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In addition, you can use the links below to explore the schedules of all the major comedy venues in NYC; and you can find excellent live comedy recommendations weekly via The New York Times.
That said, my top NYC comedy recommendations for June 2018 (with more to come soon) include:
Saturday 6/30: Award-winning vaudeville-style sketch duo Chris O'Neill (Elder Arnold Cunningham in Broadway's Book of Mormon) & Paul Valenti perform their favorite bits for this special show: The Best of The Chris and Paul Show (8:00 pm, $15, The PIT Mainstage (Striker) at 123 East 24th Street)
Friday 6/29-Sunday 7/1: The 20th Annual Del Close Marathon, which is the undisputed king of improv festivals, will run continuously from 4:00 pm on Friday June 29th, 2018 until 11:30 pm on Sunday July 1st. Improv groups from all around the US and Canada—and a few places further away—will perform over 750 shows, typically in 15- or 30-minute blocks, for around 55 hours. As in past years, the only down side is way more patrons than available space, which will cause long waits to get into UCB Hell's Kitchen (555 West 42nd Street, off 11th Avenue), which seats 160. However, the congestion will be somewhat eased by 10 additional venues: UCB East, The Magnet, Theater for the New City (4 theatres), All Stars Project (3 theatres), and The Griffin; for details, please click here. For the complete schedule, please click here. To view shows organized by performer, please click here. To buy a festival pass, please click here. To buy premium tickets, please click here. (Please note that if any premium show doesn't sell out and you have a marathon pass, you can receive a remaining seat free of charge on a first come, first serve basis.) Quite simply, this is the greatest improv festival in the world: 20th Annual Del Close Marathon (DCM20) (4:00 pm Friday-11:30 pm Sunday, $45 for festival pass plus $12-$25 each for premium shows, 11 venues around the NYC theatre district and the East Village)
Sunday 7/1: NYLaugh.org's free summer stand-up shows, which happen Sundays 2:00-4:00 pm at parks all over the city, sponsors its second 2018 event today at The Battery (on Castle Clinton Lawn, in front of the National Monument) with headliner Bonnie McFarlane (HBO, David Letterman, Jay Leno, Last Comic Standing, Comedy Central Presents special; co-host of My Wife Hates Me podcast; author of book You're Better Than Me) and other comics TBA. Subsequent shows will happen at Washington Square Park (at Garibaldi Plaza, on the east side of the Fountain) July 8th, The Battery again July 15th, and Tompkins Square Park (on the Old Bandshell Lawn) July 22nd, with lineups TBA: Laughter in the Park (2:00 pm-4:00 pm, Free!, Staten Island's Wolfe's Pond Park at 420 Cornelia Avenue)
Sunday 7/1: Kerry Coddett (above; writer for HBO's Wyatt Cenac: Problem Areas; HBO's Crashing, BET's The Rundown, Comedy Central's The Nightly Show, MTV's Joking Off; host of Brooklyn, Stand Up!) and indie music duo Strange Parts (Attia Taylor & Corey Duncan) perform and are interviewed about "that one song you'll never forget" at Astoria Queens' QED: A Place to Show & Tell (27-16 23rd Avenue) hosted by Patrick Cartelli & Evan Forde Barden: Repeater: A Little Show About Big Songs (8:30 pm, $5, Astoria Queens' QED: A Place to Show & Tell at 27-16 23rd Avenue)
Monday 7/2: Comics share their observations, fears, dreams, and insanities growing up by reading from their childhood diaries, featuring Lauren Culp, Matt Dittus, Ruthie Dreyer, Emily Evans, Jennifer Gersbeck, Dana Norris, Michael Salgarolo, and Emily Walsh and host Maggie Lalley: Dear Diary: Comics Read Their Weird Childhood Journals (8:30 pm, $8, Astoria Queens' QED: A Place to Show & Tell at 27-16 23rd Avenue)
Tuesday 7/3: Roland Emmerich's & Dean Devlin's 1996 film Independence Day is actually quite entertaining—and also a milestone in the history of Hollywood blockbusters (it was the highest-grossing movie of its year). That said, there's plenty about it to make fun of. Tonight it'll be screened and mercilessly skewered by comics Frank Conniff (TV's Frank on Mystery Science Theater 3000; Cinematic Titanic; author of How to Write Cheesy Movies and 25 MST3K Films That Changed My Life In No Way Whatsoever), John Fugelsang (host of Tell Me Everything on Sirius XM; former host of ABC's America's Funniest Home Videos), and Jenn Wehrung (BBC; co-host of Soft Core!), who make this solemn promise: "We will be fast forwarding through the Randy Quaid scenes." Their cruelty will be contrasted by exceptionally kind host Chris Gersbeck (co-host of Soft Core!, which is essentially a porn version of this show, and Bunk Bed Time Open Mic): Movies R Dumb: Independence Day (9:30 pm, $10, Astoria Queens' QED: A Place to Show & Tell at 27-16 23rd Avenue)
You can find the vast majority of notable NYC live comedy shows by using the links below to explore the schedules of the following top NYC comedy venues:
Best Inexpensive Stand-Up, Improv, Sketch, and Storytelling
Upright Citizens Brigade Hell's Kitchen
555 West 42nd Street; 152-seater; one of the most respected comedy showcases in the world; especially strong on improv, sketch, solo shows, and one-act comedic plays; shows free-$12
Upright Citizens Brigade East
153 East 3rd Street; 99-seater; a top comedy venue that focuses more than sister theatre UCB Hell's Kitchen on stand-up and screenings, and on experimental shows taking big risks; shows free-$12
The PIT Striker (Upstairs) Theatre
123 East 24th Street; 88-seater; a top venue that's a powerful rival of UCB, and often surpasses UCB when blending comedy with music and/or theatricality; shows free-$20
The PIT Underground (Downstairs) Theatre
123 East 24th Street; 40-seater; often more quirky & experimental than upstairs Striker; shows free-$10
The PIT Loft
154 West 29th Street; 50-seater; the third of The PIT theatres, located separately on the West side, hosts a wide range of comedy, but is especially effective as a home for intimate solo and/or theatrical shows; free-$20
The Magnet
254 West 29th Street; 60-seat theatre; strong on improv, musical improv, sketch, and energy; shows $5-$10
The Creek and the Cave
Queens' Long Island City; 40-seat theatre upstairs, 25 downstairs; virtually all weeknight shows free; weekend shows free-$10
Union Hall
702 Union Street in Brooklyn; R to Union Street; 50-seat theatre; shows $5-$20
635 Sackett Street in Brooklyn; R to Union Street; 100-seat theatre; shows $5-$20
Bell House
149 7th Street in Brooklyn; R to 9th Street or F/G to Fourth Ave.; 200-seat theatre; shows $10-$25
QED: A Place to Show & Tell
27-16 23rd Avenue in Astoria Queens; N/W to Ditmars Boulevard; 40-seat theatre; shows free-$10
Best NYC Stand-Up Comedy Clubs
Comedy Cellar
117 MacDougal Street; among the finest daily stand-up lineups in the world; 2-item min.
Village Underground
130 West 3rd Street; Comedy Cellar's larger sister venue, just around the corner with the same top comics; 2-item min.
The Stand
239 Third Avenue—moving to Union Square this summer; competitor to Comedy Cellar; no drink min.—support this policy!
Carolines Comedy Club
1626 Broadway; focuses on the world's top headliners, who perform hour-long sets; 2-drink min.
Gotham Comedy Club
208 West 23rd Street; headliners on weekends, specialty & lineup shows weekdays; 2-drink min.
Eastville Comedy Club
moving to Brooklyn in June 2018, please stay tuned; strong weekend lineups; no cover using code HyReviews; 2-drink min.
Greenwich Village Comedy Club
99 MacDougal Street; convenient if Comedy Cellar's sold out; no cover using code HyReviews; 2-drink min.
Comic Strip Live
1568 Second Avenue, off 81st; Upper East Side club with typically solid lineups; 2-drink min.
Stand Up NY
236 West 78th Street, off Broadway; Upper West Side club with typically solid lineups; 2-drink min.
The Standing Room
4738 Vernon Blvd., by #7 train; Queens LIC club; no drink min.—support this policy!
NYC Stand-Up Open Mics & Improv Jams
If you want stage time, you can find one or more stand-up open mics virtually any night at Manhattan's The PIT, Eastville Comedy Club, and Stand Up NY Comedy Club, and at Queens LIC's The Creek and Astoria Queens' QED.
In addition, at the East Village's UCB East you can typically find a stand-up open mic Thursdays at 6:00 pm, an improv jam Wednesdays at 11:15 pm, and a rare bring-your-own-group improv/sketch open stage Sundays at 11:00 pm. And in Chelsea, The Magnet offers an improv jam on Wednesdays at 6:00 pm, and a rare musical improv jam on Tuesdays at 6:00 pm.
All of the venues above typically provide you the stage time either for free or for $5.
There are also numerous other open mics throughout the city. For a more comprehensive list, please visit FreeMicsNYC.
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Published April 17, 2016 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Click HERE to play the Interactive version)
1. "He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked."
A. Carmen Miranda
B. Voltaire
C. Larry King
2. "How can you govern a country which has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?"
A. Charles de Gaulle
B. Christina Applegate
C. David Cameron
3. "I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it."
A. Alexander Woollcott
B. Karl Marx
C. Lucille Ball
4. "The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil."
A. C. Everett Koop
B. L. Frank Baum
C. W. Somerset Maugham
5. "Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune."
A. Buzz Aldrin
B. Reince Priebus
C. Sophocles
6. "If God were alive today, he would have to be an atheist, because the excrement has hit the air-conditioning big time, big time."
A. Pope Francis
B. Kurt Vonnegut
C. Bob Hope
7. "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit."
A. Michael Jackson
B. Lance Ito
C. Johnnie Cochran
8. "I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted."
A. Frederick Douglass
B. Spartacus
C. Gene Autry
9. "I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference."
A. Hermann Goering
B. Hermann Hesse
C. Herman Munster
10. "Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators."
A. George Noory
B. J. Edgar Hoover
C. Will Rogers
Answers: 1-B, 2-A , 3-A , 4-C , 5-C , 6-B , 7-C , 8-A, 9-B , 10-C
Scoring: 10–QQQQ = Quote-Master
(number correct) 8-9–QQQ = Scholar
6-7–QQ = Literate
4-5–Q = Semi-Literate
0-3–No Q = Quote-Dunce
"Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead."
–Bill McGlashen

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Get ready for the next installment of the Havana Nights Latin Series! Rhythmology will be hosting Latin dance nights at every Havana Central Location every month!!!
Date: Every 2nd & 4th Wednesday of the month)
Our Garden City location will now run TWICE a month!
Date: Every 2nd & 4th Wednesday of the month)
Time: 8pm-12am
Location: Havana Central-Garden City: 630 Old Country Road, Garden City
Admission: FREE
RSVP here: havananightsgardencity.eventbrite.com
Introductory Salsa & Bachata Class by Rhythmology at 8pm
The Best in Salsa, Bachata, & Top 40 by DJ CRule
Food & Drink Specials Available!!!


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At the Technology Salon hosted by the UN Foundation's Technology Partnership with Vodafone Foundation on Jan 28, 2010, some folks from the DC area (and beyond) will gather to share experiences around girls and ICTs.
This conversation is an important one, given that gaps exist around discussion, practice and research. The information and ideas shared at the Technology Salon will feed into the contents of the Girls and ICTs chapter for Plan's upcoming 2010 "Because I am a Girl" Report (currently in the works).
There are a few points that I hope will be considered in the Technology Salon discussion:
Tension between participation and protection.
There are many examples of ICTs being used for increased participation and connection: mobile phones for citizen journalism; Twitter revolution in Iran; girls using mobiles to ask questions about sexuality and to get information to help them improve their sexual and reproductive health; girls married off early or those living in protective societies using mobile phones to maintain contact with friends; new media tools opening up possibilities for youth engagement in important conversations that normally they would be shut out of.
However, due to the very real problems of on-line child pornography, child trafficking, child harassment, and cyber bullying, there is also a strong push for more control, more restrictions on on-line use in the name of protecting children. The tension between child participation and child protection is a very real one.
As we look at how technology and international development communities can support girls' development, I hope it's kept in mind that the more knowledge that girls have about the internet and ICTs in general, the more practical use they are allowed, the more coaching to help them understand implications of their actions, then the better prepared they will be to navigate these realms and to keep themselves safe. Increasing their knowledge, abilities and desire to protect themselves may be more effective than setting strict external limitations.
Actively engaging girls in this as part of an educational process can be better than restricting their use – and being open to young people's own ideas and ways of using ICTs is critical. Adult involvement in this area is important, but it is probably more worthwhile to coach than to control. Good communication and trust between children, youth and their adult mentors and guides is critical in this process. (Excellent resources on Child Online Protection (COP) for children, youth, educators and parents came out on October 2009 and are well worth the read.)
Online behavior mirrors offline behavior.
I remember getting an obscene phone call when I was around 8 years old. My mother did not blame the telephone, however. She blamed the pervert that was calling. She made sure to teach me how to be prepared in case it happened again. She emphasized not giving out information on the phone and hanging up immediately if I felt uncomfortable or didn't know who was calling. She did not prohibit me from ever touching the phone again or blame me, but she was vigilant for awhile.
In the same way, new ICTs themselves cannot be blamed for negative and twisted behaviors. ICTs are tools that exacerbate and extend already existing human behaviors, and the blame lies with those who are using ICTs for child trafficking, cyber bullying and the other evils associated with the internet. It's important to address underlying behaviors. Research shows that kids who are bullied offline are often also bullied online. Girls who are vulnerable offline are likely also vulnerable online. Online is a manifestation of offline, and the root causes of girls' vulnerabilities online cannot be blamed only on the ICT tools themselves.
I have my own daughter now, and have discussed with her many times how to keep herself safe online and on the phone. It's important for her to know this before something happens, not during or after. She will probably be using the internet and the phone for the rest of her life, so prohibiting them is not an option, and the benefits of using these tools obviously outweigh the risks. My own involvement and use of social networking sites, texting, etc. is an excellent way for me to know how these sites are used and what security holes there are for my children on the sites. How can parents and teachers in areas with limited use of ICTs be involved and engaged to serve as coaches and leaders in on-line protection together with children? How can communities help identify existing vulnerabilities in girls (or young people in general) that might manifest themselves online and offer support to prevent exploitation?
Digital gender divide.
There are some amazing examples of ICTs helping women and girls to improve their livelihoods; for example, women selling mobile telephone services; birth attendance being improved by using mobile phones to connect women to midwives, ambulances and other medical services; educational content being expanded using internet; youth media and youth radio programs bringing girls voices and gender topics into the mix for community discussion and dialogue.
However, in places where boys and men dominate women and girls, boys and men likely also dominate the use of available ICTs. Men may control the family's mobile phone and take it with them, or monitor women's calls. In places where boys are more favored, their confidence to try new things is higher meaning they may rush in to use mobiles, cameras, radio equipment in projects while girls shy back. In some cases girls report that boys hog and monopolize the computers and equipment, and access is denied. I've seen boys criticize, scorn and ridicule girls who are using equipment for the first time, and girls become too timid to try again. In many developing countries, just getting girls to attend school is difficult. If girls are assumed to be less intelligent or less worthy than boys, and their secondary school attendance (where ICT training might be offered) is not a priority, girls will have a very difficult time ever accessing and using ICTs.
Underlying issues surrounding girls' participation in general need to be addressed. We need to think about how ICTs can be used to help girls' inclusion, participation and self esteem increase in general.
Girls involvement in developing and designing ICT solutions for their own needs.
Studies in several countries have shown that girls and boys use technology in different ways and for different things. What specific ICT needs do underprivileged girls in 'developing' countries have? Is anyone asking? What processes or solutions already exist that take girls' ICT needs into account? What environments are necessary for girls to engage in defining, deciding and creating ICT solutions? Where are they already engaging, and how can communities, schools, organizations and businesses support and recreate those environments? How can processes and products be designed together with girls?
Tech is still a field heavily dominated by males. In the US, for example, some women in tech have pulled together to question this and to advocate for more opportunities for women to break into the male dominated worlds of publication owners, conference speakers, businesses, well known innovators, and "best of" lists. There have been protests against prominent companies for promoting "Booth Babes" and in one case last year, strippers, at tech conferences. This brings the question – in places without female tech role models and respectful environments, how can girls see themselves as leaders in this field?
Specific research on girls and ICTs.
There is not a lot of information on the impact of ICTs on the lives of girls in 'developing' countries, especially studies that go beyond establishment of computer centers. There is anecdotal evidence of positive impact of mobile phones on women. There are studies on the digital gender divide for women; on child trafficking and other negative aspects of the internet; and on use of internet and technology among youth in the US, UK, Australia, etc. It's been difficult to find a lot of information on the use of ICTs by girls in the "South." It would be interesting for more research to be done on girls and ICTs in the "South" and for some good practices to be shared. Hopefully someone at the Technology Salon will be able to share some insight on this.
An Example of Youth Led Community Change in Mali
Being a Girl in Cumbana
Putting Cumbana on the Map – with Ethics
Breaking it Down: Violence Against Children
Stories that Touch the Heart


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Practical Strategies for Improving the Behavior of Attention-Seeking, Manipulative and Challenging Students
Presented by Cindy Jones
Specifically Designed for Classroom Teachers, Special Education Staff, Title I Staff, Behavior Intervention Specialists, Counselors, Instructional Coaches, Instructional Assistants, School Psychologists, and Administrators Serving Grades 1-12
- Practical strategies for working successfully with attention-seeking, manipulative and challenging students
- Classroom-tested strategies to motivate and engage students who take up valuable class time with attention-getting behaviors that disrupt their own and others' learning
- Specific intervention strategies that work for students who try to manipulate adults and other students
- Dynamic ideas, tools and tips for improving students' attitudes toward school and increase cooperation with teachers and their classmates
Practical Ideas and Strategies
Students with attention-seeking and manipulative behaviors are becoming more and more prevalent in our schools. Because of the pandemic teaching structure, more students seem to be reluctant to re-engage and exhibit school-appropriate behavior. These students are very difficult to reach and even more difficult to teach. They often exhibit severe and disruptive behavior patterns, infringe on others' rights, disrupt the classroom environment, and stop their own learning as well as that of others. This outstanding seminar is designed to offer grades 1-12 educators powerful tools and techniques for changing students' negative behaviors into positive, productive learning behaviors.
Cindy Jones, an exceptional educator and presenter, will share classroom-proven ideas, techniques and strategies that she has successfully used with her own students for many years. Her practical ideas and fun, interactive style will keep you excited and entertained as you learn valuable, new strategies. You will leave with many highly effective and game-changing ideas you'll be able to use immediately with your attention-seeking and manipulative students.
Ten Key Benefits of Attending
- Increase Your Expertise in Working Successfully with Manipulative and Attention-Seeking Students
Discover highly effective, classroom-proven strategies for decreasing defiant and attention-seeking behaviors … Strategies that really work!
- Learn Brain-Compatible Behavior Strategies that Influence the Behaviors of At-Risk Students
Gain specific strategies to help re-engage students once they are back in the physical classroom … Help all your at-risk students learn greater self-control and self-awareness
- Discover Ways to Help Students Catch Up and Gain Academic Success
Help students gain confidence to try and to grow academically … Enable students to become learners rather than disrupting learning for themselves and others
- Techniques to Help You Stay Out of Power Struggles
Verbal interventions that stop power struggles and arguing … Strategies you can use immediately
- Ways to Teach Your Students to Look at the Situation Clearly and Not Respond in Anger
Teach students to re-tool their faulty thinking and learn to make better choices … Help students gain more self-control
- Positive Ways to Maintain Classroom Authority While Building Positive Student Relationships
Learn how to stay in control of your own emotions so you can maintain confidence and authority to build positive teacher-student relationships
- Strategies for Working with Angry, Hard-to-Reach Parents
Learn proven strategies to help you gain parent support rather than resistance
- Techniques for Immediately Handling Disrespectful and Dangerous Behaviors
Effective strategies that will quickly end or defuse inappropriate behavior before it escalates
- How to Avoid Counterproductive Consequences and Promote Positive Behaviors
Changing behavior with therapeutic rather than punishing consequences … Why many consequences don't work for attention-seeking and manipulative behaviors
- Receive an Extensive Digital Resource Handbook
You will receive an extensive digital resource handbook filled with practical methods, ideas and techniques to use when working with students who are manipulative, attention-seeking and difficult
Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately
- Discover highly effective, classroom-proven strategies for decreasing defiant and attention-seeking behaviors
- What motivates manipulative students and how you can help them get what they need in positive ways
- Specific techniques to use with ADHD and students with sensory issues
- Four types of student behaviors and how to specifically address them
- Create a safe and supportive classroom environment where students can learn and you can teach
- Strategies to help you be proactive and spend less time addressing difficult behavior
- Effective ways to stay emotionally neutral while working with difficult and defiant students
- Ways to state directives to improve students' behavior in the classroom
- Practical ideas for helping your attention-seeking and manipulative students gain motivation and on-task behavior
- Down-to-earth, common-sense methods to effectively communicate with the most challenging students
- How to encourage positive change in students by facilitating, not punishing
- Ways to maintain your enthusiasm, energy and focus on teaching
- How to teach skills to replace the inappropriate behaviors that students exhibit
- Ideas to increase success in your classroom and keep all students engaged in learning
A Message From Your Seminar Leader
Dear Colleague:
Student behaviors are changing. Many students come to school or show up for online learning hurting, hostile, unmotivated, and uninterested in school. We, as educators, often spend 80% of our time with 20% of the class who are defiant, disrespectful and off-task. I invite you to join me for a highly practical seminar focused on strategies for attention-seeking, manipulative and difficult-to-teach students. During the day, you will discover many new ideas for reaching even your most difficult and defiant students.
Many students act out because it has worked for them in the past. They either do not possess the appropriate skills to make good choices or have been reinforced for making the wrong choices. I have designed this seminar specifically for teachers, counselors, social workers, administrators, and school psychologists dealing with defiant and hard-to-reach students. The skills presented are ones I have gained through my own experience as an educator for over forty years and from interacting with many highly skilled educators. I have seen students who were engaged in constant attention-seeking behaviors to those with severe physical aggression change and grow when the correct intervention skills were applied.
My goal for the day is for you to leave the seminar with many new, practical tools that can help you with addressing student behaviors that threaten to stop our teaching, interfere with our students' learning and steal your joy as an educator. Please join your colleagues and me for an exciting day filled with practical and creative strategies for changing the lives of your students and refilling your teacher toolbox.
Cindy Jones
P.S. You will leave with dozens of practical ideas and an extensive digital resource handbook to help you implement the strategies in your classroom!
Who Should Attend
Classroom Teachers, Special Education Staff, Title I Staff, Behavior Intervention Specialists, Counselors, Instructional Coaches, Instructional Assistants, School Psychologists, and Administrators Serving Grades 1-12
Special Benefits of Attending
Extensive Resource Handbook
Each participant will receive an extensive digital resource handbook giving you access to countless strategies. The handbook includes:
- The four most common types of difficult student behaviors and effective strategies for working with each
- Teacher-tested verbal interventions that keep teachers in control and out of power struggles
- How to keep students engaged and motivated to achieve rather than to manipulate
- Practical ideas for working with inattentive and hyperactive students
- How to teach students the social skills that they are lacking
- Strategies for working with parents who are angry and uncooperative
Consultation Available
Cindy Jones will be available to answer your specific questions and the unique needs of your own program.
Semester Credit Option
Up to four graduate level professional development credits are available with an additional fee and completion of follow-up practicum activities. Details for direct enrollment with University of Massachusetts Global, a nonprofit affiliate, will be available at this program.
Meet Inservice Requirements
Participants of both the Live Online Seminar and those completing the Recorded Version online can receive a certificate of participation that may be used to verify five continuing education hours. State CEUs are available for both versions of the course. For specific details, visit www.ber.org/ceus.


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"Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name." Psalms 100:4
I freely and openly confess unto the Lord with Thanksgivings the abundance of knowledge and understanding given to me. As I enter into His Gates, I bring to my lips eternal praises which leads me into his court. For God's Word is a guide to entering in His presence and I shall follow it not only in this age, but the age to come. We are being prepared for not only the work in this age, but being refined for greater work. Always remember that we have been given the Word and the Word was with God in the Beginning and the Word was God and through the Word all things were Created and that Word is Jesus. For the Mysteries of God are being revealed in this season. We it is written we may not know the time, but the season shall be shown to those who are discerning. I, being one who has committed my life to Christ will share all I know, for we are at war with the unseen and it is now time for the Children of God to be equipped. For the time I have been given may be short on this earth, but I am not ignorant of the things to come after, so I am pressed to give what I know for human sake as my time with you in this life is coming to a close. We are given a command, "Do not Fear!" this is not advice, but a Command! For fear comes to kill, steal and destroy and do you not know the Father of fear is Satan? I know you have heard of Godly Fear, but this is not the same. To Fear the Lord is to be obedient and follow His ways, not for wrath, but For Love. Fear that is from Satan is disobedience, for you have be given this, "Wages of Sin is Death!" For God is not a lie, for you store up in yourselves death when you are disobedience. For Truth and light are not centered around Death as Jesus being the highest Authority has conquered death.
Today, I will give you this lesson, I pray you take it to heart and may knowledge and understanding come from it. You have read and heard that to take someone's house, you must first bind the strong man. Now we know that our bodies are temples and within our temple lives the Holy Spirit. But it is written that no ones can serve two Masters, either he loves one or hates the other. I tell you, test the Word and see this is true. Come before The Lord and with the power of life and Death speak these things, I break the power of the Strong me over my Life in Jesus Name who is in the sit of The Holy Spirit, Only Authority I gave over my Life is Jesus and the deposit that comes from Heaven, The Holy Spirit which is From God The Father of All! I command these things be Done in Jesus Name! Break and then take Authority! With your tongue, you have the power of Life and Death. We speak Life and Rebuke death at every turn. It is Written, "Jesus called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to drive out impure spirits and to heal every disease and sickness." Matthew 10:1 Today I leave you with this, every disease and sickness we have the power and the Authority in Jesus Name to Rebuke and be healed from. In Jesus Name, believe and take what has been freely given in Jesus Name!


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This was a good week.
I'm going to try to make this short because:
- I'm enjoying some red wine and it's apt to take a toll on my writing and typing ability shortly
- I'm roasting a chicken, which requires frequent attention, and — when combined with the wine — one major responsibility is about all I can handle
- I'm waiting to watch my DVR'd Tyson Invitational (no relation to the chicken) and this post is the only thing holding me up
So here's the Morse Code version, taken straight from the training diary:
Feel quite fatigued today, almost fluish.
Felt right again this morning. Did the run on the road and all the strides on the track. Did two extra since I felt so good. Leg issue is very mild, almost gone.
RHR back down to 45. Good run. Legs felt fresh and groin issue is very minor, almost gone. 1.5 fast miles were hard but not awful.
Leg sore at 5:30AM, but okay after some ibuprofen. Windy, cool run outside AM — very relaxed pace. Nice afternoon run, still very windy.
"Leg is still bugging me, so put off run until the afternoon. Used heat and Nabumetone in AM, which seems to be helping.
V. windy with headwinds of 17mph. Avg windspeed was 11mph. Felt like I had dead legs for the first one, then loosened up and the others felt better. I didn't try to hold to the pace since the wind was ridiculous for half of each lap."
Tired today and pace shows it. Fell down and bashed my hand and knee. Taking ibuprofen for the leg, which was back with a vengeance this morning.
Good run — had lots of energy and running the fast bit at the end wasn't too hard. Windy in spots, mostly on the way out. Stomach a bit screwed up afterwards. Leg okay during run.
People, if you're not keeping even a basic training diary, it's high time you started. I can't tell you how many times having even this sort of shorthand record has helped me pinpoint an issue, whether it be exhaustion, impending injury or run-of-the-mill training "staleness."
This week was a real confidence booster because, I nailed all of my key workouts. The highlight was this morning's 17 miler with the last two at 7:00 pace. At this point, running this fast tends to frighten other people on the running path. While I don't do this deliberately, there is something satisfying about watching people do a double take and then leap out of the way as I pass. Jonathan's passing them at 6:00 pace, and he says the effect is even more dramatic at that speed.
It was also a great week because I ran all but one session outside. At last! The snow is gone. Good riddance.
I'm playing it by ear with the groin thing. It doesn't hurt a bit while running, and heat/ice/anti-inflammatories seems to keep it at bay. I've got a 90 mile week coming up with lots of faster running. I'll see if it gets worse as a result and, if it does, go get it looked at. If it doesn't get worse, though, I'll live with it. I've trained with worse problems.
Also — this is totally unrelated — I want to sing the praises of an excellent shoe: Pearl Izumi's Streak. I started wearing this for races and have been interested to see if it can hold up for the full marathon distance. I wore it for the 17 miler this morning and it was great for that. I'll wear it for next week's 20 miler. It's probably the most comfortable shoe I've ever worn — it's almost like running in a pair of slippers. I still love the Fastwitch 3 from Saucony, but it's not quite enough shoe for 26 miles. This one may be the ticket. If you decide to try it, though, be forewarned: it runs very small. I have to wear a full size larger.
Week 5 features a longer tempo run, an 800m intervals session and a 20 miler, all totaling up to 90 quality miles.
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I'd be a liar if I said the Australian flag did nothing for me. It's evocative of good memories from a childhood with just a few.
Memories of my Australian-made bathers from the 1970s, and a barbecue at a beach in Port Lincoln that now hosts expensive townhouses adjoining a marina, are frequently summoned by the sight of my nation's flag. My father, being a fisherman, wasn't always home, and when he was home he was frequently moody, especially as the years wore on. But at the beach, he was in his element, and the barbeque was as close as he had to a sacred rite. Southwark Bitter, in a longneck with a green label was the communal wine.
It's a pretty stereotypical image of Australia, but it's not one that was inculcated into me via advertising or viral memes, and obviously, it predates the popular hooliganism of flag-capes, vandalism and race rioting that's been in the ascendant since the 1990s. But it is what it is; bathers, barbeque, beach and booze.
I've always been in favour of Australia becoming a republic, although I'm ambivalent about the issue of the flag. I don't view it as so sacred that I'd oppose it being changed, and yet I'm not motivated to see it go.
Maybe, if I wasn't as emotionally numb as I am, I'd get up in arms about it. Maybe, if I had a better grasp of my own emotional state, I'd anticipate feelings of loss at the prospect of it going away. I can't say I know for sure.
The most I can muster from this introspection, is a realisation of how folks more emotional than myself may also be more invested, either way.
Other folks surely see the flag differently, even if only in degree.
More broadly, the concept of Australia isn't objectively bound just to things that are popularly cherished. It's not just slabs, thongs, zinc cream and shorts. Australian culture is anything that Australians can experience it as, and that includes the snake bites, the road accidents and the racial violence.
You don't get to expect that people's subjective experiences are recounted in a manner identical to your own. Reality doesn't work like that.
When people complain about Australia on account of their experiences, there always seems to be at least one defensive patriot who'll attempt to cast such objections as mendacious. Don't complain, you're ruining our party! That's Australia you're talking about!
It's a pity that it often doesn't occur to these people that the solution to this problem is to have an Australia that produces less avoidable, undesirable experiences.
Possibly the pinnacle of irony in all of this, is when people complain that other Australians should "like it or leave". Clearly the people making this complaint don't "like it" themselves, and yet they don't pack their bags.
Where would they go? How would they get there? (If only it was feasible to send them off on rickety fishing boats, the irony would be resolved…)
If you're going to have a debate about whether Australia is worth celebrating, or if you just want your celebrations to be more authentic, you have to get used to the idea that Australia isn't just what you make of it from a casual glance. You need to be more outwardly exploratory, and more self-reflective than that.
As I write this, Australia Day 2015 is fading into yesterday. Caricatures, and narrow cultural cross-sections are standing at ease, resting in preparation for their deployment on ANZAC day.
A thousand and one lost identities will drop the clichés until ads for lamb and the like demand their deployment again. The fetishists will take a break from paying superficial homage to the outward appearances of sub-cultures they couldn't really care about.
Memories of Australia will go unchronicled, their owners partitioned from the story telling – whole facets disappearing with time to the detriment of us all.
And those of us with more acceptable narrative elements will have our reflections reinforced by the presence of Australian flag flip-flops and bikinis – bromides for the comfortable Aussie.
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If you're looking for a way to take your teatime experience to some next-level cinematic trippiness (we suggest Pink Floyd's "Animals" as the soundtrack, or if you're more dramatic, perhaps Dvorák), the world of blossoming teas may be just what you're looking for to spice things up in the tearoom.
These performative little explosions are not, as you may first think, herbal infusions. Rather, they're compacted, tea-wrapped flowers, a blossom bundle hand-sewn shut within leaves of actual tea—typically white, green or oolong. Inside the tea you'll find one of several flowers like jasmine (which you're likely already familiar with from other tea blends), chrysanthemum, osmanthus, lily, marigold, peony, amaranth, or hibiscus. (Though the flowers contained within may or may not be aromatic or impart much flavor, they may nonetheless be selected, or scented, to complement the teas that surround them.)
"By and large, blossoming teas are a visual experience."
By and large, blossoming teas are a visual experience; manufacture of the picturesque packages cannot be relied upon for the transparency of knowing precisely which tea (or sometimes, even which flower!) has been selected or why. The somewhat anonymous teas utilized in blossoming tea may logically be expected to be somewhat lower quality, weaker strength (you'll be infusing it for a long time while you watch the pretty flower) or contain the odd defect. But at around $2 a blossom, you're neither likely to wish nor afford to drink a blossoming tea with much regularity, so there's nothing to lose in sitting back to at least enjoy the show. (This said, there are some distributors of blossoming teas that put great effort into their "art teas", from fairytale names all the way through to health benefits.)
The blossoms themselves are typically produced by encircling long, dried tea leaves around the flower using hand-stitching of cotton, silk, etc., and are delivered to the drinker as a compacted ball; some have suggested this makes blossoming tea perfect for travel! The practice's history is in high debate, credit given to Chinese tea artisans either in the Ming Dynasty... or the 1980s. Whether it's a modern invention or one with ancient roots, it's worth getting hold of a blossom or two to watch the little wet firecrackers do their thing at least once.
How to Brew
Vessel Though you can easily brew blossoming teas in a variety of pots (or your mug), a clear glass pot such as those specifically designed for blossoming teas will give you the best show. They can be had rather cheaply (about $15), and don't require complex filtration since much of the tea stays at least somewhat together after expansion.
Dose One blossom
Temperature and Time Since blossoming teas are made from different teas, you'll want to check each package specifically for some guidelines. But loosely, you can expect to brew at temperatures around 170-180F°, for about 2-3 minutes.
Your tea should begin to float to the top of the teapot within the first minute, and achieve full unfurling within three minutes, at which point you'll have gone from a tiny green ball to what looks like a full-on tea terrarium.
Reinfusion, up to two or three times, is possible with most blossoming teas... though obviously the money shot takes place the first time around.
Taste From tea to tea, flower to flower, blossoming teas will vary within a spectrum meant to be light and delicate. You may find a green-tea blossom is earthier or nuttier, while the white-tea-enrobed blossoms we tried leaned towards honey and honeysuckle, with unmistakably jasmine overtones.


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Samsung got the UK's 3D ball rolling in solid fashion with its UE40C7000 a couple of months ago. But we're hoping that its more glamorous and larger sibling, the UE46C8000 will launch the brand into the same kind of stratosphere occupied by Panasonic's 3D debutante, the Panasonic TX-P50VT20.
The UE46C8000's compatibility with all the key new 3D formats is obviously its dominant feature, but it also boasts a so-called 3D HyperReal Engine that's claimed to deliver significant performance benefits over other brands.
Some aspects of this engine are too complicated to fully explore here, but for starters, Samsung has added a scanning backlight to its existing 200Hz engine – delivering an effect that some rival brands would most likely call 400Hz. This should enable it to reproduce motion with greater clarity.
Also key is a dual black insertion system, where frames are inserted between the alternating left and right 3D frames to reduce the ghosting phenomenon that's commonly known as crosstalk.
Samsung has developed a special high-speed pixel-driving circuit for the 46C8000, too, along with an ultra-fast 1.05Gbps high speed interface, to reduce LCD's usual, response time issues.
The 46C8000 also integrates a 2D to 3D conversion system, so that users can watch conventional discs and broadcasts in three dimensions until there are more true 3D sources available to buy.
The design is a feature in itself meanwhile, with a gorgeous, shiny silver metal bezel to the fore and an exceptionally slender rear end, courtesy of edge LED backlighting. Samsung has introduced a local dimming element to the latter, whereby segments of the edge lighting can have their brightness individually adjusted if the TV detects obvious areas of discrepancy, to boost contrast.
Extensive multimedia features include online access and DLNA PC file streaming; Freeview HD timeshifting to USB drives and optional Wi-Fi via a USB dongle.
Ease of use
Inevitably, the set is complex to use, due to its sheer number of features.
Among such important features as various LED Motion control circuitry and the local dimming option, Samsung has added one or two unnecessary and confusing submenus without adequately explaining them.
The menus are clear and attractive and the glinting remote is as easy to use as it is gorgeous.
The 3D pictures really are an advance on those of the C7000. This is particularly true where motion is concerned, with the moving image components suffering markedly less from resolution blur and crosstalk.
Another contributory factor is that the 46C8000 doesn't suffer as badly as the C7000 series with backlight inconsistencies. The pictures are fearsomely bright and vibrant, too, exploding off the screen with 2D footage, but also, crucially, retaining good brightness when watched through Samsung's 3D glasses.
This provides a truly substantive point of difference between Samsung's 3D approach and Panasonic's, with the former brand delivering extra shadow detail and more dynamic colours, while Panasonic delivers slightly less crosstalk and deeper black colours.
The 46C8000's 2D to 3D converter is more effective than expected, creating a sense of real depth without generating as many glitchy effects as anticipated. However, it's still a diluted 3D effect, and as such we question the wisdom of the feature's inclusion.
The TV is also highly accomplished with non-3D material, exhibiting outstanding colours, loads of detail with HD, good upscaling with standard-def and good noise and motion handling. However, the motion and noise reduction processing should be used judiciously to avoid side effects.
The general black level response isn't as profound as we'd ideally like, and the local dimming engine creates obvious 'blocks' of light, so we chose to leave it deactivated. But otherwise, the 46C8000's pictures really are terrific.
While the 46C8000 represents a vast improvement over Samsung's previous flat TV generation when it comes to sonic ability, it's still short of bass and fails to deliver an expansive soundstage during action scenes.
However, it sounds fine with ordinary TV and, given its price, would quite likely be accompanied by a separate sound system when watching more demanding fare.
While undeniably expensive against standard 46in TVs, it does feature extensive multimedia support, a stunning design and a large amount of innovative 3D technology.
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Editor's note: CNN has asked its journalists across the country to offer their thoughts on how the economic crisis is affecting their cities. In this installment, All Platform Journalist Chris Welch reports from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Shoe store employee Becky Fiene says people have been heading to the clearance racks more frequently.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) -- There's a strip mall just outside the city limits of Minneapolis that seems to capture in a nutshell what the city's economic situation has been like of late -- bad, but compared to other cities, it's definitely not horrible.
About a dozen or so retailers currently call the Golden Valley Shopping Center home, and hope to for quite some time still.
But there also are a handful of shops that haven't been so lucky and sit with their lights out. Remnants of a flooring store remain -- the phone number and various styles of flooring still cover the storefront window, though the space is empty.
And a pet shop -- gone, as well.
Next door to what used to be Dream Floors is Schuler Shoes. This particular location has been there since 1950. I stopped in to see how business is for them.
Employee Becky Fiene describes their current business situation as "down a little bit" but says for the most part they've survived as well as anyone could have hoped for at this point.
"It hasn't been too bad," she says.
Fiene says people always need shoes and that's part of what's kept their business from sinking in this economy.
"We're a necessary product," she says. "It's been slower, but it hasn't been too bad."
She did admit, though, that one thing has changed significantly.
"They used to buy regular products. Now they focus on the clearance items a lot more."
And it's not as though Schuler Shoes hasn't gone through any layoffs. They have. Still, the business is surviving and not in any immediate danger, Fiene says.
Mayor R.T. Rybak echoed those comments when referring to the city as a whole. Particularly, the health-care industry in Minneapolis has been a primary benefit to the city's ability to stay afloat. But even though Rybak told me the city's economy is doing "slightly better" than the country is on average, people are still having a rough time making ends meet.
"Clearly lots of people are suffering right now," Rybak says, "and I think there's not only the impact of people losing their jobs but people just being so concerned that they're not spending dollars at all."
And even the retailers at the strip mall who've done well say that's certainly evident.
Mike Paradise is the general manager at Down in the Valley, a music and gift store that sells posters and novelties in addition to various CDs and DVDs. Paradise says a combination of declining CD sales due to Internet downloading and the current economic climate makes it twice as tough.
He sees people having a much harder time opening their wallets these days, but he also says that sometimes, with the little cash they do have, people will decide to buy something fun simply because it takes their mind off the negative.
"We're selling gifts and fun little things to make you feel better [and] I think people do want to feel better."
Mayor Rybak -- and, naturally, Mike Paradise -- would like to see the money go to these kinds of local shops first and foremost so the money circulates locally.
It's Paradise's notion that people want to feel better, to escape, to get away from a real world so dominated by gloomy economic news, and that's giving a boost to -- believe it or not -- local theater.
Krista Bergert, the communications director for the city's Community Planning and Economic Development Department, says local theater companies have been thriving -- some even selling out each night. She explains that people want to escape reality but aren't able to physically travel very far or to even see the Broadway tours when they stop in town because, even though they tend to be glitzier, they're also much pricier.
A side note: Minneapolis is said to have more theater seats per capita than any U.S. city outside New York.
And there are other positive stories that have come out of these economic times. About two weeks ago, I was talking to an administrator at one of the city's local hospitals who told me the economy has brought out the compassion among co-workers. She says they were faced with what appeared to be a few imminent job cuts but that the employees' jobs were saved all because their colleagues decided to come together and each take pay cuts.
Bergert also says that sometimes being handed a pink slip is just what a select few people have been secretly needing in order to carry out a long-held dream or passion, or starting their own business or doing something totally new and random. It's given them freedom.
Perhaps there can be some silver lining, even if, as reality seems to be showing us, the lining is inside just one small cloud in a sky of hundreds.
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A lot of people are concerned about Brita's water pictures in light of the BPA issue. After all, the containers are all hard, clear plastic, so it fits the description of typical polycarbonate containers. But, never fear, the folks at The Green Guide have done the research for us and found the containers are made of styrene methylmethacrylate copolymer, a safe material that does not contain BPA.
Now, I can't even pronounce all that, but Brita told The Green Guide they chose this material because it does not leach. The Green Guide also confirmed this claim with the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF), which performs extensive material safety tests. "The NSF states that Brita pitchers have been tested for material safety while in contact with "very aggressive water" (i.e. exposure to water with low total of dissolved solids and .5 ppm of available chlorine for three successive 24-hour periods) and have found no evidence of leaching.
Rick Andrews, the technical manager of the Drinking Water Treatment Unit Certification Program at the NSF, explains that when a company is seeking NSF certification for new container/filter system, NSF requires information about the constituents of the plastic and then tests for leachates they know are associated with those ingredients. Using acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) as an example, they would look for styrene and acrylonitrile leaching into the water. We asked about styrene leaching from the methylmethacrylate copolymer, and he assured us that any polymer that includes a styrene component would be tested for styrene leaching."
They also got a second opinion from the FDA and got the same response.
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Federal government pushing ahead With Plum Island sale
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) - The federal government's plan to sell Plum Island, an animal disease research lab off eastern Long Island, and move operations to Kansas took another step closer to fruition on July 30 when the General Services Administration issued an environmental review recommending that the sale proceed.
The 512-page environmental impact statement said, The preferred alternative - is the sale of the property out of federal ownership.
The study, which included numerous maps and exhibits, did not identify any potential buyers for the 843-acre property located about 100 miles east of New York City. No estimate has been made on what the island could fetch when it is sold at auction to the highest bidder.
Several environmental groups in New York and Connecticut - the island sits in Long Island Sound between the two states - have repeatedly called for the island to remain in federal hands and turned into a nature preserve.
Just keep it the way it is. Upgrade it. It's a nice isolated island so that's where it should be, one man who lives within view of the island told WCBS 880 Long Island Bureau Chief Mike Xirinachs.
I really don't think Plum Island is conducive to development. It's an island. You've got to get there by boat, said another.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., described the study as deeply disappointing and deficient.
It is flawed in failing to recommend measures to preserve open space on Plum Island, he said in a statement. I will support challenges, joining environmental advocates in seeking to protect this unique, priceless open space and natural treasure.
Adrienne Esposito, executive director of the New York-based Citizens Campaign for the Environment, said plans to sell the federal property should be abandoned.
Selling it for a quick dollar after owning it for almost 200 years is equivalent to the feds getting 30 pieces of silver but betraying the public trust. It's just not worth it, she said.
Officials in the town of Southold on eastern Long Island, who will have zoning jurisdiction once the federal property is sold to a private owner, have indicated they plan to zone most of the property in a way that would preclude commercial development. Town Supervisor Scott Russell has said town officials hope some educational or research organization could be recruited to take ownership of the research laboratory, which is located on the western part of the island.
What's left of a U.S. Army base that first operated during the Spanish-American War and closed in the early 1950s sits on the eastern part of the property. Gun batteries and parade grounds and barracks still remain more than a half-century later.
Congress voted in 2009 to close the aging lab on Plum Island and move operations to Kansas State University.
Some have questioned the wisdom of moving animal disease research to the so-called Beef Belt, although President Barack Obama's latest budget includes $714 million for the project.
The GSA, which is overseeing the sale, has not done any studies to determine what the price might be for Plum Island. The current environmental impact statement will be available for public comment for 30 days, after which plans for the formal sale could proceed.
The latest estimate has the Kansas facility opening is 2018, although the project has been fraught with delays.
Despite speculation about what goes on there, scientists insist the island is safe. In recent years, hundreds of tons of medical waste, contaminated soil and other refuse were shipped off the island. Other island sites have been cleaned in compliance with federal regulations. And the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers determined in 2006 that no munitions or ordnance remain from the Army base. As late as 2007, New York government inspection reports said no environmental threat was on the island.


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Milo Yiannopoulos, Breitbart editor, intellectual featherweight and fascist star turn adored by the alternate right who till yesterday saw him as a warrior king in their battle against "political correctness" and perceived left-wing censorship, has finally come spectacularly undone.
To the point where his followers (amongst them the likes of Rita Pahini, Chris Kenny and Andrew Bolt in this country) who have thus far endorsed his foul outbursts against Muslims, Jews, women and transgender people as an exercise of the right to free speech, have found themselves in unlikely and uncomfortable moral confusion over Milo's positive attitude towards pedophilia, and overt sympathy for perpetrating catholic priests.
Yiannopoulos was to have given the keynote address at the Conservative Political Action Conference later this month, and yesterday (a bad day for Milo) organisers felt compelled to withdraw their invitation.
Breitbart News, whose former editor-in-chief Steve Bannon is now President Donald Trump's lead strategist, is reportedly considering dumping Milo. At least we now know the alt-right's bottom line: slander anyone on grounds of race, ethnicity, sexual preference and gender, but don't publicly advocate pedophilia. There's honour even amongst morality's dregs, apparently.
Publishing house Simon and Schuster yesterday dropped Milo, terminating their contract to publish his forthcoming book. They stood by him while he slandered Jews, Muslims, women and transgender people for money and spectacle, but apparently a line was crossed with his sympathetic stance towards pedophilia.
It's gratifying to witness the extreme right writhe in unaccustomed moral anguish when confronted with speech even they cannot accept. Who knew there was such a thing?
Yiannopoulos attempted to defend himself: "My book has been canceled" he wailed on Facebook (Twitter having banned him some time ago) in baffled outrage, getting the spelling wrong in his time of extremity as anyone might.
Wikileaks' Julian Assange then rushed to Milo's defence from his lounge room in the Ecuadorean Embassy, tweeting that poor Milo is the victim of "politics disguised as morality" and, god help us, he's been censored!
Well, Assange is wrong: Milo hasn't been censored. Any publisher can publish him, he can self-publish, and any organisation is free to extend him an invitation to keynote. If they choose to ignore him that is not censorship, you'd think Assange, of all people, would understand that.
What Milo is experiencing are the consequences of free speech. He remains free to say whatever he wants, in the US at least. Others have equal freedom to decline to listen and disseminate his speech. Refusing to listen and disseminate is not censorship, it's exercising the agency and the right to decline to listen and disseminate.
Many among us have experienced the refusal to listen, and to disseminate our points of view, not a few of us from the very groups Milo has singled out for discrimination and contempt. He's had a good run. Now his masters are done with him. You can't go round advocating the rape and molestation of young boys, even amongst the alt-right, it seems. Who knew they had standards?
Update: Milo resigns from Breitbart:
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Planting Seeds
This devotional was written by Kelly McFadden
Then he told them many things in parables, saying: "A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop -- a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown."—Matthew 13:3-8
During the summer, I spoke at a camp at which I have been both a camper and a staff member. Upon arrival, I was greeted by some old faces, one of which was a squirrelly 6th grader who was now going to be a sophomore in high school. One afternoon, a group of us were reminiscing about past years at camp when this young man mentioned that he remembered something I had said at a seminar four years prior. Expecting him to say something sarcastic, I asked him what it was. "You told a story about getting cut from a team and someone told you, 'It is not how far you fall, but how high you bounce back up that matters.' I'll never forget that," he said.
Rarely in our lives do we get an opportunity to know how we have affected another. I felt so encouraged to know that someone was actually paying attention four years before! But mostly, it was a reminder to me. Each one of us has the ability to plant seeds. We have the ability to plant positive seeds that can bear fruit for the kingdom and negative seeds that can crush spirits. There are times that I am sure I have missed opportunities, but this was a great reminder that you never know who is really listening.
Each one of us is an example to others around us and, as such, we must be conscious of what type of seeds we are planting. More often than not, you will not know whether you have affected someone positively or negatively or at all. We should never do anything looking for awards, praise or accolades. But as Tim encouraged me, I know it is my place now to encourage someone else: The person who originally shared that quote with me ten years ago.
Today, remember those people who have made a difference in your life. If possible, thank them for the legacy they have handed down to you.
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1. Be thoughtful. What kinds of seeds are you planting in people's lives at work? At home? On a day-to-day basis?
2. Is there someone in your life who helped you during a tough time or molded your life? Have you said "thank you"? Now may be the time.
Psalm 10:12-18; 1 Timothy 1:5-7; Hebrews 3:7-19
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Raptors are on view Fridays and Saturdays this summer at Skamania Lodge in the Columbia River Gorge. Photos with this post show the bald eagle displayed at the first program.
Raptor House Rehabilitation Center of Yakima brings its lineup of eagles, hawks, falcons and owls each week into September. Skamania Lodge's Falconry Program offers guests the opportunity to learn about falconry, known as "The Sport of Kings," and witness exotic and domestic raptors all summer long.
Free public demonstrations and held every Friday at 6 p.m. and every Saturday at 11 a.m. and 5 p.m., through Labor Day weekend. The shows on the front lawn feature an educational lecture about the raptors, as well as flight demonstration.
Private falconry experiences, where the Raptor House team will take small groups out to get up-close and personal with a mix of majestic exotic raptors, costs $20 for adults and $10 for children 12 and under. Private program times vary and can be booked on a first-come, first-served basis by calling 800-221-7117.
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This post was originally published in July of 2017. Since our wild rose bushes are now blooming I thought I would share this.
Rescue Roses
When we bought our farm it was 7.6 acres of vacant land. It had been sitting untouched for many years and was overgrown with countless types of vegetation. It was so much fun exploring the property and discovering various trees, bushes, and wild flowers.
One of my great disappointments was when I realized that I was going to lose a beautiful wild rose bush when we dug our pond. "We will move it," my husband said. We decided to plant it next to theses large rocks. Rocks that we had decided we would never move again.
We cut down the bushy part of the rose and dug up as much as the root as we could and replanted it next to the rocks.
We have since found 4 or 5 more rose bushes which would need to be moved so we didn't destroy them as we developed areas of the farm. All of theses rose bushes were replanted near the rocks in what has now become our rescue rose garden.
These rose bushes thrive in their new home.
I am always excited to see these rose bushes blossom in the spring and they have a lovely fragrance.
It is gratifying to know that we were able to preserve this beautiful part of nature.
Mystery Roses
Another rose story I want to share is what my husband and I are calling the mystery rose. The yellow rose bush was a given to me as a Mother's Day gift from my children several years ago. My oldest daughter had picked it out, and she selected yellow because I had told her that bees tend to like yellow and pink flowers but not red flowers. That was something I read when I was researching honey bees. We planted the rose in the center of our prayer garden.
Despite giving it lots of TLC, watering when needed, fertilizer, and protecting it from the deer, the rose bush struggled. Last year I pruned it way down because the top had died off and dried up. I was sad because whenever someone gives me a plant it is a reminder of that person. In this case it represented my 4 daughters.
Several weeks ago my husband asked me if I'd seen my rose bush. "It has one blossom and lots of buds." he said. A couple days later I was baffled as I checked on my rose bush. "That was a yellow rose." I told my husband. "Now it has red blossoms." He didn't really remember it being yellow, but he didn't accuse me of being crazy. To make sure I wasn't crazy I looked back through my pictures and found the picture above.
I decided that there were one of two explanations for this change. The first one would be that someone had replaced the dead rose bush with a live one and had put in red rather than yellow. If this had happened I'm am certain I would have seen evidence of the digging and replanting.
The other thing I thought may have happened was that the yellow rose was a grafted bush and the root stock that was used was a red rose. I wasn't sure if roses were grafted or if this scenario was possibly so I did an internet search.
This link from the MSU Extension explains that indeed my second explanation is plausible. http://msue.anr.msu.edu/news/why_are_my_roses_changing_color Apparently I had pruned the rose bush down below the point where it was grafted. The root stock that was from a red rose was strong enough to survive and seems to be thriving in our garden. I do love this beautiful red rose and it will continue to remind me of my daughters.


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We wanted to get out of town – last minute! There was no snow in the mountains and my kids were about to be out of school for 2 1/2 weeks. What to do? Where to go? I started researching about three weeks out. I was sure it was possible to get away with our family of four using miles for travel and points for staying in an Airbnb, but not simple. I did a lot of research and finally landed on flying into Puerto Vallarta [PVR]. My whole family had spent time in Sayulita, Mexico over the years and it seemed like an easy trip that ticked off a lot of the most important travel points for my family:
- Travel mainly on miles/points
- Surf/beach/warm
- Easy non-stop travel
Having spent a lot of time in Mexico and Central America we knew we could make a quick trip to Sayulita and all get our needs met. Not a tough decision for my family!
Getting There
We flew to Puerto Vallarta on United for 17.5k points and back on Southwest for 9k points [per person]. We got cash in the airport [don't forget to let your bank know you are traveling] from our ATM card [I recommend using your ATM as they give the best exchange rates]. We actually forgot to tell our bank and we ended up having to call our bank from the airport to get our account unfrozen – just plan ahead and it's not a problem! We got the kids some snacks and drinks in the airport since we were about to take a cab for at least 45 minutes. We then easily caught a cab right outside the airport for $50 to Sayulita. Super easy! Most hosts can arrange a pick up at the PVR airport – but it will cost a little more.
Sayulita, Mexico
This amazing town has been designated as a Pueblo Magico by the Mexican Government. It is an easy, non-stop flight from the USA and only 45 minutes from Puerto Vallarta. It is also a laid back, sweet spot, that offers lots of real Mexico with a lot of the comforts and ease you might expect from a tourist spot.
The town in small enough that you can stay almost anywhere and be in easy walking distance to the beach. Be aware that there are a lot of places to stay up steep hills just outside of town – okay for adults and teens, but tough on little ones. This time my family really enjoyed staying a little out of town – we stayed on the north end of town, right on the beach, and loved the peace and quiet. It was a flat 5 minute walk into town along the beach or roads just behind our Airbnb. Certainly there was still more than enough going on to keep us entertained – beach, pool, ceviche on the beach, great food, massages, surfing, etc… I did notice that a lot of Gringos rented golf carts – but I like to get my family walking.
Food: Sayulita has great food options! Check out garlic shrimp on the beach at any of the restaurants, fresh fish at Don Pedros [we indulged and eat at the fanciest Sayulita dining establishment and it was still under $20 for each of us including a delicious swordfish meal, drinks, etc…], and delicious food at almost any turn. Try Choco-Banana for yummy breakfast and deserts. Eat street tacos at Ivan's in the evening. Tacos at Naty's during the day is always a great, very inexpensive, meal. Indulge in churros on the street in the evening. The food scene is a feast for your bellies and eyes – kids love it!
Surf: You can rent surf boards of all varieties right on the beach. Look up and down the beach for the best options – prices and quality varied. You can also arrange lessons at many surf shops along the streets right off the beach or at the tents on the beach. One surf school option is Lunazul. The surf was very calm in December, but it can get big!
Beach: The beach runs along the crescent shaped bay that is Sayulita. It is beautiful, but the sand is a bit rough. In places the beach drops off steeply into the ocean. It's okay for adults, but overhead for many kids and even teens. You will see people swimming, surfing and paddle boarding all day and into the evening. There is also a riptide that my own child has been saved from by a life guard on this very beach, so be aware. They do have life guards – a lot of beaches don't!
Housing: I love using Airbnb for housing – especially in small towns where I cannot use points or when I want a more local experience. Our options were limited because we were booking over the Christmas Break and we booked so last minute. But there were plenty of options on Airbnb. Also try VRBO and SayulitaLife for booking housing and all things Sayulita. With kids I always look for a pool in addition to the ocean since the surf can be exhausting to kids and sometimes it's nice to get a break. It's also nice to have air-conditioning in the bedrooms [even in December, but during warmer weather I think it's essential!]. We booked with Airbnb for under $190/night, last minute, in high season and this included a pool and was steps from the beach. It wasn't fancy by any means, but it had everything we needed!
There are a few different options for housing in Sayulita:
- In-town – convenient, but noisy and often cramped
- North of town – quieter, 5+ minute walk to town [can easily rent a golf cart for young kids or grandparents]
- Gringo Hill [or neighborhoods off the river] – these can be beautiful views, but a long walk, and very steep [double check this option for kids and grandparents]
- Take a quick trip to Punta Mita which offers beginner surf breaks that are long, long, long.
- Sail to the Marietta Islands with the Ally Cat Sailing Adventures. This was a super fun, all day excursion that included lots of sailing, food, drinks, whale watching, snorkeling, paddle boarding, jumping from the ship into the ocean below.
- Take a hike to Playa de Los Muertos – this is a hidden beach within walking distance to Sayulita even with kids. Walk out of town along the road that parallels the beach past Villa Amor. Head up over the hill past the cemetery on your left and down to a secluded beach – sometimes it doesn't feel so secluded, but it's certainly more private than the Sayulita beach.
The Good
- Easy, direct flights to PVR and simple to transfer to Sayulita
- Good food and easy to find
- Reasonably priced – the flights, housing, and especially food!
- The North side of Sayulita – we loved it! Good food, quiet beaches, peaceful evenings, etc…
- It's easy to get around without a lot of Spanish language skills. I also see this as a negative for those of us who want to practice our Spanish.
The Bad
- It was packed! So many, many tourists. I would say you can expect an equal number gringos and Mexican tourists in December. The summers are relatively empty there, but humid.
- The beach is okay, but it is so crowded that there are literally umbrellas touching one another for 100s of yards, and stacked 6 deep, in the main part of town
- You have to say, "No, gracias" so many times when you are near the beach because so many people are walking around selling their wares.
- Too easy to speak English in this town that is used to tourists.
I have a sweet spot in my heart for Sayulita, Mexico. I do agree that it is a Pueblo Magico!


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Wang Zhelin ushers in the strongest helper
Wang Zhelin and Zhou Qi had defeated the first round of the season.Figure / Osports Beijing News News Wang Zhelin's helper is coming, will the Fujian men's basketball team improve?In the new season of the CBA League 4 rounds, the Fujian team announced today that Stadmeier will replace guard Eric Green.Starting from the game against the Bayi men's basketball team on the evening of the 13th, Stoudemire will represent the Fujian men's basketball team in the 2019-2020 season CBA league.In these 4 rounds, the Fujian men's basketball team played very hard and did not taste a victory at the beginning of the season.The team lost to Zhejiang Guangsha 90 to 93, lost to Shanxi 107 to 115, lost to Qingdao 119 to 125, and lost to Xinjiang 120 to 127 in the previous round.In the first four seasons losing streak, the Fujian men's basketball team had to take some actions.After 4 rounds, the five teams of the CBA have not won in the new season, and the Fujian Men's Basketball Team is one of them.In four games, the Fujian team averaged 109 points per game and ranked 8th out of 20 teams. It seemed to have no problem, but in terms of average points per game, the team ranked third with 115 points.It is worth mentioning that although the core Wang Zhelin is currently averaging 26.The 3-point data ranks 16th in the league and ranks first among domestic players, but the last game was "hit" by Zhou Qi, which may become one of the reasons why the club immediately decided to replace foreign aid.In the last round of losing to Xinjiang, Wang Zhelin scored 27 points, 9 rebounds, and finally left 6 offenses, but Zhou Qi scored a career-high 35 points in front of him.Zhou Qi's joining made Xinjiang's strength upgrade, but Wang Zhelin led the team to surround the quagmire with help.Stoudemire made a casual appearance with the team before.Figure / Osports under such expectations, the voice of Stoudemire sounded.When Stoudemire joined the CBA, he caused a lot of sensation, but he was originally regarded as the third foreign aid by the Fujian team because of the late arrival time. So far, he has not obtained a chance to play.However, can 37-year-old Stoudemire become the team's savior, will his appearance affect the distribution of ball rights?The internal attack and defense pressure of the Fujian Air Force is on Wang Zhelin alone. Will the arrival of Stoudemire liberate him?The answers to all these questions are reset and tomorrow's game begins to be announced one after another.CBA's first "Battle of the Kings" in the new season is indeed Zhou Qi won the game, but after all, it is only the first round of the two.Who will win the next meeting and win the data?Of course, only Wang Zhelin, who was "released", is expected to continue the battle for "the best insider in China."
Wang Zhelin ushered in the strongest helper, the best domestic competition is still to be continued
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Great game soundtracks for less than a pack of Pop Rocks
Gone are the days when owning your favorite game music required spending exorbitant amounts of money on a Japanese import. I say good riddance (though I still cherish my old Final Fantasy Tactics soundtrack CD). These days, some of the best game music is being produced by independent artists who make their work available for a fraction of what we used to pay.
This most recent Game Music Bundle takes that to an extreme. For just one measly dollar (or more if you are feeling generous), you can have digital copies of the soundtracks for Fez, FTL: Faster Than Light, Gunpoint, Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded, Monaco: What's Yours is Mine, and World of Goo. Chip in ten dollar or more and the bundle size triples to include soundtracks like Frog Fractions, Little Inferno, and more.
While I already have several of these, this bundle still seems too good to pass up. Some day, I will be able to resist things like this. Today is not that day.


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CinéBistro at Grove 16
Enjoy Wesley Chapel's most innovative movie and dining experience, featuring Executive Chef Rich Hudson's American Bistro menu prepared from scratch each day using only the finest and freshest ingredients available. And complement it all with premium cocktails, extensive wine selections and movie-inspired drinks.
Menu selections and pricing subject to change. You must be 21 or over to drink alcohol, and please, drink responsibly. Management reserves the right to refuse service. Proper Identification Required.
A gratuity is automatically added to your check for in-theater dining only. The payment of this gratuity is subject to your complete discretion and may be increased, decreased or eliminated entirely.
For in-theatre service you must arrive 30 minutes before showtime.


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An Overview Of Casino Gaming
An Overview Of Casino Gaming
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People from a wide range of cultural, religious, and socioeconomic backgrounds have strong opinions on a variety of issues regarding gambling at casinos. Casino gambling is often frowned upon by religious leaders due to the societal consequences that are considered to be associated with it. Because of this, gambling of any kind—including main168 casino gambling—is prohibited in nations characterized by a strong religious tradition. Most Islamic countries have a policy of "zero tolerance" for gambling. Other countries, on the other hand, often have some rules about gambling.
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The law differentiates between bets and insurance contracts since bets and insurance contracts have many characteristics but not all of them. It is common practice to refer to as an "insurance contract" any kind of arrangement in which one of the parties has an interest in the result of the bet that goes beyond the financial parameters that have been stipulated. As a result, the wager on whether or not a person's house would catch fire transforms into a contract for insurance given that each individual has a separate stake in the safety of his or her own property.
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Because the word "gambling" makes people think of bad things, people who run casinos and racetracks often use the word "gaming" to describe the fun things that people can do there.Report this page