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Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Jay and Silent Bob Go Toy Shopping While Stoned
Probably the best thing you'll watch all week. I know..there were a lot of trailers..but seriously. Silent Bob (Kevin Smith) and Jason Mewes take a trip to a local Walmart in Michigan, very possibly for snacks..because..stoned.. and get 100% sidetracked by the toy aisles because TOYS ARE AWESOME!! We at Idle Hands celebrate the glory and wonder of toys nearly every day, but seldom can we capture the excitement we get from seeing new items on the shelves quite like Jay and Silent Bob do here. Jump in below and laugh your ass off!
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Labels: action figures , batman , dc comics , jakks pacific , jay and silent bob , lego , mattel , moana , toys , walmart
Stephen King's IT Pushes Beyond Quaint TV Memories
Now..Warner Bros' New Line Cinema feature film looks to trigger your fear reflex. There's so much packed into IT that should scare the holy hell out of anyone reading, and so, the movie adaption should make a select few run from the theater weeping. WE CAN HOPE!! Check out the first teaser below...
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Labels: books , horror , it , movie , new line cinema , stephen king , teaser trailer , warner bros
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 Set for March 9, 2018 Release
Also returning are the team behind the original "Wreck-It Ralph," who won an Oscar® last month for Walt Disney Animation Studios' billion-dollar-box-office-blockbuster "Zootopia." Directors Rich Moore ("Zootopia," "Wreck-It Ralph," "The Simpsons") and Phil Johnston (writer, "Wreck-It Ralph," "Zootopia," "Cedar Rapids"), and producer Clark Spencer ("Zootopia," "Wreck-It Ralph," "Bolt") are hard at work on the movie. "To take these characters we love and have them enter the enormous world of the internet has given us so much to explore," said Moore. "Our production team has been hard at work designing a world that takes something we all think we know – the internet – but shows it in a whole new, imaginative way."
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Labels: animation , cartoons , disney , movies , video games , wreck it ralph 2
Cosplay Talent Agency - KOSPRE - Launches In Los Angeles
KOSPRE, a new cosplay talent agency, has announced its launch and has retained an exciting array of talented and creative cosplay artists that are available to support a wide range of exhibitors at film premieres, conventions, trade shows, corporate and cultural events, concerts and pop culture gatherings worldwide.
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Labels: conventions , cosplay talent agency , cosplayers , costuming , geek events , kospre
Friday, March 24, 2017
Warner Bros Uniting Their Justice League *Updated 3/25*
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Labels: comic books , dc comics , justice league movie , justice league trailer premiere , warner bros
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Dynamite and Electric Entertainment Bring "The Librarians" to Comics
Based on TNT's hit movie franchise of the same name, The Librarians centers on an ancient organization hidden beneath the Metropolitan Public Library, dedicated to protecting an unknowing world from the secret, magical reality hidden all around. Rebecca Romijn (X-Men), Christian Kane (TNT's Leverage, Angel), Lindy Booth (Dawn of the Dead, The Philanthropist) and John Harlan Kim (Neighbors, The Pacific) star in the series as the newest protectors of the world's mystical treasures, with Emmy® winner John Larroquette (Night Court, Deception) as their reluctant caretaker. Noah Wyle, who originated the role of Flynn Carsen, one of the longest-surviving librarians in the mythology created in TNT's hit movie trilogy, has recurred throughout the series and continues to serve as an executive producer.
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Labels: comic books , dynamite entertainment , supernatural , the librarians , TNT , tv
S.H. Figuarts WWE Action Figures Cue Their Entrance Music
Tamashii Nations' new 6-inch wresting figures are their first products developed for the WWE Universe. The figures are fully poseable with over 30 points of articulation and each figure makes use of Tamashii's proprietary Digital Color Technology on the head sculpts, resulting in portraits with an uncanny lifelike resemblance to the WWE superstars.
All S.H. Figuarts WWE figures are packed with signature accessories, optional expression parts, and interchangeable hands.
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Labels: action figures , bluefin , import toys , s.h. figuarts , tamashii nations , toys , wrestling , wwe
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Netflix Drops a Death Note Teaser Trailer
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Labels: anime , death note , horror , manga , movies , netflix , teaser trailer. , tv
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Our Cherry Picked Selections from the Tribeca Film Festival
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Labels: documentaries , film festivals , horror , indie movies , movies , new york , tribeca film festival
Friday, March 17, 2017
New York Comic Con Eliminating Multi-Day Passes
The blinky email starts with the basics:
- Fan Verification will once again be in play. Anyone who did not register last year will need to get on that. If you registered last year, you are still in the system. The NYCC website explains the Fan Verification process thusly-
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Labels: buying tickets , comic books , comic cons , conventions , cosplay , new york comic con 2017 , nycc 2017
Thursday, March 16, 2017
A Venom Movie Is Coming Sooner Than You Think
The Hollywood Reporter and tipped to us by Heidi at Comics Beat, starts with a YAY and sort of ends with a HUH?
CB reports:
It's written by Scott Rosenberg and Jeff Pinker, the latter of whom wrote the pretty poorly received The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
As for the Director, THR reports that there is NO one in the chair just yet.
CB reports:
It's written by Scott Rosenberg and Jeff Pinker, the latter of whom wrote the pretty poorly received The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
As for the Director, THR reports that there is NO one in the chair just yet.
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Labels: columbia pictures , marvel cinematic universe , marvel comics , sony , spider-man , venom
The Original Ghost In The Shell Gets a Blu-ray Release
A female cybernetic government agent, Major Motoko Kusanagi, and the Internal Bureau of Investigations are hot on the trail of "The Puppet Master," a mysterious and threatening computer virus capable of infiltrating human hosts. Together, with her fellow agents from Section 9, they embark on a high-tech race against time to capture the omnipresent entity. Ghost in the Shell took the world by storm in the mid-90's, exhibiting a new dimension of anime with unprecedented, mesmerizing cinematic expression. Seamlessly merging traditional animation with the latest computer graphic imagery, this stunning sci-fi spectacle challenged the boundaries of mainstream animation with detailed artistic expression and a uniquely intelligent story line. Veteran director Mamoru Oshii skillfully creates the ultimate anime experience in this futuristic masterpiece based on the groundbreaking comic book by Masamune Shirow.
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Labels: anchor bay , animation , anime , blu-ray , cartoons , ghost in the shell , home video , movies
Warner Bros. TV Group at WonderCon 2017
Warner Bros. Television brings its heroes, villains, time travelers and mysterious teens together under one roof during WonderCon 2017, with four series attending the fan fest in Anaheim March 31–April 2. Panels and Q&A sessions with Riverdale (Thursdays 9/8c The CW) and Time After Time (Sundays 9/8c ABC) take place on Friday, March 31. Fans will be treated to an exclusive screening of a brand new episode of Riverdale on Saturday, April 1. Closing out the weekend with Sunday, April 2, sessions will be Lucifer (new episodes return May 1, Mondays 9/8c FOX) and Gotham (new episodes return April 24, Mondays 8/7 FOX), along with Warner Bros. Animation's hit DC Super Hero series Teen Titans Go! (Fridays 6/5c Cartoon Network) and Justice League Action (Saturdays 7:30 a.m./6:30 a.m. Cartoon Network).
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Labels: gotham , justice league action , lucifer , riverdale , teen titans go , time after time , tv , warner bros , wondercon 2017
X-Men Blue and Gold Comics Remastered for Optimum Flashbacks with Jim Lee Covers
"Few artists are as synonymous with the X-Men, and specifically the Blue and Gold era of the X-Men quite like Jim Lee," says Marvel SVP Sales and Marketing David Gabriel. "We wanted to do something extra special to commemorate these two new titles, and we're excited to bring Jim's unique vision of Marvel's merry mutants back to the fans for these two remastered variant covers!"
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Labels: comic books , jim lee , marvel comics , x-men
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Disney-Pixar's Coco Teaser Drops
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VIZ Releasing Pokemon The Movie: Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel March 21st
Fans can experience all of the excitement and adventure of the newest POKÉMON anime feature film in the POKÉMON X·Y series in both DVD and graphic novel form. POKÉMON THE MOVIE: VOLCANION AND THE MECHANICAL MARVEL was directed by Kunihiko Yuyama and was originally released in Japanese theaters last summer.
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New Obsession: Cryptozoic and Cartoon Network's Digital Stickers and Trading Cards
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Labels: apps , cartoon network , cartoons , cryptozoic , digital stickers
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Toy Fair 2017: Just Play's MadBalls Series 2
Series 1 and our new reviewer Jackson covered those blind bags with as much enthusiasm as one could muster...without thumbs. Now we'll take a look at the standard sized balls series 2 and the next wave of blind bags!
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Sunday, March 12, 2017
Jughead: The Hunger
For those of you that though a zombie outbreak in the Archiverse was just about the greatest thing ever, prepare yourself for another tale of gruesome death and blood soaked horror and a monster stalks the sleepy town of Riverdale! This one shot comic asks the question...how do you stop a creature who's appetites know no limits?
Jughead Jones has always had an insatiable appetite… but what if his hunger came from a sinister place?
When a murderous menace is on the prowl, taking the lives of some of the most well-known and esteemed inhabitants of Riverdale, Jughead and his family's dark legacy comes to light.
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Labels: archie comics , archie horror , comic books , horror , monsters , werewolves
Thursday, March 9, 2017
Power Rangers Build-A-Bears!
BuildaBear.com, BuildaBear.Co.Uk and in the US, Canada and U.K. Build-A-Bear Workshop Stores.
In addition to the 2 new furry friends, Build-A-Bear is releasing a line of costumes, accessories and a sound chip, all based on the original hit TV series, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
In addition to the 2 new furry friends, Build-A-Bear is releasing a line of costumes, accessories and a sound chip, all based on the original hit TV series, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
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Labels: build-a-bear , plush , power rangers , saban , teddy bears , toys , tv
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Premiering March 19
Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles captures seven distinct stories from the hero brothers' past and future, including their early days in New York City, encounters with villains and friends, and a peek into their distant, but wild future. Throughout the season, fans can expect to see both new and familiar friends and foes as each tale unfolds.
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Labels: animation , cartoons , comic books , nickelodeon , season 5 , teenage mutant ninja turtles , tmnt
Boomerang Launches as Cartoon Streaming Destination
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Labels: animation , boomerang , cartoons , hanna-barbera , looney tunes , scooby-doo , warner bros
Strange 80s Benefit Concert with Weird Al, Tenacious D, Sarah Silverman and More
Sweet Relief Musicians Fund is proud to announce "Strange 80s," the inaugural annual benefit concert set to take place on Sunday, May 14th at the Fonda Theater. Hosted by Finn Wolfhard of the Netlfix hit "Stranger Things," "Strange 80s" will feature performances by Finn and a rotating cast of rock stars & celebrities covering the timeless anthems of the 80s! Tickets for "Strange 80s" will go on sale to the public on Friday, March 10th at 10am PT, with VIP tickets being sold at a later date via CrowdRise. All proceeds will go to Sweet Relief Musicians Fund to provide financial assistance to career musicians and music industry workers in need due to illness, disability or age-related problems. For more information, please visit: http://sweetrelief.org/.
Performers include: Tenacious D, "Weird Al" Yankovic, and Sarah Silverman, plus members of OK Go, Taking Back Sunday, Velvet Revolver, Steel Panther, Filter, Anberlin, Goldfinger, Sugarcult, Anthrax, Precious Kid, Filter, and Honey Honey, plus TV stars: Dylan Minnette, Braeden Lemasters, Hayley Orrantia (from The Goldbergs), and Chelsea Telmadge (from Stranger Things), with additional performers to be announced over the next few weeks!
Performers include: Tenacious D, "Weird Al" Yankovic, and Sarah Silverman, plus members of OK Go, Taking Back Sunday, Velvet Revolver, Steel Panther, Filter, Anberlin, Goldfinger, Sugarcult, Anthrax, Precious Kid, Filter, and Honey Honey, plus TV stars: Dylan Minnette, Braeden Lemasters, Hayley Orrantia (from The Goldbergs), and Chelsea Telmadge (from Stranger Things), with additional performers to be announced over the next few weeks!
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Labels: concerts , los angeles , music , sarah silverman , strange 80's benefit concert , tenacious d , weird al yankovic
Saturday, March 4, 2017
The Extended Deadpool 2 Movie Teaser from Logan
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Labels: comic books , deadpool 2 , fox , logan , marvel comics , movie teaser , ryan reynolds
Thursday, March 2, 2017
The New DuckTales Cartoon Is Weird... and AWESOME
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Liberals often make approval of liberal values a condition of friendship. Someone in a "liberal friendship" can expect loss of the friendship if he dares to express dismay or disapproval of the liberal values. For example, Nobel laureate Ronald Coase described how he was victimized by disparaging whispers at cocktail parties about his conservative economic positions.[2]
Princeton University professor Robert George observed,
- "If [a conservative] kid applies to one of the top graduate schools, he's likely to be not admitted. Say he gets past that first screen. He's going to face pressure to conform or he'll be the victim of discrimination. It's a lot harder to hide than than it was as an undergrad."[3]
A liberal friendship can occur wherever liberals apply peer pressure to spread their belief system. It can occur in college, in relationships, and in the workplace. Until exposed and criticized by this entry, there was even a website entitled "Ostracize a Republican," which justified the practice by comparing Republicans to Nazis using a parody of the famous "I did not speak up" speech.[4]
David Brooks of the New York Times published advice from prominent professors which said that conservative graduate students in humanities and social sciences are better off if they keep their conservative views in the closet. Brooks wrote:[5]
- "The most common advice conservative students get is to keep their views in the closet. Will Inboden was working on a master's degree in U.S. history at Yale when a liberal professor pulled him aside after class and said: 'You're one of the best students I've got, and you could have an outstanding career. But I have to caution you: hiring committees are loath to hire political conservatives. You've got to be really quiet.'"
Darryn Beckstrom, a graduate student at liberal University of Wisconsin, confirmed it:[3]
- Mr. George is right. It is indeed harder to hide your political ideology. Not because of the Bush-Cheney '04 button on the ol' backpack, but because your fellow graduate students — and future colleagues — expect you to be liberal. It's as if these students have gone through their entire educational careers using the liberals' edition of Webster's Dictionary, and the definition for "intelligent" specifically forbids any association with conservativism.
- I still remember the day several students from my cohort discovered the scandalous detail that I was a supporter of President Bush and the petrified looks on their Macintosh-loving faces as I gave a riveting defense of the War on Terror. (Disclosure: This column was written with a notebook purchased from the Texas-based, Dubya-supporting, capitalistic leviathan Dell Corporation.)
- Though my monologue most likely fell on deaf ears, a familiar response came afterward: "Well, at least you aren't one of those social conservatives, are you?" Indeed I am.
Harvard Law School Professor Randall Kennedy described this phenomenon, without endorsing it, in reference to conservative Justice Clarence Thomas: "among professional blacks, especially lawyers, he is widely ostracized."[6]
Renowned conservative physicist Edward Teller described how liberals terminated their friendship with him and his wife for political reasons. "By old friends we were practically ostracized," he said, adding that his wife "was very badly hurt" and even fell ill from it.[7]
Michael Medved observed that in Hollywood, "There are no movies in the recent past that send overt unapologetic conservative messages. Why? Because anybody who attempted to do that would be criticized [and] ostracized socially, if not commercially, in the Hollywood community."[8]
Attorney David Bernstein described his experience at the very liberal Yale law school:[9]
- [A] classmate of mine told me ... that a significant number of my Yale classmates shunned me [first semester] because of "what you said in [first semester] Contracts class." I responded that I don't remember saying anything all that controversial--after all, we didn't discuss abortion, affirmative action, gay rights, or any other especially hot button issues in Contracts class, and my views on such issues were not especially out of the mainstream at Yale, anyway. My classmate responded, and I swear he seemed at least 80% serious, "yes, but you kept saying that contracts should be enforced."
African American sheriff David Clarke explains how liberals ostracize black conservatives:[10]
- Clarke argues — plausibly — that President Bush should give him and other black conservatives a platform to boost their credibility and exposure. Black ministers call him furtively to express support but explain that they can't do so publicly. "People are watching what will happen to me; they want assurance that they can survive. It's going to require individuals to develop courage to buck the plantation politics, because it's not fun to be ostracized by one's own people."
One college student in relatively neutral Pennsylvania observed:[11]
- I think a lot of young Republicans are afraid of being ostracized by fellow classmates and professors if they are open about their political opinions, since most people regard the majority of college students and professors as being liberal.
In contrast, there are many instances of conservatives not requiring acceptance of conservative principles as a condition of friendship. For example, Ronald Reagan had many close personal friends who were liberals, and dozens of political ones, like Speaker Tip O'Neill and Senator Ted Kennedy. These liberals were friends with Reagan although they knew he was a conservative. On the other hand, there have also been a few cases of liberals not requiring acceptance of liberal principles as a condition of friendship. For example, Tip O'Neill and Senator Ted Kennedy were both friends of Ronald Reagan. Reagan was friends with these liberals although he knew they were liberals.
Besides the loss of a friendship if you display disapproval of the liberal belief system, if a liberal knows you are a well known conservative, they may wish you bad luck. However, if you change by discounting and betraying your past conservative relationships/principles/friends, they would embrace and reward you with liberal friendship. e.g. Press Secretary Scott McClellan of the Bush administration was hated by liberals just for working in the administration. After leaving his position and writing a book publicly criticizing President Bush, the typical left leaning media sources, being they don't revere concepts like honor and loyalty and see disloyalty and backbiting as virtues, actually defended him.[12]
- ↑ https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,148108,00.html
- ↑ Thomas W. Hazlett. "Looking For Results". Reason January 1997.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Darryn Beckstrom, "Confessions of a conservative grad student". The Badger Herald, September 1, 2005.
- ↑ http://ostracizearepublican.org/ (no longer active after being exposed and criticized here).
- ↑ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A05E5DB133DF934A1575AC0A9659C8B63
- ↑ http://opinionjournal.com/federation/feature/?id=110010657
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/10/obituaries/10TELL.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5007&en=527a0430768a87c7&ex=1378612800&partner=USERLAND
- ↑ https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,148108,00.html
- ↑ http://volokh.com/posts/1130872867.shtml
- ↑ http://www.city-journal.org/html/15_2_heralds.html
- ↑ http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/valleyindependent/teenscene/s_555216.html
- ↑ https://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/05/29/mcclellan_publisher/ , Salon.com In Defese Of Scott McClellan, May 29, 2008

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text: Included here are pictures all taken between Peterborough East Junction and Ely North Junction, all of the Queen Adelaide crossings included and the erstwhile Wisbech Branch. Some of the old 35mm slides from the '80's are a bit blurry but then those were the days of 65ASA film, 1/125th and Focus DIY. These are probably best looked at in large format. These pictures are published for pleasure/information/research purposes only and are not for sale or copy under any circumstances. Information in captions has been researched as thoroughly as possible but its accuracy cannot be guaranteed.Read More


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Makings of a real Thanksgiving? Hospitality to strangers.
Opening one's home at Thanksgiving to those less fortunate evokes the spirit of that first feast of gratitude between Pilgrims and Indians – a shared table of different peoples.
Of all the holidays in America, Thanksgiving brings out a special antenna in many people. They become alert to those who are far from family or home and then invite them to their yearly feast of food and gratitude.
This act of welcoming others, even strangers, into our homes for a shared meal evokes the first thanksgiving. If not for the hospitality of the Wampanoag tribe, the Pilgrims might not have survived their first year in New England's "howling wilderness." Their joint feast of fowl and fixings was really a giving of thanks for the welcome acceptance of one people by another.
That same spirit of hospitality will be witnessed this Thanksgiving in the welcoming of people hit by superstorm Sandy into the homes of those who probably open their hearts to refugees of any storm of life.
And this Thanksgiving, there are many holiday refugees. They are the isolated seniors of an aging society, the many more college students too far from home, or the immigrants who know little of American traditions. One in 3 people now lives alone, up from 1 in 10 just 60 years ago. Nearly half of working-class children don't live with their father.
Real hospitality, the kind of open-handed acceptance of those less fortunate or who are very different from us, has eroded. Schedules are more hectic and time precious. Divorce and job mobility break up neighborliness. People live more as residents of a community than stewards of it. That loss of community raises a fear of others.
"The best predictor of a low crime rate in a neighborhood," says Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam, "is how many of the neighbors know each other's first names."
Even Martin Luther complained in the 16th century that the hospitality of Abraham's day was not possible with "such a large number of vagabonds and scoundrels in the world as there is today."
The word hospitality, derived from a Greek word meaning "taking care of strangers," is most often used now for an industry – hotels, resorts, or restaurants. In churches, it can simply apply to those who usher or serve refreshments after a service. And it is often associated simply with entertaining friends rather than the transcending of prejudice by hosting strangers in our homes.
Yet when Lincoln declared an annual Thanksgiving, it was meant to promote hospitality. The woman who championed the official holiday, Sarah Hale, wrote in 1864: "Let us each see to it that on this one day there shall be no family or individual, within the compass of our means to help, who shall not have some portion prepared, and some reason to join in the general Thanksgiving."
The holiday can be a great equalizer, bringing together the rich and poor or a family with strangers. In ancient days, strangers would wash each other's feet or provide a spare bed as a generous welcome. The willingness to meet such basic needs was the moral basis for holding society together.
The benefits of hospitality can be hard to predict. "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares," we read in Hebrews.
Making a place at a Thanksgiving dinner for others who have little should not be a duty or something done with an expectation of reciprocity. Such kindness may be repaid in ways not imagined. A community may be created or restored. Fears may be reduced and social boundaries broken.
Hospitality creates the kind of gratitude that pays forward to the next Thanksgiving.


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Red Sox - 205 020 001 - 10 12 1 White Sox - 101 100 000 - 3 7 0Kevin Youkilis went 3-for-4 with a grand slam and Jarrod Saltalamacchia hit two home runs to power Boston to its fourth consecutive victory on a chilly night (39 degrees) in Chicago.
Doubront (6-5-3-3-2, 110) and Junichi Tazawa (3-2-0-0-4, 51) took care of the pitching chores, with Tazawa earning a save for his three innings of work. The White Sox left 10 runners on base.
Adrian Gonzalez and David Ortiz knocked in runs in the first inning. Yook and Salty went back-to-back in the third. Ryan Sweeney had an RBI single in the ninth.
The Red Sox are batting .363 (69-for-190) with 10 home runs over their last five games. Runs scored in those five games: 9, 6, 11, 7, 10.
Felix Doubront / Philip Humber
Doubront has been the Red Sox's best starting pitcher over the first three weeks of the season, with a 2.92 xFIP in three starts and a 110 ERA+. His 0.4 WAR is tops on the staff, slightly better than Daniel Bard and Jon Lester (both at 0.3).
Humber pitched the 21st perfect game in baseball history in his last start, on Saturday in Seattle. Humber has retired 29 straight batters, still a far cry from the major league record of 45, set by Mark Buehrle of the White Sox in 2009. ... Johnny Vander Meer pitched consecutive no-hitters for the Reds in 1938.
Pitching Match-ups:
Friday: Daniel Bard / John Danks
Saturday: Jon Lester / Jake Peavy
Sunday: Josh Beckett / Gavin Floyd


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January 30, 2017 in News by RBN Staff
Source: Online Ministries
I was rereading an article in the October issue of the Evangelist Magazine. The article listed Alan Stang as the source, having it published on his News with Views page. Here is what he had to say;
Nov. 6, 2008 – "I read this warning on my daily radio talk show last week, before the election. It is even more relevant now, because the same thing that was imposed on South Africa—by the United States—is now happening here. So many people have asked for a copy of this message from a South African journalist that I post it here. Of course the parallels cannot be exact, but see whether you recognize any of this." – Alan Stang
I do not know when this was originally written. A search turned up the earliest in June 2006 and my oh may how spot on it is in hind sight! As you read this you may think Germma Meyer had a vision or a Word from the Lord concerning what will happen to America. The Book of Ecclesiastes 1:9 "The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun." certainly fits this warning.
This was written at least 1 1/2 years before the Muslim Barack Hussein Obama was anointed to be America's destroyer by the global elite. Now, eight years later, we seem to have a reprieve from all the carnage and mayhem that Hound of Hell has caused. Is God giving America one last chance? Have enough people invoked 2nd Chronicles 7:14 "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."? Have enough people truly humbled themselves? Will God heal the land? If what is written is any indication of what is yet to come, sad to say we are in a heap of dog doodoo!
A Warning for America from South Africa
By Gemma Meyer (Gemma Meyer is the pseudonym of a South African journalist. She and her husband, a former conservative member of parliament, still reside in South Africa.)
People used to say that South Africa was 20 years behind the rest of the Western world. Television, for example, came late to South Africa (but so did pornography and the gay rights movement).
Today, however, South Africa may be the grim model of the future Western world, for events in America reveal trends chillingly similar to those that destroyed our country.
America's structures are Western. Your Congress, your lobbying groups, your free speech, and the way ordinary Americans either get involved or ignore politics are peculiarly Western, not the way most of the world operates. But the fact that only about a third of Americans deem it important to vote is horrifying in light of how close you are to losing your Western character.
Writing letters to the press, manning stands at county fairs, hosting fund-raising dinners, attending rallies, setting up conferences, writing your Congressman – that is what you know, and what you are comfortable with. Those are the political methods you've created for yourselves to keep your country on track and to ensure political accountability.
But woe to you if – or more likely, when – the rules change. White Americans may soon find themselves unable or unwilling to stand up to challenge the new political methods that will be the inevitable result of the ethnic metamorphosis now taking place in America. Unable to cope with the new rules of the game—violence, mob riots, intimidation through accusations of racism, demands for proportionality based on racial numbers, and all the other social and political weapons used by the have-nots to bludgeon treasure and power from the haves—Americans, like others before them, will no doubt cave in. They will compromise away their independence and ultimately their way of life.
That is exactly what happened in South Africa. I know, because I was there and I saw it happen.
South Africa used to be one of the most advanced nations on earth. Then Washington intervened.
Westerners need peace. They need order and stability. They are builders and planners. But what we got was the peace of the grave for our society.
The Third World is different – different peoples with different pasts and different cultures. Yet Westerners continue to mistake the psychology of the Third World and its peoples. Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe are perfect examples of those mistakes. Sierra Leone is in perpetual civil war, and Zimbabwe—once the thriving, stable Rhodesia—is looting the very people (the white men) who feed the country. Yet Westerners do not admit that the same kind of savagery could come to America when enough immigrants of the right type assert themselves. The fact is, Americans are sitting ducks for Third World exploitation of the Western conscience of compassion.
Those in the West who forced South Africa to surrender to the ANC [African National Congress] and its leaders did not consider Africa to be the dangerous, corrupt, and savage place it is now in Zimbabwe and South Africa. Those Western politicians now have a similar problem looming on their own doorsteps: the demand for power and treasure from the non-Western peoples inside the realm.
Again, Washington forced Rhodesia into Communist hands. Rhodesia exported tons of food. Zimbabwe typically starves. Washington did this.
It is already too late for South Africa, but not for America if enough people strengthen their spine and take on the race terrorists, the armies of the "politically correct" and, most dangerous of all, the craven politicians who believe "compassionate conservatism" will buy them a few more votes, a few more days of peace.
White South Africans, you should remember, have been in that part of Africa for the same amount of time whites have inhabited North America; yet ultimately South Africans voted for their own suicide. We are not so very different from you.
South Africans voted for their own suicide. Did you?
We lost our country through skillful propaganda, pressure from abroad (not least from the U.S.A.), unrelenting charges of "oppression" and "racism," and the shrewd assessment by African tyrants that the white man has many Achilles' heels, the most significant of which are his compassion, his belief in the "equality of man," and his "love your neighbor" philosophy—none of which are part of the Third World's history.
The mainline churches played a big role in the demise of Western influence throughout Africa, too, especially in South Africa. Today's tyrants were yesterday's mission-school protégés. Many dictators in Africa were men of the cloth. They knew their clerical collars would deflect criticism and obfuscate their real aims, which had nothing whatever to do with the "brotherhood of man."
Other tyrants, like the infamous Idi Amin, were trained and schooled by the whites themselves, at Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard. After receiving the best from the West, they unleashed a resentful bloodlust against their benefactors.
From what I have seen and read thus far, I fear Americans will capitulate just as we did. Americans are, generally, a soft lot. They don't want to quarrel or obstruct the claims of those who believe they were wronged. They like peace and quiet, and they want to compromise and be nice.
In America, the courts are still the final arbiters of society's laws. But what will happen when your future majority refuses to abide by court rulings – as in Zimbabwe. What will happen when the new majority says the judges are racists, and that they refuse to acknowledge "white man's justice"? What will happen when the courts are filled with their people, or their sympathizers? In California, Proposition 187 has already been overturned.
What will you do when the future non-white majority decides to change the names of streets and cities? What will you do when they no longer want to use money that carries the portraits of old, dead white "racists" and slave owners? Will you cave in, like you did on flying the Confederate flag? What about the national anthem? Your official language?
Don't laugh. When the "majority" took over in South Africa, the first targets were our national symbols.
In another generation, America may well face what Africa is now experiencing – invasions of private land by the "have-nots;" the decline in health care quality; roads and buildings in disrepair; the banishment of your history from the education of the young; the revolutionization of your justice system.
In South Africa today, only 9 percent of murderers end up in jail. Court dockets are regularly purchased and simply disappear. Magistrates can be bribed as can the prison authorities, making escapes commonplace. Vehicle and airplane licenses are regularly purchased, and forged school and university certificates are routine.
What would you think of the ritual slaughter of animals in your neighbor's backyard? How do you clean up the blood and entrails that litter your suburban streets? How do you feel about the practice of witchcraft, in which the parts of young girls and boys are needed for "medicinal" purposes? How do you react to the burning of witches?
Don't laugh. All that is quite common in South Africa today.
Don't imagine that government officials caught with their fingers in the till will be punished. Excuses – like the need to overcome generations of white racism – will be found to exonerate the guilty. In fact, known criminals will be voted into office because of a racial solidarity among the majority that doesn't exist among the whites. When Ian Smith of the old Rhodesia tried to stand up to the world, white South African politicians were among the Westerners pressuring him to surrender.
When Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe murders his political opponents, ignores unfavorable court decisions, terrorizes the population and siphons off millions from the state treasury for himself and his friends, South Africa's new President Thabo Mbeki holds his hand and declares his support. That just happened a few weeks ago.
Your tax dollars will go to those who don't earn and don't pay. In South Africa, organizations that used to have access to state funds such as old age homes, the arts, and veterans' services, are simply abandoned.
What will happen is that Western structures in America will be either destroyed from without, or transformed from within, used to suit the goals of the new rulers. And they will reign either through terror, as in Zimbabwe today, or exert other corrupt pressures to obtain, or buy votes. Once power is in the hands of aliens, don't expect loyalty or devotion to principle from those whose jobs are at stake. One of the most surprising and tragic components of the disaster in South Africa is how many previously anti-ANC whites simply moved to the other side.
Once you lose social, cultural, and political dominance, there is no getting it back again.
Please note. Once it's gone, it's gone. Whatever you do later, however hard you fight, you cannot get it back.
Unfortunately, your habits and values work against you. You cannot fight terror and street mobs with letters to your Congressmen. You cannot fight accusations of racism with prayer meetings. You cannot appeal to the goodness of your fellow man when the fellow man despises you for your weaknesses and hacks off the arms and legs of his political opponents.
To survive, Americans must never lose the power they now enjoy to people from alien cultures. Above all, don't put yourselves to the test of fighting only when your backs are against the wall. You will probably fail.
Millions around the world want your good life. But make no mistake: They care not for the high-minded ideals of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, and your Constitution. What they want are your possessions, your power, and your status.
And they already know that their allies among you, the "human rights activists," the skillful lawyers and the left-wing politicians will fight for them, and not for you. They will exploit your compassion and your Christian charity, and your good will. They have studied you, Mr. and Mrs. America, and they know your weaknesses well.
They know what to do. Do you?


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Here is a look at the life of the late Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela from 1998 to 2013.
Birth date: July 28, 1954
Death date: March 5, 2013
Birth place: Sabaneta, Barinas, Venezuela
Birth name: Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias
Father: Hugo Chavez, school teacher
Mother: Elena (Frias) Chavez, school teacher
Marriages: Marisabel Rodríguez de Chavez (December 1997- 2004, divorced); Nancy Colmenares de Chavez (divorced mid-1990s)
Children: with Marisabel Chavez: Rosa Inés; with Nancy Chavez: Rosa Virginia, María Gabriela, Hugo Rafael, Raúl Alfonzo
Education: Military Academy of Venezuela in Caracas, 1975
Religion: Roman Catholic
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Was closely aligned with Fidel Castro of Cuba.
1975 - Joins Venezuela's Army.
1990 - Lieutenant Colonel in the Venezuelan Army.
February 4, 1992-March 26, 1994 - Is imprisoned for a coup attempt against President Carlos Andres Perez.
1994 - Forms the Fifth Republic Movement, a political opposition group.
December 6, 1998 - Is elected the youngest president in Venezuela's history.
February 2, 1999 - Is sworn in as president of Venezuela.
1999 - Chavez's government creates a new constitution. It passes in a vote on December 15, 1999.
July 30, 2000 - Wins re-election to the presidency for a six-year term, under the new constitution.
April 8, 2002 (week of) - Demonstrations break out across Venezuela due to an economic crisis. Sixteen demonstrators are killed as well as one police officer on April 11 in Caracas.
April 12, 2002 - Chavez says he will "abandon his duties" and Pedro Carmona Estanga becomes President. On the following day, demonstrations force Carmona to resign and Diosdado Cabello, Chavez's vice president, takes over for one day.
April 14, 2002 - Chavez is reinstated as president.
August 20, 2003 - Opposition groups present election officials with approximately 2.7-3.2 million signatures calling for the removal/recall of Chavez from the presidency.
June 3, 2004 - The National Electoral Council of Venezuela announces that Chavez's opponents have collected enough valid signatures to force a recall vote.
August 15, 2004 - A vote to potentially recall Chavez fails and he remains president. 59% of voters vote to keep him in office.
August 22, 2005 - Conservative Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson calls for the United States to assassinate Chavez, calling him "a terrific danger" bent on exporting Communism and Islamic extremism across the Americas. "If he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it," Robertson tells viewers on his "The 700 Club" show. "It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war."
September 15, 2005 - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez delivers a fiery speech to the UN General Assembly, criticizing the United Nations as an imperialist institution and suggesting the world body move its headquarters out of the United States.
September 20, 2006 - In a speech to the UN General Assembly, Chavez says in reference to US President George W. Bush, "The devil came here yesterday, and it smells of sulfur still today."
December 3, 2006 - Claims victory in Venezuela's presidential election against Manuel Rosales after Rosales concedes.
January 31, 2007 - The Venezuelan National Assembly approves a law that gives Chavez the authority to rule by decree. He has been granted the special powers for 18 months.
April 30, 2007 - Chavez announces that Venezuela will formally pull out of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
May 1, 2007 - Chavez's government takes control of Venezuela's last remaining privately run oil fields.
May 28, 2007 - Chavez creates a furor when he refuses to renew the broadcast license of Radio Caracas Television (RCTV), Venezuela's oldest television network. His decision to shut it down draws claims of censorship and days of protests in Caracas and other cities. RCTV returns in mid-July.
January 10, 2008 - Chavez assists in brokering the release of two Colombian hostages, Consuelo Gonzalez and Clara Rojas, who had been held for five years by FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
March 14, 2008 - In a public statement, Chavez dares the United States to put Venezuela on a list of countries that sponsor terrorism.
February 15, 2009 - A referendum passes that will allow Chavez to run for a third six-year term in 2012.
September 7, 2009 - Oliver Stone's film "South of the Border," featuring Chavez, premieres at the Venice Film Festival. Chavez attends the premiere.
December 17, 2010 - Venezuelan Television reports that Venezuela's National Assembly has granted President Hugo Chavez the power to pass laws by decree for the next 18 months.
May 9, 2011 - Chavez calls in to Venezuelan state television and says that he's canceling a scheduled trip to Brazil because of debilitating pain in his knee requiring doctor-ordered bed rest.
June 5-7, 2011 - Chavez visits Brazil and Ecuador and heads to Cuba, scheduled as the third leg of an international trip.
June 10, 2011 - Undergoes surgery for a pelvic abscess in Cuba. In a speech on June 30, 2011 Chavez says that a cancerous tumor was removed during this surgery.
June 23, 2011- Venezuelan government officials go on the offensive as media reports suggest Chavez could have cancer. In a Twitter post, Venezuelan Vice Foreign Minister Temir Porras said Chavez's enemies should "stop dreaming," adding that "the only thing that has metastasized is the cancer of The Miami Herald and the rest of the right-wing media."
June 29, 2011 - Cuba TV releases video of Chavez and Fidel Castro. The video is aimed at curtailing rumors regarding Chavez's health.
June 30, 2011 - In a speech broadcast on Venezuelan state television from Havana, Chavez reveals that doctors have removed a cancerous tumor from his body. He does not specify what type of cancer he is battling.
July 4, 2011 - Chavez returns to Venezuela after more than three weeks of treatment in Cuba.
July 5, 2011 - Chavez does not attend Venezuela's bicentennial parade, but addresses the crowd from inside the presidential palace.
July 13, 2011 - Announces he is in his second phase of cancer treatment and may undergo chemotherapy and radiation treatment.
July 16, 2011 - Chavez returns to Cuba for further cancer treatment. Before leaving Venezuela, he delegates some of his power to Vice President Elias Jaua and Finance Minister Jorge Giordani.
July 23, 2011 - Arrives back in Venezuela after traveling to Cuba to receive chemotherapy treatment. Two days later, Chavez tells a newspaper that he is still planning to run for president in 2012.
July 24, 2011 - Successfully undergoes first round of chemotherapy in Cuba.
August 7-14, 2011 - Returns to Cuba for second round of chemotherapy.
September 18-22, 2011 - Chavez travels to Cuba for another round of chemotherapy.
September 25, 2011 - An audio recording of Chavez airs on Venezuelan state-run television, assuring listeners he is recovering successfully from his last round of chemotherapy.
October 20, 2011 - After five days of medical tests in Cuba, Chavez says he's beaten cancer. "There are no malignant cells in this body. They don't exist," he says.
February 21, 2012 - Chavez says that he will need to undergo surgery to remove a lesion, roughly two centimeters in diameter, from the same area where doctors removed a cancerous tumor from his body in June of 2011.
February 24-March 16, 2012 - In Cuba for cancer treatment.
March 25-March 29, 2012 - In Cuba for cancer treatment.
March 31-April 4, 2012 - In Cuba for cancer treatment.
April 7-11, 2012 - In Cuba for cancer treatment.
April 14, 2012 - Chavez is unable to attend the Summit of the Americas in Colombia due to illness.
April 26, 2012 - Returns to Venezuela from Cuba after another round of cancer treatments.
May 2, 2012 - Names ten Venezuelans to an influential commission called the Council of State. It is the highest circle of advisers to the president, but has never actually been formed. The timing of the appointments is significant, as speculation increases over who will succeed Chavez if he becomes too ill to govern, or if he dies.
May 1-11, 2012 - In Cuba for cancer treatment.
July 9, 2012 - Chavez declares that he is cancer-free.
October 7, 2012 - Wins re-election as president for a new six-year term.
November 28, 2012 - Arrives in Cuba for another round of medical treatment.
December 7, 2012 - Returns to Venezuela from Cuba after receiving hyperbaric oxygen treatment.
December 8, 2012 - In a televised announcement, Chavez reveals his cancer has returned and that he will return to Cuba in two days for more surgery. Vice President Nicolas Maduro is named by Chavez to succeed him should his health worsen.
December 11, 2012 - Chavez undergoes six hours of surgery in Havana, Cuba.
December 30, 2012 - According to Vice President Nicolas Maduro, Chavez is suffering from "new complications" and his health remains "delicate."
January 3, 2013 - Venezuelan Information Minister Ernesto Villegas says in a televised statement that Chavez is suffering from a "severe" lung infection and "respiratory insufficiency."
January 9, 2013 - Venezuela's Supreme Court rules that Hugo Chavez will remain president even though he is unable to attend his inauguration, scheduled for January 10.
February 18, 2013 - Chavez returns to Venezuela from Cuba. He announces his return via Twitter saying, "We come back to the country of Venezuela. Thank God! Thank you dear people! Here we continue the treatment."
March 4, 2013 - Information Minister Ernesto Villegas announces on state-run TV that Chavez is battling a new and "severe" infection and that his condition remains "delicate."
March 5, 2013 - Chavez dies at 58.
March 22, 2013 - Chavez is laid to rest in Cuartel de la Montaña military history museum in Caracas.


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Today I got the chance to see the latest film from Dreamworks, Trolls. This is a film I wasn't looking forward to as the trailers had been frankly terrible (need I remind you of the twerking troll that we can never forget…). But, I always try to go into films with an open mind, and this was no exception. So what did I think of Trolls?
Well, it's not awful but it is very uneven.
Based on the old toys from the 90s, Trolls is a simple story geared towards little children. It is about Poppy (Anna Kendrick) the happy troll and Branch (Justin Timberlake) the grumpy troll who must work together to save the rest of the trolls from the evil bergens.
Along the way they sing pop songs…this is where some of that unevenness comes in. A few of the songs work like the catchy Can't Stop the Feeling but most are complete throw-aways and most aren't very long. For example, they sing Sound of Silence or September for under a minute, which feels weird to have all these abbreviated numbers. Trolls isn't a very long movie and it felt like the songs were often there to puff up a weak script.
Once Branch and Poppy get to the bergen village the movie changes from a road trip to a Cyrano de Bergerac story where Poppy and the trolls work to help a scullery maid named Bridget get the self confidence to court the Bergen prince. This part I didn't really enjoy very much and I particularly found Bridget to be an annoying character very badly voiced by Zooey Deschanel.
That said, there was a cheerfulness to Trolls that was infectious and made me smile. There were some nice moments of heart between Branch and Poppy and overall I think little kids will be entertained.
It's very similar to Angry Birds Movie, so if you liked that than you will love Trolls. The message is a little better but the plots are very similar.
The voice casting was uneven. Like I said, I hated Zooey Deschanel but Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake were fine, and they certainly have the singing chops for the roles.
Unfortunately the biggest surprise for me was the uneven animation. I love the felt feel to the character design on the trolls but did not like the design of the bergens. I know they are supposed to be the bad guys but I had a hard time watching them.
Most of the animation had a Lisa Frank 90s bright colors feel but then there were sections where the rendering felt cheap and surprisingly weak. Parts reminded me of low-budget fair like the Tinkerbell movies.
So, Trolls is passable entertainment. If you have small kids they will probably like it. It has some nice animation. It has a few fun songs but it also has some poor animation and annoying songs. It has characters I liked and didn't like. It's just a mixed bag movie if I ever saw one.
It's certainly a million times better than last year's Home so there is that to be grateful for.
Overall Grade- C
Check out my youtube review


text: Porsche has a surefire winner on its hands with the 2015 Macan. The small SUV is deeply rooted in the company's sporting heritage, as is evident with even a passing glance. The Macan's steel and aluminum body has no ill proportions and, as Porsche says, it "embodies sportiness, dynamism, and precision, together with an elegance and lightweight constructions." With cues from the Cayenne, 911 and even the 918 Spyder, the new Macan is unmistakably Porsche. The Macan is available in either S or Turbo trim. Both feature active all-wheel drive and the latest development of Porsche Traction Management. The rear axle is always powered, while the front receives its cues from the available traction. In particularly unstable driving situations, such as icy roads, fully 100 percent of the Macan's power can be shifted to the front wheels through a multi-place clutch. The Macan also benefits from an aluminum 5-arm wishbone suspension up front, with a self-tracking trapezoidal link suspension in the back. Paired with big 6-piston brakes, 19-inch alloy wheels and fat tires, the Macan is as sure-footed as they come. The Turbo also includes Porsche Active Suspension Management (PASM), an electronic damping control system featuring Comfort, Sport and Sport Plus driving modes for increased stability, safety and comfort. Two all-aluminum engines are offered in the Macan. The S is powered by a new twin-turbocharged 3.0L V6, which produces 340 horsepower at 5,500 rpm and and 339 ft-lb of torque from just 1,450 rpm. That's enough to propel the Macan S to 60 mph in 5.2 seconds, with a top speed of 156 mph. The Macan Turbo, meanwhile, moves thanks to a 3.6L twin-turbo V6. The unit makes an even 400 horsepower at 6,000 rpm and 406 ft-lb at 1,350 rpm. That's good for a supercar-like 0?60 mph time of just 4.6 seconds and a top end of 164 mph. Both engines are mated to Porsche's PDK dual-clutch 7-speed automatic transmission, which makes for extremely fast gear changes. Paddle shifters make changing gears a snap and a standard Sport button allows for more responsive engine and transmission management. This equates to faster shift times, a higher redline and a sweeter sound from the exhaust. Standard amenities in the Macan include bi-xenon headlights with dynamic headlight leveling and cleaning, along with LED running lights and fog lights. Porsche Communication Management (PCM) with hard-drive navigation is also standard, as is a 14-speaker Bose audio system, Bluetooth connectivity and a power tailgate. Macan interiors are as luxurious and ergonomically efficient as anything Porsche has assembled in the rest of its range. Leather abounds. The large tachometer sits front and center before the driver, with the ignition on the left -- a Porsche haulmark. The Macan S features 8-way power adjustable seats with memory, while the Macan Turbo offers 18-way power seats. Both models feature a 3-way rear bench that, when folded, allows for 50.3 cubic-feet of cargo space. Some exceptional options and packages are offered for the Macan. Wheel choices go all the way to 21 inches in several designs. The Sport Chrono Package is a button-operated change in the way the Macan responds to driver input, thanks to an even more aggressive mapping of the engine, transmission, and chassis, along with "launch control" for the fastest starts possible. When equipped, 0?60 mph sprints in either model are reduced by .2 seconds. Also available is an air suspension, exclusive in this market segment, which replaces the stock setup. It includes a leveling system, ride height adjustment, and PASM. The Premium Package Plus includes front and rear park assist, with a reversing camera, ventilated front seats, auto-dimming mirrors, a 2-piece panoramic sunroof, lane keep assist, and lane change assist, which helps check for any hazards around the Macan when a driver begins a lane maneuver. Finally, European delivery from Porsche factories at either Leipzig or Zuffenhausen is a no-cost option.


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Thursday, 24 July 2014 09:08 AM EDT
Sen. John Walsh said his unattributed use of others' work in his master's thesis was not plagiarism but "a few citations that were unintentionally left out of a term paper" that he blamed in part on post-Iraq war trauma.
The apparent plagiarism first reported by The New York Times on Wednesday was the second potentially damaging issue raised this year involving the Montana Democrat's 33-year military career, which has been a cornerstone of his campaign to keep the seat he was appointed to in February when Max Baucus resigned to become U.S. ambassador to China.
National Democrats said Wednesday they remained "100 percent behind Sen. Walsh" in his campaign against Republican Rep. Steve Daines. But even before the plagiarism revelations, top Democratic strategists saw Walsh's campaign as an uphill pull, never counting on it as key to holding their Senate majority.
Walsh dismissed the notion that the allegations will harm his campaign. He also chafed at the suggestion that he deliberately presented other scholars' work as his own in his 2007 thesis to earn a Master of Strategic Studies degree at the U.S. Army War College.
"I admit that I made a mistake," he said. "My record will be defined by (Walsh's service in) the National Guard, not by a few citations that were unintentionally left out in a term paper."
Walsh said that when he wrote the thesis, he had post-traumatic stress disorder from his service in Iraq, was on medication and was dealing with the stress of a fellow veteran's recent suicide.
"I don't want to blame my mistake on PTSD, but I do want to say it may have been a factor," the senator said. "My head was not in a place very conducive to a classroom and an academic environment."
Walsh submitted his thesis, titled "The Case for Democracy as a Long Term National Strategy," nearly two years after he returned from Iraq and about a year before he became Montana's adjutant general overseeing the state's National Guard and Department of Military Affairs.
The paper includes a series of unattributed passages taken from the writings of other scholars.
The first page borrows heavily from a 2003 Foreign Affairs piece written by Thomas Carothers, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a 2009 book by Natan Sharansky with Ron Dermer called "The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror."
Sharansky is a former Soviet dissident and chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel. Dermer is the Israeli ambassador to the United States.
All six of the recommendations that Walsh listed at the end of his paper are taken nearly word-for-word without attribution from a Carnegie paper written by Carothers and three other scholars at the institute.
Carothers and a Dermer spokesman declined to comment.
One section is nearly identical to about 600 words from a 1998 paper by Sean Lynn-Jones, a scholar at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, a research institute at Harvard.
Lynn-Jones said Walsh appears to have received a degree on the basis of work that was not entirely his own, and that anyone seeking credit for an academic degree "needs to acknowledge where the material is coming from."
"Maybe he unintentionally didn't cite my work, but it's up to the Army War College to determine whether this is acceptable by their standards or not," Lynn-Jones said.
An after-hours call to the Carlisle, Pennsylvania, school rang unanswered Wednesday.
Walsh declined to answer repeated questions about whether he believed he earned the degree if the thesis' conclusions were not his own.
"I know about war strategy and defense because of firsthand experience leading a battalion and the Montana National Guard," he said.
The senator said when he wrote the paper, he was seeing two doctors and taking medication to deal with nightmares, anxiety and sleeplessness. He said he has since worked through those issues with his doctors and family, though he still takes antidepressant medication.
Alee Lockman, a spokeswoman for Daines, the senator's GOP opponent, declined to comment.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid praised Walsh in a statement that did not address the plagiarism allegations. Reid said Walsh "has an incredible record of military service and has distinguished himself as leader in the Senate on veterans' suicide prevention."
Democrats knew the Montana race would be a battle. Republicans need to gain six net seats this fall to control the Senate. South Dakota, West Virginia and Montana are seen as likely GOP pickups, and Republicans have several opportunities to grab the other three contests they need. Top on their lists are incumbent Democrats running in states President Barack Obama lost in 2012: Arkansas, Louisiana, North Carolina and Alaska.
Walsh is the only senator who served in the Iraq war. He capped his long career in the Montana National Guard as the state's adjutant general before becoming lieutenant governor to Gov. Steve Bullock, who appointed him to the Senate seat.
Walsh's military record was first questioned in January when records revealed the Army reprimanded him in 2010 for pressuring Guardsmen to join a private association for which he was seeking a leadership role.
Walsh was adjutant general at the time and wanted to become vice chairman of the National Guard Association of the United States. In the reprimand, Army Vice Chief of Staff Peter Chiarelli said he questioned Walsh's ability to lead.
Political scientist David Parker of Montana State University said Walsh's thesis combined with the reprimand raise questions about the senator's integrity.
"If this were it, in isolation, I don't think it would be a big deal," Parker said. "But now we've got two issues of honor and competency."
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Part VIII of the SoundCloud Sessions with Maps & Atlases
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Monday, September 28, 2009
Note by the Editor 'James' of 'Obama in the White House' blog
As witnessed by the tragedies that had torn the Philippine islands apart during the last week, the monsoon season has been especially hard on the Philippines this year. Hundreds of lives have been lost and hundreds of thousands of people have been left homeless. A vast majority of the islands have been affected by the storm, and international aid for helping the victims of this tragic storm should be forthcoming. In a meeting a few months ago, President Arroyo of the Philippines visited the White House and met President Obama. The meeting stage was fairly formal between the two leaders but now because of the storm, another meeting may take place, this time in the Philippines to discuss aid that may be afforded to the stricken country. A formal date of the next meeting between the two leaders has not been announced, but likely. In the transcript below found on the WhiteHouse website - www.whitehouse.gov, is the total transcript of the meeting at the White House that occurred in the end of July 2009.
In the meantime, I share this prayer I found on a blog called 'And I Am but a Small Voice'. Every one should take this moment and read this prayer, dedicated to the people of the Philippines in the wake of typhoon Ondoy.
Bless the people of the Philippines who has lost their houses, belongings, lives , due to typhoon Ondoy. We know that you have the power to provide and to take, please make a miracle and bless them abundantly.
Please remove all the worries, stress and fears in their heart, as they have lost everything.
Please ease the situation and bring them the joy and comfort them that things will work out.
Uplift their spirit and soothe their heart, and reassure them that there will be brighter days for them.
For thy is the Kingdom, the power and the Glory Forever
Amen "
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release July 31, 2009
July 30, 2009
Oval Office
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, let me express my thanks and appreciation for the visit from President Arroyo. As we discussed during our meeting here and our delegations, the relationship between the United States and the Philippines dates back many years. It is a friendship that is forged not only in treaties and trade relationships and military relationships, but it is also strengthened by very personal ties that exist between our two countries. We are proud to have 4 million persons of Filipino ancestry contributing to our country each and every day, in all walks of life. The fact that we have Filipino veterans who have fought side by side with American soldiers on behalf of freedom -- all those things have strengthened the relationship between our two countries.
I am very pleased that President Arroyo has made such good progress on dealing with counterterrorism issues. She has initiated a peace process in Mindanao that we think is -- has the potential to bring peace and stability to a part of the Philippines that has been wracked by unrest for too long. We are very grateful of the strong voice that the Philippines has provided in dealing with issues in Asia ranging from the human rights violations that have for too long existed in Burma to the problems that we're seeing with respect to nuclear proliferation in North Korea.
I am looking forward to my travels to Southeast Asia, and the Philippines will be the coordinating country in the U.S. relationship with ASEAN, the primary organization -- strategic organization for Southeast Asian countries. And in addition, the Philippines will be sharing the Non-Proliferation Treaty conference that will be taking next -- place next year.
And so we're going to have a busy agenda together working to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons, improving the multilateral partnerships in Asia that can create greater security and greater prosperity for all countries. And in addition, we continue to be grateful for the outstanding contributions that the Philippines has made with respect to U.N. peacekeeping around the world.
So although the Philippines is not the largest of countries, it, in using a phrase from boxing, punches above its weight in the international arena, and we are very grateful that President Arroyo has visited us here today, and we are looking forward to using this meeting as a way of launching even greater cooperation between our two countries in the years to come.
PRESIDENT ARROYO: Thank you, Mr. President, and thank you for inviting me to have this very important conversation here in the White House.
The U.S. is very essential to the economic, diplomatic, and national security of our country. We are very thankful for the U.S. as an important ally in helping to professionalize our military and making it more effective.
Just as important, we are thankful to the U.S. for being such a good ally in our -- working on soft power by helping us build bridges, roads, schools, not only in Mindanao but across the nation. And this assistance of the U.S. has gone a long way in helping us to achieve what we have been able to achieve in the peace process in Mindanao in southern Philippines, and also in our fight against terrorism.
I was very happy to let President Obama know that the Muslim secessionists have agreed, together with a Philippine government panel, to work towards a resumption of formal peace talks, and we're very thankful for the international community, including the U.S., for their assistance in bringing us to this stage.
Internationally, we stand foursquare behind the United States on the position that it has taken with regard to Burma and with regard to North Korea's nuclear adventurism.
We also applaud President Obama for his leadership on climate change, which is so important to the Philippines because we are an archipelagic country and severe climate change is going to be disastrous for our country. We are already feeling the weather pattern changes in the rising seas.
We are also -- finally, may I say that I bring the thanks also of our Filipino veterans for the inclusion of the veterans' benefits in the fiscal stimulus package, something that we have all waited for as a country for the last 60 years.
So I'm very grateful for this opportunity. We thank the Obama administration for the new engagement in our part of the world, and we look forward to a stronger relationship between the U.S. and ASEAN and, bilaterally, a stronger relationship with our two countries.
Thank you, Mr. President.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you so much.
Okay, we're going to take two questions, one from a Filipino reporter.
PRESIDENT ARROYO: Yes.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Yes. This gentleman right here. Is this a good -- (laughter.)
Go ahead.
Q Thank you very much, Mr. President, and President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. I am from the Philippine media, sir. It's noted that you're the first Asian head of state to be afforded by President Obama this -- such an invitation. As much as this is your first time to see President Obama in person and you have talked to him, could you kindly share to us, Madam President, your impressions of the American President? (Laughter.)
PRESIDENT OBAMA: I'm sure she thinks I'm much younger looking than she expected. (Laughter.)
PRESIDENT ARROYO: Well, as a person, President Obama is very cordial, warm, and welcoming. And I'm really very impressed about -- of his deep understanding and knowledge of the Philippines and the Filipino people -- the understanding of the close relationship within the Filipino people and the American people.
And we -- I think we connected very well also on our position with regard to Burma and Aung San Suu Kyi, with regard to North Korea and nuclear proliferation, with regard to human rights and terrorism. And we welcome President Obama's reaching out to the Muslim world, and also we are very pleased about his -- the importance that he accords to engagement with our part of the world.
Q Is it considered to be ungrateful if I will not get your reaction? It will be greatly appreciated if you can also give your impression of our President.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, obviously, President Arroyo has done outstanding work on a whole range of issues. She mentioned the areas where the United States and the Philippines are of one accord, but as evidenced here today, she's somebody who knows the issues. She has experience leading the Philippines through some very difficult times. She has expressed a great friendship towards the United States, and aside from her great personal charm -- (laughter) -- we are very appreciative of the concrete ways in which her administration has pursued strengthening ties with the United States. So I'm very grateful for that.
Okay, Jeff Mason.
Q Yes, sir. A double-barreled question for you. First of all, what do you expect to be the main message of the GDP figures that come out tomorrow? And second of all, what do you think will be the main message of your meeting tonight in the Rose Garden?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: On GDP, I don't have a crystal ball and I haven't received the figures yet, but I think if you look at the consensus of economists right now, it confirms that we have seen a significant slowing down of the contraction over the last several months. There are a lot of indicators out there that tell us that job losses, although still way too high, are not at the pace that we were seeing in January or February. Housing prices went up for the first time in three years. The credit system, the banking system, the financial markets generally have settled down. You're not seeing the huge volatility or panic that you were seeing.
And so all of that is a sign that we have stepped away from the precipice. As Ben Bernanke and others across the ideological spectrum have indicated, we were in a position where we could have gone into a Great Depression. I think those fears have abated.
But I suspect that the GDP numbers will still show that the economy contracted in the second quarter, that job loss is still a huge problem. And you don't have to read GDP numbers to see that; all you got to do is talk to the American people who are still losing jobs, losing homes, and worried about their ability to keep their health care and finance their child's college educations. So we're not going to rest until we have seen not just a technical improvement in GDP but until the American people's job prospects, their incomes have rebounded -- and that's going to take some time.
With respect to tonight, you know, I am, I have to say, fascinated with the fascination about this evening. As you know, this idea was prompted when I was talking to Sergeant Crowley, and he said, well, maybe I'll have a beer in the White House someday, and I said, well, you know, I'm sure that can be arranged.
I notice this had been called the "beer summit." It's a clever term, but this is not a summit, guys. This is three folks having a drink at the end of the day and hopefully giving people an opportunity to listen to each other. And that's really all it is.
This is not a -- this is not a university seminar. It is not a summit. It's an attempt to have some personal interaction when an issue has become so hyped and so symbolic that you lose sight of just the fact that these are people involved, including myself, all of whom are imperfect. And hopefully instead of ginning up anger and hyperbole, everybody can just spend a little bit of time with some self-reflection and recognizing that other people have different points of view. And that's all it is.
And so I will be surprised if you guys all make this the lead as opposed to a very important meeting that we just had with one of our most important partners in the world, but the press has surprised me before. (Laughter.)
Thank you very much.


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Believers across the globe are preparing for the Mayan apocalypse. They're buying up Survival Pods by the thousands.
The pods are made using a fiberglass casing over a steel frame and are each equipped with oxygen tanks, food and water supplies. They also come with seat belts – essential for surviving in storms. The head of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, has approved the design of the Survival Pods.
The United States Government is making the Survival Pads available to government workers and members of unions.
"In case the world ends, we need to have the people ready to keep the government working. And the unions will be needed to rebuild streets, bridges and… everything," a White House spokesperson told WWN.
The pod are shaped like oversized ping pong balls and were designed by Liu Qiyuan in Beijing.
Vice President Joe Biden loves his Survival Pod.
The pods are designed to carry 14 people at a time, but it's possible for 30 people to survive inside for at least a year. "The insulation is such that a person can live for nine months in the pod at the north or south pole without freezing," Liu told WWN.
Liu explained that he was inspired into making the spheres after seeing the Hollywood disaster film "2012", which is itself inspired by the expiry of the Mayan calendar on the 21st December 2012. The Mayans were an ancient American civilization whose 5000 year old calendar shortly ends.
"If there really is some kind of apocalypse then you could say I've made a contribution to the survival of humanity," said Liu.
One person sure to survive the apocalypse is Charlie Sheen. He purchased 20 Survival Pods for himself and his "posse of Winners."
President Obama will be stepping into his Survival Pod on December 20th, 2012. If the world ends, and you survive… look for his floating pod off the coast of Hawaii.


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Open House: US 281 Planning Study
|George West High School
1013 W Houston St
George West, TX 78022
|Wednesday, July 24, 2013
4 p.m. - 7 p.m.
|The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) invites you to an Open House Meeting to discuss and provide input on potential improvements to US 281. The ultimate goal of this study and potential improvements is to bring US 281 up to an Interstate quality road that can serve as I‐69 in South Texas.
|This meeting will follow an open house, come and‐ go format so participants can review materials at their convenience, visit individually with TxDOT and consultant staff, and provide comments and input.
|Rickey Dailey
Corpus Christi District Public Information Officer
Phone: (361) 808-2544
Elizabeth Paradise


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How to Play
How to play blackjack
Blackjack is a classic casino game that you can enjoy right here at partypoker. You'll be taking on the dealer and trying to collect a hand with a value of as close to 21 as possible. Don't go over, though, or you'll 'bust.' Sounds easy? It is, and that's the beauty of blackjack.
Your hand value is the total of all the cards you're holding. Cards 2 to 10 are valued as indicated, face cards are all worth 10 and aces can either be 1 or 11, whichever benefits you the most.
The game starts with you making a bet. Then, you'll be dealt two cards face up. From here you've got a few options:
- If you want another card to try and get you closer to 21, you 'Hit'
- To stick with what you've got, you 'Stand'
- To receive just one more card and double your bet, hit 'Double'
- To split a pair, opt for 'Split' and get a card on each of your split cards. You can then 'Hit' or 'Stand' as you want on each
If you're dealt an ace and 10 as your first two cards, that's blackjack. This is an automatic win for you unless the dealer gets the same. If this happens, it's called a push and no one wins.
We've got 4 types of blackjack for you to enjoy – single player, single player multi-hand, multi-player multi-hand and mini blackjack.
That's the basics. If you want to know all the ins and outs you can find them below but the best way to learn is to just give it a go.
Game information
- The game is available only in 'real money' mode
- There is a minimum and a maximum bet. The maximum bet applies for the initial bet of the game
- Eight decks are used and each deck has 52 cards
- The deck is shuffled after 10% of the cards in the decks are used
- The dealer draws a card on soft 17
- Three maximum splits are allowed
- The number of cards dealt to the dealer or the player is limited only by choice (by clicking on 'Stand') or by going bust
- If the dealer has a 10, jack, queen or king as the up card, it is possible he has a blackjack. In this instance, the player's hand will lose except with another blackjack. The dealer will check whether a blackjack is possible and will collect the losing bet immediately if he does have a blackjack
How to play
- Open a blackjack table by selecting the blackjack button in the lobby or by selecting the blackjack button on any of the poker tables
- Your chips are stacked at the right side of the table window
• Select the amount you want to wager on a given hand by clicking on the chip of that denomination. Likewise, you can decrease the amount wagered by clicking on the 'Bet' stack
• Once the wager is placed, click on the 'Deal' button. The 'Deal' button will be activated only if a bet amount equal to or more than the minimum bet amount has been wagered
• The dealer deals two cards face up to you and deals two cards to himself. The first is dealt face up and the other face down
• Depending on the strength of your (the player's) cards, you can choose one of several options: 'Hit', 'Stand', 'Double', 'Split', or 'Surrender'. These are decided as per game rules
• Dealer checks for blackjack before you draw your third card
• The 'Insurance' option is offered to the player in case the dealer has an ace as his first card
- Once you/the dealer stands or busts, the results are displayed just above the 'Deal' button
- To continue the game with the same bet, click on 'Repeat bet' button
- To clear the game and place a new bet, click on 'Clear'
- To place a new bet, click on the desired chip denomination
- Your current game balance is displayed in the bottom right-hand corner
- Click on 'Rebuy' to transfer a complete or partial amount. Check the appropriate radio button and enter the desired amount
- If you have exhausted all your available balance and have no funds remaining, click on 'Rebuy' followed by the '€' button to add more funds to your real money account
- Click on 'Rules' to view the game rules
- Click on 'Game logs' to view the logs of previously played games
- Click on 'Exit Game' to stop playing
Game options
- Stand
Click on the stand button to keep your hand at its current value. If you are satisfied with your hand, you may choose to stand at any time. Click 'Stand' and when the dealer completes his or her hand, the hands will be compared.
- Hit
To be dealt another card, click on 'Hit'. You may continue to deal cards to your hand until you either stand or go bust.
- Double Down
After you are dealt your first two cards (any value), you will see the option to 'Double Down' appear. Once this option is selected, the bet amount is automatically doubled and you will be dealt one more card. The hand will auto-stand after this card.
Doubling down is also provided as an option after splitting. However, if your account balance is not sufficient for the additional bet, the double down option will not be offered.
In the event that you lose the bet, you will forfeit the entire bet amount – the initial bet and the additional amount placed for the double down option.
- Split
If you have two cards of the same value (eg, a pair of sevens, 10s, or a king and a jack and so on), you can click 'Split' to divide the cards into two hands. This option is also available in the event that you are dealt a pair of aces as your first two cards. Once this option is selected, an additional bet, equal to your original bet, is automatically placed.
If the hand qualifies for split but your account balance is insufficient for the additional bet, the split option will not be offered.
You may draw as many cards as you wish on each split hand, with the exception of splitting on aces. If aces are split, only one card will be dealt to each ace. If a 10-value card is dealt to either ace, the hand is counted as 21, not blackjack.
How to play the split option
When the split option is clicked, the cards are divided into two hands and one more card is dealt to each of the hands. An arrow pointing to a hand indicates that it is active.
- Click on Hit/Stand or other offered options, depending on your hand
- Once the first hand is decided, the arrow moves to the second hand
- Click on Hit/Stand or the other offered options, depending on your hand
Insurance gives you a chance to protect yourself if you believe the dealer might have blackjack. If the dealer's first card (open card) is an ace, you can choose to insure your hands against the dealer's blackjack by clicking on 'Insurance'. Insurance costs 50% of the bet amount and is in addition to your initial bet. Once you opt for Insurance, the additional bet is automatically placed.
If the dealer has a blackjack, the insurance bet pays 2:1 and you will lose the initial bet. In the event of the dealer not having a blackjack, you lose the insured bet and the game continues for the initial bet amount. Insurance is not offered to the player if the player blackjacks.
If the hand qualifies for insurance but your account balance is insufficient for the additional bet, the insurance option will not be offered.
As your point total is announced, you may select to discontinue play of your hand for that round and surrender only one-half of your wager. You have the option to surrender on the first two cards. This decision must be made prior to indicating whether you wish to double down, split pairs, stand and/or hit. The surrender option is not offered if the dealer has blackjack.
Click on 'Surrender' to surrender your cards. Surrender is allowed and half of the bet forfeited after the dealer has checked for a blackjack (a two-card count of 21). If the dealer's second card does not result in a blackjack, one-half of your wager will be returned. The game is completed after the dealer has checked for a blackjack.
Types of wins
|Win type
|A Blackjack, or natural, has a total of 21 in your first two cards. A Blackjack is therefore an Ace and any 10-valued card, with the additional requirement that these must be your first two cards. If you split a pair of Aces, for example, and then draw a 10-valued card on one of the Aces, this is not a Blackjack but rather a total of 21. A player Blackjack beats any dealer total other than a dealer's Blackjack, including a dealer's regular 21.
|1.5 to 1
|Normal win
|Player's total is greater than dealer's but less than or equal to 21
|1 to 1
|Total of both dealer and player hands are the same.
|Offered on the dealer's Ace to insure the player's hands against the dealer's Blackjack. Costs 50% of the bet amount in addition to the initial bet placed by the player.
|If the dealer gets a Blackjack, the insurance bet pays 2:1. Player loses the initial bet. If dealer does not get a Blackjack, player loses the insured bet and the game continues for the initial bet amount.
|Allowed only on the first two cards. Player can select to discontinue play of their hand for that round and surrender.
|If the dealer's second card does not result in a Blackjack, then one-half of the player's wager will be returned.
The theoretical return to player of this game is 98.70%.


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South Shore Market opens Friday in Kakaako
South Shore Market opens Friday morning at Ward Village – a new 25,000-square-foot shopping and eating complex on Auahi Street beneath T.J. Maxx. The surf-meets-arts-and-culture marketplace with an urban loft vibe will be home to 18 locally owned shops.
Check out the lineup below to see what's opening at 10 a.m tomorrow, Nov. 11. Future weeks will bring the openings of Chinatown's Scratch Kitchen & Bake Shop, Kakaako's Lucy's Lab Creamery, Kauai's Brick Oven Pizza and other eating places. Plus there'll be opening celebrations and discounts this Friday, Saturday and Sunday – look for the schedule at the bottom of this post.
Big Bad Wolf
Big Bad Wolf is an apparel brand for kids aged 2-10. Inspired by streetwear culture and the arts, the store features renowned artists and brands from around the world.
Cameron Hawaii
Cameron Hawaii is a unique beach resort lifestyle brand, celebrating the life and travels of Cameron – a girl who explores the world after moving to the mainland from the Islands.
Eden in Love
Owners Tanna and Bryson Dang opened their first Eden in Love boutique at Ward Warehouse. From their fully stocked scarf bar to an exclusive obi belt collection and statement necklace display, the boutique has something for everyone.
Fishcake Pop-Up
Fishcake is a home furnishing and gallery experience showcasing modern furniture designs, accessories and artwork for the contemporary home. Founded in 2007, the company has become an active player in Hawaii's design scene and hosts locally made products, exhibits, private events and more.
Flotsam & Co.
Just as "flotsam" describes wreckage from a ship, Flotsam & Co. incorporates found material into its handmade jewelry, giving new form and life to objects which may otherwise be considered debris.
Kealopiko was founded in 2006 out of a paper bag in the back of a truck. It started with a shared vision among three friends to make T-shirts that broke the traditional mold of how Hawaii has been portrayed for so long.
MORI by Art + Flea
MORI brings the unique shopping experience of Art + Flea by showcasing local designers and artists on a retail stage. Its purpose is to provide a compelling environment that embraces the spirit of Oahu's creative small business community.
Salvage Public
Salvage Public is a menswear brand designed in Hawaii by Hawaiians. All products are made in the United States.
Big Island Delights
Family-owned Big Island Delights has been creating premium cookies and confections in Hilo since 1996. Their product line includes locally grown coffee, crisp bagel chips, jerky, gift baskets and much more.
… and more coming soon
Brick Oven Pizza – Opening 2017
Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf – Opening December 2016
Holoholo Market – Opening December 2016
La Muse – Opening December 2016
Lucy's Lab Creamery – Opening December 2016
Nalu Health Bar – Opening December 2016
Twin Islands – Opening December 2016
Scratch Kitchen & Bake Shop – Opening 2017
Opening events this weekend
Friday, Nov. 11, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.
Family Fun Zone
Canvas Tote Art
Letters to Soldiers
Balloon Making
Photo Booth
Live Performances by The Willards, Pepe, Martin Saito, DJ Jami Jam, Bryson Andres, Kings of Spade and Hooptown Hotties
Saturday, Nov. 12, 11 a.m.-9 p.m.
Family Fun Zone
Canvas Tote Art
Hawaiian Humane Society Pup Up
Live Performances by Martin Saito, Sean Croucher, Big John, Mansions and Scott Ohtoro
Sunday, November 13, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Core Power Yoga Class
Family Fun Zone
Canvas Tote Art
Photo Booth
Meet & Greet with Pro Surfer Carissa Moore
Art Explorium Keiki Art Class
Kapiolani Think Tank – Make Your Own Acai Bowl plus live performances by Martin Saito, Sean Croucher, The Willards, Tahiti Rey and Joanne
South Shore Market at Ward Village
1170 Auahi St.
Monday – Saturday 10 a.m.-9 p.m.
Sunday 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Restaurant hours vary
You can find more South Shore info here and more on Ward Village here.