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News from the worlds of big data, databases and data analytics includes announcements by Cloudera and Splunk, investment madeinto Clustrix and Terradata Analytics finished a deployment for a large retailer.
Cloudera and Splunk form big data alliance. Cloudera announced that it has formed a strategic alliance with Splunk (SPLK) to deliver big data analytics across the enterprise. The relationship ensures best-in-class integration of the Splunk Enterprise platform for real-time operational intelligence to Cloudera Enterprise, using Splunk Hadoop Connect, which provides bi-directional integration to easily and reliably move data between Splunk Enterprise and Hadoop. "Splunk's mission is to make data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. By working together, Splunk and Cloudera deliver big data analytics that span the needs of any organization," said Bill Gaylord, senior vice president of business development, Splunk. "The integration of Splunk Enterprise and CDH through Splunk Hadoop Connect provides customers a way to easily and reliably transfer data between the systems. This allows customers to easily use Splunk's best-in-class machine data ingestion and management to deliver data to Hadoop, or ingest data into Splunk from Hadoop, such as the output of Hadoop MapReduce jobs and easily analyze and visualize that data."
Clustrix raises $16.5 million. Scale-out SQL database company Clustrix announced the completion of a $16.5 million round of funding by current investors Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners, ATA Ventures, and Don Listwin. This the total capital raised to date to $46.5 million. Last month, the company released Clustrix 5.0 on Amazon Web Services and published a breakthrough real-time analytics performance benchmark for its scale-out SQL database, demonstrating a 50x advantage compared to legacy scale-up databases on AWS. "The combination of big data and cloud computing has broken the legacy database, creating an industry transition to new scale-out database platforms." said Robin Purohit, CEO at Clustrix. "The Clustrix scale-out SQL database is battle-tested in mission-critical customer applications all over the world, providing unprecedented levels of performance, scalability, and real-time analytics. In our next phase of growth, we are making it easy for developers to build their next great application on our platform."
Woolworths completes Teradata Analytics implementation. Teradata (TDC) announced that Woolworths Limited, based in Australia and one of the world's top twenty retailers, has completed implementation of its Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance platform in collaboration with Teradata Professional Services. The new data warehouse environment, fusing the most powerful new database software and hardware, serves as the point of integration for continuously rising volumes of detailed customer data. Woolworths' decision to go with Teradata is part of an on-going program of business and technology investment, renewal and expansion," said Priscilla Patroni, Business Technology Services, Woolworths. "We see growth ahead of us and this system will enable this by providing the analytic insight we want - to see our customers more clearly and serve them more personally."


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After the disappointment of my visit to the Cefn Cross stones it was nice to finish the day on a high!
Directions: From the B4280 take the road to the village of Brynna and then the minor road north towards Rhiwceiliog. From here a very minor road north across the common. Just past the cattle grid is a place to park on the left next to a yellow grit bin – opposite Tyr Mynydd house. Walk along the track which runs up behind the house and then uphill through the ferns towards the Hillfort.
It is a 10 minute walk to the site up a fairly steep 'path'. Although this is common land so access is not a problem the Hillfort itself is completely fenced off. However, if you are the sort that doesn't mind hopping over barbed wire fences access is easy enough.
I was pleasantly surprised by how well preserved this site is. The single bank goes all the way around although it varies in height from nothing up to 2 metres. The outside ditch is also well preserved. A hedgerow cuts the site in half although to looks like it is in the process of being removed – which seems a shame to me. If it wasn't for the mist and drizzle there would be a cracking view to be had; only spoilt by the large factory of some sort.
All in all well worth a visit although you will need to cross the barbed wire fence to get the most out of your trip.
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Who doesn't love an ice-cold pink lemonade on a hot summer afternoon? This week, we have a healthier version of this summer classic made without any added sugars and the healthy vitamins and phytonutrients found in your favourite market vegetables. The beets are high in folate and potassium which are great for the heart, and the carrots are high in beta-carotene and vitamin A to promote healthy eyes. It's the perfect (and healthy) way to refresh and recharge after a busy day in the sunshine!
If you have a juicer, you can make this refreshing recipe that's sure to be a hit with the whole family. To further sweeten the drink, blend the lemonade with strawberries, raspberries and ice to create a Pink Lemonade Smoothie.
Don't have a juicer? Toss some finely chopped beets and carrots into the blender for your next smoothie. You'll get the benefits of the vegetables without buying a juicer!
Vegetable Pink Lemonade
3 baby beets, tops on
4-6 cups chopped carrots
3 stalks rhubarb (optional)
1 apple (optional)
1 lemon per 2 c. lemonade
Sparkling water (optional)
Juice the baby beets, carrots and, if desired, rhubarb and apple into a measuring cup. Taste the base and sweeten by juicing more carrots or apple if desired. Reserve the pulp (you can freeze it in bags) to add to your next cake recipe... it makes it extra moist and adds healthy fibre!
Squeeze lemons into a pitcher, using 1 lemon for every 2 cups of finished lemonade.
Pour vegetable mix into pitcher, using 1/2 cup of mix for every 2 cups finished lemonade.
Top with sparkling or tap water and chill in the fridge. Garnish with a twist of lemon and enjoy!
where can you find ingredients at our market?
- Dargatz Family Farm, Riverbend Gardens, The Plot and Holden Colony all carry carrots and beets at some point during the summer. This week, Riverbend Garden and Holden Colony will have these ingredients available.
- Dargatz Family Farm sells rhubarb.
- Steve and Dan's, Red Apple, and AIG Produce all carry apples and pears, as well as berries if you'd like to blend the lemonade into a smoothie.
|Riverbend Gardens grows beets and carrots to use in this recipe!
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Leading Republicans on Sunday faulted both presidential campaigns for the increasingly negative tone of their advertising, suggesting the bitter attacks undermine John McCain and Barack Obama's credibility with voters and could backfire.
"Both campaigns are making a mistake, and that is they are taking whatever their attacks are and going one step too far," said former White House political adviser Karl Rove. "They don't need to attack each other in this way."
"There ought to be an adult who says, 'Do we really need to go that far in this ad? Don't we make our point and won't we get broader acceptance and deny the opposition an opportunity to attack us if we don't include that one little last tweak in the ad?"'
In the last week, the McCain campaign has put out an Internet ad accusing Obama of calling Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin a pig when he used the phrase putting "lipstick on a pig" to criticize the GOP ticket as trying to make a bad situation look better. McCain supporters said Obama was slyly alluding to Palin's description of herself as a pit bull in lipstick, but there was nothing in his remarks to support the claim.
The McCain campaign also produced an ad saying Obama favored "comprehensive sex education" for kindergartners; as an Illinois state senator, Obama voted for legislation that would teach age-appropriate sex education to kindergartners, including information on rejecting advances by sexual predators.
In turn, a recent Obama TV ad makes a none-too-subtle dig at McCain's age in saying McCain hasn't changed in the last 26 years. It shows McCain at a hearing in the early 1980s, wearing giant glasses and an out-of-style suit. "He admits he still doesn't know how to use a computer, can't send an e-mail, still doesn't understand the economy, and favors $200 billion in new tax cuts for corporations, but almost nothing for the middle class," the commercial says.
Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who unsuccessfully sought the GOP presidential nomination, said McCain and Obama need to engage more openly in town hall meetings rather than back-and-forth negative advertising.
"I agree that the campaign has gotten too negative on both sides," Giuliani said. "If the two of them are out there answering questions, a lot of these ads are going to get done that way, they're going to be able to confront each other with these things. Senator Obama can explain his views on sex education and just what he was doing with that. Senator McCain can either back off it or agree with it."
Rove said he believed that Obama's "lipstick on a pig" comment was a "deliberate slap at Governor Palin," saying it came too soon after the Alaska governor's pitbull comment not to be. Rove also said while it might be fair to criticize McCain for being a longtime Washington insider, faulting McCain for not using a computer when he can't type due to war injuries is not.
"McCain has gone in some of his ads - similarly gone one step too far, and sort of attributing to Obama things that are, you know, beyond the 100-percent-truth test," Rove said, without elaborating.
In a statement, the Obama campaign said it partly agreed with Rove.
"In case anyone was still wondering whether John McCain is running the sleaziest, most dishonest campaign in history, today Karl Rove - the man who held the previous record - said McCain's ads have gone too far," said Obama campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor.
Rove spoke on "Fox News Sunday," while Giuliani appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press."


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We own three sets of Pure Beech sheets — two Jersey Knit and one Sateen — and love rotating between the textures. The Jersey Knit is light, fun and incredibly snuggly while the Sateen's lack of stretch makes it a bit more serious though no less soft. Our only warning is don't put the sheets in the dryer on high heat (the cotton setting) because we have had a seam come undone on a pillowcase. This is stated on the packaging (which we didn't read until after washing) and should be followed. Simply wash on regular and dry on medium and you should be all set!
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Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said the state had developed in the last 10 years and his government had worked for its development with justice for all.
Nitish Kumar also said that Bihar had its own model of development and now had a positive image in the public mind.
"Bihar has now a positive image as the rule of law has been established. It recorded high growth rate and witnessed the development of basic infrastructure to human development in the last one decade, which was lauded and studied by foreign universities," Nitish Kumar said while releasing a final report card on his government's performance ahead of the coming Bihar assembly polls in October-November.
Nitish Kumar has told media repeatedly that development took place during his two terms as chief minister from 2005 to 2010 and from 2010 to 2015.
"Bihar is on the path of progress and development. The state has recorded an average of 10 percent growth rate in the last 10 years," he said.
The report card said that the state recorded a growth rate of 17.99 percent at current price during 2014-14. In 2004-05, the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) was Rs.77,781.16 crore, which increased in 2014-15 to Rs.402,282 crore.
The plan expenditure was Rs.3,124.32 crore in 2004-05, which increased to Rs.43,931.61 crore,an average increase of 31.95 percent.
In the education sector, children in the age group of 6 -14 years were brought to school. "There were 12 percent children out of school in 2005 which now has been reduced to 1.72 percent," Nitish Kumar said.
He said the state government stressed mainly on girl education through several schemes like free uniforms to cycle distribution to increase their enrollment in schools. "The successful cycle scheme for girls brought a social change in Bihar," the chief minister said.
He said 40 lakh children studying in class 9 received money for buying cycles.
Nitish Kumar said the vaccination under regular immunization was 18.6 percent in 2005, which now had increased to 78 percent. This figure is higher than the national average.
"The state government has constructed 66,508 km major and rural roads in the last decade. Similarly, 5,431 major bridges were constructed to improve connectivity."
He said the power situation had also improved in Bihar. The per capita consumption of electricity in the state increased from 70 kWh in 2005 to 203 kWh in 2015.
"In November 2005, average availability of power was 6 to 8 hours in the urban areas and 2 to 3 hours in rural area. But in 2015, the average availability of power in urban area is 22 to 24 hours and 15 to 16 hours in rural areas," Nitish Kumar said.


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The twistor amplitudes relevant for N=4 SYM can be seen as functions on the 3(n-5) dimensional configuration space Conf_n(CP^3), the space of collections of n points in the projective 3-space CP^3, i.e., projective twistor space. Goncharov et al. assert that the cluster structure of the space Conf_n(CP^3) underlies the structure of amplitudes in N=4 SYM theory. It is pleasing to see polygon chordings, associahedra and Stasheff polytope mentioned in the paper. The chorded polygon approach to twistor string amplitudes was discussed on this blog back in 2011. It all makes better sense if one recalls Witten's original twistor string paper.
Another way to view it is with a chorded polygon, where the twistor field parts are represented as chords. As Goncharov et al. note, one can 'mutate' these polygons, and find equivalence classes of diagrams, count up the representative diagrams and it will tell you how many terms will show up in your amplitude. For higher polygons, where internal triangles appear, one can go back to the sphere picture and see why internal triangles violate Witten's rules for exchanged twistor fields, hence their diagrams don't contribute to the amplitudes.
For the above diagram, imagine three spheres (degree one genus zero instantons) connected by three twistor field tubes that all meet together in a central location. How can one sensibly assign helicities to the ends of the twistor field tubes?
It would be neat to go beyond Conf_n(CP^3). To start, it is well known one can identify complex 4-space C^4 with quaternionic 2-space H^2, hence get a map from CP^3 to HP^1. Then we would be studying Conf_n(HP^1) and transforming lines with SL(2,H)~SO(5,1). Going a step higher and using octonionic 2-space O^2 gives a map to OP^1 and we can study Conf_n(OP^1) and mapping lines to lines with SL(2,O)~SO(9,1). We could also study quaternionic 3-space H^3 and map to HP^2 and study Conf_n(HP^2), mapping lines with SL(3,H)~SU*(6). For the octonions, O^3 gives OP^2 (the Cayley plane) and collineations are given by E6(-26) transformations, where collineations fixing a point in OP^2 are SO(9,1) transformations. The study of Conf_n(OP^2) would be tantalizing indeed and there are no higher projective spaces over the octonions beyond a plane. And what exactly would one be scattering in OP^2 anyway?


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Cristiano Ronaldo Looks Like a Male Model in CR7Shirts BTS Pic
Check out Cristiano Ronaldo looking handsome in a new behind-the-scenes pic on the set at his latest CR7Shirts campaign shoot!
"Part of my belief is always being the best that you can be. The perfect fitting shirt gives a man the confidence to become the best version of himself possible," the 29-year-old soccer star recently shared in a statement.
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Christiano's partner Richard Chai added, "Ronaldo and I already have a great relationship collaborating on the CR7 by Cristiano Ronaldo underwear and socks line, and I'm excited that together we have developed a premium men's basics brand which features well made, essential pieces. The idea of the CR7 Shirt collection is similar to the core ideas of the underwear collection. It is based on form, function and style. Part of the range is made with stretch, creating a story around the idea of mobility."
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I feel about like a little girl that went to work with her dad and came home sure of what she wants to be when she grows up. Dressed in scrubs 5 sizes too big, but ready to be doctor and go to work. Remember when you were like that? With dreams and aspirations, ready to act well before your time?
This weekend was World Mandate, a missions conference put on by my church. Many people first experience a passion for reaching the nations during this weekend and proceed to give their lives to reaching the unreached with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Our speakers were powerful and they boldly spoke the word of God, sharing stories from their lives and challenging us to live fully and urgently for Jesus.
This would be amazing if I wasn't already anxious to go. By the end of the last speaker on Sunday my heart was burning for children with disabilities all around the world. I can only explain it as a heightened awareness of their presence and great needs in every country. The altar call was who wanted to run to the battle? ME! This wasn't new, but I was hoping I would get a different answer from God about going.
The lady praying over me kept speaking that she felt like God was saying this was a season of equipping even beyond elevate; it is a time of God preparing me and giving me the tools I need.
I was hoping for Drop your nets and follow me. As if I hadn't heard God speak the same thing about training and equipping almost every day for the last couple years.
Elevate. Graduate School. Experience. Nations.
That's at least 5 years.
So like I was saying in the beginning, I'm a little girl who went to work with her Dad (heavenly Father) in Mexico and China a couple of times and came back sure of her career path. I'm dressed and ready, with a heart fully devoted yet years ahead of training in order to actually 'go to work.'
Training is great. And so important. But don't you know, I can't wait to really go.


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What's the Rush?
On May 1, Pope Benedict XVI will beatify Pope John Paul II during a Mass in Rome that is expected to attract two million people. Perhaps some of these pilgrims were among those who filled St. Peter's Square on the day of John Paul's funeral shouting, "Santo Subito!" If all goes as planned, Karol Wojtyla's beatification will have happened in near-record time. Benedict waived the standard five-year waiting period required before a person's cause for canonization can begin. And recently the Congregation for the Causes of Saints accepted as miraculous the cure of a French religious sister from Parkinson's disease, clearing the way for the Polish pope's beatification.
But does it make sense to rush John Paul, or anyone, to sainthood? For millions, John Paul already is a saint, and perhaps Benedict is responding to the sensus fidelium, the wisdom of the faithful, by moving his former boss to the head of the line. But in addition to his towering accomplishments and personal piety, John Paul's worldwide popularity could also be a result of his extensive travels and frequent media appearances. Does that make him holier than other, less well-known candidates? And is it seemly to have Vatican officials who owe their positions to John Paul examining his cause? In centuries to come, will Catholics wonder if the rush meant that corners were cut? Cardinal Angelo Amato, head of the congregation, denies this, saying the case has undergone "particularly careful scrutiny." Many think John Paul should be canonized. (Apparently so does God: a miracle is taken as evidence that a person is in heaven.) But John Paul will be just as much a saint if the normal procedures are followed.
A Christian Calling
Sargent Shriver, who died on Jan. 18 after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease, asked himself a question at the end of every day: What have I done today to improve the lot of humanity? Mr. Shriver—who ran for vice president in 1972, played a key role in the war on poverty, directed the Peace Corps and later helped run the Special Olympics with his wife, Eunice—treated the Christian command to love God and neighbor with the steadfast commitment it deserves. That he did so while working in the rough-and-tumble world of U.S. politics is worthy of no small praise. A leader of his kind, who fought as fiercely to eradicate poverty as he did to protect the rights of the unborn and the mentally challenged, is unlikely to appear again on the political stage anytime soon.
Perhaps Mr. Shriver's death will serve as a reminder to the growing number of Catholic legislators, Republicans and Democrats, that faith is not just a source of personal solace, but a rigorous way of life that sometimes demands public action. His career also stands as a challenge to those who would shut themselves off from the secular world for fear of being morally compromised. Speaking in 1979, Mr. Shriver hailed the election of Pope John Paul II because he believed the pope would not turn his back on the problems of the world but would engage them. This was the duty of every Christian, Shriver said: "Christians are needed in politics, in the law, in medicine, in the marketplace…." Maintaining a Christian identity begins by reflecting on another question favored by Sargent Shriver: Am I living my life as Christ would want me to?
The Arab Revolt
The popular uprising begun in Tunisia has raced across North Africa and the Arab world, especially Egypt. Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak has announced he will not run for re-election; so has Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh; Jordan's King Abdullah II has appointed a new cabinet; and the Palestinian Authority has announced local elections. The whole region is in upheaval. The movement arose not from militant Islam but from popular discontent over political repression and deteriorating economic conditions, and is led by largely secular forces.
The future is by no means decided. It is unclear whether the protestors will accept promises to decline re-election in the place of immediate resignations. What the impact of political Islam will be on the transition to democracy and the formation of new governments is unclear. Except perhaps in Yemen, Americans should not fret yet about any Islamist hegemony sweeping the region.
It will take some time for things to be sorted out, and there are sure to be some expressions of anti-U.S. and anti-Israel sentiment. But, as long as the basic direction of the revolution is for democratic government, respect for human rights and economic improvement, the international community, including the United States, should not overburden the new Arab politics with outside expectations. It should be supportive of the transitions in government, offering help on terms acceptable to the local people, assisting in relieving their immediate economic distress and contributing to long-term development. Israel will certainly have worries, but its long-term interests also counsel patience. Any precipitous action by Israel, particularly in Gaza or Lebanon, might push the Arab street beyond the tipping point, transforming a popular, secular uprising into a more radical Islamist one, with negative consequences all around.
JPII sainthood: Why Rush? Got a miracle ... Why wait? It's the saints among us who truly point us to the loving and compassionate God who makes all things good ... and holy!
Was not the reason for the standard 5-year waiting period to permit the competent authorities charged with the study of a person's life to be less influenced by an apparent popularity of a person. and also to permit a person's immediate co-workers to settle down, and think more calmly.
That old 5-year rule would appear particularly wise for a person like Pope John Paul II whose worldwidel populaity was the result of his extensive travels and very frequent media appearances.
This question is even more natural if a pope canonizes his immediate predicessor.?
How do you say "I am disgusted" in Latin?
How do you say "I am disgusted" in Latin?
Explaining the rush to canonize Pope John Paul II, the editor noted that, "For millions, John Paul is already a saint, and perhaps Benedict is responding to the sensusfidelium, the wisdom of the faithful, by moving his former boss to the head of the line."One can't help wondering if such news makes Cardinal Newman roll over in his grave. After expending so much time and effort persuading his colleagues of the necessity of cooperative consultation with the laity regarding church matters, he finally accomplished his goal during Vatican Council II…or so he thought.
It appears, in fact, that Newman's hard-won triumph was a bit of a paper tiger—something his colleagues need never have feared, for sensum fidelium seems to be used only to buttress the causes of Rome, whether it be by proclaiming the Immaculate Conception of Mary, our supposed insistence on addressing our priests as "Father," or for hastening the canonization of a pope.
Who knew that we, the laity, would be so selfless in choosing to wield our enormous power only to serve the needs of our leaders? Who knew that we would never elect to have sensum fidelium applied to more practical considerations, such as birth control, changes in the liturgy, celibacy, or a female priesthood?
What a sorry state of affairs—and one for which we must all share responsibility. The hierarchy is at fault for taking advantage of our habitual passivity; and we, the laity, are at fault for failing to take advantage of this gift from the Holy Spirit. What a shame.
be due, among other things, to the "sensus fidelium" expressed by many after
his death. If this is so, it could be a positive sign in that it would be
the first time in several generations that the hierarchy showed any sign
that it listens to the "sensus fidelium". I fear, however, that this does
not represent a new trend but will only be repeated one more time when JP II
is canonized a year or so from now...another RUSH.
Cardinal Law appoints bishops: he was appointed to the appropriate committee by Pope John.
Pope John was a strict ruler of an authoritarian church. It is unseemly to hold him as not responsible for the scandals that occurred during his reign.


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Reporting from Dallas — They blew it.
Chris Paul played as if he was wearing mittens. As big as Texas is, Blake Griffin couldn't have hit the state if he were given a free shot at it.
Had Randy Foye been blindfolded, the results might have been the same: 0 for 7 from the field.
Yet Caron Butler came that close with just seconds remaining from drilling a three-pointer and maybe leading the Clippers to a win over Dallas.
So do with this what you want: Moral victory or just another loss.
What's more interesting, and longer lasting as far as the Clippers go, is the maturation of Griffin. Two nights ago he's highlights' Nos. 1 & 2 on ESPN's "SportsCenter"; Monday night, he's just lousy.


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I first stepped foot in Taiwan on April 15, 2008.
To celebrate my anniversary, I took a 3-day 2-night scooter trip along the east coast to Taidong (Taitung). This helped me prepare for my around-the-island tour coming up in two weeks.
The views along Highway 11 are breathtaking!
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知本國家森林遊樂區 (Zhiben National Forest Recreation Area)
Of course, photos inside the hot spring are prohibited. However, I managed to slyly snap a shot. The bathers are not wearing clothes in the photo, so I am only posting a link here if you want to see (faces have been altered to maintain anonymity).
The owners were super friendly!
剛剛好生活民宿 (Gang Gang Hao Sheng Huo B&B)
I recommend the soup dumplings and dry noodles at
海草健康輕食館 (Seagrass Light & Healthy Restaurant)
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I wanted a diverse mix of torsos and helmets, a unique unit of dynamic looking characters. Assault marines aren't great by any stretch so I felt it was very important to just make them look cool so their innate awesomeness was reason alone to pick them
I also made the bold choice of giving them two Flamers. It's a cheap upgrade and I had the Forgeworld ones from when I got the MK1 missile launchers for my Devastator squad. I'm not sure anyone else would use them but for 10 points for the two they might put a dint in some low armoured horde army and the 2D3 overwatch shots are handy in a pinch.
This is the Sergeant, which I've swapped his Bolt Pistol for a second Chainsword, bonkers I know. I've effectively removed his overwatch and ranged capabilities but I was desperate to have a figure wielding two weapons. The plan was to do it 'nito style' with a smaller combat blade 'shielding' in the left hand low down with the Chainsword raised up high. Sadly I couldn't manage the pose but this did OK and I was happy with the bare Ravenwing command head too. I also added some Dark Angel veteran upgrade bits to hide Blood Angel elements that were cut off. I've since also added some grenades to his right hip. I preferred the silhouette of the model without but felt it would make a helpful reminder he can at least throw some grenades in overwatch, he's not totally ranged free [or free ranged?].
Another decision I may live to regret is that the Sergeant, this model and the next were not pinned to the slate rock, just super glued... still, I was pretty chuffed with this pose, twisting at the waist to give it more dynamism. The Dark Angel upgrade head was particularly cool with it's tall arched mouthpiece.
Slightly less convinced about this pose, the drum feed bolt pistol is pretty cool alongside the Ravewning upgrade beaky helmet but the pose is a bit more 'falling down' than 'strike from upon high'. I tried to attach a little Dark Angel toke on the end of the chainsword but it pinged off in the shed - forever lost. I did put some elements on his right hip to hide some Blood Angel motif that was removed.
The flamer was really quite difficult to pose, I had a load of second edition arms but it was still a struggle to get it to look right. Luckily that purity seal helps cover up how weedy the right arm is. The left arm is a Space Wolf arm PeteB gave me ages ago in an effort to empty his bits box. I thought it'd luck cool, but more importantly it'd reach the flamer handle. I used some flower arranging wire to lift the model up I could have used clear acrylic rod but with the painting I thought I'd still get it messed up and a simple black rod can be just as effective.
I suddenly realised with this guy it's the Bolt Pistol that's replace not the Chainsword. It was too late to add one to the previous model but I had to ensure this one carried both hopefully to remind me they all have the melee weapons. Pretty happy with the pose, all the squad have the DA upgrade shoulder pad with a sword blade on the right shoulder. Not really chapter approved but for some reason it had to be that side, I'll justify it with fluff somehow ;)
Whilst I was basing the squad I decided to base these two Terminators from Space Hulk that I was lucky enough to have thrown into the copy I got off ebay that wasn't supposed to have any of the Terminators included. The standard sharp sand mix I use was supplemented by some grit that I won as part of my 2nd place Best Army winnings. It's just smaller than my main pieces and bigger than the fine sand. Hopefully it should be more interesting now.
Lastly I based the Genestealer Patriarch too.
Lots more elements from my rubble mix with bits of sprue, larger stones, card off cuts and bits of plastic so they fit my slightly more urban resin bases.
After all that I get a Big Purple Great Build Stamp of Approval for the Assault Squad...
and another two for the Patriarch and Terminators.


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On the upside, I'm seeing lots of great ideas on how to reuse pallets. That, and the fact that I regularly see them all around town for free makes me more and more tempted to pick up a few. Here are a few of my favorite ideas.
From Design Sponge
From Web Ecoist
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Today I had the good fortune to finally attend a private karaoke party / dinner Nakakin Tokyo Bay Cruise. Cruises can be reserved for parties of 25 – 70 members and include all-you-can-drink alcohol and lots of great Japanese food like nabe, sashimi, tempura, etc. In addition, there are great views of Tokyo Harbor both inside and outside the boat. These cruises are really an awesome way to have a private party.
Our cruise was about 2 hours long, but I felt like I ate and sang enough to get more than my money's worth. How much, you ask? Well…the prices can be a bit steep – 10,500 yen = about $100 per person in the off season. Cruises are more popular in the summer Yukata / firework season and the cost goes up accordingly.
For more information on booking your own cruise, check out the following website.
http://www.nakakin.com/ (Japanese)
Flash Panorama of the Karaoke Party
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Flash Panorama of Tokyo Bay
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|Nutritional Guidelines (per serving)
|Nutrition Facts
|Servings: Serves 2 as a Main Entree
|Amount per serving
|% Daily Value*
|Total Fat 11g
|Saturated Fat 2g
|Cholesterol 0mg
|Sodium 1009mg
|Total Carbohydrate 58g
|Dietary Fiber 14g
|Protein 19g
|Calcium 755mg
|*The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.
For a delicious vegetarian Thai salad, try my easy Thai Cucumber Salad. This salad achieves all of the flavor and taste of non-vegetarian Cucumber Salad without resorting to using fish sauce or shrimp paste, plus it's virtually fat-free! Note that for this recipe you'll need to scout out a bottle of Golden Mountain Sauce, available at any reputable Asian or Chinese food store (look for it in a tall bottle next to the fish sauce). Like soy sauce, Thai Golden Mountain Sauce is made from fermented soybeans, which makes it suitable for both vegetarian and vegan diets (for more on this sauce see link below). ENJOY!
- 1 English Cucumber (peeled)
- 1 red bell pepper (diced)
- 3 green onions (thinly sliced)
- 1 loose cup fresh coriander/cilantro (lightly chopped)
- 1/2 loose cup fresh basil (lightly chopped)
- 1/4 cup dry roasted peanuts (lightly ground or chopped)
- For the Dressing:
- 1 tablespoon lime juice (juice of 1/2 large lime)
- 1 Tbsp. Golden Mountain Sauce (or soy sauce)
- 1-2 cloves garlic (minced)
- 1 Tbsp. soy sauce
- 1-2 tsp. Thai chili sauce (or 1/4 to 1/2 tsp. dried crushed chili (from the spice aisle))
- 1 1/2-2 tsp. white sugar
Steps to Make It
For more on buying and using Golden Mountain Sauce, see Golden Mountain Sauce.
Cut cucumber in half lengthwise, then continues slicing lengthwise until you have about 8 long strips. Now slice strips the other way to create bite-size rectangular chunks. Place in a salad bowl.
Add prepared red pepper, green onion, fresh herbs, and peanuts to the salad bowl.
Combine the dressing ingredients together in a cup, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Taste-test for a sweet-sour balance, adding more sugar if it's too sour for your taste. Tip: Note that the dressing will taste quite salty and pungent now, but will be perfect once it is combined with the salad.
Pour dressing over the salad and toss well to combine. Taste-test the salad, adding more chili sauce or dried crushed chili if you'd like it spicier.
To serve, transfer the salad to a serving platter or bowl. Top with a little more coriander, basil, and peanuts. Serve immediately, or cover and refrigerate for up to 3 hours. This salad is best eaten up the same day you make it. ENJOY!


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There is a section of Louisville where cyclists strength, agility, and nerves are tested to the brink. Surprisingly, there are no steep hills, sharp curves or even a single speed bump involved. It is actually a fairly straight section of road with river views and amazing homesteads lining the landscape. The CHALLENGE of this ride is the road itself. It is a narrow 2-line road meant for far less traffic than it occupies now. Cars frequently ignore the 35mph posted signs and like to double or triple those numbers as they pass small, slow, cyclists. It is as close as cars can get to you without causing death or bodily harm (although death has occurred). It is not uncommon to hold your breath when you hear downshifting coming from behind or the high pitched squeal of a tire hugging the pavement to maneuver around you.
It is NOT a ride for the faint of heart. Beginner riders will often avoid this section even though it is a gateway path to scenic, challenging riding. For a "smooth" ride, you have to be comfortable on your bike, not too squeamish with cars, and generally prepared to make evasive maneuvers around tattered carcasses of creatures too slow for the speeding Porsche (R.I.P. possum). The phrase "holding your line" is a rule as only a few inches separate you from a littered strewn ditch (on your way out of town) or careening your bike into the murky, haphazard waters of the Ohio River (on the return trip). To cap off the challenge of the ride is the fact that a headwind will surface at times in BOTH directions forcing your calves, thighs and lungs to push for continuous momentum.
With all of this…you may even question why ANY cyclists would go through all this trouble to accomplish a ride. A new rider this weekend firmly indicated to the four woman group that she wanted to "push herself" and with little conversation, we all agreed that River Road will push your limits. One might have referred to this ride as the "Tour De Baptism" as in "Baptism by fire" while others may compare it to a hazing ritual reserved for some Greek sorority minus the secret handshake. We have rules for "newbies"…including (1) they never pull for the group. There is no sense in adding the pressure of setting pace, calling out maladies in the road, and pedaling until your knees blow out. (2) We never put a newbie in the rear. Again, no need to add pressure to the one pulling up the rear by announcing squirrelly cars or suggesting pace adjustments. So, we put "newbies" in the middle. Their ONLY job is to pedal…not crash…and stay alive (these are really rules for EVERY ride).
As the one pulling up the rear this time, I can tell you that I rode a pace a bit slower than usual finally settling to "big ring" it. I offered the newbie encouragement who surprisingly took to this bike path like a duck to water. She closed gaps and held her line amazingly. She even felt some of the full effects of drafting. Other than her own personal frustration in understanding her gearing, she found on the return trip a scenic picture in a final turn which is the Louisville downtown skyline. I told her I used that as a visual marker to indicate I was almost home and left with only a few more miles of truly dangerous road to travel.
Ironically, this treacherous and sometimes annoying section of cycling byway has become one of my favorite rides. It can set the tone for a upcoming challenging ride and offer a nice reprieve on the tiring return trip when all your legs can do is spin. It has become a rite of passage for several of my cycling friends. It is a moment where you may decide to abandon cycling all together or hopefully it will cause you to only want to do it more. Some people may call us masochists—I couldn't agree with them more.


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Mstr Energiser Bunny (EB) is not a foodie – where some live to eat, he simply eats to live. As a young toddler, one of the most effective ways to get him to leave me alone was to offer him food, ha ha. Mealtimes usually involved cajoling, entertaining, and harassing, unless what was on offer was on his "favourites" list, and then he could not be kept away until his little belly protruded like a preggie's.
My challenge is that this "favourites" list keeps on changing, and sometimes has next to nothing on it. We recently had a phase of this almost-nothing list, and Mama Bear tried all sorts of experiments, from introducing new foods – some of which were not exactly healthy, to getting creative with food presentation – heart-shaped waffles and colourful food faces, and then administering Vitamin B complex syrup – the supposedly tried and tested appetite booster (I drew the line at offering him sugary drinks and fruit juices – the only liquid I offer him, apart from cocoa drink, is water, which he drinks a lot of). None of these worked. Yet, his energy remained boundless, he was outgrowing his clothes length-wise (width-wise, we still needed safety pins to keep his shorts and trousers from falling off his skinny waist :-)), and he was learning and perfecting verbal, motor (gross and fine), and cognitive skills at a hectic pace!
I should have been happy with these positive fundamental developments, but no, I had to focus on his "poor appetite" and skinny frame, and that his position on the weight scale did not seem to have moved in yonkers! Also, comments from well-meaning folks did not help with the anxiety that the boy's skin would soon fall of his bones. His pediatrician and other parents tried to allay my fears, saying it is all a phase that would soon pass, but how come the kid next door wolfs down everything placed in front of him??
After almost worrying myself to a frenetic state, I went into hard-core research mode and came across My Child Won't Eat!: How to Enjoy Mealtimes Without Worry by Carlos González. As I read the pages, it seemed like the Spanish pediatrician had been in our house and listened in on our conversations / battles! Here are some of the notes I took:
- Children are experts at determining when they need to eat and what they need to eat.
- If children consistently eat more than they need at any given point in time, they:
- either lose the ability to sensor and stop eating when they have consumed what they need – which could lead to obesity; or
- become dangerously ill.
- Children have three reflex defence mechanisms against taking in excess food:
- close their mouth and turn their head;
- if forced, open their mouth and refuse to swallow (this is what EB does);
- if forced further, swallow the food and then throw up.
- Sometimes children reject certain foods because it causes a reaction they don't like, especially if there are proven food allergies.
- It is the parents' responsibility to offer healthy foods; it is the child's responsibility to choose which foods to eat and in what quantity.
- Appetite stimulants could be dangerous, their effect is temporary, and they have rebound effects.
- Children eat to match their growth and developmental needs; growth is only affected in cases of true malnutrition.
- Genetic disposition affects a child's physical growth from infancy.
- It is not unusual for a child not to gain any weight for a period of time, as long as the child is not ill, is active, and is otherwise developing at a healthy pace.
- The general advice from the experts is "do not force a child to eat":
- if the child is sick, offer favourite foods frequently, but without forcing him to eat or he'll end up throwing up.
- if the child is healthy, he has eaten what he needs.
- the more a child is forced to eat, the less likely the child will eat, and the more likely an aversion to the particular food being forced will develop.
I now realise that the biggest problem was my expectation of how much and how frequently EB should be eating! Now that I am more knowledgeable and have adjusted my expectations accordingly, I ensure the kids have healthy options to choose from whenever they are ready to eat and I have promised myself that we shall no more have food-related quarrels. The apple does not fall far from the tree – I remember my mum telling me stories about how she had to resort to using garri to entice me to finish up my meal, hee hee.
The Tiger Mum in me refuses to be a short-order cook though – I still prepare a single dish for the household at every meal. I do try to take his preferences into consideration, and if he decides that he does not like what is on offer, that's fine – he will not starve before the next meal, and there's always a cocoa drink if the skipped meal is dinner so he does not wake up to disturb me because he is hungry!
Interestingly, since this new mode was adopted about three weeks ago, I am seeing improvements in his physical appearance, and his "favourites" list is slowly expanding… slowly but surely :-).
So, are you dealing / have you dealt with a similar situation? How are you handling / did you handle it?


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This will be my last Korea update, next week I'll be back in the USA with a post continuing my Lending Club series. I'm a little disappointed because I won't be able to make it to the Korean Demilitarized Zone during this trip. Turns out you have to apply for this far ahead and instead of demilitarized zone it should be called really, really, really militarized zone. I'll get to it on my next trip. For now, though, a few more things that I've noticed in Korea.
4. There are no tips anywhere! Not in cabs, restaurants, hotels, or anywhere. Koreans don't even know what to do when you give them a tip.
For example, I went to the royal palace at Gyeongbokgung and had a tour guide named John. John was a twelve-year-old student who took the job to practice his English skills with foreigners. He did a great job and when the tour was over I gave him a small tip. He just looked at the money confused. My girlfriend had to explain that it was an American custom to provide tips for good service.
I have to say, without tips life is a lot easier. You pay the cab fare and you're on your way. No haggling and no hurt feelings, just a quick and easy transaction. Nice.
5. I don't care for traditional Korean bathrooms. They don't have bathtubs or shower curtains, just a small drain in the floor. Koreans take showers in the bathroom and water gets everywhere, on the toilet, on the floor, etc. They have sandals that you wear in the bathroom because the floor is always wet, but just put in a damn bathtub with a shower curtain and make life easy. This makes very little sense to me.
6. I really like all the different cuisine I've had a chance to sample here. Green tea ice cream, Korean barbecue, the dozens of different types of kimchi, even live Octopus a la Oldboy. I love the spiciness of a lot of the dishes. I could probably have a full post just on Korean cuisine, but I'll leave it at this.


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In order to view and purchase the activities you want from Amilia, this article will help guide you through setting up your account and searching for any activity you like from the Amilia platform.
To create a user account, go to www.amilia.com/en/Signup or click on Login (If you already have an Amilia Account).
For first time users, after you've clicked Sign Up and entered your email, an activation email from Amilia will be sent to your inbox. (You should check your Junk inbox in case it ends up there). After you have verified your account and created a password, now it's time to login!
Via www.amilia.com you will click on Login, enter your username (email) and password. This is what you'll see when you login to your Amilia account:
In order to buy things from the Club's Amilia Store, the FIRST STEP is clicking on the yellow FIND AN ORGANIZATION button.
You will be directed to the Amilia directory:
Type in the name of the club you are looking for. When you've found it, click on it and TADAA! You are now on the first page of a Clubs' Amilia Store:
You may have to click on the STORE button first before you'll see the Club's programs.
The next time you login to Amilia, the club stores you've visited will have a QUICK ACCESS button that is easily seen on the first page when you login.


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Royal Holloway, University of London, is one of the leading UK research Universities and part of the University of London. The Royal Holloway is a campus university and is located close to London which can be reached by train (~40 minutes). Attractions close to the Royal Holloway campus are Windsor, including the Castle and Windsor Great Park, Savill Gardens and the River Thames (see below).
The University is well placed for international travel and is close (15 minutes) to Heathrow airport and the M4 and M25 motorways. The conference will be held in the main auditorium of the Windsor Building.
Accommodation on campus is excellent and the University provides a quiet and pleasant location for the 8th conference.
The Runnymede area is famously known as the location for the signing of the Magna Carta. It was sealed by King John at Runnymede in June 1215 just down the hill from Royal Holloway. The location beside the River Thames is described in the charter as 'in the meadow that is called Runnymede, between Windsor and Staines.' Runnymede was chosen because it was a conveniently large meeting place close to Windsor Castle where the King and his entourage came from for the negotiations.
The College is located just a few minutes walk from Windsor Park and only 6 miles from Windsor Castle. Windsor is the oldest and largest occupied castle in the world and the Official Residence of Her Majesty The Queen. Its rich history spans almost 1000 years. The Castle covers an area of about 5 hectares (13 acres) and contains magnificent State Apartments furnished with treasures from the Royal Collection, St George's Chapel (one of the most beautiful ecclesiastical buildings in England and the burial place of 10 monarchs), and Queen Mary's Dolls House, a masterpiece in miniature.
Windsor (http://www.windsor.gov.uk/)
Situated on the Thames just 7km from Royal Holloway Windsor is home to Queen Elizabeth. Windsor is a beautiful and lively town surrounding Windsor Castle, the largest inhabited castle in the world. Can be reached by taxi or bus.
Savill Garden www.theroyallandscape.co.uk/landscape/savillgarden/
Eton College www.etoncollege.com/
Ascot Racecourses www.ascot.co.uk/
Kew Botanic gardens www.kew.org/
Hampton Court Palace www.hrp.org.uk/hamptoncourtpalace/
Brooklands (Concorde) Museum www.brooklandsmuseum.com/
Legoland www.legoland.co.uk/
Thorpe Park www.thorpepark.com/
RHS Gardens, Wisley www.rhs.org.uk/Gardens/Wisley
For more information about what's on in London, please see: Visit London Website – www.visitlondon.com/


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The big medical news today about angiotensin-receptor blockers (ARBs) in some blood pressure medicines being linked to cancer might make you want to stop taking your drugs.
But don't stop taking them.
Discontinuing medication could be more dangerous than any possible cancer risk, and there may not be as much to the recent Lancet paper as members of the medical community are making out.
The big study that everyone is talking about looked at four of seven available medications containing ARBs -- losartan (Cozaar), candesartan (Atacand), telmisartan (Micardis), and valsartan (Diovan). At least one drug company disputes the data and has presented its own research showing that its drug is safe.
So what's all the fuss about these things called angiotensin-receptor blockers? They are a very popular ingredient, used in 82 million prescriptions. They work by reducing the risk of stroke and the risk of death from left ventricular dysfunction after heart attacks, they slow progression in chronic kidney disease, and they improve outcomes in heart failure, according to MedPage Today.
But some scientists looking at years of data believe these drugs lead to an 8 percent increased risk of a new cancer developing. While some doctors say these findings are significant and need to be looked into further, others say the study is weak.You can bet there will be follow-up.
Of the four drugs studied, 86 percent of the new cancers came from patients taking telmisartan, marketed as Micardis by Boehringer Ingelheim. So while you should not halt your medication, if you're taking this drug in particular you might want to get on the phone and schedule an appointment with your doc, or at least arrange for a phone chat.
Are you taking any of these medications?
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Christian Right Gathering Honors Deposed Alabama Judge Roy Moore -- Under a Confederate Flag
by Jane Hunter and Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak, JewsOnFirst.org, July 9, 2007
Links to two audio recordings of the Roy Moore events, plus additional reports and documents are here.
Leaders of the hardcore Christian right gathered under a Confederate flag in Maryland on July 3rd to honor Roy Moore, the deposed Alabama Supreme Court chief justice. That flag, and those present beneath it, concatenated Christian nationalism and Southern irredentism.
The day's honors included the naming of an athletic field after Moore, the unveiling of a "Marylandized" Ten Commandments "monument" -- nearly identical to the one that Moore famously installed in his Alabama courthouse -- and the presentation to Moore of a cake decorated as a replica of the Alabama monument.
In his acceptance speeches Moore repeatedly called for the "sovereignty of God in this country" and for the acknowledgement of God as the source of the laws of the United States. At one point he engaged in some religious bigotry.
Alabama and the federal government removed Moore from office in 2003 after he refused court orders to remove the Ten Commandments monument from the courthouse. The incident made him a hero of the religious right.
Roy Moore Field in Ten Commandments Park
The Confederate flag, alongside the state flags of Maryland and Alabama, stood over the concrete-slab stage used for the dedication of Roy Moore Field and the monument-unveiling ceremony.
Roy Moore Field is within Ten Commandments Park, which, in turn is within Gladway Farm, owned by the Peroutka family. The Law Offices of Peroutka and Peroutka and the Institute on the Constitution, sponsored by the law firm, were sponsors of the conference.
Michael A. Peroutka, who was the 2004 presidential candidate of the far-right Constitution Party and a supporter of Roy Moore's fight to remain Alabama's chief justice, emcee'd the ceremony.
"The American flag"
"Behind you," he said, gesturing to the three flags flanking the stage, "you see the Maryland flag, the Alabama flag and the American Flag." The last was a reference to the Confederate Flag.
Peroutka brings secessionism and Christian nationalism together. He presents the Moore case in Christian nationalist terms. In a 2004 campaign news release he wrote that Moore's case "was, and is, the cause of religious liberty, the cause of Christ." Peroutka was making the point that then Republican presidential candidate and avowed Christian President George W. Bush "could have traveled to Alabama and personally stood with Chief Justice Moore in this vitally important battle to defend God and His Word. I would have."
The Institute on the Constitution, sponsored by Peroutka's law firm, offers classes and lectures "designed to re-acquaint the American people with our history, our heritage, and our Constitution, which is the very foundation of our Republic." Almost all the recent and future classes listed here are entitled "A Study on Christianity and the Law of the Land."
The League of the South
In its membership application, the League of the South states its intention to: "Advance the interests and independence of the Southern people" and to "[d]efend the historic Christian faith of the South and return the regulation of religion and morals to the jurisdiction of states and local communities."
The League endorsed Peroutka's presidential candidacy, stating that, although normally "the League encourages its members to withdraw their consent from the American imperial regime, and that usually means declining to participate in their rigged and fraudulent national elections," it was encouraging its members to vote for him in the 2004 election.
Peroutka was a keynote speaker at the League of the South's 2006 convention in Chattanooga, according to the group's website as well as the website of the Tennessee league.
Local legislator not bothered by flag
"I don't have a problem with it," Dwyer said in a telephone interview.
Dwyer described Peroutka as "a staunch supporter of the Southern position on [the Civil] War" who "honorably flies that flag."
Christian Reconstructionism
Herb Titus was the 1996 vice-presidential candidate of the Constitution Party, according to Wikipedia. In her book Kingdom Coming, Michelle Goldberg describes Titus as a "prominent adherent of Christian Reconstructionism" (p. 158).
Titus was the founding dean of Pat Robertson's Regent University Law School. Sara Diamond writes in her book Not By Politics Alone, (p. 107) that in the early 1990s, when Robertson tried to get accreditation for the law school, "Titus was forced to resign when he refused to renounce his belief in Christian Reconstructionism."
Titus is currently associated with Roy Moore's Foundation for Moral Law as is attorney Ben Dupree, another "dignitary" (Peroutka's term) on the stage.
John Lofton, a writer and political aide in Peroutka's 2004 campaign, is co-author with Christian Reconstructionism founder R.J. Rushdoony of The Great Christian Revolution. Lofton currently edits the American View website, which has the same address as Peroutka's Institute on the Constitution and features Michael Peroutka and Stephen Peroutka, an anti-abortion activist.
Also seated under the Confederate flag was former Alabama Supreme Court Associate Justice Tom Parker. A Moore ally and onetime spokesman, Parker was defeated in a June 2006 run for chief justice. (Moore lost his bid for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in the same election.) In the months before his defeat Parker called for resistance to a Supreme Court order sparing a juvenile from the death penalty.
Roy Moore speaks
Moore said that all the states' constitutions contained references to God. The Ten Commandments monuments display the commandments on top with the sides displaying founding documents with references to God used by the religious right to buttress its historical revisionism about church-state separation. The Peroutka farm monument contains references to Maryland's Declaration of Rights, while Moore's courthouse monument contained references to the Alabama Constitution.
Moore spent almost as much time reading a poem he'd written as he did on his remarks. The poem decried the current "godless" state of government where children are not allowed to pray in school but are "taught evolution" and "abortion is no longer called murder and sodomy is deemed a right."
Concluding his remarks, Moore said, "We've got to fight for the right to preserve the acknowledgement of the sovereignty of God in this country. That's what it's all about."
To listen to a recording of the ceremony, click here. (There is occasional wind noise in the recording.)
Getting the government to acknowledge God
Del. Dwyer was adamant that acknowledging God as the source of the laws and freedoms of the United States was not an effort to reframe the "establishment clause" of the First Amendment, which bars Congress from establishing or favoring a religion. "There is no intent on our part to reframe or redefine" it, he said in the interview. Then he added: "The intent of the First Amendment was never to remove religion from government."
But, according to Professor Robert Tuttle of George Washington University Law School, such an acknowledgement would violate the First Amendment's injunction against government establishment of religion.
The government can acknowledge facts with some religious content, Tuttle said, giving as an example, "the government can claim that the Puritans came to America for religious purposes." In that case, he said, "the government is not making a religoius claim."
But to make the acknowledgement of God as the source of law, said Tuttle, "they're asking the government to affirm it as a matter of official policy between the government and God." And if the government made the acknowledgement, "then why can't the government play a role in specifying how to worship God?"
Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which observed earlier sessions of the conference, reported that, while serving as emcee, Dwyer claimed that his only duty in the legislature was to enforce God�s law. Americans United was among the organizations that sued to have Moore's sculpture removed from the courthouse.
The Ten Commandments cake and a swipe at the Goddess of Justice
After expressing his delight, Moore walked around the cake, pointing out its references to God in U.S. founding documents. He quoted snips of Blackstone's legal commentaries and the Declaration of Independence, saying the natural law they referred to -- "God's revealed law" -- gave the United States the right to exist as a nation. He also quoted Blackstone as saying that no human laws "are of any validity" if they contradict nature's law, which Moore kept identifying as "God's law."
Then Moore worked up the picnickers with some religious bigotry. Moore said "Mind you, this is the form of the monument that they took out of the Alabama Supreme Court, while outside, in front of the federal district court, is a bust of a Greek goddess, Themis, the goddess of law, justice."
Moore's audience made a disparaging noise. He continued: "So while they're putting up foreign gods, foreign idols, and things which have no basis for our Constitution and rights --- as a matter of fact, that god represents a discrimination of rights, whereas our god represents equality for all men." (To hear a short recording of Moore's remarks about the cake, click here, but please note that part of the recording has wind noise.)
A PDF document on the Montgomery federal court's website about a recent expansion of the court complex includes this description of the statue.
To enter the new courthouse, the public crosses a 200-foot elliptical brick and granite plaza, surrounded by grass and a row of maple trees, and flanked by a grove of 50 crepe myrtles. Centered in the plaza is a large granite pool and fountain bearing a stainless steel sculpted head of Themis, the ancient Greek goddess of justice, with water flowing over two stainless steel bowls representing the scales. The entryway, through bronze and glass doors, is crowned by a huge eagle poised for flight, sculpted from a single block of limestone.
(Citation for the document can be found on this page, where you see History of the Middle District of Alabama U.S. District Court.)
Several days before Moore unveiled the "Marylandized" version of his Ten Commandments monument, historian Randall Balmer said Moore had turned the commandments into a "fetish," according to the Associated Baptist Press.
Speaking to a meeting of mainstream Baptists in Washington, DC, Balmer said: "Why not post the Decalogue in public places? Because, quite simply, it trivializes the faith and makes the Ten Commandments into a fetish." He added: "What Roy Moore was peddling was idolatry, pure and simple -- a conflation of the gospel with the American political order."
Recording: Unveiling of Ten Commandments monument and dedication of Roy Moore Field
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Recording: Roy Moore lectures on cake replica of Ten Commandments monument
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Pastors rally around former Alabama judge
'Commandments' champion keys 'God, Country' theme
Rochelle McConkie, The Baltimore Sun, June 29, 2007
A Severn church and a Pasadena-based group will host this weekend the former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice who rose to national prominence when he refused remove a Ten Commandments monument from courthouse grounds.
As part of a "God and Country" pastors' conference calling for the United States to put God back into the government, Roy S. Moore will be on hand for an area dedication of a replica of the now-famous statue.
"We believe he's truly an American hero - a patriot willing to forfeit his own job for religious convictions and the believing that the state has a right to acknowledge God," said the Rev. David Frye of the Severn Christian Church. Continue.
God & Country Patriotic Celebration & Conference
Severn, Maryland, July 1-3, 2007
This page of the Institute on the Contstitution website contains the program for the conference and begins with a call to "All Pastors, Ministers, Elders and Church Workers:
Chief Justice Roy S. Moore, formerly of the Alabama Supreme Court and well known as the "Ten Commandments Judge", has something special to say to you!
Please click here to continue and view the conference schedule..
Third Floor: Examining Judge Moore's ideas
Column by Rick Hutzell, The Maryland Gazette, July 2004
Judge Roy Moore is a powerful public speaker. He's passionate about his core beliefs and he knows how to appeal to a friendly audience. That was clear Sunday night as he walked more than 800 people at the Severn Christian Church through his interpretation of the phrase "separation of church and state."
The timing was not coincidental. Months in the planning, this interesting evening was planned by Senior Evangelist David Frye and others as a run up to the Fourth of July. It was followed by fireworks.
For those of you who don't know who the judge is, he's called the "Ten Commandments" judge. He was removed as chief justice of the Alabama State Supreme Court four years ago for refusing to obey a federal court order to remove a 2�-ton monument to the commandments from the courthouse in Mongtomery. Continue.
Ten Commandments judge removed from office
CNN, November 14, 2003
MONTGOMERY, Alabama (CNN) -- Alabama's judicial ethics panel removed Chief Justice Roy Moore from office Thursday for defying a federal judge's order to move a Ten Commandments monument from the state Supreme Court building.
The nine-member Court of the Judiciary issued its unanimous decision after a one-day trial Wednesday.
The panel, which includes judges, lawyers and non-lawyers, could have reprimanded Moore, continued his suspension or cleared him. Continue.
League says it backs Christian values
By Ron Barnett, Greenville News (Greenville, South Carolina), September 4, 2004
The League of the South espouses local control of local institutions. "Traditional" Christian values. Low taxes.
The League also believes that the federal government of the United States is an occupying power imposing its will on the states in violation of the Constitution.
And it holds a general disdain for the New South economy, through which big corporations, League members believe, are moving in to homogenize the culture and ruin the rural character of the region. Continue.
At BJC event, historian Balmer seeks America's 'true Baptists'
By Robert Marus, Associated Baptist Press, July 2, 2007
WASHINGTON (ABP) -- One of the most prominent historians of American evangelicalism called on "true Baptists" June 29 to re-assert their prophetic role "as watchmen on the wall of separation between church and state."
Randall Balmer, a history professor at Columbia University, told more than 550 supporters of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty that many of America's Baptists, in recent decades, have "lost their way." Continue.
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Standing in line at the neighborhood movie house brings anticipation, yes, but also ambivalence. I love the movies, but I'm not sure I love the senior discount.
Not that I don't enjoy paying less. I do. But why do I deserve a discount while others in line, most of whom appear to be struggling students and young adults, are forced to subsidize me and my gray-haired friends just because we've reached a certain age?
It's a question that underlies much of generational politics these days, most notably the debate over how to curb the soaring cost of social insurance benefits as the postwar mega-generation begins to pass through old age. The seniors' lobby and the Democratic left are (in AARP's words) "deeply dismayed" that President Obama wants to slow the growth of Social Security benefits — slightly — and charge wealthier seniors a bit more for Medicare.
My question is: Why not? It's our deficit, too. And most of us can afford to chip in. A recent study by the Pew Research Center found that from 1984 to 2009, the median net worth for households headed by people 65 and older rose by 42 percent, while the net worth for households headed by people under 35 dropped by an amazing 68 percent.
Our generation, on the cusp of retirement, is doing much better than past generations of retirees and far better than younger workers who would love to have our "fixed incomes." Indeed, most younger workers will probably never have the stable jobs with benefits, the homeownership rates or the job-related pensions that so many of us enjoyed during our working lives and still enjoy.
Not even the recession hurt our generation that badly. While net worth declined across the board after 2008, households headed by 65- to 74-year-olds suffered the least financial damage, the Federal Reserve reported.
One reason we seniors are doing so well, of course, is the smashing success of our so-called entitlements. They provide a base of stability and confidence at a critical juncture in life. Until Social Security came along in the 1930s and Medicare in the 1960s, older Americans were among society's most impoverished groups. Now, with the tables turned, it's ironic (or maybe it's just the American way) that people with advantages should be lavished with more advantages — in this case, senior discounts for movies, restaurant meals, rental cars, airline tickets, hotel rooms, train and bus tickets, haircuts, clothing, Broadway shows, groceries, cruises, you name it.
I can think of only three possible reasons for this. One is pity. Maybe society feels sorry for us and wants us to enjoy life to the fullest while we still can. Another is honor. Maybe society wants to honor us in the same way it honors war veterans, or in the same way the Motion Picture Academy hands out lifetime achievement awards to mediocre actors.
But somehow I doubt those altruistic reasons and lean heavily toward a third possibility: We're good for business.
Apparently my question about whether we deserve a discount is beside the point. The real point, I'm told, is that businesses can make money by targeting seniors. At 40 million strong, we are the largest and fastest-growing market segment. We have time. We have money. And we share another key characteristic: We're cheap. Even those of us who don't need to scrimp make a hobby of frugality. As economists Scott Wallsten and Robert Hahn advise: "Don't get caught blocking the entrance to the Boca Raton Sizzler when it opens for the early-bird special."
Alert businesses have discovered they can fill early seats in restaurants and weekday matinees at cinemas by appealing to seniors' flexibility and flinty instincts. It's just one example of "price discrimination," a strategy that uses ladies' nights, happy hours and other promotions to beef up off-peak business, said Macalester College economist Timothy Taylor. "We all love price discrimination," he added, "as long as we're part of the group that gets the benefits."
Senior discounts seemed somehow nobler when they first took hold in the high-inflation 1970s. Skyrocketing prices were devouring the savings of retirees as AARP rode to the rescue, boosting its membership by offering discounts that have now become embedded into the aging process as a kind of game. Appeals to play the game start rolling in when people reach their late 40s, promising steep discounts for pre-seniors still in their fifties.
I should pause here to stipulate that discounts are not a game for the 3.5 million seniors who live in poverty, a figure that, according to the census, rises to 6.2 million when health care costs are factored in. That's about 15 percent of the total senior population. Millions more have had their retirements diminished by falling equity in their homes.
Moreover, the prospects aren't so good for future retirees. As AARP's CEO A. Barry Rand points out, 30 percent of the current middle class will fall into poverty after retirement unless soaring medical costs are somehow controlled.
Finding ways to sustain Medicare and Social Security for future generations, even if it requires sacrifice from us current seniors, seems like an imperative. We who can afford it — which means most of us — should do it happily.
As for the discounts we seniors enjoy? Maybe we should view them as small tokens of thanks for chipping in now to save Social Security and Medicare for our children and grandchildren. Maybe my friend Steve had it right when we talked about the senior-discount phenomenon over lunch the other day. "It bothered me for five or six minutes," he said. "Then I got over it."
Steve Berg is a writer and urban-design consultant.
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A year ago democratic mouthpiece Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) called a female Obama official a whore.
He stood by those comments.
Now, the National Organization of Leftist Women is supporting him.
NOW endorsed this far left nut this weekend.
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The Florida chapter of the National Organization for Women has endorsed incumbent Congressman Democrat Alan Grayson in his reelection race against Republican Daniel Webster. This comes as Grayson has fallen rapidly in the polls since airing a falsified ad in which Grayson stated that his opponent was the equivalent of a terrorist, calling Webster "Taliban Dan."
The ad showed video of Mr. Webster saying "submit to me" repeatedly, with the implication that Webster wanted women to be ruled by men. It was quickly revealed that Grayson's campaign heavily edited the video and knew what they were releasing was a lie. However, Grayson has stuck by the ad.
When asked for a statement, President of the Florida chapter Donna Slutiak stated that Grayson is "100 percent on women's issues. He's never let us down yet." On Webster, Slutiak commented that, "We'll be set back 20 years if he's elected."
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Courteney Cox arrives in style to the UCLA Institute Of The Environment And Sustainability's 2013 An Evening Of Environmental Excellence on Tuesday (March 5) in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The 48-year-old Cougar Town actress was joined at the event by Sarah Silverman, Amy Smart with her love Carter Oosterhouse, Jason Mraz, and Zach Braff with his girlfriend Taylor Bagley.
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