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As I mentioned in my last post, I am currently doing a Whole30. Today actually marks day 20, and I'm still going strong! I think one thing that has really helped has been the log I started on day 1. I have written down everything I've eaten and drank, and I wrote about how I was feeling for the day. I started it as just a log for myself to keep track of my progress (to see that I am actually making progress!), but I'm going to share it with you as well, so if you're doing a Whole30 or thinking about it (Get the book here!), maybe you can get some meal ideas or just hear what my journey was like.
Day 1:
Breakfast: Italian sausage link, 2 hardboiled eggs, green beans, seltzer
Lunch: Tuna salad made with pickles, olive oil, and Mrs. Dash on Romaine lettuce leaves, green beans, apples
Dinner: Chocolate Chili from Mel Joulwan (I usually love this recipe, but I cut corners this time and just dumped everything in my crock pot. It turned into the gross gray-pink mush by the time I got home. It hadn't developed it's usual smokey caramelized flavor, and the texture was awful. I will not be cutting corners on this one again!)
Snacks: Handful of Kalamata olives, handful of pistachios
Notes: Day 1 went great. I stuck to my plan and didn't slip up at all. I almost absentmindedly grabbed a cupcake that someone brought in, but as I was walking over to them, I remembered I was on Whole30 and stopped myself. I had a bit of a headache, but it went away after I ate dinner.
Day 2:
Breakfast: Turkey Sausage, 2 hard boiled eggs, 2 clementines, green beans, black coffee, seltzer
Lunch: Chocolate Chili, Romaine salad with olive oil, balsamic, and Mrs. Dash, carrots, celery, pineapple, strawberries
Dinner: Poor Man's Stew from The Magical Slow Cooker (This is one of my favorite recipes. It's so easy to make, and it tastes amazing! You'd never guess it was Whole30!)
Snacks: Handful of Kalamata olives, handful of pistachios
Notes: I woke up pretty easily this morning. I only snoozed a couple of times as opposed to the normal 30-45 min of snoozing I usually do. The day went pretty well- no real cravings or health side effects.
Day 3:
Breakfast: Chocolate chili, lettuce with oil and vinegar, 2 clementines
Lunch: Poor man's stew, lettuce with oil and vinegar, apple, 2 clementines
Dinner: Hawaiian pork burrito bowl from With Salt and Wit (This turned out amazing, and it made a ton of pork!)
Snacks: No snacks
Notes: I set my alarm for 15 minutes earlier today and actually got up no problem. I hit snooze a couple times, but I still managed to get up before the time my alarm usually goes off. I got to work nice and early and got my workout in. I felt great throughout the whole thing. My stomach did feel a little off in the afternoon, but I'm sure that's just because I'm adjusting to this different way of eating than my body is used to. I went to bed nice and early and fell asleep right away after reading for a little bit.
Day 4:
Breakfast: Bowl of stew, lettuce with oil and vinegar, 2 clementines, V8 Spicy Hot, Cranberry Lime Seltzer
Lunch: Hawaiian pork burrito bowl, 2 clementines, handful of Kalamata olives
Dinner: Chicken Fajitas from She Talks (These were not my favorite. I subbed chicken for the steak, and I wish I would have marinated the chicken before cooking it. I also overcooked my veggies, so they were kind of slimy and wormy.)
Snacks: No snack
Notes: I woke up right away with my alarm and didn't go back to sleep. I hit the snooze a couple times because I wanted to lay in bed for a bit to wake up a little before starting the day. Today is day 4 that I have been working out, and I feel great! I actually have the energy and motivation to get the whole thing in and challenge myself a little. I lost all the great energy I've been feeling around 4 in the afternoon, but I made myself keep going and doing what I needed to do.
Day 5:
Breakfast: Hawaiian pork burrito bowl, 2 clementines, V8 Spicy Hot, Cranberry Lime Seltzer, Black Coffee
Lunch: Chicken Fajita Salad, 2 clementines, apple, handful of pistachios
Dinner: Pan roasted chicken thighs, oven roasted broccoli and cauliflower, cranberry lime seltzer
Snacks: Apple with almond butter
Notes: I had a really hard time waking up this morning. The energy crash from last night has not gone away. I felt really slow and sluggish all day.
Day 6:
Breakfast: No breakfast
Lunch: No lunch
Dinner: 2 eggs, turkey sausage link, roasted potatoes, V8 Spicy Hot
Snacks: 2 clementines, a pickle, handful of Kalamata olives
Notes: The energy crash has gone. I woke up pretty early this morning for a weekend-around 8. I was busy cleaning and KonMari-ing my house all day and didn't really take the time to eat. I was so busy that I really didn't even think about being hungry. I did have a couple snacks throughout the day, but never sat down to eat an actual meal until dinner.
Day 7:
Breakfast: Woke up late-no breakfast
Lunch: Poor man's stew
Dinner: No dinner
Snacks: Grazed on the food we were making for the week
Notes: I was really busy again today, so I only ate lunch. We woke up pretty late, so it was almost lunch time. Then I made our meal plan for the week, made the grocery list, we went grocery shopping, and then we cooked all evening. The chicken was supposed to be our Valentine's dinner, but it was getting so late that we didn't want to stop and eat and just kept cooking.
Week 1 Recap:
Overall the first week went pretty well. I didn't really have any strong cravings, I was feeling more sustained energy throughout the day, and my motivation was through the roof. I did have a bit of an energy crash around day 4 and into day 5, but it only lasted for a day, and then my energy was back. I also noted that even though for the most part, my cravings were minimal, on day 5 I would have killed for some pizza. Other than that though, I think week one went pretty well!
Anyone else on the Whole30 journey? How has it been going for you?
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At some kid's house, watching cartoons with the kids before a big Thanksgiving-ish meal. The cartoon is about a hero of some kind who goes to another planet, a pock-marked thing of valleys and mountains with no atmosphere to speak of, searching for a base they had lost contact with under a black sky. So he's in his space suit and he finds and rescues a child or three from the base that had presumably been overrun somehow. This is all fine and good, but then it gets progressively more absurd.
There are aliens in this dream.
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A pretty varied dream. A vary varied dream. Varily, a veriety. I was walking along with friends and suddenly was flying above it all, flying above the telephone lines. As I soared through the air I looked down to see endless fields in all direction, divided by an intermittent and inconsistent network of fences, lit by the setting sun. Often my unconscious has difficulty with scale in these sorts of situations, but the men I saw below appeared quite tiny, but scurried around at great speed. They were in grey uniforms with little caps that suggested to me somehow that they were Chinese, a sort of Chinese agricultural military. They were going to their living area at the end of the day of farming but appeared to move randomly, following each other in circles, getting confused, and the whole thing was a confused cluster with straight and curved lines of people moving off of it.
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I was reading a French rip-off of Calvin and Hobbes. Though derivative it was well written, and challenged the way the reader thought about possessions and other material things. Later I was at the movie theatre, waiting for the movie to load onscreen. A progress bar was projected on the screen indicating how far along the movie was in pre-caching, decompressing, downloading, spooling, whatever. Continue reading
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I was on some sort of futuristic military base in the desert, possibly on another planet. There was a strange floating creature that look vaguely animal, and seemed either benign or at the very least totally uninterested. The animal had head protrusions and ball-point leg protrusions.
(Pre-fanciness version of above animation follows in full post, if you're interested.)
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I was Green Arrow. I had learned – from reading a comic book actually – that Superman was unknowingly host to a civilization of tiny people who found a way of surviving in his body. I feel like they were probably Kryptonians (from Kandor?). So my sidekick – I don't even remember who my sidekick was – is scaling the side of an apartment skyscraper and I remember thinking "what an idiotic way to get inside a building". And really, it is. There's plenty of ways you could sneak into a building that are a thousand times safer, or you could scale the building on the outside in plain view of the world and be easily spotted (including by someone inside the actual building). Plus, it would take for damn ever, and you'd be too tired for superhero business when you finally got to the right floor.
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My sister N was keeping a raccoon at a hotel our family was staying at. We were on some sort of resort thing where my parents had pre-established elderly friends. Anyway everyone seemed ok with the raccoon but me. I kept telling my family that it would bite us in our sleep and give us the rabies. Kept insisting that it had rabies. My sister had set it up a little room inside this massive oven that was in one of the rooms of the hotel suite. He even had little furniture and things. There was a frozen turkey inside the oven that we were just starting there, and she didn't seem bothered that he kept trying to eat it. No, he won't eat it, don't be silly, that sort of thing. My mother was totally unconcerned, saying she had to spend enough time preparing food for the family that she didn't have any left over for caring about whether or not a raccoon is something to be concerned about. Continue reading
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I was part of a post-alien invasion society. It was a sort of authoritarian village system run on the inside of a highschool in the middle of the country. I don't think we were even allowed outside. Village gathering places were the gymnasium, cafeteria, assembly hall etc. The alien masters were never seen but gave orders through the class of human collaborators that oversaw the village and ensured productivity and adherence to rules; they were either thugs or insufferable bossy control freaks (one reminded me of the girl in charge of yearbook I had the misfortune of working with at T-School). All the villagers had a job to do, sometimes several, but instructions could come from the top at any time changing this or giving special assignments. Continue reading


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As BI mobility takes off, don't get left behind -- or unprepared
Deployments of mobile business intelligence tools are spreading rapidly. Before you take the mobile BI plunge, read advice on how to make it work.
Mobile business intelligence tools are already popular with iPad-toting executives, smartphone-wielding sales reps and other groups of business users. And BI mobility is likely to become much more prevalent in 2013 and beyond, according to a pair of surveys conducted in the second half of 2012.
In one, 61% of the 634 organizations surveyed by consultancy Forrester Research Inc. said they had deployed mobile BI tools, were testing them or planned to launch programs within 12 months. In the other, nearly two-thirds of 250-plus respondents told BI consultant Howard Dresner that less than 10% of their users had mobile access to BI data. But deployments are expected to expand rapidly: More than half of the respondents said the penetration of mobile BI software in their organizations likely would exceed 40% of users by 2015.
So the need to enable and support BI mobility is likely to crop up sooner or later, if it hasn't already. But plunging into the mobile BI deep end without knowing what you'll find there could be dangerous -- to your company and your career. SearchBusinessAnalytics recently published several stories with advice on building and deploying mobile BI apps from consultants and IT managers who have been there and done that. In one story, we catalog mobile BI design and development tips. In another, we look at what needs to be done on the back end to provide fast mobile BI performance. And in a third, we examine the mobile BI deployment trends highlighted by Dresner's survey.
Craig Stedman is executive editor of SearchBusinessAnalytics. Email him at email@example.com.
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To set up an Android device to check your Office 365 email account, follow these steps:
- Open Settings, scroll down to Applications and choose Email. This application may be named Mail on some versions of Android. You may be prompted by a wizard or you may need to tap Manage accounts and the plus (+) sign to add a new email account.
- Type your full College email address or username. For example: firstname.lastname@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com. This will vary depending on your version of Android.
- Type your College password and then select Next.
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As I was running errands last Wednesday morning in the car I was surprised to listen to a discussion of Christianity and pro sports on the local sports talk radio station. The host, Soren Petro (who incidentally I think is the most prepared and knowledgeable host on the station), was asking the question as to whether the open Christianity on the Royals as evidenced by Mike Sweeney, Tony Graffanino, Jeremy Affeldt, and Carlos Beltran (before the trade) was dividing the team and contributing to the 45-81 record.
As possible evidence he pointed to the events at Christian Family Day, the day when after the game the Royals mentioned above plus Corey Koskie of the Twins gave their testimonies and a short inspirational message to those who wanted to stay after the game and the fact that after games a few of the players (mostly American as opposed to Latin players he pointed out) participate in a Bible study "on company grounds" (something Petro hadn't seen before). His partner on the show Danny Klinkscale did offer that he thought when a team had as many Christians on the roster as the Royals do it did tend to be divisive. He offered no examples of other teams to back up his point however. To Petro's credit he explicitly denied that Christians were somehow less competitive citing the Chiefs Tony Richardson. This was the implicit criticism leveled by former Royals manager Tony Muser did in his now famous comment regarding his team's slow start in 2001:
"Chewing cookies, drinking milk and praying isn't going to get it done. It's going to take a lot of hard work."
I'm not surprised that the issue is being brought up as it was in 2001. Petro specifically said that he was bringing up the issue because it has been discussed behind the scenes by the media and I assume by front office personnel. He also did a nice job of giving a pastor who called in from Athletes In Action a good chuck of time to discuss the issue.
As a Christian I feel a need at least to think through the issue and so a few points follow:
- I do understand what Petro is talking about when says that members of media have been discussing this issue. I could feel and hear the resentment to Christian Family Day in the press box when I scored the game for MLB.com.
- This issue was only raised (whether or not it was talked about privately before) publicly when the team is losing. Last year with a winning team the same dynamics were in place and yet no one publicly criticized the Christians. This reminds me of a comment Bill James made in The New Historical Baseball Abstract in discussing one time Royals third baseman Kevin Seitzer. "He was a born-again Christian who sometimes irritated his teammates and managers, perhaps for good reason or perhaps just because, when things go wrong, it's easy to blame the Christian." I would venture that the latter is mostly the case here.
- Christianity is inherently divisive as Jesus himself said. I think it does naturally offend some who will automatically feel as if the Christian is claiming moral superiority or special knowledge. In reality, the Christian should be humble in their realization that only through Christ's work could they hope to gain salvation. As to the point that those attending the Bible study were American as opposed to Latin players I can only offer that Carlos Beltran I believe came to Christ through his relationship with Mike Sweeney so it doesn't appear as if there is something exclusionary going on.
- I doubt that Christianity can be more divisive than the differences between personalities generally. How about the players who don't go out and carouse at night? How about the player who actually likes to read books on roadtrips? How about the player who is active politically? These are simply differences between individuals that all of us deal with in our professional lives everyday.
- Bible studies "on company grounds" are common. When I worked at a Fortune 500 company a weekly Bible study met during lunch in a conference room on the corporate campus. The room was given up for work related meetings of course and the Bible studies were never conducted during normal working hours. As long as the studies and chapel services aren't held in lieu of batting or fielding practice for example, I can't see how there would be cause for complaint.
- The life of a major league baseball player is quite different from the corporate 9 to 5 world however. For much of the season the clubhouse is the central place for players to congregate not only for baseball activities but also for recreation (cards for example) and relaxing. Under those circumstances a Bible study in the clubhouse should be no more a problem than a game of cards or a discussion about politics or movies. This also relates to chapel services in the clubhouse. Since the lifestyle of the major leaguer means that they are often at the ballpark on Sundays it only seems sensitive (and we all want to be sensitive) to have a service.


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RAC News, 26th February, 2009
A proposed one-year pay freeze and four-day week at Tata-owned car giant Jaguar Land Rover are to be put to the vote next week.
The company's 15,000 workers will decide whether to accept the two-year deal in exchange for no more compulsory job losses.
The deal, aimed at saving £70 million, was thrashed out with union leaders after 1,800 agency, production and management jobs were axed amid the worsening downturn in the auto industry.
Unite, the largest union at the plant, is recommending acceptance, and the GMB union has predicted that its members will also accept the proposal.
Workers taking part in the ballot are based at sites including Castle Bromwich and Solihull in the West Midlands and Halewood on Merseyside.
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HadCRUT4…not what it pretends to be!
Ungracious loser James Annan couldn't wait posting about the new all-singing all-dancing HadCRUT4 dataset, showing "that reports of the death of global warming have been somewhat exaggerated".
It's really really hard to avoid laughing when adjustments come out of thin air but anyway…let's consider HadCRUT4 less of a joke for a moment.
Since temperatures go up by including the upper Arctic, it is obvious that the rest of the world, and especially the inhabited regions, have not warmed as expected.
And a 5C increase in an area where the average is -20C is _not_ the same thing as a 5C increase where the average is +10C. The former is inconsequential, the latter a change in all seasons.
So HadCRUT4 simply confirms things are going as predicted only in faraway places where there are few measurements and nothing is really changing anyway.
If this doesn't kill global warming, it certainly helps putting it in the right place.
Job Openings In IT Support At The CRU And Nature Publishing Group
Email management boffins, and more or less anybody that has ever fathomed the extremely-complex (or not) world of how to archive messages using MS Outlook or any other email package, are urgently sought at world-famous UEA's CRU and at the Nature Publishing Group, following a plea for help by a computer-challenged climate modeler and a critical-thinking-challenged scientific journalist:
Climate researcher Tim Osborn is next door, struggling with a familiar problem. "My inbox is full and I need to delete some e-mails." Then, with a thin smile: "But I'm not allowed to now, am I?"
It's really heartwarming (without even having to surround one's internal organs with greenhouse gases!!) to find that people that want to save the world by running complex computational models on supercomputers, are so (un)familiar with using common features of simple apps; and that people assigned by major international scientific publications to keep us informed about a problem that might engulf the planet, are (in)capable of showing much intelligent reasoning and to probe a situation with thoughtful questions and unprecedented insight.
ps On a more serious note, it's telling that:
- after likely having broken the law on FOI, the CRU researchers are still trying to make up new excuses useful to… break the law in the future too
- Nature has celebrated one year of Climategate with a softy-softy smoochie-smoochie approach, accepting the most faint of excuses by Jones as if they were the final answers to any of the still-open questions about what has happened (just look at how much stuff is popping up in the Comments section of that article). I guess this is just the norm at the moment, with climate journalists indistinguishable from mindless bots, sheepish claques claiming to stand for strong democracy, and actively if unwittingly misleading their readers by providing half of the news.
Same old, same old?
(h/t Lazarus at Steven Goddard's Real Science)
Climategate: Mr Bean At The UEA
If I had to bet money on Climategate, most of it would go to back up Fred Pearce's interpretation, as described in Damian Carrington's blog about the Jul 14 Guardian debate:
Pearce was passionate in arguing that 'Climategate' was a very human tragedy, in respect of scientists feeling under siege and becoming fiercely defensive – which only spurred on the sceptics, who thought there must be something to hide. But he thought many CRU critics were not sceptics at all: "They are actually data libertarians, rather than climate sceptics, still less climate deniers. It turned into data wars." Pearce's conclusion was that at this turning point for climate science, more "candour" was needed from all.
Count me in as Data Libertarian!
"Scientists feeling under siege and becoming fiercely defensive – which only spurred on the sceptics, who thought there must be something to hide"? Just like Mr Bean at the airport then…
And yes, I would recommend medication for anybody still trying to smother FOI and/or in the business of hiding any data directly related to published scientific papers…
Report From Climategate Guardian Debate with Monbiot, McIntyre, Pearce, Watson, Keenan and some uea guy
As posted by Latimer Alder in my previous post:
Just back from the Climategate debate run by the Guardian tonight. We're assured that the Guardian website will have a full video of the whole proceeding sometime tomorrow. So just some very sketchy impressions.
Steve obviously read the remarks from last night's meeting and insisted on speaking from a lectern. This was a good move as it gave him more 'authority'. And he was (mostly) crisper…making his points more directly. The others spoke while seated.
George Monbiot chaired the meeting and I think he did a fair job of it. He tried hard to be unbiased, and only once or twice strayed into partisan territory. And he managed to keep the speeches and questions mostly to time and to the point
Fred Pearce took a longer perspective than the others. He spoke well and described Climategate as a tragedy rather than a conspiracy…the tragedy being that the CRU guys had adopted siege mentality. Climategate has certainly widened his perspective.
Trevor Davies representing UEA/CRU was appallingly bad. He mouthed platitudes by the shedload, but was unfamiliar with the details of any of the subjects likely to be raised. And was several times embarrassed by doing so. Apart from the fact that he had a sharp suit. I can find nothing positive to say about him. Struck me as a devious smooth cove.
Bob Watson opening remark was that he hadn't read the e-mails in question. This was a bad mistake – many in the audience were very familiar with them, and not happy to be lectured by somebody who wasn't. IPCC was imperfect but the best that could be devised 95% of scientists agree…it is now just a risk management exercise. Errors corrected quickly…As good as having Ravendra, but no need for the extra slot at Heathrow for him to land his jet. Very much the Scientific Establishment figure.
Keenan was interested in research fraud and the lack of accountability in science as a whole. He accused Jones of committing fraud, even after being given a chance to withdraw the remark. Davies tried to defend Jones but had no details. Keenan showed a more street-savvy business approach than any of the other participants. I'd like to have heard him at greater length.
Overall conclusion: there was no conclusion. Everybody agreed that openness and transparency were good, that debate should be with all parties and that uncertainties should be made more clear.
But my own view is that the proof of the pudding is in the eating. This one still has legs and will run and run.
CRU Who? Or…Can The IPCC Survive The Oxburgh Review?
Forget Phil Jones and the CRU…for all intents and purposes, Lord Oxburgh's "International Panel" has hit the IPCC itself with quite a broadside.
This is what the friendly Panel has just deemed necessary to write about the IPCC (my emphasis):
Recent public discussion of climate change and summaries and popularizations of the work of CRU and others often contain oversimplifications that omit serious discussion of uncertainties emphasized by the original authors. For example, CRU publications repeatedly emphasize the discrepancy between instrumental and tree-based proxy reconstructions of temperature during the late 20th century, but presentations of this work by the IPCC and others have sometimes neglected to highlight this issue. While we find this regrettable, we could find no such fault with the peer-reviewed papers we examined
And here's what the IPCC says about the IPCC (my emphasis again):
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the leading body for the assessment of climate change, established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences.
Clearly, it has now been established beyond all doubt that the IPCC has been a failure regarding the provision of "a clear scientific view" on the "peer-reviewed papers" by CRU researchers. Those papers said one thing, the IPCC another.
With Climate Change too serious an issue to be left in oversimplifying hands, the Fifth Assessment Report is unlikely to be any good unless substantial organizational changes are implemented in the IPCC.
Preternatural Climate News And Other Tweets
(If Revkin can do it… 😎 – my Twitter account in English is 'omnologos')
1– @bbcworld there is something preternatural in seeing every good climate news invariably more than compensated by some badclimate news refers to "Temperature and CO2 feedback loop 'weaker than thought'" by Roger Harrabin, which includes:
The authors warn, though, that their research will not reduce projections of future temperature rises.
2– Total rout for AGW : UK Science chief John Beddington calls for honesty on climate change refers to "Science chief John Beddington calls for honesty on climate change"
3– another case of gross misrepresentation of the literature, thereafter conveniently disregarded? refers to my comment "Himalayagate 2"
4– Building a broad climate coalition of scientific/professional organizations reminds of "100 Scientists against Einstein" refers to "Climate change activists work to regain momentum" by Eric Berger, Houston Chronicle
5– Science : "Brown Clouds over South Asia: Biomass or Fossil Fuel Combustion? (answer: mostly biomass) refers to
Science 23 January 2009: Vol. 323. no. 5913, pp. 495 – 498 "Brown Clouds over South Asia: Biomass or Fossil Fuel Combustion?" by Örjan Gustafsson et al
6– ClimateDepot "warmists" have been scoring own goals for quite some time – and still they do – refers to "The Disastrous Setback for Climate Advocacy of Late 2009" by Chris Mooney in "The Intersection" where I comment
I fully agree with redlink18…disparaging any comment that falls outside of the party line and concentrating on blaming a handful of well-paid individuals when there has been a clear and massive change in public opinion in the USA like in the UK, all of that will lead Mooney's "camp" nowhere.
On the other hand, given that the "warmists" have been scoring spectacular own goals for quite some time now, no wonder they show no chance of getting anything right at the moment.
7– "try and change the Received date! Don't give those skeptics something to amuse themselves with" refers to "East Anglia Confirmed Emails from the Climate Research Unit – 1189722851.txt"
8– Using religious language to fight global warming refers to "Using religious language to fight global warming" by Helen Grady, Analysis, BBC Radio 4
9– @Revkin: Watts is at third of Gandhi's four stages: "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win" refers to "Poorly sited U.S. temperature instruments not responsible for artificial warming" on Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog
Willis vs. The CRU: A History of (FOI) Evasion
(a guest blog by Willis Eschenbach, originally posted to the Climate Sceptics mailing list. Published almost completely as-is).
An excerpt for those without time to read it all
the issue is not Trenberth or scientists talking smack. It is the illegal evasion of legitmate scientific requests for data needed to replicate a scientific study. Without replication, science cannot move forwards. And when you only give data to friends of yours, and not to people who actually might take a critical look at it, you know what you end up with? A "consensus" …
Freedom of information, my okole…
by Willis Eschenbach
People seem to be missing the real issue in the CRU emails. Gavin over at realclimate keeps distracting people by saying the issue is the scientists being nasty to each other, and what Trenberth said, and the Nature "trick", and the like. Those are side trails. To me, the main issue is the frontal attack on the heart of science, which is transparency.
Science works by one person making a claim, and backing it up with the data and methods that they used to make the claim. Other scientists attack the work by (among other things) trying to replicate the first scientist's work. If they can't replicate it, it doesn't stand. So blocking the FOIA allowed Phil Jones to claim that his temperature record (HadCRUT3) was valid science.
This is not just trivial gamesmanship, this is central to the very idea of scientific inquiry. This is an attack on the heart of science, by keeping people who disagree with you from ever checking your work and seeing if your math is correct.


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Prepare disadvantaged students in Twin Cities area high schools for college and career success through training and a paid internship.
Hope 4 Youth – $3,500
Meet the basic needs of young people (ages 23 and under) experiencing homelessness and those at-risk of becoming homeless in the north metro Twin Cities including all of Anoka County and parts of Hennepin County.
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Spur economic stability by giving $1,000-$1,500 grants to low income individuals through partner agencies with the goal of helping these clients achieve self-sufficiency.
MN Assistance Council for Veterans – $1,500 plus half of Wells-sponsored concert "Honoring Our Veterans"
Respond to short and long-term needs of veterans by providing services for homeless and in-crisis veterans.
MoveFwd – $3,500
Provide multiple programs in west metro suburbs including barrier-free individual and group counseling services, a drop-in center, homeless youth outreach, case management, and transitional living.
People Serving People – $3,500
Provide after-school tutoring and enrichment support for homeless K-12 youth.
People, Inc – $2,000
Reach and connect homeless people to mental and physical health care and housing resources.
Pillsbury United (Full Cycle Bike Shop) – $5,000
Help homeless youth build employment skills through training and internships.
Project for Pride in Living – $5,000
Support Cabrini housing program and bridge gap in funding before residents are housed.
Rêve Academy – $3,500
Sponsor North Minneapolis students on projects designed to teach business, technology, and design skills while earning a paycheck.
Simpson Housing – $3,500
Help break the cycle of generational homelessness and poverty through education advocacy and mentoring for children and youth experiencing homelessness.
Southside Family Nurturing Center – $3,500
Deliver core programs including (1) therapeutic Early Childhood Education with individualized therapeutic intervention and (2) Family Home Visiting Services that address needs of vulnerable children and their parents together.
St Stephen's – $1,500 plus half of Wells-sponsored concert "Honoring Our Veterans"
Assist street outreach team to build relationships with people living on the street, including homeless veterans, and help them find housing and other needed services.
YouthLink – $2,000
Provide safety, stability, and affordable housing through St. Barnabas' supportive housing for transition-aged youth.


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Why We Love This Hotel
- The brand-new Park MGM debuted in 2018 with a variety of new restaurants and entertainment options
- Eataly, the largest Italian marketplace in the world, opened in December 2018
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After a $550 million renovation, Park MGM Las Vegas is now welcoming guests with brand-new rooms and new dining and entertainment options at a prime location on the Las Vegas Strip.
All of the newly remodeled rooms are adorned with original artwork and stylish window seating featuring park or pool views. Health-conscious travelers can reserve Stay Well rooms complete with air purification systems, vitamin-C shower infusers and circadian lighting.
New arrivals like Eataly, the swanky Bavette's Steakhouse & Bar, Best Friend and Primrose are all poised to become standout dining destinations. Eataly is the largest Italian marketplace in the world and features mores than a dozen authentic Italian eateries. Best Friend by Roy Choi brings a Korean-Mexican fusion along with an eclectic mix of hip-hop and pop music. Juniper Cocktail Lounge and Moneyline Sports Bar & Book round out the offerings with cocktail bars fit for casual social gatherings. Guests in the mood for high-end nightlife will enjoy On The Record, the new speakeasy and club recently opened in December.
Centrally located on the Strip, the resort is within walking distance of many of Sin City's attractions. With three pools and two pool bars, the property's new pool complex is a great spot to spend a sunny day.
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Yes, Las Vegas!! Our younger son lives there; I was visiting and helping him move to a new apartment. We got the moving out of the way at the beginning of the week. The top picture is New York New York casino and the middle one is the lion at the MGM Grand casino.
The bottom picture of part of the strip was taken from the Springs Preserve, a large area right in the city which comprises the Nevada State Museum, a natural history museum, and a desert living center. On the left is the Stratosphere, which is on the north end of the strip. The other buildings are part of the strip also, not close enough on this picture to identify.
One day we went to the Bellagio on the strip and had brunch--very good! Then we walked up and down about half of the strip, wandering around in a couple of casinos. I bet a few dollars, made a few and lost a few, so ended up about even.
The next day we drove five hours to the south rim of the Grand Canyon.
A couple more pictures from different vantage points.
The sky over the canyon was the most beautiful blue.
Here is the Colorado River at the bottom of the canyon.
We also spent some time downtown on Fremont Street. There is a huge TV screen above about two blocks of the street; it's billed as the largest tv screen in the world. Las Vegas is nothing if not excessive at most everything they do. At night there's a light show on this screen and the colored lights bounce and wave across it. It's very pretty to watch.
I had such a wonderful time visiting my son and seeing Las Vegas and the area.
Something else wonderful: I ordered a jelly roll from the Missouri Star Quilt Company, and it has arrived. It's from Wyndham Fabrics, called Christmas Peace.
I'm either going to make the Jelly Roll Jam pattern with it or do the one that Jenny Doan shows on the Missouri Star Quilt Company's website.
I really need to avoid opening their Daily Deal emails because I would end up buying more fabric than I should. Is it possible to have too much fabric?? Umm, probably not!


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Texas Couple Wins $51 Million for Defective $250,000 House
It's all up to the judge now: a Texas couple who won a $51 million verdict against a major homebuilder on March 3 is awaiting word on whether they will be able to keep any of that award.
The builder, Houston-based Bob Perry, first tried to have the record-breaking verdict thrown out. Now the homeowner, Bob Cull of Mansfield, Texas, says his case is in legal purgatory with caps and multipliers that could limit the award. Ultimately, a district court judge will render a judgment.
"But I'm sure Perry will appeal," says Cull, which will make his decade-long battle even longer.
The lawsuit has carried the retirement-age couple through the courts, arbitration and all the way to the Texas Supreme Court. Though they've won every round, their home is still defective and both sides have spent substantial money on legal fees for a $233,730 home. Van Shaw, the Cull's Dallas-based attorney, says Perry Homes has spent well over a million in legal fees. The Culls have spent more than $100,000 in hard legal expenses.
"I'm a conservative, " says Bob Cull. "Bob Perry and I probably vote alike. But I see this system not being functional any longer for the average, hardworking American."
The Tarrant County, Texas verdict awarded Bob and Jane Cull of Mansfield, Texas $51 million in damages for a 2,800-square-foot home they bought from Perry Homes in 1996 on a golf course southwest of Fort Worth. The home showed post-tension slab-on-grade-foundation problems shortly after they closed.
In 1999 cracks appeared in the foundation. That's when the Culls first told Perry they were a little nervous about their home.
Leaves and critters came in the house due to poor-fitting doors; roof supports came loose in the attic; fissures appeared in the walls and tiles. Engineers said the home's foundation was defective, even those from the warranty company contracted by Perry Homes.
"We went for two or three years," says Cull, "working directly with Perry and the warranty company on our own." But the Culls claim that Perry only applied "cosmetic fixes."
"I sent a letter to Bob Perry and begged him: please don't make us have to get an attorney," says Cull. "Isn't there some common ground we can work from?"
Perry refused, telling Cull he put a French drain in the backyard, and that was enough.
It is not clear why Perry continues to wage what is clearly a very expensive legal battle. A spokesman for Perry refused to comment. He's the nation's most generous individual political donor and a leading advocate of laws to limit court awards, or tort reform. He's also a major donor to politicians and judges, particularly Republican candidates in Texas. And he donated more than $340,000 to the nine Texas Supreme Court justices who heard the Culls' case.
It could be that the Culls angered Perry when they decided to seek arbitration. Before the case went to trial the first time, back in 2000, the couple chose arbitration due to their age -- both are in their 60s. But Perry resisted and both sides went to court.
They ended up in arbitration anyhow after a district judge, the appeals court and the Texas Supreme Court all ruled in favor of the Culls.
In 2002, an arbitrator told Perry Homes to pay the Culls more than $800,000 in damages plus interest, which topped $1.3 million. But the former Swift Boater refused to pay up; so, too, did Warranty Underwriters Insurance Co. This time the Texas Supreme Court -- every single member of which got some campaign dough from Bob Perry -- refused to rule in the couple's favor: In 2007 it vacated the arbitration award and kicked it back to the lower court, which is where it landed in early 2010.
All through the legal process, everyone agreed that Bob Perry (who is no relation to Texas Gov. Rick Perry but is one of his largest donors) was liable for repairing the home. That is, until they got to the Supreme Court of Texas the second time around.
Local homebuilders are distressed over the verdict for many reasons. What a guy like Bob Perry has done, said one who wished to remain off the record, is ruin it for the independent home builders.
And now the Texas Residential Construction Commission (TRCC) has been dismantled, and some homebuilders think the reason why might be Bob Perry.
"I think his heavy-handed efforts were one of the main reasons the TRCC went away," the independent homebuilder said.
The TRCC was a state board to monitor homebuilders -- sort of. While it could not force homebuilders to fix defective houses, it could force homeowners to first go through a complaint process before seeking arbitration or litigation. Builders liked it because it prevented costly lawsuits which, they argue, drive up costs for everyone.
Gov. Perry signed the TRCC into being in 2003 and appointed Perry Homes' general counsel, John Krugh, to lead the commission. The TRCC was dismantled in February of this year.
"It was perceived that that agency was nothing more than a shell for the big builders like Perry," said the local builder. "What I really worry about is what kind of damage this does to the rest of us homebuilders – if we're perceived as being flush with cash, then what's to stop John and Jane Homebuyer from firing up the trial lawyers and suing at the first sign of a problem?"
Anthony Holm, Perry's spokesman, told the Fort Worth Star Telegram that the Culls' $51 million award is "equivalent to every single resident in Texas depositing $2 into the lawyer's bank account." He said it would be appealed. Holm would not comment for this story.
Perry Homes reported revenues of $420 million in 2002 -- probably way more during the boom. Of course the burning question is: Why didn't Bob Perry just buy back the Culls' home early on? Was he worried that the case would set a precedent, open a huge can of worms?
The home next door also had problems, says Shaw, the Culls' attorney. Perry took care of them. Shaw thinks Perry was tiring of homeowners in that subdivision, The Villages at Walnut Creek, complaining about problems and he wanted to teach them all a lesson,
"They are the most stubborn," says Shaw. "They think we are making this all up. And if you accuse them of making a mistake, they are going to make you pay for that."
Perry did offer to buy back the house, but not until the Culls were way downstream in the legal process.
"There was a time early on when they could have bought our house back, taking into account what we had spent on engineering and legal fees," says Cull. "But when they finally made the offer, we were so deep into this, it had been so long and there were so many moving parts."
"I'm a capitalist pig with an M.B.A.," says Cull. "But every business decision Bob Perry has made in this case has been wrong."
Shaw thinks the district court judge will uphold the $51 million award. Perry will appeal to the Fort Worth Court of Appeals. If he loses there, the U.S. Supreme Court will be the last stop.
"And we'll be there," says Shaw. "We're going the whole way,"
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If Cee-Lo Green wasn't a fan of the Vancouver Canucks before, chances are he is now.
The latest parody-turned-viral-hit north of the border involves a group of Vancouver fans showing their team spirit with a song called "Canucks Rule," sung to the tune of "Forget You" by Mr. Green.
Even though the singing isn't all that great, the song is sure to be a hit in Canada, as the Canucks open the playoffs on Wednesday night against the Chicago Blackhawks.
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Amanda Craig is a British novelist, short-story writer and critic. Born in South Africa in 1959, she grew up in Italy, where her parents worked for the UN, and was educated at Bedales School and Clare College Cambridge.
After a brief time in advertising and PR, she became a journalist for newspapers such as The Sunday Times, the Observer, The Daily Telegraph and the Independent, winning both the Young Journalist of the Year and the Catherine Pakenham Award. She was the children's critic for The Independent on Sunday and The Times, and one of the first to spot the Harry Potter books, Phlip Pullman's His Dark Materials, Twilight, How to Train Your Dragon and The Hunger Games.
She still reviews children's books for The New Statesman, and literary fiction for The Observer, but is mostly a full-time novelist. Her last novel, Hearts And Minds, was long-listed for the Bailey's Prize for Women's Fiction.
In 2017 she published two works with Little,Brown: The Other Side of You (a novella for Galaxy Quick Reads) and The Lie Of the Land. She is currently working on her eighth novel, which is inspired by the fairy-tale of Beauty and the Beast.
Each novel can be read separately but is part of an interconnected contemporary cast of characters, in which minor protagonists become major. Though her novels often contain a detective or genre plot, they are literary fiction, most often compared to Dickens and Balzac. She is regarded as a state of the nation novelist, commenting on the gulf between rich and poor.
"She has everything you look for in a major writer: wit, indignation, an ear for the telling phrase and an unflagging attention to all the individual choices by which we define ourselves – where we stand as a society and how we rise and fall." – The Daily Telegraph
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I've been meaning to write this for ages. The first thing I should mention is that you're not meant to do this. Believe me I have fought the Sharepoint markup generator every step of the way on this one. It wants you to use JQuery and the ECMA client script. But god JQuery is a pain and I don't know it. And it's hard to read or pick up, and dammit I want to use C flippin sharp and nothing and no-one is going to stop me.
OK. As we say in Ireland when someone asks for directions: "If I were you, I wouldn't start from here." But if you DO start from here...
Firstly, you aren't allowed to run code on aspx pages that run in SharePoint. So you have to go into the web config, go to the <PageParserPaths> section and enter something like the following:
<PageParserPath VirtualPath="http://myserver/mySiteColl/MyList/MyForm.aspx" CompilationMode="Always" AllowServerSideScript="true" />
More info on Page Parser Paths here...
OK run an iisreset and that will allow you to customise the NewForm.aspx. Microsoft do not recommend fiddling with the form itself as if you break it, you break the list. So fire up SharePoint Designer to create a new page.
More info on customising the page here
Now I'm aware that there's this nifty plugin called InfoPath which will do the forms for you. Do we have that in my workplace? Not a chance. Not on the cards until we upgrade. So just in case you ask me "what about infopath", that's the answer.
Right. I do this in SharePoint designer. Now that the MyForm.aspx has been created, click the "Code" tab. But before we continue it is important to note the following:
None of the standard SharePoint OK or Cancel buttons is customisable.
Trust me. I tried. Your best bet is hiding and creating a custom HTML command button of your own. Then you can have runat=server, onclick = "DoTheWork" etc. Then, of course, you have to create a script to do the work :)
So, right up the top of your HTML, put up the following. Note that
(1) when getting the list name, I am using the request parameter and ascertaining the position of the string "MyForm". This means I can re-use the code in other lists if I want.
(2) The ContentPlaceHolder bit of code is how I get to "talk" to the sharepoint form controls through the code. Trying to figure out where the controls are and what they're called and how to get the damn data out of them is like breaking into Fort Knox. So if I want to save back to the list (remember, there is no way to get to the save routine via the OK button BECAUSE I HAVE TRIED)
I need to go right into the markup, grab the guid of the data form web part and then furthermore pull out the name from the the properties tab on the left in SP Designer (it's always ff_number) and then get the value. And don't talk to me about radio buttons. I can't get it to work with radio buttons.
I've done a uservalue control because it's the trickiest.
(3) The ID at the end of the request string will always be the ID on the list item you're looking for, so I used that to retrieve the item.
(4) All saving of items is done through the SPListItem object and the Update() method
(5) I don't have a sharepoint environment and compiler with me right now, so chances are there are a couple of errors in the script, but nothing major. Code below the jump - enjoy!


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This will have almost nothing to do with makeup. And I know this is my makeup blog... but that's just it... it's my blog. I am in a music mood today... a kick really. I am listening to NUDE by Radiohead right now... as I type and I am swaying like I am at a piano and not a keyboard. I don't now many of my followers of my blog... but for me music is total Total . It can bring inspiration, form tears, fight crime for God sakes. Since this is a random post anyway... I am have to say I am so glad I can type without having to look at the keys... so I can really feel the music and twist and turn to it....
I know you must be like... what is this chick going on about?? But don't you feel like just sometimes you have to speak out about something or your day will not be complete??? My best friend(song change House of Cards) Chavon sent me for my birthday 3 DVDs full of music... I told her... "You know Chavon, I don't think I will be able to ever listen to all of this music. But you know me so well this is perfect!" I cherry picked over the 3 DVDs, finding some really really good gems that made me think of life, love, and time. Music does it to me... brings me back to when things were so sooooo much simpler. We all wish to go back to those times when the most you had to do was finish your homework and brush your teeth at night. Now, as most of you are around my age; there's job markets, car notes, kids, family, getting to the dentist, all the random things we mostly had no idea our parents had to think about. Am I right? And (Nikka Costa Push and Pull) now that we are in that space... we sometimes what to slip back right in to that homework world. I am rambling I know it... But I haven't found anything else in my life that can sooth me like music can.... or bring tears with the first chord [I Shall Believe by Sheryl Crow just listed not listening... it really makes me cry]. Or reminds me of a late afternoon trying to sync a video and a CD of the beginning of Lion King with a floor mate Leigh! Which took over an hour.
I remember the opening of the movie Garden State...ohhh and ahhhh. The movie had some amazing tunes... (Nick Drake One of These Things) really helped the story along... but I have to say it was one of the few soundtrack CDs I own. Right after I saw that movie, I went out and got the CD.
http://blip.fm/ I am part of Blip here is my profile it's linked to Twitter so you'll be able to see some of my blips/tweets when I am feeling music'ee LOL!!
Ok I think the swaying and tears have taken over my thoughts... so enjoy the music people. The music that plays in your life... it doesn't have to be anything even close to anyone elses... or anyones thoughts on what you should listen to ..... Make your mind and life happy listen to what you feel is right for you. I am leaving with Drifting Along by Jamiroquai
Let me know some of your jams and favorite songs... comment below!!!
NOTE: NONE OF THE MUSIC LINKS ARE TO MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL. The links are to the exact song I was listening to while I typed. These are all from youtube and I am not advicating the use of unpaid music in videos... just saying.
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In Jewish Messianic congregations, it is customary to praise God through dance. It is joyful and can be fast or other times, more quiet and flowing; sometimes in round dances with a group, or as part of personal worship, with flags and shofars. It is quite normal for the Messianic believer to praise the Lord, rejoice, sing and dance before Him. But what is the essence and meaning of dancing for God? Is it just Jewish tradition or is this a way of praising God that is common for believers of all denominations and confessions?
We invite you to investigate this question and find out more about the praise through dance! To illustrate further, we will share excerpts of a seminar which was held by Alexander Baz, leader of Lechaim Dance Group the at KJMC summer 2016 retreat.
What do we know about dancing from the Bible? There are several well-known episodes that are referred to first and foremost. The dance of Miriam, of course, is the first clear mention (Exodus 15:20), and then we recall another episode with David when the ark was brought back to Jerusalem (2 Kings 6: 14-16 and 1 Chronicles 15:29). But are the dances in the Bible described only by these great servants of God? Of course not! There are many more examples in the Scripture which reveal to us this element of the relationship between God and Israel.
Let's start from the beginning and in right order. God put dance inside of us as a form of expression of our feelings and people, of course, danced from the first days of creation. Animals also dance manifesting their emotions and inherent physiological patterns. But only man, who was chosen in God's creation to be made in His image and likeness, is able to completely express feelings and soul, and even more importantly, the spirit (as it relates the believers). That is why many scientists consider dance as a first language and the method of transmitting information since the dawn of humanity.
Dance is inseparable from music and rhythm. In Genesis 4:21, Jubal is called the father of all those who play, as one among many other "fathers" of different talents and even professions. We see that each of us has different talents and capabilities that God put inside of us, and we can develop them for the glory of God or for the opposite (which is sad).
So, dancing (specifically dancing that was independent of the concept of culture and art, and had no elements of competition or comparison to others) together with music and singing, is an ancient form of expression of feelings, emotions and information.
Scientists have noticed that starting around 5,000 years ago, dance motifs had almost completely disappeared from stone monuments and ceramic tableware. This fact is explained in that at the time of the first monarchies and states it was kings and their officials who organized and directed the collective actions of people, not the dance.
As we see, dancing has gone through various changes through the course of time and history. And it is fair to consider that our understanding of dance, its nature and its usage could be incorrect or tainted. That is why we need to address the Scripture in order to return dance to its original purpose and revelation that God put in us.
In modern dance educational institutions, it is taught that the dances of any nation can be divided into two categories: religious (ritual) and social (domestic). But as we know, things that can be applicable for most do not always apply to Israel.
The main difference that we need to remember is that the social and domestic life of Israel was always inseparably connected with the God of Israel. Daily life of the nation with the special highlighting of its feasts has been closely bound with religious life without any framework and borders. The God of Israel wants the full attention of His people.
Through 19 centuries, the Jewish people did not have their own country and in the countries where they had to live, they also were practically unable to cultivate the land. Therefore, the "dances of farmers" related to the daily work in the fields. It was also connected to the lack of family time in the evenings absent during that period which has since been restored with the establishment of the State of Israel. The name of this dance is the"hora" dance (originally taken from the Romanian dance).
Many of us are familiar with Jewish greeting, "Chag Sameach", which is translated as "joyful (cheerful) holiday". Now, scientists say that the Hebrew word "Chag", which is often translated as "feast, festival, celebration", has an original meaning of "sacred circle dance performed around the altar in the sanctuary." This shows that the essence and nature of celebration and dancing were so bound together, that when the Jewish people talked about feasts, their first thought was about dancing in joyful celebration.
The definition of "dance" in Hebrew is closely connected with and is practically a synonym with, the word "joy". Dancing is described as the very picture of joy and antonym to sorrow, "... a time to mourn and a time to dance" (Ecclesiastes 3:4); "Joy is gone from our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning" (Lamentations 5:15).
Using this same definition, images of dancing are spoken of in the prophecy of Jeremiah about the restoration of Israel, "I will build you up again, and you, Virgin Israel, will be rebuilt. Again you will take up your timbrels and go out to dance with the joyful. "(Jeremiah 31: 4), "Then young women will dance and be glad, young men and old as well..." (Jeremiah 31:13).
The Hebrew language has 13 words that describe dance, each highlighting one or another type and manifestation of it. Most refer to dance as an act or form of joy.
Deuteronomy 16: 11,14: "... and you shall rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God, to put his name there ..." Here in particular, God calls for everyone to be involved in the festive joy, with nobody left indifferent.
Joy in the Lord is about the One by Whom we live and have reason to rejoice for. The Lord is zealous for ways for His people to rejoice and serve Him. He does not need or ask for "boring religious things". Instead, He asks for the sincere feelings of his people. "When you come to appear before me, who has asked this of you, this trampling of my courts? Stop bringing meaningless offerings! Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations — I cannot bear your worthless assemblies. Your New Moon feasts and your appointed festivals I hate with all my being." (Isaiah 1:12-14).
Joy before the Lord has nothing to do with the joy and pleasures of this world and origin of this joy. In Isaiah 5:11-12 it says, "Woe to those who rise early in the morning to run after their drinks, who stay up late at night till they are inflamed with wine. They have harps and lyres at their banquets, pipes and timbrels and wine, but they have no regard for the deeds of the Lord, no respect for the work of his hands." The Lord says through the prophet that joy caused by alcohol is disgusting to God (perhaps this is what happened when the Israelites worshiped the golden calf in Exodus 32 and three thousand died violently).
It's not only alcohol that can cause unrighteous joy that is not directed to God, but also pride, envy, self-expression and self-realization as a goal in and of itself. These and many other things can lead us away from true praise and worship of God.
We just need to remind Satan was worship leader (Ezekiel 28). Satan knows the value, power and influence music and dancing has on person. He is the father of lies. He is good at corruption; changing and turning good things to evil. In the modern world, we are surrounded by culture, music, dance which were changed and corrupted by Satan. We cannot blindly and carelessly take things from this world and serve God with them.
Today some churches make big mistakes using these things. This happens when church services use a variety of formats of this world for fun that were originally focused on goals in opposition of things God wants us to do.
Most of us did not grow up in families of believers (which doesn't necessarily guarantee proper upbringing either). Most of us came to God at a mature age with certain ways of thinking and established life foundations. For this reason, we have corrupted concept of the feast, joy and gladness; the true values and intention were eroded or replaced. And because we do not have the proper understanding, we can find ourselves expressing our joy in the wrong way. Or, conversely, we can put our limits on it.
Israel's Experience
Here, more than ever, Israel's experience is useful to examine; the approaches and actions that have been carried and kept through the ages; not including religious and ritual aspects that were accumulated over the centuries and maintained after the death and resurrection of Yeshua. Other than Israel, there is no other nation in the world that has such a practice of life with God! There is no other nation whose culture, lifestyle, and very meaning of life is so connected to God.
Believers from any other nation without this knowledge and practice can lose certain blessings or risk making mistakes along the way.
There are dances of different origin and destination in the dance culture of different countries including martial arts dances, competitive dances and ritual dances. For example, the national dance of Myanmar involves 12 year old girls dancing on the shoulders of a man after having inhaled opium fumes. In Myanmar tradition this is a form of communication with spirits and ancestors. How should a believer in this country dance without specific knowledge of the Jewish (biblical) approach? He is compelled either to mix worship together with the old practice or follow the example of different versions of the world (including Christian practices), or refuse any practices in this area.
This large gap exists not only between Jewish dance and dance practices of this world. The gap is huge; even the opposite sometimes, but there is also a gap between Christian and Jewish practices. The gap is caused by various things, including history which we will also investigate.


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Being a student who has fled the nest in search of independence and freedom, you can not be prepared enough for what university life has to offer. You have to be an accountant, cleaner, student, academic, prospective professional, family member, close friend and flatmate. Some people handle these roles well, and others not so well. Here's how well I managed – my best and my worst moments.
So move in day came, and to that I learned that I would be living on the fourth floor and there were no elevators. This was a task and a half. If you're moving into halls, I suggest you bring storage boxes and find out if the halls have elevators. You could come up with some pully-system, but for health and safety best not.
The flat 'mates'
It was fair to say that by the end we were all glad to be departing our own separate ways, put it that way. But amazing to think that in the first week you all thought you would be BFFL's for life – no pal that was the alcohol talking.
Take away nights are justifiable
Because you're a student and you're on limited funds, taking advantage of student deals at the local takeaway has always been OK. How do you get a 12 inch pizza for £3? I doubt it was real cheese. It's better than eating pasta every day put it that way.
Freshers flu
If you've never heard of freshers flu, god save you. Being crammed in a room full of 200 students and little ventilation does not sound promising, especially when a fair fraction of those students are from across the globe. Here is the meeting place of every strain of flu in existence, and it gives birth to the god forsaken 'freshers flu'. Mine turned into bronchitis and could only be defeated by this aggressive antibiotic which is not so easy keep down once down.
Offeree or offeror?
Two words guaranteed to come up on the spell checker every time. Are they really words, and which way around were they again? This post it note were the stabilisers to my academic bike, which I did not learn to ride without until the end of the semester.
The Law Fair
An ample opportunity for every scrimping student to get their hands on free stationary and kitchenware. The cost – scrubbing up well and getting your name out to the local firms.
Get suited – it's time for court
The 'moot', a moment where students become lawyers for the day to show how good they are at manipulating the truth. Some dreading it, some loving it. Me? Loving it obviously. 'May it please you ma'am, my name is Ross Simmons and I represent the prosecution'.
Put the kettle on and get your onesie on. Who wants to be writing up essays and reading Factortame when you've got all seasons of Breaking Bad at the click of a button. Here's a few words of wisdom, if you haven't watched Breaking Bad, pick the right time to start, not half way through semester 2!
Law students don't have time to play 'dress up'
Wrong! Here's a picture of me, Koula and Agha in Nottingham at the Galleries of Justice. A 'school trip' is always the best ice breaker for freshers. I assure you this trip was educational and our coursework depended on it!
Six letters which bring up images of those only seen in nightmares. Really, it wasn't that bad. Keep you're referencing guide to hand and you can't go wrong. Oh, and if you catch yourself using 'ibid', you're officially an OSCOLA pro.
The 'law' trip to London
Probably the most non-law related trip you've been on. Most universities or their societies offer this unique experience to see the judges in the central courts. Of course we did just that, but who goes to London without riding the underground or getting a taste of the cocktails in Soho?
So those were my best and worst moments from my first year as a law student. How about your best and worst moments? Comment below – I want to know!


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