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Cue Energy Resources has granted a further extension to supermajor BP to mull over the option of acquiring stake in the Ironbark prospect offshore Western Australia.
Ironbark. Map from Cue.
BP subsidiary BP Developments Australia has already been given several extensions on whether to take 42.5% stake in Ironbark; the last of which was set to expire later this month on 25 October. The new extended deadline is 11 December 2017.
Ironbark is next to BP's operated WA-409-B permit, less than 50km from the North Rankin platform (North West Shelf LNG) and near the Pluto and Wheatstone LNG infrastructure, which Cue says provides cost effective commercialization options.
"If BP exercise the option over WA-359-P, 50% of the Ironbark well cost will be funded," Cue Energy said in a statement. "Cue is seeking to secure a partner or partners to join themselves and BP in WA-359-P to drill an exploration well in 2018 to test the Ironbark prospect."
The Ironbark prospect is a giant Mungaroo Formation prospect that is mapped with an area of up to 400sq km with a best technical estimate of 15 Tcf of prospective recoverable gas resource based on an internal technical assessment performed by Cue Energy.
Wood Mackenzie estimates that the North West Shelf LNG plant and infrastructure will have spare capacity from 2021.
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News from the world of Maths
Want to meet some inspirational female mathematicians? Then come to the Florence Nightingale Day at Lancaster University on April 17.
We're looking for inspiring images that illustrate your favourite mathematical ideas. Illustrations, photographs, computer simulations or even clever doodles — anything that's colourful and inspirational. The best fifty images will be used as part of a book fifty to be published by Oxford University Press to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA).
Here's a well-known conundrum: suppose I need to buy a book from a shop that costs £7. I haven't got any money, so I borrow £5 from my brother and £5 from my sister. I buy the book and get £3 change. I give £1 back to each my brother and sister and I keep the remaining £1. I now owe each of them £4 and I have £1, giving £9 in total. But I borrowed £10. Where's the missing pound?
What a lovely coincidence! Pi day (the 14th of March, written 3/14 in the US) is also Albert Einstein's birthday. How are you going to celebrate? .
We've been dabbling a lot in the mysterious world of quantum physics lately, so to get back down to Earth we thought we'd bring you reminder of good old classical physics.
Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 is a year-long international effort highlighting the contributions made by mathematics in the study of global planetary problems: migrations, climate change, sustainability, natural disasters, pandemics... and in the search for solutions.
Solving equations often involves taking square roots of numbers and if you're not careful you might accidentally take a square root of something that's negative. That isn't allowed of course, but if you hold your breath and just carry on, then you might eventually square the illegal entity again and end up with a negative number that's a perfectly valid solution to your equation.
Science advisors to government are an embattled lot. Remember the l'Alquila earthquake debacle or David Nutt's stance on drugs which cost him his job. Bridging the gap between politics and science isn't easy. Politicians like clear messages but science, and the reality it tries to describe, is rarely clear-cut.

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Durham Police Internal Review Is a Pathetic Joke
DURHAM (WTVD) — A man says he was severely hurt when a Durham officer threw him to the ground during an arrest, and it was all caught on camera.
In addition to defending the arresting officer, the police department released the dash cam video of the incident which happened back in September.
The video shows the officer and John Hill, of Durham, the alleged victim he stopped.
Hill filed a complaint, accusing the officer of excessive force.
Police say Hill was arrested after running a red light on his bike. However, what should have been a typical traffic stop was anything but that.
Scott Holmes, Hill's attorney says the officer was aggressive, throwing his client to the ground, and seriously injuring him.
Durham Police Chief Jose Lopez, however, says what you see is a trained officer dealing with a man who was verbally abusive and aggressive. Police say Hill tried to touch the officer.
"What's being pretty much promoted is that the officer did something wrong when, in fact, he did a textbook maneuver in order to secure and take into custody an individual," said Lopez. (more…)


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So, there are some changes brewing here, and I thought I'd turn to my readers here and open up the floor.
Bottom line: I'm looking for a new name for this blog. And I'm a bit stumped.
At the end of the month we'll be announcing a new blog for hip & zen, one that hip & zen's owner, Karen, will be writing herself, and will be more about the vendors she's working with to bring cool products to her customers.
I'm going to keep this blog, and its almost 3 years of archives. I'm going to keep writing about the subjects I've been writing about. But I won't be calling it "the hip & zen pen" anymore.
Next week I'll be able to tell you more about Karen's blog, and point you to it, and I'll be changing the masthead here...and the name. But what name?
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It's always refreshing when you read stories about athletes playing the game for the right reasons.
Earlier this month I had the opportunity to chat with Stanford senior FS Michael Thomas for a 'Where Are They Now?' feature. In what was initially supposed to be a four-seven minute phone interview, it quickly turned into a much longer interview.
After speaking with Thomas, it was easy to understand that he had a passion for the game of football while having a complete understanding about the importance and value of an education. Essentially, Thomas defines what it means to be a student-athlete in a time in which college sports seems to be more of a business than what it truly is – a game.
Below are the first few paragraphs from the article, enjoy.
The Year of the Cardinal
by Austin Staton
In the fall of 2007, Michael Thomas was just hoping for a shot to play collegiate football.
Four years later, the 5-foot-11 product of Nimitz High School is one game away from capping back-to-back 12-1 seasons to end his illustrious career at Stanford University.
"It's crazy to think about the journey that I've had," said Thomas. "Four years ago I was hoping to just get a chance to earn a scholarship and now I am the co-captain of a BCS football team. All of the hard work that we put into the program is paying off."
As the starting quarterback at Nimitz, Thomas was the overlooked signal caller that played in the competitive district 17-4A – the same division that featured two-time Heisman trophy finalist Andrew Luck, Darron Thomas (Oregon) and Ken Guiton (Ohio State).
Recruited as an athlete by Boise State, Missouri, Northwestern and Vanderbilt, Thomas ultimately found his niche as a Cardinal. In a program that was reeling but had shown promise in the previous year with a monumental upset of top-ranked Southern California, snapping a 35-game home winning streak, Thomas wanted to be a component in the restoration of a proud and tradition-rich program.
"When I got to Stanford we had talent but the guys didn't know how to win yet," Thomas explained. "Coach (Jim) Harbaugh did a great job to get the guys to believe that, in order to compete, we'd have to work. It wasn't about the stars when it came to our recruiting class; it was the type of guys that were recruited.
"I didn't want to go to a program that was already established or all about hype. I wanted to go some place where we could work and make our own story. We all had in our minds when we got here that we were going to change this program and find a way to win. We weren't going to accept failure."
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Today Saudi Arabia announced that in its next election women will be allowed to run of office and vote without the approval of a male guardian. It's really quite generous, though for some reason, women aren't partying in the streets. Probably because they still need a man's permission to drive, travel, work, study abroad, marry, divorce, or be admitted to a public hospital — you know, stuff that actually makes a difference in their lives.
King Abdullah granted women the right to vote and hold municipal office in September, but only with a man's approval. Now officials say that for the 2015 municipal elections women won't need their guardian's approval. A member of Saudi Arabia's Shura Council, a consultative body with no legislative powers, explained that since the new policy was approved by the king, the guardian of Islam's holiest sites, it's fine to let women vote (as long as a male guardian will drive them to the polling place).
Of course, being able to vote is better than not being able to vote, but activists say there need to be far more drastic reforms in the country. Those demanding more rights for women are most concerned with having the ban on women driving unaccompanied and male guardianship laws dropped. Yet, most remain firmly in place. Allowing women to vote years from now is even less significant, since the country is a monarchy and most important positions are filled by appointement, not election.
Saudi women's activist Wajeha al-Hawidar says, "These laws make the woman like a child in all aspects of her life. She is not dealt with as an adult with a fully developed brain." While Saudi religious authorities have ensured that most restrictions stay in place, women's history professor Hatoun al-Fasi says, "It goes against the social rights that Islam gives women."
Saudi Women To Run, Vote Without Male Approval [AP]
Earlier: Saudi Women Granted Right To Vote


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The holidays are over, but Disney is still handing out gifts in the form of a new promotional offer for spring Walt Disney World travelers. These offers are available for guests traveling February 20 – June 10, 2017 so it includes President's Day weekend, Spring Break, and early summer travel dates. It's something to look forward to now that the holidays have come and gone. This also lets you explore the fun and whimsy of Epcot's Flower & Garden Festival and spring time in Walt Disney World (it's truly my favorite time of year!)
When you stay at a Walt Disney World® Resort hotel, you're always in the middle of the magic. And with this great travel offer, it's even easier to bask in the enchantment! You can save up to 25%* on rooms at select Walt Disney World Resort hotels for stays most nights Feb. 20-June 10, 2017.
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Today's programme looks at the expansion of Celtic music and themes into several different genres of modern music.
Yes, you will find a number traditional tunes in today's programme, but they may not be arranged quite as you might expect. And yes, there are a few traditional musicians here too – but they are seldom performing traditionally.
Here we are featuring musicians and music that start from the Celtic tradition and take it forward into other realms, from Joanie Madden to Mendelssohn; from thunderously spectacular orchestral arrangements (you'll hear several of those today) in the wake of Riverdance, to inspiring music for a small Celtic ensemble and organ, played in the largest Gothic space in the world.
Thus, this is not quite a 'Celtic' programme in the normal sense of the word. Today instead revel in the lush orchestrations of Erich Kunzel and Phil Coulter, for example; listen to Celtic Thunder and Celtic Woman; and enjoy a collection of exactly what it says on the tin: Celtic Moods.
Then please join us for the latest in our series of chilling tales from the landmark radio drama series, The Black Mass, at 11am or 7pm Pacific Time (19:00 or 03:00 GMT).
Today's programme is presented by Elrik Merlin. You can listen to the programme in-world now at http://main.radioriel.org, or simply click here to start your player, if your browser is configured to do so. Listeners in the United States are encouraged to tune in using this link: http://loudcity.com/stations/radio-riel/tune_in


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Three national organizations offered a scathing criticism of policies endorsed by the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, in a conference call with reporters last week. Their findings strike a stake in the heart of ALEC claims that its view of the world — lower taxes, fewer workplace protections, and diminished public investments — is good for the public.
Pennsylvania state lawmakers who look to ALEC for guidance on economic policy should stand up and take notice.
Iowa Policy Project research director Peter Fisher discussed a recent report he co-authored with researchers from Good Jobs First, concluding that the tax, budget, and economic prescriptions put forth by ALEC simply don't work.
Selling Snake Oil to the States took a look at ALEC's annual Rich States, Poor States report, which ranks states based on their "economic outlooks" as defined by ALEC. The factors should come as no surprise: states with low taxes and right-to-work laws rank high by ALEC; those with progressive taxes, corporate income taxes, and worker protections rank far behind.
Fisher compared the ALEC rankings with actual state performance on real economic indicators over a four-year period. Do ALEC's policy prescriptions improve state economies? The answer is no.
Between 2007 and 2011, researchers found no relationship between a high ALEC ranking and employment. They did find a correlation on personal incomes and poverty rates among states ranked high by ALEC, but it was a negative one — the better a state fared on the ALEC scale, the worse it did in real life. As Fisher said during the conference call:
It should be hardly surprising that policies to keep wages low have the effect of lowering the state's income. ... The ALEC policy prescriptions for states will not lead to growth and prosperity but to further inequality and lower incomes.
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities examined sweeping tax and budget policies that ALEC is currently lobbying for in the states. The policies largely encompass deep tax cuts for wealthy individuals, investors, and corporations that will leave middle- and lower-income families paying more.
Both reports note that the ALEC agenda promotes low wage growth for families, fewer workplace protections, and strategies to starve public investments in education, health care, and other priorities — all of which reputable economists agree are critical to job creation and economic growth.
It is an article of faith among Pennsylvania lawmakers that ALEC policies are good for the economy. These reports provide clear and convincing evidence to the contrary: the arguments that the ALEC agenda are good for real people are nothing but snake oil. The policies are good for the businesses that pour millions into ALEC to promote this agenda.
Governor Tom Corbett has hidden large expensive new tax cuts to profitable corporations in his budget proposal released this month. This and other ALEC agenda items won't create jobs, but they will lead to greater inequality, slower income growth, and continued starvation of our public schools, transit systems, and other priorities.


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Watch: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway hosts annual shareholders meeting
Berkshire Hathaway held its annual shareholder meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, on Saturday, May 5. Led by chairman and CEO Warren Buffett and vice chairman Charlie Munger, the meeting drew around 42,000 investors, both young and old, seeking wisdom from the investing legends.
Buffett kicked things off by addressing Berkshire Hathaway's Q1 net loss of $1.14 billion, which the company reported on Saturday morning. This was largely due to an accounting change that forced the company to report $6.2 billion in unrealized losses in its stock portfolio. The key word here is "unrealized," which means that these were just paper losses. This is unlike "realized" losses which are booked from actually selling stocks.
"It really is not representative of what's going on in the business at all," Buffett said.
And it speaks to Buffett's philosophy on investing in general. Sure, there'll be what Buffett described as "truly wild and capricious" swings in prices in the short term. But what matters is where you are in the long-run.
So far, Buffett and Munger have talked about investing, cybersecurity, healthcare, China, trade policy, and Wells Fargo.
China gives the US goods it wants in exchange for 'a piece of paper':
Trade policy has been dominating the headlines. Team Trump has traveled to China in an effort to negotiate trade terms that would be more favorable to the U.S. Trump's primary negotiating tactic has been the threat of tariffs, which most economists agree is a lose-lose option.
"The United States and China are going to be the two superpowers of the world, economically and in other ways, for a long, long long time," Buffett said. "We will have disagreements, [but] the benefits are huge and the world is dependent on [that relationship.]"
One metric Trump complains about is the trade deficit the U.S. has with China. Buffett, however, doesn't see this as a major issue right now.
"When you think about it, it's really not the worst thing in the world to have someone send you the goods that you want and for you to send a piece of paper," Buffett said of the trade deficit.
"It is a win-win situation," Buffett said on trade, noting you only run into trouble when one side wants to win a little more.
Buffett acknowledges that free trade and globalization, while beneficial, has come with costs. He has recently been stressing that America's leaders need to get better at communicating the benefits of trade. "You really need an Educator-in-Chief, as president," Buffett said to Yahoo Finance's Andy Serwer in March. "That's what [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt was so good at. We needed an Educator-in-Chief in 1933. And that, you could argue, was the most important part of his presidency."
Buffett and Munger exhibited a lot of restraint when talking about the administration. They've opted to focus more on business and economics.
Read more: Warren Buffett: Trade with China is a 'win-win situation'
Cyber threats are "uncharted territory":
Cybersecurity is top of mind for Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. As an insurance company, Berkshire must suss out the risks that go with underwriting a policy that covers cyber attacks.
"Frankly, I don't think we or anybody else really knows what they're doing," Buffett said of covering these risks. "It's just really, really early in the game. We don't know the interpretation of the policies will be."
Buffett said that cyber is a risk that could cause a "super-cat," which is insurance jargon for super-catastrophe.
"[Cyber] is uncharted territory and it's going to get worse not better," he said. "You're right in pointing that out as a very material risk that didn't exist 10-15 years ago and will get more intense as time goes on."
Read More: Warren Buffett says cyber risk will get worse, not better
Sticking with Wells Fargo:
Wells Fargo has been one of Berkshire Hathaway's largest investments for a long time. So, when news broke in 2016 that Wells Fargo employees were incentivized to set up millions of fraudulent accounts for customers, Buffett came under pressure to either dump his position or take action as a major shareholder.
"Wells Fargo is a company that proved the efficacy of incentives, and it's just that they just had the wrong incentives," Buffett said.
At this point, Buffett and Munger see Wells Fargo's worst days largely behind them.
"I see no reason to think that Wells Fargo — going forward — is other than a very, very large well-run bank that had an episode of its history," Buffett said. "GEICO came out stronger, American Express came out stronger."
"We have a large unrealized gain [in the stock]," he said. "I like it as an investment. [CEO Tim Sloan] is correcting mistakes made by other people."
Read More: Why Warren Buffett is sticking with Wells Fargo
Single-payer healthcare is coming, Munger predicts:
Munger says he expects to see single-payer healthcare in the United States. He said this after a question about the Berkshire-Amazon-JPMorgan enterprise that is intended to provide healthcare to its 840,000 employees.
"I suspect that eventually when Democrats control both houses of Congress and the White House that we will get single payer medical care and I don't think it'll be much more friendly than any of the PBMs," Munger said.
Read More: Buffett: Berkshire-Amazon-JPMorgan healthcare initiative to have a CEO in 'a couple of months'
Buffett takes controversial position on guns:
An investor expressed disappointment in Buffett's unwillingness to take a more forceful position on gun control. As some big companies have distanced themselves from doing business with pro-gun advocates, Buffett and Berkshire has largely been mum.
"I don't think that we should have a question on the GEICO policyholder form, 'Are you an NRA member?,'" he said. "'If you are, you just aren't good enough for us.'"
"I do not believe in imposing my political opinions on the activities of our businesses," he said. "If we get into what companies are pure and which ones aren't pure, I think it is very difficult to make that call."
"It seemed like a good idea at the time":
In his opening remarks, Buffett went way back and reflected on the investing environment in 1942. He shared newspaper clippings of that showed World War II headlines dominating the front page of the New York Times.
"We were in trouble, big trouble, in the Pacific," he said.
But at the time, he saw an opportunity to cheaply buy the preferred shares of a company called Cities Service. On March 11, 1942, he bought three shares at $38.35. Immediately, prices started to fall. But four months later, he was able to sell at $40 for a quick profit.
"This is not a happy story," he said, noting that in a just a few years the share price went to $200.
Buffett went on to remind folks of the importance of having patience and thinking long term with investments.
It all began with a 'monumentally stupid decision':
Buffett, 87, first invested in a Berkshire Hathaway, a failing textile company, back in December 1962 accumulating 7% of the company at $7.50 per share. The company was owned by a man named Seabury Stanton, who in 1964 asked Buffett for the price he'd be willing to sell his stake. Buffett said $11.50, and they had a deal.
However, Stanton later turned around and made a tender offer to shareholders for $11.275 per share. Buffett didn't care for that behavior, so he ended up hanging on.
"That was a monumentally stupid decision," Buffett said in his 2014 letter to shareholders. "Irritated by Stanton's chiseling, I ignored his offer and began to aggressively buy more Berkshire shares."
Buffett took control of the company in May of 1965. And that was followed by another two decades of tough lessons.
"During the 18 years following 1966, we struggled unremittingly with the textile business, all to no avail," he said. "But stubbornness – stupidity? – has its limits. In 1985, I finally threw in the towel and closed the operation."
Despite his legend, Buffett's career is riddled with failures. Ultimately, his real triumph is learning from his mistakes to eventually seal his legacy as the world's greatest investor.
Furthermore, through letters, interviews, meetings and TV appearances, Buffett has shared his lessons with the public so that they can be better investors themselves. So while many know him as a great investor, there are plenty who will also remember him as a great teacher.
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The webaction toolbelt can also do select-to-quote:
Previously: Quoting UI #indieweb #webactions
The webaction toolbelt can also do select-to-quote:
Previously: Quoting UI #indieweb #webactions
Taking distributed #indieweb actions on your own site, in context? Yes, webaction toolbelt does that:
To clarify, this is a page on news.indiewebcamp.com which supports inline webactions. When I click "Reply", a pre-populated new note form from my own site is loaded into an iframe. It detects this, and adjusts its styling accordingly.
Laurent Eschenauer ha ha, they were pretty good thanks :) And congrats on the web-action enabled reply! Hopefully soon I'll be able to store it here.
Or, alternatively, I might use #webactions and do=post, based on a bunch of research
Doing a test implementation of a+rel+iframe+postMessage hypermedia UI injection (needs a better name) — using existing rel=create-form
Julien Genestoux I'll probably add one this afternoon — wrapped in a
subscribe webaction, of course :)
Is the convention to have just one for the homepage (i.e. subscribe to "me"), or to have one wherever there is a feed (e.g. on my notes or articles pages?
Awesome! window.postMessage supports opening a new window, then sending messages to it! Seeing some interesting #webactions use cases…
Turns out that performing a GET request on a data URI from PHP works if file_get_contents is used, not if cURL is used. I wonder what support is like for other server side languages — using data URIs in
with could be the basis of some interesting #webactions.
#taproot / #webactions design #principle: easy things should be easy, remove friction so hard things are no harder than they need to be.
[adding web actions support] took me five minutes and two lines of code.
This is what we like to hear! Nice one Laurent Eschenauer! (source)
P.S. 5 mins and 2 lines of declarative HTML! Beat that, web intents/activities
Booked ticket for digpensw — so if anyone wants to talk #microformats, #indieweb or #webactions on the day, come and say hello!
I posted Web Action Toolbelt to that hacker news thing. What happens now? #webactions
Those last two notes posted using latest Web Action Hero Toolbelt, now with select-to-quote UI #webactions #indieweb #quoting
cssquirrel I much prefer twitter in the browser because I can get rid of ads and promoted tweets, and customise the UI so I reply, retweet and favourite on my site instead. Pity I can't so easily on mobile — perhaps an ios app which is just a web view with some custom JS… #webactions #idea
New stuff: Web Action Hero Toolbelt and
<action> markup on individual note pages. #webactions
We have a #webactions Hero Toolbelt config UI!
Now onto the actual meat. Most of this was already implemented in my fork of #indieweb reply, I just have to tidy it up and add in the
<action> shim.
Poll: Have any of you ever used twitter.com's "Email this tweet" action (in ••• More, above Embed Tweet for some reason)? #webactions
I was going to spend this evening working on #webactions browser extension, but I think it would be better spent providing a #backup/data export utility for fellow ex #diaspora users.
From my initial researches, it looks like
/u/username.json is the best bet, as it gives a JSON array of all posts written by
username, along with like and comment data. It accepts a
max_time=timestamp query param, and a
_ query param, the function of which I am not sure of.
To iterate through all the pages of posts from a certain user, start with their profile URL w/
.json tacked on the end, fetch all the items, get the datetime of the last item, convert that to a timestamp, fetch the same URL with
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Great to see superfeedr using web action delegate patterns for subtome.com! #indieweb #webactions
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Two members of British Columbia's Mid Island Velo Association (MIVA) were honoured at the 2012 Nanaimo Athletic Achievement Awards this Saturday (February 9th). National master women cyclo-cross champion Janna Gillick was recognised as the city's outstanding master athlete, and club president Peter McCaffery received the award for outstanding sports' administrator. A third cyclist who won the best male athlete plaque was international downhill champion, Steve Smith.
Janna Gillick at 2012 CX nationals
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NIU Antarctic study, Fermilab activities in jeopardy from federal shutdown
Last year at this time, Reed Scherer of Elburn was excited about his upcoming trip to Antarctica, where the Northern Illinois University professor would continue studying the ice shelf and the ocean beneath it.
This week, he is fuming and frustrated, as this year's journey is in danger of being canceled, throwing years of work into jeopardy.
The ongoing partial shutdown of the federal government is to blame. If it isn't resolved by Monday, the U.S. Antarctic Program has ordered the private contractor that handles the logistics of the operation to pull the plug on the season's work, he said.
"To choose the word 'dramatically' is potentially an understatement," Scherer said of the shutdown affecting his project.
The shutdown is affecting activity at Fermilab in Batavia, too. A Friday lecture will be postponed, for example, as the Fermilab Research Alliance is putting off nonessential spending until its federal funding is assured.
"We are trying to save as much money as possible," said Kurt Riesselmann, head of the laboratory's public information office.
Studying ice shelf
Geologist Scherer is the leader of the NIU team that includes fellow geology professor Ross Powell, two graduate students, an engineer and a videographer working on a documentary film. The team already lost two graduate students to the federal budget sequestration that started in the spring.
They are to leave after Christmas and stay at the Lake Whillans research station during the austral summer, until March.
They plan to again drill a hole a half-mile deep into the ice shelf. Last year, they collected water samples to study organisms living in the ocean beneath the shelf. This year, they were going to study the ground zone between the shelf and the ocean.
All of it is part of research into climate change. The study is due to finish in September 2014.
"This season's project is one that gets to the heart of the research," Scherer said.
Prep takes time
Getting people and equipment to the research station is a massive undertaking assigned to private contractor Lockheed-Martin. Much depends on the short austral summer.
Some of the equipment -- including winches, cranes, generators and the hot water drill used to obtain samples -- is stored there all year, is damaged by snow and cold, and has to be uncovered and repaired, Scherer said. Some of it belongs to NIU, and Scherer lamented that the equipment could be stuck there, unable to be used elsewhere.
The United States is not the only country studying in the Antarctic, but it has the largest program, Scherer said. Other countries rely on it.
Lockheed-Martin has already started sending some of its people home, Scherer said.
"This is not something you can just flip a switch on or off," he said.
Scherer is still working on tasks such as listing cargo to be shipped. There's no guarantee his project would be rescheduled for next year. The National Science Foundation, which runs the U.S. Antarctic Program, has protocols and rules about that, including whether funding can be reallocated to another year, he said.
Asked what he is doing this week to change the shutdown situation, Scherer joked about sending "logic rays" toward Washington, D.C.
"What can we do? Our hands are tied," he said.
If the partial shutdown of the federal government isn't resolved by noon Thursday, you won't be able to learn about "The Physics of Superheroes" at Fermilab.
Friday's lecture is part of the Fermilab Arts and Lecture Series. Public tours, which are given by on-call employees, are also canceled for now, Riesselmann said.
The laboratory is also putting off purchases of supplies, outside printing jobs, and outside Web page production and maintenance. That includes updating its Fermilab Today daily online bulletin.
"The idea is whatever we can minimize now," Riesselmann said, to stretch the alliance's reserve funds.
The federal government owns the laboratory but contracts with the alliance to run it. The support staff and many of the scientists working at Fermilab are employees of the research alliance. Some of the scientists are employees of universities throughout the world. And the Department of Energy's science office has an office at Fermilab, to oversee the contract.
Experiments are still being performed, Riesselmann said. The grounds are still open to people who want to visit the natural areas or the buffalo. The Lederman Science Center is still open, too.
But that could change, with little notice, if the federal government shutdown continues, he said. So visitors should check the laboratory's status on its website, www.fnal.gov, before coming out, he said.


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Here are some of the most enjoyable and/or important books that I am currently reading. This does not mean I stand by everything the authors write (do I even have to state that?). Some of these I purchased, others were provided by the kindness of the publisher:
By now many of you have heard of the Genevan Commons Facebook group. The Genevan Commons (GC) group was apparently formed several years ago to provide a forum for discussion of Reformed theology. All well and good. But more recently some of the group members began attacking Aimee Byrd, Rachel Miller, and us (Carl and Todd). At times the banter degenerated into sinful mocking and slander. Unbecoming to say the least.
Calvin's sensitivity to the different circumstances in which people live lead him to flip-flop, or at least to be somewhat ambivalent in his attitude to the magistrate. Citing the case of Nebuchadnezzar (Jer. 27), Scripture requires obedience to bad kings, and even to pray for the well being of the country of exile (Jer.29). No doubt Calvin has his own city of exile, Geneva, in mind. But should not rulers, who also have responsibilities, be kept on track? Yes, but not by ourselves, but by Almighty God. This leads to discussion of the vexed question of civil disobedience.
No doubt having the Anabaptists in mind, and having already defended the right to litigate, Calvin proceeds to defend the entire judicial process. He discourages using the law for the taking of revenge, but upholds the use of due process, 'through which God may work for our good'. (It is interesting that in his teaching Calvin primarily seems to have mind not Geneva, which by this time in his career he believed was governed along right lines, but countries where the law may remain hostile to evangelical Christianity).
Following Elijah's stunning victory over the prophets of Baal in 1 Kings 18, he turns his attention to drought that continued to linger over the land. Back in 1 Kings 17, Elijah had announced a drought on the land because of the apostasy of the people. They had backed into Baalism and paganism. And their failure to remain faithful to the Lord carried the judgment of God removing his word from the people, signified by the lack of rain or dew. This was also a polemic against Baal, the storm god. The Baal cycle would be broken and the LORD would show himself to be God.
"With which person in the Bible do you most identify?" This is a question I have often asked others in the church over the years. Most of us lack even enough self-awareness to able to answer the question. Others among us have a propensity to appeal to the best characters in Scripture.
Satan encourages spiritual ignorance.
Unbiblical thinking frequently results in unbiblical living. "Gross errors make the heart foolish, and render the life loose," writes Thomas Brooks. "Error spreads and frets like a gangrene, and renders the soul a leper in the sight of God." We are more likely to indulge our desires when the enemy has obscured God's truths and filled and our minds with wrong ideas. The Holy Spirit transforms believers by renewing their minds (Romans 12:2); the devil employs his craftiness to lead minds astray (2 Corinthians 11:3).
In any organisation, a worthy goal is not sufficient to ensure success; there must also be an agreed means to get there. The Puritans were no different, and they held up biblical love as the fundamental means in reaching their shared goal of God's glory. In their view, such love had to flow out from the marriage that lay at the heart of the family. This is made abundantly clear in Ephesians 5:22-33:
After revealing some details of their personal lives, Carl and Todd get down to business. Seems a disturbing phenomenon is plaguing churches all over the country. Since the lockdown, many Christians have become too comfortable with worshipping from home over a screen…dressed in their jammies, eating donuts, and—quite possibly—not really worshipping at all.
Carl Trueman's The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self - Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution hasn't even been released, and—already—it's the best-selling book of 2020! It is, at least, according to the hosts of this program. Yes, the author feels he's found a pot of gold, and is buying that dream villa in Venice with the royalties. At the same time, co-host Todd feels privileged as he possesses an advanced copy of this treasure and believes he'll be enjoying a free stay at his friend's Mediterranean estate.
I have been asked to put together an undergraduate elective course on the doctrine of God for Grove students for next year. There is, of course, a current (and most welcome) revival of interest in Protestant circles in classical Trinitarianism and the theology of the first four ecumenical councils, built on the back of the historical scholarship of the last thirty years in patristic, medieval, and early modern areas. We now know so much more about what the church through the ages thought about its greatest dogmas that, for orthodox Christians today, one could borrow
"Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world" (Jam. 1:27).
"Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God" (Heb. 13:16)
"... that which is pleasing in his sight" (Heb. 13:21)
Every so often, a friend and I indulge a favorite argument. The debate is over what matters more when it comes to leadership: Character, or competence? While we both have similar worldviews, I have contended that character matters more, while my friend argues for the greater worth of competence.
Genesis 1:28 records God's first command to the first human couple, Adam and Eve, in the Garden of Eden: "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth." Since God first gave this command (sometimes called the "cultural mandate" by theologians) the earth's population has blossomed from one couple to billions of people around the globe. The vast majority of this growth has taken place in the last two centuries alone, a fact which has
Greg Lanier, Is Jesus Truly God? How the Bible Teaches the Divinity of Christ (Wheaton: Crossway, 2020). Pp. 144. $16.99, paper.
Prolegomena: A Defense of the Scholastic Method, by Jordan Cooper, The Weidner Institute, 2020, 332 Pages, $21.60.
When you set up your shepherding plan you could not have imagined that your entire congregation would be hunkered-down attempting to stay clear of Covid-19.
These are times in which the flock needs to hear from their shepherds for comfort and assurance. I have urged our elders to put a priority on reaching out to their sheep, especially to those who are especially vulnerable.
I recently received this encouraging email from my friend Ken Jones, Shepherding Pastor at Oak Mountain Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, Alabama:
They came from California, Arizona, Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia, Florida, New York City, St. Louis, Pennsylvania, and, of course, Georgia. Why did they come? They came because they are all leaders of large churches and wanted to consider best practices for shepherding large numbers of people. The consultation had been in the planning for 4 years. After visiting First Presbyterian in Augusta, Georgia, First Pres. Executive Pastor John Barrett and I began to imagine a consultation of large church leaders to talk about shepherding their flocks.
Francis James Grimké – Through a Pandemic and Social Unrest
We are not the first generation who must deal with a pandemic and racial unrest at the same time. The Spanish flu of 1918 hit America at a time when racial segregation and lynching of blacks were commonplace and largely ignored by the majority of Americans. Francis James Grimké led his congregation through both challenges, while defending human rights in his speeches and writings.
From Slave to Pastor
Matilde Calandrini – Fighting for Education and Religious Freedom
In 1831, 37-year old Matilde Calandrini moved from Geneva to Pisa for health reasons. Tuscany, the enchanting Italian region where Pisa was located, had been the home of her ancestors at the time of the Protestant Reformation. They had lived in Lucca, just twelve miles north of Pisa, the same city where the Italian Reformer Peter Martyr Vermigli preached and founded his school for the promotion of biblical knowledge.
An advice column dedicated to gift-giving in December accidentally explored a very biblical topic – the relationship between love and the law. Question one: What shall I do about a boyfriend who buys expensive but inappropriate gifts? The mind wanders: Did he buy her a chain saw last year? Hang-gliding lessons? Question two: My family members have requested gift cards in prescribed amounts, from specific stores. Is this really gift-giving or a sanctioned way for people to lift money from each other's wallets?
The believer, by rights, is best able to bear bad news. After all, we believe that we are morally corrupt, unable to reform ourselves, and so incorrigible that the only solution was that the Son of God live and die in our place. If we can accept that, we should be able to face hard truths about our health and the economy. And there are hard truths.
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We live in a time of loneliness. It is not because we are isolated. Most people live within a short drive of a city, and those who don't can easily connect with others over the phone or the internet. And yet there is a sense that our technological connection has made use less connected in other ways. This is anecdotal, I know, but most of the people who approach me for counsel – whether in church or at the university where I teach – express some kind of longing for connection – someone to talk to, someone who understands, someone who cares. All those who cry out for this have cell phon
Sometimes we can be surprised by the kind of things theologians say that seem to resonate with us. We might expect them to be profound insights into a particular doctrine; but, more often than not, it is because of a different kind of profundity. One example is the story of Karl Barth's being asked during a conference Q&A Session what the deepest truth he had learned in all his study of theology had been. To which he replied, 'Jesus loves me, this I know; for the Bible tells me so…'
We are familiar with treatments, such as that by B.B. Warfield, on the emotional life of Christ and we very quickly realise why it is vital to our understanding of his Person and work. God, in Holy Scripture has seen fit to include this insight into the incarnate life of his Son, not just to underscore the genuineness of his humanity, but also to encourage us in the realisation that he is able to sympathise with his people in their life struggles. But do we also realise that God has seen fit to include an insight into the emotional life of his prophets and apostles in the Bible?
Thank you for watching the September Alliance Update with Executive Director Bob Brady.
Quakertown Conference of Reformed Theology
Recently I had been thinking about how to minister to several members of our congregation because of what God is calling them to go through again which will surely tax their energy and emotions. I had also been pondering what we are all going through in the present state of pandemic uncertainty. So many seem so restless. So anxious. And so many Christians just seem so very agitated.
The answer to Hamlet's famous question "To be or not to be?" is simple for God. God can only "be." He is "I am," meaning He exists infinitely and independent of anything, without beginning or end, as the source and sustainer of all things. There has never been a time where God has not existed in and of Himself. This is known as the aseity of God.
The Cure for Unjust Anger
Jonathan and James welcome Brian Hedges to the podcast. Brian is the lead pastor at Redeemer Church in Niles, MI and is responsible for breathing new life into one of the works of John Downame, a 16th century Puritan who was known as a "physician of souls."
Puritan: All of Life to the Glory of God
We probably all have bank accounts with savings, and maybe investments and 401(k)s. Wisdom would suggest that while we trust God we also should be good stewards and save. You want to have in inheritance—at the end of the road of your work life, you want to have a nest egg. This doesn't make you greedy, in most cases it means you were prudent. But all of this should make us ask, where is my real inheritance? What is the real price? Where, or better, in whom is my true retirement.
What season did we recently enter? Spring. What comes next? Summer. Then what? Fall. Then what? Winter. And then? Spring. And so on until Christ's Second Coming. The year's seasons are cyclical—and somewhat predictable. So the seasons of our years should not surprise us but rather inspire our adaptability, acceptance, and appreciation.


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Under fire West Ham United co-owner David Sullivan 'confided' with Sky Sports and Talkshite presenter Jim White that Hammers had made Stoke City a record breaking £25 Million offer in order to bring Joe Allen to the London Stadium on transfer deadline day. In a way Sullivan is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't, but fans will have a more than familiar feeling about the club's January transfer window activities, in fact they have similar 'familiar' sentiments about the club's overall transfer activities and they are essentially, 'we have heard it all before'!
Leaving deals to the last minute is Daniel Levy territory, and like him or loathe him (loathe in our case at the Org) he is an expert at it, because 9 times out of 10 he gets it right. David Sullivan, and it is he alone that decides who arrives and leaves, has got serious previous when it comes to putting late, usually derogatory, bids in for high profile transfer targets, this propensity to smoke and mirror the situation has become much more acute since the ill judged move to the 'ironic' London Stadium. There are only a certain amount of times an owner can 'cry the transfer wolf' before their cry falls on deaf and increasingly angry disenfranchised ears, too often there have been promises of 'Rolls Royce' players only for clapped out Escorts to arrive on loan.
There really seems to be a reality gap appearing in the West Ham hiierarchy's actions, it is as if they refuse to recognise fan discontent and also have their heads buried in the sand with regards to the workings of other 'top flight' football clubs. The Premier League, with the exception of the top six, is comprised of a further fourteen teams desperate to maintain mid table safety or avoid the dreaded drop in to Championship oblivion, they are all prepared to spend big in order to maintain their status, the huge TV revenue they all receive has leveled the playing field financially, a fact that seems to have completely gone over the heads of Sullivan and Co.
What is clearly apparent is that fans have had enough, it won't stop most of them from going to matches, but the atmosphere will become increasingly toxic until the present regime eventually sell up, if and when they do, some of the promises of European football and moving to the next level might actually have a realistic chance of happening!
Final note, why did it never occur to anyone involved in the planning of the Boleyn to London Stadium move, that had the pitch could have been lowered by up to 6 meters which would have meant most of the original lower seating could have been made available for use. - Ed
Mon, 05/02/2018 - 14:42
Obviously never learnt from school that it wasn't big to tell lies to try and impress the big kids. Lets face it, they were probably all bigger than him - Toxic Midget.!!
Mon, 05/02/2018 - 16:25
i for one dont
Mon, 05/02/2018 - 16:42
I might be wrong but wasn't the idea thought about before being dismissed due to what was potentially under the stadium on account of the original site being a dump?
Mon, 05/02/2018 - 17:23
they never thought about it as it would of meant spending money and that is where they draw the line
Tue, 06/02/2018 - 14:32
£25million bid for allen never came off so why did they not bid for Dendoncker the same amount which would of got him strange that ehh for someone trying so hard
Red Neck Iron
Mon, 05/02/2018 - 17:50
Of course you did Sullivan! That's explains it all. Chin rub. If so why didn't you make that deal on January 1st? Because you never had any intention of spending the money.
Mon, 05/02/2018 - 21:13
not heard that expression for years..brilliant Red Neck...maybe all the supporters on saturday should turn to sullivan in the ground and make the gesture.
Red Neck Iron
Mon, 05/02/2018 - 17:51
We would have a bloody brilliant team of players that Sullivan says he just missed out on. The man is just so unlucky.
Dicks is the man
Mon, 05/02/2018 - 18:29
lies, lies and sex and videotapes.
Dicks is the man
Mon, 05/02/2018 - 18:33
instead of making excuses why not do what others do and sound out clubs and players. swansea said theyd been negotiating ayews move for 3 weeks. we'd been going on about dendonker for weeks but apparently forgot to suggest a price?
moore 6 legend
Tue, 06/02/2018 - 01:47
Tbf,sully did put a bid in for a new ball boy,offering him a milky way and a can of tizer,deal didn't go through because the the kid held out for a mars bar, and a can of coke.
Dicks is the man
Tue, 06/02/2018 - 06:18
lol. I know what u mean about a bid but surely before you bid you discuss the price. like he waited, waited, then sent a bid, anderlecht said no way and phone went dead? I cant see any other club having an old ditherer doing all the transfer dealings. other clubs must be laughing 'watch out, you may get the call from senile old grandpa'.
moore 6 legend
Tue, 06/02/2018 - 09:31
Yeah lol,he's an insult and got away with it for years,but now has been found out,no one in football will want to deal with him in the end,im waiting for stoke to come out and say,did he f*ck offer 25mil,he offered 5 mil,lol
Dicks is the man
Tue, 06/02/2018 - 09:39
to be fair, it was probably 25 mill ……..paid over 60 years.
Tue, 06/02/2018 - 23:24
or over 25million years!
Mon, 05/02/2018 - 18:59
Birmingham all over again!!! basically down to Sullivan but Gold is also not blameless in Sullivans bargain basement dealings which hardly ever come off. Birmingham got relegated and never recovered due to cheap players and Bruce like Moyes (at the moment) was just fed up.
Moyes will not stay when the season finishes if he has any sense and the sooner the three muppets go (SUGO and Ms Bradey) the better for our club. I will always support West Ham regardless of who the board are but these last two seasons have been dire and getting worse!!! Sullivan is an out and out liar!!!
Mon, 05/02/2018 - 19:16
Why come out with a statement like that now? What point does it prove,it wasn't successful.Even if there was a bid ,can you honestly believe that Sullivan was offering up front anywhere near the £25m.It was more like £5m up front and installments over a long period,like the Dendonker debacle.When are these jokers going to wise up that clubs don't operate like that .Our board are so out of touch with reality when it comes to buying players,they are more suited to the championship,that's where they belong.They shouldn't be in control of a premiership club because they are continually penny-pinching,they haven't got the financial clout to compete.
Mon, 05/02/2018 - 19:22
Playing well and losing won't keep us in the top flight. Likewise when it comes to the transfer market I don't care who we bid for or how much, all I'm interested in is who came thru the door. Why do we leave everything to the last minute? Get your transfer business done early and there will be no "shoulda, coulda, woulda".
essex boy
Mon, 05/02/2018 - 20:29
This Sullivan bloke dosent get it does he.The shit that roles out of his mouth is stupid.............."I did put a bid in honest I did but....... damn,it was just too late" there was only a month to do the business in,so surely foresight was needed,im no business man but if they cant see a month ahead,im surprised they have got this far,they are pissing up our backs and telling us its raining,again!!!!!..............As I put in a previous post,i think that they are out of their depth in the Premiership,Championship League at a max.The whole thing is on the scale of buying a car but cant afford the fuel to put in to make it run,so it sits in the driveway and decays,so they have bought a football club but cant afford the players to make it work,so dosent progress and drops down.If we don't go this season I bet we will next.
Mon, 05/02/2018 - 20:45
And Sully? What do you want, a pat on the back!!? Maybe if you'd put the bid in earlier Stoke may have come back with an acceptable price to them and you could have got him earlier. No point going in on deadline day ( and let's face it you faxed the offer through with 1min to go) and leaving Stoke with no time to spend the money to get a replacement. Not everyone is like you and happily sells the fit players in the already threadbare squad. Some owners realise you need players to win games not soundbites! twat!
Red Neck Iron
Mon, 05/02/2018 - 20:47
What does telling us we bid for Allen achieve? Even if true why tell us "this is what we could have got? ". Who on earth is interested in how we lost out on a player (again) we are only interested on who we DID get. It's like he is taunting us
moore 6 legend
Mon, 05/02/2018 - 21:03
It's jim bowen... now Let's have a look at what you could have won.
Mon, 05/02/2018 - 21:16
Whys it always a speedboat!!All we get is BFH,Bus Fare home...
moore 6 legend
Mon, 05/02/2018 - 21:30
Yep! dave,only sully would see you walk home mate, we probably offered 2 mil up front and the other £23m in instalments over the next 99 years, lol
Mon, 05/02/2018 - 21:58
A bit more Deja Vu on the BBC website - Athletics World Cup: Eight nations to compete at London Stadium- Now this is taking place on the 14-15 July. How long does it take to get the stadium ready for football after an event like this? Seems like maybe no friendlies at home again.
moore 6 legend
Mon, 05/02/2018 - 22:39
I heard it's 15 days to remove the seats and the same again putting em back mate.
Tue, 06/02/2018 - 23:26
so mid August. As it's West Ham there's bound to be an additional delay so will probably be requesting 3 away games again to start the season
moore 6 legend
Thu, 08/02/2018 - 23:05
Yes another bullshite lie from shady,about our home games will take priority over anything mate
Burkie 1
Mon, 05/02/2018 - 22:02
Whats gone wrong with the site nev all im getting is the banner headlines cant see any comment s from members
Who we playing saturday? Wouldnt like to be playing Watford after tonight's game
Burkie 1
moore 6 legend
Mon, 05/02/2018 - 22:22
That's who we have next home game burkie Watford, YIKES!
Red Neck Iron
Tue, 06/02/2018 - 17:46
Pah, Chelsea are novices at it. If you want to see a team really get battered by Watford, tune in again on Saturday for the next thrilling episode. Just a bit worried about the Chelsea fans how are they gona cope with a comprehensive defeat? I feel so sorry. If only them was any team worse than them.
Burkie 1
Mon, 05/02/2018 - 23:07
I know 6 i was being sarcastic ,did you see the match tonight mate ?they took Chelsea apart bit by bit ,granted they only had ten men but still 4-1 ? ,0-3 to Bournemouth, they are going down the toilet if only it was that bunch of pricks from north London and i dont mean arse
Burkie 1
moore 6 legend
Mon, 05/02/2018 - 23:46
I ain't seen the match mate,but chelski shipping 7 goals in 2 matches unheard of lol,conte will be gone if they don't get 4th,and yes burkie I can see the norh London vermin,getting a champions league place again,and the way it's going we'll be getting the championship.
Dicks is the man
Tue, 06/02/2018 - 06:07
cant be right. contes doing a great job, he keeps saying so himself.
Tue, 06/02/2018 - 01:02
Brilliant! Looks like a bleedin idiot, as suits him. What can I say? I agree with everything on this thread.
moore 6 legend
Tue, 06/02/2018 - 09:56
Dicks is the man
Tue, 06/02/2018 - 10:16
hahahahaha. One billion dollars!
moore 6 legend
Tue, 06/02/2018 - 10:27
lol,100 billion dollars!
Tue, 06/02/2018 - 13:02
Dicks is the man
Tue, 06/02/2018 - 13:09
Mini Moysey?
Thu, 08/02/2018 - 17:02
Thu, 08/02/2018 - 19:51
Green Screen replaces Green Street. But the hardest thing to take in that article is: West Ham are now the club of ridicule, and ridicule is dislike with the jealousy removed. OUCH!!!!
moore 6 legend
Thu, 08/02/2018 - 23:51
Just proves sully is a arrogant pr*ck,he's not going to listen to the fans,it's all gona fall on deaf ears,it wont a achieve nothing he says,well what has he achieved apart from running our club into the ground.
Fri, 09/02/2018 - 08:42
The cardiff fan & the Green st born bloke whos had a butler for the last 50 years doing the crossed hammers - nauseating
Red Neck Iron
Tue, 06/02/2018 - 17:31
Ha ha classic! Thanks for pointing that out ashes (I can't look at Sullivan in the eye so I didn't look) great pic nev. was that taken just after David Moyes asked for 25 mill to buy joe Allen. Either that or someone has found out a place to store David's dildos.
moore 6 legend
Tue, 06/02/2018 - 10:34
How about this,my fav photo shop by Del Deacon,Brilliant stuff!
Tue, 06/02/2018 - 14:45
What a player what a man what a gent.....bet he's looking down now just wondering what the hell is happening to the club
moore 6 legend
Wed, 07/02/2018 - 11:08
Hear hear Mac


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Market Tours: Schwartz's Kosher Supermarket in Williamsburg
Like a trip to Flushing, where English signs are hard to come by, a stroll down Lee Avenue in Brooklyn's South Williamsburg—home to the Satmar Chassidim—uncovers a community conducted (almost entirely) in Yiddish. A visit is something of an unexpected vacation, with amusing mistranslations and unfamiliar customs (and quite a few stares, especially for the unaccompanied female in shorts and flip flops—hey, it's been a hot summer.)
On the corner of Lee and Hooper, across from a white-washed Jewish temple and the tinted-windows of Singer Clothing (which stocks nothing but identical long sleeved black frocks) is the modern, bodega-like awning of Schwartz's Kosher Supermarket. Friendly purple and white lettering advertises fruits and vegetables, and indeed the corner market has the expected varieties, stacked in cardboard boxes along the sidewalk. A quick peak through the glass doors, however, reveals a wall of impeccably packaged bin candy: Jordan almonds, jellies shaped like the fruits they claim to resemble, hard toffee in twists of colored paper, and an ice cream case announcing Klien's, The Ice Cream People. Real Kosher.
There's no shortage of kosher markets in South Williamsburg (or in Borough park, where the Bobov Chassidim are headquartered), but there is a shortage of kosher markets with helpful staff. Luckily, the long-bearded men behind the cash registers at Schwartz's, in their matching white shirts and black slacks (the community dress code), are such a staff (relative to their neighbors, in any case).
Schwartz's is almost as old as the community it serves. "We've been here more than fifty years. My grandfather opened the place, and then my father ran it, and now I do," explained the owner, staring down from an impressive height. He wouldn't tell me much else, name included, but nodded as he stood in the middle of his crowded grocery. "We have everything you need."
If you're looking for kosher or parve products (the Hebrew term for meat-and-dairy free foods), or for better and bigger versions of classic New York deli staples, the dual-level store is a good place to start. The candy wall is of course a definite draw, as is the chocolate babka and rugelach, the chocolate-coated wafers, the bagels, the chips (in interesting flavors like "falafel"), the sour pickles, the red and white horseradish (both of which come in "extra strong" only), the pickled herring, and the slew of ready-to-eat products from the famous Flaum's: lox salad, lox spread, cream of lox, whitefish salad, egg salad, potato salad and more.
Schwartz's doesn't stock meats (for that, head west on Lee Avenue to the butcher on the corner of Rodney Street). Otherwise, it has all treats you'll need for the upcoming Jewish holidays: there's flat egg noodles for kugel, both matzo meal and boxed matzo ball mix for making the dumplings in the famous comfort-food soup, and frozen gefilte fish (which I'd venture is far, far superior to the jarred version, which they also carry.)
And for more everyday Shabbat fare, you'll find glass jugs of grape juice (in peach, gold and blush), frozen potato knishes, frozen parve kishka (the stuffed sausage you find in cholent), several brands of both egg noodle and matzo farfel (commonly served as a side dish), and 6-pound bags of high-gluten flour, good for making great homemade bagels.
The ruddy, red-bearded man who took me around laughed when I asked him which product was his favorite. "Well, I would have to say, matzo. Matzo and horseradish. It makes an excellent snack." And because it's New York, Schwartz's has regular matzo—and salt-free and whole wheat, too.
If you're planning a trip to Chasidic Williamsburg, remember places close before sundown on Fridays, and don't reopen until Sunday.
Take a tour of the market in the slideshow »
Schwartz Kosher Supermarket
120 Lee Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211 718-875-3547
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This past Friday Elise N. and I hosted the last inservice of the 2011-2012 academic year, "A Conversation about Discrimination in Tutorials." Our overall goal was to encourage conversation about our experiences with encountering discriminatory language and attitudes in tutorials, and we were very pleased with the amount of extensive conversation that arose. That said, both Elise and I knew that we would not be able to cover all the territory surrounding discriminatory language/attitudes in tutorials within the hour and a half time limit, and we hope that this inservice sparks further conversation. A series of quotes, questions, readings, and "Looking back; Looking Forward" next steps are available for you to look over in the prezi Elise and I created. The next steps, which were collectively compiled by the inservice participants, were:
- keep doin' what you're doin'!
- consider our policies
- flexibility
- talk & respect (like we do)
- consider applying same strategies to these instances of discriminatory language
- continue our conversation
I've also included parts of our prezi in the slideshow above. Check it out! Tell us what you think! Keep the conversation going!


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DailyDirt: Learning From Nature
from the urls-we-dig-up deptBiology has solved a lot of problems over millions of years, so we might as well try to learn from it. Here are just a few examples of using biological systems to help improve our own technology.
- Slime mold can be used to verify the efficiency of Japan's railroad networks. Creating a food map of Japan and letting mold grow over it sounds like a fun science project for kids! [url]
- Researchers in distributed computing problems are learning from insect nervous systems. By studying how a fruit fly develops its sensory organs, we can learn the strategies of biological evolution and apply similar techniques to technological problems. [url]
- Security software that mimics ant behavior is a project that's been around for awhile. So the bad guys are probably already writing ant-eater malware.... [url]
- To discover more interesting biological curiosities, check out what's currently floating around the StumbleUpon universe. [url]
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That's funny. Love it.
Maybe, on the fence...
Don't really mind either way.
That's funny. Love it.
MOTUC Most Wanted: Skeleteen, Prince Keldor, Captain Randor, The Great Black Wizard, Lady Slither, Spirit, Tuvar, Baddra, Cursed Marzo, Tug-O-War, Scrollos, Songster, Mini-Comics Spirit of Castle Grayskull, and for the love of the Sorceress and Julie Winston, ODIPHUS!!!
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I think a reference to Earth would add a much-needed touch of humor to the film.
Maybe we could have a party (Gathering of dignitaries, perhaps? Maybe include one-shots such as Stratos and Buzz-Off? MOTU IS supposed to be epic now, isn't it?)
It doesn't have to be anything MAJOR:
Teela: His and Her Highnesses are hosting a Royal ball.
MAA: That's nice.
Teela: There's going to be an informal event the day before. Something The Queen calls a ... "barbecue".
MAA: A ... "barbecue".
Teela: You know ... a party. The Queen tells me her family had them all the time ... back on Earth.
MAA: What do they serve at these ... barbecues?
Teela: Steaks ... ground meat things called "hamburgers" and "cheeseburgers" ... and something called "hot dogs".
MAA (shaking his head, bemused): Her Highness and her Terran customs.
Seriously, Queen Marlena could be Eternia's own Barbara Bush!
Seriously, do we REALLY want two hours of action, action, action without any character development? You might as well get Michael Bay or Uwe Boll to direct.
Last edited by Mirage; July 6, 2007 at 11:19pm.
^ Leave out Earth and the movie risks committing all over again one of MYP MOTU's gravest sins: shrinking the "universe" down to Planet Eternia.
That was a sin that I really, really, really, reallly liked.
If bringing in another planet is so important, then just have someone say, "Skeletor was trained by an evil ******* from Etheria"
And then someone else can say, "Who and what is Etheria?"
Then a third person can chime in, "By Hordak, who kidnapped Prince Adam's twin sister, Princess Adora, but we aren't supposed to know that yet"
At while point the first two look at him funny, bray at him like a donkey and walk away.
Star Wars doesn't have a connection to earth. Neither does Lord of the Rings. Earth is stoopid.
For the crime of typing the true name of He Who Must Not Be Named, I hereby sentence you to be....
--Dan (who can't believe people keep giving that vile German director work!)
Last edited by Jack T. Chance; July 7, 2007 at 05:56am. Reason: Added additional reply
On June 17th, 2011...
No evil shall escape his sight!
Who is Uwe Boll and what unforgiveable abomination is connected to his name?
You want to know what unforgivable abominations He Who Must Not Be Named has given us? You mean you actually don't know?
Fine. Let me name his crimes against humanity, his unpardonable sins!
Do you notice a common thread, a trait these all share?
- House of the Dead
- Alone in the Dark
- BloodRayne
- In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (due out later this year)
- Postal (due out later this year?)
- BloodRayne II: Deliverance (Due out... sometime?)
- Far Cry (now filming, due in 2008)
They were all VIDEO GAMES, and in some cases, very good ones, at that. And yet, He Who Must Not Be Named is allowed to completely ruin their good names, to treat their fans with complete and total disrespect. These movies aren't B grade flicks... they're nowhere near that good! Try Z grade. They're so horrendous, I wouldn't even use the DVDs as coasters to set my drink on, lest they somehow manage to contaminate my beverage!
Last edited by Jack T. Chance; July 7, 2007 at 05:57am.
On June 17th, 2011...
No evil shall escape his sight!
could go either way..i like vals' idea of Marlena's mission...crashland...maybe she's rescued by Randor...flash forward 20 years. then the real action begins!
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"I Do hope you don't bruise easily He-Man!"
I wouldn't have a problem with them showing Marlena crashlanding on Eternia, a prologue so to speak, ala Lord of the Rings.
"Freedom is the right of all sentient beings, but freedom isn't free."
I have nothing agains Marlena mentioning that she is from Earth, but I still voted plain NO because I think moviemakers are probably reading this. I wouldn't want any of the action taking part on Earth. Some other plantes would be OK if they were featured briefly. Of course, Etheria could be a bit more prominent. But I really believe thay should establish Etarnia first - and later on, if we get part 5 or 6, they could move on to other planets.
Or we could just have Adam and Marlena talking about her past and her mentioning her home planet and what its like - making it obvious to the audience that its Earth, with out actually stating it.
Marlena can be from earth... as long as no one mentions it. Kind of a 'dont't ask, don't tell' policy
Pammy is the Greatest ans Most Beautyfull Girl off all Times.....whitout a Doubt.
I voted "no," as I do not see how establishing a connection to Earth would be relevant to the plot.
I voted yes! I like Marlena being from earth.
It also just makes things more interesting than "the mystic land of Eternia".
I'd like to think the universe of MOTU is bigger than just Eternia.
The fate of the universe is decided on Eternia after all, that includes Earth.
I prefer to see it as the Universe not including Earth at all. Similarly, it likely doesn't include Krypton. I would like Eternia to be in its own reality entirely independent of Earth.
I actually don't like the idea of MOTU being bigger than Eternia, partially because I never liked the technological aspects of it and would love them to be played down as much as possible. However, I wouldn't mind there being other planets or planes or dimensions or something that are mystically connected to Eternia.
I voted no, as well. Though, I would definitely keep the Marlena connection, if only to use it as an interesting plot thread. Unlike some others, I would gladly accept some other plot device than the mere "Uhoh! Skeletor is attacking!" as well as focusing some character development on some of the other characters OTHER than Heman and Skeletor.
I voted Yes because it was always a part of the charm knowing that Adam was half human. A priceless moment from the Filmation MOTU was on "Visitors From Earth", when you heard in utter fascination, "Earth! So that's where my mother's from." It wasn't overly stated on the old cartoon either so it was never dwelled upon.
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Executives of InfoComm project an uptick over last year in the number of attendees for the organization's InfoComm13 exhibition, being held from June 8-14 at Orlando's Orange County Convention Center.
An estimated 35,000 attendees are expected to view products from more than 925 exhibitors and avail themselves of more than 300 educational sessions at the show. The 5,000-member global organization, which serves the commercial AV industry, provided a sneak peek Feb. 6 for the press of the organization's annual trade exhibition.
The show will highlight technology pavilions for audio, conferencing, digital signage, lighting and staging, and worship. Technology zone pavilions, a new feature for 2013, will cover digital content creation, educational technology, security solutions and mobile video conferencing, said Besty Jaffe, director of public relations.
On hand to discuss recent group initiatives and future goals was David Labuskes, InfoComm's new executive director and CEO. "Our vision is to help members build their businesses," he said, stating that the group is seeking to address "what we can, as an association, help our members do to help AV system installation awareness and credibility, among consumers and with specifying professions and trades."
Labuskes enumerated several recently instituted changes in the group's enrollment structure designed to create more value for members. In early January, membership was streamlined from 15 levels to two: company and individual. All employees within a member company are automatically matriculated as members, and are entitled to take four complimentary classes: CTS (Certified Technology Specialist) Prep Online; InfoComm Recognized AV Technologist Test; Quick Start; and Essentials of AV Technology Online.
The group is also placing special emphasis on performance standards development. One results of this effort is a 162-item AV systems verification checklist, due out for review late in the first quart of this year. "Sometimes end-users don't know how well a system should perform. By using this checklist and going through its items with a client, that's a great way to show you did a good job," he said.
Additional information about the show can be found at www.infocommshow.org.


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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to work out a unified strategy on the crisis in Syria in talks with Saudi officials on Friday as further violence stymied UN efforts to convince Damascus to implement a cease-fire.
Clinton's talks with Saudi King Abdullah and other officials come ahead of a 60-nation gathering of the "Friends of the Syrian People" in Istanbul over the weekend aimed at finding ways to aid Syria's opposition. The US is hoping to help unify the splintered opposition's ranks while pushing for humanitarian aid and further isolation of Assad's regime.
Saudi Arabia, along with fellow Gulf nation Qatar, has called for a more aggressive approach, including arming the rebels and carving out a safe haven inside Syria from which the opposition can operate.
International opponents of Assad are struggling to pin down a strategy on Syria as a peace plan put forward by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan has so far failed to get off the ground. Syria has accepted the six-point plan, which includes a call for it to implement a cease-fire, but so far there has been no halt in fighting, and the opposition suspects Assad has no intention of stopping his crackdown and is only playing for time.
Assad said Thursday that he wants the plan to succeed, but insisted that the opposition must first commit to a cease-fire as well. Annan urged the Syrian government to halt its troops first.
"The government must stop first and then discuss a cessation of hostilities with the other side," Annan spokesman Ahmad Fawzi said Friday. "We are appealing to the stronger party to make a gesture of good faith. … The deadline is now."
"Clearly, we have not seen a cessation of hostilities and this is of great concern," he said.
Syrian activists say fresh fighting erupted Friday between soldiers and rebel fighters in the country's northern Idlib province. More than 9,000 people have been killed in Syria's violence since last March, according to UN estimates.
Clinton arrived in Riyadh and began talks with Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal, the Saudi Foreign Ministry said. The Saudi official news agency said Clinton then met with King Abdullah in his palace in Riyadh, along with top Saudi intelligence and security officials.
"Clinton will hold extensive talks with Saudi counterparts on the situation in Syria and on American efforts to stop bloodbath in Syria," a Saudi Foreign Ministry official in Riyadh said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he not authorized to discuss the talks.
The talks came a day after an Arab League summit in Baghdad, where divisions among Arab nations over Syria were clear. In a sign that they see little hope in diplomatic efforts from the League, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Gulf countries sent only low-level officials to the summit. In the end, the summit issued a joint resolution that held little new beyond expressing support for Annan's efforts.
President Barack Obama has publicly challenged Assad to leave power, but has refused to entertain US military options to achieve that end. Washington has said it opposes military intervention in Syria, fearing that it would fuel an outright civil war that could break along dangerous sectarian lines. The opposition is born mainly from Syria's Sunni Muslim majority, while Assad's regime is backed by his own minority Alawite community, a Shiite offshoot sect.
For the US and its allies, Syria is proving an especially murky conflict and one with no easy solutions. Assad's regime is one of Washington's clearest foes, a government that has long been closely allied with Iran and anti-Israel groups Hamas and Hezbollah. Saudi Arabia and other Sunni-led Gulf countries are eager to see Assad's fall in hopes of breaking Syria out of its alliance with their regional rival, Shiite-majority Iran.
But the Syrian opposition is chronically fragmented. The Syrian National Council, a nominal opposition umbrella group based abroad, has limited authority on the ground. Syrian army defectors have set up a military leadership based in neighboring Turkey, but they too have only nominal command over the multiple armed rebel groups inside Syria. The US has warned that al-Qaida and other Islamic militants are also taking advantage of the turmoil, attacking Assad's regime and trying to gain a foothold inside Syria.
And unlike Libya, whose leader Moammar Gadhafi inspired worldwide revulsion, Syria still has allies in Russia and Iran and a formidable army of its own.
On Thursday, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, vowed to support Assad during talks with the prime minister of Turkey, a country which was once close to Damascus but now backs the opposition.
"Iran will defend Syria because of (its) support of the resistance front against the Zionist regime and is strongly opposed to any interference by foreign forces in Syria's internal affairs," Khamenei said. "The Islamic Republic of Iran is categorically opposed to any plan initiated by the US regarding Syria."
Asked what might constitute success for Sunday's Friends of the Syrian People meeting in Istanbul, US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said, "We want to see as much unity as possible among those members of the opposition." She said conversations also would focus on humanitarian aid and further isolating Assad's government.
That is the same agenda as the first gathering of the Friends of the Syrian People, in February in Tunisia. There, the nations issued an ultimatum to Assad to end the hostilities, but it was roundly ignored.
Speaking Tuesday, Clinton cautiously welcomed the Syrian government's endorsement of Annan's plan. But Assad now has to make good on the deal, she said, citing the Syrian leader's "history of overpromising and under-delivering" when it comes to pledges of peace and reform.
Clinton said the US and its allies would spend the next few days helping Syria's primarily Sunni opposition refine its vision of an inclusive democracy, to assure minorities still supportive of the government that they'd have a place in a post-Assad future. She said Washington hoped for progress on that front this weekend.


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Kill a cat
Posted by ESC on April 10, 2004
In Reply to: Phare posted by FEDA OLÇAY on April 10, 2004
: I want to learn about the proverb "there is more than one way to kill a cat"the origin of it,who said it first ,in which situations it is used? please help me .thanks:)
It is a variation of "more than one way to skin a cat."
From the archives:
SKIN THE CAT - According to Charles Earle Funk in "A Hog on Ice" (Harper & Row, New York, 1948) the expression "to skin the cat" refers to a boy's gymnastic trick: "In America, as any country boy knows, this means to hang by the hands from a branch or bar, draw the legs up through the arms and over the branch, and pull oneself up into a sitting position. As we must abide by the record, we cannot say positively that the name for this violent small-boy exercise is more than a century old, but it is highly likely that Ben Franklin or earlier American lads had the same name for it. No one got around to putting it into print until about 1845. One can't be sure why the operation was called 'skinning the cat,' but maybe some mother, seeing it for the first time, saw in it some resemblance to the physical operation of removing the pelt from a cat, first from the forelegs and down over the body." Mr. Funk doesn't say WHY anyone would actually skin a cat, but anyway.
"Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings" by Gregory Y. Titelman (Random House, New York, 1996) lists the expression "more than one way to skin a cat" but doesn't really address the origin. Mr. Titelman does say it dates back to the 1678: "MORE THAN ONE WAY TO SKIN A CAT --There are many ways to do something. The proverb appeared in John Ray's collection of English proverbs in 1678, and is first attested in the United States in 'John Smith's Letters' . 'There are more ways to kill a cat besides choking him to death' is a variant of the saying. The words 'with butter' or 'on cream' may replace the words 'to death' in the latter version."
- Kill a cat Rube 14/April/04
- Skin a cat Smokey Stover 17/April/04