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Ched Evans wants to speak to young footballers about alcohol and consent
The former Wales international, who was convicted of rape in 2012 but had his conviction subsequently quashed, insisted he could not apologise to the 19-year-old complainant because he had committed no crime when he had sex with her while she was drunk.
But the 27-year-old footballer, who told police at the time of his arrest that his profession meant "we could have any girl we wanted", said he wanted to speak to younger players about the risks their behaviour could generate.
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He added: "I read somewhere you would have to get signed consent. That wouldn't be realistic but someone needs to come up with something. The best thing is just to be educated. And when they are drunk to think twice about it. How would it look in a court of law?"
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Prosecutors had alleged that the young woman, who has since been named and vilified on social media to the extent that she has had to change her name five times and move home, had blacked out and been unable to give consent when the incident happened at a hotel in Rhyl, north Wales, in 2011.
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Mr Evans, who had walked into the hotel room when a fellow player was having sex with the woman, insisted along with the other player that the woman had given consent. He proceeded to have sex with her without talking to her, the court heard.
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"Today is May 13th, and Today You Graduate, and My Friends, You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet."
In a speech that's getting a bit of flak for recycling some of his past lines, the stage- and screenwriter says it's okay to make mistakes along the way:
And make no mistake about it, you are dumb. You're a group of incredibly well-educated dumb people. I was there. We all were there. You're barely functional. There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups, but the screw-ups, they're a-coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

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The winter signifies the heart of the road cycling offseason. Most athletes have established their winter activities and training programs. They are busy doing things like yoga, indoor cycling classes, Pilates, cross fit, or anything else that has a traditional offseason focus.
I know as most people go through this holiday madness; the race season seems "miles" away. But make no mistake about it, once the calendar ticks over to the new year, it's like someone turns on a light switch and the focus on next season takes on a sense of urgency. This can lead to asking yourself a very important question: When to begin serious training for the road season. Let's look at some important points that can help influence your decision:
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Timing and Choice of Your First Goal
Here in Northern California, the first race of the season is on New Year's Day. YES, January 1st. It's a 4-mile hill climb that starts at 10 a.m.—just enough time to get through your hangover! Racing starts in earnest in early February and continues through early-October.
Your first, and, arguably, your most important choice is when you are going to do your first race or event (if you are a recreational cyclist) that you are going to treat with seriousness. Racers talk about "practice races." This doesn't (and shouldn't) mean that you won't try your hardest during the race to win. It simply means that you will not do a taper in preparation for the event.
Training races should be done to prepare your body for the stresses of racing ('you gotta race to race.') When your first event occurs will determine when it is time to start training in earnest. The type of event you decide to do will also determine what type of training you should be doing.
More: 12 Weeks to Stronger Cycling
Be Ready Mentally to Commit
Every year, after our athletes take their offseason break, we ask one simple question. Are you ready to commit to your program for the season? Physically, unless you were over-trained, it really doesn't take that long to be physically ready to go.
It's the motivational side that needs time to recharge. Your offseason routine can continue while you begin a committed cycling program for 2012, but again, be ready to focus your energies on the road ahead. It takes enormous effort and time to be successful in cycling and the last thing you want to hear are riders complaining about training in February!
So make sure you are ready to go, motivated and prepared for the long haul. Different athletes require more time than others to get back that edge. There is no right or wrong amount of time, as each individual is different. Perhaps different events trigger your commitment like the holiday's being over or going back to school for the second semester. Whatever it is, just be prepared to give 100 percent to yourself and your coach.
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Password Storage
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When external user management is enabled, password storage is delegated to the external system.
Buffer Overflows
Jira is a 100% pure Java application with no native components. As such it is highly resistant to buffer overflow vulnerabilities – possible buffer overruns are limited to those that are bugs in the Java Runtime Environment itself.
SQL Injection
Database queries are generated using standard APIs for parameter replacement rather than string concatenation. As such, Jira is highly resistant to SQL injection attacks.
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Jira is a self-contained Java application and does not launch external processes. As such, it is highly resistant to script injection attacks.
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Jira does not directly support SSL/TLS. Administrators who are concerned about transport-layer security should set up SSL/TLS at the level of the Java web application server, or the HTTP proxy in front of the Jira application.
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Jira delegates session management to the Java application server in which it is deployed. We are not aware of any viable session-hijacking attacks against the Tomcat application server shipped with Jira.
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Self-driving cars will change how we live, in all sorts of ways. But they won't just affect us humans – the coming revolution in autonomous transport has significant implications for wildlife as well. Nature conservationists and planners need to think hard about the impact of driverless vehicles, most notably in terms of renewed urban sprawl.
In some ways, wider developments in automotive technology bode well for the environment. Electric cars will increasingly replace the internal combustion engine, and that should, in theory, reduce carbon emissions and health-afflicting air pollution.
Through minimising traffic jams, driverless cars may also reduce overall energy use. Unlike human drivers, computers can avoid the "concertina" effect of needless acceleration and braking that exacerbates congestion, and won't be tempted to "rubberneck" when passing an accident. And, as autonomous vehicles aren't restricted by human reaction times, it may make sense to increase speed limits for them on major inter-city routes.
So driverless cars promise a future of faster journey times with much reduced environmental impacts. They may even mean less wildlife roadkill. But it's the very efficiency of driverless cars that poses a challenge for planners and conservationists. The threat is an unchecked increase in low-density urbanisation.
Driving into the countryside
Autonomous vehicles promise a future in which passengers are free to use their time productively (working, for example). And they can park themselves (or be part of a shared pool) which saves yet more time in the morning rush. Coupled with faster journey times, the incentives to live further out of town will increase significantly.
There are both push and pull factors at work here: sky-high residential prices in most cities push people away from urban centres while healthy environments and green living pull people towards the hinterlands. The limiting factor in suburban spread is often travel time, either by public or private means. Driverless cars fundamentally alter the equation.
Existing planning policies are based on our current transport systems. Green-belts, for example, are designed to reduce urban sprawl by restricting development within a buffer zone around an urban area. However, the reduced transport times offered by driverless cars make it easier to live outside the belt while still working inside. So these loops of green are in danger of becoming a thin layer in a sandwich of ever-spreading suburbanisation.
This is, of course, a familiar challenge since the rise of the automotive age in the 1940s. However, the solutions designed by planners have been calibrated for a human-driving automotive system – not for the supercharged future of driverless transport.
Other examples of planning protection for wildlife include nature reserves, national parks and (in the UK) "Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty". Such areas have either strict controls on development, or do not permit it at all. However, they are nice places to live in or nearby. The coming revolution in automotive journey times and the ability to work behind the (computer-driven) wheel will make living in such areas increasingly compatible with a commute to the nearest city.
Sick of sprawl
Natural habitats being lost entirely or splintered into ever-smaller fragments have long been understood as some of the primary causes of species extinctions across the world. Renewed urban sprawl threatens to increase the magnitude of both habitat loss and fragmentation. These threats are well known among conservationists, but there are differences of opinion on how best to respond.
For example, eco-modernists advocate a strategy of "land-sparing", whereby human activities are concentrated into urban areas and vast tracts of land are set aside for nature. There are many cultural and ethical problems inherent in herding humans into cities, but the near-term planning issues posed by autonomous vehicles will exacerbate the challenge given they will boost demand to live in "unspared" lands.
Alternatively, some conservationists advocate "land-sharing", in which human communities redesign the way we farm and live so as to co-exist with wildlife, cheek-by-jowl. Autonomous vehicles pose significant challenges for either approach, by supercharging the fragmentary effect of road systems.
Whichever approach is taken, we'll need to redesign existing systems and policies to take account of the increased range that driverless transport facilitates. This may involve new zoning laws to protect wider areas of countryside than at present. It certainly requires further development of green infrastructure, habitat corridors and "greenways".
It might also involve engineering solutions, especially given the fact that autonomous vehicles should be much more amenable to being driven underground. It is possible to imagine a future in which the famous bear bridges of Banff are tiny precursors to a vast programme in which rural highways are covered with forests of green. Retro-fitting roads into tunnels won't be cheap, but it becomes easier when human drivers are taken out of the equation. Software drivers are less bothered by artificial light and more efficient at mitigating the congestion impact during construction.
Much conservation policy is based on planning for the world we live in now. Strategic conservation planning needs instead to take account of likely futures. And in a future of driverless cars, that is likely to result in the mega cities of the 20th century becoming the mega sprawls of the 21st. Unless, of course, planners and conservationists rise to this new challenge.


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[Population Aging to 2030, Day 5, Essay 1 of 2]
International migration is now the dominant driver of population increase in most Western European countries and in the English-speaking world, exceeding natural increase considerably and in some cases approaching the annual total addition to population from births. If current trends persist those populations will become "super diverse" with today's 'majority' population no longer numerically dominant.
Figure 1. Rate of natural change and rate of net migration, selected European countries, 2010
Birth rates in developed countries are relatively low, equivalent to a family size (total fertility) of no more than two and much lower in some Southern and Eastern European countries. Population change is thus driven primarily by international migration, not natural change (the difference between the number of births and deaths). In some NW European countries population growth has been raised to levels not seen since the early 1970s (as in the US Australia and New Zealand). Rates of natural increase in European countries are nowhere over 0.4 per thousand; many are negative. Net immigration, however, approached 9 per thousand in some in 2010 (Figure 1).
Table 1. Comparison between natural increase and net migration in selected European countries.
In some countries (Table 1) the annual contribution of migrants to population growth (net of emigration) has been almost as great as the annual number of births (Switzerland, Italy), including births to immigrants. But migration can swing from one extreme to another in times of economic crisis.
The cumulative effects of immigration since the 1960s have been to raise the proportion of immigrants in national populations from (usually) small single figures to around 10% or more (Table 2). The number of immigrants is often substantially greater than the number of foreigners in any given year. Some countries turn foreigners into citizens almost as fast as they arrive in (e.g. France and the Netherlands) through rapid naturalisation.
Table 2. Number of foreign citizens and immigrants in selected European countries.
Distinctive cultural patterns and needs, residential segregation and socio-economic and other forms of disadvantage have persisted among many immigrant populations. Accordingly, some countries estimate populations of foreign origin beyond the 'first (immigrant)' generation. Countries of the English – speaking world ask individuals to specify their 'ethnic origin' or 'ancestry' in census or survey questions. In continental European countries with population registers, parallel estimates are made through registration data on nationality and birthplace of individuals and of their parents. In the former, the ethnic ascriptions extend potentially over an unlimited number of generations. In the latter, the 'third generation' is assumed to have become 'native' (i.e. 'Danish', 'Dutch', etc.) and casino online disappears from statistical view. According to these estimates the population online pokies of 'foreign origin' or 'foreign background' had increased to about 20% of the national total by 2010.
In the US, the non-European racial diversity represented by the US black population was is not of recent immigrant origin. Usually the major national origin components – Moroccans, Turks, Somalis, etc. are projected separately, and broadly grouped into 'Western' or 'High Human Development Index (HDI)' (people mostly of European origin) or non-Western (people of non-European origin) from countries of middle or low HDI.
Figure 2 shows an approximately linear increase of the minority groups to between 20% and over 30% of the national population by the end of the projection period (usually 2050 or 2060). The level of net migration is usually assumed to remain constant, given the difficulty of predicting migration. Those for Norway and The Netherlands are exceptions. In the UK, the favoured variant projection by Rees and his colleagues assumes that dgfev online casino return migration will increase pro rata with growing minority numbers, leading to markedly slower projected growth of the minority populations compared with the highest variant from this author. Later projections for Denmark and The Netherlands in the last decade indicate more modest minority growth than earlier ones, following reductions in immigration partly following restrictive policy initiatives.
Figure 2. Projection of immigrant population by region.
The continuation of these trends online casino in low-fertility countries would eventually lead to the numerical eclipse of the former majority population, assuming that the defined groups remain discrete. The latest US projections assume that the US will become the first industrial country to have a 'majority minority' population in about 2043, although there the black population Whereas the opposition to Neptune suggests attraction to illicit drugs, it also heralds artistic talents, which are efficient because they are indefinable or even magnetic (Taurus- scorpio love horoscope axis). is not, for the most part, of recent immigrant origin. Excitable and unscientific projections apart, few projections of European populations have extended far enough into the future to reach a similar outcome. One projection for the UK (assuming the continuation of recent migration and fertility levels) indicates that all ethnic minority populations together would exceed the number of 'White British' at around 2070.
A comprehensive analysis made on a common methodology for all the EU countries was published by Eurostat in 2010, on four different scenarios. The most conservative of these estimated that 26.5% of the EU population would be of 'foreign background' by 2061, the highest model being 34.6%. Among larger countries, the lowest estimate overall was for Bulgaria (7%); the highest for Belgium, Germany, Spain and Austria, all around 50%.
However, 60 years is a long time in demography and these projections can only illustrate the consequences of specified assumptions. Migration can, and does, go down as well as up- notably in Germany, The Netherlands and Spain in the last few years, and recently from Mexico into the United States. Populations of mixed origins are increasing fast and will have a profound effect on the social scene and on concepts of ethic identity and categorisation.
But none of this is graven in stone. Most depends on migration rates. While their high level may seem inexorable, international migration is the most volatile of demographic components, subject to multiple economic and political uncertainties, and at least in theory subject to policy control. The magnitude of the challenges presented by these trends is very great – to society, national identity, domestic and foreign policy.
David Coleman is Professor of Demography in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at Oxford University.
References Cited.
Caldwell, C. (2009). Reflections on the Revolution in Europe. Immigration, Islam and the West. London, Allen Lane.
Coleman, D. A. (2006). "Immigration and ethnic change in low-fertility countries: a third demographic transition." Population and Development Review 32(3): 401 – 446.
Coleman, D. A. (2009). "Divergent patterns in the ethnic transformation of societies." Population and Development Review 35(3): 449 – 478.
Coleman, D. A. (2010). "Projections of the Ethnic Minority Populations of the UK, 2006 – 2056."Population and Development Review 36(3): 441 – 486.
Lanzieri, G. (2011). Fewer, older and multicultural? Projections of the EU populations by foreign/national background Luxemburg, Eurostat. http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-RA-11-019/EN/KS-RA-11-019-EN.PDF
Steinmann, G. and M. Jaeger (2000). "Immigration and Integration: Non-linear Dynamics of Minorities."Journal of Mathematical Population Studies 9(1): 65 – 82.
United Nations (2000). Replacement Migration: Is it a Solution to Declining and Ageing Populations?New York, United Nations.
Wohland, Pia , Phil Rees, Paul Norman, Peter Boden and Martyna Jasinska (2010) Ethnic population projections for the UK and local areas, 2001-2051. Working Paper 10/02, School of Geography, University of Leeds. http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/research/wpapers


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Professional football developed in the 1890s in Pennsylvania, as local athletic clubs engaged in increasingly intense competition. Former Yale football star William "Pudge" Heffelfinger became the first-ever professional football player when he was hired by the Allegheny Athletic Association to play in a game against their rival the Pittsburgh Athletic Club in November 1892. By 1896, the Allegheny Athletic Association was made up entirely of paid players, making it the sport's first-ever professional team. As football became more and more popular, local semi-pro and pro teams were organized across the country.
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Saturday, June 29, 2013
AA Michael: Love Is Breaking Out
We greet you today with news that your world, at least the world of those not in denial, is changing. Look more closely around you than the national and international news. Many of you stopped following that some time ago anyway. Look for the changing attitudes of those in your own communities. Look even at the opportunities being brought forward by those courageous enough to challenge the long prevailing attitudes which you want changed.
In the short run, not every one of these changes may manifest. In the long run, dear hearts, they all will. It all serves to awaken those who hear of it just that much more.
Look to what you call your social media. How rapidly are the attitudes and understandings changing there? Yes, even in spite of those who refuse to acknowledge it, and in spite of those who are paid to undermine it. Some still think, you see, that they have the power to influence what you think, but we assure you that the power to influence what you think is only yours, if that is what you determine. We say that because, in addition to your own power, you have called upon and activated ours. They are trying to put their fingers into the dike, as your story goes, but they are finding that they only have ten fingers and the dike is leaking in innumerable places.
Love is breaking out. Peace and freedom will surely follow. For those who continue to insist that nothing is happening, we have this response. You are wrong. Sorry, but you are wrong. The inner changes of millions of people are indeed happening now. And that, my friends, is what your societies and your world are made up of. It is all a reflection of you. And you are in the driver's seat now.
If you hope, you are powerful. If you believe you are more powerful. If you see, hear, feel, know, and love, you are the most powerful of all. Join together now and show yourselves just what you can do in peace and love. Be your new world and then watch it appear before your eyes. It is who you are. It is why you are here.
We shall speak with you again very soon. Good day, dear ones.
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Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) is seeking to raise revenue by applying the state's 6 percent sales tax to motor fuel purchases. O'Malley and other proponents of the tax expansion say it would provide funding to help with road repairs and other transportation needs.
However, history shows large amounts of any additional monies "designated" for transportation use tend to go elsewhere, notes Christopher Summers, president of the Maryland Public Policy Institute in Rockland, Maryland.
"We're adamantly opposed to it," Summers says. "For years they've transferred a lot of money out of the transportation trust fund to the general fund in order to balance the budget. Maryland motorists have already paid for this."
The diversions have been done to satisfy the state's requirement for a balanced budget.
More than $1 Billion Shifted
According to Summers, state officials took $370 million from the transportation fund to cover other spending needs in Fiscal Year 2010. This was not a one-time move but a continuation of a multiyear trend that has resulted in some $1.1 billion being "borrowed" from the transportation trust fund, with no signs the money will ever be returned.
In a Maryland Public Policy Institute study, Rethinking Maryland's Proposed Gas Tax Increase, released Feb. 1, transportation policy experts Wendell Cox and Ronald D. Utt conclude Maryland would have to raise its gas tax by at least 10 cents for two years to offset those recent diversions of transportation tax revenues.
"They're using this as a cookie jar to cover other budget gaps," Summers says. "This is a regressive tax; it will hit the poor and the middle class the hardest."
'Wrong Answer to an Overhyped Problem'
Rethinking Maryland's Proposed Gas Tax Increase estimates those in the lowest income brackets would pay a share of their incomes seven times greater than would be paid by wealthier households.
Summers adds much of the state's transportation money goes to projects that benefit relatively few citizens. For example, public transportation projects tend to receive priority on many funding requests, even though those projects tend to benefit the fewest taxpayers.
Proponents say the additional tax would create jobs, but Summers says any additional jobs would come at the expense of Maryland motorists, who will not have the estimated $491 million that would be raised from the tax to purchase other goods and services, purchases that would also support jobs.
"I don't dispute that there are some transportation maintenance and building projects that need to be completed," Summers said. "We don't need a gas tax hike to fix those problems, however. Simply reprioritizing current funding would free up significant revenue. Raising the gas tax is the wrong answer to an overhyped problem. This proposal is nothing more than another attempt by the state to balance its wasteful budget on the back of its citizens."


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Chapter II.
The Emperor is exhorted to display zeal in the Faith. Christ's perfect Godhead is shown from the unity of will and working which He has with the Father. The attributes of Divinity are shown to be proper to Christ, Whose various titles prove His essential unity, with distinction of Person. In no other way can the unity of God be maintained.
12. "Not every one that saith unto Me Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven,"16891689 S. Matt. vii. 21. saith the Scripture. Faith, therefore, august Sovereign, must not be a mere matter of performance, for it is written, "The zeal of thine house hath devoured me."16901690 Ps. lxix. 9. Cf. S. John ii. 17. Let us then with faithful spirit and devout mind call upon Jesus our Lord, let us believe that He is God, to the end that whatever we ask of the Father, we may obtain in His name.16911691 S. John xv. 16; S. Luke xi. 9, 10. For the Father's will is, that He be entreated through the Son, the Son's that the Father be entreated.16921692 S. John xvi. 23, 24, and xiv. 13; S. Matt. vii. 7, 8; S. Mark xi. 24.
13. The grace of His submission makes for agreement [with our teaching], and the acts of His power are not at variance therewith. For whatsoever things the Father doeth, the same also doeth the Son, in like manner.16931693 S. John v. 19, 30. The Son both doeth the same things, and doeth them in like manner, but it is the Father's will that He be entreated in the matter of what He Himself proposeth to do, that you may understand, not that He cannot do it otherwise, but that there is one power displayed. Truly, then, is the Son of God to be adored and worshipped, Who by the power of His Godhead hath laid the foundations of the world, and by His submission informed our affections.16941694 S. John i. 3; Heb. v. 7–10.
14. Therefore we ought to believe that God is good, eternal, perfect, almighty, and true, such as we find Him in the Law and the Prophets, and the rest of the holy Scriptures,16951695 Vide, e.g., Ps. xxv. 8; Jer. x. 10; James i. 17, 18; Dan. ix. 9, 10; S. Luke i. 37. for otherwise there is no God. For He Who is God cannot but be good, seeing that fulness of goodness is of the nature of God:16961696 Dan. ix. 7; Ex. xxxiv. 6. nor can God, Who made time, be in time; nor, again, can God be imperfect, for a lesser being is plainly imperfect, seeing that it lacks somewhat whereby it could be made equal to a greater. This, then, is the teaching of our faith—that God is not evil, that with God nothing is impossible, that God exists not in time, that God is beneath no being. If I am in error, let my adversaries prove it.16971697 See James i. 13; S. Luke xviii. 27; Ps. xc. 2–4; lxxxix. 6.
15. Seeing, then, that Christ is God, He is, by consequence, good and almighty and eternal and perfect and true; for these attributes belong to the essential nature of the Godhead. Let our adversaries, therefore, deny the Divine Nature in Christ,—otherwise they cannot refuse to God what is proper to the Divine Nature.
16. Further, that none may fall into error, let a man attend to those signs vouchsafed us by holy Scripture, whereby we may know the Son. He is called the Word, the Son, the Power of God, the Wisdom of God.16981698 S. John i. 1, 14; xx. 31; Rom. i. 4; S. Matt. xxviii. 18; 1 Cor. i. 24; Col. ii. 3. 204The Word, because He is without blemish; the Power, because He is perfect; the Son, because He is begotten of the Father; the Wisdom, because He is one with the Father, one in eternity, one in Divinity. Not that the Father is one Person with the Son; between Father and Son is the plain distinction that comes of generation;16991699 Begetter and begotten must be personally distinct. so that Christ is God of God, Everlasting of Everlasting, Fulness of Fulness.17001700 Col. i. 19; ii. 9.
17. Now these are not mere names, but signs of power manifesting itself in works, for while there is fulness of Godhead in the Father, there is also fulness of Godhead in the Son, not diverse, but one. The Godhead is nothing confused, for it is an unity: nothing manifold, for in it there is no difference.
18. Moreover, if in all them that believed there was, as it is written, one soul and one heart:17011701 Acts iv. 32. if every one that cleaveth to the Lord is one spirit,17021702 1 Cor. vi. 17. as the Apostle hath said: if a man and his wife are one flesh:17031703 Gen. ii. 24; S. Matt. x. 8. if all we mortal men are, so far as regards our general nature, of one substance: if this is what the Scripture saith of created men, that, being many, they are one,17041704 Acts xvii. 26; Gal. iii. 28. who can in no way be compared to Divine Persons, how much more are the Father and the Son one in Divinity, with Whom there is no difference either of substance or of will!
19. For how else shall we say that God is One? Divinity maketh plurality, but unity of power debarreth quantity of number, seeing that unity is not number, but itself is the principle of all numbers.
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Lynnafred and i tried these drinks almost as soon as Mickey D's started selling them - and I forgot all about this picture, taken with my phone and promptly forgotten about back in July.
So I'm late to the party here, but I'm still going to offer a review of the once-new-but-now-familiar drinks.
Wild Berry Smoothie - Intensely fruity, smooth, icy and delicious. Personally, I wouldn't order either of the smoothies as beverages, but I like them as a quick, frosty replacement for lunch on a damn hot day.
Strawberry Banana Smoothie - Lynnafred's favorite. She loves them, I think any strawberry-banana combination just tastes like baby food so I'm not a fan. I will say, though, that the strawberry and banana flavors are well-proportioned, and the quality of the drink is - just like the Wild Berry version - very high quality.
Mocha Frappe - Completely bitchin'. A hint of coffee, a hint of chocolate, and not too sweet. Reminded me a lot of Dunkin' Donuts' original Coolata, which I think is exactly what McDonald's was going for here. Believe me, there is nothing like having one of these on a 90+ degree day as you take a drive in an old truck (like mine) that doesn't have air conditioning.
Caramel Frappe - Every bit as cold, refreshing, and capable of stealing business from Dunkin' Donuts as the mocha version, except that it's noticeably sweeter than the mocha and that made it sweeter than I like. No matter, there are plenty of people who would love this flavor and I really can't blame them.
You know, I really don't blame McDonald's for going after such a rapidly-growing market such as specialty beverages. And the results are truly spectacular. But this makes yet another line of products under the Golden Arches that are better than the burgers upon which the empire was founded.


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Written by Kate Snodgrass (Bark), Adara Meyers (Birds), Charlotte Meehan (Beesus)
Directed by Melia Bensussen (Bark & Beesus), Shana Gozansky (Birds)
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How Do I Know if I Have a Personal Injury Case?
How Do I Know if I Have a Personal Injury Case?
You must have suffered an injury to your person or property that was the fault of someone else. It is not always necessary to have a physical injury to bring a personal injury lawsuit — some personal injury claims can be based on a variety of nonphysical losses and harms. In the case of an assault, for example, you do not need to show that a person's action caused you actual physical harm, but only that you expected some harm to come to you. Similarly, you also may have a case if someone has caused injury to your reputation, invaded your privacy or intentionally inflicted emotional distress upon you.
How Soon After I Am Injured Do I Have to File a Lawsuit?
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Every state has certain time limits, called "statutes of limitations," which govern the amount of time you have to file a personal injury lawsuit. If you miss the deadline for filing your case, you may lose your legal right to damages for your injury. Consequently, it is important to contact a lawyer as soon as you suffer or discover an injury.
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If a person injured in an accident subsequently dies because of those injuries, that person's heirs may be able to recover money through a wrongful death action. Also, even if a person with a personal injury claim dies from unrelated causes (someone who broke their arm in a car accident, then died after falling down a flight of stairs, for example), the personal injury claim survives in most cases and may be brought by the executor or personal representative of the deceased person's estate.
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The critical issue in many personal injury cases is just how a "reasonable person" was expected to act in the particular situation that caused the injury. A person is negligent when he or she fails to act how an "ordinary reasonable person" would have acted. The determination of whether a given person has met the "ordinary reasonable person" standard is often a matter that is resolved by a judge or jury after presentation of evidence and argument at trial.
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Yes. Some persons or companies may be held "strictly liable" for certain activities that harm others, even if they have not acted negligently or with wrongful intent. Under the theory of strict liability, a person injured by a defective or unexpectedly dangerous product, for instance, may recover compensation from the maker or seller of the product without showing that the manufacturer or seller was actually negligent. Also, persons or companies engaged in using explosives, storing or transporting dangerous substances, or keeping dangerous animals can be strictly liable for harm caused to others as a result of these activities.
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Hello friends! Did you have a great weekend? Mine was spent glued to the television watching the Revenge marathon. *sigh* I tend to find scheming by the rich particularly enticing since I'm no trust fund baby...*LOL*
I did manage to make this card between episodes though...inspired by the challenges at Card Patterns, Moxie Fab World and City Crafter Challenge. The base is a Maya Road kraft envelope.
Supplies: Maya Road kraft envelop, Ranger distress ink, Crate Paper patterned paper and sticker, lace, photo turns, brads, ticket, thread.
* Edited* My card was picked as one of the 10 winners out of 806 entries over at Moxie Fab World! :)


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HOW TO - Put a tune you have written on this website
If you have composed a tune, then this is the website to put it on. Don't worry if you are not sure if your tune is 'good' enough - we don't try and impose judgement. All we ask is that the tune is legible.
The "Compositions" forum allows registered users to make a post and tune attach files. We are really keen for people to post their own tunes as this means they have control over them - the person who posted the tune can then edit or even delete their tune at any time.
Ok - so here is a step by step guide to uploading your tune to this website. It's really easy to do, and don't worry about making a mistake as you can always go back and change things.
1) Produce and organise your tune files.
You can attach your tune as one or more of the following file formats:
GIF (files with extension .gif) - These are image files suited for use on websites.
JPEG (files with extension .jpg or .jpeg) - These are images files suited for use on websites.
Bagpipe Music Writer (files with extension .bww or .bmw) - These are files produced by "Bagpipe Music Writer" software
PiobMaster (files with extension .pio) - These are files produced by "PiobMaster" software
Electric Pipes (files with extension .abc or .epm) - These are files produced by "Electric Pipes" software.
MIDI (files with extension .mid) - Audio files (can be produced with "Bagpipe Music Writer Gold)
How you go about producing these files depends on whether or not you have any sort of bagpipe music writing software.
If you don't have any bagpipe music writing software
If you don't have/can't afford or don't have the computer skills to use any bagpipe music writing software then you can get you tune on the site. Try making a post in the Bletherin forum asking form help - chances are someone will be willing to transcribe the tune foryou.
If you have bagpipe music writing software
Once you have written the tune using the software, save the tune (ideally with the tune name as the file name) somewhere on your computer that you can find it easily (e.g "My Documents")
2) Review the standard license
Review the license described in the compositions section in this post to see if it is suitable. If not, you need to describe the license you wish to publish your work under in the body of your post in the next step.
3) Make a post in the "Compositions" forum with your tune files attached
Please make a separate new topic for each tune.
Go to the "Compositions" forum and click the "New Topic" button. Enter the tune details in the "Tune Database Entry" section. As the subject of the post the best thing to put is the tune name - though it doesn't really matter as long as you type something.
In the message body put whatever you want - information about the tune is always appreciated.
For each tune file you have, in the "Add an Attachment" area click on the "Browse" button to locate the file on your computer, then click the "Add Attachment" button (be patient - this uploads the file from your computer to the website so it may take a few seconds).
Once you have attached all the files, submit your post and that's it!
4) Tell your friends
Visit your positng and you will see a Facebook like and share button - if you have a Facebook account you could use the share button to tell your friends your tune is available.
If you don't have a Facebook account, you can always just drop your friends a wee email to let them know.
+ If you are posting and image, please try and keep the size below 100k. A good rule of thumb is to make sure the image is no wider than 800 pixels - this also means that the image should print properly.


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HENRICO COUNTY, Va. — More companies are embracing long-term or permanent remote work as they forgo brick and mortar locations for a virtual work life.
Aquent, a creative talent staffing agency, announced plans to allow leases at 35 of their offices in North America to expire.
Sarah-Tyler Moore, the agency's Mid-Atlantic director, supported the company's decision not to return to their Forest Avenue location in Henrico's West End.
"Amongst the people who were actually coming into the office, I would say most people were doing one to two days remotely anyway, so it certainly was a jump for us," Moore explained. "We very quickly decided this is what we have to do to adapt, to be able to still take care of our clients and talents, and now we are all fully remotely."
Aquent moved toward a virtual workforce during the height of the pandemic to help stop the spread of the coronavirus.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam continued to strongly encourage businesses to allow their employees to telework during the pandemic if they can do so.
Major companies like Amazon, Facebook, and Capital One have already committed non-essential employees to work from home until this Summer.
Aquent CEO John Chuang chose to allow his employees to work remotely to eliminate geographic barriers and increase opportunities for workers.
"I've actually gone to know so many people in our organization through working remotely that truthfully I don't think I would reach out to if we weren't in this pandemic world," Moore stated.
However, Senior Economic Advisor Spencer Levy pushed back at the notion that more companies will choose virtual versus face-to-face work. Levy also serves as chairman of Americas Research at CBRE, the world's largest commercial real estate company.
"I certainly respect companies that make different choices," he explained. "Most of the companies are going to make the choice to go back to the office."
Levy said more CEOs are admitting that long-term remote work isn't sustainable from a productivity standpoint. Levy described the use of office space as a want, and not a need for most companies.
"[Offices] make employees more productive and help you attract and retain talent. It allows you to create the company culture that you want. It allows you to learn the soft skills from communication to networking that you need to advance. Those things aren't going to change," Levy stated.
Some health experts have highlighted the burden of back-to-back online meetings, which is often referred to as "Zoom fatigue." Humans are social animals that crave and need face-to-face interaction, they argued.
Moore believed the benefits of online work outweigh the challenges, especially as a mother.
"I have been able to, as a working mom, go get my kid from daycare a little later since I'm not as far away," she explained.
Aquent also hired ahead of culture and community tasked with ensuring their employees are engaged with one another even while working virtually.
"We have all kinds of fun book clubs. We've done a cooking night and we were able to still connect together even though we are remote," Moore said.
This story was first published by Brendan King at WTVR.


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Why Do We Feel The Need To Argue?
Brains are wired for both intimacy and self-protection, and sometimes that creates a vicious cycle.
It doesn't seem to make sense: You used to be best friends, but now you can't go a day without fighting. Your partner says something that triggers you - you feel attacked or devalued - and you react: Maybe you yell, slam the door and walk out, or you shut down and refuse to continue the conversation. Looking back, it may be hard to tell how you even got into the argument in the first place. It might have been something very subtle that made you see red: a smirk, rolled eyes, a certain body posture, or tone of voice. In a split-second you picked up on a message, and you simply reacted. Unfortunately, your own signature response to the threat you perceive coming from your partner is likely to be the exact thing that drives him or her crazy, whether you say something hurtful, or flee the battlefield and leave your partner feeling abandoned. It's a vicious cycle.
What's going on? While we are social beings and want close relationships, we are also hard-wired for survival. Biologically speaking, when we feel threatened, we usually resort to one of 3 reflex-like reactions in order to protect ourselves from more hurt: fight, flight, and freeze. Depending on the situation, our brains try to determine the most likely outcome of a conflict and assess if there is enough time to escape, sufficient strength to fight/win, or if "playing dead" is the best strategy in order to survive.
These responses are not rationally chosen. Rather, they are triggered by external stimuli which cause your brain to fire almost instantly. Many of us have had experiences in the past where such a response was necessary for physical or emotional survival, and the brain has been shaped in ways to optimize these self-defense responses. The trouble is, while our reactions were probably shaped by a legitimate threat in the past, it may now be exaggerated in terms of the threat we now perceive from our partner when discussing an uncomfortable subject.
But there is hope: It takes a lot of time, practice, and more often than not professional guidance to teach your brain new ways of responding, but your brain can be rewired. Brain scientists call this process neuro-plasticity. Therapy can teach you to share things that bother you with your partner effectively, as well as how to listen to your partner while staying close, curious, and connected. The goal is getting to know him or her better in light of their history so you can change the vicious cycle of your interactions together. Your natural reactions, such as immediately wanting to fix a problem, withdrawing, or becoming emotionally reactive, can be un-learned.
While it is challenging, a couples therapist can provide you with the tools and practice to learn to speak your minds without escalating the situation. When listening to your partner's reality, you can learn to tolerate your own anxiety, calm yourself, and not lose sight of what is true from your perspective. If you and your partner practice that kind of sharing and listening, not only will your conflicts likely decrease, your intimacy will increase, too, leading to you both feeling more satisfied in your relationship.