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Abel Yet Speaks: Are We Listening?
Though he was murdered at the hand of an envious brother, and even though there is not a recorded word from his lips in the Old Testament narrative, nonetheless, over more than six millennia Abel has "spoken," and continues yet today.The following words are recorded in the book of Hebrews.
"By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had witness borne to him that he was righteous, God bearing witness in respect of his gifts: and through it he being dead yet speaks" (Hebrews 11:4).
The verb rendered "speaks" ["speaketh" — older versions] is a present tense, active voice form, thus suggesting that, in some sense, Abel's influence, and the lessons associated with him, are reverberating across the centuries of biblical history — even to our own day.
In order to get a more complete picture, it will be helpful to combine the Old Testament information regarding Eve's second child, with the quotation introduced above.
"And the man knew [i.e., was intimate with] Eve his wife; and she conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, I have gotten a man with the help of Jehovah. And again she gave birth to his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. And in process of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto Jehovah. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And Jehovah had respect unto Abel and to his offering: but unto Cain and to his offering he did not have respect. And Cain was very angry, and his countenance [expression on his face] fell. And Jehovah said unto Cain, Why are you angry? And why is your countenance fallen? If you do well, shall it not be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door: and it will desire you, but you must rule over it. And Cain told Abel his brother. And it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and killed him" (Genesis 4:1-8).
With these complementary texts in front of us, what lessons does the careful Bible student learn from the brief biographical data regarding Abel?
- The case of Abel defines the nature of valid "faith.""By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain" (Hebrews 11:4).The verb "offered" reflects an act of obedience (cf. 11:8).The lad did not simply "believe" that a sacrifice would be acceptable; he accessed the divine blessing by means of obedience to a prescribed method.
It is commonly believed in the religious community that "faith" is merely a willingness to accept facts regarding the Lord, combined with a disposition to trust him.Nothing could be further from the truth."Faith" is not validated as faith, until it responds in doing what God requires.That is why James can challenge: "Show me your faith apart from works [obedience], and I, by my works [obedience] will show you faith"(James 2:18).The action verbs, connected to the expression "by faith," in Hebrews chapter 11 are vivid testimony to the nature of genuine faith.
Throughout the 11th chapter of Hebrews, as noble Old Testament characters come into view, it becomes clear that the "by faith" phrase is the equivalent of saying that the believer yielded to divine instruction.W.E. Vine observed that Abel's "by faith" sacrifice "was based on a revelation which God had made" (The Epistle to the Hebrews, Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1952, p. 129).Compare the principle set forth in Romans 10:17.
- The case of Abel reveals that God is observing the lives of those he has created.This is true of our entire sphere of activity in general, and of our worship in particular.We are not free to live as we please, accountable to no one but ourselves."The eyes of Jehovah are in every place, keeping watch upon the evil and the good" (Proverbs 15:3; cf. Hebrews 4:13).
- A consideration of the biblical narratives clearly demonstrates that worship involves more than sincerity alone; it entails substance as well.True worship embraces: the proper object, a genuine disposition of mind, and adherence to the proper format (cf. John 4:24).
There is no word of censure in the sacred text that would indicate an initially insincere attitude in Cain.When he brought the "fruit of the ground," there is no textual reason that suggests he was less than honest in his attempt to worship God as he saw fit.Rather, his error obviously was that he believed in the principle of "substitution," i.e., it mattered not as to what he brought, so long as he brought something.He felt that he could engineer a plan as well as anyone.He was the prototype of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who crafted his own religious system, and in so doing, "made Israel to sin" (1 Kings 12:25ff; 14:16). Thus, whereas Abel offered his gifts "by faith," Cain brought his by "sight" (emotion, personal judgment, etc.).There is a vast difference between the two approaches.
The claim of some theologians, that Cain's problem was rooted in the fact that he did not have a "pure heart," but that his "offering" was as valid as Abel's, is an assumption without sufficient evidence (see: John Sailhamer, "Genesis," The Expositor's Bible Commentary, Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1990, Vol. 2, p. 61).Cain's subsequent anger does not prove that his offering was disingenuous initially.Moreover, the writer of Hebrews specifically says that it was Abel's "sacrifice" that was "more excellent" than his brother's — not his "disposition."Add to this the fact that John declares Cain's "works" were evil (1 John 3:12).
- Another significant lesson illustrated in the record regarding Abel is that genuine obedience, by way of contrast, condemns disobedience, and thus not infrequently draws a reactionary animosity, if not outright persecution.The writer of Hebrews, in connection with Noah's "by faith" preparation of the ark, asserted that by his obedience Noah "condemned the world" (11:7b). The patriarch's obedience, by its stark contrast, condemned the disobedience of his contemporaries.
Similarly, Cain, by some means, learned that the Lord had accepted his brother's offerings, but rejected his; he thus became angry (Genesis 4:5-6).And he was warned that his anger was on the verge of escalating into even a deeper level of sin.When his anger "conceived," it "brought forth" murder (cf. James 1:15).An inspired apostle comments on this matter in the following fashion:
"For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another:not as Cain was of the evil one, and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous" (1 John 3:11-12).
- We learn from the case of Abel that one's influence lives beyond the parentheses of his brief sojourn upon the earth. Think of the evil that has followed in the wake of Darwin, Nietzsche, Lenin, and Stalin. We are reminded of Adam's influence each time we deposit the body of a loved one beneath the soil of our planet (cf. Romans 5:12).
By way of contrast, reflect upon the influence of Jesus of Nazareth, and his disciples — men like Paul.Albert Barnes has argued, with some force, that the influence of good people survives much longer than that of those who are evil (Commentary on Hebrews, Grand Rapids: Baker, 1955, p. 257).
There was a precious moment during the ministry of Jesus that wonderfully illustrates this principle.
Not long before his crucifixion, Christ was in Bethany, the city where Lazarus, Mary, and Martha lived.During a special occasion, Mary came and anointed both the Lord's head and feet with a precious ointment.Judas (and likely under his influence the disciples as well) complained about the matter, charging the devoted lady with "waste."But Christ commended the act, suggesting that it symbolized his approaching burial (cf. Matthew 26:6-13; Mark 14:3-9; John 11:55-12:11). Then the Savior said regarding Mary, "Verily I say unto you, wherever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, that also which this woman has done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her" (Matthew 26:13).A seemingly rather insignificant act has been forever enshrined in the "Memorable Deeds Hall of Fame."
What will be said regarding our legacy — by our actions, teaching, and the influence through our children, grandchildren, etc. — in ages yet to come?
- Finally, the fact that Abel's obedience is applauded, even centuries after his voice was but an echo from bloodstained soil (Genesis 4:10), constitutes subtle evidence that, upon death, he did not fade into the oblivion of an eternal nothingness, as materialists would have one believe.Every detailed nuance of the biblical data argues for ultimate accountability and the administration of divine justice.
Abel is still speaking; are we listening?


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Being an extended stay property, we make guests feel at home by offering many of the creature comforts found in their own home. Every room includes a full kitchen, 32" LCD HDTV with DVD player, DirecTV HD Service, complimentary high speed wireless Internet access & an overstuffed reclining chair. Make use of the complimentary popcorn in every room by stopping by the front desk to check out a movie from our complimentary DVD library. For those traveling on business we offer a spacious workspace in every room that includes a rolling desk chair, 2 line phone with voicemail, and wired high speed Internet ports. After a long day of spreadsheets, guests are welcome to either blow off steam in our 24 hour fitness center or relax in our heated indoor pool & Jacuzzi. The Candlewood Suites in under new management and has a dedicated focus on guest relations and providing the best guest experience possible. We look forward to your stay with us.
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The property could use a good overall carpet and upholstery cleaning, there was no ink (or replacements available) in the Business Center printer, and one of the outdoor grills was not working properly.
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Austin's consolation prize still 'a neat thing'
DUNLAP — Steve Austin has picked up an off-court prize, not that he wouldn't trade it in a heartbeat for an on-court win.
Still admittedly somber over Concord's triple-overtime, 41-39 Elkhart Sectional title-game loss to Warsaw four weeks ago, the Minuteman boss was named Saturday, March 30, as The Elkhart Truth area boys basketball Coach of the Year.
Austin received 10 of the 17 votes cast from among 14 area head coaches and three Truth basketball reporters to easily outdistance Penn's Al Rhodes, NorthWood's Aaron Wolfe and Westview's Rob Yoder at 2 to 2.5 votes each.
"I think it's a neat thing, just because there's so many good coaches and good teams in our area," Austin said. "And then for some of those same people to say, 'Hey, you're pretty good,' it's a compliment, because I think we're all pretty decent. You do have to have some good kids and some good people around you. We had that, and we won some tough games this year."
The Minutemen (19-2) almost won them all. The only loss besides the Warsaw game was a 72-70 decision at South Bend Clay on an early-January night when Concord star Franko House was out ill.
It's the defeat against the Tigers, though, that the 58-year-old Austin acknowledges he has had trouble putting behind him.
"For me, it's the most disappointing loss of my career," said Austin, who's been a head coach for 28 years, "just because of the expectations we had, and because of the way that cotton-pickin' (last) shot went in."
Jordan Stookey's running 3-pointer for Warsaw appeared to be rimming out, then appeared to reverse direction before dropping in.
"Everybody's still hurting a little bit," Austin said. "There wasn't a sound in our locker room that night, and for the first time I can remember, not a sound on the bus on the way home. It's been difficult for me, difficult for the kids, because this team was one big family."
The game was marked by Warsaw eating 6:32 off the clock during one third-quarter possession while down five points and a fourth-quarter possession in which the Tigers chewed away about two more minutes while down four.
"You always go back through and think about what you might have done differently," Austin said of not stretching his defense more, "but we had the lead, we had some foul trouble, and I still felt we were better than them in the half court. (Assistant coach Chris Swartout) and I were considering strategy the whole time. I think we had the possession (arrow), too. You go back and forth on things, especially when you lose. I wish we had defended at times a little differently, but really, I just wish we had one more timeout (at four seconds left after taking the lead) to talk about defending that last shot better."
Regardless of that shot, it was a banner year for both Austin and his Minutemen. They became the first team ever to win a Northern Lakes Conference crown by three games, and Austin posted his 400th career victory.
He's 404-243 overall, including 82-29 in five years at Concord, which he described as his "dream job" upon arriving in 2008.
That sentiment hasn't changed.
"Oh, yeah, that's definitely right," Austin said. "Hopefully, we're still going up. Our JV was 17-3 this year, the freshmen 16-4, the eighth grade 14-2, so it's not like the cupboard's bare."
Austin's cupboard now includes three Truth Coach of the Year honors. He also was chosen in 1996 and 1998 while at Northridge.
With his latest honor, he becomes the first-ever coach to win the award outright three times; joins Dean Foster (five), Steve Johnson (five) and Jim Hahn (three) as coaches who have won at least three times overall; and joins Foster and John Wysong as coaches who have won at multiple schools. The award began in 1977.
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Steve Austin (Concord) 10
Al Rhodes (Penn) 2.5
Aaron Wolfe (NorthWood) 2
Rob Yoder (Westview) 2
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2012 — Mark Barnhizer (Memorial)
2011 — Rob Yoder (Westview)
2010 — Phil Mishler (Wawasee)
2009 — Jason Ridge (Northridge)
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2006 — Steve Johnson (Memorial)
2005 — Ryan Culp (Concord)
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The 50s are returning to central Indiana, and so is a chance for thunderstorms!
Highs will reach the low 50s today with sunny skies and wind gusts out of the south up to 30mph.
Tonight won't be as cold as temps drop to the low 30s with clear skies.
Monday, highs reach the upper 40s with sunshine.
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Madresfield Court
Madresfield Court is the ancestral home of the Lygon family, the eldest son of which bore the title Earl Beauchamp between 1815 and 1979, when the eighth and last Earl died. The house contains outstanding collections of furniture, pictures, porcelain and objets d'art, and a wonderful library designed by C.R. Ashbee. It is particularly a centre of the Arts and Crafts movement. The Chapel, commissioned from Birmingham artists and craftsmen in 1902, is widely regarded as the most complete, and perhaps the most lovely of all British Arts and Crafts achievements. Fittings and other commissions from the period are scattered throughout the house.
The house has strong connections with Evelyn Waugh who visited frequently. In Brideshead Revisited, his imaginary house (especially the Chapel) was partly modelled on Madresfield, and most of the main characters are drawn from members of the Lygon family.
The extent and quality of the collections in the house have become increasingly recognised, most recently by Simon Jenkins who rated Madresfield among the 50 best in his book on 1000 Historic Houses. The Elmley Foundation assists with conservation, research and archiving of the house's historical records.
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College Hockey:Despite falling in NCAA tournament, Salem State had consistent MASCAC season
Salem State's season came to an abrupt end last Wednesday night.
Norwich stormed past the Vikings in the first round of the NCAA tournament 8-2 as there was a Nor'easter going on outside Kreitzberg Arena in Northfield, Vt.
It was a bitter defeat to a fine season Salem State put together in 2013-14. The Vikings were easily the most consistent team in the MASCAC from start to finish on their way to the conference championship.
In a conference where there wasn't a lot of separation from top to bottom, Salem State took care of business at home, winning 12 of 14 games on home ice and one of the two games they didn't win was a tie.
Eric Defelice finished his fine three-year career with Vikings leading the team with 27 points, including 12 goals. The senior who started his career with Manahattanville will be missed, but a couple of freshmen this season look to replace his production next season.
Alex Minter, a forward out of Peabody, Mass., and the Boston Jr. Rangers program, put up 11 goals and 14 assists in his first year, while John Needham was third in team points with eight goals and 11 assists.
Indeed, the future looks bright.
In addition to Defelice, the Vikings are just losing four other seniors. Goaltender Ryan Sutliffe, after a couple of no-decisions early in the season, found a grove in the middle of the season. When his team needed him the most down the stretch when the standings were tight, he put them on his back, winning his last four games before the NCAA tournament exit.
Kyle Phelan was another key component to Salem State's run this season, scoring five goals and 14 assists. He finished his career with 75 points in a Salem sweater. Mark MacDonald added 12 points this season and only went to the box three times – he only visited the sin bin 20 times over his career with the Vikings. T.J. Hermans appeared in just seven games this year, recording two assists.
The best of the rest…
Plymouth State — The MASCAC runners-up had a slow start to the season, but they got on a roll in the second half. Zach Sarig carried them in the first half, while freshman forward Ian McGilvrey and sophomore goaltender Gordon Ceasar, who transferred from Utica, both were the key to team success in the second half.
Westfield State — The Owls had a high-powered offense with Vince Perreault, Jackson Leef, Dalton Jay and T.J. Powers each having 20 or more points this season. Out of that group, Perreault is the lone senior, so expect Westfield State to be dangerous again next season.
Framingham State — The Rams had a great season after a couple seasons where they were in the bottom half of the standings. Ryan McDonald, Brendon McCarron, Daniel Miressi and Eric Ward all registered 20 or more points. Framingham State will have to replace Miressi, Ward and six other seniors next year.
Fitchburg State — Boy, if there's a team to keep an eye on for next season, it's the Falcons. Their top 12 scorers this year were underclassmen. All three of their goalies this year are juniors. Shawn Bradley is the lone senior on the club, In 26 games, he had two goals and five assists from the blue line.
Worcester State — The Lancers took steps forward this season as they were competitive from start to finish with a young squad and only three seniors on the roster in Curtis Martin, Derek Serbon and Jordan Roberts. They will need to find more offense next season as they scored only 56 goals this year.
Massachusetts-Dartmouth — It wasn't the season the Corsairs were hoping for as they finished in last place. A hearty congratulations to them, though, for their 30 years of at least making the conference tournament which came to an end and that shouldn't go unnoticed. Shaun Walters and Mike Restuccia each had 24 points in the MASCAC, which was tied for second in conference scoring.
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There might soon be a time when Ryan Gosling isn't so ready for his close-up. In a new interview, the heartthrob admitted he just wants some time for himself.
"I've been doing it too much. I've lost perspective on what I'm doing. I think it's good for me to take a break and reassess why I'm doing it and how I'm doing it," he told the Associated Press about a potential acting hiatus. "And I think this is probably a good way to learn about that. I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does."
Now that doesn't necessarily mean that moviegoers won't see Gosling on the big screen soon. "The Place Beyond the Pines" opens in limited release next week, and he's already lined up two projects, "Only God Forgives" and director Terrence Malick's next film. But from the sound of it he won't be taking on any more new acting gigs. However, he will still direct his first feature film, the fantasy noir flick "How to Catch a Monster," which will feature "Mad Men" actress Christina Hendricks and "Pines" co-star (and real-life girlfriend) Eva Mendes.
If he does give up acting, here are our ideas for Ryan Gosling's next career.
This is hardly Gosling's first declaration that he needs some "me" time. Back in 2011, he made a similar statement in an interview with The Times, via IFC, when he was burning up cinemas with "Drive" and "The Ides of March."
He said, "I've been doing this since I was 12… I don't want to act much longer; I can't do one thing my whole life. I know there are only so many characters I'll be able to play. It will be over whenever the inspiration dries up."
And while celebrities often tease that they plan on taking a break in between gigs, Gosling might not be bluffing. In a 2010 interview with GQ Gosling owned up to a previous hiatus. He shared that shortly after making "The Notebook," he worked at a deli.
"I'd never had a real job," he said at the time. "[People in Hollywood] have meals. They go to Pilates. But it's not enough. So they do drugs. If everybody had a pile of rocks in their backyard and spent every day moving them from one side of the yard to the other, it would be a much happier place."
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So who will play Peter Parker in the new "Spider-Man" reboot? Deadline reports Star Trek XI's Anton Yelchin (Chekov) is one of the few being considered.
Other finalists include:
Aaron Johnson ("Kick-Ass"), Jamie Bell ("The Eagle of the Ninth"), Logan Lerman ("Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief"), Alden Ehrenreich ("Tetro"), Andrew Garfield ("The Social Network"), Frank Dillane ("Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince"), and Michael Angerano ("Lords of Dogtown").
The "Spider-Man" reboot will hit movie theaters in 3D on July 3, 2012. The director for the film is Marc Webb, with a script by Jamie Vanderbilt.


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Looks like the horse meat scandal in the U.K. has expanded beyond burgers. Food Safety Authority officials have found 60 to 100 percent horse meat in lasagna from a U.K. company called Findus. Findus has pulled all of the product from shelves in the U.K. and Ireland.
Findus issued a statement Thursday saying it is confident it has fully resolved the "supply chain issue" that led to the discovery of horsemeat in its lasagna.
The whole thing started last month when routine testing found horse and pig DNA is what was supposed to be 100% beef burgers in Ireland.
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It really started long ago. And they knew it.
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As an example of the high quality forensic work done in Criminalistics, Criminalistics Manager Mary Gibbons reports that two staff members have recently had scientific articles accepted and published in peer reviewed journals.
Todd Weller published his thesis project research in the field of firearm and toolmark analysis:
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High school students in Brown County had a chance to learn a little about college Tuesday.
Texas State Technical College has a college fair once a year.
Tuesday students from Zephyr and Brookesmith high schools were among those in attendance.
The college fair had about 60 schools with recruiters passing out information to students.
Howard Payne and Hardin-Simmons University were among the colleges represented at the fair.


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MacBook Air 2013 Shows the Way
Thank you Apple for making the big splash and showing the Windows OEM crowd the way to Windows 8 success - emulate the battery life of the MacBook Air (mid-2013). Here's a summary of various battery tests results from around the web (most are Wi-Fi surfing, 40-60% brightness):
PC Magazine 15:30
The Verge 13:29
Engadget 12:51
CNet "Greater than 12 hours"
Mossberg 10:14
Gizmodo summed it up best:
"The battery. The battery makes this Air what it is, and that is properly ridiculous. On a video run-down test: — streaming Nyan Cat over Wi-Fi, with brightness on 80 per cent — the Air lasted 13 hours 6 minutes. Thirteen hours and six frigging minutes. That's well over double the six-hour life of this generation's ultrabooks, more than the most stamina-happy tablets, and way more than any smartphone.
In day-to-day usage, it's equally good. Unplugged and working pretty hard — with Photoshop, Chrome, and a bevy of background services like TweetDeck and Outlook running, not to mention streaming audio over Bluetooth — the Air lasted between seven and eight hours, and up to 10 if we turned the brightness down and Bluetooth off. That's simply stunning."
Despite my usual rants about Mr. Mossberg (Apple's #1 Fanboy), in all fairness his testing methodology is one of the toughest and tries to emulate real life better than most - here's his description:
"For these tests, I used the same tough laptop battery test I've used for years. I disable all power-saving features, crank the screen brightness to 100 percent, leave on the Wi-Fi to collect email in the background and play an endless loop of music until the computer loses power and shuts off."
Secret Sauce
So, Microsoft and the dwarfs (OEM's - well, maybe not Lenovo), the secret sauce for Windows 8 success is going to be the combination of Haswell and Windows 8.1. Resist the temptation to eliminate all that space for a wafer thin tablet, and follow the lead of INCREASING battery size (Apple added almost 8%), CUSTOMIZING CPU utilization (really take advantage of those new idle and sleep states), turn off unused hardware (do we really need Bluetooth running 24/7) and stay away from minuscule fonts on battery busting, eye-straining, ultra-hi res laptop screens (save that for the 27" WQHD monitors my Surface Pro supports).
There may be another closer in the Wintel (haven't heard that in a while, have you) bullpen - the Atom Bay Trail processor. Rumored to address 4gb of RAM, full SSD support, and USB 3.0, all in a chip more efficient than the current model, would make the 14 HP Envy x2 an 18 hour workhorse. This fall could be the beginning of the rush to Windows 8 and convertible tablet heaven.


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Urine testing is often referred to as the gold standard of the drug-test industry, and, all bad puns aside, they're not just talking about the color of your piss. Most of the 50 million drug tests performed in this country last year were urine tests-the least expensive and most common form of testing, at once highly invasive and, by now, fully integrated into American life.
When it comes to passing a urine test, you must put time on your side, specifically by allowing for time between your drug use and your drug test. Most banned substances pass through the body quickly (cocaine, for example, will disappear after a few days), but pesky THC abides in fat cells like a moocher crashing on your couch, remaining detectable in urine for as long as four weeks. So while a single smoke on Friday night will probably disappear by Monday, anything beyond the most casual toke needs more time.
Fortunately, as the urine-test industry has matured, so has the urine-test-solutions industry, which now offers a variety of approaches to beating the tests. A daily detox drink will lessen the amount of THC stored in your body and thus cut the time needed to cleanse. A quick flush will greatly increase the chances of passing the test, but it's imperative that at least 48 to 72 hours pass from toxin to test. That means not smoking for several days before the big day, or the quick flush won't work. If that's not an option, then a substitution or spike is needed. A substitution is just what the name implies: clean urine substituted for its tainted counterpart. A spike, on the other hand, is a small vial of chemicals covertly added to your specimen that adulterates the results. Spikes are available from several drug-detox companies.
Privacy is required to put a spike in play, so if someone will be hovering over the process while you pee, and you've gotten high in the last 72 hours, then your best bet is the infamous Whizzinator-a faux phallus that gives new meaning to the term "tool." It may take a steady hand and nerves of steel to whip out a prosthetic pecker as the tester observes from over your shoulder, but as Congress learned last spring, thousands have aced the Whiz Quiz with the help of this ingenious device.


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At blinkbox Books, we're using Calabash for automation of native Android and iOS applications. It's a great tool, however its API for operations on UI elements and page models differs from similar tools in the Web world. We were not convinced that RPC style of calabash operations is dictated by the nature of native Mobile and that's its conceptually different from automating Web apps.
Inspired by reach experience with tools such as Selenium, Capybara and Siteprism, we have implemented a thin layer on top of Calabash operations, which allows defining page models (aka screen objects) in OO style and makes them similar to the commonly used POM pattern in the Web world.
It works for both Android and iOS, as long as Calabash API stays consistent between both.
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Fed Chairman Bernanke Encourages Americans to Follow Kanye West's Lead, Buy 80 Chains and Go Ig'nant
By Downtown Mystic
After a recent visit to South Central, Los Angeles, Federal Reserve Chairman Benjamin Bernanke is encouraging Americans to follow Kanye West's lead and go ig'nant.
"Buy 80 gold chains and go ig'nant, bitches!" shouted Bernanke at a press conference Wednesday, flanked by a bad bitch without no draws and a girl whose ass could've won the horse awards.
While speaking to the White House Press Corps, Chairman Bernanke stated that "unemployment will not drop below 8% unless businesses feel comfortable hiring. This can only occur when consumer demand is high enough to support new hires. That is why I am encouraging all Americans to go to Jacob with 25 thou before you have a house, because, let's be real people: the housing market is f*cked.
Responding to a reporter's question about whether Americans could afford such products after citing statistics on rising levels of personal debt and increasing foreclosures, the Chairman shook his head and muttered "white people."
The Chairman subsequently suggested American spending in other areas such as Maybachs, Margiela jackets, other other Benzs, "big face Rollies," and another Maybach to destroy in a music video directed by Spike Jonze.
Government officials have also confirmed that George Tenet's Maybach is indeed rented.


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3ee wrote:3 banks per person max... how's this?
One bank? Two banks? Three banks?
Two banks should be enough, no?
3ee wrote:3 banks per person max... how's this?
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Thanks guys! Work has been a bit stressful and I'm a teensy bit burnt out running the contests, hakey offered to step up (and is much appreciated).hakey wrote:3ee wrote:please note that I'm collecting the patchbanks this time around - not bmrzycki!
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He's fine - just a bit busy atm.
Once the entries are in and voting starts then everyone will be able to download them. They're not in yet and won't be until April 1.ddeez wrote:can we please be able to download all the entries?
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Jenelle Evans was seen finding out that she was pregnant on Tuesday night's episode of "Teen Mom 2," but in the previews for next week's episode, she and Nathan Griffith, her boyfriend since June, were seen going out on the town -- and night that ended in Nathan getting a DUI.
So, what is the deal?
According to Jenelle, MTV's "sh**ty editing" is making it seem as if she went out drinking after discovering her pregnancy when in reality, that was far from the case.
"We all kno @MTV is about editing their shows to the best of their knowledge," Jenelle tweeted to fans on April 3. "Well they have the order of events WRONG!"
Jenelle claims she and Nathan didn't conceive their child until Oct. 6, 2013, and since Nathan's arrest happened nearly a full month prior, on Sept. 11, there is no way that she could have know she was pregnant, because she wasn't yet pregnant.
Needless to say, Jenelle isn't happy with the editing and has contacted the network, hoping to get the truth out there to fans.
"I have contacted my producers and I told them how they portrayed me and this can even make DSS or CPS involved now that they improperly ordered the events," she continued. "We will see if they will let me express my side of the story or whatever but I doubt it, just my word against their sh**ty editing I guess."
Also working against Jenelle? The fact that she was reportedly drinking during an Oct. 18 nightclub appearance in Philadelphia. However, since that was so soon after her conception date, there isn't much of a chance she was aware of the pregnancy at the time. That being said, Jenelle and Nathan were actively trying to conceive, so she had to have known there was a chance that she was with child.


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This time, however, I'd be modest and unassuming. I'd even request a refresher on my previous lesson. I'd start over. It helped to remember a basic teaching from Zen master and author Shunryu Suzuki that I'd learned years before in my inner-athlete days: "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few." I'd open myself to new possibilities by becoming a beginner again.As before, the session began on the rowing machines. I sat down with nothing in mind, shadowing the movements of the other students. The stroke? I listened as the instructor broke it down into several small movements.As I followed her guidance, I discarded my previous notions the moment they entered my mind. Where before I had been impatient to get out on the water, this time I applied myself to the rowing machine with diligence. When she insisted we keep our knees down until the very last part of the stroke, I made myself forget that rowing rafts required a deep knee bend just to initiate a stroke and get a bite of water. When she suggested we control our stroke by wrapping our little fingers over the ends of the oar handles, I ignored my prior training to do just the opposite to avoid pinching my pinky. I did as I was instructed. My intent was to learn something new.When we were ready, we pushed off from shore in an eight-woman shell. There was that moment of pure pleasure, the heady feeling of floating. Away from land, we glided over the water as a leaf drifts on the wind. My own performance wasn't perfect, but I was in sync with the others; I had a strong, if studied, stroke; and I felt the rush of adrenaline I always get in boats. Not only that, the instructor noticed my improvement and said,"We have a good little rower here!"A beginning rower at that. Rebecca Lawton is the author of Reading Water: Lessons from the River. She lives in Vineburg, California.Originally published in MORE magazine, July/August 2006.
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One of four fragrances in the designer's homage to Asia, Atelier d'Orient, Shanghai Lily is a paradox: sensual and easy to wear. Our 2013 Big Beauty Try-On testers were impressed by the scent's elegance and subtle spiciness, with comments including "Clean and warm," "Unique and exotic" and "Floral with a kick." They also loved its staying power. "This scent lasts forever," said one tester. ($210; nordstrom.com).
This upbeat floral won raves for being "light enough for every day." Several testers said they used it as a before-bed scent (who knew?) because the smell was subtle and comforting (key notes include green pear, honeysuckle, honey and golden vanilla). The only knock: a few found the packaging too cutesy. ($72; sephora.com).
An unapologetically girly blend of jasmine and tuberose that reminds us of fresh spring flowers ($175; chantecaille.com).
According to designer Aerin Lauder, this fresh fragrance in her new, eponymous collection is akin to jeans and a tee: classic and comfy. ($110; aerin.com).
This also works for every day, but thanks to dominant rose notes, it's better described as a skirt-and-stilettos kind of scent. ($98; bloomingdales.com)
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Restaurant Check Sermons: The Weakest Kind of Power Grab
If the only way you can express your views is by stiffing servers, you are a sad, weak individual.
Tips are a non-negotiable part of eating out: If you go to a restaurant and you finish your meal, you will tip your server. This is a societal norm, even if restaurants still present the illusion that it is optional. Yet there is one situation in which more and more people seem to believe that it's okay not to tip: When you wish to make a statement about your beliefs. Receipt-slip sermonizing leaving a message for your server on your bill, usually without tipping at all has become a news meme in recent years, and it's a truly gutless practice that's as much about wresting control of a low-stakes situation as it is about saving a few bucks.
The latest example came yesterday, after a family stiffed a New Jersey waitress with the following note: "I'm sorry but I cannot tip because I don't agree with your lifestyle." In October, a gay Carraba's Italian Grill server in Kansas found an offensive, tip-free receipt that said "we cannot in good conscience tip you, for your homosexual lifestyle is an affront to GOD." And let's not forget the pastor who, earlier this year, informed an Applebee's server that she wouldn't be leaving a tip by leaving the message, "I give God 10 percent, why do you get 18?" There are plenty of other racist and sexist examples.*
As Bill Maher recently pointed out, receipt messages tend to have an overwhelmingly conservative, Christian bent. But the nature of the messages isn't the real issue: It would be just as loathsome if a customer stiffed-then-scolded a server because he or she didn't believe in marriage equality. The real problem with reproach-via-receipt is that it exemplifies the worst kind of diner: those who believe that they are somehow superior to their servers.
If stiffing a server were only about saving some money, there wouldn't be a note. Cheapskates don't explain themselves. But the people who sermonize on their sales slips have a clear desire to shame their servers, to make them think that they somehow aren't worth paying. This is slightly less spineless than writing a bad Yelp review or leaving a nasty anonymous comment online, but it's more malicious, because there's a clear effort to try to hamper another person's livelihood. Holding back $15 isn't going to make a waiter reevaluate his life choices; it will let him know the customer he just served is a coward.
Staff-stiffing customers know that they're insulated from real retribution because even if a server wants to confront them, they probably won't risk their job to do so. So what can be done to curb this behavior? The customer who left the note about giving God 10 percent did get outed as pastor Alois Bell, who eventually expressed regret for the note. But the server who got stiffed lost her job anyway. Public shaming isn't an effective tactic, since restaurants won't sacrifice customer privacy to protect their staff members against this.
Receipt sermonizing, then, is another point in favor of abolishing tipping outright and paying higher wages instead: If service fees became mandatory, the self-righteous would have one less opportunity to degrade others.
Earlier: Family Refuses to Tip Restaurant Server With Offensive Gay 'Lifestyle'
Related: The Tipping Backlash Goes Big
*This post has been edited to remove a receipt-sermon example that was just a hoax.


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Let's look into Chris Christie's chart since he is getting so much attention lately. Born on September 6, 1962 he is a Virgo who doesn't exactly come across as one. He is loud, arrogant, ambitious and known as a bully, rather than gracious, gentle or soft spoken, at least not at first glance. We don't have a birth time for him so we don't know his ascendant.
Chris Christie's Sun is conjunct Pluto in Virgo and opposite Jupiter in Pisces. Uranus is not in conjunction with the Sun but nearby in Virgo. These aspects certainly color his personality differently. He has the Moon in Sagittarius in a T-square with Jupiter, the Sun, Uranus and Pluto. (Chart information provided by Pinterest.com.) He has a Grand Water Trine involving Mars, Venus, Neptune and Jupiter which gives him good luck, protection and many supporters.
He appears to be ruled by Jupiter. He is charming, egotistical and obviously enjoys the spotlight. People with a strong Jupiter influence love to show off and push people around. They can be full of themselves. They are extremely generous when it suits their purpose. They also enjoy food and drink and gain a lot of weight. Remember Jupiter expands. Enough said.
It should be noted that Christie does have strong leadership qualities or he wouldn't have gotten this far. He might actually make a good President. He has Saturn trine Mercury. He is intelligent and shrewd. He chooses his aides carefully although the ones I've heard about lately are as arrogant as he is. They are merely following his example. Birds of a feather flock together.
Most people don't look or act like their sign. Some Virgo traits to look for are good manners, hospitality and an interest in health and diet. One Virgo man I know is outspoken, gregarious and proud. He reminds me more of a Leo or a Sag. It's because he has Jupiter rising in Scorpio and some stuff in Leo. But he is a gentleman, a gracious host and enjoys serving people. He's a really nice person and Virgos are usually nice when you get to know them. He is a hard worker. He likes to cook. He acts more like a Virgo than first appearances suggest.
I know two men in Bergen County about the same age as Christie who also have the Sun conjunct Pluto in Virgo. They are not in politics. One is a photographer and the other is a construction foreman by day and a musician by night. Both are very talented in their creative fields. What do they have in common? They have huge egos and a strong belief that they can get away with anything. And both have long-standing drug addictions. They have struggled with the law and rehab. They both have a secret life especially the musician in particular. These situations often develop when Pluto is strong in the chart. I do hope Christie doesn't have any substance abuse problems or other skeletons in his closet. They could be his un-doing.
Generally speaking I can't nail down any specific transits that spell trouble or downfall for him. I don't know his ascendant. Jupiter is squaring his Mercury and that means communications problems. The GWB scandal may not be that important and will go away in plenty of time before the 2016 campaign heats up. Next year however Saturn will contact his Moon over several months, activating his T-square and that may bring problems with his health, family or popularity with the masses. Delays or obstacles are indicated. Stay tuned.
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Get On Line: Wind Power's Real Hurdle
Here's the $36 billion question: Is wind power an expensive distraction or a key ingredient in the global energy cocktail? It all depends how you move the juice.
The American Wind Energy Association just released its latest scorecard—as expected, states that have financial incentives are rushing to install wind power. In some places, like Iowa, it even makes an impact. In others, even in wind-friendly states like Texas, wind power's contribution to the electricity mix is less than a polling margin of error.
Doubts over the real contribution of wind power aren't just an American thing. Energy Tribune recites the entire litany of arguments against wind power, one of Britain's hopes for curbing emissions of greenhouse-gases and meeting ambitious European targets for clean energy. ET's verdict? Wind power is "overblown": Too dependent on subsidies, plagued by technical problems, intermittent, and ugly to boot, threatening to tarnish forever British hills and beaches. (Ask vacationers in Brighton what ugly really is.)
It's true that wind power's development—in the U.S. and elsewhere—relies almost entirely on subsidies. So do coal, natural gas, and nuclear—if the external costs of greenhouse-gas emissions or nuclear decomissioning were included. And there's little chance wind farms will ever come close to producing 90% of their headline generation capacity, as nuclear does; the best machines in the best spots now offer about a 35% "load factor".
But the real question when computing cost doesn't lie just with the turbines themselves, but rather how to get that electricity onto the grid.
Texans were already disturbed last month by wind power-induced brownouts. Now, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports, Texans "could be on the hook for $3 billion to $6.4 billion to build new transmission lines" to connect the state's rapidly-growing wind farms to the grid. And Texas already had an ambitious program to link wind development with new transmission lines—the construction of which faces many of the same NIMBY obstacles as wind farms themselves.
The transmission question is one that threatens to torpedo even the industry's great white-water hope: offshore wind farms. MIT Technology Review reports on a potential breakthrough for offshore wind—floating, rather than fixed, platforms. By borrowing from the oil industry and floating above the sea-bed, wind farms could move as much as 20 miles offshore—with better wind and fewer angry locals—and save a bundle on construction costs, making wind theoretically competitive with traditional power sources.
What does the MIT article leave out? Transmission costs—the same that helped sink Long Island's proposed offshore wind farm and have for years hogtied European offshore efforts. No matter how much cheaper capital costs for turbine installation become, all those spinning blades are just treading water until there's a cost-effective and reliable way to hook them up to the grid.


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If your partner thinks you take a long time getting made up in the morning, you might like to point to the example of Elizabeth I!
I spent Friday learning all about this lengthy process, with Sally Pointer (www.sallypointer.com), author of The Artifice of Beauty, who has years of experience in reproducing historic cosmetics, for a new series on historical biographies for the History Channel (Canada), being made by Proper TV.
First, we explored how the young Elizabeth I created her image. Wanting to look pure and virginal, she favoured a natural, alabaster look. To make her skin pale, she used the best quality ingredients around, namely, white lead and vinegar. Sally brought real white lead with her – I'm sniffing it here, it smelt awful! – but in the interests of health and safety, we used reproduction lead on our model's face (an actress and interpreter from Past Pleasures).
Elizabeth I also often used egg white to glaze her face, which helped hide wrinkles and gave her a smooth complexion. It also acted like a Renaissance botox, because it became impossible for her to move her face! It was also quite the thing to paint on blue veins, so as to make the skin look that much more transparent.
Recent research at the National Portrait Gallery has suggested that portraits like the Darnley painting of 1572 don't show us an accurate picture of Elizabeth I, because the pigments of her rosy cheeks have faded, making her appear more ghostly than she would have been.
Instead, Sally explained that Elizabeth used crushed cochineal bettles for rouge, which was spread over the whole cheek and not just brushed along the cheekbones. The same cochineal was used for the lips. We still use a derivative from cochineal (carminic acid) in our cosmetics.
The Elizabeth look also demanded using lampblack to create dramatic dark eyebrows. The Elizabethans didn't use mascara (or apparently, kohl), which surprised me, and explains their wide-eyed look.
Of course, Elizabeth's use of lead did not do her face any favours. It ate into her skin, making it spongy, grey and wrinkled (lead poisoning is also associated with fatigue, headaches, abdominal pain, depression, loss of coordination, slurred speech and other delightful symptoms). The only answer: layer on the base more thickly. In later life, therefore, Elizabeth's appearance was greatly more artificial. Thomas Tuke could have been describing her in his 1616 A Treatise against Painting and Tincturing of Men and Women when he wrote that:
'white lead, wherewith women use to paint themselves was, without doubt, brought in use by the divell, the capitall enemie of nature, therwith to transforme humane creatures, of fear, making them ugly, enormious and abominable… a man might easily cut off a curd or cheese-cake from either of their cheeks'.
This is the look being sported by our older Elizabeth model (who is quite beautiful without all this slap, which just goes to show!)
Elizabeth also stepped up her artificiality in the colours used on her cheeks and lips. No more innocent cochineal, now Elizabeth used the garish vermilion, also known as cinnabar, which gave an intense red colour. It also poisoned her because vermilion is mercuric sulphide. Every time Elizabeth licked her lips she ingested this toxic substance. It was the mercury in felt that led to the expression 'Mad Hatters'. Elizabeth too may have suffered from the litany of symptoms of mercury poisoning: lack of coordination, sensory impairment, personality changes, memory loss, irritability and brain damage. Any of them sound familiar when we come to the older Elizabeth?
All the King's Fools featured on BBC Radio 4's Today programme this morning.
Reporter Tom Bateman put together a lovely feature on our work, on Henry VIII's disability therapy which features on their website.
You will also be able listen again to the clip later today.
You can find out more about the performances, which run from today until Sunday, at Hampton Court Palace, in the post below. The project is supported by a Wellcome Trust People Award.
Our Wellcome Trust funded project 'All the King's Fools' begins tomorrow! The actors are in the dress rehearsal as I write.
There's going to be a feature on the project on BBC Radio 4's Today programme tomorrow morning (Thursday 6 October), so do listen out for that.
I've already written in History Today about some of the research I've done that underpins this project, but thought it might be helpful to give you a short summary of the research findings here (I also plan to produce a scholarly article, exploring this research in more depth, before long).
We'll be exploring the research issues tomorrow in an academic symposium at Hampton Court Palace on All the King's Fools: speakers include Christopher Goodey, Dr Elizabeth Hurren, Prof. Thomas Betteridge and me.
And on Friday, we're running a heritage showcase day for heritage professionals. It's all go!
You can find pictures and follow our progress at www.allthekingsfools.co.uk.
Above all, do come down to Hampton Court this Thursday 6 to Sunday 10 October 2011 to catch these groundbreaking and thought-provoking performances in action! Buy your tickets here.
Research summary
All the King's Fools explores an under-research part of the history of disability: that of the natural fool.
Court fools were of two sorts: the natural fool and the artificial fool. An artificial fool, a term that seems to have been synonymous with 'jester' was one who mimicked the 'foolishness' of the other. A natural fool, who was also described as an 'innocent', seems to have been a person with learning difficulties (although it is always hard to understand the categorizations of the past and they can't necessarily be transferred unproblematically onto the present). The evidence from visits to monasteries, letters, and statutes suggest that these natural fools were widely present in society, highly visible, and understood to be distinct from those with mental illnesses such as insanity.
Will Somer was one of most famous fools of Henry VIII's court, and continued on as a fool through the reigns of Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I. There is contemporary evidence to suggest that he was a 'natural', including John Heywood's play Wit and Witless and, chiefly, a payment in 1551 of 40s. to William Seyton 'whom his Majesty hath appointed to keep Will. Somer'. This suggests that Somer did not receive direct wages, and instead, had a carer. This is also true of other court fools, like Sexton (also known as Patch). Sexton was not paid directly, but three men were given money to buy his food and do his laundry, whilst the king provided clothing for him. 'Thomas the Jester', by contrast, did receive direct payments of 20s. on two occasions.
There are several indications that fools were very important at Henry VIII's court. The first is their inclusion in a dynastic portrait of his family from 1545. The second is that they were not dressed in the multi-coloured motley of medieval fools, but were attired in rich fabrics. Above all, they were also the ones to whom Henry would turn when he was melancholy or sick.
Tudor medicine is famed for the use of bleeding and amputation, but was actually very holistic, and also paid attention to a patient's diet, behaviour and mental state. The Tudors believed that the body consisted of four humours: choler (yellow bile), phlegm, black bile and blood, which needed to be kept in balance. One of the ways to achieve this was to ensure the presence of mirth in a person's life. The physician Andrew Boorde, in his 1542 First Book of Knowledge, stated that:
mirth is one of the chiefest things of Physick.
Mirth meant laughter, but also amusement, good company, lively conversation, music making, and being merry with one another. This is where the fools could be so important.
A contemporary chronicle notes that Will Somer had 'admission to the King [at all times], especially when sick and melancholy', suggesting that Henry VIII relied on Somer in his lowest moments. This is confirmed in a later book by Robert Armin, who wrote:
Few men were more beloved than was this Fool
Whose merry prate kept with the King much rule.
When he was sad, the King and he could rhyme,
Thus Will exiled sadness many a time.
Another essential component of mirth was honesty. Fools were thought to be uniquely equipped to speak the truth, because their innocence gave them a special relationship to God. The Bible, in 1 Corinthians i.25, appeared to suggest that God spoke through their foolishness:
All men are fools before God and the foolishness of God is wiser than men's wisdom.
The humanist Erasmus had popularized this idea with his 1509 work The Praise of Folly. When most around the king were yes-men, Henry could rely on Will Somer and other fools to speak honestly. We have evidence of him being able to change Henry VIII's mind.
These special qualities of fools – their ability to bring mirth and their relationship to truth – explains their privileged, hallowed status that brought them both favour and authority at the court of Henry VIII.
I would like to acknowledge and thank Dr Elizabeth Hurren and Prof. Tom Betteridge of Oxford Brookes University, and Lauren Johnson of Past Pleasures at Historic Royal Palaces, for their research help and contributions.
I submit my new book, A Visitor's Companion to Tudor England, to my publisher, Ebury on 17 October 2011 (I've received the cover already – isn't it lovely?)
It has been such an enjoyable process visiting 50 Tudor houses, palaces and castles to walk in the footsteps of some of the sixteenth-century's most famous – and infamous – characters.
The trip has taken me from Penshurst Place, the home of the Elizabethan courtier-poet Sir Philip Sidney, to Ludlow Castle, where Prince Arthur fatefully died in April 1502, and from Thornbury Castle, the half-finished fortified manor house of Edward Stafford, third duke of Buckingham, who was executed in 1521, to the oak in Wymondham at which Robert Kett is said to have gathered the Norfolk rebel armies in 1549.
I've seen magnificent architecture – like Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire or Montacute House in Somerset – domestic beauties – like Gawsworth and Little Moreton Halls in Cheshire – and spectacular vaulting places of worship – like St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle or Westminster Abbey. There are so many gems.
Above all, I've loved researching the stories. Can't wait to see what you think of them. But meanwhile, thought I might share with you some photos of the best bits and most wonderful details over the next couple of months… watch this space.


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Candy E. Young will be the first Olympian female to serve as athletics director at Delaware State University.
Young was a high school track star who set a world record in 1980 in the 100 meter hurdler. She earned a spot on the U.S. Olympic 100-meter hurdle team.
She has served the last seven months as DSU's interim senior associate athletics director. Young also served as an assistant men and women's track coach at California State University, University of Pittsburg, Ohio State University and Seton Hall University from 1992 to 2006.
She will begin her position on Aug. 13.
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COUGARS HOST SAN FRANCISCO STATE IN TRI-CITIES: The Washington State University men's basketball team (5-4) will have a short turnaround as it heads to Kennewick, Wash., to host San Francisco State (4-2), Wednesday, Dec. 18 at 7 p.m. at the Toyota Center.
• Wednesday's game can be seen on the Pac-12 Networks as Ernie Kent and Kevin Calabro have the call.
• Bud Nameck, in his 21st year with Cougar Basketball, will have the call on the Cougar IMG Radio Network...please see the list of affiliates on page 1 of today's notes.
• Live updates can be found on Twitter by following @WSUMensHoops, the official Twitter account of Washington State men's basketball.
• The game is the second of a WSU women's-men's basketball doubleheader...the women host UC Riverside at 4 p.m. at the Toyota Center.
• The Cougars and Gators have met twice in the two schools' histories with WSU winning both games.
• The first all-time meeting occurred Dec. 10, 1975, as WSU defeated SFSU, 83-68.
• In the second meeting, Dec. 2, 1991, the Cougars defeated the Gators, 109-67.
• San Francisco State is a member of the Division II California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA), along with Cal State L.A., Cal State San Bernardino, Chico State, Cal Poly Pomona, Cal State East Bay, Cal State Stanislaus, UC San Diego, Cal State Dominguez Hills, Humboldt State, Cal State Monterey Bay and Sonoma State.
• Other than two meetings with San Francisco State, the only CCAA school WSU has faced is Humboldt State.
• The two teams met Dec. 8, 1977, resulting in a 64-53 WSU win.
• WSU head coach Ken Bone coached at Cal State Stanislaus as an assistant coach from 1983-84 and as head coach in 1984-85.
• WSU is 5-4 on the season and 3-1 at home and 1-2 at neutral sites this season...the Cougars' most recently defeated Pepperdine, 78-61, Dec. 15 at Beasley Coliseum.
• Junior DaVonté Lacy leads the team with 20.0 points per game.
• He ranks fifth in the Pac-12 and 36th in the nation in scoring with 20.0 points per game, leads the league and ranks ninth in the nation with 3.7 3-pointers made per game, is tied for third in the conference with 1.8 steals per game, and is 12th in the Pac-12 and 61st in the nation with a .418 3-point field goal percentage.
• Fellow-junior Royce Woolridge is contributing 11.1 points per game, as the only other Cougar scoring in double figures.
• Senior D.J. Shelton leads the team and ranks 15th in the Pac-12 and 198th in the nation with 7.0 rebounds per game.
• This is the third game that fifth-year head coach Ken Bone will take his team to in Kennewick, Wash., as the Cougars have 'hosted' games at the Toyota Center in 2009-10 and 2012-13.
• In Bone's first year, his WSU squad faced his former team, Portland State, Dec. 19 at Kennewick, as the Cougars won 93-69.
• Last season WSU defeated Idaho State, Dec. 29 at the Toyota Center, 74-39.
• The Cougars put one of their most complete games together as they defeated Pepperdine, 78-61, Dec. 15 at Beasley Coliseum.
• Royce Woolridge led WSU with a season-high 20 points, going 7-for-10 from the field.
• He reached the 20-point plateau for the first time since March 9, 2013 against USC…it was his fourth time in his career scoring 20 or more points.
• Que Johnson had a career-high 14 points…his previous high was 11 points against Butler in Orlando, Fla., Nov. 28.
• He tied his career high with 2 3-pointers made, going 2-for-3 from beyond the 3-point arc.
• Junior DaVonté Lacy had his streak of 10-straight games with double-figure points and every game this season snapped, as he finished with 9 points.
• Lacy was 1-for-4 from 3-point, and moved into sole possession of 10th place on WSU's all-time 3-point field goals made list, passing Terrence Lewis (1991-92) with 138 career 3-pointers made…Lacy is just two 3-pointers away from Jan-Michael Thomas (1999-2000) in ninth with 140.
• Lacy had a career-high 8 rebounds…he had 6 of his rebounds in the first half.
• Lacy tied his career-high with 4 steals…he's had 4 steals two other times, most recently against CSU Bakersfield this season.
• His one 3-pointer made is a season low for 3-pointers made.
• Jordan Railey had a career-high 3 blocked shots…he had all 3 blocks in the first half.
• He scored in double figures for just the second time in his career, finished with 10 points and 5 rebounds.
• Freshman Josh Hawkinson played a season-high 13 minutes…his previous high was 9 minutes played.
• WSU shot .536 (30-for-56) from the field, their best shooting percentage this season.
• WSU shot a season first-half best, .545 (18-for-33) from the field.
• The Cougars had a season high for steals in any half with 8 steals in the first half…previous high was 6 in the first half against CSU Bakersfield, Nov. 8.
• Junior guard DaVonté Lacy is on pace to become the 34th Cougar to reach 1,000 career points, and could do it in his junior season.
• With 757 points, Lacy needs 243 more points to reach 1,000 in his career, meaning if he stays healthy and plays 32 games, he'll need to average 13.5 ppg over the season.
• Right now Lacy is averaging 20.0 points per game…if he keeps up the average, he could accomplish the feat in WSU's 22nd game this season.
• Lacy is also climbing up the record books for 3-pointers made, currently in sole possession of 10th with 138 career 3-pointers.
• He is on pace to finish in the top-6 by the end of his career at WSU, averaging 2.0 made 3-pointers a game over his career.
• If he continues his season pace of 3.7 3-pointers made per game, he will add at least 85 to his 138, which would put him in fifth place in the WSU record books by the end of the season.
• He is currently two away from Jan-Michael Thomas (1999-2000) in ninth place with 140.
• Lacy is ranked 15th in the WSU career record books with a .372 3-point field goal percentage.
• Junior DaVonté Lacy proved his early start to the season wasn't a fluke over Thanksgiving Weekend at the Old Spice Classic near Orlando, Fla.
• The 6-4 guard scored at least 25 points in 2 of the 3 games and averaged 22.3 points per game in the tournament.
• Lacy led the Cougars in scoring in all three games, putting up 26 points in their loss to Butler (Nov. 28), 16 in the win over Purdue (Nov. 29) and 25 in the loss to Saint Joseph's (Dec. 1).
• He also led the Cougars in assists in two of those games, rebounding in one and steals in one, averaging 4.0 rpg, 3.0 apg and 1.0 spg.
• The Cougars have four newcomers on this season's team; true freshmen Ike Iroegbu and Josh Hawkinson, redshirt freshman Que Johnson and redshirt junior and Iowa State-transfer, Jordan Railey.
• So far each of the newcomers has appeared in every game and the four have combined for 8 starts.
• The four newcomers are contributing a combined 20.1 points per game this season and have reached double figures seven times.
• Iroegbu is one of two Cougars not named DaVonté Lacy to lead the team in scoring this season when he had 20 points at nationally ranked Gonzaga, Nov. 21.
• Ike Iroegbu scored 20 points at Gonzaga, Dec. 21.
• He became the first Cougar freshman to reach the 20-point plateau since Reggie Moore scored 24 points as a freshman, Jan. 23, 2010.
• Iroegbu is also the first freshman to reach 20 points in a nonconference game since Marcus Moore scored 25 against Montana, Dec. 12, 2000.
• With WSU's win over Buffalo, Dec. 21, 2013, WSU head coach Ken Bone got his 400th career win as a head coach and now has 410 wins.
• He has 75 wins at WSU, had 77 in four years at Portland State, 253 victories in 12 seasons as head coach at Division II Seattle Pacific and 5 wins at Division III Cal State Stanislaus...he's been a head coach for 21 seasons.
• Bone has 152 career wins in his ninth season as a Division I head coach.
• Head coach Ken Bone signed two student-athletes to NLIs during the early signing period, guard Tramaine Isabell and forward Jermaine Morgan.
• Tramaine Isabell (6-1, 170, G, Seattle, Wash./Garfield HS) spent his freshman through junior years at Lakeside High School and currently attends Garfield High School where he'll play under head coach Ed Haskins.
• Jermaine Morgan (6-8, 215, F, Chicago, Ill./Whitney Young HS/ Moberly Area CC) currently attends Moberly Area Community College in Moberly, Mo., after transferring from Odessa College in Texas following his freshman year.


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Congratulations Detroit! We finally made it to the big leagues! To many, this may come as breaking news, but to those who frequent Detroit and its surrounding neighborhoods this should arrive as no surprise. Esquire magazine has declared Detroit its "Bar City of the Year" for 2014 in an article written by David Wondrich in their June/July issue on newsstands now. Yep. You read that right. Detroit. Not New York, not L.A., not Las Vegas, not even Chicago. Detroit.
At this point, a brief background on David Wondrich seems appropriate, as nowadays any writer with a Macbook and a web page can declare something as the biggest or best of something. Wondrich, who has a PhD in Comparative Literature, has been a longtime Drinks Correspondent for Esquire magazine.
"(Wondrich) is widely hailed as the world's foremost authority on the history of the cocktail and one of the founders of the modern craft cocktail movement. He is a founding partner in Beverage Alcohol Resource, America's leading advanced training program for bartenders and other mixologists. He also is a frequent guest lecturer at venues such as the Smithsonian Institute, the American Museum of Natural History and top bars on five continents and ships at sea." - (http://talesofthecocktail.com/personality/david-wondrich/)
Now that the formalities are out of the way we can all relax. This guy's got the chops and he's legit. It should be noted that his assessment of our fair city came during its most unappealing time of year (March) and during its worst winter in history, yet somehow this man still found us to be the best. Take that Miami!
In his article, Wondrich makes note of the bitter cold and "unsettling" sights Detroit has to offer, but he claims these factors are negated by the "lively" people who frequent Detroit's varied selection of watering holes. He writes, "While Detroit exteriors may be forbidding, its interiors are anything but." Wondrich manages to get a taste of everything, visiting a diverse range of bars and pubs including: Grand Trunk Pub, Greenwich Time, Old Miami, Cliff Bell's, Town Pump, Sugar House and Mercury Bar, just to name a few. His best line from the article, and a theme that should be copied and seen on every t-shirt wearing Detroiter in town was, "Resurrection or not, this is our new favorite drinking town." We couldn't agree more. Welcome to the party.
For more of Dr. David Wondrich, check out his past Esquire articles here, his Facebook page here and follow his Twitter feed @DavidWondrich.
Source: Wondrich, David. (2014, June/July). Detroit Bar City of the Year. Esquire, 68-72.
Suggested Links
- Jacoby's German Biergarten: Diverse beers from Detroit's own "Cheers" reviewed
- The Baltimore: Detroit's dive bar reviewed
- The Bathtub Pub: Detroit's newest up-and-coming dive bar is a work in progress
- The Motor Bar: Elegance and ambiance come with a price
- Beach Bar & Grille: Find your beach in Campus Martius Park


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A collection of documents, leaflets, pamphlets, newspapers and transcripts of radio broadcasts - distributed spanning the perod during which the thirty years that the ANC was banned - 1960-1990).
The ANC is in an alliance with the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). Each Alliance partner is an independent organisation with its own constitution, membership and programmes. The Alliance is founded on a common commitment to the objectives of the National Democratic Revolution, and the need to unite the largest possible cross-section of South Africans behind these objectives.
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|The Ecology Bus can seat up to 32 students, taking them to outdoor learning sites and providing them with the tools they need to conduct scientific investigation. It carries insect sweep nets, water dip nets, rubber boots, binoculars, chemical test kits, soil corers, microscopes, a macroscope, snowshoes, a VCR and three onboard video monitors, a laptop computer, and other equipment. It runs on alternative soy diesel fuel and is handicapped-accessible to accommodate special needs learners.
PEBC programs offer distinct advantages over those at traditional fixed-site environmental learning centers. The Ecology Bus transports students to nearby outdoor learning areas. Once there, they spend the day exploring, observing, experimenting with, analyzing, and interpreting the area's ecology of the area. They leave with a clearer sense of the uniqueness and value of the area's natural resources. This assists students in gaining an awareness of their role as Earth's caretakers and in taking an interest in protecting their local environment.
PEBC also offers In-School Assemblies, Naturalist-in-Residence Programs, Educator Training Workshops, and numerous public programs. It is affiliated with other environmental education programs such Project Wet, Project Bluestem, and the Leopold Education Project.


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Bally's Marine life
by Stuart Vose
Coach picks up tips from top commandos.
Under-21 coach Kevin Ball picked up some tips in a different arena recently as he spent a couple of days amongst crack Royal Marine commandos.
The former Sunderland captain spent two days at the Commando Training Centre Royal Marines at Lympstone, Devon.
The base handles all training requirements for new recruits and Ball was afforded an insight into the process when he was invited to sit in on a special course.
He was brought up to speed with the selection process as well as some of the initial training Royal Marine recruits go through before progressing onto the main programme.
And learning from elite soldiers was a valuable lesson for Ball, who says he picked up some valuable tips to take back to Wearside.
"A friend of mine brought a teachers and influencers course that was going on down at Lympstone and asked if I'd like to attend, which I was more than happy to do," he explained.
"I sat in on some of the seminars, met some of the people and a few of the recruits who are actively in training now.
"It was really interesting to find out about how they teach the lads at a foundation stage and get the basics right before they actually begin their full training.
"Everything about the way they operate is very good and it was a very informative trip."
The Royal Marines, who make up the Royal Navy's infantry presence, are widely regarded as one of the world's top specialist military units.
The corps can be traced back as far as 1664 and takes only the best recruits – something which definitely came across to the visitor from Sunderland.
"At the end of the day they're an elite fighting force," Ball said.
"It was a really enjoyable few days and I have the utmost respect for them.
"Everything was thoroughly well organised and it was great to learn from elite commandos.
"They're developing young people to do a certain job while also developing them as people, just as we are, and that's one of the reasons I went.
"I enjoyed the discipline around the camp – there's a hierarchy and everyone understands where they are in the pecking order."
The classroom sessions were followed by a trip into the field as Ball was escorted right into the middle of a training exercise.
"We went up onto a moor during a training exercise and were talking away when the Marine said to me – 'there's 50 guys hiding around here at the moment; four of them are watching us right now'," he explained.
"I thought 'yeah, good one', but then they stepped into the open and I couldn't believe it.
"They'd been there all night. It was unbelievable.
"When we travel to a game we are fed and watered, sometimes stay in a hotel and they have to play 90 minutes.
"Those commandos can lie in wait for days and weeks on end – the mentality they display is fantastic."