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The King's Family of Churches (also known as the Evangelical Episcopal Church) is an apostolic family of churches with its origins in the Evangelical missions in Spain, particularly in Friends of God mission society, that came to embrace the Convergence Movement of Christianity. The KFC states that it should not be considered a splinter group of any other denomination or communion, because it was formed by the unity of small denominations, independent churches and former denominational congregations who came together the movement known as the Convergence of Christianity.
The founders of the KFC drew inspiration from Christian leaders and theologian such as James Haldane Stewart, Michael Harper, Colin Urquhart, Lesslie Newbigin, Robert E. Webber, David Watson, John Stott, Dennis Bennett, John Wimber, Richard Foster, and Simon Chan.
At the same time, the KFC follows the practices, beliefs and life of the early Celtic church, the Lutheran Reformation, and the Anglican Church, which they feel became a signpost for the Ancient-Future faith [1] and the Convergence Movement.
The King's Family of Churches had its origins in the missionary work of 'Friends of God' in Spain. In 2003, they were charter as the "Evangelical Episcopal Church". In January 2007 they started to be known as the "King's Family of Churches".[2]
On December 6, 2003, Josep Rossello was consecrated the first bishop of the King's Family [3] and called to establish the Missionary Diocese of Benissa. In 2004, the Diocese of Benissa joined with other independent denominations throughout the world to form the King's Family of Churches, influenced by the Convergence Movement, which began to blend Spontaneous Christian worship with the Book of Common Prayer inspired by the Evangelical doctrines and the Charismatic Renewal.
Apparently, their main growth has come through congregations throughout the world deciding to affiliate with the King's Family of Churches. All those joining the King's Family were expressing not only common elements of an emerging understanding about this "convergence of the streams" of Christianity, but it was also a direct result of the KFC mission enterprise around the world.[4]
+Tomas Kennedy, was consecrated on October 17th, 2007; and he is the Acting Presiding Bishop of the King's Family. He has been appointed with the responsibility for the development of the Dublin NightChurch, the King's Church congregation in Spain, and two missionary districts in India. In total, he will oversee leaders that are pastoring over 600 congregations, as well as bible schools and orphanages.[5]
Today, the KFC claims to have 967 congregations in 31 countries.[6]
Government in the King's Family is synodical at the diocesan level and collegial which recognized the assembled body of the bishops as its governing body. International and diocesan synods maintain different scopes of authority, depending on their canons. [7]
The King's Family is not congregational in its polity: It is the diocese, not the parish church/congregation, which is the local church, and diocesan bishops must give their assent to resolutions passed by synods. Rather than jurisdictional lines built upon geographic areas, the King's Family establishes dioceses and congregations relationally. (See Episcopal polity).
The church upholds the historic three-fold ministry of bishops, presbyters, and deacons. The King's Family can trace its ines of Apostolic Succession through Anglican, Catholic and Apostolic lines.[8]
The center of the King's Family of Churches' teaching is the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. They embrace the same Doctrinal Essentials as other Christian bodies.[9]
The King's Family of Churches recognizes the historic ecumenical creeds, the Apostle's Creed and the Nicene Creed; these are used frequently in services of worship. They also recognizes the importance of the Chalcedonian Creed of the Council of Chalcedon.
The threefold sources of decision-making are based on Scripture, tradition informed by Scripture, and godly Wisdom instructed by Scripture. This balance of scripture, tradition and reason is traced to the work of Richard Hooker, a sixteenth century apologist. In Hooker's model, scripture is the primary means of arriving at doctrine and things stated plainly in scripture are accepted as true. Issues that are ambiguous are determined by tradition, which is checked by reason.[10]
The King's Family is a constituent member and Province of the Christian Communion International (CCI), and its bishops are seated in the International College of Bishops.[11]
- ↑ Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World by Robert Webber
- ↑ World Missions News, February, 5th 2007.
- ↑ Article about the Consecration http://www.roundtownnews.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1022&Itemid=38
- ↑ 'Moving in faith and vision' Article, The Missions Herald, October 2005, Issue 23.
- ↑ Article in "Diario Information", 19 de Octubre 2007, Alicante, Spain.
- ↑ The King's Family Annual Book 2007, Benissa (Spain), Papyrus Press, 2008.
- ↑ The Canons of the King's Family of Churches
- ↑ The King's Family of Churches received Apostolic Succession through bishops of the Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches.
- ↑ [1] Detail on the Doctrinal Essentials.
- ↑ Anglican Listening Detail on how scripture, tradition, and reason work to "uphold and critique each other in a dynamic way".
- ↑ CCI Synod notes,September, 2004


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So many Miles Franklin nominees that not only warrant the hype but also exceed it make a rare crop, writes Malcolm Knox.
Much has been said about the pedigree of this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award nominees. The winners of four Booker prizes, a US National Book Award, even a Nobel Prize, are short-listed for the Australian prize. But awards are just ornamentation. It's the books that count. Are the six books, up for the honours at a dinner tonight, worth the fanfare?
by Peter Goldsworthy
It's hard to imagine a more satisfying contemporary Australian novel than this, Goldsworthy's seventh. Described by James Ley in the Herald as "an intense and brilliant novel about the fathomless human capacity for self-deception", Three Dog Night is narrated by Martin Blackman, an Adelaide-born, London-based psychiatrist who brings his English bride Lucy to Australia. With lambent descriptions of the Adelaide Hills and, later, Central Australia, Three Dog Night is a novel concerned with place, both literal and symbolic. But it is principally about two of Goldsworthy's career concerns: a love triangle and the question of how we die.
Martin introduces Lucy to Felix, his oldest, but now estranged, friend. Felix has gone native, becoming an initiated man among the (fictional) Widjuri people. But Felix is dying, and asserts a condemned man's prerogatives. Martin's jealous fantasies set up a final inquiry into the competing claims of the rational and the mystical.
Goldsworthy has a gift for intensifying character traits and heightening reality, without tipping them over into caricature or staginess. He can make characters represent ideas without turning them into mere ciphers. And they're full of lines, both funny and telling, such as "Forgetfulness is the poor man's forgiveness".
by Shirley Hazzard
After reading The Great Fire, the Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford said it was one of those rare books that makes him wonder why he bothers. "What can I add?" he asked.
Similar testimonials have followed Shirley Hazzard's first novel in 23 years. It has already won the National Book Award in the US, and been shortlisted for the Orange Prize. The Franklin judges say it is "a reminder of why, in a digital age, the novel still matters". Peter Craven, in the Herald, called it "a riveting, slow intoxication of a novel which has a deliberateness and a density of verbal beauty of which most literary fiction has lost even the memory".
Can The Great Fire climb out from under the burden of so much praise? Emphatically, it can. Set mostly in Asia about 1947 but also in England and New Zealand, it follows Aldred Leith, a 33-year-old soldier conducting an unofficial, yet powerfully sponsored, investigation into the postwar East. Near Hiroshima he stays with an Australian family and falls in love with the 17-year-old daughter, Helen.
Hazzard's singular technique leaves its fingerprints on every line: her use of extended fragmentary sentences, her sly interweaving of exposition and dialogue, her 19th-century capacity to bend abstraction into the dramatic moment. Magically, her writing manages to be both elusive and inexact on the one hand and to evoke sharp emotions on the other. Much of it needs to be read twice. Readers who make the effort will count themselves lucky.
by Annamarie Jagose
Jagose, 38, is the youngest and least-known of the Franklin nominees, and an outsider in the betting. Yet if these novels were presented anonymously, she may well be a favourite. Slow Water is vivid, playful and muscular in the telling, recalling Peter Carey at his best in Jack Maggs and True History of the Kelly Gang.
Jagose's third novel is based on the voyage from England of the Prince Regent in 1836. Among the passengers are a doctor besotted with a young woman, a rake who falls under the sexual thrall of the young woman's mother, and William Yate, a missionary whose dawning love for the third mate, Edwin Denison, forms the story's core.
Jagose knows the name of every sail and rope and spar, and delights in recreating the life of, and on, the Prince Regent. She also paints a keen picture of 1836 Sydney, where Yate is called to account for his love.
Bronwyn Rivers wrote in The Age: "Jagose invites comparisons with contemporary attitudes, implying both how far we have developed, and how little some things have changed." As well as holding up a mirror, Slow Water is a rich tableau of a floating world, with all its odours and dramas and erotic charge. Line by line and scene by scene, this is superb writing.
by Elliot Perlman
Perlman's second novel, a deepening and enrichment of the themes of his first, Three Dollars, has turned out to be one that critics criticise and readers read. Craven savaged Perlman in Australian Book Review, Don Anderson had a dig in The Bulletin, Penny Hueston in The Age called it "a tour de force that could have been a masterpiece", and Andrew Riemer ruminated on its flaws in the Herald. But elsewhere, readers went to the bookshops, bought it and recommended it to their friends. The Franklin judges, calling it "a sensitive, clear-eyed account of modern life's two cornerstones - love and work", offer Perlman a kind of umpire's vindication. (The critical view wasn't unanimous, by the way. The Australian's Helen Elliott described it as "a formal and infinitely textured novel that is admirable in ambition and troublingly provocative in content".)
Seven narrators circle around one event - Simon Heywood, the successor to Three Dollars' Eddie Harnovey, kidnaps his ex-girlfriend's son for a few hours. The narrators include the boy's corrupt father, a prostitute with MS, a sacked business analyst and a psychiatrist. Much of the narration concerns build-up and aftermath, each plot point slipping into the ambiguous space between the narrators' differing versions.
What sustains and elevates Perlman's novel is its urgency. This is a novel that can make you feel you are entering into the secret lives of the people sitting either side of you in the morning traffic. Set in Melbourne, it reaches wider by dramatising the effects of managed health care, the strip-mining of public education, and a deeper, unnameable neglect. Like Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections, it does what novels once did but rarely can nowadays: it brings the news.
by Peter Carey
No stranger to ambitious projects, Carey chose a quirky platform from which to plunge bravely into the question of how art is made, of how artists create life, and of how that life can come back to bite the artist.
Embroidered around the Ern Malley hoax, Carey's novel follows Lady Sarah Wode-Douglass, a poetry editor who is lured by her holy grail: poems of greatness written by an undiscovered, unschooled manual worker, Bob McCorkle. Sarah's quest takes her to Kuala Lumpur in the 1970s, where she is led (by the nose) by her oily guide John Slater and the rogue-fabulist Christopher Chubb. McCorkle's poems are her target, and Chubb seems to be their gatekeeper. As it turns out, the creation, McCorkle, comes to terrifying life.
The critical reception for My Life As A Fake can be summarised as bemused respectfulness. Luke Slattery, in The Australian, wrote that although "it's the sort of novel that will keep you indoors when everyone else is out", it "feels like a story that got away from its author. Call it, perhaps, Ern Malley's curse".
In a way, reading this book generates the feeling you might get from seeing Bradman score 50: not his best, but he is our best.
An explanation for this might have come in Carey's own preoccupation, when he toured Australia in August, with an earlier version of the novel, told from McCorkle's perspective. Carey had abandoned that version, but it seemed that he might have been pining for it.
by J.M. Coetzee
It is possible to appreciate and even enjoy Elizabeth Costello without quite knowing what it is. Set out as "lessons", the book depicts a 68-year-old Australian writer giving lectures around the world. There is not enough continuity of character or drama - her son has a brief fling, then disappears; Elizabeth herself recalls an isolated sexual event from her youth - to constitute what is conventionally called a "novel".
But there comes a point where you cease caring about what form Coetzee is operating within and are overwhelmed by the pure quality of his thinking. Elizabeth lectures on the way humans treat the animals they eat, and invites ongoing opposition from colleagues and family. She lectures on whether a writer can immerse himself too deeply in evil without becoming tainted by it himself; the writer of whom she speaks turns up in the audience.
"Reading Elizabeth Costello," wrote Stella Clarke in The Australian, "is a fiercely refining activity. It is an invitation to think and a lesson in how to do it." What is brilliant about Coetzee's book is that he no sooner has Elizabeth stating a position (which we assume Coetzee shares) than he puts up someone who argues, convincingly, against it. Coetzee's mind contains not only ideas, but every conceivable counter-idea from every conceivable angle. While Elizabeth Costello may not be the easiest or most decipherable novel on the Franklin shortlist, it appeals as the most necessary.
Malcolm Knox is the Herald's literary editor.
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Potentieller Beitrag der Landwirtschaft zur Verminderung der Treibhausgasemissionen in Deutschland
In 2002, the German agricultural sector contributed 8.7 % of the total national green house gas emissions. The main sources were animal digestion, manure management and agricultural soils. From the technical point of view, the manure management has the biggest potential of green house gas reduction by using biogas technology. Thereby methane emission from manure, which otherwise had been emitted into the atmosphere, can be recaptured and used to substitute fossil fuels. Regarding the whole output of manure from cattle and swine in Germany, the emission reduction is 56 Mio. t CO2-equivalent. This amount is equivalent to 4.5% of the emissions in 1990/95 for the Kyoto protocol. Regarding the biomass potential which is technically feasible at the moment, the reduction potential growth to 276 Mio. t CO2-equivalent or 22% of emissions. This is 27.5 times more than the reduction commitment of the German industry for EU-emissions trading in the period from 2005-2012.
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But Rameur understated the amount of data about religion in the U.S. census. By the time he wrote, the 1850 and 1860 census had gathered some data about churches, though not about their membership. (Rameur dismissed this data, but historians can't afford to be so discriminating.) Gaustad and Barlow summarize what is available in the census for their note on the sources for their standard work, The New Historical Atlas of American Religion:
Although the U.S. Census began in 1790, compilation of religious data did not begin until 1850. From 1850 to 1880, the government gathered facts concerning the number of churches, their locations, and their seating accommodations. It included data on membership for the first time in 1890, and in the years 1906, 1916, 1926, and 1936 devised elaborate tables and published separate volumes dealing with all phases of church life that gave themselves to statistical representation. Since 1936—and unlike, for instance, Canada—the U.S. government has undertaken no federal census of religious bodies, largely on the (debatable) grounds that this would compromise civil liberty and church-state separation (395).That's slim pickings compared to what might have been. But if you are a religious historian working from the second half of the nineteenth century to the first half of the twentieth century, there is at least some data available to you.
Fortunately this census data is easily accessible through the National Historical Geographic Information System, a scholarly project of the Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota. (The same center also puts out the North Atlantic Population Project and other useful data.) The NHGIS has digitized the census data into a format that is usable in a statistical program like R or SAS, a GIS program like QGIS or ArcGIS, or just plain Excel. You can browse through their site and select the data by topic and year. All told, there are 63 tables of information about religion in the NHGIS. You can download this data at three different levels of detail: national, state, and county.
The NHGIS offers two kinds of data. The first is the boundary lines of states, territories, and counties for each decade since 1790. (These are called shapefiles.) Plotting nineteenth-century data onto a twenty-first century map is an anachronism; these shapefiles fix that. In the animation below of Catholic dioceses since 1790, you can watch the boundaries of the states change over time.
The second kind of data is the tables of quantitative information themselves. You can open these in a spreadsheet program to look up particular data: for example, the number of Catholic churches in Albany County in 1850 (answer: six). Unfortunately the NHGIS does not offer time series data for religion; that is to say, they have not linked together data on religious topics across census years. But if you want to make comparisons across time, you can do that on your own if somewhat laboriously.
The real power of the NHGIS data comes when you start combining quantitative data with spatial data. (This isn't the place to explain how to do that, but you can look at Fred Gibbs's helpful tutorial on "Historical Mapping with QGIS" if you want to try it for yourself.) Gaustad and Barlow offer beautiful maps of county level data for each denomination, usually for the years 1850, 1890, 1950, and 1990. They were limited to two years in the nineteenth-century because of the economics of print publication.
We can reproduce these maps for ourselves for any year for which we have data. Here are maps of the number of Catholic churches in 1850, 1860, and 1870.
There is a lot to criticize about these maps, which I made in a couple hours. To begin with, there is the problem of attaching the quantitative data to the shape of the county, which distorts the data we are actually interested in (the number of churches) according to the accidents of political boundaries. In these maps, for example, New York City is barely visible, though it was a primary center of American Catholicism, but some of the huge boundaries in the west are over represented.
But we've also corrected one the major problems with the Gaustad and Barlow maps. These kinds of maps (called choropleths) rely on changing the color within a geographic boundary according to changes in the data. The maps above use the same scale for each year, so the darkest red represents more than 40 churches per county, and the medium red represents about 20 churches per county. Gaustad and Barlow, however, almost always change the scale of their maps from year to year. For example, their map of Catholic churches in 1850 (based on the same data as above) uses the darkest color for counties that have over 10 churches. But the map for the 1890 uses that same color for counties with more than 20 churches, the map for the 1950s uses that color for counties with more than 30 churches, and the 1950s (bizarrely) uses that color for counties with more than 10 churches. Gaustad and Barlow were simply picking the best scale for the data in each year. But this deceives your eye when you make comparisons across years. You can get the impression that the number of Catholic churches shrinks in some places from 1850 to 1890, which was not the case; but you can also gain the impression that Catholic churches are everywhere in large numbers by the 1950s, but this is mostly an effect of the change in scale. This problem is more obvious but still difficult to overcome when comparing the changing scales of various denominations.
I don't mean to be overly critical of Gaustad and Barlow's atlas, which is useful as a final presentation of this historical data. I keep it always within arm's reach. But what is more useful for research is the exploration of data. When you dig into the data for yourself, you are able to make as many maps as you like. If you're interested in the interactions between Catholics and Episcopalians, as I am, then you can generate a map of Episcopalian churches in 1850 using the same scale as the Catholic map.
You can also layer the two for a direct comparison, as in the map below (more red means more Catholic dominance, more blue means more Episcopal dominance, and more purple means they both have a strong presence). The prevalence of purple tells me that Catholics and Episcopalians were in direct competition in many places, but that Episcopalians were more widespread than Catholics, and that Catholics had the upper hand around the Canadian border.
This last map is particularly ugly and unsuitable as a presentation version. But it is illuminating as part of an iterative, adductive process of asking questions and trying out answers. That process, after all, is the fundamental way that historians work. You'll also notice that in the last map we've zoomed to the places that interest us most. If we wished we could zoom to finest level of detail that our data supports, instead of being stuck at the national level.
Finally, the real power of getting into data for yourself comes out when we start mixing data sets together. These maps would all be better if I got the equivalent data from Canada, since many people crossed the borders. Most recently I was able to combine data in a useful way for a chapter that I just finished. I'm in the process of cataloging all of the missions given by the Paulist Fathers. When I plotted their missions for a decade and a half after the Civil War, I got this map.
On its own that map tells me something about the spread of Paulist missions and conversions. But I wondered why the Paulists went to the places that they did. Thanks to William Thomas and his team for Railroads and the Making of Modern America, I was able to plot these missions on top of a map of railroads in 1870.
Using the railroad data explains a great deal about where the Paulists went. Except for staying out of most of the South, they went anywhere the railroads took them.
Religious historians, I think, are naturally suspicious of "data" because we are mostly humanists rather than social scientists. Even if we are interested, the field has mostly suffered from a lack of good data before, say, the middle of the twentieth century. But my experience is that there are many more sources amenable to mapping and quantification than we have assumed, even if getting the data out of the sources requires many hours of transcribing manuscripts into spreadsheets, and if using it requires picking up some tools that have not typically been the province of religious historians. If that kind of approach appeals to you, then the NHGIS census data is a good place to start.


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Alverna E. Welle, age 84 of Spring Hill, died Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at the CentraCare Nursing Home in Melrose, Minnesota.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, August 24 at St. Michael's Catholic Church in Spring Hill with Rev. Marvin Enneking officiating and Rev. Ken Thielman and Rev. Dick McGuire concelebrating. Interment will be in the parish cemetery.
Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday (TODAY) and from 8 to 10 a.m. Saturday at the Patton-Schad Funeral Home in Melrose. Parish prayers will be held at 7 p.m. Friday evening at the funeral home.
Alverna Eleanor Loch was born June 27, 1929 in Freeport, Minnesota to Joseph and Clara (Linn) Loch. On August 31,1948 she was united in marriage to Raymond Welle at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church in Belgrade. The couple spent 43 years farming on the family farm in Spring Hill until moving into the town of Spring Hill in 1991. She was a hard working homemaker who was devoted to taking care of her family.
She was a member of St. Michael's Catholic Church in Spring Hill, St. Michael's Catholic United, Daughters of Isabella, Christian Women of Spring Hill, and the Elrosa Senior Citizens. Alverna enjoyed cooking, quilting, playing cards, watching baseball, and loved spending time with her grandchildren.
Survivors include her husband, Raymond Welle of Spring Hill; children, Darlene (Doug) Hookom of Anoka, Mary (Bill) Kemper of Melrose, Kathy (Ralph) Loehr of Savage, Ron (Kathy) Welle of Spring Hill, Mike (Donna) Welle of New Munich, Linda (Tom) Visser of Frisco, Texas, Lois (Will) Pomroy of Minnetonka, Larry (Rose) Welle of St. Cloud, and Steve (Diane) Welle of Spring Hill; 29 grandchildren; and 20 great-grandchildren.
Alverna was preceded in death by her parents; brothers, Herbert, Elmer, Gene, Urban, and Victor "Skeeter" Loch; and sisters, Lucille Kampsen and Irene Mehr.
In lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred.
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I'm just here to make friends.
...And take over the world
An INTJ, meaning I'm a very rare type of pain in the ass.
A 5 on the Enneagram, read: emotionally unavailable.
Originally from Chicago, not acclimated to the desert, but don't mind the quirkiness here. I'll travel the world someday.
I find amusement in most things. In fact there are a select few things in life of which I am entirely convinced, exist solely for my amusement.
My ego inflates about as much as an inner-tube with a hole in it being blow up by a fat kid with asthma.
I am very consistent... on an inconsistent basis.
Writing the next great post apocalyptic novel...
Eating souls... with a wide variety of cheeses.
Getting my art in coffee shops, vending at cons, making jewelry, modeling and cosplay (www.facebook.com/skullelane), and living the life of an insanely busy, not so starving, artist.
Aspiring to be a cat lady.
Life right now is a lot like driving with my Grandpa behind the wheel, he may go the wrong way down a one way street but he will get you where you need to go. So just buckle up and do your best not to fear for your life. What will happen will happen, no use worrying.
All life needs is a slice of pie and absurd confusion.
...making you think you're stalking me.
Having luck at concerts.
Dying my hair.
Getting ANYONE to dance.
Gaming, I prefer PC to console. (No MMOs, I don't play well with others.)
Tabletop gaming, Gurps, D&D, Mage, ect. (Sorry fellas, I already have a group.)
Vending my nerd art.
Most frequently asked question, "Can you see outta those?"
The Hair.
It has a habit of changing every few weeks.
The Laughter.
Someone once told me, "When you giggle, I can't help but think that somewhere people are dying."
The Death Glare.
Endearingly called my "punchy face" by friends. I have been told I often look like I wouldn't hesitate to punch someone at any given moment. That's probably not the case.
The X-Files, Star Wars, Star Trek, Stargate, Firefly, Veronica Mars, Haven, Fight Club, Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Most anything Sci-Fi or having to do with serial killers.
Alternative, punk, folk, industrial, etc.
Fried Rice, Cheese, Coffee, Whiskey
Why I keep getting the feeling that my fate is being controlled by a drunk senile old woman.
Trying to come up with new coffee shop puns for my fan art series. (For instance I painted Mal and it says Sereni-Tea).
Anything from helping host a gallery show, working a convention or promoting an event for my DJ friends and dancing all night while sipping a jack and coke.
If it's a slow Friday, I'll be working on my novel at Black Crown Coffee Co.
The goggles... they do nothing.
The only reason I keep this profile is so I can be sarcastic to strangers.
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You have a Tardis
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You've read the dictionary
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Herbed Flatbread
One bite of these crackers and you'll see how worthwhile it is to make them yourself -- especially since the baking time is so short.
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- Yield: Makes 16
Source: Martha Stewart Living, June 2010
- 1 cup warm water (about 110 degrees)
- 1 teaspoon active dry yeast (from one 1/4-ounce envelope)
- 3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for surface and hands
- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for bowl
- Coarse salt
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 large egg whisked with 1 tablespoon water, for egg wash
- Sea salt, for sprinkling
- 1/4 cup fresh rosemary or thyme (or a combination)
Place water in a medium bowl; sprinkle with yeast. Let stand until foamy, about 5 minutes. Stir in flour, oil, 2 teaspoons coarse salt, and the sugar. Stir until dough forms.
Turn out dough onto a lightly floured surface; knead with floured hands until smooth, about 2 minutes. Transfer to a lightly oiled bowl, and cover with plastic wrap. Let dough stand in a warm, draft-free place until it doubles in volume, about 1 hour.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Divide dough into 16 equal pieces; cover with plastic wrap. Roll out 1 piece to roughly 4 by 10 inches on a lightly floured surface; transfer to a parchment-lined baking sheet. Brush with egg wash; sprinkle with sea salt and herbs. Repeat with remaining dough, arranging 4 pieces per sheet.
Bake, rotating sheets halfway through, until crisp and golden, 18 to 22 minutes. Let cool on sheets on a wire rack.
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nancycola28 DEC, 2014I followed the tip from the reviewer to prick the surface of the dough before baking. It was a good one. All in all a great recipe. I just wish the measurements were also in weight, not just in volume. I had to make these on a rainy day and was unsure of the dough to water ratio. In the end I wasted some flour but the results were still good.Reply
SEAGAL14 AUG, 2010My hint: I prick the crackers with a fork when rotating the sheets half way through the baking process --this prevents getting giant air pockets in the crackers and makes them a bit easier to eat.Reply
MarthaandMeBlogger8 JUL, 2010I made this and it is fantastic. You can see my results here: http://marthaandme.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/martha-mondays-herbed-flatbread/Reply


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Facing TV Problems? Ask a TV Technician.
Usually when you get an ALL WHITE SCREEN or one with Vertical lines on the screen, that usually points to a Dead TCON board.
A quick test to try....Activate the TV's menu or the volume bar or any onscreen displays.
If you don't see them appear on your TV, it's telling us the TCON is blocking that signal from appearing on the TV screen.
If they DO APPEAR, then the TCON is ok, and then the main board is creating the white picture and the purple lines, but that's not something I see the main board do.
So, check your TV's Menu...that separates the two boards and tells us what is going on.
Look on the right side of your TV set. Sony usually places a sticker on the right for wall mount TVs. The model number should be there. Sony models always start with the letter K on about 99% of their TV sets. Only the newer internet/smart Tv models are using the NSX prefix on their models.
KDL , KDF, KF....that's what we usually see start the TV's model number.
yes it is causing problems with dvd satelite game
i turn it on it goes to white screen when it suppose to say sony then channels suppose to come but it jus goes strt to white screen even if unplug it and plug it back in goes white screen strt i think we moved to different spot so maybe it might have damage something when were moving it or somthing i asked some other people they are teling me it s sa TCON problem so not sure what to do bud
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DETROIT - inger Name: Drew Machak
Occupation: Full-time Musician
From: Bloomfield Hills, MI
Age: 23
Favorite Style to Perform: Rock/Blues
Singing Experience: American Idol (S. 10) Hollywood Finalist; Local Singer; Weekly Gigs
Favorite Artists: Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, The Beatles, Esperanza Spalding
Favorite fireworks memory: Watching the fireworks from the top of the Renaissance Center while performing at a charity event.
Favorite Place to go in Detroit: Campus Martius, Roostertail and Fishbones
Favorite thing/landmark about Detroit: Filmore
What unique trait do you have that got you this far: Can blend the old with the new
Anything else you would like to add: Plays in a rock band named Vandalay, check them out!
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Duck stampede in Thailand brings cars to halt
If you think traffic jams on your commute to work in the morning are bad, take a look at the video below of what happened when some ducks tried to cross the road to get to the other side.
Well, there were more than just a few ducks—it was a flood. What the duck?
According to the Bangkok Post, Jack Saranthat uploaded the video, which was shot in Nakhon Pathom when a farmer tried to move ducks across the road to find food.
If you suffer from ornithophobia, this won't help.
Is this a sign of things to come at Lost Lagoon here in Vancouver?


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The Vietnamese Embassy in the Federal Republic of Germany held a review ceremony for "Vietnam Year in Germany" on December 26 in Berlin.
Minister Counsellor Bui Ngoc Toan reviewed important events in the total of 25 events the Embassy of Vietnam organized or co-organized during "Vietnam Year in Germany", especially the Vietnamese Festival on August 28 and 29 at Alexander Square in the centre of Berlin, the capital city of Germany. This was the first time the Foreign Affairs magazine of Germany has devoted a special issue – May, 2010 – to publish photos and an interview with Ambassador Do Hoa Binh on the development of Vietnam, as well as the relationship between the two countries.
The Consulate General of Vietnam in Frankfurt Nguyen Huu Trang also reviewed the activities of the Consulate designed to strengthen relations between the two countries during "Vietnam Year in Germany", such as organizing a youth exchange between Hessen state and Vietnam in the framework of the project, "Hesse meets Vietnam", and arranging a workshop on law for Vietnamese people who studied law in Germany.
Ambassador Do Hoa Binh said that the successful organization of "Vietnam Year in Germany" has helped bring relations between Vietnam and Germany to a new level, contributing to improving Vietnam's image in German friends' eyes and increasing the national pride of the Overseas Vietnamese community in Germany.
At the review ceremony, the Embassy of Vietnam and the Board of Community Working awarded certificates of merit to a number of community groups and individuals making outstanding achievements in organizing "Vietnam Year in Germany".
The meeting also discussed the necessity, difficulties and advantages of establishing an Overseas Vietnamese Association in the Federal Republic of Germany.
The Ambassador said that it must be determined that this derives from the needs of the community, is formed by the community and provides tangible benefits for the community.
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When we first introduced the premium plans, we built a system that (surprisingly) wasn't supposed to manage plan upgrades before the expiring date. So if you upgraded from a Pro to a Team after two months, you needed to contact us to get pro-rated manually. On the other hand, there was a bug that applied the unused months from the Pro plan to your Team plan. In essence, you could pay for a Pro plan, quickly upgrade to a Team, and get the total of unused Pro months plus all 12 Team months as a Team account.
As of today, the bug is fixed. We have also expanded the system to allow for automatic pro-rating depending on how much time was available in your previous plan. And finally, for any user who didn't contact us to be pro-rated and therefore accidentally paid the full price when upgrading, we have extended the renewal deadline to accomated the double-paid months.
All should work well. But, if you see any errors in your account, please let me know.


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Users and tech pros alike can be guilty of overlooking minor but important details when solving technical problems, as shown in these two stories that took place when I worked as a first- and second-level IT tech at an office complex for a telecom hardware manufacturer.
Plugging up petty help desk calls
One memorable user was a VP's admin. She thought very highly of herself and her job at the company, which led to an above-average frequency of calls -- about six a month. She would call for such things as a dirty mouse pad, a blank screen (the screensaver kicked in!), and similar nonproblems that she felt were important.
[ Also on InfoWorld: Batten down the hatches, there's an IT rogue on the loose! Here's how to spot admins gone bad and how to minimize the fallout. | Get a new tech tale in your inbox every week in InfoWorld's Off the Record newsletter or follow Off the Record on Twitter. ]
One Monday morning, we got a panicked "pri-one" service call from this admin, whose office had been relocated over the weekend.
"My workstation won't start, and I have to print an org chart for an 8 a.m. meeting!" she said.
I asked her some questions over the phone, but she kept insisting she'd tried everything and someone needed to come in person. I finished gulping my tea, grabbed my toolkit, and headed upstairs to her cubicle.
We went through the usual question and answer routine, during which she said she had moved the computer (a Mac) herself on Saturday because she "didn't trust the moving company crew" to do it without damaging anything. I looked at all the cables on top of her desk, made sure everything was plugged in snugly, and confirmed that the machine, indeed, did not have power to it.
Next on the checklist was crawling under her desk to check the power cables. "You said you moved this yourself?" I asked her. "That's right, I don't trust the relocation crew," she answered.
I held up the power strip for her to see. She had plugged it into itself. Ten seconds later, the famous Mac startup chime announced a successful $150 emergency service visit.
We didn't hear from her for the next six months. I don't know if that's because her boss banned her from calling us or because she was too embarrassed to call again.
An easier fix than replacing hardware
A problem got punted my way one day, perhaps because it was deemed a low-priority issue and a repeat complaint that the higher-up techs were tired of dealing with.
I was sent to look at a monitor that was giving its user headaches from the flicker. The company was large enough that it had its own inventory of extra hardware ordered for easy and quick replacement; a phone call and a few hours was all it took to get a new part. We'd replaced two monitors and were ordering a third for her, so this was a courtesy visit.
Very shortly after my arrival, the monitor was "repaired," and the user was delighted. The fix: change the refresh rate on the CRT to anything faster than the minimum. We never could find out who had changed that to begin with.
Get a $50 American Express gift cheque if we publish your tech experiences. Send your story of a lesson learned, of dealing with frustrating coworkers or end-users, or a story that illustrates a relevant takeaway to today's IT profession to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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*The success of this system IS guaranteed. The only variable factor is whether or not people follow my 3 steps. Simple as that!
Understanding The Science Of Gender Selection (Ch.1)
Harnessing The Power of Simple Diet Changes To Concieve a Boy (Ch. 2)
How Some Foods Give off a Natural Electric Charge That Attracts Specific Types of Sperm (Ch. 2)
Why Male Ejaculation At The _____ of The Cervix Is Vital To The Conception of a Boy (Ch. 2)
How To Utilize Proper Timing To Assure the Conception of a Baby Boy (Ch. 2)
Secrets on Achieving & Maintaining The Proper PH Levels To Concieve a Boy (Ch.3)
Why X Chromosome Sperm Result in Baby ______ (Ch. 3)
Why Y Chromosome Sperm Result in Baby ______ (Ch. 3)
The Secret of the ______ Orgasm & What its Results Will Be For Gender Selection (Ch. 3)
Having Trouble Reaching Orgasm (For Females)? How To Fix That Problem Easily (Ch. 3)
Why The ______ing Position is The Best Position To Concieve a Baby Girl (Ch. 4)
The 1 ________ Your Man Can Make To Facilitate The Conception of a Girl (Ch. 4)
Why Simultaneous Orgasm Prevents The Conception a Baby ______ (Ch. 5)
Negate an U__________ Female Orgasm & Its Consequences For Gender Selection (Ch. 5)
Sex During Ovulation Results in Conception of a Baby _____ (Ch. 6)
Sex Before Ovulation Results in Conception of a Baby _____ (Ch. 6)
How To Use The __ Day Cycle To Know Exactly When You Ovulate (Ch. 7)
The 3 Factors You Can Use To Pinpoint Your Ovulation Dates...100% Naturally (Ch. 7)
Why Men Who Are Hyper-Active Are More Prone To Concieve a Baby _____ (Ch. 7)
Conclusion & Culmination of My Gender Selection Method & Final Review (Ch. 8)
The 24 Hour Action Plan... So You Can Get Started Immediately! (Ch. 8)
You or your partner's age
The regularity/non-regularity of your cycle
Current number of children and their gender
Medications currently being taken
Nationality or Race (If you're in the U.S. or Australia or Japan...it works the same!)
Mothers who are breastfeeding (a complete non-factor)
Evaluate your cycle using pesky urine sticks-NO !
Use vaginal douche treatments - NO!
Divulge personal information to anyone - NO!
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Arts and Entertainment 112 nominees
1. Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts (West Main District)
Nominee for: Best Theater
"It doesn't matter what show you attend at the Center for the Arts, be it comedy, music or a Broadway production, you..."
2. Lambert Lindsey Morning Show - 102.3 THE MAX (Fourth St. District)
Nominee for: Best Local Radio Personality
"Hysterically funny, compassionate and able to be serious too. They make mornings fun...if there is such a thing."
3. Kentucky Science Center (West Main District)
Nominee for: Best Museum
"My two children, ages 11 and 7, love to spend days at the Science center. From learning about our own DNA, to the germs..."
4. Cinemark Tinseltown USA (Louisville, KY)
Nominee for: Best Movie Theater
"The only movie theatre I'll go to, serves ice cream, amazing treats, great moves, seats and screens!"
5. Copper Moon Gallery (New Albany, IN)
Nominee for: Best Art Gallery
"Don't miss this exciting art gallery for glorious hand crafted art, jewelry, wearable art, fascinating works of art..."


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Alice E.M. Underwood
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Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature
Alice entered the Ph.D. program in Comparative Literature in Fall 2012. She is broadly interested in intersections of poetics, sexuality, and political resistance in twentieth-century narrative prose written in socialist or revolutionary settings, and particularly in Russia, Latin America, and former Czechoslovakia. Her dissertation takes on aesthetic and corporeal deviance in late socialism, with a focus on Cuban-Soviet relations, the preservation of Lenin's corpse, and the decay of bipolar global ideology.
Conference Presentations:
"Constituting the Masculine Body: The New Man in Stagnation-Era Literature and Law." California Slavic Colloquium. Stanford University. April 25, 2015.
"Male Authorship and Borges' Homosocial Labyrinth." Borges and Philosophy Today Conference. Stanford Humanities Center. March 6, 2014.
"Apocalyptic Sexuality and the Icarus Complex in Kuzmin's Fin-De-Siècle." Association for Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies National Convention. Boston. November 21, 2013.
"Unintelligible Utopias and Platonov's Destabilized Members." Graduate Conference on Andrei Platonov. Stanford University. May 11, 2013.
"Performative and Non-Normative Protest: Mobilizing Gender in Moscow Pride and Pussy Riot's Russia." Clash Zones: Identities in (R)Evolution Conference, Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies. Boston. April 5, 2013.
"Masks of Opposition: Is Pussy Riot a Drag?" Panel presentation at "Pussy Riot: Performance, Protest, and the Russian State." Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Stanford University. October 25, 2012.
Book review: "Performing Philosophy: Masha Gessen's Words Will Break Cement." May 15, 2014. Boundary 2. Web: <http://boundary2.org/2014/05/15/words-will-break- cement-the-passion-of-pussy-riot-by-masha-gessen/>
Courses Instructed:
SLAVIC 147: The Age of Revolution: Readings in Russian Modernist Prose of the 1920s-30s (TA), Spring 2014-15
COMPLIT 123: The Novel, The Global South (Collaborative Teaching Project Fellow), Winter 2014-15
DLCL 369: Introduction to Literary Theory (TA), Autumn 2014-15
Communication 12S: Bending the Truth? Propaganda in Media and Culture (TA), Summer 2013-14
SLAVLANG 3, Spring 2013-14
SLAVLANG 2, Winter 2013-14
SLAVLANG 1, Autumn 2013-14
Conference Organizer for the California Slavic Colloquium, Stanford University, Jan.-Apr. 2015.
Guest lecturer: Presented "Sandro of Chegem: Power, Performativity, and Stalinism as a Global South," in COMPLIT 123 course, Winter 2015.
Editorial and production coordinator: Edited, compiled, and formatted The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin (ed. Michele Elam). New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Guest lecturer: Presented "Mass Mentality in Soviet Revolutionary Ideology, 1905-1953," in Communication 12S course, Summer 2014.
Russian, Spanish, Czech
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Step 1: Insert a knife under a snake's head and kill it.
Step 2: Squeeze its blood into a tiny glass.
Step 3: Scoop the heart out, eat it.
Sounds gross, doesn't it? It is. It is also a 'trendy' thing to do if you are a Westerner vacationing in Vietnam, according to Animals Asia, an organization dedicated to improving welfare of animals in China and Vietnam.
The agency says that The Beach , the Leonardo Di Caprio movie from 2000, helped popularize the drinking of snake blood and the eating of its "still beating heart" as a backpacker rite of passage. Since then, for an increasing numbers of tourists, a vital part of a trip to the north of Vietnam includes a visit to the notorious Snake Village.
There, young backpackers drink snake blood and swallow hearts of snakes killed and gutted in front of them by their waiter, said Animals Asia. The activity is so popular that many of Hanoi's backpacker hostels offer excursions for customers with snake blood; it is said to enhance virility.
Snakes used in tourist shows at "snake villages" have had their venom glands removed, says the agency. This is usually done without anaesthesia, in non-sterile conditions and can cause chronic infection resulting in significant suffering and eventually its death.
Consuming snake is risky to human health. All reptiles carry salmonella and this can be contracted by eating raw snake. Snake-steeped wine is produced by infusing whole raw snakes in rice wine or grain alcohol. The wine is sold as a cure for numerous ailments from rheumatism to impotence; there is no evidence that it does anything of that sort.
"Many young tourists come to Vietnam and think that this kind of activity is part of Vietnamese culture," said Nguyen Tam Thanh of Animals Asia in a statement. "This is not part of modern Vietnam and the fact that it survives at all is largely down to the tourist trade."
The NGO is now producing leaflets for foreign visitors to Vietnam's tourism hotspots as part of its effort to limit cruelty and ensure wider work to limit the use of animal parts for medicinal purposes are not undermined.
(Here is a blogpost where the writer explains how the snake was sliced open, its blood squeezed and its heart eaten.)
Raveena Aulakh is the Toronto Star's environment reporter. Follow her on Twitter @raveenaaulakh


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Robert Downey Jr. may not be a real superhero, but he sure acted like one for a little Massachusetts boy.
Heather Denno took her 1 1/2-year-old son Jaxson to watch filming for the movie "The Judge," starring Downey, in her hometown of Sunderland this week.
Downey, star of the "Iron Man" movies, spotted the little boy and went over to say hello.
Heather Denno told Jaxson that Downey was "Iron Man."
Confused because of the lack of the trademark metallic red and gold suit, Jaxson burst into tears. "I said to my son, 'Hey, here's 'Iron Man,' but he didn't have the red suit on so Jaxson put his hands over his face and got upset," the boy's mother said.
The actor put a comforting hand on the boy and calmed him.
Heather Denno told The Boston Globe that Downey was "sweet and nurturing," and she could tell he's a dad. For more on their encounter, visit The Boston Globe.
"The Judge," which also stars Robert Duvall, Vera Farmiga and Leighton Meester, follows a successful lawyer who returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. It's expected out in 2014.


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CLEVELAND, April 29, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Cervilenz Inc. is pleased to announce that a multicenter study evaluating the CerviLenz device as a screening tool for mid-pregnancy short cervical length is being presented today as a poster at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) 2014 Annual Clinical Meeting in Chicago.1 CerviLenz is a simple, disposable device that can be used in any healthcare setting to objectively measure vaginal cervical length. A short cervix in the second trimester of pregnancy is the best predictor of preterm birth risk, an often devastating outcome affecting 11.5% of births in the United States.
The study was led by Jason Baxter, MD, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist at Thomas Jefferson University. The other investigators, also all maternal-fetal medicine specialists, and sites are: David Adair, MD at Regional Obstetrical Consultants; Michael Paidas, MD at Yale University; Asad Sheikh, MD at Spectrum Health; and Matthew Hoffman, MD at Christiana Care Health Services.
The primary objective of this research was to determine the CerviLenz measurement with optimal specificity and sensitivity to identify a short cervix by transvaginal ultrasound (TVU), which is considered the diagnostic test for cervical length. Based on measurements using CerviLenz and TVU by separate examiners in 358 pregnant women, a 30 mm CerviLenz measurement accurately identified patients with a TVU measurement less than or equal to 25 mm. The study concluded: "CerviLenz may be an evidence-based method supporting universal cervical length screening in clinical practice."
Pregnant women with a mid-pregnancy short cervix are at extremely high risk of preterm birth, ten times that of those with a normal cervical length. ACOG2 and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine2 (SMFM) both recommend vaginal progesterone treatment for singleton pregnancies with a TVU cervical length less than or equal to 20 mm in the second trimester. This intervention is shown to reduce early preterm birth by 45%, improve infant outcomes, and reduce NICU admissions.2,3,4 Screening pregnancies for a short cervical length is cost effective. An economic analysis concluded that universal screening and treatment with vaginal progesterone saves $19.6 million dollars for every 100,000 pregnancies.5
Michael Ross, MD, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist at Harbor-UCLA and Medical Director of Cervilenz Inc. noted, "These results validate other peer reviewed clinical studies demonstrating the efficacy of the CerviLenz device as a screening tool." Dr. Ross continued, " Preterm birth remains the leading cause of infant mortality and morbidity, with the U.S. rate of preterm birth among the worst in the world. Progress has been made, but we must do more. Vaginal progesterone for short cervix is a vital next step in preterm birth prevention, and that creates an urgent need for universal cervical length screening to enable this life-saving treatment. The CerviLenz device is an innovative yet simple solution, allowing accurate cervical length measurement in any health care setting and that means equitable access to comprehensive preterm birth risk assessment for all pregnant women."
About Cervilenz Inc.Cervilenz Inc. manufactures and markets the CerviLenz® device, which measures vaginal cervical length to help physicians identify and manage pregnant women at high risk for preterm birth. Founded in 2008, Cervilenz Inc. is dedicated to making a difference in the world of prematurity. The company headquarters is in Chagrin Falls, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. CERVILENZ is a registered trademark of the Company in the U.S. The trademark CERVILENZ is also registered via a community trademark application in the European Union. The CerviLenz device is classified under 21 CFR 884.4530(2)(a.) as a 510(k) exempt device and has CE Mark and ISO 13485 Certification for international distribution. For more information, visit www.cervilenz.com or contact Melanie Sweeney, Vice President of Marketing (440.865.1474) or firstname.lastname@example.com).
About Preterm BirthPreterm birth is the leading cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality. Nearly 15 million babies are born preterm every year worldwide. In the United States, preterm birth affects 11.5% of pregnancies, and its annual economic toll is $26.2 billion in health care and related costs.
1Baxter J, Adair D, Paidas M, et al. Utility of a cervicometer in assessing cervical length and risk of preterm birth: a multicenter study. Poster presented at 2014 Annual Clinical Meeting, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
2American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. ACOG practice bulletin no.130: prediction and prevention of preterm birth. Obstet Gynecol 2012 Oct;120(4):964-73.
3Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Publications Committee with the assistance of Vincenzo Berghella, MD. Progesterone and preterm birth prevention: translating clinical trials data into clinical practice. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2012;206:376-386.
4Hassan SS, Romero R, Vidyadhari D, et al. Vaginal progesterone reduces the rate of preterm birth in women with a sonographic short cervix: a multi-center, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2011;38:18-31.
5Campbell S. Universal cervical length screening and vaginal progesterone prevents early preterm births, reduces neonatal morbidity and is cost saving: doing nothing is no longer an option. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2011;38:1-9.
Melanie SweeneyVP, email@example.com
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Warsaw (Dec. 1)
A memorial stone in honor of the Polish patriots who fell in the insurrection of 1830, in defending the arsenal, which is now a prison, was unveiled today in the centre of the Warsaw Jewish quarter on Nalewki Square.
Thousands of Jews participated and special memorial services were held in the synagogues. During the 1830 insurrection not only the Jews of Congress Poland but also of Vohlynia and White Russia helped the insurrectionists against the Czarist armies. The Jewish press publishes today hitherto unknown archives containing material regarding the Jewish participation in the Polish insurrection.


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Luau Theme Party For Adults
Just because it's cold out doesn't mean you can't host a luau theme party that will turn up the heat.
Just because it's cold out doesn't mean you can't host a luau theme party that will turn up the heat.
What could be better than spending a Saturday night with your friends than an adult only luau party full of fun decor, great food and of course, themed cocktails.
Stick with the same color palate throughout your party to really bring your theme to life!
Use Vibrant Colors
Set up your dinner table or buffet with vibrant, earthy colors like reds, oranges and greens. Lay a floral tablecloth down with pretty flowers and play off the colors in the fabric to decorate the rest of your table and party. Matching plats, napkins and cocktails to your luau theme will really pull the party together.
Mix and Match
Don't be afraid to mix up your plates and silverware. Have a little fun and try using a round wooden plate or large charger. Pair a solid deep red square plate on top to mix up the style and color of your table setting. You can use silverware with imitation bamboo handles (pictured above) or we love the idea of using real bamboo forks and spoons.
Make a lei by stringing several blooms together through the base and out through
the top of the flower.
Set Up a Lei-Making Station
Making a lei is an easy activity and something guests would really love doing together. All you need to do is set up a table with a bunch of orchid blooms, a few needles (one per guest) and thread or fishing line. Instruct your guests to simply pull a needle through the base of each bloom. The blooms will line up nicely on top of each other to form a lei. (See picture above).
Place a candle in a wooden bowl or votive and arrange a few orchids around
it for a pretty DIY addition to your table.
Take Time For Detail
Take time to put some extra detail throughout your party. We love using fresh flowers, especially for a luau theme. Cymbidium orchids are great to use because one stem has several blooms that you can use to decorate your napkins, cocktails or create your own DIY candle centerpiece (pictured above).
Wrap a large leaf with string or twine around a cocktail glass
and adorn it with a single orchid to add a special Hawaiian touch.
Keep Your Drinks Simple
Signature cocktails don't have to be too fancy. Stick with what you know your guests will love. A Mai Tai, Pina Colada, or Blue Hawaiian are always great choices for a party and drinks guests will definitely enjoy.
Jennifer Kelly Geddes has hosted Christmas cookie swaps, New Year's open houses, Thanksgiving for 22, and all manner of dinner parties in her Manhattan and Ghent, NY homes.Read More »


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The 115,000 sf Seba Dalkai Boarding School is a culturally sensitive and technically advanced educational facility, which serves as a community-gathering place for the widely dispersed Native American population of the Seba Dalkai area within the Navajo Nation in Northeastern Arizona.
As a boarding school in the 21st century, the facility needed to feel like home to over 400 children, grades K through 8, and to be a stimulating and technically advanced learning environment. The campus is designed in the shape of a large octagon, derived from traditional Hogan architecture, echoing symbolic and sacred forms of the Navajo people.
The individual campus buildings flow in a symbolic clockwise orientation, respecting the tradition of entering a Hogan and moving to the left through the space. The main campus entrance faces east, the primary cardinal direction. The adjoining structures each pay homage to another of the four cardinal directions as the circle is completed. At the center of the compound, is an outdoor amphitheatre/performance space shared by the students and the community at large.


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Property Location With a stay at Baxter 5, you'll be centrally located in Los Angeles, convenient to Dodger Stadium and Walt Disney Concert Hall. This property is within close proximity of Angelus Temple and Echo Park.Rooms Make yourself at home in one of the 6 guestrooms, featuring kitchens with full-sized refrigerators/freezers and microwaves. Rooms have private balconies or patios. Cable programming and DVD players are provided for your entertainment, while wireless Internet access (surcharge) keeps you connected. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature jetted bathtubs and hair dryers.Rec, Spa, Premium Amenities Make use of convenient amenities, which include tour/ticket assistance and a picnic area.Dining Full breakfasts are available for a fee.Business, Other Amenities Free parking is available onsite.
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Perseverance Theatre's Young Company Presents NANCY DREW, Beginning Friday
Join us on the Perseverance Theatre Second Stage for Marisha Chamberlain's adaptation of Carolyn Keene's Nancy Drew mystery: The Clue of the Dancing Puppet. Performances are at 7:30, April 26-27 and May 3-4, and at 2 pm Sunday April 28 and Sunday May 5.
The world's most famous girl detective is at it again! Another River Heights mystery has developed at the old Van Pelt Estate, home of the Footlighter's Barn Theater. Leander Van Pelt has died, and rumors abound of hidden cache of diamonds, rubies, emeralds and sapphires that have been left somewhere on his estate. A mysterious ghost (or puppet?) has been haunting the estate while the Footlighters try to rehearse their play. Can Nancy Drew and her friends discover who is frightening the Van Pelt residents? Will the Footlighter's show be able to go on without their lead actress? And where are all of the gems that are to go to Leander Van Pelt's granddaughter? Nancy Drew leaves no stone unturned in this fun, campy whodunit!
Nancy Drew: Girl Detective will run two weekends: April 26-28, and May 3-5. Performances are at 7:30, April 26-27 and May 3-4, and at 2 pm Sunday April 28 and Sunday May 5. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students, and will be available at the door.
ABOUT PERSERVEANCE THEATRE: Perseverance Theatre was founded in 1979 in Juneau. Thirty years later, we've grown into a leading professional theatre in Alaska, recognized both statewide and nationally for our programming, training and development that's reflective of the Alaskan community, including 65 world premieres of plays by Alaskan and national playwrights. Perseverance Theatre's mission is to create professional theatre by and for Alaskans. We value community engagement, professional rigor, and regional voice. Last year, Perseverance launched the initiative to begin performing a season of plays in Anchorage as a resident company in the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts. Find more information on Perseverance Theatre at www.perseverancetheatre.org. You can also follow Perseverance Theatre at facebook.com/PerseveranceTheatre and Twitter.com/PersevTheatreAK


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In a follow-up to car chase scene from the previous promo, the 'Magic Mike' stripper is asked to get a firearm and grenades she claims hidden in her bra and pants.
Rebel Wilson is one sneaky lady. Sitting behind the wheel of a car, the "Pitch Perfect" actress tricks Channing Tatum into feeling her up in a new promo for the upcoming MTV Movie Awards which she is scheduled to host on April 14.
The video is a sequel to their previous promo which showed them being followed by a bad guy in a car chase. She claims hiding a gun inside her bra and instructs her passenger to get it because apparently she's busy with the steering wheel.
When the "Magic Mike" hunk says he couldn't find it, Wilson orders him to "take a good look around" and "go deeper" before finally admitting the firearm is actually in the glove compartment. The funnyman then asks him to get "the grenades" in her pants.
The awards will announce its winners at the live telecast to take place at the Sony Pictures Studios Lot in Culver City, Calif.