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19th century oak beamed cottage, overlooking picturesque village pond. Situated between York and Yorkshire's heritage coast. Adjacent to the local pub, serving a range of real ales. Ideally located for walking, the coast and York.
3 Mere Cottages, North Dalton, Driffield, YO25 9UX
tel: 07801 124264
Self-catering with 1 unit sleeps 1-3
from £270pupw
Clean & Comfortable, refurbished, 1 & 2 bedroomed apartments. Credit/Debit card payment facility. FREE wifi access For information please call Carol & Jeff freephone: 0800 0935071 or mob: 07703329901
36 Windsor Crescent, Bridlington, YO15 3HY
tel: 0800 093 5071
Self-catering with 4 units sleeps 1-6
from £0pupw
Near the harbour, Spa Centre and South Beach, well equipped apartments. Ground floor, wheelchair accessible apartment. 24/7 parking permits and WiFi included. Apartment 1 takes 2 dogs (supplement). 2018 TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence
31 Windsor Crescent, Bridlington, East Yorkshire, YO15 3HX
tel: 07980866454
Self-catering with 4 units sleeps 1-6
from £310pupw
The Forge is a single storey luxury 4 bedroomed barn conversion, situated in the picturesque village of West Lutton. With private garden & patio area & parking for up to 3 cars, this is a character property with a spacious modern interior.
West Lutton, Malton, North Yorkshire, YO17 8TA
tel: 01944 738828
Self-catering with 1 unit sleeps 4-8
from £680pupw
Enjoy a taste of country living - cosy farm cottage with stunning views over Hockney lanscape. Open plan sitting room with an open fire and large dining room. 3 bedrooms, all ensuite. Sleeps 6 but discount for smaller parties.
Life Hill Farm Cottage, Sledmere, Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, YO25 3EY
tel: 01377 236224
Self-catering with 1 unit sleeps 6-8
Two well equiped quality bungalows in a superb location with level access and private parking. Dog friendly with enclosed gardens.
455 & 457 Sewerby Road, Sewerby, Nr Bridlington, YO15 1ER
tel: 01262 608611
Self-catering with 2 units sleeps 2-6
from £290pupw
Field House Farm Cottages make the perfect choice for a country-based holiday offering easy access to the famous RSPB Bempton Cliffs, Flamborough Head and Yorkshire's stunning beaches and coastline. Seven multi award-winning cottages
Field House, Jewison Lane, Sewerby, Bridlington, YO16 6YG
tel: 01262 674932
Self-catering with 7 units sleeps 1-6
from £490pupw
High Barn cottages offer luxury, comfort and tranquility-the perfect choice for nearby RSPB Bempton Cliffs Reserve, Flamborough Head & Yorkshire's stunning coastal scenery. Cliffs, coves and safe, sandy beaches. Watch our Barn Owl on webcam
Newsham Hill Lane, Bempton, East Yorkshire, YO16 6XE
tel: 01262 674932
Self-catering with 5 units sleeps 2-4
from £735pupw
Three bright and spacious newly refurbished (to a high standard) self catering apartments on the south side of Bridlington. A minutes walk away from the beach, harbour and town centre.
30 Windsor Crescent, Bridlington, East Yorkshire, YO15 3HY
tel: 01262 678685
Self-catering with 3 units sleeps 1-6
from £400pupw
Camping for people that don't do camping! Find your contentment here, relax or explore, all from your cosy base under canvas in our stunning rural setting in East Yorkshire. This is a great transition into camping, with oodles more comfort.
Corner Farm, Burshill, Brandesburton, East Yorkshire, YO25 8LY
tel: 07843548460
Glamping with 7 units sleeps 1-6
from £90pupn
The Laundry Cottage, parts dating back to 1695, sits quietly sheltered on the eastern edge of The Wolds in the grounds of Thorpe Hall, a mile out of the village of Rudston and 5 miles from the Bridlington coast.
Rudston, Driffield, East Yorkshire, YO25 4JE
tel: 01262 420393
Self-catering with 2 units sleeps 6
from £450pupw
REMARKABLE EAST YORKSHIRE TOURISM AWARD WINNER 2011. The very finest attention to detail has gone into the creation of The Carlton and we were determined to drive up standards way beyond the usual expectation of British Seaside Resort.
6 The Crescent, Bridlington, YO15 2NX
tel: 01262 672807
Self-catering with 6 units sleeps 1-4
from £418pupw
Attractively furnished, award-winning cottages. Grouped around a spacious, sunny courtyard, with flowering tubs and hanging baskets.
Flamborough Road, Sewerby, Bridlington, YO15 1DU
tel: 01262 671137
Self-catering with 2 units sleeps 1-8
from £645pupw
The holiday cottage is a semi detached 2 bedroomed dorma bungalow set in a quiet cul-de-sac near the park in the centre of Sewerby Village, near Bridlington, East Yorkshire only 5 minutes walk from the sea front.
Sewerby Park Close, Sewerby , Bridlington, YO15 1EE
tel: 0845 863 9743
Self-catering with 1 unit sleeps 4
Shangrila is situated in Sewerby, North of Bridlington, East Yorkshire, 1 mile along the coastal path. Shangrila holiday cottage is a detached bungalow with facilities to sleep 4 adults, it is situated near the park on the cliff top.
13 Riveria Drive, Sewerby, Bridlington, YO15 1EL
tel: 0845 863 9743
Self-catering with 1 unit sleeps 4
Five holiday flats, each consisting of 1 or 2 bedrooms.
4 Pembroke Terrace, Bridlington, East Yorkshire, YO15 3BX
Self-catering with 4 units sleeps 2-6
from £455pupw
The Alexandra Complex apartments allow you to enjoy a quiet location with easy access to the beach, while still being close to the town centre and local amenities. The apartments overlook the seafront and the bowling green.
4 Alexandra Drive, Bridlington, YO15 2HZ
tel: 01262 672603
Self-catering with 8 units sleeps 2-4
from £370pupw
Situated close to shops and beach. We have 6 apartments sleeping 2-6 each with their own toilets, showers and bed linen. Parking on forecourt or free parking permits.
4 Vernon Road, Bridlington, YO15 2HQ
tel: 01262 400485
Self-catering with 6 units sleeps 1-6
from £390pupw
Romantic 1 bedroom cottage, sleeps 2 adults, designed with many British /Yorkshire made furnishings. A handmade 7ft x7ft Whitby made bed with White Company bedlinen. Wood burning stove with fuel included.
Bolthole Cottage, c/o Beech House , 12 Main Street, Tibthorpe, East Yorkshire, YO25 9LA
tel: 07974 244009
Self-catering with 1 unit sleeps 1-2
from £514pupw
A self catering holiday cottage situated on the perimeter of a working kennels and cattery. The property has two bedrooms sleeping three adults, ample parking adjacent to the property and a small private garden.
Cloverfields, Mill Lane, Seaton, East Yorkshire, HU11 5SW
Self-catering with 1 unit sleeps 1-3
from £40pupn
Self catering holiday cottages with close proximity to the historic town of Beverley and surrounding areas. Peace and tranquility are two words that sum up this beautiful location.
Corporation Farm, Weel Road, Tickton, East Yorkshire, HU17 9RY
tel: 07733323801
Self-catering with 2 units sleeps 6-8
from £375pupw
In a unique position overlooking the beach and sea with panoramic views of the bay and of Flamborough Head Coast.
North Marine Drive, Bridlington, East Yorkshire, YO15 2LS
tel: 01262 675347
Self-catering with 5 units sleeps 2
from £860pupw
Far Grange Park is a family owned and run park catering for families with its modern facilities creating a blend of relaxation and entertainment to keep all age groups occupied day and night.
Hornsea Road, Skipsea, YO25 8SY
tel: 01262 468293
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The Hemsley Holiday Flats allow you to enjoy a quiet location with easy access to the beach, while still being close to the town centre and local amenities.
5 Alexandra Drive, Bridlington, YO15 2HZ
tel: 01262 672603
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Chinese-y Chicken Salad
Not authentic, but still fresh and flavorful with cabbage, cucumber, shredded chicken, and a punchy dressing.
OK, not really Chinese. More like America in the 1980's. But this old favorite is perfect for picnics, a day at the beach, or for just a lunch to bring to work. What to buy: Look for hoisin sauce and chile-garlic paste in the Asian section of your supermarket.... Read More
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A Watched Crock-Pot Never Boils
Bean soup isn't exactly a spur-of-the-moment supper. No, it requires a little bit of planning. It starts with soaking the beans in water. For. eight. hours. No problem. I started soaking them before I left for church yesterday morning. In fact, due to some more medical emergency adventures last night, they soaked for ten hours. That doesn't really hurt anything. Around 7:00, I was finally able to start preparing things. Normally, we eat kind of late. 9:30 or 10:00 isn't unheard-of. I knew this would be a later night than that, though.
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At any rate, come 10:45 or so, the crock pot still hasn't even started to boil. The beans are still crunchy, and I'm not amused. Enough of the slow-cooker BS. I dumped it into a huge stock pot and set it on the stove. It was boiling in 2 minutes flat. It still took close to 45 minutes to cook all the way, though. And that's why I didn't get to bed until after midnight.
By proxy, that's also why I rode to the bus. I tried. I tried to take The Goat and make it go north. In fact, I even got about a mile north of where I live. I just didn't have it in me. I turned it around and took it to the bus stop.
I seriously need to go to bed at 9:30 or 10:00 tonight.
On an interesting side note, I found a nice Master combination lock in the gutter while I was riding home from the pizza shop yesterday. Too bad I didn't know the combination for it. It's a nice lock. Not awesome, but decent.
While I was waiting and waiting in vain for the crock pot to boil, I went about cracking the combination. You can read about that here.


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while looking at the OpenCL programs in the NVidia SDK I saw that for profiling, they don't measure the runtime of the first run. I'm used to that concept from CPU benchmarking, where e.g. the caches are populated in the first run.
I'm now trying to understand what happens on the GPU when a kernel is executed for the first time. I realized that when using clCreateBuffer with CL_MEM_COPY_HOST_PTR the startup time is a lot higher than using clCreateBuffer and clEnqueueWriteBuffer (e.g. 46ms vs 5ms for BlackScholes).
I guess that's because when using CL_MEM_COPY_HOST_PTR, the memory is only copied once the kernel is loaded to a specific device, because up until this point it is not known where to copy the memory (there can be multiple devices in a context).
But even when using a blocking clEnqueueWriteBuffer, the runtime of the first kernel execution is higher than the subsequent executions. I then thought this was because the binary needs to be copied to the device, but there seems to be no correlation between the binary size and the kernel startup overhead.
Does anyone have more insight into what's going on when a kernel is executed for the first time on a device?
I'm using a Nvidia Tesla T10 and the Nvidia driver.


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Revival: Meet God Alone First
But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.—Matthew 6:6
Nothing can prevent the spiritual rejuvenation of the soul that insists upon having it. Though that solitary man must live and walk among persons religiously dead, he may experience the great transformation as certainly and as quickly as if he were in the most spiritual church in the world.
The man that will have God's best becomes at once the object of the personal attention of the Holy Spirit. Such a man will not be required to wait for the rest of the church to come alive. He will not be penalized for the failures of his fellow Christians, nor be asked to forego the blessing till his sleepy brethren catch up. God deals with the individual heart as exclusively as if only one existed…. Every prophet, every reformer, every revivalist had to meet God alone before he could help the multitudes. The great leaders who went on to turn thousands to Christ had to begin with God and their own soul. The plain Christian of today must experience personal revival before he can hope to bring renewed spiritual life to his church. The Size of the Soul, 15-16.
"Lord, I pray this morning the words of Jonathan Edwards: 'Resolved… that all men would live for the glory of God; resolved, second…that if nobody else does, I will.' Amen."
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Burma Campaign UK today welcomed an announcement by British Prime Minister David Cameron that Britain will not support EU sanctions against Burma being lifted. He has proposed sanctions be suspended instead. Germany and other EU members had been pushing for all sanctions except the arms embargo to be lifted immediately.
With hundreds of political prisoners still in jail, military attacks against ethnic minorities still taking place, and no legal or constitutional changes that make Burma more democratic and reduce the power of the military, the complete lifting of EU sanctions would be premature.
In supporting the suspension of EU sanctions, Aung San Suu Kyi is making a bold and brave gesture to the government of Burma, showing she is willing to compromise and take positive steps. The ball is now in the court of the military-backed government. They now have to deliver real change.
Aung San Suu Kyi is reported to have stated: "This would strengthen the hand of the reformers – not just the suspension but the fact that there is always a possibility of sanctions coming back again if the reforms are not allowed to proceed smoothly."
"The suspension of EU sanctions keeps the pressure on the Burmese government to continue reforms, while also making a strong positive gesture that genuine reforms will be rewarded," said Anna Roberts, Executive Director of Burma Campaign UK. "For the threat of re-imposition of sanctions to be credible, the EU must set clear timelines and benchmarks. We know from experience that the Burmese government is expert at delaying tactics. We also know the EU can tend to be slow and indecisive, looking for reasons to delay action."
After years of debate about sanctions, it is now clear that, combined with domestic pressure, sanctions have played an important role in encouraging reform in Burma. To completely abandon sanctions just as they are working would have been a serious mistake.
Burma Campaign UK also warned companies thinking of investing in Burma that they should not think of the country as a place where they can exploit cheap labour and grab natural resources at bargain-bucket prices, thanks to the lack of proper laws protecting workers and the environment. Many sectors attractive to investors, such as mining, timber, oil, gas and dams, have been directly linked to serious human rights abuses and environmental destruction. Any European companies investing in projects where such abuses take place will be subject to high profile boycott campaigns.
"Despite reforms, Burma is still a country with one of the worst human rights records in the world, and where the military has constitutional control over every level of government," said Anna Roberts. "Burma is still a very long way from being a democracy."
For more information contact Anna Roberts on 07950849529, or Mark Farmaner, Director of Burma Campaign UK, on 07941239640.Tags: Burma Campaign UK, European Union, Sanctions, United Kingdom
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How to get on the Auckland beltway
Written by: Mai Chen
Photo: Richard Robinson
Published: The New Zealand Herald – 21 February 2013
Aucklanders need to know how to deal with the Super City – and how it wields its power over 1.5m of us.Last week, I started writing an open source user's guide to the Auckland Council, approaching those who have created and evolved the council so we can understand why it is the way it is and how it really works. I wrote a similar Public Law Toolbox to open up central government to New Zealanders.
I intend to share what I learn free of charge so all Aucklanders can better understand their local authority and work with it. The amalgamated Super City is an obvious example of why Auckland matters. Auckland Council estimates Auckland accounts for just over 37 per cent of New Zealand's GDP (and growing). In 2011 Auckland GDP growth was just over 2 per cent, compared to a nationwide contraction.
Second only to central government in terms of power and influence, it governs at a local level over 1.5 million New Zealanders (according to Statistics NZ) and its draft Annual Plan for 2013/14 plans over $3 billion in operating expenditure and $1.7 billion in capital expenditure. And as the area of highest population growth and greatest economic output, Auckland's growth impacts all of New Zealand.
How it is governed matters to everyone.
The creation of the new Auckland Council has left Aucklanders and Auckland businesses with many questions: If you have a problem with Auckland Council, what is the best way to fix it? How does the Auckland Council really work? Does the Auckland amalgamation legislation enacted by Parliament give you enough information about how the council works? Who do you call? Where do you start? And how do you escalate your concerns if the person you call won't help?
Welcome to the Auckland beltway. In Wellington, we go to the Beehive. In Auckland, the council wields the power, and there are few areas of Auckland life not affected by its reach. A decision on public notification, and formal consultation on, Auckland's Draft Unitary Plan is scheduled to be made in September. The council is already reviewing the 158 bylaws it inherited from its seven predecessors, to establish a single set of bylaws for all of Auckland. These bylaws traverse the full spectrum of Auckland life – from alcohol control to cemeteries to prostitution to dog management to food safety to posters to wastewater to waste disposal and more besides. All Aucklanders will be affected in some way.
This means that engagement and consultation is crucial for the council and its residents. But the size of the council can be daunting and the law is a blunt instrument. The amalgamation legislation does not provide any easy explanations as to how the council actually operates. The very short enactment and implementation timeframes means the legislation is not as clear as it could be. It is a good place to start but it does not give the full picture. How the council has evolved over the past three years to what we have now is an untold story. But it should be told. Aucklanders (and the rest of New Zealand) deserve to hear it because without knowing the story, the scale of the council's operation and reach can be daunting.
The issues the council has to deal with also include its unique demographic of indigenous and minority groups. At the last census, 18.9 per cent of Aucklanders were Asian, 14.4 per cent were Pasifika and 11.1 per cent were Maori. These groups continue to grow. Statistics NZ has projected that by 2021, Auckland will have a majority of minorities – 27 per cent will be Asian, 17 per cent Pasifika and 12 per cent Maori.
Auckland's population is also young. Statistics New Zealand says the average Aucklander is 34 compared to 36 nationwide. There will also be geographic shifts. The proportion of young people (especially Pasifika and Maori) in South Auckland is growing. This year's census will highlight the ethnic and demographic shifts in the isthmus.
I hope what I share with Aucklanders on an open-source basis will help these groups to participate in their local democracy and enable them to have a greater input into how Auckland evolves, so we can make sure all ethnic groups are catered for. Their voice and leadership is important, especially as issues like education, health and housing affect our ethnic populations and young people acutely.
The focus will be on practical guidance but also lessons learned as no doubt other councils round New Zealand are considering mergers. There can be little doubt further amalgamations are on the horizon.
In my experience, there are as many things to learn about effectively working with the council as there are to working with central government. I will be asking what the tools in the council toolbox are, who has the power, and how do you get the cut through you need to achieve the outcomes you want? Understanding how things have ended up operating in a certain way helps you to figure out how to break through.
Dealing with central and local government is always different; however I have found the council and staff I deal with to be professional and constructive problem solvers. The council has a close relationship with its local communities and businesses via local boards which mean that practical and reasonable solutions to problems often can be quickly found.
I shall give instalments as I go as the interviews have already started. My hope is that by bringing together the most important architects of the Super City, the first road map of the Auckland Council can be published.
So watch this space.
Mai Chen is the founding partner of Chen Palmer Public and Employment Law Specialists. She is also an Adjunct Professor in Commercial and Public Law at the University of Auckland. She is co-authoring the Maori Law Toolbox, forthcoming.


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1947 Rolls Royce Silver Wraith Mulliner Sedanca de Ville
Chassis no. WZB28 - Engine no. W27B
This right-hand drive Silver Wraith was delivered new to a customer in New York early in 1948 and was, therefore, never registered in the UK until imported in 2000. The car was acquired in 1988 when the previous owners were living in the USA. The car was personally restored by the previous owners in the 1990's, calling on professional help with paintwork, trim and restoration of interior woodwork which was all re-veneered. This was a body-off project and nothing was left untouched (except the gearbox, which was about the only part that worked) right down to the powder coating of the bare chassis. All of the work is fully documented with photos and video. Since completion, the car has only been driven any distance on the road once, in 1999 for the RROC regional concours in Chicago where it was awarded "Best of Show" out of about 100 Rolls-Royces and Bentleys. As might be expected after such an extensive rebuild, the car starts and runs well, the engine smooth, powerful and running like the proverbial Swiss watch. Indeed, the whole vehicle is just like new and can be expected to provide many years of reliable and enjoyable driving. It is also highly usable under modern driving conditions, being quite swift and responsive. For safety reasons, turn signals have been incorporated in the running lights, though the original trafficators are still in place and operational. In short: everything works as should. A wonderfully majestic vehicle of great presence and proven concours winning potential, the car is presented in excellent condition in every respect and comes with an original leather suitcase, tailored dust cover, fully restored tool kit, original and re-print handbooks, parts list and workshop manual.


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Review: Focal Spirit One
Some audiophiles consider Focal's $180,000-per-pair Grande Utopia EM to be the world's finest speaker. The Spirit One, Focal's first headphone, weighs about 99.9% less and costs about 99.8% less. Yet its brushed aluminum metal parts, matte black soft-touch finishes, and detachable cord with a woven cover convey some of the Utopias' high-end vibe.
The well-padded earpieces swivel up/down and left/right for a better fit. However, Greg and I both had to fold our ears into the too-small earcups. A slim semi-hardshell case and a velour carrying sack are included. The cord incorporates an Apple-compatible inline control/microphone.
Unfortunately, our first sample of the Spirit One was damaged and the new sample didn't arrive in time for our panel tests, so you'll have to take my word on this one.
It sounds like Focal designed the Spirit One primarily to appeal to audiophiles, who tend to love dramatic soundstaging. When I played big-sounding rock tunes like Toto's "Rosanna," the Spirit One delivered an expansive sense of space. Likewise, in jazz singer Sue Matthews's version of "I Fall in Love Too Easily," I clearly heard the sound of the piano reverberating within the studio. The detail was also fantastic: Every little nuance of Matthews's drummer's intricate cymbal and high-hat work came through, although at times it sounded as if the region around 3 kHz was slightly too prominent. The bass sounded unusually tight and well defined.
The Spirit One is no audiophile wuss-'phone, though. When I played Mötley Crüe's "Kickstart My Heart," I noted "Tight kick drum, crunchy guitar riffs, huge ambience, tons of dynamics — this is the way it's supposed to sound."
So what's not to love? If you have fairly large ears, you'll likely tire of the Spirit One's earcups mangling your pinnae. If you have medium to small ears, you'll probably love it.
Test Bench
The Spirit One has a fairly flat frequency response with a slight emphasis centered at 5.9 kHz. Increasing output impedance to 75 ohms produces negligible change in frequency response. Isolation is average for an over-ear model, running -10 to -27 dB between 650 Hz and 12 kHz. Distortion at 100 dBA typically runs below 0.5%, but rises to 7.4% at 20 Hz. Average sensitivity from 300 Hz to 10 kHz with a 1-watt signal at the rated 32 ohms impedance is 101.6 dB.
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Cocaine use disorder is when the use of cocaine harms a person's health or social functioning, or when a person becomes dependent on cocaine. The powdered form of cocaine can be snorted or dissolved in water and injected. Crack is cocaine in a rock crystal form. It can be heated so its vapors can be smoked.
Cocaine use disorder is treatable, but it takes hard work.
Cocaine stimulates the brain to release large amounts of the hormone dopamine. Dopamine results in the euphoria commonly reported by cocaine abusers. As a person continues to use cocaine, a tolerance is developed. This means that higher doses and more frequent use are needed to maintain the euphoria.
Release of Dopamine in the Brain
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When a cocaine user stops using abruptly, a crash or withdrawal occurs. This results in an extremely strong craving for more cocaine. It also results in fatigue, loss of pleasure in life, depression, anxiety, irritability, suicidal thoughts, and sometimes paranoia. These withdrawal symptoms often prompt the user to seek more cocaine.
Cocaine use disorder is more common in young men and in those aged 18-25 years. However, cocaine use disorder can occur in anyone at any age.
Symptoms associated with cocaine use disorder include:
You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. The doctor will ask specific questions about cocaine use. Questions will include the length and frequency of use.
Treatment programs may be inpatient or outpatient and may:
There are currently no medications to specifically treat cocaine use disorder. Treatment with medication focuses on the symptoms of euphoria and craving. Medications that have shown some promise include:
Behavioral therapies to help people quit using cocaine are often the only available, effective treatment for cocaine use disorder. Therapies include contingency management. With this program, people receive positive rewards for staying in treatment and remaining cocaine-free. Also, cognitive behavioral therapy helps people to learn how to abstain and remain abstinent from cocaine.
In rehab programs, people with cocaine use disorder stay in a controlled environment for 6-12 months. During this time, they may receive vocational rehab and other support to prepare them to return to society.
The best way to prevent cocaine use disorder is to never use cocaine. It is highly addictive and illegal.
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Researchers Target Soybean Disease With Genetic Resistance Study
When conditions are just right, sudden death syndrome (SDS) of soybean can cause significant damage and yield loss in crops. University of Illinois researchers studying resistance to SDS will be on hand to share new information on controlling the disease through genetic resistance at this year's Agronomy Day on August 14.
Cool and wet conditions at planting can put soybean crops at risk for SDS. "This disease has been a problem in Illinois in the past, and the potential is there for it to be a problem this year," said Lillian Brzostowski, a U of I crop sciences graduate research assistant. "SDS is one of those diseases where it might not occur every year, but when environmental conditions are right, growers can have problems. We had a pretty cool, wet spring, and that's when the fungus likes to get in the seedling roots."
Brzostowski will discuss findings from a multiyear trial evaluating genes in soybean that confer some resistance to SDS. Though some genes that confer resistance have already been identified by soybean breeders, Brzostowski said the hope is to find out what genes provide the most resistance when incorporated into multiple genetic backgrounds.
Fusarium virguliforme, the fungus behind SDS, is a soil-borne pathogen that infects soybean early in the season, which, Brzostowski said, makes methods such as tillage, crop rotation, or fungicides ineffective at limiting disease symptoms. "Once this fungus colonizes the roots, there is no spray for it. There is no quick fix. Once your plants are planted in the field, there's nothing you can do about it."
Because of this, the most effective way of controlling the disease is through breeding for genetic resistance.
As part of the study, Brzostowski explained that three genes that are known to confer some resistance were incorporated into multiple, high-yielding lines representing different maturity groups. Lines were planted in Urbana, southern Illinois, and Michigan.
"One thing about this disease that is especially troubling is that it tends to pop up in fields that have the highest yield potential and that are irrigated because these plants in these fields are photosynthesizing very well, and that means that the toxin the fungus makes can move through the plant more efficiently," Brzostowski said.
At planting, the researchers inoculate the soil with the fungus in order to bring about as many foliar symptoms of the diseases as possible. Ratings are then taken on which lines showed the worst or least symptoms of the disease.
Through the trials, the researchers have been successful at confirming a gene that would be a "good candidate" for breeders to use in improving resistance to SDS. The gene (mapped to chromosome 17) was grown and observed in trials both in Urbana and Michigan in 2012 and 2013.
"We have seen success with this gene across genetic backgrounds," Brzostowski said. "The differences in what we're seeing aren't huge, but looking at them statistically, it's significant."
If this gene continues to show success across multiple environments, the researchers will start incorporating it into breeding material. "The hope is that maybe we can find multiple genes that could be stacked together," Brzostowski said. "The thing about SDS resistance is that it's not just one gene, it's many genes that have a small effect. We want to identify as many genes as we can to have more options for resistance and then put them together to give the growers the best resistance possible.
"Now even the most resistant commercial variety will show SDS symptoms if the conditions are right. A resistant line is going to do better than a susceptible line, though, because SDS can really do a number on a susceptible line," she added.
Brzostowski explained that SDS is one of the top five causes of yield loss, disease-wise, in soybean. If a crop is infected with the disease, the researcher said yield losses could be anywhere from 5 percent up to 80 or 90 percent, with typical losses of 15 to 20 percent.
Early symptoms of the disease tend to show up just after the flowering stage as scattered spots appear on the leaves of the plant, giving a mottled look.
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The shelves that used to be in this corner are no more. I actually like the open space and stacking all our books on the ground.
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Love that quote. Great space!ReplyDelete
My inspiiiiiring lady, I love being here everyday <3ReplyDelete
Such a perfect corner. I also have a corner of my own in our livingroom. And in my corner is also a little table like your by eames. What a coincidence.ReplyDelete
It's lovely and it looks great without the shelves. hxReplyDelete
This looks awsome, love the pendel lamp and the beautiful prints on the wall :)ReplyDelete
Where is the print that´s hanging from ?
have a grat sunday.
amazing corner!!ReplyDelete
well, i love your corner. and yes, I agree, books on a floor is so charming.ReplyDelete
Now, that a corner I wouldn't mind being put in time out for haha ; )ReplyDelete
i love your home and i find so much inspiration from your work!ReplyDelete
the poster is freaking awesome!ReplyDelete
I really like your corner. The books look really nice on the floor.ReplyDelete
it looks great! the little table is gorgeous too.ReplyDelete
did you paint the tip of that lightbulb silver!? if so what did u use :) thats a great idea!ReplyDelete
where is the carpet from? love it.ReplyDelete
Love this! Posting this on my blog! Hope thats ok!ReplyDelete
Great corner! I like the pile of books too.ReplyDelete
Great corner. I love empty spaces. More room for great ideas :)ReplyDelete
it´s the same with my books..I really love your apartment..ReplyDelete
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Netflix Rolls Out the Red Carpet for 'House of Cards'
Feb 2, 2013 7:00 AM PT
Netflix on Friday made the premiere episode of House of Cards, its in-house political drama, available free for one month to the public with no membership requirement.
It is also offering subscribers the entire 13 episodes of the first season at one time instead of parceling out each episode weekly.
"Netflix could be trying to create some buzz and make their content more accessible," Greg Ireland, a research manager at IDC, told TechNewsWorld. "Opening up access is a good, sound strategy to get exposure."
Netflix did not respond to our request for more details.
About House of Cards
The House of Cards series, as described by Netflix, is a political drama highlighting the "shadowy world of greed, sex and corruption in modern D.C."
Based on a BBC miniseries, it's the second original offering from Netflix after the gangster series Lilyhamnmer, starring Steven Van Zandt of The Sopranos and E Street Band fame.
House of Cards stars Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright as Congressman Francis Underwood and his wife Claire. The series is directed by David Fincher of The Social Network and Fight Club.
Some reports have it that Netflix will invest up to $100 million for two 13-episode seasons of House of Cards. The company outbid HBO and other networks.
Bad for a Greater Good
Netflix's description of House of Cards' main characters said they "stop at nothing to conquer everything." That could also sum up Netflix's content plans.
The company plans to make at least five new series a year, and is offering Hollywood producers a large audience, a lot of money and an easy working environment.
Netflix has to be aggressive in marketing because it can't place ads everywhere and launch trailers like traditional programming companies can, Ireland said. "Even as a user of Netflix, you may be going into their website and pulling up your instant queue and watching whatever's next, and not paying attention to what's coming." That makes Netflix's approach "a good way to create buzz."
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Netflix is also releasing multiple episodes of other series at once. The shows involved include the fourth season of Arrested Development and the second season of Lilyhammer.
Providing access to multiple episodes of a TV series simultaneously "is in line with this whole idea of instant gratification and getting it all right now," said Andrew Eisner, director of community and content at Retrevo.
"That's consistent with consumers' desire to get everything as soon as possible," he added.
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Netflix's actions are part of new developments in the content distribution world. "There's a trend here, to have people that normally don't produce content becoming content producers, and I think you'll see other people moving in on Showtime and HBO," Eisner told TechNewsWorld.
That pressure could make the longtime pay channels nervous. HBO may counter by making its HBO Go streaming video service available on more platforms, he added.
Netflix's success with its program "could be a great driver of its growth as consumers seek it out for new content," said Ireland, "similar to the way we seek out HBO or Showtime for their original content."


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What is a civil war, really?
At one level the answer is obvious: an internal fight for control of a nation. But in the bloody conflicts that split modern states, our policy makers often understand something deeper to be at work. The vengeful slaughter that has ripped apart Bosnia, Rwanda, Syria, and Yemen is most often seen as the armed eruption of ancient and complex hatreds. Afghanistan is embroiled in a nearly impenetrable melee between Pashtuns and smaller ethnic groups, according to this thinking; Iraq is split by a long-suppressed Sunni-Shia feud. The coalitions fighting these wars are seen as motivated by the deepest sort of identity politics, ideologies concerned with group survival and the essence of who we are.
This view has long shaped America's engagement with countries enmeshed in civil war. It is also wrong, argues Fotini Christia, an up-and-coming political scientist at MIT.
In a new book, "Alliance Formation in Civil Wars," Christia marshals in-depth studies of the recent wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Bosnia, along with empirical data from 53 civil conflicts, to show that in one civil war after another, the factions behave less like enraged siblings and more like clinically rational actors, switching sides and making deals in pursuit of power. They might use compelling stories about religion or ethnicity to justify their decisions, but their real motives aren't all that different from armies squaring off in any other kind of conflict.
"The idea that today's enemy can be the next day's friend was very compelling to me," Christia said in an interview. "We should not be surprised to see groups switching sides, based on how the balance of power on the ground evolves."
How we understand civil wars matters. Most civil wars drag on until they're resolved by a foreign power, which in this era almost always includes the United States. If she's right, if we're mistaken about what motivates the groups fighting in these internecine free-for-alls, we're likely to misjudge our inevitable interventions—waiting too long, or guessing wrong about what to do.
Civil wars always have loomed large in the collective consciousness. Americans still debate theirs so vociferously that a blockbuster film about Abraham Lincoln feels topical 150 years after his death. Eastern Europe saw several years of ferocious killing in the round of civil wars that followed World War II.
Such wars have been understood as fights over differences that can't be resolved any other way: fundamental questions of ideology, identity, creed. A disputed border can be redrawn; not so an ethnic grudge. In the last two decades, identity has become the preferred explanation for persistent conflicts around the world, from Chechnya to Armenia and Azerbaijan to cleavages between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria.
This thinking allows for a simple understanding, and conveniently limits the prospect for a solution. Any identity-based cleavage—Jew vs. Muslim, Bosnian vs. Serb, Catholic vs. Orthodox—is so profoundly personal as to be immutable. The conventional wisdom is best exemplified by a seminal 1996 paper by political scientist Chaim Kaufmann, "Possible and Impossible Solutions to Ethnic Civil Wars," which argues that bitterly opposed populations will only stop fighting when separated from each other, preferably by a major natural barrier like a river or mountain range.
During the 1990s, this sort of ethnic determinism drove American policy toward Bosnia and Rwanda. It was popularized by Robert Kaplan's book "Balkan Ghosts," which was read in the Clinton White House and presented the wars in the former Yugoslavia as just the latest chapter in an insoluble, four-century ethnic feud. Like Kaufmann, Kaplan suggested that the grievances in civil wars could only be managed, never reconciled.
After 9/11, policy makers in Washington continued to view civil wars through this prism, talking about tribes and sects and ethnic groups rather than minority rights, systems of government, and resource-sharing. That view was so dominant that President Bush's team insisted on designing Iraq's first post-Saddam governing council with seats designated by sect and ethnicity, against the advice of Iraqis and foreign experts. It became a self-fulfilling prophecy as Iraq's ethnic civil war peaked in 2006; things settled down only after death squads had cleansed most of Iraq's mixed neighborhoods, turning the country into a patchwork of ethnically homogenous enclaves. Similarly, this thinking has shaped US policy in Afghanistan, where the military even sent anthropologists to help its troops understand the local culture that was considered the driving factor in the conflict.
Christia grew in up in the northern Greek city of Salonica in the 1990s, with the Bosnian war raging just over the border. "It was in our neighborhood and we discussed it vividly every night over dinner," she says. The question of ethnicity seized her imagination: Were different peoples doomed to conflict by incompatible identities? Or were the decision-makers in civil wars working on a different calculus from their emotional followers? As a graduate student at Harvard, Christia flew to Afghanistan and tried to turn a dispassionate political scientist's eye to the question of why warlords behave the way they do.
Christia spent years studying these warlords, the factional leaders in a civil war that broke out in the late 1970s. As a graduate student and later as a professor, she returned to Afghanistan to interview some of the nastiest war criminals in the country. She concluded that culture and identity, while important for their adherents, did not seem to factor into the motives of the warlords themselves, and specifically not in their choices of wartime allies. Despite the powerful rhetoric about ethnic alliances forged in blood, warlords repeatedly flipped and switched sides. They used the same language—about tribe, religion, or ethnicity—whether they were fighting yesterday's foe or joining him.
If ethnicity, religion, and other markers of identity didn't matter to warlords, Christia asked, what did? It turns out the answer was simple: power. After studying the cases of Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Iraq in intricate detail, Christia built a database of 53 conflicts to test whether her theory applied more widely. She ran regression analyses and showed that it did: Warlords adjusted their loyalties opportunistically, always angling for the best slice of the future government. It's not quite as simple as siding with the presumed winner, she says: It's picking the weakest likely winner, and therefore the one most likely to share power with an ally.
In this model of warlord behavior, the many factions in a civil war are less like Cain and Abel and more like the mafia families in "The Godfather" trilogy. Loyalties follow business interests, and business interests change; meanwhile, the talk about family and blood keeps the foot soldiers motivated. In Bosnia, one Muslim warlord joined forces with the Serbs after the Serbs' horrific massacre of Muslims at Srebenica, and justified his switch by saying that the central government in Sarajevo was run by fanatics while he represented the true, moderate Islam. In case after case of intractable civil wars—Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iraq, the former Yugoslavia—Christia found similar patterns of fluid alliances.
"The elites make the decision, and then sell it to the people who follow them with whatever narrative sticks," Christia said. "We're both Christians? Or we're both minorities? Or we're both anti-communist? Whatever sticks."
Christia's work has been received with great interest, though not all her academic colleagues agree with her conclusions. Critics say identity is more important in civil wars than she gives it credit for, and we ignore it at our peril. Roger Petersen, an expert on ethnic war and Eastern Europe who is a colleague of Christia's at MIT and supervised her dissertation, argues that in some conflicts, identity—ethnic, religious, or ideological—is truly the most important factor. Leaders might make a pact with the devil to survive, but once a conflict heads to its conclusion, irreconcilable conflicts often end with a fight to the death. Communists and nationalists fought for total victory in Eastern Europe's civil wars, with no regard to their fleeting coalitions of opportunity against foreign occupiers during World War II. More recently, Bosnia's war only ended after the country had split into ethnically cleansed cantons.
Christia acknowledges that her theory needs further testing to see if it applies in every case. She is currently studying how identity politics play out at most local level in present-day Syria and Yemen.
If it holds up, though, Christia's research has direct bearing on how we ought to view the conflict today in a nation like Syria. The teetering dictatorship is the stronghold of the minority Allawite sect in a Sunni-majority nation. And leader Bashar Assad has rallied his constituents on sectarian grounds, saying his regime offers the only protection for Syria's minorities against an increasingly Sunni uprising. But Syria's rebellion comprises dozens of armed factions, and Christia suggests that these militants, which run the gamut of ethnic and sectarian communities, will be swayed more by the prospect of power in a post-Assad Syria than by ethnic loyalty. That would mean the United States could win the loyalty of different fighting factions by ignoring who they are—Sunni, Kurd, secular, Armenian, Allawite—and by focusing instead on their willingness to side with America or international forces in exchange for guns, money, or promises of future political power.
For America, civil wars elsewhere in the world might seem like somebody else's problem. But in reality we're very likely to end up playing a role: Most civil wars don't end without foreign intervention, and America is the lone global superpower, with huge sway at the United Nations. Christia suggests that Washington would do well to acknowledge early on that it will end up intervening in some form in any civil war that threatens a strategic interest. That doesn't necessarily mean boots on the ground, but it means active funding of factions and shaping of the alliances that are doing the fighting. In a war like Syria's, that means the United States has wasted precious time on the sidelines.
Despite her sustained look at the worst of human conflict, Christia says she considers herself an optimist: People spend most of their history peacefully coexisting with different groups, and only a tiny portion of the time fighting. And once civil wars do break out, the empirical evidence shows that hatreds aren't eternal. "If identities mattered so much," she says, "you wouldn't see so much shifting around."
Thanassis Cambanis, a fellow at The Century Foundation, is the author of "A Privilege to Die: Inside Hezbollah's Legions and Their Endless War Against Israel" and blogs at thanassiscambanis.com. He is an Ideas columnist.


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iReporter Leonid Kovaci gives an eye witness account of the damage from Sandy on Staten Island, New York.
Where is FEMA in Staten Island?!? What is President Obama doing about this??? People have no food, water, clothes, electricity, etc.!!! Campaigning only days after something this massive is shameful! I am beginning to think he wants the Presidency without the job.
So now it is Obamas fault that there is no food, water, electric ect. Not that we just have one of the largest catastrophy in US history. Fema is there to assist. Do you know what the word assist means? Next the complaint will be is he is adding to the def by helping the state. It is really getting to be a JOKE listening to some of the comments. Actually its funny !
Just imagine how long the gas lines would be if only people would have got gas several days before the storm (like we all no to do) and not wait till there are no gas stations open, but 1 station operating.
To ask if we could be more prepared. How? This is a 100 year event. In 1912 there were still horses as a major mode of transportation. People didn't consume electricity as we do now. Yes, we learned from Katrina, but Obama responded before this, unlike Bush–who took days to respond; the National Guard was in place before the storm. FEMA was pre-staging and centers were ready. No one expected the destruction of piers and boardwalks that had lasted for 100s of years through countless storms and hurricanes. I applaud everyone who survived and those have aided, against the odds, often at personal risk, those who need help.
For once, let's report of the good of people's actions in this catastrophe, and let's stop trying to find bad just for something to report.
I have always liked CNN reporting, however I believe you need to stop fueling a fire by over and over saying 3 days is unexeptable for help not being there. Are u looking at the picture I am. It takes 2days to clear snow in a minor storm, what makes u think they can do a better job with what they are up against. People are told to be prepared for several days of delay. There is not any blame for anyone, so stop pointing fingers when everyone is trying there hardest. Thank and praise people for their efforts. I pray for the effected and praise the volunteers.
At a time of personal devastation,tonight Mr.Blitzer, and through him, CNN has chosen the low road. MY recollection of pre-storm advisements included the warning that it could take days for help to come. And that has come to fruition, no matter the grand efforts made by many. Is it truly CNN's stand to either instigate or perpetuate negativity during crisis? Since it's inception, I have been a loyal fan of CNN, but will reconsider based on my inference of reckless, hurtful, opinionated commentary. It is certainly not reporting. Is omission of facts equal to dishonesty? Does CNN not feel any obligation of national support? Re-thinking it all.
I also think that most Americans have decided one way or the other whom they are voting for in the Presidential election. Hence I think both candidates should forgo any further campaign media advertising and divert those funds to the clean up from Hurricane Sandy. I think $6B should about cover it for this election.
Lets do the right think President Obama and Gov Romney!
What u are asking is the intelligent and moral thing to do, but again this will never happen because they only think of themselves and how they can benifit from any situation, not whats good for others in greater need. And picture this, WE WILL PUT ONE OF THEM IN THE OFFICE AND MAKE THEM PRESIDENT OF THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD !!!!!!!! Imagine this !!
When first hit, lots of talk abut Long Island and how hard it was being hit. Now there is not news about it at all? WHY
have friends out there ... no power, massive flooding and lots of wind damage there too
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Welcome back to another installment of DC.Ars! As the title indicates, several Ars distributed computing teams are feeling the pressure. And we need your help to conquer once again.
Last time, we talked about the DC Vault. Here's the short-short version: DC Vault is a website that keeps track of the various distributed computing teams' scores in various projects. It then lumps the projects together in 4 categories with rankings in each category and an overall leader. Ars has been the overall leader on and off for the last few months. Recently though, the Vault has added several new projects where Ars Technica's DC presence is either weak or nonexistent. That has tipped things in favor of a few opposing teams. Now to the challenge that lies before us today...
Ars' team on the Tanpaku protein prediction project has been steadily climbing. They've steamrolled their way into the number three slot. However, the team in second place—one of our fiercest rivals—is not about to do down without a fight. The AMD Users DC team has successfully been able to bring enough muscle to bear to match our crunching power. One of the Ars team members, Wisdom!, came up with a great idea and posted it in the DC Arcana.
The idea: put pressure on other projects where Ars is close behind AMD Users to draw them away from Tanpaku in order to defend those other positions. AMD Users must have read our discussion (more likely), or decided on their own (less likely), to counter our move with their own parallel assault. They threw everything they had into one other project where we were leading them—ABC@Home—in an effort to throw us off. AMD Users are currently kicking our tails in ABC. Additionally, the effort has caused us to lose ground on a few other projects. I'm going to summarize the situation for each project and give you enough information to get you going. But first, a thought on how to throw some serious weight where it could do the most good.
We know a lot of current, "old school" DCers who have favorite projects they are reluctant to leave for long. You've been on Seti or Folding@Home since the beginning and you aren't leaving. We don't blame you. But consider the following: those projects are so old, and the points bucket so deep, that you are not moving anywhere. Right? You would have to work a year or more to even move one spot in some of these projects. Why bother? Why not take your farm and throw it on a new, fresh project and show these youngsters what real firepower is!
Here's an example: I started fresh on a newly Vaulted project around Thanksgiving. In just over a month I have about 150,000 points, I am in the top 20 in the project, and I've been in the top 10 in daily production several times. That is impressive work! We need some of you to take up this new yoke and help to maintain the sanctity of Ars' revered name in the DC community!
Here are the projects where Ars is getting slammed and needs your help:
ABC@Home is a relatively new math project attempting to prove the ABC Conjecture. This project needs the greatest effort now. AMD Users are outproducing Ars 20,000 to 100,000 and are on track to overtake Ars in the next few days. Ars needs a sustained ramp-up (a solid month or more) long enough to break their will to overtake.
Something worthy to note: this project is highly optimized for 64-bit clients. As noted by team member Owdi in the team discussion thread, a 32-bit OS running at a 70 percent faster clock speed is outperformed by the much slower 64-bit machine. So if you have available 64-bit clients, toss them on this fire! Clients are available for Windows, Linux, and Mac. Here is the team stats page on Free-DC.
Tanpaku is an older project that focuses on determining protein structures. This project could use a short-term burst to overtake AMD Users. Ars is currently outpacing AMDU by about 15,000 per day, and another 20,000 per day for about 2 weeks would allow Ars to pass our rivals and build a healthy lead. Two weeks is nothing compared to the length of time some of us have been doing this!
Clients are available for Windows, 32 and 64-bit Linux, and Mac Intel. Here is the team stats page on Free-DC. Ars discussion thread found here.
Cosmology@Home is a newer project that is concerned with calculating the locations of stars within our galaxy and comparing those calculations to their known locations. This project is one that has lagged due to increased efforts elsewhere. Ars just lost the number 10 spot to Team Canada with SETI.USA and PC Perspective Killer Frogs close behind and massively (tenfold) outproducing us.
Clients are available for Windows and 32 and 64-bit Linux; check out the team stats page on Free-DC.
MalariaControl@Home is a brand new project, freshly added to the Vault. The project is focused on studying the protozoa that casues Malaria. Ars' own Outlnder is leading the charge to move Ars up in the ranks. He needs help to put pressure on pretty much everyone since Ars is just getting started on the project. This project could benefit from both short-term and long term (six to twelve months) help. Surely disease control is a worthy project? Clients are available for Windows, 32 and 64-bit Linux, and Intel Macs.
You can check out the team stats page on or the Ars discussion thread.
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There you have it folks! Four projects, each of them a worthy cause in their own right. The pressure is on Ars and it's up to you to decide which project to support. Who's willing to pry his or her eyes away from reruns of The Family Guy long enough to reconfigure your farm for a new project? (You have a DVR, you know!) Remember: Ars' distributed computing reputation is at stake here!
Oh, now is a good time to point out something else, too. If you were using a client manager such as Boincstats' BAM, then you could reconfigure the projects on your entire farm from any machine with an Internet connection. You wouldn't even have to get up out of your easy chair. (But if you spill beer in your laptop keyboard, Ars takes no responsibility.)
If you contribute to any of these these projects, don't forget to join the corresponding Ars team!


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Sadly I have yet to hear from you. Are applications no longer being considered? Do you give reasons for not admitting an applicant?
I do happen to live in a suburb of West London; granted there is not that much "European flavour " here! But it is still part of the European Union.
Anyway, I hope you reconsider your harsh decision.
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This morning we went back into Oregon and worshiped at Ceder Hills Baptist Church. Cedar Hills is a beautiful Suburb of Portland The Pastor is REV Christine Roush. came to this area from Upstale NY where she worked in the ABCNYS camping program for several years. She left NY shortly before we got there. CHBC which is ABC/USA, has a nice church plant with a sanctuary that seats around 150 with space for perhaps 40 more Also a nice Educational building. They have plenty of parking and additional landscaped area, part of which is used for "community garden plots" used by nearby apartment dwellers. Maybe 60-65 present this morning some where out of town in all directions for Graduation events at some of the many Colleges and Universities. The college aged regulars had already headed to Downtown Portland with food to distribute the homeless. Music was contemporary.
Ages where probably from 45 to 90 with a majority between 55 an 70. The only draw back for us is that it is 23 miles from here,and a surprising volume of traffic for a Sunday Morning. From observing license plates I would guess 90% where from either Portland or Vancouver
The most unique thing was that they hosted "a coffee hour" after church, and probably 45 stayed to have snacks and chat for an hour or so.
To which I replied,
...what is unique about coffee hour? I don't think I've ever attended a church on an ongoing basis that didn't host coffee hour after church.
To which Ed replied,
I have also attended after church coffee hours but in most cases they where to celebrate some ones 100th birth day or a couples 25 wedding anniversary or some other event honoring members of the congregation. As I understand what we experienced at Ceder Hill is standard procedure just because this family of God enjoy being together.
In response whereto, I expatiated:
The church I grew up in had coffee hour every week after the Sunday service. So did Mrs. H's starter church, where I went as a teenager. So did Friends Memorial Church and even the Church of Religious Science, both of which I attended during my "AA discernment phase" (a term I just made up), and so do Fremont Baptist (where I'm a member now), and Japanese Baptist (though perhaps the tea is a bit more prominent than the coffee) where Mrs. H is a member and where I most frequently attend. So does St. Paul's Episcopal, where I go when I have to work Sundays. So did the vast majority of the 48 churches I attended in 2011. Maybe it's a regional culture thing? I don't know. I find the idea of a church without coffee hour if not a full-blown potluck like we used to do at the Fremont evening service when there was one rather uninviting. When and how do the members get to know each other without it? Of course if you have big anniversary or birthday celebration, that means the coffee hour will have more and fancier cake. And day before yesterday JBC dispensed with the coffee hour in order to have their Music Ministry Appreciation Luncheon, which only music ministry folks and spouses were invited to. Not sure if others had coffee elsewhere in the building, but we had the gymnasium to ourselves. But that was an atypical Sunday.
And Ed came back with
I think you have hit it with " Maybe it's a regional culture thing?". In 60 plus years of attending churches of a dozen denominations though predominantly Baptist (ABC,SBC,CBF,INDEPENDENT, GARB) most East of the Mississippi, although I have, even before the current trip visited churches in Texas, Missouri, and Oregon in addition I was a member of a church in Arkansas. And for me Ceder Hills practice of regularly having a coffee with most of the attendees of the day staying around aparently just for the fellowship, was unique .
This might make for an interesting discussion on the more general Baptist Faith and Practice board.
Hence this thread. So what say ye all, brethren? Have ye Coffee Hour, Social Hour, Coffee Fellowship, or something along those lines in your churches? If not, have you ever experienced it, or would you call it a "unique" feature if you attended a service where it followed?
And Mrs Haruo wrote a further comment on the subject after Ed suggested moving it here, to which he has now replied...


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