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A traditional Maori garden in Hamilton has won a commendation award for cultural excellence at the annual Parks Forum Awards in Australia.
Judges at the Australasian awards, held last month in Adelaide, noted the extensive work on Te Parapara garden capturing and recording the history of Maori in the region, and the commitment required to make the garden productive.
Hamilton City Council gardens manager Peter Sergel said Te Parapara was the first serious attempt to recreate a pre-European Maori garden.
"This award really recognises the achievement of the late Harry Puke, Wiremu Puke, the Te Parapara Garden Trust and all of their advisers," Mr Sergel said.
Hamilton's Te Parapara garden project began in 2003 and was formally opened in two stages, in December 2008 and in late 2010.
The garden covers 2500sq m in Hamilton Gardens and tells the story of the Tainui waka landing and the subsequent cultivation of crops by early Maori. These crops included native species as well as plant and vegetable species they brought with them.
The awards celebrate the work of organisations, project teams, managers and individual staff in managing parks and communicating their value to communities.
Hamilton Mayor Julie Hardaker said the award celebrated the success of a team who had created awareness of the city's history and heritage.
"Hamilton's Te Parapara garden is a beautiful example of this city celebrating its history, in an interactive and accessible way," she said.
"The work of those involved is reflected not only in winning this award, but also the legacy that is the iconic Hamilton Gardens."
Hamilton Gardens is owned by the council.


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With slightly tart and sweet accents and aromatic caraway seasoning, braised red cabbage is an excellent foil to the richness of roasted duck. You may omit the chestnuts, if desired.
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Serves 8
Prep Time 20 min
Total Time 45 min.
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Heat oil in a large pot or Dutch oven over medium heat. Add onions and cook, stirring often, until light golden, 6 to 8 minutes.
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Ten Fundraising Ideas for Student Convention
- Donations
- Solicit donations from family members and friends.
- Secure sponsors for each place medal earned at Regional Student Convention (e.g., $10 for first place, $8 for second place).
- Serve-a-thon car wash at a car dealer
- Secure sponsors for each car washed. (Students may earn much more for each car than if you charged.)
- Go to local car dealers and offer to wash their cars for free. They wash their cars on a regular basis anyway, and you can engender much community goodwill and have several hundred cars in one location.
- Car wash for donations
- Advertise a "Free Car Wash."
- Have a donation bucket available when each car is finished. Many people will donate more than you would have charged.
- Singing telegrams
- Choose a time period when students will be available (a week, two weeks, a month).
- Offer telegrams for Christmas, Valentine's Day, birthdays, anniversaries, etc.
- Have a list of appropriate songs from which people may choose.
- Put together a group of students who can sing well, then take orders.
- Make sure you schedule the telegrams so they can be delivered on time.
- You can also offer candy and flowers for an additional cost.
- Silent auction
- Solicit donations from local businesses and families from the church and school for goods, services, and gift certificates (lawn care, babysitting, dinner for two, etc.).
- On auction day, display the items or a flyer describing the services offered.
- Place a form beside each item or flyer for people to write their assigned number (this works better than names) and monetary bid. Bidding continues throughout the day until the designated closing time. The person with the highest bid at the end of the day purchases the item for that amount.
- Contact the buyers, and give them a deadline to pay for and pick up their items.
- Serve lunch as an added event. If the food is donated, this will be pure profit.
- Position a bake sale table in the hall.
- Be sure to advertise! This may be your only expense but will enhance the success of your auction.
- Make this a yearly event, and people in your community will look forward to it. It works well in November when people are doing their holiday shopping.
- Discount cards
There are companies that will help you do this, but doing your own will increase your profit.
- Solicit discounts from local businesses. "buy one, get one" items, or free items.
- Print the company names and their offers on a card.
- Laminate the card, and sell it for a price commensurate with the number of discounts offered. This is good advertising for the businesses that support your ministry, and it is almost all profit for you.
- Jog-a-thons, jump-a-thons, bowl-a-thons
Solicit sponsors for laps jogged, number of jumps with a jump rope, number of pins in a bowling game, etc.
- Concession stands or bake sales at your school's sporting events
Nachos and hot dogs are easy to serve and are popular at ball games.
- Fundraising opportunities at local restaurants and sports arenas
Often local fast food restaurants or sports arenas will donate a percentage of their sales for a night if a school will provide students to staff the facility that night. (There may be age requirements.)
- Professional fundraising companies
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Victor said he was timed in the 40 at 4.6 seconds in the summer of 2011 by a personal trainer and had a measured vertical leap of 36 inches this past summer while participating in the prestigious Adidas Nations Global basketball camp. He said he last played organized football at the recreation department level at age 9 and 10 when he was a quarterback.
could be bad for our basketball recruitment if he have success on the football field
"My dad played football (as a quarterback/wide receiver at Destrehan High School). My cousin played football, Ed Reed. Tim Molton, who played at LSU, is my first cousin. (Former LSU cornerback) Jai Eugene is a cousin on my grandmother's side of the family. I grew up around Jordan Jefferson. I grew up watching Jordan and Jai play football.''
quote:If he becomes a legit football recruit too, that would probaby make it more likely he comes to LSU.
could be bad for our basketball recruitment if he have success on the football field.
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hope it works out well for him & St. Aug, but I think this is a terrible decision. He is risking his future
LSU football does not need a two sporter and LSU basketball definitely does not need it either.....
Cyril Crutchfield's cross grazing, will not be to LSU's benefit, if indeed this kid "even thinks" he can play TWO....
PS...Two sporters are GONE WITH THE WIND!!! But we can pretend, then they realize on their own, to focus on one or the other.....it is too demanding and their bodies cannot hold up under such stressful demands...does not make sense....
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Update: With more snow in the forecast, towns still suffering salt shortage
Reeling from a combination of snow, sleet and rain, nearly three storms in just one week, South Bergen towns are struggling to keep the roads clean. A statewide salt shortage has left towns rationing their road salt.
MetLife hoarding the salt?
Rumors were flying in the wake of the Super Bowl that salt was stockpiled for the big game and went unused given the warm temperatures, and that hoards of salt were just sitting outside the stadium.
New Jersey Department of Transportation spokesperson Joe Dee denied that this was the case.
State and NFL officials held a press conference in December to showcase the equipment available in the event of a snowy Super Bowl. Among the resources cited were 60,000 tons of salt stockpiled within a 30-mile radius of the Meadowlands complex by the NJDOT and New Jersey Turnpike Authority.
"There isn't a special reserve there [Meadowlands complex]," Dee said.
The New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority (NJSEA) has its own supply of salt for treating parking lots and access roads, Dee said. However, the amount is to suit the agency's need, not as a "hoard" for the Super Bowl.
The DOT has gotten calls from towns and legislators requesting any salt the department could spare. According to Dee, the state agency and NJSEA are also experiencing shortages.
"We are at critically low levels [of salt]," and supplies have dwindled from the rapid succession of storms, the spokesperson said. The department isn't in a position to accommodate municipalities.
And county officials are calling the anonymous reports of 150-200 salt trucks filled on the stadium property "misinformation."
"The amount of salt MetLife Stadium has is miniscule compared to what towns have. They have a salt shed the size of a two-car garage," County DPW Superintendent Joe Crifasi said.
Bergen County and its 70 municipalities receive salt from two companies - Cargill and Atlantic Salt and Cargill in Port Newark. The county currently has 1,000 tons of salt left, with more coming daily, Crifasi confirmed.
"Salt deliveries are coming out of Port of Newark on a daily and hourly basis, and deliveries to municipalities and the county continue through the rest of this week. Municipalities have to make sure personnel is available for deliveries not during normal business hours of 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. They have to open the gates at night or on Saturday," Crifasi noted, adding that deliveries come from county as well as suppliers to the municipalities.
The salt problem extends beyond New Jersey, Dee added.
With more snow forecast for Thursday, possibly four to eight inches, orders are piling in. Carlstadt purchased approximately 1,300 tons of road salt, at $49 a ton, for the season. The borough had five 5-gallon pails left as of Feb. 10, and received only 50 tons of the 150 tons they ordered this week, Carlstadt DPW Director Bruce Young confirmed.
"We're only using the road salt for county roads like Washington Avenue, Hoboken Road, Hackensack Street, and some necessities like Broad Street, and Division Avenue. The plows were going since early this morning, and even the side roads are pretty much down to the blacktop now, but the trouble is people are shoveling snow into the street," Young said on Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 5, during the last snowstorm.
"The problem now is where to put all the snow," Young noted, particularly if another storm descends. "We're running out of places to put it," Young said. "We can't take it down to the Meadowlands, put it in the water stream because of the salt. Right now it's going to the playground at Carlstadt Public School. We can also go by the lower lot by the hockey rink."
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East Rutherford Councilman and DPW liaison Thomas Banca said the borough is in "decent" shape with regard to salt quantities.
"We're going to get through these storms but we're being careful with how much salt we use, and we're salting all the streets as needed, but not dumping salt for the sake of salting. We may do a single pass as opposed to multiple passes," Banca explained. "The DPW is being very frugal. We're okay as long as we don't get five more storms."


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Notable Oregonians: Abigail Scott Duniway - Women's Rights Pioneer
Abigail Jane Scott was born in 1834 and raised on a family farm near Groveland, Illinois. Her parents, John Tucker Scott and Anne Roelofson, led the family on the Oregon Trail in 1852. Tragically, her mother and youngest brother died along the route. Abigail, age 17, recorded the difficult crossing in her journal.
She taught school in Cincinnati (Eola), Oregon before marrying Benjamin C. Duniway in 1853. Her husband's crippling accident in 1862 required Abigail to provide the sole support for her family, which included several children. She responded by teaching school and operating a women's hat shop in Albany, Oregon for several years. The experience heightened Duniway's awareness of the legal inequalities endured by women.
The Duniway family moved to Portland in 1871 after Benjamin accepted a job at the U.S. Customs Service. Abigail began publishing the New Northwest, a weekly newspaper that ran from 1871 to 1887 and demanded equal rights for women. In 1873 she helped found the Oregon State Women Suffrage Association. Duniway lectured regularly around the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere. Her efforts as leader of the campaign for women's voting rights in the region helped women get the vote in Idaho in 1896, Washington in 1910, and Oregon in 1912. Interestingly, Abigail's brother, Harvey W. Scott, publisher of the Portland Oregonian newspaper, was an outspoken opponent of women's suffrage.
Duniway died in 1915, a year after writing her life story in Path Breaking. She also authored two other novels and a book of poems.
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Take note, chaps: Taylor Swift is spelling out her relationship deal-breakers.
The 22-year-old singing sensation graces the cover of Cosmopolitan's December issue, and opens up about her love philosophy, and what she will not tolerate in a relationship.
"I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you," she tells the mag.
"It's a conscious thing; it's a common-sense thing. If I was in that situation, if I were them, would I be doing this to me? Would I ever do this to them? If the answer is no, then they're not treating me fairly. I just don't ever want to end up in a relationship that isn't fair ever again."
Swift's interview is promoted with a cover blurb that reads "Crazy for a Kennedy," which obviously dates her confab with the mag pre her recent split from Conor Kennedy.
The singer - who previously dated John Mayer, Taylor Lautner, Jake Gyllenhaal and Joe Jonas - quietly called it quits with Conor, who is the son of Robert F Kennedy Jr, within the past few weeks, Us Weekly reported last week.
"They quietly parted ways a while ago," a source told the mag. "It was just a distance thing. No hard feelings. They're fine."
A so-called 'insider' told Radar Online: "Conor's just an 18-year-old kid and wasn't ready for anything super serious, but Taylor is looking for her soulmate and it kind of freaked him out with how strong she came on.
"Taylor is obsessed with the Kennedys and was living out a fairytale with Conor. But she was more obsessed with the idea of dating a Kennedy, than the actual Kennedy she was dating."
Swift, whose love life provides endless inspiration for her hit songs, also opens up to Cosmo about what she looks for in a guy.
"I need that unexplainable spark," she says. "I just need to see someone and feel oh, no, uh-oh. It's only happened a few times in my life, but I feel like if I was gonna be with someone forever, it would be because I saw them and I thought, Oh, no."
She also says she's learned from her past relationships.
"I've learned when to get out," she tells the mag. "I've never wasted too much time with the wrong person and that's one thing I'm proud of."
She added: "I've had a lot of dark and twisty situations happen, enough to realise that when someone exhibits signs of evoking a dark and twisty relationship and dark and twisty feelings, it's not interesting to me."
Swift also talks about her latest album Red, which sold a whopping 1.21 million copies in its first week of release in the US.
"I have a chalkboard in my house in LA, and every week, I've been writing a new lyric on it from the record just to figure out which ones pop out to me, which seem most important," she says.
"There's a song that's the first track on the record, and it says, 'Love is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right.' That's been my whole philosophy on love this whole time anyway. "
And as for her post-music plans...
"Being a mum full time, doing everything for my kids, having a bunch of them," she says of her future aspirations. "That's the only other thing that could be as thrilling for me as doing this."
Click on over to cosmopolitan.com for more interview snippets.
Check out the video for Swift's We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together here.
And finally...
* Kate Moss says split from Johnny Depp led to "years and years of crying".
* Game on again for Johnny Depp and Amber Heard?
* Secret squirrels: Evan Rachel Wood marries Billy Elliot star Jamie Bell.
* Awkward: Katy Perry and Russell Brand attend the same basketball match.
* BFF: Kanye West hugs it out with paparazzo.
* John Mayer called "king douche" by country singer Shooter Jennings in Twitter rant.
* Steven Tyler and fiancée Erin Brady shoot down reports of a split.
* Britney Spears and fiancé Jason Trawick on the skids? Not so fast...
* Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart to reunite for MTV interview?
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Re: Reballed my first ps3 with success..
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My only concern with an "oven" reball would be the capacitors and other components on the motherboard would be subjected to the same heat. With a heat gun, hot air wand, or rework station you can localize the heat to just the chipset that needs to be lifted.
I would revise that question then.
How about I do an oven reball, but shield the components not to be heated with a few layers of Aluminum foil?
don't know if it would work or not for sure with some of the ps3's sensitive components but i did do a oven reflow with a Nvidia video card and the pc its in still works and that was quite some time back...before i did it to the card it actually worked but you would have thought you was using a monochrome monitor..lol
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It's possible that it would work that way.
The only other thing is getting the temperature right to get the chipset off the MB, then getting it cleaned up and ready for the reballed chip to be placed on the MB, then getting it back in the oven.
But then again OP did it with a heat gun and a piece of wood.
Necessity is the mother of invention!
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just thought i would give a update for anyone that maybe interested but the machine is still working strong and the fan is operating normally,have been running it almost 24 hours a day to really test it out hardcore...
to the above post..the only thing about an oven reflow is you would really have to protect all the other components from getting the same temps as you don't want everything on the board coming unsoldered and protecting the capacitors is also very important but playdow or silly putty in these areas work fantastic as its what i did with a video card,just have to be sure to get it ALL off before powering up...
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Now, how did you get the Integrated HeatSpreader (IHS) off? I was trying to pop the GPU IHS on mine when I did the rear USB mod, but I heard a sharp pop so I freaked out and called it off. I did the "butter knife method" which is using paper and a butter knife inserted just under the GPU IHS on the side facing the CELL CPU. There was so much tension and it didn't pop off as easily as shown in the video. Was afraid I was going to break it so I called it off.
To convince myself the paste under the IHS didn't need replacing, I did a stunt test by running the PS3 without heatsinks (!!!) and placing my hands on the CELL/RSX. It got pretty darn hot after 5 seconds, telling that whatever compound between the IHS and the CPU/GPU die was conducting heat properly then I yanked the power.
Oh, and the sharp popping sound? Turns out the butter knife was at a sharp angle and cut the paper in two. The GPU itself was unharmed.
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the way i remove the IHS is i just heat it up real good just using a hairdryer here...get it good and hot and then i try and slide working a razor over top the ram chips and it will sometimes just come free pretty easy but other times i do it exactly as this video here shows but i dont use as much force as it seems he is using,i have always just added more heat and work with it and i have always got them off without ever damaging them..but some force is ok as they can take more than you think,just be careful and be sure to go under the proper side so you don't damge anything when prying..
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Henry Mosley decides that he and his pals Riley and Reed need to go on some earth-shaking adventures and make a name for themselves. Henry is the mastermind; Riley's the researcher who's prepared for anything. And somehow fearful Reed always ends up with the scariest, craziest assignments. Roped into wacky attempts to break world records, reenact scenes from books, solve a hundred-year-old murder, and carry out Henry's other inspired ideas, Riley and Reed follow their fearless leader everywhere: into the wilderness, inside a bull-riding ring, into a haunted house, off the neighbors' roof, and into a cataclysmic collision with explosive life-forms. Gary Paulsen brings all his trademark humor to this tale of fun and disaster.
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Sofitel New York, a 30-story AAA Four Diamond hotel in midtown Manhattan, offers luxury accommodations within easy reach of Fifth Avenue, Times Square, Broadway, and other electrifying sights. All accommodations feature luxury linens, Wi-Fi, and private baths with separate standing showers and soaking tubs. "There are many fine hotels on 44th Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues, but the best, in my estimation, is the soaring Sofitel," says Frommer's. "The designers have successfully melded modern, new-world amenities with European old-world elegance."
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<p>The glamorous girls of old Hollywood pose for Playboy in this collection of luscious screen goddesses from the 1950s and 1960s. </p>
It's generally well known that Playboy's first-ever centerfold model was silver screen goddess Marilyn Monroe, but she's far from being the only Hollywood star to add to her legend by posing as a Playmate. Many glamour girls of old Hollywood modeled for Playboy, and it's a selection of these sexy actresses of the 1950s and 1960s that we're featuring in today's Playboy Retro.
The obvious woman to start with is Jayne Mansfield: One of the biggest celebrities of the '50s, this busty and bubbly blonde was built up by the press as a rival to Monroe, and like Marilyn we lost her too young. However, her body of work—and her amazing body—stand on their own merits. Mansfield is the quintessential blonde bombshell, and she set the standard for what we look for in babes to this day.
Though she appeared in bit parts in the TV programs and feature films of the period, Marguerite Empey made the biggest impression as the living symbol of the swinging, sophisticated, sexual culture of the time. This liberated lass appeared as the Playmate of the Month both in May 1955 and in February 1956, was featured on the covers of hi-fi cocktail records by Les Baxter and Nelson Riddle and opened the minds of the men of America by documenting her nudist lifestyle in a number of photo shoots. Marguerite Empey's joie de vivre and gorgeous looks make her work as a Playmate as fresh and enchanting as ever.
Before June Blair spent five years playing "June" on the ultra-square sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, she showed off her wild side by playing a femme fatale in the hardboiled film noir A Fever in the Blood and by showing up in Playboy as Miss January 1957. Looking back on June, we find her often shot in black and white in both the films and photos of the time, and her 36C-25-36 measurements, stunning body, and angel face look great. But you'll see that color suits her better as it shows off her vibrant red hair and delicate porcelain skin.
{"pbembedwidget":"gallery","id":"14778","size":"large","alignment":"left"} The Black Scorpion! A Day of Fury!! The Giant Claw!!! These thrilling B movies were packing the teenagers into the drive-in movie theaters, and while the chills onscreen jumped some gals into the embraces of their boyfriends, all the guys were focused on only one woman—the one up there on the screen: Mara Corday. A cult figure of '50s cinema, Corday also thrilled her fans by hitting the beach with Playboy for the centerfold of October 1958. And this shoot is the best place to rediscover one of Hollywood's forgotten screen gems.
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Anyone know who the was the first and only other player to do it?
That's right the giants own YAT!!
Also other players to throw for 7 in a game were Joe Kapp and George Blanda to name a few but all the others threw at least 1 INT in those games. Title not only was the last to do it in the 60s but did it w/o any Picks.. Maybe Eli gets the giants the record back with 8 Sunday night, lol


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M5 southbound coach crash. One lane now opened. Child injured. Traffic delays.
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wow some awesome pics! I can't help but wonder how everyone keeps their hives so clean. Every frame/surface in my hive has a layer of propolis on it.
Mine also...stuck like glue when I try to separate the components. Expect it is a bee thing rather than a beekeeper cleaning effort.
These are both first year hives, they are working on it
So is mine. I suspect that my bees found some kind of propolis jackpot near by and brought it all home.


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We have six lions living in Big Cat Falls.
Makini: Male, born at the Tulsa Zoo & Living Museum in Oklahoma on March 24, 2009. He arrived at the Zoo on December 16, 2011. His name means "dignity" in Swahili.
Tajiri: Female, born at the Racine Zoo in Wisconsin on March 16, 2010. She arrived at the Zoo on January 25, 2012. Her name means "rich" in Swahili.
Makini and Tajiri are the proud parents of four female cubs, born on June 25 and 26, 2014. You can tell them apart by their dye marks: Kataba currently has marks on the right front paw, Mali has no dye marks, Msinga has marks on her left front paw, and Sabi has one mark on her right front leg and another on the right side of her face. The dye marks fade over time and must be reapplied regularly, so this can change on occasion.
KeyBank Big Cat Falls offers enrichment opportunities by design. Big cats can explore other cat habitats, pick up on the scents present, and mark territory. Boxes, piñatas, and scratching posts all make excellent enrichment toys. These are often sprinkled with scents to make it more interesting for the lions.
The lion habitat at Big Cat Falls is a fantastic viewing area. You can stand face to face with the lions behind a huge glass window. The lions like to lay and play near the window.
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Like other cats, lions have excellent senses. Since they are primarily nocturnal (meaning most active at night) their night vision is six times greater than that of humans. Well-developed whiskers and other long stiff hairs above their eyes and on their underarms have nerve connections and are used for sensing. They also have a well-developed sense of smell which they use to communicate with other lions who mark their territory.
Two distinctive features set lions apart from all other wild cats; they are social felines (other cats are typically solitary in the wild) and they are the only cats to exhibit a distinction between males and females - males have a mane.
Another unique feature of lions is their tongues. They have short, horny backward pointing hooks on the upper surface which aids in grooming and for holding and lacerating food.
Lions are able to have cubs at around 3–4 years of age. Gestation is between 103 and 119 days (typically 110). When lions are ready to give birth to their litter—usually about three or four cubs—they go off alone to a den isolated from the rest of the pride. Mother and cubs then return to the pride after approximately three months. Males guard the cubs while the females hunt, playing with them and teaching them life skills by wrestling. The cubs will participate in their first hunt when they are about 11 months old.
Depending on the pride, young males either leave or are driven out around age two. Young females usually remain with the pride unless the quantity of females becomes too large.
Lions are social animals that live in prides of between four and 37 cats. The pride usually consists of a core of four to 12 related adult females, their offspring and one to six adult males. In the pride, females do most of the hunting, when they work together to form an ambush.
Lions spend more than 80 percent of their time conserving energy. Conserving energy is important for animals that are big and bulky and that live in areas where getting food is challenging. As a result, lions spend up to 20 hours a day resting or sleeping.
Lions have nine distinct vocalizations including roars, grunts and growls. The position of their hyoid apparatus, a bone at the base of the skull, means lions can only purr when they exhale. Pride members also rub cheeks when they meet.
Males are about 4 feet (121 cm) and 8 feet (243 cm), not including the tail, which averages about 3 feet (91 cm) long.
Males weigh between 330 pounds (149 kg) and 550 pounds (249 kg) and females weigh between 130 pounds (58 kg) and 400 pounds (181 kg).
In Africa, the preferred prey of the lion is wildebeest, impala, zebras, buffalo and warthogs. At the Zoo, their diet includes a commercial raw meat mix, solid beef, beef shank bones and long bones. The diet is formulated to meet the nutritional needs of each animal. Beef long bones are offered once a week mainly to provide chewing activity. Beef shank bones have nearly 7 lbs (3kg) of meat attached to the bone; the lions enjoy tearing the meat from the bones. The shank bones not only provide food, they also provide an enjoyed activity for the animals while strengthening their jaw muscles.
Grassy plains, savannas, and semi-deserts throughout most of sub-Saharan Africa.
The African lion is listed as vulnerable by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Main threats to lions include killing to protect livestock and depletion of their prey. Habitat loss and conversion for agriculture have also led to a decline in some population sizes.
The Ongava Research Centre (ORC) is part of one of the largest private reserves in Namibia, covering 125 miles and sharing its northern boundary with Etosha National Park. ORC has now been monitoring lions on Ongava for over nice years and has built up a comprehensive picture of how lions form groups and how those groups expand and ultimately disperse.
The Zoo's partnership with ORC began in 2010 in support of the conservation research project "Pride Dynamics and Dispersal in the Lion Population of Ongava Game Reserve," which looks specifically at the movements, interactions and habitat needs of young male lions as they begin to break away from their "home" prides.


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Survey of the entire New Testament including the historical background of the Inter-Testamental period, giving special attention to main events, the authorship and content of each book with attention to literary genre, and the unfolding of God's redemptive purpose through the Lord Jesus Christ. Prerequisites: BEGE-1720 Spiritual Formation, BEGE-2730 Old Testament Literature


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The Past Is Present in Williamsburg
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Virginia is home to America's Historic Triangle—Williamsburg, Yorktown, and Jamestown. These three settlements formed the cradle of our fledgling nation and have carefully preserved their colonial roots for today's visitors to appreciate. Williamsburg's cobblestone streets and historical reenactments transport you back to the era before the Revolutionary War, providing a window into the earliest iterations of American life. The town also claims the second-oldest institution of higher learning in the country: The College of William & Mary.
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If you crave the freedom to explore Virginia's Historic Triangle as our forefathers did, Colonial Crossings of Williamsburg is the place for you. Private, condo-style accommodations feature full kitchens and balconies or patios to ensure you're never without the comforts of home. You'll enjoy plenty of independence to do as you please, so work up a sweat at the fitness center or draw a warm bath in your jetted tub.
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"My wife and I recently stayed at Colonial Crossings and found the grounds and facilities first rate. Our room was spacious, the kitchen was well equipped, and the bathrooms were clean. I can unequivocally recommend Colonial."-- TripAdvisor
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Awesome. That was the first word we could think of as we took the wheel of the new '03 Rubicon Wrangler and hit the trail. Of course, we were a bit blas considering we knew what it should be able to do and taking into account its heritage and underpinnings. A standard Wrangler is a no-nonsense trail rig, capable of outdoing nearly any other production rig on the right trail. No, it can't haul 60,000 pounds and hold five adults and a dog in comfort, but it's not designed to. It's made to be an all-around rig with enough comfort on and off the trail, and the supple coil suspension and good articulation make it a wonderful wheeler.
As we showed you in our Feb. '02 issue, the new Rubicon edition has the extra goodies to blow away the competition on the trail--and that's in stock form. Consider this: torquey six-popper with fairly good fuel economy, a reliable auto or manual transmission, and a beefy NVG241OR transfer case with a factory short-shaft and a killer 4:1 low range ratio, coupled by big 1330 U-joints to the axles. And what axles? Let's talk Dana 44 30-spline units filled with 4.10 gears and selectable low-pressure pneumatic lockers. Oh yeah, four-wheel disc brakes, special 16-inch rims, and 31-inch Goodyear MT/R tires don't hurt either. In fact, this is a combo of tech and stoutness we thrive on, and it's finally available in a factory package.
Luckily for us, we were able to take a few Rubicon Wranglers out on the trail at Easter Jeep Safari in Moab. Jeep engineers, PR people, and even some top execs were on hand to have some fun as we zipped and crawled around the town and trails. Much to the delight of onlookers hungry for a sneak peak at the Rubicon, we even amazed ourselves on some of the obstacles. Not only were we in comfort with the new seats, styling colors, and speaker pods and lights, but the lockers are easy to engage and disengage, and the low gearing, tall tires, and great suspension had us crawling up sheer walls, and out of hot tubs.
As of press time, we still haven't heard the official pricing, but it is supposed to cost less for the factory-equipped and warranted goodies it packs than if you sent a regular Wrangler off to a shop for similar upgrades. Stay tuned for a complete review as soon as we score one, and some real-world testing in our upcoming 4x4 of the Year test for all of the new '03 models.


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Our Goal: The Grace of God or the God of Grace?
In the material I received about the aims of this conference, one sentence seemed to me tremendously important: "Our goal [in this conference] is to examine the nature of God as evidenced through His bountiful grace." What was so characteristically Ligonier about that — and I believe Biblical — was the order of things: "examine the nature of God as evidenced through his grace." The goal is God through grace. Not grace through God.
I wonder if that difference sounds significant to you. I think it's immensely significant. Because one of the great divides in American religious life today, as I see it, is whether God is made a means to grace, or grace is made a means to God.
Does the quest of our lives and the longing of our hearts and the labor of our minds terminate on God, in whom we live and move and have our being, so that grace is indescribably precious because it carries us safely to him? Or is God brought in alongside our planning, and our techniques and methods and political strategies and therapies and treatments as a means to the experience of various forms of grace?
I want to press this because I believe it makes a tremendous difference whether our ultimate treasure is the grace of God or whether our ultimate treasure is the God of grace. It seems to me that the most fundamental question standing before American evangelicalism today is whether we put God or ourselves at the center of grace. And my passion today is to plead for the God-centeredness of saving grace; that we cherish saving grace because it brings us to God, rather than cherishing God because he brings us grace.
Ten Biblical Illustrations of God-centered Saving Grace
So what I would like to do is press home the God-centeredness of saving grace by looking at 10 Biblical illustrations of it.
1. The God-centeredness of saving grace is seen in its origin.
There is a profound inability that comes with being an infinite, all-glorious God. There are things that God cannot be in himself as God. He cannot be deficient or defective or needy. Therefore he cannot respond to us out of need for our value, our works or our distinctives. God can only relate to us out of fullness and self-sufficiency, and therefore, out of freedom. And that fullness is the origin of saving grace. That's the point of Romans 11:33-36:
Oh, the depth of the riches and the wisdom and
knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and
unfathomable His ways! For who has known the mind of the Lord, [so
as to become] His counselor? Or who has first given a gift to Him
that it he should be repaid? For from Him and through Him and to
Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen.
God can never be negotiated with, because there is no value, no currency, no asset outside of God that hasn't come from God and that does not already belong to God. And this reality of God's absolute self-sufficiency is the origin of grace.
Let me pose a question for you to ponder: If the repayment of our debt to God's grace is impossible (Romans 11:35) since the repayment of that debt would nullify grace and turn it into a business transaction, should we describe our moral life in the terms of duty understood as repaying what we owe to grace?
Second question: does not a gratitude ethic run the risk of minimizing grace by leaving it mainly in the past and neglecting the moral significance of its ongoing, inexhaustible future provisions? Is the duty of the next hour's obedience to be lived in the power of our gratitude for past grace or in the confidence of future grace? Would God get more glory if Moses left Egypt out of gratitude for past grace in his being rescued from the bulrushes? Or would God get more glory if Moses left those fleeting pleasures because he counted abuse suffered for the Christ to be greater wealth of grace than the treasures of Egypt, since he looked to the reward of even more future grace (Hebrews 11:24-26)?
In a word: is the origin of grace in the infinite self-sufficiency of God glorified best by a past-oriented ethic of debt and duty or a future-oriented ethic of hope and joy? As much as I would love to linger here and make my case, it is my duty to move on — and since I hope in God's ongoing grace to multiply the loaves and fishes of those few words, I leave that with joy.
So, the first illustration of my point is that the God-centeredness of saving grace is seen in its origin - the self-sufficiency of God.
2. The God-centeredness of saving grace is seen in the ultimate gift that grace brings, namely, God.
In the explosive, radiant, overflowing fountain of God's self-sufficiency there is an impulse to be known and loved and admired and enjoyed. That impulse is the grace of God. The gift that this impulse moves God to share with his creation is himself. Grace is the impulse of the fountain to overflow, but the water that overflows is God. What could be more God-centered than a God who thinks that the best gift he can give his people is himself?
As a hart longs for the flowing streams,
So longs my soul for thee, O God.
My soul thirsts for God,
For the living God.
When shall I come and behold the face of God?
(Psalm 42:1-2)
O God, thou art my God, I seek thee,
My soul thirsts for thee,
My flesh faints for thee
As in a dry and weary land where no water is.
(Psalm 63:1-2)
Whom have I in heaven but thee?
And on earth there is none that I desire beside thee.
My flesh and my heart may fail,
But thou art the strength of my heart
And my portion forever.
(Psalm 73:24f)
I will go to the altar of God,
To God, my exceeding joy.
(Psalm 43:4).
What is overflowing in saving grace is God himself. The God-centeredness of saving grace is seen in the fact that the best gift grace can give is God.
3. The God-centeredness of saving grace is seen in the basic response God demands to the gift of himself, namely, joyful trust.
Paul says in 2 Corinthians 1:24, "Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy." As though faith and joy were almost interchangeable. He wrote to the Philippians (1:25) that God's purpose was for Paul to remain with them for "the advancement and joy of [their] faith." He commanded believers to "rejoice in the Lord" (4:6) just like the psalmist commanded, "Delight yourself in the Lord" (Psalm 37:4). In other words, the fundamental command of grace is to be satisfied with God.
The reason for this is that no other command could be more gracious and more God-centered than this.
Yesterday I attended the speaker's luncheon and R.C. Sproul presented Russell and Lisa Johnson with a beautiful gift and tribute for helping make this conference happen — a sort of "well done, good and faithful servants." The Johnson's sacrifices on our behalf, in these last 15 months, were mentioned. After the applause died down, Dr. Sproul asked for a speech from the Johnson's. He got one. Four words: "It was our pleasure."
Why did Lisa Johnson say that? Why didn't she say, "It was our duty. Thank you for recognizing our sacrifices. It was our duty to endure them?" The answer is very simple and very profound. R.C. Sproul would not have felt honored by that speech. But he was greatly honored by the statement that serving his vision was their pleasure.
So it is with our serving God. The response of delight gives God more honor than the response of mere duty. "Lo, I come; in the roll of the book it is written of me; I delight to do thy will, O my God; thy law is within my heart" (Psalm 40:8). One of the most breathtaking discoveries that I have ever made is that the centrality of God's glory and the satisfaction of my soul are not at odds. God's zeal to be glorified and my passion to be satisfied do not have to conflict. They come to simultaneous fulfillment in the act of God-exalting, soul-satisfying worship.
The God-centeredness of saving grace is seen in the basic response that God demands for the gift of himself, namely, joyful trust.
Of course no one responds to God in this way on his own. We've seen that in previous lectures. Sin and evil hold sway in every human heart apart from saving grace.
4. The God-centeredness of saving grace is seen in the Biblical description of what that grace rescues us from.
Here's the way God describes us in our sin, according to Jeremiah 2:12-13:
Be appalled, O heavens, at this, be shocked, be utterly
desolate, says the LORD, for my people have committed two evils:
they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out
cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns, that can hold no
So the essence of evil is to turn from God as the Fountain of living water and to try desperately, with every toy and relationship and job and entertainment and recreation and project and enterprise — even religious ones, to find life and satisfaction for our souls. That's what saving grace must rescue us from — the suicidal love affair that we have with everything but God. Even the definition of sin highlights the God-centeredness of saving grace.
When God decides, sovereignly and graciously, to overcome that suicidal slavery to sin in our hearts, the way he does it is intentionally designed to preserve and exalt his own supremacy and centrality in the process of salvation. The Biblical pictures of our rescue put God unmistakably at the center and give him all the glory.
5. The God-centeredness of saving grace is seen in God's raising us from spiritual death.
In Ephesians 2:5-6 Paul says, "We who were dead in trespasses, God made alive together with Christ — by grace you have been saved — and raised us up with him."
Paul pushes the phrase, "by grace you have been saved," into this sentence and breaks the flow: "God made us alive — by grace you have been saved — and raised us up." Why does he do that? Because being raised from the dead, spiritually, cannot be our doing. It isn't something we perform in order to be acceptable to God. If it is going to happen, Another must do it to us and for us, freely. Absolutely freely. That means: by grace. Paul pushes this phrase obtrusively into the sentence because grace pushed itself obtrusively into our dead lives and made us alive.
If you have one whisper of genuine desire for God in your heart, it is the work of God and the triumph of grace. We did not barter or deal or work or hope or believe. Nothing in us merited or constrained the life-giving work of God. It was entirely grace — absolutely free and unconditional. It was not based on our prior choice. It created our choice.
6. The same centrality of God in saving grace is seen in the effectual calling of God.
Paul says (in 2 Timothy 1:9), that this calling "was not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity." (See also John 11:43; Ephesians 5:14; Romans 8:30; 1 Corinthians 1:23-24)
7. The centrality of God in saving grace is seen in the sovereign act of new creation.
A new creation happens when God says to a soul blinded by the god of this world, "Let there be light . . . and [creates in the darkened soul] the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ" (2 Corinthians 4:6).
8. The centrality of God in saving grace is seen in God's sovereign act of begetting his own children.
We did not choose to be begotten any more than we chose to be raised from the dead or called or created. We were born "not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God" (John 1: 12-13).
9. And the centrality of God in saving grace could be seen in the cross of Christ.
We see the centrality of grace in the cross. Paul says (Romans 3:24-25) that when God gave his Son to be a propitiation by his blood, he did it to demonstrate his own righteousness in order that he might be both just and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.
Everything God has done to rescue us from our suicidal love affair with everything but God, is an act of God-centered grace.
10. Instead of lingering over any of these, let's close by focusing our attention on the first and primal act of saving grace — the centrality of God in the grace of election.
If God exalts his own sovereign rights to raise some sinners from spiritual death, call them, create them, beget them, and atone for their sins, then he must be making choices according to some principle or some purpose. Ephesians 1:4 says that God made these choices before the foundation of the world. Romans 9:11 makes clear that the choices are made without reference to us doing anything good or evil. So the saving grace of election is not based on anything we will do or be.
What does God base his choices on? What's guiding him as he elects? Romans 9:11 says that the reason God set his favor on Jacob and not Esau, before they were born and had done nothing good or evil, was this: "that God's purpose (prothesis) which accords with election, might remain."
What purpose? What purpose is God jealous to preserve in unconditional election? The answer is given 11 verses later in Romans 9:22-23, "What if God, desiring to show his wrath and make known his power, has endured with much patience, the vessels of wrath made for destruction, in order to make known the riches of his glory for the vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory?"
In other words, the "purpose" behind unconditional election is that God might make known the incomparable riches of his glory for the enjoyment of the vessels of mercy. The riches of that glory, which God means to lavish upon the vessels of mercy forever and ever, are the whole panorama of God's perfections, including his wrath and power. The glory of God's mercy will shine brighter against the backdrop of judgment. The intensity of our joy will be greater because we behold the full range of God's perfections in the history of redemption.
Because of God-centered grace, the two great passions in the universe do not collide: God's passion to be glorified and our passion to be satisfied. In the end, God will be perfectly glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.


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