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House Speaker Boehner — will there be another government shutdown?
The new year prompts many of us once again to make personal resolutions. Most of them are promises to change our own behaviors. While personal change is important, change in our social systems can only be achieved by a collective commitment to do things differently. If we work together, even in the midst of disagreement, we have the potential for a community change, which is vital in our current times.
At the close of 2013, it was encouraging to see congressional leaders negotiate a way forward on the federal budget issues that have divided us for so long. It was promising to see that some of our elected leaders were willing to work hard to avoid another government shutdown. While we may differ with the specific positions of one side or the other, it was important that they were willing to step up and work for a compromise before the midnight hour. Unfortunately, these leaders were met with harsh criticism from some of their own colleagues for daring to work with those of a different political party.
As the calendar page has turned from December to January 2014, we have heard little about collaboration and meaningful compromise. There seems to be little resolve on the part of our national elected leaders to change individual and collective behavior to move our country forward. Determination to get re-elected seems to be the prevailing personal goal, rather than resolving to make change for the common good.
The 113th Congress is moving into the second year of its work in 2014. A courageous resolution for the members of Congress would be to negotiate differences of opinion, rather than an outright refusal to discuss them. As leaders from polarized political parties set their sights toward the mid-year election season, they might consider how weary citizens are of their relentless bickering. There is so much more work to do than simply figure out how to get re-elected.
Extending unemployment benefits is a good example of an urgent issue requiring action by Congress. Such action could stimulate the economy and care for the common good, but it seems to keep getting stuck in congressional gridlock. The argument is that people are using unemployment benefits to avoid getting a job. Every one of us knows a family member or friend who has lost their job in the last several months due to our nation's economic crisis. I don't know of a single one of them who would rather receive unemployment compensation than a paycheck.
As we welcome the new year of 2014, there are many other critical issues that need to be addressed. One is the looming climate crisis impacts the future of the entire world, far beyond our borders. Another is the need for comprehensive immigration reform that keeps families together and allows people to work and pay taxes without fear of detention or deportation. And families continue to struggle with financial crises and the threat of foreclosure because the fallout from the mortgage fraud and housing crisis in 2009 was never fully resolved.
Turning the calendar page to 2014 and setting our sights toward the future requires that we look beyond our personal goals and boldly claim our collective commitment to the common good as this year's resolution.


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No permit is required if replacements are the same size (no structural changes). Permit is required if the size is different from the original.
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Homeowners can perform their own building, plumbing and/or HVAC work but must use an electrician licensed with the City for any electrical work. When a homeowner performs their own work they must be present during 100% of the project and physically be performing the work themselves. This does not apply to a homeowner working with a contractor non-licensed by the city. Please be aware a "homeowner" is an individual that occupies the residence in which the work is being performed. Any work on a rental property and/or house intended to be resold must be performed by a licensed contractor with the City of Crown Point.
No permit is needed if you're only re-roofing or re-shingling. A permit is required if you're replacing rafters or sheeting.
A permit is not required for an accessory building 120 square feet (10 feet by 12 inches) or less - if over 120 square feet, a permit is required.
Accessory buildings cannot be constructed in utility or drainage easements - check your survey for your property.
No. If installing a new driveway, you will need to obtain approval before you cut into the street - contact the City Engineering Department 219-662-3242.
The maximum size is 900 square feet (30 feet by 30 feet). The maximum height is 16 feet. Other restrictions include: minimum of 5 feet side and rear yard setbacks - cannot be constructed in a utility/drainage easement.
Check your survey for your property setbacks. Permits are required.
Permits are required.
Pools shall be protected with a minimum 4 feet high barrier or automatic pool cover. You must declare on application if you are installing a heater. Filter pumps cannot be run by extension cords. Safety equipment is required for all pools and must be in place before final inspection.
No. Fences must be located behind the platted building line (no fences in your front yard, if you have a corner lot you have two front yards), cannot be constructed in a drainage/utility easement and cannot exceed 7 feet in height. Check your survey for your property.
Fireplaces require a permit and an inspection for both wood and gas burning.
Permits are required for decks/patios over 12 inches in height above finished grade - decks/patios over 30 inches above finished grade require guardrails per code. Repair of existing decks requires a permit and must meet current code.
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The Hyperfuel™ line of fuel injection ready direct replacement tanks feature internal baffling with extra large 4.8 liter dual tube baffled fuel tray to prevent fuel pump starvation. Stamped steel reproductions of the original fuel tank require no modifications to mount. The tanks include a quality 5-hole design 0-90 Ohms sending unit for your fuel gauge and a 440 L/PH high quality fuel pump, longer mounting straps, and filler neck. Sender and fuel pump are recessed in the tank for easy installation. The Tight-Fit 440 L/PH in-tank EFI fuel pump (Part No. 40017) supports up to 1500hp on pump gas and 1100hp with E85. An in-tank fuel pump is the best method of fuel delivery because the pump is submerged in the fuel which keeps it cooler, provides longer life, and is nearly silent. While primarily intended as an EFI retro-fit system, these tanks can also be used on carbureted engines as long as a quality fuel pressure regulator is utilized to reduce the fuel pressure to the carburetor. These systems have external -6 ORB outlet, return and vent ports for easy fuel line connection.
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Case Study: Diverse Origins of Two Caldera-forming Volcanoes in the Western U.S.
Yellowstone and Crater Lake National Parks feature a variety of well-studied volcanic rocks and other features associated with some of the most violent volcanic eruptions to have occurred in the western United States within the last 2 million years. Explosive eruptions of silicic magmas from these volcanoes produced vast deposits of ash which were spread across vast portions of the North American continent, dwarfing those associated with more recent volcanic eruptions in the western U.S., such as the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. Particularly violent pyroclastic eruptions at these two volcanoes also produced calderas, collapse features produced by the suddent draining of large, sub-surface magma chambers.
While caldera-forming volcanoes are broadly similar in terms of their eruption behavior and volcanic deposits, the ultimate causes and eruptive behavior of caldera-forming volcanism are quite diverse, and are ultimately linked to plate tectonic setting. The volcanism at Crater Lake and Yellowstone highlight these differences and form the basis of this exercise.


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The profits of the world's largest airline stuttered last year amidst rising fuel costs and the Arab Spring, but the airline is back on its feet with 15 new routes and a hefty fleet expansion.
The parent company of Dubai-based carrier Emirates said Monday that operating profit for the first half of the year surged by more than 63 percent as the Middle East's biggest airline expanded routes and benefited from stabilizing fuel prices.
Emirates Group said operating profit rose to 2.37 billion dirhams ($645.7 million) for the first half of 2012 compared to 1.449 billion dirhams ($394.8 million) in the same period last year.
The 63.6 percent jump is a strong rebound after a sharp drop in profit for the fiscal year ending March 31 due to rising fuel costs. The company also was helped by less volatility across the wider Middle East after last year's Arab Spring uprisings disrupted flight schedules.
Emirates Group includes Emirates airline and other businesses such as cargo operations and the travel service Dnata.
Sheik Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, the company's chairman and chief executive, said the group rebounded well because of investments into the "infrastructure of both Emirates and Dnata."
Much of the Emirates Group's growth was registered at the Emirates airline, which posted a 15.4 percent increase in passenger traffic to 18.7 million passengers. The group says Emirates airline expanded its fleet to 183 planes in the first half of the year – an increase of nearly 16 percent. Emirates also added 15 new routes in the past year including Ho Chi Minh City, Barcelona, Lisbon, Erbil and Washington.
"Emirates remained focused on its growth and global expansion despite on-going fluctuating exchange rates and ever lingering high fuel prices which accounted for 39 per cent of our expenditures, down 2 percentage points from last year," said Sheik Ahmed.
Overall, Emirates Group revenue and other operating income rose to 38.2 billion dirhams ($10.4 billion) in the first half of the year, an increase of 16 percent compared to the same period last year.
Emirates is locked in strong competition with regional rivals Qatar Airways and Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways. But it remains the world's largest airline in terms of international passenger traffic. It now flies to 126 destinations in 74 countries. It has consistently reported a profit for the past 25 years.
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Why am I moving (er, changing my blog's name and look)?
- I just plain want to.
- It's time for a newer, crisper, cleaner look.
- I'm ready for a new name that's more easily accessible.
- (Yeah, I thought I'd be smart with the Latin word "res" and its alliteration with "RAsburry," but it's time for less explanation and more ease of access.)
All the posts and comments from "RAsburry's Res" can also be found over at "The RAsburry Patch," and that is where my blogging will continue.
So, followers (all 36 of you), please come on over with me and follow my blog there. Other readers, come over too, and please become followers there.
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- Cybercrime & Digital Threats
- The Equifax Breach: What to Do Now and What to Watch Out For
Equifax, one of the major credit reporting companies that calculates credit scores for financial institutions and insurance companies, reported a massive security breach on September 7, 2017. The company reportedly lost control of customer data that included the Social Security numbers, birth dates, and home addresses of 145.5 million US citizens, including a number of driver's license numbers, credit card numbers and dispute documents. In the UK, Equifax reported that 15.2 million records were targeted. Although the number might not be as large as some of the previous mega-breaches, the type of data stolen exposes affected users to a number of risks. The data can be used in identity theft scams, tax fraud, social security fraud and many other serious attacks.
In response to the breach, Equifax has set up a website with information about the event, allowing concerned individuals to check if they are affected by clicking on "Potential Impact" tab. Those who want to check should make sure they're using a secure computer and a secured connection when doing this. Equifax has also offered a free year of TrustedID, which provides credit monitoring and identity theft protection. Initially, the company's policy included a clause that customers who signed up for TrustedID could not participate in legal action against Equifax, but that statement has been removed from their site.
What to Do Now
Here are other steps we recommend you to take if you are affected:
What to Watch Out For
The Equifax breach was reported in early September, but the company suggested the breach could have started as early as May 2017. That means that for more than three months, the data of 143 million people was left exposed and they were unable to take the necessary steps to protect themselves.
It's not clear what the hackers have done or are planning to do with the data. Historically, we've seen this type of data traded in underground markets, where different criminals use them for different purposes. Certain information from the hack (SSN, birthdate, driver's license) are classified as Personally Identifiable Information (PII), which is highly valuable to cybercriminals because it can be used in many different ways.
Whether you are directly affected by this specific breach or not, here are some threats to watch out for:
It is best to err on the side of caution and be watchful of any unusual emails or calls. For phishing attacks, check that the links in the email are legitimate and that the content looks professional. Also, any unsolicited contact is suspicious—you should initiate the contact and receive a reply.
In the case of fake websites, users should know: the site should be secure (using https), and the domain should be correctly spelled. Sometime scammers will put up sites that look genuine at first glance, but are actually slightly misspelled versions of a legitimate site.
Due to the nature of the data involved, users will have to be proactive and diligent about mitigating attacks and scams. The versatility of the stolen PII allows cybercriminals to get creative with their actions, and users should be prepared.
Trend Micro offers solutions to combat phishing and fake websites. Trend Micro™ Maximum Security provides multi-device protection so that users can freely and safely go about their business in the digital world. Maximum Security also includes ransomware protection, blocks malicious links in email and IM, and provides anti-spam filters as well as effective anti-phishing features.
Updated October 11, 2017
Updated with new data from Equifax investigation regarding the number of records targeted.
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There is a huge problem in the software and web services industry: 3rd party applications, widgets, dashboards or site add-ons can kill your usability efforts.
Poor user experiences with 3rd-party applications can undermine or make your usability efforts look bad.
Vendors such as PeopleSoft, Vignette and many others are notorious
for providing "clunk-ware", "vapor-ware" or "sneaker-ware" as one of
our clients at Experience Dynamics put it.
Let's explore why this is a major problem that you need to confront head on, or be a victim of 3rd-party usability issues.
First, a 3rd-party application, content feature or widget is something that adds-value to your site and potentially to the user experience. It might be an entire account management dashboard, content management system, a 3D model of the human body, a mortgage calculator, a job board or a web service like an ecommerce shopping cart or secure service solution.
Configuration Nutritional Deficiency
In my article "Configuration Hell" I discussed how users don't do configuration behavior very well. In the case of software vendors, they provide already pre-configured applications or web services. In many cases software is developed fully loaded with features, and configuration entails "turning off" nonsensical screen elements and elements of functionality.
Open source software suffers from the same lack of understanding of defaults; poor or badly organized content and features; functionality lacking a task-oriented design.
Software vendors regularly ship products with poor usability, that are poorly configured. Worse, the practice of shipping unusable web applications or web services seems to be a business model.
"Oh, you want us to configure it so it's usable...?"
The idea is that you get a baseline package (largely un-configured) and if you want it to reflect a coherent user experience (like the rest of your site), you will need to pay more.
For me, this business model lacks integrity. Up-selling should be used for adding powerful features, not for gaining access to basic usability. The reality is that most Fortune 1000 companies will typically pay for the baseline product, ending up with a shoddy or inferior user experience.
Another reality of 3rd-party usability is that project, program or product managers are not able to do anything about 'locked down' third-party applications, widgets or re-directs to outside applications.
Herein lies the problem: users don't know when they are entering
3rd-party country. To users, it's all one big swirling experience. Poor
user experiences with 3rd-party applications can undermine or make your
usability efforts look bad.
How to minimize third-party usability problems
1. Negotiate for usability standards maintenance when signing agreements.
What many companies are doing is writing usability guarantees into the contracts so that vendors are forced to adhere to your standards before they win the contract. This is the most direct and legally binding way to leverage usability in the vendor relationship and with the solution they deliver. Sound drastic? Many of our clients are doing this, having been burned by third party usability issues year after year.
I encourage the practice, and I think vendors need to recalibrate the business model of selling unusable systems. Offering usability from the get-go is core value, it's not a value-add that you should dangle as a carrot in your customer's face for up-sell purposes.2. Mandate your usability standards as a necessary requirement to integrating a third-party application.
Vendors often will beta their next release for a negotiated price. Be careful if you choose to be a beta guinea-pig:
A ruined user experience reputation could cost you more in long term customer retention and satisfaction than buying clunky functionality that doesn't work as users expect, and integrates poorly into your development environment, causing you to write countless API's to patch the problems, for example.
3. Work with your vendor over the course of your relationship to encourage usability as a requirement in their development process.
As a customer you have tremendous influence over vendor development directions. Demand usability as a requirement and encourage specific usability enhancements, maybe not in this release, but in next year's for sure.
I don't think it's wise to even ignore usability in your software purchasing evaluation process. Apparently, neither do 70% of software buyers in a recent study by the Sand Hill Group & Neochange (2008) who rate user adoption (usability issue) as more important then features or functionality in software purchasing.
senior usability lead should be on hand to provide concrete input if
not "gut feel" input. If you don't have a senior usability person, hire
a usability consultant and have them do an informal or formal usability
audit on the intended product. This is a perfect use for usability
consulting firms. If you're going to spend
money on usability later, why not bake it into your due diligence as
one of the risks you need to manage up-front?
my ten years of experience with usability consulting, I have heard many
attempts to have me evaluate a 3rd party product before purchase- even
with an existing client- but somehow that criteria gets overlooked or
minimized in importance. Rarely is the usability due diligence
conducted. As a result I run into a lot of clients who are "stuck" with
3rd party usability issues.
Demand a change in direction from your software vendors and partners and you'll avoid or greatly minimize the inherited usability problems that often come with 3rd party applications and web services and tools. That way you won't be a victim of 3rd party usability and neither will your users.
Best Wishes,
Frank Spillers, MS


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Hemoglobin Electrophoresis
Test Overview
A hemoglobin electrophoresis test is a blood test done to check the different types of hemoglobin in the blood. Hemoglobin is the substance in red blood cells that carries oxygen.
The most common types of normal hemoglobin are:
- Hemoglobin A. This is the most common type of hemoglobin found normally in adults. Some diseases, such as severe forms of thalassemia, may cause hemoglobin A levels to be low and hemoglobin F levels to be high.
- Hemoglobin F (fetal hemoglobin). This type is normally found in fetuses and newborn babies. Hemoglobin F is replaced by hemoglobin A (adult hemoglobin) shortly after birth; only very small amounts of hemoglobin F are made after birth. Some diseases, such as sickle cell disease, aplastic anemia, and leukemia, have abnormal types of hemoglobin and higher amounts of hemoglobin F.
- Hemoglobin A2. This is a normal type of hemoglobin found in small amounts in adults.
There are more than 350 types of abnormal hemoglobin.footnote 1 The most common are:
- Hemoglobin S. This type of hemoglobin is present in sickle cell disease.
- Hemoglobin C. This type of hemoglobin does not carry oxygen well.
- Hemoglobin E. This type of hemoglobin is found in people of Southeast Asian descent.
- Hemoglobin D. This type of hemoglobin is present in some sickle cell disorders.
Hemoglobin S and hemoglobin C are the most common types of abnormal hemoglobin that may be found by an electrophoresis test.
Electrophoresis uses an electrical current to separate normal and abnormal types of hemoglobin in the blood. Hemoglobin types have different electrical charges and move at different speeds. The amount of each hemoglobin type in the current is measured.
An abnormal amount of normal hemoglobin or an abnormal type of hemoglobin in the blood may mean that a disease is present. Abnormal hemoglobin types may be present without any other symptoms, may cause mild diseases that do not have symptoms, or cause diseases that can be life-threatening. For example, hemoglobin S is found in sickle cell disease, which is a serious abnormality of the blood and causes serious problems.
Why It Is Done
Hemoglobin electrophoresis is done to:
- Find each type of hemoglobin in the blood. This can be used to diagnose certain types of anemia (such as thalassemia).
- Check treatment for diseases that have abnormal types of hemoglobin in the blood.
- Help couples find out how likely they are to have a child with certain forms of anemia that can be passed from a parent to a child (inherited).
How It Is Done
The health professional drawing blood will:
- Wrap an elastic band around your upper arm to stop the flow of blood. This makes the veins below the band larger so it is easier to put a needle into the vein.
- Clean the needle site with alcohol.
- Put the needle into the vein. More than one needle stick may be needed.
- Attach a tube to the needle to fill it with blood.
- Remove the band from your arm when enough blood is collected.
- Put a gauze pad or cotton ball over the needle site as the needle is removed.
- Put pressure on the site and then put on a bandage.
How It Feels
The blood sample is taken from a vein in your arm. An elastic band is wrapped around your upper arm. It may feel tight. You may feel nothing at all from the needle, or you may feel a quick sting or pinch.
There is very little chance of a problem from having a blood sample taken from a vein.
- You may get a small bruise at the site. You can lower the chance of bruising by keeping pressure on the site for several minutes.
- In rare cases, the vein may become swollen after the blood sample is taken. This problem is called phlebitis. A warm compress can be used several times a day to treat this.
A hemoglobin electrophoresis test is a blood test done to check the different types of hemoglobin in the blood. Results are ready in several days.
The normal values listed here—called a reference range—are just a guide. These ranges vary from lab to lab, and your lab may have a different range for what's normal. Your lab report should contain the range your lab uses. Also, your doctor will evaluate your results based on your health and other factors. This means that a value that falls outside the normal values listed here may still be normal for you or your lab.
Hemoglobin A1: |
96.5%–98.5% of total hemoglobin or 0.96–0.985 mass fraction |
Hemoglobin A2: |
1.5%–3.5% of total hemoglobin or 0.015–0.035 mass fraction |
Hemoglobin F: |
0%–1% of total hemoglobin or 0–0.01 mass fraction |
Abnormal hemoglobin types: |
None |
High and low values
- Higher-than-normal amounts of both hemoglobin A2 and hemoglobin F may mean a mild form of thalassemia is present. A very low level of hemoglobin A and a high level of hemoglobin F may mean a more severe form of thalassemia. High levels of hemoglobin F may be seen in a rare condition called hereditary persistence of fetal hemoglobin.
- Hemoglobin S in moderate amounts can mean that sickle cell trait is present. Hemoglobin S in high amounts means sickle cell disease.
- Hemoglobin C in low amounts can mean that hemoglobin C trait is present. Hemoglobin C in high amounts means hemoglobin C disease, which causes anemia and an enlarged spleen.
- Hemoglobin types S and C mean hemoglobin S-C disease, which causes a mild or moderate form of sickle cell disease.
- Hemoglobin E in low amounts means the presence of hemoglobin E trait. Hemoglobin E in high amounts means hemoglobin E disease, which causes anemia and smaller-than-normal red blood cells.
- Hemoglobin types other than S, C, D, and E are rare. But over 350 types of abnormal hemoglobin have been found.footnote 1
What Affects the Test
Reasons you may not be able to have the test or why the results may not be helpful include:
- Having a blood transfusion in the past 3 months.
- Having iron deficiency anemia. This can cause falsely low results for hemoglobin A2.
What To Think About
If you are planning to have children and are found to have abnormal types of hemoglobin in your blood, you might consider genetic counseling. This can help you and your partner see how likely you are to have children with certain inherited forms of anemia (such as sickle cell disease or thalassemia).
- Fischbach FT, Dunning MB III, eds. (2009). Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, 8th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
Other Works Consulted
- Chernecky CC, Berger BJ (2008). Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures, 5th ed. St. Louis: Saunders.
- Fischbach FT, Dunning MB III, eds. (2009). Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, 8th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
- Pagana KD, Pagana TJ (2010). Mosby's Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests, 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby Elsevier.
Current as of: March 28, 2019
Author: Healthwise Staff
Medical Review:E. Gregory Thompson, MD – Internal Medicine & Adam Husney, MD – Family Medicine & Martin J. Gabica, MD – Family Medicine
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Garden Office – Have you ever wondered how it would be to work from home? Well now you can with a very unique and useful tool which is being purchased by many people who enjoy working from the comfort of their own homes. These types of office spaces are known as garden offices.
There are many professionals who prefer working in this type of manner because they provide the best in convenience and quality. There are many different materials that are used by large companies that manufacture these types of garden office spaces. It is very important when purchasing these items that you choose the best.
If you are working from the house there are many benefits which can be taken into consideration. There is no need to wake up early in the morning and go to work unlike many people and you are able to walk into office which is right in the back of the garden in your pajama. Since there has been a huge demand for these types of home office spaces companies have also implemented several other types of offices buildings which is called an office pod. They give the same level of comfort and work environment which makes it very easy to be highly productive and gain a huge turn over in the end of the day.
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Garden office buildings come in several different colors and designs to choose from and there are many people who opt on this form of outdoor working lifestyle. There are many different designs and shapes that can be selected when purchasing these garden office spaces. Professionals such as doctors and lawyers are some of the most common individuals who purchase these garden office spaces. It allows them to practice their profession without any hassle in the comfort of their own homes. They are able to bond with the family and can work according to the time the feel like.
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This is by far one of the biggest advantages of having a garden office space. The cost of having these garden office spaces are relatively cheap and there is no need to worry about hiring a cleaning company or any other criteria's that might be taken into account of having a office space of this manner. There is very less maintenance cost involved unlike the common offices. You can easily keep an eye on the house whilst working in a garden office.


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Looks like we've found yet another case similar to the Toshiba chairs in space that looked like Simon Faithfull's chairs in space.
There's currently an Augmented Reality Billboard in Times Square for Forever 21, and while it's not a clever PSA mirroring peoples behaviour to make a point, it uses the same neat-o tech to make a 50 foot woman on the billboard interact with the crowds on the street. She even picks people up and throws them off the screen.
forever 21 billboard - augmented reality - Times Square
Hmm. That sounds a little familiar. Like Chris O'Shea's augmented reality billboard "Hand from above" picked people up and threw them off screen. (Scroll down for his video).
But then it gets even more interesting. Chris says in the comments on Vimeo;
I was contacted in March by space150, with them asking "We have a couple OpenCV projects in the works right now that our designers and developers are working through and would love to chat with you about the possibility of contracting your services for a duration on these projects".
This is a very vague and generic request....
and then all hell breaks loose as the Director pops in to share;
Petty blog comments are diminishing your aura though. "Look at me! Look at me!" It's a different thing dude. In fact, it's more complicated. What you're doing is like Orson Wells getting mad at everybody for shooting "deep focus" after Citizen Kane.
That's when the comments start recounting other advertising copies. It's not like the Nike Chalkbot which just won to massive applause in Cannes was new - way back in 2004 a parsons student, Joshua Kinberg, made the chalk dot-matrix printer that one could bluetooth messages to. This is brought up later in the Vimeo comments as well, get out of my head people! (or maybe off my website, no, wait, don't do that! Stay here!)
The comments get a little nuts, as some will yell rip-off over and over, while Nick scoffs and hurls insults, but suddenly Golan Levin shows up with a few choice phrases;
Although Goossen's remarks are uncivil (and ignorant of interactive and computational media arts), he's absolutely right about one thing, when he writes, "the concept is locked before I'm hired - if you worked in the industry you'd know an ad agency comes up with the idea and then hires a director." Goossen merely directed the models for the shoot -- it wasn't his job to "come up with the idea". We might object to the attitude and tone of his retorts above, but the real culprit in this sorry situation is someone in the space150 agency. There's simply no question that they lifted Chris's concept (for the record: a giant billboard character plucking live pedestrians, etc.). Their record of having contacted him shows that they were aware of his project -- and by emailing him with a "vague request" (instead of a specific proposal or even a heads-up notice), they plainly reveal their low character.
A lot of people benefited in a lot of different ways from the Times Square billboard. (What was the budget for this thing, any guesses?) But one person -- the artist who invented the core premise, and who showed that it could be done -- received nothing: not even the courtesy of a heads-up. Not even being asked the straight question, "We intend to reinterpret this idea; in respect of your obvious prior authorship, what would be an acceptable form of acknowledgement/involvement/remuneration to receive your blessing? So that we can go forth without damaging our reputation in the worldwide community of interactive designers and developers?"
The problem is you can not copyright an idea. And we in advertising might think we're in the idea business, but really we're not. We're in the business of execution and taming ideas to fit-a-client business. However, copying an execution may get you into legal trouble and the line is difficult to find for some. The moral line seems pretty obvious to me though, if you're inspired by a living artist, hire that artist.
For those who like BIG augmented reality examples...
In fact, the idea was to celebrate the performance of a bigger operation, not to make people believe they could do it by themselves.
Previously, they made this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcTMktEBBFA&feature=player_embedded
Little Monsters were locked in packet of Doritos crisps. To free them, you had to go there: http://www.doritos.com.br/comidadibuteco/ - and use augmented reality.
After few months, 250 000 monsters were freed. So they decided to make someting cool with the monsters and augmented reality to celebrate.
In my point of view, both parts are cool: at first, a clever marketing operation with augmented reality, then a clever buzz.


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R. H. Quaytman approaches painting as if it were poetry: when reading a poem, one notices particular words, and how each is not just that one word, but other words as well. Quaytman's paintings, organized into chapters structured in the form of a book, have a grammar, a syntax, and a vocabulary. While the work is bounded by a rigid structure on a material level—appearing only on beveled plywood panels in ten predetermined sizes derived from the golden ratio—open-ended content creates permutations that result in an archive without end. Quaytman's practice engages three distinct stylistic modes: photo-based silkscreens, optical patterns such as moiré and scintillating grids, and hand-painted oil works. Each chapter is developed in relation to a specific exhibition opportunity, and consequently, each work is iconographically bound to its initial site of presentation.
However, Quaytman's work is ultimately not about site-specificity, but about painting itself, and its relation to the archive. It seeks to graft subject matter and context onto a foundation of abstraction by engaging, in equal measure, the legacies of modernist painting and institutional critique. In her work, the self-involvement of the former and the social-situatedness of the latter paradoxically coexist. The content of Quaytman's work betrays a labyrinthine encyclopedia of interests; she excavates social and institutional histories and places them alongside autobiographical and literary references. Her practice is further characterized by a backwards glance: its conceptual and historical scaffolding is fashioned out of the work of other artists as well as her own; earlier works reappear in subsequent chapters to create a mise-en-abyme of referentiality. It is, among other things, an attempt to construct a personal art history. Its bibliography, while lengthy, remains implicit.
Relationality characterizes the works within each chapter not only in terms of content but also in terms of spatial configuration. Quaytman seeks to disrupt but not entirely eliminate the monocular focus and detachment of individual paintings. To this end, syntax generates meaning, and lines of sight produce constellations of significance. Each painting is a hieroglyph as well as a mirror, gesturing to spaces and beings outside of itself. Seriality and myriad references result in a legibility that is situated outside of the boundaries of the individual unit, and in excess any one viewer or moment of perception. A fragile conversation between neighboring paintings and the body of the viewer animates the seemingly static object.
R. H. Quaytman (b. 1961, Boston) lives and works in Guilford, CT and New York. Quaytman studied at Bard College and at the Institut des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques in Paris, and received the Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in 2001. In 2015, Quaytman was awarded the Wolfgang Hahn Prize with Michael Krebber. Since 2006, Quaytman has taught at Bard College, in addition to lecturing at Princeton University, Cooper Union, Columbia University, and the Yale University School of Art. In 2005, she co-founded Orchard, a cooperatively-run exhibition and event space that concluded its three-year run on the Lower East Side in 2008. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Art Insititute of Chicago, the Pinault Collection, the Tate Modern, the Museo Reina Sofia, the V–A–C Foundation, Fondazione Memmo, the CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, among others.
Quaytman's work was featured in documenta 14 (2017), the 54th Venice Biennale and the 2010 Whitney Biennial, and solo shows dedicated to her work have taken place at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2018), Secession, Vienna (2017), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2016), Miguel Abreu Gallery (2008, 2015), Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2015), Renaissance Society, Chicago (2013), the Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (2012), Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels (2012, 2014), the Kunsthalle Basel (2011), Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne (2011), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2010), and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2009). In 2019, her work was prominently included in Luogo e Segni, curated by Mouna Mekouar and Martin Bethenod at the Punta Della Dogana, Venice. Other two-person and group exhibitions include Electric/A Virtual Reality Exhibition, curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Serralves Museum, Porto (2019); Signal or Noise, SMAK, Ghent (2019); Jay DeFeo: The Ripple Effect, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado and Le Consortium, Dijon (2018); Field Guide, Remai Moden, Saskatoon (2017); Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, MUMOK, Vienna (2016) and Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2015); The Distance of Day, curated by Rita Kersting, The Isreal Museum, Jerusalem (2016); No Man's Land, Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2015); New Skin, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut (2015); America is Hard to See, The Whitney Museum, New York (2015); A History. Art, architecture, design from 1980 until today, curated by Christine Macel, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2014); Arrhythmia (A Tale of Many Squares), with Martin Barré, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris (2013); and Materials and Money and Crisis, co-organized by Richard Birkett and Sam Lewitt, MUMOK, Vienna (2013); Abstract Generation, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013); The Angel of History, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris (2013); and Dynamo, Grand Palais, Paris (2013). Spine, a comprehensive monograph focusing on the artist's work from The Sun, Chapter 1 through Spine, Chapter 20. Other major monographs include Morning: Chapter 30 (MOCA, Delmonico, Prestel, 2016), חקק, Chapter 29 (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2015), and Dalet, Chapter 24 (Museum Abteiberg, 2012), along with critical discussions of Quaytman's work in Afterall, Parkett, October, Texte zur Kunst, and Grey Room.
In 2019, a survey exhibition, The Sun Does Not Move, Chapter 35, was mounted at Muzeum Sztuki in Lódz, Poland. A second, expanded iteration was on view at the Serralves Museum in Porto, Portugal from October 2020 to June 2021. R. H. Quaytman's solo exhibition Modern Subjects, Chapter Zero, was recently on view at WIELS in Brussels from September 2021 through January 2022. Her solo exhibition at the Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Maryland, opened September 22, 2022.


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COSTA DO SAUIPE, Brazil (AP) - Three matches in tropical beach resort cities. Staying in the cooler south with minimal travel between matches. Flying around the vast country with a trip deep into the Amazon in the middle.
The World Cup draw is Friday, setting the match schedule for the 32 teams. Some slots are clearly more desirable than others.
Here are some of the ups and downs for the teams, many having already chosen their training camps regardless of where the draw puts them:
As if facing Brazil in the tournament's opening match in Sao Paulo is not tough enough, that country will then face one of the most grueling travel schedules. Next up is an afternoon match in Manaus, almost 2,400 miles from Sao Paulo. The third fixture is a further 2,800 miles east in the coastal city of Recife.
This fate awaits whichever of Brazil's three group rivals is drawn into position A2 in the schedule. And if that same team finishes runner-up to Brazil, its second-round match will be a 1 p.m. start in the steamy heat of Fortaleza.
Even seeded teams can get a difficult shake in this often-criticized World Cup schedule, which takes in the maximum 12 host cities allowed with long travel times across the vast nation.
The seed drawn into Group D will ping up and down the country from Fortaleza to Sao Paulo, more than 1,800 miles down the east coast, then almost the same distance back up to Natal for a closing match in the 1 p.m. heat.
For a European seed such as Belgium or Switzerland, this slot shapes up as one worth avoiding.
Staying in that group, the team allocated position D4 is the only one of the 32 that will have back-to-back matches kicking off at lunchtime in the tropics. Oh, and its first match is scheduled in Manaus as the Saturday night late show that kicks off at 3 a.m. Central European Time. That late slot was required because opening day, June 12, has only the Brazil match instead of the two games scheduled at the 2010 World Cup.
It's not all steamy heat and long-haul travel, at least not for the lucky seed in Group H. This is perhaps the best slot in the entire draw.
Three matches in temperate southern cities _ Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo _ with trips of fewer 300 miles between each. In fact, the whole six-match Group H schedule stays in the south, with no matches in Manaus or the north-eastern beach cities.
In addition, finishing runner-up in Group H will earn an extended stay in the south, with a second-round match in Porto Alegre.
The Group G seed will have perhaps the happiest fans. They get to stay by the Atlantic Ocean for the whole group program with games in Salvador, Fortaleza and Recife _ a nice round trip around the northeastern coast.
The flip side for the players is that the first and third games start at 1 p.m.
Salvador also offers a warm welcome for this team in the second round if it finishes runner-up in the group.
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Let's start at the beginning. What was the first record you remember hearing?
My dad's a musician, so probably his music. The Beatles, or maybe Kate Bush or David Bowie?
What was the first record you ever bought yourself?
Oh, it was probably something really 90s, like a Smash Hits compilation. I do remember walking into a record store, intent on buying In Utero by Nirvana and The Head On The Door by The Cure, when I was about 14.
How did you get into playing music yourself?
I grew up with music always around me, but I was never pushed into making music. I picked up a guitar at the age of 11 at school and got lessons. I remember my teacher trying to teach me classical guitar and I was just like, "Can you teach me chords? I want to play my own songs..."
Which artists or albums inspired you to pursue music professionally?
Most definitely PJ Harvey, The Breeders and The Smiths. They're probably the most important, but there are so many others too!
What were your ambitions for Honeyblood when you first formed the band?
I just wanted to be able to play the songs to people! Really, there were no ambitions at the beginning. You never know what is going to happen in the future. As things progressed, recording an album became the main focus for me. Now, I just want to record something new!
For the benefit of anyone who's not heard your debut yet, what can they expect?
Some honest pop songs with a bit of raw edge, most of which are to be taken with a pinch of salt.
How long did it take to put together?
It was written from the birth of Honeyblood, up until the day we recorded it, and recorded with Peter Katis at Tarquin Studios in Connecticut nearing a year ago.
What was the goal, artistically?
We wanted to keep the live essence very strong in the album, but to give the songs the ability to sound as good as they could. And, for me, it had to be self-titled as these are the songs they we had been playing for the two years before actually recording them. They are the building blocks of what Honeyblood is. We learned how to be a band through playing those songs.
Is there anything you learned about yourself during the creative process?
You will never be happy and something that was your least favourite flaw may actually turn into what you like the most.
Lyrically, it feels a very raw, honest record. Is that fair?
I'd agree with that completely. Only a few of the songs on the album are personal experience; mostly they about my friends. 'Super Rat' was written to cheer a friend up. Also, the album got labelled as being about love relationships, which is kinda weird when you are singing to your friends. I like them, but not in that way...
You reference Angela Carter's 'Bloody Chamber' in 'Choker'. What was it about her writing that captured your imagination?
I really love Angela Carter and have done for years. Her imagery is so vivd and I thought I'd have a go at linking some of my words and music to her ideas. 'Choker' is a bit of an oddball on the album, as it is the only one not specific to myself or my friends.
Were there any other literary reference points for the record?
'Super Rat' is named after a quote in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' and takes a bit of influence from Lewis Carroll's poem 'How Doth The Little Crocodile'.
Do you have a favourite song on the album?
'Braid Burn Valley'. It's about a place near where I grew up in Edinburgh. It's such a personal song to me as it's about my home. We'd never played it live before recording it and I had loads of ideas for it, including adding loads of harmonies. In the end I thought there was something a bit lonely about just having one vocal and the guitar at the beginning.
Last month it was announced that Shona McVicar has left the band. Did her departure come as a surprise?
There was no surprise in Shona leaving; she has decided to pursue another career and she had been deliberating for quite some time. I guess it's a shock because there were only two of us in the band, but Honeyblood is now three years old and Shona had left previously for a year.
Being in a band is tough: you're away from your home, friends and family. There is so little stability. I'm quite a shy person and actually find it difficult to talk to anyone about my business, so it has been difficult. But I see it as part of my job.
How did you know her replacement, Cat Myers?
Cat lives in Edinburgh, where I grew up and I have known her since living there. She plays drums for a living, and is really excited to be playing with Honeyblood and, of course, her drum parts and her style will be influential on any new material. I plan to be writing ASAP!
So, next up is the NME New Breed Tour. Are there any dates you're particularly looking forward to?
We had to cancel a few shows recently in Newcastle and Sheffield, so I'm excited to get back there. On the last tour I was very lucky to enjoy singing with our audiences. Nothing gives me more joy than people coming to the shows and enjoying the songs.
Beyond that, what's the plan for the next few months?
We will be touring the UK again with Catfish and The Bottlemen, and then hopefully we'll be going back to the US next year. I'd love to record and release something next year too.
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Exposing Evolution's Icon
World leader on sickle-cell anemia: 'Nothing to do with evolution!'
At a creationist conference in the UK (April 2006), I had the honour of meeting Dr Felix Konotey-Ahulu (pictured).
Sickle cell anemia
Dr Konotey-Ahulu's speciality is a serious, chronic and painful blood disorder called sickle-cell anemia, which is supposed to be proof positive of Darwinian evolution. He explains:
'It is caused by inheriting—from both parents—a defect in the instructions which code for the production of hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying pigment in red blood cells. Inheriting the defect from just one parent is "silent", and produces no disease whatever, but may pass on the genes to their offspring. Such "carriers", such as my mother, do not know they are carrying anything until their blood is tested.
'Under certain conditions (like lack of oxygen) the double inherited defect deforms the red cell to change from round to "sickle" shape. These mis-shapen cells can block the smaller blood vessels, depriving tissues and organs of oxygen. However, sufferers have done very well with proper treatment, becoming doctors, lawyers etc.
'Since all of us must have two genes for any of our characteristics (one from father, the other from mother), it is quite common for one parent (like my maternal grandmother) to give a good hemoglobin gene to one child, while the other (my maternal grandfather) gives a sickle hemoglobin gene to the same child.
'That was how my mother became a sickle carrier. She in turn had 11 children, and must give just one (not both) of her genes to each child, so she passed on five sickle genes and six 'normal' genes to us, with our father also donating half his hemoglobin genes to make us end up with "pairs" of genes. It is important to realise that traits like my mother are not half sick because they are carrying one defective and one good gene. Indeed, they are not sick at all from "sickling". Rather, in a malarious environment, they have been proven healthier than those without any sickle cells at all.'
So why is this such a Darwinian poster-child? Dr K-A answers:
'The sickled hemoglobin is less appetizing for the malarial parasite, so carriers are less likely to develop malaria, which is often fatal. People who have both the sickle gene and the "good" gene (heterozygosity is the technical term) will have the benefit of suffering neither from sickle-cell anemia nor dying from malaria in childhood. They are therefore more likely to pass on their genes to the next generation than those with both of the "good" genes. Thus the sickle gene is much commoner in malaria-infested places, especially in Africa. This phenomenon is known in evolutionary circles as "balanced polymorphism".'
But does this mean that Darwinian evolution is a fact? Dr Konotey-Ahulu firmly rejects this. 'Observing selection/adaptation involving a mutation (an inherited random change or defect)', he said, 'does not indicate that the more complicated forms seen today arose from simpler forms traced back ultimately to one-cell organisms.'
He had no dispute that 'natural selection plays a part in maintaining a higher frequency of this carrier state. If you are resistant to malaria, you are more likely to survive to pass on your genes.'
However, he cautions, 'Demonstrating natural selection does not demonstrate that "upward evolution" is a fact, yet many schoolchildren are taught this as a "proof" of evolution.' He pointed out that 'the sickle-cell gene is still a defect, not an increase in complexity or an improvement in function which is being selected for'. And he pointed out the unhappy downside, that 'having more carriers of the sickle-cell genes results in more people suffering from this terrible disease.'
Is Darwinism helpful for research?
Despite the lack of evidence, evolutionary propaganda claims that all science would return to the (non-existent) 'Dark Ages' without evolution. But real scientists such as Dr K-A say that science would be far better served by scientists working on 'factual lines rather than theoretical evolutionary concepts.'
In his speciality, he proposes that the focus on Darwinism may have caused scientists to overlook a more fruitful line of enquiry, namely the fact that polygyny (having more than one wife) was common in indigenous African and Islamic populations.2
He backed this up by research into his own family tree over the past three centuries, since there is both sickle-cell anemia and polygyny in his own ancestry.3
This required knowledge of the specific names that African tribes had for the disease, long before it was first described in the USA in 1910. Dr K-A says that 'this exercise in genetic genealogy, rare in medical archives', enabled him to invent the Male Procreative Superiority Index (MPSI) to provide a mathematical basis for the sickle gene frequency. This research was published as the 'African Viewpoint' in an International Symposium on The Human Genome Diversity Project in 1999.4
[Ed. note: see also Dr K-A's earlier Creation magazine article Sickle-cell anemia does not prove evolution!]
Language studies
However, despite Dr K-A's work in sickle-cell disease, he says that the greatest of all his discoveries is 'the quantification of the pitches found in African Tonal Languages, which has not been described before.' This enabled him to develop a method for writing African tonal languages.5 Dr K-A argues that the perfect mid-pitch of an African tribe, required to understand the language, including a 3-semitone gap, defies Darwinian evolutionary explanation.
Christian faith
Dr Konotey-Ahulu is an outspoken Christian, and has ably defended his faith in the Ghanaian Times and the British Medical Journal.6 But it was not always so. Like many people with church upbringings, he had wrongly thought he was saved, thinking that he had been 'born a Christian'. A pastor's son, he was even General Secretary of the SCM (Student Christian Movement), but he says he was not truly converted till 8 pm, Friday 24 October 1952:
'I was reading the day's Scripture portion in the Gospel of Matthew, which said that the Lord Jesus did not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance. I was stung! Surely, HE did not come for me, because I was not a sinner; certainly not as bad as So-and-so, or So-and-so … .'
So Dr K-A came to realize that 'the One who made the diagnosis of "Sin" in me (and I thoroughly agree with that diagnosis), is so holy that the only just punishment would be my total banishment out of His sight.'
Yet, at Calvary, Jesus made 'the reverse transfer of righteousness to me the sinner. Not only are my filthy rags of sin placed on the Lord Jesus Christ and punished on Him (as prophesied long ago in Isaiah 53), but also the Lord's beautiful robe of righteousness is transferred to me the moment I believe on Him (2 Corinthians 5:21).'
But is Christianity merely a Western tradition?
'Africans often tell me that I should have nothing to do with Christianity because it is a European religion,' said Dr K-A. But, he says:
'I take it upon myself to educate them. First, I tell them the Lord Jesus learnt to walk, not on the continent of Europe, but in Mizraim (Egypt), in Africa. Secondly, when the Ethiopian eunuch, Chancellor of the Exchequer of Queen Candace, became a Christian while reading the prophet Isaiah chapter 53, and Philip helped him to understand what he was reading, the natives of the British Isles were only just in the process of being educated by the Romans to read and write. So let nobody tell you that the Gospel of The Lord Jesus Christ is a European invention.'
Furthermore, he pointed out that it was Christian conviction that overthrew the slave trade. Dr K-A points out:
'John Newton (1725–1807) was a nominal Christian, and captain of a slave ship, and threw those who were sick overboard to perish in the sea. Very wicked, he was. But then John Newton was convicted of sin. He heard this Good News that though God hated his sin, He loved the sinner (John 3:14–16). Newton repented, understood the meaning of Grace, became a leading anti-slavery activist, and wrote this hymn: "Amazing grace! How sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found; was blind, but now I see."' [Ed. note: see also Anti-slavery activist William Wilberforce: Christian hero]
How does Creation impact the Gospel?
Many preachers claim that creation is a mere side issue. But Dr K-A pointed out that it is crucial:
'The baby whose birth we celebrate at Christmas is the Creator of the world! See John 1:1–5, especially v. 3: "All things were made through Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made." The world, you see, is no cosmic accident. This world was created by the Triune God, and through this Lord Jesus, who was born in Bethlehem.'
But are the details of creation important? 'So why did Jesus have to be born?' asked Dr K-A. He answered his own question:
'The world God created was perfect, flawless, and sinless. Adam and Eve knew God intimately in the Garden of Eden. But then came the Fall, when God's arch-enemy the Devil, Satan, Lucifer, the Deceiver, deceived our ancestors and spiritual representatives, Adam and Eve, who were then thrown out of Paradise and lost the knowledge of God and forfeited communion with The Creator.'
People might ask, 'Do you still believe this Sunday school nonsense?' 'This is no nonsense,' Dr K-A affirmed.
He explained:
'Nothing makes sense of life as I know it—wars, rumours of wars, strife (domestic and international), wickedness, injustice, sin and its consequences, pain and suffering, disease (hereditary and acquired)—until I see it through the history of perfect Creation, the Fall and its terrible consequences, the promise of God not only to undo the damage Satan has wrought, but also to restore man's communion with Himself through His Son who would become Incarnate (God becoming Man).
'The Son, unlike Adam and Eve, would perfectly obey God's laws. He would satisfy the full justice of God (which Adam and Eve could not do), and pay the eternal punishment for sin, so that those offspring of rebellious Adam who believe on Him would not perish, but have eternal life.
'And He proved all this by His glorious Resurrection. Frankly, if I did not believe all this, I would find it impossible to get a satisfactory explanation for life after death.'
Dr D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
When I first met Dr Konotey-Ahulu, it was after a talk where I had cited the great preacher Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899–1981) as pointing out that Christianity depends on historical facts, including Eden, the Flood and Babel.1 Dr K-A informed me that Dr MLJ was the one who had married him and his wife (pictured). [Update: they recently celebrated 50 years of marriage—see clip below—so congratulations on this milestone.] He added, 'While other evangelicals were hesitating about Adam and Eve, saying "it is not really necessary to bring them in to tell someone he/she is a sinner, because they already know they are sinners", Dr Lloyd-Jones would always start with Adam and Eve.' Later, Dr K-A had the honour of being the only person that Dr MLJ 'gave 200 of his sermons to, to take to Africa when I was leaving London with my family after post-graduate studies.'
Dr K-A said, 'I loved going to hear Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones, previously a cardiologist at St Bartholomew's Hospital, but who now preached powerful sermons at Westminster Chapel, near Buckingham Palace.' In 1957, he brought a colleague, the sceptical Brian Williams, along. Afterwards, 'Brian said to me: "Felix, Dr Lloyd-Jones said all that needed to be done for my salvation has been done. Is it true?" "Yes," I said', and Brian gave himself to the Lord Jesus Christ. He went on to become Professor of Epidemiological Medicine in the Universities of Sheffield and Nottingham. In 2005, Dr Williams was ill, and requested a particular tape-recorded sermon of Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones (far right, Mrs Lloyd-Jones on left). While listening to it, Brian Williams passed from time into eternity.'2
- See Batten, D., Famous preacher: 'Creation, not evolution', creation.com/mlj, 14 August 2004.
- Konotey-Ahulu, F., Historicity of The Lord Jesus Christ (2): Significance of Easter; Ghanaian Times, Saturday 8 April 2006, p. 6.
References and notes
- Macmillan, ISBN 0333-39239-6, 1991; Tetteh-A'Domeno Co., Watford, UK, ISBN 0-9515442-2-5, 1996. Return to text.
- Bonney, G.E. and Konotey-Ahulu, F.I.D., Polygamy and genetic equilibrium, Nature 265(5589):46–47, 6 January 1977; Konotey-Ahulu, F.I.D., Maintenance of high sickling rate in Africa—role of polygamy, The Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 73(1):19–21, January 1970; Konotey-Ahulu, F.I.D., Male procreative superiority index (MPSI): the missing coefficient in African anthropogenetics, British Medical Journal 281(6256): 1700–1702, 20–27 December 1980. Return to text.
- sicklecell.md/images/generation.jpg: Dr K-A explains: 'I traced, name by name, generation by generation, back to AD 1670 of my ancestors and their phenotype. Anyone in my genealogical tree where I marked 'R' is rheumatic, meaning two abnormal genes.' Return to text.
- Konotey-Ahulu, F.I.D., The human genome diversity project: Cogitations of an African Native, Politics and the Life Sciences 18(2):317–322, September 1999. Return to text.
- Mother Tongue—Introducing The Tadka Phonation Technique For Speaking An African Tonal Language: Krobo/Dangme-Ga of South-East Ghana, Watford, UK, 2001. Return to text.
- Thus Dr K-A is staunchly pro-life, so has strongly denounced selective abortion of sickle-cell babies. Return to text.


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Persecutions and History
Rod points us to a new book that attacks an interpretation of early church history that no one defends. This is from the book description:
In The Myth of Persecution, Candida Moss reveals that the "Age of Martyrs" is a fiction—there was no sustained three-hundred-year-long effort by the Romans to persecute Christians.
I'm not sure why Moss sees a need to argue against "systematic persecution" or a "sustained three-hundred-year-long effort" of persecution, since no one studying Christianity in the Roman Empire that I know of argues that this is what happened. If there is one thing we do know about Roman persecutions of Christians, it is that they weren't systematic and they weren't sustained. I doubt that anyone seriously defends or teaches the idea that there was a constant, universal Roman policy of persecution that never let up, and anyone who does teach such a thing knows virtually nothing about the history of the church or the Roman Empire.
The persecutions tended to be relatively brief, sporadic, ad hoc, and reactionary moves by specific emperors, and they were irregularly enforced and the length and severity of enforcement typically depended on the attitudes of the local officials. The persecutions created deep divisions within the Christian communities affected by them, which split along the lines of those that were seen as having compromised with the persecutors and those that resisted. This is why groups such as the Novatians and Donatists came into existence. Of course there were people killed for their Christian faith during these persecutions, so in the most important sense stories about the persecutions are not made up. Are martyrological texts stylized and not always reliable historical sources? Well, yes, but then this is hardly news to anyone who works with or reads ancient historical materials. It doesn't mean that most of the martyrs around whom these stories were being made never existed or that they didn't suffer persecution and death.


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Minesia – Dark Rift Map
Minesia – Dark Rift Map Story
Minesia – Dark Rift Map. Far away, in a world not that different from ours resides the mighty Castle Ravenrock. The castle was strategically placed in the enormous Shadebark Valley. Not far from the castle was the small but prominent Shadebark Village. As time passed the village started to prosper and more areas were explored, the most intriguing findings were the mystical ruins in the far edges of the valley.
Then the age of magic began, people began to posses unnatural power, some could even rise from the grave. The young Thomas had just returned from a bloody war in the unknown lands and was titled "Baron Thomas Graves", in his hours of glory he witnessed the mystical powers people seemed to posses. Thomas found these new powers intriguing and sought to harness them, to create legions of unbreakable knights and become immortal himself. He never truly mastered the arts however. As years passed he became desperate, committing horrific acts to his own people. Thus the plague years ensued.
It started with the villagers showing symptoms of a mild fever. But as time passed it became worse, men, women and children died a slow and painful death. The castle was sealed off from the infected village and the baron was never heard from again. The news of the terrible outbreak quickly spread and Stormport Village had to take a sad but necessary decision. They sealed off Shadebark valley, so no one were able to enter or leave.
45 years has passed since that horrible incident and you are dreaming…
- Do NOT change the gamerules!
- The game can be quite challenging at times.
- The game is created for singleplayer, you can play co-op however.
- The resourcepack is included in the "Minesia – Dark Rift" rar file you download.
- You'll find rules and tips in-game.
- There are also notes placed in the game folder that might help.
- Puzzles (main feature)
- Parkour
- Freaky
- Semi-open world
- "Hidden" lore objects
- Command block "scripted"
- Almost NO signtext
- Fully customized environment
- Detailed structures
- Unique items
- Boss encounters (voiced)
- No mods required
Minesia – Dark Rift Map Screenshots:
- Dynamic Light
- Optifine
How to install Minesia – Dark Rift Map for Minecraft:
- Download Minesia – Dark Rift Map
- Press Start, and type in %appdata%. Click into Roaming. *XP – Press Start, Run, then %appdata%. Click into Roaming.
- Unzip the "Minesia – Dark Rift.rar" and place the "Minesia Save" into the saves folder.
- You can also place the "Minesia Resourcepack" into the resource folder while your at it, or just do it via the options menu in- game.
- Play and Enjoy!
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The elite liberal arts college in suburban Philadelphia announced the gift Saturday from philanthropist and Swarthmore alumnus Eugene Lang to create new engineering and science facilities.
Lang, 93, said his gift is meant in part as a continuation of the college's decision to include engineering as part of the curriculum in 1871. Swarthmore said it is one of only nine premier liberal arts colleges with a dedicated engineering program.
"My respect for money is in the things that it can accomplish," said Lang, who graduated from Swarthmore in 1938 with a degree in economics. "The issue is how we use what we have to do things that are worth doing, to contribute in a way that makes things better."
He said he hopes his gift will inspire acts of philanthropy in others.
The college said Lang's gift will allow Swarthmore to foster interdisciplinary connections among students and faculty in engineering and the arts, the sciences, humanities, and the social sciences.
Swarthmore College President Rebecca Chopp said Lang's generosity and vision will ensuring the purpose and future of the college and the mark its graduates make in the world.
"This is philanthropy as an investment in the future, as an investment in the students," she said.
Lang, a chairman emeritus of Swarthmore's managing board, founded the I Have a Dream Foundation in 1981 to provide college scholarships for underprivileged students. In 2001, he founded Project Pericles, a nonprofit that encourages civic engagement among college students.
He retired in 1997 as chairman of REFAC Technology Development Corp., which he founded in 1952. Also in 1997, he gave Swarthmore $30 million - then the largest gift ever to a private liberal arts college - to support a variety of academic programs, financial aid, campus improvements and performing arts and music facilities.
Before his historic 1997 gift, he had given about $20 million to the college over the previous three decades.
Lang also has made multimillion-dollar donations to The New School's undergraduate liberal arts college, named Eugene Lang College, and the Eugene M. Lang Center for Entrepreneurship at Columbia University.
A highly selective college with about 1,500 students, Swarthmore was co-founded in 1864 by Lucretia Mott, a prominent Quaker abolitionist and activist for women's rights. Its endowment is about $1.5 billion.
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Beck - Twig lyrics
(Beck speaking:)
[ya know how it is
it's like, my lady's gone, y'know...
I just let my twig fly in the wind
you know it's like the branch broken
it's like, I let my twig fly in the wind
sometimes I need a little kindling (laughter),
sometimes I kindle up a slight..bustion of fire
I let my twig burn in the wind
ya know what I'm sayin?
it's like a twig...it's like a stick
but it's more portable (more laughter)
it's like my own portable twig, y'know what I'm sayin?
I let it fly in the wind
you know, sometimes I get lonely
and I let my twig fly in the wind...
yeah... it's like that, y'know] (music begins...)
Some weepy creepy willow pillow boggy shit
Transcendental big wheel can you feel it
Trippy face down trippin' so damn hard
Head splits open stuffin' spills out into the car
Drink a cup of dirty water and a load of bony frog
Slip me seven dollars and I'll pump it full of smog
Paint a monkey gold and let it loose downtown
Start him with a smile and he come back with a frown
He's just a twig in the wind
twig in the wind (a bunch of times)
all right
I'm happy feelin' crappy in your nappy little car
Squozen frozen duplicated drunk in a bar
Tape recorded all distorted genius machine
Spokesmodel dipped in refried beans
Piggys pay full price (?) to take them down to the dump
Dusty busty skeletons who pay at the pump
Multi-nippled rotating DJ sap
I'm shoulder high in crap and my water wings are flat
I'm just a twig in the wind...
twig in the wind
twig in the wind
(REALLY unintelligible Beck-stuff here)
[spoken: "Love me like a cab (?).
Love me. I know you will. Love me....(laugh)
let's chill. I know what you're made of:
ecstasy....next to me. The future
is bright....your pants are so tight. Tantalize.
On my thighs. Love me.........LIKE A GOD!!!!!!!!!!]


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Do you want to add taxonomy images in WordPress? Taxonomies are a way to group things in WordPress. Categories and tags are two default taxonomies that come built-in with every WordPress blog. In this article, we will show you how to add taxonomy images in WordPress. In other words, you will be able to add image icons for your categories, tags, and other custom taxonomies.
Why Add Taxonomy Images in WordPress?
Custom post types and taxonomies allow WordPress to become a full-fledged CMS. By default, WordPress comes with category and tags as two default taxonomies that you can use to sort your posts.
You can also create your own custom taxonomies and associate them with any post types on your WordPress site. This allows your users to see all other content filed under those taxonomies.
With taxonomy images, you can add featured images or icons to the terms in each taxonomy.
For example, each category on your site can have its own icon, which can be displayed on category archive pages, category lists, and so on.
Having said that, let's take a look at how to easily add taxonomy images in WordPress.
Adding Taxonomy Images in WordPress
The first thing you need to do is install and activate the Taxonomy Images plugin.
Upon activation, you need to visit the Settings » Taxonomy Images page to configure plugin settings.
You will see a list of taxonomies available on your WordPress site. Select the taxonomies where you want to enable the taxonomy images to feature and then click on the save changes button.
In the screenshot above, we enabled taxonomy images for categories.
To add images to each category, you will need to head over to Posts » Categories page.
If you enabled taxonomy images to feature for some other taxonomy, then you will need to visit that particular taxonomy page in your WordPress admin area.
On the categories page, you will notice a new column labeled 'Image' in your category list. Since you haven't added any images to categories yet, it will show a default blank image with an add button for each category.
Go ahead and click on the add button below the blank image. This will bring up the default WordPress media uploader popup.
You can select an image from your WordPress media library or upload a new image. After that, go ahead and repeat the process to add images for all terms in your taxonomy.
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To display taxonomy images on your WordPress site, you will need to edit your WordPress theme or child theme.
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Thomas Earp, stonecarver. 1863-65. Portland stone, Mansfield stone and Aberdeen granite. Charing Cross Station forecourt, London WC2 This monument is properly called the Queen Eleanor Memorial Cross: "Charing" comes from Old English cierran, to turn, denoting the turning here from the Strand towards Westminster. In other words, "Charing Cross" indicates the location, not the name, of the cross.
. E. M. Barry, architect.This Gothic Revival monument has been described as "a work of reproduction rather than restoration" (Burnet and Blisset), but it is really neither. It represents Barry's attempt to recreate from the "scanty evidence of two or three scarce and indistinct prints" (Thornbury) the last of twelve memorial crosses that marked the spots at which Queen Eleanor's bier rested, when her funeral cortège travelled from Nottinghamshire to Westminster Abbey in 1290. Originally sited nearby, the cross traditionally also marked the spot from which distances to and from London were measured. When the replica was erected in the forecourt of Charing Cross Station, at the cost of the South Eastern Railway Company, the master-mason Thomas Earp was entrusted with the stone-carving. Its restoration was completed in 2010, allowing us to appreciate both Barry's and Earp's skills again.
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- Entire monument in different light conditions
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Caption, commentary, and photographs at top right and bottom left by Jacqueline Banerjee. Other photographs by Robert Freidus and George P. Landow [You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer and (2) link your document to this URL or cite it in a print document.]
Burnet, G. W., rev. David G. Blissett. "Barry, Edward Middleton (1830-1880)" The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online ed. Web. 1 January 2011.
Thornbury, Walter. Old and New London. British History Online. Web. 1 January 2011.
"The Eleanor Cross Restored at Charing-Cross." Illustrated London News. (6 December 1865): 560. Internet Archive version of a copy in the University of Michigan Library. Web. 22 January 2016.
Weinreb, Ben, et al., eds. The London Encyclopaedia. 3rd ed. London: Macmillan, rev. ed. 2008 (N.B. This has "A. S. Barry" as the designer; all other sources have "E. M.")
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The 2012 presidential campaign was expected Thursday to pass the $2 billion mark in fundraising, according to accounting statements submitted to the government, thanks to an outpouring of cash from both ordinary citizens and the wealthiest Americans hoping to influence the selection of the country's next leader.
The eye-popping figure puts this election on track to be the costliest in history, fueled by a campaign finance system vastly altered by the proliferation of "super" political committees that are bankrolling a barrage of TV ads in battleground states.
President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney had brought in more than $1.5 billion through the end of September, according to previous fundraising reports submitted before the final pre-election accounting statements were due Thursday night. Obama hadn't yet disclosed his fundraising for early October, but Romney's campaign said it raised $111.8 million in the first two weeks. Added to that: more than $230 million in donations involving super PACs since 2011.
The largest of those were two pro-Romney groups. American Crossroads, a Republican-leaning super PAC with ties to former President George W. Bush's longtime political counselor Karl Rove, reported raising at least $68 million through September. Restore Our Future, founded by former Romney aides, reported raising $110 million so far. Priorities USA, a pro-Obama group founded by two former aides to the president, reported raising $50 million through last month.
The $2 billion fundraising figure doesn't include nearly $130 million spent on political ads by non-profit groups that aren't required to file campaign finance reports or disclose their donors. Such so-called social welfare organizations are governed by tax laws, not election laws, although they are often affiliated with established super PACs.
Presidential candidates in 2008 raised more than $1.8 billion in inflation-adjusted figures. This time, new factors have contributed to the sharp escalation in the campaign money chase.
This year marked the first time that both major party candidates opted out from the public financing system established to set limits on how much a presidential candidate can raise and spend. Both Obama and Romney would have been eligible for about $100 million in taxpayer money to support their campaigns through the general election, but both gambled — correctly — that they could raise and spend far more.
In 2008, Obama became the first presidential contender to refuse all public financing while his Republican rival, Arizona Sen. John McCain, accepted the government funds. The lopsided result — Obama outspent McCain by more than 2-to-1 in the general election — effectively ended public funding as an option for serious candidates.
With the 2012 election so tight, both Obama and Romney have spent considerable time at high-dollar fundraising events courting wealthy donors. Romney last month lamented the time spent fundraising rather than speaking to larger groups of voters, saying "fundraising is a part of politics when your opponent decides not to live by the federal spending limits."
Both Obama and Romney have raised considerable cash from small donors, too, especially the president. His campaign reported that more than 2 million donors have contributed at least $427 million to his campaign.
Federal election regulators have raised the limit on individual contributions to candidates, which means campaigns can solicit more money from donors than they have in the past. Individual donors can now give a total of $5,000 in the primary and general elections to a candidate, compared to just $2,000 in 2000.
Michael Toner, a Republican campaign finance lawyer and former chairman of the Federal Election Commission, said the close race between Obama and Romney and the sharply polarized electorate have also played a role in accelerating the dash for dollars.
"I don't know any campaign manager who thinks they have too much money. In this political 50-50 environment you can't ever have enough," Toner said. "Every last million could make the difference in who is elected."
But the emergence of super PACs and other outside groups, unleashed partly by the Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court in 2010, has done more than anything else to reshape the contours of presidential campaign fundraising. A handful of federal court cases have broadly eased campaign finance regulations, allowing corporations and wealthy individuals to spend unlimited sums. Most of the money has been funneled to super PACs, which can raise and spend money on behalf of candidates as long as they don't coordinate expenditures or strategy with the campaign.
"The distinctive factor in this election is the outside money being spent and the corrupting money financing it," said Fred Wertheimer, a longtime campaign finance reform advocate. "It's a symbol of the disastrous campaign finance system we have and the undue influence relatively few well-financed individuals and interest groups now have over government decisions.
Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson is the top super PAC donor this year. Adelson, a billionaire, has contributed more than $40 million to Republican super PACs, including those backing Romney.


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IDEX Corporation to Webcast Second Quarter 2007 Earnings Call
NORTHBROOK, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 21, 2007--IDEX CORPORATION (NYSE: IEX) announced today that it will broadcast the company's second quarter earnings conference call over the Internet on Tuesday, July 24th at 1:30 p.m. CT. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Larry Kingsley and Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Dominic Romeo will discuss the company's second quarter 2007 financial performance and respond to questions from the financial community.
IDEX invites interested investors to listen to the call and view the presentation slides, which will be available on its Web site: www.idexcorp.com. To hear the live call, log on to the site several minutes before the discussion begins. After clicking on the presentation icon, follow the instructions to ensure your system is set up for the event, or download the correct applications at no charge. An archive of the webcast is available through the IDEX site after the call. An audio replay of the call is also available through midnight, August 7th, 2007, by dialing 800.642.1687 (or 706.645.9291 for international participants) using the ID #5708063
About IDEX
IDEX Corporation is an applied solutions company specializing in fluid and metering technologies, health and science technologies, dispensing equipment, and fire, safety and other diversified products built to its customers' exacting specifications. Its products are sold in niche markets to a wide range of industries throughout the world. IDEX shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange and Chicago Stock Exchange under the symbol "IEX".
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DeAngelo Williams sounded as curious as anyone Sunday about the possibility that he'd played his final game as a Carolina Panther.
Stick a fork in them: Carolina
The Panthers had their guts ripped out by the Bears in a Sunday loss that effectively dooms them, Dan Hanzus writes. **More ...**
Coach Ron Rivera said Monday he doesn't expect to see Williams -- or anyone else -- head elsewhere before this week's trade deadline.
"We've got to sit here and see if somebody does call, but we're not looking to move anybody or send anybody away or try to get anybody out there," Rivera said, via the Charlotte Observer. "I don't think we have a lot to give in terms of trying to trade for players."
Williams has been ineffective in limited duty this season, but he has averaged 5 yards per carry since entering the NFL in 2006. He has been completely marginalized in Carolina's offense, getting just 19 carries in the past three games. A team source told the Observer that at least one playoff-contending team has contacted the Panthers about a potential deal for Williams.
On NFL Network
NFL Replay
will re-air the
Chicago Bears' 23-22 win over the
Carolina Panthers in Week 8 on Wednesday, Oct. 31
at 9 p.m. ET.
It makes sense for the Panthers to get what they can for 29-year-old Williams, who isn't contributing this season and almost certainly won't be brought back in 2013.
The NFL pushed the trade deadline back to Thursday at 4 p.m. ET because of the issues on the East Coast caused by Hurricane Sandy.
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Sports for some people tend to be a pursuit which they indulge in for some form of exercise or relaxation. However for some may appear far more than a game. It can be termed as a passion, a type of all consuming dedication that some people have for sports. The seriousness and dedication that athletes give to their chosen field of sport is acknowledged with reverence plus a sportsman is considered to be the epitome of fair play, dedication, focus and commitment. All general sporting activities are classified by their highly competitive nature and organized design.
Many of these general sports have almost achieved a cult like status with folks following not only the game but also players and athletes linked to that game which makes them major sports celebrities. Many of the http://www.mattcoburn.com games that may be called in this category are football, baseball, basketball and hockey in the Uusa and Europe, While Cas a game was made popular by the British, it is most of the countries that then fell within the British Imperial rule that still take pleasure in the game with complete fervor.
There are a number of sports channels that sprouted around the world to take to sports enthusiasts the several sports events that took place in different parts of the world. One particular channel is ESPN. ESPN is a steady broadcaster of all major sports championships that have taken place across the world. This network calls itself the ?undisputed leader in the arena of sports? and broadcasts live and recorded games from all general sports of football, baseball, basketball, cricket, golf to the not- so-general sports such as extreme or action sports and equestrian sports.
In the United States they also broadcast college sports events such as college football and baseball. Their website ESPN.com gives detailed accounts of all of the happenings in the world of sports with special features and columns and news from every possible sport. ESPN has also actively developed their fantasy sports portal that enables them to reach out to a wider audience which takes interest in fantasy sports and doesn't limit itself to providing general sports news.
FOX Sports is yet another highly sought after general sports news provider. Practically they broadcast live games such as the Major League Soccer and English Premier League Games in football, they also exclusively cover several auto racing events which are held in the United States, especially the NASCAR. They are also the exclusive broadcasters of the Major League Baseball games until 2013.
It can safely be assumed that general sports enthusiasts are not just interested in the sport like football, baseball, cricket etc but they are extremely inclined towards comprehending the nuances and intricacies of the games. Many sports news providers help these sports followers by proving news, statistical reports, games analysis and up- to-the-minute reports of countless general sports. With more and a lot more sports channels mushrooming in the already competitive media space, what sets the good channels apart from the general lot are their comprehensive sports coverage as well as engaging format that gives its viewers information and entertainment – all at the same time.