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A Transcendent Being Cannot Be Omnipresent
1. If God exists, then he is transcendent (i.e., outside space and time).
2. If God exists, he is omnipresent.
3. To be transcendent, a being cannot exist anywhere in space.
4. To be omnipresent, a being must exist everywhere in space.
5. Hence it is impossible for a transcendent being to be omnipresent.
6. Therefore, it is impossible for God to exist.
A Perfect Creator Cannot Exist
1. If God exists, then he is perfect.
2. If God exists, then he is the creator of the universe.
3. If a being is perfect, then whatever he creates must be perfect.
4. But the universe is not perfect.
5. Therefore, it is impossible for a perfect being to be the creator of the
6. Hence, it is impossible for God to exist.
Why would a perfect God create a universe in which such huge amounts of suffering occur, when such suffering does not bring into existence any of the goods required to absorb the suffering and make the situation on balance a good one?
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As an organization that helps low- to moderate-income families find homes, JCNU plans to extend that help to the seniors. When JCNU bought Mercy Circle in 2009, 3.34 acres were included.
Moyd plans to build 10 one-bedroom, one-bathroom units during Phase 1 of the Mercy Village senior housing project. With a total cost of about $1 million, he requested $25,000 from the City Council in order to create a Leadership Energy and Environmental Design certified building.
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With rent between $450-500 for a one-bedroom, becoming LEED certified would help seniors pay less in utilities.
While Moyd has been successful with the apartment complexes, Deerfield and Mercy Circle, this will be his first start-up project. After attending a workshop where Dan Ligon of Ligon and Associates Real Estate Development explained its work with nonprofits, Moyd teamed up in October to plan for the senior housing project.
Since 1998, Ligon has received more than $10 million in grant funds for projects and created 1,000 units of housing.
"This project will be designed for the limited income seniors as too many of them are. Senior citizens population in Hardeeville is growing as the Baby Boomer generation crosses the 65-year-old threshold, we're seeing that they're not living in adequate housing or they are living with relative," Ligon said. "Anytime you can increase the stock of safe, clean and dry housing especially for senior citizens, you've done a good thing."
The Phase 1 project calls for the 10 units separated into two quad-plexes joined by a community space. Moyd said JCNU will give the senior residents at Mercy Circle the first opportunity to move then open it to the public. Residents must be 62 years old or older to qualify.
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Once JCNU establishes the first phase of the Mercy Village senior housing project, it would add 20 more one-bedroom units then 10 more in Phase 3 for a total of 30, Moyd said.
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Arsene Wenger has stated that there will be no change in the mentality of Arsenal in their final Champions League group match against Napoli. Despite taking 12 points from the group so far, Arsenal are yet to seal progression to the knockout stages. They can achieve this, along with topping the group, with a win against Napoli on Wednesday. A draw, though, will be enough for Arsenal from a qualification point of view.
Wenger has said in the pre-match press conference that Arsenal will not be playing for a draw. According to the club's official site, he said:
"I don't think we should approach the game thinking that we need to avoid a defeat. We believe that we're good enough to go there and get a win.
"We don't need to change our attitude, we need to keep it going the way we have been and that should give us a result."
One of Arsenal's best performances this season came in the first half against Napoli at the Emirates. Mesut Ozil and Olivier Giroud scored the goals for Wenger's men, as they destroyed a Napoli team that was flying high in the league back then. Wojciech Szczesny says that he did not touch on the ball in the first half and it was a measure of the dominance they had over Napoli. Szczesny said:
"I think in the first half-hour [of the first Napoli game] we were frightening.
"I never touched the ball so that should tell you a lot."
However, he has admitted that it will be difficult to reproduce such an extraordinary performance partly because this match will be at the Stadio San Paolo.
Rafa Benitez' men do not come into the encounter in the best possible shape. They have only a single win in the last five matches of all competitions. This form has seen them slip a massive eight points behind leaders Juventus. Back when they faced Arsenal in the reverse fixture, they were jostling for the top spot with Juventus and Roma. Wenger continued:
"I think it's important to finish top. This year as well most of the big boys are top of their groups so coming on top of our group will give us probably a better draw in the last 16."
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Clive Palmer is a larger-than-life Australian multimillionaire whose headline-grabbing projects include building a replica of the Titanic and a Jurassic Park-style collection of 160 mechanized dinosaurs.
The 60-year-old mining magnate also looks poised to stamp his quirky style on the Australian government's legislative agenda when three members of his newly formed Palmer United Party and another political ally assume Senate seats in July to create a small but potentially influential voting bloc.
Palmer, who's worth an estimated $550 million, will be flaunting his growing political stature in Boston this weekend when he rubs shoulders with America's political elite at an award ceremony for former President George H.W. Bush.
In this Feb. 26, 2013 file photo, Australian billionaire Clive Palmer speaks during a news conference in New York, about his intention to build the Titanic II. Palmer is a larger-than-life Australian multimillionaire whose headline-grabbing projects include building a replica of the Titanic and a Jurassic Park-style collection of 160 mechanized dinosaurs. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
"Most of the leading members of the U.S. administration will be there, and it's something I normally do," Palmer told The Associated Press, referring to attending the ceremony for the annual John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.
This year, he's bringing with him the four senators-elect who have pledged him their support.
Palmer's generosity toward his novice allies is typical, observers say. He's been known to give employees luxury Mercedes-Benz cars and overseas vacations as Christmas bonuses.
"Clive likes to be generous, Clive likes to be the benefactor — a man of action, the center of attention," said Paul Williams, a political scientist at Australia's Griffith University. "Clive is the extrovert's extrovert; he's got a big personality and a big ego."
Palmer used to be one of the biggest political donors backing Prime Minister Tony Abbott's conservative coalition.
But last year, Palmer decided to form and bankroll his own party and ended up splitting the conservative vote in September's parliamentary elections.
Palmer won a seat in the House of Representatives in his home district in Queensland state — winning by just 53 votes. Three Palmer United Party, or PUP, candidates, including former rugby league star Glenn Lazarus, won seats in the Senate, an extraordinary level of success for a minor party.
Ricky Muir, who was elected to the Senate for the obscure Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party, quickly struck a deal to support the PUP, giving Palmer effective control of four seats in the 76-member Senate — and crucial bargaining power.
Abbott's coalition has control of the more powerful House of Representatives, where the party that controls a majority of seats forms government.
But come July, his ruling coalition will control only 33 seats in the Senate, the chamber that decides which bills passed by the House of Representatives will become law. The opposition Labor Party and like-minded Greens party will have 35 seats.
So when Labor and Greens senators vote together, as they often have in the past, Abbott's only hope to achieve a majority — 39 seats — will be Palmer's party.
Palmer has long opposed Labor and the Greens.
When a former Labor-Greens coalition government passed a new tax on the mining industry in 2012, Palmer launched a tirade in which he accused the Greens and environmentalists of involvement in a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency plot to bring down the Australian coal mining industry.
He later said he suspected no such conspiracy.
But Palmer has warned that his party's senators will block some of Abbott's policy goals unless the government goes along with Palmer's demands. He says his experience in the business world is part of his appeal.
"Most of our Parliament is made up of lawyers and accountants who have never created any real wealth," Palmer told AP. "We present a fresh alternative."
Palmer first made his fortune in real estate before branching into coal, iron ore and nickel. Forbes estimates his wealth at $550 million, down from $795 million last year due to lower resource stock prices.
In December, he opened Palmersaurus, a park with life-sized mechanized dinosaurs beside the golf course of his luxury Palmer Coolum Resort.
Palmer also says his company Blue Star Line will take delivery of Titanic II, a replica of the 835-cabin ocean liner that struck and iceberg and sank in 1912, from a Chinese shipyard in time for it to make its maiden passenger voyage from Southampton in Britain to New York in 2016.
"One of the benefits of global warming is there hasn't been as many icebergs in the North Atlantic these days," Palmer quipped at a press conference in New York City last year when he outlined the design plans to the strains of Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On."
His political success, at least so far, is partly due to widespread voter disillusionment with the major parties, said Clive Bean, a Queensland University of Technology politics professor.
It's difficult to know what sort of political agenda Palmer will try to push come July. His carefully-crafted populism is short on policy detail, said Williams of Griffith University.
"He would be hard-pressed to name a specific Palmer policy or Palmer demographic because what Palmer is saying is: 'Australian politics are appalling. Let's make them better' — that doesn't really say anything," Williams said. "So what it's doing is really cashing in on a sense of disenchantment."
Palmer said his party's ambition was to become "the No. 1 party in Australia."
But he's backpedaled from previous statements that he wants to become prime minister.
"I think I'm available to serve the people of Australia. I don't know whether it's an ambition (to become prime minister) to be honest with you," Palmer said before abruptly ending a telephone interview with the AP.
Whatever his political ambitions, Williams said, one important motivation is to show that "no one's going to take Clive Palmer lightly."
In this Feb. 26, 2013 file photo, Australian billionaire Clive Palmer speaks during a news conference in New York, about his intention to build the Titanic II. Palmer is a larger-than-life Australian multimillionaire whose headline-grabbing projects include building a replica of the Titanic and a Jurassic Park-style collection of 160 mechanized dinosaurs. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
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The National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA) released a survey on Tuesday which found that since the economic meltdown, middle-income clients of advisors have become more interested in products with risk-protection components.
The survey, which polled 914 NAIFA members, found these products to be particularly of interest among investors nearing retirement age. More than eight of 10 advisors surveyed said clients in this group are seeking products that will protect their investment principal in the event of a down market.
The survey also found that seven out of 10 NAIFA members believe a regulation holding registered representatives to a fiduciary standard "would not result in those advisors doing a better job for their clients."
According to the survey, 84% say clients nearing retirement age are more interested in products with risk-protection components, while 57% say clients under the age of 40 are more interested in those types of products. When asked if the financial crisis has affected the types of products and services their clients are looking for, just 7% said the crisis has had no impact on the investment choices of clients nearing retirement age, while 28% said it has not affected the choices of clients under age 40, NAIFA's survey found.
"Risk management products like annuities have surged in popularity, particularly among older Americans," said NAIFA President Terry Headley, in a statement announcing the survey results. "Clients are more interested than ever in protecting their nest eggs, ensuring that they can retire when they want and guaranteeing a lifetime income."
The survey also found that about four in 10 advisors (44%) said their typical client nearing retirement age has less than $500 a month to invest. Of clients nearing retirement age, advisors said the following:
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- 50% said these clients typically invest $101-$500 a month.
- 28% said they typically invest $51-$100 a month.
- 8% said they typically invest less than $50 a month.
- Most advisors (94%) said their typical client under the age of 40 has less than $12,000 a year to invest in their future.
NAIFA has been vocal in its opposition to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) putting brokers under the same fiduciary standard as advisors. "We need to be aware of the impact a universal fiduciary duty would have on our members' ability to continue to serve the middle market," Headley said in the statement. "Further regulation could increase costs or force more NAIFA members to no longer provide financial products and advice, which would limit the number of consumers who can benefit from our services."
According to the survey, seven out of 10 NAIFA members said a regulation holding registered representatives to a fiduciary standard "would not result in those advisors doing a better job for their clients."
Meanwhile, 70% of NAIFA members said they did not believe clients would abandon advisors working under the suitability standard of care if the clients had a better understanding that those advisors were not bound by a fiduciary duty. An additional 14% said they were not sure.


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Exhibits change monthly and feature the work of local artists. Visit Clayton Visual Arts online for information about each artist.
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Enjoy a 90-minute Christmas show with all your favorite holiday songs! Performed by the Around Town Singers and Orchestra, plus special guests Sophie Collins, Jennifer Jarvis, the Burnett Sisters Band, and many more! Featuring a 20-piece orchestra and the Around Town Dancers, too! This is a Christmas show the way they used to be! Visit the ATSO blog for the latest information.
Two recent Palladian Series favorites return to perform in one exciting and entertaining show. Singer-songwriters Susan Werner and David Myles take the stage for an engaging evening of eclectic music.
Celebrated performing songwriter Susan Werner has made a name for herself coast to coast. From her 1995 major label folk/rock debut Last of the Good Straight Girls to her 2007 collection of agnostic gospel hymns The Gospel Truth to her 2017 travelogue An American In Havana, Werner writes ambitious concept albums with subject matter and sounds to match.
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Meanwhile, Canadian troubadour David Myles's song and dance mastery keeps getting more and more impressive — 2017's award-winning, vintage rock 'n' roll hip-swiveler Real Love and the spectacular, lush Francophone pop of 2018's Le grand départ stand testament to that. But Myles is compelled to rush forth toward new challenges and accomplishments.
This past year he released Santa Never Brings Me a Banjo, a children's book based on his beloved modern holiday classic, and dove back into the world of public radio, broadcasting his smooth baritone over Alberta's CKUA airwaves on his new show Myles From Home. Not to mention he does it all while adhering to an unrelenting tour schedule that has seen him and comrades Kyle Cunjak (bass) and Alan Jeffries (guitar) grace stages around the world.
Direct from Dry Bar Comedy… Don Friesen and Brad Upton!
If you missed Don Friesen's hilarious Showtime one-hour special, Ask Your Mom, you've got to catch him live at The Clayton Center. Engaging, clever and just flat-out funny, Don captures the irony of parenting, marriage and everyday absurdities through characters, voices, parodies and some of the best written routines around.
As the only two-time winner in the 41-year history of the prestigious San Francisco International Comedy Competition, Friesen ignites the stage with a playful, high-energy spoof of his life as a modern suburban dad trying to get through the day with a bit of money in the bank and a scrap of dignity intact. He's a wanna-be geek who constantly upgrades to the latest tech, but can never get it to work, leading to signature bits about tech support, Idiots Guides, texting and passwords.
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Brad Upton was a 4th grade teacher and high school track coach when he stepped on stage for the very first time in September of 1984. He's never looked back. He quickly rose through the standup ranks making numerous television appearances and headlining comedy clubs from coast-to-coast.
In September of 2018 Upton surpassed 6,000 lifetime performances. He is a past winner of the Las Vegas Comedy Festival and appeared at Caesar's Palace as part of the HBO Comedy Festival. He has spent the last 12 years as the opening act for the legendary Johnny Mathis and did multiple shows all over the country with the late, great Joan Rivers.
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No. 9: Although I could burn 1,300 calories playing 18 holes riding in a golf car, I would prefer to spend all of my athletic free time stuck inside by myself lifting weights, doing aerobic training or jogging on the same old treadmill for two lonely hours. After all, who likes to use their free time doing social activities with friends or family?
No. 8: Although I could bring a family of four to play golf for well under $100, I would much prefer to blow through more than $400. That way, I can experience up close and personal the rude (and not-exactly-kid-friendly) fans who sit next to me in the stands, while cheering on my favorite team!
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A: A 2003 study published in the scientific Journal of Trauma Practice reported that 89 percent of women in prostitution want to escape. If the person of prostitution is or has been under the control of a pimp, s/he is a trafficking victim under the Trafficking Protocol. S/he has likely endured the force, fraud, or coercion required by New York State and federal laws to constitute a victim of human trafficking.
Q: How is pimping a form of sex trafficking?
A: Pimps will resort to a variety of manipulation technique's to maintain power and control, including force (beating, slapping, burning, rape, gang rape, confinement, physical restraint), fraud (false promises, deceitful marriage proposals, lying about working conditions, lying about the promise of a better life, holding the victim in debt bondage), coercion (threat of serious harm to victim or victim's family, intimidation, humiliation, intense manipulation), and emotional abuse (creating dependency and fear of independence, fear of the police).
Q: What if a victim consents to the abuse? Do the laws still afford her protection?
A: Yes. The consent of a victim is considered irrelevant under the Trafficking Protocol. The Protocol acknowledges that a "victim's exercise of free will is often limited by means of force, deception, or the abuse of power." The psychological control a trafficker exhibits often plays a significant role in a victim's refusal to leave or report her abuser to the police.
Q: Does physical violence have to be involved in human trafficking cases?
A: No. A person who uses psychological violence to force someone into a labor or sex industry is considered a trafficker. Some victims experience beatings, rape, and other forms of physical violence, while others are controlled through psychological means, such as threats of violence, manipulation, and lies. Often, a combination of physical, psychological, and mental abuse is used.
Q: What are some of the signs and symptoms I should look out for in spotting a trafficked victim?
A: Law enforcement and passersby often fail to spot the hallmarks of human trafficking. While each case is different, certain patterns and signs have emerged that can aid people in detecting cases of human trafficking. The average age of entry into prostitution is twelve to fourteen. All people of prostitution who are under the age of eighteen are considered victims of human trafficking. Most victims have endured sexual abuse and/or domestic violence and many will suffer from malnutrition and a lack of basic medical needs like dentists. Typically, young victims will seem to be unable to make decisions for themselves and may be constantly checking their phones and reporting back and forth with their pimp. Victims may also avoid eye contact, be dependent on alcohol or drugs, be fearful or anxious about law enforcement, and seem unaware of the city in which s/he is located.
If you suspect that someone is a victim of human trafficking, call 911 immediately.
Q: Does human trafficking always include transportation?
A: No. The Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (also known as the Trafficking or Palermo Protocol) makes it clear that "recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt" is enough as long as one of the enumerated means is used to bring victims within the "control" of traffickers. Victims subjected to slavery within their own communities also fall within this definition of trafficking. There is no requirement that a trafficking victim cross any city, state, national, or international border. In fact, trafficking can even take place in a victim's own home by her own family member.
Q: Is human trafficking another word for smuggling?
A: No. There are many fundamental differences between the crimes of human trafficking and human smuggling. Both are entirely separate federal crimes in the U.S. Smuggling is a crime against a country's borders, whereas human trafficking is a crime against a person. While smuggling requires illegal border crossing, human trafficking may include such activity but does not require it.
Q: Are trafficking victims always foreign nationals?
A: No. Victims may be U.S. citizens, foreign nationals, or undocumented persons.
Q: When is a victim eligible for a T visa?
A: Applicants for T status must establish that they are victims of a severe form of trafficking. For sex trafficking, this means that (1) a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or (2) the victim is under eighteen years of age. For labor trafficking, this means the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services through the use of force, fraud, or coercion or by subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.
Q: Who is at risk of becoming a victim of human trafficking?
A: Anyone could be trafficked, regardless of gender, age, or economic status, but traffickers typically prey on individuals who are vulnerable in some way because it makes it easier for them to recruit and control. Undocumented migrants, runaways, at-risk youth, and oppressed or marginalized groups are among the most common groups of victims.
Q: Do victims of trafficking self-identify themselves as such and seek help?
A: Not necessarily. Trafficked victims often do not see themselves as victims. They may even blame themselves as a result of the severe manipulation of their traffickers. Victims often are told not to trust law enforcement and may have even been violated or punished by police in the past. Victims often have been trained and manipulated into believing that there is no way out and no one who can help them, especially if they are undocumented.


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The former Hills star and Chicago Bears quarterback's wedding registry lists July nuptials
The Windy City will be hopefully be sunny when Kristin Cavallari and Jay Cutler say, "I do."
The former star of The Hills, 26, and her Chicago Bears quarterback fiancé, 29, recently registered – for the second time – at Williams-Sonoma, where their 70-item wish list includes everything from fish tweezers and a burger press, to a waffle maker and lemon reamer (for a total retail price of more than $4,000).
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Year: 1936
Make: Dodge
Model: Roadster Pickup
Owner: John Nissen
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Who knows what you'd be reading about right now if John Nissen hadn't picked up the phone. It was Bill Mack, a friend from high school days, calling with some bad news and some good news. The bad news, he was closing his shop. The good news was that John was invited to help clear out the contents. That contents included a 1936 Dodge pickup—a roller with the top cut off and a 1932 DeSoto grille added. Once John got the Dodge to his own shop, Nissen's Hot Rod Garage in Williams, California, he started thinking about how to proceed.
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With all the parts collected, John realized that "now the trouble begins". Designer Christian Dotson came up with a concept that comes to life with an original 1936 Dodge pickup body. John told us length and track width were influenced by vintage Indy cars.
Bill Mack had eliminated the top at the upper end of the reveal and John rolled the door tops to complete the transformation to roadster. He swapped the hinges to create suicide-style doors. The body was channeled over the 'rails and angle channeled forward of the cowl to align the hood with the bed. A 1932 DeSoto grille shell surrounds a custom DeSoto-style insert. Handmade nerf bumpers adorn the front and rear.
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The 1938 Dodge bed was altered with 1948 stake pockets. Pre-paint sheetmetal prep was handled by B&J Body Shop in Rancho Cordova, California, where Brian Tornatore covered the pickup in bright yellow picked from the Sherwin-Williams book. Craig Judd in Chowchilla, California, finished things off with extensive fine line pinstriping inside and out.
Wheels from Rally America were shot in a contrasting orange-red coat. The 16×7 and 16×5.5 Jimmy nine-spokes with rings and knock-off caps were paired with skinny 750-16 and 600-16 Excelsior Sport tires. A Wilwood dual master cylinder feeds a pair of 11-inch Ford rear drums, and Wilson Welding Lincoln brakes with modified Buick drums in front.
With such an assortment of influences, John had a thousand options available for the interior. He was eager to use the Hillman dashboard he'd found at a swap meet, installing a custom engine-turned insert in the center and packing it with Auto Meter gauges. Tom Stevens at Nissen's Hot Rod Garage wired the truck using an American Autowire system. A restored Superior 500 wood steering wheel was mounted on a Speedway column to add a touch of vintage race car to the mix. Mazda Miata seats were re-covered in tan vinyl at Sanford's Custom Upholstery. Al's Auto Upholstery in Lower Lake, California, finished the door panel upholstery and carpeting.
John says that as the buildup advanced, his goals were advanced as well. What had started out as a low-key driver was quickly evolving into a potential competitor for America's Most Beautiful Roadster. "I am a very lucky man in that my wife, Dawn, reminded me of the original intent of this project. It was a low-key roadster pickup built to have fun in. And at 69 years of age, I might be happier chasing the sunset in the rpu then in chasing the AMBR award and all that is involved in that.
So the rpu was finished as a driver, and that's exactly how John and Dawn are enjoying it—although the road has been known to lead them to a car show from time to time (including the West Coast Nationals, where the Dodge was a STREET RODDER Top 100 winner). John named the truck "Final-Final" indicating that this will be his final project. However, by you time you read this, the gears might be turning on another hot rod project. It wouldn't surprise us one bit.


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Lighting Your Macro and Close-up Photography Subjects
Macro and close-up photography typically require you to be very close to your subjects. This can be problematic when it comes to light, as your camera's lens (or your head) can cast a shadow into the scene or onto the subject. The closer you are to the subject, the more likely you are to block the light.
When working with natural light, choose scenarios in which the subject is lit from the side, there is an ambient type of light, or the subject is backlit. A front-lit situation causes you to be between the subject and the light.
When your scene doesn't offer the perfect lighting situation for the shot, you can take matters into your own hands:
Use a reflector to bounce light into your scene. Doing so helps you control the direction of light and ensure your subject isn't in shadow. You can use any surface that reflects light, such as a mirror, a white piece of foam core, or a shiny, metallic type of surface.
Keep a small, battery-operated flash in your camera bag. A flash lets you light your subjects from whatever direction you want. Just make sure that you have the proper set-up to fire the flash from off-camera, as an on-camera flash is somewhat useless in macro and close-up situations.
Attach a macro-specific ring light to your lens. A ring light surrounds the edge of the lens, providing a flat, even light in close-up scenes. It enables you to light your subject from the front without having to worry about casting your own shadow on it.


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Brandy Norwood has wrapped up settlement agreements with the last remaining plaintiffs suing the singer over her December 2006 car crash, TMZ reported.
According to the site, the singer has settled with the parents of Awatef Aboudihaj, the woman who was killed in the accident. Aboudihaj's family filed a $50 million wrongful death lawsuit in 2008; Brandy previously inked settlements with three other parties involved in the accident.
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The December 30, 2006 tragedy occurred when the singer's Land Rover crashed into Aboudihaj's Toyota, causing her car to strike a third vehicle. Aboudihaj's Toyota was then hit by another vehicle.
"It was a situation that changed my life forever," Brandy previously told Access Hollywood. "I will never be the same."
The terms of the latest settlement were reportedly not disclosed.
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Winston Churchill looks pleased with himself - dressed in civvies astride a horse. And, he probably has every right to be, after making a daring escape from Pretoria to Lourenco Marques, now Maputo, at the height of the Boer War.
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"A unique photograph of Churchill after
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Farm tours at Summerhill and Hartford House are popular items. Students of history, fans of racing and those who are mesmerized by the Midlands and the mystique of our sport, travel from as far afield as Johannesburg for the day, take in the tour and a bit of lunch at the nation's Number One restaurant, before they are back on the N3 northbound.
Others prefer to do it the leisurely way, and they check in for a couple of nights at Hartford. While we'd recommend the latter for its relaxation, we'd not want to deny you the pleasure, either way.
If you've done the tour, you'd know that in the summer of 1899, a young Winston Churchill was a visitor to the Moors of Hartford. We all know too, of his capture up the road from us, and his presence at the mother of all battles, Spioenkop. Remarkably, on Spioenkop that day (just 45 minutes from us,) and drawn together by dint of the peculiar attractions of our region, were five of the most influential people of the 20th century. Louis Botha, the first Prime Minister of South Africa, (who together with Hartford'sSir Frederick Moor and his brother, John (the former a colonial Prime Minister, and the latter a senator in the first South African government, attended a class of just 10 students at Hermansburg Junior School;) Deneys Reitz, former Deputy Prime Minister of South Africa and later a Field Marshall in the British army, he was there; our man, Jan Smuts, the man the world chose to write the charters for the League of Nations and the United Nations after the respective World Wars, and the man Churchill appointed as his successor in the war cabinet should anything have become of him, he was there. In the pantheon of great South Africans, you'd have Smuts up there with Nelson Mandela, who ironically was captured just to the south of us seventy two years later; Winston Churchill himself, later to become Prime Minster of England and arguably the greatest Englishman of all-time, he was on Spioenkop that day; and amazingly, the man who liberated India in 1947, Mahatma Ghandi, was there as a stretcher bearer.
Just recently, a unique photograph of Churchill after he had escaped from Boer captivity, surfaced in the Sunday Times. It's apparently coming up for auction in England shortly, and there's been a bit of a story about it. It turns out the picture was taken in our immediate vicinity, after Churchill's escape from Boer custody.
From 1896 to 1897 Churchill served as a soldier and journalist in India. In September 1898 he fought at the battle of Omdurman in Sudan, taking part in what is often described as one of the last true cavalry charges. In 1899, he resigned his commission, and was assigned to cover the Boer War for the London Morning Post.
In October that year he accompanied a scouting expedition in an armoured train near Ladysmith, in what was then Natal, but was captured by the Boers. Although he was a war correspondent, he was armed with a pistol when captured, so was treated as a prisoner of war and held in what had been the Staats Model Skool in central Pretoria.
Churchill managed to escape, and the Boers put a £25 price on his head. Travelling by foot and train - where he hid under coal sacks - he eventually reached safety, 480km away, in Portuguese-controlled Lourenço Marques. The escape made him a celebrity back in Britain and he was elected to parliament in 1900.


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In addition to reporting emergencies to the Security Department (after notifying 911), reports of crimes which are non-emergency in nature or delayed should also be reported to the Security Department. At the time the crime is reported, a Security Officer can assist the victim in making a report with the Spokane Police Department if requested. Filing a report with Security is not the same thing as filing a report with the Spokane Police. In some cases the victim has the option of requesting a Spokane Police Department (SPD) officer to respond. SPD's normal procedure for non-emergency or delayed crime reports is for the victim or reporting party to call Spokane Crime Reporting Center at (509) 456-2233, where a report is generally taken over the phone.
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A representative from the Department is available to meet with a reporting party to explain resources and processes within the University, as well as the criminal justice system, and make referrals to appropriate assistance agencies. Reports received from these sources are forwarded to the Campus Security & Public Safety Department. Reports are evaluated for determining if a "Security Alert" to the community is appropriate, as well as inclusion in the required yearly crime statistics.
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Are you still wondering why everyone is talking about Hummingbird suddenly? Read on and these links will answer all your questions.
What is Hummingbird?
Hummingbird is the name of Google's new search algorithm. Google claims it will provide better search results. Hummingbird is one of the biggest updates ever to how Google interprets user's search queries and how it evaluates indexed webpages for a better match. Search Engine Land has a nice FAQ post that will give you more details. If you prefer a more visual approach, try this infographic.
Why is this important?
Wired has a good explanation on the impact and importance of Hummingbird, and to give you a glimpse:
"The biggest improvements involve longer search queries. Rather than just examining each individual word in a search, Google is now examining the searcher's query as a whole and processing the meaning behind it."
What will be the impact of Hummingbird on my site's SEO?
Exact details are yet unclear and Google likes to keep people guessing when it comes to search algorithams. But Don Dodds has given a good summary of what is known as of now.
"Site owners that rely on the provision of high-quality content, that steer clear of black hat techniques, and that look to build multiple traffic streams using a universal marketing approach are those that will enjoy better long term results."
Not much has really changed if you are a small business and are relying on good content, social referrals and customer feedback. HubSpot summarizes important factors nicely in their post.
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On PHPMaster.com today David Shirey has a written up a new tutorial introducing the ctype functions in PHP. This set of functions provides a handy way to more correctly check values to ensure they're valid (and contain what they should).
If you have a background in C, then you're probably already familiar with the character type functions because that is where they come from (don't forget that PHP is actually written in C). But if you're into Python, then it's only fair to point out that the PHP Ctype functions have absolutely nothing to do with the Python's ctypes library. It's just one of those tragic and totally unavoidable naming similarities.
He briefly explains how the functions work and at least one "gotcha" to watch out for if you're using them for input validation. He then goes through the list of the eleven ctype functions and briefly describes what they do. Some example code is also included showing how you can use them to validate a value based on the true/false return from the function call.


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There was a time when the only place you could find Black Angus beef on a menu was at some of the nation's finest steakhouses. But these days, Angus burgers are served at McDonald's, Back Yard Burgers, Carl's Jr., Hardee's, and Smashburger and are just one of many fine-dining menu items, ingredients, and techniques that were adopted by quick-service and fast-casual restaurants over the last decade.
"Traditionally, we have seen food ideas filter down from fine dining to casual and then to quick service," says Brad Barnes, a certified master chef and the associate dean for culinary arts at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York.
"It happens with specific dishes, and even with the restaurant's environment," he says. "I think you're seeing even more spices and other ingredients typically associated with fine dining being used in limited-service restaurants."
Fresh, high-quality ingredients are a hallmark of fine dining, but they have been appropriated by the quick-service sector, particularly fast-casual concepts, as a way to increase value.
A study by the NPD Group found that consumers believe value in restaurants means "fresh ingredients, and fresh-looking and good-tasting food at affordable prices," says Bonnie Riggs, restaurant industry analyst for the market research firm in Port Washington, New York.
"People are willing to pay a little more" for the freshness and improved taste, she says.
While Angus and other better-beef products are examples of this phenomenon, they are certainly not the only ones. The same occurred with salads, breads, pasta, and fish.
"Americans are becoming more aware and educated about cuisine," says Dennis Lombardi, executive vice president of foodservice strategy for WD Partners, a retail consulting and design firm in Dublin, Ohio. "That is a combination of the Food Network, other cooking and reality shows, and the growing strength of cookbooks."
This provides operators the ability to promote better ingredients and to present menu items with more panache, he says.
As flavors, and the ingredients that inspire them, become more readily available, "the trends migrate to other foodservice segments," says Jane Gibson, executive director of foodservice marketing for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association.
This happened increasingly during the recession, she says, when consumers looked for lower price points when dining out and operators saw an opportunity to create a great meal at an affordable price by "taking the burger upscale."
This helped fast-casual players such as Five Guys Burgers and Fries, The Counter, and Smashburger. It also presented an opportunity to fast feeders, resulting in McDonald's Angus Third Pounder, Burger King's Steakhouse XT Burger, and many others.
Angus beef has been available in America for more than a century, but it only migrated to limited service during the past decade. An early chain to embrace it was Back Yard Burgers, the Nashville, Tennessee–based company with about 120 units in 20 states.
"It's clearly a better product in my opinion," says Bob Page, the company's CEO. Back Yard Burgers introduced the beef "to differentiate ourselves in a crowded market."
Not all Angus is the same. About a quarter of the brand meets stricter standards to qualify as Certified Angus Beef, so that product is more expensive. Among the brands serving Certified Angus Beef are Smashburger and Jersey Mike's Subs.
High-quality breads and pastries have moved to limited service in a big way, thanks to Panera Bread, Corner Bakery, and other companies that use improved par-baking technology to maintain quality and consistency across their systems.
Salads also went upscale at quick serves.
Initially a mainstay of only the poshest restaurants, salads that feature various greens, top-grade cheeses, and fresh fruits and vegetables migrated to casual restaurants and then to quick-service and fast-casual eateries.
Wendy's updated Garden Sensation salads include ingredients such as red and green apples, cranberries, pecans, pico de gallo, guacamole, and blue cheese.
To emphasize the salads' quality, Wendy's hired well-known fine-dining chef Rick Tramonto as a brand ambassador.
Dressed in chef whites in a culinary kitchen, Tramonto assembled the salads during a Webinar, creating each of the four salads and talking about their ingredients.
"We don't usually reach out to celebrities, but his role in the culinary world and his connection to Wendy's made him a perfect spokesman for this," says Denny Lynch, senior vice president of communications for the Columbus, Ohio–based company.
Wendy's approach to salads is part of the company's brand positioning, which focuses on "real" food and superior ingredients. The company recently introduced french fries that use russet potatoes, cut with the skins on and dusted with sea salt.
Salad is also at the heart of Mixt Greens, a San Francisco–based fast-casual chain of eight units in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. The company's goal is to establish salad as a cuisine and bring fresh, local ingredients to a range of menu items.
Founder and executive chef Andrew Swallow, who graduated from the CIA in Hyde Park, says he was looking to "reinvent the wheel" with Mixt Greens.
"I had great experiences in fine dining, but I was more interested in creating and recreating fast food," he says. "Instead of opening a fine-dining restaurant where only a small portion of the people could experience it, I wanted to serve everyone."
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Widespread War on Reproductive Rights
More than 1,100 bills aiming to restrict reproductive health access were introduced in state legislatures in 2011. By the end of the year, 135 of these measures were enacted in 35 states. The trend continued in the first half of 2012, with legislatures passing 95 new provisions related to birth control and abortion. But supporters of reproductive rights are pushing back.
When a "personhood amendment" that would grant human rights to a fertilized egg was put on the ballot last November in Mississippi—a Bible Belt state with a legacy of entrenched conservatism—pro-choice activists knew they faced an uphill battle against an initiative that would undercut access to safe and legal abortion and outlaw many forms of birth control, the morning-after pill, and in-vitro fertilization.
Mississippians for Healthy Families, aided by students, civil rights activists, and faith leaders, organized successfully to defeat the bill, winning 58 percent of the vote. It is difficult, if not impossible, for women and medical professionals to pinpoint the exact moment an ovum is fertilized, so the new law would have been impossible to follow consistently. Had it passed, it would have necessitated a Supreme Court challenge, and thus an opportunity to reverse Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that legalized abortion.
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But Mississippi was just one battle in what many call "the war on women"—an assault on reproductive rights through bills to outlaw abortion, limit access to birth control, and eliminate funding for women's health programs. The bills, all spearheaded by Republican legislators, are backed by the religious right and powerful lobbies. Prominent in recent campaigns to limit or deny abortion and birth control were the the National Right to Life Committee and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
When Virginia passed its "ultrasound bill" in March that requires women to undergo a transvaginal or abdominal ultrasound before having an abortion, Idaho tried to follow suit. Though the measure passed the Idaho Senate, a House committee chairman prevented the bill from reaching the floor for a vote, citing concerns over conflicts with a pre-existing informed consent law.
National polls show that most of the public supports abortion rights, at least in some cases. Even in Virginia's 7th Congressional District, home to Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and one of the most consistently conservative districts in the United States, 68 percent of voters say they would support a pro-choice candidate over an anti-choice candidate, according to a Harrison Hickman poll.
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Sani Kaita apologised "to everyone" after his red card helped Greece to a 2-1 victory over Nigeria yesterday.
"I apologise to everyone. To the Nigerian people, the officials and my team-mates," the 24-year-old said after his first-half sending-off for violent conduct.
With the Super Eagles leading 1-0 after a 16th-minute Kalu Uche free-kick and seemingly in control, Kaita kicked out at Vassilis Torosidis in the 33rd minute and was dismissed. The Russian-based player looked aghast as he left the pitch with his shirt pulled over his head.
Within 11 minutes Greece were level thanks to Dimitris Salpigidis's deflected shot and they snatched the winner with 20 minutes remaining through Torosidis's poached effort.
"I accept the red card as a justified decision, I am very disappointed, I hope Argentina can help us out," Kaita added.
Georgios Samaras savoured Greece's first win at the World Cup finals to give them a glimmer of hope of reaching the next stage.
Samaras, who came off the bench to play his part in the victory, was delighted at the result. "We have a very good team and I just try to do my best. We deserved to win because we worked really hard," he said. "They are an African team with a lot of strength with power and pace. We pushed ourselves to the limit.
"This is a good moment for us. I never feel pressure. I am positive about football, every single day, every single minute. We want to enjoy it but there is not time for celebration.
"We have a flight back to Durban in the morning and then training. We have only four days to prepare for the next game [against Argentina]."
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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 4, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OXiGENE, Inc. (Nasdaq:OXGN), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics to treat cancer, will report year-end 2014 results on Tuesday March 17, 2015. A conference call and webcast hosted by OXiGENE management will begin at 4:30 pm ET (1:30 p.m. PT). OXiGENE's earnings conference call can be heard live by dialing (888) 841-3431/ Conference ID: 87728293 in the United States and Canada, and +1 (678) 809-1060 for international callers, five minutes prior to the beginning of the call. To listen to a live or archived version of the audio webcast, please log on to the Company's website, www.oxigene.com. Under the "Investors" tab, select the link to "Events & Presentations." About OXiGENE OXiGENE is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics to treat cancer. The company is focused on developing vascular disrupting agents (VDAs), which are compounds that selectively disrupt abnormal blood vessels associated with solid tumor survival and progression. The company's lead clinical product candidate, fosbretabulin, is in development as a potential treatment for solid tumors. OXi4503, its second product candidate, is in development for acute myeloid leukemia (AML). OXiGENE is dedicated to leveraging its intellectual property and therapeutic development expertise to bring life-extending and life-enhancing medicines to patients.
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