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Showing up, and why it mattersMarch 8, 2009 — Deacon Duncan
There are three ideas at the core of my unapologetic against Christianity. The first is the principle that truth is consistent with itself. The second and third are what I call the Undeniable Fact and its Inescapable Consequence: God does not show up in real life, and consequently men have no option but to put their faith in their own fantasies, intuitions, superstitions and hearsay. To the extent that salvation depends on true faith in God, therefore, salvation is impossible, since God is not here to give us something real to put our faith in, and since mere gullible trust in men's words is not really the same as having genuine faith.
Lately, it seems like much of the opposition to my unapologetic is centered around the idea of what it means for God to show up in real life. Believers seem to want a definition that's broad enough, and vague enough, that they can count God as having shown up without there ever being any real-world evidence we could use to prove or disprove their claims. But I think perhaps we can pin down the definition of "showing up" in fairly reasonable and unambiguous terms, and thereby show how crucial it is to consider whether God actually does show up in real life.
You will recall that, according to the Gospel stories, no one is said to have actually seen Jesus rise from the dead. The Event, if it happened at all, happened inside a sealed tomb when no one was around, and the tomb was already empty by the time anyone looked inside. What changes it from a missing body story to a "resurrection" story is the fact that believers subsequently reported various appearances of Jesus after his death. That is, he showed up, in ways that were personally significant to them and which were sufficient to prove to them that he was indeed alive.
What I propose is that Christians 2,000 years ago were the same sort of people as believers today, and they were giving Jesus credit for "showing up" on precisely the same subjective, non-materialistic basis as believers do today. Rather than having a miraculous, supernatural eruption of divine power and glory, we merely have the same sort of ordinary, subjective, religious experiences we observe believers having all the time—without God Himself showing up in any kind of literal, tangible, objectively-real manner.
Believers, of course, will object that Jesus really did show up after the alleged Resurrection. But therein lies the catch, you see, because in order to make that argument, they must first admit that they know the difference between "showing up" in the common, evidence-free, religious sense of the word, and genuinely showing up in real life, outside of the fantasies, intuitions, and superstitions of men. And yet, it is precisely this sort of genuine, real-world showing up, which would be necessary in order for the resurrection story to be true, which does not happen in real life.
It does not matter if believers want to argue that I can't possibly know that God does not genuinely show up in real life. God's failure to show up is an Undeniable Fact with an Inescapable Consequence: if God has not genuinely shown up in your life, you have no real-world basis for faith in Him. The only option available to you is blind trust in what men claim about God, and this is faith in men, not faith in God. Even if you'd like to believe that somewhere out in the hinterlands, God is showing up for a lonely old hermit who has no social contact with anyone else, the fact remains that in your life, God does not show up in real life, and therefore you have no opportunity to have reality-based faith in anything more than human fallibilities.
If God were showing up in real life, genuinely showing up in a tangible and objectively-real sense, often enough that Christians could have a valid basis for their personal faith, there would be more than enough empirical, verifiable evidence to satisfy the skeptic. He'd be photographable, videotapable, even paparazziable! There would be no cause to doubt His existence, nor any advantage in doing so. Even the Pharisees, who were murderously opposed to Jesus' ministry, never found reason to doubt whether or not he actually existed. But then again, Jesus did show up (at least until he was executed).
So yes, I do know that God does not show up in real life, and what's more, I know that the Resurrection is extremely easy to explain just by watching what ordinary, everyday Christians accept as genuine and infallible proof that God has miraculously manifested Himself in their personal lives. It's all a matter of how God "shows up" in real life, and the mental maneuvers believers are willing and eager to perform in order to turn His absence into His presence. The Gospel is just an exercise in mutual and self deception.


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my family came into town this past week for their spring break. in other words, they came into town to meet (and SERIOUSLY approve!) of jeff. ha. we spent most of the week eating and planning the wedding (THE WEDDING!)(BECAUSE I'M GETTING MARRIED!)(is this real life?!). it's funny how i had pinned so many things about my fake wedding in my head but now that there's actually a boy and a ring and a date (august 3rd, baby!) i can't even come up with any ideas! thankfully jeff has a few of his own…oh heavens, help that boy. a few days ago he suggested that we have a sand volleyball and rockband tournament at our reception. ha. and he is insisting on having funnel cakes, fountain drinks, and a ranch fountain? hmmm?
anyways, these are pictures from one day we spent playing at the park with my cousin jennie and her precious daughters and then at a milagros' mexican restaurant (suggest! suggest! suggest!) where jeff was thoroughly grilled by her. ha! i love how cute and protective my family is and how jeff just takes the grilling like a champ ("when did you know you were in love with brooke?" "when it was her turn to pick the song and she turned on 'let's get it on' by marvin gaye!")
p.s. sorry for being such a bad blogger! i am going to be better! a few nights ago i told jeff that i had to go home because i HAD TO BLOG! (which i didn't actually do; confession: it's harder to blog when great things are actually happening! ha!) my brain has been everywhere! in the words of my dad, he knew that he should be worried when i wasn't blogging 3 times a day.

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The Sioux Falls Skyforce, Miami's D-League affiliate, has 10 former players on NBA opening day rosters including four on the Heat.
Heat guards Rodney McGruder, Tyler Johnson and Josh Richardson and center Hassan Whiteside are Skyforce alums. McGruder beat out Beno Udrih and Briante Weber for the final roster spot and then played 24 minutes and scored six points in his NBA debut Wednesday during Miami's season opening win in Orlando. McGruder played the entire 2015-16 season in Sioux Falls, averaging 15.8 points and 5.3 rebounds. Johnson played part of the 2014-15 season with Sioux Falls. Whiteside played in the D-League for parts of four years, including eight games with Sioux Falls. Richardson played four games with the Skyforce last year.
McGruder, DeAndre Liggins and Jarnell Stokes ended the 2015-16 season with the D-League champions and were among the Skyforce's top players. Stokes, who made the Denver Nuggets, led Sioux Falls with 20.6 points and 9.3 rebounds in 28 regular season games. Liggins, who stuck with the NBA champion Cleveland Cavaliers, averaged a team-high 7.0 assists and 13.0 points in 34 games.
Other former Skyforce players on NBA rosters: Alexis Ajinca, New Orleans; Justin Hamilton, Brooklyn; Amir Johnson, Boston and Shabazz Napier, Portland.
Sioux Falls opens its season Nov. 12 at home against Salt Lake City.
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A circuit breaker is an automatically operated electrical switch designed to protect an electrical circuit from damage caused by overload or short circuit. Its basic function is to detect a fault condition and interrupt current flow.
Certainly at one time or another, you've had to turn on a circuit breaker. It's also likely you've had to turn one off to replace a switch or outlet, or possibly to put up a new light or ceiling fan. In any case, turning a circuit breaker on is so easy, as the Geico commercial touts, that a caveman could do it!
Electrical safety always begins with turning a circuit breaker off before performing any electrical work on a circuit or device connected to it.
And, you may say, it ends when the project is completed and the circuit breaker is once again re entergized by turning the circuit breaker back on.
Circuit breakers are no more than a specialized single-pole switch. The difference being it has three states in can be in: off, on, or tripped (a sort of neutral position). Unlike a switch that is either on or off, the breakers tripped position is a state that allows the homeowner to see that a circuit error has occured.
In order to turn on a circuit breaker, simply locate the circuit breaker panel in your home or office. On the face of the panel, you'll see a door. Open that door and there will be many black circuit breakers with switch handles. These breakers will look longer than taller. The switches will be stacked in two rows from top to bottom.
The breaker switch handles are in the on position when the handles are all the way towards the center of the breaker panel. If they are positioned toward the outside of the panel, they are in the off position.
The tripped state will be somewhere in the middle and to reset this state, you'll need to switch off the breaker before turning it back on.
Like I said, turning them on is no big deal, but you may want to practice a time or two just in the event you ever have to either reset a tripped breaker or turn one on. That way you'll be familiar with what a circuit breaker does and how they function as a disconnect switch. Remember, if a caveman can do it, why can't you turn on a circuit breaker?
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This amazing view of London is my souvenir of a helicopter sightseeing trip over London. On a sunny autumn morning, we took off from Essex in EC130 G-SASY (right), and headed along the Thames, in one unforgettable half-hour passing iconic landmarks such as Tower Bridge, the Monument to the 1666 Great Fire of London, St Paul's Cathedral, the Post Office Tower, and later the London Eye, Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace. Some of these buildings have dominated the capital's skyline for centuries but from the air, alongside new developments such as the Shard skyscraper (seen left, at 309.6m tall, the highest completed building in Europe), they looked like children's models.
The helicopter tour was a Christmas present which came via a voucher. More details: http://www.adventure001.com/activity.asp?ActTypeId=6&Dn=Helicopter%20Sightseeing
A bonus was the location of the helicopter landing field – just across the road from the site of the Kelvedon Hatch secret nuclear bunker. This unassuming bungalow, shrouded by trees (left), is the portal to an underground world of reinforced tunnels and rooms where up to 600 military and civilian personnel, possibly even the Prime Minister, would have headed survival operations in the advent of a nuclear war. It was decomissioned in 1992, and is now owned and looked after privately. I didn't have time to go in, but tours are available. There's even a cafeteria. See http://www.secretnuclearbunker.com/index.html


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When the official can of Polar Express Hot Chocolate is an empty sweet dream, what does a grandma do? She "makes" it. Here is what I have come up with... enjoy!
One bag 2.5oz SOFT peppermint candies (the balls work better than sicks, unless you breack them up. (buy an extra bag to garnish the finished cup)
Remove wrappers and put in a food processor bowl with chopping blade.
Pulverize until looks like the above picture.
Purchase hot chocolate mix, I used a 27.7 oz container.
Add the pulverized soft peppermint candy to the chocolate mix in can.
Replace lid and shake to mix. If one wishes use an Ice tea spoon to give a final mix.
The shaken mix combines to look like this.
Make hot chocolate as per the instructions on the hot chocolate mix can.
Top with whipped cream and a single soft peppermint candy on top.


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Post Title: "Date with the Night," Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Post Title: "Date with the Night," Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Jacket: French Connection (Similar HERE) | Body Suit: Nelly | Skirt: Nelly
Leather Blazer: Vero Moda (HERE) | Shoes: Bianco
The funny thing about style blogging is that your hobby/job/what have you essentially involves taking copious pictures of yourself. What is that like, people may ask?
Well, it's basically like holding a huge mirror up to yourself and the way you dress, and then showing said mirror image to a bunch of internet strangers, your closest friends, and your mom (Hi, Mom!). This process, of course, is slightly terrifying, if not mildly embarrassing at times when you're a newbie like me.
However, it can provide valuable insight into how you may look to the rest of the world. Because, like I said: huge mirror and all. Such was the case when I decided to snap a few pictures of my outfit from Saturday night. Now, I was going for a bit of club-ish vibe because Saturday. So, I decided to combine one of my Nelly bodysuits with this bandage skirt. After snapping a few pictures, I began flipping through the shots to see if I had gotten anything useable.
Let me just say that my first thoughts were: "OMG, too much...everything!" (Everything meaning boobs). I am not sure if it was my pose, my freshly bleached hair, or the fact that my hourglass figure tends to make any slightly formfitting piece look vulgar even if it's not intended to do so (I am not complaining; I just need to be careful or risk feeling slightly "naked" in certain garments). Or perhaps it was the fact the photos were shot during the mid-afternoon, and this was definitely an outfit made for the night.
At any rate, I definitely was feeling the need to tone my look on down. As Coco Chanel said: take one thing off before you leave the house. So that is exactly what I did! Or, as in the case of this outfit, threw on a jacket.
On another note: on Friday I had an appointment for a much-needed refresh for my blonde hair. If you are in Stavanger, I highly recommend Amalie at Ombre Frisør*. She was super knowledgeable, and perfectly understood and executed the vision I had for my color. I am very picky about my hair, and am always nervous to try a new stylist. But I am beyond happy with the results. I will definitely be going back!
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Faculty spend hours weekly in front of a classroom, where they profess knowledge to help mold young minds. They possess a heightened ability to focus and concentrate on a narrow subject within a proscribed discipline. Because of the kind of work that they do, faculty also largely control the use of their time with remarkable freedom from constraints of colleagues or administrators. So it should be no surprise at all that some faculty come to believe that they themselves are worthy of the same focus and concentration that would be directed at a newly discovered manuscript by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
Even so, I was taken aback a bit by the self-absorbed fatuousness in a column in the January 27 edition of Inside Higher Ed by one Tamara Yakaboski, associate professor of higher education and student affairs leadership at the University of Northern Colorado.
Professor Yakaboski recently had a baby, the run-up to which–according to her–made her the center of unwelcome attention from Las Vegas to Orlando:
I attended two student affairs conferences in March, presenting and serving on panels at both. When presenting, I worried whether the audience still valued my work or were they thinking more about me as a mother than as a scholar.
She explains:
While some women may choose not to attend conferences while pregnant as to avoid any devaluation of their professional identity or for health reasons, others attend for many reasons including the need to network, to present their research because their annual evaluations require it, or they are on the job market. I chose to conference [sic] out of habit.
Not to mention travel to such hots spots as Vegas and Disney World on somebody else's nickel, which is understandably habit-forming. In fairness to the preggers professor, Ms. Yakaboski was presenting at each of the conferences, so it could be argued that she was working. On the other hand, these were conferences about "student affairs."
Professor Bun-in-the-Oven ostensibly wrote her column to educate. "Busy conference schedules, where sessions are packed in one after another and void of time in the day that is unscheduled," she writes
really are not planned for the fatigued body, pregnant or not. Conference planners would do many a favor by creating a centrally located lounge space for attendees to rest.
In my experience, such "centrally located lounge space" is relatively easy to find in a conference hotel and is typically called "the lobby." Having attended more than my fair share of academic conferences, moreover, I know that, should I need to rest my weary bones, I can always count on a quick flop in one of the chairs, couches, or benches that dot the serpentine hallways every 30 feet or so of gigantic conference hostelries. So I do not know what Professor Yakaboski is talking about. Perhaps she is expecting too much.
Location, conference venue and hotel, is important for conference planning committees and maybe even more so for those with families. Pregnant women or families may not be a priority for conference planning committees, but they might consider their needs when selecting sites. Or at least realize that without accommodations, such as lounge space, and other family friendly planning, individuals are left to decide if they belong at academic and professional conferences when it can be challenging and even unwelcoming.
If you set out to imagine a more self-centered vision of the world, you would be hard-pressed to top that of Professor Prenatal. Why should she–or any other working individual–drag her family to a conference in the first place? Besides the free hotel room, courtesy of her institution's budget, I mean.
You might also ask yourself in what kind of upside down universe is the self-esteem of a highly educated individual so fragile that at a conference designed to accommodate the needs of some 5,000 attendees (i.e., NASPA 2013 Annual Conference), her need to nap must be planned for lest she feel "unwelcome." What makes this navel-gazing even more appalling that the particular conference she is talking about 1) took place adjacent to Disney World; 2) had regularly scheduled shuttle service to Disney World; 3) established "gender-neutral" bathrooms at the site of the conference; and 4) placed a pronoun (he, she, ze) on the name tag of each and every attendee lest a transgender person get ze's feelings hurt.
The planners messed up big time, I guess, when they failed to add a pink, blue, or lavender ribbon to the name tags of the pregnant participants. The ribbons, tastefully warning fellow conferees to keep their eyes above belly level, could have avoided Professor Yakaboski's having to suffer the indignities of her pregnancy:
there were people questioning my physical body instead of my mental contributions. It was a surprise that these comments came from student affairs and higher education professionals and faculty who I thought would have been more sensitive and inclusive and a little less judgmental.
But suffer them she did, bravely leaving the warmth and comfort of her ivory tower a mere three months before her confinement, in order "to conference" [sic]. Having broken through to the other side, she modestly takes credit for being the pioneering "role model" millions of pregnant women were unaware they needed:
Reflecting back almost a year later, I hope my baby bump sent a message that a woman can be pregnant without losing her scholarly and professional identities. If you are attending a conference this season with a baby bump, be proud and know you are role modeling for the next (and current) generation of women scholars and professionals. You are supporting the fact that academics can have families.


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The organiser of Reading and Leeds Festivals has said he has established "emergency plans" to help counter potential severe weather conditions.
Speaking to BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat, Melvin Benn has said that he has planned for every eventuality and insists that no festival goer in the world is safer than those at Reading and Leeds.
Asked about how he believes the festival would cope if the sort of freak weather that caused the tragic accident that occurred at Belgian festival Pukkelpop last week, Benn replied:
If we had something similar [to Pukkelpop] I know what actions I would take in order to make sure people were safe. I have to table top exercises with the emergency services about the actions I would take in the event of all of those things. Believe me, there is no scenario of an eventuality that I have not looked at, including freak storms. I know how I would deal with it to ensure peoples' safety. The level of effort over safety is immense. It's the thing which keeps me awake at night.
He continued:
It's difficult to comment how freakish the weather was. Whether the weather was with or without warning. It's virtually impossible to deal with things that are of that intensity without warning. Here in the UK, I would like to think, and certainly history has always suggested, that we've always had warning and that we're able to prepare. The UK has an exemplary record in terms of safety at festivals. The festivals are all governed by very strict licensing. There has to be sign off of everything.
Both legs of the festival are set for a wet weekend, with showers predicted for both sites across the three-day event.
According to Metcheck, the forecast for both sites has improved since yesterday (August 24), with Reading now only predicted to see rain today (August 25) and tomorrow afternoon (August 26), with dry days predicted for Saturday (August 27) and Sunday (August 28).
Leeds has improved significantly, with rain now only predicted to hit the site on Saturday afternoon and sunshine due for the rest of the weekend.
NME.COM is coming live from Reading And Leeds Festivals this weekend – stay tuned to NME.COM/festivals/reading-and-leeds for news reports, reviews, videos and photos from both sites.


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Gallery: The Lady, the Messenger and the Scorpion
posted: 3000 days ago, on Monday, 2011 Nov 07 at 17:51
tags: astronomy, astrophotography, Mercury, Venus, Kos Coronaios, Ed Foster.
The bright planets Venus and Mercury have been accenting the twilight skies for the past few weeks. The planetary duo have been creeping up on the constellation Scorpius and on November 5th (as the photo below shows) found themselves within the grasp of the scorpion's claws, appearing below the reddish star Antares.
Over the next two weeks, the two planets continue moving in step, side-by-side, as they crawl upward next to the scorpion. Their changing positions relative to the background stars will be noticeable from night to night.
On November 8, Venus will be within Ophiuchius, where it remains until the 23rd. Mercury will be in Ophiuchius from November 15th until early December. Sorry, astrologers.
By mid-month, Antares will be slipping into the solar glow soon after sunset, while the planetary pair climb slightly higher.
Summary of the last almost two-weeks of planetary motion.
Images by Kos Coronaios
Mercury and Venus are still well-placed after sunset, while Antares drops lower each evening.
Images by Kos Coronaios
Bottom-right image shows the centre of our Milky Way galaxy. The streak on far left is an Iridium flare.
Images by Kos Coronaios
Images by Kos Coronaios
Images by Ed Foster
Clear skies in Stellenbosch at last. (r.t.l.) Venus, Mercury, Antares, flight to Jo'burg.
Venus and Mercury above the city lights of Cape Town.
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Unite member in the Charities Sector?
Charities Sector Briefing Day 1st March 2017 1100 – 1500 Unite House 128 Theobald's Road London WC1X 8TN
This event offers a great opportunity for Unite reps working across the charities sector to meet with other reps and help build a powerful network of union reps across the different charities that Unite members work in. We are a diverse network, with common issues of pay, stress at work, long working hours and a challenging environment working in the not for profit sector. Please do consider joining us on the day.
Agenda for the day
1100 - 1130 Welcome and introductions, overview of the sector.
1130 – 1230 Current trends in pay bargaining in the charity sector.
- Benchmarking
- Pay awards
- Performance pay
- Gender pay gap reporting
- Bargaining brief
1230 – 1300 Lunch. (Sandwiches provided)
1300 – 1330 Implications of the lobbying act.
1330 – 1400 Update on stress in the work place.
1400 – 1430 Building networks of Unite reps who work in charities.
1430 – 1500 Feedback discussion and generating next steps for the sector.
1500 Meeting closes.
For more information about this event please contact Siobhan Endean, National Officer CYNFP sector, Unite the Union


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Instead of feeling some strange version of survivor guilt for being freed while others remain chained and defeated, I need to step up to help set them free; I need to step up into a holy boldness. (And I'm not the only one!)
Whether you're standing on your old pile of chains or you've long since discarded them, you, like I do, remember being tied down and held back. You may even recall the sound of your falling chains off as you surrendered to the One Who set you free.
I heard the way they train circus elephants not to run off is by chaining them to a post while they're babies. That chain and their limited space to move teach them that's all there is to their lives. As they get older, bigger and stronger, the post can be removed from the ground without fear the elephant will wander off or become destructive, because the elephant has already learned their limitations. If they only knew!
Perhaps you still have a few shackles around your feet or tethered to your heart. Maybe, you're convinced they'll always be there - because they've always been there. Either way, there's freedom in Christ. Once He shatters our chains, though, we need to recognize our liberty. We can continue to walk around in the same small circles we've always gotten dizzy in, or we can learn to walk a new path. Think about it, when a blind man is given his sight, he can no longer sit and beg alms, he needs to (gets to) go out and make his own way.
Learning to walk that new path isn't hard, but it's certainly challenging; there will be hard parts to the often mountainous journey and there will be fun downhill sled rides. But we can't take part in any of it until we find our way. And Jesus proclaimed, "I am the way!" That's the good news!
But, getting back to those chains; if we've learned to call those cumbersome bands "jewelry", masquerading around like they're all the rage, and believing that even those around us don't see how confined we are, it's unlikely we'll yield to the only One Who can loose us from their well defined hold. In any form of confinement, there is a conditioning process. We can lose hope and be enslaved forever, or we can reach for our hope throughout every single day, believing we'll be rescued.
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"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." – Hebrews 11:1 (KJV) Faith – faith in something or someone, keeps hope alive.
Though I've read Sun Tzu's book, The Art of War, I'm no student of battle, nor a fan of war movies. I've not studied the tactics man uses to conquer other men. But, from what I have seen in a half a century of living, it's easy for most of us to give up. Whether we're giving up on yet another diet, or we're imprisoned and see no way out. Maybe that's why we love movies where the very impossible is overcome and true stories of how someone else rose from nothingness to have it all; where they suffered sure defeat only to rise up to unbelievable victory. We watch a human spirit triumph and we somehow share in that glory and revel in their freedom – all from our comfy theater seat or living room couch, even knowing our own inner struggles have us feeling defeated. Those stories can give us the shot of hope we so desperately search for.
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Spiritual chains are even stronger than physical chains. Physical chains restrain where we go. Spiritual chains restrain the power we've (already) been given, rendering us impotent.
Where we are weak, there are spiritual chains. Sometimes we don't see our own weaknesses because we've lived in them so long; we believe that's how we were made and should be okay with it, learning to live with it or adapt to it, diminishing who we are created to be. Now, if I lose my legs in an accident, that's something to adapt to, but I don't need to let it diminish who I am. Sometimes we need to take a serious look in a mirror. But a literal mirror will only show physical chains.
We need to look into the mirror of God's Word to see how we're SUPPOSE to look; to see the power we actually have and to recognize the chains that suppress us. I suggest reading through the New Testament; I'd begin with the first chapter of the book of John. Here's a link to it to get you started: The Book of John, Chapter One
I'm not a counselor of any sort, but I'd like to think I encourage. I'm more than happy to answer the questions I can – but know, I probably have more questions than you do. Jesus Loves Me, This I Know ----- Jesus Knows Me, This I LOVE!
To get you up and off that couch, listen to Mary Mary perform their song Shackles, one of my favorites!


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Agenda 21 Update: Prospective Senator Cruz From Texas is An Agender
Robin Rather of Collective Strength in Austin, Texas thinks the Agenda 21 phenomenon is manufactured, telling me "People don't wake up in the morning sweating bullets about the United Nations". But she now probably is getting a senator who thinks otherwise. Ted Cruz, the new Republican nominee for the Senate from Texas, takes Agenda 21 very seriously. He writes on his blog, in Stop Agenda 21: The Constitution should be our only "Agenda."
Agenda 21 is wrong, and it must be stopped....The originator of this grand scheme is George Soros, who candidly supports socialism and believes that global development must progress through eliminating national sovereignty and private property. He has given millions to this project. But he is not the only one promoting this plan; in fact, the International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) now consists of over 600 cities in the United States.
Agenda 21 attempts to abolish "unsustainable" environments, including golf courses, grazing pastures, and paved roads. It hopes to leave mother earth's surface unscratched by mankind. Everyone wants clean water and clean air, but Agenda 21 dehumanizes individuals by removing the very thing that has defined Americans since the beginning—our freedom.....
In the U.S. Senate, I intend to continue leading the fight, to stop Agenda 21 and any other globalist plan that tries to subvert the U.S. Constitution and the liberties we all cherish as Americans.
Mother Jones notes that he is against a few other things, and that he is pretty much a shoo-in for the seat in the Senate. I was going to embed an interview of Cruz by Glenn Beck where they are discussing Agenda 21 but it was too vile. Mother Jones did, so give them the pageviews by at least going here first.


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Disney Cruise Line has just announced an additional newbuild slated for 2022. Last March, Disney announced they would build two ships at Germany's Meyer Werft. Deliveries are now planned for 2021, 2022 and 2023.
The additional ship will be the same size and will handle the same pax. The final details are still being worked out, but they will be slightly modified Disney Dream-class vessel with at least an additional half-deck added. They will be 135,000gt and handle 2,500pax double occupancy. That's a rather small pax load for a ship this size.


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Aaron W. CloptonSchool of Education - Health, Sport, & Exercise Sciences
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Aaron W. Clopton, Ph.D. is in his first year as a faculty member at the University of Kansas. He is currently the program director for Sport Management and the director of the new Laboratory for the Study of Sport Management (LSSM).
Dr. Clopton specializes in organizational theory/behavior, sport and social sustainability, and organizational issues in intercollegiate athletics.
Ph.D., Sport Management, with honors, University of Kansas
M.S., Sport Sociology, University of Kansas
B.S., Sport Management , University of Kansas
HSES 828: Sport Finance
HSES 830: Socio-Cultural Dimensions of Sport
HSES 884: Legal Aspects of Sport
Teaching Interests
- Sport law
- Organizational Behavior/Theory in Sport
Dr. Clopton's research agenda has consistently focused on the impact of sport on social networks and organizations. To do this, his work is framed across the Resource Based Theory which views intangible resources as having a contribution to the sustainable competitive advantage of organizations. From this approach, Dr. Clopton has recently authored the new Social Anchor Theory (SAT), which established the anchoring position of social institutions in community development.
Recent examples of this work have included: Racial differences in the perceptions of the impact of college athletics on a campus community; An examination of the ability of intercollegiate athletics to bridge across social networks of college students; The existence of social capital and teamwork with team performance; Racial differences in the social networks/benefits of student athletes; and The use of college sports in the academic and social integration of college students.
Research Interests
- Social Anchor Theory
- Social Capital in Sport and Community
- Social Networks
Selected Publications
Farrell, J. & Clopton, A. W. (2015). Re-evaluating Major League Soccer (MLS)'s claim as a single-entity league: 10 years after Fraser v. Major League Soccer. Journal of Contemporary Athletics, 9(3).
Katz, M. & Clopton, A. W. (2014). Town & gown . . & Jerseys? NCAA division III athletics as social anchors. Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics, 285-306.
Clopton, A. W., & Watkins, M. (in press). Profit-maximizing and win-maximizing in the National Football League. Journal of Contemporary Athletics, 7(4).
Seifried, C. & Clopton, A. W. (2013). Reviewing Social Anchor Theory (SAT) through sport facilities: Civic monuments as home for the social capital of community residents and fan nations. City, Culture, & Society.
Clopton, A. W. (2013). The Impact of Athletics upon the Social Sustainability of the College Campus. In J. Devitis (Ed.), Contemporary Colleges & Universities: A Reader (pp. 106-122). New York: Peter Lang Publishing.
Clopton, A. W., & Slavich, M. (in press). A theoretical positioning of Major League Baseball's organizational strategy. Journal of Contemporary Athletics, 6(4).
Clopton, A. W., & Bourke, B. (2012). Big-time college sport in black and white: Perceptions of impact of the impact of athletics on campus. College Student Affairs Journal, 31(1).
Clopton, A. W., & Finch, B. L. (2012). In search of the winning image: Assessing the impact of athletics successes on perceptions of external prestige. Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics, 79-95.
Clopton, A. W., & Dale, S. J. (2012). Managing organizational change: A multi-level coaching perspective. Applied Research in Coaching and Athletics Annual, 27, 195-221.
Clopton, A. W. (2012). Re-analyzing the connection between team identity and affective commitment in the overall university context. International Journal of Sport Management, 13(4), 363-384.
Clopton, A. W. (2012). Social capital, gender, and the student-athlete. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, 16(4), 272-288.
Clopton, A. W. (2011). Examining racial differences in social capital development among college student-athletes. Journal of African-American Studies, 15, 58-73.
Clopton, A. W., & Finch, B. (2011). Re-conceptualizing social anchors in community development: Utilizing Social Anchor Theory to create social capital's third dimension. Community Development , 42(1), 70-83.
Clopton, A. W. (2011). Re-examining the role of antecedent orientation in social psychological well-being through team identification. Journal of Contemporary Athletics, 6(2), 1-15.
Ryan, T. D., & Clopton, A. W. (2011). Relationships between supervisory support, coaching satisfaction, and life satisfaction. International Journal of Sport Management, 12(1), 1-13.
Clopton, A. W. (2011). Social capital and team performance. Team Performance Management, 17(7/8), 369-381.
Clopton, A. W. (2011). Social capital goes to college: Examining both the overall and bridging potential of intercollegiate athletics. Journal of Intercollegiate Sport, 4(2), 84-100.
Clopton, A. W., & Finch, B. L. (2010). Are college students bowling alone? Examining the contribution of fan identification to the social capital of college students. Journal of Sport Behavior, 33(4), 333-366.
Clopton, A. W. (2010). The impact of intercollegiate athletic participation upon sense of community across multiple-levels of competition. International Journal of Sport Management, 12(3), 440-456.
Clopton, A. W., & Sagas, M. (2009). Gender, support, and satisfaction: Viewing relational demography in the coaching profession. International Journal of Sport Management, 10(2), 136-150.
Clopton, A. W. (2009). One for the Team: The Impact of Community upon Students as Fans and Academic and Social Integration. Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics, Special Issue, 24-61.
Clopton, A. W., & Sagas, M. (2009). Shattering the glass ceiling? Examining the impact of perceived gender discrimination on promotional opportunities of male and female coaches in women's athletics. International Journal of Sport Management, 10(1), 1-13.
Clopton, A. W. (2008). College sports on campus: Uncovering the link between fan identification and sense of community. International Journal of Sport Management, 9(4), 343-362.
Clopton, A. W., Ryan, T. D., & Sagas, M. (2008). For love of the game: The mediating potential of job satisfaction of college coaches upon career satisfaction. Journal of Contemporary Athletics, 3(1), 93-110.
Clopton, A. W. (2008). From message to messenger? Assessing the impact of athletics on a college campus. Journal for the Study of Sports and Athletes in Graduation, 2(3), 299-320.
Clopton, A. W. (2008). Southern comfort? Exploring regional differences in the impact of fan identification upon college students' sense of community. Journal for the Study of Sports and Athletes in Education, 2(1), 9-28.
Clopton, A. W. (2007). Predicting a sense of community amongst students from the presence of intercollegiate athletics: What roles do gender and BCS-affiliation play in the relationship? The Sport Management and Related Topics (SMART) Journal, 4(1), 95-110.
Selected Awards & Honors
Editorial Board Member
Journal for the Study of Sports and Athletes in Education
2008 - Present
Faculty Affiliate
College Sports Research Institute
2008 - 2012
AAHPERD Research Consortium
NASPE Sport History, Philosophy, & Sociology Research Academy Chair
Flagship Faculty
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With stunning performances from two completely genuine young leads, this is a movie people will talk about all year.
With stunning performances from two completely genuine young leads, this is a movie people will talk about all year.
Thrilling and charming in a way that very few American comedies ever are.
Roger Ebert on James Ivory's "Howards End".
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
Chaz Ebert reveals her Top Ten (PLUS) Films of 2019.
An article about today's noon premiere of a new movie about architect Benjamin Marshall at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
Chaz Ebert reveals her Top Ten (PLUS) Films of 2019.
Scout Tafoya's series on underrated films heads into the 2020s with a Tony Scott classic.
Theo Angelopoulos' Landscape in the Mist is a work of art that comes from the feelings, the dreams, the sorrows, and the flashes of life…
Far Flung Correspondent Seongyong Cho pens a letter to Roger about Michael Apted's 63 Up.
A review of two of the first films of Sundance 2020, Bad Hair and Miss Juneteenth.
An interview with Hal Hartley, in anticipation of an upcoming retrospective at the Metrograph.
Q. Upon your recommendation we went to see "King Pin. " The one intelligent and strong minded woman character was in a scene in which she fought with her breasts and spent time with an abusive boyfriend. There were so many gratuitous "let's put this in because it's a cheap laugh" scenes, such as Randy Quaid's character dancing in the strip bar dressed in a bikini and glittery makeup, that ruined the movie. The film makers started out with a decent black comedy about prosthetics, bowling and the Amish and just couldn't get any further. This was pure dreck.(Elisa Zuckerberg, New York)
A. I grant you the vulgarity, the sexism, the "let's put this in for a cheap laugh" scenes and even the dreck. But I laughed. Something about the movie's heedless spirit struck me as funny, and once I got hooked, everything seemed funny. It's a strange thing about "Kingpin." I've received a lot of mail, divided about evenly between those who thought it was hilarious, and those who wanted their money back. As a critic, I am at the service of my personal reaction. If I laughed, I have to say so. I can't suppress that information and lecture the filmmakers on their taste.
Q. What was the one best special effect that you saw in the movies this summer? (Frank Bellantoni, Danbury Conn.)
A. It's not in "Independence Day," "Twister," "The Rock," "Eraser," "Escape from L.A.," "Mission: Impossible" or "The Phantom." It's in a much smaller film named "Basquiat," the biography of a New York artist, and it shows surfers riding the waves in Hawaii in the sky above Manhattan skyscrapers. The reason I chose this special effect is because it shows something that is not intended to look "realistic." Some modern special effects are so realistic you don't even realize they're special effects; quite often, for example, the sky in "Twister" is given clouds or ominous coloring at times when twisters are nowhere in sight. Other special effects are obvious, but we're supposed to believe them: The helicopter chasing the train in "M:I," for example, or the flying saucers in "ID4." What I liked about the effects in "Basquiat" wasn't how good they were (they weren't all that great) but that they were original and thought-provoking. They used an artificial image to reflect the character's state of mind, and left it up to use to interpret it. In other words, the effects are the tools of the director's vision, when in the other films the effects essentially are the director's vision.
Q. I have a friend visiting from Moscow this month who says that cable TV over there has already broadcast videos of "Independence Day." How is that possible, when it hasn't even been released onto video in the USA? We make a stink about China pirating, but what about our good friends in Russia? (Sarah Frazier, Memphis)
A. Daphne Gronich, an attorney with 20th Century-Fox in Los Angeles, says the studios the studio takes all reports of piracy "very seriously." If ID4 played on Moscow cable, it was an illegal broadcast, and they are looking into it.
Q. Why must trailers and ads be misleading or gives away some of the movie's surprises? In "Courage Under Fire" part of the story revolves around an investigation to determine if Meg Ryan's character will be awarded a medal after she is killed in battle. In the TV ads Denzel Washington is seen placing a medal on a tombstone, which seems to imply that Meg's character does indeed get the medal. Another example was the movie "Terminator 2." In the beginning of the movie James Cameron is very careful not to reveal that Arnold's terminator is the "good" one' on the contrary, he leads us to believe that Arnold is still the "bad" terminator. However, the trailers for this movie talked about the "kinder, gentler" terminator, and essentially told us that Arnold was the good guy. If "Citizen Kane" had been made today, the TV ads would start with a shot of the "Rosebud" sled. (Gary Currie, Montreal)
A. And the ads for "Psycho" would show Norman Bates having tea with his mother. Let's not even think about the ads for "The Crying Game."
Q. As a student at the University of Mississippi, I was very upset by your incorrect spelling of the nickname for my school in your review of "A Time to Kill." The University is affectionately referred to as OLE MISS, not "Old" Miss. As Chancellor Alfred Hume said, "Gentlemen, you may move the University of Mississippi. You may move it to Jackson or anywhere else. You may uproot it from the hallowed ground on which it has stood for eighty years. You may take it from these surroundings which have become dear to the thousands who have gone from its doors. But gentlemen, don't call it Ole Miss!" I can only hope that Yankee ignorance was behind the error. (Kathy Vick, Oxford, Miss.)
A. A mistake like that can happen to anybody. Ah...in your quote from Chancellor Hume, did you by any chance intend to type "old" instead of "ole?"
Q. I have noticed that in Teri Garr's recent appearances she seems to have a limp. What happened? Was she in an accident? (Denise Mrks, Chicago)
A. Garr, a former dancer, has said she is rehabilitating from a degenerative back injury. As the consistently funniest guest on the Letterman program, she would be a natural as a talk show hostess.
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text: Karin's Rainbow Gathering 2011 news and ideas for creating a safe, fun and healing gathering in Washington State, July 1 - 7, 2011. As with all things related to Rainbow Gatherings, this is not an official source of information and represents my thoughts and opinions only. Other people will have different ideas. Email me if you wish.


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If you are in the Cork area (Cobh specifically) next Thursday, June 9th, this opening would be worth attending.
Heaven is Under Construction reflects the artist's daily life through captivating black and white imagery. Siefert transforms mundane moments into poetic impressions of the places and people she passes. A collection of enigmatic photographs which hold within them a visual language evoking a plethora of emotions; sometimes captured as if from the periphery of her vision, quite by accident. At other points the works convey very direct confrontations of her intimate surroundings, through a mixture of portraiture and landscape, which resonate with a strong inner soundtrack of empathy and intensity.
Photographer Mirjam Siefert was born in Southern Germany in 1978 and presently lives and works in Berlin. She is a founding member of Pavlov's Dog Gallery and also of the photographic collective "neunplus", both of which are located in Berlin. Her works have been exhibited internationally in Tokyo, Krakow, Paris, Moscow, Dublin, Denmark, Brussels and Istanbul just to name a few locations.
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What is a Street Team?
A street team is a group of volunteers who help promote an author's books. I look to keep my street team at not less than 10, and not more than 20 people who share an interest in mysteries, typically cozies, though a Romantic Suspense or two may pop up. Occasionally I will have a non-fiction book or short story as well. Members of my Street Team will receive a free copy of my ebook to promote in various ways:
- On your social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, your own website, Google+, Pinterest, Instagram, etc.);
- Handing out bookmarks, postcards, or other promotional materials (I will provide them);
- Word of mouth;
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My name is Sarah, and I'm from the Midwestern United States of America. This is my blog's version of an "about the author" page. Suitcase Six is my personal project, a place for me to document my experiences travelling and working as a young American woman.
Even more importantly, Suitcase Six is a place for me to share the stories of five of my best friends and their unique experiences travelling the world as they develop their careers. We're not the most diverse group though, so I'll aim to share advice and inspiration from working women around the world too. And last but not least, Suitcase Six is a place for me to discuss sustainable travel. Over the past years, this has become another of my passions that I find hard to separate from the others.
You might be wondering how I ended up here. I've spent a lot of time myself thinking about the many twists and turns in my path that have led me to this moment – sitting behind a laptop screen on a flight from Seattle to Denver, carefully crafting the About Me page of a yet another travel website. I didn't grow up in a family of international travelers. In fact, I've spent 20 years of my short life living in Indiana and aside from a weeklong cruise with my family when I was about nine years old, where we spent a day on ports in Mexico, and another in Jamaica, I had never left the country.
I think this about where the "Suitcase Six" come into the picture.
Me laying on the laps of Melissa, Tahvi, Anna, Laura and Marie – Christmas at Marie's house!
I could go on and on about my friends, but since I have a whole page set aside to feature them, I'll just say that I have grown up with a close group of women who have been a large part of my inspiration to travel. When I was in high school, I watched Melissa take off for Germany to spend a semester in school. Laura and Anna also took a few trips abroad during summers through their church, and Marie and Tahvi had visited other states and countries on family vacations.Suddenly, I had hopes of seeing the world for myself. I recall watching the movie "Bucket List," and then taking my friends adventures into consideration, crafting a detailed bucket list of my own and adding "see every country" to the top of the list.
Fast forward a bit to mid-college and I'd developed a close relationship with a professor whom I call T.O. who hired me as her research assistant and began to mentor me. After learning of my aspirations to travel, T.O. invited me along on her annual research trip to Costa Rica in the summer, where I was to intern for three weeks. In the summer of 2015, I set off for Central America with a large backpack, limited Spanish proficiency, and a bundle of nerves. I added 5 weeks of travel to the internship T.O. had offered me and spent the next 2 months exploring from Belize to Panama. When I returned home, the flicker of an interest in travel had fanned into a flame, and I had a new passion for seeing the world. This trip taught me one of the most influential lessons I've learned to date:
Travel and work do not have to be mutually exclusive.
Views from Caye Caulker, Belize – my first stop on me Central American adventure.
Since Belize, I've been fortunate enough to visit some 21 countries and 31 US. states, and had more adventures than I can count. My five best friends have all been abroad several times through their college careers, sometimes for work and sometimes for pure adventure. They continue to find creative ways to explore the world while striving toward meaningful careers, and they never cease to inspire me and push me out of my comfort zones around the world.
And out of my comfort zone is exactly where I found myself! After all, here I sit typing an introduction that may be way too long for anyone to read. Trying to figure out what I want to say. Trying to figure out why I feel compelled to do this at all.
Here is my best answer:
I have learned and continue to learn so much about travel, work, and how they are interrelated from the working women in my life – specifically my five friends with whom I've grown up, but also from women I encounter across the world in my travels. I know that travel is not something everyone is interested in BUT I've realized from the wandering women with whom I've crossed paths that work and travel are far from exclusive. In fact, my work has informed my travel and created more opportunities for me to explore the world, while my travel has given me a global perspective on the work I do and the work women are doing worldwide.
My hopes are that by sharing my adventures and the collective wisdom of women who have travelled before and alongside me, I will push myself to meet and learn from more wandering women and maybe help women who are interested in travel find inspiration to do so in their own ways.
Maybe instead of seeing our careers as barriers to exploring the world, we can begin to see them as vehicles for our international adventures, our important work influencing and being influenced by the colorful cultures around the globe.
Thanks for reading!
Want to read travel tips from the Suitcase Six and other wandering women? Head over to our Woman of the Week interview archives to see all the interviews from the past year.
Planning a trip and looking for some information? Go to the blog for all the Suitcase Six posts, or visit our global directory for recommendation on travel resources for every country!


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As Halloween gets ready to take its final curtain call, we're slowing heading toward the most magical time of year, with The Nutcracker and the Four Realms leading the way while promising a departure from the deadly courtesy of a trip to a fantastical universe. Fantastic in its own way, Bohemian Rhapsody gets ready to rise in the movie ranks, clearly inspired by the drama and melody within A Star is Born. Who will sing the loudest this weekend? Will Venom be replaced by Tyler Perry's Nobody's Fool, who really isn't kidding around? What about Johnny English Strikes Again? Will he be a Hit or a Miss this weekend? Will The Fog prevent us from seeing the light emanating from all those stars, making it more difficult for Suspiria to successfully dance its way around all this action? On the dramatic side of town, might The Boy Erased make his mark in our movie town?
What side of movie town might you find yourself this weekend?


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A new development in the treatment of prostate cancer
23 December 2016
A new development in the treatment of prostate cancer - based on bacteria found on the ocean floor - has been welcomed by Spire Little Aston consultant urologist Mr Vivek Wadhwa.
Tests on the new treatment, carried out at University College London Hospital, showed that around half (49 per cent) of 413 patients with low-risk prostate cancer went into complete remission compared with 13.5 per cent in the control group who were given no treatment.
Publishing results of the tests in The Lancet Oncology, lead investigator Professor Mark Emberton, Dean of UCL Medical Sciences and Consultant Urologist at UCLH, said: "This is truly a huge leap forward for prostate cancer treatment.
"In 1975 almost everyone with breast cancer was given a radical mastectomy, but since then treatments have steadily improved and we now rarely need to remove the whole breast.
"In prostate cancer we are still commonly removing or irradiating the whole prostate, so the success of this new tissue-preserving treatment is welcome news indeed."
The therapy, involves injecting a light sensitive drug into the bloodstream and activating it with a drug to destroy tumour tissue, while leaving healthy tissue unharmed.
The drug used in the procedure, called WST11, is derived from bacteria found at the bottom of the ocean.
To survive with very little sunlight, the bacteria have evolved to convert light into energy with incredible efficiency. This property has been exploited to develop WST11, a compound which releases destructive tumour-busting 'free radical' molecules when activated by laser light.
Mr Wadhwa said: "I got to know Professor Emberton well when I was working in London and I have been aware of this research for quite a while.
"Modern treatments do allow us the opportunity to remove the cancerous growth but if the nerves around the prostate are damaged with radical surgery (open/ laparoscopic or robotic) or radiotherapy, then this could result in erectile dysfunction or urinary incontinence which can significantly impact on a man's quality of life.
"Professor Emberton's treatment offers the potential benefit of dealing with the abnormal areas of prostate cancer without the potential side effects. With more well-conducted research this breakthrough could really benefit prostate cancer patients in the future."
He added: "At the moment men diagnosed with prostate cancer have a number of possible treatment options and I give patients sufficient information regarding the pros and cons of each option so they can make their own informed decision. It is important to discuss potential side effects of treatments which could significantly impact on our patients' quality of life. This new development is a fascinating breakthrough and I look forward the results of further tests and research."


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Thursday, December 22, 2016
FG Hails Trump For Appointing Nigerian, Bayo Ogunlesi as Economic Advisor
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, told the News Agency of Nigeria in New York that Ogunlesi is an outstanding professional who has accomplished a lot.
"He (Trump) is very wise to have appointed Bayo because Bayo is really an outstanding person professionally and really, I think in many ways.
"It is almost paradoxical that we in the country will certainly need people with the caliber of Bayo Ogunlesi and that it should be the U.S. rather, that is now going to be benefiting from his amazing talents.
"We are looking also optimistically to working with the new U.S. (President-elect Donald Trump's) administration.
The minister also expressed the hope that with the presence of Ogunlesi in Trump's team, he could be able to bring positive policies about Nigeria and Africa to bear on Trump's administration.
"And who knows, maybe the presence of Bayo in the team in the U.S. might hopefully be able to bring to the administration positive perspectives with regards to Nigeria," he said
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Effective Date: December 7, 2017
Admission to Upper Division
The first two years of the curriculum are considered to be lower-division and the two remaining years, upper-division. Students must apply for upper-division status in Civil Engineering in order to be admitted to selected upper-division civil engineering courses. Factors considered include in selected lower-division courses and a reflective statement of why you wish to be a civil engineer. Upper-division status is only a prerequisite for CE 320, CE 340, CE 352, CE 360, and CE 370.
To gain upper-division status you must have:
- completed 45 semester credits
- passed the following courses with an average of 2.30 or better
- CE 280 Civil Engineering Case Studies
- CHEM 112 General Chemistry II
- CE/ME 350 Mechanics of Materials
- MATH 275 Multivariable and Vector Calculus
- MATH 333 Differential Equations with Matrix Theory
- MATH 360 Engineering Statistics or MATH 361 Probability and Statistics I *
*Note: CE 282 will still be accepted for those students following the 2012-2013, 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017, or 2017-2018 catalogs
- filed a two to three-paragraph reflective statement of why you wish to be a civil engineer
- included a copy of your Boise State University transcript (either unofficial or official) with the application
You may apply in the semester you are finishing the above requirements. If you do, your application will be reviewed at the end of that semester.


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Birst, a San Francisco-based Cloud-driven analytics vendor "gets" big data analytics. They make enterprise-class analytics making accessible to organizations of almost any size with a multi-tenant Cloud-based approach that offers more scalability and faster time-to-value than traditional solutions like SAP Business Objects. And at a total cost of ownership that embarrasses such traditional solutions - between a quarter and 50% on average.
And they've got something new today - the Birst Visualization Edition.
Powering Enterprise Analytics in the Cloud
I've been following Birst closely for the past year - and have been watching as Birst has helped set the agenda for Cloud-based analytics - offering in-memory solutions, flexible deployments, virtual cubes, automatic star schemas, change data capture, and more. Even an option to leverage the massive scalability and performance advantages of ParAccel's column-oriented database - that can deliver at least a 10-1 performance advantage over traditional relational technologies for complex queries.
Birst has made all this power accessible to enterprise business users with dashboards, mobile, high fidelity graphics, interactive visualizations, real time alerts, industry-focused templates and so on.
They've also created a semantic layer - something that IPL Consulting's Chris Daniels nicely describes as "a business representation of corporate data that helps end users access data using common business terms. The aim is to insulate users from the technical details of the data store and allow them to create queries in terms that are familiar and meaningful".
Birst's Track Record
Under CEO Brad Peters, Birst has done exceptionally well. In conversations with CEO Peters, it's evident that has a clear vision for the future of analytics. As the person who ran analytics for Siebel Systems, he's got the street cred - and he's smarter than all heck.
He's executed well on that vision too - and has the results to show for it. Birst has over 1,000 customers now. Revenues doubled this year. They're shredding old-school vendors like MicroStrategy and Cognos. And they just closed a healthy $26 Million round of financing from top-quality VC firms Sequoia Capital, Hummer Winblad and DAG Ventures.
With things going this well, one might expect Birst to just keep moving forward on this established path. Lots of customers in the $15 Billion BI/analytics market, and lots of unhappy "traditional BI customers" to go after.
Well, apparently not - I guess "really well" isn't good enough for the Birst team.
Birst Enters New Market Segment with Visualization Edition
In a discussion on Monday, CEO Peters briefed me on the impending launch of a new product line - the "Visualization Edition".
For the past decade, there have been a class of BI vendors who have done exceedingly well at providing powerful BI capabilities to the individual user.
I saw my first demonstration of QlikTech's in-memory desktop product back in 2005. It was a stand-alone system that combined database and BI in one package. It provided better performance that a big Oracle server and was easy to use - and didn't require a department of people to configure, tune and maintain it. I was very impressed - although it was obvious that the product had clear scalability limitations (single user, in-memory only). Tableau is another company along those lines.
These companies are growing like gangbusters - QlikTech grew by almost 40% last year, and Tableau grew by 86%. Both of these companies have grown beyond their desktop roots by creating "Server Editions".
What is the Birst Visualization Edition?
What is it? Among other things, it is a bold and highly credible move to go after the markets served by Qliktech and Tableau's "Server Edition" products.
Birst's "Enterprise Edition" offers a host of capabilities which are targeted at larger BI/analytics implementations - multi-developer environments, Data Warehouse automation (for Change Data Capture and Star Schema creation), operational reporting, mobile, access to operational systems like SAP. Overkill for some situations and some customers.
The Virtualization Edition leverages the same core "goodness" of Birst Enterprise, but it's packaged up into an edition that is ideal for individual business analysts, or projects that don't need the Data Warehouse features and such.
CEO Peters claims that Birst's Visualization Edition will be delivered at a Total Cost of Ownership point significantly less than the established players in that market segment.
Leveraging the same Multi-tenant Cloud-based infrastructure allows customers of the Enterprise version to "instantiate" Virtualization Editions for the classic "power users" and business analysts - something I thought was brilliant.
And because it is based on the same infrastructure, it would provide an extremely easy upgrade path from Visualization Edition to Enterprise Edition for customers.
What Comes First - the Chicken or the Egg?
Perhaps better stated - is it better for the Chicken to come first, or the Egg?
One of the discussion points I had with CEO Peters was the advantages of starting off with an Enterprise Version of a product (for something such as analytics) and then bringing a "mid-range" version to market - versus the approach of vendors like Tableau and QlikTech, which started off with a great single-user product, and then extended that to include a Server edition to provide mid-range capabilities.
Peter's argument was that the high caliber infrastructure of the Birst Enterprise Edition was a superior starting point for creating a mid-range edition. That the characteristics and architecture of a Server edition are similar - irrespective of whether they are mid-range or enterprise class. And that any single-user desktop edition of a product would face too many architectural and functional challenges in the process of being turned into a "Server".
As a challenge, Peters asked me how many products I could name off the top of my head that had started off as single-user desktop products and successfully transitioned into true server editions.
Then he asked me the opposite questions - how many Server products can I think of that also had capable desktop editions. And I have to say, that second question was FAR easier to answer than the first.
In my opinion, it is better to start with the Chicken. Especially with modern Cloud-based software architectures, it is far easier to take an Enterprise Edition and turn it into a mid-range or even a single-user product than it is to take an awesome desktop tool and Server-ify it. I'm not saying that it can't be done - or that it can't be done very well, but it is a much more difficult undertaking. And if I had my choice, I'd rather start out with the Chicken - which is what Birst did.
Learn More
Birst is running a webinar on June 26 to introduce people to the Visualization Edition. The invitation reads: "Learn more about how your organization's business users can leverage Birst for data discovery and scale their insights to the enterprise by joining a live webinar entitled 'Data Discovery Beyond the Desktop: Advanced Visualization Techniques' on Tuesday, June 26, 2012 at 10:00am PT."
Robin Bloor on Birst
Robin Bloor - prolific author and well-known technology expert, is one of my very favorite Smart People for a whole host of reasons. Here's one of them:
Whereas analysts traditionally conduct super-secret briefings with vendors on their technologies and products, Bloor opens it all up and allows ANYONE to dial into his briefings and listen in. He calls it "The Briefing Room". It's brilliant.
This week, there's a Briefing Room featuring Birst. Brad Peters will be briefing Robin Bloor on Birst and the Visualization Edition and answering Robin's questions on June 19th. The briefing will last an hour - and you're invited to dial in.
These are great sessions. If you can't catch it live, catch the TIVO'd version at http://www.insideanalysis.com/webcasts/the-briefing-room/recent-episodes
Note: Hollis Tibbetts works for Dell Inc., as a Director of Software Strategy in the Global Mergers and Acquisitions organization. He writes on many topics, including Integration, Data Management and IT modernization


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Shu Jin Law Firm is one of the first partnership law firms in Shenzhen as well as in China, established in 1993. With 20 years of development, our firm has grown to become one of the largest and most well-known full-service law firms, providing quality legal services covering multiple jurisdictions and ranging from foreign direct investment, mergers and acquisitions, banking and international finance, capital investment and security, corporate financing and debt restructuring to commercial paper litigation ,intellectual property ,real estate and other legal services for both domestic and international clients. Shu Jin has built close and long-standing business relationship with clients, relevant Chinese government authorities and legislative bodies.
With the outstanding track record, Shu Jin enjoys a solid reputation in providing legal services for the evolving capital market in China, has received numerous honors and awards and has ever been listed as one of the best law firms in China recommended by Legal 500 and Asia Law & Practice. In 2009, Shu Jin was awarded "Shenzhen Law Firm of the Year-ALB China Law Awards" by Asian Legal Business (ALB). In 2011, Shu Jin was selected as "Best Law Firm of 2010" by China Competitive VC/ PE, an activity held by Securities Times.
As a law service institution established and developed in special economic zone of Shenzhen, Shu Jin will carry forward our creativity, enhance our service standard, expand the service fields and try our best to meet our clients' commercial needs.


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When it comes to coverage of science by the media, what serves readers best? Should bloggers/journalists check with scientists to be certain they have captured the 'essence' of the science? Or not?
Read "Should Science Writers Show Stories, or Parts of Stories to Sources?" from from Knight Science Journalism Tracker.


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Malaysian Heritage Commissioner Zuraina Majid talks about the upcoming plans to build infrastructure to support the newly-inscribed Lenggong Valley archaeological site.
'Eating, drinking and talking Lenggong'
New Straits Times, 26 November 2012
TENS of thousands of people flooded Lenggong Valley, situated some 100km north of Ipoh, for the official celebration of its status as a Unesco world heritage site earlier this month.
Until recent times, only a select few were familiar with Lenggong town, let alone the valley.
Besides the locals, the only other group of people who came in close contact with this part of the town since its early days were Professor Datuk Dr Zuraina Majid and her team of researchers, who took 25 painstaking years to get Lenggong Valley inscribed as a world heritage site.
When she first discovered Lenggong Valley back in 1987, little did she know that she was about to excavate a slice of the history of mankind.
But Zuraina, who is currently the heritage commissioner, did just that and Lenggong Valley is now standing tall in the eyes of the world.
Full story here.


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