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"Training flights at the Migalovo AF base"
I had the impression only one was left (Antonov owned), showing up in the west frequently.
Looking at this one it seems it has been been in storage for some time..
A photo search seems to confirm my impression..
From an enthousiasts perspective, I don't mind seeing more of them we don't get >40.000hp props frequently here..
P.S. looking a bit further the Russian airforce seems to have some more, during the last few years they appeared in the database. Anyway, it seems hard to replace for the Russians, same as C5 for the USAF..[Edited 2007-11-02 04:10:39]
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Today I'm thankful for…
^ Those things. ^
The start of my birthday week, which I wasn't even expecting!
(My actual birthday is the 18th :))
Longer days, and other glorious glimpses of spring.
Becoming free from things I didn't even know I needed freedom from.
When people like to verbally process a good meal as much as I do.
Early birthday presents manis.
How much I've grown and learned since this time last year.
The things I had to experience for that growth to happen.
Shark Tank, Buying the Bayou, and other reality TV shows that don't completely deplete my brain cells.
Being able to remember a really great dream.
The giddiness of an upcoming weekend. Never gets old.
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U.S. and British military forces are increasingly utilizing video game technology, according to Wired's Danger Room blog.
By way of example, arms manufacturer Raytheon displayed its Universal Control System for drone aircraft at an air show last week. Company exec Mark Bigham commented on the system, which employs video game-like controls:
Gaming companies have spent millions to develop user-friendly graphic interfaces, so why not put them to work on UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles]? The video-game industry always will outspend the military on improving human-computer interaction.
In another application, the Wiimote is being used in place of traditional joypads to control the robots used to disarm roadside bombs in Iraq. Paul Marks writes in New Scientist:
The problem with the joypad is that it takes a lot of concentration and can monopolize the attention of the soldier using it… The Wiimote is far more intuitive because movements of the hand directly translate into movements of the robot.
Meanwhile, UK blogger Paul Mander noticed that a modified Xbox controller is being used to fly a drone in the British Army recruiting video at left.
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Scranton/WB metro unemployment down in June
Regional unemployment dipped to 9.2 percent in June, according to state data released Tuesday.
The jobless rate in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre metro area dropped one-tenth of a percentage point from May, according to the state Department of Labor and Industry. It represented the fifth consecutive monthly decrease in unemployment.
"You are slowly and steadily getting better over the last several months," said Steven Zellers, a state employment analyst who tracks regional trends.
Although the area jobless rate in June was the lowest since April 2012 - when it also was 9.2 percent - unemployment remained the state's highest for the 39th consecutive month.
"That is not a happy fact," said Satyajit Ghosh, Ph.D., a University of Scranton economist. "But it could be worse."
State College's 5.8 percent jobless rate was the state's lowest. Pennsylvania's unemployment rate in June was 7.5 percent and the national rate was 7.6 percent.
"We are making headway, but it is a painfully slow process," said Anthony Liuzzo, Ph.D., who heads the MBA program for Wilkes University.
Seasonally adjusted regional employment in June increased by 500 from May and the labor force expanded by 200, according to the data. Seasonally adjusted unemployment dipped by 200.
The retail trade and the leisure and hospitality industries added 800 positions each from May to June, the report shows. Those gains offset a decrease of 900 jobs in education services and 700 government positions, both seasonal disruptions resulting from the end of the school year.
Leisure and hospitality employment in the area increased 1,000 jobs over the last year and hit a record high of 24,900 in June, Mr. Zellers said.
Professional and business services providers added 1,100 to local payrolls over the last year and the transportation and warehousing sector added 900 jobs, state data show.
Nevertheless, the region's longstanding position as the state's leader in unemployment detracts from a gain of 1,700 jobs over the last 12 months.
"A 9 percent-plus unemployment rate is definitely nothing to be excited about," Dr. Ghosh said. "But this is movement in the right direction."
The area historically has higher unemployment than the state and nation, Dr. Liuzzo said.
"To some extent, this is not unanticipated," he said. "It's not going to heal in 2013 and might not even heal into 2014. It might be two more years until we regain that normalcy again."
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Alex said on his first night homeless he didn't dream, that's powerful.
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Look at the universe, the planets and stars millions of light years away, moving in
exact orbits. What is man compared to that? Nothing but a louse . . . You can
smash it.
- Adolf Hitler, at a wartime military conference
Fifty years after Hitler lost his bid to rule the world, we struggle to understand his
contempt for all human life, even for his own people. That he could run two wars
at once –for the conquest of territory and the genocide of the Jews—without
noticing that the efforts mutually limited each other—is difficult to fathom. But he
gave plenty of warning about his intent. In his early writing and on an almost
daily basis at his wartime conferences, he revealed deep-seated nihilism in
speeches like the one above, again and again. No wonder the military losses
(his own and others'), the concentration camp deaths, and the extermination of
millions of Jews, Gypsies, Communists, intellectuals, homosexuals, labor
leaders, and others didn't bother him.
While we would prefer to forget about the suffering inflicted by this man and his deputies, we cannot. For even in the face of international memory— made vivid through the opening of the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., the debut of Steven Spielberg's film Shindler's List and the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II –Neo-Nazis and others claim the Holocaust never occurred.
Now we are beginning to hear, on a grand scale, the stories of the thousands, representing silenced millions more, who suffered in the face of Hitler's insanity. Finally, many who had been silent have decided they must give testimony before it is too late. Finally, in Willmar, Minnesota, for example, eyewitnesses gather at the request of history teacher William F. Borth for "A Night of Remembrance" before an audience packed into a local auditorium. Here Dachau slave laborer Monsignor Stanislaus Grabrowski says, "What is hunger? It's not appetite. Hunger you feel with every fiber of your mind and body. There is such an emptiness. It is difficult to think. We prayed that our skin and bones would be saved and that somehow we would be filled in.
"There is no way to really describe it. If you every try to talk to a blind person about colors describing the beauty of nature, the blind person would not understand because he never saw it. It was a daily struggle to survive and a daily danger of being killed. There were over 2,000 priests taken to Dachau. When the Americans liberated us, we were 860."
And concentration-camp prisoner Fred Baron describes his journey by train to Auschwitz. "The guards drive us with clubs, dogs, and weapons until each car was filled to capacity—then they closed the sliding doors. I found myself in pitch black darkness . . . There was no food, no water, and worst, no sanitary facilities . . . It took us several hours before we devised a method whereby half of us in the car would keep standing while the other half would squat in each other's lap, to be able to rest our bones. The trip took us three days and three nights. There were men, women, old and young, and children. In our car, people died and went insane."
There are others here as elsewhere: William Landgren, formerly a U.S. Infantry company commander, describes bodies piled by the crematory at Dachau when the American troops liberated the camp in April 1945. I am here, too, to recount discoveries made during the prosecution of Nazi war criminals at the Dachau trials and during my interviews with five of the stenographers who recorded Hitler's military conferences.
But I realize that saying what I know is not enough. This evening's program is a response to hate mail and newsletters denying the Holocaust, demanding the resignation of Bill Borth, and threatening his family because he teaches high-school seniors a course (in its 12th years as I write this) on Hitler's quest for territory and extermination of the Jews. Without our stories—told again and again—and without an easily accessible record of the things we have seen and heard, our young people will find it too easy to believe the disbelievers and rest content that such evil could never happen anywhere, much less here. (See appendix.)
Too often we have been content to let others do our thinking, to be
uninvolved in controversy. Such complacency—evidenced by poor voting records, for example—could leave us ripe for a government and Holocaust like Hitler's. Leading a flock of sheep is, after all, easier that controlling a lot of strays. Without knowledge of the past, ourselves, and human nature, and with economic depression, street riots, and a strong president, we could permit a dictatorship by default. (See appendix.)
And so I bear witness along with others now gone, who have told their stories to me. A bit of background seem in order: Born Horace Russell Hansen on February 20, 1910, I am the son of Richard and Dagny Elizabeth Hammer Hansen of St. Paul, Minnesota. My father was a tailor, my mother a homemaker, and I the first of their four children. I grew up on Marshall Avenue, attending Richard Gordon School and Central High School.
After preparatory classes at the University of Minnesota, I entered the St. Paul College of Law (William Mitchell College of Law) in the fall that the Great Depression started with a crash –1929. Four years later, just after I was admitted to the bar, a family friend who was head of the Minnesota Industrial Commission, called me:
"How would you like to be an attorney in the Workers' Compensation Division? It pays $175 a month."
"Wow," I thought. "Big bucks in hard times!"
Representing injured workers before a referee became my primary task, and I soon found the work to require knowledge of more than the law. So I began to take courses in anatomy and physiology at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine—two evening hours twice a week for two years. What I learned took the mystique out of doctors' testimony and gave me an edge in court. During that time, I also represented the State of Minnesota in U.S. District Court in plans for reorganization of insolvent insurance companies so that workers compensation awards (after trial) would be fully paid. My contention, that the awards should be treated as unpaid wages entitled to priority, prevailed.
In 1936, I joined the staff of the Office of the Ramsey County Attorney, for which I handled arraignments and tried felony jury cases. After six years in that office and shortly after Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor, I decided to joint the army.
After personal training to the position of a second lieutenant, I trained others in Alabama and Mississippi, then was sent to England in May 1944. I traveled with the army across northern Europe—France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany—as the Allied forces defeated Germany, sending home monthly records of what I saw.
Assigned to war-crimes investigation in January 1945, I arrived at the Dachau concentration camp on October 1, 1945, and was named chief prosecutor (chief of staff) at the trial facilities there. Mine was the decision as to which of 32,000 camp administrators and workers should stand trial for war crimes. In addition to gather pretrial evidence, I attended and heard most of the testimony at the trials. Again, I took copious note; these have been verified by the official record of the trials, presented in part in the latter portion of this volume.
On my staff of 65 at Dachau were five of the eight recorders who took down verbatim Hitler's military-situation conferences. Unable to reach their families in Berlin because of Russian advances at the end of the war, they offered to act as translators at war-crimes trials. During off-hours I questioned these highly educated men (three had doctorates), recording their answers in speedwriting. The five non-Nazi recorders gave me insight into and information (some of it never reported elsewhere) about how Hitler rose to power, established dictatorship, and directed his war.
My story comprises an eyewitness report (including personal photos) of my journey across Europe with the liberating forces, the testimony of trial witnesses heard firsthand, and personal interview with intimate observers of Hitler in action. I tell it as here and now.


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How Second Hand Smoke Can Cause Hearing Loss In Teens
July 20, 2011
Here's an attention-grabbing headline in Time Magazine—that exposure to second hand smoke significantly increases a teen's chances of nerve deafness by almost two-fold. It's already been shown that smoking can cause hearing loss in adults, but the fact that second hand smoke can affect teens' hearing was quite a surprise.
It's already known that cigarette smoke can aggravate middle ear infections in teens, leading to reversible hearing loss, but this study reported sensorineural hearing loss, which is generally nonreversible.
The authors of the study from NYU don't give clear explanations for this finding, so let me put forth a few possible reasons:
- Teens probably listen to music at loud levels, which is known to cause nerve deafness, especially at higher frequencies (this study showed hearing loss at the mid to high frequencies).
- The teenage years are a period of massive change in the upper airway. These relative changes will destabilize breathing at night, leading to more frequent partial to total obstructions and arousals. Some teens (especially those with dental crowding and small jaws) will be more susceptible than others. Lack of deep, quality sleep has been shown to have detrimental effects on brain development and repair.
- Parents of the teens that smoke probably have a higher chance of snoring or having obstructive sleep apnea. Not sleeping well can predispose to increased stress and addictive activities that can stimulate and calm at the same time (such as alcohol and smoking).
- Intermittent brain hypoxia has been shown to cause major neurologic damage in multiple parts of the brain, including memory, executive function, autonomic control, and hearing centers
- Delayed sleep phase syndrome is more common in teens, contributing to poor sleep.
It's conceivable that if you have mild degrees of nerve damage from loud music, the body will have the reserve to reverse or minimize any nerve damage. However, if you add all the other variables such as poor sleep and intermittent hypoxia from breathing pauses, then it's likely that you'll be more susceptible to inner ear nerve deafness.
So the next time your teenager seems to be ignoring you, it may be due to hearing loss.
Deafness and Dementia Linked, Through Sleep Apnea?
February 16, 2011
There are a number of studies that associate an increased risk of deafness to sleep apnea, and an increased rate of dementia with sleep apnea, so why can't deafness and dementia be linked, with sleep apnea being the main cause for both conditions? A study that was recently published in Neurology showed that for every 10 dBL hearing loss, after 12 years, the risk of dementia from all causes rose 27%. I've written numerous times about how sleep apnea can cause damage to the auditory cortex areas of the brain, as well as to the inner ear. The same process from sleep apnea that causes brain damage can injure areas that control memory, executive function, autonomic function, and hearing.
The next time someone you love can't seem to hear you, it could be because he or she can't process your words properly? Do you know someone who's severely hard of hearing, and has possible dementia?
Obstructive Sleep Apnea And Hearing Loss
January 22, 2011
I've always suspected that nerve deafness may be one of the consequences of obstructive sleep apnea, but there's been little research in this area. However, a new study out of Korea shows that in the elderly, having obstructive sleep apnea significantly increases your chances of have nerve deafness, particularly due to a problem in the central nervous system.
This finding is not surprising, since sleep apnea causes a hyper-coagulable state, with blood being more stagnant and tending to clot, in addition to additional inflammatory factors that can cause damage. It's also been shown that blood is thicker and more viscous in people with sleep apnea. In fact, a recent study showed that people with obstructive sleep apnea had thicker blood than normal, and by diluting the blood concentration with saline, auditory brainstem reflexes improved to the point of being normal. Placing these people on CPAP also normalized hearing reflexes.
Recent brain imaging studies have shown that hypoxia in the brain from sleep apnea can cause major vascular and tissue damage, affecting critical areas of the brain, including the brainstem. The risk of stroke is also increased by more than 3 times if you have sleep apnea. Knowing all this, it's not surprising that you can have either brainstem damage or peripheral inner ear vascular damage from untreated obstructive sleep apnea. One study showed that people with sudden one sided hearing loss from nerve damage have a higher risk of having sleep apnea.
I think that nerve deafness is part of the cardiovascular-metabolic process, going along with hypertension, diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, and heart disease. What you you think? If you have sleep apnea, do you have any hearing loss?
Can Sleep Apnea Cause Nerve Deafness?
November 22, 2010
More than a handful of times, whenever someone comes to me with sudden hearing loss on one ear, there's usually a precipitating event, such as an infection, stressful event, or trauma. Here's a sequence of events where an underlying sleep-breathing problem clearly caused hearing loss.
A middle aged man with known severe hearing loss in both ears came to see me with sudden worsened hearing loss in his left ear 4 weeks ago. He normally uses hearing aids, but now he can't understands people as well, even with his hearing aid. It turns out that exactly 4 weeks ago, while lifting something from his driveway, he pulled his back, with resulting severe back pain. He went to see his doctor, who prescribed a strong narcotic, which didn't help that much. He's usually a stomach sleeper, but due to his back pain, he had to sleep on his back. The night after he took his pain medication, he woke up and noticed his hearing loss on his left ear. His recent hearing test showed significantly diminished hearing in his left ear.
When I examined him, he had the classic anatomy of someone who has obstructive sleep apnea: small jaws, high arched hard palate, and very narrow posterior airway space (space behind the tongue), especially when on his back. All throughout his life, he naturally preferred to sleep on his stomach, but when suddenly forced to sleep on his back, wasn't able to sleep efficiently (due to gravity's effect on his tongue). But when he took his pain medication, his muscles relaxed even further, and he probably stopped breathing much more often. This caused a major and sudden stress response which probably caused either major inflammation or a mini-stroke in his inner ear blood vessels. Studies have shown that the area in the brainstem that controls the ear, as well as blood vessels that supply the inner ear are much more susceptible to damage. In particular, the area that's responsible for the high frequencies is more prone to injury.
His exam only reinforced my observation that people who suffer from sudden nerve deafness all have very similar upper airway breathing passageways.
The traditional thing to do in this situation is to give oral steroids, but since it's been about 4 weeks, the evidence for improving his condition is poor. Instead, I ordered a formal sleep study.


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Probably one of the best guide report I've ever seen. LOL
What? All you can do is give stinking GPS coordinates and what you were fishing with? Which hand were you holding the rod with? Were there any bananas on the boat? Just another useless fish destroying profit hungry scummy guide report.
Pole was in left hand, and two bananas were onboard.
Kenny stole my comment! Thanks for the great report as you always do and helping us non-guides as you always have. I hope that 20' hole is 2000' in length because there will be a parade of boats on those GPS #'s this weekend.
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Red Raiders Fall To No. 17 Arizona State 13-5
March 1, 2006
TEMPE, Ariz. - Freshman Ike Davis pitched 4 1/3 innings and tallied five RBI at the plate to lead 17th-ranked Arizona State to a 13-5 win over Texas Tech on Tuesday night at Packard Stadium in Tempe.
Tonight's loss snaps a six-game wins streak by the Red Raiders who fall to 9-4 on the season. Arizona State improves to 11-5.
The Red Raiders jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first thanks to a two-run homer by Tyler Reves that came on the first offering from Arizona State starter Ike Davis. Reves' two-run homer was his fourth dinger of the season and his first since the Houston game back on Feb. 12.
The Tech lead did not last past the first inning as the Sun Devils plated five runs in their half of the inning to grab a 5-2 lead. ASU got a leadoff home run by Ryan Sontag and then took advantage of two Tech fielding errors that led to three unearned runs.
Consecutive hits by Preston Parmore, Joe Persichina and Frank Mesa led to an Arizona State run in the bottom of the third that pushed the Sun Devil lead to 6-2. The Sun Devils plated one final run in the frame when Brett Wallace grounded into a double play but allowed Persichina to score from third.
Texas Tech dwindled Arizona State's lead back down to three (7-4) as the Red Raiders plated two runs on an error and an RBI double from freshman left fielder Roger Kieschnick.
Ike Davis broke the game wide open for the Sun Devils in the bottom of the sixth when he hit a grand slam off freshman reliever Cory Large. Large entered the game after Tech starter Miles Morgan loaded the bases with one out in the frame.
Miles Morgan (2-1) suffered his first loss of the season for the Red Raiders as he gave up 11 runs (eight earned) on 10 hits over 5 1/3 innings. Ike Davis earned the win for ASU and improve to 2-2.
Texas Tech returns to action on Thursday afternoon when the Campbell Camels come to Dan Law Field for a three-game series. First pitch on Thursday is set for 3 p.m. and tickets are available through the Texas Tech Athletics Ticket Office at (806) 742-TECH or online at www.texastech.com.


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Donna Otabachian, the executive director of the Star Healing With Horses ranch, conducts an equine therapy session with Roger Flores-Hoops, 14, who suffers from secondary PTSD, June 17, 2014. SHWH, located on the sprawling Parrie Haynes Ranch south of Fort Hood, is an organization dedicated to healing all who have experienced trauma, PTSD, and secondary PTSD. Secondary PTSD is suffered mainly by the children of service members who have PTSD, as they can be traumatized by changes in their parents' personalities and the conflicts that result from those changes. SHWH has helped many of these children transform their lives. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Ken Scar, 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)
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I've been playing around with my new camera again, and decided to resurrect this topic from the cold watery grave of the old forums.
Today I went out to my hometown's (Shelby, North Carolina) court square to take some photos.
The Old Courthouse
Warren Street
The Old Rogers Theater
Central United Methodist Church
Apartment Building Parking Lot
These need some explanation, the building used to be an old Department Store (a Belks I think) but it burned down back in the 70s. In the 90s they fixed up the building with first floor stores, and the upper floors as apartments. The back part of the building was left open and used as the parking lot for the people who live there.
If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
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Massacre, you make me look like a rational, moral, kind person.
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Depends what you mean by "a sound".
If that is a physical event, a wave that travels through the air, then yes.
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A lively mix of entertainment, human interest and lifestyle features with Kathryn Thomas.
Kathryn's first guest this morning may be one of the youngest inspirational speakers in Ireland & he has just published his own book & board game called '12 Elements of the Winner Matrix'. He is 9 year old Eric Lassard, who is in studio with his mother Katie.
One immient gig is conspicuous by its general advert absence & that is the Eminem gig at Slane this weekend, because the don't have to - it is a sure sell out. Here is a reminder of some of his music & we would like to hear from some of our listeners who would like to give a little shot at rapping a verse of an Eminem song for a prize! In studio with Kathryn is Matthew Devereux of The Pale rock band & Dublin's own rapper, Collie Collins.
Our three rappers are Ellen, Conor & Bob.
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The Better Death release Day of the Death
THE BETTER DEATH – Day of the Death (EP)
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Overall Rating: 4/5
The Better Death is a impressive musical project of sorts from Texas. That's a great locale to be from if you release Hard Alternative Rock. Band members: Sean Dailey (vocals),.Rick Wolking (bass), Danny Handler (drums) Ed McMahon (guitar). Bio: Along the perimeter of modernist salvation, a quartet fresh with mud from the banks of generations past forged a musical ethos known only as The Better Death. As their underground mutates as an honest and unapologetic score to the soundtrack of life, their surface holds personal vindication to such a culture. Performance is a platform for delivery and absolution, with challenging compositions for the sake of the soul and ultimately to entangle the listener equally in purpose and awe. There would be nothing standard about it. How do you feel about leaving this earth at this very moment? Will you have lived a better life? Taking an oath and leaving blood on the floor, electrified.
Day of the Death is the latest EP teaser and the result though far from a self-indulgent ego trip, rather a moving and elegiac artistic statement from start to finish. This is not your overly predictable Ramon Noodle Progressive Rock band. Instead TDB way too much precision and talent to live in the shadows of overly-predictable Indie Rock music. Indeed this is clearly evident in this latest release which methodically ups the ante to a very respectable level of catchy musical craftsmanship and addictive hard rock that transcends typical pigeonholing. Indeed there's reason why TBD has established himself yet again as a premier talent from the Dallas area. The EP hits the mark and is even commercially viable with a fresh sound and a truly hard rocking progressive vibe that holds the attentions span of the listener perfectly. In a nutshell this is The Deftones meet Fates Warning. I can also hear a refined Seattle /New York Rock aftertaste like Soundgarden and Temple of the Dog. These 5 songs appeal to old and new fans alike. I especially like the extended outo's and intros and crazy time signatures throughout. "Day of the Death" will catch many rockers attention this Summer and in itself possesses a wide variety of musical styles – from Grunge, To Rock, Alternative Rock and Hard-Progressive Metal.
The Better Death provides has a powerful voice for Rock n' Rollers out there who have had enough of the musical status quo.
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Defined by who we aren't?
One of the most telling, and failing, aspects to conservative evangelicalism is the propensity to define ourselves by what we are against. The striking aspect of this is that it is precisely the opposite of what Christ came to do. While we decry liberals, gays, name-it-claim-it types, and more, we forget that Jesus came to seek and save the lost. He came to be a physician for the sick. In short, he came for something.
Our againstness is lazy. We seek it to position and define ourselves according to those people, ideas, subjects, or organizations to which we are opposed. But this isn't truly positioning ourselves at all. It's just floating off the shore of whatever we are against. It doesn't land anywhere solid or go anywhere productive; it just avoids the opposition. Being defined by what we are against is a hollow label that says little about what you are seeking to be or where you are seeking to go.
Againstness is lazy because it doesn't require vision or decision, just a little observation. All anyone needs to do to be against something is to keep an eye out for it and then maintain distance from it. Of course, if we are the more militant type of againster, we can always just follow the object of our ire around and attack it at every opportunity. This is no less lazy than mere avoidance because even in attacking we aren't deciding who to be or where to go. We are just being unwitting followers of something or someone we are trying to reject. By being againsters, we allow the opposition to dictate our actions and beliefs.
Instead, we ought to be defined by an objective and an aim, by what we are for. This requires constant vigilance and judgment to determine if we are on the right course. It requires regular status checks to see what kind of progress is being made. It is constant motion, constant consideration, constant vigilance to be sure that nothing that you are against is deflecting you off course. Of course, being for something necessitates being against certain things, or at least having no part in them. But those things are not what should be our primary defining characteristics.
Againstness is what made the Pharisees such detestable characters. They opposed the Romans, the breaking of laws, and upstart religious authorities. Christ's single-minded pursuit of glorifying God through the saving of sinners is what made Him so glorious, though. So which will it be for us? Will those things to which we are opposed mark us? Or will be known as pursuers of the same God-glorifying purpose Christ pursued?


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Bakery Clerks have the responsibility to work at a cash register selling goods, or to do other different tasks that depend on the bakery they work at. Usually, bakery clerks work under the supervision of bakers, and they assist them with duties such as forming loaves and rolls and preparing them to be put in the oven, bagging bread, removing baked goods from ovens, and creating other baked goods such as brioche, bread pudding or muffins.
A resume for the position of a Bakery Clerk must begin with a professional objective that shows exactly what you expect and what you are able to do. The next step is to list your professional competencies. Keep in mind that this position requires a lot of work and a good knowledge of public service, so you must add the skills that correspond to these demands. One of the main aspects within your resume is the professional experience, including duties and responsibilities from previous jobs which show the employer that you are an eligible worker. The last step you must take is to add your educational background, and then check your resume to see if you missed a qualification or duty you have performed in the past.
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It's important to know that HEALTH is the first line of defense for any plant to resist any type of pest attack. That means healthy (biologically active, humus rich) soil, reliable watering, good fertilization, etc (note that OVER fertilization, especially with Nitrogen heavy fertilizer, will result in weaker plants and thus more pest problems).
In the case of an Aphid infestation, the first step is to spray the aphids off with a strong stream of water, or wipe them off with a wet rag. Believe it or not, the little buggers will STARVE to DEATH before they can make it back onto the plant! Once the population has been knocked down in this way, control can be established by regular spraying of an appropriate organic insecticide. Oils such as Saf-T-Side (Petroleum oil),
Green Light (Neem oil), and Organocide (Fish and Sesame oils) are contact sprays and work to smother soft bodied insects like aphids (also scale, thrips, mites, etc.). Insecticidal Soap works similarly and is a time-tested remedy. CONTACT means that the product must have contact with the insect in order to work.
It's also important to pay attention to whether or not there are a lot of ANTS hanging around your plants. Ants harvest and eat the secretions (called "honeydew") of aphids and cleverly herd and protect them from predators (like a rancher with his cattle!). Suffice it to say, this ant activity works against control efforts, so if there are ants, consider keeping them under control as well. Sprinkling Diatomaceous Earth (DE) around the base of plants is a common organic solution, as well as setting outdoor bait stations like the Terro brand.
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I am now officially done with trying out EQ2 not that I had anything invested in it. This will mean that I have no in-game ties to the MMO community.
I was supposed to surrender my gamer badge if I wasn't satisfied with ME3 but I... was talking smack. I'm a gamer for life, but with no game to play lol actually not true, Skyrim!
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Eleven-year-old Matthwe Scott of Eaton County died Saturday while swimming with a friend in the Grand River.
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What does it take for this team to get into the top 25...I know im looking way to far forward but im just really excited to see if this basketball team is for real.
After drinking alot of koolaid i believe we'll be 12-1 or 11-2 at worst entering the duke game (losses against California/notre dame) would this game be hyped up or would be people just look at it as just another duke game that they should win by thirty?
thoughts, opinions?
If we are 12-1 (loss to Cal or ND) heading into the Duke game, I believe we will be ranked. At 11-2 (losses to Cal and ND), we will be getting votes and be on the fringe of the top 25.
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We could be... but after beating 3 really bad teams, its so hard to tell based on how we have played so far.
KoolAid is great and Ill have another glass.
Too early to tell, in my opinion. I think the key will be Gilstrap stepping up and becoming a legitimate, consistent scoring threat. I also think that Dendy needs to get back on the court sooner rather than later.
If both of those happen, I think the Clones can be good enough to get Top 25 consideration.
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If we are 12-1 (loss to Cal or ND) heading into the Duke game, I believe we will be ranked. At 11-2 (losses to Cal and ND), we will be getting votes and be on the fringe of the top 25.
I can agree with this. For us to break the top 20 we will need to beat ranked teams and win on the road.
Little early but we might be knocking on the door with a few big 12 wins
My best guess if things go according to prediction will be that we are ranked by Christmas.
I think it we may get votes, then drop off for a while after that rough stretch of Duke, Kansas, Texas, then reappear just before the Big XII tourney
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I think we could be receiving votes in the polls by the time we play Iowa. We need a strong performance in the Chicago Invitational and need to beat UNI and Cal and I think we're looking at sitting in the 20s by the time we play Duke.
If the wheels don't come off the bus this team could and should win 2 or 3 post season games.
If we can beat Notre Dame in Chicago, that'd be a big first step.
I think GMac is a solid enough coach & great enough game manager to beat Cal, ND and Duke. I believe we can really start to steamroll if we just get over that first hump (Cal I think it is). Success breeds success. Plus, there can't be a more hungry nor deserving team in the nation than ISU.
I think SLU and ND will be the first big humps...
so where will be ranked after we beat duke???
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It is still early, but here I think are the keys to this season:
1) Keep everyone as healthy as possible.
2) Gilstrap needs to slow his offensive game down a little bit, and just relax. He is very athletic, and that will get the attention of other defenses, but if he doesn't score more, they will learn he is not a threat.
3) Field goal shooting has been good, with both 2 pt. and 3 pt. shooting above 50 per cent. Doubtful they can maintain that against better defenses, but it might be possible. Against better defenses they may just have to be more selective with their shots.
4) Rebounding is still a concern. They had a good margin against Drake, but it has to improve against better competition. Use your butts, and grab the ball! Stop tipping it around.
5) Free throw shooting has not been very good at all (65%). Those points could become critical in Big 12 games or road games. This has always seemed to be a weak point. So far, the opponents have scored 8 more points off free throws
6) I think the defense has been good so far. They have averaged over 6 blocks per game, and over 7 steals. Also, the opponents shooting has been below 40 per cent, although opponents have shot over 42 per cent from 3 pt. range.
7) Turnovers could still be cut down, although about 14 a game is not terrible.
I think overall the guard play has been outstanding so far. This team has dished out 60 assists in 3 games and that is amazing.
I think this can be a very special team. There are more offensive weapons than ISU has had in a very long time. Hopefully, they will continue to improve as the season moves along. If they can continue to show improvement and gel even more as a team, with everyone understanding and accepting their roles, it could be a great year. Getting everyone healthy would be nice too.
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A senior U.S. senator has warned Ukraine that it cannot advance its position with the West while imprisoning members of the opposition.
Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on European Affairs Chairwoman Jeanne Shaheen said on February 1 that politically motivated trials have already hampered Ukraine's progress, citing a major free-trade agreement with the EU that has been held up over the imprisonment of former Orange Revolution heroine and Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
"It will be difficult if not impossible for Ukraine to deepen relations with the West while Ms. Tymoshenko remains behind bars," Shaheen said, adding, that Tymoshenko "should be released."
The director of national intelligence, James Clapper, testified in Congress a day earlier that democracy in Ukraine is under siege and that Kyiv is drifting closer to authoritarianism under President Viktor Yanukovych, whose flawed election in 2004 sparked the Orange Revolution but who defeated Tymoshenko with Moscow support in a presidential runoff in 2010.
Clapper cited the jailing of Tymoshenko as one example of the worrying trend in Ukraine. While the developments in Ukraine don't threaten U.S. national security, he said, they do present challenges to important U.S. interests in the region.
Tymoshenko was sentenced in October to seven years in prison for abuse of power over a gas deal with Russia in 2009. She was recently transferred from Kyiv to a prison in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv and is reportedly in poor health.
The conviction has been widely criticized both in Europe and the U.S. as being politically motivated and an example of selective justice.
Ukrainian authorities have since announced further charges against her, and a handful of Tymoshenko allies have also been targeted for prosecution.
Tymoshenko's daughter, Eugenia, has been championing her mother's case in the parliaments of Europe. She testified in the U.S. Congress on February 1 that Tymoshenko's health is declining and she is kept under constant surveillance. She called on Washington to continue to press for the release of her mother as well as other political prisoners, former members of the opposition.
"We're here to ask you to keep up this pressure because as we see with other cases around the world with political prisoners, this helps – and the more we make sure that the regime and the people who are persecuting the opposition in Ukraine should know that they are under watch and their course of action should be changed," the younger Tymoshenko said. She said politicians should consider taking "restrictive measures to those [people] in particular who are creating this political repression and cynically continuing to do so despite signals from the democratic world."
The U.S. hearing was attended several members of Yanukovych's ruling Regions Party as well as by his deputy chief of staff, Hanna Herman.
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