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One of my favorite cast members on Saturday Night Live is Bill Hader. Over the past six seasons, Hader has done awesome work and his impressions of Al Pacino, James Carville, Julian Assange, Eliot Spitzer, and Charlie Sheen have all been spot on. Thankfully, when I got on the phone the other day to talk about his great work in Greg Mottola's Paul (look for the full interview soon), he told me that he's definitely back next season! Which is awesome news.
However, while his impressions have been great, it's a certain flamboyant gay character on Weekend Update that has become the talk of the show: Stefan. If you've seen Hader perform Stefon, you know that he has great difficulty keeping a straight face while delivering his lines. That's because SNL writer John Mulaney (who helped create the character) will often change the lines between rehearsal and the live show. As a result, Hader is sometimes reading the lines for the first time on air. Which results in him breaking on camera. It's very funny to watch.
With the popularity of the character, I decided to ask Hader if he's be willing to play Stefan in a feature film, as many other popular SNL characters have gotten films. His answer after the jump:
Collider: Stefon has really taken off. Are the days of SNL characters getting their own spin off movie over? Or do you think this is the kind of character that you would even be willing to play?
Hader: Yeah, I don't know. That is an interesting thing. I really don't know. I mean, no one has asked me to do a Stefon movie. Yeah, I don't know. It doesn't seem…Wayne's World went really well. I thought MacGruber was funny.
While I have no idea if a Stefon movie would work, if anyone could make it worth watching, it'd be Hader. If you've never seen Stefon, here's a clip. Further down is the part of our interview that covers SNL, his thoughts on MacGruber, and his favorite characters on the show.
Collider: Is this your last season of SNL?
Hader: Oh, no. Not at all. I'm back next season.
Collider: 100 percent?
Hader: 100 percent. Yeah.
Collider: You've been in a lot of great films and you've done some awesome characters on SNL. When you walk into a Starbucks, what is the one thing everyone wants to talk to you about?
Hader: Stefon. Without a doubt. [laughs] People go up to me and they are like, "What is the best club in New York to go to?" and I'm like "Oh, very…" [laughs] Every once and awhile someone will say Vinny Vedecci or something like that. My favorite character that me and John Mulaney work on is Herb Welch, the newscaster that keeps hitting people in the face with his microphone. That is the character that me and John find really funny. John also writes stuff with me as well. He is an amazing writer and an amazing comedian too. He is just phenomenal. The Herb Welch character is the one that really makes us laugh.
Collider: Stefon has really taken off. I saw you on Letterman or somebody talking about it and I've seen a lot of people ask you about it. Are the days of SNL characters getting their own spin off movie over? Or do you think this is the kind of character that you would even be willing to play?
Hader: Yeah, I don't know. That is an interesting thing. I really don't know. I mean, no one has asked me to do a Stefon movie. Yeah, I don't know. It doesn't seem…Wayne's World went really well. I thought MacGruber was funny.
Collider: MacGruber is great.
Hader: Especially if you grew up watching Chuck Norris movies and stuff like I did. It was like "Oh my god. I so get the joke of this." It was like what if Chuck Norris really was insane? What if he just was an insane person? [laughs] But, yeah, I don't know. All I know is that they haven't…no one is knocking on our door for a Stefan movie. That is for sure.
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The European Columbus laboratory is the cornerstone of ESA's contribution to the ISS and the first European laboratory dedicated to long-term research in space. Columbus will be carried into orbit in the cargo bay of Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-122 mission, targeted for launch on 6 December 2007.
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"Is This Heaven?"
Being an uber-awesome-baseball nerd certainly has its perks, and for me, one them has been getting to know Keith Carmack.
As many of you may know, Keith is our Podmaster (podcast director, editor and all-around-everything guy) and while he's not making us sound good, he's working very hard on a fantastic project that I'd like to share with you.
It's a feature-length independent documentary entitled "Is This Heaven?" chronicling the fascinating life and career of Negro League star and Hall of Famer, Pete Hill, a man who hit 28 homeruns the same year Babe Ruth hit 29 (1919) and who may have the longest hitting streak in baseball history.
He may have been one of the greatest of all time but somehow this champion of America's past time was almost completely forgotten.
After a storied career and incredible life everything about the man is lost, maybe even the man himself. However, a struggle to find the truth is underway. Independent historians and baseball fans have begun a long journey to restore a legacy. "Is This Heaven?" takes a look at the seemingly impossible task of righting the wrongs that have been done to Pete Hill posthumously.
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"Is This Heaven?" Teaser from Undercard Films on Vimeo.
Since we first met, Keith has been working very diligently on this project and I have been very impressed with his progress. He has worked with Negro League scholars, Pete Hill descendants and the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
He got on base. Moved to second. Moved to third, and now he and his crew are ready to come home. But, like any indie project, they need help. Please visit Keith's "Is This Heaven?" Kickstarter page to see how you can help see this project to completion. Every little bit helps.
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In honor of our upcoming sustainable seafood Fresh Thoughts dinner in Baltimore, we sat down with featured chef, Mark Miranda of the Rusty Scupper, to get the scoop on how the sustainable dining movement is influencing the dining scene in Baltimore.
A chef for more than 30 years, Markl Miranda has served the Rusty Scupper's renowned Maryland crab cakes and seafood to some of the Monument City's most monumental appetites. In doing so, Miranda has also shared his passion for preserving the ecology and economy of our community by upholding his restaurant's commitment to serving only the best quality, sustainable seafood.
National Aquarium: What's your favorite sustainable seafood ingredient to cook?
Mark Miranda: My favorite sustainable seafood to cook with is the Stripped Bass, better known as Rockfish. Rockfish is a local favorite that is very versatile. It can be prepared in a variety of ways. The Rockfish population is thriving, not only in our area but also throughout the world.
NA: How is sustainable seafood playing a role in Baltimore's dining scene?
MM: As people become more aware and knowledgeable about sustainable seafood, they are paying more attention to restaurants and establishments that use sustainable seafood ingredients. Customers want to be sure they are supporting environmentally friendly practices so many are choosing restaurants that offer dishes prepared with sustainable seafood. Using sustainable seafood not only helps to build our business, it also allows us to give back to the environment.
NA: What's the biggest challenge when it comes to cooking sustainably?
MM: There really are no challenges in cooking with sustainable seafood. However, if you say you are using sustainable seafood, you must be sure the items are sustainable and stick to using them. Sometimes products can be misleading, so you must pay close attention to the sources of the ingredients to make sure the product is truly sustainable.
NA: In 2013, what is one sustainable seafood ingredient you hope to see more of in restaurants (including your own)?
MM: I really enjoy preparing dishes that incorporate the Basa fish. It is similar to the catfish and growing in popularity. The Basa fish can be prepared in a variety of ways—from grilling and sautéing to frying and blackened. When choosing to prepare Basa, it is important that you look for the fish to be U.S. farm-raised as it is farmed in a more ecologically responsible manner than those imported from Asia.
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Surprisingly, for a big name in the stereo business, Pioneer Electronics has opted not to produce any marine stereos. Instead they encourage boaters to use their car audio products in their vessels. We think this is a mistake. On a boat, circuitry is exposed to a lot more humidity and salt than in a car and our experience is that life expectancy for a car stereo on a boat is about 1 year.
Pioneer has offered a waterproof wired remote so that you can mount the stereo in the cabin and mount the remote outside, but availability has been sparse. Of course, not all boats even have a cabin, so we don't find that to be a very good tradeoff.
On the bright side, Pioneer has been producing marine speakers for quite some time and they are in use on many boats. The sound quality is good and the durability is acceptable, but I would not call them high end speakers by any means.


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The Chicago Sun Times reports today in Entertainment Briefs that the actor being Boba Fett in Attack of the Clones will be in Ravina, Illinois, which is 25 miles north of Chicago. The report also says he appears in Sith -- whoops. As we wish.
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Actor Daniel Logan, who played the young bounty hunter Boba Fett in both "Attack of the Clones" and "Revenge of the Sith," will narrate the performance of John Williams' music from all six "Star Wars" films Aug. 14 at Ravinia. Erich Kunzel will lead the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Logan also will meet concertgoers at a Ravinia "Full House Party" prior to the 7 p.m. concert.


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Sri Yantra Painting Meditation - 9 Steps to Divinity - August
A yantra is an energetic instrument for our spiritual advancement. It is the most sacred geometry known to mankind.
A Sri Yantra has a profound effect upon the person who draws, paints, or studies one. It is based on nine layers and each level has its own structure and secret wisdom hidden. Sri Yantra gives us a path to the Divine within.
The base of this 3 Hours Workshop is a simple, yet powerful Affirmation Meditation to tune into the nine steps of the Sri Yantra. Using these affirmations helps to focus your attention and open portals to the hidden knowledge found within this ancient wisdom tool.
Working with a Sri Yantra helps you develop a personal relationship with Divine Mother Herself.
The more you work with and meditate on the form, the more you will find it helps to purify and balance your mind, spirit and environment.
No previous knowledge or skill is required, everyone is welcome to join.
'The mandala of the Guru is the triangle itself.'
Sri Guru Gita (Verse 58)
Bhakti Marga has its headquarters at Shree Peetha Nilaya, meaning 'Abode of the Maha Lakshmi', the Divine Mother. It is located in the beautiful German countryside near Wiesbaden. Residents and guests come together every day to participate in special events, prayers, meditation, singing, seva, and to share their love of the Divine with one another.
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'In ancient times, yogis would receive Divine Inspiration through the connection to God in Nature. Shree Peetha Nilaya is such a place.'
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How To Handle Conversations on Race with Your Non-Black Coworkers
I sat in front of my CEO to discuss several complaints of racism. I was new to my role as a Culture Director. I was nervous about his reaction to the complaints. But I also knew he strongly supported developing this new department; I knew that he would take the right steps. So I was shocked when I heard him say sheepishly, "I don't know, Noelle...all of this stuff about racism. I just don't see it. I don't even see color. I'm pretty much color blind."
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The Paleo Diet, published in 2002, introduced thousands of readers to the concept that there is a diet to which we are evolutionary adapted, that will lead to optimum health and body composition. As more and more serious athletes began to follow the diet, questions arose as to how to adapt the diet to the needs of someone training very hard. This led to The Paleo Diet for Athletes, authored by Loren Cordain and Joe Friel.
This week, we answer a reader question about optimum protein intake for a serious athlete attempting to refine their own Paleo Diet. Nell then provides some eating suggestions based on her own experience as an Ironman competitor.
I'm a pretty serious endurance distance runner who is trying to fine tune my own Paleo Diet.
I'm confused regarding the total number of grams of protein I need per day. I own both The Paleo Diet for Athletes and The Paleo Diet. I started with the athletes book and have recently purchased and read the original. I'm confused about the total daily protein grams because in The Paleo Diet for Athletes Book, page 67 table 4.8 suggests that with my training volume of 10-15 hrs/week, I should be consuming 0.8 - 0.9 grams/lb/day. Yet when I read The Paleo Diet I see on page 26-27 for a 25 y/o woman with a 2,200 calorie/day intake, her protein is listed at 190 grams.
Thank you in advance,
The Paleo Diet is the diet that best fits our genome, because it is based on how we evolved to eat. It recommends macronutrient intake based on ranges estimated for most hunter-gatherer populations still in existence in the 20th century (which is 19 to 35% protein). A high protein, lower carbohydrate diet is very beneficial in terms of promoting optimum health and weight loss, and in preventing Metabolic Syndrome, a big health concern for a large percentage of the population.
The main purpose of The Paleo Diet for Athletes is to adapt The Paleo Diet to the nutritional needs of high-training 21st century endurance athletes. Since athletes need a higher amount of carbohydrates than sedentary people, the Paleo Diet for Athletes reduces protein and fat to accommodate more carbohydrates. However, it still provides higher levels of protein and less carbohydrate than is consumed by the typical athlete.
Are you wondering how to stick to your Paleo Food choices while you're preparing for Ironman, a marathon or another type of fitness endeavor?
After reading The Paleo Diet for Athletes, we see that there is value to utilizing some sports nutritional products that are man-made, yet we can still incorporate real food into our pre, during and post-workout diet.
I've successfully followed a Paleo regime through the last three seasons of training for Ironman Hawaii, so I'm confident that the following recommendations can support even a very rigorous training schedule:
* STARCH UP ON YAMS! Bake them in water, broil them in foil, reheat them in a pan with some olive oil on salt. By far, these are my #1 choice of fuel to stock up both the night before and the morning of a tough workout as well as a race.
* INCLUDE EGG WHITES! So easily digestible, portable and a no-brainer to prepare (hard-boil 'em a dozen at a time); you can't go wrong!
* ADD SOME BANANA! I must say, a banana never tastes as good as it does when you've just completed a long, hard run!
* MAKE YOUR OWN FUEL: While it might not be as 'neat' as unwrapping a store-bought energy bar, I find that bringing a salted yam with some raw almond butter and a sprinkling of salt along on a training ride proves to be most satisfying and a nice break from the sweet, sweet, sweet that you get when ingesting carbohydrate gels.
* LOVE THE HOMEBREW! I've told so many clients about the home made recovery drink found in Paleo for Athletes; not only can you vary the taste by changing the type of fruit, you'll also save a bundle compared to commercial recovery powders.
For all of you athletes out there- don't forget one important thing- SALT! If you've been out there training, you've lost electrolytes through sweat which need to be replaced to help take in, absorb and retain more fluids as per the recommendations in Paleo Diet for Athletes. So go ahead, add a pinch of salt to those yams!


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for Sunday, August 16, 2015
This is why our first reading today, from the Book of Proverbs, invites the
simple and the foolish to come and know true life and understanding. We
can only know that true life and understanding if we are willing to believe
Jesus and to follow Him. As we follow him, our belief can increase as we
come to know how He acts. His way of acting in our lives is the not
generally the way we act in the lives of others.
The second reading today, from the Letter to the Ephesians, repeats this
call to wisdom. We are told not to live in ignorance but at least to try
to understand what is the will of the Lord. How often do we do that? Do
we actually take time and seek the will of the Lord? Many of us just live
without thinking and without pondering what the will of the Lord might be.
We humans are people capable of reasoning but quite often we do not use our
The Gospel today is still from Chapter 6 of the Gospel of John. This means
that it is still about the Eucharist as it has been for the past several
Sundays. Over and over this Gospel writer keeps telling us: Jesus is
Lord, Jesus is God, Jesus is our Savior, Jesus is truly in the bread that
He gives us, Jesus is the bread that nourishes us.
This type of imagery is reflecting the reality of Jesus for us. It is not
enough just to eat the bread of the Eucharist. We can eat that bread
unworthily as well. We must come to know Jesus in the bread. We must
consume Jesus in our daily lives. When we eat Jesus, we become Jesus.
Usually when we eat something, that something becomes us. In the case of
Jesus, when we eat Him, we become Him.
We eat Jesus by doing His will, by believing in Him and following what He
asks of us. We eat Jesus by doing acts of love for others, even when we
must sacrifice ourselves. We eat Jesus when we care for the poor and the
outcast. Perhaps we eat Jesus most when we recognize His true presence in
the Eucharist and receive Him physically in communion and also respond to
that communion by our way of living. Let us walk in the way of the Lord.
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He could have lost it at any moment.
If you watched any of Michael Thompson's breakout win at the Honda Classic, you know that things could have gone south at any moment for the 27-year-old. He didn't strike the ball particularly well, and certainly didn't lead the field in fairways or greens hit in regulation. He wasn't the longest player on the first page of the leaderboard, he wasn't the most accurate with his irons, and he didn't own the stats when it came to birdies or eagles or hitting par 5s in two.
He was, however, a man who knew the strengths of his own game and played to those strengths throughout the grueling and chilly South Florida weekend.
Thompson's game is simple. He sometimes misfires with the driver, and his iron play isn't exceptional, but he knows that he has a masterful short game. So he accentuates what he does best. He doesn't try to hit towering mid-irons to two feet, or bomb tee shots over bunkers. He plays to spots where he knows he can get the ball up and down.
Throughout the week, when other players were challenging the treacherous Bear Trap, Thompson played away from trouble and relied on his wedges and putter to seal his first PGA Tour win.
That is, without question, one of the greatest lessons the average golfer could ever learn. Unfortunately, few are patient enough to learn it.
I can't tell you how many times I've seen amateurs attempt shots they've never hit in their lives and should never try during a round. That is especially true at Teeth of the Dog, the most famous course we have at Casa de Campo.
Pete Dye created a number of visually spectacular holes where the Caribbean is very much in play if you challenge the pins. But the course also provides an open path if you choose to play around the trouble rather than over it. Alas, we have guests who try to hit 200-yard shots in howling crosswinds to pins perched on the sides of cliffs – shots they couldn't pull off if they stood there all day with a bushel basket of balls.
If those same players would simply play to their strengths, avoiding trouble and letting par or bogey be their friend, they would see their scores plummet. Sure, they wouldn't be able to brag about challenging this hole or that, but they also wouldn't have to write down as many double and triple bogeys on the card.
Michael Thompson won because he didn't hit it out of bounds, and he got his ball up and down like a wizard. That was the strength of his game: He knew it, and he played to it.
Your game will improve tremendously if you do likewise.
Dave Pfisterer is the PGA Head Golf Professional at Casa de Campo in the Dominican Republic
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Set up an operational group to improve the efficiency of the fruit production sector in Spain by developing new approaches for joint management of farms.
Projects & Practice
An investment project to modernise a buffalo dairy farm through the introduction of new processes and equipment.
The Rural Broadband project is a national intervention to close the digital divide in remote and sparsely populated rural 'white areas'.
A company created a modular rearing system that allows them to combine egg and quality rooster meat production, while respecting the environment and animal welfare.
A company producing rye gin and whiskey used RDP support to increase its production capacity to meet the demand of national and international markets.
Switching from manual labour to mechanised work in order to make the business much more cost effective.
RDP support helped a farmer to acquire the necessary equipment and infrastructure to continue expanding his organic beef cattle herd.
A group of young agronomists combined RDP support with innovative financial solutions like crowdfunding to develop a self-sufficient farm growing local, quality organic products.
A successful pilot project to improve animal welfare conditions and slurry management in a pig and poultry farm in north-east Bohemia.
A series of seminars to create opportunities for formal and tacit knowledge transfer between experienced farmers and newcomers to agriculture.


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Need a little help keeping track of your favorite television shows? Series Fan for Windows Phone 8 will help you manage all the episodes in your favorite series by tracking what you've watched, when what you haven't might air, and give you quick overviews of the entire series.
Series Fan has Miso to let you see what your friends are watching, earn points and badges for checking in and share your check-ins on Facebook or Twitter. The app has potential but has a bit of room for improvement.
Series Fan has your favorite series listed on the main pages and from there you can drill down to find out information on the series, individual episodes and mark episodes as "watched".
The problem with Series Fan is that while it provides a ton of information on your favorite television series, it's a confusing app. For example, when you re-launch the app, after adding series, the main pages are blank as if you've launched Series Fan for the first time. You have to tap the "refresh" button to populate the main pages with your series information.
The main pages includes pages for your series, a "what's next" page, and a "to catch up" page. You would think that your favorite series would be listed on the series page but they aren't. The "what's next" and "to catch up" pages seems to cover the same material; the next episode in the series you need to watch.
You can hit the refresh button that you would think would update your series information but it seems to randomly change what appears on the "what's next" and "to catch up" pages. At the bottom of the screen you have a "+" button to add series to your library, a refresh button and a settings button. The settings button did not work.
As far as the series information is concerned, you have pages listing the next episode in the series that is un-watched, a listing of the various seasons, and a general overview of the series. You can not access the next episode from the "what's next" page but instead have to tap on the series number on the "series" page.
From the individual episode page, you can tap the check button to mark the episode as watched and scroll through the other episodes within that particular season as well as other seasons.
Navigation isn't Series Fans' strong suit and while the app has potential, there is a lot of room for improvement. Too many buttons are non-responsive and while there is a "tips & tricks" section in the About screens it offers little help in understanding the app.
At first I thought the quirkiness was in using the trial version but the oddities carried over to the paid version. All in all, Series Fan is a rough app that needs a good bit of polishing. I like the simplicity of tracking which episode of a series you've watched and knowing what you've missed but the app left me scratching my head.
There is a free trial version with the full version running $1.49. You can find Series Fan here in the Windows Phone Store.
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Family Farm game for Linux (demo available)
Demo of this beautiful game is finally available for Linux.
Puzzle Moppet is a serenely peaceful yet devilishly challenging 3D puzzle game.
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The Spiral Knights have awoken on an alien world. Their equipment stores have been raided and their starship, The Skylark, will not recover from the crash. Now they must work together to survive on a journey that will take them to the very core of the world.
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Family Farm could be described as a tycoon (business strategy game) set in the 19th century with sims-like characters. Characters have various talents and skills, need to eat meals, babies are born, trees grow, yields depend on weather and so on.
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Steel Storm is an old school top down arcade shooter with score oriented competitive gameplay, and is designed for people who like fast paced action and have limited amounts of time to play computer games.
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Shadowgrounds Survivor tells the story of three survivors who join forces with the last remaining human resistance in the heated battle against the ongoing alien onslaught. The acclaimed atmosphere and gameplay mechanics of the original Shadowgrounds make a triumphant return armed with a new feature set!
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OilRush is a real-time strategy game based on group control. It offers mechanics of a classical RTS combined with a Tower Wars genre: control the upgrade of production platforms as well as their defence forces, and send battle groups of naval and air units to capture enemy platforms and oil rigs.
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Planet Stronghold is a sci-fi role-playing game with a turn-based combat system. You take the role of a young, new recruit that somehow gets assigned to the most well-known, and well-defended, human outpost in the whole galaxy: Planet Stronghold.
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SpaceChem is an obscenely addictive, design-based puzzle game about machine building and fake science.
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FlagShip by multisoft is Linux-replacement for Microsoft Foxpro, SCO Foxbase, Borland dBaseIII and CA-Clipper.
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Daisho is the integrated productivity tool for professionals: goal, time and task management, contact management with CRM features, email client. Synchronisation with Smartphones via SyncML-Server. Runs from USB stick. Netbook Mode.
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I've a dual boot system with XP and Ubuntu. (Grub 1.5) Ubuntu was originally installed from a CD and has its own partition on an external hard drive.
After an upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04 the 3.XX kernel let me log in, but then give me a black screen. The 2.XX kernel give me a workspace, but with a distorted aspect. (I had to play with the monitor settings to even get the system button to appear.) I tried 12.04 on a USB and it looked OK, but was so slow I would never use it. What is the best way to reinstall 12.04 or even 11.10?


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(a) The regulations in this chapter provide for the proper use, management, government, and protection of persons, property, and natural and cultural resources within areas under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service.
(b) These regulations will be utilized to fulfill the statutory purposes of units of the National Park System: to conserve scenery, natural and historic objects, and wildlife, and to provide for the enjoyment of those resources in a manner that will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.
(a) The regulations contained in this chapter apply to all persons entering, using, visiting, or otherwise within:
(1) The boundaries of federally owned lands and waters administered by the National Park Service;
(2) The boundaries of lands and waters administered by the National Park Service for public-use purposes pursuant to the terms of a written instrument;
(3) Waters subject to the jurisdiction of the United States located within the boundaries of the National Park System, including navigable waters and areas within their ordinary reach (up to the mean high water line in places subject to the ebb and flow of the tide and up to the ordinary high water mark in other places) and without regard to the ownership of submerged lands, tidelands, or lowlands;
(4) Lands and waters in the environs of the District of Columbia, policed with the approval or concurrence of the head of the agency having jurisdiction or control over such reservations, pursuant to the provisions of the Act of March 17, 1948 (62 Stat. 81);
(5) Other lands and waters over which the United States holds a less-than-fee interest, to the extent necessary to fulfill the purpose of the National Park Service administered interest and compatible with the nonfederal interest.
(b) The regulations contained in parts 1 through 5, part 7, and part 13 of this chapter do not apply on non-federally owned lands and waters or on Indian tribal trust lands located within National Park System boundaries, except as provided in paragraph (a) or in regulations specifically written to be applicable on such lands and waters.
(c) The regulations contained in part 7 and part 13 of this chapter are special regulations prescribed for specific park areas. Those regulations may amend, modify, relax or make more stringent the regulations contained in parts 1 through 5 and part 12 of this chapter.
(d) The regulations contained in parts 2 through 5, part 7, and part 13 of this section shall not be construed to prohibit administrative activities conducted by the National Park Service, or its agents, in accordance with approved general management and resource management plans, or in emergency operations involving threats to life, property, or park resources.
(e) The regulations in this chapter are intended to treat a mobility-impaired person using a manual or motorized wheelchair as a pedestrian, and are not intended to restrict the activities of such a person beyond the degree that the activities of a pedestrian are restricted by the same regulations.
(a) A person convicted of violating a provision of the regulations contained in parts 1 through 7, part 9 subpart B, and parts 12 and 13 of this chapter shall be subject to the criminal penalties provided under 18 U.S.C. 1865.
(b) [Reserved]
(a) The following definitions shall apply to this chapter, unless modified by the definitions for a specific part or regulation:
(2) A muzzle-loading weapon does not contain gun powder in the pan, or the percussion cap is not in place; and
(3) Bows, crossbows, spear guns or any implement capable of discharging a missile or similar device by means of a loading or discharging mechanism, when that loading or discharging mechanism is not charged or drawn.
(b) In addition to the definitions in paragraph (a), for the purpose of the regulations contained in parts 3 and 7 of this chapter, the definitions pertaining to navigation, navigable waters and shipping enumerated in title 14 United States Code, title 33 Code of Federal Regulations, title 46 Code of Federal Regulations, title 49 Code of Federal Regulations, the Federal Boating Safety Act of 1971, and the Inland Navigational Rules Act of 1980, shall apply for boating and water activities.
(a) Consistent with applicable legislation and Federal administrative policies, and based upon a determination that such action is necessary for the maintenance of public health and safety, protection of environmental or scenic values, protection of natural or cultural resources, aid to scientific research, implementation of management responsibilities, equitable allocation and use of facilities, or the avoidance of conflict among visitor use activities, the superintendent may:
(1) Establish, for all or a portion of a park area, a reasonable schedule of visiting hours, impose public use limits, or close all or a portion of a park area to all public use or to a specific use or activity.
(2) Designate areas for a specific use or activity, or impose conditions or restrictions on a use or activity.
(3) Terminate a restriction, limit, closure, designation, condition, or visiting hour restriction imposed under paragraph (a)(1) or (2) of this section.
(b) Except in emergency situations, a closure, designation, use or activity restriction or condition, or the termination or relaxation of such, which is of a nature, magnitude and duration that will result in a significant alteration in the public use pattern of the park area, adversely affect the park's natural, aesthetic, scenic or cultural values, require a long-term or significant modification in the resource management objectives of the unit, or is of a highly controversial nature, shall be published as rulemaking in the
(c) Except in emergency situations, prior to implementing or terminating a restriction, condition, public use limit or closure, the superintendent shall prepare a written determination justifying the action. That determination
(d) To implement a public use limit, the superintendent may establish a permit, registration, or reservation system. Permits shall be issued in accordance with the criteria and procedures of § 1.6 of this chapter.
(e) Except in emergency situations, the public will be informed of closures, designations, and use or activity restrictions or conditions, visiting hours, public use limits, public use limit procedures, and the termination or relaxation of such, in accordance with § 1.7 of this chapter.
(f) Violating a closure, designation, use or activity restriction or condition, schedule of visiting hours, or public use limit is prohibited.
(a) When authorized by regulations set forth in this chapter, the superintendent may issue a permit to authorize an otherwise prohibited or restricted activity or impose a public use limit. The activity authorized by a permit shall be consistent with applicable legislation, Federal regulations and administrative policies, and based upon a determination that public health and safety, environmental or scenic values, natural or cultural resources, scientific research, implementation of management responsibilities, proper allocation and use of facilities, or the avoidance of conflict among visitor use activities will not be adversely impacted.
(b) Except as otherwise provided, application for a permit shall be submitted to the superintendent during normal business hours.
(c) The public will be informed of the existence of a permit requirement in accordance with § 1.7 of this chapter.
(d) Unless otherwise provided for by the regulations in this chapter, the superintendent shall deny a permit that has been properly applied for only upon a determination that the designated capacity for an area or facility would be exceeded; or that one or more of the factors set forth in paragraph (a) of this section would be adversely impacted. The basis for denial shall be provided to the applicant upon request.
(e) The superintendent shall include in a permit the terms and conditions that the superintendent deems necessary to protect park resources or public safety and may also include terms or conditions established pursuant to the authority of any other section of this chapter.
(f) A compilation of those activities requiring a permit shall be maintained by the superintendent and available to the public upon request.
(g) The following are prohibited:
(1) Engaging in an activity subject to a permit requirement imposed pursuant to this section without obtaining a permit; or
(2) Violating a term or condition of a permit issued pursuant to this section.
(h) Violating a term or condition of a permit issued pursuant to this section may also result in the suspension or revocation of the permit by the superintendent.
(a) Whenever the authority of § 1.5(a) is invoked to restrict or control a public use or activity, to relax or revoke an existing restriction or control, to designate all or a portion of a park area as open or closed, or to require a permit to implement a public use limit, the public shall be notified by one or more of the following methods:
(1) Signs posted at conspicuous locations, such as normal points of entry and reasonable intervals along the boundary of the affected park locale.
(2) Maps available in the office of the superintendent and other places convenient to the public.
(3) Publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the affected area.
(4) Other appropriate methods, such as the removal of closure signs, use of electronic media, park brochures, maps and handouts.
(b) In addition to the above-described notification procedures, the superintendent shall compile in writing all the designations, closures, permit requirements and other restrictions imposed under discretionary authority. This compilation shall be updated annually and made available to the public upon request.
The information collection requirements contained in §§ 1.5, 2.4, 2.5, 2.10 2.12, 2.17, 2.33, 2.38, 2.50, 2.51, 2.52, 2.60, 2.61, 2.62, 3.3, 3.4, 4.4 and 4.11 have been approved by the Office of Management and Budget under 44 U.S.C. 3501
(a) The signs pictured below provide general information and regulatory guidance in park areas. Certain of the signs designate activities that are either allowed or prohibited. Activities symbolized by a sign bearing a slash mark are prohibited.
(b) The use of other types of signs not herein depicted is not precluded.


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How to Make Clamshell Tarts
Everybody knows someone who just loves to burn tarts in their oil burner. I have a sister that pays top dollar for those tarts, and swears that they are the only tarts she will use. I took on this challenge at least that is what I thought it was, and have now successfully changed her over to making her own custom tarts.
My sister has a scent for every season type. She had her go to fragrances. A light floral for spring, a zesty citrus kick scent for summer, a mossy green outdoor scent for fall, and the tried and true Apple Cinnamon for winter. This was one concept I could not grasp. I felt compelled to show her the ways of the scenting world, and since I work for Natures Garden, I knew a few in and outs.
For anyone looking to start making their own tarts, Natures Garden offers a Clamshell Wax Tart Kit. This was my starting place for her as well. What is really admirable about this kit is just how easy it is. The kit comes with everything that you would need to make your first time clamshell tarts. Wax, Fragrance Oils, Candle Dyes, Clamshells, Pipettes, Instructions, in fact this kit is so easy, it practically makes itself.
For those of you who already have the supplies to make tarts at home, here is the list of ingredients you will need for this clamshell tart recipe:
1 Pound Pillar of Bliss Wax
1 oz. Apple Cinnamon Fragrance Oil
1 oz. Vanilla Bean Fragrance Oil
Red Liquid Candle Dye
Yellow Liquid Candle Dye
4 Clamshell Tart containers
Stainless Steel Spoon
Paper Bowls (2)
Melting Container
Step 1: Place 1 pound wax into your melting container. Using the double boiler method, melt wax on low on the stove until the wax is completed melted. Get your four empty clamshells ready.
Step 2: Preparing the Apple Cinnamon Original Tarts: Pour 1/2 of the melted wax into a paper bowl. Start by adding 1 drop of red liquid candle dye; add more if desired.
Step 3: Add 1 ounce of Apple Cinnamon Original fragrance oil to the melted wax. Stir. Keep remaining melted wax on stove at a low temp setting.
Step 4: Bend the side of the paper bowl to make a pour spout, and quickly pour the melted wax into two clamshells. Do not move the clamshells until the wax has completely hardened and set up.
Step 5: Preparing the Vanilla Bean Tarts: Pour the other half of the melted wax into a paper bowl. Using a pipette, add 1 drop of yellow liquid candle dye. Add more if desired.
Step 6: Add 1 ounce of Vanilla Bean fragrance oil to the melted wax. Stir.
Step 7: Bend the side of the paper bowl to make a pour spout. Quickly pour the melted wax into two clamshells. Do not move the clamshells until the wax has completely hardened and set up.
Step 8: Break off chunks of the clamshell tart and place them into a potpourri burner and fill your room with the wonderful aromas of Apple Cinnamon and Vanilla Bean!
It is just as simple as that. It did not take long to make these wonderful little clamshell tarts, and they smell amazing in your oil burners too. Feel free to use any of Natures Gardens Fragrance Oils to make your own clamshell tarts. My sister is super excited to get started on her own personal clamshell tart line, and I have a feeling I will be getting some homemade tarts for a gift very soon.
Fragrance & Fun for Everyone
Inspire, Create, and Dominate!
Sparkles!!! Nicole
(Corporate Manager of Natures Garden Candle Supplies)
Natures Garden is not responsible for the performance of any of the recipes provided on our website. Testing is your responsibility. If you plan to resell any recipes we provide, it is your responsibility to adhere to all FDA regulations if applicable. If there are ingredients listed in a recipe that Natures Garden does not sell, we cannot offer any advice on where to purchase those ingredients. We also do not offer any advice on formulating or altering recipes.


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Love is in the air…
When a man pops the question, "Will you marry me?" The answer generally is," yes I will." "Will she?"
That remains a mystery until the big day. Most of the time when a man proposes to a woman she is filled with excitement and anticipation, especially if she really loves the man. She actually has been waiting patiently for the formal proposal.
I know times have changed and people are evolving but one thing remains constant and that's true love. True love will always defy all odds and people's expectations.
Most women at some time in their lives dreamed about getting married. The excitement tends to focus more on the planning of the wedding, how many people will be in attendance and of course being the most beautiful woman in the room. It's her moment and all eyes and attention will be on the bride.
Many women approach marriage with an unrealistic fairytale concept. I believe it's because so much time is spent planning the event and the excitement of being in love. Excitement after receiving the big diamond ring can sometimes make you lose sight of reality—two imperfect people coming together with common goals and aspirations of life, declaring their love for each other.
The engagement ring is a symbol of the love and admiration that the man has for the woman expressed outwardly. After-all, you cannot propose without a ring, the ring makes it official.
Love is in the air…
I know most women who get engaged are very excited and the news begins to spread like a wildfire. Of course the size of the diamond seems to be the main attraction instead of the size of the heart of the person that gave the ring. Apparently, the man has enough love to present the ring and the woman has enough love to accept the ring and the engagement is on. The question is "will there really be a wedding?"
During the betrothal stage (a mutual promise or contract for a future marriage) many things can happen and does. The two love—birds are getting to know one another better. Getting acquainted with one another can determine a lot of things. During this stage the love should blossom and grow to get them to the next stage…the wedding. While the bride is busy planning, scheduling, selecting and changing her mind there is one more stage that should be considered; "The happily ever after." That should be the focus of the entire process; the love and adoration that should continue to grow and blossom so that you can honor your wedding vows and keep them. Remember the vows for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, in holy matrimony to death do us part. The couple responds, "I will!"
Love is in the air…
Somewhere in between that entire process are prenuptials contracts, credit reports and writing your own vows. "Is love still in the air?" "Is there enough love for, "happily ever after?" That's what you should think about before you say I do...
Ursula Tara Davis
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we are trying to retrieve a calculated value from a cell which has add-In (VBA) formulas in it. The sample add-in "myUtilityl.xla" is working properly in excel. It retrieves value for the addin function =ISOWEEKNUM(F9). But we are unable to retrieve the value in our application using C# & Microsoft Object Library. The add-In "myUtilityl.xla" is attached to Excel. Environment is VS2010
I am providing the sample code here.
string path = @"C:\Test.xls";
Workbook theWorkbook;
Worksheet theWorksheet;
Range readRange;
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application app = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application();
theWorkbook = app.Workbooks.Open(path);
Sheets theSheets = (Sheets)theWorkbook.Worksheets;
theWorksheet = (Worksheet)theWorkbook.Worksheets.get_Item("Sheet1");
readRange = theWorksheet.get_Range("B1");
I am new to Microsoft Object library. Any help or clue will be very helpful.


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Good Bread: Le Pain Quotidien
Stories about the loaves we love.
It can seem like Le Pain Quotidien is everywhere. There are actually 27 branches of the café chain in New York and the surrounding region, all with the rustic Belgian look and big communal tables. People go to them for waffles and café au lait, omelets and salads, and the array of fresh pastries, kind of like brunch seven days a week. Customers seem to have forgotten, or perhaps they never knew, that Le Pain Quotidien started out as a bakery, and that those loaves of bread on the wall aren't just part of the décor. That's why it's worth going to the chain's Bleecker Street branch, where they've installed a glassed-in bakery right inside the entrance. Here bread is front and center, and behind the counter are stacks of some of the most interesting loaves in the city.
The Bleecker Street bakery acts as both bread laboratory and teaching facility. The baker in charge, Karen Bornarth, followed the long and twisting career path of many city bakers. After working in publishing, she decided she wanted to be a pastry chef and enrolled at the CIA's Napa Valley campus, where she fell in love with bread making. She returned to New York and spent seven years at Amy's Bread, ending as supervisor of baguette production. But baker's hours and carpal tunnel syndrome took their toll, so Karen decided to switch to teaching. She spent five years teaching in the bread program at the French Culinary Institute before moving to Bleecker Street earlier this year. Now she gives artisan baking classes to the public and oversees bread development for the bakery in New York.
Le Pain Quotidien's two biggest breads, in the literal sense, are its whole wheat and rye. These are big round loaves weighing about five pounds apiece, with a dense crumb and a thick coating of flour on the top. They were developed by Alain Coumont, the café chain's founder, who wanted to recreate the simple, rustic breads of his Belgian childhood. They're made from the chain's special sourdough levain (shared by its bakeries around the world) and organic flour, giving the loaves a distinct hay-like aroma. The whole wheat is more popular, but I prefer the rye, which holds moisture a bit better and has more of a sourdough bite.
The Bleecker Street bakery is the launching pad for the newest Le Pain Quotidien loaf available around the city. Karen Bornarth is a huge fan of whole grain bread, and her sprouted wheat is whole grain from outside in. This is a Pullman loaf made mostly from sprouted whole wheat flour and stuffed with toasted pumpkin seeds that also give it a crust. The seeds give the dense, moist crumb a warm and nutty flavor. It's a perfect bread for soft cheese and juicy charcuterie. In the same vein, Bleecker Street also sells her latest invention, a sunflower rye loaf made with half rye and half wheat flour. It's shaped into a small miche this time crusted with sunflower seeds.
This column generally steers clear of the sweet side of the bakery menu, but I make an exception for her delicious chocolate rolls, which actually aren't that sweet. Their chocolate-y crumb is reinforced with a generous helping of dark chocolate chips. Spread with butter and chased with sips of espresso, they make a perfect, not-too-sinful breakfast. For a more indulgent bite, I'd try the bakery's cinnamon bread, which is a pillow of sweet dough slathered with icing. Every mouthful is a symphony of moist yeastiness--somewhere there must be an edict against it.
Le Pain Quotidien
65 Bleecker Street, New York NY 10012 (map)
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Third baseman Placido Polanco was placed on the disabled list Thursday with lower back inflammation. The team said his roster replacement will be announced before the start of the team's three-game series in Atlanta Friday.
Polanco had missed the Phillies' last three games because of the ailment. Manager Charlie Manuel said the injury is similar to a back injury that bothered the third baseman for much of last season.
The Phillies do not figure to miss Polanco's bat. Since his average topped out at .294 on June 4, he had hit just .184 with five extra-base hits -- all doubles -- in 32 games.
As we saw during Wednesday's extra-inning win over Milwaukee, the Phillies do miss Polanco's glove when he is not in the lineup. Ty Wigginton, playing in place of Polanco at third, committed two errors, including a dropped pop up that allowed the Brewers to score a go-ahead run in the top of the 10th inning.
Because he is considered a solid defensive player, Michael Martinez is probably a candidate to be recalled. Mike Fontenot can also play third base.


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Run D.M.C. was founded in the early 1980's by Joseph "DJ Run" Simmons, Darryl "D.M.C" McDaniels, and the late Jason "Jam Master J" Mizell. The legendary group is considered to be one of the most influential in rap music history and has been crowned "Greatest Hip Hop Group of All-Time" by MTV.com.
Their seven albums and numerous hit singles paved the way for rap music to become the multi-billion dollar industry it is today. Run D.M.C is also credited for immortalizing Hollis as one of the birthplaces of hip-hop.
"Given their historic accomplishments, Run D.M.C. is a tremendous source of pride for the Hollis community I represent," stated Council Member Comrie, who chose the 205th Street location because it is close to the Hollis Hip Hop Museum (203rd St and Hollis Avenue) and is also the site of a famous mural dedicated to the late Jam Master J. Plans for an official street renaming ceremony are scheduled for later this summer.


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Students say thanks to hunters
The South Lenoir FFA class recently showed their appreciation to members of the Lenoir County Hunters Association.
They fed them a pork chop dinner at the November meeting in appreciation of the club�s financial support of the high school�s hunter safety programs.
Author to sign books at LCC
Author James Preston Hardison of La Grange will be signing his latest novel, �The Money,� at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Lenoir Community College�s Learning Resources Center. The public is invited to attend. A retired computer operations manager, systems analyst, programmer turned novelist, Hardison has become a full-time writer.
He developed writing skills while in the United States Air Force by writing articles in his spare time for the base newspaper. He has written and published 11 novels. Comfortable at public speaking, Hardison has a reputation for helping others achieve their goals, including helping aspiring authors fulfill their dreams of compiling their own novels. He has participated in many competitions, and been awarded more than 100 awards, citations, plaques and other certificates during his career. He is married and has six children.
�The Money� introduces a host of characters that take the reader on a journey of romance, suspense, action, mystery, drama and murder. It is a multi-storied novel that allows the reader inside peoples� lives to feel their emotions as unforeseen events occurs.
For more information, contact 252-522-7-6223 or lenoircc.edu.
Homeless shelter needs supplies
The Friends of the Homeless Shelter needs donations to boost its yearly supply of needed items.
Cleaning supplies needed include bleach, Pine Sol, laundry and dish detergent, bathroom and shower cleaning supplies. Equipment needs include a freezer and a refrigerator.
Personal items include: bath soap and body wash, deodorant, hand and body lotion, alcohol, peroxide, Vaseline, cold medicines, Visine, body and foot powder, facial tissues, mouth wash, baking soda, sanitary napkins and all size batteries.
Other needs are a large supply of Styrofoam plates, cups and bowls; toilet tissue, paper towels, napkins, plastic forks and spoons; brooms (domestic and industrial), 13- and eight-gallon trash can liners, mop heads (24- and 32-ounce sizes), mop handles and buckets; air fresheners; carpet fresheners; bath towels and wash cloths, dish towels; baby pampers (all sizes); gloves, socks, underwear; school supplies and book bags.
Monetary donations also are very important to help with operating expenses.
Drop off donations at the shelter, 112-114 N. Independence St. For information, call Jasper Newborn, director, at 252-522-2788.


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How Do We Become Spiritually Mature?
from John MacArthur Jul 08, 2020 Category: ArticlesWe don't want to remain spiritual children, perpetually stuck in infancy. We don't want to be weak, vulnerable, and immature. Nor do we want to be ignorant about God's truth, because we want to fully glorify Him for everything He has done. We want to appreciate Him in all His... Keep Reading
Love Gifts of the Ascended Christ
from Don Kistler Apr 19, 2009 Category: ArticlesPreachers are one of the love gifts of the ascended Christ to His body, the church. We should never let anyone denigrate the sacred calling of a pastor to stand in his pulpit and faithfully exegete the inspired Word of God to the people of God, thereby carrying out his ministry to be the mouthpiece of God. Keep Reading
Top 5 Commentaries on the Book of Habakkuk
from Keith Mathison Apr 18, 2009 Category: ArticlesAs his book reveals, Habakkuk understands why God is punishing his disobedient people, but he does not understand why God is using a wicked nation as his instrument of judgment. The book deals with this question and the required response of faithful trust in God. There are a number of helpful commentaries on the Book of Habakkuk, and the following are five of the best. Keep Reading
The Christian and Science (pt. 3)
from R.C. Sproul Apr 17, 2009 Category: ArticlesThere is a sense in which the Christian should be the most passionate scientist of all because he should be rigorously open to truth wherever it is found. He should not be afraid that a new discovery of something that is true will destroy his foundation for truth. If our foundation for truth is true, all other truth can only support it and enhance it. It can't destroy it. Therefore, Christians ought not to be afraid of scientific inquiry. This does not mean that we should uncritically accept all pronouncements and pontifications of scientists. Scientists are fallible and may occasionally make arrogant statements that go far beyond the realm of their own expertise. Keep Reading
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from R.C. Sproul Apr 16, 2009 Category: ArticlesMany Protestant scholars venture earlier into church history and lay the blame for this division at the feet of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Among Protestant thinkers, there seems to be a kind of allergy to the work of Aquinas. Francis Schaeffer, for example, is one who would lay much of the blame for today's schizophrenic view on Aquinas. Schaeffer argued that the root of modern man's trauma lies in the separation that Aquinas made between the realms of nature and grace. The realm of nature is the daily arena of his visible world, the scientific inquiry. The realm of grace is the supernatural realm of God. If Aquinas did in fact separate nature and grace, then certainly Dr. Schaeffer would be correct in pointing the finger at Saint Thomas for causing a significant part of modern man's dilemma. I plead for Aquinas, that he was not guilty of the charge. Aquinas did everything in his power to prevent a separation of nature and grace. He labored tirelessly to combat the efforts of philosophers who were making such a separation. Let us briefly consider the historical background. Keep Reading
The Christian and Science (pt. 1)
from R.C. Sproul Apr 15, 2009 Category: ArticlesWhat is the Christian's role in the scientific enterprise? How do we as Christians live in a culture that has been shaped and influenced by the impact of scientific accomplishments? Keep Reading
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from Kris Lundgaard Apr 14, 2009 Category: Articles"We, the Slovak People, bearing in mind the political and cultural heritage of our predecessors...mindful of the spiritual bequest of Cyril and Methodius...adopted this constitution." Slovakia, lying at the crossroads of East and West in secular Europe, after being dominated for over forty years by a government that was no friend to Christianity, introduced its constitution by acknowledging its debt to two Christian missionaries from the ninth century. Keep Reading
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from R.C. Sproul Apr 08, 2009 Category: ArticlesIt was many years ago when my grandmother related to me games that she played as a little girl in the 1880s. One game she mentioned was one that she and her Methodist girlfriends played with their Roman Catholic friends. In a playful jest of the words of the Mass, my grandmother would say, "Tommy and Johnny went down to the river to play dominoes." Here the word dominoes was a play on the use of the term Domine that occurred so frequently in the Catholic rite of the Mass. The children, of course, were revealing their lack of knowledge of the words of the Mass because they were spoken in Latin. Keep Reading


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Marion County Probate Records on South Carolina PioneersMarion County was initially created in 1785 as the county of Liberty in old Georgetown District, one of the original judicial districts created in 1769. In 1798 when courthouse districts were created in South Carolina, the name Marion District was named after General Francis Marion who was born in St. John's Parish, near Georgetown, South Carolina. Early settlers: William Britton, Joseph Burch, John Burnett, Joshua Dennis, James Crawford, Joseph Gregg, William Griggs, James Keen, Edwards Owens, Daniel Stone, Anthony Sweet, Jesse Wiggins.
Marion County Records Available to Members of South Carolina Pioneers
- Index to Marion County Will Book I (1796-1853).
Testators: William Britton, James Foxworth, Jordan Gibson, William Griggs, Edward Owens, David Owens, Jacob Yelventon, Benjamin Davis, Benjamin Harralson, Daniel Myers, Enos Tart, James Gregg, James Martin, John Smith, John Witherspoon, Joseph Burch, Joseph Jolly, Ruth Owens, Samuel Brown and Tully Douge.
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EAST COUNTY — East County resident Joseph Axtell doesn't normally enter contests.
But, after a long day of meticulous planning and aggressive social-media recruiting, Axtell won a coveted prize.
Axtell, a 23-year-old University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee senior business major, won the #VolvoJoyride contest on Pinterest sponsored by Volvo, earning a four-day, three-night road trip to Colorado Springs, Colo., in his dream car.
The package included a free two-night hotel stay, $250 for gas and food, $200 for clothes and a $50 iTunes gift card.
Volvo went over budget for Axtell, allowing him to stay an extra night and paying for his fiancé, Michael Nedervelt, to ride with him.
"I was ecstatic the whole day when I found out I won," Axtell said. "Anything you win is interesting and fun. I've never won anything this big. The only thing better would be winning the car."
From Dec. 1 through Dec. 4, in a 2013 Volvo S60 T5, to the pace of Lady Gaga tunes that blared from the speakers, Axtell and Nedervelt crossed eight states, burned through nine tanks of gas and drove nearly 2,500 miles en route to the Cheyenne Mountain Resort.
In between the 31-hour trek, the couple made stops in Ashburn, Ga., to see the world's largest peanut monument; Nashville, Tenn., in a quest to taste fried green tomatoes; and St. Louis, where the Gateway Arch awaited.
To win, Axtell had to pin his ideal road trip, to a destination of his choice, on his Pinterest page, including pictures and captions that described the attractions he would attend, the clothes he would wear and the music to which he'd listen.
Volvo selected the winners — Axtell was one of three winners in the United States selected out of 700 applicants — based on which page had the most likes, comments and repins between Sept. 5 and Sept. 26.
For Axtell, that meant pushing his Facebook friends to get involved.
"That was the real legwork," Axtell said. "My friends probably got annoyed with me."
A car enthusiast and social-media junkie, Axtell follows Volvo on Pinterest and saw the details of the contest the day it was announced.
That day, Sept. 5, Axtell plugged in a route to Colorado Springs, a destination he chose because he could visit friends, through Google.
Throughout the route, Google recommended attractions. Axtell then vigorously researched each, selected some that interested him and sprinkled eccentric details to the trip that gave it "Joe style."
On his Pinterest page, Axtell posted a picture of a Volvo dealership in Colorado Springs where he could drop off the car for an oil change. He even detailed the name of a potential salesman there.
He posted a caption that detailed his devotion to his ride, how he would hand wash the Volvo S60 T5 and scrub its snowy floor mats if it got dirty.
He gave a shoutout to Lady Gaga, telling followers, "It is highly likely I will listen to songs from her album, 'Born This Way,' multiple times during the trip."
By the end, each picture earned about 31 to 35 likes.
"I think Volvo liked that I was conscientious about maintaining the car," Axtell said. "I'm very meticulous about keeping cars clean. I geared the trip toward me, and maybe that is why I won. I mean, not listening to Lady Gaga would not be me."
As the Oct. 1 deadline to announce the winners passed, Axtell grew nervous and began pestering Volvo with emails for a week.
"I was like, 'Come on, who is winning here?'" Axtell said.
Finally, during the second week in October, Volvo messaged Axtell on Twitter.
"It was obvious I won then," Axtell said. "No one believed me."
After he learned the news, Axtell teamed with the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee to host a send-off party at the school with his friends.
Axtell and his school teamed up to create a Facebook fan page, and USF livestreamed video and photos.
Axtell also promised Volvo he would blog about the trip throughout.
On the morning of Dec. 1, Axtell and his fiancé picked up the vehicle at the Volvo of Sarasota.
The trip started out like any other day.
On the trip's second day, Axtell took a break from a "boring and gruesome" drive through the cornfields of Kansas to pick up a 150-watt power inverter for his Apple laptop and spent hours locked up in his hotel room cranking out a business plan due for a class that day.
Later, Axtell and his fiancé enjoyed the unusual.
Axtell went nose-to-nose with a squirrel outside the Cheyenne resort when the rodent boldly approached him.
"Squirrels don't normally do that," Axtell said. "It was memorable."
To cap the trip, the couple took a two-hour detour to Breckenridge, Colo., where they stopped to chase a herd of horses and pet a donkey before they drifted on a gondola lift — a cable car aerial lift propelled by cables — above the snowy mountains of a ski resort.
"The mountains were mesmerizing," Axtell said. "Breckenridge was so homey and nice. I wish I could live there."
As he reflected on a trip that surpassed his expectations, Axtell made a plea to Volvo.
"Hopefully they saw how passionate I was about their brand so maybe I can work for them one day," Axtell said.
86.059 Total gallons of gas used
9 Total stops for gas
12 Total number of listens to Lady Gaga songs
8 Total number of states driven through
1 Number of audio books listened
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Pinang Peranakan Mansion
Opulent Chinese mother-of pearl dining table graces the massive hallway. Tiles inlaid with small, brownish chintz decks the accompanying living room. Richly woven tapestry adorns the walls; pictures of a wealthy Baba-Nyonya couple, the Penang Peranakans, hang demurely alongside. The scent of old antique wooden teak lingers in the air.


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Petition of the day
The petition of the day is:
Cole v. Harris
Docket: 11-1334
Issue(s): Whether, if a complaint is dismissed for failing to meet the requirement of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b), that the circumstances of the fraud be stated "with particularity," and additional requirements added by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 ("PSLRA"), including the requirement to plead facts "giving rise to a strong inference" of scienter, the dismissal should be "with prejudice," despite the general provision of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 15(a)(2) that courts should "freely give" leave to amend a pleading "when justice so requires," on the grounds that to allow a plaintiff to file an amended complaint with more detail would "frustrate the purpose" of the PSLRA.
Certiorari stage documents:
Recommended Citation: Matthew Bush, Petition of the day, SCOTUSblog (Jun. 22, 2012, 1:51 PM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2012/06/petition-of-the-day-303/


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Open Letter to the Doctors of America from Zahir Ebrahim
April 30, 2013
Dear Medical Practitioners in the United States of America
What bothers me about America is that of the 20,000 doctors and surgeons in Boston, from Harvard-MIT MD-Phds to the Dana-Farber super-specialists in every healthcare related field esoterica, not one can stand up to call a spade a spade? The physician I spoke to privately on Jeff Bauman's Boston Marathon explosion injury images broadcast in the newsmedia (see Domestic Terror and Police-State), with just one look at the photos told me this cannot possibly be real.
Yet no medical practitioner, professor of medicine, EMT, EMS, man of science or man of commonsense from Boston to San Francisco has publicly made that call that the exploded legs victim looking alert and not bleeding to death while being strolled on Boylston Street in a wheelchair instead of a gurney is an absurdity?
Is that what you teach your medical students in the United States of America?
What has gone wrong that this nation only produces cowards?
Did Americans learn nothing from the Banality of Evil that created (and destroyed) the Third Reich?
Are you super learned AMA and FDA approved professors of medicine blind? Or merely "United We Stand" super Good Americans?
Zahir Ebrahim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
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by John Jackson Miller
lawsuit, Ghost Rider is much in the news, and The Comics Chronicles has received a number of requests for historic data. Complete Statement of Ownership data for three series have been posted here: Ghost Rider Vol. 1 (1973-83), Ghost Rider Vol. 2 (1990-98), and Ghost Rider 2099 (1994-96). The 2099 page had been previously online, but this is the first appearance here for data for the two longest-running Ghost Rider series.
While not an upper-tier title for Marvel in that time, the 1970s series lasted longer than most of the horror-themed titles from that era, and the title even went from bimonthly to monthly at the end of the decade.
The second series, meanwhile, was one of several Marvel revivals to get hot during the comics boom of the early 1990s. The best-selling individual issue, #28, had overall sales of 602,500 copies according to documentation, of which nearly half a million copies came from the Direct Market; this was during the "Rise of the Midnight Sons" promotion. Unfortunately, the title's fortunes tracked the collapse of the industry, losing half its sales in 1994 and again in 1995. I project the 81 issues of the first series sold 10-12 million copies combined; 17-19 million copies of all 93 issues of the second series combined.
In addition to the 2099 title, there was another Ghost Rider spinoff in 1994: Blaze. It didn't run long enough to produce circulation statements. A longer-running revival of the Ghost Rider series ran 35 issues from 2006-2009; I have not checked it for Statements. If anyone has, please let me know. Sales figures for the individual issues through Diamond can be seen on the Monthly Comics Sales pages; Diamond's sales would be the lion's share of sales for that title.
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