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The newest version of "Poldark" is more sophisticated visually thanks to modern film and filming techniques. Modern filming techniques give the audience more "distance" from the actors: I feel removed from the action and more like an observer whereas in the original I feel like I am actually there and a part of what is going on. The writing is first rate and the acting ensemble is just as excellent as the first cast. The beautiful costumes, manners, etc. are all well researched (No chunky knits...). I love it that the original Ross Poldark, Robin Ellis, stars in this version, as well! To have the two Ross Poldarks together in the same scenes is genius and a wonderful way to honor Robin Ellis's fantastic portrayal as the original character. (He was mobbed Beatle's style back in the day!) Both Robin Ellis, Aidan Turner and the acting ensemble have made their characters their own and given them their personal stamp - Bravo! That's what good actors do.
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Community in name only?
Imagine that you move into a new city. Just down the street from your new house is a building with steeple and a cross and a sign which reads "Community Church". On Sunday morning you and your family walk to this building at the time indicated on the sign. You file through the doors, where you are greeted and handed an order of service. You find your way to a seat and wait with others while soft music plays in the background.
The meeting begins with someone welcoming you and your family and other "visitors", and then quickly transitions into a time of music. You recognize some of the songs and sing along. Other songs are new, but you quickly pick up the tune and begin to sing on the second or third verse. One song in particular speaks to you and the frustrations that have been brought on by your recent move. An offering is taken to support the activities of this Community Church.
Next, someone teaches from a particular passage of Scripture. The teaching makes sense and the speaker is entertaining, but overall the message of the teaching is not particularly meaningful to where you are in life. You agree with everything the speaker says, but find your mind wandering to things that are pressing on you at the moment.
At the end of the service you are again addressed, along with other "visitors", and you are all encouraged to make Community Church your church home. Several people shake your hand and introduce themselves as you all make your way out of the building, into your cars, and back home or to nearby restaurants.
That afternoon, while you are unpacking some of your boxes, someone from Community Church drops by. You had dutifully filled out the "visitors" card, so you were expecting this visit. The gentleman is nice and polite. He apologizes for interrupting you and asks if you have any questions about the church. You ask him why the church calls itself "Community Church". He tells you about the different activities available at Community Church, encourages you to "join", offers you some material, then dismisses himself graciously.
As he drives away, and as you return to your unpacking, you wonder to yourself, "If Community Church is a true community instead of a community in name only, what would I expect of them? How would I expect them to act towards me and my family, as outsiders? How would I expect them to act towards one another? What would I expect to happen on Sundays? What would I expect to happen other days of the week?"
How would you answer these questions? [By the way, I'm not saying that this fictitious group of believers known as "Community Church" is a community in name only. Instead, I'm asking what would you expect from a group of people that was a true community and not a community in name only.]
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Let me ponder this one for awhile. I will think about it tonight and get back to you in the morning if the lights flash ….
This may sound weird, but here goes:
If a church was really a community, I'd expect them to not be so eager to recruit outsiders. This isn't to say that a community shouldn't welcome strangers and provide hospitality. But I'm trying to figure out why a real community would actively be trying to recruit strangers into the community.
I think that Christian communities should be open to new members, but this openness should be tempered with a sense of responsibility to the health of the community. In addition, I'd think that a community would want to know what a new member could offer to the community, just as the community would want to communicate what it could offer (and not offer) to its members.
In short, I'd expect a "church community" to welcome the stranger and extend an offer to get acquainted and be of service. I would not expect a true community to recruit strangers.
Lainie hit on something that I have recently (in the past few years) been starting to notice.
Church organizations that focus on "reaching" people seem to operate on an insatiability that drives them to always be reaching for more. I'll resist the urge to guess at the motives there, but here's the thing: If each person reached becomes seen rather quickly as part of the machine that is reaching for others, what value is there? It's a never-ending cycle.
In fact, I would almost say it's almost like a pyramid scheme in many ways…
I suppose that if the members of Fictional Community Church were trying harder to look like a Community that wasn't just one in name only, the first thing they should have done was invite this family into their Community life… and also reach out to really become a part of the family's life as well.
For example, I would expect a caring bunch of individuals to hear "We just moved into the area" and then take the next step of offering any help they could, pressing past the awkward "Oh, no thank you" to be really sure that this family didn't have any immediate needs, like help moving some boxes around. And I'd also expect warm and friendly individuals to be offering invitations to lunch after the service as well. I mean, to me, Fictional Community Church sounds like they're just welcoming visitors in name only. If they want to really know people, they're going to have to step out and be a little more welcoming… 😉
This is good, Alan! We need to think of ourselves more like the "city within the city," as Mark Driscoll puts it. How would a kind, caring group of neighbors welcome the new folks?
Even if you keep the meeting exactly the same, when the "gentleman" stops by, that's when the "community" church earns its moniker.
Monsieur Gentleman needs to head straight home (if he doesn't have a cell phone handy) and call 6-12 members to "drop by" at some point between then and 7pm to bring dinner, offer to help unpack, arrange furniture, etc. And it shouldn't be a "move-in ministry team" with FCC t-shirts and all that. Just "neighbors" in the "community" who heard from a friend of a friend that a new family had just moved in, and wanted to welcome them "properly."
In other words, imagine there's a small, friendly town in the 1940s. A new family moves into the neighborhood. What sort of greeting are they likely to receive from the (friendly) residents of the town? "Go and do likewise." 😉
Nicole and I are in a unique position to answer this one, as we're moving soon. 🙂
Hey Alan,
I've tried to filter the word "expect" out of my vocabulary. If I expect something from someone than I just set myself up to be let down. Anything I do receive unexpectedly from someone is accepted as an undeserved gracious gift that I'm much more thankful for.
That probably answers, for me personally, all the questions you asked.
That being typed, I have a different point of view. What if the re-located family and the people of First Fictional (Baptist?) Community Church were all relatives by blood. Would the actions and love expressed be different(real, sincere) from either party? Is the concern for one another a natural(super-natural) or fabricated love?
About six years ago my wife found out she had a half brother that she had never met. We found out he was living in Spokane, Washington. We contacted him and a few days later we drove to meet him. When they met the connection that they immediately had was amazing. Two people who had never met but loved each other simply because they had common blood running through their veins. It was very emotional. They talk by phone several times a month and visit each other often. You would think they had known each other their whole lives.
My desire is that natural (super-natural) love for all my brothers and sisters regardless of familiarity or location.
Thanks everyone for the comments. Please keep them coming. I was hoping to use this post to kick off as series on community, but that series will have to wait. I may do a quick post or two later in the week about it, and I will probably include some of your comments.
I think that thinking of a group of believers as a family is a great way to think about community.
I appreciate your comment. This is not a perspective that I have thought about. Of course, you are right. The difference between "recruiting strangers" and "welcoming strangers" is that we are not inviting people to a meeting, but to become part of a community. Thanks again for this great comment!
Thank you for letting us continue to hear your voice. 🙂 I see your comment in a similar vein to Lainie's above. Yes, there is a difference between building an organization and building a community.
Welcome to my blog! I hope things go well on your move. Since we moved recently, and were the recipients of a "community move", I was thinking about helping people who are moving when I wrote this post. I pray that God provides that help for you and Travis as well!
Yes, "visiting" is not the end. Hopefully, the "gentleman" did just what you suggested. From experience, I know that this does not normally happen. Of course, God is raising children who are (super)natural, not normal. Again, blessings on your move.
One of our freelance writers passed along this news article about his aunt who recently passed away. I think it's a great example of how a "community" minded person lives, and the impact their lives make.
Thank you for the link to the article. I agree that she is a great example of one who lives in community with others.
Acts 4:13
Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.
Peter and John exhibited a family likeness to Jesus, who was a human after all, and had his own personality, favorite foods etc.
We pick up traits from parents, mentors, teachers and others that impact us. They are inseparable from our spirit, because our souls express our spirit, especially when Jesus inhabits it (us)
When our neighbors and new acquaintances get their first impression of us, it should be unvarnished, unlike our 'learned' professional or church person's that we learn to drop as we find our identity in the Lord and accept that the only acceptance that matters is His.
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"The aim of natural science is not simply to accept the statements of others, but to investigate the causes that are at work in nature."
St. Albertus Magnus1
In Aristotle's epistemology, the goal of scientific enquiry is knowledge of the human person. This epistemology and the natural science that springs from it point beyond the material world to a realm of essences. Unlike Plato's epistemology, Aristotle's synthesis of material and spiritual realities allows theologians a greater framework in which to practice their discipline, interpreting revelation in light of the full range of human experience. St. Thomas Aquinas, the Angelic Doctor, took full advantage of this synthesis and of natural science in his Christology.
Natural science, as practiced by Aristotle, aids theology in its ends; it provides a necessary foundation and allows reasonable abstractions from that foundation. As the Philosopher explains in Physics,
The natural way of doing this is to start from the things which are more knowable and clear to us and to proceed towards those which are clearer and more knowable by nature; for the same things are not knowable relatively to us and knowable without qualification. So we must follow this method and advance from what is more obscure by nature, but clearer to us, towards what is more clear and more knowable by nature.2
The Angelic Doctor refers to the same process as the "order of determination." As McInerny and O'Callaghan explain,
The first purchase on natural things is via "physical object" or "natural thing." The "order of demonstration" involves finding the properties of things as known through this general concept. Then, specifying the subject further, one seeks properties of things known through the less common concepts.3
The scientist asks general questions, then increasingly more specific questions about the object of inquiry. He starts by asking whether something exists, then what that thing is, then what properties it possesses, and finally why it possesses those properties.
St. Thomas puts this method to use in his proofs of God's existence. Before he attempts to determine what God is, he determines that God exists and notes as proof the changing condition of the material universe, the notion of efficient cause or material being, the difference between possibility and necessity in being, the gradation of qualities in things, and the governance or design of things in the material world.4 While the third and fourth are more abstract proofs, the first, second, and fifth proofs are clearly based on sensory experience of the material world. This foundation is critical for all other arguments he makes concerning the qualities of God, including the Triune nature of God and the Incarnation.
St. Thomas's Christology continues with his discussion of the fitness of the Incarnation. His initial affirmation is, if nothing else, a Christian recasting of Aristotelian epistemology:
On the contrary, It[sic] would seem most fitting that by visible things the invisible things of God should be known, for to this end the whole world was made, as is clear from the word of the Apostle (Rom. I. 20): "For the invisible things of God… are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made."5
In other words, through our sensory experience, we come to know about the material world and, by analyzing our experience with our intellect, come to understand those things that are immaterial. St. Thomas then addresses the relationship of human and divine natures in the hypostasis.
According to Aquinas's third proof, God is a necessary being, while man and other material entities are contingent beings. We can imagine the possibility for a man or any other material being not to exist. The very possibility of imagining it means that at one point the being did not exist. If this premise is true, then it would follow that at some point nothing existed. If nothing existed at one time, nothing could have come to exist and be in existence now. Therefore, there must be some being in whom essence (nature) and existence are the same, in which existence is necessary.6 This being is that Being whom we call God.
In the Incarnation, we have a Divine hypostasis,7 the Son. The concept of the Divine hypostasis, or Divine person, is analogous to the human person. Personhood is that combination of a rational nature and existence, or as Aquinas describes, "a subsistent individual of a rational nature."8 However, the human person, as a contingent being, has essence and separate existence; whereas with God, we have three Divine persons, all of whom are one necessary being and in whom essence is not distinct from existence. In Summa Theologica, St. Thomas repeatedly uses such analogical arguments from the material world to describe the qualities of God or the relationships among the three persons of the Godhead. As with all analogies, the similarities among the entities compared are as important as the differences.
Divine Being is necessary and, as such, immutable.9 One of the arguments St. Thomas counters in Summa Theologica is the idea that the Divine and human natures became a single nature. He notes, on the contrary, that combining two dissimilar things results in changes to both. However, the immutability of Christ's Divine nature renders such a change impossible. St. Thomas necessarily concludes that the union of natures must occur in the person of Christ rather than the natures.10 From here, the Divinity of that person must follow. The Divine essence (nature) and existence of Christ are inseparable and immutable. Because the "nature… designates the species,"11 it follows that the hypostasis, the person of Christ, is Divine. The human nature, being separate and distinct from its existence, has the same subsistence in the Divine person.
In addition to the Divinity of Christ, St. Thomas also addresses the humanity of Christ. In Aristotle, we see that a person gains, through sensory perception and its analysis, not only a sense of the material world, but also a sense of some capability unique to humans that is distinct from or transcends the material, the soul. In explaining the immaterial nature of the soul, Aquinas disputes the belief that souls are bodies, holding up the distinction between animate and inanimate bodies, as well as the idea that a body requires something immaterial (the soul) to be its mover or principle of life. This soul is immaterial or incorporeal and it is also subsistent.12 Man comprises body (matter) and soul. Again, to make this argument, St. Thomas resorts to observable data and sensory experience to show that the soul cannot be material and that soul and body are united.
At this point, we are left with one problem: what to do with the human nature of Christ. If we see this as a leftover human nature, excluded from the hypostasis because of the union of essence and existence in the Son, then we have forgotten the important difference between the Divine person and the human person, the point at which the analogy of personhood breaks down: necessary as opposed to contingent being. As Jack Bonsor explains,
The distinction between essence and existence, between abstraction and judgment, makes it possible to grasp Thomas' point. One must think of existence as "happening" or "occurring" as an event.13
Christ's Divine nature is one and the same as His existence and is outside of time and space. It happened in the past, is happening now, and continues to happen. Christ's human nature is distinct from His human existence, which is an event in fixed time and in location.
As Pope John Paul II stressed in Fides et Ratio, reason and faith are allies, not enemies. The philosophy of St. Thomas, with its reliance on Aristotelian epistemology and natural science, exemplify this alliance. The strength of Aristotle's epistemology is its balance, its middle road, its golden mean. Aristotle and Aquinas both recognized the interplay and interdependence of material and immaterial reality. While Platonism might allow theologians to plumb the depths (or perhaps soar to the heights) of spiritual reality, it consigns the material world to a weak similitude of that reality and reduces sensory experience to shadow play on the wall of a dimly lit cave. The Angelic Doctor demonstrates that, through the use of natural science together with faith, one can illuminate the cave, the cistern, and all other recesses in which the Truth might be hidden.
Works Consulted
Aristotle. Physics. Trans. R. P. Hardie and R. K. Gaye, The Internet Classics Archive, Ed. Daniel C. Stevenson, 1994–2000,
Aquinas, Thomas, Saint. Great Books of the Western World: The Summa Theologica of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Ed. Robert Maynard Hutchins. Vols. 19–20. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 1952.
Bonsor, Jack A. Athens & Jerusalem: the Role of Philosophy in Theology. Eugene: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2003.
Kennedy, D. J. "Albertus Magnus." Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company, 1907. Online Edition. K. Knight, 2005
McInerny, Ralph, and O'Callaghan, John. "Saint Thomas Aquinas," The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward N. Zalta. Spring 2005 ed.


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There a so many ipod docks on the market, it was difficult to narrow down the options. While this isn't the most affordable, it is one of the few which doesn't look like a cheap computer accessory. It has all the functions I could ask for, decent sound, bass, headphone out, audio in, plays and charges docking iPods (minus gen 3). The clock radio functions are bonus. Available in Cherry, Natural Walnut, Dark Walnut, Bamboo and White Gloss finishes.
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LONDON BRIDAL makeup and hair.
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Sakhr provides online translation for Jawwal users
Cairo-based Sakhr Software and the Palestinian telecommunications company Jawwal, recently signed an agreement by which Sakhr will provide some its online translation services as part of the services offered by Jawwal to its clients and subscribers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Sakhr will give Jawwal the right to use Tarjim, the online translation program available at Sakhr's website, as well as the rights to make this service available from Jawwal's' site for Ajeeb users in the Palestinian Authority (PA).
Sakhr Software Company was founded in Kuwait in 1982, and was relocated to Cairo in 1990. Sakhr develops software tailored to the needs of the Arabic market and Arabic language users. Sakhr opened its branch in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 2001, in Dubai Internet City. — (menareport.com)
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OLD HICKORY -- Graveside services were held Saturday afternoon, Nov. 13 at Hermitage Memorial Gardens for Mrs. Root, 85 of Mt. Juliet.
Born Oct. 16, 1925 in Smith County, she died Nov. 11, 2010 in Hermitage.
She was a loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and sister.
Survivors include: son Earl (Teresa) White; grandson Christopher (Stacy) White; step-granddaughters Tammy Potts and Tiffany Stroupe; step-great-grandchildren Jayce, Jessica, Ethan and Kelly; sister Mary (Dewitt) Stickle of Gordonsville; and brother John Robertson of Knoxville.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Hardy Williams and Sadie Duke; and brothers A.J., Henry and James.
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Sex counsel: What can I do about his latex fetish?
Q: I have just got engaged but am worried about our sex life. When we got together three years ago, my boyfriend sometimes asked me to wear rubber — a skirt or top. It turned him on and seemed harmless. Now, though, he only wants sex if I'm dressed head to toe in latex.
Indulging his fantasy occasionally is fine, but it's taking over our relationship. What should I do?
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Sunny school: «Solécole»
2nd place for the Solécole cooperative, Küsnacht
Pupils and teacher at the Küsnacht cantonal school founded the Solécole cooperative in 2007. It aims to promote environmentally-friendly, renewable energies and erect and operate its own solar power plant on the roof of the school. And it succeeded in doing so: Solécole has been generating part of its electricity requirements since 2009. By 2020, the cooperative aims to at least cover the cantonal school's electricity requirements. Pupils and teachers alike are informed about climate change with the aid of environmental awareness campaigns.
The jury praised the commitment and the initiative of the pupils and teachers to finance, erect and operate their own profitable solar power plant. In addition, the jury especially highlighted the project's transferability, its educational benefits and holism.


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Late in 1983 and early in 1984 two newspapers published what they claimed were transcripts of tape recordings of telephone conversations which had been illegally intercepted and recorded by members of the New South Wales Police Force. The newspapers claimed that the transcripts revealed the activities of persons associated with organised crime. Most of the parties to the conversations were not identified by name, but one of them was referred to as "a senior judge". Included in the published transcripts were conversations between the judge and "a Sydney solicitor" who was alleged to be associated with leaders of organised crime. The judge was subsequently identified as Mr Justice Murphy, a justice of the High Court, former senator, Leader of the Labor Party in the Senate and Attorney‑General in the Labor Government of Mr Whitlam.
Demands for an inquiry into the matters revealed in the alleged transcripts were immediately made by the Opposition. The Labor Government took the view that no inquiry was necessary, on the basis that the transcripts had not been authenticated and the conduct of the judge revealed by the transcripts could not amount to misbehaviour within the restricted meaning expounded by the Solicitor-General and adhered to by the government (see above). The Opposition Liberal-National parties and the Australian Democrats, who together held a majority in the Senate, took the view that an inquiry should be held into the conduct of the judge. Their preference was for a royal commission or other non‑partisan quasi‑judicial tribunal to conduct the inquiry, but the government refused to appoint such a body, and it is very doubtful whether it could constitutionally do so except by statute. Against the wishes of the government, the Senate therefore appointed on 28 March 1984 a select committee, which was called the Select Committee on the Conduct of a Judge.
The committee was required to report upon the authenticity of the alleged transcripts which, together with some tape recordings, had been provided by one of the newspapers to the Attorney‑General, and upon whether the conduct of the judge as revealed in the materials constituted misbehaviour which could amount to sufficient grounds for his removal.
The resolution appointing the committee contained a number of unusual features. The committee was enjoined to take care to protect the privacy, rights and reputations of individuals, and to protect from disclosure the operational methods and investigations of law enforcement agencies (there were police investigations on foot into the tapes and transcripts). Witnesses before the committee were to be given notice of the matters proposed to be dealt with during their appearance and an opportunity to make submission in writing before appearing, and were entitled to be assisted by counsel.
The committee determined for itself guidelines for proceedings, which elaborated upon and supplemented the matters contained in the resolution of appointment. These guidelines contained the following major provisions.
The committee was to meet in private unless it made a determination that it was necessary to meet in public, and evidence given in private session and material submitted to the committee were not to be published except to persons associated with the inquiry.
Witnesses were to be notified of their rights under the Senate resolution, and were to be informed in writing of the nature of any allegations made against them and of particulars of the matters on which they were to be heard.
Witnesses were to be allowed to consult counsel during their appearance and counsel could make submissions to the committee.
The committee would accede to any request by a witness for evidence to be heard in private, unless it made a definite determination that it was necessary to hear the evidence in public.
Witnesses were given the right and the opportunity to object to any questions, on grounds including irrelevance and self‑incrimination, and procedures were laid down for the committee to consider and determine such objections.
The committee appointed, with the approval of the President of the Senate, counsel to assist it. The committee's counsel advised the committee, participated in its deliberations and attended during the questioning of some witnesses, but did not put questions to witnesses. All of the hearings of the committee were held in private session.
When it had taken evidence in relation to the tapes and transcripts and matters purportedly recorded in them, the committee indicated to Mr Justice Murphy that it wished to hear evidence from him on a number of matters, and invited him to appear before it. He was not summoned. The question of whether the Senate or its committees could summon a High Court or any judge (see above) had been the subject of some discussion, without any conclusion being reached on the matter.
The judge's response to the invitation raised the major procedural difficulty of the committee's inquiry. The judge claimed all of the rights of an accused person in a criminal trial, including the right to be notified of a specific charge, the right not to give evidence if he so chose, and the right, before making that decision, to have all the evidence heard in the presence of his counsel and to have his counsel cross‑examine witnesses. It was not within the power of the committee to allow the cross‑examination of witnesses by the judge's counsel, or, indeed, to allow the examination of witnesses by any counsel. The standing orders of the Senate provide that witnesses before Senate committees are to be examined by the members of the committee; witnesses could not be examined by counsel except with the explicit authorisation of the Senate, and the Senate had not given that authorisation in the resolution appointing the committee. Had the committee wished to accede to the judge's demands, it would have had to go back to the Senate for an enlargement of its powers.
As it turned out, this was not necessary. The committee took the view that it was engaged in an investigatory inquiry, analogous to the inquiries undertaken by a prosecuting authority to determine whether a prosecution will be commenced. The committee considered that only if it determined that the evidence so warranted should it recommend to the Senate that there be a formal hearing of the evidence, with the rights of an accused person extended to the judge.
The judge declined to give evidence, but gave the committee a written statement on the evidence which it had received. His counsel made submissions to the committee on its evidence and on matters of law.
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Sunday, 4 August, 2002, 11:49 GMT 12:49 UK
UN arms chief sets Iraq conditions
The United Nations chief arms inspector has said he is not planning to go to Iraq for talks about renewed inspections until Baghdad approves the return of his team.
In comments published on Sunday in the London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat, Hans Blix said such a visit would only raise expectations and potentially create a crisis if talks broke down between him and Iraqi officials.
Mr Blix's remarks to Al-Hayat came before that letter inviting him to Baghdad was received.
The UN Security Council is to discuss the offer on Monday.
Mr Annan has given the letter a cautious welcome, but said it was at odds with security council procedures.
The US has scorned the offer, insisting that its policy towards Iraq - including the removal of Saddam Hussein as leader - has not changed as a result.
Government-run papers in Iraq have criticised the American response, calling for the UN to stand up to US "aggressiveness" and accusing the US of using the disarmament issue to achieve "evil colonial goals".
US committed to Saddam removal
"Psychologically, I think it would be better that an official of my political standing does not go to Baghdad before they (the Iraqis) accept inspections, " Mr Blix - a 74-year-old Swedish diplomat and arms control expert - was quoted as saying.
Unscom inspectors were withdrawn from Baghdad on the eve of a US and British bombing campaign in 1998 after months of wrangling over access and co-operation.
In his first public response to the Iraqi offer on Saturday, US President George W Bush said nothing had changed in his policy towards Iraq.
"I'm a patient man. I'll use all the tools at our disposal to make sure Iraq cannot develop weapons of mass destruction and threaten the United States," he said.
Earlier, Mr Bush's Secretary of State Colin Powell accused the Iraqi leader of trying to stall for time, saying that disarmament rather than inspections were the issue.
Hostility and aggression
Iraqi newspapers criticised the US stand as well as Britain's dismissal of the talks proposal.
Washington's rejection of the invitation "demonstrated a hostile attitude that has nothing to do with the results of the UN or the issue of the return of the inspectors", said al-Thawra, the paper of Iraq's ruling Baath party.
It urged representatives of the UN Security Council - which is due to discuss the issue this week - and all UN members to "stand up to this destructive, aggressive American tendency and strongly back Iraq's new initiative.
Babel, the paper run by Saddam Hussein's son Uday said that there could be no disarmament without inspections.
The American-British position towards the Iraqi move "proves that what they are trying to achieve has nothing to do with inspections or non-existent weapons of mass destruction", it said.
"They are trying to hide behind a worn-out curtain of false claims to achieved despied colonial goals that are rejected by the international community," Babel said.
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Saints Move Into First Place in NFC South
Saints sack Cutler seven times as Saints dominate
Saints sack Cutler seven times as Saints dominate
This would be reason number 1001 why I'm a New Orleans Saints fan. I know Saints fans do some crazy stuff, but we are crazy by nature. Not really sure what excuse Chicago Bears fans have.
Half a dozen Cajuns get invites
Wanting to stress that some people have questioned Jay Cutler's toughness, Fox Sports ran a graphic on air of a series of headlines — including "Cutler Lacks Courage" — during the Chicago Bears season opener that criticized Cutler in Chicago for leaving last season's NFC Championship game last season with an injury.
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A bad credit military loan has all the fixins for a nuclear blast straight to your checking account.
What were they thinking when they designed bad credit military loans?
If the bad credit military loan is a sign of the times, then these are pretty dangerous times indeed. That the financial giants would be taking advantage of the very people protecting their way of life...man, some of these financial guys just need to get Paydazed and chill out for a bit. Maybe take a bad credit unsecured personal loan off the cyber-shelves and replace it with some harmony.
Its true, soldiers don't make a lot of money and the whole world knows it. Soldiers are also young, hard working, financially inexperienced individuals who are working their best to make their mark in the world and sometimes that means taking out a loan. And they fail - so what! A lot of us fail and a lot of us fall into the categorization of bad credit. But unlike the rest of us soldiers today cannot afford to worry about the extra costs associated with their
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Dave Cousins Best Launcher Blade 3 pack
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Dave Cousins is a champion archer who has won many tournaments around the world over many years and shoots a Hoyt bow. He developed his Best Blade Launcher to give archers that extra consistency in their shooting
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In target competition there is no substitute for accuracy. The winner is the most accurate shooter with the most accurate setup. This blade launcher offers competitive archers the utmost in accuracy.
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The Best Launcher Blade, as requested by many of today's top tournament archers, was designed and endorsed by champion archer Dave Cousins. This blade is made from the highest quality tempered spring steel which resists corrosion and is carefully shaped to provide the most consistent arrow launch possible. It is the strongest and simplest blade style available and provides a stiffer feel and will fit most launcher rests.
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Crispin Blaze is a dragon, just like his parents and his sister. Dragons breath fire when they turn seven, did you know that? On Crispin's seventh birthday he feels a tingling in his tummy and is very excited to light his own birthday cake candles for the very first time. But when Crispin opens his mouth, fire doesn't come out! Will he decide he is not a very good dragon or learn to love all the things that DO come out when he opens his own unique dragon-y mouth?
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Now Accepting Submissions for 'Making IT' Alumni Exhibition
Juried show, coinciding with DesignPhiladelphia and Family & Alumni Weekend, to feature works by recent alumni from the classes of 2001 through 2011
August 10, 2011
The University of the Arts is pleased to invite submissions for "Making IT: Alumni Works '01-'11," a juried exhibition of works by recent alumni. Submissions are open to all University of the Arts alumni from the classes of 2001 through 2011, including undergraduate and graduate alumni. Only artwork created after graduation is eligible for submission.
"Making IT" will be on display October 20 – 30 in Hamilton Hall's CBS Auditorium and Solmssen Court (320 South Broad Street), with an opening reception scheduled for Saturday, October 22 from 5 to 7 p.m.
The show will coincide with DesignPhiladelphia, the nation's largest city-wide celebration of design being held October 13 – 23, as well as the University's Family and Alumni Weekend programs, which will take place October 21 – 22.
The jury for "Making IT" features distinguished members of the Philadelphia arts community, as well as notable University of the Arts faculty and alumni, including FLUXspace's Nike Desis and Warren Miller; theartblog.org's Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof; alumna Christy Blanca Gonzalez BFA '01, MA '09; DesignPhiladelphia's Hilary Jay; and Christopher Sharrock, newly appointed dean of the College of Art, Media and Design at the University of the Arts.
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A rise in sea levels and other changes fueled by global warming threaten roads, rail lines, ports, airports and other important infrastructure, and policymakers and planners should be acting now to avoid or mitigate their effects, according to new government reports.
While increased heat and "intense precipitation events" threaten these structures, the greatest and most immediate potential impact is coastal flooding, according to one of the reports issued Tuesday by an expert panel convened by the National Research Council, the research arm of the National Academy of Sciences.
Another study, a multiagency effort led by the Environmental Protection Agency, sounds a similar warning on coastal infrastructure but adds that natural features such as beaches and wetlands are also threatened by encroaching saltwater.
The reports are not the first to point out that rising seas, inevitable in a warming world, are a major threat. For example, in a report last September, the Miami-Dade County Climate Change Task Force noted that a 2-foot rise by the year 2100, the prediction of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, "would make life in South Florida very difficult for everyone."
The new reports note that coastal areas are thickly populated, economically important and gaining people and investment by the day, even as scientific knowledge of the risks they face increases. Use of this knowledge by policymakers and planners is "inadequate," the academy panel said.
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Benjamin Franklin took great interest in the promotion of spelling reform. While living in London in 1768 he wrote A Scheme for a new Alphabet and a Reformed Mode of Spelling in which he proposed a fairly accurate phonetic system for spelling English. The alphabet was published in 1779 in Franklin's Political, Miscellaneous, and Philosophical Pieces.
His new phonetic alphabet consisted all the lowercase letters of the Latin alphabet, minus c, j, q, w, x, and y, which he thought redundant, plus six new letters for sounds which he thought lacked unambiguous orthographic representation. The other letters all adhered to the principle of one symbol (or unique digraph) per one sound.
Franklin commissioned a type foundry to prepare a suitable type including for the 6 new letters, but soon lost interest in his alphabet. The only other person to show an interest was Noah Webster.
Much as the imperfections of the alphabet will admit of; the present bad spelling is only bad because contrary to the present bad rules: under the new rules it would be good -- the difficulty of learning to spell well in the old way is so great, that few attain it; thousands and thousands writing on to old age, without ever being able to acquire it. 'Tis, besides a difficulty continually increasing; as the sound gradually varies more and more from the spelling: and to foreigners.
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October 20, 2009 BY Aaron Kr.
Last month, images emerged of a pretty intriguing upcoming Nike SB Dunk Low, that not only sports a fresh look, but also features one of the more creative outside-the-box concepts that we've ever seen on an SB sneaker, and that's saying something. At first glance, the shoe sports a nice solid Black denim upper with a Black patent Swoosh, White midsole and heeltab and a Red outsole, but the most interesting touches are a little more concealed. In addition to the plush furry Black lining inside the ankle collar, as you may have already seen (or heard), when you press the tongues on these, you can hear the sound of a chirping bird, making it pretty easy for collectors to come up with a nickname for these. If you haven't seen the video clip of the chirping in action, you can check it out after the jump, as well as a bunch more pics. The Chirp Dunk SB's will be hitting SB retailers some time next year, but you can cop this size 9 sample now from JasonWhite9 on eBay.
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Freudenstadt – the city of joy
The city of Freudenstadt in Nordschwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg, is literally the city of joy. In German Freude means enjoyment, pleasure, or delight and Stadt means city. When something pleases you, es freut mich. It was perhaps this idea which the original...
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Nearly as controversial as Monday night's abysmal game-ending call by National Football League replacement officials was the presence in the same Seattle stadium of a delegation from Edmonton.
The group – which saw the Green Bay Packers robbed of a victory that was rightfully theirs – was led by Canadian billionaire Daryl Katz, owner of the National Hockey League's Edmonton Oilers, who was ostensibly in Seattle on a fact-finding mission.
Seattle recently reached agreement with San Francisco-based hedge-fund manager Chris Hansen to build a $490-million arena that is hoped to eventually play home to a National Basketball Association team – filling the painful void that has existed since Seattle lost its beloved SuperSonics in 2008.
Mostly, however, the visit by Mr. Katz and members of the Oilers' executive team was a thinly veiled ruse. Mr. Hansen has talked about wanting to attract an NHL team to the arena one day. Mr. Katz, in stalled negotiations with Edmonton city officials to construct a new building there, was said to be exploring the option of moving his team to Seattle if he can't get a deal of his own.
It wasn't subtle, but publicity stunts rarely are.
What we are seeing is another unseemly tug of war with a rich team owner on one side and civic politicians representing the poor, downtrodden taxpayer on the other. Along the way, various forms of coercion are used by the owners, including idle threats, to persuade taxpayers to help build their new, modern sports palaces.
These threats most often centre around the promise that said owner will take his ball – or puck – and go elsewhere if he doesn't get his way. Occasionally, it happens. More often, it does not, because the two sides realize how much they both have to lose.
The fact is, a professional sports team has become an integral part of a city's economic, political and social fabric. Home games become tribal gatherings. The franchise is a source of civic pride, deeply ingrained in the host community's broad culture and psyche. Certain wins, as well as certain losses, become milestones and lifetime points of reference for supporters.
It's easy to overstate the importance of sports. It's easy to understate it, too.
The Oilers mean everything to Edmonton – and Mr. Katz knows it. He knows that despite the pressure they are under to safeguard taxpayers' dollars, civic politicians know how important the team is to those same taxpayers. After years of being a last-place laughing stock, the team appears to be on the brink of building a potential Stanley Cup contender. The mayor and his council would be hanged in effigy if the franchise was to leave – or at least that's what Mr. Katz wants them to believe.
On the other hand, council knows that Mr. Katz has nowhere to go. His franchise makes money, which is something many NHL owners can't say. The notion of him packing up and moving the team to Seattle if he doesn't get his way is ludicrous.
Firstly, there is no guarantee the league would ever approve such a move – especially when there are owners who have been in the league a lot longer than Mr. Katz, propping up teams in money-losing markets, ahead of the Oilers' proprietor in the lineup for relocation. And, of course, there is absolutely no guarantee that he'd make money in Seattle, a midsized U.S. city that only has so much corporate capacity to support pro sports teams.
In the end, a deal will get done in Edmonton because it's in the greater interests of both sides. A new arena will help revitalize a part of the downtown core that desperately needs a facelift. At the same time, a new building will allow Mr. Katz to make even more money than he already does.
On Monday, Mr. Katz saw football players deprived of something that was rightfully theirs. He can only imagine how the residents of an entire city would feel losing something they believe is rightfully theirs.Report Typo/Error
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Divided into thematic segments such as Portraits, Relationships, Family and Existential Moments, more than a hundred writers are represented in this stubby new collection from China.
Many of these stories, like Ling Rongzhi's "Odd Day, Even Day," depend on carefully contrived coincidences, misunderstandings and synchronicities for their effect. The largely apolitical topics may reflect the limits of dissent in China, but not of the desire to complain, to grouse about prevailing conditions, which in many cases remain appalling.
In "Time Travel" by Cain Nan, it is the feeble resolve of the individual rather than the state that fails. The social contract, written, rubber-stamped and delivered by a higher authority, is never questioned. A strong strain of anti-materialism runs through many of the stories, which are quests for enduring values. "Reckoning" by Zheng Hongjie, provides an object lesson in honesty over venality. "Only when the accounts are clear and accurate," the county schoolteacher in the story declares to his students, "can a person be clean." There is an oblique message, an appeal against corruption in rural areas here.
Although writer Jia Pingwa, who has had run-ins with the censors in the past, makes an appearance in this collection, more controversial writers like Ma Jian and Wei Hui are absent. Perhaps it is the prolixity of their work or disinterest in the form, rather than their firebrand names, that excludes them.
In "Black and White," Li Qixiang comes closest, perhaps, to an outright criticism of corruption among county officials, a practice that remains rampant in China. The central government is not implicated, the inference being that the provinces have somehow failed the high ideals of the party in Beijing.
Other stories are about hardship or, when wealth is obtained, the abuse of it. The narrator of Lin Ruqiu's "The Fat Cat's Woman," wryly observes, "Men become bad when they have money; women have money when they become bad."
It would be tempting to compare this micro-fiction from China to the Japanese haiku. But unlike the minimalist naturalism of the haiku, these stories contain within them tightly wound coils of narrative. If there is an affinity with anything in postwar Japanese literature, it would be Yasunari Kawabata's bijou collection "Palm-of-the-Hand Stories."
Even in a time of more expansive fiction, writers like Jorge Luis Borges and Franz Kafka knew the merits of compression in the very short story. The reading time in some cases, however, is under five minutes. A different standard of relativity develops as you read these models of flash fiction. In an anthology where some stories are less than a page in length, a three-page narrative can seem like an epic. Despite their brevity, the stories are surprisingly fulfilling. You may find yourself unable to read more than four or five at a sitting, rationing the material over days, even weeks.
Shao Baojian shows how it is possible to create setting, character and an unexpected revelation in just three pages. Wu Shouchun demonstrates in an even shorter sample how wit and irony can achieve compassion when he writes about the premarital uses of mosquito nets.
Some of the accounts, like Wang Renshu's "Blowfish," a failed attempt to relieve his family's suffering and hunger by feeding them the deadly fish, are heart-rending. While the surprise ending is not a prerequisite of the short story, when it is pulled off with consummate skill, it is a little like the magician's hat trick. Xing Qingjie's story about flowers promises a lugubrious ending, but delivers a joyful one.
For the aspiring writer interested in constructing a pithy story with the fewest words, this is a wonderful primer. For the reader, these examples of micro-fiction are perfect for our abbreviated age.


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"Knowing how to prevent and care for heat stroke can save a life," insists Richard Grant, M.D., acting chairman of the division of geriatrics at Albert Einstein Medical Center here in Philadelphia.
"The elderly are susceptible to heat stroke because of pre-existing medical conditions and/ or prescription medications they are taking. In addition, older adults cannot adjust to the heat as well as younger individuals," explains Grant.
That does not, of course, include infants and toddlers, who should be kept indoors and cool in extreme temperatures.
Heat stroke occurs when the body's temperature quickly rises out of control to 106 degrees or above within minutes.
Warning signs include extremely high body temperature of 103 degrees or more; red, hot, dry skin, but no sweat; a strong, rapid pulse; headache; nausea; and dizziness.
To prevent heat stroke, Grant offers these words of wisdom:
• Drink plenty of fluids, preferably cool water. Do not choose beverages that have sugar, caffeine or alcohol, as they cause dehydration.
• Seek air-conditioning, especially during the day. If air-conditioning is not available at home, go to a public place, such as a library, coffee shop or mall. At the very least, use an electric fan, but if doing so indoors, crack open windows for ventilation.
• Wear lightweight, breathable, light-colored clothing. Dark colors attract sunlight, and heavy clothes increase body temperature.
• Avoid rigorous activity. Don't exert yourself unnecessarily, and rest when possible.
• Take cool showers and baths. This will help maintain a healthy, normal body temperature.
"Prevention is the most important factor in heat-stroke protection," says Grant. However, if heat stroke occurs, you can avoid serious injury or even death by:
• Calling for medical attention as quickly as possible.
• Cooling down. Try to decrease the body temperature to around 102 degrees and lower with cool water in a bathtub, shower or an unheated swimming pool.
• Monitoring body temperature. Routinely check body temperature to make sure that it is stable.
• Drink, drink, drink! Your body craves fluids, so keep the water coming. You can also take in water ice and popsicles throughout the day; after all, it is summertime!
This article appears in cooperation with the Albert Einstein Medical Center.


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InnoBits - Switch Module
It has a self-locking on/off button. It stays in the current locking stage or releasing stage until it is pressed again.
These InnoBits are compatible with LittleBits and LEGO® making them modular and easily expandable. These would work great with the Meet Edison Robot.
Please note the modules are bigger than the LittleBits ones so they don't sit flush but the connectors do hook up.
LEGO® is a registered trademark of The LEGO Group.


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Motorola: No July 11th event was ever planned
The July 11th rumor started with a picture from the full-page ad that Motorola ran for the Moto X. The picture showed two people jumping into water with their bodies shaped like the roman numerals X and I which equals 11. We also imagine that the image could be Nexus related since the Nexus logo uses an X. It could have to do with the Motorola Moto X, not hard to believe considering the X in the device's name. Or, it could be nothing, just a strange coincidence and we're all looking too much into it.
But blogger Leo Laporte had said that Motorola was holding a private event for "50 or so press members." That too has been shot down. What is happening is a little get together for Motorola's Guy Kawaksaki and his friends. There will be no product announcement coming this week from Motorola. But considering the number of leaks we've seen about Motorola just in the last few days, some product announcements are sure to taking place soon.
source: AndroidCommunity via SlashGear
7 Comments
1. Mxyzptlk (unregistered)
They never said anything about an event. That was all rumor and speculation.
PA you'd think after the whole fiasco with the Sony Nexus rumors you'd learn never to put so much credibility in rumors.
3. TheLolGuy (Posts: 483; Member since: 05 Mar 2013)
Now with that finally over, next we'll hear the Moto X and the XI numeral meaning a November announcement/release!
One thing I really don't like about PA is that they don't always make it evident that it is a rumor in the title. 'The Moto X will have X' when we don't know a darn thing for sure. Even if they do use words like 'may' and 'suggests' the whole article is written as if everything is set in stone.
It's a habit very unbecoming of a news writer...
2. roscuthiii (Posts: 2241; Member since: 18 Jul 2010)
Just looks like people jumping in a lake to me.
4. Zylam (Posts: 1123; Member since: 20 Oct 2010)
So Moto what is the point of that ad? Moto's Mind: "Hey look people are actually interested in us for the first time in years, lets run a ad, get their hopes up with leaks and than say No man whats wrong with you people we don't have anything new.. go away people".
5. KINGJUAN27 (Posts: 210; Member since: 02 Jul 2012)
Of course they shouldn't hold an event that day, they'll get overshadowed by Nokia's Zoom event in NYC!
6. theminolaboy (Posts: 128; Member since: 18 May 2013)
Very well said! I genuinely believe that if ever they decided to hold an event at the same day the EOS will be unveiled, Nokia, undoubtedly, will eclipse them.. Hahahaha..
7. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)
and those analyst are a bunch of idiots. just a POSTER AD get it through your THICK HEAD.


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Mumbai, Aug 23 (IANS) Integrated infrastructure and power company Reliance Infrastructure (RInfra) Friday said the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) has allowed it to recover arrears and carrying costs aggregating to Rs.5,550 crore over the next six years.
According to the company, the MERC order dated Aug 22, 2013, allows it to recover past arrears, along with 14.5 percent per annum of carrying cost which comes to about Rs.925 crore per year, aggregating to Rs.5,550 crore over the next six years.
"MERC has also allowed RInfra to recover revised cross subsidy surcharge (CSS) of Rs.819 crore for 2013-14, Rs.896 crore for 2014-15 and Rs.590 crore for 2015-16," the company said in a statement.
Further, according to the MERC order, revised tariff, the arrears recovery and revised CSS will become effective from Sep 1, 2013.
The statement added that the tariffs are expected to reduce by 12 percent and 11 percent in the next two financial years due to the company's efficient and low power procurement costs.
Currently, RInfra is the largest power distribution licensee in Mumbai. It has a 25- year licence to distribute electricity in over 400 sq km of suburbs and surrounding areas of Mumbai which caters to around 29 lakh consumers.
RInfra is also a leading infrastructure company which develops projects in several high growth areas in the Infrastructure sector like, roads, metro rail, and cement.


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Paarl – The Proteas' woes were compounded after their defeat to New Zealand on Saturday, as they lost the services of captain AB de Villiers for the rest of the series, along with their status as the top-ranked ODI team in the world.
De Villiers was suspended for two ODIs and his players forfeited their match fees as penalty for the slow over-rate in the first game in Paarl.
Match referee David Boon ruled that the hosts were six overs short of their target at the end of the match when time allowances were taken into consideration.
De Villiers pleaded guilty so no hearing was necessary.
Selection convenor Andrew Hudson said vice-captain Hashim Amla asked not to be considered for the captaincy, so he could concentrate on his batting, and Faf du Plessis would skipper the side for the last two games of the series.
"Losing AB for the remainder of the series is obviously a big blow to us, particularly as he is still growing in the captaincy and needs every opportunity ahead of the ICC Champions Trophy in the middle of the year," Hudson said.
Cricket South Africa confirmed that Dolphins batsman David Miller had been called up as a replacement for De Villiers in the 14-man ODI squad.
The Proteas went down by one wicket in the series opener, after scoring just 208, a loss which cost them their number one ICC ranking. They are now third, with a rating of 116, behind India (119) and England (118).
"We should have lost by seven or eight wickets, so I am proud of the fightback in the field," De Villiers said.
"But overall, it was not good enough. We are operating at about 80 percent of our potential, but we are still trying to establish the team and get the team spirit we want.
"There are a lot of new faces, so there is still a lot of work to be done."
South Africa, batting first, were boosted by a fighting 57 from Faf du Plessis, who provided the anchor in stands of 46 with Colin Ingram and 59 with Ryan McLaren as they rebuilt from a position of three for 37 after 11 overs.
A whirlwind 26 off 20 balls from Rory Kleinveldt helped push the total over 200.
South Africa started well with the ball, taking three wickets for 21, but the New Zealand middle-order kept the scoreboard moving.
The Black Caps were also helped by the addition of 31 extras, including 15 wides and three no-balls, which De Villiers said was unacceptable.
"It is something we will have to work on before the next game," he said.
"That is not acceptable at this level." For New Zealand, man of the match James Franklin produced a solid innings of 47 off 61
balls with good support from Nathan McCullum (24) and Kyle Mills (26) which edged the tourists from a seemingly hopeless position of 105 for seven to an unlikely victory.
"It was just a case of digging deep and seeing how far we could take the game," Franklin said.
"I got tremendous support from Nathan and Kyle and they took a lot of pressure from me." Cricket South Africa and Eskom apologised for the power failure which hit Boland Park during the New Zealand innings and which prevented any referrals to the third umpire. Neither captain, however, believed it affected the outcome of the game.
The teams meet again in the second of three ODIs in Kimberley on Tuesday. – Sapa


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Northwest Tucson needs a new, commercial landfill, DKL Holdings president Larry Henk believes.
Henk argues the eventual closure of Pima County's Tangerine Landfill, the fuel-burning distance to landfills in Pinal County, and the volume of trash that comes with growth in greater Tucson are all factors in support of the Marana Regional Landfill he proposes to build on 430 acres of land in West Marana.
Henk, with 25 years in the industry including time as president of the large Allied Waste company, has operated the waste collection company Tucson Recycling and Waste Services for five years. The firm hauls trash from a transfer station in Nogales, Ariz., as well as trash in greater Tucson and part of Pinal County.
"The opportunity I saw, with Tangerine closing … the obvious growth corridor is Marana toward Red Rock," Henk said.
"I know the market dynamics, and I see the growth," he said. "I do control a waste stream in this market I can deliver." And, Henk argues, he can capture other trash leaving the region by offering competitive pricing to haulers of municipal and residential waste.
"The great unknown is where does our fossil fuel cost go?" Henk said. "There are various issues I think are going to make fuel very expensive. We needed a location that was convenient, and within the wasteshed to minimize the cost of transportation."
Henk began searching for property. He arrived at the flat ground north of Avra Valley Road owned by Herb Kai, the large Marana landowner who is also the town's vice mayor.
"This was one of the more isolated parcels in the region," said Michael Racy, the veteran area government affairs representative and lobbyist who is working with DKL Holdings on the landfill project. "There are very few sites that are private, on designated truck routes, with good transportation access, with the appropriate character of surrounding uses, and a good buffer. It's really a mile all the way around the property."
A landfill on the Kai-owned property "would have minimal impact to the surrounding areas," Henk said. Avra Valley Road is designed for truck traffic, and has it now. "It is an industrial corridor, it is a designated truck route."
He believes the Marana Regional Landfill can have favorable environmental effect.
Proximity to the two branches of the Brawley Wash is "a positive," Henk said. "Both washes are not developable. It is a naturally occurring buffer, a half-mile in all directions, that cannot be developed." DKL has said it would restore the east branch of the Brawley Wash to its natural flow, allowing riparian vegetation to regain a foothold.
DKL would also work to create burrowing owl habitat within the acreage. "They need banks or berms," said Racy. "There would be a burrowing owl management area in all the berm around it."
Henk believes the landfill could help protect the desert from wildcat dumping. People dump on the desert because it's easy, and it doesn't cost anything. The Marana Regional Landfill "will obviously satisfy 'convenient,' which other facilities won't." He estimated Pima County spends half a million dollars a year to clean up wildcat dumping. The Marana landfill would offer two free dumping days per year. "I'm confident they'll go there," Henk said.
Henk lives in Chandler, a half-mile from that city's landfill. He's been in the industry "almost my entire working career," stretching back 25 years. "I take great pride in what I do, and I do it well.
"I recognize the solid waste is being generated. It has to be managed in an environmentally safe, economically feasible manner. I'm proud the facilities I operate are the best they can be."
DKL's principals
Larry Henk is president of DKL Holdings. He was chief operating officer and president of Allied Waste Industries, which had 355 collection companies, 65 recycling facilities and 167 active landfills while he ran it. Henk now operates waste-handling operations in Tucson, Nogales, Prescott Valley and Phoenix.
DKL vice president David Slager formed Arizona Waste Services in 1984. It was the first company in Arizona to implement a curbside recycling program. Previously, he worked as a welder and electrician for a subsidiary of Waste Management Inc., then was general manager at a privately owned waste collection company in the Midwest.


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SiteSnagger: Download Web Sites
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For Programmers: Inside SiteSnagger
SiteSnagger is a 32-bit Windows application written in C++ with MFC. It can be compiled with Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0. SiteSnagger's source code demonstrates several interesting programming techniques, including how to use the Win32 WinInet Internet communications routines, how to recognize and extract HTML tags from Web pages, and how to navigate through various levels of linked pages.
SiteSnagger communicates with a Web site's server using the WinInet calls built into Win32. The WinInet calls consist of various Internetxxx() functions that allow you to retrieve files, send requests to the server, and so forth. Before using the WinInet calls, you must establish a session using the InternetOpen() call. InternetOpen() returns a session handle that you must use in any subsequent WinInet calls. Once you've established a session, you can call InternetOpenURL() to open a particular URL. InternetOpenURL() can open FTP, Gopher, or HTTP URLs, but SiteSnagger only deals with HTTP URLs. If InternetOpenURL() is successful, then you can call InternetReadFile() to retrieve the data for the specified page. When you've finished using the WinInet calls, you must call InternetCloseHandle() with the session handle returned from InternetOpen().
The WinInet calls that SiteSnagger uses are synchronous. In other words, the program's execution is suspended while these calls are performed. Unfortunately, suspending execution in this manner can have a very bad effect on the painting of your program's user interface. If your application doesn't respond to a WM_PAINT message in a reasonable amount of time, then its main window becomes nothing more than a blank rectangle. To avoid this scenario, SiteSnagger uses the AfxBeginThread() call to create a separate thread for WinInet communications. This separate thread allows SiteSnagger's user interface to be responsive at all times, even during lengthy downloads. It also allows SiteSnagger's main window to be painted properly.


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22-8820 - 12 Piece Electronic Tool Kit
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21-9245 - Pocket Pak Silver Solder Tube .35 oz.
Convenient sized solders packaged in a portable tube for repairs anywhere. Solder is fed freely from easy to handle tube.
MCM is a great company. Very fast service and shipping of Raspberry Pi. Will tell all my friends to buy from MCM


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I encourage you to search the Bureau of Land Management. You many wonder why land records. The reason is really simple, by locating where a person owned land, it can lead you to other records to research. You can even see an actual copy of the document. The database includes records from 1820 to 1908. When you get those records, I would be happy to list them here.
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