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Laser Remote Sensing: Fundamentals and Applications
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Presents a concise, self-contained monograph on laser remote sensing and its applications. Discusses the ways in which lasers can be used to remotely measure the atmosphere and the hydrosphere. Provides an historical perspective and reviews the basic physics needed.
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The cover of Tracy Coffee Gayle's second novel gives clues to its content. It's a collage of pictures and mementos from the lives of her characters as they travel through life and down memory lane, unearthing family stories.
Valerie, Jean & Me tells the story of three sisters, their mother, stepfather and baby brother. But these are not just characters on a page or merely stories in a book. These characters come to life in the text, as they do in Gayle's creative imagination.
"My work in drama, both at Shelby County High School and with the community theatre, has helped me develop the details of my characters," Gayle said. "In theater, you really have to put yourself into your roles and pay attention to the different actions and phrases that your character uses. I do the same thing with the characters in my books.
"Promise, the main character in this book, has a life of her own in my mind. I see her working through different scenes, and I write them down. That's how the book comes together.
"I've always loved creating stories, creating characters that are real, messy and 3-D. My editor and mentor, Kate Larken of Motes Books, helps me to find my writing niche. She encourages me to make up stories that are so real that sometimes I don't know what will happen next.
"The characters may be moving along in one direction, hit a challenge and turn to plan B or C. It's what makes the writing interesting. It's what makes the reading interesting."
Valerie, Jean & Metakes the reader from the Bluegrass State to the Sunshine State and through "States of Mind" (the three sections of the book). It begins in the 1970s, with the young girls and their mother building a life with their new "daddy" and husband. It flashes back to the mother's life in the 1950s and wraps up in the present.
"Throughout the book, life-long secrets are revealed," Gayle said. "You see the characters at all states of their lives, trying to piece together who they are, who they were, and who they will become."
As a fifth-grade teacher, Tracy Coffee Gayle spends her days nurturing children toward who they will become. She has been since 1998 a stalwart on the staff of Wright Elementary. She and her husband, Don, have four children, twins Suzanne and Jillian (13), Paul (12) and Gretchen (4). She says that her second novel – following Tilt-a-Whirl, published in 2011 – does not reflect her own home life.
"I see the way our children relate to one another and get ideas for the book," she said, "but the siblings in the story don't reflect the lives of my kids. It wouldn't be fair to use them as role models."
She said the initial idea for this book came from viewing old pictures from her grandmother and listening to family stories from her mother.
"I recall hearing them talk about going to dances, about going out on dates even after they were married," she said.
She realized that people are different at the various stages in their lives. "None of us knows what our parents were really like when they were young. They lived in a different time and a different world," she said.
Her writing grows out of her love for the craft. "When you love to write, you can't notdo it," Gayle said. "I want to show my children that you can pursue your dream. I try to model for them that you can do it.
"I can't say enough good things about my publisher, Motes Books Kate taught me so much about writing, helped me through the publishing process, and handles my sales and distributions. I see the value in supporting local bookstores that carry books like mine. Motes Books sells through these venues."
Tracy's two novels, Valerie, Jean & Me, and Tilt-a-Whirl, can be found at 6thand Main Coffeehouse in Shelbyville and at Carmichael's Books in Louisville. They are also available through her publisher, MotesBooks.com and Amazon.com.
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text: MADRID (MarketWatch) -- European stock markets opened lower on Wednesday, taking a cue from weaker Asia markets, where Japanese stocks sank 2.6% as investors took profits on recent gains and the yen climbed against the dollar. A batch of U.S. data, including consumer prices and earnings from majors such as Goldman Sachs Inc., GS, -0.76% were keeping investors on edge. The Stoxx Europe 600 index SXXP, +0.14% fell 0.1% to 285.60, weighed by banks and mining stocks with BHP Billiton PLC BHP, -0.49% BLT, -2.13% off nearly a full percent and Credit Agricole SA ACA, -0.49% down over 3%. The German DAX 30 index DAX, +0.00% eased slightly to 7,666.81, the French CAC 40 index PX1, -0.03% was flat at 3,698.81 and the FTSE 100 index UKX, +0.28% fell 0.2% to 6,102.35.


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|One of my late dad's favorites, easy and finger licking good!
This is actually a funny story. Dad use to make these all the time, long after his mom passed away. Every time he made them, he would say, the sauce isn't right until your fingers stick to the napkin after eating the wings. He literally would have tiny pieces of napkin stuck to his fingers, that's how he knew the sauce was thick enough and had that texture grandma made. I will always remember that, so make sure you have thick, stick to your fingers sauce here!
2 bell peppers cut in strips
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UBS to sell HYPOSWISS private bank to Cantonal Bank of Saint Gall
With the sale of HYPOSWISS, UBS is streamlining its private banking activities in Zurich. The pre-tax profit of approximately CHF 165 million generated by the sale will be reported in the income statement for the first quarter of 2002.
UBS will sell the private bank HYPOSWISS, a wholly owned subsidiary, to Cantonal Bank of Saint Gall. The sale, for an undisclosed price, will bring UBS a pre-tax profit of approximately CHF 165 million. This profit will be reported in the income statement for the first quarter of 2002.
The transaction, which requires the approval of the relevant supervisory authorities, is expected to be completed in the first quarter of this year and will be valid retroactively from 1 January 2002.
With the sale of HYPOSWISS, UBS is streamlining its private banking activities in Zurich, where it is already represented by UBS Private Banking and the private bank Cantrade. At the same time, continuity in HYPOSWISS's independent culture and service offering will be ensured through the acquisition of the private bank by the Cantonal Bank of Saint Gall. UBS will continue to manage its remaining private banks - Cantrade Private Bank Ltd. (Zurich), BDL Banco di Lugano (Lugano), Ferrier Lullin & Cie. S.A. (Geneva), Bank Ehinger & Co Ltd (Basel), Armand von Ernst & Cie AG (Berne) - as separate independent units.
HYPOSWISS specializes in investment advice and asset management and has built up considerable expertise in serving a global private client base. In the 2001 financial year, the private bank recorded a operating profit of CHF 38.4 million. Invested assets totalled CHF 6.4 billion at year end. HYPOSWISS, which is domiciled in Zurich and has a branch in Jersey, employed a total of 133 members of staff at year-end 2001.
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Syria attack prompts calls for U.S. action
At the White House Press Briefing, Deputy Press Secretary Jay Earnest talked about the investigative team that just arrived in Syria and their plans to assess the situation there and decide the U.S. response to it. VPC
The Obama administration, saying it is "deeply concerned" by reports of a chemical attack, urged the U.N. to investigate.
Reports that Syria's Assad regime launched what appeared to be a massive chemical attack Wednesday morning, killing hundreds of civilians, have prompted renewed calls for U.S. action.
The attack on the eastern suburbs of Damascus came just after the arrival of United Nations weapons inspectors investigating sites where the United States and France have said the regime launched earlier, smaller chemical attacks. Wednesday's attack came a year and a day after President Obama declared that Bashar Assad's use of chemical weapons would cross a "red line" that would prompt the USA to take action.
Rep. Eliot Engel, the ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said that if the reports are true, the United States should follow through on the threat.
"If reports are credible that the Assad regime has used chemical weapons resulting in the estimated deaths of hundreds of civilians, then clearly a red line has been crossed again," Engel said. "The U.S. has two options: Continue to largely stand on the sidelines as the regime slaughters its own people, or tip the balance of power against a brutal dictator by degrading its ability to attack civilians. If we are to salvage what remains of our credibility in the region, we must act soon."
A spokesman for the Syrian government denied the reports.
STORY: Syria opposition claims hundreds dead in 'gas' attack
"All what has been said is ridiculous and naive, unscientific, illogical and subjective," said Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi, speaking to Syrian state television.
The state-run SANA news agency said there was no truth to the allegations "whatsoever" and said the reports were meant to divert the U.N. inspectors from their work.
Other observers, however, say there is evidence to the contrary: dozens of videos from the scene showing hundreds of victims, including women and children, in distressed positions and wrapped in funeral shrouds with no apparent injury.
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, a former commander of the chemical biological and nuclear counter terrorism unit at the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defense, said he viewed 75 videos posted and concluded that "these people didn't die of conventional weapons."
"I think this is the most significant day in the war thus far," Bretton-Gordon said. "One is struggling to find an alternative to chemical weapons" to explain the images.
Other experts said the evidence so far is not conclusive.
Similar symptoms could result from a riot control agent such as tear gas used in confined spaces, a toxic industrial chemical new to warfare, or a large conventional explosion that sucks air out of a large underground shelter and then blows in smoke and debris, said Dan Kaszeta, managing director of U.K.-based security consultancy Strongpoint Security, who worked 20 years on chemical biological and nuclear defense in the U.S. government and military.
None of those alternatives "is compelling," yet they cannot be ruled out, Kaszeta said. "Until someone actually comes up with a sample of the causative agent (suspiciously lacking) or some useful blood/tissue samples, the information vacuum will be ripe for speculation."
Some of the videos portray bodies that look very similar to images from Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan, where Saddam Hussein killed at least 3,200 Kurds in 1988 in an hour-long poison gas attack, Bretton-Gordon said.
If the attack does prove to be a chemical weapons attack, then "the red line which seems to change shape and size has clearly been crossed," he said.
The Obama administration said Wednesday it is "deeply concerned" by the reports and urged the U.N. to investigate, according to a statement issued by Josh Earnest, deputy press secretary.
"We are working urgently to gather additional information," Earnest said. "The United States strongly condemns any and all use of chemical weapons. Those responsible for the use of chemical weapons must be held accountable. Today, we are formally requesting that the United Nations urgently investigate this new allegation."
Wednesday's attack looks like a Syrian government attack and should trigger a re-evaluation of the administration's Syria policy, said Michael Doran, who served as a deputy assistant secretary of Defense and a senior director at the National Security Council under President George W. Bush.
Assad has targeted civilians and killed thousands of women and children already, and the United States has determined that he used chemical weapons in the past, but U.S. leadership has been missing, Doran said.
"We should rethink our strategy and determine that ousting Assad is in the national interest of the United States," Doran said. " There needs to be more than words. There needs to be a strategy to oust Assad, to topple him."
Obama warned Assad on Aug. 20, 2012, "that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized." In June, the White House said U.S. intelligence had confirmed chemical weapons on a small scale used by the Syrian government against rebels, but the administration has hesitated to provide any significant military aid to the rebels.
To date, none of the lethal aid promised by the White House in June has arrived in rebel hands, said Khaled Saleh, chief spokesman for the Syrian Military Council of the Free Syrian Army, the coalition of rebel field commanders that the United States said it supports.
"What we want from the United States is to take a more active position," Saleh said. "We're trying to bring about a solution to a guy that is killing thousands of Syrians. If what Assad is doing today goes unpunished, it's a scary message to Assad that he has a green light to do what he's doing."
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HI Los Angeles - Santa Monica
Santa Monica may not be in the centre of Los Angeles, but it's the beachfront heart of the city.
We're located just a short distance from LAX airport and this is a convenient connection to any part of the city. It's a very safe area with beautiful weather and friendly people. We're one block from the beach and you can walk to endless pubs, shops, restaurants and entertainment. Jump on a bus and you can visit the world famous Hollywood area and walk among the stars.
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So amazin' (yeh)
Everybody get down
Everybody get down (uh, yeh)
We be blazin' (uh)
So amazin' (c'mon, uh)
Everybody get down
Everybody get down
[Talib Kweli]
New year, new record, time to do bigger shit
Caught a plane to Cali linked with my nigga Quik
I figure with the combination we bomb the nation but stay calm and patient
As the world get hyped from hearin our musical conversation
This a beautiful situation right here
Given birth on the track cuz the cypher stay pregnant with ideas
And we rockin it - rock, rock, rockin it
Tell the hater players put a sock in it!
Proper shit, that you got to get, cause we properly document
How cats look more like dicks than the Washington Monument
Validly try to challenge me, but who you racin wit'
It's amazing the lyrical lingerie I be lacin shit, we be blazin it
Put it in the air with the chronic
My lyrics like drugs got you hooked on my phonics
From Brooklyn to Compton the lounge of Soundbombing
Still rockin' over "Balance & Options," now
If you got a spliff then put it in the air
If you want a rift then put it in the air
If you shakin yo' ass, put it in the air
If you makin it last, put it in the air
If you leave the crib strapped then put it in the air
Take ya hand of your gat and put it in the air
Snook your bud in the club, put it in the air
Got nuttin but love, put it in the air
[Talib Kweli]
They say my rhymes is too heavy, I come thicker than the fog
You get it when I retire and battle my catalogue
Writin rhymes in my captain's log, BlackStar date
MC's fake like Egyptian gods in Stargate
Lovin the hate, bubble all types of weight in they rap
I draw blood like mosquitos y'all annoy like gnats
Pop that around the wrong cat get laid flat
Concrete adjust to the contours in your back
Quik where you at?
[DJ Quik]
Yo I'm in the back room makin a run
Ain't even touched during making her cum
N you can catch me out in Portland with Stoudamire
Everybody doin shows but I'm the hottest flyin'
Bitches say honest, I swear to God
So how come then believin them is so damn hard
Could you really blame a nigga if you fucked a skate
You ain't even pay that's why you flunked the date
All you did was eat salad, talk shit about niggas and drink wine
And your answer kept changin cause bitch you keep lyin'
Talkin bout "he make me sick
All he do is disrespect me, keep callin me bitch
And he only wanna fuck me when he all for that dough"
What the fuck you think I'm here for not to love you I hope
All I'm bout to do is listen for a minute while I get my drink in
And introduce you to my dog Kweli and go up in it
We be blazin' (c'mon)
So amazin' (yeh)
Everybody get down
Everybody get down (yeh, c'mon, yeh)
We be blazin' (uh)
So amazin' (c'mon, yeh, c'mon, c'mon)
Everybody get down
Everybody get down
Now let me tell you how I am
[Talib Kweli]
I'm mild-mannered at day but superhero at night
I got the special invite to make your spot look right
No ice, no rain, not bottles of champagne n'
Half these motherfuckers can't pronounce my name
I'm so cool while you hype-r than a coffee shop
Hype niggas make girls be like 'get off me stop'
Real niggas like thirst so of course we rock
Cos the game unorthordox, off top
You got cold feet like I pulled off your socks
Always goin down town pullin all the stops
Your breath smellin like fish from straight off the docks
Dats how you lost your spot
You too hype
We be blazin' (c'mon, uh)
So amazin' (yeh, everybody c'mon)
Everybody get down
Everybody get down (yo, all the people in the house)
We be blazin' (c'mon yeh)
So amazin' (yeah, c'mon)
Everybody get down
Everybody get down
Yo, 1, 2, (c'mon) 1, 2
We be blazin' (c'mon, yo)
So amazin' (c'mon get dowwwn)
Everybody get down
Everybody get down (yeh, everybody yo)
We be blazin' (light it up, light it up)
So amazin' (yeah, I'm feelin that, c'mon)
Everybody get down
Everybody get down (yeh)
Yo do that shit
We be blazin' (yeah)
So amazin' (c'mon get dowwwn, uh)
Everybody get down
Everybody get down (yo, yo do that shit)
We be blazin' (c'mon, yo)
So amazin' (yeh)
Everybody get down
Everybody get down
For this song about weed Talib teamed up with Compton rapper and producer DJ Quik.
Here's what he had to say about the song he named "the song that was funnest to make" on a game of Special Education with MiSS SPECiAL:
Working with [DJ Quik] was one of my most fun experiences; I learned a lot. He's not just a great producer, but he a student of musicology and he knows sonics. […] You think it's a computer sound just because you assume, but no, he went in there with a bag of African instruments [and played them] on the record. So just to watch DJ Quik work and being in the studio with him was one of the most fun experiences I've ever had.


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Washington Post conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin has joined the voice of many conservatives lamenting the surprising drop in GDP last quarter.
In her post, Rubin argues that spending cuts and Obama's regulations are pushing us toward a recession.
The big reason for the surprise drop in fourth-quarter GDP was because of a drop in government spending, particularly a stunning fall in defense and military spending.
Rubin writes:
"I don't know why they say the drop is unexpected. We are preparing to decimate national security, at a cost of perhaps 1.2 million jobs. The country was and still is poised to accept more tax hikes. The regulatory burden on employers and the prospect of Obamacare hang over our heads. No wonder we are in an economic slump. One more quarter of this, and, according to the technical definition, we will be in a recession. [...]
"This is why Republicans must talk growth, jobs and economic opportunity. The president isn't because his policies stifle all three."
Conservatives and Republicans want to cut government spending, which they often say is out of control. The Republican argument on the GDP report, as noted by RNC communications director Tim Miller in an email, is that the economy is not in a good spot when government spending cuts combined with already-large deficits creates GDP shrinkage.
The U.S. is scheduled to endure more across-the-board spending cuts as a result of sequestration, which both parties agreed to as part of the Budget Control Act. As of now, both parties seem resigned to letting that happen. Earlier this month, House Speaker John Boehner said he was willing to let it happen and had Republican support in his pocket.


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Can A Conservative Media Darling Win In 2016?
For GOP national candidates, navigating the conservative media is kind of like NASA executing a gravitational slingshot: there's a hot, dense center of gravity that you want to get just close enough to so that your campaign rocket ship gets a boost in the right direction. Veer too far and you'll drift into the political void. Get too close and you'll crash hard onto Planet Wingnut.
This complicated act of political physics is becoming a defining characteristic of national Republican politics. Would-be candidates who don't hold elected office or otherwise lack a national platform turn to Fox News for exposure (and in the case of paid contributors, a paycheck). Anyone who wants to make it past the Ames straw poll can't risk drawing the ire of a big name radio host. Of course, as Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum can attest, you can't be too cozy with the activist right either. It's tough to pull off, particularly as talk radio and conservative online media slouch further and further to the right.
Those of us who remember the 2012 election know that presidential candidates who channel the conservative blogosphere and poach talking points from Fox News quickly run into trouble. Mitt Romney's exposition on the 47 percent and his claims about President Obama's global "apology tour" traced their roots back to the conservative blogosphere. Romney (one could argue) indulged in this sort of rhetoric because he felt he had to boost his standing among the Republican base.
With that in mind, we turn to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), whose trip to Iowa last week stoked a round of 2016 speculation. Cruz is a different matter from the likes of Romney. Conservative activists love the junior senator from Texas, and he's a Fox News favorite (a Nexis search shows he's been on Hannity five times this year already). He'll enthusiastically grab onto conservative media narratives and carry them into Senate hearing rooms.
For example, Cruz's questioning of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel during his nomination hearing was at times... colorful, drawing from the worst of right-wing media memes. At one point Cruz asked Hagel why he had described an Israeli strike on Hezbollah as a "sickening slaughter" -- a distortion of Hagel's actual 2006 statement on the Israel-Hezbollah conflict, in which he said "the sickening slaughter on both sides must end." The distorted quote first appeared in the Weekly Standard, and after the hearing Cruz received an attaboy from Sean Hannity.
Cruz also got a hero's response from the right-wing commentariat following his spirited, constitutionally suspect defense of gun rights during a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting on Sen. Diane Feinstein's proposed assault weapons ban. The senator argued that the Constitution doesn't allow for limitations to rights enumerated in the First, Second, and Fourth Amendments. A long history of judicial precedent argues otherwise. The Daily Caller, which spent 2012 giving out free guns with the Bill of Rights inscribed on them, wrote up Cruz's remarks under the headline: "Ted Cruz offends Diane Feinstein by bringing up the Constitution."
So if Cruz is indeed considering a run for the presidency in 2016, what impact would his coziness with the fever swamp have? The Daily Beast's Michael Tomasky sees in Cruz a politician who "takes the wildest yahoo positions arguably of any prominent politician in America" but is also "something of an intellectual," and the combined effect of the two could win him the Republican nomination and sink him in the general election. It's not clear that Cruz's closeness to the base is any real strength, even when it comes to winning the nomination -- the previous two Republican nominees were at times actively hated by the rank-and-file, but they got the party nod regardless.
But even Romney's troubled relationship with the hardline conservatives was still viewed as a major liability for a candidate looking to get half the country behind him. The New York Times' Ross Douthat wrote this past weekend that conservatives' rage at Washington generally and Obama specifically may have some superficial appeal to voters, but without a compelling policy agenda they're unlikely to get over the electoral hump. The conservative media are the public face of that rage and at the moment they're more likely to celebrate politicians who revel in obstructionism than those who make even cautious attempts to work with Democrats to pass legislation. Marco Rubio is getting beaten up by the online right for his efforts to pass comprehensive immigration reform (though he appears to be pivoting hard on other issues to regain their favor). Meanwhile, a strong majority of Americans back a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
Ted Cruz, on the other hand, loves the conservative media, and they love him back. And given the degree to which the interests of the nation and the right-wing press are diverging, it's hard not to view that as an electoral liability in the long run.


text: Clay Masters Clay Masters is a reporter for Iowa Public Radio and formerly for Harvest Public Media. His stories have appeared on NPR When Your Living Room Becomes A 2020 Campaign Stage, 'It's Pretty Surreal' By Clay Masters • Apr 21, 2019 The Iowa caucuses are still nine months away, and with at least 20 Democrats either considering a run or officially declared, many of them are looking for ways to stand out in the crowded field. One tried-and-true way: show up in voters' homes. Meet The Small-Town Newspaper Editor Who's Drawing 2020 Democrats To Rural Iowa By Clay Masters • Mar 30, 2019 At first glance, Storm Lake, Iowa, doesn't seem like the sort of place that would attract Democratic presidential candidates. The town of 10,600 sits in the highly conservative northwest corner of the state. In 2016, Donald Trump collected 4,903 votes in surrounding Buena Vista County, compared with Hillary Clinton's 2,856 votes. Trump's DACA Moves Aren't Shaking His Most Loyal Supporters By Clay Masters • Sep 18, 2017 Many conservatives pundits and lawmakers were incensed that President Donald Trump appeared to make a deal with Democrats to enshrine into law the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that shields many undocumented immigrants who were brought into the U.S. as children. To make matters worse for immigration hawks, Trump is also not requiring funding to build a wall along the Mexican border as a condition of the possible deal. Iowa Moves To Restrict Collective Bargaining For Public Sector Workers By Clay Masters • Feb 14, 2017 Lawmakers in Iowa began debating a bill Tuesday to dramatically change how public sector unions negotiate their contracts, part of a wave of legislation in statehouses across the country to roll back union rights. The bill, similar to a 2011 law in Wisconsin, is high on the state's legislative agenda and comes as Republicans control both chambers of the state Legislature and the governor's mansion for the first time in nearly 20 years. Bills Across The Country Could Increase Penalties For Protesters By Clay Masters • Jan 31, 2017 From the Black Lives Matter movement to environmentalists trying to stop new oil pipelines to the recent Women's March against President Trump, the past year has been filled with large, often spontaneous protests. Now the reaction to those protests is appearing in a number of Republican-controlled statehouses across the country, where lawmakers are introducing proposals to increase penalties for those who block roadways while protesting. Iowa Republicans Struggle To Reconcile Support For Trump And TPP By Clay Masters • Aug 19, 2016 Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: There's one issue the major presidential candidates seem to agree on. Both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton say they're opposed to President Obama's multi-national trade agreement known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Iowa Evangelicals Warm To Ted Cruz By Clay Masters • Dec 1, 2015 Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is stepping up his game in Iowa. The first term Texas senator has picked up influential endorsements there and is drawing bigger crowds. At the stage of the race when many caucus-goers are still deciding who to support in the first in the nation presidential caucus, Cruz is making a big play for Iowa evangelical voters, who helped Mike Huckabee in 2008 and Rick Santorum in 2012 win the Iowa Republican caucuses. Got Corn? Ethanol Is No Longer King In Iowa Among Candidates By Clay Masters • Oct 27, 2015 For decades, many presidential candidates campaigning in Iowa have made sure to offer their loud support for ethanol — the fuel made from corn. Ethanol is an important industry in Iowa. The state is the top producer of ethanol in the nation, accounting for 28 percent of national production, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. But this election cycle, ethanol is not the campaign force it once was. Take the contrast between George W. Bush's 2000 presidential campaign and the current campaign of his brother, Jeb Bush. 'Made For This': The Rootless Life Of A Roving Musician By Clay Masters • Jan 18, 2014 Guitarist and songwriter David Dondero is a transient. He's lived all over the country, from Alaska to Texas. When he's not touring, he finds work — most recently as a carpenter in California. But it never lasts. Music always finds its way back into his life. Iowa Opens The Doors To Medicaid Coverage, On Its Own Terms By Clay Masters • Dec 26, 2013 At the Central Iowa Shelter and Services in Des Moines, Iowa, health insurance navigator Andrea Pearce stood in a crowded dining hall on a recent day, shouting instructions on how residents can sign up for Medicaid. "If you do not have insurance and you want to enroll and you have an e-mail address where you know the password," she said, "come to the computer lab we will guide you through the application." A Unique Digital Music Service, For Locals Only By Clay Masters • Aug 22, 2013 Iowa City librarian Jason Paulios pulls out his smartphone, enters his library-card number and begins downloading an album by local metal band Blizzard at Sea. "So it's extracting now," he says, eyes on the screen. "It's at about 90 percent." The download takes about five minutes to complete. Paulios says it's a great way to check out local music: You could be waiting for a concert to start, download an album by the band you're about to see and then listen to it on the way home. William Tyler Speaks 'Truth' Through His Guitar By Clay Masters • Aug 17, 2013 William Tyler takes the stage at the Trumpet Blossom Café, a vegan restaurant and bar in Iowa City. Surrounded by effects pedals for his guitar, he wears jeans and black cowboy boots, and his fingernails are about an inch long.


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Snappy and Saucy Lines From Hitchcock Heroines
If you're in the mood for some retro suspense this Thanksgiving weekend, check out the new biopic Hitchcock, which hits theaters today. The film stars Anthony Hopkins as the famed director and centers on his relationship with his wife (played by Helen Mirren) in addition to the hurdles he had to overcome when filming Psycho. Scarlett Johansson stars as the shower-scene-stealing Janet Leigh, and if there's one thing Hitchcock is known for, it's his stunning — and mostly blond — heroines. Feisty ladies in movies like Vertigo, The Birds, and To Catch a Thief may be dealing with some frightful situations, but they never fail to dish out snappy words of wisdom along the way. Take a trip back through some of the director's retro thrillers with our favorite lines from Hitchcock heroines.


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Eastwood Introduces Airline Folkstar Resonator Electric
The new Airline Folkstar Resonator is based off the early 60s model and in true Eastwood fashion it features many upgrades and improvements. This chambered mahogany 24 3/4" scale guitar features a biscuit resonator cone with a Piezo bridge pickup and a NY mini-humbucker neck pickup, which are controlled by a blend potentiometer. This smooth blending feature, combined with the volume and tone controls allows for unlimited sounds, which was unachievable on the non-electrified originals. The eye-catching Airline Folkstar is available in red or black and features the retro rubber body binding just like the Eastwood Airline Custom '59 series. The bolt-on maple neck with rosewood fingerboard is set up with #12-52 bronze resonator strings, making this a "must have" guitar for both pro-touring and home recording players.
"From its looks to its versatile sounds the new Airline Folkstar has it all," said Mike Robinson, President and founder of Eastwood Guitars, "We have had great success with our Delta 6 resonator for many years, but the "pros" have been asking for something a little more upscale. We've more than exceeded expectations with the Folkstar".
The Airline Folkstar is now shipping, to find your closest dealer go to www.eastwoodguitars.com.


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In this posting, I'm going to summarize each of my courses and also list the locations that have been confirmed for the remainder of 2011. There is also a lot of course information online at OraPub's training web-site. For reference, you can see pictures from my past courses and also student testimonials online. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at email@example.com.
While I will be speaking at various user groups and conferences, my training courses will be offered in Atlanta, Chicago, Salt Lake City, and Portland (Oregon). The first half of 2012 I'm hoping to offer my courses in Europe and also in Brazil. If you live in these areas, let me know if you are want my training in your country. The more I hear from people the better the chance I can bring my training to you! Registration is open for each of the course offerings shown below.
September - Atlanta, GA
Sep 19-21. Oracle Performance Firefighting
Sep 22-23. Advanced Oracle Performance Analysis
October - Chicago, IL area
Oct 10-12. Oracle Performance Firefighting
Oct 13-14. Advanced Oracle Performance Analysis
November - Salt Lake City, UT
Nov 14-16. Oracle Performance Firefighting
Nov 17-18. Advanced Oracle Performance Analysis
November - Either San Francisco area or Washington, DC area (contact me!)
Nov 30- Dec 2. Oracle Forecasting & Predictive Analysis
December - Portland, OR
Dec 12-14. Oracle Performance Firefighting
Dec 15-16. Advanced Oracle Performance Analysis
My Courses.
I have three core courses: Oracle Performance Firefighting, Advanced Oracle Performance Analysis, and finally Oracle Forecasting & Predictive Analysis. What my students generally tell me about my courses is they are based on solid research and experience. I'm able to take very technical and diverse topics and make them practical in their performance work. Students also like my teaching style. If you have seen my presentations at a user group or at a conference, you have an idea of my teaching style.
Here is a summary for each course. For more information, click here.
Oracle Performance Firefighting.
The Firefighting course is my foundational course that has been running since 1999! My firefighting course is all about quick and methodical diagnosis, deep Oracle internals, resolution strategies, and learning to communicate your recommendations. While it's easy to think there are other courses available like this, in reality there is not. My students tell me that what sets my course apart is a true response time analysis that is presented and practiced in class, analysis perspectives (Oracle, application, and OS) combined into a single consistent story, the in-class case studies, and the way I teach. If I state something that I can't demonstrate with an experiment then I will tell you so. It's a wonderful class and, I love teaching it.
The class is three days in length. For more information, click here. If you have taken the course within the past four years and would like to take it again, there is a 50% refresher discount.
Advanced Oracle Performance Analysis.
The Advanced Analysis course is two days and is offered after the Firefighting course providing DBAs with a full week of intensive training. This class is relatively new and of all my courses, it has undergone the most radical change over the past two years. If your management is not satisfied with the "just trust me, I know what I'm doing" statement and wants an honest understandable story about the situation, your solution, visual and numeric data, and the expected outcome for each solution then this class is for you. The Firefighting course produces a list of technical viable solutions that make sense. The Advanced Analysis course enables you to confidently rank and have an honest and knowledgable conversation about which solution should be implemented first AND to state the expected impact on the system. Users and even individual SQL statements. Yeah... it's pretty cool and very practical. One of the highest praises I receive from my students about this class is that I'm able to take performance theory and make it very practical and useful.
Oracle Forecasting & Predictive Analysis.
The Predictive Analysis course is very different from my other courses. Both the Firefighting and the Advanced Analysis courses assume you're in the middle of a roaring performance firefight. In stark contrast, the Predictive Analysis course assumes performance is currently acceptable and you're looking into the future; asking questions about when performance will become unacceptable, where it will be at greatest risk, and how can risk be mitigated.
If you have read my Forecasting Oracle Performance book you'll have a good idea about the course contents, but the course goes much further than the book. This is especially true in the modeling area. A significant portion of the course is spent developing and working with models based in MS-Excel.
While many DBAs and their managers feel "forecasting" is the responsibility of some other group, every DBA has been asked questions like, "We are adding 50 more users to the accounting application. That's not going to be a problem, right?" That's a predictive question! Or, when managing virtualization, requirements still need to be forecasted for budget and planning purposes. Certainly you need to ensure there is enough capacity to meet the expected requirements. So, forecasting is just as important as it ever has been.
For most Predictive Analysis students, the course opens up a whole new world of IT and enables them to not only do their existing job better but can jump start them into a new branch of expertise. If you have never taken my forecasting class before, I hope one day you can get the chance.
If you have any questions about my training courses, please feel free to email me directly. The best email is OraPub's general, which is email@example.com.
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You just can't beat a balmy winter night in downtown L.A. for an outdoor Kings-Ducks hockey game,
No. 1 NHL: Kings vs. Ducks at Dodger Stadium
Details/TV: Saturday at 6:30 p.m., NBC Sports Net:
Catholic Archbishop Jose Gomez sent a tweet out last week, asking for all of those in Los Angeles to pray for rain. "Send down your rains from the heaven in this time of drought," he pleaded. "California needs rain!" Heavens to Gretzky. We understand the gravity of this request. We've been going through the driest winter in years, and the ramifications are already being felt. But for mercy's sake, in all due respect, could the hockey gods divert any wet stuff away from Chavez Ravine this Saturday night, at least for a few hours? When the puck drops for this one-of-a-kind event in L.A. sports history, a full house at Dodger Stadium will be witness to something that could be considered its own religious experience. "This is a wonderful day, not only for Kings fans and for Ducks fans, but for the NHL itself," said Kings Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky, who will be in attendance. "It shows how much the game has grown. I remember sitting and watching on New Year's Days, the games in Buffalo and Philly, in cold and snow, and always said it would be so cool to see it played in Dodger Stadium in 65 degrees (with fans) in shorts and T-shirts. The dream is going to come true." Dodger Stadium has hosted all kinds of non-baseball events over the last 50-plus years. The Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John and Michael Jackson. The Harlem Globetrotters, championship boxing matches and an Elvis Presley movie. Oh, right, Pope John Paul II also popped by in September, 1987 for a memorable Mass. It didn't rain that day, either.
Leading into this one, the Kings have games at Boston (Monday, noon, FSW) and at Columbus (Tuesday, 4 p.m., FSW) before facing the Ducks in Anaheim on Thursday (7 p.m., FSW) in a prelude to the big event.
Also: The NHL Stadium Series continues when the N.Y. Rangers face the N.J. Devils at Yankee Stadium, Sunday at 9:30 a.m., Channel 4.
No. 2 Hollywood Park Race Track Auction
Details: Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. each day:
There are already more than 1,200 items listed on the website of GA Global Partners, which is in charge of dispersing all the artifacts of the 75-year-old Inglewood race track that closed about a month ago. The live webcast at GAauction.com looks to have available anything from track maintenance equipment to concession stand fixtures, large pieces of artwork to betting tables and barstools, printing presses to jockey scales, tractors and golf carts, lawn jockey ornaments, outdoor heaters to benches. There's even the large infield scoreboard that seems to be up for grabs if you want to lug it home. How big a gamble are you willing to make that it'll fit in the back of your pickup?
No. 3 Tennis: Australian Open Women's Final
Details: Early Saturday morning at midnight, ESPN:
Serena Williams admitted last week that after seeing the new movie, "Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom," she would consider a return to the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells (March 3-16), a place she and sister Venus haven't played since 2001 because of bad feelings caused by heckling fans they believe was racially motivated. "It crossed my mind (to go back to Indian Wells) not too long ago when I went to see the movie," said Williams. "I thought about it." She's got more time to think after losing in the fourth round, leaving it a wide-open affair. Watch out for No. 3 seed Maria Sharapova, who has shown so far she can beat the heat.
(The final re-airs at 6 a.m. Saturday. The semifinals are Wednesday at 6:30 p.m., ESPN2)
No. 4 Tennis: Australian Open Men's Final
Details/TV: Early Sunday morning at midnight, ESPN:
The alignment of No. 1 seed Rafael Nadal meeting up with No. 2 and defending champion Novak Djokovic has stayed intact, despite Nadal complaining about the surface of the courts being too fast for his liking. "The spectators want a bit of rallying, a bit of tactics. People don't go to Barcelona's stadium to watch Lionel Messi taking penalties," said Toni Nadal, Rafa's uncle and coach. It's an analogy that we aren't all that aligned with. Rafael Nadal skipped the Aussie major last year during a seven-month layoff, and this is the only major he has not won at least twice. His only win previously there is 2009, and he lost an epic five-set final to Djokovic two years ago.
(The final re-airs at 6 a.m. Sunday. The semifinals are Wednesday at 12:30 a.m., ESPN and Thursday at 12:30 a.m., ESPN).
No. 5 College Basketball: UCLA vs. Cal
Details/TV: at Pauley Pavilion, Sunday at 5 p.m., ESPNU:
The Bears' 5-0 start in the Pac-12 Conference — look, they're tied at the top with Arizona — is no fluke. Senior point guard Justin Cobbs, the most recent recipient of the conference player of the week, leads Cal with 14.9 points and 6.4 assists a game. His former teammate at Torrance Bishop Montgomery High, Richard Solomon, is second in scoring at 12.1 and leads the team with 10.3 rebounds a contest. Assuming Cal knocks off USC on Wednesday, the Bears will have won their first four road conference games for the first time since 1957 when they face the Bruins.
Also this week:
UCLA vs. Stanford, Pauley Pavilion, Thursday at 8 p.m., Pac-12 Net
USC vs. Cal, Galen Center, Wednesday at 8 p.m., ESPNU
USC vs. Stanford, Sunday at 2 p.m., Pac-12 Net
No. 6 NBA: Lakers at Miami
Details/TV: Thursday at 5 p.m., TNT:
When they last exchanged pleasantries on Christmas Day, the only thing that's really memorable were a.) funky new T-shirt jerseys and b.) seeing Kobe Bryant watch from the bench having just been told he had a broken knee. LeBron James and his pals allowed the Lakers to hang around before finishing off a 101-95 victory.
The Lakers also this week:
at Chicago, Monday at 5 p.m., TWC SportsNet
at Orlando, Friday at 4 p.m., TWC Sports Net
at New York, Sunday at 12:30 p.m., Channel 7
No. 7 NBA: Clippers at Detroit
Details/TV: Monday at 10 a.m., Prime:
A Martin Luther King matinee play date in the Motor City seems just fine at this point in the endless road trip.
The Clippers also this week:
at Chicago, Friday at 5 p.m., Prime, ESPN
at Toronto, Saturday at 4 p.m., Prime
No. 8 Golf: PGA Farmers Insurance Open
Details/TV: at Torrey Pines, San Diego, Thursday-Sunday, Golf Channel, Channel 2:
Yup, it does seem as if Tiger Woods owns the place. The defending champ at this event has won it seven times since 1999, plus the 2008 U.S. Open on the same track. As for Sam Sneed's record of 82 Tour wins, Woods, who just turned 38, has four to go officially to catch him. Phil Mickelson, Rickie Fowler and Nick Watney are also committed to trying to derail him.
Final two rounds on Channel 2, noon to 3 p.m.
No. 9 NFL Pro Bowl
Details/TV: at Honolulu, Sunday at 4 p.m., Channel 4:
To make this even more a gimmicky than usual, the league decided to do away with conference affiliations and allow Deion Sanders and Jerry Rice to pick the two squads (see: NFL Network, Tuesday and Wednesday, 5 p.m. each night). They're calling this "Fantasy football – for real." The non-fantasy is that, after the selection process, the flag-football-type affair remains the same. Also: No more kickoffs. Just too dangerous.
No. 10 College football: Senior Bowl
Details/TV: at Mobile, Ala., Saturday at 1 p.m., NFL Network:
The rosters are still coming together, but nearly a dozen Pac-12 players are scheduled to participate, including UCLA receiver Shaq Evans and linebacker Jordan Zumwalt. Two-time Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year Will Sutton, the defensive tackle from Arizona State, will also attend.


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CRYSTAL LAKE – At 6 feet tall and 235 pounds, it's hard to imagine David Otunga was ever bullied.
The WWE star has made a career out of throwing opponents into the ropes, but as a young boy, the Elgin native was the victim of relentless teasing because of his weight and thick glasses.
Now Otunga uses his celebrity status to teach kids about the dangers of bullying, and on Tuesday he spoke to more than 300 middle school students at Prairie Grove Junior High.
"I was bullied when I was growing up, and I think that really shaped who I am today," said Otunga, who was connected to Prairie Grove through the Crystal Lake Park Police. "A lot of kids go through that."
Otunga's visit to Prairie Grove comes after the school experienced a flurry of teasing last week. Having Otunga address the school gave the students a role model who speaks out against that type of behavior, Principal Vic Wight said.
"The kids are looking up to a star figure and see that he got bullied, and hopefully that impacts them in how they treat other people," Wight said. "A student they think might not be exactly fitting in or looking like them is going to eventually be someone that they could look up to."
Otunga travels around the world speaking to schools about bullying. He explains how he was hurt from teasing and name calling, and offers advice to kids who are bullied.
"It's becoming a serious problem now with cyberbullying," he said. "It's everywhere. Now when you go home, you're not even safe. Online, kids are picking on you. You can't get away from it."
Otunga sees the effect of cyberbullying even as an adult, as WWE fanatics often send hateful and misguided messages to him on Twitter.
"In the WWE, I play a heel, or a bad guy," he said. "A lot of people don't know that I'm acting. On Twitter, people will really talk bad about me because I'm a 'bad guy.' I think that helps the kids because it lets them know that nobody is safe from bullying. Even I get bullied. What I'm trying to do is help them learn how to cope with it."
Otunga's path from a Larkin High School graduate to a WWE star and anti-bullying spokesman has a variety of stops in between. After attending the University of Illinois, Otunga went to Harvard Law School and later worked for the Sidley Austin law firm in Chicago.
He quit the firm in 2007 for a stint in reality television, as he was chosen to be a contestant on the dating show "I Love New York." Otunga made it to the final three and was eliminated on the second-to-last episode.
Today he is engaged to actress and Chicago native Jennifer Hudson and recently made his debut on the big screen as a police officer in the Halle Berry movie "The Call." He is also a frequent legal expert on HLN and has been on to discuss the Jodi Arias trial.
"I feel like I'm just like a regular guy," Otunga said. "It's still weird to me when people know me and get really excited about it. But if that helps you to pay more attention to what I'm saying, I'm all for it. That's great."


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We offer herb/food education to inspire people to reclaim responsibility for their health. Our medical herbalists show how to turn healing plants and foods into safe remedies for specific health problems.
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Living Medicine will pioneer a new kind of national visitor centre, its great World Garden grown with the public. Through a food market, caf� and more, the Centre will celebrate and update the world's plant medicine heritage, still used by the UK's diverse communities.
The Living Medicine Community Garden will help root medical herbalists into their local communities as a model of a new health resource. We will link with healing gardens around the world to share our experience and feed this into mainstream healthcare.
Our partner is SustainCare, a community interest company and is underpinned by the Plant Medicine database.
Living Medicine is a charity, initially funded by an UnLtd Millennium Award and Esm�e Fairbairn Foundation. It is currently developing its community health education work while seeking sites in central London for the prestigious Centre and the model community garden.


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They say the best way to deal with the awful pain of returning to work after a nice holiday is to start planning your next holiday.
Another way of dealing with Post-Holiday Trauma Syndrome would be to have a job you quite like doing - but we'll leave that dreary subject for the Career section; here in the Travel department, we reckon escapism cures all ills. So, for 2013, we've had a fresh redesign and we're sharpening our focus on the places Kiwis go and introducing new content: that means plenty of the Pacific, Australia and holidays within New Zealand.
We'll also dive into Europe - a magnet for New Zealand travellers - and look at the places rising on the Kiwi travel radar, like China and South America.
So, where to go in 2013?
The Kiwi dollar is strong, so Oz and the Pacific Islands remain attractive - in the year ahead we'll be running stories about these destinations ("Across the Ditch" and "Island Time") every week. That punchy dollar also means the US is worth a look and, in Ireland, they've picked 2013 as the year for people of Irish descent to pay a visit to the Old Country.
But don't lose sight of the postcard on your doorstep. All around the world, people are adding "visit New Zealand" to their list of travel aspirations for 2013. You've got a head start on them, take advantage of it.


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The "fossil record" is a term used by paleontologists to refer to the total number of fossils that have been discovered, as well as to the information derived from them. The problem with interpreting the fossil record is that most paleontologists also subscribe to the theory of evolution. They interpret the fossil record in the terms of a particular theory of evolution, inspect the interpretation, and note that it confirms the theory, which is not a surprise considering the starting point. Creationists, on the other hand, ascribe to the biblical account of creation. How, then, do creationists interpret the fossil record?
To answer this question, we need to begin with the premise that it is impossible for the Bible to contradict true science as God is the author of both. When a fallible human scientist's interpretation of a finding does not correspond with the clear teaching of the biblical texts, we should never reinterpret the Bible, as God's written Word is the final authority in all matters that it addresses. Yet that is what many in the church, as well as others in the Christian community, have been doing for far too long—reinterpreting Scripture to accommodate scientific findings. Consequently, we see a continual erosion of faith in the authority of Scripture.
Clearly, the many contributions made by the scientific community are staggering indeed. In one way or another everyone undeniably has benefited from their research and technological discoveries. However, the fields of paleontology and fossilology are highly prone to error. In the last century we have witnessed countless examples of "ground-breaking" discoveries that have ultimately been proven wrong. Recall, for example, the Coelacanth. Declared extinct for about 70 million years, this fish was thought by scientists to have been the fish that first walked out of the ocean on its way to becoming the ascendant of modern man. One can only imagine the disappointment in the scientific community when a fisherman caught one off the island of Madagascar in 1938. No lungs, no legs. Interestingly, many evolutionists believed the reason this fish disappeared from the fossil record is because they evolved into land-dwelling tetrapods. And here they are, still swimming in and around the Indian Ocean. No lungs, no legs. Yet how many fossils were dated to be roughly 70 million years old simply because their fossilized remains were found in the same strata as the fossilized remains of the "70 million-year-old" coelacanth. This is one example why using the geologic timescale to date the age of the Earth does not work.
Next, recall the "Nebraska Man" debacle. In the early 1920's a scientist found one single tooth from which he was, amazingly, able to draw an entire picture of what this particular "ape-man" looked like. The scientific community was ecstatic. In fact, this tooth was used in the 1925 Scopes trial as proof for human evolution. Two years later, however, other parts of this very same "Nebraska Man's" skeleton were found. It was determined that "Nebraska Man" was actually an extinct wild pig!
The vast majority of these discoveries come from a worldview that excludes God, the author, creator, and sustainer of life. Any scientific findings, at least those relative to God's creation, made outside the purview of a Christian worldview are suspect from the onset. As the principal methods for dating the fossils and rocks begin with a pre-suppositional paradigm that entails some form of evolution, its findings will often make sense biblically only if we alter Scripture to make them fit. The truth is that our vast fossil record is and always has been compatible with the global flood which God used to send judgment on the Earth. The flood was a violent geologic upheaval with enormous destructive power that not only destroyed all land-dwelling, air-breathing life (Genesis 9:21–23) but also changed the landscape of the entire planet. And the tens of millions of marine fossils found inland on practically every continent certainly dispels the notion of this deluge being "local," as some have argued.
Now, here is what we do know. Fossils represent death. And we further know that sin and then death came about as a result of Adam's disobedience, "just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin" (Romans 5:12). Now, there is some discussion as to whether or not there was plant and animal death before Adam's sin. However, that debate can be laid to rest when we consider that the last creative work of God was the making of man (Genesis 1:27). And when God finished His work and looked at "all that He had made" He deemed it all to be "very good" (Genesis 1:31). Now, as numerous fossil discoveries have clearly revealed violence and sickness and disease and even cancer, how possibly could our great and perfect Creator have declared a world filled with such abundant sickness, grief and "frustration" (see Romans 8:20) to be "very good"?
We further know that Jesus Christ told us Adam was made at the beginning of creation (Mark 10:6), and the genealogical lines given to us in Genesis 5 and 11 reveal the Earth to be roughly 6,000 years old. Accordingly, we can say with God-given confidence that the vast and abundant fossil record we have today was laid down within the last 6,000 years. Indeed, every fossil ever found, then, must have begun the fossilization process after Adam's sin introduced death and decay into our world. Now, of course the secular scientists would certainly deny this, but keep in mind they, for the most part, deny the occurrence of the biblical flood, even though God spent more time talking about it than He did in talking about the creation of the world or the fall of man.
Those who abide in the truth of God's inerrant Word are not the ones who need a paradigm shift. Nonetheless, the world will do its level best to shake us from our beliefs by teaching that truth is only knowable through the changing concepts of science. As Charles Haddon Spurgeon said in 1877: "… You and I are to take our Bibles and shape and mold our belief according to the ever-shifting teachings of so-called scientific men. What folly is this!"[1]
[1] Got Questions Ministries. (2010). Got Questions? Bible Questions Answered. Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.


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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is creating a Multi-Agency Coordination Group to improve management for Huanglongbing, or HLB, which causes the bacterial disease. And it's kicking in a $1 million to get it going.
Citrus greening causes fruit to green, become misshapen and taste bitter. It has devastated millions of acres of citrus crops throughout the United States. Florida and Georgia are under quarantine for HLB, and portions of California, Louisiana, South Carolina and Texas are also under quarantine for the disease. So are Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.
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The new framework will bring together USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Agricultural Research Service and National Institute of Food and Agriculture, along with state departments of agriculture and the citrus industry.
It'll be a single contact for all the federal and state entities that work on citrus issues and better enable the collective to collaborate on policy decisions, establish priorities, allocate critical resources, and collect, analyze, and disseminate information," said USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack Dec. 12 as he announced the effort.
Also of interest:
Can spinach proteins save the U.S. citrus industry?
Homeowners from Texas Valley to Mid-Coast warned about disease