ’60s. Merle had that song out called "Fighting Side of Me," and I’d seen an interview with him where he was going on about hippies and Dylan and the counter culture, and it kind of stuck in my mind and hurt, lumping me in with everything he didn’t like. But of course times have changed, and he’s changed too … He’s a complete man, and we’re friends these days. We have a lot in common.”
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With the goal of introducing IE Law School students to unique and different job opportunities available to them, this past Wednesday 8 November the IE Careers Department organized a special visit to the European Commission in Madrid. Students from the International LLM as well as the LLM in Spanish Law & Tax and Master in International Relations had the opportunity to listen to a presentation and ask questions of Ms. Sarah Lambert, Deputy Director Madrid Office European Commission. Ms. Lambert focused on the various ways to work in the Commission and the advantages of a career within European institutions.
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Residents of Key West, Florida, aren’t just taking steps to protect themselves from Hurricane Irma — they’re watching out for the town’s ‘gypsy chickens’ as well, a photo shows.
That effort is documented in a now-viral Facebook photo, which appears to show about ten chickens wrapped up in newspapers.
“CHICKEN EVACUATION,” the post from Key West Finest reads. “Gotta love the people in Key West! Thank you to Local Selfie Celeb Jayesh Mani for doing what the rest of us only wished for! #onlyinkeywest”
The ‘gypsy chickens’ of Key West are known to roam about the streets freely, according to Insider.
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Considered an invasive species, the chickens are a combination of those that have escaped from backyards and the descendants of others released after cockfighting became illegal in the 1970s.
The post, which has been shared over 30,000 times as of 11 a.m Friday, sparked thousands of comments.
“Ummmm, I don't think those chicken burritos are cooked enough..... Just sayin'.... LOL!,” wrote Samantha GR. “JK, I love the Key West Chickens! Glad they'll be safe!”
Some commenters voiced concerns about the way the chickens were wrapped, wondering if there was a more humane way to transport them to safety.
“I hope they aren't too upset about being wrapped up,” wrote Tracy Zepeda Radogna, “and I'm so glad they weren't left to fend for themselves during the hurricane.”
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The rate of myopia (short-sightedness) is increasing at an alarming rate worldwide, doubling in children over the course of just a single generation.
- It’s predicted that 50% of the world’s population will be myopic by 2050 (compared to 28% in 2010)
- In Australia, Myopia has doubled in 12 year olds in just 6 years
- It is projected that by 2020, Myopia will affect about 36% of Australians
What is Myopia?
Myopia is an eye condition also known as shortsightedness or near-sightedness, which causes people to have difficulty seeing distant objects clearly. Short-sightedness occurs when the light coming into your eyes focuses in front of, instead of exactly on your retina. Often, this condition is picked up in early childhood, around 10-12 years of age, and becomes noticeable when kids start to squint when trying to see the whiteboard.
What is causing the epidemic?
Myopia is understood to be caused by both genetic and environmental factors. The reason for the significant rise in myopia is believed to be largely environmental, and correlates with the reduced time our children (and their eyes) are spending outdoors. Experts believe that exposure to sunlight causes a hormone to be released which helps to control the growth of the eye. Without this hormone, the eye grows too quickly, resulting in myopia. The more time our children are spending indoors (and we know this is at an all time high), the greater the risk to healthy eye development.
Earlier onset myopia = long term risk
Research has highlighted that the average age for developing myopia is reducing. This earlier onset of myopia can cause long term risks, including an increased risk of developing advanced myopia and other eye diseases later in life, such as retinal detachment, myopic macular degeneration and glaucoma. All of these conditions are difficult to treat in their advanced form and can cause significant vision loss and blindness.
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Best Known For:
- His concept of freedom as a fundamental part of human nature
- The social unconscious
- Social analysis
- Personality orientations
- Theory of human needs
Birth and Death:
- Erich Fromm was born on March 23, 1900 in Frankfurt, Germany.
- He died on March 18, 1980 in Switzerland.
Fromm remarried in 1944, became a U.S. citizen and moved to Mexico in hopes of alleviating his second wife's illness. He began teaching at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1949 and continued to work there until he retired in 1965. After his wife's death in 1952, Fromm founded the Mexican Institute of Psychoanalysis and continued to serve as its director until 1976. He remarried in 1953 and continued to teach in Mexico while also teaching at other schools including Michigan State University and New York State University for part of each year.
Fromm moved from Mexico City to Muralto, Switzerland in 1974 and remained there until his death in 1980.
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Fromm also had a major influence on humanistic psychology. Life, Fromm believed, was a contradiction, since humans are both part of nature and separate from it. From this conflict arises basic existential needs including relatedness, creativity, rootedness, identity and a frame of orientation.
Of his own work, Fromm would later explain, "I wanted to understand the laws that govern the life of the individual man, and the laws of society-that is, of men in their social existence. I tried to see the lasting truth in Freud's concepts as against those assumptions which were in need of revision. I tried to do the same with Marx's theory, and finally I tried to arrive at a synthesis which followed from the understanding and the criticism of both thinkers."
- Escape from Freedom, 1941
- Man for himself, 1947
- Psychoanalysis and Religion, 1950
- The Sane Society, 1955
- The Art of Loving, 1956
- The Heart of Man, 1964
- The Nature of Man, 1968
- The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, 1979
- The Art of Being, 1993
- On Being Human, 1997
Fromm, E. (1947) Man For Himself. An inquiry into the psychology of ethics. Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett Premier.
Fromm, E. (1962). Beyond the chains of illusion: my encounter with Marx and Freud. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Funk, R. (1999) Erich Fromm?s Life and Work, erichfromm.org, http://www.erichfromm.de/english/life/life_bio2.html
Smith, M. K. (2002) ?Erich Fromm: alienation, being and education? the encyclopedia of informal education, http://www.infed.org/thinkers/fromm.htm


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Peter Tomsen, who once served as the U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and who published in 2011 what many consider to be the definitive book, thus far, about the war there, has a review in the latest issue of Foreign Affairs of three recent books on the same subject. The review and the books (War Comes to Garmser by Carter Malkasian, The Wrong Enemy by Carlotta Gall, and No Good Men Among the Living by Anand Gopal) are thoughtful works by deeply informed writers, and all are worth a read.
On the way to providing some interesting proposals for future international policy in Afghanistan, Tomsen considers the question of what has gone wrong thus far. His discussion of the most recent book—Gopal’s—is particularly interesting.
Experts and media figures are questioning the accuracy of Amnesty International’s new report on the human rights impact of the U.S. drone program in Pakistan, saying the study is marred by discrepancies, unverified claims, and dubious witness statements.
The National Security Administration recorded information about more than 124 billion phone calls during a 30-day period earlier this year, including around 3 billion calls from U.S. sources, according to a tally from top-secret documents released by multiple news outlets.
The National Security Agency recorded information about more than 124 billion phone calls during a 30-day period earlier this year, including around 3 billion calls from U.S. sources, according to a tally from top-secret documents released by multiple news outlets.
China is moving ahead with plans to sell two nuclear reactors to Pakistan in a deal U.S. officials say will violate Beijing’s promises under an international nuclear control group.
Though the government shutdown has reached its tenth day, the federal government has deemed the collection of grant proposals for the improvement of reproductive health of women in Pakistan “essential.”
Pakistan-based militants are preparing to take on India across the subcontinent once Western troops leave Afghanistan next year, several sources say, raising the risk of a dramatic spike in tensions between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan.
Pakistan has been airing a “Price is Right” style television game show in which the grand prize is a newborn baby, according to reports.
Interpol issued a global security alert on Saturday advising its members to increase their vigilance against attacks after a series of prison breaks in Iraq, Libya and Pakistan that the agency is investigating to determine if they were linked.
The Lyon, France-based Interpol said given that al Qaeda was suspected to be involved in some of the incidents, it was asking its 190 member countries to watch out for information connected to the prison breaks, with an aim to determine whether they were coordinated and also locate the escaped prisoners.
On Friday, the United States issued a worldwide travel alert warning Americans that al Qaeda may be planning attacks in August, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa.
The CIA on Wednesday carried out a major unmanned aircraft attack on a house in northern Pakistan and killed 17 suspected terrorists linked to the Haqqani Network, according to a Pakistani think tank.


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The new vehicle, the Vermont Asset Finance Fund, is a specialized fund of hedge funds that invests in strategies such as factoring, purchase order finance, trade finance and collateralized corporate lending.
The fund launched last November and is up about 3.6% month-to-date. It is being marketed to clients in Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein.
“The events of the last six months were a ‘proof of concept’ that clearly underlines the product’s true de-correlation potential and steadiness of performance,” said Daniel Ghirardi, a managing partner at Massena. “This is the reason why we have decided not only to distribute their product, but also to invest a significant amount of our internal client’s assets into the fund.”
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Gnat Named SEC Freshman of the Week
BATON ROUGE – LSU gymnast Ashleigh Gnat was named Southeastern Conference Co-Freshman of the Week, the league office announced Tuesday.
This marks the second freshman of the week award for Gnat this season.
A native of Lake Mary, Fla., Gnat turned in an outstanding beam performance to help LSU achieve a 197.800-195.000 victory over Kentucky on March 14.
Gnat tallied a season-high 9.95 on beam for the second consecutive meet to win the event title and help LSU post a 49.450 team score, the highest beam score for the Tigers since March 13, 2005.
Gnat is the only freshman in the SEC with two scores of 9.95 on beam this season, and she is only the second LSU freshman in school history to score at least a 9.95 on beam in back-to-back meets. April Burkholder earned a 9.95 and a 9.975 on beam in two straight meets as a freshman in 2003.
Gnat has four individual titles this season, including three on beam.
Her award is the eighth SEC weekly honor for LSU this season. Gnat was named freshman of the week after her performances during the double-meet weekend at Arkansas and at Oklahoma in February.
No. 2 LSU (10-3, 5-2 SEC) is gearing up for postseason competition as the Tigers travel to Birmingham, Ala., on Saturday for the SEC Championship.
LSU will compete in Session Two against No. 1 Florida, No. 4 Alabama and No. 6 Georgia. The meet is set to begin at 6 p.m. CT in BJCC Arena.
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SEC Gymnasts of the Week – March 18, 2014
Gymnast of the Week: Bridget Sloan, Florida
Specialist of the Week: Kaitlyn Clark, Alabama
Co-Freshman of the Week: Ashleigh Gnat, LSU
Co-Freshman of the Week: Katie Bailey, Alabama


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Vineyard tribe wins gaming facility appeal
BOSTON -- A federal court Monday cleared the way for the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) to open a casino on Martha’s Vineyard.
The U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a 2016 U.S. District Court decision that barred the Aquinnah tribe from converting its community center into a bingo hall.
In a suit filed against the tribe by the state, the town of Aquinnah and a community group, the commonwealth argued that the tribe waived its rights to a casino when it entered a land deal with the state in 1983, where it agreed to abide by state and local zoning laws.
But the appeals court Monday sided with the tribe, finding that the 1988 federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act applies to that land and rejected arguments from the town that the tribe has insufficient government resources to support a gaming facility.
Representatives from the state, tribe and the Aquinnah/Gay Head Community Association did not immediately return requests for comment.


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SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - People who own Tesla Model S electric cars can now travel from San Diego to Vancouver for free.
Tesla Motors has completed its West Coast supercharger route, which includes stations along Highway 101 and Interstate 5.
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text: Integrity Above All by Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book, October 22, 2009 As we all know, the performance marketing industry is growing rapidly. Due to economic conditions, more marketers are moving online and more online marketers are using the pay-for-results model to deliver the results they seek. Add to the mix the rapid pace of technological innovation and the desire for more brands and agencies to sink their teeth into our industry and it’s easy to see we are at a major inflection point for performance marketing. In order to seize the opportunity, we have to take a step back and examine the role that trust and integrity play in our future success. First, let’s examine the WHAT…what integrity means in our industry. Generally, integrity implies that you deliver on your word. Specifically in our industry, integrity means being open with your business partners on both sides of a transaction and being an advocate for their success. For performance marketers this means sharing in success and learning from failure in a constructive way. The performance model implies an unspoken covenant that says the advertiser and publisher will act in good faith to create campaigns that succeed without risking the integrity of a brand or a publisher. Now let’s examine the WHY … why is integrity so important to the industry as we assess our opportunity? To the folks who pay our bills – the advertisers – the value proposition of paying only for results is a no-brainer if we remove any risk to the brands they have worked so hard to build. Integrity is enabling the advertiser to make a spend decision on performance marketing without the fears that existed after the abuse of the late ’90s. The industry needs to be made transparent in order to protect and empower everyone (publisher, advertiser, network and consumer). We cannot tolerate fraudulent behavior from either publishers or advertisers. Collectively, we have to look past short-term gains in revenue to solidify the future growth we want to have as an industry. Proactive self-regulation vs. reactive will earn the trust of our advertisers and publishers as we are all responsible for each other as members of the performance marketing community. Our goal as an industry, is to grow by gaining the trust of larger brands and agencies that are looking to allocate new or increased budget to performance marketing. It’s a simple vision to state, but a harder one to execute. The industry has to work together to continue to promote innovation, trust, integrity, and proactive, collaborative partnerships. Now to the HOW … How do we build integrity in the industry? Execution is always the hard part. On a high level, we have to build and fund industry organizations like the PMA (Performance Marketing Alliance) that provide education, research and thought leadership. We need to fund quality research from the analyst firms that advertisers seek out when assessing marketing channels. We need to self-police to make sure all the constituents in our ecosystem are safeguarding the best interests of our business partners and community. Finally, we need to harness the wave of innovations made in technology and process to make sure our offerings fit into the broader needs of the advertising community. The intelligent application of innovative technologies will lend transparency and integrity to our activities because they will allow our advertisers and publishers to see the results they are looking for in a more fluid fashion that empowers them to succeed. The last question is the WHEN … and it’s the simplest answer. NOW! I’d welcome your thoughts on this issue. The more great minds we have spending effort on building the integrity of our industry, the higher chance of success we will have together. If you have thoughts, feel free to reach out to me. Filed under: Revenue Tagged under: Ad networks, affiliate marketing, affiliate networks, Agencies, Branding, Business Models, Industry Trends, Networks, Peter Bordes About the Author Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book Chris Trayhorn is the Chairman of the Performance Marketing Industry Blue Ribbon Panel and the CEO of mThink.com, a leading online and content marketing agency. He has founded four successful marketing companies in London and San Francisco in the last 15 years, and is currently the founder and publisher of Revenue+Performance magazine, the magazine of the performance marketing industry since 2002.


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Oil at heart of renewed UAE-Saudi border dispute
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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has rekindled a long-standing territorial dispute with Saudi Arabia in a bid to grab a share of a giant border oilfield that contains nearly 1.5 per cent of the world's total crude resources.
Just eight months after the death of Sheikh Zayid bin Sultan al-Nahyan, its pragmatic leader and founder, the UAE surprisingly declared that a 31-year-old border pact with its giant neighbour was no longer in force. While analysts rule out a military confrontation, they acknowledge that such a declaration by a top royal figure could harm relations and increase tension between the two Gulf oil heavyweights.
At the heart of the dispute is the giant Shaybah oilfield. Discovered in 1968, the field straddles the UAE-Saudi border and is believed to be one of the world's largest onshore oilfields, with current estimated proven reserves of 15.7 billion barrels.
Up until 25 December 2003, the field had yielded one billion barrels, however oil industry sources believe its recoverable oil potential could rise to 18 billion barrels in a few years with the deployment of new technology, such as horizontal drilling. Besides oil, the field contains in excess of 25 trillion cubic feet of associated gas, almost equivalent to Oman's total gas reserves.
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Mexico's Migrants Profit From Dollars Sent Home
By GINGER THOMPSON
Published: February 23, 2005
Less than two months after he was elected, Mayor Alberto Ruiz Flores climbed in his truck and set out on a 26-hour road trip across the border to Southern California, carrying a wish list of public works projects to a backyard barbecue in Oxnard.
The reason? To solicit money from some of the 400,000 Mexicans who abandon their country each year for work in the United States, including half his town in Central Mexico. Those who have left Valpara? send home an estimated $100,000 a day, as much money in one month as the municipality will spend all year.
A week later, Mr. Ruiz was at a restaurant in Aurora, Ill., for a meeting with a Mexican factory worker and billboard painter who has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Valpara?. The week after that, he invited migrant leaders from Dallas and Las Vegas to join him at home for the annual crowning of the municipal beauty queen.
''I consider myself the mayor of Valpara?, and the mayor to those, like you, who had to leave Valpara? in search of a decent life,'' Mr. Ruiz said at the start of each encounter. ''You have shown with your generosity that you are still a part of Mexico. Without you, who knows where we would be.''
For Mr. Ruiz, politics does not stop at the United States border. The same is true across Mexico, the Caribbean and Latin America, where more and more officials like him answer to cross-border constituencies made up of the people at home who cast ballots and the ones abroad who pull the purse strings.
Today more than ever, the remittances sent home by immigrant workers, both legal and illegal, are translating into political clout, and their communities in the United States, better organized and more vocal than before, have become social and political forces too important to ignore.
It is a phenomenon that has made Washington a principal battleground to lobby support among Salvadorans for the Central American Free Trade Agreement; New York a crucial state in elections in the Dominican Republic, which allows its citizens to vote from the United States; and Chicago a mandatory campaign stop for Mexican politicians.
On Tuesday, in Mexico City, migrant power was further consolidated when the lower Chamber of Deputies passed legislation allowing the migrants to cast absentee ballots from the United States, which will allow Mexicans with American citizenship to vote in both places.
The measure opens the way for an estimated 10 million Mexicans and Mexican-Americans to vote in presidential elections next year, in a potential tidal wave that could have significant impact on this country's fledgling democracy. Other countries including Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil and Honduras also allow their migrants to cast absentee ballots.
For Mexico, the logistics of the huge endeavor remain unclear; legislators estimated that operating polls in the United States could cost at least $50 million. The measure, which was passed by an overwhelming majority and is expected to win easy passage by the Senate, also provides money for Mexican political parties to campaign in the United States. However, it prohibits them from receiving foreign campaign donations.
Already, the economic influence of the migrants is undeniable. The Inter-American Development Bank estimates that migrants sent more than $45 billion to Latin America and the Caribbean last year, exceeding foreign investment and official development assistance for the third year in a row.
Mexico -- where people compete with oil as the country's chief export -- received some $17 billion in remittances, almost twice the amount of just four years ago.
?car Chac?of the immigrant advocacy group Enlaces Am?ca, calls the phenomenon a quiet revolution led by an expanding network of more than 500 mom and pop organizations that are filling in where more than a decade of free trade and foreign investment has failed to narrow the gap between the rich and poor.
Today those immigrant groups are using the power that comes with their remittances to place ever greater demands on politicians at all levels. Their leaders have met with advisers to President Bush to push for sweeping immigration reform, and with presidents across Latin America to demand everything from the power to cast absentee ballots and run for office in their homelands, to universal health insurance and college scholarships.
''Once the voices of immigrants were weak,'' said Efra?Jim?z, a former auto mechanic who now oversees multimillion-dollar infrastructure projects in Zacatecas, financed by immigrants in California. ''We had money, but we had no organizations.
''Now we have hundreds of organizations,'' he said. ''No president can ignore us.''
So far, migrants have lost more of those political battles than they have won, especially in the United States, where Mr. Bush's plans have stalled for a guest worker program. It would offer temporary legal status to an estimated three million Mexican laborers.
Still, says Mr. Chac?migrants are raising money for public works, forming political action committees to support candidates at home and, in small but growing numbers, returning home to run for public office themselves.


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Italy… Paradise on earth. We’ve all seen the beautiful colored little houses of the villages of Cinque Terre in Italy. Well, after many years admiring them through my computer, I decided to take my car and plan a road trip to this dreamy place. Leaving from Toulon (France), it took my husband and I only 4 hours to get to Genoa, the closest place we decided to get to. Only the following day would we take the train from Genoa to the Cinque Terre.
Cinque Terre, as its name hints, consists of 5 littles villages located on the Italian Riviera: Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglie, Manarola and Riomaggiore. Among these 5, we managed to see 3 of them and they were beautiful, just as expected.

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The day the narcissist lost his man card.
It started just like any other day, with the narcissist running his mouth tearing down the victim.
The narcissist kept pushing, poking, provoking and after years of abuse the victim snapped.
Something changed on that day. This was the day the victim fought back.
She fought and fought.
The crowds cheered.
This was the day justice was served.
And then she woke up.
It was only a dream.
Meanwhile, she laid there on her bed with her hands behind her head.
With a shitty grin on her face and feeling content, she glanced around her cell as she thought to herself or was it a dream?


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A delegation led by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees travelled to Arakan State on Sunday, visiting the troubled region less than a week after security forces there were put on high alert amid a spate of recent killings that the government has blamed on “terrorists.”
Children as young as 10 years old are among hundreds of Rohingya Muslims detained on charges of consorting with insurgents, according to a police document seen by Reuters that sheds new light on Burma’s security campaign in the country’s northwest.
Two members of Burma’s security forces were injured in a clash with militants on the troubled Arakan State border with Bangladesh, the State Counsellor’s office said, casting doubt on the government’s claim that the region had stabilised.
Locals in seven townships across Arakan State staged protests on Friday against a new radio station broadcasting in Maungdaw, Buthidaung and Rathedaung townships and providing Rohingya-language programming, which the protesters view as legitimising the Rohingya population.
Arrests of Muslims suspected of involvement in the deadly 9 October assault on border police posts in northern Arakan State are continuing, with at least nine men detained over the last week, according to state media.
Yanghee Lee was denied access to conflict-wracked Hpakant and Waignmaw townships in Kachin State this week as she undertakes her fifth visit to Burma in her capacity as UN special rapporteur on the country’s human rights situation.
The commander of the Border Police Force in Arakan State’s Maungdaw township has told local Rohingya communities to cooperate with authorities to help recover a cache of firearms stolen by armed assailants during attacks on border police outposts some two months ago.
The United Nations urged State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday to visit the country’s divided Arakan State to reassure civilians they will be protected amid accusations that soldiers have raped Rohingya Muslim women houses and killed civilians.
Arakan State Advisory Commission chair Kofi Annan’s statement this week that he had been assured humanitarian aid access would be restored to northern Arakan State in the near future has put a tentative, if ill-defined, time table on potentially life-saving assistance.
Rights and aid groups are urging Burma’s government to allow access to displaced populations in northern Arakan State amid tightened security following a series of attacks on border police nearly two weeks ago.


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Japan plans to throw its weight behind Mitsui & Co and Mitsubishi Corp as they push to stay in the Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project after Russia seized control of the plant key to the nation’s energy supply.
The trade and industry ministry will relay the decision to the firms shortly, said three people aware of the issue who asked not to be named as the information is not public.
There were speculations whether the firms would remain in the consortium amid Tokyo-Moscow tensions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Japan has joined sanctions on Kremlin.
Resource-poor Japan faces a historic energy security risk as tensions intensify with global supply tight and prices sky-high.
Japan imports 10% of its liquefied natural gas from Russia, mainly under long-term contract from Sakhalin-2.
Clear Signal Of Government Backing
Japan’s effort is aimed at sending a clear signal of government backing for the project and bucks moves by the West that has prohibited firms from making new investments in Russia.
The people declined to give details on what Japan will do to help the trading houses maintain their stakes.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Thursday the government would work with the private sector on the matter, as Japan aims to secure its right and stable supply of liquefied natural gas.
Mitsui and Mitsubishi representatives said on Saturday the companies will discuss the matter in collaboration with the government as well as their partners.
Officials from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry could not be reached for comment outside business hours.
Shell, one of the largest stakeholders in the consortium, announced its exit from the project and is in talks to sell its stake to a consortium of Indian energy companies, Reuters reported in May.
Russia’s state-run Gazprom has a 50% plus one share stake in the project, while Mitsui holds 12.5% and Mitsubishi 10%.
Russia last month decided to create a firm that will take over all rights and obligations of the Sakhalin Energy Investment Co in Russia’s Far East, amid Western sanctions imposed on Moscow.
It was up to up to the government of sanctions-hit Russia to decide whether foreign shareholders were to remain inthe consortium.
- Reuters with additional editing by Sean O’Meara


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