‘It is well with my soul’
Pat Haley Contributing columnist
The theme had been rattling around inside the brain of musician and composer Philip Bliss for months. The melody wouldn’t leave him alone, yet he had no words to put with it.
Like many composers, Bliss created the composition and placed it in a drawer, expecting a good marriage with the words he knew would be forthcoming someday.
Tim Colliver of The Times-Gazette in Hillsboro has been writing a delightful 12-part series of articles entitled “The 12 Carols of Christmas” that appeared daily until Christmas Eve, relating the stories and history behind many of the best-loved sacred songs of the season.
‘It is well with my soul’
Pat Haley - Contributing columnist
The theme had been rattling around inside the brain of musician and composer, Philip Bliss, for months. The melody wouldn’t leave him alone, yet he had no words to put with it.
Like many composers, Bliss created the composition and placed it in a drawer, expecting a good marriage with the words he knew would be forthcoming someday.
Tim Colliver of the Hillsboro Times-Gazette has been writing a delightful 12-part series of articles entitled “The 12 Carols of Christmas” that will appear daily until Christmas Eve, relating the stories and history behind many of the best-loved sacred songs of the season.
The report, commissioned by eSafety and funded by the Department of Social Services under the
National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and Their Children 2010-2022, reveals that where domestic violence practitioners have knowledge of technology-facilitated abuse involving children, monitoring and stalking is the most prevalent type of abuse reported.
Lead researcher Associate Professor Molly Dragiewicz from Griffith Criminology Institute said the research provided clear evidence of the harmful effects of technology-facilitated abuse on children, including impacts on their mental health, education, and relationships with the non-abusive parent, as well as their everyday lives.
“This study provides evidence that children are highly involved in men’s domestic violence against mothers. Rather than being exposed to or witnessing abuse, children play a central role in coercive control,’’ she said.
state
Fri Jan 14 2000 at 6:40:34
An independantpoliticalentity with defined geographic boundaries and unified top most level of government. A collection of political subdivisions which are in fact a single state have pretentiouslycorrupted the term state and use it in the manner which Region or Province should be used.
Sun Feb 25 2001 at 14:50:48
The primary international political organization is the sovereign state (since the Peace of Westphalia - 1648).
The 20
th Century was a period of radical expansion of independant states, but as different as each of these entities may be, they share many characteristics in common: sovereignty, territory, population, armed forces, and the recognition of other states. Under international law the state is the only form of organization that has a legal right to use force.