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Garen is a versatile character in League of Legends who is capable of dealing huge amounts of damage with his offensive skills and can take the strongest skills of other opponents with his impressive defensive skills. There are items in the game that can enhance both the offensive and defensive capabilities of every character and knowing which one can do you good is certainly a huge advantage. Each item has a different effect and mixing and matching items to complement each other so that you can get the most deadly offense or the best defense possible is essential.
An item like the Yommu's Ghostblade which provides additional attack damage, critical strike and armor penetration is an ideal item to equip Garen because this allows him to deal more damage. It will complement the skills that he already has so that he can kill an enemy easily. Another good offensive item is the Last Whisper which gives additional damage and a much higher armor penetration percentage. The 40% armor penetration is a big help because there are some characters with insanely high armor which makes then tough to kill. Entropy is also a great item to use because not only does it add damage but it can also slow the enemies down by 30% which is very useful so that the enemy cannot run away and escape. The Infinity Edge is the ultimate item when it comes to damaging enemies. It gives an additional 80 damage to your hero with a 25% chance critical strike. The critical strike is also increased from 200% to 250% which is a huge increase. The Bloodthirster is also another item that you can use to equip Garen with. It provides additional damage and life steal which will make Garen that much harder to kill. The item also increases its damage and life steal with every kill that the Garen makes which makes the weapon that much more useful.
For the defensive items, the Aegis of the Legion is a great item that can be equipped to Garen because there are bonuses for everyone in the team. Nearby Champions will gain bonuses too because of the aura that the item has and it provides the wearer additional health, magic resistance and armor. The Guardian Angel is another excellent item that you can use because it resurrects your Champion when he dies. This item is great especially when Garen's main purpose is to tank and take most of the damage that the enemy can offer because killing Garen for the first time is already hard enough, what more if they have to kill Garen twice. Randuin's Omen is another excellent item for Champions like Garen who are mostly used to take much damage. The Omen adds health to its wearer which is very useful. Additional armor is also provided by the item which can make Garen that much harder to kill but the best effect of the item is the additional health regeneration that it has. This makes Garen that much harder to kill because he can just keep on coming back after a few seconds away from action because of his fast healing capabilities.


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Books: A Bit Of Applause For Mrs. Claus
A new holiday read available is A Bit of Applause for Mrs. Claus.
Santa Claus is sick so Mrs. Claus hustles and bustles to save Christmas night. From wrapping the last presents to trimming the trees, Mrs. Claus, does it all, just in the nick of time.
Overall: I like the illustrations and reading the first pages of the book is entertaining. However at the end – I was confused. So was the rest of my family when they read it separately. It turns out that Mrs. Claus does all the work and ends up not delivering the presents because Santa gets better. I think the ending is a bit rushed and a let down. But just because we're not crazy about it doesn't mean you can't read it for yourself. Your children might like it.
About the Authors
Jeannie Schick-Jacobowitz and Susie Schick-Pierce are sisters who collaborate and a powerful creative team,along with Jeannie's daughter Muffin Drake. The three have collaborated on numerous mini-books and gift books, which have sold hundreds of thousands of copies. Jeannie lives in New Jersey and Washington. Susie has two sons, three grandchildren, and lives with her husband Garrett.


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Teen drinking may be a problem of the press, not Four Loko
The recent Four Loko bans make it seem as though underage drinking is an out-of-control problem. Like other social problems, a few incidents in the press can make it seem things are out of hand. However, one has to wonder if the problem is as big as the media make it seem.
Teen drinking is actually not that pervasive
Given the press coverage, especially of the perils of drinking caffeinated alcoholic beverages like Four Loko, aimed at young people, the idea is that teens and college students are all one step away from needing a liver transplant. As it turns out, according to the Centers for Disease Control, 70 percent of "binge drinking" or consuming more than four drinks in a two-hour period, is actually done by people older than 26. The CDC also reports that only 42 percent of high school students surveyed actually drank at all, and only 24 percent engaged in binge drinking. Granted, events like the Central Washington University students being hospitalized are tragic, but young people aren't drinking as heavily as it could be assumed.
Americans are lightweights
According to the World Health Organization, the U.S. is actually cutting back. In a 2004 report on world alcohol consumption, Americans have actually reduced their drinking by almost 10 percent since 1976. Furthermore, Americans drank a modest 8.9 liters of alcohol (pure alcohol consumed, not merely wine or beer or spirits) per annum, compared to the liver destroying 15.15 liters per year in Slovenia. A 2004 report from Kirin Holdings reported American beer consumption is a woeful 81.6 liters per year per person. The Czech Republic, first on the list, drank a Herculean 156 liters per year, and the Irish, second world wide, drink more than 131 liters per year. Bear in mind that most American "beer" is pale, yellow, fizzy and has a flavor that could one day aspire to being labeled pathetic.
Call a cab and stop whining
In reality, the underage children of America are drinking far less than the adults. Furthermore, Americans in general drink far less than the rest of the world. Perhaps it's time to make sure our children know how to be responsible, rather than be ashamed.
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Ralph Kiner Dies; Mets Broadcaster, Hall of Famer Was 91by Hilton Hater at . Comments
Ralph, a beloved New York Mets broadcast who is also a member of the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame, died today at his him in Rancho Mirage.
He was 91 years old.
Kiner played 10 seasons, mostly with the Pittsburgh Pirates, and hit 369 him runs. He led the National League in round-trippers in each of his first seven years.
Following his playing career, Kiner worked with the Mets for over five decades, even calling a few games last season at the age of 90.
The Hall of Fame confirmed Kiner's passing via the following statement:
"With the passing of Ralph Kiner, the baseball world has lost one of its greatest ambassadors and the Hall of Fame has lost a wonderful friend. Ralph spent eight decades as a player, executive and broadcaster. He was a man who truly loved our National Pastime and made it better in every way. His legacy will live forever in Cooperstown."
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Harrison, Locke Lead Pirates Past Marlins, 7-3 Jeff Locke never lost his poise and gave the Pittsburgh Pirates a chance to get a win.
Marlins Set To Face Off Against Pirates FridayAndrew McCutchen and Giancarlo Stanton both shined in last year's season series between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Miami Marlins.
Marlins Sign First Baseman Garret JonesLogan Morrison's days with the Miami Marlins appear to be numbered after the team inked a deal with former Pittsburgh Pirates first baseman Garret Jones.
FAU Loses To ECU Florida Atlantic University couldn't pull out a win against East Carolina Thursday night.
Fernandez & Marlins Fall To Pirates, 5-4It would be hard for any pitcher to match Jose Fernandez's previous two outings and in his third start, even he couldn't come close to the previous performances.
Marlins Drop Fourth Straight, Losing To Pirates 4-2The Marlins' bats cooled off Wednesday night and the team could never get on track with Tom Koehler on the mound as the Fish lost their fourth straight game, 4-2 to Pittsburgh.
Marlins Fall In Bottom Of 9th Inning, 4-3The Miami Marlins took the Pittsburgh Pirates to the bottom of the ninth inning after getting out of a bases loaded jam in the eighth inning. Then, just as quickly as hope started to emerge for the Fish, the Pirates slammed the door with a walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth to knock off the Marlins, 4-3.
Pirates Beat Marlins 7-4Michael McKenry had a career-best four hits and drove in two runs, Neil Walker and Garrett Jones each added two RBIs.
Henderson Alvarez Pitches Miami Past Pirates, 2-0Miami Marlins right-hander Henderson Alvarez had thrown only 72 pitches after six shutout innings against the Pittsburgh Pirates when manager Mike Redmond yanked him for a pinch-hitter.
Tulane & East Carolina Headed To Big East ConferenceTulane University will become a full member of the Big East Conference and East Carolina will join the league as a football-only member in 2014 in the latest round of conference realignment in college athletics.
Q&A With Jim Rome On The Dream Team, Dwight Howard, And MoreJim Rome, host of Rome on CBS Sports Network and The Jim Rome Show on the radio joined CBS Local Sports to give his take on the biggest topics in the major sports.
Pirates Finally Beat The Marlins, 3-2Brad Lincoln pitched six innings to earn a victory in his first start of the season Monday, and the Pittsburgh Pirates ended a streak of eight consecutive losses against the Marlins by winning 3-2.


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Failure to fix the long waits veterans face when seeking disability benefits earned through military service warrants the removal of the top Department of Veterans Affairs executive directly responsible, according to the chairman of the House committee overseeing the agency.
The call from Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., for the ouster of Allison Hickey, VA's under secretary for benefits, comes as officials there face possible sanctions for deliberately misleading a federal court about an illegal rule that makes it harder for veterans to prove they are entitled to benefits.
Miller is chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
VA Secretary Eric Shinseki is scheduled to appear Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" program in his first national television interview in four years. He is certain to be questioned about the VA's claims backlog, Miller's call for Hickey's removal and the federal court case.
"VA's disability benefits backlog problem is getting worse, not better, and veterans are suffering as a result," Miller told The Washington Examiner.
"That is why I believe a new under secretary for benefits would be best suited to help VA formulate a realistic plan for eliminating the department's disability benefits backlog and to tell Congress what they need to get the job done. America's veterans and America's taxpayers deserve nothing less."
Miller's ire is directed at Hickey, who told the Florida Republican's committee earlier this week that the agency is on track to meet its goal of processing all disability and pension claims within 125 days with 98 percent accuracy by 2015.
More than 1 million veterans have cases pending at VA, including about 250,000 appeals. It takes an average of 279 days for an initial rating, a figure that has gotten progressively worse in recent years. Accuracy rates have been flat for the last five years, at about 86 percent.
The Washington Examiner's recent series -- "Making America's Heroes Wait" -- detailed how VA officials have manipulated the department's benefits claims processing system and data to make it appear that more claims are being processed faster than they really are.
In the court ruling issued Thursday, the three-judge panel found VA officials repeatedly made false claims that the agency abandoned a rule that relieved appeals hearing officers of the duty to assist veterans in making their cases.
But even after admitting the rule was illegal, VA officials continued to apply it. The judges rejected assertions that VA did not intentionally violate its commitment to scrap the rule.
The result was many veterans who were entitled to benefits had their cases improperly rejected by the VA appeals board, the court held.
"The unwarranted denial of benefits means real-world consequences to veterans," the unanimous opinion from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit states.
"Promises of hypothetical relief do not pay for food or provide needed medical care. Additionally, VA's conduct and written communications refute its assertions that its violations were unintentional. VA was well aware of its commitment and intentionally elected not to fulfill it."
VA is required by law to assist veterans in proving their claims, both at the regional offices that make initial rating decisions and at the Board of Veterans' Appeals.
In August 2011, VA issued a new rule that eliminated some of its obligations in the appeals process. The National Organization of Veterans' Advocates sued, claiming the change was illegal.
VA officials admitted in March 2012 that NOVA was right. The department's lawyers got three delays in the case by stating VA had stopped using the illegal rule, but needed time to have the official change published in the Federal Register.
NOVA was able to prove the agency broke its pledge and reneged on its promise to fix improperly decided cases. In March 2012 alone, 60 cases were identified in which the rule may have been improperly used.
The appeals court gave VA 60 days to explain why unspecified sanctions should not be imposed against the agency or "responsible officials."
Miller blasted the VA as "shameful" for concocting rules that make it tougher for veterans to receive benefits they earned, and for misleading the appeals court.
"It appears VA's laziness and dishonesty may have compromised the claims process for an untold number of veterans -- a shameful situation for which VA must be held accountable," Miller said today.
"I sincerely hope the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit takes whatever steps are necessary to ensure that veterans' claim appeals have all of the procedural protections to which they are entitled."
David Hobson, executive director of NOVA, said the group's priorities now are to ensure improperly decided cases are corrected, and to identify other veterans harmed by the illegal rule.
Steven Keller, acting chairman of the Board of Veterans Appeals, said he doesn't know whether hearing officers continued to improperly use the repealed rule, but they shouldn't have.
Regarding representations made in court, Keller said those came from agency lawyers who did not consult with the board about assurances made during settlement negotiations.
Mark Flatten is a member of The Washington Examiner's Watchdog investigative reporting team. He can be reached at email@example.com


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But recently I made the switch from SMF to TG, just to test it out.
After proper reforging I ended up with about 5% more crit rating, yeah that's right, 5%.
I'm using two of the Scholomance axes.
I'm pretty satisfied so far but it just made me think and going through the Dungeon Journal;
Elegion has hit/exp,
Starshatter has crit/exp,
Kilrak has hit/mastery,
Shin'ka has crit/mastery,
Shouldn't TG eventually pull ahead just because of the ungodly amount of crit rating it can accumulate, not the mention the other 'double' amount of stats they are getting from the weapons...
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Daily Business Report-Oct. 8, 2013
Gov. Brown Signs Bill to Create Snoopy License Plate
Gov. Jerry Brown Jr. signed legislation authored by Assembly Majority Leader Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) to create a Snoopy special interest license plate to support California museums. The bill, AB 482, moves the California Cultural and Historical Endowment from the State Library to the Natural Resources Agency and lays the foundation to launch the special license plate. More than 10,000 Californians have already expressed interest in purchasing a Snoopy special interest license plate by completing an online form at www.snoopyplate.com. A statewide marketing campaign will be launched soon to pre-sell Snoopy license plates and the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) will begin issuing the plates upon receipt of 7,500 paid applications. The plates start at $50.
Each special license plate will feature a reproduction of an original Snoopy drawing by Charles Schulz, doing a happy dance (probably in anticipation of suppertime). The proceeds from sales of the Snoopy license plates will establish a competitive grant program to support the state's museums.
Construction on Airport Terminal Linking
Tijuana to San Diego is off the Ground
It's been in the works for more than 20 years, but last month, construction finally began on the so-called cross-border terminal that will let travelers cross from the Tijuana airport directly into San Diego, KPBS reports. The project will include a bridge of more than 500 feet spanning from the airport and across the border fence to a new customs station soon to be built on the San Diego side in a empty field in Otay Mesa. "It has been a very long time coming, but it has been very, very welcome," said Cindy Gompper-Graves, director of the South County Economic Development Council. The cross-border terminal is slated to be operational by the end of next year. It will allow only ticketed airline passengers who pay a fee to cross the bridge in either direction. Because of the restricted use by passengers and the toll to use the bridge, developers expect to virtually eliminate the long border waits to get back into San Diego, which many travelers from the U.S. endure when using the Tijuana airport.
Gompper-Graves and other supporters of the project think it will be a boon to cross-border tourism, and just as importantly, to investment by foreign manufacturing companies that want to open factories in Tijuana and distribution warehouses in Otay Mesa. "I think we all agree that those border wait times are a huge deterrent to companies looking to locate on both sides of the border," Gompper-Graves said. "This will make it easier for them to do that. This will make it more accessible for them to access other markets."
Though construction has already begun on the Tijuana side, the bridge does have its detractors, among them, airport taxi drivers. They said more than half of their clients ask to be driven to one of the two existing border crossings, a trip that can cost up to $15. They expect most of that business to be wiped out once the bridge opens, allowing people to cross into San Diego on foot, directly from the airport.
Living Coast Discovery Center Gets $25,000 from SDG&E
San Diego Gas & Electric Co. has donated $25,000 to the Living Coast Discovery Center in Chula Vista, which is trying to close a $200,000 funding gap to keep from closing permanently. Without that goal, the facility will be forced to close to the public on Oct. 28 in preparation for a permanent closure at the end of December. "This donation from SDG&E is a tremendous first step in keeping our mission going," said Living Coast Discovery Center Chief Operating Officer Ben Vallejos. SDG&E is the Living Coast's largest corporate partner, having contributed more than $300,000 in sponsorships and grants to support environmental conservation and education programs at the center over the years.
Personnel Moves
Jim Hansen Joins Dempsey Construction + Legacy Building Services
Jim Hansen has joined Dempsey Construction + Legacy Building Services as a superintendent. Hansen begins work immediately on a ground up hotel development in Mission Valley. Before joining Dempsey + Legacy, Hansen worked for Lusardi Construction Co. since 1988. Most recently, he served as superintendent on the extensive Flower Hill Promenade renovation, located at Interstate 5 and Via De La Valle. Hansen's experience includes the construction of corporate headquarters, office buildings, office and industrial parks, retail shopping centers, hotels multi-family housing complexes and heavy civil projects.
Chula Vistan Hired to Head State GOP Efforts on Hispanics
Francis Barraza of Chula Vista, a long-time Republican Party activist, has been hired by the California Republican Party to head Hispanic engagement efforts in the state. Barraza, former executive director of the Republican Party of San Diego County, will lead a team charged with building a grassroots infrastructure and engaging with voters at community events, as well as strengthening ties with Hispanic Republicans.
Monique Medley Joins Lee & Associates
Monique Medley has joined Lee & Associates, specializing in North County multi-tenant property leasing and sales. Medley previously was with Cassidy Turley in Carlsbad for more than 8 years. She began her commercial real estate career at CB Richard Ellis where she was a senior marketing associate.
Level 10 Construction Opens San Diego Office
Sunnyvale-based Level 10 Construction Co. has opened an office in San Diego and named Mike Conroy vice president of operations. The office is located at 4660 La Jolla Village Drive, Suite 620. Conroy, formerly a project executive with Rudolph and Sletten's San Diego office, has more than 15 years of construction experience in San Diego, and has managed multiple projects. The Level 10 San Diego office is currently working on upgrades to three existing single-story buildings at Summit Rancho Bernardo, a corporate campus with Class A office space located on 105 acres in Rancho Bernardo.


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Ray LaMontagne Performs Intimate Concert Exclusively for Citi Cardmembers at Town Hall in New York City
May 2, 2014 - NEW YORK, NY
WHO: Grammy® Award winning recording artist Ray LaMontagne, who released his fifth studio album, Supernova, earlier this week on RCA Records.
WHAT: Citi cardmembers enjoyed an exclusive concert from LaMontagne in celebration of the new album. Citi will present two additional Ray LaMontagne dates in Los Angeles on May 6 at Cathedral Sanctuary and in Chicago on May 8 at Park West. A portion of proceeds from these shows will benefit Musicians On Call, a non-profit organization that brings live and recorded music to the bedsides of patients in healthcare facilities across the United States. Tickets for these exclusive Ray LaMontagne performances were only are available for purchase with a Citi credit or debit. For more information, please visit www.citiprivatepass.com.
WHERE: Town Hall, New York, NY
WHEN: Thursday, May 1, 2014
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Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.
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Posted by jcost on May 16, 2014 at 8:15pm
I know quite a few of you raised your hands at the last meeting, but thought I'd do a shout out here to see who is going.
I fly down on Monday and leave on Friday. I'm sure many of you devs are staying for the sprints.
Friday to Friday for most/all
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I'll be there Monday to
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Maybe I'll see you at the airport
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Sunday - Saturday
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What is Ceramide Technology?
Ceramides are small fat molecules which help the skin retain elasticity and smoothness. Ceramide products help the skin retain moisture and elasticity by reinforcing the skin's barrier function.
Do you have a chronic problem with dry skin, or have a condition like eczema? If that's the case, chances are good that you have a barrier function defect which causes your skin to be constantly dry in certain areas.
One of the important functions of the skin is the Barrier function. The primary function is to act as a physical wall that shuts out unwanted antigens like virus, bacteria, fungus, and any number of harmful substances from entering the body. The other important role of the barrier function is to regulate the skin's moisture levels. In those with eczema, for example, this function is defective, resulting in chronic dryness and irritated skin.
Ceramides are one of the critical components of the skin's waterproofing system. The surface of the skin is made of corneocytes which are dead skin cells that are sandwiched by fat layers composed of cholesterol, free fatty acids, and ceramides. Ceramides play an important role in regulating the composition and stability of the skin's surface, enhancing its moisture retaining abilities and strengthening the barrier function. It is thought that ceramides may be deficient in some people who have a weakened barrier function, causing chronic irritation and dryness. For these individuals, lab created ceramides may help boost the skin's natural ability to protect itself from loss of moisture. Cetaphil's RestoraDERM is one example of a product that uses ceramide technologies to aid moisturizing.
This is a relatively new but a rewarding finding in dermatology, and one that has big consequences for those with eczema, or those with chronic dry skin.


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Been Seen, Be Heard, Be Remembered
Through Strong Branding & Visibility
Busy entrepreneurs like you need to be visible and create branding that gets you noticed by your clients. We have seen 100s struggle to stand out from the crowd, simply because their branding and visibility is not attracting their ideal client.
It really saddens us to see that so many people give up so quickly on their idea's with no direction on their Brand and Visibility. But there is a solution!
Katie Bell and Devenia Besant (Dee) have created a 4 hour workshop 'Be Seen, Be Heard, Be Remembered' as we are both so passionate about people and their businesses and really want to help them develop a brand image that reflects their personality, core values and to become more visible to their right target audience.
We have some questions for you:
- Would you like your brand to be more visible on social media platforms?
- Do you wish you had a brand and marketing strategy that was easy to implement?
- Would you like to learn how to be consistent with your branding online and offline?
- Would you like to attract ideal clients with ease?
If you have answered YES to any of these questions, then this is the Branding and Visibility workshop for you.
With interactive worksheets, breakout sessions and putting your idea's out there to like-minded individuals, this is a small investment that in the long run will save you time and money when it comes to your brand and visibility. Light refreshments are also provided.
Limited spaces available! Maximum 10 people, as we want the workshop to be interactive and full of value.
The next workshop is on 12th October. Starting at 10:30am and finishing at 2:30pm sharp.
Huckletree, 87 Charterhouse Street, London EC1M 6HJ
All Workshop tickets are available through EventBrite. Places are limited so please book early!
NatWest Women In Business Sessions : Branding
Very pleased to be working with NatWest to produce this workshop.
'Bland to Brand' Workshop' – How to attract your ideal clients through a powerful brand identity
We have teamed up with Katie Bell, The Brand Identity Queen, to offer this session focused on branding
Busy entrepreneurs need to create branding that gets them noticed. During my 10 years working in this industry, I've seen 100's struggle to stand out from the crowd, because their branding is not attracting their ideal client.
I've created this 2 hour Workshop 'Bland to Brand' as I'm passionate about supporting business owners and want to help them to develop a brand image that reflects their personality and core values.
The interactive workshop covers:
- Brand consistency
- Leaving a lasting impression with ideal clients
- Understand the strategy of a successful brand
- Build Consistency, Gain Confidence, Attract Ideal Clients
- Visibility
My mission is to help businesses align their brand identity with their values and passions, enabling you to have a unique brand identity which attracts your ideal clients, that your products and services deserve.
The next workshop is on 23rd November. Starting at 9:30am and finishing at 12:30pm sharp.
RBS Head Office – 3rd Floor Conservatory 250 Bishopsgate, London.
Only available to NatWest New Business Customers.
Thank you Katie Bell for teaching me stacks on Tuesday about branding and for giving me lots of inspiration too! Loved it and loved meeting you!
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Toyota Tops Three Categories in KBB.com's 2014 Five-Year Cost to Own Awards
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Scion FR-S Named 2013 AUTOMOBILE Magazine All-Star
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TORRANCE, Calif. (May 21, 2013) – The Scion FR-S was named a 2013 AUTOMOBILE Magazine All-Star today as part of the leading automotive publication's annual list. To earn its spot, industry judges evaluated the FR-S against all current model year vehicles on sale in the United States across all categories. The FR-S shares its spot with the Subaru BRZ.
New Drivers Gain Critical Defensive Driving Skills and Confidence Behind the Wheel from Toyota's Teen Safe Driving Program
April 9, 2013 by Toyota Bloggers · Leave a Comment
TORRANCE, CALIF. (April 9, 2013) – Toyota continues to offer its free-of-charge safe driving skills program, Toyota Driving Expectations, and comprehensive online resources with the goal of reducing motor vehicle crashes, the leading cause of death among teens.


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Another topic that has gotten some attention in a couple of the EBS specific BIP sessions I've attended this week regards the BIP Desktop RTF Template Builder plug-in for Word. In short, EBS uses an embedded version of BIP which does not get updated as much as the standardized BIP Enterprise. Because of this version difference, EBS users need to use an older version of the RTF Template builder (Patch 12395372) to ensure compatibility. This older version does NOT currently support Word 2010, a standard that a lot of companies are moving to and are now running into problems. One user reported that this caused a major disruption to their report development after their IT staff made the switch. They had to scramble to get a PC to setup with an older version of Office to make simple changes which was not an easy task as the company policy had been set.
Unfortunately, this post does not bring any good news on this topic. The only thing to report is that Oracle BIP Product Management appears to be VERY aware of the problem and stated that a solution is being worked on. Per the standard Oracle safe harbor notice, there is no timeline for this solution to be released. One that thing that would help, much like my previous report on the data template editor, is to log an enhancement. Be sure to let them know what version of Word 2010 you are running (32 or 64bit) as well.
Off to a keynote…
This is my exact predicament! The CAO has placed the BI Publisher reports at the top of his priority and they just rolled out Office 2010 to IT yesterday. My paranoia has served me well as I have saved an old laptop with the old Office and BIP! What a bummer.


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Times Watch for July 30, 2004
NYT (Finally) Mentions Kerry's Flip-Flop on Use of Vietnam Footage
Reporter Jim Rutenberg files "New Skirmish Over Images From Vietnam in a Kerry Video," a story that includes details of a Kerry flip-flop (with an NYT angle) over Kerry's use of his personal Vietnam footage in the campaign, a controversy first highlighted yesterday on Times Watch.
Back in September 2002, Kerry told then-Times columnist (now executive editor) Bill Keller "I have no intention of using" his Vietnam home movies, which Kerry shot with an 8-mm camera, for campaign purposes. Yet the Kerry campaign indeed employed the footage in a nine-minute biopic which aired before Kerry's acceptance speech Thursday night, and in some previous campaign commercials as well. The Times has apparently not mentioned this flip-flop before Rutenberg's story, judging from the results of a Nexis database search.
Rutenberg adds: "Even before Senator John Kerry's biographical video was shown to convention delegates at the FleetCenter on Thursday night, voters in swing states had already seen plenty of images of the Democratic presidential candidate trekking through the jungle in his combat fatigues during the Vietnam War. The images have been featured prominently in many of his commercials. But conservative and Republican groups used Mr. Kerry's new video as an opportunity to question his motives for filming himself during the war and his decision to use the images so heavily in his campaign."
He details how the Drudge Report stoked the controversy earlier in the week: "The attacks began Wednesday, when the online Drudge Report posted excerpts from a coming book published by Regnery recounting a claim that Mr. Kerry had pulled out his camera after firefights to re-enact them."
Later Rutenberg cites Times Watch's parent organization: "Tim Graham, a director at the Media Research Center, a conservative media watchdog group, said the issue of Mr. Kerry using the Vietnam film was important because 'it's another flip-flop.' He cited an article in The New York Times in 2002 in which Mr. Kerry said he had 'no intention of using it' for campaign purposes. Asked why his group was making an issue of Mr. Kerry's statements now when he has been using the images in his commercials since the fall, Mr. Graham said, 'Tonight's going to be Vietnam night at the convention, so there's no time like the present.'"
For the rest of Rutenberg's mention of the Kerry footage flip-flop, click here.
" Campaign 2004 | Democratic Convention | Bill Keller | Sen. John Kerry | Jim Rutenberg | Vietnam
Kerry's Got a Little of the "Reagan Glow"
In "The Nominee Seems a Happy Warrior," TV reporter/critic Alessandra Stanley gives Kerry's performance a thumbs-up: "Kerry looked happy. Really happy. It showed in the way he raced, half-crouched, up the stairs to the lectern, the way he pumped his arm in the air and, especially, his opening words and jaunty salute: 'I'm John Kerry, and I'm reporting for duty.' And his somewhat goofy, bridegroom radiance lit up the screen, lending his performance energy and spirit. He spoke well, after a few minor stumbles, and without either his usual torpor or the stiffness of President Bush."
Stanley even suggested Kerry was a bit Reaganesque: "Mr. Kerry had a little of the glow [ed. note: perhaps that was just sweat] that Ronald Reagan transmitted in almost every television appearance, and that Mr. Kerry's running mate, John Edwards, wears every time he is on stage or in a crowd. On his good days, President Clinton beamed it up and down the rope line. It is not an emotion Mr. Kerry shows often, or easily, and his natural reserve and reticence are only enhanced by his gloomy good looks. He was helped by a powerful, well-written speech that wove his boyhood into strong, simple phrases about war, peace and patriotism".Last night, his good mood, as much as the importance of the moment, lent him extra grace. When he blew a kiss to his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, dressed in bridal white, then put out his arms to mime an embrace, he looked natural."
For the rest of Stanley's review of Kerry's performance, click here.
" Campaign 2004 | Democratic Convention | Sen. John Kerry | Ronald Reagan | Alessandra Stanley
Did Kerry "Turn Corner" With Voters Last Night?
Has John Kerry turned a corner with the electorate? Todd Purdum's front-page analysis of Kerry's performance suggests so. In "Strong Show of 'Strength,'" Purdum writes: "After a year in which he has been borne along more by the Democrats' lust to defeat Mr. Bush than by any special passion to elect him, Mr. Kerry may well have turned a corner on the path toward inspiring his party, and inviting swing voters to put him in the White House. He perspired visibly in the overcrowded hall, but his delivery was fluid, relaxed and assured, and he smiled often."
Purdum insists Bush's attempts to paint Kerry as liberal aren't working, though concedes the "flip-flop" charge just might: "All year, Mr. Kerry's advisers have expressed confidence that Mr. Bush will never be able to turn Mr. Kerry into Mr. Dukakis, whom the elder Bush managed to paint as a weak and wobbly liberal unfit to be commander in chief. Despite harsh television advertisements from the Republicans, that has so far proven true. But Mr. Kerry, whose long Senate career has left a string of sometimes contradictory votes, is more vulnerable to charges of inconsistency. So he took trouble to cast himself as a determined skeptic, one who 'will ask hard questions and demand hard evidence' and make sure that 'policy is guided by facts, and facts are never distorted by politics.'"
For the rest of Purdum's analysis, click here.
" Campaign 2004 | Democratic Convention | Sen. John Kerry | Todd Purdum
Krugman Sees Pro-Bush Media Bias
Paul Krugman is in usual form in his Friday column, "Triumph Of The Trivial," complaining of pro-Bush bias: "Since campaign coverage as celebrity profiling has no rules, it offers ample scope for biased reporting."A Columbia Journalism Review Web site called campaigndesk.org, says its analysis 'reveals a press prone to needlessly introduce Senators Kerry and Edwards and Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, as millionaires or billionaires, without similar labels for President Bush or Vice President Cheney.' As the site points out, the Bush campaign has been "hammering away with talking points casting Kerry as out of the mainstream because of his wealth, hoping to influence press coverage." The campaign isn't claiming that Mr. Kerry's policies favor the rich-they manifestly don't, while Mr. Bush's manifestly do. Instead, we're supposed to dislike Mr. Kerry simply because he's wealthy (and not notice that his opponent is, too). Republicans, of all people, are practicing the politics of envy, and the media obediently go along."
By going along with campaigndesk.org's pro-Kerry analysis (which itself is rather thin on data), Krugman ignores the hypocrisy angle: The fabulously wealthy Kerry-Edwards ticket railing against wealth and privilege.
For the rest of Krugman on that pro-Bush media bias, click here.
" Campaign 2004 | Democratic Convention | Columnists | Paul Krugman


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There are people in existence who have never seen any of the Star Wars movies. I have met only one. Last night, my friends and I received the following series of messages from that person.
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It looks like Hand Banana broke the silence a few months ago…..time for your good pal Bruno Sardine to get back to this whole posting of articles in a blog format. CHEERS!
A few things of note before we get started:
Back to the post! I started writing this a while back during our never-ending winter, so some of the information is a little dated. #apologies (also, did I mention I suck at Twitter?)
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Hello friends of awesome. I must say, it's nice to be back on a binge of this thing we call life. The sun is shining and the birds are chirping. As east coast dwellers, we begin to witness the annual two-week period of people not complaining about the weather. Life is pretty good.
This weeks episode is a helluva trip and one of our personal favorites. A few years ago, the movie Wedding Crashers came out. Wait…SHIT…..that was 9 years ago. Fucking time, I swear. All this talk of sequels to Anchorman and Dodgeball is throwing me off. Anyhow, most people enjoyed Wedding Crashers. Wedding Crashing quickly became all the rage. Every bro'd out dude wanted to try it. I think about 12 actually did.
1) The guy wearing a fleece pullover who yells a lot
Really man? Are you cold? The balmy 70 degrees they keep this place too chilly for ya that you need to wear a fleece? No, I don't think you are. Based on the screams that I can hear through my headphones I'd say that you're looking for attention. The camo fleece in the suburbs of VA says "I'm a bit of a tool" and your grunts say "Hey everybody, look over here" and together, all anyone hears is "Hey everybody! Look how big of a tool I am!" But let me clue you in on a secret. Nobody cares. Not one person cares that you are squatting or benching or doing arm curls with a weight belt on. Cut that shit out.
2) The guy who carries around a gallon jug of water.
Thirsty much? Hahahahaha…no but really, you know there's a water fountain in the gym right? Two of them in fact. I have no idea why you need a whole gallon jug for the 40 minutes that you're going to be here. You're working out your biceps, not getting supplies to hike through Death Valley. There is no possible way you're going to drink all that in one go, and it has to still kind of taste like milk. Gross. Get a normal water bottle like a normal person.
3) Everyone who wears these shirts
Ok Hans, we get it. You like to work out. So much so that you wear a shirt with another gyms name on it. Hey, I like to be comfortable when I work out too but seriously, don't make me look at your armpits while I do. You're like half a step away from being shirtless. This means that you sweat on everything you even accidentally brush up against. God forbid its crowded in there and you have to scoot past people and touch them. Yuck. This isn't muscle beach and you aren't Arnold.
4) The 8 kids who all come as a group and work out as such
Look, I don't have a problem with people wanting to work out together. I think that if you can get motivated by another person to be healthier, well good on you. But why are there 8 of you all on one machine? You guys are waiting like 20 min to get in 8 reps on a bench press and then just stand around flexing or whatever while everyone takes a turn. You know when you go to a bar, and you're with like 2 people and all you want to do is have a quiet drink and chill after work but you can't cause theres a huge group of dudes in the corner who are just being asshats, and the whole bar knows they're being asshats but they haven't done anything to get kicked out and theres really no rule against being loud cause I mean you know, its a bar but jesus just shut the hell up and let me enjoy my drink? That's this group of dudes at the gym.
5) Whoever keeps leaving towels on machines like they're saving a place but then never come back to use said machine.
I go to the gym at a time when not many people are there. There is really no reason to "save" your place as there aren't enough people to swoop in and snake your shit. But, that being said, I have no problem if you want to save your place and go get some water or take a piss or whatever. But WHO IN THE HELL keeps leaving their towel on machines and then walking away?! That shit is deceptive and annoying. Here I am walking into the gym, wanting to work on a specific machine and low and behold, I can't, cause it appears theres someone working on it. No problem, thats fine. But when I come back 30 min later and that towel is STILL THERE, then I'm annoyed. Where did you go towel guy? Are you ok? Are you sweaty and unable to wipe yourself off in some parallel universe thats activated by the leg press? We may never know.
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If there's anything I like more than drinking, it's drinking with people. And if I can claim victory over those same people after playing ridiculous drinking games, then my night is made. Beer pong, Kings, Asshole, Power Hour Movie Trivia, Landmines, and especially Relay are all drinking games that are made more enjoyable when you can cruch your opponents into small balls of wasted shame.
Of course, new games are always welcome and for my money, the best ones are the ones that involve lots of people, some sort of moving object, and an moderate physical activity. Really gets you pumped up to go out and continue drinking much too much alcohol.
So, you can guess how excited I was when I discovered this video(via Vimeo):
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Now, before you start with the whining lets just get some things out of the way.
So get out there, rig yourself a table(beer pong table with a net made of solo cups?), make yourself some paddles(old hardback textbook cover?), get some friends over(Facebook, Twitter, Craigslist if you're desperate) and get smashing drunk.


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Add City Assessor-Recorder Phil Ting to list of mayoral wannabes. He filed papers at the Department of Elections this morning to run for mayor in the November 2011 mayor's race.
He joins a growing roster of candidates who have made their campaign bids official. Others include Supervisor Bevan Dufty, who will be termed out of office in January, City Attorney Dennis Herrera, state Sen. Leland Yee and political newcomer Joanna Rees, a venture capitalist.
Keep in mind that there's another mayor's race already going on for who will fill out the remaining year on Mayor Gavin Newsom's term when he leaves for his new job as lieutenant governor in January. Only in that election, it is the Board of Supervisors — not city voters — who will make the pick.
Ting first was appointed to the assessor-recorder's job in 2005 by Mayor Gavin Newsom. He has since won election to the post, and now is using Newsom's one-time political guru, Eric Jaye, as his campaign manager. With a background in real estate finances Ting also served as the executive director of the Asian Law Caucus, a civil rights organization. In launching his campaign, Ting said, "To put San Franciscans back to work, we need to make our government work more effectively. From attracting new high-wage jobs to creating successful public schools that are the key for long-term growth, our city government can and should do more — and do it better.
"But, to achieve this," he added, "we will need a different kind of political campaign focused on empowering San Franciscans from every neighborhood willing to help make our city government work faster, fairer and smarter."


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{WPC Radio Playlist: February 14th}
Whirled Peas Café Radio or {WPC Radio} whichever way you prefer. Either suits me just fine. I'm easy that way. Where I come into difficulty is when they ask, "Lori, what do you play?" My most honest reply would be "good music." That, however, would read as more flippancy than sincerity. So I say, I'm "Whirled" as in the multi-faceted play on words. Whirled Peas is a homonym of Word Peace. Most of my music is rooted in social justice, spiritual awakening, and/or compassionate or loving relations. But there is often humor and an element of the unexpected in my choices or simply in my placements. My shows are crafted, in that I have a few "playlists-in-progress" folders that follow me to the station every week. There is always an excess of material. I add to it by browsing the library at WDBX as I set up my morning show. Then as I do my show I pull from my palettes, choosing and refining as I go. When I have guests, I pull from their palette and together we grow the show out of our tool kits and our conversation. Those shows tend to be my favorite. It is a conversation on many levels that is enriched by caller feedback. (If you doubt how much I love feedback, check out the earlier post Feedback.) To me, that is the essence of community radio. This is not a one-way road. This is a collaborative project. It is a dance among the elements, and you and I are but two of those dancers. But this explanation exceeds the character count for the WDBX schedule which states, Whirled Peas Café w/Lori: World, Roots & Rock.
I invite you to do your own count. How many genres do I play in a given show. Don't rely on just this playlist alone. I am a sucker for the blues and jazz. Quite a few of the artists I play come from far off and away. Many more mix and match musical instruments and styles as freely as I do. Today's show starts with a neo-jazz songstress, moves into a duet between two classical luminaries one Western and one South Asian shortly followed by anther East/West classical pairing rendering a traditional children's song, classic country, rock, blues, do-wap, spoken word, experimental, gospel, R&B, French cowboy, flamenco, and hip-hop. It isn't a contest to pack as many genres into a single playlist. It just happens that way. Something reminds me of something else. I feel that the jazz needs a bit of soul or the instrumentals need some strong vocals. It's a matter of composition and feel.
Many folks confess to me their distaste for one genre or another. And I confess to them that I haven't met a genre that I didn't like. I love good music. I'm not very fond of shallow music no matter the genre. I'm not saying everything has to be intellectually complex. Some of the simplest songs like really great vanilla reveal a subtlety of layering depth. Joe Cocker's performance of You Are So Beautiful springs to mind. For those of you who don't think you like hip-hop, I invite you to check out the Taiyo Na video link.
Dreamer's Ball Raya Yarbrough
My Funny Valentine Chet Baker
Ragas in Minor Scale Ravi Shankar & Phillip Glass
Sher Adrianne Greenbaum
Hush Little Baby YoYo Ma & Bobby McFerrin
Happy Happy Birthday Baby Wanda Jackson
How Many More Years Magic Slim & The Teardrops
Happy Birthday Blues BB King
Heart & Bones The Fabulous Ginn Sisters
These Roses Gin Wigmore
You Bonnie Raitt
Missionary Man E. C. Scott
Hallelujah Gin Wigmore
Hallelujah Jeff Buckley
Democracy Leonard Cohen
Crazy Little Thing Called Love Queen
Somewhere Over the Rainbow Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
Kowboy Kompa Angus Martin
On Revival Day (A Rhymthic Spiritual) Bessie Smith
Do the Astral Plane Flying Lotus
You Make Me Smile Aloe Blacc
Love Is Growth Taiyo Na
Juanito Ricardo Marlow
A Toast to Your Birthday The Shells
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You Are So Beautiful Joe Cocker


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That's right! I'm going to be at Elaine's Quilt Block! Put Saturday, August 6, 2016 on your calendar because I am pulling in my glamper and teaching classes! Here's what is happening!
When: SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 2016
Where: ELAINE'S QUILT BLOCK
Salt Lake City, UT 84121
What: Classes, Glamper Walk Through, Kits, and Raffles!
Class Times: 10am-12pm Modern Granny Square Pillow or Mini Quilt (Shown below)
1pm-3pm Clean Star Quilt (shown in the pic to the left)
Here's the deal on classes: There is a Posy Garden Kit you will need to buy from Elaine's for each of the classes. There is a class cost that I believe will be $24.99. I will have raffles sponsored from Riley Blake and I will be making a grand prize for someone to win at the end of the day. Be sure to check Elaine's Quilt Block for registration and more information on this!
Raffles will be happening throughout the day. I know there will be some cool things happening to enter into that (more on that on instagram!).
The glamper will be set up like we had it for Quilt Market.
I hope you will come join me because we are going to have a wonderful time! I'm so excited to launch Posy Garden.
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I don't like to talk politics much, but when politicians inject themselves into the sports world, it's hard to ignore them.
Besides the tradition of the president honoring collegiate national champions and professional title winners at the White House, there is very little good that comes from politicians nosing around in the world of athletics.
They certainly became a focal point in baseball's war on steroids. I always thought it was funny, though, that players got in trouble for lying to Congress. Isn't that the pot calling the kettle black?
Now along comes U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) who wants to bring the Olympics into the National Security Agency-leaker Edward Snowden discussion.
As a former military man I have strong opinions about what should happen to Snowden. I almost wouldn't be upset if someone like the Russians or the North Koreans granted him asylum. If he thinks America is horrible, let him try living over there for a while. I guess anything would be better than a prison cell for the rest of his life, though.
But back to the main point. On Wednesday, Graham told NBC News that the United States should consider boycotting the upcoming 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, if the Russian government grants Snowden asylum.
I downloaded the story from the NBC website; there were three pages of the story and 31 pages of comments, roughly 30 of which were spent calling Graham names that I can't repeat in this forum.
Why does Graham feel the need to hurt the men and women in this country, some of whom have worked for the majority of their lives to reach the pinnacle of their chosen sport? I certainly don't see some athletes, take bobsledders for example, having the opportunity to turn pro and win a championship in the National Bobsled League.
Graham asked that if we went back in time, would we have allowed Adolph Hitler to host the Olympics in Germany? Hitler is one of the most despicable men in history, but had we not attended what would have happened to Jesse Owens, who ended up with four gold medals at those games?
Sanity from other places quickly emerged. The following is attributable to United States Olympic Committee spokesperson Patrick Sandusky and reads in part: "If there are any lessons to be learned from the American boycott of 1980, it is that Olympic boycotts do not work. Our boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games did not contribute to a successful resolution of the underlying conflict. It did, however, deprive hundreds of American athletes, all whom had completely dedicated themselves to representing our nation at the Olympic Games, of the opportunity of a lifetime."
Well said.
At the same time, Grovetown's Scott Winkler is in Lyon, France, getting ready to participate in the International Paralympic Athletics World Championships. A two-time U.S. Paralympic Games competitor, Winkler will be representing the country in the men's shot put - F54/55 category on Saturday.
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When Were the Original Gospels Written?
Ellen Myers
During her childhood in Nazi Germany this writer's father told her that Nazism was in part the result of Germany's already long standing apostasy from Christ. Only after her own much later conversion to Christ did she realize that the root of that apostasy was German Protestant "higher criticism" of the Bible which flourished in the nineteenth century. Through this movement, joined to Darwinist evolutionism after 1859, the error of "modernism," man's arrogant transvaluation of the Bible in the light of his own supposedly infallible "scientific" understanding and scholarship, infiltrated and eventually dominated theological instruction in Western Christendom (the Eastern Orthodox Church remained far less affected). Not unnaturally Protestantism fell victim to this trend first, but the Catholic church was next. Catholic author Rev. Msgr. Michael J. Wrenn sadly comments:
Apologetics used to be a defense of Church doctrine against the Protestants who used historical-critical exegesis as a weapon against the Church.... The new apologetics is the defense of Catholic historical-critical exegetes, who learn their methodology from Protestants, against attacks by Catholics.4
Today even many mainline Protestant and Catholic laypeople are also modernist agnostics about the origin and divine, infallible inspiration of the Bible and thus deny its claim to be God's authoritative, faultless revelation of Himself, His will and His acts. Only a remnant of Protestant and Catholic Christians still wholly accept the Bible.
However, there are more and more deep cracks in the historical - critical, modernist facade. Protestant author Robert J. Clinkert has reported that one of its chief supports, the so-called "documentary hypothesis" which purports to show the evolution of religious thought in early Israel and attributes the first five books of the Bible not to Moses but a series of other writers, is now in trouble even among modernist-liberal Bible scholars:
According to Professor Blenkinsopp, of Notre Dame University, scholars now
merely "pay lip service" to the documentary hypothesis, but no longer use it as an analytical tool. Some prominent liberal scholars such as Rolf Rengtorff and Brevard Childs (Yale Divinity School) have openly abandoned it 2
Jesus Christ, of course, attributed the Pentateuch to Moses and told His unbelieving hearers that if they believed Moses they would believe Him (John 5:45-47). Moses also published God the Creator's record of creation which the higher critics had to reject if they were to reconcile themselves to "modern science" in the form of Darwinist evolution.
It is less well known even among Bible-believing Christians today that the modernist scholars not only denied and falsified the Bible's own testimony regarding its Author but also its internal evidence about when it was written. This is true for both the Old and the New Testaments. The tendency is to date the writing of certain foundational books of the Bible later than their own internal evidence makes most probable. We saw this tendency with the Pentateuch. It applies, for example, to Daniel, whose remarkable prophecies could not be admitted as given in advance but were assigned to hypothetical later author' writing after the fact. It also applies to the Gospels of Christ, especially the Gospel of John. Halley's Bible Handbook, beloved and widely used by Bible believing Christians, states the common consensus of Bible scholars today that "The Date of [John's] Gospel is usually assigned to about A.D. 90." Halley does add that
Some think that John originally wrote this Gospel much earlier, while he was still in Jerusalem, soon after the Resurrection, in Hebrew, and in later years issued, in Greek, the Ephesian edition, which was the parent of all extant manuscripis.3
In general the accepted opinion among Bible scholars, passed down to pastors and laypeople alike, is that the Gospels were written after the Epistles, at the end of the first century A.D., as were the book of Acts and Revelation. We now hear more and more criticism of this opinion. It is time for Bible-believing Christians everywhere to become informed about this latest development in scholarship placing the original Gospels (and Acts and Revelation) definitely before A.D.70 and even within the very decade of our Lord's death and resurrection.
Already in 1976 none other than the late Anglican bishop John A. T. Robinson published a scholarly book, Redating the New Testament. It did not receive anything like the world-wide publicity accorded Robinson's earlier, modernist Honest to God, for it took the New Testament at its own face value with regard to the dating of its books. Up to then, Robinson had "believed everything which he had been taught in the field of historical-critical exegesis, everything which the German school propounded," but then one day he asked himself what scientific foundation really existed for the critical school's dating of the Gospels, and found no answer.4 (One is reminded of the awakening of British taxonomist Dr. Colin Patterson to the wholly non-scientific nature of evolutionism.)5 Robinson realized that the entire New Testament is silent about the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in A.D. 70. This is especially remarkable with regard to the prophecies of Jesus Christ Himself about the destruction of the city and Temple in the synoptic Gospels. Would not the Gospel of Matthew, generally so concerned with pointing out the fulfilment of Old Testament prophecy, have pointed out how our Lord's prophecy about Jerusalem and the Temple had been fulfilled, if indeed it had been written "after the fact"? Robinson arrived at the conclusion, contrary to modern scholarly consensus, that the Fourth Gospel was written between A.D.40-60, and Revelation before A.D.70. David Chilton in a thorough study of the original date of Revelation cites not only Robinson but also other, more orthodox authorities including Alfred Edersheim, H. B. Swate, Moses Stuart, and Ernest L. Martin, as well as archeological support for an early (pre-A.D. 70) New Testament.6
A similar argument for the early dating of the New Testament comes from Claude Tresmontant, a distinguished scholar at the Sorbonne. In John 5 2 the pool of Bethesda, where Christ healed the lame man, is described as existing at the very same time John was writing ("there is [Greek, estin] at Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate, a pool ... called Bethesda"). If the Gospel of John had been written, as most modern scholars assume, around A.D. 90, the pool would have been buried under the rubble of destroyed Jerusalem already for some twenty years. Tresmontant, whose arguments were presented in The Hebrew Christ recently published in France and soon to appear in English, placed the writing of the original Gospels, which he believed to be in Hebrew, even earlier than Robinson. He
proposes reasons for believing that in its present form, in Greek, the Gospel of Matthew had been composed before the end of the 40's. But the original Hebrew or Aramaic is of course before this time.... the Gospels as we have them are really translations ... of much earlier original compositions in Hebrew or Aramaic and therefore much closer to the 'ipsissima verda Christi' [the very words of Christ].7
Another French scholar, the noted authority on the Dead Sea Scrolls Father Jean Carmignac of Paris (d.1986), has also re-evaluated the dating of the Gospels. As an expert in biblical Hebrew and faithful Christian, he understood the disastrous effect ~ of the modernist belief that the Gospels were not eyewitness, accounts of the life of our Lord but "later compositions, simply witnesses of the growing faith of the earliest Christian communities," and that "if the Jesus of History is practically unattainable, it is the Christ of Faith who very quickly is rejected!"8
Father Carmignac undertook to translate the Gospel of Mark into Hebrew. He became convinced that the "rather inelegant and eargrating Greek" of this Gospel "could not have been redacted [originally written] directly in Greek and that it was in reality only the Greek translation of an original Hebrew.... The Hebrew-Greek translation had transposed word for word ... " He pointed to a number of examples of typically Hebrew play on words in the text of this and other Gospels. One of these is Luke 1:68-79, the priest Zachariah's praise to the God of Israel after the birth of his son John (the Baptist). Here the very names "John," "Zachariah," and "Elizabeth" have as their root meanings "Jehovah shows mercy," "Jehovah remembers," and "the oath of God" respectively. In the same sequence Luke 1:68-79 refers to God's showing mercy to His people, in accordance with His remembrance of His people and of the oath He swore to Abraham. Of course these allusions and deep similarities exist only in Hebrew and are lost in Greek or English. But in Hebrew the connections between the names and God's acts are deliberate. We might add that with God the very names "Zachariah" and "Elizabeth" were given these aged parents by His eternal purpose, not by "accident" or "chance," even as He expressly commanded them to name their miracle baby "John." Father Carmignac found that since the fifteenth century some 80 retranslations into Hebrew had been made by other scholars, and he believed that
by the year 2000 scriptural scholarship will start with the Hebrew or Aramaic rather than the Greek. "Sooner or later, specialists will be hit right between the eyes and see themselves like me staring directly at the very backdrop of the Gospels."9
Once you begin to think about it apart from the fog of modernistic teaching, it seems obvious that the original autographs of the Gospels were not written in Greek but in Hebrew, for the authors were Christians from Judaic circles who could express the message of Jesus Christ in Aramaic or Hebrew only (and not in Greek) prior to about A.D. 50. Wrenn refers to further substantiation of the early date of the Gospel of Mark from the history of the church by Eusebius, who in turn cites Papias.10 Halley's Bible Handbook comments as follows on "What Papias Said about Mark":
Papias, A.D. 70-155, a pupil of the Apostle John ..., wrote, in his "Explanation of the Lord's Discourses," that he had made it his business to inquire of the Elders and followers of the Elders, and "The Elder said this also: Mark, having become the Interpreter of Peter, wrote down accurately all that he remembered—not, however, in order—of the Words and Deeds of Christ. For neither did he hear the Lord, nor was he a follower of his, but later on, as I said, he attached himself to Peter, who would adapt his instruction to the need of the occasion, but not teach as though he were composing a connected account of the Lord's Oracles; so that Mark made no mistake in thus writing down some things as he remembered them. For one object was in his thoughts—to omit nothing that he had heard, and to make no false statements. ~ ~
Now Peter, according to Eusebius, was martyred during the persecution of Nero which followed shortly after the burning of Rome in 64 A.D., and Peter had himself authorized the reading of the book of Mark in the Christian assemblies. Thus the Gospel of I Mark was written some time before 64 A.D. Wrenn adds that even if the Gospels were handed down by oral tradition until after A.D. 66 or 70 and written down only then, which is scientifically totally unproven and even improbable as shown, the Gospel tradition preceded their writing; in fact, "In 1957 at the Oxford Congress on the Four Gospels, the eminent Swedish specialist in the New I Testament, H. Riesenfeld, maintained that ... the gospel tradition I [was] prior to the Easter event—therefore going back to Jesus, Himself...12
In conclusion, we may rejoice that the historical-critical, modernist school of Bible study which has done so much harm to I Western Christendom is now at the end of its tether. As with the, tenets of Darwinian evolutionism, so it is with the pillars of "higher criticism," the "documentary hypothesis" and also the dating ~ (really post-dating) of the Gospels: they are collapsing and being ! replaced by sound re-evaluation of evidences both from within and without Scripture itself. The original Gospels were written shortly after the death, Resurrection and Ascension of our Lord, based on His very words and deeds by authors who had witnessed them or passed them on faithfully. As the Apostle Peter says, "We did not follow cleverly invented stories when we told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty" (2 Peter 1:16)
1 Rev. Msgr. Michael J. Wrenn, "Commentary," Fidelity. November 1987, p. 12.
2 Robert J. Clinkert, "Moses vs. Evolution," Creation Social Science and Humanities Quarterly, X:1 (Fall 1987), p. 30.
3 Henry H. Halley, Halley's Bible Handbook (Grand Rapids, Ml: Zondervan. Twenty-Fourth Edition 1965), p. 528.
4 Wrenn, Fidelity, November 1987, p. 8.
5 Reported in Acts and Facts (a publication of the Institute for Creation Research. El Cajon, CA) in June 1982.
6 David Chilton, The Days of Vengeance (Fort Worth, TX: Dominion Press, 1987), pp.3 -4.
7 Wrenn, Fidelity, November 1987, p. 9.
8 Ibid
9 Ibid., p. 10.
10 Ibid., p. 11.
11 Halley, Halleys Bible Handbook p. 458.
12 Cited in Wrenn, Fidelity, November 1987, p. 11.


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For a consumer, Spotify is an easy sell: The service's 10 million active users (people who have listened in the past month) have access to 15 million songs on their desktops, all for the cost of hearing an occasional advertisement. It has the speed and ease of iTunes, the flexibility and breadth of Napster and the attractive pricing of online radio service Pandora. And unlike those predecessors, Spotify was social from the start, with tools that let you share playlists with pals—more than 1.5 billion songs have been swapped on Facebook so far.
After he was bounced as Facebook's first president, Sean Parker begged Ek to let him invest: "Ever since Napster I've dreamt of building a product similar to Spotify," his introductory e-mail read. The service impressed Mark Zuckerberg, too. "I checked it out and I thought, This is pretty amazing," the Facebook founder tells me. "They internalized a lot of what we've talked about in terms of social design of apps." That means turning the core product—in Ek's case, a hard-fought song library—loose on third-party app developers to help Spotify evolve, making it even more tempting to potential customers.
Here's how that social stickiness translates into revenue: You explore your friends' playlists, discover new music with apps from Rolling Stone, Billboard and Last.fm, and build your own jukebox. Eventually you want to take it everywhere. That's where Ek has you trapped. With Spotify you pay for portability—$10 a month buys you access to your collection on your mobile device.
This model has proven it can save the music business—in Sweden. One-third of Ek's home country has signed up, and about one-quarter of those pay for premium access. According to Mark Dennis, who runs Sony Music in Sweden, Spotify single-handedly stemmed a decade of nonstop revenue drop when it launched in 2008; in 2011 Sweden's music industry will likely see its first growth since the Clinton Administration, with Spotify accounting for 50% of all sales (up from 25% last year). This in a country that has long been a hotbed of piracy.
Extrapolate that on a global scale and the industry will have its magic bullet. With the stakes nothing less than the future of the recording business Ek arrived in the U.S. in July for a three-front battle with Apple, Amazon and Google. Some 400,000 Americans have already subscribed to the premium plan, according to a well-placed music executive, lending credence to Ek's pitch that he can rescue the record labels by giving their product away for free.
The two facets of Spotify—music and technology—were introduced to Daniel Ek at age 5, when over the course of a few months he received a guitar (his mother's parents had been an opera signer and a jazz pianist) and a Commodore 20 computer (his father left the family when Ek was a baby, but his stepfather worked in IT). He was a natural at both instruments. Within two years he was writing basic code as MTV played in the background of his family apartment in the rough neighborhood of Ragsved (known to the locals as "Drugsved").
At 14 Ek latched onto the late-1990s dot-com mania, making commercial websites in his school's computer lab. The going rate then for a commercial home page was $50,000, but Ek charged $5,000 and made it up in volume: He recruited his teenage friends, training the math whizzes in HTML and the artists in Photoshop. Soon he was netting $15,000 a month and buying every videogame out there (one favorite: a business game called Capitalism).
True to the first generation to grow up online, he sought to master everything Internet. He bought some servers to see what made them tick, and wound up earning another $5,000 a month hosting Web pages. At 16, obsessed with Google's speed, he applied to be an engineer there ("Google said come back when you have a degree") and then set out to build his own search company.


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ATLANTA - Atlantic Coast Conference pundits talk fervently about the talent in a league they consider perennially underrated.
April's NFL Draft validated their claims. Twelve of the 32 first-round picks played for ACC teams, the most from one league in NFL history. The top overall pick, defensive end Mario Williams, starred at North Carolina State.
Those departures created a vacuum, however. Three weeks into this season, the sucking sound is drowning out all the pundits' talk.
North Carolina State lost to Akron and Southern Mississippi. North Carolina lost to Rutgers at home. Florida State rallied late to beat Troy and is averaging just 49 rushing yards per game.
Those struggles lead to the inevitable questions: Slow start? Or down year?
And what does the league's weakness mean to Georgia Tech?
"We definitely believe with the talent we have on our team we have a chance," Yellow Jacket fullback Mike Cox said. "With no one dominant team in the conference, we feel like this is our year."
The Yellow Jackets have been one of the few impressive ACC teams in the season's early weeks. The Jackets open conference play against Virginia on Thursday with a 2-1 record, their lone loss coming to No. 12 Notre Dame.
The difference between Georgia Tech and most of its ACC brethren is experience. The Yellow Jackets have veterans at every offensive position, on the defensive line and at linebacker.
Georgia Tech coach Chan Gailey said there's nothing wrong with his players seeing opportunity in the rest of the league's struggles.
It's bad "only if you let it affect your play," he said. "There is nothing wrong with being confident and excited, as long as you don't get lackadaisical in your preparation or believe this isn't a hard week."
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Sept. 21- Virginia: The Cavaliers graduated seven seniors, lost star junior linebacker Kai Parham to the NFL Draft, had three more starters dismissed from the team and replaced both coordinators.
Sept. 30 - At Virginia Tech: The Hokies are breaking in new QB Sean Glennon and lost six starters on defense, including stars Darryl Tapp (DE) and Jimmy Williams (CB).
Oct. 7 - Maryland: The Terrapins return just three defensive starters and lost four starting offensive linemen.
Oct. 21 - At Clemson: The Tigers have lost two linebackers to injury this season and have a new QB in Will Proctor.
Oct. 28 - Miami: The Hurricanes are replacing four starters on the offensive line.
Nov. 4 - At N.C. State: The Wolfpack lost five members of their defensive front seven, including stud defensive ends Mario Williams and Manny Lawson.
Nov. 11 - at North Carolina: The Tar Heels are still unsettled at QB, with Cam Newton and Joe Dailey sharing snaps.
Nov. 18 - Duke: Eleven Blue Devils either graduated or transferred and starter QB Zack Asack was dismissed from school for plagiarism during the summer.
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|Induced Myeloid Leukemia Cell Differentiation Protein Mcl-1 (MCL1) Antibodies
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|Mcl-1 (for myeloid cell leukemia-1) is a member of the Bcl-2 family that was identified by screening of of cDNA libraries derived from differentiating human myeloid leukemia cells. Bcl-2 family members are involved in apoptosis and share two highly conserved functional regions, Bcl-2 homology 1 and 2 (BH1 and BH2). Several of the family members including Bcl-2 act as inhibitors of apoptosis, whereas others such as Bax promote cell death. It is thought that protein-protein interactions between Bcl-2 family members play an important role in their function. For example, Bax can homodimerize as well as heterodimerize with Bcl-2. When Bax is present in excess, it can counteract the ability of Bcl-2 to inhibit cell death. Although its function remains to be fully elucidated, Mcl-1 may, like Bcl-2, be a blocker of cell death. For example, transfection of Mcl-1 into Chinese hamster ovary cells partially blocked Myc-induced apoptosis, and Mcl-1 blocked Bax mediated cell death in a yeast two-hybrid system. The two-hybrid system results suggest that Mcl-1/Bax interations may have functional homology to Bcl-2/Bax interations in blocking Bax-mediated cell death. This polyclonal antibody is not recommended for the identification of mouse Mcl-1 and has been reported not to cross-react with human Bcl-2.
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On April 24, the Junta of Good Government in the Zapatista caracol La Garrucha published an open letter criticizing attacks on the Zapatista community Nueva Paraiso by neighboring communities affiliated with local politicians. The attacks began last October and include land invasions, armed attacks, destruction of forests and cropland, and stealing crops. Damages are estimated at nearly US$40,000, a small fortune for a campesino community struggling for existence. The Junta accuses local, state and federal authorities of organizing the attacks. These kinds of attacks against autonomous communities have been increasing in recent years.
WalMart and its allies in the business press and ruling class did their best this week to rescue the transnational corporation from an embarrassing, illegal, and potentially costly scandal. Mexico's ruling party first tried to ignore the US$24 million bribery scandal that made WalMart the country's largest private employer. On Monday, President Felipe Calderon claimed that if the accusations are true, it would be a local matter since bribes for construction permits would have been paid to municipal and state officials.
But by Thursday, under pressure from opposition parties and the politics of pending national elections, the Comptroller and the federal Attorney General both announced federal investigations. Not to be outdone, Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard threatened a "store by store" investigation in the capitol. The country's political class quickly jumped on board a well, passing Mexico's first anti-corruption law that would level fines of US$800 to US$160,000 against foreign companies engaging in corruption related to public works contracts. WalMart opened over 2,000 stores in two decades using bribery to obtain building permits or buy off political opposition. Fines in the range contemplated by the new law would hardly dent the bottom line of the transnational corporation.
The business media dutifully published WalMart's self-serving press releases. The president for corporate communications, David Tovar, tried to make nice with regulators and the public: "We are taking a deep look at our policies and procedures in every country in which we operate." Then he quickly followed with "blame the messenger" logic : "We believe it's also important to keep a few things in context. The allegations in the New York Times story about the decisions made in Bentonville are more than six years old." Analysts quickly noted that WalMart would not be in its current hot water had company executives at the highest levels not participated for more than six years in a massive cover up of illegal bribes to Mexican officials at all levels of government, violating both Mexican and US laws. WalMart opened over 2,000 stores in two decades using bribery to obtain building permits or buy off political opposition. Several analysts noted that bribery on a grand scale would be necessary to move complex commercial building permits and environmental approvals at a pace consistent with this level of new construction. As WalMart opened a store a day last year, one wonders if the corruption continued right up until late 2011 when the New York Times informed the company of its investigation, and the company finally began its own internal inquiry.
WalMart's crimes extend well beyond bribery. Parking lot attendants and baggers aren't even paid a salary by the company, depending rather on tips from customers. Last year the company paid US$1.6 billion on sales of over US$30 billion for a tax rate of about 5%.
Former and current executives began looking for cover. Former WalMart de Mexico senior executive and current WalMart board member Eduardo Castro-Wright, one of the central figures in the scandal, resigned this week from the board of MetLife, claiming, "I must now focus my energy in spending personal time with my family and in protecting my good name and business reputation." He may be expecting jail time under a growing SEC investigation into violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Until the full scope of the scandal became apparent, the business press shrugged its collective shoulders. Tim Worstall of Forbes penned an editorial early in the week entitled "So what?" that captured the spirit of many business leaders. He justified his attitude with an anything-goes logic: "other countries are indeed other countries and they do things differently there." This classic neocolonial view allows WalMart to do what it must to dominate Mexico's retail market, repatriating profits to Bentonville, Arkansas, and the company's stockholders, while leaving small and medium-sized retailers unemployed in Mexico. But as the scope of the scandal became more apparent, even conservative publications like the Chicago Tribune began to wonder "to what extent can we trust our governments to remain free of the corrupting influence of rich corporations… If the charges against Wal-Mart prove accurate, the punishment must fit the crime."
Nearly 70,000 guns recovered in Mexico since 2007 came from the US, according to a recent report from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The US-made weapons represent 68% of all guns confiscated in Mexico during the period in question. Late last year, the Obama administration initiated a requirement that gun dealers in border states report customers who purchase multiple high-powered rifles within a consecutive five-day period. Gun dealers and the National Rifle Association are challenging the law in federal court.
The number of undocumented Mexicans living in the US dropped significantly for the first time since the Great Depression, according to analysis of census data by the Pew Hispanic Center. Mexicans account for about 60% of undocumented workers living in the US and currently number 6.1 million, a decline from 7 million in 2007. While experts attribute much of the drop to a sagging US economy and demographic changes in Mexico, many immigrants cite the increasing influence of violent organized crime factions who make it nearly impossible to cross the border without paying up to $3,500 for Mexicans, and perhaps five times as much for Central Americans.


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Mophie OutRide turns your iPhone into a GoPro-like solution - CES 2013
January 10th 2013
By Mike Flaminio
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Mophie announced their OutRide kit that includes seven accessories for mounting your iPhone onto various outdoor gear. Sort of like how GoPro is aimed at action sports, the OutRide can do the same, but with your iPhone. Includes a dry and wet kit and also a wide angle lens. Also software allows users to edit and send video right from the phone rather than syncing to a computer.
It's available now for $150.