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I'm a dual citizen (US/Canada), and I'm starting law school in the US next year, but I seriously considered going to McGill because of the difference in cost. My brother is there, and he intends to work in the US post law-school. Biglaw firms recruit heavily at McGill, especially because they get LLB/BCL degrees. It's not just like getting your medical degree in the Caribbean. I don't really know much about Pakistan, however.Basically, after doing a lot of research on the subject and talking to a lot of people, I think it just depends what you want to do. You won't even need an LLM to practice, depending on the state. However, if your goal is to get a clerkship or to work at a firm that prizes where you went as opposed to who you are, you might want to reconsider Pakistan. Ultimately, it just depends on your grades, how well you interview, and who you know.
thegourmetpig,To your point about firms who are "just concerned with where you went": would an LLM from Colubmia, after a UK LLB, not assuage any qualms they have? Do big law firms not recruit LLM students? I think this route would make an applicant attractive and unique. Also, it would give them greater mobility to work between different offices (e.g. New York and London).

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Like everyone, we're in for a busy couple of weeks. Our homework and storytime routines sometimes get pushed aside, and at first I was feeling guilty about that. But when I think about how the girls are spending their time, there's plenty of reading, writing, and math going on...it just looks different! Here's how Anna spent her afternoon yesterday on the computer:
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And there's more in our future — reading our Christmas cards and letters, sending out our own (at some point...), writing our letter with Santa's cookies and also thank you notes. So, if your schedule is like ours, it's okay! Step back and see where literacy is really taking place. I'll bet it's there.
Reading and writing have been creeping into our holiday preparations in most unique ways this year. My first grader asked for a hamster and in anticipation has read three books about their care and written a detailed list of what's needed for hamster comfort. He's also made a welcome sign to make her feel right at home!


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This is the sixth challenge in a weekly series from GeneaBloggers called 52 weeks of personal genealogy history.
Week 6: Radio and Television. What was your favorite radio or television show from your childhood? What was the program about and who was in it?
When I was in grade school, I discovered The Monkees. Who was in it? Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork and no, I didn't have to look that up! What was it about? Four guys running around in zany situations and occasionally singing a song. Great fun!
Saturday morning was cartoon day. My favorite was Looney Tunes, but we also watched Bullwinkle, The Pink Panther, Scooby Doo, Penelope Pitstop, The Jetsons, and many more.
In my teens, I discovered sci-fi and horror. I loved the reruns of The Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, and The Alfred Hitchcock Show. They reran the original Star Trek series every night around dinner time and my Dad, sister, and I used to watch it while eating dinner on TV trays much to my Mom's dismay!
Other favorite shows in the 70's were Happy Days, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, All In The Family, The Carol Burnett Show, and Sonny and Cher. Hard to choose one favorite!
Radio wasn't playing the serials by the time I grew up, but my favorite program back then was Casey Kasem's Top 40 Countdown.
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I caught the Monkees when MTV did their revival and LOVED them! The show was awesome. I went to see them in concert twice with my mom and sister when they "came back". I still love listening to their music!ReplyDelete
I watched the revival on MTV too, partly to see if the show was as much fun as I remembered. I still loved it! Davy and Mickey did a tour in the late 70's and I saw them in a small club in Tallahassee. It was a childhood dream come true! :)ReplyDelete
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Citizens United/Caperton Symposium @ GULC
My law school has lined up quite a day on Tuesday for the symposium, ""State Courts and U.S. Supreme Court Rulings: Will Caperton and Citizens United Change the Way States Pick Judges?" I have no classes on Tuesdays, so F1@1F will be there.
Justice O'Connor will be the keynote speaker. Since retiring from the Court, she has led the fight to eliminate state judicial elections as impediments to judicial independence.
Here's the morning lineup:
9:15 – 10:15 am.
Panel 1: Caperon v. Massey Coal and the Recusal of State Court Judges
Bert Brandenburg, Executive Director, Justice at Stake Campaign
Carte Goodwin, Partner, Goodwin & Goodwin, PC and Chair, West Virginia Independent Commission on Judicial Reform
Pamela Karlan, Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law, Stanford Law School
Roy Schotland, Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University Law Center
Moderator: Nina Totenberg, Legal Affairs Correspondent, NPR
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Panel 2: Citizens United and the Election of State Court Judges
Jan Baran, Partner, Wiley & Rein, LLP
Karl Sandstrom, Of Counsel, Perkins Coie
Bradley A. Smith, Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Designated Professor of Law, Capital University Law School
H. Thomas Wells, Jr., Immediate Past President, American Bar Association
Fred Wertheimer, President, Democracy 21
Moderator: Tony Mauro, Supreme Court Correspondent, National Law Journal
Some commentators have already noticed the not-so-easily reconcilable fact that Justice Kennedy wrote the majority opinions in both cases, each decided 5-4. In Caperton, he wrote for the liberal bloc in holding that the 14th Amendment's Due Process Clause required an elected state supreme court judge recuse himself from judging a case in which one of the parties had previously donated $3 million to his judicial election campaign–and for whose side, "coincidentally," the judge, once elected to the bench, ultimately gave the winning vote.
In Citizens United, as we all know know, Justice Kennedy wrote for the conservative bloc in holding that the same corporations that he felt under the Due Process Clause unconstitutionally sleazed up judges elected to state courts could, under the First Amendment, constitutionally spend all they wanted in local, state, and federal elections. On page 51 of Kennedy's opinion, he offers a distinction between the two cases:
The appearance of influence or access, furthermore, will not cause the electorate to lose faith in our democracy. By definition, an independent expenditure is political speech presented to the electorate that is not coordinated with a candidate. See Buckley, supra, at 46. The fact that a corporation, or any other speaker, is willing to spend money to try to persuade voters presupposes that the people have the ultimate influence over elected officials. This is inconsistent with any suggestion that the elector- ate will refuse "'to take part in democratic governance'" because of additional political speech made by a corpora- tion or any other speaker. McConnell, supra, at 144 (quot- ing Nixon v. Shrink Missouri Government PAC, 528 U. S. 377, 390 (2000)).Caperton v. A. T. Massey Coal Co., 556 U. S. ___ (2009), is not to the contrary. Caperton held that a judge was required to recuse himself "when a person with a personal stake in a particular case had a significant and dispropor- tionate influence in placing the judge on the case by rais- ing funds or directing the judge's election campaign when the case was pending or imminent." Id., at ___ (slip op., at 14). The remedy of recusal was based on a litigant's due process right to a fair trial before an unbiased judge. See Withrow v. Larkin, 421 U. S. 35, 46 (1975). Caperton's holding was limited to the rule that the judge must be recused, not that the litigant's political speech could be banned.The McConnell record was "over 100,000 pages" long, McConnell I, 251 F. Supp. 2d, at 209, yet it "does not have any direct examples of votes being exchanged for . . . ex- penditures," id., at 560 (opinion of Kollar-Kotelly, J.). This confirms Buckley's reasoning that independent expendi- tures do not lead to, or create the appearance of, quid pro quo corruption. In fact, there is only scant evidence that independent expenditures even ingratiate. See 251 F. Supp. 2d, at 555–557 (opinion of Kollar-Kotelly, J.). Ingratiation and access, in any event, are not corruption. The BCRA record establishes that certain donations to political parties, called "soft money," were made to gain access to elected officials. McConnell, supra, at 125, 130– 131, 146–152; see McConnell I, 251 F. Supp. 2d, at 471– 481, 491–506 (opinion of Kollar-Kotelly, J.); id., at 842– 843, 858–859 (opinion of Leon, J.). This case, however, is about independent expenditures, not soft money. When Congress finds that a problem exists, we must give that finding due deference; but Congress may not choose an unconstitutional remedy. If elected officials succumb to improper influences from independent expenditures; if they surrender their best judgment; and if they put expe- diency before principle, then surely there is cause for concern. We must give weight to attempts by Congress to seek to dispel either the appearance or the reality of these influences. The remedies enacted by law, however, must comply with the First Amendment; and, it is our law and our tradition that more speech, not less, is the governing rule. An outright ban on corporate political speech during the critical preelection period is not a permissible remedy. Here Congress has created categorical bans on speech that are asymmetrical to preventing quid pro quo corruption.
Stevens's spends pages 67-70 of his dissent on why Kennedy's two opinions are at odds:
The insight that even technically independent expenditures can be corrupting in much the same way as direct contributions is bolstered by our decision last year in Caperton v. A. T. Massey Coal Co., 556 U. S. ___ (2009). In that case, Don Blankenship, the chief executive officer of a corporation with a lawsuit pending before the West Vir ginia high court, spent large sums on behalf of a particular candidate, Brent Benjamin, running for a seat on that court. "In addition to contributing the $1,000 statutory maximum to Benjamin's campaign committee, Blankenship donated almost $2.5 million to 'And For The Sake Of The Kids,'" a §527 corporation that ran ads tar geting Benjamin's opponent. Id., at ___ (slip op., at 2). "This was not all. Blankenship spent, in addition, just over $500,000 on independent expenditures . . . ' "to sup port . . . Brent Benjamin." ' " Id., at ___ (slip op., at 2–3) (second alteration in original). Applying its common sense, this Court accepted petitioners' argument that Blankenship's "pivotal role in getting Justice Benjamin elected created a constitutionally intolerable probability of actual bias" when Benjamin later declined to recuse him self from the appeal by Blankenship's corporation. Id., at ___ (slip op., at 11). "Though n[o] . . . bribe or criminal influence" was involved, we recognized that "Justice Ben jamin would nevertheless feel a debt of gratitude to Blankenship for his extraordinary efforts to get him elected." Ibid. "The difficulties of inquiring into actual bias," we further noted, "simply underscore the need for objective rules," id., at ___ (slip op., at 13)—rules which will perforce turn on the appearance of bias rather than its actual existence.
In Caperton, then, we accepted the premise that, at least in some circumstances, independent expenditures on candidate elections will raise an intolerable specter of quid pro quo corruption. Indeed, this premise struck the Court as so intuitive that it repeatedly referred to Blankenship's spending on behalf of Benjamin—spending that consisted of 99.97% independent expenditures ($3 million) and 0.03% direct contributions ($1,000)—as a "contribution." See, e.g., id., at ___ (slip op., at 1) ("The basis for the [recusal] motion was that the justice had received cam paign contributions in an extraordinary amount from" Blankenship); id., at ___ (slip op., at 3) (referencing "Blankenship's $3 million in contributions"); id., at ___ (slip op., at 14) ("Blankenship contributed some $3 million to unseat the incumbent and replace him with Benjamin"); id., at ___ (slip op., at 15) ("Blankenship's campaign con tributions . . . had a significant and disproportionate influence on the electoral outcome"). The reason the Court so thoroughly conflated expenditures and contributions, one assumes, is that it realized that some expenditures may be functionally equivalent to contributions in the way they influence the outcome of a race, the way they are interpreted by the candidates and the public, and the way they taint the decisions that the officeholder thereafter takes.
Caperton is illuminating in several additional respects. It underscores the old insight that, on account of the ex treme difficulty of proving corruption, "prophylactic meas ures, reaching some [campaign spending] not corrupt in purpose or effect, [may be] nonetheless required to guard against corruption." Buckley, 424 U. S., at 30; see also Shrink Missouri, 528 U. S., at 392, n. 5. It underscores that "certain restrictions on corporate electoral involve ment" may likewise be needed to "hedge against circum vention of valid contribution limits." McConnell, 540 U.S., at 205 (internal quotation marks and brackets omitted); see also Colorado II, 533 U. S., at 456 ("[A]ll Members of the Court agree that circumvention is a valid theory of corruption"). It underscores that for-profit cor porations associated with electioneering communications will often prefer to use nonprofit conduits with "mislead ing names," such as And For The Sake Of The Kids, "to conceal their identity" as the sponsor of those communica tions, thereby frustrating the utility of disclosure laws. McConnell, 540 U. S., at 128; see also id., at 196–197.
And it underscores that the consequences of today's holding will not be limited to the legislative or executive context. The majority of the States select their judges through popular elections. At a time when concerns about the conduct of judicial elections have reached a fever pitch, see, e.g., O'Connor, Justice for Sale, Wall St. Journal, Nov. 15, 2007, p. A25; Brief for Justice at Stake et al. as Amici Curiae 2, the Court today unleashes the floodgates of corporate and union general treasury spending in these races. Perhaps "Caperton motions" will catch some of the worst abuses. This will be small comfort to those States that, after today, may no longer have the ability to place modest limits on corporate electioneering even if they believe such limits to be critical to maintaining the integ rity of their judicial systems.
Kentucky Flyin' Tefillin
The NYT reports "Jewish Teenager's Tefillin Diverts a US Airways Flight" to Louisville, KY. Somewhere, Justice Brandeis–a Louisville-born, ardently secular Jew–doesn't know whether to laugh or cry:
The plane, a 50-seat regional aircraft that was less than a third full when it took off from La Guardia Airport, had been climbing through the early-morning sky for about 25 minutes. A 17-year-old passenger in a whitish sweater took out something he had carried onboard, and strapped it onto his wrist and his head.
To some people in New York, that is a relatively common sight: an observant Jew beginning the ritual of morning prayer. But to at least one person on US Airways Express Flight 3079 on Thursday — the flight attendant — it looked ominous, as if the young man were wrapping himself in cables or wires. […]
The pilot decided to divert the Kentucky-bound plane to Philadelphia. In less than 30 minutes it was on the ground, police officers were swarming through the passenger cabin, and the Transportation Security Administration was using terms like "disruptive passenger" and "suspicious passenger" to describe the boy.
An hour or so after that, Lt. Frank Vanore, a spokesman for the Philadelphia police, had another explanation.
"It was unfamiliarity that caused this," he said.
He said the flight crew had never seen tefillin, small leather boxes attached to leather straps that observant Jews wear during morning prayers. The flight crew "didn't understand what it was," he said, and the pilot "erred on the side of caution and decided to radio that in and to divert the flight."


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Pessimism takes root in #STL
I have grown up in St. Louis and attended Duchesne High School in St. Charles. I am 38 and, for the past 10 years, I have made the choice to live in downtown St. Louis. I stress the word choice, because the reality for me, as well as the majority of people who grew up in St. Louis, is that opportunities for success seem to lie in another city.
In other words, real success can only be achieved outside of our regional borders. This is not something I learned in college or from traveling around the country. Nor is it something that I picked up from a chamber of commerce pamphlet from Chicago or San Francisco. No, this pessimistic view of the region has slowly become the consensus among our regional leaders. By those who possess the power, and platform, to challenge and ultimately change this misperception.
Whether it be this paper, the elected leadership of this region, or daily conversations with some St. Louis residents, I am often reminded of our region's limitations. For instance, I am often told point-blank that "St. Louis will never have something like that" or that "we will never get that company to relocate to St. Louis and build their new plane here" and "That national convention will never choose St. Louis we are being used as a Trojan horse in the bidding process."
I do not believe in this type of pessimism. Having grown up in the St. Louis area, I fell in love with this place and I am proud to call it my home. Sometimes I wish I could go back in time and tell that 15-year-old old boy to look elsewhere in life. Why, you might ask?
Because this pessimistic attitude has become so pervasive in this region, that it has turned these thoughts and fears into a reality. No matter what opportunity presents itself, whether it be the Democratic National Convention, Boeing 777X plane production facility, ADM moving its headquarters to St. Louis, the Rams possibly moving cities, or even the notion of crafting effective regional governance, all of these events are met with the pessimistic ball bat upside the head.
Maybe it is this pessimistic attitude that convinced our prodigal son Jack Dorsey to go elsewhere to achieve his vision for Twitter, a vision that was inspired on the streets of south St. Louis. Could it be that having a positive attitude, that something can be achieved in St. Louis, is the missing ingredient?
Areas that the St. Louis region once looked down upon, like Oklahoma City, Little Rock, Charleston, Indianapolis and countless others, have changed their pessimistic outlook and are now working to attain things that many told them were not possible. And guess what? They are growing their region and gaining civic pride. All of these cities in one way or another were once considered second-class cities. However, they are changing this perception. They are working together with a positive attitude and making things happen, one win at a time. They do not dwell on the one they lose; instead, they focus on the one they might win.
One place we the people of St. Louis do not have this pessimistic attitude is when it comes to our Cardinals. With the Cardinals, we are all-in, invested in seeing our boys of summer carry our hopes on the ball field. But, I ask you why? While, the Cardinals win a lot, they win less than the St. Louis area does or even could. We need to stop placing the value of our region solely in the success of a baseball team. We must stop remembering our best days in terms of the World's Fair, something that occurred more than a hundred years ago. Maybe with the right attitude, and approach, our best days may still lie ahead.
Also found online at: http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/pessimism-takes-root-in-st-louis/article_695f70f4-9952-5095-b37a-58be5e6f5070.html


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We also had several races where midfield teams had cars near the front of the grid in qualifying and challenged for podiums. However, there were too many variables to determine the car's true pace. Things such as the Pirelli tyres muddled the results.
Some of you will say that the best car is the one with the highest Constructors Championship standing, and I agree with that to an extent .
Williams for example, was considered to have made a significant improvement as evidenced by Pastor's win and Q3's. However, I think many people agree here that the car had much more potential than what was extracted by Pastor and Bruno, and yet they were only 8th in the CC despite having a car so (apparently) good that some forum users pondered the thought of Hamilton going to them. Peter Sauber, after Sergio's podium in (I think) Monza was adamant that his team's car was not one of the fastest on the day, but THE fastest. I found that strange since he doesn't appear to be the kind of man to make statements such as those . Force India's were also struck with bad luck compared to other teams at the start and were tickling the podium during the latter half of the season.
So it appeared to me that a large majority of forum users here agreed at one point or another that each midfield car was very good and was being let down by their drivers or poor strategy.
My question essentially is, if you put a HAM/VET/ALO in each midfield car, which do you think is the strongest?
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Tasting Coffee Tea, Tea Infused with Dried Coffee Cherry Husks
There are coffee people, and there are tea people, but are there coffee-tea people? I don't just mean those who obsessively drink both bevvies (I'm a member of that club), but the lucky ones currently drinking "tea" made from coffee.
Coffee Cherries, the Fruit Around the Coffee Bean
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While we call the fruit that bears our coffee beans "cherry," you might be surprised to discover it's not nearly as meaty or juicy as the ones used in Grandma's famous pie. The beans take up most of the real estate inside the little red pods, which makes the fruit itself not that great for snacking—unless you want to crack a tooth.
That doesn't mean it's not delicious, though: When dried, the cherry can be steeped just like tea, and makes an incredibly syrupy and aromatic cup somewhat reminiscent of rooibos or a hibiscus infusion. Called cascara in Spanish, the dried cherry husks are a rare find in this part of the globe, though it's not uncommon to run into this sensual drink in coffee-growing regions farther east, such as in Yemen where the husks are used to make a hot ginger-spiced drink called qishr.
Coffee Tea Tasting
Last Friday at the regular weekly coffee tasting I host with my Counter Culture colleagues (yes, you can come; no, you don't need any experience), we got the kind-of-insanely-awesome opportunity to sample the cascara from three different farms, all of which are owned by the coffee-growing industry's equivalent to Mick Jagger: El Salvadorian farm owner and coffee producer Aida Battle. We were curious about the trio because the farms—Finca Mauritania, Finca los Alpes, and Finca Kilimanjaro—are planted with different bean varieties. But would there be a discernible difference on the palate between the fruits themselves?
Remarkably, there certainly is: While harder to detect in the aromas, the Finca los Alpes was noticeably tart and tobacco-like next to the brown-sugar sweetness of Finca Mauritania, while the more delicate Finca Kilimanjaro was intensely floral, sweet, and appley. And yes, I'm fully aware that this is why coffee people get made fun of the same way wine people do. Maybe you have to taste it to believe it.
And taste it you should: I think every coffee lover should jump on the chance to get their mitts on some of this stuff when the opportunity arises. I mean, when are you ever going to get to visit a coffee farm and eat a cherry right off the tree? This is as close to that as many of us will ever get, and we may as well savor it. (Heck—ice it. It makes an awesome iced tea, too.)
Dried coffee chery husks from Finca Mauritania, Finca los Alpes, and Finca Kilimanjaro are available from Counter Culture for $9.95 / 4-ounce bag.
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Having problems with your Dell Inspiron 9300 Notebook ?
Vertical lines in my laptop screen
\015 Hello! I've been using my Compaq Presario (M2223AP) Laptop for 2 years now, then all of a sudden I saw 2 vertical lines on the screen. 1 line is a clear red line (but not so thick & dark) located about 1/3 from the left of the screen while the other is a very faint (thin, almost transparent) line located about 1/5 from the right of the screen. I think it might be a monitor problem. I'm not very good in fixing computers so I have not done anything about it yet. I'd appreciate your help very much. Thanks!\015\012I have a dell inspiron 9300 with a straight vertical line running down the very center of the screen. How can I fix this? Is it a problem with the hard drive or the actual screen?\015
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Try connecting an external monitor to the Dell Inspiron 9300 and see if the vertical line is also present on the monitor. If the monitor display is fine, then your laptop's LCD display panel is defective. If the monitor also displays the vertical line, then your problem is with either the video card or motherboard located inside your laptop.
\015\012Not sure if the Compaq Presario has an external monitor plug, but if it does the above procedure can be applied to that one as well.
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Travelling the world, exploring the lush planet as led by God's instruction , provided by Divine provision while laying hands and miraculously healing and prophecy over those you are guided to ? Now that's quite a life for the individual to lead and walk on their own.
So what does it take to throw the caution of the world to the wind, relinquishing all pragmatics in order to heed Divine Instruction ?
The first essential ingredient is most definitely Boldness.
And the second which really come before the first is a true zeal for the Bible. Feasting in the word of God is what creates a zeal to share a message that is really excellent news. After all, with God all things are impossible. That mean's the entire universe and all of creation becomes the Believer's domain. Now wouldn't it be fascinating to take that scripture as one's absolute truth and live it , walk , breathe it and see it play out as being unwaveringly certain in one's life ?
It sure sounds like Living the Miraculous ...
Thomas Fischer is one such individual who is doing just that. Living the miraculous, doing what is unimaginable to most while witnessing the radical on a regular basis. In fact it's his lifestyle.
He is a minister, evangelist and healer who travels the world freely led by the Holy Spirit. Having spent over 21 years committed to the Lord, he took a path of singlehood and celibacy for 171/2 years as he went deep in obedience. Thomas Fischer has been a Christian, committing his life to the Lord for over 21 years. The driving force of his ministry is in receiving the purity of God's word as well as the pursuit of excellence.
One thing that's clear about this man is a burning passion for purity and for preaching the Gospel. There is definitely no inhibition here when it comes to God's message. None whatsoever !
Tom says that his drive is focused on keeping the Gospel Pure, receiving revelation directly from the Holy Spirit and so his passion is for a balanced message. Says Tom, " I believe the message of the Gospel is being corrupted and I am driven to make sure that the definition of Grace remains true. Peter speaks of the True Grace of God in 1Peter 5:12 " With the help of Silas whom I regard as a faithful brother, I have written to you briefly encouraging you in testifying that this is the true grace of God. Stand fast in it .
Like a tale straight out of a movie, several years ago, after a dramatic baptism of the Holy Spirit that grabbed his hands and imparted a rush of energy into each hand, Thomas received the ability to deliver supernatural healings. He chose to use this gift to the fullest, boldly walking the streets, talking to stranger he feels lead to around the world.
Today, this unassuming, gregarious and warm individual leads a life quite like any other and had given his life to serve the Lord to both heal and minister to those in need. Where is he based ? Just about everywhere he is called, whether it involves a plane, train or automobile, he picks up and obediently moves ! And how do these funds come ? In every possible way you can imagine that God could supply his modern day apostles. One such means is through his online youtube ministry that funds most of his journey. Every day is an exercise in faith, one that draws him ever closer to building his trust.
Tom has ministered to thousands who were healed of cancer, tumours, hepatitis, diabetes, arthritis, paralysis, irregular heartbeat, cysts, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, various pregnancy issues, sight and hearing issues. He has seen all forms of pain leave. He has also seen and felt bones move, dental cavities fill themselves and a breached baby turn over, as order is once again restored within the body in Jesus name. Additionally, Tom is actively involved in deliverance work, casting demons out of the lives of the afflicted.
But why does preaching the gospel come with signs, wonders and miracles? Why is the miraculous so deeply enmeshed in powerful ministry ?
Thomas explains, "When someone experiences a real supernatural sign, they always listen closely to what is being said by the person who was able to deliver the sign. I don't need to be some slick preacher who knows how to deliver an amazing oration with flowing words. God uses the simple to confound the wise. Paul was an amazing man of God who admitted to not being a great speaker, but people listened to him because he knew the one who performs mighty miracles. 1 Corinthians 2:4 says, " And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom but in demonstration of the Spirit and of Power".
He goes onto shares, " If I get myself into a situation with someone and God does something supernatural for them, I want that person to walk away thinking " wow, if he could do this, so can I". The last thing I want, is for someone to walk away being impressed with me and thinking that they need to be real slick to do this too. "
So the Believer must exhibit these signs, wonders and miracles too ... ?
Says Tom, "all Christians are suppose to fulfill The Great Commission. Here is The Great Commission: Matthew 28:18-20- Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."
Tom explains, "What I want to point out about this text is what Jesus told the apostles to obey. Jesus taught the apostles how to heal the sick and cast out demons and then sent them out to do the same thing. We as Believers . have a responsibility to live up to the truth that we have in us because we are witnesses for Jesus Christ. We're supposed to walk like him and look like him and be a witness to the world. The world should see us and say " There's something different with them, him or her. We should stand out, for we are lights shining in a dark place. That's my goal to help Christians come into the fullness of who they are, understanding what Jesus has done for them, knowing who they are in Christ and being able to receive and walk in all the benefits of being a Christian."
He says, "Referring back to the great commission, we see that the apostles are supposed to teach disciples what they were taught. So, being as I am a disciple, I teach others how to witness and heal the sick through videos and notes. I want to show that bringing God's healing power to people on the streets is an excellent way to evangelize and every Christian can do this. God bless every Christian who answers the call of the great commission. I thank them for wanting to obey the commands of the Lord. "
It's not often that one meets a true disciple of Jesus. Now that's living the miraculous !
" Thomas Fischer can be contacted online via his blog http://tomff7.blogspot.com/ , or his youtube channel www.youtube.com/user/mrtomff7


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The Over 60's Club meet on the 2nd Tuesday of every month from 2:30pm - 4:30pm in Fenny Compton Village Hall and have afternoon tea.
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Blogging platform Tumblr has grown to become the 9th most-visited site in the U.S.
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Union Square Ventures partner Fred Wilson says he used to bug Karp about adding a comments feature to Tumblr. Wilson wanted readers to be able to comment on Tumblr blogs, but Karp wouldn't budge.
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Get involved: Families connected to their childrens' schools make a real difference in student achievement. It's a fact!
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Research shows that the more parents get involved in their child's education, the higher level of success that student can achieve. Parent engagement is potent as rocket fuel, and with it, there's no telling how high your child can soar.
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SCIENCE IS KING (Jun, 1938)
"Men who made civilization what it is today were not famous statesmen, conquerors or philosophers. They were—and are—men engaged in the mechanical sciences"
OVER the airwaves comes a desperate appeal to the radio station at Nome. "For God's sake, send help, if you can. We're starving and dying. There's an epidemic. Almost everybody is flat in bed."
"What do you need? Food?"
"Food, yes, and milk. But above all, serum. This whole settlement will be wiped out if we don't get serum."
By dog-sled and man-power it would take two weeks and a lot of luck to carry the needed supplies to that stricken community. But there is Joe Crosson with his plane. Can he make it? The problem is put up to him.
"We'll do our durndest," he replies, speaking for himself and plane.
We won't go in to the trouble and danger he goes through. For one thing, it's an old story to Joe Crosson. He has done it before probably will have to do it again several times. The point at this moment is that he does it. An entire settlement in the frozen North is saved from extinction.
Such an episode, not uncommon in these days, serves here to dramatize the crescendo advance of civilization. I believe everybody agrees that one of the two highest functions of this civilization of ours is to diminish disease. A generation ago the saving of that Arctic settlement would have been impossible.
To whom did those stricken people owe their lives? All honor to Crosson. He did his errand of mercy with courage, fortitude and skill. But without the work that a number of men did before him, some in factory and machine shop, some in chemical laboratory, some in astronomical observatory, all of Joe's courage and fortitude would have been unavailing and there would have been no call for his skill. No call for help could have been flashed through the air if the physicist Hertz had not discovered the uncanny properties of the waves named after him and if Marconi— who was not educated as a physicist to begin with—had not, later on, developed the means of using those waves and thus made it possible for us to communicate from anywhere to anywhere else without the aid of wires. Crosson could never have flown to the rescue of that settlement but for the experiments of a couple of bicycle mechanics named Wright in Dayton, Ohio. Going back a bit, Wilbur and Orville Wright never could have made their strange machine fly if Gottlieb Daimler had not produced the gasoline engine. And Joe could not have navigated his airship but for the contributions of Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler, the great trio who may safely be called the fathers of modern astronomy. Finally, would he have had any serum to stop that epidemic if Edward Jenner had not introduced vaccination and thus become the originator of serumtherapy?
From all this, it seems to me, one fact emerges clear. The men who have made civilization what it is were not the famous statesmen, conquerors or even the philosophers. They were—and are—the men engaged in the mechanical sciences. Do you object that I have included a physician amongst them? Then I refer you to Arthur Keith's "The Engines of the Human Body" or Dr. Crile's brilliant work on "Man as an Adaptive Mechanism." Or watch a skillful surgeon at work. You will see that he is actually a super-mechanic plus, of course, a complete knowledge of the human anatomy. Again, it is generally conceded that William Harvey was the father of modern medicine. Consider his great discovery, the circulation of the blood. It was the first true explanation of the mechanics of the life-stream. Upon it has depended every advance that we have made in the prevention and cure of disease.
The fact that I have stated above will not go undisputed.
The highbrows will say: "To the I pillory with him! He blasphemes the memory of the great philosophers." Whereupon it occurs to me that I have heard scholars remark that, actually, philosophy has not advanced a single step in any important direction. There have been different systems of philosophy, true, but admittedly none greater than that of the ancient Greeks. And, frankly, I am one of those who are convinced that neither Schopenhauer nor Kant nor Spinoza nor Descartes nor even Papa Plato himself has contributed one jot or tittle towards the saving of a single human life, the curing of a sick child, the alleviation of poverty.
And what of the great conquerors? I can think of only one or two whose achievements had any lasting and beneficent effect. Alexander spread the culture of Europe, such as it was, through Asia and brought back some of Asia's lore to Europe. But his work, like that of even Julius and Augustus Caesar, has left but few traces. "That which is done violently always has to be done over again." Caesar, Hannibal, Hammurabi, Genghis Khan, Charlemagne, Napoleon Bonaparte—you can have the whole lot of them, for what do we owe them? I recall a line in "Man and Superman" by Shaw: "Commander, when the soldier approaches, Mankind hides away his women and buries his forks and spoons."
Statesmen? Most of them have been parasites on the soldier's back. The best that can be said about them is that the more intelligent have protected and encouraged the experts in the mechanical sciences. But usually the scientists had to obtain this protection by dint of their capacity for destroying human life, not saving it. Archimedes, discoverer of the lever and the greatest of Greek scientists, was employed by the Tyrant of Syracuse because he invented artillery engines. Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest minds of all time, sought the favor of princes not because he was the foremost of Italian artists, a poet and mechanical genius but because he was a brilliant military engineer!
As this is being written I can think of just two statesmen who contributed something imperishable towards civilization. And in one case—that of Goethe—many people forget that he was a Privy Councillor at the Weimar court and an able administrator. But his mind was the only one in Europe comparable to that of Leonardo da Vinci. He was a poet, humanist and a pathfinder in the realm of Natural Science. The other name that comes to mind is that of Benjamin Franklin, inventor as well as statesman. His experiments will always be rated as a landmark in the history of electricity. In general, however, it is safe to say that all progress in mechanical as well as other science has been made in spite of statesmen. Most statesmen have stood for traditionalism. Their attitude is exemplified in the action of the Holy Office in 1633, which brought Galileo Galilei to trial and with torture made him recant and deny the scientific discoveries he had made.
If we examine the history of scientists and scientific discoveries, we will find that man did not really begin to think straight until the arrival of the mechanical age. Up to chat time, practically all human thinking had been deductive. That was the weakness of even the greatest minds among the Greeks—the reason why they remained so backward in a mechanical sense. They were deductive thinkers, reasoning from the general to the particular. It was the mechanical scientists who started us thinking inductively, from the particular to the general.
Bertrand Russell, in his brilliant work, "The Scientific Outlook," attributes the beginning of modern thought to Galilei. When he discovered the four moons of Jupiter, with his primitive telescope, he did far more than add a little bit to the world's astronomical knowledge. He established beyond doubt the truth of the theory that Copernicus had hit upon himself, but which Copernicus was unable to prove: that the Ptolemaic system, which had governed the world's thought, was all wrong; in short, that our system is heliocentric, that we revolve around the sun.
This seems like a rather dry commonplace to us today. The mere fact that it aroused the wrath of the Holy Office reminds us how electrifying, even how horrifying it was in the Seventeenth Century. It was not only the ecclesiastical authorities who pounced upon Galileo. Some of his own students hissed him at his lectures.
As Bertrand Russell points out, "The conflict between Galileo and the Inquisition is not merely the conflict between free thought and bigotry or between science and religion. It is a conflict between the spirit of induction and the spirit of deduction. Those who believe in deduction as the method of arriving at knowledge are compelled to find their premises somewhere, usually in a sacred book. Deduction from inspired books is the method of arriving at truth employed by jurists, Christians, Mohammedans, and Communists. Since deduction as a means of obtaining knowledge collapses when doubt is thrown upon its premises, those who believe in deduction must necessarily be bitter against men who question the authority of the sacred books. Galileo questioned both Aristotle and the Scriptures and thereby destroyed the whole edifice of medieval knowledge."
Of course there was one good substantial reason for the hostility of the deductive thinkers towards the process of induction. The inductive method requires infinitely more hard, digging, exhaustive work. Each particular fact required for a general conclusion has to be laboriously sought out and established. Galileo almost with one stroke, demolished and made useless the conclusions of those who went before him. Bertrand Russell says further: "As a matter of fact, knowledge is even harder to come by than Galileo supposed, and much that he believed was only approximate; but in the process of acquiring knowledge at once secure and general, Galileo took the first great step. He is, therefore, the father of modern times. Whatever we may like or dislike about the age in which we live, its increase of population, its improvement in health, its trains, motor-cars, radio, politics, and advertisements of soap—all emanate from Galileo. If the Inquisition could have caught him young, we might not now be enjoying the blessings of air-warfare and poisoned gas, nor, on the other hand, the diminution of poverty and disease which is characteristic of our age.
"It is customary amongst a certain school of sociologists to minimize the importance of intelligence, and to attribute all great events to large impersonal causes. I believe this to be an entire delusion. I believe that if a hundred of the men of the Seventeenth Century had been killed in infancy, the modern world would not exist. And of these hundred, Galileo is the chief."
Bertrand Russell ran into a great deal of criticism when he assigned to Galileo such an important place in the history of civilization. To me personally, his idea seems fundamentally sound. At the same time, I admit it's perhaps unfortunate that the credit for certain lines of progress in human civilization should be concentrated so much on a few men. We talk of one man as being the Father of This, and the other as being the Originator of That, and a third as the Discoverer of So-and-So. From the story of exploration we know that all discoveries really are the work of a great number of men, most of whose names have completely disappeared and been forgotten. Geographers no longer believe that Columbus was actually the first man since Lsif Ericsson to rediscover America. All human knowledge is the result of a labor of a multitude of workers, many of them obscure. And this is particularly true in the mechanical sciences, particularly true since the world learned from Galileo the science of inductive thinking.
And a tremendous volume of progress has been achieved by the labors of men quite without academic background and education. One thinks immediately of the Wright brothers, who had a bicycle repair shop. The French Academy of Sciences and many other learned bodies bestowed all sorts of honor on them in later life. But when they started out on those experiments that astonished the world, their book-learning was exceedingly small In "The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind," H. G. Wells points out: "The activities of the gentlemen who launched natural philosophy upon the world needed to be supplemented by work of a coarser type before they could realize its vast potentialities. There were practical men, mostly millwrights and often with no education (Brindley could scarcely read and could write only with difficulty), who understood the present needs of the day and the practical difficulties in the way of overcoming them."
In a larger sense, however, all this discussion of who invented what comes down to a matter of almost legal quibbling. But it bears out the claim that everything in civilization today is the accumulated result of the work of thousands of minds, some of them working in obscure and forgotten channels.
I suppose the last place where such facts will be recognized is the school room. History continues to be a recitation of the acts and achievements of statesmen, soldiers, conquerors, many of them no better than gangsters. When the text books pay as much attention to Faraday and Oersted as they do now to Napoleon and Talleyrand, civilized thought will have advanced a bit further.


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The Duke lives on, a history of Duke Nukem Forever
An interesting article tracking The Death and Rebirth of Duke Nukem Forever was posted on ArsTechnica recently, well worth a read – or at least a watch of the trailer from 1998!
Here's to hoping 2011 is the year of the Duke. Hail to the king baby!


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by Tom Utescher
From the perspective of Agnes Irwin soccer fans, you might call it "the game so nice they played it twice."
Springside supporters would refer to the recent back-to-back matches in harsher terms; their Lions lost to the Irwin Owls both home and away last Monday and Tuesday by identical 2-1 scores.
Bad weather had caused some postponements and injuries had hampered Springside during the first half of the 12-game Girls Inter-Ac League schedule, but the team had still emerged with a 3-3 record that included a split with defending champ Episcopal Academy.
Coming into last week at the .500 mark put the Lions in a relatively good position in a league where there's no truly dominant team this fall, but the locals did themselves a disservice with the twin losses to Irwin, which was just 1-4-1 in the Inter-Ac beforehand.
"We're just not playing well right now, and I can't explain it," said Springside coach Jerry Hartey. "There's not a lot of enthusiasm out there and it's a shame, because we're pretty healthy for the first time this season."
The team was still not at full capacity for the two Irwin games, though. High-scoring junior Kelsey Chapman was away on Monday, and on Tuesday the squad played without senior Riley Tarver.
Early in Monday's game Springside junior Jamie McGinn rushed across the Irwin 18-yard-line in pursuit of a through pass, but the ball was hit just a little too hard and Owls' keeper Liz Brehman scooped it up. At the other end, senior goalie Brenna Coll (16 saves) was kept busy diving on balls served into the box, and Irwin also hit a number of outside shots that were near misses, one of them striking the crossbar.
The visitors finally scored seven minutes into the second half, when a long boot by Taylor Lord went in at the left post. Just after that a Springside corner kick failed to produce a shot, but in the next minute Tarver carried the ball into the right outside corner of the box, drew the goalie, and put a chip shot in the net to tie the game.
From just inside the 18, the Owls' Sammi Lucas fired a ball that glanced off the left post and into the Springside goal, putting Irwin ahead with 8:41 left to play. Not long after that Lucas left the field with a red card, but even playing 11-on-10 for the final six minutes, Springside couldn't tie the match a second time.
Irwin duplicated the 2-1 victory the follow day on its home field, where once again Springside matched the Owls' first goal but not their second. The hosts held a 1-0 lead at the half thanks to Findlay Flasinski, but with under 15 minutes left in the game Chapman leveled the score for Springside, breaking down the field and shooting the ball over Brehman when the Irwin keeper moved towards her.
Irwin was still able to pull out the victory, with Flasinski chalking up her second goal of the day with seven minutes remaining.
UPDATE: Springside played with more verve at Penn Charter last Friday, when two goals by Chapman and one by senior Haley Lombardo powered the Lions to a 3-1 win over the host Quakers.