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Maple is a hard, tightly grained wood that can have colour variations from a pale white to a reddish tone. The finish that is chosen for maple can enhance the natural beauty of maple, or subtly reduce the variations through the use of stains.
Cherry is widely renown for its traditional majesty. A somewhat soft wood, cherry has a subtle grain, enhanced with pithing which lends itself to the warmth of historical settings. The appearance of cherry can vary dramatically with the stain color applied to it. Cherry is the ideal choice if a consistent dark colouration is required, or in its natural state the reddish color can be enhanced.
Oak has been the first choice in cabinet construction for a number of years due to the durability of this moisture resistant wood. Characterized by open graining, red oak has a natural range of color from light to dark and mineral deposits within the grain increases its natural beauty.
This product is made by laminating a block of veneers together. In its simplest application, it is obvious the edges of the laminated veneer become the "grain" of the reconstituted veneer and so the "grain is perfectly straight. By maneuvering the contour of the laminations in the block form, any desired configuration can be attained. Reconstituted wood is not exotic, but reconstituted in a way to look and feel like the real thing.
Wenge is very dark and dense with a coarse grain and a pattern of nearly black grains separated by dark brown grains.
Zebrano has coarse texture, with the typical so-called zebra stripes, often with an interlocked or wavy grain. Zebrano is a pale brown with regular or irregular marks of dark brown in varying widths.
Thinly sliced strips of natural wood adhered to an engineered board core.
The common walnut is hard, dense, tight-grained and polishes to a very smooth finish. The colour ranges from creamy white in the sapwood to a dark chocolate colour in the heart wood. When kilndried, walnut wood tends toward a dull brown colour, but when air-dried can become a rich purplish-brown, because of its colour, hardness and grain it is a prized furniture and carving wood.
Thermofoil is a plastic material which is thermoformed to the profile of an underlying engineered wood core such as medium-density fiberboard. Commonly available synthetic material is a thin, tight, heat-sealed plastic wrap used to mold over an MDF substrate. Thermofoil cabinet doors can be a solid colour or imitation wood grain. The cabinet boxes that accompany these doors can be finished in various materials such matching thermofoil and laminates. Thermofoil is available in a range of textures and sheen levels.
PET is a foil applied to a MDF base panel. PET has a higher gloss level than HPL, is UV resistant, is highly abrasion resistant, lacks inherent wavering, and is more machinable than HPL (High Pressure Laminate) with less edge chipping.
Melamine formaldehyde (also shortened to melamine) is a hard, thermosetting plastic material made from melamine and formaldehyde by polymerization. Melamine is often used to saturate decorative paper that is laminated under heat and pressure and then pasted onto particle board and commonly used in kitchen cabinets. Melamine is available in different sizes and thicknesses, as well as a large number of colours and patterns.
Solid wood frames with solid maple center panels and 1/4" veneer center panels have been replaced with MDF on painted finishes, this will avoid visible joints
Medium density fiberboard (MDF) is a high grade, composite material that performs better than solid wood in many areas. Made from recycled wood fibers and resin, MDF is machine dried and pressed to produce dense, stable materials.
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Tech leaders urge Obama to move on NSA overhaul
- Eight tech officials wrote a letter to Obama and Congress calling for curbs to surveillance
- Judge says NSA%27s program is unconstitutional%3B White House disagrees
- A special study group reviewing the NSA program has 40 recommendations for Obama
WASHINGTON — Tech executives urged President Obama on Tuesday to "move aggressively" to overhaul the way the U.S. government conducts surveillance.
The push came during a private meeting with Obama at the White House, which was billed as an opportunity to brief industry leaders on the progress the administration has made solving problems with the federal online health care exchange as well as the fallout that national security leaks have had on their companies.
Among those at the White House meeting were Apple's CEO Tim Cook, Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and Google's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt.
A federal judge ruled Monday that the National Security Agency's controversial surveillance program that collects millions of Americans' telephone records may be unconstitutional. On Tuesday, White House press secretary Jay Carney said the administration believes the surveillance program is constitutional.
Officials from eight companies — including AOL, Apple, Facebook and Google — wrote an open letter to Obama and Congress last week in which they plainly stated their call to curb surveillance.
Among the changes the group requests of government: to codify limitations on its ability to compel service providers to disclose user data; to bolster oversight of intelligence agencies collecting information; and to allow companies to publish the number of instances and nature of government demands for user information.
"We appreciated the opportunity to share directly with the president our principles on government surveillance that we released last week and we urge him to move aggressively on reform," the executives said in a joint statement.
Schmidt, of Google, opened the meeting and laid out industry officials' concerns. Obama seemed sympathetic to the idea of allowing more disclosure of government surveillance requests by technology companies, according to a tech industry official who was briefed on the meeting. The official asked to remain anonymous because the meeting was private.
Mayer, the Yahoo! executive, brought up concerns about the potentially negative impact that could be caused if countries, such as Brazil, move forward with legislation that would require service providers to ensure that data belonging to a citizen of a certain country remain in the country it originates, the official said.
That would require technology companies to build data centers in each country — a costly problem for American Internet companies, the official said. The White House noted in a statement after the meeting that the group discussed the "economic impacts of unauthorized intelligence disclosures."
The White House announced Friday that Obama received 40 recommendations from a special study group he tasked with reviewing the U.S. intelligence community's collection of telephone and Internet data. The study group was created in the aftermath of revelations made by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.
Obama's action on the recommendations — which he is weighing and expected to announce next month — are of significant importance to companies such as Google, Facebook, Apple and others who are dealing with the fallout of reports based on Snowden's leaks that the NSA gained access to some of their users' information.
In a light moment at the start of the meeting, Obama asked Netflix CEO Reed Hastings about whether he brought any advance copies of the second season of the soon-to-be-released House of Cards. Obama joked about his admiration for the Netflix-produced program, which is based in Washington and features a power-hungry politician played by actor Kevin Spacey.
"I wish things were that ruthlessly efficient," Obama said. The president added about Spacey's character Frank Underwood: "This guy's getting a lot of stuff done."

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My name is Martin Lominy. I'm a trained archaeologist, a career educator, a self-taught craftsman and the founder of Aboriginal Technologies Autochtones, a Quebec based business with an educational mission aimed at providing the general public with a more practical vision of the past and a better understanding of aboriginal cultures of North America through the reproduction and experimentation of ancient technologies.
Today, I'm doing an inventory of lithic material so for this year's Day of Archaeology post I've decided to focus on lithic technology which basically refers to the art of bashing, cracking, knapping, pecking, grinding or polishing stones of various kinds to manufacture tools, ornaments and other objects whose significance becomes even more obvious through the study of how they were used, broken, repaired, recycled and discarded.
Stone is of all materials the most dealt with in archaeology and stone tools are of paramount importance not only because they are very well preserved in the archaeological record and common to all cultures but also because they are the basic tools with which most other tools were made in prehistory. They not only help us understand the technical skills of ancient people but also inform us on chronological periods, cultural groups, food production, population movements, social organization and trade networks.
Stone tools are in fact a complex technology that benefits greatly from experimental archaeology which is a research method specialized in the reproduction of past objects and behaviours to understand the processes involved in making and using artefacts found in archaeological sites. For decades archaeologists have recognized the value of experimentation and reproduction for the benefit of research but also as an educational approach to share that knowledge with the public in a comprehensive and dynamic way.
I will briefly present here a photo essay of our latest projects aimed at improving our understanding of stone technology and reproducing various artefacts either for scientific objectives or educational purposes.
Stone knapping
Polished stone
Unworked stones as tools
Sharing the knowledge
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You know, the universe is a funny place sometimes. Just when you think you're up to getting up and running, something or someone puts the brakes on your mad dash. At least, that's what's happening to me.
Ahh! Color me frustrated.
Apparently I've been "doing too much." Me? I just figured I was trying to find our old life. According to two doctors in two weeks, I should be finding things a bit more slowly. I'm not going to get discouraged (much) and since both women are very wise I'm going to take their advice. They have my best interests at heart, so I should be smart enough to listen, right?
This weekend I plan to sit back, relax by the fireplace and pamper myself a bit. I may do my nails. I'll dust off a crossword puzzle book, sharpen my pencil and get to it. I'll read. And, since hefting my netbook can hardly be considered over-exertion, I'll open the new book file and lose myself in the new story.
You know, this slowing down doesn't sound all bad, does it? I might just get used to this lifestyle change...for a day or so! I'm not sure I was made for the slower lifestyle, but I'm going to give it a go for the weekend. We'll see what happens.
So, what about you? Do you have any weekend plans?
Friday, March 04, 2011
Slow Down!
You know, the universe is a funny place sometimes. Just when you think you're up to getting up and running, something or someone puts the brakes on your mad dash. At least, that's what's happening to me.
6 comments:
- Dru said...
I should have plans, but I don't. Most like I'm going to finish up the one quilt and then begin a new one, or at least figure out what quilt block I plan to use.
Have a good weekend.
- Sarita said...
If you were closer I'd make sure you enjoyed a slice of birthday cake, my friend. I hope you have a happy, peaceful birthday weekend!
- Wendy said...
My plans include yet another whirlwind weekend that will fly by too quickly and I'll wake up Monday morning wondering where it went. The story of my life. Your weekend sounds incredibly more appealing, Sarita. Perhaps if I turn off my Blackberry and cancel all commitments . . .
- Sarita said...
Wendy, I hope some of your weekend includes those sweet grandkids of yours. I hope you find some time for relaxation.
Big hugs!
- Marianne Arkins said...
Your weekend sounds wonderful. My weekends tend to be busier than my weekdays (which is a little frightening). I'm sure I'll take some time to read and maybe watch a bit of TV. But otherwise? I'm happier when I'm busy!
- Anonymous said...
I am so not surprised that you were told to take it easy. I don't know if you know how to do that.Try!
Sue W.


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Stockton, California's Debt Problems May Set Precedent
How Stockton's story unfolds could have major consequences for public employee pensions and bondholders nationwide.
Under a new California law governing municipal distress, Stockton has entered into a mandated mediation period before it can file for bankruptcy under Chapter 9 [read "Stockton, California's Bankruptcy Makes 'Normal' Cities Nervous"]. The city, state, employees, retirees and bondholders -- not to mention the citizens -- have a lot riding on how the story unfolds. Moreover, the unfolding could have major consequences for public employee pension plans and bondholders nationwide.
Stockton faces an avalanche of obligations that it cannot meet. Foremost among them are contributions to public employee pensions, as well as debt service on bonds earlier sold to fund its pension contributions. All told, the retirement-related annual payments by the city amount to about $37 million of its total budget of $196 million, not including another $17 million spent on retiree health care. With only $1 million left in its cash balances, the city is on the brink of collapse.
While a number of special districts and specific projects have filed for bankruptcy, it's been rare for general governments (such as cities or counties) to do so. In the past, the major concern was often with outstanding bonded indebtedness or a legal judgment against a small city. But times have changed. Now, the major de facto creditors are likely to be a jurisdiction's retirees and current employees that have unfunded pension or post-retirement liabilities. The question that likely will be faced if the Stockton bankruptcy goes forward is the ability of a government to retroactively change contract provisions that have promised benefits and required levels of contributions to fund pension plan commitments.
Where one stands in the chain of creditors' claims is a critical issue for general obligation bondholders, who have long considered themselves to be the first in line. Governments have an interest here, too: If a state allows the bondholders to be pushed behind in the line, credit ratings will suffer and borrowing costs will go up for everyone in the state.
The major players as Stockton's unraveling continues are likely to be the public employee unions and the state's giant public employee pension program, the California Public Employees' Retirement System, or CalPERS. The key issue: Are the pension fund benefits and required contributions constitutionally protected? If the Stockton case lands in a federal court, will the state law prevail over that of the bankruptcy court as it works out an equitable recomposition of the debt? CalPERS, in particular, is not anxious to see an escape hatch open for localities since it could reduce contributions to the pension system.
The stakes of a confrontation between public pensions and bondholders are potentially very high. State and local governments have $3 trillion in municipal securities outstanding, with perhaps $1 trillion of this amount representing general obligation debt. Meanwhile, state and local pension systems have an estimated $1 trillion to $2 trillion in unfunded liabilities, depending on how one calculates the liability. It is not the huge sums themselves that are at issue. There is little doubt that most claimants will get paid as promised. Rather, the issue is how debt and pension obligations will be viewed in the future as the judicial and legislative sorting process takes place and priorities among claims on revenues are established.
The growing number of fiscal difficulties -- the aftermath of the Great Recession -- should not be misinterpreted. Painful reductions in spending are going on, and governments are deleveraging by paying off debt and growing more reluctant to borrrow. Moreover, they are not defaulting on bond repayments. Only five general obligation bonds rated by Moody's have defaulted in the last 40 years; only one in the last three years.
Despite the favorable history, bondholders are not free from worries. Bankruptcy or state-managed rescue operations may lead to questions about the pecking order of various forms of obligations. The range of indebtedness now extends to the pension fund and post-retirement health benefit liabilities. States and localities have shown a growing appetite for altering pension agreements, but to date have usually avoided changes affecting retirees and current employees. Faced with the need to deleverage unsupportable obligations, such forbearance may no longer be possible.
This is John Petersen's final Public Money column. He passed away last month.


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As the mayoral campaign in London officially got under way late last month, it occurred to me that, no matter how the voting turns out, Londoners will be electing a mayor with no equivalent in American politics. The incumbent, Ken Livingstone, is considerably more involved with free enterprise than he was when he was known as Red Ken, but he still describes himself as a Socialist and is still up to planning a celebration in Trafalgar Square next year for the fiftieth anniversary of Fidel Castro's revolution. The American political scene includes nobody who has ever been called red anything. Livingstone's challenger, a Conservative M.P. and former journalist named Boris Johnson, is sometimes described as a toff—a term that does not exist in the United States, since nobody, in or out of politics, quite fits the bill. ("Preppy" doesn't come close, and neither does "white shoe.") Johnson, whose full name is Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, went to Eton and to Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a member of a club, the Bullingdon, that is literally out of an Evelyn Waugh novel, having served as the model for the collection of drunken, furniture-smashing toffs presented as the Bollinger Club in "Decline and Fall." According to the satirical magazine Private Eye, Johnson's plan for Trafalgar Square is to replace the pigeons with pheasants so that his friends can shoot them. Among ten mayoral candidates, Livingstone and Johnson are the only ones thought to have a chance of winning, but even if the election is won by the candidate who is a distant third in the polls—Brian Paddick, a Liberal Democrat who was formerly a deputy assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police—the mayor-elect still wouldn't be the sort of politician Americans are familiar with: after a few days in London, I began to think that Paddick's name must be particularly difficult for Londoners to remember, because I rarely heard him referred to as anything except "the gay policeman."
The word "toff " does not describe Boris Johnson much better than Red Ken describes Ken Livingstone. One model that Americans have of the privileged Englishman is based on what used to be called a "chinless wonder"—a sort of stiff who is (1) arrogant and (2) a bit thick. Johnson is neither. At Oxford, he was, in addition to being a member of the Bullingdon Club, the president of the Oxford Union and a student of classics. In 1999, when he was thirty-five, he was named the editor of The Spectator, a right-wing weekly, and was thought to be in line to be the editor of the Daily Telegraph, where he was a columnist, if he hadn't begun concentrating on politics. His manner is not stilted but what the English sometimes call "shambolic"—chaotic or disorganized—even when he is riding the bicycle that he often uses to get around London. Johnson, I was told by Ian Hislop, the editor of Private Eye, plays to "a stereotype of the bumbling P. G. Wodehouse sort of toff that people find attractive." Even Ken Livingstone sometimes says, usually just before he says that Johnson is not the sort of person you'd want to put in charge of a large city, "Boris is charming."
In a 2006 biography entitled "Boris," an old friend of Johnson's named Andrew Gimson maintains that the stage-Englishman presentation masks not only a considerable intelligence but a fierce ambition: according to one of his siblings, little Boris's childhood goal was to be the "world king," and Gimson, among others, believes that he has lowered his sights only as far down as the Prime Ministership. Still, Johnson is probably best known for his humor, often self-deprecatory and occasionally unintentional—especially as displayed in several appearances, much revisited through DVDs and YouTube, on a television show called "Have I Got News for You." The label that Johnson's opponents try to stick him with in the campaign is not "toff " but "clown" or, particularly, "buffoon." If he is not best known for his humor, he is best known for his hair—hair that is blonder than is normally seen on a human older than about the age of five and is customarily worn in the style favored by English sheepdogs between groomings. According to his mother, blond hair is so strong in the Johnson family that "it defies attack from the genes of anybody else." Of her son's four children, she says, two of them have hair just as blond as his, even though his wife is half Indian. Because of his hair, Boris Johnson is said to be the only politician in England who is instantly recognizable from behind.
Although he has some forebears who were prominent in law or journalism or scholarship, Johnson's background would be considered a bit spotty by the sort of toff who grew up in one of those sixteenth-century castles which come equipped with family retainers and an ancient coat of arms. One of his great-grandfathers was Turkish and another was Jewish. Having a diverse family tree is hardly a disadvantage in running for office in London, which, in addition to having long-established communities from the Indian subcontinent and the West Indies, is now a place where the waitress bringing you a sausage roll in a typically English pub is likely to be from Estonia and where there are so many Poles in the construction trade that I've heard Londoners refer to the children's television character Bob the Builder as Bobski the Builder. "Few Londoners have entirely English descent and Boris is no exception," Johnson's campaign Web site says, in a biographical note. Johnson, who refers to himself as a "one-man melting pot," claimed not long ago that his great-great-grandmother was a Circassian slave whose freedom was purchased by his great-great-grandfather. That claim—not one, it should be said, that came accompanied by heavy documentation—appeared in the Observer, which further quoted Johnson as saying, "Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Mr. Livingstone."
When I was travelling to a Boris Johnson campaign appearance one day by taxi, the driver told me that he'd like to meet Johnson. I assumed that he was an admirer: the drivers of what Londoners call black cabs, most of whom are white men of middle years, tend toward conservative political views; a London friend of mine described them as essentially poujadistes. "I'd like to ask him why he bumped into my taxi on his bicycle," the driver went on. "There he was, big black coat, blond hair, talking on a mobile. Ran right into me. Then he just rode away."
"Then you're going to vote against him?" I asked.
"Oh, no," he said. "I'd rather have George W. Bush for mayor than fucking Livingstone."
"You might want to give that one a little thought," I said.
I had been finding my way around London mostly by the Underground, despite Johnson's description of the system under Livingstone's management as "armpit-nuzzling hell," and I was astonished that when I'd finally climbed into a taxi it turned out to be the one taxi in London that Boris Johnson had hit with his bicycle. Then it occurred to me that, since Johnson is an inveterate cyclist who seems to have distraction as his default mode, he might have crashed into a majority of the taxis in London. Given the way taxi-drivers feel about Livingstone, a lot of those struck would probably vote for Johnson anyway, but, unfortunately for him, many of them live outside the city.
They've had decades to become acquainted with Livingstone. He has been involved in the city's political life since he was elected, as a Labourite, to the Lambeth borough council, in 1971, at the age of twenty-five. Livingstone is a polished, on-message speaker. He can also be witty; in fact, he has made just as many appearances on "Have I Got News for You" as Johnson has. In a new biography called "Ken"—which made headlines last week, causing Livingstone to acknowledge that he has, in addition to the two small children known to the public, three children from previous relationships—Andrew Hosken, of the BBC, writes, "Many people find Livingstone personally amiable and approachable but he has always been capable of great ruthlessness and it is pointless to deny it." There has been a certain relentlessness about his rise—a willingness to use positions that others treated casually as a way to build a power base, a willingness (on the Greater London Council) to stage a putsch in his own party immediately after an election as a way of taking over the leadership. He has always been blunt enough to strike some as rude. For whatever reason, he evokes strong feelings in his critics. In "Ken," Hosken says of the Mayor, "He has been likened to the Plague."
Even people who speak harshly of Livingstone, though, tend to begin their criticism with something like "Mind you, he's done some good things." The Mayor can make a persuasive case for London's having prospered mightily since he came to office, in 2000. He can talk knowledgeably about grand projects such as Crossrail, an enhancement of the public-transportation system which is budgeted at sixteen billion pounds, and he can quote statistics on, say, a pedestrian's chances for survival if hit by a car at twenty miles per hour versus being hit at forty miles per hour. He was reëlected for a second term in 2004. A few months ago, the odds quoted by London bookies reflected a widespread feeling that on Election Day, which is May 1st, Ken Livingstone would be elected to a third term. But, as the campaign began, a poll indicated, to the surprise of many, that Boris Johnson was in the lead.
Livingstone was long identified with an element of the Labour Party known to some as the Loony Left, although Hosken and others have argued that he always had a strong streak of pragmatism. He was reviled by New Labour leaders such as Tony Blair and Gordon Brown as much as he was by the Tories. Once he was elected mayor, though, his far-left tendencies became visible more in what the English call "gesture politics"—his chumminess with Hugo Chávez, say, or his willingness to refer to George W. Bush as "the greatest threat to life on this planet"—than in the policies he follows. In fact, there are some who believe that the gestures are made to keep the old left in line while he pursues his agenda. Livingstone told me that he makes the gestures because he believes in them, although he did acknowledge that "several letters came in saying, 'We were losing hope for you and then you said that the American Ambassador was "a chiselling little crook." ' "
The man who used to treat financial institutions as just one more curse of capitalism now boasts that London, which was at risk of being overtaken by Paris and Frankfurt when he got elected, may have overtaken New York as the world's financial capital. He is criticized by the left for his coziness with property developers and by the preservationists for his willingness to transmogrify the traditional London skyline with new high-rises—both of which policies he defends as levers for prying affordable housing out of the developers. When the Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer began talking about taxing rich foreigners who make their headquarters in London, the former Red Ken came to their defense. "Who doesn't change?" he asked when I mentioned this apparent transformation to him one day. "This is not the world I would have created. I'd hoped by now we would have had a Socialist world. But it's the world we're living in, and either you can not engage with it or you can try and make sure within these constraints you do the best you can." In the eighties, Livingstone was best known for irritating Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher with his gestures as the leader of the Greater London Council—inviting Sinn Féin leaders in for a talk, for instance, and engaging in the sort of activities that Private Eye's Ian Hislop sums up as "giving grants to lesbian dance collectives." Finally, Mrs. Thatcher had the council abolished by an act of Parliament, something that many Tories had wanted to do for years. These days, Livingstone is known as the man who presided over London's commercial renaissance and won London the 2012 Olympics and, in the face of opposition even from his own advisers, instituted a congestion charge in order to reduce traffic in the center of the city.
Livingstone's opponents in the mayoral race sometimes grumble about some aspect of the congestion charge. Johnson, for instance, is opposed to a supplemental fee that next fall will increase to twenty-five pounds (fifty dollars) the cost of entering the center of the city in gas-guzzlers such as S.U.V.s—vehicles that in London are sometimes called "Chelsea tractors," a reference to the contrast between the tastes and the transportation needs of London's most expensive borough. But the core congestion charge has been successful enough to be accepted as permanent. (The American Ambassador got called a chiselling little crook because the embassy refused to pay it, claiming diplomatic exemption from any form of taxation.) Whatever effect the charge has had on congestion, I was told by Tony Travers, an expert on the city at the London School of Economics, "As a piece of brand management, it was brilliant." It put the spotlight on London as an innovative city—a pacesetter to be followed by cities like Milan and Stockholm and, if Michael Bloomberg has his way, New York—even though the first city to impose a congestion charge was actually not London but Singapore.
The way Londoners feel about Ken Livingstone has some similarity to the way New Yorkers once felt about Ed Koch. Like Koch, who at the beginning of his reign struck people as a refreshing New York wiseacre, Livingstone impressed even those who didn't agree with him politically as a "cheeky chappie"—an irreverent working-class maverick who wasn't afraid to stand up to the rulers of his own party or to the Iron Lady herself. Now that he's been in office eight years, though, some of Livingstone's blunt talk can strike people as arrogant rather than cheeky. Also like Koch, he has been in power long enough for charges of cronyism and corruption to creep up around some of those close to him—although nobody has ever accused him of enriching himself personally. There are those who may criticize Livingstone but still intend to vote for him, partly on the ground that, as Polly Toynbee wrote in the Guardian, the Conservatives have "put up a clown to run a great global city." A Times columnist named David Aaronovitch took that position last month, arguing that "Ken, wrong on all the things that don't matter in a London mayor, has been right on almost all the things that do." The column ran under the headline "MR. HORRID, NOT MR. CHAOTIC, IS RIGHT FOR LONDON."
In background and manner, the contrasts between Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson are extreme. Johnson's father, also an Oxford graduate, is an environmentalist and author who has been a member of the European Parliament and stood (unsuccessfully) for a seat in the House of Commons in the last election; Livingstone's father was a merchant seaman who became a window-washer. One of Johnson's journalistic sidelines has been writing a motoring column for Gentlemen's Quarterly, a task that obligates him to test-drive high-performance automobiles at high speeds; Livingstone has never had a driver's license. As a well-connected former president of the Oxford Union, Johnson did not have to begin his political career by running for a seat on a borough council; he ran for Parliament. (He got the Tory nomination but was defeated in the general election; four years later, he won the seat at Henley-on-Thames.) Johnson's first job was in management consulting, but he left in a week, because, as he later put it, "Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth-profit matrix, and stay conscious"; then, through family contacts, he moved to the Times, where he was fired a short time later for making up a quote attributed to his own godfather. Livingstone's first job was caring for animals in a cancer-research laboratory. He remained there for eight years.
Yet they are similar in many ways. Both have had difficulty with their national parties and even now rarely mention party affiliation on campaign literature. Livingstone was ejected from the Labour Party when he decided to run for mayor as an independent after losing the Labour nomination in 2000, in a selection process that bore some similarities to the vote-counting in the United States later that year. (He was invited to rejoin Labour toward the end of his first term. "I said yes immediately," he told me. "I knew that once I was back in the Party they couldn't afford to see me fail.") Johnson was removed from a ministerial position by the then Tory leader Michael Howard during a period of so much hanky-panky on the staff of The Spectator that some people started referring to the magazine as The Sextator. As was recounted widely in the tabloids and in a London play by two staffers whom Johnson continued to employ, a columnist was having an affair with a receptionist, Johnson was having an affair with another columnist, and the publisher managed to upstage both of them by having an affair with the Home Secretary. Officially, Johnson lost his ministerial job not for having an affair but for lying about it publicly: he had dismissed stories of the relationship as "an inverted pyramid of piffle" when, as it happened, they were not an inverted pyramid of piffle. After a brief banishment from home, Johnson returned to his wife and children; an article in the Sunday Times recently quoted an unidentified admirer as saying, "As well as being a philanderer, he's a great family man."
Livingstone and Johnson also both have a tendency to say or write things that cause their supporters to cringe and their opponents to savor what in American politics would be thought of as a "gotcha" moment. Even as Johnson announced his candidacy, he was attacked for a 2002 Telegraph column talking about the Queen's being greeted in Commonwealth visits by "flag-waving piccaninnies" and predicting that when Tony Blair arrived in the Congo "the tribal warriors will all break out in watermelon smiles to see the big white chief." Livingstone can match that one. In 2005, as he emerged from a City Hall reception, he was approached by a reporter from the Evening Standard, a newspaper that customarily treats him roughly, and he responded to a less than provocative question ("How did tonight go?") by comparing the reporter to a German war criminal and a concentration-camp guard. Alas, the reporter in question, a fill-in on the beat, was named Finegold, and his tape recorder was running.
The candidates have been through enough of these incidents for a clear difference to emerge in their response to being accused of bigotry or insensitivity or cruelty. Johnson apologizes. In "Boris," Andrew Gimson writes, "Boris believes in the imperfectability of mankind, and especially of himself." Boris Johnson is a virtuoso of saying he's sorry. He is likely to come up with something about himself that is marginally less flattering than the accuser had been willing to say. It's what some have called his "Cripes!" or "Oh, crikey!" presentation. Once, when he was trying to be an editor and a Member of Parliament at the same time, he was ordered by Michael Howard to apologize to an entire city for an editorial in The Spectator saying that Liverpool had wallowed in "mawkish sentimentality" over the death of one of its residents as a hostage in Iraq and the deaths of a number of its football fans in a stadium crush. He spent a day in Liverpool, apologizing here and apologizing there, in the way that an old-time Chicago pol might have travelled around delivering Christmas turkeys. Livingstone, when accused of having said something he shouldn't have said, takes a completely different approach: he attacks the accuser.
Ken Livingstone is the only mayor London has ever had. (The City of London, essentially the financial district, has long had a ceremonial Lord Mayor.) After Mrs. Thatcher abolished the Greater London Council, there was no central governing authority in the city until Tony Blair instituted a directly elected mayor, fourteen years later—dispatching people to New York and Boston to see how the position might be structured. (During the interregnum, Livingstone was in Parliament, an institution in which he did not thrive—perhaps, some thought, because collegiality has never been his long suit.) Under Livingstone, the office of mayor has become a substantial platform for carrying out grand themes; London has been prominent in issues like public transportation and the role played by large cities in reducing global warming. Because London so dominates the United Kingdom, its mayor is sometimes thought of as the second most visible officeholder in the country. But the day-to-day governing of London is still done largely by the boroughs; they are responsible for trash pickup and education and just about anything else that is of concern to the average homeowner. The mayor has veto power over developments of a certain size—thus Livingstone's association with high-rises—but basic planning power is held by the boroughs. Through the budget of the police board and its appointments, the mayor has some say in the policing of the city, but the police commissioner is appointed by the Home Secretary. When I mentioned the contest for mayor to a London friend, he said, " 'Mayor' is a misnomer. They should really call the job 'transport commissioner.' " The mayor does have almost total control of transportation, which is one reason that people campaigning for the office talk so often about traffic flow and the articulated vehicles that Londoners call "bendy buses" and Crossrail, which Livingstone likes to say could be a financial disaster for the city if put in the hands of someone who has no experience in such matters. In just about every area except transportation, the mayor has limitations—limitations that some people believe Blair and his New Labour ministers imposed when designing the job because of their concern that Ken Livingstone, their old nemesis from the Loony Left, might get it.
Times have changed. During the 2000 mayoral campaign, Tony Blair said that a victory for Ken Livingstone would be a "disaster." A few weeks ago, Blair's successor, Gordon Brown, appeared with Livingstone to offer his endorsement—although the tenor of the occasion put neither man at risk of being accused of mawkish sentimentality. What impact an endorsement by Brown might have remains in question. A recent Sunday Times survey showed that the Party is at its lowest ebb since 1983, when it went down to a disastrous defeat with a twenty-two-thousand-word election manifesto that was characterized as "the longest suicide note in history." Since the mayoral campaign will culminate in what is seen as the most important vote between now and the next general election, both Brown and his opposite number, the Tory leader David Cameron, have a considerable stake in the outcome, whether the candidates are willing to wave party banners or not.
According to one theory I heard in London, a Johnson victory would present Cameron with a bonus beyond party momentum—the breaking of the "posh barrier." The theory holds that the willingness of London voters to support someone as posh as Boris Johnson would indicate a willingness to turn the national government over to Cameron, who is even posher. Cameron is the first Conservative leader who could be described as "hideously privileged" (his own words) since Mrs. Thatcher, the grocer's daughter, turned her back on the swells thirty years ago. He went to Eton and Oxford, where he appeared with Johnson in a Bullingdon Club picture that surfaced last year; the members, most of them Old Etonians and all of them dressed in tails, were posing for their annual group shot shortly before a dinner that concluded abruptly with a potted plant being thrown through the restaurant's window. ("The party ended up with a number of us crawling on all fours through the hedges of the botanical gardens, and trying to escape the police dogs," Johnson told the Telegraph, in one of his signature confessions of man's imperfectability. "And once we were in the cells we became pathetic namby-pambies.") Most of the people I spoke to question whether a posh barrier actually exists—surveys on that subject have apparently been inconclusive—and Johnson brushes off any talk of a class problem. He does not live in Chelsea but in Islington, an area that is popular with journalists and other such run-of-the-mill strivers. As befits someone who has climbed the ladder from slave ancestry, he likes to refer to himself as middle class.
The strategy of the Livingstone campaign is to frame the contest as being between a man who has cared deeply about London all his life and has demonstrated an ability to deliver city services—that's the Mayor—and an inexperienced celebrity who offers a lot of jokes and a short attention span. Livingstone says that the mayor of a city the size of London has to be right on ninety per cent of all decisions and a hundred per cent of the big decisions—an implication that it's a job in which "Cripes!" won't do. Although there is a rough balance between Conservative and Labour voters in Greater London, Livingstone believes that the city has "a progressive majority." He warns that, on issues like the environment and transportation and housing, "Boris is about rolling back to a Britain that doesn't exist." In other words, the backup argument to the argument that Boris Johnson is a clown is that he is not a clown. At his campaign launch, Livingstone answered a reporter who asked about whether he considered Johnson a buffoon by saying, "I don't think Boris is a buffoon. I think Boris is the most dangerous right-wing politician we face, because behind all the charm and self-deprecation is a hard-line agenda of the right."
There was a time when I thought that some slightly eccentric mayors were being elected in large American cities partly because the voters, figuring that large American cities were ungovernable anyway, decided that they might as well put someone in city hall who was at least entertaining. Apparently, those in charge of the Johnson campaign—including Lynton Crosby, an Australian political consultant who made his name with the successive election victories of John Howard—believed that entertainment-seekers alone were not enough to put Johnson over the top. The campaign has had as its first priority establishing Boris Johnson in the public mind as a serious man. That is the base upon which they can present Johnson as an agent of change and Livingstone as a man who is, in Johnson's words, "stale and out of touch." The Conservatives have always been wary of Johnson's humor. He has a sort of postmodern delivery that is not easy to alter—as if he were bemusedly watching himself do something as silly as arguing political issues. In one debate, during a long discussion about the horrors of littering, he managed to draw loud laughter merely by saying, as if announcing a major economic initiative, "Can I give you a policy on chewing gum?" But he is no longer the Boris Johnson who said, during a generalelection campaign, "Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3." (The automotive part of that incentive package would be a bit tarnished if Ken Livingstone is still mayor next fall: you would have to pay twenty-five pounds a day to drive it into Central London.) At times, Johnson can appear to know as many statistics as Livingstone does—although such displays are likely to be followed by a news release from his opponents claiming that his numbers are way off. "He's straining to be serious," Tony Travers told me. "It's as if Lynton Crosby had a gun on him: 'If you get out of line, I'll shoot you.' "
While I was in London, I accompanied Johnson on campaign stops in some West London neighborhoods, like Hillingdon and Uxbridge—the sort of suburban areas that are not Livingstone's natural territory. (Richard Barnes, a Tory member of the London Assembly, who was with us, said of the Mayor, "He's been in Havana more than he's been in Hillingdon.") During the trip, I asked Johnson if humor suppression had been a problem. "A lot of people are complaining that I'm being too serious," he said. "My point to them is that unless you take yourself a bit seriously you don't take other people seriously. It is a very serious election." When I asked him why he was interested in a job that involved a lot of niggling details even though he didn't seem to be a niggling-detail sort of person, he said, "The attraction of the job is that it's so deeply intricate. Every decision you make involves some sort of political theory. And all of them involve some sort of deep reflection on where the city's going to be in twenty years." I glanced around to see if I could spot Lynton Crosby with a gun, but he was nowhere in sight.
At a mall in Uxbridge, Johnson attracted a number of young people who wanted their pictures taken with him. He is said to have great appeal to young voters, many of whom were children when Ken Livingstone was valued as a cheeky chappie and an entertaining guest on "Have I Got News for You." As two young men in their late teens got on either side of Johnson so that a friend could take a picture with his cell-phone camera, one of them said, "You're a legend, Boris. Crack a joke."
"If I do," Johnson said, "I'm in trouble." ♦


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Tour de France-winning cyclist Bradley Wiggins and his personal coach, Shane Sutton, have both been knocked off their bikes and taken to hospital in separate road accidents within the space of 15 hours.
Wiggins, 32, suffered a bruised hand and ribs in his collision with a van near his home in Lancashire but was later allowed home.
Great Britain Cycling Team head coach Sutton, 55, sustained a small bleed on the brain in a crash with a car in Manchester and remains in hospital in a stable condition .
Australian-born Sutton, from Cardiff, has worked with the British team since 2002 and has been credited with playing a major role in transforming the fortunes of the sport in this country - including helping Wiggins to many successes including the world's toughest bike race and this year's time trial gold medal at the London Olympics.
Wiggins was taken by ambulance to Royal Preston Hospital following his crash in Crow Orchard Road, Wrightington, shortly after 6pm on Wednesday. The incident happened when the driver of a white Vauxhall Astra Envoy, a local woman, drove out of a garage forecourt.
It was reported that Wiggins was riding a mountain bike to meet a group of local cyclists near to his home in Eccleston. Lancashire Police said they intended to speak to the driver, who was uninjured, as part of their inquiries.
Sutton was in a collision with a blue Peugeot 206 driven by a 61-year-old man on the A6 Stockport Road in Levenshulme shortly before 8.55am. He suffered a head injury but was conscious as he was taken to Salford Royal Hospital.
The driver of the car was not injured. No arrests were made and inquiries are ongoing.
A spokeswoman for British Cycling said: "It is extremely rare that our riders and coaches are hurt while out cycling on the road, even rarer that two incidents should occur in a short space of time, and we wish Shane and Bradley a speedy recovery. Cycling is not an intrinsically dangerous activity but there is much more to be done to improve conditions for cyclists on the roads.
"British Cycling is calling on the Government to put cycling at the heart of transport policy to ensure that cycle safety is built into the design of all new roads, junctions and transport projects, rather than being an afterthought."


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Baltimore has three less points than it otherwise would right now because John Harbaugh got greedy (or went briefly insane) and tried this fake field goal run for a first down on 4th and 9. It would have been a 32-yard attempt for a kicker that made 30 of 33 field goal attempts this season and at fairly close range, in a dome, it's easy to imagine that Tucker would have knocked it in. In the video above you can see that, were it not for a too-brief block by #84, tight end Ed Dickson, Tucker might have made it, but it was still a pretty audacious coaching decision from the more mild-mannered Harbaugh.
It may not matter—Baltimore has a pretty commanding 21-6 lead at the half—but if the 49ers make a comeback, Justin Tucker being pushed out of bounds might replace "wide left" in Ravens fans' nightmares.


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Torrey: Life-SpiritualVerbose bible quotes from dict:torrey Life, Spiritual
God is the Author ofkjv@Psalms:36:9 For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
kjv@Colossians:2:13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
Christ is the Author ofkjv@John:5:21 For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
kjv@John:5:25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
kjv@John:6:33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
kjv@John:6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
kjv@John:6:52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
kjv@John:6:53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
kjv@John:14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
kjv@1John:4:9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
The Holy Spirit is the Author ofkjv@Ezekiel:37:14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.
kjv@Romans:8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
kjv@Romans:8:10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
kjv@Romans:8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
kjv@Romans:8:12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
kjv@Romans:8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
The word of God is the instrument ofkjv@Isaiah:55:3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
kjv@2Corinthians:3:6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
kjv@1Peter:4:6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
Is hidden with Christkjv@Colossians:3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
The fear of God iskjv@Proverbs:14:27 The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
kjv@Proverbs:19:23 The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.
Spiritual-mindedness iskjv@Romans:8:6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Is maintained by
Christkjv@John:6:57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
kjv@1Corinthians:10:3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
kjv@1Corinthians:10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
Faithkjv@Galatians:2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
The word of Godkjv@Deuteronomy:8:3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
kjv@Matthew:4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Prayerkjv@Psalms:69:32 The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
Has its origin in the new-birthkjv@John:3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
kjv@John:3:4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
kjv@John:3:5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
kjv@John:3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
kjv@John:3:7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
kjv@John:3:8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
Has its infancykjv@Luke:10:21 In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.
kjv@1Corinthians:3:1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
kjv@1Corinthians:3:2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
kjv@1John:2:12 I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.
Has its youthkjv@1John:2:13 I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.
kjv@1John:2:14 I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.
Has its maturitykjv@Ephesians:4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
kjv@1John:2:13 I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.
kjv@1John:2:14 I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.
Is described as
A life to Godkjv@Romans:6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
kjv@Galatians:2:19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
Newness of lifekjv@Romans:6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Living in the Spiritkjv@Galatians:5:25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Revived by Godkjv@Psalms:85:6 Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?
kjv@Hosea:6:2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
Evidenced by love to the brethrenkjv@1John:3:14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
All saints havekjv@Ephesians:2:1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
kjv@Ephesians:2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
kjv@Colossians:2:13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
Should animate the services of saintskjv@Romans:12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
kjv@1Corinthians:14:15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
Saints praise God forkjv@Psalms:119:175 Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.
Seek to grow inkjv@Ephesians:4:15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
kjv@1Peter:2:2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
Pray for the increase ofkjv@Psalms:119:25 My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
kjv@Psalms:143:11 Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.
The wicked alienated fromkjv@Ephesians:4:18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
Lovers of pleasure destitute ofkjv@1Timothy:5:6 But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
Hypocrites destitute ofkjv@Jude:1:12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
kjv@Revelation:3:1 And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.
Illustratedkjv@Ezekiel:37:9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
kjv@Ezekiel:37:10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
kjv@Luke:15:24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
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The global LED lighting driver market, on the basis of driving method, is segmented into constant volume and current volume. In light bulbs, light is generated by a tungsten wire which only converts a small portion of energy into visible light. This principle was followed for many years due to its simple structure & pleasant light. LED lights although have a higher luminous efficacy than light bulbs, luminaires were not considered as a replacement for light bulbs. So, in comparison to light bulbs LEDs need special attention on the power source which means, if LED's are insufficiently supplied with energy the light keeps flickering or is perceived as choppy.
Special circuits are necessary to convert the mains voltage to a precisely matching voltage for connected luminaire. These circuits are power supplies mainly optimized for LED's and are basically known as LED Lightning drivers. Increasing energy regulations and other factors are now resulting into energy savings associated with LED's. LED requires driver mainly to run on a low voltage and direct current electricity; and also LED driver rectifies higher voltage, alternating current to low voltage and direct current. LED drivers also protect LED's from voltage or current flickers. Change in voltage causes a change in current being supplied to the LED's. Hence, too much or too little current can cause light output to vary or degrade rapidly owing to higher temperatures within the LED.
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Berkman swinging, but won't come off DL Monday
ARLINGTON -- Lance Berkman, on the disabled list with a strained left hip, is swinging again, but not at a rate that will get him back in the lineup anytime soon. Berkman is eligible to come off the disabled list on Monday, but that won't happen.
Berkman swung off a tee on Friday and said he felt "all right." The plan now is to increase his work until he feels good enough to get back into the lineup. Berkman said he doesn't see a need to go on a medical rehabilitation assignment once he is at full strength.
"I don't need to do it and I'm not going to do it," Berkman said. "I've been on plenty of rehab assignments and I can't stand them. It's a no-win situation. It won't take more than a game or two to get my timing back. It's not like I've had great timing all year. Maybe it will be right there."
Berkman, because of his service time, has a right to turn down a request to go on a rehab assignment.
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Advanced Personal Auto Insurance
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- Credit Hours: 1
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- Credit Type: General
- Difficulty: Intermediate
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Beyond the basic concepts of personal auto insurance and policy structure, many important issues remain to be addressed. This course presents the student with four inodepth and focused topics that represent these more advanced issues. Topics to be examined include the following: personal auto policy endorsements, ACORD and ACORD forms, No Fault insurance, the determination of personal auto policy premiums, and the underwriting of personal auto insurance.
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The first significant move towards creating INTERPOL was in 1914 at the First International Criminal Police Congress. Police officers, lawyers and magistrates from 14 countries gathered in Monaco to discuss arrest procedures, identification techniques, centralized international criminal records and extradition proceedings.[6] However World War I delayed this initiative and it was not until 1923 that Interpol was founded in Austria as the International Criminal Police (ICP).
Following the Anschluss (Austria's annexation by Germany) in 1938, the organization fell under the control of Nazi Germany, and the Commission's headquarters were eventually moved to Berlin in 1942. From 1938 to 1945, the presidents of Interpol included Otto Steinhäusl, Reinhard Heydrich, Arthur Nebe, and Ernst Kaltenbrunner. All were generals in the SS, and Kaltenbrunner was the highest ranking SS officer executed after the Nuremberg Trial. Reinhard Heydrich was assassinated by Czech (Kubiš) and Slovak (Gabčík) patriots in 1942.
After the end of World War II in 1945, the organization was revived as the International Criminal Police Organization by European Allies of World War II officials from Belgium, France, Scandinavia and the United Kingdom. Its new headquarters were established in Saint-Cloud, a town on the outskirts of Paris. They remained there until 1989, when they were moved to their present location, Lyon.
Until the 1980s Interpol did not intervene in the prosecution of Nazi war criminals in accordance with Article 3 of its Constitution forbidding intervention in 'political' matters.[7]On 2 July 2010, former Interpol President Jackie Selebi was found guilty of corruption by the South African High Court in Johannesburg for accepting bribes worth $156,000 from a drug trafficker.[8] After being charged in January 2008, Selebi resigned as president of Interpol and was put on extended leave as National Police Commissioner of South Africa.
1914. The year the World War I started, and one year after the US Federal Reserve was created. Interesting.


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Saunders in right place, right time in big win
HOUSTON -- Michael Saunders started Saturday's game in center field for the Mariners, but the team's best outfielder moved to right in the seventh inning after Dustin Ackley pinch-hit for Jason Bay and then took over in center.
The move paid off in aces for manager Eric Wedge when Saunders made an outstanding running catch of a leadoff line drive into the right-center gap in the ninth inning by Justin Maxwell that helped closer Tom Wilhelmsen finish off a 4-2 win.
"It paid off," Wedge said. "Putting Ackley in center and Saundo in right was big for us. I like Michael in all three spots, but in right field he arguably helps us as much as anything, just because there's so much more ground and you're trying to keep runners from going to first and third and you've got a lot more going on out there than most people realize."
Ackley made the game-ending catch, but it was Saunders who hauled in a ball that looked like trouble from the moment it was crushed by Maxwell.
"Off the bat I thought it was in the gap," Saunders said. "Being a righty, the ball kind of tailed back toward me a little bit and I was able to run it down."
Wilhelmsen appreciated it more than anyone as he went on to record his second save in as many nights against the Astros.
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Alpine Animal Hospital is seeking a Full Time General Practitioner to join our AAHA-accredited, high volume, full service general practice in beautiful Issaquah, Washington. If you believe saying "Yes" is the key to providing the best patient care, then you should join our team!Serving Issaquah and the surrounding communities for 40 years, Alpine Animal Hospital is a well-established practice dedicated to providing exceptional veterinary care and outstanding customer service. Alpine Animal Hospital is nestled in the foothills of the Cascades, near gorgeous Lake Sammamish and only steps away from Lake Sammamish State Park and Issaquah Creek. It is a nature lovers dream! In addition, Issaquah is only a short drive to mountains and ski resorts, national forests for excellent hiking opportunities, award-winning wineries, professional and college-level sporting events, world class museums, entertainment venues, and all that nearby Bellevue and Seattle have to offer!
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The clean-lined Hyde grey fabric 3 seater sofa bed delivers high comfort with slender proportions. The sofa's space-saving bed has an easy pull-out action that extends horizontally for a smaller footprint, and a deep mattress that provides a comfortable, firm sleeping platform.
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(290 calories, 7g fat, 640mg sodium, 34g carbs, 2g fiber, 7g sugars, 22g protein = 6 Points)
What it is: "Roasted white meat chicken with penne pasta, red & yellow peppers and zucchini in a creamy basil sauce."
What we think of it: Truth be told, we didn't exactly flip over this entree. The sauce is a bit watery (we were really looking for thick 'n creamy, based on the name -- but "Watery Basil Chicken" doesn't have the same ring to it). The chicken chunks are actually very good – nice solid white meat pieces -- and tasty, too. And there are impressive hunks of veggies, as well. The soft, squishy noodles are somewhat disappointing, though. Overall, not a frozen meal we'll be racing out to buy again anytime soon.
Overall score: 6. Eh.
(240 calories, 6g fat, 660mg sodium, 35g carbs, 4g fiber, 10g sugars, 12g protein = *4 Points)
What it is: "Stuffed rigatoni pasta filled with a creamy blend of ricotta, romano and mozzarella cheeses tossed with orange and yellow carrots, zucchini and red peppers in a fire roasted tomato sauce with accents of oregano and basil."
What we think of it: Wow...wow...wow! This entree ROCKS! We're a little puzzled as to why they're calling this "stuffed rigatoni," when it's really just ravioli. Granted, the pasta DOES have lines on it, which we guess can make them sealed, stuffed rigatoni in SOME circles. But still, it's RAVIOLI. OK, now that we're beyond that, on to what's important. This may be our absolute FAVORITE Italian frozen entree EVER. Really. The sauce is a nice and thick chunky tomato, and it's a little sweet (which we love). It has all kinds of cheeses (well, 3 to be exact), and it tastes like homemade ravioli. The chunky veggies add a nice touch, too! And, this entree contains just 240 calories -- sign us up!
Overall score: 10...YAY!
*The box says 4 Points, but our calculations say it's 5 Points. Just a friendly warning.
(250 calories, 2g fat, 690mg sodium, 44g carbs, 3g fiber, 10g sugars, 15g protein = 5 Points)
What it is: "Roasted chicken white meat in a flavorful teriyaki sauce with golden pineapple, snap peas, carrots and red peppers over a bed of long grain rice."
What we think of it: This one is definitely our second favorite. It has nice, crunchy sugar snap peas, which, quite frankly, we think Lean Cuisine should use in MORE of their items. The teriyaki sauce tastes like the real deal (which is hard to come by in lower cal meals). The chicken chunks are soft and there's lots of rice. We like it and would definitely buy it again. Why not?
Overall score: 9. Nice job!
(280 calories, 6g fat, 690mg sodium, 39g carbs, 3g fiber, 6g sugars, 17g protein = 6 Points)
What it is: "A traditional Oriental fried-rice mixture of sweet green peas and shoestring carrots, scrambled egg, and green onions combined with a blend of sesame and soy sauce topped with roasted chicken white meat."
What we think of it: Oh boy. After tasting this one, we can't help but WISH Lean Cuisine had opted to NOT take a stab at fried rice. Eeek. This rice tastes a lot like Band-Aids (yes, actual adhesive strips) and garlic. Not exactly what they were going for, we're sure. The egg pieces are yucky. Oh, and it looks NOTHING like the beauteous picture on the box. All in all, a big fat disappointment.
Overall score: 5. Sorry, LC.
(230 calories, 6g fat, 690mg sodium, 24g carbs, 3g fiber, 2g sugars, 19g protein = 5 Points)
What it is: "Herb-grilled chicken tenderloins tossed with freshly made garlic flavored radiatore pasta in a creamy parmesan- caesar sauce with red peppers and broccoli florets."
What we think of it: We were totally psyched to try this one! And it looks mighty impressive once it's cooked, too. Unfortunately, the sauce doesn't live up to our expectations. It's super-garlicky and pretty peppery, too. So if you're a huge fan of garlic and pepper, you may fall head over heels in love with this bowl. The "radiatore" pasta is AWESOME in every way - we can't lie. And the huge broccoli chunks are fantastic, too. This meal is different and pretty good, and we'd buy it again -- but it's not going to change your life in any way.
Overall score: 7.5. Love that cute squiggly pasta.
(280 calories, 6g fat, 680mg sodium, 37g carbs, 3g fiber, 9g sugars, 19g protein = 6 Points)
What it is: "Roasted teriyaki steak tossed with freshly made garlic and ginger flavored pasta, green beans, crispy carrots, red peppers and water chestnuts in a zesty teriyaki sauce accented with ginger and soy."
What we think of it: We're a bit snobby when it comes to steak, so we're not likely to do backflips over ANY steak-themed frozen entree. And this one is no exception. There's a decent amount of meat in this dish (albeit a bit CHEWY), but it tastes just okay. There's a pretty serious ginger theme going on here, and it sort of looks/feels more like a beef lo mein dish than actual steak teriyaki. The sauce is nice and sweet, which we do like, and the veggies are a nice addition as well -- especially the green beans. Feels a bit like Chinese takeout to us -- sans all the grease, of course!
Overall score: 7.5. A decent effort.
HG Tip! While these bowls definitely make you feel like you're eating more than the average Lean Cuisine entree portion, we recommend tossing some steamed veggies into these entrees to help fill you up.
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This week biking in NYC got some love (coverage) in the local rags.
AM NY had a cover story Monday about how the bike sharing program has been inordinately successful and surpassed expectations.
First Summer of Citibike Exceeds Expectations By: Ivan Pereira September 15th, 2013
New Yorkers have certainly done their "share" […]