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{"text": "Two men were seriously burned when a house in Perry was leveled by an early morning explosion. Witness say they heard a loud hiss, followed by a pop, then a boom which shook the windows in homes within a four block radius. Neighbors had complained about chemical smells coming from the home, as well as late night traffic in and out of the place. Authorities suspect it may have been a meth lab, but MidAmerican officials are on the scene to rule out a gas leak.\n"}
{"text": "I just LOVE this Rubbernecker frog – he is too darn cute and lots of fun to color. This is the first time I have colored him with my Copics and I love they way he turned out.\nMy paper is from PTI. PTI paper is wonderful and am quickly developing a love affair with their products and customer service.\nI placed my second order with PTI on Wednesday and it was waiting on my porch Friday when I got home from work, just in time for the weekend! PTI has free shipping on orders over $55.00. I made sure my order was over $55.00.\nOne of the things I really like about PTI is their colors coordinate wonderfully with SU’s. My green cs is PTI’s Spring Moss – my green ink is SU’s Green Galore and my ribbon is SU’s Certainly Celery.\nAfter I cut my image with my Nestie, I left the Nestie in place and sponged my blue border. I really enjoy that look without an additional layer.\nThanks for stopping by! I hope you have a wonderful day filled with all that your heart desires!\nStamps: Rubberneck frog, PTI Background Basics Spots & Dots\nCS and DP: PTI Spring Moss, PTI Spring Rain, Hollos White\nInks, markers and coloring tools: Copics, SU Green Galore, SU Bashful Blue\nExtra goodies: Nesties, SU Certainly Celery Ribbon\n17 comments:\nAdorable Frog!! Great coloring!! I love PTI too...they are a little addicting thou..so be careful! =;O)\nAwww Michelle this is tooo cute!!! I love the frog you used, and your coloring!!! Beautiful job!! :)\nHugs,\nCheryl\nawesome coloring! frog is great :) will have to check out PTI\nUnfrogettable, this is so hop a licious adorable! Nice work. Hugs from one Air Force Mom to another!\nHey M2....I really like the froggie umage too!....We have lotsa frogs that colour in our garden.\nSee you are having some fun with the Copics too!\nOh wow - he is so darn cute!!! You did an awesome with the coloring!!\nHey! I've finally gotten my computer (almost) back to working order and am starting to make the rounds again. I have no idea where I last left off but am just starting over.\nLOVE this frog!! He is super cute :-) actually made my dd's card yesterday and a couple of others for the \"big, combined party this weekend\" (thanks for the sweet email!)\nWonderful combination of colors and beautifully colored image! Love the nestie shape you used!\nHello from another Michelle! Love your post title - too funny! What a great image too. You did such a great job with your coloring. :)\nOh so cute! Love this stamp and your perfect coloring. I wish PTI had better shipping rates to Canada because I've got lots that I'd love to order =)\nWow1 this is so cute, fantastic coloring!\nThat frog is too cute! Well done and thanks for always sharing great cards!\nWhat a CUTE frog! Love the paper you used!\nThis is a great card! cute image so very expertly colored!\nNow that is one cool looking frog! Great card Michelle!\nThat frog looks like he could be trouble in the bedroom - LOL! Great colouring job Michelle!\nLove this card! You did a great job with the frog."}
{"text": "Download Zipped Amended WordPerfect HCR008.ZIP\n[Introduced][Status][Bill Documents][Fiscal Note][Bills Directory]\nH.C.R. 8\nThis document includes Senate Committee Amendments incorporated into the bill on Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 1:39 PM by rday. --> 1\n2\n3\n4\n5\n6\n7\n8\n9 LONG TITLE\n10 General Description:\n11 This concurrent resolution of the Legislature and the Governor urges the United States\n12 Government and the Secretary of the Interior to provide continued financial assistance\n13 to defray the costs of administration and basic community services for residents of\n14 Dutch John, Utah.\n15 Highlighted Provisions:\n16 This resolution:\n17 . urges the United States Government and the Secretary of the Interior to provide\n18 continued financial assistance of $500,000 per year for 15 years to Daggett County\n19 to defray the costs of administration and basic community services for the residents\n20 of Dutch John, Utah.\n21 Special Clauses:\n22 None\n23\n24 Be it resolved by the Legislature of the state of Utah, the Governor concurring therein:\n25 WHEREAS, the Dutch John Federal Property Disposition and Assistance Act of 1998\n26 disposed of certain federal properties located in Dutch John, Utah, and provided for assistance\n27 to Daggett County for the delivery of basic services to the Dutch John community, and for\n28 other purposes;\n29 WHEREAS, for the purpose of defraying costs of administration and provision of basic\n30 community services, an annual payment of $300,000, as adjusted by the Secretary of the\n31 Interior for changes in the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers published by the\n32 Department of Labor, has been provided from the Upper Colorado Basin Fund authorized by\n33 Section 5 of the Act of April 11, 1956 (70 Stat. 107, chapter 203; 43 U.S.C. 620d), to Daggett\n34 County, Utah, or in accordance with Subsection (c), to Dutch John, Utah, for a period not to\n35 exceed 15 years beginning the first January 1 that occurs after the date of the effective date of\n36 this resolution;\n37 WHEREAS, these payments for the purpose of defraying costs of administration and\n38 provision of basic community services will terminate December 31, 2013;\n39 WHEREAS, Dutch John was established in 1958 by the Bureau of Reclamation to\n40 provide housing and serve project construction needs for the construction of Flaming Gorge\n41 Dam;\n42 WHEREAS, permanent structures for housing, administrative offices, maintenance, and\n43 other public purposes continue to be owned and maintained by the Bureau of Reclamation;\n44 WHEREAS, during construction of the dam, more than 2,000 people were housed in\n45 the town;\n46 WHEREAS, the Bureau of Reclamation and the United States Forest Service,\n47 responsible for land management at Dutch John and surrounding Flaming Gorge National\n48 Recreation Area, continue to provide basic services and facilities for the community;\n49 WHEREAS, basic services for Dutch John, as well as the operating and administrative\n50 costs for the town prior to 1998, were financed by the Bureau of Reclamation and the United\n51 States Forest Service, then reimbursed by annual power sales revenue;\n52 WHEREAS, the federal costs of providing the full range of community facilities and\n53 services in Dutch John had substantially grown over the years, and in 1998 approached $1\n54 million annually;\n55 WHEREAS, currently, Daggett County is providing these basic community services to\n56 Dutch John, such as road maintenance, water, and sewer;\n57 WHEREAS, to offset these costs, while a traditional community tax base was being\n58 established in Dutch John, Daggett County received an annual subsidy that is to last for 15\n59 years from public power revenues;\n60 WHEREAS, the Dutch John Federal Property Disposition and Assistance Act of 1998\n61 anticipated that in the initial 15-year period commercial developments would be established\n62 that would help finance local services; S. [\n63 WHEREAS, the commercial developments that were anticipated to occur in Dutch\n64 John to help finance local services have not been established S. [\n64a WHEREAS, Daggett County is more than 85% federally owned, thus limiting the\n64b ability of the county to raise needed property taxes to support the unincorporated community\n64c of Dutch John: .S\n65 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of the state of Utah, the\n66 Governor concurring therein, urge the United States Government and the Secretary of the\n67 Interior to provide continued financial assistance to the unincorporated community of Dutch\n68 John, Utah, in the amount of at least $500,000 annually, as adjusted by the Secretary of the\n69 Interior for changes in the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers published by the\n70 Department of Labor, from the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund for a period not to exceed 15\n71 years, for the purpose of defraying costs of administration and the provision of basic\n72 community services.\n73 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution be sent to the United\n74 States Secretary of the Interior, the members of Utah's congressional delegation, the United\n75 States Forest Service, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Daggett County Commission.\nLegislative Review Note\nas of 2-4-11 3:20 PM\nOffice of Legislative Research and General Counsel\n[Bill Documents][Bills Directory]\n[Bill Documents][Bills Directory]"}
{"text": "By TERRI HARBER\ntharber@bakercityherald.com\nVirtually every seat was filled in the Baker County Courthouse meeting room on Wednesday with people concerned about two federal land use plans.\nAnd nearly a dozen members of the audience, including miners, ranchers and recreationists, stood up to tell county commissioners why they're upset about the BLM's draft management plan for the Baker Resource Area, and the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest's Travel Management Plan (see related story below).\nCommission Chairman Fred Warner Jr., was absent, so Commissioner Tim Kerns took his place as the presiding official.\nThe BLM's Draft Resource Management Plan (RMP) affects more than 428,000 miles of public land in Baker, Union, Wallowa, Malheur, Morrow and Umatilla counties in Oregon and Asotin County in Washington.\n\"What this county needs is more jobs, not more lock-ups,\" said Allan Chase, who lives in Union County but also owns property in Baker County.\nSeveral people commented that county officials didn't have an opportunity to provide input on this phase of the RMP because the BLM never contacted the county. However, \"federal law requires it,\" said Holly Kerns, county planner.\nAmong concerns she verbally outlined for the commissioners was the inclusion in this document by BLM officials of a transportation plan within it. She described it as \"a sneaky way to start the process\" for the upcoming BLM transportation plan.\nBaker County was due to file its appeal with the BLM today. When Commissioner Carl Stiff asked whether there had been enough time to be thorough before he and Commissioner Kerns ultimately approved sending the appeal document, residents responded that it had to be done Friday or that any objections wouldn't be given credence by federal officials.\nA variety of proposals in the RMP aren't in accord with the county's Natural Resources Plan, which was approved in December 2010, according to the county's appeal. Using the height of grazing stubble as a long-term management standard for land use isn't \"sound science,\" according to the appeal.\nAnother objection raised is a lack of clear provisions to ensure those with permits would be allowed to travel on most BLM land using off-road transportation to manage their cattle, especially when the need comes at night or on a weekend.\nNeeding permission every time is not feasible,\" Holly Kerns said.\nAlso challenged is restricting mining access and withdrawing mineral entry from sites where surface mining regulations are \"completely adequate to manage mining within those areas,\" the county asserts.\nThe National Mineral Policy Act of 1970 requires the BLM \"to facilitate the development of minerals resource\" so the plan must drop these restrictions, the county argues.\nThe appeal document consists of more than 60 pages and only about half of those are from county officials directly.\nThe other plan that brought the big audience Wednesday is the Travel Management Plan (TMP) for the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest. It's likely the county will file objections about aspects off this plan as well. About five weeks remain before the deadline for filing appeals.\nChristine Witham, a spokeswoman for the local four-wheel drive group called Locked and Loaded Off-Roaders, pointed out some areas of concern.\nA section of North Powder River Road between Summit Lake trailhead and Cracker Saddle would be closed to off-highway vehicles that are less than 50 inches wide.\nNorth Powder River Road is considered historic under Revised Statute 2477, the law that allows local use of old roads and rights-of-way within federal lands, because it had been traveled at least a century ago and predates federal jurisdiction.\nCounty officials designated the road as a local right of way in 2009 to ensure the Forest Service doesn't close it.\nCommissioner Kerns said the R.S. 2477 designation might need to be tested for local authority. The BLM declared in December (as part of a wider statement about the rule) that it didn't have the authority to make binding determinations on the validity of R.S. 2477 claims.\n\"The BLM may, however, make informal, non-binding, administrativedeterminationsfor its own land use planning and management purposes,\" according to information posted on the Bureau of Land Management website, blm.gov\nWitham also said she didn't \"see any reason\" for motor vehicle restrictions on Bennet Peak, near Eagle Creek.\nAnd those not happy about the Forest Service's TMP asked how they could comment about the plan without there being detailed maps to review. Without them, they can't see clearly where road closures and restrictions are occurring.\nLocal miner Ed Hardt asked Baker County Sheriff Mitch Southwick whether law enforcement would be stepped up. Southwick replied that his department wouldn't be enforcing BLM or Forest Service administrative rules, such as the road closures and various other restrictions, planned by the feds.\nThe commissioners also approved sending a letter to the Forest Service. It will point out the lack of maps highlighting changes stipulated in the Travel Management Plan. Those interested can't see potential complications and comment knowledgeably about them before the appeal deadline.\nIn other business Wednesday:\nandbull; County Forester Lane Parry talked about plans to harvest timber from county holdings. The income from this harvest would help the county pay for Parks and Recreation Department needs. The highest priority areas for harvesting are in and near Puzzle Creek, where two tracts could bring the county an estimated $46,000. Two other tracts in Puzzle as well as one in Fizz Springs are lower priority but could bring another $61,000 in profit if handled correctly, Perry reported to commissioners.\nandbull; Approved an agreement for holding jail inmates from Union County at the Baker County Jail when space is available. Union County will pay $53 per prisoner held each day until July 1, when the price rises to $54 per prisoner, per day.\nandbull; Accepted a bid for landscaping and irrigation work at Holcomb Park by Hampton Paving, which would be paid $145,231.06 - the lowest bid.\nandbull; Reappointed Dale Denson to the Transient Lodging Tax Marketing Committee and Craig Ward to the Economic Development Council."}
{"text": "Since Day, Cherry Turnover Day and--wait for it--Swiss Winegrowers Day, Sarasota deserves a special list of Best Ofs that didn’t quite make the magazine.\nBest cheap burger with the most “worth it” calories: Grass-fed burger stand downtown Saturday Farmer’s Market\nBest Bad Attitude of a Restaurant: Sorry, I am not allowed to say, but they do wear their honor well.\nBest Egg Salad Sandwich on Toast (add a side of bacon on top): Where Elvis ate, of course. Edith Barr Dunn got me hooked years ago\nBest Place to Meet a Gourmet Chef: Shamrock Bar cookouts.\nSadly, the best Jewish deli is still in NYC...\nBest Jewish Deli: Still in NYC\nBest Coffee-Flavored Yogurt that Really Tastes Like Coffee (eaten after shopping at Target on Fruitville): Orange Leaf\nDoggie dining.\nBest Restaurant to Take Norman and RJ, the Dogs: A tie between Gecko's on Hillview (they each get their own water bowl) and Taste of Asia--they get a standard order of rice with chicken broth, hold the chopsticks.\nBest Good News About the Restaurant Scene: Good Chinese is coming this year!\nBest Excuse I've Heard for Closing a Restaurant: “I thought the landlord was going to finance it”\nBest Place to Order One Meal and Feed Your Cul de Sac: Country Pancake House on Lakewood Ranch\nBest Oyster shooter with Bloody Mary Foam: The Table\nBest Place to Spot a Cardiologist Eating Lunch: JR’s Packinghouse\nBest Bang for Your Buck: A full basket of pick-your-own tomatoes at Hunsader farms-$1.00\nDo you have a quirky \"Best Of\"? Let me know by clicking on the comment button.\nAnd for even more ways to get Sarasota Magazine, become a fan on Facebook or follow @SarasotaMagazin on Twitter.\nFor more foodie bits and bytes, follow @ChefJudi on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.\nAnd for even more ways to get Sarasota Magazine, become a fan on Facebook or follow @SarasotaMagazin on Twitter."}
{"text": "War Commander Bases \| Christopher (41)\nUpdated: Dec 15, 2020\nWar Commander Bases \| Christopher (41)\nWhen is kixeye War Commander going to do something about War Commander Mines they can't stop anything and its time either make them more powerful or get rid can't wait for a reply to this :)"}
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{"text": "2013 NFL Draft: Miami Dolphins’ Top 5 Draft Needs\n2013 NFL Draft: Top 5 Priorities for the Miami Dolphins\nThe five priorities the Dolphins will be looking to address when the draft starts on April 5th. Each position is one Miami could use their first pick on. Whether they trade up to get their man, stay at 12 or drop further back, the needs are going to be the same. The difference will be in which need they decide to address first.\nIf Miami does move up in the draft, it will be with a purpose. They will not pay the price to get into the top 10 just for the sake of saying they did it. This changes the priority of the need they are aiming to fill.\nThe same cannot be said of staying at 12 and moving further back. If the Dolphins move back, they miss out on specific individuals, but they will be able to secure similar talent. This is due to the make up of this draft class. It is not exactly top-heavy with franchise-type talent, but it runs deep in quality starting talent. Because of this, the Dolphins are in position to build one of the ore talented rosters in the NFL.\nWith that, let’s get started. Click the “Next” tab and take a look. If you disagree, have something to add or would otherwise like to comment, please feel free to use the comment section below. You can also reach out to us using the hash tag #RML, for Rant My Life.\nJeff Everette is a Miami Dolphins writer for RantSports.com. Follow him on twitter @jeverettesports, “Like” his page on FaceBook, or add him to your network on Google+.\nNumber Five: The Safety Position\nThe Dolphins actually have a decent safety combination in Chris Clemons and Reshad Jones. Pro Football Focus (PFF) ranks both in the top 25, and Clemons was actually re-signed just over a month ago. They are in need of some depth at the position, but you don’t add depth with your first round selection.\nThe reason safety starts our list is, if the Dolphins have an opportunity to select a starting safety-a game-changing safety-like Kenny Vaccaro, then the Dolphins could chose to pull the trigger. Jones was ranked 3rd in the NFL by PFF, if you added another top five-type talent, Miami would have one of the strongest safety combinations in the league.\nThis is not the likeliest of scenarios, but is a definite possibility. Especially if Jeff Ireland thinks he can drop back, gain another pick, and grab Vaccaro from a later position.\nNumber Four: Pass Rushing Defensive End\nThe Dolphins want a pass rushing defensive end to play opposite of Cameron Wake. If they get an opportunity to draft a player like Ezekiel Ansah, they may decide it is worth addressing some of the areas of greater need in the second round.\nIt is likely that the defensive end position will only be addressed if they feel the player available is a game changer. The needs at some of the other positions are definitely more pressing, and upgrading the defensive end only makes sense if the talent available is too good to pass up.\nNumber Three: Defensive Tackle\nDefensive tackle may not seem like an area of great need, since the Dolphins have Paul Soliai and Randy Starks, but both are currently only under contract for the 2013 season. Starks, who represented the Dolphins in the Pro Bowl last season, is signed under the franchise tender and a long-term contract does not seem to be a priority for the Dolphins at this point. Soliai signed a two-year deal in 2012 and will be a free agent again in 2014.\nIf Ireland feels like he will not be able to bring them back at the price he wants, or if they decide to go younger at the position, a player like Sheldon Richardson would make perfect sense.\nNumber Two: Top-Tier Offensive Tackle\nThis would be the number one need in many of the “experts” opinion, but sophomore tackle Jonathan Martin is already penciled into the left side of the line, a position he was forced to play several times as a rookie. Ireland has stated repeatedly that he believes Martin has the physical ability and the size to be a successful left tackle.\nStill, Ireland has also left the door wide open, and said that they would look to improve talent all the way across the offensive line. With so many rumors surfacing about the Dolphins moving up in the draft, one has to wonder if there is more to this than just plain speculation.\nGoing after a lineman is not a hot pick, and it is a position Miami has paid attention to repeatedly over the last several years. Moving up to take a lineman would not make everyone happy, but if they are able to secure the talents of Luke Joekel, Eric Fisher or Lane Johnson, no one will be able to argue with the results.\nNumber One: The Cornerback Position\nIt is here, at cornerback, where the Dolphins are in the most desperate need of an upgrade. Losing Sean Smith to free agency may not be seen by the fans as a huge loss, but it still made a miserable group even worse. Miami has curbed that by signing Brent Grimes in free agency, but with him coming off of an Achilles injury, he may not be the top-tier corner he was in 2011.\nIreland may feel he can select a cornerback or two later in the draft due to the depth of the position in this year’s draft. This is true, but to get a true number one corner, Miami will need to make the move right away. There is all of this talk about moving up for an offensive lineman, but cornerback Dee Milliner is expect to be a top five pick. Moving up for the clear-cut best player at the position could be a possibility here.\nMore realistically, corner Xavier Rhodes is expected to go in the area of the 12th pick, which would be perfect for Miami. They would get a guy with number one potential, and could still draft a quality starter in later rounds.\nThey could also see an opportunity to drop back, gain a draft pick and select Desmond Trufant. Trufant has been climbing the draft boards in recent days, but if he looked like he could be picked up with an extra pick as an extra, the Dolphins General Manager would be quick to make the move.\nRegardless, of which direction the Dolphins go, they are just a few pieces away from being talented enough to compete at the highest levels of the NFL. Talent alone will not do the trick, though. They will all need to play as though they have the talent, and the brains, to be called a top-tier team, and that may take more than simply adding personnel."}
{"text": "The COVID-19 pandemic Alert Level 3 and 4 lockdown has been an unprecedented global event that will never be forgotten. To make sure we capture this unique time in history, we would like you to document your experience and enter it in our Long Bay College lockdown life capsule. After the time capsule is sealed in 2020 it won’t be re-opened for 25 years! This is a unique opportunity to share your story with future generations and explain how you lived through this significant time in history. Members of our school, community and local businesses are all welcome to contribute their stories. Please submit your stories and pictures by July 31, 2020.\nStep 1:\nPrompts:\nPlease also share any photos and videos from your time in lockdown.\nStep 2: Send your Lockdown Life stories to: [email protected]. Upload any photos or videos you would like to include as well.\nNote: The information you provide for the Time Capsule items will be stored electronically on a USB.\nStep 3: Look out for further notices from Long Bay College about our plans for the Lockdown Life Time Capsule.\n© Copyright 2021 Long Bay College \| Website by Spacific \| Powered by AllTeams \| Terms of Use"}
{"text": "You really need to look around these forums.\nI suggest starting here: New to CarPCs? Don't know where to start?\nThat's a newbie's guide to vehicle computing that answers many common questions.\nThere are also a number of informational threads, including many writeups about GPS software, receivers, integration, etc. in the FAQ Emporium:\nBookmarks"}
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{"text": "Wish you a Very happy easter day 2016 and you also wish this easter day 2016 to all your belongings and friends.Here is few funny images of easter eggs that make this easter a memorable easter day.Easter event celebrate in many ways in many era.This year easter celebration date will be on 2 days on 27 march and 1 may.The easter day celebrate with joy of funny eggs.The main login behind the easter celebrations with eggs is to something happen in eggs as like Jesus some again on the day of easter.All people celebrate easter in early morning sun rising.The thoughts behind the easter is Jesus coming as sun rising.Easter day is one of the day in holy week.This week is full of festival week like holy Monday and Wednesday after that one more Christian festival that is good Friday.\neaster egg funny\nEaster funny eggs yumurta-olumu\neaster most funny egg\nEaster egg funny images\nbarak-obama-face-on-egg-funny-picture-for-facebook\nFunny-Egg-HD-Wallpapers\nThese images are most funny images of egg that you can share on Whatsapp, facebook or on other social network.These images are also have HD images for your desktop.The images collection are unique on the web you may bookmark this website for more images update.The easter images are finding or designed by professional designers.Here all images may not be copyright of other but we don’t allow you to use easter images for commercial purpose.These images are for much funny if write a best easter day quotes with one of the image when you share with your friends.\n1 CommentAdd a Comment\nGood info. Lucky me I ran across your blog by\naccident (stumbleupon). I have bookmarked it for later!"}
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{"text": "Axell Wireless Launches Next Generation Fibre DAS (Distributed Antenna System) Solution\nFully LTE Ready, Very Low Noise Figure, Radical New Price Point, New Low Power MBF-20 Remote\nBarcelona, Spain, 28 February 2011 – Axell Wireless, the worldwide provider of wireless coverage solutions, today launched its next generation DAS solution setting new industry standards for performance and affordability for in building coverage systems.\nAxell’s new OMU II (optical master unit II) is a next generation DAS hub that fully supports frequencies from FM to 2.6GHz, including all major global LTE frequency bands. The system is flexible and modular in design and can be configured to provide connectivity for a variety of remote units from eight high power MBF-40 series remotes through to twenty four of the new low power MBF-20 series remotes or virtually any combination in between. This allows a single DAS system to be both optimised in terms of performance, and cost, with the MBF-40 series used in larger coverage areas complimented by the MBF-20 in smaller buildings, or sub sections of a campus.\nThe OMU II also fully supports both MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) configurations and also up to 8 separate base station sectors – both critical characteristics given that data throughput and overall capacity are essential requirements for most mobile operator in building designs.\nCrucially, the OMU II system when operating with both the Axell MBF-40 and the new MBF-20 series remotes has an extremely low noise figure. For example an OMU II operating with one MBF-40 has a noise figure of only 3db, significantly lower than virtually any other commercially available DAS system. The significance of low noise figures is that it maximises both capacity and data throughput across the coverage area of the DAS. Systems with high noise figures cause interference with base stations thus reducing overall coverage and capacity; especially for data services.\nThe OMU II system contains an “auto configuration” routine to enable simply and quick setup and can be configured using a web interface. It also incorporates SNMP (simple network management protocol) functionality and can thus communicate alarms and status messages to a mobile operator’s NOC (network operations centre).\nThe new MBF-20 series is a dual band IP65 rated DAS remote providing approximately 22dBm composite power per band in a compact approximately A4 size package. Each MBF-20 is connected to an OMU II hub via a single fibre optic cable. Further two MBF-20 units can be simply combined together in the field to create a quad band unit again whilst still operating over a single fibre optic cable. The MBF-20 series will be available in a variety of cellular band combinations including 850MHz/1900MHz; 700MHhz/1700MHz, 900MHz/2100MHz, and 1800MHz/2600MHz.\nIn addition to setting new performance and flexibility standards within the industry, Axell’s next generation DAS system sets a radical new price point with many configurations coming out approximately 30% less than the current systems.\n“Axell has already established a leading position as a global manufacturer of DAS systems for both cellular and public safety applications. Our launch today of the OMU II and the MBF-20 series remotes demonstrates once again Axell’s continued innovation and leadership in wireless coverage systems. Combined together the new OMU II and MBF series remotes provide immense flexibility to mobile operators allowing configurations supporting both moderate and high data throughput with system level performance that sets new standards in the industry” commented Ian Brown, CEO Axell Wireless.\nThe OMU II and MBF-20 series remote is available for ordering during March with first shipments following shortly thereafter. The MBF-40 series remotes are already available for immediate ordering and shipping.\nJames Beattie\nBabel PR\n+44 (0)20 7434 5550"}
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{"text": "Motto:\n and myths are a huge influence on our thoughts, attitudes and behaviors.\nJust how much our thought processes are in thrall to vocabulary and word choices has been a matter of debate in the linguistic community since Sapir and Whorf first came up with their hypotheses. While there is little evidence that language completely determines thinking (we are, after all, physical creatures and get a variety of non-verbal inputs from our environments as well), research has shown that language indeed influences thought to a considerable extent.\nWhen exposed to the euphemistic register of defense circles, which includes talk of “neutralizing” instead of killing opponents and “surgical strikes” that seem laudably therapeutic and precise, researcher Carol Cohn found her own perceptions were being gradually distorted. Employing the same language made her perspective change as it became more difficult to stay connected to previous concerns. To learn to speak a language, as she put it, is not just adding new vocabulary, but “entering a new mode of thinking”. “We must give careful attention to language,” she warned, “and what it allows us to think as well as say.” Isn’t it funny how, in the words of another researcher, “we” always have “an army, reporting restrictions and press briefings” while “they” have “a war machine, censorship and propaganda”? (Richardson, 2007). To learn and use a language, is the transformative process of learning to think in it, “to accept its constraints, assumptions and axioms”.\nIn the words of Dell Hymes, “producing the right talk at the right time requires sociocultural knowledge.” Only when aware of and capable of handling the “cultural baggage” does one attain true “communicative competence”.\nShaping Perceptions\nSo are words ever neutral? Or are they fraught with persuasive intent and subtle connotation? And can they ever “mean what they’re trying to say at”? (Addie Bundren in Faulkner’s “As I Lay Dying”). As it turns out, language is also a social practice, an instrument we use to forge identities and allegiances. Communicating is never purely informative. Schulz von Thun’s 4-ear model identifies at least three other functions of human communication that you should be aware of.\nHave you ever considered how texts are put together, how images and linguistic messages complete, “anchor” and reinforce each other, or how things are framed to give a certain impression? It’s fascinating business. Our minds are extremely suggestible. And while within a certain culture meanings are shared, the power to create and disseminate those meanings is not!\nHave you ever stopped to ponder, upon reading the news, why certain metaphors are chosen, what register is being used, what myths and preconceptions they draw upon and who is trying to propagate which worldview? Or would you like to know how your own communication is perceived in certain circles and what the way you speak conveys about your deeply held beliefs and attitudes? And what do social psychology and the confirmation bias have to do with it all?\nFor these questions and more, you can always enlist the help of a good media analyst and communication consultant, right here. Until then, live well and keep reflecting!\n#linguistics #discourseanalysis #rhetoric #communication #content #translation"}
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{"text": "(FOX) course also returns to see Tina, but the couple is far from the happy one we saw at the end of season three. Coach Beiste will also reemerge in the fifth episode in scenes with Will and Emma.\nAs for Sarah Jessica Parker, Entertainment Weekly says she will play a Vogue editor, who takes Kurt on as an intern. She will make her debut in episode three.\nUpdated June 25:\nTV Guide Magazine is shedding more light on what's to come for season four of \"Glee.\" It seems Kate Hudson will be Rachel's (Lea Michele) dance instructor at NYADA and since Rachel isn't as good at dancing as she is at singing, there will be some friction. Meanwhile, it looks like Finn (Cory Monteith) really is headed to the Army as viewers will see him at boot camp. As for Kurt (Chris Colfer), he'll land in the Big Apple and run into Sarah Jessica Parker's character, who will be his manager, but not in a performance setting.\nOriginally posted June 6:\nSeason three just ended, but news about season four has been spilling out. In addition to Glee guest star Sarah Jessica Parker and Kate Hudson, there are plans for more new characters.\nPer TVLine, Puck will be getting a younger brother, McKinley high will introduce a new female and a college-aged male will be added to the cast. As to be expected, they'll all have musical abilities.\nDreading the \"Fringe\" finale? Get the last episode's date in Soaps.com's Primetime Dish. Who was spotted riding a Classic Beach Cruiser in L.A.? Find out"}
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{"text": " trends while also expanding our research into how marketers are producing survey-based research, which is the most popular type of research marketers create.\nWe wondered: Are they collaborating with other marketers? Are they having a tough time finding survey respondents? How are they using survey technology? Do they publish a methodology? How long does the process take?\nWe have a lot of results to share, but here are the key takeaways:\n- Marketers are confident original research has a positive impact.\n- The vast majority of marketers believe their research produces credible data (but we see room for improvement).\n- Those who are having success with research are focusing on three things: credible data, compelling stories and promotions. (You can soon read in-depth insights on Content Marketing Institute.)\n- About half of marketers who are currently not using research are considering it — though one of the biggest struggles is understanding how to execute a project like this.\nRead all of the findings or skip to the questions that most interest you.\nState of the industry:\n- Are marketers publishing original research?\n- Are non-users of research considering it?\n- Is research meeting expectations?\n- What types of research are marketers publishing?\n- What types of content are marketers publishing from their research?\n- What benefits do marketers receive from publishing original research?\n- Are marketers collaborating when they create research?\nSurvey-based research:\n- How are marketers using survey technology?\n- How are marketers getting survey respondents?\n- Are marketers testing their surveys?\n- Are marketers publishing a methodology?\n- Are marketers gating their research?\n- How long does survey-based research take?\n- Are marketers able to create stories from their research?\n- Do marketers think their survey data is credible?\nData analysis\n- What types of data are marketers analyzing?\n- What challenges are marketers having with data analysis?\nAttitudes of those not using research\n- What types of research are people considering?\n- What benefits do potential users want to see from research?\n- Where are potential users feeling confident — and where do they want help?\n- Why are some marketers not considering research?\nMethodology\n- Who participated in this year’s survey?\nBefore we dig in, let’s get an important definition out of the way: What do we mean by “original research”?\nFor purposes of this survey, original research is defined as research published to your website or other platforms to gain attention, get leads, retain your audience, etc. Examples include industry benchmarks, salary guides, “State of” reports, and analysis of public or private data to look for trends, among other things. It is NOT market research, reader surveys, or competitive research that is used to create your marketing plan.\nState of the industry\n39% of marketers report publishing original research in the past 12 months — and another 50% say they are considering publishing research. Marketers have a lot of confidence in the value of research, and the majority report that it is meeting most or exceeding their expectations.\nAre marketers publishing original research?\nWe first wanted to understand how common it is for marketers to publish original research. Last year, we found 47% of survey respondents published research, but this year that number only came in at 39%.\nWhy are we seeing this drop? While we don’t know for certain, it could be because the demographics of our survey shifted a bit year-over-year. Last year, 79% of respondents worked for B2B organization compared to 70% of respondents this year. And, just as we saw last year, the type of business factors into the use of research, with B2B marketers being more likely to use this technique, overall.\nAs one more point of reference, Andy Crestodina has added a question to his annual blogger study to ask if respondents are using original research, and he found that one in four bloggers do. (But, bloggers who conduct original research are 2.9x more likely to report “strong results.”)\nAre non-users of research considering it?\nWhile we wanted to study how marketers are executing research, it was equally important for us to understand if non-users are considering it. We found that 39% of those who are not using research are considering using it in the next 12 months, and an additional 14% are considering it but need more than 12 months.\nOnly 23% of non-users are not considering research, and 23% are not certain.\nRead more about those not using research in the section called Attitudes of those not using research.\nHalf of marketers are considering an original research project in coming 12 months. Are you? #OriginalResearch2019 from @MantisResearch @Buzzsumo Click To Tweet\nIs research meeting expectations?\nThose who use research say it is a strong performer. The majority of marketers (61%) report it has either exceeded or met all/the majority of their expectations, which is a bit higher than last year. Even more telling: Only 4% say it hasn’t met expectations.\nThis year we wanted to better understand what the marketers whose research either exceeded or met all/the majority of their expectations do differently from their less-successful peers. CMI will soon be publishing a post that highlights those differences.\nRelated to this, we find that 88% of those who have published research plan to conduct additional research in the next 12 months. To us, this is the biggest vote of confidence we’ve seen for the value of original research.\nOriginal research works! 88% who use research for marketing are planning to conduct additional research in the coming 12 months. #OriginalResearch2019 from @MantisResearch @Buzzsumo Click To Tweet\nWhat type of research are marketers publishing?\nJust as we saw last year, survey-based research is the most common type of original research marketers are publishing. Read on to get brand-new insights about the ins and outs of how marketers are executing the specifics of their survey-based research projects.\nLearn about the types of research you can create: From Simple to Ambitious: 6 Types of Original Research Projects\nSurvey-based research is the most common form of research marketers are publishing. #OriginalResearch2019 from @MantisResearch @Buzzsumo Click To Tweet\nWhat types of content are marketers generating from their research?\nMarketers have a lot of opportunities to create additional content from their research, and this year we see that those who publish research are creating every single type of content more often than they were last year.\nAnd, just as we saw last year, blog posts are the most common type of content marketers create from their research, followed by visual content, infographics, and social sharing assets.\nOriginal research, especially larger, survey-based benchmarking studies, can generate a lot of content. This article on CMI explores how you can create a year’s worth of content from one survey.\nGet ideas for additional content you can create: Beyond Your Research Findings: 13 Types of Content You Can Create\nWhat benefits do marketers receive from publishing original research?\nNew this year, we asked marketers if they believe that publishing research will elevate their brand’s authority in the industry, and a staggering 94% agree/strongly agree.\nIf you are looking to get more specific, what type of marketing benefits are marketers seeing because of their research? While it’s no surprise social shares top the list, likely because they are easy to measure, we have seen an increase of marketers who report results against every single metric below.\nAnecdotally, the marketers we talk to are interested in one of these things: thought leadership, backlinks (especially media mentions), and leads.\nLearn about common research goals — and why choosing one matters: The One Question You Need to Ask Before Starting a Research Project\nAre marketers collaborating when they create research?\nThe majority of marketers are collaborating in some way when they develop their research. The most common way they do this is by asking others to share their findings. Andy Crestodina has a really useful post about 29 ways to promote your original research, including many ideas that include collaborating with others.\nSurvey-based research\nNext, we studied the mechanics of how marketers are producing survey-based research. Many of these questions are new this year. This next section specifically reports on the 150 people who have published survey-based research in the past 12 months.\nDo marketers think their survey-data is credible?\nWe wanted to assess how marketers are feeling about their research from two vantage points:\n- Are they confident their data is credible?\n- Are they telling good stories?\nAs you will see below, the vast majority of marketers believe the research they publish is based on credible data. While we love to see this confidence in marketers, we also wonder: is this overconfidence?\nOur take is that marketers have the best intentions and are truly trying to do a good job. However, crafting and publishing research is a new muscle for many to exercise. There is a lot that goes into drafting credible and story-worthy survey questions and then analyzing those results, and not everyone knows the ins and outs.\nIn short: We urge all marketers to continue to do your best, but be cognizant of the things you can do even better. Read on to learn what some of those key things are.\nAre marketers able to create stories from their research?\nNot only did we wonder if marketers have confidence in the credibility of their data, but we also were curious about whether they were able to tell interesting stories from it. It’s not uncommon for us to talk to marketers who crafted a survey and later discovered that their findings weren’t all that compelling.\nIn general, marketers struggle somewhat with coming up with survey questions that will lead to interesting stories, but they are more confident in their ability to tell stories from the data once it is available.\nTwo-thirds of marketers are also confident about creating effective data visual from their research.\nHow are marketers using survey technology?\nWe were curious: Are marketers using features available in their survey tools that promote credible data and streamline the experience for the survey-taker?\nFirst, we asked marketers if they use survey logic, which essentially is the ability to serve different survey questions to people based on how they answer earlier questions. We found that 70% report they use this feature when programming their surveys.\nWhile survey logic may seem like just a “nice to have” feature, it’s important for two reasons:\n- It streamlines the experience for the survey taker which, hopefully, increases the number of people who will complete your survey.\n- It improves the quality of your data because it increases the likelihood that a survey taker will have the requisite knowledge to answer questions thoughtfully.\nNext, we asked respondents if they might disqualify people from taking their survey for any reason. If this term is new to you, it essentially means you start the survey with one or more questions to ensure the respondent either fits your desired audience profile or gets excluded from answering further questions. While this isn’t always essential, it’s often a good way to ensure rigor.\nLearn the questions you should ask when looking for a survey tool that enables these features, should you need them: Download the checklist, 30+ Questions to Consider When Choosing a Survey Tool\nHow are marketers getting survey respondents?\nOne of the questions we get asked most frequently is, “How do I get people to respond to my survey?” So we wanted to explore whether getting survey responses is a widespread challenge, and how marketers are going about this process.\nTo our surprise, only 38% report it is difficult to get people to respond to their surveys. The most common way marketers approach this task is by using their own email lists.\nUsing your own list works well if you have a large audience fits the profile of the person you want to answer your survey.\nHowever, many marketers don’t have this luxury — and even those who do may find value in partnering with one or more organizations who share a common goal and audience to drive increased response rates.\nAlso to be considered: SurveyMonkey asked adults what sample size they need, at a minimum, for them to trust the validity of their research. Their research found the majority of respondents want to see at least 1,000 or 1,500 respondents.\nWhile 1000 respondents may not be realistic, especially if you are in a niche industry, it’s important that to get as many respondents as you can if you want your research to be perceived as credible.\nThe other reason you may need a larger survey count is when you want to compare various segments of your data to understand differences. For instance, do you want to understand the differences between men and women? Or are you interested in how attitudes differ between generations? You need enough people in each segment to make these comparisons.\nGet ideas on how to get survey responses: How to Get Survey Respondents: 10 Tested Ideas for Marketers\nAre marketers testing their surveys?\nTesting your survey prior to launch is essential, of course; but we were curious as to how extensive marketers’ testing processes are.\nWe were happy to learn that the vast majority report they do test their survey; yet we were dismayed to find that some only use their own survey team members for this testing.\nUse your internal team to test your surveys, but also share your survey with people who are unfamiliar with it. Their fresh perspective can help you identify questions that might not be clear or relevant. We always learn something new when test our surveys with new people!\nAre marketers publishing a methodology?\nIf you want your research to be seen as credible, you need to let people know the key details of your survey design – such as how many people responded, when they took it, what country they live in, etc. . Yet, we found that only two-thirds of marketers publish their methodology in their research reports.\nIt may be useful to note that not all methodologies are created equal, so we asked those who have a methodology what it includes. You’ll see the most common elements below.\nCreating your own research for marketing? Remember to publish your methodology. A missed opportunity for 28%! #OriginalResearch2019 from @MantisResearch @Buzzsumo Click To Tweet\nAre marketers gating their research?\nNext we asked if marketers are gating their findings. As you will see below, about a third always gate their findings, and an additional third sometimes gate.\nThis finding makes sense as 55% report that they are using their research to generate leads.\nEven if you decide to gate your research, we suggest having a non-gated landing page that offers key insights for your research. This is especially important if you are asking people to link to your research, since many writers won’t link directly to a form.\nHow long does survey-based research take?\nAnother question we are commonly asked is how long research takes. We’ve seen estimates that range from anywhere between 2 to 4 months to 150 hours or more. While the length of time your survey is in the field will have a big impact on the overall length of a project, we generally allot approximately 3 months, with one of those months used to get people to answer the survey. If you want to reduce this time considerably, we recommend using a panel to get respondents.\nAs you can see from the chart below, the majority of marketers spend at least 2 months on their research projects.\nSee a sample project timeline: How To Create And Publish Original Research: Answers to Marketers’ Questions\nData analysis\nWhile survey-based research is the most popular type of research, another viable option is to analyze existing data. In this section, we report on the views of the 152 marketers who have done just that.\nWhat type of data are marketers analyzing?\nWe first asked marketers what type of data they are analyzing, and as you’ll see from the results below, 72% are using their proprietary data.\nThis type of analysis can work incredibly well because it provides you with an opportunity to gather insights from data only you can access. Another option that can work well is to analyze existing data, such as third-party analytics or government data sources.\nWhat challenges are marketers having with data analysis?\nWe also wanted to understand what challenges marketers face when analyzing third-party data. As you can see below, they struggle most with finding the best sources to study, followed by finding the best stories to tell from the results.\nAttitudes of those not using research\nWe also wanted to explore the perceptions of marketers who aren’t using research. As mentioned above, 53% of non-users are considering research. Almost all of these people believe that research will elevate their brand’s authority, but they foresee some challenges as well.\nWhat type of research are people considering?\nLike those who are already publishing research, those who are considering research are most likely to be thinking about survey-based research.\nWhat benefits do potential users want to see from research?\nNext, we asked respondents why they are creating research. Thought leadership and lead generation top the list.\nRemember that your primary goal will impact all parts of your project, from choosing your topic to prioritizing how you will promote it. This articles details the way your project may differ depending on your goal.\nWhere are potential users feeling confident – and where do they want help?\nWe also dug into how potential users’ attitudes about research. We learned that 97% of those who are considering research are doing so because they think it will elevate their brand’s authority, and 71% have the right mindset and plan to create more content from their study.\nWhile 7 in 10 marketers think they know what topic they want to study and 63% believe they know how to find interesting data, only 50% think they know how to execute a research project properly.\nGet the 44-page step-by-step guide: How to Publish Survey-based Research for Content Marketing\nMarketers who are consideirng research report their two biggest challenges will be knowing how to execute this type of project and getting budget. #OriginalResearch2019 from @MantisResearch @Buzzsumo Click To Tweet\nWhy are some marketers not considering research?\nLastly, we asked those who are not considering research to share their reasons. As you can see below, the most common response was that they do not think research is the right kind of project for their business.\nWhile we don’t think original research is the right fit for every business, our goal is to make it as easy as possible for those who do want to publish their own research.\nIf you are struggling to get buy-in and budget, here are 10 ways you can justify a research project.\nMethodology\nWho participated in this year’s study?\nOur second annual State of Original Research for Marketing surveyed 644 marketers worldwide in May and June 2019. Respondents were asked to participate via email and social media outreach from BuzzSumo and Mantis Research. Demographic information is reported below.\nAs mentioned, when we compare the year-over-year demographics, we see that this year’s respondents are less likely to be from B2B organizations, but other demographics are similar.\nWhere do we go from here?\nWe continue to feel very optimistic that research presents a true opportunity for marketers because it’s one of the best ways to share something new and original. However, it’s not for everyone.\nResearch takes time, and there are a lot of steps you need to take if you want to publish findings that work well. To keep things as simple as possible, you need to focus on three things:\n- Generating data that is credible\n- Telling compelling stories from your data\n- Promoting your findings\nOur mission is to help marketers craft and publish research they are proud of. While the process will not be quick and easy, our goal is to share what we have learned and continue to help you prioritize where to spend your time so you can get the best results.\nIf you are interested in survey-based research and want to get a step-by-step approach, download our toolkit that includes a 44-page guide on how to create survey-based research, as well as two checklists."}
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{"text": "We had the good fortune to stay in a Q1 suite, the first and possibly last time that we will enjoy such an extravagance. We had booked a Q7 guarantee and been allocated a Q4; but a couple of weeks before sailing got the phone call to ask if we would like to spend a little more and upgrade. Mindful that we might never get the call again and judging it to be a fair price, we pulled out the credit card and the rest, as they say, is history. It is a little rude to talk prices, but suffice to say that we paid about the same for 14 nights in a Q1 as we paid for 7 in a Q4 on the same route last year.\nCabin - I could only find one review of a Q1 which was titled, \"Just OK\". Prior to our voyage I thought this a surprising comment and whilst I may not entirely agree with it, I can maybe now understand some of the other author's rationale for that lukewarm conclusion.\nFor us, the Q1 was all that we could ask. Granted, like all estate agent photographs the reality isn't quite as large as you might expect but nevertheless it is a truly impressive space with separate bedroom, sitting room, dining and study/wet bar areas. The four Q1 suites each cover fully half the width of the ship and are located in a nice quiet location with zero foot traffic. Note that the layout of the suites vary. Those on Deck 6 are similar to the plan in the brochure, whereas those on Deck 7 are slightly larger but differently arranged.\nThree sets of patio doors open on to a truly immense wrap around balcony with a range of good quality, comfortable furniture, only let down by some flaking paintwork. It is a very nice spot to take breakfast before heading off into town. The only downside is that unlike Queen Elizabeth with her stubby rear, the aft of Queen Victoria is tiered so the Q1 balconies there can be partially overlooked from Decks 8 and 9. Fine, if you are the \"look at me\" type, but otherwise it is sometimes more convenient to shelter under the overhang. It is wise to be careful about wandering out early in the morning and voicing the thought, \"another bloomin' fjord\", because you run the risk of about 30 people on the rail two decks above thinking you are a moron.\nThe arrangement has the added complication that the balcony above your own cabin is directly above your suite, so anyone dragging around the rather hefty balcony furniture early in the day can wake you from your slumber.\nNiggles? Yes, but fairly minor. Although the space is great, the layout and some of the features were obviously designed by someone who never expected to stay there. Why there are three sinks (plus a wet bar) but only one toilet (with no adjacent sink) defeats me. The shower is excellent, but the fittings and un-labelled controls look like something from a 1950's Dan Dare comic. The toilet roll holder is a similar triumph of design over function and since it was installed some bean-counter has obviously decided to source narrower rolls, which fall out of the holder. There are two excellent, large towel rings placed in a doorway so that you bang an elbow on them every time you pass. I found it bizarre that although there are two doors into the bathroom (and a further three inside), you cannot switch on all the lights if coming from the bedroom so have to go to the other door. Suite lighting generally is excellent but I gave up trying to count the confusing plethora of switches and how to control them.\nThere are two TV's and two DVD players, all of different manufacture so that is four remote controls to figure out. Unlike on QE, there is no iPod dock. You do get the use of an iPad with a selection of international newspapers downloaded to it every morning. Daily Star readers will be disappointed though.\nOverall, we wouldn't hesitate to take a Q1 again if the opportunity arose. But we would have been a little underwhelmed if paying the full brochure price, hence my reason for understanding the previous Q1 review.\nYou share a butler with half a dozen other cabins further down the corridor so the service is the same as anywhere else in QG. What you ask for, you get, but how outright enthusiastic your butler is depends on the individual and how demanding you are. My DW and I are fairly self-sufficient so didn't need much. It was, however, the first time that a QG butler had ever offered to unpack for us. We arranged a small gathering for some new friends we met aboard and everything we needed, with the exception of alcohol was provided without a problem, despite the hasty timing.\nAs always, the cleanliness of the cabin and the speed of response to requests were excellent. One night, we discovered at 11pm that there was no cold water. Less than five minutes after calling the Purser's desk there was someone in our cabin to check up and we were given the option of getting a plumber out immediately. We instead went for anytime after 8am next morning and by the time we had returned from breakfast full service had been restored.\nFood - The big cabin might give the expectation of top-of-the-range service in Queens Grill but in reality we have always found it to be perfectly fine, regardless of what cabin grade we had and wouldn't have wanted to be anything special. Although we did get a plum table, we were treated no better and no worse than anyone else.\nThe food was good quality, well presented and varied enough for our taste. The quality of some of the meat and fish was excellent.\nHaving said that, I do feel that the QG has lost a little something recently and I can't put my finger on quite what it is. I sadly lack the experience to be one of the \"it was better on QE2\" brigade, but it was certainly a few percent better on QV last year. Early in the voyage there seemed to be less wait staff in our end of the grill than we had seen previously, this resulted in things being a little slow. Someone complained and it was soon fixed.\nLess tangible, was the feel to the place and what seemed to be a change in emphasis, perhaps driven by some cost cutting. No trolley full of brandy and liqueurs in the doorway as you entered QG - to be used for the table side cookery we've seen so much of before. We didn't see the widespread production of crepes Suzette, bananas Foster and cherries Jubilee like previous voyages. Having said that, if you asked for something, it was available. One evening we had a very tasty Chateaubriand, but when presented it was from the tail of the fillet which would usually be used for stroganoff, not from the centre as would normally be the case. This sounds like nit-picking and perhaps it is. None of this is by way of complaint, just an observation of something not quite as sharp as it once was. It will have to slip a lot further before we decide to give it a miss.\nPorts and Tours - let me begin with the positive stuff. We didn't take a tour at every port, but where we did, we had no complaints. Unlike on some other cruises, we didn't hear any complaints from others either. We also found a very helpful young lady named Izabela on the tour desk.\nNow the gripes. We have previously been very impressed with the tour desk on QE and massively underwhelmed by the same experience on QV. The trend continued. When we asked for some fairly simple information, the advice from the chap we spoke to was to go and ask in port. So we persevered and asked the tour presenter to get back with an answer but he never responded. We found the very simple answer in port, but by then it was too late.\nI defy anyone to visit Norway and not be bowled over by the beauty of the scenery. The price you pay for this is that many of the stops are little more than small villages so unless you take a tour or strike out on your own there is very little to see after the first hour or so on land.\nHere are the highlights:\nStavanger is a nice spot for a walk around if the weather is good. There is a small market, an oil and a canning museum and the local food is excellent. The best recommendation is probably to hop on the fjord tour ferry which departs from the quay beside the ship, rather than spend twice the price for the official version of the same thing.\nlesund is full of Art Nouveau architecture, has a pretty harbour, a sea life centre and a viewing point at the top of the nearby mountain. On the downside, it is not great for wheelchair users, with uneven pavements and ill thought out drop kerbs.\nFlam is really beautiful, but why anyone would pay $125 for the ship-arranged trip up the mountain on the Flamsbana railway when you can walk 200m from the quay to the ticket office and pay the equivalent of about $60 is a mystery to me. We took a coach tour up a mountain and found the scenery spectacular.\nI'm sure Tromso is a pretty spot on a vibrant sunny day, but on a snowy bank holiday the place is grim. Cunard can't arrange the weather, but if they had bothered to tell us that everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) was closed, I suspect most people would not have even bothered getting off the ship. They might even have sold a few more tours! On our tour, there were a few extra minutes to spend so the coach drove an extra kilometre to the far end of the town, went around a roundabout and returned to the ship; this gave us a bonus view of the town scrap yard.\nTrondheim was unremarkable. There is a very impressive cathedral and bishop's palace though.\nAndalsnes was much smaller and even more unremarkable, but had the advantage of being a tender stop in a very pretty fjord.\nOlden followed a similar trend and unless you booked a tour or jumped on the \"noddy train\" for a fifty minute tour there was little to see unless you wanted to set off walking. We were tempted by the option of a helicopter ride up the glacier being sold on shore, but in the end they didn't seem to get enough takers to make the trip worthwhile. Maybe next time.\nHonningsvg is pretty much at the top of the world and you really do need to take a tour to get anything from the stop. We decided against it and had the misfortune to get caught in a snow blizzard on the way into the tiny little town. Cunard thoughtfully laid on hot chocolate and whipped cream at the dock gate for bedraggled returnees. A Costa ship arrived at the same time and they appeared to have the option of quad bike tours, which would probably not fit with the Cunard demographic. If going there, try and book a port side cabin so that you get the midnight view of the North Cape on the return journey.\nThe stop at Bergen was aborted due to local strikes and we were due to be diverted to Zebrugge. Not Jersey or Guernsey, not even LeHavre, but sunny Zebrugge. Fortunately, the strike was called off and we did make it to Bergen, but not before several unhappy souls had swapped all of their Kronor for Euros at pretty poor exchange rates.\nBergen was the final and largest city on the voyage. It is a good size with lots to see and plenty of shops. Lovers of knitwear and Christmas ornaments are particularly well catered for. QV now moors within walking distance instead of being a shuttle bus ride away, which is a big improvement. The view from the top of the funicular railway is well worth the trip but get there early -- we did and by the time we came back down the queues had grown to easily fifty metres or more. The fish market is a favourite spot of mine but being Sunday, wasn't as good as we have seen previously with more limited choice and quite steep prices.\nAn unusual highlight of the voyage was our return to Southampton for the three Queens event on June 5th. There has been plenty written about this already so I won't bore you with re-statement. It was certainly worth missing breakfast for.\nOverall, Queen Victoria remains a ship we like and I hope that our perception of a little bit of drift in excellence was ill-judged. Norway is not a destination to rival the Mediterranean or the Canaries of you are a sun worshipper, but nevertheless is one of my favourite places in Europe and we will return again."}
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{"text": "Reviews\nDiscussion\nHunter\nYou need to become a Contributor to join the discussion.\nRodrigo Escobar@rodaescobar · Senior iOS dev at innovation.rocks\nIt sounds like magic. What happens behind the scenes when you give it a font? Basically, how do you train the font?\nUpvote (7)Share·\nCarina WetzlhütterMaker@trackingcarina · customer experience at selma.io\n@rodaescobar Haha yes, lots of magic happening there! Thanks for that question :D Basically, the font file is sent to our servers, where the usual training steps happen automatically. The uploaded font is used to \"draw\" images. Then a \"box\" is being wrapped around each character which defines the position of the symbol and the ASCII representation. This image + box combination is used to train the Tesseract model. The outcome is the trained font file, which lets Tesseract detect and classify the text with the chosen font on images! Hope this explains the magic :)\nUpvote (4)Share·\nJakob Reiter@reiter_jakob\nNice Product, really handy! Just if I click 'Umlauts', are symbols like ñ etc included?\nUpvote (4)Share·\nMatthias GasserMaker@matthias_gasser · Head of Product at Anyline\n@reiter_jakob thx! Umlauts are either lowercase äöü or uppercase ÄÖÜ or both. Depending on what you select :)\nUpvote (7)Share·\nBernhard Schaffer@bernischaffer\nawesome ! :D can you explain a little bit how this will help me with my tesseract training? will it decrease my time spending on training or will it eliminate the need to train it on my own?\nUpvote (4)Share·\nMatthias GasserMaker@matthias_gasser · Head of Product at Anyline\n@bernischaffer thx! 😄 it minimizes the time needed to train new symbols to just a few seconds! You provide the font file, and in a few moments you get a tesseract traineddata file via mail. Ready to use in your project. Hassle free! 🦄\nUpvote (3)Share·\nBernhard Hauser@_bernhard · CEO, oratio\nThanks for the hunt, @__tosh! I was wondering if you can train fonts for Tesseract on your own or do I need a tool for that?\nUpvote (4)Share·\nCarina WetzlhütterMaker@trackingcarina · customer experience at selma.io\n@_bernhard @__tosh Hi Bernhard and thx for the great question! Kinda brings me to why we've built the whole tool! Training fonts on your own with Tesseract is quite a hassle. You'd need to download the whole Tesseract Training Tool Chain with all dependencies and compile it which takes a few hours - but a few hours for only one trained font file doesn't really pay off when looking at OCR implementations. Here is a link to a description of how Training Fonts for Tesseract would look like manually:... :) Some tools already do exist, none of them really works the way ours does: 1. Upload Font File, 2. Get back Trained Font File. Our devs actually always use the tool for our internal projects as well! Hope that helped!\nUpvote (5)Share·\nHarald Reingruber@harald3dcv · Visual Computing Engineer, Three10\nAwesome tool! Does it also work with Unicode fonts? I guess Arial Unicode MS would be an overkill?\nUpvote (2)Share·\nMatthias GasserMaker@matthias_gasser · Head of Product at Anyline\n@harald3dcv Hi Harald and thx for this great question. In theory yes, but there are some obstacles on the way. Currently we use a fixed set of characters to train i.e. lower-case / upper-case standard alphabet and a few common special characters. The process itself should also work with any (drawable) unicode symbol. We'll think about extending the training process in order to let the user define which symbols should be trained after all. Hassle free :) Hope this helps? :) Let me know if you need something specially trained for a project!\nUpvote Share·\nHarald Reingruber@harald3dcv · Visual Computing Engineer, Three10\n@matthias_gasser Cool, do you know already what the maximum number of characters will be?\nUpvote Share·"}
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{"text": "Rebuild: Up From the Ashes\nWhat are we doing?\nIn July of 2014, Washington’s worst fire in history — the Carlton Complex — destroyed 312 homes. A year later, the Okanogan Complex re burned hundreds of thousands of acres and destroyed 188 more homes. We are continuing our partnership to help the survivors of both of these res recover.\nFunded by donors and built by volunteers, we’re replacing homes for people who don’t have the resources to rebuild on their own.\nThe people of Okanogan County also proving that, together, they are stronger than fire.\nJoin us in helping them to rebuild!\nDonate Now! (Read on for offline donation instructions.)\nOur United Methodist Effort\nDid you know that United Methodists have been heavily involved already in the response to the wildfires that have ravaged North Central Washington in 2014 and 2015?\nUnited Methodist churches in The Pacific Northwest Conference, volunteers from across the state (and country), and financial resources from here and around the global connection have helped respond to the dire need. We still have work to do.\nThis is a long-term recovery and rebuild effort. During Phases 1 and 2 of the recovery, 30 houses were funded and built or are under construction. The Okanogan County Long Term Recovery Group (OCLTRG) is planning Phase 3 and Phase 4 for at least 30 more houses. No funding exists for these.\nThe Pacific Northwest Conference Board of Laity supports this rebuild effort and seeks the funding needed to continue this work. The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) provided major funding during Phases 1 and 2 of the recovery and rebuild effort. We will continue this effort.\nWe are asking members of our United Methodist Churches to reach out to fellow members, and community partners, to help us achieve this goal.\nVolunteers in Mission\nIn addition to funding, United Methodist Volunteers in Mission (UMVIM) teams will have the opportunity to contribute their skills to this rebuild effort. In particular, United Methodists volunteers will be needed to help to finish the interiors of homes as Phase Two progresses.\nIf you would like to volunteer your time and talents to the rebuild efforts, please contact Rosalee Mohney, rmohney@comcast.net, or Jim Truitt, umvimdisasterresponse@comcast.net.\nSetting Your Goals\nIt takes an average of $90,000 in materials, permits, and site work to build a fire-wise home from the foundation up.\nYour gift is stretched as far as possible by the fact that virtually all of the labor is being donated by volunteers including fellow United Methodists. Please help us keep them in materials!\nWe offer the following suggested goals to help individuals, churches, and other groups to set a goal they can see.\nSuggested Goals\n- A room: $15,000\n- Frame an entire house: $10,000\n- A roof: $5,000\n- Doors and windows: $2,500\n- Appliances: $2,000\n- Flooring: $1,500\n- Plumbing fixtures: $700\n- Interior trim: $500\n- A tree for the yard: $49\n- Flowers, ornamentals, or a welcome mat: $25\nNote: No gift is too small, and all gifts will be applied to the next most urgently needed item.\nHow to Give\nThe summers of 2014 and 2015 presented us with the most devastating wild re seasons experienced in the Pacific Northwest. Each was filled with both personal tragedies and significan’t property loss. Our continued prayers are very important, so are our actions.\nYou can support the Rebuild: Up From the Ashes campaign by making a donation to our Pacific Northwest Conference’s Disaster Fund (Advance #352) through your local church.\nIf you are unable to give through a local church, you may send a check to:\nPacific Northwest Conference Office\nC/O Conference Treasurer\nP.O. Box 13650\nDes Moines, WA 98198\nwith “Conference Advance #352” and “Project Rebuild” on the memo line.\nYou can also give online:\n100% of your gift will be used to support the efforts to rebuild lives and to bring renewed hope to those who lost homes to the fires.\nYour generous donation is tax-deductible.\nFor Community Partners\nThank you for considering to support this partnership with the people of The United Methodist Church and the Okanogan County Long Term Recovery Campaign.\nIf you would prefer to give your gifts directly to that campaign, or to learn more, visit: okanogancountyrecovery.com"}
{"text": "Below are some of the best tips on how you can get a traffic to your newly website or a blog.\nGuest Blogging\nWell, you’ve probably heard about it. Think kind of post has many functions that allow companies to not only get more traffic, but also to strengthen its presence. Guest blogging allows you to connect to segments that already have a good position and established audience. If you feature your own brand on the web sites that have millions of readers, you will definitely get benefit. The more powerful publisher, the more chances to get visibility of your business. According to experts, guest blogging can help improve business growth and ensure long-term success.\nSocial Media Network\nThis is one of the most highly effective ways to increase your customer base. Although predictions of building social audience is difficult, but it allows organizations to connect with their prospects and potential customers directly and publicly. You can share your updates, announcements, offers on your social media platforms and interact with customers.\nPaid Advertising\nAnother option that can help you increase traffic to your site is “paid advertisement”. There are some good platforms that are open to paid advertising such as Google, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Bing, etc.\nIntroduce Offers, Coupons and Promotions\nYou must be willing bestow free gift vouchers, or some attractive offers for your customers or start a contest and notify to encourage existing and target users. You can ask them to share or like your content/product/service as many times as they can. After the task is done, they will receive their awarded.\nDo not forget that quickly or more traffic to your business website does not necessarily mean that you will get a ROI. Thus, it is important to maintain a balance between short-term and long-term business strategy to make the most out of your investment."}
{"text": "Neat-o.\nShots from Fragile’s T-day show at Pop’s can be found on the Directory and Live pages of. (Blogger’s not letting me hotlink. Aarah.)\nToo cool.\nNeat-o.\nShots from Fragile’s T-day show at Pop’s can be found on the Directory and Live pages of. (Blogger’s not letting me hotlink. Aarah.)\nToo cool.\nWith.\nIf only I had a nickel for every time that someone said, “Thomas, let me know when the fine soccer team you coach is playing again, as I’d like to attend an exciting match.” Why, I’d have exactly 70-cents, as I’ve heard this phrase – or one close to it – an exact 14 times this autumn.\nSadly, some might say, the campaign will come to its seasonal conclusion this Saturday, with a 10:45 donnybrook against the St. Margaret of Scotland Dragons. Though our team is sitting with a somewhat dowdy mark of 3-11, when these two teams tangle, you can throw the records out. Why it only seems like yesterday that the Cabrini squad was on the verge of its only win of the 2005 baseball season, up two runs to St. Mags, only to see the Shaw sqaud overtake our Cabrinis in the fifth inning, mere moments before a lightning storm halted play. (You could not make this stuff up.)\nAt any rate, baseball’s done, basketball’s still a week away and soccer’s the sport of the day. If for only one more day, this Saturday. At 10:45 a.m., Willmore Park field #1, just north of the intersection of Gravois and Hampton in South City.\nWho’s there? And who’s buying me a victory sip?\n(Thanks to the handful of non-Cabrinis who came out to the game, a rather lopsided 8-1 affair. No victory sips. Such is life. Now: indoor tourney season!)\n(Special bonus update. The Cabrinis, replete with a couple ringers, were participants in the Soccerdome Turkey Shootout, coming out on the wrong end of these results: 8-0, 15-0, 8-0 and, somewhat remarkably, 8-0. As one sage parent commented, I made back almost all of my deposit, the kids had fun and no one was hurt.)\nThough.\nNew album, “See You on the Other Side,” due Dec. 6.\nYes.\nWhat do I do to avoid distraction until then?\nI’m been drafted into KDHX service this Thursday evening, between 7-8 p.m., sitting at the controls for this week’s edition of “Literature for the Halibut.” It’ll be a night for half the town’s poets to be found in action, as detailed over at 52nd City. If you listen, I’ll promise to not share my innermost feelings in the form of free-verse."}
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{"text": "\n- Puppets 4 Apply Puppets filter\n- Robots 3 Apply Robots filter\n- Space and Aliens 5 Apply Space and Aliens filter\n- Trains 6 Apply Trains filter\n- Wild Animals 14 Apply Wild Animals filter\nMovie Reviews\ncsm_movie\nage 4+\nSeries-inspired movie caters to preschoolers' curiosity.\nOn DVD/Streaming\n(Release Year: 2013)\ncsm_movie\nage 4+\nTale of friendship and adventure has mild scares.\nOn DVD/Streaming\n(Release Year: 2006)\ncsm_movie\nage 4+\nCute pro-environment story that's best for little kids.\nOn DVD/Streaming\n(Release Year: 2002)"}
{"text": "punroc1 Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 Hey so i am a big fantasy football player and i wanted to start a private league so here is the deal if you want to be apart of it just post your email and then i will send you an invite. Link to comment\nRecommended Posts\nPlease sign in to comment\nYou will be able to leave a comment after signing in"}
{"text": "Eucharistic\nAdoration\nMake a Difference Day Eucharistic Adoration will be held at Holy Redeemer Roman Catholic Church Saturday, Oct. 26, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Come and make a difference with your prayers.\nChapman trail day\nChapman State Park will have a trail work day from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26. Volunteers are welcome. If you're a hiker or skier you know that great trails help make great parks. Trails just don't happen though, and many parks rely on volunteers to keep trails open. Penny Run Trail needs some improvements before cross country skiing season begins. Over the years parts of the trail have begun to collect water and become saturated so it needs to be cleared and drained. Join the park naturalist to get outdoors, get dirty and get that water off the trail! Please bring a lunch, work gloves, shovels and rakes. Meet at the park office.\nDAC to meet\nThe Kanoagoa Chapter, Daughters of the American Colonists, held its fall meeting at Cable Hollow Golf Club with the state regent Phoebe Conner and state vice regent Star Lehman in attendance. Conner presented a talk on the chapter, and \"Honor Our Veterans\" was also celebrated with donations to a veteran's fund in Warren made by members. The committee included Eleanor Johnson, Pauline Sarvis, Bonnie Beyer, Arlene Curtis and Lucinda Miller who made a quilt wall hanging for the state regent to remember her trip to Warren.\nGuest speaker\nDoug Jewell of North Carolina will speak at House of Worship, 112 Conewango Ave., Warren, at 7 p.m. tonight, Friday, Oct. 18. The public is welcome; bring a friend.\nPO Box 188 , Warren, PA 16365 \| 814-723-8200\n© 2014. All rights reserved.\| Terms of Service and Privacy Policy"}
{"text": "Cynthia H. Carlson\nAcademic Title\n- Associate Professor, Civil Engineering\nContact Information\nAdministrative Support\n- Walkability and Public Health\n- Water Resources Engineering\nCivil engineering impacts public health and community well-being in many ways. I am interested in examining how infrastructure and its designers can support healthier communities through improved walkability, water-quality protection and stormwater management. In addition, I’m interested in how best to teach engineering concepts to aspiring engineers, including college students and youth. This involves a variety of types of hands-on, experiential learning, such as project-based learning, real-world projects and simulations/games.\n- Ph.D. Natural Resources and Earth Systems Science University of New Hampshire\n- M.S. Environmental Engineering Dartmouth College\n- B.S. Civil Enginering UMass Amherst\n- Engineering Education\n- Stormwater Management\n- Walkability and Public Health\n- Water Quality\n- Watershed Planning\nFulton, J. E., Carlson, S. A., Ainsworth, B. E., Berrigan, D., Carlson, C., Dorn, J. M., and Mâsse, L. C. (2016). “Strategic Priorities for Physical Activity Surveillance in the United States.” Translational Journal of the American College of Sports Medicine, 1(13), 111-123.\nCarlson, C. H., Gatling, A. P., Adams, J. G., and Fraga Muller, J. (2017, June), “Hiring Other Classes: Working Across Departmental Boundaries in Interdisciplinary Projects for Senior Engineers,” paper presented at 2017 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Columbus, Ohio.\nCloutier, S.; Karner, A.; Breetz, H.L.; Toufani, P.; Onat, N.; Patel, S.; Paralkar, S.; Berejnoi, E.; Morrison, B.A.; Papenfuss, J.; Briggs, A.D.; Carlson, C. “Measures of a Sustainable Commute as a Predictor of Happiness.” Sustainability 2017, 9, 1214.\n- Best Policy-Oriented Paper, Environmental and Water Resources Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016.\n- Senior Fellow, Environmental Leadership Programs, 2008.\n- Young Engineer of the Year, New Hampshire Joint Engineering Board, 2003.\n- Individual Merit Award, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 1, New England, 2001."}
{"text": "- Book\n- Author\n- Video\n- Piercing\n- Jewelry\nThe Q-tip Test\nScroll down for information on the photos I'd need to see to evaluate your VCH piercing.\nThis video shows how to do the q-tip test:\n• De-fluff (remove some of the cottony part) and lubricate the swab tip\n• Locate the \"inverted-V\" of your hood--you'll put the swab under there\n• Gently lift the hood a small distance from the body\n• Slide the swab tip underneath the hood\n• If the natural overhang of skin does not cover the swab tip, try to manipulate the tissue over it as shown in the video (it won't stay down on its own, but you just need to be able to manually get it to cover).\nLocate the \"inverted-V\" at the edge of your hood:\nPlease mark the base of the swab to make it easier to see:\nAnd angle the swab so it's placement is visible under your skin\nDO NOT push too hard with the swab, it makes the hood appear shallower than it is:\nThe same hood without pushing too hard on the swab:\nDO NOT pull the hood tissue up--that makes your hood look shallower than it is:\nMake sure the swab slides under the hood without getting hung up on the tissue:\nERROR!! Be sure to place the swab UNDER THE HOOD (where the red dot is located, below left), NOT under the clitoris! The photo at right shows the \"inverted-V\" marked with lines). The piercing was done with the receiving tube in this position; the piercee got an accidental (and VERY painful) clitoral glans piercing--her hood was pierced to her clitoris!)\nTO EVALUATE YOUR VCH PIERCING\nIf you already have a VCH piercing and you wish to have me evaluate it for proper placement and jewelry fit, I need to see CLEAR, CLOSE-UP photos like the ones on this page.\nIn the images below it is evident that the jewelry does not come out from underneath the hood at all--they are surface piercings. They are not VCH piercings.\nIf you have a VCH that does go under your hood, I need to see it from the front and also from the underside, so I can see where the piercing comes through underneath in relation to your clitoris.\nHowever, if your piercing is new, it may not be wise to manipulate it in the manner required to expose the underside of the piercing. Excess trauma can cause bleeding, pain, and possibly healing problems so you may need to wait a week or two before you can get photos that clearly show the underside.\nIn the photo below left, it looks like the piercing is in the proper position. But in the photo on the right, it is possible to see that the jewelry is just skimming through the hood instead of puncturing at the deepest natural part (as marked in the photos further down the page).\nBelow is another surface VCH piercing. It appears that the piercing is properly placed in photo on left, but closer inspection reveals that the jewelry is NOT under the clitoral hood. This hood appears too small for a VCH piercing.\nTo fully evaluate a VCH (that is not a surface piercing) I NEED TO SEE THE UNDERSIDE. Without looking underneath, I can't tell whether the jewelry is properly placed for maximum stimulation (and safety).\nThe photos below are of shallow VCH piercings that are marked with optimal placement near the apex under the deepest part of the hood. If they are too close to the edge of your hood, there are risks of migration, rejection, and/or tearing. If they are deep enough to be safe, they are not going to provide as much stimulation as a properly placed piercing, which causes the jewelry to touch the clitoris more.\nYou may still be able to do the q-tip test with existing jewelry in place. On the left, a shallow VCH piercing with and an arrow is marked for the approximate location of where the VCH piercing should have been placed. On the right, a surface VCH in place during the q-tip test\n"}
{"text": "Big Ten football picks, predictions, TV times and more for Week 11\nWisconsin players celebrate with the Heartland Trophy after defeating Iowa in an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016, in Iowa City, Iowa. Wisconsin won 17-9. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)\nAfter a wild Week 10, what does Week 11 have in store in the Big Ten? There’s one big headliner with Michigan State and Ohio State squaring off at noon. But what other weirdness awaits? Let’s take a look at the slate.\nWeek 11 record: 4-3\nOverall record: 60-22\nCan Penn State cover big Vegas spread against Rutgers? Bob Flounders, Greg Pickel discuss: video\nPenn State-Rutgers game predictions: Improving Scarlet Knights still the right opponent at the right time\nInside how Rutgers discovered Saquon Barkley, earned his commitment and lost him to Penn State\nPenn State-Rutgers matchup: A look at the key players, positions for the Lions, Scarlet Knights\nPenn State's 4 keys: How to end a two-game losing streak and make quick work of Rutgers"}
{"text": "Kevin Kline headlines a stellar cast as an offbeat cop in the “The January Man.” Kline tries to catch a serial killer while dealing with wild ex-wife Susan Sarandon, new squeeze Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, hostile brother Harvey Keitel and angry police boss Danny Aiello.\nThe film strives to succeed on many levels, but fails at almost every turn and wastes a fine cast. Also stars Rod Steiger and Alan Rickman. Rated R.\nGRADE: D\nThe January Man WATCH NOW"}
{"text": "Canadian civil society congratulates Canada for uniting world leaders in the fight against three of the world’s most devastating diseases\nMONTRÉAL 17 September 2016 – Today, in a show of commitment to global health and development, world leaders pledged a total of US$12.9 billion to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria during its Fifth Replenishment Conference, hosted by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Montreal, Quebec from September 16-17.\n“Driven by Canada’s leadership, the world has seized this critical moment in the fight to end AIDS, TB and malaria,” said Robin Montgomery, Executive Director of the Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development (ICAD).\n“The new funding will not only allow the Global Fund to continue its important work, but also reaffirms the international community’s commitment to meeting the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, while supporting the right to health for the world’s most vulnerable people.”.\nThe Government of Canada set a high bar in May, when it pledged CAD$785 million to The Global Fund over the 2017-2019 period, a 20% increase over its previous replenishment commitment.\n“Despite the positive outcome of this Fifth Replenishment Conference, the global resource gap remains significant if we are to reach our collective targets,” said Robin Montgomery. “We call on the Trudeau government to continue its leadership on the global stage to end the three diseases.”\nSince its inception in 2002, The Global Fund has saved 20 million lives through innovative partnerships and programming and has played a crucial role in the treatment and prevention of these three diseases. The nearly US$13 billion pledge\nOn behalf of:\nAction Canada for Sexual Health and Rights\nAmref Health Africa – Canada\nCanadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN)\nCanadian Network for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (CAN-MNCH)\nCanadian Positive People Network (CPPN)\nCanadian Society for International Health (CSIH)\nCARE Canada\nCoalition des organismes communautaires québécois de lutte contre le sida (COCQ-SIDA)\nDignitas International\nGrandmothers Advocacy Network\nICASO\nInteragency Coalition on AIDS and Development (ICAD)\nInternational Indigenous Working Group on HIV/AIDS (IIWGHA)\nPlan International Canada\nRESULTS Canada\nThe Teresa Group\nUNICEF Canada\nWorld Vision Canada\n###\nKate Alexander\nPublic Engagement and Membership Officer\nInteragency Coalition on AIDS and Development (ICAD)\nTel: 613-233-7440 ext. 110"}
{"text": "Kirwans is recognised nationally by many farmers as the law firm to turn to in their hour of need.\nWith increasing regulation, compliance, tax issues, land matters, health & safety and retirement there are many factors affecting the farming community. Whatever the issues Kirwans have a team of legal experts ready to assist.\nLed by Senior Partner David Kirwan, the team understand the legal challenges the farming community can face and with over 42 years experience in dealing with high profile cases, provide the expertise and peace of mind you need to protect your livelihood that allows you to prepare for the future.\nWe understand that farmers do not operate within the standard 9-5 world, therefore we offer 24/7 access to a legal specialist who understands your requirements.\nTogether with our team of core advisors, including veterinary experts and specialist counsel, we can provide you with the trusted advice you need.\nKirwans represent clients throughout the UK acting for farmers facing prosecution by Trading Standards or DEFRA investigations.\nWe have a wealth of expertise in dealing with property and land matters and can provide you with specialist advice on tax, wills, trusts and probate.\nIn addition we have vast experience in employment and health and safety matters. Whether you have a contractual dispute with farming suppliers or a boundary and land dispute, make Kirwans your destination.\nTo learn more about how we can help you contact our Agriculture Team today on 0800 525 035.\nNews Alert: Kirwans Victory As Farming Family Win Legal Battle\nWe can only say how grateful we are for all your efforts and for those of the team. Without reserve we would recommend your services to anyone with similar problems.Major Tom Smith of Denbigh"}
{"text": "This might paint me as somewhat of a hypocrite, but while I love sequels — even soul-destroying, awful, have-no-connection-to-the-previous-films sequels — I am really starting to hate remakes. Like, they make my eye twitch and my hand ball into a fist involuntarily whenever I think about them.\nI think the breaking point was when I was watching the sorta-remake-sorta-sequel of Evil Dead, realizing that from then on, that’s the movie that the current generation would associate with the words “Evil Dead” without knowledge that there’s an awesome cult series that came well before that. The same will probably happen with the recent RoboCop reboot. And that’s unacceptable to me.\nYou see, at least from my perspective, the insidious nature of a remake is that it effectively wipes out what came before it. It’s a redo that co-opts the name, the franchise, and the attention. It rewrites movie history for our goldfish-addled attention spans.\nSure, some remakes are terrific, such as Ocean’s 11, but even in that case, what I just wrote panned out. Very few people are even cognizant that there was an “original” Ocean’s 11, because newer and shinier gets our attention. It probably helped the remake that it was far superior too, but that’s not often the case. Even though I really liked the reboot of Star Trek, I have to concede that the damage it’s done to Trek — especially the question of Trek’s future projects — is quite immense.\nMaybe my pain comes from a sad epiphany that the next generation of movie lovers won’t be appreciating the same films we will. When you mention Karate Kid to them, they’ll be thinking of Jackie Chan and Will Smith’s kid, not Mr. Miyagi and “wax on, wax off” and Cobra Kai. When you say “Dirty Dancing,” you certainly aren’t going to be evoking Baby in the corner but some lame Cuban samba thing. Friday the 13th, Halloween, and Nightmare on Elm Street have all been dragged through the muck of the remake process, single-handedly smacking those franchises to the ground and wiping away any possibility that a new generation would come to like these movies.\nI guess what cheeses me off is that so many remakes aren’t of bad films that had a gem of a good idea that needed to be revisited, but perfectly awesome and beloved movies that were yanked by unimaginative Hollywood suits for recycling. The destruction and damage that these movies cause will be felt long after the box office receipts go away.\nSo if you want to extend a franchise with a sequel, fine, please do so. Even a prequel is acceptable under some circumstances. But stop thinking that you can just draw in audience bucks by keeping the name but erasing all that is good and recognizable from these movies with a ham-handed remake. Just stop it. Please.\n4 Comments\nI’m not sure I’d call 2008 Star Trek a remake so much as a reboot. That’s a bit of semantics, perhaps, but they weren’t really redoing any of the previous movies so much as redoing the whole universe. They certainly weren’t recreating the V’Ger story (thankfully)… though the line is certainly blurrier when it comes to Wrath of Cumberbatch. I’m with you on disliking remakes, though, and I think they should have just done a new Star Trek story. Leave Kirk and Spock alone. There are plenty of characters to use from the novels, if they don’t want to try anything original.\nI think that’s the crux of it. Studios with tight purse strings don’t like risk. So far, they can bank on nostalgia and IP familiarity to alleviate that risk somewhat, so it only makes sense from a financial standpoint to do so. The art suffers, as it almost always does when money is the driver, but that’s sort of inevitable with how much movies cost to make.\nI usually call it Star Trek II: Into Benedict Cumberbatch, but I like Wrath of Cumberbatch. I’m just Wondering what they are going to do with Star Trek III: The search for Genesis. I would assume it involves the vulcans making a Genesis Device to make a NEW new Vulcan, because old new Vulcan isn’t as cool as Old Vulcan, and the Klingons, specifically Kruge, want to weaponize it.\nWhile I do certainly agree with you that many, many remakes are UNNECESSARY (I mean, does anyone still remember the newer ‘Manchurian Candidate’, for example?), regarding them replacing the originals, I’m not sure I really agree. To start with, modern-day internet culture thrives on ‘old VS new’ debates, so there’ll always be SOMEONE – probably lots of someones – digging up the originals so they can see for themselves. For another, many of the films that get remade these days – the new RoboCop, for instance – are already acknowledged classics that have built up their own, multi-generational fanbases, which carry with them innumerable in-jokes, memes, quotes, references, etc. These things don’t just go away, and whether or not the new versions succeed, they’ll have done so by standing on the originals’ shoulders, something which I doubt anyone can be fully unaware of. Even if the new ones are PREFERRED by some of the next generation of whippersnappers, they’ve got to acknowledge that they’re based on classics.\nI blame Battlestar frakking Galactica."}
{"text": "Coon Joint Replacement Institute\nOsteonecrosis (ON)\nYou may hear osteonecrosis referred to as avascular necrosis, aseptic necrosis and ischemic necrosis. The word osteonecrosis literally means “dead bone”.\nEven though medical science has learned a lot about osteonecrosis and its potential causes, research into contributing genetic risk factors is ongoing. To date, we know that a person may be at an increased risk for developing ON if he or she has dislocated or fractured a hip, suffer from alcoholism, use corticosteroids, or have any number of glandular diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, Gaucher’s disease, chronic pancreatitis, Crohn’s disease or lupus.3 the following medications, or a combination of several: non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications (NSAIDs), blood thinners (to increase blood flow to the affected bone) or cholesterol-lowering medications (often called statins), especially if corticosteroid use has elevated your cholesterol that a trained therapist can guide you through specific movements. Some studies have shown that electrical stimulation (a painless, non-invasive therapy) may promote healthy new bone growth.4 tailor."}
{"text": "Friday, June 24, 2005; Page WE12\nTraffic was light on I-66 that morning as we cruised toward the mountains, the sun coming out, green trees flanking the road. My friend Kate popped in an upbeat CD, keeping the volume low enough for conversation. Things were looking good.\nOur destination? The middle of nowhere -- a place we could only dimly imagine, but we'd know it when we saw it. Our desperation? The byproduct of living in the middle of everything, the sirens, the crowds and the wearying go-go-go of the city. Which is how two twenty-somethings found themselves blazing a trail to West Virginia in a rented black Chevy Cobalt in search of a little peace and lots of beautiful scenery.\nStill, I was mindful of what travel writer Jane Ockershausen had told me: \"I think for too many people, getting there is not an enjoyable part of the trip.\" This was a mistake, I vowed, that Kate and I would not make. I'd leafed through numerous guidebooks and talked to several local travel writers. We were well prepared to enjoy every minute of this two-day getaway and return with valuable lessons to share with you, dear readers.\nLesson one: Bring towels.\nOur first stop was Front Royal, Va., and a used bookstore Kate had spotted a sign for on the highway. We headed south onto U.S. 340 (aka South Royal Avenue) to check it out. The Royal Oak Bookshop was a nice surprise: a labyrinth of rooms filled with new and used tomes, audio books, children's lit, guides to nearby Shenandoah National Park and volumes on local Civil War history (207 S. Royal Ave., Front Royal; 540-635-7070. ). Lounging on the counter was the resident feline, all fur and purrs, named Willa Catter, after the great frontier novelist Willa Cather, who, I later discovered, was born about 25 miles north near Winchester. Meeting Willa felt like a good omen for these two westward travelers.\nAnd west we headed, along Route 55, whereupon the landscape dissolved into rolling green hills edged with wildflowers: cornflowers, cosmos, blue lupines and daisies. With the Blue Ridge Mountains surrounding us and the Alleghenies in the distance, we drove into West Virginia under a brilliant blue sky.\nJust after crossing the South Branch of the Potomac River, near Petersburg, we happened upon our next stop: Welton Park . Picnic pavilions, a ball field and a playground spread out beside the road, and a rocky beach led to a swimming hole filled with splashing bathers.\nKate and I couldn't resist. We pulled on our swimsuits and waded into the sun-warmed water, carefully balancing ourselves on the slippery rock river bottom while tiny fish poked at our legs. Next to the river loomed a sheer, red rock wall hundreds of feet high, its summit sprouting wispy trees and its base ringed with lush greenery.\nIt was then that I realized we'd forgotten towels, so we tossed a Frisbee and rode the swings while waiting for our swimsuits to dry. Suddenly, dark clouds filled the sky; we hurried into dry clothes and the car just before the skies opened.\nLesson two: Expect rain.\nAfter a harrowing drive in the pouring rain, Kate and I pulled into Seneca Rocks , a popular climbing spot, where sandstone walls rise nearly 1,000 feet, resembling ragged hatchet blades driven into the forest below. We were hoping to watch climbers scale the rock walls; unfortunately, the rain kept them grounded.\nSeveral guidebooks recommended having lunch at the Front Porch , a spare but cozy restaurant above the jampacked Harper's Old Country Store (at Route 55 and U.S. Highway 33, Seneca Rocks; 304-567-2555. ). After a couple of very satisfying sandwiches, sodas and an apple dumpling, we looked around the store, then hit the road. U.S. 33 led us to Elkins, home of Davis and Elkins College , whose campus boasts Victorian buildings as well as the Augusta Heritage Center , where the focus is on studying and preserving Appalachian folkways (Davis and Elkins College, 100 Campus Dr., Elkins; 304-637-1209. ). Every summer, musicians flock to the college's annual Augusta Heritage Arts Workshops -- a kind of band camp for grown-ups -- followed by the Augusta Festival, a celebration of highlands music and arts."}
{"text": "Researcher puts heat on local runners\nLocal runners feel the heatTALIA SHADWELL\nRelevant offers\nPalmy's balmy weather has played into the hands of a Massey University researcher investigating what happens when the heat is turned up for athletes.\nThe run of hot, dry weather this summer could not have come at a better time for Massey sports and exercise science researcher Dr Toby Mundel. He is interested in measuring the effects of a hot climate on sportspeople - and Palmerston North's fun runners have proven willing guinea pigs.\nNew Zealand is \"not known for being a hot country\", Dr Mundel acknowledged. But while Kiwis had been warned for years about the risks of skin cancers from sun exposure, due to our position under a hole in the ozone layer, little research had been done on the effects of heat on people's ability to exercise here, he said.\n\"The Sun is a lot stronger here in New Zealand,\" he explained. Less pollution and the southern hemisphere's closer position to the Sun during summer than its northern counterpart meant the solar rays were an estimated 10 per cent stronger in New Zealand.\n\"What 25 degrees feels like here is actually much stronger than 25 degrees in Germany, the United States, or Australia.\"\nHe has been tracking runners participating in the Manawatu Striders' popular Super Sevens fun run series, held annually throughout January and February.\nThe research could also have implications for professions where heat was a hazard of the work, including firefighters and soldiers, Dr Mundel said.\nTen Super Sevens runners had volunteered themselves for tests. The study has them swallowing a special pill that enables Dr Mundel to measure their core body heat using a device held up to their stomachs.\nHe also measures their skin temperature and heart rate, takes urine samples and uses a GPS to measure their pace - all evaluated against the climate on each run to track what effect different heats have on their ability and their health.\nHeat could obviously take its toll on athletes' performance - \"people are going to go slower or give up\", Dr Mundel said.\nIt could also lead to heat exhaustion, sun stroke, cramps and illness caused by dehydration.\nStudying the runners through an environmental ergonomics framework could lead to new conclusions about how to combat heat illnesses and lend insight for athletes training to perform in extreme climates.\n- Manawatu Standard\nGovernment announces $303 million overhaul of Fire Service<<"}
{"text": "- The Brazilian Amazon has been transformed from a carbon dioxide sink to a source for new emissions over the past two decades, a new study shows.\n- While the Amazon as a whole, which straddles nine countries, has absorbed about 1.7 billion metric tons of CO2 equivalent more than it has emitted in the past 20 years, the Brazilian portion alone has emitted a net 3.6 billion metric tons during that period.\n- This study by the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) is unique because it was able to go deeper in analyzing changes in forest emissions from different parts of the rainforest compared to previous research, says author Matt Finer.\n- Satellite monitoring data show that formally protected areas and lands controlled by Indigenous peoples hold the best hope for preserving the Amazon and its function as a bulwark against climate change.\nThe Brazilian Amazon has been transformed by fires and deforestation into a net emitter of carbon dioxide, rather than a sink absorbing the greenhouse gas, with dangerous implications for global warming, according to unprecedented research that tracked carbon data across the entire Amazon through satellite mapping data.\nOver the past 20 years, the entire Amazon biome — which also straddles Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela — has been a net carbon sink, removing about 1.7 billion metric tons of CO2 equivalent more than it emitted. But the Brazilian portion of the Amazon, by far the biggest swath, emitted 3.6 billion metric tons of CO2 equivalent more than it sequestered.\nThat’s according to the research published Aug. 25 by the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP), an initiative of U.S.-based nonprofit the Amazon Conservation Association. On an annual basis, that’s about three times as much CO2 as the city of New York emits each year, according to calculations based on data from Carbon Visuals, a tracking site.\n“For the first time, we have carbon data across the entire Amazon,” said Matt Finer, director of the MAAP and senior research specialist at the ACA.\nThis study is unique, he said, because it was able to “go deeper” in analyzing changes in forest emissions from different parts of the rainforest compared to previous research.\n“Brazil literally has tipped as a whole from a [carbon] sink to a source, but the western Amazon and northeastern Amazon are keeping it together as a sink,” Finer said. “All of a sudden you go from the [Brazilian] Amazon to being a key buffer against climate change to putting its foot on the accelerator.”\nCritical link between Deforestation & Fire & Climate Change in Brazilian Amazon\nIn 2021, this area goes from carbon-rich rainforest to carbon up in smoke to the sky\nLiterally climate change before your eyes pic.twitter.com/YHriWhv5OG\n— Matt Finer (@MattFiner) August 27, 2021\nThe MAAP findings add more weight to the scientific consensus that parts of the Amazon have been transformed into net carbon emitters, said Nancy Harris, research director of the forest program at the World Resources Institute (WRI), a global nonprofit organization.\n“The Amazon is one of the more well-studied rainforest regions of the world. When you have one paper that makes this shocking finding that the Amazon is no longer a carbon sink, you say that’s an interesting finding,” Harris told Mongabay in a phone interview. “But more and more research coming out of this area, using different CO2 measurements and making the same conclusions, is starting to resonate with people.”\nPrevious studies, including one published by Harris and her team at WRI in January that provided the raw data used in the MAAP research, established that parts of the Amazon now emit more CO2 than they sequester.\n“We can’t blame scientific uncertainty; that reason for inaction [on climate change and deforestation] does not exist anymore,” Harris said.\nIn July, a study published in Nature also showed that the Brazilian Amazon is emitting more carbon than it captures. The research, led by Luciana Gatti from Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE), was the first to use direct atmospheric measurements across a wide geographic region, collected over nearly a decade and accounting for background concentrations of atmospheric gases.\nRecent fires in the Brazilian Amazon, worsened by logging and other human activities, have intensified the forest’s transformation to a carbon source, Finer said. “The Amazon fires are just like this smoking visualization of what we are talking about: this was carbon in the rainforest, now it’s carbon in the atmosphere.”\nOutside Brazil, however, the rest of the Amazon is still a net sink for carbon dioxide, according to the MAAP analysis. The northeastern Amazon, including sparsely populated countries such as Guyana and Suriname, fared the best of all regions in the world’s largest rainforest for CO2 emissions from the forest, according to the MAAP research.\nFears of ‘double tipping point’\nForests act as a carbon sink because trees absorb CO2 from the atmosphere through the process of photosynthesis. That CO2 is then sequestered, or stored, in the trees’ trunks, leaves and roots.\nIndigenous territories and protected areas have been especially effective carbon sinks compared to other parts of the Amazon, the MAAP research found, while lands outside of these conservation zones have often been sources of new carbon emissions. This underscores how the administration of President Jair Bolsonaro — which has railed against demarcating new Indigenous territories and sought to strip away existing protections — has been particularly bad for conservation and climate change mitigation.\n“It reinforces what has been known: protected areas are less deforested than unprotected areas,” Philip Fearnside, a research professor in the department of environmental dynamics at the National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA) in Manaus, Brazil, told Mongabay of the MAAP research. Fearnside, who has studied deforestation in the Amazon for decades, wasn’t involved in the MAAP study. “The paper reinforces the need to maintain protected areas and take measures to deal with fires and deforestation.”\nDeforestation along major highways cutting through Brazil’s rainforest, such as the BR-163 roadway in northern Amazonas state, has played a key role in undermining the Amazon’s capacity to absorb CO2 and act as a buffer against climate change, according to the MAAP research.\nLarge clusters of deforestation, transforming parts of the Amazon into sources of carbon emissions as shown in the MAAP data, are directly tied to highways allowing loggers, farmers and land speculators easier access to the forest, Fearnside said.\nThis situation could worsen under a plan by some Brazilian lawmakers, backed by Bolsonaro, to build another highway through the Amazon connecting Brazil to the Pacific coast via Peru, Fearnside said. The proposal calls for downgrading the protected status of Serra do Divisor National Park, a protected area on the Brazil-Peru border, allowing the motorway to cut through the park’s territory.\n“That is a huge block of forest that is basically untouched,” Fearnside said of the park and surrounding forest, an important carbon sink. If the highway is built, the area could easily switch into becoming another part of the Amazon that’s a CO2 emitter, he added.\nFiner said the Amazon faces two potential “tipping points” for irreparable degradation. The first, which has been well documented in previous studies, involves deforestation and changing rain patterns transforming swaths of the rainforest into a drier, sparser savanna, he said. The second, interconnected, tipping point is the Amazon’s shift from carbon sink to carbon source.\n“We are in the early stages of talking about this double tipping point — as if one tipping point was not enough,” Finer said.\nPassing these tipping points will have major impacts on climate systems beyond South America, Harris said. “The planet’s systems are all connected; what happens in one area of the world impacts other areas, based on how water and energy flow,” she said. “If we are removing rainforest ecosystems in the Amazon, that is going to impact climate conditions in the central breadbasket in the U.S.”\nProtected areas and Indigenous reserves “are still the critical piece holding this all together,” Finer said. “They represent the short-, medium- and long-term best bet in keeping the Amazon as a carbon sink.”\nBanner image: Recent fires in the Brazilian Amazon, along with logging and other human activities, have intensified the forest’s transformation to a carbon source, according several scientific studies. Image courtesy by Sergio Vale/Acre state.\nFEEDBACK: Use this form to send a message to the author of this post. If you want to post a public comment, you can do that at the bottom of the page.\nCitations:\nFiner, M., & Mamani, N. (2021). The Amazon & climate change: Carbon sink vs carbon source (#144). Retrieved from MAAP website:\nHarris, N. L., Gibbs, D. A., Baccini, A., Birdsey, R. A., De Bruin, S., Farina, M., … Tyukavina, A. (2021). Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes. Nature Climate Change, 11(3), 234-240. doi:10.1038/s41558-020-00976-6"}
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{"text": "- RainbowDash20PercentCooler thinks \"The 12 Meanest Ways To Tip A Waiter\" is LOL\n- Response to The 12 Meanest Ways To Tip A Waiter:\nI.\nThe Prince and Princess of Britain.\n- Response to 10 Celebrity Tweets You Missed Today:\nNot really, if he was smart he would know the whole charge your shit at night routine. That way your charge them while you’re asleep. Then they are ready for you in the day.\nAll she does is sit on E!s stupid fashion police show talking crap about other celebrities outfits.\nLady Gaga has an real career, what the hell does Kelly Osborne even do? Kelly is only famous because of her dad and MTV. Also How the hell can Lady Gaga control every fan of hers?\n- RainbowDash20PercentCooler thinks \"Kelly Osbourne Covers Cosmo, Restarts...\" is Trashy\n- Response to Ryan Gosling Won’t Eat His Cereal:\nWtf XD!\nI’d ship them!\n- Response to Why We Need To Save “Bunheads”:\nI like this show! They better renew it!\nDestiel\n- RainbowDash20PercentCooler \"Emma Stone Adorably Photobombed Andre...\"\n- Response to Emma Stone Adorably Photobombed Andrew Garfield:\nEmma Stone is so awesome!\n- RainbowDash20PercentCooler \"22 Sight-Gags You May Have Missed In ...\"\nNUMBER 9! The Original Shining Armor!"}
{"text": "301 Church St, New York, NY \| Directions 1001340.719384 -74.004418\nNeighborhoods: Tribeca, Downtown\nTERRIBLE ... DO NOT GO HERE! – TERRIBLE SERVICE, Not so good food.\nI came here for lunch with three friends. We only had an hour for lunch because we had to be back for class. We ordered as soon as we sat down so that we would be out on time. As we were waiting for our food the dark haired manager there ran some other customers stroller into the back of my friends chair, and did not even appologize. Our food came out about 25 minutes later, and when it did my mushroom frittata was disgusting, I tried to eat it but simply could not. The restaurant was not very busy, but I could not get our servers attention for more that 10 minutes. I tried to see if the bus boy could get her but he never did so I got up and got her. I decided to just order the pancakes now, because that could take long right... they are pancakes... well 16 minutes later... still no pancakes, so I simply let the manager know that I would not be able to wait any longer for them. She went up to the kitchen window and very loudly she said to the cook \" we dont need to pancakes anymore...and dont worry its not your fault ITS HERS\" and she glared over at me. Not only was my food bad but two of my friends order the same sandwich and it had no flavor at all. They both asked for some dressing of some sort to put on it to spice it up, which of course was a pain for the server. DO NOT GO HERE! You will regret it!\nFlavorless price gouging in a lovely stark chic setting – I would say zero stars but the fantastic marinara dipping sauce (served with wretched calamari) with fresh garlic was so fantastic, i'll give this place one star.\nas a goodwill gesture to my fellow man, i beg everyone DO NOT GO HERE or else you're wasting your money! don't get the Prix Fixe for $25 because you will have to stop next door at Subway to actually eat something or else you'll walk in as hungry as you walked out! Calamari was horrible, total rubber, not fresh. The breading on calamari was great but the actual calamari inside was just awful. Not just bad, but awful! However, it got worse. The entree was the worst. I got the pesto gnocchi with potatoes which was ABSOLUTELY FLAVORLESS. i did not feel comfortable enough to complain because i was alone and in a rush trying to see a show in 45 minutes around the corner on Walker St but i was so mad at myself for dropping the $30 (incl tip) on such CRAPPY food that i wanted to cry. You could not pay me to eat here again. Lovely building, vibe, design and service but if you actually are HUNGRY, don't waste your money here. The 3rd part of my prix fixe 'trio' was the ricotta cheesecake. I'd gotten that to go because i was so angry at this point that i just decided to leave. it took FOREVER just to get a slice of cheesecake wrapped up for me to take with me. Ridiculous. i have never left a restaurant so angry. the only reason i gave this ANY stars was that the ricotta cheesecake was DELICIOUS. really stellar. sadly though, the restaurant managed to foul up again by giving me THE SADDEST, smallest slice of cheesecake EVER in this ridiculously GIGANTIC takeout container. so after carrying around this huge takeout container all night, i finally did get home and thought, ok, i hope this ricotta cheesecake is worth the overpriced $30 dinner....it was like 2 bites....RIDICULOUS.\ni gave this place a fair chance. i wanted to like it. i just wish i hadn't ordered the prix fixe. the other option i considered was ordering just one entree, maybe the lasagna, i thought. but i love calamari and i THOUGHT this place could do it right. but NO. so please people, do NOT WASTE your money. i am still so angry about getting screwed over and knowing i'll never get my $30 back....and ironically, i'm still starving.\nwanna be still hungry when you leave? wanna walk out feeling like someone f-ed you without lube? wanna leave utterly unsatisfied? THEN EAT AT BREAD TRIBECA!\nThe Best Chicken Salad in Town – Best Chicken Salad in town. Delicious skirt stake salad. Should you be in the mood for seafood, their octopus meal is memorable, you will go back for it again. They also have a great bottle of Rioja, if you care. Best way to spend a long lunch in a trendy Tribeca spot, close to everything. Not to destroy their coffee sales, but get the coffee after your meal next door at La Colomba, the uncontested best coffee in NYC. Sit by the bar, and get taken care of attentive staff. Very highly recommend it.\nToo pricey for a neighborhood place! – It used to be a good neighborhood restaurant, but it has now priced itself out of the market - $20 for an average plate of pasta is just too much! The decor is fine, but the seasoning on the entrees is not great, and the service is just OK - at this price-point, I expect better.\nAverage dining in Tribeca – I did not like Bread Tribecca. I dined there last night for the first time. The room was nice, the lighting was pleasant and the location convenient, and the company lovely, however, that is where this positive review ends. The food was too rich, too greasy, and just not lovingly prepared by a knowledgeable chef. The service was average. The wine was average. The atmosphere was average. In a city like New York a diner with standards can do much better than this. Do not waste your time.\nBest restaurant ever!!!!! – Me and my husband, my best friends and my neighbous go to Bread Trbeca all the time. It is a very busy and very popular place, so sometimes, even us being regulars, we have to wait for a table for 30 minutes, because that;s what happens with great places that serve great food! And trust me: it's well worth the wait! I have been coming there with my husband for 4 years now and sometimes the place is completely overflown by people and sometimes we had to wate but everybody there has been more than nice and polite to us and the food was well worth the wait! We live around the corner and Bread Tribeca is our favorite place in the whole neighborhood. As far as I am concerned: I worked in restaurants in NYC through out college and I know that sometimes things can go bad but - I love Bread Tribeca and everybody in the neighbourhood loves it too. Amazing food and great customer care a far as I am concerned.\nPoor Service, Bigotry of Staff – The staff at this place are bigots..\nView more Reviews for Bread in Tribeca -\nSign in with Facebook Sign in with Facebook to see what your friends are up to!\nDo you have a review of Bread."}
{"text": "On Monday about 150 people met on the first floor of the Wisconsin Capitol Building to air Festivus grievances, sing, and bask in each other’s company.\nGreg “Commish” Gordon had vision enough to submit a permit request for this event in April of 2013. I wasn’t feeling very confident that the permit would get approved. The Wisconsin Department of Administration was the permitting agency and this agency had taken an intense disliking to noontime Solidarity Sing Along participants like Greg.\nAlso, WI DOA had concern over whether the traditional Festivus “feats of strength” would fit into the D.O.A. Facilities Access Policy despite assurances from Greg that the activities would be along the lines of what lobbyists do and “nothing dangerous – perhaps someone holding up a briefcase full of Monopoly money for the hour”. Greg got word that the Festivus pole would be permitted by May 6th and on May 20th he learned he could have a permit for his event on the condition that he got liability insurance. In August, Greg decided to drop the feats from his event agenda. Still, he didn’t see the event show up on the DOA events calendar until November 14th.\nThus, it was a Festivus miracle to see the permit approved in time and to see so many assemble for the formal celebration of what some in the press have called “a fake holiday”.\nA phalanx of professional reporters assembled ’round the Festivus pole with us to dutifully hold audio recorders and cameras and scribble notes. A young woman approached me to ask a question and I learned she was from the New Yorker. The New Yorker!\nMemo to self: Next time daily mass arrests break out in your capitol building and the press is ignoring it, consider celebrating a “fake holiday”.\nGreg Gordon acted as our Master of Ceremonies and Martina Rippon began to read grievances submitted earlier by visitors to the Festivus display. Martina’s recitations broke the ice and people began to approach the megaphone.\nGripes ranged from giggle-generators like “Wisconsin doesn’t rhyme” to painful truths such as, “$7.25 is not a living wage”.\nI took a few short grievance videos.\nBelow: Our governor does not value education,\npublic schools are being squeezed and denigrated and our DNR is no longer protecting our environment.\nBelow: Kathleen Wied Vincent is a little too positive for this grievance thing. 🙂\nBelow: “you couldn’t smooth a silk sheet…”,\n“the day that Russia is freeer than us…”,\n2 4 6 8 Walker…,\nMark Pocan did not give a woman her T-shirt prize as promised\nThen we moved on to singing.\nBelow you’ll see a video of the final verse from “The Twelve Days of the Crackdown”:\nOn the 12th day of the crackdown, the cops put in handcuffs:\nBlack men with pain compliance, An observer who wasn’t singing,\nFirefighter heroes, Fourteen year old Lydia,\nPublic Union Workers, Sixteen year old Jack,\nVets with flags-a-waving, THE RAGING GRANNIES!,\nTeaching assistants, A Lutheran minister,\nVeterans for Peace, And an octogenarian!\nHere’s some “Solidarity Forever”:\nFollowing, we delivered a pair of professional fireproof “proximity” firefighting pants to Scott Walker. It was my silly idea to give something like this to Walker to protect him from “Pants on Fire” Politifact ratings and it would probably have remained just an idea if it weren’t for the Wisconsin Transparency Force taking it very seriously. Thanks W.T.F. and special thanks to Greg Gelembiuk for leading on that!\nFestivus Wisconsin-style was a fabulous day of cookies, honesty, hugs, song, noise, and laughter.\nI can’t wait for the next one!\nCan we submit the permit request on January 1st this time?!\nSee a set of 13 Festivus photos on my flickr account.\nFootnote:\nSpecial Thanks go to Bob Bergman for making sure we had a high quality megaphone at the last minute. That was a Festivus miracle, too!\nArthur K.R. left a lot of video of the event with me and I have my own video of the pants hand-off but I haven’t had time to do things with that yet given the holidaze.\nPost was edited on 12/27 to add info on feats of strength/permit delay."}
{"text": "Linda Hickey\nBroker/Owner\nLinda Hickey is the new sole owner of Hickey and the business every day. You will find her in the office from 8:00 AM, ready to serve you.\nFormerly an award-winning Prudential, Carll Burr, Merril Lynch agent, Linda and her former partner started Hickey and.\nBrian Hickey\nLicensed Sales Agent\nBrian Hickey has been a dedicated, hard-working agent since 1994. He is wise with an understanding of the business and has proven himself to be one of the top agents in the company. He handles a transaction smoothly from beginning to end. His dedication plus good understanding of people makes Brian an outstanding agent. He's respected by both agents and clients and is very important to wholesale led lights the agency- His experience in all aspects of residential and commercial, leasing and New Construction as well as condos and co-ops is extensive. The competitive and fast-paced real estate industry needs and appreciates the efficient, practical and responsive way Brian keeps his clients \"ahead of the pack\".\nStanley Brown\nLicensed Sales Agent\nI have been working in the Three Village Area since 1980. Not only in Real Estate but other businesses. In 1996, I established a wine boutique\nbusiness and conducted a Wine Appreciation Class at Dowling College. In addition, a Commercial Real Estate business was developed. My\nbackground also includes Medical Administrator and Medical Building Owner. Presently all my effort is now directed to both Residential and\nCommercial Real Estate and look forward to working with you to find you the right home and or property.\nVictoria Gargano\nLicensed Sales Agent"}
{"text": "Over the weekend, we ran off to Chamonix Mont-Blanc, France for some spring skiing. We skied the slopes on Brévent & Flégère and enjoyed it tremendously. Due to warm spring temperatures and lack of recent snowfall, the snow conditions weren’t optimal but it was a welcomed experience to ski in the French Alps.\nChamonix is located in the south-eastern part of France (in the north-western part of the Alps) with a population of around 10,000. Being a part of this majestic mountainous area, Chamonix provides breathtaking views in any direction you care to look. The entire area is an outdoor enthusiast’s playground as it offers loads of winter and summer activities like skiing, rock climbing, mountain biking, hiking and rafting. Chamonix was also the site of the first Olympic Winter Games held in 1924.\nBesides our day on the slopes, we also went to see one of Chamonix’s special attractions—the Mer de Glace glacier (see photo at top of post). We took a short train ride from Chamonix village on the Montenvers Train (which began operating in 1908) and snaked our way up the side of the mountain range for indescribable views of the valley and, of course, the Alps. The Montenvers Station is built on a ridge overlooking the Mer de Glace glacier and surrounded by Les Drus, Les Grands Jorasses and the Aiguille du Grepon peaks. At the station we watched droves of skiers complete their journey down the famous Vallée Blanche—an off-trail ski route 20 miles long with a vertical descent of almost 9,000 feet (see photo below). Kevin said he will return to do this.\nWe took the small cable car from Montenvers Station to a platform midway down and then descended approximately 300 stairs until we reached the glacier to check out the man made ice grotto (caves carved out of the ice).\nUpon return to Chamonix valley, the sun was out and the sky was a brilliant blue—a sight we haven’t seen in months! (Sorry, London.) We ate lunch outside, sipped French Wine and reveled in the moment. Ahh, Magnifique!"}
{"text": "Ninja Man E-Liquid\nFlavour: Ninja Man by Entourage Vapor is an smooth chocolate milk flavour with a mixture of smooth chocolate and fresh milk.\nSweet on the inhale and super creamy on the exhale, with the smoothest blanket of chocolate from start to finish!\nPG/VG Ratio: 30/70\n60ml 3mg\nMore from this collection"}
{"text": "The Eye of the Needle By Abigail Petit (Limited Edition)\n£7.95\nIn this true story of her journey to the Eye of the Needle, to the place inside where she is connected to the force of life in people everywhere, Abigail Petit, co-founder of Gossypium, shares her experience learning about the way clothes are made.\nSuitable for adults and children and everyone interested in sustainable clothing.\nThis book was originally written for workshops in schools to explain the sustainability problems with clothing. This book won first prize in 2005 Arts & Business Awards.\n\"I read it and it was very inspiring\" - Georgie (aged 8)\nEvery copy is handed signed by Abigail herself."}
{"text": "Inflation is stable and overheating fears in the economy are over, setting the case for a boost to lending. Financial industry insiders believe the stage is set for the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to effect a cut in its key policy rate for the first time in more than four years, when it reviews monetary policy on October 24.\nThe cut in the repo (repurchase) rate is expected to be a steeper 50 basis points, to signal a strong shift in policy focus to growth from inflation. Repo rate is the rate at which RBI provides funds to banks against the collateral of government bonds for a day to three days.\n“We would not be surprised if a 50 basis points (0.5 percentage point) repo rate cut is delivered on or by the October policy meeting,” said Manas Paul, Economist with Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.\nSaugata Bhattacharya, vice-president at Axis Bank also expects the RBI to cut its repo rate by 50 basis points on October 24 to 8.5 per cent from 9 per cent."}
{"text": "Been ina pretty shit mood today tbh. Thought i'd visit 'blogger' n see how religeously a certain someone updates it. Was appalled to see. But definitly some things made me smile/chuckle ina funny kinda way.\nOBVIOUSLY.\n\"There's one in all of us?\"\nLooks like thts a happening thing then?\nAsking the doc whats wrong? What am I gonna do with ya. Always crook with more than just your health! Sore tongues, Tiredness, Sore Feet. Needa get better... Not aloud to see each other sick anymore iv decided. Vicious circle between colds. dunno wat it is about our combination.\n\"sat in the spa, by myself. looking up at the somewhat clear sky. and realised, i have nothing to complain about.\"\nThought this one backfired a tad, Why would u complain if u got a spa?!\nIts getting late, the eggs crashed. Needa holiday, fiji. or atleast a beach! for now ill just keep plodding along n hope for some more time to chill the fak"}
{"text": "Are you weighing up your options for baby clothes and wondering what the best choice is for you? It doesn’t matter if you’re finding out the sex or not, there are loads of reasons to choose unisex newborn baby clothes. It’s a great way to ensure you get maximum re-use value for future brothers and sisters and the clothes do NOT have to be boring.\nEven if you know the gender of your baby, you don’t have to exclusively dress your little one in pink or blue – neutrals, monochrome, yellow and green all look great on baby! And who said boys can’t wear some pink and girls can’t wear some blue?!\nWhy Choose Unisex Newborn Baby Clothes?\nIf you’ve found out whether you’re having a boy or a girl, you might think that unisex clothes are just too plain.\nBut, there are loads of reasons to go unisex! It’s:\n- Practical – if this is your first baby and you plan to have another (or more than one!) spending your baby clothes budget on sturdy, well-made unisex clothes that will see you through multiple babies just makes sense.\n- Trendy – have you noticed more and more moms dressing their babies like little adults and the huge increase in baby clothes in black and grey? My mom does NOT approve… but I love black and grey for babies! It’s very stylish and works well with whatever accessories or outerwear you want to add to your baby’s outfit.\n- Perfect for Team Green – if you aren’t finding out the gender of your baby, buying unisex is the only way to go… at least for the newborn stage. You can buy boy or girl specific outfits once your baby is born in the larger sizes.\nWhat Do You Need for Your Newborn’s Unisex Closet?\nEvery item you need for a newborn can be bought unisex. Obviously, you won’t be choosing any dresses and hair bows… but focusing on the core baby clothes needs.\nA newborn doesn’t need much in the way of clothes or styles.\nFor my first baby, I found it easiest to put him in simple long sleeved (preferably with inbuilt mittens), footed one piece sleepers/onesies. There’s no real need to ‘get baby dressed for the day’, because newborns keep odd hours and will spend much of the day sleeping.\nYour mileage may vary! You may have a baby who spits up a lot – in that case you might find it easier to put your newborn in separate tops and bottoms so you can just change the top if it gets messed on.\n7-12 One Piece Outfits\nOne piece outfits are the absolute staple for newborn clothes – so make sure you have plenty! 7 would be the bare minimum I recommend getting, however, it depends on how often you intend to do laundry.\nSmart Buying Tips:\nChoose zip up outfits for convenience and ease of use. And if you can (and the weather is cool enough), get the ones with fold over cuffs (in-built mittens!) and foot covers so you won’t need to worry about separate mittens and socks (which often come off).\nHere are some cute examples:\nCheck it out here! (Iconic Aussie brand 🙂 )\n5-7 T-Shirts (Long or Short Sleeve) or Sleeveless Vests with Snap Crotch\nThe second most important newborn clothes staple is the snap crotch t-shirt (also known as a bodysuit… among other things).\nIn warm weather you can dress baby in these alone or with shorts or leggings. In cool weather, these work well under your one piece outfits for added warmth. The snap crotch is a must to keep the shirts from riding up.\nNewborns tend to not like having anything pulled over their heads, so consider getting a kimono-style wrap front version. Though keep in mind that increases the number of snaps you’ll have to do up!\nSome unisex examples:\n1-2 Sweaters or Jackets\nFor cold weather, add a sweater or jacket to your list.\nHere are some incredibly cute examples (that make me want to have a winter baby!!!):\n5-7 pairs of baby socks\nNewborn babies don’t do much with their feet, but socks are great to keep those tootsies warm. Even if you’re using mostly footed clothes, there’s still going to be times when you need socks.\nHot tip: pick up a mesh laundry bag to contain those itty bitt socks in the wash so they don’t go missing.\nHere are some cute examples:\n2-3 Wearable Blankets or Swaddle/Sleeping Bags\nIf you’re in a colder climate, make sure you include some wearable blankets. And even if you’re in a warmer climate, make sure you have 2-3 swaddles or swaddle bags ready to go.\nMy favorite are the Love to Dream Swaddle Up bags. They worked wonders with my son and getting him to sleep longer at night. However, I recently realised that other babies might NOT love them as much as mine… all babies are different after all. So here are some options for you:\n1-2 Hats (Mostly for Cold Weather Babies)\nFor cold weather babies you’ll need warm hats to keep baby warm outdoors. For a summer baby, hats aren’t necessary to stay warm. You may want to get a sunhat if you intend to wear your baby in a baby carrier outdoors in the summer.\nOptional Items\n- 5-7 leggings – if you prefer to use separate tops and bottoms for your baby, soft stretchy leggings are a must. I would avoid all fashionable and non-stretchy fabrics (like denim, or even cotton) because it’s just so much easier to get stretchy leggings on and off. My little one (he’s 3) still wears leggings in the winter.\n- 1 fleece suit – for very cold weather babies\n- 1 baby bunting – for very cold weather babies\n- crib shoes – if your baby is always wriggling out of his socks, try popping some soft crib shoes over the top.\nMore On Baby Clothes\n- Cute Clothes for Baby – Boys, Girls and Unisex Inspo\n- Baby Clothes: Everything a First Time Mom Needs to Know\n- Baby Clothes Organizer Ideas – 19 Little Known Hacks You’ll Wish You Knew Sooner\n- 10 Shops Killing It With Unisex Clothes for Babies and Kids"}
{"text": "A SAUCY PIZZA shop employee with pie-in-the-sky hopes bribed an undercover worker from the Inspector General's Office to pass health inspections at two of the pizzeria's locations earlier this year, according to the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office.\nAdolfo Delacruz, 35, an employee of Stacy's Pizzeria, which has locations on Market Street near 42nd in West Philadelphia and on Drexel Road near Haverford Avenue in Overbrook Park, has been charged with two counts of bribery.\nAn employee with the Inspector General's Office who was wired as part of the investigation posed as a health inspector and visited the Stacy's Pizzeria location in Overbrook Park on Sept. 20.\nWhen met at the location by Delacruz, the undercover investigator dropped the words \"mouse feces\" and said the restaurant had previously been given a negative inspection and that it may not pass inspection this year, prosecutors said.\nThat's when Delacruz allegedly offered the undercover investigator $500 to pass the inspection and to not return for a year. The fake health inspector accepted the bribe and handed over compliance paperwork to Delacruz without performing an inspection, the District Attorney's Office said.\nFinding the bribe as easy as pie, Delacruz then asked the undercover investigator if he could get the same deal for the pizzeria's West Philly location, according to prosecutors.\nOn Oct. 8, the inspector met Delacruz at that location and again accepted $500 to give him a passing grade without conducting an inspection, the District Attorney's Office said. On top of that, Delacruz allegedly asked the undercover investigator about renewing an expired food license at the pizzeria.\nIn a moment of honesty amid fraud, Delacruz called the inspector after he left on Oct. 8 and told him that the bribe he'd just paid him was $20 short and he was sorry, prosecutors said. The undercover investigator told him not to worry about it.\nA spokeswoman for the District Attorney's Office said the Inspector General's Office brought the case to their attention and the two agencies worked together to nab Delacruz.\nThe spokeswoman did not know what sparked the investigation or what title Delacruz holds at Stacy's Pizzeria.\nDelacruz was not available for comment at either of the locations last night, according to employees.\nOnline: ph.ly/crime\nBlog: ph.ly/Delco"}
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{"text": "The Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC) is committed to supporting chemists and other chemical sciences professionals in developing their careers. As part of our ongoing efforts in this area we are offering complimentary registration to the 102nd Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CCCE 2019) to eligible CSC members who are New Assistant Professors and New Entrepreneurs.\nAttending a CSC conference is a valuable way to develop and expand your network of connections in the Canadian and global chemistry community.\nThis complimentary registration is a commitment by the CSC to support professionals in the earliest stage of their career as a new Assistant Professor or new Entrepreneur. This is a one-time promotional offer for Assistant Professors and for Entrepreneurs within the first 5 years of their venture. If you meet all the criteria below, you may qualify for a conference fee waiver code.\nTo receive this offer, you must be:\n- a professor within 5 years of starting an Assistant Professor position, or an Entrepreneur within the first 5 years of incorporation\n- a full-fee member of the Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC) - Become a Member\n- based at a Canadian institution (Assistant Professors), or incorporated in Canada (Entrepreneurs)\n- receiving this one-time complimentary registration offer for the first time\nIf you meet all the above criteria, please complete the Application Form to apply for complimentary CCCE 2019 conference registration.\nBe sure to complete the application before registering for the conference. The application, if successful, will result in a waiver code being issued to you, for you to use when registering that will reduce the conference registration fee to $0. Please note that it may take up to 3-4 business days for your application to be processed.\nIf you have questions about this program or eligibility, please contact ccce@cheminst.ca."}
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{"text": "• Flynn and Other Campaign Staff had at Least 18 Contacts with Russia During Campaign\n• Conservatives Are Beginning to Whisper \"President Pence\"\n• What Did Pence Know and When Did He Know It?\n• Democrats Should Not Be Demanding that Trump Be Impeached\n• FBI Director...Lieberman?\n• Gowdy Could Become Chairman of House Oversight Committee\n• Former Israeli Spies Blast Trump\n• Clarke Set to Accept Position in Trump Administration\n• Roger Ailes Dies\nTrump Claims He Is a Victim of the Greatest Witch Hunt in American History\nWhen the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel was announced on Tuesday, President Donald Trump took it in stride. Yesterday, he began to realize what was about to happen and tweeted, \"With all of the illegal acts that took place in the Clinton campaign & Obama Administration, there was never a special councel [sic] appointed.\" A few minutes later he sent out a second tweet: \"This is single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history.\" Then he added that there was no collusion between him and the Russians.\nWhile it is true there were no special counselors investigating Clinton and Obama, there was no shortage of congressional investigations of them. But it is beside the point now whether there were investigations of the Obama administration or the Harding administration or any other administration. There is a serious investigation of the Trump administration now, and no amount of tweeting is going to make it go away.\nMaybe there is a lot of smoke here and no fire (but see below). Still, an innocent person would probably welcome an investigation by a universally respected counsel whose final report saying \"The president and his associates have done absolutely nothing wrong\" would end the matter forever. Most likely Trump knows that the report is not going to say that. (V)\nFlynn and Other Campaign Staff had at Least 18 Contacts with Russia During Campaign\nReuters is reporting that Michael Flynn and other advisers to Donald Trump had at least 18 calls and emails with high-placed Russians during the election campaign. These contacts were previously undisclosed. The FBI is now looking at them. Six of them were calls to the Russian ambassador, Sergei Kislyak. What they talked about has not been disclosed. The other 12 calls and emails were between Trump's campaign advisers and top Russian officials. Also contacted was Ukrainian oligarch and politician Viktor Medvedchuk, who has denied that he had any contact with anyone on Trump's team.\nWhile it is not illegal, per se, for members of a campaign to talk to Russian officials, it is unusual. Richard Armitage, a former deputy secretary of state in the George W. Bush administration, said: \"It's rare to have that many phone calls to foreign officials, especially to a country we consider an adversary or a hostile power.\" (V)\nConservatives Are Beginning to Whisper \"President Pence\"\nAlthough most Republican politicians are still supporting Donald Trump in public, in private they are wetting their pants. Not only do they run the risk of being attached to him if things get worse, but they also know while the scandals mount, there is little chance for getting their agenda through Congress. To many conservatives, a President Pence looks like a lifesaver. Not only is he thought to be squeaky clean (though see below), he is much more focused and knows how to govern. With him in the Oval Office, Republicans in Congress could possibly get their agenda carried out.\nNevertheless, in the event that Trump ceases to be president, by whatever means, Pence would still be tainted by the fact that he supported Trump through thick and thin. He might also have to deal with a last minute demand from Trump on his way out the door: \"Hey, Mike. I want a pardon.\" Pence knows very well what happened to Jerry Ford after he pardoned Richard Nixon: He lost his election bid in 1976. If Pence granted the pardon, Democrats would instantly hate him as much as they hate Trump. If he didn't grant the pardon, Trump's supporters would be furious with him. There is no easy way out for him if it comes to this. If forced to choose, he would probably grant the pardon since he is better off in 2020 having alienated Democrats than Republicans. (V)\nWhat Did Pence Know and When Did He Know It?\nThe New York Times has reported that former NSA Michael Flynn told the Trump transition team's chief lawyer, Donald McGahn, on Jan. 4 that he was under federal investigation as an unregistered paid foreign agent. In March, Vice President Mike Pence said that he had just learned of Flynn's work as a Turkish agent. Josh Marshall, of Talking Points Memo, tries to connect the dots here. Pence was the head of the transition team, and McGahn reported to him.\nMarshall raises the question of whether McGahn relayed this bit of information to his boss, Pence, or kept it a secret, even though he knew Flynn was in line to get one of the most sensitive positions in government. If McGahn didn't tell his boss that the person about to be named NSA was a foreign agent, he is guilty of gross malfeasance, or worse. This seems somewhat unlikely, however. If he told Pence about it immediately, which is more probable, then Pence lied in March when he said he had just learned about it. If Robert Mueller ever gets Pence and McGahn under oath, he might want to inquire about the matter. not a real Republican: On many issues, such as immigration, walls, trade, Russia, and Social Security, Trump is not a conventional Republican. His positions on these issues are far from those of Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI). For Democrats, having a president who is not interested in passing Ryan's agenda is actually a plus.\n-.\n- Losing white voters: If the Democrats take the lead in getting rid of Trump, the white working-class voters who put him in the Oval Office will be furious with the Democrats and make it impossible to win them back. If the Democrats sit back and do nothing, letting the Republicans impeach Trump, then those voters will be furious with the Republican establishment, not with the Democrats. Subsequent Democratic appeals to them on economic grounds—say, the program of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)—might have a chance.\nIn short, be very careful about what you wish for. You might get it. (V)\nFBI Director...Lieberman?\nDonald Trump very much wanted to have a new FBI Director in place by the time he left for his first foreign trip today. So, he has been interviewing candidates at a feverish pace. On Thursday, we learned that one of the late entries—and, by many accounts, the favorite to get the job—is former senator and vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman.\nTrump's thinking here is plain enough. First, he reportedly had a good interview with Lieberman, and was happy about their rapport. Further, he presumes that a former Democrat and former senator will attract confirmation votes that other nominees might not, both from current Democratic senators, and from friend-of-Lieberman but foe-of-Trump Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). The appointment might also curry favor with Jewish voters, which is a plus. Finally, it would be an \"outside the box\" appointment, and Trump likes those.\nAnd now, the problems. Lieberman is 75, which is rather advanced in age to be taking on such a substantial job, even if he does not serve the full 10-year term. Further, the assumption that Democrats will support \"one of their own\" is dubious—they largely regard him as a traitor these days, thanks to his near-run for VP as a Republican and his attacks on Barack Obama. He's also got limited law enforcement experience; only his service as attorney general of Connecticut 30 years ago. And he would be the first politician to lead the Bureau, which might jeopardize the institution's reputation for being apolitical. This would likely aggravate the FBI's rank-and-file.\nEvidence suggests that Trump was ready to pull the trigger on Lieberman, but his staff pleaded with him to reconsider, or at least to take some time before making such a critical decision. They are very much hoping the bloom comes off the Lieberman rose very quickly, and that by the time Trump returns to the U.S., a more traditional candidate will have caught The Donald's eye. We should know how it turns out by the end of next week, at the latest. (Z)\nGowdy Could Become Chairman of House Oversight Committee\nRep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) has announced that he will resign from Congress on June 30. At the moment, he is chairman of the House Oversight Committee, which is investigating Donald Trump's connection to Russia. Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) is already lobbying for his job. Gowdy has a great deal of experience running investigations. For more than 2 years he hounded Hillary Clinton about Benghazi in a way that puts Inspector Javert to shame. Whether he would pursue Trump with the same zeal remains to be seen.\nGowdy could stop the House investigation cold in its tracks if he wanted to, saying that Robert Mueller has the ball on this one, so his work is not needed. But that would be a falsehood. Mueller is running a criminal investigation. He is charged with discovering if anyone committed a crime, and if so, indicting that person. He is not charged with getting the truth about the Russian involvement with the election out. If he discovered that Vladimir Putin massively interfered with the election for the purpose of electing Donald Trump, but no Americans helped him, he would close his case with no indictments and no story. To some extent, Chaffetz's task was to get the truth out. That said, if Gowdy becomes committee chairman and shuts down the investigation, there is still one going on in the Senate, run by Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC). (V)\nFormer Israeli Spies Blast Trump\nThe Israeli government does not have the liberty to publicly condemn the president of the United States—they have to play nice, given their dependence on American military and financial support. And currently-active Israeli spies are similarly constrained; they don't want to blow their covers or embarrass their government. However, retired Israeli spies have no such concerns. And, as the Times of Israel reports, many of them are steaming over Donald Trump's leak of highly-classified information.\nShabtai Shavit, for example, led the Mossad (the Israeli intelligence agency) in the 1990s. Asked for comment, he said, \"If tomorrow I were asked to pass information to the CIA, I would do everything I could to not pass it to them...If some smart guy decides that he's allowed to leak information, then your partners in cooperation will be fewer or just won't be at all.\" Another former head of the Mossad, Danny Yatom, agreed: .\" A third spy, who asked that his name be withheld, said, \"We have to reevaluate if we should pass along information and what information we should pass along to the Americans.\" Obviously, none of these people are currently in a position of authority. However, if they are saying what the rest of the Mossad is thinking, that would be a serious problem for American intelligence. (Z)\nClarke Set to Accept Position in Trump Administration\nDavid A. Clarke, Jr., is the top law enforcement official in Milwaukee, Wis. and styles himself \"The People's Sheriff.\" In other words, he uses his officially nonpartisan office as a personal platform to promote himself and his political views. In that way, he has much in common with \"America's Toughest Sheriff,\" Joe Arpaio (who is now \"America's Toughest Former Sheriff,\" since voters tossed him out of office last year). The two men have other similarities: They are both ultraconservative, strongly pro-Trump, disdainful of prisoners and immigrants, and find the Constitution (outside of the Second Amendment) to be something of an annoyance to be circumvented as often as is possible.\nThis week, news leaked that Clarke is about to be hired by the Department of Homeland Security to head up the Office of Partnership and Engagement, which coordinates activities between the federal government and local and state law enforcement. It's not a surprise that Clarke is looking for work, because he is unlikely to be re-elected as sheriff when his current term is up. He is currently the target of numerous lawsuits alleging mistreatment of prisoners at his jail. He also threw a passenger off a plane for looking at Clarke in the wrong way, and then took to Facebook to threaten the man. The Sheriff is also a militant Islamophobe, and has suggested that anyone who disagrees with him on this point should be arrested and imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay without benefit of trial. And these are just the highlights; Clarke has ruffled feathers dozens of additional times with various declarations and policy decisions. In fact, he is often so busy rabble-rousing that he doesn't actually have time to show up for work. In one six-day period in 2015, for example, he managed to make 14 media appearances and zero appearances at his office.\nIn short, Clarke is a pretty terrible hire. Even if one is not bothered by his litany of controversial actions, an administration with so many legal issues really should not be hiring someone who comes with so much legal baggage of his own. If this is an indication of what type of people are still willing to consider President Trump's job offers, it's no surprise that nearly 90% of his appointments have not yet been made. (Z)\nRoger Ailes Dies\nRoger Ailes, the man who built Fox News, and who may have done more to create the modern American political landscape than any non-officeholder (him or Karl Rove), has died at the age of 77. In less than one year, he went from being the king of the conservative news world, to losing his job over numerous sexual harassment suits and accusations, to being dead. It was a steep fall from grace.\nGiven the scandals that engulfed the final months of Ailes' Fox tenure, few people are going to be willing to write the kind of sunshine and rainbows obituary that we normally see in the case of prominent deaths. Well, unless they are also serial harassers, like, say, Bill O'Reilly. In an obit penned for USA Today, the former \"O'Reilly Factor\" host rated his ex-boss as being only slightly less remarkable than Jesus Christ, Abraham Lincoln, and Albert Einstein. He also said that, \"Roger Ailes experienced...hatred and it killed him.\" O'Reilly did not explain how this could be the case, since Ailes died from a head injury sustained in a fall last week. Perhaps we will learn more in \"Killing Roger,\" soon to be available at booksellers everywhere. (Z)Email a link to a friend or share:\n---The Votemaster and Zenger"}
{"text": "Jesus Christ\nJesus Christ is the Messiah is the only Son of God and prophesied Messiah who, at the appointed time, was sent by His Father and became a man to be the payment for the penalty of sin that separated us from God and to reveal to us the loving nature of God through his human person (1 John 4:10; 2 Corinthians 5:19). Although He was sinless, he bore the penalty for sin upon Himself for us.\nSpeaking to his disciples, Jesus says,\nBy the power of the Holy Spirit, Jesus was conceived in the womb of the virgin Mary, and became man in an event known as the Incarnation, as referred to in Isaiah 7:14. Indeed, the calendar itself reflects this truth, with the traditional calculation of Jesus’ birth marking the first century A.D., that is, \"in the year of Our Lord….\" The apostle John wrote in his gospel the following regarding Jesus Christ: \"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life\" (John 3:16).\nWhen he was about thirty, Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist, inaugurating his ministry. Jesus of Nazareth is the Christ or Messiah, prophesied in the Old Testament (Greek: Χριστός; Aramaic: 'משיחא'). Jesus proclaimed that “[t]he time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent, and believe in the Gospel.”[1] As signs of these truths, Jesus performed various miracles.\nHowever, not all who heard the Lord believed in him, and, because he “was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God”, some sought to put him to death.[2] Jesus was handed over to the Roman governor Pontius Pilate and crucified. But it was through his redemptive death, as the scriptures had foretold, that Jesus reconciled mankind with God.[3] And so, on the third day, in a truly historical event, Jesus physically rose from the dead, making possible salvation and eternal life for those who believe in him. Indeed, his very name, Yeshua (Hebrew 'יהושע') means \"Salvation\" and is the concatenated form of Yahoshua, ‘YHWH is salvation’. After appearing to his disciples on various occasions, Jesus ascended to Heaven, where he acts as our mediator, assuring, by his constant intercession, the permanent outpouring of the Holy Spirit.\nContents\n- 1 Jesus' Life\n- 1ic has it, \"they heard the sound of the Memra of the LORD God walking about in the garden\" Apparently, walking about in the garden conjured up too much of rustling of leaves and bushes to take figuratively, and so it was the \"Memra\" that was heard and not the LORD God. This is the pattern in other places in Genesis.?\nMinistry\nBaptism\nThe gospel of Mark begins with the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist, which appears to be the beginning of Jesus' public ministry. Jesus came to the River Jordan, where John was preaching and baptizing people in the crowd. After Jesus had been baptized, and had risen up out of the water, Mark states Jesus 'saw the heavens torn apart and the Holy Spirit descending like a dove on him. And a voice came from heaven, 'You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased' (Mark 1:10–11). Luke adds the chronological anchor that John the Baptist had begun preaching in the fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar, approximately in 28 AD (Luke 3:1) and that Jesus was thirty years old when he was baptized (Luke 3:23).\nThe meaning of Baptism for Jesus:\nJesus insisted over the protests of John that He be baptized at the hands of John. John's protests are natural enough as John's baptism was for those who were sinners, and implied in baptism was the understanding that the baptizer was somehow greater than the one baptized. John believed that he needed to be baptized by Jesus and not the other way around. But Jesus' understanding of His being baptized was two-fold:\"Baptism\" meant suffering unto death, and it implied that His impending mission was to be in behalf and in place of the real sinners, the humanity for whom He would die. Jesus would later use \"baptism\" in the first sense when he said to disciples, \"Can you be baptized with the baptism which I will undergo?\" The Spirit coming down on the Son in the form of a Dove (Yonah = \"Jonah\" in Hebrew), and the voice of the Father, \"This is My Beloved Son\" was the Divine empowerment, and authorization for Jesus' mission to come entailing His sacrificial death, three days, not in the belly of the fish, but in the bowels of the earth, and after that, resurrection. As Baptism for Jesus meant, looking forward, His joining sinful humanity to the point of bearing their sins to the death of the cross, so the later New Testament understands, looking backward, that sinners believing in Jesus are also to join Him in His death through the waters of baptism \"in the Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit\" - according to the command of the Risen Christ. See Christianity for Jesus' self consciousness.\nTemptation\nAfter this baptism, according to Matthew, Jesus was brought into the desert by God where he fasted for forty days nights. During this period, the Satan appeared before him and tried three times to tempted Jesus into demonstrating his supernatural powers as a proof of his divine status; each temptation was refused by Jesus, with a scriptural quote from the Book of Deuteronomy.\nJesus then began to preach. John describes three different passover feasts that Jesus attended, thus implying that his ministry lasted three years.\nThe reason behind the Temptation:\nThe Temptation occurred just as told in the Gospels. But behind the happening, another message lies revealing the identity of Jesus to a people who would understand it. At the foothill of Mt. Hermon, in between the servile Roman infatuated people of Tiberius to the south west of the Sea of Galilee, and the rabidly nationalistic, anti- Roman Zealots of Gamla to the north east, Jesus asked His disciples who He was. The Messiah, the Son of the Living God, was the answer. And Jesus explained who He was and why he had come in terms that fit their experience - not to rule and throw out the Romans, nor to uphold their ways and laws but rather something on a different plane all together - to give His life settling it on the cross.\nTo a later believing people, those who were not Jewish, who He was would be understood in terms fitting to who they were - He had come the Second Adam, to give His life and to provide new life to those who were not Jewish, but also including the Jews, to all the lost and wandering children of Adam.\nIn the Temptation, it is the those who knew the Old Testament, the physical children of Abraham primarily, who could see in the long range, and not primarily dictated to by the political passions of the moment, and who could wonder who they were and where they had gone wrong, and wonder also who would be the One to take them out. It is they, Israel, who had been in the wilderness for 40 years, and they that had succumbed to the temptations of selling out for food and drink, though they were a \"Son\" whom God with a strong arm and outstretched hand had taken out of the bondage of Egypt, they had turned traitor, driven by their own lust and pride. And here now, in Jesus, was One who resisted the devil in the wilderness, also \"for forty\", preferring the will of God as His food rather than all the world could offer, Who was He? He was Israel! The only true one left, the faithful remnant spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, the servant true to the end. As the letter to the Hebrews saw, \"Though He were a Son yet learned He obedience by the things He suffered, and being made perfect, He become the author of Eternal life...\". This is the understanding of the Gospel of Matthew, in interpreting a passage from Hosea which was manifestly speaking of Israel the people and applying it to Jesus who also came out of Egypt with His parents at the death of Herod, \" Out of Egypt have I called my Son\". Who was Jesus? He was Israel who had not failed come to redeem Israel who had, and also out of all the peoples of the world.\nDisciples and Apostles\nThe larger part of this was directed towards his closest followers, the apostles, although all of his followers were considered disciples. At the highest point of his ministry, Jesus attracted disciples and audiences numbering in the thousands; in particular in the area of Galilee. Many of Jesus' most well-known teachings were given during the Sermon on the Mount, such as the Beatitudes and the Lord's Prayer. Jesus often used parables in his rhetorical technique, such as the Parable of the Good Samaritan and the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats; these teachings encouraged unconditional self-sacrificing love for God and for all people. During these sermons, he also discussed service and humility, forgiveness of sins, how faith should be applied, the Golden Rule, and the necessity of following the spirit of the law as well as its wording.\nTheir choosing and their purpose: Among the many who came to Jesus, from afar and from the surrounding villages of the north shore of the Sea of Galilee, were those moved by his insight into the nature of life, or touched deeply by His seemingly knowing them from the inside, by His intimacy with the God and Father they had only known \"about\", or impressed by the miracles done before their very eyes, and many, by His deep compassion for the people, so evident in all that He did. Jesus would sprinkle His words upon them as seed in a path, some to take root, and some to be blown away by the wind. But to those who heard and wanted more, they would get that more, receiving explanation, and move closer to His association. Those that would not, would receive only that which was commensurate to not wanting - more parables, silence. Never the revealing of the \"Secrets of the Kingdom\". Yet, there was no prohibition and no limit for getting closer to Jesus. Those that did, became His \"learners\" - the disciples, understanding the meanings of His word by the demonstration of His life and putting them into practice. Among these were another group, some that had been with Him from early on, possibly some from the time of His baptism at the hands of John. These He would hold in His mind for an additional and different reason.\nThen one night, he ascended a hill praying about them, and came down knowing who they were to be. 12 in number, chosen not because of their virtue, or even what He would do in them in the future, but rather solely chosen by His Father to be deputized, delegated, or commissioned by Jesus to be sent out for a mission. He gave them the name \"Shaliach\" (meaning all that), which was translated into Greek as \"apostolos\" and so our Apostles.\nThe mission of the Apostles (see \"Example 5.\" of New Testament understanding through the Jewish perspective) was to do all that they saw Jesus was doing, healing the sick, raising the dead, and with all this, to tell about the fast coming Kingdom of Heaven, the rule of His Father, and urge people to repent and get ready for it. He gave them His power and authority to do all this. But it was to be 12 in number, not more and not less, that number surviving even the suicide of one of them, Judas from the village of Kyriot, requiring an \"election\" to bring back the number from 11 to 12. And that was because the special additional reason for their appointment was to sit on the 12 thrones of the 12 tribes of Israel (the sons of Jacob) and lead them by whatever it takes - that is the meaning of the biblical term \"Judge\" (Shofet). For the community of the \"little ones\"., was to be, in some sense, an Israel within Israel, or a new Israel, a sort of beachhead for the onslaught of the Kingdom of God in its invasion (or sometimes, infiltration into) into and onto the Kingdom of the unjust occupier and enemy of all Goodness, the Devil, to overthrow him and all his works. This truer and newer Israel, He called His \"Called Out ones\" (Eklessia=Church) against whose onslaught the Fortified city of Hell with its defensive bars to its massive gates, would not prevail. Many captives would be released. The Church, then, was the community counterpart to what was known as the \"Synagogue\" (Greek), meaning \"gathered together ones\" (Beit Knesset - house of the gathering, Hebrew). It was the Synagogue of Jesus the King and Messiah, and aligned with and the focal point of the Prophetically promised and hoped-for Kingdom of God and the rule of Heaven on Earth. And the disciples and apostles of Jesus all had their place in the unfolding of it all.\n- Note: For the significance of sitting on the seat and judging, see Example 2. of New Testament understanding through the Jewish perspective.\nSocial Outcasts\nJesus also often conversed with social outcasts, such as the publican (Roman tax collectors who were unpopular for their practice of extorting money).\nJesus showed no partiality toward outcasts, and neither did He do so to those who were in society. But being an outcast was a category beyond the reach of all others which were in society. Jesus was not for the male over against the female, the Jew over against the non Jew, townsman over against the man of the field. He was impartial and penetrating in His love for all. But all of these had a certain standing in Society, they were part of it, though all being in it, could vie for more of it as their share. But all were united, and could work in concert against what they were not - the outcast. The love of Jesus and the love of His Father through Him, could not rest lightly on any one of them, until it would reach and rest on the one beyond the fringes, the outer edges, and down below - the outcast. This demonstrated in the life of Jesus what the Cross would later show and the Apostles preach - all were outcast to the Holiness of God, and all could be loved by Him and, indeed, were.\nMiracles\nThroughout his ministry, Jesus performed many miracles including healing the sick and possessed, feeding 5000, and even raising from the dead.\nMiracles were an intrusion of the ordinary, but the ordinary of a different and far-superior Kingdom, into the sordid and sin sick kingdoms of this world. They showed what life was really like there in that Kingdom which was coming and how weak, unstable, subject and cringing were the powers of this corrupted world, \"bent\" under the heel of God. That a widow should have her dead son restored to her alive, that outcasts such as lepers should be restored to the community, and as a result of their being healed, that darkness should give way to light and sight, that a woman deserving stoning find solace and forgiveness, all of these are the way things are and ought to be in the Kingdom of God because of the way He is. They were, at one and the same time, signs of the Kingdom which was coming and great works of compassion done here below which will never by surpassed or forgotten. And Jesus the Messiah was bringing them in!\nNote: See Example 5 of New Testament understanding through the Jewish perspective for the assault and infiltration of God's Kingdom on and into the Kingdom of Satan.\nHis Preaching was Offensive to the Established Authority\nAs He preached, Jesus ran afoul of the Sanhedrin, the recognized Jewish religious authorities, who were allowed to have considerable religious, political and monetary influence under Roman rule. Jesus chastised them, accusing them of making laws for the people to follow that were the laws of men, not God. The Sanhedrin tried to set traps for Jesus by asking Him questions to either discredit Him with the people or get Him in trouble with the Roman authorities, but all of their efforts failed and they gave up. They lacked the means to stop Jesus until Judas Iscariot came to them and offered to betray Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. He would tell them where Jesus would be that night so they could seize Him.\nNotable among Jewish established authorities were the Pharisees, the Saduccees, and the Herodians.\nThe Pharisees, believing that at the time God had given to Moses the \"written Torah\" (Torah shebikhtav), He had also given to Moses an \"Oral Torah\" (Torah shebe'al peh) which would apply the written Torah to all situations and times, and that that Oral Torah had been handed down from generation to generation, finally, it itself written down, making, in the days of Jesus, the beginning of the Talmud. Thus it was necessary to be able to \"fill in the rabbis\" from whom the teaching came (see Judaism) - \"Rabbi Tarfon says in the name of Rabbi...\" But this man Jesus, goes straight to Moses, and straight to Heaven! \"You have heard it said...but I say unto you...\" and himself speaks as the Mouth of God!\nThe Saduccees, not believing in an Oral Torah, and believing much of the written Torah to be irrelevant and impractical in the modern times that they lived, believed that the \"blanks\" and how the Torah was to be applied in these days, must be decided by the Kingdoms of the World, namely, Roman law and requirement. But this man Jesus speaks of another Kingdom and another King, and not of Rome!\nThe Herodians saw clearly who their enemy was and who their Savior was and wherein their safety lie - Herod the King of the Jews and all the aura and the might that he possessed. And their enemy was anyone who would claim, or live in the claim of others, that it was he that was the King of the Jews and not Herod (and the royalty after Herod) - such as was doing the man Jesus of Nazareth\nNote: Judaism does not have a \"unified\" theory of Inspiration or practical authority of Scripture. That is, The most authoritative, and capable of being regulatory to life as \"law\" is the five books of Moses. After that, the Prophets. And after that, the \"Writings.\" The Scripture of the Saduccees was just the Five books of Moses, and since there is little if anything about the resurrection from the dead and the after life in the the Five Books of Moses, they believed in neither. The Pharisees, believing in the on-going of revelation extending, though with lesser authority, to the Prophets (such as Daniel) and the Writings, believed in both.\"\nLast Days of Jesus' Life\nLord's Supper\nGod and man at table are sat down:\nIt happened before - \"Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab and Abihu. and seventy elders of Israel. They saw the God of Israel...they gazed on God. They ate and they drank.\" Exodus 24: 9-11\nIt would happen after - \"Now while He was with them at table, He took the bread and said the blessing, then He broke it and handed it to them. And their eyes were opened and recognized Him. But He had vanished from their sight. Then they said to each other, Did not our hearts burn within us as He talked to us on the road, and explained the Scriptures to us?\" Luke 24:30-32\nEating before the Lord or with the Lord, would be used as the highest form of friendship - Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If any one hears My voice and opens the door I will come in to him and share my meal with him, side by side.\". Revelation 3:20-21 (NIV)\nAt the Passover Seder, the last meal the Lord would eat with His followers, His presence so permeated the atmosphere, and what He said and did at that special time, and especially they having received His command to do just what He was doing before them at this time, whenever they would meet together, the Apostles of the Lord and the Gospels after them could not speak of bountiful and miraculous times of the Lord's gracious giving of food feeding the multitudes, without mentioning that which otherwise would not have been mentioned - He took the bread, looked up to heaven blessing the bread, He broke the bread, and He gave it to them. That is what the Lord did before them, and that is what He commanded them to do after Him, and thus provided for them, and for the Church after them, the one of two universal services - the Lord's Supper, or Eucharist, or Holy Communion.\nBut in addition, He gave His own particular understanding to the unleavened bread of the Passover and ceremonial cup of wine, the 3rd and \"Thanksgiving cup\" of wine drunk immediately after the Passover meal was eaten. In slightly varying words, the Gospels and the Church after would perpetuate that understanding by repeating what the Lord Himself said at that Last Supper - \"This is My Body which is given for you... This is My blood, the blood of the New Covenant which is shed for you, and for the many, for the forgiveness of sins. Do this as my own Remembrance\". And so He signified to His followers that His life would be given in sacrifice for them and for their benefit. How this benefit would be effected, would be explained by Jesus by other sayings, \"Do not think that I have come in order to be served. I have not come to be served but rather to serve, and to give my life as a ransom for many.\"\nBut His presence remained with them at the continual celebration of this new Christian Passover of the Communion. Though He had vanished from their eyes as He would return to the Father, yet through the Spirit which He had promised to be in His stead, He was there with them to remain- \"Where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I!\"...\" Even so, Come Lord Jesus!\"\nNote 1: The word Maranatha, comes from the Greek word which is translating the Aramaic which comes in two forms according to the accent given. Marana tha - \"O our Lord, come!\", and Maran atha - \"Our Lord has come\". This appears in the earliest liturgies of the Eucharist, and was used either as an invocation for the Lord to come, a sort of invite, or as an exclamation that the Lord has indeed come, just as He said He would. In either case, it was a witness to the belief that the Lord was indeed with them when they participated in the Remembrance which He had commanded.\nNote 2; What the Lord said, \"This is my body... This is my blood...Do this!\" (the \"Words of Institution\", His instituting the Holy Communion until His coming again), is absent in the Gospel of John when recounting the last time of the Lord with His disciples. This is not an oversight, as the Gospel of John, from all contextual indications, has already spoken of the matter in the 6th chapter.\nGarden of Gethsemane\nJesus knew that His time was short and that He was about to be betrayed into the hands of sinners. He had His last supper with his disciples and went with them to the Garden of Gethsemane and prayed vehemently knowing what was about to come.\nDecision, certainty, from a distance is clearer and easier than when the time approaches for decision's implementation. That is because the here and now, leaves no room for imagining a rescue from all that is around us and in us. Leaving us confused or uncertain, needing assurance, or a once again revelation, of what it was that brought us to decision in the first place. John knowing from the beginning that his cousin Jesus was the promised Messiah, when years later, found himself in prison, and things not going the way he had expected, understood or hoped, required assurance that Jesus was really the One he had thought Him to be. Jesus responded forcefully and completely to that so human request - Tell John what you see, the dead are raised, the sick healed, and the poor are being told of the good news of the Kingdom of God. And it was enough.\nJesus, knowing why He had come, and that He was to mount the cross, to bear the sins of the world, knowing also what that must mean, He who had never \"known\" sin, now to know it in a way, that man could never know, man who all the time was in it, inured to it, accustomed to it, Jesus prayed. There was a movement in His prayer, taking on anew, the certainty and decision of old, feeling the enormity of it at close hand, and in the garden, he prayed three times, each time agonizing dripping great drops of sweat, each time making movement in the direction from If there be another way, The Father knows and will show, but He would do whatever the Father wills, towards being the Father's will, He would do it. There really is no other way. And then it was done, He had settled it within Him anew, having prayed, and having received the deep silent Amen of the Father within His soul. It was enough. He was ready.\n- note: \"Agonize\" of the text is from the Greek word \"to struggle\".\nTried before Jewish Authorities\nJesus was betrayed by Judas into the hands of the Jewish religious authorities who took Him away and secretly put Him on trial during the night, trying to find justification for their desire to have Him killed. Finally, they convicted Him of blasphemy. For the location of the Jewish trial, see Example 6 of New Testament understanding through the Jewish perspective\nTried before Roman Authorities\nAs they did not have the authority to put a man to death, they took him to Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Palestine, with their charges and demanded his execution. Pilate avoided the issue by sending him to King Herod since Jesus was a Galilean, but Herod sent him back to Pilate. Pilate at first tried to release Jesus with a flogging, and then gave the crowd a choice to either spare Jesus or a criminal called Barabbas as part of the passover tradition. The crowd chose to free Barabbas [Aramaic: \"Son of a (the) Father\") and Pilate washed his hands to signify that he bore no responsibility for Jesus' death before ultimately condemning Him to crucifixion.[4]\nScourging\nThe penalty of crucifixion was always preceded by scourging (flogging) with the Roman flagellum. a short ox-hide whip knotted with pieces of zinc, lead, and bone which removed swaths of the victims' skin with every stroke. Although the Bible mentions the scourging of Jesus only very briefly, it must have been particularly brutal from the relatively short amount of time Jesus lingered on the cross after the punishment. Victims who suffered less blood loss from the scourging were known to remain alive on the cross for two or three days.\nThe scourging and physical affliction of Jesus, though not overtly alluded to, may have a significance for benefit to come. There was a prophecy of the Suffering Servant to come:\n\"Yet He Himself bore our sicknesses,\nand He carried our pains;\nbut we in turn regarded Him stricken,\nstruck down by God, and afflicted.\" Isaiah 53:4\nThe Gospel of Matthew would see in this prophesy a foretelling of the various healings and deliverances that Jesus gave to the people, \"so that what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: He Himself took our weaknesses and carried our diseases (Matt. 8:17) If not the scourging itself, then all of the sufferings of the Lord, culminating in His sacrifice on the cross, was the source not only for forgiveness, but also for all the many types of healings and restorations for the people.\nDeath on a Cross\nJesus died after suffering and giving up his spirit.\nBehind the Cross was the sum total of all the maladies of mankind, that the Old Testament unveiled : Pesh'a - conscious and \"high handed\" rebellion, for which , under the Old Covenant, there was no forgiveness provided, Khet - an unintended \"missing of the mark\", as in the deviation from the bull's eye of the bowman, Shigi'a - the mistakes, some causing great harm to others, which come about by plain ignorance, and 'Avon \"iniquity\" or distortion - the inner twistedness, that causes failure and suffering, seemingly from the very structure of our persons regardless of our intent. These were the sins Godwards as well as towards man, and these are all, Scripture revealed, repugnant to the nature and standard of a Holy God.\nOn the Cross, in a way which is unfathomable to man, but nonetheless believable, the repugnance fell upon Jesus, the Son of God, and again in a way not fully understandable to us, but believable nonetheless, God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself, not considering us the sinners but rather His own dear Son who had no taint upon Himself. A great transaction had taken place by the imposition of Himself of Christ in our place, absorbing, as if He were a blotter, all the reaction of a Holy God upon Himself, in our place, that we might go free. Unfair to Him, Mercy to us. Yet Jesus was not forced to do it. He did it both in His great love for us and in His obedience to the way that the Father had decided. \"No one takes my life from me. I have power to take it and I have power to lay it down...I lay down my life for the sheep\". Peter would say, \"The Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God.\" Paul would say, \"He was made to be sin, He who did not \"know\" sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him\". That was Friday.\nOn Saturday, when all were at Sabbath's rest, Jesus was not. His body dead, He passed in spirit to those that had died before, those in the period of Noah, and proclaimed, as Peter taught, what He had done. On Sunday, the first day of the week, He would rise from the dead.\nThe Cross of Christ, and the atonement He accomplished on it, is the very grounds that anyone who will be saved can be saved. The shedding of His blood brings salvation, to anyone who will respond, according to the ability that they have, that is given them. That brings forgiveness and acceptance, even welcome, to the murderer such as Paul, the adulteress such as the \"woman taken in adultery\", the tax-collecting extortionist, a seeker in the night turned believer, as hopefully Nicodemus proved to be, people that just know that they are sinners without any \"grave sin\" to specify, and also the \"fetus\" whose life was cut off in the womb as a \"thing\", and the severely retarded child banging his head in the institution he finds himself. All, according to the light given them, and repentance and turning to God given to them, will one day know just what was the basis for their salvation - the Cross of Christ. Those who reject, will also one day know the basis by which they could have been saved if they had not rejected - the Cross of Christ\nResurrection\n- See main article: Resurrection of Jesus Christ\nOn the third day after his death, Jesus rose bodily from the dead..\nJesus' resurrection from the dead was no mere reassembling the molecules of His dead and disintegrating body, but it was a new union of His Spirit and body, in a way that could only be called by the Apostle Paul, in reference to ourselves, when we, in turn, following His pattern, a spiritual body. Having risen from the dead, He was physical enough to eat and drink with His disciples, and we can assume to digest, as well as ingest, and to be touched and felt, having Thomas' hand thrust into His spear riven side, and yet, strangely not held by the physical laws of before, passing through the door to the room where the disciples were assembled, \"Peace be upon you!\", and to physically ascend, in the sight of all, from a location on the Mount of Olives into the presence of the Father In some way, even the disciples on the Road to Emmaeus, could not recognize Him, perhaps an aspect of the changed body, perhaps the power of the will of Jesus himself blinding them to the fact that It was He, until the breaking of the bread. Jesus had risen, the stone unrolled, not to let Him out, but to let others in - to have the basis for their testimony, that He is risen indeed! By the regaining of His life in the resurrection from the dead (Scripture asserts that it was by the power of the Holy Spirit that this took place) Jesus was \"certified\" to the Church, and to all that would come after, that He was indeed the Son of God, that the verdict of death to Him given by men, was not so much overturned, but used in a far superior way by the Father to accomplish His will for redemption, and has given Him, at the last, vindication.\nAnd for mankind, its individuals in the millions through the centuries who had believed in Him, there came the certainty, that death was also not to be their end, that they too will arise with Jesus, that death, the annihilation of all, or a future only to be dreaded, was not to be their end, that the Presence of Jesus who had gone before them, was a welcoming one, that He had found a way, and now they would be with Him forever and ever, and with good hope for the sight of loved ones again. Death had been conquered and fear could be too.\nIn recent history, Dr. Gary Habermas is considered the foremost Christian apologist for defending the resurrection of Jesus. Other notable defenders of the resurrection include: William Lane Craig, Ben Witherington, Lee Strobel, Josh McDowell, Edwin M. Yamauchi, N.T. Wright, and Michael Horner.[5] In addition, much has been written defending the resurrection of Christ in the field of Christian legal apologetics.\nAscension into Heaven\nHe was lifted up while they looked on, and a cloud took him form.\" Acts 1:9-11\nScripture posits two purposes related to man for the ascension of Jesus: 1. it was to the right hand of the Father (showing favorable disposition of the Father to the Son to hear His requests) from which position Jesus intercedes to the Father on our behalf, and 2. Having ascended to the Father, He received from the Father the Spirit. The Father pours out the Spirit \"through the Son\" upon the Church. The \"first Pentecost\"\nReturn of Jesus from heaven to earth. Daniel 7:13-14\nThe Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout and with the voice of the Archangel and with the Horn of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we who are still alive remaining here will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and so will we ever be with the Lord. 1 Thess. 4: 16,17\nYou were converted to God and became servants of the real, living God; and how you are now waiting for Jesus, His Son, whom He raised from the dead, to come from heaven to save us from the retribution which is coming. 1 Thess, 1:9,10ations.\" ...\"[8]\nJesus and the Holy Spirit\nThe Holy Spirit was sometimes referred to as the Spirit of Jesus. This was to point out the special relationship that Jesus had to the Holy Spirit. Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, rather than having been sired by Joseph. He was filled by the Holy Spirit from the time of His baptism at the Jordon river at the hands of his cousin John, and He was led by the Holy Spirit, not only into the desert to be tempted by the devil, but also all His life on earth. His empowerment to do \"works\" and miracles came through the Holy Spirit given Him, as the Holy Spirit would afterwards be given to all his followers, and not solely by virtue His being the Son of God. But, beyond this, there was a more special and unique relationship that Jesus had to the Holy Spirit. He taught, and the Book of the Acts of the Apostles and the epistles of Paul would later echo, that the Holy Spirit would be given and poured out, to His followers through Jesus ascended to the Presence of the Father, and that, in some way, perhaps mysterious but concrete, Jesus Himself, would be with them once again, in and through the presence of the Holy Spirit which they would receive. He had gone back to the Father in order to return in a new and more complete way through the Holy Spirit. He would not leave them orphaned. This Holy Spirit, then, with Jesus and the Father, constituted the reality which would reverberate through the ages for all new believers being bought into the Church, the Body of Christ (for every body needs a spirit) - \" In the Name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit\".\nFollowing Jesus, believing in Him\nIt is sometimes said that there are two faiths in the New Testament. That of Jesus and that of Paul. Paul's religion is that of believing in Christ as Lord and Savior, and as the divine Son of God, and that of Jesus is of following Him in the sense of living and doing as He has taught. But in reality, there is only one faith and the two not in contradiction. For the Jesus of the Gospels, besides setting forth the life that He himself lived, as a pattern for all His followers, also said, \"No one knows the Son, except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son choses to reveal Him\", and \"I and the Father are One\", and \"If you see Me, you see God\". .And Paul, aside, from saying that \"if you believe in the Lord Jesus you shall be saved\", and \"therefore, being justified by Faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ\", also said \"work out your salvation with fear and trembling\", and \"Owe no man anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law.\"\nMark 16:16 \"He who believes and is baptized shall be saved. And he who does not believe, shall be condemned\", Jesus said. It is belief in Jesus which brings a person to the waters of baptism, and it is through the waters of baptism, that one enters into the fellowship of the Church, the people of God who are being brought, day be day, one with the other, to the life that Jesus taught about. And so his new belief and his being and living and doing are all unified under the direction of Christ and His under-shepherds. And if one will not believe, of course, then it goes without saying, he will not be baptized.\nHistorical Analysis\nDating Jesus' Birth\nModern historians generally place the actual date of Jesus' birth between 7 and 4 B.C., due to problems reconciling the Roman and Jewish calendars with the Gregorian Calendar which is in use today throughout the industrialized world.\nHistoricity of Jesus\nOccasionally, non-historians deny the historicity of Jesus (Having to do with the question of whether Jesus was in fact a real person who had a real life on earth), but few scholars take this seriously. Tacitus, a Roman historian, wrote about Jesus in A.D. 115,[9] and Josephus, a Jewish historian who did not believe in Jesus' divinity, wrote about him.[10] Dr. Gary Habermas wrote an extensive analysis of the historicity of Jesus in his work The Historical Jesus: Ancient Evidence for the Life of Christ, which discusses many historical sources that mention Jesus.\nLee Strobel's book The Case for Christ contains a number of interviews with experts on the historical Jesus and a defense of Jesus's resurrection, and is a good resource on this subject.\nJesus' Name\nJesus\nThe bible doesn't tell us much about the meaning of the name Jesus, but does tell us who gave the name, when the name was given, and a reason the name was given. Luke 2:21 tells us that his name was given (1) \"by the angel,\" (2) and it was given \"before He was conceived in the womb.\" The reason for naming him Jesus seems to be given in Matthew 1:21, which says, \"...you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.\"\nHebrew Origin\nThe Greeks derived the name from the late Hebrew or Aramaic name Yoshua, today’s version of which is “Joshua”. The earlier Aramaic form was Jehoshua (Y’hoshua) or Joshua., deriving from Hebrew Yah, short for Yahweh, and Aramaic y’shuoh meaning “salvation”. The name thus meant “Jah is salvation”. Both Joshua and Jehoshua were common names in the time of Jesus.\nChrist\nAlthough it appears that \"Jesus Christ\" is composed of a first and last name, and indeed, the New Testament at times considers the names together as a first and second name, in origin, and through much of the New Testament, \"Christ\" is used as a title. It is the Greek translation for \"Mashiach\" (Hebrew), and Meshicha (Aramaic) - meaning \"Anointed\". Thus He was called, \"Jesus, the Anointed One\". Kings priests, and prophets were often anointed with oil to consecrate them for their task, and so was Jesus for His task by the descent of the Spirit when He was baptized by John. The Spirit descended on Him and dwelt within Him. This was in fulfillment of Isaiah 61 - \"The Spirit of the LORD is upon me for He has anointed (Mashach) Me; He has sent Me to bring good news to the meek, to console the broken hearted, to call out Freedom to the captives, and to prisoners Release.\" When Jesus ascended into the presence of the Father, the Father sent the Spirit of Jesus, the Holy Spirit, through the Son, upon the believers and they too, as their Master, were \"anointed\" for their living and their task.\nNote: The change from a title to a name is much more authentic and understandable in Aramaic language than in English. There is no inner connection from \"Jesus the Christ\" to \"Jesus Christ\" in English but in Aramaic the connecting bridge is the vocative \"O Christ\" (O, Anointed One)! \"O Christ\" and \"The Christ\" is the same in Aramaic - Meshicha.\nTeachings of Jesus\nJesus' special method of teaching was very different from what we know as \"class room\" teaching, and different from \"teaching from definition\". Though His students sometimes sat around Him and listened, He often taught them through the actual every day events of life, by parable and much more - as they traveled, as they ate, as they met people. All of life was His text book. He took them from what they understood to what they were to understand, and brought them to understanding of what He meant, by how they saw it enacted and displayed in His own life. His life was the commentary to what they heard from His lips. That is why, besides that He was the Savior of the World, the believers in Him need be followers as well - to learn of His ways by intimate association. They would remember the words of the Savior later on and understand even more once His Spirit would be given them. His Spirit would then be their Guide, just as Jesus had done for them when He was on earth.\nThe Teachings of Our Lord Jesus Christ are found in the four Gospels and other holy documents.\nSermon on the Mount This is the greatest sermon Jesus ever preached. It contains the Lord's prayer, the beatitudes, the golden rule, and practical advice for Christian living.\nThe Lord's Prayer.\nSee The Lord's Prayer for the Greek and the interlineal transliterated Aramaic and Hebrew versions.\nThe golden rule:\n\"Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you!\"\nPrayer\n- Essay: Christians and the Law of Moses\n- Messiah\n- Messianic Prophecies\n- Essay: The Way of Salvation\nReferences\n- ↑ Mark 1:14-15.\n- ↑ John 5:18.\n- ↑ Romans 5:10.\n- ↑ Matthew 27: 15-44\n- ↑\n-\n-\n-\n-\n-\n- ↑\n- ↑ Bible, Gospel of John, 10:18,15\n- ↑ Bible, Philippians 2:6-9a,\n- ↑\n- ↑\n- ↑ Prayer To Receive Him Now\nExternal links\n- Summary of the Life of Jesus\n- Teachings of Jesus\n- Sermons of Jesus Christ\n- Who is Jesus? Is Jesus Christ God?\n- Jesus Background Bible History on line.\n- C. S. Lewis Society of California.\n- The Bodily Resurrection of Jesus, by William Lane Craig.\n- Christian Origins and the Resurrection of Jesus: The Resurrection of Jesus as a Historical Problem, by N. T. Wright.\n- Contemporary Scholarship and the Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, by William Lane Craig.\n- Doing Justice to Jesus: A Response to J.D. Crossan: \"What Victory? What God?\", by N. T. Wright.\n- The Historical Jesus and Christian Theology, by N. T. Wright.\n- The Wright Quest for the Historical Jesus, by Ben Witherington, III.\n- Mark Twain, the Ice Storm, and Jesus Christ"}
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{"text": "Activities\nLocation: Rishikesh, Uttarakhand\nTimings: 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM, that too on the rapids of the river Ganga. This activity brings to you different options of rafting in Rishikesh to choose from, so you can take on the kind of adventure that you would want. Grab this oppurtunity with your friends or family to face the rapids of the ganga and have cliff jumping and body surfing as an additional activity to do.\nAvailable Package Option:\nKodiyala Down (35km)\nHow to reach:\nThe meetup point is located within the and is accessible local/private transport The meetup point will be disclosed once the booking is done.\nJoin a Group\nInclusions:\nInclusions:\nInclusions:\nInclusions:"}
{"text": "Class in music is what you get when an amazing singer delivers an extraordinary song for the industry to enjoy.\nVijewels is in that class of artistes who have vowed to deliver songs you must love irrespective of the genre of music you’re interested in and that is what she has done with this track ‘Kola Si Na Obim’.\nVijewels’ ‘Kola Si Na Obim’ (Gift from my heart) is an afropop/highlife track and the fusion makes the thrill and rhythm better than it is supposed to be.\nIt is a lovely track and one you must have."}
{"text": "000 FLUS43 KBIS 191351 HWOBIS Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Bismarck ND 851 AM CDT Fri May 19 2017 NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-201400-- 851 AM CDT Fri May 19 2017 /751 AM MDT Fri May 19 2017/ This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of north central North Dakota, northwest North Dakota, south central North Dakota, southeast North Dakota, and southwest North Dakota. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Patchy frost is possible again tonight mainly along and west of the Highway 83 corridor. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday Patchy frost is possible mainly over the southwest Sunday morning. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed. $$ waa"}
{"text": "IonCube in Shared Website Hosting\nWhen you buy a shared website hosting plan from our company, it'll be created on our in-house made cloud platform where ionCube Loader is already set up, so you will not have any kind of problems to run any script application which needs the tool in order to run properly. Furthermore, we provide several different versions of PHP, so in case you switch the version, you will have to activate ionCube again. Our system remembers the adjustments you make, which means that in case you go back to the previous version of PHP that was active for your account, ionCube Loader will already be turned on. Both the PHP version as well as the ionCube tool can be managed from the PHP Configuration area of our Hepsia website hosting Control Panel. Each adjustment that you make takes literally just a mouse-click and it will take effect right away.\nIonCube in Semi-dedicated Servers\nEach semi-dedicated server account that's set up on our cutting-edge cloud web hosting platform has ionCube Loader support, so you can install any script application which needs the tool. Then use it in order to start and maintain your world wide web presence. You can enable ionCube through the PHP Configuration area of the Control Panel and it'll take you only a few clicks to do this. The change will take effect instantly, so you're able to go ahead and install the necessary script in your account. If you decide to change the PHP version that is active for the account, you will need to enable ionCube for the new release too. Our custom-built."}
{"text": "1. When the President is the recipient of oral sex in the West Wing of the White House, particularly if the perpitrator is someone other than said President's wife, this is, I'm afraid to say, newsworthy. When the Vice President of the United States shoots a 78-year-old Austin lawyer in the face, even accidentally, this is also newsworthy. It has come to my attention that there seems to be some confusion on this point on the part of Scott McClellan, Richard Cheney and the President of the United States.\n2. If Katrina had come ashore and caused flooding in West Palm Beach, instead of the poorest neighborhoods in New Orleans, there wouldn't still be between 500 and 1,000 dead bodies rotting underneath the ruins of acres and acres of uncleaned, e-coli contaminated refuse. If we can afford to build a bridge in Alaska that has no purpose other than to create an Alaskan payday for out-of-work ironworkers, we can afford to begin rebuilding New Orleans.\n3. I think that a U.S. Administration that's stupid and crazy enough to outsource the security of its seaports to a Dubai-based company has automatically forfeited the right to x-ray my shoes while I stand barefoot, waiting to fly from Los Angeles to Dayton, Ohio.\n~C~\nAll comments subject to moderation. Anonymous comments will not be approved."}
{"text": " 0080044142245 – (“Consumer”). EZI reserves therefore the right not to process orders placed by persons other than the \"consumer\" or, in any case, orders that are not consistent with its business policy.\n1.2 The agreement executed between EZI (hereinafter also the “Seller”) and Consumer shall be deemed concluded upon acceptance of the order, including partial acceptance, by EZI. If the order is not accepted by EZI, EZI shall immediately inform Consumer thereof. EZI shall provide information regarding the cause for rejection of the order.\n1.3 By placing an order in accordance with the envisaged modalities, and with the order form made available on the Website (hereinafter, the \"Order\"), Consumer shall read Consumers for accessing the Website).\n2.2 Consumer can place an order by duly filling-in the order form made available on the Website and send it in accordance with the indications provided in the Website, after having carefully reviewed these Conditions, the product specifications, the relevant price (inclusive of all applicable taxes and charges), shipping costs (including the ancillary costs that may be incurred in case a shipping and delivery method quicker and/or different from the standard one is chosen). Consumer shall be entitled to an option to inform EZI if it wishes to receive an invoice for the purchased product.\n2.3 EZI shall confirm that the Order has been properly received by sending an email message to the address notified by Consumer. The email shall contain a short description of the conditions of purchase, as provided for by the applicable legislation, as well as the information entered by Consumer into the Order form, to enable him/her double check such information and, if necessary, immediately report incorrect data, if any.\n3. Price and Terms of payment\n3.1 The prices indicated on the Website are inclusive of taxes and VAT. Consumer Consumer Consumer’s credit card during the payment procedure.\n4. Delivery of the products and relevant expenses\n4.1 EZI, its suppliers and its logistics service providers shall deliver the products purchased by Customer at the address and on the date parcel to be returned to the courier.\n4.5 Any problem concerning the integrity of the products received, their number and completeness must be reported within 7 days from the relevant delivery, in accordance with the modalities set forth in this document. EZI be given back along with the original packaging (including the packaging materials and the documents, if any, accessories, labels, of the first delivery in its original packaging, with all its parts (including packaging materials, documents and accessories).\n7. Claims and queries\nAny claim or query can be sent to EZI at the following Customer Care addresses customer.care@zegna.com (click here).\n8. Privacy\n8.1 Any personal data collected when an Order is placed, shall be processed by for the sole purpose of satisfying Customer’s express requests, in compliance with the legislation applicable to privacy and with the Privacy Policy available on the Website. Other processing, if any, of such data shall be carried out only with Customer’s express prior consent.\n9. Applicable Law\n9.1 The sale agreement under these Conditions and its performance are governed by Italian.\n9.2."}
{"text": "Metal-Based Drugs\nVolume 7, Issue 2, Pages 63-66\nCytotoxic Activity of Silyl- and Germyl-Substituted 4,4-Dioxo-3a,6a-Dihydrothienoisoxazolines-2\nLatvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, Aizkraukles 21, Riga LV-1006, Latvia\nReceived 21 January 2000; Accepted 1 February 2000\nCopyright © 2000 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.\nAbstract\nThe [2+3] dipolar cycloaddition of nitrile oxides to the double C = C bonds of thiophene-1, 1-dioxides leads to formation of the fused isoxazolines-2 (1, 2). Tumor growth inhibition of these compounds strongly depends on the nature of group IV A element increasing from slightly active tert-butyl derivatives to silicon and germanium containing analogues. The products of benzonitrile oxide cycloaddition have greater cytotoxic effect than the compounds obtained from the cycloaddition reaction of 2, 5-disubstituted thiophene-1, 1-dioxides with acetonitrile oxide. Fused silyl substituted isoxazolines-2 are stronger NO-inducers than their germyl and tert-butyl analogues."}
{"text": "Reprints\nA single copy of this article may be reprinted for personal, noncommercial use only.\nRheumatic feverBy Mayo Clinic staff\nOriginal Article:\nDefinition,.\nSymptoms:\n-\n-\nYour child should see a doctor if he or she has signs or symptoms of strep throat. Proper treatment of strep can prevent rheumatic fever. Call your doctor if your child has any of the following signs or symptoms:\n- A sore throat without cold symptoms, such as a runny nose\n- A sore throat accompanied by tender, swollen lymph glands (nodes)\n- Rash\n- Difficulty swallowing anything, including saliva\n- Thick or bloody discharge from the nose, which is more likely in children under 3 years of age\nCall your doctor about a fever in the following situations:\n- Newborns up to 6 weeks with a fever of 100 F (37.8 C)\n- Children ages 6 weeks to 2 years with a temperature of 102 F (38.9 C) or higher\n- Children age 2 or older with a fever of 103 F (39.4 C) or higher\n- Any fever that lasts more than three days\nAlso, see your doctor if your child shows any other signs or symptoms of rheumatic fever.\nCauses.\nRisk factors\nFactors that may increase the risk of rheumatic fever include:\n- Family history. Some people may carry a gene or genes that may easily result in the rapid transmission or multiple exposures to strep bacteria.\nComplications:\n- Valve stenosis. This condition is a narrowing of the valve, which results in decreased blood flow.\n- Valve regurgitation. This condition is a leak in the valve, which allows blood to flow in the wrong direction.\n- Damage to heart muscle. The inflammation associated with rheumatic fever\nPreparing for your appointment.\nWhat you can do\nMake a list ahead of time that you can share with your doctor. Your list should include:\n- Symptoms your child is experiencing or has recently experienced, even if the symptoms don't seem related to each other\n- Recent illnesses your child has had\n- Medications, including vitamins or supplements, that your child takes or has recently taken\n- Questions for your doctor\nList questions for your doctor from most important to least important in case time runs out. If you think your child is showing signs or symptoms of rheumatic fever, you may ask some of the following questions.\n- Does my child have rheumatic fever?\n- What other conditions could cause these symptoms?\n- What kinds of tests will my child need now and in the future?\n- What is the best treatment?\n- Will rheumatic fever or its treatment have any effect on my child's other health conditions?\n- How much do I need to restrict my child's activities?\n- Is my child still contagious? For how long?\n- What type of follow-up is needed?\n- Are there any brochures or other printed material that I can take home with me? What websites do you recommend visiting? any points you want to spend more time on. Your doctor may ask:\n- When did your child's signs and symptoms first appear?\n- How have these signs and symptoms changed over time?\n- Has your child had a cold or flu recently? What were the symptoms?\n- Has your child been exposed to a known case of strep throat?\n- Was your child recently diagnosed with strep throat or scarlet fever?\n- Did your child take all of the antibiotics to treat strep throat or scarlet fever as prescribed?\nTests and diagnosis\nYour doctor makes a diagnosis of rheumatic fever based on:\n- Signs and symptoms you report\n- Evidence of inflammation\n- Evidence of recent.\nTreatments and drugs.\nLifestyle and home remedies.\nPrevention\nThe only known way to prevent rheumatic fever is to treat strep throat infections or scarlet fever promptly with a full course of appropriate antibiotics.\n-"}
{"text": "The Warsaw University Library roof garden was designed by the landscape architect Irena Bajerska and opened in 2002. The area is 1 hectare and it has beautiful views of the River Vistula and the city of Warsaw. There are symbolic themes and the planting is lush on a 300mm layer of soil. The library building has green walls and large wall teblets with mathematical formulas, musical scores and famous quotations in various alphabets. It is an excellent example of how publicly accessible greensapce can be made at roof level."}
{"text": "User Summary\nBarioth is a large, winged, saber-toothed cat/lizard hybrid creature. Its fangs are orange with red tips and serrated along the edges to slice through flesh. Spikes run along its neck, wings, shoulders, and tail. It has a white pelt to match its tundra habitat and a tan colored throat that fades into the white of its underbelly. The Barioth is fast but cumbersome as it leaps, pounces, and slides all over the ice using its claws and fangs both to grip the ground and attack. Its haphazard movements can make it hard to keep up with and the Barioth can breathe a windy blast that quickly forms a twister. Though normally blue when enraged Barioth’s eyes turn red and regardless of being enraged or not its eyes will always glow in the dark.\nAn orange subspecies of Barioth with a red head and blue fangs can be found in desert habitats. Desert Barioth can create large twisters that it uses to propel itself at hunters."}
{"text": "Who Uses This Software?\nIT Service Providers and Managed Service Providers (MSPs)\nAverage Ratings54 Reviews\n- Overall\n- Ease of Use\n- Customer Service\nProduct Details\n- Starting PriceNot provided by vendor\n- Free TrialYes\n- DeploymentCloud, SaaS, Web\nInstalled - Windows\n- TrainingDocumentation\nWebinars\nLive Online\nIn Person\n- SupportOnline\nBusiness Hours\n24/7 (Live Rep)\nVendor Details\n- ConnectWise\n-\n- Founded 2004\n- United States\nAbout ConnectWise Automate!\nConnectWise Automate Features\n- Backup Management\n- Billing & Invoicing\n- CRM\n- Dashboard\n- Help Desk\n- Issue Management\n- Live Chat\n- Patch Management\n- Project Management\n- Remote Access\n- Remote Systems Monitoring\n- Scheduling\nConnectWise Automate Reviews Recently Reviewed!\nI utilize this software daily to perform my job duties, managing all aspects of over 6,000 endpoints\nLikely Extremely\nLikely\nAutomate - IT automation software for IT Service Providers\nLikely Extremely\nLikely\nComments:.\nGreat Software with a great learning curve\n.\nConnectwise Automate, formerly Labtech, works well for the most part.\n.\nThe best tool I've used in desktop support.\nLikely Extremely\nLikely\nPros: The amount of features that you have at your fingertips to remotely assist users is phenomenal. I can't count how many times this software has made life so much easier.\nCons: When the app is slow to load, it's slow to load. It's the only downside I've had with this application.\nOverall: With this software we are able to not only sort users by client, but also location. The network scans and ability to distribute software is killer. When working I am able to easily assist multiple people because of the features of this product.\nI can remotely connect to a computer, run command line scripts, create custom scripts, and check general health. That's all in the console view. If you want to setup the alerts to prompt you for specific actions, it's all there.\nI believe this is still the best RMM around, but it's a bit clunky and often slow.\n.\nThe IDEA of this software is awesome, the delivery of that promise is lacking though\n.\nAutomate ( formerly Labtech) is a great RMM tool for MSP customers.\n.\nThe most advanced MSP RMM to grow your business off of.\n_16<<.\n.\nVery powerful remote monitoring software\n.\nMSP Supporting 50 Client Networks\n.\nFor managing your IT components no matter where\n.\nGreat in some places, lets you down in others\nPros: Connecting to users workstations is a quick and painless experience, with the ability to search workstation names or ID's making it a breeze to reach who you need to.\nCons: Software takes anywhere from 1 to 4 minutes to load up, and often times that's just the login screen. At worst, it's taken me 15 minutes to get to the Control Center after restarting my workstation\nLabTech is a great program but they want extra for every feature so it can cost a lot.\nImproved ROI on Manged services by 35% in first 3 years.\n.\nConnectWise for wiser IT Admins\n.\nGreat option for the managed services firm\n.\nAutomate has helped us to manage multiple endpoints for multiple clients from a single console.\nPros: One of the best features of the software is the ability to create and quickly deploy custom scripts and receive accurate reporting.\nCons: Navigation in the console could be improved. There is a slight learning curve, but once you discover where all of the features are it becomes easy to use.\nwe use internally labtech\nOverall good product, steep learning curve.\nLikely Extremely\nLikely\nPros: I am not sure I can identify any Pros with ConnectWise. It may be because of my limited use with this product. It does what I need to do, but I feel like I doing too many clicks and going through too many windows/tabs to get to where I want to go.\nCons: As previously said, to me it's not very user-friendly. I feel like I am having to go to different tab in the navigation bar to get to certain information.\nLabTech is by far one of the best RMM tools on the market\n.\nThis product makes my work life better.\nLikely Extremely\nLikely\nPros: How it is able to connect so well regardless of bandwidth constraints, Able to manage updates, antivirus with ease. Scripting is extremely easy.\nCons: The software removal process often will not work as it sometimes requires accessing the PC. Sometimes registering new machines can be a trying experience without admin level access.\nOverall: It has allowed me to accomplish more during a work day..\nTons of features. Robust system.\n!\nAmazing automation with quick access to needed tools.\n_61<<\nSo much power, but still simple to setup and use\n.\nMakes working so much easier\n.\nConference meetings\nPros: The product provides good quality, long conference with many participants, in addition, recording options are impressive along with the application sharing.\nCons: The product does not have a full functionality comparing to other competitors. in addition, connectivity is not perfect.\nOverall it's a solid platform\nComments: All the features you want and need are there. Like any RMM you'll spend a bit of time 'quietening' it down first, but after that, it's smooth sailing.\nCustomer support\nComments: Lab tech values their customer service. They are responsive and quick to action.Their email resonance and efficient.\nSuper popular in the MSP world\nLikely Extremely\nLikely\nPros: Screens are configurable to fit business needs. Automation inside for regular processes is stellar. Well designed for MSP-style setups, with multiple networks/customers and multiple configs.\nCons: Database needs careful manicuring to make sure it doesn't get filled with garbage. Quoting tools need improvement. Built for IT people yes, built for sales people no.\nOverall: Used connectwise for tier 1 support at an MSP in Michigan. Worked on it personally from both support and sales roles. Your IT people will love it. Your sales people will hate it.."}
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{"text": "Impaired Ejaculation\nImpaired ejaculation is a medical condition where it takes a man more time than normal to ejaculate and some men cannot ejaculate at all. This means that a man usually needs more than half an hour of sexual stimulation to ejaculate. Many men cant ejaculate during intercourse, but are able to do so if the penis is orally or manually stimulated, or by masturbation.\nIs it temporary or permanent?\nIt can be temporary dependant on the cause and treatments available, but sometimes it is permanent, for example prostate surgery may have an effect. It is not abnormal to have a problem of this sort from time to time especially when a man is affected by anxiety or stress.\nTypes\nImpaired ejaculation is divided into the following types:\nLifelong- The problem has been present since the male reached sexual maturity.\nAcquired- The problem manifests itself after a time of normal sexual activity.\nGeneralised- The problem occurs whatever type of stimulation is used and it doesnt matter who he is with.\nSituational – The problem only occurs in certain circumstances.\nCauses\nStress\nFatigue\nRelationship problems\nMental health issues\nProstate problems\nInjury\nSurgery\nBirth defects\nDiabetes\nGuilt\nTreatment\nPsychological causes, such as stress, fatigue, relationship problems, and guilt are better dealt with through counselling with or without your partner and making adjustments to your lifestyle, cutting stress, taking up some form of exercise, spending more time with your loved ones and getting a good night sleep.\nMental health problems should be discussed with a psychologist or a mental health counsellor, who has specialised knowledge of sexual problems.\nPhysical causes can be treated with medication along with counselling if necessary to provide help and support. Sometimes the ejaculation problem is caused by a reaction between prescription drugs, which you may be taking for other health issues. Talk to your doctor and they can change your medication to find one which suits you better, or prescribe a medication for the ejaculation problem.\nRisk factors\nThere are numerous things that can cause an increase of impaired ejaculation and these include:\nAge – As men get older ejaculation does take longer\nErection problems such as erectile dysfunction\nHeavy drinking or alcoholism\nDrug taking including cannabis\nBlood pressure medication\nDiuretics\nAntidepressants\nDrugs controlling psychological conditions\nSeeing a doctor\nThe doctor is likely to ask you numerous questions about your lifestyle and sexual habits, be truthful. Take along any medications you take for other conditions including any supplements such as vitamins. If you want to ask questions it is an idea to write them down beforehand so as not forget once you are in the surgery.\nTests\nBlood Tests to rule out other health issues.\nUrine Test to look for diabetes or infection.\nPhysical exam of your penis and testicles.\nOnce the tests have come back from the laboratory, your doctor will be in a better position to make a diagnosis and recommend appropriate treatment."}
{"text": "Lancôme Captures Two CEW Awards\nTalking Makeup had just learned that Lancôme’s Génifique Youth Activating Concentrate (Which happens to be Marta Walsh’s very favorite! I love the eye cream version as well) and Ôscillation Powerbooster just received a 2010 Cosmetic Executive Women (CEW) Beauty Insider’s Choice Award in the Anti-Aging Prestige and Eye Product categories. These awards are held each year and winners are determined by members who vote on the industry’s top products that have been deemed the most innovative in their cosmetic category.\nAbout the Author\nI am one of the top fashion and beauty bloggers in the world also a Luxury Paradise Valley and Scottsdale REALTOR with Russ Lyon Sotheby's International Realty."}
{"text": "- Code: B.4.10.IR.7\n- Spefication Reference: 4.3.3.2\n- Keywords: Tropisms, defence\n- Objectives: To describe physical defence mechanisms of plants. To describe chemical defence mechanisms of plants. To describe mechanical adaptations which plants have to protect from disease.\n- Competency: To identify a few defence mechanisms in plants\n- Proficiency: To categorise and explain each type of defence mechanism\n- Mastery: N/A\nPlant defence responses\nOther Lessons in Topic\nOther lessons in Infection and Response\nNorth Caldeen Rd, Coatbridge, ML5 4EF, Scotland, UK\n+44 (0) 1236 442380"}
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{"text": "I was rockin' out to Girls Just Want to Have Fun.\" I was really feeling that song! lol\nHere are some other photos from my b-day (better late than never):\nMy cousins and yours truly :) Oh, and Art off to the side :P\nArt also knows how to rock out!\nThere's a cute story behind the paper crown I am wearing in the photo below (I know, it's blurry!). My cousin, who is a Pre-K teacher, had her morning class call me on my cell and sing happy birthday. That was so cute and unexpected...I loved it! Afterwards she had them make a paper crown for me. Her classroom is filled with 4 year old kids. My cousin asked them how old did they think I was turning and one of the kids said, \"well, we called her on her cell phone so she has to be 5!\" I thought that was soooooooo cute! So that is why the crown has the number 5 on it :)\nI know it has been over a month since my birthday, but, like I said, better late than never :)\n6 comments:\naw! happy belated birthday :)\nThanks for sharing these fun pics. I love the last one with the crown and cupcake. I SOOOO want a cupcake right now. haha\nyou guys are too cute!\nOMG that crown is cute and how cute of them to think you were 5! Looks like you had a blast.\nHow Fun!! Kids can seriously brighten anyones day :o) very Cute..\nthat cupcake shot is way too cute! glad you all had fun!!\nbelated happy 5th bday nat!!"}
{"text": "Fancy dress competition for Classes 1 and 2\nA fancy dress competition for students of Classes 1 and 2 was conducted on 24/12/2021. It was based on the theme 'Mythical creatures'. Children participated enthusiastically in the event.\nResplendent Extravaganza-Primary Day - 2020\nPrimary day was celebrated on 15th February 2020 at the open auditorium of the school. The theme was ‘The Five Elements Of Nature’.\nDr.Lakshmi Balaji, Vice Principal, Dr MGR College of Arts & Science was the Chief Guest for the Programme. She suggested ways to bring up children by letting them learn from their experiences.\nRESPLENDENT EXTRAVAGANZA - 2018\nThe school celebrated Primary day on Saturday, the 24th February 2018.\nMrs.Vidya Subramanian , Carnatic Vocalist, Chartered Accountant was the Chief Guest.\nRESPLENDENT EXTRAVAGANZA - 2016\nThe school celebrated its Primary day “Resplendent Extravaganza” on Friday, the 25th November 2016.\nDr.Sudha Raja,Principal / Faculty,Rhapsody Music education Private Ltd was the chief guest."}
{"text": "JavaScript is required to view this email address.\nIf everyone else stays healthy (which never happens), I'd guess the logical outcome will be that Trachsel will eventually replace Ishii, and Heliman will be stuck where he is.\nGreat write up! I'm curious at to what's the break down for this from over the past month. To me it looks like Glavine, Pedro, Benson, and Zambrano have really come into shape and that as the season comes along we may have a strong rotation. This could be huge for a NL East that is getting slamed with injuries, the Mets can actually win this thing.\nOne other note, we have yet to see Beltran get hot and I feel Wright and Reyes will only improve!\nI don't understand why everyone is so quick to say that \"Ishii isn't suited to relief.\" His splits against LH hitters are amazing this year (LHB are 1-for-28 against him, and his OPS-vs-LHB is the lowest for any starter in all of MLB) and over the last few years, there is a marked difference between his splits vs. LHB and his splits vs. RHB.\nUntil they have tried him, is there any reason to believe that Ishii couldn't be an overpaid LOOGY who also pitches mop-up innings when necessary? Particularly when Trachsel gets back, but even before then with bringing up Seo as the 5th starter (since Heilman seems much more effective out of the bullpen than Seo ever was), why not try this?\nHow can I get a rough idea of when Pedro will pitch? I promised my son I'd try to take him to a game when Pedro pitches.\nThanks"}
{"text": "Last year before Valentine's Day, the Department of Interior asked the public for something a bit unusual - photos and videos of marriage proposals and weddings..\nTweets about \"@wilderness\"\nPublic wildlands are suffering from budget shortfalls that harm wildlife and conservation programs. Tell Congress to fund our public lands properly!"}
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{"text": "Welcome to EverybodyWiki !\nSign in or create an account to improve, watchlist or create an article like a company page or a bio (yours ?)...\nAdesoji Daniel Oluwagbemigun\nAdesoji Daniel Oluwagbemigun is a Nigerian entertainment entrepreneur and Internet radio executive. He owns Rowzy Entertainment [1].\nContents\nEarly life[edit]\nOluwagbemigun was born in Lagos but a native of Ijare, Ondo region of Nigeria. He studied Business Administration at Yabatech.\nCareer[edit]\nHe is CEO of Rowzy Radio, an internet radio firm which was launched on May 2018. He also oversees Platinum Rowzy Shelters Ltd, Rowzadex Autos and Imvelo Trading and Project PTY Ltd (South Africa).\nReferences[edit]\n- ↑ \"All You Need to Know About Rowzy Radio\". TopStarLoaded. 1 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.\nReferences[edit]\nThis article \"Adesoji Daniel Oluwagbemigun\" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:Adesoji Daniel Oluwagbemigun. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one."}
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{"text": "French filmmaker Michel Gondry (“The Green Hornet”) spent a lot of time with Bronx high school students, co-wrote with two partners a slice-of-life script for them that took into account their real personalities and had them act it all out in “The We and the I,” which takes place almost entirely on a city Bx66 bus after the last day of school.\nFake documentaries annoy me — why not put in the effort and deliver the real thing? — and this one is not only aimless and stiff, it also rings false. I’m finding it a little hard to believe that an old lady in contemporary New York would shout out that her bus, full of members of minorities, consisted of “apes from Africa,” or that a 180-pound high school student would cower and run away if she attacked him with a stick.\nGondry’s evident fondness for the kids is sweet, though. The students are seen ebulliently chatting about TV shows, flirting and innocently teasing and playing pranks on one another. I have no idea what Bronx high school students are like, but I doubt they’re as dull as Gondry would have us believe. I suspect the kids themselves could have made a more interesting film."}
{"text": ".\nWe hope you’ll take a moment to listen to their experiences and hear about how we continue to make bluegrass more inclusive and diverse this year, and every year since we started. To kick things off, we chatted with our very own Executive Director Kara Kundert, a young leader in this genre if ever there was one.\nAfter listening to Kara, you might be moved to consider what you can do to get involved, and to make sure bluegrass stays as queer as it always has been. Remember that you can donate to Bluegrass Pride any time of year, but especially as 2020 draws to a close, year-end giving helps us so much to keep pushing onward—to keep up the forward roll, if you will. We hope you’ll be inspired by her words and moved to give, if you can.\nLet’s hear from Kara!\nBGP: Can you talk a little about your personal love for bluegrass? How did you come to love the music?\nKara: I fell in love with bluegrass as a kid, though I didn't have the words for it then. I really wanted to learn how to fiddle, and my parents got me a violin and put me into classical lessons and I hated it. Bluegrass and American traditional music didn't become a big part of my life until I was 20 and my friend introduced me to the Punch Brothers during a really dark and challenging time. That beautiful, bright mandolin melody of \"This Girl\" just sunk its teeth into me.\nBGP: What inspired you to be the youngest person in the room at the first BGP planning meeting, and why did you step up to take on a huge social media project?\nKara: When I started getting involved with the Bay Area bluegrass scene, I signed up for this pickers listserv that sent out information to folks about local shows and jams. One day I got an email invitation cluing folks into the fact that this project was happening. The email gave a date, time, and address, and also said that there would be pizza. For a grad student at Berkeley at the time, I was like, \"Yes, this is perfect! I'm gay, I play bluegrass, and I live for free food. Where do I sign?\"\nEventually someone brought up that we should start a Facebook page, and I was like, \"Oh, I can do that!\" I didn't fit in anywhere else, I didn't have other useful experience, but I was pretty sure I could figure out how to start a Facebook page and put content up about the project.\nBGP: Talk a little about that historic social project and how it won Best Overall Contingent Award at SF Pride. How did you make it happen, and how did it feel?\nKara: Winning Best Overall Contingent is still something that I can't really explain. Bluegrass Pride had a small but mighty audience behind it. SF Pride didn't really tell us about the nomination or how to campaign for the prize. I think I realized that the poll was open for votes less than a week before it was going to close, so I just frantically sent the word out to everyone I could think of: I posted to our socials about the nomination, I sent out a newsletter with the poll link, I emailed it my coworkers and family and friends.\nIt was exciting and very haphazard -- present-day me would have handled it much differently, but it worked! We were nominated against huge contingents like Glide Memorial Church and Planned Parenthood of Northern California. Small but mighty won the day!\nBGP: Talk about creating the first LGBTQ+ Musicians' Showcase at IBMA's World of Bluegrass festival. How did it feel to see queer bluegrassers represented at WOB for the first time?\nKara: It was a really emotional experience. That first year, we partnered with The Handsome Ladies in order to share costs, and we booked three bands to play: Lonely Heartstring Band, Che Apalache, and Justin Hiltner & Jon Weisberger. Unfortunately, Justin had recently been diagnosed with cancer and had to cancel his trip to Raleigh to start treatment. So we ended up swapping out Justin & Jon with a classic IBMA-style super jam featuring Brandon Godman, Ben Garnett, Tristan Scroggins, Molly Tuttle, and more. So the music was incredible.\nMore than that, the energy was just out of this world. Everyone who was playing was so happy and grateful to have a specifically queer and inclusive platform to celebrate and play this music. The audience kept growing and growing until we had a completely full house -- standing room only. At IBMA! For gay bluegrass! Everyone in the audience could feel it was a special show, and everyone on stage was feeling loved and supported in that moment. It was incredible.\nBGP: How has being a part of Bluegrass Pride impacted you? What are some things that have changed about your life?\nKara: Well, my whole career changed so that's one (laughs)! During the first two years of Bluegrass Pride, I was pursuing a PhD in astrophysics. Now I'm out of academia and I live and breathe nonprofits all day every day.\nBut more than that it has taught me a great deal: about myself, what matters to me, how to manage projects and operate with professionalism, how to really multitask and juggle priorities. It introduced me to my absolute favorite people in the world and has allowed me to explore and appreciate my queerness in ways that I didn't have access to before.\nI am so grateful that my path took me here.\nBGP: How has Bluegrass Pride changed your opinion about bluegrass music and the people who create it?\nKara: I've always had tremendous respect for musicians and all of the people who make the music industry work, and that hasn't changed.\nBut this experience has introduced me to a much broader and deeper level of appreciation. I have discovered so many incredibly talented artists that I really doubt I would have stumbled on without the connections I have made through Pride, and have met so many creative and innovative writers, engineers, festival organizers, and event planners. It has given me a great deal of gratitude for the full community.\nBGP: As Executive Director, what are your big picture goals for the next 3-5 years?\nKara: Oh this is a big question! A lot of it isn't up to me -- the Board of Directors really sets the big picture of the organization, I just pitch them ideas and carry things out.\nBut there are some things that I'm very excited about, including the forthcoming Safe Venue Directory and its partner, the Home Stay Network. Both of these projects will have a big impact on the Bluegrass Pride community: giving artists the tools and resources they need to safely get back on the road, while empowering our audience with knowledge of venues they can be proud to support. Those will be very impactful to the folks that we work with, especially as we climb out of the pandemic.\nBGP: What would you say to someone who is feeling a little left out of the music industry and thinking about getting involved in Bluegrass Pride?\nKara: We want you and we need you! Our motto as an organization is that bluegrass is for everyone. So for the folks out there who love the sound of a banjo or a fiddle but you don't see a place for yourself yet, we want you to know you're welcome at our table. If you want to strum a guitar but don't know how, or if you're a music industry professional looking for paid work and assistance with career and professional development, we will be there for you!\nAnd if you have questions about Bluegrass Pride or an idea for a new program that you'd like to see us offer, shoot me an email and we can start making it happen.\n***\nY’all heard that, right? Kara’s personal invite to get involved with Bluegrass Pride, whatever that looks like for you! If that means giving, and if you’re able, we’d be grateful for your support.\nYou can donate to Bluegrass Pride online, and we appreciate each and every gift.\nWe look forward to making 2021 our most impactful year yet with your help!"}
{"text": "I have been doing some more stitching and have developed a new idea. If l rip a blouse or mark a shirt, instead of throwing it away.....mend it! So l have been developing some patches that l can sew over those problems. This is one of them. This piece of blanket has been felted and dyed with Eucalyptus leaves then a piece of dyed (some beetroot and turmeric) silk has been attached and embroidered on to the felt. I have created quite a few and in different colours. The feedback has been very positive. I reckon the price will be about £12 ish.\nThe last image of this bag now has paler thread on it too. To my eyes, it looks so much better.\nHaving coffee often gets my imagination going...especially when one is given coffee decorated like this.\nThis decoration on a vase also made me want to go home and stencil!\n9 comments:\nbeautiful bag.\nMaking decorated patches is a great idea; the bag is looking fabulous too.\nJust loving all your hand stitching on the patch and that gorgeous bag! I'm also really enjoying your wall hanging, it's wonderful, although I need to find a permanent spot for it. Will e-mail you about meeting up for coffee.\nSusan Lobb-Porter Love these pieces,\nLynda. Your blog won't let me tell you so, tho, so I have to comment here. You've given me inspiration to make a couple artistic patches for a few doggie chews on my favorite comfy chair.\nPatricia Clark Love your latest pieces from the blog, Lynda. what a great idea to have some creative patches to place on things rather than having to toss them out. And I love the little purse.\nBeautiful bag and great idea about the patches.\nReally loving this pieces\nThank you everyone for such nice commentsxxxx\nyou did a great job\nXXXm"}
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{"text": "NEW HARTFORD — One down, one to go.\nWhitestown Little League All-Stars inched closer to the organization’s third trip to the New York State Tournament with a 4-3 victory over Saratoga during the opening game of the Section 2 best-of-three series Saturday at New Hartford Little League Field.\nTo earn the hard-fought victory, Whitestown had to dig deep early, then hold on with clutch pitching and defense to take the advantage.\nBang Bang Play…Whitestown’s Memphis Ferguson hits the bag as Saratoga’s first baseman looks for an out call, and gets it, during first innings action. Photo – Jeff Pexton – Perfect Game Imaging\nWhitestown starting pitcher J.J. Roberts struggled mightily in the second inning, allowing three runs on four hits and a walk while watching his pitch count balloon to 46.\nHowever, Roberts, with the help of some nice defense, minimized the damage and the District 10 champs answered immediately with four runs in the bottom half of the inning to grab a lead they wouldn’t relinquish.\n“That was key because a lot of times a team will have a letdown like that and kind of implode,” Whitestown head coach Garrett Zyskowski said of his team’s answer in the bottom of the second.\n“Heads started to drop a little bit, but that inning snapped us right back into it and we finished out strong.”\nRoberts threw 32 pitches in the second inning, but settled in nicely and managed to finish a strong 5 1/3 innings to earn the victory.\nWhitestown’s JJ Roberts helps his own cause with a big second inning base knock. Photo – Jeff Pexton – Perfect Game Imaging\n“My teammates really helped me and I knew we would come back,” said Roberts, who allowed six hits and struck out two. “We’ve come back from bigger deficits than three.”\n“We have our other No. 1 pitcher tomorrow in Tony Dorozynski and we know he’s definitely going to do good and we all believe in him,” Roberts said. “So, this was amazing to get the first win. Now they have to win two and we only need to win one.”\nCoach Zyskowski called on his son, Ben, to close out the game. After allowing a double to the first batter he faced, the southpaw delivered by inducing a popup to second basemen Tyler Thorngren for the second out before earning the save in style with a game-ending strikeout.\nWhitestown’s Tyler Thorngren locks in on an early inning offering. Photo – Jeff Pexton – Perfect Game Imaging\nRoberts had three hits, and third basemen Mike Stilwell roped the ball all three at-bats and finished with two singles and a lineout for Whitestown, which tries to close out the Section 2 title at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Saratoga Little League Field. Game 3, if necessary, would be held at 5:45 Tuesday back in New Hartford.\nStilwell was happy to swing himself out a mini-slump.\n“I had a really rough past few games,” Stilwell said. “So, I knew I had to come back sometime and had to do it quick. The first game is so important. J.J. pitched a great game and we know they’ll come back fighting tomorrow, so we have to be ready.”\nIn the top of the second, Saratoga got things going with back-to-back singles by Christian Mello and Hank Parobeck. After a flyout, Dan Klochaney singled back up the middle to drive Mellow home to open the scoring.\nWhitestown’s Chris Jennings (5) delivers a clutch hit for the home team that tied things up in the second inning. Photo – Jeff Pexton – Perfect Game Imaging\nFollowing a walk that loaded the bases, leadoff Mack Harris ripped a hard grounder down the third baseline that Stilwell gathered on his knees and touched third for the forceout. Parobeck scored to make it 2-0, but the damage couldn’ve been worse if not for the nice defense by Stilwell. Saratoga extended its lead to 3-0 as Hunter Fales’ soft-liner to right drove in Owen Blaisdell before Roberts pitched out of trouble.\nIn youth baseball, a tough inning can easily snowball. Whitestown’s players remained positive and that mindset paid off in the bottom half of the inning.\nWith Saratoga starter Ronan Rowe struggling with his control, Whitestown pounced to grab the lead. Dorozynski started things by drawing the first of four walks in the inning. Stilwell and Roberts followed with singles to close the gap to 3-1.\nSeth Stevens and Zyskowski worked back-to-back walks to make it 3-2. Chris Jennings then drove a high flyball to left that was dropped, allowing Roberts to score the tying run. With the bases loaded and still nobody out, Thorngren drew a walk to score Stevens with the go-ahead run.\n“I knew we could do it,” Stilwell said of the comeback. “Positive attitudes win games as much as hitting home runs and other stuff.”\nSaratoga manager Matt McNamara called on his son, Thomas, to get his team out of the jam before things got totally out of hand. The younger McNamara expertly worked out of trouble with an infield popout sandwiched around two strikeouts to keep the Section 11 champs in the game.\nThe rest of the game featured solid pitching and nice defense. Roberts cruised through middle innings, retiring eight straight before Fales singled to right with one out in the fifth.\nWhitestown’s defense, led by Dorozynski, took care of the rest as the rangy shortstop corralled a hard-hit grounder by Rowe, tagged second and gunned to first for an inning-ending double play.\nMcNamara continued to work out of jams to put up zeros. He stranded two in the third and others in the fourth and fifth to give his team a chance heading to the top half of the sixth.\nStarting the sixth inning just three pitches from the 85-pitch limit, Roberts got another defensive gem by Dorozynski, who bankhanded a two-hop bullet by Rowe and rifled to an outstretched Jennings for the first out.\nWith Roberts over the limit, Zyskowski came in to face the imposing Mello, who gave Saratoga hope by driving a one-hopper to the wall in right-center for a one-out double. That was as far as Mello would advance as a popout and strikeout put Whitestown in the driver’s seat in the series.\nTony Time…Sunday will see the return of Tony Dorozynski to the mound. The big right hander is undefeated on the mound this post season for Whitestown. Photo – Jeff Pexton – Perfect Game Imaging.\nSunday should be another tight game with both teams having its ace on the hill as Whitestown’s Dorozynski and Saratoga’s Mello are ready to roll.\n“It was really a one-inning game,” Coach McNamara said. “We were sloppy in the field, much more than usual, but that’s going to happen with 12-year-olds.\n“We have to win tomorrow, and if we do, we get to play again … it’s not complicated. We’ve heard they have a kid that’s pretty good and we have a kid that’s pretty good, so it’s probably going to be a tight game. So we’re going to see what we can do.”\nZyskowski realizes the importance of getting that first win in the series. But, he is also aware it doesn’t guarantee anything.\n“We’re in a good position right now, Zyskowski said. “We have our No. 1 starting and have our 3, 4 , 5 and everyone else ready to go. It’s going to be a battle tomorrow.\n“It was huge to get the first one. In a three-game series it shifts the momentum our way and puts the pressure on them. They know they have to come back here for another game if they want to win. I’m proud of the kids. We got one of the three and we’ll plug away and try to get the second.”\nIf they can get that second win, they’ll join the 2006 and 2014 Whitestown teams as state tournament competitors.\nNYS Section 3 Little League All-Star Tournament\n(Best-of-3 Series, Game 1)\nWhitestown 4, Saratoga 3\nSaratoga 030 000-3 6 2\nWhitestown 040 00X-4 6 0\nW: J.J. Roberts. L: Ronan Rowe. S: Ben Zyskowski. 2B: Saratoga, Christian Mello."}
{"text": ".\n5 comments:\nThis is the greatest headstone I have ever seen. I just might have to steal it.\nI know, right?\nTHAT is awesome.\nNasty old cowboy is who wants that headstone! You, Christopher, are just the person for a cowboy poetry festival. I maintain that cowboy poetry is a great use of language and traditional poetry form. I had a really good book from the Elko gathering years ago, I'm not sure where it is. You should try to go next year - I think they're in the winter.\nWinter in Elko, I can't think of anything better.\nThe cowboy poetry does sound cool though. They used to have cowboy poetry open mic night at USU. It was really fun."}
{"text": "\nlet me finish tonight with this. a sixth of our country is now of hispanic background.\n12:01 am\n×\n1 in 6 and growing, imagine the enhanced dignity they must feel today after what happened late yesterday in rome. the election of pope francis is something so new it may take a while to get our heads around it. it won't take that long for people who come from latin american backgrounds. all the people here in our country from central america and the caribbean, they must be thrilled. and the cardinal from buenos aires was a surprise last night. he wasn't even mentioned of the possible popes of the newspapers. my sense is he'll be very offbeat from what we're used to in politics in this country. usually you hear someone from the suburbs say i'm a liberal on social issues but conservative on economic issues. well pope francis is the opposite from you. he's conservative on issues like marriage and equality, but progressive on poverty and justice. some old style democrats who are pro life but solid on health care for the poor, protection of the minimum wage, sort of like bob casey. so get ready for a pope who will be perfectly on the old\n12:02 am\n×\nprogressive issues dear to dorothy day and tip o'neill and more conservative when it comes to matters of sex. that's \"hardball\" for now, thanks for being with us, \"the ed show\" with ed schultz starts now. welcome to \"the ed show\" from new york. america met scott prody last night. and what a reaction. i'll tell you what members of the romney camp are saying about comments now. let's get to work. >> i don't know how i describe myself, but i -- i was behind this whole thing. >> the world is reacting to our first interview with the bartender who changed political history. tonight, the footage you haven't seen including the heroic act that convinced scott prody he needed to release the tape. >> looking back on it, it's one of the proudest moments of my life. they're refighting the vietnam war over at cpac. >> vietnam was winnable, but people in washington decided we would not win it. howard fineman has a wrap-up\n12:03 am\n×\nof the conservative conclave. plus more republican obstruction of appointees has democrats fuming. i'll ask former senator tom daschle if harry reid needs to revisit the filibuster reform. and yesterday it was the president. now democratic leadership looks like they may cave on social security. i'll ask the big congressional panel where they stand. good to have you with us, folks, thanks for watching. people around the country are still buzzing about the man behind the 47% video who revealed his identity on this show last night. now, today the world is getting to know the real scott prody. he described himself on this program as a regular guy. he's got bills to pay, he struggles in the middle class like anybody else. he has a dream to go to law school and he's -- really, here's another thing about him that i think you should know. he's a bartender. this is interesting. bartenders are in the service\n12:04 am\n×\nand hospitality industry, they are also some of the best armchair psychologists you can find. some of the best people readers on the earth. they can tell if somebody's in a good mood, one of the nicest people you've ever met. you know huh it is, they interact with everyone. people confide in bartenders. they tell bartenders things that they might not tell anybody else. people come into the bar, you know, that they come in happy, they come in sad, they come in after a real tough day. oftentimes they come in to celebrate. what i'm saying is that the bartender sees it all. the bartender knows people. in a way, you know, it's kind of perfect that the guy who secretly recorded mitt romney was in this industry and a bartender. you know, a working guy, a wage earner. you know, bills to pay. a guy who knows people.\n12:05 am\n×\nyou know, it took him about 30 seconds to sum up the phony in the room. he saw a guy who was ordering the wait staff around when he walked through the door. but he also understood the seriousness of what was being said. he knew that the impact what it was going to have and was not going to be careless about his responsibility. >> you were convinced that you had something the media never had. >> right. maybe the media had it. i -- i -- when listening to this speech. i thought if he had said something silly or stupid or off the cuff or, you know, if something didn't actually come out right and he just had said something embarrassing, i would never have just released it. but when i listened to him talk, that wasn't off the cuff, i believed he meant what he said. he spoke with the most conviction i'd ever heard him speak with. i felt that, you know what, this wasn't just a mistake, it wasn't a gotcha moment. this is what he believes.\n12:06 am\n×\n>> scott prouty knew the words were romney's real beliefs. romney's people also knew it. peter alexander told matt lauer the romney campaign knew how harmful the candidate's words were. >> the release of that tape last summer stunned the staff. the governor, i was told even apologized to them for the mess he had caused. and even now i still remember what another frustrated adviser told me at the time. he said when you're running for president, you've got to know that the camera is always on. >> well, he forgot that. scott prouty wanted to make sure that the american people understood the true meaning of what was being said by a man running for president. the country needed to know what this candidate thought of workers. his analysis came from experience because he has dealt\n12:07 am\n×\nwith a lot of people. he can see people coming from a mile away. he's a bartender. that's his job. the outpouring of support for scott prouty captures the importance of what he did. people understand the courage it took to come forward. this is not the first time scott prouty put his neck on the line. here's another part of my interview with him. it sums up scott prouty, i think, pretty well. >> there was a story about you that you stopped on the side of the road of an accident and jumped in the everglades and saved a woman and her child. is that true? >> it was a single mom, the baby seat was in the car but there was no child in the car. but, yeah, it was a few years back, five years back and i was honored for saving a lady's life that her car crashed in the water and i'd gone down and swam up and down and was able to cut her out eventually and, you know, brought her out and -- david had said, you know, the reason that it was even involved in this, i was on the phone with david early on when we were discussing -- >> david cornyn. >> discussing the release and\n12:08 am\n×\nhe'd said, you know, this is incredibly -- either incredibly brave of you to do or incredibly stupid. you know, and it was that second i said, well, the last incredibly brave or incredibly stupid thing i did looking back on it is one of the proudest moments of my life. so, you know, i think we're going to roll the dice here and we're going to go down that path one more time because it worked. i'm glad i did it then, and i think -- and i slept at night because i didn't watch this woman drown in her car. i was able to live with myself because i jumped in and was, you know, there was other people on the bank and other people trying to help, but i was able to go and pull her out and dive back down and look for the baby. but i came out of it okay. she survived, but i -- i'm glad it's one of the most proudest moments of my life. and it was -- it was something that said, you know what, if you can jump in, jump in. and i had a chance to jump in with this again and said you know what, i'm going to jump in one more time. >> well, the american people are thankful that scott prouty decided to jump in one more time. as a broadcaster, i'm honored to have been able to tell the story along with him.\n12:09 am\n×\nit was an honor to be a part of it and i appreciate it very much. you know when you do big interviews in this business, there's a stroke of luck that goes along with it. not everybody gets what they want. most people feel if they get close to a story, they deserve the interview. i don't know if i deserve the interview or not, but i do know this, that scott prouty and i do align ourselves when it comes to workers rights and workers issues in the middle class and maybe he just felt a little bit more comfortable here. and i'm proud of our team for that. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. it warms my heart to see what has unfolded in social media since the interview aired last night. is scott prouty a hero? text \"a\" for yes, \"b\" for no. you can go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com. we'll bring the results later on in the show.\n12:10 am\n×\ni'm joined by leo gerard. good to have you with us tonight. >> good to be with you, ed, and congratulations on the interview. >> well, thank you. what has been your role in scott prouty's story? >> well, i -- i don't want to speak necessarily about my role. i talk about our union's role. through our relationship with charlie kernagen and the institute for global human rights, we got to meet scott during the inauguration festivities in washington and got to sit down with him and talk about his views about life and his respect for charlie and what charlie does every day going around world trying to help people who are working in terrible conditions. and scott managed to see charlie's work on that very same factory that romney was talking about. and you and i did a show on that, i think, at some point in time where that factory was purchased by romney's bermuda corporation. and when charlie put that out, he and scott connected. and through our relationship\n12:11 am\n×\nwith charlie, we got to meet scott. and i'm happy to say that scott is now going to come and work for the united steel workers. and we're going to do everything we can to help him to make sure he gets the kind of support he needs to take himself through this very, very emotional time for him and this very important time frame for him. he's just, i think, a rare human being that did the right thing for the right reason and didn't want to be the center of attention but wanted america to see the difference between the make believe romney and the real romney when he was behind closed doors with his ultra rich friends. >> what kind of work is he going to do for the steel workers? >> i think we're going to talk to him and do the kind of work he's excited about doing. he's very close with charlie and we do all kinds of work in different parts of the world. we send people into countries where workers are getting oppressed and we try to help, for example, we've helped build unions in liberia, now working\n12:12 am\n×\nwith in nigeria. we were in bangladesh with charlie when the fires occurred. and all the women got killed. charlie and scott have been talking about those things through the relationship and the friendship they've built since they met along the way. and scott is a very talented and smart and strategic young person. and if we can help him meet his dream of going to law school, earning some money to go to law school, we're going to try to do that for him. he's a hero in this election. and god bless him because i can't imagine what we'd be doing now had mitt romney been able to fool the american public. >> well, how much weight do you put on his actions in the outcome of the election? do you really think that it was the game changer?\n12:13 am\n×\nand had this not been exposed maybe romney would've won? or would he have won? >> i'm not smart enough to figure that out, but i do know this. when i was on the campaign trail talking to ordinary workers spending our time with our members or people that weren't our members talking to workers in various settings. they resented what they saw mitt romney say. mitt romney basically called 47% of america free loaders, those are people that are living, veterans that have come out, people who are disabled, workers who don't earn enough to pay taxes even. and so there was a lot of anger that got generated. and i think it also generated a lot of motivation. i know that our people got more mobilized as a result of that video. and i'm sure that others did. and i think that what scott did, and i think his strategy was flawless. i think what he did with no\n12:14 am\n×\nprompting by anybody but him thinking it through, he wanted those that couldn't afford the $50,000 dinner to be able to see the real mitt romney. and the others that got scott upset is that mitt romney was talking about himself being a job creator and then he saw what mitt romney was doing in china buying these factories at bain capital. and he saw that as a complete sort of contradiction of what mitt romney was trying to portray. i think in the sense that mitt romney helped the obama machinery show what romney really was about, i think it was if not a game changer darn near a game changer and i think america owes scott a big debt of thanks. >> well, he is a hero in my opinion and a lot of americans on social media are saying the same thing. it took a lot of guts to do what he did. it certainly is going to change fund raising, there's no such thing as behind closed doors anymore or whoever's going to be the next person to get caught isn't going to be thought of as very intelligent. but --\n12:15 am\n×\n>> well i -- >> the treatment of workers is what really tripped his trigger to release this whole thing and the oppression of the workers is what it was really one of the things that captured his attention. and i want to ask you, mr. gerard, do you think the republican party will change its attitude to the 47%. senator cruz the other day said -- at least i interpreted his comments as not really. >> look, i think the current batch of republicans and those that are behind him in the extreme republicans that are the voice of the 1%, i don't think they're going to change. i think they're just sorry their guy got caught. >> sure. >> and they keep -- if you watch what they're doing, we have a contest going on in america right now between the president who wants to get out of the current mess we're in through growth and the republicans and\n12:16 am\n×\nthose in the congress that are republicans wanting to get the country into austerity. anif you look at what's happening in europe, look at what's happened at great britain that accepted austerity. they're in a triple-dip recession. so i think that they're not going to change. and the one thing that about scott to tell everybody. he wanted everybody to see the real mitt romney. and when romney was almost arrogant enough to say that hep went into that factory and saw the barbed wire in the fences and -- >> sure. and that was to keep people out, right. >> to keep people in. to keep people out. well, look, i'm not the smartest guy in the world, but i've driven by prisons and when it's turned inside, it's not so that you can keep people out, it's so you can keep people in. >> thank you, mr. gerard, i appreciate it so much. thanks for being on the ed show tonight. remember to answer tonight's questionnaire at the bottom of the screen. share your thoughts on twitter @edshow and on facebook. and do that for the weekend show coming up too. conservatives are out in full force at their annual convention. we'll tell you who shot first. stay tuned.\n12:17 am\n×\n12:18 am\n×\n12:19 am\n×\ndemocrats are about to make the biggest mistake of their lives. \"the ed show\" congressional committee will tell us what the president said today. and i'll tell you about the future of the new ed show. you won't want to miss it. listen to my radio show sirius xm radio show monday through friday noon to 3:00 p.m. share your thoughts on facebook and twitter. ♪ [.\n12:20 am\n×\nrepublican elected officials who vote for tax increases are rat heads in a coke bottle. >> comedy hour. there's going to be a lot more of that nonsense in the coming days.\n12:21 am\n×\nthe gop's best and brighters are gathering outside of washington, d.c. for the largest republican gathering of the year cpac. this year's conference theme is america's future the next generation of conservatives new challenges timeless principles. i think i'll puke now. here's what the next generation of conservatives looks like at cpac. a good chunk of their speakers are old and bad, very bad at winning elections. meanwhile, you can tell republicans are still pretty sore about mitt romney's loss. this year's conference offers panels like csi washington, d.c., november 2012 autopsy. and here's another one, should we shoot all the consultants now, question mark? you mean they actually would shoot people at this thing? one consultant said they wouldn't be shooting who they\n12:22 am\n×\nwould not be shooting is dick morris. that's good because we like to have him around for comedy. after his horribly wrong predictions in the election, morris was invited to speak at cpac, is that an improvement? he addressed a mostly empty side of the room telling republicans they need to change on issues like immigration and abortion. yeah, that'll happen. former congressman alan west thinks otherwise. here's what he said about change today. >> there's no shortage of people telling us what conservatism cannot accomplish. what we can't do, how we cannot connect, how we must change our values to fit the times. well, ladies and gentlemen, i want to tell you that truly is a bunch of malarky. >> yeah, pay no attention to the people, it's us. texas congressman gomert got things cooking today. the tea party rock star shared an odd thought on the vietnam war.\n12:23 am\n×\n>> i'm not going to debate the merits of whether we should or should not have gone to vietnam. but what i will tell you is vietnam was winnable but people in washington decided we would not win it. >> when was the last time you had an in-depth conversation about vietnam? this was at the cpac convention? what they're talking about? gohmert also said we should've gone to war with iran in 1979. >> now, i still believe today that we have americans dying for their country because we did not send a message in 1979. you don't attack american soil and that's what an embassy is. we should stand up. there's a time for war. >> and that comedy ticket is only $29.95. well, $25 if you get it early, i guess. senator marco rubio also spoke today, he defended his stance on gay marriage. >> i respect people that disagree with me on certain things. but they have to respect me too. just because i believe that\n12:24 am\n×\nstates should have the right to define marriage in a traditional way does not make me a bigot. >> with two more days of cpac to go, there will be plenty of other memorable moments, i'm sure. let's turn to howard fineman prelim analyst and editorial director of \"the huffington post\" media group. nice to have you with us tonight. >> hi, ed. >> issues to rest. that's what my little note here is. can the republican party put some of these issues to rest like gay marriage and immigration? will they make any forward progress at cpac? your thoughts? >> well, i don't think they want to put them to rest. i think in a way the -- the mentality of cpac is also reflected in congress in the mentality of representative paul ryan's budget. he's putting forth the same\n12:25 am\n×\nthing that lost in the election, the cpac people are basically saying for the most part, for the most part, actually rand paul was one of the more interesting and disruptive characters there intellectually. >> disruptive? >> well, disruptive in the sense that he was willing to take up -- ask some fundamental questions about things, about privacy, about banks being too big to fail. he doesn't fit directly into the traditional mode. but most of the speakers, including marco rubio were saying, hey, there's nothing wrong with our message. our message is just fine. on the social issues, on every issue. as a matter of fact, rubio didn't even mention immigration, which i think is fascinating since that was his original calling card. at cpac, he strictly hit every traditional red button and did it in a traditional way and got a lot of applause for it. that's sort of the mentality of cpac. i've covered cpac for many, many years back in the day, it was a pretty serious in kind wonkish exercise intellectual debate.\n12:26 am\n×\nit really isn't that for the most part. it's all political positioning and their political position is we ain't changing. >> well, these politicians want to come away with the biggest headline and the biggest buzz. isn't that part of their mission, as well? >> sure, yeah. it is. and it remains a sort of emotional testing ground for sound bites and for personalities. >> yeah. >> rubio got a lot of good applause lines. rand paul got a lot of good applause lines. rick perry got applause lines for saying -- go ahead, go ahead. >> it's always good to throw the loser under the bus. rick perry knocked mitt romney pretty good today. here's the clip. >> the popular media narrative -- it's that this country has shifted away from conservative ideals as evidenced by the last two presidential elections. that might be true if republicans had actually nominated conservative candidates in 2008 in 2012. >> was that the biggest response that anybody got? >> that was a good line -- that was a good line and goes to the point i'm making. which is this is about purity.\n12:27 am\n×\nthis is about their traditional stance on things. rick perry's probably not the best expert on who's salable on elections on a national level. if a conservative by his lights didn't win the nomination this last time, it's partly rick perry's fault. because he tried to put out a conservative message there that didn't work. so that's the situation they're in right now. >> all right. what do you expect for mitt romney's speech tomorrow? what does he have to offer cpac? >> well, he's -- i think he's going to have to say -- >> announce? >> if he wants any applause, he's going to have to say i screwed up. i didn't carry the conservative message purely enough or strongly enough, in my heart i'm a conservative but i got\n12:28 am\n×\nwaylaid, sand trapped by the bartender in florida. you know, et cetera, et cetera. that's what he's going to have to do. i don't expect him to suddenly come in there and pound the table in defense of the moderate republicanism that he used to represent. >> yeah. >> i don't see that. >> howard, great to have you with us tonight. thanks so much. >> thank you, ed. the big three on the chopping block with the democrats. and i'll ask the ed show congressional committee. what are you going to do to stop it?\n12:29 am\n×\n12:30 am\n×\n12:31 am\n×\n12:32 am\n×\nstill to come, the congressional panel on the future of the big three. president obama wants the senate to fix the filibuster. former senate majority leader tom daschle is here to respond. and i can't wait to tell you what i have planned for the new weekend show. stay with us.\n12:33 am\n×\n12:34 am\n×\n12:35 am\n×\nwelcome back to \"the ed show.\" today president obama finished his meeting with republicans and democratic caucuses of both houses of congress. now, according to several gop sources, the president wanted to convince republicans that he was serious about cutting entitlements. congress said it was a really\n12:36 am\n×\ngreat first step. he did express a willingness to give on entitlements. the word give bothering me. here's what the president said today. >> i think we've had good conversations. but ultimately, it's a matter of the house and the senate, both caucuses getting together and everybody being willing to compromise. >> house leader nancy pelosi said chained cpi and medicare means testing were possibilities. >> if there can be a demonstration, the cpi does not hurt the poor or the very old. then it's something to put on the table. other things that might sustain social security for a longer period of time recognizing the demographic shift that is taking\n12:37 am\n×\nplace. >> what's going on here? the washington post reports leader pelosi and senate majority leader harry reid are prepared to rally, rank and file around a grand bargain. then there is house speaker john boehner trying to place the entire burden on democrats. >> listen, i'm glad president obama reached out yesterday and visited with the house republican conference. and i think we had an honest discussion. but this is going to take more dinner dates and phone calls. it's going to take the president and senate democrats rolling up their sleeves and making tough choices about how we solve our nation's problems. >> all right. let's turn to our congressional panel tonight. congressman keith ellison of minnesota, congressman tim ryan of ohio. i'll take the liberty to say three of my best friends in the congress. no doubt. >> that's right. >> gentlemen, good to have you with us tonight. congressman ellison, you first, what's going on here?\n12:38 am\n×\n>> well, we have 107 people in the house caucus, democrats who say that we are going to stand firm on social security, medicare and medicaid benefici beneficiaries. the bottom line is, you know, they're -- anyone who wants to make any changes there is going to have to talk to the rank and file democrats. and a lot of us are very clear on where we stand when it comes to seniors, people with disabilities and people who are living on survivor benefits. these are folks with very limited income and they have already given. >> do you have enough to stop what i'm hearing on some of these sound bites tonight and the coverage from today? what do you think? is this a softening from the white house or what? >> well, the white house has pretty much been here for a long, long time. we pushed them back earlier on when they wanted to change the medicare age to 67, which is probably one of the worst policy\n12:39 am\n×\nideas i've ever heard. and i was insurance commissioner for eight years in california. i know that would really terminate medicare even as much as the voucher could because it really sets up a situation. you're going to have sicker and sick people in that particular area. there are things that we can do and what we really need to do is to focus on growing the economy. the deficit is there. we can deal with it. but growing the economy is the first priority. >> yeah. >> congressman ryan, president obama campaigned on protecting the middle class. so why all of a sudden is chained cpi up there for grabs. even nancy pelosi is starting to embrace it here. are we seeing the democrats shift towards the republican position on protecting the big three? >> well, i'm not sure nancy pelosi is there just yet. i thought she was very careful on what she said, protecting the poor, protecting those seniors. so everything's fungible. and i'll go over battles for the poorest of the poor, our children and senior citizens with nancy pelosi any day of the week. and i'm confident in the house\n12:40 am\n×\nwith the leadership of people like keith and john that we will be able to hold a line on some of this from the democratic side. but it does get worrisome every now and again when you hear these comments. i know you've got to be conciliatory and be ready for a grand bargain, but we're not going to sell our soul in the process. >> in an op-ed, speaker boehner wrote during our debt discussions in 2011, he wrote that president obama supported such reforms such as raising medicare eligibility age something you talked about, john, in achieving savings in medicaid. he has since taken these reforms off the table. and boehner said this today. >> and the president's idea of compromise is just do it my way. and that's just not going to work. >> well, i hope that's the case because they're not going to give up any revenues, congressman ellison. >> absolutely. i mean, here we win an election where governor romney's signature position is repealing obama care. and yet, in the ryan budget, that's the main thing they say they're going to repeal. i mean, they seem impervious to\n12:41 am\n×\nthe facts. and i think it's very clear that their opening bid is no revenue, we're going to repeal obama care. i mean, i think it is the leadership of the republican caucus that needs to take a look in the mirror and roll up their sleeves. >> and congressman garamendi, i have not seen or heard of any defined loopholes that the republicans are willing to close in the tax code. they love to throw out we've got to fix the tax code, but when you ask them about that, they start to talk about lowering corporate tax rates. >> well, we've talked from years about ending the loophole that the oil companies has. the richest industry in the world does not need our tax subsidies. there's still a lot of subsidies going for american corporations when they offshore jobs. >> but the republicans haven't identified any of them yet, have they? >> well, they're not willing to talk about it other than loose\n12:42 am\n×\ngeneralized, terms. you need to get down to the nitty-gritty. they don't do that. but there's many out there that the taxpayers are giving away to very wealthy corporations and individuals not necessarily toward the growing of the economy. there are things that can be done to rein in those loopholes and we need to do it. whether that gives us the money we need to lower the corporate tax rate as we've closed those loopholes, that's a discussion that needs to be taking place. >> tim, what do you think? >> well, we had a budget mark-up last night. we were in until about 11:30 in the evening marking up the paul ryan budget. there was an amendment that said we need to protect the mortgage tax deduction for middle class people. and every republican voted against that democratic amendment. so that shows you where the priorities are. they're not even willing to sit down and say, hey, we're going to protect this mortgage tax deduction that so many middle class families take advantage of.\n12:43 am\n×\nand i think that's a sign of what's to come. well, the next big indicator of where this is headed is what, gentlemen? you first, congressman ellison? >> well, i think the next big indicator. i'd like you to take a look at our back to work budget. we're putting forward an affirmative vision that says jobs, good jobs needs to be the measuring stick by which -- >> and have the republicans addressed that at all? >> no, they're not talking jobs, just talking about austerity. >> where do we go, john? >> the republicans for austerity, the democrats for growing the economy by making the traditional investments that grow an economy. education, research, infrastructure, manufacturing, make it in america. that's our mantra and do it in a balanced way with reasonable tax and revenue increases that come from ending unnecessary loopholes. >> congressman ryan, do you think the public is still very strong with the president on this? >> i would like to think so. i mean, i think as long as we stand our ground. but leadership is about empowering those grass roots\n12:44 am\n×\npeople that were just going door-to-door. and i think we've got to stand firm. even if we have to play the long game, ed, we may have a tough year or two, but there will be midterm elections. and i think we've got to stand for what is right. the top 1% has seen 93% of the income growth in the last few years. we've got to stand up for middle class people in the small businesses. we can't keep having this system where we have economic growth, but it goes primarily to the top. we're not mad at people for getting rich. god bless them. what we're saying is we've got to grow the pie and let everybody participate. so standing our ground is going to throw gasoline on all of that energy and that fire that we had over the past year during the election. >> i keep hearing from senator sanders that chained cpi hurts veterans, any of you want to comment on that? >> he's right. it certainly hurts people in the lower end. remember, the median income for seniors on social security is\n12:45 am\n×\nless than $20,000. >> yeah. >> that's the median, not the average. >> well, not just the chained cpi, these millions of vets we have coming back. it's the hundreds of thousands that have some injuries. it's the tens of thousands that have post traumatic stress. we've got to address this problem. go to the republicans right now and you say, hey, we need a little bit of dough to help make this happen so we can honor the service of these veterans. >> yeah, they're not there. >> nowhere to be found. >> and that's a major issue. we've got to pay for some of these things, that's the responsible thing to do, but these vets in this scenario need the help. >> congressman keith ellison, tim ryan, john garamendi. my long time friend senator tom daschle joins us. what should the senate do about the filibuster rule?\n12:46 am\n×\npeople could decide for themselves whether they agreed with him or not. but i felt like it was my duty to make sure that as many people heard it as possible. >> a humble scott prouty tells the \"ed show\" last night why he released the secretly recorded videotape of mitt romney\n12:47 am\n×\nslamming 47% of americans at a closed door fundraiser. social media lit up immediately and we -- when we aired the exclusive interview last night and this is what they've had to say on facebook. jodi wrote, thank god for this man. he single handedly saved us from disaster. ruth says the man changed history. thanks, mr. prouty, you are a hero. and tinah says, thank you, scott, you are so brave and i appreciate the risk you took. god bless you. go to our facebook page right now and join the conversation and like \"the ed show.\" thanks for staying with us tonight.\n12:48 am\n×\n12:49 am\n×\nthanks for staying with us tonight. we needed serious filibuster reform long before the 113th congress was sworn in. now republican obstruction is even worse. and the confirmation process has come to a screeching halt. today, president obama asked senate democrats, say, will you\n12:50 am\n×\ndo something about this thing? this thing called the filibuster i didn't like either. there are 18 nominees pending and republicans have blocked five of them so far. senator jerry miran of kansas justified the obstruction saying i think in every instance i know of, they've either been controversial nominees like senator hagel or there's been senators who wanted more information before another secretary was confirmed. hagel controversial? give me a break. the republicans once said they'd only filibuster reform nominees under extraordinary circumstances. right wing senators are threatening to filibuster the unnamed nominee for labor secretary. the head of the alcohol, tobacco and firearms and the director of the consumer financial protection bureau. senator elizabeth warren says that filibuster would hurt the agency.\n12:51 am\n×\n>> i see nothing here but a filibuster threat against director cordury as an attempt to weaken the consumer agency. >> the filibuster is crippling major agencies and threatening the nation's judicial system. there are 85 vacancies on the nation's appellate courts right now and the president has nominated 30 judges who are waiting for the republicans to get their act together. the filibuster is designed to empower the minority but republicans have turned it into really a devastating political weapon to stop everything. democrats forced 18 filibuster votes on nominees during the entire eight years of the bush administration. the republicans have forced 30 filibuster votes on president obama's nominations and apparently they say they're just\n12:52 am\n×\ngetting started. not to mention the national labor relations board. we could go on and on. let's turn now to former senator tom daschle who is the former majority leader for the democrats and author of the book \"the u.s. senate.\" tom, great to see you, good to have you with us tonight. >> great to be with you, ed. >> you bet. well, in your book, the u.s. senate, what do you say about filibusters now? >> well, it's been abused, you're absolutely right. the numbers speak for themselves. we have more than twice as many cloture votes in the last congress, ed, as we did in the 50-year period between 1917 and 1967. that was a time during the civil rights era and vietnam and all of the other things we faced. twice as many in two years as we\n12:53 am\n×\ndid in 50. that's all you need to know about the abuse of filibusters today. >> yeah. you're a close friend, worked with him for years, harry reid, what should he do? what can he do? >> well, harry's done all, i think he thinks he is capable of doing right now under the circumstances. he doesn't want to violate the rules of the senate in ways that would speed the process for dealing with rule change. but i actually think there are a couple of things that we could do. one, i think you ought to hold the floor when you're filibustering. just the other day when rand paul did that, i think that went back to the traditions of the senate and we ought to force every senate who is going to require a filibuster to hold the floor. we broke that filibuster in part because senator paul could only hold the floor for about 13 hours and that's really what history is all about. the second thing is i don't think we ought to have a dual track. set bills aside and take up other legislation. if we're going to filibuster, you stay on the bill and you keep the people filibustering until they can't take it anymore. >> are the democrats and harry\n12:54 am\n×\nreid especially and you were in this position, as well, worried about any senate rule changes? because the shift of power could change and it could really possibly poison the cooperation within the senate and the minority would be completely diminished. and i know the answer to that but i want to hear what you have to say about it. but also, your thoughts on just how far this has gone. doesn't that change the dichotomy of it at all? >> well, it does. there is a concern. what goes around, comes around and everybody knows at some point the majority is going to be in the minority again. and people want to make sure we have the rights that are the minority in the senate. you also have the character of the senate and that's what senator reid's thinking about maintaining the kind of character that we've had historically. what we've seen is an abuse of the character of the senate in the last few years in particular. but clearly we've got to look at ways which especially to deal with nominations. it's one thing to deal with legislation that will ultimately be permanent in law. it's another thing to deal with nominations where the people who get nominated are only going to\n12:55 am\n×\nhave that job for a couple of years, three, four years. and to filibuster them for a fourth or a third or half that time is just not acceptable. >> what do you say about republicans threatening to block funding for obama care? >> well, i think that they're really making a huge mistake. ultimately, obama care has been already we know. it's been a far greater success than most republicans are willing to acknowledge. virtually the entire health sector right now recognizes the importance of moving forward, expanding medicaid, making sure we get the exchanges up and running, making sure the protections that are there for the -- for all the american people are actually implemented. all of that is real progress. and i think the american people overwhelmingly support it. so to defund it or to oppose it at this point, they don't get it. >> citizens united. give me 15 seconds of what you think of that and what it's doing to america. >> i think one of the single biggest disasters electorally and politically we've seen in 200 years. no connection between speech and money. and yet the court continues to insist there is. what it's doing is destroying the american political process. it's corrosive, wrong and i think it sends all the wrong messages about how to be successful in politics. i'm very, very concerned about its implications for the future. >> senator tom daschle.\n12:56 am\n×\ngreat to have you with us tonight. thanks so much. >> you bet. >> you bet. tonight in the survey i asked you, is scott prouty a hero? 99% of you think he is. 1% of you, not so sure. coming up. the new \"ed show\" 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. saturday and sunday. i'll tell you what's coming up on \"the ed show.\" [ male announcer ] from the way the bristles move to the way they clean,\n12:57 am\n×\n12:58 am\n×\n12:59 am\n×\nonce you try an oral-b deep sweep power brush, you'll never want to go back. its dynamic power bristles reach between teeth to remove up to 76% more plaque than 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{"text": "published: 11/9/2012\nTool measures NHS health cost savings achieved through mitigating hazards in the home.\nTool measures NHS health cost savings achieved through mitigating hazards in the home.\nBRE has launched a unique new tool which measures the impact of poor housing on the health of homeowners.\nThe Housing Health Cost Calculator (HHCC) has been developed in partnership with environmental health specialists RHE to provide local authorities with the information they need to drive up public health standards and reduce costs. It demonstrates the relationship between health and hazards in the home, measuring the cost savings to the NHS and wider society gained through the implementation of home improvement strategies.\nThe interactive tool enables free calculation of Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS) scores. It provides a valuable resource for public health professionals and housing associations who can use it to measure their contribution towards improving the health of their tenants.\n“Following Dr. Steve Battersby’s report for government,[1] we set about developing a tool to enable easy collection of data,” explained Viv Mason, principal consultant in BRE’s Housing and Energy Group.\n“The calculator will use your information to automatically produce an HHSRS score – this is a hazard rating derived by assessing the effect of dwelling defects on occupiers and is used to enforce minimum housing standards under Housing Act 2004. The tool will also store your data and allow you to retrieve it at any time, free of charge.”\nA number of local authorities have already used the methodology to carry out retrospective health cost benefit analyses of hazards mitigated by their intervention, including Bristol, Derby, Liverpool, Plymouth, Great Yarmouth and 4NW (Northwest Region).\nTo view the tool and register free of charge, visit\nNotes for editors\nBRE’s Housing and Energy Group works alongside central and local government and other housing stock managers to assess the condition and performance of their housing and determine the most efficient and cost effective repair, maintenance and improvement strategies. The group has been closely involved in undertaking national housing surveys for over 40 years.\n[1] Are private sector tenants being adequately protected - a study of the Housing Act 2004, Housing Health and Safety Rating System and Local Authority Interventions in England report by Dr Stephen Battersby for Alison Seabeck MP, Shadow Housing Minister & Karen Buck MP, Shadow Work and Pensions Minister, June 2011\nFor more information, contact Keri Jordan at BRE on 01923 664322; email jordank@bre.co.uk"}
{"text": "I finally got to travel and I would normally be excited about it but…\nSo I’m traveling to Slovenia for 5 days because of a big celebration in my boyfriend’s family. I should be excited and all over the moon but the thing is, with all this coronavirus outbreak, especially in Italy which is bordering with Slovenia, it’s quite harsh. I can just hope that in two or more days it won’t all blow up in where I’m heading also.\nBut anyway, we’re planning to do most of our trip, go to a hairdresser, dentist, maybe travel around the country with a car, if it won’t be bad weather. On Saturday we have the big party and then on Monday, we’re heading back. Unfortunately both ways we have indirect flights, which equals more stress. I guess we will “destress” when we’re back here. Because what kind of virus can even get to this place?\nI hope you all are in safe places, far away from the virus and if you have to be around it – remember to clean your hands, avoid public places and if you feel bad, don’t go to the hospital (call emergency instead). I know those are the basics, but maybe there’s still someone who doesn’t know, so it’s better to spread the word. Enjoy the rest of the week and see you on Sunday! (with a prescheduled post of course).\nOne thought on “Going away for couple of days & coronavirus.”"}
{"text": "Beware ‘Green Grants’ scams\nPublished: 14 October 2020\nTrading Standards is advising Derby residents to beware of potential scams\nDerby City Council Trading Standards team is advising Derby residents to beware of potential scams following the launch of the Government ‘Green Homes’ grants scheme.\nThe scheme which was launched on 30th September, “will provide a voucher up to £5,000 to those eligible that covers up to two-thirds of the cost of energy efficiency and low carbon heat improvements to your home.\n“You may be able to receive a bigger grant if you are a homeowner and you or a member of your household receives one of the qualifying benefits. The government will cover 100% of the cost of the improvements up to £10,000.”\nYou can check your eligibility on the Green Homes Grant website.\nWe advise residents to remain cautious and #ScamAware if you receive any phone calls, texts, emails or doorstep calls from any traders assuring you that you or your property will be eligible for the scheme at present. Eligibility and the criteria required to be met for your home to qualify is simply not known at present.\nWhilst this is a national issue Trading Standards received reports of cold callers claiming that Derby residents are eligible for loft insulation. The scheme website states that “the Green Homes Grant scheme will never include official representatives coming to your property uninvited or cold calling on the phone to encourage you to join the scheme.”\nTrading Standards always advise residents to say NO to unexpected doorstep or cold callers and to obtain at least 3 quotes from different traders if work is required at your home.\nResidents may find the Buy with Confidence scheme helpful when obtaining 3 quotes. Buy with Confidence is a nationally recognised Trading Standards trader approval scheme. Members have been visited, vetted and approved by Trading Standards throughout the UK.\nInformation on BWC can be found here.\nCouncillor Jonathan Smale, Cabinet Member for Communities, Neighbourhoods and Streetpride said:\nUnfortunately, the Trading Standards team suspects that unscrupulous traders will see the introduction of this scheme as an opportunity to secure employment on false pretences and to scam consumers. As ever, I’d urge residents to be #ScamAware and to think carefully about what information you’re sharing and what you’re agreeing to.\nVarious types of scams arising from the coronavirus pandemic have been reported thus far and have been reaching people through numerous channels including on the doorstep, by telephone, through social media quizzes, by text and email.\nMore information about the outbreak of scams can be found on the Chartered Trading Standards Institute website here.\nTrading Standards would like to remind residents to remain vigilant and #ScamAware throughout this challenging time and can report issues to Trading Standards and obtain consumer advice through Citizens Advice and Consumer Service 0808 223 11 33 and report fraud through Action Fraud 0300 123 2040"}
{"text": "Seed obtained from the AGGS (now Gesneriad Society) Seed Fund under the name S. sp. \"Waechter\" yielded two different kinds of plant. The first matched what Alain Chautems had applied the holding name sp. \"Waechter\" to, and is now believed to be Sinningia polyantha, which is described on its own page,. I set seed on a couple of these plants, and they came true from seed (the resulting plants had the same properties as the parents).\nThe other had flowers which bore similar \"douglasii-type\" streaks, but otherwise was quite different. The seedlings of this second type were, however, quite similar to one another, suggesting that if the seeds were of hybrid origin, they were likely to be an F1, that is, a cross between two species, which would account for the relative lack of variation within this second type.\nI set seed on the second type, and have seedlings coming along, but they have not bloomed yet, so I do not know whether the second type comes true from seed.\nBecause of the differences, I gave the second group of plants the name \"Desafinado\", from the Portuguese word meaning \"out of tune\". It is also the title of the first bossa nova hit from back in the 60s, and a much finer tune than the ubiquitous \"Girl from Ipanema\", and also written by the Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim.\nAmong the possibilities for the identity of Sinningia \"Desafinado\" are\nThis picture shows the terminal peduncle of Sinningia \"Desafinado\", which is quite different from the platform inflorescence of S. polyantha.\nFor a table showing some of the differences between \"Desafinado\" and the \"real\" S. polyantha (sp. \"Waechter\"), see the table on the comparison page, which also has some pictures illustrating these differences.\nOur local hummingbird, Calypte anna, often visits S. \"Desafinado\" when it blooms here in May. In my yard, S. \"Desafinado\" finishes blooming just about the time that the first S. polyantha flowers open.\nHere is a picture of the whole plant, with semi-glossy green leaves in pairs. Sinningia sp. \"Waechter\" has tough hairy leaves in whorls of three.\nAlso evident is the redness of all the stems, flowerstalks, and petioles, in great contrast to those of S. sp. \"Waechter\", which are mostly green or ruddy brown.\nOne of the most striking features of S. \"Desafinado\" is the sharp line at the junction between the shoot and the tuber. This junction is actually a couple millimeters up the shoot. In the fall, when the plant is going dormant, this junction turns into the abscission layer: the stem above the junction falls off, while the stub remains. A couple of moon-crater-like stubs can be seen in this picture, one just below the two shoots and the other just to the right of them (and another older one, in gray, between the other two stubs).\nIn the picture, the junction is not an abscission layer yet, since the photograph was taken in early spring [April 2009], before the plant had even bloomed.\nSeveral more dormant buds, colored bright red, can be seen. These buds, scattered over the tuber but clustered around the stubs of previous years' shoots, are an attractive feature in themselves. Presumably, they are located in the \"axils\" of the stem that the tuber represents.\nAlso see a picture of the tuber. Another page has a picture showing a sprouting tuber.\nNote that the handsome plant shown under the name S. sp. \"Waechter\" and accession number USBRG 98-093 on Ron Myhr's Gesneriad Reference Web is one of the \"Desafinado\" types, flowering from a terminal peduncle rather than the platform inflorescence of the \"true\" S. sp. \"Waechter\"."}
{"text": "CUSHION TOWER DISASSEMBLEDBy Amelia Sinnott 02:05 craft, cushions, for sale, sewing, vintage\nMy cushion tower is getting slightly out of control! I've made some of them into pairs now so wanted to do a little photoshoot with them all. Made with the grooviest prints I could find :) All made with sari fabric and they'll all be for sale soon!\n"}
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