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A profound change in attitude has taken place in our culture and it seems Christians have largely been unable or unwilling to responded to it. This change in attitude is a change in how our culture views Christian ideas and values. Christian values were accepted in the past without question in most cases. When the validity of a principle or idea was up for debate, it was assumed that the Christian value system would be the measuring rod. A great example of this is seen in the history of the founding of our nation. Generally, it was assumed that the fundamental principles upon which this great nation would be built were to be the laws of the Jewish/Christian God. Even those individuals who were not professing Christians assumed it to be the best and wisest plan. The point is that it was an assumption. Nobody had to argue that the Judaeo Christian value system was the "right" model on which to build a society.
But today this is certainly not the case! Modern culture no longer assumes that the Judaeo Christian value system is right or true. In fact contemporary culture now assumes that it is not correct in most cases. American culture has relegated religious faith to the strictly personal and private arena. Many even become angry when one attempts to make ones' faith something more than a privately held personal opinion. So, many other philosophies have attempted to claim the place of objective, universal standard that the Judaeo Christian value system once enjoyed. As a result there are so many competing "value systems" in our modern society, and American culture is so complex, that it's well beyond the scope of this article to even review them. Suffice it to say that in large part our American culture honors plurality and a perverted idea of freedom of choice. Cloaked in ideas such as "plurality" (which also goes by the term "tolerance") and "personal freedom" (actually a deficient view of personal freedom without responsibility), all manner of societal ills now beset us.
As a result of these various value systems that exalt plurality (or tolerance) and personal freedom , reaction to the traditional Judaeo Christian value system is one of antagonism. The Christian value system contradicts the modern interpretation of plurality and personal freedom. Contemporary reaction to Christian values goes something like this, "What do you mean homosexuality is wrong? How can it be wrong if it is something in which two consenting adults engage and nobody else gets harmed. Some people are heterosexual and some are homosexual its just personal preference -- an alternate life style (plurality). And anyway, who are you to be telling someone else what's right or wrong. They have the right to do whatever (Personal freedom). In fact, you're the one who is wrong and have a problem! Your problem is homophobia and some psychologists say it's a mental illness!"
In the face of this ever growing antagonism what is the Christian to do? Well unfortunately, the response from Christians has often been one of simply reasserting the Christian message or worse to shut up and pull back! Christians should indeed continue to proclaim the truth. God's word is "sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart" (Heb 4:12 NIV). We must continue to proclaim his word and truth. But we must do more. Continuing to only proclaim the word is a one dimensional response. We must also defend the truth. It's rightly said "we will never argue anyone into heaven" however, "...do not be frightened. But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have" (I Pet. 3:14-15 NIV). We have clear and powerful examples from God's word to follow. John the Baptist preached and debated the religious and civic leaders of his time. Jesus debated and reasoned with the Pharisees explaining the truths of the Kingdom. Acts 17 states that Paul's custom was to reason with the Jews in the synagogue, explaining and proving that Jesus was the Christ. Later in that chapter we see that Paul reasoned in the synagogue and the marketplace every day. He even used literature and arguments from the Greek's own philosophers to prove to them the truth of his message.
We have a reasonable faith. Christianity is not someone's personal private opinion or fantasy. Faith is not a blind leap. We have nothing to be embarrassed about! No, we have evidence, fact, proofs that what we believe is real and true. There is more historical evidence and proofs for the events of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ than for nearly any other event in antiquity. So, our response to a culture that wants to setup other standards of conduct must be bold and confident! There is no other standard that has fact and truth for its basis. Then we must be willing to defend and prove what we say with rational argument yet with a loving attitude. When we say "prayer should be in school and the ten commandments back on the walls of our schools" we must be willing to explain why. When we say "abortion is wrong" we must be able to explain why. We must be able to defend our belief that the theory of evolution is inadequate. It should be taught only as a theory along side creation in our schools. Our culture asks "why should sex only take place in a heterosexual marriage relationship?". We must be able to give a reasoned explanation and at all times it must be tempered with love. If we cannot answer these questions and issues with reasoned, logical explanations our generation will turn us off. The Church will enter a whole new era of irrelevance. We must step up without fear and say to our generation and culture "Jesus has the answers and they make sense and they work." Do we really believe it? I do!


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It's quilted!! It took longer than I thought, especially as I really only wanted to do it in the daylight so that I did it acurately. I had lots of fun rolling and turning, and then with 5 little squares to go my thread ran out! Doesn't matter as it's done now.
|The overall look of the back
|Big squares, little squares
Tonight I trimmed the edges and have pinned on the binding. Not much more to go!!! I'm using this tutorial on how to bind the quilt. First I want to make a little tag to go on it with a message for Chloe so she knows it was made especially for her.I'll add that on when I do the last row of stitching on the back.
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As if that wasn't enough, David has also unearthed even earlier photos showing two other masts
There is not much information about these vessels, so I cannot say what their names are, but I think it is worth another 60 euros to get hi-res copies to see if they have a name anywhere on them, or at least to compare features with other photos that are identified.
David has done exceedingly well -some people have all the fun - while I slave away on Simon's boat, helping to recover and insulate the deck. More on this next time.


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As we're fast approaching June, it has me dreaming of summer beach escapes to the Cote d'Azur. Last year we spent a few days of June with visiting family in Toulon, France, in a very Scooby-Doo-esque villa. It was an amazing little gite, full of antiques and creepy old paintings that we were positive had eyes that blinked. The beaches were lined with fig trees (which you know I LOVED), and their aroma welcomed you as you entered the beach area. We ate moules frites on the beach, Dan drank espresso and pastis from our rented chaisse lounges and umbrellas for the day, we braved dips in the cold meditarranean, and searched for sea glass with my niece and nephew. I happily sunned my baby bump, drank sparkling water, and hoped that Oswin wouldn't hold it against me later in life for taking multiple dips in the cold water (I can't resist the Mediterranean, no matter what the temperature). I can't wait to go back and take Oswin, now that she can dip her toesies in the water, so I thought I'd share a little Maman et moi wishlist with all of you! (Sidenote: I just ordered those little green shorts for Oswin, as well as this pair here, and I can't wait to get them on her! The sling is by super favorite company for rig slings, Sakura Bloom.) See the links below for more information on the above items!
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Spending on aging medications exceeding that of some chronic disease treatment
San Francisco, Calif., – The cost of searching for the fountain of youth has become increasingly expensive and now exceeds the cost for medications used to treat chronic disease, according to new research released today at the American Public Health Association's 140th Annual Meeting in San Francisco, Calif.
The research suggests that cost and utilization of medications to treat conditions considered a normal part of aging, including those related to hormone replacement therapy, sexual dysfunction and mental alertness, are becoming so popular that they now rank third for cost impact only behind diabetes and cholesterol among commercially insured patients.
Researchers at Express Scripts in St. Louis looked at trends in prescriptions filled for aging medications among those commercially insured and found that in 2011 alone, per member cost for aging medications ($73.30) was 16 percent greater than the amount spent on both high blood pressure and heart disease medications ($62.80). The cost for diabetes medications was $81.12 and high cholesterol medications was $78.38. The cost for aging medications increased 46 percent from 2006. Read more


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Asma Al-Ghoul, a Palestinian journalist beaten and tortured by Hamas
Last month, at least eight Muslim Palestinian female journalists were physically beaten with clubs, iron chairs, and fists, stabbed, and tortured with electric shocks by male Hamas security forces in the Gaza strip. Their cell phones, laptops, documents, and cameras were confiscated. They were also arrested. Some were forced to sign a document "pledging to refrain from covering such events again."
The "events" were a series of pro-unity rallies organized by Palestinian youth on Facebook (!) which demanded an end to the dispute between Islamist Hamas and a presumably more moderate Fatah.
So much for the Arab "spring," and the purposefully misguided Western (and these heroically naïve youthful demonstrators') belief that the increasingly well organized Islamist Middle East will really rise up on behalf of human rights and women's rights—without which there can be no democracy.
But this is not my main point.
The mainstream media did not cover this male-on-female atrocity in Gaza. In the English-speaking world, only a handful of journalists, including two Israelis, one writing in the Jerusalem Post, one writing at Big Peace, covered it. A few smaller newspapers in America and an English-language Egyptian paper did so as well.
To be fair, Reuters had an article which featured their own agency in Gaza having being attacked by "armed men." Later on, we learn that these "armed men" were Hamas officials. And near the end of the piece, we also learn that Hamas also beat "photographers and camera men." They do not mention female journalists, nor do they give us their names.
Slate also had an article about how Fatah is undermining Islamism on the West Bank. Parenthetically, later on, they mention that Hamas raided the offices of Reuters and destroyed equipment. They do not mention the attack on the Palestinian women journalists.
It did not happen, it is not important. The mainstream media does not really care about what happens to Arabs, Muslims, or Palestinians—not even when they are fellow or sister journalists, women, and feminists. The media only cares when and if Israelis are allegedly the perpetrators, the murderers, the checkpoint "humiliators." Even when Israelis kill an armed Iranian-backed Palestinian member of Hamas in self-defense, even when Israelis accidentally, with no malice aforethought, kill a British journalist or an American "activist," the Israelis are not only blamed—films, plays, and documentaries are made about the "martyred" American Rachel Corrie or the "martyred" British filmmaker James Miller or British "anti-war" activist Tom Hurndall. Countless demonstrations have been held. In Miller's case the British government insisted on an investigation, and his family brought a civil lawsuit against an Israeli soldier.
The media was all over this even though an investigation strongly suggested that James Miller was killed by Palestinians "from the direction of the populated Rafah." Although people know that Palestinians routinely hide behind civilian hostages, deliberately target Israeli civilians, especially children, create their own "martyrs" (the Muhammad al-Dura case as well as the Rachel Corrie case immediately come to mind)—nevertheless, the media refuses to hold Palestinians accountable and refuses to believe that the Israelis are innocent. The media knows full well that they will be killed or not allowed to "report" in Palestinian areas if they publish anything negative, anything true. By now, this habit is ingrained.
One of the recently beaten, tortured, and arrested Palestinian female journalists, Asma Al-Ghoul, is someone whom I first interviewed in 2009. Al-Ghoul is a secular feminist and a journalist who has written brave articles about honor killings on the West Bank and in Gaza. She asked me to edit and publish some of her work and I proudly did so. Al-Ghoul has been harassed and arrested by Hamas before. Why? Ostensibly because she dared to laugh, wear jeans on the beach, and entered the sea, fully clothed, to swim. These were her crimes—plus the fact that she was a single woman (divorced, actually), out in public, not wearing hijab, and relaxing on the beach with—unbelievably—male friends.


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Champs-Élysées shooting suspect showed 'no sign' of radicalisation
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The suspect in a gun attack on the Champs-Élysées that left a policeman dead was long known to the police but had shown "no sign" of radicalisation, Paris Prosecutor François Molins said on Friday.
Molins said that investigators were still working to determine if the man had acted in concert with others.
"Investigations will now focus on determining [whether he had] the benefit of possible accomplices," Molins told the press conference.
He added that the suspect, 39-year-old Karim C., had not been on France's official Fiche S watch list of those being monitored by security services.
FRANCE 24 correspondent Antoine Mariotti noted that the number of people listed on the Fiche S had tripled in the past two years as France has boosted security after a series of terror attacks.
The shooter opened fire with an automatic weapon on a police van on the famous Champs-Élysées avenue at around 9pm Paris time on Thursday. After killing a police officer and injuring his two colleagues just a few hundred metres from the Arc de Triomphe, the gunman was shot dead while trying to flee on foot, according to the police.
A note found near the suspect's body had handwritten messages expressing support for the Islamic State group, Molins said. A statement published by its propaganda agency Amaq also said the attacker was "one of the Islamic State's fighters".
Soon after, police launched a raid on the suspect's home in a middle-class neighbourhood in a suburb east of Paris.
Karim C. had previously served nearly 14 years in prison on three counts of attempted murder, including of police officers, as well as for lesser offences.
FRANCE 24's Mariotti said that the suspect's long criminal history highlights some of the issues being faced by France's police.
"Police unions say there is a problem because the assailant was convicted several times – saying he wanted to attack the police – but was released anyway," he explained.
#ChampsElysees closed. Riot police on ground in #paris pic.twitter.com/JCWovTqpb9— Melissa Bell (@MelissaBellCNN) April 20, 2017
High alert
The bustling Champs-Élysées – which lies in the heart of Paris and is lined with shops, theatres and restaurants – was immediately blocked off after the attack and nearby metro stations were closed.
"We had to hide our customers in the basement," Choukri Chouanine, manager of a restaurant near the site of the shooting, told AFP, saying there was "lots of gunfire".
A spokesman for the interior ministry paid tribute to the fast reaction times of the police at the scene who managed to kill the gunman and prevent further bloodshed on a busy spring evening in the capital city.
A foreign tourist was slightly wounded in the knee by shrapnel during the shooting.
France remains in a state of emergency and at its highest terror alert level after a series of terrorist attacks. Gunmen killed 17 in shootings at the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine and a Kosher supermarket in January 2015. Several bars and restaurants in Paris, including the Bataclan concert hall, were targeted in attacks that left 130 dead on November 13 of that same year. A truck rammed through a festive crowd gathered for a Bastille Day fireworks display in Nice in July 2016, leaving more than 80 people dead.
Champs Elysees Paris, News— Champs Elysees (@Champs_Elysees) April 21, 2017
L'avenue des Champs-Elysées a connu un drame hier soir.
En mémoire du policier tué et... https://t.co/S0izw2aShi
In between there have been a series of smaller attacks, often aimed at the security forces. In February, a man armed with a machete in each hand attacked soldiers on patrol at Paris's Louvre Museum. In March, a 39-year-old man was killed at Paris's Orly airport after attacking a soldier.
Thousands of troops and armed police have been deployed to guard tourist hotspots such as the Champs-Élysées or other potential targets, including government buildings and religious sites.
The shooting comes two days after the arrest of two men in the southern city of Marseille with weapons and explosives who were suspected of preparing an attack to disrupt the campaign.
Furthermore, it also comes just three days before France votes in the first round of the presidential elections on Sunday, following a campaign season in which immigration and security have been key issues.
In response to the attack, French President François Hollande promised "absolute vigilance, particularly with regard to the electoral process" and paid tribute to the rapid police response.
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1. Visit Antisamos Beach
It's not only holidaymakers that have realised the beauty of this Greek gem. You may recognise it as being the backdrop for the film 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin'.Find out more
From the ancient monastery with its culinary festival to the Bronze Age fortress, Sami is full of historical sights to explore.
The great caves that the resort is famous for are fascinating and provide something for everyone to enjoy. Or if you want to spend more time in the sun, a horse ride up the mountains will give you the opportunity to see a whole lot more of the island.


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Teslagrad (Macintosh)
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DescriptionTeslagrad is a side-scrolling platformer with strong puzzle elements. The protagonist is a boy who finds himself inside the mysterious Tesla Tower which houses fictional technology inspired by the works of inventor Nikola Tesla. The game communicates without words.
The player moves inside the tower which can be freely explored (but, as it is a tower, the general direction is up and there are not many branches in width). To progress, the player needs to use special abilities to solve puzzles which are all based on magnetic fields: many objects have a magnetic field (red or blue); objects with different colours are attracted to each other while objects of the same colour are repelled. The player has gloves which allow him to change the polarity of objects. During the course of the games, more abilities and gadgets are earned, e.g. a cannon to change polarity over distances or a short-distance teleport to pass deadly currency unharmed. Those are used to reach new parts of the tower. The puzzles are mostly embedded in platforming challenges which require pixel-perfect jumping and fast reactions. There are also a few boss battles.
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LAST August, eight days into shooting, Ted Griffin was fired as director of the Warner Brothers film "Rumor Has It." The movie, starring Jennifer Aniston and Kevin Costner, is about an addled bride-to-be who suspects that her secretive family was the inspiration for "The Graduate."
Mr. Griffin, who wrote the screenplay for Steven Soderbergh's "Ocean's 11," conceived "Rumor Has It" as an ode to his youth in stately Pasadena, Calif. He wrote the script and it was to be his directing debut. Before a title was chosen, the film industry press called it the "Untitled Ted Griffin Project." But when it is released, on Dec. 25, with cast changes, rewrites and a few choice pratfalls added after Mr. Griffin's departure, the Ted Griffin project will be a Rob Reiner film, with a Rob Reiner sensibility. And the screenplay credit will belong not to Ted Griffin, the writer of "Ocean's 11" and "Matchstick Men," but to one T.M. Griffin.
The Warner Brothers publicist handling the film regretted that no one involved was available to discuss any of the circumstances or implications of Mr. Griffin's dismissal. As for Mr. Griffin, in being handed a pink slip, he joins a distinguished roster. While some fired directors have lost their jobs because of profligacy or lack of control over their casts, others -- well-meaning, competent, sometimes even visionary -- have been sacrificed to appease puffed-up stars, philistine producers or spineless studio chiefs. Warner Brothers executives may be heartened to learn that some films pried from the original directors' hands went on to be among Hollywood's most successful. Below are some telling examples.
QUEEN KELLY (1928). In what was to be the last big-budget extravaganza Hollywood would allow him to make, Erich von Stroheim directed Gloria Swanson in the title role. In her autobiography, Swanson recalled walking off the set when von Stroheim, indulging his mania for realism, instructed the wizened actor playing her suitor to dribble real tobacco juice on her slender hand while slipping on a wedding band. Von Stroheim was fired by Joseph Kennedy, who was Swanson's lover and the film's producer. "Queen Kelly" never had a United States release, unless you count the moment in "Sunset Boulevard" when von Stroheim, playing the butler of Norma Desmond, Swanson's delusional silent movie star, screens a clip from "Queen Kelly" in Norma's darkened mansion.
THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939). Richard Thorpe, with films like "The Sky Spider" and "Love Is a Headache" to his credit, was axed 12 days into shooting. The micro-tragedy of his tenure is recounted in Aljean Harmetz's 1977 book, "The Making of 'The Wizard of Oz."' After the firing, MGM's publicity director escorted the supposedly sick Thorpe to Palm Springs to recover far from the gossip columnists. "He was a wonderful guy, Dick Thorpe," Mervyn LeRoy, the film's producer, told Ms. Harmetz. "He made some fine pictures. But to make a fairy story is a different type of thing entirely." Victor Fleming was brought in, and he shot most of the film, until he was called away to replace another fired director, George Cukor, on "Gone With the Wind." King Vidor filmed the remaining scenes, including Judy Garland singing "Over the Rainbow."Continue reading the main story
GONE WITH THE WIND (1939). After three weeks of filming, the producer David O. Selznick and the director George Cukor issued a joint statement announcing Cukor's departure: "As a result of a series of disagreements between us over many of the individual scenes of 'Gone With the Wind,' we have mutually decided that the only solution is for a new director to be selected at as early a date as is practicable." As an inadequate attempt at damage control, the statement proved nearly as much a landmark as the film itself. Gossip ranged from the apocryphal tale of Clark Gable's railing on set against Cukor's homosexuality to script disagreements between Cukor and Selznick. In a 1947 interview with The New York Times, Selznick said Cukor wasn't cut out for "the big feel, the scope, the breadth of the production." So Victor Fleming left the set of "The Wizard of Oz" to assume direction of the film that would sell more tickets than any other in history. Ten weeks after taking over, he suffered a collapse (described by some as a nervous breakdown) and surrendered the movie's final scenes to the director Sam Wood. While Cukor went on to complete classics like "The Philadelphia Story" and "Adam's Rib," he would still talk decades later about being fired from the biggest movie ever made.
THE OUTLAW (1943). In later years, Howard Hawks contended that he quit this tepid retelling of the Billy the Kid story, produced by Howard Hughes. "I had a chance to do 'Sergeant York' with Cooper," Hawks told an interviewer, "so I said to Hughes, 'You've always wanted to direct, why don't you finish this thing?"' But the initial cinematographer, Lucien Ballard, recalled that both he and Hawks were fired by Hughes, who did indeed take over. It's thought that Hawks recycled many of the ideas he had developed for "The Outlaw" five years later when he directed John Wayne in "Red River." Hawks's first completed western, it is regarded as among the best of the genre. Ideas were entirely beside the point in "The Outlaw." Its commercial success hinged on a more dependable foundation than Hughes's inexpert direction: 19-year-old Jane Russell's décolletage.
SPARTACUS (1960). In his autobiography, "The Ragman's Son," Kirk Douglas wrote that Universal insisted he fire the director Anthony Mann -- even though the studio had forced him to hire Mann against his wishes and even though Mr. Douglas was the producer as well as the star of the $12 million toga epic. In any event, Mr. Douglas's account of Mann's brief tenure burbles over with antipathy. "It was clear that Tony Mann was not in control," Mr. Douglas wrote. "He let Peter Ustinov direct his own scenes by taking every suggestion Peter made. The suggestions were good for Peter, but not necessarily for the picture." As Mann's replacement, Mr. Douglas hired Stanley Kubrick, at liberty after having been fired by Marlon Brando from the western "One-Eyed Jacks," which Brando directed himself. Mr. Douglas escorted Kubrick into the gladiator arena to introduce the cast to the new director of what was then one of the most expensive movies ever made. "They looked down at this 30-year-old youth," Mr. Douglas wrote. "Thought it was a joke." "Spartacus" would gross $30 million domestically.
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (1977). Around the time he received news of his Oscar nomination for directing "Rocky," John Avildsen was fired from "Saturday Night Fever." When John Travolta was interviewed for a making-of special for the VH-1 program "Behind the Music," he recalled that Mr. Avildsen wanted to make his Brooklyn disco king more of a lovable lug, like Rocky, instead of the foul-mouthed, misogynist loser of the original script. "He wanted me to be this kind of guy who did all the favors in the neighborhood," Mr. Travolta said. "It was a sweet idea, but it wasn't the movie I signed on for." The producer, Robert Stigwood, fired Mr. Avildsen and hired John Badham. With $237 million in world-wide grosses, "Saturday Night Fever" beat the $225 million purse won by "Rocky."
JUMPIN' JACK FLASH (1986). According to Penny Marshall, it was the sight of her dining out one night with her friend Whoopi Goldberg that led the film's producers to offer her the helm of Ms. Goldberg's first big-screen comedy after the producers jettisoned the director Howard Zieff ("Private Benjamin"). "I got the job, even though at the time I'd only directed a few TV shows," Ms. Marshall said in an interview. "I was way over my head, but somehow I got through it." The film grossed a respectable $25.5 million, and would reposition Ms. Marshall, the former star of "Laverne and Shirley," as an up-and-coming director.
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS (1998). Alex Cox, director of "Sid and Nancy," was fired when the writer Hunter S. Thompson clashed with him and his screenwriter over their adaptation of Thompson's counterculture classic. A few choice words from this feud were captured in Wayne Ewing's 2003 documentary "Breakfast With Hunter." Thompson can be seen tearing into Mr. Cox for attempting to turn what he regarded as one of his finest works into a cinematic joke. Terry Gilliam was brought in to direct Johnny Depp in the starring role. Mr. Gilliam's film earned $10.6 million in the United States, far short of its $18.5 million budget, but it did persuade a New York Times film critic to call it "the closest sensory approximation of an acid trip ever achieved by a mainstream movie."
THE EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING (2004). Now that films can be digitized and DVD's can sometimes provide greater profits than a film's theatrical release, being fired can be a mere prelude to sweet resurrection. Such was Paul Schrader's experience with this prequel to the smash 1970's horror film. In June of 2002, John Frankenheimer withdrew from the project, a month before dying from a stroke. Mr. Schrader replaced him. After shooting and cutting the entire film, Mr. Schrader was fired by James Robinson, the film's producer, because he judged the brooding, insufficiently bloody result "too cerebral" to appeal to a horror audience. Mr. Robinson hired the director of "Die Hard 2," Renny Harlin, who is better known for blood than philosophy, to reshoot the film in its entirety. A year after Mr. Harlin's version opened to tepid reviews and slow box office, Mr. Schrader called in some favors, and finished production on his version. In May, Morgan Creek released "Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist" as a Paul Schrader film. The "Dominion" DVD comes out this October, providing more vindication for Mr. Schrader, and perhaps further embarrassment to the executives who fired him. No matter. "You never underestimate the power of greed," Mr. Schrader said. "When greed comes face to face with hubris, greed tends to win."Continue reading the main story


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— The Orange County International Auto Show in Anaheim, Calif., isn't usually on our radar, but with Hyundai using the event to introduce the 2018 Accent, I had the chance to visit it for the first time.
Related: 2018 Hyundai Accent: First Impressions
These smaller auto shows may not have the big reveals and glitz of the larger annual exhibits we cover — like the one coming up in Los Angeles after Thanksgiving — but I found plenty that's worth checking out, especially if you're close to the end of your new-car search.
Here are five things you can't miss:
1. Exotics
Downstairs, underneath the main show floor, is a pretty impressive set of exotic cars on display. O.C. has its share of exotic-car dealerships, and their proprietors have a few of their wares out to be ogled — and I got to see a Ferrari LaFerrari in person for the first time.
2. Test Drives Galore
More than 100 vehicles are available for test drives on short loops around the Anaheim Convention Center, each taking about five or 10 minutes. So, if you're on the hunt for a new car and have a couple specific contenders in mind, this is a great opportunity to drive them in rapid succession without having to visit multiple dealerships.
Ten minutes is not a ton of time with the car, but there are a few important things you can look for within that short period. I would focus on three things:
- See if you can set a comfortable driving position.
- Climb in the backseat at least for a second to see how roomy it is.
- Determine whether the throttle and brake feel are to your liking.
3. Concepts
Genesis brought to the show its SUV concept, which we first saw in New York earlier this year; Infiniti is showing off its QX50 Concept; and Jeep is exhibiting the Quicksand Concept, which is a hot-rod version of the Wrangler.
4. Jeep Camp
You won't get to do the driving on this one, but Jeep brought along an obstacle course to show off the off-road capability of its vehicles, featuring a hill climb, stair steps and a set of large hemispheres to force articulation.
5. Minnie Minivan
The Anaheim Convention Center is across the street from Disneyland, and if you find yourself pining for a visit to the "happiest place on Earth" but can't bear the thought of standing in line, fret not: Honda brings Disney to you with a giant Minnie-fied version of the Honda Odyssey minivan. And don't worry, you can't miss it — not with those ears.
The 2017 O.C. International Auto Show runs today through Sunday; see the show's website for more details and tickets.


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Michael B. Jordan: 'The Hollywood Reporter' Cover!
Michael B. Jordan suits up next to fellow actors Matthew McConaughey, Jake Gyllenhaal, Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto, and Josh Brolin for the latest cover of The Hollywood Reporter.
The 26-year-old Fruitvale Station star sat down for a roundtable interview where he opened up about his career. Check it:
On lying in auditions: "They were getting ready to cast Tupac [for a planned biopic], and when I was auditioning, they were like, 'Can you rap?' And I was just like, 'Sure!'"
On the biggest sacrifice for his career: "The family, for sure. When I was 19, I left Jersey and moved out here to L.A. to pursue acting. And one of my only regrets was not realizing how that affected my little brother. [There's] a six-year difference between us, and when I'm 19, he's 13, and that's the age that he really needs his older brother. And I was selfishly trying to pursue the acting thing on the other side of the country. [He was] growing up in the shadow of his older brother — not being his own person in a way — [with] everybody looking at him: 'Oh, that's Mike's little brother.' I guess you just have to accept it."
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Hot beverages can be big business for pubs and bars10 February 2017
A coffee machine is fast becoming a back bar essential as customers are increasingly looking for good quality and variety when it comes to on-trade coffee. Customers judge a pub or bar by the drinks it serves. They know exactly what good coffee should taste like, so it's up to venues to supply this or risk being marked down for their poor service and losing their customers to the high street.Expand story >


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Harvest Moon over NJSaturday, September 17th, 2016
I took these from my backyard in central, NJ at different times throughout the night (on September 16th into the wee hours of the 17th). What a lovely night it was!
I took these from my backyard in central, NJ at different times throughout the night (on September 16th into the wee hours of the 17th). What a lovely night it was!
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These are some of the many photos I took of a juvenile bald eagle at the Forsythe Preserve. The lighting changed a lot from the very early morning sunrise to mid-morning, and the bird kept returning to his post (to the delight of me and several others patiently waiting with their cameras).
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I spotted a heron at the Davidson Mill Pond Park in central, NJ walking along the edge with something in its mouth. As I focused my camera on it, it flew across the pond. I realized the heron had speared a bullfrog through its back rear thigh! As I walked closer, the heron noticed me and began to walk into the grass. As he looked over his shoulder towards me, the bullfrog slid off its beak and got away! The heron was none too happy and was unable to find it. I returned several days since, thinking I'd find that bullfrog, maybe morphed into a prince with a limp. Alas, I haven't found him yet!
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Although this show has been going on since June, I recently received the show catalog for Duex: Two Ideas, Inspirations, Two Complementary Quilts in the mail. This is a Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) traveling exhibition that was juried by Katie Pasquini Masopust (Kim LaPolla, managing curator). The full color catalog is 106 pages, and I'm honored to be among the selected work.
"Deux, is a visual conversation that expresses the questions and ideas important to each artist. Two works show side by side, inviting the viewer to find the connections between them, and see how the artists handle the challenges of composition and technique." Kim quotes Martha graham in her catalog essay, "It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, omr jow it compares to other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, stating "I believe she was talking about being true to your voice and your instinct, filtering out the xternal advice of the voices around you." Katie had the difficult task of selecting just 25 artists and 50 pieces from the many submitted to the exhibit. Katie states she was looking for "two great works from each artist … I hope that the pieces that I chose will show the world that our art quilts can compete side-by-side with paintings for the eye of art collectors and art admirers everywhere."
The catalog is available for purchase directly from SAQA here.
Full exhibit: IQF-Chicago, Rosemont, IL, June 2013
Quilts selected for Deux-Europe:
Carrefour Européen du Patchwork, Alsace, France, September 2013
Vicenza Festival, Vicenza, Italy, October 2013
The show will also be at a variety of location throughout the US through 2014.
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For our final day in London, we decided to take it easy and stroll around the City. We did some shopping (mom enjoyed the food court in Harrods), and we went to some museums. We started at the Natural History Museum, then to the Science Museum, and finally my favorite, The Victoria & Albert. Afterwards, we walked through Hyde Park as mom wanted to see the Princess Diana memorial foundations.
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After Powis Castle, we continued on, driving through part of the Snowdonia Mountains. The views were breathtaking, and we went from sun to rain clouds to sun again. It all made for dramatic skies.
Eventually we came to Barmouth which is on the west coast of Wales near the Irish Sea. We ate at a pub called The Last Inn. I had one of the best steaks that I've ever had in my life at that place, and fabulous chips (fries) too!
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According to ABC News, "Thousands of people from Arkansas to Tennessee are fleeing their homes ahead of recording-breaking flooding. The Mississippi River's record crest was 48.7 feet in 1937 and the Army Corp of Engineers expects the river to rise to 48 feet by early Tuesday morning."
Here is information on how to help and donate:
Call 1-800-RED-CROSS or text "REDCROSS" to 90999 to make a $10 donation to the Red Cross (which will be added to your cell phone bill).
Call 1-800-SAL-ARMY and/or text "GIVE" to 80888 to make a $10 donation to the Salvation Army (which will be added to your cell phone bill). Checks can be made out to the Salvation Army Disaster Relief, P.O. Box 100339, Atlanta, Ga., 30384-0339. Or visit www.salvationarmyusa.org, click on their donation page, and designate "May Floods."
The United Way is collecting donations to support local nonprofit programs that are working to provide immediate and long-term recovery in the Memphis and Mid-South area
The Memphis ASPCA is accepting animals affected by flood and tornadoes who need a place to keep them safe. They will likely need more volunteers and supplies in the coming days and weeks. Contact them for more information or to donate to their efforts.
For updates on the flood, including a list of needed donation items being collected by the Hope Presbyterian Church (acting as a hub and donation center, to supply shelters), needed visit The Great Memphis Flood of 2011 page.
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Carol Schepps, a West Windsor, NJ artist, curated the "Uncommon Threads" show held at Trenton Art Works in Trenton, New Jersey which features the work of several NJ artists, including Rayna Gillman, Joan Dryer, Judy Langille, Kevan Lunney, and others. I was pleased to sell one of my art concentrated pieces.
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if only I can make a perfect rakusu...
I've always been wary of adhering to any sort of belief system, but I've found little in Soto Zen to object to on that front. For me it's more about releasing attachment to beliefs than gaining new ones. I do wonder though whether some of the people I practice with are attached to the trappings of the practice - the ceremonies, the wearing of kimonos and kesas, the chanting in archaic Sino-Japanese. I wonder if they will eventually burn the raft of the dharma in order to achieve greater liberation or whether they will float around in circles anchored to the Buddha.
I just go there to sit. The only time I wore a kimono was on an occasion when I was asked to lead a sitting - it seemed inappropriate not too. I do see usefulness in ritual acts in terms of mindfulness though. And I am sewing a rakusu.
However, I wonder whether this rakusu is just another useless attachment. When it is complete I don't know whether I will get ordained in it, give it away or destroy it. What would lead to the least attachment, bearing in mind that rejection is a form of attachment too? It's a sort of 'koan' for me right now. I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't. So I'm just focussing of practicing detachment - I'll just see what I do.
It seems possible to wear robes etc without attachment. For myself I wonder if it creates a sense of separation between ordinary life and spiritual life.
I question the motivation for wanting to wear a special costume enough that I would make substantial efforts to own one. Is it that we want to belong? Or feel holy? I know people I practice with who seem very attached to their rakusus and kesas - not at all surprising when they painstakingly stitched them by hand. They get ever so upset if they get dirty? Am I not creating one more thing to cling to ? More conditions for freedom and happiness?
I see the Believers of other religions around me practicing similar things to Zen. Are they doing it because it is a raft to take them to enlightenment? All of them? And we see similar things with ideologies of all sorts. They all have their rationalisations for while such things are needed. Maybe it has more to do with a sense of belonging to something 'special' and 'sacred'? Maybe it has everything to do with social psychology and nothing to do with the furtherment of enlightenment. I don't know. Maybe it can be both.
What this is really about deep down is this: I have a fear of having my mind melted by religious indoctrination. This isn't something I associate with zazen (which is a good anti-BS tool) but with religious trappings and beliefs - even the minimal ones of Zen. I practice Zen in part because it is so minimal in this regard, but it is there nevertheless.
'Fear' is a bit strong, but I have a slight anxiety that by accepting the uniform of a faith I am discouraging myself from testing for myself, thinking for myself and replacing that with conformity to doctrine and blind (or at least only partially sighted) faith. Zen is gooood....Zen is gooood...Zen is the solution to all problems...if only I can make a perfect kesa... Within Zen I believe this is sometimes called 'Zen sickness'.
Here is a fairly extreme attitude of importance attached to religious trappings in Soto Zen. I suspect that this attitude has a more to do with protecting and furthering Zen as a social institution than it has to do with individual awakening.
Not just a garment, the kesa itself is zazen. It is the robe of zazen and the robe of true Zen practice. Since the time of Shakyamuni, all of the masters of the transmission received, respected, wore, taught and passed on the kesa. Like zazen, it is nothing mysterious or mystical, but a natural part of our daily practice.
Some might say the kesa is not really important: "It's a formalism, unnecessary, zazen alone is enough, I don't need to wear it." And of course someone can do zazen without a kesa, it is not absolutely necessary. But without the kesa, zazen becomes only a method of body-mind training, not a true religion. For those who seek the Way, the kesa has a great value.
Wearing the kesa and doing zazen, unconsciously, naturally, automatically, we can receive the great merits of the true Way. Anyone can wear the kesa, and whether it be the grand kesa or the rakusu (mini-kesa), the merits are the same. It protects us as it protects the Way itself.
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Dear Government,
Good evening. I hope this letter finds you well. You might not know me. My name is Nathan Badley. You probably know me as SSN# 111111111.
I was writing to let you know that I have, officially, filed my taxes. Much like most Americans, I have spent the last week cursing your name and wishing you ill. I thought about building a model of Washington D.C.just so I could stomp all over it like Godzilla, screaming "WHERE ARE YOUR TAX DOLLARS NOW, GOVERNMENT PEOPLE?!"
Needless to say, I was not thrilled to pay taxes.
Anyway I would like to apologize to you for calling you the following:
#$^$&^*%^ &$#@%#!$# $ ^$%&%& ^&$%^#
It really was unfair of me to call you all these things. After all, it is my civic duty to pay taxes. My money is sure to go to important things like the $1.8 million that is being given to the city of Las Vegas for a museum of neon signs or the $25 billion being spent every year on maintaining vacant federal buildings.
So I would like to thank you for taking my money. It's almost like I am a true American hero for helping support this country. I am thinking about buying an Uncle Sam suit to wear around just to show I'm on team USA. Maybe I'll hire a band to play the Star Spangled Banner everywhere I go. Of course, since I just paid taxes, I could really only hire a guy with a kazoo, but it would still be very patriotic.
If at any point in time you feel that you need more money, just let me know. I'm sure I could clean out my couch cushions and pawn some of my personal effects. Maybe I could talk to those Nigerian princes that are always emailing me and just have them forward my share of the money straight to you.
I'm sure we'll figure it out. Everyone who works for the government is ultimately brilliant and capable.Americais not just baseball, apple pie, and morbidly obese people who have eaten too much apple pie. It is made up of people like me who give up their hard-earned money to a government that is so good at spending money, they can't even stop once the money is gone.
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THE ZEN TEACHER: CREATING FOCUS, SIMPLICITY, AND TRANQUILITY IN YOUR CLASSROOM contains many Zen techniques, concepts, activities, and insights that can help you create a greater sense of balance and calm in the classroom and in your life. It has chapters on mindfulness, meditation, beginner's mind, non-judgment, paying attention, space, silence, radical self-care, as well as many other helpful topics. Some of the concepts I've covered over the last year in my blog, but plenty of the material is new and original and will help you on your journey toward personal and professional peace.
Publishing a book is nothing short of a lifetime dream come true, and the fact that I now get to couple it with my new passion—taking care of teachers like YOU!—I just couldn't be happier!
I'm really looking forward to the opportunity to share this path with you in a way that you can hold in your hands and incorporate into your personal lives.
I'll keep you posted, but I would love to hear from you if you have any comments or questions.
Thanks for listening.
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Scientists have come up with an adhesive that makes the guy who invented Velcro look like a simpleton. While the latter inventor picked burrs off his dog for his lightbulb moment, researchers at Northwestern University studied two animals to develop Geckel, a biomimetic material combining gecko and mussel "technologies."
Geckos have millions of tiny hairs on their feet that stick to whatever they touch; although that makes no sense to most of us and the principle doesn't apply to moustaches, that's apparently how they're able to climb things and lower your car insurance.
Mussels don't climb much of anything, but they can secrete a gluelike protein that enables them to stick to things underwater, even when pounded by crashing waves.
Researchers combined these principles to make a sort of tape covered in millions of hairs, with each hair coated by mussel-like glue. The reusable adhesive sticks well even to things that are slippery when wet, like Bon Jovi.
The next animal/product-developer match-up we'd like to see: aardvarks and James Dyson.
If you find yourself ingesting fruit and dots like there's no tomorrow, it'd be quite fitting to be seen in this PAC-MAN helmet-type thing. It's not exactly a helmet because it's plush and won't protect you from spills on your dirt bike and such, and it probably won't protect you...
Scooping up a Gold award in the Consumer Products category is the Palm Peeler designed by and for Chef'n Corporation. This vegetable peeler reinvents the way we skin veggies (geez, finally!) by protecting fingers from the blade and from cramping while keeping a clean, modern look. In the Medical and...
Murray Moss has ordered up a special treat for the August 2nd opening of the Moss outpost on Melrose in Los Angeles: a charred Steinway grand piano from Dutch designer Maarten Baas.The scorched grand piano will stand beneath a grand Swarovski crystal installation. This theatrical display should come as...
Voyeurism isn't just for checking out hot, unsuspecting neighbors or patrons of your local locker room--how often do you get to rifle through someone else's pockets (not recommended)? Much like the whole Face Your Pockets shebang sans scanner, a Flickr group called The Items We Carry has formed, exhibiting, uh,...
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Pensions: omission to exercise a right: the legislation in detail
IHTA84/S12 (2A-G) applies to members of registered pension schemes who are under age 75. These provisions prevent an omission to exercise a right to pension benefits from being a deemed disposition in certain circumstances. These are derived from the situations that were set out initially in a Tax Bulletin (IHTM17101).
In general, an Inheritance tax charge could arise where a scheme member omitted to take their pension benefits at a time when their life expectancy was seriously impaired. This would result in enhanced benefits being paid on their death. The omission by the scheme member to take the pension benefits is treated as a disposition under IHTA84/S3(3) which constituted a transfer of value:
- which did not qualify for the exemption for 'arms length' dispositions under IHTA84/S10, and
- when tested at the 'latest time' that they could exercise the right (that time being immediately before their death) resulted in a chargeable transfer.
The omission is not treated as a disposition if;
- there is an actual pensions disposition (IHTM17305), which is not within IHTA84/S10, within 2 years of the death and it can be shown that, at the time of that disposition, the scheme member had no reason to believe they would die within that period
- the lump sum death benefit is paid to a relevant dependant
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He bought a $17 million dollar penthouse in what has been billed as "the priciest residential real estate transaction in Chicago's history," and isn't even planning to move there.
Sanjay Shah, a Mumbai-born Indian entrepreneur who lives in Chicago with his wife and two daughters, bought the sprawling 89th floor apartment after two years of negotiation with American businessman Donald Trump - and almost halved the initial cost of the place.
Calling it a "good deal", Shah told The Times of India that the apartment was originally priced at $32 million. It took "two years and a lot of patience to beat down the Trump," he said.
The 14,260-square-foot unit with five bedrooms and a 360-degree view of Chicago, is a far cry from the 1200-square foot apartment Shah grew up in Mumbai.
"It took two years and a lot of patience to beat down the Trump"
"I've traveled all around the world, but just in terms of the architecture, even if you go to New York, there are other high-rises, but nothing quite as exotic as this," Shah told Chicago Tribune. "You can view every single landmark the city has. I think that's what appealed to me most about it."
This would be the second-highest residence in the western hemisphere according to the Tribune, which reported that Shah made the purchase with "a simple transfer from his bank" last month.
Who Is Sanjay Shah?
The 46-year-old businessman is the founder and CEO of software company Vistex, which he started in February 1999. Credited with creating a category of business software called "Go-to-Market" programs, he started out like most people — an MBA.
Shah arrived in the United States 27 years ago to study at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, reported TOI. According to the report, he moved from being an accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers, to General Motors in Canada, and then to Germany to work for software giant SAP.
Today, his company is approaching almost $200 million in revenue each year, Shah told the Tribune. Last year, he acquired four companies in London, South Africa, Colombia, and Seattle, according to the report.
He told the Tribune that his long-term vision is to one day take Vistex public.
'A Second Residence'
Shah plans to use the penthouse as a second residence, he told the Tribune, as his present 10,000 square feet apartment in Illinois' wealth suburb South Barrington is barely a couple of minutes away from his work place.
Shah arrived in the United States 27 years ago to study at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania
The penthouse apartment in downtown Chicago, about 50 kilometers from where he lives now, would be a 45 minute commute to his office.
So instead of moving there, Shah is planning to use it as a place to host important business clients, and even conduct charity events there, he told the Tribune.
The millionaire also owns a home in Germany, and another one in India.


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Students will test various materials to determine if any can shield their "magnetometer" (compass) from an external magnetic field using their own experimental design. If no suitable material is available, they will devise another method to protect... (View More) their instrument. Includes background science for the teacher, worksheets, adaptations and extensions. Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are also identified. (View Less)
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This is the third module in the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) Project Suite curriculum. Each activity is self-directed by students or student teams and utilizes online videos, data from the SDO satellite and hands-on activities to explore,... (View More) research and build knowledge about how the Sun's varying activity impacts Earth and space weather. Each activity provides opportunities to build knowledge and vocabulary, apply or demonstrate learning through real world connections and create resources to use in investigations. Both a teacher and student guide are included with sequential instructions and embedded links to the needed videos, tutorials and internet resources. In Activity 3A: Sun-Earth Interactions, students gather information from online videos and create a 3D model to demonstrate the relationship to Earth's place in space and the affect of Earth's axial tilt on our seasons, then film a short video explaining the reasons for the seasons. Activity 3B: Space Weather, students use online videos to gather information on what space weather is, and its causes and effects, to create a concept map. They then use real-time SDO data to forecast space weather. Activity 3C: Solar Research in Action! Make a Magnetometer has students view information in online videos about to Earth's magnetosphere and the impacts of space weather, then create a magnetometer to detect and visualize changes in the Earth's magnetic fields to monitor solar storm impacts. A computer for student-teams and access to the internet are needed for this module. See related and supplementary resources for link to full curriculum. The appendix includes an alignment to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). (View Less)
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Ten years ago I started a career as a DJ and was performing in one of Brisbane's biggest clubs on a regular basis, partying every weekend, drugs, booze and everything else in between. Only recently have I put that lifestyle behind me to focus on my new passion: health and fitness. Trying to keep a balance between both careers was a hard task, yet I wonder how some people who party and manage to stay fit (when it's not their job) can do it.
The first problem I had was being a night owl. My sleeping patterns were so thrown out I could never get to sleep or wake up early. I purposely would not take client bookings before 11am purely because I wouldn't wake up before 9am… ever. These days I find it hard to stay up past 9pm, even on the weekend. I can't believe I'm a morning person now! I see a lot of my past colleagues going through the same problem. It's not about sleeping longer, it's about sleeping the correct amount of time.
Now, we all like to get white girl wasted every now and then, but I was doing this every weekend. If I wasn't partying hard I didn't feel like a fun, energetic person to be around in a club. We used to get a fairly large bar tab every night and I could say that more than a glass of port was consumed on a Friday night. I could pretty much kiss away any progress made with weight loss due to the amount of calories in my system. Even if you do drink vodka, lime and sodas and think you're being healthy the amount of calories that are in one millilitre of vodka is still pretty high! Not only do the calories sit there, but anything that you eat within the same period of drinking is not going to be efficiently burnt, there is a process in order of how your body burns through energy and if there is booze in your system it's not going to work as well.
The recovery for me was the worst, I felt like I had been hit by a truck! Wasting whole days in bed sipping on a Gatorade was not fun, and the headaches made me not want to do anything. Yeah it's cool to "YOLO" and have heaps of cool "SWAG" and impress your friends with how often you shot Patron XO, but goddamn! Your'e just dehydrating your body! The waste of a whole day was not worth it for me. I had to change.
Over the last 6 months I've been really focused on my health. Not just looking good and being strong, but actually being healthy. I have a condition that is relatively new called Fibromyalgia. The neural receptors in my brain get inflamed and cause "artificial" pain throughout y body. Even there there isn't anything really physically wrong my muscles and joints become inflamed and I get an aching sensation similar to the pains you get if you're about to come down with the flu. Along with taking some prescription medications and supplements I have been able to manage the pain reasonably well through physical therapies and changing my bad habits. I found that the change of my die and massive reduction of alcohol helped the pain subside by a considerable amount!
The reason I write this post is that some people need to change. I was chatting with a close friend earlier this week about the changes I had made and he is in a very similar situation, a part of the nightlife industry and feeling his body is not being where it should be. The effects of binge drinking and partying every week end up playing a big toll on your mind and body. Taking the step to balance out your life with fitness instead of big weekends is a move in the right direction for a healthier future. Remember, when you are older you're not the same person you were 10 years ago. The impact of a weekend partying will outweigh the efforts put into a small weekly routine, you either have to up your effort and output during the weeks or decrease the negative intakes during the weekends.
Since I've changed my life around my skin is clearer, my sleep has improved, my injuries have healed much faster than expected and most of all I have a body close to what I desire. If you need to make the change then just make the change without excuses. I couldn't image how much pain I would be in if I didn't. #behyperactive


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We need you to help make Christmas a little better for some children in need by supporting the 2013 Angels Unaware program sponsored by the San Saba County Child Welfare Board (CWB). Shortly after Thanksgiving,
they will place a much worn Christmas tree in the atrium of the Arrowhead Bank building in San Saba decorated with little paper Christmas ornaments. Each anonymous "angel" ornament is numbered and has the age (up to
sixth grade), gender, and sometimes the request or need of a known child. A gift price limit of $30 was set to make this giving equitable and affordable
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Bárru is the fourth release by Wimme Saari, a modern joik (pronounced yoik) singer from Finnish Sámiland. The Sámis are indigenous to Northern Scandinavia, with surprising cultural links to Native Americans; hence, joik singing parallels their chants. Improvisation (as in many other indigenous folk music) is common. Bárru, following Wimme's preceding releases, is a concoction of ancient chant techniques spun round circling layers of electronica. For the most part he is able to successfully combine tradition with digital wizardry. However, like other indigeno/electronica releases of late, some songs are constructed over simplistic arrangements, making for redundant listening once the novelty of joik has been assimilated. Still, there are compelling songs, including "fadnu" (with a cool, spliced-up didgerido rhythmic track), "goalki" (featuring atmospheric instrumentals, including Japanese koto and Wimme's evocative falsetto joiks), and the techno beat-driven "cearret."
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M Life is MGM Resorts International's answer to Marriott Rewards, Hilton Honors, Caesars Entertainment's Total Rewards and other hotel or casino customer reward programs.
But it's more than a slot club with loyalty incentives.
Let's say you're planning a guy's weekend in Las Vegas. On the M Life website you can develop the entire weekend itinerary, all within the confines of MGM Resorts' 10 Strip hotel-casinos.
Zumanity at New York- New York can follow dinner at Aria's Julian Serrano. The evening can end at Studio 54 in the MGM Grand. A visit to Bellagio's Spa is followed by dinner at Mandalay Bay's Red Square. The evening concludes at Jet nightclub in The Mirage.
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MGM Resorts Chief Marketing Officer Bill Hornbuckle said customers have reduced vacation budgets. MGM Resorts wants those dollars spent in its Strip casinos, not the competition.
Last year, MGM Resorts dropped Mirage from its corporate name in favor of a trademark symbolizing more than just two hotel brands. The company also trashed its previous loyalty program for M Life, which tracks preferences, personalizes incentives and offers more rewards to a database of 60 million.
M Life launched last week. The initial effort rewards customers for their gambling. MGM Resorts will do the same for nongaming spending, such as hotel rooms, dining and entertainment.
That's where M Life veers from other casino loyalty efforts.
"We need to recognize our customers do more at our resorts than just gamble," Hornbuckle said.
MGM Resorts spent millions developing M Life and took the rollout national. Chairman and CEO Jim Murren made his usual pre-quarterly earnings trip to Wall Street last week to meet with analysts and financial media. M Life topped his agenda.
He told Bloomberg News that the program would add "tens of millions of dollars to our profit. It's an untapped opportunity."
In that vein, MGM Resorts is looking outside for partnerships. The company will announce a deal shortly with Los Angeles nightclub and restaurant operator SBE Entertainment, which owns the Sahara. The agreement tailors rewards to attract SBE customers to MGM Resorts properties.
Partnerships with Indian casino operators and hotel groups are also being pursued.
Hornbuckle believes M Life is a key element for operating in the post-recession environment.
"M Life changes how we work with our customers and it builds loyalty," he said.
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Electricity Billing Changes that Demand Your Attention! (aka DCP 161)
Three quick questions for any company wanting to keep their electric costs to a minimum Do you have a Half Hourly meter? (nb. Recent changes aka P272 may mean you unknowingly do.) 2. Do you know what your Available Capacity Read on →


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Highlights 2016
- Projects: IVA is currently running or has completed during the year several major policy-advice projects:
Innovation within the Forestry Industry
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Electricity Crossroads
Resource-efficient Business Models
Research Outlook and Attractiveness for Sustainable Growth
IVA has also run projects aimed at attracting students to higher education in engineering and science (Technology Leap), and promoting entrepreneurship amongst the young (Prince Daniel's Fellowship).
- Seminars and outreach: More than 120 seminars and other outreach activities open to the public were organized. More than half of the seminars were hosted by the different divisions of the Academy or regional sections. The remainder were hosted by IVA projects or the IVA Business Executives Council.
- International activities: IVA Fellows were represented at the CAETS and Euro-CASE Annual meetings. Several international delegations were received at the Academy, including a delegation led by the Prime Minister of Latvia in June, and a delegation led by the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic in November. IVA also made several delegation- and study-visits abroad, e.g. to Hong Kong, China, Finland, Germany, including a Royal Technology Mission with senior business leaders to Japan.


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Darpa's Plan to Trap the Next WikiLeaker: Decoy Documents• www.wired.com
WikiLeakers may have to think twice before clicking on that "classified" document. It could be the digital smoking gun that points back at them.
Darpa-funded researchers are building a program for "generating and distributing believable misinformation." The ultimate goal is to plant auto-generated, bogus documents in classified networks and program them to track down intruders' movements, a military research abstract reveals.
"We want to flood adversaries with information that's bogus, but looks real," says Salvatore Stolfo, the Columbia University computer science professor leading the project. "This will confound and misdirect them." (You can make your own fake doc on the research lab's website, too.)The program aims to scare off uninvited riff-raff as well as minimize insider threats, one of the greatest vulnerabilities in military networks. Fake "classified" documents, when touched, will take a snapshot of the IP address of the intruder and the time it was opened, alerting a systems administrator of the breach.


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News 23.11.2016
The Finnish Pharmaceutical Insurance Pool has received a total of 393 injury reports in relation to Pandemrix until 10 Novemberr 2016. Of the injury reports, 289 were related to suspected narcolepsy caused by the vaccine.
The Finnish Pharmaceutical Insurance Pool has so far given 228 favourable remuneration decisions and issued 46 rejections. In addition, 7 cases are in different phases of remuneration processing.
A total of 23 reports were rejected because no narcolepsy was observed. A total of 23 of reports were rejected because the symptoms began more than two years after the vaccination was received. This is the "time window" for a causal connection decided upon by the Finnish Pharmaceutical Insurance Pool based on research data from the National Institute for Health and Welfare (NIHW). The NIHW will still continue its research on this. After the results are published, the Pool will make a new decision on the matter without the customer having to present a claim.