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Crews with the Caldwell County Water Department are working to fix a major water line break at 2468 Collettsville Road.
Customers on the Collettsville Road and Abington Road as well as all side roads will be without water until the break is fixed. Repairs are expected to take most of the day and possibly into the night. Over 300 customers are affected by the break and will be without water until it is repaired.
Reported early this morning, the break is a major, 12-inch water line and it is believed to have burst due to the cold temperatures.
Crews are on site now and are having to use heavy equipment to dig out the line as it is laying in rock. Drivers should take care traveling in the area due to the large equipment and the water that is running across the road this morning.
Updates will be sent out as they occur.
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text: Pioneer Construction Co. Ltd v British American Tobacco (HCCS. 209 Of 2008) [2013] UGCOMMC 107 (31 May 2013); Flynote: CLBreach of ContractLiquidated ClaimsEstoppelRestitutionWaiverHeadnote and Holding: Each of the parties accused the other of breach of contract. The plaintiff alleged breach in terms of non-payment for services conducted. The defendant counter-claimed breach in terms of failure to comply with the set completion time and providing substandard quality work. The defendant also contended that should it be found liable, it should be indemnified by a third party as it has been negligent in doing its work.This court held that the defendant is not entitled to indemnity or any contribution from the third party. The court found that there was no breach of contract by the plaintiff in so far as completion time is concerned. The defendant waived the right to complain about completion time and was estopped from raising the issue. The defendant was found to not be entitled to monies claimed in the counterclaim, as there was no basis for it and this court had already held that the defendant waived its rights. The plaintiff was found to be entitled to the monies reflected on two certificates. The plaintiff was not awarded the contractual interest claimed because the court held that the the defendant was justified in not paying contractual interest for an erroneously issued certificate. Following its non-payment for construction services rendered, the plaintiff sued the defendant for breach of contract. A counter-claim was lodged alleging that the plaintiff breached the parties' agreement through a significant delay in performance and sub-standard discharge of its obligations. Insofar as the third party had issued unqualified certificates of completion for the plaintiff's/counter-defendant's alleged malperformance, the defendant/counter-claimant contended that it was negligent and therefore liable for a degree of indemnification. The defendant/counter-claimant was found to have impliedly waived its right to liquidated damages for late performance and consequently estopped from enforcing it. The court found further that the plaintiff's/counter-defendant's performance, while flawed in some respects, was not materially defective. The issuing of a certificate of completion marks the close of liquidated damages liability and commences the period of defects liability, where errors in performance are identified and submitted to the contract debtor for rectification. Failure to rectify does not give a right to sue for breach but rather gives the employer the right to refuse to release retention monies. The third party was found to have conducted its work competently, barring one erroneously issued certificate, and was under no obligation to indemnify the defendant. The defendant was therefore indebted to the plaintiff for the outstanding amounts stipulated by the lawfully issued certificates. Because the defendant had accepted and made use of the plaintiff's performance, despite the erroneously issued certificate of completion, the court found that it was liable to compensate the latter under the law of unjustified enrichment. Judgment was entered for the plaintiff with costs. Read more about Pioneer Construction Co. Ltd v British American Tobacco (HCCS. 209 Of 2008) [2013] UGCOMMC 107 (31 May 2013);


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As Tom Smith shared back in February, both Disneyland Resort and Walt Disney World Resort will play host to a 24-hour "Rock Your Disney Side Party" that will kick-off the summer season at Disney Parks. This year, guests are being encouraged to dress up to show their "Disney Side" for the event.
For the next few weeks, we'll be sharing different ways you can do just that. This week, here's a cute suggestion for showing your "royal" side – with a Cinderella Castle nail tutorial.
Will you join our 24-hour event at Magic Kingdom Park, Disneyland park or Disney California Adventure park on May 23? If so, how will you show your "Disney Side"? Tell us in the "Comments" section below!
Join the conversation online with the hashtag #DisneySide.


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Mass spectrometers (MS for short) are machines that give scientists a look at the composition and origin of a material by analyzing and quantifying its atoms and molecules. They do this by vaporizing the sample (if it's not already a gas) to make it easier to work with, ionizing it to give it a charge, then seeing how those ions react to a magnetic field. That reaction tells scientists what a particle's mass is. The machine then sorts and counts these particles, revealing the specimen's chemical makeup. The machine is able to distinguish among isotopes (atoms of the same element that have differing numbers of neutrons and, consequently, slightly different masses). Scientists can learn a lot from knowing how many of which isotopes make up a certain sample.
The part of the MS called the mass analyzer or deflector (so named because the positively charged ions inside will be deflected from their straight paths by a sideways magnetic field) is featured in the interactive animation below. Depicted is a single sector mass spectrometer. (Scientists also use dual sector mass spectrometers).
In this tutorial, the ions of different masses are depicted by different colors. The blue are the lightest, the green are heavier, and the red are heaviest. Adjust the Magnetic Field Strength slider and see the effect. (A second slider allows you to adjust Tutorial Speed; it may be easiest to start at the slowest speed.) Read on for an explanation of what you see.
In order to make it through the curved tunnel of the mass analyzer, the ions need to have just the right mass, proportional to the pull of the magnetic field (which, in the tutorial, follows the same direction as your eyes as they read these words – straight into the computer screen). If the ions are too light, or too heavy, they will veer into the inner or outer wall of the tunnel, never making it into the attached ion Detector. But if they have just the right mass, proportionate to the magnetic field, to allow them to travel through the mass analyzer unscathed, the particles will reach the detector. The arrival of each ion creates a pulse of electrons and this pulse is recorded.
So, the MS both weighs and counts. The mass of the ions is deduced by the force of the magnetic field required to guide them into the detector. And the number of ions of that given mass is counted as the ions pass into the detector. To count ions of other masses, the electromagnet's field is rapidly varied under computer control, so that ions of all masses can be sampled in a fraction of a second.
In this way the range of possible masses for the particles is tested, resulting in a spectrum – the mass spectrum – for the substance under study. That spectrum reveals how many isotopes of a given element are to be found in the material. This is known as the isotope's relative abundance – relative, that is, to the other isotopes found in the sample. Researchers use this data to glean information on the sample's history and chemistry. Take a look at this tutorial for an example of mass spectra of different elements.
For a more thorough explanation of mass spectrometers and their uses, please visit Mass Spectrometry 101.


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I'm honored to have one of Provision's fine fragrances featured in the WWD article "Fall Fragrance Trend: Amber Waves"and to have been invited to comment on the rising trend of Amber notes this Fall.
"Amber notes are becoming more popular as retro-inspired fragrances continue to trend," said Sherri Sebastian, a Los Angeles-based perfumer who is launching her own niche brand — Provision — this fall. She is spotlighting a trademarked ingredient called Amber Xtreme in Resonance, a star eau de parfum in the collection."
That's a bottle of Resonance in the bottom right hand corner of the photo.


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I went on a work trip to sunny Florida a couple weeks ago (which is a big change from the below zero weather here in Chicago). I jumped in my uber from the airport, and rolled down all the windows (to my uber driver's chagrin), and soaked in the warm sun and palm trees.
I landed at the arena where we would have our event, and before I even had a moment to drop my bags I was told that I needed to about face back to the airport and pick up one of our guests.
I jumped in the rental, rolled down all the windows (happy I didn't have to deal with the stink eye from the uber driver), and set out for the airport. I arrived at the precise time the guest was supposed to arrive and pulled my car to the side to wait. After about 0.5 seconds, a police officer yelled at me to keep moving. She said, "just keep circling around the airport until your friend is outside ready to go."
Now, the problem is, it takes about 45 seconds to circle around the airport to get back to where I would need to pick up our guest. So, here I was, circling, and circling, and circling around the airport for 5, 10, 15, now 20 mins, feeling ridiculous and getting dizzy in the process.
After a solid 20 minutes of circling, I realized something…it dawned on me that this was actually a perfect illustration for how I have felt in certain areas of my life–waiting and
circling, feeling stuck in a seemingly endless and perpetual holding pattern.
Holding Pattern:
The flight path maintained by an aircraft awaiting permission to land.
A state of waiting or suspended activity or progress.
Have you ever felt like you were going in circles, "awaiting permission to land", so to speak? Feeling as though time is being wasted, and the constant circling is keeping you from progressing toward the thing you desire.
This exact experience isn't unfamiliar to the children of Israel, who in Joshua 6 were told to circle around the walls of Jericho 7 times, and on the 7th day to circle around the wall 7 more times.
Why, you ask? Oh, well, so that these massive walls would come crumbling down, of course.
Can you imagine how silly and virtually impossible that could have appeared and felt to the children of Israel?
God's declaration to them was that by circling around the wall, and making a collective shout, that these impenetrable walls would come tumbling down. Think about day 5 or 6, after they've been circling around for days, seeing no progress–no shifts in the foundation, no crackling sounds of the brick and mortar coming apart.
Nope, they only saw a solid wall that was supposedly going to crumble at the sound of some trumpets and shouts.
Throughout scripture, the number seven means completion or perfection. It was not without meaning and purpose that God wanted them to walk seven times around the wall on the seventh day.
I'm sure there was a deep work of faith happening in the hearts of those circling the wall that day. And as for me, after circling around the airport for the 183649 time, I finally (and somewhat randomly) decided to pull over to the side, (for the first time since the police officer yelled at me) in the hopes that our guest would be coming out soon.
Just as I pulled over, I looked out the passenger side window, and my guest was walking out right at that precise moment. I got out of the car, and she proclaimed, "Oh, what perfect timing!"
How ironic, I thought.
The circling around was necessary not only to provide me with an illustration to grasp more of God's ways in my life, but also to understand that sometimes the "circling around" is so that He can continue preparing the very thing I'm waiting for.
It became so apparent to me in that moment how little information I'm privy to outside of my own experience.
For example, I didn't know that my guest had brought her young child with her, and he was running around and delaying her. I didn't know that she had extra bags than normal which took her longer to get out to meet me.
The perfect timing, as she explained it, seemed so inconvenient to me as I was circling around the airport for 30 minutes, but when it actually came time for her to walk out of the airport, ready to be picked up, there I was.
God's timing can seem so inconvenient because of how little we know about the things outside of our own personal experience. But His timing can be trusted because He knows everything, and is in the process of making everything beautiful.
When the children of Israel had circled seven times on the seventh day, blowing their trumpets and making a collective shout of victory, they saw the impossible happen. They witnessed how powerful it was when faith and obedience collide. Their circling brought victory, and the same goes for us. Our circling, and trusting, and heeding God's voice, although it may feel silly or pointless sometimes, will always bring us our breakthroughs too.


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Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed into law a bill banning natural gas fracking saying said "In the coming generation or two, drinking water will be more valuable than oil or natural gas."
Vermont is the the first state to ban fracking. Several countries, including France, Switzerland, and Bulgaria have also banned this noxious and dangerous practice which contaminates water and causes earthquakes.
Do you like your water flammable?
How about some new and exciting earthquakes?


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Graham currently teaches Critical Legal Thinking on the undergraduate programme. He currently teaches security corporate debt, legal theory, and the law of the world trade organisation on the postgraduate programme.
Graham currently supervises PhD students in property law, law and development (financial markets), law of the world trade organisation,and commercial law (documentary credits).
Current projects
Graham is currently engaged in collaborative research with:
- Graham Battersby
- Rebecca Huxley-Binns
Career overview
Graham currently supervises PhD students in property law, law and development (financial markets), law of the world trade organisation, and commercial law (documentary credits).
Graham is willing to consider application for PhD supervision in any of his fields of research activity:
- property law
- legal education
- legal history
- law and development
- legal theory
- legal ethics.
Research areas
Graham undertakes research in the:
- Centre for Legal Education
- Centre for Business and Insolvency Law
Graham has published, and given papers, extensively in the fields of:
- property law
- legal education.
He has also published, or given papers, in the fields of:
- legal history
- law and development
- legal theory
- legal ethics.
External activity
Graham shares with his co-author Professor Graham Battersby the dubious distinction of being eponymous in the property law field following their work on overreaching.
Graham has acted as external examiner to several universities, and as an external reviewer or proposals for the Research Grant Council of Hong Kong. He has acted as a peer reviewer of articles for the Conveyancer and Property Lawyer, the International Journal of Criminology and the Melbourne University Law Review.
Graham has been invited to comment personally in the past by the Law Commission and Lucy Theis QC and Miriam Shalom in connection with litigation they were conducting in the House of Lords.
Sponsors and collaborators
Graham has co-authored articles or co-presented papers with:
- Graham Battersby (University of Sheffield)
- Catherine Williams (University of Sheffield)
- Rebecca Huxley-Binns (Nottingham Law School)
- Nicholas Johnson (Nottingham Law School)
- Andrea Nicholson (Nottingham Law School).
Graham received a British Academy Small Grant (£5,000) to support a piece of research on the Judges' Note Books.
Press expertise
Graham can offer comment on globalisation; law students; legal ethics; ownership; and Trusts.


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The ChargeTech Secure Mobile Phone Charging Locker is an advanced solution for business owners who are looking to offer intelligent power access for customers or employees.
The system features eight locker bays that are each outfitted with three power cables to offer support for USB-C, Apple Lightning and microUSB ports for powering any kind of device. A voice assistant functionality will provide guidance to users on how to use the system and eliminate the occurrence of any confusion.
The ChargeTech Secure Mobile Phone Charging Locker will enable users to leave their device behind as they go about their routine by keeping it securely locked within its own dedicated compartment. The fast charging technology will help to power up devices as quickly as possible.
The ChargeTech Secure Mobile Phone Charging Locker is Convenient
Michael Hemsworth — August 25, 2019 — Tech


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In light of continuing transport growth within the European Union, there is a need to use the free capacity offered by Inland Waterway Transport (IWT).
Although the inland waterways offer a congestion-free network, the ease, safety and efficiency of it is sensitive to hydrological impacts from the short-term up to the climate time scale. Accurate forecasts are needed over a range of time scales:
- Short- to medium-term forecasts of discharges/water levels to optimise the load capacity of the vessels as well as to timely take into account that waterways might be blocked due to floods.
- Monthly to seasonal forecasts for the medium- to long-term planning and enhancement of the water bound logistic chain.
- Climate projections for the optimal future fleet planning of shipping companies as well as for infrastructural waterway management.
The non-waterbound transportation network (roads, railways) is also vulnerable to hydrological extremes, primarily to floods. Reliable forecasts are required to optimise emergency planning, preparedness programmes as well as to guide transport via alternative routes/transport modes. For the long-term planning of flood protection measures, climate projections about the possible future evolution of extremes are needed.
In this sectoral survey, we evaluated how improved hydro-meteorological forecast products increase the operating efficiency and strategic management of the European transportation sector. A special focus was given to Inland Waterway Transport. The users, representing different parties involved in the transport chain, were closely involved from the very beginning.
The target areas chosen as case studies (Rhine, Danube and Elbe Rivers) were part of the backbone of Europe's waterway and non-waterbound network. Therefore, improvements demonstrated would have a direct economic relevance for the transportation sector. In addition, these river basins represent different runoff regimes and climate characteristics, facilitating the transfer of results.
Partners: BfG, HZG
Potential economic benefit of better forecasts for water transport
This report describes the potential economic benefit of improved forecasts for waterway transport on the River Rhine. A detailed cost structure model was applied to a large set of different water level conditions to estimate the transport costs in dependence of the ship's payload and the available water depth at the relevant bottleneck.
Transport costs of 7 commonly used ship types for the transport between the ports of Amsterdam / Rotterdam / Antwerp and the Rhine-Neckar region have been analyzed. Based on these transport cost-relationships different forecast information was used to determine the payload of the different vessel types:
- deterministic waterlevel forecasts,
- raw ensemble waterlevel forecasts and
- post-processed probabilistic waterlevel forecasts.
Differences between the various vessel types are evident (large-sized vessel show more potential benefit from improved forecasts). In addition, the results demonstrate that using probabilistic forecasts leads to lower transport costs than the deterministic forecasts. Besides improvements in forecast quality the forecast horizon was extended from 4 to 10 days. This additional time window, useful e.g. to optimize the scheduling of individual trips, indicated an even more substantial economic benefit of medium-range probabilistic waterlevel forecasts for transport along Europe's most important inland waterway.
Read the full report on potential economic benefit of better forecasts for water transport.
Improved transport cost planning
Hydrological forecasts of different lead times are needed by inland waterway transport to improve transport cost planning and the competitiveness of the inland navigation sector within the overall transport market. Within IMPREX several pre-operational forecast products have been developed to support decision making in this sector:
- probabilistic 10-day waterlevel forecast for waterway Rhine, the most important inland waterway in Europe, required to optimize transport management, short-term stock management and waterway maintenance;
- monthly to seasonal flow forecast products for the German waterways Rhine, Elbe and Danube required for medium- to long-term planning and optimization of the water-bound logistic chain such as:
- stock management
- fleet composition
- adjustment of the industrial production chain
- connecting waterway transport with other transport modes / modal split planning),
- sediment management of harbours and tidal influenced waterways
Besides the forecasts products, which are the visible output for the stakeholders, the report describes the underlying forecasting systems, which have been set-up in the course of IMPREX at BfG. These forecasting systems form the backbone of future forecasting services providing users with specific forecast products. All forecast products presented here have been codesigned with the WP9 stakeholders of IMPREX.
Read the full report on improved transport cost planning.
Impact on adaptive mgmt of transport sector
Inland Waterway Transport (IWT) is a mode of transportation highly vulnerable to hydrological extremes, notably to low flow events in shallow river systems. Low flows occasionally create serious disruptions of IWT operations in present-day climate conditions, and might create more frequent and severe disruptions under projected future climate. Innovative probabilistic water level forecasts developed within EU H2020 IMPREX project, shown to be useful already at present climate and hydrological conditions, are likely to become even more important for decision making under future climate.
By substantially reducing the uncertainty of the complex human-technology-environment system under study, these probabilistic forecasts are anticipated to become an important component of strategies designed for adapting IWT and related sectors and stakeholders to hydrological extremes. The remaining components of multi-level uncertainty can be explored with integrated modelling, including system dynamics (SD) models developed within the Interdisciplinary Knowledge Integration approach (IKI-IMPREX).
Read the full report on the impact on adaptive mgmt of transport sector.


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640 N Wells St Chicago, IL 60654
640 N Wells is River North's newest luxury rental building. Leasing has recently opened and residents have already begun to move in. The River North neighborhood is well known for exciting nightlife and some of the finest dining in Chicago. 640 N Wells is no exception to reputation that the neighborhood has earned. The building is fitted with magnificent amenities including indoor VR golf and a landscaped outdoor putting green. The pool and fitness center give off a club vibe and resemble more of an exclusive hangout than community space. Located at the corner of Wells and Erie, 640 N Wells is an exceptional example of the premium residential areas of River North.
- Dramatic 9'6″ Ceilings
- Floor to Ceiling Windows
- Elegant 3cm Stone Countertops
- Sleek Stainless Steel Appliances
- Wall-Mounted Ovens & Chef's Kitchens
- Walk-In Showers with Frameless Glass Surrounds
- Front-Load Washers & Dryers In-Unit Private Balconies in Select Units
- Panoramic Rooftop Pool
- Penthouse Social Club
- Fireside Library and Dining Suite
- Bespoke Gaming Room and Theater
- Restaurant Grade Demonstration Kitchen
- Landscaped Grill Terrace
- Outdoor Dining and Fire Pits
- Professional Grade VR Golf Simulator
- Professionally-Landscaped Outdoor Putting Green
- State of the Art Fitness Center


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dpkg -configure python2.7If it fails with a message like this:
Setting up python2.7 (2.7.4-2ubuntu3) ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/py_compile.py", line 170, indo not get fooled!
sys.exit(main()) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/py_compile.py", line 162, in main compile(filename, doraise=True) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/py_compile.py", line 106, in compile with open(file, 'U') as f: IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/lib/python2.7/profile.py'
Probably you have a copy of that file named /usr/lib/python2.7/profile.py.distrib! So copy to the original place. You will also need to copy pstats.py.distrib.
cp /usr/lib/python2.7/profile.py.distrib /usr/lib/python2.7/profile.py cp /usr/lib/python2.7/pstats.py.distrib /usr/lib/python2.7/pstats.pyThen you can continue with your upgrade:
dpkg -configure python2.7 dpkg -configure -a apt-get dist-upgradeI suspect the reason for that is an easy installed distribute. More on this later.


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This was not a well-thought out plan. Curse you, NaNoWriMo.
In case you didn't know, I began a new feature called Ask Hunky Hugo™ where readers could submit questions to the world's creepiest half-man puppet. I completely stole this idea from the Byronic Man. So basically all this weirdness is his fault.
Some of you had questions that were of a sexual nature. These made Hugo very excited, which in turn made me feel a discomfort that rivaled the time a giant golden retriever burst in on me in the bathroom.
From Wendy of Writer Wendy Reid: My husband no longer satisfies me sexually. I am horny all of the time and I work in an all male environment. Would it be wrong to have a gang bang in the parking lot one day after work?
Storkhunter wanted to know: Since you portrayed Christian and managed to get Goofy Ana pregnant even with only half a body, perhaps you have some advice on sexual positions for effective procreation.
Nancy of Not Quite Old wondered: Do you think older women are sexier than younger women? What is the sexiest thing about women over 60?
Tara of Always Overthinking It pondered: Do you prefer to go down on women with or without your mustache? Do you find they enjoy it more or less?
Maggie O'C of Someone Fat Happened: I have been waiting for this moment for months now. I won't read any posts if you aren't in them. Any, not just Speaker7′s. Two questions:
1. How do you feel about product placement in blogs?
2. Will you get me pregnant even if I'm menopausal and you have no genitals?
Jo Eberhardt queried: Back when you were just an anonymous half-man puppet amongst starting out on the rollercoaster ride of fame and infamy that was Speaker7′s 50 Shades Recraps, I thought you were creepy looking. But now when I look at your smooth head and your expressive eyes, I find myself moved by your extreme hotness. How did you get so sexy? Have you had plastic surgery?
Hugo had the same response to all. He said you would understand what it meant:
Some of you had questions about Hugo's lack of a down there–sorry I have lost all other terminology to describe it from my Fifty Shades of Grey recrapping. And some of you worried about Hugo's mental health from his participation in the Fifty Shades recraps as the enigmatic and buttpluggy Christian Grey.
Miranda Gargasz of Scattering Moments worried: What sort of medication do you take for the PTSD you suffer through after participating in all those recraps? Seriously, I need to know. After only making it through chapter 7 of the first book I find the flashbacks unbearable. Any help you can give me, Hugo, would help.
Michelle Gillies of Silk Purse Productions asked: Were you at all uncomfortable gaining fame and fortune from portraying the 50 Shades of Grey recrap moments? What made you the most uncomfortable?
Lyssa of Psychobabble expressed concern about Hugo's genitals: Where did you leave your legs? And your genitals? Did they shrivel up after all that recrapping with Ana?
iRuniBreathe questioned: Hugo, where are your pants? And legs, for that matter.
Blogless Wonder wondered: Dear Hugo, if you did have legs and all that comes with them, would you have the kind of feet where the big toe is the biggest, or would you have those weird feet where the second toe is actually the longest? Also, how big would your feet be? Just curious!
Hugo had the same response to all. He said you would understand what it meant.
The rest were a smorgasbord of bizarre that really had no common grouping. Hugo decided to answer these individually.
I'm sorry.
Jules from Go Jules Go: Hunky Hugo, do you like it when girls cry? If so, then what are you feelings on Fergie from Black-Eyed Peas, who claims, rather passionately, that big girls don't cry
Heather from Becoming Cliche asked: Hugo, I can't balance a checkbook. Should I see a chiropractor?
El Guapo asked: Hugo: Are you just a pawn in Speaker 7s play for world domination, or are you just biding your time, lulling her into a false sense of security until you can run off with all her reindeer sweaters?
Jen from Sips of Jen & Tonic: Cockfighting: sexy man play or cruel animal sport?
Would rather: Charlie Sheen in his Tiger Blood phase or Nick Nolte during his mugshot phase? I found out I have herpes while browsing WebMD. Is that a deal breaker for you?
She's a Maineiac posed this: How can we stop Dr. Phil? Who would you rather have sex with, Stalin or Dr. Phil? How much wine is appropriate to drink on Thanksgiving? Is it okay if I get sloshed, then ask my mom why she never loved me while I'm passing her the peas?
Alice of Alice at Wonderland and Ruminations on Love & Lunchmeat both wondered what Hugo was doing with the locks of hair he collects from his admirers.
The final question was by far Hugo's favorite. After he read it, he made out with his reflection for over an hour. I present Madame Weeble's tour de force:
Madame Weebles of Fear No Weebles: Do you prefer to garotte your victims using leverage, or brute strength?
Dearest Reader: Speaker7 is attempting to write a post every day in November so she doesn't have to participate in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). This is the 4,000th post or at least it feels that way.


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The Map
About the Atlas
Using the Atlas
Project Team
Contributors & Partners
Project History
Presentations & Publications
About Early Printing
Bookmaking Videos
An Incunabula Reader
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Create a date range between the two controls. For example, if you want to advance one year at a time, slide the end date to one year later than the start date and hit play.
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New hands-on tech event coming to Brussels in March 2020!
Whether you are a frontend or backend developer, a devOps enthusiast or a designer, if you are in Belgium or willing to travel, Workshop Summit is for you! This tech event brings a new concept to town: 1-week of hands-on workshops only in technologies like React, VueJS, Kubernetes, SVG animation or Java with engaged community members as trainers!
this week's favorite
Venti—Simple State Management for React
There are many options for managing state in React: Redux, MobX, Apollo, Context API, Hooks API, and the list goes on. However, they're arguably a bit too complicated for the casual React developer — even seasoned software engineers often struggle to get it right.
Previously, the Next.js documentation lived in a single readme.md document. Over the past 3 years the documentation consistently improved, growing in size to cover all areas of the framework. Over time the documentation page became quite long and we started getting community feedback that it would be preferable for the documentation to be split into smaller chunks so that they could be independently consumed and searched for.
Implementing Undo/Redo Functionality in Redux using Immer
This article assumes you have a basic knowledge of Redux and Immer. If you are not familiar with Immer already, I highly recommend you to check out their official page here before you continue.
iPod.js: An iPod Classic built using React Hooks 🎧
As we head into the next decade, here's a throwback to remind ourselves how far we've come. An iPod Classic build using React Hooks (no Redux this time), TypeScript, and GraphQL.
Timeline Component in React (and some CSS Magic 🎩)
In this tutorial we're going to use #ReactJS to create a wonderful #Timeline Component. Also, we're going to use #CSS to add some magic 🎩on top to make it look beautiful!
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Our view: When students cycle in and out of Chico, it"s easy for new ones to not recognize the efforts made to combat the drinking problem.
Chico State University"s Greek community has been offered a road to redemption. Suspended Nov. 15 by university President Paul Zingg after a series of incidents that violated alcohol policies and other rules governing Greek life on campus, the 26 social organizations got the word last weekend of what they have to do to get reinstated.
We aren"t sure exactly what the steps they must take are, because we weren"t invited to the discussion between fraternity and sorority leaders and the university administration.
While specifics were elusive, it"s not hard to imagine what the Greeks are being asked to do, because we"ve been down this road before. There"s a stint of bad behavior and a tragedy, followed by a crackdown.
The organizations agree to abide by new rules, act like grownups, and become model citizens for the campus.
To their credit, they do, at least for a while. And also to their credit, they aren"t the only groups of people at Chico State who sometimes behave like fools — they"re just the only ones the administration has leverage over due the charters that allow their groups to exist.
But years come and go, and the people who responded to being chastised graduate. Things seem quiet and the institutional memory of why they"re quiet is no longer there. There"s slippage. It"s to be expected.
And that"s the thing we have to remember about Zingg"s "call to action." A lot of people think somehow the community is going to come together and figure out how to deal a death blow to alcohol abuse in Chico.
And then, everything will be fine.
That"s not going to happen. The call to action can"t be a call to a single short campaign to smite the enemy. Instead, the community must be asked for a continuing, consistent effort.
Because young people come and go in Chico. The effort to protect them and the community from the dangerous behavior cannot.


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The Greenwich house has been a remarkable case study for modern home trends. Throughout the home, Sabine has packed every nook and cranny with innovations.
In this video, Sabine met with Mahdad Saniee, architect for The Greenwich House, to learn about the fresh approaches to home design that were incorporated into our latest project.
As Mahdad notes in the video, there is a definite turn towards less ornate, calmer, and less fussy design. People want a simpler, more organized, open and modern interior. Door details lean toward flat panel or shaker style. Kitchen cabinet doors have sleek and modern panels. Countertops are thinner and lighter.
One of Sabine's goals was to build a more compact house with rooms that are used, however not congested or dense in feeling. As she notes, "everyone still wants a bit of elbow room and privacy."
This extra level of privacy is achieved by careful consideration of the three areas of the home. Public spaces (such as the kitchen, living room, family room, entry hall), private spaces (bedrooms, bathrooms), and a new category as Mahdad points out, semi-private spaces (home office, powder room, guest bedrooms). Rather than pack in bedrooms on one floor, this slight separation at The Greenwich House provides a little more privacy and elbow room. Mahdad and Sabine carefully selected the spaces for the mezzanine such as office space (when you want to work, it's nice to be a little away from family life), the powder room, and the guest bedroom.
Often you have a powder room located pretty unceremoniously right off the front door or even right next to a dining room. The mezzanine layout provides that extra level of privacy with essentially the same square footage. The cost of construction runs a little higher due to additional stair details and more elaborate framing, sheathing, sheetrocking and trim, but as Sabine notes, "it all adds up but I think it is all worth it!"
Another home recently built in Greenwich, CT removed the living room from the design and completely opened up the kitchen, dining area, and family room space. Mahdad notes that the particular builder is daring, as he doesn't see the elimination of the living room as a trend in home design. He finds that people still want it.
"I think what people are looking for is less "formal" Living Room space, but not eliminating the living room. I think you have the ideal solution here: Open spaces that can be made into individual, separated rooms via large pocket doors and beautiful barn door, such as between the dining room and the kitchen. Here you have a set of well integrated Living Room, Family Room and Kitchen that allows for these rooms to feel open to each other, but at the same time provides for visual and acoustical separation if needed. You have the best of both worlds here at the Greenwich House." noted Mahdad.
Another trend that Mahdad notes is a greater interest in outdoor space. At The Greenwich House, Sabine designed a unique covered porch area that visitors to the project have been raving about. It is fully equipped with a sound system and outdoor television for maximum comfort. There has also been a lot of interest in the possibility of adding a pool to the landscape at the house and there is plenty of room to do so right off the covered porch.


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Orlando to preserve Pulse tribute items
Letters, notes, signs and other tribute items left around Orlando to honor the 49 people who were killed at Pulse nightclub will be preserved at the Orange County Regional History Center.
The history center staff is carefully collecting some of the nonperishable tribute items that have been placed at Lake Eola Park. All other memorial items will be moved to the temporary memorial at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, the city said.
The removal of memorial items from Lake Eola Park is being done in preparation for Monday's Fireworks at the Fountain event.
The city said that in the days and weeks ahead, other memorials will be collected and preserved at the history center.
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The Movie Review: 'Before the Devil Knows You're Dead'
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead opens with an unflatteringly naked Andy Hanson (Philip Seymour Hoffman) conjugally conjoined with his far more flatteringly naked wife, Gina (Marisa Tomei). They are in Rio, they are in bed, and they are, for the moment at least, in love. Hearts may not be entertaining June, and an amber moon is nowhere in evidence, but Brazil has nonetheless worked its magic on their unhappy lives and marriage. As Gina elegantly puts it, "I don't feel like such a fuck-up when I'm here." Andy assures her that they'll come back again. "We have enough money," he promises, "to stay here for the rest of our lives."
It's a terrible lie. Though Andy makes six figures as an accountant at a large New York real estate firm, an appreciable portion of the salary goes up his nose or into his arm. Factor in the stylish apartment he and Gina share, and it's little wonder that he has taken to skimming off the company payroll.
As luck would have it, Andy's younger brother, Hank (Ethan Hawke), has financial troubles of his own, albeit of a more mundane sort: child support owed to his bitter ex-wife (Amy Ryan), private school tuition for his teenage daughter, and what appears to be a considerable liquor bill at a bar called Mooney's. So Andy, who's always imagined himself the smart brother, makes a proposal to Hank, who's always known he was the stupid one: "There's a place we can knock off. Like the back of our hand. Easiest money we'll ever make." It's a Mom-and-Pop jewelry store; the take should be large enough to solve all their money problems. And the reason it will be so easy is that it's their Mom and Pop's Mom-and-Pop jewelry store, and they're intimately familiar with its routines and safeguards.
It's easy to see this premise being played for comedy, but veteran director Sidney Lumet and rookie screenwriter Kelly Masterson have something quite different in mind. The movie's title comes from the Irish toast, "May you be in Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead." Unfortunately, everyone in the film is running about 35 minutes late. The jewelry heist goes horribly wrong, as one might have predicted given the hapless Hank's involvement. Bodies are left behind, as are clues that may or may not lead back to Hank and Andy.
From this precipitating tragedy, the film unspools both forward and back in time. The story is told, then rewound and told from another point of view, offering up not only the consequences of the reckless robbery, but its underlying causes as well. What begins as a crime story gradually unfolds into a film about family dysfunction. Andy's trophy wife Gina, we discover, feels like such a "fuck-up" at least in part because she is carrying on an affair with his brother Hank. And while Andy is oblivious to the infidelity, his choice of both accomplice and crime seems motivated in part by ancient grievances against his brother and his father (Albert Finney). Andy is a man who seems almost to want things to go wrong, if only to confirm his pitiless vision of the world and his place in it.
Nor is he alone. The characters in Before the Devil Knows You're Dead are not merely wounded, they are devoted to their wounds. Gina's affair is in part a result of her self-loathing, but it is also an excuse for her to loathe herself. Hank's ex-wife sneers at him happily when he fails to bring by his child support payment, but later, when he actually delivers, she is furious: His uselessness is a pillar of her own self-esteem and, as such, worth far more to her than his measly 900 bucks.
But in the end, it all leads back to Andy: Andy of the unfaithful wife; Andy of the incompetent brother; Andy of the unloving father; Andy, who buys himself a few brief minutes of oblivion from an androgynous heroin dealer in a kimono and Louise Brooks bob. He is a man of writhing, octopedal resentments who has spent his life trying to control them, to fashion them into a kind of emotional armor--only to find that, once wrought, it has nothing left inside. Like Hank's ex-wife, he can accept cruelty more easily than kindness. When, late in the film, his father apologizes to him for a lifetime of indifference, Andy is driven to rage not by the indifference but by the apology. How can his bitterness and pain be taken away when they are all he is?
It's a terribly tricky role, one that must hint at the hurt and rage beneath a carefully controlled exterior, but Hoffman brings it off brilliantly. Apart from Kevin Spacey on a very good day, it's hard to think of any contemporary actor with such a knack for understated intensity. (It makes one wonder what familial backstory might have accounted for the villainy of his Owen Davian in M:i:III.) The rest of the cast, too, is very strong--in particular Finney, whose role unfolds unexpectedly.
Lumet, now 83, directs the film with such restrained craft that it seems almost uncrafted. (The one exception is a peculiar grinding noise that accompanies each temporal shift forward or back, an awkward gimmick better suited to TV.) First-time screenwriter Masterson displays real talent, even if Lumet claims credit for a few significant alterations. (It was reportedly his idea, for instance, to make Andy and Hank brothers.) But it is Hoffman's exceptional performance that powers the film toward its terrible, predestined conclusion. At a crucial juncture, a jewelry fence lectures Finney's character that "The world is an evil place.... Some of us make money off that. And some of us are destroyed." Before the Devil Knows You're Dead is a movie about the latter kind of people.
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The handbell choir is an essential part of our music program. Some members of the Reidville Ringers have been ringing for 30 years and others are learning as they go. This variety leads to an energetic and fun group of talented ringers. The bells provide special music during worship services. The church has five octaves of Malmark bells and three octaves of choirchimes. The ringers rehearse on Wednesday nights at 6:00, visitors are always welcome.
The handbell director, Loyd Dennis, has been directing the Reidville Ringers for 16 years, and the group has flourished under her leadership. Her skills and experience are a great asset to RRUMC. She studied music at Converse College and also teaches at Byrnes High School.
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Amberley Snyder, 2009-10 Utah State FFA President
March 25, 2015
Amberley Snyder, former Utah state FFA president, talks about how she has come back from an accident that left her paralyzed from the waist down to once again participate in rodeos. Her advice for anyone facing hard times is to just "keep going." Amberley was a fan's choice exemption for RFD-TV's THE AMERICAN rodeo in 2015, where the Amberley Snyder Courage Fund was announced.
This interview first aired on the March 7, 2015 "FFA Today" show on Rural Radio SiriusXM Channel 80.


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Caroline Copley and Oliver Hirt, Credit Suisse increases provision for U.S. tax deal (Reuters 4/3/14), here.
Credit Suisse has increased the funds it has set aside to settle a U.S. tax dispute and avoid prosecution for helping wealthy Americans hide cash from the taxman, raising the prospect it may be close to a settlement in the lengthy dispute.
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The bank set aside an extra 425 million Swiss francs ($480 million) to take its total provisions for tax and securities law matters in the United States to 895 million francs, it said in its annual report published on Thursday.
Credit Suisse was told by the U.S. Department of Justice it was under investigation in 2011. The bank made a 295 million franc provision that year, but many analysts believed that sum would not suffice.The indicated 895 million francs total reserve would, on the same conversion rate (480$/425 Swiss francs), be over $1 billion USD. I previously reported on a penalty for the securities violation. See Credit Suisse Take a Hit on U.S. Tax Evasion Business (Federal Tax Crimes Blog 2/21/14), here. That hit was $197 million. It is not clear that the 895 million francs includes this amount, but for purposes of analysis,, we'll say it does. That means that Credit Suisse expects the nonsecurities tax related hit to exceed $800 million, which would mean that the apples to apples cost to Credit Suisse exceeds UBS's $780 million costs in 2009.


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There are different all-inclusive cruises for just about every kind of traveler. But at the end of the day, we all sail to explore, to see something new, to feel the water, to experience the joy of the unknown. Of course, it doesn't hurt that cruise ships comes with a large amount of unlimited (usually culinary) offerings either; the kinds of service and comfort you don't always find on land. Indeed, the "all-inclusive" aspect remains one of the industry' biggest attractions. But while you can always get some level of unlimited food on a cruise, getting a "truly" all inclusive experience — one that includes beverages, alcoholic or otherwise —on a ship is a different matter. In other words, with these you are really getting "true" all-inclusive cruises.
For starters, you can simply buy an unlimited beverage package, which some lines tend to offer. But some cruise lines take the experience to the next level, with an amazing range of included amenities beyond free culinary offerings.
Here are some ways to get the all-inclusive cruises you're looking for, from simpler packages to all-out, five-star luxury.
Regent Seven Seas Simply put, there's no better all-inclusive experience on any cruise ship. The luxury cruise line is the most inclusive luxury travel experience, with just about everything included, from free premium liquors to free shore excursions to free unlimited Wi-Fi to, yes, free specialty restaurants. This is five-star luxury, without having to reach for your wallet — the titan among all-inclusive cruises.


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"This is gonna be some wedding. A loony for a husband, and Peter Pan for his wife."
As soon as I see Gene Wilder in anything I know it is going to be a very funny and very entertaining movie. Haunted Honeymoon not only has Gene Wilder as one of the main stars Gilda Radner and Dom DeLuise also star in the movie. What comedy movie on earth can be funnier than a movie with these three?
Wilder plays Larry Abbott a radio actor who is engaged to another radio actor named Vicki Pearle (Radner). The radio program tells mystery stories every week and is number one in the country. Ever since Larry got engaged to Vicki he has been going a little crazy (on top of already being neurotic before this). Whenever he hears a storm he stares into space and asks if his tie is straight. The radio sponsor and director are none too pleased with the way Larry is behaving they do not want his outbursts to ruin the show.
A man walks in telling the sponsor and director that he is Larry's uncle who happens to be a psychologist. He tells them that in order to cure Larry they need to scare his fear out of him. That weekend Larry and Vicki are to be married in his family's old home and there with all the family the uncle wants to put his plans into action.
The Gothic mansion is dark and ominous and as soon as Vicki and Larry arrive it begins to rain. As the other guests arrive they are either sinister or just nuts. Living in the house is Larry's aunt Kate (DeLuise). She is an eccentric old lady who believes in werewolves and believes there is one running out the grounds. As the night goes on everyone begins to drive Larry crazy. Vicki was not in on the whole plan at first but she is eventually brought into it.
Of all the things going on with Larry, no one realizes his cousin Francis has been murdered and that someone else has been murdered as well. Now there is a killer going after Larry because he is set to inherit money from Aunt Kate when no one else is.
I cannot give too much away the movie is just so damn funny it would be a shame to give too much away.
Gene Wilder is in one of his best roles. No one could do insane and crazy like he could. Not only is Wilder one of the main characters he also wrote and directed the film. The man was just awesome he could do everything. Gilda Radner never fails to be adorable and outrageously hysterical. She has some of my favorite scenes like when she first sees Pfister and she babbling and scared of him and when an old girlfriend of Larry's keeps going after him she stops the women at Larry's door, says beat it, and she struts back to her room. Dom DeLuise as a woman is one of the funniest things ever, no one could have played that role better male or female.
Haunted Honeymoon is one of the best comedy movies ever. It is like most of Wilder's films and his films with Mel Brooks I can watch them over and over again and know them by heart but I always laugh so hard.


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We're a few days into the new year now. How are you doing on those resolutions? You're in one of three camps:
- You don't make resolutions.
- You are awesome! You made up your mind to change something this year, and you are sticking to it.
- You made a resolution or two, and you've already thrown in the towel. And you feel guilty because it's only been a few days.
If you're still going strong, then I congratulate you. But if you're struggling, this post is for you. I want to help you get back on track.
To do that, we're going to use a trick called the 5W Approach. This can be done two different ways. Today I will share the first. This involves taking a problem you need to solve, and then asking a series of five questions (the 5 W's) about that problem: Who, What, Where, When and Why. These questions will help you pinpoint where you're struggling, and ways to overcome it.
To start, define your problem. For example, I want to determine why I dread exercising. Then ask the Who, What, When, Where, and Why of that problem. Below is my example of how this works:
Take your problem (I hate exercising) and create a related "Who" question.
Possible "Who" questions:
- Is there a person that helps or hinders my workout?
- Do I need an accountability partner?
- A personal trainer?
- I hate to exercise in front of others.
- I like to run with my best friend.
- I'd love a personal trainer.
- Don't exercise at the gym. Try an online workout or DVD at home instead.
- Run with your buddy and you both get in shape.
- Have a consultation with a personal trainer.
Even if you identify some issues, continue asking the other 4 W questions.
What: What kind of exercises are you doing? What exercises do you enjoy? What area of your health/body would you like to improve?
You may discover that you are in a Zumba class, but it makes you feel silly. Try circuit training instead. Or maybe you're in a spin class, when you really want toned arms. Make your plan line up with the goal.
When: Are you working out at an inconvenient time? Are you a morning person or not? When is a convenient time for you to work out?
Where: where are you exercising? (In the garage where it's cold, the gym where it's crowded, etc.)
Why: Why do you want to exercise?
Consider the motives for exercising (or stopping smoking, or whatever your "change" is). Is it fueled by negativity (guilt, shame) or something positive (to run a 5K, to be healthier)? You have to want to make the change, or it won't happen. Trust me—I'm a reformed smoker. I always knew the reasons I should quit. But I couldn't quit until I wanted to.
Look at your answers to these questions, and make some adjustments to the way you'd been trying to change. Make a new battle plan, and start again. Remember, every day (or minute!) is a new beginning!
My challenge: now you try! Define your problem, and then ask the 5W's. Thinking through questions in this way will help you identify small changes you can make that will help you succeed. Good luck!


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NEW BRITAIN - The state is providing a grant for the city to help families with children are at risk of lead poisoning.
Connecticut's public health department awarded $35,611 to New Britain's health department for the current fiscal year. The money will pay for blood screenings of youngsters at danger of lead poisoning.
In addition, the grant will pay for the health department to manage the cases of those children and to educate their parents.


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text: On December 21, 2014 by Mike When Writers Drop Too Much LSD Pop quiz: What amount of drugs would you have to consume over what period of time to come up with this as a plot for Batman? Don't think about it too hard, or blood will shoot out your nose. (With apologies to Lewis Black.) Tags:BatmanConfounding Comic CoversRobin "Go, Superman Statue–It's Now Up to You!" Take a Whole Lotta Shots.


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As early as the 1500s, "you can't see the forest for the trees" was in wide enough use that it was published in collections of proverbs and slang. As anyone who has been in a forest knows, it can be easy to fall into the trap of just looking at the individual trees, rather than considering the forest as a whole.
According to the "saying," it's really easy to lose the forest while you are looking at a tree.
Is that true? When you look at a tree, do you forget you're in a forest? Is it that easy to forget the larger picture because you can only see part of it? Do we forget we are in a city because we're looking at a building? Do we forget we are reading a book because we are looking at one page? At the risk of arguing with a "known fact," I don't need to see the whole city to know I'm in one.
Meanwhile, I really do live in a forest. Not an allegorical or metaphorical forest. We have a whole lot of trees covering a substantial amount of terrain. Our house is right on the edge of it. The forest is primarily red oak trees, with some other hardwood and a bare hint of pine. We used to have a walnut tree, but it went down in a hurricane years back.
If you live in a woods, it's true that you can't see the whole forest, but it doesn't mean you don't know it's there.
Unless you looking down from a helicopter, you will never see the whole forest, yet I'm sure all of us can deduce, infer, and assume the larger picture. Whether or not you can see it in its entirety changes nothing. You see trees, but your brain believes "forest." Not seeing the whole picture does not mean you don't know there is one
How many trees I can see from my house depends on where I am. From the back deck, I see forest. Fewer trees from the front or side of the house. But what's the difference between the forest and the trees? Isn't a forest just a bunch of trees? How many trees do you need before it's a forest (rather than a bunch of trees)? Is there a definition?
Despite this, I bet you can tell the different between a group of trees and a forest every time, without assistance.
Parts of things embody the spirit of the whole. This is how we understand our world and ourselves. No matter what piece you look at, you retain awareness of its connection to something larger. We are individuals, but part of a family, a company, clan, tribe. Humanity as a whole. Without this fundamental grasp of reality, we could not live in the world.
So how do you know whether you're looking at a single tree, or standing at the edge of a forest? Look around. If you see a lot more trees, put your money on "forest." If you see a parking lot and a Walmart sign? Think "mall." Of course, the Walmart could be at the edge of the forest. but I think you'll work it out.
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Buy Diamonds "At Wholesale Prices," not "At Wholesale."
New York, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/26/2012 -- There are a number of Internet sites that claim to sell diamonds wholesale. Unless they are actually selling in bulk to diamond distributors that are going to resell them, however, those claims are a bogus marketing trick and are actually illegal. Blueriver Diamonds Jewelry offers no tricks or gimmicks - only diamonds and fine jewelry at wholesale prices. A second generation seller, Blueriver Diamonds Jewelry has established a reputation for offering customers exceptional quality and service.
The Internet has a lot of amazing deals and products on it, but it also has a lot of scams. Shady business practices that take place within the world of online diamonds are no different. Customers are probably not looking to buy "wholesale diamonds," unless they work for a jewelry manufacturer. Instead, they are looking to buy diamonds "at wholesale prices." That distinction may seem small, but if customers are only in need of one or two diamonds, they should rethink how they look for a gemstone. For an engagement ring, earring, or necklace, the focus should be on the price, size, and cut of the diamond. As a general rule, the word "wholesale" does not necessarily mean the best diamond for purchase.
To find loose diamonds and jewelry of all styles at wholesale prices, go to Blueriver Diamonds Jewelry to review. Blueriver is an online diamond retailer that sells at prices commensurate with what customers would pay if they actually were buying in bulk. They sell individual diamonds for replacements or privately made pieces, and finished jewelry pieces like rings, earrings, bracelets, and necklaces. Customers can also design their own pieces, choosing from thousands of styles, cuts, and colors.
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Wind subsidy tucked inside spending bill
Credit: By Bruce Mohl, CommonWealth Magazine, www.commonwealthmagazine.org 28 September 2010 ~~
A special interest wind power subsidy is tucked inside a spending bill that is the focus of a power struggle between Democrats and Republicans on Beacon Hill.
Gov. Deval Patrick and Beacon Hill leaders are pressing for quick passage of a bill authorizing the state to spend more than $400 million in federal stimulus money, which they say is needed to avert the closing of two prisons, the layoffs of state troopers, and the closing of group homes for the developmentally disabled.
The officials are trying to pass the bill during the Legislature's informal sessions, where the objection of just one member can block action. Rep. Karyn Polito, a Shrewsbury Republican running for state treasurer, blocked action on the bill on Monday and forced the House into recess today. She has said she wants more time to study the bill.
Patrick said the bill should be approved quickly and, if necessary, the Legislature should come back in to formal sessions to pass it. House Speaker Robert DeLeo told The Boston Globe, "There is no fluff in here folks. This is all matters that have to be addressed and have to be addressed now." Senate President Therese Murray scoffed at suggestions there was anything unusual about passing a major spending bill in an informal session.
Most of the bill is devoted to funneling the federal funds to badly depleted state programs, but there is also a narrow provision taken from much broader wind siting legislation that is similarly stalled on Beacon Hill.
The provision would expand a ratepayer subsidy for those who produce renewable energy and sell it to a local utility. It would also extend that lucrative subsidy to a private wind power project in Kingston, which is represented in the Legislature by Senate President Murray and Rep. Thomas Calter.
Kingston is planning to erect a two-megawatt wind turbine and solar panels at a town-owned landfill. Mary O'Donnell, who owns a property adjacent to the landfill, has proposed building four, two-megawatt turbines on her land. Both projects are fully permitted, but O'Donnell needs a change in state law to make her project work financially. It's that change in state law which has been included in the rush-rush spending bill. (For details, click here.)
Wayne Weikel, chief of staff of the House Committee on Ways and Means, which drafted the spending bill, defended the inclusion of the provision.
"While the Kingston project may be the first to take advantage of this change, communities all across the Commonwealth will be better positioned to benefit from locally produced renewable energy as a result of this bill," he said. "We did not want to see these provisions held hostage to the more contentious negotiations over the larger wind siting issue."
Now it appears those provisions may be held hostage to contentious negotiations over the bill authorizing the spending of federal stimulus funds.
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Featured Blog Reaction: by Flirting with Faith
August 1, 2008 at 8:37 pm deconversion 27 comments
A new blogger, Joan Ball, from the "Flirting with Faith" blog, recently found herself "in the land of Christian de-conversion."
According to Joan's testimony, she "woke up one morning a churchgoing agnostic (following years of rabid atheism) and put [her] head to the pillow that night a newly minted, highly unlikely Christian." Of course, she was recently told by an atheist that because she converted, she was never a "real" atheist.
Here's her reaction to our humble blog:
Now de-conversion may be a hot topic in Bible-college circles, but I wasn't even sure if it was a real word. Webster's online says that it's not, but the folks that are contributing and commenting at http://de-conversion.com use it frequently.
She continues:
I am sure that there is much to be said theologically about whether or not "de-conversion" is possible if a person had a genuine experience with Jesus, and I am not remotely studied enough to go there, but as I read the posts of dozens of self-proclaimed "former believers" I saw a pattern emerge:
- I grew up in the church and loved the Lord once.
- I began to question and doubt.
- My questions and doubts were either dismissed or ignored or responded to with platitudes that I could not accept.
- When it was clear that I would not be satisfied with platitudes, I was told that I was defective, i.e. I wasn't really saved in the first place, I was looking for an excuse to sin, etc.
- I am grateful to find this community of people who are also doubters and skeptics (and ultimately unbelievers) so that I do not have to walk this path away from the faith of my childhood on my own.
She concludes her post with a statement and a question:
…many of the posts betray what I interpret to be sadness as a result of the perceived loss of faith. It may be wishful thinking on my part, but a number of the respondents still attend church and participate in ministry despite what they describe to be a sense of isolation and unbelief. It made me wonder who these people are and how their churches (and churches in general) tend to handle a person who is struggling with a perceived loss of faith?
Entry filed under: ~Other. Tags: christianity, de-conversion, religion.
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The de-Convert,
How do you feel when you read comments like Joans?
Any tinge of regret about your decision? Do you ever think you may be wrong? Have you written about your experience on this blog? I don't mean to have you repeat yourself.
I wonder if it's going to be her looking at us looking back at her, people on both sides shaking our heads, saying "wow, I used to be just like that".
The de-Convert,
I went on your blog but I could not find your journey chronicled?
Perhaps you might give thought to laying your journey out in one article? I would love to hear it.
How has your family reacted to you now becoming a famous De Convert who is, in a sense, helping others de convert?
From what I can see, I have to agree with Joan's observation. I've also noticed from personal experience that many de-converts seem to have come to faith originally in very authoritarian, fundamentalist kind of settings where any questioning, or expressing of honest doubt is discouraged from the very beginning.
It also seems to me that the original faith of many de-converts seems to be based in a certain view of Scripture that allows Christian faith to collapse like a deck of cards if any apparent discrepancy or error is found in the Bible.
I wonder if it all might have turned out differently for at least some de-converts with more support, a different kind of church setting, and presentation of the essence of Christian faith??
I read your blog on Matthew that you referenced above. I am not sure what your point is concerning the teachings of Christ. The teachings you point out seem wonderful, though not necessarrily unique. What do you mean when you say they don't describe God.
The de-Convert,
Thanks for the other posts above about the difficulty of the journey. That is what I was looking for. Many here have had bad experiences with Christianity, but what about those of us who have had positive epxeriences. It must be painful to separate from that which was so central to one's life. I appreciated the posts you recommended and it helps me to see the decons as real people with real struggles rather then smug "intellectuals" tolerating ignorant believers like myself. 🙂 I still don't know how to make a smily face – proof of my ignorance I suppose!
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…many of the posts betray what I interpret to be sadness as a result of the perceived loss of faith. It may be wishful thinking on my part, but a number of the respondents still attend church and participate in ministry despite what they describe to be a sense of isolation and unbelief. It made me wonder who these people are and how their churches (and churches in general) tend to handle a person who is struggling with a perceived loss of faith?
For myself – I do not miss that part of my life at all anymore. I DO miss some of the people – but not faith or Christianity itself. And as for my experience leaving the church – I have heard from absolutely no one. Not one call or visit – like I have become a non-entity. As a (now) completely open and out atheist that reaction doesn't really surprise me…apparently I am evil incarnate to those people now 😉
Thanks for the post on your site…
I certainly didn't have any negative experiences with Christianity. My choice to de-convert rests wholly in the fact that what I understand about Christianity does not line up with what I observe to be reality.
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Mattias has had his breakout season this year, making his third top eight in just four events. In the previous editions of Pro Tour Sundays he hadn't made it past the quarterfinals though. He did accomplish the quarterfinals win this time around but had to face Jonny Magic on his way to the Pro Tour Finals; Jonny Magic – arguably the best player the game has ever known. That title still goes to Kai Budde but the American wouldn't settle for second place and has started playing in Pro Tour Sundays again as well.
Game 1
Jorstedt won the flip and started off with a Goblin Taskmaster and a Goblin Sledder. Finkel answered the red 1/1's with an Elvish Warrior. Jorstedt added a morphed Haunted Cadaver to his arsenal and didn't block Jon's Elvish Warrior when he attacked with it. Finkel added a morph of his own to the board but it fell in Jorstedt's next combat step as it blocked the Swede's Goblin Sledder.
Jorstedt unmorphed his unblocked Haunted Cadaver and tore apart Finkel's hand. Finkel kept his Elvish Warrior and Wirewood Elf after discarding a pair of Bronthotheriums. Those two came out next turn and the second Elvish Warrior traded with Jorstedt's Goblin Taskmaster. Jorstedt however hadn't drawn a single spell besides those three so far and Finkel's elves beat the Swede down to 8 before he drew his next spell – a Wretched Anurid.
Finkel hadn't drawn any extra spells either until the Wretched Anurid went into the Red Zone. Finkel answered it with a morphed Skirk Commando. An Anurid Murkdiver came down for Jorstedt next turn, taking Jorstedt down to 6 life. The Wretched Anurid kept on beating and took Finkel down to 10 life. With a Crested Craghorn and Wave of Indifference in hand and a bunch of land on the table Jorstedt dodged Finkel's amazing deck in Game 1.
Jorstedt 1 – Finkel 0
Game 2
Game 2 started off for Finkel as Jorstedt mulliganed a one-land hand. He also started off with a second turn Stonewood Invoker which traded for Jorstedt's Skirk Drill Sergeant. A third turn Timberwatch Elf made the game seem to go very well for the American. After some deliberation Jorstedt decided to play a face up Spined Basher. It headed into the Red Zone next turn but it died to a cycled Primal Boost on Finkel's Timberwatch Elf.
A morphed Shaleskin Plower was next and Finkel didn't play a spell on his fifth turn even though he had five land available. Jorstedt unmorphed the Shaleskin Plower and set Finkel back another turn, and indeed Finkel had no play on his next turn. The Plower hit Jonny Magic again, taking him down to 14 and was joined by two morphed Haunted Cadavers.
On his sixth turn, Finkel finally cast an extra spell – a Brontotherium. It blocked Jorstedt's Shaleskin Plower and after damage was on the stack, Finkel tried to pump it with his Timberwatch Elf. The elf fell to a Shock however and Brontotherium died to the Plower. On top of that, Jorstedt unmorphed on of his Haunted Cadaver and it took Finkel's hand. Jorstedt added a Vile Deacon to his side of the board on the next turn and they took down Finkel in short order.
Jorstedt 2 – Finkel 0
Game 3
With his back against the wall, Finkel kept his hand after some deliberation. Jorstedt had to trade in his hand though and got back a hand with only mountains for lands. Regardless he kept it and walked over Finkel as the American had kept a two forest hand without any of the Elvish Warriors. Jorstedt started off with a Goblin Sledder and a turn three morph.
Finkel drew his third land on his fourth turn and played it but didn't have anything to morph. He did draw a morph on his fifth turn and played it but it was Shocked by Jorstedt. Crested Craghorn came down on Jorstedt's fifth turn and brought Finkel down to 6. Without any outs available to him, Finkel conceded.
In other words – SMASH
Final Result: Jorstedt 3 – Finkel 0


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I'm backkkk for Part 2 of my beach vacation with the girls!!! I can't believe it is Friday already! It was a short week for me with personal travel so I have my days all confused right now. But I am pretty excited for the weekend ahead because my sister, her boyfriend, and two of their friends are coming to Nashville this weekend for a wedding and they are all staying with us so that should be fun. We squeezed in a few plans with them and my parents around the wedding festivities they are attending. I am also hoping to catch up on a little sleep. 😉
So picking right back up where I left off yesterday with more beach pictures because I just can't get enough of this beautiful scene. Since the hurricane was coming soon, there was very little beach left and the waves were big!
One day my sister and I biked 5 miles to a cute little part of the beach and had a couple drinks then biked home. The ride home was tough and we both were a little uncomfortable walking the next day. Clearly we are not regular bikers.
Ahh so pretty!
Yummy appetizers! Does anyone else love the mango peach salsa from Costco too?
Dinner of broiled mahi mahi with roasted potatoes and brussel sprouts.
One of my aunts made a word search for all of us to do for her activity. It was just for fun, but I finished mine first. 🙂
We also made homemade cookies one day and decorated them the next. I know what you are thinking… we should be professionals. 😉
One night we played this game called salad bowl for my sister's activity. It consists of a few different rounds, but is very similar to charades. We were all laughing so hard.
This view was worth all the mosquito bites I got. 😉
Almost every morning a few of us would take a morning walk around 6am to beat the heat, move our bodies, and see the beautiful sunrise! It was one of my favorite parts of the trip… I love morning walks to start my day on a healthy note!
Followed by a green smoothie enjoyed outside. Aren't the clouds so neat? They just almost don't seem real.
I brought resistance bands so I could teach a workout class for my activity contribution.
The class participants. They all did so well! My aunt Bonnie had the band with the least resistance and it went flying through the air multiple times during the workout and we all just cracked up laughing so hard. LOL
The last two days we spent at the beach. The place we were staying provided umbrellas and chairs on the beach for us, which was so nice, especially since the water was coming up all the way to the back of the sand.
Living my best life in the sunshine with my toes in the sand. 🙂
My sweet sis.
Can I go back now? 🙂 . The beach is my happy place.
My wedding anniversary happened to fall on a day while I was at the beach on the girls trip. My sweet husband didn't forget the day (even though I may have not remembered until the day before :)) and sent me the prettiest flowers. You know you've got a winner when your husband supports you going on a relaxing girls trip during your wedding anniversary. He's the best.
I'm so glad you chose me almost 10 years ago, my sweet Jonny!!! We met when I was 19 and a freshman in college. He was a junior. The rest is history. 🙂 The below picture was from our engagement shoot at my in-laws house, where our wedding ceremony actually took place. Such great memories!
That's all for today!!! I will be back soon with my final recap of the girls beach trip!! I hope you all have the best weekend!!
- Any fun plans for the weekend?
- Beach or mountains?
- If you are married, how long have you been married? How old were you when you met your spouse/partner?


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1) When Looking at Elena Maria Vidal's Book on Daughter of Cesars ... · 2) Answering J. P. Holding / tektontv on Quiverfull, Lifespans, Onan, up-dated : and Romans · 3) Trying to Get Through to Holding · 4) Hesses vs Holding
Here the Hesses, by Holding are told
How (not) to think of Heavenly art
tektonticker : The Quiverfull Movement, Part 2
Holding attacks the Hesses for this paragraph:
Even more outlandishly, the Hesses put God directly in charge of genetics, asking, "does God decide eye color or does Mendel's Law?" [183] and, quoting a source as saying: "God individually chose and gave each child his or her blue eyes. We have to keep in mind that God can modify or abolish genetic or reproductive trends as He wills." [184]
From this little rhetoric question, one might presume Holding considers, unlike the Hesses, that God left genetics to Mendel's laws.
Left it to them to determine.
OK, there is one point in so far that Mendel's laws give the normal framework. But is that a framework which allows either chance (on atheistic views, or reduced to secindary causes) or God (an a Christian view) little or much freedom?
Let's get it straight about chromosomes. These were not directly described in Mendel's laws, but predicted by oberving, through them, the phenomenon of tied (as opposed to independent) characteristics. Also, they differ between kinds and even species in number. There are mice with 22 chromosomes and there are mice with 40 (I presume we mean 2n=22, 2n=40, so it would mean 11 or 20 pairs), one can refer to them as different species or as different chromosomal races. I have very little doubt those with fewer chromosome pairs have "evolved" if you like from the larger number by telomere fusion.
The opposite process is harder to get around.
Man, however, has 23 pairs, ALL "races". 22 pairs which are what they are independently of one's sex, and a 23:rd pair which is either XX for ladies or XY for gentlemen. The non-sex paris are numbered according to size of chromosome. 1 is biggest, 22 smallest. Trisomy 21, you hav Downs' syndrome. Trisomy 1, you usually die before birth.
Now, we were talking about how much this leaves of regular natural results and how much it leaves to either chance or God.
You begin when a sperm (Latin for seed - also used of unground whole cereal seeds in original language) from your father meets an ovulum (Latin for "little egg", and some languages say "egg cell" instead, like Swedish "äggcell") from your mother.
The sperm contained 23 of your 2n=46 chromosomes, the ovulum the other 23 of yourself.
For each sperm, it was a hazard which of your father's chromosome 1 you should get, and independent hazard which of his chromosome 2 you should get and so on in that particular sperm. And exact same for the ovulum selecting 23 from your mother's 2n=46 chromosomes.
What does this mean mathematically?
|possibilities by nth chromosome
The sperm that became the sperm which meeting an ovulum became you is genetically one out of 8,388,608 millions different sperms your father could have produced (OK, in any case where he had two identical versions of a pair, this figure needs to be halved). From your mother, the ovulum which received the sperm to become you was one in 8,388,608 genetically different ovula which she could have produced.
8 million 388 thousand 608 times same number of possibilities from other source is 70 trillion 368 billion 744 million 177 thousand 664.
So, if your parents had had 70 trillion plus babies, one of them would statistically have been you.
Usually it is very rare to have even as many as 20.
Say your parents had 20 babies, the chances of one of them being you was:
2.8421709430404007434844970703125 e-13
- e=1
- 2.842,170,943,040,400,743,484,497,070,312,5
- e-3
- 0.002,842,170,943,040,400,743,484,497,070,312,5
- e-6
- 0.000,002,842,170,943,040,400,743,484,497,070,312,5
- e-12
- 0.000,000,000,002,842,170,943,040,400,743,484,497,070,312,5
- e-13
- 0.000,000,000,000,284,217,094,304,040,074,348,449,707,031,25
So, within the framwork of your parents' genetics, the main factor determining your exact genetic makeup is God's providence.
"Mendel's laws" are a framework more often than not veried in God's result.
But God could make a sheer miracle, like when cloning Eve from Adam without his Y and with an extra or doubled X, and when He cloned Christ from Mary, except one X (let's assume Hers were identical) exchanged for a Y.
God could also make you the first carrier of a mutation. Its presence in you is not determined by Mendel's laws, since it does not follow from previous.
God could make you trisomic. Trisomy 1 is lethal, so is trisomy 3, trisomy 21 is Down's. Some trisomies affect neither life nor intelligence, like a trisomy in sex chromosomes, might make you the last of your line. XXY is a man less likely to be fertile than normal XY. XXX is a woman less likely to be fertile than a normal XX.
God is also in charge of the exact number of both identical and non-identical ancestors you get in each generation before your own, within or sometimes between generations.
If you have blue eyes, God made sure the first person with blue eye gene would be one of your ancestors, would be it on both your father's and your mother's side and would have passed on that gene to both of them.
So, yes. God is in fact in charge of your genetics.
When the Hesses advise readers that, "we would do well to give God control over how many children we have," [57] they do not simply mean we should allow God to be sovereign; rather, they envision God as having direct, micro-managerial command of conception ("lock, stock, and baby" as they put it [94], and elsewhere, "pregnancy is not going to occur except through God's active agency" [106], and yet again, "...the Scriptures prove that God Himself is our birth Controller" [141], and finally, "God Himself is all the birth control we need" [158]…and let us add, as a related point, this quote: "Menopause occurs at exactly the time in a woman's life when God decrees that she is to bear no more children." [189] I have not seen even a Calvinist assign God that much micro-managerial control!).
Well, I am not a Calvinist, and I very much do believe God does micromanage it.
I believe in free will, and yet that our lives are micromanaged.
God being outside time, for Him there is no problem to take into account each and every free willed decision through all history to micromanage all history. Some things, like sins, God simply allows. He allots that decision to sin, taken by that creature, to that specific moment in his life, but He did not chose for the creature to sin. Some things He directly produces.
And the lives of human persons is one of these.
Even if a person is conceived in a rape, God chose for that particular rape to result in pregnancy, whereas for another rape He chose there would not be that result.
So, yes, God is in direct charge of what happens for pregnancy or not once sex is freely (usually, fortunately, freely on both sides!) engaged in.
If Adam and Eve had not sinned, they would have been able to know perfectly at what moments their union would be fertile, and if wanting to use occasion, would not have used it in vain, Eve would have become pregnant every time.
But after their sin, it often happens that a coitus is a little too late for an ovulation or a little too early for the sperms to survive up to ovulation, or too few sperms to reach ovulum, after previous coitus. Every unsuccessful coitus is, so to speak, "beside nature", "praeter naturam". But making it unsuccessful by choice is to go against nature, "contra naturam".
If a Catholic couple abstains from coitus on the nights when the Church traditionally demands so, they are allowing God the freedom to chose how many occasions of abstinence shall mean failure to conceive, and how many coitus right after abstinence shall be on the right moment for increased chances. Overall, this would usually tend to child spacing. To having children less often than if using marriage each night. Which is good for the female body (also due to the curse after the first sin, being fertile whenever possible is a chore for the female body).
But, if one does not abstain certain nights for piety, at least one should allow God to do what He wants with the coitus where He offered the couple the pleasure. The couple should offer back to God the occasion for making a child.
Also, the human soul of each conceived (at least each conceived and fully human) fetus is directly a creature of God. And to each soul God allotted the genetics it should have.
Hesses are right, Holding is wrong.
Match is over, hear that ding-dong?
Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
St Margaret of Scotland