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You may wonder what the following article as to do with Christians and Workplace ministry. Well, in a nutshell, (A) your thinking about what a real Christian IS will be provoked and (B) it may not be about your workplace directly, but it certainly IS about Our Father�s Business.
I�ve been reading and hearing from some Christian people regarding the last 100 days worth of the so-called Lakeland Outpouring� in Lakeland, Florida, and the tattooed and pierced minister who�s leading the charge there, Todd Bentley.
Things are getting ugly! Have you heard?
The issue over Bentley�s beliefs, whether the healings reported there are genuine, the offerings and the reports of resurrections, his interviews on Geraldo and CNN, have clearly caused many to choose sides, creating a Christian Civil War of late.
Recently, some comments were shared with me including statements that �very few were being healed at Lakeland.� It caused me to wonder how many Christians were aware of the following facts:
A 1990 Gallop poll found that 74% of Americans claimed to have made �a commitment to Christ,� yet George Barna�s Research revealed that 84% of born-again Christians deny that there is a Devil, a hell, or a Christian doctrine.
Read that again. Translation: Most born-again Christians are in very sad shape. That explains a great deal.
Apparently, many respected evangelists and pastors estimate that over 50% of our church members may not really be saved! (Mt. 7:21-28).
Dwight Moody lamented, �There is only about one in ten, who profess Christianity, who will turn around and glorify God with a loud voice. Nine out of ten are �still-born� Christians.�
Charles Finney repented of his Sinner�s Prayer and Altar Call that he had claimed would win souls from coast to coast because his converts exhibited so little fruit after their initial emotional moment with God.
Imagine that!
Dr. R.L. Hymers in his booklet, �The Falling Away,� provides the following estimates from renowned evangelists and ministers: Dr. W. A. Criswell said that he would be surprised to see 25% of his members in heaven! Billy Graham once estimated the percentage of lost people in evangelical churches to be 85% while Dr. A.W. Tozer put it at 90%! Dr. Rod Bell and Dr. Monroe Parker estimated 50%, while Dr. B.R. Lakin and Dr. Bob Gray believed that number to be 75%.
In December 1958, the Oakland Tribune reported that out of the 26,000 people who came forward at a Graham crusade, only 13 people actually joined a church. That�s less than 1%! Maybe those numbers got better as the years went on?
Andrew Wommack, who served in Katherine Kuhlman�s ministry, states on his website: �Billy Graham was quoted as saying that only fifteen percent of all the people who professed to be Christian are truly born again. Here is something else that may surprise you: Katherine Kuhlman said that only fifteen percent of those who were healed at her services kept their healing when they left the service. These numbers should tell us something about how we measure success in ministry.�
I minister healing all the time and, frankly, more people stay sick than are healed. However, for those who ARE healed, it�s a glorious moment. Healing is hard only when I start believing I might have anything to do with it. My job is to pray and obey, not to heal. So, I lay hands and see what happens. It�s very interesting how, as I minister by phone to 3rd world countries, many healings are reported afterward. By phone! Is America a giant Nazareth with so few miracles taking place here that, when some actually DO occur, we cannot help but argue about their validity rather than seek God for more miracles in our OWN ministries? Does attacking Bentley divert attention from our OWN ministerial impotency?
Let�s bear in mind that Jesus Himself was limited in His own hometown, had to pray twice for a blind man, had to clear the room with Jairus�s daughter for the lack of faith there but healed the woman with the issue of blood in a crowd. The lepers were not healed on the spot but �as they went,� we are told.
In regard to the reported resurrections and Todd�s apparent lack of proof, truth is, let�s remember that resurrections happen every day all over the world. Whether it�s by CPR, an ambulance driver�s defibrillator (CLEAR!), or those whose hearts stop beating but start beating again in a few moments - how long must a person be dead to be considered dead any way?
Resurrections won�t always make the evening news. My goodness, God is doing all kinds of miraculous things on the battlefields of Iraq but all that makes the news are body counts. I�ve even experienced two resurrections in my own ministry and neither made the news. I�ve also had people get out of their wheel chairs and, well�no big deal. My friend, Jim Rutz, wrote a wonderful, faith-building book called �MegaShift� which documents incredible miracles and even resurrections, complete with contact people, just in case anybody wants to ask. It was glaringly obvious as we read the book that most all of these miracles were taking place in third world nations. Bummer. What about us in the U.S.? At dinner one night in Dallas, Jim told my wife and I that he was now getting so many reports of miracles taking place in the U.S. that he had enough material for another book (no, he wasn�t committing to one, but who knows?).
Please hear my heart on this: I�m NOT the world�s biggest Todd Bentley fan. He IS our brother, however, and Jesus IS being preached in Lakeland, at least every time I�ve watched on my computer. I would like to scold him into stopping some of quirks and things that strike me as plain weird. But I would have said the same to Isaiah for walking around naked for 3 years, Ezekiel for laying down on his left side for 390 days and then on his right for 40 more, and to Jesus for coming as a babe in a manger and for not kicking some booty before letting them catch Him and crucify Him.
In other words, God�s ways are apparently not ours. I just read how, in the 1880�s, Billy Sunday would thump his chest, tear off his coat, collar and tie, leap up on chairs, and fling himself on the floor in imitation of a ball player sliding into home plate! Millions flocked to see him. What Billy could have done with GodTV and the InterNet!
You get the picture.
While listening to the Holy Spirit�s instructions, I�ve done some pretty strange things myelf. I�ve had people lay down on the floor while we ministered healing to them. I�ve been led to stick my fingers in people ears twice, hugged a man until he bawled, sang over a sick baby till she stopped crying, given all my money away (all that I had, about $400), gave two cars away�I even cleared a pathway in the woods, knocking down five trees, to build an aisle for weddings. Though I appeared quite nutty for doing so, I KNEW God told me we would be doing weddings in the woods. Two years past by. We just did our first wedding there last weekend! Beautiful!
We need to start thinking outside the box�outside the Ark of the Old Covenant and the prescribed ways of ministry. God�s already �out there� actively doing things, some of which doesn�t happen to line up with our own puny belief system. Be advised: Among all those who side for or against Bentley lie dozens of other beliefs that would amount to many more factions.
I was in attendance when Todd came to Denton. We traveled 3 hours and met many friends there. If anyone attends these meetings out of curiosity, that�s their problem. If anyone attended as one following after signs and wonders, bad Christian, bad (signs and wonders should be following YOU).
Those who went because they were very sick, in many cases, were obviously desperate for a healing manifestation. Not from Todd, I hope, but from God. I was seated in the nosebleed section, basically looking down on the stage into Todd�s right ear hole. Early after he took the stage, I was startled by a bright fireball bouncing down the center aisle and disappearing as it bounced upon the platform! My sister, seated next to me, noticed that I reacted strangely. I thought it was an act of terrorism! Oddly, nobody else moved. Apparently, nobody saw what I saw. I made two quick cell phone calls to friends I had spotted around the auditorium. They looked at me in amazement and shook their heads. They had seen nothing.
Afterward, at an IHOP restaurant, I was sharing what I had seen with a group in the parking lot. One man, a good friend, overheard me and said, �I saw that, too! It looked as bright as a laser, right?� Yes, it was that intensity of red!
Don�t ask me what that was all about except that Todd had just been talking about fiery coals. Very strange. Very wonderful!
As I have stated many times regarding Todd�s ministry that so many Christians are struggling with, like Gamaliel said, �Men of Israel, take care what you are planning to do to these men! Some time ago there was that fellow Theudas, who pretended to be someone great. About 400 others joined him, but he was killed, and all his followers went their various ways. The whole movement came to nothing. After him, at the time of the census, there was Judas of Galilee. He got people to follow him, but he was killed, too, and all his followers were scattered.
�So my advice is, leave these men alone. Let them go. If they are planning and doing these things merely on their own, it will soon be overthrown. But if it is from God, you will not be able to overthrow them. You may even find yourselves fighting against God!�
I know several Christians whose lives have been dramatically impacted as a result of Lakeland � and all some of them had opportunity to do was to watch God TV. One man in his 70�s said, �The past 100 days have been the best in all my life!�
I went to Todd�s Denton meeting because it was billed as an �Impartation Meeting.� In Romans 1, Paul tells the Roman church how famous they are for their faith. Then, he turns around and tells them that he cannot wait to see them so that he might IMPART SOME SPIRITUAL GIFT.
Since attending that meeting, yes, I can honestly say that something wonderfully different was imparted, even despite Todd�s finest efforts to distract. Humans do have a tendency to get in God�s way at times. So, let�s put away the Flesh-O-Meters, boys and girls, lest someone turn the guns on US in order determine if, the next time we preach, sing, minister, tithe or write an article, we are doing so by the flesh rather than by the Spirit.
Would I recommend you go to Lakeland? I would ONLY if that�s what God is already saying to you. In that case, go out of desperation.
Go expecting.
In closing, my friend Robert Fitts wrote me yesterday and reminded me of a verse that can easily be applied to this Bentley situation. He wrote: �Concerning Todd Bentley, this certainly shows that the Pharisee spirit is still very much alive within the Body of Christ! If all had he same attitude Paul had when there was imperfect presentation of the gospel in his day, we would all be better off. He said, "It's true that some here preach Christ because with me out of the way, they think they'll step right into the spotlight. But the others do it with the best heart in the world. One group is motivated by pure love, knowing that I am here defending the Message, wanting to help. The others, now that I'm out of the picture, are merely greedy, hoping to get something out of it for themselves. Their motives are bad. They see me as their competition, and so the worse it goes for me, the better�they think�for them. So how am I to respond? I've decided that I really don't care about their motives, whether mixed, bad, or indifferent. Every time one of them opens his mouth, Christ is proclaimed, so I just cheer them on! And I'm going to keep that celebration going because I know how it's going to turn out. Through your faithful prayers and the generous response of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, everything he wants to do in and through me will be done." (Phil. 1, The Message)
Every blessing,
Michael Tummillo
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diane's Event Journal
Saturday April 9, 2011 / Various Times
Wine & Chocolate Pairing
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Noon - Table Seating
How was your experience?
Could it get any better? Wine AND Chocolate?? The shop owner is one of the most personable individuals I have ever met. She truly made me feel like I was a special friend. Not only was the wine delicious and the chocolate to die for but the information shared was top notched. Our server was so knowledgeable but also knew how to explain things in terms even I understood.

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…you knew I couldn't resist this one:
With the Skaven waiting in the wings, Warhammer Online's 1.4.0 patch delivers a few tantalizing goodies right here and now. The focus of the patch is two new "RvR packs" that can be picked up in the EA Store. For players looking for a leg up in their RvR advancement, the progression pack offers faster Renown Rank climbing as well as an increased cap of level 100. On the flip side, players looking for fun, fluff and fast travel can opt for the personality pack, which includes new dyes, quick mounts, barbershop tokens and vanity pets. Of course, you could always drop $10 for a free level instead.
$10 dollars for a level.
So…the value of a level has been determined to be 66% of the total cost a user pays on a game per month. Whatever. I say "whatever" because, like I said before, I no longer have an interest in the outcome. I'm extremely curious of how this is going to end. They could have charged $60 or $2 and I would have had the same reaction to it. Clearly the path is set for WAR to go F2P in the very near future…so keep an eye out for that as well.
These guys are the first to actually sell levels, as far as I know anyway. This is essentially selling player progression and all that includes…which, IMHO, touches the third rail of micro-transactions: giving those with $$ a play advantage over those that don't have $$. My thought right now is that selling levels is the wrong direction to go. Why not just cut the middle man and sell max level characters? Why not just cut leveling altogether and stop pretending that is an essential part of an MMORPG?
I've stopped really caring about WAR for a while now, however; every step that is taken with the F2P model is watched by others in the industry. My issue is that soon, these games will be shells of their former selves. All the exploration and mystery taken out at the swipe of a credit card.
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Ciao, greetings to everybody from Italy.
Im . eleven times five and prog is at home with me since I was 14. Then I was the much esteemed keyboard player in a prog band playing on home furnitures. My Hammond was the dish rack and as moog I used anything suitable I could find in the kitchen. The boss in the band was the drummer, for reasons you can easily guess. This being the situation, we were able to play anything, from Hoedown (a very hard test for the furnitures) to Ricochet part two go figure. But seriously, Im not joking at all. Then, prog seemingly left this world and I was forced to look for something else cause Ill never abandon music (and angling). New Age was a poor surrogate, jazz not for every moment, and at the end, I was in search of a music genre good enough to stress dish racks. Hard rock was Ok (and still is) but the variety of musical expressions was too limited for me. To make long stories short, I discovered PA five years ago, and after many many readings, decided to jump in. My competences in music are rather small, never played an instrument (apart from dish racks), but with all the prog music Ive listened to in forty years, maybe Ill have something to say. And specially I like the atmosphere here, so strong are the feelings prog music can raise My most preferred subgenres and bands: symphonic, jazzy, krautrock Yes (I Get Up, I Get Down unreachable beauty), Out of Focus, Kraan, If, Agitation Free, Burnin Red Ivanhoe, Egg, Hatfield & The North and many, many others. But all this stuff is rigorously oldie: 60/70, prog was not anymore prog after 77 or 78, with very few exceptions, imho. Hope to stay here with you as long as possible. |
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Benvenuto, then.
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — The federal government says it will not pay the city of Cedar Rapids $6.5 million for debris removal at a flood-damaged former meatpacking plant complex near the Cedar River.
The Sinclair complex has been owned by the city since 2007. It was flooded in 2008, deemed unsafe and demolished.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has denied reimbursement claiming the city could have accepted a lower bid for disposal of demolition debris and may have stacked the bidding process in favor of a local landfill.
Joe O'Hern, the city's administrator for development services, says city officials did nothing wrong during bidding in 2010.
FEMA has paid the city about $5 million for the project which has cost about $18 million.
The city continues to dispute FEMA denial of another $3.5 million.


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Participants in 2007
- Diane Lichtenstein wants students in English 196, the survey of American literature, to find a visual "text" from the mid-nineteenth century. Early American Imprints, ARTstor, and the American Memory web site are possible sources. Diane plans to give a short written assignment for which students research the illustration's context and what it reveals about a course reading.
- Debra Majeed will give her First-Year Initiatives students at least two assignments that require writing with sources and formating a bibliography. In one assignment, students will compare and contrast metropolitan Chicago, site of the 1893 World's Fair in Devil in the White City, with metropolitan New Orleans, victim of Hurricane Katrina in Come Hell or High Water. The teaching objectives include becoming familiar with bibliographies as a source, with locating and using texts, and with endnotes and footnotes. Some sources on writing a comparison and contrast paper are High School vs College Writing: What's the Difference?, The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing, and Guidelines for Comparison/Contrast Essays.
- Kathleen Mandell developed new materials for her First-Year Initiatives class on DNA this fall. She outlined a series of assignments in which students find information about the human genome. She also prepared questions which guide students through exploring careers and fields they are interested in, researching the demographics of professional organizations, and reflecting on voices that may not be heard in the organizations.
- Beatrice McKenzie developed an Information Sources Worksheet for the History Workshop. Goals of the assignment are to review components of an introduction and to enhance students' information literacy skills by identifying sources available for a history topic.
- Britt Scharringhausen examined how information literacy would play a role in the "Astronomy in the News" format that she uses for Physics 130 (Introduction to Astronomy.) She wants students to learn how to assess the reliability of scientific information in the popular media. She sees two main categories that would be especially relevant to the class: informative (or "gee-whiz") science writing, and also the intersection of science and public policy (global warming, Young Earth Creationism and Intelligent Design, asteroid impact hazards, etc.) See Britt's presentation for more details.
- Kathleen Schowalter built upon a previous assignment for Art 120-Art, History, & Culture to 1400 in which groups of students researched theories of why representations of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten changed during his reign. Then the class had a debate about the theories. She developed more assignments which involve analyzing visual images, performing short research tasks, some in groups, some individually, and working with "non-traditional" research materials - newspaper articles, the History Channel, and non-lecture or traditional discussion formats of learning. Her goals are to get students involved, to connect visual culture more directly from in and outside the classroom, and to have students practice skills as well as 'learn' them. Examples of assignments are looking at art in the news such as new findings at Stonehenge, and creating brochures or posters about an object for an audience equivalent to museum visitors.
- Pablo Toral created a "model European Union" exercise. Each student will represent an EU country and must research the country's policy goals and the interests of different groups, and analyze the constraints and resources. Their final product will be a written policy paper. They will use official EU and government web sites and other very current databases.


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Regence wants to raise health insurance rates -- again
Published 10:00 pm, Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Regence BlueShield has requested another rate hike for individual health plans to take effect just three months after it raised rates by double digits.
In documents filed with the state last week, the insurer requested an average premium increase of 3.7 percent for individual plans starting Jan. 1. That comes on the heels of 16.4 percent rate hike on Oct. 1.
Regence blamed its latest request, which has not yet been approved by the state, on health care reform. Specifically, it cited mandates to add preventive care benefits, remove lifetime benefit limits, and cover kids with pre-existing conditions.
The state has 60 days to review the rate request.
"While premium increases are due primarily to rising medical and prescription costs, we must also factor in provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," Regence president Jonathan Hensley wrote in his rate request to state Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler.
"As a nonprofit health insurer, Regence has consistently maintained small overall margins, only nearly breaking even on this market segment. We have no option but to factor cost impacts into our premiums."
Although the request is a small bump compared with Regence's annual double-digit hikes in the last four years, many consumers are bracing for bigger increases, as Regence adopts a new line of individual plans called "Evolve."
Ralph Nilssen, a 34-year-old sales director from Maple Valley, said the insurer notified him that it wants to double his monthly premiums in January, from $632 to $1,413. And that's after his premium went up by a $100 on October 1.
"This is crazy. I understand costs go up," said Nilssen, whose Regence plan covers his wife and five kids.
"But when Obama's health-care plan went into effect -- saying children could be approved with pre-existing conditions -- that's when it jumped to $1,142. I blame health reform. There's no other plausible explanation for it."
Nilssen, who buys insurance for himself through his employer, said the new plan would have 100 percent coverage of preventive care, which is required by law. But it would come with fewer benefits for other office visits, brand-name drugs and complex imaging procedures such as MRIs and bone scans.
One reason for Nilssen's potentially steeper-than-average rate hike is the way Regence wants to cover kids. Many families currently pay a flat rate for two or more kids. Regence has proposed that families now pay per kid.
But smaller families are on notice too. Jerry Henderson, a 60-year-old computer programmer from Bellevue, said his premiums would jump by 70 percent in more than three months under the insurer's proposed rates.
"I think you'd have a hard time justifying that increase based on the minimal changes imposed by the federal legislation," said Henderson, who buys insurance for himself, his wife and their two kids.
"This is outrageous and unacceptable."
Under Regence's proposed rate hike, Henderson's premium would swell from $870 earlier this year to $1,485 on Jan. 1.
In an open letter to consumers last month, Insurance Commissioner Kreidler worked to dissuade people from blaming health reform for the current round of rate hikes.
"I don't blame you for being mad. I share your frustration and take your concerns very seriously," Kreidler wrote.
He said his authority over rate reviews, restored in 2008, is "too limited," and that he must accept a rate if an insurer can justify them actuarially. He also said insurers can legally replace a health plan with higher premiums and fewer benefits.
"These actions, along with the rising costs of health care, are nothing new; and they are not a result of the recent passage of health reform," Kreidler wrote.
"They are concrete examples of why we needed reform."
In a letter to Henderson, Kreidler's office said Regence was able to justify its 16.4 percent rate hike after losing $6.5 million in the individual market last year. The office also said Regence is expected to lose $15.2 million next year, despite the October increase.
The Affordable Care Act calls for more affordable premiums, but not until 2014.
Like its competitor Premera Blue Cross, Regence has requested a waiver from having to comply with a health-reform mandate to raise limits on essential benefits. The law requires that any annual cap on such benefits can't be less than $750,000.
If Regence does not get a waiver, it said it will have to raise rates by an even higher percentage next year.


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Over a third of Fortune magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work For" adhere to a principle called "servant leadership". James C. Hunter's runaway best seller The Servant introduced over a million readers around the world to this philosophy of leading through courage, compassion, and character. Now with The Servant Leadership Training Course, this acclaimed author teaches listeners immediate, practical techniques for applying the revolutionary principles of servant leadership to their working lives. Drawing from the sold-out seminars he has presented all over the world, Hunter teaches listeners about:
In the business world, the greatest leaders emerging today are the ones who have learned how to serve their employees, not command them. With foundational principles and practical exercises that apply to chief executives and local managers alike, The Servant Leadership Training Course gives listeners the keys to leading with integrity, authority, and compassion.
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"No PDF File"
The booklet with the CD set includes exercises:
Exercise 1 - A Leadership Skills Inventory
Exercise 2 - Leadership Skills Inventory - Self-Assessment
Exercise 3 - Leadership Skills Inventory Summary
Exercise 4 - Leadership Skills Inventory Summary...continued
Exercise 5 - Smart Action Plan
Why is there not a .pdf file included with the audible version?
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It's very unusual in the self-help audio book to be entertained and sucked in... but I was from the first few minutes. I didn't want to have to turn it off.
His discussion on the ultimate servant leader and teacher, Jesus.
His personality and witty character. He's the "real deal."
I did chuckle a few times.
Could possibly use some editing - there have been a few places where I think he was meaning to use one word but used another, or repeated phrases or didn't seem very clear. It reduces the professionalism, but only by a margin. He has great delivery.
I wish there were worksheets or downloads to go with this!!
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I enjoyed listening and will listen again. The practical section requires a study guide that the audio does not provide. It would be nice that Audible would make this one important aspect possible for download.
The practical part is very usable
Need the study guide.
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"Micro loans?"
I listened to this for 5 minutes until he used the micro loan example to demonstrate and example of "smart trust". This was before the recession in 2008, which has been blamed on these types of loans. I stopped there and laughed as I reflected on the $15 that could have been spent on much more fulfilling material.
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This book is highly recommended to anyone in a management or leadership position
It has many sub stories about leadership and how it can be used in our daily lives.
The author was very charismatic about the topic.
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Slaughterhouse Live's Yard Of Battenberg
Show type: Edinburgh Fringe 2005
The Comedy Store's smash-hit character-cabaret returns with an explosive new show! Witness Pat Stephens and His Musical Eyes, 'Human-Clarinet' - Spacker Bilk, double-act Knockers and Cocks, Four Fat Folkers... and more!
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In a Fringe dominated by slick sketch groups and careerist stand-ups, this lively Manchester-based quartet contribute some old-fashioned end-of-the-pier shenanigans, but given a suitable post-ironic Vic Reeves-style twist.
They're a bit hit and miss – well, they're a sketch group, it's in the rules – but they get by on a combination of cheesiness, self-deprecation and energetic performance.
Through the velvet curtains of this modern-day Wheeltappers and Shunters club comes a parade of eclectic and bizarre variety turns, offering a bubbling cauldron of bad taste, bad drag and bad puns. Where many comedy performers draw their creations in intricate detail, this lot do it with a blunt felt-tip, unconcerned with whether they go over the edges or not.
It's all a matter of bloody-minded confidence which characters work best, if the audience is sold the ridiculous ideas strongly enough, they tend to be accepted in the cheap and cheerful spirit in which they are intended.
Best of the lot are Knockers and Cox, a fast-talking double act full of corny old jokes (plus one, unacceptably, stolen from Lee Mack) who suddenly come over all religious, in true Cannon and Ball style.
Then there's Pope John Small, a bit of silly puppetry to animate the world's smallest pontiff, blind juggler Alan Sonar and spoof musicians Four Fat Folkers. Although some of these characters are a couple of years old now, and will be very familiar to those who've seen the group before.
Among the newer offerings, a documentary about a man inflicted with a condition in which he thinks his arms are longer than they are is as funny as it is inventive, while Spacker Bilk is in jawdropping bad taste, which it's probably not funny enough to overcome, but he certainly scores high on the shock value.
Less successful are the Scottish folk group, perhaps a perfunctory nod to the locals, and a motivational lecture by Dale Media, although even this throws up a couple of hilarious, if cheaply produced, PowerPoint frames. Tellingly, these sketches also the most restrained in the performing.
A previous unhealthy obsession with disgusting offal seems, thankfully, to have been dismissed, leaving Slaughterhouse Live with a winning sense of mucking-about fun that pervading all they do.
It's this that leaves the strongest impression, giving the hope that they will be able to turn the best of their high jinks into something more consistent over the full hour in Fringes yet to come.


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KCET (Common Entrance Test Karnataka) is an entrance test conducted every year for admission into Medical, Dental, Indian System of Medicine & Homeopathy and Engineering / Technology programs at under graduate level. KCET score determines the eligibility of a candidate for taking admission to above mentioned courses. The Karnataka Common Entrance Test 2016 (KCET) will be held on Wednesday, May 04 and Thursday, May 05, 2016. The score of this entrance test is being considered for by Government, Aided, and Private Un-aided Minority / Non-minority institutions within the state of Karnataka. Every year KCET will be conducted in the month of May.
Paper Pattern for KCET 2016:
Karnataka Common Entrance Test comprises of 4 papers namely Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Biology. There will be an option of attending Mathematics or Biology paper, which is depended on the choice made by candidates. Each question paper comprises of 60 objective type questions. The maximum time given for answering each paper is 80 minutes.
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The trend toward larger abrasive waterjet cutting tables
Once custom-produced on a one-off basis for specific applications, large abrasive waterjet cutting tables have become part of many standard systems, thanks mostly to advanced linear-drive technology that makes the machines more affordable.
The abrasive waterjet (AWJ) cutting industry is experiencing a noteworthy trend toward larger and larger cutting tables. Very large cutting tables have been around for quite a while, but they have been expensive, custom-engineered products designed for specific applications and produced on a one-off basis. Standard, affordable, off-the-shelf cutting systems for use in machine shops and fabricating shops generally were available in the size range of 5 ft. by 10 ft. (1.5 m by 3.0 m) or smaller. However, in the last few years, table sizes available on standard machines have increased dramatically and now are readily available in sizes up to 13 ft. by 46 ft. (4 m by 14 m) at noncustom prices (Figure 1). This trend is driven by a combination of user demand and advanced linear-drive technology.
Larger Parts Create Demand for Larger Tables
Fabricating shops of all sizes see the benefits of larger cutting tables. First is their ability to make larger parts in a single setup from very large panels of material stock. In addition, features can be cut into previously fabricated large panels, such as the window and door openings in a long side panel for a rapid-transit railcar.
For shops that produce large quantities of smaller parts, multiple large sheets of material stock can be placed on the table so that parts can be cut from one sheet while being removed from another, thus providing virtually continuous production.
Finally, large tables with an appropriate linear-drive system can be equipped with dual independently controlled bridges (Figure 2) to simultaneously cut two different parts from two different material thicknesses. This provides the manufacturing flexibility of two independent cutting tables at lower capital cost and with less required floor space.
Enabling Technology Permits Larger Tables
In the past the benefits of a large cutting table were not enough to justify the capital cost of an expensive, custom-engineered and -manufactured system. The key limiting factor in meeting fabricators' demand for larger tables at a reasonable cost was the high cost of long, accurate linear-drive systems.
Very long linear positioning systems using traditional ball screw, rack-and-pinion, or belt drives could not meet shops' requirements for part accuracy without a substantial increase in cost compared to smaller cutting tables. However, this situation changed with the introduction of extremely precise noncontact linear encoders. The availability of such encoders in turn led to the development of linear-drive systems meeting the specific needs of AWJ cutting tables as shown in Figure 3 and discussed in detail in my article in the December 2009 issue of thefabricator.com. Besides offering the smooth, precise linear motion control required by an AWJ cutting table, these linear drives have the unique ability to be extended in length easily at modest incremental cost. The result has been entire families of X-Y tables on which the X-axis length can be extended in increments to meet the shop's requirements—essentially custom-length tables at a standard system price.
Key System Design Considerations
Developing very large tables for AWJ cutting requires several key engineering considerations. For structural reasons these tables all tend to be gantry systems with the gantry bridge spanning the shorter axis. Because AWJ cutting requires very little side load on the cutting nozzle, the gantry bridge does not need to be designed to handle the substantial side-force requirements of a traditional machine tool, which means that a structurally massive bridge is not required. Although nice from a cost standpoint, not needing a massive bridge brings its own design challenges. The AWJ cutting stream is extremely sensitive to vibration at the nozzle. Thus, careful attention must be paid to the gantry bridge's design to control vibration over the full range of cutting speeds.
An additional design consideration arises from the inevitable long distance between the high-pressure pump and the cutting nozzle for these very large tables. Using a simple small-diameter, high-pressure tubing whip from pump to nozzle just isn't practical when the nozzle has more than 46 ft. of X-axis travel. Not only are there mechanical support and safety issues for the whip, but the fluid pressure loss in such a long run of small diameter tubing can be substantial.
Pressure loss is particularly large for 90-KSI systems because the heavier wall thickness required for this tubing substantially reduces its inside diameter. If the inside diameter is cut in half, the cross-sectional area of the water passage is reduced by a factor of 4, and pressure drop in the tubing goes up dramatically. Tubing pressure losses reduce the effective power of the abrasive stream at the nozzle, and reduced power means reduced cutting speed. A scissor-style linkage system of larger-diameter 60-KSI tubing and large-passage, low-pressure-drop swivels results in much less power loss between the pump and the nozzle. This means faster cutting, lower maintenance costs, and greater system reliability.
How Far Will This Trend Go?
It is not clear how far this trend toward larger cutting tables will go. However, with the availability of easily expanded, precision linear-drive systems, that decision clearly is in the fabricators' hands. If they need and want even larger cutting tables, the AWJ industry is ready to provide them.
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NEW YORK — "Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil" might have had a chance if its enormously talented voice cast had written it, too.
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With Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Joan Cusack, Martin Short and even Wayne Newton among those lending quite good voice work to the film, it's a shame they couldn't do more to help.
Who wouldn't want to see what (other voice contributors) Andy Dick, Glenn Close and Cheech and Chong could come up with after a screenwriting session?
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Starring: Voices of Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Joan Cusack, Martin Short
Directors: Mike Disa
Run time: 1 hour, 25 minutes
MPAA rating: PG for some mild rude humor, language and action
Instead, we have "Hoodwinked Too: Hood vs. Evil," a computer-animated sequel to the mostly forgotten 2005 original. Six years later, the fractured fairy tale has returned with 3-D graphics, more polished animation and less wit.
There was some madcap charm to the earlier "Hoodwinked!," which reinterpreted the story of Red Riding Hood as a "Rashomon"-style detective story, unearthing an alibi for the wolf (Patrick Warburton) and a hereto unforeseen joie de vivre in Granny (Close).
Such mash-ups of fairy tales have become commonplace since "Shrek" and children's books like David Wiesner's "The Three Pigs."
But "Hoodwinked Too!" takes the same characters and instead of refashioning a fairy tale, casts them in an action film plot. Red (Hayden Panettiere assuming Anne Hathaway's role), Wolf, Twitchy (an over-caffeinated squirrel voiced by Cory Edwards) and Granny are now special agents in the HEA: Happily Ever After Agency.
Slideshow: A mom's look at recent kid flicks (on this page)Led by the dapper, long-legged frog Nicky Flippers (David Ogden Stiers), they pursue the kidnapped Hansel (Hader) and Gretel (Poehler) when they're taken by a witch (Cusack).
In the ensuing rescue mission, the team encounters returning characters like Boingo the Bunny (Dick) and Kirk the Woodsman (Short, assuming Jim Belushi's part), as well as new ones, including a mafioso Giant (Brad Garrett) and a lounge-singer harp (Newton).
The frame, though, is more "Mission: Impossible" than Brothers Grimm. In a frantic pursuit for a "super truffle" recipe, there are attempts at inserting modernity with motorcycles and cell phones. Most unnecessary is the sisterhood of kung fu bakers.
In his feature debut, director Mike Disa has unquestionably improved on the cheap-looking animation of the original. The result is a more professional-looking film with less comedy.
"Hoodwinked" was written and co-directed by Tony Leech and brothers Cory and Todd Edwards. All return here as screenwriters, co-writing with Disa. The 3-D was added in post-production and is very much in the "rip-off" category of 3-D quality.
There are forced, adult-oriented references to Comic Con, Rachel Ray and Twitter. The film works best when it's playful within a fairy tale world (as opposed to an action film world), like when agents storm a gingerbread house and rather than kicking down the door, eat it.
One feels sympathy for such classic, beloved characters constantly being refashioned for films beneath them. Red Riding Hood needs a better agent.
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So what do these two celebrities, separated by at least a generation, have in common? Well, both Anthony Weiner and Justin Bieber have used cellphones in inappropriate ways. Recently, Bieber was caught on camera putting a cellphone down his pants after a fan threw one on stage during a concert. As you can imagine, the late-night comics (two in particular) have made all kinds of comparisons to New York City mayoral candidate and disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner.
Want to hear them? Of course you do. Take a look at our favorite jokes about the Bieber incident, then vote for yours in the quick poll to the right. Watching from your smartphone or tablet? Then visit opinion.usatoday.com to cast your vote!
Apparently Justin Biener and Anthony Weiner have one thing in common. Neither knows how to use cellphones in appropriate ways! Take a look at what late-night comics had to say, then vote for your favorite joke at opinion.usatoday.com.


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A Tuna Christmas, a comedy about a small Texas town during the Christmas season, opens at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17.
In a sequel to Greater Tuna, third smallest town in Texas celebrates Christmas. Radio station OKKK news commentators Thurston Wheelis and Arles Struvie report on Yuletide activities, including a hot competition for the annual lawn display championship.
In other news, Joe Bob Lipsey's production of "A Christmas Carol" is jeopardized by unpaid electric bills. Many colorful Tuna denizens, some from Greater Tuna and some appearing for the first time, join the holiday fun.
"A Tuna Christmas is a total delight for all seasons!" playhouse manager Scott Carlson said.
Performances are set Sundday, Nov. 18 and Thanksgiving weekend, Nov. 23-25. The curtain goes up at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturdays and the Sunday shows are 2 p.m. matinees.
Tickets go on sale Monday -- $15 for adults and $8 for children and students. They can be purchased Monday-Friday from noon-5 p.m. at the playhouse or before any performances at the door, unless there is a sellout, or online at www.northplattecommunityplayhouse.com.
Kent Winder - Thurston Wheelis/Bertha Bumiller. Ryan Pleiss - Arles Struvie/Didi Snavely. Bea Webster - R.R. Snavely/Ike Thompson/Vera Carp. Connie Huebner - Aunt Pearl Burras. Katelyn Walker - Sheriff Givens. Jen Hatcher - Inita Goodwin. Amanda Pleiss - Helen Bedd. Carey Harder - Leonard Childers. Carolyn Clark - Elmer Watkins.
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The production is directed by Carey Harder and Carolyn Clark and produced through a special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. It is made possible in part by the support of the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment of the Arts.
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Photos from the happenings at the Moog factory in Asheville, NC.
Toro y Moi came by the Moog Factory to spend some time in the Sound Lab. Here they are warming up for their Moog Sound Lab Session.
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Scottsdale has a well-deserved reputation as one of the nation's most posh destinations. Some of the city's finest resorts spared no expense when building their top-notch kids programs and amenities. You have a menu of options for family-focused events or supervised activities, allowing you opportunities to unplug at the spa, take in a round of 18 or steal some couples time at a fine eatery.
Arizona Grand Resort
The Arizona Grand Resort is a AAA Four-Diamond property that entices kids of all ages with a 7-acre water park featuring a tot water playground, water slides with drops of nearly 70 feet, wave pool and tubing river. The hotel coordinates two daily half-day Grand Adventures Kids Club sessions free of charge for guests ages 5 through 12, with snacks and activities indoors and out. The mountaintop Rustler's Rooste offers guests an exciting, cowboy-themed family dining experience. The desert-hued rooms have a tropical touch with ornate bamboo and rattan furniture.
Fairmont Scottsdale Princess
The Fairmont Scottsdale Princess is a kid-friendly AAA Five-Diamond resort. Resident mascots "Arizona Jones" and "Bobcat Billy" make regular appearances to meet young guests. Through the National Geographic Explorers Camp, kids ages 5 to 12 go on GPS-led treasure hunts, make arts and craft projects, and take photo and video safaris. The whole family will enjoy the towering 200-foot water slides and nighttime "Dive-In" movies. The Teen Hang-Out room for guests ages 13 to 17 has a library of more than 100 DVDs for viewing on the 42-inch plasma TV, Cyber Cafe, XBoxes and a refreshment stand. Elegant guest rooms and suites have subtle buttercream, mint and chocolate color schemes with defined areas for living, working and dining.
Hyatt Regency Scottsdale Resort and Spa at Gainey Ranch
The Hyatt Regency Scottsdale Resort and Spa at Gainey Ranch will impress little swimmers with its 2.5-acre outdoor water playground with a water slide, spa hot tub and 10 pools. The Camp Hyatt Kachina has day and night camp activities where kids from 5 to 12 can meet friends, play games, and learn about local animal and plant life. Teen activities include golf, desert horseback riding and a special menu of services at the spa. The tranquil resort sits on 27 acres landscaped with palm trees and nestled between a peaceful lake and mountains. The resort's stylish rooms and deluxe suites have modern furniture, and a calming sage and khaki color palette.
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The online game of Don't Forget the Lyrics! is fun for those of us who think we know all the lyrics to our favorite songs but have no energy to try to become a contestant on the TV show.
The TV show Don't Forget the Lyrics! is a typical game show. Contestants are given nine categories (such as "Pop", "Country", or "R&B") and the contestant chooses one of them. Within the category, they are given the choice of two songs. The band will then play the selected song as the lyrics are displayed karaoke-style. When the music stops, there are several blank lines that must be filled in by the contestant.
Once they fill in the lyrics, the contestant can lock them in or use one of the "back-ups." The back-ups on the TV show consist of 1) a friend singing with you, 2) two of the blank words being filled in, and 3) three different answers from which to choose the correct set of lyrics. Unfortunately, you can only use each back-up once.
With each correct answer, the contestant accumulates more money up to a song worth $500,000. The million dollar song is a mystery. There is no song title, artist, or genre, it is just a number one hit from one of the nine featured categories. No backups are allowed for this question.
The online game is fairly simple. There are seven categories of music as above. The lyrics and music float by then when the music stops, you must type in the missing lyrics. Once the music stops, you have only 30 seconds to type them in.
The missing lyric lines are the width of the missing characters which provides additional clues. The back-ups consist of 1) two missing words being filled in, 2) three different answers from which to choose the correct set of lyrics, and 3) the lyrics presented in a word scramble (i.e. "ON'TD GRFOET HET CSLRIY").
It is tricky because it will not accept misspelled words and you must use the apostrophe if indicated. In addition, by the time I realized that I needed help from a back-up, I was already running out of time which made my typing sloppy and kept the pressure on!
After every correct response, the site asks if you'd like to submit an audition video. I found that distracting and annoying. They do this because they will draw a weekly winner from all submitted videos for an 8GB iPhone (the "Prize"). One prize will be awarded each week for 10 weeks.
There is no pseudo-accumulation of money as in most games. In fact, no points of any kind are accumulated in the game. It appears to be more of a "set list" for potential contestants than an actual "game" that allows you to compete against yourself or others.
It was a fun way to pass the time. You can play the same game with the same songs repeatedly too, which makes it a novel way to impress your friends with your lyric memory capabilities. They change the songs/categories each week and this is the second week of the game. At the time of this review, there were only two different games to play.
Wait a few weeks before you try it though, because it became addictive to me and I ran out of game before I was ready to stop!
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The Cabrillo Conquistadores softball team lost Tuesday's home tournament game against Simi Valley by a score of 4-0.
Game Details: Best of the West
The Simi Valley Pioneers softball team scored 4 points and limited the visiting Cabrillo Conquistadores to 0 in the Pioneers non-league triumph on Tuesday.
With the triumph, Simi Valley moves its record to 11-1 on the year. The Pioneers host Clovis East (Clovis, CA) to clash with the Timberwolves in a non-league game on Tuesday, April 6. The Timberwolves come into the game with a record of 11-4. Clovis East won 5-1 in their recent non-league game against Woodcreek (Roseville, CA)
In their next game, the Conquistadores clash with the Notre Dame Knights (Sherman Oaks, CA) in a non-league game, on Tuesday, April 6. Cabrillo will attempt to move on its 11-3 season record. The Knights come into the game with a 5-7 record after their 6-0 non-league loss to Dos Pueblos (Goleta, CA).
Amanda Olivetto and Lauren Soles pitched a combined 4 hitter while striking out 10. Callie Grant was 2 for 3 with 1 RBI. Jordyn Ball was 1 for 2. Taylor Cartwright had a sacrifice fly ball RBI.


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Mariah Carey is about to drop her 14th studio album, her 1st single entitled "The Art Of Letting Go" will be released on social media via Facebook on 11-11-13
Reeling in the CATFISH, Part Deux
In January 2013 I presented a story about a Facebook catfish. A young woman had fallen prey to man on the Internet who wasn't who he seemed to be at all.
Original Show Link: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/letteschat/2013/01/31/were-reeling-in-the-catfish
A couple of weeks ago, out of the clear blue sky, I received an email from a woman who had heard that particular show and recognized Shane's name.
She told me, along with two other people who were listening as witnesses, a whole NEW sordid story about the man. Tonight, we'll share it with YOU. It's SCANDALOUS!
Thanks to Lady 1, Lady 2 and Detective Mike Proctor, Stalking Expert for being guests.
How many other women out there has this man victimized? Maybe we'll find out in this episode of Catfish, Part Deux! Click HERE to listen!
Wife Shames Husband's Alleged Infidelity By Making Him Confess On Facebook
Yo go girl! Don't know how effective this strategy is because there as so many desperate women out there that don't give a crap married or not.
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Are you tired of all the negative and depressing things people your friends with or people you follow post online? Well I am too or just some repetitive annoying things being posted? Well, I am happy to tell you that there is a new social media site just for positive posting.
I posted a status on my Facebook page asking this question "What is the most negative thing you've seen on your Facebook news feed or your Twitter timeline?" Here's what some of my Facebook friends had to say.
Here's what I found on my Twitter timeline…
Wouldn't it be nice to get away from all the negative posts and enjoy positive thoughts, positive moments and enjoy reading about good things happening in people's lives?
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ST. PAUL, Minnesota (Reuters) - The Edmonton Oilers stuck to the script by taking Canadian center Ryan Nugent-Hopkins with the number one pick but it was otherwise a night of surprises at the NHL draft Friday.
Winnipeg, the NHL's newest franchise, was back at the draft table for the first time since 1995 and used the stage to confirm the team would be named the Jets.
The Minnesota Wild made the biggest splash midway through the opening round, pulling the trigger on a blockbuster deal that sees all-star defenseman Brent Burns traded to San Jose for Devin Setoguchi, top prospect Charlie Coyle and the Sharks' first-round pick which they used on Zack Phillips.
Once among the most coveted players on draft day, only one Russian was selected in the first round with the Tampa Bay Lightning taking Vladislav Namestnikov with the 27th pick.
That was the same number of Danes and Swiss selected, the Calgary Flames taking Switzerland's Sven Bartschi with the 13th pick and the Vancouver Canucks grabbing Denmark's Nicklas Jensen at number 29.
Canadian and Swedish prospects were all the rave in the opening round of the two-day lottery with 16 Canadians taken and six Swedes, including three in the top six.
Top pick Nugent-Hopkins, an 18-year-old who had a league-high 75 assists with the Red Deer Rebels last season, could prove to be the ideal setup man for last year's first overall pick, Oilers winger Taylor Hall.
While no players with the caliber of Sidney Crosby or Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky were expected to surface from this year's talent pool, Nugent-Hopkins has been described in Gretzky-like terms for his on-ice vision and creativity.
"It's a dream come true," said Nugent-Hopkins. "I always watched Edmonton this year and the past couple years actually and it's just amazing that I got picked there."
With the second overall pick the Colorado Avalanche took the player considered the most ready to make the jump to the NHL, Swedish winger Gabriel Landeskog.
The Florida Panthers, who have not made the playoffs the past 10 seasons, used the third selection on a pure goal scorer, claiming center Jonathan Huberdeau from the Memorial Cup champions Saint John Sea Dogs.
The New Jersey Devils, with the fourth pick, did not hesitate to grab Swedish defenceman Adam Larsson, who had been tipped by many scouts as the best player in the draft.
The New York Islanders snapped up Canadian center Ryan Strome with the fifth selection while the Ottawa Senators took Swede Mika Zibanejad, known as the 'Persian Prince' because his father is Iranian and mother Finnish.
Winnipeg celebrated their return to the NHL by taking Barrie Colts center Mark Scheifele with the seventh pick.
As a beaming Scheifele made his way onto the stage, Winnipeg officials unfolded a jersey with an NHL logo stitched on the front but confirmed the team would be named the Jets.
"We are thrilled to be using a name that has so much history in our city and means so much to our fans," said Mark Chipman, board chairman of owners True North Sports and Entertainment. "Our fans clearly indicated to us the passion they hold for the name since we acquired the franchise."
The Jets name and logo are well-known to Winnipeg hockey fans.
The Manitoba capital was home to the Jets of the World Hockey Association before the team joined the NHL in 1979.
The Jets played for 17 years in the NHL before moving to Phoenix, Arizona, in 1996.
When it was announced earlier this month that the financially troubled Atlanta Thrashers had been sold and relocated to Winnipeg, speculation immediately began about the team's name with a majority of hockey fans wanting to see the iconic Jets back on the sweaters.
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Dobson drops Lawrence murder appeal
One of the two men jailed for the racist murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence has dropped his appeal against conviction, the Judicial Office has confirmed.
Gary Dobson was given a life sentence at the Old Bailey in January last year.
The second man, David Norris, is continuing his battle against conviction.
There will be a hearing in his case at the Court of Appeal in London. A date has not yet been set.
A spokeswoman for the Judicial Office said: "Gary Dobson has abandoned his renewed application to appeal his conviction for the murder of Stephen Lawrence. David Norris's renewed application seeking permission to appeal his conviction will be heard on a date to be fixed."
Last summer, applications for permission to appeal by both men were rejected by a single judge who considered the papers from the case.
But Dobson and Norris, who are both in their 30s, still had the right to renew their applications before a panel of judges sitting at the Court of Appeal.
The trial judge, Mr Justice Treacy, described the murder as a "terrible and evil crime".
He urged police not to "close the file" on catching the rest of the killers after the Old Bailey heard that a gang of five or six white youths set upon A-level student Stephen in Eltham, south-east London, in 1993. He said the murder was committed "for no other reason than racial hatred".
Mr Justice Treacy told the pair: "A totally innocent 18-year-old youth on the threshold of a promising life was brutally cut down in the street in front of eyewitnesses by a racist, thuggish gang."


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A senior U.S. official has told Fox News that there are discussions "in progress" with Pakistani authorities to allow the U.S. to question Usama bin Laden's wives.
The officials are confident that they will be give a chance to interview his wives -- one of which told Pakistani interrogators that she had been staying in the Al Qaeda leader's hideout for five years, and could be a key source of information about how he avoided capture for so long, a Pakistani intelligence official said Friday.
In its first confirmation of bin Laden's death, Al Qaeda warned of retaliation in an Internet statement, saying Americans' "happiness will turn to sadness."
Bin Laden's wife, identified as Yemeni-born Amal Ahmed Abdullfattah, said she never left the upper floors of the house the entire time she was there.
She and bin Laden's other two wives are being interrogated in Pakistan after they were taken into custody following Monday's American raid on bin Laden's compound in the town of Abbottabad. Pakistani authorities are also holding eight or nine children who were found there after the U.S. commandos left.
Given shifting and incomplete accounts from U.S. officials about what happened during the raid, testimony from bin Laden's wives may be significant in unveiling details about the operation.
Their accounts could also help show how bin Laden spent his time and managed to stay hidden, living in a large house close to a military academy in a garrison town, a two-and-a-half hours' drive from the capital, Islamabad.
The Pakistani official said CIA officers had not been given access to the women in custody. Already tense military and intelligence relations between the United States and Pakistan have been further strained after the helicopter-borne raid, which many Pakistanis see as a violation of their country's sovereignty.
The proximity of bin Laden's hideout to the military garrison and the Pakistani capital has also raised suspicions in Washington that bin Laden may have been protected by Pakistani security forces while on the run.
Risking more tensions, missiles fired from a U.S. drone killed 15 people, including foreign militants, in North Waziristan, an Al Qaeda and Taliban hotspot close to Afghanistan, Pakistani officials said. Such attacks were routine last year, but their frequency has dropped this year amid opposition by the Pakistani security establishment.
Pakistan's army, a key U.S. ally in the Afghanistan war, on Thursday threatened to review cooperation with Washington if it stages anymore attacks like the one that killed bin Laden.
The Pakistani intelligence official did not say Friday whether the Yemeni wife has said that bin Laden was also living there since 2006. "We are still getting information from them," he said.
Another security official said the wife was shot in the leg during the operation and did not witness her husband being killed. He also said one of bin Laden's eldest daughters had said she witnessed the Americans killing her father.
Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to give their names to the media.
Meanwhile, Pakistan's intelligence agency has concluded that bin Laden was "cash strapped" in his final days, according to a briefing given by two senior military officials. Disputes over money between the terror leader and his No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri, led Al Qaeda to split into two factions five or six years ago, with the larger faction controlled by al-Zawahri, they said.
The officers spoke to a small group of Pakistani reporters late Thursday. Their comments were confirmed for The Associated Press by the same security official who spoke about the shooting of bin Laden's wife and who was present at Thursday's briefing.
The officer didn't provide details or elaborate on how his agency made the conclusions about bin Laden's financial situation or the split with his deputy, al-Zawahri. The Al Qaeda chief apparently had lived without any guards at the Abbottabad compound or loyalists nearby to take up arms in his defense.
The image of Pakistan's intelligence agency has been battered at home and abroad in the wake of the raid that killed bin Laden. Portraying him as isolated and weak could be aimed at trying to create an impression that a failure to spot him was not so important.
Documents taken from the house by American commandos showed that bin Laden was planning to hit America, however, including a plan for derailing an American train on the upcoming 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The confiscated materials reveal the rail attack was planned as of February 2010.
Late Thursday, two Pakistani officials cited bin Laden's wives and children as saying he and his associates had not offered any "significant resistance" when the American commandos entered the compound, in part because the assailants had thrown "stun bombs" that disorientated them.
One official said Pakistani authorities found an AK-47 and a pistol in the house belonging to those inside, with evidence that one bullet had been fired from the rifle.
"That was the level of resistance" they put up, said the official, who also spoke on condition of anonymity.
His account is roughly consistent with the most recent one given by U.S. officials, who now say only one of the five people killed in the raid was armed and fired any shots, a striking departure from the intense and prolonged firefight described earlier by the White House and others in the administration.
U.S. officials say four men were killed alongside bin Laden, including one of his sons.
Reflecting the anger in Pakistan, hundreds of members of radical Islamic parties protested Friday in several Pakistan cities against the American raid and in favor of bin Laden. Many of the people chanted "Usama is alive" and blasted the U.S. for violating the country's sovereignty.
The largest rally took place in the town of Khuchlak in southwestern Baluchistan province, where about 500 people attended.
"America is celebrating Usama bin Laden's killing, but it will be a temporary celebration," said Abdullah Sittar Chishti, a member of the Jamiat Ulema Islam party who attended the rally in Khuchlak. "After the martyrdom of Usama, billions, trillions of Usamas will be born."
Fox News' Jennifer Griffin and the Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Deadlifting Twice a Week
Any thoughts on deadlift twice a week?
I know this goes against a lot of conventional thinking, but I handle the deadlift very well and have been thinking about trying a more Hepburn style approach as an experiment. I was thinking: Monday - Deadlift 6x3 @ 75% (ish) Wednesday - Squats Friday - Deadlift 5-8 singles @ 85% (ish) |
damn man i was just thinking this same thing. i wonder how it would pan out. i seem to recover very well from the deads. probably better than any other lifts. i think i would shoot more for 65% and 85% though. and i don't think i'm gonna continue on the path of shooting for max effort for at least another 4 weeks or so. i'm gettin some elbow tendinitus from all the heavy bangin i've been doin.
I deadlift close to twice a week. I say go for it!
I dont see why you couldnt do that... from a strength training standpoint that is.
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I think that's a solid plan...although maybe move Fridays DLs to Thurday? Just thinking that after 85% singles on Friday, 2 days later and you'd be pumping out multiple sets at 75%, not too much lighter..
I deadlifted twice a week for years with good results. I'd do a heavy session and a light session 3 days later. But after I got up into heavier weights twice a week began to be too much for me, so I started deadlifting once a week, and now I've been deadlifting 2 weeks on and 1 week off doing heavy Good Mornings(or sometime Speed Pulls) on the 3rd week and I seem to like it alot
I deadlift twice a week with great results, sometimes even three times a week. I think it would work well for you.
Thanks for the feedback guys. The more I lift, the more I realize that bench and deadlift are my butter lifts. I think I have much room to improve on these lifts.
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It's no secret that college doesn't prepare students for the real world. Student loan debt recently eclipsed credit card debt for the first time in history and now tops one trillion dollars. And the throngs of unemployed graduates chasing the same jobs makes us wonder whether there's a better way to "make it" in today's marketplace. There is - and Dale Stephens is proof of that. In Hacking Your Education, Stephens speaks to a new culture of "hackademics" who think college diplomas are antiquated.
Stephens shows how he and dozens of others have hacked their education, and how you can, too. You don't need to be a genius or especially motivated to succeed outside school.
The real requirements are much simpler: Curiosity, confidence, and grit. Hacking Your Education offers valuable advice to current students as well as those who decided to skip college. Stephens teaches you to create opportunities for yourself and design your curriculum - inside or outside the classroom. Whether your dream is to travel the world, build a startup, or climb the corporate ladder, Stephens proves you can do it now, rather than waiting for life to start after "graduation" day.
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"Unschooling for adults"
This book is an adult variation on the homeschooling movement- more specifically the un-schooling movement which focuses strongly on self guided education. Themes include ways to get into college courses without paying (and without accreditation and sneaking into expensive seminars and getting jobs that utilize a persons skills in spite of education. The idea that a person might not have highly sought after technical skills to begin with seems totally lost on the author. Much of the book focuses on how great it was for hundreds of now successful individual people to have skipped high school and college in preference of their own path- so far less time is really spent on educating ones self. It is however a dandy little guide in making your life more interesting and sparking new ways of thinking but I am not sure how much more marketable it can make someone. I think most people with marketable skills are aware that certification is an outdated hassle and many employers do too. Those people are already looking for loopholes to bypass those requisites. I would recommend this book to people interested in the Homeschool/ unschool movement or to people looking for new ways to learn things- don't expect this one to make you any money or help you to get a job. The ability to acquire new marketable skills (for adults) is hardly discussed
My reading interests include business and organizational psychology books. In addition, I like mystery.
"Arrogant Book"
It wasn't the narration but the arrogance of the book itself
Yes, it gave a different perspective of the self made individual
What the author should have noted was that those who do not attain an education stand a remote chance of making it in the real world. Those people who really do well, without an education, aren't the norm. Yes, they exist but your chances of doing well, especially in business, requires a decent education. He almost attacks our educational system because he is self made. True, our educational system needs change. However, leaving school is typically not the answer.
A man. A plan. A canal. Panama
"Garbage and scams"
This guy is so full of himself and his lies. What a bunch of bunk.


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IMF 'confident' Lagarde can continue despite investigation
- 29 August 2014
- From the section Europe
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has expressed confidence in its leader Christine Lagarde, despite her being investigated for negligence in France.
Ms Lagarde, 58, has been questioned about her role in awarding compensation to businessman Bernard Tapie in 2008. She denies any wrongdoing.
Ms Lagarde was France's minister of finance at the time of the award.
In a statement, the IMF executive board said it was confident Ms Lagarde could continue to lead the organisation.
"It would not be appropriate to comment on a case that has been and is currently before the French judiciary," the executive board, which appoints the IMF's chief, said in a statement.
"However, the executive board has been briefed on recent developments related to this matter, and continues to express its confidence in the managing director's ability to effectively carry out her duties," it added.
Ms Lagarde was placed under formal investigation by the French authorities on Wednesday. She described the case against her as "without merit".
'Best solution'
Formal investigations in France do not necessarily lead to charges, but indicate that a magistrate believes there are signs of wrongdoing.
Investigators suspect Mr Tapie was granted a deal in return for his support of Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2007 presidential election.
Ms Lagarde was finance minister in Mr Sarkozy's government when he was given compensation.
Mr Tapie was once a majority shareholder in sports goods company Adidas but sold it in 1993 in order to become a cabinet minister in Francois Mitterrand's Socialist government.
Mr Tapie sued Credit Lyonnais over its handling of the sale, alleging the partly state-owned bank had defrauded him by deliberately undervaluing the company.
His case was later referred by Ms Lagarde to a three-member arbitration panel which awarded the compensation.
Ms Lagarde said last year that her decision to refer Mr Tapie's long-running dispute with Credit Lyonnais to a panel of judges was "the best solution at the time".
She replaced Dominique Strauss-Kahn as IMF managing director in 2011. He quit over sexual assault charges in New York, which were later dropped.