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Today we are looking at one of the Five "Solas" of the Protestant Reformation. Dr. George was here about 2 months ago talking to us about "Sola Christus" (Christ alone), then Dr. Duesing was here one month ago for "Sola Fide" or (Faith alone), and today we're looking at "Sola Scriptura" (Scripture alone). And feel free to text in your questions after the thread goes out around 11:05am, though I won't answer them today. I'll answer them on Facebook live this week and also email that out. So please do send in your questions.
It was October 31st, 1517 (which was 500 years to the day this past Tuesday) when a theology professor from Wittenburg University in Germany went to the door of the Castle Church there in Wittenburg to nail a large piece of paper to the door. These theses, or arguments, included some pretty controversial statements about the teachings of Scripture and their relation to the teachings of the Catholic Church. Luther didn't post the 95 theses because he hated the Catholic church. He had no desire to start his own church or even to lead some sort of Reformation. His reason for posting these concerns was to start a discussion, and to challenge some of the Catholic Church's teachings and whether or not they were biblical.
These teachings included prayers to the saints; immaculate conception, which refers to Mary and how she had no sinful nature and was actually sinless herself; Papal authority, which is the belief that the pope has supreme, universal power over the Church, including her beliefs; and the sale of indulgences, among many other things.
Now, an indulgence was a way to shorten your time in purgatory, which is this intermediate state after you die but before you reach heaven where you basically pay for certain sins and are purified before entering heaven. You could do different things to receive an indulgence; you could even buy one. You could pay a certain amount, and have some time taken off your stay in Purgatory. Obviously, indulgences (and even purgatory) were teachings with no biblical support.
One of the specific things that really drove Martin Luther to do what he did was the selling of indulgences by a man Johann Tetzel. He was a priest who was sent on a fundraising campaign to help try and finance the building of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. He was sent out by Pope Leo X to sell the most effective indulgence ever! For a quarter of a florin ($35), you could release a loved one from purgatory permanently! And Tetzel was known for his salesmanship. His most famous jingle you may have heard before: "When a coin in the coffer rings, the soul from purgatory springs."
Sola Scriptura
You might, at this point, understand why Luther was so frustrated. The biggest problem for Luther was not just that he didn't like these things. It wasn't that he just had a grudge against Catholics. It's that Biblical truth, and therefore Gospel truth, was no longer central to the Church's teaching and practice! The Scriptures were not the authority, and the Church was even teaching things and practicing things that were directly contradictory to the Bible's teachings, even when it came to the gospel!
"How can I be made right with God?" Well, you do this, this, this, this, this, and this. Says who? "A coin in the coffer rings, a soul from purgatory springs." Wait, says who?! What's our authority here? Where do you get that?! That might be the most important question we can ask as Christians, when it comes to authority—especially when it comes to those supposedly speaking on behalf of God. Says who?
Luther asked this question. He was an Augustinian monk, but he so struggled with the weight of his own sin, that they forced him to go to get a doctorate in theology, so maybe he'd and figure out the answers to all the questions he had. So Luther learned to read the Bible for the first time ever, because the Bible had not been translated into German yet (the Church did not allow for it to be translated into German for fear of common-people twisting and misunderstanding it, ironically). So for the first time ever, Luther learned the languages and studied the Scriptures for Himself. He asked questions of his professors and other professors, but their answers often weren't satisfactory for him, because he kept asking the question, "Says who?" You can make up an answer to my question all you want, but does God answer it in that way? How does his WORD answer this question? Or that question?
Listen, this is the question we too must be asking. Not merely what does a pastor say, or a church, or a denomination, or a meme on Facebook, or a catchy quote from some author. What does GOD say!? Because he is our only infallible source for truth. "Sola Scriptura," which became one of the rallying cries of the Reformation, does not mean that the Bible is our only source for truth. We have our senses, we have brains that God gave us. These too are sources for truth, but these sources can fail us. They can be wrong. God, though, can't be wrong. That's why God's Word is our ultimate authority. And since it is our only ultimate authority, we submit to it in every way. And we believe that by submitting to God's Word, we are submitting to God Himself.
Because of that, today we bring up five particular areas in which we must submit to the Word of God. These are five areas in which it is so easy deny "Scripture Alone" as our ultimate authority. Maybe not out loud, but at least functionally we can so easily place other things on equal level to God's Word. And yes, these go for the Catholic Church in Luther's day, but they also go for our culture today, even within our Christian culture, and whether we realize it or not, in our very own hearts and minds. These are for US. So here are the five main areas we must submit to the Word of God, and today we have multiple Scriptures we're bringing up to undergird our commitment to "Sola Scriptura."
- We submit our desires to the Word of God.
For the Catholic Church in Luther's day, it was convenient to be able to sell indulgences. Why? Because they wanted to build St. Peter's Basilica, which I'm sure sounded to everyone like something that would glorify God! It was supposedly a good thing, so there must be nothing wrong with selling indulgences if it helps this cause. They let their personal desires trump the truth of the Word of God. The truth was that there was no such thing as an indulgence that gave man the power to free loved ones from purgatory. Honestly, the truth was that there was no such thing as purgatory at all! But certainly, also, it was wrong to manipulate people into buying these tickets into heaven. They let their desires trump the Word of God not only with what they believed but also with what they practiced.
But even for us, today: we too, can so easily let our desires trump the Word of God. Maybe not in the same ways of the Roman Catholic Church. But think about it: one of the easiest ways that we deny that God's Word is our ultimate authority is by projecting onto God what we want him to be, instead of what we know Him to be from His Word. In other words, we need to be careful when we say things like, "I like to think of God as…fill in the blank." Because the question we need to be asking is, "Is that what God is really like?" In other words, says who?! I don't think there's anything wrong with having favorite character traits of God, or favorite titles that reflect who he is. Like right now my favorite two titles, specifically for Christ, are Substitute and King. You've probably heard that a lot in the language I use while preaching. There's nothing wrong with having favorite characteristics of God, or meaningful names that you call him even perhaps more than other biblical names.
The problem is when we let our desires turn God into something that he may not be! When we love God's mercy to the point where we can't also love his justice, or even acknowledge his justice, there's a problem! This is when it's very easy to become a universalist without even really meaning to. Universalism is the belief that God will save every single person on the planet—that all people are saved and are going to heaven. Is God merciful? Absolutely, but his mercy does not negate his justice. When we love his mercy so much and want his mercy to be his primary or even only characteristic, we put our desires above what the Scriptures actually teach. Instead, we must submit our desires to the Word of God. And we MUST make sure and help each other do this, because no one else is doing this. Most just believe whatever they want to believe!
Within mainstream Christianity, it seems like people just go to the places where they hear what they want to hear, whatever their itching ears desire. We cannot do this. The Word must be central. Here's our reminder from the Bible as it pertains to our desires and the Word of God. 2 Timothy 4:1-5:
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
We must guard against falling right in line with so many that hear whatever they want to hear and believe whatever they want to believe. We must preach the Word, Sunday mornings, to each other regularly, to ourselves as we soak it in! That's one thing I have to mention before we move on to number 2: you will not submit your desires to the Word of God if you do not read the Word of God! You are UNABLE to believe what God has said if you are not regularly exposed to what God has said. Open it, find a church that preaches it, jump into a bible study. Read it. Understand it. Grow to love it. Number 2: the 2nd area we must submit to the Word of God:
- We submit our reason to the Word of God.
Again I think it's worth noting that Sola Scriptura does not mean that Scripture is our only authority for truth, but that it's our only infallible source for truth. We use our brains. We use reason, logic, the minds that God has given us to understand reality. We use all five senses to experience the world in which we live, and learn particular truths not only about the universe, but also about God Himself. This is why Christians should lead the way in the sciences, and biology and chemistry and pretty much every academic area. Because we believe that all truth is God's truth.
But, there is a problem when we let our reason trump the Word of God. Yes, all truth is God's truth. But our only infallible source for truth is the Word of God. Darwinian evolution is an example of something that is incompatible with Scripture, and yet many Christians will side with pretty much the full scope of Darwinian Evolution.
Another modern example is the sexual revolution in which we are currently living. A revolution in which man's reason demands that we get on the right side of history and give up old, bigoted, patriarchal views. Or even if we don't give up on our beliefs in these areas, at least we should be quiet about them. Otherwise, the church may risk becoming irrelevant! At least that's what we're told. Instead of asking the question, "What does God want?" we're told to ask the question, "What will keep us relevant in this culture?" In fact, I want to play you a short video of Rob Bell and Oprah Winfrey. Rob Bell is a very well-known so-called "Christian" author (he was a pastor for some time as well). He wrote Velvet Elvis and Love Wins, if you recognize those. But I want you to pay attention, and I want you to put your thinking caps on as we hear from Bell and his wife speaking with Oprah Winfrey:
You heard Bell's logic, his reasoning for why gay marriage was included in his book? Because "loneliness is not good for the world. It's totally normal, natural, and healthy to want someone to go through life with. It's central to our humanity." What's he using there? Is he using the Word of God to answer this question? Of course not! He's using human reason. Why should the church change, according to Bell? Because it will become more and more irrelevant if it continues to quote letters from 2000 years ago…
It may certainly be true that the church becomes less and less relevant in the world's eyes if we continue our commitment to God's truth, but it will not be less and less relevant in God's eyes. In God's eyes, lots of things change constantly, but His Word does not. Isaiah 40:8:
The grass withers, the flower fades,
but the word of our God will stand forever.
Why must we submit our reason, our logic, our thinking to the Word of God? Because it's the only way not to be bound by our time and culture. Cultures change. What is supposedly reasonable today will not be reasonable tomorrow. For the Lord, though, He does not change. His truth does not change.
Obviously this is true for what God has told us about the beauty of sexuality in how he designed it, and I'm guessing for most of us here it's a bit easier to agree with that. But we really must ask ourselves these harder questions. Because letting our reason trump the Word of God I think is far more common in the church, in our lives, than we think. Maybe we hold to, and are even vocal about these hot topic issues like homosexuality or transgenderism, maybe in that area we take a stand, but do we ask ourselves the same questions?
Are we justifying sin to avoid submitting to God's Word? Well, pornography helps me not cheat. Or, how can I not lust in the world in which we live? Well, I'm angry because of that person and what they're doing. I'm complacent, but it's because my church just isn't encouraging me enough, or doesn't have the right ministries that I need. I'm bitter, but no one would blame me for being bitter if they knew what she did. I don't start the gossip, I just happen to be someone people can talk to. This goes on and on. Are we justifying ourselves in our sin, kind-of reasoning our way out of it? Because when we do this, we're placing our reason as higher in authority than God's Word. That's a dangerous place to be. The 3rd area we must submit to the Word of God:
- We submit our creeds to the Word of God.
What I mean by "creed" here, basically, is a fundamental set of beliefs, or even a single belief. Or a creed could be like a guiding principle. We have classic creeds of the Christian faith that have served as guideposts helping people, as time went on, stay on track with some of the most important doctrines of the faith, especially having to do with who God is, his nature. But they are not Scripture, nor should we ever see them as equal to Scripture.
For the Catholic Church in Luther's day, and even in our day, they didn't submit their creeds to the Word of God. They saw them as equal to the Word of God. I know most of us here today would agree that that's not good. But, by "creed," I'm also referring to our personal creeds…mottos…mantras. These are sayings that we live our lives by. We may not realize we have these, but let me list some common ones that might ring a bell for you. Just very broad creeds or mantras:
- Above all to thine own self by true (Shakespear).
- Believe in yourself.
- Follow your dreams.
- Life is what you make it.
There's an endless number of these kinds of life mottos. We like catchy, sometimes trite, sayings that simplify things for us. Sometimes these can be helpful! In the Christian world, it is no different. But, sometimes we can like short, easy-to-remember sayings more than we like to understand and follow the Word of God. This is why maybe we follow Christian leaders or personalities on twitter and remember their quotes, but don't actually read the Bible. Can I tell you: oftentimes these mottos and sound bites do not reflect the truth found in the Word of God?
Sometimes we hear them, and they sound good and even encouraging, so we assume them to be true! "Faith activates God; fear activates the Enemy." That sounds pretty good! It's not completely true, though…God used fear often in the Scriptures. In fact, in a very real sense, we're called to fear God. Another one (this one you may have heard debunked before): "God won't give you more than you can handle." Says who? 2 Corinthians 1:8-9, Paul specifically speaks of hardships "far beyond our ability to endure." In fact, he then points out why God brought this hardship that was more than he could handle: to force him to rely on God who raises the dead!
Even phrases that have to do with the Gospel, what we must do to be saved, we must be careful: "To become a Christian, you accept Jesus into your heart as Lord and Savior." Says who? Do we even know that that phrase, "accept Jesus into our hearts," is nowhere to be found in the Bible? That should wake us up a little bit if we didn't even realize that it isn't in the Scriptures. And we should very clearly know what that phrase means if we do choose to use it, though I would encourage you to consider not using it. To me, it's unclear, vague. Repentance and Faith is the language of the New Testament. And even if that's what you mean by that phrase, they don't sound very parallel at all.
The point here is not to completely avoid sayings and quotes and mottos that are helpful, but to ALWAYS submit them to the Word of God. TEST them. And don't rely on them primarily for your life and sustenance as a Christian. Don't rely merely on twitter or facebook or sayings you've written down that you've heard before. You need the Word itself. Why? Paul lays it out clearly in 2 Timothy 3:16-17:
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
God's Word is what we need for teaching, for training in righteousness, becoming the men and women he wants us to be, not merely short, catchy sayings that might reflect biblical truth. The 4th area that we must submit to the Word of God:
- We submit our promptings to the Word of God.
We could easily have a whole Sunday or even a series just on the question or HOW, exactly, God leads us, or in what ways God speaks to us, his people. But for our purposes today, I'll just say that I believe that God can lead us through promptings. Somehow, his Spirit living in us, I do believe can lead us to speak to a particular person about the Gospel, or make a particular decision on a job or whatever else is going on in life. I do believe that.
BUT, these so-called "promptings" or "leadings" are NEVER to be understood as on equal level with the Word of God. In fact, honestly, I think most of these "promptings," if they really are from God, come as a result of God having molded your mind and heart through the Word of God. The more our minds and hearts are filled with His truth and molded by His truth, the more we're going to do what God wants us to do.
Many of you have a more charismatic background—Assembly of God, Pentecostal, etc.—and likely have been taught to seek out these leadings of the Holy Spirit. I don't want to totally dismiss that idea at all. But I do want to warn us against 2 things. First: we must have in mind that the Bible is our only ultimate source of truth from God, our only infallible source of truth and guidance from God. In other words, these "promptings" can be wrong. Very important for us to realize that. Secondly, an encouragement: Do not spend more time seeking these special promptings or leadings than you do seeking Truth to be found in His Word! Don't become obsessed with being led by the Spirit in a way that's somehow separate from the Word of God. If you want to be led by the Spirit, and if you want to lead a Spirit-filled life: Soak up the Word of God. Let the Holy Spirit teach you and lead you through what he has written!
When we treat promptings or any supposed special revelation we receive from God as equal to the Word of God, we're ignoring a very clear and, honestly, sobering warning that God has given us, found in Revelation 22:18-19:
I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book, and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.
I think that pretty much covers it. God gave men who were prophets, and he gave men who were apostles, who spoke on behalf of God, and who God used to bring His Word to us. And that canon of the Word of God is closed. There are no modern-day apostles, writing and speaking with the same authority as those who wrote the New Testament, who walked with Jesus himself. Because of that, we submit any "promptings" or "leadings" we experience to the Word of God. As Luther would put it: "My conscious is captive to the Word of God," not captive to however I feel God is leading me in the moment. It's captive to the Word of God. The last area we must submit to the Word of God:
- We submit our hearts to the Word of God.
This is a perfect last one because even in the world of Christianity, what I sometimes call "pop-Christian culture," it's so easy to fall into the TRAP of thinking that God wants us to follow our hearts. I heard just recently an evangelical pastor say these words: "Wherever your heart is leading you; that's where God wants you to go." And he was applying that very broadly. Is that true? Is it best to think like that? Let me allow God's Word to throw a wrench into that plan. Jeremiah 17:9:
The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately sick;
who can understand it?
Our hearts are deceptive above all things. Now yes, God is changing our hearts, right? Our hearts can lead us in the right path, but, our hearts were never meant to be our ultimate guide. Instead, our hearts are to trust in the Word of God. It's the Word of God that is molding and transforming our hearts in the first place. One of my favorite verses in the entire Bible expresses this—Hebrews 4:12:
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Did you catch that? It discerns the thoughts and intentions of the heart. It stands over. It reveals and cuts and convicts and discerns and transforms the heart. God intended for us to submit our very hearts, our identities, our desires, our will, to the Word of God. God designed our hearts in such a way that they would be pierced by the truth of the Word.
And yet, I must come back once again to this point I mentioned already: We can't submit our hearts to the Word of God if we don't ever open it and let it do its work. If we as a church don't preach and teach it; if we don't open it with each other individually and in small groups and over lunch; if we don't read it on our own, we can say we believe in Sola Scriptura all day long, but listen: if you don't open it, there is something else guiding your life.
You're living your life according to some set of principles; it is a fact. Whether they're just your own principles you made up, or maybe a few Biblical principles you learned when you were a child (or at least you hope they're biblical; you learned them in church, so you assume). If we're not opening God's Word in the church, in small groups, with friends, and on your own, then we clearly are not seeking after it like it's truly God's ultimate truth for us.
And unless we're opening the Word letting it have its effect on our minds and hearts, we will inevitably forget the Gospel to which it testifies. We hear about indulgences and think that's crazy how far-off the Roman Catholic was. We think about Luther and his contemporaries and how they went to church and never actually heard the Gospel preached and we think that's crazy, but then we forget or maybe we just don't notice that in most churches (or at least many), the Gospel is far from the pulpit and far from the hearts of the people.
Maybe indulgences were more obvious than moralism or legalism today, but the prevalence of believers who don't know the Word and, more sadly than that, aren't even interested in knowing the Word— this should wake us up. In our churches, in our homes, in our individual lives: where God's Word is not seen and treated as the only ultimate and infallible authority for truth, the gospel will not be clearly displayed in all of its beauty: My sin and rebellion against God paid for on the Cross by my King Jesus, who died then rose from the dead. We forget the Word, we forget the Gospel. We marginalize the Word, the marginalize the gospel. We don't find our life and joy and sustenance in the Word of God, we don't find our life and joy and sustenance in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Insofar as we cherish God's Word alone as our final authority, we cherish Jesus and what he did for us. The Word is how we meet, how we know, and how we love our Substitute and King.


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BON JOVI – One Wild Night: Live 1985-2001
Bon Jovi – One Wild Night: Live 1985-2001 (2001, Island Records)
1. "It's My Life" … 3:51
2. "Livin' on a Prayer" … 5:13
3. "You Give Love a Bad Name" … 3:53
4. "Keep the Faith" … 6:19
5. "Someday I'll Be Saturday Night" … 6:30
6. "Rockin' in the Free World" … 5:40
7. "Something to Believe In" … 6:00
8. "Wanted Dead or Alive" … 6:00
9. "Runaway" … 4:47
10. "In and Out of Love" … 6:12
11. "I Don't Like Mondays" … 5:58
12. "Just Older" … 5:13
13. "Something for the Pain" … 4:22
14. "Bad Medicine" … 4:19
15. "One Wild Night 2001" … 3:46
Jon Bon Jovi – Vocals, Guitar, Percussion
Richie Sambora – Guitar, Backing Vocals
David Bryan – Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Tico Torres – Drums, Percussion
Additional Musicians:
Alec John Such – Bass, Backing Vocals ("Runaway" and "In and Out of Love")
Hugh McDonald – Bass, Backing Vocals
Bob Geldof – Vocals ("I Don't Like Mondays")
Produced by: Obie O'Brien, Bon Jovi, Luke Ebbin, Desmond Child
Although I've yet to see Bon Jovi in person, I've seen tons of live Bon Jovi performances over the years on television and video. They've always delivered and this, their first live album, is no different with "Someday I'll Be Saturday Night" being an especially inspired performance. I usually don't give live albums extended play, but this is one of the few live release I have in my collection that I did just that. You can never go wrong with Bon Jovi (when they're singing the classics).
Seven of the fifteen tracks were recorded in 2000, four are from 1995, "Something to Believe In" is from '96 and only "In and Out of Love" and "Runaway" are from 1985. I think it's very strange they didn't include any performances from their commercial peak ('87-'92) and I would have preferred most of the songs to be from that era. They probably included so many then-recent performances to show people it was still worth coming out to their shows in 2001. Only two of these songs were recorded in the US, which I find weird as well.
"One Wild Night 2001" is a needless remix of, you guessed it, "One Wild Night" from Crush the previous year. Fine for what it is (one of the hardest rocking songs from Crush), but it's neither better or worse than the original.
Highlights: "It's My Life", "You Give Love a Bad Name", "Someday I'll Be Saturday Night", "Runaway", "I Don't LIke Mondays", "Something for the Pain", "Bad Medicine"
Posted on July 20, 2009, in Bon Jovi and tagged Alec John Such, Bon Jovi, Classic Rock, David Bryan, Hard Rock, Jon Bon Jovi, Music, Pop Rock, Richie Sambora, Rock, Rock & Roll, Rock 'N' Roll, Tico Torres. Bookmark the permalink. 1 Comment.

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Half marathon that is.
Its been a bad year for running. I suffered inflamed Achilles tendons after the Connemara Half marathon in April and hadn't ran a race since. I had run a couple of parkruns, wonderful as ever, but slowly and carefully.
I got some very good physio treatment and advice – how tendons are different from muscles, how the limited blood flow hinders healing, how it can take a day or two after exercise to know if you've done too much or not, how the building up slowly in exercise that you read about all the time, no more than 10%, is for your tendons really – they have to get used to the exercise. Its almost like you have to fool them into believing they can do it, "Sure we ran 10k last week, we'll manage 11k this week no bother" I had a couple of setbacks – as regular readers will know, i'm a slow learner.
The source of the problem lay with the rupture of my left Achilles tendon about nine years ago – i had never stopped compensating and putting too much pressure on my right foot.
No races,
but a greater love of running,
classic really,
you appreciate something most when its gone.
So i took the physio's advice and did my exercises, various forms of heel raises, not stretches, for those who want to know and started running short distances, every second day so that the tendons could recover and rest and i could evaluate how they felt.
But there was a complication; i still wanted to run this years Dublin City marathon on October 28th.
It didn't take a mathematical genius to figure out that a regular 10% increase in distance wouldn't get me there and so i made out a plan, yes a Training Plan. See how mature and disciplined i have become – many thanks to my Practical Philosophy classes. In general, i have stuck to it. I've modified it somewhat but stuck with it. Week 7 of training commenced with the Dublin Half Marathon, one of the markers. 15k slowly but successfully ran few days earlier suggested i could complete it.
It turned out to be a perfect morning for running, dull, dry, warm and no wind. I arrived in the Phoenix Park about an hour early but was far from first, a sequence to be replicated in the race. Excited crowds were milling around. I checked out the pacers and their balloons. 2:20 seemed a good target. About what i was achieving before been injured but, hey, i had been training and i knew the crowd would carry me along.
And we were off, another 13 mile adventure started. I tucked in behind the 2:20 pacers but after a while felt i do a bit more. So off i went. Recently, i've been running at a 7 minute/km pace in training but here i was doing 6:24. I didn't expect that i'd keep it up but was happy enough to gain a bit on the pacers and then lose it at the end if i had to.
Half marathons break themselves down in familiar portions for me at this stage. The first two to three miles i'm warming up and then i'm thinking "Same again and i'm halfway". That's the tough bit really just around the 7 miles and you know you have about as far to go again and that's the few miles when i have to dig in and just put in the time. As the 10 mile marker approaches, i'm thinking just another 3 miles, a little old 5k run in the park, and i'm done and so it proves to be. All races in the Phoenix Park seem to end on Furze Road, only a slight incline but you feel it at that stage.
I had bought a energy gel at my local running shop, Runzone in Rathgar and got some free advice at the same time from Jim. "The gel takes about half an hour to be digested", he told me, "so take it at about the hour mark and then it will kick in when you need it". I delayed until mile 8 though as i'd drank a hot chocolate just before we started. At mile 9, we were served with lucozade energy drinks and i took one, well part of one, its hard to drink from a cup when you are running, for that little extra boost. I was glad there were no wasps about as they would have love the sugary sticky coating I mainly spilled over myself.
Mile 10 came up and a couple of people asked me how far to go. They'd missed the signpost. "Three miles", i answered, "just a 5k, half an hour at this pace". The information didn't seem to be good news, they grunted and i moved on. Shortly afterwards, at the 17km mark, another runner started a chat. He was on 27km at that stage, having run 10km to the Park to start. I dream of the day. We passed a kilometre or so and he told me not to wait if i wanted to speed up a bit. I realised that the lucozade and gel had kicked in and there was a turbo charge just waiting to be let loose. A downhill section approached and off i went, hoping that i wouldn't run out of energy before the end. I gently passed out about thirty runners and was reminded of the advice of finishing strongly and the pleasure, guilty pleasure really, of passing out other runners in the last few miles.
The route narrowed along a path and i sat in behind two lads, in their thirties or so, happy to sit in their slipstream and recover a little from my faster pace. One of their friends noticed though and called to them to let me through. They looked at me, and looked at me again, probably thinking what's this old lad doing passing us by at this stage, but they moved aside and i felt duty bound to speed up again and justify their manners.
Next up came a small group of ladies, a couple who were cruising and a couple who were being psychologically carried by them. You get to see the most impressive and amazing behaviour when the chips are down and you're are running like this. One of the cruisers ran with me for a while, chatting away, and then dropped back to herd her friends the last mile and across the finish line.
One thing about Furze Road, you can see the Finish Line for quite a distance and it is tough going. As usual, i sped up, i love to finish with a sprint. I forgot, until afterwards, that i wasn't supposed to be sprinting on my Achilles tendons, especially when they were tired, but such was the excitement of the moment.
Medal earned, t-shirt collected, water, banana and yogurt downed, i assessed the damage, hips sore, knees sore, lower back sore, Achilles tendons sore. Tomorrow and the next day will tell the story. Looking around, i am always struck by how so many people don't even look like they have exerted themselves, though i know they have.
As i walked back to my car, i was joined by another runner. He talked about how he got on and i asked him if he usually ran on his own. He said he had a training buddy, his father, but he is in his 70's now and didn't run long distances any more. He is diabetic too and managing his blood sugar levels on long runs is just too difficult. Such lessons to be learnt from just a few sentences and you realise how little you know, how little you think about others and how their health affects them. "I lap him now, most of the time when we are out running", my new friend told me, "we don't even get a chance to talk" and a sadness overwhelmed me, a sadness grounded in a knowledge of what we lose and of how we don't fully appreciate it until its gone.
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The FAW Futsal Cup 2013 will begin next month! The New Saints who made their only ever appearance in the
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Aaron Simms has joined Cymru Alliance side, Conwy Borough. The 18year old defender has signed on loan until the end
The New Saints lost 3-1 on penalties in the Word Cup Final, after drawing 3-3 with Carmarthen Town, at Latham
The New Saints visited the Penygloddfa Primary School in Newtown. Scott Ruscoe and Spot the Dog showed off the Word
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BCHS Interact Club "Goat Project"
The BCHS Interact Club would like to thank everyone who helped to raise over $2450 for the purchase of dairy goats for North Africa through the Samaritan's Purse organization. With your help we will be able to provide 35 animals (our largest number yet!) for the support and nurture of those who need it most. We thank you and wish you a very Happy New Year!
The Rotary Club is an international service organization supporting projects as diverse as childrens' literacy and Third World water purification. Rotary sponsors Interact Clubs at the secondary and college levels providing both financial support and encouragement for club projects. The Waynesboro Rotary Club has been especially active in its involvement with our Interact organization, in part, by providing scholarships to Interact members chosen by the club to attend the Rotary Young Leaders Conference (RYLA) in June of each year. Our Rotary sponsor, Mr. J.D. Smith, remains faithful throughout the year, attending meetings, making suggestions, and acting as liason between our club and the local Rotary Club.


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Hotels in Hesse
Zum Schwalbennest
Pfarrwiesenweg 12–14, 36304 Tel (06631) 911440 Fax (06631) 71081 Rooms 65
First constructed in 1968, the "Swallow's Nest" is a serene and cheerful place to stay. It has comfortable rooms, a rustic restaurant, relaxed beer garden and is within an easy walking distance of the centre of Alsfeld. There is even a dance floor for those fond of a waltz or two. www.hotel-schwalbennest.de
Kaiser-Friedrich-Promenade 53–55, 61348 Tel (06172) 8010 Fax (06172) 801400 Rooms 123
A very pleasant, privately-owned hotel, where the beds are very inviting and the rooms are decorated with a sense of colour and with an eye for comfort. The hotel offers baby beds and babysitters can be arranged at reception. There are two restaurants, one Italian and one Chinese. www.parkhotel-bad-homburg.de
Maritim Kurhaushotel
Ludwigstraße 3, 61348 Tel (06172) 6600 Fax (06172) 660100 Rooms 158
Right next door to a peaceful park, some of the rooms here have balconies overlooking the trees, and all are impeccably decorated. There is a nice pool for laps, and golfing facilities for the enthusiasts. They have a bistro, bar and a good restaurant which caters to the vegetarian palate. www.maritim.de
Hotel an der Mathildenhöhe
Spessartring 53, 64287 Tel (06151) 49840 Fax (06151) 498450 Rooms 23
A small hotel that combines a central location with a peaceful ambience, each of the rooms here have balconies and are quite large with all the modern necessities available. There is a definite family environment here, and they offer a babysitting service through reception. www.hotel-mathildenhoehe.de
Jagdschloss Kranichstein
Kranichsteiner Straße 261, 64289 Tel (06151) 97790 Fax (06151) 977920 Rooms 15
Housed in one of the most beautiful Renaissance castles in the region, this hotel offers a unique experience. A perfect setting for a wedding reception, the hotel often finds all 15 of their rooms booked by wedding parties. The grounds are stunning and well kept, and there is a beautiful forest nearby. www.hotel-jagdschloss-kranichstein.de
City Hotel Diez
Bergstraße 8, 65582 Tel (06432) 921569 Fax (06432) 921570 Rooms 20
A small hotel with a vibrant feel, the rooms here are relatively small but comfortable all the same. They have a barbecue grill in the garden area, as well as a rustic restaurant inside. Although a small hotel, there is also a wellequipped pool and a fitness and wellness area. www.city-hotel-diez.de
Rheinallee, 65347 Tel (06723) 640 Fax (06723) 7663 Rooms 18
The hotel fits beautifully in the little village of Eltville. The rooms are stylish and charming, each having its own individual shape and furnishings. The bathrooms are works of art. The restaurant serves very elegant cuisine, as does the bistro, which may tempt those less inclined to empty their wallet. www.kronenschloesschen.de
Westin Grand Frankfurt
Konrad-Adenauer-Straße 7, 60313 Tel (069) 29810 Fax (069) 2981810 Rooms 378
There is everything here that you could want from a hotel, and possibly more. Ultra-comfortable rooms, fantastic location and elegant and classy cuisine at the Peninsula Atrium restaurant all wrapped up in an extremely stylish package. The amenities are reflected in the price, so bear that in mind. www.starwoodhotels.com
Hotel Borger
Triebstraße 51, 60388 Tel (06109) 30900 Fax (06109) 309030 Rooms 36
A family-styled hotel with a comfortable atmosphere and a convenient location, the rooms here offer the basic amenities, and the hotel is the perfect base for exploring the city and surrounding areas. The villa has been in the family for over a hundred years and was renovated late in the 20th century. www.hotel-borger.de
Frankfurt Hotel Savoy
Wiesenhüttenstraße 42, 60329 Tel (069) 273960 Fax (069) 27396795 Rooms 144
This hotel has a classy attitude. Situated in a convenient location for trade fairs and with good access to the airport, guests will find the hotel itself a charming place to explore. There is a swimming pool on the top floor, which offers a rare and beautiful skyline view of Frankfurt am Main. www.savoyhotel.de


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Hello Venders and thanks for swinging by our latest This Week in Retail roundup! Today we have posts on improving your in-store behavior, enhancing the customer experience, reinventing brick-and-mortar, and more.
Dig in!
1. Are you prepared? – Retailers, "it's time to try something new, to give yourself a much-needed kick in the pants!" says the team at Graff Retail. In their latest post, they're encouraging merchants to be more observant and proactive with their behaviors in-store. Listen and watch how you (and your associates) interact with customers, then continuously find new ways to sell, coach, and lead.
2. Walmart debuts new mobile initiatives – Last week, Walmart gave the media a glimpse its new initiatives for its Sam's Club division. Apparently, the retail giant is streamlining the order process for its Sam's Club customers with the help of mobile. With the new mobile initiative, store associates are automatically notified when the customer crosses the geofence in the parking lot, allowing the store to cut down on wait time. Pretty cool, right?
3. Intelligent experiences: where CX meets tech – "Tech-enabled, intelligent experiences can deliver value beyond smiles with service," writes Mike Wittenstein. In this post, he shares a great example of how retailers can leverage tech to create intelligent experiences for their customers. He also shares the factors that make up these experiences, so you can learn how to create them in your store.
4. Bricks and orders: re-inventing the store – Birchbox. Rent the Runway. Amazon. These are just a few examples of formerly online pureplays that are building flagship stores offline. But what is it exactly about physical retail that's driving these stores towards brick-and-mortar? This post answers that by taking a closer look at "recreational retail" and by giving examples of what merchants are doing to enhance the brick-and-mortar experience.
5. Customer experience for the future: 5 keys – This insightful post sheds light on the five keys that would represent successful customer experience management in the future, namely: context, outside-in, patterns, collaboration, and momentum. The piece not only talks about what each of these concepts mean, but also why they're essential to future success.
About Francesca Nicasio
Francesca Nicasio is Vend's Retail Expert and Content Strategist. She writes about trends, tips, and other cool things that enable retailers to increase sales, serve customers better, and be more awesome overall. She's also the author of Retail Survival of the Fittest, a free eBook to help retailers future-proof their stores. Connect with her on LinkedIn, Twitter, or Google+.


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NEW YORK — NYPD executives announced that all uniform patrol officers in New York City are now equipped with body-worn cameras.
Approximately 20,000 cameras have been distributed to complete the effort, making it the largest deployment of body-worn cameras in the nation.
Patrol officers equipped with body cameras include police officers, sergeants and lieutenants assigned to every precinct, transit district and police service area.
"Body-worn cameras enhance the safety and accountability of the dedicated men and women of the NYPD while improving their ability to ensure public safety. This completed roll-out marks a significant milestone for the NYPD," said Police Commissioner James P. O'Neill.
The NYPD launched Phase I of the program Apr.2017 and Phase II began in Dec. 2017. As of the end of Feb. 2019, the roll-out is complete.
Police also announced starting this month, about 4,000 body-worn cameras will be issued to specialized units, including Emergency Service Units, Strategic Response Group and Critical Response Command.
The roll-out is expected to be completed by August.
Body-worn cameras by the numbers:
- 79 commands equipped with LE-4s
- 19commands equipped with AB-2s
- 16,000 Vievu LE-4s distributed
- 2,990 Vievu LE-5's distributed and recalled
- 4,000 of AB-2 cameras distributed
- 4,000 AB-2 cameras in new roll-out to specialized units starting in March
- Every 30 months, the NYPD receives free equipment upgrades for all of the cameras
- Since the roll-out began the NYPD has recorded over 3.5 million videos


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If Janis Joplin, Jack White, Anouk, Nirvana and Queens Of The Stone Age ever had the chance to breed, BLACK MIRRORS would have been their favourite creation. This jewel is Belgium's answer to pretty much every rock band out there: BLACK MIRRORS, fronted by the charismatic vocalist Marcella Di Troia, manage to gather an endless amount of influences which have been ruling the rock n' roll universe for decades, and combine them into BLACK MIRRORS' very own and special sound. It's been only a matter of time for their first debut EP, 'Funky Queen', to finally see the light of day on March 3rd 2017 via Napalm Records!
Now the band unveiled a brand new video for the EP-title track 'Funky Queen', and this one is a keeper! Filmed and edited by Van's Ography, get some taste of BLACK MIRRORS' upcoming EP and watch the 'Funky Queen' right HERE!
Says the band:
"We hare happy to share with your our very first official video clip for «Funky Queen»! We had a blast making this video as it was crazy funny to play with our own shadows haha! We hope you'll like it as much as we do!"
Funky Queen – the debut EP by BLACK MIRRORS coming March 3rd 2017,
the tracklist will read as follows:
1. Funky Queen
2. Kick Out the Jam
3. The Mess
4. Canard Vengeur Masqué
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In case of a fully functioning cryptocurrency, it may actually be dealt like a commodity. Proponents of cryptocurrencies announce that this kind of digital cash is not controlled by a fundamental banking system and it is not thus susceptible to the vagaries of its inflation. Because there are a minimal quantity of products, this moneyis worth is founded on market forces, allowing homeowners to trade over cryptocurrency exchanges.
Mining cryptocurrencies is how new coins are put into circulation. Because there's no government control and crypto coins are digital, they cannot be printed or minted to create more. The mining process is what produces more of the coin. It may be useful to consider the mining as joining a lottery group, the pros and cons are exactly the same. Mining crypto coins means you'll really get to keep the total benefits of your efforts, but this reduces your chances of being successful. Instead, joining a pool means that, overall, members are going to have higher possibility of solving a block, but the benefit will be divided between all members of the pool, according to the number of "shares" won.
If you are thinking of going it alone, it is worth noting that the software configuration for solo mining can be more complicated than with a pool, and beginners would be likely better take the latter route. This alternative also creates a steady flow of revenue, even if each payment is modest compared to fully block the benefit.
Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, LiteCoin, Ether, YOCoin, and many others have now been designed as a non-fiat currency. Quite simply, its backers contend that there's "actual" worth, even through there is no physical representation of that worth. The worth grows due to computing power, that's, is the only way to create new coins distributed by allocating CPU power via computer programs called miners. Miners create a block after a period of time that is worth an ever declining amount of currency or some form of reward so that you can ensure the shortfall. Each coin consists of many smaller components. For Bitcoin, each unit is called a satoshi. Operations that take place during mining are exactly to authenticate other transactions, such that both creates and authenticates itself, a simple and elegant alternative, which is among the appealing aspects of the coin. Anyone who has mined the coin holds the address, and transfers it to a value is supplied by another address, which is a "wallet" file saved on a computer. The blockchain is where the public record of all trades resides.
The fact that there's little evidence of any increase in the utilization of virtual money as a currency may be the reason why there are minimal efforts to control it. The reason behind this could be merely that the market is too small for cryptocurrencies to justify any regulatory effort. It's also possible the regulators just don't understand the technology and its implications, anticipating any developments to act.
The sweetness of the cryptocurrencies is that fraud was proved an impossibility: as a result of nature of the method where it is transacted. All transactions over a crypto currency blockchain are irreversible. When you're paid, you get paid. This is not something short term where your customers could challenge or demand a discounts, or employ illegal sleight of hand. In-practice, many professionals will be wise to work with a fee processor, because of the irreversible nature of crypto currency orders, you have to ensure that stability is difficult. With any type of crypto currency whether a bitcoin, ether, litecoin, or any of the numerous different altcoins, thieves and hackers might access your personal keys and so take your money. Sadly, you most likely can never have it back. It's quite crucial for you yourself to follow some very good safe and sound methods when coping with any cryptocurrency. This can protect you from most of these adverse events.
Here is the coolest thing about cryptocurrencies; they don't physically exist everywhere, not even on a hard drive. When you take a look at a specific address for a wallet containing a cryptocurrency, there is absolutely no digital information held in it, like in exactly the same way a bank could hold dollars in a bank account. It truly is simply a representation of value, but there is absolutely no real tangible type of that value. Cryptocurrency wallets may not be seized or immobilized or audited by the banks and the law. They don't have spending limits and withdrawal limitations imposed on them. No one but the owner of the crypto wallet can determine how their riches will be managed.
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Entrepreneurs in the cryptocurrency movement may be wise to research possibilities for making huge ammonts of cash with various kinds of internet marketing.There could be a rich reward for anyone daring enough to brave the cryptocurrency marketplaces.Bitcoin architecture provides an instructive example of how one might make lots of money in the cryptocurrency marketplaces. Bitcoin is an outstanding intellectual and technical achievement, and it's created an avalanche of editorial coverage and venture capital investment opportunities. But not many people understand that and pass up on very successful business models made accessible as a result of growing use of blockchain technology.
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Lots of people choose to use a currency deflation, especially those that desire to save. Despite the criticism and disbelief, a cryptocurrency coin may be better suited for some uses than others. Financial solitude, for example, is amazing for political activists, but more problematic when it comes to political campaign financing. We need a secure cryptocurrency for use in commerce; if you're living paycheck to paycheck, it would take place included in your riches, with the remainder reserved for other currencies.
For most users of cryptocurrencies it isn't essential to understand how the process works in and of itself, but it's simply crucial that you understand that there's a procedure for mining to create virtual money. Unlike monies as we understand them now where Authorities and banks can just select to print unlimited amounts (I am not saying they are doing so, only one point), cryptocurrencies to be managed by users using a mining program, which solves the complex algorithms to release blocks of monies that can enter into circulation.
Ethereum is an unbelievable cryptocurrency platform, nevertheless, if growth is too fast, there may be some difficulties. If the platform is adopted fast, Ethereum requests could rise drastically, and at a rate that exceeds the rate with which the miners can create new coins. Under a situation like this, the entire stage of Ethereum could become destabilized due to the raising costs of running distributed programs. In turn, this could dampen interest Ethereum stage and ether. Instability of demand for ether can lead to a negative change in the economical parameters of an Ethereum based company that could result in company being unable to continue to manage or to stop operation.
The physical Internet backbone that carries data between the various nodes of the network has become the work of several firms called Internet service providers (ISPs), which includes firms offering long-distance pipelines, occasionally at the international level, regional local conduit, which ultimately joins in households and businesses. The physical connection to the Internet can only occur through one of these ISPs, players like degree 3, Cogent, and IBM AT&T. Each ISP manages its own network. Internet service providers Exchange IXPs, owned or private businesses, and occasionally by Authorities, make for each of these networks to be interconnected or to transfer messages across the network. Many ISPs have agreements with providers of physical Internet backbone providers to offer Internet service over their networks for "last mile"-consumers and companies who want to get Internet connectivity. Internet protocols, followed by everyone in the network causes it to be possible for the information to stream without interruption, in the appropriate location at the right time.
While none of these organizations "owns" the Internet collectively these businesses decide how it works, and recognized rules and standards that everyone stays. Contracts and legal framework that underlies all that is happening to discover how things work and what happens if something goes wrong. To get a domain name, for example, one needs permission from a Registrar, which includes a contract with ICANN. To connect to the Internet, your ISP must be physical contracts with providers of Internet backbone services, and suppliers have contracts with IXPs from the Internet backbone to connect to and with her. Concern over security problems? A working group is formed to work on the problem and the solution developed and deployed is in the interest of most parties. If the Internet is down, you might have someone to phone to get it repaired. If the issue is from your ISP, they in turn have contracts in place and service level agreements, which regulate the manner in which these issues are worked out.
The advantage of cryptocurrency is that it uses blockchain technology. The network of nodes the make up the blockchain is not regulated by any focused company. No one can tell the miners to upgrade, speed up, slow down, stop or do anything. And that is something that as a devoted promoter badge of honor, and is identical to the way the Internet functions. But as you comprehend now, public Internet governance, normalities and rules that regulate how it works current inherent difficulties to the consumer. Blockchain technology has none of that.
You've probably noticed this often where you usually spread the great word about crypto. "It is not unstable? What goes on if the price accidents? " to date, several POS programs offers free conversion of fiat, alleviating some concern, but until the volatility cryptocurrencies is resolved, most people is going to be resistant to keep any. We need to find a method to combat the volatility that is inherent in cryptocurrencies.
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Just a fraction of bitcoins issued so far are available on the exchange markets. Bitcoin markets are competitive, which suggests the price a bitcoin will rise or fall depending on supply and demand. Lots of people hoard them for long term savings and investment. This limits the number of bitcoins that are truly circulating in the exchanges. Additionally, new bitcoins will continue to be issued for decades to come. Therefore, even the most diligent buyer could not purchase all existing bitcoins. This situation isn't to imply that markets usually are not exposed to price exploitation, yet there is no requirement for big sums of money to move market prices up or down. The smallest occasions in the world economy can affect the price of Bitcoin, This can make Bitcoin and any other cryptocurrency explosive.
Since one of the earliest forms of making money is in cash lending, it's a fact that you can do this with cryptocurrency. Most of the lending sites now focus on Bitcoin, many of these sites you happen to be required fill in a captcha after a certain time frame and are rewarded with a bit of coins for visiting them. You can see the www.cryptofunds.co website to locate some lists of of these sites to tap into the money of your choice. Unlike forex, stocks and options, etc., altcoin marketplaces have quite different dynamics. New ones are always popping up which means they don't have lots of market data and historical outlook for you to backtest against. Most altcoins have rather inferior liquidity as well and it is hard to produce an acceptable investment strategy.
Anyone can become a Bitcoin miner running software with specialized hardware. Mining software listen for transmission trades on the peer-to-peer network and perform the appropriate tasks to process and support these trades. Bitcoin miners do this because they are able to make transaction fees paid by users for quicker transaction processing, and new bitcoins in existence are under denominated formulas.
Bitcoin is the main cryptocurrency of the internet: a digital money standard by which all other coins are compared to. Cryptocurrencies are distributed, international, and decentralized. Unlike traditional fiat currencies, there's no authorities, banks, or any regulatory agencies. Therefore, it is more resistant to outrageous inflation and corrupt banks. The advantages of using cryptocurrencies as your method of transacting money online outweigh the protection and privacy risks. Security and seclusion can readily be attained by just being bright, and following some basic guidelines. You'dn't set your entire bank ledger online for the word to see, but my nature, your cryptocurrency ledger is publicized. This can be secured by removing any identity of ownership in the wallets and therefore keeping you anonymous.


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The revitalization that is taking place in Buffalo is astonishing. The pulse of a city on the brink of a new renaissance beats quicker every day.
And it's not only the residents of Buffalo who are noticing the city's burgeoning appeal. Buffalo is catching attention across the country once again, and not for sports this time (or rather, not only for sports.)
Buffalo has been featured or mentioned in several "Best Of Lists" in the recent past, which can only mean the economic and social boost is far from stalling.
Here's a sampling of those mentions:
Buffalo is almost at the top of this list, ranking #2 behind only San Francisco. The post is complimentary of Gov. Cuomo's implementation of the "Buffalo Billions" fund, the project he proposed and instituted that aims to invest over a billion dollars in Buffalo. The 43North competition is supported by the Buffalo Billions initiative, which requires startups to relocate their companies to Buffalo for one year to enter a contest that could win the start-ups funding and prizes.
Buffalo gets an impressive #3 spot in this tantalizing list, which includes such exotic places as Lyon, France and Chennai, India. Of course, the Buffalo wing is the only food mentioned, but Buffalonians know that there are other culinary experiences besides the famous chicken appendage.
Millennials are still seeking out large metro areas like Los Angeles and New York City to make their home, no surprises there. But Time.com has discovered that smaller cities are where most millennials are headed. Buffalo ranks 12 out of 25 on this list, just below the Philadelphia/Camden/Wilmington area and above San Antonio. The Buffalo area saw a 6 percent rise in millennials, young adults ages 25-34, in just a half decade 2010-2015.
Buffalo ranks #1 on this list, surprising everyone except perhaps native Buffalonians and recent visitors. Travel and Leisure note the unexpected victory taking place primarily for one reason: Buffalo is highly underrated.


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Trolley Rage
Food is essential to life, without it we would die in little over a week. Before modern society, when humans were only just distinct from apes (some of us still aren't), supermarkets didn't exist. In those simpler times, obtaining food was perhaps considerably more difficult than it is now.
Before we evolved into our modern selves and invented society, food was edible plants and animals which roamed around on the same ground that we did, at least the animals did. You had to hunt for dinner, and it was probably all you did (I'm no expert). Now all we do is work in order to obtain money, which we can then exchange for food, amongst infinite other things.
This means that supermarkets exist, which also means that trolley rage exists. If you aren't familiar with the term pop out to your local supermarket at about 5.30 – 6 pm; that sharp jab in your backside, that's trolley rage. If you happen to be in the way of someone in a supermarket, no matter how innocent the situation is, you are likely to be on the wrong end of a trolley.
Being known as the 'facebook generation', who want everything, and want it now, we are the most likely to lose patience with the old lady who's irritatingly ambling up the vegetables isle stopping every two feet. But that's not the only cause of trolley rage, the experts at Wikipedia (that's everyone) have luckily helped out with a definition:
Trolley rage is the common name for a heightened level of anger and frustration while in a supermarket or shop of any kind.
Trolley rage is a very general term, in that it could apply to anything from stuck carts, to throwing tantrums in the supermarket. Whereas it can be caused by anything from items being out of stock, to rudeness of fellow customers or employees.
The other day Tash experienced trolley rage, probably not for the first time, and actually dumped the trolley and left the shop. "It all started in the car park when I couldn't get space." she recalls, "Then I went inside but had to come back out and find a trolley as there weren't any inside. When I'd finally got in old people started being rude, people were getting in my way and bashing into me and they didn't even have what I needed! So I turned around, left my trolley and went home." In fairness she'd had a long day, and she was shopping in Coventry, where putting cats in bins is normal behaviour.
Just image the sort of rage that our ancestors must have felt when wooly mammoth was out of stock during the ice-age. I would have hit someone so hard with my trolley.


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MEMBERS OF ONE JOURNEY, the band coming out of Ka`u High School who won the statewide Brown Bags to Stardom competition this year, received a certificate of honor from Council member Brittany Smart and the rest of the County Council yesterday in council chambers.
|One Journey, recipients of numerous Brown Bags to Stardom awards including best song and best singer, received a certificate from the County Council. Photo by Amy Miwa
KA`U COFFEE QUEENS AND PRINCESSES received a certificate from County Council member Brittany Smart at the same meeting. Brandy Shibuya, the Ka`u Coffee Queen, traveled with the young ladies to Hilo for the presentation before the entire County Council.
|Ka`u Coffee Court receives certificates from Council member Brittany Smart yesterday in Hilo. Photo by Amy Miwa
KA`U COFFEE FARMERS will be represented by their co-op at the Hawai`i Coffee Association's annual competition this weekend at Hilton Waikoloa Village. Ka`u Coffee Queen Brandy Shibuya will represent the district on Saturday. Many Ka`u Coffee growers have once again submitted their coffee for the tasting competition. Last year local grower Lorie Obra won first place in the state and a number of coffee farmers ranked high in the event. Farmers said they are set to meet with Japanese buyers and also to strategize on keeping the devastating coffee cherry borer pest out of Ka`u. Newsman Howard Dicus will give the keynote address tomorrow.
ALLEGIANT AIRLINES is planning to connect Las Vegas with Hawai`i by starting service to the islands. The company serves smaller cities and there is hope that it will come to Hilo with its new 757. The Hawai`i Tourism Authority has been encouraging Allegiant to come to the Islands for several years.
|Allegiant Airlines plans to offer service from mainland to Hawai`i
BIG ISLAND BUSINESS LEADERS are hoping to draw some of the attendees to this island before and after the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation convention set for Waikiki this November. According to a report in Pacific Business News, Barry Taniguchi, president and CEO of KTA Super Stores and chairman of the APEC 2011 Hawaii Host Committee's Neighbor Island subcommittee, has been working on pre and post activities to include the Neighbor Islands. Some local businesses will be able to exhibit at Ala Moana Center through the host committee's business innovation showcase competition. County economic development offices will judge the entries and six finalists will come from the Big Island. There will be one winner from each county.
ABEL SIMEONA LUI says he is hoping for the President of the United States to help him avoid eviction at Kawa. He told the County Council that he sent a packet of paperwork to President Barack Obama. Lui was filmed by Big Island Video News at the County Council last week saying that Kawa is a country. The county purchased land for a park at Kawa from realtor Marcia Johnson and is finalizing purchase of more acreage on the South end of Kawa and between Kawa and Punalu`u from the Olson Trust. Lui said the land was taken from his family illegally but a judge recently ruled that Lui has no title to the property, clearing the way for the selling of the land for a public park and wetlands preserve. Lui said he will appeal to state and federal courts and government agencies.
KA`U IS USUALLY A LOW crime area but police are looking for a group of thieves who broke into the Punalu`u Golf Course concession by the tennis courts and stole a safe that was heavy enough to require four people just to carry it into the building. The attendant found the mess at 4:15 a.m. in the morning when arriving to work. Thieves also stole the chips, candy, and golf balls and broke the cash register. Police suspect that the thieves came in through the opening in the wall where the air conditioner was installed. In another incident, thieves broke into the Ka`u Gas station in Pahala and stole money, going int through louver windows. Anyone with information call the Crimestoppers line at 961-8300.
THE 31ST ANNUAL CULTURAL FESTIVAL at Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park will take place tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. just off Hwy 11 between the 70 and 71 mile markers in the Kahuku unit.The free event celebrates Hawaiian culture with top Hawaiian entertainment, hands-on cultural demonstrations, local food, crafts and much more.
PATIENCE, the Gilbert & Sullivan musical, opens tonight at Kilauea Military Camp Theatre. A production of Kilauea Drama & Entertainment Network, the play pokes fun at the Aesthetic movement that was prevalent in England in the late 1800s. Showtime is at 7:30 p.m. every Friday and Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sundays through July 24.
Patience is on stageevery Friday and Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. and on Sundays at 2:30 p.m. through July 24.