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You Won't Believe What the Cast of 'The Dukes of Hazzard' Look Like Now! [Pictures]
The Dukes of Hazzard was more than just a popular TV show, it was a television phenomenon that launched several of its cast members into sex symbol status. Forty-two years after the show debuted in 1979, the cast members look very different today, but they've held up remarkably well.
The Dukes of Hazzard starred John Schneider and Tom Wopat as Bo and Luke Duke, two "good old boys," as the song's famous theme song described them, who were always living just a little bit on the wrong side of the law. The show's relatively simple, but fun plots centered around their various scrapes with the local sheriff and a corrupt local kingpin named Boss Hogg, a longtime archenemy of their family.
Catherine Bach portrayed Daisy Duke, the Duke boys' cousin who worked at a local bar. She tended to get involved in the middle of their shenanigans, and she looked good doing it; the short cutoff shorts she wore on the show sparked the daisy dukes shorts craze that is still popular today in various parts of Southern rural culture. You won't believe what she looks like today!
The Dukes of Hazzard debuted on Jan. 26, 1979, and wrapped on Feb. 7. 1985. The years since the show went off the air have certainly held their ups and downs for the cast of The Dukes of Hazzard. While most of them have gone on to more career success, their personal lives have had their share of trouble. Both of the show's lead actors have spent time in jail in recent years, and another cast member lost a spouse to suicide. Another cast member went on to a second career in U.S. politics! Do you know which one?
Sadly, we've also lost several of the cast members since the show went off the air. Read on to catch up with the cast of the Dukes of Hazzard and see what they look now.
PICTURES: Here's What the Cast of 'The Dukes of Hazzard' Look Like Today!
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Flippity is a Google Maps mashup of eBay listings. The site allows users to search eBay listing by object and location and view the results on a Google Map.
The photographs of the results are displayed beside the map. You are also able to refine your search by price and by distance. Another really nice feature is that when the results of a search are returned Flippity automatically loads subcategories for your search term in a drop down menu, allowing you to refine your search further.
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Week 6
Your Baby's Development
By week 6, your baby's brain and nervous system are developing quickly. Optic vesicles, which later form the eyes, begin to develop on the sides of the head, as do the passageways that will make up the inner ear.
Your baby's heart will begin to beat around this time, and might even be detected on ultrasound examination. And the beginnings of the digestive and respiratory systems are forming too. Small buds that will grow into your baby's arms and legs appear this week.
Because their legs are curled up against the torso for much of the pregnancy, making a full-length measurement difficult, babies often are measured from the crown to rump (from the top of the head to bottom the buttocks) rather than from head to toe. This week, your baby only measures 0.08 to 0.2 inches (2 to 5 millimeters) from crown to rump!
Your Body
Common pregnancy complaints might hit with full force this week. You may feel very tired as your body adjusts to the demands of pregnancy. And tender, aching breasts and nausea and vomiting (morning sickness) may leave you feeling less than great. Despite its name, morning sickness can happen at any hour or all day, so don't be surprised if your queasy stomach doesn't pass by noon.
Nausea isn't the only thing that might have you running to the bathroom — hormonal changes and other things, such as your kidneys working extra hard to flush wastes out of your body, can make you need to pee more often too.


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Carrying Capacity
The resources in any given habitat can support only a certain quantity of wildlife. As seasons change, food, water, or cover may be in short supply. Carrying capacity is the number of animals the habitat can support all year long.
- The carrying capacity of a certain tract of land can vary from year to year. It can be changed by nature or humans.
- Factors that limit the potential production of wildlife include:
- Disease/parasites
- Starvation
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Nineteen inhabitants of Beit Hanun were killed with malice
aforethought. There is no other way of describing the circumstances of
their killing. Someone who throws burning matches into a forest can't
claim he didn't mean to set it on fire, and anyone who bombards
residential neighborhoods with artillery can't claim he didn't mean to
kill innocent inhabitants.
Therefore it takes considerable gall and cynicism to dare to claim that the Israel Defense Forces did not intend to kill inhabitants of Beit Hanun. Even if there was a glitch in the balancing of the aiming mechanism or in a component of the radar, a mistake in the input of the data or a human error, the overwhelming, crucial, shocking fact is that the IDF bombards helpless civilians. Even shells that are supposedly aimed 200 meters from houses, into "open areas," are intended to kill, and they do kill. In this respect, nothing new happened on Wednesday morning in Gaza: The IDF has been behaving like this for months now.
But this isn't just a matter of "the IDF," "the government" or "Israel" bearing the responsibility. It must be said explicitly: The blame rests directly on people who hold official positions, flesh-and-blood human beings, and they must pay the price of their criminal responsibility for needless killing. Attorney Avigdor Klagsbald caused the death of a woman and her child without anyone imagining that he intended to hit them, but nevertheless he is sitting in prison. And what about the killers of women and children in Beit Hanun? Will they all be absolved? Will no one be tried? Will no one even be reprimanded and shunned?
GOC Southern Command Yoav Galant will say with exasperating coolness that apparently there was "a problem with the battery's targeting apparatus," without moving a facial muscle, and will that be enough? Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh will say, "The IDF is militarily responsible, but not morally responsible," and will he thus exculpate himself?
And who will bear the responsibility for the renewal of the terror attacks? Only Hamas? Who will be accused of the tumble in Israel's status and its depiction as a violent, leper state, and who will be judged for the danger that hovers over world Jewry in the wake of the IDF's acts? The electronic component that went on the blink in the radar?
No one is guilty in Israel. There is never anyone guilty in Israel. The prime minister who is responsible for the brutal policy toward the Palestinians, the defense minister who knew about and approved the bombardments, the chief of staff, the chief of command and the commander of the division who gave the orders to bombard – not one of them is guilty. They will continue with the work of killing as though nothing has happened: The sun shone, the system flourished and the ritual slaughterer slaughtered. They will continue to pursue the routine of their daily lives, accepted in society like anyone else, and remain in their posts despite the blood on their hands.
A few hours after the disaster, while the Gaza Strip was still enveloped in sorrow and deep in shock, the air force was already hastening to carry out another targeted killing, an arrogant demonstration of just how much this disaster does not concern us.
Israel after the disaster was split: There were those who did their duty and "expressed sorrow," like the prime minister and the defense minister, and there were those who hastened with appalling insensitivity to cast the responsibility onto the Palestinians, like the "moderate" foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, and the deputy defense minister from the Labor Party, Sneh. The silent majority did not bother to emerge from its yawning indifference. The entertainment shows on television continued to make people laugh, and one of the radio stations even broadcast, in a demonstrable lack of taste, Sarit Hadad's song "You're a Big Gun." Mourning, of course, did not descend on Israel, and there was not even a single manifestation of genuine participation in the sorrow. It did not occur to Israel to promise compensation to the families and it did not provide help, apart from transferring some of the wounded to hospitals in Israel. We provided more aid to the victims of the earthquake in Mexico, even though there we didn't have a hand in the disaster. For the most part, the media were not very disturbed by the killing and devoted less attention to it than to the Gay Pride parade.
A day or two after the disaster it was totally forgotten and other affairs are filling our lives. But it is impossible just to go on to the next item on the agenda. This disaster is not an act of God. There are people who are clearly responsible for it, and they must be brought to justice. The fact that the International Court of Justice in The Hague still looks very far from Israel, and the various "Halutzes" and "Galants" can still move around freely in the world, because in Israel they forgive nearly everything, does not mean that war crimes are not being committed here.
The IDF may well be a big gun, but an army that is responsible for needless killing in such large dimensions, as in recent months in Lebanon and in Gaza, is a failed and dangerous army that must urgently be repaired. The Defense Forces are not only killing Arabs for no reason, they are also directly endangering Israel's security, disgracing it in the world and embroiling it again and again.
The heedless and arrogant reaction to such deeds contains a dangerous moral message. If it is possible to dismiss mass killing with a wealth of technical excuses, and not take any drastic measure against those who are truly guilty of it, then Israel is saying that, as far as it is concerned, nothing happened apart from the faulty component in the radar system or the glitch in balancing the sights. But what happened at Beit Hanun, what happened in Israel on the day after and what is continuing to happen in Gaza day after day is a far more frightening distortion than the calibrating of a gun sight.


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You will just need your booking email address for the door staff on the night of the event. (or payment email address if paying via PayPal/Apple Pay)
Please also note, there is no designated seating, you choose your own.
Join Grant Harris, one of Yorkshire's best and well-loved Psychic Mediums, for an exciting evening of Mediumship.
With over 10 years' experience, Grant's gift for Mediumship is unparalleled and truly something to witness for yourself. With over 17k followers on Facebook and ONLY 5* reviews, Grant is the real deal and making waves in the Spiritual world. This along with a hilariously dry sense of humour and humble Yorkshire charm will set you up for a night to remember!
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We sit down with Clara Rosencher, a grains trader at Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) in Geneva to talk about women, trading, and travel. The native Parisian joined LDC through the LDC Graduate Program.
How did you become a trader?
(Laughs) Believe it or not, I would have never said openly that I wanted to become a trader. I would have been way too shy. I heard a lot of guys saying they wanted to be traders, but no women.
And so, it seemed slightly out of my reach.
But I loved mathematics, I loved travel, and I wanted to be in an international company interacting with people around the world. After finishing a Master's degree in commodity finance, I worked at a start-up for a few months, then decided to give it a try and applied to LDC's Graduate Program. During this program, I was given appropriate support and training to build the required set of skills to become a trader. And that's when I became more confident that I could do it.
Why don't more women go into trading?
There is not one single answer. It's just that, for generation after generation, women went in certain professions.
And despite a lot of progress made in favour of women, it is still challenging for us to make it in the world of trading today.
I am entirely convinced that men and women alike can make excellent traders. Certainly, none of the qualities and characteristics needed to do this job well, are gender-specific – hopefully more and more women today realize this.
You need a lot of confidence to take on the responsibility of handling risks and pressure associated with significant trading position exposures. When markets are adverse, you also need to be able to overcome short to medium term disappointments.
In many ways women's emotional intelligence and empathy can also be a great advantage in this job.
And then there is the elephant in the room: How to balance a stressful, demanding job with family life. But that is true for every profession, not just trading.
And so, what would you tell women today?
Don't be afraid of the word "trader". It's not a profession only for men. I have been trading for four years now and I enjoy it a lot. I love waking up in the morning and embrace the day's challenge. Every day is different, requiring new decisions, new beginnings. The position never sleeps. You assess, reassess, adapt and change. A woman's intuition is extremely valuable in trading.
Tell us more about your job and why it attracts you?
My job is about leveraging information to make the right decisions. I look at, and analyse, large amounts of information. Then I draw conclusions with the goal of making winning arbitrages.
In my job, everything is fast (looks at mobile). We need to make decisions all the time or have a direction in mind even if that means not to do anything. I love the intensity of it. The responsibility also plays a role. I take responsibility for success or failure. This can be hard, but I enjoy the sense of challenge that goes with it.
This profession is changing and everybody knows that our jobs will be affected more and more by technology and automation. But the skills I am gaining are relevant throughout our industry. For now, I am learning as much as I can, and enjoying it.
Your passion is travelling and photography. Does that go well with your job?
If you ask me who I am, I will tell you that first and foremost I like movies and I like to travel.
I am passionate about intricate details, natural settings and spontaneous interactions which is somehow reminiscent of my job. I travel whenever I have time off. And because my work involves more paper contracts than the physical grain, I love to see wheat and corn when I travel. It makes my work even more real.


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Brooks Koepka wins U.S. Open for his first Major Title
Story By : Deborah Leung
Photos By: Benjamin Rogers Jr and Getty Images
Erin Hills, WI–
Brooks Koepka traveled around the world to find his game. He found stardom right at home as the U.S. Open champion.
Koepka broke away from a tight pack with three straight birdies on the back nine Sunday at Erin Hills and closed with a 5-under 67 to win the U.S. Open for his first major championship. A par on the final hole tied Rory McIlroy's record score to par at 16 under for a four-shot victory.
Not even the wind could stop the onslaught of low scores at Erin Hills. And nothing could stop Koepka.
"What I've done this week is amazing," Koepka.
Tied for the lead with six holes to play, Koepka made an 8-foot par putt on the 13th hole. As Brian Harman began to fade, Koepka poured it on with birdies over the next three holes, lightly pumping his fist after each one.
His reaction was subdued, just like his close friend and last year's U.S. Open champion, Dustin Johnson. They spend time a lot of time together on the course, in the gym and at home, so Koepka has seen that U.S. Open trophy plenty at Johnson's house in south Florida.
And now he gets to keep it for a year, with his name on it.
It capped quite a journey for the 27-year-old Floridian. Without a card on any tour when Koepka got out of Florida State, he filled his passport with stamps from the most unlikely outposts in golf while playing the minor leagues on the European Tour Kazakhstan and Kenya, Portugal and India and throughout Europe.
It was at the U.S. Open three years ago when Koepka tied for fourth that helped earn a PGA Tour card, and he powered his way from obscurity to his first PGA Tour victory in Phoenix, his first Ryder Cup team last fall and now a major championship.
Harman's chances ended with two straight bogeys, and a bogey on the par-5 18th hole gave him a 72 and a tie for second with Hideki Matsuyama of Japan, who closed with a 66. Matsuyama didn't need to stick around very long. Koepka simply couldn't miss.
Koepka, who finished at 16-under 272, became the seventh straight first-time winner of a major championship, and it was the first time since 1998-2000 that Americans won their national championship three straight years.
Tommy Fleetwood, who played alongside Koepka and closed with a 72 to finish fourth, played the Challenge Tour a year before Koepka arrived.
"It gives you a good grounding," Fleetwood said. "Obviously, Brooks dealt with it amazingly. He came and kicked everyone's (behind) over there, didn't he? But he's proven for a long time how good he is. Now he's done it in a major."
It was only fitting that Koepka left Erin Hills with yet another record matched or broken.
McIlroy finished at 16-under 268 when he won on rain-softened Congressional in the 2011 U.S. Open. But the low scoring went much deeper than that. Only six players had ever reached double digits under par in the previous 116 times at the U.S. Open. McIlroy and Tiger Woods (12 under at Pebble Beach in 2000) had been the only players to finish there.
This week alone, nine players reached at least 10 under and seven finished there.
Xander Schauffele, a rookie on the PGA Tour playing in his first U.S. Open, birdied his last hole for a 69 to tie for fifth at 10-under 268 along with Bill Haas (69) and Rickie Fowler (72), who was poised at yet another major to win only to fall back. Fowler started one shot out of the lead at the Masters this year and shot 76. He was only two behind when he made the turn, but bogeys on the 12th and 15th holes — and no birdies until No. 18 ended his hopes.
Justin Thomas, coming off a 9-under 63 that matched the major championship scoring record and was the first 9-under round at a U.S. Open, went out in 39 and closed with a 75 to tie for ninth.
The week ended with 31 players under par, breaking the U.S. Open record of 28 players at Medinah in 1990. There were 133 sub-par rounds, nine more than the previous record in that 1990 U.S. Open.
Erin Hills, an 11-year-old course shaped out of Wisconsin pastureland, didn't put up much of a fight without much wind. The strongest gusts were Sunday morning and it tapered to a strong breeze by the afternoon.
No one was more solid from start to finish than Koepka. He opened with a pair of tap-in birdies and putted for birdie on every hole but the par-3 13th. Of all his birdies, that 8-foot par putt might have been as big as any.
"I needed something to go in and see that to build momentum off it, and just carried that over," Koepka said.


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This chapter describes the behavior of the PostgreSQL database system when two or more sessions try to access the same data at the same time. The goals in that situation are to allow efficient access for all sessions while maintaining strict data integrity. Every developer of database applications should be familiar with the topics covered in this chapter.
Unlike traditional database systems which use locks for concurrency control, PostgreSQL maintains data consistency by using a multiversion model (Multiversion Concurrency Control, MVCC). This means that while querying a database each transaction sees a snapshot of data (a database version) as it was some time ago, regardless of the current state of the underlying data. This protects the transaction from viewing inconsistent data that could be caused by (other) concurrent transaction updates on the same data rows, providing transaction isolation for each database session.
The main advantage to using the MVCC model of concurrency control rather than locking is that in MVCC locks acquired for querying (reading) data do not conflict with locks acquired for writing data, and so reading never blocks writing and writing never blocks reading.
Table- and row-level locking facilities are also available in PostgreSQL for applications that cannot adapt easily to MVCC behavior. However, proper use of MVCC will generally provide better performance than locks.


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Can you guess what it is? Is it a pizza? A flatbread?
I cannot resist watching things bake through the oven door.
The best thing to grace my oven for a long time is Ancient Greco-Roman Pizza with Feta, Honey, and Sesame Seeds from Artisan Pizza and Flatbread in Five Minutes a Day. Jeff Hertzberg and Zoë François have done it again. They've won my heart with bread and filled my home with the smell of baking dough and hot cheese.
The authors handed out their latest book in person at the Foodbuzz blogger festival. I think receiving this treasure trove of baking inspiration was the highlight of the conference for me.
The Ancient Greco-Roman Pizza was the clear choice for my first go at a recipe from Artisan Pizza. I'm a history geek, what can I say. According to Hertzberg and François, this pizza is modeled after the oldest known recorded pizza recipe and uses ingredients the ancient Mediterranean civilizations would have had. The whole spelt dough is wonderful to work with and bakes into a dreamily crispy-chewy crust. I never would have thought to combine feta cheese, honey, and sesame seeds on a pizza but it tastes even better than it sounds, believe me.
This post will join in the World Wide Pizza Party on Twitter tomorrow. Join in by baking a pizza from Artisan Pizza and Flatbread in Five Minutes a Day and tweeting about it using the hashtag #PizzaPartyIn5.


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Starbucks China - Summer Safari - Bearista Coffee Farmer Glass Cup with Stir 414ml
Information Regarding COVID-19
Hong Kong Post and China Post have suspended All the airmail service to most of the countries, e.g. USA and United Kingdom and Canada. Thus, we will ship out this items via Surface Register Mail (traceable) with Hong Kong Post until the airmail service is available.
If you prefer EMS (Express Mail Service), we can use SF express, FedEx, DHL or other carriers with private transportation and airplanes to send out your order from Shanghai China directly. Additional cost will be applied at check out.
Due to the current Corona-19 and flight situation, please understand that it will take longer than usual for the packages to be arrived.
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Tarpaulin Manufacturer in Chittorgarh, Tarpaulin Supplier in Chittorgarh, LDPE & HDPE Tarpaulin Distributor in Chittorgarh, Tarpaulin Exporter in Chittorgarh.
Bansal Canvas Udyog has 40 years of industry experience, we established this company in 1978 as manufacturer, suppliers and exporter of Tarpaulins in Chittorgarh, Cotton Canvas in Chittorgarh, LDPE, HDPE & P.V.C Coated Fabrics in Chittorgarh. Bansal Canvas Udyog Manufacturing products using a high quality of raw material, we offered 100% waterproof, tough, lightweight and weather & fire resistant tarpaulins. We constantly work on new innovative ideas to improve the quality of our products.
The products that we manufacture are affordable and can also be customized as per the needs of clients. These tarpaulins and fabrics have been approved by the Indian government and we are an approved contractor for many of governments' prestigious projects. We carefully analyse fabrics, coating and other raw material utilized in manufacturing in order to ensure durable products.
Protect from direct weather
Protect from roof leaks and water
Provide comfort and safety
Shelter refugees in cases of disasters
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The State Bar of Texas honored winners of the 2013 Texas Gavel Awards on Friday during the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas's annual conference in Austin.
The winners are:
• Craig Malisow of the Houston Press for "Blood Money," in the print-major metro category. "Blood Money" is an in-depth look at the case of more than 200 soldiers who sued a military contractor for their exposure to toxic chemicals in Iraq.
• Emma Perez-Treviño of the Valley Morning Star for "Corruption," in the print-nonmetro category. "Corruption" is a series of reports documenting a web of connections, indictments, and convictions in the Cameron County judiciary and legal system.
• Brandi Grissom, Justin Dehn, and Ryan Murphy of The Texas Tribune for "Errors in Judgment," in the online-only category. In "Errors in Judgment," the Tribune reviewed court records in each of the more than 80 overturned Texas convictions between 1989 and 2011 and found that nearly a quarter of the cases involved prosecutorial error that contributed to the wrong outcome.
The Texas Gavel Awards are sponsored each year by the State Bar of Texas Public Affairs Committee and judged by out-of-state journalists and editors, legal reporting experts, attorneys with journalism backgrounds, and members of academia. Journalists play an important role in educating the public about the legal system, and the Texas Gavel Awards honor those efforts.
To read the winning stories and learn more about the winners, visit texasbar.com/gavelawardwinners.
Pictured, from left, are State Bar of Texas Board of Directors chair Cindy Tisdale, Perez-Treviño, Malisow, Dehn, and Rudy England, the chair of the State Bar of Texas Public Affairs Committee.


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Doc Watson
Thanks to Carters Vintage Guitars—-for helping find a new home.
This Doc Watson model, #3839, has beautiful striping with its Honduran mahogany. We are very pleased with its bright sound. Yes, "it rings like a bell."
The Doc Watson Model is by far the most recognized Gallagher Guitar. Since Doc and Merle helped J.W. design this guitar, you can't go wrong.
- Mahogany back and sides
- Sitka spruce top
- Herringbone trim
- Ivoroid bound body, fretboard and headstock
- 1 ¾" neck with jumbo frets
The first Doc Watson model was built in 1974 after Doc had been playing a G-50 for six years. J.W. and Don met Doc and his son, Merle, at the Union Grove Fiddlers' Convention in 1968. When J.W. and Don were choosing guitars to take to the festival, they had only one mahogany guitar finished. But it had a problem. During the building process, the guitar had cracked along the side of its body. The crack had been repaired, but J.W. didn't want to sell the guitar because of the blemish. But it was the only mahogany guitar they had, so they decided to take it for display only.
J.W. went up to Doc and Merle as they were picking under shade tree. Doc invited J.W. and Don back to his house to check out the guitars. J.W. brought a G-70 (the top of the Gallagher line at the time) and the blemished G-50 for Doc to try out. Doc really liked the sound of the G-50, but J.W. didn't want to sell it because of the crack. Doc told J.W. and Don that he didn't care about the crack – it was the sound that he loved! J.W. made a deal with Doc that he could use that guitar for as long as he wanted, with no strings attached ("except the ones on the guitar") as long as when Doc was finished playing it, he would send it back. J.W. didn't want a blemished guitar out in the world.
After playing the G-50 for six years, Doc decided he was ready for another guitar. Doc had learned how to play fiddle tunes on a Les Paul guitar, so Merle brought a Les Paul neck to the shop and asked if Gallagher could make a similarly sized neck for Doc's new guitar. Thus, the Doc Watson models all have a 1 3/4" neck with jumbo frets. All Doc Watson models have mahogany back and sides, Sitka spruce tops with voiced bracing, and herringbone purfling and rosettes.


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MILWAUKEE, Wis. -- Joe Biden will not be traveling to Milwaukee to accept the Democratic presidential nomination, the Democratic National Convention Committee announced Wednesday.
The DNCC said Biden would not be accepting the nomination at the Democratic National Convention, which is scheduled to begin on Aug. 17, citing coronavirus as the reason.
Other speakers for the DNC will also no longer travel to Milwaukee. Biden will instead accept the nomination in Delaware.
"From the very beginning of this pandemic, we put the health and safety of the American people first. We followed the science, listened to doctors and public health experts, and we continued making adjustments to our plans in order to protect lives. That's the kind of steady and responsible leadership America deserves. And that's the leadership Joe Biden will bring to the White House," said DNC Chair Tom Perez in a press release.
"2020 will always be remembered as a year of once-in-a-lifetime challenges and changes—but it will also be remembered as a time when Americans were their most compassionate and resilient selves. While we wish we could move forward with welcoming the world to beautiful Milwaukee in two weeks, we recognize protecting the health of our host community and everyone involved with this convention must be paramount," said Joe Solmonese, CEO of the 2020 Democratic National Convention.
The convention is scheduled to take place at the Wisconsin Center Aug. 17 through Aug. 20.
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Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers released a statement in support of Biden and the DNC's decision.
"The upcoming Democratic convention is different than we'd imagined. A lot has changed since we set out on this journey more than a year ago now, but the one thing that hasn't is Democrats' commitment to putting health and safety first," said Evers. "It has never been more important for elected officials to lead by example—that's the kind of leader Joe is, and that's the kind of president we need. I know he will continue to have a presence in Wisconsin, virtually or otherwise, and I look forward to doing everything we can to win Wisconsin."
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The White House announced Friday that President Biden hopes to shut down the prison at the Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, a tall task that the Obama administration failed to do nearly a decade ago.
The Guantanamo Bay Detention Center, also known as GTMO or "Gitmo," became identified with the mistreatment of prisoners in the early years of the Global War on Terror campaign. It first opened its doors to terrorism suspects in 2002, and the following year the prison held almost 680 inmates suspected of having ties with al-Qaida and the Taliban, the Associated Press reported. Today, there are only 40 people left behind bars. Among those incarcerated at the prison are five men charged with planning and supporting the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001. Proceedings for these men have been delayed at the pretrial state for years.
But the closure of the detention facility will take time, National Security Council spokeswoman Emily Horne told NPR.
"We are undertaking an NSC process to assess the current state of play that the Biden administration has inherited from the previous administration, in line with our broader goal of closing Guantanamo," she said. "There will be a robust interagency process to move forward on this, but we need to have the right people seated to do this important work."
Horne said the NSC will work with the Departments of Defense, State and Justice to close the prison.
Former President Barack Obama said the detention center went against American values and was a "stain on our broader record" when he argued for the prison's closure in 2016,NPR reported.
Later that same year, then-President-elect Donald Trump vowed to keep the installation open.
"We're gonna load it up with some bad dudes, believe me," Trump said in 2016.
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DataStax Enterprise uses Bloom filters to determine whether an SSTable has data for a particular partition. Bloom filters are unused for range scans, but are used for index scans. Bloom filters are probabilistic sets that allow you to trade memory for accuracy. This means that higher Bloom filter attribute settings bloom_filter_fp_chance use less memory, but will result in more disk I/O if the SSTables are highly fragmented. Bloom filter settings range from 0 to 1.0 (disabled). The default value of bloom_filter_fp_chance depends on the compaction strategy.
The LeveledCompactionStrategy (LCS) uses a higher default value (0.1) than the SizeTieredCompactionStrategy (STCS), which has a default of 0.01. Memory savings are nonlinear; going from 0.01 to 0.1 saves about one third of the memory. SSTables using LCS contain a relatively smaller ranges of keys than those using STCS, which facilitates efficient exclusion of the SSTables even without a bloom filter; however, adding a small bloom filter helps when there are many levels in LCS.
The settings you choose depend the type of workload. For example, to run an analytics application that heavily scans a particular table, you would want to inhibit the Bloom filter on the table by setting it high.
To view the observed Bloom filters false positive rate and the number of SSTables consulted per read use tablestats in the nodetool utility.
Bloom filters are stored off-heap so you don't need include it when determining the -Xmx settings (the maximum memory size that the heap can reach for the JVM).
To change the bloom filter property on a table, use CQL. For example:
ALTER TABLE addamsFamily WITH bloom_filter_fp_chance = 0.1;
After updating the value of bloom_filter_fp_chance on a table, Bloom filters need to be regenerated in one of these ways:
Upgrade the SSTables to compute new bloom filters:
Force all SSTables to be rewritten
nodetool upgradesstables -a
Force upgrade of target SSTables
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According to a study that was just released by Boston Consulting Group, the wealthiest one percent now own 39 percent of all the wealth in the world. Meanwhile, the bottom 50 percent only own 1 percent of all the wealth in the world combined. The global financial system has been designed to funnel wealth to the very top, and the gap between the wealthy and the poor continues to expand at a frightening pace. The global elite continue to hoard wealth and heap together enormous mountains of treasure in these troubled days even though the economic suffering around the planet continues to grow. So exactly how have the global elite accumulated so much wealth? Well, one of the primary ways is through the use of debt. As I have written about previously, there is about 190 trillion dollars of debt in the world but global GDP is only about 70 trillion dollars. Our debt-based global financial system systematically transfers wealth from us and our governments into the hands of the global elite. And of course the gigantic banks and corporations that the elite control are constantly gobbling up everything of value that they can find: natural resources, profitable small businesses, real estate, politicians, etc. Money, power, ownership and control are becoming very, very tightly concentrated at the top of the food chain, and that is a very dangerous thing for humanity. When too much money and power gets into too few hands, it almost always results in tyranny.
What will eventually happen when the global elite have ALL the wealth?
Will the rest of us work as serfs in a system that they have iron-fisted control over?
And what if they decide that they don't really need billions of people working for them? Will they decide to implement population control measures in order to reduce the number of "useless eaters"? It is already happening in China and other highly centralized societies.
When all of the economic rewards of a society go to a very small handful of people, it tends to be very destabilizing. We have seen this again and again throughout history.
When people have everything taken away from them and they have nothing left to lose, they tend to become very desperate. And right now we are rapidly hurtling toward a time of great global instability. Anger and frustration are growing all over the globe, and the rate at which the gap between the wealthy and the poor is widening seems to be accelerating. Just check out these numbers…
-The wealthiest 1 percent of the global population now owns 39 percent of all the wealth on the planet.
-According to a report that was released last summer, the global elite have up to 32 TRILLION dollars stashed in offshore banks around the planet.
-According to a study conducted by Credit Suisse, the bottom two-thirds of the global population owns just 3.3% of all the wealth.
-A study by the World Institute for Development Economics Research discovered that the bottom half of the world population owns approximately 1 percent of all global wealth.
-It is estimated that the entire continent of Africa only owns approximately 1 percent of the total wealth of the world.
-Approximately 1 billion people throughout the world go to bed hungry each night.
-If you can believe it, more than 3 billion people currently live on less than 2 dollar a day.
In the world that we live in, money equals power. And the more money that the top one percent accumulate, the more power they will accumulate as well.
So exactly who are the top one percent? I discussed this at length in my previous article entitled "Who Runs The World? Solid Proof That A Core Group Of Wealthy Elitists Is Pulling The Strings". The global elite are absolutely obsessed with power and control and they have been working to implement their agenda for a very long time. In the end, they hope to unite the entire planet under a monolithic global system that they control. They are actually quite open about this – it is just that most people do not want to believe it.
The gap between the wealthy and the poor is rapidly growing in the United States as well. Sadly, this means that the middle class is steadily disappearing as the ranks of those that are living in poverty continues to increase.
But of course not everyone is doing badly in the U.S. right now. In fact, those that own stocks have had lots of reasons to celebrate in recent months.
So who owns stocks?
Well, the wealthy do of course. In fact, approximately 60 percent of all individually held stocks are owned by the top 5 percent of all Americans.
During the last recession, Americans lost 16 trillion dollars of wealth. Since then, about 45 percent of that wealth has been "recovered", but the vast majority of that "recovery" has been due to rising stock prices. The following comes from a recent Washington Post article…
From the peak of the boom to the bottom of the bust, households watched a total of $16 trillion in wealth disappear amid sinking stock prices and the rubble of the real estate market. Since then, Americans have only been able to recapture 45 percent of that amount on average, after adjusting for inflation and population growth, according to the report from the St. Louis Fed released Thursday.
In addition, the report showed most of the improvement was due to gains in the stock market, which primarily benefit wealthy families. That means the recovery for other households has been even weaker.
"A conclusion that the financial damage of the crisis and recession largely has been repaired is not justified," the report stated.
Once upon a time, the United States had the largest and most thriving middle class in the history of the world. That was a great thing. But now the middle class is being destroyed and government dependence has surged to an all-time high.
The following are some of the incredible statistics that show how wide the gap between the wealthy and the poor in America is becoming…
-The wealthiest 1 percent of all Americans now own more than a third of all the wealth in the United States.
-In the United States today, the wealthiest one percent of all Americans have a greater net worth than the bottom 90 percent combined.
-According to Forbes, the 400 wealthiest Americans have more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans combined.
-The six heirs of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton have as much wealth as the bottom one-third of all Americans combined.
-On average, households in the top 7 percent have 24 times as much wealth as households in the bottom 93 percent.
-Between 2009 and 2011, the wealth of the bottom 93 percent of all Americans declined by 4 percent, while the wealth of the top 7 percent of all Americans increased by 28 percent.
-The poorest 50 percent of all Americans collectively own just 2.5% of all the wealth in the United States.
-The top 0.01% of all Americans make an average of $27,342,212. The bottom 90% make an average of $31,244.
For much more on how poverty is rising and the middle class is being destroyed, please see my recent article entitled "22 Facts That Prove That The Bottom 90 Percent Of America Is Systematically Getting Poorer".
Obviously we have a huge problem here.
With each passing day, poverty is rising and more people are becoming dependent on the government.
So what is the solution to this mess?
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- The most essential example of the theory of self-organisation in chemistry is the theory of non-linear, non-equilibrium thermodynamics of chemical reactions presented by Prigogine and his co-workers.
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- In principle, a self-organising system cannot be constructed, since its organisation and behaviour cannot be prescribed and created by an external source. It emerges autonomously in certain conditions (which cannot be prescribed either). The task of the researcher is to investigate in what kind of systems and under what kind of conditions self-organisation emerges.
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- The scientific world picture does not include … things that have not been constructed, that are not understood as artefacts … Instead of the final cause one starts to speak about purpose, which nature itself does not have. Only humans can set aims and achieve them by their activities if they know the laws of nature and set up various processes based on them and organise them purposively.
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In Utero Model to Assess the Fate of Transplanted Human Cells for Translational Research and Pediatric Therapies
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nfants with inherited blood diseases (such as sickle cell anemia, thalassemia, bleeding disorders) or other inherited metabolic disorders can be identified early in development using sophisticated diagnostic tests. Currently, the treatment for many of these childhood illnesses may include bone marrow transplantation which is complicated by: (1) the toxicity associated with chemotherapy or radiation-based regimens necessary to ensure the transplanted cells persist; (2) serious health complications associated with rejection of the donor cells; (3) the fact that only ~20-25% of children will have a matched donor, which is even less likely for ethnic populations and underrepresented minorities; and (4) the concern that significant damage, particularly to the brain, has occurred by the time the child is being considered for transplantation. Recent studies suggest that very early treatment before damage from the disease has occurred provides the best survival outcomes, and that immature cell sources may be most effective because they have characteristic features that are more compatible with the developmental stage of the patient. Human umbilical cord blood has been demonstrated to be a very effective source of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) for transplantation, even if the donor cells do not match the recipient; in these cases the incidence and severity of disease post-transplant has been shown to be very low. However, there are significant limitations to more widespread use of umbilical cord blood HSC because of the low number of cells that are available each time cord blood units are collected. Human embryonic stem cells (hESC) provide another potential source of early stage blood cells for clinical transplantation for young patients. However, there remain significant concerns regarding the safety of use of cells obtained from hESC in all age groups. It is also currently unknown if early blood cells obtained from hESC will provide an advantage over other sources such as umbilical cord blood cells. These studies address crucial bottlenecks that prevent the use of therapeutically important cells for treating pediatric diseases, and methods and models to ensure that proposed approaches will be safe and effective for human use. The bottlenecks to be studied include: (1) the need to treat infants very early in their disease with sufficient and compatible cells; (2) the need to explore methods that will expand umbilical cord blood cells useful for transplantation, and to compare these cells to blood cells obtained from hESC; and (3) the need to use models for humans and related tools that can effectively predict outcome once cells are injected into the body, and to monitor where they travel and ultimately reside and function. The approaches proposed in this application will provide substantial advances in assessing the safety, for example, of new cell-based therapies with hESC, and provide new treatment options for many patients in need.
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The benefits to the State of California and its citizens are critically needed effective and safe cellular therapies that could provide potential cures for infants and children diagnosed with an inherited blood cell or metabolic disorder. For example, current statistics on sickle cell disease, the most common inherited blood cell disease in the U.S., indicates approximately 20 children each day (about 8,000 each year) are born with this disease. Sickle cell disease and other blood cell disorders are present in all populations but are more prevalent in persons of African, Mediterranean, Asian, Southeast Asian, Caribbean, and South and Central American origins. The California Newborn Screening Program detects approximately 120 new cases of sickle cell disease every year. Thalassemia, another inherited blood disorder, is considered the most common genetic blood disease worldwide, with recent data indicating approximately 400,000 affected babies born annually. It is one of the most frequent disorders detected yearly in the California Newborn Screening Program of over 700,000 births. Millions of children world-wide suffer from the many serious complications associated with sickle cell disease and thalassemia that decrease life expectancy. These are just two of many inherited blood diseases that could substantially benefit from early treatment, and using stem cells from umbilical cord blood or pluripotent cells obtained from human embryonic stem cells. Similarly, more than 800 children and 400 adults in [REDACTED] alone have been diagnosed with inherited bleeding disorders including hemophilia. With current diagnostic capabilities, infants with these inherited blood diseases can be identified before they are born and cell therapies initiated at this time thus avoiding the damaging effects associated with these diseases. This could provide a means to ensure the delivery of healthy term newborns free of the many postnatal complications of these diseases that diminish quality of life and long-term survival.


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MSF has sent new teams to aid populations in CAR affected by ongoing conflict in the country.
Fighting and violence continued over the past week in several areas in the north and center of Central African Republic. Increased military movements and clashes between rebels and the army have forced the civilian population to leave their homes, preventing them from accessing the basic services they need—medical aid, in particular. This situation could have fatal consequences for people already struggling to find care after a decade of chronic armed violence had severely limited the country's health system.
After hostilities near the towns of Kaga Bandoro and Mbrès, a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency surgical team in Kaga Bandoro tended to five wounded patients and readied to receive more patients. Another team assessed the potential medical needs around the town of Sibut. The heavy presence of military in the area and the population's fear of hostilities have also lead to preventative displacement. MSF donated drugs to the hospital of Sibut to help respond to an increased number of patients if needed.
In the town of Batangafo, which has been occupied by rebels since December 20, the population is terrified of the fighting that could occur. General insecurity has increased in the area, diminishing access to medical aid for the population. "Because of the insecurity in the area, it is impossible to refer any patient from the peripheral health posts to the hospital in case of severe conditions and emergencies due to the total restriction of moto-taxi movements," says Amal El Oualji, MSF's project coordinator in Batangafo. MSF is still running its services at the hospital and supporting a nearby health post as much as the security situation allows it.
In the town of Ndélé, in the north of CAR, which was attacked on December 10, the situation is still very precarious. Although some people have dared to return, insecurity is still dissuading others from doing likewise. Continuous lootings coupled with sporadic gunshots at night are preventing the population from returning to their normal daily habits. MSF is aware of at least 2,600 displaced people who are spending nights in small groups, hiding in the bush or seeking refuge at the airstrip, not far from town. Unfortunately, this is only a small fraction of the displaced population; most are spending the nights close to their crops fields in smaller groups of between two and five families spread over many kilometers with no road access. Many of them suffer from diseases such as malaria, acute respiratory infection or diarrhea. The MSF team in Ndélé is running a mobile clinic along with its regular activities at the hospital.
MSF has been present in CAR since 1997 and works in seven different projects in five of the country's seven health districts. It supports seven hospitals and about 38 health posts in collaboration with the Ministry of Health. MSF activities in CAR cover a wide range of services from primary and secondary health, to neglected diseases, nutrition and surgery. Malaria, which is the primary cause of morbidity, is often the main focus of the projects. Vaccination, sleeping sickness, HIV and TB, and nutrition are also priorities of MSF's work in CAR.


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A young girl sweeps fallen debris from a tempest that blew through her village of Katra Sahadatganj one recent evening. This remote spot in Uttar Pradesh — India's largest state — has become the center of another gathering storm.
It was here two weeks ago where two young girls were audaciously attacked: raped and hanged from a tree. Inter-caste violence and patriarchal attitudes combined to make a chilling spectacle in this impoverished place of mud-caked children and hand-pumped water.
It's a question of belief in human dignity, which somewhere along the line we seem to have lost.
But the deaths conceivably could have been averted if the girls had had access to a toilet at home. Lacking one, on the night they were killed, the two teens did what hundreds of millions of women do across India each day: Under the cloak of darkness before sunrise or after sunset, they set out for an open field to relieve themselves.
Guddo Devi, 35, is a cousin of the two slain girls and says women normally move in pairs to avoid being preyed upon.
"When we step out of the house we are scared," Devi says. "And we have to go in the mornings, in the evenings, and when we cannot stop ourselves, at times we go in the afternoons as well. ... And there are no bathrooms. We don't have any kind of facility. We have to go out."
Others complained of harassment in the fields, but only now, after the double rape and murder, do they fear for their lives performing the simplest bodily function.
A Toilet For Change
Social entrepreneur Bindeshwar Pathak has offered to build a toilet for every house in the village. It wouldn't be the first time for the man known in India as the "toilet guru."
Nine hours' drive away in the bordering state of Haryana, Pathak has already transformed the village of Hir Mathala with his simple two-pit design.
Swinging open the door to a toilet bowl built on a raised platform that stands 25 feet from the front door of the owner, Pathak says it requires only one liter to flush, compared with the usual nine liters of water.
With Pathak's low-maintenance, low-cost toilet — about $250 — one pit gets filled while the other biodegrades the waste, which can be used as fertilizer. Each of the 144 households has been outfitted in this village, a village Pathak calls a "pathfinder ... to show the entire nation that you should have toilets in your house. And here nobody goes outside. This is the beauty of this village," he says.
The women of Hir Mathala village arrange themselves on the floor and literally sing the praises of the 71-year-old Pathak, whose lowly toilet has become a tool of social change.
Their song is about a wife's plea for a toilet. In rural India, households that can afford to build a latrine often don't. Resident Shelia Nahelia says her husband refused because of the expense. So Nahelia stitched clothes to raise $50, her family's portion of the cost and a small fortune for her.
Vijay Laxmi smiles radiantly. The 35-year-old says she and her children have never been healthier.
"There has been a huge change in our lives. Before, the men would follow us, wait for us to sit in the field and watch. Now, thanks to Mr. Pathak, we have a lavatory at home." Laxmi says, "We don't need to step out, and we feel better. Our dignity which is an ornament for us — is now safe."
A Massive Health Risk
Pathak's NGO, Sulabh International, has built 1.3 million toilets in Indian homes the past four decades. While commendable, the Sulabh toilet has not dramatically reduced the incidence of open defecation, which presents dire consequences for public health.
The practice contaminates food and water, and transmits diarrhea-related diseases that kill 700,000 children every year worldwide — 200,000 of them are in India, says Brian Arbogast, director of the Water Sanitation and Hygiene Program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
"There is an increasing body of evidence that says poor sanitation when a child is young, can lead to mental and cognitive stunting," Arbogast says.
He says the Gates Foundation set up a challenge to "reinvent" the toilet that can accommodate the deprivations of India.
"It can't have to be connected to the water grid, it can't have to be connected to the sewer grid, and it can't have to be connected to the electricity grid," he says. "It needs to kill all of the pathogens so that what comes out of their toilets doesn't smell and can't make anybody sick. And it has to be cheap."
A team from Cal-Tech was awarded the most promising design and is one of three now being tested in India. Team member Clement Cid says it meets the goal of 5 cents per user per day, but the toilet still costs $1,500.
"Our goal is to make it cheaper, and we're working on the core component of the system and we are driving the cost down," Cid says. "But the benefit on the overall society is huge."
Shifting Social Norms
Arbogast says even affordable innovations won't alone solve India's sanitation problems. He says India needs to shift the mindset that open defecation is "natural and normal" to "it is not healthy."
"You teach them that their children and their families are suffering a lot of sickness because of basically fecal matter being transmitted, by flies or other ways, to the food they eat," Arbogast says. "And once people really realize that, that can really be a triggering event for a community."
Diane Coffey, a Ph.D. candidate with Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School and an economist, says simply providing latrines is no guarantee that people will actually use them. She studied five northern Indian states and found that 19 percent of women with access to a latrine still preferred to defecate in the open.
"They're used to it, for one," Coffey says. And she says the research is clear that "building toilets without addressing common norms, attitudes and beliefs around latrine use is unlikely to reduce open defecation in rural India."
Gouri Choudhury of the human rights group Action India says the country's political leadership has failed to grasp the gravity of the problem.
"It's a question of belief in human dignity, which somewhere along the line we seem to have lost," Choudhury says.
India and China each have more than a billion people, and here's the contrast: The World Health Organization says in China, 1 out of every 100 people defecates out in the open; in India, it's 1 out of every 2 people — the highest rate in the world.
India's former rural development minister, Jairam Ramesh, says increased government assistance for building toilets has spurred construction, as has the issue of women's privacy.
"We launched a 'No Toilet, No Bride' campaign," Ramesh says. "I would go out and exhort women not to get married into families that did not have a toilet. And this worked. In many parts of the country, women refused."
But a social movement to revolutionize attitudes and behaviors toward sanitation in India may be in order.
Many Indians look to their new Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make good on his recent election campaign promise: "toilets first, temples later."
Julie McCarthy is NPR's correspondent based in New Delhi, India. You can follow her on Twitter @JulieMcCarthyJM.
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For the Parish
A Critique of Fresh Expressions
By Andrew Davison and Alison Milbank.
SCM Press. Pp. 220. $35.
For the Parish is not a book that pulls any punches. The first half is a sustained polemic against Fresh Expressions, a popularizing and mostly youthful church movement that is finding a place in many churches in the United Kingdom, including the Church of England. Andrew Davison and Alison Milbank are priests in the Church of England and it is mostly to their own church that the work is directed, though the critique could fall just as hard on the movement's incarnation in other churches and the more on American "emergent church" models. The primary target is the document Mission-shaped Church: Church Planting and Fresh Expressions of Church in a Changing Context (Church House, 2004; PDF). They engage with several works of prominent Fresh Expressions leaders, though not as many as they perhaps ought to have.
"Mission-shaped Church is a flawed document," they say. "Yet, at present it determines the shape of ecclesiology in the Church of England." Were the document merely an exploratory piece of theoretical missiology, and not a fundamental shaping influence in the Church of England, we might imagine the authors would not be quite so alarmed. They lay several heavy charges against Fresh Expressions.
"The argument of Fresh Expressions would make no sense unless the 'outward forms' of the Church were one thing and the inner message or essence of the Church another," say Davison and Milbank. Fresh Expressions charges that at least one of the reasons the Church is flagging in the West is because of a stilted traditionalism. While the world around is rapidly changing, they argue, the shape of Church life remains stuck in a past that is not relatable to contemporary people. In order to reach people the Church needs to shed common liturgies, the priesthood … indeed, it's hard to see what is not up for grabs.
Thus, in the effort to reach people, Fresh Expressions advocates a "mixed economy" Church: a "network" of "homogeneous units" or "membership societies" connected most overtly not by the sacraments and common worship but by "leisure interest, music preference, or disability" (quoted from Mission-shaped Church, p. 65). In bypassing parish structures and opting instead for meetings in houses, pubs, skate parks, and the like, Fresh Expressions hopes to "contextualize" the Gospel in order to reach the unchurched.
The authors believe that many of these "expressions" are indeed valuable and useful ways to share the Gospel. But insofar as Fresh Expressions does not see itself as an outworking but rather a replacement of parish structure (often operating well outside the oversight of the local bishop and without the camaraderie of local priests), Davison and Milbank fear that the real calling of the Church to be catholic, universal — a people of reconciliation, not of interest enclaves — will be subverted.
Marshaling a substantial stream of theologians and philosophers, the authors challenge what they see as separation of form and content, flight to segregation, flight from tradition, intellectual escape from mediation, and associated problems of soteriology and ecclesiology. The second half presents a constructive missional theology for the Church of England, with praise for the place and possibilities of the parish in creative missionary outreach.
The authors are almost wholly right in their critique of Fresh Expressions and in their constructive work. Unfortunately, their stinging polemical tone will not prove persuasive to supporters of Fresh Expressions. Moreover, Davison and Milbank can tend to contrast the worst of Fresh Expressions with the best of parish life. While parishes certainly ought to function as they propose, it does not always work that way. Happily, the authors offer several conciliatory remarks about Fresh Expressions toward the end of the book, as when they allow that it could help enliven the Church of England as an extension of parish work.
The concise nature of the book leaves many arguments underdeveloped, as the authors themselves admit. This means there is much more work to be done in this field, for which For the Parish may be commended as one aid.
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Real Copper floating name letters with standoff fittings
Floating characters in 4"/100 mm high Garamond font - CAPITAL first letter made from eco friendly Polished, brushed, hammered and lacquered or patinated copper sheet glued to black Trespa virgin cladding offcuts. Invisible fixing with a 13mm/1/2" standoff from the wall or wood with copper sheathed sign locators.
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Community Submission - Author: Anonymous
The deep web is the section of the World Wide Web (WWW) that is somewhat hidden. It contains pages that are not indexed by traditional web search engines - such as Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo.
The deep web is the opposite term of the "surface web." As such, it may also be referred to as the "hidden web" or "invisible web."
The deep web accounts for over 99% of the content on the web. It is a part of the WWW that is different from the so-called "surface web," which is the visible part of the web. The surface web is the most easily accessible layer. It includes all indexes (or searchable) pages.
By definition, the deep web includes both pages that are obscure or that can only be accessed through a specific authentication method. Being obscure means that they require a direct URL to be found (searching on Google doesn't work). Still, the majority of the deep web's content falls under the latter category.
Along those lines, we may consider as part of the deep web any website that asks for a login and password. In other words, many of the pages people access every day are actually part of the deep web. This includes social media profiles, email inboxes, and bank accounts.
This may sound confusing at first because the popular terminology has that the deep web is the obscure web. But since our personal accounts are not indexed on search engine pages, they are also considered as part of the deep web.
It is also common to see confusion concerning the differences between the deep web and the dark web. In short, the dark web is a portion of the deep web that is anonymous.


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Now's a good time to unload your first-generation iPad, with Target offering $200 in store credit for the three-year-old tablet.
To get this deal, you have to find a Target store with a "mobile" section. Look it up on Target's website first. And don't bother with Target's online trade-in tool, or you won't get the minimum $200 credit. The deal is good through November 9.
Target is actually offering the $200 minimum for any iPad, but the trade-in value for the first-generation model is by far the best deal. I've checked a couple other tech buyback services–Gazelle, Nextworth and Amazon–and none of them are offering nearly that much money for the original iPad. Even the auctions on eBay are only fetching around $150.
It's too bad you have to get store credit instead of cash, especially if you have eyes on an iPad alternative like Google's Nexus 7 or Amazon's Kindle Fire HDX, neither of which are sold by Target. But if you're just looking to upgrade to a newer iPad, Target has them all. The trade-in credit would knock the price of an iPad Air down to $300, or an original iPad Mini down to $100. You can also hold out for the new iPad Mini that's coming later this month, though it may be hard to get.


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20% of Your Dreams Star Your Partner. As for the Other 80%…
LatestYou might be married to the man of your dreams, but that doesn't mean you'll dream about him every night. According to The Body Odd,
A new study out of Germany estimates that romantic partners are present in at least 20 percent of nocturnal imaginings. But it isn't because we spend so much time with them during the day. Rather, Nodland explains, our dreams often represent unresolved problems and feelings—and we tend to have a lot of both where our relationship is concerned.
So what about the other 80% of dreams? Here's a completely unscientific unverified breakdown:
- 5% falling from the sky to the earth — often after jumping too high
- 5% random celebrity giving you helpful household tips
- 10% teeth falling out
- 20% work nightmares
- 2% suddenly inexplicably pregnant
- 1% giving birth to a baby who is a small doppelgänger for Benicio Del Toro
- 7% bottomless ice cream sundae
- 10% back in high school
- 10% back in college
- 10% dead relative giving important advice you won't remember when you wake up
Your partner stars in 20 percent of your dreams [The Body Odd]
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25 December 2015
25 December 2015
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