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Scott Speedman has come a long way since "Felicity," where he first burst onto the TV scene in 1998 as Ben Covington, the baby-faced object of Keri Russell's infatuation.
Now 40, he's returning to the small screen in TNT's gritty new drama "Animal Kingdom," playing the right-hand man in a Southern California crime family.
"In this point in my career I'm ready to take on this guy. Probably even two years or three years ago I wasn't ready to deal with the complication this guy brings," Speedman says of his anti-hero role. "When I get these scripts and I'm doing these incredibly unlikeable things it doesn't even phase me. I just want to dive in and explore that and test the audience's patience for what I can get away with — and still have them invested in the character and the show in general."
In Tuesday night's premiere (9 p.m. on TNT), we meet 17-year-old Joshua "J" Cody (Finn Cole), who after his mother dies of a heroin overdose, moves in with his estranged grandmother Janine "Smurf" Cody (Ellen Barkin) and his four uncles, whom he soon learns make their living through armed robberies.
Speedman plays Barry "Baz" Blackwell, adopted into the Cody family at age 12 and Smurf's chief lieutenant in planning their heists. Mentally unstable Pope Cody (Shawn Hatosy), just out of prison after a three-year stint, is the eldest brother; middle son Craig (Ben Robson) is an adrenaline junkie with a recreational drug habit; and youngest brother Deran (Jake Weary) is suspicious of J becoming new baby of the family.
"It's the fight for the kid's soul, basically. Is he going to become a Cody or not?" Speedman says of the first season. "We are inviting him into the family, but is he going to get in line with what we are — or are we going to have to do something drastic?"
As the alpha-male matriarch presiding over the Cody family, Barkin plays Smurf as equal parts coddling, menacing and manipulative, exerting an emotional control over her boys that makes their mother-son relationship border on incestuous. In the case of Baz, outwardly the most level-headed of the boys — and a family man with a girlfriend and young daughter — she becomes concerned that he might strike out on his own, prompting her to constantly test his allegiances.
"It's a very isolated family, so it's all we know, whether they're brainwashed or not," Speedman says. "These grown men, we have our own places but we live at mommy's house still a lot of time. It's interesting that they're these uber masculine dudes but also these momma's boys."
While Speedman doesn't come from a big family himself (he has an older sister), he says he quickly developed a familial vibe with the actors who play his brothers, complete with on-set hijinks like pushing each other in the pool.
"The dynamic is funny. We've got a 20-year-old, a 25-year-old, a 30-year-old and then Shawn is my age or just a little older," he says. "I'm probably the most immature one of everybody even as the oldest. There's a lot of razzing, a lot of competition. Everybody's well cast, I'll say that."
"Animal Kingdom" premieres at 9 p.m. Tuesday on TNT


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Elephant Is Saved After Currents Strands Him 8 Miles Into The Sea
For the members of the Sri Lankan navy, it was just a routine morning patrol on Tuesday. Things were sailing smoothly... until it took an unexpected turn. The navy spotted and elephant all the way out in the middle of the sea. It was struggling to stay afloat after having been pulled miles off the coast by the oceans currents.
The Sri Lanka Navy personnel said it spotted the elephant about eight miles from the shore. The elephant was struggling to keep just its trunk above the waves while the rest of its body was underwater. Navy divers decided to take action. then tied ropes to the elephant and called for two additional boats to help gently pull it back to shore in what became a 12-hour rescue mission.
The divers tied ropes to the elephant and called for two additional boats to help gently pull it back to shore.
You may think, what in the world is an Elephant doing way out at sea let alone that they can swim... but it's actually not unusual for elephants to swim long distances. Avinash Krishnan, a researcher for the Indian animal conservation group A Rocha, told the Guardian, that elephants do swim long distances but they tire quickly. "And the saltwater isn't good for their skin, so in this case, the situation probably warranted human intervention," Krishnan said
After the 12 hour rescue mission, naval personnel were able to gently move the elephant onto shore where they gave the elephant to wildlife officials before releasing it back into the wild.
The Sri Lankan Navy spokesperson, Chaminda Walakuluge, said that "They (elephants) usually wade through shallow waters of even swim across to take a shortcut... It's a miraculous escape for the elephant."
We are glad that the navy took action quickly and did everything possible to help save the poor elephant!
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Is The "common Pleco" (Hypostomus Plecostomus) Still Available?
Posted 09 June 2016 - 08:53 PM
I see the sailfin pleco, goldspot pleco, and albino gibbi for sale all the time, but never see the common pleco. Is it still around?
Posted 10 June 2016 - 12:53 AM
i still have one - bought it last year..... around 35-40cm now... and looks awesome - except when i leave it outside in the cold for too long back inside and fattening up....
Posted 10 June 2016 - 11:27 AM
is this the common Gibby you are talking about ??
Posted 10 June 2016 - 12:18 PM
Where did you get it from Johno?
Dicky it's the common pleco (Hypostomus Plecostomus), like this one:
The gibbi is a Pterygoplichthys Gibbiceps, like this photo:
check out the red whiptail next to the gibbi, looks nice hey!
I prefer the look of the common pleco to the gibbi or sailfin. Would love to get one!
Oh, and the photos above are from google image search. Second photo is from a PCS member too.
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Posted 10 June 2016 - 12:57 PM
The pic above is not Hypostomus plecostomus, the real pleco has 8 rays in the dorsal fin. I have only seen 2 real plecos in the last 30 years. Johnno does yours have 8 or 13 rays.
Edited by Terry, 10 June 2016 - 01:01 PM.
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Posted 10 June 2016 - 02:13 PM
thanks for the heads up terry
I'll re-phrase my original question to: "has anyone seen the Pterygoplichthys Multiradiatus available"?
Posted 11 June 2016 - 01:52 AM
i was at midland pet/aquarium today - saw about 6-7 of them for sale around 6-7-8cm.... forgot to look at the price sorry bud.....
terry im guessing it has 13 rays but i'll double check now..... counted 12 rays twice - so its closer to 13 than 8
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Posted 20 June 2016 - 11:34 AM
I haven't had the opportunity to get out to Midland lately, but I did see a pleco (not goldspot or sailfin) at my local fish shop. Problem was, it was a trade in and had a deformed body, so I wasn't going to buy that.
Posted 23 June 2016 - 12:51 AM
next time im down the flat lands i'll call in to middo and have a look for ya... pm me your mobile number and i'll take a photo and send it to ya
Posted 23 June 2016 - 12:04 PM
All sorted now thanks mate, but I appreciate the offer. I work 5 minutes away from Vebas, and they have them in stock at the moment. Peckoltia gave me the heads up.
I also found out yesterday from a friend that Aquotix now have them in stock as well. I'm glad they are now readily available in Perth. I should take photos and track the growth of him, as he would only be about 5 or 6cm long
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For centuries (since 1581, at least), the English expression "beg the question" has been used to mean "to assume the thing you're trying to prove". Very recently (the earliest such use I noticed was in about 1996, but probably well before that), it has also been used to mean "raise the question" or "invite the question". A certain amount of warfare takes place on the Internet about these senses, with some arguing that the newer sense is simply ignorant and others arguing that the older sense is archaic.
Partisans to these debates, on both sides, are usually unaware of the rather strange history this expression has. In fact, without having been told so, nobody would have been at all likely to guess that "beg the question" can be used to mean "assume what you're trying to prove". The problem is that neither "beg" nor "question" is used here in an ordinary sense. While there is some awareness of this point in circulation, those who take somewhat authoritative positions usually don't know the full story and manage to get parts of it wrong. This often takes the form of devising explanations for the traditional meeting on the basis of invented language histories and etymologies
Begging the question, in its old sense, actually is a stock phrase in which neither "beg" nor "question" means anything like what it ordinarily does. When you beg the question in this sense, there is actually no question and you don't really beg for anything. You also can't beg a question: you can only beg the question. And you can't beg the question whether so-and-so: when you beg the question, there's really not a question that you're begging. A situation, or an event, or a fact can't beg the question: only an argument, or a person giving an argument, can do that. As a consequence, "beg the question" in the traditional sense might as well be a phrase in Latin or ancient Greek or Plutonian: the individual words in it just can't be analyzed in terms of their ordinary meanings. To put it bluntly, it is a bizarre phrase. I can't imagine anyone figuring out its meaning from the words in it, and it is not at all surprising that it's been given a different interpretation in the last half-century or so: on first encountering it, a typical English speaker will of course suppose that there really is some begging going on and that it really does involve a question. Some writers even exercise considerable ingenuity in devising a priori accounts of why "begging the question" means what it traditionally does. These may be entertaining, but they're still just fantasies.
The older sense, however, is thoroughly entrenched in the environment of logic. Textbooks without number explain that to beg the question is to assume the very thing you are trying to prove. This is in part because even today, the terminology of what are called "informal fallacies" is taken to an extraordinary degree from Aristotle's works, in particular On Sophistical Refutations. And that, ultimately, is the cause of the problem: "begging the question" (in English) originated in the sixteenth century as a rendition of what is ultimately an Aristotelian expression. It is, thus, an antiquated bit of English, serving as the misleading translation of a bit of ancient Greek, phrased in a most unfortunate way guaranteed to resist being understood by competent English speakers. It is no wonder at all that its meaning has become arcane.
I do not know when the modern meaning first appeared, but it is easy enough to see how it originated: as an attempt to attribute a sense to the phrase "beg the question". The phrase has been in circulation for over four centuries, and untold numbers of students have encountered it, however briefly, in an elementary logic or writing course, perhaps without paying particular attention to its meaning. It has therefore long been in the atmosphere, so to speak. When an English speaker who doesn't already know its old technical meaning encounters this phrase, that speaker's charitable assumption is that it must have a meaning that can be derived from the English words in it, and the easiest way to give it a meaning is to suppose that "begs" really means something like "begs for", so that the whole phrase means something like "begs for the question to be asked". The end result is that "begs the question" gets read as a sort of quaint or archaic way of saying "raises the question".
There's an important lesson here: for the meaning "raises the question", the phrase "begs the question" just doesn't have quite the right grammar. There is no other context (at least that I can think of) when "begs" means "demands an answer to" or "demands that one ask". It can mean "ask for", as in "I'd like to beg a favor", but no one uses "beg the question" to mean "ask for a question". Instead, its only use is as a third-person construction with a rather vague subject, as in "but that just begs the question whether ...", where the "that" is a situation, a fact, or something like that. To make "begs the question" mean "raises the question", you need to read it as having a somewhat odd grammar. I suspect that is part of its charm, for some speakers, giving it a sound of a certain sophistication or an archaic origin. However, this makes it clear (at least to me) that the recent meaning of "beg the question" is entirely parasitic on the old meaning, since the phrase itself would never have gone into circulation in the first place as a way to say "raise the question."
"Beg the question" ultimately descends from a phrase found in Aristotle's logical works. Actually, there are two phrases, in Greek, though the difference is slight and does not appear to be significant to Aristotle. They are:
to en archêi aiteisthai (τὸ ἐν ἀρχῇ αἰτεῖσθαι)
to ex archês aiteisthai (τὸ ἐξ ἀρχῆς αἰτεῖσθαι)
You will find sources on the Internet, and elsewhere, that will tell you confidently that these phrases mean "in the beginning to assume". Having published translations with commentary of Books I and VIII Aristotle's Topics and of Aristotle's Prior Analytics (where these phrases occur) with respectable publishers (Oxford University Press and Hackett Publishing Co, respectively), I feel confident in saying that those sources are just plain wrong, and wrong because they misunderstand the grammar of the Greek phrases. To explain why, I need to take an excursus not only through ancient Greek grammar but also through Aristotle's works and the historical practices that lie behind them.
There is, in fact, a grammatical ambiguity in these two phrases if we just look at them standing alone. Each consists of a definite article ("the", to), a phrase that could be translated "initial" or "initially"(ex archês, en archêi) and an infinitive that means "to ask" (aiteisthai). The middle phrase means "in the beginning" in one case and "from the beginning" in the other. The ambiguity concerns what the "the" goes with. In ancient Greek, you can in effect quote any phrase by putting a neuter definite article in front of it. This is often handy for naming complicated concepts. For example, "the in the beginning" (to en archêi) could mean "the thing [whatever it is] that we were talking about in the beginning". In much the same way, the definite article is also used with infinitives to produce names for actions, e.g. "the to ask" (to aiteisthai can be used if you want to talk about the action of asking. The problem, in the present case, is that these phrases could be interpreted in two different ways. If "the" goes with "ask", then the middle phrase modifies "ask", so that the whole phrase means something like "asking in the beginning" or "asking from the beginning". In fact, you'll find authoritative pronouncements on the Internet that this is just what these phrases mean: "in the beginning to ask" is how one widely cited source renders it. However, if "the" goes with "in the beginning", then the phrase means instead "to ask the initial thing". As a matter of fact, if we look at Aristotle's text, it is absolutely certain that this latter sense is always what he means.
There are two conclusive kinds of grammatical evidence for this. First, Aristotle often uses these phrases with the verb in a conjugated form like "he asks" instead of an infinitive. When he does, there's always a "the" in front of en archêi or ex archês. In such a context, "the" cannot possibly go with the verb and must go instead with "in/from the beginning" ("he asks for the initial thing"). Second, in several places, Aristotle uses one of these phrases but adds a second "the". For instance, at Prior Analytics II.17, 64b33-34, he writes to aiteisthai to ex archês (τὸ αἰτεῖσθαι τὸ ἐξ ἀρχῆς): "the to ask the from the beginning". At On Sophistical Refutations 167a36-37, we find an explicit double "the" in the phrase "assume the initial thing", which Aristotle explains as parallel to our phrase: hoi de para to to en archêi lambanein ginontai men houtôs kai tosautachôs hosachôs to ex archês aiteisthai). These can only be interpreted as "asking the initial thing".
But you may very well ask, What's all this about an "initial thing"? And you should: the fact is that if you weren't already familiar with what Aristotle was talking about, you'd never be able to figure it out just from these expressions. Aristotle did not write with an audience of people living two millennia in his future in mind: he wrote for his contemporaries, and in some cases for a very narrow circle of readers who were associated with Plato's "school". If we look carefully at how he uses these phrases, it becomes clear that he is thinking primarily of a highly specific context: a kind of debate in which there are two participants, one of whom asks and one of whom answers (this is so strongly established that he frequently just uses "ask" and "answer" as shorthand for "act as the questioner in a debate" and "act as the answerer in a debate" Now, these debates took a very specific form. The answerer undertook to defend a proposition, and the questioner undertook to refute the answerer by asking questions and, from the answers to those questions, constructing an argument for the denial of that same proposition. That proposition, in Aristotle's terminology, is "the initial thing". One of the rules of the game was that questioners could only ask questions which could be answered by "yes" or "no". Consequently, all the answerer's questions could be seen as presenting sentences to the questioner, who could then either assent to them or dissent from them. (This appears to be the origin of the term "premise", which translates Greek protasis, "something put forward": the questioner "held out" sentences to the answerer for acceptance or rejection).
In such a debate, the "initial thing" is the proposition that the answerer is defending. The questioner's objective is to produce an argument for the denial of this proposition, using other premises obtained from the answerer; the answerer's objective is to avoid this, that is, to avoid giving the questioner premises from which such a conclusion can be drawn. Now, one rule of the debate was that the questioner could not simply take the answerer's initial thesis and put that to the answerer as a question: if the questioner did that, then the answerer could refuse to answer on the grounds that "you're just asking the initial thing", that is, "you've just taken my thesis and turned it into a question". There's an important distinction here. The questioner asks questions just by proposing sentences with, in effect, a question mark attached. So, the questioner doesn't ask for a specific answer (that is, a "yes" or a"no"). Therefore, asking "Are the good happier than the evil?" is not asking for the premise "the good are happier than the evil", and it is not asking for the premise "the good are not happier than the evil": it's just asking that question. Similarly, asking the initial thing is not asking the questioner to deny it, and it's not asking the questioner to affirm it: it's just asking it, i.e., making a question out of it.
The ancestral origin of "begging the question", then, meant "make a yes-or-no question out of the original thesis" in the specific type of debate Aristotle was writing about. That is a very long way from its later sense. However, Aristotle has more to say. Interpreting his remarks is not a straightforward matter, since he clearly takes it for granted that his audience knows what he is talking about but also wants to put forward some views of his own. Here is my own reconstruction of the background. It appears, first, that in these debates, there was a general acceptance that the questioner's objective was to derive the denial of the answerer's thesis from things that the answerer conceded other than the thesis itself. But this leads to questions of judgment. Suppose that the questioner rewords the thesis without changing its meaning and then puts that as a question? Well, we could say plausibly that that's really just asking the initial thesis, so the answerer can refuse to reply. Suppose now that the questioner uses a question that's not really the thesis reworded but is nevertheless somehow equivalent to it? Perhaps that, too, should count as asking the initial thing. How far should this go?
In fact, Aristotle spends some time trying to spell this out. He makes it clear that for him, and for his audience as well, the expression acquired a wider application with the general meaning "proving something from itself", that is, giving an argument or proof for something in which the thing allegedly proved is one of the premises. In a dialectical argument (that is, an argument with someone else, resting on premises granted by that other person), such an argument is hardly likely to succeed, since anyone who won't grant the conclusion won't grant that same thing as a premise. In the context of proofs or demonstrations (for instance in mathematics), the situation is, for Aristotle, more complex, since he holds that there are some propositions that do not need proof but are instead "evident through themselves". In fact, in the Prior Analytics his final proposal is that "asking the initial thing" can be defined as "proving by means of itself that which is not evident by means of itself" (65a23-25). That is not an easy criterion to apply, and it is not at all clear that it reflects the understanding of the phrase in dialectical argument as Aristotle knew it. In fact, it is not at all clear that a clear criterion can be given.
This last point is relevant to modern discussion of "begging the question". Traditionally, that term is supposed to designate a certain fallacy. However, the term "fallacy" is itself used in very divergent ways. Logicians and philosophers generally use it to mean something fairly precise: an argument that appears to be valid but in fact is invalid. And that, for logicians and philosophers, is precise because valid and invalid are also precise terms for them. To begin with, they apply only to arguments, not to statements or propositions or opinions. An argument is valid if and only if it is impossible for that argument's conclusion to be false if its premises are all true. Thus, validity is a matter of the relation of the premises of an argument to its conclusion. It has nothing to do with whether the premises are reasonably justified, or probable, or true, or anything else, in themselves. An argument is invalid if and only if it is possible for its conclusion to be false when its premises are all true. Now, as any logician will tell you, "begging the question" is therefore not a fallacy: if the conclusion of an argument is identical to one of its premises, then obviously the premises cannot all be true without the conclusion also being true. The problem with such an argument, from a logician's standpoint, is not that it is invalid but rather that it can hardly be used to persuade someone who does not already accept its conclusion.
It should be noted in passing that giving a clear account of just what kind of problem "begging the question" might be is considerably more difficult than many writers suppose. This is already apparent in Aristotle's discussions, but the intervening millennia make this even more obvious. For instance, it is often said that begging the question includes not just assuming the conclusion itself as a premise but also assuming something equivalent to the conclusion. But how are we to understand "equivalent" here? If it means logically equivalent, then it might be extremely difficult to determine. To take a famous example from set theory, the Axiom of Choice is logically equivalent to a long list of quite diverse-looking propositions, such as Zorn's Lemma, the Well-Ordering theorem, or the Trichotomy Axiom. These equivalences are proved, of course, by showing, first, that each can be derived by assuming the Axiom of Choice as a premise, and next, that the Axiom of Choice can be derived by assuming it as a premise. However, if begging the question includes assuming as premise something equivalent to the conclusion, then it would then follow that each of these proofs is an instance of begging the question.
There is another complication: for Greek logicians, "ask" (αἰτεῖσθαι) can also mean "assume" or "postulate". This takes some explaining. A mathematical proof ultimately rests on initial premises that are not themselves proved. The person giving a proof asks for or requests these (from the audience or a learner, say) as premises and then proves a conclusion from them. As mathematical proofs become systematized into a demonstrative theory, the propositions of mathematics can be separated into those that are proved and those that must be assumed (postulated) in order to prove the remainder. A postulate, then, is something that must be asked for (this is exactly captured in the etymology of "postulate": Latin postulare means "ask"). As we move forward in time, this other meaning of Latin and Greek verbs for "ask" becomes entrenched in technical usage, and a technical vocabulary develops with finer distinctions among "postulates", "axioms", and "common notions" (as in Euclid's Elements).
I have used "beg the question" liberally in this history, but of course that is not a phrase to be found in Aristotle or other ancient sources. Apart from the obvious point that it is English, not Latin or Greek, it can hardly serve as a translation of Aristotle's "ask for the initial thing". With a dose of charity, we might perhaps see "beg" as having the sense "ask for", but "the question" is far away indeed from "the initial thing". Indeed, in an Aristotelian dialectical exchange, one thing the "initial thing" is not is a question: the dialectical error Aristotle is describing consists precisely in making it into a question.
In later antiquity, petitio principii became the standard Latin term for Aristotle's "asking the initial thing". Since petitio (noun) means "asking" and principium means "beginning", that is not a bad place to start, though two grammatical points should be noted. First, since Latin has no definite article, the phrase is ambiguous between "a beginning" (a premise, a starting point) and "the beginning" (e.g Aristotle's "initial thing"). Second, the genitive principii with petitio could be taken either as "asking for" as in "asking for a starting-point or premise", or as "(the) asking of ", as in "the asking of the initial thing", that is, making the "initial thing" into a question. The latter reading corresponds exactly to Aristotle's "asking for the initial thing". However, Latin's lack of a definite article makes the former reading possible in isolation.
This last point has more serious consequences given an additional ambiguity. Note first that if we read petitio principii as "asking for a premise", then it is hard to see why it should be considered an error: asking for premises is in fact exactly what the questioner in a dialectical argument does. However, the word principium also serves as the Latin translation of a quite different Aristotelian term: archê, usually rendered "principle" In Aristotle's conception of a demonstrative science, the principles are those propositions which cannot themselves be proved and from which all other propositions of the science are deduced. However, Aristotle does not say that it would be an error in a dialectical argument to try to get one of these principles as a premise. In fact, he says that a fundamental distinction of dialectical arguments, as contrasted with scientific proofs, is that all the premises are put as questions; thus, a premise that would be a principle in geometry could be put as a question in a dialectical argument (Aristotle uses just this point to argue, in On Sophistical Refutations 11, that dialectic cannot be a kind of universal science.
Wiktionary manages to mistranslate both this and Aristotle's Greek:
From Latin petitio principii (literally "an assumption from the beginning"), calque of Ancient Greek τὸ ἐν ἀρχῇ αἰτεῖσθαι (to en archē aetīsthae, "to assume from the beginning"). (Wiktionary)
Apart from the misspellings, this manages to make distinct errors in reading the grammar of the Latin and the Greek expressions
By contrast, The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia is the only modern source I know that gets it right:
n. In logic, the assumption of that which in the beginning was set forth to be proved; begging the question: a fallacy or fault of reasoning belonging to argumentations whose conclusions really follow from their premises, either necessarily or with the degree of probability pretended, the fault consisting in the assumption of a premise which no person holding the antagonistic views will admit.
The OED finds the first use of "beg the question" in 1581. A. W. Sparkes, "Begging the Question". Journal of the History of Ideas 27:3 [1966]: 462-63, notes that the OED's own account of its meaning is mystifying, but he finds an explanation for the use of "beg" as "ask an opponent in debate to grant the truth of the statement whose truth has been questioned" in an earlier (1577) exchange between Thomas Cartwright and Richard Hooker. Sparkes also sees the connection between this and Aristotle's own use. While Sparkes may have found the source of "beg" in translating this expression, there are still problems. He takes it for granted that petitio principii is a good translation of Aristotle's Greek phrase to en archêi aiteisthai, but as I argue below this hides a critical ambiguity in the Latin phrase not found in the Greek.
Relevant here is the use of "question" in the context of parliamentary debate to mean "the proposal under discussion". In that sense, "the question" simply means "the motion on the floor currently being debated". Thus, "to call the question" (or in the terminology of Robert's Rules of Order "to move the previous question") is to make a nondebatable motion that there be a vote on the motion under consideration ("the previous question") without further debate. (This old use of "question" has its roots in medieval philosophical use as well as in law, and medieval philosophical use in turn derives heavily from the language of Aristotle's Topics.) Now, in a parliamentary debate, it is always possible to speak without qualification of the question in this sense: there is always just one issue being debated, and therefore when one speaks of "moving the question" or "calling the question" no further specification is needed, or even allowed, of what that "question" is. Likewise, when speaking of "begging the question" in the logician's sense, it is really improper to specify this "question": anyone who speaks of "begging the question whether so-and-so" in the traditional sense just doesn't understand the traditional sense. (And some surprising authorities don't understand this).
Aristotle's original Greek phrase meant "ask the initial thing", which in dialectical argument as he knew it meant "take the thesis you are supposed to be attacking and make it directly into a question", a move not allowed by the rules of that game. By extension, he (or more accurately his contemporaries) applied it to any argument the presenter of which used as a premise the very conclusion of that argument, or that conclusion in some equivalent form, or perhaps something too close to that conclusion, or at any rate something that no on who didn't already accept the conclusion would concede as a premise. (As the last sentence should make clear, and as Aristotle's own works make clearer, spelling this out is more difficult than at first appears).
In ancient Latin logical works and Latin translations of Aristotle, the expression petitio principii became a standard term for Aristotle's "asking for the initial thing". That expression, however, is ambiguous because of: (1) the absence of a definite article in Latin and (2) an ambiguity in the meaning of principium. This opens the way for a range of misunderstandings of Aristotle's original notion, and these have flourished especially in recent years.
In the seventeenth century, the English expression "beg the question" made its appearance and soon became the canonical expression for Aristotle's "asking for the initial thing". While it can be understood in a way that comes close to Aristotle's usage, that requires appreciating that its terminology is the terminology of debate. Treating it as anything like ordinary English almost guarantees that it will not be understood: even the great majority of those who understand what "beg the question" means in a logical context have no idea how it can mean that. Modern defenders of the traditional use then resort to fanciful explanations of its derivation, while those who have no use for it fail to recognize that the modern sense requires a forced reading of it and could never have arisen except through a misunderstanding of the traditional phrase. Basically, neither party actually understands just what is going on.
It should be added here that the whole business is peculiar to English. While that may seem like a trivial point, it's not. Aristotle has had an enormous impact on the vocabulary of logic and argument in just about every language for which there's any scholarly literature, and translations of Aristotle, ancient and modern, abound. However, "begging the question" is a purely English oddity. The French say petition de principe and the Italians petizione di principio: "asking for a beginning (or principle, or starting point)".
For those who want to check out my claims about Aristotle's language, below are the passages in Aristotle's Analytics, Topics, and On Sophistical Refutations that contain the phrases in question, or close relatives of them, and that shed light on the meaning of "in/from the beginning". In several of these, it is clear that to ex archês/en archêi can only mean "the initial thing", not "from/in the beginning". Thus, I have left out the small number of cases with αἰτεῖν/αἰτεῖσθαι in the infinitive except when there is other evidence in the passage (such as a double article) that confirms Aristotle is talking about an "initial thing", not "in the beginning".
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Boehner Criticizes "Softball" Questions Used in Phi Delta Kappa Education Survey
Americans are far more concerned about children not learning to read than they are about "too much testing." The PDK poll suggests the number of Americans saying there is "too much testing" has increased, but fails to note polls consistently show Americans are far more concerned about children passing through public schools without learning to read than they are about children being tested too much. Asked which is the bigger problem – children passing through U.S. schools without learning to read, or children being forced to take too many tests – Americans overwhelmingly (77%) believe the more important problem in education is that children are passing through schools without learning to read, according to a 2004 poll of 1,000 Americans conducted for Americans for Better Education (ABE) by The Winston Group, a top national polling firm.
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Flintlocks & Fireballs
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Welcome to the rebellion.
The Empire is called just that: the Empire. When there's only one game in town you don't need a fancy name. And the Empire has been the only game in town for a very, very long time. Even back when it was a Kingdom, it grew strong on the conquest, the enslavement, and — eventually — the extermination of the nonhuman races. Only the Dwarves survived, and only then by locking themselves deep inside their mountain homes, or by submitting themselves to Imperial dominion.
The Empire was the seat of the Industrial Revolution. It transformed the capital city, Seflheim, into a metropolis of smoke and flame, and granted the Empire the capacity to cross the Barrier Wastes to the Northern lands, where the ancient ruins of the Praxians revealed the secret of magic. The Industrial Revolution brought with it changes: rifles, factories, trains, zepplins. The old line of kings ended, unable to change with the times, and were replaced with people who could: the Jottenar dynasty, and the new ruler, Emperor Leder.
But now a revolution of a new type is coming, one which threatens the whole of the Empire. Someone is trying to overthrow the whole of the Imperial structure once and for all, to make the Empire free. Rebel forces are derailing trains, assassinating ambassadors, stoking unrest. And you are fighting alongside them.
Or, if you prefer, you are fighting against them.
This campaign takes place under a modified D&D 4th Edition system: while the main thrust of the rules is unchanged, a lot of the flavour is different. You can read about the world that the campaign takes place in here, or you can read about the mechanical changes to the D&D 4th Edition system here.


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One of my domain users accidentally hit Save Username and Password on Outlook Web Access. I am using exchange server 2003 and the problem is that the user is a generic user that 5 or 6 people share and now they all see her email come up everytime they click on OWA... Is there a way to erase the saved credentials from the user? maybe from the registry?
thanks a lot
Control panel -> user accounts -> advanced -> manage passwords?
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"problem is that the user is a generic user that 5 or 6 people share and now they all see her email come up everytime they click on OWA"
Does this mean that they share a single machine, or that users on different machines see this account when they follow the link?
If it is a shared machine, then chances are the user saved the credentials in the browser, and there is a cookie or other file associated with browser saving that information. Consult your browser documentation to clear the cache and any saved credentials to resolve this issue.
I just created a quick How-To for this. I will add images to the How-To tomorrow, but this should get you started.
The users do not share a single machine.. its 5 different machines and they use the same domain user.. and I have tried to clear all the settings on the IE7 and reset it to factory default but that didnt help.. would this then mean the saved settings are in the registry somehow?
Ok. Is this what is happening?
A user is logging on to Webmail through one computer, not logging out just closing internet explorer. Then when a user on another computer tries to log on to that same account they get an error because the other user is still logged in.
Are they getting an error message?
If what I have said above is true, then I would try to set an auto-timeout/logout for OWA that will log a user out after a certain amount of time. You could also enable multiple logon's with the same user name in Active Directory. That would allow them to all be logged on at the same time.
User names and passwords aren't stored in the registry. You can try using a cleaning program like CCleaner to clean out all temp files on the computer at once.
ok so there are 5 computers that use the same domain user.. just a generic username that all of them can use.. Then they open OWA from the internet explorer and sign on as themselves.. so the user that gets used to logon to the computer is the same but then the users use their own credentials to look at their personal emails. Well one user hit save username and password on the OWA screen and now all the users are seeing her email since she hit save username and password.. even if you logoff then try it again it automatically logs inn as her.. does that make more sense? thanks for the help..
Yes that makes more sense. Is there a third party password management tool installed on the computer?
Using OWAAdmin tools, you can set log outs that should over ride...
User Context Timeout
This attribute specifies the number of minutes before a User Context object that has not been used will timeout. A User Context object is created for each user session on the server and is used as temporary storage during a user session on the server. You can set this value to a small number like 1 (minute) to force the user contexts to expire earlier than the default of 60 minutes. Each user has a session context which, by default, will timeout after 60 minutes of inactivity. This is also discussed in KB Q173497.
If that doesn't work, you could try deleting the generic user's profile on the affected computer and log back in to recreate the profile. That will completely get ride of any and all rememberd data for that user account (including program settings, desktop, favorites, etc).
Seems like there would have to be a third party password tool on there. However I did have a similar problem where a user would log in with their own user name and password but see a previous users stuff. Deleting temp files, history, cookies, saved passwords and web forms had no effect. I had to turn off AutoComplete in IE for Usernames and Passwords on Forms.
So that would be Tools | Internet Options | Content Tab | Setting Button under AutoComplete | Uncheck "User names and passwords on forms"
I'm having this same issue, and normally the Control panel -> user accounts -> advanced -> manage passwords works for me. However this time there is nothing in the manage passwords section. I've cleared all the IE settings and check boxes. But it just won't forget the password this time.


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Mattie Miller, 90, 2309 Township Road 152, Baltic, died Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012, at her residence.
She was born Oct. 8, 1921, in Holmes County to the late John A. and Mattie (Nisley) Raber. She was a homemaker and a member of the Old Order Amish Church. She was married Nov. 22, 1945, to Simon J. Miller, who died on July 9, 1989.
She is survived by her two sons, John (Betty) Miller, of the home, and Roman (Esther) Miller, Millersburg; her sister, Fannie Raber, Baltic; 12 grandchildren; and 27 great-grandchildren.
In addition to her parents and husband, she is preceded in death by her brother, Ben; and her four sisters, Annie, Ada, Malinda, and Lizzie.
Services were held on Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012, at the Miller residence with Bishop John J.C. Yoder officiating. Burial was in the Nisley Cemetery in Clark Township, Holmes County.
Arrangements were handled by Smith-Varns Funeral Home at Sugarcreek.


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Congressman Tom Price (R-06) is the first Georgia Republican to chair the House Budget Committee, and the first Georgian to do so since Carl Vinson. Rep. Price issued a press release today detailing his thoughts on President Obama's budget, described as "a proposal that never balances and includes a $2.4 trillion spending increase, a $2.1 trillion tax increase and adds $8.5 trillion to the national debt."
The press release includes a joint statement issued by Rep. Price and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY):
"Our nation is on a fiscal and economic path that is simply unsustainable. Failed policies and stale thinking in Washington are contributing to a growing mountain of debt and an underperforming economy. That's why it's so disturbing that President Obama has submitted yet another budget proposal that is focused on the same tired agenda that has failed to deliver for American families. The president is advocating more spending, more taxes and more debt. As we have seen over the past several years, that approach will yield less opportunity for the middle class and a crushing burden of debt that threatens both our future prosperity and our national security. A proposal that never balances is not a serious plan for America's fiscal future. Especially when we have to borrow money just to afford the programs we already have.
"The president is required by law to submit a budget proposal. It is a suggestion and a wish list, but the budget of Congress sets the outline of spending for the coming year. We will work with our colleagues to make sure it is complete, on-time, and balanced within the next ten years.
"We are ready to move past the new normal of President Obama's budget and in a new direction. We want to make government more efficient and accountable to hard-working taxpayers by lifting the regulatory burden on families and job creators, and by embracing the innovative spirit that drives American entrepreneurship and success. This is how we as a nation can lay the foundation for a healthy economy and a responsible federal budget."
Continue reading for the Budget Committee's details on the FY 2016 Budget, as well as highlights from Rep. Price's remarks at this morning's Cobb Chamber meeting.
But wait, there's more!
Key Facts: The President's FY 2016 Budget
Tax Increases
• Despite $2.1 trillion in new tax increases, President Obama's budget never balances—ever.
• Major proposed tax increases include higher levies on savings and investment, small businesses, and increases in the costs of hiring workers.
• These tax hikes would stunt the economic growth needed to get Americans back to work, and come on top of $1.7 trillion in tax hikes already imposed by this Administration.
Spending Increases
• The President's budget increases annually-appropriated spending for next year by $74 billion relative to current law. Over 5 years, he would increase such spending by $322 billion.
• Next year alone, the President's budget would grow total federal spending by $259 billion, or 7 percent.
• Total spending will increase by 65 percent ($2.4 trillion) in 10 years under the President's plan.
Interest Costs Skyrocket
• President Obama's plan more than triples interest costs, which remain the fastest growing item in the budget.
• Interest on the debt this year would be $229 billion, but would rise to $785 billion in 2025 under his plan.
• At the end of President's plan, annual interest costs would be larger than his proposed spending for national defense, Medicaid or the combined total of all non-defense agency spending.
Debt Climbs
• Since 2009, we've added $7.5 trillion to the debt and spent $21.1 trillion.
• The President's budget plan would add $8.5 trillion to the debt.
• Cumulative deficits would amount to $5.7 trillion, and gross debt would climb to $26.3 trillion in 2025.
Finally, a few nuggets from this morning's Cobb Chamber meeting:
- The past four years in Washington have been a "muddled mess," but we are beginning to turn a corner, and hopefully we are seeing "more optimism" coming out of D.C.
- In the past two months, there have been more amendments offered to bills than during the past two years.
- In Rep. Price's view, if the President signs a piece of legislation, that's a win, and if he vetoes legislation, that veto provides the nation with a vision of the contrast at work in D.C., as well as "motivation."
- It's no secret that lots of folks are feeling pinched by healthcare costs. Premiums, deductibles, and co-pays are all rising. If you have a $6,000 deductible, "you might as well not have coverage."
- Tax reform is key to getting the economy working, and we need it now, including massive reform to the international tax system. "We whack companies who make money overseas and try to bring money back." $4-5 trillion made by United States companies stays overseas for this reason.
- We need a transportation bill with a six-year timeline.
- It is time to prioritize a commissary for Dobbins. Dobbins is a "jewel," and it needs a commissary to serve all branches of the military. Without a commissary, "we are not living up to promise made to those who served." Along with the Chamber, he is working to find a location for a commissary that is close to Dobbins. (There hasn't been a military commissary in Atlanta since Fort Gillem closed in 2011.)


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The First Year Sourcebook gives information and game statistics based on the first year of the new STAR TREK: The Next Generation television show.
With this book, you can integrate the characters, new civilizations, and equipment used in the first year of the show into your STAR TREK: The Role Playing Game campaign.
This supplement is a must for all fans of STAR TREK: The Next Generation, and STAR TREK: The Role Playing Game."


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Real-Ear Attenuation of Hearing Protectors
American National Standard Methods for Measuring the Real-Ear Attenuation of Hearing Protectors
Measurement of Underwater Sound from Ships
American National Standard Quantities and Procedures for Description and Measurement of Underwater Sound from Ships – Part 1: General Requirements
Loss of Hearing Protection Devices
American National Standard Methods for the Measurement of Insertion Loss of Hearing Protection Devices in Continuous or Impulsive Noise Using Microphone-in-Real-Ear or Acoustic Test Fixture Procedures
Anechoic Rooms and Hemi-anechoic Rooms
American National Standard Acoustics – Determination of sound power levels and sound energy levels of noise sources using sound pressure – Precision methods for anechoic rooms and hemi-anechoic rooms – Nationally Adopted International Standards
New Standards Published
Our newest standards are listed below. To purchase these and other National and International Standards related to acoustics and vibration, visit the new ASA Online Store.
ASA TR S12.9-2018/Part 6 Rationale for Withdrawing ANSI/ASA S12.9-2008/Part 6 (A Technical Report prepared by ANSI-Accredited Standards Committee S12 and registered with ANSI)
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Croeso i Glosters
Welcome to 'Glosters' We are Myfanwy and Tom Gloster the duo behind the lifestyle shop and brand. We've been working together for almost 10 years now since we met in a freezing craft fair one christmas!
Tom designs and makes the ceramics collection in his studio above the shop, Myfanwy takes care of all the buying, styling, blogging as well as running the shop – Tom also runs a series of ceramics workshops throughout the year also.
Here in our online shop you will find a carefully curated collection of our favourite things and a few of our best sellers. It's almost impossible for us to offer everything we do online as most of our products are limited and handmade. If you want to treat yourself with the full collection then come and visit us in our lovely bricks and mortar shop located in Porthmadog, North Wales.
A visit to our shop wouldn't be complete without meeting our miniature dachshund Arthur, he keeps us busy with lots of walks to the local beaches he's also got pretty good taste when it comes to his wardrobe!
You can follow more of our creative story over on Instagram (glostersporthmadog) twitter and Facebook.


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Where on earth has this week gone!?!
Since I last posted I did a long gym session the night before I was going to Newcastle and fell over just as I was coming out the car park! Had to ruin an elbow, a finger and grazed my hand (i will not post photographs of these injuries because they even grossed me out!)
That wasn't going to stop me getting excited for Newcastle!
Stayed for 2 nights at the Sandman Signature and 1 last minute stay at a Premier Inn (because we wasn't ready to leave!)
But overall it was a lovely trip! Plus the weather stayed good for my birthday and was able to quickly visit the beach!
But what I mainly did on my Birthday is SHOP!
So these were my purchases!
I don't get much of a thrill buying practical, essential things but I know this will come in handy so many times for summer! Not sure about the 'no collar', bit, because I am so used to wearing necklaces underneath but it just means I will wear necklaces that curve well around the neckline instead. Will look lovely with denim shorts, boyfriend jeans, patterned trousers, floaty midi skirts, the list goes on!
I am still a little unsure on these, but it is probably because I am so used to my stretchy Joni jeans and these feel tight on the top of my thighs but baggy in other areas (have been told these will stretch!). I was meant to try and look in H&M but was a little disappointed with the stock they had in the Metro and central Newcastle, so I'm going to look in my local store when I go back to work. I do like the shade of denim because I didn't want anything too light but these could be considered summer jeans still and the length are spot on. Could I find cheaper though? It's very likely.
So in love with this beauty! My boyfriend wanted to buy me an actual gift because he had spent money for us to go to Newcastle and wanted to give me a present for my 21st (we went all out on each others 21st because in our eyes it is a big one, and the next big one won't be until we are 30! Noooo!)
I was just after a day ring that I could wear to work or anywhere without there being crystals (just had bad experiences with other brands and crystals falling out and it sucks - never had this problem with pandora though! But it has made me wary.)
It fits perfectly on my middle finger and love that it isn't bulky but still a statement dainty ring thats girly and wearable for many occasions.
Yes, I know its for february and my birthstone is actually aquamarine, but my star stone is amethyst which is this stone. It also goes with the colour pattern that I'm trying to keep with my new Pandora bracelet because the last bracelet I had I just bought any random charms I liked, and never colour co ordinated it or gave it a pattern. My grandparents bought me a silver bracelet so I'm trying to make this a little more special and make a purple/silver pattern to go around the bracelet. Does anyone have a pattern to theirs?
Wasn't even meant to go in this store as we were just killing time before heading to a restaurant. But I am a sucker for palm tree print and the price sold me! It is jersey material and a little worried that it may not last very long, but then I don't mind as much when its under £13! Some jersey t- shirts are overpriced these days and barely last 5 washes because the colour fades or it bobbles!
But I fell in love with the colour and the bold print and would be perfect for holiday or to wear with shorts, sandals and a chunky belt). The top also comes in a pastel pink!
Im cheating a little bit as I actually ordered this online in the end, they didn't have it in the Newcastle store! Which just made me more determined to get it, and luckily there is a 15% off discount code (FRESH15) at the moment so I saved a bit of money that way anyways (their delivery is £3.99 though, seriously!) It was pretty quick I ordered it late on the Wednesday and it arrived friday morning.
I tired this on when I went to Bristol last week and featured it then and so glad I did purchase it! Just think its a unique style kimono which is feminine but isn't your standard floral or paisley pattern.
Part 2 will be up very soon!


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Junior high school students Jason and Kaylee are a couple of precocious kids who take swift action when a greedy Hollywood producer turns Jason's essay into a hit film — and leaves Jason's name on the proverbial cutting room floor.
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Advanced Color Technologies, Inc.
MeasureColor software allows commercial printers worldwide, to easily control the important brand and customer colors they produce.
- Stage $500K in TTM Revenue
- Industry Electronics / Instrumentation
- Location Greenville, SC, USA
- Currency USD
- Founded February 2009
- Employees 5
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Isolation of nucleic acids from plants by differential solvent precipitation.
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The purification of nucleic acids from plant tissue is often made difficult by the presence of contaminating carbohydrate polymers and polyphenols. A procedure for the simultaneous isolation of DNA and translatable RNA from plants is described. The method removes most of the polysaccharides and polyphenols extracted with nucleic acids in a single step by taking advantage of differences in solubility of these compounds in the solvent 2-butoxyethanol. Stepwise addition of 2-butoxyethanol to phenol extracts of specific ionic strength precipitates nucleic acids largely free of contaminants. Subsequent separation of RNA from DNA by precipitation with LiCl was optimised to give a high recovery of translationally active RNA. Successful isolation of nucleic acids from strawberry (Fragaria X ananassa) receptacle, a particularly recalcitrant tissue, and from a range of tissues of other plant species demonstrates the general applicability of the method.


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Weekend Box Office: It's a Fantastic Bore as Rogue Nation Takes Top Spot
By Chris Kavan - 08/09/15 at 11:08 PM CT
The weekend was a big disappointment in many ways. None of the new movies did particularly well (only one performed above expectations, while others suffered) and the result led to a 30% decrease compared to last year - the only August on record to break $1 billion. That isn't likely to be repeated any time soon - and certainly not this year. It was the holdovers that really had the best luck - with some milestones crossed. Hopefully August can recover a bit in the coming weekends to salvage a terrible opening.
Outside the top five: The two other films to open wide this week had little impact on the box office. Meryl Streep's aging rocker dramedy Ricki and the Flash opened in 7th place with $7 million. That is certainly on the lower end of the scale in Streep's long career and will not likely be a highlight in her career. Granted, the film had little push and will be lucky to hit $20 million.
The animated Shaun the Sheep suffered even more from lack of awareness. Though Aardman animation has provided plenty of crowd-pleasing films, this one opened outside the top 10 in 11th place with $4 million. That doesn't reflect the quality of the film, in my opinion, but rather the lack of effort put into marketing it to families - especially considering school is right around the corner for many.
Speaking of animated films, in better news Minions crossed $300 million domestically with a $7.4 million (6th place) take in its fifth weekend out. It has now earned $302.7 million and also crossed the $900 million mark on the worldwide market. The film is pretty much a lock to hit $1 billion (as it still has China, Italy and a handful of markets to open to).
Next week we will see summer's last hurrah as The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and the biographical Straight Outta Compton both look to close out the summer on a high note.


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Our newly installed fire detector has a demon inside it and it started chirping shrill and horrifyingly at midnight, sporadically piping up every hour or two between then and five AM. We both tried to rip it out of the wall, to no avail, and admitted defeat under the pillows. But it's the reason for the giant purple suitcases under our eyes this morning – those have nothing to do with our diet, which continues to get better. We're winding up Day 7, so I think we're over the hump.
We're eating pretty well, really. We're concentrating on our food a lot more than usual, and we're making some pretty tasty stuff as a result. Corey is throwing stuff around like: "Maybe we could do this permanently!" I'm not totally convinced, yet.
I was up early, and had a Lara bar and coffee to tide me over for the few hours till Corey got up. Then I started cooking up some sweet potato hashbrowns for our Sunday brunch.
Breakfast, 10 am
Sweet potato, mushroom and onion quiche muffins with crumbled spicy sausage. Served with strawberries and an extra sausage for Corey. These were tasty – we had lots of leftovers and we'll bring them with us as to-go snacks.
I had to run around and do errands this afternoon and so I popped one in my purse and ate it at the mall while I walked past the wafting icing smell of Cinnabon. It brought me out of the danger zone.
I got home a little after 2; Corey had been toiling at the computer and we didn't want to do anything elaborate so we polished off the leftover turkey spaghetti from last night. After lunch, we split a pink grapefruit which always tastes better than I expect it to taste – sweet, tart, a perfect way to finish off a good meal.
We went to the gym for a light workout as it was pouring and neither of us felt like running in the rain today. We did some abs and some chest stuff and then shopped for dinner ingredients as our friend was going to be joining us for dinner.
6:30 Dinner: Steak and Scallop Kebabs with Mushrooms, Pepper, and Pineapple
Corey skewered the meat and veggies and brushed them with a basil, olive oil, lemon and garlic marinade, thinned with some organic (unsalted) veggie stock. I made the salad with spinach, pine nuts, avocado slices, grapes, and a raspberry vinaigrette made with frozen raspberries, balsamic, olive oil, and mint leaves. I was skeptical but it was good.
After dinner the 3 of us sat around three glowing computer screens, talking about business . I brought out a snack tray around 9, with sliced pears, grapes, diced Lara bar, and some melon.
It's now teetering on 10:00 PM and I'm proud of our efforts this week. If you would have told me a year ago that I could cut out all sugar, salt, bread and dairy from my diet for even a few days I never would have believed you. Amazing partnership, willpower, and Crossfit make a pretty compelling combination.
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You guys are rocking it! I'm wondering if your skin is reacting at all?
I was wondering either way. I went off gluten about 5 months ago (long story short, my son is autistic and gluten intolerant, so we all went off it) and my skin erupted into a madness of zits about the 5th week off gluten. I am wondering what going off sugar would do to the complexion, seems like only good things. Pondering cutting it out as well.
Kristin, I'm still feeling stabby…but a little less, I think. This morning's Crossfit workout felt better than usual tho, maybe there IS something to this paleo insanity!
Made a version of your muffins on the weekend, combined crushed almonds, eggs, apple sauce, 1 banana and about half a cup of frozen berries. UNbelievably good…for something so healthy.


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Kneeling in Gethsemane
Love unmeasured fought our fight
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Ours the contrite heart's relief
Thus born of blood and tears
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A summer trip to Flin Flon is like a trip to paradise. This area has a lot to offer the visitor no matter what they might enjoy.
For the naturalist a walking tour of Flin Flon and a walk down the boardwalk are not to be missed. The boardwalk surrounds the south shore of Ross Lake in the center of town. As you stroll along, listen to the loons call from the bay, watch the muskrats swim and play on the shore or sit and watch the rapids break over the rocks where Flin Flon Creek enters into Ross Lake. Be sure to bring your camera!
For the fisherman, any of the areas clear, clean lakes offer a challenge to try and catch the "Big One". The lakes in the Flin Flon Area offer walleye, northern pike, lake trout, rainbow trout, perch, whitefish and burbot (fresh water cod). Each year the city hosts a month long fishing tournament starting the first weekend in June and ending with the Trout Festival July 1.
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A House panel on Tuesday advanced its nearly $579 billion Pentagon spending bill for 2016, leaving the legislation effectively unchanged from a draft version, including a contentious clause allowing the use of billions of dollars in wartime funding to circumvent sequestration-level spending caps.
The House Appropriations Committee agreed by voice vote to send the fiscal year 2016 Defense Appropriations Act on to the full House, after a two-hour markup hearing that ultimately saw it adopt only two amendments.
The adopted amendments included one with minor technical changes put forward by Defense Subcommittee Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen, R-N.J., and another put forward by Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., to offer a "sense of Congress" that it has the constitutional duty to debate and then determine whether to authorize any use of U.S. military force against the Islamic State group. That amendment passed in a 29-22 vote.
Overall, the bill provides $578.6 billion in discretionary funding for the U.S. Department of Defense, $24.4 billion up on FY2015 and about $800 million up on the presidential budget request. About $88.4 billion of this would come from Overseas Contingency Operations, or OCO, funding — referred to by the committee as Global War on Terrorism funding — which is supposed to be used to fund war spending.
Of that overall funding, $116.7 billion would go to procurement, $12.5 billion more than in 2015, with planned acquisitions including two DDG-51 guided missile destroyers and three Littoral Combat Ships for the U.S. Navy, 65 F-35 Lightning II jet fighters across the services — among other jet acquisitions — and a number of large aircraft, including 16 P-8A Poseidons and 12 KC-46 tankers.
Pentagon research and development efforts would receive $67.9 billion, a $4 billion increase, much of which is intended to support aircraft development, including the continued development of the F-35 and the RQ-4 Triton Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, a new U.S. Air Force bomber and the next-generation Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System command and control plane.
The bill would also provide a 2.3 percent pay raise for troops, higher than the 1.3 percent increase suggested in the administration's proposal, and would maintain funding for the A-10 close air support aircraft, which has been put on the chopping block by the Air Force several times in recent years, drawing strong pushback from lawmakers in both chambers, who argue that there is no adequate replacement available for the "Warthog."
Although the bill, unlike other House appropriations bills put forward for 2016 so far, meets and even exceeds the presidential budget request, it has drawn criticism from both Democratic lawmakers and the administration, particularly for its extensive use of OCO funding — about $38 billion more than requested in the presidential budget — to get around the strict sequester budget cap.
The White House had yet to issue an official policy statement on the legislation as of Tuesday, but has previously threatened to veto the similar 2016 National Defense Authorization Act, which is used to authorize budget authority for the DOD, citing its heavy use of OCO funds, among other factors.


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Ok I definitely have a plan now.
I know my track record indicates that whenever I have a new 'definite' plan it usually lasts only a week or so, but this time I'm sure!
It's actually similar to an older plan where I wanted to go to China for 2 weeks and take an intensive course in Mandarin. But this one is better!
Once I finish working for Disney and before i return to a more normal life, I'm going to escape to China for 16 weeks and take a full semester of Mandarin in Kunming China. 🙂
I'm gonna study at the Keats School in Kunming which looks bloody fantastic, and offers other courses in areas of study besides Mandarin. I can take Chinese cooking class, Tai Chi and other stuff.
Those of you who were reading closer to the start of this year will know that I'm a bit in love with China and have tried several times to learn Mandarin, I've also travelled to China recreationally this year.
I see the country as a perfect escape for me, a place I can go with beautiful music and stunning scenery that makes me feel like I'm drinking in everything that makes me happy every moment.
I know Studio Ghibli films are set in Japan, but when I'm in China I see the stunning beauty that makes me melt when I watch Ghibli films and I realise I'm where I want to be.
So the idea of spending 4 months in a place like this, not working but learning will be amazing.
This kind of ambition however flies in the face of the strong part of me that cares about smart financial choices, careful investments, and utilising time as effectively as I can to increase my net worth and propel myself further towards a stronger future.
How will learning Mandarin and tai chi help me towards my future? Not only will I learn 4 months worth of tuition fees, accommodation, food and recreational costs, but I'll also lose 4 months worth of time that could have been spent earning an entire 4 month cruise contracts worth of money. So I stand to lose not only the cost of the adventure, but the potential earnings lost with the time.
This is where one has to decide the worth of a life experience, the 'Eat, Pray Love' concept if you will.
Someone like me loves to travel, but I travel using a percentage of disposable income that will be supplemented soon after the travel, with money still remaining in the bank during the trip that I can be smarter with. A trip like this would use all my available funds and afterwards would be met with unemployment. Unemployment wouldn't even be the hardest part, but it would be met with the financial blow of resettling in my country of origin which I have not properly lived in since the end of 2011. I'll have to pick a city (thinking Sydney?) find a place and the worst part, a job.
It's all quite morbid but at the end of the day I'll do it, why? Because I'm in my mid 20's and I believe anything you lose in your 20's is a loss that means little and can be gotten back without much trouble.
Think about it, when your in your 50's you've spent years earning what you have in finances, and buying all your stuff. Losing everything would cripple your life possibly irreparably, however lose everything in your early mid 20's? Omg who the hell cares, move in with your folks again, lye around and cry and about it, then get up, work 60 hours a week and in 2 years you'll have more than you did before you lost everything.
So do awesome stuff while your young! And if your not young, insure all your things and invest in rock solid investments, then do awesome stuff!
I think the only real disadvantage of risking everything when your older is having trouble getting it back, and by that point I'll have dependants and maybe pets.
So caution be damned, I wanna go to China!
Let me know what you think 🙂 Got any contrasting opinions,or just some ideas? I'm happy to hear you out. Until next time, have fun and have lunch somewhere you've never been!
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There is just over a fortnight to go until Jess Glynne's Alnwick Pastures concert.
The internationally-renowned star will be performing in the town on Saturday, August 12.
The support acts will be Kiko Bun, with his reggae and soul sound, and Mullally, who offers a mesmerising mix of pop and soul.
Gates open at 3pm and Jess Glynne is due at around 9pm.
There will be a special area available for those who wish to bring their own picnics, but there will also be food and drink stalls – including alcohol – in the grounds.
However, alcohol is not permitted to be brought onto the site under any circumstances and will be confiscated by security. Bottled soft drinks over 500ml are also not permitted, nor is glass.
Tickets, priced £38.50 for adults and £22.50 for children, are going fast. To buy these, visit www.alnwickcastle.com/events/jess-glynne-concert and buy via Ticketmaster.
There are also two special VIP packages available from www.alnwickcastle.com
A VIP Silver ticket (£80) offers free, priority parking for one car, close to the venue. Silver VIP ticket-holders will also have free access to the VIP spectator area, with optimum views of the stage, as well as their own VIP bar and toilets.
A VIP Gold ticket (£160) will offer priority parking for one car close to the venue. Gold VIP ticket-holders will enter through the Alnwick Castle Barbican and can enjoy a Champagne reception and canapés in the Outer Bailey.
A feast of tapas, dessert and selection of cheeses will then be served to you in Alnwick Castle Guest Hall before you're escorted to the VIP area via fast-pass entrance.
A welcome drink in the VIP spectator area will await VIP Gold ticket-holders and you will also be offered a free family pass to Alnwick Castle for one use during August 2017.
Anyone who has bought a ticket, but wants to upgrade to VIP, can do so, for a surcharge. Call 01665 511086 for details.
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