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|"Demand Uncertainty and Trade Durations"
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|April 26
|Title: "Essays On Product Variety Gains From International Trade"
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This new duet between Brad Paisley and LL Cool J, "Accidental Racist," is getting beaten up pretty badly on the intertubes. I confess to doing some of the beating, mostly because of laughable lyrics and the fact that there is actually a Rap Genius entry dedicated to the song. With that said, I think it's worth taking a second to analyze why the lyrics are in fact laughable. I think we can get to the root of this by seriously and directly engaging Brad Paisley and his stated motives for the song. Here is Paisley in his own words:
"At this point, after all these albums and all these hits, I have no interest in phoning it in, and I think that [the song] comes from an honest place in both cases, and that's why it's on there and why I'm so proud of it. This isn't a stunt. This isn't something that I just came up with just to be sort of shocking or anything like that. I knew it would be, but I'm sort of doing it in spite of that, really.
"I'm doing it because it just feels more relevant than it even did a few years ago. I think that we're going through an adolescence in America when it comes to race. You know, it's like we're almost grown up. You have these little moments as a country where it's like, 'Wow things are getting better.' And then you have one where it's like, 'Wow, no they're not.'
"It really came to a boil last year with Lincoln and Django, and there's just a lot of talk about it. It was really obvious to me that we still have issues as a nation with this. There are two little channels in each chorus that really steal the pie. One of them is, 'We're still picking up the pieces, walking on eggshells, fighting over yesterday,' and the other is, 'Paying for the mistakes that a lot of folks made long before we came.' We're all left holding the bag here, left with the burden of these generations. And I think the younger generations are really kind of looking for ways out of this.
"I just think art has a responsibility to lead the way, and I don't know the answers, but I feel like asking the question is the first step, and we're asking the question in a big way. How do I show my Southern pride? What is offensive to you? And he kind of replies, and his summation is really that whole let bygones be bygones and 'If you don't judge my do rag, I won't judge your red flag.' We don't solve anything, but it's two guys that believe in who they are and where they're from very honestly having a conversation and trying to reconcile."
The du-rag/red-flag line Paisley cites at the end belongs to LL Cool J, one of the two guys "that believe in who they are." LL Cool J has enjoyed a kind of longevity with which very few rappers can compete. In the mid-'80s and early '90s, particularly, he was a dynamic MC. (I am still partial to the "I'm Bad"/"Radio"/"Go Cut Creator Go" era.) His career has blossomed beyond the record industry to include music and film.
I can understand why an artist like Paisley would be attracted to an artist like LL Cool J. I can't for the life of me understand why he'd choose LL Cool J to begin "a conversation" to reconcile. Rap is overrun with artists who've spent some portion of their career attempting to have "a conversation." There's Chuck D. There's Big Daddy Kane. There's KRS-ONE. There's Talib. There's Mos Def. There's Kendrick Lamar. There's Black Thought. There's Dead Prez. And so on.
In an artform distinguished by a critical mass concerned with racism, LL's work is distinguished by its lack of concern. Which is fine. "Pink Cookies" is dope. "Booming System" is dope. "I Shot Ya" is dope. I even rock that "Who Do You Love" joint. But I wouldn't call up Talib Kweli to record a song about gang violence in L.A., and I wouldn't call up KRS-ONE to drop a verse on a love ballad. The only real reason to call up LL is that he is black and thus must have something insightful to say about the Confederate Flag.
The assumption that there is no real difference among black people is exactly what racism is. Our differences, our right to our individuality, is what makes us human. The point of racism is to rob black people of that right. It would be no different than me assuming that Rachel Weisz must necessarily have something to say about black-Jewish relations, or me assuming that Paisley must know something about barbecue because he's Southern.
It is no different than the only black kid in class being asked to explain "race" to white people, or asking the same question of the sole black dude in your office. The entire fight is to get white people to respect the fact that Mos Def holding a microphone is not LL Cool J holding a microphone, that Trayvon Martin is not De'Marquise Elkins, that wearing a hoodie and being black does not make you the same as every other person wearing a hoodie and being black.
Paisley wants to know how he can express his Southern Pride. Here are some ways. He could hold a huge party on Martin Luther King's birthday, to celebrate a Southerner's contribution to the world of democracy. He could rock a T-shirt emblazoned with Faulkner's Light In August, and celebrate the South's immense contribution to American literature. He could preach about the contributions of unknown Southern soldiers like Andrew Jackson Smith. He could tell the world about the original Cassius Clay. He could insist that Tennessee raise a statue to Ida B. Wells.
Every one of these people are Southerners. And every one of them contributed to this great country. But to do that Paisley would have to be more interested in a challenging conversation and less interested in a comforting lecture.
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Saint Joseph School ( McPherson )
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Saint Joseph School is a place of kind School belonging to the County of ( McPherson ).
The closest populated place is that of McPherson that is0.77 miles far from Saint Joseph School.
Saint Joseph School is also 2.55 miles far from the closest airport or heliport, the McPherson Airport .
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The Zip Code of Saint Joseph School is 67460.
Besides Saint Joseph School in the County of ( McPherson ) there are the following places of kind School . These are reported in what follows in alphabetical order:
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Adam Lambert Pushes Back 'Trespassing' Release Date, Confirms Bruno Mars Collabo
Adam Lambert fans are going to have to exercise a little patience, as the singer has to delay his new album 'Trespassing.' In a chat with Z100, the 'Better Than I Know Myself' singer revealed that the new release date is going to be sometime in "Mapril." That portmanteau word means it'll drop in either May or April, with no confirmed date scheduled as of right now.
Console yourselves with this thought, Glambert fans: If it's good, it'll be worth waiting for.
"Mapril syrup for your springtime playlist," Lambert told the station about the possible release date, which he could not confirm. "I know it's hard, but it's not finished. It needs to be finished. There are new songs we are doing last minute that are really good. Dr. Luke songs, so they are really good and very radio. It's all for the best, even though it's a tough thing to ask to wait. I want the album to be amaze-balls."
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Stanley Kubrick's Boxes
Below is Jon Ronson's 2008 documentary, in which the journalist and documentarian (The Men Who Star At Goats, So You've Been Publicly Shamed) is invited to the late director Stanley Kubrick's estate by his widow Christiane to examine the treasure trove of research material and more curious memos and instructions that he methodically logged in many boxes (over 1000).
The boxes contain such things as:
thirty thousand location photos collected for Eyes Wide Shut, the film Kubrick recently completed before his sudden death;
fan letters filed according to the geographic location they originated from;
snap shots, newspaper clippings, film out-takes, notes, and much more, including the extensive research material for his unmade film on the life of Napoleon.
Jon Ronson wrote in The Guardian 27 March 2004:
The journey to the Kubrick house starts normally. You drive through rural Hertfordshire, passing ordinary-sized postwar houses and opticians and vets. Then you turn right at an electric gate with a "Do Not Trespass" sign. Drive through that, and through some woods, and past a long, white fence with the paint peeling off, and then another electric gate, and then another electric gate, and then another electric gate, and you're in the middle of an estate full of boxes.
There are boxes everywhere – shelves of boxes in the stable block, rooms full of boxes in the main house. In the fields, where racehorses once stood and grazed, are half a dozen portable cabins, each packed with boxes. These are the boxes that contain the legendary Kubrick archive. I notice that many of the boxes are sealed. Some have, in fact, remained unopened for decades.
Tony Frewin started working as an office boy for Kubrick in 1965, when he was 17. One day, apropos of nothing, Kubrick said to him, "You have that office outside my office if I need you." That was 36 years ago and Tony is still here, two years after Kubrick died and was buried in the grounds behind the house. There may be no more Kubrick movies to make, but there are DVDs to remaster and reissue in special editions. There are box sets and retrospective books to oversee. There is paperwork.
Tony gives me a guided tour of the house. We walk past boxes and more boxes and filing cabinets and past a grand staircase. Childwick was once home to a family of horse-breeders called the Joels. Back then there were, presumably, busts or floral displays on either side at the bottom of this staircase. Here, instead, is a photocopier on one side and another photocopier on the other.
Tony takes me into a large room painted blue and filled with books. "This used to be the cinema," he says. "Is it the library now?" I ask. "Look closer at the books," says Tony. I do. "Bloody hell," I say. "Every book in this room is about Napoleon!" "Look in the drawers," says Tony. I do. "It's all about Napoleon, too!" I say. "Everything in here is about Napoleon!"
This room full of Napoleon stuff seems to bear out that comparison. "Somewhere else in this house," Tony says, "is a cabinet full of 25,000 library cards, three inches by five inches. If you want to know what Napoleon, or Josephine, or anyone within Napoleon's inner circle was doing on the afternoon of July 23 17-whatever, you go to that card and it'll tell you." "Who made up the cards?" I ask. "Stanley," says Tony. "With some assistants." "How long did it take?" I ask. "Years," says Tony. "The late 1960s."
Kubrick never made his film about Napoleon. During the years it took him to compile this research, a Rod Steiger movie called Waterloo was written, produced and released. It was a box-office failure, so MGM abandoned Napoleon and Kubrick made A Clockwork Orange instead.
"Did you do this kind of massive research for all the movies?" I ask Tony. "More or less," he says. "OK," I say. "I understand how you might do this for Napoleon, but what about, say, The Shining?" "Somewhere here," says Tony, "is just about every ghost book ever written, and there'll be a box containing photographs of the exteriors of maybe every mountain hotel in the world." There is a silence. "Tony," I say, "can I look through the boxes?"
I've been coming to the Kubrick house a couple of times a month ever since.
I start, chronologically, in a portable cabin behind the stable block, with a box marked Lolita. I open it, noting the ease with which the lid comes off. "These are excellent, well-designed boxes," I think to myself. I flick through the paperwork inside, pausing randomly at a letter that reads as if it has come straight from a Jane Austen novel:
Dear Mr Kubrick,
Just a line to express to you and to Mrs Kubrick my husband's and my own deep appreciation of your kindness in arranging for Dimitri's introduction to your uncle, Mr Günther Rennert.
Sincerely, Mrs Vladimir Nabokov
I later learn that Dimitri was a budding opera singer and Rennert was a famous opera director, in charge of the Munich Opera House. This letter was written in 1962, back in the days when Kubrick was still producing a film every year or so. This box is full of fascinating correspondence between Kubrick and the Nabokovs but – unlike the fabulously otherworldly Napoleon room, which was accrued six years later – it is the kind of stuff you would probably find in any director's archive.
The unusual stuff – the stuff that elucidates the ever-lengthening gaps between productions – can be found in the boxes that were compiled from 1968 onwards. In a box next to the Lolita box in the cabin, I find an unusually terse letter, written by Kubrick to someone called Pat, on January 10 1968: "Dear Pat, Although you are apparently too busy to personally return my phone calls, perhaps you will find time in the near future to reply to this letter?"
(Later, when I show Tony this letter, he says he's surprised by the brusqueness. Kubrick must have been at the end of his tether, he says, because on a number of occasions he said to Tony, "Before you send an angry letter, imagine how it would look if it got into the hands of Time Out.") The reason for Kubrick's annoyance in this particular letter was because he'd heard that the Beatles were going to use a landscape shot from Dr Strangelove in one of their movies: "The Beatle film will be very widely seen," Kubrick writes, "and it will make it appear that the material in Dr Strangelove is stock footage. I feel this harms the film."
There is a similar batch of telexes from 1975: "It would appear," Kubrick writes in one, "that Space 1999 may very well become a long-running and important television series. There seems nothing left now but to seek the highest possible damages … The deliberate choice of a date only two years away from 2001 is not accidental and harms us." This telex was written seven years after the release of 2001.
But you can see why Kubrick sometimes felt compelled to wage war to protect the honor of his work. A 1975 telex, from a picture publicity man at Warner Bros called Mark Kauffman, regards publicity stills for Kubrick's sombre reworking of Thackeray's Barry Lyndon. It reads: "Received additional material. Is there any material with humor or zaniness that you could send?"
Kubrick replies, clearly through gritted teeth: "The style of the picture is reflected by the stills you have already received. The film is based on William Makepeace Thackeray's novel which, though it has irony and wit, could not be well described as zany."
I take a break from the boxes to wander over to Tony's office. As I walk in, I notice something pinned to his letterbox. "POSTMAN," it reads. "Please put all mail in the white box under the colonnade across the courtyard to your right."
It is not a remarkable note except for one thing. The typeface Tony used to print it is exactly the same typeface Kubrick used for the posters and title sequences of Eyes Wide Shut and 2001. "It's Futura Extra Bold," explains Tony. "It was Stanley's favourite typeface. It's sans serif. He liked Helvetica and Univers, too. Clean and elegant." "Is this the kind of thing you and Kubrick used to discuss?" I ask. "God, yes," says Tony. "Sometimes late into the night. I was always trying to persuade him to turn away from them. But he was wedded to his sans serifs."
Tony goes to his bookshelf and brings down a number of volumes full of examples of typefaces, the kind of volumes he and Kubrick used to study, and he shows them to me. "I did once get him to admit the beauty of Bembo," he adds, "a serif." "So is that note to the postman a sort of private tribute from you to Kubrick?" I ask. "Yeah," says Tony. He smiles to himself. "Yeah, yeah."
But this attention to detail becomes so amazingly evident and seemingly all-consuming in the later boxes, I begin to wonder whether it was worth it. In one portable cabin, for example, there are hundreds and hundreds of boxes related to Eyes Wide Shut, marked EWS – Portman Square, EWS – Kensington & Chelsea, etc, etc.
I choose the one marked EWS – Islington because that's where I live. Inside are hundreds of photographs of doorways. The doorway of my local video shop, Century Video, is here, as is the doorway of my dry cleaner's, Spots Suede Services on Upper Street. Then, as I continue to flick through the photographs, I find, to my astonishment, pictures of the doorways of the houses in my own street. Handwritten at the top of these photographs are the words, "Hooker doorway?"
"Huh," I think. So somebody within the Kubrick organization (it was, in fact, his nephew) once walked up my street, on Kubrick's orders, hoping to find a suitable doorway for a hooker in Eyes Wide Shut. It is both an extremely interesting find and a bit of a kick in the teeth.
It is not, though, as incredible a coincidence as it may at first seem. Judging by the writing on the boxes, probably just about every doorway in London has been captured and placed inside this cabin. This solves one mystery for me – the one about why Kubrick, a native of the Bronx, chose the St Albans countryside, of all places, for his home. I realize now that it didn't matter. It could have been anywhere. It is as if the whole world is to be found somewhere within this estate.


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July 29th 2011 | John Dalziel
Back in February we paid a visit to Academy Class in London to take a look at their iOS training. The quality of the course really impressed us, so we've been back again to check out their latest course: AIR Development for the Blackberry Playbook.
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Keeping up to date with new technology is a critical part of any developers job. There are any number of ways to learn but it's hard to beat the intensity and interaction of a classroom environment and a dedicated trainer. John Dalziel visited Academy Class in London for a week of Apple iOS development.
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One of the tools I've been wanting to check out for a long time is Partigen. It's a particle generation plugin for the Flash IDE that can add effects like fire, rain, sparks, explosions, smoke, fireworks, bubbles and much more to your projects.
July 02nd 2010 | Jens C Brynildsen
IntelliJ IDEA is a cross platform editor that really sweeps the competitors off the floor. Do you want a better workflow, snappy editor, refactoring that really works, solid code generation and fast intellisense? How about UML support? Flashmagazine takes a close look at the Java based editor that now offers Actionscript and Flex support.
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TechSmith have recently released new versions of their popular screen recording software Camtasia. In previous years we've reviewed the PC version (now on v7) so this time around we've taken a look at version 1.1 for Mac OSX.
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Today Flash CS5 is announced and as with former releases, we've taken a good look at the new software. While the debacle around the iPhone export feature goes on, there's lot's of other features to like in this release!
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Inquiry 9: How Does It Work? 3D Images and Holograms
Three-Dimensional Images
Stereoscopic, or 3D, photography works because it is able to recreate the illusion of depth. Our eyes are about 6.5 centimeters apart, so each eye sees something different. If you view two photographs that are taken the same distance apart with a stereoscope, then you are able to perceive depth. To demonstrate how your eyes see things different, hold one of your fingers about a foot from your nose and close one eye. Then reopen it and close the other. Your finger will appear to jump from side to side.
The principles of three-dimensional, or 3D, images were known even before photography was invented. Charles Wheatstone experimented with stereoscopic drawings of simple objects in 1832. After the discovery of photography a few years later, the two principles were combined and stereoscope viewers were produced, quickly becoming a very popular form of home entertainment. In 1844 a technique for taking stereoscopic photographs was demonstrated in Germany, and David Brewster developed a much smaller and simpler viewer that used prismatic lenses in Scotland. The viewer was used to look at cards called stereographs, which were twin photographs with two images mounted side-by-side. Each picture was taken from a slightly different viewpoint equal to the spacing of the eyes. When looked at through the stereoscope viewer, the picture appeared as a three-dimensional image.
The stereoscope is generally considered a form of mass media. Before the advent of radio and TV, this instrument allowed many people to "travel" to far off lands without leaving home. Some things that particularly interested people were the pyramids and tombs of ancient Egypt, the sights of New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, and the abbeys and countryside of Europe. The great events of the day also found their way into stereo slides. Among these were the building of the Panama Canal, War World I, the Johnstown Flood, and the San Francisco earthquake. The Chicago World's Fair of 1892 and the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904 could be enjoyed even by those who could not be there.
Anaglyph images are the type of 3D images with which you are probably most familiar. Louis Ducas Du Hauron, a French scientist, patented this method of stereoscopic photography in 1891. It involves a pair of images taken from slightly different points, which are color corrected and superimposed so that one image is offset slightly from the other. Typically the image for the left eye is printed in red ink and the right eye image is printed in green ink. When observed with the naked eye, the image looks overlapping, doubled and blurry. However, when viewed through a pair of glasses with different colored lenses, the image appears to be 3-dimensional. The glasses used to view these objects are usually red and blue with the red lens covering the left eye and the blue, or sometimes green, lens covering the right eye.
Activity - Design a series of stereoscope programs that show a current or historical event. Think about why this kind of depiction of events was more important around the turn of the century and share your ideas with your class.
The method of making 3D photographic images without a lens is called holography and the images are called holograms. A British physicist, Dennis Gabor, developed theories involved with holography in 1947. However, the first production of holograms did not take place until the 1960's when laser technology became available.
Holography has very little in common with regular photography. Holograms contain information about the size, shape, brightness, and contrast of the object being recorded. Lasers are used to produce holograms because their light is one color and highly directional. Holograms record images of light waves emitted from a laser as they are reflected off an object. This hologram, when lighted and viewed under ordinary light, presents a three-dimensional re-creation of the original object.
Today holograms are used for security purposes, commercial and consumer applications, and promotional pieces. They are, for instance, frequently used to protect financial documents, credit cards, and paper money. The reason for using holograms for such purposes is that they are very difficult to copy. Holograms also appear on greeting cards, collectibles, trading cards, packaging, and displays, as well as T-shirts, tags on merchandise, stickers, and key chains.
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The proposed onshore wind strike price of £100/MWh (EUR 116/MWh) is one of the cheapest on the list. This should encourage investment in what is seen as a cheap energy source. Only landfill gas (at £65/MWh), hydro (£95/MWh) and a few other technologies with very limited resource are cheaper. Offshore wind, however, supported to £155/MWh, has the most expensive strike price apart from wave and tidal stream. Offshore wind resource potential by 2020 is 8-16GW, significantly more than wave and tidal (around 0.1GW). These all compare with an estimated current year-round average price for baseload energy of around £51/MWh.
Decc's draft prices extend to 2018/19, by which time onshore wind's support level has fallen to £95/MWh and offshore wind to £135/MWh. This offshore strike price remains higher than large-scale solar but the difference is diminishing. Solar's potential resource is 2.4-3.2GW.
Fifteen-year contracts
The strike prices appear to be high by international standards, but this is due to the fact that contracts will only run for 15 years and that pre-development costs in the UK are high. Even in countries with 15-year contracts as part of a feed-in tariff, support prices are lower, and in Denmark, Germany, Spain and parts of Canada, 20-year wind contracts are available, see chart below.
No explanation is given for Decc's decision to restrict contracts to 15 years, which seems inconsistent with the UK government's wish to keep the additional costs for low-carbon technologies low. In comparison with a 20-year contract, a 15-year contract adds about £8/MWh more to the price of onshore wind and £15/MWh to offshore.
The overall cost of Decc's support package is limited by the so-called Levy Control Framework to £6450 million per annum by 2018 (£7.6 billion a year by 2020). If 20-year contracts had been put in place, the added cost of wind would have been around £700 million per annum lower in 2020, assuming Decc's mid range wind capacity estimates are achieved.
One problem with a fixed strike price is that it covers developments at sites with a wide range of wind speeds. So, good wind speed sites (8 metres per second and above) are likely to be more profitable than those with lower wind speeds.
Hard to compare
At first sight, onshore wind at £100/MWh appears to be more expensive than nuclear in the UK, although the final strike price for nuclear has yet to be agreed. The treasury is said to be aiming for £90/MWh or less, but a direct comparison with wind is meaningless, simply because the nuclear contract is likely to run for around 35 years (again, this is not confirmed yet).
A 35-year nuclear contract might bring the strike price within reach of £90/MWh, but a 15-year contract would increase the required strike price by about 25%, making it far more expensive than onshore wind, and not far short of the offshore wind price. If the value of the recently announced underwriting of the financing costs of new nuclear build was taken into account, the price of nuclear would probably be more expensive than offshore wind.
Decc has promised to release more detail on the background to the draft strike prices soon, including the reasons for the contract length. It is confident that the security of the contracts for difference will ensure investors will be happy with modest rates of return.


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Greeley may be the place that fits the bill if you are seeking a community that is active and involved with each other, as well as the city they all call home. Greeley was named for Horace Greeley, the New York newspaper man who, he himself, took the advice he later made famous to, "go west young man!"
Beginning as an experimental utopian society in the 1860s by another newspaper man, Greeley now serves as county seat for Weld County. Many may have read the James A. Michener tome, "Centennial," but you may not know Greeley was the inspiring setting for the book. Michener actually earned his master's degree and taught for some years at the University of Northern Colorado. It's no surprise that Greeley has also earned the title of a Colorado Certified Creative District.
Between the delightful Colorado Model Railroad Museum or one of the large annual festivities, such as the nation's largest Jazz Festival in the spring, the AgriCULTURAL Fest and Feast or the 100-year-old tradition known as the Greeley Stampede, heading 49 miles northeast of Denver should be on everyone's to do list.
Looking for a community in Colorado that may inspire your own great American novel? Greeley just may be the place!


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DWTS Season 22 Week 8 Paige & Mark – Viennese Waltz Performance
Paige & Alan dancing for Jive in DWTS Season 22 Week 8 on 9th of May 2016.
Couple : Paige VanZant & Mark Ballas
Dance : Viennese Waltz
Music : "Stone Cold" by Demi Lovato
Phone : 1-800-868-3410
About Paige VanZant
Born on: March 26, 1994
Professional Partner: Mark Ballas
Paige Michelle VanZant is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the Women's Strawweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). A professional competitor since 2012, VanZant was a fighter in Invicta FC before moving over to the Ultimate Fighting Championship. She is currently ranked #8 in the UFC Strawweight division.
With a record of 6-2-0, she is one of the most exciting fighters in the UFC, and is currently a top ranked contender in the women's straw-weight division. Paige grew up dancing in Dayton, Oregon where her parents owned a dance studio. After some very difficult instances in which she was badly bullied in school, she came across MMA legend Ken Shamrock's gym where she trained in both boxing and MMA. Paige turned pro on June 30th, 2012 and signed with UFC in December 2012 where she's quickly become one of their rising stars. On 12/10/2015, Paige became the first female straw weight to headline a UFC event. Paige is also one of a select group of UFC stars to have an endorsement deal as a Reebok athlete alongside Rhonda Rousey, Holly Holm, Connor McGregor and Jon Jones.
DWTS Season 22 Week 8 Paige & Mark – Viennese Waltz Performance
Paige & Mark
DWTS Season 22 Week 8 Paige & Mark – Viennese Waltz Performance
About DWTS
Dancing with the Stars(DWTS) is an American dance competition show airing since 2005 on ABC in the United States, and CTV/CTV Two in Canada. DWTS is an American version of the British television series Strictly Come Dancing. Tom Bergeron is the Emmy-winning host, alongside Erin Andrews, who became co-host in season eighteen.Lisa Canning was co-host in season one, Samantha Harris co-hosted seasons two through nineand Brooke Burke-Charvet in seasons ten through seventeen,and Erin Andrews beginning with the eighteenth season. The series has been renewed though season 23 as of March 3, 2016.
About DWTS 22
Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews will back to DWTS as hosts, while judges Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli will return this season. Len Goodman will return as judge after missing last season, while Julianne Hough will not be returning after three seasons.
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To say that only Christ in and through His Church can ultimately conquer abortion is not merely a pious platitude, nor is it a fancy way of saying, "Jesus, help us fight abortion." Rather, it is to say something about the very nature of Christ and the Church, and about the reasons why abortions continue at the alarming rate of 4000 a day in the United States alone.
Christ Undoes Satan's Works
There are many ways to express the purpose of Christ's mission in the world. St. John in his first letter sums it up by saying, "The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil" (I John 3:8). What "works of the devil" does Christ destroy? Christ Himself tells us that the devil "was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies" (John 8:44). In one and the same breath, Our Lord calls the devil a liar and a murderer. Lies and murder go together. The only way abortion can continue on such a horrible scale is for it to be covered in lies, sugarcoated with denials and distortions of truth. Christ has come to destroy the works of the devil. "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life" (John 14:6). He is the way to salvation precisely because He is the Truth, shattering the devil's lies, and because He is the Life, undoing the devil's work of death.
A Liar and Murderer From the Beginning
We see the devil act in in character with lies and murder from the first pages of the Bible. Adam and Eve had been told they could eat of any tree in the garden except "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil." "In the day that you eat of it," God warned them, "you shall die" (Gen 2:17). What is wrong with knowing good from evil? Aren't we supposed to know the difference between good and evil? Isn't that part of our religious and moral education? Don't so many problems come about when people do not know good from evil? Why, then, is this the one tree of which our first parents were not to eat?
The answer lies in the fact that the "knowledge of good and evil" here does not simply mean "knowing." It means that Adam and Eve would think they could decide the difference between good and evil, that they would be the ones to determine what was right and wrong, that they would be the norm of morality. This is the original temptation. "What's right and wrong for me is up to me... What's right and wrong for you is up to you... Do not impose your morality on me. . . I will create my own values... I am accountable to nobody but myself." In other words, it's all up to my own personal choice. The original sin is to put choice above goodness and truth, to abuse freedom by trying to create what is right rather than submit to it. In his encyclical Veritatis Splendor (The Splendor of Truth, August 6, 1993), Pope John Paul II comments on Genesis 2:16-17. "With this image, revelation teaches that the power to decide what is good and what is evil does not belong to man, but to God alone. The man is certainly free... But his freedom is not unlimited: It must halt before the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil," for it is called to accept the moral law given by God" (VS #35).
By rebelling against the truth of the moral law, we die. God had warned Adam and Eve they would die if they disobeyed. The devil had to lie to them to introduce death into the world. So the original liar approached the original woman and offered the original lie: "You certainly will not die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil" (Gen. 3:4-5). Eve bought the lie, as did Adam, and they committed the original sin. Death then entered the world, on the heels of a lie.
Babel: The Lie Continues
The original lie continued at the tower of Babel, in Babylon. It is noteworthy that "bab-ili" means "gate of the gods." Here again, humans tried to exalt themselves to the status of God. "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves" (Gen. 11:4). "Let us make," they said, forgetting that God is the one who said, "Let us make man" (Gen. 1:26).
Seeing their forgetfulness and pride, God said, "This is only the beginning of what they will do; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them" (Gen. 11:6). God was not saying here that He felt threatened. He was saying that people who have bought the lie that they themselves are the norm of truth and goodness will think they can do anything, and in trying to do so, will only destroy themselves. The original lie perpetuated will only perpetuate death. It is His infinite mercy and love that move Him to say, "Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech" (Gen. 11:17). Better for them to be scattered by God's intervention than dashed on the rocks of their own pride! God confused the language only after the people had confused it first by speaking the lie that they could make a name for themselves, rather than submitting to the name (the truth) of God.
Babel Revisited in 1992
This lie continues in our day and, in fact, has become the official policy of America, according to the Supreme Court. In this decision on abortion, in which the error of Roe v. Wade was upheld, the Court stated, "At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life." (Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 1992, [505 U.S.833,851]) This line is incredible! We cannot even decide the weather, and yet we are expected to define existence itself! We live in a universe we did not create, and yet we are declared to be the creators of that universe's meaning! We did not call ourselves into life, yet we have the liberty to define the meaning of life! Not only is this absurd, but it is frightfully familiar: "You shall be like God, knowing good and evil." "Let us make a name for ourselves." "The gate of the gods." Perhaps the Court's decision should be re-named "Eden and Babel Revisited."
Abortion Cloaked in Lies
The original lie leads to the ongoing slaughter of babies by abortion. The mother is told, "It's your choice. It's your freedom. It's your body. Nobody can impose their morality on you." It is the lie that choice prevails over life itself.
Abortion continues thanks to many other lies as well. Women are lied to about the nature of the developing baby and about the effects of the abortion procedure. Carol Everett, herself a victim of abortion and once an abortion provider, wrote, "Like many others, I bought the big lie: 'It is only a glob of tissue not a baby.' I was a victim of all the other lies: Abortion is all right. After all, I do them all the time. It will be so simple. It's only a glob of tissue. There's really nothing to the procedure; it will only take a little while and then everything will be fine. You can have the abortion on Friday morning and be back to work on Monday." (The Scarlet Lady, p.101 ). The workers at the abortion center were trained to give as little information as possible, so that women would not know the truth.
The Elliot Institute in Springfield, Illinois, does research on the effects of abortion on women, and collects case studies in which women describe what led them to abortion and what consequences followed. Case after case shows how they were victimized by lies and half-truths. The efforts made to initiate wide-spread abortion in America were marked by lies, as Dr. Bernard Nathanson, former abortionist and co-founder of the National Abortion Rights Action League, readily admits. Now a strong advocate for the right to life, he writes, "How many deaths were we talking about when abortion was illegal?... It was always "5,000 to 10,000 a year." I confess that I knew the figures were totally false" (Aborting America, p.193). A growing number of former abortion providers in our country are coming forward to tell how they lied to women before abortions and covered up the tracks of botched abortions by falsifying medical records.
The lies continue and murder continues.
The Splendor of Truth
The solution demands that we lift high the truth. Truth is on the side of life. Truth and life go together. Let us proclaim the truth that the preborn child is a human person from the moment of conception; that love for the woman demands love for her child; that there are concrete, life-giving alternatives to abortion; that there are negative physical, psychological, and spiritual consequences of abortion; that choice never takes priority over life itself; and that freedom is found by submitting to the moral truth that comes from God rather than by trying to be God ourselves. Our Holy Father has provided the Church and the world with the bedrock foundation of moral sanity and salvation in documents such as The Splendor of Truth and The Gospel of Life. Christ provides us the only way of salvation namely, Himself, for He is truth and life.
Ultimately we save the world from the bondage of abortion and every other sin by lifting Christ high. "If you continue in my Word, you are truly My disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free" (John 8:31-32).


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"Scandinavia was one of the last geographic areas in Europe to become habitable for humans after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). However, the routes and genetic composition of these postglacial migrants remain unclear. We sequenced the genomes, up to 57× coverage, of seven hunter-gatherers excavated across Scandinavia and dated from 9,500–6,000 years before present (BP). Surprisingly, among the Scandinavian Mesolithic individuals, the genetic data display an east–west genetic gradient that opposes the pattern seen in other parts of Mesolithic Europe."
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Free AARP TaxAide Service has three more available dates.
Free AARP TaxAide Service has three more available dates.
The office at the Christ Episcopal Church Ministry Center at 311 Middle St. in downtown New Bern will be open Thursday, Monday and Tuesday, April 9.
The doors open at 8 a.m. and operations continue until 2 p.m.
The free service includes IRS certified volunteers.
Both state and federal returns are electronically filed for free. There is no age, income or AARP membership required.
Al Muenster, the AARP TaxAide New Bern local coordinator, reminds tax-filers that it is important to bring all the proper paperwork.
A Social Security card and a picture ID are key items.
The New Bern site is staffed by 16 trained volunteer preparers who have been certified by the IRS and the state of North Carolina. State and federal returns are filed electronically.
For information, call 772-5245.


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Seattle Makes It Illegal For Businesses To Tell Breastfeeding Moms To Cover Up Or Move
While many states, including Washington, have laws that allow for breastfeeding moms to nurse in public without being hassled, some of those regulations are not clear on whether or not this protection extends to places like restaurant interiors or even offices. Thus, Seattle has made its stance clear: It is illegal for a business to ask a nursing mom to cover up or move elsewhere.
The measure, which adds a mother's right to breastfeed to the list of protected civil rights, earned unanimous approval by the Seattle city council earlier this week.
From King5.com:
Seattle's ordinance would make it illegal to ask a nursing mom to stop, cover up or move to another location; it would apply to areas open to the public, including doctor's offices, restaurants, libraries and theaters.
"[I]t's a health issue for our community," the measure's sponsor tells King5 News. "It's very clear the benefits of breastfeeding. What we want to do is move the needle in terms of community acceptance of breastfeeding by having our local civil office of rights enforcing the law."
For a thorough list of state laws regarding public breastfeeding, check out this index put together by the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Seattle City Council acts to protect public breastfeeding [King5.com]
Thanks to Harper for the tip!
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The state's Board of Public Utilities has said developers have until June 14 to submit applications to build wind projects off the New Jersey coast.
Last year, New Jersey signed off legislation directing the state's public utilities commission to help develop 1.1GW of offshore wind projects.
Speaking about the latest move, New Jersey governor Chris Christie said: "The wind power movement is providing us with a unique opportunity to advance energy as an industry.
"By doing so, we have the ability to leverage our tremendous resources with groundbreaking technologies, allowing New Jersey to increase its use of renewable energy sources while advancing an industry that will lead to long term job creation."
Earlier this month, Offshore developer Fishermen's Energy has said it has secured the final state approval for the development of a 25MW test project in New Jersey waters.


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If you're anything like me, and the ratings suggest you probably are, you've been having a tough time on Monday mornings carrying on conversations with anyone who hasn't seen "Breaking Bad" the night before.
What's worse is people who have the latest episode on DVR but haven't seen it yet. You're dying to say, "What? New Hampshire?"
Well, "Live Free or Die," as they say. That's the state's motto, it's a "BrBa" episode title and either the most obvious clue to the ending or the biggest gotcha Vince Gilligan has ever pulled.
The last eight episodes of this great series — I honestly think it's been the best series ever on TV — have been excruciating. You live all week waiting for Sunday night and the next episode, but even before it's over, you're thinking, oh no, another episode gone.
Now there's only one left. It's hard to believe. But it's also hard to know, even now, how it will end. Walter's cough is getting worse. Jesse seems doomed one way or another. For a moment last week, I thought Skyler was going to get it
Have you noticed that Vince Gilligan likes to set you up to expect something to happen and then make it NOT happen? Except when it does? That probably doesn't make any sense to anyone who hasn't been a diehard "BrBa" fan all along.
But I was stunned by the way Hank's death happened. The guns trained on his head for minutes, the conversation, the debate, all drawn out. Walter getting free and pleading for Hank's life. You thought for a second Hank would be spared, but then he wasn't. The shot was only heard and seen from a distance.
A few minutes later, that set-up was repeated after Walter found Jesse hiding under the car. Guns were pointed at Jesse's head, and you thought it would be a repeat of Hank's killing because that's what you were supposed to think. And then it wasn't.
Last week, after Skyler discovered the masked intruders in the baby's bedroom, it looked for a long minute or two as if she was going to get it. We were being played, of course, but that's just one of the things that has made "Breaking Bad" so amazing: We've been played for five years, and no TV audience in history has been played as brilliantly.
So what will happen on Sunday night? Walter seems doomed one way or another, but maybe not. Jesse as well, but maybe not. In old time TV and movies, there were bad guys and good guys, and the bad guys never got away scot free. Even if they lived, they were doomed to be haunted by whatever bad things they did. There was always an easy morality about these things.
But not anymore, and certainly not in the world of "Breaking Bad," because what is "good" and what is "evil?" You can say that circumstances drove Walter to do what he did, to become a meth cook, but there must have been something inside him to begin with that led him in that direction, a shadow on his moral plane that couldn't be denied.
So it's probably too easy to say, simply, that Walter and/or Jesse are doomed.
By the way, if you want to have the ultimate binge watch experience, AMC will air a marathon of all 61 "Breaking Bad" episodes beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern and Pacific time on Wednesday, Sept. 25 with Seasons 1-4 and running through late night Friday, Sept. 27. The marathon resumes with Season 5 on Saturday, Sept. 28 at 11 a.m. and continues up to the finale on Sunday at 9 p.m. Eastern and Pacific.
In addition, Chris Hardwick will host a special, expanded one-hour edition of "Talking Bad" immediately after the finale on Sunday night featuring a few cast members and others like Vince Gilligan, Aaron Paul, Jesse Plemmons, RJ Mitte, Giancarlo Esposito, Jonathan Banks and Jimmy Kimmel.
So what will happen? We don't even know if Saul Goodman will survive, since the "BrBa" spinoff is a Saul Goodman prequel. Who is safe, who is doomed? How will the story end in a realistic but satisfying way, especially for viewers who have found themselves rooting for Walter and Jesse in spite of their vocation.
Also if you're like me, you've been talking to everyone you know about possible endings for the show, what you THINK will happen, and what you WANT to happen. Sometimes they're the same thing, but not always.
So let's talk about the possibilities. Please join the conversation by adding your ideas for how the show will end or should end to the comments section here.
Also, let's chat on Twitter during Sunday's broadcast. I'll be tweeting at @waitwhat_TV beginning at 9 p.m. PACIFIC TIME and I'd love to hear from you during the show
Finally, please join me back here on Monday morning to talk about how "Breaking Bad" ended. Are we going to be satisfied with the ending? Disappointed? Shocked? Join the blog chat at 10 a.m. Pacific time Monday, Sept. 30.
I think we'll have lots to talk about.


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All he wanted was to earn $200 to buy a Dodge Dart. Today chef Bernard Carmouche, 44, is culinary director for Emeril Lagasse's three Florida restaurants including Emeril's Orlando, Emeril's Tchoup Chop and Emeril's Miami Beach. Sometimes you never know where fate will steer you.
In high school Carmouche was a dishwasher at Commander's Palace in his hometown of New Orleans. But when the pots were scrubbed, he wasn't one to sit idle. He helped with simple tasks like slicing fruit and he paid attention to how the staff wanted things done. Lagasse noticed and made a pact with Carmouche: Stay in school and I'll help you learn everything you need to know about cooking.
From Commander's Palace and eventually to Emeril's in New Orleans and a coveted internship with acclaimed French chef Roger Verge along the way, Carmouche worked his way up.
"Commander's and Lagasse turned my life around," says Carmouche. "I grew up in a neighborhood where it was very hard to do the right thing."
And just as he was mentored by others, he's constantly on the lookout for young talent in the kitchens he oversees every day in Florida.
"Whatever is taught to you, you teach the next person," says Carmouche. "Mentoring is a gift not to keep, but to pass on."


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New England Patriots Trevor Siemian expected to return to lineup
This past weekend, New England Patriots quarterback Trevor Siemian posted a photo of himself getting treatment on his injured left foot on Twitter. The picture showed that Siemian, with his helmet on to hear the play calls from the team's practice outside, watching game video on his iPad as he soaks his injured foot in one of the treatment pools in the team's training room.
The picture looked similar to the picture of Peyton Manning when he was getting treatment for a right foot injury last season. Before Siemian posted his photo on Twitter, he sent the photo to Manning.
Siemian did not play in the Patriots' victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars this past Sunday. He took part in the Patriots' walk-through Wednesday. Siemian said that he was feeling better.
The coach Gary Kubiak said that Siemian was expected to practice Thursday. It is possible that Siemian will play Sunday against the Tennessee Titans.
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There's a new fight game on the Store today and we've been playing it for the last few hours. Called 'Brotherhood of Violence' the game is developed by realtech VR and it's quite impressive visually (and hilarious for the in-game dialogue).
The game goes for $1.99 with a free trial and we strongly recommend you take out. Brotherhood weighs in at just over 220MB, which isn't too bad considering the game play involved and it should give fans of Virtua Fighter and similar street violent games something to cheer about. Indeed, the game is a ton of fun if only because of the aforementioned combo of great graphics and laugh-out-loud cut scenes.
What makes Brotherhood of Violence so special is that it was simultaneously released on iOS, Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 with Android and Mac OS evidently coming later. That makes one of the first times we've seen a developer jump on the dual Windows 8/Windows Phone 8 gaming potential as a reason to code over one for Android (plus games that cost money don't do as well on Android, where most things are free with ad support).
From the game's description:
"Brotherhood of Violence puts your fighting skills to the test with stunning 3D graphics, multiple fighting disciplines, and more than 400 ever evolving fighters that learn through artificial intelligence. Battle your way through 30 environments to defeat punks, ninja, Yakuza and more. Watch out for the Big Boss. He has it in for you and his skills are unmatched!
You're a former member of an elite brotherhood of assassins. The problem is, with this brotherhood there's no such thing as a "former" member. You knew the Big Boss would try to drag you back in, but you never thought he's kidnap your brother to get to you. Now you must follow the way of the warrior to find him and bring him home."
Indeed, with Galactic Reign landing this week, this game and a few others, it almost looks like the dual W8/WP8 developer dream may be catching on. Of course it's still too early to tell and these games could be exceptions but so far, we like where this is going.
Check out the video above of our hands on with Brotherhood of Violence, in addition to the teaser trailer. You can then download the game from here in the Store (Windows Phone 8 only). Thanks, Jabid21, for the tip!


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Snow and rain greet challenge racers
Second Valdez Summit to Sound athletes defy weather
No pea soup fog or delays held up this year's Valdez Summit to Sound Challenge. Instead, ninety racers from Valdez and out-of-town were met with good' ole fashioned Valdez weather -complete with blowing snow on Thompson Pass and rain in town. When the weather cleared and the sun came out, two individuals and two teams were crowned the new champions of the four-legged adventure race. The race includes cross country skiing (Nordic) or downhill snowboarding or skiing (Alpine), biking, kayaking, and running.
Nordic Division
Wes Tibbetts took the top spot in the Nordic Solo Division. He finished the course in a 2:45:37. The Anchorage resident took care of two of things that he always wanted to do: Visit Valdez and do an endurance race. He said he didn't have much of a strategy going into the race.
"I enjoyed all four facets of the race," Tibbetts said. "The snow and rain definitely added to the complications, certainly. I was really cramping up at certain points, but just tried to keep on and keep pushing."
Patrik Sartz came in second with a time of 2:54:38. Andrew Cyr placed third with a time of 2:54:52.
The Ginga Ninjas claimed the Nordic Team Division with a time of 3:40:54. The Valdez-based Asshats came in second at 3:43:16. The team called 65 Below came in third with a time of 4:00:40
Alpine Division
Last year, the first leg of the Alpine Division was cancelled due to foggy condition. In the first year of having all four legs in the competition, a rookie emerged victorious in the Solo Division. In his first adventure race ever, Fairbanks man Eric Milan took first place with a time of 3:04:24.
"The camaraderie is spectacular," Milan said. "I think it was a great way to experience my first race."
Milan's only race experience is running a 5K in Fairbanks. He borrowed a friend's bike and rented a kayak in order to compete in the event.
Spencer Lewley was the runner-up with a time of 3:08:27. Rae Stevenson was third with a time of 3:12:22.
In the team division, Anchorage's Team Live Badass was the top team with a time of 2:21:47. Member Peter Morris competed in last year's event and was glad to have the opportunity to compete in the first leg of the Alpine Division.
"It was good," Morris said. "It was pretty soft going up and down, a little shorter than expected."
Teammate Brendon Gallant also didn't expect such a fast start.
"When I was told that Peter was coming down the mountain, I was taking my clothing off," Gallant said. "He came down quicker than I thought. I got a good warm-up of about 20 feet. I when I finally hit the gas the next thing I know it's five miles to go. I put it into big gear and try to do what I can to make up any time."
The team cites those legs as keys to its success.
The Rolling Blackouts of Anchorage rolled to a second place finish with a 2:38:31. The Bare Necessities finished third with a time of 2:49:16.
Now in its second year, the race was first organized by Valdez women Magdalena McCay, Holly Powers and Meg Weaver. Chris Moulton created its website and the group forged ahead this year without Powers.
"The idea of creating the Valdez Summit to Sound Race came when my son Ben, who participated in the 'Ski to Sea' race in Washington, what a great race," Weaver said on the group's website. "I started thinking ,why should they have all the fun – Valdez has mountains, lakes, trails and even an ocean to make an amazing race course as well – and Alaska is bigger, grander and more pristine. And I never looked back."


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There's practically a CVS or Walgreen's on every other block in downtown Chicago, so impromptu beauty splurges are a regular occurence. Anyone with me on that? What starts out as a run for Q-tips turns into so much more. Sometimes you hit the jackpot, and other times it's "meh." The four items I'm RAVING about today are so good, you should probably go run your lunchtime errands immediately.
- Organix Brazilian Keratin Therapy Shimmering Spray. I have a love for high-end hair oils, so it even came as a surprise to me when I began favoring this $8 version. It's infused with hydrolyzed keratin protein, coconut oil and cocoa sead butter, and behaves kind of like a leave-in conditioner with a serious side of shine. I like to use it before I blow dry — the spray mists out the perfect amount of product and it never looks oily. Smells phenom, too. This must be the drugstore hair aisle's best kept secret.
- Maybelline Super Stay 10 Hour Stain Gloss. YSL just released a similar product last month. But guess what? Maybelline's version is AS good. The all caps is necessary. I am going nuts for this product. I love the wand, the intensity and the completely wearable shades. Berry Heaven is perfect for bold but not too bold. You can go intense with these and layer them up or wear them transparently. And you can buy practically four of these for the price of one YSL Glossy Stain.
- L'Oreal Colour Riche Balm. If we're drawing comparisons, this super lightweight balm reminds me of Chanel's new Rouge Coco Baume. The colors are sheer and the formula is very hydrating. I love how the Pink Satin shade gives my lips the slightest glimmer of baby pink lips without it looking like I applied product to my lips. No color in this collection is off-limits because of its nature. No chance of a "meh" purchase here. Just not possible!
- Aveeno Positively Nourishing Energizing Lotion in Pomegranate & Grapefruit . Even though Grapefruit is listed second, there is no mistaking that citrus in this product. Which is why it's awesome. I've been having a grapefruit moment for like a year now, and this refresh from Aveeno (you'll recall the Positively Nourishing Lotion in Grapefruit & Rosemary in a pump bottle) is something special. I love the new packaging, and the slightly tweaked scent. Definitely more grapefruit action. Don't hate me if you can't find this yet — it's making its way to stores this month!
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The owner of Thai Noodle House in Austin, Texas has received threats after making a controversial Facebook comment about the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting in Connecticut.
Thailand-born Eddie Nimibutr wrote on his Facebook page Friday "I don't care if a bunch of white kids got killed. …When kids from minority groups get shot , nobody cares."
His initial post, which was deleted, can be seen in full at The Austinist.
Nimibutr's rant was met with criticism and he claims to have received a death threat over the phone. He responded with the following:
"I am no fool to just feel and just believe the hypocrisy in our society the way everyone told me how to. Lots of people are mad at me for the thing I said. Some called with threat of violence. I laughed at the internet tough guys, but I reported to the police. I am educated and believe in my rights of the Freedom of Speech."
The rest of his profanity-laced tirade can be read on his Facebook page.
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If visions of smartphones have replaced the sugarplums in your holiday dreams, you're not alone.
More than 35 percent of Americans include consumer electronics on the list of gifts they want to receive for the holidays, according to the National Retail Federation (NRF). With the NRF predicting consumer spending this holiday season will increase 4 percent over 2011, it seems likely demand for tech gifts will keep pace.
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The 5.1 channel speaker system includes four satellite speakers, a center channel speaker and a subwoofer to give you a real theater experience in the comfort of your own living room. "Connected" players like this access to a variety of content and services from the Internet, including movies and music from providers such as Netflix, Hulu Plus, VUDU, CinemaNow, YouTube, Pandora, MOG and more.
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Who hasn't been caught with a low cellphone battery and no place to plug it in? Duracell's Instant USB Charger makes it easy to keep any mini-USB powered device powered up on the go. With a lithium-ion battery and universal cable, the charger provides up to three hours of backup power for your cellphone.
MSRP is around $40 but you can likely find it for less online.
The whole concept of web cameras is amazing; they allow you to see and communicate remotely via your PC with people on the other side of the world or just across the street.
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The Logitech Quickcam Orbit AF (around $175 on Amazon) solves both those problems.
A motorized lens and intelligent face-tracking helps keep the camera on you, even if you move. And, the camera can handle even extreme close-ups.
"Call of Duty: Black Ops II," the most highly anticipated video game of the year, is available just in time for the holidays.
Set in the year 2025, the game propels players into global conflict featuring advanced weaponry, robotics, and drone warfare in a new Cold War scenario whose seeds are being sown in today's headlines.
For an even more visceral gameplay experience, "Call of Duty: Black Ops II" is also playable in 3D! It'll be available for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC for roughly $60.
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If someone claims that an individual is the first to prove a
mathematician's conjecture, we are involved in a terminus ad quem. There
were presumably others earlier who tried the proof. But the first o a
class is understood as a terminus a quo, the first of a continuous
sequence of successors. But even here there is a problem with evolution
within a population. For one who holds that Adam was the first man, the
term is obvious. For one who recognized that Homo erectus slowly
transformed into H. neanderthalensis and H. sapiens, and eventually one
branch gave rise to H. s. sapiens, it is not clear that there was a first
member of any of the species or subspecies.
Dave (ASA)
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:46:04 -0500 Schwarzwald <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Murray and Dave,
Some responses below.
I'm sorry, but what you're telling me here amounts to obfuscation and
little more. Why not argue that 2 + 2 = 10 - after all, you could be
doing the equation in base four. It's not speaking to the point I made,
and honestly, I think you have to know that.
As for your example re: "First human". If a human is defined as having
features X, and the first human who has features X fails to produce
offspring with features X, surprise - there was still a first human. So
the example given is no counter to there being a first human.
Now, at this point I suppose you could argue it's possible that two
distinct mothers conceived and gave birth at the exact same times to
offspring who equally fulfilled the (unstated, and as I said, not
necessarily entirely or largely genetic) feature set of "human", and
challenge me there. Again, an objection like that hardly seems worth of
more than an eye-roll.
As for Aristotle's scientific views, certainly they were incomplete and
sometimes outright wrong. Darwin's views were also shockingly incomplete
and wrongheaded in some ways. It doesn't mean both didn't have some to
say that still rings true, despite their having died quite a while ago.
First of all, there's complicated, and then there's complicated.
Absolutely I would agree that we are privy to information (or at least,
some good and reasonable theories) that the church fathers did not have
to contend with on this topic. But, as you seem willing to admit, this
does not speak against there being a "first". Not everything has been
complicated, after all.
Second, you're going far beyond assuming mere "evolution" when you assert
universal, strict gradualism with biological development. As you are when
you imply that all defining characteristics of humans are "degree"-based,
or reduce entirely to what can be directly passed on in reproduction.
Indeed, the second question seems to go beyond pure science (call it
lessening the degree of the purely scientific that's in play if you
like), while the former at the very least butts into problems with
philosophy and theology, and possibly scientific ones as well.
Now if it's your position that all of humanity's defining traits reduce
to the biological+material, and further that all of them are ones where
humanity differs from all other species and ancestors only and purely in
degree, that's your prerogative. But I think it's obvious that such views
go vastly beyond an assertion of mere evolution, and certainly beyond the
bounds of properly defined science. Every bit as much when people now and
then try to insist that evolution is "unguided and without purpose", and
that this is a thoroughly scientific claim.
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:31 PM, dfsiemensjr <email@example.com>
There are a number of problems with Aristotle. For example, try to apply
the laws of excluded middle and contradiction to "bald" or any other
characteristic that admits of degrees. Or try to do astronomy on the
basis that all celestial bodies are composed solely of the quintessence.
Or try to do chemistry on the basis of only four terrestrial elements. It
must also be noted that syllogistic (including the additional modal
logics) is not totally the same as medieval logics, and is quite
different from contemporary logics (from Frege on).
As for 2+2=4, it is not necessarily true, for there is modular
As to a first entity of some sort, it is entirely possible that the first
one possessing all the human characteristics, by being in a breeding
group, did not have any offspring with the same complete set of
characteristics. There has to be a slowly changing breeding group for
speciation. The logical notion that there has to be a single first does
not necessarily apply to reality.
Dave (ASA)
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:55:19 -0500 Schwarzwald <email@example.com>
Sorry, but this cuts no ice. If Gregory were simply making an appeal to
the Church fathers such that they or revelation should be trusted over
modern science... well, I'd have some problems with that, but "The year
is 2009" would *still* not suffice as a meaningful argument. There are
problems with trusting revelation over science (when the two are actually
in dispute, rather than it being a clash of philosophies), but the
'modern world' hasn't done anything but make that view unpopular.
But when Gregory is talking about how there must have been a first, I
don't see him as making a theological appeal. It's a logical appeal, one
of reason. Along the lines of, "Beings of type X exist now. Beings of
type X have not been reproducing since eternity. Ergo, there must have
been a first." That's the sort of reasoning a classic greek may have used
- but today's date does not change the validity of it.
To give another example: Aristotle is credited with the law of identity,
of contradiction, and the excluded middle. Old, old "laws". Is "It's
2009" anything close to an adequate way to dismiss them? Does it even
begin to do that?
Same for math. 2+2=4. You can find as much 'argued' (discovered?) in some
old, old references. Is the reasoning outdated? Is the conclusion now
suspect because of the passage of time?
So the "the world is fundamentally different" line doesn't go all that
far. Nor does, necessarily, scientific advancement. If tomorrow a
scientist tells me "2+2=71", he better have more than a declaration of
"It's 2009" onhand when I ask him to defend his view.
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Murray Hogg <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Schwarzwald wrote:
Not nearly enough, Murray. And I'll bluntly say that the tactic of
refutation by referring to the date is the stuff of glaring intellectual
weakness. It can be deployed for just about any position, even contrary
The difference in scientific perspective between the ancient world and
today makes any appeal to Aristotle and the Church Fathers problematic in
the extreme - particularly when their opinion (as it is on the question
of the "first" human) is so markedly a product of their particular view
of the created order.
Simply citing those authorities as if they can be considered
determinative in any theological debate is PRECISELY to attempt to do
theology in a pre-modern intellectual context.
Let me note, further, that I purposefully used quote marks on
"refutation." I am aware that simply pointing to a calendar doesn't
disprove Greg's argument - but it DOES introduce a major consideration
that has to be addressed.
So the fundamental point is that our conceptual world is fundamentally
different from that of Aristotle and the Fathers. The only "glaring
intellectual weakness" is on the part of those who pretend otherwise.
In that respect, pointing out that there's been 2000 years of intervening
scientific progress since Aristotle (and 1500 years of same since the
Church Fathers) is not quite irrelevant.
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