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If your doctor has recently ordered a positron emission tomography (PET) scan for you or a loved one, you are probably wondering what is PET CT scan used for? The primary reason for undergoing a PET scan is to assist your doctor in making a diagnosis or learn more about your current health condition. Some doctors prefer to use this technology for monitoring purposes as it helps them get a clear picture of how a specific part of your body is functioning. With other imaging technologies, they typically only see how the body part in question looks.
PET Scans and Specific Medical Conditions
Your doctor is likely to order a PET scan if he or she suspects you have one of the following conditions:
- Alzheimer's disease: This technology allows doctors to see the brain and determine how well it is functioning. It also allows for differential diagnosis between Alzheimer's and other types of dementia.
- Cancer: A PET scan is extremely useful in detecting cancer, helping the doctor assign a stage to the cancer, and determining whether the cancer has spread beyond its original point of detection. It also helps doctors monitor whether chemotherapy is effective.
- Epilepsy: After a person has suffered his or her first seizure, doctors usually order an MRI. A PET scan is useful in pinpointing the exact area in the brain that is affected by the patient's epilepsy.
- Heart disease: PET scans aid doctors in determining the specific areas of the heart that have sustained permanent damage. This is crucial in coming up with a treatment plan and to avoid further complications.
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Definition of the Fair Credit Billing Act
The Fair Credit Billing Act (FCBA) is an amendment to the Truth in Lending Act and was enacted by the United States government in 1974. The purpose of the Fair Credit Billing Act is protect consumers from unfair credit billing practices. If a consumer receives his or her credit card statement to find incorrect information regarding charges that the consumer made, the consumer has the right to dispute that charge with the credit card issuer.
Examples of billing errors as defined by the FCBA:
- Charges not authorized by the consumer
- Charges in the wrong amount
- Charges for goods or services not received by the consumer
- Charges for goods not delivered as agreed
- Charges for goods that were damaged on delivery
- Failures to properly reflect payments or credits to an account
- Calculation errors
- Charges that the consumer wants clarified or requests proof of
- Statements mailed to the wrong address
- Significantly not as described product/goods
Your Rights Under the Fair Credit Billing Act
A consumer can file a dispute with the card issuer regarding an error on his or her credit card bill. The consumer has 60 days from the statement date for the card issuer to receive the consumer's dispute. Consumer must make the dispute in writing and mail it to the issuer.
Card issuer has 30 days to acknowledge receipt of a complaint, and two billing cycles to complete the investigation of the complaint. During this time, the issuer is not allowed to try to collect the disputed payment, charge interest on it, or report it to credit bureaus as late.
If the investigation verifies that the disputed charge is invalid, the card issuer must correct the errors and refund any fees or interest charged as a result. If the investigation concludes that there is no error, the card issuer must explain the findings and provide documentation as back up, upon request.
In the case of credit card fraud, such as if a card was lost or stolen, the consumer may dispute charges by phone rather than in writing.
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21-Year-Old Pianist George Li On Performing With The LA Phil On Opening Night
World renowned pianist George Li played piano at the LA Phil's opening night concert at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. He's only 21-years-old.
"The best thing to do is follow the advice that reasonable people maintain the status quo - those who are unreasonable make changes. I have yet to meet a scientist who wants to maintain the status quo."Eli Broad


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2019 Outdoors: Placed tenth in the 400m hurdles at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field National Championships... All-Region in the 400m hurdles, long jump and 100m hurdles... Won the 100m hurdles, 400m hurdles and 4x100m relay while taking second in the 100m and third in the long jump at the ODAC Outdoor Championships... Broke the BC 100m hurdle record at the W&L Carnival while also winning the 100m... Won the long jump and 4x100m relay at the Doc Jopson Invite... Won the 400m hurdles at Elon... Fourth in the 100m hurdles, fifth in the 400m hurdles and eighth in the long jump at the Mount Olive First Chance Qualifier.
2019 Indoors: Earned All-American honors in the 60m hurdles at the NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships... All-Region in the 200m, long jump, 60m and 60m hurdles... ODAC Indoor Track Athlete of the Meet... won and set a new school and ODAC record in the 60m hurdles at the ODAC Indoor Championships... Also finished second in the long jump, third in the 60m and second in the 200m at the conference meet... Member of the second place 4x400m relay team at the Finn Pincus Invite... finished fourth in the 60m hurdles and ninth in the 200m at the JDL DMR Invite.
2018 Outdoors: Won the 400m hurdles and placed 2nd in the 100m hurdles at ODAC championships (4/20-21)... Won the 400m hurdles at the Mideast Invitational (5/16-17).
2018 Indoors: Earned All-Region Honors in the 4x400 relay...Second Team All-ODAC in the 60m hurdles (9:04) and the 400m (1:01.28)...First team All-ODAcC in the 4x400 meter relay...Ranked 37th in the nation with her 60m hurdle time at the ODAC Championships...Leaped a career best 5.06m (16'7.25") in the long jump at the ODAC Championships...Ran a career-best 27.11 in the 200 meter at the Finn Pincus Invite.
2017 Outdoors: Placed 2nd in the 100m hurdles, 3rd in the 400m hurdles, 4th in the 100 meters, and won the 4x100m and 4x400m relays at ODAC championships (4/21-22)... Ran 63.09 in the 400m hurdles in the NCC Gregory Final Qualifier (5/17-18).
2017 Indoors: Named ODAC Rookie of the Year... Selected All-Region in 60 meter hurdles... Second team All-ODAC in the 200 meters... Second team All-ODAC in 60 meter hurdles... Second team All-ODAC in 60 meters... Third team All-ODAC in 4x400 meter relay... Sprinted to a personal best in the 60 meter with a time of 7.87 seconds in the ODAC Championships... Posted a career-high in the 200 meter with a time of 26.46 seconds in the ODAC Championships... Ran a season-best time o f 9.00 seconds in the 60 meter hurdles at the ODAC Championships... Won Roanoke Maroons NCAA Final Qualifier in the 60 meter hurdles with a time of 9.06 seconds... Placed third in the 400 meter at the CNU Quadrangular with a season-best time of 1:04.75
High School: Two year team captain...Helped Hawks win two conference championships and make three national appearances...Contributed to sixth place finish in 2016 indoor nationals DMR...Set nine school records... fourth place in long jump at state championship during senior year...Honor roll student...Member of the International Club.
Personal: Daughter of Pete and Kim Valle...Has two siblings, Nicholas and Abby...Volunteered at an animal shelter...Born March 10, 1998.


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14-man Toulouse stun Racing
Toulouse shrugged off a first-half red card to claim a 22-21 victory against Racing 92 in their European Champions Cup quarter-final in Paris on Sunday.
Toulouse shrugged off a first-half red card to claim a 22-21 victory against Racing 92 in their European Champions Cup quarter-final in Paris on Sunday.
Former All Blacks flyhalf Dan Carter will rejoin French Top 14 side Racing 92 until the end of the season as cover for the retired Pat Lambie.
All Blacks captain Kieran Read could move to France after the 2019 World Cup in Japan.
Springbok utility back Pat Lambie has been linked to Scottish club Edinburgh ahead of the 2018-19 Pro14 competition.
Former Springbok fullback Johan Goosen has admitted that the manner in which he backed out of his contract with Racing 92 was a 'mistake'.
Pat Lambie has confirmed that he could be ruled out for up to nine months after suffering an anterior cruciate ligament injury in the European Champions Cup final on Saturday.
Isa Nacewa kicked a 79th-minute penalty goal as Leinster beat Racing 92 15-12 in Bilbao to claim a record-equalling fourth European title. MARIETTE ADAMS reports.
Racing 92 saw off an improved second-half showing from Munster with a 27-22 win in the European Champions Cup semi-final in Bordeaux on Sunday. DYLAN JACK reports. The French club will face Leinster in the final at San Mamés Stadium in Spain on 12 May. REPORT: Leinster power past ineffective Scarlets A furious opening quarter from Racing ultimately saw them through as wing Teddy… Read more →
SARugbymag.co.za looks back at the past weekend's English Premiership, Pro14 and French Top 14 matches involving South African players. ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP – The Newcastle Falcons were too strong for Bath, securing a 29-12 win at Kingston Park. Ex-Sharks hooker Kyle Cooper started and scored a try for the Falcons, who are now fifth in the standings. – A second-string Saracens lineup, featuring… Read more →
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Thursday, August 8, 2013
Eighth Caching Day of August
Today I ventured out over lunch to grab my cache for "Groundspeak's 31 Days of Geocaching." This was a cache published just last night, found after I arrived at work, but a simple park-and-grab perfect for a grab over lunch. Hider scrapcat and TaGeez during a simple, all-too-common hide into an interesting hide by including some history of the location in their cache page. You can find out about the former historic marker and the roadside-America-like-attraction that had been there on the page for "(MSF) – The Stove That Burned" (GC4FXTJ). The question I have for you is whether or not you even look at the cache page for these simple hides.
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The Fantasy line-up is set. The jersey perfectly rumpled. The beer cold. The chips and dip aplenty. Dish with clear line of sight of the southern sky – for maximum Sunday ticket reception.
It's here dear friends. The day of days… NFL FOOTBALL!!!
The Fantasy line-up is set. The jersey perfectly rumpled. The beer cold. The chips and dip aplenty. Dish with clear line of sight of the southern sky – for maximum Sunday ticket reception.
It's here dear friends. The day of days… NFL FOOTBALL!!!
We've all got them, those foods that we wake up craving, those foods we daydream about, those foods that make us salivate at the thought of them. Most people's lists include chocolate, chips, pasta, cheese, bread and the like. My recent food lusting has taken a strange twist. I. Crave. Tofu! All day, everyday, I want it. Don't know where it came from, don't know what it will take to tame the hungry tofu beast, but she's there.
"No time! No time! There's never enough time!" I don't enter into caffeine pill induced freak outs, but I do wish for more time when I look at the stacks of food magazines and books that clutter my floor. My list of things to make and bake grows longer by the day, and there's never enough time to test and post. Someone find me a longer day, please.
Case in point, this showed up in the December 2010 issue of Bon Appetit, and I've been dying to make it ever since. A year and a half later, here she is – wow, look at that turn around time.
Writing this post, I starting thinking that I only bring the polarizing food… pork, sweets, chocolate, comfort food, dairy, beer, fish and the like. Which brought me to another realization, there's no such thing as polarizing food, yes, we all have opinions, likes and dislikes, but no matter what, there's something out there, and on here, for everyone. Never let anyone tell you that mayonnaise sucks, or that tofu is nasty, if you like it, eat it, and if you don't – let the others eat their cake!
I am now climbing off my soapbox to bring you super tasty burgers that are great for a quick lunch, or easy dinner. I couldn't possibly pack these burgers with any more of my favorite flavors – goat cheese, sun dried tomatoes, basil, cilantro, lime… ahhh!
Curry, you fabulous spice, why must I always sleep on my love for you? Every time I add this fabulous powder to a dish I'm reminded of my love of Indian cuisine, and my need to eat it more often.
If you're not crazy for curry like me, may I inform you that curry is said to prevent certain diseases like colon cancer and Alzheimer's. If that's not enough… it's claimed to be one of the most powerful aphrodisiacs, wink, wink.
If you don't know me in "real" life or follow me on Twitter (@megpowesq) you might not know that Cleveland is one of my favorite cities in the whole wide world. I know, I know. Their sports teams suck… GO TRIBE, GO BROWNIES! Economic hardships are prevalent. I don't care what you say, burn on big river, burn on! I truly love Cleveland.
If I've ever interviewed for an episode of "The Best Thing I Ever Ate" they'd have to do an entire show of me gushing over the meal I had at Lola, Michael Symon's insanely amazing restaurant in C-land. Seriously, words cannot describe the tastebadic orgasm that happened the night I dined there.
So naturally, when this recipe for Roasted Butternut Squash Soup came across my email with the fabulous Derek Clayton from Lola as the author, I had to try it.
There's heat, there's maple syrup, there's cream and roasted, and sweet and yum! Oh, it's divinity… I swear!
"Hey Napoleon, gimme some of your tots!" "No, go find your own."
(Like any recipe with tater tots could be complete without a Napoleon Dynamite reference!)
Warning – this dish is ridiculous! Warning – this dish is DELCIOUS!
If the idea of using tater tots instead of tortilla chips for your nachos doesn't appeal to you, all I can say is don't knock it till you try it.


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Fire damage mitigation is essential after a fire to reduce further damage to your Upper East Side, NYC home. Today, we're going to look at the steps the professionals at ServiceMaster Metropolitan take to ensure successful fire damage mitigation!
Step #1: The First Call – Evaluate Severity of Damage
When we receive your call, we respond right away. First, we try to collect as much information as possible to determine the type of fire damage scenario we're dealing with.
Normally, our experts ask a few questions during their initial call to get a better idea of the severity of the damage. These questions include:
- What caused the fire and when did it occurred?
- Is there extensive soot in your home?
- Has the fire penetrated throughout your home?
- Has anyone already attempted cleanup?
By getting answers to these questions we're able to develop a plan of action for proper fire damage mitigation.
Step #2: House Visit and Pretest
The next step is visiting your home and inspecting the fire damage and conducting a pretest.
After the inspection we'll provide the paperwork you'll have to fill out. These documents include:
- Client information form
- Authorization form so we can perform fire damage mitigation work at your home
- Fire damage information form. This form will outline when the fire damage remediation work begins, the procedure we'll be following, and the cleaning agents we'll utilize
The fire damage information form will also detail items including important documents, jewelry, firearms, and heirlooms. This way our team will have record of specialty items that require special care during the mitigation process.
Step #3: Scoping and Estimation
Next, our technicians will be scoping the property to clearly outline what services we'll be providing as part of the mitigation process.
The scoping will be used to develop an estimate and workorder.
Once you sign all the necessary documents, the fire damage mitigation work can begin.
Step #4: Fire Damage Mitigation Work
Finally, our experts will start and finish the restoration within the set time frame.
Once the fire damage mitigation is completed we'll conduct a final walk through and inspection with you to ensure the work has been performed as specified. You will then sign a certificate of satisfaction if work has been performed as required.
The experts at ServiceMaster Metropolitan have the required expertise and training to conduct all processes and procedures required for thorough fire damage mitigation on your home in the Upper East Side. Just give us a call at (855) 560-7999 for immediate assistance!


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Dr. Steven Davidowitz uses a specialized smile creation technique created by his father, Dr. Gary Davidowitz. Dr. Gary Davidowitz lectures and teaches his specialized "Dr. D's smile makeover aesthetic steps to success technique" to dentists from all over the world – traveling into NYC from over 52 different countries looking to learn from his aesthetic excellence. Placement of porcelain veneers is one that requires the skill, precision, and artistry of a talented cosmetic dentist. This is a talent that both Dr. Steven and Dr. Gary share and both are proud of their commitment of excellence in cosmetic dentistry.
Having your smile made over with Veneers at Luxury Dentistry NYC usually takes about three office visits. Utilizing Dr. Davidowitz' own "Dr. D's smile makeover aesthetic steps to success technique" your new smile begins with a consultation visit.
During this first visit, Dr. Steven Davidowitz will begin to design your new beautiful smile. Together with your help, we will determine what size, shape, and brightness will best complement your smile, face structure, and most importantly your aesthetic desires. An initial Itero digital impression and photos are then taken of the face and teeth. Utilizing expert photography and state of the art computer technology a smile simulation of your new smile will be created. A slide show and still photos showing before and simulated-after images will be available in the office to review within hours of your first meeting with the Dr. Davidowitz.
On the second visit, Dr. D will perform his skills and carefully and methodically prepare the teeth to accommodate the veneer. He will then place temporary veneers, that match the smile simulation, to protect the teeth while the permanent version is crafted by our ceramist. During this trial period you will "test-drive" your new smile allowing any fine tweaking to be performed prior to the final visit.
On your third visit your new smile will be placed. This is the final step in your smile transformation, and you will leave Luxury Dentistry NYC with a brand new, beautiful signature Dr. D smile.
Everyone wants a movie star smile but few people realize just how easy achieving that flawless smile can be, thanks to cosmetic dentistry. The majority of those coveted movie star smiles are achieved with veneers, many of which were created right here in our Upper East Side office. When completed by a trustworthy expert aesthetic dentist Porcelain Laminate Veneers can provide an instant smile makeover like no other method can.
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These are a new types of veneers which allow you to obtain a custom designed smile. They are extremely thin veneers – averaging about 0.3mm in thickness as compared with the average standard veneer thickness of 1mm. In many cases, No prep to minimal prep veneers are a wonderful option for a smile-makover; unlike traditional veneers, these ultra-thin veneers can be completed with no injections and little to no reduction of tooth structure. Not all patients are candidates for this ultra-thin veneer treatment. Dr. Davidowitz will evaluate your specific situation to ascertain whether this treatment option is appropriate for you.
No prep to minimal prep veneers typically take only two simple visits to create your new beautiful smile. During your first visit, Dr. Davidowitz will design your new beautiful smile. Together with the Dr., you will help determine what size, shape, and brightness will best complement your smile, face structure, and most importantly your aesthetic desires. Certain areas of the tooth enamel may be polished and modified to allow for proper room and for beautiful results. Utilizing our state of the art digital impression technology, exact Itero digital copies are taken of your teeth.
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FOR a small but passionate group of men and women, myself included, Thursday will be the biggest night of the year.
For weeks I've been windmilling in front of mirrors and limbering up my neck in preparation for excessive head banging. I'm watching my carbs and hitting the hay early. Because in four days, at the Key Club in Los Angeles, I will be representing New York against some of the fiercest competitors ever to take the stage in one of the most important events of our lives: The U.S. Air Guitar Championships.
I know the glory of dressing up and fanatically playing an invisible instrument in front of a crowd is not something that everyone immediately grasps. When I tell people I've spent more than two years as a competitive air guitarist, they often look at me bewildered, like a dog tilting its head at an unfamiliar command. Or they just laugh at me. Following a segment about a competition, Jack Cafferty, a CNN anchor, once scoffed: "That's the dumbest thing I've ever seen. Air guitar?"
And in his book "Air Guitar," Dave Hickey, a professor of art criticism and theory at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, likens air guitar to art criticism, which he says cannot replace the original work but merely "bob after it, like a dinghy in the wake of a yacht."
But I'm here to tell you that air guitar is more than a bobbing dinghy. Up on stage you only have 60 seconds to convince the judges of your airisimilitude, and in those 60 seconds you must take everything you know about rock 'n' roll, boil it down to its essence, drink it and then spit it over the crowd like blood from the mouth of Alice Cooper.
In the words of the two-time (2002 and '03) world air guitar champion, Zac Monro (known as the Magnet), "Air guitar is the purest art form there is left."
So what does it take to win an air guitar competition? After suffering continual losses for three seasons in eight official competitions from New York to Denver to Los Angeles to Oulu, Finland -- and coming in second place four times -- I found out on May 21 at the New York regional air guitar competition. To paraphrase Nietzsche (an idol to many an air guitarist) my losses only made me stronger.
Wearing a silver jumpsuit and star-spangled armbands filled with dry ice, and rocking under the moniker Björn Türoque (pronounced tu-RAWK), I froze out the other contenders with my explosive rendition of "Set Me Free" by Sweet (an obscure yet classic glam-rock anthem). Advanced airmanship to be sure.
Air guitar is not about pretending to be a rock star. You must be that rock star. You might not need to put dry ice in your armbands to create smoky contrails as you strum, but it helps. As far as other wardrobe options go, nudity is an obvious attention-getter and has become a performance staple, but so far it hasn't won any competitions. And to paraphrase Twain, clothes make the air guitarist.
Another key component is your stage name. Puns are good, like Air Lingus (an Irish-American competitor), Air-Do-Well, and Air-satz. Something simple and to the point, like the Shred, works too. And don't go with a slow song, as I mistakenly did last year with Air Supply's ballad "Making Love Out of Nothing at All," which, when up against the lightning-fast licks of "Queen in Love" by Yngwie Malmsteen, quickly deflated. You may want a track with which the audience is familiar, but avoid clichés like Van Halen's "Eruption" (the air guitar equivalent to playing "Stairway to Heaven" in a guitar store) or Jimi Hendrix's rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner."
Finally, air guitar is an instrument, but it's an entirely different instrument from the so-called "real" guitar. So don't focus on your fingering too much as you play. Remember, if you hit a bad note only you will know. Instead, engage the crowd: make eye contact, perch yourself on the monitor and flutter your tongue; make fans get out their air lighters.
Though air guitar is probably as old as rock 'n' roll itself (Elvis surely inspired teeny-boppers to imitate his swaggering strums), it didn't come out of the bedroom to gain cultural cachet until Tom Cruise, in briefs, strummed a fire poker to Bob Seger in the 1983 film "Risky Business." Six years later Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, playing empty-headed American teenagers raised on arena rock, air-plucked their way through "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure."
Today air guitar is everywhere: even Britney Spears, who has never performed with an actual instrument, imitates the fans who imitate rock stars when she strums the air wildly in her 2005 video "Do Somethin"'; Will Arnett of "Arrested Development" recently played air guitar to the theme of "Law & Order" on "Late Night With Conan O'Brien"; and Will Farrell plays air guitar while serenading Nicole Kidman in the current film "Bewitched."
There is also, of course, the world crown. In 1996 the first Air Guitar World Championship took place in Oulu, Finland, with just seven local competitors. This year's competition is on Aug. 26 with national champions from 13 countries, from Australia to the United Arab Emirates, as well as the additional last-minute entrants who trek to Oulu (as I did in 2003) on a whim and a prayer.
The grand prize is a handmade Finnish guitar and an amplifier signed by Brian May of the band Queen. What an air guitarist will do with an actual guitar is anybody's guess.
And though performers from the United States only started competing in 2003, we've reigned air supreme: festooned with a Hello Kitty breastplate and crimson kimono, the Brooklynite C-Diddy won the world crown in 2003, and his female protégé, Sonyk-Rok, also from Brooklyn, tied for the title with a New Zealander in 2004.
This year, as the reigning New York champ, I am confident I can do my city proud. I've certainly paid my dues. But my air guitar chops weren't always so well honed. Growing up in the hardscrabble suburbs of Denver, I always did my air guitar in private, for fear of torment by my older brother and the public at large.
I had no idea that jumping up and down on my bed, wielding an imaginary ax in imitation of my rock 'n' roll heroes, would years later become an internationally recognized pursuit, or much less that I'd be good at it. Now, I dedicate part of my life to sharing the skills I've learned with the world.
There is no air guitar school (though there is an annual training camp prior to the world championship in Finland) and no secret formula, but I have established a monthly Aireoke night (see aireoke.com for details), which recently moved to Trash Bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Think of it as a farm system for the major leagues.
With qualifying events in seven cities where thousands of fans cheer on scores of contestants, it is clear that competitive air guitar is on our shores to stay. As Kriston Rucker, an organizer of the U.S. Air Guitar Competition, put it, "If there's one thing that Americans deserve to dominate, it's competitive air guitar."


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Entering An Existing Market? Read This First
If you are thinking about entering a market with an improved product/service, how much thought have you given to how you will differentiate and how you will price? Over the Holidays we had the opportunity to read this piece that does a great job at distilling the concepts of Deflationary Pricing and Distruptive Market Entry into a quick and informative read. Coming from an entreprenuer-turned-successful VC, it not only offers lessons from an operating perspective, but insights on how this particular VC thinks about assessing a startup's business model economics.
When you think about the great achievement of the Internet in aiding content, commerce & communication they include:
- Large scales of connected people & information never seen before in humanity
- Unprecedented transparency of information
- Open standards that make it easier to plug into other products & services, creating a global bazaar
- Socially connected individuals and platforms that enable faster roll-outs of successful products
- Payment ready consumers (Amazon, iTunes, PayPal) and businesses (Google AdWords, Square)
So which types of businesses become super successful given this environment?
Ones that offer amazing value (low relative margins) at high volumes that makes it nearly impossible for high-cost incumbents to compete. That's what I mean by deflationary economics.
It is a classic case of the Innovator's Dilemma in practice. If you're a startup and you haven't read my summary of Clay Christensen's seminal work please do.
It's the single most influential piece of work in determining my investment philosophy and how I think about markets. In a recent panel discussion I participated in with Fred Wilson he said the same.
Why Deflationary Business Win
In the simplest form, new startups have a product that is INFERIOR to that offered by the competition but at a dramatically lower price with the seller opting for a very thin margin on their product.
Initially their only customers are people who can get by on the reduced functionality or perhaps don't have the money to spend on the expensive product.
Often it turns out that the market is greatly expanded by having a lower price point new entrant. And over time the new entrant attracts enough business that, as depicted in the graph above, the quality of the product slowly increases over time.
The new entrant keeps margins low but suddenly has a lot of profits due to large volumes of business.
How does the incumbent respond? Not by dropping price & quality – they don't have an advantage there. Instead they spend more money trying to innovate on product quality and call attention to the weaknesses of the new entrants product quality.
Often major customers defect en masse to the new entrant as they realize that the huge price premium is not justified by the product differentials.
Read on to learn more about why you may be thinking about pricing too high… even if you are closing business!


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Bev and David attended North Montpelier Elementary School together and were childhood friends. Many years later, the two were reacquainted and were exploring their future together when David, who was exposed to asbestos while serving in the US Navy, became ill and was diagnosed with mesothelioma.
CVHHH's Hospice team provided thoughtful, supportive care for David at his home, which was located on Bev's family farm in Montpelier. Eventually, David was cared for at Respite House in Colchester, where he died. After David's death, Bev attended CVHHH's free, grief support groups run by our Bereavement Coordinator Diana Moore. "The group was–what else can I say–so supportive. It was a safe place to cry, laugh, ask questions, vent, and accept and understand my feelings around the loss of David," said Bev when we met with her at her home (pictured above). "I am so very grateful that this group was available to me, and to everyone who I met and with whom I shared and provided support."
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February 9th, 2011 – by Glen Farmer
The Super Bowl is one of the most heavily bet sporting events in the United States, and casinos in Nevada look forward to the influx of cash brought in by their sportsbooks over the big game.
Unfortunately, the influx of cash was not as large as gambling officials had hoped. According to the Nevada Gaming Control Board, the 183 sportsbooks in the region brought in $724,176 from the $87.5 million that had been wagered. This marks the lowest win that Nevada has had from Super Bowl wagers in 13 years.
The Packers were the favorite going into the event. Those who bet for the Packers to win straight up won their bets, as did those who bet on the Packers to cover the spread, which was set at 2.5 to 3.5, depending on the sportsbook, with 2.5 being the predominant line.
Green Bay and Pittsburgh also managed to drive the over/under into the total, exceeding the 45 point estimate that sportsbooks had placed.
Last year, during the harsh economic downturn, Nevada's gambling businesses were saved in part by Super Bowl wagers, but also baccarat, a game played primarily by high rollers.
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Industry Scoop: Aria Awards 2004Exclusive Backstage Coverage
The 18th Annual ARIA Music Awards were held at the Sydney Superdome on October 17 and this columnist was there to capture all of the excitement on the red carpet and backstage. For the uninitiated, the ARIAs are Australias most prestigious music industry awards celebrating the achievements of Australian artists over the past year. More than 2000 music industry guests and 6000 fans turned up for the event, which was hosted by Rove McManus and broadcast on Network Ten.
This years awards will be remembered for three letters J-E-T! As this column predicted last month, Jet absolutely cleaned up on the night taking away a whopping six gongs in total on the back of the success of their debut album, Get Born. The Melbourne four-piece, who restored hard-rocking riffs and anthems to chart glory, scored awards for Best Album, Best Group, Best Rock Album, Breakthrough Artist Album (Get Born), Breakthrough Artist Single (Are You Gonna Be My Girl") and the prestigious Single of the Year for Are You Gonna Be My Girl. There were mixed feelings backstage however when brothers Nic and Chris Cester talked about their fathers recent passing.
Its a shame obviously that Dad couldnt be here tonight. I dont know if he gets Channel Ten where he is at the moment, but I hope hes watching, said Nic.
They also sung their praises for legendary Australian outfit The Easybeats. They said, Everybody knows Friday On My Mind, but the Easybeats probably inspired us in more ways than what we usually get tagged with. Its because that scene existed at that time that made us want to be in a band. A supergroup featuring Nic Cester on vocals (with members of other ARIA nominated bands such as The Living End, Dallas Crane and Spiderbait) closed the show with a cover of the Stevie Wright (Easybeats) classic Evie (Part 1) as a tribute to the singer. Chris Cester said of the performance, That whole things all about just trying to get everyone together and making this huge thing so that rock n roll is #1 again, because it should be. And thats just the way it panned out on the night for the band who took away all the big awards.
Roots music also received some recognition on the night with the John Butler Trio taking away three awards for Best Blues and Roots Album and Best Independent Release for Sunrise Over Sea, while John Butler himself was surprisingly named Best Male Artist. The singer said, Roots music you know - its good to see it get the recognition that it deserves. Without roots music there wouldnt be rock n roll so its good to see theres an appreciation for it out there. Butler, who releases his albums independently in this country also joined in on the debate of major record companies versus the independents. He said, Im very proud to be independent but Im independent just because thats just the way it works for me. Im signed overseas I just signed a record deal overseas. I dont think any one is better than the other as long as artists have complete 100% creativity/control, which a lot of artists dont get, but I have with my record deals overseas. Business and music I think its very essential for all musicians to have a business mind about them. Otherwise theyre going to get screwed in some way or another.
Kasey Chambers also had a successful night, walking away with the Best Country Album for the chart-topping Wayward Angel, and against the odds took out Best Female Artist for the same release. Backstage she could barely contain her excitement, speaking of how rewarding it is to have success on her own terms. She said, I think the biggest lesson Ive learned is to stick to your guns and do what you do. You dont have to compromise what you do in order to get success. Thats probably the biggest thing I am proud of in my career being able to do that. You know, still play the music that I love and Ive been really lucky in that there are a fair few people out there that like it.
The queen of the 2003 ARIAs, Delta Goodrem, also managed to take home an award despite not having released any new material over the year. Innocent Eyes was crowned the Highest Selling Album for the 2nd year in a row, which is a rare feat. But backstage, Delta was more excited about talking up her new album, Mistaken Identity. She said, The new album has a lot of songs that I really felt I just had to be completely honest, and talk about the experiences from the past year and reflect on everything that was going on. But then also, there are some positive songs on there saying, you know what, Im still singing, Im here again at the ARIAs with everybody and its fantastic. Delta performed the first single off the album, Out Of The Blue, on the night for the first time anywhere in the world, but the performance was a major topic of discussion on her website in the days after the event with many fans criticising it. Delta flew out to London (where most of the album was recorded) in the week after the awards, but will be back in time to promote the new album. She said, I really look forward to people hearing it because seeing as there has been a lot of discussion around it, I felt that I already put all my thoughts and feelings into this music.
Missy Higgins also joked about her success this year after picking up the Best Pop Release for Scar. She said, I dont think its going to buy five star hotels, but I think I might have moved up a little bit from the backpacking hostels. I hope so anyway. Im a bit over the flea bites. Previously discovered by Triple Js unearthed, she revealed that she took a break after winning the competition. She said, I went backpacking around Europe after Id signed to my record label. I just kind of knew that I needed the time off, because everyone was telling me like you get started in the music industry and once the ball starts rolling, its hard to stop. So it was something that Id been saving up for that I really wanted to do. Im glad I did it.
Guy Sebastian, a wide-eyed Australian Idol at last years ARIA Awards, won Highest Selling Single for Angels Brought Me Here and Channel [V]s Oz Artist of the Year. According to the bro with the fro, the past year has been all about learning. He said, Its been a really short time, but Ive learned so much. Ive been overseas making my album. I think Ive learned that not everyone gets the opportunity that Ive had. My record company basically gave me a budget and said go and do your album and kind of just gave me free rein to do what I like, and along the journey Ive learned so much. He was also very thankful to the Australian public for voting him the Australian Idol last year. He said, I was fortunate enough to go on Idol. I know its copped a lot of flak. But you know Im so proud to have been voted by the people - that matter to me.
Congratulations to all of the winners at the 2004 ARIA Music Awards - the full list of which can be found below:
ALBUM OF THE YEAR - Jet Get Bore
SINGLE OF THE YEAR - Jet Are You Gonna Be My Girl
BEST GROUP - Jet Get Born
BEST MALE ARTIST - John Butler Sunrise Over Sea
BEST FEMALE ARTIST - Kasey Chambers Wayward Angel
HIGHEST SELLING SINGLE - Guy Sebastian Angels Brought Me Here
HIGHEST SELLING ALBUM - Delta Goodrem Innocent Eyes
BEST POP RELEASE - Missy Higgins Scar
BEST ROCK ALBUM - Jet Get Born
BEST URBAN RELEASE - Koolism Part 3 Random Thoughts
BEST BLUES & ROOTS ALBUM - John Butler Trio Sunrise Over Sea
BEST DANCE RELEASE - Infusion Girls Can Be Cruel
BEST COUNTRY ALBUM - Kasey Chambers Wayward Angel
BEST ADULT CONTEMPORARY ALBUM - Paul Kelly Ways & Means
BEST CHILDRENS ALBUM - Hi-5 Holiday
BEST COMEDY RELEASE - Scared Weird Little Guys Bits and Pieces
BEST INDEPENDENT RELEASE - John Butler Trio Sunrise Over Sea
BEST MUSIC DVD - Midnight Oil Best Of Both Worlds
BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST ALBUM - Jet Get Born
BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST SINGLE - Jet Are You Gonna Be My Girl
Fine Arts Awards
BEST CLASSICAL ALBUM - Teddy Tahu Rhodes The Voice
BEST JAZZ ALBUM - The Necks Drive By
BEST ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK/CAST/SHOW RECORDING - David Bridie Nautical Forlorn
BEST WORLD MUSIC ALBUM - Seaman Dan Perfect Pearl
Artisan Awards
BEST COVER ART - James Hackett for The Dissociatives by The Dissociatives
BEST VIDEO - James Hackett for Somewhere Down The Barrel by The Dissociatives
ENGINEER OF THE YEAR - Paul McKercher for A Song Is A City by Eskimo Joe
PRODUCER OF THE YEAR - Paul McKercher and Eskimo Joe for A Song Is A City by Eskimo Joe
Eskimo Joe, Pete Murray, The Dissociatives, Dan Kelly & The Alpha Males, Dallas Crane and The Cat Empire all went away empty handed on the night despite having multiple nominations each. One has to feel for Pete Murray in particular, who was nominated in five categories and thoroughly deserved an award for the major success of his debut album, Feeler, which is still charting after more than 15 months in the Top 50. As predicted by this column last month, Shannon Noll also missed out despite having the years highest selling single in What About Me and one of the years highest selling albums in Thats What Im Talking About.
*The Black Eyed Peas revealed their plans to release a new album in February 2005. They said, Rhythmically its a lot faster and more aggressive. Its kinda like a combo of Hey Mama & Lets Get Retarded combined. Also on the record we got James Brown the godfather of soul. We also collaborated with Sting. And commenting on the pressure to follow up the huge success of Elephunk, they said, We just go in the studio and make music. We write songs everyday. Its not really a struggle. You dont really compare it. Theres always going to be a situation that you want to release. Thats what its about. Its releasing that pain. 2005 is shaping up to be a big year for the group who will not only be celebrating their 10th year anniversary but also plan to come back to Australia for another tour in March.
*The top 6 Australian Idol finalists also attended the big event. Finalist Chanel summed up the night when she said, Well everything thats happened on Australian Idol has been really bizarre and tonight was like another mad episode of Inside Idol. When asked what she wanted to be as a kid, she said, I wanted to be a princess because then Id have people to clean up after me. But I said that while I was dusting
hehe. When asked the same question, the height challenged Anthony said, I still have to grow up, while Marty said, I was going to be like a crazed mad inventor. But that didnt last very long. Unfortunately for him, neither did his stint on Australian Idol as he was voted out the following night. Courtney on the other hand said, I always wanted to be a rock star. He will soon find out whether that dream will become a reality with the winner of Australian Idol being announced later this month.
*Australian Idol runners up from 2003 Shannon Noll and Cosima also came in for a chat. Shannon said of the current idols, I think theyre all great kids. Theyre all very talented so good luck to them. Cosima on the other hand spoke about her decision to leave Australian Idol. She said, I really believe that everything happens for a reason. If that hadnt happened, I wouldnt have been where I am today. She added, The supporters, they were absolutely amazing from the moment that I left. Australians have an amazing capacity to just bond together and they really showed their affection for me when I left. She also spoke about the decision to release her album independently. She said, It might take a bit longer and it might be slightly harder but Im doing what I love and at the end of the day thats whats important and Ive done an album that I can be proud of.
*Jimmy Barnes and Chris Cheney (The Living End) also revealed that they have collaborated on a track called Resurrection Shuffle for the forthcoming Jimmy Barnes 2UP album. Cheney spoke about the union as well as his involvement in the supergroup that performed Evie. He said, It actually feels really good to be playing guitar with someone other than the other two guys in my band because Ive never really done it so its actually quite refreshing to be playing with other musicians and stuff for a change. Its been really great. Also, the thing we did with Jimmy too - weve never really done anything like that before. We learned so much from recording - especially with Jimmy. It was probably the quickest most fun kind of recording session weve done because we wanted the best result so that says it all right there. Barnes added, I think its a great thing for bands to get together because you always learn something. Cheney also spoke about The Living Ends nomination for Best Rock Album for Modern Artillery. He said, Its actually good to be nominated for us because weve been overseas for most of this year. We released the album last October and then pretty much went overseas. We havent really been in the country promoting it as much as I would have liked but to get a nomination is actually a bit of a surprise.
*Best Cleavage Award for the 2004 ARIAs goes to Tina Arena who joked about her Greatest Hits album being re-titled Greatest Tits
were with you on that one Tina! Honorable mentions go to Kate Ceberano, Katie Noonan, Tiffani Wood, and Nessa Morgan.
*Best Dressed Award goes to Sophie Monk who looked fantastic in her Lisa Ho dress. Honorable mention goes to Andrew Mercado from MAX who was dressed in a butchers outfit and happily posed for a photo with us.
*Spotted: Ian Thorpe texting away on his mobile phone at the afterparty at the Establishment.
*Also spotted: Guy Sebastian look-alike Aaron Lay who was last seen by this columnist trying to sneak in to the afterparty. Not only did he succeed, but he did well to convince some people that he was the real deal.
*Winners of the Best Dance Release Infusion have come out of the closet revealing that theyd like to remix The Wiggles track Dorothy The Dinosaur.
*After two years of touring for Get Born, Jet are ready to start writing for their next album. In the meantime, watch Channel [V] on the 13th & 14th of November from 12 noon EST for a world exclusive broadcast of a performance by the band.
*In the no names department, which high profile celebrity was spotted acting suspiciously in the bathroom at the start of the ceremony?
Here are the Top 10 quotes that this columnist was privy to backstage:
1. Its just bullshit that goes on afterwards. I dont know what everybody elses ulterior motive is but I just want to say hi to a few people and I actually want to go to bed. Tina (Italians do it better) Arena speaking about the afterparty.
2. A year and a half ago, and even now, if someone told me that my song had went in the Top 100, Id be doing cartwheels for months. Guy Sebastian on the #1 success of Angels Brought Me Here.
3. Appreciation is majorly appreciated and that kind of appreciation is surreal. I wasnt expecting that. John Butler on picking up three awards for the Sunrise Over Sea album.
4. One thing we did was when we realised that nobody was coming to see us play, we just made it all about the songwriting. We just kind of locked ourselves away and made sure we honed our craft and all that sort of shit. Jet on their early days.
5. I like the fact that they, when they recorded their music, you dont know if it was made today or if it was made in the 60s. They really nailed it. They wrote good songs not really concerned about what todays popular standards are to get on the radio. Black Eyed Peas giving props to Jet.
6. We worked hard at pushing Australian music, home-grown in the suburbs of Melbourne, and we sold it around the world. And were still very proud of that and opened the door for lots of other people that came behind us and still continues on now. Australia is now a completely international musical country and we played our small part. The classic line up of the Little River Band after being inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame.
7. Australia is always my home and thats where I will always base myself definitely. And Ive got my dogs and Ive got my family and everything so I always come home here
I will be spending a little bit of time overseas but Australia is my base. Delta Goodrem still calls Australia home.
8. A year ago I would have never in my wildest dreams thought that I would be here right now. Missy Higgins commenting on her success.
9. Hip hop is really taking off and people are catching on to something that really is Australian. Koolism on their Best Urban Release award win.
10. I think theres just been a lack of alcohol tonight. Eskimo Joe sum up the night.
One of the UKs most successful female DJs, Jessica Joy, has been announced as the headline act at the upcoming Chicks With Decks extravaganza - to be held on Saturday November 13 at Oxford Street's UN Nightclub (DCM). Jessica Joy, who has also played under the Seraphim moniker, has held various residencies in the UK and has performed all over the world - including a blistering set in front of 10,000 people at Sydneys Field Day in 2002. She will be joined by DJ Trinity and some special guests who will be taking clubbers on a wild musical journey at one of Sydney's most popular venues. The event, which was founded in mid 2004, aims to showcase the finest female talent in an industry that is dominated by males. The next one is shaping up to being an even bigger and better spectacle than ever before! We have some exclusive VIP passes to giveaway to those who email firstname.lastname@example.com. This will entitle you to FREE entry and FREE cocktails on the night so make sure to email your details through. Dont miss CHICKS WITH DECKS at UN Nightclub (33 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst) on November 13.
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United Airlines also has a partnership with Hawaiian Airlines, so it's easy to combine inter-island flights with your primary flight from the continental US. This makes for a great use of the United Excursionist Perk!
If you can find low-level award seats, United Airlines' award prices to Hawaii starts at 22,500 United Airlines miles one-way in coach. Flights in Business Class price out at 40,000 United Airlines miles per person, one-way, but these can be notoriously difficult to find.
In fact, if you do find United Airlines award flights at the cheapest prices (22,500 miles in coach or starting at 40,000 miles in Business Class), I recommend you do NOT book your award flights with United Airlines miles. That's because Singapore Airlines, another transfer partner of Chase Ultimate Rewards, will sell you the same flights for fewer miles!
Singapore Airlines only charges 17,500 miles one-way, per person in coach. Or you can pay just 30,000 miles per person, each way to fly in Business Class. That's a significant savings when compared to what you'd pay if booking with United Airlines miles!
On the other hand, I sometimes book flights to Hawaii with United Airlines miles when low-level award flights are not available, because United Airlines releases additional flights at a premium.
For example, United Airlines offers several levels of coach that might range in price from 22,500 miles to 45,000 miles one-way. Although you may pay more miles, they can be useful if you are less flexible with your travel dates (such as due to school holidays or weekend constraints) and need flights on a particular day.
3. Flying Blue Miles for Delta Award Flights
While British Airways Avios points are by far the most valuable for award flights on Alaska Airlines and American Airlines, the Flying Blue (Air France / KLM) loyalty program offers great value for award flights on Delta to the Hawaiian Islands. Delta offers flights to 4 Hawaiian airports, and offers convenient connection points regardless of where your journey begins in the US.
If you can find low-level award seats, coach flights on Delta from the continental US to Hawaii begin at just 15,000 Flying Blue miles per person, one-way in coach. Or you can pay twice that (starting at 30,000 miles per person, each way) to fly Business Class and enjoy more space as well as on-board drinks and meals.
However, you might already be thinking about how difficult it can be to find low-level Delta award flights. You would be correct—especially if trying to book last minute, or if you're particular about the dates or exact flights you want to take.
If you have some flexibility, or if you know your Hawaiian vacation plans well in advance, you might luck out with finding the right award flights at the perfect time! I always recommend that you search for award flights as soon as you know about the dates to get the flights that work best with your schedule.
Keep in mind that Delta offers tons of award flights to Honolulu, including non-stop flights daily from Minneapolis and Atlanta. So Delta is another great option if you're based in the Central or Eastern US.
Can't Find Award Seats? Pay for Flights Through the Chase Ultimate Rewards Portal With Points Instead
If you're struggling to find the award flights you want, consider paying for your flights with Ultimate Rewards points through the Chase Travel Portal.
With flights to Hawaii costing less than ever before, if you find a good sale you can pick the precise flights that work for your schedule or your family's needs and still save on points. Remember that your Chase Ultimate Rewards points are worth different amounts based on which Chase credit cards you hold.
If you hold the Chase Sapphire Reserve, your Chase Ultimate Rewards points are worth 1.5 cents each when redeeming through the Chase Travel Portal. But with the Chase Ink Business Preferred or Chase Sapphire Preferred, your points are worth 1.25 cents each when booking through the portal. With any other Chase Ultimate Rewards card, your points are worth 1 cent apiece.
So if you would prefer to earn miles for your flights, be more particular about your travel dates and times, and don't mind spending a bit extra, I would recommend you book your flights through the Chase Travel portal. Once again, try to buy your flights as early as possible or when there's a fare sale to get the best deals!
Bonus: Transfer Chase Ultimate Rewards Points for Southwest Flights to Hawaii
Southwest still hasn't released details for their Hawaii flights, but they're supposed to be coming very soon. These tickets will likely be priced very competitively, and you'll be able to redeem Southwest points to cover the cost of your flights.
Folks with the Southwest Companion Pass stand to get HUGE value if they want to bring along a friend on their next Hawaiian adventure. So even though these flights aren't yet open for booking, it's a great option to keep in mind for future reference!
Bottom Line
No matter where in Hawaii you want to visit or which airline you prefer to fly, the flexibility of Chase Ultimate Rewards points can help you make your Hawaiian vacation a reality. Even a single sign-up bonus from a credit card like the Chase Ink Business Preferred (currently 80,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards points after meeting minimum spending requirements) can help you cover 2 round-trip flights to Hawaii from the continental US.
You can earn Chase Ultimate Rewards points with cards like:
In the past, I've easily found non-stop award flights from West Coast cities to the Hawaiian islands of my choice, but it certainly helps to book far in advance. And knowing that the cheapest way to book award flights on United Airlines sometimes isn't with United Airlines miles can save you a significant amount of Ultimate Rewards points!
You'll have plenty of adventuring to do once you arrive in Hawaii, like the Road to Hana, helicopter tours, surfing lessons, swimming with sea turtles, ziplining, and more! So I hope you can use some of the strategies and tips above to make flights to Hawaii as cheap (or free!) as possible.
What's your favorite way to get to Hawaii with Chase Ultimate Rewards points?


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John the Baptist was a burning and shining light. What qualified him? Perhaps 2 Cor 4:6 helps "For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." The light of the knowledge of the glory of God? — Light of knowledge? — Of glory? — Of God? — God's glory's knowledge? — "Gnosis", "doxa" in the face of Jesus? — John reflected Jesus' face of knowledge of the glory of God.
How can a person be a shining light? If he or she leads many to righteousness, they will shine like the stars in the firmament says Daniel 10. Ecc 8:1 points out; "Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed." Majesty of his face changed? Yes, shining displays itself in a secure, prevailing, stout, strong, majestic countenance.
Three areas of light change our face and first is the face of Jesus Christ alive. When we see Him as He is, meek and lowly of heart and then high and lifted up, we are changed into the selfsame image. Second is the path of the just, on which our once-and-for-all justification brightens, and that path shines more and more unto the perfect day. Third is the light of truth, in which we are enabled to see greater light of truth. So, we have a new friend, we are headed in a new direction with Him, and we are being filled with deeper insight through Him.
In these three arenas, we emerge as beacons of light, which we do not hide under a bushel. We let our light shine so that the world may see our good works. With our light we expose darkness, lies, and hell, resist the cosmic path, and have insight into the nature of all things.
Some prefer darkness, their deeds are evil is why. They wanna be bad and not feel bad about it. Some don't know any better. They hold a wisdom from below which has light from below. They must master craftiness; after all, they are trying to transform what is real, true and obvious into a lie.
The light-resisters who mature into active liars capitalize on the calamity, pain, trauma and suffering of others. Aware of the vulnerable state of the hurting, they sell their darkness as light now, with a view to prop up their own lie-based universe. They use catch phrases such as, "I told you so" or "you can't trust anybody" or "where was God?" Layers of pain and lie, lie-upon-lie, face upon face, adhere like stucco to the counter-converted soul now, progressively adding deceit to sin.
We find many people in this sad condition. Our light-shining commissions us to bring these out of their darkness. They walk into our counseling room. We need fortitude of face, genuineness in our features, a welcoming hue, and knowledge/love expressed in the nature of God's awesomeness. We must reveal Christ.
Herein the back breaks. My confession is, in counseling people, I was often overwhelmed by the problems of folks. Indeed their complications loomed so large, to appear as impossibilities. God had to convince me that what I had gained in my Bible training was enough, — simply trust it and use it. I wasn't sure. Nevertheless, counselees' multi-layered junk continued unfigurable, and the more I openly condescended to un-sorting it, the more miffed I became.
Finally, light and darkness are both alike to God. Frankly, light and darkness are just varied displays of a creation spoken alive by True Light. When men love darkness, they love their own invention supported by other inventors. The goal for us is to walk in His Light, as He is in that Light. Here the blood of Christ cleanses away all Light-blocking elements, to insure a pure ray to flow. Precious Lights, keep reflecting His glory! Love ya


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My legs ache as I attempt to descend stairs without looking like an invalid. Such is my state after hiking up Leckhampton Hill a few days ago to catch the view so fondly remembered from a long-ago walk. Last time the pace was leisurely along gentle slopes. This time I ascended from the north side of the escarpment. Reaching the top, I was happy to note the excellent visibility; however, the landscape seemed a bit dreary under the clouds. But then a ray of sunlight broke through the clouds, illuminating the hillside. I love moments like these, which are so worthy of the price of an arduous trek.
Not only was I pleased with the image captured, but I'm happy it has prompted me, finally, to post again. I'm truly shocked to note that I haven't posted anything since mid-November. I have images uploaded and some text written. I've got a backlog of images from multiple trips since. I think I can only chalk my absence up to a busy schedule along with a bit of SAD. My first two English winters didn't have this effect on me, but this winter's been a hard one. I hope the longer days and sporadic sunshine will improve my mood and motivation and re-invigorate my blogging efforts.


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The King's Lynn Poetry Festival is held in September each year. The guiding principle, initiated by co-founder, the late George MacBeth, is to present some of the best of contemporary writers in a congenial and informal setting. You will see writers of international repute alongside new writers, from all age ranges and from locations across the world.
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Win7 Home Premium 32bit and Win7 Ultimate 64bit
Brief update. After some Windows Update I still encountered problems.
Here is how I could finally make it work again, as of now:
- google and download catalyst_8-31-100_vista32_rtm.exe file, you can find it here
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- double click file to unzip/unpackage catalyst_8-31-100_vista32_rtm files in its folder, BUT do NOT run final setup
- google, download and run "mobility modder", you can find it here
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F1/Help menu will tell you how to use it. Remember to use both folder and memory options.
- now (and only now) run setup.exe in catalyst_8-31-100_vista32_rtm folder
- reboot and done
if you encounter problems it may be because previous versions of the drives had not been unistalled or did not unistall properly. In this case you can google, install and run Display Driver Unistaller (DDU), then re-do above steps. Here a couple of links where you can find it
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Cassie Smedile, the national press secretary of the Republican National Committee wrote in an email that according to a RNC spokesperson, the estimated amount to be raised at the dinner on Saturday is $2,000,000 and the estimated number of attendees is 250. The breakdown of the guest donation levels is $2,700 per person for dinner, $15,000 per couple for VIP and $35,000 per couple to co-host.
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