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The Walton County Sheriff�s Office, in partnership with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, St Johns County Sheriff�s Office, Gainesville Police Department, Escambia County Sheriff�s Office, Pensacola Police Department, Bay County Sheriff�s Office, Tallahassee Police Department and Crestview Police Department, which are all members of the North Florida Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force, conducted an operation called �Operation Turkey Hunt� to take all violators into custody who traveled from multiple locations to Walton County with the intent to have sexual relations with a minor. The operation ran from Wednesday, Nov. 13 thru Monday morning, Nov. 18. During the course of the operation, numerous posts were placed on several social networking sites. The undercover profiles that were used online were mostly of juvenile females and males with the approximate age of 12 to 13 years old. The online advertisements had been posted to target suspects who engage in sexual activities with underage minors within the State of Florida.
Ten individuals responded to online advertisements through the use of email and electronic communications. During conversations with some of the suspects and the undercover officer, who was posing as a 12 year old female�s mother, the suspects solicited the �mother� to engage in sexual activity with the 12 year old female. Other conversations consisted of the suspect engaging in conversations with the undercover officer, posing as a 13 year old male, and the suspect solicited the 13 year old male to engage in sexual activity. During the course of the conversations, the suspects obtained an address and upon arrival at the location the suspects were all taken into custody. The suspect ages ranged from early twenties to early fifties and occupations run the gamut from active duty military, steel worker, retail sales, unemployed and a preacher. The suspects are the following:
John Reyes, 42 Mobile, AL
Ren Greco, 25 Lynn Haven, FL
Mohammed Alhamdy, 30 Fort Walton Beach, FL
Scott Newbern, 51 Sandestin, FL (originally from Brunswick, GA but was attending a conference)
Charles Maines, 21 Ebro, FL
Jerry Hartman, 40 Ft Rucker, AL
William Moodie, 24 Sandestin, FL
Timothy Coffey, 39 Fort Walton Beach, FL
Melvin Andrews, 24 Fort Walton Beach, FL
Nick Walker, 22 Freeport, FL
All suspects were booked at the Walton County Department of Corrections. Each suspect was issued a million dollar bond with the following release conditions: no contact with minors and wear an electronic tracking device.
Sheriff Mike Adkinson stated, �We want those individuals who would prey on our children to be afraid of what is waiting behind the door for them. I want them to understand that when it comes to protecting our children we are the boogeyman waiting to get them." To combat the online sexual exploitation of children, many hours were devoted to the planning and execution of this operation.
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I would like to bring to our community's attention the Spencer County Road Department and the help they have been. My hat's off to all the road department's staff and the hard work that goes with being a part of the task in keeping our roads drivable, especially the way our weather has been the past several years.
This last freezing weather really told the story about their work and the effort that goes forth in helping us get our kids to school as safe as possible.
In reference to the article last week noting that Fiscal Court had approved two Dodge trucks for the Sheriff's Office — a large portion of Chrysler is now owned by the Italian company Fiat. Chrysler is not even considered an American company by many these days because of the purchase by Fiat.
I understand Ford is not currently building a "police package" so the Chrysler cars I see running about town are understandable.
I would like to ask the citizens of Spencer County if they agree with the road department spreading coal ash on our roads.
It tracks onto my driveway and into my garage and house. It washes off the roads and pollutes the streams and lakes. When it's dry, the traffic kicks up dust.
I do appreciate them brine treating and plowing. I believe coal ash is a hazardous material. I would rather deal with the snow than black ash.
I write this letter trying to understand the situation at Spencer County Middle School.
Shelby Tyler Smith always had to have the last word in any conversation that he was involved in. He was a compassionate, caring, loving young man whose whole entire life revolved around serving the Lord.
He touched the lives and hearts of many and we will miss him very much until the day we are reunited with him in the kingdom of heaven. If Shelby could have one conversation with the people that he had never met, I believe with all my heart that it would start with one question, "Have you asked Jesus Christ into your heart?"
Most of the news today is about going over the cliff. If our President and Congress would take a look at where America is at today with God, they would see that we have already fallen over the cliff and hit hard on the bottom.
Thanks to everyone for another great Toys for Tots year. A special thanks to my helper Dean Curtsinger, who made it without any illness this year; Becky Wilson and her crew for getting all the toys given out; Mary Williams and her helpers for their ability to keep the toys sorted; and not the least, all the places that had the toy boxes and kept us informed on toy counts and pickups.
Bruce Kapfhammer
Toys for Tots
Sending Christmas love in a card — yes, that's what we sat out to do.
As a family, we sat down and started filling out Christmas cards for children at St. Jude's hospital fighting cancer. As we sat around one night signing cards, Frank, Billy and Frances pulled my attention toward the schools.
They said their classmates might want to sign some cards, and from there it went.
After the horrible shooting in Newtown, Conn., we must secure our schools. Our society has grown more violent [and we] need to protect our children. Having trained staff in our schools, as done in Israel, is the only way to buy those two or three minutes for extra law enforcement and medical care to arrive.
America has thousands of unemployed veterans that need jobs and have put themselves at risk for this country, they would do so for our children in a heartbeat. Israel had a similar problem, armed teachers who were veterans solved the problem. That should be the goal.
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MOSCOW—Mixed martial arts fighter Albert Kazaryan beat his Azerbaijani opponent Ruslan Muratazov on Sunday and dedicated his victory to the soldiers of Artsakh. Sunday marked the 24th anniversary of the liberation of Shushi.
It took the 23-year-old Kazaryan less than a minute to win the match.
To celebrate his win, Kazaryan entered the ring draped in the Armenian tri-color and the national flag of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. To accept his prize during the OFC8 competition, which was being held in Moscow's Luzhniki Sports Complex, Kazaryan emerged dressed in military fatigues to loud cheers from the crowd.
This is not the first time that Armenian athletes have dedicated their wins to the soldiers of Artsakh. Last month, Armenia's weightlifters Andranik Karapetyan, Nazik Avdalyan and Hripsime Khurshudyan also dedicated their victories at the European championships to the Armenian military.
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The premeasured packets help maintain proper dilution and control wasteful overuse. Thehighly concentrated cleaner can be used in a mop bucket or floor scrubber. A packet produces 2.5 gallons of cleaner that quickly dissolves grease, oil and fats. Additional packets may be used for larger areas.The eco-friendly product is biodegradable, non-corrosive, non-toxic and non-flammable. It contains no acids, abrasives or petroleum solvents.
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The New Zealand dollar dropped by about 1 US cent and swap rates fell after the Reserve Bank warned a surging kiwi for no good reason may force a rate cut, and said it doesn't plan to budge on the official cash rate this year.
The kiwi dollar sank as low as 81.63 US cents from 82.60 cents immediately before the statement, and recently traded at 81.82 cents. That's the lowest level since Nov. 22.
Reserve Bank governor Graeme Wheeler kept the OCR at a record low 2.5 per cent for a 16th straight meeting, blaming the overvalued currency and deteriorating drought for "creating difficulty in much of the country."
If the exchange rate climbs "for reasons not justified by New Zealand's economic fundamentals, all other things equal, this would lead to a lower-than-expected OCR," he said in the overview and key policy judgements section of today's statement.
If that "overshooting" in the currency continues, it creates "scope for a reduction in the OCR," Wheeler told media in Wellington.
That's due to cheaper imports reducing inflation and a stronger currency diminishing demand for exporters. Conversely, a sharp fall would also prompt a policy response.
The Reserve Bank sees the currency staying above 75 on the TWI until the June quarter next year, having previously seen it falling below 73 by the end of this year.
"A key factor on the dovish side was a bigger emphasis on the potential for OCR cuts in response to the NZD remaining at recent levels for 9 months longer than the RBNZ has factored in," ASB chief economist Nick Tuffley said in a note. "Today's statement appears delivered with an intent to bring a bit more balance back into markets, by reminding that OCR cuts are a possibility and the NZD is not a one-way bet upwards."
The central bank expects the 90-day bank bill, often seen as a proxy for the OCR, to start increasing in June next year, before accelerating in 2015 and rising to 4 per cent the following year. It had previously projected the rate staying on hold until December this year, rising to 3.3 per cent in March 2015.
Traders see 22 basis points of cuts over the next 12 months, based on the Overnight Interest Swap curve.
Two-year swap rates dropped 8.5 basis points to 2.83 per cent after the release.
David Croy, head of global markets research at ANZ New Zealand, said analysts lowered their expectations for interest rates based on the central bank's 90-day bank bill rate forecast.
ANZ is picking a rate hike in the first half of next year.
Dominick Stephens, Westpac Banking chief economist, said the fall in swap rates could lead to a drop in mortgage rates.
"That will stimulate the housing market further - an unhelpful development for the RBNZ," he said.
Local property prices rose 7.6 per cent last month on increasing sales numbers, according to Real Estate Institute figures. New Zealand's property market gains have been driven by a lack of supply in its biggest city, Auckland, and as the Canterbury rebuild gets underway.
"House price inflation is increasing and the bank does not want to see financial stability or inflation risks accentuated by housing demand getting too far ahead of supply," Wheeler said.
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"There is considerable uncertainty around these projections given the nature of supply and demand imbalances in the regional housing markets," the bank said. "We will closely monitor house prices for any signs of feed-through into consumer price inflation."
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A Really Cool Star: The Dim, Low-Temperature GL 105C
This is a Hubble Space Telescope picture of one of the least massive and coolest stars even seen (upper right). It is a diminutive companion to the K dwarf star called GL 105A (also known as HD 16160) seen at lower left. The binary pair is located 27 light-years away in the constellation Cetus.
Based on the Hubble observation, astronomers calculate that the companion, called GL 105C, is 25,000 times fainter than GL 105A in visible light. If the dim companion were at the distance of our Sun, it would be only four times brighter than the full moon.
The Hubble observations confirm the detection of GL 105C last year by David Golimowski and his collaborators at Palomar Observatory in California. Although GL 105C was identified before, the Hubble view allows a more precise measurement of the separation between the binary components. Future Hubble observations of the binary orbit will allow the masses of both stars to be determined accurately.
The Palomar group estimates that the companion's mass is 8-9 percent of the Sun's mass, which places it near the theoretical lower limit for stable hydrogen burning. Objects below this limit, called brown dwarfs, still "shine" - not by thermonuclear energy, but by the energy released through gravitational contraction.
Two pictures, taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (in PC mode) through different filters (in visible and near-infrared light) show that GL 105C is redder, hence cooler than GL 105A. The surface temperature of GL 105C is not precisely known, but may be as low as 2,600 degrees Kelvin (4,200 degrees Fahrenheit).
This image was taken in near-infrared light, on January 5, 1995. GL 105C is located 3.4 arc seconds to the west-northwest of the larger GL 105A. (One arc second equals 1/3600 of a degree.) The bright spikes are caused by diffraction of light within the telescope's optical system, and the brighter white bar is an artifact of the CCD camera, which bleeds along a CCD column when a relatively bright object is in the field of view.
These observations are part of a Guaranteed Time Observing Program for which William Fastie (the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD) and Dan Schroeder (Beloit College, Beloit, WI) were co-principal investigators.
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Michael Boggs, the conservative Georgia Democrat whose nomination by President Obama for a federal district court judgeship has raised the ire of liberals, will not get a quick vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) announced Tuesday that the panel will hold off on Boggs while it moves forward with a package of six other nominees to the District Court in Georgia and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.
Boggs was originally nominated by Obama as a part of that package, in a deal with the state's Republican senators, Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson. Under Leahy's rules, any senator can block a judicial nominee from their own state, and Chambliss and Isakson had stymied Obama's nominees in Georgia.
But as a member of the Georgia Legislature, Boggs had voted to reinstate a version of the Confederate flag as the state flag, opposed same-sex marriage and advocated restrictions on abortion. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus, women's groups and others have bitterly opposed his confirmation.
Being dropped from the vote on the rest of the package this week will make it harder for Boggs to win confirmation against concerted Democratic opposition.
But Leahy indicated that Boggs will at least get a vote in committee, where he will likely need several Democratic votes. That, however, does not guarantee him a vote on the Senate floor, where Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is already struggling to find time to vote on nominees in more favor with Democrats.


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For all the gods of the nations are idols, but the LORD made the heavens
Prior to the Copernican Revolution which did not begin until 200 years after the publication of his book; On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres in 1543, science and the world generally adhered to the Ptolemaic model of the universe, which had the earth at its center, with the sun revolving around it.
This view of the universe appealed to Christians and to science and for the most part, they were one in the same. The appeal came from Genesis; if God created the heavens and the earth and man was His principal creation in that universe, then it would make sense for the world to revolve around him metaphorically and for the rest of the universe to be centered around the earth in actuality.
Of course, the Bible itself never claimed the earth as the universe's center or that the sun revolved around it, a fact that seems to be lost on modern day Atheistic book authors. It was in fact science that promoted the Ptolemaic model remembering that in those days most scientists played on "God's team"-or thought they were.
Many point to the acceptance and realization that Copernicus was correct as the beginning of the scientific revolution. The Ptolemaic view of the universe had tended to keep the Atheists in check in the game of cosmic chess. This was because it appeared to tie Genesis to a specific view of the universe that seemed to in return support the Genesis account of creation.
Copernicus got them out of check. Before that, all the Atheists could do was move their pawns back and forth.
Intellectuals who wanted to disbelieve in God were seeking a rational method of understanding the universe and its creation that excluded God. The scientific revolution that began with the understanding that not only did the sun not revolve around the earth, but that we might be located at some insignificant address in the universe rather than on Main street created the climate that allowed Darwinism to be acceptable.
Darwin finally provided Atheists and Materialists with a "rational" model for believing in a self causing universe. Dawkins famously said that it allowed him to be intellectually fulfilled. After the acceptance of Darwin's theory by science, the big bang theory gave Cosmologists a companion "material causes theory" for the creation of the universe.
Unfortunately for Materialists, the promise of science has not materialized (pun intended). It turns out that the more we know, the less palatable are the big bang standard model and the more design in the universe and in living cells becomes apparent (intelligent design).
"……driving the superstring craze (infinite parallel universes) is the desire to escape intelligent design. The fine-tuning of the laws of physics for our existence has been studied now for well over 60 years. There's no escaping the anthropic principle.
If the laws and constants of physics were not what they are, we could not be here to study them. Theists have a ready answer for this. The God who spoke the universe and its laws into existence formed it to be inhabited. That cosmologists would escape into multiple universes to avoid the obvious is a measure of extreme desperation.
Where did this desperation come from? Think back to the late 19th century, when Darwinism was on the rise. Various social, political, economic and philosophical trends were moving away from natural theology and toward philosophical materialism. The Myth of Progress was the "in" thing. Materialists such as Tyndall and Huxley inculcated a third-order theory change: a change in what constitutes science itself. There were two sides to this theory change: an exclusion, and an inclusion. Moreland explains that Darwinism was an attempt to exclude theology from science. As a consequence, this led to the inclusion of storytelling. " CreationEvolutionHeadlines.com
The Copernican Gambit
In this cosmic game of chess, which has been going on at least from the time of the scientific revolution, there have been moves and countermoves on the part of Theists and Materialists with respect to the origin of the universe.
We live in a universe fine tuned for life. This knowledge grudgingly comes from science, not from believers, even though it is what we would expect. Science is stuck on its side of the chessboard throwing out weird defenses like dark matter and dark energy which is needed to make big bang work. This dark matter and energy which accounts for 95% of matter and energy can't be seen, tested or measured. This kind of thing, along with superstring theory, which also can't be falsified or tested, is making it difficult for the well read Materialist to be intellectually fulfilled.
But now, scientists "Blake Temple and Joel Smoller, mathematicians at the University of California and the University of Michigan, believe they have come up with a whole new set of calculations that allow for all the sums to add up without the need for this controversial substance." ..Telegraph.co.uk
At the last moment, a new strategy; the Copernican Gambit; a possible way to fix the big bang theory and to free materialists from the pressure of defending a theory that only accounts for 4% to 5% of observations. Can materialistic creation be saved?
'The new research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, is likely to be equally controversial as the work it purports to challenge especially as it relies on our galaxy being at the centre of the Universe"…. Telegraph.co.uk
The Copernican principle is the presumption that there is nothing special about our place in space and time; neither us humans nor our planet.
"Just when we thought we were out, (of the center) they pulled us back in"!
It probably should be called the "Reverse Copernican Gambit".
Dark energy may not actually exist, scientists claim
By Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent
Telegraph.Co.UK 18 Aug 2009
Dark energy – the mysterious substance thought to make up three-quarters of the universe – may not actually exist, claims new research.
The concept of dark energy was created by cosmologists to fit Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity into reality after modern space telescopes discovered that the Universe was not behaving as it should.
According to Einstein's work, the speed at which the Universe is expanding following the Big Bang should be slower than it actually is and this unexplained anomaly threatened to turn the whole theory upside down. In order to reconcile this problem the concept of dark energy was invented.
Are we being overloaded? But now Blake Temple and Joel Smoller, mathematicians at the University of California and the University of Michigan, believe they have come up with a whole new set of calculations that allow for all the sums to add up without the need for this controversial substance.
The research could change the way astronomers view the composition of our Universe.
The Standard Model of Cosmology, which describes the evolution of the Universe, begins with the Big Bang. Astronomers have recently observed that the galaxies are accelerating as they move away from each other, and cosmologists have sought to explain this unexpected acceleration by introducing the concept of dark energy, which permeates space, propels matter, and accounts for nearly 75 percent of the mass-energy in our Universe.
The new research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, is likely to be equally controversial as the work it purports to challenge especially as it relies on our galaxy being at the centre of the Universe – a concept that has been generally disregarded in modern science.
Dr Malcom Fairbairn, particle cosmologist at King's College London, said: "Ever since the concept of dark energy was first mentioned people have been trying to explain it or explain it away. It is a mystery and an inconvenience.
"This is one attempt at it. Whether it is right only time will tell."


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Yesterday I had decided to go on one last backpacking expedition while out on my trip, and had gotten my pack all ready. Therefore, after waking up early in my motel room in Salmon, ID and eating breakfast, I drove north out of town on U.S. 93 over Lolo Pass into Montana, took MT 473 through Conner, and then, after a wrong turn into a housing development, up the dirt Boulder Creek Road for a mile to the parking lot at its end. I had put on my outdoor clothes back at the motel, so I was able to start up the Boulder Creek Trail into the Bitterroot Mountains very quickly. My plan was to camp out for a couple nights, and climb nearby Trapper Peak, highest in this section of the Bitterroots, and/or a peak on the Idaho-Montana border.
It was a very hot, sunny day out, and my hike was up gradual uphill through thick forest on a well-maintained trail. After a few hours, when I estimated I was about halfway up the wide valley of Boulder Creek, I started looking for a campsite, but had a lot of trouble finding a good one. After many explorations I finally settled on a site in brush, back from the trail, on a bluff overlooking the creek at an elevation of about 5880 feet. Unfortunately, when I pitched my tent the fiberglas hoop that held up the tent's middle section snapped in half, leaving my tent sagging pretty badly. With one of my poles badly bent, too, I needed a new tent, but had to make due with what I had at present.
Once I had set up my camp I ate lunch in a clearing by the side of the trail, hung up my food, and then set back off up the trail, hoping to get to the crest of the Bitterroots at the Montana/Idaho border and back before nightfall. The going was easier without my full pack, but the trail seemed to go on forever. I passed an unsigned trail leading down to Boulder Lake, and then began climbing up to the crest in earnest as the forest thinned out and the trail became steeper and started switchbacking. I heard shots down below me as I neared the crest, and realized that fall was hunting season in most places. I was more scared of hunters than the grizzlies that supposedly roamed the Bitterroots, but to discourage them both I had the bright idea to attach my keys to the back of my pack so that their jingling would alert killer mammals of my presence.
I reached the crest of the range, and after a rest decided to hike south along the state line and maybe climb a knob or peak if one looked easy. I therefore walked on easy, rolling terrain of mixed meadow and forest, over a few humps, until I came to a steep drop-off to the cirque holding Boulder Lake. I couldn't easily go on, and it was getting late, so I retraced my steps, stopping to take a picture of a Montana-Idaho boundary monument and several more of the pretty fall foliage in full majesty in the Boulder Creek valley.
Just before returning to the trail I ran into a group of people, the hunters I had heard shooting below. There were a few young kids with rifles in this group of about five, and they were after mountain goat. I told them I hadn't seen any, wished them luck, and continued down the trail. It was a long but relatively easy hike on the trail back to my campsite, and I kept an eye out for a little cairn I had built to mark where my tent was off in the woods. I found it easily, and then retrieved my stove and food and took a nice long time preparing a nice hot dinner in the field by trailside, away from my tent--in bear country it's best to sleep and cook in different places. After cleaning up and hanging my food from a tree it was starting to get dark, so I retreated to my broken, sagging tent to spend the last night of my trip off away from the road.
Summary Total Data
Total Elevation Gain:
3140 ft / 957 m
4 (on a subjective 1-10 scale)
Route Conditions:
Maintained Trail, Bushwhack
Gear Used:
Tent Camp
Ascent Statistics
Gain on way in:
3140 ft / 957 m
Start Trailhead:
4500 ft / 1371 m
Descent Statistics
Ascent Part of Trip:
1992 - Trapper Peak
(1 nights total away from roads)
Complete Trip Sequence:
Boulder Creek Col South Peak
3140 ft / 957 m
(Attempt) Trapper Peak
1960 ft / 597 m
Total Trip Gain: 5100 ft / 1554 m Total Trip Loss: 3340 ft / 1018 m
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Letting go of my feeling that God has been hiding was a releasing experience. It brought me a sense of freedom I had never known. Learning that you grow to be more joyful in the crucible only when the heat is turned up has released me to know the presence of God in some of the areas of my life where I thought I was completely alone.
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For so long I had been afraid of anyone finding out about my being transsexual. I was afraid of even finding that out myself, or at least admitting it. I was so certain that God could never love me because of my being transgendered. He must hate it.
There are only two kinds of events in our lives, those we can do something about and those we cannot. If we can do something, then do it. Otherwise it is a waste of a good moment to worry about it. Life is meant to be lived to its fullest, and that can't happen if you are afraid.
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name and a face to what people generalize as a gay, lesbian, bisexual or
transgendered person.
Fear makes us
question whether or not we are even loved by God, it makes us doubt our own
goodness and worthiness to live. No wonder the phrase that most often
crosses Jesus' lips, in one form or another, is "Do not be afraid."
A lot of this is embarrassing, of course, on many levels. Not only was I
lusting after comics characters, I didn't even realize that I was lusting
after these paper creations. All the while, I piously chided my male peers
for how they looked at Farrah Fawcett's poster. "Embarrassing" doesn't even
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I am no longer interested in your condemnations of me.
What Jesus has been trying to convey to us over the centuries is this simple message ... we are not condemned ... we are blessed ... we are forgiven ... we are God's children ... no matter what. Jesus' message is one of grace, of love, of compassion, of justice, of mercy, of walking humbly with our God.
Based on the way the churches and ministers mistreated my mother and me and how the gay community has been so good to me, this leads me to believe that many churches are also very wrong in their teachings, condemnation, judgment, and mistreatment of gays and lesbians.
It takes no great historical awareness to say that homosexuals are an "offense" against Christianity (in fact it requires a lack of such awareness). Nor does it take much charity to escort homosexuals to the door of the church, actually as well as symbolically, and to close that door. And this failure of mercy -- not any "condition" of the homosexual, nor offense nor threat of their alarming presence in Rome -- is the scandal of the modern Church.
Does that pain matter? Some religious leaders say it is a good thing because
we need to hear the hard message of sin and the need for repentance. They
explain that they are speaking out of love. But what if they are wrong and
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of the military, harassed and taunted in the streets, and even killed by
teenagers with knives and baseball bats?
The resolution vote was preceded by the congregation's approval of
Constitutional changes allowing St. Paul-Reformation Lutheran Church to call
a pastor outside the guidelines of the Evangelical Church in America (ELCA).
These guidelines prohibit the ordination of gay or lesbian pastors
candidates living in committed relationships. Ms. Hill is a lesbian woman in
such a relationship.
Jesus helps us notice that the little things do make a difference and do
count in God's scheme of things: two copper coins and the sharing of meager
rations. And we are reminded that we are saved by one thing: the life and death of
one person, namely Jesus Christ, the author of our salvation.
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Although Muslim architecture has been investigated by both Muslims and non Muslims, it still remains omitted from main stream architecture theories and much of existing works are no more than curiosities undertaken by a group of sympathisers.
Although Muslim architecture has been investigated by both Muslims and non Muslims, it still remains omitted from main stream architecture theories and much of existing works are no more than curiosities undertaken by a group of sympathisers mostly Orientalists.
Here, the notion of Islamic architecture has been associated with Muslim monuments such as mosques, palaces, and castles. Some of these such as Briggs (1924) called it Muhammedan; a name Muslims take much objection to as it implies that Islam was started by Muhammed (pbuh) and not a continuation of God's message revealled to all Prophets before him. Sometimes, it is denoted as Saracenic, a crusaders name for the Muslims.
In some textbooks, we find deliberate silence, an example of this is Simpson's book, one of early key references of History of architecture. This 3 volume work, used as a major reference in western universities, touched upon the architecture of most nations but jumped from Sassanian and Byzantine architecture (4th and 5th century AD) to European Medieval architecture of the 11th century (Romanesque), ignoring some 500 years of Muslim architectural achievement (700-1200).
Hope (1835) provided a chapter on Islamic architecture entitled: "Derivation of the Persian, Mohammedan, and Moorish architecture from that of Byzantium". The title clearly demonstrates why Hope referred to Islamic architecture. Meantime, publications referring to it often present a shy coverage. Kostof (1994), for example, gave it a mere 8 pages with 5 figures in his 800 pages work.
Furthermore, there are views circulating in the West which reject the "islamisation" of architecture arguing that Muslim architecture was used by Orientalists only to differentiate it from other types of architecture. This prejudice is often argued by the misconception of Islam's reluctance to building and urbanisation which circulates among some Western scholars. They propound that the nomadic lifestyle of the Arabs discouraged any form of permanent settlement and thus any architectural or building tradition. Much of the building heritage of what is called Islamic architecture, they claim, came from Christian, Persian, or Indian origins and Muslims only imitated and sometimes employed masons from these cultures.
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- Although Islam opposes the exaggeration in unnecessary spending, it has no objection to comfortable life or wealth as such, nor to the enjoyment of this worldly life. Allah has subjected his creation to the use of his favourite creature (man), but man has to use it within the boundary of his Almighty's law and guidance. This is affirmed in Quranic verses:"Do you not see that Allah has made what is in the heavens and what is in the earth subservient to you, and made complete to you His favours outwardly and inwardly?" (31:20)
- Sources on the tradition of Muhammed (pbuh) show that he discouraged Muslims from miserable living. It is amply evident that he had worn rich clothes in festivities and was fond of exquisite perfumes and essences. His famous expressive saying (pbuh): "Strive for your earthly life as you live forever and strive for your hereafter as you will die tomorrow" sums it all up.
- In relation to building activity, we find indications in the Quran as well as in the tradition of the Prophet (pbuh) that the first builder was Prophet Adam (pbuh) who, under the guidance from Allah, built the Kaabah, the first earthly building. After him, it was Prophet Ibrahim (pbuh) (Abraham) and his son Ismail (pbuh) (Ishmail) who rebuilt it after its collapse some 800 years before Prophet Suleiman (pbuh) (Solomon) built his famous temple, which some Westerners consider as the origin of architecture. The Quran also refers to building in a number of occasions. In Surah 66, Ayah 11, for example, the wife of the Pharaoh in her supplication says: "my Lord! build for me a house with Thee in the garden and deliver me from Firaon (Pharaoh) and his doing, and deliver me from the unjust people". Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) participated in the construction of his mosque by carrying bricks. He also helped in the construction of dwellings of some of his followers. In one of his sayings, he stressed that "Whoever built a mosque, with the intention of seeking Allah's pleasure, Allah will build for him a similar place in Paradise" (Summarised Sahih Al-Bukhari, 1994, p.181).
From the above, it appears clearly that despite the fact that early arabs lived a nomadic lifestyle which discouraged buildings, Islam has no objection to building and urbanisation. On the contrary it requests the sons of Adam "to work and settle Earth if they are to fulfil their main divine purpose, as Allah's entrusted servants (Khalifs)". As for borrowing from other cultures, we find the argument endorsing the universal concept of the message of Islam. Islam's accommodation and tolerance to other cultures have been its strongest point: "There is no difference between An Arab (Muslim) and a non Arab except by Piety" declares the Prophet (pbuh). "Believers are but brethern" adds the Quran (49:10). In no other part of the world was the population so diversified, yet united, than in the Muslim World. This is the secret of the success story of Muslim art, architecture, science and technology of the Middle ages. Its expansion over a vast territory, incorporating three continents, provided a cultural richness that played a significant role in the elaboration of Muslim art and architecture.
Converts from Christian, Persian and Indian origins enthusiastically redefined their knowledge, as well as their experience in arts, industry and various accomplishments of their respective nations, to conform with Islamic values and injected it into their new world. Muslims were not blind imitators but "were content to adopt each local style that they found, modifying it mainly in distinctive ornamental details, but also introducing several important new features of plan and structure" (Fletcher, (1961, p.1226). On the other hand, early imitation or sometimes adaptation of non-Muslim buildings was deliberate, as these buildings were often communal centres for pagan societies.
The early introduction of a completely alien architecture was not desirable as Islam remoulded existing traditions and built on them the new value and life systems. So, these centres which played important community roles in ignorant pagan times, provided new enlightened rays of the new belief. The early use of churches in Syria and Spain, and temples in Persia and India is evidence of these attitudes. According to H. Saladin (1899), the plan of the mosque was derived from older Semitic sanctuaries. Muslims have always maintained that Islam is a purification and renovation of Allah's old religion revealed to previous Prophets Ibrahim, Moses and Jesus (pbuh). The building of mosques and diffusion of the new architecture did not take place until Islam became established in that community or region. For example, in Spain and Sicily Muslim architecture clearly showed no connection with existing Visigoth and Lombard/Byzantine building cultures.
As Islam took firm roots and a degree of economic and cultural prosperity was reached, unique core architectural features, forms and techniques evolved. Such factors became distinguishing features of Muslim and Islamic architecture. Similarly, the existence of other elements unique to Christian or Japanese architecture would define their building style.


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David Poile (born February 14, 1950 in Toronto, Ontario) is the Executive Vice President of Hockey Operations and General Manager of the NHL's Nashville Predators.
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Woodwind Ensemble Debuts at Fall Concertby Steve Charles • November 14, 2008 Share:
The Jazz Band earned a standing ovation and the Brass Ensemble played beautifully on an impressive range of pieces, but the most notable performance from Wednesday night's concert at Salter Hall came from the smallest and newest group.
The College's new Woodwind Ensemble—Tom Pizarek '09 on bassoon, Jason Allen '10 on flute, and Matthew Meyer '12 and Stephen Maynard '11 on clarinets—opened the concert with an impressive debut, playing Johann Sebastian Bach's "Suite No. 1 in D Major."
"When I arrived on campus this fall, I was told that the Music Department had realized that there was a lot of top-notch talent in the area of woodwinds, and that they were trying to start up a woodwind ensemble," Assistant Professor of Music Vanessa Rogers, the ensemble's director, said of the group's genesis. "I was really pleased to find that the woodwind players who expressed interest in being in this ensemble had so much talent—this is why we started off the year with a Bach piece, which can be very difficult to pull off!"
"The members of the Woodwind Ensemble are also very involved (as most Wabash men are) in a million other things on campus, so we have only had a few short rehearsals," Rogers added. "To make up the Ensemble, we have a variety of instrumentalists assembled together—unfortunately, I have yet to find a composition that is written for that exact configuration of instruments! So we are arranging a lot of other good music to fit this configuration and the talent of our members. This year we will hope to be performing everything from Renaissance music to Mozart to the Beatles—so our audiences will hear a little bit of everything.
"There is a lot of musical talent on the Wabash campus, and I'm really hoping that more great woodwind players will come out of the woodwork and join our group once they hear us play," Professor Rogers said. "We are especially looking for an oboe player!"
Click here for a photo album from Wednesday's concert featuring the Brass Ensemble, Woodwind Ensemble, and Jazz Band.
In photo: Tom Pizarek '09 plays bassoon alongside clarinetist Matthew Meyer '10.


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This particular cake which was highly recommended by my friend Rinku of Kitchen Treats became an instant hit and has been tried thrice already and will be baked many many more times I am sure as this recipe is a keeper. R loves simple cakes – the plain jane variety – no icing, no fuss, no frills and definitely no chocolate! Man! It's hard to survive with someone who doesn't like chocolate in anything. No chocolate cakes or brownies for him he says. Just to please me he takes a bite at the most. But I bake chocolate cakes anyways as the little fellow can't get enough of chocolate. Suits me fine! But thanks to the man and his choice of cakes, I have bookmarked a whole lot of cakes that don't make use of even a speck of cocoa. I am particularly keen to try out the sponge cakes that are so famous in Mangalorean bakeries. I hope I find a good one that is at least a close contender to the ones I've grown up eating if not the perfect one.
The reason why I have made this cake umpteen number of times is because the main ingredient – butter is found in abundance in my kitchen these days. Well, we have kind of switched over to fresh milk from the local dairy instead of the store bought tetra packed milk. I think its a better and wiser choice as it is fresh, wholesome and also leaves me with a whole lot of dairy byproducts. The amount of fresh /heavy cream that I get after pasteurizing the milk is enough to throw me into a tizzy – I not only have home made butter, but also home made buttermilk and ghee these days and the whole process of making each of these items from scratch is enjoyable and satisfying.
As I have mentioned before in some of my posts, its always a headache to find unsalted white butter when a recipe calls for it. Most grocers in my area stock up only salted 'Amul' butter and although its not a sin to replace unsalted butter with the salted one, not every recipe will be happy to accommodate my laziness. Unless I am prepared to walk miles to hunt for white butter I usually resort to the Parsi Dairy white butter that is available in Godrej Nature's basket, however, I am not happy with the quality as it usually tastes and smells slightly rancid which is blasphemous for a butter cake. You simply cannot afford to use poor quality butter in a butter cake can you?
Do make sure you use the best quality ingredients for this cake as there are no other flavours to morph the original buttery taste & texture here. This cake is best eaten warm and fresh out of the oven (wait until the cake is out of the pan though!). If you intend storing it for longer than a day, refrigerate it and pop it in the microwave for 15-20 seconds before serving – this warms up the butter and refreshes the cake immediately.
Anyway, all I can say about this cake is that it has a beeeeautiful texture and a plain, easy and melt-in-the-mouth flavour, almost like, well, butter! Hehe (it's not called 'butter' cake for nothing). The recipe obviously asks for a huge amount of butter (more than the quantity of flour) so its not something you would want to indulge in too often if you are health conscious (although I bet you'd like to!). It's the kind of cake that can be made for a simple tea party and you can safely assume that everybody will like it and reach out for some more. It's a perfect accompaniment to a nice hot cup of tea or coffee or plain milk and will appeal to the anti-chocolate league members, toddlers and those looking out for something simple to satiate their sweet tooth.
You can also get creative and take this cake to another level by serving it with some chocolate sauce. I used Hershey's and it was brilliant. The simplicity of the butter cake teamed with the rich smoothness of the chocolate was amazing (although I am not a huge fan of Hershey's syrup – next time I must try a different brand). The little boy had a lot of this combo and the big boy just liked it plain – slice after slice.
I have simply halved the ingredients in the recipe below. The measures are perfect if you intend to serve just 3-4 people, but I suggest you make the entire cake if possible as it simply melts in the mouth and you'll be reaching out for more!
Butter Cake
Preparation time: 15min | Baking time: 30-35min (for below quantity) | Yield : 8-10 medium sized slices
You Need:
- 100gm/3/4th cup all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder * see notes
- 100gm sugar * see notes
- 1/4 tsp salt * see notes
- 125 gm unsalted butter * see notes
- 2 eggs at room temperature
- 2 tbsp milk
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1. Preheat oven at 180 C for 15mins. Prepare a 8″x4″ loaf pan (* see notes) by either lining it with parchment/butter paper or greasing it well with butter and then dusting it with flour.
Sift the flour, baking powder & salt at least 2-3 times. This helps make the cake all the more fluffy.
2. In a large mixing bowl beat the butter & sugar until pale. Add one egg at a time and beat well.
3. Pour in the vanilla extract and mix till incorporated.
4. Add the flour in 2-3 parts alternating between flour and milk (ie add one part flour to the butter egg mixture and mix well with a spatula.
5. Pour the batter into the prepared tin and bake for 30-35 minutes or till the skewer inserted comes out clean. My cake was done in exactly 32 minutes.
6. Remove the tin from the oven and place it to cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Careful invert the cake on to the wire rack and tap the tin so that the cake slides out easily. Allow to cool completely before cutting it.
7. Serve with a hot cup of tea, coffee or milk or simply enjoy it plain. You can also cut up each slice into chunks and eat it with chocolate sauce poured over it
1. The original recipe makes a note of 'double action baking powder' – you can use any brand of baking powder in India. Weikfield specially mentions 'double action' on the box. Other brands are Bluebird and Bakers which are also double action. Apparently there is a 'single action' baking powder that is often used for commercial baking.
2. The original recipe asks for 90gm sugar, however I increased it by another 10 grams as it results in a perfect moderately sweet cake. I used regular granulated sugar and powdered it using a dry mixer jar.
3. If you are using salted butter (like Amul), skip the addition of salt. Most cake recipes that ask for unsalted butter do not ask for salt, but it is always advisable to add a pinch or two as it helps bring out the flavours in the cake.
The original recipe is for the full quantity, I have halved it here. For the full quantity it is advisable to use a 7″x7″ square pan and not a 9″x9″.. A bigger square pan will result in a slightly flatter cake.


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Brave volunteers save the day in the Battle of the East Solomon Islands
On this day in 1942, U.S. forces continue to deliver crushing blows to the Japanese, sinking the aircraft carrier Ryuho in the Battle of the East Solomon Islands. Key to the Americans' success in this battle was the work of coastwatchers, a group of volunteers whose job it is to report on Japanese ship and aircraft movement.
The Marines had landed on Guadalcanal, on the Solomon Islands, on August 7. This was the first American offensive maneuver of the war and would deliver the first real defeat to the Japanese. On August 23, coastwatchers, comprised mostly of Australian and New Zealander volunteers, hidden throughout the Solomon and Bismarck islands and protected by anti-Japanese natives, spotted heavy Japanese reinforcements headed for Guadalcanal. The coastwatchers alerted three U.S. carriers that were within 100 miles of Guadalcanal, which then raced to the scene to intercept the Japanese.
By the time the Battle of the Eastern Solomons was over, the Japanese lost a light carrier, a destroyer, and a submarine and the Ryuho. The Americans suffered damage to the USS Enterprise, the most decorated carrier of the war; the Enterprise would see action again, though, in the American landings on Okinawa in 1945.
As for the coastwatchers, Vice Adm. William F. Halsey said, "The coastwatchers saved Guadalcanal, and Guadalcanal saved the Pacific."
Footnote: It was a coastwatcher who arranged for the deliverance and safe return of John F. Kennedy and his crew when they were stranded in the Solomons in 1943.


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Adam H wrote:And everyone who thinks it's scummy to change votes: screw you! Things got ridiculous and the day was gonna end! It is very annoying to be encouraged to A) keep my vote on someone even though I think someone else is more likely to be scum or B) withhold my vote until I'm "sure" who scum is. And I think that encouragement is anti-town enough to warrent some more FoSes, so I'll slather those on greenlover and mpolo (and FAOT...).
To summarize, scummiest: GoP, mpolo, greenlover, wei, bio (though I'm pretty sure he's jester). However, FAOT looks really scummy to me from reading back and from the aforementioned "scumtells" so perhaps I'm just bad at this.
It's not scummy to change votes, but it is scummy to do so very often, because it looks like you are just trying to see if you can get a wagon running on various different players.
I'm not quite sure what you are accusing me of…


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Orangutans hit the ground walking
Red apes leave the trees when nobody's watching
© Andrew Hearn, Joanna Ross
Logging has orangutans on the run in Borneo. But an unappreciated tendency to go to the forest floor and scoot short distances while upright or on all fours gives red apes a chance to survive in patchy, partially destroyed forests, researchers report February 13 in Scientific Reports.
More than 1,400 unobtrusive video cameras recorded 641 instances of orangutan ground travel between June 2006 and March 2013. Orangutans left the trees as frequently in dense forests as in areas hit hard by logging, indicating that this is Bornean orangutans natural behavior, says a team led by veterinarian Marc Ancrenaz of HUTAN/Kinabatangan Orangutan Conservation Program in Sabah, Malaysia.
Ground travel enables orangutans to forage for shoots, termites and other food, Ancrenaz says. Unfortunately, it also makes the apes more vulnerable to hunters and humanborne infections.
Adult males engaged in the most ground travel.


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I am Blackhawk, the Leader of Strayhold. I wish to inform you about our guild, and perhaps, chat in game if you like.
Strayhold is a guild here on Silverlode... You may have seen some of our members in game: Sheherazade, Andring, Rahne and Glasja, among others. I hope your encounters with them have been as enjoyable in passing as mine are daily.
On the old forums, you may have known me as Imzakhor, and I was espousing running a permadeath guild named Elder Servitor. Well, with the introduction of "nobody ever dies" idea, there was no real reason to continue this train of thought. Even so, we decided to create a guild, and Strayhold is it.
Aside from our friendships and adventures, we are a guild that shuns the auction hall as a method for gearing up our players. Purchasing ore in the AH is encouraged; purchasing Awesome_Axe_01 is severely discouraged.
*31May2009 Edit: due to some changes in LotRO, usage of the Auction Hall to purchase gear is now officially sanctioned in Strayhold, and actively encouraged. Please visit our site for a more detailed explanation of this change to Strayhold Policy.*
That is all for now, thank you for reading. I am not really looking to 'recruit' members here, just inform those of you on our server who we are, and what we are about. We will always remain a smallish guild, hoping to eventually retain a core of 30-35 players is a goal.
More than that, I hope to enjoy LotRO as much as I have always enjoyed Middle-earth, in all its forms.
Please, visit our website at http://kinship.strayhold.com, where we have forums dedicated to this wonderful game.


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coach v does different kinds of coaching!!!
hey thats mean...i do have a good reputation you know
You know I'm messing with you, right. I only do it because I like you.
Yeah, stop picking on CoachV. He hasn't been caught yet...
The guy on the right looks like the Pringles guy. lol
Or John S in his fifties? :-)
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Compass and Scale Image for CANDELS Ultra Deep Survey Image
Ultra Deep Survey (UDS) field and Distant galaxies
This image was created from HST data from proposal 12064: S. Faber (University of California, Santa Cruz), et al. The science team for this release is led by A. van der Wel (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany), and the images were produced by A. Koekemoer (STScI).
ACS/WFC: F606W (V) and F814W (I)
WFC3/IR: F125W (J) and F160W (H)
This image is a composite of many separate exposures made by the ACS and WFC3 instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope using different filters that isolate broad wavelengths. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic image. In this case, the assigned colors are:
Blue: F606W (V)
Green: F814W (I)
Red: F125W (J) + F160W (H)


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In search of Malvasia roots
Thu 22 Sep 2005
Since the beginning of June, two Croatian scientists have been searching for the true roots of the Malvasia grape. The scientists, Edi Maletic and Ivan Pejic, are famous in California for being the first to use DNA to trace the roots of Zinfandel to Croatia's Crijenak Kastelanski varity.
The scientists will travel around the Mediterranean coastline stopping at Venice and other ports along the route before reaching their final destination of the southern Greek port of Monemvassia. Malvasia - the name itself is a corruption of the name Monemvassia - was shipped all over Europe during the 13th and 14th centuries, mainly because of its ability to withstand long sea voyages. It is widely belived that Malvasia originated from the Greek Peloponnesian islands but scientists now want to scientically prove the genetic bond between the Greek Version and the Croatian Malvazija Istarska.
To try some wine made from Malvasia grapes, why not try our Colegiata Blanco from Bodegas Farina. A lovely soft wine with a delicate hint of apricot, without being over sweet, this wine will make you think twice about Spanish white wine!


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Strategic cats drive engagement
I am pleased to announce that today we are launching the culmination of a months-long research project designed to find strategic new ways for us to drive greater user engagement on site. The result is another Bonanza-first innovation that we think may soon become standard amongst top-tier commerce sites. We are calling it "Bonanza... with cats!"
Recently surging sites like Pinterest and Facebook have clearly demonstrated the value in building a product that can get its users engaged. To date, Bonanza has focused almost exclusively on building the best buying experience and selling experience, bar none. While these functions can be quite useful when one decides to go shopping, years of Internet usage have proven that, on a day-to-day basis, people tend to choose cats over commerce 9 times out of 10. We figure it is high time that we stop fighting human nature, when we can instead build an experience that takes the best of "cats" and "commerce" and bundles it into one exciting package. We are calling this new hybrid model "cat commerce," or "CC" for short.
If you are a logged in Bonanza user, you are now only a single click away from an engaging CC experience. For launch, we have created a collection of about 10 CC experiences. In the coming months, we hope to release a new CC feature daily. By 2013, we should have several hundred. Oh, and did I mention that cat commerce will be completely FREE for our subscribing members? After April, non-subscribing members will be able to enjoy cats at just 5 cents per cat, with volume discounts available. And during our launch month of April, we are going to let all registered users enjoy cats at absolutely no cost. Non-logged in buyers will need to sign up for an account to use cats.
We are extremely excited about the potential for "Bonanza... with cats!" to consolidate the most fundamental forces on the Internet. No longer will users need to visit fifteen different sites to fill their daily quota of shopping and cats.
Following the rollout of "Bonanza... with cats!" we look forward to eventually incorporate other popular animals, including dogs and horses. Just click on the "with cats" words in our logo (or below) to get started.
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Outside the classroom, there are a number of practical outlets for talented singers and musicians, including various music ensembles, choirs, orchestras and the EU Marching Band.
Music graduates are regularly accepted into the finest graduate programs in music, perform professionally and are regarded as some of the finest music educators throughout the United States.
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Same day appointments are available during business hours. Online ESA certificates are legit only after a telehealth visit with a licensed MD.
People were refused to fly with their pets by airlines companies
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Lynwood residents who have obtained an Emotional Support Animal Certificate report positive benefits both mentally and financially. The benefits of the ESA treatment is to reduce the levels of stress, anxiety, and solitariness. Financially, an ESA Letter can save you out of pocket charges for your beloved cat. Landlords can't charge cat fees nor ask for pet deposits for housing. Another pro is that Airlines have to allow an ESA cat to fly in the Cabin without charging a pet travel fee.
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Plant diseases caused by Phytophthora species present major limitations to food security in the developing world. Late blight on potato caused by Phytophthora infestans caused the Irish famine, and Phytophthora species also limit production of cacao, taro and horticultural crops. Phytophthora is easily spread through international trade of plant materials and via airborne spores. Since plant pathogens do not carry passports nor recognize national borders, having a network of well-trained network of plant diagnosticians around the world benefits agriculture in the United States and abroad.
The international team led a diagnostic workshop in Honduras attended by 21 plant disease diagnosticians from six Latin American countries. Technologies for conducting rapid and accurate diagnostic assays for Phytophthora in plant and water samples under real-world working conditions were taught over four lab-intensive days. Students learned basic pure culture methods for isolating Phytophthora, morphological identification techniques, and state-of-the-art molecular diagnostics assays including PCR, ELISA and DNA sequences to identify species. The workshop was held at Zamorano University, which also hosts the Horticulture Innovation Lab Regional Center.
This was the second in a series of plant disease diagnostic workshops held in Latin America. The first workshop, also funded by USAID through the Horticulture Innovation Lab, was held in June 2010 and formed the basis of the Latin American Phytophthora Diagnostic Network,a network of well-trained plant disease diagnosticians throughout the region. Further workshops are planned for Southeast Asia and Africa.
With funding from USAID, the Horticulture Innovation Lab builds international partnerships—like this one between NC State plant pathologists and Latin American scientists—for fruit and vegetable research to improve livelihoods in developing countries.