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After the success of Living by Water, novelist and nature writer Brenda Peterson turns her eye on the nature in human nature. Her focus in mainly the feminine body -- of earth and women, of animals, human and nonhuman. Whether writing about whales or women's bathing rituals, salmon or friendship, rain forests or life-saving dreams, Peterson weaves a compelling story of the bond between nature and ourselves.
This rich, expanded collection was first hailed by critics as "lyrical and life-enhancing...with large doses of wonder, humor, and warmth." The new essays include a moving appeal to seek compassion in healing our sexual lives during this time of AIDS. There are also chronicles of the birth, death, and afterlife of a baby beluga whale, and of the seagull's memory for human faces. Peterson's passionately observed subjects range from lullabies to abortion, dolphins to old-growth forests, fundamentalism to fishing.
Combining her skills as a mesmerizing storyteller and nationally acclaimed nature writer, Peterson explores the healing, vital symbiosis between the sacred, sensual body of our earth and the feminine -- and intimacy which instructs and inspires, but most of all sustains us.
About Brenda Peterson
Brenda Peterson is the author of three novels and another collection of essays, Living by Water, chosen one of the best books of the year by the American Library Association. She lives on Puget Sound in Seattle.
"Peterson writes a vital, intimate prose that energizes readers with its intelligence and good humor."
-- Publishers Weekly
"Her powerful essays about how and where we find mothering are replete with rich, sensual imagery, poignant still lifes, wisdom and wit."
-- Maureen Murdock
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At the end of a busy day, many of us would love to quickly produce a tasty, nutritious, home-cooked meal with minimal effort. One way you can achieve this goal is by using a pressure cooker.
You may be hesitant about using a pressure cooker. You may not be familiar with them or have heard horror stories from your mother or grandmother about them exploding with the contents ending up on the ceiling. As long as you correctly follow the manufacturer's operating instructions for the cooker, you can cook most foods very safely. Today's pressure cookers include more safety release valves and interlocking lids, which makes them safer than older models.
Pressure cooked foods cook three to 10 times faster compared to conventional cooking methods. The cooker does not allow air and liquids to escape the container below a pre-set pressure. As the pressure builds, the temperature inside the cooker rises above the normal boiling point.
This not only helps the food cook quickly, but it helps food retain nutrients and requires less water to prepare items. It also results in less energy used to prepare foods. You can cook multiple foods at the same time, which saves time and results in fewer dirty dishes.
The following pointers will help you enjoy success with a pressure cooker:
? Never fill a pressure cooker more than two-thirds full or more than halfway full for soups or stews.
? Realize that the hotter a food or liquid is going into the cooker, the quicker it will cook.
? Meats and poultry can be browned in the pan of the pressure cooker prior to locking the lid.
? Pressure cookers are not pressure canners and should not be used to process home-canned foods for shelf storage.
? Generally, foods that expand as a result of foaming and frothing, such as applesauce, cranberries, rhubarb, cereals, pastas, split peas and dried soup mixes, should not be cooked in a pressure cooker.
? Pressure cookers and their parts should be washed by hand with hot soapy water. The high heat and harsh chemicals of a dishwasher may damage the parts of a pressure cooker.
S? Store pressure cookers in a cool, dry place with the lid inverted on the body. Failing to do so can result in unpleasant odors and cause wear and tear on the lid's seal.
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Make Your Own Watering Can
Water the Garden
Children just love to help water the garden, and my two little peas are no exception. Unfortunately, it can sometimes mean overwatering for the plants, as they tend to pour too much water from the watering can. So we made this DIY watering can for them to use to sprinkle the flowers with water.
We got an empty plastic bottle, a nail, and a hammer. I had hoped that Princess Pea would be able to do the hammering herself, but it proved too difficult for her. In the end, she showed me where to put the holes and I did the hammering. We made about 5 holes. Put them near the top end of the bottle, so you can fill it up while upright. Then turn it over and sprinkle the water on the garden!
They think it's great fun to use, and I'm pretty sure the flowers like it, too, since it means they don't get a whole watering can of water dumped on them by overeager little hands.
In the last Outdoor Play Party, we had a record 53 ways to play outdoors linked up! Thank you to everyone who shared; what a great resource we are creating together! I absolutely loved this 'kid wash' carwash system made by Familylicious! I would love to have this set up in my garden! I'd definitely be going through it myself!
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Life is a Quilt Waiting to Happen
I like watching where you will go next.
Looks like you are having fun!
I'm having fun just watching you fuse. I'm thinking this will be amazing too just like everything else you do!!
You are just a genious- it is so wonderful to see how your creativity just blossom and blossom.
Your post last week on fusing shot cottons inspired me to do some fusing of my own. I sorta love/kinda hate the way shot cottons tend to slither all over the place so I gave fusing KF shot cottons a try. MUCH more satisfying! Thanks for the inspiration - and I am LOVING the curvy circles that you put together!
I'm glad it was helpful.....they fuse quite well don't they.
Its Down Right fabulous. I will be glad when I get all my grandbabies bedding down and the 2 wedding quilts so I can play like this. Gorgeous and fun, is right
Isn't that such great instant gratification! You continue to leave me sockless. You are one of the most creative and inspirational ladies out there. Now when will you settle down and write a book about all of your wonderfulness? It would be a best seller!!!!!!!!!!1
I really like the look of these.
Thanks so much for stopping by and taking the time to comment. I try to respond to all of your wonderful comments....if you are not getting any response from me it's because you are set up as a no-reply blogger. In order to receive a response you can change your status in your blogger profile. I'm no longer accepting anonymous comments.Thanks again for all your wonderful commentsMarianne | <urn:uuid:1a08c2fa-d9f9-4c53-bcf4-6dba3c876273> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.thequiltingedge.com/2012/09/still-fusing.html | 2014-12-19T06:29:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802768276.101/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075248-00127-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949193 | 363 | [
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Q&A: She Finds You Annoying, Fights Aren't Worth Starting
Page 1 of 2This article is sponsored in part by DoubleYourDating.com (What's this?)
Yes, it's that time once again: the day we feature your dating and relationship questions. Although we would like to answer each one personally, and with as much detail as possible, the overwhelming amount of inquiries forces us to highlight those that are most interesting to AskMen.com readers; your e-mail may even be answered in the process.
This week's Q&A focuses on getting her number quickly, what to do if your woman finds you annoying, picking fights with your girlfriend to get make-up sex, and when to become exclusive with a woman you're dating. David DeAngelo, author of Double Your Dating: What Every Man Should Know About How To Be Successful With Women, has your answers.
How can a guy get a woman to give up her phone number to him quickly?
1- Know exactly how you want the conversation to go.
2- Know how to ask.
3- Know when to ask.
4- Have a pen and paper on you.
I recommend that you take a few minutes every day to imagine having conversations with new women. It might go something like this:
"Hi there, you're cuter than the average woman that I see in the produce section... are you friendly?"
Her: "Ha ha... well, sometimes."
"So, are you shopping for a special occasion, or is this just a routine produce visit?"
Her: "No, just here for some fruit."
"Nice. Are you from the area?"
"Are you from here originally?"
Her: "Born and raised."
"Well, it was nice meeting you... and enjoy your mango..."
"Hey... do you have e-mail?"
Her: "Yeah, I do."
(Treat the "Yeah" as an agreement to give it to you, then take a pen out of your pocket — I prefer the Space Pen — and hand it to her to write down her e-mail. As she's writing, say "and write your number there too... and your name, which I didn't get...").
The key is that you have to act like this is the most natural thing in the world.
Okay, see how easy that was? Is that realistic? I think so. I've gotten hundreds of e-mails and phone numbers with dialogues like that.
I think the key is to mentally rephrase how you will handle yourself so you know exactly what to do when the time comes. It all has to flow and seem natural.
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Welcome to new Alyssa.com
I hope you love the new site as much as I do. I think it’s very user friendly and fun to navigate with all the slide bar links. We will be making revisions daily and trying to keep it updated as much as possible. I especially love the ‘MY TUBE’ section. There, you will be able to see what I am watching on the web.
To all of those in the San Diego area, I hope you will come to the Chargers appearance on Sunday. And if you can’t make it, we will take lots of pictures to share. | <urn:uuid:b88cb67d-f4ff-4f47-a2b1-a67729162ad7> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://alyssa.com/?p=113 | 2014-12-22T02:45:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802773061.155/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075253-00111-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95436 | 131 | [
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In CS6 you can. They have an improved 3D feature that I use pretty often.
The guy I collabed with made the text. He made it using Cinema 4D... not as complicated as it looks.
lol everyone has known this for a while now.. typical espn
I'm not. It's just going to be one excuse for the Heat after another.
*92% chance of us not getting Davis
75% chance of us not getting a top 3 pick
**** Billy King
Man **** Chris Christie's fat ***
This is probably the first post you have made in the Nets forum that I can agree with.
I'm here lol. GG's buzzer beater was awesome
Nice pep talk but still I hope we lose lol
Maybe on the offensive end... the defensive end I'm not sure about. He's to soft to fit into Thibs' defensive system.
The Bulls D is so active. The Heat haven't got a good look in a while.
I lol'd when I heard the song...
Lol atleast he might remember you Rique
No seriously, **** you.
Lmao, you're a clown
They get something in the future. I forget the exact specifics but they get a 1st one way or another
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By Carl Adamec
No one can say that Indiana University of Pennsylvania doesn’t know what it’s getting into when it plays the University of Connecticut women’s basketball team tonight in the Huskies’ exhibition opener at Gampel Pavilion in Storrs.
Two years ago, Division II IUP made the trip to Connecticut and lost to UConn 100-41 at the XL Center in Hartford.
The venue is different but the result figures to be the same for the second-ranked Huskies. The final margin, though, doesn’t interest UConn coach Geno Auriemma. He figures he’ll see what he usually sees from his team after three weeks of practice.
“I expect the same thing you see every exhibition game,” Auriemma said. “There will be some great stuff that we do that people will go, ‘Wow. I can’t believe they’ve only practiced for 10-12 days or whatever it’s been.’ And then there will be times when you’ll look like …
“I remember one exhibition game I think we turned the ball over like 42 times or 32 times. It was ridiculous. So sometimes it’s just horrendous. But I’ve got a feeling you’re going to see some stuff (tonight) that I think is really, really, really good. But I’ve seen some things in practice that are really, really, really good, better than I thought they’d be. And I ask the coaches all the time, ‘Are we
like a little better than we were last year at this time?’ They’re like, ‘Yeah, Way better.’ So that’s a good sign. I’m sure we’ll see a lot of that.”
UConn returns four starters from last season’s 33-5 club that won the Big East Tournament title and advanced to a fifth straight NCAA Final Four.
The Huskies will be without All-American guard Bria Hartley due to an ankle injury. Auriemma said there is some concern about the health of fifth-year senior guard Caroline Doty.
The Hall of Fame coach would only commit to having senior forward Kelly Faris, junior center Stefanie Dolson, and sophomore wingKaleena Mosqueda-Lewis in the starting lineup. If Doty isn’t a starter, maybe sophomore Brianna Banks gets the call. Or it could be any of the freshmen — forwards Breanna Stewart and Morgan Tuck and guard Moriah Jefferson.
Or, for starters …
“Maybe fried calamari and then some tomato mozzarella. Those will be my starters,” Auriemma said with a laugh.
“I don’t know. For our team, when you think about it, it’s such a new team but there’s a bunch of guys coming back. So other than Caroline, who’s been in and out of practice and tweak this and tweak that, and Bria, obviously, who hasn’t practiced, we’re fairly healthy. So Stefanie’s back 100 percent. Kelly is. Kaleena is.
“You look around and you go, ‘The exhibition games are a great
opportunity to maybe just kind of mix and a match and throw some people out there together and see what happens. So Stefanie, Kaleena and I think Kelly will be really good starters for three. And then I’ll just pick two names out of a hat and then go with that.”
No matter what Auriemma decides, they figure to be too much for IUP.
The Crimson Hawks are coming off a 23-7 overall record and trips to the semifinals in both the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference and the NCAA Atlantic Region tournaments.
Coach Jeff Dow welcomes back all five starters led by senior forward Sarah Pastorek, who averaged 14.8 points and 7.4 rebounds a season ago. IUP’s tallest returning starter is 6-foot-1, though it does have a pair of 6-2 freshmen.
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October 11, 2012
Washington, DC — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Division of Market Oversight, Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight, and Division of Clearing and Risk today issued no-action letters to Regional Transmission Organizations and Independent System Operators, and certain government and cooperatively-owned electric utilities.
The Commission is considering the public comments received on two proposed Orders that respond to petitions filed by these entities. The no-action letters will maintain the regulatory status quo until the Commission finalizes the proposed orders issued in August 2012. The comment periods for the proposed Orders have closed.
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Saturday, January 14, 2012
Some of the pieces were purchased for Christmas and some for the January birthday. I really love the Eden set, but it feels a bit premature to use it when their is a heavy frost on the ground!
With a nickname like 'teawife,' you know I love the tea drinking experience! I have found my collecting of tea paraphernalia to have changed over time. I used to collect single mugs when we traveled; I'd have a mug to remember every vacation. Now we seem to travel to fewer places, so I'm not as likely to collect mugs. I also collected solitary teapots, but now I find it is much more useful to have full tea services (teapot, sugar bowl, cups, mugs, milk jug, plates, etc.). These full sets come in handy when my friends come over to craft and chat.
There is something quite elegant and special to hold a saucer in one hand and sip from an exquisite cup. I never used to be the type of person to appreciate that experience; I always liked mugs, and I still love mugs and use them daily, but now I enjoy the ritual of bringing out a beautiful tea cup that has lovely shape, form and weight.
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Flared Cross Wood Pendant
Mardel Price $4.99
Description of Flared Cross Wood Pendant by Bob Siemon Design
Known for exceptional quality and classic beauty, Bob Siemon Designs is one of today's most beloved vendors of both traditional and contemporary Christian jewelry. With a vast array of styles to choose from, there is a Bob Siemon piece perfect for everyone on your gift list!
Handcarved in solid dark wood, this pendant is a fashionable new way to express your faith. Featuring a flared cross design, the pendant includes a 24-inch adjustable leather cord.
|Product:|| Flared Cross Wood Pendant|
|Manufactured by:|| Bob Siemon Design|
|Product Size:|| Small|
|Vendor Part Number:|| 510-328-5428|
|Weight:|| 0.06 pounds|
|Length:|| 2.5 inches|
|Width:|| 0.25 inches|
|Height:|| 4.75 inches|
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Home > Sport > Motorsport
Wednesday April 9, 2014 MYT 5:37:47 PM
Wednesday April 9, 2014 MYT 5:39:04 PM
LONDON (Reuters) - The Marussia Formula One team is no longer owned by Marussia Motors and the closure of the Russian sportscar maker will have no effect on its operations, the British-based outfit said on Wednesday.
The RIA Novosti news agency reported that Marussia Motors, who took a majority stake in what was the Virgin Racing team in late 2010, had shut down with staff leaving to join a government-run technical institute.
"The news is unfortunate for those concerned and we wish its employees well for the future," said a spokeswoman for the team. "The supercar project was ambitious but it is disappointing that it was unable to get to market."
The Ferrari-powered team was now controlled by Marussia Communications Ltd, she added, but gave no further details.
Marussia Motors had presented prototypes of two supercars it intended to produce but plans for production stalled before they hit the showrooms.
"There is no impact whatsoever on the Formula One team's operation," the spokeswoman said. "There is no link between the two companies financially or technically. The F1 team has been an independent operation for some time.
"The F1 team has had a positive start to the 2014 season and looks forward to continued success in the pursuit of its racing ambitions."
Russian-licensed Marussia have yet to score a point in more than four seasons. They are currently 10th of the 11 teams.
Britain's Max Chilton and France's Jules Bianchi are their drivers this season, with Chilton finishing 13th in Bahrain at the weekend.
(Reporting by Alan Baldwin; Editing by John O'Brien)
Marussia F1 team closes with staff made redundant
Chilton to stay with Marussia in 2014
Marussia F1 team link up with Russian-owned Reading
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Gutierrez named Ferrari test driver
Ferrari wield axe in structural shake-up
Christmas is a bit of a trial for Ecclestone
Zaqhwan crowned SuperSport champ in season finale
Ladies, time to stand up and fight for your man
Looking out for your ears
A Janis Joplin film is finally coming
Japan condemns Sony cyberattack
High tide phenomenon and wetter weather expected over next few days
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A 92-year-old wheelchair-bound South Side woman shot and killed a teenager who had forced his way into her home Monday afternoon, police said.
Bessie Jones, of the 7700 block of South Ridgeland Avenue, told police she was looking out a storm door when two teenage boys came up to her house. One of the young men yanked the door open and entered the house while the other stayed outside, said Pullman Area Sgt. Larry Augustine. The youth pushed Jones throughout the house in her wheelchair and demanded money, she said.
Jones said she told him to leave several times, Augustine said.
The young man began searching through drawers, leaving Jones in the living room, where she was able to get a gun she owns and place it in her lap.
When the young man approached her, she again asked him to leave, and then fired one shot, striking him in the neck.
Augustine said a representative from the state's attorney's office ruled that the shooting was justified, and no charges will be filed. Police did not find a weapon on the victim, Augustine said.
Police were searching for the second suspect.
One of Jones' neighbors, Sheila Phillips, said Jones had been a crime victim before. About three weeks ago, Phillips said she heard someone breaking into Jones' house through the basement window. Phillips said she saw two men running away and called police.
A relative, Mary Townsend, said Jones appeared to be OK but was shaken by the incident.
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The search for a good strapless bra is not for the faint of heart, but you'll find yourself rewarded handsomely if you end up with Velia. Our crush started when we saw our own Melissa wear it beneath a sheer t-shirt and couldn't even tell it was strapless (she's a 32D, for the record). It became a full-blown love affair when we discovered it is ultra lightweight, near invisible, and has two concentric bands of ph-balanced latex on the inside to keep it up while you're doing the YMCA at one of those summer weddings. Word to the wise - buy two, because you''ll want to wear it everyday until September hits.
Whispy and weightless.
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Atlantia, Gemina say agree terms of merger
MILAN, March 8
MILAN, March 8 (Reuters) - Italian highways group Atlantia and sister company Gemina, which owns Rome airports operator ADR, have agreed the terms of their planned merger, the companies said on Friday.
In a joint statement, the companies, both controlled by infrastructure holding Sintonia, said the all-paper deal entails a share swap ratio of 1 newly issued Atlantia share for every 9 Gemina ordinary or savings share.
No cash component is envisaged by the deal, which is expected to be finalised by the end of 2013, it said.
A first shareholder meeting to approve the operation will be held on April 30. Holders of Gemina savings shares will meet the day before, it said.
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Intrepid 2.7 no start after engine swap
I just put a 2.7 engine from a 2002 intrepid into a 2004 intrepid. I drove both cars into the shop. Both have the NGC control systems (The connectors to the PCM do have different color coding). It has the black key so we should be able to rule out skim issues.
It is not setting any codes, Even with the sensors disconnected and there is no RPM showing up on the scanner when cranking.
When I first checked it, I could get it to fire with the cam sensor unplugged but now it won't even do that.
I tried swapping the cam gear/tone wheel but that did not help. Based on advice from others, I pulled the engine again and swapped the flywheel to the 2004 flywheel. (The two flywheels look identical). I double checked the chain timing and swapped both the cam & crank sensors. I even tried the 2002 PCM but it still won't fire.
I now have all of the 2004 parts on the car. I have checked all grounds, verified power to the coils and injectors and continuity to the PCM but am not getting a pulse from the PCM to the injectors or coils.
Yesterday I broke down and took it to the dealer but they couldn't figure it out either.
They said that they can establish communication with the PCM and read the VIN# but nothing else.
The car does have an aftermarket remote starter/alarm/keyless entry but when I called the company, they told me that the only system it interrupts is the starter and since it will crank, it shouldn't be an issue. All functions are working ie..it will lock/unlock, sound the horn and crank remotely.
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Ennis High School is one of the Nicest High Schools in the Nation. If you are ever on the campus you will be met by kids that are well behaved and well mannered. The halls are wide. The cafeteria is nicer than those of most colleges. The auditorium is state of the art. Their career and technology department has lots to offer. But the best thing about Ennis High School is that the kids take pride in the classroom and in winning. Their band program is one of the most successful the state has ever had. The kids are successful in all Sports and are always contenders in the State Playoffs. In UIL the kids advance to Regionals and State every year. Winning is a state of mind at Ennis High School. The school administration looks to hire teachers who care about kids and who are the best in their field. You cannot ask for a better all around high school.
I have three students in the high school and one at the early childhood center. Their experience at the high school has been great. They were hesitant about moving in the middle of the year last year but all were made to feel welcomed. The teachers communicate with me through out the year and have been very professional. I love the multiple options/electives the high school offers and the quality of teachers. The administration has been very helpful as well. Ennis ISD has great schools all around.
Ennis High School is a school in which teachers care about their students. Teachers take time out to make sure students will be successful in not only their school career, but after school as well. The school has a very diversified student population which enables students to take on different roles in the many organizations that are offered.
I think Ennis High School is a great school. My daughter absolutely loves going to school. The school has so many different options of what a student can do, getting ready for college, dual credit courses, various clubs to get involved in, many clubs are active with community service, great teachers, and great administrative team.
Well where to begin. Very low expectations of students. Text books are very rarely taken home. Very little parent involvement for the kids who need it the most. High School if anything was young adult day care with a lot of busy work. Way to much focus on athletics and TAKS now EOC exams. In regards to EOC exams because instructors jobs are on the line its obvious why they teach little else than to the test. Administrative staff is very friendly. Very low end student body though. Not a place I would want my children to attend. Very clear divide between low and high end students which is primarily because of generational poverty in Ennis, TX but that is a different bag of worms all together. They have made great improvements technologically but have disregarded prevalent issues that need to be fixed in the classroom in regards to unqualified instructors (teachers who see teaching as a job not a passion and pursued such as a fall back career). The bar has certainly been lowered in Ennis, TX where failing is literally passing. A score of a 65 is enough to graduate. I would like to think taxpayers deserve better for their children than a second rate education.
I'm a former student who graduated in 2009. I currently go to Texas A&M University, but I know high school did not prepare me for college. I never felt challenged there. Graduated top 10%, NHS, yet now that I am attending college I have realized everything I've learned has not been because of EHS. I understand children will not attempt to do the work if they are challenged more, but maybe that will encourage tutoring or more one-on-one teacher time.
Apparently these people that are posting negative comments have disruptive kids that have no sense of intelligence. If you have a child that wants to learn, they are willing to help you all the way. We even had a teacher offer to come to our house and help her if she needed it. They were more than willing to offer up their cell numbers to help students and go the extra mile. I really commend the teachers and faculty for being so involved with the parents and students. If you want to be involved, they will be there. You have to make the first step. You can't just sit back and fail and wonder why no one helped you. | <urn:uuid:7bef9a77-d282-49b5-b3fe-d7ddc8e722fd> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.greatschools.org/texas/ennis/2456-Ennis-High-School/reviews/ | 2014-12-19T10:49:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802768404.109/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075248-00071-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986103 | 881 | [
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Cover to Cover Open Book, for November 16, 2007 - 3:00pm
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Sarah O'neal Rush, the last born of the great-grandchildren of former slave turned educator and founder of Tuskegee University, Booker T. Washington, reads from her book, Timeless Treasures: Reflections of God's Word and the Wisdom of Booker T. Washington. Hosted by Safi wa Nairobi. | <urn:uuid:77c60895-1440-4bd5-b330-5279dee8a087> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/24890 | 2014-12-19T10:55:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802768404.109/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075248-00071-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912325 | 110 | [
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Originally Posted by bimmerj
This reply has nothing to do with the M6. Observing the responses to the price, I have to say, if you guys, and what you deem affordable, lived outside the USA you will be driving a sh-t b-x. lol. No wonder M3 drivers got such a bad rep!
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A Civil War Christmas:An American Musical Celebration opened on Thursday night at Oddfellows Playhouse. The production is a collaboration between CT Heritage Productions and Oddfellows Playhouse, bringing a multi-generational cast together to tell this story.
It is a different show than you might expect to see onstage around the holidays. It is a play, with music - not a musical. Traditional carols and other popular folk songs and hymns of the time serve to weave together a series of vignettes of characters, both historical and fictional, to tell the story of Christmas 1864.
It is a play that contains history, thought, heartbreak and humor. It is not saccharine sweet holiday-fare, but thoughtful and thought-provoking. It is history, so yes, you might be cynical and say "I know how it ends", but what it does offer in ending is not fact, but hope. And isn't hope something we all could use a little more of these days?
We hope you'll join us.
A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration
by Paula Vogel
Music by Daryl Waters
Made possible by CT Humanities,
Middletown Commission on the Arts
Eli Cannon's Tap Room & many CT Heritage Production Donors
Friday December 7 - 7:30pm
Saturday December 8 - 7:30pm
Thursday December 13 - 7:30pm - JUST ADDED!
Friday December 14 - 7:30pm
Saturday December 15 - 7:30pm
$15 Adults / $8 Students & Seniors
860-347-6143 or www.oddfellows.org
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Originally Posted by M_Six
Ok, I'll really feel like a fogey now. I've never seen that symbol before. What does it mean?
I agree with you, though. I work at a university and my office used to be near the rest rooms. During class breaks the students would line up in the hallway waiting for the rest room and the language they used, both sexes, was stunning. Do they talk like that around the water cooler at Fortune 500 companies these days?
People in general have little or no concern for anyone but themselves any more. That's evident everywhere. People make noise at all hours, dress like crap in nice restaurants, let their kids scream while others are trying to enjoy a nice meal, etc. And around here, they drive cars, trucks, and motorcycles with next to no exhaust system (we have no emissions testing or inspections of any kind). I was raised to respect the peace-and-quiet that other folks have a right to expect. But somewhere along the line that right disappeared like so many other rights.
Well the saying that accompanies it is "Two in the pink & one in the stink" so what does that tell you?
And yes... it's all about me me me. Just look around at people yip yapping away on their cell phones like me or anyone else gives a shit about their conversation. Modern technology is certainly just as much of a curse as it is great. The very things that were supposed to make our lives more efficient and free up more free time has done just the reverse. | <urn:uuid:95bec6b4-3f5d-421f-98a1-a214320d94ce> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.e90post.com/forums/showpost.php?p=12268286&postcount=11 | 2014-12-20T21:11:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802770399.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075250-00151-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9835 | 318 | [
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When: Saturday, 2 p.m.
Where: Carrier Dome
Syracuse leads 38-32. The teams split their last 10 meetings while members of the Big East, and both teams earned victories at home against each other during the regular season last year.
The 1985 NCAA champions, Villanova didn't make it out of the first weekend of the tournament between 1989 and 2004. However, the Wildcats thrived with four trips to at least the round of 16 between 2005 and 2009 under Jay Wright, including an appearance in the 2009 Final Four.
Villanova hasn't made a deep run since, falling in the round of 32 in 2010 before going one-and-done in 8/9 games in 2011 (against George Mason) and 2013 (against North Carolina). That streak seems poised to end this year. The Wildcats are 11-0 and one of the nation's most impressive teams to date.
With the bulk of last year's 20-14 team back, Villanova isn't an especially old bunch but does have the benefit of a roster that knows its roles. That much has been apparent over the first two months of the season.
Jay Wright is in his 13th season on the Main Line, producing a 268-144 record that includes eight NCAA Tournament appearances and three 25-win campaigns. Wright also led Hofstra to a pair of NCAA bids at the end of his seven-year stint at the Hempstead, N.Y., school, and needs just seven victories to reach 400 for his career.
F JayVaughn Pinkston: The Wildcats' leading scorer at 16.5 points per game is also shooting 51.9 percent from the floor.
G James Bell: The veteran is having a breakout season, leading Villanova in rebounding (6.5) while also averaging 15.4 points per game.
Points per possession allowed by Villanova, tied for the fifth-lowest figure in the country. Only Ohio State (0.82), San Diego State (0.83), Virginia (0.83) and Clemson (0.84) are stingier on a per possession basis.
Consecutive victories to open the season, the Wildcats' best start since going 12-0 in 1961-62.
Villanova projected to be a solid NCAA Tournament team in the preseason and didn't really draw much attention until its 63-59 defeat of Kansas at the Battle 4 Atlantis on Nov. 29. The Wildcats turned back Iowa 88-83 the next day and have collected a handful of other decent triumphs (notably at Saint Joseph's and against Southern California on a neutral floor), but the upset of Kansas remains this team's signature moment. | <urn:uuid:1fc3d742-b685-4cfe-becc-44991a77d2b6> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.syracuse.com/patrick-stevens/index.ssf/2013/12/syracuse_basketball_opponent_l_2.html | 2014-12-20T21:00:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802770399.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075250-00151-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9638 | 548 | [
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Beacon Drive-In is an institution in Victoria and has been for as long as we can remember. Founded in 1958, the fast food restaurant is a popular spot for locals and tourists alike. It’s conveniently located on the corner of Beacon Street and Douglas Street, right across from downtown Victoria’s famous Beacon Hill Park.
There’s limited seating inside, but most people just walk up to the window to place their order and take their treats to-go. It’s the perfect quick food stop to take for a leisurely walk along the ocean on Dallas Road or to have a lovely picnic in Beacon Hill Park.
Beacon Drive-In’s menu has lots to offer – from dessert to breakfast to seafood to burgers, hot dogs and sandwiches – there’s something to suit everyone’s fast food needs. One of Beacon Drive-In’s most popular items is their famous soft serve ice cream. On this occasion we ordered a Vanilla Cone ($2.95) and a Strawberry Sundae ($3.95). Years ago, the soft serve was dense and creamy, like buttery-thick whipped cream, but its ingredients appear to have changed a bit since then. The ice cream’s consistency is still smooth and rich, but it now offers a tinge of slickness as if perhaps its contents might not be entirely dairy. It still conquers the sweet-tooth craving though, and Beacon Drive-In’s convenient location will continue to keep it a popular place for years to come. | <urn:uuid:38460ca7-b989-4773-8a9a-adf0ef7450fb> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.eatinginvancouver.ca/dessert/beacon-drive-in-review-victoria-bc/ | 2014-12-22T06:59:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802774894.154/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075254-00055-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95909 | 321 | [
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By Melissa Silverstein | Women and Hollywood August 20, 2013 at 4:40PM
This summer I have had the privilege with working with three amazing young Barnard students -- Jo Chiang, Lili Safron and Caroline Moore -- who have been helping me find the movies that we hope to screen at the 2014 Athena Film Festival. As you can imagine it is a long process but having these terrific young women at my side has made the process so much stronger.
They have challenged me and they have forced me to think about things in a much different way and I am grateful for that.
They put together this video which I wanted to share with you all.
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Rutgers transfer J.J. Moore will join the Scarlet Knights on the court this season, the school announced Thursday.
Moore, a 6-foot-6 wing who played three years at Pittsburgh, transferred to Rutgers in part to be closer to his daughter and grandfather. His legislative relief appeal -- which allows transfers to become eligible immediately in the case of family illness or financial hardship -- was granted by the NCAA this week.
Moore's waiver is not the first eligibility issue to affect first-year Rutgers coach Eddie Jordan this offseason. In September, after a controversial initial rejection by the NCAA Eligibility Center, Iowa State transfer Kerwin Okoro was also granted legislative relief.
Rutgers is still awaiting a ruling on the status of incoming freshman Junior Etou and is seeking to replace a host of players who transferred in the wake of former coach Mike Rice's dismissal last spring.
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When Edgar M. Bronfman Sr. heard that the pope had honored Kurt Waldheim, the Austrian president he had exposed as an ex-Nazi complicit in war crimes, he fired off a note to the Vatican.
Pope John Paul II making Waldheim a papal knight was "like giving a rotten structure a fresh coat of paint," the billionaire head of the World Jewish Congress wrote with his customary directness.
He received no reply to his 1987 letter — but the same blunt approach helped him persuade the Soviets to allow Jewish emigration and the Swiss to acknowledge that their banks had swallowed up the life savings deposited by Holocaust victims.
Bronfman, an heir to the Seagram's whiskey empire who later in life led a global campaign for Jewish causes, died Saturday at his New York City home, according to an announcement from his family's charity, the Samuel Bronfman Foundation. He was 84.
The cause of death was not disclosed.
The hard-driving Bronfman grew up in luxury, surrounded himself with fine art and for years led a life chronicled in gossip columns.
His 1974 marriage to the beautiful young Lady Carolyn Townshend ended when he had it annulled after less than a year; during their courtship, he tried to ease her qualms by giving her a Cartier box containing a nose plug so she could "hold her nose and jump in," Nicholas Faith wrote in his 2006 book, "The Bronfmans: The Rise and Fall of the House of Seagram."
In 1975, Bronfman's son Samuel Bronfman II was kidnapped in a rural area outside New York City. After Bronfman delivered a ransom of $2.3 million, his son's two captors were arrested. A jury convicted them of extortion rather than kidnapping — a sign, perhaps, that jurors were swayed by a defense theory that Samuel had set up his own abduction.
Though Bronfman was well known for high-powered business deals, including major investments in Hollywood that briefly made him the head of MGM, he is best remembered for his activism on behalf of Jews.
His father, Sam Bronfman, a tough-talking Canadian whose distilleries boomed during Prohibition just across the border, had been head of the Canadian Jewish Congress. His son, however, was not particularly religious.
"Much of my life had given secularity new meaning," he wrote in a 1996 memoir titled "The Making of a Jew."
"There was ham in our house on Yom Kippur," he wrote. "I had rejected not just Judaism but religion in general."
However, after his dictatorial dad died in 1971, Bronfman gradually rediscovered his religious identity.
Bronfman became "a bulldozer against anti-Semitism the world over," Faith wrote, noting that, unlike his father and other Jewish leaders of the day outside Israel, Bronfman was fearless about drawing attention, pursuing restitution for Holocaust victims' heirs as aggressively as he pursued any of his business deals.
He enlisted the aid of high-placed friends — like Bill and Hillary Clinton — against the Swiss bankers who were among his favorite targets.
"The only way to deal with these bastards is to scare them," Bronfman told Forbes magazine in 1999. "At a meeting in Jerusalem I gave them hell. I told them the American people thought of Swiss banks as havens for drug money and for the dictators of the world such as Mobuto and Marcos, and if they weren't careful we would ratchet up the whole controversy."
Born in Montreal on June 20, 1929, Edgar Miles Bronfman started working for the family business shortly after graduating from McGill University in 1951. The next year, he found a production flaw that affected 25,000 cases of VO whiskey; he closed the plant for days to track down the source of a taste that wasn't quite right.
He became Seagram's president when he was 28. Soon he was working at the Seagram building, a landmark skyscraper his family built on New York's Park Avenue. He became a U.S. citizen in 1959.
In the late 1960s, he invested in Sagittarius Productions, a company that produced several Broadway hits and movies, including "Joe Hill" and an animated version of E.B. White's "Charlotte's Web." In 1969, he took on the leadership of MGM but quickly sold his interest to Kirk Kerkorian.
Comedian Don Rickles, spotting Bronfman in a Hollywood club, couldn't help himself: "Hey, there's Edgar Bronfman!" he told the crowd. "He was chairman of MGM for five whole minutes."
Bronfman also led his company into more profitable investments, including a major stake in the DuPont chemical company. Bronfman's net worth as of 2010 was $2.6 billion, according to Forbes.
Bronfman's son, Edgar Jr., catapulted Seagram into the entertainment business with a series of deals in the 1990s. He bought MCA, the film and music company for $5.7 billion but ran into a corporate disaster when his investment in French media conglomerate Vivendi went bad. In the early 2000s, the family company was dismantled.
Meanwhile, the elder Bronfman devoted himself to traveling the world and lobbying for the World Jewish Congress, a group of about 80 organizations.
"Making money is marvelous and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well," he told the New York Times in 1986, "but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation."
He stepped down from the group's presidency in 2007. He continued his longtime involvement with Hillel campus groups and other organizations seeking what he called "a Jewish renaissance."
"The biggest problem today is not anti-Semitism," he told a Hillel gathering at Cal State Northridge in 1995. "It's lack of Semitism."
Bronfman, who was married five times, including twice to the same woman, is survived by his wife, Jan Aronson; sons Samuel Bronfman II, Edgar Bronfman Jr., Matthew Bronfman and Adam Bronfman; daughters Holly Bronfman Lev, Sara Igtet and Clare Bronfman; brother Charles Bronfman; sister Phyllis Lambert; 24 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. | <urn:uuid:dee9e9c3-d709-42f4-8e17-e07f15db4975> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.ctnow.com/news/nationworld/la-me-edgar-bronfman-20131223,0,3358485.story | 2014-12-25T18:16:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1419447547904.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20141224185907-00023-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985833 | 1,291 | [
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If you want to see a Real castle, don't miss Stirling in Scotland. This is a very special place to see. It suits our Hollywood-inspired ideals of dimension and grandeure more than any other.
Not surprisingly the castle also has a reputation for having many ghosts. It is claimed that Stirling is host to over 1000 lost souls, the most famous of all being the Green Lady.
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The movie starts with Brigitte Lahaie having a good sex party with her lover, at the end they decide to leave together ? So I suppose the next scene is a look back where we see that Brigitte looks as a unhappy household, because her husband does not take enough care of her sexual needs, she masturbates with vegetables before using them for the soap, she has a very hot telephone conversation with her lover whom then visits her to make love in the kitchen while her husband relax making erotic dreams about lesbians, so when he wakes up he is so hot that he makes love to his wife. Then, no idea why, 2 female friends come to visit them, followed by 2 guys and they have a nice orgy. After the orgy, Brigitte sulks because her husband likes women too much?!? | <urn:uuid:51b5a28e-2f20-4c8c-823e-9fa883d69660> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://pornoxxbox.com/4804/jaime-les-grosses-legumes/ | 2014-12-19T15:07:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802768636.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075248-00015-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977779 | 165 | [
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Deliciously portable, these nutrient-packed goodies taste like a cross between a granola bar and a blueberry muffin, and the cream cheese frosting brings it all together. Note that you may use fresh or frozen cranberries in place of the blueberries.
1/4 pound butter, softened
3/4 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups blueberries, fresh or frozen
1/2 cup slivered almonds, optional
whipped cream cheese for spreading, optional
Preheat the oven to 350°. Butter and flour an 8" x 8" baking pan.
Beat the butter with the sugars until creamy. Add the eggs, one at a time, and beat well after each addition. Beat in the vanilla extract.
Stir or beat in the oats, flour, baking powder, and salt until well combined. Fold in the blueberries and the almonds if using. Spoon the mixture into a prepared pan.
Bake for about 40 minutes or until the center feels firm, the edges are brown, and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Remove and set aside to cool. Slice into squares and frost with the cream cheese if desired.
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Gunung Kidul Yogyakarta Reviews
We came back for more Nov 29, 2011
I wrote about this place few months back about our first visit to GK.
Vanessa and I have been telling our friend about the outdoor adventures activities this place can offer since our first visit in October 2011. We have 4 other friends whom decided to come along with us this time around.
Our first trip to Gunung Kidul was short but we both really enjoyed ourselves very much. We did cave tubing in Pidul Cave and Caving in Gua Senen (we were the first tourist who were brought into the cave).
I am going to share with you what we have done in our 2nd trip to GK.
Our first activity for the day is river tubing in Gunung Pindul.
We were told the river is about 10km long but due to the limited time we have, we only did 2km. Along the way we did cliff jumping and having fun at the waterfall. I have to say that the guide there are very professional , they always make sure that you are safe.
In the afternoon, we thought that it was late and kinda impossible to carry out the second activity. Do we suggested to watch the sun set. Kupiyo and team suggested we do canyoning while watching sunset. We thought that was awesome. While waiting for them to prepare for the activity, we enjoying ourself with the sunset view. Mike was so excited about it do as the rest of us. No doubt, it was really really fun. Now we are looking forward to challenge a higher waterfall on our next visit.
As we have another activity on the next day and there is no accommodation available at the area, the outdoor adventure team made 3 camps for us at Siung beach. We spent the night talking to the local people and had a wonderful Javanese dinner at the beach.
Our 3rd activity started at 9am in the morning. We have been eyeing at this cave since our first trip after looking at the photo the staff shown to us.
This cave was discovered by the team leader. Like he said, it was a mystery! He dreamed about this place and he and team started to search for the cave. It was discovered in 2011 May and it look exactly like what he saw in his dream. (He also claimed that he want to have his wedding held in the cave : )
To enter into the cave is not easy. 45 minutes bumpy ride in a Jeep; 30 minutes trekking (across 3 hills) ; 20 meters abseiling from the cliff ; DIVE 3 meters to get into the cave (due to the time that we went in was wet season and the cave was filled with mineral water).
The moment we lift up our head from the water, we were surprised how big the pool that was created. It was as huge as a swimming pool and we were also been told it was as deep as 5 to 10 meters.
We swam for about 15 meters to get to the limestone, climb up the limestone and waited for all our friends to be sent in one by one. The water almost covered up the entrance of the cave, that’s also the reason why we have to dive in. The cave was really amazing. Guess what? We were the first tourists who get invited to enter the cave! The team leader told me that few months back the media actually requested to film the cave after they saw it from his facebook but he refused to bring them in as he is afraid that with more people know about the place, it might destroy (dirty) the beauty of the cave.
On our way back from the cave we have to climb the bamboos instead of abseiling). Trust me, you will definitely like it… it was really cool!
Other activities available in GK:
- Rock climbing
- Watching local people picking seaweed in the beach
- Bird Watching
- Bike Tour
- ATV rides
- You may not be able to find anyone who know about the adventure activities in Yogyakarta City ( we spent about 2 days looking around in the city, finally we were introduce to a person who were one of the outdoor adventure team member. We make friends with the adventure team members and this is how we make our 2nd trip happened)
- The adventure activities prices are not expensive but the transportation to Gunung Kidul
- It is impossible to carry out more than 3 activities a day due to the limited resources and advance booking is required. Currently they cater to more local tourist than international.
- We managed to get 3 contacts during our 2nd trip. Backpackers who are interested may contact:
- http://www.facebook.com/#!/Kupiyo (the team)
- http://www.facebook.com/#!/katamatadolandolan (The agency)
- http://www.facebook.com/#!/KALINGGAADVENTURE (The agency)
Please do negotiate the price with them before you get there. Do note that due to the unforeseen weather changes, not all activities are available at all time.
I will upload photos from another device. Do drop me a message if you would like to find out more about the place.
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Untouched gems in Yogyakarta not even known by local Oct 29, 2011
It was the Borobudur temple that attracted me 2 years ago.Last month, i finally have a chance to visit yogyakarta.
I am not a sight-seeing person, most of the time I would just rest and relax, do things at my own pace.
Most people think that, Yogyakarta only have temple to offer, so as the local.
I did a little bit of research online, I found nothing other then those temples. But I want to have some outdoor activities rather than just visiting the temple. 2 weeks before my trip, while I was watching amazing race on axn channel, guess what? They went to Yogyakarta! Their first stop is at gunung kidul and Gua Jomblang is their first challenge. It was so cool!!! So I told myself- this is something I am looking for.
I was lucky enough to found a few local website which recommend some sports and outdoor activities in gunung kidul. So we decided to look for a travel agent in the city once we arrived.
To our surprise, 95% of the local people doesnt knows that this place exist! And none of the travel agency offer any tour to Gunung Kidul. So we tried to rent a car and hire a driver to get us there, guess what? Even the driver showing no confirdent that he knows the way to those places that we wanna go? We were so upset and think that we might not be able to go to Gunung Kidul.
While having an Ice cold tea at the stall at the roadside, we started having conversation with some of the local, this guy, whom work in one of the LOSMEN (guest house) told us that not many people in the city know about this place including those drivers. Then he started telling us what he had experience in. He was trekking in Gunung Kidul and lost his way out, one of the villages actually invited him to stay with his family. The house is located right at the beach and the view was nice. He then told us that the people there are very hardworking, friendly and always happy eventhough their lcoation is kinda isolated. The more he told us about Gunung Kidul, it makes us really want to make it happen, but how????? He then bring us to meet up with some of his friends who ever visited the place and share with us about their trip in Gunung Kidul.
Finally, the next evening, we bump into this guy again! He introduce us to one of his friend who is running a restaurant in Yogyakarta international Village (in Gang 2). He was surprised that we know about this place! He is actually belongs to one of the adventure team member, so he will help us to contact the person in charge see if they are able to arrange some activites for us. He was so happy when we came to him and start showing us some of his photos taken in gunung Kidul....... bla bla bla..... After 2 hours, we finally got a confirmation from the person incharge that we can go to Gunung Kidul for those activities tomorrow. Hurray!
I am going to tell you what i did in all my photos.
if you are an outdoor person and keen to go to gunung Kidul, there are few things you may want to take note/know:
- Gunung Kidul is about 2 hours from Yogyakarta City
- Advance booking require for caving and canyoning
- Maximum activities you are able to do is 3 in a day
- this place is also called The Thousands Mountain
- there are more than 46 beaches and 1000 caves in this area
with only about 14 are open to public and more than 800 caves undiscovered yet
- the local people speak little english, but the outdoor adventure group that we engage speak understandable english.
we spent a wonderful 2 days 1 night with the local people and volunteer to help them to promote the ecotourism in that area. We are currently helping them to setup a website so that more people can know about this place.
Please contact me if you need more information about Gunung Kidul or find them on facebook - Kalingga Outbound Adventure.
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| A visitor from Germany posted Wed November 18, 2009:|
It's Seaside Heights, NJ and the Barnegat Bay. The island that is connected by the bridge is Pelican Island.
| A visitor from United States posted Thu July 3, 2008:|
Love the photo. I am a native North Carolinian and very familiar with the geography of the Nags Head area. I do not beleive that is Nags Head. Roanoke Island and Roanoke Sound are not that wide. That looks more like the Atlantic Beach/Morehead City area or it couls be farther south in the Southport/Wilmington area.
| A visitor from United States posted Mon December 18, 2006:|
It looks like you took a picture of Nags Head. The bridge is highway 264/64 and it connects Roanoke Island with the Outer Banks (crossing over the Roanoke Sound). Really cool pic, since I've been over that bridge on a school field trip to the the brith place of powered flight: Wright Brothers National Memorial ... it's is just a few miles north ... so the wing is probably covering it! | <urn:uuid:64719f02-fe0b-47ba-9846-d021a8235217> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.airliners.net/photo/Song-(Delta-Air/Boeing-757-232/0775727/M/ | 2014-12-21T01:24:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802770554.119/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075250-00095-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956199 | 262 | [
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In an effort to assist citizens of El Paso County from being victimized by identity theft, Sheriff Richard Wiles has authorized the use of the Sheriff’s Office incinerator by members of the public to destroy personal documents no longer needed. The Sheriff’s Office understands citizens save documents that can accumulate and might not have the ability to safely dispose of them. Access to the incinerator will enable citizens of our community to feel secure knowing that information in their documents will not get into the wrong hands.
The incinerator, which is normally used to burn narcotics, will be available to the public twice a year. This year, those dates are Saturday September 27th and Saturday October 4th from 10:00am to 2:00pm. A Sheriff’s Office employee will be present to ensure all documents are completely destroyed. Only personal documents will be accepted with a household limit of the amount of paper that would fit into one 30 gallon trash bag. The Sheriff’s Office incinerator is compliant with rules and regulations set by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
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The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire's American Ethnic Coordinating Office is presenting the Dialogue on Diversity Program. The program attracts students from across the university's campus to discuss issues of pluralism and inclusion.
Student participants will meet once a month for a three- to four-hour seminar, screening and discussion of a film or documentary addressing ethnic, gender, sexual orientation and religious differences. All the students submit response papers, which are collected and posted on the Internet at http://www.uwec.edu/admin.aeco.
All meetings will take place at 7 p.m. in the American Ethnic Coordinating Office Program Center, Old Library 2138. The dates and films for the fall semester are as follows:
For more information about the Dialogue on Diversity program, call (715) 836-3367.
- Monday, Oct. 11: "American Me," a film that examines the cycle of violence in an East Los Angeles community.
- Monday, Nov. 15: "Smoke Signals," a film that examines the quest of two American Indians across the country.
Monday, Dec. 6: "The Killing Fields," a film that examines the experiences of the Southeast Asian people under a totalitarian regime.
Janice B. Wisner
UW-Eau Claire News Bureau
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FREE Teen Night!
Location: WonderLab Museum
Date: April 18, 2014 - April 18, 2014
Time: 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Audience: Middle and high school teens, or home school equivalent
It's a teens-only takeover of the museum! Enjoy free admission, free food, and hanging out with friends as you immerse yourself in Harry Potter's world! The Midnight Snipes: Indiana University Quidditch will demonstrate and guide you trying out cool moves with brooms and hoops, and members of the Indiana University Department of Chemistry will guide you you in concocting incredible potions.
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Shooting in Bristol
At approximately 9 p.m. on Sunday, Bristol police responded to 169 School St. on a report of shots fired.
Responding officers located a victim with a non-life threatening gunshot wound.
Preliminary investigation had determined that an altercation had taken place in an alley adjacent to Stat’s Convenience Store involving three men. During the altercation another man attempted to intervene and was shot.
At this time police are looking for two light-skinned black males both said to be in their late teens to early 20s about 5-foot-8, medium build and both wearing black t-shirts. They were said to have left the scene in a dark colored vehicle.
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Soupy beans with garlic, tomato, and thyme. We took one look at that recipe and description in Gourmet's latest issue, and we were hooked.
This is a simple yet flavorful dish of beans and tomatoes that is hearty enough for a vegetarian main dish. Actually, we fed this to people who are definitely not vegetarians, and they loved it as a dinner dish too. The recipe calls for bacon, which we skipped in favor of another fat, and you could easily use butter or even olive oil instead.
The beans get cooked twice: they are soaked overnight and then cooked with some aromatics and herbs. Meanwhile, you make a rich tomato sauce, and then you simmer the mostly-cooked beans in that sauce. It's a little labor-intensive in that sense, but it's still mostly hands-off, and it makes a great big batch.
We did make a couple of changes.
• We didn't have bacon, so we used some leftover duck fat. This wasn't as smoky as the bacon, though, so at the very end of cooking we felt that the beans still needed something. We added a heaping tablespoons of smoked paprika, and this was the perfect finishing note. If you are making this vegetarian, using a non-animal fat for the tomato sauce, we really recommend that paprika or even chipotle powder to give the sauce some smoky depth.
• Also, we didn't have navy beans; we used Great Northern beans, which are quite similar. They are white beans and thin skinned, so they cooked fast.
• Get the recipe: Slow-Cooked Tomato and Herb White Beans at Gourmet
Have you made beans yet this fall?
Related: How to Cook Beans
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"Second Saturday" - Women's Divorce Workshop
New to Las Vegas, "Second Saturday" divorce workshop helps women power through divorce and not have it be financially devastating. Workshops offer financial planning, family therapy, mediation, collaborative approaches and legal counsel.
Women's Group Empowerment Center - Co-Biz Co-Working Space
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Twenty-four Army soldiers who fought in World War II, Korea and Vietnam will receive the Medal of Honor next month, correcting oversights that prevented many of them from receiving the nation's highest award for valor because of their Hispanic, Jewish and African-American backgrounds, White House officials said today.
The awarding of 24 Medals of Honor - most of them posthumously - will be the largest number to be awarded at one time since World War II.
The process began in 2002 when Congress mandated that the military services review the cases of hundreds of Hispanic and Jewish service members who fought during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War and received the Distinguished Service Cross instead of the Medal of Honor for their heroism. The Distinguished Service Cross is the nation's second-highest award for valor.
The 12-year review of cases ultimately identified 18 Army soldiers whose cases merited being upgraded to the Medal of Honor, officials said.
During the course of the review it was determined that six soldiers not of Hispanic or Jewish backgrounds should also have their Distinguished Service Crosses upgraded to the Medal of Honor.
The Medals of Honor will be awarded on March 18 in a White House ceremony that will be attended by the three living recipients - all Vietnam veterans - as well as the families of the 21 others who are receiving the award posthumously. Of the 24 recipients, seven served in World War II, eight in the Korean War and nine in the Vietnam War.
The majority of the new Medal of Honor recipients are of Hispanic descent, but the extensive review of cases began with an effort review the case of PFC Leonard Kravitz, a Jewish-American soldier who died in the Korean War.
Kravitz died on March 7, 1951, near Yangpyong when he remained at his machine gun position and provided suppression fire for his retreating unit after it had been overrun by enemy forces, officials said.
For five decades, his childhood friend Mitchel Libman campaigned on his Kravitz's behalf that he should have received the Medal of Honor.
Libman said today he was elated that his friend was finally receiving the award he felt he deserved all along. "I feel wonderful," Libman told ABC News. "I am so happy that this was finally done."
The Medal of Honor oversights "never should have happened in the first place," Libman said.
Libman initially campaigned for Kravitz to receive the Medal of Honor but soon began collecting the service records of dozens of other Jewish service members who had received the Distinguished Service Cross.
He ultimately got the support of former Florida Rep. Bob Wexler, who in 2001 succeeded in getting Congress to insert language into a Defense Department spending bill that ordered the review of cases involving Hispanic-American and Jewish-American service members.
If Leonard Kravitz's name sounds familiar it is because noted singer and songwriter Lenny Kravitz is named after the uncle he never knew. Libman said he hopes that his friend's famous nephew will be the one to accept his uncle's award on the family's behalf in March.
The review of military records found 17 Hispanic soldiers should have received the Medal of Honor. They include one of the three living recipients, Santiago Erevia of San Antonio, Texas, who served in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Division.
In July, 1969, he took out four enemy bunkers in Tam Ky that had pinned down his unit.
His son Jesse told the Washington Post, "We've wondered why he didn't receive it the first time, and thought it may have been because of his name."
Five of the recipients identified themselves in military records as "Caucasian," which made it difficult for investigators to determine their ethnic or religious affiliation, officials said.
The case of Staff Sgt. Melvin Morris, another living recipient, came to light as part of the review of Distinguished Service Cross awards even though the original legislation did not cover African-American service members.
Morris was found deserving of the Medal of Honor for a 1969 combat engagement in Vietnam, where he was serving as a Green Beret. He was wounded several times as he rushed into a hail of enemy fire to recover the remains of a fellow team leader.
Morris said he never dwelled on having received the Distinguished Service Cross instead of the Medal of Honor for his heroic action. He told ABC News he did not even know about the award because at the time he had already returned to Vietnam after volunteering for another tour.
"That never bothered me," Morris said. "I never talked about the Medal of Honor."
Morris said President Obama called him last May to tell him the news that he had been selected though he had to keep the news confidential until now when the process was finalized.
When the president gave him the news, "I went down on my knees. I was in total shock ," Morris said, noting that Obama told him, "take it easy, be cool."
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«I didn't sleep with Aylar»
Aylar Lie was interviewed Tuesday by the magazine Se og Hør, claiming she and her friend Lene Alexandra visited Robbie at his room after the party Saturday. Aylar said she had sex with the super star.
«It developed rather natural,» Aylar said to TV 2 Nettavisen in regards to what the two models portray as a sexy meeting with the pop star.
TV 2 Nettavisen spoke to Robbie Williams spokesperson Tuesday night. Bryony Watts, main spokesperson for Williams in London, was not available for comment, but Watts assistant said that the story presented by the two Norwegian models is not accurate.
«Its correct that the two girls visited Robbie Williams hotel room, here he signed two books for them, and thats it,» said the assistant, who in accordance to the agencys practices wishes to remain anonymous.
Watts said to VG Wednesday that the whole thing is a misunderstanding. The girls were not at Robbies at all.
Witnesses, that attended the after party at the 20th floor at the SAS hotel Scandinavia, said to Dagbladet.no, that Aylar and Lene Alexandra were on the 20th floor, but they had to settle for sitting outside in the hallway.
«The whole thing is fabricated,» said one woman in her 30s to Dagbladet.no. «I myself attended the party in Robbies suite with two friends, and Aylar and Lene were not there.»
According to the spokesperson, Aylars version does not correspond with reality at all.
«No, nothing happened besides that he signed the books,» she stressed.
Neither Aylar nor Lene Alexandra was available for a comment Tuesday night.
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Chomsky says arrest me too.
February 19, 2002 12:54 PM Subscribe
Chomsky says arrest me too. A Turkish publisher accused of disseminating separatist propaganda was acquitted yesterday after one of his authors -the celebrated American linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky - appeared in an Istanbul court and asked to be tried alongside him.
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- 03 October 2012 | Surfing
The surf scene is long and intense. James Bond opens the "007 - Die Another Day" spy movie with a big wave surfing stunt. But, who actually played Pierce Brosnan in the infamous night ride?
James Bond is just like a Swiss Army knife. The multi-skilled British spy is able to jump bridges in luxury cars, take-off in heavy, hollow slabs and teach the perfect Martini recipe. "Die Another Day," the twentieth film in the James Bond series, showcases an opening surfing scene which helped boost ticket sales in the box office.
Can you figure out who and where was surfed the epic 007 night session? Was it Pierce Brosnan himself? Yes, the Irish actor is a keen stand up paddleboarder and surfer, but no, he didn't ride those waves.
The initial wave riding sequence of "Die Another Day" was filmed in Peahi - Jaws - off the North coast of Maui, in December 2001. The footage shows three surfers exchanging surf lines, during a large swell.
Laird Hamilton, Dave Kalama and Darrick Doerner were the pro surfers called to play the actors' surf scene. When surfers finish their waves, 007 and colleagues get to the beach.
This time, the shore shots were complete near Cadiz, in the South of Spain and Newquay, in Cornwall, England. Later, the orbital satellite Icarus creates a wave which forces James Bond to ride a huge wave, with a kite, between digitally produced glaciers and ice obstacles.
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- Special Sections
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The Levy County Sheriff’s Office reports the following arrests:
• Feb. 12, Michael Bradley Answorth, 22, Morriston, aggravated battery, VOP. Bond $50,000.
• Feb. 13, Ariell M. Brock, 28, Chiefland, VOP.
• Feb. 10, Shane Douglass Carnes, 19, Williston, leaving scene of crash, failure to register motor vehicle, attached registration not assigned, no valid DL. Bond $16,750.
• Feb. 14, Danny Ray Clark, 62, Riverview, VOP.
• Feb. 13, Randall Clyde Glenn, 38, Fanning Springs, out of county warrant. Bond $500,000.
If you currently subscribe or have subscribed in the past to the Williston Pioneer, then simply find your account number on your mailing label and enter it below.
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NileGuide Expert Says:
The history and reputation of this company stretches back to 1921.
Rua da Cintura do Porto de Lisboa
1200-109 Lisbon, Portugal
+351 (0)21 342 2138
NileGuide Expert tip:
Adequate parking, but arrive early to find a place. Weekends are always busy.
The Portugália chain of restaurants are a national institution and are in fact beer halls, or cervejarias, that also serve steak and seafood as an accompaniment to the vast range of ale and lager on offer. Lisbon boasts two such restaurants; one located in Avenida Almirante Reis, the other on the riverfront at Cais do Sodré. The esplanade setting and river view works wonders for the appetite. Renowned for the freshness of its seafood, Portugália's seafood menu numbers a wealth of ocean delights such as "Espinho" shrimp from Portugal's northern shores, grilled tiger shrimp and mantis shrimp, together with crab, king crab, lobster and spiny lobster. The kitchen is noted for its seafood platters that provide diners with an opportunity of sampling a choice of the very best seafood in one sitting. The roasted cod with jacket potato exemplifies the healthy fish dish options. A selection of steak dishes complement the seafood choice and a children's menu is at hand for youngsters. | <urn:uuid:7983d709-fd3e-448e-80fc-2186f9849d20> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | https://www.nileguide.com/destination/lisbon/restaurants/portugalia/1634003 | 2016-04-29T02:39:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860110356.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161510-00093-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.903394 | 289 | [
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We all want to keep our jobs and beyond that, I don’t think there’s anyone out there who doesn’t want to have a good working relationship with their boss. Sometimes we get lucky and it just clicks. Other times it is more difficult and we have to roll with the punches or work harder than we’d like to at developing a solid relationship with our boss. And on top of that – no one wants to be a brown-noser or be seen as one (yes it’s a little like high school, but that is the reality). So, sometimes it can be hard to know exactly how to handle improving this relationship in the right way.
When you are in a new job this is especially critical, but the advice applies regardless of how long you have been in your position. It is easier to start off on the right foot and establish a new relationship in the right way. It is still possible to change the direction of the ship so to speak if you have already been in your job for a long time. It is more difficult (and of course, there are situations where it is just simply better for you to move on than try to improve your situation). However, it can be done with persistent action. Remember, ordinary actions taken on a consistent persistent basis produce extraordinary results. So what can you do to improve your relationship with your supervisor?
First, communicate effectively as often as possible. Before you leave a meeting with them, review what was discussed to be sure it is clear and action items are well defined. If you feel you were not as clear about anything you said or they said, take a moment to ask for clarification from them. Or to repeat what you said in a more specific way.
Second, be clear, on a regular basis, about where you are with your projects and tasks. Make sure you have regular communication with your boss informally or formally (in arranged weekly meetings for example). As part of this, ensure that their expectations for you are clear. You know how you are being evaluated, when and how you can meet and exceed their expectations and you are giving them what they need as their employee (meeting deadlines, handling specific tasks in a certain way, etc).
Third, talk about how you talk. Discuss their management style, and what style works best for you as well. If they are different, see if there’s a way to compromise. Discuss how you can best communicate with and in a way, manage each other, so that it’s as effective as possible. But don’t be afraid to be the one to bring this up, just do so in a way that emphasis your intent to improve your work together.
Fourth, manage up. Ask for what you need, make suggestions about improvements (in the right way), keep them posted on your progress, help make them shine in their job and ideally in turn, they will help you do the same. Be direct and ask them how can you best support them. Find this out up front so you can co-create an effective relationship.
Fifth, connect on the personal, if it’s appropriate. Depending on the culture of the organization, your boss’ style and your relationship, it’s ok to connect on personal things you have in common as well. This can build a relationship just as a personal relationship can, just don’t cross the line and when in doubt, err on the side of keeping it more professional. | <urn:uuid:0dd89890-8fef-4c2a-9d19-c4213561671c> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.examiner.com/article/how-to-build-a-relationship-with-your-boss-without-being-a-brown-noser | 2016-05-01T23:45:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860117244.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161517-00101-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971584 | 717 | [
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The removal of Spotify integration from the free version of the client was on account of a deal with Deezer. At the time, Shazam only mentioned that it was "trialling different streaming partners to see which are used by more of our users," but to the service's credit it did state that Spotify integration could be re-enabled at a later date.
Along with adding Spotify back to the list of streaming services, Shazam is also testing out a "Listen Now" feature with Beats Music on its iOS client. The feature, which allows you to tag a song within Shazam and instantly listen to the full track on Beats Music, requires you to have a subscription or a 14-day trial to Beats Music.
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I am not a fatty, I swear. But I must have oversized fingertips, because I am constantly creating odd new words when typing on my iPhone. Lately, ‘day’ is always ‘DAT,’ and I know for a fact I only sent “DAT ass” as a text one time. Just once! Anyway, a Tech Tip could help me look like a little less of an imbecile in my social media life. Developed by a dermatologist who wanted better accuracy with her phone, they are made to work with your hand rather than be a separate tool. These are worn on the tip of the finger, and have just enough surface space to register as a “touch.” Look out for them in May. | <urn:uuid:941c20cc-db92-4e37-a656-6181d5730a5a> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.incrediblethings.com/tech/tech-tips-cure-fat-finger-syndrome/ | 2016-05-01T23:11:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860117244.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161517-00101-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973397 | 158 | [
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Body piercing just got a bit more prickly in New York.
Under a law signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, anyone under 18 years old will have to get written permission from their parents or legal guardians before piercing anything on their bodies.
Cuomo and the Legislature overwhelmingly passed the law in June. They say it will reduce infections and the spread of blood-borne diseases. Cuomo said about 20 percent of piercings result in infection.
The measure's sponsors say that about a third of people with piercings get them before they turn 18, and complications like allergic reactions, skin infections, scars and discomfort are common.
Some piercing studios have already required written consent. The law requires owners or operators to keep a signed permission form on file for a year.
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Lions flip for local kids at pancake breakfast
POULSBO When it comes to Viking Fest food, folks often remember the tastes and smells of things like Viking burgers, elephant ears and the famous Kiwanis roast beef sandwiches.
But before gorging themselves at the carnival, the Poulsbo Noon Lions are hoping attendees will fuel up at the clubs 33rd annual pancake breakfast. Hotcakes, eggs, sausages, milk, juice and coffee will be on the menu from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Poulsbo Armory.
The event is one of the civic organizations largest fund-raisers of the year. Typically all of its active members show up, in addition to spouses, members of the North Kitsap High School LEO Club and even a few local dignitaries, including Miss Poulsbo. Nearly 1,500 people will likely be fed during the two days.
This is one of our best ones, said breakfast coordinator Irving Spellman. Everyones cooperating. We have all of the volunteer positions filled and the LEOs do quite a bit of the work.
But besides serving up a breakfast of epic proportions, the effort also raises funds for local students. All of the money goes toward the NKHS Scholarship fund through the Raab Foundation. About $37,000 in scholarships have been awarded to 24 local students the last six years through the event proceeds. Last years breakfast netted the club $6,500, which equated to four $1,500 scholarships that were given to graduating NKHS students.
The money usually goes to students with good academic and community service backgrounds, but who may be overlooked for other scholarships.
Spellman said prices were raised a little this year to $7 for adults and $4 for children due to the increase in prices for items like milk and eggs. But its still a good deal for breakfast, he noted.
You can go back and get as much as you want, he said with a laugh. Last year, there was one young guy who went back I think four times for hotcakes and eggs and I think he had about a dozen sausages. | <urn:uuid:fd7eaacf-fa37-48d1-b037-c33bcc745f25> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.northkitsapherald.com/news/19745724.html | 2016-05-01T23:11:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860117244.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161517-00101-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963839 | 473 | [
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ESPN reports the 51-year-old former NBA star is serving as the emissary of goodwill in a trip that also features the Harlem Globetrotters.
Rodman went so far as telling Kim Jong Un, "you have a friend for life."
Leave it to The Worm to fully embrace a man the rest of the world is currently keeping at arm's distance.
The man who provided as many wild and crazy stories as he did rebounds during his prolific career is currently kicking up his feet in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
You only need to remember the off-kilter character that is Rodman to fully understand his trip to the same country getting vilified for their nuclear tests, one that took place earlier this month.
The isolated country continues to blame the United States for forcing their hand, via The NY Times, but their leader seems content to welcome one of their most recognizable sports stars.
Now, while the usual yelling and passionate debate over sports flotsam seen on First Take isn't my favored choice of discourse, I have to agree with Stephen A. Smith here.
Sounds like Rodman is a contrarian to me.
Shame on me for being shocked, because he has been out of the spotlight for so long I nearly forgot every story involving The Worm is supposed to be met with incredulity. The phrase "and I don't believe it" should serve as the punctuation to everything he does.
As ESPN notes, Rodman came into Pyongyang with, "Harlem Globetrotters basketball team, VICE correspondent Ryan Duffy and a VICE production crew to shoot a documentary for a new HBO TV series."
The five-time NBA champion sat with Kim and had a pleasant chat while the two watched Americans and Koreans play some basketball on mixed teams.
I imagine it was a scene not unlike two old friends taking in a friendly hoops game at the local park.
Instead, it was one world leader who was kind enough to give his citizens a list of acceptable hairstyles recently and the most enigmatic basketball player of all time taking in a game behind the shrouded curtain of North Korea's border.
Rodman then addressed tens of thousands to reiterate Kim had a "friend for life."
And then they all got drunk.
The leader later plied the group with liquor, according to VICE TV producer Jason Mojica.
"Um ... so Kim Jong Un just got the (hash)VICEonHBO crew wasted ... no really, that happened," Mojica wrote on his Twitter feed from Pyongyang.
There may be stranger things than getting hammered with the powerful leader of the world's most reclusive country, but I can't think of any at the moment.
And as if the story couldn't get any more crazy, Gawker recently posted this picture of Kim Jong Un's younger brother, Kim Jong-Chul, posing triumphantly while rocking a Dennis Rodman jersey in a dated photo.
Kim was later invited to the U.S. by his guests to which he laughed, and so we do the same. That doesn't seem like something that will ever happen.
Then again, I never thought I would sit down and write about Dennis Rodman traveling the globe to try his hand at diplomacy with Kim Jong Un.
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Chevy Florida Insider Fishing Report
The Chevy Florida Insider Fishing Report is the only fishing show on the market designed to provide current fishing information to you, the viewer. Each week our regional captains gather information for their respective areas using a combination of firsthand observations, observations from other fishing captains and guides and reports from anglers and our viewers to compile a summary of the best bites taking place in their area.
Each of the 26 shows has a specific theme species. Along with facts and information on catching that species, each of the regional reporters will tell you how and where to target and catch that theme species in their individual regions. Along with those regional reports of the theme species, each regional reporter will pick two inshore and two offshore bites to talk about based on the reports he’s received that week. Through these reports, the viewer will be exposed to the best bites taking place in that region. Finally, the regional reporter will provide one inshore and one offshore “Hot Spot,” a fishing location they’d like to share with the viewers as their best bet for the upcoming weekend. Those locations have bites taking place that will likely last for several days.
Each regional reporter on the Chevy Florida Insider Fishing Report is hand-selected by Captain Rick Murphy, and is one of the top authorities on fishing in that area of the state. Many of the regional reporters are nationally known experts on fishing in Florida waters.
Other featured segments on the Chevy Florida Insider Fishing Report include a new product segment hosted by Dave Farrell, Editor of Marlin Magazine, a tackle guide to targeting the theme species and biological information about that species.
Brie Gabrielle, Miss Florida USA 2016 co-hosts with Captain Rick Murphy, taking viewers across the Florida as they examine the fishing in each of the nine regions.
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The City had its Big Bang in 1986 with the de-regulation of financial markets leading to increased market activity and many of the old firms being taken over by foreign and domestic banks.
The Big Bang for lawyers was meant to be the Legal Services Act which opened the door to ABS applications in January 2012 but so far activity has been fairly limited and not across the whole marketplace.
The Professional Practices Group at accountants Baker Tilly have been looking into the reasons for this.
The legal services marketplace in England and Wales is large and about £30 bn in size. It is ripe for consolidation with change being driven by the regulator and consumer.
But the anticipated spate of PE dealflow and the first IPOs have not happened.
To date the activity that has taken place has primarily been at the top end of the market where the drive for globalisation and wider client service offerings has led a number of UK firms to tie up with larger players. Norton Rose and Fulbright &Jaworski and King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin are recent global mergers.
In the mid-market space there have been a number of mergers driven mostly by purely commercial rationale to address the issues of overcapacity in a sector where there are general commercial law firms without real differentiators.
Neither of these types of deal are really what either the PE marketplace or institutions are looking for.
The traditional partnership model where profits are paid out each year without the creation of capital value, the complexity of decision making and the lack of processes are big barriers. Businesses that can be made more efficient, can be scaled up by bolting on acquisitions and then sold are the drivers for institutional investment.
So, whilst the drivers for dealflow may not be there in certain parts of the legal marketplace and Big Bang has had little effect it has had a major impact at the consumer and volume end of the marketplace. Primarily personal injury.
PE firms have turned their attention to this area where the drivers they are looking for are more apparent. Here, a few PE deals have now been done but the real consolidation has been driven by the emergence in the UK of firms such as Slater & Gordon, the Australian quoted law firm, buying up firms in the personal injury sector to create a significant UK presence.
PE firms have been alive to this too. The largest investment so far being that of Duke Street in Parabis, a claims management firm and only last week JZ International acquired control of Winn solicitors, which provides legal and claims management services.
Going forward, the best targets have probably now been acquired in the personal injury space and those that are left are most likely to be swept up by one of the larger consolidators leaving PE and other potential investors to look for more innovative ways of gaining an entry point.
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1. A Gift Card or an E-voucher can be used in full or part payment for any products purchased from Machine Mart stores in the UK, for purchases from www.machinemart.co.uk or via Tele sales on 0115 956 5555.
2. The minimum value needed to activate a Gift Card or an E-voucher is £20 and the maximum value which can be stored on a Gift Card is £500 for purchases made in store. The maximum value that can be stored on a Gift Card bought online or through telesales is £250.
3. Gift cards can be purchased from any Machine Mart store in the UK, via the website (www.machinemart.co.uk) or via telesales on 0115 956 5555. E-vouchers can only be purchased from www.machinemart.co.uk
4. Gift Cards purchased from www.machinemart.co.uk or via Telesales on 0115 956 5555 will be posted using signed for Royal Mail Recorded Delivery (£1.99 inc VAT) or via Parcel Force (£4.99 inc VAT) dependent on the value of the Gift Card. A signatory will be required to confirm receipt of Parcel Force deliveries. To ensure next day delivery, orders must be placed before 2:30pm Monday to Thursday except Bank Holidays.
5. In the event that any payment used to activate or top up a Gift Card or E-voucher is not authorised, or otherwise defaults, any corresponding amount added to the Gift Card or E-voucher will be removed.
6. When products are purchased using a Gift Card or an E-voucher, no change will be given in cash but any value remaining on a Gift Card / E-voucher will be shown on the till receipt and can be used in full or part payment for future purchases. Where a customer wishes to use a Gift Card / E-voucher to buy products with a value higher than the value on the Gift Card / E-voucher, he/she will be required to pay the difference in value.
7. In order to make a purchase using a Gift Card / E-voucher online, a valid PIN must be used in order to validate the transaction. A PIN number will only be issued once when the Gift Card / E-voucher is initially purchased. Machine Mart will not accept liability for lost or stolen PINs.
8. The value on a Gift Card / E-voucher cannot be exchanged for cash or refunded. If any product purchased with a gift card / E-voucher is subsequently exchanged for a product of a lower price or a refund, any money owing will be added to the remaining balance on the Gift Card / E-voucher.
9. A Gift Card / E-voucher cannot be used to buy age restricted products unless the purchaser can prove he/she is of at least the relevant age.
10. Gift Cards / E-vouchers will expire and any remaining value will be removed if the Gift Card / E-voucher are not used to make a purchase or topped-up during any period of twenty four consecutive months. Balance enquiries will not be treated as a transaction.
11. Please keep the Gift Card / E-voucher safe and treat it like cash. Machine Mart will not accept liability for lost, stolen or damaged cards / e-vouchers.
12. Gift Cards and E-vouchers cannot be bought using online account facilities.
13. Machine Mart may vary these terms and conditions for legal, security or regulatory reasons or may suspend or discontinue the Machine Mart Gift Card and/or E-voucher scheme at any time. Machine Mart will give such notice of any variation of the terms and conditions or any suspension or discontinuance of the Machine Mart Gift Card scheme and/or E-voucher scheme as is reasonably possible, whether by notices displayed in Machine Mart stores, on www.machinemart.co.uk or otherwise. If the Machine Mart Gift Card and or E-voucher Scheme is discontinued Machine Mart will give Gift Card / E-voucher holders a reasonable period to use any remaining value on these.
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5 star Review: Although there are a few styles in the book I really didnt like, its packed with cute, gorgeous, elegant styles, and if you know anything about hair its not that hard to follow the instructions! I'm very satisfied with this book! .. Read more reviews
Book Description: Going to a hairstylist before every special occasion can be both expensive and time-consuming. It’s much more convenient, and very easy, to create the perfect hairstyle right at home!
Here are 100 classic, salon-quality styles that any non-professional can handle, all shown with full-color photographs that detail every step, as well as information on essential supplies and basic techniques. There are “dos” for any length, mood, and occasion, from a night out at the hottest club to the fanciest wedding.
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More blogs have been nominated for the 2005 Business Underblogger Awards and are listed as follows. Keep those nominations coming in!
Here are the blogs who have been nominated for the 2005 Business Underblogger Awards so far. Nominations remain open for the month of March so don’t forget to head to our nomination page to tell us about business and entrepreneurial blogs that you read that deserve more readership than they get (underblogs). Here are the nominations so far – I encourage you to check them out – there are some quality blogs already nominated that I’d never known about:
2005 Business Underblog Winners
Capulet Communications :: Blueprint for Financial Prosperity :: Consumerism Commentary :: The Budgeting Babe :: Managing the Business of Law :: Hacking Netflix :: :: Orbitcast – All things Satellite Radio :: All these Ideas :: Twin Cities Real Estate Blog :: Work Boxers :: Artful Manager :: Behind the Mortgage :: Radiant Marketing :: Marketing Catalyst :: Wine Cast :: Spitoon :: Fermentations :: Lip-Sticking :: :: What’s Your Brand Mantra? :: Online Business Journal :: Incite By Design :: microISV :: Ripples :: Small Business CEO :: Danavan :: Small Business Trends :: Gay Guy Blog :: Design Sponge :: Stephen Spencer’s Scatterings :: Dr Lasky’s Blog :: View from the Isle :: VOIP Advice :: :: Diva Marketing :: Heather Leigh :: Michael Simmons :: Gary Potter :: Business Bits :: Open Xorce Crossing :: Ken’s Management Log Book :: Biz Book Nuggets :: What’s Next Blog :: :: Blog for Fun and Profit :: Next Level Biz Tips :: Build a Better Blog :: WonderBranding :: Decent Marketing :: Brand Autopsy :: Coach Ezines :: :: Business of Life :: Legacy Matters :: Estate Legacy Blogs :: Smart Money Daily :: Mitch’s Blog :: Digitization 101 :: Tom McMahon :: Effective Communication :: Become Unforgettable :: Technical Careers @ Microsoft
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Here's a reminder for procrastinating tax filers: The IRS is giving taxpayers who were affected by Monday's nor'easter until midnight Thursday to file their returns.
The original deadline was midnight tonight. For more, see today's business story in The Post-Standard.
Taxpayers filing paper returns should mark the document with the words "April 16 Storm." E-filers should use their software's "disaster" feature, if available. The Internal Revenue Service also advises taxpayers whose 2006 adjusted gross income was $52,000 or less to use the free E-filing feature. Nearly 20 companies are part of the Free File Alliance, offering free E-filing.
The only way to access the program is through the secure IRS Web site. Last week, IRS officials learned of a new tax scam on the Internet that lures taxpayers into filing tax information on a site masquerading as a member of the Free File Alliance.
Does the 48-hour filing extension help you? Why did you wait to file your return? If you're getting money back, what do you plan to do with it? Share your stories in the comments section below, or e-mail Web writer Pedro Ramirez, [email protected]. | <urn:uuid:8a66ff9d-8460-42fe-a9d4-e37e22cd5069> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2007/04/dont_panic_tax_deadline_thurs.html | 2016-05-03T01:24:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860118321.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161518-00213-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940662 | 256 | [
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Highlands Falls Golf Course1 Club Dr
Highlands, NC 28741
Phone: (828)526-2189Fax: (828)526-4792
This private club accepts tee times for guests of members only. This course is located in a country setting and was carved out of a forest. The fairways are average width, and the greens are medium-sized. There are water hazards that come into play on thirteen holes. The signature hole is #15, a 127-yard, par 3, with a large waterfall behind the green. The hilly terrain is too strenuous to walk.
|Holes: 18||Greens: Bent Grass||Fairways: Bent Grass|
|Dress Code:||No denim, collared shirt and bermuda shorts required|
|Season:||May 1 to Oct 31|
* Update this Course: Update/modify the details for this golf course's listing.
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The approach to interpreting the book of Revelation which has gained perhaps the widest exposure of all systems of interpretation in recent times is the futurist interpretation. This is a result of a number of seminaries in the recent past which have championed a literal interpretative approach to all of Scripture within a framework which understands related Old Testament passages and promises involving Israel, and which distinguishes between Israel and the Church. The futurist interpretation is the basic interpretive framework behind the hugely popular Left Behind series of novels by authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins.1
Futurism derives from the consistent application of literal hermeneutics, the Golden Rule of Interpretation, across the entire body of Scripture, including the book of Revelation. Contrary to the claims of many of its critics, it is not an a priori view which is imposed on the text.2 As evidenced by the testimony of the early Church, futurism is the most natural result of a plain reading of the text and the way that most unbiased readers would understand the book on their first reading.
Futurism gets its label from its refusal to see unfulfilled passages as having been fulfilled by approximately similar events in the past. Hence, it holds that many of the events in the book of Revelation await future fulfillment:
The futurist generally believes that all of the visions from Revelation Rev. 4:1+ to the end of the book are yet to be fulfilled in the period immediately preceding and following the second advent of Christ. The reason for the view is found in the comparison of Revelation Rev. 1:1+, Rev. 1:19+ and Rev. 4:1+.3
Futurists see eschatological passages being fulfilled during a future time, primarily during the seventieth week of Daniel, at the second coming of Christ, and during the millennium. While all dispensationalists are futurists, not all futurists are dispensationalists. Futurists are also the most literal in their interpretation of prophecy passages. Dr. Tenney says: The more literal an interpretation that one adopts, the more strongly will he be construed to be a futurist.4Osborne summarizes the two primary forms taken by futurism:5
There are two forms of this approach, dispensationalism and what has been called classic premillennialism. Dispensationalists believe that God has brought about his plan of salvation in a series of dispensations or stages centering on his election of Israel to be his covenant people. Therefore, the church age is a parenthesis in this plan, as God turned to the Gentiles until the Jewish people find national revival (Rom. Rom. 11:1;25-32). At the end of that period, the church will be raptured, inaugurating a seven-year tribulation period in the middle of which the Antichrist will make himself known (Rev. Rev. 13:1+) and instigate the great tribulation . . . At the end of that period . . . Christ returns in judgment, followed by a literal millennium (Rev. Rev. 20:1-10+), great white throne judgment (Rev. Rev. 20:11-15+), and the beginning of eternity . . . Classical premillennialism is similar but does not hold to dispensations. Thus there is only one return of Christ, after the tribulation period (Mtt. Mat. 24:29-31; cf. Rev. Rev. 19:11-21+) and it is the whole church, not just the nation of Israel, that passes through the tribulation period.6Futurism was undeniably the system of interpretation held by the majority in the early church. Variations of this view were held by the earliest expositors, such as Justin Martyr (d.165), Irenaeus (d.c.195), Hippolytus (d.236), and Victorinus (d.c.303).7 Modern futurists wholeheartedly agree with the statement of Jerome, writing in A.D. 393: John . . . saw . . . an Apocalypse containing boundless mysteries of the future8 As early as Irenaeus (130-200) and Hippolytus (170-236), basic futuristic concepts such as the remaining week of Daniels seventy weeks (see our discussion of related passages and themes) had already become evident:
When Knowles deals with the next major contributorsIrenaeus (130-200) and his disciple Hippolytus (170-236)he describes their views as undoubtedly the forerunners of the modern dispensational interpreters of the Seventy Weeks. Knowles draws the following conclusion about Irenaeus and Hippolytus: . . .we may say that Irenaeus presented the seed of an idea that found its full growth in the writings of Hippolytus. In the works of these fathers, we can find most of the basic concepts of the modern futuristic view of the seventieth week of Daniel ix. That they were dependent to some extent upon earlier material is no doubt true. Certainly we can see the influence of pre-Christian Jewish exegesis at times, but, by and large, we must regard them as the founders of the school of interpretation, and in this lies their significance for the history of exegesis.9Because futurism is a result of literal hermeneutics (see below) and the early church was spared the damaging effects of allegorical interpretation, the early church also understood Scripture to teach a future, one-thousand-year reign of Christ on earth in fulfillment of OT promises of the Messianic Kingdom.10 This was a widespread view among early interpreters:
[Justin Martyr] asserts that it teaches a literal Millennial Kingdom of the saints to be established in Jerusalem, and after the thousand years the general resurrection and judgment. . . . Irenaeus . . . finds in the book the doctrine of chiliasm, that is, of an earthly Millennial Kingdom. . . . Hippolytus is a chiliast . . . identifies . . . Antichrist, who was represented by Antiochus Epiphanes and who will come out of the tribe of Dan, will reign 3 1/2 years, persecuting the Church and putting to death the two Witnesses, the forerunners of the parousia (held to be Elijah and Enoch). . . . Victorinus . . . understands the Revelation in a literal, chiliastic, sense . . . The two witnesses are Elijah and Jeremiah; the 144,000 are Jews who in the last days will be converted by the preaching of Elijah . . . the false prophet, will cause the image of Antichrist to be set up in the temple at Jerusalem.11Notice that Victorinus, writing well in advance of modern futurists, but after the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70, sees the Temple of Revelation as being a future Temple, just like modern futurists.
Unfortunately, with the rise of allegorical interpretation and the opposition of the heresy of Montanism (which utilized an extravagant form of millennial teaching drawn from the book of Revelation),12 the futurist view fell into disfavor, not to be seen in a favorable light again for over a thousand years.13
During the Reformation, literal interpretation flourished in response to the allegorical methods employed throughout the Middle Ages by the Roman Church. However, the Reformers never fully extended literalism to prophetic passages and key Reformers did not fully appreciate the book of Revelation.
The primary fork in the road between futurism and all other systems of interpretation concerning the book of Revelation comes in the refusal of the futurist to be imprecise with the details of Gods revelation.14 For example, when a passage states that a man Rev. 13:13+), the futurist expects fulfillment to involve: (1) a man; (2) performing great signs in a similar way that great signs were performed in the OT and by Christ in the gospels; (3) who calls down literal fire from literal heaven as was done in the OT; (4) viewed by other men. He then asks the simple question: Is there any reliable historic record of such an event since the time of Johns writing? The obvious answer is, No! Hence this event awaits future fulfillment. It really is that simple!
There is a strong connection between literal interpretation and futurism: The more literal an interpretation that one adopts, the more strongly will he be construed to be a futurist.15 Literal interpretation allows the text to speak for itself:16
Critics frequently misrepresent futurism as if it places its entire emphasis on understanding the book of Revelation as applying to the future: The futurist position especially encounters the difficulty that the book would have had no significant relevance for a first-century readership. [emphasis added]17
This is a major misunderstanding of the futurist position which holds that the early chapters of the book are specifically addressed to the then-existing churches in Asia Minor and fully appreciates the historical setting and contents of these passages. Moreover, futurism concurs with Swete that the events of the book of Revelation are relevant in every age as a great source of blessing and security for persecuted believers:
In the Epistle of the Churches of Vienne and Lyons, written in 177 to their brethren in Asia and Phrygia, which bears many signs of the use of the Apocalypse by the Christian societies of South Gaul during the troubles in the reign of Marcus Aurelius. . . . It is impossible to doubt that the roll which contained St Johns great letter to the parent Churches in Asia was often in the hands of the daughter Churches in Gaul, and perhaps accompanied the confessors to the prisons where they awaited the martyrs crown.18The critics of futurism require complete primary relevance of the entire book for the readers of Johns own day. But those most closely associated with the culture and times of the readers evidence no such requirement! The witness of Justin Martyr and Irenaeus is especially important because they both had close association with the earliest Christians who would have been familiar with the times during which John wrote the book of Revelation. Even so, they fail to understand the events recorded in the book in the way in which preterists or idealists insist, but reflect the futurist view. Writing in the early 2nd century, they were much better positioned than we to understand the relevance of Johns message to their times! Are they to be accused of being guilty of making the book irrelevant?
The mistake being made is constraining the book of Revelation as if it had only a single purpose. No matter which view is taken, if one fails to understand the many purposes of the book, the interpretive result will be the lacking. Preterist Chilton remarks: No Biblical writer ever revealed the future merely for the sake of satisfying curiosity: The goal was always to direct Gods people toward right action in the present. . . . The prophets told of the future only in order to stimulate godly living. [emphasis added]19 If Chilton were correct, then there would be little reason for prophecy to be predictive. The fact is, the prophets gave prophecy for more reasons than merely the stimulation of godly living. This was indeed an important reason, but not the only reason. The many fulfilled prophecies testifying to the identity of Jesus at His First Coming provide an abundant counter example to Chiltons claim.
It is a misrepresentation of the futurist interpretation to assert that it denies the relevance of the text to the first-century readership. This is tantamount to saying that appreciating the prophetic predictions throughout Scripture essentially denies the relevance of the same passages to those who originally received them. The pattern of prophetic passages throughout Scripture is clearly one of both immediate local application and future prediction. Even in cases where there is no immediate local application by way of historical events (e.g., Isa. Isa. 53:1), the passages still contain inestimable worth to the original recipients in setting forth the will of God as well as inspirational value in the sure hope of what God will do in the future (Rom. Rom. 8:24-25). In the Apocalypse, this dual application of prophetic Scripture (both immediate/local and future/remote) is made explicit in the organizational framework set forth by Christ (Rev. Rev. 1:19+) and in the setting off of the seven epistles from the remaining material.
Other criticisms of futurism are manifestly silly. Gregg denies futurists the right to use the analogy of Scripture (Scripture interprets Scripture):
A major feature of the Tribulation expected by futurists is its seven-year duration, divided in the middle by the Antichrists violating a treaty he had made with Israel and setting up an image of himself in the rebuilt Jewish temple in Jerusalem. Yet none of these elements can be discovered from a literal interpretation of any passage in Revelation. . . . The futurist believes that Revelation Rev. 20:1+ describes a period of world peace and justice with Christ reigning on earth from Jerusalem, though no part of this description can be found in the chapter itself, taken literally. This observation does not mean that this futurist scenario cannot be true. But it must be derived by reading into the passages in Revelation features that are not plainly stated.20Gregg would have futurists interpret the book of Revelation as if it were delivered with no connection to existing prophetic information given by God. Never mind what the rest of Scripture has to say about Israel, Daniels seventy weeks, Jacobs trouble, the Great Tribulation predicted by Jesus, or other matters. Those who attempt a comprehensive understanding of Scripture by bringing together everything God has said on related subjects are accused of reading into passages that which is simply not there!
Obviously, care needs to be exercised when connecting passages which seem to have related aspects, but if a good case can be made for a correlation, then the interpreter who fails in this synthesis is failing in his task before God. Chiding futurists who correlate the little horn of Daniel (Dan. Dan. 7:8), the man of sin of Paul (2Th. 2Th. 2:3), and the Beast of Revelation (Rev. Rev. 13:1+) because of obvious and intentional similarities given in Scripture, but providing no sensible or profitable synthesis in its place is a pattern frequently demonstrated by critics. This is the primary reason why futurists can offer a systematic and detailed outline of eschatological events while the other systems fail to provide anything even remotely similar. It almost seems that the critics of futurism dislike the certainty and coherence it offers in its interpretation of prophecy. But if God supernaturally gave the inspired Scriptures through a single author (the Holy Spirit), why shouldnt such coherence and correlation be expected?
To the futurist, the book of Revelation has relevancy to John, to the seven churches of Asia, to the Church throughout history, and to the saints all the way through the Second Coming of Christ and into the eternal state. Now thats relevancy!
The book of Revelation is important to us because it portrays the world as a global village. Entering the twenty-first century, no better expression describes our earth and its people. Besides a mushrooming population, other factors are pushing all humanity together, such as an interlinking economy, jet age transportation, and satellite communications.21We believe in the futurist interpretation of the book of Revelation. This is because we are convinced of the Golden Rule of Interpretation as the key to properly understanding Gods Revelation. This is true of all written communication where the desire of the author is to convey a clear message rather than to puzzle or obscure). It is our conviction and experience that applying the Golden Rule from Genesis to Revelation will result in a futurist interpretation of Scripture and is the only reliable means of accurately knowing what God intended to the degree we may understand Him as His finite creatures.
2 We can offer our own experience in support of this claim. Having been born-again and taught for five years within a Church which embraced preterism, it was our own careful study of the details of Scripture across the entire span of books which caused us to reject preterism in favor of what we only later came to understand was called futurism.
5 There is also a form of extreme futurism in which even the first three chapters of the book of Revelation are seen as yet future. [E. W. Bullinger, Commentary On Revelation (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 1984, 1935)]
8 In two places, Jerome stated clearly that John was banished under Domitian. First, in his Against Jovinianum (A.D. 393), Jerome wrote that John was a prophet, for he saw in the island of Patmos, to which he had been banished by the Emperor Domitian as a martyr for the Lord, an Apocalypse containing boundless mysteries of the future. Mark Hitchcock, The Stake in the HeartThe A.D. 95 Date of Revelation, in Tim LaHaye and Thomas Ice, eds., The End Times Controversy (Eugene, OR: Harvest House Publishers, 2003), 135.
10 The early church fathers believed in a literal, thousand-year, earthly reign of Christ because they interpreted the teachings of Revelation in a normal rather than mystical way.Larry V. Crutchfield, Revelation in the New Testament, in Mal Couch, ed., A Bible Handbook to Revelation (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 2001), 25.
12 The opposition to the heresy of Montanism, which made great use of the Apocalypse and gave extravagant form to its millennial teaching, caused it to be either rejected or differently interpreted.Ibid., 323.
13 This was the method employed by some of the earliest fathers (e.g., Justin, Irenaeus, Hippolytus), but with the triumph of the allegorical method . . . after Origen and of the amillennial view after Augustine and Ticonius, the futurist method (and chiliasm) was not seen again for over a thousand years.Osborne, Revelation, 20.
14 As we noted earlier, this is one reason why many who are trained in the sciences and engineering tend toward this view of Scripture. Being trained in logic and the analysis of details, we reject the approximate fulfillments and interpretations of the other systems in favor of a God Who fulfills His predictions down to the gnats eyelash.
16 Dispensationalism is actually built on the idea of letting the Bible speak for itself with a normal, literal hermeneutic. If simple rules of grammar and observation are put into place, the Scriptures will begin to make sense, from Genesis to Revelation.Mal Couch, Why is Revelation Important?, in Mal Couch, ed., A Bible Handbook to Revelation (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 2001), 41.
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E3 is almost upon us and everyone is not as excited as they used to be. Fans have looked at E3 as their one golden trip to make if they are a gamer. Dressing up as their favorite characters, witnessing the games that everyone would be talking about for the months to come, and in past years it became something of a bragging right amongst friends. In a lot of ways, E3 became one of the big comic-book-like conventions amongst gamers. Fans were not the only ones to get into the crazed festivities of past E3s either. Game publishers and developers would submerge themselves into the chaotic joys of fan boys and girls. I always found that the world of video games having their own little mega event that involved the fans was an amazing thing for the industry all the way around.
Now things are different. Sometimes you look at things and watch them change and think: "Man this could be great". Unfortunately, I cannot look at the changes made to E3 this year and believe that. Not to say that video games do not need a professional event for the world around us to see the professionalism in the industry. Instead, it is to say that after E3 this year, I look for there to be many, and I do mean many, independent shows held by individual companies because, when all is said and done, these shows are for the fans; hands down.
There is no way around it. There is not a single journalist alive that can say that these shows were not orchestrated with the fans in mind. If they say otherwise, then they should not be a video game journalist. Now, it is arguable that we journalist are fan boys and girls, at heart, but the simple fact is that without the fans that do not report on the happenings of the industry, we would be without a job. Therefore, I truly believe that this change in E3 is going to be for the worst. It would be the same as not allowing comic book fans to attend the comic cons. At least for now, the comic industry seems to realize that their form of entertainment's success is based on fan approval and praise. We can at least look forward to the new convention for video games to start springing up. Who knows, those could become the right medium between what is being considered professionalism and some of the best examples of fan-antics every to appear in front of thousands of people.
Will E3 rock? Yes, I can say that; just because of the new games that will be announced and updates on a few that we have been missing. As far as it being better or even slightly as good as it has been, nope. I hope that I am wrong, but who will we be able to ask other than a gaming journalist who may or may not be a part of the elite club invited? Only time will tell. | <urn:uuid:0788c900-7c2c-449d-b089-28ec67b88d9c> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.cheatcc.com/extra/e3changes3.html | 2016-04-29T19:50:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860111396.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161511-00095-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984251 | 593 | [
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Truth, Fairness, Dignity and Respect: That's The Law
Debt collectors must treat you with truth, fairness, dignity, and respect. Period. Debt collectors are regulated by numerous state and federal laws in their debt collection activities. That's where our firm can help. Most people know that debt collectors cannot abuse them on the phone or in writing--what many people don't know is that they have a lot of other legal rights, too. The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act ("FDCPA") lays down the federal law for how debt collectors have to behave when they are collecting from you. This article will briefly outline some of the important consumer rights afforded to you under the FDCPA. Some states also have their own laws which are similar to the FDCPA.
For example, a debt collector cannot call you at work if they know that it's inconvenient for you, or that your employer prohibits it and you've told them that. Debt collectors cannot tell others about your debts, like your family, neighbors, co-workers, or your boss. They cannot threaten to garnish you wages or sue you unless they are attorneys licensed in your state. They cannot get you fired from your job, embarrass you, or humiliate you to get you to pay a debt. These are just a few of the numerous protections you have as a consumer. If a debt collector violates your rights, our firm can help. As a consumer, you are afforded a lot of consumer protections against debt collectors, both state and federal. Our firm works for consumers whose rights have been violated under the FDCPA and other consumer protection statutes. If you have been subjected to any collection harassment, please contact our office. | <urn:uuid:c39167a0-3a08-4619-b481-d5b6949b80ba> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.lawpoint.com/your-rights | 2016-05-02T01:19:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860121418.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161521-00103-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971761 | 350 | [
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Food preservation experiments
To be conducted over 2 lessons. Working with instant custard powder, custard powder made with milk, apples, runner beans, banana. 1). Custard:-cooking and chilling, cooking and freezing. 2). Apples and runner beans:- to blanch or not before freezing. 3). Bananas:- can you freeze a whole banana? Can you freeze raw slices? Discuss:- enzymic browning, blanching, modified starch, ice is bigger than water! Also includes a 5 minute video from CBS News all about freezing food. | <urn:uuid:eebb7c79-3dcb-4dd0-9d3f-13adee14f982> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/food-preservation-experiments-6108021 | 2016-05-02T01:22:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860121418.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161521-00103-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.87014 | 115 | [
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to a report of a shoplifter who took two bottles of Coke from the Safeway at 1050 Ken Pratt Blvd. on Saturday afternoon found a man matching the description of the thief walking down the middle of South Pratt Parkway. When the man ran, the officer gave chase and caught him. Two bottles of Coke were found in his pockets. The officer was told that the shoplifter also attempted to take a rotisserie chicken and a large bottle of Pepsi.
An officer on Saturday saw a man strike a woman in the east parking lot of the Longmont Police Department. The woman complained that her head was hurting but refused medical treatment. The man was arrested and jailed.
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Experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger has been selected to receive the 10th annual Outfest Achievement Award, the festival's highest honor, during the opening night gala of the 24th edition of Outfest on July 6.
In addition, Los Angeles' lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender film festival has added two new films to its current line-up: Shock to the System: A Donald Strachey Mystery, starring Chad Allen, Morgan Fairchild, Sebastian Spence, and Michael Woods, and Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds, a sequel to the comedy Eating Out that debuted at last year's Outfest.
The five participants of this year's Screenwriting Lab were also announced today. They are: Sebastien Gauthier, Fucking Preston; Luther M. Mace, On the Low; Samuel Park, Shakespeare's Sonnets; Dasha Snyder, To Do; and Isaac Webster, Amos and Lowell. A press release from the festival noted that three recent scripts developed in the Lab are currently in various stages of pre-production: Elliot Loves, written by 2003 fellow Terracino; Exactly Like You by '05 fellows Silas Howard and Nina Landey; and Kiss the Bride by '05 fellow Tyler Lieberman.
Anger's many cutting-edge films that often include gay themes include Fireworks (1947), Scorpio Rising (1963), and Invocation of my Demon Brother (1969). His tell-all book Hollywood Babylon published in 1959 quickly became a scandalous bestseller. Previous recipients of the Outfest Achievement Award are Gregg Araki, Todd Haynes, Jane Anderson, Strand Releasing, Christine Vachon, Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman, Gus Van Sant, Ian McKellen, and John Schlesinger. | <urn:uuid:e29b1e13-0fd3-438b-9a1f-989a94ad1cc7> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.backstage.com/news/outfest-to-honor-kenneth-anger/ | 2016-04-30T03:33:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860111592.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161511-00207-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939441 | 354 | [
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Elizabeth May is sitting in her Prius in a lineup for the ferry from Pender Island to Swartz Bay. The Green Party leader is on her way to Victoria to deliver a luncheon speech to a button-down business crowd at a downtown club.
A busy woman, she uses this time to conduct an interview on her BlackBerry. Slightly concerned about the effects of WiFi on her brain, however, she is taking precautionary measures and is on a speaker phone because she won’t put the device to her head.
As a political leader and now MP for the British Columbia riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands, Ms. May has had to make concessions: the (potentially harmful?) cellphone and the car. (The environmentalist was without a car for 27 years, but finally broke down in 2007 and bought her hybrid Prius when she decided to run against Defence Minister Peter MacKay in his sprawling Nova Scotia riding.)
On this summer day, meanwhile, Ms. May has a few things on her mind – the text-book project she is writing and the treatment of the other female leader in the House of Commons.
First, she wants everyone to stop beating up on Nycole Turmel.
The interim NDP leader was eviscerated by the media and other political leaders this week after revelations that she used to be a card-carrying member of the separatist Bloc Québécois.
“I know Nycole Turmel and I have always been impressed by her,” Ms. May said. “I think people are overreacting, and I think that they should drop the issue now. I support her as a choice. It doesn’t speak well of people in other parties to have jumped on this and find ways to beat up on her and the NDP at this point.”
Jack Layton, the NDP leader, pushed for Ms. Turmel to be interim leader while he is battling a new cancer. He expects to be back to work when the House resumes in September.
Ms. May suggests if politicians are sincere in their wishes for Mr. Layton to get well, they must get over this fixation with Ms. Turmel’s political past.
“The Bloc Québécois has been a valid, legal parliamentary party. The exaggeration of what it means to be a member of the Bloc will insult Quebeckers,” she said.
Like other leaders (Stephen Harper has been a young Liberal in high school, a Reformer, a Canadian Alliance member and a Progressive Conservative; Bob Rae was an NDPer), Ms. May has had past allegiances with other parties.
She once took out a membership in the NDP and admits to joining the Liberal Party briefly to support a friend in a nomination meeting.
For 17 years, however, she remained politically neutral in her position as executive director of the Sierra Club of Canada. And despite her political attachment now, she’s again having to play non-partisan politics with a new project she has taken on this summer.
Ms. May is writing handbooks to encourage young Canadians and Americans to get involved in politics. She is somehow fitting this in between moving into her MP apartment in Ottawa, her constituency work in her B.C. riding and a little holiday later in August.
Approached by Annick Press (most famously publishers of Robert Munsch’s Paper Bag Princess) about a month after the May 2 election, Ms. May, who was born in the United States but moved to Canada as a teenager, agreed to write the two textbooks, which she expects will be between 20,000 and 25,000 words.
“Youth voter turnout is critical to our survival as a society,” Ms. May said. “We’ve got to get them engaged.”
Elections Canada statistics show the extent to which Canadian youth are disengaged in politics – 37 per cent of young people between 18 and 24 voted in the 2004 election. This went up in the 2006 election with an estimated 43.8 per cent voting. In 2008, the turnout for that age group was back down to 37. 4 per cent. There is no youth breakdown yet for 2011, but 61 per cent of Canadians voted in May.
For her efforts, Ms. May will be paid $7,000 for the two books, and they will be suitable for schools to use.
“I never talk down to kids,” she said, noting that she is attempting to persuade young people to think and look critically at the issues and “to be able to empower a young person to separate the wheat from the chaff.”
They will be “heavily illustrated” and interactive with links to relevant Internet sites and videos, such as the famous debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the debate between Pierre Trudeau, Tommy Douglas and Robert Stanfield from the 1968 election.
Facing a tight deadline of the end of September, Ms. May is writing the book on her laptop as she ferries among islands in her riding.
And despite creating a frenzy recently on Twitter when she tweeted about her concerns over “electromagnet frequencies,” she says she loves finding herself in a WiFi zone.
“I am not crazy,” she said about the recent controversy over her WiFi tweet and made it clear that there is no Green Party policy advocating a ban.
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Malachi 3: 8-11
”Begin by being honest. Do honest people rob God? But you rob me day after day.
”You ask, ‘How have we robbed you God?’
So here’s the deal. God commands us to tithe and promises us protection and blessings, if we do. Sounds like a win, win situation to me. In this covenant with God, not only does He watch over us and provide for our needs but giving protects us from a life of greed and self-centered tendencies.
What’s your thought?
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System error 5 is an error which is typically generated when you use your computer to open the “NetView” or “Net Time” commands. It’s typically caused either by corrupt account information or by conflicts with the time your PC has. You may see this error in these messages:
“System Error 5 has occurred”
“Access is denied”
To have this error appear on your computer, the following statements must be true:
- Both the Windows XP and Vista computers are members of a work group.
- Full control shared permission is not granted to the Everyone group.
- Full control shared permission is granted to the Administrator group.
What Causes System Error 5?
There are many reasons why you could receive this error message, the main reason being that the Windows Vista User Account Control (UAC) does not grant permission to local users. This part of your system controls all the user account information for your system, making it vital that you’re able to get it working to prevent any potential errors on your system. There are also other causes of this error:
- Time synchronization problem.
- Missing permission to access the remote computer.
- Firewall and/or third party product may eliminate connection to the remote computer.
- Active Directory replication error may occur.
How To Fix System Error 5
Step 1 – Change The “LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy” Registry Key
There is a way to work around the issue and this is by changing the value of the ‘LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy’ registry key on your Windows Vista computer to make sure that full credentials are passed between both Windows Vista and XP. To do this follow these steps:
- Open the Start menu and enter the regedit command in the Start Search Box.
- In the Programs list, select regedit.exe to open the Registry Editor window.
- If you get prompted then give the administrator password to continue or select Continue to confirm.
- In the registry editor window search for the following registry key:
- If the ‘LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy’ entry is not in this registry key, then follow these steps to add it and set its value:
- Open the Edit menu and point to New and select the DWORD VALUE command.
- Type LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy and then click OK.
- Right-click on the LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy key that you have just added and select Modify.
- Type the number 1 in the Value Data box, click OK.
- Exit the Registry Editor window and restart your computer.
Step Two – Make Sure Your PC’s Time Is Correct
One of the main causes of System error 5 is the way in which computers typically get confused when they have all their times mixed up. This is a big problem because it means that if you’re trying to use your PC, with conflicting times, then it’s going to start running extremely slowly & with errors. To make sure this is not a problem, you should correct the time of your system using this site.
Step 3 – Scan For Viruses
Viruses are a big problem for Windows, as they continually cause a variety of problems for your PC. One of the biggest causes of System Error 5 is the way in which many viruses tend to infect the core program files that Windows requires to run. This causes the files to become unreadable, leading Windows to be unable to process the commands you need, leading to it showing the error. To ensure this is not a problem, you need to be able to clean out all the virus infections that your system might have with a virus scanner. Our recommended virus scanner is a program called XoftSpy
Step 4 – Clean Out The Registry
Registry cleaners can play a very important role in how well Windows operates, and can help stop System Error 5. The registry is basically a central database which stores vital settings and information for your system, allowing Windows to remember a huge number of details for your PC. Unfortunately, the registry is also prone to becoming corrupt, leaving your system running extremely slowly and unreliably. To fix this problem, you should use a ‘registry cleaner’ to scan through your registry and repair any of the damaged parts of it that are causing your computer to run extremely slowly or with errors. You can download our recommended cleaner below: | <urn:uuid:e111976e-468c-4658-801e-0d2a1ec27421> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.personalcomputerfixes.com/general-errors/how-to-fix-system-error-5-%E2%80%93-%E2%80%9Caccess-is-denied%E2%80%9D/ | 2016-05-03T16:20:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860121618.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161521-00215-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.888767 | 905 | [
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Bruce reckons they will not see the best of the rookie for a few years yet.
He said: "Connor has got everything in the locker but he's young and I have had to protect him a little bit.
"I was never going to pick him for the first or second game. It was always my plan to let him have a little bit of time.
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AUBURN -- The new era of Auburn basketball's glitzy opening night is in the books.
The real work, said first-year coach Tony Barbee, starts today.
Auburn unveiled the new $86-million, 9,100-seat Auburn Arena Friday night in an elaborate grand opening that featured the men's and women's teams, a magician, various Auburn celebrities and a performance by the Harlem Globetrotters.
"It was everything I expected and more," Barbee said.
Barbee and women's coach Nell Fortner begin real practices today. But on Friday, they savored the arena's first night.
Auburn's most famous basketball alumnus, Charles Barkley, fired up the crowd with a few of his typically outspoken gems.
Barkley said he was enjoying a great week "after those (expletives) at Alabama lost last week." He later added, "If any football players or coaches are around, please, please kick Arkansas' (expletive) tomorrow."
In an earlier meeting with reporters, Barkley described Beard-Eaves-Memorial Coliseum as a "dump in 1981" that had only gotten "dumpier" in the years that followed.
He also gave a strong vote of confidence to Barbee.
"I mean no disrespect to (former coach) Jeff Lebo, but it's been very frustrating watching the team play the last couple of years because they haven't been very good," he said. "I think everybody wants their team to do well. The truth of the matter is Auburn basketball has not done well lately. It hasn't been a lot of fun to watch. I think (Barbee) understands what it takes to win."
There was little basketball in the competitive sense (although the Washington Generals kept things interesting against the Globetrotters for a little while). Barbee joked that "I don't need anybody else getting hurt, so we're going to keep it short."
The fans packed the intimate arena and demonstrated its potential home-court advantage by raising the decibel level during player introductions.
"I want to hear how it's going to sound when we make this the best home-court atmosphere in America," Barbee said as he exhorted the crowd.
There were a few boos. Washington's cane-wielding coach vowed that his team would beat the Globetrotters -- and that Arkansas would defeat Auburn.
Then there was a recorded message on the video board from Kentucky coach John Calipari, Barbee's mentor.
Predictably, Calipari's appearance was greeted with boos. Anticipating the reaction in his recorded message, Calipari jokingly replied, "Stop booing! Enough!"
There were many more cheers on Friday, even if a rebuilding men's basketball season promises fewer opportunities to do so when the season begins Nov. 12.
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Birthday Card: Your friendship is a bright spot for me!
Friends are sunshine to the soul.
Your friendship is truly a bright spot in my life!
• Full color interior
• Colorful envelope included
• Printed on recycled paper using soy-based inks
• Made in U.S.A.
Artist: Mark J. Barrett
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I recently phoned members of my geographically far-flung family to give them Thanksgiving greetings and was struck by a common element of our ensuing conversations. From Iowa and Nebraska to Kentucky and Texas, the report was the same: drought, drought and more drought. I thought about that recently while watching the new documentary, The Dust Bowl, and reading The Worst Hard Time. Think the erosion we’re experiencing in the Midwest is a natural result of drier than normal weather? That’s what they thought back in the 1930s.
Our moisture situation is going down hill fast. According to the latest U.S. Drought Monitor, which was released today, 62.65 percent of the contiguous U.S. is experiencing at least a “moderate” drought. That’s up from 60.09 percent a week ago.
In Minnesota, 18 percent of the state was in a severe drought last week. In just a week that figure jumped to an astounding 58 percent. Twenty-five percent of Minnesota remains in an extreme drought, a figure that’s held steady for the past month. That area includes a large portion of southwestern and south-central Minnesota and part of the northwest.
But we’re looking downright monsoon-like when compared to the High Plains states like Nebraska, South Dakota and Kansas—in that region almost 58 percent of the land area is in “extreme” or “exceptional” drought, which are the worst categories.
As we’ve reported previously, the amount of erosion we’ve experienced in 2012 is already being compared to the gritty blackouts we had in the Dirty Thirties (the photo below was taken recently in southwest Minnesota; yes, that’s a road ditch full of soil). A viewing of Ken Burns’ Dust Bowl shows we aren’t quite there yet. Kids aren’t dying of dust pneumonia and ships 300 miles out to sea aren’t being coated in wayward topsoil.
But as the worst drought to hit this country in decades stretches through another winter, it’s going to become increasingly easier to blame any excessive erosion on this “Act of God.” This kind of thinking threatens to give monocropping and intense tillage a free pass. It doesn’t hurt that a highly-flawed crop insurance program helps makes farming marginal, drought-prone land less risky that it probably should be.
We shift blame to the weather gods at our own risk. One of the most striking things about The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan’s riveting historical account of “The Big Dust Up,” is how long it took the government, scientists, even residents of the hardest hit areas to accept the inevitable reality: the Dust Bowl of the 1930s was not a natural phenomenon. In fact, as Burns’ PBS film bluntly notes, it was in fact the greatest man-made eco disaster in U.S. history.
The “dusters” which regularly sent a state’s worth of soil into the air, creating midnight at noon, conjuring up enough static electricity to power cities and literally killing children who got lost or came down with dust pneumonia had their roots in the way in which human beings treated the land. As Egan documents, it was a combination of government agricultural policy, hubris and blind boosterism that doomed High Plains communities in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado and Nebraska to a catastrophe of Biblical proportions. When drought hit, the land was primed to be decimated by something that should have been a mere blip in meteorological history.
Egan and Burns tracked down survivors and combed through diaries to bring alive what it was like to see the land that had offered so much promise betray its residents. He also gives a sense of why these people didn’t join John Steinbeck’s Okies in heading to California. Some simply had no way to leave; others felt too rooted in this landscape to imagine living anywhere else.
It turns out we can thank these stubborn High Plains residents for a lot of advances in soil conservation and land stewardship. If it wasn’t for them, American society may have written off the Dust Bowl region completely, dismissing it as an uninhabitable wasteland. But they stuck it out, and their stories got back to Washington, D.C.
What also got back to the government was a convincing argument that humans had played a major part in this problem. As the film and book document, Hugh Hammond Bennett gets a lot of credit for that. Bennett was the founder of the Soil Erosion Service, which later became the Soil Conservation Service. Today it’s called the Natural Resources Conservation Service.
A scientist who had studied soil all over the world, Bennett was convinced that government policies which had promoted intense cultivation of the High Plains were to blame. Sure, a severe drought, or “drouth” as people from the Midwest and West still call it, wasn’t helping matters any, but the region had experienced dry weather in the past and had not collapsed this completely. Removing the grass that had rooted the soil in place for untold years had decimated the ecosystem, argued Bennett.
Despite his practical and academic background, Bennett was dismissed at first. “Some called him a crank. They blamed the withering of the Great Plains on weather, not on farming methods,” writes Egan. “Basic soil science was one thing but talking about the fragile web of life and slapping the face of nature—this kind of early ecology had yet to find a wider audience.” (It’s worth noting the similarities to the lengthy period of time it’s taken policymakers to accept that humans are playing a major role in global climate change.)
Bennett used science, firsthand accounts and a little theatrics (he once timed his testimony before Congress to coincide with the remnants of a massive High Plains duster blowing into Washington) to eventually convince Washington that the Dust Bowl was a manmade disaster, and thus could and should be fixed by human intervention. Bennett got funding and other resources to create major erosion mitigation and prevention efforts, including the development of local soil conservation districts, entities that today are still major players in protecting the landscape.
Severe droughts have hit the High Plains since the 1930s, but catastrophic erosion has not returned. Studies have credited the presence of soil conservation districts for staving off the return of the Dust Bowl.
This is an important point. Earlier this fall, I witnessed firsthand how one soil conservation district in North Dakota is bringing together farmers, scientists and conservationists to naturally build the kind of soil that can engineer its own resiliency and drought resistance. (To read recent articles on the “soil health” initiative in North Dakota’s Burleigh County, check the No. 3 and No. 4 edition of the Land Stewardship Letter. An Ear to the Ground podcast also features this exciting effort.)
While in North Dakota, I was struck at how many people have made the connection between healthy soil, healthy lands and healthy communities. Dry (and wet) times will come and go—but if the soil is healthy, such shifts can become mere weather setbacks in the long span of time, rather than catastrophes that blow entire economies and communities into the ditch. But building soil for the future requires long-term thinking, something that’s often overlooked during a boom grain market—whether it be in 1929 or 2012.
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Over 500 turn out for first week of early voting
As of Friday at noon a total of 558 Uvalde County residents have turned out to vote early in the Democratic and Republican primaries, which will determine each party’s candidates in the November general election for local, state and national offices. Early voting began Tuesday, when 126 people voted on the Democrat Party ticket and 52 on the Republican Party ticket. By Thursday those numbers increased by 86 and 40, respectively, to total 338 for the Democrat Party ticket and 144 on the Republican Party ticket.
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Judgment vacated and cause remanded.
Reported below: 244 F. Supp. 846.
Arthur Kinoy, William M. Kunstler, Benjamin E. Smith, Bruce C. Waltzer, Melvin Wulf and Morton Stavis for appellants.
Joe T. Patterson, Attorney General of Mississippi, and William A. Allain, Assistant Attorney General, for appellees.
Appellants brought this action, inter alia, under 1979 of the Revised Statutes, 42 U.S.C. 1983 (1958 ed.), to enjoin enforcement of the Mississippi Anti-Picketing statute, * on the grounds that it was an unconstitutionally broad regulation of speech, and that it was being applied for the purpose of discouraging appellants' civil rights activities.
The motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis is granted. The judgment is vacated and the cause remanded for reconsideration in light of Dombrowski v. Pfister, 380 U.S. 479 . On remand, the District Court should first consider whether 28 U.S.C. 2283 (1958 ed.) bars a federal injunction in this case, see 380 U.S., at 484 , n. 2. If 2283 is not a bar, the court should then determine [381 U.S. 741, 742] whether relief is proper in light of the criteria set forth in Dombrowski.
MR. JUSTICE BLACK, with whom MR. JUSTICE HARLAN and MR. JUSTICE STEWART join, dissenting.
I dissent from the reversal of this judgment and from the manner in which it is done. A cryptic, uninformative per curiam order is no way, I think, for this Court to decide a case involving as this one does a State's power to make it an offense for people to obstruct public streets and highways and to block ingress and egress to and from its public buildings and properties. The case also involves the question whether, having passed such a law, valid on its face, the State can prosecute offenders in its own courts or whether United States courts have power to enjoin all state prosecutions merely because of a charge that the law is unconstitutional on its face, without first determining the constitutionality of the statute.
Every person who has the slightest information about what is going on in this country can understand the importance of these issues. The summary disposition the Court makes of this case fails properly to enlighten state or federal courts or the people who deserve to know what are the rights of the people, the rights of affected groups, the rights of the Federal Government, and the rights of the States in this field of activities which encompasses some of the most burning, pressing and important issues of our time. There are many earnest, honest, good people in this Nation who are entitled to know exactly how far they have a constitutional right to go in using the public streets to advocate causes they consider just. State officials are also entitled to the same information. The Court has already waited entirely too long, in my judgment, to perform its duty of clarifying these constitutional [381 U.S. 741, 743] issues. 1 These issues are of such great importance that I am of the opinion that before this Court relegates the States to the position of mere onlookers in struggles over their streets and the accesses to their public buildings, this Court should at least write an opinion making clear to the States and interested people the boundaries between what they can do in this field and what they cannot. Today's esoteric and more or less mysterious per curiam order gives no such information.
This action was brought by and on behalf of picketers and demonstrators in Mississippi, some of whom have charges now pending against them which were brought in the Mississippi state courts 2 for violating a Mississippi statute which provided:
If, as I believe, the Mississippi statute is not unconstitutional on its face, then the District Court in dismissing the complaint and leaving the trials to the state courts acted in accordance with an unbroken line of this Court's cases going back to the early days of this country. See, e. g., Douglas v. City of Jeannette, 319 U.S. 157 ; Watson v. Buck, 313 U.S. 387 ; Beal v. Missouri Pac. R. Co., 312 U.S. 45 ; Spielman Motor Sales Co. v. Dodge, 295 U.S. 89 ; Fenner v. Boykin, 271 U.S. 240 . It is true that Ex parte Young, 209 U.S. 123 , held that state officials could be enjoined from harassing people by starting multitudinous criminal prosecutions against them where severe [381 U.S. 741, 746] cumulative punishments might accrue before the constitutionality of the state law involved could be tested. In the absence of some such extraordinary situation, however, this Court has uniformly held that federal courts should refrain from interfering with enforcement of state criminal laws. Thus in Douglas v. City of Jeannette, supra, this Court found no reason to permit a federal court to enjoin a state criminal proceeding even though the statute involved was the same day declared unconstitutional in a similar application. Murdock v. Pennsylvania, 319 U.S. 105 . 7
The Court in its cryptic per curiam order directs that "On remand, the District Court should first consider whether 28 U.S.C. 2283 (1958 ed.) bars a federal injunction in this case . . . ." But the District Court has already considered 2283 8 and at the very beginning of its opinion stated that 2283
The Court's exceedingly brief order directs the District Court on remand, if 2283 does not bar this action, to "determine whether relief is proper in light of the criteria set forth in Dombrowski" v. Pfister, 380 U.S. 479 . Apparently the Court means to indicate that this recent decision created a new rule authorizing federal courts to enjoin state officers from enforcing state laws even though clearly and narrowly drawn to forbid picketers and demonstrators from obstructing street traffic and blocking the entrances of public buildings. The Court by citing Dombrowski seems to be indicating the existence of such a rule, since it would be a futile gesture to remand the case to the District Court merely to have it state formally what it said in dismissing under the Jeannette rule before: that "There is no basis of fact in this record or by a reasonable construction of the statute by which its constitutionality could be doubted." Since the District Court has expressed its view that the statute is constitutional on its face and has found in addition that there has been no unlawful harassing application of it, [381 U.S. 741, 748] there is no reason for us to remand the case to the District Court unless this Court wants either to upset the District Court's findings of fact or to order the District Court to hold, as this Court held about a subversive activities statute in Dombrowski, that the statute challenged is also unconstitutional on its face.
I did not participate in Dombrowski, but I do not think it is applicable here. Dombrowski did approve federal district court injunctions to prevent state officers from enforcing a state statute alleged and found to be void on its face as a violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments on the ground that over breadth made it susceptible of sweeping and improper application abridging freedom of expression, where it was also alleged that the statute was part of a plan "to employ arrests, seizures, and threats of prosecution" under the statute in a way that would discourage the complainants and their supporters from asserting and attempting to vindicate their constitutional rights. This Court in Dombrowski held, as I read the opinion, that an injunction against any enforcement of any kind of the state statute (as distinguished from an order enjoining state officers from committing lawless acts) could issue there only because (1) there were threats of prosecutions purely to harass, with no hope of ultimate success, (2) the law was challenged as, and found to be on its face, an "overly broad and vague regulation of expression," and (3) "no readily apparent construction suggests itself as a vehicle for rehabilitating the statute in a single prosecution . . . ." Crucial to the holding in Dombrowski that any enforcement whatever of the statute should be enjoined was this Court's finding that the statute involved was unconstitutional on its face. This is clearly shown by the Court's statement that:
I think that no such claim of unconstitutionality on its face can possibly be maintained. What the Mississippi statute forbids is so clear that any person of ordinary intelligence can or should understand it. I find it hard to take seriously a vagueness argument, since I doubt that there is a fourth grade schoolboy in this country who would not understand that the statute forbids him. either alone or with others, to block or obstruct ingress and egress to and from Mississippi public buildings (here [381 U.S. 741, 750] a courthouse) and to obstruct free use of the streets adjacent to those public properties. Nor is the statute overly broad in what it covers. It does not even undertake to forbid or regulate picketing or demonstrating on the streets (as I think it could - see Cox v. Louisiana, 379 U.S. 559, 575 (concurring opinion); Labor Board v. Fruit & Vegetable Packers, 377 U.S. 58, 76 (concurring opinion)). It simply modestly provides that those who carry on such activities shall do so in a way that will not obstruct others who want to use the streets to travel or want to go in or out of a public building. The Mississippi statute is narrowly and precisely drawn, patently designed to accomplish this objective. Thus it fits this Court's often-repeated description of the kind of law which should be drawn in the State's exercise of its generally unquestioned constitutional power to regulate picketing and street activities. See, e. g., Cox v. Louisiana, 379 U.S. 536, 554 -555; Thornhill v. Alabama, 310 U.S. 88, 105 ; Schneider v. State, 308 U.S. 147, 160 -161. Far from questioning the power of States to regulate conduct on the streets and in public buildings, this Court said in Schneider v. State, supra, at 160:
The Mississippi statute is in many respects like one that this Court sustained a few months ago against a challenge that it was void for vagueness on its face, and that it was an unjustified restriction upon the freedoms guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Amendments. That statute, modeled after an Act of Congress passed in 1950, 64 Stat. 1018, 18 U.S.C. 1507 (1958 ed.) made it an offense in Louisiana to picket or parade in or near a courthouse with an intent of interfering with or obstructing or impeding the administration of justice. The Court's opinion stated:
I cannot believe for one moment that this Court in Dombrowski intended to authorize federal injunctions completely suspending all enforcement of a constitutionally valid state criminal law merely because state defendants allege that state officials are about to harass them by doing no more than enforcing that valid law against them in the state courts. If Dombrowski held any such thing, I think the quicker that case is reconsidered in order to give it a "limiting construction" the better it will be for the courts, the States, the United States and the people in this country who want to live in an atmosphere of peace and quiet. Creating new hurdles to the conviction of people who violate valid laws cannot be ranked as one of the most pressing and exigent needs of the times, to say the least. Perhaps at no time in the Nation's history has there been a greater need to make clear to all that the United States Constitution does not render States impotent to require people permitted to advocate views and [381 U.S. 741, 753] air grievances on the streets to do so without obstructing the use of those streets by those who want to use them to move from place to place - the primary use for which all the people pay taxes to build and maintain streets.
The record in this case tells us that there are probably hundreds of cases like these in one State alone. It is not difficult to foresee that reversal of the District Court's denial of injunction here will be a signal and invitation for many, many more efforts to tie the hands of state officials in many more States on charges that threatened prosecutions under valid laws are prompted by a desire to harass. Much has been said of late about the threat to prompt and efficient administration of justice from the increasing work load of our United States courts. 9 If that is a valid argument in deciding cases, it is not amiss to point out that the rule which the Court implicitly adopts here is bound to bring an ever-increasing number of cases into federal courts, where state prosecutions will be enjoined until a federal court can first weigh the motives of state officials in instituting prosecutions. This of course means more and more delays between the arrests of people accused of violating state laws and their trials. The law's delays - which many believe are really a guilty man's most effective defense - are bound to be multiplied beyond measure. Moreover, it should not be forgotten that this is a big country - too big to expect the Federal Government to take over the creation and enforcement of local criminal laws throughout the country. The Nation was not formed with any such purpose in mind. It is wise and right and in conformity with the national governmental plan for federal courts to be vigilant and alert to protect federally guaranteed rights. But we put too much strain on the federal courts if we bodily transfer [381 U.S. 741, 754] from state- to federal-court jurisdiction what is, in effect, the initial step in the trial of persons charged with violating state or local criminal laws which are far from being unconstitutional on their face. The Federal Constitution certainly does not require us to do it and, in my judgment, forbids it. I would affirm the District Court's judgment.
[ Footnote * ] House Bill No. 546, Gen. Laws of Miss. 1964, c. 343.
[ Footnote 2 ] We are informed that after the decision of the District Court in the present case, 170 of the state-court defendants removed their prosecutions to a federal district court, purportedly under authority of 28 U.S.C. 1443 (1958 ed.). The Federal District Court ordered the cases remanded to the state courts. The Court of Appeals stayed the remand orders, and an appeal from those orders is now pending before the Fifth Circuit. Hartfield v. Mississippi, No. 21811; Anderson v. Mississippi, No. 21813; Carmichael v. City of Greenwood, No. 22289. It can be assumed that if appellants are unsuccessful in the Fifth Circuit they will seek review in this Court, which will take at least another year. Today's decision appears to add more devices to the collection of delaying tactics by which state criminal defendants may use collateral litigation in the federal courts to prevent their prosecutions in state courts from coming to trial for many years, if ever.
[ Footnote 3 ] House Bill No. 546, Gen. Laws of Miss. 1964, c. 343.
[ Footnote 4 ] The complaint alleged that the statute violated the First, Fifth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.
[ Footnote 5 ] "The Court, therefore, further finds as a fact that the State of Mississippi is prosecuting the plaintiffs in the state court under said picketing statute in good faith, and is fully entitled under the law to do so to conclusion of such prosecution . . . ." ___ F. Supp., at ___.
[ Footnote 6 ] We understand from the District Court's opinion and conclusions of law that it did not dismiss the complaint on the ground that it thought it necessary to have the state courts construe the statute, but rather on the ground that having found the statute constitutional it dismissed in order for the criminal cases to be tried in the state courts. Moreover, whatever the reasons assigned for dismissal by the District Court, it is well established that an appellee in whose favor a judgment has been rendered is entitled to an affirmance on any proper ground.
[ Footnote 7 ] In an opinion joined by MR. JUSTICE CLARK denying a petition for habeas corpus in similar circumstances, I stated:
[ Footnote 8 ] "A court of the United States may not grant an injunction to stay proceedings in a State court except as expressly authorized by Act of Congress, or where necessary in aid of its jurisdiction, or to protect or effectuate its judgments." 28 U.S.C. 2283 (1958 ed.).
[ Footnote 9 ] See Case v. Nebraska, ante, pp. 337, 340 (concurring opinions); Linkletter v. Walker, ante, p. 618.
MR. JUSTICE WHITE, dissenting.
I dissent from the per curiam remand of this case on the authority of Dombrowski v. Pfister, 380 U.S. 479 , for while I joined the opinion of the Court in Dombrowski, I do not think it is applicable here.
The appellants in Dombrowski attacked numerous and sundry provisions of Louisiana's Subversive Activities and Communist Control Law and the Communist Propaganda Control Law on the ground that the statutes "violate the First and Fourteenth Amendment guarantees securing freedom of expression, because overbreadth makes them susceptible of sweeping and improper application abridging those rights." 380 U.S. 479, 482 . There was also an allegation of threats to enforce these sweeping provisions as part of a "plan to employ arrests, seizures, and threats of prosecution under color of the statutes to harass" the appellants and to discourage their protected activities. The lower court denied relief on the ground that these allegations did not present a case of threatened irreparable injury to constitutional rights warranting the intervention of a federal court. We reversed. The Court, at the outset, fully and explicitly accepted the teaching of the cases "that federal interference with a State's good-faith administration of its criminal laws is peculiarly inconsistent with our federal framework" and that "the mere possibility of erroneous initial application of constitutional standards will [381 U.S. 741, 755] usually not amount to the irreparable injury necessary to justify a disruption of orderly state proceedings." 380 U.S., at 484 -485. Without questioning the rule that the possible invalidity of a state statute is not itself ground for equitable relief, Terrace v. Thompson, 263 U.S. 197, 214 , or the imminence of prosecution under such a statute, since no person is immune from prosecution in good faith for alleged criminal acts, Douglas v. City of Jeannette, 319 U.S. 157, 163 -164, we held that there was a sufficient showing of threatened irreparable injury to federal rights, which could not be dissipated by a particular prosecution, to warrant equitable intervention by a federal court. What was controlling on both the exercise of equitable power and the abstention issue was the depiction of a "situation in which defense of the State's criminal prosecution will not assure adequate vindication of constitutional rights." 380 U.S., at 485 . The situation depicted here does not contain the elements which were operative in Dombrowski
Dombrowski did not hold that the traditional equitable limitations on a federal court's power to enjoin imminent or pending criminal proceedings are relaxed whenever a statute is attacked as void on its face or as applied in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Rather that case makes clear that two particular kinds of challenges to state criminal statutes warrant extraordinary intervention in a State's criminal processes. They are planned prosecutorial misuse of a statute regulating freedom of expression and a vagueness attack on such a statute. Where threats of enforcement are without any expectation of conviction and are "part of a plan to employ arrests, seizures, and threats of prosecution under color of the statutes to harass," it is obvious that defense in a state criminal prosecution will not suffice to avoid irreparable injury. The very prosecution is said to be a part of the unconstitutional scheme and the [381 U.S. 741, 756] scheme, including future use of the statutes, is quite irrelevant to the prosecution in the state courts. Similarly where a plethora of statutory provisions are assailed as invalidly vague, uncertain or overbroad, with a consequent reach into areas of expression protected by the First Amendment, and such provisions are not susceptible of clarifying construction under the impact of one case, defense in the state prosecution cannot remove the unconstitutional vice of vagueness. For "those affected by a statute are entitled to be free of the burdens of defending prosecutions, however expeditious, aimed at hammering out the structure of the statute piecemeal, with no likelihood of obviating similar uncertainty for others." Dombrowski v. Pfister, 380 U.S., at 491 . To relegate the party to defense in a state proceeding would be likely to leave standing a statute susceptible of having a severe in terrorem effect on expression, even if one prosecuted under such a statute is not convicted. It is this reasoning that accounts for relaxation of the abstention doctrine where sweeping and unclear statutes are attacked on their face, as in Baggett v. Bullitt, 377 U.S. 360 , a case quite pertinent to the rationale of Dombrowski.
Here there is no more harassment alleged than that ordinarily and necessarily entailed by a criminal prosecution based on a good faith belief that the defendants have violated a statute. Although it is said that the statute is aimed at demonstrations, and that the prosecutions interfere with them, these allegations do not charge a misuse of the statute. Indeed, the petitioners allege that the picketing said to be unlawful under it was peaceful and nonobstructive, and the State claims quite the contrary. This issue is at the core of the criminal trial and to decide it in a federal court represents a wholly duplicative adjudication of an ordinary factual matter in dispute in a state criminal trial. [381 U.S. 741, 757]
Nor do I think that any substantial claim of vagueness or overbroadness can be made about the statute here at issue. 1 Its provisions are these:
The constitutional challenge to this statute which thus emerges is, in my view, an assertion that the type of conduct covered by the clear terms of the statute, obstructive picketing at public buildings, for example, cannot constitutionally be proscribed. Whether the attack is made on the face of the statute or as applied is beside the point, for in neither case would there be those special circumstances which Dombrowski requires to sanction federal intervention into a State's criminal processes. Whatever "criteria" Dombrowski contains, they do not indicate that in this situation the ordinary rule barring injunctive relief against state criminal prosecutions should be waived.
It is obvious, however, that several of my Brethren find more guidance in Dombrowski than I do and more than I think a district judge can find in either that case or this unrevealing per curiam remand, which ignores the differences between this case and Dombrowski. The issues are important and of immediate concern and I would note probable jurisdiction and set this case down for argument. 2
[ Footnote 1 ] House Bill No. 546, Gen. Laws of Miss. 1964, c. 343.
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Cautious welcome as Barclays opens its doors to credit unions
Barclays bank is to allow credit unions to operate out of its branches free of charge.
The plan involves the creation of a £1 million fund to be managed by the east London based charity Toynbee Hall, as well as access to Barclay's 'Pingit' mobile banking service.
Barclays was quoted in the Guardian as saying that their plan would "provide dedicated community hubs that can be used free of charge by credit unions and other community groups".
Credit unions are able to offer more services akin to high street banks, such as debit cards, after the Financial Services Authority decided to relax the rules around their operation.
Smaller numbers are offering cash ISAs and some have branched out into offering mortgages. Most credit unions do not have the infrastructure to offer online banking.
Ashok Vaswani, chief executive of the bank's retail and business banking division, said in the Guardian: "This new commitment will help people who have been historically neglected by the sector, to put them on a more secure footing and give them the chance to fully participate in our economy again."
The credit union sector came to particular prominence last summer when Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby said churches should offer credit unions the use of their buildings, and that Christians with the right experience should volunteer with them.
Archbishop Welby said his ultimate aim was to compete payday loan companies like Wonga out of existence.
In an interview with Total Politics magazine, the Archbishop said: "We've got to have credit unions that are both engaged in their communities and much more professional, and the third thing is people have got to know about them. It's a decade-long process."
The Bishop of Swansea and Brecon, John Davies, who has been an outspoken supporter of credit unions, said to Christian Today that he welcomed the move by Barclays.
"If this is as genuine an offer as it appears, then I welcome it," he said.
"I doubt whether the customers who would seek the support and facilities of a credit union are on the same footing as those who would normally seek the same from a high street bank such as Barclays.
"Barclays appear to be acknowledging a market need for which they do not cater."
Speaking about the need for Christians to support credit unions in the face of loan sharks and payday lenders, Bishop Davies said: "Preying upon the vulnerable, often driving them into even deeper debt, is thoroughly un-Christian, deplorable and to be discouraged by whatever legal means are available.
"Generosity in lending, and at rates of interest which are fair to both lender and borrower is commendable and is to be encouraged. This ought to be possible through traditional means such as banks or, increasingly nowadays, through credit unions."
In this latest endeavour, Barclays is aligning itself with both church and state. In August 2013, the government awarded a £38 million grant to the Association of British Credit Unions, which is hoping to double credit union membership to approximately two million people in the next five years.
Lord David Freud, the minister for welfare reform said in Credit Today that he "especially applauds" Barclay's new decision.
"With this kind of support and investment, and also more people joining their local credit union, we will help the industry modernise and grow."
Mark Lyonette, chief executive at the Association of British Credit Unions said in Credit Today: " I look forward to continuing to work closely with Barclays to assist credit unions to provide responsible and attractive financial services to many more people, while doing this in a sustainable and cost effective way."
Some experts have predicted that expanding the use of credit unions could save the public up to £1 billion in interest repayments over the next few years.
Mr Vaswani said in the Express that he believed that Barclays' power and position came with moral responsibilities: "Our role as a major bank is to serve all of society and ensure that no-one is left behind.
"We recognise that credit unions provide a vital service to over a million people all across the country. That's why we're committed to continuing to support them, not only financially but also by sharing our skills, technology and expertise."
Figures from the Bank of England show that rates of credit union membership in Britain almost doubled from 562,000 in 2004 to almost 1.04 million in 2012.
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It is an unfortunate fact that employees occasionally become injured or ill while on the job. Be sure to follow your restaurant’s Worker’s Compensation and Liability Insurance guidelines whenever an employee does become injured or ill at the workplace. In addition, fill out Employee Injury/Illness Report Forms when injuries or illnesses do occur, unless they are very minor.
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WINTER PARK, Fla. — A car smashed into an Orlando-area day-care center after being struck by an SUV, killing a girl and injuring 14 others, authorities said Wednesday. At least a dozen children were among the injured.
A Dodge Durango hit a Toyota Solara convertible, which went out of control, jumped a curb and smashed into the day-care center, Florida Highway Patrol spokesman Wanda Diaz said. The Toyota broke through the wall and into the building, she said. Its driver was unhurt.
The Durango left the scene but was found almost two hours later, abandoned at a home.
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Tigers Blast Brashear 77-26 in Return From Break
Brice Cowell poured in 19 points to lead SCR-I past Brashear on Monday night (Photo by Chuck Kigar.)
You might expect a little rust after a couple weeks without a game, but if Scotland County was bothered by the layoff it didn't show on Monday night in Brashear as the Tigers cruised to a 77-26 victory.
Brice Cowell and Lucas Howard did the heavy lifting early on. Howard had six points and Cowell had nine points in the first period as Scotland County jumped out to a 19-7 lead.
The Tigers put the game away in the second period, pouring in 24 points. Cowell continued to lead the scoring, accounting for eight points during the key run. Bailey Johnston added five points. Howard and William McRobert each added a pair of field goals that helped extend the lead to 43-22 at the intermission.
Scotland County found the range from long distance in the third period. Cordie Kigar knocked down a pair of three-pointers and Jacob Blessing also connected from behind the arc. Kyler Burkhiser and Howard each added a pair of field goals as SCR-I erupted for 25 points making the lead 68-26 with just eight minutes to play.
Even with a running clock the entire fourth quarter, SCR-I's offense kept churning, ultimately posting the 677-26 victory.
Cowell led all scorers with 19 points as the Tigers improved to 5-6 on the season. Howard added 14 points and McRobert and Kigar each chipped in with 10 points. | <urn:uuid:6dbd44cd-e657-4fb0-bc37-cf86d10bcfd2> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.memphisdemocrat.com/2013/sports/130110_bbra.shtml | 2016-04-30T13:09:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860111865.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161511-00097-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962579 | 347 | [
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Bethesda (and parent company ZeniMax) has gone on a major shopping spree over the past few years, expanding far beyond Oblivion and Fallout, swallowing up the creators of Doom and Resident Evil. And it doesn't look like they're stopping there.
ZeniMax Media, the people who already own Bethesda Software, id Software, Arkane Studios and, most recently, Shinji Mikami's Tango Gameworks, looks like it might have grabbed a few big Swedish names by welcoming Machinegames to the family.
Who? They're ex-Starbreeze Studios, developers of The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay and The Darkness. Key Starbreeze staffers, including founder Magnus Högdahl, left the developer last year to set up Machinegames.
A quick mention by internet-sleuth-by-another-name "Veracious_Shit" pegged ZeniMax as the new owner of Högdahl's studio earlier this week, which appears to check out. According to Swedish business records, Machinegames is now officially registered as ZeniMax Sweden AB.
Machinegames hasn't said what its been working on for the past year, other than it's "a developer of exciting AAA titles for next-gen platforms."
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Long, long ago, I went through his facebook. Before we had issues and before I confronted him about cheating.
I saw a message from an ex (okay, I had reasons to go through it) and it was asking him to see her daughter.
From what he told me, she was with him, got pregnant, but she cheated so he knows it's not his. I trusted him, and believed him, because before I went through his FB, I had no reason not to, and I didn't see the message at this point.
We now have a son. Shortly after I read the messages and confronted him, I found out we were expecting.I just kinda put it aside, and dealt with my pregnancy and stuff. Now, I am wondering if it's his. He is always broke (broker than necessary) and I suspect it's because he pays CS that I don't know about. I have seen the baby, and our babies don't really look alike. She(the baby) is black/white, and so is my son. They kind of have the same eyebrows, and similar eyes, but it's hard to tell yet. My son looks identical to his father, while the little girl doesn't. She looks like she has her mom's chin.
I just don't know anymore.
He just called from work, I came out and asked him:
Can you answer something without freaking out?
Did you ever get a DNA test for _____'s baby?
He said IT's imbossible that it's his, they weren't together and he would have to sit me down and tell me the story and why did I open up that book.
Basically, he said they broke up before she got pregnant, and she keeps messaging him because she wants him back and "knows she fucked up". He said he's seen her since then at the store and told her to leave him alone because he has a girlfriend. | <urn:uuid:58e56f28-f472-4e9a-8a04-b461031fe249> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.cafemom.com/group/115189/forums/read/16508623/I_THINK_he_has_another_baby_UPDATE?next=31 | 2016-05-04T02:52:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860122268.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161522-00105-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.995327 | 403 | [
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The Man Who Knew Infinity
An account of a remarkable person should strive to be as equally remarkable as its subject, not the timid and tidy boilerplate special of a…
This is strange. I have no interest in running and am not a partisan in the British class system. Then why should I have been so deeply moved by “Chariots of Fire,” a British film that has running and class as its subjects? I've toyed with that question since I first saw this remarkable film in May 1981 at the Cannes Film Festival, and I believe the answer is rather simple: Like many great films, “Chariots of Fire” takes its nominal subjects as occasions for much larger statements about human nature.
This is a movie that has a great many running scenes. It is also a movie about British class distinctions in the years after World War I, years in which the establishment was trying to piece itself back together after the carnage in France. It is about two outsiders, a Scot who is the son of missionaries in China, and a Jew whose father is an immigrant from Lithuania. And it is about how both of them use running as a means of asserting their dignity. But it is about more than them, and a lot of this film's greatness is hard to put into words. “Chariots of Fire” creates deep feelings among many members of its audiences, and it does that not so much with its story or even its characters as with particular moments that are very sharply seen and heard.
Seen, in photography that pays grave attention to the precise look of a human face during stress, pain, defeat, victory, and joy. Heard, in one of the most remarkable sound tracks of any film in a long time, with music by the Greek composer Vangelis Papathanassiou. His compositions for “Chariots of Fire” are as evocative, and as suited to the material, as the different but also perfectly matched scores of such films as "The Third Man" and "Zorba the Greek." The music establishes the tone for the movie, which is one of nostalgia for a time when two young and naturally gifted British athletes ran fast enough to bring home medals from the 1924 Paris Olympics.
The nostalgia is an important aspect of the film, which opens with a 1979 memorial service for one of the men, Harold Abrahams, and then flashes back sixty years to his first day at Cambridge University. We are soon introduced to the film's other central character, the Scotsman Eric Liddell. The film's underlying point of view is a poignant one: These men were once young and fast and strong, and they won glory on the sports field, but now they are dead and we see them as figures from long ago.
The film is unabashedly and patriotically British in its regard for these two characters, but it also contains sharp jabs at the British class system, which made the Jewish Abrahams feel like an outsider who could sometimes feel the lack of sincerity in a handshake, and placed the Protestant Liddell in the position of having to explain to the peeved Prince of Wales why he could not, in conscience, run on the Sabbath. Both men are essentially proving themselves, their worth, their beliefs, on the track. But “Chariots of Fire” takes an unexpected approach to many of its running scenes. It does not, until near the film's end, stage them as contests to wring cheers from the audience. Instead, it sees them as efforts, as endeavors by individual runners -- it tries to capture the exhilaration of running as a celebration of the spirit.
Two of the best moments in the movie: A moment in which Liddell defeats Abrahams, who agonizingly replays the defeat over and over in his memory. And a moment in which Abrahams' old Italian-Arabic track coach, banned from the Olympic stadium, learns who won his man's race. First he bangs his fist through his straw boater, then he sits on his bed and whispers, "My son!" All of the contributions to the film are distinguished. Neither Ben Cross, as Abrahams, nor Ian Charleson, as Liddell, are accomplished runners but they are accomplished actors, and they act the running scenes convincingly. Ian Holm, as Abrahams' coach, quietly dominates every scene he is in. There are perfectly observed cameos by John Gielgud and Lindsay Anderson, as masters of Cambridge colleges, and by David Yelland, as a foppish, foolish young Prince of Wales. These parts and others make up a greater whole.
“Chariots of Fire” is one of the best films of recent years, a memory of a time when men still believed you could win a race if only you wanted to badly enough.
This message came to me from a reader named Peter Svensland. He and a fr...
Reflections on a marriage, and what came after.
FFC Gerardo Valero discusses the devolution of Quentin Tarantino by comparing The Hateful Eight to Pulp Fiction.
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Does anyone know if OxyElite Pro can be safely taken while using Phentermine?
Thread: OxyElite Pro & Phentermine
05-26-2010, 05:31 AM #1
05-26-2010, 03:56 PM #2
04-19-2011, 09:49 AM #3
taking OxyE w/ Phentermine
I assume that the mix is safe. I have been doing it for the last 10 days. I have seen significant results - appx. 8 lbs of weight loss, toning, higher energy, better sleep, and a good mood.
I take 2 OxyE first thing in the morning. Usually workout (90 min.) or jog (3 miles) 4 times a week. I take 1/2 a Phen pill before I eat breakfast. Go on with my day and around 2-3pm I take 1 OxyE pill. I will start cycling (three days off on Phen. but take the OxyE. then three days off OxyE and take the phen), then resume both after that time).
I usually eat oatmeal for breakfast, a heavy lunch or dinner (pretty much whatever I want but I try to have low-fat), and a low-calerie high protein shake for the meal that I didnt eat for. I try to keep my calories under 1500 per day and drink a lot of water.
I have taken many forms of diet pills both perscription and GNC / *********.net supplements. OxyE is the best so far with the Phen. I started my diet and workout change prior to the pills and lost about 10 pounds in one month.
As far as the mix of drugs... I haven't felt any immediate negative effects. However, about three days ago, every night I've been waken early am by servere stomach cramping, gas, and diarreah. It goes away around 9-10am. This is the third day w/ this simptom. I hope it is just a bug and not a reaction to the drugs.
If anyone else knows... I'd appreciate hearing your experience.
BTW - I started in Feb. and I'm currently down almost 25 lbs. now. Current stats - Athletic build, 5'7" 205 lbs. - 4/19/2011
Last edited by rem220; 04-19-2011 at 09:52 AM. Reason: To give results
07-20-2012, 12:56 PM #4
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Contraindications for Phentermine
In addition, while looking for the link to allow you to read about OEP and Thyroid issues, I found several links about an OEP recall and an investigation by the US Army after two deaths that may have been related to USP products.
::Here is the informational link: http [colon] // www [dot] oxyelite-pro [dot] com / oxyelite-pro-ingredients
Also, Phentermine has it's own list of side affects that may be exasperated by OEP. For example, some people may have restless leg syndrome, and some stimulants like caffeine can make it worse.
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10 years ago . . .
Births announced this week are: Emily Mae Crowther, Aug. 27, daughter of Andy and Rebecca Dawson Crowther; Kendra Elizabeth Fizette, Aug. 9, daughter of Louie and Susanne Fizette; Fisher Kincaid Hurst, June 20, son of Roger and Amy Hurst.
Salem Church of Christ makes repairs after it was vandalized on July 5.
Harrison County soccer Breds win their fifth straight game; Fillies volleyball net big win over Silver Grove.
Firefighters and law enforcement will have a formal ceremony 9/11, remembering the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America.
If you currently subscribe or have subscribed in the past to the Cynthiana Democrat, then simply find your account number on your mailing label and enter it below.
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The holiday season is my favorite time of year. My anticipation starts building around the beginning of November when my husband brings in boxes from his workshop bearing our Christmas tree.
In elementary school I had a friend whose father owned a Christmas tree farm. He'd take us around on his tractor and I remember always feeling a bit sad when older trees were cut down, thrown on the back of a flat bed truck and parked at a Christmas tree lot to be sold. Around 1960, and perhaps earlier, artificial trees were introduced, and selecting one seemed the answer to my dilemma of cutting down a live tree.
I start putting the branches together just before Thanksgiving and bring cartons up from downstairs filled with decorations. Lights are hung, gold colored garland wound around the boughs and ornaments, carefully unwrapped, are hung strategically on the tree. Placement is critical because two of our three youngest kitties remain fascinated with the glittery baubles and routinely bat and knock decorations off the tree onto the floor. Everything breakable or irreplaceable is hung on the uppermost tiers and out of harm's way.
Ornaments collected over the years bring back treasured memories of family and friends who made or mailed something special. Owls, mice and other forest creatures made of teasel, crocheted snowflakes, glass wildlife ornaments brought back from trips and a few decorations hand-crafted by my grandchildren all adorn the tree. I never look forward to taking it all apart again, and leave it up into mid-January.
I find wonder and inspiration from the many wild creatures in our midst during the winter months. Dozens of robins flock to our outdoor fountain for water throughout the day, and white-winged doves have literally taken over bird feeders in both our front and back yards.
There are sometimes a few mourning or Inca doves trying to squeeze in for their share, but the bigger birds often make it difficult. A few Jays still come by, and my peanut butter feeder is a favorite among house sparrows who completely clean it out once or twice a day during very cold weather.
Birds need water to drink and sometimes bathe in on even the coldest of days, so replenish the water as it freezes in fountains or birdbaths.
Every day for the past five years, I cross the street on winter mornings to feed a flock of about 60 Canada geese. Thoughts of my To-Do list, a flailing economy or the multitude of problems around the world vanish for a little while as I toss corn to the hungry birds. They appear from the far north like clockwork between mid-November and the first of December every year, picking up where we left off when they migrated back to the north last February.
It's a delight to watch them run, hop and fly toward me as I approach with food. White downy tail feathers float by as testament to the squabbling and tail-pulling that goes on within the hierarchy.
I visit the www.Palemale.com Web site almost daily, named for the famous red-tailed hawk Pale Male who makes his living in New York City near Central Park. A resident there for the past 17 years, Pale Male and his mates have raised a number of offspring.
The site is maintained and continually updated by Lincoln Karim who takes some of the most beautiful, detailed photos of wildlife I've ever seen. His writing is heartfelt and often very eloquent. He and some of his photographs are featured in the December 2008 issue of National Geographic magazine. See http://www.palemale.com/nagedec20.html. Karim takes pictures not only of hawks, but owls, starlings, sparrows, mallards, robins, chubby squirrels and other wildlife in stunning detail.
It says, in part, "He rigged up scopes and cameras, a video feed and screen so that passers-by could see the birds, who were some hundred and sixty yards away, properly, and in all their glory."
The holiday season is also a time to give special thanks. When I founded the Wildlife Center more than 20 years ago, I never dreamed that two decades later I'd still be thanking Lubbock and surrounding communities for its continuing support of our efforts for wildlife.
Many thousands of casualties and orphans were returned to their natural wild habitats since 1988. State and federally permitted but not funded, the Center sincerely appreciates every gift of time, effort, funds and veterinary expertise to help us care for the several thousand wild patients that pass through our doors annually.
Charles Dickens wrote, "Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own..." and indeed, the Christmas season has wonders that can't be found in shopping malls or discount store.
Take time to contemplate and enjoy the peace of a frosty morning as the light stretches across the landscape; anticipate the first snowflake, envision yards and parks draped in fresh, white snow or watch skeins of Canada geese flying across the sky.
Be grateful for family and friends, whether they're close or far away. Reflect on Christmases past that often represent a blend of how we each celebrate the holiday season today, and do a good turn for someone else to make their day a little bit brighter.
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Europe launches 2 satellites
Berlin - The European Space Agency says two satellites for its new global navigation system have been lifted into orbit aboard a modified Soyuz rocket.
Friday's launch from Kourou, French Guiana, had been delayed by a day due to bad weather.
Once the two satellites are fully deployed, ESA will have six of the 30 planned satellites in orbit for its Galileo system.
The agency hopes Galileo will provide far greater precision for satellite navigation systems than the US GPS system used the world over to pinpoint locations and plot routes.
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Congratulations, John Leguizamo! You've come A LONG way since American Buffalo!
Last week, John brought in some very solid #'s with Ghetto Klown, which sold 77% of possible seats, and brought in nearly $350,000.
Robin Williams' comedy Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo sold 73.4% of possible seats, but brought in a gross of nearly $460,000.
Chris Rock's The Motherf*cker With the Hat didn't fare quite so well, with only 66.4% of possible seats filled, and a less-than-impressive $239,000 gross for the week.
Cheer up, Chris! Things can always turn around!
Have U seen any of these comedians on Broadway? If so, what did U think of their performances?
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Not to be confused with a British series of the same title, which was the predecessor of The Avengers, Police Surgeon started life under the title Dr. Simon Locke, the name of the lead character. It was produced in Canada for U.S. syndication, and after one year the title was changed, and CTV picked it up for a two-year run. The star was Sam Groom, who also starred for years in the U.S. soap Another World. His sidekick and mentor was Dr. Andrew Sellers, played by noted character actor Jack Albertson. In the second season, when the title changed to Police Surgeon, Albertson left, and Canadian actors Len Berman, Larry D. Mann and Nuala Fitzgerald were featured. Among those guest starring were William Shatner, Donald Pleasance and Leslie Nielsen.
The half-hour series was clearly identified as being in a Canadian setting, and followed the adventures of a former country doctor as he joined a big city police force as its ‘staff surgeon’. The producer, Chester Krumholtz, had major credits for his work on U.S. network series Kojak and Mannix, but not even this combination of performing and producing talents could keep the show on the air beyond two seasons.
Police Surgeon was filmed in Toronto, and played on CTV on Saturdays at 7:30pm from September 1972 through September 1974.
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Patricia Arquette and Jake Weber recently sat down with CBS to talk about season 6 of Medium, and the show’s new home. They briefly recap where we left off at the end of season 5, and talk very briefly about where we pick up at the beginning of season 6 (spoiler: it’s, uh, later). Jake and Patricia also talk extensively about Joe and Allison’s relationship, which for my money, is the best marriage on television.
My favorite part though, has to be when CBS asks if they’re happy being part of the Friday night lineup (which includes Ghost Whisperer at 8 and Numb3rs at 10). Both actors get subtle digs in to NBC. Patricia says, “It feels like the first time we’ve actually had programming that made sense for us.” Jake’s dig is a little less subtle: he simply says, “I’m definitely grateful that I have a job, I’m grateful that the show is coming back, and I’m grateful that it has found its original home.”
You can see the entire interview for yourself, below.
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America Online announced Tuesday the beta release of its new digital music subscription service, MusicNet 1.0, to be made available to AOL members in January.
The cost of the new service will be $9.95 a month, for which subscribers will be able to access 100 music streams and 100 downloads per month. Currently AOL boasts a song list of approximately 78,000 titles.
The new venture is backed by major and independent music labels such as BMG, EMI, Warner Music Group and Zomba Records. Artists included in the searchable MusicNet database include such pop music notables as Christina Aguilera, Eric Clapton, Faith Hill, Matchbox Twenty, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Britney Spears. Classical, jazz, opera and world music artists will also be available.
"The introduction of MusicNet 1.0 will expand our range of music offerings and represents an important starting point for an entirely new way to purchase music online," said Kevin Conroy, Senior Vice President and General Manager of AOL Music, in a prepared statement.
The new service is being previewed this week at Internet World in New York City, held at the Jacob Javits Convention Center.
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Terfel made his stage debut with the Welsh National Opera in 1990
Welsh opera singer Bryn Terfel has denied reports he plans to retire within three years, saying he will be "slowing down".
Terfel, 42, said he had always set 45 or 46 as "a kind of denouement" to his long career.
He is due to perform at the Last Night of the Proms in the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday.
He said the last time he played the Last Night of the Proms he was so nervous he nearly fled the venue.
The baritone has been cutting back on his schedule in recent years.
In his interview with the Daily Telegraph, he said: "This is the best time for the voice because you've got everything else under guard.
"Whereas in the beginning of my career I complained to directors and was negative, now I've learnt that being a little bit more cautious and taking a back seat is much less chaotic for the voice."
He added: "I've sung with some glorious singers and sometimes you applaud them for things they've done in the past instead of living that moment of what you've just heard. I don't want to fall into that category.
Terfel told BBC One's Breakfast it was "a matter of slowing down".
He added that he was concentrating on concert and other performances away from the opera stage, including sporting events.
Terfel also spoke of the pressure of realising he was the third Welsh singer in consecutive years at his first Last Night of the Proms.
"Last time I was so nervous I have no recollection at all. This time I am going to embrace the whole experience and just enjoy it."
Terfel's stage debut was with the Welsh National Opera in 1990, singing as Guglielmo in Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte.
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Rep. Charlie Rangel falsely claimed there are “millions of kids dying, being shot down by assault weapons.” In fact, fewer than 100,000 persons younger than 20 years old died of gun violence, including suicide, over a 30-year period through 2010, government data show. About two-thirds of those deaths — or nearly 65,000 — were homicides.
That’s for all guns, not just assault weapons. We don’t know how many of them were killed by assault weapons, but federally funded studies have shown that such weapons are used in a small percentage of crimes.
Rangel, a New York Democrat, discussed the prospect of the proposed assault weapons ban on MSNBC’s “Jansing & Co.” The host, Chris Jansing, asked Rangel why the Senate bill, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013, did not have the support it needed for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to post the bill for a vote. Rangel blamed politics and money, particularly the lobbying of the National Rifle Association. He called it a “moral issue.”
Rangel, March 21: We’re talking about millions of kids dying, being shot down by assault weapons. We’re talking about handguns where it’s easier in the inner cities to get these guns and to get computers. This is not just a political issue. It’s a moral issue.
Millions? That’s simply not supported by the facts.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control database shows that over a 30-year period — from 1981 to 2010 — there were about 939,782 violence-related firearm deaths. That includes all ages, not just children, and all types of violence-related deaths, including suicides and legal interventions, such as justifiable deaths caused by police action. (The CDC provides its data over two time periods: 1981 to 1998 and 1999 to 2010.)
Of those nearly 1 million firearm deaths, 99,622 — or about 11 percent — involved those 19 years old or younger. About two thirds of those — or nearly 64,899 — were homicides. That’s an average of not quite 2,200 a year.
We also looked at violence-related nonfatal gunshot injuries. CDC data show that over an 11-year period, from 2001 to 2011, there were 130,697 people younger than 20 who had such injuries. That includes all guns and all nonfatal gunshot injuries, including those that were self-inflicted. Of those, there were 126,470 firearm assault injuries or nearly 11,500 a year.
So, the number of kids who were injured or killed by gun violence is in the thousands, not in the millions. And that’s by all guns, not just assault weapons.
Christopher Koper, a gun violence expert who teaches criminology at George Mason University, told us “there isn’t a good estimate as to the number of people killed each year by assault weapons.” He said the national databases used to track murders “don’t have detailed information on the particular gun models that are used in homicides.”
Koper coauthored a 2004 study, “An Updated Assessment of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban: Impacts on Gun Markets and Gun Violence, 1994-2003.” It was the final of three studies of the ban, which was enacted in 1994 as part of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 and expired in 2004.
In that report, Koper wrote that assault weapons (AWs) and large-capacity magazines (LCMs) “were used in only a minority of gun crimes prior to the 1994 federal ban, and AWs were used in a particularly small percentage of gun crimes.”
Koper, 2004: The most common AWs prohibited by the 1994 federal ban accounted for between 1 percent and 6 percent of guns used in crime according to most of several national and local data sources examined for this and our prior study.
The study includes a chart that shows, for example, that only 2 percent of all the guns recovered by Baltimore police in 1992 and 1993 were assault weapons.
Koper said he’s unaware of any systematic data and analysis since then on the use of assault weapons and large-capacity magazines in crimes nationwide.
We have no intention of minimizing the impact of gun violence on America’s youth. Having said that, though, Rangel adds little to the overheated debate on gun control by grossly inflating the number of children who are killed and injured by assault weapons.
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If you own a smartphone, chances are you’ve got a bevvy of go-to mobile apps installed. There are loads of great apps out there, helping us perform all kinds of different tasks. But as nice as app stores are, they’re so tediously manual. You’ve got to search or browse through pages of apps to find the right one, and while there are lots of discovery options available, too, sometimes it would be nice if the right app just appeared on your phone.
Imagine, for example, that you’re heading out to a ball game at Yankee Stadium. Wouldn’t it be cool if someone, somewhere could push an app that let you browse player statistics and check pitcher-batter match-ups to your phone (with your permission, of course)? As an added bonus, maybe the app would even silently remove itself once your phone’s GPS has left the building.
Fujitsu thinks this kind of “disposable app” system is feasible, and they’re currently developing the idea into an actual deployable platform that could serve programs to laptops, tablets, and smartphones. While it might seem like an odd idea at first blush, think about how apps like this would work at places like hotels, zoos, theme parks, galleries, or museums, where paper information guides are still distributed by the truckload. By eliminating the sometimes off-putting discovery process, visitors would be given instant access to relevant information right on their phones — boosting convenience and reducing waste at the same time.
The system could also be a nice fit in enterprise settings, where apps could be designed to disappear when users leave a specific area — say, a presentation app that works only while in the conference room. It’s a bit like those silly electronic cigarettes that glow to let you know another smoker is nearby, but, you know… useful.
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