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- Professional disassembly, cleaning, installation and restoration of geometry
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The Oval Gem Set Hybrid D Ring has a Setting made out of 14k Gold and the D Ring is made out of Surgical Steel. The Oval Gem is 8x6mm in size and is permanently attached to the D Ring.
The setting is permanently attached "Fixed" to the D Ring on one side. Being "Fixed" means that you will not have to worry about losing the charm, or fumbling with loose beads, like you might with a captive ring. Also it will always be facing the same way instead of spinning around backwards.
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When The Salvation Army first began its work, there was no system for the training of officers. Men and women who came to meetings and were converted, were on occasion almost immediately taken into the ranks of the army and given Corps responsibility. This system was fruitful, and many officers were added to the Army's ranks to meet its ever growing demand for officers to pioneer and command work.After the immediate need for officers was satisfactorily met, the genius of Commissioner Railton began to devise a plan for the training of officers. He felt an urgent need for a place where men and women could be "drilled" in evangelism and other areas necessary for successful officership. In a letter dated November 1877, Railton wrote General Booth concerning his dream for the training of officers.
The importance of drilling the men we do get daily increases. We are not training one individual in our ideas and ways.... The want of greater unity of thought, feeling and methods will continue to cause losses with every change no matter how good each man may be.
Can we devise no plan for training folks? Could we not have a center in London to which all hopeful young folks could be rallied and where they could be thoroughly looked through and trained?
...No college, no book but the Bible, nothing but living teaching - no putting away of anything of the rough and natural - only the development of spiritual and natural power and willing to do our way and feel as we do about things.
Finally, Railton's ideas were accepted by General Booth, and in 1880, a permanent Training Home was established for women in London. Booth appointed his second daughter, Emma, as the head of this view venture. The garrison for men was established in the same year. By the time two years had passed, the training system was very well ingrained in the fiber of the Army. More than four hundred men and women had passed through the doors of these two institutions, better equipped to serve on the field as Officers.
As the Army grew to be a worldwide venture for the Kingdom of God, so did the idea of a more localized training program for Officers. No longer would men and women have to leave their own country to attend the garrison in London. A new system for the training of officers was established whereby any local Corps could have a cadet, and be termed a training garrison.
This training system was especially used in the United States. The first of these Corps garrisons opened in 1888 in the city of Chicago, where four male cadets were trained under the leadership of Captain Trotter.
The use of Chicago as a training center seems to be a very consistent one. From its inception in 1888 to present, some type of training of cadets has taken place in this city. Full attention will now be given to tracing the history of the Chicago School as it has developed over the past ninety-three years.


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Sci-tech cheerleader NESTA spared from quango bonfire
Keep calm and carry on multidisciplinary stakeholder engagement
The government has secured the future of the science and tech quango NESTA, which was previously uncertain. Like the Design Council, NESTA will be reconstituted as a charity, the Department for Business said today.
NESTA was created in 1998 to spend lottery money on science and technology innovation, and became an emblem of New Labour thinking - where interdisciplinary approaches and open collaboration became fashionable. For example, a small business that employed a Strategy Boutique consultant would get £4,000 in funding for every £1,000 it raised: which explains the proliferation of Strategy Boutiques during the dog days of the NuLab administration.
"NESTA redefined innovation in far too elastic a way," thinks one critic, James Woudhuysen, editor of Big Potatoes: the London Manifesto for Innovation.
"Aping New Labour's worship of everything creative, it found innovation in aesthetics, financial services and among users of the public sector. 'Innovation', it told anybody working in a lab in a white coat in 2008, 'is about more than product breakthroughs resulting from scientific and technological research'."
The trendy quango's new organisational structure [more here] will create a limited company in the voluntary sector to manage the cash pile. NESTA currently sits on an endowment of £321m.
Let's hope that remains in safe hands.
One of those trustees will presumably be Sir John Chisholm, NESTA's chairman since 2009.
Chisholm was head of the UK's equivalent to DARPA, the Defence Research Agency, later DERA, when it was being privatised. Chisholm and his fellow executives were permitted to write their own equity deal with the main investor in the floatation, the Carlyle Group. As a result, and thanks to an astonishing lack of supervision, Chisholm and the other executives wrote themselves share packages worth some £20m.
The arrangement was strongly criticised by both the National Audit Office, and Parliament's Public Accounts Committee, which described it as "profiteering". Chisholm and the others reaped £200 for every £1 they invested.
British entrepreneurs and innovators can only dream about such returns.
Meanwhile, the Telegraph reports that the Bonfire of the Quangos is not turning out to be a conflagration. Cunning quangocrats are outwitting ministers, with only 53 of the 199 state appendages being abolished and only one of the 120 quangos due to be merged actually merging.
That isn't surprising. Merged quangos don't downsize - they get new offices, new logos, and new opportunities for blue-sky reappraisals where core values, strategic priorities and stakeholder engagement can all be holistically re-scoped! ®


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Opinion: Where Have all the Workers Gone?
Employment Policies Institute research director Michael Saltsman on the March jobs report. Photo: Getty Images
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... I ... opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... the U S economy added eighty eight thousand jobs last month ... Americans are giving up looking for work in the present wants to raise your taxes it's back to the nineteen seventies ... gun Employment Policies Institute research director Michael Saltsman ... joining me now from Washington Michael ... we've got an op ed from the Goulburn station this morning in the paper that says ... he can't relied too much on one month's worth of numbers ... either very violent style that ... sells about the trend here ... sure so the overall trend is is down around me if you look at the chart that space in the front page of the release the BLS that sad ... you can look it sort of that nine percent rated a couple years back insert of falling down seven percent rate ... are seven point six percent rate now and so the overall trend is downward ... I think what some people been concerned about is that you some of these decreases the employment rate like this month's Friesians ... Seymour driven by people dropping out of the labor force is a list of people finding jobs in their pursuit for satisfied with ... yet this is really a shocking number ... the labor force participation rate is at sixty three point three percent ... you're looking at nineteen seventies levels ... and this is with women in the workforce Michael ... explain your viewers why this matters ... well sir so it matters because that unit if people are getting discouraged people are dropping out of the workforce ... I mean it's a problem it is a different age ranges talkin bout for cyanide younger workers were talking about people who are ... missing out on certain that skills to take up an entry level job with a lot and become successful leader in their lives ... I'm you know for all the workers were talkin bout people were missing out on chances that deceiving candid with a retirement center additional skills now ... I'm in awe so once a drop of the workforce today you see them in the in the labor force numbers or use them to ... show up in there that the drop down ... button no longer showing the unemployment rate seeking a situation like we've seen today were yet unemployment rate is going down that doesn't account for what's going on everyone in the workforce that's the really scary charts ... I also wanna put up a slide that shows the jobless rates for teens ... Hispanics and blacks these numbers are really shocking ... for teenagers twenty four point two percent blacks thirteen point three Hispanics nine point two ... keep in mind ... these are averages ... aam Michael Eric why are these particular population suffering so much ... well ... it's it's it's the one I mean of the few it seems friends since ad unit IP mightier to people who added that ... we're facing I guess a lot of competition for for a smaller pool of jobs any ... part time employees had become progressively more expensive the higher ... you can put a lot of policies things like increases the minimum wage and ... they're facing more competition for the job sometimes from older workers who may be can find a full-time job they want ... in specific routines to this is an area where ... you have not been seen the tram lines going down ... I've seen unemployment has been above twenty percent for over four years ... By Spencer covering about twenty three percent since April oh nine ... so this is an area we have not seen really any improvement in fact I think it's it's it's even gotten worse in some cases and Michael Howard White House policies contributed to that problem ... will it be you know I I he can ... pointed you know ... policies like increasing the minimum wage in this isn't just an Obama White House thing this is something that that that that President Bush ... I was partially responsible for as well but you know you raise the costs to hire and train entry level employees ... I in your forcing employers to do one or two things he either find a way to provide that same product without those employees or if ... you look for some use older unless he got a college students looking for that part time job or some even older than that ... we don't have to spend time training less the person and a higher for the job ... and I think we talk about now whether it's wise to created nine or even a ten dollar minimum wage ... I think the Steve Jobs numbers to be a ... sobering realization for the legislators who want to pursue that course of action ... and and this administration's nationalize student loans so they're taking on more debt and they're entering the workforce ... on able to find jobs ... at last question Michael ... impress his budget is due out soon and im already seen weeks that he wants more spending higher taxes ... given that ... when you expect these job numbers to go ... will you know I'd I think he did in a given a pass for an immunity which treated like a stagnation point here and I would imagine that ... I as ... the past policies continue were nineteen to see the kind of robust in crucial we'd like to see ... you each month the administration puts at the seams are just eight minutes ... I were still continuing to dig out from the hole in it ... I wonder how the more months for Tennessee that exact same statement ... into with actually said well maybe we should try some different I now they're blaming Sandy they blame the sequester are ... not many things left to blame ... Employment Policies Institute research director Michael Solsman ... thank you for being with us ...


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Andy Roddick and Brooklyn Decker welcomed a baby boy this past week in Austin, Texas, Us Weekly reports. The couple's first child was born on Wednesday, but his name has not been made public yet. Decker, 28, and Roddick, 33, who have been married sin… Read more


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Find out what courses are offered for environmental studies majors and see if any pre-requisites, co-requisites or special permissions
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I think the book was great. It was very interesting and sad in some parts. My favorite part is when Kristy baby-sits the snobs, because they are mean to Kristy. Then she calms them down and they start being nice. I found Kristy interesting because she can be both nice and mean. She reminds me of myself because she can be both nice and mean.
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Judge James Block Zagel
September 2012: Average Prison Sentence
District Court - Illinois North
Referring Agency: Drug Enforcement Administration
Lead Charge: 21 USC 841 - Drug Abuse Prevention & Control-Prohibited acts A
For all cases disposed of in the current fiscal year (2012) that were credited to Judge James Block Zagel in the Northern District of Illinois, the average prison sentence was 135.0 months, when looking only at cases referred by the Drug Enforcement Administration with a lead charge of "21 USC 841 - Drug Abuse Prevention & Control-Prohibited acts A". During the current fiscal year, Judge James Block Zagel has sentenced 2 defendants compared with 3 defendants during the twelve months of the previous fiscal year.
Over the last five years, the average prison sentence imposed on defendants that were credited to Judge Zagel was 94.4 months. This was 12.3% higher than the 84.1 months typical in Illinois North and 29.3% higher than the 73.0 months average prison sentence for the nation. Judge James Block Zagel sentenced 14 defendants during the past five years.
(CAUTION: The kinds of cases handled by individual judges influences statistical information about their sentences. It therefore is important to consider the breakdown of cases that each has handled, available below, when making judge-by-judge comparisons.)
Figure 1 compares Judge Zagel's numbers to those for judges in this district and in the United States as a whole for cases of this type over the last five years.
During the last five years there were 26 other judges in the Northern District of Illinois with information on convictions during that period. Average prison sentence numbers passed down for those judges ranged from 51.7 months to 129.1 months, putting Judge Zagel's average prison sentence of 94.4 months at the higher end of the range. The average prison sentence for the whole Northern District of Illinois during that time was 84.1 months.
Professional Biography
Born 1941 in Chicago, IL
Federal Judicial Service
Judge, U. S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
Nominated by Ronald Reagan on February 2, 1987, to a seat vacated by Frank J. McGarr; Confirmed by the Senate on April 21, 1987, and received commission on April 22, 1987.
University of Chicago, B.A., 1962
University of Chicago, M.A., 1962
Harvard Law School, J.D., 1965
Professional Career:
Assistant state's attorney, Cook County, Illinois, 1965-1969
Assistant attorney general, State of Illinois, 1969-1977
Deputy chief, Criminal Justice Division, 1969-1970
Chief, Criminal Justice Division, 1970-1977
Chief prosecuting attorney, Illinois Judicial Inquiry Board, 1973-1975
Chief assistant attorney general, State of Arizona, 1975
Executive director, Illinois Law Enforcement Commision, 1977-1979
Director, Department of Revenue, State of Illinois, 1979-1980
Chairman, Governor's Advisory Counsel on Criminal Justice Legislation, 1980-1987
Director of state police, State of Illinois, 1980-1987
Program Areas of Cases Handled
Cases disposed of by Judge James Block Zagel for the past five years fell into a number of broad categories. The lead category for these cases was Narcotics/Drugs accounting for 100.0% of cases.
Program Area Judge District US Narcotics/Drugs 100.0% 94.5% 98.5% More
Table 2: Composition of Cases for the Past Five Years (Top 10)
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The Church and religious liberty were handed a victory this morning by way of a 5-4 decision from the Supreme Court ruling that, under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, "closely-held" for-profit companies "cannot be required to provide contraception coverage."
The specific "closely held" corporations in question were the family-run arts and crafts chain store Hobby Lobby and the also family-operated manufacturer Conestoga Wood Specialties.
The decision, which included Justices Roberts, Alito, Kennedy, Scalia and Thomas in the majority, is a solid win for religious liberty in the United States in the continuing fight against the contraception mandate issued by the Department of Health and Human Services in August 2011 as part of the Affordable Care Act.
The court declared that the contraceptive mandate "substantially burdens the exercise of religion" and that the government "failed to show that the contraceptive mandate is the least restrictive means of furthering" across-the-board access to birth control.
But while this is a win for certain for-profit companies, nonprofit corporations continue to wait and see how the decision will affect their cases. Entities like Our Sunday Visitor and the Little Sisters of the Poor, for example, wait to see what role the "accommodation" offered to religious organizations by the Obama administration in February 2013 will play.
According to the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, 51 nonprofit and 49 for-profit cases are making their way through the courts. As the nonprofit cases — such as Little Sisters of the Poor — continue to climb their way to the Supreme Court (where they likely will be reviewed next term), the for-profits will be examined by lower courts in light of today's rulings.
The Court's decision particularly is timely in light of tomorrow's date of July 1 — the deadline imposed by HHS for organizations to comply with the mandate — and in light of the ongoing Fortnight for Freedom promoted by the U.S. bishops.
For more on the decision, continue to visit OSV.com and look for complete coverage in the July 13 issue.
Gretchen R. Crowe is editor of OSV Newsweekly. Follow her on Twitter @GretchenOSV.
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Evil Or Live: Season 1
In this modern society, a new kind of "illness" is striking young boys and girls; Loneliness, disbelief and outrage push this generation to get more or more attached to Internet and technologies. The experts called those symptom "Net Addiction". To prevent that, a certain Rehabilitation Facility has been set up to "Lead the young man back to the right path". Enrolled to treat is addiction, Hibiki had no idea that this Rehabilition Facility is nothing more than a prison. In this place where it's not permitted to escape, how will Hibiki challenge despair in this hell?
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Afternoon Stroll
Rolando Rosito 4/30/2011 4:44:53 PMBeautiful image Mamoriee, the background is ideal! #1373506
Memoriee G. Sconce 4/30/2011 6:59:02 PMThank You very much Rolando.
Renee Doyle 5/2/2011 12:20:50 PMWhat a fantastic trio and love the background Memoriee!! #9384951
Memoriee G. Sconce 5/2/2011 5:56:38 PMThank you Renee.
Linda D. Lester 5/3/2011 7:54:25 AMI remember this....wonderful shot!! Great memories!! :) #9386711
Memoriee G. Sconce 5/3/2011 9:21:24 AMThanks Linda, It was a great time.
Nancy Bergeson 5/18/2011 3:30:27 PMCongrats on your finalist. Good Luck on the next round! Nancy #9410928
Linda L. Ruiz 5/18/2011 4:00:28 PM#9411000
Rolando Rosito 5/18/2011 5:51:15 PMCongratulations Memoriee! #9411659
Nikki McDonald 5/18/2011 6:16:02 PMCongratulations on the finalist and good luck in the next round, Memoriee. Great capture. #9411809
Kim Andelkovic 5/19/2011 3:11:57 AMWonderful Finalist Memoriee....congratulations :-) #9412953
Karen Celella 5/19/2011 6:38:12 AMCongratulations on your terrific finalist, Memoriee. #9413606
R. J. Laudenbacher 5/19/2011 1:26:05 PMThis is on my bucket list of things to see and you captured it so well. Congrats on your wonderful finalist, Memoriee! #9414698
Lucy Abrao 5/19/2011 4:30:44 PMCongratulations, Memoriee. #9415157
Anita Hogue 5/19/2011 4:46:18 PMAbsolutely fabulous, Memoriee! Congratulations! #9415198
Debra R. Harder 5/19/2011 7:08:36 PMI love this series, Memoriee! Huge congratulations on your SUPERB finalist! Deb #9415533
Merna L. Nobile 5/19/2011 7:55:11 PMIt is with great pleasure that I offer my congratulations on your award for the month of April. Merna
Patti Coblentz 5/19/2011 9:13:02 PMThis is fabulous, Memoriee..congratulations on your finalist! #9416004
Joseph T. Pilonero 5/20/2011 10:02:08 AMWhat an interesting and unusual shot. Congratulations on Finalist. TED #9417171
Anita Hogue 5/20/2011 2:52:14 PMWOW, Memoriee! Congratulations on a super first place winner! #9417661
Kim Andelkovic 5/20/2011 3:23:53 PM!st place win whoo hoooo Congrats Memoriee......awesome image very deserving :-) #9417788
Deborah C. Lewinson 5/20/2011 3:38:50 PMCongratulations Memoriee, on this your fist place win for this beautiful image!
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Nancyj E. Hovey 5/20/2011 4:03:05 PMC O N G R A T U L A T I O N S
Michelle Alton 5/20/2011 4:21:10 PMA brilliant winner, Memoriee! Inspired and inspiring. Congratulations! #9418040
Dominick M. Dimacale 5/20/2011 5:10:29 PMCongratulations Memoriee!
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Rolando Rosito 5/20/2011 5:57:54 PMGreat Win Memoriee!!! Big Congratulations!!! #9418407
Debra R. Harder 5/20/2011 6:10:16 PMThis is so AWESOME, Memoriee!! WTG!!! Huge congratulations on your BEAUTIFUL FIRST PLACE WINNER! Deb #9418483
Kay Beausoleil 5/20/2011 6:22:08 PMCongratulations, Memoriee. on this intriguing first place win! #9418585
Nancy Bergeson 5/20/2011 6:24:23 PMStrong Work, Memoriee, congratulations, I'm very happy for your well deserved GOLD!!!! #9418598
Ruth Grimm 5/20/2011 7:17:38 PMHuge congratulations, Memoriee! Wonderful image!! WTG!! #9418762
Patti Coblentz 5/20/2011 7:24:19 PMCongratulations on your outstanding 1st place winner, Memoriee!! #9418776
R. J. Laudenbacher 5/20/2011 7:39:35 PMWTG Memoriee...Congrats to you on your 1st place winner! #9418800
Rona L. Schwarz 5/20/2011 8:07:10 PMHow wonderful, Memoriee! HUGE CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR 1ST PLACE WINNER! #9418857
Usman M. Bajwa 5/20/2011 9:57:04 PMA stunning piece of imagery, Memoriee. CONGRATZ on your First Place GOLD!!
Karen Celella 5/21/2011 5:35:21 AMCongratulations on your fabulous first place winner, Memoriee! #9419508
Khalid Al-Issa 5/21/2011 10:35:50 AMWAW ! a wonderful capture !! colors are fabulous . A well deserved win. #9419932
Linda L. Ruiz 5/21/2011 10:51:35 AM#9419960
JO ANN CLEVELAND 5/21/2011 4:42:39 PMWTG, Memoriee! Huge congratulations on your awesome FIRST PLACE WINNER!!!
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Denny E. Barnes 5/21/2011 6:53:53 PMExcellent!! Congratulations, Memoriee on your fantastic First Place Win!! #9420808
Mary K. Robison 5/22/2011 1:09:16 AMCONGRATULATIONS on your well earned First Place Winner, Memoriee! #9421116
Merna L. Nobile 5/22/2011 1:20:02 PMHello Memoriee: I would like to congratulate you for your achievement into the winners circle. What you have accomplished is something to be very proud of and should wear it like a badge of honor! #9422230
Donna La Mattino Pagakis 5/23/2011 12:17:45 PMCongratulations on your First Place win! What a beautiful and elegant portrait! WTG Memoriee! #9424215
Mark Seiter 5/24/2011 9:54:35 AMCONGRATULATIONS on your first place win Memoriee....well deserved and well done #9425839
Cathy Barrows 5/24/2011 10:06:23 AMCongrats on your win...well done #9425847
Phyllis H. Burchett 5/25/2011 8:29:10 AMCongrats on this fabulous first place winner! #9427635
Mary Beth Aiello 5/27/2011 11:16:00 AMAbsolutely gorgeous, Memoriee. Huge congrats on this beautiful First Place Gold. #9431459
Renee Doyle 5/29/2011 12:56:58 PMBig congratulations to you Memoriee on this wonderful capture and First Place Winner!!!!!! #9434067
Maria Coulson 6/16/2011 7:42:12 PMMemoriee, what a great shot! Congratulations on your first place winner!! #9464609
Memoriee G. Sconce 6/16/2011 8:56:58 PMThank You Maria.
Raymond Pauly 10/4/2012 9:58:59 PMCongratulations on your magnificent winner, Memoriee! I took a stroll through your gallery and I think that many of your images deserve more that just an Editor's Pick. Regards, Raymond #10355984
Memoriee G. Sconce 10/5/2012 8:02:03 AMThank you very much.
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The first Google doodle of 2012 was a tribute to Bishop Nicolaus Steno on his 374th birthday, Jan. 11. The bishop was a Danish anatomist and geologist famous for his "principle of original horizontality," or the theory that layers of rock are formed horizontally — hence the rock-layer image for the Google doodle.
Google doodles — the changes made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries and the lives of famous artists, pioneers and scientists — typically draw attention to known and unknown figures. To date the Google team, according to their site, has created more than 1,000 doodles.
Often the doodles generate their own news stories, and this image was no exception. A story in the Christian Science Monitor points out that the bishop's legacy, "like the mysterious stones that he examined, has since been obscured by layers of historical sediment."
The bishop, known in Denmark as Bishop Niels Stensen, was born in 1638 and beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1988. He is considered the founder of modern geology who also made notable discoveries in anatomy before he joined the Catholic Church and became a priest. He also formulated Steno's law, which deals with the relationship of angles on the faces of crystals.
He not only studied rocks and fossils extensively but he also discovered that the heart is a muscle that pumps blood and that tears are formed in the eye.
A story in the Los Angeles Times blog about the doodle described the bishop as a 17th-century mythbuster who "threw it all over for God" when he became Catholic in 1667, a priest in 1675 and a bishop in 1677.
The next day the Times blog posted comments by readers who disagreed that science took a back seat to the bishop's religion.
Readers noted that the bishop, who died in 1686 at the age of 48, continued his pursuit of science after becoming a priest by studying the brain and the nervous system.


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Azura Lodge is located in Benguerra Island which is the second largest island in the Bazaruto Archipelago, famous for its unspoiled white beaches, remarkable dive sites and excellent fishing. Benguerra Island has about 2000 inhabitants and there are 313 children in the school which was built by Azura's Rainbow Fund Charity. There are no shops, other than small trading posts, so please bring everything you may need with you, especially any medication you may require.
All villas are very spacious with the Infinity and Luxury villas covering a total private area of 650m2.
The key difference between the Luxury Villas and the Infinity Villas is the prime positioning of the Infinity Villas, a larger bathroom with freeform bath, and the size of the villa pool. The Luxury Beach Villas each have 3.5m plunge pools whereas the infinity villas have a 5m long infinity pool. The Beach Villa is slightly smaller in all aspects but has an excellent location.
The villas are all nestled amidst the indigenous trees and bushes and have been painstakingly created to offer guest their own private sanctuary where they can feel at one with the environment.
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Renewable Energy Systems Canada Inc. (RES Canada) has started construction on the 270 MW South Kent Wind project. Located within the municipality of Chatham-Kent, Ontario, the project is being developed by Samsung Renewable Energy Inc. and Pattern Energy Group LP.
RES Canada was selected to serve as the general contractor and will oversee project management of all construction activities. The South Kent project includes 124 Siemens 2.3 MW turbines manufactured in Ontario, including towers from facilities in Windsor and blades from Tillsonburg.
"RES Canada is excited to be selected as the construction manager for South Kent Wind, the biggest wind project ever built in Ontario. This project is a milestone for RES Canada and for clean energy production in Ontario," says Peter Clibbon, vice president of development at RES Canada.
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PITTSBURGH � A man who claims his girlfriend once had a "physical relationship" with retired Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward was in custody Friday on charges he tried to extort $15,000 from the player by threatening to release evidence the player had paid for sex.
Joshua Van Auker, 26, of Pittsburgh, was awaiting arraignment on two felony counts of attempted extortion.
Van Auker was arrested Thursday by detectives from the Allegheny County District Attorney's Office after he allegedly met with Ward's personal assistant, Raymond Burgess, who paid him the money in exchange for unspecified "materials" in an envelope that Van Auker said could prove his claims, according to a five-page criminal complaint. Detectives monitoring that exchange then arrested Van Auker, but have not said what was in the envelope.
Online court records don't list an attorney for Van Auker. The Associated Press couldn't immediately reach Ward or his representatives for comment.
According to the complaint, Burgess contacted the DA's office on Wednesday to say he had gotten a text message from Van Auker, containing the extortion message.
"The content of the text further indicated that should payment not be made, Josh Van Auker would sell or otherwise release materials he (Van Auker) possessed, thereby alleging that Ward committed the criminal offense of paying women for sex, and thereby also exposing Ward to ridicule or contempt," the complaint said.
Burgess told investigators that Van Auker decided to make the demands after learning his girlfriend "had been involved in a prior physical relationship with Ward," the complaint said.
The woman is not identified in the complaint. One of two charges against Van Auker says he "threatened to publicly accuse the victim of soliciting prostitutes."
After contacting investigators, Burgess again spoke with Van Auker, who allegedly repeated the extortion demand by saying, "It's called buying silence, brother," the complaint said.
Ward, 36, retired in March after 14 seasons with the Steelers. He had 1,000 catches for 12,021 yards, both franchise records, and was MVP of the Super Bowl XL which the Steelers won in 2006.
Ward has parlayed that success into a second career as a pregame commentator and reporter with NBC Sports, and had also appeared on ABC's "Dancing With The Stars," while still a player. Ward, whose father is black and mother is Korean, has also worked to raise awareness about discrimination that mixed-race children face in the United States and his mother's native country.


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With an incredible vocal range and an uncommon talent for the guitar, singer-songwriter Martin Sexton has been consistently been able to channel his love for classic, soulful folk, blues, rock, and pop music into accessible, emotional songs that combine the best aspects of singers like Van Morrison and Otis Redding.
A self-taught guitarist and singer, Sexton formed his first rock n'roll band when he was in the eighth grade; his garage bands in high school would play the music of the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Led Zeppelin. He left his home in Syracuse, NY for the coffeehouse scene of Boston, where he began busking and playing open mic nights in 1989. Recorded in a friend's attic in 1990, Sexton's cassette-only self-released debut record, In The Journey, managed to sell 15,000 copies before it was later reissued by Eastern Front Records. After winning the National Academy of Songwriters' Artist of the Year award in 1994, Sexton continued his grueling touring schedule while taking time to release eight more albums, up until the present day. His latest album, Sugarcoating, was released on Kitchen Table in 2010. As always, the tracks are powerful and interesting, without a hint of pretense. The album was written as a reflection on a society that's been through much, including 9-11. In addition, Sexton also addresses subjects important to him--family and selflessness. Don't miss an opportunity to see this talented musician--he's got one heck of a stage presence.
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Recent Release: Sugarcoating
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Label: Kitchen Table
Origin: Syracuse, NY
Free At Noon Setlist
1. America/Found
2. Boom Sh-Boom
3. Stick Around
4. Livin' the Life
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Blue-eyed soul virtuoso, Eli "Paperboy" Reed may have grown up in Massachusetts but he executes the heart-wrenching emotion of Southern predecessors like Wilson Pickett and Otis Redding. Even more bizarre, Reed, along with his seven-piece True Loves, just finished a month long tour, sharing dates with alternative/pop-punk band, Say Anything.
Reed's electrifying performances enable him to captivate any crowd. With his mixture of high-energy, body-swinging music and tear-jerking, lovelorn ballads, he keeps his audience craving for more. Paperboy was nominated as the Breakthrough Artist of the Year in the 2009 Mojo awards after his two independently released albums, Sings Walkin' and Talkin'and Other Smash Hits!, and Roll With You.. His major-label debut, Come and Get It, is respectful of pop music. Mr. Reed knows the true origin and value of this sometimes-devalued genre. As he said in reference to his style, "...it's all about writing pop songs. Soul music was the greatest pop music of the 20th century and its influence is so far-reaching." You can listen to his 2008 session on World Cafe, by clicking here.
Website: elipaperboyreed.com
Myspace: myspace.com/elipaperboyreed
Recent Release: Come and Get It
Label: Capitol
Band Origin: Allston, MA
Free At Noon Setlist
1. Intro/Satisfier
2. Name Calling
3. Just Like Me
4. Come and Get It
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The CycleDog Research Laboratory...
Wally led the way.
"Just this once, we're allowing visitors to do a walking tour of the laboratory." Wally pronounces it in the English fashion - la-BORE-a-tory. "This is where our ideas come from, some good, some bad, and some destined never to see the light of day. Please don't take any photographs and be careful about touching anything. Be especially careful about eating or drinking anything that may appear to be edible. We've lost a few interns that way."
"The front offices are occupied by our administrators and engineering staff. Through those double doors at the end of the hall there's an airlock that leads into the lab itself. I'll enter the security code so we can all pass through."
"As you can see, the main lab building is large enough to be an aircraft hanger, though 3 of the 4 levels are below ground. Just follow me along this catwalk."
"On our right, there's a Pseudo-Random Association Generator churning out ideas that may or may not have some connection to each other. Sometimes it's hard to tell. This is where the Bolivia Newton John idea got started, as well as some lesser known ones. High school boys are the biggest customers for this generator's output. It's a consistent money earner. Technicians enter names and phrases from a wide variety of sources, including newspapers, magazines, television and radio broadcasts, as well as more obscure material from bloggers and failed comedians. Once, we made the mistake of feeding it some Henny Youngman one-liners and the EPA shut us down for a week. It's powered by over-worked imagination hyped with caffeine on the positive side, and anger, frustration, and irony on the negative. The trick is to combine them in just the right balance that stays mostly on the satire side with few excursions into sarcasm."
"The next level down is the Copy Room where an infinite number of monkeys hammer out text. Please don't go in. They're highly excitable and their hygiene is non-existent. The stench is appalling, but gosh can they can write! If you look in through this little window set into the door, you can see that the whole copy room is powered by bicycle driven generators. In fact, they provide electrical power to all the labs. When you have an infinite number of monkeys pedaling an infinite number of bicycles, the power output is staggering."
"Across the hall is the Rant-O-Lator room. I'm very proud to tell you that we use a steam operated Rant-O-Lator from the late nineteenth century. Unlike the more modern versions, this one delivers smooth diatribes free of the profanities that make contemporary rants so lumpy and unsatisfying, though it tends to use obsolete Victorian expressions. It's down for a much needed overhaul right now, and frankly it's getting difficult to find parts. We just finished a big production run commissioned by Faux News and it was a heavy load on the machine. We hope to have it up and running again well before the presidential primaries start early next year."
Wally held open a door. "This next room contains our dialog generator. Come on inside. I think it's working on my lines today. It's really a three stage process. The raw text arrives over here. Then it's fed to a socializing filter that cleans it up considerably before it goes to publication." One of the women picked up some raw copy, blanched, and then turned bright red with embarrassment. Later, I caught her eying Wally with a speculative look.
"Final quality control is performed by an audio process to see that the dialog sounds as natural as possible." Wally's voice came out of an overhead speaker:
"There's some guy out in the bar who says his name is Ford Prefect and he's buying everyone drinks. I don't think he's from around here."
"I could wear a Santa suit to the meeting", Wally offered.
"No", I replied. "It's probably not a good idea."
"It has all the intellectual challenge of a comic book."
"She has everything he looks for in a woman."
"A pulse?"
"I know we don't see eye-to-eye. We could, but then I'd have to squat down to your level."
"Well", Wally opined, "we've been endorsed by BLAMBLA. I think they're an offshoot of the NRA. I got a phone call from them that had lots of heavy breathing and a message about how they LOVE their guns. Kinda creepy, really."
"His brain is a treasure-trove of the useless and obsolete, a vast suppository of information."
"Down here on the lowest level there's only one room, and it's the entrance to Hell. The place is tightly packed with ex-wives, dentists, used car salesmen, and my short tempered fifth grade teacher. Occasionally one of the used car guys escapes, but they usually settle down if someone reads from the NADA blue book or some other fairy tales. If one of the ex-wives escapes, we have to evacuate the building. 'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned' or something like that. Most of these people are copy writers too."
"You might wonder why we have our own private entrance to Hell, but I'll tell you straight out, it's very useful. Some of the most insidious and subversively funny ideas come from here, like Walking 101 or the upcoming satire based on Les Miserables. These guys really crack me up, though that's tempered with the occasional blood-curdling scream that echoes through the whole building. Well, it's still Hell, after all."
"We'll take the elevator back up to the main floor. I want to thank all of you for taking the tour today. I assure you that some of what you've seen and heard will be incorporated into upcoming posts on CycleDog, and remember, a smiling reader is our most important product!"
I hate having a good idea and not having the time to put it down on paper. All too often, the idea slips away, never to return. There are days I ride to work chuckling at a wonderfully funny story line, only to have it evaporate before I can write it down. Sometimes I'll have a good one and I'll do some research to support it, only to be distracted for a time. Oh, I still have the supporting arguments, but the unifying idea is long gone. My files have far too many incomplete texts.
Likewise with dialog. I come up with some funny lines, but can't find anyplace to use them. So I keep snippets in a file, hoping that they'll find a home someday. Most of the Wally Crankset stories begin with a single idea that drives some of the dialog. I'll use the snippets and write more around them. It's almost like connecting the dots, as a list of ideas gets fleshed out with connecting verbiage.
It's obvious that this post uses some of those orphaned snippets.
What's the difference between satire and sarcasm? Satire attacks human folly or vice by using irony or derision. Sarcasm is mockery or contemptuous irony intended to wound. Note that both satire and sarcasm use irony, so it's more a difference of degree rather than type. I try to strike that balance, sometimes successfully, sometimes not.
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"Hey Mike,
I appreciate your great attitude, and that you took the time to search your inventory list, to find me such a good deal on a low-mileage transmission. You saved me at least $300, and the free shipping is great!!! My mechanic said my new transmission was like new. They installed new front and rear seals, a new filter kit, synthetic ATF and a new tranny cooler. It shifts so smooth that I can't tell when it shifts gears. I wouldn't buy a transmission from anyone else. "
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"To: GOT ENGINES MANAGEMENT,
When I first started my online purchase I was a little hesitant, I had several things cross my mind such as, What kind of transmission am I going to get from an online supplier?, What will happen if it's not a good transmission?, Will I be protected by any law if I get ripped off?, finally, and most important. Will this online transmission EVEN RUN?
I worked closely throughout my purchase with GOT ENGINES Doug, and what a god-send did he turn out to be. I chose a shop that is local to do the install work and thought everything was going well but, I soon found out I chose the wrong shop to install my transmission. #1 He tried to sell me a tranny he had found for $2800.00.
I had no clue at all if that was a good price or even if I was supposed to be getting a good deal. So I stumbled onto GOT ENGINES in my quest to ensure I would receive the most for my money. I dialed the 800 number for GOT ENGINES, Doug answered my call and was very helpful in finding a tranny for my Audi, and the price was more than 50% less than that of the other quotes I had received.
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"Hey Mike,
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I did receive the transmission and it was in very good condition and I had no issues installing it. It works great. I can say the experience dealing with you and your company was great. I will consider you and your company in the future as my needs permit.
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To whom it may concern at Got Transmissions.
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To Got Engines Inc.,
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MET Let Down: Emma Watson
You're shouting at me, I am wincing, and I am sorry. Because as you know, I love her so much. Sometimes in a way that might be considered off side. Like... I feel like she's ours a little. The way we watched her grow, how proud we are of her life decisions (school!), and how gracefully she's eased into adulthood – Emma is our girl. So it's not that I hate Emma's white dress, it's just... well... I was expecting a little more.
Her hair is wavy and at her shoulders (seen it), there's a soft smoky eye (done it), and it's a white one shoulder dress with side panels and a slit up the front like an afterthought – rather unimaginative, non? And while she may have been limited by Burberry given that she was on Christopher Bailey's list, dressing Emma as the good girl was simply too predictable especially since she's shown signs that she's willing to experiment with bold lines and shapes and fabrics. On this night, at her age, it would not only have been ok, it would have totally been welcome.
To drive the point home: Taylor Swift – they're about the same age – showed up in white with soft ruffles too. I'm just saying sartorially Emma Watson should never ever be compared to Taylor Swift.
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Star ripped apart by unknown black hole
August 4, 2012
Astronomers think they have seen a star being ripped to pieces by a previously unknown black hole (see 'The awakening of a cosmic monster'), says Nature News.
The astronomers saw a pulse of X-rays that rose and fell in intensity every 200 seconds. The team thinks that the oscillation is coming from the last bits of the star, which are making their final orbits before being sucked into the hole. They reported their results in Science.
This result may open the possibility of probing general relativity beyond our local Universe. Work based on Einstein's general theory of relativity stipulates that there is a minimum distance at which material can stably orbit a black hole before it is swallowed.
The team's calculations suggest that the star's remains were probably just one million kilometers from the event horizon — the surface beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape a black hole's clutches.


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North Korea's notice to the United Nations Security Council that it's on the verge of developing nuclear warheads with highly enriched uranium appears as a grab for the attention of the US and other major powers. The North's expertise in uranium would mark a significant escalation of its potential as a nascent nuclear power.
North Korea's UN mission confirmed that the North's UN ambassador, Sin Son-ho, had sent the letter in response to sanctions imposed by the Security Council on June 12, 18 days after the North conducted its second underground test of a plutonium bomb on May 25.
"It's an expression of impatience," says Kim Tae-woo, senior fellow of the Korean Institute for Defense Analyses in Seoul. "North Korea wants an immediate response from the international community."
The announcement comes as Stephen Bosworth, the US envoy to North Korea, is visiting the region for talks with North Korea's neighbors. He told reporters in Beijing that the North's claim was "of concern," but he has no plans to visit Pyongyang.
History of boasting
The secretive regime has long boasted of producing plutonium for warheads at its complex at Yongbyon, 60 miles north of the capital Pyongyang, but was believed to be only in the early phases of developing highly enriched uranium.
Pyongyang's Korean Central News Agency also raised the specter of an expanding plutonium program, saying that "reprocessing of spent fuel rods is in its final phase and extracted plutonium being weaponized."
The North's Korean Central News Agency, reporting the letter, said North Korea was ready for "dialogue and sanctions" but that the North had "no choice but to take yet stronger self-defensive countermeasures."
The need for self-defense has been the North's rationale for its nuclear program through negotiations beginning in the early 1990s.
These talks culminated in the 1994 Geneva framework agreement under which North Korea shut down its five-megawatt reactor at Yongbyon and placed the complex under the eyes of inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency in return for the promise of construction of twin light water nuclear energy reactors to help meet the needs for power for the North's failing economy.
The Geneva framework fell apart in October 2002, however, after North Korea's vice foreign minister, Kang Sok Ju, acknowledged to James Kelly, then the US nuclear negotiator, that North Korea had a separate highly enriched uranium program. North Korea publicly denied the existence of the uranium program until earlier this year.
Both the United States and North Korea appear to be mingling diplomatic gestures with toughness while Mr. Bosworth visits first Beijing and then Seoul.
"What Mr. Bosworth will do is very clear," says Mr. Kim. "He will continue the two track approach" – that is, holding out the promise of more talks while the US insists North Korea must first return to talks and abide by agreements approved in 2007 to give up its entire nuclear program in return for a vast infusion of aid.\
Conciliatory gestures
North Korea, for its part, has pursued what appears to be a conciliatory tack beginning with the release of two journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who were captured while filming along the Tumen River border between China and North Korea for the Current TV network.
They were held for 140 days and sentenced to 12 years of hard labor for illegal entry into North Korea but returned to the US on a private plane with the former president, Bill Clinton.
North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-il, reported to have suffered a stroke more than a year ago, met with Mr. Clinton, in conversation and then over lunch, for more than three hours. The visit was described as "unofficial," but Clinton briefed President Barack Obama extensively on what was said.
So far, though, North Korea has not succeeded in bringing the US into the two-sided dialogue it wants.
David Straub, a former senior diplomat with the US Embassy in Seoul, who was with Clinton on his Pyongyang venture, has written that North Korea's "conciliatory steps may very well be nothing more than yet another 'charm offensive' intended to deflect international pressure to abandon its nuclear weapons."


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The 16-year-old who wrote to us with many proofs of god, featured a few posts below, has replied via e-mail. I wanted to share the reply, and my response, interspersed below:
well, to reply to you very first paragraph, lol.. does George washington exist? well, you know he does in fact exist because of documents, and history books. You know, he said MANY quotes, JUST like Jesus did.
No, it's not "just like Jesus," because Jesus never wrote anything himself that we know of. We have no autographs. And we have no records of Jesus supplied to us by reliable eye-witness, contemporary authors. So, it's not "just like" what we have for Jesus when it comes to George Washington. The mountain of records available for the existence of George Washington, and the specific records by contemporary peer sources for his actions during his lifetime, and his personal correspondences, make George a historic person, where Jesus becomes more myth than man. And when we're given events that sound even a bit "iffy" about George, we don't accept them as accurate. So "he never told a lie" is discarded as myth. And with Jesus, so many of the claims about his life are outlandish, far beyond "he never told a lie," that we have to reject quite a lot of what is recorded about him by even the second-hand sources. So, it's not comparable at all.
how can you believe one side of history, like George washington, when you don't believe in the history side about Jesus, doesn't make sense AT ALL.
Because I already explained that history rests on evidence available—realizing that what we claim to "know" must be supported by what we can actually reasonably support. With Jesus, again, not one reliable contemporary eye-witness account. That means what we have are stories about stories. That's not the best to work with in trying to piece together facts. The "historic" Jesus that is put forward by historians is nothing like the Jesus recorded in the Bible. I am willing to accept that there may have been a rabbi upon whom these myths were based, since this is expert opinion. I never said I think Jesus never existed. But I reject the miracle claims (as do serious historians), the same way I would reject them about Washington—or about Homer's claims as I explained already earlier. I accept "Jesus" historically, with all the same requirements I apply to claims of all other historic persons.
expert? lol, who's to determine an expert?? we could all be dummies here on the Earth. While some are smarter than others, I don't think that term was correct, noone is completly 100% an expert on things, if they were we'd all have the answers.
If my sink breaks, I don't call a heart surgeon. Would you? There are men and women who have devoted their lives to the study of specific areas of history. It has nothing to do with being smarter. It's about them having access to the best evidence and information available—that the rest of us will likely never see. And also the fact they've studied these areas of history to a far greater extent than the lay population. That makes them better qualified to comment on the issue than you or I.
To claim nobody is any more expert in a historic opinion than anyone else is not reasonable. And to claim, then, that we can't accept anyone's explanations, even the most educated people in the field of history—as being "the most" trustworthy—undermines your own views as much as anyone else's: If you can't trust anyone—why trust the people who wrote and produced your Bible and told you it was about a god? If we have to put our trust in anyone—why would anyone assert it wouldn't be the people who are best informed in any given area of study? Again, if you're going to say that your beliefs don't have to stack up to evidence or expert opinions, then why are we even talking about this? What is your method of determining if your beliefs are likely to be true or not, if you reject evidence and expert explanations of that evidence? What do you trust in that case, and why do you trust it?
And who said you have to know anything 100 percent? I'm saying that if you care whether or not your beliefs are likely to be true—then you will align your beliefs to the best evidence available and the most educated explanations of that evidence.
Example: I come home from work tonight, and my house is a shambles inside. My television and computer are gone and a window has been forced open, do you think it is more reasonable to assert that I have been robbed or that I have been violated by a poltergeist? It's hard to accept that you seriously believe that evidence should have no bearing on our beliefs, or that some beliefs are more or less likely to align with the available evidence. What you're claiming is that if we can't "know" a robbery has occurred, then saying it's a poltergeist makes just as much sense. And I can't begin to tell you how unbelievable it is to hear someone say that. I hope you're more reasonable in other areas of your life than you are in your religious beliefs—otherwise, you're a con man's dream come true—since you have no apparent method of telling fact from fiction, evidence and reason have no value in your worldview, and you'll believe outlandish things based on stories.
And about the tower of Babel, NO they clearly were trying to get away from the flood, as well, as get to God.
No, they weren't "clearly" trying to get away from a flood. You are simply wrong. Here is the entire script of the story of the tower. Where do you see any mention of any flood concerns from anyone?
Genesis 11
1And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
2And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
3And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
4And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
5And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
8So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
9Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Of course NONE of this matters if you don't believe in God.
Uh, your subject line, just to remind you, is "AE Show – Proofs of God"—what good are proofs of the existence of god which are only convincing to people who already believe god exists? If your proofs of god don't demonstrate a god exists to people who don't believe god exists already, why exactly did you contact unbelievers to present these "proofs"?
My advise is, as BEST as I can give it, is that if you TRULY want to know if God, exist you WILL ask Him, to prove Himself to you,
And if you truly want to know if atoms exist, you will ask them to prove themselves to you. Do you approach other things in your life this way? When you want to know if a thing is real—you ask the thing? You don't verify it against evidence and reality? You just "ask it'? This is NOT how we determine if things exist. This is not how to tell fact from fiction. This is not the process we use if we care whether or not our beliefs are likely to be true. Existence is manifestation in some measureable way. That's what it means to "exist." If your god exists, then it should not be difficult to demonstrate that. If there is nothing there to measure—then in what way is your god different than nothing? Did you read the Carl Sagan essay "Dragon in my Garage" that I linked you to? If not, I assure you it's very short, but very useful in explaining why we don't go around asserting things exist if we can't actually tell them apart from nothing. It's also the lesson of the "Emperor's New Clothes," in case you just don't have time to read the Sagan essay.
If your god answers you when you ask him for things—as you're telling me that if I need proof I can just ask—why don't you pray and ask him for a proof that actually convinces nonbelievers? If he exists, you'll get it, right? If he truly wished his adherents to seek and save the lost—that is, the unbelievers—why did he only supply you, this round, with reasons that you say only convince those who already believe?
I can sit here and give you everything I know,
You just told me you can't know everything, and that, therefore, "we could all be dummies here on the Earth." So, why should I believe that you "know" any of these things you're asserting? Why should I believe the people who told you these things "know" anything? What I know, is that you can't claim to "know" what you have not verified and what you have not demonstrated to be true. When you admit you have nothing convincing to offer for why you believe what you believe, it's ridiculous to immediately turn around and call it "knowledge."
and every word in the Bible,
It's like I'm sending letters into a void. Did you read what I wrote when you claimed your Bible was perfect and that even the strongest scrutiny hadn't shown any errors? I sent you Bible translators' notes, right out of the Bible, telling you there is forged material in your Bible. Why then would you use the Bible in your next letter without addressing how it's reliable in light of the fact that it's been edited with inserted passages? Why do you trust its content? I believe the Bible scholars, you don't. So, I'm asking you, who do you believe, because you believe it's perfect. Since that's not the expert view, who has told you this, and why do you accept that as true above actual Bible scholars?
but it won't mean 1 thing if you don't see God for who He is.
And here I am again. Ironically, a Muslim once used this exact argument with me. He told me that if I read the Koran, it would convince me Allah is real. I told him I would get it from the library and read it. In his reply to that, he wrote that it would only be convincing if I read it believing it was written by Allah. I hope that sounds silly to you. And I hope you can understand why changing out "Bible" for "Koran" and "Jesus" for "Allah" makes it no less ridiculous.


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Filling: In a small saucepan, add the potato and enough cold water to cover. Add a generous pinch of salt and bring to a boil over medium heat, then reduce the heat and simmer until tender, 12 to 15 minutes.
In a second small saucepan, bring 4 cups water to a simmer and add a generous pinch of salt, bay leaves, 1 teaspoon coriander seeds, peppercorns, chili flakes, and chicken breast. Simmer until cooked through, 8 to 10 minutes.
Mash the potato and finely shred the chicken and put into a large bowl. Combine with mango, lime juice, chipotle sauce, remaining coriander seeds, cumin, cilantro, and salt and pepper, to taste. Mixing with a spoon or your hands, until well incorporated. Taste for seasoning and adjust, if necessary. Set aside.
Samosas: Roll the puff pastry out slightly, to flatten the seams. Using a paring knife to trace a 7-inch ring mold or bowl, cut the dough into 8 (7-inch wide) rounds. Cut each into 2 semicircles.
Put a tablespoon or so of the filling in the center of a semicircle. Have a small bowl of water handy. Dip your finger in the water and run it along the edges of the semicircle. Arrange the samosas so the flat side is facing away from you. Grab the left corner and fold it over the dough in a triangular motion, so that this corner lands on the bottom right side of the filling. Do the same with the other corner.
Squeeze bottom shut, and fold over, sealing with water. If you like, seal using a fork. Repeat with remaining dough and filling. Arrange the 8 samosas on a lightly greased baking sheet.
In a small bowl, whisk the egg and 1 teaspoon water with a fork until thoroughly combined. Brush the tops of the samosas with the egg wash.
Bake for 15 minutes at 425 degrees F, then turn heat down to 375 degrees F and bake for 10 more minutes. You can flip them over just before you turn the heat down, if you like.
Chutney: In a food processor, whiz together the mint, cilantro, ginger, lime juice and water until it all comes together as a sauce. There'll probably still be little bits of leaf in the sauce, but I like how those taste, so no worries. Pour the chutney into a bowl.
In a small pan, over medium heat, warm the oil until it shimmers. Add mustard seeds; they should sizzle. Immediately cover with a lid until they stop spluttering. Make sure they don't burn! If they do, start over. No big deal. I do it all the time! Immediately add the seeds and oil to the chutney. It will sizzle so stand back. Once you've poured in all of the oil, you can even spoon a little chutney into the pan (cue sizzling again!) so that you pick up all that lovely oil. Pour into the bowl with the chutney.
Serve samosas hot, with the chutney... and bask in gratitude for the great ideas we all come up with, for our sensitive taste buds and for the blessing of good friends!
In large bowl, combine the flour, buttermilk, oil, salt and ajwain seeds. Bring the ingredients together until a dough forms. Knead until it has softened a bit, about 5 minutes. Allow to rest, at room temperature, for 15 minutes. You can put this in the refrigerator, but make sure you let it sit at room temperature for 20 minutes or so, in order for it to soften.
Roll the dough into a short cylinder. Slice in half, then slice each half into 2 pieces, so you have 4 bits. Roll each bit into a ball. Flatten the balls into discs then, on a floured surface, roll them into a 1/8-inch thick, 7-inch wide circles. Cut in half to form 2 semicircles.


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Pleasant Valley School District for about 15 years has been implementing random metal detector checks on the students in the middle, intermediate and high schools.
Pleasant Valley School District for about 15 years has been implementing random metal detector checks on the students in the middle, intermediate and high schools.
The checks have been effective, according to Chris Fisher, assistant to the superintendent.
"The kids never know when they're going to get checked, so it really helps," said Fisher.
The district has never once discovered a gun on a student. Scissors and body spray are the items most often discovered.
The system works like this, Fisher said:
At random mornings during the week, the district puts up metal detectors at different entrances of the school buildings. The students never know on which day the metal detectors will be used or at which entrances.
In addition, an official also sometimes walks into a class at random and tells all the students that they must go through a detector. This way, if a knife or a gun was snuck into the school during the day, the person still gets caught.
It takes about 15 minutes to run a class through the metal detectors.
Fisher said that even though the metal detectors — the district has five in total — might cause a little inconvenience, most students like the metal detectors because they make them feel safe.
Every two years the district sends out a safety survey to the students. In the last survey, Fisher said 92 percent of the students in the district said they felt safe in school.
Fisher said that the district will continue to use the metal doctors as a safety measure. It has spent about $7,500 on the devices.


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Although the Apollo 14 mission to the moon was filled with incredible sights and was completely successful - it met all its science goals - the crew experienced a bit of a disappointment at missing the spectacular view from the rim of a 1,000-foot-wide crater. They might have gazed into its depths if they had the high-resolution maps now available from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft.
LROC NAC image of the Apollo 14 landing site acquired 25 January 2011. Close-up showing LM descent stage (right) and ALSEP (arrow), note astronaut tracks between the two landmarks. Credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University
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› Close-up on LM landing site Pressure was on the Apollo 14 mission, launched January 31, 1971, from the start. The Apollo 13 landing had to be aborted because an oxygen tank explosion crippled the spacecraft as it was on its way to the moon. It was a heroic effort just to return the crew safely to Earth, but the Apollo 14 team knew a second failure would probably result in cancellation of the remaining Apollo missions.
Although nothing as catastrophic as an explosion threatened their mission, the Apollo 14 crew had to improvise their way out of some tense situations. On the way to the moon, the crew had to dock their spacecraft, the Command and Service Module "Kitty Hawk," to the spacecraft that would land on the moon, the Lunar Module "Antares." However, latches that would lock the two spaceships together refused to engage. Kitty Hawk pilot Stuart Roosa tried the docking maneuver six times over more than an hour and a half before the latches activated, linking the spacecraft so that mission commander Alan Shepard and Antares pilot Edgar Mitchell could transfer to the Antares lander. On the way down in Antares, the crew had to overcome computer and radar glitches in the system that was supposed to guide their landing. Even with the balky guidance system, they were able to pilot Antares to within 87 feet from the targeted landing point, at the time the most precise landing for the Apollo missions.
The site, which the crew named the "Fra Mauro Base," was the area to be explored by Apollo 13, a hilly zone about 300 miles from the edge of the 750-mile-wide Mare Imbrium basin formed long ago by the impact of a giant asteroid. The hills of Fra Mauro were believed to be made of rubble blasted from the Imbrium impact, and lunar geologists wanted the crew to collect rocks from the region so they could accurately date when giant impacts like Imbrium occurred on the moon.
Using two high-resolution LROC images taken from two separate orbits, we form a stereo image pair for 3D measurements at the Apollo 14 landing site. Among the visible objects are the descent stage of the Apollo 14 lunar module Antares (highlighted with red dot), the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (yellow dot), a rock nicknamed Turtle Rock (brown dot), and multiple astronaut traverse footpaths clearly indicated by disturbed soils (blue lines). Data processing methods can be used to identify the objects and measure their sizes and shapes. Such 3D measurements and models are used for planning future missions to the moon. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University/The Ohio State University
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Similar massive craters exist on Mercury and Mars, so it appears that the entire solar system experienced a chaotic period of "heavy bombardment" from enormous asteroids. Scientists were keen to date this event because it's very likely Earth was hit as well, and impacts of that scale would alter the evolution of life. However, on our world, such ancient craters have been erased by erosion from wind and water, as well as the recycling of the crust from its slow motion as a result of plate tectonics.
Shepard and Mitchell landed Feb. 5, and they performed two moonwalks, technically called "Extravehicular Activities," or EVAs, one on each day of the two days spent on the lunar surface. The first EVA went according to plan, with the deployment of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package, a suite of instruments that included a seismometer to measure moonquakes and laser reflectors to accurately measure changes in the Earth-moon distance using lasers fired from stations on Earth. During the second EVA, the crew hoped to reach the rim of Cone crater, a more recent impact crater about 1,000 feet wide a little over a mile from the Antares lander.
"An impact crater is like a drill," says Dr. James Rice of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. "The meteorite punches through layers of ground at the impact site and explodes, hurling this material outward. Surface material is scattered farthest, while the deepest material, which usually comes up in big chunks, remains closest to the crater rim. By collecting rocks as you get closer to a crater, you get a cross-section of the material beneath you without having to dig it up yourself. That's what the Apollo 14 crew did as they approached Cone crater – they wanted to get samples of the layers of rubble from the Mare Imbrium impact and see if Cone crater went deep enough to expose the bedrock beneath. The ejecta from the Imbrium impact where Apollo 14 landed may have come from up to 100 miles depth below the original lunar crust." Rice is an associate project scientist for LRO.
Click image to hear an interview between Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell and Dr. James Rice. Credit: NASA
However, the terrain was hillier than expected, and the crew lost sight of the crater rim among the ridges of the hills. Eventually, they had to turn back because they needed to save enough oxygen and other supplies to return safely to the lander. At the time, they estimated they were close enough to the rim that rock samples collected where they stood would still represent the deep layers, but they were disappointed at missing the majestic view from the rim itself.
High-resolution photos of the area taken with LRO's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) reveal that they had come within about 30 yards of the rim, just a minuscule distance considering they had travelled over 250,000 miles to get there.
"The time lost in attempting to determine our exact position for collecting samples in order to satisfy the geologists, cost us significant time. We were essentially at the rim of Cone crater. We just didn't realize how close. It was just out of sight across the next rise a few yards away, when they decided our oxygen and water were too low to do anything but start back," said Antares pilot Edgar Mitchell.
"With the high-resolution photos we have from LRO today, combined with topographic maps made using LRO's laser-ranging instrument, they probably would have made it to the rim, because they would have known exactly where they were every step of the way," says Rice.
A front view of the Apollo 14 Lunar Module "Antares", which reflects a circular flare caused by the brilliant sun. The unusual ball of light was said by the astronauts to have a jewel-like appearance. At extreme left, the lower slope of Cone Crater can be seen. Credit: NASA
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LRO has observed all the Apollo sites, and the LRO team is creating lunar maps with unprecedented accuracy that will guide future human and robotic explorers. The maps also will help identify unusual areas for a closer look, according to Rice, because they include data on mineral composition, water ice deposits, rough or unusual terrain, surface temperatures, and temperature changes.
Still, the Apollo 14 crew did an outstanding job with the maps available at the time, and the mission was a success, with nearly 100 pounds of rocks and soils collected and returned to Earth. Analysis of the decay of radioactive isotopes in the rocks dated giant impacts like Mare Imbrium at between 3.8 to 3.9 billion years old, about the time when life was emerging on Earth. The mission, which ended when the command module splashed down in the Pacific Ocean Feb. 9, 1971, still holds the record for the longest walk on the moon - approximately 9,000 feet.
LRO was built and is managed by NASA Goddard. The research was funded by NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington.