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BlackMagic UpDownCross OpenGear Converter
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Lets you convert between multiple SD and HD video standards with high quality up, down and cross conversion. OpenGear Converter UpDownCross even includes a full standards converter, plus adapts SDI audio delay to match video processing for accurate AV sync.
- Convert SD & HD Formats
- Hot-Swappable Card for OpenGear Frame
- Converts 720p to 1080i/p or Vice Versa
- Standards Conversion: NTSC & PAL I/O
- 3 Gb/s SDI
- 7x SD/HD/3G-SDI Outputs plus Loop Out
- 10-Bit SDI with Low Jitter
- Reference Input & Re-Clocking
- USB & Mini Switches for Configuration
- Network-Controllable via DashBoard
The new Blackmagic OpenGear Converters give you a great range of conversion, all packed with the latest video technologies at an affordable price! Get the freedom and cost savings of an open standard combined with centralized network control and monitoring using the OpenGear DashBoard software on Windows™, Mac OS X™ and Linux™!
Open Architecture Converters!
Blackmagic OpenGear Converters are fully compatible with the OpenGear standard. OpenGear is an open standard for rack mount converters and processing for television broadcasters. Blackmagic OpenGear Converters are compatible with 20-card models of the 2 RU (rack unit) OpenGear frames. Many manufacturers develop OpenGear cards and frames that can be mixed and matched. OpenGear cards are hot swappable and can be controlled by java based DashBoard network control and monitoring software on Windows™, Mac OS X™ and Linux™.
High Quality
Blackmagic OpenGear Converters are built to the highest quality standards with low SDI jitter. You get the longest SDI cable lengths combined with ultra low noise analog video and audio for a true broadcast quality solution.
New 3 Gb/s SDI Technology
The latest 3 Gb/s SDI technology built into Blackmagic OpenGear Converters and new standards can be uploaded via the USB port. 3 Gb/s SDI is also fully compatible with all your SD and HD equipment.
Auto Switching SD and HD
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Blackmagic OpenGear Converter models SDI to Analog and SDI to Audio, feature a unique redundant SDI input for mission critical or live broadcast tasks. Simply connect a redundant cable to the second input and if the main SDI input is lost, Blackmagic OpenGear Converters will automatically switch over in an instant. A loop-through SDI output is also provided for connecting to other devices. You can also loop to other Blackmagic OpenGear Converters when de-embedding more audio channels.
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Blackmagic OpenGear Converters feature 24 bit analog and 24 bit digital audio. You can select either analog or AES/EBU digital audio via mini switches, or remotely via the DashBoard network control software. Blackmagic OpenGear Converters will then switch to use either analog or AES/EBU digital audio. Blackmagic OpenGear Converters support the standard 2 ch and 4 ch audio rear modules, so they can be used with other brand OpenGear products.
Hardware Down Converter
If you have older standard definition analog equipment in your facility then you'll know how hard it is when modern SDI equipment unexpectedly changes between SD and HD. Blackmagic OpenGear Converter SDI to Analog includes an incredible quality HD down converter that automatically adapts to the SDI input video format and outputs standard definition analog video in letterbox, anamorphic 16:9 or center cut 4:3.
Easy to Use
Blackmagic OpenGear Converters are similar, so they're easy to understand. With advanced 3 Gb/s SDI technology, every card is fully compatible with all your SD and HD equipment, plus you can update new formats via USB. Blackmagic OpenGear Converters can be set up via mini switches, DashBoard, or via USB using Blackmagic Design's Converter Utility. That's three completely different ways to configure, so you're never stuck in a critical live situation.
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1x SDI loop output
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All about Jessica Hart...
The more Jessica writes, the more interested she is in how and why romance works, and she really enjoys teaching and sharing what she has learnt about writing over the past 20 years. She is a reader for the Romantic Novelists' Association New Writers' Scheme, and has presented workshops at romance writing conferences in the UK, North America and, most recently, Australia. She teaches an intensive week-long course in Tuscany (a dirty job, but somebody has to do it) and a ten week course, From the Slush Piles to the Shelves: Writing Fiction that Sells around the World, at the Centre for Lifelong Learning at the University of York, where she will also be offering a one-day Crash Course in Writing Romance in May 2011.
Jessica lives in York, and is a freelance editor as well as a tutor and writer of mainstream women's fiction.
Currently Jessica is doing a giveaway on her Website. Please visit Jessica to find out how you can get a three in one book!
While there visit her Blog to say "Hi" and Friend her on Facebook for more up to date news. She has a Facebook Photo Album of her books around the world. And yes, there is a photo of her Blind Date Proposal in my driveway!
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Tailing James Bond: 007 destinations
By Leslie Gilbert Elman, Special to CNN • Updated 5th October 2012
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We love James Bond films for so many reasons: the handsome men and beautiful women, the cool gadgets and outrageous villains, the amazing chases and death-defying stunts. And, of course, the travel tips.
Film after film, no one has given us more inspiration to travel the world than James Bond.
"We are always looking to offer the audience the 'wow' experience of something amazing and different," said Callum McDougall, executive producer of the upcoming "Skyfall," the 23rd film in the James Bond franchise. "I think everyone who goes to see a Bond movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years."
There are two reasons to celebrate Mr. Bond in style: Global James Bond Day was October 5, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the theatrical release of "Dr. No," starring Sean Connery as Agent 007. And November 9 is the U.S. premiere of "Skyfall," starring the latest Bond, Daniel Craig. In celebration of all things Bond, we give you (00)7 destinations where you can experience the world James Bond-style.
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Several locations in Turkey are featured in "Skyfall." "It is where East meets West, and the colors and vibrancy of
provided us with a great backdrop and such amazing locations as the Grand Bazaar," McDougall said.
Istanbul's Grand Bazaar has been a must-see since 1461. More than 550 years later, it attracts nearly a half-million visitors daily. Presumably few of them other than "Skyfall" director Sam Mendes envision its narrow, crowded aisles as a location for a high-speed chase. It is, however, an excellent place to purchase local handicrafts and to engage all your senses as you immerse yourself in the city.
Railway scenes for "Skyfall" were shot on and around Adana's dizzying Varda Railway Bridge in southern Turkey, and beach scenes -- including one that was meant to be in the Far East -- were shot near
Fethiye on the Mediterranean coast
. "Turkey actually allowed us to combine our needs of four different looks in one country, quite remarkable," McDougall added.
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Key West, Florida
"Licence to Kill" (1989) kicks off with Timothy Dalton as Bond, parachuting in with his CIA pal Felix Leiter (David Hedison) to Felix's wedding at St. Mary's Star of the Sea Church in Key West after some insane aerial maneuvers.
Other scenes shot in the area include a car chase on Seven Mile Bridge, the segmented concrete (to make it hurricane-resistant) span you'll cross if you're driving to
Key West
, and a scene at the
Ernest Hemingway Home
in which M (Robert Brown) demands that Bond relinquish his "license to kill."
Hemingway, also no slouch in the adventure department, moved to the 907 Whitehead St. house in 1931. A guided tour shows you his writing studio and introduces you to the descendants of Hemingway's famous six-toed cats, who have unlimited license to roam the house and grounds.
The Bahamas
Of Bond's many visits to the Bahamas, the most memorable is Sean Connery's 1965 "Thunderball" battle in the underwater caves of the Exuma Cays. They've been known ever since as the Thunderball Grotto. (Connery returned there in 1983 for "Never Say Never Again.")
Several charter companies, including
Four C's Adventures
and the
Island Routes 007 Thunderball Luxury Tour
, will take you out to the grotto by boat and guide you on a snorkeling route to the inside of the caves, where light seems to stream in directly from heaven and colorful fish dart about below the water's surface. Some tours also include a visit to the nearby
Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park
and a stop at the
Staniel Cay Yacht Club
, where you can dine or spend the night.
With an "I'm too old for this stuff" look on his face, Roger Moore as Bond chased Grace Jones as May Day up the steps of the
Eiffel Tower
in "A View to a Kill" (1985), only to watch her parachute off the top in one of the film's more memorable scenes. (It was almost as unforgettable as Duran Duran's video for the film's theme song.)
On a tour of the tower, you'll learn about Franz Reichfelt's tragic demonstration of his "parachute suit" in 1912, which should convince you that parachuting is not the thing to do here. However, if you're feeling fit, you can climb the 704 steps from the ground to the second floor. From there, you can catch the lift to the top, where you'll find a Champagne bar with killer views of its own.
Schilthorn, Switzerland
"On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969) took us to the mountaintop: the
2,970-meter-high Schilthorn
in Switzerland's Bernese Alps, which George Lazenby as Bond skied down at breathtaking speed, with Telly Savalas as Blofeld in pursuit. It's one of the great movie ski chase scenes, now documented in an exhibit at
Piz Gloria, the world's first revolving restaurant
, which doubled as the Bleuchamp Institute for Allergy Research in the film.
Organized Bond-themed excursions
that include a James Bond breakfast at Piz Gloria start from the car-free town of
, or you can glide up the mountain yourself on a 32-minute aerial cable car trip that originates in Stechelberg. For more Bond-style adventure, ski the mountain's 15.8 km mixed-terrain Inferno course. Experienced skiers usually cover it in about 45 minutes; competitors in the annual Inferno Race -- the largest amateur ski race in the world -- can do it in 15.
Bregenz, Austria
The James Bond producers were so impressed by the 2007 production of Tosca at the open-air Seebühne floating stage on Lake Constance (or Bodensee), they knew they had to work it into a film. That's why in "Quantum of Solace" (2008), Daniel Craig finds himself chasing bad guys under the startling open-eye backdrop of the "Tosca" set designed by Johannes Leiacker.
The annual
Bregenz Festival
, approaching its 67th season, are only slightly less exciting. The next Opera on the Lake will be Mozart's "The Magic Flute," which opens July 17 and runs through the summer.
itself, in western Austria, is known for its contemporary architecture, such as the
Festival House
concert hall adjacent to the floating stage.
Guided tours of both
are conducted year-round.
Auyuittuq National Park, Canada
"Nobody Does it Better" than the opening sequence of "The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977), in which Roger Moore BASE jumps off the edge of a mountain and ... whoosh! A Union Jack parachute opens and wafts him to safety. "No effects, all done in camera for real," McDougall points out. (BASE is an acronym for Buildings, Antennas, Spans and Earth, the four things you can jump from.)
The mountain, with its distinctive twin flat-topped peaks at 6,598 feet, is Mount Asgard in
Auyuittuq National Park
on Baffin Island, Canada. Serious outdoors people find the 7,370-square-mile arctic park a haven of pristine beauty offering 24-hour daylight in summer.
Accessible via the Inuit hamlets of
, which can be reached only by small plane, the park requires that all visitors attend a safety orientation before they embark on their travels. For this level of adventure, only experienced wilderness travelers -- and MI-6 agents -- need apply.
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SWAT callout: The lone, barricaded, suicidal gunman
There are few situations that scream out, "damned if you do, damned if you don't" like the case of the lone, barricaded, suicidal gunman
After a deadly encounter with a barricaded and suicidal suspect, which of these headlines line would your local newspaper run?
1. "Police Shoot Dangerous Man Brandishing Gun and Threatening Officers"
2. "Police Gun Down Candy Vendor Distraught About Home Foreclosure"
Even though number one is the absolute reality for the officers at the scene, headline number two will most likely be the one your newspaper will go with. Remember: after you are involved in a police shooting, do not watch the news, read the papers, and especially do not follow the blogs. Now, let us look at that callout.
Damned If You Do, Damned if You Don't
There are few situations that scream out, "damned if you do, damned if you don't" like the case of the lone, barricaded, suicidal gunman who is armed with a firearm. SWAT teams need to prepare for this callout in ongoing training.
There is a natural tendency in law enforcement toward action. Even in the case of a lone, barricaded, suicidal gunman there is a feeling that if a team is outside in the standoff mode then "Nothing is being done" ...and that, surely, "Something must be done!" When this thought inevitably sets in, one must rethink. There is much that can be done and two things that should not be done. Don't risk and don't rush.
A term that occupies the headlines around the nation with a tragic regularity is murder-suicide. When your team is facing a lone, barricaded, suicidal gunman, you have to take your time.
Actions to Take
First, contain the problem and establish your inner and outer perimeter. A man alone in a bedroom with a gun is just suicidal unless a victim is introduced into the scene. In most cases, a man willing to take his own life is capable of killing others. That man needs to be contained and family members, friends, and even police officers who want to "go in and talk him out" must be restrained.
Establish your command post where the officer in charge can monitor the situation and make decisions. Anyone in harm's way should be evacuated and a sniper/observer team with optics should be set up in a location to observe, gather intelligence, and provide a protective overwatch.
A leader needs to assemble a team to be ready to take the suspect into custody, or in the event an opportunity presents itself to end the situation tactically. There is a very real possibility that the suspect might venture out to engage the police and preparations must be made for this. This team may have to deliver communications, prepare chemical munitions, or tactically effect a surrender. They should be prepared to employ all force options from verbalization all the way to deadly force as well as develop an entry plan in the event of an emergency contingency.
Emergency medical should be on standby.
Bring in the Negotiators
When suspects are talking they are not shooting. Communication should be established as soon as possible to get someone talking. It is preferable that a trained crisis negotiator do the talking. Many tactical teams cross train some team members so that those valuable communications skills are always available.
The strange seduction of the "face to face negotiation," should be resisted when the suspect has a firearm. It seems to be just common sense, but common sense is not as common as you might think. There are many examples of Chiefs, Sheriffs, deputies, officers, friends, and family who have walked up to a person with a firearm and have attempted to convince or cajole a suspect into surrendering their weapon.
There seems to be an assumption that is often made that a suicidal person is only dangerous to themselves. This bears repeating: any face to face communication with an armed suicidal person not only endangers an officer for no good reason, but it can also create an opportunity for the suspect to make you do their dirty work for them. Quite simply it enables a suspect to transition from suicidal to homicidal.
Time Is Your Ally
Once the suspect is contained and communication is established, an investigator can be working and gathering crucial information which might help with negotiations. Investigators may obtain a warrant if the situation calls for it. They might discover why the suspect barricaded, why they are suicidal, what will make them reconsider, and also confirm that the suspect is indeed alone.
Action on the Perimeter
Here is another question. If a suspect under these circumstances steps out to face police with a firearm in his hand is he homicidal or suicidal?
The answer is "Yes!"
When the suspect ventures out brandishing a firearm "Suicide by Cop," should not be the concern for those officers on that perimeter. The main job for an officer facing this deliberate challenge by the suspect is to prevent a "Homicide by Suspect." Sherlock Holmes would say, "It's elementary Watson. The suspect did not need to come outside to kill himself. He needed to come out side to kill someone else."
Dr. Karl Harris, former Deputy Medical Examiner of Los Angeles County, along with Richard Brian Parent of Simon Fraser University and Dr. H. Range Huston of Harvard University School of Medicine, suggest that 10 to 15 percent of police shootings are "suicide by cop."
It is wonderful and fine to study police shootings after the fact, but a police officer facing a man or woman with a gun pointed at them can't take a survey or conduct a poll before they decide whether to shoot or not. It may very well be homicide by suspect if you do not shoot.
The Future
It is reasonable for SWAT teams to train for these events in conjunction with their negotiators. Barricaded suicidal suspect calls have been common, remain common today, and promise to be even more common with the economy faltering and unemployment on the rise. In the future you may find yourself facing a desperate criminal, an unemployed auto worker, an estranged spouse, a troubled veteran home from the war, or a fellow officer going through a rough stretch of road.
Containing and slowing these situations down is the goal, but the suspect may not stand for this. Officers must prepare for the suspect to take three deep breaths and go. The standoff may well have been an effort to lure officers into a circumstance where the suspect can force a group of well-trained officers to defend themselves.
If you are faced with this circumstance you must be prepared to defend yourself. If they are homicidal they will give you no choice. If they are suicidal they will give you no choice. When you are looking at a muzzle you can't tell the difference.
As a team, prepare.


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We say mustard, you think hot dog. It's OK—that kind of thinking is hard-coded into Americans at birth, but just try to focus, because everyone's second-favorite condiment is about to get some cred of its own. According to research, consuming homobrassinolide, a class of plant steroids found in the mustard plant, produces a stimulatory effect on protein synthesis in muscle cells, triggering a response similar to anabolic steroids. The study, which was published in The FASEB Journal, revealed that, when administered to rats, homobrassinolide produced a profound anabolic effect by amplifying protein synthesis and curbing muscle protein degradation, resulting in significant increases in lean muscle mass as well as the size and number of muscle fibers. Furthermore, a grip strength test revealed additional performance-enhancing effects.
By the end of the 24-day study, the rats had significantly increased both their lean body mass and muscle strength. Homobrassinolide comes from the mustard plant, so it's important to consider the amount of processing that goes into the mustard that you choose. Pass up the bright yellow stuff for something a little more wholesome and natural with as little processing—at least as far as you can tell from the label—as possible, and use it to spice up your post-workout meals.
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I decided to give bspwm a try but when i run startx
there is black screen and no mouse.
I know black screen is ok but no mouse worries me.
Do i need config files or it should work anyway?
All i installed is xorg and bspwm from deb repos.
xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr
pawRoot wrote:Still the same
debiman wrote:this is not a valid reply.
additional information is required.
debiman wrote:it seems like you drop everything as soon as it doesn't "Just Work".
xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr
None1975 wrote:Did you read bspwm for dummies? Did you?
pawRoot wrote:(i copied your config).
chmod +x ~/.config/bspwm/bspwmrc
xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr
Head_on_a_Stick wrote:^ I think this didn't work because bspwmrc needs to be executable:
GarryRicketson wrote:Yes, but if you had read even a little documentation first, you would have seen
it is not at all like OpenBox. I thought about installing 'bspwm' but after I read
some of the documentation I changed my mind, to complicated for me.
None1975 wrote:Did you read bspwm for dummies? Did you?
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A power outage in Dallas Saturday afternoon was caused by a squirrel, according to Oncor Electric Delivery.
Oncor said more than 4,500 people near or around the Bryan Place and Exposition Park area had no power for about 40 minutes.
While looking for the cause of the outage, Oncor workers found a squirrel that had been electrocuted.
U.S. & World
Oncor reports wildlife near power equipment can cause big problems.
All power was restored just after 5 p.m. Saturday.


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SimplyEvolving necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 16 diseños de 6 diseñadores freelance.
SimplyEvolving.com is a newly established Coaching business/blog website that aims to help people grow into their natural place in the universe.
This blog aims to ask questions that make people question the matters they take for granted in order to grow into their natural place in the universe.
also, the website will include our offering which is a life Coaching and Professional Coaching practice which means that the coach will be working with clients 1-to-1 to identify their goals and objectives and help them make life changing decisions to live the life they are meant to live.
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Flexible, open , exploratory, contemporary, adventurous, trendy, youthful, leading edge thinking, new age, insightfulness, discovery, awareness, non judgmental, accepting, honoring, love, insightfulness, respect, peaceful.
our tag line is: growing into your natural place in the universe
a butterfly is the logo for our business/website because it represents natural evolution and simply evolving into something beautiful.
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-- once clicked on the headline it should lead to the full article/blog entry with the responses of people that responded with a form at the end for viewers to respond to the article
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Jerry Coyne has not received any gifts yet
Hello I am Floriane Wilson. I am writing this mail to call for your collaboration in a partnership business in your country, I have some money which i will like to invest in your country in profitable business under your control as my business manager.I am sorry for contacting you through this medium without a previous notice, I had to use email to communicate with you because it is an official and more confidential way of making contact with people around the world.Note if I receive a positive response and proper reply showing your interest in this business relation, I will furnish you all relevant information that will facilitate this business investment.I will advise you to reply me through this my private email at (email@example.com) for more details about me and this business.
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Hey, Jerry.
If you had to write a few words on the most important aspects of evolution and debunk its most often misunderstood concept, what would you say differently than what is written here:
Thank you!
A belated welcome aboard Jerry! =) Hope you've been doing well - thanks for joining us at the Nexus!
Welcome Jerry. Glad to have you on A/N. I'll be talking in Chicago April 29. Hope we see you at Reason Rally.
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The small village of Aratula, at the foot of Cunningham's Gap in South East Queensland, has long served as a resting place for weary travellers crossing the Great Dividing Range. The town offers a range of accommodation options including caravan parks and motels.
Aratula is surrounded by beautiful natural areas including the Moogerah Peaks National Park and Main Rain National Park.
Located in the Fassifern Valley, the four peaks of Moogerah have been carved from volcanic rock and the inaccessibility of the area has spared the natural vegetation from clearing by European settlers. The Park shelters eucalypt forest, sheer cliffs, and patches of rainforest. The cliffs on Mount French are a favourite with rock climbers, but not for the inexperienced or faint of heart. Palm Gorge on nearby Mount Greville in home to a nearly pure strand of Picabeen Palms.
On the southern edge of Moogerah Peaks National Park lies Lake Moogerah, a popular spot for waterskiing, jet skiing, boating and fishing. The local council runs a caravan park on the shores of the lake and other facilities include electric and wood barbecues, two boat ramps, children's playground, kiosk and kayak hire.
To the west of Aratula lies the Main Range National Park, home of plants found nowhere else in the world. The Park is part of the Scenic Rim and offers many walking tracks that explore the rainforest and escarpments. Along the way you'll enjoy glorious sweeping views of the surrounding landscape.
By road, Aratula is 30 minutes' drive south west of Ipswich and an hour from Brisbane.
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Watering the Tulips
January 9, 2012
"Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved me in my distress; Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer" – Psalms 4:1
We have no righteousness of our own. Inspired by the Holy Spirit, the Apostle Paul plainly said, "As it is written: 'There is none righteous, no, not one'" (Romans 3:10). Simply put, God can have no fellowship with an unrighteous people…like fallen men. Since we all fell in Adam, this means we could not be worse off spiritually than we are. God is righteous. We are not. Therefore, there is a gap there which must be overcome somehow if we are to escape His righteous wrath and live with Him eternally.
Religion certainly is not the way. Many in the world today are religious and are yet dead in their sins (Ephesians 2:1). There was not a more religious group than the Pharisees in Jesus' day. Our Lord said to His disciples, "For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 5:20). And yet, the disciples fell in Adam just like the scribes and Pharisees.
The Pharisees, like many today, sought reconciliation with God through ceremonial acts. They wrongly believed that their adherence to excessive Jewish ceremonialism was their ticket into Heaven. Jesus continually made it plain that it was not….and they hated Him all the more for it. He didn't fit any mold that they had mentally created of the Messiah. He didn't spend a moment trying to please them or keep their man-made traditions. They ultimately nailed Him to a cross for just that reason.
And yet, they were sinners and He was righteous! Hebrews 4:15 says that Jesus "was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin". They fell in Adam. They were guilty. They were sinners. They were unrighteous. Yet, Jesus was sinless and righteous. They were full of religion and ceremonialism. He was not. And yet, the Father said, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." (Matthew 3:17).
So, how is our righteousness to exceed the scribes and Pharisees? We are as guilty before God as they were. We are naturally as unrighteous as they were. When Adam fell, we fell along right with the Pharisees. So, what are we to do? Can we seek righteousness with God through church attendance, church membership, baptism, tithing, praying, or any other ceremony or tradition? A thousand times no! This was the way of the Pharisees and they rejected the Savior!
There is one way to be declared righteous before God…one way!! We must approach God through His Son. As believers, our sins were imputed to Christ on the cross of Calvary. In turn, His righteousness was imputed to us. His righteousness is a complete righteousness. It's perfect. It's holy. If one day we stand before God in Him, we will be declared "not guilty".
Child of God, take this moment to thank God for the righteousness He freely gave us in His Son. Reader, if you are approaching God through any merit or action of your own, your righteousness will not exceed the righteousness of the Pharisees.
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Anti-Hezbollah protester killed in Lebanon
June 10, 2013
BEIRUT (AP) — Men wielding batons and wearing yellow arm bands evoking Lebanon's Hezbollah attacked protesters outside the Iranian Embassy in Beirut Sunday during a rally against the militant group's participation in the Syrian civil war. One protester was killed, a senior Lebanese military official and witnesses said.
A military statement said the protesters had just arrived at the embassy area when clashes broke out and a civilian opened fire. The embassy is in a predominantly pro-Hezbollah area. Witnesses saw men wearing yellow armbands — the color of Hezbollah's flag — attacking the protesters with batons. It was unclear if they were affiliated with the militant Shiite group, and the identity of the gunman was unknown, a senior security official said.
The official identified the man killed as a 28-year-old member of the small Lebanese Option Party, which had called for the anti-Hezbollah protest. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.
The Syria conflict is increasingly spilling over into Lebanon, home to a fragile mosaic of more than a dozen religious and ethnic groups. Hezbollah's overt participation in the conflict, backing forces of Syria's President Bashar Assad in a successful campaign to drive rebels out of Qusair near the Lebanese border, heightened tensions.
The Obama administration could decide this week to approve lethal aid for the Syrian rebels, officials said Sunday. Secretary of State John Kerry postponed a planned trip Monday to Israel and three other Mideast countries to participate in White House discussions, said officials who weren't authorized to speak publicly on the matter and demanded anonymity.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said in a statement Sunday that it backed the Lebanese Red Cross in evacuating since Friday 87 Syrians seriously wounded in the fighting in Qusair to hospitals in Lebanon.
The leader of Hezbollah, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, said during the battle for Qusair that he would side with Assad until the rebels are defeated. Assad's Syria is Hezbollah's main ally and supplier of weapons.
Gunmen from rival religious sects have gone to Syria to fight on the rebel side. Rebels have threatened to target Hezbollah's bases in Lebanon. Clashes in northern Lebanon between rival Lebanese groups since last month claimed more than 28 lives, and rockets have targeted Hezbollah strongholds.
Hezbollah's rivals have increased their criticism, deepening a political stalemate and postponing elections for 17 months. The Lebanese Option Party is headed by a Shiite politician, Ahmad El Assaad, who has long been opposed to Hezbollah. Sunday's clash outside the Iranian Embassy marked rare fighting between two opposing Shiite groups.
The official Lebanese National News Agency said the army cordoned off the area of the clashes in southern Beirut. The private Al-Jadeed Lebanese TV said a girl who was protesting was also wounded. The station said the protester who was killed was shot twice in the leg, once in the back, and was hit on the head with a baton.
The protest at the embassy coincided with another small rally in downtown Beirut also criticizing Hezbollah's military intervention in Syria's conflict. Dozens of protesters, including many Syrians, converged on Beirut's central Martyrs Square where a large banner read: "Rejecting Hezbollah's fighting in Syria."
"Those fighting in Syria are not Lebanese. Their culture, their flag, money and weapons are Iranian," said Saleh el-Mashnouk, an ardent critic of Hezbollah. "We are here to erase the shame that struck Lebanon because of them."
Lebanese protester Samara el-Hariri, 31, said Syria's war is hurting Lebanon's economy and increasing sectarian tension. "My country is stricken," she said. Shiite Iran, Hezbollah's patron, has strongly backed Assad, who belongs to a Shiite offshoot.
The fighting in Syria has claimed more than 80,000 lives and displaced several million people. Beside Lebanon, it has also threatened to spill into neighboring countries, like Israel and Turkey. In Syria, fighting between government troops and rebels raged in different provinces, including near the capital, Damascus, and in the northern Aleppo province. Pro-regime media outlets said that after securing control of Qusair, government forces are preparing to move to recapture the contested city of Aleppo next. Activists said there were no signs of a new push on the city or its surrounding areas.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of Syrians inside the country for information, said six regime fighters were killed in clashes in Aleppo. The city has been carved up into areas controlled by rebels and the regime, and families have been displaced by shelling.
The Observatory also documented a rare case of a public killing of a 15-year-old youth by Islamist rebel fighters in the city of Aleppo. The center said the gunmen detained Mohammed Kattaa late Saturday, accusing him of being an "infidel" for mentioning Islam's Prophet Muhammad in vain.
The witnesses told the center the gunmen overheard the teenager arguing with a colleague, telling him that he would not lend him money even if "Muhammad comes back to earth," a common phrase used to describe an impossible task.
The men then brought Kattan back to the coffee shop where he works, with his shirt over his face and his back covered in marks from whips, the witnesses told the Observatory. The militants threatened the same punishment for anyone who commits blasphemy, the witnesses said. Then they shot the boy in front of his parents and a crowd before fleeing the scene.
It was not clear which rebel group the gunmen belonged to. Rights groups have warned against rising abuses by rebel fighters, including killing of captured regime soldiers or allied fighters. Kattan's case was a rare example of rebels killing a civilian for blasphemy.
Associated Press writers Zeina Karam and Yasmine Saker, and Bradley Klapper in Washington, contributed to this report.


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Everyone knows that a cookie jar is where one goes to find amazing treats, but for the Cerezo family from the Chicago-area, the treats it held could be classified as divine. It was a gift their 14-year-old daughter had given the family before her death from a seizure disorder in August 2012. It was also where dad Ricardo Cerezo kept his lottery tickets. When his wife told him to get them checked or she'd throw them away, Ricardo would soon discover he had a lotto winner in the cookie jar. A big winner. Huge.
A scanner at a 7-Eleven told Ricardo to "File a Claim," a message that pops up when the pot is more than $600. Well, this was way more than $600. Turns out, he'd won $4.85 million.
On the verge of losing their home, Ricardo to NBC that he had sat in his deceased daughter's room, crying and praying, asking God to take anything he wanted, but not this house that held her bedroom.
His prayers were answered. With $4.85 million in the bank, the Cerezo family won't lose their home to foreclosure, and his daughter's bedroom will remain, for now, unchanged.
It's an incredible story at face value -- millions found in a cookie jar?! -- but the emotion behind the Cerezo's family's loss, and the fact that the jar was a gift from their departed teenager, takes the story to a whole new level.
It seems like this couldn't have happened to nicer people. They endured so much loss and now, thanks to a miracle, they can keep their house ... and then some.
A cookie jar's contents were never sweeter.
Watch Ricardo Cerezo's heart-melting interview:
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For anyone interested in Canada's legal history from a family historian point of view, The Osgood Society for Legal History is a website that you should look at www.osgoodesociety.ca
The society was founded in 1979, and now they have a blog on which they present the "News and Views" at http://osgoodesocietycanadianlegalhistory.blogspot.com/2011_06_01_archive.html
In the blog, they have obituaries online e.g. they have put on the obituary of John T. Saywell (1921-2011); they give a short history of the Chinese-Canadian Legal History; they write about Native History in the Court; and offer Links to Western Legal History – all interesting subjects for the family historian.
They have also published books, two of which are The Persons Case: The Origins and Legacy of the Fight for Legal Personhood, and The Law of the Land: The advent of the Torrens System in Canada.
They also have done a number of oral histories which are listed by name at www.osgoodesociety.ca/oral_history/oral_history_a.html. Some of the people that have been interviewed are The Hon. Lincoln Alexander, The Hon. John Arnup, and The Hon. George Addy.
Although the oral histories are not online, you can contact them at firstname.lastname@example.com for membership, or to ask a question.


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Barrington Stage
30 Union Street,
No one has favorited this theater yet
Located in the building that was once a movie house called the Union Square Theatre. In the 1990's the building hosted only live performances as the Berkshire Public Theatre, closing down in 1995. It became the Berkshire Music Hall, and underwent renovations costing approximately $500,000. By 2014 it had been renamed Barrington Stage.
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The theatre is in fact being currently used for stage shows and other acts. Some are sponsored by the Colonial Theatre restoration organization in order to raise needed funds for that project.
I haven't been inside this theatre yet, but the entrance is an ugly botched mess I hope is eventually improved and made more attractive.
Here's a photo:
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The Barrington Stage Company, now a summer-only theatre based in Sheffield, purchased the Berkshire Music Hall and the adjoining Octagon House two days ago. The purchase cost $785,000. The company plans to continue renovations begun last year by the previous owner, Raymond Schilke.
Story in today's Berkshire Eagle
Story in today's Boston Globe
The status should be changed to "Open/Renovating", as the theatre is currently in use.
I went to a couple of Saturday kids' matinees at this theatre when it was known as the Paris. I recall there being a short hallway, leading to a concession stand and waiting area, that were seperated from the theatre by curtain covered doorways. The theatre itself was square in shape, with a relatively high ceiling, and wood floors. At that time, the theatre was kept unusually dark; perhaps, to hide the building's poor condition.
Years later, I attended a play at this location, when it was the Berkshire Public Theatre. The interior had been renovated by then and appeared to be in good shape. However, from more recent pictures, it appears the venue fell back in to disrepair rather quickly.
Throughout it's various incarnations, the building's purpose/name was advertised via a second story wall mural that often revieled previous tenants, as the paint began to fade and chip.
As the Union Square Theatre, it was profiled in the MGM Theatre Photograph and Report project. There is an exterior photo dated April 1941. The photo was taken from the same angle as the color photo posted above on April 4, 2005 by Gerry Deluca. High up on the end wall was a lighted sign with the theatre's name. Above the entrance was a small marquee with the Union Square name on the frnt and sides. Posted on the marquee in white letters on a dark background is the movie, James Stewart and Paulette Goddard in "Pot O' Gold". The Report says that the theatre is on Union St., that it is not a MGM customer, that it was built about 1915, is in Fair condition, and has 500 seats, apparently all on one floor. There is a notation that the Union Square Theatre plays non-MGM first-run films.
Now known as Barringgton Stage, website http://www.barringtonstageco.org/
er Barrington is the correct spelling
Here is a May 1952 ad from the Berkshire Evening Eagle:
First mentioned in the Eagle as the Union Square theatre on September 16th, 1912 and closed in 1959. Reopened as Paris Cinema on July 18th, 1969 and closed in 1980. 1969 grand opening ad posted.
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What the Knicks will get from Andy Rautins
New York Knicks president of basketball operations Donnie Walsh announced Thursday that the team has signed guard Andy Rautins, the 38th overall selection in the 2010 NBA Draft, to a player contract.
Per team policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Rautins, 6-4, 194-pounds, played four seasons at Syracuse University and averaged 12.1 points and 4.9 assists as a senior in 2009-10.
HoopsVibe's Very Quick Call: On Tuesday evening, I had a press pass for the Jack Donohue International Classic between Canada and China in Vancouver, BC.
Andy Rautins is the starting off-guard for the Canadians. What New York fans have heard is true: the former Syracuse star has serious range.
On Tuesday, he was 4-of-6 from behind the three-point line. Two of his three-pointers were from well beyond the arc. His jump shot can punish opposing defenses for cheating or double-teaming.
Rautins, at 6-6, also has nice size for the two-spot. He's an above average passer and competes on both ends of the floor.
However, his mid-range game is an area of concern. Rautins needs to develop an in-between game to complement his outside shot.
Rautins does have a strong basketball IQ. His father is Leo Rautins, a former center with the Philadelphia 76ers, broadcaster, and the current coach of the Canadian national side.
Maybe Rautins sticks in New York. Maybe he doesn't. He only needs the right opportunity to show he's an NBA player.
–Oly Sandor.
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text: We left a few key names off last month's list of Geek Culture's 26 Most Awesome Female Ass-Kickers -- and boy, did we hear about it. Fans of fierce Matrix and Fifth Element heroines were especially outraged that their fave femmes fatales failed to get their due. "Wow," wrote commenter erikslev. "Like all the other posters [pointed out], where is Trinity? Where is Fifth Element? Milla? The Bride? Rosario Dawson (Sin City)? Princess Mononoke? Samus Aran? This list is missing so many more deserving characters.... You guys aren't geeks at all." Readers championed Trinity (pictured above), Leeloo and more than 50 other action chicks from movies, videogames, TV and comics. Favorites ranged from Kill Bill's sword-wielding Beatrix Kiddo (aka The Bride) to Street Fighter II's martial arts ass-kicker Chun-Li and Farscape's Aeryn Sun. "This list needs a sequel to fix all the omissions," wrote Wired.com commenter anothermike. Fair enough. Here are the fiercest female bassasses that you picked. Trinity (above) You didn't include Trinity! She could easily have kicked the ass of any female on this list. Well, except Hit-Girl! -- cyclone1164 Where is Trinity from The Matrix? She is suspiciously absent. -- abukowski Trinity isn't in your top 26? Really? Or did you just forget about her? -- funnelduck Trinity from The Matrix is like the queen of bad-ass, ass-kicking action characters. -- awerich I cannot believe Trinity is not even on the list. She should be in the top five! -- grofia Seven hardly fought anyone, so I'm at a complete loss for why Jeri Ryan got the nod and yet you left Trinity in the dust. Come on now, you listed Garner's roles twice for crying out loud. -- CannedKarma Trinity? Samus Aran? Motoko Kusanagi? Supergirl? Not even a mention? -- SeasideMessenger What about Trinity? from Matrix. -- ranch2k You put Catwoman and forgot Trinity? Tch tch tch but hey, still great viewing! -- zipfox How the *!#*@$ did Trinity not make the list??? --dswersky What about Trinity from The Matrix? -- tbouvin Trinity from The Matrix. End of discussion.-- andrescmLeeloo Nobody mentioned Leeloo yet? Trinity definitely deserves to be on the list, and a small honorable mention to Miss Jupiter. I guess this is only countin' American movies and games? Lotta Japanese girls would mop the floor with most of these. -- drunkn_mastr No Leeloo Multipass? Whatevs.... -- Romanowski Are you kidding? No Leeloo from Fifth Element? -- Rah55 I still wake in the middle of the night in a cold sweat and scream, "Leeloo Dallas Multipass." -- dedlam Leeloo from The Fifth Element should not have been left out. I mean she is the perfect being after all. -- unfocusedpie Where the frak is Leeloo Dallas from The Fifth Element? -- mekugi Seriously? You have whiny-causes-more-problems-than-she-solves Kate in there and no Leeloo? -- PugFuglySamantha "Sam" Carter What the hell? How could you leave out Samantha Carter [from Stargate]? A longer run on TV than any other mentioned heroines. -- Lazlo When I saw this list I thought for sure Sam Carter would be on it. She's beautiful, smart and kick ass in the most hard-core ways. I mean shyte, she blew up a star. -- AnotherEffingJoeEmma Peel You forgot the original. Diana Rigg as Emma Peel. --MotSnave If you can reach back to the '70s for a cartoon like Wonder Woman, you could surely have reached back to the '60s for every then-young man's kick-ass wet dream: Emma Peel -- bilmor I'm showing my age but you have to have Emma Peel (Diana Riggs) from The Avengers in the '60s, guys! --Patriarch Definitely Emma Peel. Plus Janeane Garofalo as The Bowler in Mystery Men! --jejacksonSarah Walker Sarah Walker from Chuck. Hot and badass! -- whitnie12 Agent Sarah Walker (Yvonne Strahovski) from Chuck would definitely be at the top of my list. -- td752Selene How about Selene in Underworld (Kate Beckinsale). She kicked some vamp butt. -- MsWilson Really? No Kate Beckinsale/Underworld? -- HP2Mav Where the fuck is Selene from Underworld movies? Kate Beckinsale is amazing! She has no equal! -- Progressive1Major Motoko Kusanagi Good lord, who made up this list? Ever hear of Ghost in the Shell? Major Kusanagi is who you are missing! -- hal999 Leaving out Major Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell 1/2/SAC/SSS was a grievous error. A woman that is a leader of the most bad-ass group of Section 9's bad-ass personnel, rocks one smoking cyborg body, can take control of tech using just her mind, and can kick your ass while doing it -- and she's not on here? I mean, we're talking about the show that largely inspired The Matrix's stunts and feel. 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And, ever heard of Lady Death? -- leogrebotSookie Stackhouse You missed Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), the nice Southern girl who can mix it up with vampires. --Steve123La Femme Nikita You totally missed Peta Wilson from the La Femme Nikita series. My fave female ass-kicker of all time. How could you miss her? She even said in an interview she'd beat Xena in a fight. They asked why and she said 'cos if it comes down to it, Nikita has a gun. -- Sard9 Should have included Luc Besson's Nikita (not the shite remakes though). -- PabloCokeMiho Miho (Devon Aoki) from Sin City --wideliner Miho. Deadly little Miho. --tekrepYu Shu Lien Since you genre-hopped all over hell's half-acre, what about Yu Shu Lien (played by Michelle Yeoh) in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? --iowamike Michelle Yeoh [who played Yu Shu Lien in] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. --dks123Zev What about Zev From Lexx? She was part cluster lizard! -- Milkcan Another vote for Zev from Lexx! Also, where the heck is Gwen Cooper from Torchwood?!? -- JimmyTheSnoutLeela No Leela from Futurama? --reg_GCommander Shepard Commander Shepard (Mass Effect) doesn't have to be a dude, you know. --jMagnum Image courtesy Electronic ArtsSamus Aran You forgot Samus Aran from Metroid! -- tbouvin Echoing the great Samus Aran, for sure! -- davenelson22Jue Forget Trinity! Jue from Final Flight of the Osiris is better. The opening scene is nothing short of pure, visual art that not even Avatar has topped. --SetantaAeryn Sun Where the frell is Aeryn Sun from Farscape? -- AnnieBW Wait a sec here. Where's Aeryn Sun? For a strong female character, she's one of the tops. Way better than Red Sonja or that Avatar person. -- ruinexplorerPrincess Leia No Princess Leia -- how did she get missed? -- DrEnter What about Princess Leia? She killed Jabba. She wasn't exactly a nice girl. -- bluegreen03Bayonetta Hell, Bayonetta could kick Laura Croft's ass. -- MidwayChun-Li What about Chun-Li? She was the first female butt-kicker that most of us ever got to grips with. Well in Street Fighter II anyway. -- anthonygerrard I believe Chun-li has been kicking ass well before Lara arrived on the scene. -- tengobotasEcho Out of [Joss] Whedon's three shows with really strong female, ass-kicking characters, it's good to see at least two show. I somewhat expected Echo from Dollhouse to appear on there, or a nod to many of the women [Eliza] Dushku has played. -- NegativeKFiona How about Fiona from Burn Notice? I love a girl who knows her way around explosives! -- alphasigmookieEowyn Eowyn from Lord of the Rings? (Best. Line. Ever. -- "I am no man.") --AnnieBWSusan Ivanova Susan Ivanova from Babylon 5. --Mystgreen "Who am I? I'm Susan Ivanova, Commander, daughter of Andrei and Sofie Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance, and the boot that is gonna kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart. I'm death incarnate and the last living thing that you're ever going to see. God sent me." --kaijuTulip O'Hare Tulip O'Hare from Preacher must be in this list. --skoogizPris Whatever happened to Pris from Blade Runner? --keyboredZoe Where the hell is Zoe from Firefly? -- jcoxen Seriously? You pick two Whedon characters and Buffy is one of them? Come on now. Zoe gets my vote any day of the week. -- avclayton Honorable Mentions Also garnering commendations from at least one commenter each: Anita Blake (Vampire Hunter), Rachael (Blade Runner), Jadis the White Witch (The Chronicles of Narnia), Tasha Yar (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Kathryn Janeway (Star Trek: Voyager), Delenn (Babylon 5), Faith (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Illyria (Angel), Cameron Phillips and Catherine Weaver (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles), Jadzia Dax (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), Rommie (Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda), the Cleopatra 2525 cast and Number Six (Battlestar Galactica). 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Tyrion gains new responsibilities; Jon is taken to the Fist of the First Men; Daenerys meets with the slavers; Jaime strikes a deal with his captors.
The Tully family has so far been lightly represented on the show, but this week several new members are introduced, although for one of them that introduction comes a bit late. Another one of them is something of a fan favourite character and someone Catelyn is very glad to meet again.
In King's Landing, Tywin is unhappy with the lack of news about Jaime's whereabouts and he seems intent on making Tyrion unahppy as well by bestowing an unwanted honour on him. As a result, Tyrion finds himself teaching Bronn a thing or two about loans while Podrick gets a very, very different lesson…
Jaime, as it happens, is in a bit of a tight spot together with Brienne, and things really take a turn for worse for the unlikely couple. Keep a close eye on Gwendoline Christies performance in this episode, its quite brilliant.
Beyond the Wall, the remains of Lord Mormont's party might think they have escaped the worst, but as they reach Craster's Keep they find anything but a warm welcome. Samwell does gets to meet someone he has missed, but the circumstances could be happier.
Finally, across the Narrow Sea Daenerys's advisors do not see eye to eye on the best course of action, until she does something that has them both agreeing it was the wrong thing to do.


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This edition of the Tiger Paper protests the impending firing of 1,700 adjunct faculty and the consequent reduction in the number of classes offered at BMCC. "Such a move spells disaster for Open Admissions," the paper's editors write.The [...]
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Local officials who subjected a Dorset family to covert surveillance to find out if they had lied to get their youngest child into an outstanding primary school acted illegally, a landmark ruling said today.
Poole Borough Council's spying on Jenny Paton, her partner Tim Joyce, and their three daughters was "not proportionate and could not reasonably have been believed to be proportionate", the Investigatory Powers Tribunal found.
The council had claimed it was necessary to follow and film the family for three weeks after receiving phone calls wrongly claiming the family did not live in the catchment area for Lilliput first school. The covert operation was authorised by officials under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), and ony disclosed to Paton by accident.
The Tribunal, which was the first of its kind to hold open hearings, found the operation was illegal under RIPA and breached the Human Rights Act.
Corinna Ferguson, legal officer for Liberty, said: "Intrusive surveillance is vital to fighting terrorism and serious crime but weak legal protections and petty abuses of power bring it into disrepute.
"Former Ministers claimed that the innocent had nothing to fear but the sinister treatment of Jenny and her kids proves that these powers need to be far more tightly restricted and supervised."
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I'd venture to say most of us have never seen meatloaf and mashed potatoes or homemade soup on a pizzeria menu. If, by some odd chance you have, then I'd wager a day's pay you've never read, "lemon pepper chicken salad with raspberry vinaigrette" in between slice prices and sub choices.
And yet, it's fitting to see such a far-out menu far out in Barker. If you're going to make the lengthy drive, it should be worth the price of gas, right?
Pizza, Wings and Things, celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2011, is an eclectic pizzeria fashioned in the mold of an old-fashioned diner. It has knick-knacks on the walls; local news, Barker birthdays and trivia on the tables; and homemade comfort food served by a friendly wait staff.
Moreover, PWT boasts a menu that reads like a phone book. Offerings include a full page of subs (including traditional favorites and house specials such as chicken finger and bacon, grilled chicken and ham or white pizza); 10 pizza pies (or choose your own toppings); wings; fingers; calzones; stromboli; 10 different salads; sandwiches; dinners ... you get the point. And, by the way, there's a separate dessert menu with treats including "mud-thick" milkshakes, pecan turtle and warm cinnamon fried dough sundaes.
The sizable menu is out of the ordinary - but then, so are the prices. Most dinners are priced under $10 and include sides. More than a dozen sandwich/french fry combos cost less than $7, and large salads are $8.95 or less.
When stopping for dinner this week, I ordered the sirloin burger deluxe with fries, a slice of pizza and a milkshake (hold your judgment; I was hungry!). In keeping with the too-good-to-be-true theme, my burger was atypically large, I had enough fries to feed a small planet, and the cheese and pepperoni wedge was the size of two regular pieces.
The food was of good quality. The burger was slightly more done than I requested, but still boasted plenty of grilled flavors. The fries were addictive, and the pickle had an unexpected zing of heat. The pizza slice was a little too cheesy for my taste, but the crunchy crust made up for that.
Coupled with the thick, chocolate milkshake (topped, of course, with real whipped cream), and a root beer, my bill came to a paltry $15. Considering I was full for a day-and-a-half, I'd say that was a pretty good deal.
Sitting in PWT, you get a sense that everything on the menu is good. The next time I'm in town, I'd like to try a cheeseburger pizza (la frois sauce, hamburger, smothered onions, mozzarella and American cheeses; $13.95) a barbecue rib sub ($4.95 half/$7.95 full), or (I said or!) that homemade meatloaf/mashed potato dish ($6.95 with vegetables, roll and butter).
Pizza, Wings and Things is located at 1693 Quaker Road, Barker. Summer hours are 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, and 11 a.m. to midnight on Friday and Saturday. The eatery also caters. For more information, call 795-3224.


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Well, the power just went out, so it's time for me to pack up my Mac and head out to a cafe with WiFi where I can work on my novel in front of people and get this posted. The weird thing is, while it's likely going to take an hour at least from the time I finish writing this paragraph until it actually posts on the internet, there is no perceived delay from whoever reads this, because as far as you're concerned, the post didn't exist until it was published, though it already existed for me.
Um. Yeah. I'm sure someone who's actually studied physics is going to knock me around for that, but since my knowledge of the field is limited to what I've picked up on my own, it's a fun thought exercise.Okay, little post, go sit in an eigenstate for the nice people.
Your analogy is reasonable. The post existed on your laptop while you drove to the coffee shop, in a state such that it was stable but not portable. Once you got to the coffee shop, by connecting to the internet, you promoted it to an energy state where it could slide easily through the intertubes to our screens.
Since quantum mechanics describes ONLY the behavior of the very small, it has problems when extended directly to the macroscopic (which the idea of Shroedinger's cat is an illustration). You extended the notion as well as it could be.
The eigenvalue then is just a scalar logical value indicating if the post is visible to the world. Every eigenvalue has to have a corresponding operator; the operator is a complicated set of tests of whether or not if you point our browser at wilwheaton.typepad.com, you get a certain character string that's in the post.
Why yes, I am procrastinating, why do you ask? :-D
Even though I don't understand the math behind quantum physics, I have a good enough grasp of the theory behind quantum physics to allow me to follow along when the math is discussed. Put another way: I know enough French and Spanish to put together what someone is telling me, but not enough to actually sit down and compose a letter in that language.
I'm sure I've just oversimplified the whole thing, and insulted a lot of actual scientists and mathematicians, so let me apologize for that before I continue, because I think I'm about to make it even worse.
I was easily bored as a kid. I wasn't athletic, strong or coordinated, but I was smart and I loved to read. I still enjoyed playing tag, hide and seek, and riding bikes, but none of that stuff satisfied me the same way that exploring imagined worlds in my mind did. Those imagined worlds were usually delivered in the form of Science Fiction and Fantasy books, within D&D modules, and occasionally created (or spun off from existing imagined worlds) using action figures. (I guess it's no surprise, then, that I make my living and found my place in life using my imagination.)
I always loved exploring strange new worlds in books and magazines (Dear Asimov's, I never thought it would happen to me, but ...) and there was even a time in my late teens when I actively sought out all the weird conspiracy, occult, UFO and supernatural stuff I could find (I truly despise that crap today) because even though I knew it was bullshit, it was yet another weird and fantastic imagined world to explore.
As I wrote in an old Things I Love post, it was the book Hyperspace that fundamentally changed my worldview:
[S]omeone (I think it was my brother) suggested that I read A Brief History of Time. I picked it up, read it in just a couple of days, and realized that my life could be divided into before I read it, and after I read it. On my next trip to the bookstore, I went straight to the science section, and looked for something – anything – to continue my education.
My eyes fell on a book with an interesting cover, and a provocative title: Hyperspace: A scientific odyssey through parallel universes, time warps, and the 10th dimension. It was written by a guy called Michio Kaku. I pulled it off the shelf, and after just a few pages, I was hooked.
There's a story in Hyperspace, right at the beginning, that I'm going to paraphrase. It's the story that grabbed my attention, captured my imagination, and fundamentally altered the way I thought about the nature of existence. I already had "before and after" with A Brief History of Time, and when I got to the end of this story, I had "before and after I read about the fish scientists." The story goes something like this:
In San Francisco, there's this botanical garden, and near the entrance there is a pond that's filled with koi fish. Dr. Kaku describes standing there, looking at the fish one day, and wondering what it would be like if the fish had a society as complex and advanced as our own, but the whole thing was confined to the pond, and they had no idea that there was a whole other world just beyond the surface of the water. In the fish world, there were fish scientists, and if a human were to pluck one of them from the pond, show it our world, and return it to the pond, it would go back to the other fish scientists and say, "Guys! You're never going to believe this. I was just doing my thing, and suddenly, this mysterious force pulled me from our world and showed me another, where the creatures don't need gills to breathe, and walk on two legs!"
The other scientists would look at it, and ask it how it got to this new world, but it wouldn't be able to explain it. They'd want the scientist to recreate it, but it wouldn't be able to. The fish scientist would know, however, that the other world was there, and that there was something just as complex as life in the pond on the other side of some mysterious barrier that they couldn't seem to penetrate.
I'm sure I've mangled the story, but that's essentially what I remember from it. I thought, "Well, shit, if there could be a world like that in the pond, maybe we are in something else's pond!" I didn't know if it was possible, I didn't know if it was just science fiction, but I didn't care. It was this incredible possibility, and my world opened up again. I felt like I'd been granted membership in a secret society. I devoured the book, and I began to think about the nature of existence in ways that I'd never even considered before. When I finally read Flatland a few years later, I was blown away that Abbot had written essentially the same story a hundred years earlier, in 1884, and I was thrilled that I could actually understand it.
My elementary school teachers were real good at putting the fear of God into us kids, but they were just horrible at teaching us math. I tried and tried, but I never understood it, and "you have to learn this because you have to learn it" wasn't the type of inspiration that worked for me. Even today, I'm not very good at math, never having found that teacher who could translate it into something I could actually use and appreciate.
Growing up, I was a creative kid, an imaginative kid, and while I loved reading and learning about scientists and mathematicians, I never had a teacher or tutor who could help teenage me understand their work the way I understood their lives. (NB: My tutor while I was on Star Trek, Marion, who took me through most of high school, did everything she could to help me get excited about math, but to borrow from a parable: that ground in my brain had never been cultivated, and it just wasn't fertile enough to bear fruit.)
My lack of mathematical ability held me back in science, and it prevented me from ever studying physics or astronomy at anything exceeding the "for dummies" level. Here's a sad and embarrassing truth: I still can't sit down and develop equations for things, I struggle to calculate simple problems that my kids can do in their heads (they were taught math in a fundamentally different way than I was) and few things make me feel as stupid and frustrated as a simple algebra problem.
But when I sit down to read books like Hyperspace, articles about the LHC, anything my friend Phil Plait writes, or comments like the one I quoted above, I understand what they're talking about. I get excited, and take a look at a world that seems fantastic and imagined, but is actually real and right here.
I seem to have wandered away from the reason I sat down to write this post, so let me try to bring it all back together: I love exploring fantastic worlds that only exist in books and my imagination. But I also I love exploring the real world, which is so amazing, it just seems imagined.
(I once read a story about this for an audiobook. I forget the title, but it was about a kid who wanted to leave Earth with a dimension-hopping guy to explore the universe, and the dimension-hopping guy tells him that he shouldn't leave Earth for parts unknown until he really explores all the wonderful and incredible things that Earth has to offer, because due to the laws of dimension-hopping, it's a one-way trip. I wonder if that's still in print? I'd love to listen to it.)
I still wish I had a better understanding of the science and math that makes understanding and exploring the most fantastic parts of our real world possible, but until I do, I'm happy I have a pocket phrase book and a tourist map to help me get around a little bit.


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RICHMOND, Va. — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Texas Gov. Rick Perry have failed to qualify for Virginia's March 6 Republican primary.
The Republican Party of Virginia announced late Friday and early Saturday that Gingrich and Perry fell short of the 10,000 signatures of registered voters required for a candidate's name to be on the ballot.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Texas Rep. Ron Paul met the threshold and will be on the ballot.
Failure to compete in Virginia, which is among the "Super Tuesday" primaries, would deal a huge blow to any contender who had not locked up the nomination by then.
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House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
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State GOP spokesman Garren Shipley said volunteers spent Friday validating petitions that the four candidates submitted by the Thursday 5 p.m. deadline to the State Board of Elections.Video: Can Gingrich overcome his troubles? (on this page)
"After verification, RPV has determined that Newt Gingrich did not submit required 10k signatures and has not qualified for the VA primary," the Republican Party of Virginia announced early Saturday via Twitter.
Shipley was unavailable for comment on the announcement.
Gingrich's campaign attacked Virginia's primary system on Saturday, saying that "only a failed system" would disqualify Gingrich and other candidates and vowing to run a write-in campaign.
"Voters deserve the right to vote for any top contender, especially leading candidates," Gingrich campaign director Michael Krull said in a statement. "We will work with the Republican Party of Virginia to pursue an aggressive write-in campaign to make sure that all the voters of Virginia are able to vote for the candidate of their choice."
However, according to state law, "No write-in shall be permitted on ballots in primary elections."
The 10,000 registered voters had to include 400 signatures from each of Virginia's 11 congressional districts.
The development is a major setback for Gingrich, who has tried to use his recent upsurge in popularity to make up for a late organizing start.
A Quinnipiac poll of Virginia Republicans released earlier in the week suggested that Gingrich had a slight lead over Romney.Video: Romney's tough talk hits nerve with Gingrich (on this page)
Gingrich said Wednesday he had enough ballot signatures, but he wanted to come to Virginia to deliver them personally. Taking no chances, his volunteers asked everyone to sign petitions before entering Gingrich's rally Wednesday night in Arlington, just across the Potomac River from Washington.
Gingrich represented Georgia in Congress for two decades, but has lived in McLean, Va., an upscale Washington suburb, while he's worked in the private sector.
Gingrich's early-December rise in several polls gave him renewed hopes of carrying his campaign deep into the primary season.
In a statement, Perry's campaign described the signature shortfall in Virginia as a "isolated situation."
"We will closely review the facts and law to determine whether an appeal or challenge is warranted," the statement added. "Governor Perry has the utmost respect for the strong place Virginia holds in our nation's economic and military strength and in American history. He will continue to work hard to build strong support in Virginia and earn the trust of conservative-minded voters there."Video: Perry attempts to get back into Iowa race (on this page)
It was unclear if Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum or former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman submitted petitions to the state board.
Meanwhile, Virginia's Democrats said President Barack Obama's re-election campaign gathered enough signatures to get him on the state's primary ballot.
As he is the only candidate who qualified, the state's Board of Elections will likely cancel the scheduled primary election.
NBC News' Carrie Dann and The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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You guys post some really big distance numbers. Youre definitely whacked. But for me, Hmmm, Im not really sure. For the past year I have been doing a sunrise to sunset skate session (obsession session?) about once a week. I do take breaks for water and coffee, but I dont eat. Fun trumps food and Im way too pumped up to eat. The result is a 10-hour + day of speed runs, hill shredding, dancing and the simple pleasures of riding the concrete wave. And as a bonus, I go home with one of lifes greatest feeling combos: worn out and happy. I love that feeling.
Kinda reminds me of the 1950s research experiment where a rat can press a lever in its cage that stimulates an electrode planted in the pleasure center of its brain. There is food and water in the cage, but the rat never eats or drinks. Instead, it presses the lever thousands and thousands of times until it collapses from exhaustion. Yeah, skating is kinda like that.
|November 22nd, 2016, 07:41 PM
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Location: New Orleans, Louisiana USA
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So I left the house ON SKATES at 10am and got home ON SKATES around 5:15pm. Sure I took some breaks but mostly just tuned into some jams and skating miles and miles just to get the "feel good" drugs manufactured in my brain.
After three days of 6+ hours on skates I just couldn't manage the 4th day. It was really windy and cold so I stayed inside and cleaned the house. I felt fulfilled and buzzed listening to the same tunes I played skating the previous three days. BTW...my play list was exactly 6 hours and I used up EVERY song on it!
I guess you could call this an obsession.
2 Inline Skates, 1 Quad Skates, 4 Longboards, 3 Bicycles, 0 Cars
|November 30th, 2016, 07:27 AM
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Location: Highland NY
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I don't remember replying in May, but I'll post again. STILL OBSESSED!!!
When my son was a baby I skated with him in the jogging stroller for miles and miles almost every day. I never thought he'd really like skating, but now he is 15 years old and he's even more obsessed than me. He's getting really good and loves skating, now he's a skate guard at a local rink! Grandpa skates every weekend too (he's 77).
We may be the happiest people on the planet (thank you endorphins).
|December 2nd, 2016, 02:37 AM
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2 Inline Skates, 1 Quad Skates, 4 Longboards, 3 Bicycles, 0 Cars
|December 2nd, 2016, 09:04 AM
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Location: Highland NY
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DIDO that. Skating is my heaven. I experienced this most profoundly last year when I witnessed a suicide while skating.
It was difficult to understand that someone else could be going through hell while I was skating in heaven. What a horrible day (very happy my son was not there). It was really hard to digest. The bridge I skate is about 100meters high, so I guess it's not too out of the ordinary, but still.
I'm thankful that I have skating. SOOOOOO THANKFUL, it's a 100% healthy obsession.
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