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I was born in Angola, a war torn African country. I had 15 brothers and sisters but, due to illness and war, nine of them and my parents are dead. My family and I hid in a Franciscan seminary to escape the guerrillas terrorizing my country.
During the years at the seminary, I began to sing at mass, became familiar with sacred music and soon realized that I love to sing. I listened to borrowed recordings of renowned tenors Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo and tried to imitate them.
The masses that I sang were televised. People noticed me and invited me to sing at other events. I began singing in restaurants to provide food and medical care for my family.
During one of my performances, I met a representative from the United Nations who said I must learn to sing opera. He helped me emigrate to receive more formal musical training, first in Spain and now at The Hartt School.
The decision to leave Angola was one of the most difficult I've ever had to make because I was the sole support of my remaining family. But I know that with better vocal training, I will be in a better position to provide for them.
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Shepley had practiced law in Bangor before moving to Portland and, as U.S. attorney for Maine, he knew numerous people throughout the state and elsewhere, and many of them corresponded with him or asked him for favors during the war.
Brig. Gen. Neal Dow, 13th Maine
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Late in 1863 when Brig. Gen. Neal Dow of Portland and the 13th Maine Regiment was in a Confederate prison in Virginia, he and his son both wrote to Shepley, asking his help in getting Dow's clothing and other goods shipped from Louisiana to Maine.
Some historians who have written about occupied New Orleans saw Shepley as an extension of the disliked (and not particularly skillful general) Benjamin Butler. Some suggest Shepley was obstructionist toward Gen. Banks, Butler's replacement. When Shepley left New Orleans in March 1864 when a civilian government loyal to the Union was elected in Louisiana, he was assigned to the Department of Eastern Virginia, again serving under Butler and under Maj. Gen. Godfrey Weitzel, who also had been in the Department of the Gulf.
But Shepley – and all Union officers and politicians – were caught in a challenging situation. Louisiana had a number of Union loyalists, not all of whom shared the same views about what should happen to slaves, plantations, politics, or most other wartime and postwar issues. In addition, it was never easy to clearly distinguish a Union from a Confederate sympathizer, or to anticipate what their views and actions might be in an occupied city and state.
Shepley, like many other military officers also had to defend himself from various charges of misconduct or unfair treatment. Some were clearly political, such as that apparently made by Dr. Thomas Cottman, a supporter of secession, who tried to get early elections held in Louisiana. Neither Lincoln nor Shepley, who wanted to assure that any election would put those loyal to the Union in charge, would agree. Cottman managed to get "elected" early and was seated temporarily in Congress. He apparently blamed Shepley for his failure and made charges against him.
In addition, though, a number of New Orleans residents praised Shepley for his handling of the military government for two years and of his manner toward the residents and the issues they faced.
Shepley saved correspondence, copies of letters sent and received, and official documents from the 12th Maine Regiment and from his time in Louisiana, Virginia. Few personal letters accompany the official record.
Shepley's nearly four years in the army must have presented many personal challenges as well. He was 42 years old and had been widowed for two years when he enlisted. His three daughters were 15, 11, and 9 and apparently went to St. Louis for at least part of the war to live with Shepley's brother, John R. Shepley, and his wife, Mary, and their children. Shepley's father and mother, Anne Foster Shepley, lived in Portland and may have cared for the girls during part of the war.
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When Shepley returned from military service, he resumed his law practice. He was soon offered a seat on the Supreme Judicial Court, but turned it down. He also had turned down the rank of brevet major general, preferring to keep his active duty rank of brigadier general.
Shepley's life resumed in Portland, but his personal challenges did not. In 1866, his mother died; in 1868, his youngest daughter died at age 16.
In 1869, Shepley was named judge for the newly established First U.S. Circuit Court.
During the presidential election campaign of 1864, Shepley was sought after in Maine and elsewhere as a speaker to talk about the state of the war and about Lincoln. Although he was a Democrat before the war, Shepley became a Republican afterwards and was a frequent speaker at Republican events during the 1868 elections. He had been elected to the Maine Legislature in 1866 as a Republican.
Shepley remarried in May 1872. He and Helen Merrill Shepley, who had been a nurse during the war, were married for six years, when, at age 59 George F. Shepley died "of a disease resembling Asiatic cholera."
Nathan Webb, U.S. District Attorney in Maine, said of Shepley, "His strength seems to grow with the drafts made on it." He called him "conspicuous and influential, distinguished for his eloquence and earnestness."
Shepley's law partner, A.A. Strout said, "His public spirit led him to take an active interest in every enterprise calculated to advance the prosperity of the city, and his generosity embraced every worthy object of public and private charity. He gave freely, but not for applause."
Nathan Clifford, a pro-slavery Democrat, who had served in the Maine House, the U.S. House, as U.S. Attorney General and who served on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1858 until his death in 1881, said of Shepley, "His duties were both civilian and military and in both he manifested great prudence, energy, and ability, which were repeatedly commended throughout the country."


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Kolkata, India, December 16 2010: The Climate Group is currently facilitating Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) in installing 273 LED streetlights. Sixty fixtures have already been installed in two locations – 20 LEDs in Kalighat in October 2010 and 40 LEDs surrounding the KMC Headquarter Building in November 2010. The sites for the remaining ones are being finalized. Following the installation of the 60 LED fixtures The Climate Group has started monitoring their performance which include the lux levels, illuminance, uniformity, colour temperature and energy savings. As a start to this monitoring phase, a training programme on the measurement protocol for corporations, development authorities and other stakeholders was organised on December 15, 2010 at the KMC building in Kolkata.
The training programme was attended by about 35-40 delegates representing KMC, neighbouring corporations, development authorities, Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) and other stakeholders who are interested in taking up similar pilots. The programme comprised of a theoretical session for three hours followed by a hands-on training on the measurement procedure at the LED installation site in front of the KMC Headquarter Building. The programme was led by Mr Philip Jessup, Cities and Technology Program Director, The Climate Group.
Mr Arnab Roy, Municipal Commissioner, KMC gave the opening remarks, followed by a speech by Mr Manzar Iqbal, Member, Mayor-in-Council (Lighting), KMC. Following this, Mr Sovan Chatterjee, Honourable Mayor, KMC inaugurated the session. Apart from highlighting the potential that LEDs offer in reducing the energy consumption in the city, Honourable Mayor indicated the possibilities of large-scale application of LEDs by other organisations like the Indian Railways.


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For the last few months I've been quietly writing… trying to get to a place in my novel where I can seriously begin editing it down to a tangible piece of fiction, one of which I can have edited for review.
Almost 3 years have past and every fiber of my body wants and needs this story to be told. Its unimaginable how much I want to see it printed, binded and know that people, even if it's just one person, one person that will feel the love, see the tragedy and witness the joy within the story I'm trying to tell.
No End in Site
While taking a few creative writing classes this fall I spoke with a few writers, those who are also writing books and have already completed one. One Instructor told me it took him 8 years to get their first one out, another said five! I freaked out when I heard that. In my mind I don't want to take that long, in a way I can't. But then I know I want to do it right, and I still have a lot of learning (editing) to do.
Part of my drive is stemming from the need for it to be over, not the process of writing- that has been an adventure and I've gained and continue to grow from it. It is the need for the story to be done.. A need to let it go. You see, the story I'm writing is very personal to me. For more reasons than one, the weight of my characters in my mind seem to be getting heavier, especially when at times it can be difficult to find a way out of the maze I'm creating.
I often wonder if its wrong for a writer to feel this way (wanting the story to be over). My guess, it's a natural one, one that I suspect other writers at times feel. I also realize this feeling comes from being too close to the story and dwelling on it even on the days I attempt to give myself some respite from it.
For example, on one of those 'days off', I was online listening to music clicking on artists I love and am curious about. This was when I ran into the video below. I was so moved by it. At first I cried, then I watched it again, then again… then, I started feverishly writing. I made adjustments to the plot, emphasized things I knew I wanted to show but felt weren't clear…… all inspired by the images I was seeing and the music I was hearing.
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The three minute and 55 second piece was created by a Videographer named Paulo. He mixed the modern electronic music of James Blake with a choreographed piece from the late Pina Bausch's stark depiction of the Rite of Spring, to make (in my mind) a piece of art in its own right. It exemplifies the second underling story within my novel… the discourse of love, loss, fear, anger and desire. It depicts the laborious requirement of it, both dirty and beautiful. I believe the quote from Marguerite Duras, author of The Lover and The Malady of Death best describes the images within the video when she stated:
"…in heterosexual love there's no solution. Man and woman are irreconcilable, and it's the doomed attempt to do the impossible, repeated in each new affair, that lends love its grandeur."
– Marguerite Duras
Clearly for me, its hard to see an end in site when I'm still making changes, editing huge chucks of narrative and still questioning the direction of my story. In my heart I know its not a bad thing to take this long, especially when I want to do it right- my story deserves it, they, my characters deserve it, I want to be proud. Truth be told, I know myself enough to know when I actually do finish, I will be upset for the loss of finally being done.
So, if I finished my book and had one last thing to post, it would be of this dance, this song, this art, this love that I'm trying to communicate…even to that one person that will eventually get to read it.


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Multiple student-designed drinks have earned spots on the Lemonjello's menu in the second annual concept contest featured in the college's "Design I" art class.
Multiple student-designed drinks have earned spots on the Lemonjello's menu in the second annual concept contest featured in the college's "Design I" art class.
The students in the semester's three sections of the course were challenged to develop a new drink and accompanying concept and promotional materials for the downtown shop, located at 63 E. Ninth St., with the winner becoming a part of the menu for the remainder of this month and continuing through May. However, when Lemonjello's owner Matt Scott made his selection from among more than three dozen entries on Friday, Dec. 10, he opted to highlight not only the winner through the end of the school year but the three top runners-up as "beverages of the week" in the coming months.
° First place went to "INK'd," by freshman Samantha Grindl of Crown Point, Ind. The beverage itself features cinnamon vanilla hot chocolate topped by whipped cream. The accompanying concept design invites customers to pen reflections on their cup and leave it to be displayed for others to read, noting that, "All of us have been inked by life. We all have experiences that define us. We all have stories to tell."
° The second-place finisher was "Allnighter," a 16-ounce energy drink featuring lemonblast, lemonade and blackberry, by freshman Joey Carty of Dearborn.
° The third-place finisher was "Dynamic," a "Mood Latte" with chocolate, caramel and a dash of sea salt, by freshman Susan Haigh of Carmel, Ind.
° The fourth-place finisher was "Hug," a honey almond chai latte, by senior Betsy Melchers of Algonquin, Ill.
The course's instructor, Stephanie Milanowski, who holds the college's Howard R. and Margaret E. Sluyter Endowed Professorship, initiated the contest last year as a way of adding a concrete application to the start-to-finish design assignment. The students' steps along the way start with visiting the shop and continue with developing not only a beverage but also a logo, promotional poster, recipe card and other support materials.
Last year's winner was "Fingerprint," designed by 2010 Hope graduate Sarah Carr of Novi.


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City Parks Foundation Presents Yeti, Set, Snow! at the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre
Friday, December 21, 2018
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City Parks Foundation presents an original production and story, Yeti, Set Snow!, at the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre in Central Park, November 13, 2018 - February 24, 2019. Yeti, Set, Snow! tells the story of a young girl named Widget, and her friend, Twig, who encounter a yeti named Pascetti on the first snow day of the winter season. Pascetti, who lives on a mountain top nearby, dislikes the snow. Through songs and snow day activities, Pascetti discovers not only that snow can be fun but also learns the value of friendship. For more information or to purchase tickets, please visit cityparksfoundation.org/swedish-cottage-marionette-theatre
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) -- Given the option, Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma would prefer to have a full complement of players on the road against the No. 8 team in the country.
As it turned out, seven healthy and very talented athletes were plenty good enough for the defending national champions.
Breanna Stewart scored 26 points, and top-ranked Connecticut showed its depth and quickness in a 72-55 victory over Maryland on Friday night.
The short-handed Huskies (3-0) used a 13-2 run early in the second half to take a 56-45 lead, and Maryland (2-1) never get closer than nine points. The Terrapins were limited to 17 points over the final 20 minutes on 8-for-26 shooting.
Connecticut was without two of its best players, preseason All-American Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis and sophomore forward Morgan Tuck. Mosqueda-Lewis injured her elbow against Stanford, and Tuck is expected to miss at least a month after undergoing right knee surgery Tuesday.
Stewart and the fleet-footed backcourt duo of Bria Hartley and Moriah Jefferson made up for the absence of the two stars, and it didn't matter that UConn center Stefanie Dolson picked up her fourth foul with 16:11 remaining.
"We played through a lot of stuff," Auriemma said. "If I had my druthers, I'd rather have 10 healthy players than seven, but tonight, the seven that we had for the most part played great."
Jefferson had 15 points and four assists, and Hartley contributed 10 points and six assists. Just as important, the Huskies finished with only six turnovers.
"Even when we have heavy adversity, we're still playing Connecticut basketball and we're going to come out and get a win," Stewart said.
Alyssa Thomas had 20 points and 14 rebounds for the Terrapins, who lost to UConn twice last season -- on the road and in the NCAA tournament.
"Obviously a missed opportunity for us, but they're the defending champions for a reason," Terrapins coach Brenda Frese said.
It was Connecticut's second win over a Top 10 team in a five-day span. The Huskies breezed past No. 3 Stanford by 19 points on Monday.
Maryland certainly isn't the first team to be overwhelmed by Connecticut's talent, even when the Huskies are missing a couple of players.
"I said this all along: They went from nine All-Americans to seven," Frese said. "If they lose a couple more, Geno might have to coach like the rest of us."
Although the Huskies fought foul trouble and had the potential to tire in the second half with a reduced roster, they actually improved as the game went along.
"I thought defensively, we were just a little bit better," Auriemma said. "For us to hold a team like Maryland to 17 points in a half, that says a lot about how we competed on the defensive end.
The game was tied at 43 before Stewart scored off her own miss, Dolson made two straight baskets and Jefferson sank a layup. Thomas ended the run with a jumper, but two free throws by Stewart and a 3-pointer by Brianna Banks gave the Huskies a comfortable 11-point cushion.
Banks twisted her left ankle late in the first half but returned to score seven of her nine points after halftime.
Connecticut has won 49 consecutive games in November and improved to 36-9 against teams in the Top 10 since the start of the 2008-09 season. The Huskies will next face No. 13 Penn State on the road Sunday.
Stewart scored 19 points in the first half to stake Connecticut to a 44-38 lead. Thomas had a double-double before the break, scoring 14 with 10 rebounds.
Over the first nine minutes, there were four ties and nine lead changes. Thomas and Stewart traded baskets in the early-going, accounting for all the points in a 7-7 tie.
The Huskies created some separation with an 8-0 run for a 23-17 lead. Thomas answered hit two straight jumpers, and Maryland closed to 30-29 before Stewart nailed a 3-pointer to keep UConn in front.
"We had no answer for Stewart," Frese said.
Maryland went ahead 36-35 while Stewart was on the bench, but the Huskies closed the half with six straight points.


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You've been hearing a lot about bitcoin. But just what the heck is it? As you jump into MarketWatch's deep-dive on the digital currency, here are the basics about bitcoin:
What is bitcoin anyway? It's probably the best-known digital currency. The basic idea is that you can use it to pay for things without a third-party broker, like a bank or government. Think of bitcoin like one big ledger shared by all the users: When you pay for something with bitcoin, or get paid, then your transaction is recorded on the ledger. Computers then compete to confirm the transaction by solving complex math equations, and the winner is rewarded with more bitcoins. The process is known as "mining," but don't get too wrapped up in that: Only the computer powerhouses get their bitcoins this way.
What's the point? The currency has populist roots. It made its debut in relative obscurity at the start of 2009, when the financial crisis was still raging. The idea was to take power out of the hands of the central bankers and governments who usually control the flow of currency.
Who made it? The bitcoin protocol and reference software was purportedly created by a person or group of people known as Satoshi Nakamoto. But as for who that is, well, that's up for debate. Newsweek set off a crypto-storm when it said the creator was a 64-year-old electrical engineer from an Los Angeles suburb named Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, but Nakamoto denied the report and said he barely knows what bitcoin is.
How does it work? You'll have to install a "bitcoin wallet" app on your phone or computer, then buy them from a bitcoin exchange.
Where can I use it? Oh, there are a few places, though there doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason to the list. Use bitcoin to watch the Sacramento Kings or to get a date on OkCupid. Overstock.com
What's so great about it? Ask supporters and they'll tell you that it's a great deal for small businesses. Stores have to pay a fee to the card industry whenever a customer swipes a credit or debit card to cover the cost of processing that transaction. But those fees would shrink when customers shop via bitcoin, since the transactions are being processed not by Big Finance but by some competing computers.
Another idea is that bitcoin could be used by people in developing countries, who might have cellphones but not bank accounts. Or, as panelist Barry Silbert, founder and CEO of SecondMarket and founder of Bitcoin Investment Trust, said at a MarketWatch Investing Insights panel event recently in New York, people in countries where the official currency is plunging might view bitcoin as a haven (though it's not like bitcoin isn't subject to plunging too).
Also, bitcoin payments can be anonymous to some extent, which could be a selling point to people who are concerned about privacy or taxation issues.
What's not great? The bitcoin exchanges are vulnerable to hacking. Just look at Mt. Gox, which collapsed after it managed to lose some 650,000 bitcoins, or Vircurex, which halted withdrawals after a run on the bank, so to speak. And if something like that happens, good luck getting your money back: This isn't like an FDIC-insured bank account. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or Finra, issued a warning recently that digital currencies are "more than a bit risky."
The anonymity isn't a selling point for everyone. As panelist Mark T. Williams, a banking and risk management expert and a professor at the Boston University School of Management, said during the panel discussion: "If a criminal actually grabs it and gets the coin, they own the coin and there's no way to pull it back." Relatively unregulated, bitcoin could potentially be at the heart of illegal activities, including tax evasion or money laundering.
It's also volatile as heck, which, come to think of it, seems like a given when you've got a currency that isn't controlled by any central bank. Bitcoin was recently trading around $448, according to the bitcoin price index by CoinDesk. A few months ago, it was more than $1,000. A year ago, it was barely pushing $100. Two years ago, it was about $5.
What's next? No one really knows how to regulate bitcoin, or who should do it, and, as the MarketWatch panelists point out, regulating a rogue currency too heavily would make bitcoin not really bitcoin any more. There's a cacophony of opinions: The Treasury is worried that it will be used for illegal activities. Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen says the Fed has no authority to regulate it. The IRS has defined bitcoin as property, and not a currency.
Read these related stories:
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Landscape designer Margie Grace shares her secrets for beautiful coastal gardens.
What is the most common gardening mistake you see on the coast?
MG: Picking plants that are ill-suited to their site just because you love them. If you love gardenias, think about why you love them. Is it the scent? If so, pick something else that smells lovely but holds up better in salt, sand, sun, and windburn, like jasmine. If what you love is a shiny green leaf, try Carmel creeper.
Which seaside plants do you love?
MG: Coast to coast, there are "wow" grasses such as Canyon Prince wild rye and blue oat grass that are the unsung heroes of the garden—they capture light, provide movement in sea breezes, and last through all seasons.
Tell us your top tip for container gardens by the beach.
MG: Add pebbles or sea glass on top of the soil—it helps hold the plant down in strong coastal winds.
What is your favorite statement piece in a coastal garden?
MG: I like to use something from the natural environment, like one to three boulders set together as though they were a sculpture. Buy boulders from a local stone supplier for an authentic sense of place.
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- Go-To Plant (pictured above) "Succulents take salt air and put up with wind, so they're great at the ocean's edge."
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Is there a new reformation sweeping the Church today, a reformation as radical and important as the Protestant Reformation that rocked the world 500 years ago? According to a growing number of Christian leaders, the answer is emphatically yes.
Pastor Clark Whitten, author of Pure Grace: The Life Changing Power of Uncontaminated Grace, claims that, "Little has changed in the Protestant church in more than 500 years" – until now, that is. He believes that Luther and Calvin "got it right concerning justification, or how one is saved. . . . But they missed it on sanctification, or how one is perfected into the likeness of Christ."
Whitten states that Luther and Calvin, followed by the Protestant Church ever since, taught a doctrine of "saved by grace but perfected by human effort," an approach that has produced "a Church that is judgmental, angry, hopeless, helpless, dependent, fearful, uninspired, ineffective, and perpetually spiritually immature."
Because of this, Whitten claims, we have failed to impact our culture and have become a laughingstock to most "casual observers." And Pastor Whitten contends that this doctrine has also brought, "personal devastation" to countless believers who have consequently checked out on Church (or on God Himself).
John Crowder, in his book Mystical Union, claims that, "Just as there is a new mysticism on the rise, I believe it is coupled with a new reformation. The good news will be preached with such clarity that, even the days of Luther will seem utterly primitive in its concepts of grace and faith."
Indeed, Crowder writes that "a clarity is coming to the preaching of the gospel like has not been heard since the days of the Apostle Paul."
Other modern grace teachers share similar sentiments. In his book GRACE, the Forbidden Gospel, Andre van der Merwe writes, "Once again in the church there is a struggle for a theological reformation that will liberate believers to break free from the yoke of bondage that has been put on the children of God by people who may have had good intentions, but that have only taught the religious doctrines and traditions that they themselves have been taught."
His prayer is that his book will "destroy the religious arguments and doctrines of demons forever," referring to whatever teaching contradicts this allegedly new revelation of grace. That's why the full title of his book is GRACE, the Forbidden Gospel: Jesus Tore the Veil. Religion Sewed it Back Up, and that's why Pastor Joseph Prince, perhaps the best known modern grace preacher, calls this a "Gospel Revolution."
Could it be, then, that there really is a grace reformation sweeping the Body today? Could it be that the Church has been so stuck in legalistic religion for the last 500 years that nothing less than a radical reformation can get us out of the rut?
It seems clear that many believers have been caught up in externally imposed religion (which is the essence of legalism), seeking to please God by following an endless list of "do's" and "don't's," never being certain of the Father's love and looking first to their own efforts rather than looking first to the cross. Consequently, they are always falling short and never walking in the abundant life that Jesus has for them.
Within a two-day span, I heard from two women, both friends of our family and former students in our ministry school, both married with children and active in God's service. One wrote this: "I am one of many who have been changed drastically and fantastically by the 'grace message.' Judging by the amazing fruit of it in my life and my family's life as we have gone through some very hard times, it is the fruit of the true grace message."
Speaking of one well-known, modern grace teacher, she explained that while she only agreed with about 80% of what he taught, she said that "I feel like I have taken a bath and glimpsed the beauty of Jesus and what he did for me almost every time I hear him." This is wonderful to hear, and I do not want to tamper with something so sacred and liberating.
The other ministry school grad wrote this: "I can say for me, I sure tried, and worked, and failed. Finally, almost three years ago, I finally had a 'Grace encounter' that changed my life. Can honestly say I'm more free, more confident, and more 'sin-LESS' than I've ever been. If that makes sense."
This is from the Lord!
Sadly, I have met many believers who have struggled with legalism and performance-based religion, and when I hear today that, through a revelation of God's grace, they are now living in intimacy with the Lord and overflowing with joy at His great love for them, I am thrilled.
That is truly wonderful news, and it indicates that, for many, there is a need for a fresh infusion of anointed teaching on the beauty and glory and wonder of God's amazing grace.
At the same time, I constantly hear stories from believers and leaders concerned about the modern grace message, like this one: "I have seen the effects of this message on my own loved ones. It has ruined our family and caused many of them who loved the Lord to stray."
And this, "We have seen this up close and personal with some of our family members. Very destructive things are going on."
And this, from a pastor, who spoke of "the three close male friends I have had in the past, all three from the grace side; two were unfaithful and then left their wives and the third just left. I have had no one close in the grace group (forgive my terms) displaying good lasting fruit."
One young man, who had served together with a well-known hyper-grace leader wrote to me at length, wanting me to understand just how bad things were: "I heard more 'F' and 'S' words in that movement than anywhere else in my entire life. After all, you're 'legalistic' if you EVER tell someone to 'not' do something."
Is this simply a matter of the modern grace message being abused?
Honestly, I wish that was the case, since I love the message of grace and it would be a shame if pastors and leaders drew back from preaching grace because it was abused.
But the truth is that the modern grace message is quite mixed, combining life-changing, Jesus-exalting revelation with serious misinterpretation of Scripture, bad theology, divisive and destructive rhetoric, and even fleshly reaction. And, in all too many cases, it is being embraced by believers who are not just looking for freedom from legalism but also freedom from God's standards.
There is no doubt in my mind, then, that the notion of a "grace reformation" (or "grace revolution") is highly exaggerated, that some of this new grace teaching is unbalanced, overstated, at times unbiblical, and sometimes downright dangerous – and I mean dangerous to the well-being of the Body of Christ.
In short, I do not believe that we are witnessing a new grace reformation. I believe we are witnessing the rise of a hyper-grace movement, filled with its own brand of legalistic judgmentalism, mixing some life-giving truth from the Word with some destructive error.
And that's why I wrote Hyper-Grace: Exposing the Dangers of the Modern Grace Message, a book for grace lovers, not grace haters, a book for those who embrace both grace and truth (John 1:14, 17). Does that describe you?
(Excerpted and adapted from Hyper-Grace: Exposing the Dangers of the Modern Grace Message.)
Source: CHARISMA NEWS.
Michael Brown is author of Hyper-Grace: Exposing the Dangers of the Modern Grace Message and host of the nationally syndicated talk radio show The Line of Fire on the Salem Radio Network. He is also president of FIRE School of Ministry and director of the Coalition of Conscience. Follow him at AskDrBrown on Facebook or at @drmichaellbrown on Twitter.


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Whatever you call it, it's feverishly imaginative and fantastically funny, with a monstrously high ratio of ho-hos to yo-ho-hos. But when The Pirates: Band of Misfits opens in US cinemas this month it will be missing something from its British release. Scientists.
There are no scenes deleted or characters excised, and each features a wonderfully off the wall portrayal of Charles Darwin as voiced by David Tennant (either the last but one Dr Who or perhaps the finest Hamlet of a generation depending on where you're coming from). On both sides of the Atlantic it's exactly the same Aardman hard act to follow, with dazzling animation, an ingeniously ludicrous plot and non-stop visual and verbal punning. It's just that in the UK, where it was made, it's called The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists.
Which is the same title as the book by Gideon Defoe it's adapted from. And since he also co-wrote the screenplay, and since (without giving too much of the story away) it is an adventure predominantly involving pirates and scientists, you can see the reasoning for sticking with the original. So why in the USA has "Scientists" become "Misfits"?
A spokesperson for Aardman says that Defoe's book doesn't have "the same following outside of the UK" so there was no need to stick with the original title, whilst Hugh Grant – another actor who lends his voice to the film – claims the studio "didn't think the Americans would like the longer title." But is there more going on here? Is it simply that scientists have become misfits – or at least a misfit with the notions about fun and entertainment you want to project when trying to attract people to a new movie? Is it still unthinkable that scientists have adventures?
Eccentric theories
At one level it seems like nit-picking. I don't remember philosophers objecting when they were transmuted into sorcerers for the American release of the first Harry Potter film. And of course individuals and organisations realise that people who do science are important. All the signs are they are more aware than ever of the impact they make on lives, businesses, economies and the planet, whether it is receiving life-saving surgery or driving a more fuel efficient car. Surveys, such as those carried out by the US National Science Foundation find that people value science and scientists almost above all other professions.
On top of that there's probably never been a time where we've had so many captivating presenters of popular science shows on television or so many broadly positive depictions of scientists in films. OK, so not all the scientists on TV are good presenters and not all the good presenters are scientists. And Hollywood remains far fonder of scientists who are geeky, freaky or downright mad that it is of ones who are normal and likeable. Still, it's a lot better than it used to be when almost every movie scientist was crazy – either in a look-how-goofy-they-are way or a take-over-the-world way. Now at least some of the time we have scientists on our screens who you can admire and root for. Even occasionally scientists who are the heroes.
This gradual acceptance and reversal of fortunes in science is, in part I suspect, down to projects like the Science and Entertainment Exchange. This US National Academy of Science project started in 2008 and aims to link scientists and engineers with movie and television-show makers. Its ambition is to "create a synergy between accurate science and engaging storylines in both film and TV programming." It's this kind of project you, and frustrated scientists, can thank for more accurate – or less misleading - portrayals of science in everything from the Green Lantern and Thor to Tron Legacy and the Big Bang Theory.
However, none of this explains Aardman's decision. There are of course various theories doing the rounds. One suggests that the animator is a "national treasure" here in the UK, is known for its [very British] eccentricity and therefore we are more tolerant of its whims...and seemingly its film titles. Sounds reasonable. Another theory suggests that the film title was dropped in the US because the film makers did not want to risk offending – and, presumably not selling tickets to – the considerable proportion of the US population who do not accept the theory of evolution. After all, Charles Darwin is the grand daddy of evolution. Again, plausible if hardly enlightened.
However, I believe there is a more simple explanation: what is fixed, and problematic, is that word "scientist". According to the complete Oxford English Dictionary, the first recorded use of the word dates back only to the 1830s, coined to solve a problem of what to collectively call the various geologists, biologists, chemists and others attending the annual gatherings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Various other permutations like sciencer, scientiate and scientman were considered, but according to reports from the time "some ingenious gentleman proposed that, by analogy with artist, they might form scientist", although strictly speaking you should go from science to "sciencist" - that T is effectively down to the original proposal from the "ingenious gentleman" and means scientists share more with artists than they might realise.
Right from the start many great men of science – and back then it was almost exclusively men – were uncomfortable with the term. Even Darwin, the real one as opposed to the comedy version in the Aardman film, avoided using it, preferring to call himself a "naturalist".
But somehow it stuck, meaning scientists share more with artists than they might realise. But that is where the common ground ends. Nearly two centuries after its inception, it's a word that Hollywood seems reluctant to use. Look at the number of movies on the film website IMDB with "scientist" in the title and its slim pickings. It's a word that – in the words of Jennifer Ouellette, director of the Science and Entertainment exchange – conjures up images "of the mad scientist or the dweeby nerd" that "dress funny, have no social skills, play video games, long for unattainable women". Now that may make perfect material for a clay animation, but it is hardly an easy sell in marketing terms.
The fact is that science and scientists, no matter how much they contribute to our lives, are still not seen as cool or worthy of a Hollywood poster. Which is sad. It seems the word needs to morph its meaning, so it's associated with something mysterious, creative and hip; something that seemingly comes naturally to artists. Scientists – the word, not the people – need rebranding and marketing before they appear in the brands and the marketing. Which is why in 2012 it's still struggling to creep into the tail end of a title while the year's big winner at the Academy Awards and the box office was The Artist.
(16/04) This article has been updated to include further information about the derivation of the word "scientist".
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What is S.E.O / Search Engine Optimization
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of affecting the visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine's "natural" or un-paid ("organic") search results. In general, the earlier (or higher ranked on the search results page), and more frequently a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine's users. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, video search, academic search, news search and industry-specific vertical search engines.
What Can I Do
While it is impossible to know the underlying algorithms that produce the search engine results in the major engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN, I often try to put myself in the spider's shoes, theoretically speaking. If you can visualize your website the way a search engine might "see" it, then you can make adjustments and tweaks that will help your site rank well.
A conversation with Google
A conversation with Google's automated crawling software (or "spider"), otherwise known as the Googlebot, might sound something like this.
You: Excuse me, Googlebot, why doesn't mysite.com rank well in Google for the keyword "help me?"
Googlebot: (raises a harried eyebrow and looks annoyed) Where shall I begin? First of all, your code is a mess. You have more lines of code than actual text and so many nested tables it makes my head spin.
Your home page has a keyword density of 24 percent, which is suspiciously high compared with the top-ranking sites in my database, all of which average about seven percent. Are you keyword stuffing? You know I don't like doorway pages!
You only have 12 backlinks going to your home page that I recognize, and six of them are from within your domain. The top ten sites have an average of 300 backlinks in my database and literally thousands of backlinks in Yahoo and MSN (not that I care about those hacks).
I've slapped you with a duplicate content penalty because I noticed that http://www.anysite.com has the same exact home page copy as you. Don't look so surprised – I don't care whose fault it is! On average, your site is 60 percent slower to download than every other site in my database and all your dynamic URLs are giving me a headache. Honestly, do you really need so many variables?
You don't have a site map so I can't easily crawl through the pages of your site, and all of your navigation is represented in images without meaningful ALT tags, so I don't know where I am when I click away from the home page. Your link partners are abysmal – they are not contextually relevant (which makes me suspicious) and you repeat the same exact words in the linking text, which makes me think you're doing automated link swapping. I've been here three times in the past month and your content has not been refreshed once. I can't be bothered with you and your stale, over-optimized content. I will be back to crawl you again sometime this century.
You: (sobbing)
So you've been dismissed by the Googlebot. Get yourself a pint of Rocky Road and join the club.
My theoretical response from Googlebot is based on a combination of things that I look at as an SEO, and tools that are freely available online to help me analyze a site. Google's assessment of your site is obviously proprietary, but there are certain things you can look for when your site is in trouble and/or if you want to get a better ranking on Google. These matters are fairly common knowledge in SEO circles. Let's break down the response a little.
Your Code is a Mess
- You have a lot of code compared with actual text (e.g., nested tables, JavaScript)
- Your keyword density is high compared with your competitors
- You're keyword stuffing
- Your home page looks like a doorway page
- You have fewer backlinks than your competitors
- You have poor link partners
- You're linking to a site that's banned
- Your backlink text is repetitive
- You have no fresh content
- You have duplicate content
- Your site is slower to download compared to your competitors
- You have dynamic URLs
- You don't have a site map
- Your navigation is image-based
- You have no ALT tags or meaningless ALT tags
The above list represents an amalgamation of variables that can affect your positioning in Google. It does not represent the full list of search engine faux pas that can be committed by unwary or unknowing webmasters (e.g., frames and Flash are not mentioned here). It's a good start though. Simply diagnosing the problem is half the battle toward getting better rankings ,and all of the above information is freely available using tools that are either Web-based or part of your browser software.
- Your code is a mess
- You have a lot of code compared with actual text (e.g., nested tables, JavaScript
Google doesn't see your Web page the way you do. Google sees the code. Most browsers have a function that allows you to view the source code of the page at which you are looking. Internet Explorer and Firefox, for example, enable you to right click on the page and "view source." Pick a spot on any Web page and give it a try (make sure the mouse pointer isn't on an image).
Not too pretty, is it? Code that is messy or profuse can hinder your search positioning. A good way to clean it up is via HTML Tidy, an open source program created by Dave Raggett and available via download from Sourceforge.net (http://sourceforge.net/projects/tidy). HTML Tidy cleans up the code produced by WYSIWYG editors or poor coders (like myself), and it's completely free.
When viewing HTML code you'll also want to evaluate the quantity of code versus actual text. Search engines like Google seem to put more weight on keywords the higher they are in the HTML document. If your text is buried under hundreds of lines of code, then you'll be at a disadvantage compared to the top-ranking and well-optimized websites that compete for your keyword. There are many ways to get around this; first and foremost is to choose your programming language wisely. I'm not a programmer, so I can't recommend the best programming language to use for SEO. I can only flag this as an issue, as it is something to consider when analyzing your Web page for SEO.
Here is a tool that simulates what a spider "sees" when it visits your site: http://www.stargeek.com/crawler_sim.php. If you're not seeing a lot of text when you enter your Web page's URL, then neither is the search engine spider. It's time to add some.
- Your keyword density is high compared with your competitors
- You're keyword stuffing
- Your home page looks like a doorway page
The above three problems are related. If your keyword density is too high, Google may interpret this as a spam tactic called "keyword stuffing." Likewise, Google may interpret a page with very high keyword density as a doorway page. A doorway page sticks out to Google in that it is optimized for a number of terms that are only loosely connected, or not connected at all, to a site's main theme.
The best way to find out whether your keyword density is too high compared to your competitors is through a keyword density analyzer tool. I use GoRank.com or SEOChat.com's own keyword density tool to analyze the top ten ranking pages in Google for my desired keyword. I generally take an average of the keyword density of the top page and compare it to my own page. If my page is much higher than the top-ranked pages, I will revise the copy and tags (ALT, Title, Meta) and tone down the frequency of the keyword in question.
- You have fewer backlinks than your competitors
- You have poor link partners
- You're linking to a site that I've banned
- Your backlink text is repetitive and/or bad
- You have no fresh content
Google is the best tool to use to diagnose the above problems. The Google "link:" operator allows you to check your backlinks and evaluate the sites that link to your page. You can tell whether Google has banned a site, if the URL is not in their index at all. Use the "site:" operator for this.
You probably know whether the content on your site is fresh or not, but if you want to know what Google thinks, then click on the "cache" link next to your listing to see the last time Google paid your site a visit. If it was over a week ago, Google got bored and wandered to greener content pastures. It's time to add some new content. You can also use the "cache:" operator to get cache information. Here's a complete list of Google's operator commands (what they mean and how to use them). You can also download and utilize the Google Toolbar to check PageRank and view your backlinks.
Google may only show a handful of backlinks, when you have thousands. The reasons for this are not entirely certain, though it may have to do with how Google weighs each incoming link in terms of popularity and/or relevancy. With this in mind, I recommend using one of the free link popularity tools available online. A couple of my favorites include the link popularity tool on Mikes-Marketing-Tools.com, MarketLeap's Link Popularity Checker and SEOChat.com's own tool to evaluate link popularity. If you have a lot of backlinks it will quickly get tedious to try and read all the link text to check for duplicity in language. The best tool I've found to do this is SEO Elite, which isn't free but will save your hours of time (and time is money, folks!)
- You have duplicate content
- Your site is slower to download compared to your competitors
- You have dynamic URLs
- You don't have a site map
- Your navigation is image-based
- You have no ALT tags or meaningless ALT tags
The above is a miscellaneous list of problems that can be diagnosed as follows. Check CopyScape for duplicate content or perform a search for an exact line of text on the page you are evaluating. Alexa.com will tell you how fast your website downloads compared with others competing for your key term (assuming you are in the Alexa database). You probably know whether your site uses dynamic URLs, but if you're not sure, click into an interior page and check for odd characters in the URL, such as question marks or equal signs. You can use any browser to see the URL string of a particular page in your site. Google has been indexing dynamic URLs, but if the string is particularly long and the variables particularly profuse, Google may not index the entire site as well as it would if the URLs are search engine friendly and/or do not contain as many variables.
A site map is self-explanatory. It's a page that lists links to all the pages of your site. If you don't have one, create one so that Google can find all of your relevant pages easily.
If you use images for all of your navigation and don't assign meaningful ALT tags to them, a site map is especially critical. Googlebot can't read images; it just sees code. If you scroll over a navigation image and no text appears, it means that you have not assigned an ALT tag to that image. You can also view the source code and review your images that way. Assigning meaningful ALT tags to images helps with usability as well as search engine friendliness (for people with slow connections or browsers that have images turned off, for example), though the best case scenario is to use text-based navigation in place of image-based navigation.
The tools that are available to help you analyze your search engine friendliness are profuse and often free. This article just scrapes the surface of what's out there. Read forums to see what the experts use and try out the tools yourself to find your favorites. Proper diagnosis of search engine friendliness is the building block for creating a comprehensive, competent search engine optimization strategy that will definitely give you an edge over the competition.
Keep in mind that while it is helpful to approach SEO from the search engine's perspective, you are not writing for the search engines. You are writing for your visitors. So don't overdo it.
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Pedro Matos was born on the 11th January 1984.Though he was born in Madeira Island, he spent all his childhood and youth in Lisbon city,capital of Portugal.
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These Oreo Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies are double stuffed Oreo cookies sandwiched in between two chocolate chip cookies. The BEST cookies ever!
My pants are tight. Snug as a bug in a rug, people. And do my friends bring me carrot sticks or offer to run with me? Oh no. Instead, they call my attention to cookie recipes involving Oreos stuffed inside two chocolate chip cookies.
I'm not one to place blame or name drop *cough* Rachel *cough*, since many of my friends do this. But y'all are killing me. You know I'm weak when it comes to sugary confections.
My advice to you – make these. But make them right before you're meeting a friend, or sibling, or an entire preschool class. So you can pawn them off on other victims recipients. If not, make them now, while it's still March and not bathing suit season. Because once that happens, I cannot be held responsible.
- 1 cup (2 sticks) softened butter
- 3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 3 1/2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 package Double Stuff Oreo cookies
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large bowl, cream butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar together with a mixer until well combined.
- Beat in eggs and vanilla.
- In medium bowl mix the flour, salt, and baking soda.
- Slowly add to wet ingredients along with chocolate chips until just combined.
- With a cookie scoop, form balls with the dough.
- Place one ball on top of an Oreo cookie, and another ball on the bottom.
- Seal edges together by pressing and cupping in hand until a large ball is formed and Oreo cookie is fully enclosed with dough.
- Place onto parchment or silpat lined baking sheets and bake cookies for approximately 13 minutes or until golden brown.
- Let cool for 5 minutes before transferring to cooling rack.
You can find complete recipes of this OREO STUFFED CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES in bellyfull.net
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Developer Reading List, April 02, 2013 New books on Java, Erlang, Unit Testing, Windows and more.
Effective Unit Testing
by Lasse Koskela
This volume is the Java counterpart to the highly regarded Art of Unit Testing in .NET by Roy Osherove. That book, a considerably longer work, had the added responsibility of introducing unit testing to a .NET audience that, at the time (2009), did not view the practice as integral to development, the way Java and Ruby developers have for many years. As a result, it had to explain unit testing from the ground up. Koskela's work is intended for Java developers, so he can skim quickly over the basics and get into what makes for good and bad unit tests. He does this well. Rather than dawdle in the tired advice that constitutes the bulk of unit testing best practices (make the tests fast, independent, and repeatable, etc.), he focuses on a conceptual understanding of how to conceive of unit tests for them to be effective both for testing and design. From there, it's an easy road forward: Mocks and stubs naturally fall out of that discussion, as do Koskela's long, useful discussions of code smells in unit tests.
That the author really understands the whole unit testing gestalt, rather than being a pedant with lots of prescriptive advice, can be seen in such details as extending the vision of unit testing with behavior-driven development (BDD), in which user requirements are coded as tests and run throughout the development cycle along with unit tests. He describes how BDD dovetails with unit tests and then presents a pair of potential BDD frameworks to use on the JVM. If you're already writing unit tests in Java, this short book is a brief, ideal course in how to work better and more effectively. Highly recommended.


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How fast can you name a song clip? That is the question that SongPop, a game by FreshPlanet, puts out there for music fans looking for a challenge. This wildly popular music trivia game makes the most of social gaming, offering over 5 million daily Facebook and mobile app users the chance to compete to see who can name that song faster.
SongPop delivers a unified experience across desktop browsers on Facebook and extends that experience to mobile apps for iOS and Android. In using Adobe Gaming technologies, FreshPlanet was able to leverage a single code base, instead of having to build native apps for each mobile platform, and was able to easily streamline the workflow between designers, developers and animators.
FreshPlanet CTO and VP of Products Olivier Michon noted that Adobe Gaming technologies, "enabled us to code at top speed in Adobe ActionScript [and] rapidly integrate design assets and animations," making development so easy that it only took two developers and one designer less than three months to complete SongPop for iOS and Android, and only one more month to launch it on Facebook.
For more on FreshPlanet and SongPop, check out their full story in, "Adobe Gaming & Fresh Planet: SongPop." You can also get your hands on open sourced Native AIR extensions from FreshPlanet on their GitHub profile: https://github.com/freshplanet.


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Since the time when man first learned to express how they felt in written form, by drawing or writing, we have tried to communicate with other people. First, it was the prehistoric man with their conceptual cave drawings showing what animals to hunt, how to hunt them, and how to cook them. Soon that form took to hieroglyphics, in which the Egyptians would tell stories about battles they had won and about new pharaohs that had been born. This picture form soon turned in to words in which the Romans would communicate with one another. So it went, each generation progressed more and more, until it was the 20th century.
In 1937 the electronic computer was born. Computers were in 1943 to break "the unbreakable" German Enigma codes. 1951 introduced the computer commercially. However, it wasn't until around 1976 when the Apple II was introduced and it was immediately adopted by high schools, colleges, and homes. This was the first time that people from all over really had an opportunity to use a computer. Since that time micro processing chips have been made, the World Wide Web has been invented and in 1996 more than one out of every three people have a computer in their home, and two out of every three have one at the office.
Today, computers influence all lifestyles, and all different types of businesses. They have become an essential part of everyday life, from chatting, to e-mail, to commerce, to gaming. Almost every person in the United States has had some use on the computer. Since the technology age began, computers have become a mainstay in American and world society as much as the telephone, the automobile, and the television.
Almost every device has some type of computer in it. Whether it is a cell phone, a calculator, or a vending machine. Even things that we take for granted most cars since the 1980's have a computer in it or a pacemaker. All of the advancements in computers and technology have led up to the 21st century in which "the greatest advances in computer technology will occur…" Mainly in areas such as "hardware, software, communications and networks, mobile and wireless connectivity, and robotics."
All lifestyles benefit from the use of computers. Small "mom and pop" operations are now able to become global business all thanks to the internet, in which they can provide and sell their services to people half the world away. Relatives that live hundreds of miles away from each other can communicate simply with the press of a button. They can receive pictures of their loved ones via e-mail, and can see live images of a newborn baby with the use of a computer and a web-cam.
A businessman can sit on an airplane while on his way to a meeting and write notes to himself without having to worry about spilling ink. With the invention of Electronic Paper/Electronic ink, this is now possible. "New Jersey bus driver trainees learn to maneuver their vehicles on virtual streets. New Jersey Transit says the virtual training saves the company thousands of dollars each year in training costs and also reduces accidents."
Companies are scrambling to get smaller, faster, better microchips that can do more with less work. For example, nobody would have thought when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone that someday people would be able to talk while walking to work. Nobody thought when Edison invented the phonograph that we would be able to download music from the Internet on to a computer the size of a wallet and listen to music while running. This is all due to the creation of computer technology.
Soon, robots will be performing surgery, cars will drive themselves, and each person will no longer have to worry about pens and paper. As technology advances and we become more like The Jetsons, people will look back on the 20th century as the age of Neanderthals. Even though many people in the dot COM industries have lost their jobs and multiple business have closed, the demand for technology based companies and workers still exist. "According to the U.S. Department of Labor, more than 5.6 million new software engineers, web programmers, optical networking specialists, programmers, and systems analysts will be needed by 2006."
So where will technology go from here? The possibilities are endless, whether it be a pilot less plane, an retina scanner to access an ATM, a robot that cleans peoples homes, there is one thing for certain, if somebody can dream it up, there will be a Bill Gates to turn that dream into a reality. While the future is unclear, the present is crystal clear. Everyone in one-way or another has been bitten by the computer bug. Moreover, as a people, we are impatiently waiting to see the future will hold. So, hold on to your mouse and wait to get e-mail.
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Arrow gives away a red Camaro to promote R.E.D.
Arrow Fastener Company gave away a 2011 Chevrolet Camaro to a lucky winner of its Arrow Camaro Sweepstakes.
The winner was software engineer Dana Bulpett of Apex, N.C. The bright red 2011 Chevrolet Camaro 1LT was was delivered to his home Monday.
The Arrow Camaro Sweepstakes ran from Oct. 22 to Jan. 15 on Facebook and generated over 25,000 entries. The contest was part of the marketing campaign for Arrow Fastener's new R.E.D. product line. R.E.D. is an acronym for "Reliable. Ergonomic. Durable." In addition to the grand prize winner, 220 entrants n a T50 R.E.D. and 20 people won a complete set of R.E.D. tools.
"We're very happy to provide Dana with the grand prize in our Arrow Camaro Sweepstakes, and we hope he enjoys it for years to come," said Bill Sokol, Vice President of Marketing for Arrow Fastener, who personally delivered the car keys to Bulpett.


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On August 1, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued an "interim final rule" that will require virtually all private health plans to include coverage for all FDA-approved prescription contraceptives, female sterilization procedures, and related "patient education and counseling for all women with reproductive capacity." These are listed among"preventive services for women" that all health plans will have to include without co-pays or other cost-sharing -- regardless of whether the insurer, the employer or other plan sponsor, or even the woman herself objects to such coverage.Concerned Americans have until September 30 to comment to HHS: visit the Action Center at The National Committee for a Human Life Amendment.
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