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since i can't currently be on the beach watching my boyfriend attempting to surf the take-what-we-can-get waves of miami, a link to an upcoming exhibit in new york.
"Nyehaus, Friedrich Petzel Gallery and Metro Pictures present SWELL—with curatorial team Tim Nye and Jacqueline Miro—a survey of surf-themed art produced by city dwellers that will open to the public on July 1st at the three gallery locations in Chelsea. Swell will include work by most members of the group of Venice Beach artists known as Light and Space and Finish Fetish (all of them surfers) including De Wain Valentine, Peter Alexander, Larry Bell, Billy Al Bengston, Laddie John Dill and others."
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Friday, March 16, 2012
Only had time for a few tracks after the baseball game. Here ya go!
Julianna Barwick - Anjos - Florine
The Ecstacy of St. Theresa - Trance (Between the Stars) - ...Fluidtrance Centauri...
Broadcast - Tears in the Typing Pool - Tender Buttons
Tafo feat. Nahid Akhtar - Na Main Chini Na Japani - The Sound of Wonder!
*The Magnetic Fields - Goin' Back to the Country - Love at the Bottom of the Sea
[REQ] The American Analogue Set - Continuous Hit Music - Promise of Love
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Client Alert - The False Claims Act: The Impact in 2012
Mintz Levin has issued a Client Alert: The False Claims Act: The Impact in 2012 - Part II in a Continuing Series on Health Care Enforcement. Written by Hope Foster, Tracy Miner and Brian Dunphy, this second part in our ongoing series reviewing health care fraud enforcement activities in 2011 and monitoring enforcement in 2012, expands upon our prior discussion in part one (Part One Report) of the federal False Claims Act (FCA) - the government's primary and most powerful civil health care fraud enforcement tool.
M. Daria Niewenhous
M. Daria Niewenhous is a Mintz Member with a well-established health care practice. National and local providers rely on Daria's experience to navigate capital projects, mergers & acquisitions, integration, and other strategic initiatives; adverse events; and licensing, contracting, patient care/risk management, and other complex legal matters.


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The war was all but over, or so they thought. The British War Cabinet was convinced it would be finished by Christmas. The American War Production Board canceled contracts for artillery shells. The Allies were in France; the Germans were in retreat. It was late summer 1944, and combatants on both sides were past exhaustion.
But peace was not at hand.
"The German army's extraordinary capacity to recover from disaster had been shown time and time again on the eastern front as well as in the west,'' Antony Beevor writes in "Ardennes 1944,'' his masterly study of the Nazis's last-gasp attempt to launch a major counteroffensive to recoup some momentum in a war they were clearly losing. "Morale was bad, but the determination to fight on had not collapsed entirely.''
In this latest installment in the war chronicles that he has produced in recent years, Beevor makes clear that there was still fighting to be done, and not just between the Axis powers and the Allies. Dwight Eisenhower would wrestle with Bernard Montgomery; Charles DeGaulle would struggle with just about everybody; German soldiers and German civilians would have their own psychological battles.
Beevor paints a searing portrait of a world weary of war but unable to stop it as the combat dragged on in conditions so full of misery and privation that German soldiers — 60 percent of whom were infected with lice — eyed regimental horses for food. A plan proffered by US Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morganthau and publicized by German authorities to transform a defeated Germany into an agrarian backwater only served to stiffen that nation's resolve.
"The German people must realize that we are engaged in a life and death struggle,'' a leading Nazi newspaper proclaimed, "which imposes on every German the duty to do his utmost for the victorious conclusion of the war and the frustration of the plans of destruction planned by these cannibals.''
Reflecting the Allies's miscalculation of the situation, Eisenhower had ordered the demobilization of resistance forces in Belgium in November. Adolf Hitler had other ideas. Since mid-September he had been thinking about a new offensive, a notion fortified by his conviction, which turned out to be correct, that the Allied coalition of capitalists and communists was inherently unstable, and his view, which also proved right, that a final lightning attack would catch his opponents off guard.
But two rights in this case made for a dreadful military wrong.
Planning for this Nazi offensive proceeded in the strictest secrecy, enforced by a death penalty for infractions of the silence. Regimental commanders weren't informed until the day before the move. But, fatefully, Hitler had an exaggerated sense of the resources at his command and was increasingly lost in a fog of delirium. "His mood swings,'' Beevor tells us, "were highly erratic, from total dejection to groundless optimism.'' The result, as Field Marshal Walter Model put it, was "the worst prepared German offensive of this war.''
It was so totally irrational that it came as a total surprise.
This was, on the Allied side, a failure of intelligence, but also a failure of imagination. "The Allies,'' he writes, "could not believe that the Germans in their weakened state would dare to undertake an ambitious strategic offensive, when they needed to husband their strength before the Red Army launched its own winter onslaught.''
The German attack began with an aerial bombardment. An American army built for forward movement and attack was on its heels. In Paris, imprisoned collaborators celebrated amid fantasies of their own liberation. A German lieutenant wrote to his wife: "Our soldiers still have the same old zip. Always advancing and smashing everything. The snow must turn red with American blood. Victory was never as close as it is now.''
With insufficient food and artillery shells, the Allies battled on, fighting hard frost and cold wind. Beevor's battle descriptions crackle with you-were-there authenticity.
In one case, the award-winning historian details how entire Belgian villages, their residents summoned to central squares by the tolling of church bells, contributed bedsheets to be used to provide the GIs, whose uniforms stood out against the white snow, with camouflage. Unfortunately, the soldiers soon discovered that their protective coverings rustled when wet and frozen.
By Christmas it was clear the Germans could not prevail, especially because the American air drops of supplies (and Christmas packages from home) fortified the combatants on the ground. Hitler told his Luftwaffe adjutant that the war was lost but added, "We may go down, but we will take the world with us.''
A battle enabled by Americans' failure to defend the Ardennes front sufficiently resulted in what Winston Churchill called "undoubtedly the greatest American battle of the war and will, I believe, be regarded as an ever famous American victory.'' But the real meaning of this battle, and this book, is broader than this conflict alone: It led to American military supremacy that would have no challenge, at least in the West, to this day.
The Battle of the Bulge
By Antony Beevor
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Cognitive Therapy for Depression" Retrieved at http://www.psychologyinfo.com/depression/cognitive.htm. Accessed on February 15, 2005
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With its Here One earbuds, Doppler Labs wants to put two extra brains in your ears — Quartz
Cisneros starts to speak to me in Spanish. About half a second after she begins talking, I hear a translation in English.
It's difficult to describe hearing someone speak in another language, and immediately understanding what they've said. It feels like being kicked in the chest by the future.
(...) The Amazon Echo has proven audio's power to be the medium through which we interact with our devices, but people still underestimate the power of putting computers in your ears. Smarter hearing could automatically make a conversation in a loud bar more understandable, a commute quieter, or, eventually, a real-time dialogue across languages entirely possible.
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Today I continued working with the Photomatix Tone Mapping plug-in for Photoshop CS. When I first made the ditch to all digital I did a lot of my work in jpeg only mostly out of the fear of RAW shooting and wanting to get a handle on one variable at a time with the digital SLR.
Going into the process I knew that JPEG was a "losey" way to shoot as details are lost during the compression process even if you do minimal compression. I knew as well that adjusting the contrast could only do so much in terms of capturing details across the grey scale. I did a lot of bracketing only to find the contrast range of the sensor wound up leaving me with shadows absent a lot of detail when I got the mid-tones and highlights right. Just a devil in the process you have to know and learn to work with. I knew too that cold also affected how a sensor reacts to light which affects your final image.
Why I chose a place like Yosemite to experiment with the variables leaving a lot at risk, I don't know. (Probably has something to do with my habit of tossing caution to the wind and running with scissors more often than not).
Sadly, at the bottom of the learning curve I lost a lot of images learning how the sensor and camera worked together as many of my images had too many extremes to really capture the essence and spirit of the place I was trying to show.
Those frames are completely workable with the help of Photomatix Tone_mapping. I can maintain my highlights and mid-tones and still bring in all the richness of the shadows. It's this sort of salvage that makes it possible to bring back the images you shot with all the detail and emotion you wanted with the help of technology. Of course in hindsight if I had shot it all RAW in the beginning I would have had even more pixel-by-pixel data to work with, but that's part of the early learning curve with a new tool.
Of course when I shot this set along the Merced River in the meadows in the heart of Yosemite Valley I got the added bonus of warm sunlight as the sun was lowering on the horizon. The natural color shifts were "warming" up of moving towards the yellow/red end of the spectrum contrasted nicely with the gray/blue granite cliffs that were picking up the blue from the open sky above.
End result I got great contrast between warm living trees and cold granite. This played nicely as well with the softer, rounded forms of the trees contrasting with the jagged edges of the mountains too. Lots of visual interest to draw you into the photo and feel Yosemite later afternoon during the winter.
Enjoy my two view of the Merced River in the Yosemite Valley!


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|Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
|Candelilla Cera
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|Cera Alba
|emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, perfuming
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|Myristyl Myristate
|2, 0-5
|Copernicia Cerifera Cera
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|Cetyl Alcohol
|emollient, emulsifying, viscosity controlling, surfactant/cleansing
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|Myristyl Lactate
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|Ethylhexyl Palmitate
|emollient, perfuming
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NudeStix Lip And Cheek PencilIngredients explained
Castor oil is sourced from the castor bean plant native to tropical areas in Eastern Africa and the Mediterranean Basin. It is an age-old ingredient (it's over 4,000 years old!) with many uses including as a shoe polish, food additive and motor lubricant. You would be reasonable to think that putting shoe polish on your face wouldn't be the best idea, but it turns out castor oil has some unique properties that make it a stalwart in thick and gloss-giving formulas (think lipsticks and highlighters).
So what is so special about it? The answer is its main fatty acid, called ricinoleic acid (85-95%). Unlike other fatty acids, ricinoleic acid has an extra water-loving part (aka -OH group) on its fatty chain that gives Castor Oil several unique properties. First, it is thicker than other oils, then its solubility is different (e.g. dissolves in alcohol but not in mineral oil), and it allows all kinds of chemical modifications other oils do not, hence the lots of Castor oil-derived ingredients. It is also more glossy than other oils, in fact, it creates the highest gloss of all natural oils when applied to the skin. Other than that, it is a very effective emollient and occlusive that reduces skin moisture loss so it is quite common in smaller amounts in moisturizers.
While it is very unlikely (and this is true for pretty much every ingredient), cases of reactions to castor oil have been reported, so if your skin is sensitive, it never hurts to patch test.
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A super common emollient that makes your skin feel nice and smooth. It comes from coconut oil and glycerin, it's light-textured, clear, odorless and non-greasy. It's a nice ingredient that just feels good on the skin, is super well tolerated by every skin type and easy to formulate with. No wonder it's popular.
A vegetable wax coming from the leaves of the North Mexican candelilla shrubs (Euphorbia cerifera and Euphorbia antisyphilitica). Similar to other waxes, it is used to stabilize products and give body to them, or to keep stick type formulas solid. It has a melting point around 70C and has high gloss making it a good choice for lip products.
It's the yellow, solid stuff that you probably know from beeswax candles. It's a natural material produced by honey bees to build their honeycomb.
As for skincare, it's used as an emollient and thickening agent. It's super common in lip balms and lipsticks.
It's a waxy emollient with a melting point near to skin temperature. It gives body and consistency to the formula and leaves a velvety feel on the skin.
It has a high comedogenicity index (5 out of 5), so it might clog pores if you are prone to it. Famous dermatologist, Dr. Leslie Baumann also writes in her book, The Skin Type Solution to avoid this ingredient if you are acne-prone.
A vegetable wax coming from the leaves of the Brazilian tropical palm tree, Copernicia cerifera. Similar to other waxes, it is used to stabilize and give body to products, or to keep stick type formulas solid. It is the hardest natural wax with a high melting point (around 85C) and high gloss making it a great wax choice for lip products.
A so-called fatty (the good, non-drying kind of) alcohol that does all kinds of things in a skincare product: it makes your skin feel smooth and nice (emollient), helps to thicken up products and also helps water and oil to blend (emulsifier). Can be derived from coconut or palm kernel oil.
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- Primary fat-soluble antioxidant in our skin
- Significant photoprotection against UVB rays
- Vit C + Vit E work in synergy and provide great photoprotection
- Has emollient properties
- Easy to formulate, stable and relatively inexpensive
A super common, medium-spreading emollient ester that gives richness to the formula and a mild feel during rubout. It can be a replacement for mineral oil and is often combined with other emollients to achieve different sensorial properties.
Unless you live under a rock you must have heard about shea butter. It's probably the most hyped up natural butter in skincare today. It comes from the seeds of African Shea or Karite Trees and used as a magic moisturizer and emollient.
But it's not only a simple emollient, it regenerates and soothes the skin, protects it from external factors (such as UV rays or wind) and is also rich in antioxidants (among others vitamin A, E, F, quercetin and epigallocatechin gallate). If you are looking for rich emollient benefits + more, shea is hard to beat.
Talc is the major component of most powder makeup products (think face powder, eyeshadows, and blushers) that usually contain it up to 70%. Its two winning properties that make it very suitable for this role is its outstanding spreadability for a smooth application and its low covering power, aka translucency to avoid clown-like effects.
Chemically speaking, it is a clay mineral (hydrated magnesium silicate) that is mined in several countries. The drawback of mined minerals is potential impurities and the version used in cosmetics has to be white (not gray like cheaper grades), free from asbestos, sterilized and have thin plates for a maximum slip.
A form of skincare superstar, vitamin C. Even though we are massive vitamin C fans, Ascorbyl Palmitate (AP) is our least favorite. (Btw, if you do not know what the big deal with vitamin C is then you are missing out. You must go and read our geeky details about it.)
So, AP is one of the attempts by the cosmetics industry to solve the stability issues with vitamin C while preserving its benefits, but it seems to fall short on several things.
What's the problem?
Firstly, it's stability is only similar to that of pure ascorbic acid (AA), which means it is not really stable. A great study in the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology compared a bunch of vitamin C derivatives and this derivative was the only one where the study said in terms of stability that it's "similar to AA". Not really that good.
Second, a study that examined the skin absorption of vitamin C found that ascorbyl palmitate did not increase the skin levels of AA. This does not mean that ascorbyl palmitate cannot penetrate the skin (because it can, it's oil soluble and the skin likes to absorb oil soluble things) but this means that it's questionable if ascorbyl palmitate can be converted into pure Vit C in the skin. Even if it can be converted, the palmitate part of the molecule is more than the half of it, so the efficacy will not be good and we have never seen a serum that contains a decent (and proudly disclosed) amount of AP. We are highly skeptical what effect a tiny amount of AP has in a formula.
Third, another study that wanted to examine the antioxidant properties of AP was surprised to find that even though AP does have nice antioxidant properties; following UVB radiation (the same one that comes from the sun) it also promotes lipid peroxidation and cytotoxicity. It was only an in-vitro study meaning that it was done on cell cultures and not on real people, but still, this also does not support the use of AP too much.
The only good thing we can write about Ascorbyl Palmitate is that there is an in-vitro (made in the lab, not on real people) study showing that it might be able to boost collagen production.
Regarding the skin-brightening properties of pure vitamin C, this is another magic property AP does not have, or at least there is no data, not even in-vitro, about it.
Overall, Ascorbyl Palmitate is our least favorite vitamin C derivative. It is there in lots of products in tiny amounts (honestly, we do not really understand why), however, we do not know about any vitamin C serum featuring AP in high amounts. That is probably no coincidence. If you are into vitamin C, you can take a look at more promising derivatives here.
It's the triglyceride of behenic acid that works as a thickening or gelling agent, as a compacting agent for pressed powders, and improves heat stability of emulsions.
A handy helper ingredient that helps water and oil to mix nicely together, aka emulsifier. It is especially recommended for protective, baby care and general purpose emollient creams.
It also helps to disperse insoluble particles (think color pigments or zinc/titanium dioxide sunscreen) nice and even in cosmetic formulas.
A six amino acid peptide that is claimed to improve firmness and skin tone. Its amino acid sequence is Val-Gly-Val-Ala-Pro-Gly that is also called the "spring fragment" and is repeated six times in the important skin protein, elastin molecule.
The manufacturer made a double-blind, one-month long clinical study on 10 women and found that twice a day application of 4% Biopeptide El improved skin firmness by 33% and skin tone by 20%.
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Why am I getting a black screen on Windows?
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Daryl is running Windows 8.1, but after a so-called critical update, he gets a black screen. Leo says that sometimes an update can break something, and it sounds like it may be an incompatible video driver. First thing to do is to boot into Safe Mode. Then, if his screen comes up, that indicates a driver issue. Daryl should go to the video card manufacturer's website and download the latest video driver.


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Documents leaked to the Guardian about Facebook's editorial processes seem to back up some of the accusations stemming from a Gizmodo report this week about bias in the way the stories for the social network's Trending news section are chosen.
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Photo: CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the keynote speech at the Facebook's F8 Developers Conference on April 12, 2016, in San Francisco, Calif. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
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The greatest name ever given in heaven and on earth is the name JESUS. That's the only name that answers to every question of man on earth.
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The evolution of mental health disorders
Mental health disorders can be debilitating and agonising, and they are becoming ever more prominent factors of human health. Scientists are now just beginning to unravel how these disorders could have been the trade-off for rapid and impressive human evolution.
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The symptoms of schizophrenia – including auditory hallucinations – involve brain regions that are associated with speech. According to Bernard Crespi, an evolutionary biologist at Simon Fraser University (BC, Canada), the ability to speak probably outweighed the risk that the associated genes may malfunction and result in schizophrenia.
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The team, led by Renato Polimanti, analyzed 2455 DNA samples from individuals from 23 different locations across Europe and calculated each person's risk of developing mental health disorders. They plan to continue by examining these links in different regions of the world.
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Other groups of scientists are looking to the Neanderthal genome for answers. Their hypothesis is that if they can identify the same genetic markers in Neanderthals, they will be able to assess how human brains have evolved in comparison to Neanderthal brains and whether they suffered from the same mental health problems human do now.
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As the FOXP2 gene is associated with language, this could be overexpressed in humans in comparison to Neanderthals – which accounts for the increased language capabilities of humans. Capra plans to continue looking for differences in how Neanderthal and human genes are expressed, hoping to account for the emergence of mental health disorders.
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A team from Stanford University (CA, USA) has discovered repeated DNA sequences within the CACNA1C gene, which are unique to humans, may be linked to the development of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The mutations exist within a stretch of DNA that has been previously linked to these disorders; however, it is difficult to recognise the repetitions with traditional sequencing methods, so hadn't been identified until now.
The findings suggest that the rapid evolution of the human brain may have predisposed humans to conditions that are not seen in other animals.
"The human genome reference sequence shows only 10 repeats of this 30-nucleotide sequence, but we've found that individuals actually have from 100 to 1,000 repeats, and that the sequence itself can vary," explained David Kingsley, senior author of the study and professor of developmental biology at Stanford University.
"In contrast, chimpanzees and other primates have just one repeat of the sequence, indicating that the region has greatly expanded during human evolution. Some of the sequence variants now found in people are also closely associated with the development of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder."
This research is all still in the early stages, however, the use of human genome databases has propelled this kind of study forward. The future may now bring some insight as to how and why mental health disorders developed in the modern human brain.


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We have an open-door catering policy, which allows you to bring in a caterer of your choice; however we do provide a list of experienced caterers (PDF).
All food must be prepared in a commercial kitchen, purchased from a commercial store or delivered from a restaurant. The manor does not provide a commercial kitchen however we offer a very accommodating preparation space in the kitchen and garage. The kitchen provide one standard refrigerator / freezer, one microwave, one hand washing sink, prepping countertops, one large prep table, garbage, compost & recycling cans. The garage offers one large prep table, four 6-foot prep tables, one hand washing sink, one full-size refrigerator, one full-size freezer, and garbage, compost and recycling cans. Potlucks are not allowed. All food service should be under the supervision of a licensed caterer. Catering supplies such as linens, plates, glasses and serving ware are typically provided by your caterer. Please be sure to discuss what they provide and the costs prior to contracting with a caterer. On-site cooking inside the facility is not allowed. Heating or warming is permitted, although equipment is not provided.
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All alcohol must be served by a licensed Class 12 bartender. Most caterers employ licensed bartenders and can often arrange the bar tending service for you.
No self-serve is allowed. Use of privately-provided alcohol, including flasks, is not allowed.
Open bottles of alcohol, usually wine, on the tables for self-pour service and decoration are also not allowed.
Service must end one hour prior to your rental end time. Event insurance may apply — please discuss the requirements and cost with the Rental Office. It is recommended to hire two bartenders per bar, so that as breaks are needed your bar does not have to close to your guests during breaks.
Expectations of Renters
Note: If you did not hire a caterer, then you will be responsible for the caterer's duties.
|Unlocks the facility
|Delivers and unloads event materials and supplies
|Decorates the facility - indoor and outdoor
|Sets up all rental equipment brought in
|Sets up our facility equipment - tables, chairs, staging, sound system, AV equipment, etc.
|Prepares catering and bar service area
|Coordinates event activities and transitions
|Monitors guest and vendor activity
|Moves, rearranges or removes facility equipment during your event if requested
|Buses tables
|Empties garbage, recycling and composting bins
|Hauls garbage to dumpsters and compost to compost bin
|Keeps the restroom cleaned and stocked
|Takes down decorations – indoor and outdoor
|Tears down facility-owned tables and chairs after the event
|Tears down rental equipment
|Cleans up kitchen - sweeping, mopping, wiping down tables and microwave, clearing out fridge and freezer
|Sweeps and mops the facility (excluding the kitchen)
|Final restroom cleaning
|Shuts windows and locks doors
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The City of Rockwall sent out a press release Tuesday announcing that Landscapes Unlimited will no longer be purchasing The Shores Golf Course.
The company had reached a preliminary agreement with IRI Golf Group, the current owner, and Hillcrest Bank for purchasing the course. IRI filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and closed the golf course in July.
The press release stated that the news came as city officials had started working with Landscapes Unlimited on terms for a lease agreement. The city controls portions of land within the course, including the back nine holes and portions of another four.
City Manager Julie Couch stated in the release that the city didn't have a timeline for the court's action on the motion or for when the course might reopen. She did note that the city would continue to maintain, irrigate and mow the portions of the course under its control.
Read the complete release after the jump.
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Smart TVs
Smart TVs were all the rage this year again at CES. Larger TVs with more powerful processors and better smart home features were once again unveiled. One of the biggest show stoppers was Samsung tile TV. This television allowed consumers and businesses to create any size of TV they wish by assembling tiles together to create a larger, seamless display.
After this year's CES it might be work considering upgrading your smart TV, especially if you have a goal planned to retrofit your home into a smart home. A smart TV fits perfectly into that plan. Let me explain why.
High-end luxury home automation kits like Control4 are capable of taking all of the pieces in your smart home and combining them together to create one unified system. Off-the-shelf products make achieving such unification and ease of use very difficult. Products like Control4 bring together these devices so that your smart TV can communicate with your security camera and your smart lighting.
Imagine a world where your doorbell rings and you can ask your house, "Who's there?" without having to walk to your front door. How cool would it be to be able to ask your house to switch to movie mode and your lights slowly dim while your projector warms up and your screen rolls down from the ceiling? These kinds of actions are becoming more of a commonplace within the home now that better smart home devices are entering the market.
Of course, much like you would need an electrician to install new wiring in your home you'll need a Control4 dealer to create a smart home strategy that makes sense for you. Not all smart home strategies work for everyone. There is no one-size-fits-all solution, but a good Control4 dealer can easily combine your home security, your smart TV, your smart lighting, and any voice-controlled devices into an easy-to-use package that anyone can understand.
Since CES unveiled new 8K panels with amazing picture quality and super high resolutions, it might be time to start thinking about making that smart TV upgrade. Though 8K TVs were largely scoffed at a few years ago, nor do we have much in the way of 8K content, these TVs now come in amazingly large sizes with really good upscale engines. That means if you hang that 80" TV on your wall. 4K content will still look amazing because of how that 8K TV is able to expand that picture. If you want to watch your security camera through that 8K TV, too, you'll be able to read the license plate from that person that picked up your daughter 20 minutes ago without any problem.


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This simple baseline out of bounds play is often quite effective at getting a layup.
When the official hands the basketball to O1, O3 cuts to opposite side of lane and screens O5's defender. (O3 should also turn to basket as he sets the screen).
O5 runs his defender into O3 and then cuts across the lane.
If the screen is effective and there is no switch, O5 will be open to receive the pass from O1 for the layup. If the defenders switch, O3 can step in, seal the defender on his back and receive the pass from O1.
At the same time, O4 steps into the lane a couple of steps behind O3 and screens for O2 who runs his defender off the screen.
This action may result in a mid-range jumper for O2 if nothing is available under the basket. It will also provide a couple of outlets if the intended layups are not available
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A 6-3 decision by the Supreme Court on Thursday saved the Affordable Care Act by upholding federal tax credits for eligible Americans. The court was asked to decide whether the federal government should be allowed to pay subsidies to individuals living in states (like Ohio) that opted out of having their own state health insurance exchanges. The subsidies are a vital part of the Affordable Care Act and without the subsidies millions of Americans would have been unable to pay for their government mandated health insurance.
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Greg Kelly Is A Bigger Sexist Than Ron Burgundy
In a situation that seems like it was ripped from a Mad Men episode, Good Day New York host Greg Kelly blatantly ogled and made inappropriate comments about his coworker's body, live and on air last Saturday. Kelly's coworker and reporter Anna Gilligan was filming a segment on a new zip-line attraction at a New Jersey water park which required her to wear a bikini. In a clip from the segment, Kelly can be heard making comments such as, "First of all, nice bathing suit", and paid no attention to co-anchor Rosanna Scotto who clearly indicated his comments were inappropriate. The segment finally concluded despite Kelly's awkward attempt to prolong the shot of Gilligan in a bikini, and thus ended the incredibly uncomfortable and sexist news segment.
Greg Kelly's behavior is so blatantly sexist and creepy it's almost unreal. It appears that this was an attempt at some kind of Ron Burgundy-esque, I'm-a-raging-sexist-yet-somehow-suave news anchor schtick, and it failed. It failed miserably. Even Ron Burgundy, our favorite fictional local news anchor and flaming sexist (favorite because he ISN'T REAL), isn't even as sexist as real-life creeper Greg Kelly. If you find that hard to believe, we've compiled all the way Greg Kelly is a bigger sexist creep than Ron Burgundy:
Ron Burgundy on workplace diversity:
"I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the civil war era."
Wrong answer, but still gets a low score on the Greg Kelly sexism scale.
Ron Burgundy on women in the workplace:
"It is anchorman, not anchorlady. And that is a scientific fact."
Again, grossly misinformed, but he's also NOT A REAL PERSON.
Greg Kelly's internal monologue:
"Tits McGee" was definitely implied.
And speaking of "Tits McGee":
Unlike Ron Burgundy, Greg Kelly isn't embarrassed to hit on a fellow news anchor...
...in front of a LIVE AUDIENCE.
Kelly might do well to invest in, uh, a different "pair of pants"
Is it an "optical illusion" that he's a total creep?
Ron Burgundy on co-anchor Veronica Corningstone:
"She has beautiful eyes, and her hair smells like cinnamon!"
That's actually just a nice compliment.
We know fame has a price for local news anchors like Greg Kelly:
But local news-reporting fame isn't a license to be the creepiest guy EVER.
Especially when it's caught on LIVE TELEVISION.
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Algeria booked an Africa Cup of Nations semi-final with Nigeria after battling past Ivory Coast on penalties.
Sofiane Feghouli broke the deadlock in the first half for Algeria ahead after Baghdad Bounedjah squared it to the Galatasaray midfielder.
After the break, Bounedjah hit the bar from the spot after earning Algeria a penalty, and they were made to pay just after the hour-mark when the Ivory Coast equalised through Aston Villa forward Jonathan Kodjia, who rode a tackle before firing a superb effort into the far corner.
The match ultimately went the distance, and after five perfect penalties, Wilfried Bony saw his penalty saved, and though Youcef Belaili could only hit the post with Algeria's fifth penalty, Serey Die did likewise to send the Ivory Coast packing.
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Algeria pass the Cote D'Ivoire test to qualify to the semi-finals.
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Joshua and Caleb, and Shimon Peres teach us to see the world in terms of its potential.
One of the books I enjoyed during sabbatical was Shimon Peres' autobiography, No Room for Small Dreams, which was published just a few weeks before he died in 2016. Peres writes about emigrating to the land of Israel in 1934 from his native Poland, leaving behind an extended family who were later murdered during the Holocaust. He would go on to serve as Prime Minister, President, Foreign Minister and head of several other ministries. He was central participant in key moments of Israel's history. A central theme is that what allowed him and Israel to thrive is the ability to see what might be in the face of realities that seemed contrary to that vision. Amidst uncertainty and stress, Peres was able to see what many of us would have labeled as unrealistic, or foolhardy.
The ability to see potential and possibility amidst those who reject that vision is also the story of the spies from this morning's portion. Moses sent twelve men to spy out the land. The men were leaders, princes of their tribes, people of distinction. Yet ten of them came back with a negative report. (p. 843, 13:27) Ask yourselves why, as you read and hear their report: "We came to the land you sent us to; it does indeed flow with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. However, the people who inhabit the country are powerful, and the cities are fortifies and very large." The people are getting upset and the spies can only see the worst possibilities. In verse 31: "We cannot attack that people, for it is stronger than we. …The country that we traveled and scouted is one that devours its settlers. All the people that we saw in it are men of great size, we saw the Nephilim there – the Anakites are part of the Nephilim – and we looked like grasshoppers to ourselves." They didn't believe they could succeed. They only saw obstacles and were defined by a self image of being small and weak – grasshoppers.
Yet two spies, Joshua and Caleb, didn't see through eyes of fear. They saw potential. They tried to rally the people: "Let us by all means go up, and we shall gain possession of it, for we shall surely overcome it."
This was Peres' book – how to envision what could be, when no one else believed it possible. One of the first historic moments he describes is his role in building the Israeli Air Force. We take the strength of the Israeli Air Force and the Israeli aircraft industry for granted. But at the outset of the state, Israel had a few broken down warplanes from other countries and no means to repair them. Peres met a man in California named Al Schwimmer – an Jewish American pilot and aviation engineer who joined the Israeli Air Force during the War of Independence. When the war was over, Al returned to California and in a remote airfield just north of Los Angeles, he rented a modest airplane hangar with the thought of creating aircraft for El Al, the newly created Israeli airline. Peres' job was to purchase planes in the US and sent them to Al, who would repair and then fly them to Israel or smuggle them out of the United States. He began to envision creating a full-fledged aircraft industry in Israel, so that the planes could be serviced and possibly even exported. As they dream, they dared to imagine designing and building their own planes.
But how can you realize such a vision? It's impossible! Israel was in financial crisis following the war. There was mass immigration – in three years the population had doubled from 600,000 to 1.2 million as people came in from countries where they suffered oppression. They were living in harsh conditions, there was rationing. Poverty was the central condition of the young state – how could you build an expensive aircraft industry in those conditions?
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks wrote a beautiful drash for this week's portion where he brings therapist David Burns to help us understand this part of our humanity.
Burns teaches that often we engage in all-or-nothing thinking – things are black or white, good or bad, easy or impossible. All of nothing leaves no room for nuance or complexity. We also ten to have what Burns calls negative filtering. We discount the positives as being insignificant, and focus almost exclusively on the negatives. We catastrophize, expecting the worst, no matter what.
Part of what we do is mind-reading. We assume we know what other people are thinking. In the passage we read, it wasn't just the spies who saw themselves as grasshoppers, but they assume the people see them as grasshoppers! How would they know that? But they attributed to them what they felt about themselves.
Another piece of our behavior is our inability to see any other point of view. We arrive at our conclusion and refuse to consider anything else
The key to overcome this piece of ourselves is to question our assumptions, consider alternatives, check ourselves when we allow fear to define our essence. I loved Peres' book because so much of Israel's history occurs because he and other leaders see what can be. They dream big. Peres reminds us that cynicism is the greatest threat we face. "In a world of so many grave challenges, what could be more dangerous than discouraging ideas and ambition?" We need that vision right now to continue Peres' quest for peace and belief that nation states need to reflect our highest ideals.
Joshua and Caleb, and Shimon Peres teach us to see the world in terms of its potential. They demand we dream big dreams. Peres ends his book with the following story: "Every once in a while, someone will ask me to look back on my career and identify the achievement in my life of which I am proudest. I respond by telling them the story of a great painter, who was once approached by an admirer of his art.
"Which of your painting do you consider your most beautiful?" the man asked.
"The one I will paint tomorrow," he replied.
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So SCOTUS ruled last week that gay marriage will now be accepted by the government. And I've stayed off social media about it for several reasons. But I did want to write something about it from the perspective of a youth pastor (which I am), because I believe it's incredibly important for students to have a biblical and loving stance toward this issue. With that said, here are a few things I want my students to know about gay marriage:
First of all, I believe the Bible is incredibly clear on issues of sexuality and marriage. What the scriptures say is that God was the one who invented marriage, and he designed it to (1) be between a man and a woman (Mark 10:7-8, Eph 5:31, Gen 2:24), and to (2) be a life-long relationship of sacrificial love that images the gospel of Jesus (Eph 5:25-31). Biblically, marriage is not just about love. It includes gender. It includes the gospel. Man and woman together, imaging Christ and his bride. The Bible is clear on this point. What this means is that anything outside of those boundaries is inherently not biblical. This includes gay marriage, but it also includes sex outside of marriage, live-in relationships, pornography, prostitution, etc.
Second, the ruling from our government in no way changes this definition of marriage. While the government may have redefined marriage in their eyes, it's not changed in God's. God has spoken, and no man can change that ruling. For this reason, we shouldn't react as if it has changed the biblical definition. That's impossible.
Third, our attitude toward this bill should be nuanced. Why? Well, first, the bill is not a threat to the biblical definition of marriage. And so we shouldn't fear, or panic, or worry. In many ways, the game has not changed. Christians are on the same mission and plan: go make disciples of all nations. But at the same time, this doesn't mean we should be indifferent. We live in a relativistic society: "Whatever works for you" is the mindset in America. And it would be easy to say to this bill: "whatever works for them. Just don't take away my religion". The massive problem with this, is we worship a Man who not only rose from the dead, but now reigns over the universe at God the Father's right hand. And he calls all men to worship him or perish. Psalm 2:10-12 says this
Now therefore, O kings, be wise;
be warned, O rulers of the earth.
Serve the Lord with fear,
and rejoice with trembling.
Kiss the Son,
lest he be angry, and you perish in the way,
for his wrath is quickly kindled.
Blessed are all who take refuge in him.
Philippians 2:8-10 says this:
Being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Jesus calls kings and rulers and men from all nations, "kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish". "Confess that Jesus Christ is Lord". This applies to everyone. And as America whole-sale enables people their sin, we should grieve. Relativism or indifference is not an option (much less celebration!). Jesus is the risen King, and he calls everyone to allegiance to him.
Lastly, and most importantly, we must remember that homosexual practice is not a special sin. It certainly is a sort of the taboo topic right now, especially with all the media buzz. And we are forced to address it for that reason. But let's not forget the words of Paul in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10:
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
Notice the sins that Paul lists along with homosexuality. And, notice that all of them are equally condemnable. The "greedy" are no better than "idolaters". "Revilers" are no better than "men who practice homosexuality". The point here is that all sin is grievous in God's eyes. Homosexuality is not any worse than the rest. Every type of sinner is on equal ground. The trouble is that it is often our temptation to "tame" sin. Greed is bad, but it's not as bad as that sin over there. Stealing is pretty bad, but at least I'm not that guy over there. The Bible simply doesn't allow us to rank our sins. All sin condemns. And Christ redeems every type of sinner. This is the humbling power of the gospel. And so, as we are forced to look at this issue of homosexuality and marriage, we simply cannot forget that God loves every type of sinner. And we are called to love them as well.


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