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Conveniently located, with a nice country feel. Close to Harnes Marsh and schools. Cozy and affordable this can be a great starter or winter get away. Relaxing front screened in porch.
Listing courtesy of Coldwell Banker Preferred Prop. Selling Office: Re/Max Destination Realty.
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Mark DeMoss is president of The DeMoss Group, a public relations firm he founded in 1991 to serve Christian organizations and causes. A number of the largest non-profit organizations in America are counted among The DeMoss Groups' clients. Mark has spent his life around wise people and has worked closely with some of the most prominent religious leaders of the past several decades. Mark and his wife April live in Atlanta, Georgia, with their three teenagers.
Day 1 of 1: Looking back on your life, is there anything you'd do differently?
Day 1 of 1: Do you know what you are called to do?
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Blogmas Day 10: Soap and Glory the big one!
Soap& Glory giftsets at Christmas are a MUST! With delcious body washes, pink packaging and amazing moisture, they are the perfect present!
This year Soap& Glory 's sought after big collection is called Spa of Wonder and is packed with 10 items and is the Star Gift at Boots this week! This means you can grab it for half price!
I grabbed 3 on Friday for friends, of which i'm hoping one isfor me!!
Please note; this is NOT sponsored, my arms still ache from carrying them to work!!
You see, proof of my dedication to Soap& Glory!!
So what you waiting for? Treat a specially person in your lifeto this amazing collection this Christmas! :)
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PETERSBURG, Va. -- Virginia State Police are investigating after a tractor trailer overturned on Interstate 95 Saturday morning.
Troopers responded to a single-vehicle crash on the ramp for I-95 North to Interstate 85 shortly after 8 a.m. and discovered that a tractor trailer had overturned there.
The driver was not injured in the crash.
Police are working to unload the miscellaneous goods the trailer was carrying so that it can be up-righted and removed.
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Chingy Dating a Transsexual?
Rapper Chingy found himself back in the press recently, and not for his music. According to reports, a transsexual female by the name of Foxxjazzel claims to have had an intimate relationship with the 29-year-old.
In a recent radio interview, Foxxjazzel stated that she and Chingy got together on more than one occasion. Calling him by his first name, Howard Bailey Jr., she said that she met the rapper in 2003 through a mutual friend and that their relationship was initially a one night stand. "It started off as one night and it turned into one of those things," she started. "We met at a party. He didn't know I was [a] tranny." Chingy allegedly found out of her transsexual gender later on but continued to see her. The interview continued with various sexual references to the kind of sex that the two had. "He liked it anyway I gave it to him."
"I have messed with celebrity boys before. I respect people but when they cross that line, I [have] to put you on blast." Eluding to the fact that Chingy made her upset by failing to properly acknowledge their situation, Foxxjazzel also said that she was not the first transsexual that he as been with. "If you do your research on this person, you can see the facts there."
Chingy responded to the rumors via video. "I wake up to people hittin' me up about some radio show. I don't have a secret lifestyle, what is you talkin' about? I didn't know that somebody could actually hate a [expletive] that much. But I'm takin' applications and I'm lookin' for 100 haters a day," the rapper angrily professed.
"That's just out of line to put some up there knowing that you are telling a lie," Chingy said. "And the transsexual, I don't even know that person, I never seen that person before in my life. The only thing that person knew was my real name and who don't know my real name? I same my name in all of my raps!"
Made popular by his 2003 hit 'Right Thurr,' Chingy was initially signed to rapper Ludacris' record label through Def Jam record. He later severed business ties with the record company.
The rapper is due to release his latest 'Everything and Nothing' later this year.


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Genesis 7580g Hands-Free Scanner
|The Genesis 7580g is the first presentation area-imaging scanner engineered to decode all standard 1D, PDF and 2D barcodes. Its revolutionary imaging technology is housed in an elegant, yet durable design. Powered by Adaptus Imaging Technology 6.0, the 7580g scanner packs breakthrough performance into a versatile form factor.
- TotalFreedom 2.0 : Available plug-in expands the scanner's decoding and data formatting functionality, eliminating the need for host system modifications.
- Image Capture : Improves document management by capturing and storing electronic images, including coupons, personal checks, signatures and damaged packages.
- Aggressive Scanning: CodeSelect allows the device to capture up to 15 barcodes in a single flash and output data in any predetermined order.
- Shielded LEDs minimize the intense flashing common among other area imagers.


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|Unused armor designs for N.O.V.A. 2
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This past weekend, the College of San Mateo was incredibly fortunate to have hosted the 2014 U.S. Paralympics Track and Field National Championships. World-class athletes from all over the country were able to take in the wonderful views up at 1700 W. Hillsdale Blvd. and to compete on the college's iconic blue track. Watching these athletes perform made me think about how it is we define ability and disability. Working at a disabilities nonprofit, I'm quite familiar with and sensitive to "person first terminology."…Read More


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C building innovation centre project slowed, but still on course
The C-Building Innovation Centre project has run into a handful of problems for months but now remains on track to be completed by April 2018.
Todd Schonewille, head of Physical Resources at Algonquin, says that delays are to be expected for smaller work tasks within a bigger project but they shouldn't disrupt the overall project schedule.
"It's not uncommon to find things that we didn't expect," said Schonewille, "but we're always mindful that it doesn't affect the overall schedule."
The C-Building main lobby has been disrupted from Dec. 31, 2017 to Jan. 19, 2018 due to the C-Building Innovation Centre project.
"Keep this in mind; this is by far the most disruptive construction project this college has ever done because it's right in the middle of the campus," declared Schonewille.
Schonewille believes there are many ways to avoid a delay in a schedule, including hiring more construction workers or paying them overtime to get more work done in less time.
"You're always encountering things that you don't expect; reacting to it and managing it so that it's not negatively impacting your schedule, or your budget, or the quality of the space you're going to get," said Schonewille. "At the end of the day that's what construction and project management is all about."
Among the problems was dealing with unexpected occurrences such as the fire that took place in the construction zone on Dec. 14, 2017.
Not only is Algonquin expecting to meet the deadline with the C-Building Innovation Centre project, it also decided late last year to renovate the basement or lower level in addition to everything else.
"That's a nearly $8 million dollar renovation," said Schonewille. "It'll be quite a dynamic environment."


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News headlines in March 2017, page 2
The Challenge Ahead: Harnessing Gene Editing to Sustainable Agriculture
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
IBADAN, Nigeria, Mar 29 (IPS) - The role of genetic engineering in agriculture and food has generated enormous interest and controversies, with large-scale embrace by some nations and wholesale bans by others.
Late to Walk
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
OTTAWA, Mar 29 (IPS) - I have two children. A daughter who just turned six and a son who just turned three. My daughter was late to walk. My husband and I were pretty worried about why it was taking so long for her to stop 'bum scooching' — her preferred method of movement. I consulted Google on more than one occasion to see if other parents had children doing the same. I felt anxious when I read that 18 months was considered very late. She didn't start until she was 22 months after a few months of physiotherapy.
How to Stir up a Refugee Crisis in Five Steps, Trump Style
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
US / MEXICO BORDER, Mar 29 (IPS) - The sight of one of the most infamous borders on earth – roughly 1,000 kilometers of porous metal fence dividing lives, hopes and dreams between the USA and Mexico, is undoubtedly overwhelming, but not in the way we expected it to be.
Sri Lanka's Small Tea Farmers Turn Sustainable Land Managers
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
RATNAPURA, Sri Lanka, Mar 28 (IPS) - As the mercury rises higher, Kamakandalagi Leelavathi delves deeper into the lush green mass of the tea bushes. The past few afternoons there have been thunderstorms. So the 55-year-old tea picker in Uda Houpe tea garden of Sri Lanka's Hatton region is rushing to complete her day's task before the rain comes: harvesting 22 kgs of tea leaves.
Syrian Regime Survives on Russian Arms & UN Vetoes
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 28 (IPS) - As the devastating civil war in Syria entered its seventh year last week, President Bashar al-Assad has continued to survive--- despite faltering efforts by the United States and the UN Security Council (UNSC) to rein him in, or impose sanctions on his beleaguered regime.
Costa Rican Town Fears That the Sea Will Steal Its Shiny New Face
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
CIENEGUITA, Costa Rica, Mar 28 (IPS) - Two years have gone by since the new government initiative which subsidises community works changed the face with which the coastal town of Cienaguita, on Costa Rica's Caribbean coast, looks out to the sea.
Caribbean Faces Forecast for Prolonged Drought
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Mar 28 (IPS) - The Caribbean Drought & Precipitation Monitoring Network (CDPMN) is warning countries in the region that the same abnormal climate conditions they have experienced over the last few years, which resulted in some of the worst drought in two decades, could continue this year.
UN to Investigate Violations Against Rohingya
Monday, March 27, 2017
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 27 (IPS) - A top UN human rights group has decided to investigate human rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.
Food Security in the Middle East Sharply Deteriorated
Monday, March 27, 2017
ROME/CAIRO, Mar 27 (IPS) - Food security and nutrition levels in the Near East and North Africa have sharply deteriorated over the last five years, undermining the steady improvement achieved before 2010 when the prevalence of undernourishment, stunting, anaemia and poverty were decreasing, a new UN report warns.
Monday, March 27, 2017
ROME, Mar 27 (IPS) - For over 400 years, more than 15 million men, women and children were the victims of the transatlantic slave trade, one of the darkest chapters in human history. Slavery is, nevertheless, far from being just a chapter of the past—it still there, with estimated 21 million victims of forced labour and extreme exploitation around the world--nearly the equivalent to of the combined population of Scandinavian countries.
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Shopping for women sincerely can be difficult because of their complicated interests, but not all women are difficult to shop for. If your girlfriend is a true fashionista at heart, shopping for her is actually quite easy .All you have to do is rummage her closet, figure out her favourite designer(s) and shop accordingly. If you take time to study her, Christmas shopping for her should not be as difficult as it seems in your head. All you need is :
Pick one of these items for your lady this Christmas :
1. Lipstick : Lipstick is the most essential make up product, and a lady can never have too many. in choosing the right lipstick for your lady, in her absence rummage her dressing table and take note of what lipstick she doesn't already have and buy at least two new ones. when in doubt buy her Chanel rouge lipstick, every woman needs some Chanel.
2.Shoes : Shoes are always a good choice of presents. Take note of the size of shoes she wears and her favourite colour and use them to determine the kind of shoes you'll get her. Also,you can never go wrong with designer shoes, skip Louboutins pick one that has an exotic name like Oscar de la Renta, Viktor & Rolf, Bottega Veneta.
3.iPad case: Depending on what kind of tablet she uses, get her a fitting case. If she doesnt have a tablet, get her one you can afford.
4. Jewelry: Is a classic choice of gifts for ladies, and after all diamonds are a girls best friends. If you haven't gotten to the giving-diamonds stage of your relationship try other options like a white gold necklace or a watch.
5. A puppy (EXTREME) : If she is an animal lover go the extra mile, hand her the cutest puppy for christmas.
6. Plane tickets (EXTREME) : This obviously must have had weeks of planning from like october, without her knowing of course, but for you spontaneous guys out there blow her mind and hand her plane tickets 2 DAYS before Christmas so you can be somewhere new and special with her on the 25th.
7.Aromatherapy products : Ladies love nothing more than to smell great all the time, so be innovative, dont buy her perfume, save that for another occasion. Give her aromatherapy products like lavender oil, peppermint bath salts etc.
8. Monogrammed purse : Whether or not she has a wallet/purse buying her a new one and then having it monogrammed will make her ditch her current one for the one you have wrapped up with a bow for her.


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"Breaking Bad" (AMC)
Emmy history: Nommed last year
The case: Gunn's Skyler White was a storm of emotional turmoil this season. A nervous breakdown, suicide attempt and complete switch of attitude toward her meth-dealing husband (Bryan Cranston) made her a standout.
Trivia: She was nominated in 1997 for a Joseph Jefferson Award, given to Chicago legiters, for her role in tuner "Assassins."
— Alex Stedman
"Downton Abbey" (PBS)
Emmy history: Two wins, plus one win and three other noms outside this category
The case: Smith has dominated this category for the past two years with her role as Violet Crawley, the dowager countess of Grantham. She hardly slowed down in third season as the always disapproving grandmother.
Trivia: When she played Diana Barrie in 1978's "California Suite," she became the only person to win an Oscar for playing an Oscar loser.
"Game of Thrones" (HBO)
Emmy history: First nom
The case: Clarke plays fan favorite Daenerys Targaryen, who started out as a much quieter character but by the end of the season evolved to a fierce queen of armies. Fans rooted for the "Mother of Dragons" throughout the intense season.
Trivia: Clarke's not only a skilled actress, but she can sing and play the piano, flute and guitar.
"The Good Wife" (CBS)
Emmy history: Three noms, plus seven noms outside this category, including one win.
The case: Baranski's character, Diane Lockhart, went through some major changes last season. When she's faced with the possibility of leaving the Lockhart/Gardner law firm for a spot on the Supreme Court, her decisions became critical.
Trivia: Baranski raised her children without television because she couldn't monitor what they were watching all the time.
"Homeland" (Showtime)
The case: Though the relationship of Baccarin's Jessica Brody with her daughter (Morgan Saylor) improved this season, the one with her husband (Damian Lewis) got seriously messy. A highlight was her impassioned speech at a wounded veterans benefit.
Trivia: At the age of 12, she was junior high classmates with co-star Claire Danes.
"Mad Men" (AMC)
Emmy history: Fourth nom
The case: This past season saw a little less of Hendricks, but in the episodes where Joan Harris was involved, she made an impact. From navigating her new partnership to hospital visits, Hendricks had plenty to work.
Trivia: Hendricks was able to put her accordion skills to use in a season three episode.


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Affiliate Marketing Tutorial 32 | Clickbank | Good Housekeeping
In this lesson we're going to look at some Good Housekeeping aspects of web design. These are issues that aren't immediately going to affect your success as an affiliate, but will help you further down the line as your site grows.
Websites have a habit of getting very large, very fast. If you've done something wrong on fifty pages, fixing it can take up a lot of your precious time, so it's important to utilize these concepts from the outset.
File Naming
When you're creating files for using on the web, there are a number of conventions you should observe:
Always use lowercase
- Wrong: Photo.JPG
- Right: photo.jpg
The reason for this is that file names are very often case-sensitive on the web – in other words, photo.jpg and Photo.JPG are NOT the same file. Instead of spending hours trying to figure out why your images or files aren't displaying, it's best to just write everything in lower case from the outset and avoid this situation altogether.
Eliminate spaces between words
- Bad: background image.gif
- Good: background_image.gif
- Better: background-image.gif
- Bad: contact us.html
- Good: contact_us.html
- Better: contact-us.html
The first reason for this is that spaces are "unsafe" in web addresses. They can get lost, confused, misinterpreted, mistranslated – you name it. If you have a file or a URL with a space in it, that space will get converted to a '%20'.
The best way to write file names is with a hyphen between words. This has the added benefit that search engines see words separated by hyphens as separate words, unlike words separated by underscores which are seen as being the same word, so if you're looking for a file-naming convention that could help your SEO you want hyphens all the way!
HTML or HTM?
When you're creating HTML pages, you can use either .html or .htm – they both do the same thing. However, pie.htm and pie.html are NOT the same file, so it's a good idea to pick one of these and stick with it.
Using other people's images
If you're using images on your website (with permission, of course), make sure you save them to your computer and upload them to your own website. Don't just link to the image where it resides on someone else's site – this is called "hotlinking" and it's a bad idea for a number of reasons:
- It's bad manners – you're using someone else's bandwidth to display images on your site.
- If their website disappears or is running slowly, it's going to affect your site – the images won't appear, or it will dramatically slow down the loading of your page. You don't want to be reliant on anyone else's site like this.
- You'll frequently want the image to be a different size than the original. It's not a good idea just to resize the image in your web editor, or by changing the "height" and "width" attributes, since these don't actually affect the size of the file. Your visitor will still have to download the whole image, and if it's a very big file that you've shrunk to have small dimensions, it will become a huge waste of time and bandwidth for your poor visitors.
- Lastly, you're using an image that you don't have control over. Many sites take offense to this behavior and may alter the image to display an advertisement for their site, display something rude, or show something equally embarrassing to register their disapproval. Funny for them, but not so good for you.
The exception to this is when affiliate programs offer you snippets of code for pasting banners into your site. A lot of affiliate sites do this because it allows them to change the banners when they need to (without having to contact all affiliates to tell them their banners are out of date) and it also allows them to track the popularity of certain banners over others. In this case, it's fine to use the image without first saving it and uploading it to your own site.
When you decide what fonts you want to use for your text, have a think about whether your visitors will actually be able to see it.
Your friendly handwriting-type font that you use for your header will only display on a computer that has that same friendly handwriting-type font installed on it. For everyone else (and this will be the majority of people viewing your site) what they'll see instead is the default font. This might be something like Arial or Times New Roman – not so exciting.
Here are some system fonts that almost everyone has (if each of these look different, you have all these fonts installed!):
Arial, Arial Black, Courier New, Comic Sans, Impact,Georgia, Verdana, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS
There are other fonts that are very common that you can also try. One good thing you can do is choose a group of fonts and list them in order of preference. If your visitor has the first font in the list installed on his/her computer, the browser will display that font, otherwise, it will move on to the next font in the list until it encounters one that it actually has.
For instance: Futura, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Sans-serif
In this example, Futura is reasonably common but, just in case your visitor doesn't have it, the browser's next choice is Arial, followed by Helvetica, followed by Verdana; finally, in the worst case scenario, any old sans-serif font will do.
If you want something a little more special for a header, you'll typically have to turn it into an image and then insert that image into your page where the heading would be. (For instance, the Affilorama logo at the top of this page is an image. The normal headings are a mixture of Georgia and Arial.)
Structuring your site
When you first start creating websites, if you're anything like hundreds of other affiliates we've seen, you start out by uploading all your files into the one place. All your images, all your HTML pages and all your CSS files will all end up in the same directory on your web server. Here's what it looks like:
This is great for one reason and one reason only – it makes referencing images and things in your HTML really easy, and when you're just starting out as an affiliate, easy is something you're usually pretty keen on!
What you should really be doing, however, is keeping things nicely organized. Keep your images in an images directory, your CSS in a CSS directory, your articles in an appropriately named directory, and so on. Your web server should look more like this:
Keeping things in directories serves a couple of purposes:
- It keeps things organized.
- It makes your URLs (web addresses) simpler. It's much easier to remember (and write) www.yoursite.com/blog/ than it is to write (and remember) www.yoursite.com/blogindex.html.
Take a look at this bunch of files in our example pie recipe site – the has one page in the 'root' directory (the one you reach by typing 'www.example.com'). Also in the root directory are our "images" and "css" folders, containing our images and css. All the rest of our files are neatly tucked away into folders.
The other beautiful thing about using folders is that you can insert your keywords into your folder names, which makes them part of your URL. Having your keywords in your URL seems to make your page appear more relevant to the search engines, e.g. http://www.example.com/recipes/pie/apple/best-apple-pie-recipe.html
Lesson Summary
In this lesson we took a look at some of the things you can do to keep your website functioning properly including:
- Naming files in lowercase, without spaces
- Storing all images on your own server
- Using appropriate common fonts
- Structuring files into different locations
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Continued series of walks in outdoors. Some weeks ago went to a coast on Siuntio and Inkoo municipals, about 50km west from Helsinki (Sjundeå and Ingå in Swedish, as they both are old, traditionally Swedish spoken municipals).
There were two Recreation areas and small Nature Reserves within them. The place in Siuntio was called Störsvik and the place in Inkoo was called Kopparnäs (see this map of the region). Both areas belong to official Recreation Areas, owned by Uudenmaan Virkistysalueyhdistys Ry, a Society which owns many areas in Uusimaa Province (see this PDF brochure for all the places).
The area contained high rocks, old meadows, ruins of old buildings, beaches, small mires, different type of forest and a great scenery all the time to archipelago. There's one path which followed the coast line.
Didn't have much luck with weather, cloudy with relatively strong wind and about +5C temperature.
Started the hike from a new parking lot at Kola village. A new information poster welcomed visitors. Path was marked with white painted dots on trees. There hadn't been many hikers at Siuntio side as the path was grown closed in many places. Terrain was quite wet as water flowed many places towards the sea.
View from top of rocks on many places offered gorgeous scenery towards the archipelago. The path was nice to walk, just few meters from the water line.
Decided to continue until Rävberget, a high hill along the coast. All Kopparnäs places one can reach by car. You noticed that. Hill had some bird watchers. Down from the hill on the water line had lots of people fishing, all hoping to catch some trout. Swans floated peacefully in some distance on the sea.
Hot tea from a thermo bottle, some sandwich, peanuts and stuff. Returned almost the same route, except at Störsvik crossed the forest to visit Kvarnträsk, a small lake within a Nature Reserve.
After leaving the lake I put my camera to bag, thinking there's nothing to shoot anymore. In the next minute, a great size of White Tail Deer jumped in front of me, about two meters, stared at me a while and then slowly and proudly walk off. I struggled taking the camera from the bag which no luck, grrrr.
The place is worth visiting during Spring and especially in summer time.
Here's the hiked route:
With the following photos I try to explain what I saw there:
|A starting point at Störsvik
|Along the path in Störsvik
|Along the path in Störsvik
|A fisherman rushes to work
|Captured a water line in long shutter speed
|Some old noble trees
|Many of them
|Old ruins at Kurubackudden
|A beach at Sandviken
|Towards the sea
|Ying Yang
|Along the path in Kopparnäs
|Getting colour
|Lake Kvarnträsk
|New fern, in November


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Albert Hofmann died yesterday, at the ripe age of 102. This is significant for two reasons, one being that Hofmann was the "discoverer" of LSD in the 1940's. I've never read any of Hofmann's books, but Timothy Leary quotes and discusses him at length in his autobiography Flashback. Hofmann, like Leary, remained convinced throughout his life that when used in controlled settings, LSD could be a powerful way to treat various forms of mental illness. I, on the other hand, remain convinced that in uncontrolled settings LSD could be a hell of a lot of fun.
The other reason Hofmann's death bears mentioning here is that he was the captain of my Fantasy Death League Team, otherwise known as Tupac, or Not Tupac. This means that, in the nearly three months since we drafted 180 people as likely candidates to pass on, only three have done so, and they were all drafted by me (Hofmann, Charlton Heston, and Arthur C. Clarke), giving me 52 points to everyone else's donut. I'm enjoying this mini-run of deathly foresight, but at what point does it start to get creepy? I'm like that Haley Mills Osmond kid from The Sixth Sense!
Naturally, difficult roster decisions have to be made now. After much deliberation and input from our team scouts, Bobby Brown gets the call-up to the active roster, and Betty Ford assumes the mantle of Team Captain.
Finally, I now also have a legit argument for the Birds of a Feather Bonus, which to recap is a bonus of 25 points (I think) to the person who can make the most persuasive argument they can about how two of their deceased are linked. The strongest link for the year gets the bonus. Of course, if I'm the only one with any deaths I won't have to stretch too hard to get to that point. But now I have this: Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey was famous during its theatrical showings for the way the color sequence toward the end of the movie would entice people tripping on acid to go to the front of the theater, lay down on the floor, and basically trip out on all the colors, which caused Charlton Heston, seated in the front row, to scream "Get your hands off of my popcorn, you damned dirty acid freaks!"
The Clarke/Heston linkage is irrefutable, and may well win this league for me before all is said and done.


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Thursday, February 25, 2016
Crocodile Friend- Practical Scrappers Use Your Stash Blog Hop..
Happy Friday!!!! If you're like me, you are more than ready for the weekend. We start back up baseball season, so we will be there on Saturday, and the next Saturdays through May, I'm sooo excited...
You should have arrived here from the lovely Sandy's blog on the Practical Scrapper Use Your Stash Blog hop... If you want to start at the beginning you can head over to Katrina's blog where the fun started...
Here is my layout of my lil one. She has had an imaginary crocodile friend that she brings along with her places. Today she brought him with her, and held him on the leash all day, so I had to take a photo of her with her "friend".
I used the Bella Blvd Molly line for my page, it's still a fave of mine...
I added several stickers from the line and some enamels:
And added some journaling about her "crocodile friend" too:
I used the Stuck Feb 15 sketch for my layout here.
Now head over to the talented Lee-Ann's blog for more inspiration...
Thanks sooo much for stopping by and have a great day!!!!!
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Such a sweet page Wendi!ReplyDelete
Love the fantastic colours! Great page Wendi!ReplyDelete
That is sooooooooo sweet that she has an imaginary friend! I loveeeeeeeee this! LOVING how you used the 'Molly' collection!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
Fabulous layout Wendi! I love how you placed the alphas on the vertical....amazing layering and journalling. Thanks for playing along with Stuck?!ReplyDelete
Cute page. :) yvetteReplyDelete
So cute - great story highlighted with a lovely layout! I love the circles and lines.ReplyDelete
Such a sweet page, love those papers too! Thanks for joining us at Stuck?! Sketches!ReplyDelete
PS love your new profile pic, great haircut!
It's wonderful, Wendy! Love this young and fresh style. Thanks for sharing at Stuck?! Sketches. EliReplyDelete
So sweet! Love your colors.ReplyDelete
Such an adorable page!! What a fabulous thing to scrapbook. A great way to remember her imaginary friend!! SO sweet!!ReplyDelete
Haha! Such a cute photo and story! I love your layout and the Molly Collection too! I love your handwriting!ReplyDelete
such a cute page and I love the story. Nice to see you joining the challenges at Stuck?! SketchesReplyDelete
What a fabulous page! I love the color combo! Thanks for joining us at Stuck?! Sketches!ReplyDelete


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I have read everything you have written and attended your lecture at ISGB last year. I am trying to work from your formulas but am not too sure.
I like what was done by this person using a feeder trough – I think a galvanized tub might also work This particular one comes out to 3.7 square ft face http://www.bucket-outlet.com/16galovaltub.htm
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My calculation comes out to about 460 CFM (3.7 x 125)
What would happen if I used a 800 CFM???
I would have approximately 10 ft of duct with 2 bends – I thought 6 inch duct would work but I can use 8 inch.
The 465 CFM fan concerns me because it flanges out to 4 inches – Is this a problem?
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Bridgit —
The tub works just fine, no worries at all, in fact it is an excellent idea!
I am also not concerned about the outlet size of the fan, that really doesn't matter at all. The outlet duct can be mounted on what's called a "duct plug".
The "duct plug" with fan attached is then mounted on your duct and you are in business.
Here's the numbers for your proposed system:
6″ duct = 0.17″ static pressure
8″ duct = 0.03″ static pressure
6″ duct = 1.01″ static pressure
8″ duct = 0.14″ static pressure
As you can see, using 6″ duct is not really a good idea, especially if you choose to go with the 800 CFM fan.
The 125 CFM per square foot "rule of thumb" is used as a starting place for overhead hoods. I like to stay within about 10-15% of that number, especially for smaller torches like the Nortel Minor etc. Your upper end should be no more than about 530 CFM or so.
Keep in mind that by upping the CFM on the fan, your fresh air requirements will go up as well — which is the major reason I like to stay close to the design parameters for the fan. A well-designed and constructed system will not need more CFM, so there's no reason to put excess capacity, especially if the system is going to be used for only one torch with one hood.


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Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, 59, known as a defender of church orthodoxy, will take over the second-largest archdiocese in the United States -- home to 2.5 million Catholics in nearly 400 churches -- on April 15, three days after Easter.
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Hi everyone, my name is Jeremy and here is my report for Malaysia States that was held on the 11th of May.
Before I start on the report, I would like to take this chance to introduce myself. I have been playing Pokémon for 3 years now ever since the Luxchomp era. I have seen some success here and there throughout the time I was playing but this was the first "big win" I had in a premier event.
I am also from Team Lavender which consists of me, Xavier, Reuben, Pearlyn and Joshua. We are a group of friends that meet up quite often to playtest.
Deck Choice
Before the event, I took second place at Singapore cities with Darkrai/Ninetales, a deck which I had been testing a lot. Going into Singapore States, I decided to run Blastiose but went 2-4 due to me not being able to draw well at all.
Coming into this event, I knew that I did not want to play blastiose. No doubt the deck was hard to stop once it set up, but that deck had so many problems like bad matchups and bad draws. As I was expecting Big Basics and Garbador to be the Meta, I was not comfortable using Darkrai/Ninetales as I knew I would have to play bad matchups almost the whole day. This led me to make the choice to run Big Basics as it would be the safest as it almost had a 50-50 matchup across the board.
The night before the event, I was still testing with Landorus/Lugia/Ninetales. The deck was running good but had a very tough matchup against Tornadus EX. After a few games I decided to drop the deck as I felt that the deck was good but not good enough to win an event. I ended up playing FuRinKaZan which otherwise was known as Big Basics with Ninetales. Props to Clifton for coming up with the deck idea and Belp for helping me with the deck list. The idea of the deck was to use your Big basics to put on early pressure and Ninetales serves as a cheap attacker, a klinklang counter and a free Catchers. Here is the list I used:
3 Tornadus EX
3 Landorus EX
2 Mewtwo EX
2-2 Ninetales
1 Bouffalant
4 Juniper
3 Skyla
2 Bianca
4 Hypnotoxic Laser
3 Switch
3 Pokémon Catchers
2 Energy Search
2 Max Potion
2 Energy Switch
2 Ultra Ball
2 Virbank City Gym
1 Level Ball
1 Super Rod
1 Super Scoop Up
1 Dowsing Machine
5 Fighting Energy
2 Fire Energy
4 Double Colourless Energy
The synergy between Landorus EX and Ninetales is too good to believe. After a hammerhead, Ninetales could swing for 150 with virbank in play with a single fire if u flip heads. This Kos any EX in the format. Landorus is also good with bouffalant as the bull can swing for 150 with just a Laser and virbank in play. 2 Max potion are in here to ensure that I can heal off any damage when I need to. Combine this with energy switch I can retain my energy . Moreover, most attackers in my deck only need a single energy to attack.
Tournament Report
I am sorry if I can't recall all the games as I am writing this report 2 days after the event!
Round 1 VS Goutham ( Zebstrika/Garbodor/Tornadus EX/ Mewtwo EX)
He went first and opened Trubbish and Blizle to my Landorus EX. He then went to search out for a Tornadus EX attaches a lighting energy to it and passes.
On my turn, I attached a Fighting to my Landorus, benched a Vulpix and use Pokémon Catcher on the benched Blizle. I also play my supporter and whiff on the Laser to take a KO. I then hit the active for 60 and 30 on his Tornadus.
He then evolves into Zebstrika and retreats to his Tornadus, attaching a DCE and Power Blast-ing my active for 100.
I responded to that by playing a Max Potion and attach a Fighting to my Landorus. I then evolve my Vulpix into Ninetales and uses Bright Look on the Trubbish. I then went on to do 30 to his Trubbish and another 30 to his Tornadus EX.
I did this as the Zebstrika was in KO range and I did not want to take a prize too early in the game as I do not want to draw lesser cards when N is played. Moreover, the Zebstrika did not have any energy attached to it so there was no threat of being Disconnected the following turn.
He then went on to switch in his Tornadus EX and hit me but I managed to get a double KO on the Trubbish and zebstrika. Later in the game, I went on to wall with my own Tornadus EX as I ran more healing than he did so I out -tanked him and went on to take the game. Good game Goutham!
Round 2 VS Belp (FuRinKaZan)
At this point I was kind of angry as I had to play against another Singaporean that travelled here. To make things worst he was my good friend and we were both playing the same deck with a difference of 4-5 cards.
I went first this game and opened a Tornadus EX to his lone Vulpix. I had the DCE in hand but did not have the stadium for the donk. I went on to use a level ball to search out a Vulpix of my own to bench and played a N. I drew all 6 cards and whiff on the stadium and did a blow through for 30.
His turn, he searches out a Tornadus EX attaches DCE to it plays down a virbank and lasers me. I could not recall the rest of the match but I knew that he was very unlucky with his draws and flips and I somehow managed to take a win. Good game Belp!
Round 3 VS Jackson (Mewtwo EX, Landorus EX, Tornadus EX, Garbodor)
Yet again I am playing another fellow Singaporean. I felt really bad that we had to play against each other so early in the tournament. He went first this game and opened a lone Trubbish to my Landorus EX. He attaches a DCE to his Trubbish and uses Juniper. He then used garbage collection to put a juniper on the top of his deck.
I attach a Fighting to my Landorus EX searches out for my own Tornadus EX and just hammerhead. The game then developed into a Mewtwo war but when I found out that he had 0 DCE left in his deck, I just went aggro Mewtwo to take the game. Good game Jackson.
Round 4 VS Navin (Blastiose/Keldeo EX/ Black Kyurem EX)
This was a bad matchup for my deck as Black Kyurem is able to OHKO and destroy my board in a matter of turns and I could not 1 shot it. I opened with a lone Vulpix to his lone Keldeo EX and went first. I went on to use Singe to Burn Keldeo EX and played a supporter to find my Tornadus EX to bench it.
His turn, he searches out for another Keldeo EX and Squirtle, Rushing In to the active position. Placed down a tropical beach and draws 4 cards.
I evolve my Vuplix into Ninetales, Bright looks the lone squirtle to knock it out. He responded by benching 2 more Squirtle, attaching a Water to his Keldeo EX with no damage leaving the one with 20 damage from burn in the active and passes.
My turn, I play down a Virbank City Gym and a Laser. I flipped heads and went on to search out for my Bouffalant and set it up for later. I then knock out his active Keldeo EX for 2 prizes and was down to 3 prizes. He then gets a blastiose the following turn with a Keldeo EX with 3 energy to knock out my active Ninetales.
I went on to use Bouffalant's Gold Breaker and a Laser to hit the Keldeo EX for 150. He went on to search out another Keldeo EX and benches it. I was quite surprised at the third Keldeo as most list only runs 2 of those these days. He then rushes in twice to retreat to his Black Kyurem EX with 4 energy and catchers my fully powered Tornadus EX for the KO.
I went on to hit his active Black Kyurem EX for 150 again with Bouffalant and a Laser and benches down a Landorus EX with a Fighting to prepare to take 4 prizes the following turn. He then whiffs on the Catcher and uses a fresh Keldeo with 5 Water to KO my active Bouffalant. I went on to play a Catcher on the damaged Keldeo EX and hammerhead for the KO on both the active and the damaged Black Kyurem EX for 4 prizes. Good game Navin!
Round 5 VS Yee Wei (Darkrai EX with hammers)
I was feeling good before this round as I was 4-0 and had a pretty high chance of making cut even if I lose the next 2 games. I could not recall much of this game as I played a total of 4 games with him in the event. I remember that his crushing hammers were all heads and I could not manage to fully power up a Landorus EX to sweep his board. Not to mention that he played perfectly against me knowing when to junk hunt, saving his N and putting his night spear damage correctly on my board. The game went downhill for me when I was forced to bench my 170hp EXs against him. Good game Yee Wei!
Round 6 VS Rishwyn (Darkrai EX)
This was a favourable matchup for me as he did not run hammers which means I was free to power up my Landorus EX to sweep his board later in the game. He went first and had a T1 Junk hunt with computer search. I responded by using Landorus to spread damage on his board. The key to this matchup for the Big Basic player is to remove Sableye as soon as possible from the Darkrai's player's board as it will cost you many resources to keep switching out of the active because of poison but it does not burn any resources on the Darkrai's player side as he would just have to junk hunt while setting up his Darkrai. After a few turns into the game, I managed to power up a Landorus with 3 energy and destroyed his board. Good game Rishwyn!
At 5-1, I was able to make it into top 8 and was going to play Rishwyn again.
Top 8 VS Rishwyn (Darkrai EX )
Game 1: I opened with Mewtwo EX to his Sableye. He goes first and had a decent T1 Junk hunt. My turn, I search out a vulpix and a Landorus EX, attaching DCE to my Mewtwo and playing down a Laser to KO his Sableye. The following turn, I attached another energy to my Mewtwo to KO another of his Sableye. I then went on to play energy switch to get the fire off my Mewtwo to my Landorus retreats attach a Fighting to my Landorus EX and hammer head. He managed to night spear my Landorus EX but it was too late and I attach the second Fighting to my Landorus EX and sweep his board.
Game 2: The same thing happened with me opening Mewtwo to his Sableye and taking a T1 KO on it. However, this game he managed to set up a T3 night spear and start powering up a second Darkrai. He managed to knockout my Mewtwo and place damage all over my board. I managed to knock out a Darkrai to get down to 2 prizes but he played a N the following turn. I drew dead for 2 turns and finally top-decked a juniper to end the series. Good games Rishwyn!
Top 4 VS Yee Wei( Darkrai EX with hammers)
Game 1: This game I used Landorus to spread out damage across his board while enduring his hammers. I managed to take 2 Sableye knockouts but I never saw a third energy on my Landorus the entire game. He managed to get off a very quick night spear and started spreading damage over my board. I used my 2 max potions to stay in the game healing off 170 damage on my Landorus EX. The game came down to a 1 card N and if I drew energy I won if not he would win the game next turn with a night spear and I drew the energy to take game 1.
Game 2: I opened with Mewtwo EX to his Sableye and he got off to quite a decent start with Junk hunt. I managed to KO his active Sableye with a DCE and a Laser but he responded with another Sableye and flipped heads on crushing hammer to remove my DCE. I cannot remember much of this game but at a point, I had 3 Landorus EX on my board and 1 with 3 energy. I took a KO on a fresh drakrai with it by discarding the 2 Fighting attached to it instead of playing down a Laser. This cost me the game as he was able to N me to 1 and I drew dead. Not long after he managed to setup another darkrai by using junk hunt to recover and took game 2.
Game 3: This was one of the most stupid games I played the entire season. I went first and opened Landorus EX to his Keldeo EX. I attached a Fighting and hammerhead for 30 keeping my Laser and Virbank in hand in fear of him having a good start. His turn, he plays down Virbank used crushing hammer to remove my Fighting energy, lasers me and passes. I drew nothing so I played down my Laser and passes. Both of us drew dead for the next 2 turns but I had a benched Pokémon so I won by his Keldeo getting knocked out from poison. Great games Yee Wei!
Top 2 VS Lawrence ( Landorus EX/ Tornadus EX/ Mewtwo EX/ Garbador)
Game 1: He went first and opened a Trubbish and a Mewtwo to my lone Landorus EX. He attaches a DCE to his Mewtwo and X-ball me for 40. My hand had Mewtwo and DCE but I did not want to take a gamble to N myself into the switch so I attach my Fighting energy to the Landorus EX and hammerheads. Turn 2 I managed to KO his Mewtwo with my own and he switches to Landorus EX for attacking. I responded by using my Tornadus EX and healing to wall him off and finally took 6 prizes to take game 1.
Game 2: This game was very similar as game 1 but he had 2 evoilte on both of his Landorus T2. In about 4 turns, I managed to knock out one of his fully charged Landorus and N him. He then drew dead while I had a fully powered up Tornadus in the active hitting him for 80 each turn. He then decided to scoop as he could not keep up with the prize Exchange. And so I was the Malaysia States Champ! Good game Lawrence!
The deck ran perfectly and even though there are games which I drew dead, the deck can still function as you need so little to attack. I am at 140CP now and hope to earn my invite by making into top 16 during nationals. It would not be easy but I will be playtesting a lot! If you would like to discuss deck ideas or just playtest with me, feel free to add my facebook (Jeremy Leong).
I would like to end this report by thanking the following people:
Clifton: For coming up with such an excellent deck idea.
Belp: For sharing with me the deck list and tell me what to do in which matchups as I had 0 experience with the deck.
Adrian: For lending me cards so that I am able to build the deck. And that sick 3 N theory haha.
Team Lanvender: For always being there to playtest, eat, buy packs, lending of cards. Let's all go worlds this year!
Everyone else for being such good friends in this game. (:
Ninetales: For being so useful as a Catcher or as a nuke (150 damage) Love this card.


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Cottonhut (cottonhut.se) story began at our summer house in 2003. A log house, to be precise. Being here again, it felt right to share some thoughts, and post a few images of Cottonhut spring/summer 2013 collection.
In the old times in Finland, the main buildings of the farms were always built of logs. The logs were cut from your own forest, taken to the mill, and then used for construction. When ready, very often the house was insulated from outside with additional layer of wood, but inside the logs were visible.
The house was decorated with traditional, often self-made, wooden furniture and textiles. Rag rugs, chip baskets for storage, self-woven linen for the kitchen and bedroom. Hooks and lanterns from the local black-smith. Bread and butter baskets from the local artisans.
As the agriculture way of life slowly faded away, were those, who still have the log-house to deocrate, forced to order the traditional items one by one from artisans becoming fewer and fewer, or purchase decoration items, which never really match the walls around them.
Cottonhut Collection was created to answer this demand. We see our products used in a summer house by a lake, a mountain hut built of large logs, or a country home where the center is a large, all-purpose kitchen.


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Tehran: Iran on Sunday urged Muslim nations to forge closer cooperation to counter the US policy of seeking to create division among them.
"The US' dishonest, duplicitous and divisive policy towards Muslim countries, including Iran and Pakistan, requires that they bolster cooperation against the US in addition to maintaining vigilance and taking preventive measures," Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, was quoted by the Press TV as saying.
Shamkhani made the remarks during a meeting with Pakistan's National Security Adviser Nasser Khan Janjua, whose country has recently come under criticism by US President Donald Trump.
"We will not allow some countries to affect relations between the two countries through sending weapons and hiring terrorists to create insecurity on their borders," Shamkhani said.
He also highlighted the need of lifting the Saudi Arabia blockade on Yemen, saying Muslim countries and the international community support political talks among Yemeni groups as a way to end the bombardment and siege of the country by the Saudi-led military coalition.
For his part, Janjua urged Muslim countries to "exercise vigilance" against foreign conspiracies hatched to increase the rift among them.
He emphasised that Islamabad would seek to develop its security and economic cooperation with Tehran.
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|The Candidates Debate - Kinda Sorta
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Before I get into the specifics on the event and on each candidate, I would like to point out that if you had no idea this was going on then you are not alone. I'm supposed to be the Politics guy around here and I definitely listen to talk radio and watch the cable news outlets fairly frequently and could not remember a mention of this very important and interesting event. In fact the only reason I stumbled upon it was that NBC, in their Olympic coverage, decided to basically show the women's marathon in its entirety. This sent me looking for other programming options. (On a side note, I will post an Olympic review after the conclusion of the Games. The Games have been incredibly interesting and well presented but this programming decision was a huge whiff - you just can't show 2.5 hours of jogging on primetime network TV. C'mon NBC - do better!)
With that out of the way, I settled into my recliner with my trusty notebook ready to watch the candidates indirectly duke it out. Obama got the nod to go first and stepped up to the plate in more "business casual" clothing than we're used to seeing from a presidential candidate on Live TV. I assume to underscore the informal nature of the event. After dispensing with the normal pleasantries to the host and audience they quickly got into the questions, which were broken down into four sections - Leadership skills, Morality & Worldview, Nstional Policies and International Policies.
The first section, Leadership skills, is one that Obama definitely needed a strong showing in for independent voters. This was needed to overcome his lack of experience compared with McCain. The big hammering point for conservative talk hosts like Rush and Hannity is that they often challenge Obama supporters to name 3 or even sometimes 1 specific legislative accomplishment for Obama. Very few supporters have been able to mount specific examples, preferring instead his vague message of "change". In this section Obama made several responses that were tied to his opposition to the Iraq war from the beginning (the same big contrast that he used against Hillary in the primaries). He was then asked questions about his personal failures. Obama admitted that his past drug use and non- specific "personal selfishness" in his youth were his biggest personal shames. When asked what could be considered the biggest shame of the nation as a whole, Obama responded that the US has not always done enough for the poor while also noting that Welfare Reform has worked out better than he would have thought. He counted this issue as a time in which he has "flip flopped" after more information became available. All in all the best way I can describe his performance in this section was that he was basically treading water - no big gaffes but no real homeruns either.
The second section, Morality & Worldview, seemed to present Obama with a difficult task in explaining his platform to an audience comprised of Evangelical Christians who have historically backed the Republican line of thought. He made a point to thoroughly attest to his personal Christian faith. As far as the questions went, Obama scored strongly with the audience in declaring that he believes marriage to be between a man and a woman (though he would not support a Constitutional Amendment to define it that way - he preferred to leave that up to individual states). He also stated that stem cell research should be done under narrow circumstances and embryos should not be created just to be destroyed in research (for some reason the host did not ask about federal funding for these projects, which was strange). Obama also voiced his support for faith based organizations being able to provide service better than government organizations - 95% of the time, which definitely impressed the audience.
But this section was also where Obama struggled the most, providing the most material for future attack ads to his opposition. On abortion he stated that moral questions of that nature are "above my paygrade". Seriously, that's what he said. This was the only point for either candidate in which the very respectful audience let out a very audible groan and for good reason. You simply can't be trying to gain the highest office in the world and say that any issue is above your head. When asked about which Supreme Court justice he would NOT have nominated, he very nervously stated that it would be Clarence Thomas due to his lack of experience in legal scholarship. From a man trying to down play experience as a qualification for high office this was a significant mis-step. Not for deciding to pick Clarence Thomas, who is one of the least popular Justices, just that he used the reasons that he did. One of the more pointed questions was whether or not evil exists and what to do about it. Obama said it does exist and must be confronted, but that the US needs to understand that our actions can sometimes amount to evil in the eyes of others and that evil exists on the street corners of America as well. This may well be true, but for a presidential candidate to not at all mention terrorism in this context was questionable at best. Expect McCain ads highlighting some if not all of these responses by Obama.
Moving to national policies, the host asked several questions on education, taxes and national security. On education he was asked if teachers should be paid on a merit-based approach? He responded that he would support that plan if it could be done in a way that teacher's unions would approve of the plan (that will happen shortly after we figure out a way to turn lead into gold). On his tax plan Obama was asked to define what it means to be rich? He stated that it heavily depends on what region of the country you live in (which is very true) and that he would say that usually a family earning under $150K is not "rich" and that usually a family earning over $250K is "rich". Of course a huge chunk of American families are between $150K - $250K, where they stand in Obama's eyes is anyone's guess at this time as the host didn't bother to followup. On national security Obama talked of the need to balance personal privacy with the collective needs of the nation without providing any real dividing lines upon which he would make judgements. He did talk of his firm belief that the Judiciary needs to serve as a check on Executive excess (speaking to Bush's surveillance policies which Obama has always opposed).
Internationally, the questions focused on genocide, orphans (which apparently is a big pet issue for the host), and human trafficking. When confronted with genocide in another nation Obama said he would first seek international approval before taking action but would not be bound by international pressures to act or not to act on the situation by committing US troops to the cause. He promised to make orphans and the issue of human trafficking "top priorities". When asked about religious persecution he took advantage of the topic to jump off point to say that we are in a tough situation with China since they lend us money which he contends is due to our spending so much in the Iraq War. He closed his interview round by stating that big problems are not easy to solve and we may have to pay a short term cost for long term solutions (you can safely assume he was speaking about alternative energy sources long term and limiting oil consumption short term).
After finishing Obama's portion, McCain emerged from his sealed underground undisclosed location (okay I'm exagerrating) to join Obama for a brief congenial embrace for the crowd. He too was dressed much more casually than we'll ever see him in a formal debate. As this was the first time the two candidates have been on stage together, this was a very nice treat for the crowd and they definitely appreciated the moment.
McCain was then presented with the exact same questions previously presented to Obama - Section One, Leadership. When McCain was asked about his personal moral failure he owned up to the failure of his first marriage but his response indicated that he had NO interest in being asked any followup questions on that subject (If anyone remembers that old SNL sketch with Garth Brooks and Robert Duval competing on a fake game show "Grizzled Old Man" it was very reminiscent of that. If you don't remember there's always YouTube). On America's failure it has been that American Exceptionalism (in other words Reaganism) has not been emphasized enough lately. When asked about an example of when he broke from party lines McCain couldn't help but laugh. There are a litany of examples on which McCain earned his "Maverick" reputation in breaking with the Republican Party and he made sure to point all of them out (climate change, campaign finance, spending, border security and torture were all mentioned). One of the most memorable moments of the night came when the host asked McCain about an example of when he "flip-flopped" on an issue due to new information. It was almost as if he was wearing a shock collar and someone behind the curtain pushed the shock button. He jumped up and immediately said it was on offshore drilling for oil. He opposed it when gas was $1.50 a gallon and he was a Senator and now that it is $4.00 a gallon and he is a Presidential candidate he has changed his mind. This is the big issue that Republicans are going to hammer the Democrats on in November and they are making no secret of it. Clear edge to McCain on this subject.
On matters of Morality and Worldview, McCain set out with the agenda of answering all questions quickly, forcefully and decisively. He used this line of questions and the others that followed to describe in depth his experiences as a P.O.W. He seemed to go into much greater detail than he had in the primaries to feature this experience as his foundation in moral decisions pertaining to rights of life. An easy jumping off point was to declare that fetuses have human rights - "at the moment of conception". Marriage is between Man and Woman and he would support a constitutional amendment pending review of its language. Though he did clearly back track once. On stem cells he did try to avoid the question. This is a weak point for Republicans as the majority of independent Americans have and do support federal funding for stem cell research in the hope of curing disease. He quickly offered skin cell research from living donors as a counterproposal. Some would think this as just as much an unreasonable pipedream substitute as ethanol is to oil at this point in the science. In matters of evil, McCain says it definitely exists and that it must not only be confronted but be defeated. He promised "to chase Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaida to the gates of hell". Very direct, very forceful.
With national policies McCain continued to take the approach of quickly answering each question. The most liberal members of the Supreme Court - Ginsburg, Breyer, Souter and Stevens would not have been appointed by theoretical President McCain. (Of course Stevens and Souter were actually nominated by Republican presidents - Gerald Ford and George HW Bush respectively, so it can be hard to tell what you're really getting in a Supreme Court nominee). On education McCain talked about the need for school choice (ie vouchers for private school). If Obama needs to turn lead into gold before getting teachers unions to agree to merit pay, McCain will need to perfect cold fusion before getting vouchers through on a national level. With National Security McCain talked of the need for all branches of government to work together. This is consistent with Bush's Dept of Homeland Security and in clear contrast to Obama's preference for strict checks and balances. On taxes McCain produced his big gaffe of the night. When before he was quick and decisive with his answers, when asked to define what it means to be "rich" in terms of income, McCain danced around the issue but eventually said almost jokingly "I dunno - $5 million is probably rich". Insert Democrat ad here. If abortion and terrorism is right in the wheelhouse for Republicans, income inequality is right there for Democrats.
When dealing with international affairs, McCain said that while the US cannot right all of the wrongs around the world, our history is to fight for the freedoms of ourselves and others when rights are being suppressed and that we must serve as a "Shining City on a Hill" (another Reagan reference). An interesting statement by McCain regarding the present situation in Georgia is that they are being invaded by the "Russian Empire". Since the fall of the Soviet Union the West has tried to do what it can to treat the former advisary as an ally, and this latest course of action by the Russians has put US statesmen in a difficult spot. By using this statement McCain is clearly showing a departure from that point of view, even indicating military action against Russia (with international assistance) is possible. McCain closed by saying that he wants to be president primarily to inspire US citizens to act beyond their self interest and that he has always put country first in his military and congressional service. He said that he will present his views in "any forum" and that he is running to be the president for all US citizens, even those who won't vote for him (mentioning his NAACP speech some months ago).
By presenting themselves in this format the candidates were able to express their views and positions without having to fight each other for mic time and not allowing for superficial comparisons like whose suit looked better. This is what the public swears they want to see and hear - they don't want attack ads and they don't want to see the candidates to needlessly jockey for position on stage. My gut feeling is the reason this event was not heavily promoted is that contrary to what people say, they really won't watch something without direct competition and drama. I expect ratings for this very informative event to be very low despite the fact that this event shed more light on the candidates than you'll see in any formal debate. I thought the host was remarkably fair in sticking with the same format for both. My only complaint about the questions is that there was absolutely nothing asked of the candidates in regards to health care/Medicare. Health care expenses account for roughly 1/7 of the US Economy. Medicare funding has been in peril for some time. It personally affects all citizens and the candidates have very different positions on each (Obama is for more "universal" public financing of healthcare and McCain is for private options such as health care saving acounts). It was a huge blemish on the night that the candidates were not forced to elaborate and defend their respective positions.
The real nuts and bolts distinction between the candidates is that McCain is more definite, even if his plans conflict with his Party. Obama is more deliberative regardless of the conclusions he reaches. Obama seeks a more intellectual debate on issues, seeking to equally incoporate the views of all interested parties in the debate. McCain leans heavily on personal experience to reach a decisive conclusion in placing more interest in American individualism than on the collective. Obama seems to see the US as having certain fundamental flaws that need to be changed (primarily services to the poorest of our citizens) which he took full advantage of the stage in front of a Christian audience to emphasize. McCain feels that we already are acting appropriately in most regards and that we just need to do a better job of expounding on our bedrock principles of personal responsibility and individual rights as opposed to large government intervention to address problems. This is nothing new for the candidates of the respective major US parties and you can judge for yourself which qualities are more valuable in the highest Executive office in the world.
In my eyes, this can reasonably be considered as a small and very qualified victory for McCain. Of course he did have what basically amounted to a home field advantage, appearing before an audience of mainly Evangelical Christians. While he is not a slam dunk candidate for their support, he had a clear edge going into the night. Obama's strong defense of his Christian values may have made some sort of inroads in easing fears about him (a small percent of Americans still believe the ridiculous notion that he may be a closet Muslim). Evangelical Christians were a big swing voting block that George Bush used successfully in defeating Gore and Kerry. They are a majority for McCain but he has not sewn them up in such large numbers as Bush did. Those voters clearly preferred Mike Huckabee and even Mitt Romney as opposed to McCain, and this night was for them. McCain could sure up that vote and therefore do much to lock up some swing states on the electoral map. Or Obama could win over enough of them to put some previous Red states into play. McCain could have won them all and Obama could have lost them all, neither really seemed to happen. In other words, my best guess is that if 20% of Evangelical voters are undecided, McCain won 10% and Obama won 5% last night with 5% remaining open and Very Very Important in those swing states.
The conventions start up in the next few weeks and both sides are lining up speakers and events in an effort to maximize their "convention bounces". Once the candidates were initially named, Obama had approximately a 7% lead in the polls. That lead has evaporated over time and it is now virtually a dead heat nationally. The Democrat convention in Denver is first and Obama can reasonably expect to be 10% ahead in the national polls after it concludes and his VP is announced. McCain and the Republicans will then answer with their speeches and their VP nominee, and the polls after the Republican Convention ends will be telling. I'll make a comprehensive review of each Convention after they conclude including what the electoral map looks like once each man announces his running mate.


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Shobna, who first found fame as Anita in Dinnerladies, said: "Everybody's Talking About Jamie is a wonderful show; it's truly warm, infectious for the soul and incredibly uplifting.
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With less than two weeks to go in this marathon of a Governor's primary, Eric Johnson has a few things he would like you to focus on rather than his lock on 4th place in the polls.
He's been endorsed today by the Marietta Daily Journal and the Cherokee Tribune, (which are running the same editorial, and thus I will assume the Tribune is also owned by Marietta publisher Otis Brumby).
Johnson is also touting the new addition of Jim Lientz to his campaign, adding one more high level backer of current Governor Perdue into Johnson's camp.
While Johnson has yet to show significant upward momentum in the polls, we've also been preaching 'round here that the final 3 weeks of the campaign would be what mattered. With most polls still showing 40% +/- undecided, there's plenty of room for any of the candidates with an active ground game and media presence to make a move.
The battle now is whether or not those undecided voters decide, or decide not to vote. We'll know in less than two weeks.
Jim Lientz press release below the jump.
ATLANTA- Senator Eric Johnson, Republican candidate for Governor, today announced that Jim Lientz has joined his campaign as co-chairman. Lientz retired as Chief Operating Officer of the State of Georgia, a position he had held since January of 2003, on June 30th.
"After working closely with Governor Perdue for 7 ½ years, I know how difficult the challenges the next Governor will face are going to be," said Lientz. "Eric has the combined experience in the private and public sectors that we're going to need in our next Governor. As a successful businessman, he understands what the private sector needs to grow and create jobs and as a legislative leader he knows how to get it done."
Lientz previously served as President of Bank of America's Mid-South Division and Chairman of the TriVeritas Group. In 2000, he chaired the Metropolitan Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and in 1998 he served as Chairman of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce. He became Georgia's first Chief Operating Officer in 2003 and was responsible for working with the majority of state agencies, boards, and commissions to accomplish Governor Perdue's goals.
"I am proud to welcome Jim to our team. His unique background as a well respected business leader and Chief Operating Officer of the state will provide invaluable insight and knowledge," said Johnson. "He is one of the many community leaders I will be looking to for advice and counsel and I appreciate the trust he has placed in me and our campaign to put Georgia back to work."
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In the hands of the wrong person, moral infractions of vastly different magnitude and consequence can be equated in a failed attempt at leverage through hyperbole.
We see this all the time regarding the topic of abuse.
Those of you who have read my posts and commentary for some time know that I often say I have a license to speak freely about domestic violence. And you know why. If you don't know why, just accept at face value that whether I am correct or not, I needn't adopt a sort of PC lexicon on the topic of up-defining the term abuse.
For instance I take particular umbrage when so much power is given a single word. If one chooses to tack the word abuse onto any verb, noun, or adjective, magically a new type of abuse is acknowledged. Being seen as an abuse victim greases life skids, affords second (and more) chances, gets attention, marshals armies of concern warriors, and not least….not only gets lots of empathy but also sets up a new thing to empathize with and about. In other words empathy gets going two ways.
Now as we've seem the news of Pastor Saeed being accused of abuse and how the main Christian media is running with the story, we have an example of what occurs in family courts and in simple gossip every day across the country.
One story parenthetically explained that the sexual abuse was having to do with his pornography addiction. Quite clever because it affords a way to get around the obvious questions about how an imprisoned man can sexually abuse his wife a hemisphere away. If there are readers still left unconvinced, its good enough to have painted Saeed with the broad brush of porn addiction.
In reading a story from Charisma News, which Dalrock linked in his most recent post, I saw that the Christian media will not miss the chance to do some major Lift chasing using Naghmeh's abuse allegations. After discussing the headline briefly the article goes on the fill more than half of its content with information about how poorly churches are handling the apparently ubiquitous presence of domestic violence in their bodies.
Two-thirds of pastors address domestic violence from the pulpit one time a year or less.[ ]
It reminds us that we need to speak up on domestic violence in our churches. Our Sojourners / IMA World Heath / LifeWay Research data shows this is not happening frequently enough. Two-thirds of pastors address domestic violence from the pulpit one time a year or less.
The frenzy to show how-much-they-care causes people to believe the most outrageous claims. It also causes them to lose the ability to grasp how contradictory some information is, how cause and effect is set completely aside when making certain claims, and finally causes some to make analogies that are plain dumb.
Bob Smietana of Lifeway Research writes his analysis of the data gathered when they set out to find how frequently domestic violence was spoken of from the pulpit. Quoting numbers like 1 in 4 women have been hit with a fist or object by an intimate partner, he keeps the subject at simmer. He quotes author Justin Holcomb who, in the book he coauthored with his wife, says that abusers use God's words on marriage to keep the victim captive.
"God says He hates divorce—He also hates the abuse of women," Holcomb said.
Stating two things that are true he creates a false dichotomy. This fits a common female rationalization strategy. He emotionally cements mutual exclusivity and leads the reader (mostly women) to pick one. Divorce…..or abuse. His statement is succor and cover for any woman who can convince herself there is abuse occurring in her marriage and therefore she must divorce. In the book they make it clear that abuse takes many forms, not all are physical.
That Smietana deigns quote statistics about male victims of domestioic violence is negated by Holcombs statement about God hating the abuse f women.
I followed some of the comments below the Lifeway Research article. They were mostly links leading back to other blogs. One in particular was the motive for this post.
The writer, Danielle Lynn, begins by stating some basic information about the terror attacks of 9/11. She then goes on to say that we marshaled resources to fight domestic terrorism. But (emphasis mine):
There's one form of domestic terrorism that has been a silent killer for decades. It has infiltrated the church to hide its ultimate demise. It takes Scripture out of context and is used to invoke fear in order to control. It's domestic violence in the home and should not be in the body of Christ.
It never ceases to amaze me how the enemy can twist the Word of God in order to convince its hostage that God is an authoritative tyrant. We can search the Scriptures from Genesis to Revelation to show how God ultimately views women and children. He goes out of His way to protect them.
I do not know what she means about domestic terrorism hiding its ultimate demise. Sometimes words just get strung together.
But I do know that when the subject of God's protection is being focused on women and children are being used as a force multiplier, there is hypocrisy even if inadvertent.
The numbers that speak to intimate partner violence, when broken down, show that statistically a woman is safest in a marriage. They also show an even starker contrast for kids. Kids are far safer in the home of their married biological mothers and fathers.
Men write articles and throw in some superficial statistics because it is lazy Lift chasing. Women read them and then regurgitate quasi facts that FEEL right and generate empathy. Women form rationales for others women blowing up families, using vague wording and catchy phrases that make them feel good about other women's choices, almost no matter what. Women also add tools, skills, and ideas that may one day in the future be deployed as they need to get a few close women and a couple of men, bonus if one's a preacher, to endorse and assist as she tosses a husband, harms her kids, and puts both her and her kids in greater statistical danger with a new guy eventually.
If she fails to invoke an abuse accusation initially, there are groups online and in churches and neighborhoods and just about everywhere that are recruiting for abuse victims. They publish checklists. They hear women complaining about a husband and they ask, "do you not realize that you are under abuse?"
She gets her righteous divorce and the harpies get a vicarious kick out of another empowered woman and children who see dad every other weekend and on Wednesday evening.
On the plus side Danielle Lynn is all about gluten free living. Recipes and everything. Yeah!