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Here's the lecture:
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Does life have a purpose? If naturalism is true, what is the purpose of life? If Christianity is true, what is the purpose of life?
Dr. Shenvi's web site is here. Lots of great articles there on every conceivable topic.
- Dr. Shenvi's brief testimony and background
- There is no purpose to the universe and us on naturalism
- The answer to every why-question on naturalism is chance and necessity (laws)
- Nothing in the universe has intrinsic / objective value
- There is no hope on naturalism because of the heat death of the universe: everything dies
- Nothing that humans do, on naturalism, matters in the long run
- Given sufficient time, the universe will not even know we were here
- Famous atheists like Bertrand Russell and Richard Dawkins agree on this
Purpose on naturalism:
- Purpose response: we can invent our own arbitrary made-up purposes
- The monopoly in a prison illustration
Meaning on naturalism:
- Meaning response: we can invent our own arbitrary made-up meaning
- The scrabble vs Shakespeare illustration
Value on naturalism:
- Value response: we can invent our own arbitrary made-up values
- The subjective opinion vs objective truth illustration
Hope on naturalism:
- Hope response: we can invent our own arbitrary made-up hopes
- The heat death of the universe ensures that all hopes fail on naturalism
If Christianity is true:
- The universe and human beings have an objective purpose
- There is a meaning to life that is objective
- Human beings have intrinsic value, because God made them and values them
- There is hope because there is an life after death that extends eternally
- This lecture does not argue that Christianity is true because it gives us goodies
- People should become Christians because Christianity is true
- Christianity is actually quite difficult because it requires self-denial and self-sacrifice
- What God has done to help us overcome with our rebellion?
Note that these are not arguments for God's existence, because he covered that in a previous lecture. And this lecture is not about arguing for Christianity, because he covered that in a previous lecture.
Dr. Shenvi is a research scientist in theoretical chemistry. However, this lecture is not only passionate, but snarky and humorous.


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It's almost time for a new kit over at Studio Calico. The colors and the cards are gorgeous! And I had so much fun with my Cameo this month!! Here are some sneaks from my Project Life main kit.
The reveal is Saturday the 27th at midnight eastern time. See you then~

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Ipe wood makes for one of the best materials for deckings and outdoor installations, but this is all the more reason for the industry suppliers to keep the environment in mind. Ipe deckings enjoy great popularity for many reasons, including best value for money, long life, and natural resistance to fire, bugs and scratches. Ipe wood buyers online are usually those who know or have searched and explored the many qualities that make Ipe stand out from the rest.
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Boston paramedic charged with stealing drugs
Brian Benoit accused of tampering with vials of painkillers
A Boston paramedic pleaded not guilty on Friday to 73 counts in connection with allegations he tampered with and stole vials and syringes containing painkillers and sedatives.
Brian Benoit, 40, of South Boston was indicted after an extensive investigation by Boston police and Suffolk prosecutors with the cooperation of Boston EMS and the Boston Public Health Commission, officials said.
"The evidence suggests a violation of the trust the city placed in this defendant, an egregious breach of his ethics as a medical professional, and a shocking disregard for the safety and well-being of patients who relied on him," Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley said.
The charged offenses took place last year when Boston Emergency Medical Services maintained nine so-called "drug boxes" that contained, among other things, vials and pre-loaded syringes containing the painkillers morphine and fentanyl and the sedatives lorazepam and midazolam, Conley said. The boxes were stocked from the Boston Medical Center Pharmacy and stowed either aboard ambulances on active duty or in secure areas when the ambulances were not in service.
Benoit is accused of using his access to the drug boxes and the automated BMC Pharmacy dispensing machine to steal the contents of 106 vials and syringes containing the controlled substances between August and September 2011.
Benoit was charged with one count of larceny by scheme and 26 counts of larceny of a controlled substance for allegedly stealing prescription painkillers and sedatives from more than 100 vials and syringes; 24 counts of creating a counterfeit substance for allegedly replacing some of those medications with other clear liquids; and 22 counts of manufacturing Class B, Class C, and Class E controlled substances for allegedly replacing some of those medications with different liquids, transforming the contents into different or diluted controlled substances.
Officials said Benoit had voluntarily submitted to testing for infectious diseases and had tested negative.
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Seeking a Friend for the End of the World is probably the most Steve Carell movie that Steve Carell has ever made. With someone else at the helm, this comedy-drama's quirky/emo storyline—two mismatched East Coast neighbors take a road trip together as the planet is weeks away from destruction—might have been awfully cutesy. But Carell grounds everything in a modest, understated normalcy that makes you care deeply about what's happening.
We're used to our comic stars being larger-than-life personalities: Will Ferrell, Robin Williams, Jim Carrey. But Carell isn't, at least not at his best. (Stare into this light and we'll erase your memory of sitting through Dinner for Schmucks.) Where others huff and puff to get all the laughs, Carell is very happy to be the straight man. It's not the normal path for a breakout star, but he's used it to put together a more interesting and successful film career than most of his peers have.
For quite a while, Carell was a second banana: part of the ensemble on The Dana Carvey Show in the mid-'90s; a correspondent for The Daily Show—a great one, but without the aggressively pronounced persona of Mo Rocca or Carvey bud Stephen Colbert. When he started popping up in movies, like Bruce Almighty and Anchorman, he was backing up Carrey or Ferrell. Talented as he was, Carell seemed like a professional platoon player, not someone you'd pay money to see on his own.
All of that changed in the span of a few months in 2005. In March, the American redo of The Office premiered, and then in August, The 40-Year-Old Virgin came out. The Office took a little bit to find its footing, but The 40-Year-Old Virgin was one of those out-of-the-box successes that you watched and thought, "Oh, OK, this is what Carell can do really well."
As the virginal Andy, Carell wasn't focused on cracking one-lines or doing hysterical bits of physical comedy. He was just the nervous, sweet center of an R-rated sex comedy, at a time when those were starting to become incredibly popular and progressively more outrageous. He proved he could play off an established actress like Catherine Keener with ease, and he projected an inherent goodness. That decency kept The 40-Year-Old Virgin from feeling like an R-rated comedy; it was one raunchy Apatow movie you could almost imagine taking the whole family to.
Carell's trick is that you don't particularly notice him. His agreeable, forgettably handsome Everyman quality keeps him from pulling the focus away from the rest of the cast. Whether he's in an ensemble movie like Little Miss Sunshine or being the principal star, as in Get Smart or Date Night*, he never seems to be reaching for the spotlight.
Maybe that's why he never won an Emmy, despite all the nominations he got for The Office: His buttoned-down style lost out to actors in showier roles. Like Bob Newhart before him, Carell looks dull on the outside, but you know he's thinking something funny. So rather than standing back and waiting for the hilarity to explode, you lean in.
Carell has also been smart enough to control the usual comic-star urge to prove he has dramatic range. There's no Man on the Moon in his filmography. Instead, he's chosen to do a lot of solid art-house/grownup-crowd films: Little Miss Sunshine; Dan in Real Life; Crazy, Stupid, Love. None of them are masterpieces—I kinda hate Crazy, Stupid, Love—but they're not just filler to film while the star's on break from his TV show. (It's important to remember: During the time he was becoming a bigger and bigger film star, he was also doing The Office. This is incredibly difficult to achieve.)
Even more impressive, it's work where he doesn't sit around emoting to prove how serious an actor he is. Whether in a comedy or a drama, he projects that natural-seeming, amiable regular-guy quality.
Carell has made bad movies. Despicable Me and Evan Almighty are mediocre family-film stuff, and Dinner for Schmucks found him abandoning his easy manner for a failed gonzo shtick. Yet it doesn't feel as if he's making the crap as part of a scheme for world domination. He's not pushy and needy in that way.
Just like the brokenhearted, lonely depressive he plays in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Carell doesn't make a fuss. Even his Twitter account is almost charmingly low-key and dorky. Apparently he didn't get the memo that all funny people must be funny on Twitter every single moment of the day. It's all the Carell mood: a refreshing equilibrium that makes all his projects just seem like Steve Carell movies. He's the one comic you and your dad probably like equally. You're both right.
*This sentence has been revised to reflect a correction.
Grierson & Leitch is a regular column about the movies. Follow us on Twitter, @griersonleitch.


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Christina Aguilera is back! And so is Cee Lo Green!
Fans of The Voice are already getting a first look at the upcoming fifth season of the hit show.
Green and Aguilera – looking super slim with a sophisticated bob and long, lean legs to boot – are reuniting with triple winner Blake Shelton and Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine for the new season, which debuts Sept. 23 (8 p.m. ET) on NBC.
Host Carson Daly is also back for season 5 – just in time for blind auditions, which began this week in Los Angeles.
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'The Place Beyond the Pines': Five Ryan Gosling films worth renting
"The Place Beyond the Pines" star Ryan Gosling is one of today's most sought-after and talented actors. His stock in Hollywood continues to soar as he takes on a diversity of roles that don't merely rely on his handsome looks. Here are five of his films worth renting.
1. "Crazy, Stupid, Love": As a Lothario with a Photo-Shop-worthy bod (one of the film's best lines), Gosling is at his playful best. His endearing playboy mentors a jilted average joe (Steve Carell) on the art of seduction in this hilarious and knowing romantic comedy co-starring the lovely Emma Stone, Marisa Tomei and Julianne Moore. (2011)
2. "Drive": Love it or hate it. There are only two ways you'll feel about Nicolas Winding Refn's arty slow burn of a film noir. Gosling is Steve McQueen terrific as a stoic stunt driver and part-time criminal who gets all revved up over his neighbor (a miscast Carey Mulligan). Trouble ensues, and it's of the very gory sort. A spot on supporting cast -- including Albert Brooks and Bryan Cranston -- along with one nifty soundtrack helps push the pedal to the metal on this feast for film buffs. (2011)
3. "Lars and the Real Girl": A lonely oddball falls in desperate love with a sex doll. Now doesn't that sound delightful? The terribly creepy premise is handled delicately, even poignantly as it plumbs deeply into the psyche of an emotionally wounded and hurting man. It's one of Gosling's best performances. See it, you'll be pleasantly
surprised and moved. (2007)
4. "Half Nelson": As a do-good teacher with a serious drug problem, Gosling is simply electrifying. As is this very fine indie feature from director Ryan Fleck who makes everything about "Nelson" feel real. Fleck and co-writer Anna Boden apply extra layers of complexity to the tense story when a student stumbles upon the truth that his teacher is an addict. (2006)
5. "The Notebook": Yes, it's sappy. And yes it's based on a Nicholas Sparks novel. So what? This romantic drama with two of today's sexiest stars -- Gosling and Rachel McAdams -- will get you in the tear ducts. Put all that luscious eye candy aside and you'll truly discover the heart of this tear-jerker -- James Garner and Gena Rowlands, as an older couple dealing with memory loss and the dwindling moments of time together. (2004)


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The Eclipse Finance Day is a great opportunity to learn how organizations in the finance industry are using and benefiting from Eclipse and open source software. This 1-day event will be held October 16, 2012 at the UBS offices in Zurich Switzerland.
Call for Papers
We would like to invite technical professionals working in the finance industry to submit a speaking proposal for the Eclipse Finance Day. We are particularly interested in case studies, experience reports and techniques used by financial organizations who use Eclipse technology to improve their software development processes.
Some suggested topic areas include:
- Using Eclipse Modeling technology for model-driven development or for creating domain specific languages.
- Developing desktop and server applications using Eclipse runtime technology
- Creating, deploying and managing application life-cycle management (ALM) tool chains with Eclipse
- Extending enterprise applications to the mobile world
- Other topics of interest to the finance industry and Eclipse community
A goal of the conference is to create an opportunity for individuals to learn from the experiences of their peers. Therefore, preference will be given to proposals from individuals working directly in the finance industry and topics based on experiences of using Eclipse within financial organizations.
Session proposal should be sent to email@example.com.
Proposals should include the following:
- Session title
- Abstract (up to 200 words)
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Deadline for proposals is August 15, 2012
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Length of presentation: We will have 30 minutes and 45 minutes presentation slots.
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The results of this study are important for regulators when considering the potential impact of the timeliness of audits and the subsequent impact on capital markets. The focus of the PCAOB is to improve the quality of public company audits and to ensure higher quality financial reporting for all stakeholders. However, higher quality audits may come at the cost of less timely financial information. This study indicates that this in turn can influence firm voluntary disclosure behavior. Consequently, this result could have potentially negative consequences for investors seeking the timeliest information possible.
Schroeder, J. H. 2016. The Impact of Audit Completeness and Quality on Earnings Announcement GAAP Disclosures. The Accounting Review 91 (2): 677-705.
The finding that investors distinguish the plausibility among seemingly self-serving attributions based on concurrent industry performance and earnings commonality suggests that investors are somewhat sophisticated when interpreting these narrative disclosures. This study should be of interest to policymakers who advocate the importance of narrative disclosures. A potential concern that policymakers face is that managers can use unregulated narrative disclosures to manipulate investor perceptions, particularly if investors accept managers' self-serving pronouncements uncritically. These findings mitigate this concern because investors appear to be sophisticated enough to use relevant information to distinguish the plausibility of seemingly self-serving attributions. Apparently, providing self-serving attributions purely to mislead investors may not be an effective strategy.
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- Series
- Fushigi Yuugi: Genbu Kaiden
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- Takiko Okuda
- Special Variation:
- Artbook Priestess
- Year Completed:
- 2012
- Construction Difficulty:
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- Awards
- Best in Show Godaiko Con 2013
- Costume worn at:
- Anime Matsuri 2013
- GoDaikoCon / Anime Detroit 2013
- Katsucon 2013
- Shuto Con 2013
- Youmacon 2012
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The pink under robe was drafted from a suit jacket pattern. I made it longer and then tailored it to fit. I also drafted the collar piece. The gold trim was sewn on after the robe was finished. The robe zips up the back.rnrnThe black robe was also drafted by me. It is lined in yellow and trimmed in gold dragon trim. The hexagons are yellow satin and olive poly shantung. They're satin stitched onto the robe.rnrnThe gold overskirt was drafted by me as well. It closes with a zipper in the back. The hexagons are the same as the black robe and are satin stitched on. The purple ribbons are attached to the overskirt and really do tie on the sides. The genbu medallion was painted free hand. The large pink balls are ping pong balls I painted pink by puncturing them with a push pin and then stringing them over a dowel rod. rnrnThe head piece was built onto a headband with craft foam and covered in black fabric. The large diamond and green gem were resin cast by me, and the smaller pink gems are glass decor gems painted with pink nail polish. The two paintings on the headpiece are Suzaku and Byakko. The ping pong balls are the same as hanging from my skirt. They were punctured, strung, and painted while hanging from a dowel. The tassels were purchased, and I managed to find real jade beads! rnrnThe shentso-pao was sculpted with Sculpey in Jewelry Gold. I found gold beads that matched her references exactly. I even included the little beads that dangle from the necklace. rnrnThe wig was a simple brown wig I got on eBay. I just cut bangs into it.rnrnThe contact lenses are Vassen Queen Bambi Brown.
- Personal Thoughts:
- I'm a huge Fushigi Yuugi fan, and when I saw this design for Takiko I knew I absolutely had make it. I'd decided on my Youmacon 2012 costume before Youmacon 2011 had even passed.
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Conventional wisdom says you're supposed to use trucks for things like towing livestock, or taking your boat out for the weekend. You're definitely not supposed to take your 4X4 Dodge onto a frozen lake to go drifting.
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Enver Masud is the founder of The Wisdom Fund, which the New York Post has called "the main Muslim 'truther' group in America." His articles on national and world affairs have been published in newspapers and magazines in the U.S. and overseas. He is the author of an award-winning book, The War on Islam, and a contributing author of 9/11 and American Empire and Islam: Opposing Viewpoints. He has lectured widely on 9/11. An engineer by profession, he managed research programs, the National Power Grid Study, and the National Electric Reliability Study for the U.S. Department of Energy, and set up and directed the Operations Review Division at the Iowa Commerce Commission. As an engineering management consultant, he has worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the World Bank, in Albania, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia, Latvia, Pakistan, Russia, and Tanzania. He resides less than a mile from the Pentagon. Join him on Facebook.
A. K. "Khalil" Dewdney, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Western Ontario. Well-known for his popular "Mathematical Recreations" column, which ran in Scientific American for more than eight years, he is also the author of several books, including The Armchair Universe and The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World. Founder of Scientific Panel Investigating 9/11 (SPINE) and co-founder of Muslims for 9/11 Truth, he is well known in the 9/11 truth-seeking community for his Project Achilles experiments showing that the reported cell phone calls from the allegedly hijacked airliners on 9/11 cannot have been genuine.
Dr. Faiz Khan is a co-founder of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth and a contributor to 9/11 and American Empire: Christians, Jews, and Muslims Speak Out. He has spoken at various 9/11 truth events including the seminal 2006 Chicago conference.
Dr. Khan is a medical doctor who practices and holds dual board specialization in two of the broadest fields within modern medicine – Emergency and Internal medicine. He is Vice Chairman / Head of Academic Affairs of Emergency Medicine at Nassau University Medical Center, and holds professorships in both specialties. His areas of expertise include diagnostic reasoning and epistemology, critical care, and medical ethics, and he serves as chairman of the medical ethics committee. He has been the recipient of professional leadership and teaching awards.
Dr. Khan is a khateeb (imam of Friday services) and conducted Friday prayers for 7 years at the Al-Farah Mosque in TriBeca, Manhattan. He continues to conduct prayers at the Islamic Center of Long Island and other NY area mosques.
Saad Ali is an activist with We Are Change Chicago. "We Are Change is a citizens based grassroots peace and social justice movement working to reveal the truth behind the events of September 11th, as well as the lies of the government and corporate elite who remain suspect in this crime. In addition, we are here to aid the sick and dying first responders through fundraising and social outreach programs in order to promote awareness of those who suffer from physical, emotional, and psychological traumas they received in the aftermath of 9-11. We also seek to meet other local citizens who are interested in educating the public while engaging in peaceful demonstration about the pertinent issues that are affecting our lives each and every day. Furthermore, We Are Change is a nonpartisan independent media organization comprised of patriot journalists working to hold accountable those engaging in activities that do not represent the wishes of 'We the People' – by asking the hard questions that the controlled mainstream media refuses to do."
Muhammad Abdullah is a Southern California 9/11 truth activist. He is a Marine Corps veteran whose patriotism was deeply offended by the 9/11 inside job, and who decided to do something about it, as suggested by the hadith:
"When any one of you sees anything that is disapproved (of by Allah), let him change it with his hand. If he is not able to do so, then let him change it with his tongue. And if he is not able to do so, then let him change it with his heart, though that is the weakest (kind of) faith."
Muhammed Abdullah has been conducting street actions on a weekly basis for more than two years. In spring 2009 he became the target of an attempted restraining order by the Pomona Police Department due to his peaceful demonstrations outside the building, which garnered many "thumbs-up" signs from rank-and-file cops. The Department failed to win a restraining order as Abdullah agreed to remain a certain distance away from police headquarters. Then in September 2009, Abdullah's home was raided by an apparent Department of Homeland Security team, who confiscated his computer and harassed him with questions about his political views.
Dr. Kevin Barrett is the co-founder and acting coordinator of Muslims for 9/11 Truth. He is the author of three books including the brand-new Questioning the War on Terror: A Primer for Obama Voters, which deconstructs the "war on terror" through Socratic questioning. A Ph.D. Arabist-Islamologist, he has taught languages, literature, humanities, religious studies, and folklore at colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad.
Blacklisted from teaching at the University of Wisconsin since 2006, Dr. Barrett has recently worked as a talk radio host, author, public speaker, and congressional candidate. One of the best-known critics of the War on Terror, Dr. Barrett has appeared on Fox, CNN, PBS, ABC-TV, and Unavision, and has been the subject of op-eds and feature stories in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, and other publications. (Media archive here.) Dr. Barrett hosts two talk radio shows, one on a liberal and the other on a conservative network, and runs the website TruthJihad.com.


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As part of the Prague Signal Festival, we collaborated with QUIX on the NEON FOOD LOUNGE - a big neon party in the tent of the Žofín Garden restaurant. Under UV lights everything glowed, the guests as well as drinks and sweets. Our guests enjoyed Prosecco with UV passion fruit caviar, bubble tea with lychee or neon magnums, ice cream, waffles, panna cotta, donuts and much more. For the very hungry, our food truck offered hot meals, such as poutine, hotdogs and burgers.
December 2019 | A traditional event for ČSOB clients on the beautiful premises of Lucerna. The evening was held to celebrate 30 years of free enterprise. The guests enjoyed a concert of Pražský výběr band and were then served a real banquet. They enjoyed, for example, picanha steaks, which our chefs sliced right in front of the guests, or duck breast confit in apricot sauce with homemade potato dumplings. As part of the theme, we used retro dishes, such as colored saucepans and pots, on the banquet tables.
November 2019 | We didn't want to miss the Lumberjack World Cup in the Industrial Palace. We took good care of our VIP guests, to whom we offered, for example, caprese or raclette shows, flatbreads baked on site, our irresistible Chocoland and much more on this true championship evening.
February 2019 | At the European Congress, of which we were partners, we prepared refreshments for 160 guests from all over Europe. The Art Deco Hall of the Empire Hall in the Slovansky House was illuminated by our table mapping projections and our catering innovations. In addition to the "spoon wall" tasting, the guests enjoyed a mozzarella show, a salami bar, an "eating park" with shrimp skewers, Chocoland with a chocolate river and the Pavlova show on a backlit stage. They also had great fun at the self-service alchemist bar.
December 2018 | Allianz invited its business partners to the Epic Club, and we had the opportunity to prepare snacks for them. For 250 guests, we prepared a "live cooking show": they enjoyed our vegetable garden, Chocoland, waffles or tacos that the guests prepared by themselves according to their taste.
November 2018 | On the occasion of the awarding of prizes for BPS TOP Responsible Company 2018, we had the honor of presenting our sustainable concept in collaboration with the Business for Society company. Without plastics, producing minimal waste and maximum taste, we introduced ingredients from our local suppliers. The guests enjoyed a "vegetable garden", quail eggs, cabbage rolls, chestnut cream and other dishes. We have used aesthetically imperfect vegetables in our samosa pastry. We served tap water infused with fruits and herbs. Nothing was thrown away, and the guests could take away whatever had not been eaten. And it worked great!
November 2018 | For 400 guests of the fashion retailer H&M, we prepared street food refreshments at the Myslbek shopping gallery in Prague to accompany the launch of the new H&M x MOSCHINO line by Jeremy Scott. Our chefs prepared colourful hotdogs, black mini-burgers, poutines and waffles consistent with our sustainable catering policy – as little plastic as possible and using organic plates and paper straws. We love nature and fashion!
February 2018 | We enjoyed the first ever Annual Czech-Slovak Coca-Cola Conference, organized in cooperation with JAD Production, and with the participation of employees from various industries. For the 800 guests gathered at the Forum Karlín we prepared a menu inspired by this strong brand. Conference participants were able to savor the taste of beef ribs marinated in Coca-Cola BBQ sauce or Coca-Cola ice cream with vanilla. And to make the ideas expressed on stage easier to understand by the audience, we also served so-called brain food such as dried fruits and nuts.
January 2018 | The magical Prague Crossroads, four fashion designers, Mojitos served in cans, star-shaped blinis and special showcases for designer handbags - this was the 13th FASHION STARS NIGHT. For about 500 guests at this special event, we created such elegant canapés as seafood grissini with Parma ham, tapioca ceviche, veal tartare or sparkling drinks in eco-glasses and Veuve Cliquot champagne.
November 2017 | At the special occasion 'Czech 100 Best' in Prague Castle we prepared food all day for 700 guests which was accompanied by an official ceremony. We combined the best of our catering offerings and Zátiší Group restaurants. In our buffet we were serving octopus salad, Italian delicacies from our 'focaccia station' and we introduced our 'vegetable garden'. In front of our guests we prepared fresh caprese or we painted with food our special Meringue cake (Pavlova cake) with fresh fruit and whipped cream.
October 2017 | To be able to entertain not only the bride and groom but also all the Russian/Jewish wedding guests according to their original traditions, we hired a special master chef from Russia. He prepared delicacies such as caviar, pelmeni or pierogi. The menu from our kitchen consisted of oysters, flap steak and salmon. Our guests were celebrating and having a really good time until early morning hours.
June 2017 | 1,000 invited guests enjoyed the atmosphere of Pruhonicky Park as well as traditional Czech and Swedish cuisine. Guests were celebrating 20-year anniversary of Volvo Trucks until the early morning hours and were delighted to get refreshments any time they wished.
June 2017 | We served the top management of Intel and Huawei at Žofín Palace for two weeks. Refreshments were divided into mini-portions of UV food and live cooking. The pleasure of the evening was boosted by the beauty of the Neo-Renaissance palace and our modern technology.
June 2017 | The garden celebration of the Czech-German Chamber of Commerce took place on the premises of the German Embassy in Prague. Under a blue sky, we served light summer meals, which guests chose according to their taste. Our programme was enriched by 'live cooking' and our ice-pan show'.
May 2017 | The Spring Ball for 1,100 prominent culturally, politically and socially prominent guests of Prague 1. The theme of the evening was film, and we were in charge of directing it. Our food and drinks were a box-office hit.
May 2017 | We believe that what you see, you will want to taste. And we will prove that to you. At the unique Žofín Palace our guests can experience 'table projection mapping' for the very first time. It combines visual projections with traditional Czech cuisine.
March 2017 | Showroom opening was harmonized with perfect refreshments. We 'topped off' meals with a combination of fragility and the cleanliness of crystal. There was also a flying buffet, of course...
December 2016 | The theme of this evening party at Kuceruv Palace was sushi. Cuts of fresh tuna from a fish that weighed 34 kg became a dominant talking point during the event. Of course, we also grilled meat and mixed drinks.
December 2016 | At the former 64 U Hradeb cinema, Skype employees enjoyed a wide range of dishes from all over the world. Guests could taste Asian street food, English fast food or delicacies from the traditional Czech Christmas markets.
December 2016 | The first birthday party of the magazine Marwic was held in the Chemistry Gallery, where we coupled the catering with the art. Guests could enjoy the food while watching 'live cooking' or the ice-pan show. The masterpiece of the evening was painting with food.
July 2016 | When Nautica introduced its new collection at the Hauch Gallery, we sailed in with our playful 'beach style' catering. Guests could refresh themselves with ice cream from a 'frying pan' or taste delicacies in edible or inedible cones. We proved that refreshments could be a kind of sailing adventure.
April 2016 | The cities of Prague, Brno and Bratislava hosted a special show coinciding with the introduction of new products from Vichy. The food was in perfect harmony with the colours of the products. Guests could taste blue potatoes, pink mini-desserts or punch-flavoured macarons.
March 2016 | Introduction of Adidas Pureboost Trainers. Two food bloggers, massive portion of light food and big Ice-Pan Show. Simply said – refreshment full of energy and colours.
October 2014 | In Budapest we served 450 guests. We also emphasized small details such as mini desserts or salmon.


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Team New Zealand performs 'haka' war cry before game against Chinese Taipei
Pregame rituals are fun.
In tee ball, your team rituals probably included sucking on orange slices and ice cream parties. During your high school years, you may have listened to the song of the week or played pepper behind the backstop. In the big leagues, some players wear golden thongs.
Well, Team New Zealand took on Chinese Taipei in a World Baseball Classic qualifier on Thursday and broke out into their traditional "haka" dance. It's an ancestral war cry of the Maori culture that the country's All Blacks rugby team made famous. It's absolutely terrifying.
By the way, Chinese Taipei took the game 10-0.
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Mother holds on to her hope for justice
SHE was meant to experience camping for the first time, become a florist and finish school.
After leaving high school at 15 to enter the workforce to help support her family, she was looking forward to rejoining her classmates after her mother secured a stable job.
She hoped she would one day reignite the flame with her high school crush.
But as her friends progressed to graduating high school, finding love and leaving Toowoomba, Annette Jane Mason unwillingly stayed.
She remains in the country town unable to experience the fruits of her life because she was brutally murdered 23 years ago.
Annette's badly beaten body was found in the bedroom of her Anzac Ave home on November 19, 1989.
Police believe a non-metallic object was used to kill the young, blonde-haired girl and the injuries were such that she would have been unconscious during most of the attack.
A thorough police investigation, $250,000 reward and constant family pleas for help have not sufficed to find Annette's killer.
The perjury trial of a former neighbour, Karen Leslie Symonds, accused of lying to a secretive Crime Commission closed hearing about what she knew of Annette's death, has brought the murder mystery to light again.
Symonds was found not guilty on one count of perjury and will face trial next year on another perjury charge.
The case has also seen Annette's mother, Judy Clarke, relive the horror for another time and recount in excruciating detail, Annette's last steps.
Annette was born in Toowoomba and went through school on the Gold Coast and lived in NSW before moving back to Toowoomba to finish Grade 10.
But financial struggles tormented her tight-knit family and prompted Annette to drop out of Grade 10 at St Ursula's College to take up an apprenticeship at a florist.
Mrs Clarke later moved to the Gold Coast where the work was and Annette stayed in Toowoomba, on the proviso Mrs Clarke would return to stay with Annette on the weekends.
Mrs Clarke helped Annette move in with a few girls at 131 Anzac Ave, but the move did not sit well with her.
"I said to her, 'Let's not do this'," Mrs Clarke said.
"She said 'Oh mum, I promise I will look out for cars when I cross the road and I promise to be careful when I use the hairdryer'."
Within the first week she began mingling with a new crowd, drinkers and socialisers, and featuring on a scene contrary to her quiet, reserved personality.
"There was a lot of drinking that sort of stuff, whereas Annette was not really into a crowd like that before, ever," Mrs Clarke said.
"When she died she got this horrible reputation through the newspaper that she was out going to nightclubs, whereas she wasn't.
"We just think that she just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and she should not have been living in that house."
On the weekend of the November 18-19, 1989, Annette planned to go camping with her boyfriend's family friends, but owing to bad weather, the trip was called off at the last minute.
Twenty-four hours later, Annette was dead.
For the past two decades police have worked to piece together Annette's final moments.
Based on statements from friends, a taxi driver and motorists, police know Annette went to a party at Groom Park on Saturday, November 18, before heading to the Norville Hotel.
As some of her friends pushed on, Annette called it a night and caught a cab home with her uncle's friend.
The friend got out early in the journey before Annette was let out at Anzac Ave.
The taxi driver was one of the last people to see Annette alive as she walked down the street at 3:30am.
A woman gave chilling evidence at the recent perjury trial in Brisbane District Court about seeing a blonde girl in a white shirt running across the road with a man in tow.
The motorist was driving to the Gold Coast at 4am on November 19 and remembers the girl putting her hands on her car before continuing on and looking over her shoulder at the man behind her.
It was not until about 12 hours later that friend Leisa Jane Robertson discovered Annette.
Ms Robertson went to drop off something at Annette's on the afternoon of November 19, 1989, and walked into the share house to find Annette.
"She was lying on her bed with her doona over her and her feet out," she said.
"...I said something to her and she did not respond and I touched her and that's when I noticed something was wrong."
Ms Robertson ran screaming to Ms Symonds's house and alerted her to the frightful discovery.
Ms Symonds went up to Annette's house with Ms Robertson and stood back from the body, "quiet and unemotional", Ms Robertson claimed, before waving down police nearby.
Mrs Clarke remembers the trauma that followed.
"We virtually had to wait around for a few days because I wanted to be sure it was Annette. It was so hard to believe," she said.
"We waited until we could view her body, and from there on it was hell for years."
Six months later the family was dealt another tragedy, when 17-year-old son Steven died in a car accident near Toowoomba.
Overwhelmed with grief and malicious rumours about Annette's murder, Mrs Clarke fled to South Australia where she sought comfort and understanding with a victims-of-crime group.
Coming back to Toowoomba and subsequently closer to her two children's graves, Mrs Clarke waited patiently for a breakthrough.
In 2009, Queensland police set a $250,000 reward for anybody with information leading to the murderer's conviction.
The case stalled again before regaining prominence this year when Mrs Clarke, carrying a photo of Annette in her handbag, sat through days of haunting evidence in the perjury trial.
The family may not be closer to finding out who caused Annette's death, but they will continue to be patient, as they have for 23 years.
"I want it to be brought to justice and I want the people that did this to actually be brought to justice over it," she said.
"But as far as what happens after that, I just think nothing that ever happens to these people could ever make up for what we lost.
"Sometimes I get fearful it won't happen, but I am always looking, thinking, something eventually will go Annette's way and it will get sorted. "
In the meantime, Annette continues to rest in Toowoomba as the life she should have experienced continues on without her.
1989, November - Annette Mason moves into a share house at 131 Anzac Avenue
1989, November 1989 - Friend finds Annette's body in her bedroom
1990 - Annette's murder re-enacted on television show Australia's Most Wanted
1991 - Coronial inquiry into Annette's death draws open finding
1998 - Queensland Crime Commission takes hold of the case
1999 - Witnesses give evidence before Crime Commission
2009 - Queensland Government offer $250,000 reward for conviction
2011 - Karen Leslie Symonds charged with perjury for allegedly lying to Crime Commission
2012 - Symonds found not guilty of perjury


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Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor may not have been born in Puerto Rico, but friends and relatives say she is Puerto Rican through and through.
Her roots go back to the southwestern town of Lajas, a sleepy "pueblito" known as a gateway to the island's picturesque Caribbean coast, where Sotomayor's mother was born in 1927. They extend to nearby Mayaguez, a small city on the coast where many of Sotomayor's relatives live today.
"They grew up in an era of great poverty," Sotomayor's cousin, Jose "Tito" Baez Gonzalez, said of his and Sotomayor's parents. "Their lives were filled with struggles."
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Throughout history, the clash between truth and falsehood has been played out countless times, in every imaginable time and every imaginable place.
The people of truth call out to one true God, they speak in different tongues and have different colours but their actions are the same.
And the people of falsehood will do everything in their power to supress the truth.
Let's look at one of these episodes, the epic clash between Musa and Fir'aun.
Musa was facing immense pressure. Whatever he did, whatever signs he showed, Fir'aun and his people would not believe. Everything that Musa tried was automatically pushed off the shelf.
But when good came to them, they said, "This is ours." And if a bad [condition] struck them, they saw an evil omen in Moses and those with him. Unquestionably, their fortune is with Allah , but most of them do not know. (Al A'raf: 131)
It was 'damned if you do, damned if you don't'. If something good happened, they would give credit to themselves. And if something bad happened, they blame it on Musa. They just wouldn't believe, they just wouldn't lower their pride and arrogance.
And they said, "No matter what sign you bring us with which to bewitch us, we will not be believers in you." (Al A'raf: 132)
Truth will always meet with animosity. This is how Allah tests the believers. But if the believers are patient,
And We caused the people who had been oppressed to inherit the eastern regions of the land and the western ones, which We had blessed. And the good word of your Lord was fulfilled for the Children of Israel because of what they had patiently endured. And We destroyed [all] that Pharaoh and his people were producing and what they had been building. (Al A'raf: 137)
Make du'a for our brothers.