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In the frame of the exhibition Despite Efficiency: Labour at Herbert Read Gallery.
Turner Contemporary
Rendezvous, Margate, Kent CT9 1HG, United Kingdom
See NAME - Readymade
From 8 to 10 December 2014
My Name is Janez Janša screening and talk with the authors: MON, 8 December 2014 at 6:30 pm
Gorvy Lecture Theater, Royal College of Art, Battersea
Lecture: TUE, 9 December 2014 at 12:45 pm
Cragg auditorium, UCA Canterbury
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Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent
In the framework of Despite Efficiency: Labour.
From 5 to 12 December 2014
Series of artworks on bank cards
Exhibtion and festival opening: FRI, 5 December 2014 at 8 pm
Part of group exhibition NON-ART realized in the framwork of the festival PIXXELPOINT 2014.
Nova Gorica City Gallery
Bevkov trg 4, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
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From 3 to 19 December 2014
Exhibition opening: WED, 3 December 2014 at 7 pm
Free entrance
Aksioma Projektni prostor
Komenskega 18, Ljubljana, Slovenia
* Part of Aksioma Institute production programme to support young artists.
See On the Threshold
From 28 November 2014 to 20 December 2014
Exhibition opening: SAT, 28 November 2014
In frame of group exhibition Multiple Market.
Handel Street Projects
14 Florence Street, N1, London, UK
See Dolce far niente
Wednesday 17 December 2014 at 18:00
Screening of documentary movie My name is Janez Janša and presentation of the project FREE Janez Janša and booklet What's in a Name? by Mladen Dolar
Forum Stadtpark
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LYNCHBURG, VA. - Sam Duininck's header found the top corner of the goal in overtime, pushing the Liberty Flames past the High Point Panthers, 2-1, in a Big South Conference men's soccer match, Tuesday evening at the East Campus Fields.
After playing to a 1-1 tie during regulation, Liberty took advantage of a free kick from 20 yards out to score the golden goal at 92:55. Defender Uriah Bentick served the kick into the center of the 18-yard box for Duininck, who headed the ball over the outstretched hands of Panther goalkeeper Kody Palmer and into the top right hand corner of the net, providing Liberty with the win.
Duininck's third goal of the season extends Liberty's unbeaten streak to six consecutive games (5-0-1). The Flames move to 5-1-1 in Big South Conference play and 7-6-1 overall. Liberty played in overtime for the third straight game, posting a 2-0-1 record during the stretch. High Point falls to 4-2-2 in conference action and 11-3-2 overall.
The host Flames struck for the game's first goal in the 10th minute. Midfielder Johnny Torres pounced on a loose ball near midfield and pushed it forward, past a defender for forward Kyle Breitmeyer. The feed put the Liberty forward one-on-one with Palmer, and he beat the High Point keeper with a shot to the left side from the top of the 18-yard box for his seventh goal of the season.
The Flames' lead was short-lived. Less than a minute later, Panther midfielder Shane Malcolm moved into the right side of the box and slid a pass across the goal mouth to fellow midfielder Adam Sewell. The High Point midfielder ran onto the ball on the left side and scored his seventh goal of the season, knotting the score at 1-1.
During the 22nd minute, Panther Leon Carby took a crossing pass at the top of the penalty area, firing a shot which hit the far left post and bounded to teammate Marty Stern.
Stern headed a shot toward the net, which Liberty goalkeeper Scott Sutarik ripped out of the air for the save.
Liberty's Breitmeyer headed a crossing pass into the middle of the 18-yard box, only to see it sail wide of the left goal post in the 25th minute. After the header, play settled in the midfield with neither team able to organize for a quality attempt.
The second half opened with the two teams exchanging shots. Sutarik turned away an attempt by Ben Burdon during the 50th minute, while Palmer stopped a Torres shot during the 51st.
After a header by Flames forward Travis Joseph during the 54th minute, neither team was able to put a shot on goal until late in the half. The best opportunity to break the deadlock may have come during the 83rd minute, when Panther forward Mamadee Nyepon came free in the 18-yard area one-on-one with Liberty keeper Sutarik, but pushed his shot past the left post.
In overtime, Nyepon did fire a shot wide during the 92nd minute, before Duininck scored the game-winner during the 93rd.
High Point outshout Liberty, 14-10, and held a slight edge in corner kicks, 5-4.
Sutarik made three saves on the night, playing the entire match in the Liberty goal. Palmer recorded two saves for the Panthers.
Liberty next hosts the Gardner-Webb Runnin' Bulldogs for a Big South contest, Saturday. Match time is scheduled for 2 p.m.


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NASA satellites track such storms from their origin to their crossing of interplanetary space to their arrival in the atmosphere of Earth. Using the "day-night band" (DNB) of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite acquired this view of the aurora borealis early on the morning of October 8, 2012. The northern lights stretch across Canada's Quebec and Ontario provinces in the image, and are part of the auroral oval that expanded to middle latitudes because of a geomagnetic storm. The DNB sensor detects dim light signals such as auroras, airglow, gas flares, city lights, and reflected moonlight. In the case of the image above, the sensor detected the visible light emissions as energetic particles rained down from Earth's magnetosphere and into the gases of the upper atmosphere. The images are similar to those collected by the Operational Linescan System flown on U.S. Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites for the past three decades. "When I first saw images like this as a graduate student, I was immediately struck by the fluid dynamic characteristics of the aurora," said Tom Moore, a space physicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. "Viewing the aurora in this way makes it immediately clear that space weather is an interaction of fluids from the Sun with those of the Earth's upper atmosphere. The electrodynamics make for important differences between plasmas and ordinary fluids, but familiar behaviors (for example, waves and vortices) are still very apparent. It makes me wonder at the ability of apparently empty space to behave like a fluid." Auroras typically occur when solar flares and coronal mass ejections—or even an active solar wind stream—disturb and distort the magnetosphere, the cocoon of space protected by Earth's magnetic field. The collision of solar particles and pressure into our planet's magnetosphere accelerates particles trapped in the space around Earth (such as in the radiation belts). Those particles are sent crashing down into Earth's upper atmosphere—at altitudes of 100 to 400 kilometers (60 to 250 miles)—where they excite oxygen and nitrogen molecules and release photons of light. The results are rays, sheets, and curtains of dancing light in the sky. Auroras are a beautiful expression of the connection between Sun and Earth, but not all of the connections are benign. Auroras are connected to geomagnetic storms, which can distort radio communications (particularly high frequencies), disrupt electric power systems on the ground, and give slight but detectable doses of radiation to flight crews and passengers on high-latitude airplane flights and on spacecraft. The advantage of images like those from VIIRS and DMSP is resolution, according to space physicist Patrick Newell of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. "You can see very fine detail in the aurora because of the low altitude and the high resolution of the camera," he said. Most aurora scientists prefer to use images from missions dedicated to aurora studies (such as Polar, IMAGE, and ground-based imagers), which can offer many more images of a storm (rather than one per orbit) and can allow researchers to calculate the energy moving through the atmosphere. There are no science satellites flying right now that provide such a view, though astronauts regularly photograph and film auroras from the International Space Station. NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using VIIRS Day-Night Band data from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) and the University of Wisconsin's Community Satellite Processing Package. Suomi NPP is the result of a partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Department of Defense. Caption by Mike Carlowicz. Image and caption: NASA Earth ObservatoryTropical Storm Isaac by Night Early on August 28, 2012, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi-NPP satellite captured this nighttime view of Tropical Storm Isaac and the cities near the Gulf Coast of the United States. The image was acquired just after local midnight by the VIIRS "day-night band," which detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared and uses light intensification to enable the detection of dim signals. In this case, the clouds of Isaac were lit by moonlight. Image: NASA Earth ObservatoryLondon, United Kingdom Billions of people will see London through many different filters and lenses during the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. None of those views will look quite like this one from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite. The image above shows London and the southern half of Great Britain as it appeared on the night of March 27, 2012. While most of the events in the 2012 Olympics will be held in the greater London area, several other cities and towns will host events, including: canoeing at Lee Valley White Water Center; sailing in Weymouth and Portland; rowing and canoeing at Eton Dorney; and cycling and mountain bike events at Hadleigh Farm. The image was acquired by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on Suomi NPP, which includes a "day-night band" similar to images collected by the Operational Linescan System (OLS) flown on U.S. Defense Meterological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites. The day-night band observes light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared, and uses light intensification to enable the detection of dim signals, according to Chris Elvidge, who leads the Earth Observation Group at NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center and works on the VIIRS team. "In wavelength-speak, the range for visible light is about 400 (blue light) to 700 (red light) nanometers, and the day/night band's sensitivity is 500 to 900 nanometers," said Steve Miller, a researcher in the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere at Colorado State University. "There are a lot of satellites up there with sensitivity to this same range, but the special thing about the day/night band is its high sensitivity to very low amounts of this light. It can sense light 100,000 times fainter than the conventional visible light sensors. That makes it very sensitive to things like moonlight, city lights, among many other things." The night views of Earth are more than just a novelty. "Nightime lights are the least ambiguous remote sensing observation indicating the presence and magnitude of human activities and the density of development," said Elvidge. Seeing Earth's night lighting has practical applications in studying human populations, economic activity, habitat fragmentation and encroachment, and energy use. "We can actually look at cities and tell you how much energy is emanating from them," Miller added, "something pretty useful for energy consumption studies." Other scientists use the nighttime views to choose sites for astronomical observatories, study the impact of nocturnal lighting, and to monitor power outages and natural disasters. In meteorology, the combination of VIIRS nighttime views and thermal imaging is valuable for things like differentiating high clouds from low clouds from fog banks. Suomi NPP was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base on October 28, 2011, and is the result of a partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Department of Defense. Editor's Note: The lights in the Irish Sea, the English Channel, and the North Sea are likely a blend of fishing vessels and flares from offshore oil and gas platforms. Image: NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using VIIRS Day Night Band and MODIS Blue Marble data. Caption by Michael Carlowicz.Blue Marble image of the Earth's Western Hemisphere This image was taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's Earth-observing satellite, Suomi NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth's surface taken on January 4, 2012. The NPP satellite was renamed 'Suomi NPP' on January 24, 2012 to honor the late Verner E. Suomi of the University of Wisconsin. Image and caption: NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman KuringBlue Marble image of the Earth's Eastern Hemisphere Responding to public demand, NASA scientists created a companion image to the wildly popular 'Blue Marble.' (previous slide in this gallery) The new image is a composite of six separate orbits taken on January 23, 2012 by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite. Both of these new 'Blue Marble' images are images taken by a new instrument flying aboard Suomi NPP, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). Compiled by NASA Goddard scientist Norman Kuring, this image has the perspective of a viewer looking down from 7,918 miles (about 12,742 kilometers) above the Earth's surface from a viewpoint of 10 degrees South by 45 degrees East. The four vertical lines of 'haze' visible in this image shows the reflection of sunlight off the ocean, or 'glint,' that VIIRS captured as it orbited the globe. Suomi NPP is the result of a partnership between NASA, NOAA and the Department of Defense. Image and Caption: NASA/NOAA'White Marble' Arctic View Fifteen orbits of the recently launched Suomi NPP satellite provided the VIIRS instrument enough time (and longitude) to gather the pixels for this synthesized view of Earth showing the Arctic, Europe, and Asia. Image: NASA/GSFC/Suomi NPPAtmospheric Aerosols, Dust and Clouds The world is currently in an active period for the production of atmospheric aerosols, according to Colin Seftor, an atmospheric physicist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., who compiled this image. Seftor works for Science Systems and Applications, Inc. This image is a combination of a VIIRS RGB image with OMPS aerosol index (AI) data for September 15, 2012. The OMPS AI shows dust from the Sahara over northern Africa that is being blown over the Atlantic (with yellow, less opaque colors representing less dust and pink, more opaque colors representing more dust). Dust can also be seen over Saudi Arabia and parts of Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. However, the aerosol index signal over the Western U.S. is due to dense smoke from wildfires, while smoke from agricultural biomass burning is visible over both South American and southern Africa. The sun glint in the middle of each swath shows the pattern of the satellite's view in orbit. Image: NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterTrue-Color Image of Southeastern United States A 'true-color' image of the Southeastern United States taken on January 19, 2012, the first day the full complement of VIIRS' 22 channels were active. This images was taken between 5:57 pm USA EST and 6:04 pm USA EST (17:57 - 18:04 UTC). Suomi NPP is carrying five instruments on board. The biggest and most important instrument is The Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite or VIIRS. Image and caption: NASA/Suomi NPP/Atmosphere PEATE/Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison/Liam GumleyFirst Global Image from VIIRS From its vantage 824 kilometers (512 miles) above Earth, the Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite gets a complete view of our planet every day. This image from November 24, 2011, is the first complete global image from VIIRS. The NPP satellite launched on October 28, 2011, and VIIRS acquired its first measurements on November 21. To date, the images are preliminary, used to gauge the health of the sensor as engineers continue to power it up for full operation. Rising from the south and setting in the north on the daylight side of Earth, VIIRS images the surface in long wedges measuring 3,000 kilometers (1,900 miles) across. The swaths from each successive orbit overlap one another, so that at the end of the day, the sensor has a complete view of the globe. The Arctic is missing because it is too dark to view in visible light during the winter. The NPP satellite was placed in a Sun-synchronous orbit, a unique path that takes the satellite over the equator at the same local (ground) time in every orbit. So, when NPP flies over Kenya, it is about 1:30 p.m. on the ground. When NPP reaches Gabon—about 3,000 kilometers to the west—on the next orbit, it is close to 1:30 p.m. on the ground. This orbit allows the satellite to maintain the same angle between the Earth and the Sun so that all images have similar lighting. The consistent lighting is evident in the daily global image. Stripes of sunlight (sunglint) reflect off the ocean in the same place on the left side of every swath. The consistent angle is important because it allows scientists to compare images from year to year without worrying about extreme changes in shadows and lighting. The image also shows a band of haze along the right side of every orbit swath. When light travels through the atmosphere, it bounces off particles or scatters, making the atmosphere look hazy. The scattering effect is most pronounced along the edge of the swath, where the sensor is looking at an angle through more of the atmosphere. Scientists can correct for this scattering effect, but need measurements from a range of wavelengths to do so. The degree to which light scatters depends partly on the wavelength of the light. Blue light scatters more than red light, for example, which is why the sky is blue. VIIRS measures 22 different wavelengths of light, but not all of the sensor's detectors are operating at peak performance yet. Those measuring thermal infrared light are not yet cold enough to collect reliable measurements. Once VIIRS begins full operations, it will produce a range of measurements from ocean temperature to clouds to the locations of fires. These measurements will help extend the record from earlier sensors like the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). VIIRS is very similar to MODIS, but flies at a higher altitude to measure the whole planet without gaps. (MODIS daily measurements have gaps at the equator. See the MODIS image from November 24.) VIIRS also sees the Earth in less detail, 375 meters per pixel, compared to 250 meters per pixel for MODIS. Image: NASA Earth Observatory Caption: Holli Riebeek


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TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- Israel's air force is expected to take delivery of advanced Arrow-2 missiles interceptors, capable of greater killing power against Iranian and Syrian ballistic missiles, over the next few weeks amid rising Middle East tensions.
The disclosure of the deployment of the upgraded Arrows, known as the Block 4 variant, to bolster the top tier of Israel's multilayered missile defense shield, came hard on the heels of an announcement by the Islamic Republic it had tested a fourth-generation model of the solid-fueled, short-range Fateh-110 missile with a new guidance system.
That followed the reported successful test-firings of two Iranian long-range missiles during a recent naval exercise in the Persian Gulf, where Iran is locked in a military confrontation with the United States over Tehran's refusal to abandon its nuclear program.
"The new Israeli developments ... should be viewed as part of the complex campaign currently conducted between Israel, Iran and Hezbollah," analyst Amos Harel wrote in the Israel Haaretz daily Sunday.
"Just as Syria and Iran are flexing are flexing their muscles, demonstrating missile and rocket launching capabilities in frequent training exercises, Israel has decided to publicly announce the fact that is has significantly upgraded its defense systems."
Last week, the regime in Syria, battling an 18-month-old uprising against President Bashar Assad, admitted for the first time that it has an arsenal of chemical and biological weapons.
Missiles and rockets are seen as the primary delivery system for these weapons but they can also be fired in large-caliber artillery shells.
The long-range, high-altitude Arrow 2 is built by Israel Aerospace Industries, state-owned flagship of Israel's defense industry. An even more advanced Arrow-3 variant is being developed by IAI and the Boeing Co.
The plan is for it to intercept missiles outside Earth's atmosphere, higher in their trajectory toward Israel at double the operational altitude of Arrow-2, and cope with multiple re-entry warheads, while ignoring decoy warheads.
The exoatmospheric, two-stage Arrow-3, highly maneuverable with capabilities similar to those of the U.S. Navy's Aegis counter-missile system, is slated for operational deployment in 2014.
The core of Arrow-3's technological development is the two-stage propulsion unit.
The first engine hoists the missile past Earth's atmosphere and then separates. The smaller maneuvering missile continues with its own power unit.
It carries a sophisticated electro-optical homing warhead that "sees" a very wide spectrum of in flight and allows for very high maneuverability.
It can be diverted from one target to another and shortens the interception period, which Israel Defense magazine noted is "a vital factor in the defense concept, especially in the event of a missile barrage."
Arrow-3 has another advantage: it can be launched from advanced missile ships as well as land facilities.
The United States recently pledged nearly $1 billion for development of Arrow-3 and other Israeli counter-missile systems.
These are now at the top of Israel's defense priorities because of the overarching threat that Iranian and Syrian missiles, as well as rockets held by Palestinian militants and Hezbollah in Lebanon, now pose to the Jewish state.
Hezbollah alone is reported to have more than 43,000 missiles and rockets provided by Iran and Syria. That's nearly four times the number it had at the start of its 34-day war with Israel in 2006.
Israel Defense says Washington now provides around 80 percent of the development and production costs for Arrow-3, with Israel covering the rest.
Once Arrow-3's operational, each missile will cost around $2 million-$3 million per unit.
"The design of Arrow-3 promises to be an extremely capable system, more advanced than what we have ever attempted in the U.S. with our programs," said Lt. Gen. Patrick O'Reilly, director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency.
The Jerusalem Post reports that the Block 4 version contains new software that improves the missile's ability to counter ballistic weapons such as Iran's Shehab-3b -- the backbone of Tehran's strategic missile force -- and more advanced Sejjil-2 now being developed, as well as Syria's Soviet-designed Scud Ds.
In a series of tests, Arrow was able to intercept missiles with the flight profile of a Shehab-3 both day and night and all weather conditions.
Arrow-1 was initially deployed March 2000 and two batteries are operational. In July 2005, Israel and the United States successfully tested the Arrow against a captured Scud.


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RICHMOND, Va. - Altria Group Inc.'s fourth-quarter profit dropped 56 per cent as the Marlboro maker sold fewer cigarettes and recorded charges related to paying off debt early.
Cigarette volumes for the owner of the nation's biggest cigarette maker, Philip Morris USA, fell about 6 per cent during the quarter to 31.8 billion cigarettes.
Its top-selling Marlboro brand has been under pressure from competitors and lower-priced cigarette brands amid economic uncertainty and high unemployment.
That's on top of the tax hikes, smoking bans and a social stigma that have made the cigarette business tougher.
Altria and others are focusing on cigarette alternatives — such as electronic cigarettes, cigars, snuff and chewing tobacco — for future sales growth because the decline in cigarette smoking is expected to continue.
"Consumer confidence generally is up but it's nowhere around where we'd like to see it," CEO Marty Barrington said in a conference call with investors. "We're always hopeful that the economy is going to improve for everyone. It's just hard to find a lot of drivers to cause us to believe that for the adult tobacco consumer (that) 2014 is going to look very much different than 2013."
But even as Marlboro volumes fell 5.7 per cent, its share of the retail U.S. market rose 0.2 percentage points to 43.7 per cent. And the company's share of the U.S. retail market rose 0.3 percentage points to 50.7 per cent.
Adjusted volumes for Altria's smokeless tobacco brands such as Copenhagen and Skoal grew about 5 per cent. Volumes for its Black & Mild cigars rose 8.5 per cent.
The Richmond, Va., company reported that it earned $488 million, or 24 cents per share, down from $1.1 billion, or 55 cents a share, in the year-ago period.
Excluding one-time items, earnings were 57 cents per share, missing Wall Street expectations by a penny.
Altria said revenue, excluding excise taxes, fell 1 per cent to $4.4 billion as higher prices helped offset a decline in volumes. Analysts polled by FactSet expected $4.5 billion.
Its shares fell 58 cents, or 1.6 per cent, to $35.85 in morning trading Thursday. Its shares are up 6 per cent over the past year.
Altria's full-year earnings rose 8.5 per cent to $4.5 billion, or $2.26 per share. Revenue, excluding excise taxes, rose less than one per cent to $17.7 billion. Adjusted full-year earnings were $2.38 per share.
The company also said Thursday it expects 2014 full-year adjusted earnings between $2.52 and $2.59 per share. Analysts expect $2.57 per share.
Altria also owns a wine business, holds a voting stake in brewer SABMiller, and has a financial services division.


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We provide an overview of associations between income inequality and intergenerational mobility in the United States, Canada, and eight European countries. We analyze whether this correlation is observed across and within countries over time. We investigate Great Gatsby curves and perform metaregression analyses based on several papers on this topic. Results suggest that countries with high levels of inequality tend to have lower levels of mobility.


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Fujitsu is committed to creating the broadest cloud services portfolio in the industry. The acquisition of RunMyProcess (RMP) represents an exciting addition to our FUJITSU Cloud IaaS Trusted Public S5 capabilities and a significant step towards Fujitsu's long term vision of Composite Business Ecosystems.
Fujitsu believes that the cloud is leading to increasing opportunities for organizations to radically improve their business models through the integration and leverage of specialized services from partners. Over time we believe that this will lead to a world in which businesses become 'composite businesses' - that is businesses composed from services that exist both inside and outside the bounds of any one organization.
Our long term vision is therefore to gather together in one high productivity business platform all of the capabilities needed to rapidly create, integrate, distribute and monetize composite services across complex new ecosystems of platforms, devices, providers, integrators and consumers.
RMP was founded in 2007 and its innovative technology securely captures and optimizes process flows that link people together with cloud, on-premise and mobile systems across complex environments. The company was previously recognized by Gartner as a "Cool Vendor" and Red Herring named it as a Top 100 Innovator.
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Cold temperatures on Wednesday mean wet spots on the roads left by Tuesday's storm can quickly turn to ice.
Texas Department of Transportation trucks are loaded up with sand and hit the roads to treat those slippery spots. For the most part, roads are clear. Crews are warning commuters not to get overly confident or accidents can happen.
The driver of an SUV lost control at about 2 a.m. Wednesday on an icy patch on northbound Central near McCommas and Mockingbird.
The latest news from around North Texas.
The SUV spun out and hit the wall. No one was seriously injured.
TxDOT sand crews are out cruising around the seven county area and responding to complaints about slippery spots. They're also sanding the typical hot spots like Woodall Rogers and the High Five.
Any sand dispensed, quickly gets picked up by tires. Workers expect it will be an ongoing process all morning.
Crews are working 12 hour shifts.
About half of the 175 trucks were deployed in Tuesday's storm. There are fewer crews working the roads on Wednesday.
The North Texas Tollway Authority plows and trucks are also on standby at the Dallas North Tollway.
Drivers are urged to slow down and allow extra room between cars.


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By Ajai Shukla
Business Standard, 27th Feb 14
The Indian navy chief, Admiral Devendra Kumar Joshi, resigned today after a fire accident on board a navy submarine, INS Sindhuratna, injured seven sailors and left two officers missing.
"Taking moral responsibility for the accidents and incidents which have taken place during the past few months, the Chief of Naval Staff Admiral DK Joshi today resigned from the post of CNS. The Government has accepted the resignation of Admiral Joshi with immediate effect," the defence ministry announced today.
Vice Admiral RK Dhowan, the navy's vice chief and Admiral Joshi's deputy, has been asked to take over as acting navy chief until a permanent incumbent is announced.
"It is in the best traditions (of the Indian Navy) that he has owned responsibility", said Admiral Sureesh Mehta, a former navy chief. This is the first time that an Indian military chief has resigned for professional lapses by his service.
The accident on the INS Sindhuratna, about 60 miles off the coast of Mumbai, was the third such incident in the last seven months involving submarines. Yet the navy chief, Admiral DK Joshi, had declared in December the safety record of his fleet was "not all that bad… if you compare with other navies."
That satisfaction was not shared by Defence Minister AK Antony, who told top navy commanders last year that, "it is the responsibility of the Navy to optimally operate and maintain (warships), as well as train its personnel suitably so that such national resources are optimally utilised and are not frittered away."
The incident took place ironically whilst the navy's submarine inspection team was on board, checking safety and other procedures. The navy's Commodore Commander, Submarines, or COMCOR, its top safety inspector was also on board.
"While at sea in the early hours of 26 Feb 2014, smoke was reported in the sailors accommodation, in compartment number three, by the submarine. Smoke was brought under control by the submarine's crew," stated the navy today, understating the gravity of the incident.
According to the navy, INS Sindhuratna was carrying out "routine training and workup", which is standard procedure after a major refit (maintenance). For that reason, the submarine did not have any weapons on board.
In the last seven months, India's submarine fleet has been worryingly depleted from its already low strength of 14 submarines, of which no more than 10 were operationally available at any given time. On August 14, 2013, INS Sindhurakshak, sank in Mumbai harbour after an explosion killed all 18 crew members on board. A second submarine, INS Sindhughosh, which was parked alongside Sindhurakshak, was damaged in the fire; the navy has released no details. Four years earlier, the Sindhughosh had collided with a merchant vessel while surfacing off the off the coast of Mumbai. The INS Sindhuratna itself was involved in a minor accident a few years ago, when a tug that was towing it collided with INS Sindhukesri, damaging the latter's rudder. Now, with INS Sindhuratna incapacitated, the navy cannot field more than 8-9 submarines in a crisis.
The question marks over the navy's safety culture extend also to the surface fleet. In January 2011, the 2,700-tonne frigate, INS Vindhyagiri, the former flagship of the western naval fleet, sank in Mumbai after colliding with a merchant vessel. In December, a day after the navy chief dismissed safety concerns, a minesweeper, INS Konkan, was gutted in a major fire whilst in Visakhapatnam harbour. Days later, one of the navy's most modern frigates, INS Talwar, collided with a fishing trawler off Ratnagiri, sinking the latter. The warship captain was later relieved of command. Several other naval warships have been damaged in incidents over recent years.


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Every week, we share a number of downloads for all platforms to help you get things done. Here were the top downloads from this week.
All The Apps Optimized for iOS 7
This week Apple released iOS 7 to the public, and app developers soon followed with their iOS 7-optimized apps. Here are all the apps that have updated to take advantage of iOS 7's new features, new look, or just guarantee compatibility.
Quickoffice Now Free on Android and iOS with Free Google Drive Storage
Android/iOS: Quickoffice is our pick for the best office suite on both Android and iOS, but at $15 it was always a bit expensive. Now the app has dropped to free, and comes packed with 10GB of free Google Drive storage if you login into the app this week.
Coder Is a Simple Way to Code on the Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi is great for all kinds of multimedia projects, but its original purpose was for education. Google's new Coder image for the Raspberry Pi embraces that and offers a place to write code and host a server on the Pi.
NiftySplit Creates a Dedicated, Single Tab Chrome Window
Chrome: When you're dealing with a lot of tabs, it can be tough to stay focused on just one. NiftySplit is a unique Chrome extension with a clever idea to keep you in line.
mxHero Toolbox Adds a Ton of Useful Tools to Gmail
Chrome: We've discussed some great tools to clean up your Gmail, but if you're looking for an all-in-one tool with a ton of features, mxHero Toolbox delivers. In one package, mxHero offers send later, self-destructing email, attachment tracking, notifications when your message is opened, and more.
Syllable Teaches You How to Speed Read
iOS: Speed reading is a great skill to have when you need to quickly get through a massive block of text, but it takes time to learn how to do it. Syllable is an app that teaches you speed reading techniques by pulling articles from your clipboard, Pocket, or Instapaper.
Perfect Weather Packs a Ton of Information into a Clean Interface
iOS: Weather apps are a dime a dozen on iOS, but few manage to get the experience right. Perfect Weather is an app that shows you a lot of important information without cluttering up your screen.
Old Compose Brings Back Gmail's Classic Compose Window
Chrome: Finally, a fix for those of us who aren't fans of the redesigned Gmail compose window. The Old Compose extension brings back the old, familiar interface Google left behind.
NetLive Monitors Network Traffic in Your Notification Drawer
Android: If you're on a limited data plan, or if you're just watching your battery life, you sometimes want to peek at how much data your Android device is using at any point in time. NetLive keeps things simple, and puts the essential data in your Notification Drawer.


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Beat matching meets kung fu in KickBeat, an award-winning rhythm game where rhythm and action merge seamlessly. It features licensed tracks from a diverse lineup of artists, from well known bands such as Pendulum and P.O.D, to indie pioneers Celldweller and Blue Stahli, to hidden talents like electronic music producer Voicians and Taiwanese rapper Shen Yi.
Kickbeat features a music analyzer that generates new tracks from your own music, making your KickBeat song library as endless as your music collection!
Featuring a beautiful hand drawn art style with animated cut scenes, KickBeat is the first rhythm game to use fully 3D characters as action cues.
Take your high scores online and compete with friends on the world-wide leaderboards.
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Patch 3.2 whipped out two sets of craftable gear: Bracers and chest pieces. Got a few inquiries about it on Twitter about it. Figured I'd do everyone a favor and outline my thoughts on it here:
Here's the Moonshroud set:
- 20 x Moonshroud
- 2 x King's Amber
- 8 x Crusader Orb
- 12 x Moonshroud
- 4 x Crusader Orb
Merlin's set:
As you can clearly see, the Moonshroud set offers Spirit whereas Merlin's contains haste. The spellpower and crit ratings remain identical.
Now if you were a healing Priest wondering which of these to create for your sets, there's some things I'd like to remind you of before you go off dropping your hard earned gold.
Spirit's been nerfed. Holy Priest mana regeneration's been nerfed. Spirit is not as strong as it used to be. Do keep that in mind.
Speed is life. The faster your spells go off, the higher the odds that your heals will catch a player before they die.
Socket bonuses aren't always the greatest. You do not have to socket your gems according to the bonus. There is no law saying that you have to do that. Sometimes socketing against the bonus yields a higher benefit.
So what's best for me?
As Discipline: I lean towards Merlin's set. I won't need the Spirit as it doesn't provide me any additional bonuses anyway. For gem choices, I prefer having a large pool of mana to work with. I would socket straight 4 x 20 King's Amber on the chest and the bracers.
As Holy: Not much difference here. I'd approach it the same way as Discipline. I'm all about the mana pool and stacking loads of intellect. Others prefer Spellpower, Spirit, MP5 or Haste gems. Perhaps even a combination of all of them. I wouldn't say that's wrong.
It's just a matter of preference. I top out at around 2700 spellpower during raids. Most of it's going to over healing anyway. I may as well reallocate some of those points towards a larger supply of mana or increased speed. It's not like players suddenly gained 7000 health and that bosses are magically knocking out 80% of a raider's health to warrant that increase in spellpower.


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Paso Robles AVA
Paso Robles Wine Country is situated along U.S. Highway 101 in the center of California's Central Coast, halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Paso Robles Viticultural Area
Established in 1983, and expanded in 1997 then again in 2009, the Paso Robles American Viticultural Area (AVA) is a large, diverse appellation located within northern San Luis Obispo County, comprised of a number of distinctive grape growing regions generally characterized by rolling hills east of the Salinas River and steeper hillsides, cut by small canyons, west of the Salinas River.
The Paso Robles AVA's western boundary is just six miles from the Pacific Ocean. The appellation lies on the inland side of the Santa Lucia coastal mountains in San Luis Obispo County, and roughly forms a rectangle 35 miles from east to west, and 25 miles from north to south. It extends from the Monterey County border to the north, to the Cuesta Grade below Santa Margarita to the south, and from the Santa Lucia Mountains to the west, to the Cholame Hills to the east.
The appellation comprises 614,000 acres of which more than 26,000 acres are in wine grape vines. It is the fastest growing and largest by far of three AVAs in San Luis Obispo County, and the main reason that the county ranks behind only Napa, Sonoma and Monterey counties in planted acreage among the state's coastal growing areas.


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Mie N Yu always seemed, to me, to be a place that wouldn't be worth the money. The restaurant occupies an expansive space on a busy, high-end stretch of M St. Dark windows show glimpses of the bronze Buddha statues and lavish decor inside to passersby. It exudes an aura of exclusivity to say the least, and perhaps some pretentiousness, and that combination usually does not bode well for the quality of the food.
With that skepticism in mind, I warily accepted Mie N Yu's invitation to try their new Blind Tiger Tasting Menu. I never refuse an offer for a free meal, and plus, the concept behind the menu intrigued me: the Blind Tiger is the name of a prohibition era speak-easy, and to channel that spirit, Mie N Yu offers this "underground," $25 three course menu only to people in the know. Those people could be their followers on Twitter (@mienyu), Facebook friends, or even readers of this blog!
Despite my skepticism, I have to say that I was very impressed with Mie N Yu–especially with the quality of the food. Their menu (and the entire restaurant for that matter) is inspired by the Silk Road, which means lots of Asian flavors and ingredients. My boyfriend and I started off with sunomono blue crab salad and zaatar hummus with ful–perhaps our two favorite dishes of the night. The salad was fresh, light, and perfect for a hot and humid DC evening. The earthy flavors of the edamame and soba noodles tempered the tartness of the pickled quail eggs, and a lovely rice vinegar dressing brought out the natural sweetness of the blue crab.
The hummus with ful was thick and smoky, flavored with just the right amount of zaatar (a Middle Eastern spice blend). Ful, a Middle Eastern condiment of Egyptian fava beans braised with roasted tomatoes and various spices, added an exotic element to the dish. Olives and warm naan bread were nice accompaniments, though I did wish the serving of bread had been bigger.
Our second courses were less memorable than our first. Though the Beijing style lacquered duck seemed to be a favorite among fellow food bloggers, I was less than impressed. The duck (sourced from a farm in PA) was very tender and tasty, but I prefer traditional Peking duck with its crackling skin and intense caramelized sweetness. I also found the "mandarin pancakes" to be more reminiscent of tortillas. The char masala lamb kabobs were not my favorite either. I was impressed that the lamb was locally raised in Virginia and ground in-house, but it had a strong, gamey aftertaste. The roasted coriander yogurt served with the lamb helped mask the flavor a bit, but not completely.
For our main courses, we ordered the Pakistani cinnamon and ginger striped bass and the Indonesian chicken "rica rica." The bass (pictured above) was baked in a yogurt casserole, and the rice was rolled and soaked in the yogurt prior to cooking. As a result, both the bass and the rice were mouthpuckeringly tart. This was quite a surprise for my boyfriend and me–we both expected a mildly spiced, delicately flavored fish. The dish took some getting used to, but after a few bites (and plenty of sips of water), I was able to move past the sourness and taste the cinnamon and the ginger. It's not necessarily a dish I would order again and again, but it's certainly worth trying at least once.
The Indonesian chicken "rica rica" was deceptively delicious. At first, I thought the sauce was too mild, but after a few bites, I could taste the sauce's complex, layered flavors. Sweetness came from shrimp paste, heat came from red peppers, and a slight tartness may (don't quote me on this!) have come from tamarind. The chicken was cooked beautifully, and fell off the bone.
For dessert (which is not included in the Blind Tiger deal), we splurged on a pecan chocolate croustade with Sumatran cinnamon gelato and fresh berries. The croustade was out-of-this-world good: a warm, flaky pastry crust belied toasted pecans and just a touch of chocolate on the inside, drizzled with local Virginia honey. Eaten with the cinnamon gelato (made at Dolcezza just up the street), the dessert reminded me of a warm cinnamon roll. It was a decadent ending to a decadent meal.
Other random notes about the meal: be prepared to wait a while for your food. Just like Two DC found, there was a long lag between courses. But, that may just be part of the dining experience at Mie N Yu–it certainly gave us time to walk around the restaurant and enjoy the opulent surroundings. I didn't mind at all, but if you're pressed for time, I would head elsewhere. Our server was also very knowledgable and attentive, which I appreciated.
Though it's difficult to remain objective at free meals like this, I can (objectively) say that the Blind Tiger menu is a great value: $25 for three generously portioned, well-prepared courses in a lavish, over-the-top restaurant like Mie N Yu is a steal. And, bottles of wine listed on the Blind Tiger menu are 50% off, and the most expensive bottle is only $28. (I recommend the Cono Sur Pinot Noir from Chile, despite the cheesy name.) I had a fabulous Blind Tiger meal at Mie N Yu, and hopefully, yours will be just as delicious and decadent.
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May 29
By Marsh Chapel
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John 14: 15-21
Psalm 66: 8-20
1 Peter 3: 13-22
Acts 17: 22-31
Once again I find myself compelled at the outset, and even in his absence, to thank Dean Hill for his gracious offering to me of a preaching series during the late spring and early summer. Some of you may remember that we began on May 8, Mothers Day, with a reflection on life's journeys in conversation with the resurrection story of Jesus meeting the disciples on the road to Emmaus. Yes, here you are, whether you intended to be here, or more likely not, on Memorial Day Sunday, right in the middle of Br. Larry's 2011 secular holiday preaching series. Whether you are here in person or listening over airwaves or internet signals, it is good that you have come on Memorial Day weekend, so that you may pray that what follows you might quickly forget. Speaking of prayer.
The Lord be with you.
And also with you.
Let us pray.
God of memory and of mindfulness, guide our hearts and minds in these moments of reflection that they may be turned to you, to your wisdom and your grace, and that our lives may benefit from the beneficence of your most Holy Spirit. In the name of Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord, we pray.
Have you ever sat and watched as a baby, sitting in the middle of the floor, attempts to get up and go after a ball or some other toy that she has flung across the room? This attempt at locomotion is often accompanied by a facial expression of some degree of anguish. It is as if said baby wants to say, "If only I could get up and go, I could get across the room and get my toy. Alas, since I cannot get up and go, I shall have to put on a show of consternation in order to motivate someone around me to get it for me." Amazingly, as the facial expression of anguish turns to vocal consternation, someone usually does just that.
And so it begins: life in the conditional. If the baby cries, then someone goes to get the toy. If the child pushes the button, then the screen comes on. If the adolescent breaks curfew, then the parents ground him. If the young adult gets a job, then she can pay the rent. If the politician commits adultery and his constituents find out about it, then he will be voted out of office. Well, maybe. Life in the conditional is at the heart of the human endeavor. It is so much so that the great modern philosopher Immanuel Kant put it at the heart of his articulation of the nature of knowledge and experience alongside time and space: the conditional movement of causality is constitutive of pure reason.
Actually, reality is a bit more complicated than this. And so we ask, do you live in the world of Sir Isaac Newton or the world of Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr? This is an important question for us here at Marsh Chapel who seek to live faithful lives, and not merely for the physicists working in labs across the street. So, let's have it, do you live in the mechanistic universe of Newton, where things move around bumping into each other like billiard balls such that when one thing encounters another it causes the thing it runs into to alter course? Or do you live in the probabilistic universe of Einstein and Bohr, which is to say the quantum universe, where outcomes of interactions are only certain to a degree of probability? While it is probably best for us to leave it to the physicists to demonstrate why the latter is the more robust view in the laboratory, we can confirm it in our own lived experience. After all, does the adolescent not run a rough calculus of the probability that his parents will ground him for staying out past curfew? And does the politician not calculate both the probability that he will get caught in adultery and the probability that his constituents will find out about it? Perhaps we will address the question of why it is that both adolescents and politicians are so likely to miscalculate their respective probabilities when we gather for the third and final installment of the 2011 secular preaching series on Independence Day weekend.
And so it is that we find ourselves living in a probabilistic conditional world. It should not be entirely surprising, then, that we carry the presuppositions of our probabilistic conditional world over into our spiritual lives. Our lesson this morning from 1 Peter is an excellent example of this phenomenon. "Now who will harm you if you are eager to do what is good?" Transcription: If you do what is good, then you will not be harmed. The fact that the world is not merely conditional but probabilistically conditional comes into play in the next sentence: "But even if you do suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed." That is, for those of you who are good but fall outside of the probability of not being harmed, and thus are in fact harmed, do not worry too much, because you are still blessed. This is beginning to sound a lot like the witch test: if she drowns, then she was clearly not a witch! Oh dear.
It is an interesting thing to consider that religious people figured out that the world is probabilistically conditional long before the physicists did. After all, how often have you heard stories of people praying, "God, if only you will X, I promise to Y"? How often have you prayed such yourself? Martin Luther prayed in the forest that if he would survive a thunderstorm then he would become a monk. He survived, so he did in fact become an Augustinian. Of course, it is notable that these promises tend to arise at the extremities of life. That is, these promises tend to come about when life itself is at stake, taking the form of, "God, save my life and I will give my life to you." This has the side effect of effectively negating the probabilistic quality of the conditional. After all, if God does not save them, then we never get to hear their story of praying that they will do something if God saves them.
No, it is much better to look to the more mundane spiritual conditionals to understand their probabilistic nature. These are more wont to take the form of, "God, if you will only find me a parking spot, I promise to stop doing whatever it was that I was doing that made me late in the first place." Here in Boston, I am quite confident that there are more such prayers offered daily in the confines of motor vehicles than all of the prayers offered in all of the houses of worship in this city combined. And multiply that number by 100 when the Red Sox are in town! This mundane conditional is much more interesting because of the fact that it frequently does not come true. How often have you seen a host of angels swoop down and carry off a car so that you can take its space? No, often as not you are left driving around frustrated that your meeting is starting in a building mere feet away and you are stuck outside trying to dispose of a massive hunk of metal.
Of course, not all non-mortal conditionals are so trivial. How many of you have offered prayers, perhaps in this very nave, for family and friends who are terminally ill? And how many of them have died? How many of you have prayed for work? And how many of you are still unemployed? How many of you have prayed for peace? And how long will we remain at war? The fact of the matter is that these non-trivial conditionals do cause some people to abandon faith and abandon God. That this happens should not be surprising. But what is truly fascinating is how many people do not flee from faith and God upon finding themselves outside the desired probability. In religious and spiritual life we are accustomed to the probabilistic conditional.
The movement from if to then that constitutes the conditional is a place of deep anxiety in human life. The probability that the if will not come about, and the probability that the then will not in fact follow, leaves a great deal of uncertainty as to how and when to move. And the fact that the probabilistic conditional figures in the literature of our spiritual heritage does not make living in the midst of such instability any easier. However, acknowledging the reality of the probabilistic conditional as one of the primary modes of human engagement of experience is not the only testimony of the religious and spiritual traditions. The good news offered in the spiritual quest is precisely a transcendence of the if-then dichotomy of human affairs. There is more to life than predicting a probability and then hoping for the best. Our Gospel lesson from John highlights this point. "If you love me, keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever." The if-then conditional of the first sentence is not the last word. The uncertainty of Good Friday's crucifixion is transcended, but not eclipsed, in the confidence of the Easter resurrection. The uncertainty Jesus' departure in the Ascension is transcended, but not eclipsed, as we shall see in the next weeks, in the confidence of the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. The promise of the Holy Spirit is not simply another conditioned clause. It is its own indicative statement. The Advocate will come in spite of our fulfillment of the condition, not because of it. We are saved by faith, not by works.
This movement of transcendence-sans-eclipse is an important one in our spiritual lives. The transcendence of the if-then dichotomy is the source of the hope that is in us, of which we are called to account in 1 Peter. And yet, we are called to give this account "with gentleness and reverence." This is because in this life we never fully depart from the dichotomy of the probabilistic conditional. We can never escape the vicissitudes of life. At the same time, the transcendence is not merely cast off into some future afterlife. The transcendence-sans-eclipse of our Easter and Pentecost experience is a source of real hope and transformation in our lives now.
Paul testified to the importance of this transcendence in his speech in front of the Areopagus in Athens, accounted in our reading from the Acts of the Apostles. Paul testified about the unknown god to which the Athenians had built a temple. He testified that this unknown god of the Athenians was "the God who made the world and everything in it, he who is Lord of heaven and earth." Furthermore, he testified that the creator of the world cannot be bound in shrines or works of human hands, or even served by human hands. Paul testified to a God who transcends the conditional tense of daily life. God "allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live, so that they would search for God and perhaps grope and find him – though indeed he is not far from each one of us. For 'In him we live and move and have our being.'" Our searching for the transcendent God should not lead us to place our hope in something finite, but it should also not lead us to place our hope in something to come in the future, which is, after all, also finite. No, the transcendence-sans-eclipse of the hope promised in Easter and Pentecost provides a living hope in the midst of the probabilistic conditional experience of life.
The hope that is in us is not that God will fulfill all of our desires, no matter how mundane or extreme. It is not even that we will always come out on the preferable side of the probabilities. No, the hope that is in us does not transcend the conditional character of life by resolving its dichotomies but transcends the conditional character of life without eclipsing that life as it is. After all, it is the life God gives us and calls good. Instead, the hope that is in us is the hope of life and love. "Because I live, you also will live," Jesus proclaims in the voice of the fourth Evangelist. "I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly" (John 10: 10). "They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them an reveal myself to them."
The good news of Jesus Christ for us today is that life and love are not faint hopes. They are hopes in the power to overcome the brokenness of life in the conditional tense. They are movements toward wholeness that draws together not only the preferably possibilities but also those we might wish to avoid. Life would not be life without death. Love would not be love without struggle, pain and loss. "On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you." And is not the achievement of holding such disparate and diverse realities of life together in a more awesome whole far greater than finding a parking space?
~Br. Lawrence A. Whitney, LC+
University Chaplain for Community Life


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Question: Summer means picturesque picnics, hearty hikes, and dazzling days at the beach — but it also means exposing your baby's skin to the elements. Can you match the following outdoor irritants with the rash each one tends to cause?
|1. Prickly heat
|A. An itchy red rash that appears in lines or streaks
|2. Poison ivy, oak, or sumac
|B. A bull's-eye rash with raised red edges and a pale center
|3. Tick bite
|C. A bright red pimply rash in the folds of the skin
Answer: 1C; 2A; 3B
1. If your little one suddenly develops a pimply red rash on his neck, under his arms, or near the edges of his diaper, it's probably a heat rash. Heat rash, also known as prickly heat, is a skin eruption triggered by a combination of hot weather and humidity. The rash shows up most often in the folds of the skin and on parts of the body where clothing fits snugly, including the chest, stomach, neck, crotch, and buttocks. If your child wears a hat, the rash may also spread across his scalp or forehead. Heat rash often affects babies because parents tend to overdress them and they're too young to complain, but children of all ages (as well as adults) can get it.
2. The telltale signs of exposure to poison ivy, oak, or sumac are itchy, swollen, red patches of skin, often limited to just one or two areas of the body. It can be hard to determine the cause of this irritation, but if you've been with your baby in a wooded or boggy area (or if you have a pet that's been in these areas), one of these plants is a likely culprit. Other clues that he may have come in contact with a poison plant: The rash usually shows up a day or two after contact with the plant (although it can take a week). It often appears in lines or streaks and typically blisters and crusts over within a few days. Which plant is to blame usually depends on where you find yourself. Poison ivy is prominent in the eastern United States, poison oak in the West, and poison sumac in the Southeast.
3. Though it doesn't always appear, the most distinctive sign that your child's been bitten by a Lyme disease—carrying tick is often a bull's-eye rash — a red circle or oval, often with a pale center — at the site of the bite. The rash typically appears a week or two after the bite, but it can show up three to 30 days later. At first the rash may be just a fraction of an inch in diameter, but it may increase to 5 or 6 inches and typically lasts several weeks. Your child may also develop lesions elsewhere on his body three to five weeks after the bite. Fortunately, tick-borne illnesses are uncommon, especially in babies, and, when detected early, they can be treated effectively with antibiotics
Learn more about:
- Treating and preventing heat rash
- Treating and preventing poison ivy, oak, or sumac
- Treating and preventing tick bites
- Other common causes of rashes


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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and tell your 5-year-old kid that she can't wear her old 2-year-old clothes because they don't fit, only to have that rationale fall on deaf ears. LET'S GO!
AMERICAN IDOL – 8:00PM (FOX) Oh ho ho! Lookee what we got here. The same week we find out that Paula Abdul is reuniting with Simon Cowell, their old show turns around and bags Lady Gaga as this week's celebrity mentor. Gaga is no doubt on hand to plug her new album "Born This Way," which will be released later this month but feels like it was already released two years ago. Now here's where it gets a little weird. Your theme for tonight's contestants is the songbook of Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller, who wrote some of Elvis' earliest hits including "Hound Dog." They also wrote "Stand By Me," "Love Potion No. 9," and a bunch of other earlier tunes as well. So why pair up the undeniably current Gaga with a bunch of fusty, ancient material? Are all these songs gonna be reworked into dance floor anthems? Nothing about this makes a lick of sense. ANTICIPATION: GAGA!
MODERN FAMILY – 9:00PM (ABC) Cameron's bout with the flu may prevent Mitchell from attending, you guessed it, a Lady Gaga concert. You cannot escape Her Royal Gaganess. Anyway, expect many a hissy fit, for Eric Stonestreet does them so remarkably well. ANTICIPATION: DOUBLE GAGA!
COUGAR TOWN – 9:30PM (ABC) It's a Nia Vardalos sighting! And here I thought she had moved on to dinner theater productions of "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum." Tonight she guest stars alongside her husband Ian Gomez, a cast member, as Gomez' sister-in-law. Catfighting ensues. No joke! Actual catfighting! That puts a whole new spin on the show's title. ANTICIPATION: GREEK CATFIGHTING!
CELTICS/HEAT – 7:00PM (TNT) Kevin Garnett and the Celtics try and stave off elimination tonight as LeBron and the Heat hold a 3-1 edge in the series. Stick around afterwards for the crucial fifth game of the wild Grizzlies/Thunder series. ANTICIPATION: BALLIN'!
CONAN – 11:00PM (TBS) Jon Hamm and Miranda Kerr are your guests tonight. Which I assume means the show is having some sort of Attractive Person Theme Week. ANTICIPATION: HANDSOMENESS!
Wednesday Watch List: More Gaga For Your Gaggle!
Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and tell your 5-year-old kid that she can't wear her old 2-year-old clothes because they don't fit, only to have that rationale fall on deaf ears. LET'S GO!


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We first began our ministry in Honduras in 1974 when child development centers were opened in Guatemala and El Salvador.
In 1998, our ministry in Honduras became more official after we responded to the impact Hurricane Mitch had on this country. In 1999, operations began from the Honduras office and the Child Sponsorship Program was started. In 2007, the Leadership Development Program began.
Today the ministry in Honduras is made up of 175 child development centers and approximately 41,000 children are registered. The Leadership Development Program, now in its third year, is benefiting 57 young people.
During the past 11 years of ministry, we have established solid collaborative relationships with other institutions, local authorities and churches. This has increased the impact on the lives of children.
Country Director
Yolanda Rodas joined the ministry in 2003 as a Partnership Facilitator. She was then promoted multiple times, and in 2010 she was appointed Country Director.
Growing up in an economically poor family, Yolanda's parents did everything they could to support her and her three brothers. Yolanda and her brothers never suffered from a lack of food, education or love. Even with their own economic difficulties, her family always made room to help the needy.
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These values and principles instilled in Yolanda from her early childhood years have prepared her to serve the needy children of Honduras with great passion.
Prior to coming to our ministry, Yolanda worked at a bank as a facilitator and credit analyst for small businesses. Yolanda has a degree in industrial engineering from the National University of Honduras, and is currently pursuing a master's degree in organizational leadership from Eastern University in Pennsylvania.
Implementing Church Partners
Implementing Church Partners are local churches in Honduras with whom we work to deliver child development programs and ministry in the field.
- Spiritual Climate
Generally the spiritual climate in Honduras is healthy. There are many different denominations with a variety of doctrines. There is significant growth in the number of believers, but there are challenges in keeping the new converts growing in their faith. There are also challenges with reaching the youth because of the complex social situations in Honduras.
- Unique Challenges
Implementing Church Partners face the following challenges:
- Many child development centers are located in high-risk areas that have high crime rates and are controlled by gangs.
- There is high staff turnover at the child development centers.
- Parents are relatively uninterested in keeping their children at the centers.
- There is a high rate of unemployment and family disintegration.
- Frequent changes are made in Field Manuals, which makes implementation difficult for Implementing Church Partners.
- Contributions
Implementing Church Partners provide the use of their buildings and facilities, human resources and labor for construction projects. Implementing Church Partners also spend time supporting the children and their families, provide additional food for the children, offer financial assistance for the center staff and families with very low incomes, and create additional lessons related to the beneficiaries' curriculum.
- Church-to-Church
The ministry in Honduras does not currently have any formal church-to-church partnerships. However, some Implementing Church Partners within Honduras have entered into somewhat of a partnership with each other.
Churches have had cluster-level meetings to strengthen church networks and foster best practices. Some partnerships have resulted in discounts on purchases as well as donations and support for children with special needs.
- Partner Development Activities
We develop partners in Honduras through training in child protection and other topics, Complementary Interventions funds, pastors' networks, facilitation, cluster meetings, and a radio show that has aired every Saturday for the last six years.
During the radio show, center staff, pastors, children and experts have shared their thoughts on various child-related topics. The purpose is to encourage and challenge other churches to do more on behalf of children living in poverty.
An important part of partner development is the opportunity for new and existing center staff members to learn and observe best practices from other partners. We call these churches "mentor" churches. Mentor churches are Implementing Church Partners that have been effective in the management and implementation of the Child Sponsorship Program.
New and existing partners visit mentor churches to learn practical ways to effectively implement the Child Sponsorship Program. Also, we have selected "Field Guides" from different areas who guide and advise church partner staff in holistic child development. They are responsible for various trainings, such as accounting, sponsorship issues, curriculum and health.
Child Sponsorship Program
Your sponsorship of a child in Honduras provides a variety of benefits.
Children attend child development centers at different times depending on their school schedules. There are also different times for different groups of children because of the limited size of the center facilities.
- Meeting Times
- 3 to 5 year olds: 8 to 15 hours per week, spread out over 2 to 3 days after school
- 6 to 8 year olds: 6 hours per week, spread out over 2 to 3 days after school
- 9 to 11 year olds: 6 hours per week, spread out over 2 to 3 days after school
- 12 to 14 year olds: 6 hours per week, spread out over 2 to 3 days
- 15 to 18 year olds: 4 hours per week, spread out over 2 days
Each child receives a snack, such as fruit, cereal and milk, every time they attend the child development center. The centers try to provide each child with a full meal every two to three visits.
A meal consists of meat, cereal, vegetables, fruit and natural juice. These meals are nutritionally balanced and prepared by trained staff. Children who are suffering from malnutrition get extra rations or are given additional nutrients per a doctor's instructions.
Our goal is to provide the children with nutritious food every time they attend the center because food is not provided at school.
We monitor vaccines at every medical checkup. If a child is behind on vaccinations, we refer the parents to the nearest health center. Vaccines for children are provided free of charge by the Ministry of Health.
Some Implementing Church Partners have implemented a curriculum from the Community Center for Preschool Education with the purpose of providing registered children with a preschool education.
Tutors have a certification as "Educators in Preschool Education" and they implement this specialty curriculum along with the certified curriculum.
Children participate in sports tournaments, camps, field trips and service to churches. These activities occur anywhere from monthly to yearly, depending on budget and other child development center activities.
Vocational training is important because either the adolescents do not want to pursue a college education or their families cannot support them in this.
Implementing Church Partners make an effort to identify training needs and seek ways to provide for these needs.
We offer a variety of activities for adolescents, including sports and music. We also offer vocational training in such areas as beauty, baking, welding and computers.
Other public and private entities offer training in electric work, woodworking and automotive repair.
Public institutions that offer vocational skills training require the beneficiaries to purchase some materials, but the overall costs of the courses are absorbed by the government.
We hold parent meetings every two to three months to discuss topics such as domestic violence, child abuse, alcoholism and discipline.
We would like to expand in the northern region of the country because there is a high level of poverty, gang activity and drug trafficking there.
Leadership Development Program
- Universities Attended
The students attend public governmental, private Christian and private secular universities.
- Location of Universities
Most of the universities are located in the capital city.
- Service Opportunities
Students serve at nursing homes, schools and universities, child development centers, hospitals, libraries and at the ministry office.
They also serve children in their neighborhoods, volunteer for health campaigns, and evangelize in their communities.
- Leadership Development Program Meetings
The larger Leadership Development Program group meets twice a year to cover curriculum topics. They meet in smaller groups once a month to plan community service activities or have Bible studies and sharing time.
They also have occasional get-togethers for birthdays and other special celebrations.
- Mentors
Many of the ministry's office staff serve as mentors to our Leadership Development Program students.
Complementary Interventions
Our core Child Sponsorship Program, while comprehensive, does not address all obstacles to a child's healthy development. The Complementary Interventions program was created to work with our holistic child development model to provide additional services, such as our AIDS Initiative, Bibles for all children, disaster relief and clean water.
Typical Complementary Interventions in Honduras include:
- Oral health needs
- Vocational training scholarships
- Spiritual retreats for teens
- Preschool Education Centers in some child development centers
- Multiple trainings for the Implementing Church Partner staff
- Relief kits containing canned goods, bottled water and other items
- Materials for restoring damaged houses
- Clothing, basic furniture, etc.
Highly Vulnerable Children
The needs of highly vulnerable children in Honduras include:
- Temporary shelter for children living in abusive environments
- Nutritional and psychological support for children and parents with HIV
- Attention to children who are orphaned, HIV positive, handicapped, sexually abused, abandoned, physically mistreated, exploited or have terminal illnesses
Children at the Manantial de Vida Student Center in Honduras are taught that they are future leaders of the church. Some of those young leaders are featured in this video created by our staff.