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The other day I wandered into Céline on Madison Avenue. I was looking for spring clothes. Actually, I girded myself for the trip. Ever since I found a pair of black Céline trousers at Barneys with a hangtag that said I could always get that same style year in and year out, I've thrown my hat to Barneys, at least for Céline.
Once I find something I like, and which fit as well those pants, I don't want to be bothered. Spare me the clink of plastic hangers at the tambourine approach of a salesclerk. Thankfully, at Barneys, the clerks know how to make themselves scarce.
To be truthful, I lost interest in spring on Oct. 3, 2012, when the spring shows ended, and to drag my mind back over all those clothes is like searching for a ball in the weeds. I'm sure the stuff is out there somewhere — maybe on Rihanna.
The thing is, we all like to find something amazing, a beautiful dress or a sexy pair of shoes, and we would like the rest of the world to notice, but our joy is tempered by ludicrous prices and, as well, a sense that fashion is a special-interest concern of editorial stylists, paparazzi-seeking society chicks and consensus-minded retailers.
Not that any of this is new. I mean, fashion writers are always peeling the same rind. In the mid-'60s, as stores were filling up with low-priced fashion, Lois Long, the fashion writer of The New Yorker, noted that predictions that women would head for quality and craftsmanship were wrong — and then, oblivious or maybe in a fog of cigarette smoke and hat veil, went on to describe the latest fashion from Seventh Avenue's finest. In fact, women headed straight for the designer racks, pushed by rising incomes and professional ambitions.
But now, as incomes have stagnated for virtually everyone but the rich, a $2,000 jacket is mighty hard to swallow. (If you've been shopping lately, you know that $1,600 to $2,200 is the going rate for such a garment; dresses, though often a bit less, are in that range.) What's more, the price of a designer jacket has outpaced inflation. In 1966, a Ben Zuckerman suit, with a blouse, cost $325. Today, you could get that jacket and maybe half the blouse.
Here's what really gets my goat: When did people start getting precious-sounding about clothes, as though they were handling the Dead Sea Scrolls and not an ugly vest?
"This is the runway collection," a salesman at Céline said, with cut-glass delicacy, having followed me to a rail in the middle of the store, where a dozen or so garments hung. I suppose he was merely adopting the language of art-infused retail, and couldn't be faulted for saying of a nice-looking black dress, "This piece is $3,000." This piece. Still, it's kind of shame that one of my favorite spring collections, its vibe free and relaxed and elegant, should be turned into an art object with armholes.
As a critic, I get irked by many things about fashion, and this necessarily influences what I end up buying (or not) for myself. I'm also completely inconsistent about my personal likes, so don't take anything I say here seriously.
For instance, at the moment, I love ruffles. I'm not kidding. What I like about all the ruffled tops and dresses, especially from Givenchy and Balenciaga, is that they are extreme without being clownish or sweet. All too often ruffles are limp and crippled by cheap fabric, but these new versions are bonded or double-faced.
In other words, somebody who probably hates ruffles on principle figured out how to make them cool. (I'm told it took dozens of tries before Balenciaga got its ruffles just right.) Givenchy's tunic in black silk jersey (about $1,750, at Bergdorf Goodman) would look great with slim pants and sandals.
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I'm very picky about blouses, which are having a comeback. A blouse, whether it's romantically full-sleeved, crisp, worn with pants or a skirt, should look impeccable. (Yuta Powell, on Madison Avenue, has a decent selection for around $1,000.) Although the fit and quality of low-end blouses can be good — Opening Ceremony has an excellent one in ivory crepe for $290 — you're usually better off saving your money. At the moment, Opening Ceremony has a lot of cute blouses, including a pale blue Fleamadonna sailor top ($245) that was too odd not to like. But I was disappointed with a Jil Sander middy at Bergdorf, having admired the sleeveless style during the show. At $890, it's just too pricey.
The challenge of most fashion is to keep it personal and, also, affordable. Maybe because grunge doesn't qualify as high fashion or even a new idea, it's easy to improvise. And it's nice to know that, whatever you put together — plaid shirt, pajama pants, sarong skirt — you can never go wrong. Not that this makes the slightest difference to a true fashion rebel. Dries Van Noten's plaid shirt ($910, at Bergdorf) comes with tiny chain trim; if you can live without that, Bloomingdale's has plaid shirts from C&C for $98. As for the ubiquitous PJs, you can find them in all prices (Bergdorf said its Van Noten style is sold out). I bought mine, in a blue print designed by Celia Birtwell, at Uniqlo ($29.90).
At Kirna Zabête in SoHo, I came across a white Christopher Kane sheath randomly slashed with black tape. In his dynamic show, Mr. Kane managed to draw on two trends, punk and graphic patterns, with subversive results that, to my surprise, were reasonably priced ($1,185 for the dress). Another great dress, easy on the eye and in the sporty vein, is Junya Watanabe's curvy design in lightweight blue jersey with mesh insets ($990, at Bergdorf).
You can find a lot of spring looks across the high-low spectrum. For instance, once I discovered Michael Kors's glittery white tweed jacket ($1,595, at Saks) — white is a big trend — I had no trouble spotting close-enough versions by Alice + Olivia and Rebecca Taylor. Those bold graphic prints? I snagged a pair of pants in a micro-check at H&M ($24.95) that was pretty close to a $655 style by Marni. One of my favorite finds was a creamy J Brand pullover ($395) in a compacted knit that seemed to anticipate Céline's loose tops for fall.
But unless you are buying a straight-line T-shirt dress, like ones I saw at Opening Ceremony for $230, or some other style to knock around in, you don't get much forgiveness from a moderate-priced dress. As it is, many clothes today have lost a hands-on feel; they're flat and rather uniform in shape — ideal, then, for fast Web browsing. Whatever its style, a spring dress ought to be distinctive, besides very comfortable. One of the nicest I saw, at least to my taste, was a long, flowing design in a pebbly dark gray fabric by Vika Gazinskaya ($2,430) at Five Story on East 69th Street. I also like some of the things in the shoe-box boutique of Chocheng Char, a London designer, on Madison. His clothes are not daring — they are actually conservative — but are nonetheless surprising.
As much as I savor the to-and-fro of the runway, the elation of a good show and the riot of a bad one, in real life I want clothes to be released from fashion's grip. From crafty language, Rihanna. I want them to look ordinary, yet pleasingly so. Because if there is one thing I dislike in fashion, it's the need for consensus.


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COMSYS is pleased to announce the 4th Edition of the COMSYS Maritime VSAT Report. This latest study offers complete and detailed coverage of the maritime VSAT market following 12 months of intensive research and over 175 interviews with VSAT operators, MSS service providers, industry insiders, maritime experts, hardware vendors and maritime industry associations. The report provides information on the current level of VSAT penetration into the stabilised antenna service business covering the current and prospective stabilised antenna manufacturers, market shares of the major operators, systems in use and market segmentation. Distinction is drawn between the oil & gas and maritime segments of the market.
Building on the already-extensive knowledge base within COMSYS, we have extended our maritime VSAT database with details of vessels and rigs in service with more than 150 operators worldwide. The report draws on this data to offer an unrivalled view of how this market has developed over the past five years and the trends and demands that are driving it forward today.
Over 200 pages with 63 tables and 122 charts and figures provide a statistical analysis of the service market by number of vessels in service and revenues, both historically and forecast over the next five years. As always, COMSYS bases its information on primary research and builds from the ground up. The COMSYS Maritime VSAT Report is provided in PDF form and includes:
To give you an idea of how much quality research goes into our reports, the following shows just how well our predictions for the industry have held up, three years into the forecast period. This compares our forecasts for 2012, 2013 and 2014 from the Maritime VSAT Report (3rd Edition) compared with what the market actually did:
In summary, we believe that we didn't do too badly again, although once more we under-estimated the pace at which revenues would grow by a greater margin versus our forecasts for the number of vessels in service. We believe that this is a direct result of the fact that demand for bandwidth has been compensating for the growing price pressure and increasing competition that all of the maritime and oil & gas VSAT operators are facing. The results show that the market slightly outperformed our Optimistic forecasts – our Most Likely predictions underestimated VSAT adoption by 6.5 per cent in 2012 and 13.6 per cent in 2013 whilst our Optimistic forecasts were under by 2.0 per cent in 2012 and 5.5 per cent for 2013. Revenue forecasts were 5.4 per cent and 12.1 per cent below actual performance for 2012 and 2013 in our Most Likely scenario with the Optimistic forecast off by -1.3 and -4.2 per cent. Interestingly, if we add in the 2014 comparison the Optimistic forecasts back in 2011 were slightly ahead in terms of vessels in service by 1.3 per cent and the revenues slightly behind by -3.9 per cent – although numbers for 2014 are not yet complete. All in all, we believe that our predictions have been pretty close to the actual results and well within acceptable tolerances.
We made the same comparison of the predictions in our previous reports. These figures compare our forecasts made in 2009 for the 2nd Edition and prior to that in 2007 for the 1st Edition compared with what the market actually did:
The results for the 2nd Edition showed that the market slightly outperformed our Optimistic forecasts – our Most Likely predictions underestimated VSAT adoption by 2.8 per cent in 2010 and 6.8 per cent in 2011 whilst our Optimistic forecasts were 0.1 per cent higher in 2010 and almost exactly on target for 2011. Revenue forecasts were 1.5 per cent and 4.5 per cent below actual performance for 2010 and 2011 in our Most Likely scenario with the Optimistic forecast off by -0.5 and -1.6 per cent.
Our forecasts for the number of vessels in service made in the 1st Edition were accurate for 2009 at the Most Likely scenario by 2% and by 9% for the Optimistic Scenario. For revenues, both Most Likely and Optimistic forecasts were within a 5% margin of error. For 2008 Most Likely forecasts for both vessels and revenues were within 5% of actual results and the Optimistic scenarios were within 1%!
We know of no other research consultancy that actually compares - and publishes - previous forecasts with actual results two years later. We believe that this is one of the things that marks COMSYS out as unique.
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In this section of our site, we'll tell you what we do and give you some explanations, stories and statistics about the industry. Read on for this or click here for pricing and ordering information.
For current and potential suppliers of products and services this report is an invaluable source on the status and future potential of the maritime stabilised VSAT market today. It gives market shares, growth rates, annual contract and sales bookings, business trends, industry and regional breakdowns together with five year forecasts.

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Her first picture book, The Little Red Fish, (Dial Books, 2007), was awarded the Society of Illustrators' 2007 Founders Award. She has received The New York Times Best Illustrated Book award twice with Only a Witch Can Fly by Alison McGhee(Feiwel&Friends, 2009) and Here Is the Baby by Polly Kanevsky(Schwartz&Wade, 2014). She has also illustrated the reissue of Madeleine L'Engle's renowned series, The Time Quintet and The Austin Chronicles (Square Fish / Macmillan, 2007, 2008).
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text: In the early 1970s Gurkhas were stationed in the UK for the first time. Their main base at the time was Church Crookham in Hampshire. The British Army also looked for other opportunties for Gurkhas in the UK and in 1972 the Gurkha Demonstration Company (Sittang) was established at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in Camberley, Surrey, to support the officer training taking place there and to act as an opposing force for soldiers undergoing training. Shortly afterwards, Gurkha Demonstration Company (Mandalay) - now Gurkha Company (Mandalay) - was established as part of the the School of Infantry Wales in Brecon in a similar role for training Non-Commissioned Officers. Years later Gurkha families would come to live in both areas and communities of ex-Gurkhas have become well-established in Surrey and Wales.


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When you think about it, our experience of the universe should be nothing short of amazing. Panic and other anxiety disorders are usually characterized by inappropriate anxiety (a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome.") that can result in severe impairment in productivity of the affected person.
Mental illness appears to be more common in certain groups of people indicating that some circumstances can act as a trigger, for example, those living in poverty and poorer living conditions, those who are suffering from long term physical illnesses or disabilities, those from ethnic minorities and those in prison or other institutions.
The second national household survey of the mental health and wellbeing of Australian children and adolescents (Young Minds Matter) released in August 2015 estimates that 560,000 child and adolescents aged 4-17 (about 14{81e094de5f9698b6650739df65a0281ee1c031cdcd8e6b18ca7d9b911a0631ef}) experienced mental health disorders in 2012-13.
Description: Monitoring the Future is an annual survey of 8th, 10th, and 12th-graders conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, under a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health.
On the other hand, if you are able to use an area of mental functioning at home or in your community, we will not necessarily assume that you would also be able to use that area to function in a work setting where the demands and stressors differ from those at home.


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We all know that weddings are also the best time to have a reunion with the closest people in the couple's life. The aisle is not only shared by the bride and the groom—we also have the bridesmaids, groomsmen, and the whole entourage to make the celebration more special.
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Heidi ... 4/21/2010
2006 Dodge Stratus SXT 4 Cyl 2.40L
My car hesitates when coming to slow stop
When I'm slowing down upon arriving at traffic light or slow moving traffic if feels like my transmission is slipping. I had my transmission serviced a few weeks ago, and unfortunately it is still doing the same thing. Two years ago, my check engine light came on and I brought it to a dealer and they fixed the problem. They also told me that my ignition coil was cracked. At the time I could not afford to get that fixed. I have found out through my own research that the i.c. is covered under warranty. Sometimes it sounds like it wants to stall. It only happens when slowing down because of slow moving traffic.
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One of the hardest-working organs in the body, the liver works tirelessly to detoxify our blood, to produce the bile needed to digest fat, to break down hormones, and to store essential vitamins, minerals and iron. This is why it's so important to take care of our livers or practice a liver cleanse — as when the liver is not functioning optimally, we cannot digest our food properly, especially fats. It's the liver's responsibility to process nutrients absorbed by the intestines so they're more efficiently absorbed. The liver also regulates blood composition to balance protein, fat, and sugar. Finally, it removes toxins from the blood and breaks down both alcohol and medications.
The liver is the second largest organ in the body. The processes mentioned above is interrupted if too much fat is in the liver. The liver commonly repairs itself by rebuilding new liver cells when the old ones are damaged. When there's repeated damage to the liver, permanent scarring takes place. This is called cirrhosis.
For people with fatty liver disease, the handling of fat by liver cells is disturbed. Increased amounts of fat are removed from the blood and produced by liver cells, and not enough is disposed of or exported by the cells. As a result of this, fat accumulates in the liver. There is an imbalance between the uptake of fat and its oxidation and export.
Today, we're faced with so many environmental toxins occurring in our homes, places of work and in our food supply, so it's essential for our general health and well-being to keep our livers functioning properly.
The fatty liver typically has no associated symptoms. You may experience fatigue or vague abdominal discomfort. Your liver may become slightly enlarged, and a doctor can detect this during a physical exam.
Excess fat can cause liver inflammation. If your liver becomes inflamed, you may have a poor appetite, weight loss, abdominal pain, weakness, and confusion.
Our focus here will be how this condition can be prevented and reversed using natural plant extracts.
Natural products that are found in vegetables, as well as fruits, plant extracts, and herbs, have been traditionally used for treating liver diseases. It's so important to add vegetables to your everyday diet. An easy way to do this is by juicing vegetables for near-perfect health. With impaired liver function, juicing vegetables has the added benefit of making the vegetables easier to digest and more readily available for absorption. Vegetable ideal for a liver detox includes kale, cabbage, lettuce, cauliflower, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, asparagus, beets, and celery.
Ginger Root
High-fiber foods help support a healthy digestive tract, hastening the elimination of toxins in the body. For example, ginger root benefits the digestive system. Make ginger tea by boiling ginger slices in green tea or water. You can also add ginger to a stir-fry, salad or smoothie.
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Because of their potassium content, sweet potatoes are beneficial because they help cleanse the liver. One sweet potato contains nearly 700 milligrams of potassium! It's also rich with vitamins B6, C, D, magnesium, and iron. Sweet potatoes are easy to eat because they're naturally sweet, and the sugars are slowly released into the bloodstream through the liver, so it won't cause a spike in blood sugar.
Containing 470 milligrams of potassium, banana nutrition is also great for cleansing the liver and overcoming low potassium levels; plus, bananas assist in digestion and help release toxins and heavy metals from the body.
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The vitamins and nutrients present in dandelions help cleanse our livers and keep them working properly. Dandelions also aid our digestive system by maintaining the proper flow of bile. They're natural diuretics and allow the liver to eliminate toxins quickly. Dandelion tea or stems are also high in vitamin C, which helps with mineral absorption, reduces inflammation and prevents the development of the disease.
Liver from young, healthy, grass-fed cattle or chicken liver pate is full of nutrients and vitamins. It's rich with vitamins A and B, folic acid, choline, iron, copper, zinc, chromium, and CoQ10; in fact, it's one of the most nutrient-dense foods that you can eat.
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Tomorrow, I'll be toeing the line at the Antelope Island Buffalo Run 25K. After not racing for a few months during the winter, the first race of a new year always brings some anxiousness. I get excited and nervous all over again but running among others makes me remember how much I love the sport of running and the community aspect of it.
This race will be the longest trail race I've ever done and likely the most difficult. I've done a couple of trail 10Ks before but I'm excited to participate in a 25K that takes place on a gorgeous island! Antelope Island State Park is beautiful and the landscape is unlike anything else in Utah.
Back in February, Geof and I went out to the island three weekends in a row to get some practice runs in and to get a feel of the terrain. The course will be tough—2,000 feet of elevation gain—but the scenery will make up for it. Look at how beautiful it is out there! It's surreal to run among the animals and it's common to encounter bison, antelope and mule deer on the trails.
I'm beginning to feel the pre-race butterflies but I can't wait to start this year's race season! I'll be back soon with the race report. I'm crossing my fingers that it goes well!


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When fully built, Santee Cooper's proposed plant near Pamplico would burn more than 200 tons of coal an hour in a 2,000-degree Fahrenheit furnace.
Besides heated vapors containing mercury, thousands of tons of other hot, gaseous pollutants would be released from its 650-foot smokestack.
Among them:
NITROGEN OXIDES, which contribute to acid rain, unhealthy ground-level ozone and various lung diseases. Amount DHEC is considering approving for release: Up to 3,495 tons a year
SULFUR DIOXIDE, which worsens heart conditions and respiratory diseases such as asthma and pollutes waterways. Amount DHEC is considering approving for release: 5,992 tons a year
INHALABLE COARSE PARTICLES, known as particle pollution, made up of tiny grains of metal, chemicals, dust and other substances. The particles damage lungs and aggravate heart problems. Amount DHEC is considering approving for release: 898 tons a year
CARBON DIOXIDE, a major heat-trapping greenhouse gas blamed for climate change. No existing technology sharply reduces carbon dioxide. Amount plant would release: 9 million tons a year


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Under the Dome
Former DENR employees plan newspaper startup
Newspaper companies have taken a financial dive because of major shifts in advertising, readers' habits and other market forces over the past decade. But that isn't deterring the founders of a new statewide newspaper – yes, as in newsprint.
"I think it's an interesting time to start a newspaper," Neal Robbins, publisher of the new North State Journal, said Monday.
The newspaper, which of course will also be online, is the project of former N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources officials under former Secretary John Skvarla, who now heads the state commerce department.
Skvarla often criticized news coverage of the environmental agency, but this won't be his personal platform, Robbins said. Robbins declined to say where the start-up funding is coming from, other than to say:
"Me playing a game every day of 'Shark Tank,' with people across North Carolina…. The only person I will say is an investor is Neal Robbins," Robbins said. "John Skvarla has absolutely no involvement in this paper."
Robbins was the environmental agency's legislative liaison. Drew Elliot, the agency's former chief spokesman, has been working as a reporter at a related political news website startup called Jones & Blount since this spring.
Sarah Lindh left the state agency this summer to go to work for the newspaper and its publishing company, North State Media, as the communications director. The parent company also has started the online publications Carolina Beer Review and Chicken Bone Alley, a site for NASCAR fans.
Robbins said the newspaper will be presented in a traditional format with news, business, sports and opinion. Robbins said Jones & Blount was an experiment that showed there is an appetite for inside political news, but in order to survive a paper must be of general interest.
Jones & Blount will eventually fold into the newspaper and not be a separate website, he said, as part of its state capitol coverage. Journalist Donna King has been working with Elliot as the site's other reporter.
The launch date is in February, and Robbins says subscriptions and advertising are expected to be the revenue sources. Arrangements will be worked out with printers and local carriers for morning delivery, he said.
Robbins, who graduated from N.C. State in 2001 with a degree in chemical engineering and later became a lawyer, says he isn't dissuaded by the state of the newspaper industry because it offers an opportunity to produce something that readers want rather than need.
"We want to craft a truthful and beautiful newspaper that will meet that market demand," he said.


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Some people today love to use modern liberal historians to try and shake people's faiths as to the apostolic origins of the Sacraments. One Sacrament that frequently comes under attack is the Sacrament of Confession. Many historians falsely claim that it was an invention of the middle ages and that private confession only developed and was never practiced in the early days of the Church. In fact, some historians claim that it was Pope Innocent III who invented and insisted on private confession. If that is the case, then why do we have writings from Popes like Leo the Great from 500 years before Pope Innocent III addressing private confession? An ex-Catholic by the name of John Bugay over at "Beggars All" has sadly bought into this fraudulent history, and is now trying to convince Catholics and others that the Sacrament of Confession and the act of doing penance is a later medieval invention. The fact is, private confession dates back to the apostolic times. If we examine more than just a few liberal historians, we will see that the Church, while not using the Sacrament as frequently as we do today, none the less had private confession in its earliest days.
An excerpt from Fr. John Hardon's article "Confession of Sins: A Divine Institution" explains.
In the early Church, Christians were expected to live very holy lives. And they did. To become Christian meant to expect to become a martyr. Every pope for the first three hundred years of the Church's history was murdered for the faith. Countless thousands shed their blood in witness to their love for Christ.
Understandably, therefore, the sacrament of Confession was not so frequently received by persons whose lives were a living martyrdom. Yet, even in the early Church, sinners were reconciled after they had confessed their sins, received absolution and performed what to us must seem like extraordinary penance for the wrong they had done.
The emphasis in those early days was on confessing mortal sins. And there were bishops who had to be reproved by the pope for excessive severity, either in demanding public confession of grave crimes or even refusing to give absolution for such sins as apostasy, adultery, fornication or willful murder.
One document issued by Pope St. Leo the Great in the middle of the fifth century, deserves to be quoted in full. He is writing to the bishops of Campania in Italy, reproving them for demanding a public confession of sins before receiving absolution in the sacrament of Penance.
"I have recently heard that some have unlawfully presumed to act contrary to a rule of Apostolic origin. And I hereby decree that the unlawful practice be completely stopped.
"It is with regard to the reception of penance. An abuse has crept in which requires that the faithful write out their individual sins in a little book which is then to be read out loud to the public.
"All that is necessary, however, is for the sinner to manifest his conscience in a secret confession to the priests alone…It is sufficient, therefore, to have first offered one's confession to God, and then also to the priest, who acts as an intercessor for the transgressions of the penitents" (Magna indignatione, March 6, 459).
It is a matter of history, therefore, that private, individual confession of one's sins to a priest goes back to apostolic times. Christ Himself prescribed confession in the sacrament of Penance, and His directives were followed since the first century of the Christian era.
Among the doctrines of revealed faith which the Church had to defend, was the precept of sacramental confession...
The Protestant leaders in the sixteenth century rejected the sacrament of Confession as divine institution. And they especially reacted against the Catholic Church's teaching about the need for telling one's sins to a priest. As a result, the Council of Trent issued no less than fifteen solemn definitions on the sacrament of Penance. Two of these deal specifically with the obligations to confess one's sins to a priest. They are critically important in our ecumenical age. The following positions are declared as contrary to the Catholic faith:
"If anyone says that sacramental confession was not instituted by divine law or that it is not necessary for salvation according to the same law; or if anyone says that the method which the Catholic Church has always observed from the very beginning, and still observes, of confessing secretly to the priest alone is foreign to the institution and command of Christ, and that it is a human origin: let him be anathema.
"If anyone says that, to obtain remission of sins in the sacrament of Confession, it is not necessary according to divine law to confess each and every mortal sin that is remembered after proper and diligent examination, even secret sins, and sins against the last two commandments, and those circumstances which change the character of a sin…or finally that it is not permissible to confess venial sins: let him be anathema."
No apology is needed for these long quotations from the Church's irreversible teaching on the sacramental confession of sins. Nor need we apologize for one more quotation, this time from Pope Paul II. He insists that personal, private confession of sins to a priest in the sacrament of Penance, is the right of every single believer, as it is also the right of Christ, the Divine Redeemer.It is worth noting some writings of the early Church Fathers who also spoke of this Sacrament. Don't let these unbelievers dupe you into believing that there was no Sacrament of Confession in the early Church, it is a lie.
St. Athanasius said, "As the Baptized is enlightened by the grace of the Holy Spirit, by means of the priest, the repentant is granted forgiveness of his sins by the grace of Christ, also through the priest."
"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9).


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Shayn Roby's Take: This is alarming, but not surprising. People actually sell this poison on the streets. People take it, and come back for more, even though they see what it is doing to their bodies.
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RICHMOND HEIGHTS, MO (KTVI)– In December 2012, a 30-year-old man walked into the emergency room at SSM St. Mary's Health Center in Richmond Heights in need of help.
The patient, an admitted IV drug user, showed doctors his thigh covered with rotting skin. He had also lost a finger and told doctors that he injected himself with a homemade form of heroin called Krokodil made with codeine, gasoline, paint thinners and other chemicals.
Doctors say the man could no longer support his $300 a day heroin habit and wanted a cheap and potent alternative. The unnamed man was seen twice over a three month periodand the Missouri case can potentially be the first documented case in the U.S.
St. Mary's Doctor Dany Thekkemuriyil and Doctor Unnikrishnan Pillai both say they were stunned by what they saw. The patient started using Krokodil eight months before he went to…
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PORT HENRY The second annual Church-to-Church 10K Run will be held Sunday Sept. 2, as part of the Labor Day celebration in the town of Moriah and village of Port Henry according to David V. Bruce.
The Church to Church has two components.
The 10-kilometer (6.2 miles) run will start from All Saints Church on the Bartlett Pond Road in Mineville at 11 a.m. and finish at St. Patricks Church in Port Henry. Registration will be 10-10:45 a.m. at All Saints and go to St. Patrick's Church in Port Henry.
There will also be a mile walk from Moriah Central School starting at 11 a.m. that finishes at St. Patrick's Church. Registration will be 10-10:45 a.m. at the school.
The $10 registration fee is to help raise money to repair the clock on the steeple at St. Patricks Church, one of the community's land marks for Port Henry.
The 10K runners will leave All Saints and run south on Fisher Hill Road to Mineville,merge on to Plank Road to Moriah Center, go up the hill on the Moriah Center Road to Moriah Corners, then turn left on Tarbell Hill Road to Broad Street to Port Henry, right on College Street, left on to Church Street, cross Main and finish at St. Patricks Church.
The walk will follow the same route but leaving from Moriah Central School.
There will be three place awards for the various age groups, which include 19 and younger, 20-29,30-39,40-49,50-59,60-65 and 66 and older.
Advanced registration forms can be obtained by contacting St. Patricks Church at 546-7254 or contacting any member of the planning committee which includes Donna and Stu Jerdo, Barbara Armstrong, Bill (Red) McDonough, Nancy Tuffield and Jack Woods.
There will be three water stations, police escorts, flag/safety guards at all major intersections and ambulance service available.
Bruce added this is a community event and encouraged the residents of the town to actively support the runners by cheering them on as they race or walk by their homes and businesses.


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Hoteliers Gearing Up For Passover
Hopes that record 2013 tourism will continue into the spring.
On the eve of the competitive Passover vacation season, Israeli hoteliers are hoping that a strong tourism showing in 2013 — a record 3.5 million tourists visited the Jewish state last year — will continue into the spring.
According to the Israel Ministry of Tourism, 3.54 million visitors came to Israel in 2013, 0.5 percent more than the previous record year of 2012. The largest percentage of tourists came from the U.S., with 623,000 visitors, which represents 18 percent of all incoming tourism, up 1 percent from 2012. Fifty-three percent of Israel's incoming tourism came from Christian pilgrimages.
Jerusalem remained the top draw among tourists (75 percent of visitors came to the city). Tel Aviv-Jaffa was the second most visited city (64 percent).
The record number of foreign tourists also provided an economic boon for the hotel industry, as well as ancillary businesses including museums, shopping malls, coffee bars and boutique wineries. The tourism ministry said that visitors in 2013 pumped nearly $12 billion into the Israeli economy and provided work for 195,000 workers, or 6 percent of the country's workforce.
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Uzi Landau, Israel's tourism minister, said in a statement, "2013 was a record year for tourism and we are proud of that. Despite 'Operation Pillar of Defense' (at the beginning of the year in Gaza) and the overall security situation in the region, tourists voted with their feet. The Tourism Ministry will continue to invest in maintaining the numbers of tourists arriving in Israel, by opening new markets and actively marketing the tourism product around the world."
Rafi Baeri, vice president of sales and marketing for the Dan Hotel chain, told The Jewish Week, "2013 was a good year, despite the fact that we were influenced by events around us [Gaza, Egyptian political instability, Syrian civil war]. … From the initial indication of the first quarter of 2014 and demand for individuals and groups for later months, we see a marked increase in demand and interest from all the main feeder markets, especially from North America."
Baeri said the hotel is currently running about 20 percent ahead of last year in terms of Passover reservations. The holiday falls in mid-April this year.
Despite the brisk sales for the forthcoming Pesach holiday vacation season, many major hotels that cater to audiences from the New York area are offering discounts. Among the hotels offering deals are:
◆ Dan Hotels (www.danhotels.com): At the luxurious Dan Tel Aviv, rates are valid from arrival date (April 13 or 14) for seven- night stays. The package includes: seven-night accommodations, two seder meals and five dinners. Categories include: Standard Double and Single rooms, as well as a Standard Triple Room (including a child up to 12). Upgrades to Deluxe rooms, as well as supplements for Deluxe and Executive Sea View Rooms, are available. Rates can be received via travel agents or can be found on the hotel's website.
◆ Inbal Jerusalem Hotel (www.inbalhotel.com): The renowned hotel has been renovated from top to bottom, including the lobby and shopping arcade. The Inbal is the only luxury-class hotel in Jerusalem offering bike rentals as well as guided bike tours. Day and night time tours leave from the hotel on a daily basis. Pesach package options at the hotel include:
Seven nights (April 14-21). Double Occupancy, starting from $4990. Single, $3965/3rd in room, $1865; kids ages 3-12, $828 / 12-18, $1235/ two kids 3-12 in 2nd room, $4105. Package includes: six holiday meals including first night seder. Four-night package (April 18-22) starting from $2280. Double, $2280/ Single, $1080/ 3rd in room (ask for children's rates). Package includes four holiday meals.
◆ David Citadel Hotel (www.thedavidcitadel.com): Among the most popular Pesach venues in Jerusalem, the hotel now features Chef Itzik Mizrachi Barak, who has worked at several luxury Israeli hotels and elite restaurants abroad. He will be preparing the menus throughout the Pesach holiday. A special seven-night Pesach package, which includes six meals prepared by Chef Barak, starts from $5950 per couple in a Superior Room.
◆ Sheraton Tel Aviv Hotel (www.sheratontelaviv.com): The beautiful beachfront facility is highlighting two Passover promotions. Prices for guests staying up to five nights start from $410 for a single room and $430 for a double room in the 'deluxe' category. Supplement for a spacious Club Room is $70 per night. Guests enjoy free WiFi in their rooms as well as lobby, swimming pool and lounge. The new outdoor pool area also features a toddler's pool. The new restaurant/bar — DECK115 — will be open for guests during Pesach.


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The Securities Act of 1933: Arming Investors with Information
The Securities Act of 1933 is sometimes referred to as the "truth in securities" law, because it requires that investors receive adequate and thorough financial information about significant aspects of securities being offered for public sale. It expressly prohibits deceit, misrepresentation, and other fraud in the sale of securities.
The 1933 Act contains a detailed registration process that companies must comply with before they can offer securities to the public. The burden and expense of completing the forms is the responsibility of the registering company, which is referred to as the issuer.
The SEC examines all registration documents for compliance with the 1933 Act. If the SEC determines that information is missing or inaccurate, the issuer may be denied registration and may lose its right to sell its securities in the United States. (Section 5(a) of the 1933 Act provides that it's "unlawful" to offer to sell a security to the public unless a registration statement is in effect.)
Companies undergoing the registration process are required to provide information about:
The company's properties and business
The types of securities to be offered for sale, such as stocks, bonds, and partnership interests
Background on the management of the company
The registration statement must also include financial statements certified by independent accountants.
In order to comply with disclosure requirements, companies generally distribute a document called a prospectus to potential investors. The content of the prospectus is governed by the 1933 Act, which provides that "a prospectus shall contain the information contained in the registration statement."
This instruction is somewhat misleading because companies usually create these documents in reverse — drafting a prospectus prior to preparing a registration statement and then including a copy of the prospectus in the registration statement filing.


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Today we had responders out in the field assisting with local animal control -- going door to door and feeding and watering animals. We're still finding a lot of horses that need feed and water -- it has been difficult to find and then get to the horses because the areas are rural and have no close neighbors to direct us to them. Today we are being told about the ranchers in nearby Cameron Parrish who are having difficulty getting feed into the area for the hundreds of cattle there, so we've been working on getting grain and hay to them.
Yesterday, one of the teams brought in a Boxer that had severe chemical burns on his feet from standing in contaminated water. We transported him up to the LSU vet school for treatment.
Two of our responders, both of whom have been with us since the beginning, finally went home and five new responders came in! Chris and Sue arrived to help out with animal care at the shelter, while Gina, Collin, and Ron arrived to help with animal control. Many of the responders have been at work 24/7 since Katrina, and then never had a chance to slow down once Rita hit. One local officer told me he has had two days off in the last 30 days! With the arrival of more help, the local responders and officers can finally take a day to visit and assess their own homes.
In the past five days, responders and officers have handed out 18,000 pounds of dog and cat food to a very grateful community! We are expecting another semi load in the next day or so. The weather continues to be hot -- the heat index today was 94, but we are supposed to get cooler weather soon, and everyone is looking forward to that. The heat takes a lot out of everyone -- especially while carrying and distributing 50 lb. bags of dog food!


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Valentine One's radar detector is one of those gadgets you most often see mounted on the windshields of trucks and vehicles who have a lot of traveling to do. The reason behind that is this device's ability to detect any kind of threat. It works an all known frequencies and it offers 360 degree protection regardless of the types of laser it has to detect. It comes with a rear radar antenna and it feeds you information on a regular basis. It can indicate how many radars are within reach and it has excellent reception no matter what environment you might be using it in.
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by Natalie Williams
1. Open eBay and PayPal account (free)
2. Start selling things around their house to get their feet wet, build up feedback points and get experience (free, plus it MAKES you money)
3. Go to library and get books on beginning HTML, Web design (for beginners) and Creating graphics for beginners (free)
Search on the Internet for a free HTML editor (web page creator) and free graphics editor.
4. Running out of stuff to sell? Go to your local thrift shops and buy up all BRAND NAME childrens clothing for like .50-1.00 each and sell them in batches. Buy up all video games, DVD's and even VHS if the VHS's are priced at LESS than $2.00. List them and charge $4.50 for shipping and handling.
5. Use Stamps.com to print the postage and you can hide the amount of postage on the label so no one complains). This covers any packing material and your time packing and going to post office. I am TIRED of shipping cost complaints. Do these people email amazon.com and compain they were charged $6.95 for something that cost them .50 to ship? Go to garage sales, buy up and resell.
(Cost – Free to open account and FREE postage to begin with plus a free scale)
6. Start making a website. I don't care if it's about hot dog farming. Whatever interests you, make it. (Free to create because you are doing it yourself)
7. Join affiliate programs that match and compliment the theme of your website. Insert reviews and links to these websites of the affiliate programs you joined.
8. Buy a domain name and hosting account and upload your website.
(Domain name $8.95 per year at www.godaddy.com and Hosting account $7.95 per month at www.crystaltech.com or you can do both at GoDaddy. On GoDaddy, you would want the Windows/ASP plan, trust me)
Now that you have all this hosting space, you can also use it to keep your images on for your eBay listings too. Don't nickel and dime yourself to death with their fees!!
9. Create a custom About Me page on your eBay account that introduces you and directs perople to your website (You DO know some HTML now, right?) (Cost – FREE)
10. Search out newsletters that would be good to put an ad in. Cost, about $40 for a SOLO ad which means JUST your ad goes out to 15,000-30,000 people.
11. Write an eBook on some subject. Put affiliate links in it. Give it away on your website.
Create more ebooks. Make a GREAT one and sell it.
Natalie Williams is a full time work from home mom that centers her business around helping other people, especially moms, work from home successfully and without being scammed. Her main websites can
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Speed management key to saving lives, making cities more liveable
Managing speed, a new report from WHO, suggests that excessive or inappropriate speed contributes to 1 in 3 road traffic fatalities worldwide. Measures to address speed prevent road traffic deaths and injuries, make populations healthier, and cities more sustainable.
Around 1.25 million people die every year on the world's roads. Studies indicate that typically 40–50% of drivers go over posted speed limits. Drivers who are male, young and under the influence of alcohol are more likely to be involved in speed-related crashes. Road traffic crashes remain the number one cause of death among young people aged 15–29 years. They are estimated to cost countries from 3–5% of GDP and push many families into poverty.
Yet only 47 countries of the world follow good practice on one of the main speed management measures, namely implementing an urban speed limit of 50 km/h or less and allowing local authorities to reduce these limits further on roads around schools, residences and businesses.
"Speed is at the core of the global road traffic injury problem," notes WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan. "If countries were to address just this key risk, they would soon reap the rewards of safer roads, both in terms of lives saved and increases in walking and cycling, with profound and lasting effects on health."
Speed management measures include:
- building or modifying roads to include features that calm traffic, such as roundabouts and speed bumps;
- establishing speed limits appropriate to the function of each road;
- enforcing speed limits through the use of manual and automated controls;
- installing in-vehicle technologies in new cars, such as intelligent speed assistance and autonomous emergency braking;
- raising awareness about the dangers of speed.
Road traffic fatality rates are nearly 3 times lower in Europe compared to Africa. Countries that have had the most success in drastically reducing rates of road traffic death and injury in recent decades – Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland among them – are those that have addressed the issue holistically. They have prioritized safe speed as 1 of 4 components of the safe system approach, along with safe roads and roadsides, safe vehicles, and safe road users.
Within countries, municipal leaders have greatly contributed to a growing movement – often instigated at local level – to transform cities into more liveable places for all. By reducing speed and improving safety, their populations benefit from the added advantages of increases in walking and cycling and reductions in air and noise pollution. Such actions, in turn, have positive health benefits on rates of cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and other noncommunicable diseases.
Managing speed was released in advance of the Fourth UN Global Road Safety Week, 8–14 May 2017. The week and its related campaign "Save Lives: #SlowDown" draw attention to the dangers of speed and the measures which should be put in place to address this leading risk for road traffic deaths and injuries.
Among hundreds of other events feature the following:
- Slow Down Days in Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Botswana, Colombia, India, Malaysia, Nepal, Qatar, Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia and Viet Nam;
- campaigns around schools in Brazil, Cameroon, China, Fiji, Gambia, Jordan, Morocco, Romania, South Africa and Uganda;
- activities involving parliamentarians in Armenia, Australia, Myanmar, Republic of Moldova, Thailand, Ukraine and the United Kingdom;
- symposia in Montenegro, Nigeria, Philippines, Poland and Sierra Leone;
- vigils for road traffic victims in Ireland and Mauritius.
The UN Week is a unique advocacy opportunity that contributes to achievement of the road safety-related Sustainable Development Goal targets 3.6 and 11.2. On the occasion of the UN Week, WHO will also release Save LIVES: a road safety technical package, which details 22 key evidence-based measures considered most likely to impact on road traffic deaths and injuries, including a number linked to managing speed.


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Cardamom Decorticated
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is one of the most ancient spices, highly valued and expensive. PureSpice is among the few spice companies that continue to sell cardamom, as it is not a large volume seller. PureSpice extra fancy green cardamom is considered the best. White cardamom is simply bleached green pods. Cardamom grows wild in the rain forests of Southern India and Sri Lanka, but is also cultivated in other similar climates. Loose seeds and ground cardamom lose their flavor quickly.Cardamom can enhance b oth sweet and savory tastes. The flavor is in the small hard seeds, protected by the pods. In Indian cuisine, the whole pod is used in curries and garam masalas. In other cuisines it is used in puddings, pastries and ice creams. In various parts of the Mid and Far East, it is used in tea and coffee. The Vi


text: Public Works has identified locations throughout the City that experience flooding during rain events and/or high tides. The City Commission approved funding in FY18 to address these types of flooding issues. Five locations are currently being studied by an engineering consultant to recommend solutions unique to the local situation. They are: 44th Ave and Moody Street; 2nd Palm Pointe; Hermosita Drive; 41st Ave from Moody to Belle Vista Drive and 59th Ave. Additional locations will be added to the study as funding permits throughout the year. Those locations are: Belle Vista Triangle Park; 8205 Boca Ciega Drive; 45th Ave Vicinity; 2823 Vina Del Mar Blvd and 2305 Sunset Way. This list is not intended to be complete, the staff continuously evaluates additional locations and welcomes input and observations.


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Private & Group Coaching
The goal of these sessions are to offer a comprehensive meditation practices designed as a way to adapt stress reduction/ life-enhancing for individuals in all walks of life. The objective here is to help participants develop techniques and resources to address the different levels and kinds of psychological and physical stress that they face in their day-to-day living. Participants will be taught how to utilize their own hidden potential and strengths and to focus on developing a greater sense of creativity, empathy and a more holistic attitude towards nurturing themselves. The belief here is that whether or not they stand within a religious tradition, there is a desire within each individual to create and to contribute in a way that gives satisfaction and promote good physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health.
Coaching benefits
- To reduce stress
- To be more focused
- Maximize objectivity
- Increase productivity
- Create more joy in life
- Access greater creativity
- Raise self-confidence
- Enhance communication skills
- Promote greater clarity of mind
Guided Imagery Meditation
Daily meditation is extremely effective in helping individuals become more relaxed and less likely to manifest the severe effects of physical and psychological stress.
The degree of stress symptoms that manifests in individuals depends on the effectiveness of the coping strategies for dealing with stress. To some degree, stress is in the eye of the beholder. Individuals who are good copers have been found to have fewer stress-related physical and emotional symptoms. Research has shown that they also tend to have higher levels of immunological functioning and are less prone to falling ill. Hence, from a therapeutic point of view, stress reduction techniques offer a method of teaching students new strategies for dealing with stress.
There is a well-known story that captures our society's demand for instant answers and immediate results.
This is the story of a rich man who wanted to send his son to a well-known university, but he wanted him to graduate in just two years so that he could go into the family business. The old man offered to pay double if his son could be graduated early. The dean said to the father," Well, I can graduate your son early, but first tell me one thing. You must know what you are settling for. You must decide if you want parsley or an oak tree. It does not take long to grow parsley, but an oak tree takes years of careful nurturing and growth before it matures. Tell me: is it a little sprig of parsley that you want or a mighty oak?"
If we are searching for the mighty oak, for the wellspring of our creative potential then we have to give up the idea of instant enlightenment and stress reduction and be willing to work consistently and sincerely. Everyone has the potential of benefiting from practicing stress reduction techniques on a daily basis. Participants with stress related disorders may tend to benefit the most from using these approaches, but everyone who uses them will find greater physical and psychological health and well-being. The stress reduction practices taught in the course offer some of the best educational tools to students to promote a preventive approach to psychological and physical health.


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What was it? I see, furniture in the woods left to decay.
Glass broken, shards glinting everywhere, in sunlight's rays.
Solid wood bones, but could it be repaired? Made new and functional?
Into what? You might ask, and I'm not sure what rationally,
I don't know it's purpose, I don't know how to transform its ruin.
But I like to give old things new uses, to repair the broken form strewn.
Natures taking over swallowing back her glass sand and wood from trees.
Only a concrete slab shall remain, when nature takes what's presently seen.
Feelings of sorrow haunt, capturing brokenness, into forest bearing.
I have my reasons, not wanting to leave useful items in disrepair.
It's more to do with people, how the broken are left behind, not cared for.
People forgetting, friends, family, the elderly, the disabled, more.
Thoughtfulness non-existent, but I seek to repair, leave no one forgotten.
Even the meekest soul, deserves conversation, to be noticed, never left to 'storage.'
Every stage and page in life, forget no soul, don't let them slip through your writing hands.
Let every person have a purpose, great or small; let them have their dreams expand.
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BAY OF FIRES by Poppy Gee
A darkly suspenseful debut thriller set in coastal Tasmania, where an idyllic calm is shattered by the death of a young tourist.
Sarah Avery's reckless behavior has cost her a job, her boyfriend, and the independence she desperately craves. Reluctantly home for the holidays in the Bay of Fires, a tiny seaside town on the Tasmanian coast, she hopes for a calm, quiet visit, with time to reflect on all that's gone wrong. Those hopes are crushed when, early one morning, she discovers the body of a young female backpacker washed up on the shore.
A year earlier, another woman went missing and hasn't been seen since. Now everyone wonders: is there a killer in the brush? Or were these women victims of Tasmania itself? The island is place of savage beauty: pristine sand beneath orange-lichen covered granite boulders; heaving shadowy kelp fields; sweeping cold currents; crackling bush beyond the seashore. It's also a landscape as flawed, vulnerable and vengeful as any human. Once its fragile peace is shattered, the locals' anxiety fuels a string of speculations about happened to the women – and who might be the next victim.
When journalist Hall Flynn arrives to investigate, haunted by recent failures and yearning for a fresh start, he's determined to do whatever it takes to break the story, and Sarah is his best source of local information. But Sarah – like everyone else in this close-knit town – has secrets she's desperate to keep hidden. And one of those secrets leads straight to a killer's door.
Haunting, evocative, as wildly atmospheric as the remote island where it takes place, BAY OF FIRES is a startling and wholly original debut.
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Los Angeles D.A. Rachel Knight faces down the murderously ambitious side of Hollywood in Marcia Clark's newest thriller.
When the daughter of a billionaire Hollywood director is found murdered after what appears to be a kidnapping gone wrong, Los Angeles Special Trials prosecutor Rachel Knight and Detective Bailey Keller find themselves at the epicenter of a combustible and high-profile court case. Then a prime suspect is revealed to be one of Hollywood's most popular and powerful talent managers–and best friend to the victim's father. With the director vouching for the manager's innocence, the Hollywood media machine commences an all-out war designed to discredit both Rachel and her case. KILLER AMBITION is at once a thrilling ride through the darker side of Tinseltown and a stunning courtroom drama with the brilliant insider's perspective that Marcia Clark is uniquely qualified to give.
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I am leaving tomorrow and it has come too soon. Last time I stayed for 3 months and leaving also came too soon. I don't know what that means. Maybe I don't like leaving, or maybe it is that strong pull.
I was supposed to leave the orphanage yesterday and have 2 days in Accra before I flew home, but it didn't seem important. (I was also trying to pick up eye glasses for one of the teenagers, but when I finally made it, after a tro tro ride and a half mile of walking back and forth in the heat to find the place, the neighboring store said, "oh they didn't come today." It's like that here.) I wanted to be in the dirt, watching these kids push each other on bikes that had no chains or pedals. I wanted to eat lunch with them and invite them over in the evening. I wanted to hear them laugh one more time so I could save it. I wanted to stay, so I did.
This morning Bishop came to my room by himself, and it was rare for a gang of kids not to be following him, which means he didn't tell anyone where he was going. He called my name through the window by my bed at 8:20am, and I got up to invite him in. I gave him the 2 new outfits I bought him at the market so he could stop wearing around the 10-sizes-too-big Andre Berto shirt I had given him. It was just the 2 of us and it was nice. He was so happy, and he has the cutest little giggle when he lets himself be excited. After I finished packing, i took my sheet and my bug net and made his bare foam pad bunk bed into something nice. "They will steal it," he whispered to me. I found the 20 year old who stays with the small boys and told him that if anyone takes the net or the sheet or any of his stuff I will find out and come back to Ghana and beat them. It makes Bishop feel special when I threaten people for him.
My other two favorites, Morris and Clement, came back with us and we hung out while I packed, giving them various things I didn't need to take with me. The big hit was my left over gatorade bottles. "God bless you," they told me, as we all left my room.
I didn't prepare myself to leave. I kept forcing myself to forget how sad it was the last time, and how sad it will be this time. I came here to live in the moment and that is what I have done this far. Only the moment when I walked through the village one last time as I headed to the street is not one I wanted to live in.
Bishop held my hand and Clement offered to carry my Jordan backpack with all of my camera equipment. "Madame ittis heavy! You are very strong!" but he still insisted on carrying it when I said I would take it back. Some other kids followed me and I said bye as I walked through all of the others. I am sad to leave them all but you know there is only one goodbye that will tear me up inside.
When we got to the street, all of the tro-tro drivers yell at you, "WHERE ARE YOU GOING WHERE ARE YOU GOING O-BRO-NEE WHERE ARE YOU GOING" but I needed a minute so I waved them off. I hugged the kids who followed me and told them I loved them. Then I looked down to the little brown hand gripped in my left one. It was too soon to let it go. I didn't mean to, but the tears started coming. I should have parted ways at the orphanage, I thought, as i stood sobbing in the center of town, where everyone could see, and was likely looking.
I just stood and held him as I tried to pull it together. Morris, the sweetest, funniest little 7 year old said, "Madame Stephanie I do not want to see you crying, so stop." But I couldn't. Especially as I bent down to look in those big brown eyes that belonged to the kid I love so much. He is the toughest child I have ever met, but the tears got him too. They were slowly dripping down his face, like he was trying not to let them. The other kids looked shocked as they watched him wipe them away. Standing there in that moment, it felt like we had a secret no one else knew. I don't know what it is that connects the two of us but it is strong, and it was immediate, and I know it is forever. I whispered that I loved him so much, and I will come back for him. And I will.
Not everyone would love it here. It is hot and hard and it tries all of your good qualities to see which ones are still there at the end of the day. Traveling is a funny thing, because most people do it in luxury, for vacation. But if you really mean to travel for the purpose of knowing another place and another life, you won't go in luxury. You will put on a backpack and choose a destination. You will learn who you are when you are secluded from everything you know. You'll see who you can be if you push yourself to adapt and change and grow and embrace the uncomfortable. And if you are lucky enough, you will find another piece of your heart.


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Sunday, August 22, 2010
Where There Is No Vision...
"Where there is no vision, the people perish:"
-Proverbs 29:18a, KJV
When was the last time you heard this verse? Sadly, in most evangelical American churches, this first part of the verse is used as a Scriptural justification for ministries, programs, or whatever new thing the pastor wants to get the church rallied behind. I am so sick and tired of the misuse of this Scripture it makes me want to spit.
Over the years I have dealt with a few different instances where the wording of the KJV is such that today's meaning is a whole lot different than the 1611 meaning. I am rapidly losing any reservations I have tried to maintain as far as not calling out the KJV as a version that should not be used any longer by English-speaking Christians.
This current verse is part of that. Of course, the main blame goes to modern church and ministry builders who don't think twice about pretexting their ambitions with Scripture.
I carry an NRSV study bible to church. It reads thusly:
"Where there is no prophecy, the people cast off restraint,"
Well right there you have an entirely different message that doesn't support "vision-casting," "ministry building," or any other such drivel. Nonetheless, it was important for me to verify this translation with others and also find the meaning.
I pull out my smartphone and call up the NKJV, which reads:
"Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint;"
Well now I think we have a winner. I then grab my wife's Thomas Nelson KJV Reference Bible and check the notes, to find "vision" footnoted as "prophetic vision" and "perish" footnoted as "cast off restraint."
Well how about that boys and girls????? If the brownie girl in the pulpit had dared study they would know better. But shall we stop there? Oh, no. Let's get to bottom of this bucket-o-noodles. I think it's time that every man and his dog be allowed to see the whole verse, eh? Courtesy of the KJV:
"Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he."
Well, dog biscuits! It's rather hard to shoehorn the idea of a church having a vision for some program or ministry or building expansion in the context, isn't it? Shall we stop there? Oh, no. More context coming right up. Verses 15-19 courtesy of the NKJV:
15 The rod and rebuke give wisdom,
But a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
16 When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increases;
But the righteous will see their fall.
17 Correct your son, and he will give you rest;
Yes, he will give delight to your soul.
18 Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint;
But happy is he who keeps the law.
19 A servant will not be corrected by mere words;
For though he understands, he will not respond.
Follow the bouncing ball. Verses 15, 16, and 18 all follow a negative "but" positive format. Pretty much the whole chapter has to do with--DRUM ROLL RATA-TAT-TAT: the blessings of submitting to the Lord's commandments versus the chaos and shame of going one's own way.
Are you looking for an edifying understanding of this verse? Consider what Baptist pastor John Gill had to say:
"prophesying is often put for preaching; and here vision, or prophecy, signifies the public ministering of the word and ordinances, and want of persons to administer them; no expounder, as the Septuagint version; or interpreter, as the Arabic.
"where there is right vision and prophecy, or true preaching of the word, and that is despised and neglected, men perish notwithstanding;"
Consider this also from the notes from the NET Bible:
"It must be stated that the prophetic ministry was usually in response to the calamitous periods, calling the people back to God. Without them the downward rush to anarchy and destruction would have been faster than with these prophetic calls from God."
Proverbs 29:18 is then paraphrased thusly:
"Where there is no teaching(/preaching) of God's revelation, the people cast off restraint, but happy are those who keep the law."
Thanks for reading and good night.
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Wednesday, August 04, 2010
Put Up with It?
"Put up with hard times. God uses them to train you. Hebrews 12:7"
This is the verse of the day text I received today. Now, this verse took me aback. I am currently praying for some things in my life, and I have the sense that the Lord will answer me favorably. Then this verse pops up on my cell phone. Now, I am not superstitious, but God can use many different methods to reach us, right? What am I supposed to make of this?
Now the SMS service in question here is quoting from the NIrV, and it only quoted the beginning of the verse. So I decided to look up the verse in my reading translation, the NRSV, which says:
"Endure trials for the sake of discipline. God is treating you as children; for what child is there whom a parent does not discipline?"
So this is a little clearer maybe. How about the NASB?
"It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?"
What we endure, we endure because God is disciplining us. That is slightly different then God using hard times to train you. The NLT fleshes it out a little more:
"As you endure this divine discipline, remember that God is treating you as his own children. Who ever heard of a child who is never disciplined by its father?"
The first two phrases are blended together to better draw in the concept of God treating us as sons. Finally, a look at the NKJV:
"If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?"
The NKJV flows much like the NLT here, with less wordiness. All in all, the best modern translation so far here. However, being raised on the KJV, I happen to be familiar with words like "chastening." So it may not be the best for you.
But the chase does not end here. There is a textual variant that comes into play. Specifically, the word "If" at the front of the verse in the NKJV/KJV is not present in either the Critical Text or the Majority Text. It doesn't seem to affect the meaning of the verse, just how the idea is put across.
Note the NASB's "It is for discipline that you endure," a literal translation of the Critical or Majority texts. The lack of that word "If" forces most modern Critical Text-based versions to break apart the reason for endurance and the second phrase speaking of the Christian's spiritual sonship. Except for the NLT, which paraphrases in order to smooth things out.
The NKJV/KJV do a better job smoothing out the verse in general, thanks to the Textus Receptus text. It may seem, however, that in connecting the endurance of discipline to God's loving care, the NKJV/KJV fail to state as clearly that what we do endure, we endure because He is disciplining us.
In my view, this isn't an issue, because it is simply a different way of emphasizing the same concept. Per the NASB, we endure because of discipline, and God is dealing with us as sons. Per the NKJV, if we endure discipline, God is dealing with us as sons. The connection between the discipline we endure and the God who disciplines is clear either way.
However, in the final analysis, the NKJV is much less convoluted, and much more readable. One would prefer the word "discipline" to "chastening/chasten," though. Despite besting all the other Critical Text-based translations here, the NLT is too wordy, a frequent weakness.
So what of my prayer life? Maybe He has been chastening me, maybe He has not. I know for sure, however, that He is not trying to tell me to "put up with it." As a matter of fact, the NIrV rendering is dangerous... God uses discipline to turn us to Him. The proper response to God's discipline is not stoicism, but repentance and seeking Him. And that's what I am trying to do--seek Him.
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1) Brief History
Fertility Special Clinic was officially established on September 30th, 1986. Since establishment, we have been treating thousands of patients with reproductive problems, both locally and internationally. Our physicians in this special clinic are also well-equipped with knowledge in interpreting Western medical reports as well as incorporating the results in their traditional way of treatment and diagnosis.
2) Organisation Structure
1 Lead Physician
4 Resident Physicians
3) Panel of Physicians
Lead Physician: Ang Xiang Ling (Double Degree B.Sc. (Hons) in Biomedical Sciences & B.Medicine (Chinese Medicine))
Team Members:
Loh Kin Yee (Master degree in TCM)
Loh Kim Gek (Doctorate degree in TCM)
Lu Xiao Jian (Master degree in TCM)
Na Yi Ting (Double Degree B.Sc. (Hons) in Biomedical Sciences & B.Medicine (Chinese Medicine))
4) Scope of Treatment:
(i) Women with reproductive problems
– Luteal Phase Defect
– Endometriosis
– Fibroids
– Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)
– Ovarian cysts
– Blocked fallopian tubes
– Ovulation problems
(ii) Men with reproductive problems
– Low sperm count (Oligospermia)
– Reduced sperm motility (Asthenozoospermia)
– Absence of sperm (Azoospermia)
– Abnormal sperm morphology (Teratozoospermia)
(iii) Pregnancy care
(iv) Postpartum care
5) Treatment Approach
(i) Pre-requisite for treatment
(a) Failure of married couples (living together with a normal sex life) to achieve a clinical pregnancy after 12 months or more of regular unprotected sexual intercourse. Inability to become pregnant or carry a pregnancy to a live birth (miscarry), without ever having had a live birth would be classified as primary infertility. Inability to become pregnant or carry a pregnancy to a live birth following a previous pregnancy to a live birth after 12 months would be classified as secondary infertility.
(b) Female patients are required to bring the following test reports(if any):
(c) Male patients must bring along their Seminal Analysis reports.
(ii) Treatment:
(a) Herbal treatment based on an overall analysis of the illness and the patient's condition in conjunction with modern medical diagnosis.
(b) Periodical consultation based on the menstruation cycle. Two doses of herbal medicine will be prescribed during each consultation.
(c) If the male partner is found to have reproductive problems, treatment by Chinese Traditional Medicine will be carried out simultaneously.


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|Roland R-09HR High Resolution WAV and Mp3 Recorder Review
|Monday, 15 November 2010
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About a month ago I set out to record one of my favorite bands, The Clientele, from the soundboard, during a local club gig. I brought my Sharp Minidisc recorderand had the sound man give me a line out, and I was ready to go. Or so I thought. To my horror, when I got home, I found out the minidisc had failed and the audio was fragmented and distorted. I decided I was done with optical recording media. I then set out to find the best cost effective solution for recording live events and archiving old analog recordings from cassettes and reel to reel tapes. There are a number of solutions out there, from pricey, pro level broadcast quality gear, to hand held, lightweight gadgets that use flash memory or small internal hard drives.
This brings us to the subject of this review, the Roland/Edirol R-09HR WAV and Mp3 recorder. The product was, up until a few months ago, marketed under the Edirol brand, but Roland has decided to consolidate. With Version 3.0, just recently released, Edirol no longer exsists. As you will see in the coming review, the R-09HR (the HR stands for High Resolution) has an amazing set of features and works well under a variety of conditions.
The R-09Hr is about the size of a deck of cards. It has both mic and line in inputs. The mic input can be used with a powered or passive microphone, if you choose to not use the built in stereo microphone. The line in jack accepts an 1/8th inch mini connector. There is also a headphone (and line out) jack with an internal volume control. Lastly, as far as physical connectivity, there is a supplied USB cable for direct connection to a computer. A small, nicely laid out remote control is also provided, an unexpected bonus.
The unit is supplied with a power adaptor for wall plug in or can accept AA batteries. All data is recorded to an SD card. The R-09HR can record in Mp3 at various bit rates, and in uncompressed WAV files at sampling rates from 44.1 Khz to 96 Khz. It is easy to hear the difference between these two sampling rates. 96 Khz offers more depth, detail, and natural texture. If you are recording voices at a conference, a meeting, or in conversation, lesser quality will not make much of a difference at all. But if you are recording musical events, the higher sampling rate is a no brainer. The only penalty you pay is that higher resolution eats up way more storage space. You can also choose between 16 bit and 24 bit quality. Again, the same as above applies. 24 bit is way better.
I decided to put the R-09HR through its paces with a project I have had on hold for a few years now, which was the digital conversion of 40 year old reel to reel tapes recorded by my father in Maine and New York in the late 60's. My father was a technology fiend, and an early adaptor at that. He purchased a Revox A77, one of the most famous pieces of high end audio equipment of the last 50 years. Revox was known for its precision engineering and building components that lasted decades.This was his second Revox reel to reel deck, and around that time hr would record many live FM broadcasts, especially live classical concerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic, featuring legendary conductors and performers, and some that would go on to iconic status. Some of the tapes had been in their boxes for decades, last unearthed to transfer to cassette in the late 70's and early 80's.
The A77 is in pretty remarkable shape, considering its age. Besides a few dings, it works flawlessly. I had made one prior attempt to digitize some of the tapes, with an HHB CD recording deck. I was not 100% satisfied with the results, feeling I could do better. There the slightest digital "haze" that seemed to find its way into the transfer. Most listeners would probably not hear it, but I was being hyper critical as I wanted to preserve these tapes in the best possible quality, knowing there only so many plays left in them, due to stretching, flaking, and overall deterioration.


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There are many apartment living room ideas for small apartments that you can try. Indeed, many people these days are living in an apartment instead in a house. Apartment is not as spacious as house and the living room of an apartment is usually tiny as well. That is why we need to be clever in decorating the living room so that it will look spacious. Below, you will see several apartment living room ideas for small apartments that you can try to make the living room looks bigger and comfortable.
1. Use White Color
The color scheme of the living room can be a big deal when you want to make the living room looks bigger. First of all, you need to choose white as the color scheme. Why white? It is because white is the brightest neutral color. It has the ability to make rooms look more spacious. White is also a very neutral color that you can combine with many other colors of your preference. However, if you do not like white, you can choose other colors as long as it is a bright color such as yellow or pale orange. Avoid painting the wall of your living room with dark colors such as black, purple, red, and so on since it will make the living room even smaller.
2. Hang a Mirror
A mirror on the wall is not only great to notify you about who has the fairest look. It is also a great tool to make your living room looks bigger. A mirror has the ability to reflect the living room and make it looks bigger. That is why you can hang a huge mirror on the wall and feel the difference. It does not have to be the expensive mirror with crafted frame or something. Just hang regular mirror on the wall or if you can, cover the entire wall with mirror (without a frame at all).
3. A Few Furniture Only
Living room is actually the one room that does not have to be cramped by furniture. You only need a set of sofa and a table actually in the living room. If your living room is also functioned as a family room, probably add a set of entertainment furniture such as TV cabinet in there. However, you do not need to have huge cabinet, coffee table, and so on in the living room, especially when you try to apply apartment living room ideas for small apartments.


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Dover Hill ~ Franklin Wisconsin
Neighborhood Description: Dover Hill is a single family residential subdivision in Franklin. The entrance to the neighborhood is marked with a stone and wood monument sign as you enter off of 68th Street. (see photo link below) The homes in this neighborhood were built in the 1990's. There are approximately 56 single family homes in the association. The following streets are part of this neighborhood: Dover Hill Court, Foxcroft Court, Jordan Court, Beachwood Court, and part of Brunn Drive. Here is a link to an aerial map of the neighborhood: Map
Location: The Dover Hill entrance is located off of 68th Street just south of Rawson Avenue at Brunn Drive. It is bordered by several other neighborhood associations to the south. When driving through this neighborhood you may not know when crossing into a neighboring association as the streets intersect seamlessly. This neighborhood is convenient to shopping and the freeway. Approximate time to downtown Milwaukee is about 15-20 minutes via I-94.
Improvements ~ Each home is serviced by sanitary sewer & municipal water with laterals to the lot line, asphalt streets, underground gas, electric, telephone and cable TV service.
SCHOOL INFORMATION Dover Hill is served by the Franklin School District.
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