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You've Gotta Believe (5 of 5) by James Merritt
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James Merritt
Hebrews 11:1-6
1. One of the most exciting events in track and field is the relay races. It takes a combination of speed, timing, precision, and teamwork in order for a relay team to be victorious. The suspense is so great, because in an individual race the fastest person always wins. But in a relay race, the fastest team can lose if one thing happens-they fail to pass the baton.
2. Any track coach will tell you that relay races are won or lost in the transfer of the baton. There is that critical moment when all can be lost by a fumble or a slight miscalculation. If, for whatever reason, the baton is dropped and not properly transferred, the race is lost.
3. Dr. James Dobson, who is now the most listened to Christian voice in the world today, once said: ''According to the Christian values which govern my life, my most important reason for living is to get the baton-the gospel-safely in the hands of my children.''
4. Both as a dad and a pastor, I could not agree more with that statement, and that is why I believe the first lesson parents must teach their children is: ''You've Gotta Believe.'' Parents, we must pass the baton of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ to the next generation, or everything else we do is a failure.
5. Physical life begins with birth, but it ends with death. Spiritual life begins with faith, but it never ends. For Jesus said: ''Whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die.'' (Jn. 11:26)
6. The first principle parents should teach their children is the principle of faith, and the first truth that they must teach their children is that real life begins with faith in God. The author of Hebrews gives us the defining truth of faith, and tells us what we need to know and what our children need to learn about faith.
I. The Way Faith Is Described
1. ''Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.'' (v.1) This is not a definitio ...
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Homestead Hydro Power: Build Your Own Water-Power Plant
Harness the power of your stream and forget the electric company. This is the first of three installments of the five-part article printed by Popular Science that very concisely sketched out every step for establishing a small water-power plant on a farm or homestead.
Weir method of measuring flow. More trouble than the float method, this gives somewhat more accurate results. It is especially useful in shallow streams, or if a dam is already present.

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Pulaski County Sheriff Michael Gayer told WKVI that the Pulaski County Sheriff's Department has had many calls concerning missing people; specifically those with Alzheimers, Dementia and Autism. The Sheriff would like to start a registry and have individual profiles on file at the Sheriff's Department so if your loved one is missing, he/she can be located easily.
Those who have family members who are prone to wandering from home and who may cause danger to themselves are urged to take a recent photo of the family member; take a photograph of any accessible vehicles; submit information concerning height, weight, hair color, eye color, age and any distinguishing characteristics; and a list of possible locations where the person may wander.
Sheriff Gayer assured us that this information will be kept confidential and only used in the event your loved one is missing. For more information, call the Sheriff's Department at (574) 946-6655.


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One of the standards used in determining what was/is legal and what is not is what a reasonable and prudent person would think or do.
The first question asked is "Was the officer/person legally there or conducting a legal activity in the first place?" If the answer to that question is no then everything after that is a mute point. It does not make a bit of difference how good your intentions are if you fail that first question you are done.
Places that are posted have to have certain signage and so on agree with that but in theory the fact that the theatre implied or posted their intentions "could"have a legal holding if anything ever happened and a firearm was used. My home state the signs have force of law and I respect the businesses right to post their property. As I have stated my right to carry does not trample their right to say what comes on their property.
If you don't want to go there because the business is posted don't go it is that simple. If you choose to carry in a posted place and are put in a position to use your firearm, justified or not, you can/will go to jail as you fail the first part of the test it is simple as that.


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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – The end of a long-running political crisis for Malaysia's opposition has opened up new wounds after a sultan took the unprecedented step of choosing a candidate who was not proposed by the majority alliance in the nation's richest state.
The sultan's rejection of the wife of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim as chief minister of Selangor state sets an undemocratic precedent at a time when authorities are carrying out the biggest crackdown on dissent in years, analysts said.
The months-long crisis in Selangor, the opposition's biggest prize in recent election gains against the long-ruling national coalition, has exposed deep rifts in Anwar's three-party alliance, raising doubts over whether it can stay intact.
It began when the conservative PAS party that is part of the opposition refused to support Anwar's party's move to sack the former chief minister over accusations of incompetence and graft.
The top state official, Khalid Ibrahim, refused to accept the sacking and clung to power, backed by the ruling coalition and PAS.
Azmin Ali kisses the hands of his mother, Che Tom Yahaya, 79, to seek blessings after being appointed as the new Chief Minister of Selangor – BERNAMA
The sultan, one of nine hereditary state rulers in Malaysia, played an interventionist role in the crisis, with the palace publicly rebuking Anwar at one point. On Tuesday, the sultan appointed Azmin Ali, the deputy president of Anwar's party, as the new chief minister.
The palace denied the sultan had interfered in the process and said Azmin was the only candidate with support across opposition ranks.
But Anwar's party said in a statement the sultan's decision had breached the Selangor constitution and the "principle of parliamentary democracy".
Modelled on the constitutional monarchy of former colonial master Britain, the sultans have a formal role of appointing candidates chosen by the majority in the state assembly. Anwar's politician wife, Wan Azizah, had the backing of the majority of state legislative members.
"This will create a very dangerous precedent about the concept of constitutional monarchy in the country," said Wan Saiful Wan Jan, chief executive of the Institute for Democratic and Economic Affairs.
The sultan's heavy hand in the Selangor crisis comes as police and prosecutors clamp down on dissent in the Southeast Asian nation with a flurry of arrests and charges under a colonial-era anti-sedition law.
Of more than a dozen cases in recent months, five have involved comments critical of sultans.
"The Sultan owes the public an explanation on reasons why he deviated from the constitution," said Maria Chin Abdullah, the head of electoral reform group Bersih.
Although Selangor remains under the control of the opposition, the wrangling has left the alliance more divided than ever and also widened a fissure within PAS between religious conservatives and moderates.
The multi-ethnic opposition has made gains in the past two general elections, eroding the once dominant majority of the National Front, but its momentum has stalled due to internal strife.
Its predicament could worsen late next month when the charismatic Anwar, its unifying figure, faces a final appeal of his sentence in March to five years jail on charges of sodomy.


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Kelly Olynyk redshirts to become main catalyst for surging Gonzaga
Joyce Park stashed this in The Sporting Life
Stashed in: Basketball
Zags center Kelly Olynyk took an unusual path to becoming a top big. He entered Gonzaga still playing like the 6'3" guard he had been through most of high school, and redshirted as a junior to grow into his new 7-foot body and the post game it commanded. Now he might be leading the Bulldogs into the Final Four. Go Zags!
So the Big Man is the reason Gonzaga is SO much better this year than last?
Well the Zags have been to the dance 14 straight years in a row... usually one and done, but not bad.
We have a bug with Wikipedia links; here's your link: Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball.
March Madness is so unpredictable BECAUSE of one and done, but a lot of people think the Zags will go deep this year.
They do have a lot of confidence going into March.


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Will the last capitalist in America please turn out the lights?
How surreal. Less than ten weeks to go remain in the most entertaining presidential election campaign in recent decades. Yet right here in the United States of America, capitalism is reeling. It's under attack by a bunch of socialist bankers and the politicians whom they've purchased to represent their interests (and are themselves hoping for a nice up tick in the stock market before voters head to the polls in November).
By now you know that over the weekend the U.S. Treasury Department placed America's two largest housing lenders into conservatorship. Treasury will pump about $1 billion each into each company and get preferred equity in exchange. The government also gets warrants that would give it nearly 80% ownership of both firms. It will probably take at least another US$200 billion in new money to keep them solvent.
It's already clear, though, that U.S. taxpayers have 100% of the risk. Fannie and Freddie were too big to fail, apparently. The question now is whether this short-term nationalization will lead to the failure of any other large U.S. institutions (like the dollar or U.S. Treasury bonds). More on that in a moment.
For its part, the stock market (the global one) absolutely loved the deal. After half a trillion dollars in losses by global lenders, markets love the idea that the worst might be over. Most financials rallied. Even the U.S. dollar is stronger, which seems a bit strange considering that the U.S. government just added US$5.3 trillion in liabilities to its balance sheet.
But here is the theme resounding on the pages of today's papers: the U.S. is ahead of the curve! The U.S. has had its slower growth, weaker currency, massive housing meltdown, and lived to tell about it. Now, with Fannie and Freddie taken into Uncle Sam's bosom, America is ahead in the global game.
That's the theme anyway. It's probably true with respect to a country like Britain, whose currency continues to plummet and whose house prices won't be far behind. Yet you don't get the feeling that America's fiscal position was substantially improved by this weekend's action. The responsibility for the losses was simply transferred from a pseudo-public balance sheet to a very public balance sheet. How is that good for the dollar in the long run?
It isn't. But in the meantime, the other losers this weekend are those financial institutions who owned preferred equity in the GSEs. The common shareholders never had any rights (and the recent ones, no common sense either). But according to the FDIC and there, "while many institutions hold common or preferred shares of these two government-sponsored enterprises, a limited number of smaller institutions have holdings that are significant compared to their capital."
These smaller lenders are, ahem, screwed. The government intends to work with them on "capital restoration plans." But if you thought this event signalled the end of the losses, think again. There will be more bank failures, and they will happen soon.
What about bondholders in China and Japan? They'll be alright. We don't know exactly how it will work. But somehow we reckon those GSE bonds will end up on the Federal Reserve's balance sheet, in exchange for fresh new U.S. Treasauries (issued by the Treasury Department). In other words, we reckon the GSE bonds will be monetized.
Exactly how THIS is good for the dollar, well, you figure that one out. We can't. However, we're not going to stand in the way of a big relief rally. More on the story as it unfolds.
Out here in Colorado where the energy boom keeps on keeping on, we notice that U.S. firm Conoco Phillips has offered US$8 billon for half of Origin Energy's coal-seam-gas assets in Queensland. Good on ya, Conoco!
We may not have finanicials to kick around anymore, but we'll always have energy as a secular investment theme. We hope Conoco had some back-channel conversations with the Queensland government about the futures of CSM before it ponied up its cash. But Conoco may just be trying to get rid of spare cash before it's stolen away in a windfall oil tax scheme by the next U.S. administration. Either way, from uranium to coal to LNG, it's a good time to be an energy invnestor in Australian projects.
You editor will do his best to stay in contact this week before leaving for Sydney on Thursday. We arrive Sunday for a mining show at the Hilton. But in the last week, we spent four days in Annapolis, Maryland with about 80 of our global publishing colleagues.
The Agora publishing family is truly global now, and it was good to hear how others are faring in such a tough market. Mainly, we wanted to know what sentiment was like in other markets and what customers were expecting in today's very competitive market.
About the only upbeat folks was the team from India. They are as excited as can be over what's ahead. They managed to get us excited too! India shares at least one quality with Australia (in investment terms): there are more good stocks than there are analaysts to tip them. That's precsiely the kind of advantage you want as an independent investor willing to do your own research.
By the way, it would be hard to see the Fannie and Freddie nationalisation as anything other than a massive official back-pedal from the free market. Maybe we are entering a new era of less free trade, higher taxes, and more nationalisations. The government backlash against globalisation could last for awhile. Capitalism is in retreat. Hmmmn.
Dan Denning
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Stan Loo, Jon Dworkin and I had driven up and for the first time we were not the only gamers from New York City in attendance.
Photo Right: Jamie doing what he does best. Dominating us in bowling. Miss you buddy!
We'll always have memories of that particular trip to Funspot. April 2010.
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What about Student Loans for Bad Credit?
Discovering private understudy advances for awful acknowledge is about as troublesome as discovering water in the Mojave Desert . How do understudies rack up terrible credit, subsequent to most undergrads have never utilized charge cards or taken out advances? The new credit worldview has changed, the same number of secondary school understudies apply for Visas and accordingly pile on charges that they can't manage. Consolidate that with a developing number of more seasoned understudies that work all day occupations, and the understudy advances for terrible credit pool extends altogether. Since undergrads experience issues finding secretly financed understudy advances, the best choice for taking out understudy advances for terrible acknowledge lies for United States government.
Government Student Loans Are An Option
The government does not check histories of understudy advance candidates. The simplicity of getting endorsement for governmentally financed understudy advances has incited a fast increment in understudy advance applications.
Understudies have admittance to both financed and unsubsidized Stafford understudy credit to settle or dispose of educational cost costs. Stafford credits work n a money related need premise, with various advances coordinating special undergrad financing needs. Advances, for example, Stafford and Perkins offer understudy a moderate approach to pay off educational cost obligation. Limited central government assets implies numerous candidates get next to zero help, since they fall past the pay confinements ordered by the national government.
Here are the government understudy advance choices for terrible credit candidates:
Complete the FAFSA structure online to apply for the government understudy advances for terrible credit. A FAFSA structure accumulates understudy budgetary information and the structure has gotten to be required for applying for money related guide through most four-year schools and colleges. Understudies don't need to pay an application charge, as they accomplish for private advances. By finishing a FAFSA, undergrads pick among various advances, stipends, and grants, even understudy advances for awful credit.


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Mini banana muffins with yoghurt topping recipe
These moist mini muffins use a yoghurt topping to make them special. They are perfect for toddlers to hold and eat! Find more on Kidspot, New Zealand's recipe finder.
Banana , Food kids will eat, Muffins
- Canola spray
- 4 ripe bananas, mashed
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 tbsp butter
- 1 egg lightly beaten
- 2 cups self-raising flour
- 2 tbsp milk
- pinch of salt
- 1 pot (50g) Petit Miam yoghurt
- 2 cups pure icing sugar
Preheat the oven to 180°C. Lightly spray 2 x 24 mini-muffin trays with canola spray and set aside.
In a bowl, combine the bananas, butter, egg and milk.
In a separate bowl, add the sifted flour, sugar and salt.
Tip the wet ingredients into the dried ingredients a fold until just combined.
Spoon even amounts into muffin tray and bake for 15-18 mins.
Leave to cool on a rack.
Combine topping ingredients and spoon half a teaspoon of topping on each muffin.
- These make around 12 regular size muffins if you don't like the bite-size ones.
- The icing is very runny but sets after an hour. Try adding the yoghurt a litte at a time to get the right consistency. Less is more.
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This recipe was created by Jennifer Cheung for Kidspot, New Zealand's best recipe finder.


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Aries | March 21 to April 19The stars see great things in your future, but only if you finally stop teasing them about how they failed to predict that whole Princess Di thing.
Taurus | April 20 to May 20For the last time: You do not have a magical "stigmata" that causes bleeding at special times. It's just your period.
Gemini | May 21 to June 20Remember: The patient tree root has the strength to sunder even the strongest stone. Whatever you do, don't let one of those vicious little things get too close.
Cancer | June 21 to July 22Though Mercury is aligned with Venus this week, you should have your alignment done by a licensed Chrysler service center, as you are a 1989 LeBaron.
Leo | July 23 to Aug. 22Seek out someone who is on your wavelength to get you through your current crisis. If that fails, try Citizen's Band channel 19 and request assistance.
Virgo | Aug. 23 to Sept. 22As a Virgo, water rules your destiny. But you know that what really rules is "Fire" by The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown.
Libra | Sept. 23 to Oct. 22Don't sink to the level of your critics. Instead, sink to the much lower level of those who like and appreciate you.
Scorpio | Oct. 23 to Nov. 21It doesn't matter if no one else in the sewing circle likes your new "Blood & Iron" plan for improved quiltmaking. What matters is that it works.
Sagittarius | Nov. 22 to Dec. 21You will develop a mysterious "Fourth Sense" that enables you to tell if there are things directly in front of you.
Capricorn | Dec. 22 to Jan. 19You will be given a second chance in life this week. Be sure to thank the governor for his timely phone call.
Aquarius | Jan. 20 to Feb. 18The Sun is in Virgo, and the Moon is in Capricorn this week. As usual, everyone's getting some action but Aquarius.
Pisces | Feb. 19 to March 20Few will be able to resist your charms this week, especially if you keep using those $100-denomination charms.


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Sampoorna Kerala - 07 Days / 06 Nights
A sliver of a coastal state in India's deep south, Kerala is shaped by its layered landscape: almost 600 km of glorious Arabian Sea coast and beaches; a languid network of glistening backwaters; and the spice and tea-covered hills of the Western Ghats. Just setting foot on this swathe of soul-quenching, palm-shaded green will slow your subcontinental stride to a blissed-out amble. Kerala is a world away from the frenzy of elsewhere, as if India had passed through the Looking Glass and become an altogether more laid-back place.
Besides its famous backwaters, elegant houseboats, ayurvedic treatments and delicately spiced, taste-bud-tingling cuisine, Kerala is home to wild elephants, exotic birds and the odd tiger, while vibrant traditions such as Kathakali plays, temple festivals and snake-boat races frequently bring even the smallest villages to life. It's hard to deny Kerala's liberal use of the slogan 'God's Own Country'.
Day 01: Cochin – Munnar
Arrival at Cochin and transfer to Munnar -The so called "tea garden hill station of kerala". On the way
Visit Vallara and Cheeyappara waterfalls and Blossom Garden. Evening, enjoy the beauty of tea garden. Overnight stay at the hotel.
Day 02: Munnar
After breakfast proceed for Sightseeing of Munnar. Visit Eravikulam National Park to view endangered wild goat Nilgiri Tahr (National Park is Closed during breeding season. Please check with us regarding the visit prior to your arrival). Visit Tea Museum and the Tea factory, Mattupetty Dam and Kundala Lake.Overnight stay at the hotel.
Day 03: Munnar to Thekkady
After having breakfast, proceed to Thekkady a pleasant heaven on earth for those who love nature in its wild manifestations. Spices are found in abundance in Periyar. Get ready for a spice tour to view the Plantations of a wide variety of spices like cardamom, pepper, tea, coffee, cloves, ginger, turmeric,cumin seed, etc. Overnight stay at the hotel.
Day 04: Alleppey
After breakfast proceed to Alleppey. The "Venice of India" noted for its winding waterways and canals. It is an important commercial and business town, manufacturing and exporting coir products and black pepper. Explore the natural beauty of Kerala, the paddy fields, narrow canals, coir villages etc.Overnight stay at the hotel.
Day 05: Alleppey – Kovalam
After breakfast proceed to Kovalam – breathtakingly beautiful – a heaven of peace and tranquillity – the ideal tourist destination in God's own country. Kovalam offers an excellent diversity with Kovalam beach to suit all desires and occasions. Visit light house beach and Hawah beach. Overnight stay at the hotel.
Day 06: Kanyakumari.
After breakfast Proceed to Kanyakumari-the southern tip of peninsular India, it offers a unique experience of sunrise & sunset. Visit rock memorial dedicated to Swami Vivekananda, the Gandhi Memorial, Suchidram Temple with exquisite sculpture & musical pillars dedicated to Brahma, Vishnu &Shiva.Later back to Kovalam .Overnight stay at the Hotel
Day 07: Departure transfer
Transfer to Thiruvananthapuram Airport / Railway station. Back to home with sweet memories of your Tour.
Package Includes:
- Accommodation on twin sharing basis on Breakfast plan stated above.
- All transfers and sightseeing arrangements by A/c Indigo-2 Pax & A/c Innova 4/6 Pax. Vehicle as per itinerary.
- Vehicle at your disposal as per the itinerary.
- Services of anHindi / English-speaking driver.
- Driver Allowance, toll, parking fee, Night halt charges, inter- state permit and govt. applicable service tax.
- Child below 5 years on Complimentary basis.
Package Excludes:
- Any other services or meals which are not mentioned in the above "Includes" section.
- Expense of personal nature such as tips, laundry, telephones, beverages etc
- Entry fee for all monuments and places of interest if any.
- Airfares and Train ticket.
- Confirmations of hotels are subject to availability.
- Slight alterations in the accommodation may become unavoidable due to unavailability of rooms in mentioned hotels, but the accommodation so provided will be of the same class.
- Check in time 1400 Hrs and Check out time 1200 Hrs for all Hotels
- The above price is valid for travel till 30 March 2017.
- The rates may change accordingly at the peak season mainly during Diwali vacations & Christmas vacations.


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PASSING OFFENSE: C-minus - For only the second time in seven starts, Mike McMahon managed to complete 50 percent of his attempts (16-for-31). But he also threw a costly interception and lost a fumble. His replacement, Koy Detmer, threw another interception. It was interesting that McMahon was pulled when he was having one of his better starts of the season. Stay tuned to this one.
RUN OFFENSE: B-minus - Bruce Perry, who spent the first 14 games of the season on the practice squad and had just one carry going into Sunday's game, rushed for 79 yards on 15 carries. He may have helped push himself at least into a tie with Ryan Moats on the depth chart and with Correll Buckhalter likely gone during the off-season, Perry will be a name to watch for 2006.
PASS DEFENSE: B-plus - The Eagles gave up two big plays - a 54-yard pass to Santana Moss that set up a touchdown and a 41-yarder to James Thrash that set up another score. But Mark Brunell completed just seven other passes in 25 attempts. The Eagles recorded just one sack though against Washington and that came from Sam Rayburn. In other words, the overall pass defense wasn't helped much by the pass rush.
RUN DEFENSE: D - Clinton Portis and Ladell Betts combined for 142 rushing yards against the Eagles. Portis had two rushing TDs.
SPECIAL TEAMS: B-plus - The Eagles' coverage units didn't allow the Redskins much on returns. P Sean Landeta had another strong performance. David Akers nailed both of his field-goal attempts, including a 49-yarder that hit the crossbar and bounced through. It will be interesting to see how the Eagles handle the Landeta / Dirk Johnson question at the punter's spot.


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Reds-Mets rained out; will play two SaturdayMay 10, 2008 - 1:32 AM FLUSHING, New York (Ticker) -- The New York Mets are hoping the rain will cool off rookie Joey Votto and the red-hot Cincinnati Reds.
The Reds' series opener against the Mets was rained out on Friday, setting up a day-night doubleheader Saturday.
As a result, Votto will have to wait until 1:10 p.m. EDT to try and build off one of the best games of his young career. The 24-year-old first baseman blasted three of the Reds' seven home runs in a 9-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday.
A second-round pick in 2002, Votto may be hard-pressed to duplicate the feat in a pitchers' ballpark against two-time Cy Young Award winner Johan Santana (3-2).
Santana, who has allowed eight earned runs in his last 25 2/3 innings, will be opposed by Friday's scheduled starter Matt Belisle (1-2) in Saturday's first game.
Santana may face a Reds' lineup missing two key cogs, as both Ken Griffey Jr. and Brandon Phillips were scratched from Friday's lineup prior to the postponement. Phillips is suffering from a calf injury, while Griffey is dealing with an illness.
Griffey is three shy of becoming the sixth player in major league history to hit 600 home runs.
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Faith That Increases (4 of 4) by Frank Damazio
This content is part of a series.Faith That Increases (4 of 4)
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Introduction: We are reaching into our future and owning the invisible by our spirit of faith. We have the title deed of that which has not been seen by the natural eye, things that have not yet been built. We are people of faith. We are saved by faith, we walk by faith, we pray with faith, we believe God by faith, and we read the Scriptures with faith. Faith apprehends as a real fact what is not revealed to the senses. We have faith for our seed as we sow in faith and reap in faith. Faith that increases is a faith that never stops growing and expanding. It rises to every challenge and overcomes every obstacle.
A poorly dressed lady walked into a grocery store and asked the owner if he would let her charge a few groceries. She softly explained that her husband was very ill and unable to work, they had seven children and they needed food. The grocer laughed at her and told her to leave. A customer overheard the conversation and said he would pay for whatever she needed. The grocer said, "Put your grocery list on the scales and whatever your grocery list weighs, I will give you that amount in groceries." The woman hesitated for a moment with a bowed head, and then she reached into her purse and took out a piece of paper and scribbled something on it. She then laid the piece of paper on the scale carefully with her head still bowed. The eyes of the grocer and the customer showed amazement when the scales went down and stayed down. The grocer staring at the scales, turned slowly to the customer and said begrudgingly, "I can't believe it." The customer smiled and the grocer started putting the groceries on the other side of the scales. The scale did not balance so he continued to put more and more groceries on them until the scales would hold no more. The grocer stood there in utter disgust. Finally, he grabbed the piece of paper from the scales and looked at it with greater amazem ...
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This cruise was amazing, the ports were wonderful, the glaciers were breathtaking...I can't say enough about this cruise. The ship was nice, there weren't too many activities for our children, but they LOVED going to the Fun Factory. The only downside to the Fun Factory is that it closes from noon to 2:00. I understand they want kids to be with there families, but a time limit would be better. The food was good and plentiful. Our cabin "helper" was amazing. He really helped to make our trip successful, it nice when you see the staff go above and beyond.
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|We participated in many activities and enjoyed them all!
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|Fun Factory closed from noon to 2:00.
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Welcome to this course. This tutorial introduces you to REST APIs and explains some basic concepts.
Hello! Welcome to this course on Developing RESTful APIs with JAX-RS. I'm Koushik Kothagal, and in this course, I'll teach you how to write RESTful web service applications using JAX-RS.
To learn how to write RESTful APIs using JAX-RS, you'll need to learn 2 things: First, you'll need to learn about RESTful APIs or RESTful web services, and second, you'll need to learn how to implement them using JAX-RS.
Accordingly, this course is split into two important sections. The first few tutorials in this course introduce you to RESTful web services, explain the concepts and best practices. There are a few standard things to keep in mind when building RESTful web services. You'll learn about them first. I'll also walk you through developing a REST API for a sample application. We'll build a simple social media messaging application through out this course. The application will have some basic functionality of similar sites like Facebook or Google Plus.
After learning the concepts, we'll implement some of the features of this social media messaging web service applications using Java and JAX-RS. We'll add features as we learn more about JAX-RS itself, and we'll write code as we go, to implement these features.
Restful web services have recently grown in popularity. I think now is a great time to learn about and work on Restful web services. I hope you are excited to get started!
Web services are services that are exposed on the internet for programmatic access. They are online APIs that you can call from your code. To call an API when writing Java code, you add the jars or classes in your class path. Everything executes on a single machine. In the case of web services, you have different pieces of code deployed in different machines and calling methods of each other over the network.
You must have seen different Facebook or Twitter apps. Or games that can post to your Facebook wall. Even though the games are not designed by Facebook. How can they do that? They do that by calling online APIs. Companies like Facebook and Twitter publish web services that let other developers call them from their code. So, other application developers can write code to consume these services and do things on Facebook or Twitter itself.
In a way, they are similar to web pages. For example, Twitter has a web site at twitter.com. When you access it, you get HTML response that lets you read and write tweets. They have some HTML elements for data as well as styling with CSS. That's because they are meant for humans to read and consume. But, Twitter also has this different URL called api.twitter.com that does a lot of the same things as twitter.com, but it behaves a bit differently. For instance, it does not have HTML and CSS. Any data it returns is in XML or JSON format. And there are specific URLs for different operations. This is what the developers can use from their code, to read data and write data to Twitter. Since it deals with just barebones data, they can just parse the data and build up their objects and data structures. There's no need for all the fancy HTML and CSS.
This second part is what we'll be learning to build in this course. The online APIs. Of course, there are many ways to build such online APIs or web services. One way is to build them as RESTful web services. RESTful web services are a type of web services that are modern, light-weight, and use a lot of the concepts behind HTTP, the technology that drives the web. There is another type of web services that you can choose to write your services in, and that's called SOAP web services. There is a separate Java Brains course on SOAP web services here. This course is going to be about REST.
When we talk about web services, there are a few characteristics about them that we have to keep in mind. First, they are web services, so the exchange of data happens over the web. Over HTTP. A client sends an HTTP request, and the server returns back an HTTP response. Similar to web sites. But like we discussed, instead of the response being complete web pages, only the data is returned, because the client is just a program, and not a human. The client could then have it's own logic to present the data to the users in a presentable format, but the exchange between the web service client and web service server is usually just bare-bones data.
The next characteristic of web services is the protocol used. Now what's a protocol? When a web service client makes a request to a web service endpoint, they are usually messages transmitted from one machine to another. These messages need to be in a format, a language, that both the client and the server can understand. This language, or protocol, is standardized in some web service types. For example, SOAP web services is a type of web services, where the protocol always has to follow the standard called SOAP. All SOAP web services uses this protocol to communicate with clients. It used to stand for Simple Object Access Protocol. But that name is now discontinued and we are stuck with just the acronym. There is a specific format, which is XML, and there are specific rules which detail how that XML should be. The client and the server needs to talk to each other using this SOAP protocol only!
Ok, so what's the protocol for REST? Well, there is none! Yes, a REST client can send messages in XML. Or it can send messages in JSON format! Or text format! There are no rules. As long as the client and server understand each other, everybody is happy.
Secondly, let's look at how the communication happens. We saw that since RESTful web services are web services, the request and response messages are almost always exchanged over HTTP. But in HTTP, there are different methods available. You would have heard of GET, POST PUT and so on. Which methods to you need to use? What's the standard for REST?
Well, the answer is, there is none. Messages can be exchanged in any (or all) HTTP methods. There are guidelines and best practices that tells you what methods need to be used when designing the service, depending on what the request is, but there is no rule as such.
Let's look at the next characteristic: service definition. When you are coding and you need to call a method of a library class, you need to know certain things. The name of the class, the method name, the input arguments and so on. When you call web services, a similar concept applies. You need to know what the method does, what the input arguments are and what the return type is. You need to know the service definition. In the SOAP web services world, every web service provider publishes a formal document called WSDL that contains all the details that any client would ever need to know about the web service. This is again in XML, and it needs have a specific structure. It contains details about the methods available, the input and output types and so on. Every client has all the details they'd need.
What's the formal document that specifies the service definition details for REST web services? I'm pretty sure you can guess the answer to this one. Yes, you are right. There is none! Most Restful web services come with an informal README document written not in XML but in readable English. Many of them don't even have documentation. In fact, the best RESTful web services would not even need any documentation, formal or informal. We'll talk about this topic later.
We could go on with this comparison, but let's stop here. You get the idea. You are probably wondering if this is really true. Is it really the case? Does the RESTful web services have any rules at all? Could my grandmother have written a RESTful web service? Based on what we have seen so far, anything goes! There are no rules. In contrast, SOAP web services have strict rules for each of these characteristics we've seen. So, what's going on here?
The reason for this kind of a difference is simple. All SOAP web services follow this thing called the SOAP specification. This specification is a set of rules that dictate what a SOAP web service should be. This was designed by a committee, and it is still maintained by the committee. The specification lays out all the rules, including the rules we just discussed. If a web service doesn't follow even one of these rules, it is, by definition, not a SOAP web service. As simple as that.
RESTful web services, on the other hand, does not have any specification! It is a concept. An idea. There is no specification, and no committee to tell you what's right and what's wrong. The term REST was first introduced by a guy named Roy Fielding in his doctoral thesis back in the year 2000. REST stands for REpresentational State Transfer, and it is not really about web services at all!
Representational state transfer is actually an architecture style. Say, you are working on the architecture of a new application. There are certain decisions you'll need to make. Certain criteria you need to think about. REST consists of a coordinated set of these criteria and constraints that you can use to guide you in the application architecture. It is a set of guidelines. It is a style of architecture.
You can use this style for any application. However, if you apply this style and these guidelines when architecting a web service, you have drum roll Restful web services. There in lies the difference. Unlike SOAP web services, you don't have any strict rulebooks to follow when it comes to Restful web services. You can have a spectrum. It is common to hear people say some web service is completely Restful, and some other web service is not fully RESTful. Really! And the goal when building RESTful web services is to make it as RESTful as practically possible.
In the next tutorials, we'll start learning more about these constraints and understand what good RESTful web services look like and why.


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Koranyi National Institute for Pulmonology, Budapest, Hungary
Stenting of the main airways in malignant processes became part of every day practice in bronchoscopy. Invasion of the main carina and the trachea in the same time however means difficult situation for stenting even for experienced pulmonologist.
We present our three years experience with a newly developed bifurcated silicone dynamic Y stent. From November 1998 to the end of 2001 we inserted 78 silicone Y stents in 72 patients, 41 man, 31 woman, (mean age 57.3 ±22.1 years). All of them were previously treated with the combination of different bronchoscopic methods in order to maintain airway patency. We used rigid instruments, with direct visual control, and fluoroscopy. The length of the stents used were 5–12 cm. In cases of local recurrence after pneumonectomy we placed "half" Y stents in 17 cases. Mechanical tumor extraction, Nd-YAG laser therapy and high dose rate remote afterloading therapy were the most commonly used methods before stent placement.
We did not observe any serious complication. We had to replace Y stents in six cases, all because of tumor overgrowth. The average survival after stent placement was 13 ± 12,9 months. We found significant improvement of quality of life measured on Karnofsky scale (31 ±14%).CONCLUSIONS: This newly developed Y stent is suitable for palliation of malignant processes invading the trachea and the main carina with the main bronchi. After successful reconstruction of airway patency a dynamic silicone Y stent even in the length of 12 cm can be effective in the maintenance of airway patency, without mucus retention.
Providing the necessary airway patency with a bifurcated stent patients can be suitable for further antitumor therapy. Its good tolerance results a better quality of life.
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Old security holes are becoming increasingly popular among online criminals.
Anyone who remembers an August night about 10 years ago when the lights went out from New York City to Cleveland understands that the power grid in the United States needs to be strengthened. Malware like Stuxnet and Duqu have shown that the technology is being developed to attack the power grid. Let's face it, the power grid puts the entire nation at risk.
In its attempts to improve cybersecurity, the federal government announced this week a plan to better protect the power grid from a cyber attack. The new initiative, the Electric Sector Cybersecurity Risk Maturity Model Pilot, is a joint effort between the Department of Energy (DOE), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and private industry. According to the White House blog, the initiative's goal is:
... to develop a model to help us identify how secure the electric grid is from cyber threats and test that model with participating utilities. Gaining knowledge about strengths and remaining gaps across the grid will better inform investment planning and research and development, and enhance our public-private partnership efforts.
In the coming months, DOE will host a number of workshops with private companies to draft a cybersecurity model for energy industry, which will then be tested by a dozen or so electric utilities.
This is exciting news. Granted, while I think that cybersecurity is only one of many components for protecting and improving the power grid, it is a vital one. As I pointed out before, security research shows variants of Stuxnet are out there already. Information Week added:
Hackers now are designing threats to explicitly attack control systems, which has not only the feds but other government leaders around the world on alert about how to protect these critical systems.
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Steps involved in increase of an organisation to a new place or country.
This pieces of paper was ready for Company training explained by professor Khan Steps involved in increase of provider to a new area or location. Expansion of business is a scheme where a agency chooses to cultivate by escalating how many merchants that its potential customers can buy products or services.case study analysis format This entails looking at states where there is indication of a possible current market development. A great demonstration of business development is definitely the way world-wide cell phone suppliers are opening branches in Africa. Organization enlargement and so has two things. One is organized and carefully controlled development in the enterprise owner's motivation. The additional, that can be significantly more problematical, is abrupt and involuntary development that simply appears for various explanations-and this includes fiscal development or even simply because the company caught the market's focus which includes a novel goods and services. (Monaham, 2005).The task consists of numerous techniques including this: Perform Market research It is recommended to create markets segmentation to find out whether the product or service will sell off on the new niche. It is additionally significant get ready gap investigation, decide opposition in opposition to local area goods and figure out the capacity of this marketplace
Produce Business Strategy You must produce a local process and business strategy that devices local achieving success while keeping in-built aided by the total company plan and objectives. This involves environment goals to quantify development and cost, deciding upon if you should run to be a distinct corporation, branch or simply a profits office environment, developing a budget and coming up with tactical undertaking approach with make times. Establish a Beachhead Organization The provider should always think of moving senior citizen interim management with in depth practical experience or out cause interim command to management control agencies. It can also take into consideration outsourcing work this to local area carriers. Producing the item Depending on the merchandise space studies, the company must overview state polices, begin logo examine and look at local logistics and delivery group.
Company Preparedness The provider has to review firm plan, build up policy and operations. The corporation must also establish community information technology system that is compatible with your residential one particular. Identify Promote Method. The beneficial supplying and advertising to your offerings demands a broad, cohesive plan that handles profits tactic, earnings shipment, branding/value proposition, marketing strategy, online marketing applications, and pricing, which together with each other construct sharp market place differentiators that move sector approval and profits advancement. Tax and Finance Preparedness The correct tax and finance infrastructures really need to be arrange ahead of time to ensure that you are attaining well-timed reporting understanding that your dangerous enterprise is implementing nearby commercial plans and procedures.
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A small, black leather wallet. Used, worn and carrying the scent of the jeans my brother used to wear. A plectrum, faded by the many songs he played on his bass guitar.
Memories. Too many to fill my mind at once.
Love. Too deep to ever forget he was my brother.
Photographs. Me receiving a kiss from him at the age of 4. Another one, his arm around me in the back garden in Belgium. His joking around, warm and catchy like a summer's breeze in Ireland. His broad smile standing at U2's recording studios in Dublin.
How does a mother ever get over the death of her first born?
How does his only sister -and sibling- deal with his legacy, his children, his wife?
I do not want him gone, I need him here.
His voice a forgotten memory. I cannot recall his voice.
His treatment for the tumour in his brain on the day I heard I had 99% chance of having MS. Our brains acting out on the same side of our faces, the same symptoms I had. My illness with me forever; his treated that day. The wheel of fortune favoured him that day, and I am still glad it did.
We never fought. We never answered sentences by slamming doors and walking away. We talked. We talked, but not enough.
His love and joy for his children; no man sweeter than my brother. The tears when my niece arrived, the twinkle in his eye when his son was born.
Grief, a tear in my mind when others talk about their brother. A hug I cannot feel anymore. A future we will not share anymore. There is silence I cannot place, memories that are beginning to fade. The silence he leaves behind, follows me in places in Ireland I know he would have loved, he would want to return to time after time.
Will I ever see him again?
Will I ever hear his voice again?
I cannot recall his voice.
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This is an original old printed (very good quality) postcard measuring approximately 3.5 by 5 inches publisher unknown and not posted.It has a divided back and lines for an address but no printing. The title reads 'Walthamstow. The Monoux Grammar School. Past and Present.Founded 1527.' The image shows a crest in the centre of four almost photographic quality images, showing the original school in the almshouse block near the parish church (past) and below these,the new school in Chingford Road near Chapel End. The condition is very good for this postcard which has not been posted.There is hardly any edge or corner wear - see scan. A nice rare example which would enhance any collection. Postage and packing will cost 90p to UK,£2.00 to Europe,£2.80 to rest of the world.Can combine postage for up to 5 postcards. Unconditional money back if not satisfied if you return to me within 7 days at your own expense. Thanks for looking.


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I love these guys! This will be the second year New York City cabdrivers have posed provocatively in a calendar for charity. Last year's calendar raised over $40,000. The charity is University Settlement, a settlement house on New York City's Lower East Side that provides over 30,000 immigrant individuals and families with housing and education and literacy programs.
For $15 you can smile at these guys all year long.


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What is an Actuary?
Statisticians are the monetary architects of the protection business, gaining practical experience in either life and medical coverage or property and setback protection. Fundamentally, they define likelihood tables or utilize very propelled dynamic demonstrating techniques that foresee the likelihood that a potential occasion will create a case. From these tables, they find out the measure of cash required for cases payouts.
Diverse statisticians have distinctive parts and might work for insurance agencies or counseling firms, and in different organizations. They might be included with conceiving another retirement program for an organization or notwithstanding ascertaining the effect of laws banning auto cellphone use in vehicles misfortunes and deciding suitable rate rebates. Case in point, in property protection, property and setback statisticians register the quantity of cases liable to come about because of regular disasters. The statisticians consider the property's area, development and a few different elements before deciding the premium.
Essentially, the figures computed by statisticians guarantee that insurance agencies charge enough for premiums to take care of anticipated expenses. Likewise, statisticians need to ensure that the premium charged for that protection is focused with that charged by contending insurance agencies. (For additional on protection, see Extended Warranties: Should You Take The Bait?)
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In the event that you are occupied with turning into a statistician, you are required to gain a college degree in measurements, arithmetic, fund or actuarial science. There are numerous schools


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Pros: staff. I am generally very happy with Carnival cruises and I've been on this ship before. I have no problem with the ship itself. My problems are with Carnival management and its decision to put profit over the well-being of its passengers.
Cons: Carnival was totally irresponsible in not cancelling this cruise. It put all our lives at risk in superstorm Sandy.
Recommends Carnival Miracle? Yes!
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How surreal is this for a juxtaposition? Reeves lives in a somnolent village in rural Kent where, you suspect, not many locals have ever seen Shooting Stars. It feels like a primetime TV kind of place where, sure enough, he mostly gets recognised from the adverts he does on ITV. Reeves cuts a distinctive figure when he rolls up to his front door in a Bentley with his tall, blonde fianc?e Nancy and his two children, Alice, nine, and Louis, five. They are carrying a bundle of new tennis rackets.
Not many celebrities welcome journalists so comprehensively into their home, unless they're from Hello! Either Reeves can't quite be arsed to find somewhere less private to do his interview, or he has an ulterior agenda of presenting a regular family life to the world. His baroque relationships have been raising eyebrows since his former wife left him for a woman, then put him up when his engagement to actress Emilia Fox fell through. Normality is finally descending on Reeves in his forties. He and Nancy are getting married early next year, and he wants more children. 'Yeah. I'd like to be like Picasso. I think his last one was born when he was 91.'
Art-wise, he could be closer to Rolf Harris, with his fascination for animals. (Alice fondly recalls the day a family of lemurs climbed all over her dad's head). You've heard of the book of the film. You've heard of the film of the play. His works are, to all intents and purposes, the paintings of the gags. 'We always use illustrations,' says Reeves - 'we' being he and Bob Mortimer. 'When we send in scripts I generally do drawings that accompany them. I always wanted to be a painter. I always thought when I left art school that what we were doing on stage was like Gilbert & George, so it was just an extension.'
I ask him what Bob's draughtsmanship is like. 'He's fantastically diabolical. I often get him to draw something just for my own personal amusement. I'm sure he can see what something looks like but he can't physically put it onto paper. I did copy one of Bob's once. It was a drawing of a frog. It was an indescribable thing which looked as if it had a biscuit hanging from its face. I really think he should be exhibited, whether it's in a coal shed of this parish or a major gallery.'
Reeves's line is that 'everyone can draw, whether or not you draw in a way that is representative of an image. I think the ones that aren't representative are more interesting. You start making marks on things from birth. It depends whether you like doing it or not.' The first time he went public was when, under a girl's pseudonym, he entered a picture of Marc Bolan in a drawing competition in Jackie magazine. 'I don't remember being told I was any good. You work it out for yourself. If you like doing it, it doesn't matter if you're any good. I don't think there is good or bad. It depends whether you've got ideas or enthusiasm.'
Reeves doesn't let it bother him that he may have attracted more attention from gallery owners for his name rather than his talent. 'There's not a lot I can do about that. When you're in that celebrity category, like Paul McCartney and Ronnie Wood, you have to take that baggage along with you. I think Paul McCartney's very good. A lot of struggling artists get the hump about it. I take their point of view, but I'm doing it because I like doing it.'
One of the things Reeves likes about it is that he can do it on his own. He and Mortimer are currently writing another series of Shooting Stars and funnelling the overflow into a new sketch show. They meet at 9.30 every morning at Mortimer's house. When not writing, they dream up a wish-list of guests. ('We asked Prince Charles to be a team captain and we never even got a reply.') But, he says, 'It's nice to whittle a stick and you can't whittle with someone else. I would never do it with anyone else, although the Chapman brothers wanted to do something with me.' For the record, the brothers describe his art as 'an abundance of surreal disjunctions and warped mutations which jam any sober investigations into the cognitive processes of his mind'.
I risk a sober investigation of his humour anyway. Why is it so different? 'It's very difficult to explain how it works without blowing your own golden trumpet. It's just a world viewpoint. It's the way I see things. I want to make bird-nesting boxes which have tiny holes in them that birds could never get through. I like doing things which are an object everyone could recognise, but you might not think on first viewing that there's something terribly wrong.
'Last year I was walking up and down mountains in the Lake District. I had a banana in my packed lunch. I went up three 3,000ft peaks and I never had the banana. It always came back down with me. So I had it cast in bronze. You can get them cast for about a hundred quid. If you wanted to get a nice brass fruit bowl it would look quite nice. You could put it on your coffee table. I got this post. There was a bit naturally split in it, so I burned and waxed and polished it and set the banana in this split. The garage door was open and people were walking past and raising an eyebrow. I stood back and looked at it and it is the most phallic thing you've ever seen. It's a brass banana set into what looks like a woman's...' He is temporarily lost for words. 'A woman's split. A crack. It's like a Neolithic fertility post.'
Alice saunters in at this point brandishing a large painting of a dragon. I ask her what she thinks of her dad's pictures. 'Well, they're a bit rude sometimes. He did one of Geri from the Spice Girls and she had really, really big boobs and there was one nipple and she put her hand on it and it was disgusting!'
'There was one in your bedroom I had to take out,' her dad says to her. 'It was an autopsy.' 'It was a man that was chopped in half,' says Alice. 'It makes me feel sick. It makes me think about ugly stuff.'
Vic Reeves: Doings, Wed 3 Jul-Sun 4 Aug, Britart, 60-62 Commercial Street, E1 (020-7392 7200).www.britart.com
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One of the best cruises yet.
Sail Date: December 01, 2014
Reviewed: 2 years ago
Traveled As: Couple
Room Type: Balcony
Pros: The staff. Almost everyone we encountered were really friendly and helpful.
Cons: The food was hit or miss. Mostly good\, but there were a few items that were no so good.
Recommends Serenade of the Seas? Yes!
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|The only complaint I have about the Serenade of the Seas is the elevators. They are small and numerous times they would be empty and would pass by as you watched. Never seen that before.
|Food and Dining
|Not the best food on a RCCL cruise\, but not the worst. Most items were prepared and presented nicely. However\, there were a few dishes that left a great deal to be desired in quality and taste.
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|Stateroom 8598 located on the \"Hump\" was a super convenient location.
|Service and Staff
|Almost all of the staff we encountered were very friendly and accommodating.
|The entertainment was OK. Nothing special\, and we didn't walk out of any of the shows.


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Each of our tours will visit four Indianapolis breweries. Below is a list of breweries most often visited. All stops are subject to change based on hours of operation and special events at the breweries.
Sun King Brewery
Sun King has grown into the second-largest beer brewer in the state of Indiana. The company's commitment to handcrafted seasonal and specialty beers has been rewarded with multiple medals at the Indiana Brewers Cup, Great American Beer Festival, and World Beer Cup competitions.
|House beers
Sunlight Cream Ale (5.3% ABV, 20 IBU)
Wee Mac (5.3% ABV, 23 IBU)
Osiris (5.6 ABV, 50 IBU)
Flat 12 Bierwerks
Flat12 Bierworks is a craft production brewery located in the historic Holy Cross neighborhood of Indianapolis. Their classic 12s present outstanding American beers crafted faithful to style with an emphasis on balance and subtlety.
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Walkabout Pale Ale (5.3%ABV, 40 IBU)
Half Cycle IPA (6.0% ABV, 104.1 IBU)
Hinchtown Hammer Down (5.0% ABV, 27 IBU)
F12 Amber (5.8% ABV, 42.7 IBU)
Pogue's Run Porter (5.5% ABV, 34.1 IBU)
Fountain Square Brewing Co.
Located in Historic Fountain Square neighborhood, Fountain Square Brewing Co. brings leading technologies and expertise in the natural sciences to brew finely crafted beers.
| House beers
Workingman's Pilsner (5.0% ABV, 25 IBU)
Preacher's Daughter Amber Ale (6.0% ABV, 20 IBU)
Backyard Porter (5.0% ABV, 18 IBU)
Hop for Teacher Pale Ale (5.4% ABV, 45 IBU)
Bier Brewery and Taproom
|Bier Brewery and Taproom won the Indiana State Fair Champion Brewery award for 2011 and the second Brew Bracket competition. Their small size allows Bier to have the utmost control over the many different variables that go into brewing a batch of bier. The beer list changes every week.
Indiana City Brewing Company
Their small-batch, hand-crafted approach celebrates the art and tradition of brewing. Starting on the foundation of traditional styles, they take it up a notch with specialty spices, aromatic hops and increased alcohol.
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Yacht Rock – Belgian Wheat Ale (6.0% ABV, 19 IBU)
Shadow Boxer – Oatmeal Stout (7.0% ABV, 40 IBU)
Tribute Pale Ale (5.8% ABV, 58 IBU)
Two Deep Brewing Company
|Located just south of the St. Clair Street intersection where the Cultural Trail crosses Capitol Avenue. Two Deep is focused on the art of craft beer being delivered for the enjoyment of all, one unique experience at a time.
Outliers Brewing Co.
Outliers Brewing Company is an independent, artisanal craft brewery located in the heart of the historic Chatham Arch neighborhood in Indianapolis. At Outliers, we've married our respect and knowledge for the history of traditional brewing techniques with our enthusiasm for new combinations that has resulted in beer that's a little different than what you'd expect from a traditional genre.
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Buffalo Jacket IPA (ABV 6%)
County Brown (ABV 4%)
Whitcomb Rye (ABV 4.5%)
Blau Machen Pilsner (ABV 4.5%)
Deviate Brewing Co.
|Deviate from the norm is the guiding mantra that we apply to our brewery design, approach and how we create our recipes. Often craft beer is held and judged by standard beer style guidelines, where every aspect is defined and often confined by long standing definitions. And although we can respect the talent to brew a well made beer done to style, we believe that craft beer should be fun and push the envelope of what is traditional. Working from the fundamental foundation of a high quality base beer, one free from defects and off flavors, we like to have fun and deviate to stretch and excite your palate. Whether it's taking classic food flavor pairings and incorporating them into a beer (like our Watermelon Mint Ale or Blueberry Tarragon Ale) or taking classic beer styles and putting fun flavor spins on them (like our Peanut Butter IPA or Hawaiian Imperial Stout with coconut and coffee). All of our offerings will be designed to deviate from the norm and we hope the growing number of craft beer deviants will enjoy them.
Centerpoint Brewing
Like any brewer, we strive to make high-quality beers people enjoy. For us this starts with strong attention to detail. The name Centerpoint and our plumb bob logo come from our engineering background, our desire to find the perfect balance among the raw ingredients, and our passion for finely controlling all of the process variables for any style of beer we make. We intentionally make balanced, approachable beers that appeal to both craft beer-geeks and casual American-macro drinkers alike.
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Metazoa Brewing Co. is a craft brewery in the heart of Indianapolis that donates 5% of its profits to animal and wildlife organizations. Offerings range from true-to-style traditional ales to quirky, experimental styles big on flavor.
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Wabash Brewing
|Wabash Brewing is Indy's Northwest Neighborhood Nanobrewery! Our mission is to merge a strong science background with the art of craft brewing to make truly great beers.
Mashcraft Brewing
We are happy to bring a variety of consistenly great ales and lagers to all of our neighbors in Central Indiana. Brewing and serving from our Greenwood taproom, we strive to provide high-quality and hand-crafted beers for everyone to enjoy.
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Mashcraft Gold – American Blonde (5% ABV, 25 IBU)
Mashcraft Red – American Amber (5.5% ABV, 35 IBU)
Mashcraft IPA – American IPA (6.4% ABV, 75 IBU)
Planetary Brewing Co.
|A two-barrel capacity Nanobrewery dedicated to the production of ales of the highest quality. The taproom is currently open THursday and Friday 4 – 8 pm, Saturday 2 – 8 pm and Sunday 12 – 6 pm. We ahve seven ales on tap every week, including a Nitro tap and will rotate with our current lineup of 30 recipes.
Taxman Brewing Co.
Taxman Brewing Co. is dedicated to crafting small-batch artisanal beers influenced by various styles found in the US and Europe.
|House beers
La Maison- Farmhouse Ale (7% ABV, 25 IBU)
The Standard- Abbey Blonde (6.2% ABV, 20IBU)
Deduction- Dubbel (7.8% ABV, 22 IBU)
Exemption- Tripel (8.5% ABV, 30 IBU)
Qualified- Quadrupel (10.2%, 28 IBU)
Shale Creek Brewing
|Five barrel craft brewery with full bar service. Franklin's


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a nice time
Sail Date: July 01, 2013
Reviewed: 3 years ago
Traveled As: Family (older children)
Room Type: Oceanview
Pros: comedians
Cons: rough seas
Recommends Carnival Sensation? Yes!
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|the excursions are too high and the overall costs of extra amenities is too high, examples like massages and spa treatments
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- 1[transitive] to make something or someone ready to be used or to do something prepare something/somebody to prepare a report prepare something/somebody for somebody/something A hotel room is being prepared for them. The college prepares students for a career in business.
- 2[intransitive, transitive] to make yourself ready to do something or for something that you expect to happen I had no time to prepare. prepare for something The whole class is working hard preparing for the test. prepare yourself (for something) The police are preparing themselves for trouble at the demonstration. I had been preparing myself for this moment. Her condition is not improving as we hoped. You must prepare yourselves for the worst. prepare to do something I was preparing to leave. prepare yourself to do something The troops prepared themselves to go into battle.
- 3[transitive] prepare something to make food ready to be eaten He was in the kitchen preparing lunch.
- 4[transitive] prepare something (from something) to make a medicine or chemical substance, for example by mixing other substances together remedies prepared from herbal extracts Idioms
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to make it possible or easier for something to be achieved The committee will prepare the ground for further investigation of the issue.
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The DeMatha High (Hyattsville, Md.) running back always liked the Nittany Lions, then got a special feeling when he camped there in the summer. So once he received an offer and was able to think it over, he committed, making the decision at the beginning of the week.
"When I went to the camp I liked everything I saw about it," Allen said. "The coaches talked to me and I liked how they were talking. Coach O'Brien gave me a good feeling and gave off a good vibe, and it felt like the perfect fit.
"The dorms were nice and then you had the campus and how all the students walk around and everything. That was nice. Then there was the football facilities; the film room, the weight room, etc."
Like many of the players to commit to O'Brien, it was a connection the 5-foot-7, 185-pound multi-purpose Allen had with the first-year head coach that sealed the deal.
"He basically told me size doesn't matter. It shouldn't affect how people look at me," Allen said. "Most people look and think, 'Oh, he's small. Look at his size.' When I was talking to coach O'Brien at the camp he was saying size doesn't matter and he saw the way I played and said I looked great."
Allen is used in the backfield, as a receiver and in the return game at DeMatha, and O'Brien outlined a similar plan of usage once he arrives on campus.
"I feel like I'm dangerous all around," Allen said. "I'm not trying to be cocky or anything like that, but I feel like I'm dangerous all around because I can come out of the backfield, you can put me at slot, motion out of the backfield, my route running is good, I can catch. I can get off tackle and run through the hole. I'm diverse."
Given it is more than 15 months until Allen can sign a binding national letter of intent and he plays for a high-profile high school program where dozens upon dozens of schools will walk through in recruiting, he doesn't expect this to be the end of his recruitment.
"I'm not really going to be worried about other schools, but I expect them to come hard at me because I'm going to work hard and perform on the field," said Allen, who said he has no plans to look elsewhere. "I liked (Penn State) growing up because they ran the ball a lot. And for some reason, I liked their colors and how plain they are."


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Baltic capitals cruise
Sail Date: July 14, 2015
Reviewed: 1 year ago
Traveled As: Couple
Room Type: Oceanview
Our cruise was excellent and memorable. High point was certainly the two day stay in St. Petersburg viewing the churches, museums and lovely buildings in this historic city. Another high point was the Vasa museum in Stockholm.......utterly astounding! Except for a few notable exceptions, the food was superb even without paying for the specialty restaurants. We thought the cabin was unusually small with no access to the porthole without climbing up on the bed. However, the service was excellent in all cases. The entertainment at night was the best we have seen on any cruise ship we have sailed on..
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|see above
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|Copenhagen, Denmark
|Don't miss Tivoli!
|Warnemunde (Berlin), Germany
|Didn't make the arduous six hour round trip to Berlin
|Tallinn, Estonia
|St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
|Helsinki, Finland
|Stockholm, Sweden
|Don't miss Vasa museum, but get there early to avoid big crowds.


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BufferedImage as Good as Butter BlogPosted by chet in chet on Aug 14, 2003 7:59:00 AM
Recently there was a brief discussion on the java2d interest list. We were talking about some of uses of BufferedImage and someone replied to the group with their epiphany on these objects with just a brief: "BufferedImage as good as butter!"
The Java2D team has spent the last few days trying to understand and come to terms with this phrase. Was it praise? Irony? Sarcasm? An epigram? A typo? Does it mean that BufferedImage is yellow? Or creamy? Or that it spreads well if left out of the fridge, but melts if it is too hot outside? Is it a condiment? Does it go well with bread? Is it a substitute for vegetable oil?
I have decided it was actually one of those opaque philosophical phrases that you might see in a fortune cookie (albeit one that you got from a very geeky restaurant). I do not yet understand its true meaning, but I hope to walk far enough on the path to enlightenment to one day glean its essence.
In the meantime, I will arbitrarily choose one possible meaning for the purposes of this article: BufferedImages are slick.
One of the things that we and our developers run up against again and again (and again) is the vast array of possibilities when dealing with images and image operations in our APIs. In particular, confusion appears to reign when developers first learned Java in the 1.0/1.1 days (whose APIs are still working and prevalent in some browsers' implementations of Java) but they are now trying to apply that knowledge in the current API and implementation.
So, for example, someone could easily assume that ImageProducer/ImageConsumer is still the way to deal with creating and using images. Or that PixelGrabber is a great way to get at the actual pixel data in an image. Or that MediaTracker is a really cool way to ensure that an image is loaded before you use it.
Then these developers run into the new (as of 1.4) ImageIO APIs and wonder how they get from their Image to a BufferedImage.
Might we suggest, instead, trying to use BufferedImage for most, if not all, of your condiment image needs. There are very few situations where you really want or need to use the old Image APIs and thus translating between that world and the new world of BufferedImage is really unnecessary. ImageProducer/Consumer is an interesting way of dealing with Images that are coming over the net and won't arrive until some nondeterministic time in the future, but if you have the image on disk and simply want to load it in, that's a pile of work to go through (and some pretty non-obvious API calls) just to get your hands on the data. Or if you want an image that you can access the pixel data on, you can sure use PixelGrabber, but wouldn't it make more sense to simply call get/setRGB on a BufferedImage? Or if you want an offscreen image, wouldn't it be nice to simply be able to create an image of a specific type (or one compatible with the display) and simply give it the width and height to use?
In particular, check out the simple commands like:
that give you an image of the width/height/type you require, synchronously (that is, after the method returns, that image does exist; no need to send it through MediaTracker to await its imminent arrival). You can then get at the data directly (getRGB, setRGB), grab the Raster object (which allows more ways of getting at the pixel data), get the ColorModel, and all sorts of other complex and interesting stuff. But you don't have to do anything complicated with it to take advantage of this API; you can just create that image, get the Graphics object, render to it, and away you go.
new BufferedImage(int width, int height, int type)
Or how about:
This retuns an opaque BufferedImage (there is another variation in which you can specify a non-opaque type) of the given width/height that should be in the same format as the screen. This means that operations to/from the screen or other compatible images should be optimized (and sometimes hardware accelerated).
GraphicsConfiguration.createCompatibleImage(int width, int height)
Then there's always the entire ImageIO package, which deals exclusively in BufferedImage objects. Instead of using the old Toolkit APIs to load an Image, you can use ImageIO to read images of more varied types (such as PNG) which will then return a BufferedImage.
And remember too that converting from one image type to another is usually as easy as a simple copy command. So, for example, if you happen to have one of these old Image objects lying around and you really want to get at the pixels, or use ImageIO, or just revel in the power and glory of having a BufferedImage representation of that image, you can always do something like this:
// your other image type
Image img;
// new, cool representation of that image, created by one
// of the means above, with width/height equal to img's
BufferedImage bImg;
// Get the Graphics object for the BufferedImage
Graphics g = bImg.getGraphics();
// Copy the old image into the new BufferedImage object
g.drawImage(img, 0, 0, null);
So store it in the fridge, keep it out on the counter, spread it on your favorite wheat products and applications; BufferedImage is as good as butter ... and maybe even better.
ps: Did you notice I didn't touch on that hot "performance" topic anywhere in this article? Stay tuned for the next article, in which I'll talk about some of the performance implications and implementation details of BufferedImages.


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Located on the north coast of Puerto Rico, Arecibo has a lot to offer its visitors. One of its best features is that watersports are easily arranged here, and those who are interested in sailing into town should be able to do without any trouble at all.
If sailing to Arecibo is on your bucket list, your first stop will have to be to the nearest port of entry in San Juan. Customs officials request the sailors contact them 24 hours in advance to make them aware of your arrival. You can do so at 787-729-6850 or 787-729-6802, keeping in mind that customs is open from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. with a one our break for lunch at noon Monday through Saturday.
When you arrive, you'll have to purchase a 12 month cruising permit for between $25 and $37(USD) depending upon your country of origin. Keep in mind that sailors from the United States will still have to clear customs despite Puerto Rico being a commonwealth of the U.S. After being granted entry to the county, you'll be free to sail to your marina or anchorage point.
Contemplating visiting Arecibo using a vessel you own, or a charter from a different area? This next chart provides a quick summary of places where you might be able to dock.
|Arecibo Yacht Club
|(787) 878-8465
|2.6 mi. (4.2 km) East of Arecibo
|Rancho Marina
|(787) 894-8034
|4.8 mi. (7.7 km) North-Northeast of Utuado
Though you may have to travel a ways from San Juan to Arecibo along the coast after clearing customs, most sailors note that they enjoy the journey thanks to the beautiful sites and easy waters. Don't let the distance be a deterrent that may keep you from visiting the town – you've already come this far, after all.
Help us improve! We welcome your corrections and suggestions.