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You can feel the tension in the air: the UEFA European Football Championship 2016 is about to start! The 24 best national football teams from Europe will be competing from June 10 to July 10 in France. Almost all the usual suspects will be participating: Germany, England, France and Spain will all try their best to win this prestigious championship!
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Top 10 greatest soccer songs (World Cup)
Last month, FIFA announced "We Are One" to be the official song for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. The song will be performed by Claudia Leitte, Pitbull and Jennifer Lopez. So will the song enter our top 10 list of greatest soccer songs? Here are our favorites!
Top 10 largest soccer clubs by revenue
This year is another great year for soccer fans as the World Cup will take place in Brazil. But before the best players will represent their country, they've got to finish several other competitions, like the Champions League. The best soccer players often play for the largest soccer clubs by revenue.
Top 10 biggest stadiums in the world
Most sports nowadays are televised, reaching an worldwide audience of billions of people. Watching the finals together with friends is great, but actually being there as it happens is priceless. Feel the energy of 100,000 fans, hear the ref's whistle, see your favorite players in the biggest stadiums in the world.
Top 10 oldest riders in the Tour de France 2013
Despite the world's biggest fraud in sports, the Tour de France remains one of the most epic sport events of the year. Many riders are trying to reach Paris in the hope that they can finish in the yellow jersey. Typically the oldest riders won't win le Grande Boucle, but experience is of high importance during this sports classic.
Top 10 world's fastest serves in tennis
At the moment many professional tennis players are trying to win the French Open at Roland Garros in Paris, France. This is the most important clay court tennis tournament of the year and one of the four Grand Slam events. Typically, the players with the fastest serves in tennis don't make a chance on this relatively slow-playing surface. They'll try it anyway…
Top 10 most popular soccer clubs on social media
The most popular sport in the world is soccer. Billions of people worldwide watch the game of their favorite club on TV, in the stadium or, increasingly popular, on a live stream. Soccer today is a globalized industry with fans all over the world. The most popular soccer clubs are all well represented on Facebook and Twitter.
Top 10 classic cycle races
Today, the 99th edition of Liège–Bastogne–Liège is on the menu of many professional cyclists. It's the final spring classic of the season and it's presumably a prey for a climber. All classic cycle races take place in western Europe and have a rich history filled with tragedies and heroic acts. Out of the limited number of classic cycle races, some are regarded as 'monumental'. In the following top 10 list, they have a nickname.
Top 10 richest soccer players
Millions of people around the world play soccer. The vast majority of these players plays just for fun, as an amateur. Just a few soccer players actually get paid to play one of the most popular sports. Of all the paid soccer players the top players easily can scrape millions by kicking a ball in front of an audience, making them the richest soccer players of all time.
Top 10 famous Spanish guitar players
The classical guitar is also known as the Spanish guitar. And indeed, Spain is guitar crazy. Imagine a warm summer evening somewhere in an Andalucian village or town. You're enjoying the easiness of a Spanish evening, sipping wine from the glass, eating olives, manchego and jamon. A young guy is practicing the sounds of some famous Spanish guitar players on his guitar. Time stops. Peace and joy starts. This is the intense sound of Spain.
Top 10 biggest cash prize winners in poker
It takes understanding of psychology, probability and game theory. It takes a bluff. Total control of your nerves. Sunglasses, even after dark. The game of poker has gained a lot of popularity since it is possible to play poker online. Moreover the game became a spectator sport thanks to the introduction of hole-card cameras. Many of the biggest cash prize winners in poker started online with a buy in of a few dollars.
Top 10 most successful golf players
Yesterday, by winning the Cadillac Classic in Doral, Florida, Tiger Woods dominantly showed that he's still in the race of becoming one of the world's most successful golf players ever. In order to grant this unofficial title he needs to win six more PGA tournaments. If he wins the next tournament at Bay Hill, Orlando, he can return to number 1 on the Tour.
Top 10 highest grossing movies
Over the last century movies became a source of popular entertainment and an industry worth billions. Millions of people worldwide can't wait to see the newest releases starring their favored actors. Distributors such as Walt Disney, Paramount and Miramax make a fortune out of the film industry, producing and distributing the highest grossing movies on an annual basis.
Top 10 soccer stadiums in Spain
Spain is soccer crazy. The national team became world champion in 2010 by beating the Netherlands in extra time. Last year they won the European Championship. But it's not only the national team that performs well. Real Madrid and Barcelona are amongst the greatest soccer clubs of the world. From a soccer player's perspective playing in the Primera Division (La Liga) is one of the biggest things to achieve in a soccer career. Playing in Europe's biggest soccer stadium on a weekly basis, live life like a hero. It's a privilege to play in Spain's greatest stadiums! But which are the biggest? Here's a top 10 soccer stadiums in Spain!
Top 10 most expensive soccer players by transfer value
Soccer is the most popular sport in the world as billions of people worldwide watch the game in stadiums or on television on an almost daily basis. There is a lot of money going on in football. Therefore it seems only logical that soccer clubs are trying to buy the best players in order to win prizes.
Top 10 biggest ski areas in the world
In the northern hemisphere the days are short, in many places it's freezing hard. It's tough to start the engine of your car, after you've scraped the snow from your windscreen. It's winter. A good time to take a plane to a tropical island to warm up a bit. But definitely a good time too to have some fun in the snow. Snowboarding, alpine skiing or some cross-country skiing (langlaufen) are all great things to do in the snow. The spots in our next list have everything you would like to do on your winter holiday, including the apres-ski part, which basically comes down to drinking warm alcoholic beverages, such as mulled wine or Glühwein. Many of the destinations are now connected to each other in order to enjoy more slopes, creating the world's biggest ski areas. Fine, snow guaranteed ski resorts. Here's a top 10 list of the world's largest ski areas!
Top 10 most successful snooker players
Snooker is a very popular cue sport in England and in other Commonwelth nations. It is believed to be invented in India by British Army officers. Snooker became a television event when the colour TV was introduced in the sixties. From 1978 on the World Championship is fully televised by the BBC, making snooker a mainstream sport. Nowadays there are many professional players who can earn millions of pounds on the many tournaments on the Main Tour. Snooker is becoming increasingly popular in China. But who are the most successful snooker players in terms of the number of matches played and won? Cuetracker provides us with a top 10!
Top 10 most expensive music videos
There was a time that a song was played on the radio and people clung together to dance on the music that was broadcasted. The Beatles started to integrate video and music for promotional purposes in 1965. It wasn't until the 1980's that music videos became popular, when MTV built a format around this medium. And although MTV isn't that popular anymore due to the internet, video clips still are. That's why a lot of money is spent on production of video clips. Here's a top 10 most expensive music videos!
Top 10 most succesfull Formula One drivers
This weekend, Sebastian Vettel can celebrate his third consecutive Formula One (F1) title if he manages to reach a top-4 position in the Brazil race. Theoretically, Fernando Alonso has a chance of becoming World Champion, but chances are not high. Both drivers are very succesfull Formula One drivers, but who's the most succesfull? Here's a list!
Top 10 highest grossing concert tours
Music plays an important part in our lives. "Tell me what your favorite music is and I'll tell you who you are" is the amateur psychologist way of saying that we identify with our favorite bands. The way we enjoy music has changed somewhat over the last two decades, from buying records to hunting down pirated copies of new albums. But what hasn't changed is our passion for live music. We flock to stadiums by the thousands to enjoy a good concert. Here's our top 10 list of highest grossing concert tours ever.
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Top 10 richest soccer clubs by annual revenue
We've had our share of sport this summer. Spain won EURO 2012, the Tour de France was a prey for the British Team Sky, the Olympics were dominated by USA, China and Great Britain. It's time to go back to our daily routine. Luckily, European soccer competitions are soon to start. Which clubs are the richest soccer clubs by annual revenue? Check this next list composed by Forbes Magazine!
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Top 10 best selling Atari games ever
The Atari 2600 was the world's first ever dedicated gaming console where you could actually switch games. Older gaming product had the games built in, and that was it. So when this gaming device hit the streets in October 1977, it didn't take before 'Atari' became the synonym of game console. Oh, and along the way it spawned an enormous industry of game developing. Here's our list of best selling Atari games ever.
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Top 10 best selling Sony Playstation games
When Sony launched the original Playstation in 1994 they instantly knew they had struck gold. Millions of this 'next gen' home entertainment consoles were sold, reaching a staggering 100 million just over 9 years after the release of the first one. It was especially loved because of it's 3D graphic capabilities. Needless to say, tons of games were sold for the Playstation. Here's our top-10 list of the best selling games for the original Sony Playstation.
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Top 10 best selling NES games ever
There's probably not a soul alive who has never seen a original Nintendo, the beloved NES (short for Nintendo Entertainment System). This incredible machine is rightfully the grandaddy of home video gaming consoles. Launched in 1983, it caused a revolution in home entertainment and spawned numerous well know video game characters (I'll bet you can tell where this is going). Here's our list of the best selling NES games ever.
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Top 10 best selling video games for Xbox
We've established that The Sims is the best selling PC video game ever, with over 20 million copies sold. But there are a lot more platforms out there, besides the PC. How about Microsoft's Xbox? The original Xbox went on sale in 2001, and soon there were a lot of games to go with it. This is our top-10 list of best selling Xbox video games.
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The Rio Paralympic Games will go ahead as scheduled next month despite facing "major budget cuts".
The anticipated budget from Rio 2016's organising committee was not at the level it had originally committed to, necessitating the need to make cutbacks, according to the International Paralympic Committee.
IPC president Philip Craven said in a statement: "Never before in the 56-year history of the Paralympic Games have we faced circumstances like this."
While the workforce will be downsized and changes made to the the transport schedule, the biggest announcement was that the Deorodo Olympic Park would be closed and dismantled.
Wheelchair fencing has now been switched to the Barra Olympic Park while equestrian, seven-a-side football and shooting will work as standalone venues.
Craven said: "Since becoming aware of the full scale of the problem, we have focused all of our efforts on finding solutions to the problems.
"At the IPC we are a relatively small but united organisation. It's in our Paralympic DNA to see obstacles as an opportunity to do things differently and that's what we are doing here. We are problem solvers by nature and fight for what we believe in.
"These cuts are on top of the ones we, together with the IOC, have already made in the last 12 months and are likely to impact nearly every stakeholder attending the Games.
"We are working desperately hard to protect athlete services, especially within the field of play. They have dedicated their lives to reaching these Games and we will do our utmost to try and maintain the service levels and scope that they expect at a Paralympic Games."

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No federal bond for Benjamin Roberts; the former child care worker will remain in jail
Benjamin Roberts, 25, a former child care worker accused of sexually abusing children, will remain in jail on federal child pornography charges.
Through defense attorney attorney Kenneth Leggett, Roberts waived a detention hearing Thursday in federal court. Magistrate Judge E. Scott Frost said that based on that waiver, Roberts "will remain in custody pending trial."
Leggett also said during the hearing that his client Roberts waives a preliminary hearing.
Roberts was arrested Tuesday on federal charges of receipt of child pornography.
Abilene police originally arrested Roberts on March 28 on state charges of possession of child pornography, a third-degree felony, and indecency with a child, a second-degree felony. In addition, a Taylor County grand jury on June 21 indicted him on one count of continuous sexual abuse of a child.
More:FBI re-arrests former Abilene child care worker accused of sexually abusing children
Roberts was released from the Taylor County Jail Aug. 22 after his bond was reduced to $50,000 each on the two remaining local counts.
Police said in a news release Tuesday that the state charge of possession of child pornography was dropped, and the FBI "picked up the charges and arrested Roberts earlier Tuesday."
A special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigations filed a criminal complaint Monday in federal court allegeding Roberts received child pornography. In an affidavit, the agent states that the charge is based on an Abilene police investigation.
The APD investigation began in February. Abilene police executed a search warrant at the residence on March 28 and eventually arrested Roberts. The affidavit stated that Roberts admitted to police to storing received child pornography onto a flash drive connected to his laptop. Police said they found evidence of child pornography on both devices.
The devices were sent to a lab for forensic examination for further examination. The affidavit states that the lab discovered "child sexually exploitation material" in the form of more than 400 images and 33 videos on Roberts' computer and flash drive.
Abilene police also began investigating Roberts, who has worked at several church child care centers, of child sexual assault. The grand jury indictment documents indicate that Roberts sexually assault at least five victims, all under the age of 14.
In a related case, the director of Wylie Baptist Church Child Development Center, where Roberts once worked, was charged in May with failure to report suspected child abuse.


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If anyone on this planet deserves a nice, relaxing vacation it's Huma Abedin and she seems to be giving herself exactly that. Fleeing to the sun and lack of Anthony Weiner in Los Angeles, Huma seems to be enjoying herself and enjoying some interesting company. Now, I'm not saying she's doing all this to make Anthony jealous, but how great would it be if she were?
The world briefly stopped earlier this week when we all thought she was dating Tony Goldwyn after TMZ caught the pair together in Disneyland. This was made all the more (potentially) Scandal(ous) when you remember Tony Goldwyn has been married for almost 30 years.
Upon a closer look, the visit was much more innocent than it looked. Huma's son was there, as was Tony Goldwyn's daughter, and a source later told E! News they're simply good friends who worked together during the Clinton campaign.
However, you know that for a few brief moments, when Anthony Weiner got that Google alert while lying on the couch in his mother's basement, he didn't know that for certain. Let us all bask in the idea of his panic and jealousy in that moment.
If that wasn't enough, last night Huma, for some reason, attended Haim Saban's Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony with David Foster, of all people.
Though I would be significantly less excited about this pairing anyway, turns out they're also just friends according to People Magazine.
Reacting to an event photo caption that referred to the Clinton staffer as Foster's "date," one Abedin friend tells PEOPLE, "This is utterly ridiculous." A source close to Foster confirms the same: The two do not have a relationship.
Hm, is it ridiculous? She's not exactly Foster's type, but maybe he's pulling a George Clooney after all these years.
No, Huma is simply enjoying her vacation in LA with some male companions who may not be stellar, but are certainly better than the man who did everything in his very small power to help fuck up an important election in the only way he knows how.
I can only hope Huma is also spending this time recovering, reevaluating and considering future relationships with successful, respectful men who don't send pictures of their genitals to teenagers. Go ahead and get your groove back, girl and move on with anyone—seriously, anyone—else.


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From Tolkien Gateway
MBAR is a Primitive Quendian root signifying "dwell; to make a decision". Tolkien notes that English "'[s]ettle' is in fact, in its various branches of meaning, a very close rendering of the sense of base √MBAR".[1]
- Common Eldarin: mbar, mbardă ("house")[1]
Other versions of the legendarium[edit]
In the Qenya Lexicon appears the root MBARA, from which was derived Qenya mar ("dwelling of men, -land, the Earth").[2] In the Etymologies appear the root MBAR- signifying "dwell, inhabit" (emended from "dwell, build, inhabit").[3][4]
See also[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 J.R.R. Tolkien, "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings: Eldarin Roots and Stems", in Parma Eldalamberon XVII (edited by Christopher Gilson), pp. 163-4 (stem appearing as "√MBAR" and "√MBAR-")
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Qenyaqetsa: The Qenya Phonology and Lexicon", in Parma Eldalamberon XII (edited by Carl F. Hostetter, Christopher Gilson, Arden R. Smith, and Patrick H. Wynne)
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, Part Three: "The Etymologies", p. 372
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies — Part One" (edited by Carl F. Hostetter and Patrick H. Wynne), in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 45, November 2003, p. 33


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The man behind the Cronut has just published the official recipe … and it's not for the faint of heart.
Pastry chef Dominique Ansel invented the Cronut last year at his New York bakery. With its flaky croissant and custard interior and fried, sugar-dipped exterior, it was bound to be popular – but no one could have predicted the ensuing, pastry-flecked frenzy.
Just days after Ansel started selling the croissant-donut hybrid in May 2013, things got crazy. Lines formed at the doors at 6am, news crews camped outside the bakery, and a thriving Cronut black market sprang up on Craigslist. The canny Ansel trademarked his Cronut, but that hasn't stopped doissants and fauxnuts springing up across the globe.
His new cookbook, Dominique Ansel: The Secret Recipes, features many elegant and inventive confections, though of course there's one getting all the attention. The not-so-secret Cronut recipe is now plastered all over the internet. But would-be imitators will need their piping bags and patience at the ready – this one is best left well alone if the most complicated thing you've ever baked is a lemon drizzle.
The official Cronut takes three days to make, thanks in part to the laminated dough. This is rolled together with a block of chilled butter to form layers, and needs a lengthy rest in the fridge. Ansel takes things to the next level, however. Two days before you're allowed near the fryer, you must make a dough square. For unexplained reasons, you also have to make the ganache 48 hours ahead of time. On day two, you get the dough out of the fridge and roll it with a perfect square of butter made using parchment and a ruler. Then back in the fridge it goes until day three – a frenzy of frying, glazing, flavoured sugar and piping work. The equipment list specifies a stand mixer with dough hook (cost £250-£400), the ruler, piping bags and a deep-frying thermometer.
It may be lengthy, and require a decent level of kitchen experience, but the most surprising thing about Ansel's "secret" recipe is that it contains no great secrets. "The only thing that surprises me is that it isn't a bit more different," says former Bake Off winner Edd Kimber, who has just published his own patisserie cookbook and created a fauxnut recipe last year. "Ansel has said in the past that it's different to a croissant dough, but looking at the recipe, the technique is very similar. There's the addition of a little egg white and cream, so it's almost like a croissant dough with a bit of Danish recipe thrown in."
The secret of the Cronut has been solved. It takes three days and a lot of sugar, butter and graft. One question remains, however: will anyone have the patience to make their own?


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Puritans was the name given in the 16th century to the more extreme Protestants within the Church of England who thought the English Reformation had not gone far enough in reforming the doctrines and structure of the church; they wanted to purify their national church by eliminating every shred of Catholic influence. In the 17th century many Puritans emigrated to the New World, where they sought to found a holy Commonwealth in New England. Puritanism remained the dominant cultural force in that area into the 19th century.
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After James I became king of England in 1603, Puritan leaders asked him to grant several reforms. At the Hampton Court Conference (1604), however, he rejected most of their proposals, which included abolition of bishops. Puritanism, best expressed by William Ames and later by Richard Baxter, gained much popular support early in the 17th century. The government and the church hierarchy, however, especially under Archbishop William Laud, became increasingly repressive, causing many Puritans to emigrate. Those who remained formed a powerful element within the parliamentarian party that defeated Charles I in the English Civil War. After the war the Puritans remained dominant in England until 1660, but they quarreled among themselves (Presbyterian dominance gave way to Independent, or congregational, control under Oliver Cromwell) and proved even more intolerant than the old hierarchy. The restoration of the monarchy (1660) also restored Anglicanism, and the Puritan clergy were expelled from the Church of England under the terms of the Act of Uniformity (1662). Thereafter English Puritans were classified as Nonconformists.
Richard Mather and John Cotton provided clerical leadership in the dominant Puritan colony planted on Massachusetts Bay. Thomas Hooker was an example of those who settled new areas farther west according to traditional Puritan standards. Even though he broke with the authorities of the Massachusetts colony over questions of religious freedom, Roger Williams was also a true Puritan in his zeal for personal godliness and doctrinal correctness. Most of these men held ideas in the mainstream of Calvinistic thought. In addition to believing in the absolute sovereignty of God, the total depravity of man, and the complete dependence of human beings on divine grace for salvation, they stressed the importance of personal religious experience. These Puritans insisted that they, as God's elect, had the duty to direct national affairs according to God's will as revealed in the Bible. This union of church and state to form a holy commonwealth gave Puritanism direct and exclusive control over most colonial activity until commercial and political changes forced them to relinquish it at the end of the 17th century.
Because of its diffuse nature, when Puritanism began to decline in America is difficult to say. Some would hold that it lost its influence in New England by the early 18th century, but Jonathan Edwards and his able disciple Samuel Hopkins revived Puritan thought and kept it alive until 1800. Others would point to the gradual decline in power of Congregationalism, but Presbyterians under the leadership of Jonathan Dickinson and Baptists led by the example of Isaac Backus (1724 - 1806) revitalized Puritan ideals in several denominational forms through the 18th century.
During the whole colonial period Puritanism had direct impact on both religious thought and cultural patterns in America. In the 19th century its influence was indirect, but it can still be seen at work stressing the importance of education in religious leadership and demanding that religious motivations be tested by applying them to practical situations.
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Puritanism was a loosely organized reform movement originating during the English Reformation of the sixteenth century. The name came from efforts to "purify" the Church of England by those who felt that the Reformation had not yet been completed. Eventually the Puritans went on to attempt purification of the self and society as well.
Puritans achieved a measure of public acceptance in the early years of Queen Elizabeth's reign. They then suffered a series of reverses that lasted through the reigns of her successors James I and Charles I. In the days of James I some Puritans grew discouraged about their reforming efforts and separated entirely from the Church of England. These Separates included the "Pilgrims," who after a sojourn in Holland established in 1620 the Plymouth Colony in what is now southeastern Massachusetts.
When Charles I attempted to rule England without Parliament and its many Puritan members, and when he tried systematically to root Puritans out of the English church, a larger, less separatistic body emigrated to Massachusetts Bay (1630), where for the first time Puritans had the opportunity to construct churches and a society reflecting their grasp of the word of God. In England other Puritans continued the struggle for reform. When war with Scotland forced Charles I to recall Parliament in 1640, civil war was the ultimate result.
That conflict ended with the execution of the king (1649), the rise of Oliver Cromwell to the protectorate of England, the production of the Westminster Confession and Catechisms, and the erection of a Puritan Commonwealth. Yet Cromwell, for all his abilities, found it impossible to establish a Puritan state. After his death (1658), the people of England asked the son of Charles I to return, a restoration marking the collapse of organized Puritanism in England. Across the Atlantic a vital Puritanism survived only a little longer. By the time of Cotton Mather (d. 1728) Indian warfare, the loss of the original Massachusetts charter, and a growing secularization had brought an end to Puritanism as a way of life in America.
The Puritans believed that humankind was utterly dependent upon God for salvation. With their predecessors in England and with Luther and Calvin they believed that reconciliation with God came as a gift of his grace received by faith. They were Augustinians who regarded humans as sinners, unwilling and unable to meet the demands, or to enjoy the fellowship, of a righteous God apart from God's gracious initiative.
But Puritans also made distinctive contributions to the general Reformed idea of salvation. They advocated a "plain style" of preaching, as exemplified in the masterful sermons of John Dod (1555 - 1645) and William Perkins (1558 - 1602), which was consciously designed to point out simply the broad way of destruction and the strait gate to heaven. They also placed a new emphasis on the process of conversion. In the journals and diaries of leaders like Thomas Shepard (1605 - 49) they charted the slow, and often painful, process by which God brought them from rebellion to obedience. They also spoke of salvation in terms of "covenant." In the notes to the Geneva Bible, the translation of proto - Puritans completed during the reign of Mary Tudor, emphasis was on a personal covenant of grace, whereby God both promised life to those who exercised faith in Christ and graciously provided that faith, on the basis of Christ's sacrificial death, to the elect.
Later Puritans expanded the idea of covenant to take in the organization of churches, seen most clearly in the rise of Congregationalism (or Independency) and the structuring of all society under God, of which the "Holy Commonwealths" of Massachusetts and Connecticut were the major examples.
With the early English Reformers the Puritans believed, second, in the supreme authority of the Bible. The use of Scripture, however, soon came to be a great cause of offense between Puritans and their Anglican opponents and among Puritans themselves. Puritans, Anglicans, and the many in between all believed in the Bible's final authority. But Puritans came to argue that Christians should do only what the Bible commanded. Anglicans contended rather that Christians should not do what the Bible prohibited. The difference was subtle but profound. Among Puritans considerable differences eventually appeared over what Scripture demanded, especially in questions relating to the church.
Some (mostly in England) contended for a presbyterian state - church organization, others (in Massachusetts and Connecticut) supported a congregational organization in league with the state, while still others (English Independents and Baptists as well as Roger Williams in New England) believed that the Bible mandated congregational churches separate from the state. In short, Puritans disagreed with Anglicans about the way to interpret the Bible, but they differed among themselves about which biblical interpretations were best. The former disagreement dominated English religious life so long as the king and his episcopalian allies were in control. The latter came to the fore after the success of the Puritan Revolution, and it led to the disintegration of Puritanism in England.
These disagreements should not hide the Puritans' overriding commitment to the authority of Scripture. They made as serious an attempt as has ever been made in the English - speaking world to establish their lives on the basis of biblical instruction. When Puritan efforts to reform the kingdom of England faltered in the last years of Elizabeth's reign, they turned to the one sphere they could still control, their individual families. It was during this period around 1600 that Puritans began to place new emphasis on the sabbath, to revive family worship, and to encourage personal acts of mercy to the sick and dying. When Puritan prospects brightened in the 164os, this "spiritualization of the household" emerged into the open.
Puritans believed, third, that the church should be organized from Scripture. Anglicans contended that episcopacy, since it was tried and tested by time and did not violate any command of Scripture, was a godly and appropriate way of organizing the church. Puritans responded that the defenders of episcopacy missed the point, for they neglected to follow the positive teachings of the Bible. Puritans argued that Scripture laid down specific rules for constructing and governing churches. Furthermore, the Bible taught a system of church order that was not based on bishops. Puritans maintained this conviction even when they failed among themselves to agree on what that biblical system was. But even these disagreements were fruitful, for they grounded the modern polity of Presbyterians, Congregationalists, and Baptists as well.
The reason that Puritan beliefs concerning salvation, Scripture, and the church created such upheaval was their fourth basic conviction, that God had sanctioned the solidarity of society. Most Puritans believed that a single, coordinated set of authorities should govern life in society. The result was that Puritans sought nothing less than to make all England Puritan. Only late during the Puritan Commonwealth did ideas of toleration and of what is known today as pluralism arise, but these ideas were combated by most Puritans themselves and firmly set to rest for another generation by the restoration of Charles II.
From a modern vantage point the intolerance entailed by a unified view of society has harmed the Puritans' reputation. From a more disinterested perspective it is possible also to see great advantages. The Puritans succeeded in bursting the bonds of mere religiosity in their efforts to serve God. Puritanism was one of the moving forces in the rise of the English Parliament in the early seventeenth century. For good and for ill, it provided a foundation for the first great political revolution in modern times. It gave immigrants to Massachusetts a social vision whose comprehensively Christian character has never been matched in America. And, for such a putatively uncreative movement, it liberated vast energies in literature as well.
The Westminster Confession and Catechisms which Puritan divines wrote at the request of Parliament (1643 - 47) remain a guide to Reformed theology, especially in Presbyterian circles, to this day. Together, the works of the Puritans comprise Protestantism's most extensive library of sacred and practical theology.
Important as the contributions of ministers were, the greatest contribution of Puritans to Christian history probably resided with its laymen. The English - speaking world has never seen such a cluster of thoroughly Christian political leaders as the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell, the governor of Massachusetts John Winthrop, or the governor of Plymouth William Bradford. These leaders erred, perhaps often, but they yet devoted their lives to public service, self - consciously and whole - heartedly, out of deepest gratitude to the God of their salvation.
We also glimpse the genius of Puritanism when we look beyond its politicians to its writers. It is all too easy to forget that John Milton, who in Paradise Lost dared "assert Eternal Providence / And justify the ways of God to men," had earlier defended the execution of Charles I and served as Cromwell's Latin (or corresponding) secretary. John Bunyan served in Cromwell's army and preached as a layman during the Commonwealth before he was jailed in Bedford for his Puritan beliefs, where he redeemed the time by writing The Pilgrim's Progress. In America, Puritanism produced a woman poet of note in Anne Bradstreet (1616 - 72). It also gave us the poems of Edward Taylor (1645 - 1729), a retiring country minister. Taylor's meditations, composed to prepare his own heart for quarterly celebrations of the Lord's Supper, are among the finest poems ever written by an American.
Mark A Noll
(Elwell Evangelical Dictionary)
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One of the chief difficulties in studying the various movements loosely spoken of as Puritanism is to frame an exact definition capable of including the varied and sometimes mutually inconsistent forms of belief usually classified under that name. In its original meaning it signified "those who strove for a worship purified from all taint of popery" (Maitland, op. cit. inf., 590). A more recent writer adopting and expanding this definition adds: "The many various sects and persons who fall under this definition, were usually characterized both by an aversion from gaiety and by a passionate love of civic freedom" (Trevelyan, op. cit. inf., 60). We may see the first beginnings of English Puritanism in the attitude of those who in 1563 entered into the "Vestiarian Controversy" by opposing the use, by the clergy, of the cap and gown in daily life and of the surplice in church. English exiles from Geneva were active in the cause, and by 1565 their resistance to the queen's wishes subjected some of them to loss of benefices. This controversy of rights and vestments developed into a controversy of polity, until Presbyterianism emerged in antagonism to Episcopalianism. Yet in the process the movement developed on such divergent lines that Puritanism soon included three different theories of Church government. First there were the moderates who were willing to retain government by bishops, though they preferred the title "superintendent", but who wished the usages of the Establishment to conform more nearly to Genevan practices. Those who held this system were in agreement with the Scottish Presbyterianism which had been established by John Knox. Secondly there were the strict Presbyterians who wished for the Calvinistic form of government as well as the theology and order of worship. In England the movement was led by Thomas Cartwright of Cambridge, whose doctrine that there should be equality of authority and that bishop and presbyter were all one was soon adopted in Scotland. Thirdly there were the Free Churchmen or Independents who repudiated all coercive power in the Church and wished all men to be free in forming congregations. Their leader was Robert Brown, whose followers were at first persecuted by Anglicans and Presbyterians alike, but whose descendants grew in power and influence until under Oliver Cromwell they became the predominant party.
The three bodies differed from one another in doctrine, in ecclesiastical polity, and in their view of toleration. The strength of Puritanism as common to these three bodies lay in the results effected by the general study of the Bible, in which the Puritans learned the relations of man with God as exemplified in the histories and parables of Holy Writ. This private study of the Scriptures was carried on by the aid of private interpretation which inevitably resulted in the multiplication of minor sects such as Fifth Monarchy men, Levellers, Diggers, and others. Thus Puritanism could never attain a recognized dogmatic system. At first it shared many Calvinistic views with the theologians of the Established Church, but these were abandoned by some and Calvin's doctrines were rejected first by the Baptists and afterwards by the Quakers and the Unitarians. However, the lack of a consistent theology was the less felt because of the great stress which the Puritans laid upon "serving God in spirit and in truth" - by feeling and conduct rather than by doctrine. This spirit is most pronounced in the Puritan works which achieved the highest popularity: Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress", George Fox's "Journal", Thomas Ellwood's "History of My Own Life" and Baxter's "Saint's Everlasting Rest". In matters of Church government some kind of system became necessary and the Scottish Presbyterians evolved a plan, embodied in the First Book of Discipline which had been drawn up in the Edinburgh Assembly of 1560, and which was concerned chiefly with the congregation itself. This was supplemented by the Second Book of Discipline of 1578 which regulated the dependence of the congregation on the higher courts. By it Presbyterianism was fully established; for the superintendents were abolished and all authority was transferred from individual ministers to four bodies, the Kirk Session, the Presbytery, the Provincial Synod, and the General Assembly.
The English Puritans regarded this system from two diametrically opposed points of view. It was approved by the Presbyterians and condemned by the Independents. But for a time they were kept united by the common necessity of opposing the alliance between the High Church party and the Crown which took place under James I. The struggle became political, and the Arminianism, Episcopalianism, and divine right of the sovereign maintained by the one party were opposed by the Calvinism, Presbyterianism, and Republicanism of the other. When the enactments of the Long Parliament had resulted in victory for the Puritans, their own internal differences clamoured for settlement and the Westminster Assembly of 1643 was an unsuccessful attempt at composing them. The four parties, Moderate Presbyterians, Scottish Presbyterians, Erastians, and Independents having quarrelled fiercely, agreed on a compromise favouring the Moderates. The Presbyterians, however, gradually lost ground, owing to the growing power of the Independents who had the strong support of Cromwell and his army. They in their turn were destroyed as a political power by the Restoration, since when Puritanism ceased to be a force in England under that name, and survived only in the various Nonconformist sects which have increased and multiplied in number down to the present day, without, however, any augmentation of collective strength. Many of these bodies have long ceased to represent Puritanism in any respect save that of dissent from the Established Church. One of the most picturesque incidents in the history of Puritanism and one of far reaching influence on subsequent American history was the departure of the "Pilgrim Fathers" - seventy-four English Puritans and twenty-eight women - who sailed from England in the May Flower and landed on Plymouth Rock, 25 December, 1620. There they founded a colony, representing both types, the Plymouth colony being Congregationalists, the Massachusetts Bay settlers, Presbyterians.
Publication information Written by Edwin Burton. Transcribed by M.E. Smith. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XII. Published 1911. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Nihil Obstat, June 1, 1911. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York
CAMPBELL, "Puritanism in Holland, England, and America" (London, 1892); DEXTER, "England and Holland" (London, 1906); GREGORY, "Puritanism" (London, 1895); WAKEMAN, "The Church and the Puritans: 1570-1660" (London, 1887); BYINGTON, "The Puritan in England and New England" (London, 1896), giving a useful bibliography; NEAL, "History of the Puritans, 1517-1688" (London, 1822); STOWELL AND WILSON, "History of the Puritans in England" (London, 1849); HOPKINS, "The Puritans: Church, Court and Parliament during the reigns of Edward VI and Elizabeth" (Boston, 1859-61); MARSDEN, "History of the early Puritans, to 1642" (London, 1850); IDEM, "History of the later Puritans, 1642-62" (London, 1852); TULLOCH, "English Puritanism and its leaders" (Edinburgh, 1861); MAITLAND, "The Anglican Settlement and the Scottish Reformation" in "Cambridge Modern History", II (Cambridge, 1903); TREVELYAN, "England under the Stuarts" (London, 1904). See also "Reprints of the Clarendon Historical Society" (Edinburgh, 1882-6).
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Until recently, Placencia, Belize was a small, sleepy fishing community, home to approximately 1000 residents. And only within the past few years has it become a destination for tourists from around the world.
With exotic white sand beaches, world-class diving and breathtaking
Mayan ruins, Placencia is the ideal getaway or vacation for memories that will last a lifetime.
When I first heard we would be traveling to Placencia, my initial question was, "Where is that?" Sure, I had heard of Belize. I knew it was tropical and somewhere in the Caribbean, but other than the basics, I had no idea what we were in store for. Little did I know it was a yet undiscovered hidden gem, a peninsula only 12 miles in length.
At the Placencia airport, we met hotel representatives who drove us to Belize Ocean Club.
We were immediately charmed by the unspoiled nature of Placencia; it is not your typical "touristy" town.
In fact, we joked about four cars in Placencia being a "traffic jam!" Quaint restaurants, shops and beautiful lush vegetation line the one main street on your quick ten minutes trip from the airport to Belize Ocean Club. Upon arrival, we were greeted with cool towels and tropical rum drinks to refresh ourselves. What a nice surprise!
But, what we came to realize is the service at Belize Beach Club is excellent. In fact, we felt like we were treated like royalty from the moment we were picked up at the airport to the time we left by the courteous and accommodating staff. Basically, they anticipate your every need before you begin to ask. And they cater to your every whim and desire. The staff was always five steps ahead of us. They paid attention and took time to get to know us personally. For example, we ordered breakfast the first day. The second day, they were already aware of what we wanted. There was a request made on the first day for non-dairy milk. They didn't have it. The second day, it miraculously appeared and was there from every day forth. They also knew exactly who was vegan and who requested it.
The dining area is literally right on the beach. It is a beautiful palapa overlooking the ocean. And, quite simply, the food is amazing. Homemade bread, tortillas and pizzas are served daily. Fresh fruit abounds. We were served chutney made from fresh pineapple and local honey that was a perfect accompaniment to tropical pancakes. One of our favorite drinks was a watermelon licuado which is fresh watermelon juice served over ice, so refreshing! I remember a server carrying endless watermelons over his shoulder to make them. There is a mix of Mayan and Caribbean influences in the food so they serve everything from egg white breakfast burritos to jerk chicken. And to illustrate how attentive the staff is,
one member of our party was a red wine drinker. The next day, a waiter recommended wines after doing research on what was available to him that would suit our palates.
During the day, we enjoyed lying out by the pool and playing beach volleyball on their private beach. And we ordered yoga under a palapa next to the ocean's edge. This was an amazing experience and we found the yoga instructor to be extremely knowledgeable and patient. Doing yoga outside with the beach breeze and simply breathing in the fresh air in savasana pose was an experience we'll never forget.
For those seeking a bit more excitement, every Sunday they have a pool party from noon to 7pm complete with DJ and great music!
This is the place to be on Sunday afternoon. We also enjoyed bicycling, kayaking, beach combing and swinging in the large hammock!
And the friendly atmosphere makes it perfect for both couples and families with children.
There is no "attitude" here, just happy people enjoying a beautiful day in the sun.
And for those of you wanting to book a day excursion, the resort will quickly and easily arrange this for you.
Trips to swim with the sharks, rays, manatees, whale sharks, fishing, hiking and site seeing are all reasonably priced.
It is important to note that the Big Blue Hole, located a stone's throw from Placencia, is the second largest great barrier reef in the world.
It is second only to The Great Barrier Reef in Australia.
This makes it a popular destination for divers from around the world.
Conveniently, most of the excursions will even pick you up from the resort lobby.
One trip in particular sounded divine. It was a boat trip to snorkel by a local, uninhabited island.
This was followed by a homemade meal cooked on the island by your tour guides. Could this be paradise found?
These are the features that separate this resort from others. And don't forget the fine dining, beautiful scenery, a powder soft white beach, comfortable and luxurious rooms and an ocean view for all. And speaking of the rooms, ours was
1200 feet with huge vaulted ceilings.
We had a large balcony that overlooked the ocean, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a living room, dining area and a full size kitchen.
The kitchen is extremely cost effective.
We rode the hotel bicycles 10 minutes into town to the local grocery store. Wi-fi, cable television and all the luxuries of home were available to us.
And we loved the comfy high thread 100% cotton sheets! And no trip to the tropics is complete without truly effective air conditioning; it is essential based on the humid climate. The large balcony was ideal to watch the sunrise and sunset, how romantic! What's not to love?
Upon leaving, the staff was thoughtful enough to serve us coffee in our rooms as we had an early flight. Lovely, steaming coffee was presented with a smile and a thank you punctually at 5am.
Could it be me, or is the coffee in Belize far superior to the coffee back in the US?
Would we return to Belize Ocean Club? Absolutely! This spectacular resort is willing and welcome to embrace their guests in a very special way.
And for Americans, the dollar is pegged to the Belize dollar 2-1.
That's lots of bang for your buck in Belize!
And with weekly, non-stop trips from LAX to Belize, what's stopping you from a quick trip to paradise? Belize Ocean Club is one of the best-kept secrets, a hidden gem to explore where you will create wonderful memories with your friends, family and loved ones that will last forever.
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Le Vent de L'Esprit
The great feast that concludes the Easter season, Pentecost, can only be properly understood against the horizon of the Trinity, which we celebrate a week later, says Professor Peter Tyler. 'The descent of the Spirit reminds us of our essential Trinitarian nature: rooted in Christ we look both to the Father in Heaven as well as to our fellow suffering humans on earth.'
Suddenly from Heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind and it filled the entire house. (Acts 2:2)
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text: Irina Tikhonova began playing the cello at the age of six. Her mother, Lydia, loved to sing and selected the instrument for Irina originally because the range of the cello is essentially the same as the range of the singing voice. The choice was obviously a good one as Irina went on to study at the Tchaikovsky Music Conservatory under Vladimir Panteleev. She graduated with her Bachelor of Music degree from the Music College in Kiev, USSR in 1981 and a Master of Music degree from the State Conservatory of Music in Kiev, USSR in 1986. Before coming to this country, Irina performed with the Harmony Philharmonic Ensemble of Soloists in Kiev, the Renaissance Chamber Orchestra, and was the assistant principal cellist in the State Symphony Orchestra. Since immigrating to the United States from the Ukraine in 1991, she has been Principal Cellist of the Saginaw Bay Symphony, the Saginaw Bay Symphony, the Dearborn Symphony Orchestra, and the Flint Symphony Orchestra. Irina also plays on occasion with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and has a private cello studio in Royal Oak, Michigan. She loves bicycling.


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The News International, Pakistan
Supreme Court trashes Reko Diq agreement
By Alam Rind
15 January 2013
It is wonderful that the stance of the government of Balochistan has been upheld by the Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan. Decision given on 7th January, 2013 by the SC has declared the agreement on Reko Diq signed on July 23, 1993 as void and in conflict with the laws of the country. Tethyan Copper Company Pvt Limited (TCC) also lost its case in the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) on December 13, 2012. The ICSID has allowed the government of Balochistan and Dr Samar Mubarakmand to continue with their mining project in Reko Diq. These developments are a landmark victory for the Balochistan government and for Baloch people. But at the same time it places a great responsibility on Dr Samar Mubarakmand and his team to produce results.
Back in 1990s, copper and gold deposits in Reko Diq area were identified by the Geological Survey of Pakistan in collaboration with the BHP Billiton of Australia. It is believed that the project contains an estimated 12.3 million tons of world class copper and 10.9 million ounces of gold worth billion of dollars. The project is believed to be bigger than Sarcheshmeh in Iran and Escondida in Chile. If Pakistan is able to successfully mine and extract copper and gold from this project, it will be able to generate immense amount of economic activity while creating hundreds of jobs for the Baloch youth.
The Balochistan government won this case after a long drawn struggle. In fact, former chief minister was approached by the top executives of the company during July 2010 for the favour. They were categorically told by him that the provincial government had decided to operate the copper and gold mine by itself for which a board of governors had been constituted. Disappointed for not being able to win over the Balochistan government, they met president and prime minister. They were told that it was not possible to bypass the provincial government on this issue. This decision reflects aspirations of the people of Balochistan and that of Pakistan.
Dr Samar Mubarakmand was appointed as the chairman of the steering committee for running the project. He has repeatedly asserted that Pakistan has the expertise needed to extract copper and gold from the mine. There is no doubt that a large pool of scientists and technicians capable of undertaking the project is available in the country. We only need the political will and consistency in our efforts and policies to achieve success.
The decision has also slain the hopes of rogue elements operating in the province. Tethyan Copper Company had planned to export the raw material to be processed in their own country; a fishy undertaking in view of the exuberant transportation cost. In this connection, they had shown their intent to build a small seaport some 30 kilometres east of Gwadar exclusively for transportation of the extracted ore. Reportedly, they had approached the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) not to interfere in transportation of ore for which they would have been paid handsomely. This complete setting would have been a recipe to strengthen terrorism in the province.
The SC decision has averted the possibility of such an ugly situation. Now it is the responsibility of the central and provincial governments to initiate physical work on the project without unnecessary delay. With the physical initiation of the work, benefits attached with the project will start trickling down to the people in shape of jobs and associated developmental works. A new economic activity will be initiated within the province that will engage a sizable portion of its youth.
The jobs will bring prosperity and concurrently would reduce the operating space for the terrorist elements in the province. This project if properly managed will not only usher into economic revival of the country but will also serve as a check on the spread of terrorism in the province of Balochistan and in Pakistan at large.


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When Robin Thicke wrote "Blurred Lines" with Pharrell, he told GQ they were picturing two old men cat-calling girls from a porch. On yesterday's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, we got the closest thing to that image, with the whole gang singing the tune accompanied only by spoons, harmonica, cowbell, and any other handheld instrument they could find. Below, watch these dudes have a damn good time performing the song of the summer:
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I have started a new blog, without a Photobucket connection, and hope to begin uploading photos starting tomorrow, thanks to a site I found called The Idea Room that hosts a photo a day challenge.
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- In 2014, we were faced with the imminent retirement of nearly a dozen collaborators, each one an expert in their field, who were unable (or unwilling) to convey their knowledge to their younger colleagues, neither in managing daily operations nor in handling anomalies in subcontracted work. We asked BFD to support us to deal with two matters: to help us elicit the information that the departing workers could not convey and the newer workers did not know to ask for; and to try to assess the value of targeting a single, more generalist professional discipline, allowing us to describe once its inherent qualities and training.
- We succeeded together, thanks to the quality of BFD's communication and the can-do attitude of its staff, to transfer all the indispensable knowledge within a greatly shortened timeframe compared to what we could have accomplished on our own. It also became clear that the professional disciplines we studied were actually quite different and that the goal of a single transfer methodology would not provide any added value.
- All this was performed within a rather brief timeframe (10 weeks), and the added value of the operation has been evaluated to be greater than its cost, which constitutes a great success given the initial unknowns. The deliverables – operational job descriptions, and transfer to the incoming job holder – and reorganization proposals were invaluable and met our expectations for this operation.
- BFD's consultants proved to be very effective and the involvement, from the beginning, of high-level experts and BFD's management enabled our transformation to succeed.
- For other such operations of assistance for process or personnel transitions, BFD seems to me to be quite suited for organizations requiring agile, specific solutions (its size helps) as opposed to the larger consulting firms which are better suited for (much) larger-scale, generic organizational evolution.
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HARTFORD — Sovaldi is being hailed as breakthrough treatment for the more than 3 million Americans with hepatitis C. But while the pricey prescription pill has given new hope to patients, it has had a detrimental impact on the state budget.
The drug costs about $84,000 per patient for a 12-week regimen, although due to rebates from the manufacturer, the state pays less. But even with those negotiated price breaks, the state and federal governments together have spent more than $90 million on the drug for Medicaid patients in Connecticut since July, said Department of Social Services Commissioner Roderick L. Bremby.
Costs related to the new drug are part of the reason the department has a $108 million shortfall in its current budget; officials are trying to forestall an even sharper spike in the fiscal year that begins on July 1.
"We did not anticipate 93 million additional dollars this fiscal year for that class of pharmaceuticals alone,'' Bremby told a legislative committee last month. Sovaldi and other hepatitis C medications are "the primary driver" of the department's increased spending on prescription drugs, Bremby added.
Some states have sharply limited access to Sovaldi in response to the drug's hefty price. Texas, for instance, which administers the third-largest Medicaid program, did not spend a dime on the drug in the first nine months of 2014, according to data compiled by The Wall Street Journal.
Officials in Connecticut say they are aggressively seeking ways to reduce the financial burden. DSS recently completed an analysis of ways to trim costs, including maximizing drug rebates and continuing to require that patients seek prior authorization from DSS before the medication will be covered.
The pharmaceutical and therapeutics committee is scheduled to meet Wednesday to review the status of Sovaldi and other hepatitis C drugs. Public health experts and advocates for the poor say the prior authorization requirement is severely restrictive. They also point out that the high upfront cost of the medication will be offset by the public health benefits of curing hepatitis C, a transmissible disease that, if left untreated, could result in far more expensive medical interventions, such as the need for a liver transplant.
"With thousands of Connecticut residents living with [hepatitis C] … the primary cause of [liver cancer], the fastest growing cancer in the nation, now is the time to act aggressively — not to slow down the fight,'' a coalition of groups advocating for people with hepatitis C stated in a letter to Bremby earlier this year. "The severe restrictions [on] Sovaldi violate state and federal law and are unwise public health policy. They will significantly restrict access to this new curative drug, which will dramatically improve, and in some cases save, the lives of individuals living with Hepatitis C, and can also save tens of thousands of dollars (or more) in future treatment costs.''
Shawn Lang, deputy director of programs and policy for AIDS Connecticut, said the fight over Sovaldi reminds her of the battles over AIDS medications in the early days of that epidemic. "We're back in a very similar place,'' said Lang, who advocates on behalf of people with hepatitis C. "Paying the $80,000 for Sovaldi will save hundreds of thousands of dollars down the line. I understand it's expensive but [without it], you're going to be paying for people's chronic hepatitis until they die."
Bremby agreed, telling lawmakers that the pricey prescription will save the state money in the future. "This new drug line [is] curative and presumably will result in future avoidance of cost in illness such as organ transplants,'' he said. But, he quickly acknowledged that "those savings accrue far into the future."
Manufactured by California-based Gilead Sciences, Sovaldi is a highly effective therapy for hepatitis C, which spreads mainly through blood contact and can lead to cirrhosis and liver cancer. David Roncari, a Bloomfield resident who has struggled with hepatitis C, said the drug has revolutionized treatment of the disease.
"The cure rate is unbelievable; it really does do the job,'' said Roncari, a patient advocate for the American Liver Foundation, who had a liver transplant a decade ago and now shows no sign of the disease. "It's a very easy treatment and it's short-term, but it is very expensive.''
Because hepatitis C disproportionately affects low-income people, much of the cost for that treatment falls on taxpayer-funded Medicaid programs.
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Several Connecticut lawmakers expressed alarm at the medication's cost. "It's $1,000 per pill,'' said Rep. Melissa Ziobron, R-East Haddam, the ranking Republican on the legislature's appropriations committee. "I was shocked to read that."
Private insurers and members of Congress have also voiced concern. Members of the Senate Finance Committee wrote a letter to Gilead Sciences CEO John C. Martin last year asking about the high cost of the drug. "The large patient population, combined with the high price of each individual treatment, creates a question as to whether payers of health care, including Medicare and Medicaid, can carry such a load,'' Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, wrote.
A spokesman for Gilead Sciences did not return a phone call seeking comment.
John Thomas, a professor in the law and medical schools at Quinnipiac University, said he expects debates such as those over the cost of Sovaldi to become more prevalent. It now costs about $1 billion to develop a new drug, Thomas said, and "it's only reasonable to expect manufacturers to try and recoup those costs,'' he said.
"Sovaldi may be unique in its costs but its also a predictor of the future,'' Thomas said.
Bremby, the DSS commissioner, said the state needs to brace for an explosion of expensive new therapies.
"We are likely to see, because of the emerging industry, new types of interventions, pharmacological interventions, based upon someone's genotype,'' Bremby said. "If they're medically necessary, we can cover those. We need to be very clear about what processes we have in place for prior authorization to ensure that providers are prescribing the right forms of medications for the right reasons.''


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$245m funding for Burj Al Salam towers
Emirates NBD and First Gulf Bank have agreed a $245m (AED: 900m) funding deal with Abdulsalam Al Rafi Group to provide finance for the Burj Al Samal tower on Sheikh Zayed Road.
The towers are a series of three linked buildings – one office, one residential and one hotel – on a prime site at the start of Sheikh Zayed Road by the World Trade Center roundabout. The towers are being developed by Abdulsalam Al Rafi Group and are being built by Dubai Construction Company.
They are linked at the base base a large podium containing four basement levels, a ground floor, mezzanine and two mechanical floors. Above this, there are 54 upper floors.
The hotel tower has been taken by Starwood Hotels, which will open a Sheraton Dubai Tower hotel in the complex next year. The office building and the residential towers are due for completion in September.
The money is being used to help finance construction of the towers, the banks said. Emirates NBD, which was lead arranger for the loan, said that deal highlighted its intention "to form strategic alliances with leading financial and corporate institutions" in the region.
Work initially began on the site several years ago with Belhasa as main contractor and it built the structure up to sixth-floor level.
However, work stalled during the financial crisis and DCC was contracted to finish the project in September 2010.
Once complete, the tower will have a built-up area of 290,143m2 with an additional 44,695m2 of car parking to the rear. It has space for 281 offices, 477 hotel guest rooms and 180 serviced apartments.
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(National Sentinel) Election 2018: To hear the Left-wing establishment media tell it, President Donald J. Trump is the most unpopular chief executive ever, and what's more, he's getting even more unpopular by the day.
So low is Trump's popularity that new "generic polling" shows the Republican Party down by 14 points to Democrats.
The Democratic wave election in 2018 is coming!
Or so we're told.
Only, Trump's support remains very high in areas of the country that he won (by 74 electoral votes, by the way).
As noted by Eddie Zipperer, an assistant professor of political science at Georgia Military College and a regular LifeZette contributor who correctly predicted a Trump electoral victory, the president and Republicans are not nearly in the kind of trouble these lying liars in the "mainstream" media are making them out to be:
 If today were Election Day 2018, Republicans would win the Senate hands down, and they would stand a more-than-excellent chance of maintaining their majority in the House of Representatives.
Before the 2016 election, Democrats and the mainstream media kept telling us that Trump would lose because leftist policies are super-popular and everyone hates Donald Trump. Trump won by 74 electoral votes. Oops! Next, they told us that Democrats would win special elections because leftist policies are super-popular and everyone hates Donald Trump. Democrats went zero for five in special elections. Oops! Last week, leftist policies were so super-popular that Democrats lost a governorship without any election at all, when West Virginia governor Jim Justice decided to defect to the winning team. Oops!
He goes on to note that the mistake made by the Left-wing media and their polling apparatuses was that they believed a majority of voters would also translate into a majority of electoral votes. Hillary Clinton did indeed win the popular vote — which is not how we elect presidents. But even so, she won lopsided victories in a few overwhelmingly Left-wing metropolises; when all the votes were counted in all electoral districts, Trump won.
Zipperer says these same media oafs still don't understand their polling and electoral biases:
The media are making the 2016 mistake all over again. The nationwide polling data weren't "wrong" in the 2016 election, but they were geographically homogenous — as though a four-million-vote victory in California is worth more than a one-vote victory. Unfortunately for Hillary Clinton, it's not.
Clinton won the popular vote because she won lopsided victories in the blue areas on the map — a worthless surplus of votes in high-population areas like Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. In that blue area, anti-Trump disparity still exists, and it's dragging down Trump's nationwide approval rating.
Nationwide, Gallup has Trump approval at 37 percent, but that's because people in blue areas — the tiny leftist bubbles on the big red election map — disapprove by lopsided margins. You won't hear this on CNN (because it's not a poem), but approval of President Trump actually remains shockingly high in red areas.
He points out that the Democratic-leaning media projected President Obama's respectable national approval rating of 52 percent onto Hillary, but were wrong in doing so because in the mostly red states that Trump carried, his approval was something more like 40 percent (and right now, Trump's is 50 percent):
That means 56 percent of the 435 congressional districts are located in a 30-state land where Trump's approval rating is eight points higher than a very popular iteration of Obama.
What about traditional midterm losses for the party in power?
The other argument — the slightly better argument — for why Republicans will lose the House of Representatives in 2018 is that the president's party almost always loses seats in the midterms, so it must be extra-true for President Trump's party.
Historically, the Democrats' number-one best 2018 midterm election weapon would be Republican complacency. Typically, when a party is in power, its voters become complacent therefore less enthusiastic, and therefore less likely to vote in midterm elections. However, that isn't happening this time. The special elections show that complacency isn't setting in. Why not? Because of the media and the Democrats' insane overreach.
The constant Trump hate and "Russian collision!" hoax come to mind. "Ironically (and unwisely), Democrats and the mainstream media are standing in the way of Republican complacency. Their anti-Trump overreach is counterproductive to their electoral goals. And, right now, it's the glue holding together a Republican party that might have imploded without the unifying cause of defeating leftist nonsense," Zipperer says.
He also notes that Democratic senators have to defend 10 seats in red states, and that the odds are better than average at least some of them will fall to Republicans.
Trump and the GOP are unpopular? Not nearly so much as we're being told by the same purveyors of fake news and fake polling data so prevalent last year.


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Yes, it's possible to have too much of a good thing, and that includes clothes.
YouTubers De'arra & Ken attempted to put on 100 layers of clothing for their channel — perhaps following in the footsteps of the viral beauty videos of people putting on 100 layers of foundation, face masks, lipstick, and every beauty product — and oh does it look uncomfortable.
The time-lapsed video is more than 13 minutes, which speaks to just how long it takes to don that much clothing. Somewhere between 10 and 20 layers, De'arra mentions that she can feel her circulation cutting off, which is usually a good indicator to stop doing what you're doing.
Just before 40, they start helping each other get dressed, and De'arra seems to have trouble speaking because she can't breathe very well.
You can see the full video below, but maybe don't try this at home.


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Hundreds of young people have participated in the unique Street Soccer 3v3 Tournament that recently hit Cardiff at Eastern Leisure Centre in Llanrumney. Working with partners the East Cardiff Neighbourhood Management team helped organise the tournament that was aimed at both boys and girls aged 12 to 16 and played on inflatable pitches. Young people also had the opportunity to take part in a number of summer golf camps.
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For my post today, I will share some Earth Day videos and links.
Robert Downey Jr.
Robert Downey Jr. (a celebrity, by golly!) speaking in favor of nuclear energy.
Two mothers in California have started an organization: Mothers For Nuclear. They are both nuclear professionals. This will mean that anti-nuclear activists will almost certainly deny that they know anything.
I encourage you to encourage them. Visit their website, and contact them.
|from Mothers For Nuclear website
Robert Stone on the Education of an Environmentalist
Robert Stone, director of Pandora's Promise, in Scientific American on The Education of an Environmentalist.
Stone didn't always like nuclear. He had to learn about it first.
Vermont Yankee and Hoover Dam
Last year, on Earth Day, I posted Atoms not Dams, including that Vermont Yankee made more power each year than Hoover Dam did (per year...Hoover Dam is older). Worth revisiting!
Happy Earth Day to All! Go Green! Go Nuclear!


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It was a rough start to the weekend, but I followed everyone's advice, did little more than I had to, slept, kept the fluid coming, took the OTC meds doc always recommends, as well as some magical elderberry elixir my SiL made me and I think it is working. Still coughing and congested (its likely another sinus infection, they seem inevitable when I get a cold) but I FEEL 100 times better.
I managed to do the grocery shopping Saturday, barely. Actually left the store without running the card… checkout girl caught me before I finished unloading. AWKWARD! But I blame the cold induced fog for that.
A caught the cold, so we have been hacking and sniffling our way through the last few days. Good there is an extra day!
I did do a lot of spinning the last few days. We had a virtual spin in on the Friends of Knitting Sarah ravelry group, and it got my spinning mojo going. I finished up the Shipwreck spin I have had going since March 25 (ravelry helps keep us honest on how long things really take!) it looks like it is about 263 yards before its bath.
And I started an finished this bfl crepe ply spin. I really wanted to work on perfecting my crepe ply (not there yet) and I wanted to experiment with bit of color drafted in. This is about 90 yards, again, pre bath.
Other than this I literally have done nothing in nearly 5 days. I think I need to go clean something.


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Any artifact that is older than 50 years is considered to be an antique. Antiques are very popular in India as they usually date back to the Mughal period or can be traced to the royal court or members of the royal families from different parts of India. The same holds true for antique gold jewelry which is more often than not procured at auctions or other events similar to them. The older the piece of jewelry, the more likely it is that it will be found at an auction.
However, younger antiques or antique-inspired jewelry can also be found at jewelry stores so women in can make them a part of their wardrobe. This form of Indian jewelry is seen most often during weddings as it is considered far too precious and formal to be worn for regular, casual events or formal events that don't actually merit the use of overly exquisite jewelry.
Whilst preparing a wedding trousseau, Indian antique gold jewelry is one of the most sought after forms of jewelry to be sent off with the bride. During the wedding ceremonies, most brides are known for wearing sets that can be classified as Kundan sets, polka sets and even Meenakari sets, all of which can trace their origins back to the Mughal Era in India, which makes them prominent styles of antique gold jewelry designs.
Polki Sets
Polka sets are one of the most sought after types of jewelry in India especially during the wedding season. These necklaces or earrings include a base of gold that is first poured into a mold.
Once this is cool enough to be handled with bare hands, uncut diamonds, which are the characteristic of polka sets, are placed on the gold frame in a way that creates an interesting look.
Similarly, in Meenakari sets, the gold is the background on which intricate patterns are carved and painted onto. Usually these patterns derive their inspirations from nature and have motifs that fall under that classification such as leaves, peacocks, vines entwined as well as birds.
Women all over the world want to get their hands on antique gold jewelry from India as it is not only versatile but is also one of its kind in terms of the design, the look and feel of the piece itself. The kind of work that goes into creating these sets as well as the design and ethnic vibe it gives off is unparalleled and cannot be compared to western forms of jewelry. With most of them dating back to the Mughal Era, one can certainly be sure of giving off a regal look when donning them on.
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Most women prefer wearing the temple gold jewelry during weddings or ceremonies related to weddings which means that this form of jewelry is more often than not paired with bridal attire or wedding attire, which tends to be extremely rich in its work. Out of these, some of the most popular forms of wedding attires that truly shine with this form of jewelry are the classic lehenga choli sets.
With the heavy work on the skirt, choli and dupatta, such heavily detailed forms of jewelry never look out of place and compliment the attire well. Lightweight antique gold jewelry can also be paired with wedding saris as they are also heavily embroidered and can be complimented well with the right pair of earrings and necklaces. Women across all age groups can wear this form of jewelry as it looks absolutely stunning.
When it comes to the bride, it is not uncommon for a bride to wear more than one set of jewelry as she is meant to stand out the most. Various forms of temple jewelry such as a heavy mang tikka, necklaces, rings, bangles, earrings, nose rings and toe rings are worn by the bride on the wedding day. However, on other occasions such as the sangeet (cocktail party) or the mehendi, they tend to wear relatively light weight antique gold jewelry instead, reserving the heavier sets for the main event.
When it comes to antique gold jewelry, India is one of the most sought after destinations purely because of the royal heritage and beauty of jewelry here. Therefore, it's no wonder why women from all over the world spend a large amount of time hunting down and then procuring them for their collection. Many jewelry designers in India are influenced heavily by these antique designs, which go on to influence the attire as well.