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The Central Connecticut men's track and field team completed competition at the Boston University Terrier Invitational on Saturday. Three Blue Devils broke CCSU records in the meet including senior Craig Hunt as well as juniors Brian Biekert and Jordan Watkins.
Hunt broke the CCSU 3,000m record with his time of 8:17.22 on Saturday morning. His time surpasses the previous record of 8:17.58, set by current assistant coach and former Central standout distance runner Sam Alexander in 2012. Hunt finished 22nd out of 103 runners and was followed by junior Andrew Hill in 38th. Hill crossed the line in 8:28.81, registering a new career-best time in the event.
In the one mile run, Biekert finished the race in 4:06.05 for 18th place out of 176 runners. His time shattered the previous Central record of 4:09.05 which Biekert set last season as a sophomore.
For the fourth-consecutive meet, Watkins surpassed the CCSU record in the 60m hurdles. He posted a time of 8.22 seconds, finishing fifth and shaving even more time off of his own record. Watkins began the season holding the record at 8.39 seconds.
In the 400m dash, junior Jamal Fruster finished 18th of 152 with his time of 48.60. Fruster was followed by freshman Zach Andrews (67th, 50.45) and junior Ryan Budd (70th, 50.58).
Fruster also performed well in the 200m dash, placing 42nd of 159 with his time of 22.54. Fruster was followed closely by freshman Kendall Walker (50th, 22.64). Also competing in the event were juniors Jamie Tobias (22.82) and Chris Savvidou (22.88). Both earned new career-best times in the race finishing 61st and 68th, respectively.
Sophomore Matt Walker also registered a new career-best time Saturday, finishing the 5,000m run in 14:57.86.
Also performing well on the track was freshman Jevon Elmore. Elmore, who is also on the Central football roster, sprinted the 60m dash and finished 14th of 106 with his time of 7.01 seconds. Kendall Walker and Savvidou followed in 7.16 and 7.29, respectively.
The Blue Devil 4x400m relay team, consisting of Budd, Fruster, Andrews and sophomore Malcolm Connor, placed 19th out of 44 squads (3:19.88).
In the field events, Tobias finished 14th in the high jump (1.90m) and was followed by Watkins who earned a career-best height of 1.85 meters.
Junior Michael Ficorilli competed in both the shot put (13.74m) and weight throw (13.86), earning 29th and 37th place overall. Freshman Jeremy Willis also competed in the weight throw. His toss of 10.68m registered a new career-best for Willis.
Sophomore John Sudol also bested his own previous career-high. He leapt for 12.88 meters in the triple jump event, good for 22nd place. He was trailed by freshman Kwency Crittenden in 23rd (12.85m).
The Blue Devils are set to return to action next Saturday, Feb. 1 when they travel to Kingston, RI for the URI "Coaches" Coed Invitational.


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It's been a hectic couple of weeks with more to follow! The weekend before last I was part of the staff team who met up again with the young people who went on the China Exchange visit last October. We were running a follow up weekend with several experiences. We were reviewing their experiences, supporting them to make a storyboard in order to develop a DVD highlighting their journey, and planning for the return visit by the Chinese hopefully in July this year.
It was a really interesting weekend. First up we did an exercise where I read out statements and the young people had to place themselves on a line with totally agree at one end and totally disagree at the other end. The statements related to some of the issues and areas they discovered in China, for instance whether Europe should adopt a one child policy, that young people in the UK should adopt a Chinese approach to the elderly, that it was better to be poor in the UK than in China and so forth. The object was to be provocative and to challenge their learning and thoughts and this was certainly achieved….leading to thought provoking discussions about democracy and freedom of choice.
Saturday was spent doing storyboarding. We encouraged the group to draw pictures of the things that really stood out for them during the 10 days and to reflect on why this was so and what they had felt at the time. As you can see on the video, there was lots of discussion and they made a wonderful scroll of their visit. They used this as the basis of reviewing video clips and starting to develop 'their' story.
They've also been working on a presentation and celebration event to include parents. Although there was a lot of hard work put in on the video over the weekend there is still a lot to do. The group have developed their return visit plan for the Chinese and also discussed how much longer they remain engaged in this work. Many of them have exams coming up so will be limited but they are still all very enthusiastic and keen to host the return group. I'm also looking at how they might support us in some of the other international work we're doing as I'm keen for them to be able to support give a young persons perspective on our future projects. So, although this part of the project is winding up there are various other avenues for them to keep involved with our work and hopefully share their experiences with others.

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Tony Duquette was more than a designer of film and theatrical sets, movie star mansions, gardens, furniture, costumes and jewelry. The legendary Hollywood decorator (1914-99) was also a conjurer, magically transforming plaster, paint, discount-store wares and mirrors into dazzling sculptures and exotic tableaux inspired by the storybook fantasies of his youth.
For years his particular brand of decorative abandon was underappreciated, even dismissed by some as over-the-top. This decade's revival of Hollywood Regency decor -- a theatrical blend of classical and modern styles practiced by iconic designers such as William Haines and Dorothy Draper -- sparked a renewed interest in ornate and luxurious interiors, and Duquette's work reasserted its allure.
In last year's monograph "Tony Duquette," author Hutton Wilkinson explored the designer's life and career from the unique perspective of being his protege. Wilkinson, who began working for the master as a teenager, now owns Tony Duquette Inc. Wilkinson is equal parts standard-bearer, biographer and memoirist.
A true raconteur, he delivers star-studded anecdotes with panache. As the keeper of the Duquette archives, he illustrates these stories with rare photographs, sketches and personal correspondence.
The aptly titled "More Is More" delves deeply into Duquette's artistic process and prodigious output. (See our photo gallery of images from the book here.) It opens with "The Enchanted Vision: Casting the Spell," the text from a series of lectures that Duquette gave at UCLA in the early 1970s. Duquette writes that stones, coral and bones -- these "fragments of the universe" -- cast a spell, and he had as much pleasure working with disintegrated rubber sandals and bird feathers as he had with diamonds.
Duquette was partial to designs depicting sunbursts, phoenixes and garden insects, and he was an early proponent of decorating with natural materials. Prominent in his decorative arsenal are antlers and abalone shells, which he used to cover walls at the Los Angeles Music Center.
The book also details the hauntingly beautiful canvases of his wife, Elizabeth "Beegle" Duquette. Her work was prominently featured in the film "The Sandpiper," starring Elizabeth Taylor as a painter.
But Duquette's jaw-dropping designs remain the focus of the book, which is packed with period photographs of his personal properties: a ranch in Malibu, a design studio in West Hollywood, and then Dawnridge, Duquette's Beverly Hills home. In a fitting coda, "More Is More" ends with a look at Dawnridge, which Wilkinson bought and restored to such glory, one might wonder if the student has surpassed the master.
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For most of my life – late teens until mid-30's – I was an Evangelical Christian, and this wasn't just a social identification for me. I really believed, I really loved Jesus. My freshman year of college I went to a little Bible college in Minnesota, and seriously considered becoming a pastor or missionary (fortunately in the end I decided to pursue engineering). Over the years I attended various churches within the evangelical/Pentecostal part of the Christian spectrum – Assemblies of God, Vineyard Christian Fellowships, occasionally Baptist or independent churches – but always places that took the Bible seriously and believed that Jesus should be the #1 priority in a believer's life. At various times I led youth groups, attended men's fellowship groups, went to prayer meetings, and volunteered for various special events. I tithed. I hosted missionaries in my home when they visited our church on fundraising trips. And, I'm now ashamed to say, for a couple years in the late 90's I helped run a pray-the-gay-away program that was sponsored by my church. My churches were for most of that time the center of my social and personal life.
In spite of all my effort and devotion, I always had nagging doubts in the back of my mind. Never since high school was I a young-earth creationist, and I always cringed when I heard Christians talk about that issue (though I almost always kept my mouth shut about it). Also, I was for most of that time a political independent, and voted for Clinton both times. The overt Republicanism of the Evangelical movement seemed to me to be at best a distraction from the cause, and at worst an unnecessary source of division in the church and a hindrance to our attempts at witnessing (though I usually kept my mouth shut about that, too, in the face of overwhelming numbers).
More seriously, I had concerns about the Bible itself. No, not the obvious fables in the Old Testament, like the creation story or the flood – I just figured the Old Testament writers told parables like Jesus did. That wasn't the problem. The problems I saw were in the New Testament: where were the miracles? Miraculous healings were supposedly the center of Jesus' ministry, and also of Paul's and Peter's. So why don't they happen today? There are various churches nowadays who claim that God still does such things – indeed, that claim was at the center of the Vineyard movement for many years. But it didn't take much investigation to conclude that these people were either credulous and gullible (Vineyard) or charlatans (depressingly easy to find across Christendom). So I had questions about the very foundation of my faith, but I mostly didn't pursue those questions, even in private. I loved Jesus.
The process that eventually pushed me out the door of the church began with, of all things, rock climbing. As I mentioned above, my church involvements occupied most of my personal life. All of my friends were Christians, usually members of the same church I attended. But in my early 30's I jumped at a random opportunity to go climbing, and I completely caught the bug. I found other climbers via a club nearby, and was soon going climbing several times a month, and taking vacations to climbing destinations all over the country. Almost none of my climbing partners were Christians, and this was the first time in my adult life that I became real friends with a significant number of non-believers. It didn't take long to recognize that the personal benefits of faith were much, much less than I had thought, and I eventually concluded that they were nonexistent. Some of these nonbelievers were more centered and trustworthy than almost any of my Christian friends, not to mention that the nonbelievers seemed to be having a lot more fun. It also seemed that decision-making was much less stressful for them, since they examined situations based on common sense and personal interest, and never asked themselves what God wanted. And, most importantly, I enjoyed hanging out with these people more than with most of my Christian friends, even when we weren't climbing.
These realizations, coupled with my aforementioned nagging doubts about my faith, led me to reexamine, eventually, everything that I believed. By "eventually" I mean that I went through a roughly five-year process of gradually exiting Christianity, a process that included a stint in Eastern Orthodoxy and officially ended only two years ago, when I finally told my best friend, who is still a Christian, that I am no longer one myself. He took the news as well as I could have hoped – we are still friends. I am not a hard atheist ("There is definitely no god"); I am a soft atheist ("No religion in the world is based on evidence; however, the existence of a god or gods cannot actually be ruled out").
The irony is, I don't climb much anymore ;-)
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Assemble 95-100 football players who practice twice a day in often steamy weather, while living in a confined area for about a month, and inevitably there will be some boredom-induced wackiness and fits of anger. Here are just a few slices of training camp life through the years: Coyote ugly Recently retired Seahawks center Robbie Tobeck had been around too long to fall for the ol' Flexall-in-the-jock trick. He played along, acting as if his loins were ablaze, but mostly Tobeck was plotting retaliation against analgesic-toting teammate Trent Dilfer. Tobeck settled on a trip to the variety store near the team's old training camp facility at Eastern Washington University. There he found a bottle of coyote urine. Spread around a garden, the urine's pungent odor repels deer and other grazing animals. Spread around a dorm room, the product turns NFL quarterbacks into high-priced maids. "The joy for me was later that night, going up to his room and seeing him," Tobeck said. "He had candles and incense burning and he's on his hands and knees scrubbing his floor." Tobeck pulled off the prank by securing a master key to the players' dormitory. That gave him free reign in Dilfer's room, while Dilfer and the other quarterbacks were in meetings or otherwise occupied. Tobeck used the time well, emptying the bottle everywhere -- under Dilfer's bed, along baseboards, everywhere he could. The stench was strong enough to bother players in adjacent rooms. "He didn't know what it was at the time," Tobeck said. "He looked up at me and said, 'You got me.'" -- Mike Sando Roger Staubach and the sucker punch If you mention the "sucker punch" to anyone associated with the 1970s Cowboys, it's a good bet they'll know what you're talking about. In fact, Hall of Fame quarterback Roger Staubach, the recipient of that punch, would still like an explanation almost 31 years later. In August 1976, Staubach and the club's other two quarterbacks, Clint Longley and Danny White, joined the receivers on the upper practice field of the club's training camp facility in Thousand Oaks, Calif. When Longley made a derogatory remark about Drew Pearson after throwing him a pass, Staubach challenged him to a fight. White said he was put in charge of distracting assistant coach Dan Reeves, and according to several eyewitness accounts, Staubach won the fight handily. On Thanksgiving Day in 1974, Longley, nicknamed "The Mad Bomber," had led the Cowboys to a stunning comeback victory over the hated Redskins after Staubach went down with an injury. Two days after the initial fight, Staubach was putting on his shoulder pads when Longley snuck up from behind and punched him. The impact sent Staubach crashing into a set of scales, and he still has a reminder above his left eyebrow. Ed "Too Tall" Jones and D.D. Lewis restrained Staubach, and Randy White grabbed Longley. "Clint looked like Donald Duck the way he was flopping around in Randy's arms," safety Charlie Waters recalled. When White released him, Longley raced back to the dorm, then promised a radio reporter an exclusive in exchange for a ride to the airport. Longley was quickly traded to San Diego, and he and Staubach haven't talked since. -- Matt Mosley It was Bill Cowher's first year in Pittsburgh in 1992. He was the new guy replacing the legendary Chuck Noll. The long jaw, the scowl and the tough-guy persona would all come later, so running back Merril Hoge and quarterback Bubby Brister wanted to know what they could get away with. They decided to sneak out after curfew and have a few drinks at a local bar near St. Vincent College, where the Steelers hold training camp in Latrobe, Pa. To avoid the guards at the front of the building, one needed to sneak out a window and run through a cemetery. Most players resisted the temptation because it was too spooky to be in a cemetery late at night. Hoge and Brister, though, decided it was finally time to take the risk. "A few drinks were worth it," Hoge said. The two went to the bar and returned to their rooms undetected at 3 a.m. At breakfast the next morning and throughout the early part of practice, Hoge and Brister felt like children who avoided punishment for staying up past their bedtime. They relished the idea of pulling a fast one on the Steelers' new coach, while avoiding the $500 fine that came with breaking curfew. But their euphoria would be short-lived. While practicing a play the next day, Cowher asked Hoge and Brister to pay the $500 fine. To this day, Hoge does not know how Cowher knew about his transgression. Brister and Hoge were so intimidated, they each gave Cowher $1,500 because they planned to sneak out two more times. -- William Bendetson Alone on The Island Coaches often give speeches to players at the start of training camp about cutting down on the hazing of rookies. That effort is usually fruitless. A common practice in Cleveland involved rookies, a whole lot of athletic tape and a goalpost. A player or two was usually taped to the goalpost and everyone got a good laugh. In 1999, several Browns got a little more creative with their hazing. At Cleveland's training camp facility in the 1990s, there was a barrier with two swinging gates. One swung open for cars coming in and one swung out for cars departing. In the middle was a small island with a talk box that allowed team personnel to use a code to gain entrance after hours. One afternoon after practice, several mischievous teammates taped a rookie to the talk box on the island. Every player, coach or team official who left training camp headquarters that night honked their car horn as they passed by the tormented player. The rookie begged for help and eventually was set free, but his savior was never publicly identified. And no wonder: How would you like to be the next person stuck on that island? Some teams put a slightly different twist on rookie hazing. "I have never seen anything so funny as offensive linemen trying to squeeze into a short skirt while having to parade around the facility all day with it on," former Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann said of a memorable training camp scene. But one of the more memorable parts of any training camp is the rookie show. Rookies often are forced to put on a skit, and the winning group escapes hazing. With the Eagles in 1988, Eric Allen, Eric Everett and other rookies dressed up like Diana Ross and the Supremes. "Thank God there was no YouTube back then," Allen said. -- William Bendetson and Jeremy Green An early impression The Steelers' 1974 training camp was weird. Veterans spent 42 days in camp. Tensions were high. One of the staples of camp, of course, was the hazing of rookies. Sure, rookies were required to sing their school songs during dinner, but they usually had to look over their shoulders for their official welcome to the NFL. But the amazing part of training camp that year was that one Steelers rookie, Jack Lambert, led some of the hazing. The incidents were innocent and brief. No one ever got hurt, but it was remarkable to see leadership take hold during the linebacker's first camp. Writers covering the team stayed in the same dorm as the players, so they could hear some of Lambert's antics. Accompanied by a few teammates, Lambert would enter the small two-bed dorm rooms and have a couple of players hold down the victim. In a short time, Lambert and Co. would do their best to embarrass the surprised player. One would hear a few screams, a lot of laughs and before you knew it, it was all over. The impressive thing was how Lambert, a true leader and character, took charge as a rookie. As a middle linebacker, a big part of Lambert's game was instilling fear into offenses. He did the same to a few unsuspecting teammates during his first camp. -- John Clayton Raiding the wine stash Former Raiders tight ends coach Bill Meyers was really excited about the team's first training camp in Napa, Calif., so much so that he stocked up on a few bottles of wine from local vineyards shortly after arriving in wine country. The only problem was that Meyers didn't anticipate members of his own team interfering with his plans to build a modest wine collection. One night when Meyers was out, somebody -- either a player or coach -- decided to raid his stock and have a little party. When Meyers returned, all he found were empty bottles lying around his hotel room floor. He was so stunned that he filed a report with the Napa police, a move that subsequently led to a story appearing in the Napa Register. Raiders owner Al Davis didn't find much humor in the situation. After reading the story, he reportedly hit the roof over all the shenanigans. -- Jeffri Chadiha An everyday Joe? Forget about it The summer of Joe was so big, it lasted two years. It's still around in little pieces, like on the menu at Steve's Pizza Parlor. "Steve's Pizza," Joe Montana says in one of his less-famous quotes, "is really, really good." Montana was bigger than the Beatles when he arrived for Chiefs training camp in tiny River Falls, Wis., in the summer of 1993. Groupies swarmed, hearts fluttered, and no autograph request seemed too silly. One guy asked Montana to sign his baby. Another Chiefs crazy crawled under Montana's car and hid while the Hall of Fame quarterback tossed a few back at a local watering hole. Montana just wanted to be one of the guys, an everyday Joe. That was impossible in River Falls. He was followed and recorded everywhere, including Bo's N' Mine, a quiet bar on the main drag. Fans waited for Montana to finish a beer, then swiped his empty cans for souvenirs. Adding to the circus was the fact that Marcus Allen had just joined the team too. And in 1994, Allen was surrounded by a media firestorm after his friend O.J. Simpson was accused of murder. "There were people hiding in the bushes outside the dorm trying to ambush him and talk about the O.J. thing," said Pete Moris, who was in his first year with the Chiefs' public relations department in 1994. "Here's arguably two of the biggest marquee guys in the league in little River Falls. "It was kind of wild." -- Elizabeth Merrill Fire drill? 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"And we had a tough time getting back to sleep." -- Matt Mosley Fun with chickens and a pig When the Cincinnati Bengals trained in Wilmington, Ohio, quarterback Kenny Anderson decided he wanted to have a little fun with tight end Dan Ross. Anderson got some chickens from a farm in Wilmington and put them in Ross' room. "After seeing how much the chickens tore up his room, Ross decided to get back," said Dave Lapham, an offensive lineman for the Bengals who is now the team's radio analyst. Ross went to Anderson's room and let loose a pig, which destroyed the quarterback's room. The two decided to call a truce after that.


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Mr. Adnan Oktar's live conversation with Knesset political adviser Prof. Avraham Diskin on A9 TV (3 January 2012)
Excerpt from Mr. Adnan Oktar's Live Interview on A9 TV dated January 3rd, 2012
ADNAN OKTAR: We are through to Israel, aren't we? Who will we be talking to?
DAMLA HANIM: Professor Avraham Diskin.
ADNAN OKTAR: Avraham.
DAMLA HANIM: Yes, he is a political expert who has advised various prime ministers, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Knesset. He served as head of the Political Science Faculty at Israel's Jerusalem Hebrew University. He is also a professor at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, an institute for policy and strategy. His views as a political analyst are frequently sought by the Israeli and international media. He chaired the Cadets' Committee of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the 1980s and 1990s. He also helped to write the Constitution in the 2000s and advised the Constitution Committee of the Knesset.
ADNAN OKTAR: Let us put him through. Prof. Diskin, how are you?
PROF. AVRAHAM DISKIN: I'm fine. I'm okay. Okay.
ADNAN OKTAR: Masha'Allah. That part was fine, masha'Allah. Yes, Professor Diskin, go ahead, we are listening.
PROF. AVRAHAM DISKIN: Okay, okay. So first of all I would like to ask Mr. Oktar; I understand that he's very active with the bonds of the three monotheistic religions, and I'd like to know more about his ideas concerning that.
ADNAN OKTAR: We are in the End Times. According to the Torah and the Holy Scriptures and the hadiths of our Prophet (saas), we are in the End Times. The time has now come for people to be one community, insha'Allah. Under the leadership of the King Messiah, the Mahdi, people will be friends and brothers. Mankind has now seen that this conflict and these wars and anarchy are all the work of satan, of the antichrist [anti-messiah]. We want to live in peace. Today everyone is taking everyone else to court and they are all oppressing, beating, swearing at and insulting one another. They detest each other. That is something horrible. And that is a terrible thing. Forgiveness and love and peace are beautiful things. And we are striving in that way, insha'Allah, as followers of the Messiah, of the Mahdi. We want goodness and beauty to rule the world.
PROF. AVRAHAM DISKIN: Yeah, I understand that, but you know over the years, actually over thousands of years, there were at least some very orthodox believers who did not look so peacefully on other religions. And unfortunately even today we have, for instance, some Muslims who are very intolerant to those who aren't Muslims, and the question is how optimistic one can be under such conditions?
ADNAN OKTAR: The good will always be victorious. They will always be victorious. We can see how the good are heading toward victory in the End Times. The supporters of brute force and violence and terror are being put down, crushed and humiliated. The good and right ones, the supporters of love, are growing ever stronger. This is happening before the eyes of the whole world. This is a most positive development.
PROF. AVRAHAM DISKIN: I believe that Mr. Oktar wrote after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington a very important book called Islam Denounces Terrorism, and I would like to learn about the reactions to this book, not in the non-Muslim world, but in the Muslim world, which I think is more interesting.
ADNAN OKTAR: Generally speaking, the supporters of satan and the antichrist do not like peace. But Muslims, and especially Muslims in Turkey, are highly rational people who love peace, love, friendship and brotherhood. They espouse democracy. In that respect, Turkey is a fine role model for the Middle East, the Balkans and the Islamic and Turkish worlds. That is why it has become a natural leader, and will further strengthen that natural leadership post. It will be the leader of both the Islamic and the Turkish worlds. And under that leadership, Armenia and Israel and other states, and members of other faiths and nations will all live together in tranquility, peace, joy, happiness, plenty and abundance.
PROF. AVRAHAM DISKIN: First of all I would like to say that everyone who supports this between all people regardless of their beliefs and origin should be blessed. I would like to ask a question about the relationship between Turkey and Israel. In the past, there were very, very good relations not only at the level of governments between Turkey and Israel, but also between the peoples, and it looks that as of recently, there is a sort of deterioration both on the governmental level, and also a growing hostility at least among parts of the peoples, and I wonder if one can be optimistic about the future given these developments?
ADNAN OKTAR: The truth of the matter is that things have never been good between Turkey and Israel, between the Islamic world and Israel in that sense. But they will be now. They will be good in the time of the King Messiah, the Mahdi. If things were ever good, that was just on the surface. I mean, Israel has never enjoyed friendship, closeness or a climate of security with any country in the true sense of the word. Not if we are being realistic. There have been military agreements and commercial agreements. But there has always been that suspicion and tension. I mean, there has never been a climate of love and brotherhood at the level described in the Torah and the hadiths. It is happening for the first time, or will happen for the first time. For the first time in truth. That is why all Israeli intellectuals must support this development. They must pray to Allah for the coming of the King Messiah, for the coming of the Mahdi. They must beg Allah in the synagogues. Our intellectual Israeli brothers or the ones who hold different political opinions, they all have a duty to seek the Mahdi, the King Messiah, from Allah. Otherwise, superficial friendships are meaningless. For example, America and Israel are friends, but there has never been true friendship between them. There has never been a reliable climate. I mean, whether it be American Protestants or Orthodox or Catholics, the attitude toward Israel has never been of the kind we want to see, as set out in the hadiths and the Torah. This will be the very first time. People have to be realistic and strive to behave in a good manner befitting this fine age.
PROF. AVRAHAM DISKIN: In Israel, there is a lot of concern about the present regime in Iran, which seems to be very hostile to Israel, for instance not only denying the Holocaust of the Second World War but calling once again for the elimination of the state of Israel. I'd like to ask what Mr. Oktar thinks about it?
ADNAN OKTAR: These are empty dreams, of course. Such a thing will never ever happen. The Qur'an explicitly states that the Jews will live in and remain in Israel. Nobody can prevent that. Israel is destined to remain there. There is mutual interaction in Iran. There is a mass fixation with Iran. Shiite belief has this idea of the invisible Mahdi. [According to this belief] he has been lost for 1,000 years, and occasionally appears to a few people, and he tells them his ideas. That is what they believe. There is a notion of blood-shed in this kind of belief system. That is why they have these dreams of the elimination of Israel, of Israeli children hiding behind stones and trees, but the stones and trees will tell them they are hiding there, and they will also destroy them in a huge genocide. This is horrible and repellent, of course. It is a belief which is a sin for Muslims, it is murder. It is diametrically opposed to Islam and the Qur'an. Persecution is therefore never pleasing to Allah. It is again the Mahdi, the King Messiah, who will get rid of this false belief in Iran. There are such false beliefs in much of the Islamic world. I mean there are such false beliefs in Sunni creed as well. In other words, there are many bigots, many extremists who hold erroneous views, and want to butcher Alawites and Bektashis. That is why Allah is showing everyone that the King Messiah is essential if this bloodshed, persecution and cruelty are to disappear from the world. All these things will disappear in the time of the Mahdi, the King Messiah. If they say they attach no importance to this, then the antichrist will devastate the world. But if they do attach importance to the Mahdi, the King Messiah, then Allah will lift that scourge from them, and they will live in peace and security.
PROF. AVRAHAM DISKIN: Another issue which I think is exciting for all of us is what is called the "Arab Spring", and in Israel there is also a lot of sympathy toward those who looked for reforms throughout the Arab world, but there's also some concern that these hopes will not be fulfilled, and that we're going to have either once again brutal military regimes, or the rule not of peace-loving Muslims like Mr. Oktar, but all kinds of extreme Muslims which are more similar to those who conducted different terrorist attacks, including the 9/11 attacks just ten years ago, and I wonder if Mr. Oktar is hopeful of the future, or does he share our concern as well?
ADNAN OKTAR: They are telling the truth. Of course, the antichrist will be anywhere in which there is not the way of the Mahdi, of the Messiah. There will inevitably be pain and suffering. For example, the system in Libya and Iraq and other countries will become harsher because they encourage people to persecute and oppress one another. Cruel people are highly admired, in other words. That is the case in many parts of the world, just about everywhere. The way of the antichrist has taught people that. People who espouse bloodshed and want to inflict pain, suffering and unease are much admired. Good people are generally left lagging behind. This is the manifest signature of the age of the King Messiah. It is a clear sign that the King Messiah has come because the description in the Torah is exactly like this. We will now see peace in the age of the King Messiah, the Mahdi. People will see the power of Allah. Peace will rule the world, despite all these tyrants, murderers and despots. But it is of course very important for believers to pray to Allah and to act as one and support one another.
PROF. AVRAHAM DISKIN: Okay, you mentioned the Messiah etc. I have a couple of friends who I consider to be religious, believing in God, believing in Creation, and nevertheless they also believe in evolution, not in an atheistic way; but they believe evolution could have been there, and if you look back on the Creation by God. I know that this is a very heavy question, but I'd like to learn whether Mr. Oktar thinks that one can believe in God and believe in Creation, and also believe that evolution could have been there.
ADNAN OKTAR: Were evolution true, I would have supported it from the outset. Why deny it if it were a scientific fact. We would have said that Allah created through evolution. And that would have been entirely reasonable as well, because the sperm and the egg meet in the womb and assume various forms. Then a child is born, but the stages in between do not much resemble a child. Just like this system works, we could have then said that Allah created other living things with the same kind of system. But when we look rationally and scientifically, using all the means made available by science, we never encounter any evolution. Why deceive ourselves? There is no such thing. There are 350 million fossils, and there is not even one, single evidence that implies evolution, that points to evolution. All those 350 million fossils -may be more- prove Creation. We look at the structure of proteins. We ask all the evolutionists and scientists, but all of them scientifically.. We ask Buddhists and atheists. We ask whether these could have come about by chance. And they all say they could never, ever be the work of chance. What do they say? They say they must definitely have been created. They say that someone must have created them. Maybe entities from outer space, or something else [may Allah forbid]. But they say they are definitely the product of a superior intelligence. So it would be pointless to deceive ourselves when we know all these things.
PROF. AVRAHAM DISKIN: I know that Mr. Oktar published the first volume of the Atlas of Creation and I wonder if he plans to establish following volumes in the coming future?
ADNAN OKTAR: I have published three volumes. The fourth is ready, it is already being printed in Turkish. Work on volumes five and six is continuing. The work is very wide-ranging, and naturally takes a great deal of time.
PROF. AVRAHAM DISKIN: I apologize that I'm not updated.
ADNAN OKTAR: Estagfirullah.
PROF. AVRAHAM DISKIN: Okay, let me just say that I think that Mr. Oktar is one of the most interesting people with whom I've ever had the opportunity to talk to, and it really was a pleasure and a delight, and I really hope to have more opportunities to talk maybe in person during one of his visits to Israel, or maybe when I visit Turkey, so anyway I thank him very much for the opportunity.
ADNAN OKTAR: And thank you. It has been a pleasure. Insha'Allah, we will meet in Jerusalem. That is in any case essential. But I also hope to see you in Turkey. I send my respects and affection.
PROF. AVRAHAM DISKIN: Okay. Thank you very much.
ADNAN OKTAR: And thank you. Salam.
PROF. AVRAHAM DISKIN: Shalom, shalom.
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Henderson Auto Glass – What Should I know?
Simply put, this is glass that you would find in an automobile. Not too many know that in Henderson there are two major forms of auto glass. Each one is used on certain windows in the automobile. Both types of auto glass are more impact resistant and stronger than regular glass.
What Are the Different Kinds Of Windshield Replacement Henderson Services that are Available?
Laminated safety glass-this glass is generally used on a car's windshield. It is comprised of a couple of pieces of glass that has a slim layer of vinyl. The glass is then heated and pressed together in an autoclave, which is a type of oven. When this glass receives a tough impact it will shatter also but usually the shattered pieces will stick to the vinyl and not fall on the ground.
If the windshield just has a tiny vein or nick, the auto glass professional may be able to repair the tiny vein or nick to keep it from spreading further. The repair will generally take fewer than thirty minutes in Henderson. The vein or nick is cleaned thoroughly and dried. Resin is injected and a material like Mylar is used to hold it in place. The professional cures the resin by using an ultraviolet light.
How to Find the Right Windshield Replacement Contractor?
When there are windshield cracks the owner may be able to fix it themselves using a kit or have a professional auto glass technician do the job. The kit has all the tools that are necessary to fix the crack, including the resin. One thing to note is that these cracked windshield kits will only work on little holes or dings or thin small cracks. With larger cracks, they may not disappear no matter how many treatments are applied. For long or deep windshield cracks or ones that do not respond to treatment with the kit, should be taken to an auto glass repair shop to have the windshield replaced or fixed. When they look at it, they can tell you if it is repairable or needs to be replaced. Most insurance companies will take care of the repair or replacement.
• Once it has hardened you can remove the tool
• Check the crack to see if you need to repeat the treatment. If it is a deep crack, you may need to do it again.
• Once you are satisfied with the repair of the windshield cracks you should take a soft dry cloth and polish the area so the resin solution will match the glass around it as much as it can. If you were fixing a small crack it could become almost unrecognizable and appear new to the naked eye but if it is a large crack it could look slightly warped in the area where it was fixed.
What Should You Look For in a Windshield Service Specialist?
In today's society, many people have a very hectic lifestyle between work and family that it is hard to get some things done during other people's workday. For example, if you come out to get into your car to go to work and find that you have a broken or cracked windshield but have a full day of meetings that are going to last past the time the car window repair shop is open. In most states it is illegal to drive with a cracked or broken windshield so what are you going to do. In this case, you need to find shop that offers mobile windshield replacement. Not all shops offer this service, which is where a technician comes to your place of business or residence and replaces the windshield. In addition to replacing a broken or cracked windshield, the technician can try to fix the crack with resin and smoothed out until you can no longer see the damage.
With a cracked windshield, there is a possibility of having a serious accident if the glass collapses before you can get it fixed. In many instances, your car insurance will cover mobile windshield replacement or repair without paying a deductible. Take the time when you get to your office, call a repair shop, and make an appointment to come to your place of business to take care of the problem.
To make sure that your insurance company will pay for this service you should call them before making an appointment to have your windshield fixed. It is very easy to submit a claim for this service. Once you have found out if the service is covered or not, let the insurance company know that you have windshield damage. There are usually no forms to fill out. Once this is done, you call and schedule an appointment to have this taken care of.
When you call the repair shop they will ask for the model and make of your car so they will bring the correct windshield to your place of business or residence to fix the problem. Once the technician arrives at your place of business, they will let you know they are there. After looking at the windshield, the first thing that the technician does is remove the outer lining around the windshield. Then special suction cups are attached to the windshield to lift it up and remove it. The broken windshield is put into the repair truck and a new one is put back in the same way it was removed. Once the windshield is replaced and set in place, your car is ready to drive. The process will usually take no more than fifteen to thirty minutes to complete.


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Route 14
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- Route 14 in Kanto, between Kanto Route 13 and Kanto Route 15
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April 30, 2007 by Lifepainter
Part 1 of this story and phase;
Our neighbor, who grew up in this fishing village of Bay Center, stops by from time to time when we are working outside and shares some stories with us about the old days in this community. We know then, that he was a child growing up when the second P.O. (previous owner) of this house lived here and their son was growing up. So our neighbor knows the son who inherited this old place. Son wasn't able to keep it and it was sold out from under him (sounds more like almost 'stolen'). Son lived his entire life with his parents, and then his mother when the parents divorced late in life. Son was what would be called in this day and age perhaps somewhat developmentally challenged.
We invited neighbor in to take a look at the house and tell us what he remembers about it back in the day – in it's more original condition. Neighbor, btw, is rather shy, and it has taken a few years to build up a neighborly over the fence relationship with him, so we are happy to learn the bits and pieces he is willing to share of the old history of this community. Remembering that he himself was a child when he visited P.O. son, and he tells us they were infrequent visits inside this house, he does remember some things about the layout. Neighbor has an interesting adult life history, and is a commercial oyster farmer, knows about boats, the Bay and the River and knows that P.O. was a barge/boat builder so knows a bit about construction back in that day.
All this is lead up to explain how we learned about the wood floors in our house. Well at least the stairs and upstairs flooring. Since I tore out the decades old 70s era brown shag carpet that covered the stairs and upstairs hall flooring, we are left with some major clean up and I still haven't come up with a decision for how to go; try to restore via sand and stain; paint and forget it or some other variances on either of those plans. After giving our neighbor a tour, I have renewed respect for the wood flooring.
He explains that it is 'quarter sawn' wood. What's that we ask. Wellllll, he says…. and explains that back in those days they cut the hardwood trees, sank them in the mud to let them cure (harden – petrify) and then took them to be sawed for use in building homes, boats, floors, etc.. This process of 'quarter sawn', he explains was considered wasteful since a quarter sawn strip of lumber has no knotholes and is cut in a particular way with the grain of the wood. The process then leaves behind waste pieces of wood. After the wood is given it's mud bath, it has become so hardened that it broke too many saws and in time sawmills refused to cut this kind of wood.
Wow! So guess this wood ain't going anywhere and will probably last another lifetime. Neighbor showed us how to look down the wood planks and notice the grain and no knotholes of any kind the entire length. We did and we noticed what he was pointing out, which we wouldn't have noticed or appreciated if he hadn't shared (with almost a reverence) the nature of the quarter sawn wood process.
He also explained how the nails had to be driven in a most certain way on an angle so as not to split the wood down it's length. Well, guess if they could get nails hammered in, the wood can't be too petrified, or perhaps so petrified, it splits? I don't know, just trying to understand based on neighbor's explanation. He said, btw, that to this day he knows where some of those trees are still sunk in mud, but he's not telling where. Guess he'll go to his grave knowing where they are and not telling.
Part 2 of this story and phase;
Recently, we were invited to give a presentation at a conference in the Eastern part of our state, so we made the 7 hour drive and met up with a colleague who had rented a B&B place to stay for couple of nights. Okay – sounds sweet, eh? The Eastern part of our state is primarily agriculture so it is miles and miles of scenery that can be plateaus of the Columbia Basin, rolling hills of the Palouse, the fruit orchards of the Yakima area, and flat scrub brush in areas located in the neighborhood of Hanford Nuclear Plant. Thus, there are a lot of generational family farmers (and I'd guess a fair amount of new 'corporate' farms).
As it turns out, we got a bit lost trying to locate the B & B. Not lost as in lost in the city, but lost on an old country lane that went from pavement to gravel to no outlet, with only a few fairly run down and delapidated houses along the way. I was feeling fairly insecure that if one of these houses was to be the B & B, I was going to have a shaky night and we might need to look for a hotel in town. Husband made a call to the owners, got directions and then got us on the right road to the B & B. It was still a country road, that went from pavement to gravel, and there were few and far between old farmhouses. But we found 'our' farmhouse, rented out at B & B by the owners, who were Professors at the University and also 'worked' the land, so it was called a working farmhouse B & B. The owners, btw, don't live at the farmhouse, and have a place in town, or maybe they stay in town when the house is rented out, I'm not sure how that works.
But, here is what does work. It is an old farmhouse – and I like what the owners have done with it, partly restored, partly rehabbed and the decor is pretty much strictly antiques and collectibles so it retains a feel of a farmhouse in the late 1800s, early 1900s. Except for the kitchen which retains it's 1970s upgrade….too bad, but it was a big kitchen and with a few restorations or reworking it, could quickly lose it's 1970s identity.
One of the magazines on the coffee table was a big hardback book with lots of great photos about Architecture of Old Farmhouses. I was fascinated and gobbling up the information. It seems that back in the day, what could have started as a humble one or two room dwelling would be added onto as family demands (and family prosperity) grew. So architecturally the style of the day might be added to the style of yesteryear, thereby compromising the definitiveness of architectural style. And 'saltbox' style became quite popular but is not in itself a 'style' as much as it points to an add on to the existing structure thereby altering the roof line.
Well, there you go – our house then, doesn't really don't have any kind of singular architectural style, could be in the classification of a farmhouse, but not exactly, and I tend to call it more the style of the homes of the martimers who lived and fished here. Mr. Bachau, who added elegance to the straightforward style, sheaved the sharp ends at each corner of the roof, added a turret/cupola to the upstairs level, and added bump out bay windows to the street side of the house and the back kitchen. It appears the kitchen is a bump out from the house (an added bump out kitchen was not uncommon, per our neighbor, to the houses built here way back when).
Sheaving the ends of the roof line, our neighbor explained was done to reduce the rotting of the corner ends from the moisture, rains and sea storms that roll in off the Bay, off the Pacific Ocean. I had shown him the photos I have of the original house and the roof line is pitched at both ends. Which is why he explained what he explained about shearing the roofline corners.
After the Bachau's lived their lives in this house, and she died, and Son inherited the house and wound up 'selling' it to the next owner. The house was what is called pier and block, and had no basement. Next P.O. dug out a basement under the house, bricked up the basement and poured a concrete floor, and added a carport where once were the two beautiful bay windows Mr. Bachau added to the house. We learned that owner lived about 20 years in the house (or less but much longer than we had been given to understand).
He sold it and now the next P.O. added a bump out to the bumped out kitchen, and a bump out on pier and block (no basement) to create a main floor bathroom. Incidentally, the original house had no bathroom, had an outhouse, and the main floor bathroom had to be plumbed, there was no upstairs bathroom and the last P.O. created a room and had plumbing done for upstairs bathroom.
Definitely then, this house fits the definitions of what constitutes an old farmhouse to the degree that the book I was reading defined architecture styles passing along through the generations. But our great old house no longer has it's front porch. A situation I hope to remedy and have a front porch built and added, because I want the old rocking chairs and to be able to sit out on the porch.
What else I learned from reading the book (and looking at the photos) was that some homeowners prefer to restore elements of their house to it's original architecture, ie, primitive stairways with high risers, architectural columns, beadboarded walls, heavy wood paneling (no, not the 70s stuff), panel doors, ah, memory fails me here, but the list is lengthy. And glory be, I found a photo of an exact staircase bannister as is in our house. It seems that is a deliberate design, how it curves at the top of the stairs. Also that the newel post at the bottom of the stairs is by design Greek Gothic and all I've ever thought was that is was primitive in look.
Enough of a post, and some of our next projects I'm considering are to remove the plasterboard that was put up on the walls as part of second owners 'rehab' to get back to original plank walls — maybe, as I need to do a bit more research before we start tearing out plasterboard. I can see from some of the original closets that were not rehabbed or upgraded the wallpaper (which is linen btw) and a tear shows the plank walls behind the wallpaper.
Our trip to the Eastern part of the state then brought me home with fresh ideas, renewed love for our old house, and while we went to give a presentation on an entirely different matter, I came home with renewed mental energy to look at this house with fresh eyes or new perspective of it's valued old history.


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This time of year, Ceola Clark lets his mind take him back, back to the good old days when March Madness brought mostly happiness.
The former Warren basketball star likes to reminisce with old teammates about the days of sectional championship battles at Waukegan, and of hopeful marches to the supersectional.
With Clark leading the way, Warren was Lake Countys perennial power. The Blue Devils played in four sectionals and advanced to two supersectionals during his four-year career from 2004 to 2007.
I was just talking the other day with (former Warren standout) Marvin Bembry about some of our games back then, Clark said. It brings back a lot of memories about being on a successful team in March and being part of a winning program.
Its cool that Im finally part of a winning program at Western, too.
The 6-foot-3 Clark is the starting point guard, top playmaker and best 3-point shooter at Western Illinois, which is 19-7 and in the midst of one of its best seasons in recent memory.
With wins over Kansas City and South Dakota in their final two games, the Leathernecks would earn at least a share of the Summit League title. Then it would be on to next weeks conference tournament with a top seed and high hopes of earning the leagues automatic NCAA tournament bid, not to mention the programs first ticket to the big dance in about 25 years.
Last year, Western Illinois came oh-so-close to breaking through, losing in the Summit League championship game in overtime by two points. For Clark, the disappointment of that shortcoming brought back some of his other March memories. The not-so-happy ones.
The two times we got to the supersectional when I was at Warren, we didnt make it downstate. We lost to Glenbrook North with Jon Scheyer (who went on to play at Duke) and we lost to Stevenson at the Sears Centre, Clark said. That feeling of being right there, so close to state, that was so hard. Thats what I felt last year. We were so close to the NCAA tournament and it just slipped away.
Thats a big regret for me, and I dont want to have any regrets when I leave (Western Illinois). Its one of the main reasons I came back to Western for this last year. I want to put Western on the map.
For the longest time, though, Clark wasnt sure hed get the chance.
He was stuck in NCAA red-tape limbo for weeks last spring, waiting to hear if his petition for a sixth year of eligibility would be granted.
Clark was being tormented from all directions. The wait was brutal, but so was the empty feeling in his stomach. Not making the NCAA tournament last year wasnt the only thing that had left him feeling incomplete. Same could be said for his entire career.
Clark has weathered two significant injuries that have kept him off the floor for two full seasons.
Last year was Clarks fifth year at Western Illinois, yet only his third full season as a healthy athlete. He was hoping and praying that hed get one more season to play ball a sixth year to complete the four seasons he had originally signed up for.
It was very stressful because I applied for the sixth year last March and I didnt hear until May, Clark said. The NCAA would come back and need more paperwork or something else. Each and every day, I was wondering if I would be coming back or if I was done.
I really wanted to keep playing because I had worked so hard to get my game back.
Clark first came to Western Illinois for the 2007-08 season and got right to work, turning heads in preseason practices and pushing the older, veteran guards for immediate playing time. But in the Leathernecks first exhibition game, Clark tore up his knee so badly that every ligament but one needed to be surgically repaired.
He returned the following season as a redshirt freshman and led Western Illinois in steals, tallying the ninth most steals for a single season in school history. During the next season as a sophomore, he was named the Summit Leagues defensive player of the year.
Then, Clark got cut off at the knees again by his toe.
A severely dislocated toe kept him out of all but six games of the following season, the 2010-11 campaign.
Sometimes, when I was injured, I wondered if I should even be playing anymore, Clark said. Maybe I wasnt meant to keep playing. But Im a big believer in God and I prayed about it. The trainers and conditioning coaches really worked on me so I could have a chance.
Last year, healthy again, Clark earned his second Summit League defensive player of the year award and was also named second-team all-conference.
Now, in his final run, Clark is averaging 11.7 points per game, which is second-best on the team. He leads Western Illinois with 56 3-pointers and ranks third in the Summit League with 4.2 assists per game.
Passing the ball is his favorite part of the game, just like it was at Warren.
I like it when Im able to get everyone involved and when I can be a leader, said Clark, who averaged about 13 points and 6 assists per game as a senior at Warren. I want the coaches to be able to trust me to run the offense and run the team and I want the guys to be able to look to me to set things up and lead.
I think I could do all those things really well at the next level.
Clark, who got his degree in business with a minor in marketing and has been in graduate school for more than a year now, should be in good shape when its time to settle down into a real job. But for now, he has his sights set on more basketball.
Playing the last two years without an injury has energized him and left him thirsting for more. He would love to work out for an NBA team, but is also intrigued about the possibility of playing professionally overseas.
I might not play against top-tier competition on a daily basis, but I think I can compete with those guys if someone gives me a chance, Clark said.
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About 1.5 million strollers made by Graco Children's Products are being recalled after reports of children's fingers being cut when the canopy is opening or closing. The recalled strollers are Graco's Passage, Alano and Spree strollers and travel systems.
They were made in China and sold at Babies "R" Us, Toys "R" Us, Kmart, Fred Meyer, Sears, Target, Walmart, Meijers, AAFES, Navy Exchange, Burlington Coat Factory and other retailers for between $80 and $90 for the strollers and between $150 and $200 for the travel systems.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall Wednesday morning after Graco received seven reports of children being injured when their fingers got caught in canopy hinge as it was being opened or closed. Two children's fingers were cut and there were five reports of children losing their fingertips.
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The recalled strollers were manufactured between October 2004 and February 2008. The manufacture date and model number can be found on the lower inside portion of the rear frame, just above the rear wheels.
Graco made two styles of hinges for the strollers. Those on the strollers being recalled are plastic, jointed hinges with indented notches for positioning the canopy. For a complete list of the model numbers of recalled strollers and travel systems, visit the CPSC's Web site at http://www.cpsc.gov/.
Anyone with a recalled stroller should stop using it and contact Graco at 800-345-4109 to receive a free protective cover repair kit. The company's Web site is http://www.gracobaby.com/.
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Vacation Bible school (VBS) is a great blessing because it gives the church an opportunity to do what the Lord has called her to doproclaim the excellences of our life-giving Lord, fellowship with one another, edify God's people for growth and service, nurture our covenant children, and worship the Lord.
For the pastor, it provides an opportunity to do the work of an evangelist and be personally involved in teaching and equipping disciples. What a joy it is to go door-to-door with the children of the church and eyeball them during a lesson! For all the teachers and helpers, VBS opens a door for witness to the gospel, which is the power of God for salvation. It gives covenant young people an opportunity to invite friends and neighborhood children who are without Christ and have no church affiliation to hear the gospel, with the prayer that they might trust in Christ alone for salvation.
VBS is a blessing because, though we are weak, our hope and strength are in our strong God, who is able to save young people and cause them to mature in him.
When I was a tenth grader, growing up at Covenant OPC in Pittsburgh, I helped my mother in her beginners' class of fifty children by sitting amongst the children, assisting with their crafts, getting to know them, and helping to organize recess. The next year I was moved to my father's junior class, where I taught the children memory work and reviewed their workbook with them. The next year I was given an opportunity to teach lessons.
Similarly now at Faith Church in Pole Tavern, New Jersey, we often find young people taking on more responsibility as they get older and more mature. Thus, gifts are developed incrementally, and usefulness is increased in the context of the example, guidance, and encouragement of other teachers. So in VBS, not only are the children who are students being nurtured and evangelized, but covenant young people are being trained for effective service in the body of Christ.
Why all the effort? We want to serve and worship the Lord, and we long for children and their families who are not serving him to be changed and give God the glory that he deserves. Jesus Christ came to seek and save that which was lost. The Father is seeking worshipers for his name. During VBS, we join our heart with the mission of the Father and the Son to seek sheep who are lost and to nurture lambs of the fold.
With the apostle Paul, we are willing to go through the challenges of preparation, planning, distributing invitations, and doing follow-up visitation in homes for the sake of those who are chosen, that they may obtain the salvation that God has prepared for them. Our sharing of the gospel is the means God uses to bring his own to himself, so that they may enjoy this salvation (2 Tim. 2: 9-10). VBS is a wonderful avenue for the announcement of this gospel. To God be the glory.
The author is the pastor at Faith OPC in Pole Tavern, N.J. Reprinted from New Horizons, March 2006.
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With time running short to keep the NFL's preseason intact, owners and players got into another long round of labor talks Thursday, trying to break the impasse that has kept the league shut down for four months.
Each group turned out in force for the latest negotiations at a Manhattan law firm, and for the second straight day discussions stretched into the evening.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and eight of the 10 members of the owners' labor committee were present, including Jerry Jones of the Dallas Cowboys and John Mara of the New York Giants. Two new participants Thursday were Green Bay Packers CEO Mark Murphy and San Diego Chargers owner Dean Spanos.
NFL Players Association chief DeMaurice Smith and a half-dozen current or former players also were there, including Indianapolis Colts center Jeff Saturday, Baltimore Ravens defensive back Domonique Foxworth, and Giants defensive end Osi Umenyiora. Umenyiora is one of 10 player plaintiffs in a federal antitrust lawsuit against the league.
The NFL locked out players in March, after negotiations broke down and the old collective bargaining agreement expired, and now the preseason is fast approaching. With each passing day, the need to arrive at a deal to end the NFL's first work stoppage since 1987 becomes greater.
The Hall of Fame game that opens the exhibition season is scheduled for Aug. 7 between the St. Louis Rams and Chicago Bears, who hope to be able to start training camp at the end of next week. Yet camps will not open without a new CBA in place.
Talks gained steam in May, overseen by a court-appointed mediator, U.S. Magistrate Judge Arthur Boylan, who is on vacation this week. Boylan ordered both sides to meet with him in Minneapolis early next week, and the owners have a special meeting set for next Thursday in Atlanta, where they potentially could ratify a new deal — if one is reached by then.
Even once an agreement in principle on the core economic issues is drawn up, there will be more work to be done. That's because there are certain issues that won't be addressed in full until after the NFLPA re-establishes itself as a union — a process that might take a couple of days — and can then serve once again as a collective bargaining unit for the players.
Items that could fall under that umbrella include the league's drug-testing program, health insurance, retired players' pensions and other benefits, none of which is likely to be resolved completely while the union is still dissolved.
There's also a chance the players could pursue a lockout injunction for rookies and free agents after an appeals court ruled last week that the work stoppage could continue.
Disruptions to the planned preseason schedule would decrease the overall revenue pie. While the parameters for how to divide the more than $9 billion in annual league revenues have been sketched out, there are other sticking points still under discussion, including a rookie salary system and free agency guidelines.
The owners want longer rookie contracts and have been seeking more right-of-first-refusal tags for unrestricted free agents. The players want to get back to free agency rules similar to 2009, when a four-year veteran whose contract expired was unrestricted. That minimum shifted to six years in 2010, when there was no salary cap because owners already had declared they were opting out of the old CBA.
This week's talks in New York began Monday with two days of meetings involving primarily lawyers. Wednesday's face-to-face session was attended by Goodell, Smith, owners and players went nearly 11 hours.
As Wednesday's meeting was beginning, star quarterbacks Tom Brady, Peyton Manning and Drew Brees — plaintiffs in the players' antitrust suit against the NFL — issued a joint statement saying "it is time" to wrap up negotiations.
"We believe the overall proposal made by the players is fair for both sides and it is time to get this deal done," they said. "This is the time of year we as players turn our attention to the game on the field. We hope the owners feel the same way."
In response, the NFL issued a statement saying: "We share the view that now is the time to reach an agreement so we can all get back to football and a full 2011 season. We are working hard with the players' negotiating team every day to complete an agreement as soon as possible."
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With time running short to keep the NFL's preseason intact, owners and players got into another long round of labor talks Thursday, trying to break the impasse that has kept the league shut down for four months.


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Courgette, potato & cheddar soup
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- fat6g
- saturates3g
- carbs14g
- sugars3g
- fibre2g
- protein7g
- salt1.31g
- 500g potato, unpeeled and roughly chopped
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Put the potatoes in a large pan with just enough water to cover them and crumble in the stock cubes. Bring to the boil, then cover and cook for 5 mins. Add the courgettes, put the lid back on and cook for 5 mins more. Throw in the spring onions, cover and cook for a final 5 mins.
Take off the heat, then stir in the cheese and season with the nutmeg, salt and pepper. Whizz to a thick soup, adding more hot water until you get the consistency you like. Serve scattered with extra grated cheddar, spring onions and nutmeg or pepper. Or cool and freeze in freezer bags or containers with good lids for up to 3 months.


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At Pine View, 15 teenagers keep the equipment online and running, a role that prepares them for future careers in technology.
They are the adolescent Geek Squad.
Young, savvy, computer experts.
The group of 15 teenagers often do the grunt work to keep the equipment online and running at Pine View School, which has not only the most technology but also the oldest devices in Sarasota County schools, says the group's technology and testing coordinator Lyna Jimenez-Ruiz.
On campus, the teenagers get noticed, their statuses' suddenly elevated, when a teacher has a technology meltdown or a friend has an iPhone problem.
"You are able to give something. You get more respect," said Katriana Dubytz, 17, who spent all summer working on the school's computers.
In the tech support class, the Pine View students install software, prep computers for FCAT testing or update smart boards. They're the ones who answer teachers' questions, a reverse role for the students.
The teenagers cannot laugh when that mysterious computer malfunction ends up being something as simple as an unplugged cord, which happens more than you might think.
The students get something out of it, too. For them, it is practicing what they love.
As children, many stayed up all night playing computer games or figuring out how to build their own equipment from scratch. Their future majors in college will likely be computer science or engineering.
"I actually get to learn about something I'm interested in. I like technology. I like fixing technology," said senior Thomas Pring, 18, of Sarasota.
They respond to 300 requests a week for help, free labor at a time when the district anticipates tight financial times ahead.
Pine View's list of ever-breaking, needs a tune-up equipment includes 1,502 laptops and desktops, 125 digital cameras, 124 smart boards and 26 scanners.
The students' rewards are popcorn or sweets, especially from the elementary teachers' stash.
But not all are so appreciative.
On a recent day, a class of 18 second-graders and their teacher ignored Henry Gordon, 16, as he fixed some stubborn computers.
Henry, dressed in dark jeans, a striped shirt and Adidas sneakers, waited as the four laptops reloaded. The desk of computers seemed out of place in the classroom, full of cutsy things, like smiling snowmen cutouts on the wall.
When the computers were fixed — their frozen screens working properly again — Henry left, quietly, while the teacher did not even look up. Not everybody says thank you to the help.
"Sometimes the teachers aren't always on your side," said Henry, a junior from Siesta Key.
But for the students, it's on-the-job training how to be polite, how to deal with a teacher whose blood pressure is rising when a computer breaks down in the middle of class.
At least, the tech students have their own teacher who will listen.
"If you need to vent, you come here with me," Ruiz said. "It won't go out of the four walls."


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Who do you think will win the 2020 presidential election?YouGov/Economist poll
The vote expectation question asks people who they expect to win the election. The aggregate responses of these citizen forecasts are then used as a forecast of who will win the election. If data on historical elections are available, one can convert the aggregate responses to popular vote-share forecasts. Although vote expectation surveys have been around at least as long as scientific polling, they have long been overlooked as a method for forecasting election outcomes.
Accuracy of citizen forecasts
One study compared the accuracy of citizen forecasts to forecasts from polls, prediction markets, quantitative models, and expert judgment. Across the last 100 days prior to the seven US presidential elections from 1988 to 2012, citizens' vote expectations provided more accurate forecasts of election winners and vote shares than each of the four established methods. Compared with polls, vote expectations reduced the error of vote-share predictions by 51%. Compared with prediction markets, error was reduced by 6%. In other words, citizen forecasts appear to be the most accurate individual method for forecasting US presidential elections available to date (Graefe, 2014).
Citizen forecasts in the PollyVote
PollyVote added citizen forecasts as a new component method for forecasting the 2016 election. An ex post analysis of previous elections showed that citizen forecasts would have further increased the accuracy of the combined PollyVote forecast. Across the last 90 days prior to the six elections from 1992 to 2012, adding vote expectations to the PollyVote would have reduced the error of the original Pollyvote by 7%.
Translation of citizen forecasts to vote-share forecasts
Responses to the vote expectation questions cannot be directly used as vote-share forecasts. In order to translate the results to forecasts of the vote shares, Graefe (2014) estimated a vote equation based on 217 surveys conducted between 1932 and 2012. Here is the updated equation, including data from the 2016 election:
where V is the actual two-party popular vote share of the incumbent party and
E is the two-party percentage of survey respondents that expect the incumbent party candidate to win. That is, the incumbent starts out with 41.4% of the vote, plus a share that depends on people's expectations. If respondents expect the incumbent to win increases by 10 percent, the incumbent's vote share increases by 1.6 percentage points.
The model reveals the strong degree of partisanship among US voters. As noted by Campbell,
"no matter how bad the campaign goes for a party, it can count on receiving about 40 percent of the two-party vote; no matter how well a campaign goes for a party, it will receive no more than about 60 percent of the two-party vote."James E. Campbell
The vote equation reflects this as it predicts that the incumbent would receive at least 41 percent of the vote, even if nobody expected him to win the election (E = 0). Conversely, if all survey respondents expected the incumbent to win (E = 1), the model would predict the incumbent to receive at maximum about 57 percent of the vote.
For example, a YouGov/Economist survey conducted from May 3-5, 2020, found that % of respondents expected the Trump to win, whereas % expected Biden to win. Entering these figures into the vote equation above leads to a forecast for Trump's two-party vote share of %. Note that you can adjust the figures in the green highlighted cells to see how the citizen forecast would change depending on the survey results.
Graefe, A. (2014). Accuracy of vote expectation surveys in forecasting elections. Public Opinion Quarterly, 78(S1), 204-232.


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