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It's very sad that legendary screen nutter Dennis Hopper is dying of cancer while nearly broke and in the midst of a phenomenonally ugly divorce.
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Teams of researchers working in a multi-lab collaboration have designed, built, and tested two magnetic devices called superconducting undulators. The effort could lead to a next generation of more powerful, versatile, compact, and durable X-ray lasers.
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Scientists at Berkeley Lab will be sifting through loads of new data expected from the latest experimental run at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.
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Power-switching devices known as "thyristors" are not just for BART trains—Berkeley Lab has used them in particle accelerators for decades.
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Berkeley Lab Working on Key Components for LCLS-II X-ray Lasers
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Seasonal Celtic Festivals & Sabbats There are four major Celtic festivals in the Wheel of the Celtic Year. There is literary evidence of celebrations and rituals for the cross quarters that seem to have come and gone at various points in history. I may at some point, add the four cross quarter Celtic festivals.
Samhain (Halloween) October 31 The Celtic festival of Samhain is the end of the summer or "light" half of the year. It is the last of the Celtic festivals of the harvest and dark counterpoint to Beltaine, beginning the rule of Darkness and celebrating the Crone. It is also the first day of the new year. Celts view time as circular rather than linear, so the night is both the end of the year and the beginning, an "in-between" time. For this reason, The Celtic festival of Samhain is a night of divination and of the dead.
BELTAINE - The beginning of the summer and the light half of the Celtic year. The Celtic festival of Beltaine is also called May Day and is still celebrated in western culture, although in a more secular manner. Little do many people realize that while dancing around a Maypole they're actually celebrating an ancient Celtic Festival! Also, in the Celtic festival of Beltaine dancing went on around the bonfires and it was considered lucky to jump over the flames without injury. This Celtic festival is properly a fertility rite. The Celtic festival of Beltaine is related to the Roman Bachinalia and rites of Dionysis and many other ancient Pagan festivals and rites of fertility.
Imbolc (also Imbolg, Oimelc) Feb. 1 or 2. This Celtic festival marks the 2nd quarter of the Celtic year and the first day of Spring. While February is still very cold in most places, the Celts saw the beginnings of Spring in some of the more subtle signs of nature. This Celtic festival is strongly associated with the Irish Celtic Goddess Brighid, who is also one of the most important of Irish saints. The Celtic Goddess Brighid, as the creative force in both tribe and land, unites the two main themes of Imbolc; a reawakening of the fertility of the land and a new agricultural cycle.
Lughnasadh August 1st. This is the main harvest Celtic festival and the name of the month of August in the Irish language. It represent the culmination of the year long relationship between people and the Earth. The main theme of the Celtic festival of Lughnasadh is reaping the bounty of the land, followed by a communal feast of the first fruits. There was a recent tradition in Ireland of young people going out to playfully collect wild bilberries followed by great romps in the woods after dark (greenwood marriages, a common theme to most Celtic Festivals it seems).


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It has been an exceptional year for apples. The good growing weather of last year laid down plenty of flower buds for this year.
Although the winter weather after the turn of the year was wet and cold, and this continued into late spring, apples flower in May and there were enough good days to ensure that the pollinating insects could fly and the pollinated fruit could set.
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The challenge for trees carrying a heavy crop is to ripen it successfully, needing good weather - warm and sunny - to make it sweet. Otherwise there might be a lot of fruit but it can be of poor flavour and lack sweetness. However, autumn has been relatively warm, sunny and dry, and apples have ripened well.
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FIGHT TO THE FINISH: Home Season 2015 recap
By cmaxrd, Aug 13 2015 09:39AM
C-Max Roller Derby League's second ever Home Season is no over. It has been another incredible season with our home teams, Raging Warmones, Slam Damsels and Thundering Hellcats bringing a new level of athleticism, strategy and competition to the track.
The Raging Warmones skated away with the Championship trophey for another year after a decisive victory across the season, winning all their games with a high level of play. This year saw the Slam Damsels graduating from the 'baby' team of last year to a team that stood up to the mighty veterans of C-Max. They made the championship playoffs but were just unable to make a dent in an exceptional Warmone line-up. The Thundering Hellcats had a slower start to the season with big line-up changes to last years season, but found their feet throughout to bring some exceptional derby to the track in some of their final games.
We have enjoyed every game and every moment of this season and we have been delighted to share it with all our fans, who once again have showed incredible unending support for the league.
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"I always look forward to going to Texas," said Earnhardt. "It's such a fast track and it takes some guts to get around there. Plus, we've always had a fast car. We've won, we got a Bud Pole, and we've led every Cup race we've started at Texas. You feel like you're starting the weekend a little bit ahead because you're confident that you're going to be right there at the checkered flag. I got my first wins there (in both the Busch Series and Winston Cup series), so it's like going back to your favorite vacation spot – you have fond memories and you can't wait to get back again.
Earnhardt has shown flashes of success this season, including a strong run last weeken at Bristol, but hasn't been able to put things totally together.
"I think the whole team is more determined after Bristol," he said. "We had a top-five car, but after we dropped so far behind, I was just hoping for a top-20 finish with all four fenders intact. (The team finished 16th after dropping three laps down late in the race.) I was imagining the worst for our points position, and I was hoping we would still be in the top-10, but we're still right there in the top-five and really close to the guy in second place. DEI has two cars in the top-five in points, and it's something the company can be proud of."
Earnhardt will start the Budweiser Chevrolet in the eleventh position on Sunday. The decent qualifying run and the confidence he has running at Texas may be enough to catapult Junior to a win.
"We've run out of excuses for beating ourselves on race day," he said. "We've run up front every weekend, and we've had something happen to keep us from a win. If we want to stay in the championship, we can't do it anymore. But, we're starting to go to some tracks where we've won races before, and that encourages the whole team."
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Finland tourism gets a thumbs up from Lonely Planet which included the country among its top three destinations to visit next year. The world's biggest travel guide publisher named Canada, Colombia and Finland as the most interesting destinations for 2017.
Commenting on the inclusion, Paavo Virkkunen, Executive Vice President of Visit Finland said, "We're sure that this ranking will have an enormous effect on tourism."
He added, "Lonely Planet is oriented toward travellers who want to independently arrange their own off-the-beaten-track trips, and that Finland is ideal for such travel."
With Canada and Finland celebrating anniversary years, honouring 150 and 100 years of statehood respectively, it could not get better for travllers.
Lonely Planet promises tourists a feast of special centenary events, "everything from al fresco concerts and communal culinary experiences to sauna evenings and vintage-travel-poster exhibitions".
Rounding out the top 10 are Dominica, Nepal, Bermuda, Mongolia, Oman, Myanmar and Ethiopia.
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- Unemployment rate is 150% of the state average for the past year
- Per capita income is 80% of the state average
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How to Make a Wort Chiller for Homebrewing
Introduction: How to Make a Wort Chiller for Homebrewing
In this instructable, I am going to demonstrate how I built a wort chiller for homebrewing beer.
A wort chiller is a device that cools down wort (unfermented beer) after boiling. Cooling down wort rapidly is important because it helps to reduce the chances of bacteria from growing before you pitch the yeast. Yeast needs a certain temperature to live - too hot and you will kill the yeast, too cold and it may not ferment properly. Rapidly cooling wort is also important because it will help to discourage certain off-flavors in the finished brew.
There are mainly four methods of cooling wort rapidly. Immersion chillers are put into the wort and cold water is passed through to cool the wort. Counter-flow chillers are the opposite. They pass hot wort through cold water. Immersing the hot pot of wort in an ice bath is another way. You can also pour hot wort into cold water. The goal is to cool it as quickly as possible. Home brewers using partial-mash and all grain recipes typically find that wort chillers produce the best results.
My wort chiller passes hot wort through a copper coil submerged in a cooler filled with ice water and out through a ball valve on the side. The wort will drain out into a primary fermenting bucket where I can pitch the yeast and ferment the beer.
Step 1: Installing the Ball Valve on a Cooler
The first step is to install a ball valve on the cooler. I decided not to include instructions here since I made a separate instructable demonstrating how I did it. You can find that instructable here:
Step 2: A Word on Safety
The golden rule of making homebrewing equipment is that you should be having a tasty homebrew while doing it! I didn't make this rule, I just follow it.
However, you should make sure to have all the materials you need on hand before beginning. You don't need to be driving a car to the hardware store for forgotten parts after following the golden rule.
Step 3: Materials
Now that the ball valve is in place on my cooler, I can begin to transform my ordinary cooler into a wort chiller.
I used:
- 18' of 3/8" soft copper tubing
- (1) 3/8" compression fitting with a 3/8" male end
- (1) 3/8" compression fitting with a 3/8" female end
- (1) 3/8" brass hose barb adapter with a 3/8" male end (not pictured here)
- teflon tape
The tools I used were:
- Two wrenches
- a 3/8" soft copper tubing bender
- a drill with a 1-1/2" hole saw
- a pipe cutter
Step 4: Bending the Copper Tubing
The goal is to coil the copper into a tube that will pass through the cold water and allow the heat from the wort to dissipate rapidly. Using many coils creates more surface area for the hot wort to touch on its path through the chiller.
I used a tubing bender to safely bend my copper without any kinks. Don't be like me and underestimate how much copper tubing you will need. I ran out and had to get more and use a coupling to continue. I wound up needing almost 18 feet. Buy the right amount the first time and you won't need to worry about it.
To keep my coils relatively equal, I used a 3 liter plastic soda bottle to check my progress.
The coil itself begins straight so it can go to the ball valve. I turned it about 90 degrees to begin the coils. I made about 9 coils and then did another 90 degree bend straight up.
It's difficult to describe just how I shaped the pipe. If this step's description doesn't make sense, continue anyway and see how it will function.
Step 5: Connecting to the Ball Valve
On the inside of the cooler will be a coupling that the copper coil will attach to. Take the 3/8" compression fitting with the male end and remove the nut and compression ring. Screw the fitting into the coupling and tighten with a wrench.
Now, connect the copper coil. Slide the nut and compression ring over the tube and re-connect it to the compression fitting. Snug with a wrench.
Step 6: Making the Wort Inlet
There should be extra tubing sticking straight up out of the cooler now. I used a pipe cutter and trimmed it so there would be about four inches sticking up.
I lowered the lid and marked where the inlet would come out of the lid. I then took a hole saw and cut a hole. The four inches of tubing should stick out of the lid a bit when closed.
Step 7: Making the Wort Inlet Cont'd
Take the 3/8" compression fitting with the female end and remove the nut and compression ring. I used a pair of clothespins to hold the tube in place and to prevent the nut and ring from sliding down into the cooler.
Tighten the nut and compression ring onto the fitting and put on the hose barb adapter.
This is where the wort will enter the chiller via clear tubing that will slide onto the barb.
Step 8: Testing the Wort Chiller for Leaks
Soft copper and compression fittings can be tricky sometimes. If you have a leak, make sure everything has been tightened properly. This will usually do the trick. If you notice the leak is coming from the threads of a fitting, try teflon tape on the threads. I had to go back and use a little tape on the fittings.
Step 9: Using the Wort Chiller
Now that the wort chiller is in good working order, it is time to test it out. I began boiling two gallons of water to simulate boiling wort and once it was almost there, I filled up the cooler with ice water. Since I try not to waste a lot of water, I used little frozen bottles since I can reuse them next time. Ice water temperature was 55 degrees F. I dumped the boiling water into a bucket with a plastic valve. Temperature in the bucket was 204. I opened up the plastic valve and the ball valve on the wort chiller.
When the bucket was nearly empty, I tilted it to get all the water I could out. Once it was empty, I tilted the cooler a little (don't spill the icewater!) to get as much "wort" out as possible. Final temperature of the two gallons of boiled water was 84.
This worked pretty well. I could have packed a lot more ice in there and that would have brought down the temperature of the wort to within the 60's no problem. I also liked how I could use the ball valve to kind of control the temperature of the water leaving the chiller - open wider for warmer, close it more for colder. I think this will have no problem on brewing day.
And of course, if this were real wort and not water, I'd flush out the coil during cleanup.
Step 10: Wort Chiller Maintenance and Cleaning
Before using the wort chiller on brewing day, test it out to make sure all the fittings are tight and that it is clean and ready to go.
Cleaning the inside of the coil can be done with PBW (Powdered Brewery Wash). Follow the instructions on the package. Sanitize with StarSan or the sanitizer of your choice.
If there are any leaks, you should notice it during cleaning and sanitizing. Fix before using the chiller or else you may contaminate the wort.
Step 11: Summary
That's my wort chiller. I'm really proud of the design and happy with the way it works. I think it will be very useful when I step up to partial-mash and all-grain beer techniques. Be on the lookout for my future instructable where I will show how I make my mash tun.
I was looking to buy a wort chiller when I came acroos your instructable, I am the type of person where if I can make something myself I will. I do not know very much about brewing but the wort chillers I have seen all have tighter coils (vertically), is there any drawback or improvement having your coils spaced so far apart?
What are the part numbers for the 3/8" compression fittings (male and female)? Thanks!!
This instructable is great. Had you thought about using a small aquarium pump to could cycle the wort until you've crashed cooled it to the temp you need. With the final drain going in to your fermentor. You could use the pump in your flush cleaning also with star san or similar.
This is basically a "counterflow" chiller. Immersion chillers are much better for 5 gallon systems. Here's an explanation:
- A similar coil is constructed to run cold water through the coil which is immersed into the wort at the last part of the boil.
- Wort is on the outside, so sterilization comes instantly when the heat shock hits the copper. Also very easy to clean.
- 15 minutes to cool wort
- manual whirlpool puts hot trub into a cone, and not into your fermenter
- Easier to make as you don't need a separate unit like an insulated cooler.
- Cold all the way through the chilling process, and not a gradual change to warmer coolant, which reduces efficiency. Yeast like cool wort.
I'd have to say a true counterflow is much better for a 5 gallon than an immersion. my homebuilt counterflow can drop a 5 gallon batch from near boil to near room temp in around 5 minutes with cold tap water. I've even used rain barrel water to chill with though that took about 10 -15 minutes
I actually started with something similar to this project but with a 5 gallon bucket instead of a cooler but made the mistake of using smaller tubing and got a thick stout almost stuck in it. So i converted it to an immersion for a while but then decided to go with a whole new counterflow chiller. I'll have to put an instructable on it up some time. It was a royal pain in the rear to make, but with some small changes to procedure, wouldn't be that bad.
15 minutes to chill wort is a really good time. You're not going to get any more hot break out of reducing that time to 10 or 5 minutes. Could you imagine how long it takes large commercial breweries to chill wort, considering they have a 3-hour brew cycle? Even though you can chill faster, your hot break is inside your primary, and that's what you want to avoid. That's the very reason for the whirlpool in multi-batch brewhouses. The goal is to get the hot break out, not have a race with chilling times.
Let's not forget the goal.
Yeh but as i move up to 10 gallon batches and bigger, the counterflow will then only take 10 to 15 minutes instead of 30 or more with the immersion.
You still miss my point. You can take 2 hours to cool something using immersion. With only slight movement of your wort, an immersion can always compete with counterflow, while taking out cold break from your primary. And hot break as well. You're chasing reducing time to chill your wort. That is only valuable in separating break from your wort. If you race through it only to include it in your primary, you've not really gained much. The quality of your product will be much better with an immersion. I've seen it for over 20 years.
I was doing a little research online, and I this is halfway between a counterflow chiller and a jockey box.
They are different tools altogether. A chiller is used in the brewhouse, and the Jockey Box is used to chill beer just before it hits the tap.
If you don't have a tubing bender, try filling the copper tube with sand before bending. This will help to keep the tube from kinking.
What is the amount of time that it takes the wort to travel through the chiller? Is a good seal on the cooler really an issue? I am considering using this design as a mash tun/wort chiller, but would be apprehensive about putting a hole in the lid because of the sensitivity of the mash (avoiding any fluctuation beyond a couple of degrees).
You say that you used a 3-liter bottle as a pattern to check your progress. Why not just use the 3-liter bottle as a mandrel from the very beginning? Fill the bottle with water to make it rigid. Then while the coil is still on the bottle, you can adjust your spacing between coils to your liking.
i know your other 'ables is a beer tun, is there any way to modify the beer tun so that it works as a wort chiller too. like have an easy way to take off/put on the stailess steel mesh and replace it with the copper coil.
By "beer tun" I'm assuming you mean mash tun.
I suspect that after you're finished with the mashing process, you can use a part called a "Quick Disconnect" to switch out whatever you're using as a filter and replace it with the chiller coil. Stainless QD's are often expensive.
YMMV, I've never tried it before.
How would you compare using a rectangular cooler to a cylindrical one? It seems like the cylinder would allow the coils to stand upright and prevent any wort from remaining inside. I haven't seen any quite as large as the rectangular coolers, though, so I guess you would need more ice or add rock salt to lower the temperature?
Thanks for the Instructables man. I made some changes to your design to suit my needs, but it worked like a charm.
I see how this setup would cool the wort better than a normal immersion chiller. But do you have a drain valve on your boiling pot or do you have to transfer to the 5 gallon bucket with the valve? If you have to transfer it seems any time gained from chilling faster is eaten up by time needed to sanitize before and clean up after the brew. I guess you could flush the coils with the top off water you add to wort to make up 5 gallons...
It might be a good idea to get some tubing that is specifically made for hot liquid transfer. At least on the connection from the bottling bucket into the chiller. This would prevent the tube from expanding and possibly coming loose form your coupling.
Fist off, Great ible! beer in the pipe rather than water, thats thinking outsite the box!
ok im a novice to homebrew but looking at making the leap from basic kits to extract brewing. So ive been doing some research and planning on making my own immersion wort chiller and i had a few ideas i thought id share with you.
IDEA 1. the countercurrent system is very effective as dp69 said and shows up all over in nature, usually with respiration (fish gills, bird lungs) or thermoregulation which is what we want a chiller to do.
Cold liquids fall like cold air does (untill it gets colder than 4oC when it starts rising, for a complicated reason Im not gonna go into). this means that to get a counter current its best to make the cold water go into the pipe that goes right to the bottom where the wort is coolest and this will give a very basic countercurrent. cold water going up the coil and cold wort falling down over it.
IDEA 2. the colder the water going in the pipe the better. so how about making 2 seperate copper coils attached by plastic hose. the water come from a cold tap into the 1st coil which is immersed in a bucket of ice water. the water then flows out of that coil super cold and into the immersion cooler.
what do u guys think? if/when i get into more advanced brewing ill make one of these and post an ible. it will hopefully be pretty effcient even if not as good as this one.
My thoughts on Idea 2:
Way too complicated. In terms of efficiency, if you were going to use gravity to pre-cool water that will be flowing through an immersion chiller, it seems like you might be wasting a little effort. Perhaps try looking at electronic or drill-driven pumps that will take ice cold water from a cooler or bucket and circulate it through your immersion chiller. You'd still get the effect of shooting the ice cold water through the hot wort, but with less piping involved. What you are describing is almost like a jockey-box for water.
Idea 1:
The same electronic or drill-driven pump system would work with a counter-flow chiller much like what you are describing. You would have a reservoir of ice-cold water and would pump it over the hot wort within the inner copper coil. You can learn how to make a counter-flow chiller here:
Of course, I'm not shooting down your idea - I'd love to be proven wrong. That way, I'd have an excuse to make more beer paraphernalia!
Interesting - good work. For some reason I'd always assumed the wort was on the outside of the coil and cold water was circulated through the coil. I've thought about making my own. I thought I'd make the coil small enough to fit in my boiling pot. Then I'd simply connect one end of the copper coil to the sink and send the other end to a drain. Turn on the cold water and let it work. Of course this would waste quite a bit of cold water. Maybe I could run the 'drain' end to my garden sprinkler so it would at least go to some use? I guess I'd thought it'd be easier to clean and sterilize the outside of the coil rather than the inside.
Most people use what you just described, It's called an immersion chiller. In my opinion it's very easy to clean and to sanitize I through it directly into the kettle during the last 15 minutes of boil. There are many people that make the outlet hose long enough to set out on the lawn or whatever. I've even saw a guy warming his pool with the warm water from his immersion chiller posting online somewhere. Personally, I just use the water to spray out my MLT and fill half my sink with water to use to clean up with. Since I don't have a lawn or anything that's probably the extent of my water conservation for now. The problem with immersion chillers and counterflow chillers is that they are only going to get the wort to or close to the temperature of your tap water. When in extreme climate areas the water coming out of your tap could be pretty warm. A true counter-flow chiller flows cold water through a hose that is surrounding a copper coil of hot wart flowing the opposite direction (hence the name counter-flow). What iPodGuy has created is a Hybrid chiller, similar to EdWort's www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/recirculating-ice-water-chiller-38235/ And I'd imagine it's pretty efficient. When it gets hot here in June and July it takes my tap water a good 30 minutes to get to 80f with my immersion chiller. During the colder months I can generally get it down within 20 minutes, and I believe the best time was 12 minutes. It's really just going to be a matter of personal preference and your climate conditions.
Most wort chillers are like that, you pass cold water through the coil while it is immersed in a hot wort. For exact your reasoning also, it's easier to prevent odd flavors and "infections" when it can be sterilized and the outside can be sterilized while it is difficult to do the inside. As far as losing the cold water, I avoided that with a simple cooler filled with ice and water and I made the chiller a closed system using a pump and return, although the chilling fluid ultimately uses up its capacity, the wort is cool before it happens. I draw from the cooler and return it to the cooler. So I can chill a wort with a single cooler with ice and water instead of gallons of water flowing down the drain into the septic or sewer.
Nice job. I made a similar one using a 5 gal bucket a while back, and it works great. I live in Az, and the cold water in the summer isn't cold enough for either a counterflow or immersion type chiller to be very effective. Ice water works great though, and it conserves water.
Since you obviously use 3/8" transfer tubing, you could have cut costs down by skipping at least the top hose barb adapter and related fittings. The 3/8" ID hose fits snugly over the 3/8" OD copper tubing, and it also eliminates the lip at the joint in the fitting that could harbor bacteria, which makes cleaning and sanitizing easier.


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I've always followed the Olympic Games. It's part of my whole life. I remember watching the 1976 Montreal games, the 1984 Los Angeles games, and I even attended the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta. I stayed up half the night to watch the stunning 2004 Athens games.
My step-father died during the 2008 Beijing games. My last memory of him being lucid was watching Michael Phelps sweep the 200m and 400m medleys.
I watched the London games opening ceremony from a suite at Turner Field during a Braves game. I think more people were watching the televisions than the field.
But this year, I am more than disappointed about the Olympics. It's not that I have anything against Rio, or Brazil, or some cause for the poor whose favelas were bulldozed. It's worse than that.
This is my column for the local paper. Read it and you'll understand.
This might come as a shock to you, but the Olympic Games have always been political. At least the modern games beginning in 1896. The U.S. has played host to the summer games four times and the winter games an equal number to lead all nations in hosting. Russia and its former form as the USSR hosted one of each.
The 1932 summer games in Los Angeles was surrounded in pageantry. America crushed the world with 103 medals, 41 of them gold, more than three times the second place gold earner, Italy. In 1936, the International Olympic Committee worked closely with the Nazi regime to craft a bigger spectacle than the Los Angeles games. The Berlin games introduced the now-familiar torch relay.
Hitler's intensive national sports program yielded 33 gold medals, beating the U.S. and sweeping the equestrian events. But Jesse Owens and the underdog University of Washington sculling team took the headlines from the Fuhrer. Yet Hitler won his propaganda war.
Sprinters Sam Stoller and Marty Glickman were the only two Jewish members of the U.S. team. U.S. Olympic Team head Avery Brundage pulled them from Owens' 4 x 100 relay team on the day of the race. African-American Owens got his gold, but no Jews stood on the platform with him.
Since the Nazis censored athletes' mail and limited their contact, Owens never received a letter sent to him at the Olympic village encouraging him to refuse the medal from the fascist anti-Semitic dictator's regime.
Germany again hosted the summer games in 1972. In those games, early on the 10th day of competition, a group of terrorists infiltrated the Olympic village and took nine hostages — all Israelis. Two who resisted were killed on the spot. The rest — athletes, coaches and officials were held for nearly a day and a half as the games went on amid an awful and surreal standoff.
Brundage, who was then the IOC president, did not stop the competition for twelve hours, until the political pressure was too great. German officials refused Israel's offer to send Israeli special forces to deal with the terror attack. The Germans badly bungled the rescue attempt. They watched, horrified, as the terrorists mowed down their hostages with an AK-47 at point-blank range, then tossed a hand grenade in the helicopter where they were tied up. The ensuing explosion incinerated the Israelis.
The three surviving Black September terrorists were released by West Germany 49 days later after terrorists hijacked Lufthansa flight 615. They received a hero's welcome upon their arrival in Libya (where the bodies of their dead comrades were treated as martyrs).
On September 6, Brundage spoke at a memorial service for the dead Israelis attended by 80,000 at the Olympic Stadium. He said very little about the murdered athletes, but went on about the problem of "professionalism" in Olympic sport and banning Rhodesia's participation. It would be the last games for Brundage, whose rise to power was directly connected to the Nazi games in 1936.
In Rio de Janeiro, the 105th Olympiad opened the summer games. While the world focuses on Zika, water contamination, and the plight of Brazil's displaced poor who had their favela neighborhoods plowed under to make room for the dazzling Olympic facilities, there's other dark politics simmering beneath the games' shiny surface.
This year, the Palestinian Authority is sending its own team to the games. Though there's no actual Palestinian state, and in fact no large ethnic group that doesn't include native Israelis who can claim the label "Palestinian," the Palestinian Olympic team has one statement to make: Israel is their enemy.
Jibril Rajoub leads the Palestinian Olympic Committee. He is a terrorist. He spreads hatred, and can't even celebrate the peace and purity of kids playing soccer. Rajoub went apoplectic in 2014 when preteen Palestinians and Israelis played in a "peace match." "It was a disgrace to use sports for this purpose," he said. But it's not a disgrace to use sport to promote terror.
This man has honored murderers like Muhannad Halabi, who stabbed two Israelis to death and wounded two others in Jerusalem by naming a ping-pong tournament in his name. He also attended a boxing match honoring Ali Hassan Salameh, one of the Munich Fatah (Black September is Fatah) terrorists.
Rajoub is a longtime Fatah terror booster and political hack. He belongs nowhere near the Olympic Games. The last time terrorists attended the Olympics, Israelis were murdered in Germany. Now, the games honor terrorists like Rajoub. Shame on them.


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The Dorset Naga Challenge
For the last two years we grew a Dorset Naga plant that produced over 700 chillies.This year we wanted to see if we could do better, and just find out what a Dorset Naga plant is capable of producing. So, in May this year, we potted up three January-sown Dorset Naga plants.
They were selected from the batch of plants that we had raised for selling on, i.e. up to this point they had not had any special treatment. One plant went into a 160-litre pot, the other two went into 100-litre pots. The plants were kept in an unheated polytunnel, and watered and fertilised along with all our other plants.
At the same time we challenged other growers to see how many chillies they could get off their Dorset Naga plants. The rules were:
1. The plant must be a Dorset Naga
2. The plant must be sown in 2013
3. Only red fruit count
4. The fruit can be picked at any time, but records, e.g. harvesting records and photographs, must be kept – this competition is based on trust, but we don't trust people to remember 100% accurately.
5. Deadline: 15th November 2013
We have offered a token prize of £15 worth of chilli seeds to the grower who harvests the most chillies off their plant. And if the winner beats us and gets more chillies than we do we will double the prize.
We will harvest our plants on 9th November, and are very pleased to announce that the Clifton Chilli Club has agreed to be the official observers to guarantee that the counts are accurate.
With just a month to go before the deadline, here is an update of our three Dorset Naga plants, which are now exactly 9 months old. The photos are of the three plants, but the video is of the one in the 160-litre pot, the largest by far.


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In principle, I'm strongly opposed to 'plug-ins' for IRI processing (and hence IDN processing). However, I can see the argument for TLDs more easily than for Characters === A plug-in approach is likely to address one or two leading Web browsers, but would be very unlikely to also address less core applications that also use IRIs (e.g. any Semantic Web software). I do not wish to be close-minded, and if a plug-in is an appropriate medium-term measure then so-be-it, but alarm bells start ringing when this is billed as a language specific process, rather than one that generalises .... === On TLDs - I think this looks like a legitimate user-need, and any solution involves a look-up table that maps non-English TLDs to English ones, e.g. from column C to A on the spreadsheet, but potentially multiplied many fold. In some sense, the English one ends up as the canonical form. The sort of application-end solution with which I would be happiest, is one for which it is easy for me to support in my software too. e.g. A) There is a specified Web site which has the mappings, which can be accessed both one at a time, and downloaded all at once. Ideally there should be some process for adding new mappings and new languages. B) The 'plug-in' would then have its own copy of the mapping table which would be refreshed from the Web from time to time, and do a very simple replacement on the TLD. C) This is easy to code up so that other pieces of software that wish to support these mappings can. To be generally usable an RFC or similar would be needed. I would have a strong preference for this to be seen as part of the ToASCII operation in IDN processing (e.g. strip off TLD, and if it is in the lookup-table, replace it); so that it is clear that it is done as late-as-possible, during retrieval, etc. etc. The canonical form is then the one used during retrieval - e.g. the URL, which for better or worse is ASCII. Jeremy -- Hewlett-Packard Limited registered Office: Cain Road, Bracknell, Berks RG12 1HN Registered No: 690597 EnglandReceived on Tuesday, 31 July 2007 11:29:42 UTC
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You can't determine what your ROI is with these methods.
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.MARKUS SCHMIDT of the Richmond Times-Dispatch covered last week's Clergy and Christian Leaders Summit hosted by the Virginia Christian Alliance to unite God's faithful to stand up and defend the institution of marriage, which God established as between one man and one woman in the Holy Scriptures.
Since Virginia Attorney General Herring's refusal to defend Virginia's Constitution, and supported by words from US Attorney General Eric Holder; the battle lines have been drawn. Should Christians not rise to the call, the battle outcome looks bleak for what God has established which is being usurped by rebellious political leaders.
Letter to the Editor, Richmond Times Dispatch, February 10, 2014
Dear Editor:
On September 15, 2013 in his Metro column, Jeff Schapiro wrote about the looming "plot" by the Democratic Party to legalize same-sex marriage in Virginia. With amazing accuracy his forecasts are largely playing out at this moment.
What he didn't predict was the propaganda that would be disseminated by the Richmond Times Dispatch own Bart Hinkle. His repeated advocacy efforts for homosexual marriage are mostly dependent on questionable surveys, social engineering, and pressure politics. Hinkle's recent Op/Ed column was no exception.
Oneness in marriage is God's design and it is His calling to us despite our conflicts and difficulties in the marriage.
Genesis 2:24 (NAS)
A man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife;
and they shall become one flesh.
The issue here is things like, "Why will I do what it takes to make my spouse happy?" Or, "How can we have a genuine 'oneness' despite our difficulties?" How in the world can we have genuine oneness?
As a Virginian and an attorney, I am alarmed by the violence you have done to the integrity of the legal profession and to the institution of marriage by pitting the authority of your office directly against Virginia's Constitution.
As your office's website explains, it is your duty to serve as "the Commonwealth's law firm." Every attorney has a duty to zealously advocate his client's position in court, and while there are limited circumstances in which he may be permitted to withdraw from representation, it would be inconceivable for him to then actively participate in the case being made against his client. In submitting a brief that argues that Virginia's Marriage Amendment is illegal, this is, effectively, what you have done. And for no good reason.
Stable Marriage is Critical
It One of God's Primary Designs and Callings
It is One of the Influences on Culture
It is One of the Influences of God's Kingdom
We tend to view marriage as a form of personal pleasure and happiness. We fall in love with someone and we have the sincere feelings of love, and that leads us to marriage. But once we are married, over time the feelings of love are less consistent and harder to maintain.
Published in the Roanoke Times As Virginia's Marriage Amendment comes under attack both in the courts and the legislature, Virginians should be critically examining the question of why the state regulates marriage and whether its definition should be stretched to encompass committed same-sex couples. Having done that, we should consider what our answers mean for all marriages.
In a former article we looked at the idea that unity in marriage is a form of displaying God. We also made a reference to Genesis 2:24-25:
Genesis 2:24-25
a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife;
and they shall become one flesh.
And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
VCA has contacted Governor McDonnell to speak out about the potential use of state funds to provide marital benefits to same-sex couples in the Virginia National Guard who are legally married in other states.
Secretary of Defense Hagel recently announced that, as a result of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the Department of Defense would provide marital benefits to same-sex couples who are legally married.
In a former article we looked at the idea that marriage is God's design. A biblical perspective is that marriage is critical in two basic ways:
God blessed them (Adam and Eve); and God said to them,
"Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
The Supreme Court of the United States' decisions yesterday to overturn a key provision of DOMA and to effectively kill Proposition 8 in California are profoundly disappointing to everyone who believes in marriage as only between one man and one woman, who seeks to live by Biblical teachings, and who respects our Constitutional principles and form of government.
By Terry Beatley, A Concerned Mother
Virginians, your children and parental rights are at stake in this November's election. It's an election in which you'll determine if parental rights will be protected or destroyed and the Senate is where it will happen.
The leftist liberal agenda in our country is vividly on display and illustrates their extreme hypocrisy when it comes to that word "tolerance" and "freedom of speech". As long as you agree with their viewpoint on certain issues, they leave us alone.
They will "tolerate" us.
As soon as we disagree with them, such as the homosexual agenda or sanctity of life, they become the "intolerant" and they will disrupt our freedom of assembly and free speech.
Victoria Cobb of the Family Foundation here in Richmond, Va., experienced this as she spoke to a crowd outside their offices.
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Mr Brown, who proclaimed himself a "friend of Israel", told the Knesset in Jerusalem that Britain would support more sanctions against Iran unless President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's regime halts its nuclear programme.
"Our country will continue to lead, with the US and our European partners in our determination to prevent an Iranian nuclear weapons programme. We stand ready to lead in taking firmer sanctions," he said.
Talks at the weekend between Iran's nuclear negotiator and representatives of America and the world's leading powers ended inconclusively without agreement. Mr Brown stressed that tougher action will be taken unless Iran complies with four United Nations Resolutions and stops enriching uranium.
Turning on Mr Ahmadinejad, the Prime Minister said: "To those who believe that threatening statements fall upon indifferent ears we say in one voice that it is totally abhorrent for the President of Iran to call for Israel to be wiped from the map of the world."
Mr Brown stressed his own personal attachment to Israel, recalling how his father, a Church of Scotland Minister, paid frequent visits to the country. "For the whole of my life, I have counted myself a friend of Israel," he said.
He added: "Britain is your true friend. A friend in difficult times as well as in good times, a friend who will stand beside you whenever your peace, your stability and your existence are under threat; a friend who shares an unbreakable partnership based on shared values of liberty, democracy and justice.
"Britain and Israel continue to stand together. So to those who question Israel's right to exist and threaten the lives of its citizens through terror we say: the people of Israel have a right to live here, to live freely and to live in security."


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My boyfriend and I are basically the same height and were graduating in June. I need to wear heels with my dress because it can't be hemmed. I don't know if he will grow any by then. Any suggestions? Any ideas? Is it weird if I'm taller than him?
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No offense but your graduating and your worried about how much taller you'll be than your boyfriend? Just enjoy that day for what it's worth and wear whatever you want.21|10|0
Haha. I know it's silly. It's just he is self conscious about it and since pictures last forever, I was wondering. I will have lots of fun though!


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When thinking fall foliage, compasses almost automatically turn to the northeast. But down south the views are equally spectacular, and a lot less crowded. In Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains the fall fireworks meet generous servings of southern hospitality for a perfect family getaway.
There's tons of little festivals and activities hosted in the area. Start with this schedule of events. Then, click here for a list of family-fun activities that range from GPS-enabled geocaching to kid friendly hikes. The Blue Ridge Scenic Railway ride is an event you won't want to miss.
Helen, GA
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Nestled in the heart of the Chattahoochee National Forest (extra points if you can spell it, kids), it's a quiet retreat after a day of sight-seeing. Choose from the Lodge or the many cottages scattered across the countryside. There's lots of room for kids to roam and unlike many cabins, many of these do still offer cable tv. Sometimes,
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The suites are very well-appointed and best of all for families, spacious. Visitors complain of the not-so-picturesque highway view, but once you're inside the clean, modern and comfortable rooms, you forget the outside world altogether. Plus, the owners claim the lack of view is what helps make up for the reasonable rates. (We're on board!) The on-site spa gets raves, so you may want to book ahead. A perfect base for exploring the area's fall splendor, or really, for any time of year.


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I feel comfortable making the blanket statement that anyone in the throes of addiction has little to no self confidence. I know, "jeez, how did you come up with that one…what an epiphany." So what happens when you enter into addiction recovery and still feel zero self confidence?
Like many who are just entering into addiction recovery, I thought that as soon as I stopped using drugs there was going to be some huge amazing change and my life would be back to "normal". I guess this is what you would call walking around in a pink cloud.
Anyone who has ever been stuck in that pink cloud early in addiction recovery knows that sooner or later that pink cloud drops you on your ass and you are faced with the realization that nothing has changed except the fact that you have made the decision not to feed your addiction any longer. Your internal and external problems are still there.
Hopefully at this point you realize that in order to make improvements to your life you need to begin modifying bad behaviors which have gotten completely out of control thanks to the fact that you have been completely oblivious to EVERYTHING.
I guess what I would consider bad behaviors are things like
- Lying
- Stealing
- Procrastinating
- Bad work ethic
- Not paying bills
- Not having stellar hygiene
- Living like a slob
- Ignoring others needs and concentrating only on your own
These are just a few things that I was left to deal with in early recovery. Realizing that you possess any or all of those behaviors is enough to squash any of the self confidence that you have built up by taking charge of your addiction.
If you are not careful this can lead you into a vicious circle of beating yourself up about your bad behaviors which then leads to low self confidence which leads to not doing anything to improve yourself which gets you back to beating yourself up…etc., etc.
Act As If
Again, anyone in addiction recovery has probably heard the saying Act As If. To me, this is the best advice that I have ever gotten. I used this A LOT in early recovery. If I was nervous speaking at an AA or NA meeting I would simply act as if I was not. If I was embarrassed when the subject of my addiction recovery came up with my family I would act as if I was fine with it. Sooner or later…I was fine with it.
So Just Fake Self Confidence?
Well no, that's not really going to work. You can only fool yourself for so long. I think we have all figured that one out the hard way. What I found is that after a while of acting as if (fill in the blank) I actually was able to do whatever it is I was acting as if I could do.
Once I started to see these positive changes in myself, my self confidence started to build up. I was feeling better and better about myself. Once I began to feel better about myself I found that I could tackle harder internal issues. I have confidence that I was not a bad person…I just did bad things.


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Daugaard signed into law Senate Bill 15, authorizing the South Dakota Building Authority and the state's Board of Regents to finance, build and equip a football stadium facility at SDSU for a total $65 million.
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An instantly recognizable line since 1975, the strength of Le Foulonné lies in the constant updating of its designs, its broad color palette and its iconic grain. It offers a wide range of robust and flexible bags to satisfy all tastes.
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Scientist writes on 'the language of God'
Scientist writes on 'the language of God'
The Language of God A Scientist presents evidence for belief
By Francis Collins, published by Simon & Schuster NY
Dr Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, is one of the world's leading scientists, working at the cutting edge of the study of DNA, the code of life. He is also a committed Christian.
In The Language of God, he describes his years of journeying, from atheism to Christianity, via CS Lewis, Saint Augustine and others. Then he takes the reader off on an exhilarating tour of modern science, to show that physics, chemistry and biology, indeed reason itself, are not incompatible with belief.
Beautifully written - this awe-inspiring book is essential reading for anyone who wonders about the deepest questions of all: Why are we here? How did we get here? What does life mean?
It is also a timely response to the evangelical atheism of Richard Dawkins. Collins argues that our understanding of evolution, far from standing in the way of faith, reveals a universe of ever-greater ingenuity and subtlety.
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By Glynn Wilson –
Editor-in-Chief –
We hate to say we told you so. But it is what it is.
Donald J. Trump has not even been inaugurated president yet and the privatization of public land has already begun.
On the very day we published a video trailer talking about the commercialization and privatization of America's national parks, on the first day of the new Congress in Washington, D.C., the House Republicans pushed through a rule change making it easier to sell off public lands for private development.
This news first became available to the American public in poorly written reports by the Washington Post and on the website of Field & Stream magazine. There is no evidence anyone involved in mainstream broadcast television news or cable news has noticed yet, probably because the talking heads that rely upon mainstream news sources for information are still obsessing over the fake news reports about the Russians hacking the U.S. election.
What the House Republicans actually did on Tuesday was to change the way Congress calculates the cost of transferring federal lands to the states and private companies, "a move that will make it easier for members of the new Congress to cede federal control of public lands."
The insidious provision, which was included in a larger rules package approved by a vote of 233 to 190 on the first day of the 2017 Congressional session, "highlights the extent to which some congressional Republicans hope to change longstanding rules" with both houses of Congress and the presidency under Republican control when Trump is inaugurated president on Friday, Jan. 20.
Many Republicans, including House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop, a conservative Republican from Utah, have been pushing to hand over large areas of federal land to state and local authorities, "on the grounds that they will be more responsive to the concerns of local residents."
"In many cases federal lands create a significant burden for the surrounding communities," because they cannot be taxed and can be "in disrepair," House Natural Resources Committee spokeswoman Molly Block said in a ridiculous statement that ignores the reality on the ground.
"Allowing communities to actually manage and use these lands will generate not only state and local income tax, but also federal income tax revenues" she said. "Unfortunately, current budget practices do not fully recognize these benefits, making it very difficult for non-controversial land transfers between governmental entities for public use and other reasons to happen."
In a weak and failing effort to stop the privatization movement, some Democrats have argued that federal, public lands should be managed "on behalf of all Americans," not just locals. They warn that cash-strapped state and local governments might move to sell off land that was set aside for preservation for future generations to be developed. Much of the federal land in question is already subject to private cattle grazing, logging, oil and gas drilling, fracking and even uranium mining.
Under current Congressional Budget Office accounting rules, any transfer of federal land that generates revenue for the U.S. Treasury has a cost that must be accounted for. This includes cattle grazing, logging, oil and gas drilling, fracking and even uranium mining.
Bishop authored language in the new rules package that would overturn that requirement, saying any such transfers "shall not be considered as providing new budget authority, decreasing revenues, increasing mandatory spending, or increasing outlays."
Raul Grijalva, the top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee from Arizona, sent a letter Tuesday to fellow Democrats urging them to oppose the rules package, but it passed anyway.
"The House Republican plan to give away America's public lands for free is outrageous and absurd," Grijalva said in a statement. "This proposed rule change would make it easier to implement this plan by allowing the Congress to give away every single piece of property we own, for free, and pretend we have lost nothing of any value. Not only is this fiscally irresponsible, but it is also a flagrant attack on places and resources valued and beloved by the American people."
Some non-profit environmental groups criticized the rule change, but their efforts were too little too late.
"Right out of the gate, Congressional Republicans are declaring open season on federal lands," Alan Rowsome, senior government relations director for The Wilderness Society, said in a statement. "This is not Theodore Roosevelt-style governing. This move paves the way for a wholesale giveaway of our American hunting, fishing and camping lands that belong to us all."
Under House rules in existence before, any measure that cost the U.S. Treasury money required an offset by either budget cuts or a revenue-raising provisions. The immediate impact of the new rules change is that lawmakers cannot raise a budgetary point of order if a land transfer bill comes to the floor.
While the official Republican platform passed at the convention last summer endorses the idea of transferring federal land to the states, neither President-elect Donald Trump or House Republican Ryan Zinke of Montana, his pick to head the Department of the Interior, have embraced that approach, yet.
Zinke quit his post as a Republican convention delegate this past summer over the issue, and Trump expressed opposition to the concept a year ago in an interview with Field & Stream magazine.
"I mean, are they going to sell if they get into a little bit of trouble?" he said at the time. "And I don't think it's something that should be sold. We have to be great stewards of this land. This is magnificent land."
But it is not clear Trump will stand up to Republicans in control of Congress over such issues that just do not seem to be a big priority with the American public.
Nobody is sharing this story on Facebook, and even down in Alabama, environmental groups went along with a change to the state constitution to allow the privatization of state parks by advocating a yes vote on Amendment 2.
If the public doesn't care enough about public lands to fight for them, they will certainly be sold off to the corporate developer highest bidder.
Backcountry Hunters and Anglers president and CEO Land Tawney issued a statement blasting Congress for the move. It is big talk. But it is not clear they have the social networking sway to get the issue in front of the public in a big way.
"Some of our elected officials are wasting no time in paving the way to steal our outdoor heritage," Tawney said. "If it's a fight they want, they've got one coming."
Unfortunately, it appears the fight is already over, and the sleeping public lost.
Watch this Video Trialer
Confronting the corporate forces of commercialization and privatization in the 100th Anniversary of the National Park Service, we interview rangers, volunteers and authors to investigate relationships between the Park Service and private concessionaires, and environmental impacts of visitors on the public landscape.
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I don't agree with all of the former President's prescriptions to fix an ailing economy, but this bit of advice strikes me as being dead-on accurate:
The only fair thing to do is a version of what we did with individual tax reform back in the '80s. We need to broaden the tax base by cutting down on deductions and credits and lower rates. I think Congress will do that within a year. I would also like to see money repatriated now for free, with no taxes. We're the only rich country in the world that still imposes taxes on corporations on money they earn overseas. I think they ought to bring it back for nothing if they put people to work with it. And if they want to spend it on compensation or stock buybacks or dividends, let them pay the long-term capital gains rate.
Too bad that Clinton's own party–which is joining the Occupy Wall Street crowd in its incessant bashing of economy-spurring corporations–won't exactly be inclined to listen to this bit of advice. And too bad that Clinton's successor in the White House seems willing to do his best to ensure that Clinton's advice on tax reform won't see the light of day.


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Dr. Khalid Shirif, a doctor based in Mesa, Arizona has been accused by three former employees of sexual harassment.
One former employee told CBS 5 News that "It started out as simple comments, to actually touching, to coming right out and asking for sexual favors."
Shirif has been accused of sexually inappropriate behavior in the past, and in 1998 he was arrested and plead guilty to indecent exposure charges.
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My Book of Stones Vol. 2
The second volume of My Book of Stones, "A Personal Record of What God Has Brought Me Through," is bold and elegant. A purple and orange color scheme catches the eye of the viewer, while large stones and rocks create a strong and dynamic look. The author, Victoria L. Francis, has it on her heart to help others move on from the past, taking her inspiration from scriptures as a tool of encouragement. The book's main verse is highlighted in the bottom corner, giving a preview into what the book is all about. This book gives readers a "blessed assurance" that God will never fail- so "Walk On!"