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The iPad 2. It's sleek. It's thin. It's the replacement for your cable. Yes, it is possible to replace your cable with an iPad. While you cannot get every single one of your over 500 channels, chances are you pay for a lot of what you don't use anyway. Here is how you can replace your cable with an iPad 2.
How To Replace Your Cable With An iPad 2
As cable bills continue to rise and people begin using their iPad's more, there comes a time when you might want to explore replacing that costly cable subscription with something you already own: your iPad 2. And here's one way to do it.
Before you call the cable company and cancel your bill, here's the hardware you will need:
- Apple iPad 2
- Digital AV Adapter
- An HDMI-compatible TV
As far as hardware goes, that's about all you need to replace your cable with an iPad 2. Most likely you have the iPad and a TV already. So really the only thing you will need is the $39 Digital AV adapter. The reason this is needed is because it does video mirroring (which cannot be done on the iPad 1). This means that your entire iPad screen is shown (mirrored) on your TV screen. So when you launch and app and play it, everyone will see it on your TV.
Apps To Replace Cable
The next think you will need are some apps (that's usually going to be the case). These are some of the best apps to replace your cable with and while you still cannot replace all 500 channels that you might have, you may find that these are just good enough.
Netflix (Free App)
Netflix is the undisputed champion of getting rid of your cable with your iPad. It is $7.99/month for iPad users and you not only get great TV shows but you get all of their movies as well. It works over 3G (depending on the signal) and it is great for just about anyone that likes to be mobile while still enjoying their entertainment. Download the Netflix app here.
Hulu Plus
With Hulu Plus for the iPad 2, you can stream thousands of episodes from hundreds of current and classic TV shows right to your iPad. Thus bypassing cable altogether. The subscription is $7.99 per month and here is what you get:
Learn more about Hulu Plus here
ABC (free)
With the ABC Player for the iPad, you can view full length episodes of Modern Family, Desperate Housewives and more. Not all of their shows are available but if you are a fan of one that are, then this is a great free alternative to cable. Download it here.
CNN (Free)
If you watch a lot of news then you will definitely want this iPad app when you replace your cable. It has all of the latest and greatest news plus it has live hourly updates and live video of nearly all of the stories so it's as good as just watching it on cable. Download CNN for your iPad here.
And that is the hardware/software you will need to begin to replace your cable with an iPad 2. The transition might take you a bit to get used to since it's far more convenient to just browse through on your cable box but if you want to save a bit of money, watch TV practically anywhere, and break free from cable then this is one of the best ways to get started.
Have you replaced your cable with your iPad? What apps did I miss?


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Christopher J. Windnagle
Command Master Chief
U.S. Coast Guard District 14
Honolulu, Hawaii
Master Chief Christopher Windnagle assumed duties as Command Master Chief for District Fourteen on May 29th 2013. His primary responsibility is to advise Admiral Cari B. Thomas, the Commander of Coast Guard District Fourteen Office in Honolulu Hi, on issues and initiatives pertaining to all Coast Guard Members and their families within District Fourteen. The district includes a 12.2 million square mile area of operations extending from the Hawaiian Islands to Japan. Most recently Master Chief Windnagle served as a Command Master Chief for Air Station Kodiak in Kodiak Alaska.
Master Chief Windnagle's previous assignments include Air Station Kodiak, Alaska, Purdue University Lafayette Indiana, Air Station Kodiak Alaska, Air Station Astoria, Oregon, Air Station Sitka, Alaska, Aviation Training Center Mobile, Alabama, U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw Cheboygan, Michigan.
Master Chief Windnagle has qualified in the HH-65A Dolphin, the HH-3F Pelican and the HH60J Jayhawk helicopters. He has served as a Senior Enlisted leader an d maintainer for both Astoria Oregon and Kodiak Alaska's H-60 Helicopter Maintenance Division and the Leading Chief Petty Officer for Kodiak's H-65 Alaskan Patrol Division. As the Command Master Chief of Air Station Kodiak Alaska he led the Air Station Chiefs mess of 40 Chiefs as their Chief of the Mess and the more than 100 Chiefs of the Kodiak Island Unified Mess as their Chief of the Mess.
Master Chief Windnagle is a proud graduate of the April 2002 Coast Guard Chief Petty Officers Academy, the January 2011 Coast Guard Senior Enlisted Leadership Course, Purdue University where he graduated with honors earning a Bachelor's of Science Degree in Aviation Technology with a minor in Management and Clatsop Community College earning an Associate's Degree in General Studies.
Master Chief Windnagle's awards include the Coast Guard Meritorious Service Medal, two Coast Guard Commendation Medals, three Achievement Medals, three Commandants' Letter of Commendation's and various other personal and unit awards.


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Keuka College's Community Luncheon Series will continue Wednesday, July 31, with a talk by Penn Yan native Mike Sullivan, education director at the Finger Lakes Museum.
Sullivan will discuss "Risk is not a Four-Letter Word: Adventure, Youth Development, and the Finger Lakes Museum" at noon in the Gannett Room of Lightner Library.
After growing up on Keuka Lake and attending Penn Yan schools, Sullivan earned a bachelor's degree in anthropology from Amherst College and a master's in public anthropology from American University.
Hired by the Finger Lakes Museum in January, Sullivan previously served as program director and exhibit developer at the Brooklyn Children's Museum, taught fourth grade in Honduras, and middle school math and science in Washington, D.C. He has mentored and taught high school students for a job-training initiative that focused on green design, sustainable planning, and youth development.
After receiving his advanced degree, Sullivan moved his family to New Mexico, where he spent the last five years leading a wilderness education program for youth from around the world.
Sullivan is married to another Penn Yan native, Sidsel Overgaard, and has two daughters, ages 4 and 2.
Tickets for the luncheon are $12.75, $2.50 of which goes to the Penn Yan Keuka Club Scholarship Fund. The fund provides an annual scholarship to a local student attendingKeukaCollege. Seating is limited, so reservations are advised. Make checks payable to Keuka College and mail to: Office of Alumni and Family Relations, Keuka College, Keuka Park, N.Y. 14478. Reservations may be made online at http://events.keuka.edu. The reservation deadline is Thursday, July 25.
For more information call (315) 279-5238 or e-mail [email protected].


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Night Hog is a character in the Grand Theft Auto series who is mentioned in The Lost and Damned, via a website.
Early Life
Night Hog was born in 1950 and was a resident of Liberty City and a member of The Lost Brotherhood.
In 1982, Night Hog was a part of a small confilct with some members of the rival Angels of Death MC gang. He was killed during the conflict, taking two shots to the head.
Night Hog was the first fatality in the fighting between the two gangs. His death sparked the massive Lost MC-Angels of Death MC War.
Night Hog would also honored on the main website of the Lost MC, Lostmc.com.


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In: Podcasts by Edie Sellers18 Jan 2009
You know how that old song goes: Good girls don't, but I do.
Or in the case of this week, it's "we do." As in, two good girls on this podcast, friends.
This is the fullest — and longest — GameHounds episode to date. Joining regular hosts GamerEdie Sellers and Cooper Hawkes are The Married Gamers: Lefty Brown and Mrs. Lefty Brown.
It takes all of about 90 seconds for the podcast to come apart at the seams, but this episode is pure hilarity. Anyone who thinks we're fake… well, getta load of this episode! It doesn't get any more real than this.
In addition to lots of hilarity, the gang talks about the week in gaming news, including:
Nice guests. I always enjoy the married gamers.
Good show! I have to say though, I am a little hesitant to ever eat cheese again. I really appreciate that visualization…NOT!
Do you suppose she was used to blowing uncircumcised men? She could have been craving some of that naturally aged manly cheese flavor.
Actually she was a lovely Jewish girl, so I'm pretty sure she was ok with it.
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I, uh…..(speechless)
@TeeTocks is that a good speechless or a bad one?
Shock and awe speechless. With a lot of laughing mixed in. Good in my book.
That was a great show. You guys were talking about a "completion" month. I've been doing that myself, but only because there is nothing that great released this month. It may be surprising, but I jumped back into Katamari Damacy after all this time. Stuck on 7th star, myself.
Aside from about fifteen minutes of total TMI trainwreck derail, I liked the dynamic of the four person podcast (and I know I may be in the minority, but I like a 90+ minute podcast).
I must say, I think this was my favorite episode. Hawkes, don't listen to the hate, I rather like the coin.


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I am glad to come before you again upon this momentous theme: "Is the Foreign Mission work authorized in the Scripture, and blessed and owned of God?" I affirm with all my heart that it is, and believe I have given eleven unanswerable arguments in support of the affirmative of this proposition. I have shown, from the teaching of God's Word, from the Churches and the great moral enterprises that have been born of the Foreign Mission spirit, and from the fruits of the Foreign Mission field, that this work is of God. My worthy opponent is trying to make capital by claiming that I did not answer his question Wednesday morning in regard to the work of the missionaries in the salvation of the heathen. His question was put in such a form as to make his meaning very indefinite. It appeared to mc that it might be interpreted to mean one of two things: First, Would the gospel have been carried to the heathen, and as successfully propagated among them, if the present system of Foreign Mission work had not come into existence? or, Second, Would as many of the heathen have been saved without the gospel as with it? I answered his question directly, according to both, of these interpretations. I answered him thus that my words might not be misconstrued, or my position misunderstood. The report will show that I answered his question directly, in the manner before named, and that the answer was the same in substance as the direct answer I am going to give him now. I have learned from his speech this morning, more definitely what his design was. If his design is to know whether my position is that there would be fewer heathen saved if the gospel was not sent to them, I say: Yes. Those people would not be saved unless the gospel was sent to them, and preached to them. They would not be saved without the Foreign Mission work, I answer this question from the Word. i Corinthians vi. 9: "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God." Here Paul speaks of their condition before he went to Corinth, and he says that was their condition. "And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God." Also in i Corinthians ii. 1-3. Now we will see how this was brought about. We see what was the ordained means of God in this matter: "And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God"—he declared the testimony of God, he says—"for I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: that your, faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God." Also i Corinthians i. 21: "For after that in the Wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe." Now, if that was true in the days of the apostles; it certainly is true today. If that was true in the gospel work of the first century, it is equally true today in the Foreign Mission work. Paul says they were saved through his preaching. He declared that they were begotten through the gospel. He claims them as his children. In all his writings to this very church he represents the laborers for Christ as co-laborers with God. We are laborers together with him. Jesus says, "Go preach the gospel to every creature," and "Lo, I am with YOU alway, even unto the end of the world." Going, teaching and preaching, with loving confidence in God, with loyalty in carrying out that grand commission of the Head of the Church, in bearing the news of salvation to the lost and dying world, is Christ's mission. This is our part in his service, and the results are his.
I will now go to Acts xxvi. 17, 18, and call the attention of my brother to that text: "Delivering thee from the people and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee, to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith which is in me." I think you understand my position in this discussion—that the heathen are lost and perishing without the Word. I never have made the impression intentionally that any individual will be saved in the heathen world without character, or without living up to the best light he has, doing the things contained in the law, as spoken of in the second chapter of Romans.
My brother has asked what will become of them who do not know the gospel. I answer, that is with God. God tells us to go and preach and teach, and he will be with us; and he that believeth the gospel taught shall be saved, and he that believeth not shall be damned. He tells us that the gospel is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth. I have asked Brother Potter to give a proof-text if he dare, in God's Word, from Genesis to Revelation, that even remotely implies that God saves through, his Spirit, without truth as a means. I challenge him to point out but one such text, from the first chapter of Genesis to the last of Revelation. Now, he read a quotation to you here, and I asked him if he really meant, in that reading to us about the martyrs, that that occurred before the Reformation. He said part of it did. You know that my brother was leaving an impression that these martyrs were Baptists; that those who died the terrible deaths described here, of which he read to you from this old book, "Buck's Theological Dictionary," on page 439, were Baptists. But they were Lutherans and Presbyterians—Foreign Mission men—all of them, I might say, or nearly so; but that does not matter. He claims that, as these were Baptists, therefore they have the identity. How could they have it, only in their belief in Church succession? That is all. The Protestants were killed. What for? This man tells us. I will read a little from the same book, beginning before that which Brother Potter read, on page 438: "Numerous were the persecutions of different sects from Constantine's time to the Reformation; but when the famous Martin Luther arose and opposed the errors and ambitions of the Church of Rome, and the sentiments of this good man began to spread"—that was the mission work, and in opposing the corruptions of Papal Rome it caused this terrible persecution—"the pope and his clergy joined all their forces to hinder their progress." That was a mission spirit my brother; these martyrs are on our side. "A general council of clergy was called, the famous Council of Trent," etc. I read this, although it does not properly belong to the discussion, to show you that if he means that those persecutions were against the Regular Baptists alone, he is mistaken—that is all. The Regular Baptists, as a denomination, had no existence at that time. I have no charge to bring against my good Baptist brethren. All this man says in this old dictionary is in favor of the very principles I am talking about this afternoon—that is, the mission principles. It advocates the cause of this blessed Christ, and the giving of the pure, unadulterated gospel to the world, making the light to shine on the hearts of men.
Now, I want to pay a little attention to Mr. Carpenter. I rather admire Mr. Carpenter. When my brother read from this Tract the other day I thought if the whole thing read that way, that man could not be a missionary man. But there is a part of it which Brother Potter did not read. He said he did not mean to pervert it. I do not say that he does intentionally, but he picks out the little selections from this tract of Mr. Carpenter to suit his purpose, and does not read their connection. Here is something in Mr. Carpenter's "Great Commission" that pleases me: "The principle that God is no respecter of persons necessitates this view of the commission. His gospel is for one man as truly as another, for one nation as much as another. As the Word says, 'God so loved the world,' etc.; 'Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world'; 'the field is the world;" 'ye are the light of the world;' the gospel shall be preached in all the world'" My brother denies that the word "world" represents the perishing world. But all the authorities are against him. I proved this to him this morning from his favorite Commentary, Jameson, Fausset and Brown. "Behold the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world." "The field is the world." Jesus says: "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature." Brother Potter refers to Carpenter, speaking of the Golden Rule, and says he disagrees with him when he says that the Golden Rule, "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them," applies preeminently to the preaching of the gospel in heathen lands. I am with Mr. Carpenter on that. We are reaping the blessings of Christianity in the nineteenth century. It gives us our precious homes, our grand society, our Churches with all their privileges, our tender ties in all their beautiful relations, all our sunlight in home and in government in every department of civilized life.
The gospel in the early centuries was carried by the missionaries from Rome up into the northern nations of Europe, and also into Gaul, and from Gaul into Britain. This resulted in the development of those grand men and women who came over the sea and settled in this country, and whose devotion to their principles caused the churches and school-houses to go up side 'by side. It was the great indebtedness our Pilgrim Fathers felt to those who gave them the gospel that induced them to do so' much in this respect for future generations and the world at large in their day. Our Anglo-Saxon forefathers were as bad as any of the idolaters in history. They offered human sacrifices. We are reaping the fruits of what the early missionaries sacrificed for them. Shall we be ungrateful? Shall we not say, "If I cannot go to carry the same good news to others, I will send the means to enable others to carry on the work?" There is one thing more I wish to notice in Brother Potter's speech. It is what he said the missionaries teach when they claim that those who were scattered from Jerusalem by persecution, and went everywhere preaching the Word, did missionary work. The idea of those men not obeying the commission, he says, is a slander against the apostles. I say that the commission was given by a perfect being, the Lord Jesus. If the apostles were perfect, and comprehended the commission in its full import as embracing the Gentiles as well as the Jews, then why did the disciples of Christ, in the commencement of the gospel work, preach to the Jews only up to the time of the revival at Antioch? Why did Peter need that vision on the house-top at Joppa to induce him to go and preach the gospel to Cornelius, the Roman centurion? If he was without national prejudices, and ready cheerfully to obey the gospel commission in its full extent, why did evidence have to be given him, from both the human and divine side, that it was the Lord's will for him to preach the gospel to this Gentile? The fact is, that this 'incident, taken in connection with the strife between, Paul and Barnabas about John Mark accompanying them on their mission tour, and also Paul's rebuke to Peter, when, on a certain occasion, the latter rather sided with the Christian Hebrews in pressing Jewish usages on the Gentile converts, and thereby trammeling their liberties, prove beyond doubt that the apostles, as men, were defective, and influenced by their national prejudices. They were comparatively slow in learning the beneficence and the universal extent of the gospel message.
We will now proceed to notice the objection my opponent finds to the identity of the Foreign Mission work of today with the gospel work of the New Testament. He refers to the statements of Mr. Carpenter concerning the missionary work performed by the disciples. They were scattered abroad by the persecution at Jerusalem, and went everywhere preaching the Word. He urges his objection on the ground that the doctrine taught in these statements, and indorsed by the leading advocates of missions, is that persecution sent forth these laborers to this mission work, and that this idea is in direct conflict with the teaching that the Lord sends forth his laborers in the work. We claim that the Lord sent them by overruling persecution to that end. Owing to the wonderful triumphs of the gospel in Jerusalem, the disciples had become so absorbed in the local work that they had lost sight of the general work for which they had been baptized by the Holy Ghost—"to witness unto the uttermost parts of the earth." This was not from willful neglect on their part, but thoughtlessness, and, in part, ignorance in regard to that phase of the work. The formidable and concentrated effort of the whole body of believers drew the attention and aroused the animosity of Christ's enemies in Jerusalem, and such was the persecution that it dispersed the disciples and forced them to flee; and as they were scattered through the land in every direction, their hearts being filled with the love of Christ for the salvation of souls, they went everywhere preaching the Word, and the Lord blessed their labors. Now, my opponent, in his interpretation of this providence of God in the propagation of the gospel, relinquishes the doctrine of the Bible and the doctrine he claims to believe, that "all things work together for good to them that love God." The Old Testament tells us how Israel was carried away into captivity on account of their sins, and also how the Lord overruled it to the good of his people and the advancement of his cause. The difference between the dispersion of the principal disciples on this occasion and the captivity of Israel was this: Israel's overthrow was caused by willful sin, while this trouble and dispersion came to the early Christians by reason of their imperfect comprehension of the great work entrusted to them, and because they were a little too much absorbed in the local to the neglect of the general work. As the word "mission" means to send, the labors of these fleeing disciples may be properly called mission work. Mission work means to preach and spread the gospel everywhere. So as they went in every direction, preaching and teaching the Word, they were missionaries in spreading and propagating the gospel. When Paul went beyond the seas to preach the gospel, that was not only mission work, but Foreign Mission work, for it was mission work performed in foreign lands. We do not claim that the name "Foreign Mission" can be found in the New Testament, but the principles of the Foreign Mission work are found there. This worthy opponent denies. He says these principles are not in the Bible. This is the issue between us.
I want to call your attention to some passages of Scripture to which I have already called the attention of my brother time and again. I want him to look at them and consider them. I asked him yesterday in regard to some passages of Scripture, and I want to call his attention to them again. Ezek. iii. i8, 19:
"When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life: the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul." That, my friends, is the principle of God's divine government. Here is the responsibility on both sides pictured to you. Here is a statement of the responsibility which rests upon God's servants and the results which will come to the finally impenitent. Then I gave him Prov. i. 24—31. I have heard nothing from this. There are also John i. 29; John iii. 14—17; and John iii. 18, 19.
Now, I have answered his question, and I have shown that the apostle called for fruits as an evidence of faith. He says that he wants to see the fruit. My brother wants to see the fruit. He wants to see the real apple. Now, look at the identity I have shown. I want to repeat that, in the first place. I took the position that there is a perfect identity in every essential feature between the Foreign Mission work and the gospel work as recorded in the New Testament. I showed the first feature of this identity to be in the object and end to be subserved. I quoted Acts xxvi. 17, 18 to prove this. In connection with the treat commission, I showed that the principle of Foreign Missions and the spirit that actuates the missionaries are the same as the principles and spirit of the first disciples. I gave passage of Scripture after passage to prove it. I went on to show that the motive-power was the same. It was compassionate love—love for Jesus and humanity. I showed that the love of Christ constrained those men in the work, and that we are restricted to God's word—to the teaching and command of Jesus in carrying out this commission. I showed the call and preparation of the missionary workers and of the first gospel workers were the same. I showed that in every single instance where a missionary worker has proved to be a success in the foreign field, the call has been brought about by prayer. In prayer it was made known; and in some cases even the very fields were designated through prayer. To prove this, I referred to Duff and others. I referred to the birth of this last great dispensation of the Foreign Mission work, showing how it was brought about by prayer; how the Warwick Association in 1791 set apart a week in each month for prayer, and how the bugle-note of Jonathan Edwards sounded over the seas, calling for a universal concert of prayer by the Church to bring down God's blessing upon the heathen lands and on the Church. I showed how Carey was sent forth and went to India, and I told you of his work and the results. I have given case after case, and Brother Potter has never noticed them. I showed how they prayed at Pentecost, and that the very same spirit of prayer that guided and energized the gospel work guided and energized the Foreign Mission work. I showed that the laborers in the two cases were sent forth in the same way; the Church prayed over them and sent them forth under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Is not the Church called the temple of the Spirit? I showed that those men in the foreign field were sent, after the hands of the Church, through its representatives, were laid upon them, sent out to represent the Church, just as the missionaries of the New Testament were sent out. Did I not show that? Have I not appealed to the fruits of the work, showing that the great transformation of character in those heathen lands is an evidence that the Foreign Mission work is God?
Now, suppose I had admitted all that my brother says and claims about election. Suppose I admit it for the sake of the argument. Would that touch the question under consideration? There are many of the Protestant denominations which believe just as strongly in the special call as he does, and yet this belief inspires them to labor in the Foreign Mission work, and leave the results in God's hands. You see, even if I were to admit his doctrine of election—that would not affect the case. It does not matter whether God does it all, or man is a co-operator in the work. The question is; is mission work authorized in the Bible? By the activity of the primitive Church the gospel was carried into Corinth, and into Ephesus, and Philippi, and Thessalonica, and all these regions. Now, if that was the movement of the Spirit of the living God, why should it be changed? I will ask if it is not as necessary today to go and preach the gospel to every creature as it was then?
I this morning showed that the great spiritual prosperity with which the Churches engaged in the Foreign Mission work are blessed proves that God owns and blesses this work. When I referred to my Baptist brethren, my brother seemed to think that I was misrepresenting them. I want to quote now from Peel's Popular Educator, a good work on the statistics of the different religious denominations; and these statistics are taken from the census of the United States of 1880: "Anti-mission Baptists, 40,000." I got the other statistics I gave on the subject from the Baptist Missionary Magazine. Now, I only brought this up for the sake of the argument, to show that where Churches do not possess the Foreign Mission spirit, it limits them in their usefulness, and decreases their vital power and growth. The book I quoted from this morning, in regard to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, gave the statistics for 1869. We number now about 125,000, but we have been existing as a distinct denomination for only about seventy-five years. But this brother's Church, he says, has been existing since the days of the apostles, and has 40,000. Now, my friends, I want you to look at the matter. We claim that in the seventy-five years we have not done our whole duty. It is true that we, as a Church, attempted to plant a mission in Africa just before our recent war. The war came on before our mission was firmly established, and the Cumberland Presbyterian Church being mostly in the South, the work had to be relinquished. When, through the working of Divine Providence, in 1872, the way was seen to be open for the propagation of the gospel in Japan, the attention of our Church was turned in that direction. In 1877 we planted our present mission in the city of Osaka, the population of which is about 370,000. Although our mission is young, the work is meeting with marked success. Four missionaries have been sent out by the Mission Board of the General Assembly—viz., the Rev. A. D. Hail and the Rev. J. B. Hail, and their wives. The Woman's Missionary Board of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church has also sent out four ladies to labor as missionaries in Japan. Our Woman's Missionary Board was organized in Dr. Darby's church, Evansville, Ind., in May, 1880. They sent out their first two missionaries in September 1881.
As I have intimated, these missionaries have already been instrumental in leading many souls to Christ. We have established in Japan an Orphanage and a Training-School, as well as a church. The ladies of the Woman's Missionary Society have succeeded in raising sufficient funds to purchase the grounds and erect the building for the Orphanage and Training School. I am informed that the building is in process of erection. The continual call of our missionaries over there is for more laborers to aid in the work. The demands for gospel instruction are greater than they can meet. They are continually thronged with starving souls, hungering for the salvation revealed by the loving Christ. Mrs. Drennan, the lady who is at the head of our Training School, says: "One of the most interesting features of our school now is the fine spiritual feeling and growth in grace among the girls. Every one of our girls over ten years old, except one of that age who came in a short time since, has been happily converted." Our two male missionaries, the Rev. A. D. Hail, and his brother, the Rev. J. B. Hail, make regular preaching and teaching tours to inland districts. On nearly every trip, converts from heathenism to Christ, from sin to holiness, anxiously await their coming, to be examined upon their religious experience, in view of being received into the communion of the Church.
Miss Orr, the first missionary accepted by the Woman's Board, makes many missionary tours alone into the interior for scores of miles. The Lord is opening to her many doors of usefulness in this work. Many educated men of the Japanese, among them officers of the government, come to inquire of her about the religion of the Bible. Buddhist priests are seeking the Christian religion for their children, because they think it teaches a purer morality. Miss Julia Leavitt, of Bloomfield, Ind., one of the first two missionaries sent out by our Woman's Mission Board, is having excellent success in teaching the gospel to the Japanese women in their homes, and also in our chapel in the city of Osaka. In a letter to the Secretary of the Woman's Board of Missions, after describing her efforts, by the help of the Lord, to get the gospel truths into the heart of an inquiring, earnest, educated Japanese lady, and her joy at beholding the change wrought in the woman's soul by the Spirit of God, as reflected in her countenance, she says: "Now, my dear friends, it is for some one to answer the questions of inquiring minds like these, and to awake in those still dead in sin a thirst for the truth, that we ask again and again, Is there no one coming to help us? We need workers filled with the Spirit, and ready to follow humbly the Master, who loved not his own life. O may the Lord call such as he will, and send them to this harvest field." This Miss Leavitt is an only child of a widowed mother. One year after this young lady went to Japan, while in the train on my way to Synod, I had a very satisfactory conversation with the mother concerning the history of Miss Leavitt's Christian experience, and her call to the foreign field. She said her daughter professed to find peace in Jesus when quite a child, and that she had lived a consistent Christian life up to the time of her departure, and that she had received a good, fair, common-school education, and had started out to teach school, seeking to help support he; widowed mother. Her mother said she noticed her daughter had been thoughtful for several weeks, and seemed to be growing in devotion. She did not ask her the cause, but at last the daughter said: "Mother, I have noticed in the papers the call which is ringing over the sea from the Sunrise Empire. They say they want more workers, and I am thinking about going." And she answered: "Daughter, put off that matter. Weigh it and pray over it. How will I get along without you? What would your poor, widowed, mother do?" She said: "If the Lord is in it, it will be all right." That is true. I believe that doctrine with all my heart. What was the result? That girl prayed, and consulted over the matter both with her friends and her Lord, and became deeply convinced that it was her duty to go. At Evansville, in 1881, she and her associate, Miss Orr, had the hands of ordination placed upon their heads by Dr. Bell, the president of the General Assembly's Board of Missions, as the representative of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. That was an hour long to be remembered, on account of the outpouring of God's Spirit. Prayers went up from many hearts for them, and for God's blessing on their efforts in the work. As the Christian friends of that great congregation took them by the hand to bid them farewell they heard uttered many times, "May God bless you!" from many earnest and tender hearts. This girl writes back thus to her mother: "Mother, I cannot be lonely, though you are nearer to me than you have ever been. I love Indiana, but I love the Japanese, and delight to tell the love of Jesus to these people. My hands are full, my heart is full."
Now, my friends, we see in the case of this young lady a clear demonstration of the call of God to the work of the foreign field, and she is only a sample of the rest of our earnest workers there, and of all missionary laborers who have consulted the Lord, in regard to their work on the foreign field, through the Holy Spirit by prayer. Thank the Lord for so wonderfully guiding and blessing our missionary laborers in propagating the gospel among the Japanese, in connection with the numerous missionaries of the different Christian denominations. My worthy opponent, in his attempt to show that Foreign Missions are a failure, spoke disparagingly of the mission work in Japan. My brother made light of 9,971 converts in Japan, yet he knows that the missionaries were not permitted to preach publicly until 1872. That is a good work. In 1878 there were 60,000 professed converts in the heathen lands brought in to Jesus. Did I say "brought in"? I will say "drawn." I will use Brother Potter's word; that is good—drawn by the blessed Spirit of God, through the Word, to Jesus, and saved from their sins, washed and cleansed in the blood of the Lamb. As to the success of the Foreign Mission work, I will quote from the pen of the Rev. William M. Taylor, the editor of the Christian at Work. A more competent, earnest witness could not be adduced, or one whose opinion has more weight. In the Christian at Work, in November, 1878, he says:
"Notwithstanding the splendid achievements of missions, the poor skeptic, with closed eyes and shut ears against the truth, still propounds his silly inquiry as to what valuable results have been accomplished. But in the clear light of today, scattered abroad 'by lightning presses, his foolish sneer and silly insinuation have no longer power to disquiet timid minds or mislead any. The world, as well as the Church, has learned to estimate the self-sacrifice and labors of the missionary at something like their true value. Take but a single item:
Since the beginning of modern missions the Bible has been translated into two hundred and fourteen languages, spoken by 850,000,000 of human beings, and distributed at the rate of nearly twelve every minute. All this has been done by missionaries. Nearly fifty of the languages referred to never had a written form until the missionaries created it; and through these written forms access may now be had to all the learning of the world. As against an increase of eight and a half per cent in Hindoo population, and five per cent. in Mohammedan, the present increase of the Christian population throughout the world equals sixty-six per cent.
There has never been a time in the history of missions when they were in such a prosperous condition as now. The Church has reason to rejoice as she looks out over her great mission fields. The good seed sown in the past is everywhere ripening into precious fruit. The labors and sufferings of missionaries during the past century, aided by the prayers of God's people everywhere, laid the foundation for the grand work now going on, and which is so full of glorious promise for the future. Not only are the tribes of India renouncing idolatry and uniting themselves with us; not only is Japan rapidly embracing the truths of Christianity, almost realizing the 'birth of a nation in a day;' but the fields of mission work everywhere are being stimulated through these triumphs to more vigorous zeal and enlarged liberality in their own home mission fields."
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Keuka College established the award to recognize those individuals who exemplify its historic commitment to the value and benefit of using individual initiative for the common good.
The award was named after the first recipients of the award, Penn Yan residents Corinne Stork and the late Donald Stork, in 1991.
Carlson also received a proclamation written by New York State Senator Tom O'Mara and New York State Assemblyman Philip Palmesano which was presented by Keuka College's Vice President for Advancement and External Affairs Amy Storey. On behalf of the New York State Legislature, the proclamation acknowledged Carlson's service to her community.
Among the Yates County organizations that have benefitted from Carlson's time and talents are the Once Again Shoppe, Keuka Comfort Care Home, the American Red Cross, and the First Presbyterian Church.
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For those that don't know about it, it follows the U.S. 2004 Athens Olympic hopefuls in MTB as they race around the world to gain enough points to qualify. Only one U.S. woman and two U.S. men would be selected. Very well put together.


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Life is fun when you have no dignity. -- Sneakeater, 22 April 2016 - 11:03 PM
notorious stickler -- NY Times
deeply annoying and nitpicking -- Molly O'Neill, One Big Table
Posted 11 May 2012 - 04:30 AM
I was trying to figure out what the hell this place was all about.
I even waved the chef over and asked him to explain his concept to me. He wasn't really able to. At least not to my satisfaction.
Then finally, as they were reeling off the umpteen components of the ensuing creation, I totally figured it out:
Atera - Ingredient Fetish Extragavanza !
Atera - Theatre not Dining !
Atera - Les pupilles pas les papilles ! (Visuals dominate over pure taste)
Atera - Come to us more for Unusualness than Deliciousness !
Anyone can do delicious. But can you do unusual ?
Can you entice and intrigue the eyes enough such that your tongue is relegated to second fiddle ?
It's a worthy question ...
All that said, investing $150 at Atera is a wiser sunk cost than $115 flung at Jung Sik.
Assuming that you can get in, of course.
Posted 11 May 2012 - 03:40 PM
sandwiches that are large and filling and do not contain tuna or prawns
Posted 11 May 2012 - 07:54 PM
Why then, are the bottles I know, even the more expensive ones, marked to 300% of current retail?
sandwiches that are large and filling and do not contain tuna or prawns
Posted 14 May 2012 - 04:49 PM
Let me elaborate on this one-liner so it is not misconstrued.
All that said, investing $150 at Atera is a wiser sunk cost than $115 flung at Jung Sik.
I think it is a perfectly reasonable, if not a very good, idea for various folks among us here to go to Jung Sik. I think it's priced fairly. It can be an enjoyable fine dining meal where diners can order off a menu and eat very pretty food with very civilized service (just avoid the young caucasian server guy I had). Also note that this place doesn't feel like Tribeca at all.
As a counterpoint, from a design and feel perspective, Atera is a total frickin bullseye on a spin at a cool Tribeca resto. Given their concept, they just so totally nailed Tribeca.
But Atera is not really about any conventional fine dining experience. Atera is about a way-out-there chef saying "Look Mom ! No hands !!" as he careens aimlessly on his moutain bike and leads you through a meadow, a forest, passes by a brook, hugs a coastline and all the while he is gathering various odds and ends along the way - picking up herbs, flowers, leaves, digging up some roots, gathering some sticks and stones and trapping a bit of shellfish too. And then he manipulates and combines them in strange ways and serves them to you as if you are still out on the nature path. I'm sure many are scratching their heads reading this, but go there and come back and read this paragraph and you'll see that it's on point.
Hence, for a mere $35 more than Jung Sik, you too can go on this loopy food ride. But it's a wild ride of imagination and naturalistic creation as opposed to aiming for mere, mundane deliciousness. That doesn't mean the food is bad - no, not at all (well, that seeded, malt cracker wasn't really all that great ...). It means the food is often more interesting and unusual than delicious. Could aiming single-mindedly for conventional deliciousness be a narrow-minded goal. I believe that this chef believes just that (whether he realizes it or not).
The service was very good and the service is done in a cool, earnest yet ironic way that understands the folly and humor present in the overall progression. For me, I really enjoyed when the person next to me would receive their plates and the corresponding description. He was four-ish dishes behind us. When you watch the presentation / description, having already experienced it, it's actually kind of funny. I would start laughing to myself when listening and observing.
For me, this place is more like a piece of theatre than a restaurant. For me, restaurants are places that I want to enjoy, get to know the people, go back to time and again and create a relationship with. Atera is not that, at least not for me. Atera, like a good piece of theatre, is something that you should see and experience at least once. And once may be plenty for many.
I've forgotten about my Jung Sik meal. I'm still giggling about Atera.
Server: "How did you like your rock ?" (upon taking away my first dessert)
Chambo: "I enjoyed it. I mean, as far as rocks go, that was a pretty darn good one."
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I think your penultimate post was really good. I think you're pointing to the way a whole new kind of restaurant is proliferating. While I kind of like them, I'm basically ambivalent. I get the feeling you are, too.
They have the advantage of being very good, mostly, and the disadvantage that there's really no reason to ever go back.
sandwiches that are large and filling and do not contain tuna or prawns
Posted 14 May 2012 - 05:25 PM
That's a dried beet with trout roe and an uni-crustacean sauce. As far as sauced, dried beets go, this was pretty darn good.
Posted 14 May 2012 - 05:26 PM
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Posted 14 May 2012 - 05:39 PM
It comes out in one nice, large chunk - not too visually far away from a rock. (Notice the ashes on my charcoal )
The server, as earnest as ever, says solemnly "You're next dessert is Charcoal".
How can you not giggle just a tad?
He then proceeds to break up the charcoal.
In fact, it's some weird aerated chocolate that's served on top of some (I'm sure weird) ice cream. My charcoal didn't really taste good (not much chocolate favor going on there) although I believe the ice cream was good, even if I can't recall the flavor. But did I like my charcoal dessert ? Sure - it was the best charcoal I've ever eaten.
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To date, market dictates being what they are, I've not set any of my stories in South Africa. Instead I've traveled down Welsh country roads in the Google car, trundled up Romanian mountains courtesy of the Google satellite and spent hours on YouTube and Google Images searching out a sense of place. Honestly, you want to travel? Technology makes it possible so that you need never leave home.
Now, however, in a complete turnaround, I've finally decide to create a story set in my home region.
It has, in many ways, proved to be a whole lot of fun – it's also reminded me how well I know parts of my own country. And, it's highlighted how dangerous the writer's life can be – all in the name of research.
There I was, in a coastal village, about two hours from Cape Town, having some time out, and doing a load of research. Curiously, some of the stuff I thought I'd have to make up about this seemingly chilled place turned out to exist in reality. Grim reality. Think drugs and gangs and abject poverty. Stories I heard bore out the undercurrents of violence and simmering resentment flowing through what to the tourist eye looks like an idyllic resort brim-full of bobbing fishing dinghies and whitewashed cottages. And all of this set along a crescent of white beach with gently rolling waves bordered by shades of blue that stretch on forever. Duality at work. Gloriously so. Just the sort of thing to that makes place into a fascinating, unpredictable and dangerous character...
Just how dangerous I didn't realise until we were leaving – and had one of those experiences that goes straight into a manuscript.
We pulled up at the local general dealer/post office/petrol station and cash machine place.
A toothless old woman and a mangy dog crouched on the shady steps leading to the shop. A battered Golf idled in front of the petrol pumps. One guy, large and sweaty, leaned on the roof of the car, another hung over the back door, two more squashed together on the back seat and another strutted towards the car and planted a litre bottle of beer on the bonnet. It was too good an opportunity not to record.
I dug out my camera and raised it.
A strident voice bellowed in Afrikaans, "She's going to take your photo! She's going to take your photo!"
I took one look at the guy who no longer hung over the back door, but who stood agitated and aggressive, eyeballing me. The verbal imagery helter skelter eyes sprung to mind.
I know enough about the place I live in, enough about the effect of certain drugs on behaviour. It didn't take rocket science to realise the guy was high on crystal meth - and that these guys were drug dealers from the city.
I dropped my camera. Sat silent, unphased - and watched them. I don't like to be cowed. The leader of the pack, the guy with the beer bottle turned around – his attitude bolshy, full of it.
"She's going to take your picture!" The agitated guy bayed again.
The leader looked at me with hardened eyes, smiled wolfishly and roared. "You take my picture, I'll shoot you dead!" And with that he cocked his hand at me and fired off an imaginary bullet.
They leapt into the car and amidst squealing tyres and the smoke of burning rubber, they shot onto the road and bombed off through a sea of rolling green wheat fields.
Didn't take rocket science to realise they are probably also wanted by the police.
Oh the things writers get to experience in the name of research!
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All in the name of research...
Posted by Nicky Schmidt at Sunday, August 18, 2013
Labels: Nicky Schmidt, place, research, South Africa, writing
4 comments:
- Candy Gourlay said...
Bloody hell. Relieved nothing happened!
- August 19, 2013 at 6:53 AM
- Jan said...
I hope this hasn't given you a taste for danger:)
- August 20, 2013 at 9:47 AM
- Nicky Schmidt said...
Candy, I suspect being in broad daylight and looking obviously touristy helped! We do like to say around here, "hug a tourist, don't mug a tourist"! ;-)
Jan, only slightly! ;-)
- August 20, 2013 at 10:18 AM
- Sue Hyams said...
Good grief! Please stick to photographing the beautiful skies instead!3
- September 18, 2013 at 5:56 AM
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Larger thrombolytic studies have found that patients with ST elevation or new LBBB have a greater reduction in mortality compared to those with other ECG variants of infarction. Congruent with this, the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology have stated "ample evidence exists that persons with suspected myocardial infarction and ST-segment elevation or bundle branch block should undergo immediate reperfusion..". Where and how this reperfusion is best achieved is a situation specific issue but with new single bolus thrombolytic agents now available many ambulance services are already initiating thrombolysis before hospital.
Numerous studies have demonstrated that pre-hospital 12 lead ECGs do decrease 'door to needle times' but whether one considers, 'door to needle time' or 'call to needle time', these measures do not specify the seemingly more critical, but far more difficult to define, measure and control interval from 'symptom onset to reperfusion time'.
With most Intensive Care Paramedic Ambulances in Queensland now equipped with 12 lead ECGs and approximately 19 000 cases of chest pain being managed by paramedics across Queensland each year, we undertook a pilot study to investigate;
1. whether ICPs can accurately identify patients for thrombolysis and 2. the potential for ICPs to administer a thrombolytic agent within clinically significant and internationally benchmarked time frames from onset of symptoms.
This presentation outlines the underpinning rationales, structure and results of this pilot study, and makes comment about the potential efficacy, safety and usefulness of pre-hospital thrombolysis in Queensland.
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"Early identification of patients for thrombolysis by Intensive Care Paramedics: A Pilot Study".
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1. Gregory A. Jones (Lakeland), Two-Piece Chair, 1997, acrylic and mixed media, Best in Show 1998
If you follow the Boca Raton Museum of Art at all you know about our annual juried competition, but do you really know what it's all about?
It's about supporting and promoting exposure for Florida artists and giving our community an opportunity to see what's happening in the arts in their own backyard.
It is a showcase of the best in emerging and professional artists in Florida, is the state's oldest annual juried competition and is a way for the museum to reinforce its commitment to local artists.
This year's accepted entries for the 62nd installment are installed right now through July 14th.
Started in 1951, this competition displays a variety of photographs, drawings, videos, paintings, sculpture and mixed media that come together to represent a myriad of artistic expression. While the competition has always had cash prizes, it wasn't until 1998 when the title of "Best in Show" was distinguished. Gregory A. Jones from Lakeland was the first to win this honor with his painting Two-Piece Chair (1.) and is still dominating similar competitions. Last year he won (for the third time) Best in Show at the 47th annual DeLand Outdoor Art Festival.
Our Best in Show winners represent local artistic talent who have achieved recognition in the arts beyond just the Boca Museum.
Carol Prusa is an artist from Boca Raton who is frequently featured in our annual exhibition and has been awarded several times. Her From our Belly, (4.) 2003 was awarded Best in Show but she has also won several Merit awards throughout the years. Most recently she was represented by Bernice Steinbaum Gallery in Miami (2011) as well as at Coleman Burke Gallery in Chelsea in New York City (2010) and she is now represented by Zadok Gallery in Wynwood, Miami.Another Boca winner from 2004 is Denise Moody Tackley with Is It So? #2 (5.). Her artwork deals with the deconstruction of the American feminine myth. Her work was most recently shown at the 10th International Open at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago. Lou Ann Colodny (6.) was the founding director of MoCA, Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami and director of its precursor, COCA for 15 years. She has works in the permanent collection of the Miami Museum of Art, the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona, MoCA, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami-Dade Public Library Collection, and the Okaloosa-Walton College in Niceville. Colodny has exhibited all over South Florida and has made quite a name for herself with her videos, drawings, installations and photographic work.Pip Brant (8.), a fiber style artist, uses a plethora of found materials in her work. Brant has exhibited her work in the United States and abroad in Belfast, Ireland, Lithuania and London, England. She was awarded the South Florida Cultural Consortium for Visual and Media Arts for Tabled Reports.Vanessa Diaz's sculpture The Offering (12.) 2012 was last year's recipient of Best in Show. The mixed-media work is a combination of furniture pieces that come together to create a surreal yet organic piece which justly earned its title. Our juror's selections represent the best Florida artists have to offer and we relish the opportunity to present their creations to the public. Come on out to the current show to see this year's winner for his body of work, Geoff Hamel's (13) monumental colored pencil works.


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|Low Speed Vehicles (LSVs) Reduce Carbon Footprint, Increase Fun
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|Written by Betty Sosnin
|Friday, 24 August 2012 11:21
Low-Speed Vehicles (LSVs): Cool, Affordable, Earth-friendly Rides
Augusta, Ga. (Aug. 21, 2012) – October 15 is National Alternative Fuel Vehicle Day and a good time to answer a question many people ask when they catch their first glimpse of a low-speed vehicle (LSV): What the heck is that?
These small, bright, Euro-style cars — also known as neighborhood electric vehicles — look more like something you'd see in Barcelona than Boston. Yet they're turning heads from Manhattan's Upper East Side to South Beach to San Diego.
"LSVs are the automotive equivalent of the slow-food movement," says Mary A. Sicard, consumer marketing manager at Club Car, the manufacturer of the Villager LSV. "They're timely, intelligent and cool. What's more, they encourage the slower-paced lifestyle so many people want."
Clean, Green Driving Machines
These electric, emissions-free cars are especially popular among people who care about the environment. Many of them know that every gallon of gas burned by a conventional car creates about 20 pounds of carbon dioxide for an annual average of six tons of carbon dioxide per car.
One of the best ways to reduce your carbon footprint is to drive an electric car. The Department of Energy's Clean Cities Initiative's Alternative Transportation Program reports that electric vehicles have saved nearly three billion gallons of petroleum since 1993.
Enjoy the Ride of Your Life
Stuffy gas guzzlers tend to isolate people from one another and the environment. LSVs, on the other hand, are open to sights, scents and sounds. These small, nimble vehicles make it easy for drivers to stop at shops, restaurants and to chat with friends. They foster social interaction and integrate shopping and dining into the fabric of your life. And they're silent. No revving engines or backfiring.
"Residents of gated, retirement and urban communities are using their Villager LSVs for neighborhood transportation, shopping, running errands, dropping kids off at school, going out to dinner, zipping to the gym or just cruising," Sicard says. "These vehicles make driving a pleasure, not just a means to an end."
Although people sometimes mistake them for golf cars, LSVs are often a more practical choice for neighborhood transportation.
LSVs vs. PTVs vs. Golf Cars
A PTV is a vehicle with a maximum speed of less than 20 mph that is for personal use. They may be powered by gasoline or electricity and driven on public roads as defined by state and local laws for purposes unrelated to golf. PTVs are not classified as motor vehicles under federal law and are not regulated by the NHTSA but by state and local governments.
The LSV is classified as a motor vehicle and regulated by the NHTSA. These vehicles travel at speeds between 20 -25 mph. They are allowed on streets with speed limits of 35 mph or less in most states. But they must have vehicle identification numbers, be registered and insured, and be equipped with windshields, turn signals, head and tail lights, seat belts and other safety equipment.
Here's the rub. Original manufacturers of golf cars keep the maximum speed below 15 mph. Yet owners sometimes have their vehicles modified to increase the speed. According to Fred Somers, secretary, treasurer and legal counsel for the International Light Transportation Vehicle Association (ILTVA), an organization that regulates and promotes the safety of golf cars and other small four-wheel vehicles, this can have ramifications that many owners are unaware of.
"If a golf car is modified to go 20–25 mph, it becomes by definition an LSV and is subject to the NHTSA requirements. In effect, many people are driving LSVs when they think they are driving golf cars," he says.
Here are the major differences between PTVs and LSVs:
Slash Your Transportation Costs
In the United States, LSVs cost about half as much to operate as gas-powered vehicles.
"Villager LSVs can be charged through a standard 110-volt outlet, so you won't have to pay $300 - $1,500 to install a 220-volt outlet as you would to juice an electric car. And you'll get up to 30 miles from a six-hour charge," Sicard says.
Take the Path Less Traveled
Since LSVs are so compact, nimble and easy to park, they're great for retirement and gated communities, motor home owners, second homes, beach front living, college campuses, military bases, industrial plants, small towns, urban environments with congested driving and parking conditions and many other areas.
Distinctively Yours
The Villager LSV, for example, accommodates a range of options designed specifically for the vehicle. These include a whisper-quiet cooling system, stereos and MP3 players, sporty upholstery, a 12-volt accessory outlet, luxury dashes, a single point battery watering system for easy maintenance, and a cargo bed for hauling groceries, golf clubs and gym gear.
If you're ready to transcend the ordinary, stop by your local Authorized Club Car dealer and test drive a Villager LSV today. To find a dealer near you, visit www.clubcar.com and select "dealer locator."
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Club Car is part of the Industrial Technology Sector of Ingersoll Rand, and is based in Augusta, Ga. Visit www.clubcar.com.
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Fighters Only Guest Column, March 2012 - I'm 32 and my wife tells me she thinks they're going to need an intervention to get me to retire. And, the truth is, I really don't know how long I'll fight. I get asked a lot about when I am going to call it day, but the only thing I can say is I don't think I'm going to be in the game as long as someone such as Randy Couture, who bowed out at 47.
I'll always be a martial artist, obviously. I'll start thinking about it when the consequences of the sport outweigh the benefits. If I were pushed for an answer I'd say I'll stop within the next five years. The reason being, my children. I don't want to take away from their lives.
I see too many people, not only athletes but other people who are very successful, where their occupation requires a lot of sacrifices in order to excel. I don't want to make those sacrifices anymore when it means not going to my daughter's soccer game, or my son's wrestling matches, or a spelling bee that my kids are competing in. No amount of money and no title could replace those moments in life. What else is there to live for?
But, there are plenty of challenges ahead in the Octagon before I do call time. Obviously you always want to fight the best. Cain Velasquez and Fabricio Werdum would be intriguing bouts. I don't think there's anybody I wouldn't want to fight, to be honest. Everyone poses their own individual issues and problems. Werdum has his ground skills, his guard, and his very well-developed stand-up game poses a threat.
Alistair Overeem is probably the best all-around striker in the heavyweight division. I mean, the guy has a K-1 title under his belt. None of the heavyweight MMA guys have really topped that, aside from Mark Hunt, but certainly no one top five in the division. I'm sure I'll meet them all.
Like in all combat sports, the heavyweight division in mixed martial arts isn't that deep. A lot of times the top guys keep cycling through each other. I've already settled the score with Nogueira, though, so that's one off the list.
However, I know I'm not going down to light heavyweight any time soon. That was kind of a crazy little pipe dream I had. At the time it seemed like it made more sense; there were so many more fights for me there. But now there's Jon Jones so I guess I'll stay a heavyweight. There's talk he could make heavyweight in a few years as he bulks out but he doesn't like to eat that much, at least, I hope.
Between Jon Jones and the UFC's blockbuster year in 2011 it's hard not to think of the future. I went to UFC 129 in April, attended by 55,000 people in the Rogers Centre in Toronto. It was an amazing experience. Sitting ringside in the middle of a baseball field, it was unbelievable to look around and see that many people in a stadium.
I really don't know when the UFC's popularity is going to hit the ceiling. Every time people tell me, 'They're eventually going to stop selling tickets and pay-per-views,' because we're increasing the number of events each year all the time. And with Strikeforce we're basically having fights every week or even four or five times a month. But obviously if the UFC brass keeps putting pay-per-view events out there they're still being purchased. I don't really see an end to it. Obviously, everything tops off, but I don't know when or if this will.
When my time competing in the sport is over, I guess I'd really like to move back into commentating and coaching for MMA. But my biggest thing is to be a full-time father. I don't want my children to be Frank Mir's kids, I want to be Isabella's father. To be known as that would make me happy.
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Ben Affleck really went to town at the box office this weekend. The actor/director/co-screenwriter of 'The Town' saw his crime drama perform much better than expected in its debut, taking in an estimated $23.8 million to open in first place and upsetting the widely predicted winner, fellow newbie 'Easy A.'
Affleck's film, his second as a director, was expected to open in second place with a take of around $15 to $17 million. Credit its overperformance to strong reviews and positive word of mouth, as well as its status as the first serious dramatic Oscar hopeful to come out of the gate this season. In fact, the movie wound up doing better in its first three days than the $20.3 million that Affleck's previous film, the similar Boston crime thriller 'Gone Baby Gone,' earned during its entire run in 2007.
It was 'Easy A' that was supposed to have an easy path to No. 1 this weekend. It's the only new comedy, with a youth-friendly PG-13 rating, broad appeal to teens of both sexes (and to adults who remember the John Hughes teen comedies of the '80s to which 'Easy A' frequently tips its hat) and positive reviews, especially for its appealing star, Emma Stone. Although the movie had to settle for second place, it still earned about as much as expected, taking in an estimated $18.2 million.
img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" align="right" id="vimage_3375381" alt="Devil" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/blog.moviefone.com/media/2010/09/devilbojanalookingup.jpg" />The rest of the box office battle played out more or less as predicted. Opening in third place was 'Devil,' the only new horror film of the week. The movie, the first in the 'Night Chronicles' series of low-budget horror releases produced by M. Night Shyamalan, 'Devil' scared up an estimated $12.6 million.
'Devil' had to share a genre audience with last week's champ, 'Resident Evil: Afterlife.' That film slipped to fourth place and lost 62 percent of its business, for an estimated take of $10.1 million. That second-week drop is typical for this franchise, but with a total so far of $44 million, 'Afterlife' is on target to be the highest grossing of the four 'Resident Evil' movies.
Opening in fifth place was the 3-D animal cartoon 'Alpha and Omega' opened with just $9.2 million. It was the only new children's film in a marketplace currently devoid of family fare, but its marketing campaign was barely visible, so few kids and their parents were likely aware of the film. Plus, it had to fight the zombies of 'Resident Evil' for 3-D screen real estate.
Near the bottom of the top 10, 'Inception' and 'The Other Guys' were only an estimated $15,000 apart in the battle for eighth place, while 'Machete' and 'Eat Pray Love' were in a dead heat at $1.7 million each in the fight for the No. 10 spot. When final numbers come in on Monday, it's likely that only one of those last two movies will get to keep its top 10 bragging rights.
The full top 10:
1. 'The Town,' $23.8 million (2,861 screens), new release
2. 'Easy A,' $18.2 million (2,856), new release
3. 'Devil,' $12.6 million (2,809), new release
4. 'Resident Evil: Afterlife,' $10.1 million (3,209), $44.0 million total
5. 'Alpha and Omega,' $9.2 million (2,625), new release
6. 'Takers,' $3.0 million (2,139), $52.3 million
7. 'The American,' $2.8 million (2,457 screens), $32.9 million
8. 'Inception,' $2.02 million (1,305), $285.2 million
9. 'The Other Guys,' $2.0 million (1,827), $115.4 million
10. 'Machete,' $1.7 million (1,704), $24.3 million
10. 'Eat Pray Love,' $1.7 million (1,668), $77.7 million
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Miami, April 25, 2014 -
Inspired by the beauty of China's Silk Road, China's world-renowned Northwest Normal University Performing Art Troupe will perform its colorful and highly-energetic variety show, "Magic & Splendor from the Silk Road," at Miami Dade College's (MDC) Wolfson, Kendall and North Campuses May 8-9. Through dance, singing, instrumental music, drama and martial arts, the 25-member troupe will showcase the multi-cultural and multi-lingual traditions of China's majestic Northwest region. Show times and locations are as follows:
Wolfson Campus, Thursday, May 8
11 a.m. – 12:15 p.m., (Building 1, Auditorium, room 1261)
300 NE Second Ave.
Kendall Campus, Friday, May 9
1– 2:15 p.m. (Building G, Gymnasium, room 110)
11011 SW 104 St.
North Campus, Friday, May 9
7– 8:30 p.m. (Building 5, Lehman Theater)
11380 NW 27 Ave.
Presented by MDC's prestigious Confucius Institute (CI), the performances commemorate Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. The troupe is distinguished as one of the finest college performing art groups in China, representing a diverse range of live art forms from the nation's vast Northwestern region. The troupe has toured throughout China and performed live throughout Asia, Europe and Africa.
This event is sponsored by the Confucius Institute Headquarters/Hanban, and co-sponsored by the Asian American Advisory Board of Miami-Dade County, the Chinese Association of Science, Education and Culture of South Florida (CASEC), and the Federation of Florida Chinese Associations (FOFCA)
The performances are free and open to the public. Seating will be limited, so guests are required to RSVP and should arrive early. Donations will be accepted at each show to support the Student Scholarship Funds of Asian American Advisory Board of Miami-Dade County.
For more information and to RSVP, call the CI at 305-237-7754 or email Katherine Cespedes Farfan at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Media-only contacts:
Juan Mendieta, 305-237-7611, firstname.lastname@example.com, MDC communications director Tere Estorino Florin, 305-237-3949, email@example.com, MDC media relations directorKai Hill, 305-237-3359, email@example.com, media specialistSue Arrowsmith, 305-237-3710, email@example.com, media specialistRoxana Romero, 305-237-3366, firstname.lastname@example.com, media specialistAlejandro Rios, 305-237-7482, firstname.lastname@example.com


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Ciara and Future have revealed the sex of their baby! Listen to HeadKrack's Hip-Hop Spot in the audio player to find out if it's a boy or girl!
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In early 1947, a young woman's murder rocked Los Angeles, California. Her name was Elizabeth Short, but newspapers called her "The Black Dahlia", with photos of her mutilated corpse covering their front pages. In the years since, a good number of fictional tales have been crafted around the Black Dahlia case, but never one you can play. Until now, that is.
L.A. Noire is a film-noire style detective videogame developed by Team Bondi and published by Rockstar Games. The game tells the story of Cole Phelps (played by Mad Men's Aaron Staton), an up and coming LAPD officer as he tracks down the Black Dahlia murderer. In addition to an open-world recreation of 1947 Los Angeles, L.A. Noire utilizes a revolutionary new motion capture technique that recreates fully realistic facial acting in game. More than just window-dressing, the developers say that this technology will be used to create a lie-detection mechanic never before seen in a videogame.
Paste spoke to Team Bondi head Brendan McNamara about the technology, the design, and the story behind one of 2011's most interesting-looking games.
Paste: How, if at all, will the game train players in how to read faces and detect lies?
McNamara: We're using some groundbreaking facial animation technology in L.A. Noire called MotionScan. It is much different than traditional voice-over work in video games where you have a VO (voice-over) actor in a dark room reading through their lines. With MotionScan, we're able to capture an actor's entire performance and digitally recreate it in-game. The result is incredibly life-life and exudes unparalleled levels of emotion and nuance. Players can now pick out the tiniest of details - furrowed brows, curled lips, flared nostrils, etc. - to analyze and determine whether or not they're being lied to. There isn't a formal tutorial on how to pick out when a person is lying, because everyone lies a little differently. Instead we ask that players pay attention to the behaviors of their interviewee, use their skills of intuition and deduction, and, finally, to trust their instincts. If a player simply sucks at interrogation, how forgiving will the game be?
McNamara: We recognize that L.A. Noire will draw all types of players with various levels of experience and skills. The goal wasn't to make a punishingly difficult experience for newcomers, or a game that felt too easy for the hardcore. Proficiency in interrogations can reward the player in a number of ways: a new clue may surface, an expedited path to the end of the case may present itself, perhaps a side story of a character unfolds. We want to reward and encourage players to strive for the truth in every interrogation, but we understand that, sometimes, you just get it wrong. And that's okay. Players will never fail a case or their progress impeded for performing dismally in an interrogation. They may just have a longer road to travel to the truth. We also recognise that women appear to be much better at reading lies than men.
Will some crimes simply be unsolvable if you can't break the suspect or get a confession?
McNamara: The main thrust of the narrative dictates that Phelps solves cases and moves through the ranks of the LAPD. Every case has their own fail conditions, of course, but as I mentioned earlier, we don't want a player's inability to correctly analyze suspects to prevent them from proceeding on in the case. Obviously you can fail because a game by its nature is a contest. One of the nice things about the game is that many of the cases have alternative routes throughout that different players will experience differently. Will there be some cases that can be solved exclusively without violence and vice versa?
McNamara: The level of action varies greatly from case to case. Many cases are solvable without the need for violence. For example, instead of pulling out his gun and shooting a fleeing suspect, Phelps can fire a warning shot that stops the person in their tracks. Other times, Phelps has little choice but to roll up his sleeves and pursue justice using deadly force. It becomes a balancing act between introducing players to a radically different type of gameplay and also maintaining a level of comfort and familiarity.
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Carhartt appoints Brian Juszak to director of retail marketing
| July 26, 2011 |
Carhartt, a global manufacturer of premium work wear, recently added Brian Juszak as the director of retail marketing. As director of retail marketing, Juszak is responsible for creating and managing the company's strategic vision for building the brand with wholesale retail partners. He will lead the continued expansion of Carhartt's shop program and develop national marketing programs to drive traffic and sales with retailers.
Juszak comes to Carhartt from Kmart Format where as the marketing planning manager, he was responsible for the annual Kmart Format marketing budget and marketing strategy management for television and digital media.
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