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Through eons spent roaming Borneo's rainforests, Malaysia's Penan people became supremely adapted to surviving, and thriving, in the wild.
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Merdeka Award 2013 Exhibition Should Inspire Young Malaysians - Raja Nazrin
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September 26th, 2012
We're a little over two months away from the release of Ke$ha's sophomore studio album Warrior, and if the debut single Die Young is any indication of what's to come, Warrior will be the a bigger and better version of Animal. Keeping her signature themes of parties, sex and living to excess, Ke$ha let's her vocals shine through on Die Young.
Breaking the mold on lyric videos by actually appearing in it, Ke$ha uses footage from her Die Young teaser videos, which were shot in the Tokyo Subway, and psychedelic lettering for the lyrics. It's trippy and I like it.
Ke$ha's sophomore album Warrior is set to be released on December 4.
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HistoryMiami museum is hosting a free event on the art of making a guayabera on Saturday, January 5 at 1 p.m.
The presentation led by Michael Knoll, curator of The Guayabera: A Shirt's Story exhibition, features guest artisan Mariano Arce of Marce Shirtmaker who will demonstrate the intricate process of crafting the shirt.
HistoryMiami is located at 101 West Flagler Street, Miami, 33130. For more information, call (305) 375-4590 or visit: www.historymiami.org.
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A young man with a religious calling begins following a very different path in this independent drama based on a true story. Sam Gold (Jesse Eisenberg) is a Hasidic Jew in his late teens who lives with his family in Brooklyn. Sam's father, Mendel (Mark Ivanir), runs a fabric store and Sam helps out when he isn't busy with his rabbinical studies. But Mendel isn't an especially good businessman, a fact that's become very obvious to Sam, and his uncertain financial future has caused his fiancée's parents to call off the couple's upcoming wedding. Sam is also suffering from a bit of jealousy toward his best friend, Leon (Jason Fuchs), who seems to have better luck in both life and academics, so when Leon's older brother, Yosef (Justin Bartha), offers Sam some good-paying part-time work, he's more than interested. Sam is instructed to fly to Amsterdam, pick up a parcel, and bring it back; it's not until he comes home to New York that it dawns on Sam that he's transporting drugs, but between the hefty payroll, the charm of Amsterdam-based ecstasy wholesaler Jackie Solomon (Danny A. Abeckaser), and the beauty of Jackie's sexy paramour, Rachel (Ari Graynor), Sam begins to think life in the drug game might be just the thing for him after all. The first feature film from director Kevin Asch, Holy Rollers received its world premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Adrift in Manhattan, the third feature effort of Hispanic writer/director Alfredo de Villa (Washington Heights, Yellow), intercuts three intensely dramatic stories of life during a cold New York winter, each of which revolves around the concept (and thematic motif) of vision. In the first, an eye doctor grieving from a traumatic loss (Heather Graham) must reexamine her life and priorities; in the second, an artist of advanced age must contend with encroaching blindness -- thus losing the one of his five senses that represents his greatest asset; in the third, a photographer grapples with inner turmoil. De Villa brings these stories together for an unanticipated intersection on a Manhattan subway line, and watches as these individuals -- initially, complete strangers to one another -- help to guide each other through their struggles, pain, and angst. William Baldwin and Erika Michaels co-star. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
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Issues of race and gender cause a group of strangers in Los Angeles to physically and emotionally collide in this drama from director and screenwriter Paul Haggis. Graham (Don Cheadle) is a police detective whose brother is a street criminal, and it hurts him to know his mother cares more about his ne'er-do-well brother than him. Graham's partner is Ria (Jennifer Esposito), who is also his girlfriend, though she has begun to bristle at his emotional distance, as well as his occasional insensitivity over the fact he's African-American and she's Hispanic. Rick (Brendan Fraser) is an L.A. district attorney whose wife, Jean (Sandra Bullock), makes little secret of her fear and hatred of people unlike herself. Jean's worst imaginings about people of color are confirmed when her SUV is carjacked by two African-American men -- Anthony (Chris Bridges, aka Ludacris), who dislikes white people as much as Jean hates blacks, and Peter (Larenz Tate), who is more open minded. Cameron (Terrence Howard) is a well-to-do African-American television producer with a beautiful wife, Christine (Thandie Newton). While coming home from a party, Cameron and Christine are pulled over by Officer Ryan (Matt Dillon), who subjects them to a humiliating interrogation (and her to an inappropriate search) while his new partner, Officer Hansen (Ryan Phillippe), looks on. Daniel (Michael Pena) is a hard-working locksmith and dedicated father who discovers that his looks don't lead many of his customers to trust him. And Farhad (Shaun Toub) is a Middle Eastern shopkeeper who is so constantly threatened in the wake of the 9/11 attacks that he decided he needs a gun to defend his family. Crash was the first directorial project for award-winning television and film writer Haggis. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Federal agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) is having a very bad day in this unique, action-packed drama series in which events unfold in real time and the entire season takes place within one 24-hour day. Bauer is the director of the Counter Terrorist Unit in Los Angeles. He's also a married man who is attempting to rebuild a trust-depleted relationship with his wife Teri (Leslie Hope), and a father to independent-minded teen daughter Kim (Elisha Cuthbert). Shortly after midnight on the morning of the California Democratic presidential primary, Jack receives information that an assassination attempt will be carried out against Maryland senator David Palmer (Dennis Haysbert) -- the first African-American with a legitimate chance of capturing the White House -- sometime within the next 24 hours. Jack's mission is made even more difficult when he learns from his boss Richard Walsh (Michael O'Neill) that someone within CTU may be a mole involved with the foreign-based conspiracy. Meanwhile, Palmer, unaware of the assassination plot, receives a phone call from a dogged reporter who says she has evidence that his son Keith (Vicellous Reon Shannon) committed murder. He allegedly killed his sister's rapist. Palmer initiates an investigation to uncover the truth and must decide whether to break the story himself or wait. Jack is contacted by terrorist Ira Gaines (Michael Massee), who informs him that his wife and daughter have been kidnapped by Gaines' henchmen. Gaines threatens to kill them if Jack refuses to follow his detailed instructions. Gaines' goal is simple: Jack is to carry out the assassination against Palmer himself. As the hours pass, the conspiracy deepens, and Jack learns the surprising truth behind the plot and his role in it. ~ Tim Holland, Rovi
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Missing Pieces
Based on Atticus, a novel by Ron Hansen, this Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation stars James Coburn as widowed Colorado rancher Atticus Cody. In the months since Atticus' wife was killed in a car accident caused by his artist son Scott (Paul Kersey), the boy has ached for his father's forgiveness. Alas, though he still loves his son, Atticus is by nature taciturn and distant, and is unable to reach out to the grieving Scott. Upon discovering that his father has kept the wreckage of the "death car" on his ranch, the confused Scott decides that no closure is possible, whereupon he returns to the dusty Mexican village that has long been his home. Later, Atticus receives word that Scott has committed suicide--and upon arriving in Mexico, it is his turn to suffer the pangs of guilt, thanks to the relentless remonstrations of Scott's girlfriend Renata (Lisa Zane). But nothing is quite what Renata makes it out to be, as Atticus discovers to his astonishment upon hearing a cache of "audio letters" recorded by Scott just before his death. A delicate blend of domestic drama and "whodunit", Missing Pieces debuted February 6, 2000, on CBS. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Touched by an Angel: The Invitation
This year's Halloween assignment for Monica (Roma Downey), Tess (Della Reese) and Andrew (John Dye) is to save expectant parents Annie and Rick Higuerra (Karen Arroyave, Guillermo Diaz) from the clutches of Satan. Annie has already been approached at her place of business by a demonic young man named Dennis (Thomas Dekker), while cash-poor Rick is being tempted to stray from the fold by a sinister bookie named Cal (Jeremy Roberts). Inasmuch as the true identity of these two strangers is obvious from the start, one would think that the three angels would have no trouble thwarting their perennial foe...and one would be wrong! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Still under suspicion for the murder of a nurse, ill-tempered cop Tommy Richardson (Michael Wiseman) is transferred to another precinct. Still hoping to get the goods on Richardson, Bobby (Jimmy Smits) and Diane (Kim Delaney) persuade Tommy's abused wife, Laurie (Charlotte Ross), to wear a wire. In another case, the body of a shooting victim is found in the bathtub of his former girlfriend, whose father has been seriously injured in a freak accident involving an electric chain saw. And when his CAT scan tests yield discouraging results, Andy (Dennis Franz) decides to react quickly -- by changing doctors. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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A corrections officer is murdered, exposing a case involving sex in a woman's prison. A.D.A. Carmichael (Angie Harmon) soon discovers that among the players in this drama is a female inmate whom she'd previously jailed on a drug charge. As the D.A.'s office squares off against aggressive defense lawyer Danielle Melnick (Tovah Feldshuh), a disturbing secret looms ominously over one of the prosecuting attorneys. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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A dedicated educator loses his passion for teaching as he struggles to survive in this tense urban drama. Trevor Garfield (Samuel L. Jackson) is a science teacher trying to make a difference in a tough Brooklyn high school, but he faces an uphill battle against students more interested in gang battles than education and an administration that won't back him up. When Garfield is nearly killed by one of his students, he takes a 15-month sabbatical from education and moves to California, where he takes a position as a substitute teacher. Garfield is startled to discover that things are even worse on the West Coast; while fellow educators Ellen (Kelly Rowan) and Dave (John Heard) offer whatever help and advice they can, Garfield's superiors are more concerned about fielding lawsuits than the safety of their teaching staff. Soon, Garfield finds his life is in danger when he tries to stand up to two of his pupils, Benny (Lobo Sebastian) and Cesar (Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez). One Eight Seven (the title comes from the police code for homicide) was written by Scott Yagemann, who spent seven years as a substitute teacher in California. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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In this drama, a school teacher discovers that it takes more than the ABCs to get through to a class of "uneducatable" kids. When Lou Anne Johnson (Michelle Pfeiffer), a nine-year veteran of the Marine Corps with a degree in education, begins a new job at an inner-city school in California, the principal (George Dzundza) warns her that her class will be the "rejects from Hell" -- kids with severe social problems and no interest in education. While at first her African-American and Latino students scoff at Lou Anne, she ultimately gets them to open up to learning and literature, through a combination of bribery (candy bars) and intimidation (her karate training from the Marines comes in handy), and she's able to reach out to the students who need her the most: Callie (Bruklin Harris), a bright girl who believes she's thrown away her future when she becomes pregnant; Emilio (Wade Dominquez), a macho bully whose violence is stifling his academic potential; and Raul (Renoly Santiago), the brightest kid in the class, who is afraid to show his intelligence. Dangerous Minds was adapted from a memoir by Lou Anne Johnson entitled My Posse Don't Do Homework. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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In this action comedy, director Gregg Champion relies on the premise that, indeed, "country boys can survive," as Sonny (Kiefer Sutherland) and Pepper (Woody Harrelson, always game) head off to the Big Apple in order to rescue a mutual friend's daughter from the clutches of an evil sweatshop owner. Naturally, there are lots of encounters highlighting the two fishes out of water; there are opportunities to lasso bad guys; there's even a chase on horseback through the city streets after Sonny and Pepper steal a pair of NYPD horses. ~ Jeremy Beday, Rovi
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It's just not William Foster's (Michael Douglas) day. Laid off from his defense job, Foster gets stuck in the middle of the mother of all traffic jams. Desirous of attending his daughter's birthday party at the home of his ex-wife (Barbara Hershey), Foster abandons his car and begins walking, encountering one urban humiliation after another (the Korean shopkeeper who obstinately refuses to give change is the worst of the batch). He also slowly unravels mentally, finally snapping at a fast-food restaurant that refuses to serve him breakfast because it's "too late." Running amok with an arsenal of weapons at the ready, Foster -- also known as "D-FENS" because of his vanity license plate -- rapidly becomes a source of terror to some, a folk hero to others. It's up to reluctant cop Prendergast (Robert Duvall), on the eve of his retirement, to bring D-FENS down. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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A tough congresswoman tries to keep her family together after her son-in-law dies in a car crash. This Emmy-nominated made-for-television drama follows her efforts and her reaction when she learns that drugs were involved. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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After earning rave notices for powerful supporting turns as a pimp in Street Smart (1987) and an alcohol abuse counselor in Clean and Sober (1988), actor Morgan Freeman began his ascent to stardom with this, his first lead role in a major motion picture. Freeman is real-life high school principal Joe Clark, a tough, harsh educator and administrator who in 1987 is given a nearly impossible task by his old friend, school superintendent Dr. Frank Napier (Robert Guillaume). Clark is asked to reform inner city Eastside High School in Paterson, NJ, a hotbed of delinquent kids and drug dealers. Considered the worst school in New Jersey, the state is threatening to take control of Eastside away from the local school board. If Clark can straighten out Eastside in time to get the school's basic-skills test scores up, he can have the job permanently. Although Clark's tyrannical approach and hard-line policies alienate many members of the staff and the community, his uncompromising campaign gets results and even makes him famous, much to the chagrin of his powerful enemies. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
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There's not much I don't know about you—yellow, red, sweet—grubbed up roots and all.Essential for a vigorous cuisine, alertingthe sense—the crackle of your paper brown outerskin, your translucent inner sheaths likevegetable undergarments, your pungent heatrising from sharp steel and cutting boardto my blurred eyes, your precise circles againstthe wood, before the sizzle in the buttered pan.Reluctant to relinquish our intimacyyour sharp essence clings to my fingers, likea reputation. Hours later, in the dark, you seasonthe air around my hands, I'll stud you withstars of cloves to bury in the belly of the birdbefore roasting. Or nestle your pearlswith a stalk of mint among the green peas.If I leave you too long in the pantry, yourpatience exhausted, attenuated, soft at the center,you send up green spears through the mesh bagthat call out chop me, make a salad, I am delicious.How do I interpret my ownlayered membranes, like growth rings?I try to peel away the layers of myonion heart, never getting all the way in.
A copy of the Bay Psalm Book, the first book published in America, will be auctioned off by Sotheby's and is expected to bring between $15 and $30 million, making it the most expensive book ever sold. One of two copies owned by Old South Church in Boston, it is one of only 11 remaining copies published. The proceeds will be used to help replenish Old South's endowment once $7 million of it is used for deferred maintenance. The church historian resigned over the congregation's decision to sell one of its treasures, but the rest of the congregation overwhelmingly supported the decision (New York Times, November 15).
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Hilton Prague Old Town
V Celnici 7, Prague, 110 00, Czech Republic TEL: 420-2-2182-2100 FAX: 420-2-2182-2200If you're looking for a cultural break in Europe, our Prague Art Breaks are just the ticket – and they're available at both of our Hilton hotels in Prague.
Spend a weekend at the Hilton Prague Old Town and enjoy free entrance to the Prague Castle Picture Gallery – a splendid collection of over one hundred prime paintings that reflect the stormy events of Central Europe from 16th century to the present.
The highest quality paintings rescued from the vast collection of Emperor Rudolph II, together with pieces from Bohemian Baroque and 19th century purchases are displayed in Prague Castle Picture Gallery through the whole year. The roots of the collection go back to the end of the 16th century when Rudolf II amassed the largest collection of works of art in his day and age. The new collection dating from mid-C17th, comprises significant works by Italian, German, Dutch and Flemish masters. After the gallery visit, sip a complimentary cocktail and enjoy the chic atmosphere of Zinc - the Hilton Prague Old Town's inhouse cocktail bar. While you're with us, enjoy a swim, sauna and workout in the gym, and wake up each morning to a Hilton Buffet Breakfast
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Party on! RedEye's 10 awesome party movies
Like so many films before it, the new flick "21 & Over" is a party movie--and seemingly proud of it. So many movies have explored this well-trod territory it's hard to create a "best" list, but that's not going to stop us. So after downing several drinks (juice boxes, of course), RedEye staff members came up with this list of our favorites. Some of these films have awesome party scenes. Others were built around one giant party. And some just scream, "Party!" Whatever the case, we would have loved to have been invited to the parties in these 10 films. RedEye
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"21 & Over" will party in theaters beginning March 1. RedEye's Matt Pais reviews the latest party film here.
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I recently built a new computer (more to come). This awesome beast is so heavily overspecced there's not much you can throw at it that would make it have a hard day. That is, unless you're a publishing studio called Universal.
As part of my new setup I have a Blu-Ray drive – any self respecting videophile has one of these. This drive is a Samsung SH-B123L (which can also identify itself as a TSSTcorpDVDWBD) and has the newest available firmware (SB03 – December 2010) which was upgraded from the non-obvious site SamsungODD. In conjunction with Cyberlink PowerDVD 10 Ultra 3D Mark II I have watched about 20 Blu-Rays on this new system.
And so it came to pass that recently I received a copy of Despicable Me on Blu-Ray. Does it play? No. After a few seconds the Universal logo plays, as you'd expect. Then, a spinning loading Universal logo sits on the screen. The one time I left it on we got to 13 minutes before an advert played which thanked me for supporting the industry and paying for the film. Then the loading logo came back. Another 10 minutes and I gave up.
Clearly the problem here is the Blu-Ray drive. It can't play the disc. But that problem is itself caused by Universal who have added a new type of DRM that the drive does not understand. As it stands I have purchased a £16 product that I cannot watch – let's not forget that I could easily download this film through bittorrent – for free – and watch it with ease.
This is the problem with the media industry, forever penalising the very hands that feed it. Pirate copies of films simply don't suffer from these problems and save five or more minutes of your life every time you watch a disc, because they don't come with the pointless copyright warnings (pointless because if you're going to copy it, you're going to copy it).
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When the British colonizers come to Kenya, they strengthen their hold on the territory by building a great railroad. Waiyaki and other warrior leaders took up arms against this imposition, but they were defeated. Most Kenyans gradually learn to make accommodations with the new regime, though the seeds of revolution spread underground in "the Movement," known to the British as Mau Mau.
Among the younger generation are Gikonyo, a well-known carpenter in the village of Thabai, and Mumbi, his wife and one of the most beautiful women in the area. They listen as one of their peers, Kihika, speaks before a large crowd and encourages guerrilla warfare against the British. Mugo also listens, but, unlike Gikonyo and Mumbi, he hates what Kihika says. Mugo thinks native Kenyans have no chance of successfully opposing the British, and he decides to do his job quietly and succeed in the new order of things. Karanja, who unsuccessfully sought the hand of Mumbi, feels even more strongly that the best policy is to accept the British as invincible.
Before long, Kihika disappears into the forest with many other young men who arm themselves. A year later, their most successful raid is the capture of the Mahee police post; this infuriates the British. They declare a state of emergency and imprison many of the young men of Thabai, including Gikonyo. Even Mugo is arrested for intervening when a woman is being beaten. Despite the efforts by the British to quell...
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Player Profile: Scott Diamond
November 13th, 2012 | by Ray Flowers |Doesn't it seem like every pitcher on the Minnesota Twins gets batters out while never walking anyone? Now it also seems like the majority of them rarely strike batters out either, but the club still must be patted on the back for the fact that they just keep rolling arms out there, year after year, that get outs despite less than intimidating stuff. One of those arms belongs to Scott Diamond who, in his first full season in the big leagues, won 12 games over 174 innings for the Twinkies. Let's profile the lefty from Guelph, Ontario (you might notice a fair amount of similarity in what follows to the recent Player Profile of Ross Detwiler).
Diamond started out rolling like a baller – he was Marlon Brando – with a 2.27 ERA through his first five starts, and he hit the All-Star Break with a 7-3 record, 2.62 ERA and 1.18 WHIP. Unfortunately things started to even out in the second half as his record fell to 5-6 while his ratios jumped (4.31 ERA, 1.30 WHIP) when he turned into Danny DeVito. Overall Diamond went 12-9 with a 3.54 ERA and 1.24 WHIP in his 27 starts as he bettered Max Scherzer in ERA (3.74) and Jeremy Hellickson in WHIP (1.25). Despite those overall solid numbers, I'm not sold that this is someone you should be dreaming about drafting in 2013. If I had concerns about Detwiler, and you can read about those in the link above, I have even graver concerns about Diamond. Point by point.
(1) Diamond has no idea what a strikeout is. Last year he was able to convince 4.68 batters per nine innings to strike out. That's only three batters below the league average.
(2) He walked a mere 31 batters on the year leading to a 1.61 BB/9 mark. He's always been able to keep the walks down but he never had a single minor league stop with a number that low, and his career number in 600 minor league innings is 2.84. We therefore have to expect that number to rise in 2013.
(3) His line drive rate of 21 percent was higher than the league average (19 percent).
(4) His HR/F ratio of 11.4 was higher than than league average (9 percent).
(5) His BABIP was .292, right on the league average.
Nothing in any of that says 'this is a guy I have to have on my fantasy squad.'
So how did he have success? Much like Detwiler, Diamond is able to induce a boatload of grounders. Diamond's 53.4 percent ground ball rate was the 4th best in the AL, and we know how guys that induce grounders with abandon can have long and successful careers (think Derek Lowe). However, it's the only trait that he possesses that speaks to him being anything other than a borderline league average hurler. When everything goes right, as it did in 2012, then guys like Diamond can have a lot of success. When it goes wrong though, you end up with a Rick Porcello type effort (4.59 ERA, 1.53 WHIP and just 107 Ks in 176.1 IP). And that's the obvious rub with Diamond. If he can't rediscover the two strikeouts per nine innings that he left in the minors when he joined the Twins he's just not going to be someone who is consistent enough to be a weekly starter in the fantasy game. When ground ballers are on, they can dominate for months at a time. When that balls leaks up over the plate, they get beaten back to the Middle Ages.
Could Diamond repeat his 2012 effort in 2013? Sure he could. Would I bet money that he would? No I would not. Would I draft him in a mixed league? No I would not. Would I target him in an AL-only league? Again, I would not. Diamond is one of those arms that is best left for the real world versus being someone you would be interested in building a staff around in the fantasy game.
NOTE: Former Twins' right hander Scott Baker is no longer in the fold after signing a 1-year, $5.5 million deal to join the Cubs. Coming back from Tommy John Surgery, the 31 year old isn't likely to be ready by Opening Day, but he should be healthy enough to take the ball every five days for the Cubs early in the year.
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1. Exit Through the Gift Shop: I saw this documentary by English street artist Banksy in May and it's never wavered as my favorite movie of 2010. I love to go on unexpected journeys in a theater and Banksy delivers some genuine left turns as he documents the history of graffiti in various cities around the world. Is this even a real documentary or a hoax perpetrated by a man known for zestfully sending up the art world? Who cares? It's an informative, eccentric, riveting look into the dark hours of the urban night and the people obsessed with leaving their mark on public spaces while also veering into an unexpected and savage attack on the entire culture of art.
2. The Social Network: Director David Fincher is hitting on every cylinder with a story of the brief history of the phenomenon that is Facebook. What makes this such a special movie is the sheer amount of detail that Fincher brings to The Social Network, yet it is so well-crafted it never feels loaded down by content. The film zips by and is completely absorbing from the first moment until the last. There're villains, friendships, betrayals, sex, unsympathetic protagonists and geeks making billions on display in an amazingly rich script from Aaron Sorkin.
3. Dogtooth: Hands-down the most haunting, disturbing and strangest film I saw all year was this warped family drama from Greece and director Giorgos Lanthimos. Eight months after I saw Dogtooth, I still keep thinking about its story of parents isolating their three teenagers from the outside world. They create a fantasy universe, tightly controlled by their made-up words, rules, dangers and social codes. Not for everyone, but highly recommended for adventurous filmgoers.
4. The Fighter: David O. Russell's take on the rough-and-tumble rise of boxer Micky Ward is blessed with my favorite ensemble cast of the year. Some films need a sort of "regional" casting and The Fighter nails it with its collection of performers who sound and look like they stepped out of a hardscrabble Lowell, Mass. corner dive bar. This isn't your usual uplifting sports movie from Disney, it's gritty, R-rated and punches you right in the ribs. Those are good things.
5. Toy Story 3: Damn you Pixar! Can they ever do wrong?
6. A Prophet: Seek this out on DVD if you like films about criminals or prison life. I couldn't take my eyes away from the performances of Tahar Rihim and Niels Arestrup, who play a couple of inmates on different social and power levels in a French prison. At times brutal, at times compassionate, A Prophet digs deep into the machinations of what it takes to survive in this world. The film ends up being extremely enjoyable despite the bleak nature of the story and setting.
7. Winter's Bone: Like The Fighter, Winter's Bone excels in the art of regional casting to help tell its story about a teenage girl looking for her father in the desolate Ozark mountain area of Missouri. So authentic was living in the midst of poverty and desperation, I'm not even sure some of these people were acting. Perhaps director Debra Granik swooped in, pulled them off some rural tract of land and starting filming rather than give them scripted lines to "act" out. I'm a character actor junkie and loved John Hawkes' performance most of all.
8. True Grit: When you combine two of my favorite cinematic things -- the Coen Brothers and the western -- how can the result not be wonderful? Not so much a re-make of the 1969 film starring John Wayne, but a deeper look at the source material from a Charles Portis novel. I hate these remakes probably more than anyone else on earth, but I must admit the 2010 version is better than the 1969 one. Sorry Duke fans. The 2010 True Grit is more literate, severe, dangerous, better acted and full of more, well, "grit" and another fine picture from Joel and Ethan Coen. They are on quite a roll.
9. 127 Hours: Danny Boyle follows the global success of Slumdog Millionaire with something totally different and scores another winner with 127 Hours. Essentially the story of Aron Ralston's battle with himself as he's stuck in a remote Utah canyon, a boulder wedged against his arm preventing his escape. After 127 hours elapse, it's a question of what is more important, survival or an arm. James Franco gives the best performance of his career while playing the gutsy Ralston.
10. Easy A: I always like to throw a wild card in at number ten and Easy A, a teen-centered romantic comedy was probably the most fun I had watching a new film all year. Emma Stone is delightful as an attractive, smart and off-the-wall high school student whose reputation goes into free fall. Any teen comedy with significant nods to Hester Prynne and John Hughes is doing something right in my book and Easy A is a charming piece of pure genre entertainment.
I hated The Expendables far more than anything else I saw in 2010. It's just a dumbed down, soulless, nostalgic ode to 1980s vacuousness weapon-porn. It's full of roided out ex-action movie stars, cliché plots and stupid one-liners. Seeing this might up your testosterone, but it will also take out a few of your brain cells. Avoid at all costs.
Dear John/The Last Song is a double dip of misery from the pen of that devil himself -- Nicholas Sparks. Imagine every sort of device that a writer can stuff into a story to make the audience cry and that's what you get with these manipulative bits of melodramatic tripe. They didn't touch my heartstrings; they made me want to burn down the studios that foisted this garbage on me.
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We don�t need to look at global warming for these effects but, rather, right here in our own backyards. Truck manufacturers have had the opportunity to fix these problems since the early �80s, and although there have been improvements in diesel fuels, the real problem is in converting a low-vapor-pressure liquid (diesel) into a gas so that it can burn completely. Unfortunately, we still see the clouds of complex hydrocarbons every day after more than 30 years.
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WHEATON – A divorced woman from Mexico. A 75-year-old accountant who lived blocks from the presidential palace of Saddam Hussein during the American invasion. A Sudanese refugee who escaped war with her husband and 9-year-old son. A Bhutanese man who spent 18 years in a United Nations tent in Nepal.
These are not just nameless and faceless people – they are residents of DuPage County.
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This is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. I'm Celeste Headlee, Michel Martin is away. Coming up, we talk with actor Ziyi Zhang about her latest film "The Grandmaster," and women in kung fu. That's in a moment. But we start our program today in Florida. At least 20 children who were on the radar of child protective services have died there since April, that's according to an investigation by the Miami Herald. And the question of course is, why and how do we stop more deaths from occurring?
With lawmakers from Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties on hand, hundreds of people turned out Tuesday night for a town-hall meeting about an epidemic of deaths in recent months that has rocked the state's child-welfare system.
On the day before she died, Jewel Re'nee Howard sat on the porch, in her grandmother's lap, having her hair twisted into ponytails made pretty with pink and purple beads. She played outside the home with neighborhood children, ate noodles, talked and giggled, as she had so many days before, about her dream of becoming a princess.
Less than 15 hours later, Jewel was dead — her liver torn and mangled, ribs crushed, her tiny body bruised and bleeding internally.
David Wilkins, Florida's top child welfare and social services administrator resigned July 18 amid an escalating scandal over the recent deaths of four small children who had a history of involvement with child-abuse investigators.
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Very clean, well run hotel with stunning views and a good breakfast. Lots of parking, and the Home Restaurant is close by for great home style food. I have stayed in them all and this is the Best Salmon Arm has to offer.
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Organizational rankings and top 10 prospects per team
Week ending on Monday, December 17 2012.
Monday, December 17
by Ryan Wagman
Think AHL attendance has gone up, as an alternative for the hockey fan? Think again.
Saturday, December 15
by Corey Pronman
Finland's top players at the upcoming World Junior Championships.
Wednesday, December 12
A look at Team Sweden kicks off our preview of hockey's top junior tournament, a chance to see top draft-eligible players from various leagues competing against each other.


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9 Meetup Groups match "Freelance" near Mesquite, TX
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Welcome to the DFW AV Freelance Meetup Group. We are a group of live event technology professionals working with audio, video, lighting, computers, staging, and rigging. We have joined together for the purposes of building and maintaining our businesses, increasing our knowledge and training, building better relationships with our peers, and making the Dallas / Fort Worth area a better place for associations and meeting planners who incorporate AV into their meeting requirements. If you are an …
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If you're tired of the lack of meaningful social interaction on a daily basis, and would like to work away from home once or twice a month - You Are Not Alone (YANA). This is a group for the self-employed, the small business owners, the off-site corporate employees searching for an alternative to sitting alone in public. Casual coworking is "where freelancers, home workers and people running small businesses meetup in order to get out of their normal space, meet some new people and work together …
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Looking to startup a coworking community and office in the area. Would like to guage interest and ideas on location and design.
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The Midcities Web Designers Group is a vendor and technology neutral group of web professionals and hobbyists from many backgrounds and experiences that meet together on a regular basis to discuss and share business best practices, client management practices, small business owner challenges, freelance challenges; and web design techniques and technologies. Our group is non-profit and community driven. Membership to the group is free and open to the public.
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A mobile meetup community of entrepreneurs, small business owners, and freelancers.
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Hi all. I'm Ann Thaxton & I'm a marketing consultant working out of Fort Worth. I am interested in coworking in Fort Worth. Currently, there are 2 spaces in Fort Worth, CoLab and The Back Lot. Google them, research them and tell your friends. Fort Worth is ready for coworking. Let's make it happen.
The Grove, Dallas is a coworking and collaborative space in the historic West End district of Dallas, Texas, providing the resources necessary for entrepreneurs, freelancers, consultants and change-agents to grow their businesses and organizations to their full potential. We provide coworking space for every-day tasks, rooms for intentional collaboration, access to mentors for business development and opportunities to connect with the Dallas community. Members of The Grove, Dallas become part of …
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Meet fellow web/print designers in the Dallas area to talk about CSS, HTML, Adobe, Web Standards, Freelance, Design Trends, etc.
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Do you have a creative side that you dabble in, yet haven't fully explored? Do you have a desire or interest in exploring your creative side more fully, yet you don't seem to have time or make the time to actually "do" something creative or expand on it in other ways? The idea to create this group came from reading The Artist's Way and working with the workbook. Therefore, I would like to bring people together who have a desire to grow and develop their creative expression. Through meeting and d …
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Rx: Infographics
by Jerry Weissman
In my constant effort as a coach to persuade business people to remember that a picture is worth a thousand words and to avoid the dreaded "Presentation-as-Document Syndrome," presenters often protest, "But I'm not an artist!"
Cast adrift from their familiar text slides, presenters are reluctant to try alternatives. However, you don't have to go out and buy a painter's smock and beret to break the mold of an endless parade of boring bullet slides.
Begin with overarching concept that the primary—and sole—purpose of your PowerPoint is to illustrate your narrative. Remember my often-repeated (because it still hasn't taken hold) recommendation that your business slideshow should follow the example of television news broadcasts: the anchorperson tells the story and the graphics serve as a headline that captures the essence of the story.
Then design your presentation headlines as "infographics" or "data visualizations." Visual.ly, the world's largest community for sharing infographics, defines these terms as follows:
…Infographics are images created to explain a particular idea or dataset. They often contain beautiful graphics to increase their appeal and help catch your attention. Many of them use data visualization.
Data visualizations represent numerical data in a visual format. They can be anything from a simple bar chart to a complex three dimensional CAT Scan representation.
But go beyond the usual charts and venture into more vivid images to communicate and illustrate your story. You have at your disposal a number of resources to convert text into images, and to inspire your thinking visually:
- Google and Bing: Each of these powerful search engines has an "Images" feature. Just go to the search bar on either site, type in a keyword, and you'll see a broad array of photos, clip art, and line drawings. You can also search for synonyms of a key word. For instance, "jail," "prison," and "penitentiary" will bring up multiple variations of incarceration images. Moreover, as soon as you type in a key word, each site offers a pull down menu with other variations. "Jail" brings up "jail bars," "jail cell," and "jail house," and each of them brings up even more images—all in the interest of getting your creative juices flowing to think outside the plain vanilla text box.
Be aware, however, that many of the images on these sites may require payment for high resolution copies and/or royalties. Below is a list of ten websites where you can find free or low cost images.
- Royalty-free / Public Domain Image Websites:
Google Images
U.S. House of Representatives
Open Clip Art Library (OCAL)
Public Domain Photos
United States Senate
Totally Free Images
U.S. Government Photos and Images
U.S. History Images
- Visual.ly: Visit the excellent graphic community site and see what they call their "data visualization enthusiasts" have created. Browse the site and sample the many impressive infographics their members have posted. They will inspire you to think visually. The site also provides a tool to step you through the creation of your own infographic.
- Microsoft PowerPoint: The industry standard presentation software itself offers multiple ways to turn plain vanilla words into interesting graphics. Just click the "Insert" tab on the top Ribbon and another tab opens with the following graphical choices: Table, Pictures, Clip Art, Photos, Shapes, Charts, and SmartArt. The latter provides an almost infinite array of shapes, colors, and textures to enhance the look and feel of your text. Look at the difference that embedding text in simple shapes and shading can make with the identical text in the figure below.
Now, with your palette of four different options—Google/Bing, Free Images, Visual.ly, and Microsoft PowerPoint—are you ready for your artist's smock and beret?


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Recent Success Stories
- Fall Commencement Ceremonies Occur This Friday and Saturday
- Therapy Dogs Help Ease Stress of Finals Week
- Meet Kent State Police Services' First K-9 Unit
- Scholar's Focus Adds Up to Student Success
- TV2 Wins Station of the Year, Best Entertainment Show at CMA Awards
- A Kent State Student's Musical Journey
- Scholar Draws Upon Ancestry in Her Creative Works
- Kent State Honors Veterans
Groundbreaking for Kent State's
Field House Locker Room Project
On May 3, 2013, the groundbreaking for Kent State University's Field House Locker Room project took place at the Kent State Field House, which is located at 2227 Summit St. in Kent, Ohio. The Field House Locker Room project is the first phase of the Building Champions Fundraising Initiative. It is also a part of the university's "Foundations of Excellence: Building the Future" initiative.
The Field House locker room will provide a new facility for soccer, softball, field hockey, men's and women's track and cross country. In this facility, there will be a locker room, lounge area and satellite training space for athletes.
"This project will have a transformational effect on the Dix Complex and the programs it will serve," said Matthew Geis, Kent State's senior associate athletic director. "With student-athlete welfare at the forefront of our minds, this locker room project will greatly enrich the student-athlete experience."
For more information about Kent State Athletics, visit www.kentstatesports.com.


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The Community of Disc Golfers and About All Things Disc Golf
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It has been awhile since I have been on due to work regulations. I have losst my job in May and I could really use some prayer as my job search is getting deeper and harder.. Looking forward to hearing from you.
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Refinancings slow
The refinancing boom brought on by lower interest rates and an extension of the federal government's plan to help borrowers underwater lower their interest rates has slowed. The number of refinancing applications submitted to lenders has dropped nearly 70 percent after peaking in May, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.
Federal loan limits stay the same for metro Phoenix borrowers
Metro Phoenix Housing Market Update
New site to check out metro Phoenix comps for free
Most Metro Phoenix homeowners are seeing their property values rising again. With changes that can be seen monthly, once again it's become a more pleasant pursuit to check out websites showing comparable sales and home-price estimates. Real-estate research firm Netvaluecentral has expanded and has a new site free to people who want to check out home values in Maricopa County. Find it at www.propertyvaluecentral.com. By entering a property's address, interested homeowners, sellers, shoppers and looky-loos can find out a house's estimated value or monthly rental rate, recent comps, taxes and nearby foreclosures. "And if the homeowner registers, we will e-mail them any changes in the neighborhood that could impact the value of their property," said Dave Bignoli, Netvalue president. To help homeowners understand how to use the site, the company put together a video. Find it on YouTube by searching "HomeOwnerPVC". Netvalue is selling sponsorships of neighborhoods to real-estate agents. Bignoli said almost 150 agents have signed up so far to have their name and information come up for a Valley ZIP code, square mile or subdivision. It costs real-estate agents about 15cents a home to sponsor a neighborhood.
More homes for sale in Phoenix, more buyers able to purchase
DMB's first retirement community to go up in Buckeye's Verrado
cottsdale-based DMB Associates launched its first retirement community, Victory, on Tuesday. The development will go up on 1,200 acres within Buckeye's 8,800-acre Verrado. The first phase of Victory's 3,500 homes will be offered for sale in January 2015. Prices aren't yet available. "We've created a neighborhood in our thriving small-town community of Verrado, where people can explore the life they have waited to live for at least 55 years," Charley Freericks, president of DMB, said from a bluff in the White Tank Mountains overlooking Verrado. Freericks said Victory is changing how communities are planned to provide "meaningful and authentic experiences for Baby Boomers." DMB spent the past few years talking to lifestyle, health and medical experts to design a place that meets the needs of the next wave of retirees. The company is known for its planned developments, including DC Ranch in Scottsdale, Verrado in Buckeye and Eastmark in Mesa. "The Boomer generation looks realistically at living to 100 years old," said Nick Taratsas, DMB senior vice president and general manager of Victory. "Victory provides the necessary flexibility for Boomers who want to work, stay healthy, have fun and be actively engaged in the community," Taratsas added. DMB hired international architectural-planning firm Hart Howerton to design the center of the community. Victory will be the first active-adult community in Arizona to offer homes built by multiple homebuilders. More information on Victory and home sales will be available in the next few months.
Investors are still buying metro Phoenix homes
Higher home prices haven't deterred all investors. During July, 27 percent of all houses sold in Maricopa County were purchased by investors, according to the latest monthly real-estate report from Arizona State University. That compares with 40 percent in July 2012. Metro Phoenix's median home price has climbed more than 60 percent during the past two years. Investors dominated the Valley's housing market in 2010 and 2011, when buyers who purchased houses to turn them into rentals or flip them for a profit accounted for 50percent or more of home sales. Most of the houses purchased by investors a few year ago were foreclosure houses because lenders were taking back as many as 5,000 houses a month. Now, monthly foreclosures have fallen below 700, so investors aren't buying only inexpensive houses taken back by lenders. All buyers are paying more for houses. Metro Phoenix's median home-sales price has climbed more than 60 percent since late 2011.
New-home market slows down
Meritage Homes moves into Nashville
Scottsdale-based Meritage Homes is expanding in the Southeast. The publicly traded homebuilder is purchasing Nashville-based Phillips Builders for an undisclosed amount. The family-run Phillips is privately held and builds houses priced between $175,000 and $425,000. Phillips Builders has constructed more than 20,000 houses in Nashville since 1952. With the deal, Meritage is also getting 500 lots in Tennessee's capital city. Meritage Chairman Steve Hilton said the builder plans to sell 150 to 200 houses in the Nashville area during 2014. The Arizona builder will operate under the name Phillips Builders in Nashville. Company executives Jason and Charlie Phillips will continue to lead the Tennessee operation.
Metro Phoenix new home construction slows in July
New-home sales and building permits in metro Phoenix don't reflect the market recovery that started last year. In July, 888 new-home sales closed, up slightly from 856 in June, according to RL Brown Housing Reports' latest Phoenix Housing Market Letter. Last month, builders took out 1,190 single-family permits for new houses across the region. That's down almost 9percent from July 2012, when 1,303 permits were issued. "It's like there was a lid on the market," is the title of Brown's report. Factors slowing homebuilding are a supply-side shortage in materials, lots and labor, combined with buyer concerns about affordability because of rising interest rates and home prices. In a midyear forecast offered in late July, analysts with RL Brown Housing Reports affirmed the homebuilding market is still in a recovery, but the number of houses that can be built will be limited during the next few years. A forecast in January projected the construction of 16,000 new houses in metro Phoenix in 2013, up from 11,500 in 2012. Now, about 13,000 new houses are expected to be built, analyst Greg Burger said. This likely means new-home prices will continue to rise faster than average. The average price of a new home has climbed 24percent in the past year, according to RL Brown.


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Innovation & Technology Committee
Committee Staff: Liz Pettengill, (410) 727-2820, x41 |
Innovation & Technology News8/7/12 - Baltimore Business Journal - Eight Maryland companies received a total of $25.4 million in venture capital funding in the second quarter. That was down 74 percent from the $98.7 million that 25 companies in the state received in second quarter 2011, according to the National Venture Capital Association and PricewaterhouseCoopers' MoneyTree report. The decrease was part of a sharp drop in funding for biotechnology firms nationally, said Emily Mendell, a spokeswoman for the National Venture Capital Association. Funding for biotech companies fell to its lowest level since first quarter 2003, with VC firms investing $697 million in 90 deals nationally. (Read the full article) |


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On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 10:15:00 Roger Smith wrote: >We currently run an average of about 75% utilization on our 586 processor >(293 node) cluster. We probably have about one node per week crash and >hang for various reasons. > >We have occasional problems with memory leaks or PBS hangups which require >large scale reboots of the cluster. (Actually, PBS just died as I'm typing >this, but our pbs heartbeat script should restart it automatically in a >few minutes). I'd say we have to do a full reboot of the cluster about >every 3-4 months. >For a bunch of PC hardware running a free OS, this seems like a pretty >good number to me. It's not in the same class as our Sun servers (nor >even our SGIs!), but then, none of those systems are this large, either. Thanks for the estimate. Do you use SCYLD or another pseudo-single-system- image tool? I assume that 75% is a steady state number ... how long did it take your group to reach that state? If a full reboot is required only every 3-4 months then is singel node failure your main source of cycle loss? Or are other things like inefficient scheduling and lack of check-point/restart, etc. important? 75% does seem like a reasonably good number. rbw
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Monday, August 29, 2011
Design Inspiration Monday
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I like picture one and two. I like the baskets hanging over the window . .. I have had a bee in my bonnet for a while now about hanging a collection of colanders over my kitchen window. Only problem, I only have two colanders at the moment. That is hardly a collection!
I love your serene bedroom makeover (with those FABLUOUS) lamps} and the sea of crisp white linens. Your dresser is so quiant and charming.
You could make your dog leg room into a really cute little space, a sort of private reading area or a private breakfast room type space with a round table in the center with layered pretty tablecloths on it (so the table looks feminine and pretty enough to be near a bedroom) or it could be a craft room! It could become one of the best rooms in your home precisely because it IS so ODD, just don't thnk of it as ODD, it is UNIQUE and has lots of potential.


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Response to Ken Ham
Last week Ken Ham addressed BioLogos specifically in a blog post, in response to Daniel Hamlin's testimony told in our blog on October 14th.
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Last week Ken Ham addressed BioLogos specifically in a blog post, in response to Daniel Hamlin's testimony told in our blog on October 14th.
Once we recognize that no one takes the text literally, and that we have often failed to account for the details in the text regarding the time of day, we can begin anew to try to understand the text as an ancient text rather than as a modern one. As such, we must begin with the idea that the text operates in the world of omens, not the world of physics and astronomy.
A deep love for scripture, coupled (ironically) with a lifelong struggle with religious doubt, led Robert Boyle to write several important books relating scientific and religious knowledge. We explore aspects of this fascinating interaction.
This series, by Old Testament scholar Richard S. Hess, was first published as an appendix to Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith (Downers Grove: IVP Academic; Nottingham: Apollos, 2011).
It is precisely the recognition of the qualities of elegance, economy and naturalness which solves the problem of the under-determination of theory by experiment, so often pressed by philosophers of science, who sometimes speak of the process of discovery as if it were a dull routine of fitting curves to data points.
We need to hear stories from others who have wrestled with evolution and Christian faith. What arguments made them change their views on science? How did they hold fast to their relationship with God? The essays in this series will eventually comprise a book, provisionally titled, "Evolving: Evangelicals Reflect on Evolution."
... I would exhort these, my fellow conservative evangelical shepherds and thinkers, to set aside all reticence and fear, emerge from anonymity, and storm the forum of discourse, engaging this most pressing matter with vigor, equanimity, and humility. In doing so, know upfront that there will be few handrails to guide; you will not be building upon an extensive precedence of published conservative thought.
The problem is that as human beings, we know that goodness exists, so it must be accounted for, and if one is a staunch believer in scientism, it must be accounted for scientifically.
In this video Conversation, Denis Alexander asserts that contemporary Christians are not taking the early chapters of Genesis seriously enough.
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Although committed to the principle of sola Scriptura, Calvin recognized that the Bible would have been written in terms its original recipients would have understood. Calvin inherited the medieval cosmology of his time, a way of viewing the world heavily influenced by Greek thought and one which was about to receive shocks from astronomers such as Copernicus and Galileo. But not just yet.
Yesterday, biology professors Randy Moore and Sehoya Cotner raised the concern that workshops focused on evolution-related training do not reach creationism-based biology teachers. Today, we'd like to focus on BioLogos' efforts to address that divide through our Biology by the Sea workshops.
High school biology courses have a strong and lingering impact on students' views of evolution and creationism.
This ongoing series written by historian Ted Davis begins with a brief synopsis of his personal background, and then goes on to reveal his passion for debunking "the now-common view that the history of science and Christianity is one of ongoing, inevitable conflict."
Once we have a scientific hypothesis for how something exists, it is tempting to make the philosophical inference that this is also why it exists.
In this three-part series, Cal DeWitt offers insights and examples of why science and ethics must work together to help us make informed, practical decisions within our society. DeWitt's science-ethics-praxis model provides a framework by which we can live more effectively as God's stewards.
In this series, David Buller pays careful attention to the original language and cultural context of Genesis 2, revealing that our responsibility to care for creation is a sacred task given to us by God, not merely a modern secular activity. By taking Scripture seriously, we learn that we have a God-given mandate to be diligent stewards of His creation.
If God himself is willing to die, particularly in such a gruesome way, then perhaps we should at least consider the possibility of God allowing the death of other creatures, too. But would this really be compatible with what we know of God through Scripture?
In this series, U.S. Navy Commander Mike Beidler shares his own personal journey from accepting young-earth creationism to embracing evolutionary creationism.
The tension generated by our understanding of God's character, as revealed in the Bible, and by the reality of the natural world around us has been the focus of much debate within the Christian church since the first century. This series examines critically several of the proposed solutions to this problem, viewing them from the perspective of a geologist, paleontologist, and orthodox evangelical Christian.


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Heavy-duty life raft with two stacked flotation tubes and a self-erecting canopy designed for bluewater use. Offshore Plus rafts incorporate Plastimo's deepest ballast pockets (11 gallons) for stability, drift prevention, and stronger anti-capsizing control in rough waters. A foam-coated double floor provides added protection against hypothermia. Retro-reflective tape on canopy and on the bottom of life raft add visibility for rescue. Two boarding ladders and a righting strap make boarding easier. Emergency kit includes: rain catching gutter for canopy, rainwater collecting pouch, one pint of water (per person), food rations (4.4 oz. per person), fishing kit, first aid kit, six seasickness pills, three hand-held SOLAS flares, two SOLAS parachute flares, 12-hour lithium lamp for top of canopy, waterproof flashlight, two lightsticks, two floating anchors with 98' and 33' of line, two paddles, rescue quoit with 98' line, bailer, two sponges, repair kit, floating knife, pump, whistle, signal mirror, checklist and instruction manual, survival instructions and signal card. ORC and USSA approved. 12-year warranty.
- Canopy: Automatic inflating arch, International Orange with reflective patches
- Hull Fabric: Outer envelope - 1100 Decitex PVC; Inner layer of polyurethane
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family history
I'm at a weird place in history, as are many of my female peers; I am the first woman in my line who has such a dramatically free reign over her destiny and her place in the world.
Respect your elders ... and their advice.
My grandmother, who has lost groups of friends each decade, is not afraid of being alone in the frivolous "I don't want to break up with my boyfriend before my birthday" sense that I was. Instead, she faces being mostly by herself and increasingly scared, every day until she dies.
Terrell Owens admits his grandmother beat him. However, he also gives her all of the credit for his success and, seemingly, none of the blame for his failures.