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Veteran home furnishings retailers Paul Callaro, Bob Gordon and Nancy Borchers Wallace have joined Linens 'n Things as vp/dmms.
Gordon will oversee frames and framed art, lighting, furniture and area rugs.
Wallace will supervise candles, seasonal and decorative accessories, tabletop, juvenile, glassware and flatware.
Callaro was most recently director of merchandising, Home Style for QVC. Earlier he was dmm at Abraham & Straus, and he began his career at Macy's where he was a buyer in home textiles.
Gordon had been a longtime divisional vp for home textiles and luggage at Federated's former Seattle division, The Bon. He also worked at Frederick & Nelson in Seattle. He held buying positions in housewares, living room furniture and home textiles.
Wallace most recently was at Boscov's, and earlier had been at The Great Indoors, Lord & Taylor, Steinbach's and Royal Doulton. She began her career at Macy's.
All three report to Robert Homler, executive vp, merchandising.
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The UFC might finally be headlining shows in New York. A big push to get the sport of MMA legalized in the state of New York is in effect. UFC boss Dana White is so confident that the ban on MMA will be overturned, that he's put Madison Square Garden on hold for a night in November.
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Photo Gallery: 2008 Aston Martin V8 Vantage Roadster
The Guide: 2008 Aston Martin V8 Vantage Roadster
Steveston, British Columbia – British upscale sports car builder Aston Martin has certainly had its share of ups and downs in recent times – perhaps not a "roller coaster ride," but something pretty close. After several years of stability under Ford Motor Company, the brand was "put on the block" and the rumour mill worked overtime, speculating wildly on who would end up owning the operation. It was finally bought by a UK consortium headed by David Richards, best known for his involvement with Prodrive, which runs the successful Subaru World Rally Championship Team and other racing operations worldwide.
One thing the Ford ownership must have done was to stabilize the design and development process associated with these once-quirky automobiles. Enthusiasts may mutter regretfully when large automakers take over classic makes, but there's no denying the benefits of highly-sophisticated research and development resources of the kind Ford must have made available. These benefits will surely be felt for generations of Aston Martins to come and no doubt the new owners have a few cards to play too.
One Ford legacy must be in the pricing department, because it was a surprise to me to find that you can buy a 2009 Aston for as little (forgive the use of the word "little"!) as $131,500 – that's a ten thousand dollar drop from the base price of the 2008 Vantage Coupe. Like most other people, I'd gotten used to thinking $250,000 – $350,000 when Aston Martins were talked about, but right now, the basic list price for a V8 Vantage Coupe is the aforementioned hundred and thirty grand – a figure topped by several models from Mercedes-Benz and Porsche for starters. What we have here is an Aston at a very competitive price in its admittedly-lofty market slot.
My most recent Aston Martin experience was with a V8 Vantage Roadster, which expectedly costs more than its coupe equivalent – but not that much more. Competitive price or no, this is very much a classic Aston Martin design, which means it ranks with the world's finest sporting cars, regardless of nameplate. It looks, perhaps, like a Jaguar XK that's read a few Joe Wieder weightlifting manuals.
The Vantage is built at Aston Martin's new worldwide headquarters facility at Gaydon in the UK midlands. As enthusiasts will know, Aston Martin's ancestral home is Newport Pagnell, but that's now all part of history.
Superb styling is one thing, of course, but engineering is the key when it comes to "proper" sports cars and the Vantage doesn't disappoint. It's built almost entirely of aluminum, but when I suggested to an Aston Martin executive that they'd been looking over the shoulders at their opposite numbers over at Jaguar with their XK sports car and XJ sedan (also all-aluminum), he emphasized that the Vantage uses different technology and was developed separately.
The body structure uses a combination of aluminum pressings, extrusions and diecastings to create a very strong and rigid shell. Many of the body components are bonded together, aerospace style. The nearest automaker that uses this kind of fabrication technology is Audi with its Audi Space Frame (ASF) system. By way of comparison, many aluminum-bodied cars like the (now discontinued) Honda NSX are built more or less like steel vehicles with welded-together stampings. The Vantage also uses a wide variety of composites for structural applications around the vehicle.
The power-operated top is nice and snug when lowered, but there is some cargo space sacrifice, as might be expected. Even so, there's enough room for a bag of golf clubs in the back. The Coupe is a hatchback and thus has very good luggage room for a car in this class. As always, Aston Martin will sell you a set of fitted cases for either car, but these are quite expensive.
As its name implies, this is the Aston with a V8 rather than a V12 and for 2009. My 2008 tester had a 4.3-litre unit developing 380 horsepower and 302 lb-ft of torque, but 2009 Vantage models have been upgraded to a 4.7-litre V8 with 420-horsepower and 346 lb.-ft. of torque. As might be expected, even the 4.3-litre unit is a potent, responsive unit and under full throttle, makes a most un-Aston-like roar which will delight enthusiastic drivers. The latest version of this V8 is built at Aston Martin's engine plant in Cologne where a small team of specialists build them one at a time – just like the cars. The current engine was upgraded in just about every aspect about a year ago – partly to deal with the extra power and torque it has compared to its predecessor. The earlier engine block was shared with Jaguar, but the 4.7 is unique to Aston Martin.
Buyers can choose from two transmissions – a 6-speed manual or a 6-speed Sportshift auto/manual with steering wheel mounted paddle shifters. If you choose the Sportshift (my tester was equipped with this) there's no traditional shifter at all, modes being selected with a row of dash-mounted buttons.
The Sportshift proved very effective with smooth, seamless manual shifts and the ability to drive the car in fully automatic mode. For the record, the Sportshift is made by the same outfit that builds Ferrari's F1 transmission, but Aston Martin people claim (naturally enough) that theirs is better.
Serious sports cars always feel just as safe at race speeds as they do on the freeway burbling along at 100 km/h. With its healthy torque figure, the Vantage can get under way very quickly indeed and the transformation to high speeds from back road dawdles is both swift and free of fuss. The car inspires great confidence and seems to want to just get up and go, rather than cruise gently along. I'm sure a race car driver could get astonishing performance out of a V8 Vantage. Aston Martin quotes a zero to 100 km/h figure of 4.9-seconds and a top speed of 288 km/h.
The interior of the car is a total delight with superb leathers almost everywhere, a perfect driving position and a general feeling of being part of the car. It is a tad on the snug side, but this is all part of the experience. The trim is very well done with fine leather just about everywhere. Among much fine detailing, there's even a nifty recess for a Lamy pen on the dash. The elegant nose with its classic Aston Martin grille seems to stretch way out in front and care has to be taken not to grind it over those concrete parking markers that always seem twice as high as they need to be.
Best of all, the V8 Vantage follows a long tradition at Aston Martin of building cars that are true sports cars and not just attractive boulevard cruisers. It's certainly true that there are few places around the world to exploit the performance of a car like this, but it's good to know such automobiles exist should we ever be fortunate enough to afford one.
The base price of the Vantage V8 Roadster has dropped from $155,700 in 2008 to $146,800 in 2009, which seems quite reasonable for an exotic convertible like this.
Aston Martins are very much hand-built, even though they feature very advanced performance and safety technology (the brakes are awesome, for example). Each one is "signed off" by a key employee at the manufacturing plant and a plaque noting this inspection process is the first thing you see when opening the hood. For my test car, I have to thank Martyn Askill. Great job Martyn!
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On the first night of the Olympics, Comcast threw a big party at the Newseum on Pennsylvania Avenue, a short walk from the U.S. Capitol. About 700 guests, including congressional aides and administration officials, drank chilled vodka, made s'mores over indoor fire pits, and had their photos taken with former Olympic athletes. Comcast-owned NBC's broadcast of the opening ceremonies from Sochi played on a giant screen overhead. David Cohen, Comcast's executive vice president in charge of government affairs—known in Washington as the company's unofficial chief lobbyist—toasted his guests from a balcony. Four nights later, on Feb. 11, Cohen went to the White House as President Obama's guest for a state dinner honoring French President François Hollande. On Feb. 25 he attended a fundraiser for Tracy's Kids, a children's cancer charity that Cohen and Comcast sponsor. Senator Patrick Leahy, the powerful Democrat who chairs the Judiciary Committee, was there. So were Democratic Senators Mark Warner, Mark Pryor, Sheldon Whitehouse, and Heidi Heitkamp and Republican Orrin Hatch.
As Comcast, the largest U.S. cable company, seeks the federal government's approval for a $45.2 billion deal to buy No. 2 Time Warner Cable, the company, and Cohen, are everywhere in Washington—pressing their case with members of Congress and their staffs by day and entertaining them by night. In 2013, Comcast spent $18.8 million on lobbying, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, more than any company except defense contractor Northrop Grumman. The company gives millions of dollars to politicians of both parties through its political action committee. The Comcast Foundation donated $16.2 million to charities in 2012, often inviting politicians to attend events, where they can be seen and photographed supporting worthy causes. "They are ubiquitous," says Gene Kimmelman, former chief counsel for competition policy at the Department of Justice. "They really have everything covered at the highest levels of skill and experience."
Every major industry knocks on doors in the Capitol, often not so subtly seeking to trade votes for campaign cash. Comcast takes a more sophisticated approach to getting what it wants that's less about twisting arms than making itself a familiar and welcome fixture inside official Washington's transactional culture.
Comcast has perfected a deferential manner in its negotiations with skeptical federal regulators. Verizon Communications sued the Federal Communications Commission in 2011 over net neutrality rules intended to prevent Internet providers from speeding some services and slowing others; Comcast agreed to follow the rules. At the time, it was trying to win approval to merge with NBCUniversal. The FCC demanded that Comcast share NBC programming with online rivals and satellite-TV providers; the company acquiesced, and went a step further: It volunteered to provide discounted Internet service to low-income families. Ultimately, the government smiled on the merger.
Some regulators and consumer advocates argue Comcast's proposed union with Time Warner would create a cable behemoth, leaving customers with fewer choices and higher bills. "There's a strong case to be made why this merger shouldn't be approved," says Michael Copps, a former Democratic member of the FCC and the only commissioner to oppose the Comcast-NBC deal. "It's just so much power for one company to amass, and it's not just cable," says Copps, now an adviser to the consumer group Common Cause. "They're a broadband company, they're a broadcast company, they're new media, they're old media, they're telecom, they're everything."
Comcast says there aren't antitrust issues with the Time Warner merger because the companies do business in different markets. It could have taken a hard line. Instead, Comcast announced it would voluntarily give up 3 million Time Warner customers to stay below 30 million if the merger is approved. That would leave the new company with less than 30 percent of the national pay-TV audience, according to Cohen. "It's about making a legal and ethical case to the FCC and the Department of Justice," he says.
Comcast employs an army of lobbyists to do that—107 in all, up from 42 in 2003. In 2013 five former members of Congress were among those registered as lobbying for Comcast, including former Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln and former Senate Republican Whip Don Nickles. Meredith Attwell Baker, a former FCC commissioner who voted in 2011 to let Comcast buy NBCUniversal, now lobbies for Comcast. "This is a company that is playing all the angles, making sure that they have an open door on both sides of the aisle," says Sheila Krumholz, the Center for Responsive Politics' executive director.
That includes the one to the White House. President Obama has not stated a position on the merger (it's up to the Justice Department and FCC to decide). But he's made no secret of his affection for Cohen. The Comcast executive and his wife, Rhonda, raised at least $500,000 for Obama's 2012 reelection. On Nov. 14 they hosted a fundraiser for the president at their home in Philadelphia, one of several such visits Obama has made. "I have been here so much, the only thing I haven't done in this house is have seder dinner," Obama told the guests. "But they have just been such great friends, and I'm so grateful to them." No one can say David Cohen doesn't earn his pay.
The bottom line: Seeking approval for a $45.2 billion merger with Time Warner, Comcast is blanketing the capital with lobbyists, and love.


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Call it outsider, self-taught, folk, primitive, indigenous or anything you want. Regardless, the artworks in the "Seeing Stories" exhibition at Colorado College's I.D.E.A. Space represent some of the most recognizable examples of a 1990s art-world movement that redefined what it meant to be an "artist" and to be collectible. Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime paintings, 19th Century ledger drawings by the North Cheyenne and works by Henry Darger, John Muafangejo and Mose Tolliver, aka Mose T will all be on display.
Luckily for us, locally-based collector Mary Allen-Meilinger just so happens to have a large collection of Mose Tolliver's artworks, which are on display at the "Seeing Stories" exhibition. Allen-Meilinger amassed her collection over while living in Montgomery, Alabama. For more information about her and Tolliver there's an excellent and comprehensive article by the Independent's Matt Schniper HERE.
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Tongue-eating Louse - Cymothoa exigua
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Isopoda
Family: Cymothoidae
Genus: Cymothoa
Species: Cymothoa exigua
Cymothoa exigua, or the tongue-eating louse, is a parasitic crustacean of the family Cymothoidae. This parasite enters fish through the gills, and then attaches itself at the base of the fish's tongue. The female attaches to the tongue and the male attaches on the gill arches beneath and behind the female. Females are 8–29 millimetres (0.3–1.1 in) long and 4–14 mm (0.16–0.55 in) in maximum width. Males are approximately 7.5–15 mm (0.3–0.6 in) long and 3–7 mm (0.12–0.28 in) wide. It extracts blood through the claws on its front, causing the tongue to atrophy from lack of blood. The parasite then replaces the fish's tongue by attaching its own body to the muscles of the tongue stub. The fish is able to use the parasite just like a normal tongue. It appears that the parasite does not cause any other damage to the host fish. Once C. exigua replaces the tongue, some feed on the host's blood and many others feed on fish mucus. This is the only known case of a parasite functionally replacing a host organ. There are many species of Cymothoa, but only C. exigua is known to consume and replace its host's tongue.
The distribution of Cymothoa exigua is quite widespread. It can be found from the Gulf of California south to north of the Gulf of Guayaquil, Ecuador. Two host records were also recently discovered in Costa Rica. It has been sampled in waters from 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) to almost 60 m (200 ft) deep. This isopod is known to parasitize eight species in two orders and four families of fishes [7 species of order Perciformes: 3 snappers (Lutjanidae), 1 grunt (Haemulidae), 3 drums (Sciaenidae), and 1 species of order Atheriniformes: 1 grunion (Atherinidae)]. Females of this isopod were found in the mouths of three species of snappers. New hosts from Costa Rica include the Colorado snapper, Lutjanus colorado and Jordan's snapper, L. jordani.
In 2005, a fish parasitised by what could be Cymothoa exigua was discovered in the United Kingdom. As the parasite is normally found off the coast of California, this led to speculation that the parasite's range may be expanding; however, it is also possible that the isopod traveled from the Gulf of California in the snapper's mouth, and its appearance in the UK is an isolated incident.
Not much is known about the life cycle of C. exigua. It exhibits sexual reproduction. It is likely that juveniles first attach to the gills of a fish and become males. As they mature, they become females, with mating likely occurring on the gills. If there is no female present, within a pair of two males, one male can turn into a female after it grows to 10mm in length. The female then makes its way to the fish's mouth where it uses its front claws to attach to the fish's tongue.
Relationship With Humans
It is currently believed that C. exigua are not harmful to humans unless picked up alive, in which case they can bite. In Puerto Rico, C. exigua was the leading subject of a lawsuit against a large supermarket chain. Because C. exigua is found in snappers from the Eastern Pacific and is shipped worldwide for commercial consumption, contamination of the parasite is inevitable. The customer in the lawsuit claimed to have been poisoned by eating an isopod cooked inside a snapper. This case, however, was dropped stating that isopods are not poisonous to humans and some are even consumed as part of a regular diet. C. exigua, in a mutated form, were featured as the villains in the 2012 Barry Levinson film The Bay.
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Joseph E. Lewis Jr., owner of Jerry's Marine Service, died Thursday. He was 74.
"This represents the passing of a generation, one that helped build and grow South Florida's marine industry," said Frank Herhold, executive director of the Marine Industries Association of South Florida.
Herhold said Joe Lewis and his late wife, Helen, were very involved in the marine industry. He first met Joe Lewis years ago at an advisory board meeting for the McFatter Marine Technology Center, and Helen Lewis was MIASF's first woman president.
Mike Gibbs, general manager of Barr Marine, had known Joe Lewis for more than 25 years. Barr manufactures marine exhaust systems distributed by Jerry's Marine.
"He's run one of the most successful distributorships that I know of," said Gibbs, adding, "He's always been a very cordial, down-to-earth person."
Another industry colleague, Marine Power president Eddy Albright, described Lewis as "an awesome guy" who was "full of energy."
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Albright started doing business with Jerry's Marine in 1986 when Marine Power expanded its commercial marine business into the recreational market.
"He really helped Marine Power grow in the early years," he said.
Lewis was born June 11, 1935, in Cold Springs, N.Y. He became an outboard mechanic in late 1950s and worked at his father's marine business in Bricktown, N.J. He moved to Florida in 1964 where he worked as a marine mechanic and business owner of Lewis Boat Sales & Service until 1973.
Lewis married Helen Novic in 1968 and, in 1973, the two teamed up with longtime partner and friend Bobby Laborde to purchase Jerry's Marine, an inboard engine sales and service dealership. The new owners quickly transformed the dealership into a distributorship specializing in "hard parts" – marine engines, parts, transmissions, steering systems and remote controls.
By the late 1970s, Jerry's Marine became a pioneer in the development of the marine aftermarket parts industry where it has held the lead position for more than 30 years. With warehouses in Fort Lauderdale, Charleston, S.C., and Lakewood, N.J., it covers the East Coast from the Florida Keys to Maine.
Lewis was preceded in death by his wife, and is survived by his sons Joe, Doug, Tim and Jon; five grandchildren – Joe IV, Andy, Alea, Anessa and Shane; and an older sister, Carol Harvey.
Today, the four sons manage Jerry's Marine's three locations.
"Helen and Joe passed on their love of the industry to their children, the next generation," says Herhold.
Services will be held Monday at Fred Hunter Funeral Home in Fort Lauderdale, with visitation 3-6 p.m. and services at 6:30 p.m. For those attending the services, the family requests dress to be "Joe Lewis casual" – Hawaiian shirt preferred, socks are optional.
In lieu of flowers contributions may be made in his memory to: Hospice of Gold Coast, 2101 W. Commercial Blvd., Suite 4500, Fort Lauderdale 33309. Condolences can be shared online at www.fredhunters.com.


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I'm a lifelong shooter, handloader, bullet caster, and even make some home swaged jacketed bullets. I own about every form of firearm, but lean towards big bore handguns in every caliber except .41 (and I used to own one of those). I own a lot of Rugers in every action style, and bought a Freedom Arms 83 in .454 Casull about 15 years ago. I've since added two more .454's.....A Ruger and a Taurus, plus got a Puma in .454. Thus, my handle.
I got hooked on handguns when I bought my first .45 Colt at the age of 21. I was married and had two kids already, so had to find a cheap way to shoot. That lead (literally) to bullet casting......and the race was on!
Now I'm retired at 58 years old, and can spend a lot of time on my hobbies, including riding my Gold Wing in warm weather, and building ammo and hobby machinist interests in cold weather. I'm also a musician and play music in a band, which helps finance the guns and shooting.
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by Judy Brady
It is estimated that over 22,000 women and men in Canada will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year and nearly ten times as many in the United States.
Almost a quarter of these people will die.
Ever since it dawned on me that having been swaddled in a pink blanket set me on a course of considerably more limited choices than those available to the baby wrapped in a blue blanket, I've been wary of anything that comes in pink. But in October it's impossible to avoid pink. Breast Cancer Awareness Month (BCAM) is upon us and millions of little pink ribbons on millions of lapels exhort us to be "aware" of breast cancer.
Awareness aside, the real truth about cancer is out. The vast majority of breast cancers (and other cancers, as well as numerous other human diseases) are linked to the proliferation of chemical and nuclear contaminants in our environment.
The response from polluting industries to this growing body of evidence has been the creation of BCAM, invented to divert public attention from their dirty practices.
The unremitting message every October is that the answer to the breast cancer epidemic lies in getting a mammogram and raising more money for "cancer research." Nary a word is ever said about why we are getting sick and dying in increasing numbers.
The inspiration for BCAM came from Zeneca, a pharmaceutical/chemical/ biotechnology company, when it was still a subsidiary of the British company, Imperial Chemical Industries.
Since its inception, BCAM in the United States has been controlled by the now independent and renamed AstraZeneca (the pharmaceutical arm of Zeneca), which has become a permanent partner in the cancer establishment. AstraZeneca boasts that it has spent "millions of dollars" on BCAM publicity, in return for which they retain the right to okay or veto every poster, pamphlet, or advertisement issued under the aegis of BCAM.
Zeneca is the third largest producer of pesticides in North America, with sales valued in the billions of dollars annually. AstraZeneca is the leading producer of tamoxifen, the most widely prescribed drug for breast cancer. A few years back Zeneca completed a takeover of Salick Health Care centres which treat cancer patients across the US. So AstraZeneca, the wizard behind BCAM, is first contributing to the increase in breast cancer, then profiting from its treatment with cancer drugs, and finally wrapping it all up by controlling cancer care centres.
Other companies have been quick to jump on the gravy train. A few years ago, the Wall Street Journal ran a story with the headline, Linking Products to Breast-Cancer Fight Helps Firms Bond with Their Customers. According to the article: "Companies are finding out that the pink ribbon, symbol of breast-cancer awareness patterned after the red AIDS ribbon, can help them connect with female customers."
Lining up behind the big money are some breast cancer organizations like the Susan G. Komen Foundation, which hosts the annual "Race for the Cure" in major US cities every October. [In January 2012 the Komen Foundation entered into a marketing agreement with the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation (CBCF). – Ed]
For the past several years, the Komen Foundation has raised a few extra millions from a partnership with BMW in a nationwide program called "The Ultimate Drive." Their silence regarding the relationship between cancer and benzo(a)pyrene, one of the chemicals belched from the exhaust pipe of every car, is not surprising.
The Foundation has also received financial support from organizations like the Chlorine Chemistry Council (trade association of the chlorine chemical industry). It's also not surprising that their literature fails to mention the link between cancer and exposure to dioxin, an ubiquitous chemical largely produced as a byproduct from the incineration of any material containing chlorine.
Cancer now gobbles up a full 10% of the total annual health care budget in the US. It will soon overtake heart disease and be the leading cause of death in this country. In the meantime, our slim environmental regulations are being systematically dismantled by an industry-friendly, pro-free-trade government, while we are being drowned in a sea of little pink ribbons.
I hate pink.
Judy Brady is one of the breast cancer activists interviewed in the NFB's documentary Pink Ribbons, Inc. This acclaimed exposé of "pink washing" is now available for rental or download from the NFB website: www.nfb.ca/film/pink_ribbons_inc.


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The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear shall graze; their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. Isa. 11:6-9
Dear Lord Jesus, there are many things I love about the Advent season—the songs regaling your birth, the aroma of yuletide foods and spices, the dancing array of Christmas lights aglow in my neighborhood each evening; but I especially love fueling my faith and imagination with the promises God made surrounding both of your comings. Every promise he has made finds its "Yes!" in you.
Today in particular, I'm stirred to think about the day of no more harm, of any variety. "They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain"
Oh, for the day when all "tooth and claw" violence gives way to wolves frolicking with lambs; leopards and goats napping together; calves, lions, and young horses strolling through the new heaven and new earth as friends; cows and bears eating together rather than one another; snakes as pets rather than pests.
As much as I love the vision of shalom in the animal kingdom, ten thousand times over I long for the day when we, the two-legged image-bearers of God, no longer harm one other. No more marginalizing or minimizing one another; no more demeaning or dismissing one another; no more vilifying or idolizing one another; no more ignoring or exploiting one another; no more hating or hurting one another; no more using or abusing one another, in any way, shape or form.
Hasten the Day when we will finally and fully love one another as you love us, Jesus. Until that day, keep us groaning and growing in grace. Grant us quick repentances when we love poorly; the resources to forgive when we hurt one another; and the beauty of reconciliation whenever possible. May the world recognize us as your disciples by the way we love one another. So very Amen we pray, in your powerful and patient name.


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Overuse of the term "iPhone killer" since Apple's phone hit critical mass, following the release of the iPhone 3G in 2008, has robbed it of most potency and meaning - but it's what Windows Phone 7 was originally intended as. Things haven't quite worked out for Microsoft's smartphone OS yet, but that doesn't mean it isn't rather brilliant.
One of the best things about the HTC Titan, compared to an Android or Symbian phone, is how wonderfully quick it is. The core user interface implements are hardware acceleration, letting it benefit from the handset's graphics power all the time, rather than just when you're trying to play a 3D game or HD-quality video.
It's intensely fast - not just in how quickly it responds to gestures on the super-responsive capacitive touchscreen, but in how fast menus are able to scroll and how snappily animated transitions are. This speed, combined with the aggressive styling of the system, makes using Windows Phone a very refreshing experience - like a pint of ice cold lime juice following days of drinking lukewarm, half-flat coke. Of course, not everyone likes lime juice and not everyone will love the unique look of the Windows Phone 7 interface.
The Titan's home screen is a scroll of very sharp boxes Microsoft calls Live Tiles. These are shorcuts - some animated, some static - to apps, phone features and contacts. They're fairly uniform in appearance, 90 per cent of them adhering to whatever colour scheme's in place, but do helpfully show you updates. The Google Mail and Hotmail tiles show a number, for example, indicating how many new emails you have. It's a notifications system and a home screen all in one, and while it's not very flexible or customisable, like an Android home screen, it's immensely easy to get on with.
You can move Live Tiles around, add and remove them, as well as changing their colour from a selection of 11 hues. Windows Phone is really into uniformity, and you can't pick and choose - it's strictly one colour at a time.
The look can be customised a bit. But only a bit.
At the launch of Windows Phone 7 in 2010, the system had all the rigid styling and speed it has now, but the recent Mango update filled-in the many feature holes that peppered the software. Including multitasking, which is simple and intuitive.
Hold down on the touch sensitive back soft key to bring up a row of snapshots of any running apps, which you then tap on to restore. There are still technical limitations when mulitasking with third-party apps, though. For example, skip to another app during an Angry Birds level and you'll be directed to the initial load screen and main menu upon returning. It's not quite the real deal yet.
Multitasking feels good, but is technically a bit "meh" at the mo
Social networking integration has improved too. You can pre-tag photos of your friends before uploading them to Facebook, and clever messaging updates lets you carry on conversations with people over multiple platforms - IM and SMS, for example. The Mango update is an enrichment that has added depth to the Windows Phone OS, without dramatically changing the basic experience - you can now simply do more within its ornate walls.
Like an ornate, marble-walled museum, though, you can't simply do what you like while inside. To transfer files, most crucially videos and MP3s, you have to use the proprietary Zune software - you're not given access to the file system when you connect to a computer. Using the HTC Titan is a bit like living within a totalitarian regime. Accept its rules and marvel as everything ticks along nicely, the trains arrive on time and the streets are clean. If you like to go your own way, though, you may not find the Windows Phone life so accommodating.
This being a smartphone, these rules can be bent a little with the use of apps.
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I expect MS to give financial incentives to app developers to create cross platform apps. That should open app stores to real competition and grow the WP userbase
@Dave Gilbert: The two reasons you've given against choosing this handset - the OS and the utilitarian design - are exactly the two I'd look for when buying a phone. The sheer clarity and cohesiveness of WP7 are qualities that even iOS can't manage let alone the afterthought that is Android. The application market is constantly growing and with quality submissions. I have an Android tablet (Nook Colour) and visiting the app store feels similar to shopping in a pound shop - mountains of tat hiding the odd gem.
Point taken, but it was not the OS itself I have an issue with, more the lack of support given by developers, a similar problem facing the Android tablet market. I think that WP7 is indeed a powerful OS, but like MeeGo could disappear due to lack of support, which would be sad as diversity if always good.
By the way, I completely agree regarding the Android app store, it's like shopping in the discount bin of a bargain basement shop.
The support while no where near the level of even Android is gradually growing. I was pleasantly surprised to find 'International Snooker' a wonderfully realistic game and a personal favourite of mine having already been ported from over from iOS and Android. You have to remember that Microsoft has a lot riding on WP7 and few would bet against it pulling it off. Meego sadly took too long to enter the market and lacks the devotion from it's parents Nokia and Intel to really make even a late effort. All being said who really what the future really holds.
The Apps are just too expensive to consider buying a windows phone. Don't care why, it just makes WP7 a big no no.
I disagree about the screen size issue, I think these powerful smartphones are content driven and anything under 4 inches is just underselling the entire point of owning one. However the phones themselves could use a bezel trim, with that accomplished I think we could see significantly smaller phones with large screens.
Case in point: the Galaxy Nexus. It is about the same size as the SGSII but has a screen with a .35 inches larger diagonal. If WP7 and iOS ditched hardware controls like Meego and ICS then this would be possible. Only a thin strip would be needed for the earpiece, sensors and camera. On my SGS the top and bottom of the bezel are almost 15mm when they could be as small as 4-5mm, perhaps even smaller if Samsung could make the branding smaller.
The huge screen seems like a waste of space, literally. It is just a regular 3.7" screen stretched out to 4.7". Had they instead kept the same pixel density and added more pixels, that would have been a benefit. But to simply make a 3.7" screen take up more space, why? When I could achieve the exact same benefit simply by holding a 3.7" screen a bit closer to my face?
We don't want 'bigger' screens for the extra space they take up, we actually want more screen.
Andrew (The reviewer), you say the multi-tasking is a bit meh as the app is restarted when you tap on it again. Well it also did this on the iPhone when it was first introduced. Apps have to be modified to work properly with multi-tasking just like the iPhone.
They'll get lots of cross platforms apps as soon as they let people develop in C++
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BAGHDAD – The U.S.-led international coalition carried out 29 airstrikes against the Islamic State jihadi group near Ramadi, the capital of Iraq's western province of Anbar, the American military said Monday.
"Near Ramadi, 29 airstrikes struck 67 ISIL staging areas destroying two ISIL excavators, an ISIL armored personnel carrier, and an ISIL vehicle," the U.S. statement said, using another acronym for Islamic State.
The strikes were conducted on Sunday, on the eve of a fresh ground operation launched by Iraqi forces to tighten the noose on Islamic State in its bastions of Ramadi and Fallujah, Anbar's two main cities.
Government forces had resisted Islamic State attacks in the provincial capital for almost a year and a half before retreating in the face of a three-day blitz by the jihadis in mid-May.
The fall of Ramadi, which lies on the Euphrates River about 100 km (60 miles) west of Baghdad, was a huge blow to the government, which vowed to swiftly recapture it.
The coalition has conducted more than 5,200 strikes since it launched an air campaign against Islamic State almost a year ago.
Twenty-nine is an unusually high number of strikes for a single day and a single area.
A total of 38 strikes were conducted in Iraq on Sunday, including several in other parts of Anbar, the statement said.


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I Love Serving Pastors
Drew Dyck not only manages the Christianity Today publication Leadership Journal, which ministers to those who are involved in church leadership, but he has also written Generation Ex-Christian: Why Young Adults Are Leaving the Faith and How to Bring Them Back (Moody, 2010). He is married to Grace and has a son named Athanasius.
What do you most like about working on Leadership Journal?
Proofreading articles, entering changes, and then proofreading them again. Oh, wait … you said most like?
I love that I'm in a role where I get to serve pastors. They're the ones in the trenches. So whenever we get some feedback, saying that something we published helped equip, encourage, or inspire them—that's the highlight of this job.
What is your favorite article that has appeared in Leadership Journal under your management, and why?
I liked the interview we did with Tullian Tchividjian, "War and Peace." And not just because I got to travel to Florida to do the interview. Tchividjian talked about surviving a leadership coup at his church, and the changes the ordeal sparked in his life. It was a painful story, but ultimately a redemptive one. I think that's what Leadership Journal does best—gives honest yet hopeful insight into what it's like to be a pastor.
What was your most unusual job before you became the managing editor of Leadership Journal?
My brother owns a modeling agency. When I first moved to the States—from my exotic homeland of Canada—I worked for him as an agent. Now I know what everyone is going to think: Why were you an agent and not a male model? It's a fair question. My best guess is that the industry just wasn't ready for my "look." But I'm staying in shape. I'm moisturizing. When the world is ready, I'll be on the first flight to Milan.
What is your favorite activity outside of work?
I'd say running marathons, but that would be a bald-faced lie. So I'll go with exploring used bookstores, playing basketball, and just hanging out with my family.
How would your best friends describe you?
I think they'd describe me as someone who loves to laugh, values honesty, enjoys long walks on the beach, and hates clichés. Seriously, I don't know. That's a terrifying question. Because if the descriptions are negative, are they really my best friends?
Since you've recently become a father, what have you most enjoyed about that new role?
Just snuggling the little guy. I smother him with kisses, which has become a problem since I have a rather prickly beard. He ends up with little "daddy marks" all over his face. My wife chides me for these "attacks," but I'm resolute. I ask her, "Would you rather him suffer some minor skin irritation because of an overly affectionate father—or have deep, gaping wounds on his psyche because he didn't receive enough fatherly affection?" Yeah, that's what I thought.
Speaking of fathers, you're a pastor's son. How does that help you in your role as Leadership Journal's managing editor?
Growing up in a pastor's family was great. But as most PKs will tell you, it can be hard on your faith. You see behind the curtain. You glimpse the dark side of church life. In my case, though, it gave me a deep appreciation for pastors. I think it sensitized me to the challenges they face. I believe it helps me as I seek out content pastors will find useful and uplifting.
Since pastors are Leadership Journal's primary audience, what would you most like to tell them?
Subscribe to Leadership Journal now or watch your ministry shrivel and die! (See why I'm not a marketer?) Seriously, I would tell them that what they're doing is incredibly important, and to keep doing it, even when they feel like giving up.
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Wanting To Finish Basement
I have now saved enough money to finish my basement and I need ideas. I want to do something rustic. I have already bought my flooring which is bridgeport red oak. I have access to alot of cedar boards also. Would they go together? Basement is 31x27. I'm new here and really needing ideas. Want to do some of the walls in lumber some drywall and painted, Maybe half wall with ledge. Any help would be appreciated as I'm "Green" when it comes to this type stuff. Thanks!
Too vague, too many options.
how much money have you saved?
Wood is not a good choice for most basements. If you must do wood floors, lay a subfloor first. Maybe use cedar for some sort of storage closet? Use mold-proof sheetrock for walls.
I'm doing my basement in a cabin/small house in the N GA hills. It is only a bit larger than yours.
I'm going for a looks that's not quite as rustic as yours but still with a cosy cabin flavor (I hope). I'll have a beam over the center of the large front room and 2 post on the side supporting it. They'll trim out in pine and then do a warm stain that'll be a darker cherry look I think.
I talked to a few flooring places about what I could use and they all recommended a floating floor (laminate).
Maybe some of the cedar could be used as trim or trim over a beam?
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The newest trend in home decor has become a talk or rather debate amongst interior designers on whether the new design of decor is trendy or trashy. Graffiti has become a sensational hit among lots of home decor enthusiast who are artistically decorating their homes with graffiti decals and loving it. So is this trendy or trashy, read more in this detailed article to see what the author thinks.
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James Patrick Kelly
|James Patrick Kelly
James Patrick Kelly
April 11, 1951
Mineola, New York
|Writer, editor
|Science fiction, fantasy
|Literary movement
|Savage Humanism[1]
|Notable works
|Think Like a Dinosaur (1995)
10^16 to 1 (1999)
Burn (2005)
James Patrick Kelly (born April 11, 1951 in Mineola, New York) is an American science fiction author who began publishing in the 1970s and remains to this day an important figure in the science fiction field.
Kelly made his first fiction sale in 1975, and has since been a major force in the science fiction field. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in 1972, with a B.A. in English Literature. After graduating from college, he worked as a full-time proposal writer until 1977. He attended the Clarion Workshop twice - once in 1974 and again in 1976.
Throughout the 1980s, he and friend John Kessel became involved in the humanist/cyberpunk debate. While Kessel and Kelly were both humanists, Kelly also wrote several cyberpunk-like stories, such as "The Prisoner of Chillon" (1985) and "Rat" (1986). His story "Solstice" (1985) was published in Bruce Sterling's anthology Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology.
Kelly has been awarded several of science fiction's highest honors. He won the Hugo Award for his novelette "Think Like a Dinosaur" (1995) and again for his novelette "1016 to 1" (1999). Most recently, his 2005 novella, Burn, won the 2006 Nebula Award. Other stories have won the Asimov's Reader Poll and the SF Chronicle Award. He is frequently on the final ballot for the Nebula Award, the Locus Poll Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. He frequently teaches and participates in science fiction workshops, such as Clarion and the Sycamore Hill Writer's Workshop. He has served on the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts since 1998 and chaired the council in 2004.
He is currently on the Popular Fiction faculty for the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Southern Maine.
He is a frequent contributor to Asimov's Science Fiction and for the past several years has contributed a non-fiction column to Asimov's, "On the Net." He has had a story in the June issue of Asimov's for the past twenty years. In addition to his writing, Kelly has recently turned his hand to editing (with John Kessel), with several reprint anthologies: Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology, Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology and The Secret History of Science Fiction. Through these anthologies, Kelly and Kessel have brought together a wide spectrum of both traditional genre authors and authors who are considered to be more mainstream, including Don DeLillo, George Saunders, Jonathan Lethem, Aimee Bender, Michael Chabon and Steven Millhauser.
- Kelly, James P. (1984). Planet of whispers. New York: Bluejay Books.
- Freedom Beach (with John Kessel) (Tor Books, 1985)
- Look Into the Sun (Tor Books, 1989)
- Heroines (collection) (1990)
- Wildlife (Tor Books, 1994)
- Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories (collection) (Golden Gryphon Press, 1997)
- Strange But Not a Stranger (collection) (Golden Gryphon Press, 2002)
- Burn (Tachyon Publications, 2005) (Nebula Award winner)
- Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology (anthology, co-edited with John Kessel) (Tachyon Publications, 2006), featuring stories by Aimee Bender, Michael Chabon, Ted Chiang, Carol Emshwiller, Jeffrey Ford, Karen Joy Fowler, Theodora Goss, Jonathan Lethem, Kelly Link, M. Rickert, Benjamin Rosenbaum, George Saunders, Bruce Sterling, Jeff VanderMeer, and Howard Waldrop.
- Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology (anthology, co-edited with John Kessel) (Tachyon Publications, 2007)
- The Wreck of the Godspeed and Other Stories (Golden Gryphon Press, August 2008)
- The Secret History of Science Fiction (anthology, co-edited with John Kessel) (Tachyon Publications, 2009)
- Kafkaesque: Stories Inspired by Franz Kafka (anthology, co-edited with John Kessel) (Tachyon Publications, 2011)
- Digital Rapture: The Singularity Anthology (anthology, co-edited with John Kessel) (Tachyon Publications, 2012)
- Nebula Awards Showcase 2012 (anthology, co-edited with John Kessel) (Pyr)
Short Fiction[edit]
- "Dea Ex Machina" (Galaxy Science Fiction, April 1975)
- "The Prisoner of Chillon" (Asimov's Science Fiction, June 1986)
- "Rat" (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1986)
- "Glass Cloud" (Asimov's, June 1987)
- "Mr. Boy" (Asimov's, June 1990)
- "The Propagation of Light in a Vacuum" (Universe 1, 1990)
- "Pogrom" (Asimov's, Jan 1991)
- "Think Like a Dinosaur" (Asimov's, June 1995) (Hugo Award winner)
- "10^16 to 1" (Asimov's, June 1999) (Hugo Award winner)
- "Ninety Percent of Everything" (with Jonathan Lethem and John Kessel) (F&SF, Sep 1999)
- "Undone" (Asimov's, June 2001)
- "The Pyramid of Amirah" (F&SF, March 2002)
- "Bernardo's House" (Asimov's, June 2003)
- "Men Are Trouble" (Asimov's, June 2004)
- "The Edge of Nowhere" (Asimov's, June 2005)
- "The Leila Torn Show" (Asimov's, June 2006)
- "Surprise Party" (Asimov's, June 2008)
- "The Promise of Space" (Clarkesworld Magazine, September 2013)
- "Someday" (Asimov's, April/May 2014)
- "Why School Buses Are Yellow" by James Patrick Kelly
- "Barry Westphall Crashes the Singularity" by James Patrick Kelly
- "The Best Christmas Ever" by James Patrick Kelly at the Wayback Machine (archived April 29, 2007): It was nominated for the 2005 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.[2] Plot summary: The story follows Albert Hopkins, the last real man on earth, and the biops that care for him. Granted his every wish, Albert is slipping into depression and the biops try everything to bring him out of it - including throwing a Christmas party that they think he will truly enjoy.
On the Net : columns from Asimov's Science Fiction[edit]
- Kelly, James Patrick (August 2012). "What is reality?". Asimov's Science Fiction. 36 (8): 10–13.
- — (February 2013). "Mobility". Asimov's Science Fiction. 37 (2): 9–11.
- — (Apr–May 2013). "A field guide to the editors". Asimov's Science Fiction. 37 (4&5): 10–13.
- An Interview with James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel conducted by John Joseph Adams
- James Patrick Kelly - Audio Interview
- SciFi.com Interview
- AISFP 55 - James Patrick Kelly Interviewed by Matthew Wayne Selznick - Audio Interview
- ^ Kelleghan, Fiona (April 29, 2008). "The Savage Humanists". Robert J. Sawyer. Retrieved September 17, 2015.
Meet the Savage Humanists: the hottest science-fiction writers working today. They use SF's unique powers to comment on the human condition in mordantly funny, satiric stories... In these pages, you'll find the top names in the SF field: including...James Patrick Kelly...
- ^ The Locus Index to the Hugo Awards: 2005 Archived March 2, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
External links[edit]
- 1951 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American novelists
- American male novelists
- American male short story writers
- American science fiction writers
- Asimov's Science Fiction people
- Hugo Award-winning writers
- Nebula Award winners
- People from Mineola, New York
- University of Notre Dame alumni
- Writers from New Hampshire
- 20th-century American short story writers


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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The women turned heads as they got on Jerusalem's number 56 bus.
Startled ultra-Orthodox Jewish men looked away as the group mounted a challenge to growing gender segregation in the holy city by boarding the public vehicle from the front door and sitting in its first rows.
As the male passengers averted their gaze, adhering to a traditional edict to avoid sexual temptation, a religious woman at the back of the bus shouted at the protesters: "Deal with the drugs, the crime and prostitution in your own communities first."
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