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I have a cousine who is suffering from neuro problem but is unable to understand what is it actually. He feels stretching pain in the left portion of his body when the stroke comes there is loss of speech and movement this condition continues for 4 to 5 seconds and during this time his face turns blood red. please tell us what is it & it`s cure.
It sounds like you're asking for a specific diagnosis, which is more than I can provide online. Only a detailed history and physical exam by a healthcare professional can provide enough information to make a specific diagnosis. Please discuss your concerns with your healthcare provider.
I can tell you that if the symptoms only last a few seconds, then this is by definition NOT a stroke (symptoms from a stroke, by definition, last at least 24 hours). This is good news, but I would still recommend that your cousin be seen by a medical professional promptly.
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"O God, I could be bounded in a nut shell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams." - Hamlet Act II scene ii
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2012-11-30, 12:55 | Link #7963 |
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I think someone here predicted that Yui will lure Keima with games, he was right on the money
So they rotate every three hours? At 3am someone comes to pick him up, same with 6am? Rotating every day (24h) would be just fine. Maybe he had drawn those side stories beforehand and uses them to 'stall' for time, because the main story drawings are taking longer than expected?
2012-11-30, 13:44 | Link #7969 |
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Looks like they'll power through those games.
Improving her first impression and making sure Keima is too tired from playing when they switch with the next person, thus preventing them from raising flags. Combining new and old war tactics, as expected from the host of the goddess of war.
2012-11-30, 15:22 | Link #7972 |
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Haha, Yui doesn't disappoint. Isn't she just the greatest?
That said, this suggests that Yui knows about that 6 girl thing. Most of the other girls don't have that information so I'm curious how that's going to go. Especially Shiori, she knows nothing at all. And you know... I didn't think about it until now but... I guess this time-travel arc isn't going to result in a reset, these chapters wouldn't make sense if that was the case. |
2012-11-30, 16:05 | Link #7973 |
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Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canadá
Saintess heart is already praying against Yui, this is proof on how strong this development was!
I guess we will go back to the past now, so I reread the last past chapter to see if I could think of what would happen next. And you know? I have no idea...
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Alfred Ely Beach And His Wonderful Pneumatic Underground Railway
Underneath Broadway the workmen dug in secret. Then a startled public learned that their city had—a subway
June 1961 | Volume 12, Issue 4
Beach himself breathed a long sigh of regret. His associates were bitterly disappointed. He told them it was all right. They might have expected that. The veto meant they must wait another year, nothing more. By the next year they would have support so strong that their bill would be bound to pass even over the governor's veto.
And so for a year, with young Fred Beach as conductor and brakeman, the little car was blown back and forth every day under Broadway. There were two types of passengers, the thrill-seekers who hurried down the steps to Devlin's basement, and the merely curious who entered the waiting room more cautiously. Both types arrived in great numbers, and often police lines were necessary to hold back the mobs. Devlin sold a lot of clothes during the long waits. The lines moved slowly. After each ride, passengers were permitted to leave the car and stroll along the narrow tunnel. This was considered highly daring.
For a year the car traveled, its progress obvious to all who passed near the ventilator grating at the corner of Murray Street. A fountain stood close to the grating, its bubbling water blown into spray two stories high every time the giant fan underground went into reverse. The fan's intake was just as powerful—letters, parcels, handkerchiefs were yanked from people's hands, hats were pulled from their heads, and all the refuse of the neighborhood was sucked against the grate. A moment later all would be blown skyhigh again as the little car below made its return journey. It was a corner that pedestrians quickly learned to stay clear of.
During that year Beach made every effort to keep his subway in the news, and he sought to coax dignitaries to ride in it so that reports would find their way into the newspapers. But he had little luck. With Tweed against him, no city or state official would come near the place.
The subway had made money. At a quarter a head it had earned more than $100,000, which Beach, with a great show of confidence, promptly handed over to charity. This was a magnificent gesture, but a hollow one, for Beach's courage was wearing thin. At the beginning of the new year he waited, as the Beach Transit Bill came to a vote a second time.
It passed. Beach had spent a fortune keeping lobbyists at Albany all the preceding year, and he had expected it would. Hoffman vetoed it again, and it was returned to the legislature, where it failed by one vote to attain the two thirds majority needed to pass over the Governor's veto. That night Beach wept his defeat. But in the morning he was himself again. Perhaps there would be a new governor next year. They would try once more.
Beach closed the subway; crowds had fallen off, and it cost too much to run. But he kept his lobbyists in Albany. There were encouraging signs as 1872 drew to a close. The year before, a bookkeeper had placed evidence of Tweed's swindles in the hands of the New York Times , which had proceeded to print them, one at a time, day after day. Tweed had been indicted for fraud. It now appeared that his political power would be ended. The people of New York were so filled with righteous indignation that in the election of 1872 Tweed's man, Hoffman, decided not to run.
The long fight had worn Beach down. Where he had been staunch he was now timid. Some had criticized his bill on the grounds that pneumatic power would never prove satisfactory; others had insisted that the tunneling shield would never work except in sandy areas. Beach now had the charter rewritten, making provisions for steam locomotives, if that should eventually prove more practical, and for the cut-andfill method of entrenching a subway, if his tunneling shield should fail.
There was nothing he could do about the chief objection to his subway, the fear that Trinity Church (then the tallest structure in the city) and other "mighty spires" would topple if Broadway was undermined. This was something that John Jacob Astor and other wealthy landlords had been shouting at the top of their lungs for two years now. Trinity Church's spire was 280 feet tall.
So it was that in 1873 the Beach Transit Bill came before the legislature of the sovereign state of New York for the third and last time. It was passed by acclamation, with only three dissents in the Senate, and was sent in to the new governor, General John A. Dix, who announced himself "pleased and privileged" to sign it.
That night the elation of Beach and his associates was boundless. They had fought a long, tense war, but they appeared to have won. Against all the odds, Beach was on the edge of realizing his dream.
But his joy was short-lived. Beach himself was emotionally exhausted. Astor and the others were still against him, and they were much more vocal than he. Worse, his own fortune was now gone, spent on lobbyists, publicity, and the construction of the experimental tunnel itself.
Prices had risen. He was forced to raise not five but ten million dollars before work could be started. He began to make the rounds of wealthy businessmen, former friends. But he was no longer one of them. He had become, so it seemed to them, just another penniless inventor begging funds, pushing some wild scheme nobody cared about. People would never ride under the ground anyway.
Then the economy, none too steady since the great depression of 1869, began to flounder. The stock market crashed again, and there was suddenly no money to be had at all. Alfred Ely Beach, tired beyond words, beaten at last, admitted to himself that he had failed. There was no money. There never would be any money.


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Things didn't sound good last Monday when the Hang-Time Grizzlies announced that the results of an MRI on Rudy Gay's left shoulder weren't good enough for him to return to the court. Gay has been out since injuring the shoulder on Feb. 15 (see how it happened above), the Grizzlies' final game before the All-Star break.
Now comes a report from The Commercial Appeal that Gay will need to have surgery on that shoulder, knocking him out for the rest of the season and, presumably, the playoffs.
Gay received the news after traveling to Birmingham, Ala., to visit renowned orthopedic surgeon Dr. James Andrews.
"I've never really been hurt. I've never had anything shut me down," Gay said. "There's really no brace or anything I can wear to make it better. I have to have the surgery."
(UPDATE: The story has been confirmed by the AP, although the date of Gay's surgery has not been set.)
It's tough news for the Grizzlies, their fans, and anyone who wanted to see what the Grizz could do at full strength. After signing a new five-year, $84 million contract, Gay was having the best season of his career.
The good news is that Gay is only 24 years old with plenty of big seasons ahead of him, and that the Grizzlies have been doing OK without him, holding strong to the eighth spot in the Western Conference.
What's interesting is that, since the All-Star break, the Grizzlies are a different team than they were before it. Although they lost a great offensive player in Gay and added a great defensive player in Shane Battier, they've actually been much stronger offensively over the last four weeks.
Grizzlies efficiency, 2010-11
Timeframe | W | L | Pct. | Pace | Rank | Off. Eff. | Rank | Def. Eff. | Rank | Diff. |
Pre-break | 31 | 26 | .544 | 94.8 | 14 | 103.0 | 19 | 102.4 | 9 | 0.6 |
Post-break | 8 | 6 | .571 | 94.3 | 17 | 108.6 | 7 | 105.0 | 16 | 3.7 |
Pace = Possessions per 48 minutes.
Off. Eff. = Points scored per 100 possessions
Def. Eff. = Points allowed per 100 possessions
The Grizzlies are basically doing everything better offensively. They're shooting better, rebounding better and even sharing the ball more. But most important may be that they've cut down on turnovers.
Grizzlies' offense
Timeframe | EFG% | Rank | OREB% | Rank | TORatio | Rank | FTA Rate | Rank | AST/FG | Rank |
Pre-break | 48.6% | 22 | 28.1% | 6 | 11.1 | 16 | .296 | 18 | 51.5% | 30 |
Post-break | 50.7% | 11 | 30.7% | 3 | 9.9 | 4 | .269 | 21 | 56.6% | 20 |
OReb% = Off. Reb./(Off. Reb. + Opp. Def. Reb.)
TORatio = Turnovers per 100 possessions
FTA Rate = FTA/FGA
Gay had a turnover rate of 10.7 (he turned the ball over 10.7 times per 100 possessions he used). Some of his minutes have been taken by Battier, who has a turnover rate of 8.4 with Memphis. But since Gay's injury, both Tony Allen and Sam Young have seen a lot more playing time. And Allen's turnover rate has gone down from 13.0 before the break to just 9.4 after it. In addition, Mike Conley's turnover rate has gone down slightly.
As a result of the decreased turnovers and extra rebounds, the Grizzlies are getting an extra three shots per 100 possessions. Since they're making more of those shots, they're that much more efficient.
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TOWN OF NEWBURGH — Two men broke into a home on Balmville Road early Sunday morning, held the elderly couple that lived there captive and brutally beat them before fleeing with their money and their car, said town police.
The two suspects, men in their mid-20s dressed in dark clothes and ski masks and with handguns, cut a screen and went through the side window into the home's kitchen, said police Lt. Thomas O'Connell. They held the 78-year-old man and 72-year-old woman and stayed for "quite a while," O'Connell said, until they got some money that the family had stored away.
Eventually, around 4:20 a.m., the woman broke away, fled next door and called for help, and the two men stole a Toyota RAV4 from the driveway and fled toward the City of Newburgh. The car was later found in the city, O'Connell said.
The two victims were severely beaten in the head and face. They were brought first to St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital in Newburgh, and then to Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla.
O'Connell said the victims might have known the suspects. Nobody has been arrested as of yet.
"We have several leads," he said. "We have quite a few investigators working on it."
Anyone with any information is asked to call town police at 845-564-1100.
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We decided to make the project to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first Star Wars movie. Our club members are making several Star Wars based projects to fly at Plaster Blaster VI, or Plaster Wars. We decided to make the project challenging in several ways. The first is just the massive size of the rocket. It is over 21' long, with a wingspan of over 19'.
We opted to use a cluster of four motors to emulate the "real" X-wing, and positioned the motors in the wing pods. The real challenge was to make the wings move in flight, from the "attack" position, or extended to the "landing" position, or folded. This proved to be quite a mechanical feat. We started be laying out the rear fuselage section and wing root sections in CAD, then had RMS Laser and Routing Services CNC route all the fuselage and wing root components.
The fuselage ends and wing root sections are cut from 3/4″ Baltic Birch, while the internal stricture is cut from 3/8″ Baltic Birch. The "wing box" assembly, or center of the fuselage, contains the electrical motor and gear / chain drive system that moves the wings, along with the center supports for the wing panels.
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The Five W's of Marketing
When developing a marketing program, it's not enough to know who, what, when, where, and why. You need to keep them in order, says Steve McKee.
You've heard of the Five W's: who, what, when, where, and why. They're the elements of information needed to get the full story, whether it's a journalist uncovering a scandal, a detective investigating a crime, or a customer service representative trying to resolve a complaint. There's even an old PR formula that uses the Five W's as a template for how to write a news release.
Most of the time it doesn't matter in what order the information is gathered, as long as all five W's are ultimately addressed. The customer service rep's story may begin with who was offended, while the journalist may follow a lead based on what happened. The detective may start with where a crime was committed while details of who and what (not to mention when and why) are still sketchy.


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Sometimes called the "Post-Confucian" states. China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Vietnam are all heavily influenced by traditional Chinese culture. China, Vietnam and North Korea have been controlled by communist governments. But Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea and Japan have used a modified (with strong government direction of investment ) form of free market economy and have been the most successful imitators of the western industrial system. Hong Kong has had an almost pure free market system.
Japan indeed was the world's main industrial power in 1995.
(Since 1995 Japan has suffered a long depression and failure to grow. Had it reached the peak of economic development? The huge bubble of property prices burst and the whole economy seemed unable to recover. Perhaps its aging population, without immigration, may be the real cause.) This was a situation similar to tnat which later affected the United States, Europe and some other areas in 2007-9.
The Confucian countries seem to show the advantages of heavy spending on education, coupled with high profit margins (low wages) and a very high rate of saving and investment with a very low expenditure on the military. But the maturer economies - Japan - now pay high wages. In the last 30 years they have grown faster than the traditional western economies, Britain, the US, Germany and France. Will they become the dominant economic force in the world? Will China achieve the same success as Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong (all controlled by Overseas Chinese)? If China gives up the Communist dictatorship it may outperform them all.(1995) In the 10 years since that was written, China has not given up the dictatorship but has grown at a very fast rate until it threatens to absorb all the world's manufacturing of consumer goods. It is now an economic giant and is influencing the supply of raw materials.
Associated with China are a number of potential military conflicts. One of these is the problem of Taiwan. Until the last ten years this was a more advanced country than mainland China, but now is relatively stagnant economically. Its military power comes mainly from the protection it gets from the United States. But as the United States has become financially dependent on China this protection must be uncertain.
It is a fixed policy of China that Taiwan, which has a democratic system of recent origin, must join the mainland as a Province. Would China try to seize it by force? Probably not directly.
Other military problems are in the two Koreas, where North Korea has nuclear weapons (it says) and the South has the economic development.


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Toronto - Toronto's divisive mayor, Rob Ford, won an appeal on Friday against a ruling that was set to remove him from office, defusing a showdown that has transfixed Canada's biggest city and allowing him to see out his four-year term.
Ford, a magnet for controversy during the two years he has spent as mayor, was ordered out of office last November after he was found guilty of conflict of interest, but he was allowed to stay on the job while he appealed.
The initial court ruling said Ford was in conflict when he voted at city council to scrap a C$3,150 ($3,100) penalty imposed on him for accepting donations of the same amount from lobbyists for his football foundation.
On Friday, a panel of three judges ruled that "council did not have the jurisdiction to impose such a penalty". That means Ford did not break municipal conflict of interest laws by voting against the penalty at city council.
"This has been a very, very humbling experience," the rarely compunctious mayor told a news conference following the ruling, saying he plans to run for mayor again and spend the next six years in office.
The fight to toss Ford from the mayor's seat may not be over, however. Clayton Ruby, the high-profile Toronto lawyer pressing the case against Ford, said he will ask the Supreme Court of Canada to hear the case.
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But he has made headlines with a series of high-profile gaffes.
These include reading while driving on a city expressway, calling the police when a comedian tried to film part of a popular TV show outside his home, and skipping council meetings to coach high-school football.
Ford won a libel case recently in which he was sued for C$6 million ($5.98 million) over comments he made about corruption at city hall during his 2010 campaign for mayor.
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Hook your 360's AV and power cable in and plug the RF board (the circuit board that has the Ring of Light LEDs) back into the 360. Otherwise you won't be turning it on. :D
Turn it on without the fans plugged in, checking to see how fast the heatsinks heat up. Getting hot in less than a minute is excellent. Now plug in the fans and put on that plastic fan shroud. Turn it on again and it should boot up normally, assuming you did the heat test (if you didn't plug in the DVD drive, the center LED will blink green).
If it goes RRoD instead, unplug the power cable, re-insert it and try again. If you cannot get the console to boot, press down on both the heatsinks with even force and power it on again. If it boots, power it on with only one heatsink pressed upon. If it boots with that particular heatsink pressed on, power the 360 off and keep re-booting until you find the problem corner(s) on the heatsink that needs tightening.
The idea is to tighten any heatsink corners that aren't tight enough in order to allow a good connection for that processor.
So if it boots up normally and you can play a game for at least an hour without it locking up, you've worked your magic and the 360 can be re-assembled! Have a beer, rent a movie, eat some gummy bears, do whatever it is you do to treat yourself because YOU DID IT!
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Most golfers have a bucket list of dream courses they want to play: Pebble Beach, Augusta National, TPC Sawgrass, St. Andrews, the Blue Monster at Doral, the list goes on. Now, avid golfers across the U.S. might soon be adding to their lists a course that's well known to Summit County players.
Last month Golfweek magazine ranked the Breckenridge Golf Club No. 25 on its annual list of top 50 municipal courses.
"They're in the elite 1 percent," Bradley S. Klein, editor in charge of the Golfweek's Best Course ranking program, said explaining the magazine's evaluation process. "That's pretty impressive."
"It's a real honor," Breckenridge course pro Erroll Miller said of the award. The Jack Nicklaus-designed course moved up from last year's No. 34 ranking.
Of roughly 1,300 municipal courses nationwide, the magazine narrowed its list to around 175, Klein said, which were each evaluated by members of an international ratings committee.
Course evaluators focused strictly on the courses, using a list of rating categories that included course layout, condition, quality of hazards, hole variety and memorability. Amenities like the quality of the clubhouse or food and beverage offerings were not considered.
The evaluation culminated with an overall category ranking that Klein described as, "How cool was it to spend four or four and a half hours on the course?"
The list put Breckenridge in the same conversation with a number of courses that regularly appear on the PGA Tour, including three that have either hosted or will host the U.S. Open — Bethpage Black (ranked No. 1), Chambers Bay (No. 2) and Torrey Pines (No. 4).
Klein said it's part of a growing trend nationwide of public courses closing the gap on their private counterparts.
"Public courses have suffered unfairly," Klein said. "The standards of municipal golf have gotten a lot higher. It's a much more professional approach now."
But for locals like Bevan Hardy who considers Breckenridge his home course, the honor comes as less of a surprise.
"I've played a lot of golf," he said, adding that Breckenridge was easily up there with any course he'd played. "We — as Breckenridge residents — are so fortunate to have this course. Whenever I bring friends, they're always so impressed."
Hardy also put a twist on the old saying that describes golf as a good walk spoiled.
"Here it's still a good walk," he said of Breckenridge.
Note: While open to public play, Summit County's other courses — The Raven Golf Club at Three Peaks, Copper Creek and Keystone's Ranch and River courses — are independently owned and operated, making them ineligible for the list.
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Hello, guys! This is a Sulky PSA. You folks know how much I love their Printable Sticky Fabri-Solvy. I can't live without it! It's an integral part of my Twelve Days ornament series. However, I've heard from several heartbroken crafters just lately who can't get the Sulky stabilizer washed off of their embroidered ornament pieces even though they have followed all the directions and are doing everything right. If this is YOU, you are not crazy. You have some faulty stabilizer!
I've just spoken to Patty Lee at Sulky. She was so helpful and apologetic! She tells me the manufacturer who makes the glue for the stabilizer reformulated the glue without informing Sulky. While the reformulated glue worked for some industrial applications it did not work for Sticky Fabri-Solvy. Sulky was not aware of the problem until some of the faulty stabilizer had already been distributed to resellers.
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(I learned from a helpful commenter that if you order from Sulky.com the order may be fulfilled by someone else. Just call them directly to be sure.)
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If you are breaking open a new pack, test it first! Before you do any lengthy work of embroidery, do a few test stitches with the stabilizer, cut out the shape and try soaking it away from your stitches. If it doesn't soak away after a reasonable amount of time, you may have the bad stuff.
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OK, but how do I fix my current project?
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New distance shoes, hopefully in time to get them properly broken in for Pigman.
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OK, question for you guys: what kind of socks do you run in? I have always ALWAYS run in regular cotton socks that I wear all the time for ordinary use. When I bought these shoes, the guy who sold them to me was practically laughing at me because I wear cotton socks. He asked my how often I get blisters. Um, never. He said I'm lucky, and it's only a matter of time.
OK, fine, I'll try out your synthetic technical fiber socks. Guess what? My feet are killing me today. I have never had a problem with cotton socks; I switch to this other kind of socks and after just 4 miles my feet are quite upset with me.
Great day for a long ride! It was actually pretty hot again today, despite a relative cooldown (high of 90 instead of 100). I waited until 11 AM to ride so I could continue to acclimate to the hot weather. No going soft for me!
I noticed my HR was really drifting upward over the last 15 miles or so. I think that was because it was getting hotter, and I ran out of gatorade/water with about 12 miles to go. I need to practice better hydration, especially in preparation for race day.
Also, I went to Kyle's Bikes to get some new running shoes. I did the stride analyzer, and he confirmed my neutral gait with high arches, and fitted me with 4 different types of shoes. I went with the Mizuno because I felt like they had the best fitting upper and softest sole. I'll have to get a few runs in between now and Pigman to break them in and make sure I like the fit.
Ran on the treadmill at the store while trying out several different kinds of shoes.
The first half of the run went fine. The second half was predictably hot and humid, as it has been every day for the past month. It was already 80 degrees and HI of over 90 by the time I finished running at about 8 AM. I really started to tire out on the last 2 miles, probably because I wasn't drinking enough water. I only stopped back at the house once for a 20 oz. bottle of gatorade, which was not nearly enough.
I'm still holding out hope for a miraculously cool day on August 21, but I doubt it'll happen. I think we'll just have to be prepared for another sweltering day and try to get through it the best we can.
We went to Pekin to pick up the kids from Camp Grandma and spend the weekend. So I got out to the old high school track for a good speed workout!
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I was planning to 8 of these and a 1 mile cooldown, but I really had to go to the bathroom, and the stadium's bathrooms were all locked. Too bad. Or maybe not...it was really starting to get hot, and I might have been pushing myself too much like the last time I was out on this track. :)
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Empathy is a messaging program which supports text, voice, and video chat and file transfers over many different protocols, including Jabber (xmpp). You can tell it about your accounts on all those services and do all your chatting within one application. Empathy uses Telepathy for protocol support and has a user interface based on Gossip. Empathy is the default chat client in current versions of GNOME, making it easier for other GNOME applications to integrate collaboration functionality using Telepathy.
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W. Dudley McCarter
Dudley, a founding Member of the Firm, received the 2008 Foundation Award from the Fellows of the St. Louis Bar Foundation for his outstanding contributions to the St. Louis community and legal profession. He is also the recipient of the Lou Czech Award from the Missouri Municipal Attorney's Association for his competence, professionalism, and contributions to municipal law (2003). Further, he is a past President of the Missouri Bar ('92-'93) and the St. Louis County Bar Association ('86-'87). In addition, Dudley is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, the recipient of the Purcell Professionalism Award from the Missouri Bar (award to acknowledge outstanding professionalism by a Missouri lawyer, who consistently demonstrates an exceptional degree of competency, integrity and civility in both their professional and civic activities, 2001) and the Geyer Award from the University of Missouri-Columbia (bestowed for his services to higher education in Missouri) (2004).
He is also a multi-year recipient of the Missouri Bar Foundation's W. Oliver Rasch Award, given annually to the author of the most outstanding substantive article published in the Journal of the Missouri Bar (1985, 1989, 2006). Having tried cases in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri and in the Missouri Circuit Courts, Dudley is rated "AV" (the highest rating possible) by Martindale-HubbellSM, and has been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2014® in the categories of Commercial Litigation, Construction Law, and Litigation – Construction. Dudley has been on The Best Lawyers in America since 2001.
Dudley received his B.A. degree, cum laude, from Knox College in 1972, and in 2013 received the Alumni Achievement Award from Knox College. Dudley received his J. D. degree in 1975 from the University of Missouri–Columbia. Dudley currently serves as the President Elect of the Mizzou Alumni Association. His practice is concentrated in the areas of civil litigation, construction litigation and municipal law. He has authored many published articles on the topics of construction law, municipal law and civil litigation. Dudley has also been named as a Missouri-Kansas Super LawyerSM in the areas of Business Litigation and Construction Litigation.
Dudley is active in many charitable and civic organizations. He served on the Board of the Children's Trust Fund of Missouri, on the Board of the Parkway School District, the Missouri Foundation for the Prevention of Child Abuse, and was Chair of that organization from 2001 to 2003. He is currently serving on the Advisory Board of the St. Louis Crisis Nursery. He has been on the faculty of the Missouri Trial Judges College every year since 1997.
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WATCHUNG — The Opera at Florham (OAF) annual Vocal Competition, established by the late Violetta DuPont of Watchung, will be held at 4 p.m., Sunday, May 5, in Lenfell Hall, Hennessy Hall, at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison-Florham Park.
OAF benefit singers, 21 to 35 years of age, who are pursuing a career in opera.
In celebration of its 25th year, a luncheon, at 1 p.m., in Hartman Lounge, Hennessy Hall, will precede the vocal competition with special entertainment from Soprano Angela Meade and pianist Arlene Shrut to honor the late DuPont, the founder of the competition and the co-founder of the Opera at Florham.
Honoring Violetta DuPont
Violetta Josephine Pollara DuPont, 100, died Friday, June 8, 2012. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Lyndhurst, Mrs. DuPont resided in Watchung since 1967.
Her 100th birthday, April 7, 2012, was proclaimed Violetta DuPont Day by then Mayor Gerald Mobus and the Wtchung Borough Council. She was able to attend and enjoy the 23rd Annual Violetta DuPont Vocal Competition held in her honor on April 28 last year.
Opera, music and her piano were said to be her life. She sang and participated in many recitals and won the Atwater Kent Vocal Competition. She enjoyed singing for the residents at Veterans Administration hospitals.
Soprano Angela Meade
Meade returns to the Opera at Florham after winning first place in the 2006 competition. Less than five years after her professional debut, she has quickly become recognized as one of the outstanding vocalists of her generation.
She is the winner of the 2012 Beverly Sills Artist Award from the Metropolitan Opera, the 2011 Richard Tucker Award, and one of the winners of the 2007 Met Opera National Council Auditions.
In 2008- 2009 season, Meade performed the lead roles in Verdi's Ernani at the Met and in 2011-12 season, she starred in the title role of Donizetti's Anna Bolena. Next season, she will sing the title role in Bellini's Norma and Verdi's Il Trovatore.
Shrut is a collaborative pianist who combines tradition with transformation.
She is a senior coach at the Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts of The Juilliard School as well as a Vocal-Piano Recital faculty coach at the Manhattan School of Music.
Stephen De Maio, long-time competition judge and friend of DuPont, chairs this event.
Judges for the competition include: Gloria Gari of the Gari Foundation of New York City; Pamela Gilmore, director of opera at Rutgers University; Theresa Apoeli, former Met Opera singer; and Ken Benson, formerly of Columbia Artists.
Finalists were chosen by preliminary judges: Richard Kopp, director of OAF's Vocal Competition, and David Wroe, OAF's new artistic director and conductor of the Westfield Symphony and Musica Morristown.
Prizes will be awarded to the three winners: first prize of $5,000 donated by The Gerda Lissner Foundation, New York City by its president, DeMaio; second prize of $3,000 and third prize of $1,500 were donated by the Estate of Violetta DuPont and her children.
Former judge, Thurgood Smithgall, made a special donation of $1,000 for encouragement awards to be given out to the other finalists in honor of his long-time friend, the late DuPont.
The Opera at Florham's Vocal Competition was established in 1987 to honor Violetta Pollara DuPont, for her vision and her tireless work on behalf of OAF.
In sponsoring the Competition, OAF acts in concert with its mission: to provide young artists on the threshold of promising careers with the opportunities to gain role and stage experiences and to advance those careers through a variety of programs.
The tickets are $25 for the competition alone, and $60 for the luncheon and competition. Dessert will also be served at intermission.
Tickets can be ordered by calling (973) 443-8620 or online. Checks can be mailed to Opera at Florham, P. O. Box 343, Convent Station, NJ 07961.


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The New Workout Rules For 2012
The world became obsessed with beauty and great abs long before Jersey Shore. Everyone had their own fair share in dreaming of having their own "situation." But working out is hard work and a lot of people would start and would fail to follow through just because it is time-consuming and take too much of your energy. Exercise should give you more energy as this produces more Endorphins. These are hormones that are supposed to make you feel happy and produce more energy. And if exercise routine is done in the right way, your results can be achieved in much shorter time with better results. So here are some tips to make your workout interesting to get you your dream body in a more fun and easy:
Add Intensity to your training. Rather than stepping on the treadmill in front of the TV and watching sappy reruns, why not take a jog in the park, take a bike and ride uphill, or take up swimming. This burns more calories rather than doing stationary exercises. Plus, you can also incorporate other things to your work out by doing your errands along with these suggested exercises. Bag of groceries can replace dead weights. You do cardio and able to tone muscles at the same time.
Stop focusing on one muscle group. Focusing on one muscle group stunts the development of other muscles that support them. You wouldn't be caught with a well-formed upper torso and chicken legs would you? It is important that you create a full-body work out that strengthens every major muscle groups in your body. This creates a more balanced physique and improves posture. Focusing on one muscle groups is simply cramming. It only means that you were a little lax in developing a certain part of your body. So, stop cramming and make sure you work out every muscle in your body. Make sure you do stretching afterwards.
Think thoughtfully about your workouts. Define your goal. Set a timeframe. Your plan has to be feasible. Know what you plan to achieve and your means of getting there. Know what exercises fit your health conditions. There are a lot of exercises that you could do to achieve your goal. Increase tension and weights gradually. The magic word is gradually, to prevent injuries. Variation of push-ups, variations of abs exercises and even exercise equipment, are able to help you meet your desire results.
Never be too lax about your routine. This is plain cheating. Follow your plan. Taking it easy today and working extra hard on another day can lead to serious injuries. Taking it easy for one day is only similar to skipping a day at the gym. It is time wasted. You day at the gym should gradually prepare your body to lift more weights compared to the usual weights you lift. Gradually increase your repetitions. Gradually increase the weights. These little changes creates results. If it doesn't burn, it does not do anything.
Take good cardio exercises. Long line on the treadmill? Skip it. Do step ups. Skip ropes. Run with your dog. Do circuit workouts. Check the local gym schedules for dance workouts. Dancing is good cardio workout. These exercises are a little more entertaining that just plain walking on a treadmill. You be burning more calories before you know it.
Go back to the basics. Some of the basic routines are more efficient than new variations. New variations tend workout a lot of muscles at the same time and loses focus on the muscles would like to work out. When this does not rear results, take unnecessary cheats on routine and simply go back to basics. The right routine gets you the right result. Mind your form. Mind your breathing. Doing it the right way gives you the right outcome and prevents you from injuries.
Clean up your act. Live healthy. The right amount of sleep and the right intake of food gives you the energy your need in the gym. Stop smoking. This would improve your breathing when you work out. Get hydrated. This improves joint lubrication and replenishes fluids in your body you release when you work out. Manage your diet. Your diet is key to reaching your goal.
Stop doing the same thing over and over. It can be tiring to be doing the same thing over and over again. So find ways to spice it up. Gradually increase weights. Try the cable cross chest fly instead of the vertical chest press with dumbbells. It works the same muscle groups but certainly breaks the monotony in just looking at the ceiling. Creating changes in your routine bring a different intensity to your workout as your muscles can be used to the same old routine being done over and over again. Try other things. Alternate yoga or pilates instead of the usual stretching.
Get up and start doing something. Now that you have your goals, these would just be a fragment of our imagination if we don't get started. So start doing something. You need not adapt a famous exercise routine. You can check local schedules for running events, you can check workout clubs that meet in the park, or sign up for a dance class or combat routines. Honestly, you won't get that a hot body watching reruns of Jersey Shore. So, get inspired and get those endorphins pumping!
Dean Piazza is the resident personal trainer @ http://www.homegymequipment.com.au. Dean is the expert personal trainer on NineMsn, Australia's largest website portal and regularly appears in magazines with his training tips,weight loss comments and gym equipment reviews.
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Nice bright light.
The connection wire are too short.
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Running Defense: Navigating the Perils of a Dying Organization
The initial shock and disappointment by many over the actions of Truro Church with the Episcopal bishop of Virginia, Shannon Johnston, have settled down and from my standpoint, all the arguments have been stated and people have chosen what they believe and what they do not.
Some Anglicans simply don't think it's a problem for Truro to declare an Episcopal bishop who has approved of and promoted blessings of men or women who engage in sexual acts together a "brother in Christ" nor do they find an issue with promoting his "ministry" to the Church of England or to other provinces. But for those of us who do find that as well as several other statements and actions a grave problem, what principles or values guide our decisions on how we treat Episcopal bishops and clergy who believe and have actively promoted significant and very damaging heresy in the church? What principles and values guide how we respond to false teachers in the Anglican Communion?
I've assembled a short list of principles and values that dioceses, parishes, church leaders, and laypeople assume as they navigate the difficulties within the Anglican Communion and as they consider their lawsuits, settlements, ministries, common Eucharists, and other matters. These principles and values are helpful reminders - a sort of glossary - for those of us engaged in the culture wars in organizations both national and international. Again, obviously these principles and values do not apply to those who aren't troubled by the actions of Truro in regards to its relationship with the Episcopal bishop of Virginia, Shannon Johnston. But I think they will be helpful for the rest of the conservatives both inside and outside The Episcopal Church, and even for conservatives in other organizations, both ecclesial and secular.
1) We are engaged in something that is commonly called "the culture wars" - that is, the battles that a non-Christian society engages in as varying sides seek to promote differing foundational worldviews in politics, academia, professional and business organizations, the church, the arts, the media, and many other areas of common life. The culture wars are heightened by the fact that the old organizations and institutions that had promoted a common way of living are crumbling. That decomposition is also intensified by a practice of "furtive deconstruction" of language, ideas, and values; that is, some individuals who wish to use common language to promote their own, differing ideas and values and worldview are evacuating common language of meaning, filling it with their own personal and sometimes antithetical meanings, and then using those same words to mean something entirely different from what most have understood as the meanings of common language and ideas.
Deconstructionists assert that there is no absolute, overarching, and objective "truth" out there which stands in judgement over our own individual assertions of truth; rather, deconstructionists assert that the meaning of a word, a text or an institution resides in the reader or participant or "discourse community." We "make our own meanings" is a common statement; those meanings don't actually exist or come from the mind of the maker - the writer, the composer, or the creator. We fill the constructs of others with "meanings" ourselves.
So words like "justice," "love," "holiness," "marriage," and many many other words are slated for revision, but often with no advance warning that the meanings of those words are being changed. Further, those same people are performing the same acts of deconstruction on cultural institutions, including in particular historic organizations that have achieved some degree of credibility and influence in society. In that way, institutions and organizations that have been "deconstructed" become the megaphones for the messages of the culture wars.
The philosophical act of deconstruction is a sly, rhetorically violent, and destructive act.
2) One of the leading edges of the culture wars - a place that has been most heavily infiltrated by revisionist activists - is a once-influential mainline church called The Episcopal Church. Most bishops, many clergy, and some laity are deconstructionists who are attempting to reform that church into an organization that promotes their own particular, personal worldview, one that is antithetical to the Gospel.
In order to deconstruct The Episcopal Church and fill that body with their own particular and uniquely personal worldviews, they are destroying it utterly. Its decline has been precipitous in every way, from membership to attendance, from baptisms to marriages, from pledging to parishes, from dioceses to seminaries, it is dying. And it is dying at a significantly more rapid rate than other mainlines.
It is not dying in a slow and gentle way, but rather with dramatic and violent lashings and thrashings. This death is being conducted publicly in the secular media, on blogs, in pulpits throughout the land, at conventions, in committees, on vestries, on commissions, at Executive Council, at clericus meetings, and in so many many other venues. Lay leaders, rectors, bishops, professors, people in the pews, chairs of committees—all are confronting, whether they wish to acknowledge it or not, the consequences of the death of an institution. Many people are hurting over this death. Parishes are closing, seminaries are selling off assets, parishioners are determining where their ashes and legacies will be stored, Sunday Schools and youth groups are vanishing, and the elderly and dying are grieving.
3) The question of whether these bishops, clergy, and laity who are engaged in deconstructing The Episcopal Church and filling it with their own personal worldviews are "Christians" is a red herring. None of us can see a heart, or know a person's eternal destination. All we can know is what these people say and promote in direct and public contradiction to the Gospel. When they publicly articulate and promote beliefs and acts that are antithetical to the Gospel, we can then recognize that they do not believe or promote the Gospel.
We cannot know if they are or will be regenerate and experience God's salvation. But fortunately for us, we do not need to make such judgements in order to enact the church discipline that Scripture clearly commands regarding false teachers and false shepherds - those who enter the sheepfolds as wolves, rather than shepherds. Indeed, Scripture does not comment on whether these false teachers may someday repent and experience God's salvation. Nor does it tell us if false teachers may even be regenerate, but fallen away or not yet discipled enough to teach and promote the Gospel. Often new or untutored or undiscipled Christians who happen to become leaders through the fault of the organization may believe or teach a false and heretical belief simply because they are too immature, weak, and ignorant to know better. But speculating about the state of a false teacher's soul - about whether he is or is not a "brother in Christ" - is unnecessary and irrelevant to one's actions regarding church discipline. All that Scripture tells us is how to respond when a person becomes a leader in the Church and begins to publicly proclaim false teaching in that Church.
4) Those who promote blessing sexual acts between men or women, along with other acts of "inclusion" that seek to bless and promote and encourage unrepentant sinful acts, have had to heavily deconstruct and repudiate Scripture, tradition, and reason. In none of those three categories is there a strong case to be made for blessing, promoting, and encouraging sinful acts which Scripture clearly opposes, and in order to flagrantly violate those three pillars of Anglican theology, they have had to become "People of the Lie" in a significant way, unable to exercise godly leadership or authority over Christian believers, though certainly they may attempt to do so and may hold an office giving them that power.
5) In order to bless, promote, and encourage sex acts between men or women - in order to call those acts holy and blessed - bishops and other leaders have had to do great violence to the sacraments in general, to marriage, to Christian anthropology, to Holy Scripture, to authority in the Church, and to the Gospel. In no sense is a promoter of sex acts between men or between women "orthodox" in his views of Scripture, the nature of man, the Fall, sin, repentance, redemption, transformation, the Church, sacraments, or the Gospel; he or she has had to violate and twist all of those things in order to cling to his false teaching and promotion of sex acts between men or women.
All of this has been written and spoken about in article after article, speech after speech, sermon after sermon - literally hundreds of them from Anglicans alone - and no where better than in Kendall Harmon's extensive and significant iceberg talk, whose introduction begins here. There is no such thing as a leader in a Christian church solely or merely promoting same sex unions. In every case, such heretics feature, believe, promote, and proclaim far more significant and foundational heresies.
6) Such heresies are devastating to not only a church's witness and proclamation of the Gospel, but deeply damaging to the souls and bodies of many thousands of people who are seeking God's guidance on the use of their bodies and approach to sexual relationships. Bishop Shannon Johnston's false proclamation that there can be sex acts between two men or two women that are holy and blessed is like giving antifreeze to a thirsty runner and pronouncing it an excellent and sustaining "fruit juice." It is a horrific, false act that will deeply damage others who are hungry and thirsty and seeking. It is spiritual malpractice of a high degree.
7) Through Holy Scripture - a Holy Scripture that Bishop Johnston has had to deconstruct of meaning and fill with his own preferred "truths" - God speaks about the devastating damage a false teacher can do within a church, and the urgent need of a church to repudiate such false teachers, to call them to repentance, and then, when necessary, to deprive them of their authority to teach and preach and perform the sacraments. They are to be treated, ultimately, as tax collectors and pagans - even if technically they are no such thing at all. If teachers and other leaders are not publicly repudiated and deprived of office, the Church's witness is terribly deformed and ultimately destroyed as sinners in need of salvation learn that the Church teaches only what is convenient to it and the surrounding culture.
8) When a Church is unable or unwilling to repudiate numerous false teachers, that Church becomes weakened and unable to throw off the infection of heresy. Ultimately, without intervention, the organizational body that enfleshes the Church will decline and die. Within that failed organizational body - whether it is the organization called the Anglican Communion, or the more local organization called The Episcopal Church - there must be leaders and laypeople who are willing to publicly repudiate such false teachers, carefully boundary off the communion fellowship as best they can, and guard such flocks as they are able from such false teachers, whose function now is only to introduce further poison into the weakened body of Christ. Because such leaders and laypeople cannot - sadly - work through the larger body to repudiate and publicly cast out such false teachers, they must form smaller boundaried organizations and subsets of the whole in which they work to publicly repudiate and differentiate themselves from the false teaching that is now permeating the Church organization.
Clergy guard their parish flocks from the teaching of the heretic bishop, bishops guard their diocesan flocks from the teachings of the heretic bishop, and laypeople, as best they are able, refuse to share public communion with publicly known, scandalous false teachers. All three groups recognize that no organization or even individual can be left "untainted;" no one can be completely pure nor should we try to be. But where it is clear that a person is teaching and promoting and blessing scandalous sin in clear violation of Holy Scripture, tradition, and reason, it is their duty to differentiate themselves strongly from such people and such teaching, guard any flock they can - whether parish, diocese, or family - and treat such people as tax collectors and pagans. It should be very clear to the surrounding culture and communities that such teachers are not accepted as "one of" the subsets within the sick and eventually dying organization. They are "tax collectors and pagans" - not "brothers in Christ" even though they may continue to reside in the organization and purport to exercise authority in that organization, even though they may or may not be regenerate. By their actions they demonstrate publicly that they do not believe or promote the Gospel.
9) One of the primary goals of the clergy, bishops, and laity who are promoting the false teaching of the goodness and blessing of sex acts between men or between women is to use organizations - their credibility, authority, influence, and prestige - to spread their teachings and their foundational worldviews about sin, the Gospel, Holy Scripture, marriage, repentance, transformation, the nature of man, the Fall, and the Church - to the rest of the culture. The organizations that these people infiltrate and take over serve as "trojan horses" to the rest of the culture. From such organizations, these men and women attempt to speak with some authority and credibility - albeit a falsely appropriated and artificially transferred authority and credibility - to the surrounding culture, pushing their beliefs through their chosen vehicles of the organizations they have subsumed and transformed from within. The surrounding culture sees the facade of a formerly credible and reputable and godly organization, but from within, it is a rotting, hollowed out facade.
10) Within The Episcopal Church, heretical bishops and clergy have taken a significant hit - in influence, in publicity within secular media, in numbers of followers, in the strength and health of their dioceses and parishes, in money, and in public credibility. All around the country and around the world, they have succeeded by their actions and words in becoming a "stench to the nostrils" of other believers, both Anglican and otherwise. Some of those bishops and clergy who are false teachers do not care about such losses; it is not important to them that the church is declining and may die, so long as they can use the organization, for the time being, to promote their foundational worldviews. They will - to those within the Church who are resisting their foundational worldview - call it "the cost of discipleship," talk about quality over quantity, and assert that "growth" occurs in different and better ways than that of growth in "numbers."
11) Other false teachers within The Episcopal Church are deeply troubled by the losses of influence, numbers of followers, strength and health of their dioceses and parishes, of credibility, of money, and most particularly an increase in bad publicity in the secular media. I place Shannon Johnston in this category. They are desperate for a restoration of those things - in particular their credibility and their influence - and a lessening of negative publicity. They would rather go slower in their quest to promote their vision of Scripture, the nature of man, the Fall, sin, repentance, redemption, transformation, the Church, sacraments, and the Gospel, as long as they can maintain some semblance of credibility, authority, and influence. Such false teachers are eager to promote the notion that there is "reconciliation" with those whom they have personally sued and deposed, and from whom they have taken their property. They need - they desperately need - to be seen as merely "brothers in Christ" who may be wrong on some comparatively minor issues, but in overall Gospel and mission are in unity with those whom they have bullied and abused.
"Reconciliation" is also a red herring. It is repentance that is called for; reconciliation occurs through and in Christ and when one is dealing with false teachers in the Church who are carefully and calculatingly deconstructing that church it is not "reconciliation" that is called for at all nor can any human being offer such a thing. Reconciliation is not anyone's for the taking or the offering in such matters. Reconciliation is the fruit—the happy consequences—of repentance, fellowship, unity, and in-Christness. Such words in no way describe the nature of the relationship between defenders of the Gospel and the false teachers they have repudiated until the false teachers are no longer false teachers.
The very best thing to happen for those false teachers to continue to prop up their own lost reputations and credibility is for those Christian leaders whose task is to defend the Gospel, to properly boundary and articulate the identity of the Church and its doctrine, to protect a flock, and to strongly differentiate themselves from false teachers to the surrounding culture and the surrounding Church, is for those Christian leaders to declare false teachers like Bishop Johnston "brothers in Christ" and to promote their "ministry" to the wider Church, rather than publicly repudiate their "ministry" to the wider Church.
12) When a parish, diocese, leader, or layperson loses a significant battle - whether it is a lawsuit, a church trial, a committee decision, an election, or some other public issue - it is important that that parish, diocese, leader, or layperson "lose well." Losing well often involves a) public, clear, stark differentiation - whether in the form of a minority report or other official declaration (recall that Kendall Harmon issued a minority report of one at a General Convention - one of his finest and most courageous moments) so that the world and the Church may see the differences between the ideas of the heretical false teacher, and the ideas of those who are proclaiming the Gospel, b) damage to the ideas that the false teachers are attempting to propagate through their office, and c) continuing depletion of the false teachers' credibility, witness, cause, authority, and influence to the broader community and remainder of the Church.
As long as you have made the distinctions clear between the competing ideas - the Gospel as opposed to the peculiar, personal, provincial foundational worldview of the false teacher - it is a very good thing for the false teacher to receive deep damage to his or her credibility, authority, influence, and power through the secular media and through any other legal tools at one's disposal. It is not a time to embrace the false teacher or to help the false teacher save face or look like something other than he is - the purveyor of deeply damaging and false ideas to which he has come through embracing lies and by attempting to deconstruct the Scripture and the Church and the Lord to which he has sworn allegiance.
Clearly, such a principle also means that one does not allow the false teacher to attempt to offer a "witness" to the watching world and the watching church, and in so far as "displacement" means preventing and hindering the false teacher's mission of deconstruction and propagation of further heresy and further damaging his credibility and influence, than certainly trying to "displace" Bishop Johnston is precisely what a disciple of Christ attempts to do, where it is in his power.
The above dozen principles are fairly basic and simple - common sense for Christians, whether in the 21st or 2nd centuries. People may speculate about the details of what actions or choices to take when confronted with particular situations, but the above overarching principles can guide us in our decisions. My hope and belief is that the majority of Anglicans who believe the Gospel are working within these principles as they deal with false teachers in the Anglican Communion, although it is clear that some are not.
But admittedly, they are not easy to enact, particularly when we're in a church that is deeply corrupted and heretical. Navigating the perils of a dying organization can be confusing and it is always deeply painful and saddening.
All of that - the pain and the confusion and the sadness, coupled with the weight of corruption and heresy - can make Christians want to throw up their hands and retire to their monasteries and libraries and refuse to engage within their various organizations and institutions.
All I can testify to is that if you can stay with Christ, and fight the battle that He's given you in the organization in which you reside with honor and courage (that which He gives you), suffering both defeat and victory with joy and in peace, you will grow. You can't help but do so.
Years ago, back in 2004 - (and who knew we'd all still be blogging eight years later) - I made a cautious but growing commitment, to learn what I needed to learn while going through what was clear would be the complete destruction of a church that I hold very dear and love very much. The very worst thing in suffering is in realizing later on that you must go through it all over again, since you didn't "get" the lessons and the growth that you had needed the first time. I can hardly think of a greater tragedy than to experience deep suffering, to come out of it on the other end, and to have the same character and the same level of wisdom, discernment, and fruit of the Spirit that one had at the beginning of it all.
If we are to suffer in losing our church, and in perhaps losing the Anglican Communion, let God prepare us for something more - even some greater battle - by our learning what we need to learn and growing more mature, wise, and strong. To put it in more physical terms, if we are to be punched in the stomach over and over again, let's learn to set our stomach muscles like the Kung Fu masters of old, who certainly seemed to be capable of undergoing spectacular suffering in the midst of their training and discipline.
The point of losing is to learn to lose better, and to learn to someday win, and then to learn to win better. The point of suffering is to become better people in the suffering, not to remain the same ignorant, gutless, dishonorable people we once were, while recognizing humbly that we will never be whole, complete, or perfect until we are face to face with Him.
In all of this, God is blessing me, and He is blessing you. He is blessing me with many joys - with love and fantastic work and running and the outdoors and significant volunteer work and wonderful groups of people covering so many walks of life, and family and friends. And He is blessing me with the loss of my Church and in that loss, giving many wise lessons that I can apply to many other events, activities, relationships, work… and battles farther down the road.
The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
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If an HDTV--for yourself or for some lucky gift recipient--is on your holiday shopping list, you're in luck: Experts say vendors and retailers eager to keep sales momentum going in a down economy are offering some very attractive discounts on prices that had already dropped steeply in the past year. (But as always with such big-ticket items, you still need to shop carefully.)
Paul Semenza of DisplaySearch, which tracks pricing and sales for all sorts of displays, says HDTV prices in the third quarter of 2009 were generally a whopping 20 to 30 percent lower than they were for comparable sets a year earlier.
"Prices have come down an incredible amount," Semenza said, adding that Black Friday shoppers will see even bigger cuts for some models. "There's always that doorbuster thing."
ISuppli TV analyst Riddhi Patel concurs, noting that HDTVs have continued to sell briskly even in the current recession, and vendors don't want to see the boom market slow down. What's more, she adds, aggressive prices won't be confined to no-name or low-end models: "You will see deals on premium brands and full-featured sets."
Also worth looking for, especially if you prefer to stick to name brands, are bundles, Patel said. For example, earlier this year some Sony sets sold with PlayStation 3 game consoles, and Samsung has had HDTV/Blu-ray player bundles. Right now, Sonystyle.com has deals on some HDTV models bundled with either a PlayStation 3 or a Blu-ray player.
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Of course, the lowest prices will be for off-brand sets that don't have all the current bells and whistles--720p screen resolution rather than 1080p, and, for LCD-TVs, CCFL backlighting instead of LED and 60Hz refresh rates instead of 120Hz or 240Hz.
For these sets, Patel says to look for prices ranging from $250 for a 32-inch LCD set to $540 for a 50-inch plasma TV.
Semenza, meanwhile, notes that the spread of Black Friday prices between low and high-end sets can be enormous, especially for larger screen sizes. For example, he saw a Samsung 55-inch LED backlit 1080p set at Sears for $2469 (a good price for those specs)--and a 55-inch Vizio set with CCFL backlighting for $1249 at Costco (with a coupon).
Price spreads decline at smaller sizes--and Semenza has noticed that the trend to buying ever-larger flat screens has slowed down. "Most of the action will be at 32, 40, and 42 inches," Semenza said. "It's harder to get people into those big screen sizes. They're still relatively expensive." (Check out our lists of the best HDTV sets at 40 to 42 inches, and sets at 46-47 inches.)
While some observers suggest that Black Friday itself may not be the best day to shop for HDTVs, Patel believes prices will generally be good that day. But, she says, those who wait may still find deals--especially on larger displays; retailers tend to promote these big sets in the post-holiday weeks leading up to the Super Bowl, which is considered the end of the large-HDTV shopping season.
Semenza said retailers in general have been striving to make Black Friday a season rather than a single day, so those who don't shop right away may still find good sales. "We've seen a spreading out of this whole promotional cycle. I wouldn't be surprised if some of these [prices] persist."
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La Paz, Bolivia
Trip Start
Feb 13, 2007
Trip End
Arrived in La Paz and after going round lots of hostels we ended back at the first one, a place called Adventure Brew. So called because the owner brews in house beer which you get free, but is totally undrinkable! Spent evening in the bar, and although was determined for an early night, ended up going out to a place called Mungos. Great night but suffered in the morning.
Got up the next day feeling rubbish and had the free pancakes before having to move to a different part of the hostel down the road. I went straight back to bed. When I got up I sat and watched a film caled butterfly effecty, was really good. I then went to meet Gemma and we booked to do a tour in the jungle on Sunday. That evening we went to a really cool bar called Sol y Luna and met up with Jo and Fraser, from home! They are out here on a 2 week holiday meeting Jo,s sister who is travelling after working in Columbia. Was so good to see them and had a really fun night.
Next day moved to a really cool hostel called Loki. Spent the day wondering around the markets before having an early night as had a very early start the next morning.
The reason for this was to do the bike ride down the worlds most dangerous road! EEk! And yes parents I thought I would wait until afterwards to tell you! Jo and raser told me there had been a big newspaper article about 2 weeks before because of the Israeli guy. But if you know the full story as to why he died you know he was being a complete idiot!
Met up with my group at 7.30 am and we got the bus up to the start. The first 20km is all tarmaced, not the actual road, part of the new road. But still very fast and winding. Scenery was amazing but you couldnt really look because you had to watch the road. Then there is a big 5km uphill section. Which might not sound that much but when you are 4500 meters up it is impossible! I made it half way before getting in the support bus.
Afer that, you get to the top of the actual road. All I can say is that it 100% deserves its name! Absolutely terrifying! 3 people fell off on our group, I had 2 very near misses. Its so scary but totally worth doing! The day ended in a monkey sanctuary! Was great, one of them stole the really annoying guy from Bristols cigarettes! Ha!
So I did the Worlds Most Dangerous Road and survuved! But was totally exhausted. When I got back I went to Sol y Luna because Gemma was there with Neimh, from Rio etc.
We then went back and had drinks at the hostel.
On Saturday we went to a bar called Olivers Travels and had a full on fry-up! Was great. And then spent the afternoon watching all the football. The early evening was spent playing cards with the reish guys, who 2 nights before had been robbed and knifed by 3 guys who jumped in their taxi and took them to the middle of nowhere! Have to say here is the first place I have actually felt a bit unsafe, alot of similar stories from people.
We then had a massive mexican feast at the hostel before heading out to a place called RamJam. Was alright, but the name says it all!
Sunday morning got up, and got ready to leave to go the Rurrenebaque to do the jungle, but were told all the flights were cancelled, for the 3r day in a row! So instead we just had a very lazy sunday chilling out.
Its now Monday morning and are waiting to see if we will make it there today!