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Understanding relationships between purchase, location and profile data is important to developing insights among today's connected shoppers. The challenge is actually making these insights actionable.
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As a result you will have the ability to deliver a highly personalised, relevant "Amazon-like" customer experience to your shoppers based on their immediate situation, past behaviours and profile information at scale.
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Two-vehicle crash near Deweyville sends five to hospital
Three children and two adults were transported to the hospital following a two-vehicle crash on Highway 87 just north of Deweyville Wednesday, Oct. 1.
Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Stephanie Davis said the crash occurred around 6 a.m.
According to preliminary reports, a 2003 Pontiac passenger vehicle was northbound on Highway 87 and a 2008 Dodge SUV was southbound on Highway 87. The driver of the Pontiac veered into the southbound traffic lane and struck the Dodge head-on. At this time, it cannot be determined exactly why the driver drove into the southbound lane of the highway.
The driver of the Pontiac, 27-year-old Tiffany Garrett of Vidor, was transported to St. Elizabeth hospital in critical condition. Garrett is currently in surgery. There were three minor children in Garrett's vehicle at the time of the crash. The two children that were in the back seat of the vehicle were in car seats and both were transported to St. Elizabeth hospital with unknown injuries. The minor child seated in the front seat of Garrett's vehicle was wearing a seat belt, but sustained serious injuries and was flown by medical helicopter to Hermann Memorial Hospital in Houston. The driver of the Dodge SUV, 29-year-old James Witmere of Newton, was transported to St. Elizabeth hospital in Beaumont in critical condition.
At this time, the Texas Department of Public Safety is working to confirm the ages of the minor children; however, their names will not be released.
This is an ongoing crash investigation and information will be released as it becomes available.

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All potential claims or disputes arising from the interpretation or application of these General Conditions shall be governed by Japanese law and therefore subject to the jurisdiction of the Courts of Tokyo Japan
These General Conditions of Use in English have been translated from the original Spanish text to different languages on our site. Should there be any difference in content or possible interpretation between the Spanish text and its English translation, the Spanish text will take precedence over texts translated into other languages, in the event of any possible disputes.


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07 Jun 2011 07:13
The underground world of computer hackers has been so thoroughly infiltrated in the US by the FBI and secret service that it is now riddled with paranoia and mistrust, with an estimated one in four hackers secretly informing on their peers, a Guardian investigation has established.
Cyber policing units have had such success in forcing online criminals to cooperate with their investigations through the threat of long prison sentences that they have managed to create an army of informants deep inside the hacking community.
In some cases, popular illegal forums used by cyber criminals as marketplaces for stolen identities and credit card numbers have been run by hacker turncoats acting as FBI moles. In others, undercover FBI agents posing as "carders"—hackers specialising in ID theft—have themselves taken over the management of crime forums, using the intelligence gathered to put dozens of people behind bars.
So ubiquitous has the FBI informant network become that Eric Corley, who publishes the hacker quarterly, 2600, has estimated that 25% of hackers in the US may have been recruited by the federal authorities to be their eyes and ears.
"Owing to the harsh penalties involved and the relative inexperience with the law that many hackers have, they are rather susceptible to intimidation," Corley told the Guardian.
"It makes for very tense relationships," said John Young, who runs Cryptome, a website depository for secret documents along the lines of WikiLeaks.
The best-known example of the phenomenon is Adrian Lamo, a convicted hacker who turned informant on Bradley Manning, who is suspected of passing secret documents to WikiLeaks. Manning had entered into a prolonged instant messaging conversation with Lamo, whom he trusted and asked for advice. Lamo repaid that trust by promptly handing over the 23-year-old intelligence specialist to the military authorities. Manning has now been in custody for more than a year.
'World's most hated hacker'
For acting as he did, Lamo has earned himself the sobriquet of Judas and the "world's most hated hacker", though he has insisted that he acted out of concern for those he believed could be harmed or even killed by the WikiLeaks publication of thousands of US diplomatic cables.
"Obviously it's been much worse for him but it's certainly been no picnic for me," Lamo has said. "He followed his conscience, and I followed mine."
The latest challenge for the FBI in terms of domestic US breaches are the anarchistic cooperatives of "hacktivists" that have launched several high-profile cyber-attacks in recent months designed to make a statement. In the most recent case, a group calling itself Lulz Security launched an audacious raid on the FBI's own linked organisation InfraGard. The raid, which was a blatant two fingers up at the agency, was said to have been a response to news that the Pentagon was poised to declare foreign cyber-attacks an act of war.
Lulz Security shares qualities with the hacktivist group Anonymous that has launched attacks against companies including Visa and MasterCard as a protest against their decision to block donations to WikiLeaks. While Lulz Security is so recent a phenomenon that the FBI has yet to get a handle on it, Anonymous is already under pressure from the agency. There were raids on 40 addresses in the US and five in the UK in January, and a grand jury has been hearing evidence against the group in California at the start of a possible federal prosecution.
Kevin Poulsen, senior editor at Wired magazine, believes the collective is classically vulnerable to infiltration and disruption. "We have already begun to see Anonymous members attack each other and out each other's IP addresses. That's the first step towards being susceptible to the FBI."
Barrett Brown, who has acted as a spokesperson for the otherwise secretive Anonymous, says they are fully aware of the FBI's interest in them. "The FBI are always there. They are always watching, always in the chatrooms. You don't know who is an informant and who isn't, and to that extent you are vulnerable."
How computer hackers do what they do ... and why
The image of lone teenager in a dark bedroom is outdated: hackers now are often gregarious and connected at all times
The only entrance requirements for becoming a hacker are an inquiring mind and plenty of time. These are things that young teenagers—especially, though not exclusively, boys—tend to have.
The classic—and outdated—picture of the hacker is of a teen sitting in his bedroom, obsessively coding something impenetrable on his own, waiting to unleash a terrible virus that will wreak havoc on computers around the world.
In fact modern hackers are a gregarious bunch, who have grown up in a world where instant messaging and video chatting makes it possible to be connected to people at all times.
Hacker conferences are often friendly events: Corley—who styles himself Emmanuel Goldstein, after the figure of hate in Nineteen Eighty-Four)—is a watchful but otherwise outgoing person. Conferences tend to be fun affairs, with people showing off their latest hacks.
The initial lure of hacking—getting past the security hurdles on computers that are intended to turn the vast majority of people away—is simply the achievement. There's also the attraction of the fact that machines will do what you tell them, without argument, again and again. Once mastered, it's a delicious power.
Hacking knows no national boundaries: China, the former Soviet states and Eastern Europe all have produced dangerously effective hackers. The US, Germany and Britain do so as well. Some of the better hackers may be persuaded to work for governments. The suspicion is that in China the most successful are given no option.
Hacking is possible because modern computer systems are so complex that there will always be a flaw to be exploited somewhere.
The web offers hackers a bell curve of targets: most are fairly secure, some are very secure, but there's a long tail of sites running outdated software that can be exploited.
Roughly half of the world is using Microsoft's Windows XP, which is 10 years old and—in its original form—riddled with security holes. Many of the copies used in the far east are pirated, and Microsoft refuses to let them be updated, which leaves the holes "unpatched".
This is meat and drink to hackers, who can often call on widely distributed "hacking kits" that let would-be "l33t haX0rs" (elite hackers) target sites by clicking a few buttons.
Many start their hacking career by breaking into websites to deface them; this is regarded by their elders as the lowest form of hacking (getting caught is even lower).
The more time they spend doing it, the sooner they realise that a certain level of skills will make it possible to make money, either by stealing credit card details and using them to buy virtual goods, or by getting paid to create "malware" that others will pay for.
That might be programs that will silently take over a computer, or subvert a web browser so it goes to a particular site for which they get paid, or lace a website with commercial spam.
That is where the road forks. The commercial hackers do not go to conferences, and keep out of the public eye as far as possible, which can be hard when you are making serious money from it.
They are the ones who the security and police services try very hard to keep their eyes on by any means possible, including infiltration and coercion. - guardian.co.uk
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John Hellier
The original 60s mod around town, I was born in Romford, Essex and spent my formative years playing drums in various bands in and around East London but it was with my writing that I found my niche not only as editor of the worldwide respected Small Faces (and related) magazine Darlings Of Wapping Wharf Launderette, which goes out worldwide to 5000 readers, but also as a free-lance writer with major music monthlies such as Mojo, Uncut, Loaded and Record Collector. My works also appear on numerous CDs/DVDs for all the major record companies. The first Small Faces book was back in 1996 and was a collaboration with Terry Rawlings and Keith Badman called "Quite Naturally" but my biggest triumph in this field is the Steve Marriott biography "All Too Beautiful" co-written with Paolo Hewitt and published in 2004 by Helter Skelter books. A labour of love, 77 interviews and three years graft but something I'm very proud of. A third edition of this highly acclaimed book will be available later this year. A third book co-written with Paul Weller entitled "Here Come The Nice" was published in late 2005 and spent many months in the Music book best sellers. 2016 saw the Griffiths Publishing release of the Pete Wilky/John Hellier collaboration…"I'm The Face" the official Peter Meaden Story. On the Promotions side I've staged prestige Memorial Shows for Ronnie Lane and Steve Marriott at the Royal Albert Hall and London Astoria respectively, featuring some of the biggest names in the business, as well as annual Small Faces Conventions for the past 20 years. There is also Wapping Wharf Records which is run in conjunction with the Steve Marriott estate and has released 9 Steve Marriott rarities albums in the past 10 years. Many television appearances including Melvyn Bragg's The Southbank Show and BBC4s Soul Brittannia Series in which I was also Executive Producer. Currently working with scriptwriter Nina Gestetner on a full length film project covering Ronnie Lane and Steve Marriott, this is following on from the successful short Marriott movie "Midnight Of My Life" currently doing the Film Festival circuit worldwide.
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Paolo Hewitt definitely "was there then." For four crucial years he was at the centre of Oasis's inner circle. Working as the band's DJ he saw first hand the incendiary power of the original line-up at era-defining shows in front of tens of thousands of people. Paolo also had exclusive access to the unfolding dramas as their fame exploded, in dressing rooms and in recording studios, watching moments of creative success and also familial tension. Written from that insider's perspective, his two accounts of life with Oasis are the definitive telling of the Oasis story. Getting High, first published in 1997 and newly available as an e-book, takes the band's story from childhood to Knebworth. The Be Here Now world tour is chronicled in Paolo's second Oasis book, Forever the People, and finds life within the inner circle to have changed greatly.


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Are you in need of braces from an orthodontist in Canberra and are wondering if there is something that you need to know before you undertake the process? An orthodontic process can be a stressful experience which can cost you a significant amount of time and money. Hence it is important to take every possible measure to make sure that you are making the right decision.
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It is a good idea to take the time to compare the services of several orthodontists in your area. Doing so will give you a good sense of the treatment options available as well as the cost. If they all recommend similar treatment, then that ought to tell you something.
Braces are expensive and cost around $2000 to $9000 depending on where you get the treatment and the fees that your orthodontist charges. Any reputable dental care professional ought to give you an accurate quote on what prices to expect so you can prepare a budget and perhaps a bit more to address contingencies that may arise.
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My 2017 Fitness Goals: Healthy Weight Gain and Increased Muscle Mass/
Three and a half years ago, I sat in front of my computer, ordered a pair of sneakers, bought a few workout outfits and researched gyms in my area. I remember feeling excited, because all of these things marked the beginning of my fitness journey to healthy weight gain and increased muscle mass. I walked into L.A. fitness with very little knowledge about weight lifting, but I was determined to start. Since then, working out and getting fit is now an integral part of my lifestyle, not only does it invigorate me physically and also helps me clear my mind and de-stress.
I started this journey on the tail-end of a very stressful and tough period in my life. I had recently graduated law school in a tough job market; I spent months studying for a grueling bar exam; and I had moved 3,000 miles across the country away from everyone and everything I knew for my first post law school job. These transitions came with a hectic schedule, which meant that sometimes I neglected my overall well-being. It was no surprise that a yearly check-up revealed that although I was healthy, I was underweight; the number on the scale was the lowest I had seen in years. As someone who is naturally thin and struggle to gain weight, I knew I needed to take action.
I decided to take my health and fitness into my own hands and gain weight and muscle the healthy way. Fast forward to today, I am stronger, more fit, and more disciplined. In the over three years I've been weight lifting and working out, I've reached personal fitness milestones, I've gained 22 pounds, and I've built a lot of confidence. Not only am I pleased with the physical changes, I am assured that I can achieve anything with hard work, discipline and consistency.
For 2017, I have a few more fitness goals I plan to reach. To begin, I am aiming for more muscle growth, sculpting my lower and upper body and abs by continuing to weight train. I am also moving toward a cleaner diet and more frequent meal prepping. Make sure you subscribe to the blog as I will continue to share updates on my personal fitness, my healthy weight gain journey and what I'll be doing to increase muscle mass.


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It's is only with civility, in all of it's transcending forms, that humanity continues to exist with some sense of higher moral logic, above the nature of mere animals, and not devour and destroy one another, with gain or no gain, like mindless zombies.- Seriously McMillan
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"My goal is to provoke thought and a new understanding of how young women can improve their world. And, I want to do it with as much laughter as possible." says Seriously.
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You don't have to suck when you are rude ever again because author Seriously McMillan is going to give you the big skinny to making a personal "travel" from being "R.U.D.E." (Ready [to] Undermine & Demean Everyone) to "K.I.N.D." (Knowing Individuals Need Deference.)
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Trying to make petit fours has been on my short list for this blog for awhile now. At Christmas-time, I made Italian Rainbow Cookies, and I figured the process would be similar, although I didn't want them to taste just like the almondy goodness of the rainbow cookies. I worked on some other projects, and continued to look for inspiration for an outside-the-box flavor combination to try. Around Valentine's Day, when I was actually planning to try them out, I purchased some heart-shaped and square mini-cutters, thinking I would be able to use them to cut my sheet cakes into neat, little shapes to form the petit fours. Since I'm an event planner, getting them started before Valentine's Day was a no-go, since I had 3 events happening at 2 locations that day. It worked out for the best though, because recently I was watching an episode of Food Network's Duff Till Dawn when one of the contestants was using a pistachio cake. Inspiration struck immediately! My petit fours would be inspired by one of my favorite ice cream flavors: spumoni! I set to work researching cake recipes that would fit the flavor profile of pistachio, cherry, and chocolate. I went with a basic pound cake, inspired by Martha Stewart's Classic Pound Cake recipe
Pistachio Pound Cake
makes 2 loaves, or 2 half-sheets, I made 1 of each
- 1 1/2 C all-purpose flour, packed then sifted
- 1 1/2 C cake flour, packed then sifted
- 1 tsp baking powder, sifted
- 1 tsp Kosher salt
- 2 1/2 sticks unsalted butter
- 6 oz cream cheese, at room temperature
- 1 C shelled pistachios, finely ground
- 3 C granulated sugar
- 6 large eggs, room temperature
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 4-6 drops gel food coloring (optional)
- Preheat oven to 325º F. Prepare two pans, one half-sheet jelly-roll size, one loaf. When I'm baking, I get my best results using a cooking spray with flour in it such as Baker's Joy. Set pans aside.
- Using a blender or food processor, grind pistachios until they form a thick paste and no large bits remain.
- In an electric stand mixer, fitted with the paddle attachment, beat together the butter, cream cheese, and pistachios. Allow the ingredients to cream together for about 5 minutes, on medium high.
- Reduce mixer speed to low. Slowly add the granulated sugar and continue to beat on medium-high until the mixture is light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl to ensure even mixing.
- When the mixture is completely smooth, add the eggs, one at a time and the vanilla extract, mixing well after each addition.
- With mixer on low speed, add the reserved flour mixture a few spoonfuls at a time. Allow each spoonful of flour to combine thoroughly before adding more.
- If desired, add food coloring to desired color, mix well. Use more than you think you need, my cake didn't end up quite as green as I would've liked.
- Spread batter over half-sheet pan, making sure to get it into the corners and smooth across the top. Fill loaf pan with remaining batter.
- Bake half-sheet until top is golden, about 10-15 minutes. Bake loaf about 1 hour 15 minutes. Loaf will be brown on top, and toothpick inserted will come out clean.
- Allow half sheet to cool for 5-10 minutes before turning out onto a cooling rack. The loaf will need to cool 15-20 minutes before it's ready to cut & taste.
- Set aside sheet cake while you bake the next layer of the petit fours.
Cherry-Almond Pound Cake
makes 1 loaf, or 1 half-sheet cake
- 2 sticks unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 1/2 C all-purpose flour, packed then sifted
- 1 C granulated sugar
- 1 tsp almond extract
- 5 large eggs, room temperature
- 1/2 tsp Kosher salt
- 1 C dried cherries
- 4-6 drops red gel food coloring (optional)
- Preheat over to 350F.
- Meanwhile, soak dried cherries in hot water. I put my cherries into a large coffee mug and covered them with water I heated in my electric kettle. Allow to soak for about 15 minutes.
- Prepare sheet pan. For best results, grease pan with cooking spray with flour such as Baker's Joy. Set pan aside.
- In an electric stand mixer, fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter and sugar on medium-high until very light and fluffy (about 7 minutes). Scrape down bowl, and beat for 1 another minute more.
- Add almond extract, and eggs one at a time making sure each is incorporated before adding another and scraping down bowl as needed.
- With mixer on low speed, add the salt and reserved flour mixture a few spoonfuls at a time. Allow each spoonful of flour to combine thoroughly before adding more.
- Drain the water from the cherries using a colander and add them to the mixture, mix until incorporated.
- If desired, add food coloring to desired color, mix well.
- Spread batter over half-sheet pan, making sure to get it into the corners and smooth across the top.
- Bake half-sheet until top is golden, about 10-15 minutes.
- Allow half sheet to cool for 5-10 minutes before turning out onto a cooling rack.
- Set aside sheet cake for assembly of petit fours.
Once both cakes are made you will need some jam for in-between the cake layers. I chose some cherry jam that I had made about a year ago when I first got my canner. You can definitely use store-bought jam, but I would stick with cherry, to match with the spumoni flavor profile, and not use a jam that has bits of fruit in it. I made my cherry jam using a local cherry wine and this recipe
Cherry Wine Jam
makes 4-6 half-pint jars
- 2 C wine (cherry in this case)
- 3 1/4 C sugar
- 1 pouch liquid pectin, such as Certo
Other stuff you may want to have:
- 4-6 half-pint jars with lids
- canning pot with rack
- candy thermometer
- tempered rubber spatula
- Clip your candy thermometer to the side of a large pot (thermometer should reach all the way to the bottom of the pot, and be sticking out of the liquid to be read).
- Heat the wine and sugar in the large pot over high heat. Stir mixture constantly stirring, until it mixture reaches 220F on the candy thermometer.
- Remove mixture from heat and carefully pour the hot liquid into a large glass measuring cup with a spout to make pouring it into jars easier.
- Pour hot jam into jars & cover with lids and tighten gently by hand.
- At this point you can process them using a water bath canner for 5 minutes, or leave them out at room temperature to cool and for mixture to gel properly for use.
- Jam should be ready for use in about 12 hours.
- Unprocessed jam, refrigerated will last for about 3 months. Processed jam will be shelf-stable for 2-3 years.


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If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.


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Sometimes you meet people and just adore them from the second they walk in the door.
I was fortunate that Heather and Jason were in need of a maternity photographer last minute. They are two of the kindest people I have ever met. They even overlooked my crazy mommy-brain with moving in to the new studio. I'm telling you, it is like getting a new camera. A whole new learning experience. The lighting, positioning, reflections… it is all just so different. Heather and Jason were courteous enough not to laugh 😉
I really enjoyed our session and ummmm hello amazing mommy wardrobe! The colors she paired with the rustic outdoor look we chose were just perfection. I can't wait to meet their little boy who was born just a few days ago 🙂
Keep your eyes open for Asher's sneak peek. I have lots of special things plan for him.
See! Look at how awesome her outfit looked with all the greenery!
We wont discuss the fact that they made me cry at their viewing session. That is totally not allowed. No crying on the photographer's end!


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Rupert Goold, 38, is an associate director at the Royal Shakespeare Company and the artistic director of Headlong Theatre. After studying English at Trinity College, Cambridge, Goold directed at the Salisbury Playhouse and the Royal and Derngate Theatres, Northampton, until 2005, before joining Headlong the following year. In 2007 he directed Pete Postlethwaite in King Lear, worked with Harold Pinter and Michael Gambon on No Man's Land and made his musical-directing debut with Oliver! at the London Palladium. The same year he won an Olivier Award for best director for his production of Macbeth, starring Patrick Stewart. (A film of the production, also directed by Goold, will be aired on BBC Four in December.) Since then Goold has directed the musical satire Enron (2009) and Earthquakes in London (2010) at the National, both Headlong productions, and is about to open the RSC season at the Roundhouse with Romeo and Juliet, which runs from November 30 until January 1. He lives in London with his wife, the actress Kate Fleetwood, their son, Raphael, five, and daughter, Constance, four months.
Daily routine I tend to do the breakfast shift and take Raph to school, then I go to rehearsals for 10am. When you're in the rehearsal period the day is quite structured, but it gets a whole lot more intense and stressful in the period leading up to the production.
Lording it My grandmother's father was captain of Somerset, so cricket is in my DNA. I'm not very good at it, but I love to watch. When I was 16 my dad nominated me for MCC membership, and 20 years later some old duffer died so I got to become a member – signified by this book (pictured). I go to Lord's only about once a year, but I thought, 'I've waited for so long I can't give it up now.' I also like it because it's one of the few places where I get called 'young man' on the door.
War relics I've got a whole box of cards from the opening night of Enron on Broadway, which are like mementos from a war zone because it was so grizzly – it completely bombed with the critics and had to close early. But among the cards I was given this Enron share (pictured), which I find quite funny because it's completely worthless. The production was just as good as the London one, and we had lots of savvy people clamouring to invest in it, but it just didn't work. That's the great thing about theatre: you are always dabbling in risk.
Wedding ring I constantly fiddle with whatever ring I'm wearing at the time, all the way through rehearsals, and always end up losing it. For the press night of The Glass Menagerie (2007) I was sitting at the back of the stalls fiddling with my ring when it fell off and rolled right under the seats. I was on my hands and knees when all the critics were leaving. So when Kate and I got married I told her not to buy me an expensive ring because she'd be upset when I lost it. In the end we just blessed this ring (pictured), which cost about £5 from somewhere on Tottenham Court Road, and, amazingly, nine years later I still have it.
Geeky kid I was a geek at school, and when my daughter was born, Lucy Prebble, who wrote Enron, said, 'I hope she's beautiful but not too beautiful,' and I know exactly what she means. I really treasure the feeling of being relatively socially excluded through my teenage years and I think it is good for your character.
First edition One of the first plays that I put on professionally, at Salisbury, was an adaptation of Graham Greene's The End of the Affair, in 1997, and I was really proud of it. About a year later my godmother gave me this first edition (pictured) that she'd found in a bookshop in Henley. I'm unmaterialistic, but books are things that I really hold on to.
Unfinished business After the Greene I directed my first professional Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, in 1998, which started in Greenwich then toured Britain, and it was where I first met Kate – she was playing Juliet. I was working with the loveliest bunch of people but it got really bad reviews and it's always felt like unfinished business for me. It was also the first play I acted in at school – I played Balthazar, Romeo's manservant – so I always give the poor actor who plays him loads of notes. I think Romeo and Juliet is the hardest of the Shakespeares because you have to believe that they're in love.
Football theatrics Arsenal was my local team when I was growing up, but I didn't really like the culture of the team and didn't like the boys in my class who were fans. It all changed when Arsène Wenger arrived in 1996 and I started to love the team. I find so many similarities between manager and theatre director, like do you use carrot or stick to encourage star acts, and how do you establish a sense of team in a disparate group?
Evenings out I ought to go to the theatre more than I do (I go about two nights a week) but I have parental guilt if I go out too much and I try to get back to read the kids a story. Then I often have scripts to read, but the one thing I'm really hooked on is Mad Men – we have the box set so we're ploughing through that. I can't imagine many theatre directors not keeping up with popular culture and I find shows such as Big Brother completely compelling. I think these past 10 years of reality television have been really good for theatre because it challenges the concept of naturalism.
Acting up I've always liked graphic novels and comics, especially Batman: The Killing Joke, by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland, where the Joker's character was really developed. I find the Joker fascinating, and now my son is really into Batman, too, so we take this little toy (pictured) everywhere with us and do a lot of role playing. He always wants to be Batman and I'm always the Joker.


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This is a new occasional feature on our blog, given that weekends tend to be a peak time for – to say the least – contentious coverage of EU-related matters
Non-existent EC proposal alarms motorists
The Sun on Sunday on 6 July ran a prominent story headlined "No tanks: EU in 3p a litre hike".
It is true that the UK Petroleum Industry Association (PIA) had some time ago expressed opposition to an earlier proposal to label oil products according to the environmental impact of extracting them.
The PIAs view that this would raise pump prices was contentious at the time.
More importantly, as both the Commission (EC) and the UK Department for Transport (DFT) made clear to the Sun on Sunday, the proposal the PIA was referring to has been withdrawn after Member States did not agree on it.
Both the EC and DoT also told the paper that the completely new proposal expected in due course would not put up pump prices.
So the Sun's editorial asking "Is there anyone in Brussels with a basic idea of reality?" seems rather ironic given that the entire angle of its report was based on a proposal that no longer exists.
What is more its reference to "green crap" seems to suggest a rejection of all policies designed to protect the environment and tackle climate change, despite the fact that most scientists say that if we don't cut greenhouse gases, there will be more pollution, more floods, huge clean up costs and parts of the world could become uninhabitable, creating millions of refugees.
Voluntary UK opt-in becomes "EU power grab" in the Telegraph
This weekend, the UK's proposal to opt back-in to certain EU justice measures, following its decision earlier this year to opt out en masse, has been in the news.
Obviously this is a subject of interest to the media and it is unsurprising that it has made some front pages.
But it is bizarre to describe the UK debating whether to choose to opt-in to some EU arrangements as an "EU power grab" as the Daily Telegraph headline did on Saturday 5 July.
The Telegraph goes on to describe the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) as "allowing foreign judges to extradite Britons for misdemeanours committed on holiday", making it sound rather as if the EAW focuses mostly on non-payment of parking fines in Magaluf. In reality, it applies only to offences for which the maximum period of the penalty is at least one year in prison
In fact – as the Telegraph does concede further down – the EAW has seen terrorists extradited back to the UK to face justice. It also allowed the return of the schoolteacher who, in 2012, abducted a 15 year-old girl to France and has helped put paid to the "Costa del Crime" phenomenon whereby the UK's most notorious gangsters could retreat safely to southern Spain, among other places in Europe.
"Handing policing powers to Brussels" or cooperation to tackle crime?
The Times saw the UK opt-in proposals as "handing policing powers to Brussels". Of course, this is all about a legal framework for cooperation to tackle criminals, to make sure justice works across borders and to guarantee the right of victims and defendants. This is not "transferring policing powers to Europe" or conversely "clawing back powers from Brussels" in the words of the Daily Mail.
In the Mail on Sunday, meanwhile, two star columnists took rather different views of the EAW. On p27 Peter Hitchens (1) calls it "an outrageous EU intrusion into our legal system" a rather odd view given that it has only ever applied because the UK and other Member States wanted it and will only apply in the UK now if the government opts in to it.
On P35, James Forsyth redresses the balance by saying "if Britain has not been allowed back into the Arrest Warrant by the end of this year, this country will struggle to extradite alleged criminals and terror suspects from other EU Member States. This could cause major security problems and is particularly alarming given the current warnings about terrorism in Europe."
Finally, it is also interesting to note that some journalists who periodically cite the EAW as an infringement of civil liberties – though there are multiple safeguards, considerably reinforced over the last few years – regularly clamour for the removal of "foreign" criminals from the UK and for tackling misuse of free movement, which are things the EAW often helps achieve.
(1) Our original text referred mistakenly to the late Christopher Hitchens – we have corrected this and apologised
The Sunday Telegraph's apparent conversion to the virtues of sugar quotas
Meanwhile the Sunday Telegraph – not a noted supporter of Common Agricultural Policy quotas in the past – ran a story based on an NGO view that the EU agreement to lift sugar quotas in September 2017 was "perverse", as it might make sugar cheaper, cut prices and increase consumption, leading to public health fears.
Unusual for such a free market supporting, "nanny state" opposing newspaper to take a critical view of a measure – or rather the removal of one – because it might make supermarket prices cheaper. Unusual too for a UK newspaper to imply support for the French position – which had been to maintain quotas longer – against the UK government's view which had favoured lifting the quotas two years earlier in 2015.
Perhaps the opportunity to bash the EU for doing exactly what much of the UK press had long clamoured for – reforming the CAP, with full UK support, to scrap market distorting measures that can hand excessive profits to some producers while hurting other businesses – was just too good to miss.
Of course, quotas were not introduced in the first place for public health reasons but to maintain price levels for EU sugar beet producers. It is highly debatable whether their removal will increase consumption.
Various policy options for discouraging excessive sugar consumption are available: for example, taxes (applied in France to fizzy drinks), pressure on manufacturers to act voluntarily and/or public information campaigns.
Inalienable right to landfill?
Christopher Booker in the Sunday Telegraph, asserts that we should continue to bury waste in holes in the ground, despite evidence that this can corrupt the water table and lead to noxious gases being released.
Mr Booker says: "But now our real government, in Brussels, has decided we must step up our recycling targets, to the point where, by 2030, we can 'virtually eliminate landfill'"
Quite apart from the strange suggestion that the UK's real government is in Brussels (more on related assertions here), the European Commission has indeed proposed more ambitious recycling targets.
But as ever, it is elected national Ministers and the European Parliament that will decide whether to adopt those targets and if they do, for each Member State individually to decide how it will meet them.
Mr Booker also says that "for the purpose of meeting our EU targets, waste is defined as being "recycled" at the point where it is collected. What happens next is that much is not recycled at all. It may be shipped abroad to places like China, while millions of tons are still just quietly buried."
This is not true.
The existing Waste Framework Directive (Articles 10 and 11) is clear that the existing targets refer not to the separation of materials at collection but to "preparation for recovery, re-use or recycling".
Article 34 of the Waste Shipment Directive forbids the export of waste for disposal to non-EU/EFTA countries such as China
The EC President is not all powerful
Last week (29 June) the Sunday Times Columnist Dominic Lawson stated that "the president of the commission has the sole right to promulgate EU-wide legislation." This is, of course, inaccurate, so the newspaper agreed to print this week our short letter below:
Dominic Lawson referred last week to the European Commission President having the sole right to "promulgate EU-wide legislation". In fact the European Commission only proposes EU laws – elected Ministers and MEPs decide – and the President cannot make a proposal alone, he or she needs the majority backing of Commissioners.


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Is the Club open to the public?
The Millstone Hare is open to the public during its specified opening hours. The Club as a whole is only open on specified event days The Club is open to the public on specified event days. It is private property and all regulations must be followed on site as there are building works taking place.
Are there disabled facilities on site?
Yes, the Clubhouse has stairlifts and disabled toilets, whilst the IXL Events Centre has a lift between floors.
Can I land an aircraft onsite?
Yes, we have areas for helicopter landings and small aircraft. However you must give us as much notice as possible prior to landing as we have horses on site.
Can I have fireworks?
Yes you can have fireworks at the Club through our nominated supplier, Komodo Fireworks.
Do I need to be a member to attend events at the Club?
No. All our events, unless specifically stated, are open to the public and non-members to attend. On key event days, some areas may be restricted to Members Only.
How do I become a member?
Social membership is available at the Club. Please email email@example.com for further details.
How much are tickets to the polo?
Entrance to all our polo fixtures is free. Some events will carry a parking charge but these will be detailed on the event's page.
Can I bring dogs?
Well-behaved dogs on leads are permitted but please keep them under control and clear up after them.
Do you allow children?
Children are welcome but must be supervised at all times. Some events do carry an age restriction in certain areas so please familiarise yourself with these.
What is the dress code?
Dress code is smart casual in the Clubhouse. We advise flat shoes or wedges for divot stomping.
Can I bring a picnic?
You may bring your own food and drink to the polo but they may only be consumed in public areas of the site. Externally purchased food and drink may not be consumed in any of DBPC's venues.
I'm planning an Asian wedding, can I use an alternative caterer to Sanjay Foods?
No. Sanjay Foods are the exclusive caterers for Asian weddings at the Club and act as the representatives for IXL Events.
Can we provide our own caterers?
No. We have four designated caterers you can choose from. They will be more than happy to arrange tastings for you.
Can we supply our own alcohol?
Externally purchased alcohol is subject to a corkage charge. Laurent-Perrier is the champagne pouring partner to IXL Events.
Is there a minimum number of guests to make a booking?
For wedding parties, we do have rooms which can cater for parties of 10 to 12.
What time can we book the venue until?
IXL Events current licensing is until 11pm Monday to Thursday, and to midnight Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Extensions to 1am may be granted upon request.
Will our wedding be the only one taking place at the venue?
We have three venues in which weddings and events can take place. There may be other events taking place onsite, but the distance between the venues is such that your building and surrounding area will remain exclusive to your guests.
Do you have anywhere for wedding photography to be taken?
The 600 acre site contains plenty of stunning open grass spaces, water features and landscape features to form a backdrop for your wedding photos. Please contact us, or arrange for your photographer to visit, prior to your wedding.
How do I get to DBPC?
By Road
From the North: M40 south, leave the M40 at Junction 14. Take the A452 (Warwick bypass) to Leamington. At the roundabout, you can either take the A452 to Leamington Spa, picking up signs to Southam, or you can take the A452 to Banbury (then following Harbury, Ufton. The Club is located 1.5miles outside of Ufton, on the left hand side of the A425.)
From the South: Due to roadworks at Gaydon, we recommend travellers from the South to leave the M40 at Junction 11 in Banbury. Follow the A422 over two roundabouts. At the third roundabout, take the A423 (Southam Road) and continue until the roundabout outside Southam with the Shell Garage. Take the first right onto the A425.The Club is 1mile outside of Southam on the right hand side.
By train
The nearest train station is Royal Leamington Spa which is 6 miles away (approximately 13 minutes.) This station is on the Marylebone line, but also offers a short connect to Coventry, on the Euston line. Birmingham to Leamington Spa can be achieved in 30 minutes.
For direct trains to London Euston, Rugby station is 13 miles from the Club.
Where can I stay?
We're working on getting accommodation on site, so watch this space! In the meantime, here's a list of local places to stay:
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Welcome to this research guide for The Church: Pentecost to the Reformation. This guide will help you find resources that you can use for your Collateral Reading Assignment (CRA), and/or your course project. Helpful links can be found under the Reference Resources, Books, Web Articles, Journal Articles and Websites tabs above. Of course you may also search for additional resources as well. But these links will bring you to helpful resources for your writing projects.
This course is an introductory study of the history of Christianity from its birth to the beginnings of the Reformation. The course provides an introduction to history as a discipline and emphasizes the importance of history in relation to the Christian faith. It deals with the apostolic church, the early church fathers, the ecumenical councils, the emergence of medieval theology and church practice, as well as the beginning of the Renaissance in Europe. The course content includes a consideration of the contribution of major Christian theologians, the relationship of the church and state, and the rise of monasticism and missions, tracing the geographical expansion of Christianity. The twelve lessons are structured so as to enable you to apply insights learned from the past to contemporary situations.
Global University does not necessarily agree with all the views represented in the resources in this guide. These are provided for the student to contrast and compare with the Biblical text and ideas presented in the Global University IST.
Hi! My name is Mark Erickson. I am the professor for the Church: Pentecost to the Reformation course. I would love to interact with you about the course or a subject that you find interesting, related to the course. Feel free to ask me a question or give an opinion If you find an interesting source, please suggest it and I'll check it out.


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Gasoline prices are falling fast and are expected to drop some more after oil prices suffered big losses last week. The average price for gasoline statewide has dropped 5 cents per gallon since June 3, AAA said Monday.
The Florida average for a gallon of regular fell to $2.32 a gallon from $2.37 a week ago. Palm Beach County's average dipped to $2.42, down from $2.45 a week ago, according to AAA's Fuel Gauge Report.
"Unexpected growth in oil and gasoline supplies sent prices into a downward spiral," said AAA spokesman Mark Jenkins.
"Oil prices plunged to lows that should translate to a total discount of 5-10 cents at the pump, but motorists shouldn't expect the discount to hit overnight. It usually takes a week or two before gas prices fully adjust to major shifts on the crude oil market," Jenkins said.
The national average of $2.33 is the lowest for mid-June since 2005, said Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst for GasBuddy.
DeHaan said gasoline prices this year have been what motorists love, stable and cheap.
"While many motorists are lured into that false sense of security, smart motorists continue to shop around and find the best deal as the gas price spread between stations hits record levels, providing enough savings to pay for a snack or food item inside the station," DeHaan said.
Oil prices remain near six-month lows as fundamentals remain weak and supply remains high, DeHaan said.
In May OPEC extended production cuts in hopes of balancing the oil market. However, based on the latest U.S. Energy Information Administration data, the market glut appears to be growing.
That's because U.S. oil production is increasing. Crude oil inventories rose for the first time in nine weeks, increasing 3.3 million barrels a day to a total of 513.2 million barrels.
Oil prices have fallen $4 a barrel since Labor Day weekend.
Gasoline stocks grew for the first time in five weeks, by almost 3 million barrels.
DeHaan said, "While the national average fell five cents per gallon in the last week, the bigger story here is that 47 states saw average gas prices move lower in the last week, so this isn't just a here and there trend, it's almost everywhere."
Here's a list of some of the stations selling gasoline at $2.19 a gallon or less in Palm Beach County on Monday, based on reports to GasBuddy.com
West Palm Beach area: $2.18, Sunoco, 2500 Forest Hill Blvd.; 7-Eleven, 1730 S. Military Trail' 7-Eleven, 1733 S. Congress Ave.
$2.19: Chevron, 2521 Forest Hill Blvd.; Mobil, 721 S. Congress Ave.
Royal Palm Beach: $2.16, Costco, 11001 Southern Blvd.
Lake Worth area: $2.16, J & A, 4703 S. Military Trail
$2.17: 7-Eleven, 4774 S. Military Trail
$2.18: Race Track, 3032 Lake Worth Road; Cumberland Farms, 4771 S. Military Trail; Sunoco, 3985 Lake Worth Road
Lantana: $2.16, Costco, 1873 W. Lantana Road
Boynton Beach: $2.18, BJ's Wholesale Club, 1540 W. Boynton Beach Blvd.
Boca Raton: $2.19, Costco, 17800 Congress Ave.


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One theme in Stephen Vincent Benet's "By the Waters of Babylon" explores how civilizations fare in the wake of widespread nuclear attacks. Another theme explores how John comes of age during his trip across the country.
While studying to become a priest, John has a vision of himself entering the Place of the Gods, which is what New York City is called many generations after nuclear war devastated most of the world. Encouraged by his father to journey to the Place of the Gods, John sets out, passing along the way "Dead Places," or structures that remain radioactive. Though John once went inside a Dead Place with his father, he still fears them and what may happen when he's inside. On his journey, he overcomes his fear and comes of age. He enters these Dead Places and finds a rusty knife in one, a useful tool in a society in which most people hunt with bows and arrows.
In the Place of the Gods, John realizes that it is likely safe. He decides to study the books that remain in the city and take this knowledge home with him. He doesn't realize that doing so puts those who remain at risk for repeating the events that initially sparked the nuclear war. "By the Waters of Babylon" cautions against the fallout of nuclear war and serves as a reminder that without intervention, history repeats itself.
Taking its name from a verse in Psalm 137, "By the Waters of Babylon" examines the physical remains of a post-apocalyptic America, such as towers and monuments, and also the emotional remains of a people shattered by events out of their control.


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The Center is to provide subsidized office, conference, and event space in New York City to qualified women-focused organizations allowing them to channel critical resources toward their programs in the field. It will be a hub for like-minded organizations, and an incubator for fruitful collaborations. It will also include lodging for visitors and other services, some of which will help subsidize the costs. Working together from the start, we will get there faster!
In March 2015, the Kota Alliance was formed, a new 501c3 not-for-profit. Already, we are providing co-working space, fiscal sponsorship, online visibility, and other services for small organizations. In 2016, we will expand to larger interim space to house more women's NGOs and projects, and to enable more collaboration between organizations. HELP US GET TO THE NEXT PHASE! Donate HERE!
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***Inclusion of the Russian domestic price in the formula
***The deduction of prices to delivery point and treatment charges form the gas price
***Applicability of premium for only new discoveries post 1st November
New Delhi: Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan informed the Rajya Sabha in a written reply today that government has received representations from domestic gas producers for allowing them freedom to sell gas at market determined prices.
Representations have also been received from Association of Oil and Gas operators (AOGO), Confederation of Indian Industry(CII) etc. bringing out certain issues related with New Gas Pricing Guidelines, 2014, a government statement said today.
Some of the issues pointed out by these associations include:
* Inclusion of the Russian domestic price in the formula
*The deduction of prices to delivery point and treatment charges form the gas price
*Applicability of premium for only new discoveries post 1st November
The prices considered in the new gas pricing formula are the closest approximations for the Market price for gas in the region, wrote Pradhan.
Russian domestic price has been included in the formulae as Russia is amongst the largest producers and consumer of natural gas in the world, wrote Pradhan explaining the inclusion of Russian domestic price.
Through the New Gas Pricing Guidelines 2014, Government has tried to maintain a fine balance between the interest of gas producing and consuming sectors, according the Rajya Sabha reply.
To incentivize domestic production of natural gas, Government while approving the gas pricing formula, has also approved a provision for grant of premium for new discoveries made in Deep water, Ultra Deep water and High Pressure High Temperature reservoir, said the statement.


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How to Start Saving for A Home Down Payment
A down payment is a large amount of money that everyone eventually needs to save up for. It can be very hard to save up a large amount of money for a down payment, especially while having to pay for other life necessities. Down payments take a while to save up for, so the earlier you start saving the better. Follow this list of steps and advice on how to start saving money for your new home!
Down payments are very important as they can determine your future finances and payments on your home. The higher the price you put down, the lower your mortgage rate will possibly be. In a way, you want to pay a larger amount on your down payment to avoid paying other home payments in the future.
The first step to start saving for a down payment is to figure out how much money you need to save to buy the house you want. You also need to consider how much time you have to save up the money. Usually, new home owners put 20 percent down on their new homes. People can obviously save more than 20 percent, but 20 percent is usually how much is needed for a down payment. Use this down payment calculator to estimate how much you should be saving.
Once you figure out the amount you want to save, the second step is to start a savings plan. Here are a list of some saving techniques that might work for you:
- Automatic transfers from your checking accounts to your savings account
- Saving the extra money you earn at work
- Saving your tax refunds
- Save up your change in a jar
- Visual savings chart – show yourself how much money you have already saved and how much more you need to save to reach your goal. Visualizing your savings amount will help you stay motivated to save your money.
After figuring out a saving method, the third step is to look for other resources that can help you out with saving for your down payment. The only downside to this is that when you tap into other resources, you can be pulling money from other future finances. Only consider this step if you really need the help to save up money or if your time frame is short.
The fourth step is to look into investing. Investing can help you save additional money rather than just saving cash money and spare change. There are many ways to get into investing including buying stocks and penny stocks.
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'Twas the season to indulge, friends, but henceforth 'tis the season to atone. Throughout the month of January, we'll be bringing you all sorts of Wellness Realness—information and inspiration you can use to get out of lax mode and into good-for-you mode. Or, at least, to stop eating cookies for lunch and skipping your morning run.
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