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Have you met a person with a magnetic personality? Someone with whom if you spend 5 minutes, it seems like he is there with you for that time, completely present and making you feel you are the only person in the world and the only person that matters. We walk away from such interactions always energized, always happy and the impression we form of the person who gave us the time and attention is that he has a magnetic personality. The secret, is attention.
What is attention?
Attention is energy. Whenever you give someone or something your undivided attention, you are actually passing along energy and benefiting the person/thing that you are attentive towards. This is powerful. Look into your life, and understand how this works.
If you give a situation or object attention, each moment you direct attention towards it, it becomes a bigger part of your life and more important. The biggest concept you are giving attention to in your life (is it money, friendship, growth, fitness?), that becomes your goal and eventually, your life's work.
If you give another person your undivided attention, you energize the other person. Compel him to act, respond, feel good, grow closer (or apart) and feel larger. In some cases, like family and our beloved, we do this unconsciously. In the case of our close friends, again, we do this at a subconscious level. By giving your heroes and role models your attention, you are energizing them in direct and indirect ways.
The secret of directing attention
Understand the second powerful idea – if you give attention to the good things and people in your life, they grow larger and this energizes you too. There is no limit to the level you can grow if you are focused on ideas and people who harmonize with your life and your principles. Its a multiplier.
If you give attention to whats going wrong in your life and the naysayers, they grow energized and your energy depletes. If you are someone who thinks worrying is a purposeful use of your time, call me, I have some pressing problems you can take up on my behalf!
No, everyone understands worrying is a waste of time, its not purposeful and a lot of your mental bandwidth is consumed.
Paying attention to the payback
When you notice you are devoting a large part of your attention to some thought/idea, ensure its something that leaves you better for having invested this time and energy. Be selfish with where you direct your attention. What is the payback? – this is the key question. And no complicated math needed, you have enough intuition to figure out whether giving attention to an idea is adding positive energy to your life. Its all about being in control of your attention process and directing it to productive and high growth areas of your life. Do this consciously, you will conserve mental energy and achieve your goals with elegance and style.
Its the one secret that powers the highest levels of achievement and is the one mental skill that the highest achievers have mastered. Its not easy, it requires training the mind, but the rewards are huge. Its the development of a subtle power, your will power.
Make a list of the areas in your life where this principle can help and start applying it today. Will power, that directs attention, is a muscle that grows with use.


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Tappening is an educational campaign from BPA-free refillable flasks. It is designed to encourage the public to drink tap water whenever possible and also aims to send a message to the bottled water industry about its "unnecessary and extreme waste of fossil fuels and resultant pollution of the Earth". We found their rather fun fly-posters on the wall of a deserted building site on 22nd & 3rd Avenue in New York.
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This large dragonfly with striking coloration is one of the most common species we observe at Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo in the summer. The species is named after the number of spots on its wings, so one might assume its name would be fairly easy to remember. It turns out it's a bit trickier than you might think. How many spots do you see?
When I count the spots on this dragonfly's wings, I always come up with 20, but it turns out I'm counting wrong! This dragonfly gets its name from the dark brown spots only, so it's called a twelve-spotted skimmer.
To further complicate things, it used to be commonly called a ten-spotted skimmer. You see 10 spots if you only count the white marks and include the two white dots at the very base of the hind wings (which I always seem to overlook accidentally).
Visit Nature Boardwalk and you'll see a multitude of dragonflies, including these with the twelve (brown) spots from which they get their name!
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This is the English translation of my interview with Danilo Corci for the Brazilian publication Speculum.
Your work is not well known here in Brazil. Can you tell us a little about your career, when you became interested in photography, if you are only interested in fine art or if you also shoot other kinds of photography, like journalism or advertising.
I started making my first photographs shortly after graduating from college. My focus has always been fine art photography, but I have shot many different kinds of work over the years.
What are your influences?
Horror films, fairy tales, Jungian psychology, the works of Joseph Campbell.
When did you become interested in Horror?
Horror became the principal subject in my work in 2003.
On your website you talk about Jung and the power of cliche, and about the reinvention of archetypes. Obviously this goes through the stories you create in your photographs. How do you choose the stories you want to reinvent through your photographs?
I am interested in creating photographs that employ archetypal imagery to act out universal fears. These are the subjects I look for. The more common or cliched the fear, the more I want to make an image of it. We can all relate to the idea of a monster hiding under the bed, but we've never seen a photograph of it before. Through photography, I want to explore archetypes that we are already familiar with. I want to drag our psychological monsters out into the light of day and take pictures of them.
Your work deals with childhood imagination. Is this kind of terror more powerful than the one we have as adults? Does playing with childhood nightmares make adults even more frightened?
We can all remember being children, when our fears were still very primal. My photographs remind adults of things they used to be frightened of, but have forgotten about. Recover the memory, and you recover the fear.
The experience of 'fright' is intrinsically related to the level of commitment the viewer has to fearing for the protagonist under threat. This feeling is a responsive emotion which demonstrates a desire to protect someone from harm. If the viewer empathizes with the victim then it is likely that the fright will be mutually experienced. These are the mechanics of Horror.
Your work deals with universal themes, while at the same time reflecting some kind of North American style. Would it be true to say that America has some peculiar form of Horror locked in the back of the head of the country?
While Horror does explore fundamental and universal questions about human existence, it also deals with the anxieties of a given culture at a specific time. Beginning in the 1960's, with movies like PSYCHO and NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, I think American Horror has been predominantly concerned with the fear of other people and the threat of social collapse.
I try to style my sets so that they reflect a sense of innocence and nostalgia. Many of the elements in my sets, such as wallpaper patterns and furniture, come from the 1940's and 1950's, which for the U.S. represents a period of relative innocence. It helps me to create a familiar psychological backdrop for the primal drama unfolding.
It is impossible to see your work and not think about literature. Do you have any literary background?
Yes. I did not go to art school. I have a degree in English Literature.
Working with disturbing imagery is always a challenge. Where is the thin line between good taste and provocation?
Horror is underpinned by the desire to experience feelings which relate to taboo agendas and the limits of gratification. One of the major functions of Horror is to define cultural taboos. The experience of Horror resides in this confrontation with what is taboo. For me, what is or isn't in good taste is never a consideration.
Going a little further, where does Joshua Hoffine's work go in the future? More Horror?
For the foreseeable future, yes, more Horror.


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The man wanted for the killing of a Staten Island mother while she was on vacation in Istanbul earlier this year made his confession to police Monday and described his brutal actions in detail.
Sarai Sierra, 33, was taking pictures near railroad tracks on Jan. 21 when she encountered the accused killer, a vagrant known as Ziya T. The suspect tried to kiss Sierra, but she hit him with her cell phone, causing his nose to bleed, The New York Post reports. Angered by her action, Ziya T. then punched Sierra and sent her rolling down an embankment.
The Staten Island wife and mother of two tried to fight off her killer for 30 minutes. At one point, she hit him with a rock. Ziya T. then picked up a rock and hit her in the head multiple times. He left her to die.
The suspect returned the next day, covered her body and discarded her belongings. He later fled to Syria but recently decided to turn himself in because he knew authorities were closing in.
Turkish investigators have linked DNA from Ziya T's relatives to matter from under Sierra's fingernails, the Post reports.
Sierra had left for Turkey on Jan. 7. Her body was found on Feb. 2.


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LOS ANGELES - Harvey Korman, the tall, versatile comedian who won four Emmys for his outrageously funny contributions to "The Carol Burnett Show" and played a conniving politician to hilarious effect in "Blazing Saddles," died Thursday. He was 81.
Korman died at UCLA Medical Center after suffering complications from the rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm four months ago, his family said. He had undergone several major operations.
"He was a brilliant comedian and a brilliant father," daughter Kate Korman said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "He had a very good sense of humor in real life."
A natural second banana, Korman gained attention on "The Danny Kaye Show," appearing in skits with the star. He joined the show in its second season in 1964 and continued until it was canceled in 1967. That same year he became a cast member in the first season of "The Carol Burnett Show."
His most memorable film role was as the outlandish Hedley Lamarr (who was endlessly exasperated when people called him Hedy) in Mel Brooks' 1974 Western satire, "Blazing Saddles."
"A world without Harvey Korman - it's a more serious world," Brooks told the AP on Thursday. "It was very dangerous for me to work with him because if our eyes met we'd crash to floor in comic ecstasy. It was comedy heaven to make Harvey Korman laugh."
On television, Burnett and Korman developed into the perfect pair with their burlesques of classic movies such as "Gone With the Wind" and soap operas like "As the World Turns" (their version was called "As the Stomach Turns").
Another recurring skit featured them as "Ed and Eunice," a staid married couple who were constantly at odds with the wife's mother (a young Vickie Lawrence in a gray wig). In "Old Folks at Home," they were a combative married couple bedeviled by Lawrence as Burnett's troublesome young sister.
Korman revealed the secret to the long-running show's success in a 2005 interview: "We were an ensemble, and Carol had the most incredible attitude. I've never worked with a star of that magnitude who was willing to give so much away."
Burnett was devastated by Korman's death, said her assistant, Angie Horejsi.
"She loved Harvey very much," Horejsi said.
After 10 successful seasons, Korman left Burnett's show in 1977 for his own series. Dick Van Dyke took his place, but the chemistry was lacking and the Burnett show was canceled two years later. "The Harvey Korman Show" also failed, as did other series starring the actor.
"It takes a certain type of person to be a television star," he said in that 2005 interview. "I didn't have whatever that is. I come across as kind of snobbish and maybe a little too bright. ※ Give me something bizarre to play or put me in a dress and I'm fine."
Brooks tapped Korman's kinetic comic chops often, including roles in "High Anxiety," "The History of the World Part I" and "Dracula: Dead and Loving It."
"I gave him tongue twisters because I knew he was the only one who could wrap his mouth around them," Brooks said. "Harvey was such a good solid actor that he could have done Shakespearean drama just as well and easily as he did comedy."
Brooks described Korman as a "dazzling" comic talent.
"You could get rock-solid comedy out of him. He could lift the material. He always made it real, always made it work, always believed in characters he was doing," he said.
Korman's other films included two "Pink Panther" moves, "Trail of the Pink Panther" in 1982 and "Curse of the Pink Panther" in 1983; "Gypsy," "Huckleberry Finn" (as the King), "Herbie Goes Bananas" and "Bud and Lou" (as legendary straightman Bud Abbott to Buddy Hackett's Lou Costello).
In television, Korman guest-starred in dozens of series including "The Donna Reed Show," "Dr. Kildare," "Perry Mason," "The Wild Wild West," "The Muppet Show," "The Love Boat" and "Burke's Law."
Korman and "Carol Burnett" co-star Tim Conway continued working together into their '70s, touring the country with their show "Tim Conway and Harvey Korman: Together Again." They did 120 shows a year, sometimes as many as six or eight in a weekend.
Korman had an operation in late January on a non-cancerous brain tumor and pulled through "with flying colors," Kate Korman said. Less than a day after coming home, he was re-admitted because of the ruptured aneurysm and was given a few hours to live. But he survived for another four months.
"He fought until the very end. He didn't want to die. He fought for months and months," said Kate Korman.
Harvey Herschel Korman was born Feb. 15, 1927, in Chicago. He left college for service in the U.S. Navy, resuming his studies afterward at the Goodman School of Drama at the Chicago Art Institute. After four years, he decided to try New York.
"For the next 13 years I tried to get on Broadway, on off-Broadway, under or beside Broadway," he told a reporter in 1971.
He had no luck and had to support himself as a restaurant cashier. Finally, in desperation, he and a friend formed a nightclub comedy act.
"We were fired our first night in a club, between the first and second shows," he recalled.
After returning to Chicago, Korman decided to try Hollywood, reasoning that "at least I'd feel warm and comfortable while I failed."
For three years he sold cars and worked as a doorman at a movie theater. Then he landed the job with Kaye.
In 1960 Korman married Donna Elhart and they had two children, Maria and Christopher. They divorced in 1977. Two more children, Katherine and Laura, were born of his 1982 marriage to Deborah Fritz.
In addition to his daughter Kate, he is survived by his wife and the three other children.
Associated Press Writers Alicia Chang and Raquel Maria Dillon contributed to this report.


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Gary Jones reporting in from the Dominican Republic –
Gary Jones is the 'non-stop' intern working in the Dominican Republic for Water@Work. Over the recent weeks, he has been spending almost everyday in Batey 7 and 9, helping the clinic to organize all of their medical donations; working with some people in Batey 7 on an agriculture project so that they can grow their own food; and visiting a couple other bateys with existing clean water systems.
In batey Alta Gracia, Gary reports that the people just don't like the taste of the water so they are only using it for bathing right now. Even though they are only using the clean water to bathe, it is still helpful because it improves hygiene. Many people bathe in really dirty streams that flow through the bateys (see pic below). In this next month, a reverse osmosis system will be added in Alta Gracia so that the people will enjoy the taste more. "I am noticing more and more here how much people value relationships and talking.", Gary states. "Even when we just visit a water system, the people seem thankful for the fact that we haven't forgot about them and that we are keeping up with them."
Gary asks in his latest posts for these communities (bateys) to remain on everyone's prayer list. He goes on to add, "I forget so often that Christ has given us an amazing gift; that we are justified by believing in Him and not by works. That we can truly rest in the fact that "Jesus paid it all, (and) all to him I owe." We don't have to try to impress him by doing more "things" or try harder to get on his good side, because we already are."


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Rockets Make NBA-Record 24 3-pointers, Beat Pelicans 122-100James Harden had his sixth triple-double of the season and the Houston Rockets made an NBA-record 24 3-pointers in a 122-100 win over the New Orleans Pelicans on Friday night.
Kerr, Curry Each Fined $25k For Game 6 IncidentsGolden State coach Steve Kerr and Warriors star Stephen Curry were each fined $25,000 by the NBA on Friday for incidents in Game 6 of the NBA Finals.
LeBron, Cavs Down Warriors, Force Game 7James scored 41 points, delivering another magnificent performance with no margin for error, Kyrie Irving added 23 and the Cavs sent the finals packing for California by beating the rattled Golden State Warriors 115-101
Cavaliers Beat Warriors 112-97, Force Game 6LeBron James delivered a tour de force of a performance with 41 points, 16 rebounds, seven assists and three blocked shots in the Cavaliers' 112-97 victory that pushed the series back to Cleveland.
Warriors Star Draymond Green Suspended For Game 5Golden State star Draymond Green has been suspended for Game 5 of the NBA Finals after the league assessed a Flagrant 1 foul from his scuffle with Cleveland's LeBron James.
James Leads Cavs To 120-90 Win Vs. Warriors In Game 3James had 32 points and 11 rebounds, Kyrie Irving added 30 points and Cleveland, pushed for 48 minutes by a delirious, championship-starved crowd, hammered the Golden State Warriors 120-90 in Game 3
Warriors Blow Cavs Out 110-77, Lead NBA Finals 2-0Green had 28 points with five 3-pointers, seven rebounds and five assists, while MVP Stephen Curry scored 18 points despite foul trouble, and Golden State thoroughly overwhelmed Cleveland 110-77 in Game 2 of the NBA Finals
Warriors Beat Cavaliers 104-89, Take Game 1 Of NBA FinalsDraymond Green had 16 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists, Shaun Livingston scored a personal postseason best of 20 and Golden State's bench came up big as the Warriors beat LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers 104-89
Curry And Record-Setting Warriors Headed Back To NBA FinalsGolden State rallied from a 3-1 series deficit to beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 96-88 on Monday night in Game 7 of the Western Conference finals.
Defending Champion Warriors Stave Off Elimination, Beat OKCGolden State trails 3-2 and is trying to become just the 10th team to rally from a 3-1 deficit.
Westbrook, Thunder Put Warriors On Brink Of EliminationThe Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Golden State Warriors 118-94 on Tuesday night to take a 3-1 lead in the Western Conference Finals and put the defending NBA champions on the brink of elimination.
Draymond Green Fined, Not Suspended For Groin KickDraymond Green has been fined $25,000 but not suspended by the NBA for kicking Oklahoma City's Steven Adams in the groin.


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Quote of the Day: "If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control." -- William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) Source: "The Forgotten Man and Other Essays," 1919
Subject: Will seven years of damage to civil liberties be reversed?
We heard it repeatedly: "Change we can believe in." That's what the President-elect promised. Do you expect it?
Well, we're going to demand it.
Our civil liberties were trashed during the last seven years.
Habeas Corpus. Torture. Warrantless spying. And more. Where do we begin? For one thing . . .
We want President Obama to tell us the magnitude of the Bush Administration's warrantless spying on Americans.
In 2005 the New York Times exposed the so-called "Terrorist Surveillance Program." They had to rush the story to publish the story before the Bush Administration could stop it with an injunction. The story scared the Bush administration. And rightly so.
They were breaking the law. Someone should've gone to jail. But the Bush Administration had cajones -- big brass ones.
First, they stonewalled, misdirected, and refused to provide documents to Congress. They even subpoenaed the phone records of the investigating reporters.
Then they demanded that Congress legalize their crimes retroactively, and immunize the phone companies that had conspired with them.
It took two years, but the Bush administration got what it wanted.
First, they had to wait for an election to provide a Congressional majority of "change Democrats." It was the Democrats who gave the president his "get out of jail free card."
One notable "change Democrat" showed us what change really means. His name was Barack Obama. He changed from his 2006 stance and voted to give President Bush the unconstitutional powers and immunity from prosecution that President Bush so desperately wanted and needed.
Call me cynical, but perhaps the aspiring President Obama was looking ahead and decided he wanted those powers too. If so, it may be wishful thinking to hope that our "change" president will tell us where the bodies are buried -- even though he could simply direct his team to do so. But actually, our hopes are more well-founded.
To begin with, we could get an accounting from whistleblowers. As our coalition partner, Caroline Frederickson at the ACLU, told the New York Times, "I'd bet there are a lot of career employees in the intelligence agencies who'll be glad to see Obama take the oath so they can finally speak out against all this illegal spying and get back to their real mission."
And the Times has also reported that, "New Yorker investigative reporter Seymour Hersh already has a slew of sources waiting to spill the Bush administration's darkest secrets. 'You cannot believe how many people have told me to call them on January 20.' said Hersh."
If the whistleblowers step forward, then all we need is simply for President Obama to stay out of the way. That would be sufficient "change" in this instance.
Second, there are going to be some "musical chairs" that will "change" the leadership of various Senate Committees. CQ reports, "John D. Rockefeller IV, D-W.Va., might give up the Intelligence gavel to take the helm at the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. If that happens, Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. is likely to chair the Intelligence panel."
Senator Rockefeller was too accommodating to the Bush Administration. Senator Feinstein is no friend of civil liberties, but she's been better than Rockefeller.
So "change" is possible, and will become more possible if we continue to push for it. Perhaps we all need to say, "Yes, we can!"
The best way to continue to apply pressure for real change is to ask for a complete reversal of President Bush's trashing of our civil liberties. The best way to do that is to constantly pressure Congress to pass Ron Paul's "American Freedom Agenda Act."
This bill is so good that it's supported by progressives, conservatives, and libertarians.
Use your personal comments to remind them that the election was about change, so change it what you want. Bush's policies were repudiated, so they should also be repealed. The "American Freedom Agenda Act" does that.
Remember, stay tuned to these Dispatches. On Friday we plan to announce an exciting new project that will increase the speed at which the Downsize DC Army grows.
And thank you for being a part of that army.
Jim Babka
DownsizeDC.org, Inc.


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Scanner Reports 5-14-14 updated: May 14, 2014, 7:00 AM
By Roger the Scanner Guy
Happy Hump Day...Will I'm sitting on a stool my chair gave out I'm in agony but at least I'm not on the floor. Hot,Hot,Hot, Out There, Drink Water a lot of medical calls out there concerning heat related illness. I'm not a doctor but they sound like Heat Strokes to me. Maybe some people can suggest how to stay cool. Not everyone has Air Conditioning some of us don't even have chairs. Been hearing some Road Rage calls out there; gotta keep the old Anger in check in this weather all kinds of Nasty things could happen when it's hot and people get angry. I heard a Road Rage call on Monday a bicyclist throwing rocks at a motorist I think it was somewhere on Montecito, possibly near Quarantina. I was taking a break at the time gets Hot as the Devil in my little oven and I can only take it so long. I think today I'll be heading out for bags of ice and cold drinks to put on ice. I was going to make me one of those Red Neck air conditioners I see on the internet but can't find any of those cheapo coolers at least not in the area I shop. I ain't got no car. I always had bad luck with cars and women and that's the truth. I'm not kidding both could send me into a raging Drunk. I'm not saying it's their fault I just gotta stay the HELL away from them steer clear so to speak. Of course I hope I have another vehicle someday, I could do without the woman.
There's this picture going around on the internet of a couple fellers sitting at a picnic table drinking beer, it says underneath the picture, "Were gonna sit here and drink beer till we understand women." and they are both skeletons. That's one of the funniest things I have ever seen. Gonna have to find me another chair. I had one sitting out in the yard cleaned it off bought it in the other day but there's a couple holes in the covering and I noticed a couple bugs coming outta there. I don't want those bugs coming outta my clothing. I may be an ugly old critter, but I'm a clean old critter. Anyway Heres Your Scanner Reports and remember; DRINK WATER CAUSE IT'S HOT OUT THERE!!!
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That's it outta me for now Have a great Happy Humpity, Hump Day, and Dog Willing we will all still be here on FRYday. Later, Roger
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ShoreTel Acquires Agito�and Instant UC Mobility
The deal not only makes UC functionality available to smartphones, it gives ShoreTel horizontal compatibility with other industry leading IP PBX systems.
On Oct. 21 ShoreTel announced it had acquired Agito Networks. In the $11.4 million deal ShoreTel acquired all of Agitos intellectual property, customer base, distribution network, and 17 of its 25 employees.
With over 500 employees and $170 million a year in revenues, ShoreTel provides unified communications (UC) solutions based on its own IP business phone system. Agitos technology enables enterprises to extend voice and UC to mobile phones.
ShoreTel executives say the acquisition gives them access to needed technology at a time when customers are clamoring for greater mobility in their UC systems.
"People want to take the power of UC that we provide when someone is at their office phone, and extend that while they are away from their offices," said Kevin Gavin, vice president of marketing for ShoreTel.
ShoreTel has been working on its own mobility solutions and has developed an application that can be downloaded onto smartphones, but Gavin said company executives have not been satisfied with its functionality.
"It was more of a dashboard, more of a one-way look into your communication life," he said. Users could see visual voice mail, peruse call logs, access corporate directories, "but we didnt have the ability to place calls [from within the app]. You had to still use your cell phone.
"Agito had what we were missing, the ability to make that smartphone a fully two-way capable phone, an extension of your office communications."
Agito, meanwhile, had reached a point in its lifecycle where, after four and a half years, it needed to make a move if it was going to get to the next level.
"From the Agito standpoint, we were at the stage where as a small business we were engaged in selling to medium to large-size enterprises, and that is a time consuming effort," said former Agito executive Pejman Roshan, now senior director of product manufacturing for mobility at ShoreTel. "So in order for us to grow in scale, it made sense for us to join forces with a much bigger brother."
The new solution will be called ShoreTel Mobility and will require two application downloads in order to make use of all its functions. Users will need to access the existing ShoreTel Communicator application, and will also download Agitos RoamAnywhere Client.
Roshan said the dual downloads should not make things unduly complicated for users, although there is a long-range plan to merge the applications. "There is no overlap in functionality, so youll just run these clients that do two different things. Then as a convenience we will tie them both together over time," he said.
In the acquisition, ShoreTel also buys itself a ready-made leg up in the realm of interoperability. Agito has broad smartphone interoperability, and has a track record of support for Avaya, Cisco, ShoreTel, and other enterprise IP PBX systems.
Gavin said ShorTel will be looking to leverage that history to move beyond the companys tradition of focusing on ShoreTel PBXs as the natural environment for its solutions. "We have made a conscious, affirmative decision to support the heterogeneous approach to various PBXs," he said. If a single enterprise has Cisco, Avaya, and ShoreTel systems installed in three different locations, for example, "we absolutely will sell ShoreTel Mobility to layer across all three of those offices, across all three of those PBXs."
Mobility should serve ShoreTel customers in a range of industries. "The need for empowering mobile knowledge workers is pretty broad and pretty horizontal across all market segments," Gavin said. "A couple of segments do seem to stand out. In the medical professional area for instance there are a lot of doctors and nurses on campuses who need to not be at their desks. This applies to any kind of vertical that has a large percentage of people who are not desk bound."
Ultimately, Agitos technology for enhanced mobility will be most attractive as a cost-saving measure, especially for businesses with significant international calling. "With the ShoreTel Mobility solution now enabled by this acquisition, the call can be made through the client on that smartphone, through the PBX, and then dialed at a negotiated rate that can be pennies a minute."


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Hopkins Elementary 2016-17 School Supply List (PDF)
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM Early Release
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Title I Planning Committee Meeting
Student Make up
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM An Afternoon with Jacqueline Woodson
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Quarter Achieving Excellence Program K-2 @ 8:00 a.m. 3-5 @ 9:00 a.m.
Welcome to all of the returning students and families and a very special welcome to those joining Hopkins Elementary for the first time. Our school is committed to developing and delivering a well-rounded educational program for all its students. We believe this includes rigorous academics, varied co-curricular programs, and an effective partnership between home and school.
Hopkins Elementary School is a Leader in Me School where students are taught and practice the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. The Leader in Me program empowers young people to make positive, effective, and responsible choices by introducing and reinforcing the 7 Habits, a set of leadership and life skills from Stephen Covey's book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. These habits are:
When taught and practiced in a K-5 school environment, these 7 Habits have been proven to improve academic engagement, comprehension, and performance by strengthening individual work habits and improving social interactions. They help improve student performance and support school success by helping to foster the qualities of independence (goal-setting, organization, time management, and planning); interdependence (teamwork, conflict management, creativity, and analytical skills); and renewal (fun, desire to learn, and good health & hygiene).
The staff of Hopkins Elementary has made the commitment to model and implement the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People in order to provide a caring and nurturing learning environment for our students. Teaching students and developing leaders is what we do! Through the teaching of the 7 habits, our staff is working together with students to create a school that maintains the dignity of children through productive interactions while fostering positive relationships with parents and other community members.
School attendance is mandated by the state and is vitally important to success in school. Please make sure your student is in attendance every day, arriving on time prepared for the day. Instruction will begin at 7:30 AM. When scheduling appointments, we ask that you plan these for after school hours. We also ask that student transportation is taken care of before your child comes to school.
As we begin this year, please remember that this is your school and we welcome your involvement. Positive home/school relationships are a key factor to ensure our students success. We appreciate all the community has done for Hopkins Elementary. We will continue to strengthen the school-community partnership this year through planned workshops and other curriculum events.
Please feel free to contact me by email, firstname.lastname@example.com and/or telephone 803.783.5541.
Sincerely,Debora A. Varn, Principal
March Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
I eat right, exercise, and get enough sleep (body). I learn in lots of ways and lots of places, not just at school (brain). I spend time with family and friends (heart). I take time to find meaningful ways to help people (soul). I balance all four parts of myself.
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Linking Mathematica and Java
Hi Can anyone help me get Java to talk to Mathematica. I assume that they can be linked using JNI and MathLink. Has anybody written code to do this? Also, is it possible to do it in a platform independent way (as both Java and Mathematica are) with out having to use C/C++ as a wrapper around the MathLink calls? Thanks, Richard.


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[Ann] AntiLoop M beta
I'm tenuously going public with AntiLoop M. (the M is for markov) Six years worth of blood sweat and rewrites here. Be gentle. I think the video tutorials are kind of necessary to figure it out. Let me know what you think.
hi. i had a play.
will continue playing but first thoughts…
1. it is fucking brilliant.
2. musical, inventive, original, cool
3. not that my opinion matters.
4. with some points and caveats (and regards your other recent thread)…
5. personally i recommend you do not give away your work like this, by all means for free, whatever, but you should protect the bejeezus out of it with licenses (no brainer) and copy protection (if you can). someone will steal it. they will not credit you. period.
6. i am struggling to understand why it is a Max application? there is not much max-like / max-needed about it. (altho i can imagine it as a series of useful max patches but without this 'slick' interface you have made).
7. you obviously rock at java – why not just fully write it in java – it would not take you that long to deal with your interface, file i/o and audio/midi. well, sure, interface is a bummer and will take long time, but surely worth it…
8. …because at the moment it is an awesome prototype with a sucky, slow, tempramental interface that you have tried to shoe-horn into the nightmare that is Max.
9. personally i loathe java and would do the whole thing in c++, but each to their own i guess, and java will be easier for crossplatform supposedly i guess.
just 2cents. good luck with it. really cool.
3. Other than you, no one's said anything so your opinion totally matters
5. patents I think…
6. because all I know is max and java… max – dare i say- is better for what I wanted to do interface-wise. Kai Krause continues to be a role model of mine. I wont do software without a decent interface.
7. I could still, conceivably do this.
8. yes… it's all good ideas but pwindow is a nightmare to use as an interface object and LCD has no stroke commands.
9. I wish I knew C. I'm learning it in the fall.
Hi, AudioMatt!!!
: )
It's possible that you could rip the source out of the package and open up AntiLoop in max5 on windows. I don't have a windows install to compile on.
sorry that's all I got :-/
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The Yale Journal of International Law
Abbreviated title (ISO 4)
Yale J. Int. Law |
Discipline | Law |
Language | English |
Edited by | Deborah Francois, Grace Kao |
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1974-present |
Frequency | Biannual |
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OCLC no. | 12626339 |
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The Yale Journal of International Law is a student-edited international law review at the Yale Law School (New Haven, Connecticut). The journal publishes articles, essays, notes, and commentary that cover a wide range of topics in international and comparative law.
The Yale Journal of International Law is the oldest of Yale Law School's eight secondary journals still in publication.[1] The journal was founded in 1974 by a group of students who were followers of the New Haven School of international law,[2] and their publication was originally known as Yale Studies in World Public Order. Under the leadership of then editor in chief Eisuke Suzuki, a graduate fellow from Tokyo, the first issue was produced without assistance from the Law School.[3] After being renamed as the The Yale Journal of World Public Order, the journal obtained its current title. About ten years after its founding, the Yale Law School started to support the journal.[3]
Some of the journal's most-cited articles include:[4]
- Kenneth W. Abbott, Modern International Relations Theory: A Prospectus for International Lawyers, Yale J. Int. Law 14:335 (1989)
- Lea Brilmayer, Secession and Self-Determination: A Territorial Interpretation, Yale J. Int. Law 16:177 (1991)
- Raidza Torres, The Rights of Indigenous Populations: The Emerging International Norm, Yale J. Int. Law 16:127 (1991)
- Michael J. Glennon, Two Views of Presidential Foreign Affairs Power: Little v. Barreme or Curtiss-Wright?, Yale J. Int. Law 13:5 (1988)
- Daniel Bodansky, The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: A Commentary, Yale J. Int. Law 18:451 (1993)
The journal was ranked second among international law reviews in the 2007 ExpressO Guide to Top Law Reviews based on the number of manuscripts received.[5]
In collaboration with Opinio Juris, occasional online symposia centering on scholarly conversations on articles published in the journal are organized. In collaboration with the Forum on the Practice of International Law, the journal periodically convenes panels, workshops, and talks on diverse topics with guests including Yale faculty, practicing international lawyers, distinguished alumni, and other campus visitors. In addition, the journal organizes a "works in progress" series at which Yale J.D. and graduate law students present papers to their colleagues with a faculty respondent who provides feedback and constructive criticism. Some recent events are:
- The "New" New Haven School (2007)
- Nation Building in the Middle East (2005)
- Reflections on the International Court of Justice's Oil Platforms Decision (2004)
- Current Pressures on International Humanitarian Law (2003)
- Reflections on the International Court of Justice's LaGrand Decision (2002)
- Realistic Idealism in International Law, a conference in honor of W. Michael Reisman. Selected proceedings from this conference were published in the Summer 2009 issue.
- ^ Yale Journal of International Law - History
- ^ http://www.yale.edu/yjil/files_PDFs/Suzuki.pdf
- ^ a b W. Michael Reisman, The Vision and Mission of The Yale Journal of International Law, Yale J. Int. Law 25:263 (2000).
- ^ Fred R. Shapiro, The Ten Most-Cited Works from The Yale Journal of International Law and Its Predecessors, Yale Studies in World Public Order and The Yale Journal of World Public Order, Yale J. Int. Law 25:271 (2000).
- ^ "2007 Top Law Reviews: Most Popular Subjects". ExpressO. Retrieved 2010-03-21.


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Another Long Term Project. Once i get the others out of the way, I'll work on this one. At the moment, I'm thinking about ideas and strategies for securing the Sky Pack Hmmm, I'll be using different methods for this once, since I already know how troublesome foamboard can be when the weather is hot. |


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Uranus and satellites
An image of the planet Uranus (located 20 Astronomical units from Earth) obtained at the Very Large Telescope Observatory using the Adaptive Optics system NAOS and the near-infrared imager CONICA to capture high-contrast images of the giant planet and its system of satellites and rings during its 2008 equinox.
Every 42 years, the ring (and satellites) plane of Uranus crosses the Sun, providing us with a unique opportunity to observe the rings while they present their edge to us. Ring plane crossing also allow us to observe the rings form their dark side (i.e. while the Sun is illuminating them from the opposite side), so one can search for faint satellites, faint rings, or faint ring structures, which could not be seen otherwise. Ring Plane Crossings are also an excellent opportunity to observe mutual events between satellites such as eclipse or occultation phenomena.
The image above corresponds to a one minute exposure (maximum permitted time to prevent trailing of the moving satellites) obtained at 2.2 micron with a K band filter. The bandpass of this filter matches the absorption bands of methane, which is present in the atmosphere of Uranus, and has the effect of making the bright planet (almost) completely disappear from our images. Thanks to this observing trick, we can observe the faint rings and small satellites of Uranus, which would become invisible otherwise, lost in the glare of the planet. The bright spots on each side of Uranus are Miranda (~470km diam.) and Ariel (~1100km diam.), respectively to the right and left of the image. Two much smaller satellites can be seen just above the ring plane, to the left of the planet, the closer to Uranus being Puck (~150km diam.) and the other Portia (~100km), near the ring tip in this image.
A movie of these observations is also available. The movie shows an animation of this system of satellites over a two hour period. You can easily see the impact of fluctuating seeing conditions on the image quality. Under good seeing, both small satellites Puck and Portia becomes clearly visible when they move along their orbital path, while the images start to blur when the seeing conditions degrade.
Credit:ESO/C. Dumas, B. Sicardy, and J.-E. Arlot
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Id: | uranus-pom |
Type: | Observation |
Release date: | 8 February 2010, 10:50 |
Size: | 1433 x 1029 px |
About the Object
Name: | Uranus |
Type: | Solar System : Planet : Satellite |
Category: | Solar System |
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You'll find this luscious dessert as easy as it is elegant. Mary Ann Kosmas, a reader from Minneapolis, Minnesota, explains. "You can bake the crust ahead—then it's mostly a matter of whipping together the filling."--Mary Ann Kosmas, Minneapolis, Minnesota
22 Best Summer Pies
- 1 cup finely chopped pecans
- 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
- 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 teaspoon grated orange peel
- 1 can (15 ounces) sliced peaches, well drained
- 1/2 cup fresh raspberries
- 1/4 cup apricot preserves
- 2 tablespoons honey
- In a small bowl, combine the pecans, flour and butter; press onto the bottom and up the sides of an ungreased 9-in. tart pan with removable bottom. Place pan on a baking sheet. Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown. Cool completely on a wire rack.
- In a chilled small bowl, beat cream until soft peaks form; set aside. In another small bowl, beat the cream cheese and sugar until fluffy. Add extracts and orange peel; mix well. Beat in the whipped cream on low speed. Spoon into crust. Refrigerate for 2-4 hours.
- Just before serving, arrange peaches and raspberries over filling. In a small saucepan or microwave, melt preserves and honey; mix well. Carefully spoon or brush over fruit. Cut into wedges to serve. Refrigerate leftovers. Yield: 6-8 servings.
Originally published as Peaches N Cream Tart in Country Woman
May/June 1995, p9
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Alexa Web Rankings: Chapel Tops PR's A-ListTrackbacks
PR A-List Bloggers are Alexa Amateurs
According to Strumpette's article, Alexa Web Rankings: Chapel Tops PR's A-List, Todd Defren and Amanda Chapel are first and second PR bloggers according to Alexa. Well, Chris Abraham's Alexa rank is 108,077, over 27k better ranked than Mr. Defren. Amateurs....
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Podcastready.com: 185,388 Second Life Herald: 85,388 Computerworld: 3,271 Second Life: 1,491 PornoTube: 200
Nice to be close to your level, Amanda.
Any reason you left Rubel out of the equation? He checks in at 9,313.
First, for the record, I did not compile the list. That said, my understanding is that Rubel was not included for the same reason MarketingSherpa does not include him in there annual PR blog awards: Rubel rarely talks about PR; MicroPersuasion is a tech and gadget blog. - Amanda
It should also be said that Alexa rankings are highly subjective (what isn't). Alexa only counts traffic from browsers that are loaded with its toolbar. It's a plugin, which requires some proactive action on the part of surfers.
That said, I am just happy that I am somewhere in the middle of the pack. :-)
Alexa's user base is a fair and accurate statistical sample of the Internet user population.
Would I do better to include an "Install Alexa!" banner on my site?
Yes Ike, it would probably help. What would help more is installing it yourself and visiting your site a lot. :-) Alexa is as close an open-source ranking system as we will get.
I'm already the only person visiting my site. Will Alexa tell me how many times I check it? ;)
Thanks for adding me. I am blessed by that. Like Steve Rubel, my blog isn't really strictly PR. I am more of a shameless hussy generalist, but thanks anyway! This is the best thing that's ever happened to me. Cheers.
Shameless Hussy Generalists get high marks here, for being transparent enough to embrace their adjectives.
Funny how the rankings change once you also factor in a site's Technorati and Google Page Ranks (in addition to Alexa). Strumpette's top five list changes as follows:
1. Chris Abraham 2. Todd Defren 3. Josh Hallett 4. Scott Baradell 5. Neville Hobson You can see the entire Strumpette list recalculated, here: http://www.gurblogs.com/node/119
Wow, I am still !1! See, to tell you the truth, I am actually not a PR guy, I am a maestro SEO guru. It's the truth, ask anyone.
I'm just bummed that I switched URLs from blogspot to briansolis.com so soon before this list was compiled. I lost my alexa and technorati rankings in the process, so I had to start from scratch. But, even still, in 3 months after the switch, I am at 226,525k on Alexa and 41k on Technorati. Do I make the list now?
Next time you consider doing something like that, there are ways to ease Google over. :)
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South East Queensland
17.8 Non-allocated diversions - urban water system
Supporting Information
This line item consists of diversions from surface water based on unsupplemented entitlements held by urban utilities and the South East Queensland (SEQ) Water Grid Manager. These diversions may be to Water Treatment Plants (WTPs) that supply the SEQ Water Grid or are off-grid.
Water resource plan (WRP) area | SEQ Water Grid | Water treatment plant | Volume (ML) |
Gold Coast | Total Gold Coast WRP area | 0 | |
Logan Basin | On-grid | Capalaba | 3,851 |
Off-grid | Canungra | 73 | |
Total Logan Basin WRP area | 3,924 | ||
Moreton | On-grid | Caboolture | 1,361 |
Enoggera | 0 | ||
Off-grid | Blackbutt & Bernarkin | 72 | |
Lockyer | 1,900 | ||
Preston | 3 | ||
Somerset Dam Recreation | 0 | ||
Warrill View | 112 | ||
Yarraman | 86 | ||
Total Moreton WRP area | 3,534 | ||
Total SEQ region | 7,458 |
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Data Source
Provided by
Metered diversion to WTP or output from WTP data were obtained from various regional councils and QWC. Where available diversion data were used in preference to WTP output data. WTPs were selected where the source was surface water and the entitlement was unsupplemented. WTP were then separated in to the water resource plan (WRP) areas and on-grid (form part of the SEQ Water Grid) and off-grid.
Assumptions, Limitations, Caveats and Approximations
Communities with a population of less than 50 were not captured and reported. Off-grid communities within the Gold Coast WRP area were therefore not captured.
As WTP data were compiled from several sources, there were some instances where data were conflicting. In these instances the WTP output was reported as the diversion where this was larger than the diversion values obtained from DERM. This may have resulted in a misrepresentation of unsupplemented WTP diversions, but is expected not to be material to the account.
Uncertainty Information
The uncertainty estimate was not quantified.
Comparative year
This line item corresponds to line item 19.3.1 Unregulated inflow of surface water into the urban water supply system reported in the 2010 Account. The provision of data on which WTP utilised supplemented and unsupplemented entitlements was obtained for the 2011 Account from Seqwater. This showed that the entitlement type has no direct linkage to the WTP forming part of the SEQ Water Grid and identified a number of WTP listed as supplemented that were in fact unsupplemented (and vice versa). In addition to this, data for a number of WTP was not available for the 2010 Account but were available for 2011 Account.
This has resulted in the numbers between the two years not being comparable due to additional WTP data, and a reallocation of WTP between this line item and line item 11.12 Allocation diversion of surface water to urban water system. As data were not available to completely rectify the volumes presented in the 2010 Account, the 2011 Account comparison year used the data reported in the 2010 Account (18,258 ML) and it is noted that direct comparisons should not be made between the volumes.


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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS / AP) — Hunter Pence hit a three-run homer in the first inning that held up, Buster Posey added a late RBI single and the San Francisco Giants snapped the Colorado Rockies' five-game winning streak with a 4-2 victory Monday night.
Madison Bumgarner (2-0) won his sixth in a row against the Rockies and owns a seven-start unbeaten run in the rivalry. The left-hander began his career 0-3 against Colorado in five starts.
He struck out five and walked five in 5 2-3 innings Monday, allowing two runs and five hits.
One of those was Carlos Gonzalez's long two-run homer to right in the third. The ball bounced off the pathway and splashed into McCovey Cove.
San Francisco extended its winning streak against the Rockies to seven games and bounced back from a 14-3 loss to St. Louis a day earlier when ace Matt Cain was tagged for nine runs in the fourth inning.
Michael Cuddyer had two hits and stole his first base for a Rockies team that had won five in a row since losing its opener 5-4 in 10 innings at Milwaukee. Dexter Fowler had his six-game hitting streak to start the season snapped as he went 0 for 4 with two strikeouts.
Pence sent the first pitch he saw from Jorge De La Rosa (0-1) deep into the bleachers in left-center for one of the hardest, longest balls he has hit at home since joining the Giants last July. Pablo Sandoval singled twice and scored a run.
The reigning World Series champions returned to a more normal routine after three straight days of celebrations — the flag raising Friday for the home opener, Posey's NL MVP presentation Saturday and then Sunday's ring ceremony.
Bumgarner pitched a 1-2-3 first, then issued at least one walk in each of the next four innings. After Cuddyer drew a leadoff walk in the fourth, Bumgarner was helped by a double play to get out of it unscathed. He walked Yorvit Torrealba to start the fifth, then Eric Young Jr. one out later before Bumgarner escaped another jam.
He is off to a solid start after struggling last postseason. The lefty, who spent the winter working on his mechanics, is trying to build on a 2012 season in which he won a career-best 16 games and had a 2.33 ERA in 14 home outings.
Cuddyer hit a one-out single in the sixth and Chris Nelson had an RBI single two batters later. Giants manager Bruce Bochy called for Santiago Casilla as Bumgarner walked off to a standing ovation.
Casilla went 1 1-3 perfect innings, Jeremy Affeldt pitched a clean eighth and Sergio Romo allowed Josh Rutledge's leadoff double before striking out the side for his fourth save as the Giants retired 10 of the final 11 Rockies batters.
Posey's two-out single in the eighth provided some insurance.
De La Rosa allowed six hits and his only runs on Pence's homer, struck out three and walked one in a 76-pitch outing over six innings. He is 0-4 in his last seven starts dating to 2012.
Colorado starters reached 109 straight games without throwing 100 pitches, the longest such streak since pitch count data began in 1988.
The Giants went 14-4 against the Rockies last season for their most wins in the series, including 7-2 at AT&T Park.
First-year Rockies manager Walt Weiss returned to the Bay Area, where his big league career began as a first-round draft pick by Oakland in 1985. He spent the initial six of his 14 major league seasons with the Athletics.
"Welcome back, Walt!" one fan hollered as the skipper emerged for batting practice. He smiled and waved.
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Posted on 04/29/2011 1:53:23 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Instead of spending another day immersed in Middle Eastern names, culture, religion, death and destruction, the world was treated to western culture, etiquette and a Christian gathering in the House of the Lord, to celebrate the marriage of a man and a woman who love one another.
It was a beautiful ceremony, in a beautiful setting.
It was uplifting. It was a happy, joyous day.
I wish the newlyweds a loving and productive life.
Queen Elizabeth can take a bow now that the British royal family will be in good hands after she's gone.
morning = mourning
I hope Elton John, in his state of unrepentant sin, does not consider himself a Christian/Anglican because he was sure singing up a storm with his husband. The hypocrisy of it all knows no bounds... (To borrow a line)
I only throws stones who openly flaunt God's laws while considering him/herself virtuous under the law.
The level of sexual obsession about Kate Middleton I've seen on FR the last couple of days is stunning.
I am not an Anglophile, because I don't think English is a prerequisite for Western civilization, but what they did, particularly by summoning up earlier Christian examples (for example, St Catherine of Siena), was to remind us all that Western Culture is something built on huge, deep sources.
Christianity originated in the Middle East and passed through Rome; many Jews were already Hellenicized (Greek influenced), and the Greek contribution to Christian thought was very strong. Catholic tradition holds that the various Apostles went out to different places (St. James the Greater to Spain, St Thomas to India, etc.). It is known that the only one who died a natural death, that is, not as a martyr, was St John the Evangelist.
Did you notice the Indians at this event? Kate invited the Indians who ran her local grocery to this. I loved them; they were smart and tasteful and on the same wavelength.
Judeo-Christian-Greco-Roman culture may be a mouthful, but that's what we're seeing whenever there is a purely traditional event in any country, be it Britain, Spain, or - well, I was going to say the US, but I don't think we do those here anymore.
I find it a rather sad show put on by a dieing country
Its the hypocrisy. the hypocrisy of our society today...nothing personal ..they are just typical of our generation.
There were a few male Muslims with the Arab headgear on at the back of the Abbey. The Sultan of Dubai has a major role in British and American racing, and is received everywhere in the UK and the US, so one of them might have been him.
i think that a church wedding is appropriate if they have said they want to make a new start...its the charade at such a huge scale that gets to me.
and god forbid if you say that shacking up for 8 yrs and then doing this multi media, international event is hypocrisy..
that is very well said, I feel the same way about the couple.
..I think it is the "travesty" of our society that this wedding was on such a grand scale..
I don't"forgive them"...that is not up to me, that is between them and thier God and their pastor. I do "judge " those who made this such a farce on such a multi media scale, including the clergy...
well said.
Seeing a western country celebrate their traditions etc was great. It brings pride back into any country when this is done and obviously the lefty loons will not like that.
So what did you expect them to do after eight years of living together? Break up? Sneak off and have a wedding ceremony performed in a civil records office? Become a nun and a priest? Commit suicide? No, they made it right as soon as she could talk him into it; they did their duty in providing the British people with a spectacular event that has revived Britain's flagging national spirit and sense of identity.
I'm sure you went to your marriage bed a virgin, which is commendable. But Christ forgave the adulteress, who had done something far worse than having sex before marriage, and He said, "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone." How about a little more forgiveness and a little less Pharisaical condemnation, unless you really are, like Him, entirely without sin? God don't like ugly, and your spitefulness is ugly indeed.
I'd prefer my kids to live with their spouse before they're married.
I'd hate to see my daughter marry and then find out her husband is a wife beater or has a bad temper, lay about, useless etc.
Same for my boys, I;'d hate to them to find out who they're married to after they're married
they're idiots like their mother
Correct, they only righteous recourse is to marry, we do not know what is in the heart. By proclaiming their vows in public covers their past...
Its not about whether God is forgiving, of course God is forgiving. And I wish the couple well and hope their marriage includes God. The shacking up sure did not include God.
Both the diana craziness and THIS craziness is nothing more than a multi media spectacle. Well, now, young women and men once again have been acknowledged that what you do before marraige, has NOTHING to do with marriage. Great message that has been blasted all day..."Oh, every girl's dream! Oh every girl wants a fairy tale!"
Yup, we got a multi media fairy tale.
Didn't St. John die on a Penal Colony on Patmos though?
You are correct, we get our philosophy from Greece, our System of government from Rome, our Morality from Christianity, and our Law from the Torah ( Parts of the Constitution are plucked right out of Deuteronomy)
I have always said that the one thing America has truly lost is an overriding culture, the Fourth of July, Memorial Day, and Veterans Day still come Oh so close, but we have lost it, that is the Role the Monarchy plays in the UK, the present the people with a place to unite in their "Britishness"
How kind of you....why not just visciously attack the messenger.
I have never attacked the couple... I wish them well, yes, no one is "perfect" AND yes, its good they got married.
I am attacking the message that this over the top multi media fantasy spectacle that the British monarchy did for its hypocrisy .
I understand that in the past few weeks they had to receive instruction in faith from the Archbishop and Catherine went through a confirmation ceremony several days ago. Quite apart from that, William is going to be a head of state, so he owes it to his people and history to have a wedding ceremony according to prescribed forms.
I'm not claiming that they repented of any sins they've committed; I don't know them and don't know what's in their hearts. But I can't find anyplace in the Bible that says that only virgins can get married. And I know, too, that sexual sin is not the worst sin; the worst sin is the sin of Satan: pride.
Interesting - I just read that only the conservative PMs (Thatcher, Major, and Cameron) were invited - the Labour PMs (Blair, Brown) did not receive invitations.
I appreciate your comments! Thanks! I'd rather hear it from an Englishman about his country than an American. I didn't pay any mind to Shep Smith, just enjoyed our cousins across the pond! (Part English myself wayyyyy back down the line! LOL)
A bunch of inbred German welfare cases who live in the nicest public housing, courtesy of the British taxpayer.
You don't have to live together to know your spouse before you marry them. That's ridiculous.
Ours could only watch online...
my view you do but obviously you don't and that's fine.
I would rather see my kids live with their future spouse and know how they will live with , how they live, are they lazy, scruffy etc but each to their own
All I've heard is snide comments from the media about the "spectacle"...the Leftist msm does not like this story and it is they who "hyped" it and then it was they who asked, "are you sick of the hype and spectacle yet?"
I watched it this morning and realized that we never see this any more, the ceremony and our wonderful western culture being aired for millions to see. I felt a wonderful wave come over me of something familiar, a part of my heritage that has been systematically taken from me.
All our institutions are under attack by the Left. The more they're pealed away the more base our culture has become.
We need to see more western culture on display, warts and all, because it's a darn sight better than the 24/7 rot that fills 200-300 channels. And it's a step back in the right direction.
well I'm glad I never sent you to sleep EEK.
from there and here.
You got the best two in the world then but it is a shame this clown in power is not helping with relations, thankfully the majority on both sides have more brains than the muppet in the white house and we still have special connections, history etc
I have no sexual obsession about Kate Middleton.
I do think it is very hypocritical for someone who is unrepentant about shacking up for 8 years to want.have a church wedding.
" 9I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people 10 not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 11But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindlernot even to eat with such a one. 12For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? 13God judges those outside. "Purge the evil person from among you." - 1 Cor 5
When someone wants to enter what is supposedly a Christian church and receive the church's approval for their wedding, then it is appropriate to tell them that shacking up - fornication - is wrong, and that they need to repent.
14 Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God, 15and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel." - Mark 1
Repent. A good word, necessary to Christianity.
"Id prefer my kids to live with their spouse before theyre married."
You are welcome to want that, but it isn't in line with Christianity. Jesus didn't say, "Go, and sin at will..."
Blair and Brown are known to be "Republicans".
I honestly do understand as to what you're saying but if my kids go by your view or mine I would ave no problem but like I said each to their own.
> You left out nor Christian
Thank you for the correction. Of all, this one is *MOST* important, as the others are meaningless without it.
You have made some excellant points and I appreciate your articulate post.
I agree with much of what you have presented here. Thank you for taking the time to offer me your reasoned and thoughtful response.
Thank you for taking the time to respond with such a reasoned, articulate and scriptural response to this situation.
You presented the concerns I also had in a much more calm and patient manner than I have done. I guess I get upset , not because people are imperfect ( whoa...me included,ha.), but because we give out a message that seems contradictory to what we talk about committment.
There's a difference between attacking someone and pointing out some errors in his theology or philosophy.
In case you missed it, let me revisit an important point in my post. For many years the British people have been ground down by socialism, Marxism, multiculturalism. They are struggling financially, and they are being destroyed by out-of-control Muslims and a white and black underclass that dwarfs ours. Their kids aren't taught British history and conditions are so bad that 250000 Britons emigrate every year. Too many of them have lost religious faith; going to church is no longer cool.
So a ceremony like this one is absolutely invaluable. It brings the British people together in joy and national solidarity. It makes them realize that they have a noble heritage of history, art, architecture, music, language, law, and almost every other human pursuit. It reminds them that they a great deal to be proud of, and stiffens their collective spine so that they might be able to stand up to aggressors just a little bit better.
Whether the royal couple deserve it, the fact that they were on their knees in Westminster Abbey in front of two billion people is an important signal to Britain and to the world. That's not hypocrisy, and it's not self-glorification; it's a crucial duty of the British monarchy in restoring their nation's former strength.
Re the photo caption thread: I guess telling women they need horse dentistry IS in line with your brand of Christianity?
Hypocrisy, thy name is Mr. Rogers?
Baloney. It's her lack of virginity that galls you.
Beautifully said, thank you.
I did feel attacked...personally with such comments as "God dont like ugly, and your spitefulness is ugly indeed."
However, Thank you for taking the time now and making the effort to respond to me with your articulate and very well presented post here.
You have made excellant points, and I agree with you on many of your points. I have reflected on what you present, and see your perspective. You have presented another way for me to view this drama today. thank you.
"Baloney. It's her lack of virginity that galls you. "
No, I dislike her hypocrisy, along with the hypocrisy of the prince, and the entire royal family and the Anglican church. If someone is interested in living with unrepentant sin, and boasting of their sin, then they shouldn't be married in a Christian church. For the record, I also oppose homosexuals getting married in the church.
While I'm not here to defend the Episcopal Church I assume you are unfamiliar with Rite 1 used during the period of Lent:
Almighty God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
maker of all things, judge of all men:, We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins, and wickedness,
which we from time to time most grievously have committed, by thought, word, and deed, against thy divine Majesty, provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against us.
We do earnestly repent, and are heartily sorry for these our misdoings;
the remembrance of them is grievous unto us, the burden of them is intolerable.
Have mercy upon us, have mercy upon us, most merciful Father;
for thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ's sake, forgive us all that is past;
and grant that we may ever hereafter serve and please thee in newness of life,
to the honor and glory of thy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Assuming they went to church during Lent which I believe they did I think there may have been some repenting going on.
You might also ponder on John 8:7
"You might also ponder on John 8:7"
How about pondering it in context...
"7And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her." 8And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground. 9But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. 10Jesus stood up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?" 11She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more."
Not, "Go and sin at will, for who can condemn you?" The couple very publicly shacked up for 8 years, and have not indicated in any way that they have repented of doing so. Western civilization was not built on shacking up. Suppose Kate got fat 4 years ago, or came down with a serious disease - do you think she would still be getting married today?
Not obsessed with Kate's virginity? You've yet once to mention the fact that William, too, was "shacking up."
Give it a rest. They, like we all, are imperfect. Today they improved themselves. Let's pray they will succeed at the wonderful, complex, beautiful, tumultous joy that is marriage.
I see, I was unaware that you had been taken into God's confidence in this matter.
I have previously defended the conservative viewpoint from Leftists/Statists etc etc from charges of Sanctimony
On both these counts I stand corrected.
I'm sorry I made you feel attacked. That was not charitable of me and I sincerely ask your forgiveness. Glad to see we have learned from each other. Have a blessed weekend.
I'm not going to get on the sanctimonious soapbox others have ascended today, but statistically, especially for younger couples, divorce rates are higher for couples who have lived together before marriage than for those who haven't.
Apparently, the parties are often play-acting while co-habitating outside of marriage. Then, once the union is legalized, they become 'themselves.' That rather upsets the 'knowing who s/he is' before tying the knot theory.
"Youve yet once to mention the fact that William, too, was shacking up.
Did you miss post 90:
"No, I dislike her hypocrisy, along with the hypocrisy of the prince, and the entire royal family and the Anglican church."
Post 78:
"When someone wants to enter what is supposedly a Christian church and receive the churchs approval for their wedding, then it is appropriate to tell them that shacking up - fornication - is wrong, and that they need to repent."
Post 45:
"I refuse to go to a marriage between a couple that has been living together"
maybe my wife and I must be different after all these years because we understood each other after living together and we knew if we we could make it by understanding how we live.
did you have a sexual relationship with your wife before marriage??
I feel certain in today's generation that William and Kate most likely did enjoy a sexual relationship, they enjoyed holidays together and they spent time together while in college..that's just the way of life today and it was back in the 60's I believe Prince Charles and the Ms. tampon had a sexual relationship while she was married to another man and the Ms.tampon made life unhappy for Lady Diana. BUT there they were together today and accepted..
and Jesus forgives every one who sins...just ask him for his forgiveness and Believe..
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