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Why Mitt Romney Is Losing Ohio
Why is Mitt Romney losing Ohio?
In a word: labor.
Those famed white working-class voters that pollsters love to obsess over, make up a large chunk of Ohio's electorate, and they're not happy with the Bain Capital-ist and his history of calling for the auto industry's bankruptcy, endorsing attacks on their collective bargaining rights, and his plans—or lack thereof—for the economy. Barack Obama may not look like them, but Romney, as many have said, looks like the guy who fired them. And despite Republican governor John Kasich trying to take credit for improvements in the state's economy, Ohioans think that Democrats are a better bet when it comes to jobs. So it's no wonder that Romney's behind by 8 points or so in Ohio.
Kasich, indeed, can probably take some of the credit for Obama's popularity (and Senator Sherrod Brown's maintaining a lead in the polls despite some $20 million spent against him by big outside groups). The former Lehman Brothers banker and Fox News commentator may not have been quite as famous for his attacks on unions as neighboring Wisconsin's Scott Walker, but his anti-collective-bargaining bill, Senate Bill 5, was actually defeated by a resounding majority—more votes against the bill in 2011, an off-year, than voted in 2010 to elect Kasich.
And unions haven't been the only target of Kasich's administration and the GOP-led state legislature. The "War on Women" has been as intense in Ohio as anywhere else in the country, with attempts to tighten abortion restrictions with a "fetal heartbeat" bill leaving Republicans especially unpopular with the state's women.
But Ohio's not a done deal yet; particularly as it's also been ground zero for attacks on voting rights, aimed as usual at Democratic-leaning voters, people of color, the elderly, and low-income folks. If 2004's election taught Ohio progressives anything, it was that they have to fight for every vote. Republicans have an impressive ground game to go with their voter suppression plans, and Democrats and labor will have to counter it with a get-out-the-vote operation that takes advantage of the best asset they have: organized people, newly energized and trained in grassroots politics from the SB5 campaign.
An Injury to One Is an Injury to All: Senate Bill 5 and Collective Bargaining
Scott Walker may have become the public face of Republican attacks on labor, but Ohio's bill actually took aim at a larger swath of the population. "It was tremendously overreaching," Mike Weinman of the Ohio Fraternal Order of Police told AlterNet of Senate Bill 5, noting that in Ohio the police and firefighters were included in the bill. And in part because of that, the state now has a more unified labor movement than many others. We Are Ohio, the umbrella organization for labor and community groups fighting the bill, included the FOP and firefighters' unions as well as teachers and other public workers.
"We took a very active role, much as we could, with We Are Ohio," Weinman said, "A lot of this stuff was new to us, we hadn't really dealt with this type of issue before, so it's kind of different for us to sit at a table with all these folks. It worked out pretty well, but there was some apprehension there for a little while."
"I think we won SB5 at the ballot box because people saw it as not fair," Deb Steele, a longtime union and environmental organizer in the Columbus area, told AlterNet. Ohioans, she said, had an instinctive reaction to the idea of taking away union rights. "You can't force me to be in a union and you can't tell me I can't be in a union," she said, is how Ohioans tend to feel.
One of the reasons that the campaign against SB5 was successful was that unlike Wisconsin, Ohio state law allowed activists to target the law directly, circulating petitions to get the issue on as a ballot initiative in 2011. It allowed organizations like the FOP to get involved without having to push conservative members to vote for Democrats; but it's also paid off for Democrats like Sherrod Brown, who stood up for labor and was rewarded with a rare endorsement from the FOP.
And though Obama noticeably stayed out of 2011's labor battles, Mitt Romney enthusiastically supported Kasich's attacks on public workers, telling reporters he was "110 percent behind" the measure. The national Fraternal Order of Police declined to make an endorsement in the presidential race, and Weinman pointed out that collective bargaining was part of the reason why. "It was quite remarkable," Weinman said, "In his questionnaire Romney said that he was against collective bargaining, he was against pension systems."
Pensions, of course, are under attack around the country as well, from the NFL referees to the Ohio police. "You've got these folks who are just ideologues who want us to go on these 401K plans and get rid of the pension plans altogether," Weinman said.
And so the SB5 coalition remains active and the issue of union rights remains central in the state; groups are pushing the Orwellian-named "Workplace Freedom Act," a no-rights-at-work bill that would defund unions by prohibiting the collection of representation costs from workers in union workplaces. In addition, We Are Ohio is involved with the Voters First effort to make Ohio's congressional redistricting process less blatantly partisan, and pushing back on efforts by the GOP secretary of state to restrict early voting (more on that below).
"You Didn't Build That": Rescuing the Auto Industry and the Economy
As I write this, Sherrod Brown is holding a rally to celebrate the rescue of the auto industry in Middletown, hosted by International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) Local 1943. Often referred to as the bailout of "Detroit," the support given to the big automakers in the dark days of acute financial crisis had nearly as big an effect on Ohio, where, as Alec MacGillis noted in The New Republic, one in eight jobs is connected to the auto industry.
MacGillis asked Lucas County Treasurer Wade Kapszukiewicz why Obama was doing so well:
"It's the bailout," he said. "It's not just the Jeep plant in Toledo and that they build the Chevy Cruze in Youngstown. But more than that -- we have 88 counties, and in 82 of them there are supplier plants to the larger ones. When you start talking about 82 of 88 counties that have some sort of direct, literal, positive impact from this rescue, I think that on the margins has the ability to tweak the numbers."
Romney, of course, famously wrote that the auto industry should be allowed to go bankrupt; while the deal that saved the car companies took money out of workers' pockets, at least it kept them working. Meanwhile downticket, Josh Mandel, the Republican Senate candidate, has called the bailout "Unamerican" and said that Sherrod Brown should be ashamed of himself for his vote for it.
It's not just the auto bailout on which Romney looks out of touch, either. "In a year when the middle class is really still suffering and they had the opportunity to put their platform forward in a different way they chose a multimillionaire as their candidate," Brian Rothenberg of ProgressOhio told AlterNet of the Republicans' problem in Ohio. "Our economy's actually rebounded a bit, there's arguing whether it's Kasich or Obama's recovery. They're fighting an uphill battle in Ohio by trying to argue the economy which is improving isn't improving."
Improvements in Ohio undermine Romney's attempts to blame Obama for the stagnant national economy, and he doesn't want to associate too closely with Kasich, who may not be the country's least popular governor anymore but still only has 41 percent approval ratings. He could, like Mandel, double down on opposing the auto bailout and try to pretend that he has workers' best interests at heart, but after the recent airing of video showing his contempt for the working class, that doesn't seem to be a winning strategy.
It All Comes Down to Turnout: Voting Issues and Ohio
If there's one thing Ohio progressives learned in 2004, it's never to take an election win for granted. It's not just the millions upon millions being poured in by outside groups to snag a Senate seat and try to swing the Presidential race in Ohio—it's also dirty tricks designed to restrict access to voting itself.
As We Are Ohio's website explained, Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted is at the center of the scandal around voter restriction in the state. "Husted was embroiled in a scandal that attracted national attention when he moved to close down voting on weekends and evenings in urban counties while voting to expand hours in rural and suburban counties." The voter restriction efforts, they note, date back to the fight to repeal Senate Bill 5:
"Kasich and these extreme politicians thought they could stop us from vetoing SB 5 if they lowered voter turnout. They quickly passed HB 294 that reduced the amount of early voting opportunities on weekends and evenings and limited the period for absentee voting."
Though politicians now claim HB 294 has been repealed, We Are Ohio noted that Husted still attempted to narrow early voting hours, and even attempted to ignore a federal judge's ruling that said he had to allow early in-person voting on the weekend before the election. The site also warns against "outside groups" trying to suppress the vote in person.
The state expects record early voting turnout this year, and Ohio organizers are determined not to let voter suppression tactics work. "I think that you have to fight with what you can win on, which is pushing back on the Secretary of State where you can," Brian Rothenberg said. "At some point we're going to just have to deal with turnout. Back in the day when I ran campaigns, it didn't matter what they put in front of you, at some point we have to figure out how to have turnout no matter what the rules are."
And the voters seem to understand the stakes, according to Deb Steele, who's been going door to door, reaching out to health care workers and registering voters. "It's a smoother ask, and people get it. They get that we're being played with, and that it's going to come down to every vote."
Unions and the We Are Ohio coalition, labor-affiliated groups like Working America, as well as other progressive groups, women's groups like Planned Parenthood, and more will be running a ground campaign alongside Obama's get-out-the-vote effort and those of other Democrats. Ohioans know that everyone is watching them, watching their polls and their ads, their voting hours and early turnout numbers.
"Being in a swing state, we get inundated with enormous politics. It's kind of hard to breathe some days knowing how important Ohio is," Deb Steele said. "In 2004 I know it was stolen here, but it doesn't mean we give up, it means you have to win by bigger margins, it means you have to prove how they stole it, it means 'Look these bastards are restricting voting hours, that's a dare.'"


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Select your favourite italian soccer team and become the champion in the Italian Cup. Your role is to help your team to rank better by playing 5-round tournaments in which you will try to win points for your club. To win the match, you need to score certain number of goals, which depends of your team's and your oponnent's team class. It's easier to beat the team of class 5, than one with class 1. Also, it's easier to win if your team has stronger class. For each goal you score, you will get one point if you make two or more contacts with the ball, and two points if you score from the first touch. You can also win bonus points if you make it to the last stage. Each week, one club will become the champion. Also, the best scorer will get the 'Player of the week' title.
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Hardcover - Riding in an open Jeep across the plains of Africa, beloved and nationally acclaimed author and illustrator Ashley Bryan found himself comparing the terrain to Jerusalem, and the bumpy journey to that of Mary's travel on a donkey. And he came up with a question: Who built the manger where Mary and Joseph found shelter?
The answer is conveyed in this beautifully crafted picture book that envisions a young boy, a shepherd and carpenter both who, out of love and kindness, cleared the way for another shepherd and carpenter to be born on Christmas day.
The boy looked in the infant's eyes
And in his heart he knew
The babe would be a carpenter
He'd be a shepherd too.
Told in gentle rhyme and illustrated with Ashley Bryan's enormous talent, this is a picture book that captures the reason for the season in all its wonder and beauty. Who Built the Stable? is a celebration of Christmas, of the kindness of children, and of the new hope born with each new baby.
Age Range: 4 - 8


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Canada Cool is Celebrating Canada's 150th by creating Canada's Coolest Map!
Watch for at least 1,001 reasons why Canada is Cool for our 150th birthday, Canada Day 2017! Canada's Coolest Map™ is being created by award-winning Canadian Travel Journalist Lucy Izon, author of the popular @CanadaCool Twitter page.
Have a suggestion? Send it along. You'll find a link in the bar above the map.
Have a cool service for people exploring Canada? Help sponsor 'Canada's Coolest Map™' and we'll pin your business on the map with a yellow Maple Leaf and you can tell readers what's cool about it.
Have a tourism information office? Help sponsor 'Canada's Coolest Map™' and we'll pin your office on with a green Maple Leaf and you can tell visitors what makes your region cool.
* Exploring the Map: Enter a province, territory, or city in the location box beneath the map. Then, click twice on the map to zoom into an area. Tap on each leaf to learn more.


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Proctor vying for a spot in Giants' bullpen
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Scott Proctor admitted that he should have handled his recovery from Tommy John surgery in a different manner.
Proctor, 36, ranked among the top setup relievers in the Major Leagues in 2006-07, making 83 appearances each season for the Yankees and, in the second half of '07, the Dodgers. But arm problems and the eventual surgery in May 2009, have forced him to take a circuitous route to try to return to the Majors. Since the start of '08, he has compiled a 6.59 ERA in 86 outings for the Dodgers and Braves, made 60 appearances in the Minors and spent 2012 pitching professionally in Korea.
"I'm stubborn and impatient and I know more than trainers. Apparently that's what I thought, which I found wasn't true," Proctor said Tuesday. "They kept telling me 14-16 months [recovery time], and I kept telling them two to three. I tried to meet them in the middle, and it didn't work out."
Formerly known as a power pitcher, Proctor was asked if he regained his velocity in Korea.
"Velocity's second to me," he said. "The biggest thing is executing pitches consistently."
The Giants have one job opening in their bullpen -- two if an incumbent reliever falters or if they begin the season with 13 pitchers -- and Proctor is a legitimate candidate for that spot. However, he faces competition from fellow Major League veterans Chad Gaudin and Ramon Ramirez, among others.
"It's out of my control. That doesn't even enter the equation. My thing is coming in here and doing my job," Proctor said. "They make the decisions. That's not what I'm paid to do."


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On November 29, 2011, Her Majesty Queen Sofia of Spain was in New York City to attend the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute 2011 Gold Medal Gala where she presented Ferran Adria, Javier Bardem, Mario Testino, and Ken Chennault with, well, the Gold Medal. Also, during the ceremony, Queen Sofia presented the Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit to the chairman of the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute, Mr. Oscar de la Renta. Per the royal house of Spain:
Queen Sofia was accompanied to the gala by the U.S. ambassador to Spain, Jorge Dezcallar, and the president, the chairman and vice-chairman of the Institute, Inmaculada Habsburg, Oscar de la Renta, Valentin Fuster and former U.S. President Bill Clinton, among others.
The 'Queen Sofia Spanish Institute' was created in 1954 to promote Spanish culture in the United States through conferences, exhibitions, symposiums, meetings and teaching Spanish.
Prior to the gala event, Queen Sofia visited the headquarters of the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute to view the exhibition 'Joaquín Sorolla and the Glory of Spanish Dress' which aims to analyze the history of Spanish regional costumes through the works of Valencian, artist Joaquín Sorolla.
This exhibition was conceived and promoted by Oscar de la Renta, chairman of the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute. The exhibition, in collaboration of the Spanish Ministry of Culture, includes dresses and pieces never exhibited in the United States, as prominent parts of the Museum of Costume, and works of Sorolla Museum in Madrid as well as a selection of Spanish designer clothes today. The coordinator of the exhibition is André Leon Talley, editor of the monthly column, 'Life with André' featured in Vogue magazine.
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Environmentalists concerned about Lake Okeechobee drainage polluting St. Lucie Estuary
Army Corps of Engineers concerned about another 'Isaac-like event'
When Albert Burkey and his son go fishing underneath the Roosevelt Bridge in Stuart, their haul is usually pretty small.
"It's hit or miss," said Burkey. "We don't catch what we used to catch."
The bigger fish just don't seem to be biting anymore. But the problem isn't their bait. It's their water.
The water in the St. Lucie Estuary has become overwhelmed with discharge from Lake Okeechobee.
Environmentalists claim it's causing bacteria to grow, salinity to drop and fish to flee. Some species, like oysters, are dying off at an alarming rate.
"This has been going on for too many years," said Mark Perry, director of the Florida Oceanographic Society. "It's like getting beat up every year, and you're eventually going come to an end because you can't take anymore."
This year has been especially difficult. Water levels at Lake Okeechobee are uncomfortably high due to heavy rains. And it's only the start of wet season.
The lake levels are now at more than 15 feet. At 18 feet, the dike surrounding the lake needs to be inspected every day. Any higher than that and the water could break the levy and flood western Palm Beach County.
The fear this hurricane season is what would happen if South Florida were hit with another wet tropical storm like Isaac.
"The Army Corps (of Engineers) is concerned about another Isaac-like event," said Army Corps spokesman John Campbell. "If it were to happen now, it would drive the lake amongst the highest levels of all time."
That would force the Corps to dump even more water into the St. Lucie Estuary, harming even more fragile wildlife.
"If we get a tropical storm that drops 11-14 inches of rain, they're going to have to open those gates so wide…it would be totally devastating," said Perry.
There are a number of proposed solutions to this, including a plan currently under construction to store and filter lake water before sending it into the estuary.
Another plan would send the lake water south into the thirsty Everglades. That option is favored by local environmentalists but has not received any government funding.


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America Just Had the Worst Winter for Potholes in Recent Memory
Cities spread across a wide swath of the country are finding themselves in a prolonged pothole purgatory.
It may have been hell all winter, especially on the East Coast, with record-breaking cold temperatures and mounds of snow that never seemed to go away. But now cities spread across a wide swath of the country are finding themselves in a prolonged pothole purgatory.
"The potholes that have resulted from this year's severe winter weather are the worst that I can recall in many years," as Angel Taveras, the mayor of Providence, put it last month.
"It's a whole lot worse because of that extra cold," adds Cleveland's Director of Public Works, Mike Cox, of road conditions in his domain. "We've been battling this problem all winter, and we're still in winter mode."
During an average Cleveland spring, six crews deploy about six tons of asphalt each day to repair potholes. This year, it's regularly been 10 crews going through 100 tons of asphalt per day. Cox has even brought in extra help in the form of PatchMasters, a professional company with specialized equipment to fix potholes. His city-employed crews, who do the patching by hand, work alongside two PatchMasters teams and their machinery. The worst holes in the roadway get highest priority, and crews keep working through the list day after day fixing as many problems as possible.
"We work in between the snow storms and just do what we can," he says. "It never stops."
Cox is far from alone. From Milwaukee to Maine, further below the Mason-Dixon line and even in the thick of New England, where officials are more accustomed to brutal winter weather, cities are reporting the worst pothole plights they've faced in decades.
In Indianapolis, where the city maintains IndyPothole, a real-time, color-coded map showing the status of all pothole repair requests, the public works department has fielded 12,000-plus pothole complaints as of this week, with 2,300 still needing to be addressed.
Compare that to New York City, where the Department of Transportation says it has filled nearly 255,000 potholes across the five boroughs this winter, well above the sums for previous winters in recent memory.
To do that, New York City's DOT dispatched a whopping 50 crews on weekends — along with 30, on average, during the week — to address pothole problems exacerbated by late-season snow. The workers also doubled the amount of asphalt they carried. Residents can keep track of their progress on The Daily Pothole, a Tumblr maintained by the NYC DOT.
In Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has not been shy about how badly this winter's storms have damaged his city's infrastructure. Earlier this month, his administration announced five different strategies to deal with triple the number of pothole complaints compared with the the past two winters. Between December and early March, Chicago logged about 47,200 complaints about crumbling pavement.
"Mother Nature has decided to leave nothing but pothole ruin on our streets throughout the city of Chicago," Emanuel said during a speech to residents. "Everybody is seeing what Mother Nature left. It also shows you the wear and tear and how old our streets are."
The city's answer has been to deploy so-called "striker teams" to proactively focus on repairing the busiest roads instead of just responding to complaints one at a time.
"All over, we're seeing a bumper crop of potholes," says Carolyn Kelly, associate director of research and communications for TRIP, a nonprofit that researches transportation safety issues nationwide. "The combination of an extremely harsh winter and a lack of funding that many states and municipalities have to handle it has made it especially hard." By the group's counts, in some cities as many as two-thirds of major roads are in poor condition and in dire need of upgrades.
Not only has heavy snow wreaked havoc for months as it fell from the sky and then settled on the ground; it's harmed roads in fundamental ways.
Kelly explains that when the temperature drops below freezing, rainwater and melted snow on roadways expand as ice in any fissure, opening a crack that will take on more water when the temperature rises. This freezing-thawing cycle creates potholes quickly. Potholes also develop when water seeps under the road's surface, freezes, forces the surface up and then melts again. This process leaves air pockets that vehicles can break into, creating more damage.


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It's long been known that the Blackberry has ultimately proven to be the device of choice for most businesses. And why not? With its secure network and history of maintaining customer privacy, it's ideal for any businessperson, particularly those that work with sensitive information. But that has started to change recently, particularly with the proliferation of the smartphone. Not to mention, more and more companies now allow—likely for cost-cutting purposes—staff to begin using their own personal devices for work purposes.
Come October, things may be shaken up once again. According to the Wall Street Journal, open source operating system Ubuntu is planning to launch its new smartphone platform in at least two major global markets. (While the company hasn't mentioned which markets it will launch in, it has confirmed that North America is a high priority market for its business plan.)
So, what is it about this operating system that could have businesses salivating over? For starters, while it won't help cut back on the amount of work to be done, it will help to make it significantly easier for employees to take their work with them anywhere. How? Ubuntu-enabled smartphones will be able to dock with external screens and keyboards, and will allow users to access all of their files wherever they are – no need to tout a burdensome laptop around at all times.
One of the bigger benefits in the eyes of businesses may be that, since the software was created by open-source software designers, it's absolutely free, which is always beneficial when it comes to a company's bottom line.
The company's biggest hurdle, however, is the aforementioned proliferation of companies allowing employees to use their own phones. It's such a tremendous convenience for employees, and a money-saver for employers, that having to carry a laptop may not seem like such a burden. Not to mention, in comparison to the thousands of apps available on iOS and Android phones, among others, the apps that would be available on an Ubuntu-powered device are minimal.
The company has also been shopping its services around to various cellular providers, though it isn't revealing who, just yet. But for certain, it'll be interesting to see how it all plays out come October.
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Cold Spring Harbor, NY–Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) today announced that authors of manuscripts posted on its preprint server bioRxiv can now submit their papers directly to several leading research journals, avoiding the need for reloading files and re-entering information at the journal's website.
The first journals to participate in this initiative are Biophysical Journal, eLife, The EMBO Journal, EMBO Molecular Medicine, EMBO Reports, G3:Genes/Genomes/Genetics, Genetics, Genome Research, and Molecular Systems Biology. Direct submission to Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America will also soon be available.
Dr. John Inglis, Executive Director and Publisher of CSHL Press and co-founder of bioRxiv with Dr. Richard Sever, says: "We look forward to extending bioRxiv's relationships with additional journals in ways that increase the value of the server to the scientific community."
Since its launch in November 2013, bioRxiv has received nearly 3000 manuscripts, covering the full spectrum of biomedical science. The manuscript submission rate doubled between May and December 2015. Posting to the service and reading its contents costs nothing. Manuscripts are not peer-reviewed before posting, but their authors often receive community feedback, through onsite commenting, social media, or direct email, and 30% of authors post revised versions of their papers. Most manuscripts submitted to bioRxiv are eventually published in peer-reviewed journals.
"We established bioRxiv to help scientists distribute and share their work more rapidly and widely," says Inglis, "and we are delighted that so many of them find the service valuable, as both authors and readers. But peer-reviewed journals remain important arbiters of reliability and significance in the publication of research results, and the willingness of journals to consider and publish manuscripts previously distributed in preprint form is essential in this evolution of life science communication. By encouraging the seamless transition of a preprint to a submitted manuscript, the editors and publishers of these first 10 collaborating journals are providing authors with a valuable service."
Dr. Bernd Pulverer, Head of Scientific Publication at EMBO, says: "Our four journals have always encouraged preprint posting and direct submission from bioRxiv will reduce the burden of journal submission. Our journals have dropped format restrictions and reduced information requirements to further ease the first submission process."
Dr. Les Loew, Editor-in-Chief of Biophysical Journal (BJ), comments: "BJ has welcomed manuscripts posted on bioRxiv and we are now delighted to offer this optional direct conduit. The 'marriage' will continue to assure rigor in peer review, while emphasizing BJ's commitment to the rapid open dissemination of scientific research."
About Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Celebrating its 125th anniversary in 2015, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has shaped contemporary biomedical research and education with programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology and quantitative biology. Home to eight Nobel Prize winners, the private, not-for-profit Laboratory employs 1,100 people including 600 scientists, students and technicians. The Meetings & Courses Program hosts more than 12,000 scientists from around the world each year on its campuses in Long Island and in Suzhou, China. The Laboratory's education arm also includes an academic publishing house, a graduate school and programs for middle and high school students and teachers. For more information, visit http://www.cshl.edu
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Seattle is known to have its fair share of mental health challenges. Much of this could be the result of its weather, which is also well-known for cloudiness and rain. A lack of sunshine puts susceptible people in jeopardy of developing seasonal affective disorder (SAD), a type of depression that typically occurs during winter months. Since Seattle has cloudy weather throughout the year, residents suffer a high level of SAD. Some of SAD's symptoms include:
- feelings of hopelessness
- anxiety
- irritability
- weight gain
- oversleeping or insomnia
- lethargy
People living in the Seattle area have several local resources that can help them avoid the symptoms of SAD. Those suffering from SAD may also want to consider the various treatment therapies available including light therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and psychotherapy. Parents who recognize symptoms of SAD in their children may want to consult Seattle Children's Hospital for suggestions.
Additionally, Heroin has become an increasingly persistent problem in Seattle over the last decade, especially when it comes to young people living in the area. Heroin often has serious consequences for the user's physical and mental health. Unfortunately, addicts find it incredibly difficult to stop using the drug because it can alter the brain's molecular and neurochemical makeup. Instead of producing its own neurochemicals, the brain begins to rely on heroin. Those changes can also affect the way addicts behave, making it difficult for them to understand the long-term consequences of their actions.
Drug addiction in Seattle has encouraged local therapists to focus on addictions and drug abuse counseling. Also, local Seattle organizations can help individuals recover from their addictions while learning coping strategies that keep them off drugs. Many of them accept insurance, so addicts can find affordable help in the Seattle area.
Impulse control disorder also affects the lives of many people in the Seattle area. This disorder is often connected to issues such as drug abuse, eating disorders, and sex addiction. Effectively, it makes people feel powerless so that they cannot control their impulses. This often leads to legal issues, poor health, and troubled relationships. Seattle has several counseling centers that can help patients tackle impulse control disorder. There are also several support groups for people living with impulse control disorder.
Every city has its unique advantages and disadvantages. The key to good mental health is seeking the type of help that you need as soon as possible. If you suspect that you or a loved one suffer from a mental health disorder, reach out to one of Seattle's qualified counselors. The sooner you take that step, the closer you are to recovery.


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Nets aim for bounce back against setting Suns
The Brooklyn Nets lost for the first time on its long road trip Saturday night, but they get right back at it Sunday when they visit the Phoenix Suns.
The Nets fell to the Los Angeles Clippers, 101-95 Saturday at the Staples Center. Brooklyn led in the fourth quarter, but couldn't overcome Chris Paul, who scored 19 of his 23 points in the fourth frame.
"We put ourselves in a position to win and they did a better job of closing it out," Brooklyn head coach P.J. Carlesimo said.
Brook Lopez and Deron Williams both had 18 points, while Gerald Wallace and Joe Johnson, who suffered a right quad contusion, scored 15 apiece. C.J. Watson netted 10 off the bench and Reggie Evans grabbed 16 rebounds.
The loss put the Nets at 2-1 on this eight-game road trip. The setback, coupled with a New York Knicks win on Saturday night over the Toronto Raptors, put the Nets 2 1/2 games behind the Knicks for the Atlantic Division lead.
That is the same margin the Nets are behind both the Knicks and Indiana Pacers for the second seed in the Eastern Conference.
The Suns are in a terrible rut, losing two straight, six of seven and 17 of 23 since the start of February.
After an 88-79 home loss to the Washington Wizards on Wednesday, interim coach Lindsey Hunter openly questioned the team's effort and sat Markieff and Marcus Morris, Kendall Marshall and Michael Beasley the entire second half. Poor Jared Dudley planned to sit the game out with the flu, but had to play when Hunter imposed law.
Two nights later, the Suns laid another egg, and, against another non-playoff team.
The Minnesota Timberwolves came to Phoenix and buried the Suns, 117-86. The Wolves were up 67-39 at the half and, although the Suns battled some, the final result was lopsided.
"I'm not frustrated," said Hunter. "You always get disappointed when you don't think your guys played up to potential or played with the type of intensity you would like. That is the part you would never want to see. We will stay the course and keep working."
All of those players that were benched on Wednesday, logged regular minutes on Friday.
Luis Scola led the Suns with 17 points. Goran Dragic, P.J. Tucker and Beasley scored in double figures.
The Suns have lost the last two to the Nets, including a 99-79 setback in Brooklyn on Jan. 11. But the Suns are 16-2 in its last 18 against the Nets in Phoenix.


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Dive in to the World's Third Longest Coral Reef
Biscayne Bay's aquamarine waters and lush sea-grass beds are teeming with life.
Location: Florida
Established: June 28, 1980
Size: 172,924 acres
Biscayne National Park basically begins where Miami ends—in the shallow, aquamarine waters and lush sea-grass beds of Biscayne Bay. Protected within the park's mostly submerged 173,000 acres are the longest stretch of mangrove forest on Florida's east coast, the northernmost Florida Keys, and part of the world's third longest coral reef tract. Many visitors never venture beyond the park's northern waters, a popular playground for boaters, anglers, and windsurfers, as well as Miami-based charter boat trips and sunset cruises. Travel farther south (and below the surface) on a snorkeling or diving trip to discover Biscayne's dizzying array of undersea treasures. Highlights include six shipwrecks on the Maritime Heritage Trail and spectacularly diverse and colorful aquatic life, including sharks, rays, sea turtles, sea cucumbers, jellyfish, and more than 500 species of fish. Above the surface, join a ranger-led canoe trip through the mangroves to see wading birds, crabs, and maybe even a manatee (November through April).
Loggerhead Key
The Loggerhead lighthouse, originally built in 1858, overlooks the waters around Loggerhead Key in Florida. Dry Tortugas National Park is home to approximately 30 different coral species, providing a vibrant home to the seemingly limitless numbers of fish.
Inside Tip: To visit the park's longest stretch of terra firma, book a boat tour to Elliott Key, home to the "Spite Highway" nature trail. The approximately six-mile-long path (blazed in the 1960s by landowners intent on sabotaging efforts to designate Biscayne as a national monument) leads through a subtropical forest. Hike the trail to see butterflies, including the federally protected Schaus swallowtail, a large, colorful butterfly native to South Florida but, in recent years, found mostly on Elliott Key and northern Key Largo.
How to Get Around: Currently, there is no in-park watercraft concessionaire (a temporary service may be available by November 2015). For boat tours, kayak rentals, and other water activities, make advance reservations with an authorized park tour operator. Weekends from late November through late April, take the City of Homestead's free, guided trolley tour from downtown Homestead to the Dante Fascell Visitor Center.
When to Go: December to April is dry season and has increased ranger-led programs. For offshore activities, plan your visit based on your activity. For example, winter is windy, which is ideal for visiting Elliott Key and the other islands but not for the reefs. Though summer can be buggy on the islands, it's typically good for snorkeling (due to calmer waters and clear visibility).
What to Do: Preplanning is key. Look at the park website well in advance of your trip, check the schedule of events, and, if needed, find an authorized tour operator to get you where you want to go. If you have limited time (and no access to a boat), visit the Dante Fascell Visitor Center to learn about the park, picnic along Biscayne Bay, and join a ranger-led program. Reservations are required for ranger-guided tours that have limited availability, such as the daylong paddling excursions to secluded Jones Lagoon, where you could spot an upside-down jellyfish (Cassiopea). Take a scenic boat tour to Boca Chita Key to picnic, camp, and see Biscayne National Park's unofficial symbol, a 65-foot ornamental lighthouse built in the 1930s by one of the island's former owners.
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Where to Stay: Primitive island camping is the only in-park option. A boat is required to reach the campgrounds on Boca Chita Key, which has a grassy camping area, and Elliott Key, which has forested and waterside sites. The nearest hotels to the Dante Fascell Visitor Center are in Homestead and Florida City. If you're taking a boat trip with a Miami-based tour operator, it may be more convenient to stay in Miami.
Helpful Links: Biscayne National Park
Fun Fact: The Hoover vacuum played a role in the creation of Biscayne National Park. In 1960, plans called for an oil refinery, a seaport, luxury homes, and other development in the keys and underwater acres now protected within the park. Herbert W. Hoover, Jr., then board chairman and company president of his family's vacuum operation, had loved Biscayne Bay since childhood. An early conservationist, Hoover funded the successful campaign that led to the creation of Biscayne National Monument in 1968.


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BEIJING (Reuters) - Long accused of protectionist tactics that make it a difficult place for foreign firms to operate, China is trying to reverse that narrative amid an escalating trade war with the United States, green-lighting huge investments and portraying itself as a champion of openness.
But critics argue that despite its attempt to claim the moral high ground as U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to apply more tariffs on Chinese imports, Beijing's recent moves to make it easier for foreign businesses to set up operations also effectively acknowledges that it has had discriminatory market barriers.
This week, China agreed to a $10 billion petrochemicals project by Germany's BASF BASFn.DE that will be the first such plant in China that is wholly foreign-owned, not a joint venture.
It also approved a huge new wholly-owned Shanghai factory for U.S. electric car maker Tesla Inc TSLA.O, and a $2.3 billion joint venture organic light-emitting diode (OLED) plant to be built by South Korea's LG Display Co Ltd 034220.KS.
Responding to the Trump administration's latest plan to slap 10 percent tariffs on an extra $200 billion worth of Chinese imports, Assistant Commerce Minister Li Chenggang said on Wednesday that China would not close itself to U.S. business.
"I want to stress that the Chinese government's attitude to support business cooperation between the two countries will not change, its determination to push forward reforms and improve the business environment will not change, and its stance of opposing unilateralism and supporting multilateralism will not change," Li said at a business forum in Beijing on Wednesday.
"They go low, we go high," he said, in an apparent jab at Trump as he borrowed a phrase used by former U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama in the 2016 U.S. election campaign.
The recent investment announcements came as Premier Li Keqiang this week visited Germany. The two countries signed commercial accords worth 20 billion euros ($23.5 billion), including the BASF agreement.
Chinese state media framed such cooperation in the context of the increasingly bitter trade dispute with Washington.
"The trade war should push China and the EU to cherish mutual cooperation, because this increasingly scarce cooperation is becoming more valuable," China's nationalist tabloid, the Global Times, said in an editorial on Wednesday.
As the threats in the trade dispute have increased, so too have signals from Beijing that it means to follow through on reforms. Chinese officials insist there is no link, and that it will open up at its own pace. Rising costs are also frustrating to foreign manufacturers in China.
In recent weeks, China has issued a shorter list of areas closed to foreign investment, and committed to easing or eliminating foreign equity caps in sectors that include banking, insurance, securities, the auto industry, as well as in shipbuilding and aerospace.
But the string of announcements come at a time when there has been slowing foreign investment into China and more vociferous complaints about Beijing's market barriers and the difficulty of doing business in the world's second-largest economy.
And Beijing is still holding up at least one major takeover involving foreign companies - U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm Inc's QCOM.O deal to buy Netherlands-based NXP Semiconductors NV NXPL.O. That has been waiting approval from China's antitrust regulator for months, leading to speculation among investors that the deal is being held hostage to the trade dispute with Washington.
Years of lackluster follow-through by China on its reform pledges has left what many in the foreign business community call "promise fatigue".
Business leaders have been warning that if China didn't take real measures to address a lack of reciprocal market openness, it would sow retaliatory sentiment among its largest trading partners. And trade hardliners, particularly in the United States, had argued that Beijing would not make good on its pledges until other countries began imposing costs upon Beijing.
European Union Chamber of Commerce in China President Mats Harborn on Tuesday called Trump's tariffs the "sledgehammer approach", but said the root cause of what China has termed the "largest-scale trade war" in economic history began in China.
"The reason we are where we are is because the Chinese leadership did not proceed as quickly as we wanted as a trade community," Harborn told a news briefing.
Some in the U.S. business community, while rueing the damage caused by Trump's tariffs, privately say Beijing's recent emphasis on accelerating reforms may not be a coincidence.
"Tariffs are biting. The Chinese are less confident internally than externally. They have never been tested this way," a U.S. industry source told Reuters, asking to not be named given the sensitivity of the matter.
Beijing has begun downplaying Made in China 2025, the state-backed industrial policy that has provoked alarm in the West and is core to Washington's complaints about the country's unfair trade practices.
Propaganda authorities have also issued unusually strict rules limiting local media coverage of the trade war because of worries that unrestrained reporting could set off panic and roil its already jittery financial markets, sources within Chinese state media have said.
And European officials have said Beijing is trying to woo the EU with market access in return for standing with China against Trump's trade measures, though the Europeans, who share U.S. criticism of China but disapprove of Trump's tariffs, have largely refrained from taking sides.
"By committing themselves to further openness. I think China hopes it can minimize the departure out of China of multinational firms," said Louis Kuijs, Hong Kong-based head of Asia Economics at Oxford Economics.
Reporting by Michael Martina; Additional reporting by Elias Glenn and Stella Qiu; Editing by Tony Munroe and Martin Howell
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Green Lantern is the second superhero movie in a row to perform disappointingly in its opening weekend, after X-Men: First Class. If Captain America also stumbles, we could look back on this as the summer that superheroes lost their invulnerability.
According to the New York Times, Warner Bros. spent $200 million to make Lantern, and another $100 million to market it. And the $53 million in opening weekend box office receipts — lower than the disappointing take for the cheaper X-Men movie — is a bit of a letdown. (And it's interesting that only about 45 percent of ticket sales came from 3D — a similar figure is being reported for the new Harry Potter movie. Audiences may finally be getting wise to the pointlessess of most 3D conversions.)
Although of course, Lantern may still make a decent amount of money overseas, and Warners' president of domestic distribution, Dan Fellman, puts a brave face on it:
Kids are out of school and the coming days represent a very good opportunity for us.
With Cars 2 coming out this weekend, and Transformers 3 coming the following Wednesday, it seems unlikely that Green Lantern will get much more of a moment in the sun.
Check out where Green Lantern film falls in Box Office Mojo's chart of superhero opening weekends (not inflation adjusted).
Matthew Vaughn, director of X-Men: First Class, famously said that the superhero genre was going to be dying out soon, and that's why he was eager to direct the X-Men movie before it was too late. Last August, Vaughn told Hero Complex:
It's been mined to death and in some cases the quality control is not what it's supposed to be. People are just going to get bored of it... I've always wanted to do a big-budget superhero film and I think we've kind of crossed the Rubicon with superhero films. I think [the opportunity to do one], it's only going to be there two or three more times... Then the genre is going to be dead for a while because the audience has just been pummeled too much.
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spelling and format editing has occurred within these posts; some email addresses may be out of date. ------------------------------------------ At the request of Amacker Bullwinkle (firstname.lastname@example.com), i have compiled information about I Ching probabilities taken from posts in the usenet newsgroup alt.divination and the e-mail list hexagram-8 that ran in 1995. Placing the data here -- in alt.lucky.w -- was Amacker's idea, and it is not a bad one, since the "16 Item Method" carries definite overtones of object-oriented, talismanic work. But first, here is credit where it is due: -------------------------------------- HEXAGRAM-8 The hexagram-8 list is for discussion and serious study of the ancient Chinese Book of Changes, or I Ching. The name comes from an I Ching reading the list owner has been getting persistently throughout the months preceding the founding of the list (April 1995). Hexagram 8, which various translators have rendered as "Alliance" or "Teamwork," represents something which the list owner sincerely hopes will emerge from discussions on the list. To subscribe to hexagram-8, send the word "subscribe" (without the quotes) alone in the body of an email message to the following address: firstname.lastname@example.com If you are having trouble subscribing or unsubscribing, send your question to the human list owner, Ron Hale-Evans, at email@example.com -------------------------------------- I CHING TERMINOLOGY Second: I assume y'all know that the I Ching is an ancient system of divination based on the random generation of binary choices of solid (---) and broken (- -) lines, arranged in groups of six, called hexagrams. There are images and judgements attached to each hexagram and because the solid and broken lines can "move" or change their state from one to the other (-o- means --- changes to - -) (-x- means - - changes to ---), there are further images and judgements assigned to the "changing lines" as well. The oldest traditional method of determining the lines for divinatory purposes is through a complex process involving the manipulation of 50 dried yarrow stalks (yarrow is an herb used for healing wounds, incidentally). Another, far quicker method of determining the lines involves throwing three coins (usually those pretty bronze Chinese coins with square holes in the middle, but any coins will do). The trouble is, the two methods give entirely different distribution-patterns for the generation of solid, solid-to-broken, broken, and broken-to-solid lines. Okay, here is the compiled information on probabilities, the "16 Item Method," and the "2 Dice Method." ------------------------------------------ QUESTION ABOUT PROBABILITIES Unknown Person (possibly email@example.com) wrote: Question: I prefer to almost always use the stalk method to determine my hexagram. I know that the probabilities are towards generating moving lines. I always get the feeling that by using this method I am "loading" the answers or hexagram. If I use the coin methods, the probability of obtaining a 6, 7, 8, or 9 are all equal. Anyone else get this gnawing feeling? ------------------------------------------ YARROW STALK, COIN, and "DUTCH STICK" PROBABILITIES email@example.com (Harmen Mesker) wrote: You say that using the coin method, the probabilities of obtaining a 6, 7, 8, or 9 are equal, but I'm afraid I have to correct you on this point. According to Edward Hacker, the probabilities for each method are: Yarrow Coin 6 1/16 2/16 7 5/16 6/16 8 7/16 6/16 9 3/16 2/16 Most methods don't have equal probabilities. Here in Holland are oblong sticks for sale (but you can easily make them yourself), which have one line on each side. With this method the probabilities of each line are the same, namely 25%. I think this also means that for each line of a hexagram you have 50% chance of obtaining a moving line. If you use this method you'll have to deal with a lot of moving lines, and I don't find that preferable. -------------------------------------- THE WAY OF 16 (THE 16 ITEM METHOD) The following was re-posted by Carlos Griffin (email@example.com) but attributed to Dr. Lightning, a.k.a. Francis Szot (email@example.com): Another method is the "Way of 16", which someone posted as an excerpt from a book. I have used I Ching 20+ years using coins, and found this method to be much more reliable and even handed. -- Carlos Griffin I found this method in "The I Ching: An Illustrated Guide to the Chinese Art of Divination," illustrated by Tan Xiaochun and translated by Koh Kok Kiang. According to that book, Larry Schoenholtz first proposed this method in his book, "New Directions in the I Ching". I switched from using the Coins Method which I had used for over 20 years. --Dr. Lightning, a.k.a. Francis Szot The Method of 16 is, in my opinion, a much better way to do the I Ching than the Three Coin Method. First, I'll explain the Method of 16, then I'll tell you why it's better. The Method of 16 uses 16 small, aesthetically attractive objects, such as beads, shells, coins, buttons, pebbles etc. They must all be of the same size and shape, but you must be able to choose from four different patterns or colors. Select 7 items of one pattern or color (7 pink beads, for example), 5 of a different pattern or color (5 blue beads, for example), 3 of another pattern or color (3 white beads), and 1 of a unique pattern or color (1 black bead). Each of the four groups now represents a different type of line: 7/16 (the pink beads) = 8 (a broken unchanging line - - [young yin]), 5/16 (the blue beads) = 7 (a solid unchanging line --- [young yang]), 3/16 (the white beads) = 9 (a solid changing line -0- [old yang]), and finally, 1/16 (the black bead) = 6 (a broken changing line -x- [old yin]). To complete the ritual's paraphernalia, thoughtfully select a small bowl and a small container to store the 16 items when not in use. Mix the 16 items together in the small bowl and randomly choose one. Note which of the four possible lines it represents, record it as the first line of the hexagram (building from the bottom up), then place it back in the bowl. (of course, don't look as you select) It is extremely important to place each item back into the bowl so there is always 16 objects to choose from! Randomly choose again, and record the second line. Replace it, and continue in a similar manner until the six lines of the hexagram have been obtained. As one performs the ritual, keep in mind the question you are inquiring about, and maintain an appropriate attitude. The main advantage of the Method of 16 over the Three Coin Method, though certainly not its only advantage, is a statistical one. With the Yarrow Stalk Method, which will remain the purist's choice, the probabilities of obtaining each of the four different kinds of lines are not the same. For example, the chances of getting a broken unchanging line (8 - -), are 7 out of 16; the odds of getting a solid unchanging line (7 ---), are 5 out of 16; for a solid line that changes (9 -o-), 3 out of 16; for a broken line that changes (6 -x-), the odds are only 1 out of 16. Using the Three Coins Method, the chances of obtaining either type of unchanging line is 6 out of 16, and the chances of obtaining either type of changing line is 2 out of 16. The Method of 16 precisely duplicates the probabilities of the Yarrow Stalk Method, something that the Coin Method obviously does not do! Good luck. Perhaps this method will suit you. Signed, Dr. Lightning Francis Szot, email@example.com -------------------------------------- THE TWO DICE METHOD Jason A. Wolcott (email@example.com) wrote: The probabilities of the different yarrow stalk results are: 1/16 -X- moving yin 3/16 -0- moving yang 5/16 --- yang 7/16 - - yin I often use a dice method for casting hexagrams. I wanted something that gave me the same distribution as the yarrow stalks, but that was a little more "portable." My method is to use two dice, 1 eight-sided (1d8), and 1 twenty-sided (1d20). Roll both of them at once per line. If the 1d20 is an even number: then if the 1d8 = 1 -X- moving yin (1/16 pobability) if the 1d8 = 2 - 8 - - yin (7/16 pobability) If the 1d20 is an odd number: then if the 1d8 = 1 - 5 --- yang (5/16 pobability) if the 1d8 = 6 - 8 -0- moving yang (3/16 pobability) I still use the yarrow stalks at home, when I have time to meditatively consider the question. But sometimes I just need quick advice. ;-) Jason A. Wolcott Computer Consultant University of Iowa (319)335-5523 email@example.com ------------------------------------------ In summary, then, here are the probabilities for the five methods. No. Line Yarrow Three Dutch 16 2 Stalk Coins Stick Items Dice 6 -x- 1/16 2/16 4/16 1/16 1/16 7 --- 5/16 6/16 4/16 5/16 5/16 8 - - 7/16 6/16 4/16 7/16 7/16 9 -o- 3/16 2/16 4/16 3/16 3/16 There you go, folks. Now it's up to you to find two role-players' dice or "16 small, aesthetically attractive objects" and "a small bowl and a small container to store the 16 items when not in use." I think that the latter two pieces of paraphernalia could be combined in one by using an antique, decorative Chinese enamel covered rice bowl for storage *and* random selection...or maybe an art deco Noritake covered bowl...or a carved gourd bowl with lid. As for the 16 items, i predict that someone will come up with a better concept than mere "beads." I keep on getting this image of 16 little Mexican milagros, or 16 of those tiny multi-racial dolls you can buy from the Archie McPhee catalogue... Like the man said, Good Luck. catherine yronwode firstname.lastname@example.com
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Starbucks began offering coffee drinkers a way to get free Wi-Fi access at its shops on Tuesday, but some customers had a hard time cashing in.
That's because some people were unable to access Starbucks' Card Rewards Web site in order to sign up for the program, which offers two hours of free Wi-Fi access per day to participants.
Some visitors to the site were greeted with a pop-up window stating: "Due to overwhelming interest in Card Rewards we are currently experiencing difficulty accessing Starbucks Card accounts. We are working to fix the problem and ask that you please try again later."
Starbucks announced the new program on Tuesday. People were encouraged to visit the Card Rewards Web page to either buy a new rewards card for US$5 or to register an existing gift card to be part of the program. Users who sign up before July 14 will get a free drink, and everyone who signs up can use two hours of AT&T Wi-Fi access in Starbucks shops free every day.
In order to get the two free hours every day, Card Rewards program users must buy something with the card at least once a month.
A Starbucks spokesman said that the problems were on Starbucks' end, not AT&T's. "Customers overwhelmed the site when joining Starbucks Card Rewards," said Doug Cavarocchi, a Starbucks spokesman, in an e-mail. The problem started in the morning and was solved by midday on the West Coast.
The problem affected visitors in the U.S. and Canada trying to sign on to Starbucks.com with a user name and password, he said, although other users trying to sign up for the program also saw the error message.
The program follows Starbucks' announcement in February that it would begin using AT&T as the provider of in-store Wi-Fi service. For now, T-Mobile continues to operate Wi-Fi networks in some of the stores. Starbucks said that it plans to roll out A&T Wi-Fi in all of its U.S. stores by the end of this year.
The program also follows the launch of the My Starbucks Idea Web site, where anyone can post suggestions for improvements Starbucks might make and vote on other ideas. A week after the launch of the site, which was built on a hosted offering from Salesforce.com, the number one suggestion was to offer free drinks, and number two was to offer free Wi-Fi.


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- Lauren Moya Ford, Shadow Wall, Monoprint on Stonehenge paper, 22 x 30", 2019
Lauren Moya Ford, Shadow Wall, Monoprint on Stonehenge paper, 22 x 30", 2019
Lauren Moya Ford is a writer and artist. Her writing has been published in Apollo–The International Art Magazine, Art & Object, Art Papers, Artsy, BOMB Magazine, Glasstire, Gulf Coast Journal, History Today, Hyperallergic, Mousse Magazine, Pressing Matters Magazine, Sightlines, The Art Newspaper, and Wildflower Magazine, and in exhibition catalogs in the US, Spain, and Portugal. She has exhibited and performed her work at The Menil Collection, Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, El Centro de Arte La Regenta, and at art spaces in Austin, Houston, Madrid, Montreal, Philadelphia, Porto, and Tokyo. Selected awards include the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center Fellowship for Interdisciplinarity and the Frank Freed Travel Grant for research in Mexico City.
These unique monoprints are from Ford's exhibition Full Bloom at the University of Texas:
Loosely based on the Spanish barajas playing card deck, the works in Full Bloom are rooted in experiences at Madrid's Royal Botanical Garden, the oldest of its kind in the country. The exhibition featured a new series of 40 risograph prints and 18 trace monotypes that I created as a Guest Artist in Print at the University of Texas at Austin, along with a limited edition risograph-printed artist book also called Full Bloom featuring drawings and texts related to the project. This exhibition was organized by Annie May Johnston, Studio Art Faculty at The University of Texas at Austin, and was displayed at the UT Visual Arts Center in January and Feburary 2020.


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There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved.
~Sri Chinmoy
Are you ready to kindle your soul and embrace the sacredness of life on all levels of your being? Any time you spend in the wild is an opportunity to develop an intimate relationship with nature. As you begin to trust the relationship, the healing energy of nature merges with your being, and you become more open to receiving universal energy.
A relationship with nature is no different than a relationship with a person. If you have a lover, then you want to spend time with him or her. The more time you spend together, the closer you two become until, eventually, you begin to trust the relationship. You begin to relax into the arms of your lover, and you move in sync together. Does this sound familiar?
In the beginning, a new relationship is a little scary and exciting all at the same time. Perhaps you are meeting someone for the first time, and you are not sure how to behave. Can you relate to this? Likewise, this same feeling happens when you go out into the wild. In the beginning, it's very powerful, but it may be a little scary as well. These feelings mean that a powerful potential exists, that something really magical can happen.
As you develop a profound and loving relationship with nature, you will feel more open. Take a moment and lie down in nature, and feel yourself let go. Pay attention to any sense of discomfort and be open to it.
- Ground yourself by connecting with your body. Are there any places where you feel tension? Tension may appear as shallow breathing from holding diaphragmatic muscles tight.
- If the body is contracted, this is will be reflected in the mind and emotions which are also contracted. What emotions do you have? How do you feel?
- What thoughts are you having?
If you trust it and give it time, go back into the wild on a regular basis. Your relationship with nature will open and flower, deepening along with mystery of life. Embracing what you love opens up a profound path of healing from the inside out. So, developing a relationship with nature is really about developing a relationship with yourself.


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Senate passes food allergies awareness bill
ANNAPOLIS – County governments may soon have authority to make restaurants accommodate customers with food allergies.
A new bill would let counties require each restaurant to have a staff member trained on food allergens, ready to advise customers. The bill would also require restaurants statewide to encourage customers to notify servers about their food allergies.
The Senate passed the measure 33-14 Monday evening. A similar bill is pending in a House committee.
Restaurants could post an advisory on the menu, asking customers with allergies to notify their servers. Or the server could ask before taking customers' orders.
The Senate version, introduced by Sen. Jamie Raskin of Montgomery County, would not apply to service stations or vendors at carnivals and fairs.


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At a recent preview screening of "Shrek the Third," I was settling into my seat, enjoying the good sight lines (nothing but pipsqueaks between me and the screen) and the excited anticipation of the children, when a little voice behind me said, "Have to turn off my cell phone now." The child, a girl, couldn't have been more than seven. Was she kidding? Alas, she wasn't. Even in this culture, seven is too early for irony. Then, as the movie began, I realized that a child with a cell phone represents what DreamWorks Animation, the producer of this most lucrative of franchise animated features, envisions its audience to be—tiny, pre-corporate techies who live far from the fairy-tale emotion of enchantment. "The Chronicles of Narnia" and the "Harry Potter" series have discovered their own kind of wonder, but the gang at DreamWorks assumes that its audience lives in an unillusioned media world.
But there's a mystery here. Did the girl's parents read to her from the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen? Has she seen "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" or any of the other drippy-beautiful Disney animated features, with their butterflies and wondrous glades and shimmering harp glissandos? DreamWorks must assume that she has, and has no tender feelings for them, because the "Shrek" movies are filled with parodies of the old, honeyed Disney style. The parents may get more of the jokes than the children do, but the kids are being fed non-stop satirical hobbledehoydom, in which past and present, Gothic dungeons and Valley Girl talk, are all jumbled together. The "Shrek" phenomenon is one of those seeming oddities in our culture—children being entertained with derision before they've been ravished by awe. Maybe seven isn't too early for irony after all. "Shrek" is postmodernism for towheads, pastiche for the potty-trained.
Once upon a time, the most wonderful of all children's authors, William Steig, brought out, at the age of eighty-three, a book that became the book in many families, including mine, where the boys relished its snarly splendor. "Shrek!," published in 1990, is about a creature—warty, lousy, gap-toothed, noisome, and green—who is utterly self-confident. Shrek is so blind to beauty that he's invulnerable. Nothing scares him, except his sweaty bad dream of being loved by children, but he scares everyone else. He has magical powers—his noxious fumes, which cause flowers and dragons to wilt. For all its acrid temper, "Shrek!" was very much a charmed fairy tale: the perfectly ugly creature finds his perfectly ugly mate. "And they lived horribly ever after."
The Shrek that DreamWorks designed is a much more benign figure. He is smooth rather than lumpy, ugly-cute rather than ugly-scary. (His beloved, named Princess Fiona in the movies, is ugly-cute, too. She looks like Miss Piggy.) Shrek lost the knob on the top of his head, which now narrows above the eyes, giving him a look of permanent anxiety. In the first movie, which came out in 2001, Mike Myers, as the voice of Shrek, gave him a foul temper. Shrek didn't want to play the hero; he just wanted to regain exclusive title to his beloved swamp, where, in a dastardly resettlement scheme, the evil Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow) had dumped all the disused fairy-tale creatures from old Disney movies. Shrek set out to rescue Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz) from a dragon as part of a real-estate deal with Farquaad, in which he would get back his muddy front yard in return for the girl. But, when Fiona turned out to really be as ugly as Shrek, he found a wife. In "Shrek 2" (2004), Shrek and Fiona, happily ogred, pass up the temptations of beauty and retain their natural dark-lime hue. The message of the first two movies was that you have to be yourself, an idea that came off, in this context, as the kind of mass-marketed individualism that induces teen-agers to buy cutoff jeans. It was very different from Steig's mood of defiant self-sufficiency.
It's not a big surprise that the material was unnecessarily softened, or that DreamWorks dropped Steig's merry Yiddishkeit_._ (In the book, Shrek runs into a witch chanting "Otchky-potchky," which sounds like a street game Steig might have learned growing up in the Bronx.) What was put in place of Steig's special flavor was the acidity of corporate competition—DreamWorks' rivalry with Disney for the animation market. As many people pointed out at the time, the figure of Farquaad, who was stumpy and egotistical, may have been a swipe at Michael Eisner, who was then Disney's chairman and the former boss of Jeffrey Katzenberg, a DreamWorks partner. And the movie's strategy of teasing old Disney characters may have derived, in part, from a dispute going back to 1994, when Katzenberg left Disney and Eisner refused to pay the hundreds of millions of dollars he felt were due him. The "Shrek" movies are funny, but the wised-up style of the comedy—the Hollywood put-ons and inside gags—has sour roots, and, after a while, the industry jokiness becomes a little nauseating.
In "Shrek the Third," which was directed by Chris Miller, Fiona's father, the frog king, is dying, and he tells Shrek (Myers) that he must now be ruler of Far, Far Away, the land in which they all live. Since this is the last thing Shrek wants, he goes on a quest for a substitute—Fiona's cousin Arthur (Justin Timberlake), known as Artie, who is a student at Worcestershire Academy, a kind of medieval Burbank High, in which snarky kids in jerkins smoke frankincense and myrrh. The plot material isn't as strong as in the first two movies—if anything, it feels a bit desperate—but the anti-Disney joke blunderbuss remains in good working order: the movie takes several shots at Disney's recent forays into melodious Broadway kitsch. Eddie Murphy and Antonio Banderas, who sparked "Shrek" and "Shrek 2," as, respectively, Donkey and Puss in Boots, are used less centrally than before, but Rupert Everett, so snide that he has become uncastable as anything but a voice, is quite splendid as the arch-loser, Prince Charming. Everett is in touch with the spirit, though perhaps not the body, of William Steig's incomparable creation.
The characters in the "Shrek" series may resemble rubber bathtub toys, but DreamWorks' computer-generated imagery, with its three-dimensional look, gives them shadows and weight as they fling themselves hither and yon into distant castle-strewn perspectives. By contrast, the brilliant "Paprika," directed by Satoshi Kon—a masterly example of Japanese anime, intended for adults—is partly hand drawn, and features multiple areas of visual activity layered at different distances from the picture plane. Set in a business world of long white corridors and glass walls and research labs, it's a Freudian-Jungian-Felliniesque sci-fi thriller, and an outright challenge to American viewers, who may, in the face of its whirligig complexity, feel almost pea-brained. Paprika, the heroine, is an eighteen-year-old sprite—a kind of sexy Japanese Tinker Bell—who enters people's dreams as a form of therapy. She explains to one of her patients, a detective haunted by a murder he was unable to prevent, that the first dreams we have when we fall asleep are like arty short films and longer dreams are like blockbusters. In "Paprika," this connection between dreams and movies is worked to a fare-thee-well, but there are other levels of representation, too—Internet sites, which characters enter bodily, and, appearing now and then, a kind of collective unconscious, in which a parade of toys and icons (including the Statue of Liberty) march through an enormous city with a menacing, throbbing insistence that borders on the fascistic. All of Japanese pop is there. For Japanese traditionalists, the parade must be a true nightmare.
Paprika, it turns out, has a Clark Kent-like double, Dr. Chiba, a beautiful research scientist, who works at a company that has developed a machine—the DC-MINI—that also enters dreams. Human beings, it seems, will go mad if they don't dream, but "Paprika" is about people whose dreams have been maddened: one of the DC-MINI prototypes has been copped by an evil genius who wants to possess everyone's inner life and is mucking around with the sleep of Chiba's colleagues. As Paprika and Chiba enter the dreams—which are fleshed out with familiar images that become increasingly threatening—they undergo wild adventures: terrifying, violent, and sometimes sexual. "Paprika" asks, "Who shall control our dreams?," which, given this film's take on the cinematic nature of the unconscious, is really asking, "Who shall control the movies?" Paprika's detective friend also feels guilty because he once betrayed a fellow-student who was a filmmaker. When he saves Paprika from death, and she, in turn, cures him of his guilt, he is free, for the first time in years, to go to the movies. After some of the most outrageous leaps ever conjoined in a single film, "Paprika" comes to rest with the simple act of a man buying a ticket. Amen. ♦


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The folks at Penny Arcade have been discussing the matter of used games. The specific situation that spawned this current debate involves THQ and one of their wrestling games. A new version of the game comes with a one use code for online play. So, if someone buys a used copy of the game, they will not have that code and thus will miss out on that aspect of the game. When there were some complaints, Corey Ledesma of THQ responded by saying "I don't think we really care whether used game buyers are upset because new game buyers get everything. So if used game buyers are upset they don't get the online feature set I don't really have much sympathy for them." He went on to say "That's a little blunt but we hope it doesn't disappoint people. We hope people understand that when the game's bought used we get cheated."
While this is, in fact, blunt, Ledesma does have a legitimate point. As this Penny Arcade strip nicely illustrates, when you buy a used game from a reseller, you are a customer of that reseller and not the company that made the game. This seems to be one of those matters that is beyond dispute.
Now, it might be argued that even buying a new game from a seller makes the person a customer of that seller. If the game is not directly purchased from the company, then it would seem to follow that the person is not a customer of, for example, Blizzard, but of, say, Amazon or Best Buy.
However, the situation involving a new game is relevantly different. After all, the seller is (in effect) acting as an intermediary between the customer and the company that makes the game. Also relevant is the fact that the company making the game receives payment for the game. In the case of a used game, the company is effectively out of the money chain. After all, the maker gets no money from used copies being resold by third parties.
As such, the people who buy used games really have no grounds for complaint. If they want the full content, they can buy a new copy of the game. If they would rather spend less and buy a used copy, then they would need to accept that there is a cost for their savings, namely that not all the content will be available. Since the person who buys a used copy is not a customer of the gaming company, the gaming company has no obligation to him as a customer. The purchasers of a used game cannot complain that they are not getting what they paid for, after all they did not actually pay for a new, complete game.
Of course, if the seller of used copies does not inform their customers that the used versions are lacking, then the customer has a legitimate gripe with the seller. After all, it is reasonable to expect even a used a product to be complete except when the seller makes it clear that it is not.
Some people might see this approach by companies as mere greed or as a cruel means to force people to buy games new. While companies do want to make profits (preferably obscene ones), they do need to actually make money to stay in business and produced more games. Obviously enough, the used game business requires that new games be put into the system, so even those who buy used games clearly have an interest in new games appearing. So, for the gaming ecosystem to survive, companies need to make enough profit to make the production of new games a viable enterprise.
But, someone might reply, the big gaming companies seem to be doing very well, even with the sale of used games. So they are just doing this out of greed and not need.
However, this reply misses the point. It is not unfair for a company to not ensure that resold, used versions have all the features and extras of a new version. To use an analogy, suppose that a person gets cash back and a flat screen TV for buying a new car from a dealer. The person then sells the used vehicle to a dealer who in turn resells it. Obviously the person who bought the car used has no right to expect to get the cash back and TV that the original customer received. Sure, it would be nice of the used car dealer to through in the extras, but the customer has no right to expect that. Likewise for video games.
One concern that does have some legitimacy is based on the right to resell. In general, the right to resell what you have purchased is rather well established. There are, of course, some exceptions based on licensing, health factors and so on. But, in general, if you buy something you can resell it. Now, if gaming companies follow the practice of THQ and others by having one use codes and so on that are only usable by those who buy new copies, then those who want to sell back their games will be facing some problems. At the very least, they will get less than they otherwise would get and perhaps they might not be able to sell them back at all. This, one might argue, violates the right to resell.
However, it actually does not. Companies are under no obligation to ensure that a used version of their product can be sold back at a decent price or even at any price at all. To use a somewhat silly example, when McDonalds sells you a Big Mac, they are under no obligation to ensure that you can resell it after taking a couple bites out of it. To use a more serious example, if you buy a printer that comes with paper samples and a free 90 day subscription to a service and use both, the company is under no obligation to send you more paper and another 90 day free subscription if you decide to sell it to someone else. Sure, you can sell the printer, but it will not have everything the new printer had. That is one of the differences between new and used and also sometimes a reason used things cost less than new things.
If you do decide to sell your, for example, used printer, then you are not cheating the company. After all, you paid them for it and did not sign any agreement not to sell it. Likewise for video games. A customer who elects to sell back a game is not cheating the company. He paid for it and thus now has the right to resell that one copy. Unless, of course, the license agreement strictly forbids the reselling of the product. However, if companies do this (assuming that it can be done legally), then this will impact the value of their product. After all it is effectively less valuable if it cannot legally be resold. This applies, in theory, even to those who do not intend to sell back a specific product. For example, I generally do not sell back books. However, if I was forbidden by law to sell back a book, I would certainly expect to receive compensation for this potential loss-most likely in the form of a lower price. After all, I might decide to sell it back or, upon my untimely death, those who inherit my books might wish to sell them.
Being an author I have considerable sympathy for those who create video games. As such, I buy games new so that they will receive the fruits of their labor. However, people do have the right to buy and sell used games. They just do not have the right to expect that the used versions of games will have all the stuff that comes with a new copy of the game.


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Los Angeles Fans Bow to Kings as They Claim Cup
LOS ANGELES (AP) | Hockey has gone Hollywood — and Hollywood couldn't be happier.
The Los Angeles Kings won their second Stanley Cup in three years Friday night, practically forcing a town never known for its love of the sport to take notice and embrace them.
"It's the second happiest day of my life," said 18-year-old Eric Ex of Los Angeles. "The first was the last time they won two years ago."
The exhaustion Kings fans felt after four hours and two overtimes was immediately replaced by jubilation as the team scored the winning goal to beat the New York Rangers 3-2 in five games.
Huge whoops went up in downtown Los Angeles both inside and outside Staples Center. Fans draped in black in sports bars and watching big screens outside the arena leaped into the air with arms stretched, howled hugged and high-fived when the winning goal went in.
Soon giant inflatable Stanley Cups were getting batted around in the plaza outside the arena and in surrounding streets shut down for the celebration. Streamers and thrown rolls of toilet paper filled the air. Shouts and screams of "Go Kings go!" could be heard for blocks around.
"Oh my God, that's all I can say," said Jordan Mugford, 24, wearing a Kings jersey as he celebrated outside Staples Center. "This is the second time in three years. It's crazy. This whole city is going to change."
Lines of police on foot and on horseback patrolled streets and sidewalks but found few problems in the aftermath of the win, and few were expected. The celebration remained peaceful in 2012 also, with virtually none of the violence, vandalism and arson that has followed some Lakers' championship victories.
"A huge majority of folks were just great, enjoying themselves," Los Angeles Police Department Cmdr. Andrew Smith told City News Service. "A couple of people were a little excited at the end."
One person was arrested after the game for public drunkenness and two others for refusing to leave a restaurant in the plaza, city police Cmdr. Andy Smith said.
The rest of the city will get to join in the celebration at a downtown victory parade on Monday, Mayor Eric Garcetti's office announced shortly after the cup was clinched.
The Kings have now won two Stanley Cups since the Dodgers, Lakers, Clippers or Angels won their last championship. And while they've often been lukewarm about hockey, the city's fans love and expect trophies as much as anywhere.
"I think it's great that hockey is getting so much attention in LA," said Dominik Ebert, 17, of Los Angeles. "I was here two years ago when they won, and there was definitely more hype this time."


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Nazarene Commentary Matthew 4:23-25 – Kingdom Preaching and Healing Draws Crowds
Matthew 4:23-25 – Kingdom Preaching and Healing Draws Crowds
|| Mark 1:39; 3:7, 8; Luke 4:14 – 15:44
MT4:23 And Jesus was traveling around the whole of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues,[1] preaching the good news of the Kingdom, and curing every disease and every infirmity among the people. MT4:24 And reports about Jesus circulated as far as Syria. They brought to Jesus all those faring badly, having a variety of diseases and afflicted with torments, the demon-possessed, the moonstruck[2] and paralytics – and Jesus cured them. MT4:25 And many crowds followed Jesus – from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem and Judea, and from the other side of the Jordan.
[1] Synagogues: Jesus does what Paul does later: as Jews they preach where Jews gather.
[2] Moonstruck: The Greek is SELENIA-ZOMENOUS and is variously translated: KJV: lunatick; ASV: epileptic; BAS: those who were out of their minds; PME: insane.
Nazarene Commentary Matthew 4:1-4 A Wilderness Temptation
Nazarene Commentary Matthew 4:5-7 – A Temptation to Test God
Nazarene Commentary Matthew 4:8-11 – A Temptation to Gain World Rule
Nazarene Commentary Matthew 4:12-17 – Galilee Saw A Great Light
Nazarene Commentary Matthew 4:18-22 – The Calling of the First Disciples
Jehovah God Maker of the entire universe served by a well-trained army
Nazarene Commentary Matthew 5
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- Hebrews 2:18 " Because He Himself suffered when He was tempted, He is able to help those who are being tempted."
- "Preaching Jesus as God's Wisdom: Breaking the Denial of Death": Preaching – III Reconciliation — Explorations in Theology
- The love of Jesus
- One Jesus – Different Calls
- Thomas The Disciple: More Than A Doubter 1
- What Does 'Fish for Men' Mean?
- Faith & Fisherman
- God's Anointed Messenger
- Luke 7: 13 " When the Lord saw her, His heart went out to her and He said, 'Don't cry.' "
- Morning Coffee Flashback: 6/23/15 What We Are Called To Do! Pt1
- Mark 4: 26-29 " He also said, 'This is what the Kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed spouts and grows, though he does not know how. All by itself the soil produces the grain – first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head. As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come.' "
- Series 23 The Gospel of Mark: Chapter 2
- A Healing Jesus and Other Uncomfortable Thoughts
- Repentance – Sermon on Matthew 4:12-23
- Answering the Call (Mt 4:12-23)
- Learning to See with Eyes of Love
- Kiln blog: Kingdom of Joy
- Miracles – Write 31:Day3
- Bible Study Notes from The Gospel of John 2:1-25
- Miracles of Jesus
- When Healing = Salvation
- Fish Dinners and Good Wine – How John Uses Jesus Miracles To Prove Both His Deity And Humanity
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This CD-ROM contains the life's work of Dr. Alan O'Reilly of Great Britain. The CD has over 2,000 8.5 by 11 searchable pages – a virtual encyclopedia of KJB information. His writings are a superb blend of the spiritual (You will smile, laugh, and be blessed!) and the academic (He is a retired professor from a noted British university.). The CD-ROM covers just about every question that has ever been asked about the KJB. O'Reilly soundly answers the foolish charges of two traitors, D.A. Waite and Kirk DiVietro, who have recently flaunted their denial of the inspiration of the KJB and have impishly impugned the character of those who defend it. Dr. Ruckman included O'Reilly's book 'O Biblios' (included on this CD) on his list of the fifty best books of all time. The following titles of his writings and presentations are included on the CD:
1.) O Biblios – The Book: The AV1611 vs an academic antagonist steeped in 'the Greek'
2.) O Biblios Summary Overview: AV1611 ascension followed by End Times apostasy writ large
2.) White's 7 Errors: James White is wrong seven times in a row, not the AV1611
4.) NKJV Criticisms 01/02: Countering NKJV corruptions put forward to 'improve' the AV1611
5.) Twist and Curl – Your Fiendly Neighbourhood Bible Corrupters: Not a misspelling!
7.) Grievous Wolf KJB Questions: Answering John Wolf's 67 unanswerable questions to 'KJ-onlyists'
1.) AV1611 Salvation vs NIV Damnation: The NIV subverts key verses on individual salvation
2.) AV1611 Salvation vs NIV Damnation Verse Comparison: Pre and post-1611 Bibles comparison
3.) AV1611 vs Rome's Post-1611 Attacks: Rome hates the AV1611 and persuades Christians likewise
4.) O Biblios Overview: The AV1611 is "all scripture...given by inspiration of God" 2 Timothy 3:16
5.) The Great Bible Robbery: Graphic summary of the AV1611 vs the Jesuit version, aka the NIV
6.) The KJB Story – 1611-2011 Abridged: A big subject covering a lot of ground in a short space
7.) The KJB Story – 1611-2011 Abridged Appendix: Combating the legion: "we are many" Mark 5:9
8.) The KJB Story – Graphics: For Powerpoint!
1.) AV1611 Tract: Thees, thous, different editions, bogus 'improvements' and the invulnerable anvil.
2.) Bible Article The Perfect KJB: X marks the spot where Fundamentalists, Rome, Watchtower unite
4.) Cry of Sodom: Genesis 18:20 vs the modern version paedophile protection society.
5.) English Reformation to Last Days Apostasy: Watch it explode after the AV1611 purification.
6.) Matthew 11 AV1611 vs 1984 NIV: The kingdom is no longer "forcefully advancing"! It never was.
7.) Pocket Testament WW1: Remember the brave ones gone. They had good witnesses back then.
8.) Purification of the Lord Words: A seven-stage three-fold process, Psalm 12:6, 7, to today's AV1611
10.) The Ethiopian Eunuch's Testimony...: "The people answered him not a word" 1 Kings 18:21
11.) The Royal Law: James 2:8, the British Throne, the Offended Party. Despise them at your peril