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In Search of a Virtual God
We have become a world focused on "virtual" things to fill the void in our lives. Technology taunts us with "virtual reality" and we have bought in to the idea that "virtual" is good enough. The American Heritage Dictionary defines the word virtual as "existing or resulting in essence or effect though not in actual fact, form, or name." In other words, virtual is almost the real thing but not the same as, or equal to, the real thing. Some of us have decided that a "virtual god" will suffice for what we need in our lives. The first way that we do this is we try to turn the living God into a "virtual god." We want God to be available and ready to do what we want Him to do when we want Him to do it but otherwise, He needs to just wait for our next call. Secondly, some have decided that virtual gods are good enough. Virtual gods may be money, power, possessions, alcohol, drugs, gambling, sex, our job or any thing else we place greater importance upon than a relationship with the ever real and living God. Exodus 20:4-6 gives us the 2nd of the 10 commandments which says 4 "You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God," This passage describes the natural tendency of man to make gods of his own choosing. Had man not had this tendency, God would have never given us this commandment. A virtual god can then be defined as an idol because anything that takes priority over our relationship with the real God becomes an idol or a "virtual god." You might ask how will I know if something is a "virtual god." Simply put, things that occupy your attention, that are constantly on your mind, that dominate your thoughts and consume your desires can easily become a "virtual god."
Let's look at it another way. How would you answer the question "Lord I will give you anything but…" (You fill in the blank). Are there things in your life that you would be unwilling to hand over to God? What about Lord I will do anything for you but…" Is there something you just wouldn't do for God? How about "God I'll change anything in my life except …" Are there things in your life you just would not give up for God? Are there places you shouldn't be going? Are there relationships that you should sever?
Before you completely shut me out, let me quickly say that there is nothing wrong with enjoying the fruits of your labor. But when things (new this or that, bigger this or that, etc.) take precedence over your relationship with God then its time to make some adjustments.
The next obvious question is "how do I make God a priority in my life?" First, let's understand that human beings are hard-wired to worship. We were created to respond to much more than just basic instinct or desires. Worship is giving of yourself and what we give ourselves to is what we worship. You can worship yourself or other people, you can worship possessions or a lifestyle but when we worship something other than Almighty God we are worshipping "virtual gods." Psalm 115: 4-7 gives us a glimpse of the effectiveness of virtual gods. It says "4 But their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men. 5 They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but they cannot see; 6 they have ears, but cannot hear, noses, but they cannot smell; 7 they have hands, but cannot feel, feet, but they cannot walk; nor can they utter a sound with their throats." In other words, the virtual gods people worship are powerless. They may initially appear to be a satisfactory replacement for the real thing but over time they leave us feeling empty and unfulfilled. An "almost god" is nothing like the real thing!
You see we have to choose to worship God! God loved us enough that He created us in His own image. He also loved us enough to give us what is often referred to as "free will." That simply means He allows us to make choices regarding how we will lead our lives. But God did not just create us and then turn us loose without any resources to draw us to Him. He speaks to us through His word, the Holy Bible. God provides us with direction, instruction, comfort, and wisdom in His word. As we study God's word we begin to recognize His voice and as we pray, that same voice speaks to our hearts. While some develop an intellectual relationship with God, His desire is to have a heart relationship with us. You see a relationship with the Living God is a heart thing, not a head thing. We are talking about a God that can see. In fact He can see us at all times and in all places. He sees our joy and He sees our pain. He not only sees the outside but He sees what is going on inside us. This God can hear. As we lift our voices to Him, He hears what we are saying and He responds. His response may not be our response or the answer we desire, but He responds and answers all who call upon His name. The Living God's desire is to reconcile His heart with the hearts of every man, woman and child. You see it is not God that separates Himself from us but we choose to separate ourselves from Him.
So how do we go about reconciling our heart with Gods? Bill Bright, Founder of Campus Crusade for Christ wrote a tract called the Four Spiritual Laws and it is still used today to share the Gospel. They are:
Law 1: God LOVES you and offers a wonderful PLAN for your life.
God's Love
"God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life" (John 3:16 NIV).
God's Plan
[Christ speaking] "I came that they might have life, and might have it abundantly" [that it might be full and meaningful] (John 10:10).
Why is it that most people are not experiencing the abundant life? Because…
Law 2: Man is SINFUL and SEPARATED from God. Therefore, he cannot know and experience God's love and plan for his life.
Man Is Sinful
"All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23).
Man was created to have fellowship with God; but, because of his stubborn self-will, he chose to go his own independent way, and fellowship with God was broken. This self-will, characterized by an attitude of active rebellion or passive indifference, is an evidence of what the Bible calls sin.
Man Is Separated
"The wages of sin is death" [spiritual separation from God] (Romans 6:23).
This diagram illustrates that God is holy and man is sinful. A great gulf separates the two. The arrows illustrate that man is continually trying to reach God and the abundant life through his own efforts, such as a good life, philosophy, or religion – but he inevitably fails.
The third law explains the only way to bridge this gulf…
Law 3: Jesus Christ is God's ONLY provision for man's sin. Through Him you can know and experience God's love and plan for your life.
He Died in Our Place
"God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8).
He Rose From the Dead
"Christ died for our sins…He was buried…He was raised on the third day, according to the Scriptures…He appeared to Peter, then to the twelve. After that He appeared to more than five hundred…" (1 Corinthians 15:3-6).
He Is the Only Way to God
"Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me'" (John 14:6).
This diagram illustrates that God has bridged the gulf which separates us from Him by sending His Son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross in our place to pay the penalty for our sins.
It is not enough just to know these three laws…
Law 4: We must individually RECEIVE Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord; then we can know and experience God's love and plan for our lives.
We Must Receive Christ
"As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name" (John 1:12)
We Receive Christ Through Faith
"By grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast" (Ephesians 2:8,9).
When We Receive Christ, We Experience a New Birth
(Read John 3:1-8.)
We Receive Christ by Personal Invitation
[Christ speaking] "Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any one hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him" (Revelation 3:20).
Receiving Christ involves turning to God from self (repentance) and trusting Christ to come into our lives to forgive our sins and to make us what He wants us to be. Just to agree intellectually that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that He died on the cross for our sins is not enough. Nor is it enough to have an emotional experience. We receive Jesus Christ by faith, as an act of the will.
These two circles represent two kinds of lives:
Which circle best describes your life?

Which circle would you like to have represent your life?
If you have never accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Savior you can receive Christ right now by faith through prayer (Prayer is talking to God). God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart. The following is a suggested prayer:
"Lord Jesus, I need You. Thank You for dying on the cross for my sins. I open the door of my life and receive You as my Savior and Lord. Thank You for forgiving my sins and giving me eternal life. Take control of the throne of my life. Make me the kind of person You want me to be."
Does this prayer express the desire of your heart?
If it does, I invite you to pray this prayer right now, and Christ will come into your life, as He promised.
Maybe you have previously prayed a prayer like this one but you have allowed the "virtual" god-wanna-bes take a hold in your life. There is no better time than right now to get your life back on track with the "real thing", the one and only Living God. He created you, He loves you, and His desire is to be the focal point of your life. Will you make Him Lord of your life right now?


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At the South Padre Island Marathon, first time runners and experienced runners crossed the starting line together. or Parvaneh Moayedi, this would be her 810th marathon.
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She's holds a Guinness Book of World Records Holder with the most marathons run in one year by a female (which has yet to be broken). Between November 2012 and November 2013, she ran 168 marathons.
Parvaneh began her attempt on November 11 2012 at the Rock 'n' Roll San Antonio Marathon in San Antonio, Texas, and completed the 168th marathon at the Fort Worth Marathon in Fort Worth, on November 10th 2013. Now, she's on track for another incredible milestone, complete 1000 marathons by the end of 2016.
Does she run injured? ABSOLUTELY! At the South Padre Island Marathon she was running with a broken foot. The night before she had a medical boot on her foot but on race morning, that boot stayed in the hotel room.
The South Padre Island Marathon was honored to have had such an incredible woman be a part of our inaugural run and hopes to have Parvaneh runs again in 2016. Her goal is to complete 1000 marathons by the end of this calendar year.

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A Forgiveness Prayer Process
Let's face it…forgiving others is hard…and yet it is central to the Christian life. Jesus even tells us that our own forgiveness hinges on our ability to forgive others.
That's what makes this simple process from Fr. David Smith so attractive…it brings the power of prayer into the act of forgiveness.
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Whether braces are needed to fix alignment and jaw issues or to create an aesthetically pleasing smile, no one is ever too old for orthodontic treatment.
Adults tend to be more concerned with the appearance of traditional braces. Luckily there are many options available that provide orthodontic treatment but are invisible to the outside world. At Dr. Davoody's office, we provide Invisalign® and Incognito braces.
Invisalign® offers a clear alternative to metal braces. With Invisalign® the patient is prescribed a series of aligners very similar to a retainer. Each aligner is worn for approximately 2 weeks and can be taken out for eating, drinking, and brushing and flossing your teeth.
Incognito braces, or "iBraces", are brackets designed to work behind the teeth. These braces are great for people who do not want to be seen wearing braces, especially adult professionals. Additional benefits of Incognito braces include minimal speech interference and discomfort.
If you have insecurities about your teeth but the idea of having traditional braces has shied you away pursuing treatment, schedule a free consultation with Dr. Davoody. He can explain to you the different treatment options for your particular case.


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We carry a large selection of garage doors. We know that finding the color and style that look best on your home is the only way you will be truly happy with your new garage door. Today there are almost as many choices as there are houses but we will go through all the options with you.
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From a bare metal Garage Door to triple layers of polyurethane insulation that helps keep out some of Arizona's most brutal heat, protecting what you store in your garage and possibly helping to keep your AC bill down if your Garage is connected to your home.
Most garage door manufacturers include a warranty. The warranty is important because it protects you from faulty manufacturing. The first thing you want to understand is the length of the warranty. Warranties range from 1 year to Lifetime.
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Are you up for your shot at Blues Immortality? Every once in a while a stellar opportunity comes along for those of us that will never be nominated, let alone win a BMA, win the IBC or have our name on the marquis of the Orpheum Theater in Memphis. Several years ago the Blues Foundation offered us the opportunity to not only contribute to the creation of the Blues Hall of Fame, but to have our names permanently installed on the wall inside. The Atlanta Blues Society, Darwin's and several of us availed ourselves of that opportunity and gained some Blues Immortality. The only problem is that you have to go inside and look for our names.
Well, our second chance is here with The Bricks for the Blues Campaign and the cost for Blues Immortality is much more reasonable this time. The Blues Foundation has been given permission to replace the sidewalk in front of the Blues Hall of Fame with bricks engraved with the names of the donors. Your Blues Society has purchased an 8″x 8″ brick for $500 and has been given permission to have all of us that buy an 8×8 brick to be grouped together and have a permanent place in Blues History. Even though only one person can pay for each brick, but with 6 lines of engraving (one should say"ABS Member(s)" as many as five can go in on a brick.
In order to take advantage of being able to be grouped together the Blues Foundation is asking us to act before the middle of March. How cool would it be for the ABS to not only have a permanent place for the world to see, but to have a boat load of our members listed with us. If you have any questions please run them by us. Be Immortal!!
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Archery Certificate Course
Mount Petrie Bowmen conducts inexpensive courses, using safe modern equipment, under the supervision of qualified coaches. Everything is provided for your tuition, and once you join the Club we can guide you through the process of purchasing suitable equipment.
The Archery Certificate Course is for those wanting to become archers, learn good technique, and shoot well. You will also learn about range safety and shooting etiquette. On successful completion of the course you will be awarded a certificate that entitles you to join the Club within a period of 12 months without the requirement for further introductory training. Beyond that the Club reserves the right to require you to do a refresher before joining.
Courses are run at regular intervals throughout the year. Bookings are made beforehand via our online booking and payment system so we know how many people are coming.
Click here to book into the Archery Certificate Course.
The course is run on a Saturday starting at 8.00am. We start by fitting you out with equipment appropriate to your physical characteristics. The day finishes at around 1.30pm, including lunch and rest breaks as required. The course is mostly conducted in our 30m x 30m indoor facility so it runs in all weather conditions. If the weather is kind we will also be able to spend some time outdoors where we have a substantial sun shade.
Cost is $150.00pp and includes equipment hire, access to the venue, insurance and sufficient coaches to keep participants safe and the course moving along.
If you already own your own archery equipment you will not be able to use it on the course.
If you are only wanting to try archery to see if you might like it, why not book into one of our Come & Try courses instead? Learn more….
Archery Australia certification
On successful completion of the course you will receive a certificate that will be recognised by other Archery Australia affiliated clubs, at their discretion. Sometimes we are unable to issue a certificate, often for young children, if a participant hasn't been able to demonstrate an ability to consistently reach the target at 18m in a safe manner.
A word on archery for kids, especially little kids.
A good archery experience has at least two elements that some little kids find difficult. There is the physical element where the bow has to be pulled back many times and this can be quite physically demanding. Then there is the mental bit where there is a demand for the learner to be aware of their body and to understand what has to be done with their body and to be able to do it consistently. Generally we find that the age of 11 is the earliest that children can deal with those two parts of learning archery.
For these reasons we strongly recommend against booking children under the age of 11 into the Archery Certificate Course. Mount Petrie Bowmen reserves the right to refuse coaching to anyone who is not of the required age or physical ability.
PLEASE NOTE: Parents/guardians of children under the age of 18 years are required to stay for the duration of the course, as they remain primarily responsible for the behaviour and welfare of their children.
Archery can be for the whole family, including older people and those living with a disability. Bookings and payment are only taken online – Book now.
Gift Certificates
We offer gift certificates for this course. Get in touch by email or give us a call and we'll tell you how it works.
Fair Play Vouchers – What are They?
Mount Petrie Bowmen is a registered activity provider for the Queensland government Fair Play Program. Parents, carers or guardians can apply for a voucher valued up to $150 for their child or young person, which can be used towards membership and introductory course fees. For further information go to the Fair Play website.
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writing on the wall...
One of the things I life the most is straight talk. I wish I had no filter sometimes and sometimes, I wish I would use the filter I do have, a little more.
I created a little fun meme-like wall for posts to use on various social media sites, mainly to invoke self-fulfilling thought, to instill humor, and to provoke change. So often we are scared to think. We are afraid to be silly. And, we have no idea how to handle change.
Check it out on Instagram: carolina_coaching.
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I make software and sometimes other things.
Due to Blogger's termination of support for FTP, this blog is no longer active.
It is possible that some links from here, particularly those within the site, are now broken. If you encounter one of those, your best bet is to go to the new front page and hunt for it from there.
Most, but not all, of the blog's posts are on this page; the archives are here.
A couple of months ago, as I was preparing to buy a netbook (which I've since bought), I made myself a note to blog about how just about everything I do on a computer could be done in the cloud these days, except for writing software. Since then, a number of pretty full-fledged IDEs have sprung up in the cloud, including Mozilla's Bespin and a few others.
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Latino population in LA reporting fewer sex crimes over deportations fears
LAPD says molestation reports have dropped 25 percent and domestic violence by 10 percent among community since turn of year, a trend attributed to President's anti-immigration rhetoric
Reports of sexual assaults and domestic violence among Los Angeles' Latino population have plummeted since the beginning of the year, amid fears that immigrants in the country illegally could face deportation if they interact with police or appear in court, the city's police chief said.
Since the beginning of 2017, sexual assault reports have dropped 25 percent and domestic violence reports have decreased by 10 percent among Latinos, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Chief Charlie Beck said Tuesday. Similar decreases weren't seen in other ethnic groups, he said.
"Imagine your sister, your mother, not reporting a sexual assault for fear that their family will be torn apart," Beck said Tuesday.
Around the nation, President Donald Trump's efforts to crack down on the estimated 11 million immigrants living illegally in the US have sparked fear and anxiety, leading many people to try to avoid any contact with law enforcement.
Beck said there was a "strong correlation" between the timing of the decreased reporting and fears of accelerated efforts to round up and deport immigrants.
Josh Rubenstein, a Los Angeles police spokesman, said the numbers were "concerning" and that the department is continuing to look at "every element contributing to the drop in reporting."
Advocates say the unease among immigrants is forcing the victims of violent crimes to stay silent.
"We are seeing immigrant families potentially being so afraid of the ultimate punishment, which deportation represents, that they may forego their chances of justice," said Jorge-Mario Cabrera, of the immigrant advocacy group CHIRLA. "We do not want to be in a situation where victims of crimes remain silent because they fear deportation. That's just horrible and unthinkable."
In an interview with The Associated Press earlier this month, Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell said gang members have also been preying on undocumented immigrants and telling them they would be deported if they report crimes to the police.
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"Certainly the felons in our community are using that as a weapon against the hard working people, letting them believe that if you come forward as a witness or a victim to the police that you open yourself up to deportation," McDonnell said. "That is certainly not the case."
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Albany CrossFit – Albany CrossFit: WOD – (Be)tter
15 Minute Time Cap.
Metcon (Time)
15-12-9-6-3 of:
Dumbbell Hang Clean & Jerks (50/35 per hand)
Weighted Strict Pull-Ups*
* Use one of the dumbbells hooked between your feet for the WT. Pull-Ups. Keep it strict. Kipping does not count as RX.
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15-12-9-6-3 of:
Dumbbell Hang Clean & Jerks (35/20 per hand)
10-8-6-4-2 of:
Strict Pull (or Chin)-Ups
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15-12-9-6-3 of:
Dumbbell Hang Clean & Jerks (20/10 per hand)
Kneeling Barbell Pull-Ups with slowed descent
Avoid leaning toward the weighted side – walk with a tall spine and good posture.
Metcon (No Measure)
For Quality,
On the Minute x 10 of:
Minute 1: One Arm Farmers Carry (70/53)*
Minute 2: Deadbugs (Straight Legs)
* Switch hands on the kettlebell every 25′. Alternate movements each round.
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Scanalyse Pty Ltd
Peter Clarke, Former Scanalyse CEO
What were the major barriers when it came to commercialising the Scanalyse technology and taking it to market?
One barrier we encountered was getting the product trialled in the marketplace. However, we were able to overcome that fairly easily because the service we were offering didn't interrupt the production processes of the mine sites. We could work in with their schedules, and not risk any damage to their machinery or their processes. We were able to work with them and show them what the product did.
We were able to respond to our client's needs by adding extra features to our software which would add extra value and deliver the information they needed.
As we developed the company, we came across other barriers like extending our customer base from initial early adopters to a different set of customers who were really pragmatic and needed to shown the true value of the product, if they were going to save money, or get extra production. We overcame this barrier by doing a lot of case studies and doing analysis on our customers who were using the product and that gave us the knowledge required to sell to the rest of the market.
Another barrier was expanding into international markets. We needed to understand the cultural barriers to operating in those countries and to adapt to their local practices.
How did Curtin's approach to IP cater to your unique business requirements and timeframes?
The academics within the university developed the software and the processes initially. However, when we formed Scanalyse, the IP was fully assigned to the company.
The ownership and control of the IP didn't stay within the University and that was a key factor in making the company successful because we were able to raise investment money to help the company grow. This process would have been much more difficult if the company didn't control or own the IP.
The other aspect of Curtin's approach is their sharing arrangement with academic staff. When the company was sold several years later the researchers and inventors were able to benefit from the technology they created.
Why did your company choose to partner with Curtin and how did the relationship come about, and what outcomes has this partnership led to?
The company initially was 100% owned by Curtin, and my role was to run the company and take it out of the university and commercialise the technology. When we raised some investment money from local venture capital people they would then go on to take some shares in the company.
Do you have any advice for other businesses looking to collaborate with universities?
I've always been a really strong supporter of industry and companies working and interacting closely with universities. There are some challenges in finding the right people to work with that will support you in a commercial manner, but they are there – it's just a matter of finding them.
There's a lot of very good science that goes on in universities and a lot of that science can be turned into products. It's not a process which happens overnight. You have to be prepared to have a reasonably long term relationship with the university so both parties get to know each other and understand what it is they can deliver.
Spending time finding out what research is being conducted that is of interest and value to your company, and who's doing what within the university is a very worthwhile process.


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The cello, or violoncello, is the second largest member of the VIOLIN family of musical instruments. It is tuned an octave below the VIOLA and serves both as a melodic and bass instrument in chamber and orchestral music. The body of the cello is approximately 76 cm (30 in) long and is much deeper than those of the violin and viola. The cellist is seated and supports the instrument between his calves, with its lower end raised off the floor by an endpin. The strings are tuned a fifth apart at C2(65.4 Hz), G2(98 Hz), D3(146.8 Hz), A3(220 Hz) if tuned in equal temperament to the A4(440 Hz) standard.
The top plate of the cello is made of spruce or pine because of their good sound radiating qualities. The sides and back plate are made of maple. The neck, pegbox and scroll are made of maple. A thin piece of ebony is glued to the top side of the neck to form the fingerboard. At the end of the neck where the pegboard is attached, a small grooved piece of ebony is attached for holding the strings in position. It is called the "nut". The strings pass over a bridge made of maple which transmits the vibrational energy from the strings to the body of the instrument. The top of the bridge is curved to match the contour of the top plate and to allow one string at a time to be bowed.
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The Indianapolis Colts never spent a lot of resources on the team's backup position behind Peyton Manning. They certainly never used a mid-round draft pick, like the Washington Redskins just did with Kirk Cousins. We'd point out that the strategy hurt the Colts organization last year, but they wound up getting Andrew Luck in the process. So it didn't hurt that much.
The Denver Broncos are handling things differently behind Manning, drafting Brock Osweiler in the second round. They even had approval from Manning on the strategy.
Manning's "friends" started the season 0-14 last year. Denver wouldn't be that bad if Manning couldn't play this year, but they would struggle badly. Caleb Hanie is a below average veteran backup. Osweiler is a bit of a project for someone taken so high.
Picking Osweiler was an investment in the future for the Broncos. For this season, it's Manning or bust.


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This case is the sad story of bad medicine, bad guardianships and death. Sutch v Sutch-Lenz
2015 NY Slip Op 04692 Decided on June 4, 2015 Appellate Division, Third Department. It starts off with medical malpractice, the death of a father-husband in a flight school training accident, success in the medical malpractice and a money quarrel between mother and son. None of it is good. Plaintiff's problem is the lack of privity.
"In 1996, plaintiff's mother, defendant Debera C. Sutch-Lenz, and father, Alfred Sutch (hereinafter decedent), commenced a medical malpractice action based upon injuries allegedly sustained by Sutch-Lenz while undergoing breast reduction surgery. Defendants William J. Cade and Cade & Saunders, P.C. (hereinafter collectively referred to as defendants) ultimately came to represent Sutch-Lenz and decedent in that action. In March 2000, prior to the trial of the medical malpractice matter, decedent was killed in a light plane crash in Saratoga County and, in April 2000, Sutch-Lenz was granted limited letters of administration for purposes of pursuing both decedent's derivative claim in the context of the medical malpractice action and a wrongful death action. The medical malpractice action subsequently proceeded to trial and, by judgment entered in August 2001, decedent's estate was awarded $100,000 on his derivative claim (Sutch v Yarinsky, 292 AD2d 715 [2002])."
In the interim, Sutch-Lenz, in her capacity as the administrator of decedent's estate and while represented by defendants, commenced a wrongful death action against the aircraft's manufacturer and the flight school where decedent had been taking lessons. A proposed settlement of that action subsequently was reached and, in conjunction therewith, Supreme Court appointed defendant James G. Snyder to serve as guardian ad litem for plaintiff (born in 1993) and his sister, Jessica Sutch (born in 1989). After reviewing the proposed distribution, Snyder issued a report to Supreme Court recommending that the settlement be approved. Supreme Court thereafter authorized Sutch-Lenz to settle the wrongful death action,[FN1] and plaintiff's share of the proceeds was used to purchase annuities in his name.
There is no question that a legal malpractice claim requires — in the first instance — "the existence of an attorney-client relationship" (Arnold v Devane, 123 AD3d 1202, 1203 [2014]). Plaintiff does not contend, and the record does not otherwise reflect, that he had a contractual relationship with defendants. Rather, plaintiff argues that because defendants represented Sutch-Lenz in her capacity as the administrator of decedent's estate in both the medical malpractice and wrongful death actions and plaintiff, in turn, is a beneficiary of decedent's estate, it necessarily follows that defendants were duty bound to represent plaintiff's best interests in the context of those two actions. The flaw in plaintiff's argument on this point is that "[i]n New York, a third party, without privity, cannot maintain a claim against an attorney in professional negligence, absent fraud, collusion, malicious acts or other special circumstances" (Estate of Schneider v Finmann, 15 NY3d 306, 308-309 [2010] [internal quotation marks and citation omitted]; accord Zinnanti v 513 Woodward Ave. Realty, LLC, 105 AD3d 736, 737 [2013]; cf. Leff v Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P., 78 AD3d 531, 532 [2010],lv denied 17 NY3d 705 [2011]). Although a limited exception has been carved out with respect to an action brought by the personal representative of an estate, "strict privity remains a bar against beneficiaries' and other third-party individuals' estate planning malpractice claims absent fraud or other circumstances" (Estate of Schneider v Finmann, 15 NY3d at 310; see Leff v Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P., 78 AD3d at 532)."


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General purpose purity testing software
purity-ng [OPTION]... list|FILE|TESTNAME
Purity is an interactive purity test program with a simple, user interface and datafile format. For each test, questions are printed to the your terminal, and you are prompted for an answer to the current question. At a prompt, these are your choices:
y Answer "yes" to the question. n Answer "no" to the question. b Backup one question, if you answered it incorrectly, or someone is watching you take the test, and you don\[aq]t (or do) want to admit a different answer. s Print your current score on the test you are taking. q Quit the test, and print the current score. ? Print a help screen for the current prompt.
At the end of the test, your score is printed out. For most purity tests, lower scores denote more \[lq]experience\[rq] of the test material.
print current version of purity-ng
-h, --help
show the help message and exit
print the test without prompting for answers.
decrypt the test using the Rot 13 algorithm.
To get a list of all purity tests available globally on your system, run purity-ng list.
purity was originally written by Eric Lechner in 1989. purity-ng is a reimplementation of purity in Python for modern systems, written by Simon Fondrie-Teitler and Luke Faraone.
This manual page was written by Luke Faraone.
If you find bugs in the application, please report these to <https://bugs.launchpad.net/purity-ng> or to your distribution's distributor.
Running purity-ng format provides documentation about the datafile format.
Additional documentation is available online at <http://packages.python.org/purity-ng>.


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The 'A Star Is Born' director is far from the 'Shallow' now... Or at least he will be.
Bradley Cooper is far from the "Shallow" now... Or at least he will be.
ET has learned that the "A Star Is Born" director will not be in attendance at the 61st Annual GRAMMY Awards on Sunday, where his onscreen love, Lady Gaga, is expected to perform "Shallow," their now-iconic duet from the movie, which is nominated for both Song and Record of the Year at the show.
The reason for his absence? The 44-year-old actor will be across the pond for the BAFTA Awards in London's Royal Albert Hall, where A Star Is Born is nominated for Best Film, and Cooper for Best Director.
While we'll be missing out on the duet we're looking for, hopefully, the actor comes home with some hardware, after being snubbed by the Academy for a director nomination, something Cooper admitted to Oprah Winfrey recently he was "embarrassed" about.
"I went, 'Oh wow,'" he said of not getting the nod. And the first thing I felt was embarrassment, actually felt embarrassed that I didn't do my part."
Although the filmmaker isn't up for the award he hoped, he could win for Best Actor, and will actually be performing with Gaga again on "Shallow," which is nominated for Best Song at the Oscars. Recently, Cooper admitted to ET he's a little nervous for the performance.
"I want to work and, like, rehearse [before the Oscars]," Cooper explained. "I couldn't sing before this movie and so, in terms of being able to sing in front of people, it's very nerve-racking. It's not easy what they do."
Watch the video below for more.
The 61st Annual GRAMMY Awards air Sunday, Feb. 10, at 8 p.m. ET on CBS.


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Work published in Zarf
ZARF is a magazine of new experimental poetry based in the UK. Poems from: Ali Znaidi, Tom Bamford, Amy McCauley, Giles Goodland, Tomos Morris, Keith Tuma, David Spittle, James Davies, Nia Davies, Annabel Banks and Julia Rose Lewis, Arjun Rajendran, Chandramohan S., John M. Bennett, Patrick Riedy, and Nat Raha, and back cover by David Greenslade, plus: Julia Rose Lewis reviews Nia Davies and e.v. moore reviews Verity Spott!
My contribution is one of my performance scores for my sequence Acronyms.
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A few days after legislators in the District of Columbia voted in favor of decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana, the House of Representatives of Florida approved on Wednesday the use of cannabis with medicinal purposes in the state.
According to a Thursday article by local newspaper, the Tampa Bay Times, this is the first time Florida approves the use of medicinal marijuana, becoming another U.S. state to regulate and decriminalize, at least in some aspects, the use of cannabis in the population.
With a vote of 11 in favor and 1 against, the Committee of Criminal Justice of the House of Representatives of Florida approved proposal HB-843, promoted by Republican Matt Gaetz and Democrat Katie Edwards, which will allow research and development in a state university of a marijuana strain to be used with medicinal purposes.
The new strain will have a high content of cannabidiol (CBD), which controls epileptic attacks, and low in tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which creates the high felt by users.
According to the quoted source, polls from last year showed that a great majority of Florida residents see the use of marijuana with medicinal purposes as something positive.
Although it's expected that a Constitutional amendment be voted on next November, which is not related to HB-843, the poll made by the Tampa Bay Times suggests that 65 to 70 percent of Florida voters support the idea, and it's expected to pass despite complaints from Governor Rick Scott.
With almost 20 U.S. states approving the use of medicinal marijuana, Florida is about to become the first state in the southern U.S. to approve a law which allows the medicinal use of this drug.
Your headline is very misleading. That a committee in the state house of representatives approved a bill's moving forward in that house is hardly equal to the state of Florida approving use of medical marijuana.


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The biggest problem with plastic might just be the fact that there is so much of it. We use it as a component in virtually everything we make, from computers to garbage cans to drink straws. Then, once we've used it to make a product, we generally follow that up with plastic packaging in some form or many. We've all seen the plastic take-out cutlery come in a little plastic bag with a napkin, salt, and pepper (often each in another plastic sachet), likely to be used to eat something out of container coated in some for plastic.
Well, aside from the fact of what this is doing to the environment — see: the oceans, the land, and the animals — it is also a sign of the sort of quality of life we've become accustomed to leading. We buy everything for convenience, in single-serving form. We buy for bargains, never considering how plastic products are too often poorly made and prone to breaking. We see everything as being replaceable and afford very little value to the things we buy. Unfortunately, this short-term convenience has many long-term consequences, and in order to mitigate these consequences we have to go to the source: our stuff.
As consumers, we have an incredible opportunity to turn our abusive and destruction plastic obsession into a positive by simply adjusting how we think about our purchases. Rather than looking at a price tag and buying something regardless of the quality, if we took questions like how long will this item last and is it worth it to pay to replace it in a few days/weeks/months when it's reached its end into consideration, the chances that we'd find ourselves inundated with waste would be much, much less. In the case of plastic, the less waste we create, the better. By looking for quality in the items, we commonly buy over quantity we can cut out plastic footprint enormously. So Green Monsters, you ready to get started?
You might be surprised to see clothing show up on a list devoted to eliminating plastics, but the fact is our clothes are riddled with plastics. Plastic microfibers are used to create the elasticity and stretch in synthetic clothing. Unfortunately, these plastics don't like to stay in clothes. It is estimated that 1,900 plastic microfibers can be released from one single piece of synthetic clothing every time it is washed. Not only does this mean that plastic particles are ending up washed into waterways and the ocean, but as these clothes lose fibers, they also lose their elasticity and essentially become useless. In this case, cheap clothing has a short lifespan, but a long-lasting negative environmental impact.
By opting to invest in high-quality fabrics like real denim and natural fibers such as organic cotton, hemp or linen you will get a product that lasts way longer and has a minimal impact on the environment.
When you compare the quality of foods that come wrapped in plastic versus those that don't, there is a clear disparity. Pre-packed food is typically processed while plant-based, whole foods are straight from the ground. You can purchase tons of snacks or granola bars in individually wrapped packages and end up with a lot of sodium, questionable additives, and sugar in addition to the plastic waste. Or you can opt for the more nutritionally sound apple, banana or carrot that comes without the plastic and all the nasty ingredients. When you choose to forgo pre-packaged foods in favor of package-free whole foods, you'll eat better and probably save yourself some money in the process as well!
At some point, the patio-loving world decided to turn to these flimsy plastic chairs that, at least one or twice a year, simply give way: a leg breaks or the back snaps. They pile up in the garage or garbage. It used to be just those chairs that were everywhere, but plastic has infiltrated inside as well, and now kitchen chairs are plastic, tables, blow-up sofas, beds, and shelving units. The funny thing is that we all know that it'll need replacing at some point, but we go that route and deal with poor quality for the sake of … plastic
Instead, we can choose durable metal or bamboo furniture that is sure to outlast anything plastic by decades.
Forget about it! This is such common knowledge that it's constantly referenced in movies, especially those involving Santa, as well as television. Toys are no longer built to last but rather to break. Of course, such poor quality child entertainment must come in the form of plastic, often with tiny parts that get lost or snap. It's time parents unite and fight the crappy toy industry. Just say no to the plastic and no to the children that know no better. Buy something that'll last and perhaps promote imagination instead.
It seems easy enough: We go for quality instead of quantity (the cheap, plastic version), and our life improves. We eat healthier food. We aren't constantly replacing things. We aren't continually adding to the plastic problem by having the throw poor petroleum-produced, short-lived products. Quality over quantity equates to less plastic.
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A story in my local paper from a few years ago about a Game that went bad.
It started with a guy delivering an invitation to you at your home, then some brutes grab him and drag him off.
Soon, the players are in Las Vegas and off to solve the mystery, with clues dropped from a helicopter, found in a gun range, gained at a tattoo parlor, or seen on an electronic billboard.
It's a LARP with clues. And the players are competing with each other to see who can follow the clues to the end.
Unfortunately, one of them fell into a mine shaft and was severely injured, which is very sad.
But that's not why I brought this story up. From a game campaign POV, the guys who run The Game have it down. I can take the rough outline from the article and make a pretty cool modern spy game out of this.
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A team of led by Norwich BioScience Institutes Professor Nick Harberd have discovered how plants evolved the ability to adapt to changes in climate and environment.
Plants adapt their growth, including key steps in their life cycle such as germination and flowering, to take advantage of environmental conditions. They can also repress growth when their environment is not favorable. This involves many complex signalling pathways which are integrated by the plant growth hormone gibberellin.
Publishing in the journal Current Biology, the researchers looked at how plants evolved this ability by looking at the genes involved in the gibberellin signalling pathway in a wide range of plants. They discovered that it was not until the flowering plants evolved 300 million years ago that plants gained the ability to repress growth in response to environmental cues.
All land plants evolved from an aquatic ancestor, and it was after colonisation of the land that the gibberellin mechanism evolved. The earliest land plants to evolve were the bryophyte group, which includes liverworts, hornworts and ancestral mosses, many of which still exist today. The ancestral mosses have their own copies of the genes, but the proteins they make do not interact with each other and can't repress growth. However, the moss proteins work the same as their more recently evolved counterparts when transferred into modern flowering plants.
The lycophyte group, which evolved 400 million years ago, were the first plants to evolve vascular tissues - specialized tissues for transporting water and nutrients through the plant. This group of plants also have the genes involved in the gibberellin signalling mechanism, and the products of their genes are able to interact with each other, and the hormone gibberellin. However this still does not result in growth repression. Not until the evolution of the gymnosperms (flowering plants) 300 million years ago are these interacting proteins able to repress growth. This group of plants became the most dominant, and make up the majority of plant species we see today.
Evolution of this growth control mechanism appears to have happened in a series of steps, which this study is able to associate with major stages in the evolution of today's flowering plants. It also involves two types of evolutionary change. As well as structural changes that allow the proteins to interact, flowering plants have also changed the range of genes that are turned on and off in response to these proteins.
This work was supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.
Source: Norwich BioScience Institutes


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Why Paul Walker's Brothers Haven't Watched Furious 7 Since The Premiere
With the tragic death of Paul Walker in November 2013, family, friends and fans were faced with saying a heartbreaking and abrupt goodbye to the 40-year-old actor. Additionally, the fate of the Fast & Furious franchise became uncertain, especially since Walker's character Brian O'Conner, had a key role in the series since 2001. With Furious 7 in the middle of production at the time of Walker's passing, the producers asked Walker's brothers, Caleb and Cody, if they would step in and contribute to a scene that would pay tribute to Walker and his role in the franchise. The actor was digitally superimposed over his brothers' performances, in a touching scene where Brian O'Conner retires from the fast life and drives off into the sunset. The brothers did recently admit that they haven't revisited the scene since watching Furious 7 at the premiere in April 2015. Caleb Walker explained:
The Walker brothers both have become first-time fathers within the last year. Preserving Paul Walker' memory for for the loving fans of the franchise, themselves, and for their children, continues to motivate their willingness to keep their brother alive onscreen-- even if the product is an understandably strange concept for them to wrap their heads around. The brothers have also been promoting I Am Paul Walker, a one-hour documentary. They both contributed heavily to the documentary about the actor's life which premiered on the Paramount Network last weekend.
In the interview with Associated Press, Caleb and Cody Walker also showed their openness to pay tribute to their brother again in a future Fast & Furious installment. Fast & the Furious 9 and 10 are reportedly in the works, so the brothers could return and give fans more closure for the character since Brian O'Conner is still alive and well in the fictitious world of the franchise. The said they envision the character making a brief appearance to "save the day", only of course if it was well thought out and done tastefully.
Although the Fast & Furious franchise will never be the same again after Paul Walker's passing almost five years ago, the action series continues to stay strong. Before it continues with Fast & the Furious 9, Jason Statham and Dwayne Johnson will star in spin-off Hobbs & Shaw starring their characters, coming to theaters August 2, 2019.
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This is a talk given at the BCP Communion on Sunday 26th November 2017 and at the Taize service on the same day. You can listen to the recording here and the transcript follows
Matthew 25:31-46 The Sheep and the Goats
It's the end of the world: Jesus is describing what will happen:
All the nations of the world, all those who have ever lived will be gathered before Him.
Included in that vast mass of humanity will be you and me and everyone we have ever known.
And Jesus will separate the sheep from the goats. The sheep go to his right hand; the goats will go to his left. The sheep will go to the kingdom prepared for them from the beginning of time and the goats will go to eternal punishment.
Gentle Jesus meek and mild speaking of the only two ways open to us.
If death were the end, of course, it would not be a problem but Jesus is saying that death is not the end and so it matters whether Jesus sees us as sheep or as goats. On that decision hinges our future for ever…..
So how does Jesus distinguish between sheep and goats; how do we know if we are one or the other?
Jesus says: it is all about our relationship with him and, of course, we start that relationship in our repentance for our sinfulness and asking him to come into our lives. This is basic – a starting point. But through repentance for our sinfulness and asking him to come into our lives we are reborn our hearts change and we find that we want to do what Jesus commands.
This is a litmus test, if you like, of being a Christian: do we want to do what Jesus commands or couldn't we care less
And what he commands us to do, is:
to love God and
to love neighbour
and he commissions us to make disciples
Today's passage tells us what it means to love God and one way to love God is to see Jesus in the needy and to act accordingly: to see Jesus in the needy. We love God by finding Jesus in the needy.This is partly about putting our hands in our pockets when the hungry, the thirsty, the lonely, the naked, the sick, or the prisoner come on our television screens but the prophesy Jesus shares with us tends to suggest something more immediate people that we have personally encountered and much more difficult is dealing with people whom we know those with whom we could have a face to face relationship.
You see the difficulty is that we can easily see the needy as a nuisance they are not convenient; they are not necessarily loveable and they use up our most precious possession in the Valley, they take up TIME.
This was brought home to me yesterday after Little Rainbows Amanda and I were in a meeting here in St John's. We had lots to talk about. In the middle of it all an old man came in to rest from his walk, his companions had gone on further. Amanda and I were having a meeting, but he….well he wanted to chat; 'I go sometimes to the church in Hayling Island' he said and then proceeded to tell us all about it and then about his upbringing….We listened and, I hope, we were hospitable it was frustrating but he was lonely.
The needy need us at inconvenient times when it doesn't suit us when we have more important things to do with our time.
When we think of 'loving our neighbours', we can easily think of those lovely neighbours next door, but one; those with the perfect children, those who we admire, we don't mind loving them, those who we have supper with, who lend us their hedge trimmers. Its easy to love them, they are like us or we would like to be like them. They are not annoying, we like them, we might even admire them.
But then there is the needy person next door or a few doors away: the broken man or woman: broken by bereavement; broken by divorce; broken by addiction; broken by loneliness…the grumpy, the difficult, the angry, the weepy, the boring, the smelly, the sick, the old or the poor.
Jesus is asking us to see Him in that needy person next door.
You see it is only when we do something not because we want to, or we feel comfortable doing so or because we enjoy doing it but simply because Jesus asks us to do it that we are actually doing it for him and not for ourselves….
When we do something for that needy person we are doing it for Him….and then he can see that we are sheep and not goats…
A Poem (published in the Merow Pages – the local magazine of Merow village)
What go to my neighbour? You must be joking
that woman's a menace – an absolute bore
And he's not much better. You'd need Job's patience
if you had the neighbours I'm stuck with – next door.
And the people behind me are really the limit
Their taste is appalling – their speech I deplore
I know they are lonely – I think they have troubles
But you can't get involved, when you are living next door
And I do think of others – I pray for the lonely
I pray for the sick and the sad and the poor,
I'll always come out of the missionary meeting
But I simply can't stand those people next door.
And suppose – just suppose – that they did get converted
and wanted to join us for worship – and more
Just think of the awkwardness and of the problems
And what they would expect of us – living next door
And perhaps when the roll call is finished up yonder
and the harvest is gathered, on Heaven's bright shore
When the Master has gathered the hosts of the ransomed
Perhaps he will turn round and address me once more
And perhaps he will say "yes they're here in their millions
From cities and jungles and from earth's farthest shore
the heathen have come and the outcast and children
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As the administration's war on immigrants and brown people reached new lows, it was announced that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi will visit San Diego next week, with a delegation of 15 Democrats organized by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
Things are looking bad, really bad, right now. Just about every part of the government is actively working hard to inflict cruel and unusual punishment on human beings who happen to lack identity papers.
We can only hope Pelosi's trip to the border region will generate enough awareness to stimulate opposition to government actions that should be seen as violating international law and basic moral conduct.
From Politico:
The group will visit at least one facility housing migrant children who have been separated from their families — the effect of a controversial "zero tolerance" prosecution policy blasted by Democrats and human rights advocates. Under the strategy, Trump's Department of Homeland Security aims to prosecute all suspected border-crossers, including adults traveling with children.
Democrats also plan to meet with border agents to discuss the impact of changes to asylum policies announced earlier this week. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday released a 31-page decision that blocks access to asylum in the U.S. for most victims of domestic violence and gang violence.
"The Trump Administration's inhumanity and heartlessness know no bounds," Pelosi said in reaction to the asylum announcement Monday. "Republicans in the White House have just condemned countless vulnerable, innocent women to a lifetime of violence and even death, just to score political points with their base."
Here's what the delegation from DC is up against:
- Women and children from Latin America and elsewhere will be sent back to face their abusers and rapists.
- Naturalized citizens will have their paperwork rechecked and face deportation if errors are found.
- The administration is looking into setting up tent camps to holding children in one of the hottest parts of the United States.
- Naturalized citizens will have their papers examined for any 'mistakes' leaving an opening for stripping them of citizenship.
- The 2020 census is going to fashioned in such a manner as to deprive localities with immigrant populations of representation.
- Eight hundred thousand students protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program face deportation as the administration announced it will not oppose a Texas lawsuit challenging its constitutionality.
- Republicans in Congress are about to officially kill any chance of passing legislation relating to extending DACA program.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has rolled out an edict prohibiting victims of domestic and gang violence from being considered for asylum.
From the Los Angeles Times:
The office of the United Nations high commissioner for refugees had urged Sessions against changing the asylum rules. It warned that such action would violate international agreements the U.S. has entered into concerning refugees and would subject victims to being returned to situations in which their lives are in danger.
The American Bar Assn. warned that ending the asylum eligibility for victims of domestic violence "would further victimize those most in need of protection."
Sessions disregarded that advice, asserting in his 31-page opinion that previous cases had failed to offer compelling legal arguments for why domestic violence survivors in such places as Guatemala and El Salvador should be considered a persecuted social group. He cast doubt on assertions that police in Guatemala often don't respond to reports of domestic violence and that women trapped in abusive marriages are a distinct group in need of protection by the U.S.
A program once used mostly to deport Nazis and war criminals is being expanded.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director L. Francis Cissna told the Associated Press his agency is creating an office focusing on identifying Americans who are suspected of cheating to get their citizenship and seek to strip them of it.
"It is clearly true that we have entered a new chapter when a much larger number of people could feel vulnerable that their naturalization could be reopened," Chishti said.
Since 1990, the Department of Justice has filed 305 civil denaturalization cases, according to statistics obtained by an immigration attorney in Kansas who has defended immigrants in these cases.
The attorney, Matthew Hoppock, agrees that deportees who lied to get citizenship should face consequences but worries other immigrants who might have made mistakes on their paperwork could get targeted and might not have the money to fight back in court.
Earlier this year, Cissna announced a new mission statement for USCIS, deleting the phrase "USCIS secures America's promise as a nation of immigrants."
Kiddie tent camps sites sought in hell.
They're literally cooking up an even crueler scheme to handle the children of asylum seekers forcibly stripped from their parents by erecting tented camps in southern Texas.
Three locations are being considered, according to McClatchy News, the Fort Bliss Army base, along with Air Force facilities near Abilene and San Angelo.
Today's high temperatures for those locations are 100, 95, and 97 degrees.
As Gabe Ortiz at Daily Kos put it:
Even Joe Arpaio, disgraced former sheriff and convicted criminal, called his infamous "tent city" a "concentration camp," where temperatures skyrocketed to 130 F and melted the shoes of inmates. Human beings don't deserve to be treated that way, period, but that's exactly what the federal government may do to kids, according to the report. This is a concentration camp for kids on American soil. How else can you look at it?
A 21st-century version of the ⅗'s census rule…
Sessions' Justice Department has requested a controversial question about US citizenship to the 2020 census for the first time since 1950, saying it was needed to "fully enforce" the Voting Rights Act.
Riiiight. Are we supposed to believe the Attorney General is interested in rights outside of those claimed by white men? Really?
It was obvious to civil rights groups the question would depress the response rate from immigrants and threaten the accuracy and fairness of the census.
And they're analysis was proven to be correct, as documents released this week revealed anti-immigration hardliners like Steve Bannon were pushing for the citizenship question.
From Mother Jones:
On Friday, the Justice Department released more than 1,300 pages of documents as part of a lawsuit filed by New York and 16 other states agains the Trump administration. These files showed that prominent anti-immigration forces inside and outside the Trump administration were hoping that census data resulting from the citizenship question would be used to allocate political representation on the basis of the number of citizens in a district or state rather than the total population. In other words, a state's number of representatives in Congress would be determined by its population of citizens—a radical departure from the current practice of counting every person regardless of citizenship. The change would deny immigrant communities significant representation and shift political power to whiter and more Republican areas.
The initial push for the citizenship question now appears to have come from Bannon, back when he was a top White House adviser. In July 2017, months before the Justice Department proposed the question, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach—at the time the vice chair of President Donald Trump's now-defunct Election Integrity Commission—wrote to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. He told Ross that he was writing "at the direction of Steve Bannon" and said it was "essential" that the citizenship question be added to the census. Kobach wrote that the absence of a citizenship question "leads to the problem that aliens who do not actually 'reside' in the United States are still counted for congressional apportionment purposes."
Kobach's correspondence with Ross contradicts the Trump administration's stated rationale for the question—Kobach never mentioned the VRA in his letter—and lends credence to the view that the question was added to target areas with many immigrants and boost Republicans politically.
No Time for DACA…
Republicans in the House are planning to vote on two bills relating to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Neither bill will pass. This is just a ploy so they can say they tried.
House Speaker Paul Ryan moved to allow the votes as a means of blocking a discharge petition, which would force consideration of four bills, including compromises with an actual chance of passing.
From The Hill:
After a series of last-minute negotiations Tuesday, Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) cut an immigration deal with his conservative wing to bring a vote next week on two Republican bills designed to bolster enforcement and provide legal protections to so-called Dreamers.
The strategy effectively extinguished a bid by centrist Republicans to force action on a series of proposals to rescue the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, including two bipartisan bills deemed to have the best chance of moving through the lower chamber.
The plan mitigates the potential for a damaging internal fight among Republicans over immigration — an issue that's divided the party for years — heading into the pivotal midterm elections. But it's also lowered the chances that a DACA bill will reach President Trump's desk — or even the Senate — this year.
One measure to be voted on, supported by members of the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus, will trade limited and temporary protections for Dreamers for the ramped up militarization of the border and tightened immigration restrictions.
The other bill is still being negotiated by so-called moderate Republicans but isn't expected to be in the range on anything Democrats will support, especially since they have been excluded from negotiations.
The difference between these two "Make America White Again" bills could be compared to deciding whether or not a prisoner condemned to death by firing squad got to wear a blindfold or not.
These are tough times. No single act of protest is going to stop this racist bandwagon. Many acts, by many people, can.
Here's one place to start:
San Diego's Families Belong Together Rally & March will be on
Sunday Saturday, June 23. Starting at 10am outside the Civic Center, the rally will be followed by a march to the local ICE offices on Front Street.
Participants are being asked to wear a yellow ribbon to stand in solidarity with the families. Children have been taken from their parents wear identity yellow bracelets while in detention.
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BIRDS OF A FEATHER: Assad in his interview and Putin in his hang glider next to a Siberian white crane
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has rehashed his lines.
He tells Egyptian weekly Al-Ahram al-Arabi in an interview appearing in full tomorrow, Saturday:
- The terrorists won't win, but defeating them will take time
- The Libyan scenario won't be repeated in Syria
- Saudi Arabia and Qatar are nouveaux riche and the West's surrogates
- Qatar was the quickest to fuel violence in Syria
- Saudi Arabia was behind Israel's 1967 war on Egypt and does not appreciate the present Axis of Resistance against Zionism
- Turkey is now guided by neo-Ottomanism
- A triumvirate of Iraq-Syria-Egypt is the master key to Middle East stability
There is little else interesting or newsworthy in the excerpts from the interview with Assad posted on the magazine's website.
What is intriguing though are the motives of a publication partly-owned by the Egyptian government for giving Assad a platform to attack the Syrian revolution and its leading regional backers.
It's akin to a periodical in Washington choosing to interview Pol Pot when his gang was taking Cambodian lives during the mid-seventies.
Editorially, ingenious author and political analyst Samir Atallah writes in his daily column for Saudi Asharq Alawsat:
The latest statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry last Tuesday called for a return to the Geneva communiqué of the Action Group for Syria (AGS).
The said Geneva conference is where UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed raised a question that got no reply, "Where's Kofi Annan?"
Kofi was in Tehran listening carefully to Iran's love of peace and harmony in Syria and the region, and especially in Bahrain and the rest of the Gulf.
There's something odd on the international stage concerning Syria. There are disparate languages and a monotonous tone. America is similar to Russia. Moscow repeats that the Syrian president need not stay in power. Washington has been reciting for a year that he is on his way out. Lakhdar Brahimi is meanwhile saying what Kofi Annan said.
In their opinion, Bashar al-Assad is restating his love of the homeland, the nation and steadfastness and that Syria has no problem other than countries arming terrorist gangs.
Everyone behaves as if the innocent people being killed every day were Siberian white cranes, the sort of endangered birds Vladimir Putin is trying to save from extinction.
The world is full of travesties. The most insolent of them is to see a world leader taking to the sky in a motorized hang glider while his warplanes were bombing Aleppo, raising the number of Syrian fatalities above 30,000.
The comportment of all sides vis-à-vis Syrians has been dull and repetitious in many languages.
Hillary Clinton did not offer Syrians more than Sergei Lavrov, who recently ceased his daily barbs, ordering his subordinates to do the talking instead.
One state used the veto and another followed in its suit. The pair crippled the Arab League and UN Security Council and agreed on doing nothing more than audit the daily numbers of killings in Syria.
In truth, both principals realize there's no solution. All conferences and communiqués will lead to nothing other than what we see: carnage from the air, shrieks of death on the ground, tents awaiting refugees and storms, and the anticipation of Assad's next verbiage and his dialogue with the opposition he cloned.


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By Julia Kelly, First Year Communication & Media major
St. Joseph's gymnasium will be renovated beginning April 30. The anticipated date of completion is August 18, just in time for the 2018 fall semester. The gymnasium will be converted into a larger fitness facility. In order to complete the renovations, the pool, which opened in 1932, located on the first floor will be filled in and no longer available.
"As part of the renovation process, the Forbes Avenue space is combing with our space, meaning that all the weights, machines, and other equipment will be all together in one facility," said George Sliman, Director of Athletics. Sliman also said that Carlow must follow the American Disability Act (ADA), which is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on a disability. Following the ADA, St. Joe's will be handicap accessible, meaning that there will be an elevator added to the building. "And the pool is closing to free up some much-needed space," said Sliman.
Students have mixed reactions to the closure of the St. Joe's pool. Alysa Fairman, first year nursing major, said, "I am sad. I was planning on using it more often for softball workouts." Zach Talley, senior-respiratory therapy, said that he is a little sad it is closing, "but I didn't get to use it as much as I liked because of the pool hours not matching my hours." However, Talley is excited to see what Carlow has in store for the remodeling and the new fitness center.
The St. Joe's pool was also a job opportunity for students. Loren Walters, sophomore-nursing major, said, "I am deeply saddened by the news of its closure. I love lifeguarding and am very disappointed that I will no longer be able to lifeguard on campus." She noticed a fair number of faculty and students using the pool. She and the rest of the pool staff now must seek other jobs.
Carlow Univeristy students, faculty, and staff are not the only people who will no longer be using the pool. The Campus School of Carlow University students, ranging from kindergarteners to fifth graders, also use the pool. Each grade has swim class once per six day cycle. Pam Pyska, Campus School swimming instructor, said "Our aquatics curriculum includes water safety, stroke analysis, water aerobics, introduction to competitive swimming, recreational games, and synchronized swimming." Both she and her students are sad to see the swimming pool close. They now have to find another activity to do. Sliman said "the new improvements will be highly beneficial and will satisfy many in the end."
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I was fortunate enough to stumble upon the power of YouTube before I even knew its potential. About 6.5 years ago I started uploading videos as a daily thank you and reminder to my friends and family to vote for me in a contest I had entered. I did this for about 2 months, and somewhere along the way my world changed. The view counts grew and people I'd never met somehow found their way to my videos. Before I knew it, a small community of amazing individuals from around the world had formed on my website, deemed themselves "kinerds," and became a sort of online family to me. Thanks to the success of my daily videos and my newfound support network, I ended up winning the contest, getting my music video played on national TV and landing myself a record deal with a major label. The victory, however, happened long before my win, when I discovered the power of the internet through YouTube. Soon after winning, I decided to leave the label in order to maintain creative control over my music.
I've since spent the last 6 and some years calling it my home and using it as my main platform for releasing my original music, and as a result, I have been lucky enough to find fans here in the UK as well as around the world. I spent years trying to share my songs singing in coffee shops, busking on the street, playing in loud bars, etc, and it wasn't until I started sharing my music online, and on YouTube in particular, that I found my audience. The best part--I have no label to answer to, no one telling me what I can and cannot write, what is a "hit" and what isn't. When your success is built solely through people around the world who have chosen to support you for YOU, the art is in your hands.
My advice to those hoping to find success through the internet would be as follows:
1. Be you. Be genuine, and create what excites YOU, not what you think other people want to see/hear. People connect to realness, so just find what makes you happy and do that.
2. Post regularly and often. It takes work, but maintaining some sort of release schedule for your content is very important, as is releasing as much content as you can. But try to find a balance--don't choose quantity at the cost of quality.
3. Connect. Let people in. Show them who you are, let them know what's going on, involve them. They are the people that allow you to do what you love, and they are amazing, so make sure they know!
4. Branch out. While many of us would be content in only playing our own songs for the rest of time, it's fun and a good challenge to incorporate covers into your channel. It will stretch you as an artist and also allow new people to happen upon your music.
We are so lucky to live in the time we do. It's never been more possible for people to have a shot at their dreams, and that's thanks to the internet.
Happy YouTubing,
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Marvao Medical Devices, based in Galway, Ireland, has developed a technology platform called NexSite that aims to reduce the risk of catheter related infections. We first spotted CEO Chris Davey at the MedTech Invest conference in London last September where he was presenting some impressive early performance data for their first commercial product, NexSite HD. Marvao has since received FDA clearance for NexSite HD and is conducting initial marketing trials at several clinical sites in the US. We caught up with Chris to learn a little bit more about Marvao and their plans for NexSite.
Gavin Corley, Medgadget: Can you tell me a little bit about the origins of Marvao and the NexSite technology?
Chris Davey: In the 1990s I worked in the central venous access space for one of the major multinational device companies and became very familiar with the state of this technology. Central venous catheters are routinely implanted for months at a time to deliver chemotherapy, systemic antibiotics, haemodialysis (HD), and a broad range of other therapies. The big problem associated with these devices is the inherent risk of acquiring a potentially fatal bloodstream infection. There have been significant improvements with almost all other aspects of central venous catheter design since the 1990's, but the technology still hadn't evolved in terms of providing infection reduction.
In 2006 Marvao was formed to develop new products that could address this clinical problem. Almost all research up to that date had focused on antimicrobial coating technology, but this approach had consistently proven to be ineffective when the catheter was implanted for more than a few weeks. A small number of researchers had evaluated whether or not management of the catheter exit site (the point where the devices exits the patient's skin) could significantly reduce the risk of bloodstream infection. This approach seemed counter intuitive to many clinicians, who believed that these infections result primarily from pathogens entering the bloodstream through the catheter lumen, and that the exit site is not a significant contributing factor.This intuition seemed to be supported only by anecdotal data, but s clinical studies were starting to show that a >50% reduction in bloodstream infection could be achieved by careful management of the catheter exit site1.
Adoption of the exit site management technologies used in these studies was limited because they involved prophylactic use of antibiotics, were too costly or too difficult to implement in a busy hospital setting. We looked at this exit site management data closely and, stepping back a bit, recognized that the exit site is essentially an open wound that never heals. Starting from this point we began looking for ways to design catheters that enabled the skin at the exit site to heal into the device. We figured that 'healed skin' would reduce the potential for pathogens to enter the body, and possibly provide an alternative form of exit site management that could be more easily adopted.
Medgadget: What were some of the major challenges you faced in getting to market?
Chris Davey: Funding is always the major challenge with early stage medical device companies, and raising money in the post 2008 environment was very difficult. The next challenge was developing the technology platform and then translating it into a commercially viable product within these tight economic constraints. Fortunately, a small group of investors from both sides of the Atlantic hung in there with us as we moved through this process.
Medgadget: What are the key features of the NexSite technology?
Chris Davey: In a phrase, 'Ease of use'. Marvao provides NexSite within a complete kit for the clinician, and has designed the product so that it fits neatly into their work flow. We recognized early on that any success we might achieve in mitigating the risk of infection wouldn't be translated into clinical or commercial success if it raised new barriers to adoption. We purchase conventional catheter sub-assemblies from several suppliers on an OEM basis, add NexSite technology to the catheter on our production line, and then package NexSite with other devices the physician needs to use during placement. Keeping it simple was the key design feature we pursued.
Medgadget: How does NexSite work?
Chris Davey: The NexSite technology itself is a combination of a DISC component (which stands for Dermal Ingrowth Support Collar) and the completed catheter. The DISC and catheter are assembled together at the exit site by the physician during placement. The DISC and the catheter components are each equipped with tissue ingrowth scaffold material where they contact the skin at the exit site. The DISC sits in a pocket formed under the skin, the catheter then passes through the skin, through the DISC, and continues on into the patient's bloodstream. When assembled, the two tissue ingrowth scaffolds align to form a single 3 dimensional surface below and through the skin exit site which facilitates skin healing into the device.
Medgadget: There is obviously a wide scope of applications for NexSite, what are the various clinical areas that you are targeting for the technology?
Chris Davey: NexSite technology can be added to any device that enters the body through the skin that needs to be stabilized there for thirty days or longer. Dialysis catheters are a good example. Catheters used for chemotherapy are another big opportunity, as are some types of drainage catheters and urology catheters. LVAD power leads are another important application. All of these medical devices are associated with an elevated risk of infectious complications and high healthcare cost. We focused initially on haemodialysis catheters because its infection rate is very well studied and it is well recognized as a significant unmet clinical need. The net effect of these two factors is that haemodialysis is a more accessible space within which to conduct the clinical studies needed to demonstrate NexSite's potential to improve patient outcomes and reduce healthcare costs. It also helps that haemodialysis catheters are a large market opportunity.
Medgadget: Who are the primary clinical users and stakeholders for this technology?
Chris Davey: For NexSite HD the typical end user is an interventional radiologist, but vascular surgeons and interventional nephrologists also implant a significant number of these devices. The patient's clinical team is always quite multi-disciplinary so speaking with the implanting physicians is just the starting point. Once you have them on board we're able to speak with other key stakeholders such as the referring physician; in the case of haemodialysis this is the patient's nephrologist. Nurses who use the device to deliver the patient's therapy are also very important stakeholders whose input and support are needed.
As our clinical data accumulates we are starting to engage further upstream with the clinical microbiologists responsible for managing infections throughout the hospital, and this is leading to broader conversations with the hospital administration. It is already recognized by healthcare providers at the senior management level that catheter related infections exert a powerful drag on the hospital's profitability, and they are also now under economic pressure from healthcare payers to reduce their occurrence.
Medgadget: How have clinicians responded to NexSite so far?
Chris Davey: Very positive! Many recognize NexSite's potential to effect a paradigm shift for patients who need long term catheterization. We are fortunate to be working with several key opinion leaders who were willing to take the lead, and their initial clinical experience has been very positive. Results for our first 20 patients will be presented by Dr John Ross at the Vascular Access Society of the Americas (VASA) conference in Dallas TX next month – this is a big milestone for us! Several key opinion leaders in high volume medical centres are now teaming up to begin a multi-centre clinical registry study later this year.
Medgadget: What can we expect from Marvao in the next 12-18 months?
Chris Davey: Although we have operated somewhat in stealth mode, we're now entering a phase where NexSite HD's performance can be benchmarked against conventional catheters. Over the next 18 months we will engage with a broader range of clinicians interested in studying NexSite HD with regard to ease of use, clinical performance, and economic impact. Over time their findings will be presented at a series medical conferences and submitted for publication in peer reviewed clinical journals. These are the critical steps needed to support the commercialization phase we'll be entering later this year.
Reference: 1. "A systematic review of antimicrobials for the prevention of HD catheter infections": Rabindranath, et al; Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (2009) 24(12): 3763-3774
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ZLW-102BT R&E Reproduction Dog Door Bell Operator
ZLW-102BT/12 R&E Reproduction Dog Door Bell Operator 12 Inch Shaft
This doorbell lever operator is mounted on the outside of a front door, and will bring true uniqueness to an entrance. This lever was originally produced by Russell & Erwin, and features their popular doggy motif. This lever has been precision lost wax cast in solid brass from an antique original.
The operator handle is a dog's head that holds a stylized bone. Two profile pictures of dogs are on either side of the handle, and one larger full-faced dog is surmounted on the top of the backplate.
The original antique sample was found after more than a year of searching and this lever is considered to be the rarest lever bell operator in existence. The finish is antiqued to mellow brown with brass highlights and then lacquered. We stamp our factory initials on the back so it cannot be sold as an original, highly valuable antique.
This reproduction will work with either an old lever bell (mounted on the inside of the door), or with our reproduction bell . Order the bell in the antique finish if you are ordering the dog lever pull.
2 3/16" wide by 4 3/8" high overall.
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These "Rays of Light" are individually handmade by Brendon. He carefully composes each necklace from his collection of vintage and rare glass. No two are the same.
Cord: dark khaki green
Length of centre glass piece top to bottom: 40mm
The cord is tough nylon waxed thread. It is tied to be adjustable - just slide the knots up or down to change the length. The catch is copper and brass, each one made by Brendon.