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The Bad Girls
I am a champion of all kinds of sex workers and don't believe in the hierarchy that exists in some people's minds. It's easy to see why people might put exclusive courtesans at the top of the list and streetwalkers at the bottom and parlour workers and independent workers somewhere in between. It's easy to dismiss those who work part time as less professional or worthy than those who choose it as a full time career, but frankly that's all rubbish.
At the end of the day there are people who are good and bad at their job, do it for all reasons and make the choices they make. It's not impossible to have a happy content streetwalker and a miserable £300 an hour 'high class companion'. Ultimately we all sell sex and we're all individuals with our own stories and experiences.
The above paragraph was a bit of a disclaimer to ensure noone accuses me of being snobbish or bitchy about other sex workers or trying to paint myself as perfect.
What I am though is honest and genuine. Not everyone is like that. Following on this post where I characterised some of the men one finds on punting websites this post is about Bad Escorts.
I'm not talking about those who really are thieves and con artists like this woman or those Maggie McNeil describes is this excellent blog but those who don't rely on being good to get repeat custom but use ways of screwing more money out of clients whilst doing as little as possible and generally giving the industry a bad name.
I've also purposely not including anything that might be connected to deeper more serious issues such as drug use, pimps, women who can't speak English or who are scared or nervous.
Little Miss Lazy
She: Wants to do as little as possible
Likes: Making a man come as quickly as possible then ending the booking
Dislikes: Anything more strenuous than opening her legs and clients staying the full length of their booking.
Most likely to say: My arm aches, that hurts my back. Sorry, I need to lay down.
Tricks: Setting the bedroom clock ten minutes fast
Little Miss Distracted
She: Avoids doing the job at hand
Likes: Taking 10 minutes to put the money away, watching the TV whilst being shagged, takes phone calls mid booking.
Dislikes: Having to engage with the client.
Most likely to say: Hang on, I just need to finish this Candy Crush level.
Tricks: Telling a very long story to waste some more time.
Little Miss Grumpy
She: is downright miserable
Likes: very little it appears
Dislikes: Smiling and Speaking
Most likely to say: Have you finished yet?
Tricks: Yawning and rolling her eyes
Little Miss Extras
She: Charges extra for every little thing and fails to mention until during the booking.
Likes: Turning a £100 booking into a £200 booking
Dislikes: Being turned down.
Most likely to say: Kissing is £20, oral sex is £30, glass of tap water £3.50
Tricks: Her whole Modus Operandi is a con.
Little Miss Fake
She: Uses the photos of a porn star
Likes: Thinking she can pull off losing 10 years and several dress sizes
Dislikes: Men walking out in horror
Most likely to say: But it is me!
Tricks: Knowing most men think with their cocks so will stay and pay.
Little Miss Messy
She: Can't be arsed. The place is a mess, she is grubby.
Likes: Picking the dirt under her chipped fingernails.
Dislikes: Dressing up for a booking, emptying the bins and changing the bed linen.
Most likely to say: Take me as I am.
Tricks: None, just doesn't care.
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Bug Description
As of today n or after 15:28 UTC feeds.lp.
chatted with cjwatson on #launchpad about this:
22:34 <hggdh> does http://
22:34 <hggdh> or did the URL change?
22:35 <hggdh> hum. Works for fuel
22:35 <cjwatson> hggdh: I think that's a bug. My guess is that there's something private in that collection that the feed is failing to filter out.
22:37 <hggdh> cjwatson: ah. Even if I try to login (thru the login/register button at the right) it fails because it gets to http://
22:37 <cjwatson> A little difficult to tell what since I don't actually have a way to log into that feed and feeds.launchpad.net doesn't have my usual debugging tools ...
22:37 <hggdh> and this is a 404
22:37 <cjwatson> Indeed
22:37 <cjwatson> Hm, the feed *tries* to filter out private bugs.
22:38 <hggdh> it did succeed previously. #-bugs-announce has been feeding off it for some years now
22:39 <cjwatson> Yeah, it will probably work again once data cycles a bit
22:40 <hggdh> good enough. Last successful feed was at 15:28 UTC, so I am guessing the cycle is a bit larger than 7 hours :-)
22:40 <cjwatson> My guess is that one of the bugs in the topmost batch is either assigned to a private team or has a task on a private project
22:40 <hggdh> mwanwhile I will stop looking at the feeder code, and just restart the beast
22:45 <cjwatson> Ah yes, here we go
22:45 <cjwatson> There are several bugs in the first batch that are assigned to a private team
22:45 <cjwatson> hggdh: Could you please file a bug about this? It shouldn't be desperately hard to fix
22:48 <hggdh> cjwatson: against which package/component?
22:49 <cjwatson> hggdh: Launchpad itself
22:49 <hggdh> ack, on it
So, this bug.
Related branches
- Colin Watson: Approve on 2016-07-28
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|Khurshid Alam (khurshid-alam) wrote :
It works for me. Tue Jun 14 13:41:03 IST 2016
|Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :
Khurshid: Thanks, but it's expected that this bug will appear and disappear over time depending on the properties of the most recent bugs in Ubuntu, so "works for me"-type reports aren't informative here.
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Opening this weekend in theaters and IMAX is director Kenneth Branagh's Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. Based on the Tom Clancy character, the original story follows Jack Ryan (played by Chris Pine) as he uncovers a financial terrorist plot. Starring alongside Pine is Kevin Costner and Keira Knightley with Branagh as the film's antagonist.
A few days ago I got to talk to Chris Pine at the Los Angeles press day. He talked about the film's long development process, whether there was any dramatic shift in the story during that time, if he collects anything, and more. In addition, Pine talked about making Horrible Bosses 2 and Joe Carnahan's action-comedy Stretch, saying the opening scene of the latter "may end my career." Hit the jump to watch.
Finally, if you missed any of my Jack Ryan set visit coverage, here's my recap with a video blog, and on set interviews with Pine, Branagh, Costner, producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, and producers David Barron and Mace Neufeld.
Chris Pine:
- Was this a challenging shoot?
- How Jack Ryan isn't Jason Bourne and he's got to do a lot with his brain. Was it difficult to portray that on screen?
- Does he collect anything?
- Was there any dramatic shift in the story during the development process?
- Talks about Joe Carnahan's Stretch and Horrible Bosses 2. Says the tone of Stretch is like nothing you've ever witnessed. Also says the opening scene "may end my career."


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Around this time every year, many high school seniors are biting their nails in hopes of getting accepted to their college of choice. But, one teen from New Jersey has to make the difficult decision of choosing between eight Ivy League schools. Yup, you heard that right! Ifeoma White-Thorpe, a high school senior at Morris Hills High School in Rockaway, New Jersey, was accepted into all eight Ivy League schools.
"I was shaking, I was like, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, like this might be eight out of eight and I clicked it and it said 'Congratulations' and I was like oh my goodness and then I was like, what did I say?" Ifeoma said to WABC.
New Jersey high school student got accepted to all 8 Ivy League schools: "Now I don't know where I want to go." https://t.co/b9i3HKJa0w pic.twitter.com/JDR3dwMT7z
— ABC News (@ABC) April 4, 2017
White-Thorpe now has to choose between Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Columbia, UPenn, Princeton, Dartmouth, Brown… and Stanford University (which is not an Ivy League but is known as an elite university). "I got into Harvard early action so I figured I'll just go there, so then I got into all the others and I was like, wait now I don't know where I want to go," she said to WABC.
Andre and Patricia White-Thorpe, Ifeoma's parents, say they will not meddle in her decision, saying, "We're leaving it up to her."
Ifeoma wants to study biology and pursue a career in global health. She decided to apply to all of the schools because they "have great research facilities." Although the gifted teen is undecided, wherever she decides to go, she will be on the right path to success.
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A Fantastic Billboard that Actually Makes Drinkable Water Out of Air – Seriously Cool [VIDEO]
The University of Engineering and Technology, UTEC, was looking for some way to wow students for their upcoming semester. They went to Lima, Peru, where people have been suffering from a lack of water, since they receive little rain. They have about 98% humidity, but it doesn't rain much. The planet is weird.
The billboard takes the humidity from the air, and turns it into drinking water! They've already produced thousands of liters of water for the area, helping hundreds of families in the area! Just from a billboard standing there!
That's a cool use of technology.


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VHF Radios Key to Interoperability in Boulder Fire (9/14/10)
By Michelle Zilis
A Boulder County (Colo.) Sheriff's Office official said its analog conventional VHF radio system allowed responders from local, state and federal agencies to interoperate without problems during the destructive Fourmile Canyon Fire last week.
The fire spread across 6,427 acres and destroyed 169 structures before it was 100 percent contained Monday evening. More than 900 firefighters from at least 35 local, regional and national agencies worked to contain the fire that began Sept. 6, according to the Boulder County Office of Emergency Management website.
Operating on the Boulder County Sheriff's Office analog conventional VHF radio system, first responders were able to successfully communicate with one another. "We were very pleased with the performance of our VHF radio system," said Division Chief James Smith, Boulder County Sheriff's Office. "It worked as expected and as it has worked for us in other major events."
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Agencies that responded and primarily operate on CCNC, such as the Colorado State Patrol, were given VHF cache radios from the Boulder network. Many federal agencies responding used field-programmable VHF radios for mutual aid. "We can quickly program all of these radios with shared frequencies," Smith said.


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Dr. Jessica Bardill
Assistant Professor, English
J.W. McConnell Building,
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Ph. D. Duke University, Department of English,Durham, NC
Dissertation: Beyond Blood and Belonging: Alternarratives for a Global Citizenry explores a narrative that uses blood to create identity in how it influences legislation, science, and belonging, particularly in the forms of blood quantum requirements and DNA testing. I also posit alternative narratives in orderto understand identity and belonging within a global society.
Committee: Profs. Priscilla Wald (director), Sharon Holland, Dominika Baran, Tol Foster (UNC), and Charmaine Royal (IGSP).
B.A./B.S. Emory University, English, with High Honors, and Biology
Honors Thesis: The Influence of the New Tongue: History, Identity, and Local-ity in the Pidgin Literature of Hawai'i. Prof. Deepika Bahri, advisor.
Postdoctoral Work
Stanford University, Stanford,CA
Lecturer, Thinking Matters Program, Stanford Introductory Studies
Teaching Fellow, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford Medical Center
University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign
Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship in American Indian Studies
Teaching activities
Courses Taught at Concordia
ENGL 377 - Contemporary Canadian Fiction (Fall 2017)
Previous Courses Taught
Graduate Courses:
Intersectionality and Identity in Literature
Studies in Native American Literature
Studies in World Indigenous Literatures
Undergraduate Courses:
Embodied and Indigenous Knowledges
Genes, Germs, and Nuclear War (Honors CollegeSeminar)
Introduction to Ethnic Studies
Science, Literature, and Society
Native American Literature
Introduction to College WritingAppreciating Literature
Selected Publications
"Ancestors and Identities: DNA,Genealogy, and Stories", chapter in Handbookof Biology and Society. Maurizio Meloni, John Cromby, Des Fitzgerald, andStephanie Lloyd, editors. Palgrave Macmillan, anticipated publication Fall2017.
"New Words and Old Stories: IndigenousTeachings in Health Care and Bioethics", Open Peer Commentary with Nanibaa'Garrison, American Journal of Bioethics(AJOB). Vol. 16, Issue 5 (May 2016), pp. 50-52. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15265161.2016.1159762?journalCode=uajb20#.VzTuqj9SBow
"Naming Indigenous Concerns, FramingConsiderations for Stored Biospecimens", Open Peer Commentary with Nanibaa'Garrison in American Journal of Bioethics(AJOB). Vol. 15, Issue 9 (August 2015). pp.73-5. http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/pwKGYSTGQ5SzurvQRbbZ/full#.VfLXyRfeP3U.
"Genetic Ancestry Testing," in International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition. Co-authored with Nanibaa' A. Garrison.Graciela Cabana, sectioned. 2015.
"Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications(ELSI) of Native American DNA" in AnnualReview of Anthropology, Volume 43, September 2014. pp. 155-166.
"Identity as Socially Constructed:An Objection to Individual Change" in AmericanJournal of Bioethics: Neuroscience, Open Peer Commentary, Issue 5, Vol. 1.,January 2014,
pp. 19-20.
American Indian & AlaskaNatives Genetics Resource Center, National Congress of American Indians (NCAI),launched June 2012. www.genetics.ncai.org.
"Limited Uses of Genetic Testingfor Tribal Enrollment"; http://genetics.ncai.org/limited-uses-of-genetic-testing.cfm.
"Tribal Enrollment and GeneticTesting"; http://genetics.ncai.org/tribal-enrollment-and-genetic-testing.cfm.
"Tribal Sovereignty and EnrollmentDeterminations"; http://genetics.ncai.org/tribal-sovereignty-and-enrollment-determinations.cfm.
Exhibit Curator andDocumentary Producer
Leaving Home, Building Community:Triad Native American History, Presence, and Continuance. Co-curated with Nora Dial-Stanley (Lumbee),community engaged research including return of results in the form of a galleryexhibit and a 46-minute documentary film.
Guilford Native American Art Gallery, Greensboro Cultural Center,Greensboro, NC.
Fall, 2016.
Reviews, Commentaries,and Other Writing
Review essay of Progressive Traditions: Identity in CherokeeLiterature and Culture by Joshua Nelson, Sovereign Stories: Aesthetics, Autonomy, and Native American Writingby Padraig Kirwan, and Settler CommonSense: Queerness and Everyday Colonialism by Mark Rifkin. Submitted to American Literature, Vol. 88, No. 1 (March 2016).
Review of That the Blood Stay Pure: African Americans, Native Americans, and thePredicament of Race and Identity in Virginia in Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) Journal, Volume 3,Issue 1, Spring 2016.
Review of Islands of Decolonial Love: Stories and Songs by Leanne Simpson in As/Us: A Space for Women of the World, Issue4, pp. 214-216. Fall 2014.
"How Can Polyamory Teach Us to beBetter Professionals; Or, How I Learned to Love and Be Loved by ManyColleagues", guest contribution to the Critical Polyamorist blog (http://www.criticalpolyamorist.com/homeblog/how-can-polyamory-teach-us-to-be-better-professionals-or-how-i-learned-to-love-and-be-loved-by-many-colleagues).
Review of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of GeneticScience by Kim TallBear in NativeAmerican and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) Journal, Volume 1, Issue 2, pp.192-194, Fall 2014.
"Parts, Transmission, and Remains:How Blood Makes and is Made into Life", review of Blood: The Stuff of Life by Lawrence Hill in American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB), July 2014 (http://www.bioethics.net/book-reviews/).Published in print, Volume 15, Issue 1, pp. W1-W2, January 2015.
Review essay of Native Acts: Law, Recognition, and CulturalAuthenticity by Joanne Barker and DomesticSubject: Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature by BethPiatote. American Literature, DukeUniversity UP, Spring 2014, pp. 201-203.
Review essay of Spaces Between Us: Queer Settler Colonialismand Indigenous Decolonization, QueerIndigenous Studies: Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics, and Literature andSovereign Erotics: A Collection ofTwo-Spirit Literature in make/shift:feminisms in motion, online makeshiftmag.com . Issue 13, Spring/Summer2013.
"Information and Misinformation Already Had:DNA and Tribal Citizenship." GeneWatch,Council for Responsible Genetics, Vol. 23, Issue 3 (May-June 2010), pp.8-9, 26. http://www.councilforresponsiblegenetics.org/GeneWatch/GeneWatchBrowser.aspx?volumeId=23&issueNumber=3.


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Joint Church of England and United Reformed Church service of reconciliation and commitment
Tuesday 7th February 2012The United Reformed Church and the Church of England participated in a Service of Reconciliation, Healing of Memories and Mutual Commitment at Westminster Abbey. The service marked the 350th anniversary of the Great Ejectment of 2,000 nonconforming ministers following the 1662 Act of Uniformity.
The historic service marked a significant step forward in the development of a closer working relationship between the two Churches. At the service, the Archbishop of Canterbury preached and the Archbishop of York, together with Mrs Val Morrison and the Revd Dr Kirsty Thorpe, moderators of the General Assembly of the United Reformed Church, lead a litany of penitence and act of commitment.
Events such as the execution of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, and of King Charles I, whom the Church of England honours as a martyr, and the sufferings both of Anglican clergy during the Interregnum and of nonconforming ministers after 1662, were acknowledged with sadness.
The service arose from a joint report – Healing the Past, Building the Future – which was agreed by the General Synod and the URC's Mission Council in 2011; and the timing of that report and the resultant service are significant: 2012 is the 40th anniversary of the founding of the URC as well as the 350th anniversary of the Great Ejectment.
The Revd Elizabeth Welch, the URC co-convener of the group that wrote the Healing the Past, Building the Future report, said: "I'm delighted that, in this significant anniversary year, when we remember both the separation of churches and the coming back together of some, through the founding of the URC, we can meet for such a historic service. I hope this is the beginning of a closer drawing together, as we commit ourselves to further shared work."
The Rt Revd Christopher Hill, Bishop of Guildford and chair of the Council for Christian Unity, said: "Churches of all denominations contribute greatly to the life of communities in which they are located, and this strengthening of the relationship between the URC and the Church of England will improve that local level work."
Listen to the Archbishop's sermon, or read the transcript below.
A sermon by Archbishop Rowan Williams
for the Service of Reconciliation, Healing of Memories, and Mutual Commitment for the Church of England and the United Reformed Church,
Westminster Abbey, 7 February 2012
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
'Until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ.' [Ephesians 4.13]
Our Christian faith is something constantly growing, constantly moving towards greater maturity, a greater approximation toward the stature of Christ. And as we grow we need for our maturing, challenges that push us away from infantile faith. History is not short of those challenges. And the history we remember from the seventeenth century in this country abounds in such challenges. It is worth remembering that the events of 1662 marked a political as well as a religious watershed. That moment was the beginning of a new kind of political identity and a new kind of political idealism in this country – not simply the old 'Puritan' agenda but a new, focused, self-aware, minority Christian identity, very conscious of precisely this imperative to grow into maturity. In the centuries that followed it was those who followed 'Old Dissent' who were very often those most eager to stand for and push us towards a mature faith - yes, but also a mature presence in society.
It was a climate, intellectual and spiritual that produced extraordinary people, extraordinary imaginative writers and thinkers, extraordinary scientists, the world of the Dissenting Academies, the world of Doddridge and Watts, the world in which joy in the things of the mind and the heart helped people move into the space they believed had been cleared for them, the space of being free citizens, even at a time when the state and the established church had, let's say, not quite caught up with that vision.
Indeed you could say that the vision was almost kidnapped by the Anglican oligarchs of the eighteenth century. 1688 was a moment when, with the so-called 'Glorious Revolution', the Anglican establishment briefly but very effectively 'borrowed the clothes' of Dissent, and for the rest of its history told itself the story that history had been moving smoothly and inexorably towards the eighteenth century, when Anglicanism in its most rationalist and often least imaginative form appeared to be the ideal form of Christian identity in Europe if not the world. But however much we attempted to steal the clothes of Dissent, Dissent went on digging away at foundational questions of political liberty and theological exploration. It was and remained a challenge, a challenge to grow up, a challenge to critical questioning – but more than that, a challenge to reach the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ and to put behind those things in politics and in the Church which kept people infantile.
It's not quite the same thing as the Methodist conscience. Methodism, as we know, was a relative latecomer to the world of Dissent in the eighteenth century, and one of the greatest Congregationalist writers of the twentieth century Bernard Lord Manning, in his wonderful book The Hymns of Wesley and Watts speaks of the difference in sensibility between 'old dissent', and new Methodism.
'Let me put it this way. Charles Wesley in his hymns concerns himself mainly (I had almost written exclusively) with God and the soul of man: their manifold relations, their estrangement, their reconciliation, their union. Watts, too, concerns himself with this drama; but he gives it a cosmic background. Not less than Wesley, he finds the cross the centre of his thought: all things look forward or backward to the Incarnation and the Passion. But Watts sees the cross, as Milton had seen it, planted on a globe hung in space, surrounded by the vast distances of the universe. (Hymns of Wesley and Watts, London 1942, p.83)
That wonderful evocation of Isaac Watts' hymnody reminds us of that—in the most positive sense—enlightened dimension to the world of classical dissent – seeing the great events of Christian history and revelation against the background of the universe, and yet in no way reducing Christian identity and Christian exploration to the dry rationalism of the Enlightenment. Indeed it's during the eighteenth century that the thought world of Dissent in England and Wales—at least as represented in its most enduringly powerful hymn writers—moves more and more away from the temptations of Unitarianism, of a reductive approach to thought and prayer, rediscovering and deepening all the time its roots in the classical and essential doctrines of Christianity.
And I turn again for illumination to Manning. Manning is writing specifically about Congregationalism – and I have to say writing in a fairly aggressively Congregationalist rhetoric about the inadequacy of all other forms of reformed Christianity! But speaking of one of the great classical Congregationalist hymn books, he says:
'It reflects purely and clearly that mind which we should like to think is the Congregational mind: in taste, catholic; in feeling, evangelical; in expression, scholarly; in doctrine, orthodox.' (op cit, p.110)
That splendid evocation of the heart of a classical, reformed Christian identity in this country tells us a great deal about the manifold gifts of God given to the life of church and nation here by the Reformed tradition, unified so blessedly forty years ago.
But that characterisation by Manning could apply to so much that the world of reformed British theology has given us in the last century or so. Think of the great scholars and writers of the English reformed tradition; John Oman, H. H. Farmer, C. H. Dodd, John Whale and, of course, the great Bernard Lord Manning himself. All of them explorers not of a 'mere Christianity' in a narrow and impoverished sense, but all of them building on a very deep foundation of Christian essentials: the incarnation and the passion (as Manning says) seen located on a globe viewed against eternity; the wondrous cross in the midst of the whole world of nature. And it's that cosmic vision, that positive enlightenment shot through with incarnational and passional faith, that binds itself to and shows itself in the constant commitment to political freedoms and political maturity which is no less a precious part of the legacy of this tradition.
Well, in spite of these centuries of questioning from Dissent you will have noticed that episcopacy, not to say monarchy, are still in place. Westminster Abbey has not changed as much since the seventeenth century as some might have liked! But episcopacy and monarchy have been changed forever by the questioning presence of English dissent, chastened by history and theology. Whatever the bishop or the monarch might be today, they cannot be what they were in the seventeenth century. They cannot be the tools of infantilising faith or political identity.
Because of the questioning gently but relentlessly pressed by our brothers and sisters in the Reformed tradition, we've had to discover how both episcopacy and monarchy, and many other features of the seventeenth century settlement, have to change and grow in order to serve maturity not to frustrate it. And there is the challenge for all our churches and all our institutions – a challenge (dare I say it) as much to the United Reformed Church as to the Church of England; a challenge as much to the Society of Friends as to the Roman Catholic Church. How do our Christian institutions serve maturity rather than frustrating it? How do they build us up towards the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ? To look back with questioning and with gratitude at our history is to see what we must be prepared for if we really want to see our institutions serve that maturity.
We have to take a deep breath and expect to be challenged by one another. We have to assume that our discoveries will sometimes be painful and that they will not be without rupture and misunderstanding. But we have to trust that the irresistible pressure – and I use the word 'irresistible' in deliberate genuflection toward John Calvin here – within us of Christ seeking to be mature in us. That is what we celebrate in and through any number of conflicts ruptures and tensions. Can we as Anglicans bring what we have to bring to the ecumenical table without any empty hierarchical posturing? Can we even seek to persuade our Reformed brothers and sisters that it is possible to value tradition without being shrunk and infantilised by it?
Well, we have hope. We have grounds for confidence that the maturity of Christ is indeed at work in us. That dynamic towards the maturity of Christ brought together in the United Reformed Church different families of the Reformed tradition. That dynamic is still at work today and it is what we are praying for here tonight and what we are seeking to open ourselves to in the name of our common Lord and in the confidence of the Spirit poured out for us all to drink.
We began this evening by listening to some words of Richard Baxter, who wrote in one of his best-known and best-loved hymns: 'He wants not friends that hath thy love'. Baxter, who reminded us that in friendship with God we learn the essence of how to be friends with one another, and the imperative of being friends with one another: Baxter who so loved George Herbert - something which I feel says a great deal for both of them.
Because it does seem that an Anglicanism deeply informed and shaped by George Herbert, and a Reformed identity deeply informed and shaped by Richard Baxter, could hardly be a more attractive proposition for our future. A friendly church, a church in which our shared friendship with God bound us more deeply together, in which our shared friendship enabled us to grow into maturity into the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, something which allowed us to grow into a church together. It reflects purely and clearly that mind 'which we should like to think is the Congregational mind: in taste, catholic; in feeling, evangelical; in expression, scholarly; in doctrine, orthodox.'
May it be so; Amen.
© Rowan Williams 2012
Further information
The Great Ejection followed the Act of Uniformity 1662 in England. Approximately 2,000 ordained men left their positions as Church of England clergy, following the changes after the restoration to power of Charles II. The Act of Uniformity prescribed that any minister who refused to give their "unfeigned assent and consent" to the Book of Common Prayer by St Bartholomew's Day, 24 August, 1662 should be ejected from the Church of England. Almost 2,000 left their livings and joined those Congregationalists and Baptists already serving outside the Established Church. This significantly increased the ministerial strength of Dissent in England.
The United Reformed Church results from a union of the Presbyterian Church of England and the Congregational Church in England and Wales in 1972. In introducing the United Reformed Church Bill in the House of Commons on 21 June 1972, Alexander Lyon called it "one of the most historic measures in the history of the Christian churches in this country". The URC subsequently united with the Reformed Association of Churches of Christ in 1981 and the Congregational Union of Scotland in 2000. Worldwide, more than 80 million Christians are members of the Reformed family of Churches, making it the largest Protestant tradition. The URC and the Church of England currently share 200 buildings, and there are approximately 25 local ecumenical partnerships involving the URC and the Church of England


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The U.S. and European Union will impose new sanctions as early as today on Russian companies and individuals close to President Vladimir Putin over the escalating crisis in Ukraine, officials said.
"We will be looking to designate people who are in his inner circle, who have a significant impact on the Russian economy," Deputy White House National Security Adviser Tony Blinken said on CBS's "Face the Nation" program yesterday. "We'll be looking to designate companies that they and other inner-circle people control. We'll be looking at taking steps as well with regard to high-technology exports to their defense industry. All of this together is going to have an impact."
The seizure of international inspectors by pro-Russian separatists last week added pressure to a confrontation made urgent by Russian military exercises on Ukraine's frontiers. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization says 40,000 Russian troops are near the border. Ukraine's southern air-defense forces are in "operational readiness," the country's defense ministry said yesterday on its website.
Among those who may be hit by sanctions is Igor Sechin, the chief executive officer of OAO Rosneft (ROSN), according to people familiar with developments. Sechin is a confidant of the Russian president.
EU Discussions
Representatives of the 28 European Union nations will meet today to widen a list of people subject to asset freezes and travel bans, an official from the bloc said over the weekend. The sanctions will target 15 Russians in positions of power, another diplomat said. Both asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter.
"I have the impression" that the European Union will extend visa bans and asset freezes to "maybe another 15 people," German Deputy Foreign Minister Gernot Erler said in an interview on ZDF television.
Russia has stoked tensions in Ukraine with "threatening" military maneuvers and by "taking no concrete steps" to implement an April 17 accord meant to calm the crisis, the Group of Seven nations — the U.S., the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan — said in an April 25 statement.
Capital Outflows
"What we will hear about in the coming days is an expansion of existing sanctions, measures against individuals or entities in Russia," U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague told Sky News television yesterday. "Already we have seen more than $60 billion of capital flight out of Russia so far this year, and serious falls in the Russian stock market. So no one should underestimate the impact on Russia and Russia's own interests of continued escalation of this crisis."
In the wake of those capital outflows and a credit-rating downgrade by Standard & Poor's, Russia's central bank unexpectedly raised its key interest rate to 7.5 percent on April 25. The ruble has lost almost 9 percent this year against the dollar, the second-worst performance among 24 emerging currencies tracked by Bloomberg after Argentina's peso.
Sanctions previously imposed by the U.S., the EU, Canada and other allies targeted a number of Putin's associates and top officials, as well as St. Petersburg-based OAO Bank Rossiya.
Banks Prepare
Executives at OAO Gazprombank, Russia's third-largest lender, are preparing for possible sanctions, two people with knowledge of the deliberations said last week, while development lender Vnesheconombank is taking precautions, according to a person familiar with talks at the lender.
U.S. Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, the top Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, called on President Barack Obama's administration to impose sanctions on four of Russia's largest banks and OAO Gazprom (OGZD), the country's gas-export monopoly.
"Hitting four of the largest banks there would send shock waves through the economy," Corker said on CBS yesterday. "I just think we need to hit him much more toughly," he said of Putin.
Some U.S. officials warn that broader sanctions, those that affect ordinary Russians and not just the business oligarchs in Putin's inner circle, may backfire to the Russian leader's benefit. Ordinary Russians probably would rally behind Putin and allow him to blame the U.S. and its allies for the country's economic woes.
Putin's Goals
Three officials, all of whom requested anonymity to discuss internal policy deliberations, said financial and other sanctions are unlikely to deter Putin. His goals are to destabilize Ukraine; ensure Russian domination of portions of it, as well as the Transnistria region of Moldova; and make the government in Kiev subservient to the one in Moscow.
"It's going to be more effective if everybody signs on and everybody's committed," Obama told a news conference yesterday in Putrajaya, Malaysia. "We're going to be in a stronger position to deter Mr. Putin when he sees that the world is unified and the United States and Europe is unified, rather than this is just a U.S.-Russia conflict."
The planned EU moves are not set to include broader trade, financial and economic measures against Russia, known as "stage three" sanctions. Hague said work on those is continuing.
The allied measures will be coordinated, though penalties from each country won't necessarily be identical, the U.S. official said.
Weapons Debate
"I think these targeted sanctions against individuals just are not affecting Putin's behavior enough," Corker said, in advocating broader measures that target whole sectors of the Russian economy.
In addition to sanctions, some Republican lawmakers, led by Arizona Senator John McCain, are pushing the Obama administration to send weapons to Ukraine's military.
"We should supply them anti-tank, anti-missile weapons," said Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming, a Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, in a CNN interview yesterday.
Blinken, the White House adviser, dismissed that suggestion, saying the administration focus is on economic assistance.
Weapons "wouldn't make a difference in terms of their ability to stand up to the Russians," Blinken said on CNN. The U.S. will focus on "professionalizing" Ukraine's military, while stopping short of providing lethal aid, he said.
Slovyansk Talks
Meanwhile, pro-Russian separatists freed one international observer from a group of 11 taken captive three days ago in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk. Negotiators for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe left the city following the release of the observer, a Swedish officer who is diabetic, the Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry telephoned Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov over the weekend to urge "support without preconditions" for moves to free the observers, the State Department said.
Russia is "undertaking measures" to resolve the situation, the Foreign Ministry in Moscow said in a statement that also said the Ukrainian government was responsible.


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I am now at the time of the year when patients are starting to come into the office with a diagnosis of ADHD, and they want to "restart medication." Many times, they have stopped the medicine during the summer months and have elected to start back into the school year without taking medication. It is now late November, and parents have had parent-teacher conferences and finding out that their child has not been doing well in school. Assignments are missing. Behavior has been at times out of control. It can be a frustrating times for both the teacher and the child.
Oftentimes, the child has been taken off medication for a variety of reasons. During the summer months, many children have a more relaxed schedule and the parents have a greater tolerance for hyperactivity during that time of the year. When it comes time for school to start, it seems like a better idea not to have to pick up monthly prescriptions from the doctor's office which then needs to be hand delivered to the pharmacy. In addition, the child's appetite wanes a bit when he or she is on medication and the parents may have gotten used to seeing the child eat more over the summer months. Whatever the reason, the medication just doesn't get started back when school starts back up.
I often think that there may be an unconscious reason the parent doesn't want their child to restart meds. Unconsciously the parent might be in denial that the child has ADHD, which is a lifelong diagnosis and may mean to the parent, or child that they are different than everyone else. It would be wonderful if many issues that do not make us happy would just go away. For example, if we struggle with being overweight, wouldn't it be nice if we could eat anything we want to eat and not gain weight? What if we have diabetes and take insulin, wouldn't it be nice if all of that would normalize and go back to the pre-diabetic phase of our life? But the actual fact of the situation is that ADHD does not go away, and medication may be necessary for us to normalize our life. That's the discussion I have with many of those who come into the office to restart medication. It is important to deal with the inevitability of the problem and recognize that if treatment does allow your quality of life to improve, facing the reality of this condition is imperative.
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Undocumented Workers Will Face A Hard-Earned Path To Citizenship
From The Senate Judiciary Committee Majority Staff
S. 744: The Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act
Undocumented Workers Will Face a Hard-Earned Path to Citizenship
An estimated 11 million undocumented individuals are living and working in America. Both Republicans and Democrats agree that deporting millions of undocumented workers is unachievable. The Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act outlines a hard-earned path to citizenship for undocumented individuals.
The comprehensive immigration reform bill requires a long, hard-earned path to citizenship.
The Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act does not provide amnesty for an estimated 11 million undocumented workers. Rather, it provides a long, difficult, and earned path to legalization that imposes penalties, requires payment of back-taxes, and sends undocumented immigrants to the back of the line.
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- Pass criminal background checks;
- Satisfy a work requirement;
- Pay fines and back-taxes, under a requirement that is tougher than the 2006/2007 bipartisan immigration proposal, which only required workers to pay back taxes when obtaining a green card;
- Learn civics and English;
- Move to the back of the line, waiting for triggers amounting to at least 10 years, to allow for those who have initiated the citizenship process and are still waiting for approval to move forward first.
An amendment offered during Tuesday's markup would eliminate any path
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During Tuesday's markup, an amendment (Cruz3) offered would eliminate any path to citizenship for any individual who has ever been willfully present in the United States while not in lawful status, with the exception of asylum seekers.
- The nation's food and agricultural systems depend on immigrant workers to harvest fields, tend ranches, and work farms. There are roughly 4.5 million farmworkers and family members in the United States. An estimated 50 percent to 75 percent of these farmworkers are undocumented. [Farmworker Justice, 2/1/13]
- The cost of attempting to identify, detain, and deport every unauthorized immigrant in the country could reach over $230 billion. The $41 billion per year it would cost is more than the annual discretionary budget for the entire department of Homeland Security. [CAP, 7/26/05; CRS, 10/1/12].
- The Internal Revenue Service estimates that undocumented immigrants paid almost $50 billion in federal taxes between 1996 and 2003. However, about 40% of undocumented immigrants currently work off the books and consequently pay lower taxes. Getting these undocumented workers on the books will increase both the taxes paid by these workers and the taxes paid by their employers. [White House, 5/11]
Conservatives and Democrats alike have said that a path to citizenship is necessary to comprehensive reform.
Providing a path to legalization is consistent with the morals and basic values of fairness on which the nation was founded.
· "There's no way of getting this job done without giving people a path to citizenship…Legal status is not something that someone should have to remain in unless they want to. And to say that you can have legal status, but you can't have ever a path to become a citizen of this country…offends fundamental principles of fairness in our society." – Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) [The Washington Post, April 25, 2013] · "[H]opefully we can agree on one thing; fixing our immigration system will contribute to the greater good of our country by…providing legal status and a path to citizenship to undocumented immigrants already here so they may openly contribute to our society; keeping families together; providing immigrant children who came here following the will of their parents a stable home and their own opportunity at the American dream." – Former Denver Mayor Bill Vidal (D) [Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing, April 22, 2013] · "Law and justice or mercy and compassion? And the answer is yes, there is balance in the tension between the two. We ought to be guided in all that we do by a relentless commitment to protect the inherent value and the dignity of human life and to alleviate human suffering whenever and wherever we can. … So we need a legal system and public policies that are certainly just, but that are also humane." – Dr. David Fleming, Pastor, Champion Forest Baptist Church, Houston Texas [Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing, April 22, 2013]
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The Chamber's quarterly environmental forum programme provides a strategic platform, cross-industry and cross-sector, for senior decision makers and key executives to explore innovative and pragmatic approaches to reconciling profitability, the environment and sustainability.
Businesses and experts from across the county collaborate and knowledge share on projects such as environmental management systems, clean technology, recycling, water conservation and other sustainable business practices.
Every town and civil planning programme in the county has the consideration of environmental impact at its heart and we work in collaboration with them to educate and inform the local community on reducing carbon footprint and sustainability. We are very fortunate to have as a Patron Affinity Water, based in Hatfield, who have their own very rigorous environmental policies relating to water conservation. It is a relationship that is important to us and we constantly look for ways to promote good environmental practice in water conservation.
One of the most popular categories in our Inspiring Hertfordshire Awards is the Environmental category, testifying the importance within the business community of sound environmental practice and execution in local processes and operations.
In our members' magazine we spotlight local businesses investing in environmental best practice and run regular features covering topics such as anaerobic digestion, waste management, carbon emissions reduction and energy conservation.


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Three Democratic legislators held a townhall in Longmont at Front Range Community College on January 30, 2014. Residents turned out to ask questions about higher education support, family issues and the ALEC-controlled Highway 36 contract. Lots of great discussion. Mike Foote, John Singer and Matt Jones took turns responding to questions and discussing legislative issues.
Rep. Singer at one point referenced his well-worn shoes, reflecting on how the wear reminded him of his constituents and what they're dealing with daily. Jon's been a great rep so far – he's the soul of civility and compassion.
Two darker moments: a gentleman politely but very determinedly brought up the issue of a meth house that's wrecking their neighborhood, despite constant complaints and police action. It's a mess and I encourage the city to move quickly.
The second downbeat note was a gentleman of some distinction making the clear and unequivocal observation that all three of our representatives were 'liars' and had 'violated their oaths' – needless to say you could practically hear the audience bristle. I'm pleased to say no one interrupted him or shouted him down. Our representatives politely responded, rebutted all of his points and gave him his hearing. He left immediately afterward and was unavailable for comment.
Don Haddad of St. Vrain Schools spoke briefly from his seat in the crowd and had good points about funding and how it directly affects the classroom.
Laverne Johnson, Mayor of Lyons was also in the crowd and had a few comments. She was greeted warmly by the audience.
Front Range Community College President Andrew Dorsey also spoke a number of times and underlined in concrete terms how his work on shared credit had benefitted the entire Community College system. He also mentioned FRCC's new machining program. Mr. Dorsey's a great speaker and a steady hand for the college. I admired how he took the questions about his position and responded eloquently and politely.
Members of the student governance group were also present and spoke briefly but engagingly. I invite the students to submit articles and links to their blogs. FRL welcomes FRCC students!
I'm glad I had the time to attend, a well-done event and great chance to talk to your reps, FRCC's student organization did the community a great service. Thanks folks!!


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Humanitarian crisis worsens in Sirte
Sirte, Libya - Libyan government forces fought their way, street by street, into the centre of Muammar Gaddafi's birthplace of Sirte on Wednesday after their commanders said the battle for the city was entering its final hours.
Taking Sirte would be of huge symbolic importance to Libya's new rulers because it would dispense with the biggest pocket of pro-Gaddafi resistance, and allow the interim government to switch its focus to preparing democratic elections.
The battle for the city has come at a high cost for civilians. They have been trapped by the fighting with dwindling supplies of food and water and no proper medical facilities to threat the wounded.
On Wednesday, the heavy artillery and rocket fire from Gaddafi loyalists that had been keeping fighters with the National Transitional Council pinned down on the outskirts of the city subsided, allowing the NTC forces to move in.
"More than half the city is under the control of the (anti-Gaddafi) rebels," said Adel Al-Hasi, a local NTC commander. "In two days, God willing, Sirte will be free."
The NTC advance took them towards Sirte's government quarter, a grid of expensively built hotels, villas and conference centres where Gaddafi used to host foreign leaders.
"We didn't yet take the centre of Sirte yet," said another NTC commander in the city, Colonel Ahmed Al-Obeidi. "There are still clashes in the streets. They have a few mortars, not a lot ... They still have snipers."
International aid agencies have warned of a humanitarian catastrophe unfolding inside Sirte.
They say people are dying from wounds in the hospital because they cannot be treated properly, while residents are falling ill from malnutrition and drinking tainted water.
Robert Lanknau, an aid worker with the International Medical Corps, said he was working at a field hospital near Sirte that was each day treating up to 100 civilians who were fleeing from the bombardment.
"A lot of them seem to be shell-shocked," he said. "The women especially. Down the road, mental health is going to be the biggest lingering health issue."
Some people in Sirte have directed their anger at Nato, saying the alliance's warplanes were striking residential areas of the city.
A Nato spokesman said its aircraft had not carried out strikes on Sirte since the weekend and were sticking to their mandate to protect civilians.
On the Western edge of Sirte, a delegation from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was waiting for a break in the fighting, and agreement from the two sides, to send in a convoy of two trucks with supplies.
"We are concerned about the civilian population. Our priority is care of the wounded and sick. We want to make sure they have proper care," said ICRC official Hishem Khadrawy.
"We are trying again to do another operation for relief. We have had dialogue with all parties in the conflict and they assure us of their support," he said. - Reuters


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Culture At Large
The Civil War and the end of the "Good Death"
Andy Rau •
We've all heard the phrase "there are no atheists in foxholes." It's not a particular accurate phrase, I suspect, but it came to mind while reading this review of Drew Gilpin Faust's This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. The book is not specifically about religion on the frontlines, but it does raise some interesting points about the effect of the Civil War on the American understanding of the afterlife. From the review:
[Before the Civil War,] the faithful looked forward to what was called a Good Death, with time to see the end approaching, accept it and declare to friends and family members their belief in God and his promise of salvation. The battlefield brutally truncated that serene process, and soldiers and their families alike worried about what that might mean for their chances in the afterlife. Survivors tried to provide reassurance. When one Union soldier was killed during the siege of Richmond, a comrade told his mother that while her boy had died instantly and without the opportunity to declare his faith, he had told his fellow soldiers the previous summer that he "felt his sins were forgiven & that he was ready and resigned to the Lord's will & while talking he was so much overjoyed that he could hardly suppress his feelings of delight." But sometimes candor trumped comfort: one Georgia soldier worried in a letter home that while his dying brother had "said that he hoped he was prepared to meet his God in a better world than this," he was also aware "he had been a bad, bad, very bad boy."
The Civil War saw the deaths of countless unidentified soldiers whose entry into the afterlife was accompanied by horrific brutality and bloodshed, rather than stately funerals and without time to review their lives or contemplate their spiritual state. Obviously, there were awful wars before the Civil War, but the sheer bloodiness of the Civil War must have stripped away whatever spiritual romanticism still clung to American concepts of death. It makes me wonder how America's modern wars—Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq—have affected our understanding of the "good" or "valiant" death, perhaps without us realizing it.
I don't have a strong point to make about this, and feel a bit guilty for kicking off the weekend with such a morbid piece—but it sounds like an interesting book. Any history buffs out there read it?
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Across seven seasons of 30 Rock, Tina Fey has embodied the archetype of the career gal who loses herself in work but longs for a family, to the point where that show just straight up makes fun of that now. But the movies promise endless, sort-of-new spins on that archetype—such as the character Fey plays in Admission, the uber-WASP-y named Portia Nathan, whose shepherding of young people's lives as a Princeton admissions officer is ironically contrasted with her own childless home life. Enter the saintly, scruffy, single surrogate dad to a group of multiracial displaced kids in his "experimental" New Hampshire high school, who charms Fey with his homespun farm existence and the fact that he looks and sounds like Paul Rudd. And she's in for an even more life-upending experience when she realizes that one of Rudd's teenage charges is very likely the son she once gave up for adoption.
Will Fey be able to reconnect with her long-lost child by bending the rules to get him into Princeton? Will she find family in the unlikeliest of places with Rudd, even if her shotgun-toting mama played by Lily Tomlin is all wacky and shotgun-toting about it? Can the admissions officer admit to her son—and Paul Rudd, and herself—that she needs more than just her career? Will Tina Fey ever balance work and family? Will any of us? Why does she keep doing that thing with her lips?


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May 21, 2018
Red Circle Sponsors: J. Crayton Pruitt Family Foundation
It's the final Radio Theatre Project of the season, so we're going out with SILLY FUN on Monday, May 21 at 7 PM. "Light Behind the Eyes",by Eva C. Schegulla, is a delightful detective caper that takes place on Broadway in 1948 with a colorful cast of characters - from a shady Latin lover to an Irish detective. "Uniforms", by Jack McCleland, creates a daffy transaction between a store clerk and a dictator in need of a uniform. Finally, Tor's "The Unflappable Milk Man" imagines a milk man by day, who's called upon to solve the mystery of the town's missing cigarettes, which leads to the villain, Sir Puff Puff.


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Nazareth, PA -- C.F. Martin & Co.® (Martin Guitar) continues to support music education by sponsoring the VH1 Save The Music Foundation. As part of a year-long celebration of 100 years of ukulele manufacturing, Martin Guitar has made a monetary donation and provided the Foundation with ten ukuleles to be used by music educators in schools throughout the country as part of VH1 Save The Music's "Thank a Music Teacher" program.
Chevron Appalachia, LLC is sponsoring five time IBMA Songwriter of the Year nominee Donna Ulisse and her Songwriting Escape teaching team to teach a three hour workshop in Moundsville, West Virginia on Saturday, September 10, 2016 from 12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. at the Grand Vue Park Event Center at 250 Trail Drive, Moundsville, WV. The focus of the workshop will be what Ulisse calls the "nuts and bolts of songwriting."
Nashville, TN -- Springer Mountain Farms® is proud to continue their 10 year sponsorship of the Ryman Auditorium's Bluegrass Nights at the Ryman. Since 2006, Springer Mountain Farms® has presented some of the hottest acts in bluegrass music on the historic Ryman stage. This year's lineup includes Vince Gill, Del & Dawg (Del McCoury & David Grisman), Greensky Bluegrass, Rhonda Vincent & The Rage with Legends of Bluegrass - Jesse McReynolds, Bobby Osborne, & Mac Wiseman, The SteelDrivers, and Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder.
Pomona, CA -- Eastman Handcrafted Guitars and Mandolins is proud to announce their endorsement of Singer-Songwriter Dave Adkins. "We are thrilled to welcome Dave Adkins into the Eastman family," said Artist Relations Manager Tim Finch. "We couldn't be happier to have him on board and are very excited about his upcoming album release and tour."
Nashville, TN -- Nu-Blu, the fastest-growing act in bluegrass and Americana music, is kicking off 2016 with a blockbuster tour across North America, including a stop in Baja, Mexico. The group recently performed during The NAMM Show (National Association of Music Merchants) in Anaheim, California while supporting their partners Peterson Tuners, D'Addario, QSC Audio, Sennheiser/Neumann.Berlin, Hercules Stands and Kirlin Cables.
Swift Enterprises, LLC, one of the largest privately owned contractor fleets in the United States, has just sponsored the tour for the Edgar Loudermilk Band, Featuring Jeff Autry.
Nashville, TN -- Robert Weingartz, Chairman & Creator of AirPlay Direct announced, "AirPlay Direct is proud of our on-going strategic partnership with the IBMA. We are excited about our previous involvement with and co-sponsorship of IBMA "Momentum Awards" for 2014, and looking forward to the same level of involvement and participation in 2015. Listed below are the winners of the various IBMA "Momentum Awards" for 2014. Each artist "Momentum Award" recipient was also awarded an AirPlay Direct "Marketing & Awareness" package to promote and market their music to APD's 9,700+ radio station members globally."
Telefunken Elektroakustik of South Windsor, Connecticut, recently sponsored two important and historic music festivals in their home state. The Litchfield Jazz Festival, a favorite of the public and critics alike has been going for the past 19 years and the Podunk Bluegrass Festival has been a yearly success since 1996.
Dothan, AL -- ChordBuddy LLC, makers of the popular ChordBuddyTM Guitar Learning System and the ChordBuddy Jr. kids guitar, today announced that it will be the presenting sponsor for "Knee-Deep in Bluegrass," a weekly two-hour syndicated radio show hosted by Cindy Baucom.
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Irvine Investor Adds RSM Restaurant
Monday, March 31, 2014
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Irvine-based American Restaurant Holdings Inc., an investor in restaurants and food manufacturing companies, has acquired Canyon Fireside Grille on undisclosed terms.
Canyon Fireside, which primarily serves American cuisine, has a single location in Rancho Santa Margarita.
The deal follows American Restaurant Holdings' January acquisition of Fronteras Mexican Grill & Cantina in Alhambra.
American Restaurant Holdings, which trades over the counter, aims to acquire "multi-unit fast casual locations" and "stand-alone destination locations."
The company's Canyon Acquisition Inc. subsidiary oversaw the latest transaction.


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I was raised by Moslem parents who wanted me to be modern, so they sent me to a Catholic school (little did they know, huh?) Which was all right.
I learned a lot from that experience. My mother lost the little belief she had in God after the 1979 Iranian revolution. My dad maintains a secular belief in Islam to this day. One time when I was very young, I asked him why did he still do the five-times-a-day prayers.
"Is it so that you will go to Heaven, when you die?" I asked.
"No," he said. "That's not the reason." Then he elaborated: "I think there
might not be a Heaven or Hell. 95% chance that it's all a lie. But 5% chance that it might be all true. So I perform the required tasks and I keep the faith, just for that slim chance."
Years later, in a philosophy class, I read that Descartes, the French
philosopher had, couple centuries ago, said the same thing. He's the guy who said, I think therefore I am. Check it out. If there is only one philosophy book that you'll ever read, let that be his "Pensee."


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Hi Brianm, On Fr 13 Jan 2012 04:04:38 CET "brian m. carlson" wrote:
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:57:37AM +0100, Mike Gabriel wrote:On Fr 13 Jan 2012 00:37:57 CET Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: >forked monolithic X.org 6.9 source tree. This is indeed the case.I can't speak for the ftpmasters and Security Team, but honestly I can't see why they would allow this in the archive or in any stable release, respectively.>Most likely with little to no bug-/ security fixes since 2005 - or am >I missing anything vital in that packaging git? Likewise the current >debian/copyright appears to lack all copyright notices of the original >XFree86/ X.org code, which makes up, by far, most of the source. The X2Go upstream team will be open to security and feature patches and will love to be pointed at security issues discovered. In the very very very long run there might be someone (we are currently talking about people in Austria being interested in such a project) who refactors NX for latest Xorg code, but currently what we can provide is an active maintenance of NoMachine's code.I think you're missing the issue here. Since X.org 6.9, there's been a lot of bug fixes and improved code. So you're essentially using an obsolete codebase with a new protocol hacked on. The Security Team does not like code copies. Porters do not like patching the same software again and again, except with slight differences that make it impossible to reuse the same patches[0].
Thanks for pointing that out more explicitly. I have been basically aware of this but probably not to its full extent.
And still, my basic (inner and outer) question is: 1. how can we enrol other people with our endeavour 2. what is needed to enrol people 3. is there anyonr in this discussion who can point us to next possible steps towards acceptance of the packagesI see a great use case for having a low-bandwidth, high-latency remote desktop solution in Debian and the X2Go people are really willing to make an effort to make X2Go server inclusion in Debian happen.
BTW: I got personal feedback from Marcelo Boveto Shima, FreeNX. The project has become silent, though not dead (as Stefan stated). I asked him to contribute to this thread...
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Astrobiology Top 10: Welcome to Mars, TGO!
As 2016 comes to a close, Astrobiology Magazine is counting down our 'Top 10' stories from the past year. At number 9: The European Space Agency and Roscosmos, the Russian Space Agency, celebrated as their joint satellite ExoMars with its Trace Gas Explorer (TGO) slid into orbit around the red planet. This story was originally published on October 20, 2016.
On October 19, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Roscosmos, the Russian Space Agency, celebrated as their joint satellite ExoMars with its Trace Gas Explorer (TGO) slid into orbit around the red planet. This is only the second time that ESA has successfully put a satellite into orbit around Mars. The last time was 2003, when Mars Express arrived to study the atmosphere and look for water. For the last 13 years, Mars Express has sent back brilliant pictures of how water has changed the surface of our neighboring world and captured the scintillating ultraviolet auroras that shine over the north and south poles. TGO's mission builds on that search for life by detecting another compound linked with life: methane.
As we described in our article last year, most of the methane on Earth comes from active life (usually microbes). The rest is formed when hot water interacts with rock. Either way, we are very interested in homing in on where the methane on Mars is coming from and when. Is it seasonal? Does it happen only in certain locations? Is the methane production stable year after year or does it alter with time? With its four instruments capable of sniffing out hydrocarbons like methane in less than 1% of the atmosphere, the Trace Gas Orbiter will start to answer those questions once ExoMars has maneuvered into position to peer through the Martian atmosphere for signs of breathing microbes, active geology, or, possibly, both.


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NUI Galway students gain 'life experience' through mentoring programme
Developed by the Careers Service, the programme puts students in touch with graduates of NUI Galway who are working in a career area of interest to the student. Over a period of time the graduate mentors the students, which involves providing the student with professional support in the form of advice, information and feedback. The mentor draws on their own professional experiences, to support and encourage the student or to offer different perspectives.
Mary O'Riordan, Vice-President for Student Services and Human Resources presented participants with certificates at the recent ceremony. "In an era with excellent employment prospects for graduates there is a corresponding need for them to make good decisions and successful applications," she said.
"This programme, which is now in its third year of operation, continues to be very successful and forms an essential element of the Careers Service portfolio of supports available to students to enable them to make good career decisions."
Joan Lally, Mentoring Officer at the Careers Service explains the benefits of the programme to students. "There is a huge difference between college life and the realities of the workplace and at the Careers Service we are trying to bridge this gap with the Career Connect Mentoring Programme. By connecting with a professional, the student gains knowledge, insight and support to help them on their way. Also, the mentoring allows them the opportunity to get 'real life' exposure and so therefore can reconcile their perception of a career and the actual reality".
Students who participated in the programme have said they found it very useful and worthwhile and have found the opportunity to gain 'real life' exposure to a career or organisation extremely valuable. Mentors have been happy to become involved with the university community at a personal level and impact positively in the lives of students. The programme has also given them the opportunity to develop and practice their coaching skills.
The programme is open to all professionals as well as graduates of NUI Galway. For further information or to become a mentor, contact Joan Lally, Careers Service NUI Galway. Tel: 091 492053.


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[Video] Chitown Cypher (feat. Walter J. Liveharder, Cadillac Duke, and ProbCause)
The latest video from the Chitown Cypher dudes was shot and released this weekend featuring some hot cypher flows from Walter J. Liveharder, LOD's Cadillac Duke, and up-and-coming rapper ProbCause. Similar to Ruby Hornet's classic Freestyle in the Park series,… Continue Reading


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Sudbury police arrest man who exposed himself and threatened others with a knife
Greater Sudbury Police have arrested a man wanted for a sexual assault of a woman in August 2018. (File)
SUDBURY -- A 43-year-old man is in custody after flashing a jogger and threatening several people with a knife in Sudbury's Gatchell neighbourhood Monday evening, police say.
Sudbury police say a man approached a woman while she was jogging on Lorne Street and exposed himself to her.
She was able to run away, but he then approached two people playing basketball on Logan Street and started yelling at then. He pulled a knife on them when confronted by one of the basketball players and began to threaten them.
A Lorne Street business called police around 5:35 p.m. when the man could be heard yelling at the two people from across the street while waving a knife.
The man ran inside the business when officers arrived and he had to be coaxed out and eventually surrendered.
He is now charged with possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, uttering threats and an indecent act.
The accused was held overnight in custody and is scheduled for a bail hearing Tuesday.


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Runny nose, itchy throat, fever...yep, it's cold and flu season once again! Before you make the decision to either call in sick or take the plunge and possibly infect your co-workers, you should probably take a look at this flow chart to make sure you're really as sick as you think.
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