text: One year and a day for Mrs. Hovind, whose charming husband who's now holding comical not-quite-Socratic dialogues with God, it would seem once told her she needed to "advance" because she was actually starting to feel twinges of guilt and remorse over their dishonest and criminal activities. I'm not adding the "schadenfreude" tag to this one, because I actually feel a little sorry for Jo. It's evident she's played the role of quiet submissive Christian wife putting up with all manner of verbal bullying from an arrogant and self-righteous husband much too long. I hope when she gets out, she will advance right down the road to the divorce court, to start over in a new life.


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I just recorded these on my computer so... enjoy
Seeing as that MP3 option isn't working for me (my fault, I'm sure )
Here's the link for a plethora of tunes by me haha!
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
I flew in to Seattle a week ago and my great niece met me at the airport with our little "Hope" baby. He was born 3 months early and is now 7 months old and doing great. I have been dieing to hold him; a great great nephew that seems more like another grandson.
I got my wish. Trent is a loving little guy with a ready smile. Holding him made me think of his grandma, my niece who was my closest friend and soulmate. His greatgrandma, my sister. Our mother and grandmother. A long line of strong women who had hard lives and left us all too soon.
While in Seattle, we visited the Panama Hotel the basis for a book I read for my discussion group; "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet" It was a story of love,loss and extreme life struggles.
When the Japanese were sent to the concentration camps during the War many families put their belongings in the basement of the hotel expecting they would be returning soon. Some never returned and their belongings are still down there covered in dust and able to for view by the public through the lobby of the hotel which is now a tea house. I think about all those families, separated from all they owned, their homes and each other.Their culture and heritage packed into dark corners. There were fans, clothing, books, ornaments and photograph albums.
We all need those connections to the past. We also need to make sure we forge connections with the future. Pass on the stories of the past, the stories of your life, the heirlooms and the traditions and culture of your family and your heritage.
It takes effort to do this. It won't be good enough to leave bits of digital thoughts. Our descendants will need letters, journals, and photographs to FEEL the link to their own past. Start your mission to leave something tangible to all the little Trents of the world.
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Oh Rita!! What aa darling little baby!!--such bright eyes!! I have put a reserve on the "Hotel...." at our library here. It may be an interesting book to reccomment to my book club for next year.ReplyDelete
Glad you are having a good time!!
What an awesome photo of your little cutie! He is soooo cute. Enjoy your time there!ReplyDelete
Adorable! Thanks for the reminder to record our stories and pass them on!ReplyDelete
What a perfect little baby! He is just too cute for words and that picture is amazing! Enjoy your visit and get all your hugs in!ReplyDelete
- lynda HowellsApril 21, 2010 at 3:01 PM
Hi..l too have decided that l need to write letters,make and send postcards do my journal and print some of my photo's and make notes of them. the reason being that l think we have become TOO digital and in some way REALLY communicate less with our familys! Does that make sense?ReplyDelete
Also think your "baby" is so cue in his blue cover blanketx Also the Japenese stuff in the basement is fasinating. Thanks for telling about it all to usxlynda


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Owen hits out at Newcastle
Michael Owen has accused Newcastle of lying and insists he was never offered a new contract when his time at St James' Park came to an end in the summer of 2009.
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The former England international, who announced on Monday he will hang up his boots at the end of the season, joined Newcastle in a £16million deal from Real Madrid in August 2005.
His four years in the north east were badly hampered by injury, but he still produced a healthy return of 26 Premier League goals from his 71 appearances.
The former Liverpool striker joined Manchester United as a free agent after his deal expired when the Magpies were relegated to the Championship, but many supporters still bear a grudge following his exit.
Owen, now with Stoke after three seasons at Old Trafford, has moved to set the record straight and took to Twitter to explain his version of events.
"I've seen it a million times, a club will blatantly lie to their fans to take the moral high ground leaving the player with no leg to stand on."
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Owen wrote: "Newcastle fans, plenty of you tweeting me saying you don't blame me for getting injured but for leaving when we got relegated.
"Despite the club saying they did, they didn't ever offer me a new contract despite them putting it in the press that they did.
"How could they when they had just been relegated? It would have been financial suicide.
"I've seen it a million times, a club will blatantly lie to their fans to take the moral high ground leaving the player with no leg to stand on.
"I've taken the stick for years which is fine but you really don't know half of it. All will be revealed one day."
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Make a Child Smile
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Drop off new unwrapped gifts in the lobby of any Residence Hall, Atwood Center near room 139 and the Administrative Services building from Nov. 23-Dec. 11.
Help make a local child's holiday season a little brighter. The St. Cloud State Honors Program, Volunteer Connection and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Minnesota have teamed up to organize the "Make a Child Smile Gift Drive."
Big Brothers Big Sisters have created a wish list of items that include new, unwrapped toys, games, dolls, books, sleds, backpacks, basketballs, floor hockey equipment and sets, playground balls, board games, kitchen play sets, cars/trucks, books and any other toys for children; newborns to 16 year olds.
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Woman gets prison term for 2011 assault
ESCANABA – A 20-year-old Escanaba woman was sentenced to up to 22 and a half years in prison for her role in the assault of a Bark River man in 2011. The judgment was handed down in Delta County Circuit Court on Friday.
Ashley Marie Stodola is one of three individuals arrested in connection with a scheme to assault and rob a 41-year-old Bark River man on Oct. 22, 2011, in Bark River Township.
Co-defendant Michael Scott Jones, 20, of Escanaba, was sentenced last month to 11 months in the county jail on one count of home invasion, third degree.
Co-defendant Alyna Caryn Brunette, 21, of Escanaba, was sentenced in January to seven months in jail on one count of attempted larceny in a building.
The three were arrested last fall following a year-long investigation by the Michigan State Police Post in Gladstone. The three defendants and others made plans to coax the victim to his home, break into his house, beat him with bats, and steal his money.
During Stodola's sentencing on Friday, she apologized for her actions and told the court she knew what she did was wrong.
Judge Stephen Davis said the defendant has a criminal career which now includes assaulting a victim. Because of her criminal history, the judge sentenced Stodola as a habitual offender which increases her prison term.
Stodola was sentenced to a minimum of three years and 10 months to a maximum of 22 and a half years in prison on one count of second-degree home invasion as a second offense habitual offender. She was given credit for 194 days served in jail.
Stodola was also sentenced to 194 days in jail on one count of attempted larceny as a second offense habitual offender. She was given credit for the 194 days served.
Stodola was ordered to pay restitution to be determined and pay $666 in fines and costs. She pleaded guilty to the above two offenses in February.


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A 63 year old widow was admitted to the hospital in Recife, Brazil,
suffering abdominal pains. X-rays showed that she was carrying a 20- inch long skeleton of a foetus, which she conceived a decade
earlier. It had become lodged outside the womb and was never
expelled from her body.
A 500lb. (35.5 stone!!!) woman from Illinois was examined in a
hospital. During the examination, an asthma inhaler fell from under
her armpit, a dime was found under one of her breasts and a remote
control was found lodged between the folds of her vulva.
In Michigan, a man came into the ER with lacerations to his penis.
He complained that his wife had "...a rat in her privates..." and
it bit him during sex (not the first conclusion I would have drawn I don't
think). After an examination of his wife, it was revealed that she
had a surgical needle left inside her after a recent hysterectomy.
A 20-year-old man came into the ER with a stony mass in his rectum.
He said that he and his boyfriend were fooling around with concrete
mix, then his boyfriend had the idea of pouring the mix into his
anus using a funnel (as you do)?!!. The concrete then hardened (no
rubbish!), causing constipation and pain. Under general anaesthesia, a
perfect concrete cast of the man's rectum was removed along with a
ping-pong ball. (Boy we live sheltered lives - thank goodness!!)
A **** staggered into a Pennsylvania ER complaining of severe pain
while trying to remove his contact lenses. He said that they would
come out halfway, but they always popped back in. a nurse tried to
help using a suction pump, but without success. Finally, a doctor
examined him and discovered the man did not have his contact lenses
in at all. He had been trying to rip out the membrane of his
A couple hobbled into a Washington State emergency room covered in
bloody restaurant towels. The man had his hands around his abdomen
and the woman had hers around her head. They eventually explained
to doctors that they had gone out for the evening for a romantic
dinner. Overcome with passion, the woman crept under the table to
administer oral sex on the man (Classy or what??). While in the
act, she had an epileptic fit, which caused her to clamp down on
the man's penis and wrench it from side to side. In agony and
desperation, the man grabbed a fork and stabbed her in the head
until she let go.
One morning around 5a.m., 22-year-old Susan DaLucci of Kittery
Maine, woke up with a painful need to urinate. At first she thought
she had diarrhoea, but when she stood up out of bed, she realised
that it was urinary pain. It was very similar to the feeling of
having diarrhoea, just out of the wrong hole. She wobbled to the
toilet and upon sitting on it; her vagina erupted into the most
horrific messy farting noise anyone has ever heard. In paralysing
pain, Ms. DeLucci for the next few minutes continued to push and
squirt out of her vagina a burning tide of wretch and filth while
she gripped the sides of the
toilet, white-knuckled. She was screaming wildly, and
neighbours called the police. When medics arrived they found Ms.
DeLucci unconscious lying on the floor of the bathroom wearing
nothing but her bathrobe. Running down her leg, was a stream of
brown and green syrup. The medic had to transfer her to a
stretcher, so he grabbed her left leg, which was bent crossing her
other leg, to straighten her out. She was lying there all twisted
up. When he lifted her leg to straighten her left leg to straighten
her body out, he exposed her vagina, at which point a creature, no
lager than the tip of a finger wormed its way out of her genitals
and landed on the floor with a wet popping sound. Shocked, the
medic stared at the creature that was lying on the tile bathroom
floor in a casing of mucous. It was a tiny mud shrimp and it sat
there on the cold floor gasping for water while flipping back and
forth. The horrified medic turned to
the toilet as he felt nausea
setting in. when he put his face down the toilet to puke what he
saw was so horrific that to this day he cannot look into a toilet
without convulsing. The entire toilet bowl was boiling with baby
mud shrimps flipping and splashing at a furious pace. If you think
that is bad - wait until you hear how it happened:
Ms. DeLucci's official death was the result of a combination of
shock and severe head trauma. She stood up over the toilet in pain
and when she saw what she had done, she went into shock and fell,
smashing her head on the toilet and then on the floor. It is
believed by medical police that on two nights before the accident, she had
purchased a live lobster at a fish market. While lying in a tub,
she gently inserted the creature's tail into her vagina to derive
pleasure. At that point, she held a lighter under the creature's
face causing it to flip its tail in a violent snapping
motion. The medics found a
lesbian video in the VCR and the TV was positioned on a table in
front of the tub. The lobster was found in the kitchen garbage can
wrapped in a paper bag. Traces of Ms. DeLucci's DNA were found on
the lobster along with pubic hairs that had wedged themselves
between the lobster tail joints. The lobsters face was lightly
burned with the same fuel used in lighters. The lobster's digestive
track and colon were found to be full of mud shrimp egg casings.
Doctors believe that the lobster had eaten them (they are common in
the water at fish markets and are usually harmlessly boiled to
death) and the lobster had crapped them out into Ms. DeLucci's
vagina when she was torturing it. Maine mud shrimp only take two
days gestate and Ms. DeLucci was only four days away from getting
her period, doctors believe that at that point of her
cycle, her womb was the perfect PH balance to grow these mud shrimp
which are a much larger version of the popular "Sea Monkey" pets
sold throughout the US. Over night the eggs hatched and the mud
shrimp began doubling in size every ten minutes. You can imagine
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Keeping the house open
The Blairsburg Opera House Preservation Committee raised over $3,500 at Saturday night's 2013 dinner and auction fundraiser.
Held in the historic landmark building, the fundraiser drew a crowd of over 75 supporters who bid on over 50 donated items from individuals and businesses in Webster City, Blairsburg, Iowa Falls, Williams, Kamrar and Hamilton County.
Auction proceeds will help purchase chair storage units which double as tables and for restroom updates, said Bob Sinclair, Blairsburg Opera House Preservation Committee member.
Last year's auction proceeds were used to carpet the opera house entry way and stairs. Lighting the entrance hall is a recently installed crystal chandelier donated by Russ and Allison Appel of Webster City.
The 118-year old opera house is a multipurpose community center for Blairsburg and surrounding communities. Throughout the years it has been used as a roller skating venue, auction house, tavern, storage for a seed corn dealership and as a car repair shop.
During World War II, community members used the hall to roll and package bandages for the war effort.
After many years in private hands, the City of Blairsburg took ownership of the opera house in 1993.
The Blairsburg Opera House Preservation Committee was formed in 1998 and took over the stewardship of the building. Since that time, it has worked to update, restore and refurbish the building.
In the ensuing years, the opera house has been used for family gatherings, high school class reunions, a banquet hall, wedding receptions and high school dances in addition to hosting theatrical and musical events.
Bob Sinclair expressed appreciation to area merchants, individuals and community members on behalf of the Blairsburg Opera House Preservation Committee for making the 2013 fundraiser a success.


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Nostalgia: Mums Rock Their Frocks
All this week on Facebook, we are asking our Henry Roth Facebook fans to post pictures of their mums on their wedding days. We want to look back in time, get all nostalgic and celebrate mums. It's also a fabulous way to look at how wedding dresses have developed over the years, and how the silhouettes of yesteryear inspire those of today. In honor of this, each day we are going to look back to wedding gown trends and silhouettes over the years. After all, they are all at the core of Henry's signature future vintage aesthetic.
In the 1950, during a November heatwave, Henry's parents Joseph and Aneta Weinreich got married and formed a partnership that was not only to grow into a long-lasting marital union but would also be the foundation of what has become Henry Roth bridal atelier today.
"My mum was a bit of a fashion forward bride as most if not all brides on that day wore gowns top the floor," Henry told me today. "It was co-designed by my Grandmother, Franka Baral, and my mother, Aneta. It was made from Guipure lace imported on from France. It was a very ahead-of-its-time gown."
Indeed, Aneta's polka-dot, 3/4, tea-length gown has inspired two Henry Roth dresses: Zoe (and Zoe Too) and Maya (US only).
"My parents are amazing powerhouses of positivity," he continued. "We are a three generation bridal designing family. My parents are also holocaust survivors so for them after surviving that atrocity wedding dresses have tremendous symbolism. It is about the renewal of hope, entering positive new chapters with brides, new dreams and aspirations. Wedding dresses are far more than just fabric, they symbolize new beginnings and it is a huge privilege and amazing profession."
So this week, in honor of Henry Roth matriarch, Aneta Weinreich, and her spectacular, fashion-forward wedding dress, head over to our Facebook page and post a picture of your mum on her wedding day–we want to see how she rocked her frock!


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Roots Lab
The overall research focus of the Roots Lab at Penn State is understanding the genetic, physiological, and ecological basis of plant adaptation to infertile soils.
Since most soils on earth suffer from one or more nutritional problems, this subject is of considerable importance for two of the great challenges confronting humanity: how to sustainably support over 7 billion people, and how to deal with global environmental change. More about the Roots Lab ...
We welcome prospective graduate students and collaborators interested in novel, multidisciplinary research that addresses real world issues.
Our work involves a number of students and colleagues at Penn State, and collaborators from other institutions. Dr. Kathleen Brown and Dr. Jonathan Lynch are close collaborators on virtually all aspects of the research.


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Topic: Generate list of price ranges, then bind to select_tag?
Hey all,
I need to generate a select tag with the following:
under 50,000
... up in 100,000 increments
1,000,000 and over
and im totally stuck, I could just type it out myself directly into html, but that defeats the point.
I have this in my controller action:
@prices = { '50000' => 'under 50,000' }
as a starting point, then I was invisaging doing a loop, which looked like this (don't laugh)
@price = 100000
10.times do
@prices << { @price => @price }
@price = @price + 100000
Then the select tag as so:
<%= select_tag 'min_price', options_for_select(@prices.map {|key, value|}) %>
Currently the loop just kills everything, but with that gone I did expect to atleast get one entry in the select for the 50,000 under 50,000 option, but I get an emtpy option tag instead: <option value=""></option>
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At the start of the school year, students, faculty and staff at Einstein were greeted with a new, eye-pleasing look in the Forchheimer Medical Science Building's main hallway, thanks to two months of masterful renovations completed by the College of Medicine's engineering and facilities staff.
Where once walls hid view of a coffee shop, a student lounge, a maternal feeding room and the Board of Overseers' conference room, open space now prevails. With the removal of those walls, floor-to-ceiling windows that have always graced the length of the building's exterior now shed welcoming light over an inviting and appealing Einstein Café, featuring food, beverages and snacks amid a complement of tables and comfortable seating.
"The location is really central to everything," said one student, "and having coffee close to the library is really helpful. We spend a lot of time there."
In addition to coffee, the café offers many of the same food items previously available, along with some new additions, such as chicken wings and roasted vegetables. In addition, the vending machines, accessible in a small room adjacent to the café, have a broader variety of offerings.
Throughout the day, the space buzzes with activity. Student study groups make use of the seating area, capitalizing on the comfortable accommodations and access to WiFi that support collaborative interactions. Faculty and staff also can be found engrossed in work-related conversations over coffee or enjoying a food break.
"The café provides a less restrictive environment for us to work besides the library," noted another student. "We can talk about our courses or study quietly."
"It's nice to have the added option," agreed a classmate. "And these chairs are comfortable!"
While Einstein Café hours are 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and 8:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Fridays, coffee, soft drinks and snack items can be found around the clock in the vending machines.
Remembering Dr. Olga Blumenfeld
Wednesday, November 09, 2016
Sex Trafficking: A Global Issue
Friday, November 04, 2016
Funding to Tackle Children's Blood Cancers, One Fish at a Time
Tuesday, November 01, 2016
Faculty Poster Sessions Illustrate Breadth of Research at Einstein
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Appreciation Day Brings Together Einstein Community
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Einstein Welcomes Dana Lee, Senior Counsel for Medical School Affairs
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Remembering Dr. Bertrand Bell, Mentor to Countless Students and Residents
Monday, October 10, 2016
Einstein's Nilda Soto Has Leadership Role with N.Y. State Minority Health Council
Friday, September 23, 2016
Dr. Safyer Announces Key Leadership Appointments at Montefiore
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Exploring Multiple Career Opportunities
Tuesday, August 30, 2016


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Please help with beautification project
To the editor:
We have received many compliments each year from our visitors about the cleanliness of our community and the beauty of the flowers. Many of you can be proud of the effort you make to maintain your yards and boulevards, and for adding flowers to brighten the picture. Volunteers plant and water the flowers and help keep them looking nice throughout the summer.
We could use your additional support by helping us to purchase and maintain the flower baskets and pots on Minnesota Street and Broadway – streets that we share with our visitors, streets that really show the pride we take in our community. Businesses, organizations, and residents are asked to participate by donating to this effort; checks can be dropped off or sent to the Chamber at PO box 384, New Ulm. We will be recognizing and thanking all sponsors in our upcoming Business Trends.
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As you can see, metaphysical questions become practical very quickly. The essential question John brings out is this: What is the non-biblical basis for a universal, transcendent law? If you deny biblical authority, then you deny divine law, which is transcendent and universal (cf. Romans 2:15, God wrote His law on the heart of every individual). So, here are a few questions for the comment thread:
First, how do naturalists/evolutionists explain the existence of a universal law, a standard that applies to everyone?
Second, if they deny a universal standard, how do naturalists/evolutionists hold anyone accountable for their actions? That is, what allows them to condemn the actions of Marquis de Sade, Hitler, or Ted Bundy?
Third, how do naturalists/evolutionists betray their reliance on God's law, written in their hearts?
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The few evolutionists I have spoken regarding these issues claim the conscience has nothing to do with God but rather social and cultural conditioning. They claim the conscience is a blank slate which is conditioned by parents, authority figures, and other social and cultural influences. There is no universal standard.
Obviously we know otherwise. If these people claim to have no universal consciousness of good vs evil in their conscience it is only a result of their suppression and resistance to it. Many of these people have made shipwreck of their conscience and seared it by resisting Gods law and hardening it to the Spirit's working.
So these people while denying a universal law will nevertheless align themselves with other like minded people in a society and culture(who are also reacting agains the same ..ahem..nonexistent universal law...ahem).. and borrow capital from God's law by seeking a peaceable community in their own terms of course. The Greeks did it. Whatever is good for the society is the rule, but so much of that is borrowed capital from God's universal law, refuting any denials of such a universal law in the conscience of man. None of these men will say murder and betrayal are good because it destroys and harms their neighbor and robs peace from their society. But we can say to them facetiously the evil and rebellion of men are only different traits which bring about the evolutionary process of survival of the fittest. They must view them as good and necessary parts of the process. Seeking to suppress them for the good of others is counter to the darwinian thought. To acknowledge those behaviors are evil is a reality which only comes from the universal God-given consciense of man. They cannot have it both ways.
It is all pick and choose. Wanting the cake and eating it too. THat is how Satan operates. He knows he cannot lure folks to himself with all the darkness and desolation his worldview offers. No he must borrow capital from the universal law of God to coat his evil plans. He wants us to think his ways are beautiful and as appealing and good as an angel of light. So too these so called evolutionists and atheists say they deny the universal law of God but only as it hinders their rebellion to Him, all the while taking what they will of His common grace. But one day will come when there is no common grace. Hades and Gehenna are void of it and the fruition of their rebellion will show itself for what it really is.
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The few evolutionists I have spoken regarding these issues claim the conscience has nothing to do with God but rather social and cultural conditioning.
That is why one of the best ways to initiate a gospel encounter with these folk is to press them as to the disconnect of their behavior with the principles of an evolutionary world view. None of them live in such a manner, correct? Why? Well, I would argue because they know better in their heart of hearts because they are created in the image of God. The image is marred with sin, but still exists to convict them of sin, and irrational living.
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Interesting - social conditioning. I too have heard that as an argument, but I cannot help but to wonder how many parents sat their children down and said, "Son, do not murder. Do not rape. Do not do this, that, and the other" and was able to cover all the do's and don'ts of life. (Thus the 10 Commnadments should be taught).
How many of us have watched a child sneak a cookie, even when they have not been told not to take it.
Ex. You are at a wedding and when you walk into the reception with your son, who is three, he spots the big wedding cake. Nothing is said between the two of you as to whether when he will be able to taste this yummy cake.
Nevertheless, your son sneaks off when he thinks no one is looking and sticks his finger in the icing. Is it not his conscience that is making him sneak around? Of course. There is no "rule" saying you cannot stick your finger in the wedding cake, and I am fairly certain this childs parents did not give him the "wedding rule book" to read prior to the event.
It just seems "naturally" illogical to think such foolishness -- created from nothing! Denying the existence of God as creator is the proof of one being given over to a depraved mind.
If morality is only based on social conditioning we have to then ask, what on earth is happening now? We live in a time were much of the supposed conditioning man had is not held with much esteem nowadays.
We can see that evil is rampant. While evil has always been, in all my life I have never witnessed until this current time that wrong is right, Its unbelievable!! A homosexual would stay in the closet and be ashamed, a stripper would be ashamed and hope that no one she knew found out, an individual getting pregnant out of wedlock would be ashamed and hide themselves and would marry quickly, young people wouldnt use foul language in front of elders, even a few years ago gangster rappers were put down, now they on the front page.
So if the case is that morality is a man made thing, why is it that those same morals are now grossly being ignored? We see shamelessness all around us, so it isnt reasonable to say morality is mans idea.
We do though have a perfect scripture for what we find oursleves in today. Life is how it is because men ignore The Most High God!
II Tim 3:1-4
But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
I agree, we must also ask, why would humans even dream up morality, if survival of the fittest is what its about? Its a contradictory and hypocritical.
# 3 - Darla.
Having had 3 children I can understand completely your comparison. It is also interesting that we, as parents, expect our children to not behave in certain ways, having never gone through the "book of do's and don'ts with them.
# 4 - Neil.
Morality, nowadays, it's not absolute anymore, it's relative. Relative to background, culture, ages and times. It is true what you said about people being ashamed when they sinned. But everything is acceptable today in the name of freedom and individual rights.
Not sure why, but I was reminded of a talk I had with a friend of my husband's, who is Hindu (not my husband, his friend). He was telling us that he will be saved according to his good deeds. If he doesn't have enough good deeds during this lifetime, he will have to come back, and whatever good deeds he has now will determine if he will come back as a human or some animal or insect or any other creature. So I asked him what was his standard for "good" deeds, who was it that determines if his good deeds are really good or not. He told me that is relative to each person, whatever he thinks it's good, then it's good, but other hindu can have a different standard for "good" deeds.
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I am having a really difficult time finding a bedtime and naptime routine that makes everyone happy these days! I have a 2yr old and a 3mos old. My 2yr old is totally dependent on the breast to fall asleep but I can't lay down with her if the 3mos old is awake at her bedtime, which he usually is. He doesn't do well with anyone else for the amount of time it takes for my 2yr old to suck herself off to sleepyland. My son (3mos old) seems to like 9pm for his bedtime but this is too late for my daughter (2yr old). Most nights my husband comes home from work around 9:15 and he's been laying beside my daughter while I pace the room with the baby trying to "walk" him to sleep. She mostly lays there and whimpers and moans for me to come lay down with her, which keeps the baby awake even longer. I feel like I really need them both to go to bed around the same time for my own sanity and peace of mind! Any ideas? Naptime is even more fun! Yippee!
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First all, congratulations on your new baby! And second of all, some serious hugs to you! My two are 23months apart and those first 1-6 months were a huge transition for me.
While my older DD does not nurse anymore (she weaned while I was pregnant), she was still dependent on me to get her to sleep or at least follow though with our normal go-to-sleep routine. For those first 3 or 4 months, I basically did everything I could to get my new baby (DS) to take a nap so that I could put my DD down one-on-one with me w/o her brother. My DS has never napped well so it was rough and my DD would make lots of noise that made the process take even longer. Essentially, I'd eventually be able to get my newborn down and then immediately, go about my business of getting my toddler down to have my DS wake up within a minute of my getting my DD down. I had NO break whatsoever and there were many naptimes, etc. where I'd "almost" have my DD down, but my DS would wake up and I'd have to go thru everything all over again to put him back down so I could continue w/ my DD.
Unfortunately, there have been times where neither one were happy with me or where I had to attend to my newborn and my DD was unhappy. It is hard to balance both children's needs and sometimes I had to decide who's need was stronger at a given moment since you really can't be in both places at the same time.
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FWIW, I did find that if I swaddled my newborn, rocked or nursed him to sleep and put him in a vibrating bouncy seat, I could usually get 30 min of un-interrupted time with my daughter.
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Thank you, bluebonnet. The hard thing is that my 3mos old doesn't really do well hanging out with anyone for more than 10-15mins, even his own daddy! This is the hard part. I think what we'll have to do is try some of the weaning methods (for my 2yr old daughter) for nighttime nursing that some of the other members have discussed. I don't need to wean her completely, I just need her to be able to take a nap and go to bed without having to nurse. I know she can do it because she falls asleep in the car or stroller all the time! I don't want to lie to her and tell her my breast is "asleep" or anything; I don't like that and she's too smart for that! She would tell it to wake up! Today at nap time I sat with her and read 2 books and rubbed her back and then hugged and kissed her and told her it was time to rest or she could look at her books some more, and then I got up and left. She cried loudly on and off for a while and both my husband and I went in and out trying to console her, offering to rub her back some more, etc. My husband finally laid down with her after about 2hrs. of her not falling asleep, and she is now sleeping! After what age is "crying it out" not considered Ferberizing? She's certainly not a little baby anymore but I hate the idea of letting her cry for so long. We'll see how bedtime goes tonight. Our plan is to do bath time, put on pajamas, and read books on the bed until daddy comes home. Then he will lay next to her with the light off until she falls asleep, while I try to get 3mos old to sleep. We'll see how it goes!
I was so there two years ago. I tandemed nursed for 8 months before my body grew to tired. It was a really tough time but now I have nothing but positive memories. It will get easier.
Things that helped were to get a solid bedtime routine. Something that dad or mom could do. Try pushing her bedtime a little earlier or later so the baby is asleep or can be held by dad. My DH often wasn't around at bedtime so there were times I had to put the bouncy chair in DS's room and just hoped he fell asleep quickly before the baby started fussing.
When I finally weaned DS we were down to only the nighttime nursing. I started reading longer books, and lots of poetry. The poetry was really rhythmic and helped DS fall asleep. I would just read to him until he fell asleep. After doing that for awhile and he was weaned completely, I was able to turn the light out and have me or DH lay with him until he fell asleep.
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mama april, hang in there. i was soo there a few months back. it will get better. things that helped me: nursing them both at the same time, helping my daughter fall asleep without nursing, reading to older one in bed while nursing the little one, getting papa to help to put older one to sleep while i paced the floor with the baby (just like you!! )hang in there!!


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Journal of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
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POTVIN, Y.; DIGHT, P.M. and WESSELOO, J.. Some pitfalls and misuses of rock mass classification systems for mine design. J. S. Afr. Inst. Min. Metall. [online]. 2012, vol.112, n.8, pp.01-06. ISSN 2411-9717.
Rock mass classification systems are extensively used in rock engineering design work, and mine design is no exception. Among the systems most widely used for mining-related design work are the NGI Q-system (Barton et al., 1974), the RMR system (Bieniawski, 1976), the MRMR system (Laubscher and Taylor, 1976) and, more recently, the GSI system (Hoek et al., 1998). Classifying the rock mass is widely seen as being the fieldwork required to characterize the rock mass and enable the application of empirical design methods associated with the different classification systems. This paper argues that it is fundamentally important to recognize the distinction between rock mass characterization and rock mass classification. These two processes should, in most cases, be separated from each other. Rock mass characterization should be used to determine the intrinsic properties of the rock mass independently of the application; i.e. independent from the infrastructure to be designed, the size, shape, and orientation of the excavation(s) or pillar(s), etc. Rock mass characterization should also be compatible with most classification systems and empirical design methods to be used. Rock mass characterization is the background fieldwork required to perform rock mass classification and/or engineering design work. Rock mass classification is the subsequent step to the characterization, and an integral part of the design process. Parameters that vary according to the design, such as the relative orientation of geological structures compared to the opening or the mine-induced stresses, should be calculated as part of the rock mass classification and design process, rather than during the rock mass characterization process. The failure to distinguish between rock mass characterization and rock mass classification can lead to major design errors and poor results
Keywords : rock mass; classification; characterization; rock engineering; mine design.


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He played with Colt in Texas, he's tall, fast, enough potential to get drafted in the 2nd.
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You want him? He don't cost anything (except money)...
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Topic: Mixing Logic in Models
I have this query in my view page that finds all the users for the site, orders them by last name and then checks to see if that user has "0" projects associated with them. If this is true then we spit out the names of those people.

Users who don't have projects assigned to them

<% for user in User.find(:all, :order=>'last_name') %>
<% if user.projects.count == 0 %>
<%= user.first_name %>

<% end %>
<% end %>
I look at this code and I think this type of query is not DRY and should be in a model and have this type of method.
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
def self.not_assigned_to_projects
# My attempt would be to put the code within this model file
# I just can't figure out how could I get this "user.projects.count == 0" inside this method/model?
I just can't figure out how could I get this "user.projects.count == 0" inside this method/model? Can that logic be put into this model/method? OR Is it best practice to put this type of logic inside of a controller or view?
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Influenza — what most of us call "the flu" — is a highly contagious viral infection of the respiratory tract.
Flu season runs from October to May. It's best to get a flu vaccine as early in the season as possible, as it gives the body a chance to build up immunity to (protection from) the flu. But getting a flu vaccine later in the season is still better than not getting the vaccine at all.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now recommends a flu vaccine for everyone 6 months of age and older (instead of just certain groups, as was recommended before).
But it's especially important that those in higher-risk groups get vaccinated to avoid health problems as a result of the flu. They include:
Babies younger than 6 months can't get the vaccine, but if their parents, other caregivers, and older kids in the household get it, that will help protect the baby. This is important because infants are more at risk for serious complications from the flu.
Talk to your doctor about how many doses your child needs.
Different types of vaccines are available. One type (called trivalent) protects against three strains of the flu virus (usually, two types of influenza A viruses and one influenza B virus). Another (called quadrivalent) protects against four strains.
The vaccine can be given to kids in two different ways: by injection with a needle (the flu shot), or sprayed into the nostrils (nasal spray or nasal mist).
Both ways of delivering the vaccine are effective, but recent studies show that the nasal spray may work better in younger children. So experts recommend that healthy kids 2 to 8 years old get the nasal spray vaccine when available. If it's not available, the flu shot should be given (kids should not wait for the nasal spray to get vaccinated). The nasal spray isn't recommended for kids with certain medical conditions or pregnant women.
Some vaccines are approved only for adults at this time, such as egg-free vaccines and intradermal shots, which are injected into the skin (instead of muscle) with a smaller needle.
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Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Researcher, Saarland U
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Department: Computational Linguistics and Phonetics
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Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Dialogue System Development,
Processing Natural Language
Required Language(s): English (eng); German, Standard (deu)
The Department of Computational Linguistics, Saarland University, in
Saarbruecken, Germany, is seeking to fill a research position for a dialogue
system developer in the context of TALK, an EU-funded research project in the
area of developing flexible and adaptive multimodal dialogue systems in the
information-state update paradigm. Within the TALK project, our group is
concentrating on flexible dialogue management based on collaborative problem
solving, and contextually adaptive system output presentation. For more
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Slide 1: Introduction
Brooklyn, the setting for Focus Features' comedy It's Kind of a Funny Story and also the home of its writer-directors Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, is arguably the hippest of the five boroughs and is a hub of filmmaking talent. However, it's not only great movies and their makers that are to be found there, it's also a great place to see cinema of all kinds. In the following slideshow, we look at some of the most interesting film exhibition spaces in Brooklyn, from the movie theater-cum-eatery indieScreen, which opened in summer 2010, through to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, an arts venue that has been in existence since 1861.
Slide 2: Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series
The Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series, which holds free screenings at the Park Slope performance space Barbés on the first Monday of every month, is an event fueled by a passion for film. Curated by filmmaker Joe Pacheco, it provides indie directors a showcase for their movies and Brooklynites an opportunity to see great work that they otherwise might not be aware of. Pacheco founded the series in late 2005 after taking his own film As Smart As They Are: The Author Project out on the festival circuit. "I was talking with Olivier Conan, one of the owners of Barbés, about how many great films I've been seeing, and he suggested that I start showing them there," Pacheco told ShortEnd Magazine. "He had been doing a regular screening series called 'Traveling Cinema' which screened classic films on a 16mm projector from prints that he would take out from the library, so we thought that the newer independent films that I wanted to show would be a great complement." Pacheco has screened the work of acclaimed local filmmakers such as Michael Tully, David Redmon, and It's Kind of a Funny Story's Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, while also showing movies by more high-profile directors like Steven Soderbergh and Spike Jonze due to his ties to McSweeney's Wholphin DVD magazine. Through IndiePix, Pacheco also released the Brooklyn Independent Vol. 1 DVD, which collects together some of the best short films he has screened.
Slide 3: indieScreen
Brooklyn's über-hip Williamsburg neighborhood lost its only movie theater when the much-loved old-time movie palace Commodore closed in 2002, however the area got a cinematic shot in the arm in the summer of 2010 with the arrival of indieScreen. "Ever since I moved to Williamsburg, I've only seen theaters closing," Brooklyn International Film Festival boss Marco Ursino told The Brooklyn Paper. "The last time we screened a film in Williamsburg was in the Commodore Theater, but that was torn down." However, in June 2010 Ursino brought the festival to indieScreen, a new venue on Kent Avenue next to the old Domino Sugar Factory that he himself owns along with restaurateur Anna Pozzi-Popermhem, the culinary mind behind the Brooklyn eateries Planet Thailand and Thai Café. The venue is intimate – the theater has 93 seats, and the screen is 17 foot by 8 foot – however, it's not just a movie theater as the restaurant and bar, under Pozzi-Popermhem's stewardship, offers delicious affordable food from around the world. The films being screened – quality indie and world cinema titles – are tailored to local tastes, while special events (such as HD broadcasts of operas) bring in a broader demographic.
Slide 4: reRun Gastropub Theater
Summer 2010 seems to have been the time to start your own eatery-cum-movie theater, as this was when not only indieScreen but also the reRun Gastropub Theater opened their doors. The venue, located in DUMBO (that's Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass, in case you were wondering…), is a revamped version of the reBar drinking hole owned and run by Jason Stevens. It has a very distinctive, quirky look (it's made almost entirely of recycled materials), and screens week-long runs of homegrown indie movies which have gathered buzz on the film festival circuit but not yet made it to a theater near you. (The venue's curator, Village Voice film critic Aaron Hillis, programs neglected new films such as Frank V. Ross' Audrey The Trainwreck, plus ultra-rare cult titles like Trent Harris' The Beaver Trilogy, which stars a young Sean Penn in drag.) "The cinephiles will come out to see the things they can't see anywhere else," Stevens told the New York Times, "but it's definitely a date-night thing." The space, in which the bar is almost within arm's reach of the aisle seats, was conceived as being an indoor drive-in theater, while the food on offer – gourmet riffs on popcorn, hot dogs, and pretzels, with ice cream sandwiches for dessert – reinforce the old-fashioned vibe.
Slide 5: Movies with a View
New Yorkers do pretty well when it comes to free outdoor movie screenings. In Manhattan, you can lounge on the grass of Bryant Park next to the New York Public Library's majestic Schwartzman Building, while in Brooklyn you get an even more cinematic setting in which to watch a film. In 2000, the brilliant idea was conceived to show movies in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge, with the East River and the skyscrapers of downtown Manhattan as a backdrop. Now in its eleventh year, Movies with a View is continuing to grow in popularity, and now has relocated (still within Brooklyn Bridge Park) to the newly opened Pier 1. The movies screened by Movies with a View are chosen by an all-volunteer committee, so it's not surprising that the movies are fan favorites, a mixture of New York classics (such as Woody Allen's Annie Hall), cult hits (the Coen brothers' The Big Lebowski, John Landis' The Blues Brothers), and a fair number of family-friendly thrown in for good measure also. Writing about the experience of watching Annie Hall at the new Pier 1 location, blogger Grace Aldridge wrote, "The views of the bridge and skyline are amazing and totally worth the trip if you're coming from other boroughs. … We were surprised by how quiet everyone was watching the movie – a welcome change from other outdoor film experiences involving screaming children."
Slide 6: Summer Screen
While Movies with a View has set the standard for free outdoor film series in Brooklyn, Summer Screen (started in 2006) has also established itself as a highly popular event over the past few years. Organized by The L Magazine (a free, hip NYC listings guide), Summer Screen – just like Movies with a View – has had a recent change of venue. It first set up home in the defunct McCarren Park Pool in Williamsburg, but with the outdoor events venue now being returned to its initial incarnation as a public baths, Summer Screen moved across the road to the grassy expanse of the McCarren Park ballfields. While Movies with a View caters to a diverse audience, Summer Screen is aimed at a younger audience, as evidenced not only by the programming choices (their definition of "classic movies" is 80s nostalgia and 90s cult films) but also the liquor license (Brooklyn beers on tap!) and live bands playing before certain movies. One can get a sense of the quintessential Summer Screen experience from the call to action on the series' website (which refers to Kathryn Bigelow's Point Break): "Bring a blanket, drink beer, eat tacos and quote "Vaya con dios" with 3,000 other Patrick Swayze fans."
Slide 7: Rooftop Films
Rooftop Films, one of the great Brooklyn film community feel good stories, actually began in Manhattan in 1997, when founder and artistic director Mark Elijah Rosenberg screened movies on the roof of his East Village tenement. Rosenberg was evicted when his landlord found out, and the event thus moved to Williamsburg. Initially, Rosenberg organized a single night of short films every summer, but in 2002 Dan Nuxoll became program director at Rooftop and he and Rosenberg began a major expansion of the organization. Today, the Rooftop Film Series programs numerous events every summer across venues not only in Brooklyn (where its regular haunts are Old American Can Factory in Gowanus and Brooklyn Technical College in Fort Greene) but also a variety of other places around the city. The events offer a live band and new independent filmmaking (promising to "bring underground movies outdoors"), and recently some of the movies screened (including Benh Zeitlin's Glory at Sea and PJ Raval's Trinidad) have received assistance from the Rooftop Filmmakers' Fund. Rooftop now is not just an event, but a broader film organization who declare themselves "a community… a collective collaboration between filmmakers and festivals, between audience members and artists, between venues and neighborhoods," whose goal is "to nurture a vibrant independent filmmaking community not only by exhibiting the work of low-budget filmmakers but also by providing essential support systems for those who otherwise have none."
Slide 8: BAMCinematek @ BAM
Despite its name, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (or BAM, as it's generally referred to) is far from just about the music. Located in the Fort Greene neighborhood, BAM – which is the oldest continuously operating performing arts center in the country – is a general performance space which also programs dance, theatre, art and literature events, and since the late 1990s has screened movies in the BAM Rose Cinemas. BAM shows a selection of new releases from world and independent cinema, but is more notable for the repertory programming of its BAMcinématek, which has been run by Florence Almozini since its opening in 1999. The range of films screened at BAMcinématek is impressively diverse, while Almozini creates series with intriguing, leftfield angles, such as 2009's "The Late Film," which looked at movies made by directors in the latter stages of their careers. "Because we concentrate mostly on vertical programming and have several different series going on each day of the week, our audience can come every night and see something completely different, from hip contemporary Korean films to silent classics," Almozini explained in an interview with Gothamist. In 2009, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of BAM Rose Cinemas, the venue held the first ever BAMcinemaFEST, which showcases some of the best titles on the current film festival circuit.


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Conservation Actions
In Australia, S. spinosissimus has been identified or protected under several pieces of legislation. All syngnathids are listed as Protected Aquatic Biota in Victoria, Australia and the Tasmanian Living Marine Resources Management Act 1995 prohibits the take of all syngnathids in Tasmania by non-permit holders, since September 1994 (Pogonoski et al. 2002). As well, all syngnathids became subject to the export controls of the Commonwealth Wildlife Protection (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1982 from 1 January 1998 (Pogonoski et al., 2002) All syngnathids and solenostomids were listed as marine species under s248 of the EPBC Act 1999 (Pogonoski et al. 2002).
This species is listed as Data Deficient by the Australian Society for Fish Biology (ASFB) in its 2001 Conservation Status of Australian Fishes document, the most recent AFSB listing available (ASFB 2007). In an Australian overview of the conservation status of threatened marine fishes, it was recommended that further research be conducted in order to accumulate information on the basic biological and population dynamics characteristics of this species (Pogonoski et al. 2002). In addition, the collection of accurate distributional and depth data was recommended in order to identify key habitats (Pogonoski et al. 2002).
Pogonoski et al. (2002) also suggest non-trawl protected areas within the range of S. spinosissimus. Non-trawl areas would protect some wild populations from possible bycatch threats. In addition, monitoring of bycatch from the trawl fisheries would allow for baseline data to be accumulated on abundances, distributions and habitats (Pogonoski et al. 2002). Marine protected areas established in Australia on 28 June 2007 contain benthic sanctuary zones that will allow for some protection of wild populations in addition to providing opportunities to collect baseline data.


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