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In these Conditions of Booking, "we", "us" and "our" are references to Caledonian Travel and "you" and "your" are references to the person booking the Holiday with us. "The Holiday" means the holiday which you have reserved and which we will provide to you under the Contract.
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Your holiday price includes the provision of our holiday confirmations in a digital format. Paper copies posted out to customers will incur a small charge and will normally only be issued on request.
Our holidays are organised on the basis that a minimum number of persons will travel. If we receive insufficient bookings then we may cancel the Holiday in which case we will notify you of this at least 7 days before the date of departure. Should you choose to have your money refunded, this will be done so by either credit card, debit card or by cheque.
Some of the advertised facilities on our holidays (for instance leisure facilities) may attract a supplementary charge.
UK Licensing Legislation stipulates that alcoholic drinks promotions may not be unlimited. Most All-Inclusive breaks will include a maximum number of alcoholic drinks available to each guest per day, and may use a drinks voucher or bar-credit system to comply with licensing laws. All-Inclusive holidays to mainland Europe are unaffected by this legislation. The drinks available on our Inclusive and All-Inclusive breaks will vary and are advertised on arrival. Drinks are generally house brand. For hotels in Scotland, as required in terms of the Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005, the supply of alcoholic drinks in our All-Inclusive packages is not unlimited. Subject to our discretion in the case of drunkenness, patrons on Scottish All-Inclusive packages shall be permitted a maximum of £15 worth of alcoholic drinks per day as part of the package.
We regret that there may be circumstances in which we have to change the details of your Holiday. If the changes that we make are only minor, for instance an alteration to your seat numbers, then we will attempt to notify you of these changes as soon as possible and the Contract will continue in force. In the unusual event that we have to make a significant change to your Holiday (for example a change in resort, a notable deletion from the holiday itinerary, a change of departure or arrival date or a downgrade in the quality of accommodation off ered to you) we will notify you as soon as possible. If we make a significant change to the Holiday before your departure, you may cancel your Holiday by notifying us within 5 working days of receipt by you of our notification (or, in exceptional circumstances, within a shorter period of time if our notice to you so requires). If you cancel your Holiday in accordance with this clause we will reimburse in full, the deposit and any other monies received from you in respect of the Holiday.
We may alter the price of the Holiday in certain circumstances but in no circumstances will we make any increase in price less than 7 days before the start of the Holiday. We may only increase the price of your Holiday to the extent that the cost is increased due to rises in the rates of value added tax or other dues, taxes or fees chargeable for services such as embarkation or disembarkation fees at ports or that the cost increases as a direct result of exchange rate fluctuations. We will always bear the first 2% of any such increased cost. If the total cost rises by more than 10% then this will be a significant change to your Holiday and you may cancel it in accordance with clause 9.
You may cancel the Holiday in accordance with clause 9 if we make a significant change to your Holiday.
In all other circumstances, if you cancel your holiday for departures in 2020 then we will make the following cancellation charges:
Please note that the minimum cancellation charge is the amount of the deposit plus any insurance.
If for circumstances beyond your control (for example if you are unfi t to travel due to illness or you are called for jury service)) you are unable to go on the Holiday you may transfer your Holiday to another person provided you notify us as soon as possible and at least 7 days before departure. We shall be entitled to charge a £10 administrative charge and to charge you for any other additional costs incurred by us as a result of the transfer of the Holiday. Both you and the person to whom you transfer the Holiday will be liable to us for proper performance of this Contract. If you wish to change any other details of your Holiday (for example the point at which you join) we will endeavour to meet your requirements so far as possible. However, we reserve the right to charge a £10 administration charge and to charge you for any other costs which we may incur as a result of your change.
Scottish law applies to this Contract and any claims brought under it.
Caledonian Travel is a trading name of National Holidays Ltd, registered office Miry Lane Wigan WN3 4AG.
We shall not be liable for any delay in performing any of our obligations under this Contract where the delay is due to circumstances beyond our control. Examples of circumstances beyond our control are strikes and exceptionally bad weather. However, if any of our suppliers or agents let us down, this will not be treated as being a cause beyond our control.
We require you to take out holiday insurance when travelling to Ireland, or the Continent. On travel within the UK, we strongly recommend that you take out insurance. We are able to officer a competitively priced holiday insurance policy. If you prefer, you may take out alternative holiday insurance but we will require you to provide us with evidence of the insurance policy and cover where travel is to Ireland, or the Continent. Consistent with all travel insurance policies when you take out our holiday insurance you must declare any reason, medical or otherwise which may influence the insurer's decision in accepting you for cover. Caledonian Travel cannot be held responsible for costs arising from a failure to take out adequate holiday insurance cover.
We take every care to ensure that your Holiday will be as enjoyable and as safe as possible. If anything goes wrong with your Holiday that is directly our fault then we accept responsibility to compensate you. We also accept responsibility to compensate you if it is the fault of our staff or anyone else providing the Holiday to you and this may include the hotel owner and ferry operator. However, the maximum amount of compensation that we will pay you is:
The above represents our only liability to you and you are advised that we cannot accept responsibility for loss or damage in respect of cash/currency/credit cards/ passports/ jewellery/ mobile phones/cameras/other electronic equipment or personal items.
You agree to abide by our rules and regulations in force from time to time. In particular, you agree not to smoke or to consume alcoholic beverage while travelling on our coaches. Any serious breach of our rules and regulations or unreasonable conduct by you will entitle us to refuse a booking or exclude you from the remainder of the Holiday and you will be responsible for your own costs and ours.
We accept your booking on the basis that you have told us about any disability that you suff er and any reason that could make it unwise for you to travel. If you are disabled or maybe unfi t to travel you should provide full information at the time of booking. You must check that this information appears on the special section of the booking form.
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If the Holiday involves travel outside of the UK and you are a British citizen then you must bring your passport with you. If you are not a British citizen you should check whether you require a visa. Caledonian Travel cannot be held responsible for any passenger travelling without proper documentation. If the Holiday involves travel outside the UK you should obtain a European Health Insurance Card. This will ensure that you can obtain medical treatment if you become ill. You can obtain an EHI Card from the Department of Health on-line or by telephone.
Details for this brochure were compiled in September 2019. An aggregated exchange rate of 1.10 Euro has been applied to all costings.
We have taken out a financial bond with the Bonded Coach Holiday Group of the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT). This means that in the unlikely event that we become insolvent and have to cancel the Holiday, you will be able to obtain a refund.
If you have any complaints during the Holiday it is essential that you notify the supplier of the service and you must tell the coach driver/courier as soon as possible. Your driver/courier will try to resolve the problem for you. If the coach driver/courier has not been able to resolve your complaint you should write to us explaining what your complaint is about within 21 days after the Holiday. Except in respect of death or injury caused by negligence, we regret that we cannot accept liability for any claims which you do not notify to us within 21 days.
Whilst many of our selected hotels levy varying charges for single bedroom occupancy Caledonian Travel has adopted a policy of spreading these charges equally across our holiday programmes, thereby (subject to availability) allowing single bedroom allocation on all departures. For certain longer holidays special single room supplements may apply.
Single bedroom occupancy supplements for most holidays departing as of 1st January 2020 are as follows:
Children are welcome on all holidays and short breaks - unless specifi cally designated "adultonly". A reduction of 20% on the advertised price is normally available to all children aged 2-12 years inclusive when travelling with at least one adult per child. Special additional child reductions may be available on certain holidays. Infants aged below 2 years may travel free of charge but cannot be guaranteed an individual coach seat and separate arrangements may be required for the provision of a cot. Please ask at the time of booking. Some European legislation advises that when travelling all children/ infants should have an individual seat on the coach available to them. A nominal charge will therefore be applicable for a reserved coach seat for any infant travelling on any continental break.
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There is normally no restriction on the amount of luggage taken on any holiday, however, a maximum weight of 20kg per item should be observed.
All photographs are intended to be indicative of the holiday but some may not actually be visited on every holiday. All photographs shown are supplied by the hotel and are reproduced in good faith. Where a hotel is shown it is captioned accordingly.
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Today we'll be determining the molar absorptivities of two different molecules, adenosine and inosine. The data that we generate today will be important when we study adenosine deaminase (ADA), which converts adenosine to inosine. The difference between these two molecules is that adenosine contains a primary amine whereas inosine contains a carboxy group. Overexpression of this protein causes anemia in humans. A shortage of this protein can lead to severe immuno-defficiency.
Adenosine and inosine have different absorption spectra. We will be observing changes in UV-Vis spectra to determine changes in concentration of both adenosine and inosine. In order to do this, we will need to know the molar absorptivity (ε) of both of these molecules. Just as each molecule has a characteristic absorption at each wavelength, this (per-wavelength) absorption can be quantified by a molar absorptivity. Or ... for a given concentration a molecule will absorb a very specific amount of light at a precise wavelength. A molecule doesn't have just one molar absorptivity; there is a molar absorptivity to describe each wavelength in a molecular absorbance spectrum.

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Colorado spring gardening: Gray, brown, gray … crocus!
No matter how many "Golden Bunch" crocuses I plant, I always wish that I had planted more.
It's not as true for snowdrops — which only seem to look good when they've just come up after a two-foot snow has finally melted away.
Luckily, this year just happened to serve up exactly what they desire.
If you're strolling around peeking at neighbors' gardens, wondering just what that gorgeous stuff that has just begun to bloom is (chances are good that at this time of year, it's not much bigger than a crocus or a snowdrop), you want to get a peek at genial Brit Anna Pavord's giant, photo-licious tome, "Bulbs." If you're strolling in the Denver Botanic Gardens in the next few days, keep your eyes out for the stunning little reticulated iris, "Pauline." I have reticulated irises, too, and their little noses are up above the ground — but no blooms yet.
And then, come fall when you're buying and planting bulbs, just remember: Be lavish. You deserve it.
And come the gray, brown, gray time of early spring, you'll want it. And maybe even need it.


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EquuSearch: Body found in Ship Channel is missing teen's
A body pulled Thursday from beneath a dock in the Houston Ship Channel is believed to be a teenager who disappeared about two weeks ago.
Officials with Texas EquuSearch said the body found about 9:45 a.m. near a scrap metal plant in the 8900 block of Manchester is Antonio L. Saldivar, 17.
Saldivar was last heard from on Feb. 15, when he went to drop off a Valentine gift at his girlfriend's home.
An employee at Texas Port Recycling spotted the body and called authorities. A Houston police dive team was called in to recover the body because it was an inaccessible area beneath the dock.
EquuSearch officials said Houston police later told Saldivar's family the body was the missing teenager.
Saldivar had borrowed his mother's car to take a present to his girlfriend. The Hyundai Sonata was later found wrecked along Navigation and Harrisburg, near the Ship Channel.
EquuSearch volunteers were combing the area when the body was found in a secure area not accessible to them.
An autopsy will confirm the cause of death.
Bill Hensall, Port of Houston spokesman, said the body was found in a relatively quiet area and there were no reports that Ship Channel traffic was affected.


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I have been trying out various cartoon character steamed buns lately. I tried the little black sheep (not so successfully), then one of my favourite cartoon characters, Doraemon (see below) And now, Hello Kitty.
You can choose any fillings that you like, but I find that smooth fillings work best if you are making these cartoon character buns, so that the buns will have a smooth surface after steaming. The filling for the Hello Kitty buns is Salted Egg Pumpkin Custard. The main ingredients for the filling are butter, salted egg yolk, pumpkin, Parmesan cheese powder and milk powder
For the bun dough, I used the same recipe as here, except that I added 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder. I find the dough is more pliable for shaping, with the addition of baking powder.
Here is a breakdown of how to form the Hello Kitty Bun:
(Makes 10 Hello Kitty buns)
You will need:
After kneading the basic dough, divide dough roughly into:
- 330g to 350g plain dough
- 30g to 50g red dough - knead in a drop of red food colouring
- 20g yellow dough - knead in a tiny drop of yellow food colouring
Keep any remaining dough as plain dough, as you can easily mix in the colours later.
After first proofing:
- Plain dough: make 10 portions of 30g each and 20 tiny balls. The tiny balls are for making the ears.
- Red dough (for ribbon): make 20 small balls and 10 "even smaller" balls.
- Yellow dough (for nose): make 10 tiny balls
1) Wrap 30g plain dough with 15g fillings. Wrap and pinch to seal tightly. Seal-side face down.
2) To make the ears: Use a pair of scissor to make 2 small cuts (like making rabbit ears) on top. Place two tiny plain balls behind the ears. Pinch them together to form Hello Kitty ears (the tiny balls help to support the ears).
3) To make the ribbon: Press each small ball flat and form a triangular shape with your fingers. Use a round piping tip (Tip 8) or a drinking straw, dip in oil lightly and press the tip on each triangle shape. Place two triangles just below the right ear to form a ribbon. Stick one "even smaller" red ball on the ribbon.
4) To make the nose: Make an indent for the nose and push in the tiny yellow ball.
5) After second proofing, steam buns over high heat for about 6 minutes. Keep cover on for another minute before lifting up the cover.
6) To draw facial features: Mix a teaspoon of egg yolk with about 1/8 teaspoon of edible charcoal powder (or use black food colouring). Draw Hello Kitty eyes and whiskers (I use the tip of a chopstick for the eye and toothpick for the whiskers). Return to steam for another minute.
130g salted butter
15g grated cheese powder
50g sugar
50g evaporated milk
(B) 120g mashed pumpkin + 2 salted egg yolk, steamed and mashed (about 30g)
(C) 20g milk powder + 30g corn flour
1) Mix all ingredients (A) together in a heatproof bowl and set the bowl over a pot of simmering water.
2) When butter has melted, add in (B) and mix well. Pour into a blender and blend till fine (I find blending is optional).
3) Add in (C), return bowl over simmering water and cook till mixture has thickened.
4) Cool mixture and divide into 15g each.
(Note: The filling recipe makes about 20 portions of 15g each)
The filling recipe is adapted from a Facebook user, Samantha Ting. Her original recipe is meant for making molten lava custard bun (流沙包). The steps to prepare the molten custard filling are detailed in her photo album, while her recipe was written in one of the comments of the last picture in the album.
This post is linked to the event Little Thumbs Up (Oct 2014 Event: PUMPKIN) organised by
and hosted by Eileen (Eileen's Diary)
And yes, I mentioned about the Doraemon steamed buns at the beginning of this post, here they are:


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KDE Applauds Qt's Move to Open Governance
Today Nokia announced the start of the open governance model for Qt, known as the Qt Project. The Qt Project allows both companies and individuals to contribute to the development of Qt. KDE supports this move and is excited about the possibilities it brings. We have been waiting for opportunities to take a more active role in Qt's future for a long time and open governance will make this easier. KDE has been working closely with Qt during its 15 year lifetime and the Qt Project promises to bring this collaboration to a new level.
Olaf Schmidt-Wischhöfer (KDE Free Qt Foundation) and Martin Konold (co-founder of KDE) said: "We fully support the work being done with the Qt Project. An openly governed Qt is in the best interests of all Qt developers. The Open Governance structure of the Qt Project empowers developers to influence the direction and the pace of Qt development. Stakeholders in the future of Qt, such as KDE, can now contribute according to their own priorities and take ownership over areas of Qt that are of particular importance to them."
To ensure the fairness of the contribution terms to individual developers, two lawyers were contracted by the KDE Free Qt Foundation. We thank Nokia for taking their feedback into account, and for working with a number of other interested third parties so that the Qt Contribution License Agreement 1.1 is widely supported.
The purpose of the KDE Free Qt Foundation is to ensure that Qt will always be available as Free Software (LGPL 2.1 and GPL 3). The legal agreements between KDE and Nokia ensuring the freedom of Qt remain valid and can now act as solid legal footings for Qt as a community-developed Free Software project.
great news!
great news!
By Anonymous at Fri, 2011/10/21 - 2:02pm
it would be awesome to see kioslaves in qt.
it is so useful to be able to access manpages, files in .zips, ftp, http, …
By Anonymous at Fri, 2011/10/21 - 6:28pm
as one of the more 'frameworky' things in KDE, I wouldn't bet on it. At some point there's enough runtime dependencies that you should just freakin use kdelibs. :)
(or maybe I'm wrong, I forget where in the big matrix KIO was)
By eean at Fri, 2011/10/21 - 7:01pm
Qt is cute ^^ Simply
Qt is cute ^^ Simply wonderful news! You/we rock KDE!
By Anonymous at Sat, 2011/10/22 - 10:12am
Awesome news :-)
This would probably mean wider contribution to QT and wider spread of it to more people and devices :-)
By Anonymous at Sun, 2011/10/23 - 4:37pm
Nokia not interested in QT anymore
Nokia finally lost their concern in Qt, which was inevitable. So, why not announce this as a good news? Well, under current circumstances these are definitelly good news.
By Anonymous at Mon, 2011/10/24 - 8:04am
Nokia still interested in Qt
Fact is that Nokia has currently more developers working on Qt than ever before. They will use it for the next billion feature phones (Meltini). So there are no indications at all that Nokia is dropping Qt.
By Anonymous at Mon, 2011/10/24 - 1:54pm
I consider myself as part of
I consider myself as part of kde and I do not applaud anything that requires a cla. Where was a poll conducted that you feel to be eligible to announce that the kde community applauds anything like that?
By Anonymous at Tue, 2011/10/25 - 5:38am
steps forward
This is a step forward, just as the last ~5 years have been one long trail of steps forward towards greater openness. Remember when Qt wasn't as clearly licensed, had no open repositories, no labs.qt blogs, would never pick up code from external sources unless it fully owned them, etc? There were dozens of small steps to get to this point and this is indeed a huge and important moment in that passageway.
It isn't perfect yet, however, the CLA being something that will hopefully one day also go away. It will be another step.
Withholding support until perfection is achieved is simply the best way to discourage progress. We should celebrate what has been achieved, then get on to working on the next steps ...
(That said, if there had been a poll, I'm pretty sure most would be supportive of such a congratulations story. Our FreeQt representatives, who are voted in and who do a great job of reporting back in a timely and thorough fashion, also watched over this process. As a final note: I personally had nothing to do with this announcement, but I do fully support it :)
By Aaron Seigo at Tue, 2011/10/25 - 11:49am


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Bollywood stars Salman Khan and Anushka Sharma have emerged as the most wanted celebrities online in India, according to a recent study.
The vivacious Anushka was the most liked and wanted female celebrity online in the months of December 2012 and January 2013, while Salman topped the survey in the male category in a study, conducted by Kwaab.com, an online social cataloguing portal.
The study, based on half a million catalogued images among 50,000-plus users, observed the aspirations of Indians' favourite idols, gadgets, food and luxury items, said a statement.
There were other findings in the study too - it highlighted the love for cupcakes over traditional Bengali sweets, and how gulab jamun remains an undaunted favourite for Indians.
On the spicier side, south Indian food retained its high demands.
On the fashion front, Indians now seem to prefer designer apparel by boutique brands, while traditional Indian wear emerged as the favourite choice.
In terms of travel, Rajasthan has emerged the most liked destination. Kashmir and Goa are the other favourite spots this season.
Among international destinations, London attracted a lot of likes as the favourite shopping place.


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demconnect necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 30 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
DemTweetHQ / DemTweet
DemConnect is a consulting company focused on online constituent outreach efforts from government agencies, officials, and candidates. We are looking for a logo for the first in our suite of products, DemTweetHQ / DemTweet. This is a statistics/analysis site focused on providing information regarding various Twitter users and their online social standing.
DemConnect works with local, state, and federal agencies, offices, and individuals serving in public office. We also serve candidates running for office or those seeking an appointed position. This product will expand beyond our traditional audience into individuals interested in tracking online activities of prominent government agencies, officials, and candidates with Twitter accounts.
This logo should reflect the nature of the site being launched. Keywords would be: government, politics, Twitter, democracy, and statistics. The logo should work well with our company logo (attached). While our company logo has a more corporate feel, we're open to things that go beyond this traditional look. Our company's primary color is a deep blue (something around: #013277) -- you're welcome to use this as your primary color but we're open to other colors that would invite the types of keywords listed above. The text of the logo should work be "DemTweetHQ" and also work well as "DemTweet". The brand should work well with and without the "HQ" portion of the text. The logo should include some type of icon as an element to accompany the text. This icon will be used for avatars and other online promotions, so it should size well as a standalone (i.e. it should have equal height/width dimensions).
Logo will be used on the website and should translate well into print (letterhead, biz cards, banners/posters, etc.).
Winner should be prepared to submit:
- Original files (AI or EPS)
- Color version on transparent background - web friendly
- Grey scale version on transparent background - web friendly
We will provide tons of feedback and rate all logos submitted. Please ask us questions and we look forward to working with you now and in the future!
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If you love me, you will obey what I command.
—John 14:15, NIV (Jesus speaking)
Before we attempt to understand the sacramental thinking of the ancient church, we need to understand something of the ancient church's worldview, and how it differed from the worldview of the Roman public.
In the time and place where the church emerged, pagan intellectuals believed that there were two separate and distinct realities, the spiritual and the physical. The idea is rooted in Plato, but at the time that the Church began, it had not only pervaded secular thinking, it was also fully developed in a religious movement called Gnosticism, which went so far as to teach that physical reality was created by an evil junior god as a prank! To the pagan intellectual, physical reality was lower and less desirable than spiritual reality. Consequently for pagan intellectuals, the goal of life was to free oneself from physical reality and to become entirely spiritual. In this system of thought, death releases the human spirit from its prison of flesh so that if it is properly prepared, it can inhabit the spiritual realm as a pure spirit being. If it is not properly prepared, then it cannot free itself from the material world and remains in misery.
Because they believed in this dualism of the spiritual and the physical, pagan intellectuals used religion to appease the appropriate gods to obtain favors in this life, and they used philosophy to equip the soul with the moral and ethical wherewithal to enter into the spiritual realm upon death. Many pagan intellectuals were intrigued by the fact that Judaism and the ancient church asserted that there was a connection between religion and ethics. It was for them a novel idea.
The dualism of the spiritual and the physical led to two schools of thought about ethics among pagans: one was ascetic and the other was libertine. The ascetic school of thought taught that it was necessary to begin the separation of the soul from the body by subjugating the body to denial, while the libertine school of thought reasoned that since the soul is going to slough off the body at death anyway, it's okay to indulge its appetites. So Gnosticism paradoxically led both to extreme asceticism and to extreme licentiousness. In the New Testament, we find Paul wrestling with the influences of this sort of extremist ethical thinking. In places where he seems to be licentious, he is writing to Christians who were drawn to extreme asceticism, and in places where he seems to be ascetic, he is writing to Christians who were drawn to extreme licentiousness.
Many of these concepts have reappeared in our day as New-Age thought or movies or television shows about ghosts who need to resolve earthly issues so they can be released to a purely spiritual state of being. Some modern Christians are influenced by it, even believing that it is a Christian teaching that we become disembodied spirits at death and remain that way permanently.
The Christian Worldview in Christian Doctrines
There are four doctrines that set Christianity apart from this ancient belief system:
- Creation
- Incarnation
- Redemption
- Resurrection
Ancient intellectuals believed that physical reality is a fluke, a mistake, or a prank by a lesser deity, and that human spirits are trapped in their bodies.
The historic Church taught that there is only one God, who created physical reality, and because God is good, physical reality is fundamentally good. Human beings are the caretakers of physical reality, not its captives. The body is not a predicament in which the spirit finds itself; rather the body and the spirit are components of the whole person.
Ancient intellectuals believed that spiritual things cannot even come in contact with material things. It was easy for them to embrace the deity of Jesus Christ, but they had a hard time grasping the concept that God could live in a material form. (Today, the reverse is true. People have an easy time accepting the humanity of Jesus Christ, but it is hard for them to accept that He is God.) This led to two misconceptions that are historically called heresies. The first is the theory that Jesus was something like a psychic who channeled a spiritual being called 'Christ,' and the second is the theory that Jesus only appeared to be physically present but was not.
The historic Church taught that since God is good and created physical reality, which is also good, it is possible for God to inhabit physical reality in human form, which He did in Jesus Christ. Jesus is fully human and fully divine. This is why the ancient creeds stress that Jesus was born, that he suffered under Pontius Pilate (that is, He lived in a specific historic context within physical reality), that He suffered, that He truly died, that He physically rose from the grave, and that when He ascended into heaven, He took His resurrection body with Him. These assertions directly confront the ancient pagan idea that divine reality and physical reality are separate.
Everyone observes that physical reality is not perfect, and of course neither are we. Our bodies don't last very long; eventually we age and die. Ancient intellectuals believed that physical reality was a trap that we could escape at death by becoming pure spiritual beings.
The historic Church taught that God is in the process of perfecting (or redeeming) physical reality, and that redeeming the human race is the most important part of that process. The purpose of the incarnation is not just to redeem humans, in both body and soul, but the entire physical world.
Since ancient intellectuals thought physical reality was deficient or evil, they envisioned a disembodied afterlife.
Since the Church taught that physical reality is good and that God is redeeming it, the church must also believe that our bodies participate in our redemption. To the church, the body is not something we discard; it is an essential part of our identity. Therefore, when the universe is redeemed, we will be resurrected as spiritual beings in physical bodies, and we will live in the a redeemed physical reality. Our resurrection bodies will have some kind of continuity with our present bodies. Ancient Christian apologists spent a lot of time defending this teaching, which their pagan contemporaries ridiculed as nonsensical.
The Christian Worldview in Christian Sacraments
The ancient church believed that physical and spiritual reality are united, not separate. Therefore, for the ancient church, a physical act and a spiritual act are one and the same. Since it is easier to fake your beliefs than your behavior, your behavior is the indicator of your true beliefs:
Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.
—Matthew 7:15-20, NIV
Jesus introduced a technical term for a person who professes to have a belief system that is not reflected in their behavior: it is hypocrite.
Paul also teaches that saving faith changes our behavior:
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
—Ephesians 2:8-10, NIV
There is a link between one's true beliefs and one's conduct. We can tell if a person is telling the truth about their beliefs by observing their behavior, according to John:
This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother.
—1 John 3:10, NIV
If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.
—1 John 4:20-21, NIV
To the ancient church, then, the rites and ceremonies of the church were simply the physical manifestations of spiritual reality. Baptism is the physical manifestation of conversion and the Eucharist is the physical manifestation of our membership in the church, the mystical Body of Christ. Suppose you asked the apostles, "Can I turn down the opportunity to be baptized and still be a Christian?" or "Can I decide never to attend church and still be a Christian?" The apostles would answer no to both questions, because if you were truly a Christian, you would eagerly seek baptism and the fellowship of other Christians in worship. Unless these things are physically impossible or unavailable for some reason other than your free choice, you cannot have faith without bearing the fruit of faith.
The fundamental principle behind the sacraments is that spiritual and physical reality are a unity. Physical acts are spiritual acts, and spiritual acts are physical acts.
See also:
What is a Sacrament?
How Many Sacraments Are There?
What about baptism "in Jesus' Name"?


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After using and touting jEdit for all my programming needs this year, health I was left high and dry this week after Apple's latest Java update seemed to cripple the app's launcher. I could still launch the editor using the jar file within the app bundle, but this wouldn't allow auto-launching or drag-and-drop opening (and the interface looked like crap).
Thank goodness Doug Letterman of Render Fast came to the rescue with a couple of solutions (one of his own creation, and one from the Apple support forums).
So if you've been putting up with inferior editors and clamoring for a solution this week, too, relax: jEdit is back on OS X.
And for what it's worth, the developers of jEdit assure us a new version is in the works that will correct the issue "out-of-the-box," but for now, this solution should get you back in the game. Happy coding!


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Invited Review: Vintage Bulgaria @ Tanjung Bungah, Penang
I was invited for another food review. Hooray!!!
Good things do happens when you think about it. Keep it up!
This time, I am invited to review a Bulgarian restaurant located in Tanjung Bungah, Penang. The name of the restaurant is Vintage Bulgaria. It is run by a Bulgarian lady who is married to a Penangnite.


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Marty@3Points brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 235 Designs von 57 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Be a part of our team as we embark on an amazing journey! We are a startup Marketing Consultancy, ready to take on the big guys. There's a lot that we do - but for purposes of the brief, we'll keep it simple. We specialize in helping clients and their brands grow and win in today's competitive marketplace.
We hope this brief is concise, clear and focused enough to give you the creative freedom to work your magic!
• Presidents/Owners of mid-size companies ($10-$100 million)
• VPs, Senior Executives at large corporations
Their Intended Reaction: "That looks like a smart, professional firm that could add value to my organization"
Tonality: Simple & Straightforward, Contemporary (not too sleek), Trusted
The background of the 3Points name comes from two sources:
- A personal sports angle. Our founder is a Duke basketball fan - thus "3Points" as in basketball. The sports angle should not be used, however using Duke blue (PMS287) as a predominant color could be nice.
- The second angle is a business one - i.e. that in a world of complexity, we provide our clients with solutions and clarity by boiling issues down to the 3 most important points. We'd like you to use the idea of "3 points" (be it bullet points, triangles, whatever you can think of) to inspire visual design, identity or iconography.
Our brand is "3Points". However as a startup, we want prospective clients to know what we do when they see our logo. Thus the words "Marketing", "Strategy" and "Consulting" (in that order) should be part of the logo design, in a smaller supporting fashion compared to "3Points". One idea we had was to creatively use these three words into whatever iconography is created to represent "3Points" per the point above. Our website will be at http://www.3pointsmarketing.com, and that is why of the 3 supporting words, "Marketing" should be first, closest or perhaps even connected to "3Points".
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
Finden Sie heraus, wie ein Designwettbewerb funktioniert, oder lernen Sie mehr über unsere Logo-Design-Angebote.


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Adrian Grenier Gossip
Adrien Grenier gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
Smutty Social Media, November 7, 2016
Blake Lively got chocolate on her ballot because BLAKE LIVELY LOVES DESSERT, have you heard? 🇺🇸ONLY 2 DAYS LEFT until the election! People can look it up if you don't vote 😬. Use your voice!!! 🗣🎉Our future is YOUR choice. How awesome is that?! #VOTE (...and ignore the chocolate on my delicious ballot.😳😛) Full Story
Dear Gossips,
Two link recommendations today and the common theme here is "feelings". All that matters is the "feelings". And as long as one feels the feelings and honours the feelings, one can begin to live their best life. Read Full Intro
After-bro: The Entourage movie
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I read a great article over at Slate this weekend: How Entourage went from critical darling to cultural punching bag. Basically we've changed since Entourage first launched. We've asked for more in the way women are represented, not just in relationship to men, but in the way we ask for better from them. Full Story
The Gang's All Here
About 11 months ago I wrote about the impending Entourage movie and at the time, this was my plot prediction: "Vince is happily married to the reporter he met at the end of the final season – they have 4 kids. Eric is now a big player in Hollywood, Johnny Drama is down on his luck after his TV show got cancelled and he lost all his money to a shady financial advisor; he now lives in Vince's pool house. Full Story
TV Show About a Movie Star Now Becoming a Movie
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Entourage, like its HBO predecessor Sex and the City, is being turned into a movie. Great, so are the boys going to Abu Dhabi too? Entourage gave us douchebags before douchebags took over reality tv. The show was supposed to be super insider-y, but even someone with a passing interest in pop culture would understand most of the references. Full Story
The Final Entourage
Entourage the final season premieres this weekend on Sunday on HBO Canada and HBO at 10:30pm. I've not enjoyed the show for maybe two or three seasons now. It lost its bite. Towards the end of last season though, as Vince began to spiral, when the writers knew they were heading to a conclusion, things started to tighten up a little. Full Story
Can't be saved
Adrian Grenier, you're a dumb f-ck. All he has now is Entourage. And Entourage has been good this season. The last two episodes were particularly strong. HBO has announced that next year will likely be the last with a possible film extension afterwards although it's nowhere near confirmed. Full Story
For Lolan
Lolan is a longtime reader. LONG time. And Lolan was not happy with me yesterday: Kellan Lutz bone to pick with you. Lainey, you really screwed your readers over by not including some sort of disclaimer with your "A Shirtless Career" post about Kellan Lutz. I clicked on the pictures not prepared for little chunks of vomit that came into my mouth involuntarily. Full Story
Adrian Grenier and Jennifer Aniston's soulmate
After Adrian Grenier cut his hair, many of you noted that he looks remarkably like John Stamos who happened to be photographed on the set of Entourage filming a guest appearance on the show yesterday. I don't see it but again, I don't have the best eyes. While Stamos was shooting in LA, his soulmate Jennifer Aniston continued to work on Just Go With It in Hawaii. Full Story
Adrian goes short
And better. Much better. Entourage has resumed production. Adrian Grenier and Kevin Dillon were seen on Sunset yesterday shooting outside a peeler bar. So a lot has changed. Actually he looks great with short hair. It's exactly what he needed. A purge. Detox. Cutting off any remnants of Ebola. There could have been a promising hiatus movie career for Adrian at one time. Full Story
Adrian after Ebola
He's friends with it, Adrian Grenier is. With Ebola Paris Hilton. He admits it too. And what's come of it since then? When Entourage first broke, Adrian Grenier was a hot commodity. He had a supporting role in The Devil Wears Prada and continued to look for opportunities between shooting his hit HBO show. Full Story


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Republican members of Congress are sending last-minute campaign contributions to win a special election in Florida on March 11th.
Campaign finance reports for the campaigns of Republican David Jolly and Democrat Alex Sink, in the 13th District of Florida, are due on Thursday and will disclose donors and disbursements from January 1 through February 19th. But last-minute contribution notices of contributions of $1,000 or more are required to be filed within 48-hours, between February 20th and March 8th.


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The Employee Benefit Research Institute conducted in June a comparative analysis of the likely benefits to participants in 401(k) plans, final-average defined benefit plans and cash balance plans.
The analysis found the 401(k) plans had the advantage if historical rates of return and annuity purchase prices remain the same. However, a variety of stress tests changed the outcome for each of the plans.
EBRI excluded 401(k) plans with automatic enrollment on the assumption that despite the increased prevalence of automatic enrollment, "there are still a number of assumptions with respect to opt-out behavior" that need additional data before they can be included in the analysis.
When the plans were subjected to different stresses, including decreasing the rate of return and increasing the annuity purchase price to the current bond rate, lower-paid employees would fare better with a DB plan than with a 401(k), but still had the advantage over the cash balance plan. EBRI found that the competitive advantages of a 401(k) plan increased the longer a participant was in the plan. Workers with one to 10 years of simulated future eligibility in a plan had a median advantage of one percentage point over the DB plan, 10 with 11 to 20 years of future participation and 21 points at 21 to 30 years. Those with 31 to 40 participation years ahead of them had a 44-point advantage.
For the most part, the first three eligibility groups broke even between the 401(k) plan and the DB plan. However, between 60% and 70% of workers in the lowest income quartile with 31 to 40 years of participation ahead of them would get a larger annuity when they retired at 65 with a 401(k) plan than if they had been covered by a DB plan.
In the highest income quartile, about 60% of workers with one to 10 years of future participation could get higher benefits with the 401(k) plan. For those with 31 to 40 years, between 80% and 90% could get more benefits from the 401(k).
When EBRI increased the annuity price in line with what a 65-year-old woman would pay, as opposed to the lower rate a man with a shorter life expectancy would pay, EBRI found that keeping all other variable the same would reduce the advantage of a 401(k) plan by three percentage points.
By reducing the rate of return by 200 basis points from the historical rate for all asset classes, EBRI found that in both the 401(k) plan and the DB plan, workers with more future participation years were affected most. In the lowest income quartile, the advantage of a 401(k) plan for those with 31 to 40 years of future participation fell 19 points compared with the DB plan and 21 points compared with the cash balance plan. In the highest income quartile, the advantage fell 30 points for the DB plan and 29 points for the cash balance plan.
"Even with these dramatic shifts in return assumptions, however, all eligibility classifications for employees in the third and fourth income quartiles still have a positive median advantage for VE [voluntary enrollment] 401(k) plans versus the stylized, final-average DB plans," according to the report.
EBRI found that in plans affected by both a decrease in the rate of return and an increase in the annuity purchase price, the advantage of a 401(k) plan to the youngest workers in the lowest income quartile falls 28 points. For those in the highest income quartile, the difference is 42 percentage points. "Overall, under that set of assumptions, the median relative advantage of VE 401(k) plans over the stylized, final-average DB plan disappears for all but the highest-income quartile with 3140 years of eligibility."
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Symphonies of Iowa
Saturdays at 5 p.m. and Sundays at 4 p.m. on FM Classical
- Hosted by Jacqueline Halbloom
Every week, Symphonies of Iowa showcases Iowa's leading orchestras in concert. You'll hear a mix of familiar masterpieces and new works, of world-renowned soloists and Iowa's best composers and musicians. Join us Saturdays at 5 PM and Sundays at 4 PM.
Click here for a simple chronological list of this season's concerts.


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Yummy Plants: a vegan lifestyle website and community. We can help you start a vegan diet!
souley vegan southern comfort food
Home of authentic vegan soul food, the southern atmosphere of Souley Vegan is cozy and chic, and all food is soley vegan! The entire restaurant is free of meat and dairy. Tamearra Dyson, owner of Souley Vegan, has a goal to provide southern style dishes in a family atmosphere with a healthy twist.


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smashmag necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 119 diseños de 26 diseñadores freelance.
Aussie Medi Tech
Aussie Medi Tech is an Australian company that sells and services high end medical and cosmetic equipment. It is the sole distributor of LPG products (http://www.lpgsystems.com/) and Asclepion laser equipment (http://www.asclepion.com) in Australia and New Zealand. This is the latest technology in laser eye surgery and skin treatment.
Our product's make people healthier, prettier and happier.
We intend to use this logo on the website, business cards and other marketing material. There will be lots of potential follow up design work (website, banners, illustrations, etc.) for the winner.
The target audience is doctors, mostly specialists for laser eye surgery and laser skin treatments, as well as high end beauticians.
The only requirement is for the logo to contain the company name. With icon or without is up to you. Ideally it can make people feel good just like our product makes people feel better about themselves.
Think clever and out of the box, looking for something bold and fresh. Font selection is critical.
We also require a business card and simple letterhead design. The business card should be double sided and have the following information: Name, Position, Address, Phone Number, Email and URL. Which information goes on which side is up to you. The letterhead should be plain and hold Company Name, Address, Phone Number, Email Address, Website Address and Business Registration Number.
We need all files in .psd and .ai format and the letterhead as a word template.
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Self-driving cars? They are (sort of) here already
- More luxury cars let drivers take their hands of the wheel
- But most won%27t let it happen for long%3A alarms go off
- It puts automakers a step closer to self-driving cars
With automakers starting to make realistic predictions about when they can deliver self-driving cars, many motorists may not realize that to a large extent, such cars are here already.
Infiniti, Mercedes-Benz, Lexus and Acura are among automakers that have started fielding vehicles that allow drivers to take their hands off the wheel. The cars stay on the road using a combination of radar and camera systems that track lane lines on the pavement. Most have alarms that remind drivers to put their hands back on after a few seconds. But not all: Infiniti's Q50 sedan can steer itself for miles without a finger on the wheel.
These come in addition to already available adaptive cruise control that adjusts to traffic speed, and collision prevention and mitigation systems that can slow or stop the vehicles. Some now can look beyond the car immediately ahead.
Automakers have pegged self-driving technology as a top-priority. Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn has set a goal of having a fully driverless car on sale by 2020. Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche arrived at the Frankfurt Auto Show in Germany last month in the back seat of a driverless Mercedes S-Class that crept on stage.
A leader in the race to a truly driverless car has been Google, which has logged thousands of miles in California and Nevada with an autonomous Toyota Prius. Perhaps as a result, a new study being released today by consultants KPMG finds that consumers trust technology companies more than automakers when it comes to building self-driving cars.
But overall, drivers are wary of driverless technology. Nine of 10 say a licensed driver still should be at the wheel, according to a survey of 1,000 adults last month by ORC International for the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies. Only a third say they'd be willing to buy a self-driving car.
Starting this model year, these automakers have installed a next generation of lane-keeping systems that let drivers take their hands off the wheel on freeways:
• Infiniti. Active Lane Control in the new Q50 sedan handles straight roads and highway curves, though not the sharper turns of city driving. Then, the lane-departure alarm sounds. "It's fair to say some of these driving aids can look forward to autonomous driving, but they are here today to take the stress out of everyday driving," says spokesman Kyle Bazemore.
• Mercedes-Benz. The 2014 E-Class, and now the new S-Class sedans have Active Lane Keeping Assist, which nudges the steering wheel back to the center of the lane if the car starts to drift. Drivers can take their hands off the wheel for about 10 seconds before a warning light changes color.
It's a "small step" toward autonomous driving, says Dave Larsen, the S-Class product manager. A fully autonomous Mercedes test car has only 10 sensors more.
• Acura.The RLX flagship sedan and MDX crossover, both new this year, has a lane-keeping system that gently pulls the car back into the lane. If drivers remove hands from the wheel for too many seconds, they are busted by a flashing light and chime. "It's meant to keep you in the center of your lane," says spokesman Chuck Schifsky. "We still believe, at the core, needs to be the driver."
• Lexus. Lane KeepAssist holds the car in the lane, but cancels it if hands leave the steering wheel.


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thomasseifert necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 5 diseños de 4 diseñadores freelance.
Donaupark Productions/Thomas Seifert
I'm a Journalist with the Austrian Daily Newspaper DIE PRESSE (blog: http://www.diepresse.com/globalist) and author of the bestselling Book "Schwarzbuch Öl" ("The Black Book on Oil" - http://specials.zsolnay.at/schwarzbuch/index.htm find pics under "Presseinformationen, thomasseifert.blogspot.com) and Documentary-Filmmaker. Find more pics on my stone-age-old website http://www.donaupark.org and http://share.ovi.com/album/Reporter…ter10Indie and http://share.ovi.com/album/Reporter…masSeifert
Publishers, Documentary-Film Producers and Jurors for grants working with South- and East-Asia-Foundations and/or foundations promoting European Union-Asia Cooperation.
I need a prezi (prezi.com - online or offline, best use original stlyle and the Prezi-[ ]-Brackets for grouping of the topics) with a cool, modern look (see http://www.foreignpolicy.com), best use original design that shows the following:
* about myself (see "tell about myself"-box above
* about the Book-Project: "Chindien" (project title// English: "Chindia") will be about the rapid changes in the worlds two fastest growing economies and fastest changing societies. It will be about Industry & Infrastructure, politics (internationalism or hindu- and chinese nationalism?) and social issues, but also about agriculture (see: http://diepresse.com/blog/globalist…arum_usha) and youth culture: Youth hangouts, fashion, style, designers in Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing (http://diepresse.com/blog/globalist…china_cool), but also in Bombay, Bangalore and Delhi as well as about the two music festivals "Modern Sky" (http://festival.modernsky.com/sf10/) (Beijing) and "Sunburn" (Goa, India - http://www.sunburn-festival.com/2010/) and education/research. The last chapter will be about China/India in 2020 - please leave out at least 5 blanks for pictures that I'll insert.
* The film-documentary will be based more on personal stories illustrating the issues that are in the book. please leave out at least 5 blanks for video-clips that I'll insert.


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Born on 5 July 1982, the same day that Paolo Rossi scored a famous hat-trick as Italy defeated Brazil 3-2 in the FIFA World Cup finals, Alberto Gilardino was similarly inspirational as the Azzurrini won the UEFA European Under-21 Championship for a fifth time in 2004.
Gilardino would only score once in the group stage as Claudio Gentile's side recovered from losing their opening match to Belarus to qualify for the semi-finals as Group A winners, but came into his own as Portugal were blown away in the last four. Then of Parma FC, he scored the first goal and swiftly made the second for Giampiero Pinzi before capping a 3-1 victory with Italy's third near the end. Gilardino underlined his billing as a natural born goalscorer in the final in Bochum, completing a 3-0 victory by clipping the ball past the Serbia and Montenegro goalkeeper in the 84th minute and rolling it over the line to cue ecstatic on-field celebrations.
Gentile's team would go on to claim an Olympic bronze medal before Gilardino stepped up to the senior side for a World Cup qualifier against Norway in September 2004. A second successive 23-goal season for Parma prompted AC Milan to pay €24m for his services the following summer and he went on to play two games for his country, scoring one goal, in their successful 2006 World Cup campaign. Gilardino was then overlooked for UEFA EURO 2008™, prompting a move to ACF Fiorentina where he rejoined his mentor from his Parma days, Cesare Prandelli.
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