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Who was Mary?
Mary is the mother Jesus Christ and one of the most important figures in the Bible. According to the New Testament, Mary was chosen by God to carry and give birth to Jesus. Mary appears in the following passages: Matthew 1 and 2; Luke 1 and 2; the wedding at Cana of Galilee, John 2:1-11; the episode of Matthew 12:46; Mark 3:21,31; the incident at the cross, John 19:25; the scene in the upper chamber, Acts 1:14.
Luke tells the story of Mary's inward and deeply personal experiences, her call (1:26 f), her maidenly fears (1:29,35), her loyal submission (1:38), her outburst of sacred and unselfish joy (1:39-55). From this anticipatory narrative he passes at once to the Messianic fulfillment. Matthew tells the story of the outward and, so to say, public experiences of Mary which follow hard upon the former and are in such dramatic contrast with them:
The shame and suspicion which fell upon her (1:18); her bitter humiliation (1:19), her ultimate vindication (1:20 f). Here the two narratives supplement each other by furnishing different details but, as in other instances, converge upon the central fact--the central fact here being Mary herself, her character, her thoughts, her experiences.
The point to be emphasized above all others is that we have real biography, although in fragments; in that the same person appears in the inimitable reality of actual characterization, in both parts of the story. This is sufficient guaranty of historicity; for no two imaginary portraits ever agreed unless one copied the other--which is evidently not the case here. More than this, the story is a truly human narrative in which the remarkable character of the events which took place in her life only serves to bring into sharper relief the simple, humble, natural qualities of the subject of them.
One can hardly fail to be impressed, in studying Mary's character with her quietness of spirit; her meditative inwardness of disposition; her admirable self-control; her devout and gracious gift of sacred silence. The canticle (Luke 1:46-55), which at least expresses Luke's conception of her nature, indicates that she is not accustomed to dwell much upon herself (4 lines only call particular attention to herself), and that her mind is saturated with the spirit and phraseology of the Old Testament. The intensely Jewish quality of her piety thus expressed accounts for much that appears anomalous in her subsequent career as depicted in the Gospels.
Mary at CanaThe first episode which demands our attention is the wedding at Cana of Galilee (John 2:1-11). The relationship between Jesus and His mother has almost eclipsed other interests in the chapter. It is to be noted that the idea of wanton interference on the part of Mary and of sharp rebuke on the part of Jesus is to be decisively rejected. The key to the meaning of this episode is to be found in 4 simple items:
(1) in a crisis of need, Mary turns naturally to Jesus as to the one from whom help is to be expected;
(2) she is entirely undisturbed by His reply, whatever its meaning may be;
(3) she prepares the way for the miracle by her authoritative directions to the servants;
(4) Jesus does actually relieve the situation by an exercise of power.
Whether she turned to Jesus with distinctly Messianic expectation, or whether Jesus intended to convey a mild rebuke for her eagerness, it is not necessary for us to inquire, as it is not possible for us to determine. It is enough that her spontaneous appeal to her Son did not result in disappointment, since, in response to her suggestion or, at least, in harmony with it, He "manifested his glory." The incident confirms the Infancy narrative in which Mary's quiet and forceful personality is exhibited.
Mary and the Career of Jesus
In Matthew 12:46 (parallel Mark 3:31-35), we are told that, when His mother and His brethren came seeking Him, Jesus in the well-known remark concerning His true relatives in the kingdom of heaven intended to convey a severe rebuke to His own household for an action which involved both unbelief and presumptuous interference in His great life-work. The explanation of this incident, which involves no such painful implications as have become connected with it in the popular mind, is to be found in Mark's account. He interrupts his narrative of the arrival of the relatives (which belongs in Mark 3:21) by the account of the accusation made by the scribes from Jerusalem that the power of Jesus over demons was due to Beelzebub.
This goes a long way toward explaining the anxiety felt by the relatives of Jesus, since the ungoverned enthusiasm of the multitude. which gave Him no chance to rest and seemed to threaten His health, was matched, contrariwise, by the bitter, malignant opposition of the authorities, who would believe any malicious absurdity rather than that His power came from God. The vital point is that the attempt of Mary and her household to get possession of the person of Jesus, in order to induce Him to go into retirement for a time, was not due to captious and interfering unbelief, but to loving anxiety. The words of Jesus have the undoubted ring of conscious authority and express the determination of one who wills the control of his own life--but it is a serious mistake to read into them any faintest accent of satire.
It has been well said (Horace Bushnell, Sermons on Living Subject, 30) that Jesus would scarcely make use of the family symbolism to designate the sacred relationships of the kingdom of heaven, while, at the same time, He was depreciating the value and importance of the very relationships which formed the basis of His analogy. The real atmosphere of the incident is very different from this.
Mary at the Cross
To be sure that many have misinterpreted the above incident we need only turn to the exquisitely tender scene at the cross recorded by John (19:25). This scene, equally beautiful whether one considers the relationship which it discloses as existing between Jesus and His mother, or between Jesus and His well-beloved disciple removes all possible ambiguity which might attach to the preceding incidents, and reveals the true spirit of the Master's home. Jesus could never have spoken as He did from the cross unless He had consistently maintained the position and performed the duties of an eldest son.
The tone and quality of the scene could never have been what it is had there not been a steadfast tie of tender love and mutual understanding between Jesus and His mother. Jesus could hand over His sacred charge to the trustworthy keeping of another, because He had faithfully maintained it Himself.Mary in the Christian Community
The final passage which we need to consider (Acts 1:14) is especially important because in it we discover Mary and her household at home in the midst of the Christian community, engaged with them in prayer. It is also clear that Mary herself and the family, who seemed to be very completely under her influence, whatever may have been their earlier misgivings, never broke with the circle of disciples, and persistently kept within the range of experiences which led at last to full-orbed Christian faith.
This makes it sufficiently evident, on the one hand, that the household never shared the feelings of the official class among the Jews; and, on the other, that the family of Jesus passed through the same cycle of experiences which punctuated the careers of the whole body of disciples on the way to faith. The beating of this simple but significant fact upon the historical trustworthiness of the body of incidents just passed in review is evident.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (in the public domain), "Mary, mother of Jesus"


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Life Giving Sword
written by Yagyu Munenori
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This is a translation of an important classic on Zen swordfighting. Yagyu Munenori was so widely renowned that he was appointed official sword instructor to two Tokugawa shoguns. (The position was always coveted by Miyamoto Musashi, but he never succeeded in gaining the post). Yagyu's style is known as the Shinkage-ryu style, for centuries the official style of the Tokugawa dynasty. His spiritual mentor was Zen priest Takuan. Here, Yagyu's Buddhist spirituality is clearly reflected in his central idea of the "life-giving sword" - the notion of controlling an opponent by the spiritual readiness to fight, rather than during the fight. His mastery of restraint and diplomacy made him a trusted political and military advisor to the shoguns. This book is a look into a master swordsman's thoughts on nonattachment and even non-violence.


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What Made Facebook Like WhatsApp?
Facebook announced on 19th Feb 2014 the purchase of Whatsapp in a $19 Billion Deal. It means $42 per WhatsApp user.
WhatsApp was founded by two guys Brain Acton and Jam Koum in 2008, who spent combined 20 years doing geeky stuff at Yahoo! Inc. before starting WhatsApp. Founded in the heart of Silicon Valley, WhatsApp reportedly earned total revenues of about 20 million last year.
With only 55 employees, WhatsApp's $19-billion valuation could, in an alternate universe where each employee was given an equal share, fetch $350 million per employee. This is nearly five times what employees of Instagram would have got when that company was bought out for $1 billion in 2012.
New Daily Record: 10B+ messages sent (inbound) and 17B+ messages rececived (outbound) by our users= 27 Billion messages handled in just 24 hours!


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American albacore tuna
Rich and meaty, albacore tuna is delicious whether rubbed with spices and grilled or simply pan-seared — and it pairs well with everything from cool Miso marinades to spicy glazes and salsas.
PCC gets its fresh albacore from the warm waters off Hawaii. It's low in saturated fat and a rich source of niacin, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, selenium, phosphorus, and heart-healthy omega-3s. Each four-ounce serving, in fact, contains more than two times the amount of omega-3s you need in a day!
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Pacific Northwest pole-caught albacore — provided in cans and jars at PCC — is one of the most healthy and sustainable seafoods you can eat. It tops the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program's Super Green List, meaning it's a "Best Choice" for sustainability, contains the daily minimum of omega-3s, and has low levels of contaminants. PCC carries several brands in the aisle with canned and jarred seafood, including Sweet Creek Foods, Tuna Guys and Wild Planet.
High in omega-3s, low in mercury
When you think of omega-3s, salmon probably is the first fish that comes to mind. But did you know that Pacific Northwest pole-caught albacore tuna also is a terrific source of these healthful fats? It may even have nearly twice as much as salmon, in fact, and has many times the amount found in tuna that wasn't caught locally. One trusted PCC brand, Wild Planet, says its tuna has 1,384 mg per 2-ounce serving. Other albacore tuna has only 250 mg!
Why? The reason is that companies that pack PNW pole-caught albacore cook the fish only once, leaving all the natural omega-3s in the can. The large national brands of tuna lose most of the omega-3s in a pre-cooking process before the fish is put in the can with water or vegetable oil, and sell the extracted omega-3 oil to supplement manufacturers.
PNW troll-caught albacore are lower in mercury because they are smaller (about nine to 25 pounds) and younger (three to five years old) than the longline-caught older fish that reach up to 70 pounds after 10 to 15 years of growth. The older the fish, the more it bio-accumulates mercury.
Troll-caught, pole-caught
"Troll-caught" (or "pole-caught") means the fish was caught by towing a lure or baited hook behind a slow-moving boat. In the albacore fishery, trollers attach 10 to 20 fishing lines to the vessel's outriggers. Trollers are limited in the number of fish they can catch — they have about 12 hooks in the water at any one time, and when an albacore is hooked, the fisherman has to pull each line in individually. This means there virtually is no by-catch.


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KEEPING houses clean can prevent children accumulating dangerous levels of lead in their blood, a new study has confirmed.
The blood of children who live in old housing with flaking, lead-based paint often contains high levels of lead. Mopping up dust helps children with the highest lead levels, but no one knew whether it made any difference to the much larger number with blood levels between 100 and 300 micrograms per litre. There are more than a million such children below the age of six in the US alone, and these doses can still be enough to impair mental development, experts say.
So George Rhoads of the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute in Piscataway, New Jersey, asked the families of 56 toddlers to let cleaners come to their houses every few weeks for a year. They wet-mopped floors, sponged walls and sucked up dust with a powerful vacuum cleaner. ...
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Court Martial For Fort Hood Officer Accused In Prostitution Ring
A non-commissioned sexual abuse prevention officer accused of operating a prostitution ring at a central Texas army base will face a military court martial. Fort Hood said Friday that Sgt. 1st Class Gregory McQueen's case will go to trial.
63-Year-Old Man Accused Of Soliciting Sex From Teen
Dallas police have arrested a 63-year-old man for allegedly soliciting sex from a 15-year-old boy. According to police, the incident happened Monday afternoon as the victim was walking in the 800 block of Pilot Drive.
Study: DFW Prostitution Market Approaches $100M
A new study has found that the market for illicit sex is a $99 million-a-year industry in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Fort Hood Soldier Convicted In Prostitute Case
A Fort Hood sergeant convicted in a prostitution and adultery case allegedly involving cash-strapped female soldiers has been reprimanded and demoted.
Fort Hood Soldier Goes On Trial Over Prostitution Ring
The court-martial has begun for a Fort Hood soldier accused of using a prostitution service involving senior non-commissioned officers and cash-strapped female soldiers.
Neighbors Warned Police About "Known Drug House" Before Murder
Frustrated neighbors in a new south Dallas subdivision say the Dallas Police Department didn't do enough when they called to report a drug house.
Prison For North Texas Woman Who Forced Girl Into Sex Trade
A woman has been sentenced to six years in federal prison for forcing a 15-year-old girl into prostitution and advertising her services online in a North Texas sex trafficking case.
Some Say Billboard Is "Advertising Prostitution"
The new billboard on Interstate-30 near Greenville is anything but subtle. The sign urges women to get out of prostitution and be a sugar baby, instead.
DFW Nonprofit Battles Human Trafficking
Human trafficking is the fastest growing criminal industry in the world, but a DFW-based nonprofit is working to help woman and children around the world find freedom.
North Texas Man Among 7 Arrested On Underage Sex Charges
Federal, state and authorities in Rapid City, South Dakota say they've arrested seven men on charges of trying to pay for sex with underage girls after responding to online classified ads
Texas Programs Try Prostitute Rehab Instead Of Jail
Kathryn Griffin Grinan is a former prostitute who now dons a business suit and heels as she transforms her non-profit into a taxpayer-funded program that is teaming up with Texas law enforcement and courts to reform women.
Alleged Prostitution Ring Leader Faces More Charges
CBS-11 has learned the alleged ringleader of a multi-state prostitution ring based in North Texas faces additional charges.


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Tampa City Elections results by Mitch E. Perry
WMNF Drive-Time News Friday
There were some suprises in last night's Tampa Municipal elections, but not in the top leadership position. Mayor Pam Iorio crushed her two opponents, taking 79% of the vote. Former Police Lieutenant Marion Lewis came in 2nd with 12%, and former Fire Chief Aria Green came in 3rd with 8% of the vote.
But the excitement was in several City Council races. 6 of the 7 races were up for election…Only the District 3 race, where longtime Councilwoman Linda Saul-Sena faced no opposition, was not on the ballot.
District One was the richest in candidates. Gwen Miller was the incumbent – but she was perceived to be so vulnerable that no fewer than 5 different candidates decided to run against her. Miller did get the most votes last night, at 27%, but coming in a close 2nd was business entrepreneur Joe Redner who came in 2nd at 23%, which means the 2 will face in each other in a run-off in 3 weeks.
Redner said last night that Miller isn't doing enough for Tampa Citizens (roll tape#1 o.q."
But not for every problem")
Redner's success last night is an upset. Most local analysts interviewed by WMNF before the election discounted the owner of the world famous Mons Venus night club, even though he had his best success ever in local electoral politics last November, when he lost in a Hillsborough County wide race against Commission Chairman Jim Norman.
But in that race, Norman spent a lot more money. He ran television ads, and held more campaign events. Some analysts said he didn't appear as motivated in this race. But Redner said his strategy was different this time around (roll tape#2 o.q."The City of Tampa")
If Redner were to be successful and get on the Council, his rhetoric indicates that he would be a voice against developers not paying their fair share . His campaign signs read, "Growth Must Pay for itself "(roll tape#3 o.q."should pay for itself")
Finishing in3rd place, with 15% of the vote was businesswomen Julie Jenkins. She received a little over 300 more votes than Denise Chavez. Finishing in 5th place was West Tampa restaurant owner Rick Barcena, and stunningly, Seminole Heights activist Randy Baron came in last, with just 10% of the vote.
Baron had been endorsed by both The Tampa Tribune and St. Petersburg Times. At his campaign party Tuesday night at the Front Porch restaurant, Baron said his poor showing was a blow to the neighborhood. He acknowledged that Gwen Miller and Joe Redner had far greater name recognition than he did , especially outside his own Seminole Heights stronghold (roll tape#4 o.q.so…next time I will")
Now that it's Gwen Miller vs. Joe Redner, Randy Baron says he'll give serious consideration to possibly endorsing Redner later this month (roll tape#5 o.q."of the entire city")
Perhaps the biggest story of the night was in the City wide District 2 race, where
Underdog Mary Mulhern, outspent by a more than 4 to 1 margin, squeezed by New Tampa incumbent Shawn Harrison, winning by 588 votes in a race out of over 25,000 votes.
Mulhern was a relative unknown a year ago – but gained tremendous name recognition last year when she ran an uphill campaign against Rose Ferlita for a Hillsborough County Commission seat. That race was not close, but her dogged campaign got her name recognition – and an upset victory last night. She says she'll bring a fresh perspective to the City Council (roll tape#6 o.q."trying to buy influence")
In his television commercials, Shawn Harrison boasted that he was a 'real tax cutter'. Harrison , along with former Councilwoman Rose Ferlita, did lead the charge last year to provide a property tax cut for Tampa Citizens….Later on, after citizens demanded one at Council budget hearings, the entire Council followed his lead in voting for such a cut, which was relatively modest. New City Councilwoman Mary Mulhern says that the issue of Property taxes needs to be dealt with by the state legislature (roll tape#7 o.q."significant way")
We'll have more on the Harrison Mulhern race in a moment.
The most intense race was in District 4, where incumbent John Dingfelder easily defeated former City Attorney Julie Brown, by a 53 to 42 percent margin. Most analysts predicted the race would be close – and some outright predicted a Brown victory.
Both candidates spent nearly $150,000 in the race, that now pays $40,000 a year.
There was controversial tactics on both sides. Dingfelder was accused of shaking down one constituent for a campaign contribution, while Julie Brown received thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from friends, associates, and employees of car dealer Jason Kuhn.
Brown aired radio ads against Dingfelder, and was assisted by a 3rd party group that sent out negative brochures. Dingfelder said the attacks ads worked against Julie Brown
(roll tape#8 o.q."I don't know what to say about that")
During an environmental forum last month, Dingelder said he was FOR development – but development in the downtown Tampa district – and not in the suburban areas
(roll tape#9 o.q."our more suburban environment")
In District 5, former Hillsborough County Commissioner Thomas Scott edged out interim Council member Frank Reddick and Tracy Judge.
In District 6, Charlie Miranda, who was first elected to the City Council in the 1970's and lost against Pam Iorio in a run for Mayor 4 years ago, crushed challenger Lisa Tamargo 71 to 29%.In the New Tampa area, District 7, there will be a runoff, with Joseph Catanano and Frank Margarella running against each other…Only 446 votes separated the 2 men, with Catanano getting more votes. But surprisingly, Charles Perkins, who was missing in action in most of the public forums during the campaign, came in 3rd, but was only 90 votes shy of getting into the runoff against Caetano. comments powered by Disqus


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Posted: February 12, 2013 at 3 a.m.
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State Trooper Hurt In I-93 Crash
Another Massachusetts state trooper has been injured on the job.
State trooper suspended after confrontation
A veteran Massachusetts State Police trooper has been suspended without pay after being accused of driving drunk and pointing a gun at an off-duty Boston police officer.
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A State Trooper who is on Military leave is due in court today following his arrest on Saturday.
State police target drunken, distracted drivers
The commander of the state police says her department has stepped up patrols in an effort to crack down on drunken and distracted drivers following a series of accidents involving troopers.


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Hilton Coliseum | Wrestling
Some of the most cherished moments in Hilton Coliseum history have come by way of the tradition-rich ISU wrestling program. Hilton was home to Cael Sanderson's unprecedented, undefeated four-year career and his four national championships.�
Fans in Hilton on Jan. 9, 1981, also had the privilege of seeing Dave Osenbaugh's pin of national heavyweight champion Lou Banach of Iowa.
The Iowa State wrestling program has hosted five NCAA Championship events in 1974, 1979, 1982, 1988 and 1993 and Hilton has been home to eight conference meets in 1976, 1979, 1983, 1986, 1994, 1999, 2004, and most recently in 2006.


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Listen, all the fresh talent these days are making short films. When you're just out of film school, or striking out on your own, it's often best to dive into the film community by circulating your short and generating word of mouth on the film festival circuit. You're much more likely to wind up First A.D. on the next Nickelback video if you shoot some hedonistic, visually rich short film about god knows what than if you pick up a series of P.A. gigs on webisodes of some shitty sitcom starring Judge Reinhold. Since many filmmakers consider their short films to be their calling card and you don't have some investor or studio breathing down your neck to make something accessible for the largest possible audience, you're often left to your own devices to make something as creative and off-beat as possible, evidenced by the short films in Provocateur's latest entry into their ongoing Experiments In Terror series.
But there's a problem, you see. There's an awful lot of short films out there because there is an awful lot of film making talent, all vying for their shot but if you're like me and you live, more or less, out in the sticks, most of these shorts pass you by. You have to make it out to film festivals to see them and that can often be a humongous pain in the ass. Very few companies are compiling the good stuff on discs by genre and most of the time, the only way to see these shorts is if one of these directors breaks out of the Hollywood slum and kicks out a DVD with a series of extras showcasing the director in their creative infancy. Provocateur remedies this problem by supplying the horror hungry masses with a series of horror shorts that either easily fall into the genre or are horror films filtered through avant garde sensibilities. Their latest offering, the third in the Experiments In Terror series is a mixed bag of results but when it's good, it's good!
You get six short films to watch. Each one an off beat attempt at setting you ill at ease with your surroundings. The disc kicks off with Carey Burtt's bizarre retelling of the story of Richard Trenton Chase, The Vampire of Sacramento, a severely mentally ill young man who, in the 70's, murdered and cannibalized six people as well as a countless number of animals because he was under the delusions that aliens and Nazis were poisoning him via the soap in his shower, among a number of other bat-shit insane claims. Burtt tells the story, The Psychotic Oddyssey of Richard Chase, with Barbie dolls, paper cutouts, stuffed animals and a warped narration. For a taste I have included Burtt's short at the bottom of this review. Following this short is Satan Claus, a Christmas themed fairytale made entirely from recut and recontextualized footage of 60's Christmas movies and some footage of a guy dressed up like the devil. Next up is The Red Door from director Jason Bognacki, an extremely unpleasant revenge scenario told through the eyes of a fractured Hollywood prostitute. Bognacki submits this ambitious short as a smaller piece of a forthcoming feature (which I'm told at this time is making solo runs at film festivals). Following that is Terror! by Ben Rivers, a montage of classic slasher, giallo and splatter that Rivers describes as a love letter to the horror genre. It's easily the best short on the disc and showcases the similarities that many of the classic films of the genre from the 70's and 80's share, starting with exteriors, introducing victims and building to a gory crescendo in a quick cut editorial of films such as Friday the 13th, The Beyond, Prince of Darkness, Suspiria, Trauma, etc. It's a fun piece that every horror fan should be in love with. Mike Kuchar's Born of the Wind is up next, a cheap-looking silent that tells the story of an archaeologist, his object of obsession, a mummified woman resurrected and the burglar that she falls in love with. Rounding out the package is the Guy Maddin/Marie Losier collaboration, Manuelle Labor, a typically stunted silent tale of a woman who gives birth to a pair of severed hands.
I certainly have an appreciation for the avant but the fact that the final two films are both silents is irksom. Also, at least one of these pictures ends with a title card reading Fin. Just so you know what you're getting yourself into. Highlights on this edition of Experiments In Terror are easily Terror! and The Red Door, both being great entries for their own reasons. Bognacki could have submitted a trailer for The Red Door, but what you get in its stead is a full bodied taste of things to come. For the most part, it's a uncomfortably close close-up shot of a scumbag John, threatening Lynda, the protagonist hooker via POV shot before diving on top of her for a roll in the hay. Of course, she gets the upper hand and a doppleganger stabs the shit out of him before suffocating him with a bag over his head. Bognacki is describing it as a giallo but the look of the short is a lot like a David Lynch film, somewhere between Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet complete with a warped record song playing over the action. Rivers' Terror! is an altogether different experience, though. It flows like a piece of music, beginning softly with exterior shots from movies that you're probably familiar with, easing in to characters we know inching through the darkness toward their deaths until it explodes into a festival of carnage before easing out with false scare scenes from The Burning and A Nightmare On Elm Street. There's isn't a single frame of original footage in it, but it shows off Rivers' expertise with editing.
There are, of course, some shortcomings on the disc, notably Mike Kuchar's exceedingly boring Born of the Wind which alleges that it has been preserved by some avant garde film society, but it looks like a cheap Jess Franco flick sans nudity and spoken dialog. To its credit, Born of the Wind was produced in 1961 and plays out like a short from an EC comic book but it hasn't age particularly well. It's loaded with the type of overacting that you'd expect from a silent, but it's also shot in faded color, which betrays the silent nature of the film. The end result looks like a damaged 8mm print of some Mexi-horror melodrama. J.X. Williams' short, Satan Claus has a much more interesting back story than the end product. A piece made to screw a cheap theater owner who owed Williams a good deal of back pay. The idea of taking Christmas movie footage and changing the context of it all is interesting but it serves no purpose in the here and now. In the end, it's the shortest piece on the disc and most tolerable, where Born of the Wind seems to take forever to get anywhere. I realize that I'm picking on the two oldest entries on the disc, but they are both genuinely out of place in the face of cutting edge merchandise like The Red Door.
The gems on the disc are solid and you don't have to watch the bad ones since you can pick and choose. The remaining two items are strictly middle of the road, good short films and wind up rounding out a solid package of short films for horror fans who like a little crazy in their horror film diet. Provocateur has gathered together a mostly hit pack and I look forward to Experiments In Terror 4, if there even is a fourth part.


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(Tue 6/28/11) - No beer at the convenience store. The Douglas City Council said no last night to a request from Maverik Convenience Stores for the city's lone available retail liquor license. The license would have allowed Maverik to sell beer, wine and liquors at their store on West Yellowstone. Randy Roush, an executive director with Maverik Stores, said that their chain sells alcohol in 13 of their 23 Wyoming stores, and has a successful history of selling alcohol. Several community members spoke against giving the license to Maverik. Neb Simonton owns Sunset Liquor. She said that in a three week period, she got over 350 signatures on a petition that said in part... audio here
Kerry Shatto reminded the Council that just because they have an available liquor license, they don't have to grant it... audio here
The store's location across the street from Douglas Intermediate School was a key issue in the discussion... again, this is Kerry Shatto... audio here
The Council voted 4-1 against giving the license to Maverik. Councilman Dave Angiolillo was the lone dissenting vote.
(Tue 6/28/11) - The Douglas City Council decided to take the long view in dealing with regulations for temporary housing in the city limits. City Administrator Steve Henning last night gave the council a first packet of information collected by staff on what those ordinances might look like. The packet also included advice and experiences from other communities like Pinedale, Wyoming and Williston, North Dakota, where man camps have been a part of energy booms. The Council only made one decision on the issue last night night. That decision was that they would not deal with the issue on an emergency, one-reading basis. They'll go through the normal process of three readings and the associated public hearings to craft a set of ordinances.
(Thu 6/23/11) - That open liquor license will go back in play next week. The Douglas City Council will hear a request Monday night from Maverik Convenience Stores for the city's lone available retail liquor license. It's the same license that the Council denied to the Douglas Safeway store last month. This is not the first time the question has come up... Maverik applied for, and was denied, a retail liquor license when they originally built the store. Concerns at that time were the store's proximity to Douglas Intermediate School, and the idea of selling gasoline and beer in the same location. The Maverik store was built with liquor sales in mind... the dispensing room is through a sliding glass door beside the checkout area in the northeast corner of the building. The Council will consider the request at Monday night's Douglas City Council meeting, 7pm at City Hall. Council meetings are open to the public, and are broadcast live on Communicom Cable channel 61.
(Thu 6/23/11) - WYDOT will get out of town and closer to the Interstate. The Wyoming Department of Transportation is continuing to work on moving their Douglas shop complex farther out East Richards Street, near the Exit 135 interchange. Lowell Fleenor is WYDOT district 2 Engineer out of Casper... audio here
Fleenor says the project will also change the way you get on and off of I-25... audio here
Fleenor says if everything goes as planned, they'll let bids on the WYDOT shop project in October of 2011... best timeline for completion would be in mid-2013.
(Thu 6/23/11) - Wyoming has recorded its first case of a potentially fatal horse virus this year. State Veterinarian Jim Logan said Wednesday that tests confirmed a case of Equine Herpes Virus 1 in a horse from Johnson County. The horse has been isolated from other horses on the premises and the location is under quarantine. Another horse from the same location has been euthanized due to symptoms of virus, but tests to confirm the virus are pending.
Horses from around the state are in Douglas this week. On the Wyoming State Fairgrounds, the Wyoming State High School Rodeo Finals are underway, and National Director Dixie Huxtable says they're taking appropriate precautions... audio here
Huxtable says they have plans in place and a quaranteen area available should an animal get sick. She also said that there are some precautions that horse owners should take... audio here
State High School Rodeo performances are set for 9am and 6:30pm today, tomorrow and Saturday, with a final short-go performance on Sunday morning at the Wyoming State Fairgrounds here in Douglas.
(Thu 6/23/11) - Hundreds of people crowded the Douglas High School gym on Wednesday to pay their respects to a U.S. Marine killed earlier this month in Afghanistan. Many held small American flags at the service to show their respect for 22-year-old Lance Cpl. Sean O'Connor, a rifleman killed June 12 in Helmand province. O'Connor enlisted in May 2007, shortly after graduating from the high school where his funeral was held. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division at Camp Pendleton, Calif. His decorations included the Purple Heart and Combat Action Ribbon. Teacher Ed Sheridan said O'Connor took great pride in being the best. Sheridan noted that O'Connor was born on a Marine Corps base in California and that his father, Daniel O'Connor, was a Marine.
(Thu 6/16/11) - The body of twenty-two-year-old Marine Lance Cpl. Sean M. O'Connor will arrive in Douglas Friday afternoon. O'Conner, a Douglas High School graduate based at California's Camp Pendleton, was killed in combat in Afghanistan Sunday. O'Connor's body is scheduled to arrive in Douglas from Dover Air Base in Dover, Delaware, Friday June 17th at 2pm. He's expected to leave the airport at about 2:30pm, and will come in on 4th Street to Richards, to Cheyenne and on to Converse Funeral Chapel.
City administrator Steve Henning says people are welcome to line the route to honor O'Conner. (CORRECTION: The City of Douglas is not handing out free American flags at City Hall, as announced earlier.) Peak Fitness has free flags available... at Peak from 5 this evening til 1pm Friday, then they'll hand out flags Friday afternoon beginning at 1pm at Falkenburgs on East Richards.
Governor Matt Mead has signed a proclamation for flags to be flown at half-mast statewide from Friday afternoon til after the funeral on Wednesday.
O'Conner's funeral is scheduled for Wednesday, June 22nd at 10am at the Douglas Rec Center Gym. The funeral is open to the public. A private burial service will follow in the Douglas Park Cemetary.
(Tue 6/14/11) -The city of Douglas plans to honor a Marine killed in combat in Afghanistan. Twenty-two-year-old Lance Cpl. Sean M. O'Connor of Douglas, a rifleman based at California's Camp Pendleton, was killed in combat in Afghanistan Sunday. Douglas Mayor Bruce Jones says the city is making plans to honor him. O'Connor is the son of a Marine and was born at Camp Pendleton. He moved to Douglas when he was 7 and graduated from Douglas High School. He is the third casualty from the Marines' 1st Battalion since it took command of Sangin, an insurgent stronghold in the Helmand province, in April. Daniel O'Connor said his son believed in the mission in Afghanistan. He was scheduled to leave the Marines this year. Funeral services for Lance Cpl. Sean M. O'Connor are pending.
(Tue 6/14/11) - What you see is what you get. Converse County Emergency Manager Russ Dalgarn says that, barring any heavy rainfall, water levels on the North Platte River have stabilized and should not rise anymore. The Bureau of Reclamation is releasing 8,000 cfs of water out of Gray Reef Reservoir near Alcova. We are seeing 8,700 cfs passing the gauge near Orin. The Bureau is anticipating keeping their releases at this level through the 13th of July. The current forecast is to drop the releases down to 5,500 cfs by the end of July. With the river running higher and faster than normal, people should use extreme caution when near the banks of the river. Dalgarn says sandbags are still available if anyone needs them.
(Tue 6/14/11) - City water rates are going up... but it shouldn't affect your bill at all. At last night's council meeting, the Douglas City Council approved a resolution increasing the demand and commodity rate user charges for city water. The increase, however, only applies to those who use more than 31 thousand gallons of water a month... City Administrator Steve Henning said the rate increase won't affect most Douglas water users... audio here
Henning said the rate increase will allow the city to play catch-up in a department that's lost money... audio here
Oil companies have to use processed water for fracking... that's why you've seen all the water trucks lined up at the fairgrounds... they're waiting to fill those trucks at the city's bulk water station at Public Works. Henning said that the cost of filling 5-thousand gallon tanker would go up from $50 dollars to a maximum of $125 dollars... audio here
With the city facing expensive improvements needed to the Box Elder Spring Water transmission pipeline, water rate increases are required to pay for the debt service. By raising rates on bulk water users, the biggest water users shoulder the biggest share of the costs. The Council voted 5-0 last night to approve the increase as presented.
(Tue 6/14/11) - A state board has approved plans for two wind farms south of Glenrock. The Wyoming Industrial Siting Council voted 4-3 Monday to permit the projects which together will have 31 wind turbines. The council added a number of conditions to the permit. They include requiring developer Wasatch Wind to put up a nearly $19 million bond. Also the wind turbines will need to have safety lights that turn on to warn approaching aircraft. The Pioneer Wind Park will cost between $180 million and $200 million and generate 100 megawatts of power when completed.
(Mon 6/13/11) - The Department of Defense says a Marine from Douglas has been killed in combat in Afghanistan. The military said today that 22-year-old Lance Cpl. Sean M. O'Connor of Douglas was killed Sunday in Helmand province. O'Connor enlisted in May 2007. His decorations included the Purple Heart and Combat Action Ribbon. He was a rifleman assigned to the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division at Camp Pendleton, Calif.
(Mon 6/13/11) - We'll see the results of a lot of numbers-crunching tonight. The Douglas City Council will hold public hearings on fiscal year 2011 budget amendments and the FY 2012 Douglas City Budget. The City will find iteslf in much better financial shao this summer. General fund revenue is projected to be up almost $1.5 million dollars, or 26 percent, for FY 2011, primarily due to continued record sales tax reciepts. This means the city will satrt FY 2012 with $1.8 million dollars more in the General Fund than was originally projected. The complete agenda for tonight's Douglas City Council meeting is posted on the City's website at cityofdouglaswy.com. The City Council meets tonight at 7 in council chambers at Douglas City Hall. Council meetings are open to the public, and are broadcast live on Comminucom Cable channel 61.
(Wed 6/8/11) - The snow has melted, but the river may still rise. Converse County Emergency Manager Russ Dalgarn says that, for the most part, warm weather over the past week has pretty much melted off the local snowpack in the northern Laramie Range, and local creeks and streams are slowing back down to normal flows. Dalgarn says that we can still expect the North Platte River to rise some more. Due to the increased runoff, the Bureau of Reclamation raised relases out of Gray Reef Reservoir at Alcova last night to 7800 cfs, and will increase flow to 8000 cfs tonight. We should see the peak flows on the river by late Friday afternoon, June 10th. With the combination of the local creeks and streams slowing, and the increased releases from upstream we will see a gradual increase in the level of the river up to an additional four (4) inches. Dalgarn says sandbags are still available for anyone who may need them. Residents in the west side of the County can get sand and sandbags from the landfill in Glenrock, residents in the Douglas area can get sand and sandbags at the County Road and Bridge yard in Douglas.
And in Sports...
(Mon 6/27/11) - The dust has settled in the Grandstands Arena, the horse trailers have headed home, and the Wyoming State Team has been set for next month's National High School Final Rodeo at Gillette. The top four cowboys and cowgirls in each event in the season points standings will represent the Cowboy State, and several local athletes rode a good performance at this weekend's State Finals here in Douglas to a slot on the Nationals team. Checking rough stock first, on barebacks, Neil Williams of Mills holds the top slot, 10 points ahead of Ace Thurston of Lance Creek. Seth Courson of Evansville and and Trey Gladson of Gillette round out the top four... Tanner Nauta of Douglas will be the alternate.
On saddle broncs, it's Colton Miller of Lance Creek, Neil Williams of Mills, Ryan Ellenson of Gillette and and Wiley King of Casper. Ace Thurston of Lance Creek's the alternate.
And on the bulls, the Wyoming team includes Hawk Whitt of Thermopolis, Bryce Burnell of Arvada, Cole Ponce of Big Horn and Drew Antone of Kinnear. Neil Williams of Mills is the alt.
Also making the trip to Nationals... Douglas's Kassidy Scott takes the second slot in goat tying; Austin Eller of Glendo and Justin Prewitt of Guernsey will be the #3 team in team roping; Dusty Moore of Douglas grabs the 3-spot in tie-down calf roping; Wheatland's Amelia McGuire holds the 4-spot in breakaway roping. Some familiar names in steer wrestling... Avery Jamerman of Wheatland holds the top slot... he'll be joined by Ace Thurston of Lance Creek, Austin Eller of Glendo and Casey Collins of Sheridan. Douglas's Dusty Moore is the steer wrestling alternate. Lance Creek's Colby Thurston and Gillette's Trapper Rieniets finish the season tied at 220 points each in boys cutting... the'll both compete at Nationals. And Casper's Taylor Mason makes the girls cutting team.
Stephani Klein from Wheatland was crowned Wyoming's High School Rodeo Queen on Sunday morning. 1st runner up was Kodee Williams form Pinedale.
Our year end all around cowboy is Ace Thurston from Lance Creek, and our year end all around cowgirl is Coralee Spratt from Lysite. Our finals all around cowgirl is Emily Faber from Rozet, and our finals all around cowboy is Neil Williams from Mills.
The National High School Finals Rodeo is July 17th through the 23rd at CamPlex in Gillette.
(Wed 6/22/11) - Wyoming's top high school cowboys and cowgirls wrap up their season at Douglas this week as the Jackalope City hosts the Wyoming High School Rodeo Association's state finals. Coming into this weekend's final action, Ace Thurston of Lance Creek leads the points standings on barebacks; Colton Miller of Lance Creek dominates the saddle broncs; and Hawk Whitt of Thermopolis holds just a 2 1/2 point lead over Cole Ponce of Big Horn on the bulls. Logan Murphy of Torrington heads up calf roping; Hayli Bonham of Laramie holds a big lead in breakaway roping; Austin Eller of Glendo is just two points ahead of Avery Jamerman of Wheatland in steer wrestling, and Douglas's Dusty Moore sits third in the event. Emily Faber of Rozet tops the goat tying; Chandler Markle of Scottsbluff leads the barrel racers; Shyann Lucas of Jackson holds a 20-point lead through the poles, and Coley Nicholls of Kinnear and Garrett Grieve of Baggs lead the team ropers.Taylor and Trapper Rieniets of Giilette lead the girls and boys cutting. In the chase for the All-Arounds, Coralee Spratt of Lysite leads the girls, and Ace Thurston of Lance Creek leads the boys.
Check in takes place on Wednesday, with rodeo performances scheduled for 9am and 6:30pm on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and final short-go performance on Sunday morning.
(Tue 6/14/11) - The Douglas Cats split a pair at Powell last night. In the opener, the Cats shut-out the Pioneers 3 to 0. Douglas ran all night stealing 7 bases and gettting timely hits from Mitch Espeland and Dylan Klava. Klava threw 7 inning of 1 hit baseball striking out 7. Powell came back and beat Douglas 4-1 in the nitecap. The Cats only had 4 hits in the late game, 2 from third baseman Allen Holmes. The Powell Pitcher kept the Douglas offense from stringing anything together. Dalton Cheever threw six innings scattering 7 hits and only giving up 3 earned runs in the loss. The Cats are now 5-10 on the American Legion season... they'll be back in action tonight at Cody... games at 5 and 7.
(Mon 6/13/11) - The North squad takes a 6-point win. At the 38th Annual Shrine bowl football game in Casper Saturday night, fans watched an offensive battle take place as the North beat the South 34-28. South scored first, but North led 24-14 at the half and never gave up the lead. Douglas's Justin Melton collected one touchdown for the south, a five-yard pass reception from Wheatland quarterback Ward Anderson. Clay Cundall of Greybull was named Offensive Player of the Game, and Sheridan's Dawson Osborn was tagged as Defensive Player of the Game.
(Mon 6/13/11) - The Wyoming boys and the Montana girls owned the floor this weekend. At the Wyoming-Montana All-Star basketball series Friday night at Sheridan, the Wyoming boys thumped Montana 92-77, while the Montana girls won their game at the Golden Dome 92-65. Saturday night on the campus of Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Taran Brown of Gillette hit 2 3's in the last 30 seconds of regulation, including the tying 3 with 3 seconds left, to tie the game at 75 and force OT. The Wyoming boys went on to a 90-84 overtime win, while the Montana girls took a 93-79 win. Glenrock's Shelby Stewart had 7 points Friday night and 9 points Saturday night for the Wyoming girls.


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Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip launched 12 rockets into Israel during the hour after a cease-fire was announced between Israel and Islamist militants on Wednesday, an Israeli police spokesman said.
Israel and the Islamist Hamas movement agreed to an Egyptian-sponsored ceasefire that came into effect at 9 p.m. local time to halt an eight-day conflict around the Gaza Strip that has killed more than 140 Palestinians and five Israelis.
Spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the 12 rockets landed in open areas and caused no damage or casualties. "We have not changed our mode of alert and remain vigilant," Rosenfeld said.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said the "Iron Dome" anti-missile system had intercepted some of the rockets. She added that Israel had ceased all air strikes on Gaza after the ceasefire came into effect.
In Gaza, witnesses reported one explosion shortly after the truce took effect, but there were no casualties and the cause of the blast was unclear.
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TRAVEL the length and breadth of Australia and you will find a breathtaking variety of environments, from the rainforests of the Pacific seaboard, the scrub woodlands fringing the Southern Ocean to the centre's harsh deserts dominated by tough mulga bushes, and the monsoon-governed north.
These environments can be divided into interrelated, patchily distributed subenvironments, each characterised by its microclimate, soils and flora. Even a short journey can take you across myriad landscapes, only some of which have been blatantly altered, or ruined, to suit the needs of their human inhabitants. What a strange wonderland all this must have seemed more than two centuries ago to the early visitors from a crowded Europe.
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2013 compares to 1968Posted by on April 25, 2013 – 8:43 pm
With Eric Fisher and Luke Joeckel being the first two picks of the 2013 NFL Draft, this is the first time offensive linemen have gone 1-2 since 1968, when the Minnesota Vikings took T Ron Yary first overall and the expansion Cincinnati Bengals made C Bob Johnson the franchise's inaugural pick with the second overall selection.
The 1968 NFL Draft was similar in another way to what we can expect in the first round tonight. That being the lack of sexy quarterback/offensive weapon players drafted in the first round. QB Greg Landry was picked by the Detroit Lions, FB Larry Csonka was picked by the Miami Dolphins, and that was it.
As for the Steelers in 1968, it was hardly an auspicious group drafted in the last one of these before Chuck Noll's arrival. The Steelers mimicked the first round by going with offensive tackles with their first two picks — USC's Mike Taylor was the No. 1 pick, and Arkansas' Ernie Ruple was the No. 1 pick. Noll got rid of Taylor nine games into the 1969 season, and Ruple never even made it to the 1969 regular season opener.
In 17 rounds of the 1968 draft, the Steelers had 20 picks. They made 15 selections, traded five picks away — and came away with a grand total of one player. His name: Rocky Bleier, a RB from Notre Dame who was picked on the 16th round.
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Health Benefits of Snake Gourd
|By goGreen | August 16, 2011
Botanical Name: Trichosanthes anguina
Also known as Chinese cucumber and belongs to the gourd family Cucurbitaceae. It is a rapidly growing vine; leaves are angular and hairy, with 5-7 lobes which emit a foetid odor when bruised. Flowers are white in color; the fruits are large and greenish white. They reach up to 150 cm. in length and 8 cm. in thickness. The tender immature fruits are cooked as vegetables.
Nutritive Value:
Snake gourd is a very nutritious vegetable. It shows that Snake Gourd is a very nutritious vegetable with an analysis that shows it consists of:
- moisture 94.6 percent
- protein 0.5 percent
- fat 0.3 percent
- fibre 0.8 percent and
- Carbohydrates 3.3 percent per 100 grams of edible portion
Its mineral and vitamin contents are:
- calcium 26 mg. percent
- phosphorus 20 mg. percent
- iron 0.3 mg. percent
- carotene 96mg. percent
- thiamin 0.04 percent
- riboflavin 0.06 mg percent
- niacin 0.3 mg. percent
Its calorific value is 18.
Health Benefits:
The juice of the fresh leaves is beneficial in heart disorders like palpitation and pain in the heart on physical exertion. It should be taken in doses of 1 to 2 tablespoons thrice daily. The juice is also useful in the treatment of alopecia, a disease of the scalp resulting in complete or baldness and in the treatment of jaundice.
Snake Gourd has been proven to cure—
Snake gourd is useful in reducing bilious fever. A decoction of the fruits should be prepared for use in this condition. Its ability is increased if it is given with chiretta and honey. In obstinate cases of fevers, a combined infusion of this plant and of coriander will be more beneficial. About 12 grams of each should be infused in water overnight. The strained liquid should be given in two parts the next day. A decoction of the leaves of the plant, made with the addition of coriander leaves, is also useful in bilious fever. The leaf juice is used to induce vomiting. In remittent fever, the leaf juice is applied as a liniment over the body.
Snake gourd is considered useful in wasting and thirst, which is an ancient reference to diabetes. This has led to investigations of its potential to treat this disease. Modern Chinese treatments for diabetes frequently include Snake gourd root as an ingredient. Even otherwise, being a low-calorie food, this vegetable can be used liberally with advantage by Type-II diabetics to reduce weight and also at the same time get adequate nourishment.
Heart disorders
The juice of the fresh leaves is useful in the disorders of the heart like palpitation and pain in the heart on physical exertion. The juice should be given in doses of one to two tablespoons thrice daily.
An infusion of the leaves is beneficial in the treatment of jaundice. It should be given in 30 to 60 grams doses with coriander seed decoction thrice daily.
As a Purgative
Juice of the snake gourd root is a strong purgative, while an infusion of the dried fruit is a mild one. It also aids digestion. The leaves of the plant are useful as an emetic and purgative in children suffering from constipation. A teaspoon of the fresh juice should be given early in the morning for this purpose. The seeds are especially useful as a moistening agent for treating dry constipation.
The seeds of the snake gourd should not be taken in excess of prescribed dosage as their overdose may cause gastric discomfort, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and diarrhea; due to their high content of oil. The fruits are contraindicated in cold with diarrhea. Snake gourd root should be used cautiously during pregnancy as high doses may have an abortifacient effect.
Sources: Home Remedies Guide, Natural Health Care
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Best Castle Quotes From Season 5, Episode 8: "After Hours"
This week's Castle episode had it all: a dinner from hell, a dead priest, and our dynamic duo on the run from the Irish mob. What more could you ask for? Maybe a little more Caskett lip-locking? That's just our suggestion. But one thing that wasn't lacking was the number of one-liners and zippy zingers that we have come to know and love about Castle.
And without further adieu, here are this week's top quotables from Season 5, Episode 8: "After Hours."
12. Castle: Someone had a priest assassinated? It's like a Vatican conspiracy.
The Illuminati does exist.
11. Castle: Dude, where's your car?
Ashton Kutcher is somewhere smiling right now.
10. Ryan: Surveillance cam footage outside the church backs Sister Mary's story. Not that I'd ever doubt a nun.
Exactly. When's the last time a nun lied to you? Think about it.
9. Beckett: So, you're the boy with the dragon tattoo now?
Nah, Castle talks way more than she ever did.
8. Martha: It's to die for, literally. I call it "death by chocolate."
Castle: Now, given your baking experience, is that a prediction?
We think Castle ate out at a lot of restaurants growing up.
7. Beckett: Honestly, a creature bursting out of my dad's chest might have lightened the mood.
Aliens should always be invited to dinner parties.
6. Ryan: We're interviewing a nun?
Esposito: Yeah, and I'm gonna be the good cop. You're gonna be the bad cop so...
Just pray now, Ryan.
5. Leo: We're gonna end up floating in the river with cement shoes on.
Castle: Yes, well, technically, if you have cement shoes, you're not gonna be floating.
Captain obvious is definitely not helping the situation.
4. Ryan: Catholic school is like combat. Unless you've been there, you don't know.
Esposito: Uh, I have been there — in combat.
They are totes the same thing.
3. Martha (to Captain Gates): Oh, please stop. You are a terrible actress.
Oh, snap! Gates might have met her match.
2. Castle: But look at the lock screen.
Leo: What?
Beckett: The password's the cat's name.
Leo: Great, so what's the cat's name?
Beckett: He doesn't know.
Is the latest obsession still cats?
1. Leo: Great. You have an engineering degree or electronics experience?
Castle: No, but I've seen every episode of MacGyver.
Castle could even build a raft with only three Q-tips and piece of chewing gum.
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Coffee and conversation , Cooking , Dining out , Movies/Videos , Museums and art , Music and concerts , Nightclubs/Dancing , Playing sports , Travel/Sightseeing , Video games , Volunteering , Watching sports , Wine tasting
Baseball, Basketball, Billiards / Pool, Dancing, Football, Other types of exercise, Running, Walking / Hiking
I exercise 3-4 times per week.
I like Dogs
Middle of the Road
I really enjoy Greenwich Village since there is so many interesting bars,lounges,clubs,cafes,shops,comedy clubs and restaurants.
John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York, New York, NY
Sushi, Sushi and more Sushi!!!!!.... I love to eat so if you enjoy eating like me, let me know! I also enjoy other ethnic foods so I guess you can call me a foodie! lol
There is alot of things I do for fun so here goes......Comedy clubs, lounges, finding new spots in the city to eat (especially Japanese), sporting events,concerts, dancing,traveling,excercising,movies,cooking,reading,and spending time with my friends
I usually try to be up on current events so it has to be NY Post or your profile.lol
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|Black, Blue, Brown, Green, Hazel
|Auburn / Red, Black, Light brown, Dark brown, Blonde, Dark blonde
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Police Officer in NYPD for 16 years and Veteran of U.S. Army from 1985-1993
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This is a full time, on-site, salaried Linux Administrator position located
in New York City paying $90,000-$120,000 depending on experience + great
benefits. No telecommuting allowed. US Citizens or Green Card holders only
please. Local candidates only. Thank you.
My New York City (SoHo) client is a managed services provider. They pride
themselves in providing superhero support to their customers and managing
complex infrastructures, which include gigabits of network transit, hundreds
of terabytes of storage, virtualization, configuration management and
deployment, and everything in between. They are looking for motivated and
talented individuals to join their support engineering team. They provide a
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They are looking for staff members who love IT, troubleshooting, and who
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customers directly, so communication skills are extremely important.
The company presence spans from California to Amsterdam, and you will be
responsible for managing nearly 1000 servers in a managed hosting
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June 23, 2010
Reading Kagan's e-mail
The Sunlight Foundation converted Elena Kagan's e-mails into what looks like a gmail inbox — searchable, clickable and a remarkable — if voyeuristic — look at a her life in the White House in 1999.
Also, a reminder that they didn't send all that much e-mail back in the day. Only a half-dozen e-mails in a day?
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PURE presents Twilight, the world's first combined dawn simulator and digital radio and the most energy efficient product of its kind on the market.
PURE Twilight (SRP £129.99) brings together the best in light therapy and the choice and ease-of-use of digital radio to deliver the ultimate bedside experience. Offering dawn simulation, mood lighting, built-in natural sounds and lullabies as well as a reading light and four independent alarms, Twilight creates the ideal ambience for getting a good night's sleep and waking up revitalised and refreshed.
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Namekagon Kayak Trip
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text: Try as I might I just can't get excited about Jordan Rogers, I have seen a couple of his matches and I see him taking a bunch of ill advised shots and he always seems kinda clunky when he wrestles. There is a pretty decent chance he will start at 184 for us (better him then Zach White). But even just watching his Fargo win he won the 1st period through a questionable call and didn't do much to impress me at all. Crutchmer looked really good though.


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By Maisie McCabe, campaignlive.co.uk, Thursday, 31 January 2013 07:30AM
It is understood that Burger King is looking to appoint a media network to work on its business in markets including the UK, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Denmark.
The Interpublic network Initiative currently handles the £12 million UK account and is also the incumbent in Spain, Sweden and Denmark.
The review follows recent changes to Burger King's EMEA marketing operation and the appointment of Natasha Naik to the new role of marketing manager for North West Europe. Jo Blundell remains Burger King's UK marketing director.
In April last year, Burger King retained Open, DLKW Lowe's specialist direct and in-store agency, to handle its direct marketing account. In the UK, the fast-food chain works with CHI & Partners on its advertising account.
A spokeswoman for Initiative declined to comment. Burger King was unavailable for comment.
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How to politely turn down a guy?
What's a polite way to reject someone when they ask you for your number? I'm a really, nice friendly person, so saying anything mean or negative is... Show More
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wow I'd penned down an entire answer and it got erased thanks to the connection breaking off. OK here goes again.
Your very saying that 'you feel bad and end up giving them my number' is a sign of weakness not politeness. Weakness is something that will make every man (one who knows to read another's psychology) go in for the kill.
Lying is not necessary to be polite.
You can say various things such as:
1. Why don't you give me your number and allow me to call you when I can and be comfortable - If chivalry is not dead in that man he'll accept that
2. "here is my email address instead" why don't you mail me sometime". (create another email addreess for such situations - that way you aren't lying)
3. Listen to what MrOracle has said too
4. "Why don't we see if we meet up at more such occassions and get to know each other here"
All the above are quite polite and show assertiveness from you without displaying weakness.
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Every guy will appreciate honesty - you can easily use MrOracle's suggestion which is probably the most diplomatic put off ever!
Another can be " I am flattered that you have asked, but as nice as you are, I really do prefer to get to know a guy a bit better before I give my number out! Will you be patient with me?"
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What's the harm in getting to know them a little before turning them down? Then, you'll know you gave it a shot and also you can just say, "I'm sorry, I don't see this working out," if, indeed, you don't click with them.
If you reject them right away, the old standbye is generally, "I'm sorry, you're not really my type." But that is overused and, especially if you are 30-35, you might have to try dating outside of your type, unless the guy is a jerk or lives too far away. In that case, feel free to just say "I'm not interested," if he's a jerk or "I'm looking for someone who lives a little closer," if that's the case. If it's that you are too different, just say, "I'm sorry, I don't think we have enough in common to make this work."
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You've been so focused on business for a the last few years, now it's time for love. You will be making more friends and meeting interested people everywhere you go. There are relationship opportunities and opportunities to make existing relationships even better.
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Royalty7 is a HYIP scam. I invested some money ($200) into this program back in June 2012 and after compounding my investment for about 3 months I tried to withdraw. Since processing my withdrawal I have never received the money.
Royalty7 was paying members however they stopped around July/August time apparently and since then the program has been a scam, since they still accept new members money but don't pay their members.
You should definitely not invest your money in Royalty7 as you will be scammed. Take this advice from a real member who has invested $200. Luckily for me that $200 was money I made on another HYIP as profit, so I have not lost any of my own money in theory however it is still annoying that I could not withdraw my compounded money.
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A website conversion occurs when a visitor completes a predetermined action on the website, such as filling the contact form, submitting quote request, purchasing product or service, or registering for a newsletter. The conversion rate is determined by dividing the total website conversions by the total visitors. Conversion rate optimization (CRO) is the process of improving the conversion rate of the website.
Conversion rate optimization has become a standard routine for many websites. For an e-commerce website, a slight increase in conversion rate has the potential to increase the website revenue manifolds.
To get started with conversion rate optimization, you must identify where your visitors are losing interest in your website. Also, see if there are any sections where your visitors get stuck. There are a number of tools that are used for CRO.
A web analytics software, such as Google Analytics allows you to analyze the behavior of visitors on your website. For instance, you can determine the amount of time for which people stay on the website, the page that is most frequented by visitors, and pages that have the highest exit rate. Make sure that Google Analytics is properly set up for your website. By analyzing your website using this tool, you can get key insight about the website performance. Additionally, you can also configure the software to track conversions on the website.
After configuring the analytics program for your website, simply set a date range wherein your website was visited by a significant number of visitors, say more than 1000. Analyze the web pages by bounce rate to find out pages that are losing the highest number of visitors.
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PR History 101: Two Eggs, Bacon and a Side of PR
Matthew Moskowitz
The following statements are fact:
1. The top PR companies in the US have seen a skyrocketing increase in earnings during the last decade.
2. More companies are incorporating PR strategies into their business plans.
3. More Public Relations professionals are coming on the scene.
This got me thinking…who was the first PR professional? Who created our industry?
The general consensus is that Edward Bernays and Ivy Lee are our forefathers. Yet the stories of these two men are largely unknown (with the exception of viewers of the superlative BBC documentary Century of the Self). Here is a Cliffs Notes summary about these two to raise your PR IQ!
Edward Bernays, who many call the Father of PR, was the nephew of legendary psychologist Sigmund Freud. After learning the nuances of psychology and social sciences from his uncle, he was the first to incorporate the ideas of the mind into campaigns of public persuasion. He created many of the techniques that we now accept as commonplace in product promotion and politics.
Bernays' most notorious and perhaps most influential campaign took place in the 1920's and it still resonates today. In fact, you probably were affected by his work this past weekend.
In 1924 the Beechnut Packing Company tried to revitalize sales of its primary product, bacon. Simple-minded marketers offered their advice: Lower your prices! Increase your advertising!
Bernays had another idea.
He set about changing how Americans viewed breakfast itself. Until then, the average morning meal consisted of a slice of toast, some coffee and maybe a little juice. Bernays saw an opportunity to beef (or should I say pork) it up.
He distributed a survey to 5,000 doctors, with a simple query. "Do you support a hearty breakfast or a light one?" The doctors responded that hearty was best and Bernays took it out to the media with some medical research to back it up. Bacon sales jumped up after Bernays disseminated the information everywhere. He was, then, the first to illustrate that an independent third party could be more influential to sales than direct advertising.
For PR pros specializing in damage control, let's look back at the varied and questionable practices of Ivy Lee for inspiration. A one-time journalist, Lee gained recognition in 1914 after being hired to spin the story of the Ludlow Massacre. When the workers in a Rockefeller-owned mining town went on strike, our National Guard was called in to settle it; 13 people died and many others were injured. It was a tragedy—and a Public Relations disaster.
Lee quieted that furor by sending bulletins of (untrue) information to the press. He claimed that these deaths resulted from an overturned stove, not from the gunfire as many thought. (Notation: We are not condoning his lies, we're just reporting here!)
Lee eased tensions in the town by arranging public meetings for John D. Rockefeller to interact with the devastated mining community—shaking stained hands, kissing baby faces. There was the press, too, standing by to cover it all. Crisis management was born.
Since that early experimental era, Public Relations has come a long way, baby (Bernays was Virginia Slims' PR guy for years!) and yet it all started with seeds of inspiration. These two gentlemen, honored for a century till their respective deaths, haven't made the grade recently. Bernays, who was, after all, Freud's nephew, and Lee, who stopped at nothing to make a point, also deserve a little mention every now and then.
Matthew Moskowitz is an Account Executive at RLM and our firm's designated historian.


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