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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Creationism is nonsense. Many Christians don't believe in hell | 23Abr2018 17:13:45
Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Islam Needs More Competition From Christianity
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali - May 25, 2010 - The Commonwealth Club - Palo Alto, CA
Hum, I'm with this Christian priest, catholic priest, in Rome and we go out to dinner, and his concept, but I keep asking him about, yeah but what about this, what about women, what about gays, what about, uh, science, what about teaching creationism, you know, why you teaching creationism, creationism is nonsense,... yeah, why do you want to replace biology class with,... with nonsense, with (giggle) the Bible, why don't you just have a Bible class?
There's so many temples of Christianity, la la la la and he is, absolutely, uh, you know, fantastic on all of this, Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Courtesy of The Commonwealth Club and he says, you know, for... and and he he is very honest, he says, not for all Christian leaders but for leaders like him, Catholicism is not about the secular mundane things, it's some kind of higher level,... some force up there, very much like the letters that I was getting from fellow Muslims who wanted to give up Islam but wanted still to believe in a higher force and I thought, oh my goodness, that's the greatest match making I can ever do.
What if all Muslims became like him?! And they would have him for a leader? And then I would have to shed my bodyguards, there would be no threats, etc. Now, this may sound funny, and I think, and I think, the concept of a,... cause, people have different, if, if you are an atheist and you believe that the concept of God is created by man, then a man has created many different things, so you see, you find a concept of a God, some of my Jewish friends tell me about their concept of God and He is a God with whom you fight, and, uh, you throw matzah balls at Him,... and you never agree with Him, and you say, yeah but if you, if you really love us why did you do this, and you have a continuous...
I don't know if, if, uh, but,... Jewish people will share that but they... also told me, we never ever proselytize, actually it's very very hard to become Jewish, even if you want to be Jewish, you have to go through a whole process, Very hard. a big mistake when it comes to competition in demographics.
Christians have, and I'm not talking about Christianity even fifty years ago, but Christianity now, in the modern cities, in European, in Europe, here, modern Christians who have just reduced their concept of God to someone who's loving and cherishing, and is in no way in disagreement with whatever they do on a daily basis, and definitely not hostile to science and the enlightenment, and I think, wow, that's a great creation, hum, hey, cuddly, loving,... hum, and, they've abolished hell, which means if, there's an exit option.
I, I'm not kidding
Will you introduce me to those Christians?
Oh yeah! Lots of them. And I always ask, I ask every believer, how about hell?
But the Catholic Church has not abolished hell.
The official Catholic Church has not, but lots of people who call themselves Christians, whom I meet, when I ask them about hell and heaven they say, oh there's no hell, we all going to heaven which I think, ok great. So, there's no punishment.


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The Devil and the Hackney Coachman
As it's Halloween, I'd like to share an old ballad with you; the tale of the 'Devil and Hackney Coachman.'
Published by J. Catnach of Monmouth Court, Seven Dials, Covent Garden sometime around the early 19th century, it tells the story of Ben, a Hackney carriage driver who happens to pick up the devil late one night….
Ben was a Hackney coachman rare,
Crickeys! How he used to swear,
How he'd swear, and he'd drive;
Number three hundred and sixty five,
Rum tum, tiddle liddle hey gee wo.
Now Ben, he was one of that kind,
Who for the future, never mind,
One day he kept his horses smarting,
And never once thought on Mr Martin,
Rum tum, tiddle liddle hey gee wo.
Just then a gentleman did approach,
All dressed in black, he called his coach,
And as I've heard old Benny tell,
His mouth breathed forth a sulphurous smell,
Rum tum, tiddle liddle hey gee wo.
He had a bag in his left claw,
To show that he was of the law,
But though he spoke so mighty civil,
Ben knew very well that he was the devil,
Rum tum, tiddle liddle hey gee wo.
Now the devil jumped on the coach all alive,
Pray your honour where shall I drive,
The devil who wanted to cut a swell,
Said unto Ben- O drive to hell,
Rum tum, tiddle liddle hey gee wo.
Come tell me now, what is your fare;
Just twenty pounds to drive you there,
The devil he paid it with a grin,
For he though he'd taken poor Ben in,
Rum tum, tiddle liddle hey gee wo.
Then off the horse flew pell-mell,
Nor stoped till they came to the gates of hell,
Ben wouldn't go first in the gulf of sin,
So he turned and backed the devil in,
Rum tum, tiddle liddle hey gee wo.
Now Ben jumped up home to return,
If you don't come back, your coach I'll burn,
My coach and horses may go to pot,
'Cause they're insured, but I am not,
Rum tum, tiddle liddle hey gee wo.
Now Ben he drove away quite fast,
Until he reached his home at last,
Rum tum, tiddle liddle hey gee wo.
Now Ben's grown rich he never swears,
And so for the devil he never cares,
Rum tum, tiddle liddle hey gee wo.
Time Out blog: 12 Londoners that will give you nightmares
My latest article for the Time Out London website is a Halloween special looking at 12 characters from London-based films, legends and literature…including pig-faced hybrids, razor-wielding barbers and much more. Please click here to read.
Monument to the Unknown Artist
Just around the corner from the new Tate Modern extension, you'll find a rather uncanny statue plonked upon a 6ft. plinth bearing the Latin inscription, "Non plaudite modo pecuniam jacite"- which translates as 'Do not applaud, just throw money' (an improvement on its original caption- "Quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur"- 'Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound'!)
Known as the 'Monument to the Unknown Artist', the piece was installed by an art collective called Greyworld; a group of artists who've been creating intriguing urban art since the mid-1990s. Other projects of theirs include the Lake District's 'Clockwork Forest' (2011) and Trafalgar Sun (2012).
To the uninitiated, the Monument to the Unknown Artist can often cause considerable alarm- due to the fact that it's capable of movement.
When it was first unveiled in 2007 a camera was linked to the artwork, the idea being that the statue could observe and mimic the actions of passersby. I'm not quite sure if this feature still functions- I certainly wasn't attempting to dance like John Travolta in 'Saturday Night Fever' when the above clip was filmed. Perhaps this mysterious figure is beginning to take on a mind of his own…

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"Nothing is better than a bullet between a zombie's eyes"
Two of the most recurrent topics when we talk about shooter games enemies are the Nazis and the Zombies. Rebellion Developments, a company with a long history in game design, and responsible for the known-by-all "Alien vs Predator" and "Sniper Elite" sagas, put together these two classic stereotypical foes in one game, to bring us one of the most interesting "B-movie" like games ever.
Zombie Army Trilogy
Being released in March 2015, the game is available for Playstation 4, Xbox One and PC. Zombie Army Trilogy is born as a combination of three different "games". Actually, the first two parts (Nazi Zombie Army and its sequel) appeared in 2013 as DLC for Sniper Elite V2. Now with these two chapters remastered and the addition of a previously unreleased third installment, the complete pack will provide us long hours of frenetic fun.
A perfect mix between a third-person shooter and Survival Horror, the game manages to be very addictive despite some technical issues.
The game story begins at the end of World War II. The Nazis have lost, Hitler is hidden in his bunker and one of his Generals ask him to surrender. But the Führer won't accept it. His last move consists on activating the "Z plan", turning all his troops (dead and alive)into flesh-eating monsters.
Now is our turn to select between eight different characters, pick some guns up and try to make our way out of the infested Germany.
The first five minutes of gameplay are the hardest for the player. The game doesn't look so good, the character movements are rough, and the environment is surrounded by weird noises. Dozens of creepy zombies keep coming closer every second, and we will probably be dead very soon. Not a nice first impression, I must say.
However, if we can surpass the initial shock, we suddenly discover that the game has some really good qualities.
Our first option is to select one of the eight possible characters, four male and four female. Each one has its own reasons to take part in the conflict. But, no matter our choice, the only change in the gameplay is the character aspect. Then, it's time to pick up our equipment. A long-range weapon (a variety of sniper rifles), a short-range weapon (shotguns and machines guns) and a pistol. A set of throwing objects, including dynamite and mines, complete the package.
Finally, we get to choose a chapter. There are 15 in total, 5 for each part of the trilogy.
As I said, the game is really good at certain points. For instance, is really, REALLY funny. Besides the initial weapons, we can pick all the others in different corners of every level. So, there's never a lack of weapons or ammo. The zombies are numberless. There is, literally, hundreds of them in each stage. They aren't too strong, at least at the first levels, and walk slowly toward us. As they always know where we are, the idea is running to a distant point and start shooting at them with a sniper rifle, switching to a close-range weapon and kill those who manage to get near us.
Every time we make a headshot from a long distance (40+ meters) with a sniper rifle, the game perspective will change to a Kill Cam. The camera follows the bullet's trajectory until the impact on the zombie's head, X-ray and bone crushing included. I've seen this a hundred times and didn't get bored yet.
As regards the levels, each one of them could take us about an hour to complete. There are multiple objectives and checkpoints, but those are mere excuses to kill and kill and kill. And do more killing. Some Super-Zombie apparition or any Boss battle cuts the monotony a little bit. But the omnipresent goal is always the same: kill everything un front of you.
There isn't even a real story or a sense of connection between levels. It's clear that the devs intention was to provide us a light fun, with much of destruction and less of thinking.
And, if you get tired of playing the Campaign Mode, there is a Horde Mode, where our objective is to survive waves and waves of zombies.
Both modes can be played in Online Cooperative Mode up to 4 players.
The truth has to be said. When we talk about graphics, the problem with Zombie Army Trilogy is that it not uses the current gen machines potential. The models and scenarios don't look bad, but they look old. It's pretty obvious that the games have been released for the previous gen. Every time I played the game I could'n help the feeling of being played the first Uncharted or any other of the Third Person Shooters of a decade ago. I loved them. I still do. But that's not something I expect from a 2015 Playstation 4 game, if you know what I mean…
Nevertheless, the attractive characters design and the detailed environments, full of blood, ritual objects and gory views(specially the severed heads and impaled bodies) make us forget any graphic flaw and the game remains perfectly enjoyable.
The best feature here is, once again, the Kill Cam. Observing the bullet whistling through the air, hitting in a zombie's head and crushing its skull and neck bones, is priceless. Almost as detailed as any of the newest Mortal Kombat games.
We have highs and lows in this area too. On one side, the weapon shots and explotions sound very convincing. The zombies groans and moans are scary and surely will take us by surprise when we are running through a dark hallway. Rebellion make a good use of the Playstation 4 controller's speaker. Creepy sounds and strange dialogues will come out of our controller, even with the game paused. It can be something very disturbing, especially if we get distracted and suddenly some frightening voice make us jump from the couch.
The weak point here are the music and the voice acting. As regards the music, it is just composed by a set of shrill noises and loud squeaks. Maybe this contributes to the horrifying atmosphere, but they are so annoying that we will feel our brain is drilled.
The voice acting could have been better. The voices sound really low and they are little credible. There are certain issues with the lip sync as well.
Zombie Army Trilogy is a good game. Not so strong in the technical aspects, but a very high fun value. There are few things more amusing that smashing thousands and thousands of Nazi Zombies heads. The Kill Cam is priceless.
A game purpose is to entertain the player. This surely fulfilled it.


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The historic Waterfront Weymouth still shows the signs of its long maritime history. In 1865 the Harbour Tramway was opened, running trains between the harbour and the railway station to transport the produce imported from the Channel Islands. The tracks that remain continued to be used regularly until the 1980s when passenger trains carried people to the waiting ferries. These days the tracks are only used to run the occasional 'special' trains.
Many seafaring tales have been handed down through the years, probably enhanced with each telling! However, one story that is based more on fact than fiction is that the Black Death, which spread through the country with such devastating consequences in 1348, came into England via Melcombe Regis, carried by a European sailor.
Throughout the day there is always something happening on the harbourside and the fascinating scene is complemented by the regular lifting of the road bridge, which is raised to allow tall-masted boats to enter and exit the inner harbour.


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My posts from the weekend are published below. Have a great week!
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Weekend Retreat
Hubs and I went on a retreat this weekend in Santa Barbara. It was a refreshing time, and I enjoyed it so much. I brought my computer with me so that I could write down my thoughts along the way. There was no internet connection there (and I knew there wouldn't be...half the point of a retreat is to "unplug"!), so I wrote a few posts in Word about what I was experiencing on the retreat and published them when we got home this afternoon.
2 comments:
- Clio said...
It sounds like you had a wonderful trip. Sometimes we all need that kind of thing to recharge our batteries. I'm so glad you also got to pray for your dad with others.
- Christine said...
What a great retreat! Glad to hear you had such a nice time. And yum, I want to try some of those recipes!! :)
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Masala dosa .... the yummiest among dosa variations...and a family favourite of ours..
|Hot, Crispy, Spicy Masala Dosas
Ingredients - for the masala
Potato - 1 big or 2 medium, washed, peeled and diced
Carrot - 1, washed, peeled and diced
Green peas - 1/2 cup (optional)
Big onion - 1 medium, sliced
Green chilly - 3, slit lengthwise
Garlic - 1 clove, crushed
Curry leaves - 1 sprig
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Salt - as per taste
Coconut oil - 1 tbsp
Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
Boil the diced potatoes, carrot and green peas (whole) with little turmeric, salt and enough water. Once they are cooked well, remove it from heat, drain excess water and keep it aside.
In a kadai, heat oil. Once hot, splutter the mustard seeds. Add the sliced onions, green chilly, crushed garlic and curry leaves and saute till they turn transparent. Sprinkle some turmeric powder and saute for a couple of seconds more. Now add the boiled veggies and mix all of them together. Mash the carrots and potatoes with the back of spatula till they all come together. Adjust salt. The masala should not be runny. Switch off the stove and keep the masala aside.
Ingredients - for the dosa
Dosa batter - 5 cups (prepare as per recipe here)
Ghee - as per taste
Red coconut chutney - 1/2 cup [Grind 1 cup of grated coconut with a small piece of ginger, 2 small onions, a small piece of tamarind, 3/4 tsp of chilly powder and enough salt]
Making masala dosa
Heat the dosa tawa well. If it is not a non-stick tawa, then you'll have to grease it with some oil. Then take a ladle full of batter and spread it on the tawa.
Slowly add ghee on the sides and in the center. Also spread 1 tsp of red chutney on the dosa.
Let the dosa get crisp. Once the sides start to detach from the tawa, place a heaped tablespoon full of masala in the center. Now slowly fold both the sides as shown in the picture...
Transfer to a plate and enjoy with hot sambar and chutney.
1. Its important to keep the temperature of tawa under control. So after every masala dosa, before spreading batter, you should sprinkle some water and allow the water to get evaporated.


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Raymond Blanc's cep ravioli, nuts, sage butter
Inspired by a trip to Tuscany, this is part of my cookery-school repertoire. You will need a pasta machine. The pasta can be prepared a day in advance and kept tightly wrapped in cling film in the fridge.
Two as a main course, four as a starter
For the pasta:
- 250g pasta flour (type 00)
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 2 medium eggs
- 1 medium egg yolk
- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tbsp water, infused with a pinch of saffron strands and warmed (saffron optional)
For the filling:
- 20g unsalted butter
- ½ medium shallot (30g), finely chopped
- 300g fresh ceps, trimmed, cleaned and cut into 3mm dice
- A dash of lemon juice, to taste
For the sauce:
- 10g hazelnuts
- 10g pine nuts
- 40g unsalted butter
- 4 sage leaves, finely chopped
- 80ml water or brown chicken stock
- Juice of ¼ lemon
To assemble and serve:
- 20g unsalted butter
- 200g fresh ceps, cleaned and sliced
- A dash of lemon juice
- A handful of sage leaves, deep-fried
Put all the pasta ingredients into a food processor and pulse together until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Continue to pulse briefly until the dough is just starting to come together. Lift the dough out onto a clean work surface and press together, then knead it for a few minutes.
Divide the dough into four equal pieces and roll each into a 15cm long cylinder with your hands. Using a rolling pin, shape each one into a sheet 20 x 10cm and 5mm thick (the optimum thickness for passing through the machine) and wrap in cling film to prevent it from drying out.
Fix your pasta machine to the side of a table. Wrap and stretch cling film over the back of two large baking trays.
Cut each rectangle of pasta into two 10cm squares. Place one on the cling-film covered tray and cover with another piece of cling film so that it does not dry out.
Pass the other square of pasta through the machine on its thickest setting, then seal the two ends together to make a conveyor belt.
Using the back of your floured hand to feed the pasta through the machine, thin down the pasta to the thinnest setting thickness (1mm). You will have a length of about 60cm.
Reserve the strip of pasta on the cling-film wrapped tray and cover with another layer of cling film; refrigerate. Repeat the procedure for the other pieces of dough (interleave the sheets with cling film to prevent them from sticking together).
For the filling, melt the butter in a medium sauté pan over a low heat. Add the shallot and sweat gently for two minutes until translucent. Add the diced ceps, increase the heat to high and cook, stirring continuously, for two minutes. Season to taste. Remove from the heat, add a dash of lemon juice and allow to cool.
For the sauce, preheat the oven to 170C/gas mark 3. Scatter the hazelnuts and pine nuts on a baking tray and toast them in the oven for 10 minutes. Cool slightly, then lightly crush the hazelnuts.
To shape the ravioli, lay one pasta sheet on a clean surface. Lightly place teaspoonfuls of the filling at intervals along the centre, leaving a gap of 4cm between the mounds; you will have seven per sheet. Take a second pasta sheet and drape it loosely over the top, pressing around the mounds of filling with the back of your thumbs to seal. Ensure there are no air bubbles and that the two layers of pasta are compressed into a thin layer (1mm).
To make it easier to cut the ravioli, cover the pasta with cling film and press an inverted 7cm cutter down around the mounds to compress the layers of pasta. Lift the cling film and, using the sharp side of the cutter, cut out the ravioli. Place them on a tray lined with cling film and dusted with semolina. Repeat with two more strips of pasta. (You will have two extra ravioli in reserve.)
To make the sauce, heat the butter in a saucepan until it turns a hazelnut colour and has a nutty aroma. Add the chopped sage, toasted nuts, water or stock and, lastly, the lemon juice to create an emulsion. Set aside; keep warm.
To cook the ravioli, bring a large pan of salted water to the boil. Add the ravioli and cook for four minutes, then, using a large slotted spoon, lift them onto a small tray lined with a cloth to drain.
While the ravioli are cooking, melt the butter in a large frying pan. When it is foaming, add the ceps and pan-fry for two minutes. Season with salt and pepper and a dash of lemon juice.
Arrange three ravioli on each plate, or place them all on a large serving plate. Spoon the sauce and ceps over the ravioli and garnish with the fried sage leaves. Grate some Parmesan over before serving, if you like.
Recipe taken from Le Manoir Aux Quat'Saisons: The Story of a Modern Classic by Raymond Blanc (Bloomsbury). To order a copy of the 'Kitchen Edition' for £42 (rrp £50) with free p&p, or the 'Special Edition' for £200 (rrp £250) with free p&p, call 0844 871 1514 or visit books.telegraph.co.uk


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- ashtutorsAsked on November 05, 2015 at 11:32 AM
Is there a facility for postcode search on the forms, so that people don't have to type their entire address in? I've just been looking at other threads on this issue, but the suggested widgets don't appear to do the trick.
This is a very popular feature on UK forms - in fact nearly every form I come across has it: you simply type your postcode in, and then suggestions are offered for you to choose your house number and street name.
It saves lots of typing from the customer end.
Do you have anything like this for the UK?
- BenAnswered on November 05, 2015 at 02:01 PM
There are 2 great widgets for this, but they are using Google Maps API, so as long as it holds the address, the widgets can use it.
These are the widgets:
Please do test them to see if they would work for you and feel free to let us know if you happen to have any questions along the way.
- ashtutorsAnswered on November 05, 2015 at 04:31 PM
Thanks Ben.
These look OK but still look US based to me, and nowhere near as easy to use as the postcode lookup we see on forms in the UK. You simply type your postcode - then click on the correct address. That's it!
I'm left wondering how these other UK businesses are doing it.
- BenAnswered on November 05, 2015 at 05:51 PM
I had developed something similar for an ice cream company based in London. That was based on AJAX and the database on their server that would check each segment of the town, etc make various customizations based on the postcode that was added by their clients.
This was however custom work. Now I presume that others do a similar job since I was given the database with all the local details that I needed right away, suggesting that someone already collected it.
Now I say this since if they are doing it over the custom coding it means that it is not available through the system such as Google maps API and are most likely limited to the specific region.
The widgets unfortunately are based on it and Google did get most data about the US than for any other location, even so, Google Maps is probably the strongest service offering this data.
The only alternative that I would suggest to check is SmartyStreets widget.
These are not for free so you will need an account with them.
- ashtutorsAnswered on November 06, 2015 at 04:27 AM
Thanks for taking the time to reply in detail Ben - I appreciate it.
Again though, the widget you've suggested is a US one. I tried their demo but it only suggests US addresses.
Here's a an example form that demonstrates what I'm after. Try typing in my own postcode (WN4 8XR). You'll see it then brings up all the possible house numbers and street names.
This kind of set up is very common over here - so how are they doing it? It's so common I find it difficult to believe every example is a custom built system.
- JotForm UI DevelopermertAnswered on November 06, 2015 at 07:45 AM
Hi there,
Actually, there is an advanced method to validate UK postcodes. To summarize the method, you need to get your source code first and then add some javascript to achieve your task.
You can check the post which is provided by our colleague Welvin from the link below:
If you need extra information, please let us know.
- ashtutorsAnswered on November 09, 2015 at 05:47 AM
Thanks for your help Mert.
Unfortunately this is beyond my technical know-how currently!
I'll wait till there's a simpler solution - it's got to come eventually.
Many thanks. :)
- victorAnswered on November 09, 2015 at 10:03 AM
I am not really sure what you are looking for, but you can try using the AUTOCOMPLETED ADDRESS widget. Maybe this will help you.
If this is not what you are looking for, the best we can suggest is use the source code as what my colleagues suggested before.
- ashtutorsAnswered on November 10, 2015 at 02:47 AM
Thanks Victor - but still not just a postcode search.
In UK forms, all you type is the postcode - nothing else. That then brings up options to click.
I've gone for the geocomplete widget as that seems to be the most similar - at least until someone comes up with something like the example I gave on the Royal Mail website above.
Many thanks to everyone for your input - it's very much appreciated. :)
- JotForm UI DevelopermertAnswered on November 10, 2015 at 03:04 AM
Hi there,
On behalf of my colleagues, you are most welcome. If anything new happens about this feature, you will be informed from this thread.
Have a great day.


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The Worldslayer Chronicle
Meodis Archenghest
Polite and persuasive, this well dressed archaeologist prefers to let others do the dirty work and the reap the rewards for himself.
Working for the nefarious Aspis Consortium, Meodis has access to many resources. Adventurers should beware: he is as poisonous and merciless as the symbol of his organisation.


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People, mothers have had enough of your shaming them for nursing their babies in public. So, if you find it hard to refrain yourself from urging a breastfeeding mother to "cover up", see what this Texas mom did. Her response after being asked to cover up while feeding her baby has got the Internet cheering for her. A picture of the woman - and her epic response - has collected over 2.1 lakh shares and more than 1.2 lakh reactions since it was posted on July 31.
"A friend's daughter-in-law was told to "cover up" while feeding her baby, so she did!" Facebook user Carol Lockwood, who shared the picture, says in her post.
The picture accompanying the post shows the woman adhering to the man's request - but this way:
The woman featured in the picture has been identified as Melanie Dudley. She told TODAY.com that she usually tries to feed her three-month-old baby as discreetly as possible. However, on the day the picture was taken, it was far too hot for her to use the cover and her baby was sweating. "I said, 'You know what? I'm on vacation, I'm taking this off,'" she said.
That's when a stranger asked her to cover up. She was shocked at first but then had a genius idea.
"I just put it (the nursing cover) over my head. I don't know why," she told TODAY.com. "It wasn't like a salacious fight or anything. That was just my response. I had no words so I thought, I'll just cover my head instead."
Her husband clicked a picture of her, and lo and behold, it's now viral and winning the Internet.
"It's 2018. She is feeding her baby! Get over it. It's so sad we live in such a judgmental world," says one Facebook user. "Even better would have been to cover the jerk's head," says another. "I don't understand why people just can't look away if they're offended. Dude, live and let live," says a third.
Ms Dudley hopes now more women are inspired by her story. "Breastfeeding is hard enough," she told Yahoo Lifestyle. "This is another layer we don't need to deal with."
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After the fourth school shooting and the twentieth mass shooting in the United States since the first of the year, the 700,000 Dreamers who were brought here as children and allowed to stay as long as they check in every two years say it's okay if Congress wants to send them back to their native countries.
"You know, we've been giving it some thought and, if you don't want us here, we understand," the Dreamers said in a joint letter they sent to Congress today, the day after a former student killed 17 students and faculty at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
Jose Gonzalez, a Dreamer in Orlando, says he'll probably be better off dealing with the gangs in his native El Salvador. "It's true my mother just got a $1.50-a-week raise," Gonzalez says. "I'm not saying it's an easy decision, but I am saying there's a lot of merit to what immigration hardliners are saying and maybe I should just go back."
Wilma Perez, a Dreamer in Tucson, Ariz., said her native Guatemala has a lot of challenges and maybe that's okay. "Is it so bad to live in a country that's struggling economically?" she says. "There are worse things."
The U.S. Senate this week has been debating a solution to the Dreamers, whose future was thrown into doubt last year when President Trump rescinded the executive order that protected them and told Congress to decide what to do.
"Listen, we don't have to stay," the Dreamers said in their letter. "Really, if you want us to go back, we'll go back. It's okay."
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Wayne LaPierre: 'I'm a Really, Really Happy Person'
National Rifle Association President and CEO Wayne LaPierre says he loves the life he leads and can't believe his good fortune to live in a world in which he can occasionally walk down a street carrying only a light handgun and having only a single bodyguard hardening his perimeter. "There are a lot of bad people with guns but, fortunately, sometimes there are only a few of them around you in your immediate kill zone," LaPierre said in a interview this morning with American Freedom News. LaPierre says his living compound in an undisclosed location in the Northern Virgina suburbs of Washington, D.C., is a wonderful retreat for him. Its network of armed check points enables him to . . . . More.
NRA Quietly Trying to Get 'Keep and Bear' Replaced with 'Own' in Second Amendment
The National Rifle Association has been working quietly for the last few months to get an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that deletes the words "keep and bear" in the Second Amendment and replaces them with "own" so the language in the gun-rights amendment matches their view that people have a right to gun ownership. "It's kind of embarrassing, but we've been dropping anvils on the heads of anyone who challenges the right to gun ownership but, you know, the Constitution doesn't even grant the right to gun ownership," says James Smith, the NRA's chief lobbyist. "It only grants the right to keep and bear arms, which is a different standard. Hah-hah. Do we look stupid or what?" More.
Report: Absence of Mental Health Issues in Other Countries Protects Them Against Gun Violence
The mental health issues that are at the center of random gun shootings in the United States are absent in other countries, explaining why the United States leads disproportionately in the incidence of gun violence, a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology finds. "We thought it was the bedrock American belief in the right to bear arms that was at the root of the pervasive gun violence in our country, but in fact it's a mental health issue," says Meyer Steinberg, chair of the MIT Institute of Violence and Culture. More.
Ryan on Parkland Mass Shooting: 'Our Tax Cuts Are Working'
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) responded to the latest mass shooting in the United States with a message that the Republican tax cuts are working and Congress is ready to tackle the country's crumbling infrastructure with public-private partnerships that envision more toll roads. "Employers are hiring and giving their employees bonuses because our tax cuts are stimulating the economy," Ryan said at a hastily called press conference to respond to the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. At least 17 students and faculty were killed when a former student opened fire with an automatic weapon. It was the fourth school shooting since the first of the year and the 18th mass shooting over that same time period. "What we're seeing is a new incentive to invest in the economy and build our competitiveness for the next century," Ryan said. More.
ICE, Struggling to Hire 6,000 Agents, Opens Applications to Immigrants Who Can't Find Their Papers
WASHINGTON—Bowing to the economic realities of trying to fill 6,000 jobs in a short period of time, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has announced relaxed employment requirements. "To help us carry out our mission of protecting America from cross-border crime and illegal immigration, we are opening our application process to legal immigrants, green card holders, DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) recipients, and immigrants who say they're her legally but left their papers behind," the agency announced today. Among the jobs the agency is trying to fill are deportation and detention agents. The agency says these jobs, part of its Enforcement and Removal Operations, offer competitive benefits and can lead to fulfilling careers. More.
Trump Says He'll Let Mexican First Lady Angélica Rivera Into U.S.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, fresh from his dramatic trip to Mexico to discuss immigration policy, said he would allow Angélica Rivera, the wife of Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto, into the country if she wants to come. "We would make an exception for her, absolutely, and I told her that when I was in Mexico," Trump said at a campaign stop in Albuquerque, N.M. "I told her I'll have a car ready for her anytime she wants to come. She has my number. She said she'd like to see Trump Tower. I said I'd like to show it to her." Rivera, 47, an actress and model before she became Mexico's First Lady, was born in Mexico City. She has been married to Peña Nieto since 2010. Trump's trip to Mexico has generated a considerable amount of analysis. In Mexico, he appeared to take a conciliatory approach to the country, but that appeared to change in a major address he gave in Phoenix that night. More.
Trump's Combover in U.S. Illegally, Agency Alleges
The iconic combover of real estate billionaire and 2016 presidential aspirant Donald Trump is under investigation by U.S. immigration authorities on suspicion of being in the United States illegally. "We can only confirm that the combover of Donald Trump is a thing of interest to the United States concerning its immigration status and beyond that we have no comment," John Goodman, director of fraud detection and national security for the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), says in statement released by the agency today. April Sayers, a spokesperson for Trump, calls the allegation ridiculous. "Mr. Trump eagerly awaits the agency's report and certainly expects his hair to be exonerated," she says. More.
We're All Rapists and Criminals, Mexican Agrees
A Mexican who crossed into the United States 18 months ago and is working here illegally said it's true that people from his country are mostly rapists and criminals. "I don't know how Mr. Trump knew it, but he totally knows what we're all about," says the man, who asked not to be identified so he could speak freely to the media.The Mexican immigrant says he and millions of others like him are losers who are too lazy and stupid to make their own country work, so they come here to leach off the success of the United States. "Everything we touch reeks of refried beans and chiles," he says. "Our hair is oily and we treat our women like dirt. We drive broken-down trucks and we take jobs from good Americans who could really use the work. I can't say I disagree with Mr Trump when he says we should all be deported and a big wall erected to keep filth like us out." More.
Trump Outlines Plans for a U.S. Department of Deportations
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump started fleshing out details of his administration should he win in November with release of a detailed plan for a U.S. Department of Deportations that he will create within his first 100 days in office. "We have 11 million illegal Mexicans to deport and 1.6 billion Muslims to keep out of our country, so it's going to be a big department and it's going to do things well," Trump said yesterday at a press conference
in the lobby of his signature building in New York City, Trump Tower. Under the plan, the Department of Deportations will be a part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security but it will have independent funding and its chief will be a presidential appointee. Trump said the department won't require annual appropriations from Congress because it will generate its own funds through a levy on Mexican imports into the United States. More.
Duncan Hunter Livid to Find His A**Hole Attached to Someone Else
California Republican Duncan Hunter, an anti-immigration hard-liner in Congress who said last week that, while President Donald Trump might be an a**hole, he's at least "our a**hole," lashed out in anger today at reports that his a**hole has struck an immigration deal with Democrats. "So, my a**hole isn't my a**hole after all?" he told reporters at the Capitol this morning. "I wake up, look in the mirror, and I find there's no a**hole attached to my backside and instead find it attached to the backside of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer?" Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Schumer (D-N.Y.) are the House and Senate minority leaders, respectively. More.
Trump Creates Department of Prayers in Response to Gun Violence
President Donald Trump took a step to help address the nation's outbreak of mass shootings by using his executive power to create a United States Department of Prayers. "With this order we're showing Americans that we're doing everything we can as a government to address gun violence in our country, which is so terrible," Trump said at a signing ceremony in Japan, where he is visiting as part of a 12-day Asia tour. Under the order, the department will deploy a religious leader based in the area of the incident to offer official prayers on behalf of the federal government. More.
Congress Passes Resolution Condemning Future Acts of Gun Violence
The U.S. Congress came together in a bipartisan fashion today to condemn the acts of gun violence that will plague the country in the months and years ahead. "We condemn the senseless taking of innocent life that we will experience in the future," the resolution reads. "We call on all Americans to come together during these times of national trauma that will inflict us, probably twice a year if not more frequently." Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), one of the sponsors of the resolution, says it's a step in the right direction for lawmakers to get all of their future condemnations of acts of gun violence out of the way at once, because that will free up time for other legislative priorities. More.
Heard There Was a Mass Shooting in Kansas and Blah, Blah, Blah
News reports are saying something about another mass shooting somewhere, Kansas, I think, and people were killed and the shooter had some issues and he was at a factory or maybe he was driving a cab or was at a community college or whatever and blah, blah, blah. A report says Iowa lawmakers passed legislation to let kids carry guns in public and that's good because kids are known for taking reasoned approaches to conflict and it will be good they will be armed in case the security of our free state is at risk and hopefully the NRA will write similar legislation for other states to pass and blah, blah, blah. More.
Racists Impressed With How Racist Trump is For Not Being Racist
Racists across the United States said they're impressed with the degree of racism in the things President Trump says given that he's not a racist. "For someone who isn't a racist, President Trump says the most racist things we've ever heard from a non-racist," says Dexter Smith, president of the American Society of Racists. "People who aren't racist tend not to say racist things, but President Trump has consistently said racist things since he became a national political figure in 2016. He is truly a non-racist who says a lot of racist things." Smith said he can't think of any other non-racist who says things as racist as Trump does nor as frequently. "I'm tempted to say he says more racist things more frequently than even many racists," he said. Among the racist things Trump has said is his remark in 2016 that a judge of Mexican-American heritage cannot be objective in a fraud case involving Trump University and that . . . More.
Spencer: 'We Think Blacks, Jews Will Leave U.S. Peacefully'
White nationalist leader Richard Spencer says he believes blacks, Jews, and other Americans of impure bloodlines will leave the United States on their own accord once he and his followers march in front of enough confederate statutes. "What we think is, after a certain point, the approximately 15 million Jews and about 50 million blacks in our country will choose to leave and everyone will be happy," says Spencer, whose organization is based in Alexandria, Va. Spencer's organization was involved in the rally by white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and the Ku Klux Klan in Charlottesville, Va., in late August that led to the death of a counter protester. More.
Despite His Criminality and Sexual Assault Bragging, He's Not a Mexican Criminal or Rapist, Trump Says
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says he shouldn't be mistaken for a Mexican, because although his university and foundation are under criminal investigation, his type of criminality is different from a Mexican's. The same goes for the revelation that he's a man who sexually assaults women. Although he kisses and grabs women without waiting for their consent, he isn't a Mexican rapist because he's a celebrity and the women let him do it. "Hillary Clinton and her slimy rapist husband Bill Clinton are trying to make people believe I'm Mexican because of the criminality of my operations and my history of assaulting and abusing women," he said today. "But I'm not, and these attacks are part of the rigged election. I can guarantee you, my supporters are going to use their Second Amendment freedom to protest this rigged election when I lose because of Hillary's cheating." More.


text: Steel Notes Magazine Steel Notes Magazine September 2016 Issue Album Review Barb Wire Dolls "Desperate" Review By: Dana Saravia- Life-long rock & roller, current music critic and Girl From Baltimore As a punk rock fan since the 70s, I'm always hoping to hear a current band who works authentically with those influences and can bring that raw power and reckless energy into the current music scene. It's an even greater rarity when a band can also bring a hard-edged female perspective to their lyrics, singing and songcraft. However, The Barb Wire Dolls do all that and more with their new album "Desperate". The ferocious song "Drown" starts off the album. Featuring the throaty vocals of lead singer Isis Queen, a tight rhythm section and snarly guitar work from lead guitarist Pyn Doll and rhythm guitarist Remmington, it's a kickass introduction to the band. "Surreal" immediately follows. The pacing, instrumentation and melodic chorus on this song brings to mind a lost track off Nirvana's "Incesticide" sung by Babes In Toyland's Kat Bjelland—an addictive and unique combination. "Take Me Home" features some standout drumming from Krash Doll and on point bass playing from Iriel Blaque adding atmosphere to the chaos and fury to this powerful song about a prostitute's life. The fourth track "Heart Attack" has a sound and tone reminiscent of one of my favourite bands, 7 Year Bitch. With lyrics such as "Some say there's no way/But we'll take a shot" and "We are young/We are strong/We are the ones/Here we come", their boldness and fuck it confidence are evident here. A fine example of defiant punk rock at its best. The title track makes good use of the grunge era loud/soft dynamic with this take on a relationship turned sour. Sounding like a scream from a wounded heart, it's a raw and intimate song that brings fresh blood to a familiar subject. 58 Steel Notes Magazine www.steelnotesmagazine.com July & August 2016


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I'm working hard on my latest story which is out in February with Steamwork Ink, called 'Heartless'.
As a celebration I'm giving away a £5 giftcard to amazon and 2 eBooks from my backlist, one of those The Dark of the Moon, which is published by Lycaon Press, with a sequel in the works. I hope you can take part 🙂 a Rafflecopter giveaway


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Accessorising within the same colour family is a very good idea. It looks very put together and you avoid jarring contrasts. We have done this before with this fabulous Victoria Beckham dress. I wanted to try this with blue this time.
The look started off with this gorgeous pair of earrings from Kenneth Jay Lane. The earrings play up with different shades of turquoise and deep blue. Pair it with this deep blue Rag and Bone "Charlotte" dress in satin. The dress and earrings will be perfectly set off this Christian Louboutin "Loubi" clutch in teal satin with gold hardware. Finish it up these embellished Bernardo sandals for the that extra sparkle. The sandals are beautifully embellished with stones in delicate shades of blue and pink-gold.
Rag and bone - crepe-satin dress - $395
Kenneth Jay Lane earrings - $100
Christian Louboutin satin clutch - $795
Bernardo embellished sandals - $330


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Ellen Crosby, RDH
Dental Hygienist
As a Dental Hygienist at Nashville Restorative Dentistry, I've enjoyed getting to know all of the patients since I joined the team in 1999. It gives me great pride to be part of a professional team that delivers true high-quality care. Dr. Jones' emphasis on staying abreast of the latest advances in dental treatment and technology make my work here especially satisfying.
One of the best things about being a part of Nashville Restorative Dentistry is working with a great team of fellow professionals. We're all dedicated to our work, but also know how to combine a relaxed, fun atmosphere with the deliver of great patient care. I value that we, as a whole team give back to the community through our annual charity drives for a number of great causes.
I earned my Dental Hygiene License at Tennessee State University in 1986. I am originally from Memphis, but have been a Nashville resident since 1982. Outside the office, my interests are outdoor activities, traveling and spending time with my nieces and nephews. I have two puppies, Moose and Kinley that make me smile daily. And, of course, life just wouldn't be complete without U.T. and Titans football!


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The Immortal Game
Harvey Daveson
Faithful Biker Dwarf of Karol
Harvey is pretty average in Dwarf terms – strong and dependable.
In a fight, Harvey usually works to surprise or pin down foes so Karol can finish them off.
Harvey has proven to be very difficult to kill.
Like all Dwarves, he has a weakness for gold.
Raised deep in the Cave Fortress of Montana Harvey has been always fascinated by the world of Man and its Machines. Toil and Earthwork is a dwarf's lot in life, until Tyr needed a motorcycle. Not any motorcycle though, a motorcycle fit for a battle god.
An engine forged from the steel of the earth's core, fueled by the rage of a Wyrm's trapped soul. Leather tanned from the Midgard Serpent. A chassis made from the harden carved bones of fierce Joten. The body is made from the hardened dreams of men who love the road. The whole machine gleams in the sunlight, as the engine growls with thunder and lighting of a sudden tempest. It is not a bike to merely ride – it is a bike to conquer all roads that ever will be laid upon the dry earth.
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Bob Swerski would go bonkers if he visited Aliquippa, the town that produced Chicago Bears legend Mike Ditka.
�Bob would kiss the cornerstone of city hall,� George Wendt said in the same exaggerated Chicago accent he used when portraying �Superfan� Swerski on TV�s �Saturday Night Live� in a recurring series that thrust �Da Bears� and �Da Bulls� into the national lexicon.
Wait, you remember Swerski, don�t you? Big guy, thick moustache, worshipped the ground on which Coach Ditka walked?
OK, Swerski�s been overshadowed a tad by Wendt�s other TV character, barfly Norm Peterson, whose zippy one-liners provided much of the comic zest during the 11-year run of NBC�s esteemed comedy �Cheers.�
It�s been 16 years since that famous �Cheers� finale � and the cast�s infamously sloshed appearance immediately afterward on �The Tonight Show� � but Norm continues to bring fame for Wendt, a Chicago native, who can�t walk down any street in America without hearing fans gleefully shout, �NORM!�
Wendt takes it in stride.
�Very early on in the second year of the show, when I was still a relatively young guy, I realized if I let myself get crazy every time someone addressed me as Norm, I�d be certifiable in short order,� Wendt said. �So I just decided to roll with it.
�Though, I do appreciate it when people remember my name.�
Everyone knew his name on �Cheers,� which can only help business as Wendt taps into his (and Norm�s) favorite hobby on �Drinking with George,� an� amusing and insightful book, released this past Tuesday, that�s part autobiography, part beer drinker�s guide.
Measuring 224 pages, the book is a breezy read, thanks to Wendt�s conversational tone, and his penchant for pull-out lists, such as �Five Good Bar Bets,� �77 Toasts from Around the World� and �(More Than) 100 Ways to Say That You�re Drunk,� which alphabetically lists 126 synonyms from �annihilated� through �zozzled.�
�Drinking With George� serves readers tips on the quickest way to give warm beer a desired chill � you�ll need ice, a bath tub and two cups of salt � while relaying historical beer tales, including the world�s biggest beer heist at Dublin�s Guinness brewery in 2007, and George Washington�s 1757 recipe for homebrewed beer.
Stating, in Will Rogers fashion, that he never met a beer he didn�t like, Wendt includes Iron City Beer from Pittsburgh and Yuengling from Philly in his list of nine favorite �regional� brews.
Wendt savored the chance to sample Pittsburgh-crafted beers recently, when he was in the South Hills and Mon Valley, taping the locally-set TV pilot, �Munhall,� produced by Carnegie Mellon grad Jason Coll.
�I was pretty busy with the project, but there was a nice bar in the hotel pouring Penn Pilsner, which I enjoyed,� Wendt said in recent phone interview.
Naturally, the �Munhall� crew dragged him to Primanti Brothers� in the Strip District, where Wendt dug in to one of the restaurant�s famous, fries-and-slaw slathered sandwiches.
�It was amazing,� Wendt said.
Now it�s a waiting game, to see if any TV networks pick up �Munhall.� An edgy, daring network like F/X might be their best hope, Wendt said.
�It�s a very funny script that just has something different about it,� Wendt said. �It�s set at a community theater where there are all sorts of twists and turns. I�m a bookie who�s the best friend of one of the protagonists.�
No matter what, Wendt always will be remembered for �Cheers,� as fans still blog about their favorite Norm quotes.
Pressed to pick his favorite, Wendt opted for a classic: �It�s a dog-eat-dog world and I�m wearing Milk Bone underwear.� �
He admits he and other �Cheers� cast members were zozzled on May 20, 1993, when they watched the show�s final episode then appeared together on �The Tonight Show� in a live broadcast from the Bull and Finch Pub in Boston, the bar that inspired the series.
�We had been drinking heavily for two hours but nobody thought to feed us,� Wendt said. �We were nowhere near as cute as we thought we were.�
And while his book embraces beer drinking, he briefly discusses the perils of driving while intoxicated, and the health risks linked to heavy consumption.
In a four-page chapter titled �Rehab,� Wendt writes, �I�ve been lucky in that my passion for beer has done me more good (a family, a career, thousands and thousands of happy moments) than harm (weight gain, the fact that I would probably die of a heart attack if I ever sat down and pored over my lifetime bar tab.) I know that not everyone is so lucky. I�ve got plenty of friends and family in recovery.�
But before that sobering thought sets hold, he�s off to the next three-page chapter, �The Ultimate Health Food,� that touts beer for its ability to fight cancer, heart disease, kidney stones and stress.
�This book is a great Christmas gift,� Wendt said.
�Drinking With George� by George Wendt with Jonathan Grotenstein
Released: Oct. 20.
Suggested retail price: $24.99
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Trump tweets plug for book by notorious Sheriff David Clarke
Not content with abetting only one violent sheriff, President Trump on Sunday supported another: David Clarke, the notorious Wisconsin lawman with a long history of alleged abuse.
Trump started his morning by tweeting an endorsement for Clarke's book "Cop Under Fire," which has been out since February.The promotional tweet came more than an hour before Trump tweeted about Hurricane Harvey, which has ravaged Houston, Texas and killed at least six people.
In his tweet, Trump called Clarke "a great guy" and said the book is "highly recommended."
Clarke is an avowed Trump supporter who accepted, but then rescinded, a position as assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security.
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Break 2 blocks a few times and PUT THEM BACK, because I was tired of solid coming down to open the damn door every fucking time? (I also fucking stopped and started placing dirt and breaking it afterwards)
Cursing? I can fucking stop, just tell me to, fuck.
"Evading"? I don't play anymore, since I got iron armor for my sister and now she's the only who's playing.
Fucking shit, man. I don't have any place else to play in because of the fucking retard players out there.


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Motorcycle and car accidents cause more than half the traumatic brain injuries (TBI) that occur every year, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The state of Virginia requires that all motorcycle riders wear a protective helmet - but even riders wearing helmets are prone to TBI in the event of a motorcycle crash.
Virginia (VA) motorcycle accidents are on the rise. In fact, we saw an 87 percent spike in motor bike wrecks in 2007. Unfortunately, this means there is likely to be an increase in the number of TBI victims in VA as well.
Helmets are around 67 percent effective in preventing a head injury, according to the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles. Although wearing a helmet protects motorcyclists' heads from directly impacting the ground, trauma to the brain can be sustained when the brain hits the inside of its protective covering - the skull - during the impact of the motorcycle crash. The results can be devastating.
Many people don't understand that even a common concussion is a mild form of TBI. Symptoms include nausea, headaches and visual disturbances. These are very serious symptoms and should never be taken lightly, but they are often overlooked at the time of injury. Severe TBI symptoms include loss of motor function, memory and language processing skills. If you have sustained any type of head injury, seek medical care immediately and be sure to relay complete details of how your head injury occurred.
There is help available for motorcyclists suffering from TBI as a result of a motorcycle accident that was caused by another driver's carelessness. If you or someone you know has been injured in a motorcycle accident but does not wait to get help, there are people who care and can help you get on with your life.


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by Esther Marie Jackson
I had the pleasure of being selected as the SUNY Buffalo Student-2-Staff participant. Thanks to this program I had the opportunity to attend ALA in Anaheim as a student worker, which made the conference really affordable for me, as well as very valuable in terms of networking opportunities.
Each Student-to-Staff participant was assigned a particular group to work for within ALA. I had the opportunity to work for two groups, RUSA, (Reference & User Services Association), and ASCLA, (Association of Specialized & Cooperative Library Agencies). As a student worker, I helped to set up events, handed out lots of brochures, stuffed lots of goodie bags with free books, welcomed people to receptions, and was generally a cheerleader for the organizations I was representing. I had the opportunity to meet lots of people within both of the organizations, including officers and members, and also worked closely with the ALA employees who organized the events. I was given quite a few free books, (including autographed copies of many!), and a few free dinners. If you haven't already clicked on the link above to find out more about this program, you absolutely should- Student-to-Staff is an amazing opportunity and something you should definitely try to do.
I had been to a few smaller conferences before this one, and so I wasn't as intimidated by the idea of heading into unknown territory without knowing anyone as perhaps I should have been. I made sure to check out a bunch of blogs that had tips for attending conferences, and I also grilled people who I knew had been to conferences before. (My favorite list of tips, by the way, is from Free Range Librarian, found here.) I was really particular about making my schedule and planning my time well, but even still I missed out on a couple of sessions that I didn't know about until too late, or that my student job conflicted with. What can you do? I made the most of it, and everything worked out.
At the smaller conferences I attended in the past, I networked a *lot*. For some reason, maybe because ALA is so much larger than everything else, I found that I networked with people on more of a casual basis during the conference. I went out to dinner a couple of times with a few different groups of people, and I struck up conversations in a variety of places, such as on the shuttle to and from the airport. I ultimately felt like I used my time well in this regard, though I suppose I could have been more aggressive when it came to meeting new people. All in all, though, I thought my networking was successful.
In terms of my own personal advice to people planning on attending ALA in the future, I guess I'll boil it down to five short tips.
1. Wear comfortable shoes. This one is on practically all of the "conference tips" lists you'll find, and I'll agree with it completely. I walked about a mile and a half to find Vietnamese food, then got turned around thanks to the Maps app on my phone, and circled the parameter of Disneyland for probably an additional mile on my way back. Wear comfortable shoes!
2. Talk to people. More simple than just networking, feel free to start conversations with people. This tip is perhaps more useful for ALA, (because with 12,000 attendees probably most of the people you see on the street are librarians), but it's true for other conferences as well. It never hurts to strike up a conversation.
3. Plan your schedule, but be flexible. This is another tip that a lot of people will stress, and so it bears repeating. Know what's available to you, but be willing to throw your plans out the window if someone really passionately suggests you try to go to a different session.
4. Find the food! If you're a student, you are probably on a budget. As one gentleman told me, (who was not a student, by the way), "You never have to pay for food at ALA." Ask around to find out who is serving a free breakfast on the exhibition floor, or which vendor is hosting a free lunch. There are receptions for different interest groups most evenings, as well as other opportunities to chow down on the cheap. Ain't no shame in an Elsevier buffet! Okay, nope, there is definitely a little shame, but depending on how tasty that buffet is….
5. Always look for scholarships, funding, and travel awards. This is more of a pre-conference tip, but it should be said! If you can find a way to attend a conference for free, you should definitely apply and try to do so. It never hurts to try, and future employers like to know that you're thrifty, resourceful, and are capable of finding professional development opportunities that aren't going to cost them an arm and a leg.
Overall, I really enjoyed my time at ALA Annual. I would love to attend Midwinter, (and next Annual), and would absolutely encourage others to do the same.


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Welcome to Deadsville
Horror Anthology by Dale Elster and T. D. Trask
Available on Amazon
Deadsville is a horror anthology several years in the making. Indie authors and longtime friends, Dale Elster and T. D. Trask have jointly woven 13 tales of terror in a localized setting – something of which this author is particularly fond.
Deadsville is a collection of thirteen short horror stories, all located in the fictional town of Rock Creek, in the state of New York. Its inspirations are drawn from both of the authors' love of 80's anthology books, movies, and television series, and their appreciation for said style is apparent when reading the stories contained in the book.
Many genres and styles of horror are represented in the various stories – from revenge plots to zombies; from ancient evils to a light-hearted, albeit dark comedy – this book is an excellent read. The localized horror of the stories, with their continual reference to the town of Rock Creek give each story a sense of connectivity, while each one being its own tale. The great way in which Elster and Trask have crafted their tales is that the reader can read any story out of order, and still enjoy the entire book.
Reading this book, I actually felt a sense of having visited the town of Rock Creek – despite it being a fictional place. There is a feel of a modern, yet gothic Americana aesthetic to the overall mood of the book, as its pacing undulates accordingly – from dire to dread, morose to funny, each tale is original and never feels rushed.
Of considerable note is the fact that the authors, Mr. Elster and Mr. Trask are independent authors, and through their collaboration, decided to release their book on their own. Anthology horror has fallen from the mainstream consciousness, yet continues unabated in the underground and independent scene, and Deadsville is a worthy addition to your collection. You can purchase Deadsville on amazon.com.
If you would like to hear the authors' own words on the book, you can listen to their interview on The Night Keep Podcast


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2016 Team & Officials Pen Portraits
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I kicked off this summer with a road trip to Detroit (my first time there) to see Odd Future with some friends. I keep bragging about how the conversations on the way was almost unbelievably nerdy (sorry guys, it's a compliment) about blogging, the cooking dance, hip hop production, etc. Leave it to this guy, then, perhaps the king of pop culture analysis among my friends, to choose OFWGKTA for this project. Gabe writes for Post Library when he's not tumbling.
1. Tyler, The Creator - French
2. Domo Genesis - Rolling Papers (feat. Wolf Haley)
3. Tyler, The Creator - She (feat. Frank Ocean)
4. Frank Ocean - We All Try
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Sputnik Business US March 18 2064
Trans-Latvian Enterprises did not negotiate the acquisition of Novatech.
Tallinn, March 1 – Trans-Latvian Enterprises did not negotiate the acquisition of a stake in Novatech. Estonian Investment bank Trans-Latvian Enterprises spokesman Oskari Laine said.
Laine said Trans-Latvian Enterprises was not interested in acquiring Novatech's IPO shares.
It was reported that Britain's Transys-Nueronet intended to purchase a blocking share of Novatech.
Novatech announced its intention this week to put its shares on the East Coast Stock Exchange.
The Corporate Service for Financial Markets has already authorized Novatech to float 19.9% of its stock.


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|I have 2 different kinds of these that I found at the Dollar Tree about 15 years ago.
|I made this cloth book about 15 years ago and the children love to sit around the tree and read it every year.
|This was a gift from a Sunday School teacher for one of my children years ago. It's ceramic and has been broken but we still find beauty in it after all these years.
|The Cross reminds us of Christ's life, death, and resurrection and the circle reminds us of His Eternal Love.


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On Friday, February 1, 2013 at Wilson Creek Winery in Temecula, three Riverside County leaders were recognized at the Riverside County Medical Association's (RCMA) Annual Installation of Officers.
G. Sunny Uppal, M.D., a Board Certified Orthopedic Surgeon in Riverside, was honored with the "Outstanding Contribution to the Medical Association and it's Goals Award. " Dr. Uppal dedicates himself to these purposes through his leadership within the medical community, his commitment to his professional associations, and by providing mentorships and financial assistance to the future generation of medicine.
Richard G. Rajaratnam, M.D., a Board Certified Otolaryngologist and Area Medical Director of Kaiser Permente Medical Center Riverside was honored with the "Outstanding Contribution To Organized Medicine Award." Dr. Rajaratnam has been a driving force in increasing participation of Southern California Permanente Physicians in the Medical Association and involving Kaiser Riverside and the Permanente Medical Group as partners in the RCMA's Medical Student Scholarship Program.
The final leader honored was Chancellor Timothy White, now the seventh chancellor of the California State University system and former chancellor of UC Riverside. Through Dr. White's leadership in 2012, the UCR School of Medicine received its preliminary accreditation from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the national accrediting body for educational programs leading to the M.D. degree, becoming the first new public medical school in California in more than forty years. For his passion and commitment to bring about the School of Medicine, he was honored with the "Outstanding Contribution to Medicine Award."
The Riverside County Medical Association was established in 1893 as a professional organization of physicians. It currently represents over 1250 physicians in Riverside County.
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Do Professional Forecasters Behave as if They Believed in the New Keynesian Phillips Curve for the Euro Area?
IdentificadoresURI: http://hdl.handle.net/10317/4315
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AutorLópez Pérez, Víctor
Área de conocimientoEconomía Aplicada
Fecha de publicación2015-05-10
Revisión por paresSí.
Palabras claveNew Keynesian Phillips curve
Panel data
Survey of Professional Forecasters
Downward wage rigidities
This paper finds that participants in the European Central Bank's Survey of Professional Forecasters have submitted forecasts that are consistent with a (mostly forward-looking) New Keynesian Phillips Curve for the euro area. The estimation results suggest that euro-area inflation forecasts have reacted less to unemployment forecasts after the start of the financial crisis but another cost measure (energy inflation) remains significant. This finding is consistent with the claim by the International Monetary Fund that the Phillips Curve has recently become flatter in the euro area. However, the reasons suggested by the Fund for this finding, namely a better anchoring of inflation expectations and increases in structural unemployment do not seem to find support in the survey data. Instead, downward wage rigidities may be playing a prominent role.
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On June 17, 2008, a client we represented received an E-2 visa granted by the US Consulate in Toronto. Continuing our success in E-2 investor visa applications, we have helped another family to secure their status to operate their business in the US.
Our client in this case is a family from Canada. They had being thinking about coming to the US to operate a Chinese Restaurant in the Mickey Mouse City ?Orlando, Florida. Interestingly, our client only has remote Chinese heritage. In 2007, they contacted our office to ask for help. As Attorney Stewart Lin was planning to attend the 2007 annual conference of the American Immigration Lawyer�s Association in Orlando then, our office set up an appointment for Mr. Lin and our client in Orlando. Taking advantage of this meeting, our client learned a lot about the E-2 process and immediately decided to retain our service after talking with Mr. Lin.
Through our advice, our client purchased a restaurant, prepared all the documents we requested, and we prepared a complete investment package and send the application to the US consulate in Toronto. In the process, we keep close contact with the consulate and finally set up a visa interview with the consulate on June 17, 2008. According to our client, as the package we sent for them was so complete and satisfactory, the interview lasted for just a few minutes. The jubilation of our client is beyond description.
Over the years, Lin & Valdez has applied for countless number of E-2 cases. The investments our clients made for the applications are in a wide range of businesses, including beauty salon, restaurant, camera shop, doughnut shop, supermarket, gas station, convenience store, trading company, day care, bridal service, professional service, hotel/motel, computer company, franchise store, liquor store, aquarium, art gallery, and granite and stone business, etc. We have established ourselves a premier E-2 investment visa practitioner. Our clients are all over the world, and as a matter of fact, we have never met with the majority of our investor visa clients. If you are from one of the E-2 countries and are interested in coming to the US with this flexible visa status, or changing your status to E-2 in the US, please contact us immediately. The help you need is just a click away!


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It's crazy that Moth's album Endlessly In Motion is about a year old now. Most bands go through a two year cycle on releases, but that's not stopping Moth who are hard at work on a new release. The band recently pushed out a 2 minute vocal recording video, in which you can hear vocalist Benton McKibben tracking some sweet new vocals, among other funny bits.
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Freshman lifts poor-shooting Panthers
Jamie Dixon still isn't happy with No. 17 Pittsburgh's defense.
Three weeks into the season, the Panthers are giving up too many open shots, too many offensive rebounds and too many points for their coach's liking.
Maybe, but Dixon allows his team is starting to look, well, more like Pitt. The emergence of freshman Khem Birch has certainly helped.
Birch scored eight points, grabbed 10 rebounds and blocked six shots in an 81-71 victory over Robert Morris on Sunday, the latest step in the highly touted forward's development.
"We haven't really seen anybody like that," Robert Morris guard Velton Jones said.
Perhaps because there are few players with the 6-foot-9 Birch's wingspan. The six blocks were in addition to the handful of other shots he altered as the Panthers (5-1) won their third straight.
"He's got good timing, good length obviously," Dixon said. "The six blocks (are nice) but we can get better defensively."
Dixon will take the growing pains in a win, however. He'll also take the kind of play he got off the bench against the Colonials (4-2) as Cameron Wright, John Johnson and Talib Zanna combined for 29 points and 18 rebounds. Wright finished with 13 points while Zanna posted career-highs with 10 points and 15 rebounds.
"It was good to see," Dixon said.
Ashton Gibbs led Pitt with 21 points while Travon Woodall had 12 points and 10 assists as the Panthers improved to 30-0 all-time against their crosstown rivals and 69-0 all-time against members of the Northeast Conference.
Cordon Williams led Robert Morris with 19 points but the Panthers clamped down on Jones, Robert Morris' star who came in averaging 19.7 points but was held to 10 on 1-of-14 shooting.
The Panthers threw several players at Jones, and his teammates struggled to pick up the slack. Zanna and Birch had a lot to do with it, as they controlled the lane when it mattered.
"Zanna was playing volleyball by himself up there a couple of times," Robert Morris coach Andy Toole said. "I thought too many times tonight as I watched I saw our guys watching and unfortunately they're participating in the game and I'm just a spectator on the sideline."
Zanna and Birch were thrust into more prominent roles due to the absence of veterans Lamar Patterson and Dante Taylor.
Both players sat out their second straight game, though for vastly different reasons. Patterson is serving a two-game suspension for a violation of team rules while Taylor continues to struggle with migraines.
The duo should be back on Wednesday when the Panthers face Duquesne, though minutes may be hard to come by considering the way Birch and Zanna are playing.
Birch had 15 points, 10 rebounds and played with boundless energy as Pitt rolled to a 20-point win in his first start on Friday at Penn. He wasn't quite as aggressive offensively against the Colonials, though he didn't have to be considering the way his teammates were shooting the ball.
Some of the confidence must have rubbed off on Birch, who knocked down a rare 17-footer early in the second half.
By then the Panthers were cruising. Pitt never let Robert Morris get within striking distance following a 16-4 burst midway through the first half.
The Colonials, who have dominated the NEC over the last four seasons, tried to slow down the pace early. They worked the clock on offense and made the Panthers work to get open looks, forcing Pitt into a shot clock violation on one possession and a desperation 3-pointer on another that came nowhere close to going in.
The strategy worked for a few minutes, or about as long as it took Pitt to hit the gas.
The Panthers broke it open using their signature pressure defense, taking control midway through the first half behind Wright, who turned two Robert Morris giveaways into a layup and a dunk, one that earned him a technical foul for swinging on the rim before letting go.
Williams knocked down two free throws as a result, but it hardly slowed the Panthers.
Pitt slowly kept extending the lead, playing efficiently on offense and aggressively on defense, something the Panthers have lacked at times. The Panthers were lit up in a loss to Long Beach State two weeks ago and had problems getting stops in wins over Rider and La Salle.
There were no such issues against the Colonials, who shot just 37 percent from the field and only briefly got within single digits over the game's final 30 minutes.
Yet the Colonials continued to scrap, extending the final minute with the kind of gritty play that's made them one of the top teams in the NEC over the last five years.
Robert Morris put up six shots during one possession and finished with 17 offensive boards even though Pitt held a 39-35 advantage on the glass.
Those kinds of numbers have to get down quickly for the Panthers, who have games against Oklahoma State and Tennessee looming in the first half of December.
"(Our defense) is getting better, but it's not where it needs to be," Dixon said. "It's been fun watching it improve … but we're not satisfied. We need them to finish off a little bit better."


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A variety of Ribble Valley businesses have made it through to the finals of the Lancashire Tourism Awards.
The Millstones at Mellor is a finalist in the B & B/Guest Accommodation Award, The Shireburn Arms at Hurst Green in the Small Hotel Award, Wolfen Mill Country Retreats at Chipping in the the Self-Catering Holiday Award, Browsholme Hall and Tithe Barn and Mitton Hall, Whalley, in the Wedding Venue Award, La Locanda Ristorante Italiano, Gisburn, in the Taste Lancashire Award, the Assheton Arms at Downham in the Tourism Pub Award, Whalley Warm and Dry Ltd Outdoor Clothing and Footwear Specialist, Whalley in the Retail Experience Award, Tour of Britain Stage Two, Clitheroe to Colne in the Tourism Event Award, Browsholme Hall in the Small Visitor Attraction Award, Mrs Dowson's, Clayton-le-Dale and Browsholme Hall in the Sustainable Tourism Award, Footgolf at Best Western Mytton Fold Hotel and Golf Complex, Langho in Visitor Experience Award and Customer Service Award, Aspinall Arms, Mitton, and The Higher Buck at Waddington in the New Business Award.
The tourism-focused awards will take place on Thursday November 5th at the Empress Ballroom at Blackpool's Winter Gardens.
Ruth Connor, chief executive of Marketing Lancashire, said "The quality of applications for the tourism awards never fails to impress and this year the judges have a real challenge deciding on the winners in each category. Lancashire has seen consistent growth in visitor numbers over the last six years and these visitors are now spending more in the county, making a £3.68 billion contribution to Lancashire's economy."
She added: "The visitor economy is vital to Lancashire's success and each year the Lancashire Tourism Awards is our way of celebrating the huge effort and investment made by our industry colleagues across the board."
Jane Shaw, principal lecturer in tourism, hospitality and events, school of management at the University of Central Lancashire, the award's headline sponsor, said: "UCLan is proud to work in partnership with Marketing Lancashire in growing the visitor economy in the region and showcasing Lancashire as a place to work, study and invest. Our graduates are well placed to take on the opportunities in this dynamic county and beyond."
Finalists of the Lancashire Tourism Awards 2015 will be invited to an interview by the judging panel next week, when each business will have the opportunity to discuss their application in more detail.
The winners in certain categories will also have the chance to go forward to represent Lancashire at the national VisitEngland Awards for Excellence 2016.