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I saw this truck today on my way to work. I couldn't get a good look at the driver but I think it was Vampire Hunter D.
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Vampire Hunting
Posted by Len on November 13, 2014 in From the Desk of the Author
Tags: d&d, demon, dragon, dwarf, elf, fantasy, fantasy fiction, Gnome, magic, short story, vampire, werewolf, zombie
Some old Sketches for a Collaboration that never came to fruition
Posted by Len on November 11, 2014 in Dessilus Collaboration
Tags: art, d&d, dragon, drawing, dwarf, elf, fantasy, fantasy fiction, Gnome, sketch, werewolf, world building, zombie
Skills Pay Bills
Skills Pay Bills
I had been playing Dungeons and Dragons all weekend, and I was stoked about gaining a level with my dwarven rogue, Slanter Slickblade. However, lack of sleep had caused me to be about fifteen minutes late to work at Payless Shoe Source. It was my responsibility to open the store on Monday morning, and they required us to show up thirty minutes before the store opened even though it only took about five minutes to get the store ready. I popped in and got everything ready to go: turned on the lights, got the computer online and ready, put the money in the register, and put the D&D Player Handbook behind the counter for easy access. The manager was scheduled to come in thirty minutes after the store opened, but she was always late and carried with her a unique stench. The scent was a strange amalgamation of boxed wine, cigarettes, fried calamari, coconut oil and some expensive perfume to try to mask it all. Is whore a smell? I ended up marrying her daughter a few years later, and I should probably have listened to life lessons of apples falling from trees or something.
Anyway, I spent a few minutes looking over my character sheet. Slanter was a dwarf, a race that was more suited for heavily-armored warriors and divine-inspired priests than a sneaky little rogue. He had reached level four, which meant that I was able to raise one of my base stat points. As a rogue, it was basically a given that I would +1 my Dexterity. This would help me with my hiding and sneak attacks. However, I was weighing my options. A lot of my skills were calling for me to up my Strength which would allow me to climb better and carry more loot, always a plus when playing a greedy little dwarf. I was trying to convince myself that skills were not nearly as important as damage or sneak attacks. Then it came time to unlock the door. Monday mornings were usually pretty dead; people generally had better things to do at the beginning of the week than buy cheap shoes. As 9 o'clock hit, I slid over to open the door and hoped that no dreaded customers would interrupt my time with Slanter.
I unlocked the door with a quick turn of the latch and was surprised to see a young man immediately come from the side of the building. Roll a Sense Motive check… you fail. I remember feeling powerful in some small way; I was able to keep someone from coming into my realm. It was an odd feeling of command to know that someone else's actions hinged on your own actions. It was merely a fleeting thought which was quickly replaced by my desire to be rid of the man as quickly as possible. Generally, men grab what they need and leave. "Good morning! Can I help you find anything?" I was expecting one of the usual answers: "Just looking", "I'm good", "No thank you", or even a dismissive shake of the head. I was not prepared when the man produced a large hand gun and shoved it in my face. I don't know if I could have ever have readied myself for such an encounter.
I don't remember what he said exactly. Was it "this is a stick-up" or "gimme the money" or "are you prepared for Jehovah's return"? It really didn't matter to me what he said, the pistol touching my nose made his intentions perfectly clear. He rolls an Intimidation check, roll to see if he does in fact intimidate you…ok he wins, you are scared of him. I hesitated as the reality of my plight settled on me like a heavy fog. Everything slowed down and seemed distorted or out of place. Was I about to pass out? Perhaps I would have been better served by fainting, but I was made of slightly stouter stuff apparently. I snapped back into focus and wondered if I could somehow get away without being injured or killed. I imagined shoving him to the side and running through the back door with bullets blasting holes in the size 12 pumps as they narrowly miss my speeding form. It played out like a movie in my mind, slow motion and all. That would require an Escape Artist check at an extremely high difficulty challenge and a failure would give the thief an attack of opportunity…I won't even try it then. This wasn't a damn movie.
I felt like my feet were not even on the ground as I floated behind the counter. I was compelled to try to put some semblance of a barrier between me and this criminal. There was no doubt in my mind about what he wanted, and I subconsciously ended up at the cash register. "Open the register!" he screamed. I do remember that because he must have said it six times as quickly as possible. I looked at the numbers on the cash register and I simply could not think of how to open it. There was no way that I knew to open the drawer without ringing someone up. Roll a Concentration check…congratulations you pass. I grabbed a pair of $1 socks and scanned them. $1.07 with tax, paid with cash, and the register sprung open. The receipt printed, and I handed the small white paper with purple ink to the young man out of sheer habit. Oddly enough, he took it. Even in the midst of the chaotic framing of our dealings, neither of us could turn off the instincts of such a common interaction.
"Put the money in a bag," he finally lowered the gun. As I shoved bills into a plastic Payless bag, I finally started to get a good look at the perpetrator. Your Gather Information roll passes…you notice a lot about the man's face, hair and eyes as well height and general weight. This information will be useful at the end of this encounter when the city guards will ask you to describe the criminal. I think he noticed my prying eyes. The man snapped the gun back into my face. Damn. "Open the safe! Open the safe, NOW!" he exclaimed as he snatched the bag from my hands. I noticed that he pushed the pair of dollar socks and receipt into his loot bag as well. They were little girl's socks, size 9-3.
"I can't open the safe," I lied. Roll a Bluff check…you fail.
"I know you can open the safe," he almost chuckled.
"You're right, I can." I dropped down behind the counter and started putting in the combination. I was not going to argue with the man carrying a weapon. Roll an Open Lock check, low difficulty…you pass easily. We, as employees of Payless, opened the safe all the time throughout the course of the day; anyone who had been paying attention would have known this. There was no substance to my lie and we both knew it, so we did not spend too much time on it. When I first started working at the shoe store, I remember feeling odd about dropping down in front of the customer and opening the safe to break large bills. Somehow, I always knew that it would come back to haunt me. I looked up at the man holding a gun pointed down at me and felt my former fears validated.
I had seen both the Saturday night and Sunday deposits in the safe when I was getting the store ready to open, but my heart dropped seeing both of them at that moment. I thought, for just a flash, of giving him only one of the bags. However, he had made his way around the counter and was next to me. "Gimme that roll of quarters too." So much for trying to salvage one of the deposits; this guy wanted it all. I handed him the bank bags full of cash, albeit reluctantly.
"Man, are you sure you want to do this?" I asked. Ok, make a Diplomacy roll…you fail miserably. He is now angrier with you than he was before. The man crammed the two bank bags into the plastic Payless bag and basically shoved me out of the way to see if anything of value remained in the safe. He left the three rolls of pennies. That is $1.50. The thief left me with one dollar and fifty cents in the safe. I wish he would have just taken it all. There is something much more sinister about someone rifling through your belongings and making an assessment on what is valuable and what is not.
I felt like it was over, but it was not. "Lay down on the ground!" he barked. I was already basically sitting down after being pushed over, so I just went ahead and put my ass on the carpet and pulled my knees into my chest. He had the money but he wasn't leaving; my fear rekindled its dying embers. "I said lay down", he said in a more composed tone, which made it even more intimidating. I remember the Payless bag, full of money, socks and a receipt, dangling from the same hand wielding the weapon. I reluctantly reclined. "No, lay down on your stomach." My fear reached its apex at this point. All I could think about was Pat Garrett shooting Billy the Kid in the back. I rolled over onto my belly, and something different than fear reared its ugly head. I was humiliated.
My humility quickly turned to anger, and by quickly I mean within one or two seconds. I mustered up some defiance as he shouted, "Where is the phone?" Only silence was given. Perhaps it was because I could no longer see the man, or the gun, or anything other than the returned pair of worn sneakers in my face, but I did not answer him. He must have screamed those four words half a dozen more times before he finally snapped. The man, tired of asking, stomped on my ankle. I felt it roll under the force of his attack, bending at an odd angle due to the fact that I was lying on my stomach.
I sat up with a jerk, pointed, and screamed. "It's right fucking there! See the huge fucking numbers? Right fucking there!" The fear was gone, replaced by rage. The young man, perhaps sensing the change in me, popped the phone receiver from the base and dashed out of the store. It was over. He was gone.
Immediately, I sprinted to the backroom and dialed 9-1-1. I explained my encounter with them and the first police officers arrived fairly quickly. I had to call the manager; although she was scheduled to be at work in about fifteen minutes, I think I woke her up. She arrived shortly after the cops, but her makeup-lacking face did little to settle my nerves. I must have told my story to at least 3 different officers. I guess my plight was the most interesting thing going on that day; more and more cops showed up. I counted eleven at one point. Finally, a detective came in and I recounted my experience once again. Detective Lummox got the ball rolling and put one or two of the officers to work, dismissing the others. They dusted for fingerprints on surfaces that the criminal had touched. Each of the guards rolls a Search check…they all fail, every one of them.
In my mind, I was expecting some CSI type shit to take place. In thirty minutes, I wanted to know the man's whole life story. Sadly, this wasn't a damn TV show. Instead, I got real gems such as:
"Hey, this door handle has a lot of fingerprints on it."
"This countertop is kinda slick; I don't think I can get any prints here."
"He didn't happen to tell you his name, eh?"
One of the officers went looking for clues in the Walmart parking lot. He came back with a crinkled up one dollar bill. As he unfurled it in front of Detective Lummox, I saw sand and dirt falling off. "I think he must have gone that way; I found this." This old-ass dollar, which was probably dropped by a three year old several months earlier, became the best lead the Gulfport Police Department had. I wanted to scream at them, and make them acutely aware of their own incompetence; even at that age, I knew there was no point. I gave Lummox the description of the young man, but it seemed like "black" was all he heard.
The manager, in full makeup, finally came out of the bathroom. There were lots of new men around, after all; I noticed she had added a bit more perfume to her normal aroma. After flirting with Detective Lummox, she sauntered over to me. "How much do you think he got?" It was a fair question. Roll an Appraise check…you passed. You value the contents of the register and the safe to equal approximately $6,400. The loss of the socks is cancelled out by the rolled pennies which remain in the safe. She is not happy with losing so much, no one ever is. "Damn, more people will rob us now." Nobody cared how this affected me. They did not want me to call my mom because they were scared that she would be worried. I had to finish off my shift, but I refused to run the register for the rest of the day. It was literally the least they could do.
A week later, I found out that Shoe City in Hardy Court had been robbed. "Is everyone ok? Did they catch the guy? How much did they lose?" I asked in rapid succession.
"The lady at the register would not give him any money. She told him that he was going to have to shoot her, and if he shot her then he still wouldn't get any money." I felt like my manager was upset with me for not handling the situation in the same fashion. "He left her alone and ran out with nothing."
I realized that the lady from Shoe City had some skills. The thief had a nice set of skills. Skills were important. Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills. Even though I knew this was a damn game, Slanter added his newly acquired stat point to Wisdom. He needed it.
Posted by Len on November 7, 2014 in From the Desk of the Author
Tags: d&d, dragon, drawing, dwarf, elf, fantasy, fantasy fiction, Gnome, halfling, magic, orc, short story, world building
To all NaNoWriMo writers
Posted by Len on November 3, 2014 in From the Desk of the Author
Tags: d&d, dragon, dwarf, elf, fantasy, fantasy fiction, NaNoWriMo, neverending story, short story, world building
My son as Ezra Bridger
Posted by Len on November 1, 2014 in From the Desk of the Author
Tags: costume, ezra, halloween, han solo, luke skywalker, star wars, star wars rebels


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The second group of stimulant medication I want to discuss is dextroamphetamine, such as Adderall, Adderall XR, and now the new "prodrug" medication called Vyvanse. Dextroamphetamine is not to be confused with methamphetamine, which has the street name of "speed." The molecules are different and although they may share some properties that are similar, methamphetamine is highly addictive and is illegal.
Again, these medications have been developed to treat the symptoms of inattentiveness, impulsivity, along with the sometimes present hyperactivity of ADHD.
Many times a child with ADHD may come to the attention of a physician or teacher early in life and get medical evaluation and treatment.. There are over 10 million adults in the United States that are thought to have ADHD. Research suggests that only one in 10 of these adults receive evaluation and treatment.
Adderall was introduced to the medical profession in 1996. It became a welcome medication because there were a sizable group of patients who were not doing well on methylphenidate. Initially it was felt that this preparation would last about eight hours, but because some individuals were what is called "fast-metabolizers," the medication wore off earlier than needed. After several years, the extended release called Adderall XR was brought out to the market. It was well received, and had done extremely well in managing the hyperactivity and impulsivity, but it too, sometimes did not last through the entire day.
The side effects of this medication are decreased appetite and sometimes irritability is fairly prevalent. If a child in his or her growing years is not eating adequately, these side effects could be problematic.
Vyvanse has been the most recent addition to this category of medication. It is called a "prodrug" because it is in a form in the capsule that is swallowed that is not activated until it goes through the blood supply to the liver. This provides a smoother onset and takes away some of the potential for drug abuse that has been reported with the immediate release Adderall, and sometimes seen with the XR.
It is interesting to mention that a National Survey of adult mental health reports that 45 percent of patients who present with ADHD have another psychiatric disorder. 9.4 present have depression, 11.9 percent have generalized anxiety, 21.2 percent have bipolar disorder, and 22 percent have dysthymia. This information is important to understand when we are looking at results of the treatment with ADHD medication. Sometimes it is important to treat the other disorders, in addition.
Straterra is a non stimulant that is not a controlled medication. That means it can be written with refills and called out by the physician. It was developed initially as an antidepressant, but was found to have very good ADD or ADHD effectiveness. It can be used effectively in individuals that may also have generalized anxiety. Its disadvantage is that it may take longer to become effective, giving the appearance that it is really not working.
Important: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and not Everyday Health.

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Well, I went to Czech Rep. to visit family, and brought back a whole bunch of dogie stuff. LOL
I bought a nice leather tracking harness, but its way too big for both of my dogs. So I am putting it on here before it goes on craigslist. It is black leather, with yellow felt padding, and is very adjustable. It is just slightly too big for my 90lbs APBT, when its on all the smallest settings. So it would be good for a big Rott., big Am. Bulldog, big GSD, smaller mastiffs, GD, .....
It is all hand made, and the tags are still on it.
Let me know if any one is interested, Ill post some pics.
I am asking $50 OBO
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The tcb package contains core components of our tcb suite implementing the alternative password shadowing scheme on Owl. It is being made available separately from Owl primarily for use by other distributions. Note that you need to have the password hashing framework introduced with crypt_blowfish patched into glibc to compile and use this.
The package consists of three components: pam_tcb, libnss_tcb, and libtcb.
pam_tcb is a PAM module which supersedes pam_unix. It also implements the tcb password shadowing scheme. The tcb scheme allows many core system utilities (passwd(1) being the primary example) to operate with little privilege. libnss_tcb is the accompanying NSS module. libtcb contains code shared by the PAM and NSS modules and is also used by user management tools on Owl due to our shadow suite patches.
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text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - What is your Favorite movie and Favorite lines? Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in What is your Favorite movie and Favorite lines? Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Film and Cinema View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message Catherine^^Joined: 17 Sep 2007Posts: 2 Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 6:59 pm Post subject: What is your Favorite movie and Favorite lines? I like the movie. I used to see a movie once a week in movie theater. Recently, I saw a 'Bourne Ultimatum' That movie is serial movie like 'Lord of rings' or '007 movie' Bourne serise composed of Bourne Identity, Borune Supremacy, Bourne Ultimatum. Anyway, my favorite movie line is 'Nobody does the right thing' in Bourne Identity This is Mari's line. When Bourne lost his memories, Mari who a woman help Bourne. I like her cinical voice tone in that movie. And She always hit the mark about society principles. In that movies, I think this line is best line. Everyone, What is your Favorite movie and Favorite lines? Back to top 1yukaJoined: 17 Nov 2008Posts: 3 Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:08 pm Post subject: I like movie Hi, I love watching movie too. recentry i saw ''RED CRIF part1'' with my friend. the movie was too scare (I mean that too many people were killed) at first, but after that, I felt I was in the world of the movie and the story was really perfect !!! If you watch it, you will be fascinated with the picture on the screen and the powerful sound you hear. I was fascinated with the millitary power! it was amaging. Everything I saw was that nobody could imagine ,I think. It was far away from I expected. The story has romance , history in China and justice. I strongly reccomend you to watch it! Back to top tomohitoJoined: 09 Nov 2008Posts: 6Location: Tokyo Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 11:22 pm Post subject: Hi!I'm Japanese student. I like waching movie. I saw Yami no kodomotachi, this is japanese film about buying and selling people in Thailands. It is very shocking and serious movie. Anyway My favorite movie is " Before Sunset". Ethan Hawk is very cool.This movie is simple, because there are mainly two characters ,man and woman, in a story. Time goes very naturally. I like also " Before Sunrise". Have you seen these films? Back to top takasugi shinsakuJoined: 09 Nov 2008Posts: 5 Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 11:36 pm Post subject: 'Bourne Ultimatum' Hi, I am a Japanese student. I go to the University in Japan. I love 'Bourne Ultimatum' too. Especially I like the sceen in Tangiel. It is so exciting when Matt Damon jumps from a building to the other. Do like the car chase sceen in Bourne Supremacy? I think this is the most exciting carchase that I have ever seen. Matt Damon is my favorite actor. I think he is not a beautiful actor like Johnny Depp or Brad Pitt but, his acting is wonderful. When I saw his acting in goodwill hunting, I thought that he wolud become a great actor. I think his acting and the exiting action sceen made 'Bourne Ultimatum' a nice movie. Do you like the other movie in which Matt Damon acted? Back to top a23teruJoined: 10 Nov 2008Posts: 3 Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 6:57 pm Post subject: I love watching movie too. But recently i can't go theater to watch movies because i'm really busy now. But when i have a time, i borrow DVD and watch it. i watch Japanese movies lately. "KOIZORA", "HANAYORI DANGO" and so on. Do you know these Japanese movies? It is really fun. You know I like love story very much!! So i usually watch love story movies. By thte way, i like "MOULIN ROUGE!" the best. Do you know this movie? It is UK movie, maybe. of course it is also love story This movie is a little sad but so good story. You can enjoy not only love of poor man and famous woman but also musical!! I recommend you this movie!!! Back to top PhoebeWJoined: 30 Mar 2009Posts: 6 Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 5:45 am Post subject: I am new comer. Hello, everyone. I am not a fan of film as i perfer to TV play series. As a student, i like the "Growing Pains" very much and hope our parents can be like Jason and Maggie. In university, my room-mate and I are lost in "Presion Break". Do you like this TV drama. Recently, I like the new drama " Gossip Girl". 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California Real Estate Executive Pleads Guilty to Bid Rigging
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Stockton real estate executive pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court in Sacramento, Calif. to conspiring to rig bids at public real estate foreclosure auctions held in San Joaquin County, Benjamin B. Wagner, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California and Christine Varney, Assistant Attorney General of the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division announced.
Anthony B. Ghio, of Stockton, Calif., admitted in his guilty plea that he conspired with a group of real estate speculators who agreed not to bid against each other at certain public real estate foreclosure auctions in San Joaquin County, Calif. The primary purpose of the conspiracy was to suppress and restrain competition and obtain selected real estate offered at San Joaquin County public foreclosure auctions at non-competitive prices.
According to court documents, after the conspirators' designated bidder bought a property at a public auction, they would hold a second auction. Then each participating conspirator in turn would bid amounts above the public auction price he or she was willing to pay. The conspirator who bid the highest amount at the end of the rounds won the property. That difference between the price at the public auction and that at the second auction was the group's illicit profit, and it was divided among the conspirators in payoffs. Ghio participated in the bid-rigging scheme from April 2009 until October 2009.
Ghio is charged with bid rigging, a violation of the Sherman Act, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $1 million fine. The maximum fine may be increased to twice the gain derived from the crime or twice the loss suffered by the victim of the crime, if either of those amounts is greater than the statutory maximum fine.
These charges arose from an ongoing federal antitrust investigation of fraud and bidding irregularities in certain real estate auctions in San Joaquin County. The investigation is being conducted by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California, the Antitrust Division's San Francisco Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the San Joaquin County District Attorney's Office.
Assistant United States Attorneys Robin R. Taylor and Russell L. Carlberg and trial attorneys Barbara Nelson and Richard Cohen from the Antitrust Division's San Francisco Office are prosecuting the case.
This law enforcement action is part of President Barack Obama's Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force. President Obama established the interagency Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force to wage an aggressive, coordinated and proactive effort to investigate and prosecute financial crimes. The task force includes representatives from a broad range of federal agencies, regulatory authorities, inspectors general, and state and local law enforcement who, working together, bring to bear a powerful array of criminal and civil enforcement resources. The task force is working to improve efforts across the federal executive branch, and with state and local partners, to investigate and prosecute significant financial crimes, ensure just and effective punishment for those who perpetrate financial crimes, combat discrimination in the lending and financial markets, and recover proceeds for victims of financial crimes.
One component of the FFETF is the national Mortgage Fraud Working Group, co-chaired by U.S. Attorney Wagner.
Anyone with information concerning bid rigging or fraud related to real estate foreclosure auctions should contact the Antitrust Division's San Francisco Office 415-436-6660 or visit http://www.justice.gov/atr/contact/newcase.htm, or the FBI's Sacramento Division at 916-481-9110, or the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Eastern District of California at 916-554-2900.
Media inquiries to the U.S. Attorney's Office should be directed to Lauren Horwood at 916-554-2706. Media inquiries regarding the department's Antitrust Division should be directed to Gina Talamona at 202-514-2007.


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Analysis of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patient records in the California Cancer Registry (CCR) database during the 20-year period of 1988-2008 indicates that Hispanics/Latinos with NSCLC have a higher overall survival compared to non-Hispanic white patients, according to research presented at the 2012 Chicago Multidisciplinary Symposium in Thoracic Oncology. This symposium is sponsored by the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), and The University of Chicago.
This study evaluated the records of 14,829 Hispanic patients from the CCR from 1988-2008. Foreign-born Hispanics had a 14 percent decreased risk for death compared to U.S.-born Hispanic patients, including individual patient factors and clinical factors. Adjustments for neighborhood factors, specifically socioeconomic status and ethnicity, slightly moderated the significant decrease in death risk among foreign-born Hispanics. The data also indicates that foreign-born Hispanics who lived in the least U.S.-assimilated neighborhoods had the better overall survival.
"The results of this study confirm the 'Hispanic paradox' of improved survival rates for Hispanic/Latino NSCLC patients compared to non-Hispanic white patients, despite lower socio-economic status," said lead author Manali Patel, MD, a post-doctoral fellow in the hematology/oncology department at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif. "Social and neighborhood factors, in addition to being foreign-born, appear to be positive contributing factors to incidence and survival that need further study."
|Contact: Michelle Kirkwood
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Steven Spielberg pulls out of 'American Sniper'
Steven Spielberg is no longer planning to direct "American Sniper."
Publicist Marvin Levy confirmed Tuesday that Spielberg won't helm the adaptation of Chris Kyle's best-selling autobiography as announced in May.
Bradley Cooper is set to play the former Navy SEAL sniper, who was killed along with a friend earlier this year while at a North Texas gun range. A 25-year-old former Marine and Iraq war veteran was indicted for the killings last month.
Kyle is considered the deadliest sniper in U.S. military history. At the time of his death, he was working on another book, "American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms."
Spielberg has yet to announce his follow up to "Lincoln," which was nominated for 12 Oscars and won two: Production design and actor (Daniel Day-Lewis).


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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Federal agriculture statistics show the number of apple trees in New York grew by 22 percent from 2006 to 2011.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says there were 11.6 million trees last year, compared to 9.46 million five years earlier.
The agency says the acreage under cultivation dropped by 2 percent, but farmers are increasing the number of trees they grow per acre.
It says the greatest increase has been in Honey Crisp trees, which more than doubled in number. Also popular with growers were Empire, McIntosh, Gala, Jonagold and Zestar.
Niagara County showed the greatest increase in acreage at 25 percent. Acreage in Columbia County dropped 14 percent and Orange County saw a 23 percent decline.
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Everyone is getting on the GREEN bandwagon and I'm the first to applaud this initiative. After all, it's in our best interests to reduce waste and decrease our dependence on scarce natural resources. With back to school on everyone's mind, I put together a GREEN checklist for parents:
• An obvious way to reduce waste is to send packed lunches in re-useable containers. As a teacher, the mountains of garbage in the lunchroom always appalled me.
• Label your kids' stuff! It saves having to re-buy school supplies and clothing if your child's misplaced items get returned to you. I highly recommend Mabel's Labels, www.mabel.ca, as a great product (the labels actually stick!).
• Buy used textbooks. It will save you a ton of money because used books sell for 50% of the original cost but, more importantly, re-using products reduces the amount of stuff that ends up in our landfill sites.
• Encourage teachers NOT to re-order the latest edition of textbooks each year. Usually, there are only minor changes with each new edition so the only people benefitting from this practice are the book publishers.
• Ask if your children can submit their homework via email or portable USB drive in order to help reduce the paper trail.
• Encourage your child to ride their bike or walk to school and make sure they lock it up properly when they get there. Unless they have a huge project to hand in, there's no reason to drive them to school. Even on rainy days, kids won't melt in the rain. Snow is also not a good excuse for driving. As a kid, it's more fun to walk home on a snowy day. It may take longer to get home because of the snowball fights and snow angels but who cares! What's the rush when you're a kid?
• Please make sure your child always wears their safety helmet when riding their bike. Worried they may lose their safety helmet … that's another way Mabel's Labels can help!
• Do you have anything else you'd like to add to my list? Would love to hear from you with your suggestions and comments!
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(Atlanta Journal-Constitution) Democrats who spent the 2012 election cycle on defense against voting restrictions are now urging near-universal voter registration.
Atlanta U.S. Rep. John Lewis and several colleagues are pushing a bill that would automatically register people to vote whose names are on existing records held by departments of motor vehicles, public assistance programs and other databases, unless people opt out of being registered. It also would require states to allow registration up to Election Day.
The bill faces significant Republican roadblocks to passage, including in Georgia, where Secretary of State Brian Kemp doesn't like the idea. Kemp said it would have only exacerbated Fulton County's difficulties in November's election, which included long lines and an enormous pile of provisional ballots.
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The custody case that swept 439 children from a polygamist sect's western Texas ranch into foster care has largely evaporated, with state authorities dropping all but a few dozen cases against parents.
All but 37 children from the Yearning For Zion Ranch in Eldorado have been released from court oversight after Child Protective Services found they had not been abused or that their parents could protect them from the risk of future abuse. Only one girl has been returned to foster care.
CPS spokesman Patrick Crimmins said the agency is pleased with the case dismissals, because they mean the children can safely remain with their parents and that questions about their safety have been resolved.
"CPS has taken a lot of criticism for this operation since April, but we've been doing everything we can to work with these families to ensure positive outcomes," he said. "If they're safe to the point where court oversight is no longer necessary, that's great news."
Call prompts raid
Authorities raided the ranch run by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in April after someone claiming to be an abused underage mother called a domestic abuse hot line. Those calls are now being investigated as a possible hoax.
Following the raid, CPS took all the children at the ranch into state custody — one of the largest custody cases in U.S. history — claiming underage girls were being forced into marriages and sex and that the other children were at risk of abuse. They treated the ranch, which has more than a dozen sprawling homes, as a single household where the alleged abuse of some children justified the removal of the others.
The Texas Supreme Court later ruled CPS had overreached by putting all the children into foster care when it could show that no more than a handful of girls may have been abused.
The ruling did not, however, end court oversight of the children, even as they were returned to their parents. The parents were ordered to take parenting classes and to cooperate with CPS investigators, and they could not leave the state.
Cases dropped
One by one, the state has been dropping the children from court oversight.
Separately, CPS is investigating whether each child was abused or neglected. The findings from that investigation are expected to be released next month. Even if abuse is found to have occurred previously, parents who can assure that the child will remain safe can be released from court oversight.
FLDS spokesman Willie Jessop said the dismissal of the cases proves what the church has said all along: that the children were not abused. The cases that remain in court do so because of varying qualities of legal representation, not because of actual abuse, he said.
"It has nothing to do with the facts of the case," Jessop said.
Crimmins said the reasons some children remain under court oversight vary but may be as simple as a parent refusing to sign a safety plan that specifies where the family will live and who the child will be allowed to have contact with.
Few return to ranch
While the parents and children may legally return to the ranch, few have, Jessop said. With almost no one working over the spring and summer in the sprawling garden and dairy used to feed the community, the ranch doesn't have the supply of food and resources it once did.
FLDS communities hold much of their goods in common, and members have work duties within the community. That lifestyle was disrupted by the state when parents moved to individual homes around Texas in an effort to get their children back, Jessop said.
"They disrupted the community and its ability to function as it was," he said, noting community members may have to seek public assistance they never needed when the garden and dairy were fully operational.
Eight FLDS members, including jailed sect leader Warren Jeffs, have been indicted on charges of sexual assault of a child, allegations stemming from marriages to underage girls. Several face additional charges of bigamy.
Under Texas law, someone younger than 17 cannot generally consent to sex with an adult.
Breakaway sect
The FLDS is a breakaway sect of the Mormon church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which renounced polygamy more than a century ago. The FLDS believes polygamy brings glorification in heaven.
Jeffs, the sect's prophet, was convicted in Utah last year as an accomplice to rape for arranging the marriage of an underage girl to her older cousin. He faces trial on similar charges in Arizona before Texas prosecutors can pursue their case against him.


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I am wondering about the following problem: for which (say smooth, complex, connected) algebraic varieties $X$ does the statement any regular map $X\to X$ has a fixed point hold? MathSciNet search does not reveal anything in this topic.
This is true for $\mathbb{P}^n$ (because its cohomology is $\mathbb{Z}$ in even dimensions and $0$ otherwise, and the pullback of an effective cycle is effective, so all summands in the Lefschetz fixed point formula are nonnegative, and the 0-th is positive -- is this a correct argument?). Is it true for varieties with cohomology generated by algebraic cycles (i.e. $h^{p,q}(X)=0$ unless $p=q$ and satisfying Hodge conjecture), for example for Grassmannians, toric varieties, etc.? This is not at all clear that the traces of $f$ on cohomology will be nonnegative.
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Surviving a Supernova
Astronomers suspect the early Earth was a very harsh place. Temperatures were extreme, and the planet was constantly bombarded by cosmic debris. Many scientists believe that life's starting materials, or building blocks, must have been very resilient to have survived this tumultuous environment.
Now, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has learned that organic molecules believed to be among life's building blocks, called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, can also survive the harsh environment of an exploding supernova. Supernovae are the violent deaths of the most massive stars. In death, these volatile objects blast tons of energetic waves into the cosmos, destroying much of the dust surrounding them.
The fact that polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons can survive a supernova indicates that they are incredibly tough – like cosmic cockroaches enduring a nuclear blast. Such durability might be further proof that these molecules are indeed among life's building blocks. Even in the harsh conditions of the early Earth, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons could persist long enough to play an important role in the origin of life.
Achim Tappe of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass., used Spitzer's infrared spectrograph instrument to detect abundant amounts of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons along the ridge of supernova remnant N132D. The remnant is located 163,000 light-years away in a neighboring galaxy called, the Large Magellanic Cloud.
"The fact that we see polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons surviving this explosion illustrates their resilience," says Tappe.
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Astronomers say there is some evidence that a massive star exploded near our solar system as it was just beginning to form almost 5 billion years ago. If so, the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons that survived that blast might have helped seed life on our planet.
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Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: You just have to catch Bolt on a bad day.
Justin Gatlin joined The Dan Patrick Show with Glenn Ordway to discuss how he felt in winning the bronze medal in the 100 meter sprint, what he could have done to win the race, making the podium by the narrowest of margins, if he's concerned he'll face more scrutiny, how he stuck with sprinting through his four-year ban, how Usain Bolt can be beaten, his future in sprinting and why times keep getting faster and faster.
You were under a four-year ban and missed the last Olympics but returned and won bronze. How do you feel?
"You know what? I feel good because I look at everything I've been through and just to be grateful that I could come back and be on the podium eight years later, and it's a dream come true. I look back at it on a technical aspect, there's a lot of things I could've did better in my race. … I think that Bolt's a beatable runner. My hat's off to him. He's a great runner, a great competitor, but I'm out there to win."
What could you have done to win the race?
"My first two couple of steps were kind of short and a couple of my teammates and my coach told me that. Toward the middle of the race, I could've stayed a little more patient instead of surging for the front. And it would have helped me along the way and toward the end of the race as well."
Do you think at all about the fact that you were 0.01 seconds away from not being on the podium?
"Oh yeah, I thought about that when I saw the times on the clock. I dropped to my knees and thanked God. I was like, 'Hey, you know what? Thanks for giving me a strong back to lean forward.' And he got me on the medal stand."
Are you concerned that because you tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs that you now face more scrutiny?
"At one point in time, I did feel that way, when it was up in the air. But innocent or guilty … I served four years off of something I love and something I've been doing for almost all my life and running very stellar times throughout my career. To come back and duplicate times I did before I left the sport, I think it's an achievement within itself. And I've got to wake up as Justin Gatlin every day, so I can't really dwell on what people and critics are going to say."
How did you stay with it during that time?
"I just thought about that the four years that I'm away from the sport and those guys are out there running their butts off very hard throughout those four years, I'm just going to think of it as shelf life. So now I've got another four years to be able to come out there and compete and hopefully get a chance to be on the team for Rio de Janeiro in 2016. I'm just glad I'm healthy and strong."
How do you believe that Usain Bolt can be beaten?
"We're talking about something like it hasn't been done before, which it has. He's been beaten by his own teammate twice. … The guy is beatable, it's just that you've got to pick the right day, right conditions. It's a small window of error, a small margin of success, but it's attainable."
Will you run four years from now?
"I hope so. I've never been to Brazil before and I heard it's very nice so hopefully I get a free trip there and hopefully win some hardware there as well. … I've thought about it. I don't think I'm reaching any uncharted territory. Carl Lewis has done it … these guys who are legends in our sport have gone well into their 30s and were still running great times. I'm not trying to make a hobby out of it, but I want to run until I say, 'Justin, put the spikes down; it's over.'"
Why do the times constantly get better and better and better?
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More Than 13,000 Church Leaders to Gather in Atlanta for Catalyst Conference
More Than 13,000 Church Leaders to Gather in Atlanta for Catalyst Conference
Thousands of church leaders under age 40 from across the country are set to attend Catalyst, an annual next-generation, mega-conference in Atlanta, Ga., for a three-day leadership experience beginning tonight and designed to cultivate people as catalysts for change.
Catalyst is known as one of the largest gatherings of young Christian leaders in the country and this year's theme, "Known," will focus on imparting the notion that leaders can only know where they are headed when they know where they come from.
"At its core, the movement exists to ignite passion for Christ and develop and equip next generation leaders to engage and impact their world," said a Catalyst spokesperson. "The experience is immersive-inviting the Catalyst audience into creative and powerful teaching, worship and prayer."
The three-day event will feature a diverse lineup of business and Christian speakers to impart their knowledge to participants while challenging them to take on their roles as confident leaders in and out of church.
Among the eclectic mix of speakers are Chief Executive Officer of Burberry, Angela Ahrendts, Mayor of Newark, NJ, Cory Booker, journalist and best-selling author, Malcolm Gladwell, Priscilla Shirer, Andy Stanley, John Piper, Judah Smith, Jud Wilhite, Reggie Joiner, Jon Acuff, and Christian rapper Lecrae.
"We're privileged to host business and ministry leaders, as we offer a platform to young social entrepreneurs who are shaping culture," said the spokesperson.
In addition, other notable speakers will facilitate intimate, conversational labs with the purpose to engage with next generation leaders on issues of importance to them. Acclaimed Christian recording artists from the band Passion and spoken word poet and hip hop recording artist, Propaganda, will also be on hand to lead worship during the event.
This is the 14th year that Catalyst takes place and since its inception, hundreds of thousands of leaders have connected with each other and the Catalyst movement through events, resources, and social media.
Initially, what began as an idea by a group of young Christian leaders to create a gathering of like-minded individuals because they felt church leadership was geared mainly toward a 40 to 60-year- old mindset, has become a movement that has grown in large proportion, offering three annual events on the East and West coasts and mid-America.
Leaders who are active Catalyst participants are involved in social and charity efforts throughout the world including facilitating freedom for trafficked victims to providing natural disaster relief efforts to hard-hit areas. In addition, Catalyst leaders have partnered with organizations throughout the years including Compassion International, Bethany Christian Services, and have also been involved with clean water campaigns and 143million.org, an organization focused on rescuing 143 million orphans around the world.
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Whitney Houston's Family Signs Reality Show Deal
Whitney Houston's Family Signs Reality Show Deal
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Whitney Houston's daughter Bobbi Kristina -- and several of her relatives -- have signed a deal to star in a reality show for Lifetime called "The Houston Family Chronicles."
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I am unclear as to articulation point of seen, saad, and zay. I have read that it is from the internal plates of the front two top incisors. But what are the internal plates really? I mean is it the point where the tooth starts coming out of the gum? Because as I know the gum line i.e. the point where the gum meets the teeth is the point for ta, da and the thick ta. So how close is the articulation point for seen to that of taa. Please explain clearly as I am very confused. Whether I pronounce the seen from the edges or from the point I am assuming are the internal plates it sounds the same to me. I have seen the teeth diagram where you have pointed out the plates in reply to a question but I'm still unclear. Thank you.
Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
Let us start with the articulation point of the letters, meaning the , and : These three letters are emitted from the tip of the tongue and the plates of the two front top incisors, at a point just above the two front lower incisors. There is a little space left in between the tip of the tongue and the plates of the teeth when pronouncing these letters. The term "plate" refers to the long axis of the tooth, and in this case, the long axis that is on the internal side, rather than the external side of the teeth.
From the definition, we can see the part of the plates use, is the part just above the two front lower incisors. We also furthered defined the plates in a question and stated:
The plates are the front and back part of the tooth that is visible, i.e., the front and back of the tooth itself that is sticking out of the gum.
From the definition of the articulation point and the explanation of the plates, we then know that the plate of the tooth is the visible part of the tooth (referring to the long axis) and the part of the tooth used for the letters is just above the lower front incisors, meaning right at the beginning of the plate (bottom of tooth, furthest part away from gum) close to the edge of the tooth. The edges are not used, in fact, these letters do not put much pressure on the teeth at all. The part of the plates used then is far from the gum line.
It is very important that you recite to a trained and qualified teacher so that they can hear how you pronounce the letters and corrections of your articulation points can be made by them, if necessary. Only then will you know if you are using the correct articulation point and that the sound of the letter is correct.
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Hello out there, and thanks for stopping by. Just a quick blog post (the first in 3 years?) to note that Dead & Buried v1.0 is now over. We shut the doors on our little corner of Melbourne this month after a few years of being in Sydney and recently returning to Melbourne with a new direction and new perspective.
It was a hell of a fun ride whilst it lasted, and there is every chance that v2.0 will spring up again in the future somewhere, but for now we're closing the book on our time in Melbourne.
Dani is continuing to put out work under both of her labels goodlyGOLD and Dani M Designs, so you can still get your hands on her work there.
Steve is as scattered as always, is toying with the idea of making art and sculpture his new thing, and currently has a dozen unfinished projects on the go.
The rest of our studio crew have mostly gone on to be?successful jewellers / designers, and some?have set up studio spaces of their own in the Nicholas Building, so if you're still interested in shopping local and meeting makers, track down Amber Arizono, Megan Webb, Emily Green or Elise Sheehan and arrange to drop in and see them and their respective studio buddies.
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The Ipsos Reid poll was conducted for Postmedia News between Sept. 17 and 22 and carries a margin of error of 2.2 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
— almost half (44 per cent) of Canadians believe the family is more important than it was 50 years ago, with 34 per cent saying it's much more important and 10 per cent saying slightly more
— in contrast, 38 per cent say the family is less important than it used to be, with 27 per cent saying much less and 11 per cent saying slightly less, while 18 per cent believe the family holds the same importance
— eight in 10 Canadians (80 per cent) agree that two married, heterosexual parents and their children constitute a family
— two-thirds (66 per cent) view a common-law couple and their children as a family
— a slight majority (55 per cent) believe a single mother and her children make up a family, while 54 per cent say the same about a single father and his children
— Canadians are evenly split (50 per cent) on whether a household of grandparents raising grandchildren makes up a family
— a slight minority (46 per cent) say a married or common-law couple without children is a family
— a similar proportion (45 per cent) say a same-sex married couple and their children constitute a family
— asked what they'd most like to change about their family life, three in ten Canadians (30 per cent) say there's nothing they'd change
— a similar proportion (28 per cent) would like to change the amount of time they have to spend together
— 16 per cent would like to change their distance from extended family
— seven per cent would change the ability of them or their partners to pursue other interests
— six per cent would like to change the size of their family
— five per cent would like to alter the division of labour at home
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The Essence-Energies distinction is (like all Orthodox doctrine) first of all an interpretation of Christian experience. Bishop Kallistos, in The Orthodox Way, writes:
The traveller upon the spiritual Way, the further he advances, becomes increasingly conscious of two contrasting facts – of the otherness yet nearness of the Eternal. In the first place, he realizes more and more that God is mystery. God is 'the wholly Other', invisible, inconceivable, radically transcendent, beyond all words, beyond all understanding…
Yet, in the second place, this God of mystery is at the same time uniquely close to us, filling all things, present everywhere around us and within us. And he is present, not merely as an atmosphere or nameless force, but in a personal way. The God who is infinitely beyond our understanding reveals himself to us as person: he calls us each by our name and we answer him.
Further, since the Bible bears witness to Christian experience (a.k.a. revelation in history), the Essence-Energies distinction is also an interpretation of Holy Scripture, which speaks of God as unapproachable, yet nearer to each man than his own heart. Here is a very small sampling of the sorts of verses I mean.
Never will man see My face and live. (Exodus 33:20).
The secret [things belong] unto the LORD our God: but those [things which are] revealed [belong] unto us and to our children for ever, that [we] may do all the words of this law. (Deuteronomy 29:29)
Truly You are God, who hide Yourself,
O God of Israel, the Savior! ( Isaiah 45:25)
"Am I only God near at hand," says the LORD,
"And not a God afar off?" (Jeremiah 23:23)
Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom [be] honour and power everlasting. Amen. (I Timothy 6:16)
As His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness. . . . you may be partakers of the divine nature (2 Pet. 1:3, 4).
(Here we need to note that the word used for "nature" is not "ousia," which means essence, but "physis," which among other things means "the sum of innate properties and powers by which one person differs from others, distinctive native peculiarities, natural characteristics: the natural strength, ferocity, and intractability of beasts." In other words, "physis" is what God is like as Energies.)
For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. Ever since the creation of the world His invisible nature, namely his eternal power and Deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made. So that they are without excuse" (Romans 1:19-20).
Note the distinction: his eternal power and his Deity. Everybody can know that these exist.
He rules by His power forever. (Psalm 66:7)
And then we have Jesus in John 17 (and elsewhere) speaking rather at length of abiding in us as the Father abides in Him, and He in the Father.
For much more than you ever wanted to know about the biblical references to God's Energies, see this site.
The Fathers, too, bear witness to the Essence-Energies distinction from more than a thousand years before St. Gregory Palamas. That is why St. Gregory quotes some of them:
The Great Basil says, "He who acts is not the same as the act's energy and neither is the recipient of the energy" And the divine Cyril, too, forming a passage about God, theologizes, "Thus, to create is of the energy, but to beget is of the nature, for nature and energy are not identical." (St. Gregory Palamas, Natural Chapters, 143, P.G. 150, 1220)
Here are some more saints teaching or referring to this doctrine.
St. Athanasios (298-373)
He is in everything by his love, but outside of everything by his own nature (De Decretis II)
'He is outside all things according to his essence', writes St Athanasius, 'but he is in all things through his acts of power." "We know the essence through the energy', St Basil affirms. 'No one has ever seen the essence of God, but we believe in the essence because we experience the energy.' (Ware, The Orthodox Way)
St. Basil the Great (born c. 330)
Is it not ridiculous to say that the creative power is an essence, and similarly, that providence is an essence, and foreknowledge, simply taking every energy as essence?" (Contra Eunomius, I.8, PG 29, 528B)
"The energies are various, and the essence simple, but we say that we know our God from His energies, but do not undertake to approach near to His essence. His energies come down to us, but His essence remains beyond our reach." (Epistle 234)
We say that we know our God from his energies (activities), but we do not profess to approach his essence—for his energies descend to us, but his essence remains inaccessible (Epist. 234, ad Amphilochium)
St. Cyril of Alexandria (circa. 378 - 444)
"Essence and energy are not identical." (Thesaurus 18, PG 75:312c)
St. John Chrysostom (c. 347–407)
Nor does He have anything in common with us but is separated from communion with created things, I mean as to essence, though, not as to relation. (Commentary on John, Homily 2, Chapter 7, PG 59:33-34)
St. Maximos the Confessor (ca. 580-662)
We do not know God in his essence. We know him rather from the grandeur of his creation and from his providential care for all creatures. For by this means, as if using a mirror, we attain insight into his infinite goodness, wisdom, and power." ( On Love, i, 96)
"The man divinized by grace will be everything that God is, apart from identity of essence." (Ad Thalassium 22, PG 90:320a)
Gregory of Nyssa, (d. circa 386)
And if we may reckon that the Cause of our existence did not come to the creation of man out of necessity but by benevolent choice, once more we say that we have seen God in this way too, arriving at an understanding of his goodness, not of his being…He who is by nature invisible becomes visible in his operations, being seen in certain cases by the properties he possesses. (Homily on the Beatitudes, VI)
St. Justin Martyr (d. 165)
Though God is able to do all that He wills to do, He does not will to do all that he is able to do. To be is not the same as to will…if God creates in His being, it is by necessity that He creates whatever He creates. But if it is by will that He creates, he creates out of sovereignty. Creating out of sovereignty, then, He creates as much as He wills and whatever He wills and whenever He wills. If God creates in His being, His will serves no purpose and is altogether useless. (Christian Inquiries, III, 2)
St. Irenaeus, (c. 130-202)
As regards His greatness, therefore, it is not possible to know God, for it is impossible that the Father can be measured; but as regards His love (for this it is which leads us to God by His Word), when we obey Him, we do always learn that there is so great a God, and that it is He who by Himself has established, and selected, and adorned, and contains all things; and among the all things, both ourselves and this our world.
But in respect to His greatness, and His wonderful glory, "no man shall see God and live, for the Father is incomprehensible; but in regard to His love, and kindness, and as to His infinite power, even this He grants to those who love Him, that is, to see God, which thing the prophets did also predict. (Adversus Haereses, 4, 20,1&5)
Note that although the priest-martyr St. Irenaeus came from Asia Minor, he was the bishop of Lyons. That's Lyons, France, or Gaul as it was at the time. Thus, not only is he a very early witness to the Essence-Energies distinction, but he is also a Western witness to it. This is the true doctrine of the entire, ecumenical church, East and West. How it came to be forgotten, or dropped, and finally rejected in the West I can only speculate. But the Essence-Energies distinction is the authentic heritage of every Christian — for excellent and most necessary reasons, some of which I propose to summarize in the next installment of this series.


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This concept consists of a rigid boom within parallel running hard piped components. Points of rotation of this boom are bridged with swivel joints.
The final connecting element towards a ship is a flexible hose that is lifted on board of the receiving vessel with the bunker boom.
This existing design is used as a basis and specifically adjusted for LNG application, such as usage of a field-proven LNG hose and the development of a convenient electric, hydraulically actuated emergency breakaway coupler. This results in an extremely reliable and efficient bunkering solution with the widest possible reach so as to serve any different vessels, not limited to a pre-determined or type of vessels.
In itself, the boom is both a lifting structure and a transfer system. The fact that the final element is a flexible hose is for more practical reasons.
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Most owners of privately-held companies have immediate needs. These needs are often irritating, distracting and time-consuming to the business owner.
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These needs may also relate to important deadlines or other issues if which the owner needs competent external resources to quickly resolve.
Our goal is to help solve these immediate needs for business owners on a cost-effective basis.
The next step is to complete The Discovery Analysis™. This is a four-step process, which usually takes about two hours with the company's staff.
- Meet with and interview the company's staff, which is typically the head of accounting and/or operations.
- Look at the company's financial information and computer systems.
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- Create a confidential report of our key findings.
The next step is to complete The Strategy Session™. This is a four-step process.
- Meet with the owner for about 30 minutes to confidentially discuss the key findings from The Discovery Analysis™.
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- Discuss a preliminary timeline for The Performance Period™.
The next step is to complete The Performance Period™. This is a three-step process.
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Within the framework of the 5th World Water Forum regional process, more than 150 people from 6 countries gathered on 16-17 April in Sarajevo to address issues in their respective countries relating to one of the Forum themes: "Managing and Protecting Water Resources and Their Supply Systems to Meet Human and Environmental Needs".
The two-day workshop meeting was organized by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry of Turkey and the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Presentations relating to water issues in the Balkan were made by representatives from Romania, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey.
Morning presentations were followed by roundtable meetings to provide an opportunity for the participants to express the issues they encounter in the different countries. These inputs, along with the inputs from other regions, will feed into the political outcomes of the Forum as well as provide substance for the regional session that will be held during the Forum.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Arrests in U.S. cities netted charges against 91 people for an alleged Medicare fraud schemes involving $295 million in false billing, officials said.
The nearly eight dozen people arrested included doctors, nurses and other medical personnel, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. said Wednesday in describing what he said was the largest takedown for Medicare fraud in U.S. history.
"The defendants charged in this takedown are accused of stealing precious taxpayer resources and defrauding Medicare -- jeopardizing the integrity of our healthcare system and our nation's most critical healthcare program for personal gain," Holder said.
The Joint Medicare Fraud Strike Force, a multiagency team of federal, state and local investigators, spent the past week working with FBI, local law enforcement officials and other agencies in the takedown, the Justice Department said in a release. Besides the arrests, agents also executed 18 search warrants in ongoing strike force investigations.
Court documents indicate the defendants allegedly participated in schemes to submit claims to Medicare for treatments that were medically unnecessary and frequently never provided. The indictments and complaints also allege that patient recruiters, Medicare beneficiaries and other co-conspirators were paid kickbacks in return for supplying beneficiary information to providers so the providers could fraudulently bill Medicare.
The defendants are accused of numerous healthcare fraud-related crimes, including conspiracy to defraud Medicare, healthcare fraud, violations of the anti-kickback statutes and money-laundering.
"Today's arrests are a powerful warning to those who would try to defraud taxpayers and Medicare beneficiaries," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said. "[Our] efforts to stop criminals don't end here because the Affordable Care Act gives us new tools to prevent Medicare fraud before it is committed."


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An earthquake in southern Maine has rattled nearby New England states.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the epicenter of the 4.0-magnitude quake at 7:12 p.m. was about 3 miles west of Hollis Center, Maine, and about 3 miles deep. The USGS listed the magnitude as 4.6 initially, but later downgraded it to 4.0.
The quake was also felt in Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
In Waterboro near the epicenter, about 20 customers and staff at Waterboro House of Pizza ran outside when they heard a loud bang and the building shook.
The Seabrook Station nuclear plant, about 60 miles away in New Hampshire, declared an unusual event, but said it wasn't affected. The plant has been offline for refueling.
In Worcester County, Mass., residents from Fitchburg and Athol to Northbridge reported feeling several seconds of shaking.
"It was definitely shaking," said Fitchburg Lt. Timothy McDermott. "It went on for a few seconds."
The lieutenant said calls were flooding the police station asking about what happened.
Former longtime Worcester resident Gordie Raynes lives in Auburn, Maine, about an hour and 45 minutes from the epicenter. He lives in an apartment building, and said he definitely felt it.
"At first I thought it was one of three things," Mr. Raynes said. "I said it's either a loud motorcycle, a chopper from the hospital that was buzzing the building, or, I said, it's an earthquake."
Mr. Raynes said that his social media contacts were reporting feeling the earthquake up and down the coast of Maine, and he said he heard it was felt as far south as Rhode Island.
"Believe it or not, the windows were shaking," Mr. Raynes said. "My friend who lives on the sixth floor was absolutely petrified."
He said a friend reported that just before the earthquake struck, her dog bolted and hid under the couch.
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Bradford is a town in Orange county, Vermont. It was formed in 1770 in N.Y. It has used the following other name(s): Mooretown. The probate district for Bradford is Bradford, while the court district is Orange. For more information, contact the town at 172 N. Main, P.O. Box 339, Bradford 05033. On the attached map, Bradford is shown as 7 in Orange county.
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Documents and research related to the roughly 780 people who have been sent to the Guantánamo Bay prison since 2002.
Yusef Abbas
Yusef Abbas is a 39- or 40-year-old citizen of China. As of January 2010, the Guantánamo Review Task Force had recommended him for transfer. He was transferred to Slovakia on Dec. 31, 2013.
Detainees from the Uighur Muslim minority in western China have been approved for release. The government has said it would "serve no useful purpose" to continue to try to prove that any of these 17 men were enemy combatants. On Oct. 7, 2008, a federal judge ordered the Bush administration to release the remaining 17 Uighur detainees, but a federal appeals court stayed the order after the government appealed.
Note: These documents include some assertions that cannot be independently verified. Many allegations have been contested by detainees and their lawyers, and some have been undercut by other evidence.


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This is my son's all-time favorite episode of Land of the Lost, and I understand why.
In "The Pylon Express," young Holly (Kathy Coleman) unexpectedly enters a pylon and takes a trip through time and space. She visits the land of Altrusia in the distant past when the Lost City was a thriving metropolis. She visits an alternate land of the lost, but one possessing a poisonous atmosphere (shaded in violet).
Holly also meets aliens and creatures great and small, and even returns briefly to 1970s California, her home…where she catches a frisbee in flight.
Best of all, "The Pylon Express" involves a great mystery. When Holly is about to follow a strange bouncing life-form out of the pylon, she pauses when she sees a note scrawled in the sand. It reads, simply: "Holly Don't."
The message (rightly) gives her pause, and suddenly she sees her little strange friend explode in the poisonous atmosphere. At the end of the episode, when Holly thanks Will and Marshall for leaving the warning in the sand (on their separate journey on the pylon express), they inform her that they didn't write it.
If they didn't write that note, then who did?
It's a unique and interesting puzzle, and part of the reason I love Land of the Lost so much. This episode harks back in some crucial to the great entry "Elsewhen" from the first season, written by Dorothy Fontana, in which Holly met her future self. That future-self, named Ronnie/Rani informed the girl that there would come a time when Holly would be alone in the Land of the Lost, without her father and brother.
And of course, that's what happens, for a time anyway, in "The Pylon Express." Similarly, one wonders if Holly's future self traveled through time to save Holly here, and wrote that note in the sand herself. But of course, how did she ever survive through her trial in the first place?
Again, I should just pause here and ask you to consider how many kids' Saturday morning shows from the 1970s involved temporal incursions, alternate worlds, and open-ended mysteries. As I've always said, Land of the Lost succeeded by never insulting the intelligence of its young audience.
In addition to this mystery, Land of the Lost is a great Holly-themed episode. All alone and confronted by terrifying ideas (the loss of her family, and transportation through time and space), Holly's constant -- and very adult -- refrain is "what would Daddy do?" This reliance on lessons learned from a parent shows terrific character and maturity, and I'm glad the series allowed Holly to grow up and show good-decision making skills. In too many episodes, she is relegated to cleaning up the cave or cooking, and it's great that "The Pylon Express" does right by the character.
"The Pylon Express" is such a fun and imaginative show -- and my son enjoys it so much -- because of Holly's colorful and extended trip through time and space. The episode takes her to a snowy mountaintop, to the world of that strange bouncy thing (a robot?) and to a terrifying world where a giant machine seems to be absorbing materials from the atmosphere. It looks like a malevolent vacuum cleaner crossed with the Martian war machine from the Pal version of War of the Worlds (1953).
Again, none of these realms are explained, just briefly visited. It's very…cool, and represents a vast opening up of the Altrusiverse.
Also, very interestingly, this episode suggests that the pylon express will open again in three years or so (when the three moons align in the night sky), which means that the Marshalls -- if they can survive -- have a guaranteed way home. Of course, as we know from the events of the third season, this does not occur…


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