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Tenby - a jewel in Wales
We stay the night in Tenby, a beautiful walled town on the south coast. What a lovely place. Because of the wall, the buildings inside are very close together with narrow streets and multi-colored buildings. Lots of bright pubs mixed with shops and homes; this is jewel compared to the many drab brown and grey towns and villages throughout the UK.
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Leibniz by Nicholas Jolley
Book DescriptionGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was hailed by Bertrand Russell as 'one of the supreme intellects of all time'. A towering figure in seventeenth-century philosophy, his complex thought has been championed and satirized in equal measure, most famously in Voltaire's Candide. In this outstanding introduction to his philosophy, Nicholas Jolley introduces and assesses the whole of Leibniz's philosophy. Beginning with an introduction to Leibniz's life and work, he carefully introduces the core elements of Leibniz's metaphysics: his theories of substance, identity and individuation; monads and space and time; and his important debate over the nature of space and time with Newton's champion, Samuel Clarke. He then introduces Leibniz's theories of mind, knowledge, and innate ideas, showing how Leibniz anticipated the distinction between conscious and unconscious states, before examining his theory of free will and the problem of evil. An important feature of the book is its introduction to Leibniz's moral and political philosophy, an overlooked aspect of his work. The final chapter assesses legacy and the impact of his philosophy on philosophy as a whole, particularly on the work of Immanuel Kant. Throughout, Nicholas Jolley places Leibniz in relation to some of the other great philosophers, such as Descartes, Spinoza and Locke, and discusses Leibniz's key works, such as the Monadology and Discourse on Metaphysics.
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Book DetailsISBN: 9780415283380
(216mm x 138mm x 20mm)
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publish Date: 22-Apr-2005
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
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Books By Author Nicholas Jolley
Toleration and Understanding in Locke, Hardback (December 2016)
Nicholas Jolley argues that Locke's three greatest works - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Two Treatises of Government, and Epistola de Tolerantia - are unified by a concern to promote the cause of religious toleration. Jolley shows how Locke uses the principles of his theory of knowledge to criticize religious persecution.
Locke's Touchy Subjects, Hardback (May 2015)
Nicholas Jolley shows that the mind-body problem and the nature of personal immortality are more central to Locke's philosophy than has been realized. He argues that Locke takes up unorthodox positions in both cases, and holds that Locke's criticisms of Descartes were controversial responses to challenging metaphysical and theological issues.
Causality and Mind, Hardback (November 2013)
This book presents seventeen of Nicholas Jolley's essays on early modern philosophy. They focus on two main themes: the debate over the nature of causality; and the issues posed by Descartes' innovations in the philosophy of mind. Together, they show that philosophers in the period are systematic critics of their contemporaries and predecessors.
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In this introduction to his philosophy, Jolley introduces and assesses the whole of Leibniz's philosophy. An important feature of the book is its introduction to Leibniz's moral and political philosophy, an overlooked aspect of his work.
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Nicholas Jolley teaches philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. He is author of Locke: His Philosophical Thought and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Leibniz.
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The Scotsman
January 29, 2012
There's something rewarding about reaching the twist in Futures, the first in this book of short stories by Adam Ross. We know a twist is coming, but there's a niggling sense that Ross might just leave things open to interpretation… Read More
The Guardian
January 14, 2012
Adam Ross wears his moral compass on his sleeve in these short stories, written at the same time as his debut novel… Read More
Three Guys One Book
December 13, 2011
I read Mr. Peanut so early, that the manuscript pages were still warm from the printer in the editor's office. I began worshiping Adam Ross as soon as I finished it, and I wasn't alone. Then he delivered… Read More
Chapter 16
December 12, 2011
Critics like to compare Nashville novelist Adam Ross to other writers, and not to your average, everyday, ordinary writers, either. Perhaps it's inevitable that Ross, who is the author of Mr. Peanut (Knopf, 2010) and Ladies and Gentlemen (Knopf, 2011), should inspire… Read More
The List
December 12, 2011
In spite of the dark, comically cruel note struck by this short story collection, Ladies and Gentlemen makes surprisingly quick and easy reading. As with his 2010 debut novel, Mr. Peanut, Adam Ross suffuses his prose with compelling intrigue and offbeat humour. But these seven tales feel more… Read More
Anniston Star
September 23, 2011
Adam Ross continues to astound, just as he did in last year's Mr. Peanut, which remains as witty and discomfiting a modern novel as readers are likely to find. Ladies and Gentlemen is a collection of seven stories that illuminate the utter precariousness of living, stories that remind us of a dark truth that many of us are leery of: The truth that most things just happen, that there is no cosmic plan. Read More
Times Free Press
August 21st, 2011
Life constantly presents a series of choices, but it could be argued we cannot be certain whether we make our decisions or our decisions make us. Adam Ross slyly approaches many versions of this conundrum with trademark dark humor in Ladies and Gentlemen… Read More
The Shelf Life (Commercial Appeal)
August 17, 2011
Among the most vulnerable souls in the adult world are out-of-work job seekers, people reduced to asking indifferent strangers not just for opportunity, but salvation. Adam Ross's "Ladies and Gentlemen" (Knopf, $25.95) begins with a story called "Futures," in which a needy job applicant is over-thinking every move—should he get a soft drink while he's waiting to be called in and risk burping mid-interview?—and tensely surveying the other two competitors in the reception area, one of whom suddenly leaves, apparently too nervous to go through with the procedure. Read More
New York Times Sunday Book Review
July 22, 2011
Adam Ross's first novel, "Mr. Peanut," which came out last year, showcased blazingly original work by a writer whose influences ranged from Raymond Chandler to Italo Calvino. His second book, a collection of stories, confirms the promise of his first. "Ladies and Gentlemen" is clever in all the right ways, even while paying homage to the most traditional of forms. Read More
The Barnes and Noble Review
July 15, 2011
Cruelty comes in all kinds of colors. There's blithe cruelty that makes light of itself. Gross cruelty that makes no excuses for itself. Passive-aggressive cruelty (which is really just aggressive cruelty without the courage to admit it). And the coup de cruelty: careless, casual cruelty that cuts so finely it barely leaves a surface wound. But beneath the surface, the damage can be deep indeed. Read More
Portland Mercury
July 7, 2011
After the success of his debut novel Mr. Peanut, writer Adam Ross turned his attention to the short story—because apparently it is not enough for this man's literary ambitions to achieve thumping success in only one form. Read More
Chapter 16
July 5, 2011
Readers who venture into Ladies and Gentlemen, Adam Ross's new collection of short stories, can't say they weren't warned: the title alone suggests boys and girls behaving badly. (Is that prim phrase ever used unironically anymore?) But just in case anyone is inclined to hope the naughtiness will be lighthearted, Ross has tacked on an ominous epigraph from George Eliot: "Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity." Add to those signifiers the fact that Ross is the author of Mr. Peanut, a widely acclaimed novel that Stephen King called "the most riveting look at the dark side of marriage since Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?," and any reader should know there will be plenty of ugliness within. Read More
July 3, 2011
Adam Ross is clearly in love with storytelling and the power of stories. And while that may seem like a fairly obvious observation to make about a fiction writer, all too often authors of short fiction seem willing — in their quest for subtle characterization and that elusive, quiet "moment of meaning" — to place secondhand importance on plot, as if giving readers a reason to eagerly turn the page is somehow beneath them. Read More
The Columbus Dispatch
June 26, 2011
The short stories of Adam Ross set off the narrative equivalent of earworms, those bits of song that get stuck in a listener's head. Ross' stories, entertaining and even slick on the surface, have troubling undercurrents that drag the reader out into uncharted waters… Read More
The Daily
June 26, 2011
There is nothing slight about short stories apart from their length — think of Flannery O'Connor, Lydia Davis or Stephen Millhauser, all of whom routinely wallop readers in under a dozen pages. Yet this genre of fiction is consistently undervalued: an "appetizer," as a recent NPR piece described the form. More often, a short story collection precedes a novel, whose duty, invariably, is to be great — or better still: Great. But perhaps the short story has been emboldened by its position on the sidelines… Read More
The New York Times
June 20, 2011
[The] stories in this volume are old-fashioned, almost O. Henryesque tales that point up … Mr. Ross's extraordinary gifts as a writer. Not only does Mr. Ross possess glittering powers of description and a heat-seeking eye for emotional and physical detail, but he's also able to capture the way people talk today with fluency and panache… Read More
The Boston Globe
June 19, 2011
What makes [Ladies and Gentlemen] electrifying is the author's knack for luring his characters into emotional danger…He has managed to wed the masterful plotting of Raymond Chandler with the exquisite characterization of Raymond Carver, to prove once and for all that exhibiting a deep empathy for your characters deepens the thrill as they, and we, barrel toward their fates… Read More
Southern Literary Review
June 16, 2011
Known for his ability to navigate difficult human relationships in Mr. Peanut, Ross does it again here, with a modern edginess that rings true…He dips our feet into uncomfortable waters and makes us face, with clarity, the horrific things we do to one another. Ross is no doubt one of the most brilliant writers of our time… Read More
Kirkus Reviews
May 1, 2011
Following his dazzling debut, Ross drops seven more doses of disquieting fears and misleading hopes… Read More


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okay currently i have been trying to burn music files from winrar on to a disk. here's the thing i successfully download three albums however the problem comes in whenever i try to download recently the disk reads as mixed media disc which only is playable on the computer or a gaming console what am i doing wrong?
also when i insert into my drive it reads as a dvdrom (think one of the reason this is because i try to burn a dvd yesterday)
Insert the mixed media disc in your computer. Close out the AutoPlay window, then click "Start," "Computer," and double-click the CD/DVD icon. A window loads displaying all the media files saved on the disc.
Click-and-drag the saved files from the open window onto the desktop; then eject the CD/DVD.
Insert a blank disc into the DVD burner, and load the DVD burning software you have on the computer (typically this is Roxio, Ulead or Nero).
Select the disc format you want to create (audio CD or video CD/DVD); then click-and-drag the media files you want to copy into the program window, making sure to add only one type of file. For example, if you're making an audio disc, copy only MP3 files. Select "Burn," and wait for the CD/DVD burner to write the disc.
Repeat Steps 3 and 4 to copy other media formats on separate discs. When you're finished, insert one of the discs in the Xbox 360. The gaming system will now read and play the media.
what im saying is that to albums i burn dont read as mixed media discs
but others i download and try to burn do
do you think im extracting my files wrong
I have to look at your computer and see whats the problem son. I can't find any solution to your problem on a forum. Maybe you should take it to the geek squad and let them fix it for you.
sounds like you are storing the files in the CD instead of burning them on there.
That is why the disc turns into a "Data Disc"
Do you use media player?
Try burning the songs through media player
????????? what?? this sentence makes no sense
can you rephrase this?
Are you saying some of the cd you burn end up being Data discs and some end up being audio discs?
It has nothing to do with how you extract the files.
The problem is they way you are burning the files on to the disc
If iyou take a bunch of Mp3's and drag and drop them to the cd, the cd becomes a data disc - only readable by other computer
If you take a bunch of mp3s and burn them properly using media player or itunes etc, then the disc becomes a audio cd that can be played on audio systems
All I can tell you son is you need to invest in an ipod like the rest of us.
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The federal government has invested over $10 million developing and promoting a video game about a young teen that must escape a town full of fat people, as a method to fight obesity.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) paid for the development of two video games that promote healthier eating, including "Escape from Diab," a "nightmare" fictional city where people are only allowed to eat junk food.
"The story centers around five children who must get healthy enough to escape the evil King Etes," explains Archimage, Inc., a computer game company that received $9,091,409 to develop the games. King Etes is a fat ruler who forces his people to eat out of vending machines.
"Deejay, an athletic inner city youth, accidentally tumbles into an abandoned building and through its rotting floor," according to the backstory described on Escape from Diab's website. "When he awakes, he finds himself in Diab, a nightmare city where people eat nothing but junk food."
"He finds new friends and agrees to help them prepare for their escape to the legendary Golden City, using everything he has learned about nutrition and exercise from his track coach," it says. "Deejay's arrival has been noted by the despotic King Etes who will stop at nothing to capture him."
"This is the town of Diab. You can eat all the junk food you want. In Diab, you never have to exercise," a narrator says over a trailer for the game. "Sound like a dream? It's not."
Deejay has to teach his fat friends about healthy eating and exercise in order for them to escape the city, which is full of "high-rise vending towers" that give "free access to foods like Lard Chips, Creamy Cakes, Butter Breads, and Etes Burgers."
The game is not available to play online, though the site does offer its version of Tetris for kids to play.
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Archimage, Inc. also received $1,552,145 to create "Kiddio: Food Fight" a mobile game that teaches parents how to feed fruits and vegetables to their kids.


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Best Western Dorset Oborne The Grange Hotel
Best Western The Grange Hotel Oborne offers beautiful, 3-star country house accommodation, set within the rolling hills of West Dorset, just one mile from the charming town of Sherborne and seven miles from Yeovil. Formerly a manor house, Best Western The Grange Hotel has undergone a transformation to a luxury family owned and run country house hotel with 18 bedrooms and a delightful restaurant overlooking floodlit gardens. Our quiet rural setting at the edge of the village is the reason why many of our guests return year after year to enjoy the peace and tranquility! The hotel is in the perfect position to explore Dorset, Somerset and historic Wessex, with plenty of things to do: Stonehenge, Longleat Estate and Safari Park, Stourhead House and Gardens, shopping in Sherborne or Bath, horse riding, shooting and hot air ballooning to name but a few.It would be hard to find a more peaceful spot than the village of Oborne. The Yeo stream meanders through the village and ducks waddle about in the street! The hotel itself is the sum of the people who work here, we aim to exceed expectations and create a unique place in which all guests can feel relaxed and at home. It all adds up to a wonderful location for business or pleasure, for that special family occasion or for the perfect wedding!
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Originally from Kent, Simon settled in the South West in 1997 and was Head Chef at the 2 Rosette Bridge House at Beaminster and later at The Farthings at Hatch Beauchamp before joining The Grange this year.Simon believes in taking advantage of the fantastic array of local produce we have available in the South West and prepares food full of taste and flavour.
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Relax in the lounge over an aperitif whilst you look at the menu. Once the chefs have prepared your dinner you will be led through to the restaurant to dine by candlelight. Dinner is contemporary English cuisine, served in a relaxed atmosphere by friendly, smiling staff. Back to the lounge after dinner to enjoy coffee and petits fours sitting by the log fire. We have been awarded 2 Rosettes from the AA.
This small, intimate bar offers light meals and fuss-free flavours. Enjoy!
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Course Type: 18-Hole
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Holes: 18
Par: 72
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Yeovil Golf Club
Course Type: 18-Hole
Location: Off Site
Holes: 18
Par: 71
Distance: 6087 Yards
Handicap required
6 miles away in Yeovil
Driving range
Pro shop golf facilities
Best Western The Grange is situated in the sleepy village of Oborne just outside Sherborne. It is a small country house hotel that is full of character and charm with a beautiful garden perfect for those special photographs whilst your guests enjoy some delicious canapes and a glass of something sparkling. With eighteen bedrooms we can accommodate smaller, intimate weddings and grand celebrations for up to 120 guests.
Weddings at Best Western The Grange at Oborne
We will meet with you as often as you wish in the run-up to your wedding. We will be there along the way to offer our advice and expertise and together, we will create a day uniquely designed for you. We will be in attendance on the day and, with the information you have given us, we will organise and manage your wedding and reception, creating a seamless flow of events. You will be left to enjoy every moment with your family and friends.
Our small team of chefs use local produce to a selection of menus that can be tailored to meet your individual requirements but why not start with home-cured salmon gravadlax with dill creme fraiche, followed by Creedy Carver confit duck leg and rich cherry sauce, finished up with a tasty lemon tart.
Honeymoon Suite
Our honeymoon room has a magnificent mahogany four-poster bed with golden drapes and a beautifully appointed bathroom. And if the weather is kind, the couple can sit out on their own large, private balcony that overlooks the floodlit gardens!
Registry office:
County Hall, Colliton Park, Dorchester, DT1 1XJ
01305 224179
We able to offer a choice of three rooms for your civil wedding or partnership ceremony; The Wessex Room perfect for a more intimate ceremony with rich wood panelling and sparkling chandeliers, the quirky restaurant full of character overlooking the gardens or the light and airy Regent Room with large sky lights and conservatory. We have owned The Grange for ten years now and love hosting weddings. We work with the bride and groom to create a special day full of individual touches and special moments. Our expertise lies in ensuring the bride and groom are completely relaxed and able to truly enjoy every moment
For any enquiries please call Jon and Jenny Fletcher on 01935 813463
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Nearest motorway: M5, J25, 34.00 miles
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Nearest airport: Bristol, 40.00 miles
Free parking on site (45 spaces)
On site disabled parking (2 spaces)
What's nearby?
Yeovil Town Football Club (6 miles)
Bath Rugby Football Club (48 miles)
Wincanton Race Course (7 miles)
Somerset County Cricket Club, Taunton (34 miles)
Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Academy (27 miles)
Stourhead (28 miles)
Stonehenge (38 miles)
Haynes Motor Museum (11 miles)
Fleet Air Arm Museum (10 miles)
Longleat House & Safari Park (25 miles)
Sherborne (1.5 miles)
Bath (39 miles)
Taunton (35 miles)
Clarks Village Street (21 miles)
Bristol (45 miles)
Best Western The Grange is the perfect venue for business meetings and seminars, providing a secluded and peaceful setting with friendly and discrete staff who will cater for your every need.Our meeting menus provide a selection of options, from light dishes to a more substantial meal. All items are freshly prepared and cooked, wherever possible using local, seasonal produce. Our venue is ideal for both smaller meetings and larger conferences.
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19/02/2017 Mike N, Gillingham, United Kingdom
We stayed the night in a deluxe room which was very large yet comfy.
The room was very hot on arrival but we fixed that simply by opening the windows.
We both had Sea Bream as a main course and was a... more
We stayed the night in a deluxe room which was very large yet comfy.
The room was very hot on arrival but we fixed that simply by opening the windows.
We both had Sea Bream as a main course and was actually the best meal i have had at this hotel.
The wine was nice, We had a New Zealand Sauvignn blank on arrival which was a bit pricy at £30 but we had a Chardonnay/ Savignon Blanc with supper which was better at about £20.
For pudding I had some of their homemade ice cream which was to die for. I'm diabetic and i expected my sugar to leap next morning but it did not!
Overall we thought it was good value at £222 for the night with all drinks. less
Excellent in every way
18/02/2017 Lauren W,
Myself and my colleague were at the best western for business to hold interviews, the staff were so friendly and willing to help. They even went the extra mile to help us look for train routes for one... more
Myself and my colleague were at the best western for business to hold interviews, the staff were so friendly and willing to help. They even went the extra mile to help us look for train routes for one of our candidates.
The hotel was so clean (and smelt amazing) and had so many complimentary things dotted around, a scraper and de-icer for your car, toiletries in the bathroom, cereal bars for your journey.
Although the hotel is a bit out of the way, it's surroundings are beautiful and would be perfect to stay if you are in to walks! Very traditional and I would definitely recommend! less
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15/02/2017 Denise B, Great Bookham, United Kingdom
Lovely character building, extremely helpful friendly staff. We had a large extremely comfortable room with delicious evening meal and full English breakfast. Will return in the summer to explore m... more
Lovely character building, extremely helpful friendly staff. We had a large extremely comfortable room with delicious evening meal and full English breakfast. Will return in the summer to explore more! less
Best Western The Grange at Oborne
13/02/2017 mitchnottm, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
Very very impressed with this classy quaint hotel, the staff are very welcoming and the rooms are stunning. I had a rear facing room on the first floor overlooking the impressive gardens.
The evening... more
Very very impressed with this classy quaint hotel, the staff are very welcoming and the rooms are stunning. I had a rear facing room on the first floor overlooking the impressive gardens.
The evening meal although not cheap was excellent quality. The breakfast in the morning had buffet for cold food and an impressive breakfast menu.
This is a beautiful hotel in ideal surroundings less
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13/02/2017 GRWhiteDavison, Sydney, Australia
Just down the road from Sherborne but feels as though its a remote getaway.
The room was spacious, clean and well catered. We were also luck enough to have a balcony that looked out over the back gard... more
Just down the road from Sherborne but feels as though its a remote getaway.
The room was spacious, clean and well catered. We were also luck enough to have a balcony that looked out over the back garden with a view to the village.
The staff were friendly and very helpful.
The restaurant is first class. The meals are high quality and cater for most tastes, also very delicious!
Great place to escape to for a quiet retreat. less


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Ditto! My friend and I road tripped from DC to Detriot, over the weekend, it looked awesome!
I have always been guessing $26-28k for it when it comes out. Which is really tough, it is very sexy and awesome. But if it's the same price as the WRX? Honestly I may lean towards the Focus ST anyway, since I feel like the WRX is settling. I'd rather go for the STI, a turbo back exhaust, intake, and Cobb tune. (yeah I know totally different price range) I will confess I did spend a significant amount of time sitting in the STI at the show.
And as far as car prices, I'll second Kylesvt720. Everyone has different jobs and priorities, but in general I'd say a mid 20's single guy with a decent job should be able to swing an ST.
It's all a matter of priorities. My personal financial priorities involve my house/mortgage, riding Ducati's, and skydiving. If I gave all that up, I could be rolling around in a new M3 for much less then my mortgage for example, but I prefer to enjoy my SVTF daily driver & Mazdaspeed Miata as my budget sports car. I am a single guy and just turned 28 in December.
My friends gave me crap for having 4 vehicles; I pointed out all 4 of my vehicles added up to less than the new G37S I helped another friend shop for. So it's a matter of choices and standard of living. I'll gladly choose 2 fun & practical cheaper cars and be able to keep my Ducati's over owning something crazy sexy cool, like the new 1 Series M I drooled all over in Detroit!
For the Focus ST, figure <$600 payment, and probably another $80-130/month for insurance for a less than 30 year old guy, that's not that much depending on your standard of living.
The kicker for me personally is that when the time comes, I may cave and pick up a used MS3 for $15k range and get a Ducati 848 track bike too and end up spending less on both than a new Focus ST.
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The island of Krk is a real beauty of Kvarner, blessed with incredible scenery, which always inspires its visitors. The overall offer of accommodation and entertainment facilities on Krk is refreshed and improved each year meaning that those efforts will definitely complement your holidays. Choose an apartment for you and your family, book a private room or a hotel room and start creating memories. Beaches on the island are ideal for families with children, including some of them rewarded with the Blue Flag. Jump into your swimsuit and enjoy your day at the beach, rest on the balcony of your apartment or in the back yard of your holiday house.
Krk island is one of the most popular holiday destinations in Croatia. As many as fourteen of its beaches boast the Blue Flag of cleanliness. The opulent layers of history are a matching attraction, among which stands out the connection with the origins of the Croatian written word.
The island's history is at least as old as the Homeric epics. It has been home to tribes of Croats since the seventh century. The folk festival of Stomorin, held on Ascension day to the sounds of the traditional woodwind instrument sopile, is a showcase of Krk's ancientry.
Seeing and tasting Krk
The Viennese aristocracy turned Krk into a tourist Mecca as early as the nineteenth century. Malinska developed into a favorite destination. Lovers of cultural monuments will likewise be impressed by the Lapidarium in Omišalj, the castle of local magnate family Frankopan in Krk town, as well as the oldest Croatian written monument, the Baška slab, held at Jurandvor.
The island's other specificities include Europe's largest griffon vulture reservation, Biserujka cave, steeped in pirate lore, and the wining wonder – the Žlahtina of Vrbnik. Many factors go into making Krk an ideal destination for the visitor wishing for pleasure experienced with all the senses.
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Female director Joyce A. Nashawati's Blind Sun (2015) has this movie trailer attached to the film. In this movie set in Greece, taking place in the middle of a heat wave. This trailer creates more questions than answers but is also incredibly boring and lacking in excitement. Anther slow burn horror film I am not interested in watching. Ziad Bakri, Mimi Denissi, and Louis-Do de Lencquesaing star in Blind Sun.
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Marvel and Netflix's Iron Fist Season 1 releases on the popular streaming network this upcoming Friday, March 17, 2017. Continuing into The Defenders initiative, we finally get the next character to get his TV series after Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage. I was initially a little concerned with the casting of Iron Fist, but after watching this official movie trailer, I feel assured that all is going as it should. Iron Fist is the…
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Welcome to the Top Ten Scientific Problems with Biological and Chemical Evolution
Editor's note: This is Part 1 of a 10-part series based upon Casey Luskin's chapter, "The Top Ten Scientific Problems with Biological and Chemical Evolution," in the volume More than Myth, edited by Paul Brown and Robert Stackpole (Chartwell Press, 2014). The full chapter can be found online here. Other individual installments can be found here: Problem 2, Problem 3, Problem 4, Problem 5, Problem 6, Problem 7, Problem 8, Problem 9, Problem 10.
"There are no weaknesses in the theory of evolution."1 So said Eugenie Scott, the de facto head of the Darwin lobby, while speaking to the media in response to the Texas State Board of Education's 2009 vote to require students to learn about both the scientific evidence for and against neo-Darwinian evolution.
For those who follow the debate over origins, Dr. Scott's words are as unsurprising as they are familiar. It seems that almost on a daily basis, we find the news media quoting evolutionary scientists declaring that materialist accounts of biological and chemical evolution are "fact." Students who take college-preparatory or college-level courses on evolution are warned that doubting Darwinism is tantamount to committing intellectual suicide -- you might as well proclaim the Earth is flat.2 Such bullying is enough to convince many that it's much easier on your academic standing, your career, and your reputation to just buy into Darwinism. The few holdouts who remain are intimidated into silence.
But is it true that there are "no weaknesses" in evolutionary theory? Are those who express doubts about Darwinism displaying courage, or are they fools that want to take us back to the dark ages and era of the flat Earth?3 Thankfully, it's very easy to test these questions: all one must do is examine the technical scientific literature and inquire whether there are legitimate scientific challenges to chemical and biological evolution.
This chapter will review some of this literature, and show that there are numerous legitimate scientific challenges to core tenets of Darwinian theory, as well as predominant theories of chemical evolution. Those who harbor doubts about Darwinism need not be terrified by academic bullies who pretend there is no scientific debate to be had.
Problem 1: No Viable Mechanism to Generate a Primordial Soup
According to conventional thinking among origin of life theorists, life arose via unguided chemical reactions on the early Earth some 3 to 4 billion years ago. Most theorists believe that there were many steps involved in the origin of life, but the very first step would have involved the production of a primordial soup -- a water-based sea of simple organic molecules -- out of which life arose. While the existence of this "soup" has been accepted as unquestioned fact for decades, this first step in most origin-of-life theories faces numerous scientific difficulties.
In 1953, a graduate student at the University of Chicago named Stanley Miller, along with his faculty advisor Harold Urey, performed experiments hoping to produce the building blocks of life under natural conditions on the early Earth.4 These "Miller-Urey experiments" intended to simulate lightning striking the gasses in the early Earth's atmosphere. After running the experiments and letting the chemical products sit for a period of time, Miller discovered that amino acids -- the building blocks of proteins -- had been produced.
For decades, these experiments have been hailed as a demonstration that the "building blocks" of life could have arisen under natural, realistic Earthlike conditions,5 corroborating the primordial soup hypothesis. However, it has also been known for decades that the Earth's early atmosphere was fundamentally different from the gasses used by Miller and Urey.
The atmosphere used in the Miller-Urey experiments was primarily composed of reducing gasses like methane, ammonia, and high levels of hydrogen. Geochemists now believe that the atmosphere of the early Earth did not contain appreciable amounts of these components. (Reducing gasses are those which tend to donate electrons during chemical reactions.) UC Santa Cruz origin-of-life theorist David Deamer explains this in the journal Microbiology & Molecular Biology Reviews:
This optimistic picture began to change in the late 1970s, when it became increasingly clear that the early atmosphere was probably volcanic in origin and composition, composed largely of carbon dioxide and nitrogen rather than the mixture of reducing gases assumed by the Miller-Urey model. Carbon dioxide does not support the rich array of synthetic pathways leading to possible monomers...6
Likewise, an article in the journal Science stated: "Miller and Urey relied on a 'reducing' atmosphere, a condition in which molecules are fat with hydrogen atoms. As Miller showed later, he could not make organics in an 'oxidizing' atmosphere."7 The article put it bluntly: "the early atmosphere looked nothing like the Miller-Urey situation."8 Consistent with this, geological studies have not uncovered evidence that a primordial soup once existed.9
There are good reasons to understand why the Earth's early atmosphere did not contain high concentrations of methane, ammonia, or other reducing gasses. The earth's early atmosphere is thought to have been produced by outgassing from volcanoes, and the composition of those volcanic gasses is related to the chemical properties of the Earth's inner mantle. Geochemical studies have found that the chemical properties of the Earth's mantle would have been the same in the past as they are today.10 But today, volcanic gasses do not contain methane or ammonia, and are not reducing.
A paper in Earth and Planetary Science Letters found that the chemical properties of the Earth's interior have been essentially constant over Earth's history, leading to the conclusion that "Life may have found its origins in other environments or by other mechanisms."11 So drastic is the evidence against pre-biotic synthesis of life's building blocks that in 1990 the Space Studies Board of the National Research Council recommended that origin of life investigators undertake a "reexamination of biological monomer synthesis under primitive Earthlike environments, as revealed in current models of the early Earth."12
Because of these difficulties, some leading theorists have abandoned the Miller-Urey experiment and the "primordial soup" theory it is claimed to support. In 2010, University College London biochemist Nick Lane stated the primordial soup theory "doesn't hold water" and is "past its expiration date."13 Instead, he proposes that life arose in undersea hydrothermal vents. But both the hydrothermal vent and primordial soup hypotheses face another major problem.
Chemical Evolution Is Dead in the Water
Assume for a moment that there was some way to produce simple organic molecules on the early Earth. Perhaps they did form a "primordial soup," or perhaps these molecules arose near some hydrothermal vent. Either way, origin of life theorists must then explain how amino acids or other key organic molecules linked up to form long chains (polymers) like proteins (or RNA).
Chemically speaking, however, the last place you'd want to link amino acids into chains would be a vast water-based environment like the "primordial soup" or underwater near a hydrothermal vent. As the National Academy of Sciences acknowledges, "Two amino acids do not spontaneously join in water. Rather, the opposite reaction is thermodynamically favored."14 In other words, water breaks protein chains back down into amino acids (or other constituents), making it very difficult to produce proteins (or other polymers) in the primordial soup.
Materialists lack good explanations for these first, simple steps which are necessary to the origin-of-life. Chemical evolution is literally dead in the water.
[1.] Eugenie Scott, quoted in Terrence Stutz, "State Board of Education debates evolution curriculum," Dallas Morning News (January 22, 2009), also requoted in Ed Stoddard, "Evolution gets added boost in Texas schools," Reuters.com at http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2009/01/23/evolution-gets-added-boost-in-texas-schools/
[2.] Karl W. Giberson, Saving Darwin: How to be a Christian and Believe in Evolution, p. 53 (HarperOne, 2008) ("biologists today consider the common ancestry of all life a fact on par with the sphericity of the earth").
[3.] In any case, it's largely a myth that Western Civilization once believed in a flat earth. See Jeffrey Burton Russell, "The Myth of the Flat Earth," at http://www.veritas-ucsb.org/library/russell/FlatEarth.html
[4.] See Stanley L. Miller, "A Production of Amino Acids under Possible Primitive Earth Conditions," Science, 117: 528-529 (May 15, 1953).
[5.] See Jonathan Wells, Icons of Evolution: Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution Is Wrong, (Washington D.C.: Regnery, 2000); Casey Luskin, "Not Making the Grade: An Evaluation of 19 Recent Biology Textbooks and Their Use of Selected Icons of Evolution," Discovery Institute (September 26, 2011), at http://www.evolutionnews.org/DiscoveryInstitute_2011TextbookReview.pdf
[6.] David W. Deamer, "The First Living Systems: a Bioenergetic Perspective," Microbiology & Molecular Biology Reviews, 61:239 (1997).
[7.] Jon Cohen, "Novel Center Seeks to Add Spark to Origins of Life," Science, 270: 1925-1926 (December 22, 1995).
[8.] Ibid.
[9.] Antonio C. Lasaga, H. D. Holland, and Michael J. Dwyer, "Primordial Oil Slick," Science, 174: 53-55 (October 1, 1971).
[10.] Kevin Zahnle, Laura Schaefer, and Bruce Fegley, "Earth's Earliest Atmospheres," Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 2(10): a004895 (October, 2010) ("Geochemical evidence in Earth's oldest igneous rocks indicates that the redox state of the Earth's mantle has not changed over the past 3.8 Gyr"); Dante Canil, "Vanadian in peridotites, mantle redox and tectonic environments: Archean to present," Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 195:75-90 (2002).
[11.] Dante Canil, "Vanadian in peridotites, mantle redox and tectonic environments: Archean to present," Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 195:75-90 (2002) (internal citations removed).
[12.] National Research Council Space Studies Board, The Search for Life's Origins (National Academy Press, 1990).
[13.] Deborah Kelley, "Is It Time To Throw Out 'Primordial Soup' Theory?," NPR (February 7, 2010).
[14.] Committee on the Limits of Organic Life in Planetary Systems, Committee on the Origins and Evolution of Life, National Research Council, The Limits of Organic Life in Planetary Systems, p. 60 (Washington D.C.: National Academy Press, 2007).


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Separately, a survey of nearly 250 executives by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants found that nearly two-thirds thought their businesses should pay more tax if the money were used to increase spending on education. A similar majority said the education system did not prepare young people adequately for working life. Of the large parties, only the Liberal Democrats have pledged to raise taxes for education spending.
The Government spent pounds 3.6bn more than it received in taxes last month, taking the cumulative public sector borrowing requirement (PSBR) to pounds 14.1bn in the first 11 months of the financial year. This compares with the target of pounds 26.4bn set in the last Budget.
Even with the traditional end-year spending surge in March, this suggests Mr Clarke could achieve a full-year total several billion pounds below his target. He will be helped by proceeds from the sale of the Housing Corporation's loan book this month.
"The Chancellor will be able to present much better figures than he forecast, not that it looks like doing him much good," said Kevin Gardiner, an economist at Morgan Stanley.
"You would have to go a long way back to find an incoming government inheriting such a favourable set of economic circumstances."
Most City analysts think the short-term outlook for government borrowing is favourable because the economy's fast pace of growth is boosting tax revenues. Receipts have grown by 8.5 per cent during the past year.
"It is not until the next recession that it will become apparent that there is an underlying problem with the public finances," said David Mackie, UK economist at investment bank JP Morgan.
Many experts in the City and elsewhere think government borrowing is on an unsustainable path, with the level of debt relative to the economy having climbed sharply since 1992. This week a paper from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research argued that spending had grown much faster than normal since 1992 given the state of the economy.
Yesterday's figures show expenditure this financial year running somewhat ahead of the Government's plans. Departmental spending has grown 3 per cent compared with the planned 2.4 per cent.
"The Government is finding it increasingly difficult to keep its own spending in check," said David Bloom at James Capel. Labour has pledged to stick to the Conservative plans if it wins the election.
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The pound fell by two pfennigs to just over DM2.66 and the FTSE 100 index dropped more than 16 points to 4,356.8.
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