The juxtaposition is ironic, in the case of Burma at least, since following independence the Karen soon began to be targeted by ethnic militias. Sixty years on they are targets of a genocide attempt by the military dictators. The same guys who are refusing to let aid into the cyclone victims.So, we'll celebrate my birthday, with a party that tries to raise money for a school for the children of displaced people in Burma. The photo shows one of the school dormitories, the girls dorm needs a new roof, but the donor who was sponsoring this has pulled out, and the rains are starting... anyone who can't get to the party could always make a donation for the roof, just transfer money to "Partners NZ" at Westpac Bank (Upper Hutt branch) 03 0774 0598181 000 marked "PhoPra roof"
Canadians wishing to obtain a receipt for tax purposes should make donations at the Partners Canada website. www.partnersworld.ca
Americans wishing to obtain a receipt for tax purposes should make donations at the Partners USA website. www.partnersworld.org
Norwegians can find the information needed to make donations in Norway at: www.partnersnorge.no
Australians can find the information needed to make donations in Australia at: www.partnersworld.org.au
UK Residents can find the information needed to make donations in the UK at: www.partnersworld.org.uk
¶ 9:08 AM
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Congratulations!
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puzz, at
May 16, 2008 5:49 AM
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¶ 1:00 AM
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It also lets you map them on Google so that people on the Panoye site can see panoramas that others have created of nearby places.
But, I can't work out how to display them in asiabible.wordpress.com since Wordpress does not allow iFrames.
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Hi Tim... I'm glad you like panoye ;)
The first panoye blog was hosted on wordpress.com. But, you are right -- WP don't allow iframe ;( That's why I moved it to blogger.
By puzz, at
May 16, 2008 2:12 AM
Which, I guess, just goes to prove that (despite the Wordpress evangelists out there - you know who you are!) there is no such thing as a perfect blogging tool!
By Tim, at
May 16, 2008 5:36 AM
Well, you are probably right... Wordpress as a standalone installation don't have this (iframes) restriction. But, to have a installation of WP is a pain - you have to install new security patches every few weeks.
(And, what's more important, blogger's mail-to-blog option actually works :)
By puzz, at
May 16, 2008 5:51 AM
Both explain my lack of posts here recently:
- since Cylcone Nargis hit Burma/Myanmar I have used my blogging time to provide updates on the relief effort, and as I get information how the Karen people have been impacted.
- because my writing time this sabbatical was shortened by teaching elsewhere I am trying to finish polishing an article on the coherence of Amos 7:1-8:3
1. Burma is the country whose military rulers have chosen to call "Myanmar" both English versions refer to the same geographical location, but may indicate a political, or - in view of the generals' behaviour - humanitarian, bias.
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Oh, yes it works like this:
- Jer 31:31-34
- Amos 1:1
- 1 John 3:16
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¶ 2:12 PM
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Thanks for those links. As you have noted earlier they're intriguing - especially the בָּרָא discussion. I wish I could have more time to plunge into them.
I look forward to borrowing your copy of Walton's monograph when you've acquired it. :-)
By Stephen G, at
May 6, 2008 10:37 PM
I found that Walton's lecture at Wheaton pulled together his ideas well also, and plan to use it with the Genesis class so they can enter into the discussion: http://www.wheaton.edu/physics/research/symposia/conferences03/
By Tim, at
May 7, 2008 6:25 AM
Labels: study-skills, writing, zotero
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The first is Duane's abnormally interesting, and credulous(?), Isaiah 38:9-20: An Abnormal View in which he provides a strong sketch of arguments that might be made to claim that Hezekiah actually wrote part of the Bible in his own hand. (At the moment I hope he does expand the post to a paper, it would be fun to hear the discussion! And perhaps I will as I continue to follow the blogs over the next few days/weeks :)
The second I am also noting for my Genesis class reading list (for next semester) where John (Hobbins) asks: Does Genesis 1 describe the creation of things or the assignment of functions to things? A Response to John Walton frankly he takes John (Walton)'s special pleading more seriously than I would, but he provides a really good clear discussion that I want my students to follow.
Two fine examples of why (biblio/biblia)blogging is both fun, and useful!
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Tim,
Thanks for your interest in my post on Isaiah 38:9-20. I continue to think about developing this into a paper. The main problem is one of methodology. Whatever is going on here, it is likely too underdetermined to say much of anything with certainty. As to "credulous:" I tried to be as equivocal as possible and still be more or less coherent. I doubt very much that Hezekiah wrote any or much of this. Some part of it may, I say "may," go back to him. Despite a complex history of editing, even in Isaiah, every text began with something. My underlying purpose in doing this post is to (continue to) lay some groundwork for something quite different. What that is will unfold over time.
By Duane Smith, at
May 5, 2008 3:48 AM
The word was probably badly chosen, what I meant to mean was that I find the argument intriguing, fairly convincing, but only because it is an idea I like. If I am properly critical there are too many "probables" in it that maybe multiply together into an "unlikely".
But I still think discussing it is abnormally interesting and could be fun. (And useful too, if only in that it might help clarify some of the issues, such as the distribution and nature of literacy in the Iron Age Levant.
By Tim, at
May 5, 2008 6:11 AM
Dr. Walton is "the man" - just had to say it.
By Tim, at
May 7, 2008 1:50 AM
I haven't met him, though he writes and speaks (judging by the Wheaton 'cast http://www.wheaton.edu/physics/research/symposia/conferences03/ ) clearly and simply yet with interesting and useful ideas - a great combination when one finds it in my book :)
By Tim, at
May 7, 2008 6:27 AM
By the way, for David (when he returns from lazing on the beach!) there is a mobile version, it is just over 1/2 the size of the WMV, but I'm showing the Flash version above (so Mac users can watch it ;-) which is 3x the size of the WMV or 6 times the 3GP...
What can I say to excuse this arrant sales pitch for Zotero? Well, it is Saturday, so I'm unwinding, or possibly coming undone ;-0
Labels: scholarship, study-skills, writing, zotero, zothelp
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Nice. But it would be more impressive if it rendered "BasicBooks" as two words.
By Iyov, at
May 3, 2008 1:36 PM
Jim might see this as an example of the Wikiization of education, I prefer to think of it as an example of the fallibility of the librarians on whose work World Cat works, and my own failure as a proper Citation Nazi to spot such errors!
By Tim, at
May 3, 2008 1:39 PM
Just a few days earlier he wrote about The Open Access Monograph Series That Almost Was and dropped frustrating hints about a newer and better project. So, before he (or someone else) announces that project, I'll reiterate a call for contributors. Any established scholar who wants to write a commentary on a biblical book, and who is interested in getting your work seen and used more widely than print can achieve, take a look at the Hypertext Bible Commentary project, and then contact me for more details.
- Commentary writing appeals to our strengths and training...
- Commentary writing is a recognized genre within the guild ... All the great scholars write commentaries...
- Commentary writing is relatively straight-forward...
- Commentary writing can be an act of piety...
- Commentaries sell so publishers keep asking scholars to write them...
- Commentary writing reflects and contributes to advances in the field, presenting the latest research in a convenient location...
The Amos "volume" has already (in its peer reviewed stable form) been consulted by thousands of readers each month since its publication in late 2005. The changeable experimental version also gets a huge number of visitors.If you don't want to spend the time to write a commentary, or you are not yet an "established" scholar then, offer a dictionary article these too will get larger than print readership, these also will be peer reviewed before publication, and so should "count" as publications, but most of all you will contribute to making solid information available to everyone who is interested. And unlike most scholarly writing your article will get read and considered and used!
Labels: bible.dictionary, commentary, open.biblical.studies
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Look NOW ;)
Tyler is doing the next one himself, so send your nominations to him over the next three weeks...
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¶ 6:24 AM
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acerbic? moi? heaven forfend!
By Jim, at
May 3, 2008 9:43 AM
Jim, the words are yours. Indeed may "heaven forfend!"
By Tim, at
May 3, 2008 10:38 AM
PS: ;-)
By Tim, at
May 3, 2008 10:38 AM
