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Europe › France › Lyon › Lyon Restaurants
Rue Sala 17, Lyon, France
Gustave Lyon Reviews
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Gustave - a funny experience Dec 05, 2009
My friend and I were out walking waiting to meet Travbuddy Bernard for lunch at a restaurant in the city centre when we passed Gustave. What immediately attracted us was a sign in the window stating that if four girls had dinner together they would receive a free bottle of wine.
The place was a typical student café during the day and restaurant in the evening. The interior was very simple and it was very small and cozy. We decided that we would try it in the evening; we needed a calm place for the night after our heavy dinner at Paul Bocuse's L'Auberge du Pont de Collonges the day before and an upcoming visit to Coté Bellecour et Coté cuisine with Bernard and his wife.
When we arrived in the evening we were some of the first customers they had. Most of the tables were reserved so we were offered a seat upstairs and here started my experience in studentland. We had to climb up to a small loft covering 50 percent of the total area of the restaurant on a small and narrow ladder, which looked like it would part at any time.
Upstairs we were not able to stand up straight because there was less than 1.80 meter to the ceiling. We were offered a table in the corner. The tables were made of pine wood and the seats were benches which you would find in a hobby garden. When all this is said I really liked it; it was an experience.
The waitress was extremely sweet; she was a student from the Lyon; French but with an English mom, so her English was impeccable which I appreciated. Maxime found it a bit boring because she liked to speak English and not French. She told us that she was always worried, when she walked up the ladder and I understood her completely.
We ordered a good wine; which turned out to be the last bottle and some salads. The food was good and the waitress was sweet so we had a really good time.
At one point I had to go to the toilet and here started another point of my adventure. First I naturally had to pass the scary ladder and then a long journey started to reach the smallest toilet I have seen since when I was a student visiting one of my friends living in a garage in a backyard during his study. I remembered that he had to break the ice in the winter:)
I had to pass several doors and take turns to left and right and I started to think about the tales of the Grimm Brothers. When I finally found it; it was not heated and it was in the backyard behind the house and the temperature in there were around zero. Inside you could hardly turn, but they had tried to do the best of it with small decorations. I could not stop laughing and I asked Maxime to bring the camera if he had to go after coming back.
The restaurant was quickly filled with young people and the ambiance was quite good. It was a great experience after a couple of Paul Bocuse's.
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While I'm sorting through many photos for my next Israel post, I thought I'd share the next instalment of My Favourite Book by Australian philosopher and author, Damon Young. Actually, it's more like I couldn't wait to publish his contribution because I have only vague recollections of Friedrich Nietzsche's The Will to Power when I studied it at uni, and Damon's post here has given me a whole new appreciation of it. I also recommend Damon's own book, Philosophy in the Garden, which I thoroughly enjoyed reading. Damon has published other books, including Distraction and a forthcoming book for Pan Macmillan's School of Life series.
If you're Australian, you've probably read his many articles for The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, The Australian Literary Review, Herald-Sun and his columns for the ABC and Canberra Times. He's also written poetry and fiction for Overland and Meanjin magazines, and we happen to be published in Meanjin together in the next June edition (a coincidence, I promise). On a personal level, Damon's contribution is good timing for another reason: his reminder that a literary friend must contradict and confront (and not only comfort) is significant for me now as I prepare a new book proposal. So thanks Damon, for this great post, and timely reminder.
Bloody Friedrich Nietzsche. This philosopher; this invalid bachelor, awkward with women; this lonely, stateless German who hated beer; this enemy of pity who fainted at a whipped horse in Turin -- this dysfunctional loner is indispensable.
It's embarrassing, really. Here I am, a philosopher, trained to think all the heretofore unthought things; to 'overcome common sense', as Heidegger put it. The vocation can encourage a very romantic portrait of dogged rationality.
But sometimes my mind is empty. Not utterly vacant, but empty of anything vital, vivid or even novel. The intellect slows (moronically, not meticulously).
To end the stupor, I often pick up a book by Nietzsche. And often the book is The Will to Power, Nietzsche's notebooks from 1883 to 1888 (not long before he went mad).
Nietzsche was brimming with ideas, with what he called "sudden sparks and miracles of...loneliness". "You, my old loved ones," he wrote, "my wicked thoughts!" His notebooks, with their aphorisms and epigrams, are a cafe bench-top lined with a thousand espressos: each quick sip is a buzz.
For example, I pick up The Will to Power right now, on the couch, next to Ruth, my wife, and read a page at random:
I have to set up the most difficult ideal of the philosopher. Learning is not enough! The scholar is the herd animal in the realm of knowledge--who inquires because he is ordered to and because others have done so before him.--
See? All my plodding, lazy, dutiful research; my pedantry and punctuality. Nietzsche needles me to accept or reject my own mediocrity. He asks for a fight. I come away bloodied, but perhaps more brave. And if not brave, then foolhardy, which, as Aristotle pointed out, can be a good facsimile of courage. Job done.
Nietzsche once wrote that one's best friend must be able to be an enemy; must be able to confront and contradict. The Will to Power is one of my literary best friends.
Image credit: Damon's own copy of The Will to Power, which looks like it's been through quite a fight.


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This bear is called Larry. Not by other bears, you understand, but by the teenage girls that discovered him in their family swimming pool outside their Monrovia, California home.
Joining some of our favourite wild-animals-in-swimming-pools in our wild-animals-in-swimming-pools video gallery (see below), Larry seems to be perfectly content sunning himself instead of, say, scaring people as they walk down the street texting on their mobile phone.
So to see an elk in a hot tub, spend a few minutes with us watching a couple of clips where nature shows its wetter side. Enjoy!


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We hit the Mardi Gras party at the Holiday Inn Express the other night and found out what Capital Region residents were willing to give up. A hint: a boyfriend and sex toys are in the list.
What would you sacrifice?
We hit the Mardi Gras party at the Holiday Inn Express the other night and found out what Capital Region residents were willing to give up. A hint: a boyfriend and sex toys are in the list.
What would you sacrifice?
I saw a hottie!
That crowd looked more like New Hyde Park than New Orleans.
I'm going to give up OTE for Lent, either that, or cheese.
Goose – we'd miss you!!!
I am giving up sweets & it is damn hard already!!! (BTW – the darn Girl Scout cookies were delivered today!! UGH!!!) LOL!!
Again I'm going to give up what I do every year. I'm not going to go to the Moon, I'm not going to eat turnips, and I'm not going to have sex with a movie star. Of course if Ashley Judd drops into my lap, all bets are off.
Can't think of anything to give up. I will say two things that I'm not giving up….dating and OTE. Just WAY too addicted to both!
This year I am giving up shopping. It is going to be hard but worth it, I'm hoping to save up to buy a great dress for the weddings I am going to this summer.
Candy and chocolate for me. My Wife's giving up candy, chocolate and tv.
Goose – Agreed there were a few hotties in there.
I'm giving up soda. Shouldn't be so hard since I don't work in that business anymore. I've got my jug of water ready and a case of Vitamin Water in the house. I can get my caffeine from my tea.
*sigh* I usually give up eating meat on Friday's, but being pregnant, that just ain't gonna happen. Since I don't eat chocolate or candy, that's out of the question. Give up soda? HA! That is one thing you DON'T want me to give up….how bout I give up eating healthy? *snickers* That will be simple for me since I don't do a whole lot of that to begin with….now where are my potato chips???
Casers- I'm giving up shopping this year too. It actually started before Lent a couple months ago when a friend bet me I couldn't go a week without shopping. Here I am 6 weeks later and only 6 more to go! My bank account is thanking me :)
this was a good video Kristi. was this event advertised at all?
I am giving up all the same things that I give up every year, which include everything that I never do anyway. And I'm not even Catholic.
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Mike in Albany, Lent is not Catholic-specific. It's Christian.
I usually try to do something(s) positive instead of giving something up.
Can you tell I'm not that either?
Ill give up alicia keys and lucy liu for lent if I can fall back on Mayra veronica! Mayra Veronica(homer simpson drool!)
Wait, can I give up work? I'm not religious but if so, maybe Mike will want to covert with me! haha jk


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When we shared a photo of last night's Appleslaw on the FaceBook group, I hadn't planned on sharing the recipe. I just didn't figure people would be THAT interested. The wonderful thing about instant feedback is you can learn very quickly that you're wrong and make adjustments; so I promised to share the recipe.
Like many things I make (other than preserving), my measurements are adjusted to taste. This recipe will be more of a guide but adjust your recipe to your own taste – and that of the ingredients you are using. Apples which remain on the tree after the first frost are typically much sweeter than those before the frost and neither is 'scientifically' better – let your tongue choose what's right for you.
I used a mandoline to cut these evenly. You could do the same with a knife and I think I would use the knife next time. I find the density of the apples make them so hard to press through the mandoline that I'm more likely to slip when using it – and slipping isn't a good option with a mandoline.
You can use pears and apples interchangeably in this recipe. I used 3 apples and 1 pear. I prefer tart apples but my absolute key is using different types of apples and pears. I used 3 different types of apples which lead to a far more interesting dish.
- 4 apples or pears
- 1-2 tablespoons of dijon mustard (we used a very spict one and used about 1.5)
- 1-2 tablespoons of acidity (approximately the same amount as the mustard). If I was using this for pork I'd use cider vinegar; for fish I'd use lemon or lime which will also keep the colour of the apples. We were having fish tacos so we used 1.5 limes
- Clove of garlic minced fine.
- Fresh, pickled or dried hot peppers to taste. I used a teaspoon of chilli flakes (we like a lot of hear)
- Salt to taste
- Julienne your fruit. I add the acid as I go to help it from discoloring.
- Add the mustard and taste.
- Adjust the amount of apple, mustard and acid now – this is the base of your flavour. After you add the other items it becomes tougher to figure out what to add. With only 3 flavours, this is the best time to adjust these things.
- Add the rest of your ingredients and toss well.
- Let sit for a minimum of 20 minutes (covered). I serve at room temperature like a salad but you could let it rest in the fridge if you'd rather.
- Toss lightly and taste. You should be ready to go – adjust as you'd like!
You could add other coleslaw ingredients – carrots, cabbage, raisins and even mayo but I think this is pretty darn perfect just the way it is. What would you change?
EDIT: I forgot an ingredient we used last night which made this divine. 1-2 tablespoons of sesame oil. It's an optional addition but the nuttiness really added something here and I highly recommend it!


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This is a reanimation of the Vicaribus blog as lived by Miro Kazakoff and Ehren Foss in 2004 and 2005.
The photos may be spotty.
September 19, 2004 near
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The Tuesday after the roof raise we started to take stock of the challenges of bodywork. The roof looked slightly precarious, held far aloft on thin sections of steel.
Throughout the fall we were able to gauge our progress via the backhanded compliments of the truckers servicing the Shaugnessey lot. After the roof raise one of them offered "Color me impressed. When I saw it this morning up on those little tin sticks I thought for sure the wind would blow it down by mid morning." After a few days, after I had rented a welder to run a precarious bead along the newly fasioned structural joins, another said "Yeah, you boys will be all right, if you could weld. Which, clearly you can't." In my defense it was at least partially the welder's fault. The bus was so far away from the outlet from which we were borrinwing electrical power that by the time 200 feet of extension cords were run the voltage was so low the welder had to cycle: 2 seconds on and 1 second off.
Anyway, let's talk about how the rest of the bus was put together.
The only easily accessible structural elements were the vertical roof supports. We formed the interior structure of the bus from these supports, bolting 3/4" plywood sheets to them, with liberal amounts of liquid nails to provide resistance to vibration and to spread the load. Every section of wall, cabinet, kitchen, or bedroom extends perpendicularly from the roof supports. We were therefore confined to fitting everything in such that it would line up with at least one of the vertical supports. Part of the support for Miro's floor attaches to the first beam, abreast the driver's seat. The front bathroom wall and Miro's staircase attach to the second. The third is empty. The fourth anchors the 9" thick utility wall. The fourth through sixth anchor the lower and upper kitchen cabinets, and the seventh through ninth hold the desk in place. The tenth through twelfth support my room. I think I must have missed one, since I remember there being fourteen windows. Anyhow, the extra one is probably in the kitchen.
Miro's room is smaller -- volumetrically about half the size -- of my room. This is only partially due to my control over the blueprints. In order to increase the height of his room, we would have needed to move the cockpit floor down. As is, I have exactly one inch between the top of my head and his floor. The width of everything is confined to around 92", limited by the width of the bus. Some adventurous converters install their own slide-outs (rooms which extend from the side of the vehicle while parked), but we were content having structural excitement behind us. Moving the back wall of Miro's room further would have compressed both the bathroom and the entry way so as to threaten the usability of both (for instance, disallowing a door into the bathroom). Similar problems exist with the design of my room: Every wall in the bus is necessarily 28" inches from any other elements.
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January 17, 2006
Joe noted that the consultants will be providing a preview of the Bond Renovation
Plan which is major component of the revised Gavilan Facility Master Plan. He referred
to the attached report, "Minimum Technology Standards for Classrooms and Laboratories,"
dated Jan 3, 2006. This document will go to President's Council on January 25th and to
Academic Senate on February 7. The next step would be to incorporate this document into the
Bond Renovation Plan. It will not be a separate action item for the Board of Trustees.
Joe turned the meeting over to the consultants. Please refer to the attached notes for the detail of this report.


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The Miami Herald's Glenn Garvin is covering the We Media conference at the University of Miami this week. Much of the focus of the three-day seminar has been on how news organizations and individual journalists are using new media and social networking tools for mere survival.
"It tells you something about the far-reaching tentacles of Twitter and Facebook and the other social-networking sites," says CNN DC SVP David Bohrman. "And it tells you something about some of the challenges facing TV news."
Amid the daily obituaries for the newspaper business, where bankruptcies and layoffs have become a grim daily routine, there's been comparatively little notice that television news confronts many of the same problems: declining audiences, aging demographics, fierce competition from new digital media and a broken business model.
"Everything needs to be deconstructed," Bohrman says. "Everything is going to be changing."


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Juliette Larthe is the muse of British brand Preen, founded in 1996 in a small boutique in London's Portobello market by Justin Thornton and Thea Bregazzi. She is a producer who is now responsible for helming the creative direction and execution for all of the brand's runway shows.
Why Larthe? "She is honest, fresh, exciting and cool through and through," said Thornton and Bregazzi. "We love that she takes risks but is reliable, we love that she is fun but very serious, we love that she has the best time at every party but is up with the kids for school every day. She is the 'modern woman.'"
The juxtaposition between the Hepburn-cut of the dress with the 21st century pattern and the 50s design are altogether ideal for a summer cocktail party. I may not get the chance to wear it at the aforementioned, so I will wear it on my next shoot.
My children's godmother, Annabelle Neilson, gave me these wonders straight from Lee's show. Lee was a gift; his talent was unmatched, his heart unrivaled. Annabelle was his best friend and in another life, I am sure they'd have been married.
The bathroom was put together from salvage pieces around the Kingdom. It's been so much fun exploring the history of the house and combining modern (in relation to the building) plumbing artifacts with a more historical feel. This dress is a beautiful piece hand-embroidered in India, and it combines ancient traditions with a contemporary style.
These cannonballs are from Sir Walter Raleigh's estate, dredged from the River Dart, and a couple have impact marks on them. The smaller ones are the musket balls from the same area and period. The Margiela shoes I got from a wonderful eclectic shop called 127bricklane.com. They sell everything from vintage Margiela to current Gareth Pugh pieces.
Justin and Thea are so clever with texture and print—so brilliantly researched. I am so mad for designers who don't have a huge company backing them. Until a year ago, everything Preen did was made in London. I love the brilliance of the texture on leather and the colour of the print.
Justin and Thea have been a complete inspiration, and to be a part of Preen is a treasured thing. Every day I wake up and count my blessings. They have been dressing me for thirteen years, bringing a different perspective to women's wear that combines an architectural graphical edge with a feminine delicateness. One of their best pieces of advice to me was to wear all my wardrobe pieces at any time—for the 'major' frocks to be worn during the day with a shirt or a T-shirt. Belt up, layer and go forth. Change the world one Preen dress at a time.
These are my favourite pants ever. Behind them is a homage to the spaceman. The image is Buzz Aldrin taken by Neil Armstrong, and again re-appropriated by Warhol. The silver pants and the studded lace pants are as rock & roll as the image—and my boyfriend.
This dress is inspired by the Kyoto Geisha dresses from Japan. It's silk and it's so sheer that you always have to wear a piece underneath it. It's accompanied by some of the smaller designs made by my Lego-obsessed son, Hank. They are flanked by curtains I made for him.
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The game doesn't officially work with JUST the gamepad, sadly... but hopefully someone here will know of some other means to get around this.
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BACK in the bleak February term, four schools were invited by Chichester Community Development Trust (CCDT) to enter a competition to see who could grow 'The Most Beautiful Edible Garden'.
The winners, Parklands Community School, received a sundial made from garden slabs, decorated by the children to show the time of day by the shadows cast on the slabs. The competition was run to encourage children into the garden as well as to create awareness of the Graylingwell Park Community Garden at the end of Lloyd Road on the Graylingwell Park estate.
Jo Lodge, community engagement worker at CCDT, said: "It was a difficult decision to make, and all the schools worked incredibly hard, but there could only be one winner and that was Parklands Community Primary School.
"The care, work and attention that went into their complete garden transformation was breath-taking and they should all be very proud of themselves."
Lancastrian won Most Beautiful Wildlife Garden, Fordwater won Most Beautiful Secluded Garden and St Anthony's won Most Beautiful Produce.
"It was a huge testament to the children, staff and school communities to see the effort, care and attention that went into each garden," said Jo.


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UPDATE - Polk County Sheriff's Office deputies located Christopher Wade Kennedy on Saturday, September 21, 2013, at a residence located on SB Merrion Road, in north Lakeland. He was transported to Lakeland Regional Medical Center where he was treated and released for injuries he sustained in the crash he fled from the night before. His charges include 6 cts Leaving Scene of Crash involving Serious Bodily Injury, DWLSR (Habitual Traffic Offender) w/ Serious Bodily Injury.
All victims of the crash have been updated to stable, with the exception of Charles Clendenin who remains very critical.
Kennedy's September 21, 2013 Booking Photo.
At approximately 10:23 pm, on Friday, September 20, 2013, a 1990, gold Acura Legend, driven by Christopher Wade Kennedy, DOB 01/30/1966, LKA, Staghorn Drive, Lakeland, was traveling south on Lewellyn Road at a high rate of speed.
At approximately the same time, a 1999, silver, Oldsmobile Alero, driven by Calep Mead, DOB 02/02/1989, Reynolds Road, Lakeland, was traveling east on Rushing Road.
Mead entered the intersection of Lewellyn and Valley Farms Roads and did not see the Acura until it struck the driver's side passenger door area of the Oldsmobile.
The impact caused the Acura to slide under the Oldsmobile, and the forward momentum of the Acura caused it to carry and then roll the Oldsmobile several times to the south, before it came to rest upside down in the eastern drainage ditch. The Acura suffered significant damage and came to rest in the eastern draining ditch of Lewellyn Road as well.
According to witnesses, Kennedy borrowed a flashlight from them after the crash so he could check on the people in his car; however he fled the scene prior to the arrival of emergency responders. Victims were transported to Lakeland Regional Medical Center.
Kennedy had two passengers;
· Delana Michelle Wallace, DOB 11/23/1982, North Wabash Avenue – transported to LRMC in serious but stable condition.
· Shannon Cole, DOB 09/02/1976, Deeson Road – was ejected and came to rest under the Acura; Cole was transported to LRMC in stable condition.
Kenney is believed to have a head injury.
Mead had three passengers:
· Charles Clendenin, DOB 10/16/1969, Reynolds Road – was ejected from the Oldsmobile. Clendenin was air lifted to LRMC in critical condition.
· Tanner Waggoner, DOB 01/25/1989, Tower Road, Lake Alfred – was ejected from the Oldsmobile. Waggoner was transported to LRMC in critical condition.
· Melissa Keen, DOB 12/22/1988, Reynolds Road – was entrapped in the Oldsmobile and had to be extracted. Keen was transported to LRMC in serious but stable condition.
Mead is in serious but stable condition at LRMC.
Kennedy, described as being approximately 6'1" tall and approximately 180 pounds with gray hair, and has blue eyes. His June 2013 booking photo is attached.
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Tony Manero (Chile)
EmptyWriter-director Pablo Larrain's searing film follows a sad-sack dancer-turned-murderer who chases a dream of emulating his "Saturday Night Fever" hero during the repressive Pinochet regime.
Chile went through this extraordinary cultural process. For many years, artistic expression was blocked. For 18 years, we lost the chance of developing as a society. There's a damage that will never be absolutely rebuilt. We wanted to talk about that -- we're just beginning to understand it.
We wanted to tell this little story about a man and an American icon, with the idea of setting up a metaphor about the Chilean regime and the absurdity of importing the American dream.
I saw "Saturday Night Fever" probably in 1988, and I felt that it had something very original. When you have a character who is dancing onscreen, it makes a particular connection with the audience. It's a unique way of building empathy. Tony Manero doesn't want to make money, he just wants to dance.
And the lead in my film, he feels good when he dances -- he thinks Tony Manero is possible for him. But he's 30 years older and his reality is way, way different. There's an absurdity to it. Like in "Saturday Night Fever," nothing else works in his life, nothing but the dancing. But in (my character's) case, in the end, not even that works.
We sent John Travolta the film and I think he liked it, because he wrote me a letter back saying he was very glad about our success at Cannes. He was kind enough to let us have permission to use his image. He's so great. Some actors, they are just faces. But Travolta is a voice and an entire person who speaks with his entire body.


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Thursday, December 17, 2015
Thursday, December 10, 2015
Candy and Me
Never for me the siren call of chocolate or licorice or gumdrops. Sweetness is not my friend. Give me sour, really sour, and please make it lasting. I despise candies that tease you with a sour burst before betraying it with a middle of unsatisfying bland sweetness. I prefer a sourness that lasts all the way through.
As a child, I satisfied this lust with Jolly Roger sticks, purchased for ten cents at the movie theater. One stick carefully peeled would last for an entire movie. As you licked and licked, the stick would slowly bend until you had a lovely curl just before it became so thin you could see through it and then it broke off in your mouth, giving you a quick burst of overwhelming sourness.
As I grew, I skipped the candy altogether and went right to the mother ship. I began eating lemons, not with sugar but with a little salt on them. Oh those were heavenly days, tucked up in a corner of our ranch house, curled up with a good book and lemons with salt. I still have some of my favorite books from my childhood, and all of them have yellow stains on the page from errant drips of lemony-salty goodness.
As an adult, I am facing some of the ravages of a sugar coated and lemon juice filled childhood. I have had more than my share of large cavities, root canals, and caps on my teeth. Sometimes I even have nightmares that all my teeth are falling out. I've had to give up all candy binges, and my teeth are far too sensitive to indulge in lemons. Luckily I'll always have the honeyed memories of a sweet childhood full of blissful sourness.
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Rugby World Cup 2015
Each player let himself down. It was a below-par performance from us and is not acceptable with the standards we set ourselves. I don't want to take anything away from Japan's victory, but we have to take ownership of this performance and make ourselves accountable, we (the) players were on the field. The coaching staff can't do anything on the field, so we are responsible."- South Africa captain Jean de Villiers, speaking after the team's 34-32 humbling at the hands of Japan on Saturday.
Richie McCaw made most tackles for NZ on 11 versus Argentina's Joaquin Tuculet's 86... tells the story of the game really #RugbyWorldCup7:14 PM - 20 Sep 2015
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Rugby-New Zealand forced to dig deep to fend off PumasReuters UKRattled holders New Zealand were forced to dig deep before subduing a fired-up Argentina 26-16 in a terrific Pool C opening match in front of an all-time record Rugby World Cup crowd at Wembley Stadium on Sunday.
Rusty All Blacks will improve for battle with Pumas - HansenReuters UKNew Zealand were rusty and will only improve as the Rugby World Cup progresses, coach Steve Hansen said as the holders needed all their guile and craft to overcome Argentina 26-16 in their Pool C opener on Sunday.
Some England players under-performed against Fiji - CattReuters UKSome England players will have been disappointed with their performances in the 35-11 win over Fiji in their Rugby World Cup Pool A opener, backs coach Mike Catt said on Sunday.
Australia pair Pocock, Hooper for Fiji as Cheika shows his handReuters UKAustralia coach Michael Cheika has opted for twin openside flankers in David Pocock and Michael Hooper for their Rugby World Cup Pool A opener against Fiji at the Millennium Stadium on Wednesday.
Samoa wary of wounded SpringboksReuters UKSamoa expect South Africa to come out all guns blazing in their Rugby World Cup encounter on Saturday as the wounded Springboks look to atone for their shocking 34-32 defeat to Japan in their Pool B opener.
Zealous video refereeing upsets England game plan - FarrellReuters UKThe constant stop-start interruptions while referees review TV footage could undermine England's challenge for the Rugby World Cup, according to flyhalf Owen Farrell.
Fofana starts as France ring changes for Romania gameReuters UKWesley Fofana is back from injury as France coach Philippe Saint-Andre rests almost all of the team from Les Bleus' opening game for Wednesday's Rugby World Cup Pool D match against Romania.
Pumas still dream of ultimate triumph after opening lossReuters UKArgentina will not be swayed from their dream of reaching the Rugby World Cup summit after losing to the All Blacks in their opening match, captain Agustin Creevy said.
Stormers announce capture of Japan coach JonesReuters UKJapan coach Eddie Jones, widely lauded for masterminding Japan's sensational 34-32 Rugby World Cup victory over South Africa on Saturday, will take charge of Super Rugby side the Stormers next season.
Japan's Yoshikazu Fujita's tweet reads: "Brighton College students gave me a welcome ☺ Thank you"ブライトンカレッジの学生達が歓迎してくれました☺ ありがとうございます👍 #JapanWay http://t.co/n3EKNT5NaG2:28 PM - 21 Sep 2015
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Día de recuperación!! / Recovery day!! http://t.co/MqolActTys3:19 PM - 21 Sep 2015
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In Friday's opening match between England and Fiji, the clock was stopped for 10 minutes and eight seconds while referee Jaco Peyper referred six incidents to the TMO.World Rugby Match Officials Selection Committee chairman John Jeffrey said 28 percent of stoppage time in that game was taken up by the TMO process, adding that he was committed to reducing that while not compromising on accuracy.
Read more - World Cup organisers keen to reduce TMO delays
As of yesterday, Japan have moved above Scotland in the rugby world rankings. Ominous sign? #RugbyWorldCup9:37 AM - 22 Sep 2015
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Nobody fears the Boks after Japan defeat, says former coachReuters UKSouth Africa have become a team nobody will fear anymore after their shock opening Rugby World Cup defeat against Japan, according to former Springboks coach Jake White.
If you look at history, the last two World Cup finalists also lost a game in the pool stages. France (runners-up four year ago) actually lost two games. And if you look at the soccer World Cup (in 2010) Spain actually lost their first game to Switzerland that they should never have lost and still went on to win the tournament."- South Africa hooker Bismarck Du Plessis
Read more - Wounded South Africa focus on 'new day' in redemption bid
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Eddie believes his team will come out on top, but we have our own beliefs. We will be concentrating on playing from the first minute. We haven't talked about Eddie in the squad. We've discussed their players and tactics but not about Eddie at all."
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ALL DRESSED UPA selection of the Rugby World Cup teams' welcome ceremony photos:USA rugby team pose on the gangway to HMS Victory during the Rugby World Cup Welcome Ceremony, 13 September 2015. Action Images via Reuters/John Sibley. LivepicScotland players pose for a group photo during the welcome ceremony at Gloucester Cathedral, 17 September 2015. Action Images via Reuters/Andrew Couldridge. Livepic.Samoa's team perform for the crowd during the welcome ceremony at the Brighton Dome, 11 September 2015. Action Images via Reuters/Paul Childs. LivepicNew Zealand pose for a team photo during the welcome ceremony at the Tower of London, 11 September 2015. Action Images via Reuters/Andrew Couldridge. LivepicAustralia pose for a photo during the welcome ceremony, 15 September 2015. Action Images via Reuters/Andrew Boyers. LivepicJapan squad pose for team photograph during the welcome ceremony, 11 September 2015. Action Images via Reuters/Paul Childs. LivepicFrance pose for a team group photo during the welcome ceremony at the Old Royal Navy College, Greenwich, 14 September 2015. Action Images via Reuters/Andrew Boyers. LivepicThe Ireland team during the Rugby World Cup Welcome Ceremony, 21 September 2015. Action Images via Reuters/Carl Recine. LivepicArgentina pose for a team group photo during the welcome ceremony, 14 September 2015. Action Images via Reuters/Matthew Childs. LivepicSouth Africa team during the welcome ceremony, 13 September 2015. Action Images via Reuters/Andrew Couldridge. LivepicEngland Rugby squad pose for a group photo at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, 12 September 2015. Action Images via Reuters/Henry Browne. LivepicThe Wales team and Prince William during the welcome ceremony, 21 September 2015. Action Images via Reuters/Paul Childs. Livepic
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#RWC2015 kicking off vs @Scotlandteam in 2 hours! #JapanWay #rugbyjp http://t.co/BXxZDRurQl12:37 PM - 23 Sep 2015
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"Situation is totally under control and the leakage was contained yesterday itself," an ONGC spokesperson said, adding that the crisis management team has started the cementing work to plug the source of leak at the rig "Sagar Uday". He also said that there was no threat of water pollution. Meanwhile, a defence official said that a ship each from the Navy and the Coast Guard were present in the area to provide any kind of assistance needed.
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Security (think, virus) is one reason to block social network sites from workplace computers. -Ben
This is a problem indeed, have seen these issues first-hand. Scary problem that seriously needs a solution...I was writing about a lower-level view of this here: http://jbcobb.net/?p=217
This was posted back in December in the midst of the Koobface virus for context.
Recently while searching for a new job online I signed up to a position online that asked a few questions on the application.
First starting with a somewhat normal queue of questions and went further and further into an ongoing seemingly endless questions i stopped when it asked private medical info.
feeling a little paranoid i looked further into the site and found that there was no job and it was a data mining company which supplies info on applicants to employers.
Tricky sneaky people gagh!!. I am glad my instincts kicked in before i applied.
on another note another job, that was also a lie made me sign up too a investment group, who emailed me and phoned me multiple times, I had to explain since i am looking for work I am not in a position to be giving my money away to invest, since i have none to spare.
where's the internet police?
I would like to tell them about some criminal activity online.
This is a highly relevant debate for a site like ours, which is a gated community, social network ,and holds a large amount of personal information about yourself and your family.
There are a few key questions that members on current open, social networking or social Media sites should ask themselves:-
1) How does the privacy policy of the site protect me from the disemnination of information, that could be mined, in order to build up and indentity dosier on me ?
2) Should I be adding 'life data', as opposesd to basic personal information, to open communities like facebook and myspace ?
Social networking sites, that are more like gated communities, are coming online now.
3) What communities / services and products on line, provide the benefits of social interaction while maintaining anonimity - for example by ensuring seperation between the user and their data.
4) Which products can provide me addition identity protection ?
5) Have my ongoing interactions /familiarity with the web, eroded the standards I apply when joining sites ?
I have always been concerned about how data stored about us will be used. I accept that a certain amount of data must be stored to improve our "user experience" however my worry is that this data can be used to manipulate us. In fact, isn't the fact that google tailor their searches based on our past searches a kind of manipulation!
Let's cool down the upstate/downstate pissing contests, and give our new Senator a chance to represent both. If she's not up to the task, we can vote her out in 2010 or 2012.
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I find it disgusting that internet activity is being monitored. The powers that be have the ability to keep track of everyone. Do people have any freedom anymore?
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These days everyone is trying to build their business on the internet. It's easy! You don't have to leave the house! So, why are 98% of the network marketers failing…because they simply aren't doing it right! It's the same reason advertising agencies didn't succeed in offline marketing as well. Let me show you the 7 main reasons that your social networking is tanking!!!
Marketing your internet business on Twitter, Facebook, Tagged, YouTube, and MySpace are all very powerful. These are the techniques that I use to build my business, and I have taught my super-achiveing team to do the same.
I find it disgusting that internet activity is being monitored. The powers that be have the ability to keep track of everyone. Do people have any freedom anymore?
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Quotation of Plato
in the "link builders bible 2010".
Доброго времени суток, уважаемые коллеги и друзья. Много времени я потратил на поиски хорошего блога сходной тематики, но многие из них не устраивали меня отсутствием или недостатком информации, глупыми интерфейсами и прочим. Сейчас я нашёл что хотел и решил внести свой комментарий. Хотелось бы, уважаемые господа администраторы, чтоб ваш блог и далее развивался таким темпом, количество людей неуклонно росло, а страниц становилось всё больше и больше. Адрес вашего блога запомнил надолго и надеюсь войти в ряды самых активных пользователей. Огромное спасибо всем, кто меня выслушал и уделил минутку свободного времени на прочтение данного комментария. Ещё раз спасибо. Виталий.
Reading this it really makes you think of how social networks have really evolved over the past few years. Really amazing how fast we now interact, communicate and share ideas, thoughts, events with people globally as part of these networks. Is this internet 2.0 ?
Using an it managed services provider also means that your it needs are dealt with quickly, as they tend to only use engineers with extensive real-world experience.
I do not care what anybody says. I enjoy Harry Potter! And I like the books. I might be an old guy, but a great series is a great series. >.<
Very nice post and right to the point. I am not sure if this is in fact the best place to ask but do you folks have any ideea where to employ some professional writers? Thanks :)


text: 0 comments 0 shares on Facebook 0 tweets on Twitter 0 shares on Linkedin Spectrum planning About spectrum planning ACMA focuses on future of mobile broadband spectrum Australia's spectrum regulator, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, has refreshed its strategy for addressing the growth in mobile broadband capacity in a discussion paper released today, Beyond 2020 – A spectrum management strategy to address the growth in mobile broadband capacity ('Beyond 2020'). The paper seeks industry feedback on the ACMA's medium and longer term planning approaches to address rising demand for mobile broadband services. Following ACMA research commissioned last year identifying a $33.8 billion increase in Australia's economic activity in 2013 resulting from mobile broadband, Beyond 2020 overhauls the ACMA's overall strategy on mobile broadband planning, last articulated in its 2011 strategic document Towards 2020—Future spectrum requirements for mobile broadband ('Towards 2020'). 'For over a decade, the need to accommodate growth in mobile broadband traffic has been the biggest driver of changes in the use of radiofrequency spectrum,' said ACMA Chairman, Chris Chapman. 'And because mobile broadband often favours bands that are heavily encumbered due to a range of reasons (including favourable propagation characteristics), how we continue to accommodate future growth will be of vital interest to other industry sectors and users that also critically depend on continuing access to fit-for-purpose spectrum.' Although there is considerable continuity between the 2011 and 2015 papers in so far as Beyond 2020 asserts the need to use improved technologies and increased infrastructure, as well as additional spectrum, to address the persistent growth in demand for mobile broadband, it signals a number of changes in approach. 'Our experience at the coalface since 2011 has suggested that the ACMA's earlier focus on explicit, quantitative targets for additional spectrum should be revisited,' said Mr Chapman. 'Experience has shown that the setting of targets—a common approach overseas, as well as locally—fails to take adequate account of the considerable uncertainty inherent in such forecasts. While the trend line is crystal clear, projections of traffic growth have proven to be unreliable, and the relationship between growth rates and the need for additional spectrum (as opposed to the better use of existing allocations) is also complex and uncertain. 'We are signalling a shift towards greater reliance on a contingency planning model, where the regulator plans for a range of potential outcomes in terms of mobile broadband capacity growth, but nonetheless seeks to enable the right spectrum to be made available, at the right time, depending on the scenarios that are unfolding. The key to such a contingency planning approach is the ability of the regulator to work with industry and the international community, more generally, on a range of potential candidate bands at the same time, often over the very extended periods that are required for the development of new, harmonised spectrum uses and subsequent changes in the highest value use of those bands domestically,' Mr Chapman said. This change in approach should allow the ACMA to be more flexible and responsive to the rapidly-changing spectrum environment. In place of rigid quantitative targets, the approach offers more regular updates, in consultation with industry, of the planning status of all candidate bands. Significantly, Beyond 2020 further elevates the reconfiguration and optimisation of existing mobile broadband allocations onto an equal footing with the re-farming of new bands. 'If we are to seriously contemplate the disruption caused by re-farming bands currently used for other purposes, and we think that is extremely likely, it is equally vital that existing mobile broadband allocations are optimised to take account of changes in international harmonised arrangements. We all need to sweat existing allocations harder,' said Mr Chapman. Beyond 2020 contains detailed commentary on the current status of bands that are potentially affected by the rising demand for mobile broadband, which the ACMA will keep up-to-date in future editions of the annual Five Year Spectrum Outlook (FYSO). The ACMA is inviting industry comment on the report, with submissions closing on 23 October 2015. For more information or to arrange an interview, please contact: Blake Murdoch, on (02) 9334 7817, 0434 567 391 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Media release 44/2015 - 10 Sept Backgrounder The spectrum management implications of the growth in demand for mobile broadband capacity continue to be critical issues for the ACMA. Mobile broadband spectrum management is one area where the ACMA has, for a number of years, provided very detailed public guidance on its associated strategy and work plan. The ACMA's last substantial publication on this issue was in May 2011 with the release of Towards 2020. In the four years that have passed since the publication of Towards 2020, a number of developments have occurred, making it timely for the ACMA to review and rearticulate its strategies for addressing the growth in mobile broadband capacity. Some of these developments have included: completion of the digital dividend auction (in the 700 MHz band) and the resulting unsold lots commissioned research undertaken by the ACMA on demand for wireless access services and the economic benefits of mobile broadband developments internationally and domestically on bands identified in previous ACMA papers, such as the 850 and 900 MHz bands, the 1.5 GHz band and the 3.5 GHz band knowledge gained during preparations for the International Telecommunication Union Radiocommunication Sector (ITU-R) 2015 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-15), which is considering the identification of additional spectrum for IMT and mobile broadband under its Agenda item 1.1 preparations for WRC-15, which will likely consider a possible future WRC-19 Agenda item on IMT in bands above 6 GHz under its Agenda item 10 current studies showing that mobile traffic growth will continue into the future, more than likely at an increasing rate - at least in the medium term evidence that estimates of future mobile broadband traffic prior to the ACMA's 2011 report tended to over-estimate actual traffic growth and consequently tended to overstate the short- to medium-term requirement for additional spectrum. Overall, the evidence suggests that Australia currently has sufficient spectrum available for mobile broadband services in the short to medium term. However, long lead times for making additional spectrum available and the importance of international harmonisation compel the ACMA, as Australia's spectrum regulator, to press ahead with work in this area if it is to have options available in the very likely scenario that future demand for additional spectrum eventuates. In the Beyond 2020 paper, the ACMA proposes five key strategies that it will pursue in addressing future mobile broadband demand, including a four-staged process for consideration of additional spectrum for mobile broadband services. This is illustrated in Figure 1. It is proposed that the ACMA will identify, and potentially keep current in future versions of the FYSO, a list (or 'pool') of potential spectrum options that are at varying stages of consideration. These are also noted in Figure 1. This approach will provide the ACMA with capacity to react to demand requirements on a contingency basis if and when needed and when the evidence suggests that mobile broadband is, or is becoming, the highest value use of a particular band. Consistent with the idea of contingency planning, the appearance of a band at the 'monitoring' stage (Stage 0) does not necessarily imply the eventual re-farming of that band (Stage 3). Figure 1: Stages of the process for consideration of additional spectrum for mobile broadband services and the position of current mobile broadband spectrum planning projects In essence, the transparent 'stages' approach proposed in the Beyond 2020 paper for addressing the growth in mobile broadband capacity recognises both the long timeframes (and significant domestic and international engagement) entailed in identification of suitable frequency bands for mobile broadband, the sheer uncertainty surrounding demand projections and the precise role new spectrum releases should play in meeting eventual demand. The 'stages' approach can be seen as a long term plan for addressing the full range of contingencies that might arise in relation to future broadband demand. Actual re-planning of bands will only occur if and when the need arises, but the long-term goal is to ensure that sound options to meet any contingency will be available in good time. The ACMA seeks comment on the issues discussed and the solutions proposed in the Beyond 2020 paper by 23 October 2015. Following consideration of responses, the ACMA expects to release its updated mobile broadband strategy and associated work programs in early 2016. The ACMA will host a Spectrum Tune-Up on mobile broadband spectrum management on Thursday 24 September 2015. Spectrum tune-up: Beyond 2020 will be held at the ACMA Canberra offices with videoconference links to the ACMA Melbourne and Sydney offices. Registrations close on Monday 21 September 2015. Last updated: 28 September 2016


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Four-piece band Hiatus Kaiyote, from Melbourne Austrailia, recently re-released their stunning debut album "Tawk Tomahawk" on Sony Masterworks' imprint Flying Buddha, after an initial release via their bandcamp a year earlier which took the underground music world by storm and received much deserved praise from pioneers across the globe.
Tawk Tomahawk defies genre boundaries, forming a sonic montage of electronic, soul, jazz, folk and rock. Throughout the album the band revert back and forth from different sounds and styles, creating tracks that are fearless and unpredictable.
Lead singer Nai Palm is the core of the group, a powerful, angelic voice that captures the listener at every moment and playfully glides through different tones and pitches with seamless ease. The background singers provide a subtle counterpart to her, generating rich vocal layers at carefully picked moments.
There is an epic quality to many of the tracks. "Lace Skull" begins with a melancholic guitar riff, and slowly builds to a fierce climax at the 2:50 mark, before suddenly reducing once again to something simple and emotionally distinct.
Tawk Tomahawk also has its share of instrumental interludes, which the listener might wish were full tracks in themselves. "Rainbow Rhodes" is a heavenly piece laced with twinkling keys and off-kilter drums. "Sphinx Gate" is similar in its approach and displays the band's hip-hop influence.
"Nakamarra" is the final and perhaps most well-known track of the album; a carefree gem that gives its name to an aboriginal group of the western desert. The re-released album contains an additional version of this track featuring a brief but smooth verse from the man Q-Tip, which fits in nicely.
All in all, this album is as unique as it is daring, authentic as it is enigmatic. Already touring the globe with their impressive live show, and previewing tracks like this, Hiatus Kaiyote are surely set for great things.


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This has happened to be a few times. I guess a bot check must be generated when an action is taken, after the action not before. So on your next forge or fight attempt, you'll see the challenge. The problem is if you go away for a few minutes and come back and try to do something, then you get told you failed a bot check and have a one hour ban. Having never seen a bot check screen.
What just happened to me was I did a bunch of fights, happened to click too fast so I got the message about only one fight at a time. I went to do some other things for a couple minutes, came back and hit fight again, and was under a ban.
I'd like to suggest the botcheck 2 minute timer start when the first challenge page is displayed, not when the botcheck is generated internally. This way you are guaranteed to at least see it once before getting a ban.


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This place has been pissing me off regularly for the past five years. It's also the place where I happen to have a lot of work-related lunches.
I have never had anything come the way I've ordered it. In fact, there's been times where I've had to send my food back twice. They really don't understand the concept of "no cheese" no matter how many times, or how politely you tell them. They just won't have it. Everything gets cheese.
Today when I ordered my a la carte burrito, sans cheese, with enchilada sauce, no cheese, it arrived with sour cream. Maybe if I was in a better mood I would have thought it was funny. Maybe not.
I scraped at my plate and ate the end parts of the burrito, which was really bland. The waiter forgot to bring my hot sauce and guacamole. In any other restaurant I would have sent it back, or asked the waiter about the stuff he forgot, but I wasn't feeling that optimistic.
The check came, and the waiter had added a charge of .75 for my sour cream. I paid at the register, mentioning that I didn't order the sour cream. The cashier asked the waiter if this was true. He said to me that he would check his notes. I told him that I was positive I didn't order it. A nice co-worker told him that I was vegan and that I don't eat dairy, so there's no way I would have ordered it. He apologized and I put a voodoo curse on him.
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Skip to comments.Furor over gay teachers firing may pit city of Columbus against Roman Catholic diocese
Posted on 04/24/2013 7:34:41 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
COLUMBUS, OH, April 22, 2013 (LifeSiteNews) The firing of a teacher at Bishop Watterson Catholic High School after it was learned she was involved in a long-term homosexual relationship may pit the Catholic diocese against a Columbus city ordinance barring employers from discriminating based on sexuality.
Gym instructor Carla Hale, 57, was fired last week after an anonymous parent wrote the Diocese of Columbus to complain because in an obituary for Hales mother, Hale was listed as a survivor alongside her longtime lesbian partner, Julie.
Hale signed a morality clause as part of her contract, affirming that Catholic school personnel are expected to be examples of moral behavior and professionalism, and acknowledging her employment could be terminated for immorality or serious unethical conduct. Because the Roman Catholic Church holds homosexual behavior to be gravely immoral, the Diocese of Columbus found her to be in violation of her contract, and fired her.
Now, Hale wants her job back. She has filed a grievance with the teachers union, and her lawyer, Thomas Tootle, told the Columbus Dispatch that if Hales union grievance does not succeed, her next step will be to sue under the citys anti-discrimination law.
That means the diocesan officials who fired Hale may soon face legal action from the city of Columbus, fines, and possibly even jail time.
Columbus city law deems it a misdemeanor for an employer to discriminate against an employee based on sexual preference. It is also illegal for employers to have policies that discriminate based on sexual preference. There is no exemption for religious organizations or other employers who object to homosexuality on religious grounds. A guilty verdict carries penalties of up to 180 days in jail and a $1,000 fine.
The Diocese of Columbus refused to comment on the case, citing the confidentiality of personnel matters.
Hales is the latest in a series of firings of Catholic school teachers who have publicly opposed Church teaching on homosexuality. Another Ohio Catholic high school teacher, Mike Moroski of Cincinnati, was let go in February after posting on his blog that he supports same-sex marriage. Rather than fight the diocese, Morski launched a political career. Al Fischer, an openly homosexual music teacher in St. Louis, was fired from a Catholic school and church last year after announcing he was traveling to New York to marry his same-sex partner.
Although none of those cases resulted in legal action, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in January that religious employees of religious organizations cannot sue for employment discrimination. The Court defined religious employees as employees of religious organizations who have religious teaching authority. Catholic school teachers seem likely to fall under this category, especially those who sign morality clauses promising to uphold the faith.
As of this writing, more than 40,000 people have signed an online petition demanding the Diocese of Columbus reinstate Hales employment and issue a public apology.
This is an example of how YOU HAVE TO LEGISLATE MORALITY.
The State will have to determine which morality it will stand up for — Traditional Christian morality or Modern Secular morality.
The state cannot stay neutral on this issue.
Wait — the girl's gym teacher is a lesbian? Shocking!
You can be fired for being gay in any state if you work for a religious institution, particularly if you sign a morals clause. She did both.
The SCOTUS has already ruled on this 9-0.
Is it true that all female physical education teachers are gay? My school district has several, and they are militant. They also get to teach health.
OK, here's a question — What if the state recognizes gay marriage?
Can the state COERCE the Catholic institution to re-instate a fired "married" lesbian teacher for what the state recognizes as LEGAL?
Sue the city back into the stone age.
This could be an interesting case if the teachers lawyer asks the diocese to prove ongoing homosexual activity. As I understand it, the church opposes homosexual acts, not homosexuality per se. Sadly many fifty-seven year old heterosexual couples exist in marriages without sex. It's possible this couple does too.
I think self-identified homosexual partnership suffices to violate the morality clause.
Nice try but no cigar. (The lesbos can probably put it to good use.)
Ohio doesn't recognize such "marriages" and neither do 40 other states.
LOL - It fit her perfect!
That's a female?
I want proof! Oh wait, never mind...
If you've seen one queer lesbian gym teacher, you've seen them all.
Shoot! I thought that was SEAN PENN.
For you non-readers of James Joyce (can't really say I blame you), that stands for "Kiss My Royal Irish A***."
On second thought, now that I've seen the photo, please don't.
The last time the Church allowed homosexuals to hang around without being fired they ended up getting sued for it.
Lemme guess, she would be the dyke in her "relationship"?
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Serial Killer Round 52: Nostalgia Edition. Game Over. Killer Victory. (Cycle 10)
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*examines Bubble Wrap Brand Bubble Wrap*
Hey! These are just cardboard made to look like bubble wrap! And it has our store logo written all over it!
Death scene finally! Sorry for the wait, hope it doesn't suck.
Teoes! Teoes! TEOES!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
Is FPLOON trying to leave the room while we try to find out who the killer is? That must mean FPLOON is the killer! Get him!
@username sucks: Not going to lie, that sounds like something the killer would say.
@Barbas claiming that someone else is the killer? That must mean that you're the killer!
@username sucks: See previous comment.
Will the blood of an innocent be on your hands before the end?
@Barbas I hope so, I definitely want to trick everyone into executing the wrong person.
@username sucks and @Barbas Quick question: HAS THE WORLD GONE MAD??? I'm starting to think I'm next on the chopping block of death!!! (Or worse... But, I try not to think about that right now...)
Can I interest y'all in some cardboard defense? Mayhaps this cardboard suit of armour? It's lined with the latest in cardboard tech that's cut-resistant against razor sharp object. Guaranteed to protect you from harm*!
I'll give you a 10% discount for the self-assembly kit!
*Guarantee applies only to harm inflicted by sharp objects of feline nature
Hi! RaNDM G here with exciting news! BubbleWrap Brand Bubble Wrap! is expanding into the afterlife nearest you! You heard right! The same superior protection that would have saved your past life is now available in a store nearest you! Only 10% above market value! No longer bother with inferior, manufactured cardboard products! Our stock of BubbleWrap Brand Bubble Wrap! is comprised of only the finest, consumer-friendly components that only exclusive deals with infinite suppliers can provide! Do not let these deals pass you by! Call in now, and secure your next-life today!
Can you put a price on protecting your immortality? Yes, you can! Only 10% above market value! Only $999.99 for a set of five sheets! Use the keyword BUBBLES with any purchase of our synthetic Orca security options, and we'll custom-tailor your very own whale patterned sweater as our gift to you!
Keep warm in the winter season, and show a little appreciation for the lifeguards watching your shore! Call in today!
OMG Must have wowe!
As someone who has joined the ranks of the recently
10% above market value? That's a steal and I'm surprised you can live[1] with yourself knowing you charge prices like that. Take 2,000 of my finest wing-wangs for five sheets and I'll not hear a single word in protest.
[1] Well, not *live*, but you understand. Please excuse the poor choice of words.
Where will you get your
The plot thickens, I see...
We watch and wait.
*points to cardboard stand*
Well of course they will get it here, where else would they get it?
I still think that the killer is RaNDM G. He murdered himself. His rampage will never stop.
Or maybe... Maybe I'm the killer! I obviously killed him in revenge for taking my purchace from Staika and selling me sub-par bubble wrap.
Or even worse, we are all the killer! We must execute all the killers by killing everyone!
@username sucks:
You're both the killer (Dissociative Identity Disorder).
Obviously, I'm the real killer. Nobody expects the guy that died first to be the one behind it all.
@FPLOON Seriously I think you're the killer so I am going to keep you alive as long as possible. If I vote for the real killer, I've made a mistake.
@username: Wait, so I was the killer until I killed myself, then RaNDM was the killer until he killed himself.
Egad, I think you're on to something! Pay close attention to the next person to die. You might get a clue there.
@username sucks *sighs* Look, just because I'm a wizard
Now that I think about it, I'm starting to think you, username, is the killer and is saving me for last... just so that you can kill me when I'm at my peak insanity!! *eye twitching
sometimes I love you guys
@FPLOON I don't see how I lose if I've already outlived 3 people. I consider that a victory.
However, my goal is that by the end of this game only me and the murderer will be alive, if that's even possible. That means that I would evolve due to the Darwinian idea of survival of the fittest.
I think that's how it works, anyways.
@MemLCol What do you mean, "sometimes"?
@username sucks
@MemLCol TBOT Uh... I think you mean "always"... *narrows eyes*
@FPLOON I plan on having the killer sink his blade into my chest last. That is all.
And as a person of Science, I have confirmed that dying last will cause me to evolve into a superhuman.
pssst, You should kill MemLCol for saying that
@username sucks I would have said "Reverse Highlander" logic, but that works too...
pssst, Who said I was the killer? I'm just a wizard with a haiku obsession...
@FPLOON I have confirmed that you are a killer because you have your twitter badge as your first badge. Only a true monster would feel proud of using their Twitter.
That is how I know. Now go kill him already!
EDIT: I just noticed that your avatar is based off of Kingdom Hearts. I feel ashamed for not noticing sooner.
@username sucks DAMMIT! And after acquiring better badges that would me more better to showcase, I have yet to sit down and sort the first five in a more better state than they are now! GLOB, AM I FUCKING LAZY!!!
(And, wow... All it took was for my avatar to be upside-down to notice... Yes, you should feel ashamed... KILLER!!)
@MemLCol TBOT And, what percentage is your perspective on "sometimes", then? *pulls out his wizard haiku pencil* Surprise me with your statistics to counter my pending haikus, dude!
@username sucks How can I be the killer if I'm being told who to kill by the "pending victims", user? That completely undermines being the killer in the first place!!
Besides, it's not like the actual killer is killing in any sort of pattern or something like that! That would ridiculous!!
(Note to self: Re-watch the movie Clue... It might have a... "hint"... or something to solving this mystery...)
Edit: Forgot I saw the movie Clue yesterday...
How dare you say that!
@username sucks Then, by that extend, we could of had two killers and an accomplice... But, SOMEONE ended up getting himself killed by someone I probably don't even know... (unless I did and have not yet put 2 and 2 together... like if they killed themselves or something like that...)
And, by the way to the both of you, Sora would either hold his keyblade in his mouth, his front hoofs (if he were to stand on the two back hoofs), or from the magic of his horn if he were a pony of any kind...
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One might naturally suppose that the science of the earth which lies at man's feet would at least have kept pace with the science of the distant stars. But perhaps the very obviousness of the phenomena delayed the study of the crust of the earth. It is the unattainable that allures and mystifies and enchants the developing mind. The proverbial child spurns its toys and cries for the moon.
So in those closing days of the eighteenth century, when astronomers had gone so far towards explaining the mysteries of the distant portions of the universe, we find a chaos of opinion regarding the structure and formation of the earth. Guesses were not wanting to explain the formation of the world, it is true, but, with one or two exceptions, these are bizarre indeed. One theory supposed the earth to have been at first a solid mass of ice, which became animated only after a comet had dashed against it. Other theories conceived the original globe as a mass of water, over which floated vapors containing the solid elements, which in due time were precipitated as a crust upon the waters. In a word, the various schemes supposed the original mass to have been ice, or water, or a conglomerate of water and solids, according to the random fancies of the theorists; and the final separation into land and water was conceived to have taken place in all the ways which fancy, quite unchecked by any tenable data, could invent.
Whatever important changes in the general character of the surface of the globe were conceived to have taken place since its creation were generally associated with the Mosaic: deluge, and the theories which attempted to explain this catastrophe were quite on a par with those which dealt with a remoter period of the earth's history. Some speculators, holding that the interior of the globe is a great abyss of waters, conceived that the crust had dropped into this chasm and had thus been inundated. Others held that the earth had originally revolved on a vertical axis, and that the sudden change to its present position bad caused the catastrophic shifting of its oceans. But perhaps the favorite theory was that which supposed a comet to have wandered near the earth, and in whirling about it to have carried the waters, through gravitation, in a vast tide over the continents.
Thus blindly groped the majority of eighteenth-century philosophers in their attempts to study what we now term geology. Deluded by the old deductive methods, they founded not a science, but the ghost of a science, as immaterial and as unlike anything in nature as any other phantom that could be conjured from the depths of the speculative imagination. And all the while the beckoning earth lay beneath the feet of these visionaries; but their eyes were fixed in air.
At last, however, there came a man who had the penetration to see that the phantom science of geology needed before all else a body corporeal, and who took to himself the task of supplying it. This was Dr. James Hutton, of Edinburgh, physician, farmer, and manufacturing chemist—patient, enthusiastic, level-headed devotee of science. Inspired by his love of chemistry to study the character of rocks and soils, Hutton had not gone far before the earth stood revealed to him in a new light. He saw, what generations of predecessors had blindly refused to see, that the face of nature everywhere, instead of being rigid and immutable, is perennially plastic, and year by year is undergoing metamorphic changes. The solidest rocks are day by day disintegrated slowly, but none the less surely, by wind and rain and frost, by mechanical attrition and chemical decomposition, to form the pulverized earth and clay. This soil is being swept away by perennial showers, and carried off to the oceans. The oceans themselves beat on their shores, and eat insidiously into the structure of sands and rocks. Everywhere, slowly but surely, the surface of the land is being worn away; its substance is being carried to burial in the seas.
Should this denudation continue long enough, thinks Hutton, the entire surface of the continents must be worn away. Should it be continued LONG ENOUGH! And with that thought there flashes on his mind an inspiring conception—the idea that solar time is long, indefinitely long. That seems a simple enough thought —almost a truism—to the twentieth-century mind; but it required genius to conceive it in the eighteenth. Hutton pondered it, grasped its full import, and made it the basis of his hypothesis, his "theory of the earth."
The hypothesis is this—that the observed changes of the surface of the earth, continued through indefinite lapses of time, must result in conveying all the land at last to the sea; in wearing continents away till the oceans overflow them. What then? Why, as the continents wear down, the oceans are filling up. Along their bottoms the detritus of wasted continents is deposited in strata, together with the bodies of marine animals and vegetables. Why might not this debris solidify to form layers of rocks—the basis of new continents? Why not, indeed?
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