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Bone health is something that the young and healthy often take for granted, but without proper care throughout youth and adulthood, bones can deteriorate rapidly with age and may lead to conditions such as osteoporosis, which is the loss of bone mass, and osteogenesis imperfecta, bones that break or fracture easily.
While there are several ways to maintain strong bones throughout life, such as exercise, a healthy body weight and regular exposure to the sun, one of the most effective methods is through diet.
Bones require a variety of nutrients—including calcium, potassium, magnesium and vitamins C, D and K—to maintain their strength and density over time, and these eight foods are great natural sources. So, be sure to add them to your cart when buying groceries this week!
Dairy Products
Dairy products are well-known sources of calcium, but many are also fortified with vitamin D, making them extra beneficial for bone health.
Just one cup of milk contains approximately 30-percent of the recommended daily intake of calcium, and one cup of plain, low-fat yogurt provides a whopping 42-percent, according to the National Institutes of Health's Office of Dietary Supplements. While cheese is not a significant source of vitamin D, and is rarely fortified with it as milk and yogurt often are, Health.com says that just 1.5 ounces of cheddar has over 30-percent of your daily value of calcium.
Although not a source of calcium, eggs do provide a small dose of vitamin D. According to Health.com, one egg yolk contains 6-percent of the recommended daily intake. While eggs are often known as an excellent protein source because of the whites, it is necessary to consume the yolk as well to take advantage of their bone-boosting benefits.
In addition to vitamin D, eggs contain phosphate, of which more than half of all bone is made. In a study conducted by Robert P. Heaney, MD, of Creighton University, it was discovered that "calcium needs phosphorus to maximize its bone-strengthening benefits." This makes consuming eggs—and other sources of phosphate such as cereals and meats—in conjunction with foods containing calcium, essential elements to keeping your skeletal system in its best condition.
Salmon, and other fatty fish such as sardines and mackerel, are excellent sources of vitamin D. According to Health.com, a 3-ounce piece of sockeye salmon contains more than 100-percent of your daily value.
While fresh fillets are often considered the best way to consume fish, in this case it may be best to buy salmon canned. Why? Because the small, soft bones that are included with the meat contain a high amount of calcium. Just three ounces has 183 milligrams, states WebMD.
Leafy Greens
It may come as a surprise to learn that leafy greens are an excellent source of calcium. In particular, those which are very dark in color, such as bok choy, Chinese cabbage, kale, collard greens and turnip greens. According to WebMD, one cup of cooked turnip greens has about 200 milligrams of calcium, which equates to approximately 20-percent of your recommended daily intake. Additionally, the source notes, "dark greens also have vitamin K, which can reduce your risk for osteoporosis."
While spinach is often included in this group of vegetables, Healthline.com states "it contains oxalic acid, which makes the human body unable to absorb its calcium."
One of the sweeter ways to get more calcium into your diet is by eating figs. When they are in season, typically during the summer and falls months of the year, try adding them to salads or on homemade pizza. They are also delicious to eat simply on their own. According to WebMD, five medium fresh figs have around 90 milligrams of calcium, which equates to about 10-percent of your daily intake.
Alternatively, you can find them year-round in dried form at your local bulk food store. Just half a cup of dried figs has 120 milligrams of calcium.
Another fruit with bone-strengthening benefits is grapefruit. An excellent source of vitamin C, one medium red grapefruit contains 120-percent of the body's daily needs, says Livestrong.com. The reason vitamin C is so essential to one's diet, the source notes, is because "collagen is 90-percent of the organic bone matrix that stores minerals, and healthy collagen formation requires vitamin C."
While grapefruit is among the best sources of vitamin C, if you're someone who finds them a bit sour for your liking, other fruits such as oranges, strawberries, papaya and pineapples are delicious alternatives.
Nuts of all varieties provide a multitude of health benefits, but when it comes to bone health almonds are the most beneficial. According to Livestrong.com, almonds are the only nuts that contain a valuable amount of calcium (approximately 8-percent of daily value). The source also notes that "almonds are an excellent source of bone-strengthening magnesium (20-percent of daily value), a nutrient that primarily resides in the body's bones."
To add variety to your diet, try pureeing almonds into butter form. WebMD states that just two tablespoons contains 112 milligrams of calcium.
Sweet Potato
An excellent source of both magnesium and potassium, eating sweet potatoes is a great way to boost bone health. According to WebMD, these nutrients are essential because "if you're low on magnesium, you can have problems with your vitamin D balance, which may affect your bone health," while potassium "neutralizes acid in your body that can leach calcium out of your bones."
Try eating a medium-size sweet potato, baked with no salt. This simple side dish contains 31 milligrams of magnesium and 542 milligrams of potassium.


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What a treat having a lie-in until 9am was this morning – which is a novelty for the DDWT family believe me. After brekkie it was time for more cycling and playground exploring – the best bit being the mini zip wire ride, which me and the nipper rode in tandem.
With the sun still blazing – despite the promised rain – we hired some pedalos and headed off to the boating/course fishing lake. After all that I think or at least I felt that I'd done a days training.
As the afternoon turned to evening we caught the land train to the plaza and spent the rest of the evening as 3 water babies – sooo relaxing 🙂 The only other thing worth a mention was a seemingly endless procession of mallard ducks passing our villa patio. As a result we now have no bread!
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B-school is India Shining
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Mann Deshi Udyogini is like no other business school. Its students don't come to the class armed with laptops, the faculty does not moonlight by writing reports for big business groups, companies don't fall over one another to give its students jobs with fat salaries. In fact, it does not even have campus recruitments. Yet, its strike rate in producing successful businessmen – no, make it businesswomen – is perhaps better than any other B-school.
Since inception in 2006, it has trained over 7,000 women, 75 per cent of whom are on their own now, having become entrepreneurs in their own right. All its students have been rural women – poor, often illiterate or school dropouts.
The B-school was started in Mhaswad by the Mann Deshi Foundation, a NGO behind the Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank. With four branches (in Mhaswad, Vaduj, Dahiwadi in Maharashtra, and Hubli in Karnataka), it also has two vans that operate as mobile B-schools.


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The new year 2022 unscrolls. As we struggle to get clear of the wreckage of 2021, the question is whether Americans have it in them to begin again, to journey into the future with some humility. Can we leave behind the evil passions that have eroded the order and security of American life and re-envision something more wholesome, more generally beneficial, that's kinder to nature and humankind?
The pressure to turn conservative is increasing: by which I mean, the pressure to appreciate and preserve what we have and to consolidate public sentiment around goals consonant with our historical strengths. Partisan sniping, barbarizing technologies, upper-class selfishness, and decades of in-migration have triggered keen disillusionment, anomie, and rage. Meanwhile, our love affair with globalism has turned sour. We are croaking from the environmental and monetary costs.
Amid the disappointment and weariness, January invites us to be open, to be curious, to regard the world with fresh eyes. Paradoxically, the recollection of what Americans have struggled toward as ideal goods can green the journey, can guide our hejira through a broken world.
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Rapid7's Vulnerability Management and User Behavior Analytics solutions, Nexpose and UserInsight, now integrate to provide visibility and security detection across assets and the users behind them. Combining the pair provides massive time savings and simplifies incident investigations by highlighting risk across your network ecosystem without writing queries or digging through logs.
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Nexpose proactively identifies & prioritizes weak points on your network, while UserInsight helps detect stealthy attacks with behavior analytics, investigate security incidents faster with user context, and expose risky internal behavior from endpoint to cloud. 4-minute UserInsight demo. Let's look at two specific benefits: (1) user context for your vulnerabilities, and (2) automatic security detection for your critical assets.
User Context for Your Vulnerabilities
UserInsight integrates with your existing network & security infrastructure to automatically baseline your users' activity. By correlating all activity to the users behind them, you're alerted of attacks that often go unnoticed, such as compromised credentials and lateral movement.
When UserInsight ingests the results of your Nexpose vulnerability scans, they are also added to each user's profile. By simply searching for an employee name, asset, or IP address, you get a complete look at their activity:
How this saves you time:
- Immediately see who is affected by what vulnerability – this helps you get buy in to remediate a vulnerability by putting a face and context on a vulnerability ("The CFO has this vulnerability on their laptop – we must remediate immediately so they don't get phished.")
- Have instant context on the user behind the asset, so you can assess whether a particular piece of malware that exploits a particular vulnerability could have been successful
- Proactively bolster and check risk surface – verify key players are not vulnerable
Automatic Security Detection for Critical Assets
In Nexpose, you can dynamically tag assets as critical by factors such as being in the IP range of the DMZ or containing a particular software package/service unique to domain controllers. Critical asset tags can be synced with UserInsight, where they show up as restricted assets.
Some examples of critical asset alerts:
- First authentication from an unfamiliar source asset: If there's an unfamiliar attempt to authenticate to a restricted asset, you'll receive an alert.
- An unauthorized user attempts to log-in: This can include a contractor or compromised employee attempting to access a financial server.
- A unique or malicious process hash is run on the asset: UserInsight uses an agentless endpoint monitor to identify every process run on your endpoints. We run these process hashes against the wisdom of 50 virus scanners to identify malicious processes, as well as identify unique processes for further investigation.
- Lateral movement (both local and domain): Once inside your organization's network, intruders typically run a network scan to identify high-value assets. They then laterally move across the network, leaving behind backdoors & stealing higher privilege credentials.
- Endpoint log deletion: After compromising an organization's asset, attackers look to delete system logs in order to hide their tracks. This is a high-confidence indicator of compromise.
- Anomalous administrative activity, including privilege escalation exploits: Once gaining access to an asset or endpoint, attackers will use privilege escalation exploits to gain administrative access, allowing them to take next steps such as password hash scraping. We identify and alert on anomalous administrative activity across your network ecosystem.
As Nexpose identifies critical or vulnerable assets, UserInsight automatically adjusts its detection thresholds to alert you about things you'll want to know about.
Configuring the UserInsight-Nexpose Integration
If you have Nexpose & UserInsight, setting up the Event Source is easy.
- In Nexpose, setup a Global Admin
- In UserInsight, click on the Collectors tab -> Rapid7 -> "Add event source"
3. Add the information about the Nexpose Console (Server IP & Port)
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There's a new world's largest cruise ship, and we're officially one big boat closer to making Waterworld a reality. That massive vessel is Royal Caribbean's Symphony of the Seas, which was just delivered on Friday after three years of construction. It's 18-decks-high and weighs 228,081 tons.
In other words, it's quite large.
"It is a proud and exhilarating moment to welcome a new member to the family," Royal Caribbean president and CEO Michael Bayley said at the ship's delivery ceremony in France. "Symphony will take family vacationing to an all new level with energy and options never before found in one place."
In setting this record, Royal Caribbean is actually surpassing itself. Symphony is only slightly bigger than the current largest ship in the world, Royal Caribbean's Harmony of the Seas. Both ships are in Royal Caribbean's Oasis Class of vessels, which are more than 30% larger than the next largest cruise ships. Symphony and Harmony are both around 1,188 feet long, but Symphony is 1,000 tons heavier and has 2,774 cabins and space for 6,680 passengers.
If you're one of those several thousand, you'll be treated to laser tag, a new seafood concept, and a live performance of the Broadway show Hairspray, plus a heck of a lot of pools and slides, and dozens of lounges, bars, and restaurants. Most wild of all, however, are the two-story family suites that feature a slide connecting the upper and lower floors. Is this practical at all? No, but if you're looking for a practical slide, you might misunderstand slides.
The Symphony of the Seas leaves France on Saturday to head to Barcelona. It will start its first real voyage with passengers on March 31 to sail the Mediterranean before heading to Miami where you'll be able to book it for Caribbean cruises.
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How To Write a Cover Letter for a Healthcare Role
Updated June 27, 2023
Careers in healthcare are usually in high demand, and can be very rewarding for people who enjoy caring for others in a medical capacity. Preparing successful application documents, such as a cover letter, can be one step toward beginning a career in the healthcare field. In addition to communicating your qualifications with a hiring manager, writing a cover letter can also help you reflect on your own abilities which can help you feel confident. In this article, we explain how to write a cover letter for a healthcare role and provide a template and example to help you with yours.
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What is a cover letter for healthcare?
A cover letter in the healthcare industry is a document that career candidates use to explain their interest in and qualifications for a role in the healthcare field. It is usually submitted together with a resume and any other items an employer requests, and includes more detail about your most compelling qualifications.
Specific information in your cover letter might include specific achievements from your education and previous healthcare employment experiences, as well as personal qualities that will make you a good fit for the role you are applying for. Successful cover letters are often tailored to the specific role mentioned in a job listing, and connect your qualifications to the requirements of the job.
Related: The Healthcare Resume: Definition, How-to and Examples
How to write a cover letter for a healthcare role
To help you write a successful cover letter for a healthcare role, here are some steps you can use:
1. Review the listing
Read the listing you are applying for carefully, making note of any industry-specific keywords. Many employers use software to screen applications before a hiring manager reviews them, so including these keywords might increase the chances of your materials appearing before a person.
2. Brainstorm details
Next, brainstorm details from your healthcare background and experience that fit the keywords in the listing. Consider your education, experience, awards and achievements, using your resume for inspiration. Try using a digital brainstorming tool or handwritten document to record your thoughts. Be sure to remember the keywords and necessary requirements from the job listing, as you'll want to tailor your cover letter to those specific details.
Related: 15 Brainstorming Exercises To Generate Ideas
3. Organize your ideas
Review your brainstorm list, and look for patterns to help you organize your cover letter into meaningful paragraphs. For instance, you might notice that you have included many details about your education, your healthcare expertise and your health safety record. You may also choose to use a template to help order your thoughts. Try using an outline or a tool such as a map to diagram your cover letter structure.
4. Write a rough draft
Next, turn your outline or map into complete sentences to create a rough draft of your cover letter. Separate your thoughts into paragraphs that each address one specific topic. Add transition words and phrases to clarify the relationships between your ideas, and be sure each thought leads logically into the next. Remember to include specific language from the healthcare job listing you are applying for.
5. Revise and edit
Finally, review your cover letter to ensure you are communicating the most compelling and relevant points about your qualifications. Consider asking a trusted friend or mentor to read your cover letter and make suggestions, especially if they are familiar with the healthcare hiring process. Be sure your grammar, usage and mechanics are correct, because clean, clear editing can show that you are a professional with attention to detail—an important part of most healthcare roles.
Healthcare cover letter template
To help you in your own writing process, here is a healthcare cover letter template you can use:
To Whom It May Concern:
I am writing to express my interest in applying for the [specific position name] listed on your website. Between my educational background and relevant experience, I am confident that I can help support your hospital's mission of [reference to facility's specific values and mission].
My training and commitment to [one of your key qualities] began during my time at [college you attended]. I worked with dedication to [name an accomplishment], and I [name another accomplishment, with outcome]. I learned how to [list some of your skills].
In my time since college, I've worked in a number of positions that furthered my skills as a healthcare provider. I have served in [specific roles and the services you provided]. I would be thrilled to continue my learning and growth while supporting the mission of [facility] in a [job title] role.
I would love to discuss my qualifications with you further at your convenience, and I have attached my resume as well for your convenience.
[your name]
To upload the template into Google Docs, go to File > Open > and select the correct downloaded file.
Healthcare cover letter example
To inspire your own cover letter, here is an example for you to use:
To Whom It May Concern:
I am writing to express my interest in applying for the healthcare assistant position listed on your website. Between my educational background and relevant experience, I am confident that I can help support your hospital's mission of providing the best care to every patient with research-based practices and compassion.
My training and commitment to excellent patient care began during my time at Healthcare Assistant College. I worked with dedication to earn high grades in all of my courses, and I worked to complete diverse experiences in my clinical hours to better help as many different patients as possible. I learned how to work independently, with careful attention to detail, and I cultivated my lifelong passion for helping others by adhering to the highest standards in safety and care.
In my time since college, I've worked in a number of positions that furthered my skills as a healthcare provider. I have served in long term healthcare facilities, a hospital and in-home health, and in each position I took every opportunity to learn and expand my skills. I would be thrilled to continue my learning and growth while supporting the mission of your hospital in a healthcare assistant role.
I would love to discuss my qualifications with you further at your convenience, and I have attached my resume as well for your convenience.
Pat Jones
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My Travel Recording Setup
I was watching Friends last night (something I often do) and started thinking about the recording technology of the mid to late 90s. It occurred to me that my iPhone is more powerful than at least some of the cameras featured in the show. It also got me thinking about my new travel recording gear. Since WordCamp US is just a few days away, now's as good a time as any to outline what I'll be bringing with me!
Camera Setup
My primary camera will be my iPhone 11 Pro Max. With 4K 60fps recording on both the back and front cameras, it's easily the best camera I own. I'm also considering picking up FiLMiC Pro, the incredible video app that was demoed at WWDC:
Mic: Shure MV88
The Shure MV88 is a fantastic multi-directional mic that has a lightning connector. A tiny mic that plugs right into my iPhone – perfect. Plus the sound quality is leaps and bounds better than the built-in mic.
It also had an app where you can adjust the pattern and gain, so you can control the environment sounds. I use it for my Instagram Stories quite a bit. I'm excited to try it on a conference floor.
Tripod Setup
I've really upped my tripod game recently. With night mode on the 11 Pro Max, and doing more videos where I'm in front of the camera, I wanted a good tripod setup. Here's what I've got.
Primary: SwitchPod
When I heard about the Switchpod from Pat Flynn, I was pretty much instantly sold. Now that I have it, I absolutely love it. it's lightweight yet sturdy, versatile, and very portable. I even picked up a carabiner so I can easily hook it to a belt loop or backpack.
It also has 2 other tripod mounts.
Tripod Head: Glif by Studio Neat
The Glif by Studio Neat (like all thing by Studio Neat) is a nice little piece of gear. What really sold me on it was the multiple tripod mounts. Between the 2 on the Switchpod and the 2 extras here, I have lots of options.
That lets me switch orientation if I want, or add accessories, like a light cube.
Secondary Tripod: Manfrotto 055
Truth be told, I'm not 100 sure if this will be part of my regular travel setup, just because it's so heavy. But coming from $20 Amazon Basics tripod, I couldn't go without mentioning this bad boy.
It's tall, sturdy, has a built-in level, and a neck that bends so I can do overhead shots. The main reason I'd bring this with me is to get nice scenic photos or night shots that require a long exposure.
Currently, it's set up in my office, surrounded by light boxes. My primary intention for it videos away from my desk, and product unboxings, thanks to that neck.
Podcasting Setup
I'd be remiss if I didn't at least mention my travel recording setup for podcasting here:
- Mics: Rode Reporter and ATR2100. Both of these support XLR, and the ATR has USB as well. So if I'm recording a podcast, or want higher quality audio, these are my go to mics.
- Recorder: Zoom H5. Zoom makes incredible recording equipment, and this reliable device accepts up to 4 mic inputs, records to an SD card, and can double as an audio interface.
Up Next
There are a couple of improvements I'd like to make to this setup.
The first is lighting. The Luma Cube looks like a fantastic solution to that. It's a small cube that fits in my bag, and has a tripod mount on it, so I can attach it to my Glif, or directly to the Switchpod.
The second is the Rode i-XLR. This bad boy is an XLR to Lightning converter, so I can plug an XLR mic, like the Rode Reporter, directly into my iPhone. Between 4K video and an XLR mic, I can make incredible videos right from my iPhone.
This wouldn't replace my Zoom H5, but it would make it more convenient for travel. If I'm doing video and audio, the Rode i-XLR would be good. If I'm recording a podcast, the Zoom H5 would probably work a little better.
Any Questions?
I'd love to hear from you about this particular setup! If you have questions or recommendations, leave them in the comments!


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To be able to read the signs that endanger your life or security and to be cautioned about it is immense help. Everywhere we go, we see symbols or signboards warning us of imminent danger or risks in street corners, or mountain slopes or deep running waters.
People who don't care suffer painful consequences at the risk of the loss of their own lives. Gross negligence or plain ignorance of traffic rules may have catastrophic or irreparable results, as we know well. So we have to "stop, look and listen!" and remind ourselves that "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." No doubt, it can prolong our human existence so that we can contribute more to common welfare.
When it comes to our eternal salvation, we need to inculcate this in our life and consider it of supreme value. We cannot and should not treat this as irrelevant and without lasting effect. Eternal salvation is our final destiny when it comes to the Lord's Second and Final Coming at the end of the world.
The Bible clearly states what happened in the days of Noah in the Great Deluge. So, with what happened to Lot in the destruction of Sodom! This Gospel cannot be easily ignored.
But in today's world, even as people are fully warned with signs of eternal damnation and its life-threatening consequences, their minds and thoughts are far from facing their decisions that prepare for the Final Event. Through continuous prayer and trust in His Divine Mercy, may we not waste time to prepare sincerely for this Final Event since we have no idea when He will finally come.


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Story of boxing champ, the Belfast soldier, and a German army captain
Posted By: August 14, 2017
Andrew Madden. Irish News. August 14, 2017
INTRIGUING LINK: From left, Jimmy Magill who won three Irish middleweight boxing titles, three ABA titles and three European police titles before retiring in the late 1930s; William Hutchinson, who was seriously injured during the Second World War; former Olympic boxing silver medalist and German army captain Richard Vogt. The intriguing story linking all three men is contained in a book written by Paul Magill, nephew of the late boxer.
FOLLOWING the release in cinemas of Christopher Nolan's Second World War epic Dunkirk, tales of Irish connections to the dramatic events of 1940 are having the dust blown off their jackets.
And one such story featuring a boxing champion, a Belfast soldier and a German army captain is particularly remarkable.
It begins in 1936 when Jimmy Magill, one of Ireland's greatest ever amateur fighters, went toe-to-toe with a German Olympic medalist named Richard Vogt.
In front of a sell-out crowd in Belfast's King's Hall, the man from the small village of Cairncastle, near Larne, was victorious.
Four years later, the war was in full flow when a Belfast-born soldier stepped on a land mine on the battlefields surrounding the French port of Dunkirk.
William Hutchinson, a young member of the Irish Guards, lay in the mud and dirt, his body perforated with shrapnel wounds and half of his left leg missing.
A German army captain approached the wounded soldier, noticed the badge on his uniform and asked where he was from.
"Do you know an Irish boxer called Jimmy Magill?" he said.
Bill had often heard of the great Magill from his father's boxing stories and he nodded to the German officer looking down at him. "VOGT", the name on his uniform read.
Captain Vogt – who would later defeat former world heavyweight champion Max Schmelling in his last ever bout – asked whether, if he was spared, the Belfast man would he return home and convey his regards to the fighter who defeated him that night in the King's Hall.
He said he would and Vogt then picked up the wounded soldier, crossed over to British lines and gave instructions that he was to receive priority medical treatment.
Hutchinson returned home following the war and did not pass away until 2002 in the Somme Nursing Home in Belfast.
Amid renewed interest in the battle and evacuation of Dunkirk following the release of Nolan's critically-acclaimed movie last month, Jimmy Magill's nephew Paul spoke to The Irish News about his unlikely connection to the Second World War.
"I had never heard about the story from my uncle, but I'm sure he was aware of it. It was actually a nephew of William Hutchinson who got in contact with me," he said.
"He rang me and we exchanged a few letters. He told me the story and when I first heard it, I thought it sounded like something out of a Hollywood film. Like Saving Private Ryan or something. It was incredible."
As well as a talented boxer, Jimmy Magill was a constable with the RUC and he boxed under its affiliation throughout his career.
Over the course of more than 150 amateur bouts, the Cairncastle fighter was only defeated nine times.
He won three Irish middleweight titles, three ABA titles and three European police titles, before retiring in the late 1930s.
His career was not without its disappointments, however.
Magill was twice selected to box at the Olympics and, on both occasions, failed to reach the dressing room never mind the podium.
He was selected for the Irish team for the 1932 games in Los Angeles, but the RUC would not allow it.
Four years later, Irish boxing authorities blocked his selection for the British team during the build-up to the Berlin games, where Richard Vogt won a silver medal.
The sports bar at the PSNI's country club at Newforge was named after Magill in 2004.
Paul Magill says his uncle, who died in 1991, seldom spoke of his 'could have been' career, or his unlikely link to the
battlefields of northern France.
"I guess that was just his way, he was a quiet man. Although he
never mentioned it, I'm sure he knew of the story of William Hutchinson at Dunkirk, and I'm sure he was proud," he said.
The story of Jimmy Magill and William Hutchinson is featured in the book The Magills of the Meetinghouse by Paul Magill.
Former Olympic boxing silver medalist and German army captain Richard Vogt.
Paul Magill told the story of William Hutchinson in his book The Magills of the Meetinghouse
William Hutchinson


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In the past few months I've worked harder on the YouTube videos and the effort has paid off somewhat with new subscribers, comments and views on the channel. Still nothing to write home about, but it's an improvement and one desperately needed. There were times were I wondered why I was still wasting my time don this stuff, and then someone made a nice comment or subscribed and I had a sudden jolt of endorphin for a job well done.
But recently, last week in fact, I came upon a realisation and that is that sometimes recording a game, or continue to record them is not worth the trouble. As much as I love Assassin's Creed II, no one really cared about that series, and last week I noticed that after 42 episodes, I had only 4 minutes viewed between all of them, and three of those minutes were from an episode months ago. It's because of this that I've decided to move away from this playthrough. It's proven to be something the audience doesn't care about, and so to keep pushing on with it is just pointless.
The last Assassin's Creed episode ends with a nice Batman theme!
I also haven't done more Brawl videos, be it Hearthstone or Overwatch. With the latter it's because they keep using the PTR Brawls on the main servers and I've already recorded and used those, but on the former, Hearthstone, it's because I realised that my format for it, my approach to the video series itself, isn't very attractive. So I'm not gonna record more brawl episodes, not unless I find the specific brawl extremely fun to play through. But as an avid player of most Blizzard Entertainment's game, I do want to continue recording these games, but only once I figure what the best approach is. Maybe ladder matches on Hearthstone and competitive Overwatch are what people want to see, I don't know. To be honest there are bigger and better channels out there, with hosts who are infinitely more entertaining than I am, and they already do these videos, so I need to find my approach.
I could go the easy route and just troll online, making fun of people or playing the wrong characters for a situation, but I can't, I'm honestly too nice to do that, too lawful to pull that off.
I have a couple of games series I am working on, but I want to have a good chunk of episodes to go before I put any of them up.
That takes me to the second part of this thing: broadcasting. I love to stream, I find it a very entertaining activity, even if you're like me and end playing for a non-existent audience most of the time. But finding the right games to play, to at least draw your audience in is a difficult thing, and newer games have more immediate viewership and help bring people in for a nice chat, at least compared to older games, which is something I have to limit myself to for now. I'm planning on buying a new PC soon and once I do, I'll be back to streaming full-time.
I also have consoles and a related issue is that my computer struggles to encode and broadcast games through the capture card I bought. Hell, even the latest games I've reviewed I have had to avoid posting videos because they are choppy at best It could be a matter of driver or the XSplit consuming way more resources than it should but the result is the same, a situation where to even record becomes a chore and I have to double check everything I record just to make sure that the quality is one you can enjoy.
I will probably stream but focus a bit more on some arts & crafts projects I have in the pipeline, or play an older game, some of those classics I do so enjoy. But most games from this year and even some from last year put such a strain on my machine that I've had to play them in the barest of minimum requirements, which I have no problem with but it does make recording them a bit trickier.
Can only record games with low graphical requirements without issue. It's annoying!
I've been on a bit of a hiatus from Twitch, and it will continue for at least another month or so, but I am still working on YouTube content, just want to think of ways to make what I deliver better and more engaging. I have a couple of rants in progress that I want to do on video because it's the type of opinion piece where I end up talking to myself about it in angry tones.
Still not crazy though!
So that was it, keep an eye on further announcements, and once I have the new PC I'll make sure to share as many photos as I can about it. It's going to be my baby and it'll be so powerful I'll have to feed it the souls of my enemies to keep it running!


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Basic Math and Pre-Algebra
PART 2. Into the Unknown
CHAPTER 9. Adding and Subtracting with Variables
Simplifying Expressions
Once you have terms, it's natural to want to start doing things with them. You can add or subtract terms if they're like terms, and you can multiply terms by other terms, like or not. You can even do both of these things, adding and then multiplying. When you start doing so many things with terms, you soon need to stop and think about how you simplify the problems you've created.
Do you need a whole new set of rules? The good news is no. Your old friend PEMDAS (Parentheses, Exponents, Multiply, Divide, Add, Subtract) will cover most situations. Let's look at a problem that's not too complicated. Suppose you wanted to do 5x(3x + 7x). PEMDAS says do what's in the parentheses first, so look at the 3x + 7x part first. Those are like terms, so you can add them and get 10x. Your expression 5x(3x + 7x) becomes 5x(10x). Exponents are next, but there are none, so move on to multiplying and dividing. 5x(10x) = 5 ∙ 10 ∙ x ∙ x = 50x2.
How about this one? Simplify -4xy(6x + 7y) using the same rules. Parentheses first. But this time, you can't add what's in the parentheses because they're unlike terms. Don't panic. You can only do what you can do, so just move on. There are no exponents, so it's time to multiply, and for that, you'll need the distributive property.
Now, as you look at each multiplication, multiply coefficients and combine what you can. Don't be afraid to rearrange. Remember multiplication is commutative and associative.
Put the pieces back together to get
Because you have the plus from the addition problem followed immediately by the minus sign from the -28, you can write your answer as -24x2y - 28xy2.
Your basic rules are:
• Combine what's in the parentheses if you can.
• Distribute multiplication over the addition or subtraction if you can't combine the unlike terms.
• Simplify each multiplication.
• Check the signs.
Whenever you have negatives in problems like these, it's important to be careful about the rules for signs. If the multiplier that you're distributing is positive, the signs aren't usually a problem. Terms in the parentheses that were positive will produce positive terms in the answer, and terms that were negative in the parentheses will produce negative terms in the answer. Here are some examples.
When the multiplier is negative, however, you need to work carefully and remember that if you distribute a negative term, the signs of each term in the parentheses will change. Let's take those two examples and make the multipliers negative to see what happens.
Take the first example and change 8x to -8x. Distribute the -8x.
Now that first term has a negative multiplied by a negative, so the result is going to be positive. The second term has one negative, so that result will be negative.
You can eliminate the plus signs, condensing to 24ax - 16x.
If you change 5tto -5t in the second example and distribute, you get -5t(7t2 - 3t) = -5 ∙ 7 ∙ t ∙ t1 - (-5) ∙ 3 ∙ t ∙ t.
The first term will come out negative, but the second term is where you have to be careful. The product (-5) ∙ 3 ∙ t ∙ t will give you a negative result, -15t2, but you also have a minus in front of that, the one that was connecting the original terms. You get a product of -35t3 — -15t2, but the double minus becomes a plus so you end up with -35t3 + 15t2. The minus on the multiplier switches the signs.
Sometimes you'll find an expression with more than one set of parentheses and lots of terms, some like and some unlike, and some that start out unlike and then turn into like terms. You just need to take things step by step and pay attention to what is happening. Here's an example.
There are no like terms in the first parentheses, so you can't do anything there, and no like terms in the second set of parentheses, either. Move on to multiplying. Use the distributive property.
Now notice you have like terms: -18x3 and 32x3. You can combine those to get a final answer of 14x3 + 15x -72x2. It's traditional to put your terms in order from highest exponent to lowest, so rewrite it as 14x3 - 72x2 + 15x.
Simplify each expression.


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Black holes are among the most compelling mysteries of the universe. Nothing, not even light, can escape a black hole. And at the centre of nearly every galaxy there is a supermassive black hole that is millions to billions of times more massive than the Sun. Understanding black holes, and how they become supermassive, could shed light on the evolution of the universe.
Three physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have recently developed a model to explain the formation of supermassive black holes, as well as the nature of another phenomenon: dark matter. In a paper published in Physical Review Letters, theoretical physicists Hooman Davoudiasl, Peter Denton, and Julia Gehrlein describe a cosmological phase transition that facilitated the formation of supermassive black holes in a dark sector of the universe.
A cosmological phase transition is akin to a more familiar type of phase transition: bringing water to a boil. When water reaches the exact right temperature, it erupts into bubbles and vapour. Imagine that process taking place with a primordial state of matter. Then, shift the process in reverse so it has a cooling effect and magnify it to the scale of the universe.
"Before galaxies existed, the universe was hot and dense, and that is well established. How the universe cooled down to what we observe today is a matter of interest because we don't have experimental data describing how that happened," said Peter Denton. "We can predict what happened with the known particles because they interact often. But what if there are not-yet-known particles out there performing differently?"
To explore this question, the Brookhaven team developed a model for a dark sector of the universe, where yet-to-be-discovered particles abound and rarely interact. Among these particles could be ultralight dark matter, predicted to be 28 orders of magnitude lighter than a proton. Dark matter has never been directly observed, but physicists believe it makes up most of the universe's matter based on its gravitational effects.
"The frequency of interactions between known particles suggests matter, as we know it, would not have collapsed into black holes very efficiently," Denton said. "But, if there was a dark sector with ultralight dark matter, the early universe might have had just the right conditions for a very efficient form of collapse."
Recent observations have suggested supermassive black holes formed in the early universe, much earlier than physicists previously thought. This finding leaves little time to account for the growth of supermassive black holes. Physicists know that black holes acquire mass primarily by two means. One way, called accretion, is when matter, mostly dust, falls into black holes. But there is a limit to the speed by which matter can accumulate in black holes through accretion. The second way is through galactic collisions, during which two black holes can merge. However, in the early universe, galaxies were just starting to form. So, physicists have been left wondering how these ancient cosmological wonders grew so massive so quickly. Ultralight dark matter particles could be the missing piece.
"We theorized how particles in the dark sector could undergo a phase transition that enables matter to very efficiently collapse into black holes," Denton said. "When the temperature of the universe is just right, the pressure can suddenly drop to a very low level, allowing gravity to take over and matter to collapse. Our understanding of known particles indicates that this process wouldn't normally happen."
Such a phase transition would be a dramatic event, even for something as spectacular as the universe.
"These collapses are a big deal. They emit gravitational waves," Denton said. "Those waves have a characteristic shape, so we make a prediction for that signal and its expected frequency range."
Current gravitational wave experiments are not sensitive enough to validate the theory, but next-generation experiments may be able to detect signals of those waves. And based on the waves' characteristic shape, physicists could then narrow in on the details of supermassive black hole formation. Until then, Brookhaven theorists will continue to evaluate new data and refine their model.


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Jan 16, 2013 by Sushi Bird
Wow! What kind of liner/ink do you use for water paintings? It's beautiful! My ink tend to stain when I paint over it.
Your blog is extremely inspiring, and all the colors make me happy just to take a glance at your blog 🙂
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By Gail Z. Martin
My epic fantasy contracts call for no less than 175,000 words. The contracts for my urban fantasy novels and the steampunk novels I write with my husband, Larry N. Martin, call for around 120,000 words.
No problem. But 8,000 words? Panic!
That's how I felt the first time I looked at the word count on a short story contract. But that's just a long chapter! My mind screamed. And then I took a deep breath and thought about it again. Yeah. It's a chapter. Maybe two. Not so scary. I do that all the time.
Except that in the case of a short story, that "chapter" has to have its own arc, and a beginning, middle and end. It's not building toward a greater whole; it is the whole. That took some getting used to.
I'm going to divide short stories into two large categories. One is the completely stand-alone short story, the kind that creates a whole world unto itself and relatable characters in under twenty pages, then vanishes like a soap bubble. And then there are the short stories that are more like episodic TV, where each story has its own arc, but it exists as part of a larger ongoing universe and may be part of a larger arc (season) of related stories.
I have friends who write the first kind of short story. They get published in Asimov's and Analog and I marvel at what they can do in such a brief piece of work.
I write the other kind of short story, the TV episode kind of story that may or may not have its own "season" of related stories with a larger arc, and which tie back to not only other stories I've written, but to book series. My short stories and novellas are what TV producers would call 'spin-offs'. They are additional adventures by some of the characters from the books, that occur before, between and around the books in the series. Sometimes, the characters in the short stories are the main characters from the related books, and sometimes they are side characters.
So in my Jonmarc Vahanian Adventures, the title character is a significant secondary character in my Chronicles of the Necromancer and Fallen Kings book series. He's not the main character in those series, but he is very important, and a reader favorite. Readers wanted to know his back story, which was not part of the story for the books. So I've written the equivalent of three serialized novels comprised of related, sequential short stories or novellas. I self-published those short stories on Kindle/Kobo/Nook, bringing out a new story each month in 10-story 'seasons'. In June of 2016, Solaris Books, the publisher for my Chronicles of the Necromancer series, will bring out the first print and ebook compilation of the initial ten Jonmarc Vahanian stories plus an eleventh, exclusive story only in the compilation.
I had a couple of goals with the Jonmarc stories. First, I wanted to retain readers who loved the Chronicles series until I get the chance to come back and write the next six books in that series, and I wanted to reward loyal readers who genuinely cared about the character and wished to know more. Second, I wanted to capture new readers who might not have read the Chronicles series before reading the Jonmarc stories, but who might fall in love with the world and go looking for the books. And third, self-publishing the stories creates a nice additional revenue stream. Getting asked by Solaris to do the compilation was icing on the cake.
I also write a series of Deadly Curiosities short stories, linked to my urban fantasy series. In
I've got a series of novellas (and one short story) coming out in my Ascendant Kingdoms series that serves a little different purpose. The fourth and final book in that series—Shadow and Flame—comes out in 2016. The six novellas and the short story come out in the time gap between the release of book three and book four, and my goal there is to ramp up excitement for the series conclusion. But there's also a six-year gap in the beginning of Ice Forged, the first book in the series, between when a crucial event happens and when the action picks up again. What occurred in that gap wasn't part of the story arc for the book series, but it makes for a good related but stand-alone set of novellas, while also providing some interesting back story for established readers, hopefully capturing new readers, and contributing revenue (see a pattern?).
The fourth series of short stories is based on the Iron & Blood steampunk series I co-write
When you think about contributing a short story to an anthology or writing it on its own, look for ways to use the story strategically so that it works harder for you by helping to promote your other work, draw in new readers, or reward your established readers. They can flesh out your fictional worlds for readers and help you with world building, while creating extra writing revenue and being just plain fun. And that's the most important part—the fun!
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Other books include The Jake Desmet Adventures a new Steampunk series (Solaris Books) co-authored with Larry N. Martin as well as Ice Forged, Reign of Ash and War of Shadows in The Ascendant Kingdoms Saga, The Chronicles of The Necromancer series (The Summoner, The Blood King, Dark Haven, Dark Lady's Chosen) from Solaris Books and The Fallen Kings Cycle (The Sworn, The Dread) from Orbit Books and the urban fantasy novel Deadly Curiosities from Solaris Books.
Gail writes four series of ebook short stories: The Jonmarc Vahanian Adventures, The Deadly Curiosities Adventures, The King's Convicts series, and together with Larry N. Martin, The Storm and Fury Adventures. Her work has appeared in over 20 US/UK anthologies. Newest anthologies include: The Big Bad 2, Athena's Daughters, Realms of Imagination, Heroes, With Great Power, and (co-authored with Larry N. Martin) Space, Contact Light, The Weird Wild West, The Side of Good/The Side of Evil, Alien Artifacts, Clockwork Universe: Steampunk vs. Aliens.


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SCRIPTURE: I Kings 22:1-39
TEXT: I Kings 22:34
INTRO: I have sometimes mentioned this aimless, nameless bowman in messages but have never preached a sermon on him. This morning I want to look at some very important lessons we can learn from an aimless, nameless bowman.
This is an amazing matter that is before us. Months had extended into at least a year and more, perhaps as much as three years since Elijah had pronounced the Divine death sentence for Ahab and Jezebel.
Ahab defies the words of Elijah and the words of Micaiah, and proceeds into battle. Pretending he wants to honor Jehoshaphat for joining him in this campaign, he asks him to dress in the royal generals uniform and he, Ahab, will go into the battle as a soldier, not as the king leading the battle. In this manner, he believes he can fool the enemy king who is set on destroying Ahab; he can prove Micaiah a liar; he can ultimately fool God who has sent Elijah and Micaiah with the message of his death.
In spite of all his efforts, Ahab ends up dead at the hands of an aimless, nameless bowman, who, at a venture, drew an arrow, aimed it at no one in particular, and no place on anyone, and it found exactly the mark God intended it to find. It hit right where the upper part of Ahabs armor joined the lower part, and when day was at its end, he died.
Let us look at some lessons we can learn from this occasion.
A. This man who shot this arrow had no idea he would hit Ahab, or anyone else in particular.
B. This man had no idea that his arrow would find the one weak spot in Ahabs armor, the area where the upper and lower parts meet.
C. Gods hand always finds his enemies regardless of the disguise they wear. Psalm 21:8-9 Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee. 9 Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
D. The heathen may rage against God and attempt to throw off his rule over them, but every thing they do against him and his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ go exactly as he determined before should be done. Acts 4:25-28 Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things? 26 The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ. 27 For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together, 28 For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
A. Ahab would make a liar of the godly Elijah but God would see that exactly what Elijah had prophesied would come to pass.
1. Elijahs prophecy of Ahabs death was inspired by God and nothing God declares will happen ever fails to happen. 1 Kings 21:17-19 And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, 18 Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which is in Samaria: behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to possess it. 19 And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
2. Gods word, as delivered by Elijah, came to pass just as it was declared. 1 Kings 22:38 And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the LORD which he spake.
B. King Ahab would make the godly Micaiah out to be a liar also but God overruled that device as well.
1. Ahab insisted that the prophet tell him nothing except exactly what the Lord said. 1 Kings 22:16 And the king said unto him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the LORD?
2. Micaiah had declared he would be killed. 1 Kings 22:17 And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master: let them return every man to his house in peace.
3. When Micaiah did tell him what God had said he was all upset by what he said. 1 Kings 22:18 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil?
4. Micaiah even told him how this matter had all been determined before hand. 1 Kings 22:19-23 And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left. 20 And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner. 21 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him. 22 And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so. 23 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.
5. Ahab rejected the words of Micaiah and boasted of how he would escape Divine judgment. 1 Kings 22:26-27 And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back unto Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son; 27 And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.
C. Ahab then devised the plan whereby he would go into battle as a regular soldier while King Jehoshaphat would dress in his royal robes and lead the battle. 1 Kings 22:30 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.
D. Satan and wicked men devised a plan to destroy the Lord Jesus Christ, but they fell right into the plan God had determined before the foundation of the world. 1 Corinthians 2:7-8 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: 8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
A. The desire of Jehoshaphat to go down and visit Ahab was entirely his own but it was ordained of God in the execution of his plan. 1 Kings 22:1-2 And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel. 2 And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
B. The desire of Ahab to go into this battle was his own, but it was designed to get him in exactly the right place for God to destroy him. 1 Kings 22:3-4 And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we be still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria? 4 And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramothgilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.
C. The desire of the false prophet Zedekiah was to discredit Micaiah but the lying spirit that moved him was sent forth from God. 1 Kings 22:20-23 And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner. 21 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him. 22 And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so. 23 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.
D. The desire of the king of Syria to kill only Ahab, though his own, was exactly as God purposed. 1 Kings 22:31-33 But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two captains that had rule over his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel. 32 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it is the king of Israel. And they turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out. 33 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.
E. The desire of the aimless, nameless bowman to shoot an arrow at the enemy was his own desire but it was perfectly orchestrated by Divine fiat so that it served the purpose of God.
1. He drew his arrow at exactly the time needed.
2. He drew his bow to exactly the power needed.
3. He let the arrow fly at exactly the right moment.
4. Ahabs chariot driver drove his chariot by at exactly the right time in the right direction.
5. Ahab was facing exactly the right direction, standing in exactly the right position.
6. The arrow flew to exactly the right location on Ahab to inflict the mortal wound.
7. Every minute detail was exactly as needed at the time needed to bring about the death purposed and decreed.
8. Call that a freak accident if you will but there are no accidents with God who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will.
A. When Esau marches out to meet Jacob with murder on his mind, God turns his heart so that he embraces and welcomes Jacob home.
B. When Josephs brethren would kill him and cast him into a pit, God intervenes and they sell him into bondage so that he can go to Egypt and later save them from death. What they meant for evil God meant for good.
C. When Nebuchadnezzar, through the conniving of jealous leaders, would destroy Shadrack, Meshack, and Abednego, God overrules the flames and brings them forth victorious, honored and promoted to high rank in the kingdom.
D. When Darius, through the conniving of his princes, casts Daniel into a lions den, God tames the lions and gives Daniel the victory and those who devised the evil plan to get rid of him are themselves devoured by lions.
E. Gods judgment on Ahab would not, could not be thwarted by any contrivance of Ahab.
CONCLUSION: The event we have studied this morning teaches us many things.
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At 12:30 a.m., chef Ito Shigeru's Benkei Ramen had its first service as a pop-up restaurant at Hill & Dale's Lower East Side digs, having relocated east from its previous spot inside the Soho sushi restaurant Ushiwaka Maru.
Justin Farmer, Hill & Dale's chef and partner, said Benkei only served four tables last night, but he's confident that the traffic will pick up and he'd like to have a longterm partnership with the noodle shop.
Through word-of-mouth, Benkei became a popular ramen destination once before, particularly among those who work in the restaurant industry, Farmer said. Daily Candy deemed it one of the best ramen restaurants in the city.
"The Lower East Side has a lot of late-night people. And there's not a lot of good places to eat around other than pizza," he said.
Four nights a week, Farmer will turn his kitchen over to Shigeru. Hill & Dale's kitchen technically closes at midnight, but Farmer said not many people order food after 11 p.m.
"I've been wanting to do a regular pop-up menu for a while," said Farmer. "Our menu doesn't fully utilize the big kitchen downstairs, so we don't fully utilize the space. We have a lot of extra everything to share.
One reason Shigeru's product is so good, Farmer said, is that he uses four different kinds of noodles, all purchased from Sun Noodles, purveyor for all the city's top ramen spots. "Eventually, he'll get offered money to open his own ramen house."
For now, Benkei's menu is exclusively at Hill & Dale, and the focus is threefold. Farmer likens the tonkotsu ramen ($12.50) with "eating liquified pork butter, in a good way. It sticks to your bones." Meanwhile, the shoyu ramen ($12.50) and kaisen shoyu ramen ($16) are lighter options, with soy-and-dashi based stock.
The second service takes place Sunday evening (well, technically Monday morning).
Benkei Ramen at Hill & Dale, 115 Allen St. at Delancey St., 212-420-1115, Sun. to Wed. 12:30 a.m. to 4 a.m.


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Registration period: 1 December 2023 – 15 January 2024.
- Last completion day to prove your eligibility is 25 January 2024.
- Upload your samples of work (Round I) no later than 22 January 2024. Read more about content, recording quality and format further down on this page.
- Assessment of samples of work (Round I). A jury group assesses the samples work for Round I. If you pass you will be invited to Round II. The invitation is sent to the email address you provided when you made your application.
- Round II will take place at Malmö Academy of Music during week 10, 2024. Date and time are stated in the invitation. You will also complete other qualifying tests.
- Admission decision 1: 11 April 2024 on My pages at antagning.se
- Deadline for accepting your place through My pages at antagning.se is 25 April 2024.
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The admission test takes place in two rounds. Round I is conducted remotely by you as the applicant uploading samples of work in the form of video recordings. If you pass Round I, you will be called to Round II. Round II is conducted on site at Malmö Academy of Music second week of March (week 10).
In order to be offered a place, in addition to passing results on both of your playing tests, you also need to have passed results on other qualifying tests (more information further down on this page).
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- Perform and record one (1) piece/audition task per film. No clips or other technical edits are allowed.
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- You must upload the recordings in MP4 format. Other file formats are not allowed. Your folder with work samples must not exceed 5 GB.
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Spring is here and the flowers are blooming. They don't bloom like this anywhere else other than Sabanci University.
The favorite past time of most students here during this weather is sitting on the grass between the faculties. The hills covered in grass, the trees flourishing under the warm sun and the rose bed fenced facility is the best therapy towards the end of the hectic semester. If you're bored and want to play, we have Frisbee, volleyball and go pro walking. It almost feels like we are solar powered, just waiting for a chance to bask in the sun for even ten minutes between classes.
Most of our evenings during this beautiful season are spent near the "pool" just reading or drinking tea. It's not a real pool, but, a very well maintained fountain that magically cools and calms you down after a long day. Sounds like a joke but it isn't.
Another spring perk, the Offtown festival is around the corner and we can't wait! The festival is definitely the most awaited event of the year, when all of Sabanci gets together to celebrate the end of another year over the course of an entire weekend. Music, food and games is how we do it. You should witness how the whole campus turns into a carnival for the weekend, with a stage on one corner, a paintball arena in the other and everything else in between. Play hard before we get to the exams!


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Trending News: End Of An Era As Playboy Banishes Naked Women From Its Pages
Why Is This Important?
Because whether you love or loathe it, a cultural touchstone is changing for good.
Long Story Short
Playboy will stop publishing images of naked women. You read that correctly. Playboy will stop publishing images of naked women. This is not a drill.
Long Story
In a headline that could surely only be ripped from The Onion, Playboy is set to cease publishing images of naked women. That's right: Playboy, the magazine that basically made everyone realize they were really, really into the nudes, will no longer be about the nudes.
The New York Times reported overnight on the bold plan from the magazine's chief content officer, Cory Jones, and backed by editor-in-chief Hugh Hefner. And the more you read into the story, the more it makes sense. 1) Pornography, and the type that is much, much harder than you'll ever find in Playboy, is now only one click away (and it's usually free), and 2) Playboy needs to family-friend its business so it can actually turn some clicks online.
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The Times reports that the magazine's physical circulation has dropped from 5.6 million at its peak in the mid-70s, when it was one of only a handful of rodeos in town, to just 800,000 in 2015. Those numbers are unsustainable, but the pick-up in web traffic hasn't been enough to offset the decline — well not until August, when Playboy.com dispensed with the nudity and witnessed a whopping quadrupling of traffic.
So, what will the magazine look like? Well, something along the lines of GQ and Men's Style, by the sounds of it. Fashion, liquor, interviews and in-depth features. Women will still feature, but in decidedly more PG-13 presentations.
Key, of course, is that despite its lagging magazine sales, Playboy is one of the most recognizable brands in the world. Jones and Hefner want to cash in on that prominence. And that's where this move makes sense (compared to Penthouse, anyway, who as the NYT points out, tried to go all hardcore and dropped the ball), aligning the physical publication with a brand that already does a roaring international trade in clothing, fragrances and jewellery, among other merchandise.
Still, that nagging question remains: is this really the way forward? Perhaps the choicest quote from the NYT piece comes courtesy of Taschen editor, Dian Hanson, when he said Hefner, "just revolutionized the whole direction of how we live, of our lifestyles and the kind of sex you might have in America. But taking the nudity out of Playboy is going to leave what?"
I guess we're about to find out. Check out the full New York Times story here.
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Will this succeed? Because there might be a few copycats if it does.
Disrupt Your Feed
Is Playboy just a symptom of the wider problem of the porn industry eating itself, popularizing a medium (the internet) that has ultimately undercut its business model?
Drop This Fact
Playboy did not put a date on the cover of the first issue of the magazine in case there was never a second.