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Setting the Stage: FATCA Compliance
For much of the last two years, the global financial community has been abuzz with discussion about the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), its timetable and its impact on the industry.
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by Tom Utescher
Starting last Thursday's home game with a natural hat trick, freshman Mike Melnychenko helped launch Chestnut Hill College to a 5-0 lead in a non-conference tilt with Immaculata University, setting the tone for a 13-5 Griffins victory.
Fellow CHC rookies Joe Caramante and Mike Landau also took part in the early outburst for the host team. Melnychenko finished with four goals and assist and Landau scored three times for the Griffins, who raised their overall record to 6-4 while remaining 2-4 within the East Coast Conference. Sophomore goalie Dakota Maurer compiled 16 saves for the victors.
Division III Immaculata (4-7) is a team you would expect the Division II Griffins to beat, but the men's lacrosse program at Chestnut Hill is only in its second season.
First-year head coach Brian Dougherty pointed out, "This is a team we lost to by five goals last season, so our kids were motivated. Coming out and jumping on them early, I think we let them know this wasn't going to be like last year."
The Mighty Macs didn't get on the board until after the first penalty of the game was called against the Griffins. This gave the visitors' Dante Tuscai an extra-man opportunity, and he converted with 1:49 to go in the opening period. Chestnut Hill junior Kevin Festa, the only player on the roster who is not a freshman or sophomore, scored with 14 seconds remaining to make it 6-1 at the quarter. In a relatively uneventful second stanza, the teams traded goals to arrive at a 7-2 tally for halftime.
The Mighty Macs had more ball possession than the score suggests, and at the end they had an advantage over the Griffins in both face-offs (12-9) and ground balls (23-19).
"I'm still a little worried about our face-off game," Coach Dougherty admitted. "We need somebody to step up there if we're going to make any noise in our last four conference games."
After the halftime break, CHC snuffed out any hopes of an Immaculata comeback, scoring in the first minute of the third quarter and leading 10-2 by the end of the frame. The Griffins' largest lead of the game, 10 points, came with 9:29 left in the fourth quarter, when sophomore Mark Winkelspecht whipped in a shot from the top of the offensive set to make it 13-3. Winkelspecht and Festa each came away with one goal and two assists on the day.
Over the last month, Dougherty has observed an improvement in Chestnut Hill's transition game.
"Now it's just a progression from there, getting in our sets, throwing the ball around and having some fluidity on offense," he said. "We're starting to get there."
As his club enters the stretch run in the regular season, the Griffins' skipper noted "We're not putting in anything new or different. We're just working on keeping the guys fresh, keeping our energy level up, and fine-tuning what we have in the playbook right now."

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By ANTHONY McCARTNEY
Associated Press
A dancer who worked with Michael Jackson throughout his career testified on Wednesday that she told the director of Jackson's ill-fated concert tour that she was worried about the singer's health.
Witness Alif Sankey told a jury deciding a lawsuit that the pop star appeared thin and unprepared in 2009 for the rigors of his planned comeback concerts known as "This Is It."
The singer showed up at one rehearsal with shoes that had holes in the soles, missed rehearsals and appeared much thinner than earlier in his career, Sankey testified.
Sankey showed jurors an email she wrote to tour director Kenny Ortega in early June 2009, urging him to try to improve Jackson's health and spirits. She never got a direct reply but testified that Ortega raised the concerns with concert promoter AEG Live.
"Please help me help you to get him back into that Magical Light, please let me help you help him find what was lost, his GRAIL," Sankey wrote to Ortega, who she had worked closely with for a number of years.
Testimony showed Ortega copied Sankey on several email messages that he sent to AEG executives about Jackson's condition and the need for him to receive physical therapy and better nutrition.
"He requires more attention and management," Ortega wrote in one email. "I truly believe he needs nourishment guidance and physical therapy (massage) for his fatigued muscles and injuries. He is not in great physical shape. I believe he's hurting."
Sankey met Jackson while working on his 1987 video for "Smooth Criminal" and was an associate producer and planned to dance onstage during "This Is It."
She was testifying at the trial of a negligent hiring lawsuit filed by Jackson's mother against AEG Live LLC. Katherine Jackson claims AEG failed to properly investigate the doctor who was caring for her son and later administered a fatal dose of the anesthetic propofol to the singer in June 2009.
The promoter has denied wrongdoing and its attorneys have said the singer hid his addiction to propofol. Jackson's former physician, Conrad Murray, was convicted in 2011 of involuntary manslaughter.
Plaintiff's attorney Brian Panish asked Sankey about one message in which AEG executive Paul Gongaware told Ortega that he planned to talk to Murray.
"We want to remind him that it is AEG, not MJ who is paying his salary," the message said. "We want him to understand what is expected of him."
Sankey said she based some of her impressions of Jackson over the years on how he felt when they hugged.
"When I hugged him, he just felt like marble," Sankey said about Jackson early in his career. "But when I hugged, when I saw him briefly in 2006, he didn't feel like that anymore. He felt thin."
On cross-examination, Sankey acknowledged that her impressions were formed from brief interactions with the singer and she never had a long conversation with him.
She was, however, trusted enough to be around Jackson's children, whose privacy he fiercely protected.
Sankey testified that Paris Jackson once shared a secret, saying she didn't want her father to find out about candy stuffed inside her purse.
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Apologies to Mr. Funk.
Posted by ESC on June 13, 2004
In Reply to: Apologies to Mr. Funk. posted by Smokey Stover on June 13, 2004
: : : : : : : : : I can't find the phrase "Theres more than one way to skin a cat". Is it here or did I just miss it? I hear this phrase accaisionally from older folks. Thanks.
: : : : : : : : : Try typing "skin a cat" and that should do it!
: : : : : : : From the archives:
: : : : : : : SKIN THE CAT - According to Charles Earle Funk in "A Hog on Ice" (Harper & Row, New York, 1948) the expression "to skin the cat" refers to a boy's gymnastic trick: "In America, as any country boy knows, this means to hang by the hands from a branch or bar, draw the legs up through the arms and over the branch, and pull oneself up into a sitting position. As we must abide by the record, we cannot say positively that the name for this violent small-boy exercise is more than a century old, but it is highly likely that Ben Franklin or earlier American lads had the same name for it. No one got around to putting it into print until about 1845. One can't be sure why the operation was called 'skinning the cat,' but maybe some mother, seeing it for the first time, saw in it some resemblance to the physical operation of removing the pelt from a cat, first from the forelegs and down over the body." Mr. Funk doesn't say WHY anyone would actually skin a cat, but anyway.
: : : : : : : : : "Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings" by Gregory Y. Titelman (Random House, New York, 1996) lists the expression "more than one way to skin a cat" but doesn't really address the origin. Mr. Titelman does say it dates back to the 1678: "MORE THAN ONE WAY TO SKIN A CAT --There are many ways to do something. The proverb appeared in John Ray's collection of English proverbs in 1678, and is first attested in the United States in 'John Smith's Letters' . 'There are more ways to kill a cat besides choking him to death' is a variant of the saying. The words 'with butter' or 'on cream' may replace the words 'to death' in the latter version."
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: : : : : : why even give the 1948 comment space on here?
: : : : : : when there are clearly much older origins, to give space to Americocentric [email protected] again?
: : : : : : FFS - the world existed before 1776 or even 1492 and English was around a long time before Americans (apart from the native ones they got rid of).
: : : : : : if the Whole 9 yards turned out to be an American expression or first in print in the US Fine! I have no problem with that, but please spare us the fairly recent US usages for Old World phrases.
: : : : : : If you are a frequent visitor to this site, you are already aware that the language evolves differently in various parts of the world and we have contributors from different lands and backgrounds. Those who answer requests on this site do so from a variety of sources that deserve to be read and considered. Should you have other sources on the origin of any words and phrases you are more than welcome to contribute them here.
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: : : : this board spreads across the world and folk come from all quarters of the globe to discuss words and phrases. I have become email friends with Americans through this board, so don't see me as xenophobic. what gets my goat is when a phrase of obviously old origin - often using very comonplace words is cited with a fairly modern US origin. there have been lots of examples over the time that I have posted on here.
: : : : maybe I don't speak for many, but mentioning some bod in 1948 trying to create a link with Benjamin Franklin for an Old World English phrase is compounding an error in my opinion and it should be discouraged.
: : : : there are times when such references are appropriate, but this is not one.
: : : Hit one wrong key and you're in deep do-do! That's why there's a superfluous entry under my name. Anyway, would any American say "Americocentric"? We Yankees can be chauvinistic, even jingoistic, but Americocentric? Never! (We residents of the U.S. are Americans, but our land is the U.S. or U.S.A. After all, the entire New World is America. We Americans just inhabit part of it.) I tried to debunk Mr. Funk's explanation of "skin a cat" twice on this site, but it just keeps popping up. Nobody ever looks at the archives. And at least twice more before the year's end someone will ask about skinning the cat, and Mr. Funk will be cited. Give the man a break--anyone can make a mistake. He and some other authors have worked hard to assemble information about popular sayings, and occasionally they err. What a surprise! If that phrase, "There's more than one way to skin a cat," falls into desuetude I, for one, shall not be sorry. What an ugly expression! SS
: : Explain to me why you think Mr. Funk is wrong? He is talking about the name given to a trick that young boys like to do. It may or may not have anything to do with the proverb that the second reference traces back to the 1600s.
: Sorry if I'm kicking a dead horse, but when Mr. Funk was cited in connection with the saying, "There's more than one way..." etc., I inferred, perhaps incorrectly, that the citation from his book, although only partial, was intended to refer to the saying, not solely to the expression "skin the cat," which he claims was popular among American boys in some location at some time. Well, Mr. Funk may not have been wrong about "There's more" etc., but I have yet to hear that anyone besides Mr. Funk knows first-hand that any significant number of American boys performed the specified maneuver to which he gives the name "skin the cat." Funk is presumably trying to explain common sayings and phrases. Is "skin the cat," referring to said boyish maneuver, a common saying, phrase or expression? Perhaps it was somewhere, sometime, but where and when? And just how common? SS
I was just posting the information as grist for the discussion mill. I am protective of Mr. Funk. His was the first phrase book I bought.
The Americocentric charge is very annoying. I am from the U.S. and my reference books are either published in the U.S. or Britain. However, most of the authors have done extensive research and cite uses of a phrase in other countries. My last word on the subject: If anybody wants to buy me some books published in other countries, I will be glad to set up a post office box and accept donations.
- Apologies to Mr. Funk? he has enough apologists. Ann Oyd 14/June/04


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Published 12:23 p.m. ET -- Although stung by attacks from his former Republican colleagues in the Senate, Chuck Hagel is bracing to fight back against his critics and has no intention of withdrawing as the nominee to be Defense Secretary, according to the former senator's brother.
"He's not going to walk away from this," said Tom Hagel, who spoke to his older brother about the looming confirmation battle on Sunday night. "The way he's responding to this, he's just going to fight harder."
Tom Hagel's comments to NBC News came Monday just moments before Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), chairman of the Senate Armed Services committee, announced the panel will vote Tuesday on Hagel's nomination.
White House spokesman Jay Carney responds to questions regarding Sen. Lindsay Graham's intention to fight the nomination of Chuck Hagel as defense secretary.
They also came amid mounting signs that some Republican senators are gearing up to try and fight it with a filibuster. On Sunday, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, a member of the committee, vowed to put a hold on the nomination -- as well as that of John Brennan to be CIA director -- if the administration does not provide more information about the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, the ranking Republican on the Armed Services panel, said he was weighing a filibuster.
But other Republicans senators, including Arizona Sen. John McCain, Roy Blunt (R-MO), and Susan Collins (R-ME) -- have said they would not support a filibuster. It's not clear Graham would have the votes to go through with one.
There was also speculation the former Nebraska senator might pull his name as a result. Widely respected defense analyst Tom Ricks wrote Friday he believed there was a 50-50 chance Hagel would withdraw.
Tom Hagel, who served with his older brother in the Army during Vietnam and sat behind him during his rocky Jan. 31st confirmation hearing, described Chuck Hagel as "committed" and "optimistic" that he will be confirmed as Defense Secretary.
"I don't think there is any possibility" he will withdraw-unless he's asked to do so by President Obama, Tom Hagel said.
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Former Senator Chuck Hagel testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee during his confirmation hearing to become the next secretary of defense on Capitol Hill January 31, 2013 in Washington, DC.
The White House appeared to shoot down any hint of that Monday.
"We are absolutely committed to the Hagel nomination," said Tommy Vietor, a White House spokesman.
Tom Hagel said his brother was "shocked" by the level of personal animosity to his nomination from his former GOP colleagues in the Senate.
He also indicated that both he and his brother were upset about the blizzard of TV ads from anonymously funded advocacy groups attacking his nomination, calling the ads "absolutely gutless." He added, "If these people have integrity and believe in what they are doing, why don't they put their names to it?"
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To all the Wave Music Forum Readers And Users:
Effective immediately, we have decided to switch the new user registration to a moderated system, so that the rash of automated spambot registrations goes away.
The amount of new members posting ads for pr0n, cheap meds, incredible deals on cell phones and the likes has slowly gotten so out of hand that at this point we do not have any alternative but to force those new users who want to register to go through these extra steps, which hopefully will help weed out the undesirable elements, while only being a minor inconvenience to those new members that truly want to be part of this growing community.
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6th level coll. lib. log begins [stack level 6, locked cage area in Powell]. 1968 Mar 12-1971 Aug 25.
Project requests. 1968-1981.
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Space. 1982.
Unit briefing.
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Performance expectations.
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Northridge quake 1994 labor record for California Office of Emergency Services.
1984 Olympics.
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Complete guide to searching ORION, revised (2 copies). 1982.
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There have been many changes over the last couple of years within Empired and now with over 800 employees across Australia, New Zealand and Seattle, we now have a much more extensive array of skills encompassing consulting, design and implementation and managed services.
Our acquisition of Conducive in 2012 broadened our skill base into agile application development and support, whilst more recent acquisitions of OBS, eSavvy and Intergen has transformed us into one of the largest Microsoft regional partners with 10 Gold Certifications and deep skills across collaboration, social, systems management, information management, BI, CRM, ERP and Cloud.
One of our primary objectives on this journey has been to ensure that we continue to foster the depth of technical expertise that characterises these companies and combine that with a broader business outcome based approach. We are also focussed on ensuring we remain an agile, flexible partner that is easy to do business with.
As part of this evolution, we are phasing out the use of the acquired company names and consolidating on Empired as a single integrated brand, offering a much more comprehensive array of services in a cohesive manner. This has been reflected in a modernising of the brand and a new visual identity and colour scheme.
Many of our existing branded materials and collateral have already been moved over the new brand, along with this new and improved Empired website.
Whilst the branding has been updated for Empired, this will not affect our customers if you have contracts with one of our subsidiaries. We will maintain these company names and ABNs as fully owned subsidiaries and contracts would only need to be transitioned over time as convenient.
We are confident this will be a positive for all of our customers who can now enjoy an enhanced variety of product and service solutions, a broader scope of expertise and a stronger local presence throughout Australia.
We look forward to sharing this exciting journey with you, and if you have any questions about the new Empired brand, please don't hesitate to reach out to your Empired representative.
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I then posted FTM2014 - Thought about Shaky Leaves and FTM2014 - Thought about Shaky Leaves - Follow up
Since I started this project, I wanted to help find that answer to Randy's question. The simple answer is that "It's NOT All Online". But, since I started, I really wanted to see what I would find if I started just capturing the "low hanging fruit" from Ancestry.com and the Shaky Leaves.
I thought that I would submit a process report:
My small file has grown a bit. One Shaky Leaf led to another, and pretty quickly there was an Index hint to a Find-A-Grave memorial page. I have had a Find-A-Grave presentation that I have used for a while, and have two more chances in 2014 to do it again. So, I decided to see what Find-A-Grave could do for this project. The growth in people, came from Find-A-Grave. But, so has the number of Hints to follow. I will get back to them in a couple of days.
Of the 206 people in the database, I have 66 Death Dates, and only 15 people that I haven't found (yet) on Find-A-Grave.
The good news is that of all of the FACTs in this file, the Undocumented Fact reports that I have there are NO facts without documentation. All of my Research Notes for each person is up to date, but my ToDo List is up to 94 items, and growing.
But the really cool thing about this is that through Find-A-Grave, I would be able to contact 2 living contributors to this family for Randy, if his friend wanted to do this. These two people submitted or are maintaining 38 Find-A-Grave memorials. Watching what was on the Memorial and some of the comments, two obituaries on the memorial page led to these two living people.
I did take a break and found two more generations of people in the Direct Line for John. The Ancestry Member Tree is private, but Randy has access to it if he wishes to view it.
Now back to research and updating of my presentation. Thanks Randy !!!!
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Topic: Super Mario RPG
So, I've been on a major Super Mario RPG kick lately. Because my boyfriend got it for me on the Virtual Console last month. <3 And I was wondering if anyone here likes the game as well. Or has it. Or even knows what I'm talking about. XD
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Let Cousins Find You
It one of the subtitles in the handout piece of Jeffrey Bockman I received Wednesday when I heard him speak at the "Genealogy and Local History" conference in Ottawa last week.
And it had a direct application for me because when I checked my email Wednesday night after I got home, there was a note from a man, Peter Budgell in Burlington, Ontario, telling me that he had a picture of Andrew BARCLAY (1814-1866).
I have been searching for my g-g-g-uncle for a number of years - six years, in fact!
Peter finally answered my email query with a picture. It was more than I could have hoped for - and there was Andrew right in front of my eyes! He had gotten the picture from his Mom's aunt, and there he was - Andrew!
(He was the son of James Barclay, the grandson of Andrew Barclay who worked in Shelburne, Nova Scotia. Around 1860, he and his two sons left Shelburne and went to the West Indies, where he and his son died of yellow fever. His youngest son left for New York.)
And this morning I received another email from Peter saying that there still is material I haven't ime to digest.
The sons and daughters of Andrew——so sketchy in the book that I have almost finished on the progenitor Andrew BARCLAY——will now be just a little closer to getting done.
So Jeffrey Bockman was right when he said, "Let Cousins Find You", for, as he added, "Passive Genealogy can be very helpful".
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Making predictions is a time-honored American tradition. Being right can make a career (see Meredith Whitney's warning on bank stocks in 2007), but being wrong can bring scorn (see Meredith Whitney on a muni bond collapse in 2010).
Financial professionals, politicians and members of the media have provided plenty of examples of prognostications gone wrong over the years. From the Great Depression (Irving Fisher) to the auto business (Business Week magazine) to the state of the mortgage industry (Rep. Barney Frank), there is no shortage of examples.
Here, then, is AdvisorOne's list of the Top 10 Terrible Predictions About Economy.
Book: "The Great Depression of 1990"
An economics professor at Southern Methodist University who churns out best-selling books, Ravi Batra is known for his predictions. Some have been close to the mark, like those made in the early 1980s that foresaw low inflation, cheap oil and a spate of mergers later in that decade. Others, like the spectacular failure in the title of his 1987 book, have left much to be desired. The New York Times reported that 40 publishers rejected that book. Maybe it should have been 41.
Touted derivatives as risk free
Alan Greenspan was the head of the Fed for nearly two decades. When he appeared before Congress to testify on the state of the economy, his vague answers were studied and interpreted by the economists, the media and financial professionals. A mistimed cough could move markets. Maybe more attention should have been paid to statements like this one Greenspan made in 2005, in which he saw no risks in derivatives, the financial instruments that helped topple the economy in 2008:
"The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions … Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks."
8. JOSEPH CASSANO, AIG financial products head, 2007
Sang the praises of credit default swaps
Of all the arcane products developed by the financial services industry, credit default swaps might be the most complicated.
Why, even Cassano claimed it was all the auditors' fault when things went south for AIG, the largest insurance company in the U.S., leading to a $182 billion taxpayer bailout in 2008. It made Cassano's 2007 statement seem quaint:
"It is hard for us, without being flippant, to even see a scenario within any kind of realm of reason that would see us losing one dollar in any of these [credit default swap] transactions."
A scant year later no imagination was necessary. The problem was all too real.
"Read my lips, no new taxes."
The first President Bush was firmly part of the "Reagan Revolution." The anti-tax fervor of the country could not be ignored by any politician, and certainly not the vice president to the "Great Communicator" himself.
So what else was a candidate to do at the 1988 GOP convention? Bush's pledge drove the party faithful wild and helped him get elected.
Alas, a sinking economy and his backing of tax increases doomed his presidency to a single term as Bill Clinton used the vow against him.
He probably wished there weren't any lip readers.
6. JAMES GLASSMAN and KEVIN HASSETT, 1999
Book: "Dow 36,000"
In 1999, the future of the U.S. economy looked bright. The Dow was soaring and even a prediction of it reaching 36,000 didn't seem totally crazy.
It turns out it was. A little bump in the road called the dot.com bubble slowed the market. And Glassman has written since that the world economy and the U.S. had changed, rendering his prediction obsolete. Oh well, that has stopped the executive director of the George W. Bush Institute from writing books advising a new generation of investors to be cautious.
As for Hassett, he continued making predictions, including another failed prognostication in 2008:
"The Federal Reserve and Congress have delivered a ton of economic stimulus, and that stimulus is set to juice up an economy that has been weak, but not terrible. If everything goes according to plan, the economy will grow faster in the second half of the year, and a recession will have been avoided."
Live and learn. Or not.
Predicted collapse of muni bond market in 2011
Whitney made her fortune picking stocks as an executive at Oppenheimer & Co. and then running her own eponymous firm. She earned a soapbox on CNBC among other cable networks and bolstered her stature with an early warning on bank stocks in 2007, long before the financial meltdown proved her right.
But Whitney pressed her luck in the prediction department a year ago when she declared that the municipal bond market was ready for a fall–a big fall. As in splat, with "50 to 100" big defaults possible.
Critics howled. "60 Minutes" put her in the spotlight in December. Then she ducked Congress when it wanted her to testify. Meanwhile, muni bonds have been hanging in there–but she does have nearly two months left for her prediction to come true.
Defended the financial solvency of Freddie and Fannie
Barney Frank is known for his liberal politics, his openness on being gay and his quick wit, once saying he couldn't finish the report on the Monica Lewinsky scandal "because there was too much heterosexual sex" in it. He has backed many civil rights causes, including reparations for the victims of Japanese American internment during World War II.
He was outspoken in his disdain for the financial industry and put his name and political muscle as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee behind the Dodd-Frank Act to tighten the regulations on the industry. Some say he's way too liberal and say some he's not, but all would likely say Frank was wrong when on July 14, 2008, he said:
"I think this is a case where Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are fundamentally sound. They're not in danger of going under … I think they are in good shape going forward."
By September of that year, both mortgage institutions were in dire straits and placed in conservatorship of the U.S. government, and continue to suck up billions in bailout dollars.
Played down danger of bank failures
In early 2008, the Fed chief told Congress that there might be some trouble in the banking industry, but it wouldn't be too bad:
"I expect there will be some failures. … I don't anticipate any serious problems of that sort among the large internationally active banks that make up a very substantial part of our banking system."
Well, things got a little bit worse than Big Ben expected. You might remember there were a couple stories in the news about it. In September 2008, Washington Mutual collapsed and Citigroup followed in November.
2. BUSINESS WEEK magazine, Aug. 2, 1968
Japanese autos no threat to U.S. manufacturers
Detroit was riding high in the 1960s. Everyone knew U.S. automakers made the best cars. Sure, Japanese cars were starting to find their way to California, but no worries, right? Business Week captured the mindset of executives at Ford, GM and Chrysler:
"With over 15 types of foreign cars already on sale here, the Japanese auto industry isn't likely to carve out a big share of the market for itself."
By the 1980s, the prediction was long proved false. The U.S. automakers were facing a serious assault from Toyota, Honda and others.
The higher costs and inferior products of U.S. auto makers helped the Japanese manufacturers continue their ascent. Finally, the American carmakers started to get their act together, delivering better cars and, ironically, using the sinking economy to win givebacks from unions and help from the government. Only Ford managed to come back without taxpayer help.
economist, 1929
Predicted stock market had hit permanently high level just before the crash
Fisher was a well-known economist of the early 20th century working from Yale, where he taught. He was credited with a few theories—the Fisher equation and debt deflation among them—and he was known for his social activism, including arguing in favor of racial segregation as a member of the American Eugenics Society.
No less an economist than Milton Friedman called Fisher the "greatest economist" the country had ever produced. But the Great Depression was his undoing in the public consciousness.
Three days before the Oct. 29 market crash, Fisher uttered the words that would come to haunt him: "Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."
Fisher stood by his belief in the market for more than two months and the damage to his reputation was done.
He did manage to develop his debt deflation theory, which postulated that a credit bubble was to blame for the Great Depression. Rejected in favor of Keynes at the time, the idea was revived in the last three decades. Better late than never.
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Could Jaso be a AL ROY Dark Horse?
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As a dark horse, yeah, I can see it… but I think that Boesch has it locked up. I will admit, his cool demeanor is definitely impressive.
I agree with you, but with Austin Jackson also having a great year, East Coast writers know Jackson's names as a Yankee prospect and might show some love to his cause too.
That is one of the things that suck when you have two guys hit a high level at the same time…Sometimes something has to give. I like Boesch and think he would be a great candaidate. But I have also seen what Jaso has done personally,and learning on the run at the catcher's position is hard enough, but doing it on a contender is fantastic.
Rays Renegade
I'd also like to mention the Rangers' Neftali Feliz is still a rookie and is sure to garner votes. It may not be an offensive player who will get it this year!
I know Feliz is having a bang-up year, but for some reason I think he will not garner in the Top 3. Closing is an art form, and Feliz has done an amazing job.
There is a bit of doubt in my mind a pitcher could get the award this season. If I believed that, the Rays Wade Davis would also be in that Top 5.
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Looks like he's got a shot…I always like to root for the underdog :O) And hey, season's not done yet…anything can happen!
29 short games to go, then it is onto the grand fun and games of the post season.
Sure Jaso has as good a chance as his other four cometitors, but I truly think he is a peg in the Rays success. He might not get the press of Crawford or Longoria, but he is a vital part of the Rays getting to this point through his defensive proweness.
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Jaso is having a fantastic year, and will definately recieve votes. My vote goes to Austin Jackson. I believe that teams all over the country have felt thw wrath of this rookie all year. I looked at the ststas of all rookies in the majors and I was surprised to see his name on that list to be honest. I thought that Jackson played full time last year, but that could have been just a call up. You also mentioned Justin Smoak. I for sure can not see him getting a single vote. He is a AAA ball player and hasnt really shown anything special at the major league level except a bit of power, followed by about 10 K's.
Thanks for posting on my blogs site Renegade. I am just getting it up and running and want to learn more about how it works. I see yours with the pictures and all that if I need help i can just look at yours and get ideas. I like your set up.
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First off, love that name.
Secondly, thanks for the comments. I try and do something different. Everyone posts basically a game reacap on their blogs. I try and go to a different spot and throw some other light up on the subject or hit something a llittle more abstract at times. Smoak to me was one of the "hearled ones".
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Ottolenghi's chargrilled broccoli with chilli and garlic
Here's a lovely recipe adapted from London-based Yotam Ottolenghi's first cookbook, Ottolenghi: The Cookbook. The book is full on inspiring vegetarian dishes that I've been drooling over - and cooking - over and over again. I've already blogged about two of the dishes - roasted aubergine/eggplant with saffron yogurt and a refreshing cucumber and poppy seed salad, and here's a lovely vegan side dish using broccoli. I've reduced the amount of oil used in the recipe considerably, but otherwise it's following the book.
Chargrilled broccoli with chilli and garlic
(Röstitud spargelkapsas tšilli ja küüslauguga)
Serves 4
500 g broccoli
4 Tbsp olive oil
4 to 5 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
2 mild red chillies, deseeded and thinly sliced
sea salt flakes and freshly ground black pepper
To garnish:
toasted almond slices or thinly sliced lemon
Separate the broccoli into florets and blanch in boiling water for 2 minutes and not longer! Immediately refresh under cold running water to stop further cooking, then drain and leave to dry completely.
Once the broccoli is dry, toss with 3 Tbsp of the olive oil and season generously with salt and pepper. Place a griddle pan on high heat and leave for 4 to 5 minutes until smoking hot. Grill the broccoli in batches on the hot pan, turning to get lovely charmarks on all sides. When ready, transfer into a heatproof bowl.
While the broccoli is cooking, place the remaining Tbsp of oil in a small saucepan together with sliced garlic and chillies and cook on a medium heat until the garlic begins to turn golden brown. Be careful not to let the garlic and chilli burn – they will continue cooking in the hot oil even when off heat. Pour the garlic and chilli oil over the hot broccoli florets and toss well.
Season to taste, sprinkle with almond slices or lemon slices and serve immediately or at room temperature.
5 comments:
- Kalyn Denny said...
Oh yes. I love that cookbook and this sounds amazing. (And that sounds like plenty of oil to me, lol!)
- 6:20 pm, December 04, 2011
- Sara said...
I almost made this friday night (but opted for a pasta dish-for a more filling meal--which I hope to post soon). How funny! I will be making it soon though.
- 4:42 pm, December 05, 2011
- Pille said...
Kalyn - I agree - 3 Tbsp was more than Plenty! :D
Sara - highly recommended, and broccoli is so good for you as well!
- 8:48 am, December 11, 2011
- Aggie said...
This sounds amazing. I have a newer grill basket that I've been experimenting with, can't believe I haven't thought to put broccoli in it! Will be trying this for sure! Btw...found you from Kalyn's site! Thanks for the great healthy recipe! :)
- 9:38 pm, January 02, 2012
- Pille said...
Aggie - so happy to welcome another reader! Hope you'll love broccoli prepared this way!
- 5:21 pm, January 03, 2012
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The $500 Milkshake Is Coming Soon to Destroy Your Wallet
This drink will milk you for all you're worth.
The Powder Room, a new Hollywood club opening this week, will offer a $500 milkshake to customers who really like milkshakes and really have a lot of money just lying around. We'll wait while you clean up that mess after the milk came out your nose.
There are no photos of the expensive beverage, but word is the drink will feature "premium spirits, Belgian chocolate and edible gold," as well a souvenir Swarovski ring, which is worth about $190.
Powder Room owner John Arakaki said, "We wanted to offer an experience where guests could take something special home with them, and it's perfect for a bachelorette party or a special occasion."
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Ok… So you are Second Life blogger? Then this might be interesting for you!
So if you are Second Life blogger with or without Business, I found a Blog which might be interesting for you. The Blog is called Blogging Second Life and it´s a Project of Cajsa Lilliehook, Evelyn Hartshon and a few other Volunteers. Basicly explained they build a comprehensive Directory for Second Life blogger and stores/creators. They wrote it consists of three sections.
1. Blogs – a directory of travel, commentary, magazine, fashion, roleplay and other blogs about Second Life.
2. The Stores and Creators Lists – a directory of SL businesses with links to creator profiles (for slurls), store blogs and marketplace storefronts
3. Connections Databases. Bloggers who accept review copies are encouraged to add their information to the searchable database for creators to use to find new bloggers for their items. Musicians and DJs are also encouraged to add their info to an Entertainment database for event planners and club owners to use when looking for new dj's and musicians.
You can register your Second Life related Blog and Second Life related Business adresses like your Marketplace Link or SURL there. I found the idea of this kind of Directory pretty great and registered there too. You just need to fill out the form but it´s pretty great explained on their Directory Blog.
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Former president Bill Clinton has joined the Obama administration in exploiting the Taryvon Martin case in what is now obviously a concerted effort to roll back the Second Amendment.
Clinton told ABC News that Stand Your Ground Laws – the right of a person to defend himself with deadly force when there is reasonable belief of a threat – should be struck down.
He said "the American people should re-examine their position on [Stand Your Ground] and ask: Is this really worth it? Are we really all that much safer taking the chance that this kind of thing could happen over and over and over again?"
In other words, according to Clinton, the American people do not have a right to defend themselves.
Clinton's comments can be viewed in a video on the ABC News website.
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Stem-cell experiment on pigs seen as step forward in repairing heart damage
A medical research team led by University of Miami doctors injected stem cells into the hearts of pigs that had been damaged by heart attacks. Within two months, the doctors said, the stem cells made the pigs' hearts good as new.
For humans, the research represents another promising step toward healing the damage from heart attacks, the No. 1 cause of death in the United States, killing more than 800,000 people a year.
The treatment resulted in rapid healing in the pigs, said Dr. Joshua Hare, a cardiologist at UM Medical School and director of its Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute, where research was done.
"In two weeks, their heart function was almost back to normal. In two months, they were absolutely back to normal," he said. "If we can achieve even 50 percent of that in humans, it will have a major impact."
Hare said he hopes that within a decade, the procedure might be routine in humans, and that similar therapy might be available for the liver, kidney, pancreas, brain, even for strokes and limbs badly injured in battle.
The new study, published in the July 29 issue of Circulation Research, a journal of the American Heart Association, builds on another UM study published in December. In that study, immature "mesenchymnal" human stem cells extracted from bone marrow and infused into the hearts of human heart-attack victims made their hearts less prone to dangerous arrhythmias and better able to pump blood.
That study prompted widespread debate among scientists over how the stem cells were able to promote healing in the heart. The greatest significance of the new research that it explains the healing process, Hare says.
"Scientists always want to know why," he said. "You can't really go forward with research unless you understand what's going on."
Dr. Robert Simari, vice chairman of cardiology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., who had read the study but did not take part in it, supported its significance.
"This is a unique insight," he said. "The field has been hindered by a lack of understanding of this mechanism. This shines new light on how these things work."
The new UM study found that the stem cells helped the heart in two ways. First, some of the stem cells -- injected into the heart via catheter into the groin and up the femoral artery -- actually turned into new, healthy heart cells themselves. They replaced heart tissue killed by the heart attack, and became part of the heart muscle that contracts and beats to circulate the blood.
Another part of the injected stem cells didn't turn into new heart cells but instead induced stem cells already existing in the heart to greatly multiply, building more heart muscle.
Doctors had known the human heart contained some of its own stem cells, whose function is to repair and regenerate the heart. The heart's stem cells work like the stem cells in hair follicles, which induce the hair to grow back after a haircut, Hare said. But the heart was thought to have too few of them to fully repair itself.
In the new experiment, the injected stem cells caused an explosion of growth in the heart's own stem cells, which turned into heart muscle cells.
"They helped create 20 times the number of the body's own heart stem cells," Hare said.
The study demonstrates another way to use immature human stem cells that avoids the use of embryonic stem cells, which are controversial because creating them destroys human embryos.
Another advantage is that the experiment worked with stem cells from the bone marrow of unrelated donors, which -- for reasons not entirely clear yet -- do not seem to carry the same risk of rejection by the recipient's body, which is a serious problem with heart and kidney transplants.
Stem cells extracted from the patient's own bone marrow also can be used, but they need three weeks of purification and proliferation to be ready, delaying treatment for the ailing heart.
New studies are under way to see which method -- using cells from a donor or the patient -- works better, Hare said.
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In this taut, chilling audiobook, Lester Ballard - a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape - haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail. While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical brilliance.
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Soaring description of base depravity
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I rarely take the time to recommend an audio book, but it this case I must. Cormac McCarthy's usual grimness is elevated to art not just by his majestic writing but by the spot-on narration. I cannot imagine that reading this could have even half the impact of listening to it. Go listen.
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And HE has sent me here?
Look, I've read a lot of Cormac McCarthy and this is definitely not your Mother's McCarthy. I think this novel was the final pupa-state before McCarthy emerged as an absolute dark monster of fiction and heir to Faulkner's as ambassador to the strange malevolence of America's soul.
It wasn't as absurdly redeeming as 'Suttrre' or as coldly beautiful as 'Blood Meridian', but had the surreal shock and awe of both. His themes of isolation, perversity, depravity and violence make you feel like climbing into bed with Hannibal Lector or Jame Gumb for warmth and spiritual succor.
A great novel, just not a novel that everyone should read. Wander into the dark, damp cave of this McCarthy novel at your own risk.
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Cormac McCarthy is just odd. Good, but odd.
First off - great story, and fantastic narration.
Second, it jumps. The storyline. I know that's a thing for McCarthy, and on a written page I bet it's (hopefully) a little more obvious. But in narration, there's spots that I doubled back, even tripled back, a few times, trying to understand what was going on. Once I got it, the story moved quickly and with such great detail and description, I knew exactly what was happening; but it was those odd scene changes that were jarring, all the way through the book.
This is not my first Cormac novel; (No Country For Old Men, which is amazing to read); so I knew what to expect with the graphic violence, (which didn't bother me at all) or sexual deviance, (also didn't bother me). His sense of timing was crazy. Sometimes, a scene goes so slow, detailing the tiniest bits, taking care to provide what's going on in the character's head, and then other times he's leaping forward in bounds.
I liked it. I enjoyed it; laughed, cringed, the whole thing. Like in No Country, he didn't really spend much time on the WHY something happened; it just happened and then the story unfolds.
I'd totally recommend it to somebody to listen to. I already have. I hope the movie nails the story.
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Don't let the rating fool you!
Ok, I had to rate the book high because it's one of the darkest hillbilly novels I've read to date. (if you like this you will love "the devil all the time") If you think you will be a better person for reading it, you won't. If you like to travel to dark places that aren't filled with demons you have found the right book.
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Pure Evil, Beautifully Written
As often is the case, Cormac McCarthy takes a subject on with pure evil intent and actions.
Lester Ballard is the worst kind of human animal. A pure psychopath with a twangy good ole boy voice, Lester commits the most heinous and depraved acts imaginable.
And despite this dark subject, Cormac spins it with gifted prose that cannot be mistaken for any other author. I just love this guy's writing.
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So much more disturbing than any current TV show
Cormack McCarthy is, as you'd expect, a master at drawing the reader into the story. At times, I could almost smell the honeysuckle on the wind of a humid Southern night. The disgusting parts are just as vividly rendered, so be forewarned.
Parts Silence of the Lambs, Deliverance and a little bit of Dexter, this is in many ways a much more disturbing read than The Road.
Tom Stechschulte is a fantastic narrator and his performance as Lester Ballard is distinct and really sells the evil that he embodies.
Satisfying read, disturbing and thought provoking.
Not for the squeamish, but recommended for McCarthy fans.
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C.O.G. - Cave-Dwelling Necrophiliac Murderer
Such a Cute Little Novel about a Cave-Dwelling Necrophiliac Murderer
The narrator of this short novel describes the main character, Lester Ballard, as "a child of God much like yourself perhaps." A 27-year-old hillbilly outcast in 1960s, Sevier County (Smoky Mountains), Tennessee. He had no parents, recently lost his home and cannot carry on normal relationships with women. When he finds a couple dead in a parked car, he takes the woman with him to be his necro-concubine in a house in which he's squatting. When the house burns down, along with the woman's corpse, he goes out to harvest other women to meet his needs by shooting/killing them and taking their corpses to a cave in which he takes up residence.
The writing was good, covering themes of violent cruelty, sexual deviancy and moral degradation., but it's a difficult read because McCarthy experimented with various styles and didn't use quotation marks.
I cannot recommend this unless you feel compelled to read the entire McCarthy collection.
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Mesmerizing Story
Would you consider the audio edition of Child of God to be better than the print version?
Yes. McCarthy is a generally tough read with his run-ons and lack of normal writing style. The audible version made it easy to comprehend
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Painful - in a, well, not good, but not bad way...
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You can expect a little pain from Cormac McCarthy, and it's usually the kind that comes from engaging your emotional gears in a way your aren't used to, aren't prepared for, or that is just deeper than you normally experience. A soul workout you might say. In this story (it's barely long enough to be a "book") part of the pain is how you begin to sympathize with someone who is ultimately a pathetic anti-social murderer. You can see how the pain of his existence drives him to increasing desperation.
Not McCarthy's masterpiece, but definitely worthy of a listen if you like McCarthy's other stories.
By the way, the performance by Tom Stechschulte was superb.
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If you have not read McCarthy before, know he is a master with the English language. Listening to the way he puts words together is enough to make this book or any book he writes interesting. I would not suggest this be your first McCarthy though, as this goes way out to left field. All The Pretty Horses, is probably the best place to start. THIS GAVE HIM THE FIDGITS.
Part one is an interesting look at a part of society few of us run into. I'D EXPECT you don't talk like these guys.It's the GOD DAMNEST. Super warning, part two involves Necrophilia. I don't mean it's mentioned in passing. This book goes into great detail and on several occasions. The normal person will probably not appreciate it. As the book continues, it just gets worse and worse. Fans of J.A. Konrath will not be rattled, but the average person will. I gave the story four stars and was on the verge of five, but I am weird and like stuff that is different, just for the sake of different. It is amazing to me that such a good writer would write something like this. This is usually something written by an upcoming writer trying to shock his readers and make a name for himself. Fans of Matt Shaw will like this.
Tom Stechschulte is one excellent narrator. He is going to the top of my list, up there with Ray Porter and Dick Hill.
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Plenty of dark and not much light
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he is excellent in both
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The narration was excellent. On its own the book deserves less than the 4 stars I have given. This is my 4th Cormack McCarthy novel and the least impressive. It is a character study of a depraved down and out. But it is short on the study and long on the depravity. I enjoy reading about the dark side of human nature but I found little justification or insight in this example.
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In a word, depravity.
Alot of prose in this gem, depicting depravity at its worst. If it had the terrifying captivation of "the road" it would have taken it to new depths. Still, highly recommended for those that need a jolt and aren't too squeamish. Prepare to be desensitized.


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There's nothing but positive results for Nokia and Windows Phone lately. Today, we're continuing the momentum with news from Russia where Nokia has surpassed Samsung for market share. The story was first published in Vedomosti, Russia's premier business paper
The data itself comes from Russia's largest mobile retailer, Euroset, who have more than 5,000 stores across the vast country. Their latest report puts Nokia at 29% of the mobile market in Russia this summer, up from 27% in the spring. Samsung meanwhile has dropped to 27% from a previous 30% just a few months ago. That bump gives Nokia back the edge since Samsung beat them earlier this year (the two often go back and forth in terms of market share in the country).
Source: Euroset, Summer 2013
The reason why Nokia is doing so well? Budget phones and Nokia's large portfolio. Indeed, Nokia's average price for a smartphone has dropped to 2769 rubles this July compared to 3292 rubles the same time last year. While a lot of the motion is being driven by the Lumia line, which has seen its prices drop lately, the Asha brand is also strong in Russia too, helping keep Nokia more than relevant in the market.
Russia presently sells the Lumia 620, 625, 720, 920, 925 and is set to launch the Lumia 1020 in October.
Windows Phone Central recently reported that the big news story going forward for smartphones was the price war. Nokia is well positioned for that fight and the results in Russia seem to prove that point. Even Apple is finally getting in on the competition with their lower-cost iPhone 5C, though that device's price pales compared to an $80 Lumia 521.
Recently, Russia's largest mobile operator MTS gave praise to Nokia and Windows Phone. MTS stopped selling the iPhone late last year due to the high subsidy costs and instead are looking to champion Windows Phone as an alternative.
Between IDC's 77% increase for Windows Phone shipments this year and Kantar Worldpanel's sales growth, Windows Phone is starting to dig its feet in for long term and steady progress in the market.
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The eagerly-awaited Dell Venue Pro Windows 7 smartphone has appeared for pre-order on the Expansys website – outlining the final specs for the QWERTY-toting handset and a £500 price tag.
With five handsets already on the market, Dell's offering was always slated to appear sooner rather than later, although we'll be surprised if it does indeed hit the UK release date of 8 November that Expansys suggests.
The Dell Venue Pro brings all the glitz of Microsoft's latest Windows Phone 7 OS with the addition of a keyboard.
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The specs are fairly familiar, with a Qualcomm 8250 SnapDragon 1Ghz processor, 800x400 4.1 inch capacitive screen (we're sure even if Expansys appears less sure) and a 5MP camera with digital zoom, geo-tagging and touch-focus.
For that £500 price tag you will also get 1GB of internal memory expandable through the microSDHC slot.
There is also AGPS, accelerometer, digital compass, proximity sensor and apparently you can use it as a phone as well.
We'll keep you informed if we hear a more definitive UK release date, but we're expecting the Venue Pro from Dell to land a bit closer to Christmas at the moment - but who knows, perhaps it could come early for some Dell-lovers?


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For the purpose of this article, we are going to use the definition of God (YHWH) contained in the Holy Bible. As such, God is the Creator of the universe (matter, energy, space, and time), along with other principalities and beings whose primary existence is outside this universe. However, God did not just create the universe and leave it to its own fate as deists proclaim. God is the personal being who walked and talked with Adam and Eve, the first human beings, in the Garden of Eden. God is also Savior of mankind, coming to Earth in the person of Jesus of Nazareth (Yeshua HaMashiach) to provide the ultimate example of holiness and the ultimate sacrifice for humanity's evilness, in order to restore our personal relationship with Him. According to Christianity, God is the self-existent One, having no need of being created, since He has existed forever and is the cause of all things, including the dimension of time, to which He is not subject.. Likewise, God is not subject to the physical creation, but is spiritual in nature, residing in the spiritual dimensions of heaven. God's power over the physical creation is absolute, such that He can manipulate matter, energy, space, and time at will. For this reason, God is said to be all powerful—able to accomplish any possible task He wills to do. Along with being all powerful, God is also all knowing—having knowledge of all things that are possible to be known, including the entire history of the universe—past, present, and future. Because God is all powerful (omnipotent) and all knowing (omniscient), He is also able to be present at all places at all times (omnipresent). God is also all loving—according to the Bible, "God is love" (1 John 4:16). The love of God prompted Him to create human beings in His image, in order to share His love with us. The Christian scriptures say that we can fulfill the entire law of God by loving Him and loving our fellow human beings (Matthew 22:37-40). God is absolutely holy—without any moral or character defect. In fact, the Bible says that God is incapable of doing any evil, despite being all powerful. God is unchangeable. In other words, He does not change any of His attributes or character at any time. Despite humanity's tendency to change its definition of morality, God's moral character does not evolve with the times, but remains constant.
The Scriptures tell us that God has many different names. The following article lists many of these names.
I have recently received a email from a reader who wants to know if God is tangible, among other things. Saint John wrote, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made."
(John 1:1-3 ESV)
In his Epistle to the Colossians, Paul the Apostle wrote. "He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities–all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together."
(Colossians 1:15-17 ESV)
In his Epistle to the Romans, Paul the Apsotle write, "For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith." For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen."
(Romans 1:17-25 ESV)
This article will also address why I refer to the Old Testament as the Tanakh, the Five Books of Moses as the Torah, the New Testament as the B'rit Chadashah, Jesus Christ as Yeshua HaMashiach, God as YHWH or Yahweh, and the Holy Spirit as the Ruach HaKodesh.
In this day and age, Universalists and the Interfaith Movement claim that all people worship the same god and that all paths lead to heaven. This is simply not true, there can only be one truth. Anything else is a contradiction.
In his First Epistle to Timothy, Paul the Apostle wrote, "For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time."
(1 Timothy 2:5-6 ESV)
In his Second Epistle to the Corinthians, Paul the Apostle wrote. "Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, "I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you, and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty."
(2 Corinthians 6:14-18 ESV)
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Saint John wrote, "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one."
(1 John 5:7 KJV)
Hopefully, this article will answer all the questions that were posed by the individual who sent me a message. May God bless you and keep you always. Shalom!


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