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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Shawna Featured In Tulsa World
The Tulsa World featured Shawna on Wednesday. Click here to read.
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Shawna Signs With William Morris Endeavor
NASHVILLE, TN (September 4, 2012) - Way Out West Records' Country artist Shawna Russell has signed for booking representation with William Morris Endeavor (WME) in Nashville. WME is the largest talent agency in the world and a dominant force in the Country marketplace with a roster of superstar acts including Taylor Swift, Blake Shelton, Reba and Rascal Flatts.
"I am honored to join the WME roster," says Russell. "It is another huge milestone in my career and I look forward to many great opportunities to come from this."
Russell's latest single, "Sounds Like A Party," from her critically acclaimed sophomore album, is currently gaining airplay traction on Texas/Red Dirt stations and at mainstream Country radio where it is climbing the MusicRow chart. The song, co-written by Russell, follows on the heels of her previous single, "Waitin' On Sunrise," which was one of only two independent female singles to go Top 30 on that chart in the past year.
Russell's powerful vocals and considerable skills on the electric slide guitar recently attracted the attention of Billboard.com who raved that "Russell dazzled the crowd" when she opened for Kix Brooks in front of over 13,00 fans on July 4 in Oklahoma. Her busy summer touring schedule also included support slots with Ronnie Dunn, Lonestar, Rick Springfield and others.
Russell's Country, Americana and Rock stylings are a natural outgrowth of her years spent paying dues in major nightclubs across America. Fittingly, the Oklahoma songbird was captured recently in performance clips of "Sounds Like A Party" filmed at "The World's Largest Honky Tonk," Billy Bob's Texas, for an episode of the Golf Channel's popular lifestyle and travel show, GolfNow Dallas, which aired nationally this month. Russell was also interviewed by popular GolfNow host, Lauren Thompson. Watch the online version here.
Russell is managed by Clif Doyal of the Clif Doyal Agency of Nashville.
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We provide 1 parking spot in a nearby parking garage about a block away. We also built some luggage lockers where guests who arrive early or leave late can store their luggage. Just ask ahead of time and we will set you up.
This is a historic 3 floor building on the 5th Avenue of the Arts in downtown Nashville. In the early 1900s it was the Armstrong Corset Shop. Over 4 years I have renovated the 3rd floor & roof into 3 unique lofts.
It's got double spiral stairs that we welded on site. 15-20' ceilings and exposed original brick. Private rooftop deck in the middle of downtown Nashville.
We just put a new roof on this year, and added copper and cedar shake siding to the rooftop room.
Unit 302 it's all your's. There are 3 lofts on the 3rd floor.

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B.I.G. Kids (Believing In God)
KNOW Jesus as their loving, Forever Friend,
LIVE lives devoted to Christ, and
SHARE their faith with others.
B.I.G. Love
Nursery program for infants up to 3 years.
Teachers interact with youngsters, sharing the name of Jesus in loving moments. Little ones will know that they are Christ's gifts to parents and the church alike. Your child will be in the hands of those with a heart for little ones.
B.I.G. Wonder
This class is for children pre-school through second grade.
It is all about putting the "pieces of the Bible" together through dramatic stories to help answer all the questions that kids this age WONDER. It is a high-energy time that captures the imagination of the children and opens their eyes and hearts to Bible truths that will impact their lives in incredible ways. Here they will learn that Jesus wants a relationship with each one of them. They get to move about as they praise and worship through song and develop relationships during small group time.
B.I.G. Truth
For students third through fifth grades.
Children in second through fourth grades learn more & more why Jesus loves each one of us. In class, they are taught tools to learn to find Bible. They can point out truth and reasons for faith. They will be learning more about worship, prayer, and the books of the Bible through energetic lessons and singing.


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Step by Step Guide to Starting Your Personal Residential Residence Cleaning Business or Maid Service. Next we will speak about what sort of paperwork you need for your house cleaning business. It makes sense that following defeat in the referendum Business for Scotland would not continue campaigning at the very same intensity, or that many senior figures would move on, as quite possibly occurred in pro-Unionist groups also (I have not researched this so obviously cannot say that is appropriate). You need to have all your business policies spelt out and a place for your client to agree to them.
It is usually a concern that exposing too considerably about business functions to could lead to betrayals and employees turnovers, with staff key staff members leaving to start off competing organizations. A profitable business is always conducting surveys, analysis, and updating to meet customer needs. But what I really like … Read the rest


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|Danny Wier <dawier@...>
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From: "Eamon Graham" <robertg@...>> Danny, > > A million times thank you! I needed this! Finding info on Pashto > was so difficult. (Our library here has Dari, but not Pashto) I > had to piece together most of what I knew from various sources that > really didn't have much to say. > > (For any one who's interested in why I became interested in Pashto > when I was so unable to find out anything about it: when I was > deciding on how I wanted this project to sound, I went to BBC.co.uk > and VOA.gov and listened to their broadcasts in various languages. > Pashto caught my ear and the rest is history! My interest in Modern > East Aramaic can be explained in about the same way. Anyone else > use similar methods when deciding how they want something to sound?)Interest in Pashto should be very timely, since it's been in the news a lot in the last year-and-change in the US, being the focus of the hunt for bin Laden and his associates. Pashto replaced Dari Persian as national language fairly recently, but many other languages including Uzbek (Southern dialect) can be found there. The phonology and language description got mentioned in _The World's Major Languages_, ed. Bernard Comrie, which I used in my post. It is the last IE language given attention, right after Persian and before Hungarian. They need to put out a new edition (at least to reflect post-Soviet political changes), and this time, include a few American languages like Quechua and Nahuatl. The Omniglot website covers A LOT of languages, and other Iranian languages, including Kurdish, which should get a lot more attention as a de facto national language of northern Iraq and major minority in Turkey and elsewhere. It also happens to be a rare case of a language written in three scripts: Arabic, Latin (Turkish) and Cyrillic. Kurdish phonology isn't as elaborate as Pashto (no retroflexes), but does contain both a /v/ and a /w/, not to mention two rhotics and two laterals. The phonology of the nearly twenty year-old project that has come to be known as Tech (which STILL hasn't gotten past the phonology stage!) is inspired by Proto-Semitic and Proto-Indo-European mostly, with a lot of ideas drawn from the phonologies of the diverse families of Caucasian languages, especially Kartvelian. I wanted ejectives like Georgian, retroflexes as found in Dravidian and Indo-Aryan, the pharyngeals of Arabic, palatized and labiovelarized units like the "soft" and "hard" consonants of Old Church Slavonic, and lenis and nasal mutations of Celtic. The next experiments involves applying a Nostratic-based phonology to a mixture of, among other things, Semitic (especially Hebrew and Arabic) and Indo-European (especially Greek and Sanskrit) vocabulary items.


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2017-10-07 @sunderls
Given a linked list, remove the nth node from the end of list and return its head. For example,
Given linked list: 1->2->3->4->5, and n = 2.
After removing the second node from the end, the linked list becomes 1->2->3->5.
Note: Given n will always be valid. Try to do this in one pass.
this seems a fairly easy task. For a liked list, we cannot know the length until we finish the traversing.
so, we keep a pointer to target node and use 3 pointers, keep the target node and the one before.
to make things easier, we add a start node.
* Definition for singly-linked list.
* function ListNode(val) {
* this.val = val;
* this.next = null;
* }
* @param {ListNode} head
* @param {number} n
* @return {ListNode}
var removeNthFromEnd = function(head, n) {
// append a new head
var start = {
next: head
var cursor = head;
var prev = start;
var target = head;
var step = n;
// cursor starts from head
while (cursor) {
// we try waiting some steps before moving prev & start
// cursor & target starts ad the same
// so we wait step goes to 0 and -1 for each round
if (step === 0) {
prev = prev.next;
target = target.next;
} else {
step -= 1;
cursor = cursor.next;
prev.next = target.next;
return start.next;
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1UP.com ran this article about Vivendi Games denying an MMO based on Battlestar Galactica after the information was posted on EB Games. While the news was denied, it sure seems interesting.
Like clockwork, the Battlestar Galactica Online for Xbox 360 listing found on EBGames yesterday morning has mysteriously disappeared from the retailer's database. Every couple of weeks EBGames updates its database with release lists supplied by companies (many times EBGames has notoriously made things up entirely), resulting in leaks about upcoming announcements before the publishers are typically ready to talk about them.
1UP contacted listed publisher Vivendi Universal Games yesterday evening, who told us "EBGames has removed the information because it was not accurate. Vivendi Games has not announced a Battlestar Galactica game. We cannot comment any further as it is our policy to not comment on industry rumors."
Read more from 1UP.com here.


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Pour les fêtes la livraison est offerte sur toutes les commandes jusqu'au lundi 24 décembre 2018.
Pour les fêtes la livraison est offerte sur toutes les commandes jusqu'au lundi 24 décembre 2018.
2994 McFarlane Rd,Coconut Grove,33131
Lundi - Dimanche 11:00 - 19:00
Miami recently welcomed a freshly redesigned signature store at Coconut Grove, created in collaboration with Frida Escobedo, the architect also responsible for our first Miami space, Aesop Wynwood. The design references the region's relaxed, tropical environment, offering a space of calm respite and visual intrigue.
Given Miami's balmy climate, the design lifts from symbols of comfort and repose. Elements of a traditional hammock are deconstructed and presented in the interior, the bone threads hanging across the front window and back wall in a fashion reminiscent of a reclining hammock. Airy and delicate, the suspended threads effect a moiré-like shade that sway in the breeze, and contrast against the heavy concrete and custom wood furnishings.
The sink and point-of-sale counter are constructed with ribbed concrete that have been hand-made by Mexican studio taller TORNEL, using cord to add texture. The interior offers a dynamic aesthetic, meticulously precise in detail at the same time as evoking an alluring calmness; it is a space to unwind and decompress.


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Ricky Bones -- #25 -- P
Age: 29. Height: 6-0. Weight: 202.
Bats: Right. Throws: Right.
Contract status: Signed through 1999.
Role: Right-handed long relief and spot starter.
Career year: 1994 with Milwaukee, 10-9, 3.43 ERA, four complete games, one shutout.
What's up in '99: He can do so much, which is his appeal. For now, Bones will be used in long and middle relief. But he also can be a spot starter. He's an innings eater in the bullpen, which this club lacked for much of last season.


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Ever since I made this block for one of the Bees of my FB group 'Desi Quilters', I've been wanting to do a full quilt in those colours (yes, orange and pink, don't laugh) and that pattern (Denyse Schmidt's Drunk love in a log cabin, again, don't laugh).
I am just looking at the dates realizing this was made exactly a year back.. in September 2012 ! O.M.G. !! Is it too late to blog about it?
Anyway, since this was to be for a friend's lovely li'l girl, I bravely went ahead with the pink and orange colour scheme and gave the blocks some interest by fussy cutting the centers. Therefore the name. Not bad I think. The quilt, not the name. Actually the name too. Er..it's pretty late in the night and I'm beginning to not make much sense, so I better let the pics do the talking.
Ta-da...Fussy Love..
The orange logs are at 1" wide and by the time I was done with them I was ready to burn the whole
Why? So many seams ! So very many seams !! Thats why.
Luckily I had with me this gorgeous print for the backing which was like a match made in heaven.
And here's my little elf cum model, helping me with the photoshoot. Oh, you should see her when she's grumpy.
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Dr. Tauber Before and After > Asymmetric Breast Reduction
This is a 24 year old female presented to the office with complaints of large breasts breast and breast asymmetry that causes her back and shoulder pain – worsening throughout the day. She had tried other conservative measures to reduce her symptoms without benefit. Her pre-op exam demonstrated very large, sagging breasts with significant asymmetry. She underwent a bilateral, inferior pedicle, "T" pattern, asymmetric breast reduction. At 4 months, she is very happy with the smaller, lifted appearance of her breasts and is back to normal activities.


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New Beginnings
Posted on August 17, 2016
Yes, everyone, you may now PANIC! Tomorrow is the day we all find out whether we've secured that all important University place or apprenticeship post! A LEVEL RESULTS DAY. Whatever the outcome you receive I want you all to remember that there is always another way to achieving the dream that you are striving for and that exam results do not define who you are nor what you are capable of.
It is clear to say that this week there are certainly a lot of new beginnings occurring both in my personal life and all around me. New relationships seem to be blossoming and moving away for a lot of us is going to be an exciting and freeing challenge which we have not experienced before! It will be hard no doubt, but remember this is just one step forward on a journey of magnitudinal proportions that could lead anywhere and will mould you into being the person you have always dreamed of.
One big milky good luck to you all!
With love,
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We have been residents of the Melbourne area for 30 years. We love the water and are avid sailors and members of Melbourne Yacht Club. We are currently retired and are enjoying traveling the world on a part-time basis. We spend the fall months in our condo, and rent it to others the rest of the year. It is our home, and we hope it will become your home away from home.
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The Head of Steam Leicester bar is set to launch on Market Street on Thursday 5 April from 5pm, shortly after plans were announced for a venue in Nottingham, creating a further 30 jobs for the region.
The new Head of Steam will replace the former Reynard pub in Leicester city centre, and will champion local breweries as part of its offering, including Brewsters, Charnwood, Framework, and Langton, and with specialty keg lines, as part of 30 taps serving craft beer, real ale and beers from around the world.
Set across two floors, the 3,509 square foot space will offer a main bar, a VIP floor that can be reserved for special functions like business conferences and meetings, and a beer garden with seating for 30 people.
The Head of Steam, is owned by Hartlepool-based Camerons Brewery, and will offer customers the chance to choose from more than 120 different brews which they can enjoy in a welcoming space designed with a modern-twist.
Speaking ahead of the launch, Chris Soley, chief executive at Camerons Brewery, said:
"We are thrilled to be opening another venue here in the East Midlands, as part of our continued and rapid expansion south of the country. The Midlands is a thriving hub for business, and the perfect place to carry on our expansion.
"We are on course to open the Nottingham venue at the end of March, and Leicester next month with Birmingham planned for later in the spring/summer. More plans are in store for the Midlands as we move forwards, so watch this space."
Established in 1995, The Head of Steam now has 13 pubs across the North of England in cities such as Leeds, Newcastle, Hull, and Liverpool.


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Addendum: OF COURSE!! Got Phone Call in Middle of Video!!! Totally F*cked It Up!! :-(
>Ohhhh no can u do it again
Nope!! :-(
>Send what u have... its ok
>It is ok my balloons went into a tree
Turns out phone call that *ruined* my balloon vid was robocall from Breast Cancer Charity seeking donations/monies ($$$) hmmmpf ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>They must have seen ur balloons
:-) That makes me feel better! Thx!
My new 'summer bracelet' :-)
Well vid no longer exists. Tried editing but accidentally deleted what I wanted to save yet kept the garbage footage. Am lucky I took 'stills' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Technology, eh?
Am curious... when editing video shot on yr i-phone do you use standard apple tools or did you download a special program to do it? I *HATE* my phone right now. Much prefer my microsoft tablet or my sm hand-held digital camera for vids. Apple iphones are way *over-rated* in my opinion ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Sorry... I *really* do love my phone :-)
^Addendum II - Screenshots from remaining 1second video ('Balloons in Sky - Kim Memorandum')^ after accidentally deleting good footage & keeping the remaining 'garbage visuals'. Squint hard enuff & you can actually see balloons in blue sky :-)


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On the sixth anniversary of the traumatising Northern Territory Emergency Response, known as the Intervention, three leading national community welfare organisations are urging the major parties to dump the policy of mandatory income management, which they assert is wasteful, ineffective and harmful. The Australian Council of Social Service, the …Read More »
Humiliation at the heart of homelessness
According to data just released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics the past year has seen a 4 per cent increase in the number of people placed in full-time custody in Australia's prisons. The Northern Territory, which also has the highest rate of people experiencing homelessness per head of population, has the highest …Read More »
Time to formally recognise the contribution of the First Peoples: National Reconciliation Week 2013
The St Vincent de Paul Society National Council of Australia is marking National Reconciliation Week (May 27 to June 3) by celebrating the contribution Indigenous people make to our community and renewing calls for the First Peoples of Australia to be officially recognised in the Constitution. St Vincent de Paul …Read More »
NAIDOC Week celebrates hard-fought struggles
The St Vincent de Paul Society National Council of Australia has, in NAIDOC Week, saluted the historical efforts of Australia's First Peoples in striving for a stronger future for all Australians, built on justice and mutual respect. Chief Executive Dr John Falzon said: "We respectfully invite members of the community …Read More »
National Reconciliation Week Statement
National Reconciliation Week Statement The St Vincent de Paul Society National Council of Australia has marked Reconciliation Week by calling on all Australians to develop and nurture a deep respect for the First Peoples of this land. National President, Anthony Thornton said that Reconciliation can only be achieved where there …Read More »
St Vincent de Paul Society respectfully supports Yolngu Elders
St Vincent de Paul Society National Council CEO, Dr John Falzon, issued the following statement in response to the Statement released on May 2, 2012 by Elders of the Yolngu Nations Assembly in Arnhem Land: "The Elders of the Yolngu Nations Assembly today issued an historical statement regarding the Australian Government's …Read More »
The cunning of consultation
Presentation to the What's Next? Seminar Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet Canberra ,7 March 2012 By Dr John Falzon Chief Executive of the St Vincent de Paul Society National Council We are discussing consultation on Aboriginal land, land that was unjustly taken from people who were, and continue to …Read More »
Opening statement to Senate Inquiry into Stronger Futures
By Dr John Falzon The wound of colonisation is a wound in the heart of the First Peoples of this land. The legislation that is before this Committee will deepen and broaden this wound. It contains policies that hurt, humiliate, punish, and control. Like all forms of colonisation it denies …Read More »
The Northern Territory intervention – panel discussion on ABC Radio National
On March 6, 2012 St Vincent de Paul Society Chief Executive, Dr John Falzon participated in a panel discussion about the Northern Territory intervention on the ABC Radio National Drive program hosted by Waleed Aly. The other panellists included the Mayor of the Tiwi Islands, Lynette De Santis and NT Parliamentarian Adam Giles. Earlier in the …Read More »
Stand for Freedom – address to rally
St Vincent de Paul Society Chief Executive, Dr John Falzon gave the following address to the 'Stand for Freedom' rally held on the lawns on Parliament House, Canberra on February 28, 2012. The rally was held to oppose the proposed expansion of the NT Stronger Futures legislation and income management …Read More »
Cooperation not intervention – joint release from community welfare sector
A call for a new direction in policies affection Indigenous Australians in the NT From the Australian Council of Social Services Aboriginal peak bodies, community welfare and public health groups from around the country are calling for a new direction in policies affecting Aboriginal Australians based on cooperation, not 'intervention'. The groups …Read More »
From Keynesian Nanny State to the coercive Daddy State in Indigenous policy
A response to 'How do we design a dignified welfare safety net without becoming a Nanny State? Lessons from Catholic Social Teaching' by Fr Frank Brennan SJ AO. By Jon Altman National Library of Australia, Canberra 18 November 2011 I begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of Canberra, thanking John Falzon, …Read More »
Speech on Aboriginal Justice from the 2011 Gerald Ward Lecture held at the National Library of Australia
On Friday, November 18 the St Vincent de Paul Society National Council of Australia hosted the 4th Annual Gerald Ward Lecture on Social Justice at the National Library of Australia. Human rights advocate and lawyer Father Frank Brennan SJ AO delivered the following lecture on the topic 'How do we …Read More »
Far too little too late
By Helen Moran After the 'Bringing them home' Report had been tabled in Parliament House, Kim Beasley had shed tears in empathy and John Howard had refused to say Sorry to the Stolen Generations. I was approached by a number of High Schools and Colleges in the ACT to share …Read More »
Women speak out on income management
By Bess Harrison During May and June of this year, Equality Rights Alliance documented women's experiences of income management in the Northern Territory. Their recently released report, aptly entitled Aboriginal Women's Experience of Income Management in the Northern Territory, provides valuable insight into the complexity of issues arising from income …Read More »


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'Dismantling the chimney' involves reducing and virtually eliminating all man-made greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere, a process which the Kyoto Conference on Climate Change has done NOTHING to encourage.
Two billion people in the world have no energy. And there is no moral argument to stop them from having it, especially when energy-rich countries waste so much of this vital commodity. Yet, to give energy to all those without it would cripple the earth. The only solution is for the energy-rich North to constructively dismantle its own wasteful practices, whilst helping the energy-poor South to develop clean energy production. This seemingly insoluble dilemma makes population reduction even more necessary.
Typical sources of carbon dioxide/Counting the cost of exhaust emissions/The Paris pollution scare
Cities for Climate Protection Campaign.
This campaign from the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) intends to gain the participation of at least 100 cities worldwide whose combined CO2 output represents 5 -10% of the world total of greenhouse gases. Participating cities will pledge to develop a "local action plan" to reduce local emissions of toxic pollutants with special emphasis on CO2 emissions through the adoption of the "Municipal Leaders' Declaration of Climate Change and the Urban Environment". Over one hundred and fifty municipalities have joined the campaign and their number is growing.
For more information on the above,
go to Dismantlement Links.
Industrial dismantlement can be tackled and mastered only by people fluent in the respective field. For example, the motor industry can only be dismantled by the motor industry. When we say "dismantle the motor industry", we don't mean "stop making vehicles". The internal combustion engine will have to go - or at least be made far more efficient, the concept of private ownership of cars will have to go, built-in obsolescence will have to go, and certain manufacturing processes and materials will have to go.
We have to start the process of slow but steady readjustment now. This doesn't mean jobs in the motor industry will have to go. Instead it means much longer is spent building each vehicle. Remember, we will also be dismantling the work ethic and the economic pressure to produce in vast numbers.
The vehicle will last longer, too.
We won't have to build any more roads and will even be able to begin dismantling some. There will be no deadly emissions, no traffic jams and greater transport efficiency. Every vehicle on the road will be publicly owned and run.
This is the thinking that will be common in a few years' time when people begin dying in the streets - not through being hit by cars, but through inhaling them. Why wait until that happens to do something about it? We all know it's coming. Are we so selfish that we're prepared to pass the problem on to our children so as to cause ourselves as little inconvenience as possible?
It's up to every individual - every driver of a car whether in Paris, Phoenix, Bangkok or Beijing - to do some inner dismantling of their own.
Some things don't need dismantling. And in many other areas, it'll suffice just to move sideways. We have to make judgements very accurately when deciding what stays and what goes.
Take a digital alarm clock, for example. It weighs just a few ounces, keeps perfect time to the second for years and operates on virtually no power at all. Why do we defile such brilliance by then requiring the producers of it to work their employees half to death to make more alarm clocks than there are people to wake up?
Why is it that the electronics workers of a certain Far East nation have a working life of only four years? It's because they're either physically exhausted - their life's strength squeezed out of them by the demands of an unnatural working regime - or their eyesight has deteriorated so badly through the same cause that they can no longer see to do the job and are dismissed. These workers are typical of hundreds of thousands throughout the world. Ulcers, boredom, hopelessness, fear of failure, fear of starvation... they're all caused by modern commercial pressures.
The profit motive brings other problems, like over-production. With no one to buy the goods, companies go bankrupt. It happens with sickening regularity, but we keep jumping back on the same old roundabout. Most people are pushed onto it by the structure of our world. Every year the roundabout goes faster and faster. And every year it gets harder to stay on. Anyone in their right mind would see the stupidity of it, not to mention the human misery and waste involved.
That's the essence of economic dismantlement. Change the criteria that define profit.
So, the dismantlement of the industries and machines that cause deadly emissions will, by definition, be a task mainly for the Northern Hemisphere. But its effects will be felt everywhere.
As things stand today, the multinationals need to expand abroad to maintain profits. They impose themselves on countries that haven't evolved their own capitalism, then keep them from doing so.... because the overdevelopment of one side depends on the underdevelopment of the other. Dismantle the multinationals and suddenly it's a fair game again. But this time, the planet will make the rules.
We must work towards reducing our human numbers while at the same time continuing to promote renewable energy sources like the sun, waves and wind*. The less people there are demanding energy, the less energy we need to produce.
*15% of the electricity used in the Phillipines is produced by drilling holes several kilometres deep and pumping cold water onto the hot rock at the bottom to produce steam to power turbines.
The cost of solar cells is coming down, too. It's estimated that the energy needs of the entire world in the next decade could be met by solar cells covering a mere 4% of the Earth's deserts.
The Kyoto International Conference on Climate Control.


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Welcome Bloggers today I am Featured as one of the Design Team over at My Cricut Craft Room. Today is Would You Ever Guess Wednesday. I know I have a few new Blogger Friends. So I will explain to you what this is. Have you ever look at the Key pad on your Cricut machine and there are FEATURE KEYS. Well Erica wants us to show you what we can create ONLY using the Feature keys. This is so fun because if you are new to cricut, we show you what you can create and how to create things using the feature keys.
So this is what I have created!!!
This is a Birthday card that I have came up with. I don't know if I like the colors but it works. I made the cupcake from Demask Decor Cartridge. I use the Lovely Floral to make the border for the triangle. I added some pink, blue, and green ink to make a colorful background for the cupcake.
Here is a side view of my card
Then the inside of the card I added a little message that I stamped inside. It says Make a wish (a Big one)
I used all three inks and added them on the message. I loved how that came out,
Well thank you for stopping by and seeing my card, now hop along to My Cricut Craft Room and see what the other ladies came up with!


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If you love the look of a bar cart, but brass just isn't your thing... Gigi has the prettiest solution!
This silver (maybe silver plate?) + glass bar cart has two removable trays and it stole my heart right from the start.
Compare our version to this one that's listed on 1stdibs for $2,120.
I've got big dreams for this one! I'm hoping the new owner will take a cue from Kate + Andy Spade when styling...
In love? Send your offers to Gigi at firstname.lastname@example.com!


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By: Andrew Muschel
Growing up a baseball fan in the 1990's, I never heard the words "moneyball" or "sabermetrics". We rooted for "traditional" statistics, hoping Todd Hundley would eclipse the Met and catcher records for single-season homeruns and Anthony Young would lose enough consecutive games to ensure his place among all-time goats. Fast forward to the present and one cannot help but notice how many intelligent members of the sports media not only include, but also focus on, new statistics, such as WAR (Wins Above Replacement), FIP (Fielding Independent Pitching), and UZR (Ultimate Zone Rating). The definition and scope of each of these variables, along with the many others, are well beyond the scope of this essay; however, the primary goal of each is to quantify that which had always been subjective: defense, speed, luck, and a player's overall value. Specifically WAR, whose method of calculation has varying opinions (e.g. Fan Graph's fWAR and Baseball Reference's bWAR), attempts to understand "how much better a player is than what a team would typically have to replace that player," measured in wins.
The debate over the use of these statistics, especially as replacements for the traditional ones, such as stolen bases, earned run average (ERA), and runs batted in (RBI), has waged on. While some from the "old-school" maintain that WAR, as the song indicates, is good for "absolutely nothing," many mainstream media outlets have turned their attention to these decreasingly controversial statistics. For example, in the winter of 2012, the two frontrunners in the race for the American League's Most Valuable Player, Miguel Cabrera and Mike Trout, embodied the two distinct schools of thought. At the time, the New York Times featured an article by Nate Silver explaining why Mike Trout, based on his overall value measured in WAR, should win. Conversely, Miguel Cabrera who had achieved the historic feat of winning the Triple Crown (leading the league in three traditional categories: homeruns, RBI's, and batting average), was overrated based on superficial statistics.
The use and precision of these new statistics are remarkable. A casual fan of the Mets in 2013 may have noticed that after injuries, the team replaced its power-hitting Lucas Duda (career OPS, on-base percentage plus slugging percentage, .766) with the weaker hitting Eric Young Jr. (OPS .663) and Juan Lagares (OPS .633). Yet, during those months, that same fan may have observed the team's win-percentage increase significantly. The reasoning behind the improvement was presumably what Young Jr. and Lagares contributed with their baserunning and defense, unlike Duda who often seemed incompetent at performing either. WAR tells the full story, with Duda's 2013 WAR an embarrassing -.2 (-.9 lifetime) as opposed to Young Jr.'s .9 WAR and Lagares' 3.7 WAR.
That said, it seems that even the "all-inclusive" WAR must be examined more closely before crowning it the lord of statistics. Both mainstream sites that produce a WAR calculation include mentions of limitations, such as "WAR is necessarily an approximation and will never be as precise or accurate as one would like", and "You should always use more than one metric at a time when evaluating players." However, the online media still seems to put great emphasis, perhaps overemphasis, on a number which ultimately includes at least some measure of subjectivity. Though WAR is often advantageous, helping sports fans understand a player's value and assisting general managers in building better franchises, a little humility should be portrayed while using it. Bloggers seem to assume that WAR is the current gold standard to assess everything baseball, and some cynical blogs will attack the primitive folks (generally broadcasters) who still talk about homeruns, ERA, and batting average, as if those numbers have no meaning in our advanced society. These attacks are obnoxious at best, factually presumptuous at worst. After all, WAR is a number and baseball is played by real people. In the words of long time Met broadcaster Gary Cohen, "People who write from a remove have a different perspective. Either it's a lyrical perspective, which is nice, or a statistical perspective, which is also useful. But when you're actually up close and understand the human beings who play the game, it gives you a better perspective." In fact, using the very concept of sabermetrics, an attempt to quantify every previously unnoticed detail, certain limitations on WAR's power become apparent.
For example, when the Mets recently signed outfielder Curtis Granderson to a four year $60 million contract, a plethora of essays were penned critiquing the signing, primarily based on projections of his WAR.[1] Met fans have defended the signings, invoking the Mets' morale since the collapses of 2007 and 2008, the Madoff fiasco, and five straight losing seasons, and how desperately the team needed a lift. Those immersed in pure numbers and statistics refute that morale is not a statistic and that the game is played on the field, not in the stands or in the hearts of fans. However, that argument is not so simple.
In their 2011 book Scorecasting, a book seeking to understand the hidden influences in sports, Moskowitz and Wertheim prove the existence of home field advantage and explain the source of the advantage (spoiler alert: referee bias). They cite evidence that the size of the crowd actually affects the magnitude of the advantage.[2] Do those using WAR to critique the Granderson signing consider how many fans he may bring to the stadium, thereby increasing the home field advantage? On a simpler level, do they account for the WAR of future free agents who may sign with the Mets because, with the first 8-figure annual salary awarded in the Alderson era, Granderson has showed that the Mets are looking to compete? Presumably not. And aside from future acquisitions, it has widely been reported that David Wright, who has averaged over 4.5 bWAR per season over his first ten, signed an extension with the Mets last year on the premise that they sign some legitimate free agents. Wright appeared excited about the Granderson signing, indicating that it may have played a role in keeping his WAR in New York.[3]
Take as another example the 2012 sensation that was R.A. Dickey. Dickey won the National League Cy Young award comfortably, despite some demanding that Kershaw be crowned based primarily on his superior WAR. But again, WAR does not tell the whole story. Returning first to attendance, in late September 2012, the Mets concluded a four-game series at home with the Pirates which had, in the first three games, drawn an average paid crowd of 23,416. For the final game of the series, they started their then 19-win ace, Dickey, and not surprisingly, their attendance inflated to 31,506. Perhaps that oversized crowd (by Citi Field standards) was of greater assistance to Dickey, who struck out 13 and won his 20th game, than the weaker previous crowds could have been to the previous pitchers. But that attendance number, or at least its significance, would not appear in the box score or be incorporated into any sabermetrics. As another example, a Met fan watching that game may have said that David Wright's go-ahead three-run homerun was motivated by the opportunity to provide his beloved teammate the chance to win his 20th game. These emotions seem to have no place on the field or in the world of statistics, but consider this: In the 33 games started by Dickey, the Mets scored an average of 4.6 runs; in the 129 games he did not start, they scored a paltry 3.86 runs per game. Perhaps their feelings of camaraderie juiced their bats or maybe the opposing pitcher had to take more risks to compete with Dickey and failed. If the former sounds too magical, how else can we explain the fact that of Dickey's seven no-decisions in 2012, he left the game in line for a loss in six but was redeemed by the generally ordinary offense's heroic efforts.
Two other fascinating numbers quantifying Dickey's otherwise uncalculated value were brought to light by Michael Salfino in the Wall Street Journal. Salfino pointed out that the unusual style of the knuckleball is not only confusing as its thrown to hitters, but also serves as a confusing contrast to the fastballs thrown by most pitchers, including Met relievers finishing for Dickey and starting pitchers throwing the day after Dickey against the same team. In his three years with the Mets, the relievers were much more successful following his performance than when following one of his teammates (3.44 to 4.26 ERA overall, 3.41 to 4.78 in 2012). Similarly, over the course of 2012, in the 132 plus innings thrown by Met starters the game after Dickey against the same opponent, they combined for an ERA of 2.38, significantly lower than their otherwise ERA of 4.56. If WAR's goal is to "summarize a player's total contributions to their (sic) team" (Fan Graphs), allow us to conclude that though it may incorporate many contributions, it remains impossible to quantify fully a unique human being and his contributions to a baseball team.
The game of baseball continues to evolve as does its statistics. Sports fans continue to benefit from precise statistics measuring almost any component of the game. My goal is not to elegitimize the validity and value of statistics such as WAR; merely to request from all of its users to engage in more humility, appreciating that despite its impressive thoroughness, there is more to a player than his WAR. What is war good for? Something, just not everything.
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Andrew Muschel, MS, is a psychology doctoral student and Met fan living in Queens, NY. He enjoys writing about his two topics of interest, psychology and sports, at his new blog, Psychology and Sports.
[1] For example: http://metsblog.com/metsblog/deep-dive-estimating-curtis-grandersons-aging-pattern/#more-201987 and https://thereadzone.com/2013/12/06/granderson-signing-isnt-jason-bay-part-2-but-it-aint-good-either/
[2] pp. 161-163
[3] Wright had previously discussed his impatience with Mike Francesa on New York's WFAN.


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|THE RO-RO TEAM – Manuel Mar Roxas and Leni Robredo
MANILA — Administration Liberal Party candidates Manuel "Mar" Roxas II and Camarines Sur Rep. Maria Leonor "Leni" Robredo on Thursday filed their respective Certificates of Candidacy (CoCs) at the Commission on Elections (Comelec) main office in Intramuros.
This brought to two – Vice President Jejomar Binay (UNA) and Roxas (LP) – the major candidates for president and overall to 58 presidential aspirants with COCs.
Roxas filed his CoC ahead of Sen. Mary Grace Poe Llamanzares with runningmate Sen. Francis Escudero who are expected to file their COCs later.
It was gathered that Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte may yet change his mind again and run for president and may file his COC on Friday, October 16, last day of filing of COC.
Roxas was accompanied by his wife, television host and news anchor Korina Sanchez and his mother Judy Araneta Roxas, vice chairman of the Araneta Group of Companies, while the Bicol solon was with her three daughters when both submitted their CoCs that sealed their tandem for the May 2016 polls.
The Liberal Party's (LPs) presidential aspirant promised the people that their tandem would aim to continue the Aquino administration's stance in fighting corruption through "Tuwid na Daan" (Straight Path).
"Kami po ay nagpapasalamat sa ating mga kababayan sa pagakakataon na pinagkakaloob nila sa amin at ialay ang aming sarili bilang kakatawan ng daang matuwid at ang pagsulong ng laban para sa daang matuwid [We thank our fellowmen for the chance to serve. We offer ourselves to the nation in our pursuit to continue with the Straight Path]," Roxas said in a short speech after filing his CoC.
"All in na po kami ni Leni sa aming pag-file ng aming CoCs. Ibibigay po namin ang lahat sa laban na ito. Ito ang laban na dapat lang na ipaglaban. Laban para sa ating mga kababayan. Laban para sa lahat ng pamilyang Pilipino at sa kaginhawaan na pangarap nating lahat [We are going to give our best in this fight. This is a fight for our fellowmen]," he added.
For her part, Robredo, wife of the late and former Interior Sec. Jesse Robredo who died in a plane crash in 2012, said she is ready to serve the Filipinos and offer herself as their servant.
With this, she asked the support of the people in their quest for the top two positions in the land.
Before filing their CoCs, both national candidates attended a Mass at the Manila Cathedral with President Benigno Aquino III, their families and supporters.


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Oh October, you are living up to my prophecy. And I suspect I will have a full blown ulcer by the time I am 26*. And perhaps my lungs will collapse under the sheer force of my sighing.
Of course, you are somewhat (ONLY SOMEWHAT) redeemed by the latest rehearsal for my Show (Eclecticity: the Revue**) as it turns out that the best part of being a teeny little cog in a huge machine of a show means that when the rehearsals get to run-through stage (we open in one week. ONE WEEK!) you still haven't managed to see half the acts. I spent half the rehearsal giggling madly. The other half was spent trying to shove lines into my head but the giggling half was very enjoyable.
So! Come one, come all:
Please please please don't judge the show by the poster.
The masses like the clip art joker and funky 1998 font.
This was my (DENIED) version:
* That would be TOMORROW. Eep.
** Electicity. As in Electic. And Icity. I don't even pretend to get it beyond the whole "eclectic" thing.


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Tata Motors' Sep sales up 23%
Home-grown auto major Tata Motors reports a 23.8 per cent increase in total vehicle sales, including exports, in September.india Updated: Oct 04, 2006 12:20 IST
Home-grown auto major Tata Motorsreported a 23.8 per cent increase in total vehicle sales, including exports, in September despite its car sales being adversely affected due to a fire at the paint shop in its Pune facility during the month.
The company said it registered a total sale of 49,157 units in September compared to 39,707 units in the same month last year.
Passenger vehicle business reported a total sale of 18,609 vehicles in the domestic market in September this year, an increase of 15.7 per cent over the same month last year, Tata Motors said in a statement.
The company's flagship car Indica sold 10,694 units, a growth of 10.6 per cent, while utility vehicles Sumo and Safari accounted for 4,347 units, a growth of 42.3 per cent over September last year, it said.
Commercial vehicles sales in September in the domestic market stood at 26,627 units, as against 19,087 units last year, up 39.5 per cent.
Medium and heavy commercial vehicles sales stood at 15,193 units, a growth of 34.1 per cent over September last year, while light commercial vehicle sold 11,434 units, a growth of 47.4 per cent, the company said.
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2016 has been a big year for fans of horror video games, the Resident Evil 7 demo broke download records on PS4 and We Happy Few is one of the most anticipated horror games of the year. Well those who love all things creepy and spooky can add another game to get excited about, Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location.
Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location was teased in an announcement trailer a few months back, but until today little else was known about the newest installment in the horror franchise. The game's Steam page went up today showing some new screenshots, a brief summary, and a release date of October 2016.
The description on the game's Steam page doesn't really describe the gameplay, rather it reads as a cryptic and creepy description of the game's setting:
"Welcome to Circus Baby's Pizza World, where family fun and interactivity go beyond anything you've seen at those *other* pizza places! With cutting-edge animatronic entertainers that will knock your kids' socks off, as well as customized pizza catering, no party is complete without Circus Baby and the gang! Now hiring: Late night technician. Must enjoy cramped spaces and be comfortable around active machinery. Not responsible for death or dismemberment."
While this description is chilling, it doesn't indicate what type of gameplay Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location will offer. From the trailer it appears that this newest installment will be returning to the tried and true formula of having the player locked in a security room with only cameras and doors for protection. However, the trailer also shows the player crawling through an air vent so it's possible that players will be able to venture out of the security room at certain points in the game.
Whatever the final game will look like it is probably a safe bet that Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location won't be another RPG, since Five Nights at Freddy's World was a bit of a disaster at launch. Fans of the series will just have to wait until October to see what animatronic horrors are lurking in the shadows, until then they'll just have to play the previous games or pick up the tie-in novel to fill that Freddy sized hole in their life.
Should Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location stick to the gameplay formula of its predecessors? Or should it try something new?
Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location will be available for PC, Android, and iOS October 2016.
Source – Destructoid


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Ear infections are one of the most common reasons parents take their children to the doctor. While there are different types of ear infections, the most common is called otitis media, which means an inflammation and infection of the middle ear. The middle ear is located just behind the eardrum.
An acute ear infection is a short and painful ear infection. Ear infections may also occur in adults, although they are less common than in children.
Causes, Incidence, and Risk Factors of Ear Infections:
The Eustachian tube runs from the middle of each ear to the back of the throat. This tube drains fluid normally made in the middle ear. If the Eustachian tube becomes blocked, fluid can build up. This can lead to infection.
Ear infections are common in infants and children, because the Eustachian tubes become easily clogged.
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Ear infections are also more likely if a child spends a lot of time drinking from a sippy cup or bottle while lying on his or her back. However, getting water in the ears will not cause an acute ear infection, unless the eardrum has a hole from a previous episode.
Acute ear infections occur most often in the winter. You cannot catch an ear infection from someone else, but a cold may spread among children and cause some of them to get ear infections.
Risk Factors for Acute Ear Infections Include:
- Attending daycare (especially those with more than 6 children)
- Changes in altitude or climate
- Cold climate
- Exposure to smoke
- Genetic factors (susceptibility to infection may run in families)
- Not being breastfed
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Thursday, July 28, 2005
Who is in the Covenant?
Who said this?, and to whom was he referring (esp. in the "second place")?
Hint, although this sounds remarkably similar to a contemporary example, it isn't(it is similar, but it isn't that contemporary example ;-) ).
Monday, July 18, 2005
¡Alarma! Standard Origin
Prior to the arrival of our three children, I did have dreams of publishing a newsletter which would both subsidize and advertize my growing library. I had envisioned both writing articles and book reviews as well as making the nascent Historical Research Library available to interested parties.
The newsletter name: ¡Alarma! Standard, itself, originated from the combination of ¡Alarma! from Daniel Amos' ground-breaking four-album ¡Alarma! Chronicles, and Standard from
Isaiah 62:10:
" Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people. "Isaiah 59:19:
" So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him. "And Jeremiah 50:20:
"Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces."¡Alarma! was a wake-up call; and Standard was the upholding and proclaiming of the verity and rule of the Word of God.
Thus, it seemed fitting that this weblog serve as the current incarnation (!) of ¡Alarma! Standard.
Sunday, July 17, 2005
Brief (ecclesiastical) Bio
Born, baptized, catechized, married, and lapsed in CRC.
Five-year stint in an authoritarian, independent charismatic association.
10-year period of readjustment and then asking and seeking (g).
Brief period in an unaffiliated reformed fellowship, interimly, pastored by Tim Gallant.
Currently home-churching and leading and/or attending eclectic Bible studies.
Sunday, July 10, 2005
In Your Face
There was a time when you tried to persuade, not intimidate. Children were seen and not heard, no matter how old they were. We figured that a person truly had the right to speech, but he had to earn the right to be heard. That has all changed, of course. Words used to convey reason and ideas are now used to attack, to destroy.
"My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even
the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp
sword." (Ps 57:4 AV)
Jesus was not so. "The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked." (Pr 10:1 AV) describes his ministry. The only time he picked up an instrument of violence, was when he made a"scourge of small cords" to drive the greedy churchmen and their wares froim His Father's House.
Jesus was no pacifist, but He did not stoop to hide an emptiness of mind by getting in anyone's face.
From the June 2005 edition of A Basket of Figs (pp.6,7), soon to be posted here.
Book Tag
I willingly became it in a variation of the bloggish game of tag.<>
Other participants, that I am currently aware of, include Tim>, Barb, Mr. Garver, and Mr. Colvin.
So, here are my responses, for whatever they are worth.
How many books do I own?
c.10,000 (This includes a small collection of sf/f magazines - mainly IAsfm, Analog, and MF&SF).
I have not counted them in the last five years (since we moved).
Previously, I very diligently kept records of my purchases, and used a form of card catalogue system.
The library grew too big, and was split into the Historical Research Library (general non-fiction and classics), and The Erik Axton Library of Fantastic Fiction (fantasy & science fiction titles, the bulk being a 1,000 volume DAW Books collection). At the time of our move there was approximately 4,000 in each library. Subsequently, I disencumbered myself of approx. 500 sf/f titles. And, since then, I've probably added at least 2,500 titles (this includes some duplicates from a former business inventory). Recently I have begun uploading (800 to date) onto a database and using a new subject/category system.
What's the last book I bought?
A stack of them.
But the first one I am reading is Carl G. Gustavson's A Preface to History (McGraw-Hill, 1955).
What's the last book I read?
I have developed the (bad? - unusual?) habit of reading several volumes at one time.
Robert Ludlum's The Osterman Weekend (Bantam, 1982 [1972])
A long story. As short as possible: I had seen that Sahara was possibly a nice action/adventure movie. I learned that it was an older book. I quickly obtained a few of Clive Cussler's (of whom I had heardof but not bothered to read – his titles appeared interesting), and read Sahara before the movie went to the discount theatre (we basically never go to the regular, and might visit the discount a few times a year). While collecting the Cussler's (I am a completist, and am only missing Vixen 03 to date), a ran across a recommendation for Robert Ludlum (by Cussler). Coincidently, I had also known of but never read any Ludlum; though I had seen The Bourne Identity(2002) and Osterman Weekend when it came out in 1983 (movies, that is). Thus I checked out a read The Bourne Identity (1980), then rented the movie (as I could only vaguely recall it) to re-view. Then I began Ludlum's opus chronologically (as is my wont) and went on to The Scarlatti Inheritance (1970) and now The Osterman Weekend. Obviously, Ludlum is the better author of the two (I am also on the third Dirk Pitt adventure).
Currently at various stages in all of the following:
Timothy Weber's On the Road to Armageddon: How Evangelicals Became Israel's Best Friend (Baker, 2004)
Willem VanGemeren's The Progress of Redemption (Baker, 1995 [1988])
Gordon & Campi, eds. Architect of the Reformation (Baker, 2004)
Heinrich Bullinger's Decades (Reformation Heritage, 2005 [1549-51])
Clive Cussler's Iceberg (Berkley, 2004 [1975])
Alistair MacLean's When Eight Bells Toll (Collins, 1966) my fourth time, out-loud with my son!
John Owen's Works, Vol.5: Justification (Banner of Truth) on and off
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment (cheap edition) second time, stalled half-way for some reason.
What are the five books that mean the most to me?
This is a little tougher. Obviously, the Revelation of God to man, the Word, but that should go without saying.
The other five, in no particular order would be:
How Should We Then Live? (1976) by Francis A. Schaeffer - The book that showed me how ideas mattered in history, and the slippery-slope, or the devolution (against postmillennialist optimism), from a Christian worldview to a modernist-humanist (at that time) philosophy.
The Seduction of Christianity (1985) by Dave Hunt & T. A. McMahon – The proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. The book I read several times and led me out of a vast deception, and began to show me how seriously corrupted by occultism evangelical Christianity was becoming. Note, since then (despite having read over a dozen of Hunt's titles), I have been hesitant to take all of Hunt's research at face value (due to various critiques), and would never endorse his work – en toto – especially since his latent reluctance to stop and smell the tulips has manifested itself in unreasoned and unreasonable attacks.
The Doctrine of Justification (1867) by James Buchanan – What can be said…the book that (almost) deals exhaustively with the most central doctrine - next to sola scriptura - of the Reformation. James White's The God Who Justifies (Bethany House, 2001) was purported to be the modern equivalent of Buchanan's work but, I believe, the definitive (taking into consideration the current crisis) modern work on justification has yet to appear.
The Bond of Love (2001) by David McKay – A beautiful comprehensive look at Covenant Theology in all of its ramifications. I have not yet begun to fully appreciate this work.
Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536-59) by John Calvin – The comprehensive systematic presentation of the reformed theology which I find in Scripture. The historical influence of this work on all aspects of reformed/presbyterian orthodoxy and orthopraxy is a significant aspect of its inclusion here. Time and reading will tell if a Brakel or Turretin might challenge Calvin's position (but I doubt it).
Honourable Mentions:
All God's Children and Blue Suede Shoes: Christians and Poular Culture - Kenneth A. Myers
A Philosophy of the Christian Religion - Edward J. Carnell
Amusing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman
The Sovereignty of Grace - Arthur C. Custance
The Two Babylons - Alexander Hislop
To Save a Nation - D. R. Howard
The Romantic Manifesto - Ayn Rand
Heresies - Harold O. J. Brown
Studies in Saving Faith - A. W. Pink
Fire in the Minds of Men - James H. Billington
The Evolution of Civilizations - Carroll Quigley
Origin of the Nations - John Pilkey
The Illuminatus! Trilogy - Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson
Secret Societies and Subversive Movements - Nesta H. Webster
The Economy of the Covenants Between God and Man - Herman Witsius
The Defense of the Faith - Cornelius van Til
Systematic Theology (w/Prolegomena) - Louis Berkhof
A Christian's Reasonable Service - Wilhelmus a Brakel
Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics - Richard A. Muller
Institutes of Elenctic Theology - Francis Turretin
Decades - Heinrich Bullinger
Commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism - Zacharius Ursinus
The Church of Christ - James Bannerman
Historical Theology - William Cunningham
Church History in Plain Language - Bruce Shelley
2000 Years of Christ's Power - Nick Needham
Books, in and of themselves, are hard pressed to be significant in regards to their impact on my understanding of both God and this present reality in which he has placed us. Bodies of works by authors would be a more representative category. The cumulative impact of people like Francis Schaeffer, C. S. Lewis (initially great, but currently shunned), John Calvin (Insitutes as well as Commentaries, etc.), Arthur W. Pink, and Arthur C. Custance has meant more to me than any five individual books I might select.
Also, the last five years, I have read many more magazines and internet-posted articles (and mere posts), which have 'nuanced' (is this not the obligatory mot de jour?) my thinking.
Anyways, more on books and authors in other posts.
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
Projected Topics
With the proviso that certain practicalities may alter the final make-up, I humbly provide the following list of topics (in no particular chronological or relevant order) which I hope to tackle in the coming year, God Willing.
- The Apostles' Creed
- Ecumenicity vs. Unity
- Discernment
- Conspiracy
- Essentials of the Faith
- Raison d'etre
- Separation
- Covenant Theology
- New Perspective on Paul
- Justification
- Art
- Bullinger (more)
- Emergent Movement
- Transitioning
- Daniel Amos
- Heresy
- Matthew 18: 15-20
- Name of Blog
- Current Reading
- Top Tens
- Quotable Quotes
- Misc. Items
Monday, July 04, 2005
My education: High School Diploma with a few college courses. Therefore, I am not an expert on anything. I am not a scholar, and my opinions, observations, and analyses – whatever they may be – carry no weight (or, ecclesiastical authority) beyond that which you, Dear Reader, may invest in them. I am, merely, what is commonly referred to as 'an interested lay-person.'
The contents of this weblog are primarily for my own benefit. Selfish?…Probably! I write this as both a journal of my thoughts/reading and as instrument whereby I might hone what little craft I have with writing.
Any spiritual enlightenment or benefits that readers might derive are putatively and providentially that: spiritual. That is, I will deny my own inherent ability/will, and credit the Holy Spirit.
Besides these, the usual caveats apply. Links, Resources, and Persons are endorsed only insofar as they are reflect and conform to revelational verity of Scripture.


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The Town of Orchard City board of trustees met on Valentines Day, Feb. 14.
After dealing with routine matters of approval of the minutes and disbursements, Jayden Miller was recognized as Orchard City's February Student of the Month. Jayden is a senior at Cedaredge High School.
Stacey Voigt, the new executive director of Delta County Economic Development, introduced herself and spoke of DCED's plans for the future. Voigt grew up in a small town in Washington state. Her professional experience includes working with several Native American communities around the country and, most recently, the Loveland Downtown Business Association. Her family -- husband Travis, and two boys, age 11 and 7 -- are looking for property in Delta County.
Stacey sees a great foundation for economic development and support in the county. She looks forward to building a team effort and partnerships in the initial phases of the DCED. Plans include entrepreneurial and eco systems, being involved in the Delta River Front Project, helping to initiate Elevate, and helping with branding and marketing. She is a firm believer in a diverse business community.
She can be reached at the DCED office, 540 Main Street (PO Box 627), Delta, firstname.lastname@example.com and through www.deltacountyed.org.
Elyse Casselberry was also on hand to update the trustees on the Delta County Master Plan, which was last updated in 1997. Over the last 15 years, work has been done to change it, but it has not kept up with the ongoing changes in the county.
The goal is to get as many people as possible involved in the process. Plans to evaluate land use policies and regulations, neighbor-related issues vs. property rights, and public input are being established. So far input has been positive. Various work sessions and public meetings are planned in the near future.
During constituent time, Jack Ditlove spoke about the board work session the week before. He was shocked and embarrassed by the bullying by a trustee's comments at the meeting. He expressed First Amendment rights were being ignored by the board and that the board of trustees has little tolerance for opinions other than their own.
Later, during trustee comments, trustee Tom Huerkamp responded, stating that, by law, the board of trustees is required to uphold the state constitution, and his comments at a previous meeting were made to stress that point.
Mary Ditlove spoke of Article 2 Section 1 of the Colorado Constitution which expresses 'certain inalienable rights' of the citizens. These rights include discussions on the ballot questions that will be up for consideration in the April election. She observed that the regular meeting of the board of trustees this night was nearly empty of constituents. She admonished that the board needs to encourage participation through proper notice of all meetings held by the town.
Doug Keller addressed the board about its fiduciary responsibility to the public. He felt the trustees take umbrage if there is a 'nay' vote on issues presented and that the Board of Trustees have a lot to learn about the public and citizens of Orchard City.
Under new business, trustee Bob Eckels reported that the town has an opportunity to purchase additional decreed domestic water from Leon Lake at a cost of $5,000. Currently, there is $41,000 in the water fund that has not been tapped since 2010. This would be a permanent allocation of water which could be beneficial in the event of severe drought. Trustee Craig Fuller moved to buy the water and the board approved the purchase.
Trustee Eckels also reported that several maintenance projects have been scheduled in March, April, May and August. The town's Drought Plan Ordinance is also scheduled for review. A discussion followed on the possibility of water rationing. Historically, this has not been required in previous drought years.
Trustee Tollefson reported that two major road projects are scheduled for the Austin Road and bids are being solicited. Traffic counts on arterial roads will continue. There are 19 road intersections in Orchard City that cross or terminate at Highway 65. Any work on these areas will need to be scheduled with CDOT.
A trail in the town park needs repair. Currently the trail consists of a shale base and is located in a high water area, causing mud issues. Plans are to replace the problem areas with a granite base.
Town administrator Melissa Oelke reported that the new computers have arrived. The town is also checking into the possibility of obtaining grants for disaster relief. Mayor Ken Volgamore commented that town staff is doing well with various projects.
Trustee Fuller noted that the Town of Hotchkiss has recently installed radar equipped speed limit signs, showing the speed of vehicles passing by. The board is interested in a similar, affordable system for the busy sections of Highway 65. He also mentioned that the soccer program is doing well, with additional teams being added this year. There is a possibility that a new field may be needed.


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Remember that ganache we made a couple posts ago?
Using a mini ice cream scoop or two spoons, form the mixture into 1-inch balls and and place on the prepared sheets.
Chill until firm, about 10-15 minutes. While the balls are chilling, melt the remaining 6 ounces of chocolate. After it is completely melted, allow to cool slightly before continuing.
Iron Chef Moo takes on Blogathon 2007 to raise funds for the National Kidney Foundation.
Sunday, July 29, 2007
STOP! Truffle Time!
Posted by Maggie Brazeau at 2:57 AM
Labels: chocolate
2 comments:
- mdevnich said...
Yummmm. I am against corn syrup on principle, but without the intimidating candy thermometer bit, truffles seem within the realm of possibility, so I may have to try these.
- July 29, 2007 at 3:05 AM
- Jeffrey said...
You're in the last quarter of the race -- go, Missy, go! :-)
Love you, - Jeff
- July 29, 2007 at 3:13 AM
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This was as strange a T20 game as you can get, for one reason - Chris Gayle struggled to set the World T20 alight against Bangladesh, despite facing 48 balls, yes, no typo there.
While everyone, except the Bangladesh players and fans, were hoping for a little Gaylestorm, what came about was a nice soft gentle breeze, the kind of breeze that caused little worry, and lot of eyebrow-raising wondering if the spirit of Jimmy Adams had perhaps take over Gayle's body.
However, the lack of a Gaylestorm was offset by the thunder of Dwayne Smith, who made the onside his very own living room, with the right-hander proving to be the only batsman in the whole game to score any real runs of note.
Thanks to a sparkling 72 from Smith, West Indies somehow found their way to 171 for seven in their 20 overs, with Bangladesh, in reply, producing a train-wreck of an innings, all out for 98 in 19.1 overs - the opening bowlers Samuel Badree, a spinner, and Krishmar Santokie, slowest of slow mediums, impressing with the ball to give their side a 73-run win.
Bangladesh needed a strong beginning if they were going to make a game of it, but got off to an awful start, with both the openers falling early, while the misery was compounded by the dismissal of their best player Shakib Al Hasan soon after.
Tamim Iqbal was the first to fall, in the third over, holing out to Dwayne Bravo at mid-off while attempting an unnecessary lofted shot off Badree.
His opening partner Anamul Haque fell off the first ball of the next over, stumped thanks to the quick hands by Ramdin, with Krishmar Santokie (4-0-17-3) then picking up the prized wicket of Shakib, who was beaten all ends-up with the off-stump taking a walk, off the very next ball.
What followed was a procession of wickets - Bangladesh showing absolutely no fight, despite a capacity crowd roaring them on - with Samuel Badree making merry, finishing with immaculate figures of four for 15, while Dwayne Bravo, who fell for a first-ball duck in the first innings, chipped in with a couple more catches, one a one-handed stunner.
The first innings from the West Indies, who were comprehensively beaten by india in their first game, was strange to say the least, and a bizarre one from their star man Gayle. The only reason West Indies got to a score over 170 was due to an outstanding knock from Smith, who quickly banished the ghosts of that unbearable innings against India in the first match.
Gayle at the other end was struggling to time pretty much every delivery, which made Smith's slam-bang effort all the more important. The opener was severe on anything on the stumps, smashing the ball to the onside at every opportunity and carrying West Indies on his own in the first 11 overs -such a strange thing to say when Gayle is at the other end.
Apart from Smith, the rest of the West Indies batsmen struggled to accelerate the scoring, and once the right-handed opener departed, that impetus never really came with West Indies only managing a run rate of about ten in the final few overs thanks to some awful fielding from Bangladesh. Everything that came the home side's way went begging, barring a couple of outstanding catches from Tamim.
Smith (72, 43b, 10x4, 3x6) fell in the 12th over, top-edging one of Mahmudullah while attempting slog sweep over midwicket. What followed was a couple of strange decisions from West Indies with Lendl Simmons, at No. 3, and Marlon Samuels, at No. 4, coming in.
Simmons at least did not have time to get stuck at the crease, falling without facing a legal delivery, stumped by Mushfiqur after the right-hander missed a leg-side wide off Shakib Al Hasan.
Samuels (18 in 22) came in and started competing with Gayle for the not-timing-the-ball stakes as both batsmen failed to find the boundaries. Gayle, after several mishits and mistimed shots, did finally deliver a couple of those trademark hits straight down the ground, but despite those boundaries, he still could manage only a run-a-ball 48 - not too bad if you are any other batsman whose name isn't Chris Gayle.
The big left-hander fell to a brilliant catch from Tamim, where the fielder produced the now familiar throwing-up the ball to prevent from going over the line before jumping back in to hold on.
Samuels continued to mistime, or simply miss, every ball he tried to smash to the stands. As a result West Indies failed to ignite in the final overs, with only Sammy (14, 5b, 3x4), that too, thanks to a couple of dropped catches in consecutive deliveries - both from Mahmudullah - scoring a few boundaries.
West Indies' struggles were emphasised by the final over from Al-Amin Hossain, who picked up three wickets in four deliveries, while conceding just four runs, two of them byes.
However, that almost-painful first innings proved to be more than enough, as Bangladesh struggled even more with the bat, with the Tigers falling to another uninspiring defeat.


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A while back, we made note of Andruw Jones' decreasing effectiveness at the plate after he struck out 5 times against the Red Sox. Well, at that point, Andruw's average was a comparatively stellar .212. He is now batting .199. Now, I know we have all moved on from using batting average as the sole statistical judge of a player's ability, but in this case it's really all we need. He isn't hitting the ball, he isn't getting on base, and when he does make contact, it's not very good - his slugging percentage is .383. To show just how bad this is, consider this. Since his last multi-hit game on June 9th - just his tenth this whole year, all but one of which have been 2-hitters - Jones has gone a depressing 2-39. So that's a .051 average. However, his season average has dropped only 26 points, from .225 to .199. And, as I will always point out, A. Jones has not exactly dropped in the batting order. Inexcusably, he has been batting 4th or 5th in almost every game. Cox dropped him to sixth on the 18th and 19th, only to throw him back in the 4-hole on the 22nd. Is it that he just can't help himself? Is Cox going senile? It's one thing to stick with your player when he slumps, but this guy has no business within sight of the 5-hole, as we will demonstrate.
Take a larger sample size; consider the entire month of June. Jones has exactly 10 hits in 79 AB's, for a .127 average. I'm sure many of you are thinking, 'but the walks count too - he's getting on base.' Ok. Fine. He has just four walks. Lets give him four more singles in four more at bats. He is now batting .169. He has not reached base on error or a fielders' choice once, and therefore his OBP is also .169. Meanwhile, he has 18 strikeouts. In other words, his strikeout average for June is .217. Jones is more likely to strike out than he is to reach base by any means. Let's go further. He has 3 homers, and has scored 5 runs and has 6 RBI. He has 21 total bases. So his basic runs created (TB x OBP), is at 3.549, for you sabermetricians out there. 20 games in June; that gives him .177 runs created per game. Fellow outfielder Jeff Francoeur, who is also struggling - a .262 OBP through June - has 6.288 runs created this month in just one more AB. Catcher Brian McCann, playing hurt (.238 OBP) and with just 3/4 as many AB's, has produced 4.522 runs. Therefore, even by his struggling teammates' standards, Andruw Jones is a curse at the dish this month. Edgar Renteria, who is not struggling, and making $4 million less, has created 15.17 runs.
So now we know - not only is Andruw struggling at the plate, but he is hurting his team as well. We're not just blindly throwing his average out there and saying he's a crummy player. The truth is, the guy is really hurting the team. And he either doesn't realize it, or he doesn't care. I don't think he's pouring over his splits with a calculator, but he has to have some self-awareness. But Jones just brushes aside these criticisms. "I've never been an average hitter. Average isn't a big deal to me." Alright. But is scoring a big deal to you? Is getting "market value" next year a big deal to you? "I just go out and play the game. Everybody struggles. I'm just getting pitched good." Andruw, you're not just getting pitched good. I don't think we should be looking for a tell in Jones' stance anytime soon. You've been in the bigs for 11 years. People aren't just now figuring you out. But let's be real. You can't take anything this guy says to mean anything. He knows he's hitting .199. He doesn't need guys from the papers asking him why. He doesn't know why, and they know it. So he gives them something to print, they print it, etc.
And another interesting note. Chipper Jones is playing hurt. And he's peeved. He's the short story.
Reporter: Chipper, do you feel you are rushing to return from your most recent injury, which was to your... groin?
Chipper: "Probably. But I feel backed into a corner. Let's just say there are people who don't believe me. Let's just say that and leave it at that."
You know what? I understand that these guys have to be in peak shape to go to work every day. I get that if they aren't at least 90%, they're not effective at work. But can you imagine this conversation happening?
Reporter: Weekend Athlete, do you feel you are rushing to return from your most recent injury?
WA: You know, I didn't want to come out today. But the boys said I had to. I told them I was hurt, they didn't believe me.
Most of us get paid to do things with our heads, not our bodies. If your brain is at 90%, do you call in sick? No. So Chipper, maybe you don't want to play. Maybe you feel hurt. But you're getting paid to play baseball. So when Bobby Cox tells you to play baseball, you play. Once you take that paycheck, it's up to Bobby. If you're really hurt, he won't play you. If he decides that he wants you to play, he know that he's risking a re-injury. He's judged that risk to be less substantial than the risk of playing without you. So go out there and do your job.
"Andruw Jones tells us about the bad days" - May 21, 2007.
Sorry about the downtime. I lost a friend of mine this week in a skateboarding accident. Parents, kids, please - wear your helmets. Just because it hasn't happened to anyone you know doesn't mean it can't.


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text: Here is Tatsuo Horiuchi, a 77-year-old Japanese artist who paints beautiful landscapes using Microsoft Excel! Instead of using real paint, or even softwares like Photoshop or PaintShop Pro, Tatsuo Horiuchi uses the famous Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to create poetic and delicate artworks inspired by the Japanese scenery. An impressive performance in the line with the Microsoft Paint illustrations by Patrick Hines .