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Everyone in this room wants to be a millionaire. What sets them apart from the rest of the schlubs who want the Big M is they're attending the Millionaire Mindset Conference in the downtown Dallas Hyatt Regency. They have shelled out between $995 and $9,995 for the privilege of hearing bona fide millionaires --Christian millionaires
-- tell their Horatio Algers.
Millionaire Mindset Conference
In order to be a millionaire, you've got to think like a millionaire. And the Mindset Conference can offer that to you. Because once you buy into the conference, you're part of an elite Christian wealth-building force called Advantage Conferences. It's run by a guy from Allen, Texas, named Tim Darnell. Never heard of him? Your loss. Because he's got the tools to make you rich. All you need is a check and what he calls SUB: Sustained Unwavering Belief. It's like the Advantage Conferences web site says: "Doubters, skeptics, low self-image individuals need not apply." It's how AC weeds out people who doubt they can get rich. Since all those low-self-image individuals have been bused back to Loserville, you can be assured that everyone here is a go-getter.
And, as with all things, this is all made possible by the grace of Christ. Today's portion of the conference kicks off with a sermon by Darnell's dad, holder of a Duke doctorate of divinity.
David Darnell starts by recapping yesterday's exploration of Numbers 12. That's where God says he speaks to Moses not in riddles or dreams, but face-to-face and clearly.
"Think about that difference," he says, "between face-to-face and riddles."
And now, it's Matthew 6:5-15. That's where, Darnell says, Jesus introduces the word "hypocrite" into Biblical literature. Hypocrites are actors, showboating their religion, making a big deal of how pious they are.
Darnell puts it this way: "Don't practice your religion to be seen by people."
This is just part of the knowledge you get when you give Advantage Conferences your $10,000. It might be worth it, since it turns out that Jesus was a pretty smart guy, what with warning about hypocrites and all. And that wasn't his only warning. David Darnell didn't discuss it, but if he would've jumped ahead one chapter in Matthew, he could've pointed out something else Jesus said: "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves."
Given the histories of Tim Darnell and his current and past business partners, it's a passage that the hundreds of people who have joined Advantage Conferences might have done well to consider.
The first thing you need to know about Timothy Spencer Darnell is that he's not a U.S. citizen. Or at least not when it suits him.
In 2001, three months after a former client sued Darnell, Darnell filed an affidavit in Dallas County Court claiming that he's not a citizen, that the Dallas County Court-at-Law #3 is "an underling corporate fiction of the State of Texas, a corporation and a fiction," and that the court has no jurisdiction over him. Darnell's renunciation of the United States of America was supplemented by supporting affidavits by other Dallas-area noncitizens who claimed that Darnell "cannot receive a fair and impartial trial by jury of his peers by law in County Court-at-Law #3." When contacted by the Houston Press, affiant Mary Lou Starnater declined to say why she filed that affidavit, then hung up. (Darnell's wife's maiden name is Starnater.)
Brett Flagg, the Dallas attorney who represented Darnell's disgruntled client, said his client invested several thousand dollars in a company Darnell ran called Tru Dynamics. Flagg said the affidavit signaled a hard row ahead for his client, who decided to just call it a loss and move on.
Darnell has an entirely different recollection. He says he did not file the affidavit in response to a suit, but as a response to an affidavit filed by someone else that included Darnell's name in all upper-case letters.
Maybe it's best to let Darnell explain in his own words:
"The use of my name in upper-case letters...What that does, when you use uppercase letters, it signifies that you are a state-created entity. In other words...you're not a living human being, you're a corporation. And I was disputing that fact by this affidavit."
Uh, okay. And that stuff about not being a U.S. citizen?
Darnell offers this clear, riddle-free response:
"There is a definition of the United States...the specific definition of that is Washington, D.C. and Guam and some of the holdings of the United States -- I think it's a 17-mile radius, if I remember correctly, around the capital: there's a definition that says that that's what the United States is, and I am clarifying that that is not the case. I do not live there."
Specifically, Darnell lives in Allen, Texas, which has been home base for a multitude of multilevel-marketing companies he's been part of since graduating with a degree in sociology/psychology from Texas Tech in 1980. On the shorter side, with dark-brown hair he wears long in the back, the 52-year-old Darnell has a warm, friendly drawl that no doubt helps sell Advantage Conferences.
And here's a good time to explain exactly what Advantage Conferences is. According to its web site, it's "a higher-learning educational products company that helps individuals on a massive scale improve their thinking as regards 'wealth.'" In the company's online flash presentation, Darnell claims that Advantage's business model is a unique, time-tested formula sculpted by brilliant marketing minds over many years.
"We are federally protected with the official trademark on this type of compensation...so we are the players in this particular kind of compensation," he says.
Well, actually, they're not. There is no federally protected trademark on this business plan, which Darnell calls "reverse margin" and a bunch of other things. Others call it by other names such as "pyramid" or "Aussie 2-Up."
Advantage's products include business books and CDs, but the flagship is the Millionaire Mindset Conference.
Here's how it works: Once Bob pays $10,000 to go to the Millionaire Mindset Conference, he is considered an Advantage "rep." Bob is qualified to make $7,000 off of each person he recruits at the $10,000 level. But that commission doesn't kick in until the third person he recruits. The commissions for the first two go to a person above Bob (hence "Aussie 2-Up").
You can join Advantage for $60, but you don't get the conference at that level. Candidates are encouraged to join at the $10,000 level. This allows them to make the most money by "selling" the conference.
In the flash presentation, Darnell suggests that it's a waste of time for anyone to join at any level other than $10,000. He says that start-up cost is "a joke" when compared to the higher costs of buying a franchise restaurant. And what if a candidate balks at the entire concept?
"This is not for everybody. Most people want to stay where they're at in their mediocrity and their complacency," Darnell explains. But if you don't want to be mediocre, you will do whatever you can to pay that $10,000, even if you have to borrow it. And what of the perceived difficulty of getting your first three recruits? In one case, Darnell suggested that new recruits imagine a gun pointed at their kids' heads, and that their lives depend on getting those recruits. Under those circumstances, anyone will come up with a plan.
But last November, Darnell ran into a problem. When he tried to hitch his remarkable business formula to the Dallas Better Business Bureau's post, the Bureau smelled a pyramid.
The Bureau asked Darnell for proof that ten Advantage reps had made at least $7,000. Darnell provided the names of ten people and no hard financial data, which the Bureau concluded did not constitute "proof." The Bureau also criticized Darnell's advertising claims. So Darnell rejoined the ranks of U.S. citizens and sued the BBB in the very court he previously claimed had no jurisdiction over him. He accused the Bureau of defamation, business disparagement and negligence, among other things.
In October 2005 the Bureau's online report of Advantage included the following: "This company has an unsatisfactory record with the Bureau due to its failure to modify, substantiate or discontinue advertising; concerning copyright and trademark protection claims; earnings; and evidence that the company primarily engages in promoting a pyramid scheme."
In his lawsuit, Darnell accused the Bureau of defamation. In its response to the suit, the Bureau stated: "Not only did the BBB have 'evidence' that [Advantage] is primarily engaged in promoting a pyramid scheme, but that evidence is overwhelming...Any claim by [Advantage] that commissions are paid only on 'sales' of the conference is nothing more than form over substance. These sales occur only inside the pyramid."
The Bureau's response also states: "Unlike Amway, whose compensation plan stressed that retail selling was essential, [Advantage] has no requirements whatsoever that a representative make any retail sales of the conference -- or any other product -- to non-participants...Not surprisingly, there has not been a single retail sale of the conference thus far; i.e., every attendee of the conference has been an [Advantage] representative interested in the income opportunity of large commission income."
And: "[Advantage] exerts tremendous psychological and economic pressure on a new representative to make the large initial purchase...Accordingly, AC itself describes the failure to purchase the conference as 'business suicide'...Playing upon greed and fear of losing a good deal is a common psychological tactic employed by pyramid schemes."
After suing the Bureau, Darnell gave a deposition and several affidavits explaining why Advantage was legitimate and how the Bureau did not have the facts.
Darnell stated in one affidavit: "[Advantage] is not a pyramid because no purchase of the conference or business opportunity is required to be able to sell conference tickets. To sell a conference ticket, a rep needs to pay a $59.95 independent contractor fee...Additionally, it is important to emphasize that [Advantage] screens out individuals who are looking for a get rich quick scheme and that there are many individuals who wanted to purchase a conference ticket and sell conference tickets who were not allowed to."
Advantage begins its highly selective qualification process with an online "interest form," which begins by asking a candidate if they are "serious about earning" $100,000, $250,000 or $500,000 a year. The candidate must then read a "Getting Started" overview touting Advantage's ingenious compensation plan. This overview states that many candidates fail the final selection plan, which is a personal interview with Darnell.
"We don't need 'flakes,' 'whiners' or 'projects' here," the overview states.
So if you're not a whining flake, and you're serious about earning a couple hundred grand this year, there's a very good chance you're Advantage material.
According to the Bureau's response, "Although [Advantage] claims that a recruit can qualify...by paying the application fee of $59.95 and 'selling' three conferences...no one qualifies in this fashion...[Advantage] questions a representative's commitment to building the business if the conference is not purchased."
A Dallas judge granted the Bureau's motion for summary judgment last October. Advantage was ordered to cover the Bureau's court costs.
The lawsuit, and Advantage as a whole, is fodder for discussion on watchdog web site www.scam.com. Since the forum also has its share of Advantage supporters, the Press posted a query to hear from those with both positive and negative experiences with the company.
Satisfied reps flooded an e-mail inbox with testimonials of how Advantage was a life-changing decision. They praised Darnell's integrity and the efficacy of the program. The name Jesus Christ was mentioned quite a bit. They talked about values, leadership, quality and God's will. In fact, they talked about everything except how much money they actually made by selling the program, or if they even had an income stream outside the program. While many of them ran web sites with names like "earn7kathome.com," when asked point-blank what they actually earned, it suddenly became rude to talk about money.
So where did Darnell get his training? Why should you feel comfortable giving him your $10,000? Let's take a look.
After graduating Texas Tech, Darnell toured with his gospel group, Dreamer. He was drawn into the business world of multilevel marketing. He cut his teeth at companies like Amway, and, he says, "I became fairly adept at compensation plans and actually wrote the compensation plan for a company called United Sciences of America in 1986. And that was a big program here in the Dallas area."
Carrollton-based United Sciences sold a nutritional plan that included something called the Fiber Energy Bar. By eating said bar and others in the United Sciences family, the company claimed, one could protect oneself against AIDS, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, PMS, acne and dandruff. This was one motherfucking candy bar.
The company relied on reps to sell the product, promising big rewards if they signed on with the United Sciences team. It hired William Shatner to narrate a promotional video. It paid New York Mets pitcher Gary Carter $50,000 to say in the tape, "Join me and hit a financial grand slam."
In January 1987 the Texas Attorney General's office sued United Sciences for allegedly running an illegal pyramid scheme. Attorneys general in New York and California filed similar suits. At the time United Sciences filed for bankruptcy, it claimed to have 140,000 reps. (In October 1987 a permanent injunction against United was issued in a Dallas district court. Under the terms of the agreed settlement, United did not admit any wrongdoing or liability.)
In his deposition for the Dallas BBB suit, Darnell said he also worked for Global Prosperity Group and NuSkin Enterprises.
Global Prosperity reps pitched $1,200 worth of tapes and a $6,200 conference (in "tropical locations") designed to teach recruits how to get rich via tax loopholes. By 1999, authorities in six states filed cease-and-desist orders against Global. Quatloos.com, a fraud watchdog web site run by California attorney Jay Adkisson, states: "The slimy-est of the slimy, Global Prosperity marks the absolute rock-bottom low of the MLM [multi-level-marketing] programs. There simply is no MLM program which is more of a scam, or has such a disreputable background, as Global Prosperity and its many equally-sordid spin-offs...Global Prosperity's reputation is so bad that other network marketers will often add a disclaimer to the bottom of their own spams and advertisements which says 'Not Global Prosperity.'" (Adkisson is an asset protection attorney who has testified as an expert witness before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee on matters of charity oversight and financial fraud.)
Global later operated under different names, including the Institute of Global Prosperity, whose offices were raided by the IRS in 2001. In 2003, two former Institute administrators pled guilty in federal court for tax evasion. (Darnell was only a representative with these companies and was not part of any legal actions.)
As for NuSkin, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission fined the nutritional supplements company $1.5 million in 1997 for violating an earlier order requiring the company to have "competent and reliable scientific evidence to support benefits claims for any product they sell." Under the terms of the payment, NuSkin did not admit any wrongdoing. Today, NuSkin is a thriving company, claiming 820,000 representatives. It also runs two charities which provide food and education for needy children worldwide.
Created by Mormons, NuSkin is based in Utah, which is ground zero for multilevel-marketing companies. Jeffrey Ressner examined Mormons' ties to nutritional supplement multilevel marketing for Time in October. "More than 100 supplement companies dot the terrain alongside I-15 snaking through Salt Lake City, Utah, generating $4 billion in annual sales -- four times the revenue of the state's more famous ski trade," he wrote. Such companies are popular not only among mainstream Mormons, but among their polygamous fundamentalist offshoots just across the border in Arizona as well. Enter Darnell's next business partners.
Darnell met his polygamous buds in 2000, when he was with an Arizona-based multilevel-marketing company called Tru Dynamics, which sold an "Executive Conference Experience." By 2001, Darnell and a handful of coworkers left Tru Dynamics and formed a company called Liberty League International, which sold its own conference. The head of Tru Dynamics sued the defectors in an Arizona court for conspiring to hijack Tru Dynamics' customers. The Liberty Leaguers filed a counterclaim accusing Tru Dynamics of breach of contract.
The suit was eventually dismissed and Liberty League went on to do huge sales. In May, the company paid $115,000 in a settlement with the Arizona Attorney General's office, amid customer complaints. A statement issued by the AG's office indicated that "the majority of participants did not earn enough to cover the amount they paid to buy the products sold to them."
The money, according to the statement, would be used to pay for "consumer education, attorneys' fees and investigation costs, and victim restitution to be determined at a later date."
While Liberty League promised not to make "unsubstantiated income claims" and to "refrain from making any false or deceptive statements in their marketing materials," the company did not admit any wrongdoing.
Darnell was only with Liberty League for a short period; he and his fellow defectors left that company to form their own company. His partners were residents of Colorado City, Arizona, founded by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. In 2005, church leader Warren Jeffs was charged with sexually assaulting a minor and conspiracy to commit sexual misconduct by arranging a marriage between a 16-year-old girl and a 28-year-old man. When he fled Arizona, he made the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list and was arrested in Nevada last August. [Check out former Phoenix New Times writer John Dougherty's investigation into the FLDS: www.phoenixnewtimes.com/ Issues/current/polygamy/index.html; and Houston Press staff writer Keith Plocek's examination of Fundamentalists moving into West Texas: www.houstonpress.com/ Issues/2006-04-27/news/feature.html].
Incest, polygamy and statutory rape -- often condoned by and participated in by local authorities who were FLDS members -- are the norm in Colorado City, where it's believed that a man must have at least three wives to enter heaven. Thanks to inbreeding in the community, the Colorado City area has a high incidence of fumarase deficiency, an enzyme disorder that causes profound mental retardation and extreme epilepsy.
Good Christian that he is, Darnell decided to go into business with Colorado City residents Claudia Cawley and Elizabeth Knudson, and form All-Star Entrepreneur. That company was the first to promote the Millionaire Mindset Conference. As proof of how good a business opportunity All-Star was, the company's site showed a picture of two All-Star reps who won a 2003 Jaguar. The car was subsequently repossessed by Ford Motor Credit, which had sued Darnell in Collin County Court for nonpayment. (Darnell accused Cawley of rigging the contest and giving the car to two of her friends who then refused to take on the payments -- even though it was supposed to be a "giveaway." Darnell said that since he had signed paperwork for the car, he was left holding the bag.)
The web site also included testimonials from satisfied reps, although it was not disclosed that most of these reps were residents of Colorado City. (Cawley and Knudson did not return multiple messages.)
Before All-Star went bankrupt in 2005, it staked its reputation on Darnell, Cawley and a guy from Houston named Glenn Green. And just who is Glenn Green?
According to an old All-Star web site, he has "30 years experience in top-level management in Corporate America. His extensive background in major motion pictures and music industry brought him to the development of patented technology."
When the Press asked Green to elaborate on this impressive rsum, he had this to say: "If you're going to print a bunch of crap in the newspaper about me, it better be right."
And this: "You better be right, pal. I ain't threatening you. You just watch."
And, still: "Let me leave you with this: You write your article, just be sure it's right, okay?...I'm not threatening you by any means...but when you write your article, just be sure that your butt's covered. Because if it's not, and you put something in it that's not the case, I'm coming. And trust me, that's no threat."
Green says he got involved with All-Star when he was running a media company. He says Cawley contacted him and asked him to "build some marketing tools." He says he was never paid, which, he says, has to do with Darnell's abrupt departure from the company.
"They told me the reason I didn't get paid was because of Tim Darnell," Green says. Darnell denies owing Green any money.
So Green did what any shrewd businessman would do when a client reneges on a contract: he accepted the company's offer to be its chief executive officer. As Green says: "They offered me a position in the company 'cause I'm a decent business guy."
And just to accent how decent a businessman he is, he advised, "If you're investigating me, then you need to be talking to my attorneys, 'cause I'm going to sue your ass, okay? 'Cause you don't have anything to investigate me about, I will assure you."
For the most part, Green was right. There was nothing in his background worth investigating.
Except the ten-year sentence for theft in 1990, according to Harris County Court records. Green was released after one year. According to an affidavit by a Texas Department of Public Safety officer, the theft worked like this: Green gave an accomplice an American Express card in Green's ex-wife's name. The accomplice charged multiple purchases of $49.99 at a Chevron station, when "in fact, no merchandise had been bought." The accomplice then gave the cash to Green. During April and May 1990, the charges exceeded $20,000.
At the time Green was popped for that crime, he was on probation for forgery for two earlier charges out of Brazos County, according to Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman Michelle Lyons. He was sentenced to ten years for those, which he served concurrently with the Harris County sentencing.
Also falling short of the Glenn Green Investigative Worthiness Standard was the ten years deferred adjudication in 1993 for fraudulent transfer of a motor vehicle. According to the investigating officer's notes, part of the case record in Harris County Court, Green bought and sold over a dozen cars, promising to pay off the leases, when he had no authorization from the lenders.
All but one of the 20 associated charges were dropped. He was also ordered to pay $31,233 in restitution
Harris County court records also show that the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo sued Green and his wife, Starla, in 2002. The suit was for nonpayment of $107,000 Glenn and Starla bid on a champion steer and a grand champion barrow pig named Cowboy in the 1999 Rodeo auction.
"I know that the money spent here goes for a great cause," Green is quoted as saying in the Rodeo's press release.
Then Starla chimes in about the 17-year-old Brownfield Future Farmer of America who spent four hours a day after school tending to Cowboy: "[He's] very deserving. We were prepared to do what it took."
Everything, that is, except actually pay what they bid. A Harris County judge ordered the Greens to pay the full amount, plus legal fees.
Rodeo Vice President Leroy Shafer says the Greens never paid the money -- the largest debt of any one entity in the show's history. He says it was the first time in the Rodeo's history that a grand champion was involved in a bad purchase, and the first bad purchase of two champions in one year. (The highest bidder's money goes to whoever shows the animal, any charities the bidder earmarked money for, and the Rodeo's scholarship fund. Shafer says the Rodeo was able to pay the $25,000 promised to Cowboy's exhibitor, as well as the approximately $1,000 Green had earmarked for the Houston Women's Shelter.)
Green now works for a multilevel-marketing travel package company called Your Travel Biz.
As for Darnell, All-Star described him as "a nationally known master trainer in sales and marketing" and a lifelong business owner. It also stated that Darnell "brings unblemished integrity, character and work ethic to the company."
Texas is increasingly becoming a nexus for scams," says Robert FitzPatrick, founder of the North Carolina-based Pyramid Scheme Alert.
He's part of a small network of consumer watchdogs who believe state and federal authorities too often given scammers a free ride. Because FitzPatrick is an expert witness in the Dallas BBB lawsuit, he said he could not comment directly on Advantage Conferences. But he could talk about multilevel marketing and pyramids in general. He could also talk about Texas's anti-pyramid scheme law, which he says was crafted by the MLM lobby.
"It's written in such a way that it would appear that as long as the money is laundered through a product of some kind or a service, it won't meet the definition of a pyramid scheme," he says. He adds, "Whether you legalize a pyramid scheme or not, it will produce exactly the same result."
And that result is proven mathematically, he says. In the case of an Aussie 2-Up, the model has a built-in brick wall. The people at the top of the pyramid will make the dough; the competition will increase exponentially; and the base -- the human population -- will remain the same.
"You can only go 32 levels and you've exceeded the population of the Earth," FitzPatrick says. "That's every man, woman, child, baby, inmate in an insane asylum...the real number is far less than that."
FitzPatrick is a man who understands the headache-inducing, logic-bitch-slapping nature of "business opportunity" programs, because whether it's Advantage or any other "income opportunity," you wind up having the same conversation with the dogged rep. FitzPatrick has both sides down pat:
"What is the real business that you're selling?"/"The business."/"What's the real product you're selling?"/"The business opportunity."/"Opportunity to do what?"/"To sell the business opportunity."
"So," he concludes, "the real product is: I'm making money; you can, too. Doing what? Making money telling people I'm making money."
But Tom Kelley, a spokesman for the Texas Attorney General's office, says the Texas anti-pyramid statute is clear: if there's more emphasis and energy on recruiting people rather than selling a product or service, there's a problem.
According to the statute, a pyramid scheme is "a plan or operation by which a person gives consideration for the opportunity to receive compensation that is derived primarily from a person's introductions of other persons to participate in the plan..."
The Direct Sellers Association echoes that belief. Spokeswoman Amy Robinson says you can determine a business's legitimacy by evaluating the compensation plan.
"If your compensation is not based on the sale of a product or service to the ultimate consumer, you're looking at something that is a fraud," she says. And, "if the money that you're paying to come into the business is really just going to your upline because they brought you into the business, that's a huge red flag."
But for FitzPatrick, frauds can still be perpetrated under the guise of selling products or services -- especially in Texas.
"You can let these predators run loose and engage in this deception of telling people this is an authentic business opportunity, when it is not. You can do that -- it won't change what happens to the consumers in Texas, though...In fact, it will probably result in more of them losing their money."
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For FitzPatrick, "Most people don't grasp the math...it is a math trick, at the end of the day."
It's reminiscent of something Darnell says in his flash presentation:
"This is math. This is nothing more than how numbers work."
And then there's how the Book of Numbers works. God speaks to Moses clearly, face-to-face, without riddles. It's a pretty good book. Tim Darnell and his followers might want to give it another look.


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Acts 8:18-19 When Simon saw that the Spirit was given at the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money and said, "Give me also this ability so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit."
Simon thought he saw a formula that he could purchase to get God's power. The only problem is, the gifts of God are invaluable. You can not put a price on it. You cannot make it a patented formula. Still to this day people try to cheapen the Gospel by commercializing it.
A well known christian teacher recently said 'In order to avoid being humanistic, every time you help others you have to give a sermon about Jesus'. I don't know about you, but if I am in need a sermon is probably the last thing I want to hear at that moment. The teacher was trying to put Christianity into a formula. X+Y=Z. When you do that, you are being a scientist, a humanist, leaving God out of the equation.
Lots of times when you help people there really isn't time to give them a sermon. Don't worry about it. If you LET your light shine where ever you are, people will know you are a Christian and Jesus will be praised. Whatever you do will bring glory to Him. Formulas fail. Jesus never fails.
According to Wikipedia, "Humanism" typically refers to a non-theistic life stance centered on human agency and looking to science rather than revelation from a supernatural source to understand the world.
Formulas are humanistic attempts at understanding something in a scientific format. That's how religions are formed. Religion is a science. Science is all about formulas. It doesn't matter if you do it without love, or even thinking, as long as you complete the function. People want 2 + 2 = 4. It takes all the guess work out of everything. It gives on a false sense of security as well.
I love telling people about Jesus. As St. Francis of Asisi said 'sometimes I even open my mouth!' I see people who forcefully inject the name 'Jesus' into every sentence as insecure about their faith or passively hostile. I also have noticed that they only do so when there are other Christians within ear shot. This is another example of formulas that do not work as intended.
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Gamely touted by Acclaim CEO Rod Cousens as "a full extension of the culture that embodies street racing," Juiced, developed by Juice Games, looks poised to emulate the phenomenal success experienced by EA's Christmas smash Need for Speed: Underground.
Unlike NFS: Underground the game features licensed cars from the likes of Toyota, Honda VW, Fiat, Renault, Subaru et al. And you won't be stuck with a bog-standard showroom model either. Juiced will offer "thousands of realtime modding combinations" taking in everything from the stickers - sorry, decals - on your motor to the gubbins that actually make the thing go. Like stink.
The aftermarket parts involved are licensed too and we imagine the petrolheads amongst you will be gratified to be chossing from the wares of such fine automobile accessory vendors as A'PEXi, AEM, Ferodo and Konig. Right?
This is actually a game too, though, and racing will revolve around a non-linear, cash and profile based single-player mode, or allow you to take your exhaustively modded motor into action online on all formats.
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and adenocarcinoma,
regardless of PD-L1 expression
on the tumor cell.‡
In 2014, the Adjuvant Lung
Cancer Enrichment Marker
Identification and Sequencing
Trials, or ALCHEMIST, opened.
The goals of the trials are toidentify the prevalence of EGFRand ALK mutations in patientswho are eligible for adjuvantchemotherapy, and to evaluate thebenefit of targeted chemotherapyin the adjuvant setting. Patientswith stage IB (>4cm) through IIIAdisease are eligible. Dependingon EGFR or ALK mutationalstatus, patients are randomized totargeted drug therapy (erlotinibfor EGFR mutant tumors orcrizotinib for ALK-rearrangedtumors) versus placebo. Withemerging data on the role of PD- 1mediated immunotherapy, in2016, a third arm was added to thestudy, which permits the inclusionof patients without ALK or EGFRmutations and randomizes themto nivolumab versus placebo.
Patients with squamous cell
NSCLC—as well as patients with
adenocarcinoma NSCLC who
are ALK and EGFR mutation-negative—are now eligible
for inclusion in this landmark
trial due to the addition of this
third arm evaluating adjuvant
immunotherapy in this setting.
A total of 1,060 sites are
accruing patients in this
nationwide trial. At press time,
1,517 patients were enrolled. The
goal is to enroll 8,300 patients.
Also as of press time, screeningfor EGFR and ALK mutationshad resulted in 86 patients withEGFR mutations able to berandomized to erlotinib versusplacebo, and 29 patients withALK rearrangements able tobe randomized to crizotinibversus placebo. The goal of thisstudy is to accrue 450 patientsto each of these treatment armsof the ALCHEMIST trials,with a goal of accruing 714patients in the immunotherapyadjuvant treatment arm.
The ALCHEMIST trials have
the potential to revolutionize
adjuvant therapy for patients with
operable lung cancer. With the
addition of the immunotherapy
arm to this trial, all patients with
operable NSCLC adenocarcinoma
and squamous histology can and
should have the opportunity
to participate. We know that
the current standard of care of
cisplatin-based chemotherapy
offers little benefit in the adjuvant
setting. The addition of targeted
therapy in the context of a tumor
having a specific mutation—or
immunotherapy to prevent the
escape of tumor cells from our
natural immune defenses—may
improve long-term survival
in patients with NSCLC. ♦
‡Brahmer J, Reckamp KL, Baas P, et al.
Nivolumab versus docetaxel in advanced
squamous-cell non-small-cell lung cancer.
New Engl J Med. 2015;373( 2):123-135.
Stage IB (>4cm), II, and IIIANSCLCn = 1517/8300
Surgical resectionMolecular testingAdjuvant therapyEGFR mutation positiven = 86/450
Erlotinib or placeboALK positiven = 29/450
Crizotinib or placeboEGFR & ALK negativen = 46/714
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Phillimore, Albert B. and Orme, C. David L. and Thomas, Gavin H. and Blackburn, Tim M. and Bennett, Peter M. and Gaston, Kevin J. and Owens, Ian P. F. (2008) Sympatric speciation in birds is rare: Insights from range data and simulations. American Naturalist, 171 (5). pp. 646-657. ISSN 0003-0147. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1086/587074) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)
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Sympatric speciation is now accepted as theoretically plausible and a likely explanation for divergence in a handful of taxa, but its contribution to large-scale patterns of speciation remains contentious. A major problem is that it is difficult to differentiate between alternate scenarios of geographic speciation when species ranges have shifted substantially in the past. Previous studies have searched for a signal of the geographic mode of speciation by testing for a correlation between time since speciation and range overlap. Here we use simulations to show that the proportion of species showing zero or complete range overlap are more reliable indicators of the geography of speciation than is the correlation between time since speciation and overlap. We then apply these findings to the distributions of 291 pairs of avian sister species. Although 49% of pairs show some overlap in their ranges, our simulations show that this is not surprising under allopatric models of speciation. More revealingly, less than 2% show complete range overlap. Our simulations demonstrate that the observed patterns are most consistent with a model in which allopatric speciation is dominant but in which sympatric speciation is also present and contributes 5% of speciation events.
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I said "I don't deserve your anger," she said I don't deserve her love, I said "I'll give you everything," she said that wouldn't be enough. And so I got down on my knees, said "did it ever mean a thing?" and then I begged for one more chance, I even offered her a ring. I said "can't you see this working out? Can't you see us pulling through?" She threw the ring away, said "yes, I see a way - in another time, in another place, with another you." So I took the back way home by the south-side alleyways. You know, the city seemed so comatose, just buried in the haze. And then I wrote one last request, "Throw a drowning man a rope, or maybe just enough to hang myself, it won't come to that, I hope. Because I know that I can change and be the man I need to be. This letter's done, I guess, here's my return address: another time, another place, another me." It's been six years since I've seen her, at least a thousand miles between, and my new lady's just as kind to me as the old one was ever mean. And I don't care that she's gone and if I ever see her face, I'll say "I can't believe I begged for you, you know it seems like such a waste." But then she did get one thing right, there was only one thing left to do. So now here I am, a different man, in another time, another place, with another you.
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As I continue to mediate and think through what the Psalms have to offer us today in our worship practices, I have been reading this book by Tremper Longman. Here are a few thoughts on what it looks like to soak in these wonderful liturgical reminders of the character and nature of God.
God is present in every corner of his creation. He is with us whether or not we are at work or at home, shopping or studying, in the city or the country, at sea or on land. He is everywhere and with us no matter what we do.
Nonetheless, the Scriptures make it clear that though God's presence permeates the world, he chooses to dwell in a special way in certain places and to make his presence known at certain times. For instance, the Lord dwelt on Mount Sinai (Exodus 19-20) in a special way at the time that Moses received the law. His presence was manifested and experienced in a way that was not repeated on any other mountain until he chose to dwell on Mount Zion in the time of Solomon.
These special places of God's presence are places of intimate and at times fearful encounters with the God of the universe. The are places which demand human response; they demand worshipful prayer.
As we read the Psalms, we are entering into the sanctuary, the place where God meets men and women in a special way. We will see that the conversation between God and his people is direct, intense, intimate and, above all else honest.
Thus the Psalms are a kind of literary sanctuary in the Scripture. The place where God meets his people in a special way, where his people may address him with their praise and lament.
Who's in Charge?
The Psalms challenge us to think through who is in charge. When our children demand something from us because of discomfort, boredom or hunger (among other reasons) we remind them that they have forgotten who is in charge. The Psalms make us pause, and back up for a minute to consider how our presumptuous living lacks sobriety. We are reminded in the Psalms that all of our existence comes from God. All of creation is sustained by his hand and all or our steps are directed by the Creator of the Universe.
This ought to affect our hearts and remind us of who we are. The Psalms encourage us to dig deep into the humanity of our spirituality and work us over in such a way that we either fall to our knees in adoration and worship of God or we fall to or knees in repentance and lament. Either way, we cannot walk away from them unchanged.
A thought from John Calvin on the Psalms.
What various and resplendent riches are contained in this treasury (Psalms), it were difficult to find words to describe…I have been wont to call this book not inappropriately, an anatomy of all parts of the soul; for there is not an emotion of which any one can be conscious that is not here represented as in a mirror.
Incarnational Intersection
Calvin paints a wonderful picture of how the Psalms speak to every part of our soul. They hold up a mirror and incite in our hearts the eager longing to connect where we once thought we were isolated. Consider Psalm 35:22-23 where the Psalmist pleads for God's intervention in his life in the midst of suffering at the hands of others, "Lord, you have seen this; do not be silent. Do not be far from me, Lord. Awake, and rise to my defense! Contend for me, my God and Lord!"
The prayers offered in these verses reflect a desire for the incarnation of God. "Do not be far from me!" Draw near to me, the Psalmist cries out! As these words pour from the lips of the poet, who among us has not felt this same way? This mirror that Calvin speaks of is impossible to ignore once we see how physical these spiritual prayers are.
Not only do these Psalms speak of how God and man intersect they unceasingly point to the realized incarnation in Christ. For the Christian we not only read the Psalms with eyes to see the worship of God and ears to hear of his mighty hand, we also see the beauty of Christ and the redemption that we, by faith, eat and drink in his incarnation.
Consider the words of N.T. Wright here on Christ and the Psalms.
I am suggesting that the entire worldview that the Psalms are inculcating was to do with that intersection of our time, space, and matter with God's, (time, space and matter) which Christians believe happen uniquely and dramatically in Jesus.
Taste and See…
When Time, Space and Matter collide the witnesses to this event are never the same. God came down. We see this incarnation played out fully in the Gospels but this incarnation was foreshadowed in the Psalms. Not only was Christ foreshadowed in the Psalms but It was through these practices, prayers and postures presented in the Psalms that [was] the "hymnbook that Jesus and his followers would have known by heart." (N.T. Wright).
Allow the beauty of these Scriptural treasures to wash over you and your family. Take a moment and chew on the incarnational truth that the Psalms have to offer. Practicing this daily, for the believer who does so in faith, changes, shapes and moulds our hearts to be more like Christ's.
Psalm 34:8 "Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.
The command to taste and see is an incarnational call to know God in our humanity. This call to taste and see points us to the incarnational meal that God himself, in Christ shared with his disciples and with us with these words, "This is my body, given for you" and "This is the blood of the covenant, poured out for the many for the forgiveness of sins." Taste and see that the Lord is good.
Soli Deo Gloria


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Complexities of Outcome Measures and Patient Self Diagnosis
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One of the Complexities of Outcome Measures is dealing with patient self-diagnosis. Hospitals need to measure outcomes and the increasing frequency of patient self-diagnosis affects the outcome measures of a hospital. Self-diagnosis slows things down as the doctors or nurses are not able to do their jobs as quickly as they should with constant interruption and with patients asking for tests that they don't need. So how do hospitals tackle patient self-diagnosis so it doesn't add to the complexities of outcome measures?
How to Tackle Self-diagnosis to Reduce Complexities of Outcome Measures
Tell Patients to Keep Searching Online
This approach to tackling self-diagnosis can seem counter-intuitive but it has positive results. Many patients self-diagnose out of fear of their illness and fear of not being heard. It could also be because they have trust issues. Telling them to keep searching online or directing them to more legitimate online sources sends a message across to the patients that they are being heard and that their feelings and fears are validated. It also shows them that you the doctor or nurse is confident in your diagnosis and that you are not trying to shield the patient from gaining more knowledge on the subject.
Create Your Own Online Resource Center
You can get ahead of the self-diagnosis problem by providing patients with your own online resources. Create a blog on your hospital's website or give patients access to your archive of online resources. You can also suggest resources to patients for them to read – like giving them reading assignments. Direct them to legitimate sites that your trust or even accredited sites like the American Academy of Family Physicians or the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) . Link these resources to your website and bring them up when your patient starts to self-diagnose based on something they found on the web. Ask them the legitimacy of the site and direct them to your resources instead. Also, share these resources on your website, in your waiting room brochures, and on your social media pages (if you have those).
That way, patients become more familiar with them. If you want you can take it further and create your own online resource that has a lot of content and legitimacy. I mentioned above about having a blog section on your website. On there, you can provide well-researched information on your specialty areas in easy to understand articles. For example, if you are a fertility clinic, you can write articles on fertility, case studies on past cases you've treated and answers to frequently asked questions. That way, even before the patient visits you, they have an idea on what to ask you about their doubts and they won't be tempted to go to other resources online that don't provide detailed enough information. These resources will also bring more attention to your practice and start to establish you as an authority and thought leader in your field. In addition, having regular online content will help you gain more visibility and will bring you more new patients.
Let Patient's Discuss their Doubts
Another way doctors and nurses can help with reducing self-diagnosis is to encourage patients to discuss their self-diagnosis research with them. Again, this seems counter-intuitive but it actually helps speed things up. Constantly interrupting the patient to tell them they are wrong will only make patient want to talk more and it'll make them not receptive to you and dampen the mood of the consultation. Giving them a chance to talk lets the patient air out all their doubts and then they run out of things to say or realize that they shouldn't be doing all the talking since they came to you for your opinion. This will lead them to be quiet and then let you talk and give your professional opinion. Letting patients talk will lead to them trusting you more and will lead to a more holistic relationship between doctor and patient and a lasting trust being established.
Patient engagement is a positive thing and the healthcare industry is trying to increase it. The paradox is that patient self-diagnosis is actually one effective gateway to increased patient engagement. Self-diagnosis means that a patient is curious about their health and it means that they care about getting better (of course there are exceptions). Handling this the right way could lead to a doctor having a more engaged patient and handling it the wrong way 9/shutting them up, mocking their self-diagnosis, being standoffish to them) will lead the patient to be discouraged and lose interest in being an engaged patient.


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Information for Parents
College can be a challenging time of transition, not only for students themselves, but also for parents. Student's concerns or difficulties can become a source of worry for parents, especially when students are living away from home. The move away from the familiar school environment to third level education and the growing independence of the still young students can be hard to deal with for both students and their parents – in particular if parents fear that their sons or daughter are struggling for personal or academic reasons.
It can be useful and reassuring for parents to know that TU Dublin offers a wide range of support for students, like for instance the student counselling service.
What does the TU DUBLIN Student Counselling Services Offer?
We offer a free and confidential psychological counselling all TU Dublin registered students. We offer both individual and group counselling. Currently we do not offer family therapy.
After an initial assessment of a student's concerns, the student counselling staff will determine if an individual's needs may best be met by the service or are beyond the scope of our services. In the latter case, students will receive a referral to other sources of assistance. These sources may be on-campus or off-campus in the extended community.
How Do I Know If My Son or Daughter Needs Counselling?
There is no litmus test for knowing for certain that a student should seek help, however, we encourage students and parents to err on the side of utilizing services rather than waiting for a problem or issue to resolve itself. Frequently, the initial session is treated as a consultation, not a commitment to ongoing contact with SCS.
People seek counselling for many reasons. It may include long-standing mental health issues that they have already sought treatment for prior to coming to the Dublin Institute, a desire to enhance their personal growth, or address normal developmental concerns.
Common issues that students come to SCS to discuss include:
- • Significant changes in mood (depression)
- • Anxiety and stress management
- • Relationship issues (break-ups, isolation or difficulty forming relationships, conflicts, etc.)
- • Alcohol and substance abuse
- • Eating issues and body image
- • Family issues (divorce, financial stressors, etc.)
- • Grief/bereavement
- • References to suicide
- • Anger management
- • Academic concerns (contemplating dropping out of college, worrying about meeting academic deadlines/demands, etc)
What can parents do if they feel their son or daughter needs counselling?
Counselling only works if students wish to come themselves. We therefore only offer appointments made with the student, not with their parents.
- • If you feel your son or daughter might benefit from counselling, tell them openly that you are concerned about them, and that support is available for them at TU Dublin City Campus.
- • You can tell them that they can come to see a counsellor in TU Dublin City Campus to talk without committing themselves for further sessions. You can also refer them to this website for more information about the service.
- • If they don't want to speak to a counsellor, try to explore alternative sources of help with them, like for instance the TU Dublin City Campus Career and Development service, the Disability Service, Chaplaincy or the college GP. Alternatively, they may wish to speak to a lecturer they can trust (for instance if struggling academically).
- • All the TUDublin Cty Campus services work very closely together, and other services as well as lecturers will refer students on to a counsellor if they feel the students would benefit from counselling.
If you are very worried about your son or daughter (for instance severe self harming behaviour, potential suicide risk), and they refuse to speak to a counsellor, you may ring the counselling service to alert them that the student is at risk, and to ask them advice on what action can be taken.
Consulting the counselling service if the student is already in counselling at TU Dublin City Campus
It can be disconcerting for parents when students are upset and in counselling, and it can be difficult for parents to accept that they may not know what is going on during their children's counselling sessions.
The counselling service is confidential and is determined by a professional code of ethics. Confidentiality has long been regarded as a "cornerstone of the helping relationship" and is a core value of psychologists and their profession.
In as much as the counselling staff is eager to help you with your concerns or questions about your son or daughter, they cannot reveal nor confirm the identity of students seeking student counselling services, their participation in those services, nor the content of communications with those students without the student's knowledge and written consent. Information about a student's use of counselling services is kept separately from their academic record.
We understand that these limitations due to confidentiality can be frustrating for concerned parents. But it may reassure you that the DIT student counsellors are trained to assess any immediate risk (suicidal risk, severe self harming, danger to others). If the counsellor determines that a student is at immediate risk, they will contact parents and to their utmost to keep the student safe. If you feel that your son or daughter is at immediate risk, do contact the counselling service and discuss your concerns with the student's counsellor.


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For first prize: This 32 inch Plasma TV, valued at $280 which leaves all the images in sharp HD pixels.
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For third prize: This Plasmacluster Ion Generator, valued at $90, and which refreshes the air in your car. Small enough to fit in your cup holder and has fans that keeps its work, library quiet.
And if these prizes are not enough, consider the greatest prize of them all: the joy of the doing the right thing. So come on down this Saturday to Stag Hill, in Mahwah, from 10 am-4pm. And get ready to win big.


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The company has already drawn attention with its advanced technology. It has acquired leading investors from the local automotive industry and reached a market cap of $100 million as of January 2018. It was featured in CNBC's article on "What Driving Will Look Like in 2028." Resources to continue its ambitious research and development program was assured by the recent announcement of a merger agreement with Tamda Ltd. (http://nnw.fm/b7nNy).
Foresight's leading product is the QuadSight system. This drew positive press attention when it was displayed at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year. One of the distinctive features of the QuadSight system is that it doesn't rely on pattern recognition to identify when there is an obstacle in its way. Any object can be detected, regardless of its material, color or shape. This gives the system an advantage over competitors whose sensors have to be programmed or trained to identify specific hazards.
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Director of Nixon library, expert on Cold War, espionage to lecture at Cornell
MOUNT VERNON — The new director of the Nixon Presidential Library and a renowned scholar on the Cold War and espionage will speak at Cornell College on Thursday, Feb. 15.
"Why Are We Scared?: Real and Imagined Dangers in the Cold War and Today" is the lecture to be delivered by Timothy Naftali at 7 p.m. in King Chapel. Admission is free. The address is Cornell's 2007 Eric C. Kollman Memorial Lecture. Following his talk, Naftali will sign copies of his latest work, "Khrushchev's Cold War," at a reception in Cole Library.
Naftali is the newly appointed director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. Previously he was associate professor of history at the University of Virginia and director of the Presidential Recordings Program at the university's Miller Center for Public Affairs, which is responsible for transcribing telephone conversations and meetings secretly recorded by Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon during their tenures in the White House.
Naftali has served as a historical consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice on the Nazi War Crimes and Imperial Japanese Government Records Interagency Working Group, helping to facilitate the declassification of all official records pertaining to U.S. knowledge of Nazi war crimes and war criminals. He also assisted in declassifying official records for the 9/11 Commission.
His other publications include "Blindspot: The Secret History of American Counterterrorism" (2005), "U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis" (2004; 2005), "The Presidential Recordings: John F. Kennedy, Volumes 1 & 2" (2001) and "One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro and Kennedy, 1958-1964" (1997).
The Eric C. Kollman Lecture honors the distinguished history professor who taught at Cornell from 1944 to 1973. Beginning in 1984, Cornell has held Kollman memorial lectures on topics of historical interest including the atomic bomb, 17th-century Jewish women and slavery in America. Naftali is the 14th speaker in the series.


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Gabbly: Gabbly is a chat service that allows you to chat around any webpage. It's free to use on your personal page or commercial webpage. To embed Gabby:
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By Ron Levitt
Florida Media News
MIAMI — Assassins, the politically incorrect Zoetic Stage musical which opened at the Arsht Center's blackbox Carnival stage Friday night,scores as a winner on several levels:
- It is a lesson in democracy and a rebuttal to the National Rifle Association regarding the use of firearms. If anyone seeing this show doesn't envision the need for gun control, he or she must have been seeing another show or wearing heavy earmuffs.
- It is – in Broadway terminology – a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by John Weidman, based on an idea by Charles Gilbert, which uses the premise of a murderous carnival game to produce a revue-style portrayal of men and women who attempted (successfully or not) to assassinate Presidents of the United States. The music varies to reflect the popular music of the era as depicted.
- This particular production, so brilliantly directed by the multi-talented Stuart Meltzer , is a showcase of young South Florida theatrical talent rarely seen in the same show. By all counts, there are a dozen men and women -playing -mostly unsavory characters who left their mark on U.S. history only because of their hateful action.
The musical first opened Off-Broadway in 1990, and the 2004 Broadway production won five Tony Awards. It is by any standard a totally different kind of musical. Except for the closing reprise Everybody's Got the Right, one does not come out humming one of the show's songs, even though the ballads are of historical elements and are noteworthy for their Americana interpretations and liberal philosophical lyrics. Nevertheless, it is such an original musical – much in the style of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd – it is hard to forego its message emblazoned on a carnival flipboard in this production –Take Your Shot.
Assassins begins as the Proprietor of the game (a noteworthy Shane Tanner) entices a host of unsavory characters to play, promising that their problems will be solved by killing a President. ( that's when "Everybody's Got the Right" comes in) . Leon Czolgosz, John Hinckley, Charles Guiteau, Giuseppe Zangara, Samuel Byck, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, and Sara Jane Moore are given their guns one by one. John Wilkes Booth (a vibrant portrayal by the talented Nicholas Richberg) enters last and the Proprietor introduces him to the others as their pioneer before he begins distributing ammunition. The assassins take aim as "Hail to the Chief" heralds Abraham Lincoln's offstage arrival. Booth excuses himself, a shot rings out and Booth shouts, "Sic semper tyrannis!"
Meanwhile, The Balladeer (a memorable Chris Crawford) portrays the personification of the American Dream — as well as Lee Harvey Oswald ) as a host of characters are unveiled whose claim to fame is their firearm attack on a President.
There are so many memorable moments and star-quality actors participating in this musical, one can easily be distracted recalling a school history lesson when a teacher named a President and the assassin who either tried to kill or did assassinate one of our country's leaders.
Among the standout performances (including Balladeer Tanner) are Nick Duckart, Clay Cartland, Gabriel Zenone, Henry Gainza, Chaz Mena, Lindsey Forgey, Irene Adjan, Nicholas Richberg, Chris Crawford and ensemble members Kristian Bikic, and Stephanie White.
It is the kind if show with so many standout moments, one would have to rewrite history to describe Assassins in full. Cartland's describing a John Hinkley and his obsession with Jody Foster (and his attempt to impress her by attempting to kill Ronald Reagan) while strumming his guitar is such a moment!
Nick Duckart's interpretation of Czolgosz (who killed President McKinley) is a constant in this production, as are Irene Adjan and Lindsey Forgey who have spectacular moments as would-be killers Sara Jane Moore and Squeaky Fromme ( both after Gerald Ford) respectively (but not respectfully).
Chris Crawford – fresh off his successful Florida debut in Palm Beach Dramaworks' Carbonell-nominee The Lion in Winter) comes on as a South Florida wannabe star in his double role as the Balladeer and Oswald (who left his mark on the death of President John F. Kennedy) Henry Gainza, Chaz Mena and Gabriel Zenone also all shine as actors playing real-time gun-obsessed characters one would hopefully forget!
Assassins is three year old Zoetic's first musical and puts it on par with several other companies musically inclined. When you Google Assassins – and, well you should – you will discover you can see the entire show on a DVD and that there is even an online action game so entitled to give one the thrill of being part of similar action -behind all the carnage and mayhem which the title implies. Although it is set in another century, it implies we all have the same DNA to execute the carnage as echoed in this production.


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Here is an example of earning your right to ask for more information: You say, "There's a video you need to see that can solve this. It explains a lot about what you want." Give information about how they can watch the video.
One of the greatest advances in sales prospecting techniques is the ability to use Google alerts to track prospects, customers and sales trigger events. If you set up a few of these alerts the amount of data gathered can begin to get overwhelming but don't fret there are easy ways to manage all of this data for you. The first way to minimize this is to be specific on the terms you use to set up Google alerts and the second way is to set up a system of managing the data sent to you. You can choose to have data emailed to you daily or weekly and you can also set the alerts up in an RSS feed. RSS Feeds: RSS feeds stand for Real Simple Syndication and if you don't know about then you may soon come to rely on them! They are a way of aggregating lots of data from different sources into a format that can be read easily. You can view rises pages in an internet browser but the power comes when you view them in Outlook or an RSS reader like Google reader. What you do is set up your Google alert to be a 'feed' rather than an email. Google will give you a long code or web address which can be viewed in a web browser. Here you will be able to see all of the news stories, articles and blogs found by Google. To speed up the administration work use Google reader -.Google.com/reader Once you have set up your account go to the add subscription button and add the RSS feed that was given to you by Google alerts. Now you will have an easy to work with list of all of your related content. You now have the option to start getting really clever about how to manage this data in your organization. You may get an admin person or a sales support person (or even an external virtual employee) to scan the information first and decide which ones are really relevant for your business. When any content is found that is relevant the next stage is to find a way to share that with the right person in your company. Luckily Google reader lets us do that! Find the little icon called 'share' on the bottom. If this is clicked this piece of content will be moved to a new section called shared items. There is also the option to add a note and tags. Tags are great because you can add anything you like. This could be the name of the sales person who should deal with this bit of intelligence or the type of contract e.t.c. By going to the 'shared' items on the left hand side column you can now access all of the content that has been shared. This too has its own RSS feed which can be shared. If you click on sharing settings (usually top right corner) you are shown all the different parameters you can define, including the web address for the shared items. This can then be given to the marketing department, the sales team, the customer service team and the management team who can scan the list and see which ones are relevant for them and what it is about. All they need to do is put this new feed into Google reader or outlook.


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Baked Camembert with Cranberries & Walnuts
Welcome to Blogsgiving Dinner week (aka the best week for foodies EVER)!!! I am so incredibly excited to finally share with you some delicious and effortless recipes with you for Thanksgiving. I have been dying to share these with you, literally counting down the days until I get to tell you alllllll about them.
For me, the key to a successful Thanksgiving feast is starting with an appetizer that's a hit with your guests, but also something you can make with minimal effort (you are tending to an entire Thanksgiving feast after all!). This baked camembert is exactly that and let me tell you, it delivers.
The best part of this appetizer? The cranberry walnut crust on top. I know you thought I was going to say the ooey, gooey warm cheese (which is still oh-my-goodness good), but this crust is a perfect blend of toasted crunch, tart sweetness, and fresh aromatic herbs. It's exactly what you want to tease your guests' tastebuds with before the main event.
They will be thinking if this is the appetizer, I can't WAIT to see what he/she is serving for dinner!
Now you might be wondering, what is this Blogsgiving Dinner she mentioned before? It is an entire week of Thanksgiving collaboration between 20 incredibly talented food bloggers from all over the country. Essentially it's a virtual progressive dinner party to share over 50 recipes with our beloved readers!
Susannah over at Feast + West and I drummed up this idea back in August in Asheville at Food Blog Forum and boy oh boy am I glad we put it in motion! Can you imagine having over 50 recipes to choose from for your Thanksgiving feast?! GAH, it's like a dream come true!
So get ready for a week's worth of Thanksgiving to get you inspired! Just like a traditional progressive dinner, today we are starting with cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, and soups. Keep an eye out for entrees, salads and side dishes on Wednesday and dessert, after-dinner drinks, and leftover inspirations on Friday! Here's the other fabulous recipes from the rest of the group:
Carolina Apple Sidecar from Think Fruitful
Bourbon Cranberry Lemonade Fizz from bethcakes
Krupnikas Ginger from I Cook. I Eat. It's Life.
Cured Meat Platter from Wit Wisdom and Food
Ginger Cran Apple Chutney from Love & Flour
Brandied Grapes with Cheese from Glamour Girl Gourmet
Shrimp Sweet Potato Mousseline from Home at Six
Cranberry Goat Cheese and Butternut Squash Crostini from The Wetherills Say I Do
Maple Pecan Baked Brie from My Cooking Spot
Sassy Salmon Dip from Betty Becca
Baked Brie with Cranberry Chutney from The Speckled Palate
Butternut Squash Crostini from Chez CateyLou
Gluten Free Holiday Cheese Board from Twin Stripe
Butternut Squash Soup with Cornbread Croutons from Club Narwhal
Creamy Wild Rice Soup from Hello Little Home
Pumpkin Soup with Bacon Roasted Chickpeas from Feast + West
Be sure to take a peek at them all!
Baked Camembert with Cranberry Walnut Crust
- 1 8oz wheel of camembert cheese
- 1/3 cup walnuts, toasted and chopped
- 1/3 cup dried cranberries
- 3 Tbsp brown sugar
- 3 Tbsp butter, melted
- 1 tsp fresh thyme, chopped
- 1/8 tsp salt
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a small bowl, combine the melted butter and sugar. Stir to combine. Fold in the cranberries, walnuts, thyme, and salt.
- Flip the camembert so the bottom is on top (where the rind comes together). Using a sharp knife, remove the top rind of the cheese. Place the camembert cut side up in an oven-safe round baking dish (I used one of my larger crème brûlée dishes). Cover the top of the cheese with the cranberry walnut topping.
- Bake for 15 minutes. Serve immediately with toasted slices of French bread or crackers.
28 Responses to "Baked Camembert with Cranberries & Walnuts"
Good grief, I could gobble up this whole blessed thing! Baked cheese of any kind speaks to me and I love the cranberries and walnuts in this one! Thanks so much for organizing such a fun Thanksgiving blog dinner 🙂
Thank you for joining us Amy! So thrilled to see it all come together today! 🙂
When can I come over? I would love to dig into this with you and clink cocktails to a great collaboration! Thanks for going on this road with me, BFF! So much fun.
YES come over immediately BFF! This was so much fun, I can hardly wait until the 2nd Annual Blogsgiving Progressive Dinner!! 😉
Delicious, easy, and beautiful – what a perfect Thanksgiving appetizer. This would definitely be a crowd pleaser! Thank you so much for organizing this amazing blogsgiving dinner!!
Thank you for joining us Cate!!
This looks off the charts! I want to face plant in to the entire bowl!
Thank you Liz!
What a fun event! I always love an excuse to eat more Thanksgiving treats, especially when they involve cranberries and camembert. I want to dive right into all of that cheesy goodness!
Thanks Ashley! Next year we'll have to recruit you to join!
This looks absolutely delicious! I think I'd be happy skipping the rest of the meal and digging straight into this;) Thanks for hosting this awesome event!
That looks so delicious and inviting. I would have a hard time resisting that.
Yuuummmm! This looks amazing. I love me some cheese, and it's so seasonal with those toppings! Thanks so much for putting this whole thing together. I'm having a blast!
This is going to be a hit at our Traveling Thanksgiving Reunion this year The guys gather Friday to watch football and this is going to be served for them to shovel in their mouths. Camembert is a great change up from Brie! Thanks for such a great idea and gathering of ideas!
Thank you Jennifer!! 🙂 Next year you should join us!!
I'd be honored to be included! Thanks and jot me down for next year!
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Such a simple delicious recipe. I made this for a get together over the weekend and it was a hit.
This is WAY too much butter for an 8 oz block of cheese. otherwise delicious, but the amount of butter and, really, sugar should be at least halved.


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谷中銀座 Yanaka Ginza
- Shopping areas
- Ueno / Asakusa / Tokyo Skytree Area
- Travelko Rating
- Price RangeAdmission free
- ClosedOpen Every Day
Maps are rarely carried out with accessing from mainland China.
- District
- Ueno / Asakusa / Tokyo Skytree Area
- Address
- 3-13-1 Yanaka, Taito-ku, Tokyo, 110-0001, Japan
- Category
- Shopping areas
- Opening Hours
- 24hours
- Closed
- Open Every Day
- Price Range
- Admission free
- Website
- http://www.yanakaginza.com/
A famous and Japanese favorite old towns
Yanaka Ginza is an old shopping street which makes locals feel nostalgic. For non-Japanese tourists, it will probably feel new instead if you are getting a bit tired of looking at too much Japanese technology, to many high-rise buildings and the hustle-bustle of shopping streets. The shopping street stretches for more or less 200 meters, and lined with about 70 shops, some of which are time-honored and you can enjoy shopping for Japanese items such as traditional Japanese sandals and toys for children.
Also the treat here is to buy some snacks and eat on your way; croquette (when you pronounce it in Japanese way, try kolokke) doughnut and other Japanese sweets...
The stairs are nicknamed Yanake-dandan (literally The Sunset stairs) and are famous here and attract lots of visitors. Actually the sunset from the stairs is beautiful. Around the town, you can just hang around and soak up the atmosphere of a Japanese old town. As you walk, you might notice soon that there are many temples here. This town has been guarded by temples for a long time.
Manners: After eating snacks, take your trash with you or put it in the trash can of the shop you bought the item. Also, please take care about others' clothing while eating.
If you wish to take photos of people and shops, please ask them for permission. Taking photo of the products inside stores is not usually allowed.
You can find good old Japan in a big city!
You may think that Tokyo is a big city only with modern buildings but you may change your mind if you visit Yanaka. This area is not far from the center of Tokyo, but it keeps an old and calm atmosphere. There are many Buddhist temples, old houses and a big cemetery. The wall called Tsuijibei was constructed during the feudal times. You may feel like you went back in time.
In the center of Yanaka area there is a short and narrow shopping street called Yanaka Ginza. This is one of the typical shopping streets for the locals. They sell things for daily life such as home-style foods & sweets, kimono, traditional sandals, ceramics, green tea etc. I recommend trying to eat "menchikatsu" (breaded deep-fried ground meat cutlet). You can buy it for ¥200 (JPY) at Nikuno-Suzuki store.
Yanaka is also called a cat town. You may find the local cats and also in Yanaka Ginza, you will find many figurines of cats.
At the entrance of the shopping street, there are steps called Yuyake-Dandan which means "sunset steps". They are named that way not only for the beautiful landscape seen from the top but also if you come here for at sunset, you may feel nostalgic.
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Other Sightseeing Spots of Tokyo
- Kiddy Land(Harajuku)
- Tsukiji Fish Market(Tokyo Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market)
- Tokyo Skytree
- Yasukuni Shrine
- Nakamise Shopping Street
- Asakusa Shrine
- Sensoji Temple
- Imperial Palace
- LaQua
- Toyota Mega Web
- Honda Welcome Plaza Aoyama
- LOFT Yurakucho
- Shibuya 109
- Hachiko Statue
- Tokyo Central Railway Station
- Sengakuji
- Kiyosumi Teien
- Yuzawaya (Kamata)
- Sky Bus Tokyo (In front of Mitsubishi Building)
- 100 yen shop Can Do (Seibu Shinjuku PePe)
- Ginza Itoya
- Tokyu Hands Shibuya Store
- Don Quijote Shibuya
- Aqua Park Shinagawa
- Shibuya Crossing
- Daikanyama TSUTAYA Books
- Robot Restaurant
- The National Art Center, Tokyo
- Fukagawa Edo Museum
- Todoroki Valley park
- Ryogoku Kokugikan
- Matsumoto Kiyoshi (Ikebukuro East Exit)
- Omotesando
- Meiji Shrine (Meiji Jingu)
- Ueno Park
- Nezu Museum
- Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building
- Tokyo DisneySea
- Tokyo Tower
- Zojoji Temple
- Hama Rikyu Gardens
- Kappabashi Street
- Kabukicho
- Takeshita Street
- National Museum of Nature and Science
- Odaiba Kaihin Koen
- Edo-Tokyo Museum
- AkihabaraElectric Town
- Shinjuku Golden Town
- Tokyo Disneyland
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31 May 2012 at 10.49am | 283 Comments
You may have noticed that on 25 April we launched the new ROH website. Over the last four weeks we have had our heads down, working on the inevitable issues that arise when delivering complex digital projects. We did a lot of testing, but as anyone who is involved in this type of work knows, exhaustive testing is impossible. This is why we have given ourselves plenty of time between booking days, so that we can iron out as many creases as possible.
We want the site to be in the best possible shape for the Friends of Covent Garden booking days on 12 and 13 June, which are followed by public booking in July. Before launch we invited a small group of the Friends of Covent Garden to come in for a sneak peek of the site and give us feedback, we also asked design students from St Martins College to tell us what they thought, so we could get a broad spectrum of views.
We had conducted extensive mechanical testing, using computers to simulate purchases, but there is nothing like the real thing, so a couple of weeks ago 3,000 students took part in a test booking. We are now going to up the stakes and invite Friends of Covent Garden to come to the website for a Golden Ticket Hunt. The aim of the Hunt is to allow the Friends to familiarize themselves with the new website before a real booking day, and offer a chance to win some tickets as a way of saying thank you. We use various monitoring tools to see how our website behaves and these sort of live tests with real people will also help us to get an idea what we can expect on a busy booking day.
We would like to thank everyone for their feedback, support and criticism, this helps us improve the service we offer. Of course, we can't do everything overnight and a project team meets every week to discuss and prioritize development. We are currently working on a new online shop, which should be ready soon, and many other tweaks and features are in the pipeline.
Ticket Hunt details
Friends who participate in the Golden Ticket Hunt will be entered into a draw to win a pair of Orchestra Stalls tickets for either The Royal Ballet's The Firebird Mixed Programme on Saturday 29 December or The Royal Opera's new production of Nabucco starring Plácido Domingo on 20 April. The first winner pulled at random, will receive the ballet tickets, the second the opera tickets
The Hunt will begin at noon tomorrow, Friday 1 June, for two hours only. We will be monitoring the process, to ensure that any glitches are resolved before Booking Period One Friends' booking opens. Friends will be able to enter the Hunt via links they receive in an email from the Royal Opera House later today. They will also be able to sign in to see the links on their account page, but these will only be visible for the duration of the Ticket Hunt. There is a ticket limit of two per performance and please do not try to add real performances or donations to your basket as you will not be able to complete the purchase.
Before the booking starts I would recommend that you read the Help pages or check the user guides below. If you are using Internet Explorer 8 you will have a better online experience by downloading a plug-in.
The site is very new and we hope you like it, it will be constantly developing over the next 12 months and we will keep you updated on our progress.
User Guides
How to sign in and manage your account (PDF)
How to purchase tickets online (PDF)
How to choose your seat (PDF)