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Sunday, April 11, 2010
The Carnival
Yesterday was...good, for the most part. Very enjoyable day.
But...well...I don't know...okay, let's just go from the beginning:
I went and picked up Lizzie at around 9:00, because I wanted to get an early start to the day. The plan was to get there early and stay there late, so that we were there for all the main aspects of the day. The carnival's got a lot going on, and I wanted to get to every moment of it.
I bought a little thing of flowers, because that's what my mother taught me to do. Tulips are her favorite, the only reason I know that is because she told me her mother always grew them and stuck them in a vase for her when she was a child. She wouldn't be able to resist it.
I knock on the door and she opened it about ten minutes later. I guess she saw me out the window and decided to make me wait a while. Not that I blame her. But she did eventually open, so she wasn't planning on giving me the cold shoulder forever.
I offered the flowers and she just took them without saying a word to put them in a vase. I don't really get to go into her house, she hates it when people see it. I'm assuming because she brings her work home with her and she covers the place with it. Give it another five minutes and then we're out the door and on our way.
The carnival takes up an entire field, and as we got closer we could see the giant Ferris wheel looming over the hills like the symbolic beacon that it was. I looked over at Lizzie and she was giving me this evil little look, and I knew what she was thinking. Not if I had anything to say about it. I would do the roller coasters and the haunted house, but I was NOT sitting on that Ferris wheel.
At 11:45 we had done the House of Mirrors (I bumped into those fucking walls about seven times...I still have a bit of a headache) and a couple of the smaller roller coasters (a couple of which I had to coax her to get on; she can be a bit of a baby about some rides) and then we were getting some food. I had a good ole' American hotdog with ketchup, and she had some fish n' chips. Her face was starting to light up, and I could tell she was having a good time...even if she was kind of mad at me still.
We walked around for a couple of hours, while she pet all the farm animals that they drag around with them for the little kids. I laughed as she fed the goats and one of the chicken's nipped at her pant leg. Then we got to the part I had been waiting for; the shooting galleries. I walked up and looked up on the wall at the big stuffed lion that was just waiting for someone to claim himself worthy to bring him down.
Well, the new challenger was police-certified with a handgun AND a rifle, so he was about to meet his match. I picked up the rifle, gave Lizzie a wink, and brought the stock to my shoulder.
Five minutes later, we were walking away, me looking quite pompous and Lizzie looking very happy with her lion. I swear to God, we're like a couple of kids.
The rest of the day goes by with us just going on a few more rides, and then before either of us know it, it's dark out and we're looking up at the giant Ferris wheel. She's looking at me with a pleading look, her lion looking at me so that it looked like I was getting a fucking audience. I shake my head. And she pulls the Lizzie face; her lip pouts and quivers, and her eyes just look like Bambi's. She only pulls that face out as a measure of last resort. And God, do I hate it when she does.
Now, I'm not afraid of heights. I can ride the world's tallest roller coaster without a care in the world. It's the speed of the thing that I have a problem with; it just goes so God damn slow. And then it just fucking STOPS, right at the top, for a good five minutes. I mean, seriously? Why would you do that to a person?
But in the end, I have no choice. This was Lizzie's day, and I wasn't about to ruin it.
But I'll tell ya, it was hell. Sitting in that fucking thing, watching as we just spun slowly around and got higher off the ground. Every single time we rose I would squeeze my eyes shut, and then every time we would descend I would gradually open them again. I think Lizzie was enjoying this more, because she just looked out with an awestruck look at our surroundings. I guess this must be what flying was like. Remind me to never travel on a plane.
And then, of course, we stop. Right at the top of the fucking world. My eyes are shut and I refuse to open them, but then I feel something warm and soft wrap its way around my hand. I take a peak and I see Lizzie's hand holding mine. She's not looking at me, but I can tell she's smiling, and despite the situation I felt a smirk come to my face as well.
Thankfully, the nightmare ends. By now the carnival is starting to wrap itself up, but we're not quite ready to go, so we just walk around for a little while, eating cotton candy, until the fireworks go off. The fireworks, honestly, are the best part. It's no Fourth of July, but God damn, is it satisfying.
Unfortunately, I didn't get to see all of it. Because that was when the night kind of...I don't know, just ended, I guess.
I tear my eyes away from the fireworks to look at Lizzie for a moment, but she's not even paying attention to the display. Her eyes are looking past me, off to our right, and she looked...scared. And I've never really seen her scared before. She doesn't GET scared; and why should she, I'm her partner, I've got her back. But right then, she looked absolutely terrified.
"What? What is it?"
"Can we go now?" Her voice sounded shaky, as if she was about to have a panic attack or something.
"Lizzie, what-?"
"Please? Can we just go home now?"
I look over to where she was looking, thinking maybe her dad was there, or someone she knew from a past case or an ex-boyfriend that was just staring at her...and if it was either of the three, they had picked the wrong woman to mess with.
But...there wasn't anything. No one looking our way, at least.
"Lizzie, what the hell's wrong?" I ask, looking back at her.
She just looks at me for a second, now disbelievingly, as if...I don't know what. I look back to see if there was something I missed, but I scanned every face in the crowd and for the life of me I still couldn't see anything wrong. I turn back again and she looks a little more composed, but still looking shaken.
"I'm just...tired. Let's go back to your place."
The ride home was just awkward. I tried to coax some answers out of her, but she just stared ahead of her and clutched that big lion like it was some safety net or something. When we got in the house, she just went upstairs and went straight to bed, no talk, no nothing, just got comfortable and went to bed. So I sighed and just lay next to her, thinking she just had a little panic moment, when I felt her arm creep around my chest and her body pull herself closer, her face burying itself in my chest.
I've never seen her this freaked before. I have absolutely no idea what caused it.
On the plus side, at least she's not pissed at me anymore.
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You alrady know what most people are going to say to this. About what she saw. She's going to be edgy the next few days, you need to be there for her.
"I've never seen her this freaked before." Seriously, have you ever had a time like the last two weeks? What you guys are looking at is not normal.ReplyDelete
I think you, Lizzie, and Eric need to brainstorm on this. Don't discount any nutty theories, because the guy causing all this is likely to be pretty nutty himself.
And I agree with Trou, keep Lizzie close. While you're at it, don't burn any bridges with anyone else you might need shortly.
I'm glad that you had a good time at the carnival! It's too bad that it had to end on a sour note.ReplyDelete
I hope that, getting back to the grind, you two find some leads that help you get closer to the guy responsible for these stupid and senseless disappearances. If you need to vent, please feel free to, here! Sometimes having a virtual punching bag is a good way to avoid making a physical mess.
Funny how Lizzie seems to act the younger even though she sounds like she's a few years older. Pass on a hug and maybe some hot chocolate for me! Sounds like she's got it really rough right now!
where there any people with business suits at the carnival?ReplyDelete
Awww, that does suck to hear about what happened.ReplyDelete
Glad you guys had a good time, you finally got lizzie to take that stick out of her ass, if even only for a day. She surely appreciates that. :)
She's barely left my house or the office since we got back. I don't know if I really want her going home anytime soon, she kinda lives out in the middle of nowhere and if she really did see someone, I don't know if I want her staying by herself.ReplyDelete
There must have been over a thousand people at that carnival, and you're asking me to pick out some suits? None that I could see, but then again, it was my day off and I wasn't really paying attention. I didn't see any when she got freaked, but maybe he snuck out when I wasn't looking.
Lizzie...had a rough childhood. She's mature, but around me she likes to act like a little kid. I don't mind it so much. I'll pass it on when I can.
My eyes are shut and I refuse to open them, but then I feel something warm and soft wrap its way around my hand.ReplyDelete
For a moment I thought it'd be Slender Man holding your hand, puckering up for a kiss. Heheheh.
Huh. I didn't see that coming.ReplyDelete
But yeah, its great you guys are a team again! This whole thing is really creepy, but there's strength in numbers, Ezeikel!


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This restaurant offers southeast Asian food and afternoon tea. Almost every food has an image or theme about Teddy Bears, such as Teddy coffee and Teddy cookies. It is indeed a small world of Teddy Bears.
Adults are recommended to order a "Bear Cappuccino" and order their children a cake in the shape of a bear's paw. One will undoubtedly have a blast while bringing kids to the world of teddy bears.
The first floor is the exhibition area, and you can find various Teddy Bears (some are limited editions) that the restaurant owner collects from around the world.
The second floor is the dining area, decorated like home, with Teddy Bear table cloths, old TV set, and picture frames. Another feature of the restaurant is that you can learn to make your own Teddy Bear there.
Here is the "Mini Teddy Museum", which is full of the toy children love, the Teddy Bear. The sofa, dining tables, windows and even stair edges are covered with teddy bears. The children are welcome to play with the bears at any time.
This restaurant, catering to children aged 1 to 12, is more like a fairy world. There is a big pirate ship once you step inside the restaurant. Children play happily there, and there are special attendants. The decoration is lovely, with themes of bears everywhere, and the atmosphere is merry because there are magic shows, story-telling, and some other performances. Children can also learn to make their own bears at the restaurant.
The logo of this restaurant is "I Love Eggs". It serves simple Japanese-style meals and various flavors of omelet rice (蛋包饭, pronounced as dan bowl fan). Soups, spaghetti, coffee and desserts are also available. The restaurant décor is refreshing and adorable like a cartoon land, and with main colors of white and yellow; the light bulbs and even the chairs look like eggs.
The ambiance of this restaurant is any child's dream. The folded napkins, the unique shapes of the chopsticks, and the small sauce plates are shaped like fish. In the entrance of the restaurant there is a big fish tank, which holds many colorful and swimming tropical fish. One can view these fish from anywhere; it is as if the guests are in an aquarium.
The hand-painted sea painting located on the third floor is the most focal point of this restaurant. With the golden beach and the beautiful shells from the deep sea in Thailand, one can sit against the wall or take a seat by the window. Eating in the restaurant feels as if you are having a grand banquet along the beach in Hawaii. Raising your head, a blue light in the shape of a starfish comes to you. Both children and adults will enjoy these fabulous lamps crafted from 10 or more seashells.
This restaurant is decorated with an assortment of tropical plants in the middle of which sits a pond, which children greatly enjoy. In the corner of the restaurant, plush toys are placed for the children's enjoyment. The Malay dishes here are seen by many as "pretty light". Most of the food served here is acceptable for children.
The Party town restaurant is located on the Zhang Jiabin Creative Street, 35, Jinyan Road, Pudong District, adjacent to the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum. The New Party and Earth restaurant contains a dining area with an Antarctic theme, a champagne bar with Shanghai's first theme music, and all of the retail supplied has different cartoon themes. The New Party and Earth restaurant is a fantastic place for you to combine entertainment and relaxation together!
This restaurant is almost like an amusement park for children. Children can have their photos taken with peacocks and Sika deer. This variety of animals makes the children feel as if they are visiting a zoo. In addition, the restaurant uses the theme of a "waterfall with a bridge" as background decoration. The foods served in the restaurant are grown by the owner and the foods served are both healthy and delicious.
Gourmet meals are combined together with a bar atmosphere in this restaurant. The wooden decorations give one the feeling of relaxation and also allow a look at the traditional Chinese furniture. The restaurant additionally offers recreational facilities for the children, where kids may have lots of fun.
Take your kids to visit this restaurant to experience "Do It Yourself" fun. Firstly, one can make cake, tea, cotton, sugar, and gourd sugar by themselves. Secondly, one may squeeze the sugar cane to make juice. Thirdly, learn how to make a hot pot and a large variety of different kinds of sauces. Finally, make a steaming bun flavored with red beans, tea flavored dumplings, and nori cookies. This a great place for your child to practice his or her creative cooking skills.
Keeping pace with the current generation, the restaurant is decorated with a cow theme. Johnny Moo uses mugs marked with the pictures of a cute cartoon cow. Red is the main color in the design. With a model airplane hanging from the ceiling, this restaurant seems like any child's paradise. The Western meals here are large portions of hamburgers, which is enough food to feed both a mother and her children. In the restaurant you can also taste many different flavors of milkshakes, French fries, and crisp chicken nuggets.
The restaurant offers facilities for individuals to look after your children as you are eating. Not having to look after children, one can put their mind at ease while eating dinner. The ingredients for the hot pot are always fresh and delicious. The incredible service of this restaurant is also worth noting.
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Hospital needs versus hospital wants
The Rolling Stones once said, "You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you get what you need." I really hope that's true because I have been trying to get funded for over 20 years for some things I REALLY need.
Now, what the Rolling Stones didn't point out in their song is the difference between wants and needs. When it comes to being a hospital I don't have many wants … sure, gold plated elevator buttons would be nice but do I need them? No. What I need are things like more beds for patients so they don't have to sleep 4 to a room and risk spreading disease. I need new buildings because the current ones are aged out, are prone to fires and floods, and are no longer appropriate for health care delivery.
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NRB Commercial Bank is the newly commercial bank of Bangladesh. It has build up an excellent reputation among customers. In order to increase its performance & branches, NRB Commercial Bank is going to recruit prospective talented professional individuals who are highly career oriented and enjoy working in a dynamic environment.
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- The applicant must be citizen of Bangladesh.
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- On successful completion of the probationary period, the trainee will be promoted as 'Execurive Officer' & enjoy all banking benefits.
- The candidates must sign an Employment secured Bond for 5 (five) years from the date of joining.
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The Girl Child Education Fund (GCEF), a signature initiative of FNIF, supports the primary and secondary schooling of girls under the age of 18 in developing countries whose nurse parent or parents have died. Your donation to the Girl Child Education Fund will go towards school fees, uniforms, shoes and books. Donations to the Girl Child Education Fund can be made by credit card, bank transfer or cheque.
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Buying an asset at the correct price is certainly of critical importance; however, Capri believes that the investment process does not end at the time of acquisition or the completion of an asset. Rather, this marks the beginning of the value creation process for an asset. To this end, Capri employs a six-step asset lifecycle investment process in every transaction.
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Communities made up of persons with an intellectual disability, their families and friends, particularly young friends, who meet together on a regular basis in a Christian spirit, to share friendship, pray together, fiesta and celebrate life.
Through this site, we invite you to discover the wisdom of this surprising man, who discovered how to bring a totally new light to our collective humanity by becoming supremely attentive to people affected by severe functional or intellectual disabilities.
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In a world that places such value on success and winning, L'Arche communities are places where people can take time to explore who they are, not just what they can do. They are places of welcome where people are transformed by an intense experience of community, relationship, disability and difference.
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What's in a name? Beats me.
Scientists may not be able to prove conclusively that the universe is expanding, but fashion certainly is. The exponential expansion of the number of fashion labels over the last decade, fashion's equivalent of the Big Bang, has not only swollen the fashion calendar to bursting. It has also made it bad form — not just uncompetitive and unoriginal — to do something as 20th century as naming your fashion line after yourself.
After all, is there anything less interesting or memorable than someone's name? Why call your line Shane Gabier or Chris Peters when you can call it Creatures of the Wind? Why call it Judson Harmon or Jordan Klein or, even more boringly, Harmon-Klein, when you can call it Ødd? (No, they're not Danish.) Why call it Natsuko Kanno when you could call it 4 Corners of a Circle? The list goes on, heading off in a very dark palette: Tome, the Vessel, Viscera, Wildfox, Shades of Grey, Brood.
For those who dream them up, it's a fast way to set themselves apart.
"We didn't want our names on the label," said Mr. Gabier of the Chicago-based women's line, which was nominated last year for a Council of Fashion Designers of America award. The name is a lyric from "Wild is the Wind," a song first recorded by Johnny Mathis in 1957, followed over the years by Nina Simone, David Bowie and Cat Power, among others. "We liked the moody atmosphere, and the way that every version of the song brings up different associations. It opens it up a bit more to interpretation."
Or confusion.
Erica Roseman, a fashion publicist, once worked with Ms. Kanno on her line. "Everyone who called would it get it wrong," she said. "Even around the office we would. It was '4 Circles in a Square, 4 Corners of a City.' No one ever got it right."
Still, even a name you can almost remember has to be better than one that's completely forgettable. Why call a line by anyone's name, much less an unpronounceable one of indeterminate ethnic origin (Norwegian? Nepalese?), when you can go with something catchy? A handful of designers have been ahead of the curve — lines like Tuleh, Dsquared, Rodarte, the Row. Lately, though, even an attractive name like Preen or Gilded Age is old hat. Witness the chthonic-sounding Brood and Viscera. At this point, you might as well go all the way and invite ridicule. Cardboard Box? Dross? Passé?
Or, in the spirit of the latest multiword nomenclature, how about A Lot of Stuff You Don't Need, or, for a mystical-yet-quantum pose, Spooky Action at a Distance. Or longer yet, since songs are such a lyrical antecedent, how about a homage to Pink Floyd: "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict.
The obvious upside of the trend is that it's easier to get the A.D.D.-addled fashion world's attention by making them ask "What?" instead of "Who?"
"If you are building a brand from scratch, you're going to get more reaction from something unexpected and strange," said Tom Julian, a retail branding consultant. "We live in a world where we are deluged with the stories about re-branded lines and repurposed names, and you really have to find your own white space." ("White space" refers to an underserved retail sector or niche.)
The crazy-name game may be newish to fashion, but it's not new elsewhere. It has already hit the world of theater (with troupes like Elevator Repair Service, Nature Theater of Oklahoma, Clubbed Thumb and Beautiful Soup Theater Collective), art (galleries like Haunch of Venison, Klaus von Nichtssagend, Fruit and Flower Deli and Invisible-Exports), music (acts like oOoOO, iamamiwhoami and Death Cab for Cutie) and beauty (perfumes called Boadicea the Victorious and brands called Juliette Has a Gun and Strange Invisible Perfumes).
"We just were looking over show invitations today," said Jean Godfrey June, the beauty and fashion news director at Lucky. "And after a long string of hyperquirky names, one of our editors said, 'Why don't they just call it 'Sweaters'? "
"It goes one way or the other, they charm or they repel," she went on. "The offbeat name is a way to distinguish yourself and sound mysterious and underground-y. The trade-off is, purposely making yourself sound obscure can turn into a self-fulfilling prophesy."


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EcoloBlue 28 Water Generator Review
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If u are planning to enter a career in application development or software project management using Java technology, SCJA would be the best choice.
Though U mentioned done Java & J2EE so achieving the SCJP certification provides clear evidence that a programmer understands the basic syntax and structure of the Java programming language. If ur aim is to demonstrate superior programming skills in J2SE, this certification would be right for u.
Once u have the basic certifications, u can pursue advanced certifications that help enable career growth into more specific job roles like Mobile Application Developer or Business Component Developer according to ur area of interest….
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Every day she roused, as the first hints of dawn caressed the sky, fingers of pale bluee creeping across the heavens. She took the specially crafted green glass vessel and hooked it up to a series of carrying cables, the small crystals that adorned it twinkling in the blossoming morning light. Clipping some of the cables to her hindlegs, and taking up a carrying bar in her fore, she watched the sunrise... waiting for the moment just before the sun crested the Earth's sphere.
With a cry, she launched herself into the air, powerful wingbeats carrying her out over the ocean's surf. Her cry alerted the gulls, and they followed her in her ritual as they always did, staying respectfully silent. She glided across the water's surface, dipping the chalice into the ocean and filling it with water. Wings cupping the air, she rose once again, just as the sun peeked over the horizion, and lit up her daily tribute and blessing to the ocean.
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A few months back, I received some questions here on the blog about evolutionary biology and its implications for Christian theology. They probed broadly and deeply, covering original sin, the problem of evil and many of the topics everyone asks about and indeed have been asking about since long before anyone conceived of a theory of evolution. These questions warrant more detailed answers than a few comments can provide, so I will be taking a look at them in some depth over the next few weeks. Looking ahead, I expect that will include some discussion of the upcoming film X-Men: Apocalypse, since Apocalypse is obsessed with survival of the fittest and since the film declared its theological ambitions already. I'll start this series with the questions I received previously, but feel free to chime in with others as we go along.
Let's start with the question of what it looks like for God to create (in my view, continuously) via evolution. If a key element is random mutation, how can God claim credit for anything resembling design? Alternatively, if God is actually causing all the mutations, why does he seem to get so many wrong?
I certainly can't deny that mutations can be harmful. Cancer alone is sufficiently devastating to indict mutations. At the same time, I understand why it is so impressive and awe-inducing that the human body can do what it does; I wouldn't be a biologist if I didn't find biology fascinating. There are the bits that suggest mechanical contraptions–pumps and valves and filtration systems–and the chemistry that transmutes all manner of tasty delicacies into energy and spare parts. And then there are all the clever things we can do with our brains; even as we replicate some of those capabilities with our nifty computers, we still marvel that our human Go champions run on a peanut butter sandwich or two while their digital counterparts need the energy equivalent of about an acre of peanuts. What kind of a creator could be simultaneously competent enough to confound computer engineers and inept enough to let a few rogue cells bring down a whole person?
From my day job, I've learned a thing or two about how software is built. New programming projects generally begin with specifications for what the new computer program will be required to do. Ideally, those requirements can be defined in terms of an interface, either between the human user and the program or between two programs. These interfaces, broadly speaking, specify what input the program will receive, such as music files or e-mails or user keystrokes, and what output it will produce, including sounds or images on the screen or other files. At this level, lots of implementation details are left unspecified, open to the judgement of the programmers. The important part is defining the relationships that the new program will have.
Perhaps God expresses his intentions in this relational fashion. This is a very different paradigm than God-as-artist, where he directly selects every detail of the final product. A relational requirements approach leaves some freedom and creativity for creation to express itself in response to God's intent. God can have a plan for his creation to produce creatures who can worship him and fellowship with him without specifying the biology embodying these capabilities.
This approach has further implications for theology, such as what it means to be created in the image of God, that we will revisit. For now, just consider whether this model seems plausible. For me, it feels consistent with a God who regularly allows his people to shape the ways in which his plans are realized, whether it's allowing Moses to bring Aaron with him to Pharoah's court, allowing Israel to become a monarchy or allowing David to decide which priorities were most significant when it came to consecrated bread. Even the Bible itself was written by human hands and minds at the inspiration of God rather than directly dictated or even outright inscribed. A God who specifies interactions and interfaces is also a way in which God employs time as his medium of creation, a theme I've explored previously.
In addition to theological plausibility, we might also wonder whether this model is coherent scientifically. If creation's freedom is expressed with random mutations, can the end result follow any particular plan, even one loosely specified? For me, the answer is 'yes' because random mutations are not the end of the evolutionary story. Physics and chemistry place certain global constraints on what will work biologically, which bias evolution in certain directions. Environmental conditions, interactions with other organisms and the need to work with other components within the same organism provide additional context-sensitive constraints. All of these constraints manifest in what we call selection, the process by which certain mutations proliferate preferentially. Since selection is driven by these constraints, it is not random.
For a rough analogy, consider rain drops making their way to the ocean. Initially, where they land is fairly random (at least for a given storm). Once they land they still have a fair amount of freedom but there are constraints that provide some direction. There are global constraints like gravity that keep water from flowing uphill. The details of the terrain will make some paths more likely than others. These preferential paths might become streams and rivers which make it easier for future rain drops to follow those same paths. Those rivers will in turn attract humans to build cities near them, cities with storm drains and sewers that further guide the water in particular directions. And so even with a random input, we get non-random results–not just in terms water flow, human settlements as well! Similarly, physics and chemistry and environment funnel random mutations towards certain kinds of creatures.
This picture of how God creates is painted with very broad strokes, but I hope it gives you a flavor of how I think God can create within an evolutionary framework that preserves an expression of intention without requiring God to specify every last mutation. I think this image is theologically plausible in that it can be reconciled with scripture. I also think it is scientifically plausible; in fact, I think it is the model most consistent with our current scientific understanding. I hope you find it useful in some fashion, and will join me in exploring further implications of evolutionary biology for a Christian theology.


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Pune: Expect fewer call drops in the days to come as the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) gave its nod to renting out municipal properties for erecting mobile towers. The effort is also aimed at promoting mobile internet and 4G network.
A total of 394 towers will be erected as the general body, on Monday, approved a proposal to install 394 towers. The standing committee had approved the proposal in February. Civic officials said the PMC will allocate unutilized open land and small plots in gardens and playgrounds to private telecommunication companies that wish to set up cellphone towers. Most of the towers will be for 4G services.
A civic official said, "The increase in number of towers will help improve cellphone network. It will also help manage open municipal spaces better by keeping a tab on encroachments."
An area of 3x3 sqm will be allotted for each ground-based mobile mast. The land will be leased for a period of 30 years and will have to be handed over to the PMC in 90 days if it wants it back for civic purposes. The PMC will charge a monthly rent of Rs 14,154 per tower. The charge will be increased by 12% every three years.
Telecom companies will have to clear all pending dues before applying for space to install towers. The companies that have erected illegal towers or have defaulted on property tax will have to get these cases resolved before applying for erecting new towers.
Mayor Prashant Jagtap said the civic body will clamp down on road digging works taken up for lay cables. "The digging will be allowed only after seeking proper permissions, which will be scrutinised by elected members of the concerned area," said Jagtap.
Municipal commissioner Kunal Kumar said, "The administration will look into the matter (road digging) and speak to police officials."


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NBC News — by Elizabeth Chuck. August 25, 2017
Some of the junior high students in Travis County, Texas, break into nervous laughter at the mere mention of sex. Some shyly ask questions.
But most fall silent when Julie Maciel, a health educator, tells them how terrifying it is to become pregnant as a teenager.
Maciel, of Austin, had her daughter when she was only 17. The unplanned pregnancy was largely due to a lack of sex education in schools, she says — something she's determined to change.
"It's not just about sex ed. It's about making decisions about what they want to do in the future. They keep in mind, should I have a baby now, or will that delay my dreams?" said now 21-year-old Maciel, who works for EngenderHealth, a non-profit that depends on federal funding to reach at-risk teens who wouldn't otherwise have sex ed in school — funding that is now at risk due to deep cuts made by the Trump administration.
Maciel's work is desperately needed in Texas, which has the fifth-highest teen pregnancy rate in the United States along with the nation's highest repeat teen pregnancy rate, according to the CDC.
Image: A teenager has birth control options explained to her by a social worker
A teenager has birth control options explained to her at the Children's Hospital Colorado's Colorado Adolescent Maternity Program. Marc Piscotty / The Washington Post via Getty Images
But the Lone Star state, like the rest of the country, has experienced a marked drop in teen pregnancies. Last year, teenage births hit a record low in the United States; rates plummeted the most for black and Latina teens, the CDC found, although they're still up to three times as likely as their white counterparts to give birth.
Many hail an evidence-based, Obama-era federal grant program as the biggest driver behind the dip. Started in 2010, the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program gives $89 million a year to 81 organizations across the United States, including EngenderHealth.
It was renewed in 2015 for another five years.
That's why it was so surprising to Maciel and others when, tucked away in a letter from the Department of Health and Human Services dated July 3, bad news arrived: The Trump administration had slashed more than $200 million from the program without warning — meaning funding would now end in June 2018, not in 2020.
The abrupt funding cut to teen pregnancy prevention, at a time when teenage births are at historic lows, has been called "highly unusual" by Senate Health Committee Democrats, especially since Congress hasn't even voted on the 2018 appropriations bill yet. Legislators have until Sept. 30 to figure out the budget, although they could do a short-term continuing resolution and end up voting in December.
Related: Teen Birth Rates Plummet Among Blacks, Latinas: CDC
"I've worked at the Health Department for 10 years, and I've worked in international health for 20 years prior, and I've never seen anything like this," said Rebecca Dineen, Baltimore's Assistant Commissioner for Maternal and Child Health, which benefits from the grants. "It really was just this notification that your funds are ending."
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From today, around a million workers will benefit from a rise in the minimum wage. Their earnings won't go up by much – a rise of 11p per hour is actually a pay cut in real terms. And as for young people working for the minimum wage, those that have jobs at all, they aren't likely to get any pay rise at all.
The small increase in the minimum wage is symptomatic of what's happening to wages across the economy. For the last three years, wages have been falling in real terms, as the cost of living outstrips paltry pay rises. TUC research out this week estimates that the average worker on £26,000 is around £1,500 poorer than they were three years ago.
Listening to government ministers you'd think it was the old foes of red tape and bloated public services that were holding the economy back. But neither of these were much of a brake in the decades running up to the financial crash.
A far better way to assess the poor health of the economy is to look at consumer spending – the main driver of economic growth in the UK. Here, falling wages, tax rises and cuts to tax credits are making people poorer. We are all spending less money as the country is gripped in the tightest squeeze on living standards since the 1920s.
The origins of this income squeeze go back far longer than the financial crash. The proportion of economic gains going on wages has been falling for 30 years. Over the last few decades this was covered up by strong employment growth, new support such as tax credits and rising personal debt. This support is unlikely to continue into the next decade.
Of course some have been immune to this squeeze. The pay of those at the top soared away during the boom and has failed to come back down to Earth after the crash.
Now that we're all feeling the effects of a failed executive pay culture based on short-termism and stock market bubbles, we need to re-examine the way we set pay from the bottom to the very top of business.
The twin track of wage growth since the turn of the century is illustrated by a statistic calculated by One Society, which found that if the minimum wage had increased at the same rate as the pay of FTSE 100 directors since its introduction in 1999, it would now be almost £19 an hour, rather than its current rate of £6.19.
This tells us just how out of control pay at the top is and how hard life is for those struggling along at the bottom.
We will hear lots of plans for growth during the party conference season. But the issue that the TUC – and the vast majority of ordinary working people, I suspect – want to hear more about from all parties is pay.
Wages are fundamental to our economic recovery. We need decent pay to lift people out of poverty, helped by a higher minimum wage and a more widespread living wage. We need a better chance of a comfortable income for those in the middle, helped by encouraging more skilled jobs in growing industries. We need fairer wages for those in the boardroom, with employees having a seat on remuneration boards and packages that run in line with the long-term health of a company and not its short-term share price. And, of course, we need strong unions and more collective bargaining. That is the best way to ensure that all workers get the level of pay they deserve and that employers can afford, and so build a stronger and fairer economy for the future.


text: Tuesday the Dowdy family came down to the studio in the Stutz building for some updated family photos. Ann and I had a blast shooting their family portraits and individual photos of the kids. They were full of smiles and personality. Take a look at the slideshow and then pop on over to my facebook fan page for more!


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Wasn't it just the other day that teachers confiscated cellphones and principals warned about oversharing on
Now, Erin Olson, an English teacher in Sioux Rapids,
The poet "says that people cried out and tried but nothing was done," one student typed, her words posted in cyberspace.
"She is giving raw proof," another student offered, "that we are slaves to our society."
Instead of being a distraction — an electronic version of note-passing — the chatter echoed and fed into the main discourse, said Mrs. Olson, who monitored the stream and tried to absorb it into the lesson. She and others say social media, once kept outside the school door, can entice students who rarely raise a hand to express themselves via a medium they find as natural as breathing.
"When we have class discussions, I don't really feel the need to speak up or anything," said one of her students, Justin Lansink, 17. "When you type something down, it's a lot easier to say what I feel."Continue reading the main story
With Twitter and other microblogging platforms, teachers from elementary schools to universities are setting up what is known as a "backchannel" in their classes. The real-time digital streams allow students to comment, pose questions (answered either by one another or the teacher) and shed inhibitions about voicing opinions. Perhaps most importantly, if they are texting on-task, they are less likely to be texting about something else.
Nicholas Provenzano, an English teacher at Grosse Pointe South High School, outside
Skeptics — and at this stage they far outnumber enthusiasts — fear introducing backchannels into classrooms will distract students and teachers, and lead to off-topic, inappropriate or even bullying remarks. A national survey released last month found that 2 percent of college faculty members had used Twitter in class, and nearly half thought that doing so would negatively affect learning. When Derek Bruff, a math lecturer and assistant director of the Center for Teaching at
"The word on the street about laptops in class," Dr. Bruff added, is that students use them to tune out, checking e-mail or shopping. He said professors could reduce such activity by giving students something class-related to do on their mobile devices.
Besides Twitter, teachers have turned to other platforms for backchannels, some with more structure and privacy. Most are free on the Web and — so far — free of advertising. Google Moderator lets a class type questions and vote for the ones they would most like answered. Today's Meet, used by Mrs. Olson, sets up a virtual "room."
Before Hot Seat, "I could never get people to speak up," Professor Chakravarty said. "Everybody's intimidated."
"It's clear to me," he added, "that absent this kind of social media interaction, there are things students think about that normally they'd never say."
But the technology has been slow to win over faculty. It was used in just 12 courses this spring. Sandra Sydnor-Bousso, a professor of hospitality and tourism management, said Hot Seat did not mesh well with her style of walking around class to encourage a dialogue. "The last thing I want to do is to give them yet another way to distract themselves."
In high schools and elementary schools, teachers try to exercise tight control over backchannels, often reviewing a transcript after class for inappropriate remarks. Even schools that encourage students to use mobile devices prohibit gossip during class.
In Exira, Iowa, Kate Weber uses the technology for short periods almost daily with her fourth graders. "You'd think there's a lot of distraction, but it's actually the opposite," she said. "Kids are much quicker at stuff than we are. They can really multitask. They have hypertext minds."
During a reading lesson, she recalled, a story included the word "queue." Using a school-issued Macbook, "one student asked, 'What is a queue?' " Mrs. Weber said. "If they'd have read that individually they wouldn't have been brave enough to raise their hands. They would have just read over it. But another student answered, 'It's a ponytail.' The whole class on the backchannel had an a-ha moment."
"I am in awe at how independent they've become using that as a means of comprehension," she added.
The 11th graders in Mrs. Olson's class said the backchannel had widened their appreciation of one another. "Everybody is heard in our class," said Leah Postman, 17.
Janae Smith, also 17, said, "It's made me see my peers as more intelligent, seeing their thought process and begin to understand them on a deeper level."
On Friday, their teacher continued to develop a semester-long theme: how free the individual is in society. Students watched a
Earlier in the week, students had staged a rally to support American troops in response to picketing they had seen on the news by the fringe Westboro Baptist Church of
Mrs. Olson asked her students to connect "the argument" of the poem they read and the video with their own rally. As the discussion swirled in class, one student typed on the backchannel: "We tend to have the attitude that someone else will do it. But what happens when everyone thinks the same as you?"
"It only takes one individual to change," another typed. "If you want something to change you have to be willing to be that voice."
"It really shows the impact one change can make," a third student wrote.
"I agree with Katie!" someone added. "This class has given us a voice!"Continue reading the main story


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ProdottoD'Italia has its origins in a family business: the Mandurinos' farm, a family-run company founded in 1985 in Martano ( Lecce ), in the south of Italy, right in the heart of Salento. The farm specializes immediately in vegetables growing, but above all in the production of a very high quality extra-virgin olive oil. It soon stood out in the district market for the genuineness of its product and for the working production processes, always respectful of natural environment. Just as people made them once.
In 2011 we have a step down in favour of the Mandurinos' son: Roberto. He'd like to expand the trade exchanges on condition that he can preserve the quality and genuineness of his products.
To set up a company able to take its place on an international market, in addition to the best produce and production and working processes respectful of natural environment, he needed some technological and communicativeness investments, essential to show the market the quality of its product.
According to this point of view Roberto and his partners draw up a project for the internationalization and technological innovation of the society. Their project was one of the winners in the regional competition "Active Principles: young ideas for a better Apulia" with the project "Prodotto d'Italia: export at Km0". It is a work about the promotion of the traditional olive- growing and the transparency of the olive chain which awarded a prize for being one of the most innovative entrepreneurial ideas.
ProdottoD'Italia srl starts in 2013. Its purpose is to gather the best Italian agricultural products and to export them to satisfy the request of the consumers in new areas of the market through some produce, first of all the extra-virgin olive oil whose quality, origin and environment can be certified in an innovative way, thanks to the use of the latest technologies.


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Just a few miles from Beverly Hills lies the city of Pasadena, home to one of Los Angeles' premier contracting companies, Boston Brick and Stone. Founded over twenty years ago, this family-owned business services the entire Los Angeles area and boasts a top-notch staff of contractors who are experts in everything from repairs to concrete driveways and brick chimneys to full-scale patio construction.
Like many of the cities in the L.A. basin, Beverly Hills was settled near the beginning of the twentieth century. While older houses are generally more interesting architecturally, they present a constant need for repairs, upkeep and remodeling. The quality contractors at Boston Brick and Stone are thrilled to meet all of your masonry and stonework needs.
The area now known as Beverly Hills was first settled in 1828 and was named "Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas." Eventually, that 4500 acre settlement became subdivided, but it wasn't until 1900 that the area was purchased by a group of oilmen and renamed Beverly Hills after Beverly Farms in Beverly, Massachusetts. A few years later, the famous Beverly Hills Hotel was built, drawing a high-society crowd to walk the lusciously landscaped grounds and stay in the most expensively appointed rooms. These patrons included among them some of the top celebrities of the time, who then bought homes in the surrounding subdivisions. Thus the long-standing tradition of providing a haven for movie stars and recording artists was born. Starting with the mansion built by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford in 1919 and continuing with current famous residents such as Jennifer Aniston, David Spade, and Vera Wang, Beverly Hills became known as home to the stars.
The contractors at Boston Brick and Stone understand the importance of preserving both the natural beauty and the architectural integrity which has come to be expected in beautiful Beverly Hills. Whether a recent temblor left you in need of a brick mason to repair a crack in your masonry chimney or you are in the market for a complete driveway resurfacing, Boston Brick and Stone is confident you'll be satisfied the quality of your restoration project.


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New Zealand is currently experiencing a measles epidemic. While this epidemic started in Auckland, it has spread to other regions of the country.
Advice to all PID bone marrow / immune deficient patients and Liver transplant patients is: Parents should be alert to the symptoms of measles and contact their GP / clinical specialist team should they suspect exposure. Contact your General Practitioner or Immunology nurse specialist if you have any concerns.
Attached is a letter from the liver transplant nurse specialists explaining the situation for liver transplant children who are considered to be at high risk. What to look out for, how to minimise the risk to your child and how to get in touch with the liver team if you have concerns.


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The arena opened in 1998. Since then, it's been home to the Japanese soccer team--the Yokohama Marinos Football Club. This World Cup Stadium now offers tours of its dressing rooms, tunnels, and VIP area. The tour lasts about sixty minutes. Nissan Stadium Yokohama has plans to host the Rugby World Cup in 2019. In 2020, the stadium will serve as a venue for football during the Summer Olympics.
The Shin Yokohama Kokusai Hotel and the Court Hotel Shinyokohama are near the stadium and affordably priced. Additional affordable hotels nearby include the Laguna Suite Hotel and Wedding and the R&B Hotel Shin Yokohama Ekimae.
When you attend an event at the stadium, staying nearby is a big bonus; just walk out the door of the hotel and there you are. But, if you stay in the heart of Tokyo, you'll have about a fifteen-mile drive in heavy traffic. Most hotels near the stadium fill up fast, so make your reservation well in advance.
The arena has lots of television monitors and over 500 loud speakers, so you won't lose a moment of the game anywhere inside the stadium. Additonally, there's Nissan Waterpark on site along with restaurants and souvenir shops. You can get to the stadium by Japan Rail, Tokyo Metro, cab (costs about $95), or automobile.
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Block Chart in QlikView is useful to visualize the text data. For example, If are looking for Most commonly used Tags in your website, or trending Twitter hashtags then you can use this Block chart. In this article we will show you, How to Create a Block Chart in QlikView with example. For this we are going to use the data present in the following Excel table.
From the below screenshot you can see that, we are loading the above specified excel sheet into the QlikView. I suggest you to refer Import data from Excel to QlikView article to understand the steps involved in importing the excel tables.
Create a Block Chart in QlikView
In this example we will create a Block chart for all the states that are present in our data source. To do this, we are going to use the State Column as the dimension data, and the Sales Amount expression as the Block size.
We can create a QlikView Block chart in multiple ways: Please navigate to Layout Menu, select the New Sheet Object, and then select the Charts.. option
Another approach: Right-click on the Report area will open the Context menu. From the context menu, Please select the New Sheet Object, and then select the Charts.. option.
Either ways, it will open a new window to create a Block Chart. As you can see from the below screenshot, we assigned a new name called Block Chart Example to our chart, and then selected the Block Chart as the chart type
Please select the Dimension column that you want to use in your Block chart. For this example, we are adding the State dimension to the used dimension section. It means, it will create a separate block for each state.
Once you click on the Next button, it will open an Expression page and on top of that, a pop up window called Edit Expression will be opened. You can use this window to write the custom expression for your Block Chart data, or you can select the Columns.
As you can see from the below screenshot, we are writing an expression under the Expression OK section. If you don't know how to write an expression then select the Filed as Sales Amount, Aggregation as Sum, and click the Paste button.
Click OK button to close the edit expression window, and then click Next button.
Next page is used to change the look, and style of a Block chart. Here we are changing the Plot Color Style to Light Gradient.
Presentation page is used to alter the Block chart presentation settings
Colors page is useful to change the Color pattern of the Block chart. I think you should play with them
Next, we are formatting the Expression value. As we all know that the Sum of Sales Amount is money, we are selecting the money.
You can use this page to change the Font family, style, and font size as per your requirements. From the below screenshot you can see that, we changed the Font = Segoe WP Black, and Font size to 11
Use this Layout page to provide the shadow effects to your Block chart. Or you can apply the custom theme by clicking the Apply Theme button. As you can see from the below screenshot, we changed the shadow intensity to soft, and Border width to 2 (extra thickness to border).
Caption page is used to style the QlikView Block Chart Caption. Here you can change the background, position, color, and so on for the Block Chart. As you can see from the below screenshot, we changed the Caption Text color. Once you done, click the Finish button
Now you can see our newly created Block Chart in QlikView.
Let me hover over my mouse on New South Wales state. As you can see from the below screenshot, it is displaying the State Name, and it's Sales amount (Data label).
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