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By Neisha Fuson
Paul and Leah Nations are headed to South Asia with their son, Elisha, in October. This young family is the most recent addition to the Alabama Acts 1:8 Connections partnership effort.
The Nationses, who grew up in Holly Pond and are members of First, Holly Pond, will remain connected to Alabama Baptists through their home church and four other nearby churches: Duck River Baptist, Mount Zion Baptist and Spring Hill Baptist, all in Cullman; and Walter Baptist, Hanceville.
The Nationses met with First, Holly Pond, Pastor Benjamin Smothers and Walter Baptist Pastor Gary Waddell on June 17 to discuss how Alabama Baptist churches can "be on the same page … and be helpful and encouraging" to the Nationses once they are overseas.
They met with Scotty Goldman, an associate in the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions (SBOM) office of global missions, the office that oversees Alabama Acts 1:8 Connections.
"The key to successful partnership is to be intentional," Goldman said, noting the importance of two-way prayer.
The churches should pray for the Nationses and the Nationses should be given the opportunity to pray for the churches, he said.
Leah Nations said she was excited for the church members "to pray about things and for them to see how God is answering their prayers."
She said she is praying "that these churches see us as regular people being obedient to God and that God would use that to call more people out to go … and realize the vast lostness in the world."
The people group the Nationses will serve is 99.8 percent Hindu.
They asked that Alabama Baptists pray for house churches that multiply, national believers they can partner with, language learning and for a love for the people and culture.
Smothers said First, Holly Pond, plans to pray regularly for the Nationses and hopes to have a monthly prayer meeting specifically focused on them and their work. The church also is looking forward to going on missions trips to South Asia once the Nationses are settled, Smothers said.
The Alabama Acts 1:8 Connections missions strategy is meant "to provide opportunities for Alabama Baptists to be involved in missions by connecting with International Mission Board (IMB) and North American Mission Board (NAMB) [representatives]," Goldman said. It is a shift from a geographic partnership model to a partnership with individual representatives from Alabama, no matter where they serve, he said.
With more than 400 representatives from Alabama currently serving with the IMB and NAMB and new appointees heading out each year, there are still many opportunities for churches and associations to get involved. The network can be created based on people group, location or individual representative.
For more information about Alabama Acts 1:8 Connections, to suggest representatives from Alabama who might welcome this type of partnership or to get connected with representatives who need a prayer network, call Goldman at 1-800-264-1225, ext. 387 (firstname.lastname@example.com).
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Bavarian Baked Potato Salad
|2 Pound (5 Medium Size)
|1 Pound (1 Inch Pieces)
|Vegetable oil
|2 Tablespoon
|1 Medium, chopped to make 1/2 cup
|2 Tablespoon
|Brown sugar
|3 Tablespoon
|1 Teaspoon
|Dry mustard
|1 Teaspoon
|1⁄8 Teaspoon
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|1⁄3 Cup (5.33 tbs)
|Thinly sliced celery
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|Chopped green pepper
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Chopped pimiento
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|Processed american cheese
|8 Ounce, sliced (1 Package)
1) Preheat the oven to 350° F.
2) In a large saucepan, cook the potatoes in the boiling salted water for 30 minutes, or until tender. Then drain, allow to cool.
3) In a medium bowl, peel, dice and place the potatoes.
4) In a medium skillet, sear the frankfurters in the oil until brown, then remove into the bowl with the potatoes.
5) In the same skillet, saute the onion until soft.
6) Then stir in the flour, sugar, salt, mustard and pepper, stir constantly and cook until bubbly.
7) Stir in the water and vinegar, stir continuously and cook further until the dressing is thick and bubbles for 1 minute.
8) Stir in the celery, green pepper and pimiento, then cook for another 1 minute.
9) Pour over the potatoes and frankfurters, mix well.
10) In a 8-cup baking dish, spoon 1/2 the potato mixture, then place a layer of 4 cheese slices and spoon rest of the potato mixture into the dish.
11) Slice rest of the cheese slices into triangles and place on top.
12) Bake in preheated oven for 15 minutes or until cheese is melted.
13) Serve immediately on individual serving plates.
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Calories 577 Calories from Fat 321
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 36 g55.2%
Saturated Fat 15.2 g76%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 128.6 mg42.9%
Sodium 1662.7 mg69.3%
Total Carbohydrates 47 g15.8%
Dietary Fiber 4.8 g19.2%
Sugars 11 g
Protein 20 g40.6%
Vitamin A 11% Vitamin C 83.9%
Calcium 24% Iron 25.1%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet


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Westover, PA School First and Second Graders 1924
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Miss Geneva McKloskey taught the First Room class of first and second graders in 1924.
First graders (in no particular order): Hallie Blake, Caroline Blake, Maude Clawson, Agnes Clawson, Evelyn Charleston, Leah Marie Fry, Annie Gorsky, Helen Kitchen, Hedwig Lucumsky, Jessie Markle, Flossie Mock, Grace Metzger, Olivia Roland, Murriel Rodkey, Pauline Rodkey, Grace Syberts, Mary Straw, Flo Solley, Elizabeth Westover, Cloey Wagner, Betty Wagner, Faye Wagner, Lucy Woodley, Mary Pauluvkeich, Paul Beals, Darl Barto, Eugene Corson, Bruce Frye, John Ferguson, Robert Kitchen, Mike Kemornitzky, Lynn Myers, Hall Mock, Joseph McCormick, Charles Reed, Richard Roland, William Weaver, Richard Wagner and Bertan Westover.
Second graders (in no particular order): Elizabeth Blake, Genevieve Lloyd, Christine Weaver, Mildred Weaver, Hazel Westover, Harry Blake, John Kitchen, Clement Lallament (Lallement), Edwin Myers, Timothy Rishel, Miles Westover, and John Pawluvkeich.
Photo from the 1924 Ludae Memoriae, published by the students of Westover High School, Westover, PA.
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Alabama's attorney general is scheduled to testify to a Senate subcommittee in Washington in opposition to environmental regulations affecting coal-fired power plants.
A spokesman for Attorney General Luther Strange says he was invited by Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions to testify Wednesday at a meeting of the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety. The subcommittee is focusing on climate change. Sessions is a member of the subcommittee.
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It's a differential equation... separate variables
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... is the chain rule. Straight continuous lines differentiate downwards (integrate up) with respect to x, and the straight dashed line similarly but with respect to the dashed balloon expression (the inner function of the composite which is subject to the chain rule).
Complete separation of variables (which some will prefer) uses the chain rule to split dy/dx into differentials, one each side, so you can think Riemann sums when integrating. This way here, though, you just think: anti-differentiate each side with respect to x. The chain rule means you also anti-diff 1/y with respect to y.
Let's also call the constant of integration ln|c| instead of the usual c, to help things along slightly when we take the exp of each side of the top equation (when we've got one).
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Any day now, Bestiary 4 will be arriving at game tables, ready to unleash a terrifying horde of beasts, demons, psychopomps, dragons, and mythic foes. Last week, we took a look at one of the cutest, cuddliest monsters in the book, the pipefox. But all that sweetness can lead to an upset stomach and tooth decay. Fortunately, the tooth fairy is here to help you with that, by forcefully yanking out your teeth! These obnoxious fey are sure to keep you up at night. Just don't expect them to leave a gold piece under your pillow when they're done with their grisly work.
CE Diminutive fey (extraplanar)
Init +2; Senses darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision; Perception +7
AC 16, touch 16, flat-footed 14 (+2 Dex, +4 size)
hp 5 (2d6–2)
Fort –1, Ref +5, Will +5
DR 2/cold iron
Speed 15 ft., fly 60 ft. (perfect)
Melee +1 pliers +8 (1d4–2/ 19–20), bite +7 (1d4–3 plus paralysis)
Space 1 ft.; Reach 0 ft. (5 ft. with pliers)
Special Attacks death throes, paralysis (1d3 rounds, DC 11), pliers, tricky thief
Spell-Like Abilities (CL 5th; concentration +7)
At will—mage hand, open/close
1/day—invisibility (self only), sleep (DC 13)
Str 5, Dex 14, Con 9, Int 8, Wis 15, Cha 14
Base Atk +1; CMB –1 (+3 dirty trick, +7 steal); CMD 6 (8 vs. steal)
Feats Weapon Finesse, Improved StealB, Greater StealB
Skills Acrobatics +7 (+3 when jumping), Escape Artist +7, Fly +16, Perception +7, Sense Motive +7, Stealth +19; Racial Modifiers –4 Acrobatics when jumping
Languages Sylvan
Environment any urban or plains
Organization solitary, pair, or gang (3–12)
Treasure standard
Death Throes (Su) When killed, a tooth fairy explodes into a cloud of sparkling white fairy dust that clings to creatures within 5 feet. This glittery substance has a stench so foul that it sickens any creature coated by it for 1d4 rounds (Fortitude DC 10 negates). This is a poison effect. The save DC is Constitution-based.
Pliers (Su) Each tooth fairy owns a pair of pliers it uses to torment its victims. In the hands of a tooth fairy, the pliers deal damage as a +1 dagger wielded by a Medium creature. The pliers have hardness 10 and 3 hit points. If its pliers are destroyed, a tooth fairy is stunned for 1 round. If the tooth fairy is killed, the pliers rust away into worthless splinters 1d4 rounds later. A tooth fairy can create a new pair of pliers by spending one hour crafting (no materials required), which destroys the previous pair. The pliers grant the tooth fairy the Greater Dirty Trick feat and a +4 bonus on dirty trick and steal combat maneuvers.
Tricky Thief (Su) A tooth fairy can use a dirty trick combat maneuver with its pliers to pinch an opponent's fingers, or a steal combat maneuver to steal an opponent's tooth. A finger pinch deals 1 point of Dexterity damage. Stealing a tooth deals 1 point of Charisma damage and 1 point of bleed damage. If the stolen tooth is reattached within 10 minutes and the character receives any amount of magical healing, the tooth reattaches, the bleed damage ends, and the Charisma damage is cured.
And here I thought the dentist was bad. At least they bother to use anesthesia. That's all for this week. Next week, we will close out our look at Bestiary 4 with a foe that is more than meets the eye!
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So there we were after 31 minutes feeling a little sorry for Oscar. Full home debut, just 21 years old and bouncing off the rock face called the Juventus defence. He could have been a foreign language student lost on the streets of big, bustling London, gazing nonplussed at an A-to-Z guide.
The game was passing him by and that slender frame only added to the sense of a young man out of his depth. And then he struck.
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Though Steven Soderbergh won't be directing Magic Mike XXL, his fingerprints will be all over that sequel. Channing Tatum revealed that the "retired" filmmaker will still be a part of the Magic Mike crew; Soderbergh will wear three hats – camera operator, director of photography, and film editor.
Tatum revealed to GQ (via /Film) that he fought Soderbergh long and hard over his decision to retire.
"It's super complicated, in my opinion, why he wanted to stop doing film," Tatum said. "I lobbied probably harder than anybody else—we had many, many nights of heated debate. I was, 'I don't fucking get it! Why?' And he's like, 'I don't need it.' "
And so, with Soderbergh retiring, his longtime first assistant director Gregory Jacobs stepped in to helm the sequel. But just because Soderbergh decided to stop directing, it doesn't mean that he's totally done with film. (He's actually been quite productive since his last feature film Side Effects.)
"I want to be there, but I don't want to be the director," Soderbergh explains. "I want to be a part of it. I want to be in the band, but I just don't want to be the frontman this time."
Soderbergh will shoot and edit Magic Mike XXL. So, basically, we can expect the sequel to look and feel a lot like the original, and that's a good thing. In the mean time, Soderbergh is keeping busy with the Cinemax TV project The Knick, and he recently directed a stage play called The Library starring the young Chloe Grace Moretz.
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A demand letter for nearly $9 million in costs from Republic Power Partners to a power agency formed by four area municipalities singles out the city of Lubbock, and the power agency's attorney is asking why.
West Texas Municipal Power Agency is a joint-power agency and municipal corporation of Lubbock, Floydada, Tulia and Brownfield. Republic sent the power agency and the city of Lubbock the Nov. 23 letter.
Attorney John Davidson represents the agency, and he said the $8.972 million Republic Power claims is strictly from his client — not any of the cities.
"I don't understand," he said. "(Lubbock was) never a party to the development agreement, and that's this issue in the case."
In 2008, the power agency created High Plains Diversified Energy Corp. to find alternative energy sources. Republic Power formed a partnership with High Plains, and in August 2008, was tasked to raise private money to finance feasibility studies on various energy projects.
Nearly three years later, a judge ruled Texas law did not grant the power agency the authority to create the corporation, which sought low-interest debt for alternative energy production, meaning the project did not legally exist, and the corporation did not have the power to condemn land and issue public debt.
Now Republic Power is seeking damages for costs incurred during the process.
A Republic Power spokesperson said the city of Lubbock was included in the demand for payment because most of the energy from the project would go to Lubbock.
"Given the fact that the city of Lubbock has a 92 percent controlling (stake)," spokeswoman Julie Hillrichs said, "our intent was to also serve notice to the city of Lubbock."
Hillrichs said Republic Power did not mean to single out Lubbock. She emphasized the development agreement was between Republic and the power agency.
"We wanted to make sure the city of Lubbock was in the loop," she added.
The Lubbock city attorney's office has recused itself from the matter, said Sam Medina, city attorney.
Three years ago, Medina was the presiding judge who gave the go ahead for the agreement.
Lubbock has not retained any further counsel yet, said Mayor Tom Martin.
Like the rest of the cities, Lubbock must wait until the power agency's board decides its next course of action.
Gary Brown, president of the power agency and Floydada's city manager, said the next step is for the agency's board to meet to decide what course of action to take. He requested on Dec. 1 an itemized list of all damages Republic Power claims.
He said any action would be purely speculative at this point as to how much each city could be held liable, if at all, for the damages, as the board has not made any decisions.
The Avalanche-Journal has filed a Texas Public Information Act request with the power agency, seeking the development contract. The A-J also has requested from Republic Power's attorney through the state Public Information Act the itemized list of all damages limited partnership has claimed.
Hillrichs said Republic Power's attorney is finalizing the list, but it should be completed within the next couple of days.
Davidson said the board would meet early next week in Lubbock in a closed-door session to discuss the demand letter.
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A bus driver, whose vehicle was laden with primary school children, has been found guilty of being in charge of a vehicle while over the drink-drive limit.
David Papworth, a professional driver with over 30 years of experience, failed a breath test after being stopped in Kington Langley, Wiltshire, while dropping children off at a local primary school.
Papworth, 54, from Wootton Bassett, was found to have 40 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath – the legal limit is 35 microgrammes – when he was stopped driving the single-decker bus in January of this year.
The experienced driver claimed he had been at a football match the night before and had not eaten anything for breakfast.
According to The Swindon Advertiser, District judge Simon Cooper said: "You are a man with a long and unblemished driving career. This was drinking the night before. It remains in your system. It has an effect.
"Driving through a narrow village with cars parked on each side at that time of the morning, and these buses are not small, they're large.
"There is potential to cause serious damage."
The court also heard that he had been driving HGVs since 1982 and had a clean licence. Papworth immediately resigned from his job following his arrest.
Kim Brereton, defending, said: "He hadn't eaten anything and he's not a heavy drinker, so it probably affected him more than someone who had had a heavy meal and drinks regularly."
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Tiny Brown from the Caney
Could this little brown be streamborne? I didn't think TWRA stocked any thing this small in the Caney.
Don't they stock fingerlings?
If you look at his tail it's worn just slightly which indicates he spent his early life in a hatchery run
However I would think there is plenty of reproduction on the caney just like there is on the clinch. The clinch reproduction is really under appreciated and sadly twra doesn't want to admit it exists. Right now like every year the log jams and near shore eddies are full of rainbow fry from natural reproduction
Wild browns almost always have a very noticeable distinct blue dot behind their eyes
Agree Jim! I see small brown trout fry often on the Clinch in the areas you mention. Had to catch a few to make sure they were not minnows. My understanding in regards to the TWRA's stance on browns reproducing is that they acknowledge they reproduce. However; they do not reproduce successfully enough to maintain the take and attrition of them from the river. I am glad they have stocked the Clinch with some fresh browns lately. They look very healthy and I hope they grow up to be legends. The river needs a few more river monsters after fish mongers have thinned their numbers over the years.
I would love to see:
I've argued the reproduction for years on the Caney, TWRA says the PH isn't conductive for reproduction:confused:
Over the years i have seen fingerling(pinky size) rainbow & browns in certain areas of the Caney so i know it happens.
The slot limit seems to be working, it would work better if there was more enforcement, which altogether is another topic.
I'm surprised one has not been implemented on the Clinch, it deserves one.
The Clinch has had a slot for several years now
It's even hard to use the word enforcement, that would imply that anyone from TWRA actually checked a fisherman since the slot was implemented. Honestly, it's pathetic the lack of a presence TWRA has on the Clinch.
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The 120-mile Florida Keys island chain is home to the continental United States' only living-coral barrier reef. This teeming backbone of marine life runs the length of the Keys about five miles offshore and offers Florida Keys scuba diving vacation memories that last a lifetime.
Our coral formations are famous for their abundance of fish, from impressive schools of blue-striped grunts to toothy green moray eels. The U.S. government established the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary to protect our marine habitat.
Preserving the reef is a top priority for a good reason. There is no more versatile marine destination in the world. We have coral-encrusted ship wrecks and intricate natural coral formations. We have shallow reefs for snorkelers, and a range of deeper reefs for experienced divers.
Most dive sites are equipped with convenient mooring buoys to save the reef from anchors and make it easy for boaters to tie off. Most sites are a short boat ride from our islands, where dozens of highly professional dive operators are ready to cater to you.
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- Avoid contact with the ocean bottom; properly weighted divers should practice proper buoyancy control. Sandy areas that appear barren may support new growth if left undisturbed.
- Please don't feed the fish; it destroys their natural feeding habits, and avoids any potential injury to you or the marine life.
- Remember, it's illegal to harvest coral in Florida.
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As 80-mile-per-hour winds pounded his survival tent on the edge of the Greenland Icecap, Burt Avedon could hear the explosions caused by giant icebergs cracking off the distant glacier and collapsing into the
"It's times like that when you find out what you're really made of," recalls Avedon, president of New York-based sportswear manufacturer Willis and Geiger, and no stranger to adventure, having flown the China run for Clare Chennault's Flying Tigers, and commanded the air group aboard the USS Kennedy.
Avedon camped out on a 700,000square-mile frozen desert of ice and snow measuring 10,000 feet at its deepest point. "When you first see the icecap, you can't believe it's real," he recalls. Complete with wave patterns and islands, it overwhelms the horizon, covering 85 percent of
Somewhere nearby, six rare P-38 fighters and two B-17 Flying Fortresses lay entombed under 100 feet of ice, abandoned en route to
Avedon narrowed the search area by plotting glacial drift from a spotter plane and by lowering himself into 100-foot crevasses. "You can calculate the glacier's age like an ice tree. The seasons and years are mirrored on the ice walls." But this time something was wrong. All day their instruments picked up no trace of the aircraft. Avedon kept rechecking his calculations. At he realized "you dumb S.O.B., you've plotted the ice drift 180 degrees in the wrong direction!"
After breaking camp and marching for hours across the plateau, magnetometers indicated they were standing directly over the planes. The lost squadron had been found. Avedon is one of a tiny but zealous band of CEO Greenland buffs who have explored the northernmost land and largest island on earth and found, in Avedon's words, "a totally exhilarating country, a frontier where you experience a primal sense of adventure."
You don't have to pitch a tent on the icecap, though, to enjoy the bizarre beauty of
With parts of Greenland as far west as Boston and as far east as Dakar, Senegal, the island is a superpower in size, but Lilliputian in population-just 40,000 Greenlanders (as the Eskimo, or Inuit people are called) and 10,000 Danish nationals eke out a rugged existence on a colonial outpost at the fringe of civilization, where winter brings months of total darkness and temperatures below minus 30 degrees.
A self-governing
For years, IBM Chairman Emeritus Thomas Watson, Jr. had been "fascinated with the Arctic and with the legends of the Greenland Vikings," so he built a 68-foot schooner (see photo) specially equipped for polar travel, gathered a crew of 12 and several fellow CEOs and family members and set sail for Greenland. "It's an absolutely unbelievable country, where every day brings new surprises," Watson discovered. "In high summer, there are 23 to 24 hours of sunlight. We saw all kinds of animal life-
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Today, 48 years after 25 young U.S. airmen successfully executed the largest forced landing in aviation history on the Greenland Icecap (they kept their wheels up and made a belly landing), and four years after Burt Avedon's expedition established the aircraft's location, efforts are under way to physically recover the Lost Squadron.
Although the mission's pilots were rescued unharmed by dogsled after spending 17 days on the ice, nobody knows if the eight planes left behind are in mint condition or were torn apart by glacial stresses.
Optimists include the Atlanta-based Greenland Expedition Society, a group of executives and aviation buffs that includes Pat Epps, CEO of Epps Air Service, Bobbie Bailey, president of compressor manufacturer Our Way, and architect Richard Taylor. The group made its first physical contact with the planes in the summer of 1989, using steam and coring drills to bore down 250 feet and pull up what's believed to be a piece of a B-17's wing.
Beginning in summer 1990, the Society hopes to mount a multimillion-dollar herculean effort to sink shafts around the crash site large enough to pull up and reassemble the planes in sections.
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As I see it, your (<=) proof is missing a key element: you have shown that if THERE IS a solution to Ax = b, it is unique. What you still need to do is show that some (particular) solution x0 EXISTS.
And here we have a problem: b may not be in the image space (column space) of A. To see what I mean, let m = 3, n = 2, and consider the matrix:
with .
Then rank(A) = 2, but there is NO SOLUTION to Ax = b, since A(x,y,z)T = (x,y,0)T.
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It has only been three days since the last edition of Bleacher Report's NHL Power Rankings, but they have been three extremely active days.
The trade deadline has seen significant changes in the balance of power in the NHL. From traded stars like Martin St. Louis, Thomas Vanek, Ryan Miller and Marian Gaborik to the kind of depth moves that teams like Pittsburgh and Chicago indulged in, each of those deals in some way impacted the expected standings of the NHL.
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_Shanty mixes a wickly funny comic cocktail that will have you laughing around the town, and waiting to come back for more. You will never look at St Ives with a straight face again.
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The walk stars from Westcott's Quay (by the St Ives Arts Club, 120m behind the RNLI Lifebaot House, along the seawall.
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"Thanks Shanty for a great evening. Art Galleries just haven't been the same since, and as for Hepworth's scultpures...truly cosmic"
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Specsavers and Carlsberg: why copyrighted words are great brand marketing
Last month, Specsavers successfully trademarked the word 'should've' - a key part of its infamous catchphrase "should've gone to Specsavers".
Though rivals still have a few weeks left to make an objection, if the ruling passes, all other companies will be prevented from using the word for marketing purposes in future.
According to 32,198 emails, most retailers use boring subject lines
Ah, the humble subject line. Gatekeeper of your offers. The crux of your campaigns. And the source of unrivalled consternation.
Is the message on brand? Does it sound spammy? Will it drive sales?
According to the vast majority of the N subject lines we analysed, the answers are no, yes, and probably not as much as you'd like.
10 common online copywriting mistakes
Anyone can be a writer these days. All you need is a computer with an internet connection and a tenner to spend on a domain name.
The problem is: anyone can be a writer these days.
Four brands with a brilliantly funny tone of voice
Tone of voice (ToV) is extremely important when you're trying to build a distinctive brand. It's the personality of your business. The thing people will remember you by.
One way to to have a memorable ToV is to be funny, but there aren't many brands who can consistently pull it off without subsequent cringing on the audience's part.
In this post I'm going to cover four that can.
14 safety precautions for inexperienced content writers
If one of your team is new to content writing, what are the potential pitfalls?
I've been writing articles for Econsultancy for a few years and although I certainly don't profess to be an expert, there are a few things I look out for.
In fact, I still get caught out, which is why creating a list like this is a good way to encourage vigilance.
UX trends in 2015: the experts' view
Never mind content, it seems the customer is (quite rightly) king these days.
User experience (UX) has been one of the most widely discussed marketing topics this year as brands increasingly realise the importance of providing a high quality experience online across all touch points.
How to achieve the right tone of voice for your brand
The way a person speaks is one of the first things people notice.
Soft-spoken, polite, enthusiastic, rude, dull: you can make an instant judgement about somebody based on how they communicate.
It is no different for brands. The way a brand speaks to its audience is extremely important, because that is how people are going to remember it.
Should writers be worried about automated copywriting?
Unless you're a reactionary, as a marketer you probably understand that automation is creating more jobs than it makes redundant.
Automation, for all the scale it enables, requires human mastery of technology, process flows and customer lifecycles.
Increasingly personal communications also entail the creation of more content, to suit each segment and event you identify.
A beginner's guide to A/B testing
How do you know your website pages are performing as well as they could be if you're not testing them to make sure? You don't, is the honest answer.
You could be missing out on a lot of potential sales, shares, clicks, or whatever it is you're trying to get out of your visitors.
How A/B tests improved add-to-basket levels by almost 30%: Case study
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How recruiters can practice what digital marketers preach
Recruiters should start thinking more like search marketers in order to get more traffic to (and quality leads from) their job listings.
A copywriter's template for excellent product page descriptions
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I happen to be a climate scientist (Alabama's state climatologist, too) who specifically publishes in scientific literature on the climate and climate change. I was a lead author of the 2001 IPCC and contributed to the others. (See my Web site for more information: http://www.nsstc.uah.edu/atmos/christy.html.)
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Carter: Obama has given up on Middle East peace
Former President Jimmy Carter is not at all impressed with Barack Obama's efforts toward Middle East peace. Speaking Tuesday at the LBJ library's annual Harry Middleton Lectureship series, Carter said that in terms of the peace process in the Middle East, "nothing is going on."
Answering a question about Egypt, the former president praised President Obama's handling of the situation there saying he's "done quite well" and that Obama has handled it "about the same way I'd have handled it if I'd been in office."
However, on the broader question of the Middle East peace process, Carter was much less complimentary saying, "President Obama has basically given up on peace in the Middle East."
Pointing out that Obama had started out well, Carter blasted Obama by claiming that he'd now become "more accommodating to Netanyahu and Israel than George W. Bush was." Trying to dampen his critique of the Obama administration, Carter said he really wasn't there to criticize, but he'd been asked a question and that was the answer. "I don't have any feeling of success for what President Obama had done in the Middle East", Carter concluded.
The session was an hour long question and answer period on a wide range of topics including Carter's run for the presidency, his term in office and his work after he left office. In it Carter's most pointed remarks came during the discussion of the Middle East peace process.
Often cited as someone who cozies up to dictators, Carter admitted to having "lunch or dinner" each time he went to Egypt with Omar Suleiman, the intelligence chief, because he knew "more about the Middle East than anyone", and he described Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad as a "young, fairly progressive president" who had "inherited" the presidency from his father.
But it seems that even the likes of Jimmy Carter knows an empty suit when he see's one and a person from whom you would expect to see fairly significant support can't find it in himself to say anything positive about the Obama Middle East peace initiative – or lack thereof.
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Carter hearts Yassir (That's My Baby) Arafat. Matter of fact…like Obama…he seems really fond of dictators and terrorists.
Jimmy isn't giving Obama credit for green lighting and legitimizing the Muslim Brotherhood. I'm sure we'll achieve the Liberal's Middle East Peace Plan (aka the destruction of Israel) much sooner thanks to Obama.
This makes me hopeful since Jimbo has never been correct about a single thing in his horrible twisted life.
Actually…and only to give the devil his due…he DID begin to deregulate the Nixonian fascist wage and price controls.
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1. Nominating Alfred Kahn for the final push (started during the Nixon admin) to kill airline regulation
2. Capital gains tax cut which unleashed the venture industry
3. Nominating Paul Volker as Chairman of the Fed
He is still in the running for the worst person to ever be entitled to sit behind the desk of the Oval Office although he may have to settle for second worst.
I almost dropped to me knees laughing at your second paragraph, Bruce. Just hilarious. What a punchline, and he actually said it himself.
And when I saw the title, that Carter thought that Obama had given up on Middle East "peace," I thought, oh, that's code for "he's not screwing Israel." Then it turns out it wasn't code because he makes it explicit.
He's not screwing Israel TOTALLY…and not from lack of trying. Damned, uncooperative, obstinate people INSIST on surviving. Just ask Helen Thomas…
Jimmy Carter is a despicable excuse for a human being. If he's criticizing Obama…..well, I'll score that as a point in Baracks' favor in this case.
I personally had thought for many years that Carter had become one of the best "ex-Presidents" but in the last 10 years, he has abdicated that position. The man seems destined to be an embarrassment.
His involvement in Habitat for Humanity was admirable,
But when Clinton was in office he started sending him to "negotiate" with North Korea and the like. Though was lauded as some great elder statesman, he always came away with a worse deal for the US.
For awhile, I just wrote him off as a doddering old fool who couldn't rise above his incompetence. When he invited Michael Moore to his booth at the DNC in 2004, I realized that his pathetic performances were by design, not by mistake. Now, I can't stand to listen to his paper-thin passive aggressive partisan attacks in interviews.
Obama stabbed Israel in the back on settlements that were not even in dispute. How is that not screwing Israel?
With the outstanding leadership of the Cairo "events," the Middle East is now like a political bowl of Jello. It will take 18 months or more before anybody can begin to figure out just what is going on.
Simply, it's now a giant mess.


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Dalrymple Appoints Fetch to Public Service Commission
BISMARCK, N.D. – Gov. Jack Dalrymple today appointed Bonny Fetch to the North Dakota Public Service Commission (PSC). Fetch, an administrative law judge, will fill the unexpired term of former Commissioner Tony Clark who has resigned to accept an appointment on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
Fetch will take a leave of absence from the North Dakota Office of Administrative Hearings where she has served as an administrative law judge since the office's establishment in 1991. Fetch's term on the Public Service Commission expires Dec. 31.
Fetch's duties at the Office of Administrative Hearings include presiding over hearings for the PSC. The PSC has relied on Fetch to conduct formal hearings related to the oversight of mining, railroad transportation, electrical cooperatives and pipelines.
"The Public Service Commission's work to protect the interests of North Dakotans is extremely important and Bonny has the right experience and qualifications to step in immediately and continue the Commission's work," Gov. Jack Dalrymple said. "Bonny's experience will be a tremendous asset to the commission's mission of providing sound regulatory oversight of the state's utilities, telecommunications and other industries."
Fetch, of Bismarck, also serves as the supervisory administrative law judge for the North Dakota Department of Human Services. Her previous experience includes serving as a personnel specialist and hearing officer for the state's Central Personnel Division for 11 years.
In 1976, Fetch became the first commissioned woman officer in the North Dakota National Guard.
A graduate of the University of Texas, Fetch has been a certified administrative law judge through the National Association of Hearing Officials since 2003. She served as president of the National Association of Hearing Officials from 2008 to 2011.
For more information, contact: Jeff Zent or Jody Link at 701.328.2200.


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BSC Accounting Program Students Participate in WV Society of CPA "Student Night"
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Bluefield State College accounting program students attended the recent West Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants Student Night in Princeton. Pictured (front row left-to-right) are BSC students Johanna Yongque, Lindsay Snead, Ricardo deLeon, (back row, l-to-r) Bill Gearhart, Famara Jallow, and (Assistant Professor of Accounting) Paris Lester. Students met Judy Proctor (WVSCPA CEO) and Christopher Nice (President of the Charleston WV Chapter of WVSCPA). "Our students were invited to join the Society as student members," Prof. Lester noted. Through this membership, they can attend a job fair in Charleston in early October, networking with banks, CPA firms and other companies seeking to hire accountants.


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Vikram Pandit must not be checking his cellphone voicemail.
Gawker.com published the mobile number of Citigroup Inc.'s chief executive on Friday, after Pandit publicly offered to talk to the Occupy Wall Street protestors demonstrating against big banks like his.
"I'd be happy to talk to them anytime they want," Pandit told Fortune on Wednesday.
But rather astonishingly, none of the protestors have reached out to Pandit, Citigroup officials said Monday.
"To my knowledge nobody has taken him up on that offer," Ed Skyler, Citigroup's head of public affairs, told reporters during a conference call on Monday to discuss the bank's third-quarter earnings.
Pandit was not on the call with reporters, and was not asked about the Occupy Wall Street protests during a later conference call with analysts on Monday.
His silence contrasted with the response of JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon, who on Thursday told reporters that he was not offended by the protestors' decision to march past his home last week.
"It's legal to demonstrate," Dimon said, adding, "You should try and listen and not have a knee-jerk reaction" when people demonstrate.
That conciliatory tone was also echoed by Wells Fargo & Co. CEO John Stumpf on Monday — who has the advantage of running a San Francisco bank far from Wall Street and some of its associations.
"I understand some of the angst and the anger. This downturn has been too long, unemployment is too high and people are hurting. We get that," he told analysts during a conference call to discuss Wells Fargo earnings on Monday.
But Pandit — and Citigroup — might be feeling particularly singled out by the protestors after the past week. Protestors marched to a Citigroup branch in New York on Saturday, and 24 people were arrested after the bank's employees called the police.
After Pandit called the protestors' concerns "completely understandable" last week and made his offer to talk, Gawker tried to facilitate a dialogue through some rather provocative tactics. The website posted Pandit's cell and office phone numbers as well as his Citigroup email address on Friday afternoon.
When American Banker tried that number on Friday, Pandit's voicemail was already full — which leads us to wonder if Occupy Wall Street was too busy protesting to read Gawker, if all of the reporters dialed up Pandit first or if the number was wrong.


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Skip to comments.Albanian Muslims object to city's statue of Mother Teresa
Posted on 03/30/2006 2:39:43 AM PST by MadIvan
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I'm offended that they consider islam a religion.
Unlike YOU who adore Christian killing mussies and clinton policies!!
See, bud.... clinton was a war criminal and he got away with it.
You support CLINTON'S POLICIES SO YOU ARE NO BETTER THAN A MILOSEVIC SUPPORTER.
DEAL with it, LIBERAL.
Ha ha.
Me too, me too!! Clinton was a big albanian supporter... and he was SUPPORTED$$$$$ by a bunch of Albanian lobbyists who got their money from CRIMNINAL activies.
clinton's policies to help the mussies who fought against Christian Serbs in Bosnia. clinton who supported Bosnian mujahadeen who provided passports to bin laden and the plotters of 9/11.
And don't forget, that many of the 9/11 hijackers served with the Bosnian mussie "army" in its civil war against the lawful govt. of Yugoslavia.
albanian terrorists and land thieves, also had bin laden support in Kosovo.
Screw the Muslim hordes.
A liberal Muslim is one that will only cut half of your head off.
We do not want this statue to be erected in a public place, because we see her as a religious figure," said Bashkim Bajraktari, Shkoder's mufti, a Muslim religious leader.
Too damn bad. If they don't like the staute just let them do what they always do, cut the head off of it.
Them and clintinoids too!!
I know. Took the words right out of my mouth.
Did some lurking for the last several months; looks like you are still the master of the Balkans threads. I will soon be making another long trip--Afghanistan this time--and will probably revert to listening silence again. -Mark
Build the statue. Let me slap their toothless primitive whining Muslim faces.
But that's so 2002!
Seriously, stay safe, and if someone offers you a GAZ jeep to use, punch them in the head, 'cause they don't like you.
Hello, Mother Theresa was not born in Albania, she never lived in Albania.
>>>>>Or the Albanian government that has opened its training bases to our troops for their final exercises while enroute to war?>>>>>
Our troops or YOURS ?
Argue with Mother Theresa. She says she was Albanian (see post 36). She spoke Albanian. The Albanians have named their main airport after her. The biggest Albanian charity is called The Mother Teresa Society. The fact that she was born in an Albanian populated area of the Ottoman Empire before Albanian gained its independence from Istanbul makes her no less Albanian.
Here's a nice photo of the statue of Mother Teresa located on Mother Theresa Boulevard in Pristina, Kosovo; its been up about four years now:
Yet, we have to accept that an Albanian born in Macedonia is Albania's national figure :-)
At least we do not have problem with the nationality of Osama Bin Laden who set shop in Albania.
`The suffering of our family started when the Yugoslavs and Albanians were fighting for Kosova and the other provinces of Albania in which was the City of Skopje. Our father ... was very active in politics and the Albanian National question. He tried very hard to obtain the national rights of Albanians, with all his heart he tried to keep the Albanian territories in Yugoslavia together with Albania. When Yugoslavia took over the territories the family was persecuted and my father poisoned.'
And your "proof" for this is?
This is historical nonsense. Yugoslavia (i.e. Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes) was created in 1919., after WWI. Present day Kosovo and Metohija and Makedonija were part of Serbia since the dissolution of the Ottoman rule in the Balkans (Balkan Wars). For historically challenged, Balkan wars were BEFORE WWI.
"When Yugoslavia took over the territories the family was persecuted and my father poisoned." is complete fabrication.
But having in mind Albanian propensity for blattant historical lies (e.g. Ilyrian origin, Alexander the Great being an Albanian and other fantastic tales) this is merely a glitch in the script :-)
There is a rabid Anti-Serb who can be consulted on Mother Theresa. He can not be accued of favorism. His name is Christopher Hitchens.
OK, as usual the Serbs did no wrong. Mother Teresa and her brother lied. Whatever.
I wonder if your beloved Muhammedans will tear down the statute to this kindly nun?
Perhaps, it is the fact that her deeds leave the vast majority of the rest of us wanting in our contributions in life.
I can think of several reasons the Muhammedans would object.
1. She was an avowed Christian.
2. She was not a Muhammedan.
3. Remember those statues of Buddha?
marky-boy, if you weren't falling all over yourself trying to make all Serbs look bad, you'd have realized that some of the Bosnians are Serbs! LOL! What a fool! That fact was posted here months ago.
Those pancakes ready yet, boy?
Come to think of it, she also wasn't a pedophile or a bloodthirsty, destruction crazed murderer. Unlike the fruit of the Islamic cult.
Uh huh, how about side of fries with that whopper.
Monty: "Uh huh, how about side of fries with that whopper."
The 6th Albanian contingent of troops is in Iraq:
"Our Prime Minister was here two months ago and he said Albania will be in Iraq the same amount of time as the U.S. forces," Sokoli said. "The Albanian Soldiers are proud to fight terrorism here and to fight the global war on terrorism."
In 2004, Sgt. Elton Abazllari, now the company advisor, was deployed to Iraq, working with U.S. Special Forces. He was wounded in his right leg by an Improvised Explosive Device. He said the situation in Mosul has greatly improved in the past year.
"Now-a-days, things are changing for the better," Sokoli said. "Three years ago, it was the worst situation, and now its better because the local government is taking control and responsibility and fighting terrorism, and the coalition is supporting them."
Sokolis Albanian Kommandos will be leaving Iraq in mid-April to be replaced by the Kommandos 2nd Battalion.
"I think now terrorism is the worst sickness and all democratic countries need to put together all their forces to fight the terrorists," Sokoli said.
You're a goof.
Meanwhile, your beloved Milosevic was sucking up oil for food dollars from Saddam and the Serbs continued to supply weapons to Saddam Hussein right up through 2002.
Conscience Before Deadlines
By Stephen Schwartz
08 May 2006
Shkodra, Albania -- Does the mainstream media (MSM) incite the clash of civilizations (COC) between the Judeo-Christian world and Islam? At times, it seems so.
A recent example involves the small country of Albania, which is mysterious to most foreigners. I have published much on the history of mutual interfaith respect among Albanians, who are 70 percent Muslim (mainly Sunnis, but with at least a third comprising Europe's only indigenous Shias). The institution I have founded, the Center for Islamic Pluralism (CIP), seeks to promote the common interest of all monotheistic believers. I have published several articles and comments defending the rights of Greek Orthodox believers in Turkey, the sanctity of synagogues in Gaza, and other issues involving non-Muslims.
Some argue that CIP's efforts to oppose Muslim radicals when they attack other religions are meaningless, because according to such instant experts, nobody in the Muslim world listens to me or to CIP. While I do not intend this commentary as mere self-promotion, since CIP was founded last year, I have met repeatedly with Islamic clerics in the Balkans and Southeast Asia, and, as in the past, with dissident Saudis -- and I sincerely believe our work has a positive effect.
But let me not stray too far from what brought me to Albania. The April 2006 issue of First Things, an American Christian magazine of considerable influence, printed an article of mine calling on the Vatican to do more to help Albanian Catholics preserve their cultural heritage -- not in the face of Muslim aggression, but against the remnants of Communist corruption in politics and legal standards
The article called forth a generous comment from the editor of First Things, Jody Bottum, who also, however, mentioned news reports of Muslim-Catholic conflict in the northern Albanian city of Shkodra, in which Catholics were historically a majority and now make up half the population. Many Catholics have left Shkodra for other Albanian cities where economic opportunities are better. As a Catholic and anti-Communist redoubt, Shkodra continues to suffer, in its social development, from the discrimination imposed on it by decades of Marxist terror. My article, Mr. Bottum's comments, and links to the news stories about Muslim-Catholic tensions may be read here.
Given the seriousness of the matter, and the unfortunate fact that I have been repeatedly and vehemently accused of hiding the bad face of Islam, I took an opportunity -- an invitation to Britain for an event cosponsored by the Organization for the Islamic Conference (OIC), the Saudi-based international body of 57 Muslim-majority states, including the Palestinian Authority -- and have spent a week in Albania, investigating the situation for myself. (I have the further pleasure of announcing that my book The Two Faces of Islam has come out in Albanian, and used the occasion for a launch and interviews regarding it.)
As noted in Mr. Bottum's comments, the alleged conflict in Shkodra involved a bust of Mother Teresa, who is considered a national hero among Albanians. A small group of Muslims in Shkodra protested the erection of an official monument to her, as it might thus appear that the city belonged only to Catholics. It may be observed that the most aggravated reportage on this controversy came from Reuters news service, which has been widely criticized for its politicization. Reuters is infamous for referring to Arabs who commit acts of brutal violence as "militants" rather than terrorists. As usual for the MSM, some crucial comments in the Reuters reportage were solicited in bars and on the street, which may be appropriate when dealing with fires or traffic jams, but is inappropriate for journalism regarding conflicts that may result in bloodshed. But a contrasting report from Associated Press quoted Selim Muca, the leading Muslim cleric in the country, who said, "We respect the contribution of the distinguished figures of our nation, like that of Mother Teresa, who is the honor of our nation."
In Albania, Mother Teresa is omnipresent; the airport at the capital, Tirana, has been renamed for her. In Shkodra, Catholic monuments are commonplace. The style of hijab or "Islamic" covering by women often seen in Kosovo -- older women, that is, in long grey overcoats with headscarves -- is absent here; more on that below. Nearly everyone I met assured me that while there had been a brief dust-up involving some Muslim complaints about the Mother Teresa bust, nothing serious had occurred or was expected to take place. Nevertheless, a local Muslim intellectual told me the uproar reflected the desire of Muslims to make clear they, as well as Catholics, are part of the local scene, and have been so for centuries.
In a visit to a place sacred to every friend of Albanians -- the Franciscan Library of Shkodra, which was destroyed and pillaged under Communism -- I interviewed an avid young man in the brown cloth of the order. Our talk followed an afternoon mass crowded with children and adults, including men -- the latter rare in "Catholic" Spain or Italy. I had earlier heard the church bells, and as we spoke, I listened to the adhan or Muslim call to prayer, from a large mosque nearby -- the Balkan experience par excellence. An Orthodox Christian church stands only a block or two away, although the Orthodox have never had a large presence in the town.
The young Franciscan described to me how Catholics and Muslims in Shkodra, as they have for generations, join together for the holidays of each faith, and how priests in training visit mosques. And he showed me a wondrous thing: Qur'an, the sacred book of Islam, translated and printed in Albanian by Catholics early in the 20th century. They wanted to advance the literacy of all Albanians, so the Catholics printed Qur'an!
The next day I went to Tirana, where I met with a leading Sufi, shaykh Ali Pazari of the Halveti order of Islamic spirituality. The shaykh told me an equally remarkable story: in the 1920s, in poor, isolated, exotic Albania, his grandfather, who was also a leading mystic, was called the "Catholic Sufi" because he called on women to take off their hijab and go to school! Shaykh Ali repeated something I have heard from many Albanians -- that religious leaders must put the national interest first, ahead of religious issues. And he underscored that Sufism, like Catholicism, had its strongest historic roots in Shkodra.
So why should random comments in Shkodra, a town most people in the leading countries never heard of, have elicited the interest of the MSM? Rumors of an interreligious battle in a distant corner of the globe came after the scandal of the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, the global outcry over persecution of a Christian convert in Afghanistan, and similar "big stories" that present Islam in the worst possible light, as well as consistent propagandist "journalism" about Iraq -- ignoring the Saudi role in the violence there, and presenting bloodthirsty terrorists as "insurgents." These offerings by the MSM typically embody misinformation if not disinformation -- Islam does NOT ban the depiction of the Prophet, and Islam lacks a body of consistent practice regarding changes and fusions between religions, as I recently noted in TCS Daily. I have repeatedly pointed out, here and elsewhere, that Iraqis themselves do not view the killers of the innocent in Iraq as a "resistance," but as Saudi-financed Sunni aggression.
Could it be that the cynical principle, "if it bleeds it leads," and a desire to make the global situation worse -- since efforts toward its betterment would presumably conflict with the supposed "objectivity" of the MSM -- have made journalists more complicit than any government in the worldwide nightmare we all face? I am a journalist, and do not want to believe this. I have argued that reporters are "first responders" and cannot be expected to understand the nuances of Islam. But I increasingly feel I am wrong about that, because I am also a Muslim, and an American, and I want to prevent the clash of civilizations, not stand aside as more people fight and die. Nobody accepted such neutral conduct by journalists in the late 1930s, facing the challenge of fascism; nobody should accept it in the context of a planetary struggle against Islamofascism or its mirror-image, Islamophobia.
Jews say: before there is Torah, there is bread. That is, before prayer comes work to survive. But an ethical person does not justify lies by the need to earn bread. Before deadlines, there is, or must be, conscience.
Stephen Schwartz is a TCS contributing writer and co-founder for the Center of Islamic Pluralism.
Not that it willl make a bit of difference to some of you.
Mother Teresa Statue Creates Friction
Planned Statue of Mother Teresa in Albania Causes Friction in Muslim Community
By LLAZAR SEMINI
The Associated Press
TIRANA, Albania - Albania's largest Muslim group said Monday that placing a bust of Mother Teresa in a northern city would not damage religious harmony, rejecting claims from smaller Muslim associations.
The Culture Ministry's proposal to put a statue at the entrance to Shkodra, 70 miles north of the capital, Tirana, was opposed the day before by three small Muslim associations.
Selim Muca, head of the Albanian Muslim Community, the organization representing all Muslims in Albania, said those objections were not the community's official position.
"We respect the contribution of the distinguished figures of our nation, like that of Mother Teresa, who is the honor of our nation," Muca said.
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The Principal/Primary Diagnosis is the condition established after study to have been chiefly responsible for occasioning the admission of the patient to the hospital for care. Since the Principal/Primary Diagnosis represents the reason for the patient's stay, it may not necessarily have been the diagnosis which represented the greatest length of stay, the greatest consumption of hospital resources, or the most life-threatening condition. Since the Principal/Primary Diagnosis reflects clinical findings discovered during the patient's stay, it may differ from Admitting Diagnosis.Codes and Values:
- Must have been a valid ICD-9-CM code excluding decimal points. To have been valid,
ICD-9-CM codes must have been entered at the most specific level to which they are
classified in the ICD-9-CM Tabular List. Three-digit codes further divided at the
four-digit level must have been entered using all four digits. Four-digit codes
further subclassified at the five-digit level must have been entered using all five
digits. Failure to enter all required digits in the diagnosis codes would have caused
the record to be rejected.
- Must have been left justified and entered exactly as shown in the ICD-9-CM coding
reference, excluding the decimal point, and space filled.
- Manifestation and Unacceptable Principal/Primary Diagnosis conditions as indicated
by the edit flag on the ICD-9-CM reference file were invalid.
- E-codes were not valid as Principal/Primary Diagnosis Codes. E-codes are reported in External Cause-of-Injury Code (Data Element 77) and Place-of-Injury Code (Data Element 78).
- Edits pertaining to ICD-9-CM codes are validated on the basis of the Discharge
Date (Data Element 6 & 7)
and Expected Principal Reimbursement
(Data Element 28) depending on conditions described in
Appendix N, which includes
age-specific and sex-specific diagnosis code conditions.
- When the edit flag on the ICD-9-CM reference file indicates an "unacceptable
principal/primary diagnosis without a secondary diagnosis" an Other Diagnosis Code 1-14
(Data Element 69) must have
been reported.
- Diagnosis codes reported in the range of 800.00-999.99 required the reporting
of a valid External Cause-of-Injury Code
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- If the Neonate Birth Weight (Data Element 21) was reported as less than 1500 grams, and the New York State Patient Status (Data Element 22) was reported as code "01" home, then the Length of Stay must have been greater than 10 days.


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Cambridge River Festival
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By Dan King - Newcastle United Digital Editor
Hibernian 4
Newcastle United Under-21s 0
Having lost 2-0 to a strong Kilmarnock XI at the weekend, Newcastle's under-21s' mini tour of Scotland continued with a behind-closed-doors friendly defeat against Hibernian on Monday afternoon.
Willie Donachie and Peter Beardsley had just 13 players at their disposal at Easter Road due to Milk Cup and first-team fixtures, while the Scottish Premier League side included former Queens Park Rangers striker Rowan Vine and new signing James Collins.
And the hosts ran out comfortable winners, with United struggling to make inroads against an experienced Hibees' defence. Jonathyn Quinn had the black and whites' only chance in the first half, but the Magpies trailed 2-0 at the break.
The first came as Newcastle failed to deal with a corner and the second was a spectacular overhead kick.
Matters became worse less than a minute into the second half and then a free-kick wrapped up the scoring.
Summer signing Olivier Kemen made his third appearance for United, with Lubo Satka pushed into midfield alongside him. But a threadbare squad was stretched further when Macaulay Gillesphey limped off shortly before the break.
The Magpies' second-string are next in action at Gateshead on Friday, where they are likely to be boosted by some senior players.
Newcastle United Under-21s: Jonathan Mitchell, Steven Logan, Remie Streete (Macauley Booth 55), Curtis Good, Macaulay Gillesphey (Lewis Aird 41), Rolando Aarons, Lubo Satka, Olivier Kemen, Jamie Sterry, Romain Amalfitano, Jonathyn Quinn.
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For years I never used a separate moisturizer on my eyes because I thought eye creams were a scam to get women to fling more money at an unnecessary product. (For the record, I feel the same way about toners, too.) I'd always use whatever moisturizer with SPF that I used on my face on my eyes and this seemed to work well for me. After reading the enchanting Jessica's blog of Out in a Pout, I realized she felt the same way about eye moisturizers. So then I started doing some reading online and in various books and my research reinforced that eye creams are not really necessary, provided that you're already using a quality moisturizer on your eyes, face and neck. From what I've researched, eye creams normally have the same ingredients as facial moisturizers, only they're smaller and more expensive, so they're a superfluous product.
For my daytime moisturizer, I've been using Avon's mark For Goodness Face Antioxidant Skin Moisturizing Lotion SPF 30 for my face and eyes and neck for over a year. In between I have used various skin products to try out and review for my blog, but I always go back to this moisturizer because it's the perfect daytime moisturizer for me. I've yet to find that perfect night time moisturizer. It's packaged in a unique jar that makes it airless, so the ingredients in it aren't exposed to the air and they don't lose their effectiveness every time you use it. You also don't have to dip your fingers in it (ewwww).
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I have yet to find an effective night cream that I love as much as the mark daytime moisturizer, but I feel it's very important to do so, specifically to protect and moisturizer my eyes.
So no, I don't feel that eye creams are necessary. I do feel that quality daytime and night time moisturizers are necessary. I also feel that always applying a moisturizer with high SPF carefully to your eye area will help prevent the damage done by the sun to your skin. You should be applying moisturizer with SPF to your eyes, face and neck daily to protect your skin. I also personally recommend your hands and arms as well, anything that will be exposed to the sun. This will prevent aging more than anything else.
How do you feel about eye creams? Do you feel that they're necessary? What's your favorite daytime moisturizer with SPF? Do you have a favorite night time moisturizer?