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We worship together indoors AND online.
We are blessed to serve you!
March 28, 2021
Palm Sunday!
The day that Christendom celebrates Jesus glorious arrival into Jerusalem. He is blessed by the people as they shout "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord". Of course things rapidly change in this, the last week of Jesus ministry.
Before there is a resurrection, there is a crucifixion,
before a crucifixion, there is a scourging and mockery,
before there was a scourging and mockery, there is there is abandonment of all the disciples,
before there is abandonment of all the disciples, there is a kangaroo court and false witnesses
before the kangaroo court and false witnesses there is a brutal arrest,
before the brutal arrest, there is a betrayal,
before the betrayal, there is intense prayer in the garden,
before the intense prayer in the garden, there is a Passover meal and a promised new covenant,
before the Passover meal a promised new covenant, there is entry in Jerusalem,
before there is an entry into Jerusalem, THERE IS GOD in the INFINITE reality of TIME, promising to reconcile His soon to be created fallen creatures back to Him.
- Revelation 13:8 -
All who dwell on the earth will worship him [antichirst], everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been saved.
Let us pray for you. Just send an email to us and we will add our online prayer list.
We know some folks are still cautious about meeting in person and prefer to worship the Lord in the safety of their homes. This is why we prepare these online worship pages for you.
We will continue to keep uploading the sermon and providing the YouTube versions of the songs that we sang during worship. Even if you cannot join us, we'd still like to pray for you.
Give us a call or email Pastor Harvey at firstname.lastname@example.com to request prayer or just chat/connect.
UPDATE - Please comment down below and we will respond. Let us know how we can help and if we have blessed you with this on-line worship. Thanks!
COVID-19 Protocols in Our Church
Yes! We have returned to indoors worship.
(4900 North Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90042)
Here are some photos of what our our indoor worship area.
We hope to see YOU in one of these social distanced pews with us soon!
Face masks are required for entry
Until further notice, please bring your own face mask that covers your nose and your mouth.
Hymnals have been removed
Hymnals have been removed from the seats. We will worship with the lyrics in the bulletins and/or on the overhead screen.
We WILL sing while donning our face masks.
NO children's Sunday School
We love children and would love to have you bring them to worship with us, but unfortunately, at this time we cannot accommodate children's Sunday School. But we DO have an online Sunday School EVERY week. Look to our email and text messages to get the latest worship page OR just click "Online Worship Services" in the menu and find the date you need.
Social Distancing guidelines are applied
We still adhere to safe social distancing guidelines and our pews are sectioned off for our services.
Hand sanitizer is now available
Bottle of hand sanitizer is available near the entryway of the church. (But you are welcome to bring your own.)
This weekend we have prepared a worship page for you that includes...
Thursday Night's Bible Study PowerPoint AND the Zoom meeting recording.
We continue in our Spring Bible Study - "Lessons from the Life of Paul"
The topic was Praise Brings Deliverance - Acts 16:19-34
Paul and Silas are beaten and imprisoned, and they way they react to these circumstance and the resulting consequences is nothing short of MIRACULOUS!
(Sunday School on Thursday Nights).
The Children's Sunday School Lesson from Mrs. Denise...
Mrs. Denise prays and sings with the children (online, of course) then tells the story of Jesus Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey!
We have great YouTube versions of Christian Hymns and contemporary songs that we sang today...
Pastor Harvey took us back to the Gospel of John and we skipped ahead a bit and had a message from John 12:12-19 - Jesus rides into Jerusalem as the One True King of Jerusalem.
We hope this continues to bless YOU and draws you closer to God.
Remember, Denise and I are a phone call away if you want to pray together or just chat.
(Also remember that God is NOT far away, He has promised that He would never leave us - can I get an "Amen"!)
And don't forget you can comment below about anything that we can help you with or send us a Facebook message on the Facebook message app.
You can also use the "comments below to start any conversation with us.
Thanks for all of your support!
For Him and His Kingdom,
Pastors Harvey & Denise
Children's Sunday School by Mrs. Denise - Spring - Lesson 4
Jesus Rides a Donkey - Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
Hey Kiddos -
This week after Mrs. Denise prays and sings with us we learn about Jesus riding a donkey into the city of Jerusalem and what the people did when He arrived.
How good it is to sing praises to our God. - Psalm 147:1
2021-03-18- Adult Mid Week Bible Study -
Spring Session -Lessons from the Life of Paul- Lesson 4
led by Albert Faust
Praise Brings Deliverance - Acts 16:19-34
Back in Acts this week as we continue on in our studies of the Life of Paul - in Acts 16:19-34
Take a peek at our Mid-Week Bible Study to see what God's Word says about that and our discussion.
We love you, and would LOVE for you to join us next week at Bible study.
Remember, if you missed our meeting, you can view it below AND please sign up below to get updates and
notices of the next meeting. See you on Zoom!
If you are NOT part of our on-line Thursday Night Bible Study, you can take care of that now.
Two easy ways to join. Each week we will send the ZOOM link via text and email.
1. Just text the word "Bible" on your cell phone to 323-310-9982
2. Click the button below
These Church Prayer Requests from Palm Sunday, March 28, 2021
Denise - For Patty and Chris for physical and spiritual healing. Praise that the Torres family could join us in church today!
Ray - Please pray for his mother and for his family to attend church with him. Pray for the health of all of his family. Pray for his uncle Manny, also.
Mark - Huntsville, Alabama and Georgia's tornado damage and lives lost.
Harvey - Prayer of praise that his mother is doing better. But continue to keep her and and his father in prayers. Prayer for friend of the family who's child has rejected the Lord, pray that the Holy Spirit will open the child's heart up to His calling. Prayer for Ben a sailor from Highland Park who is being deployed to Japan for 3 years. His Grandmother asks for prayer of protection for him.
Dorothy - Special unspoken/for Francisica and her children.
Mr. Craggs - Keep daughter, Pauline in your prayers as she recovers from hip surgery.
Bryan - Unspoken. Pray for his father and his daughter. His best friend's brother passed away...please pray for the family.
Margarito - His friend Mark, committed suicide. Please pray for his grieving family.
Erika - Herself and her boss who is retiring and having a hard time with it.
And Now It's Time to Worship Christ
As the Deer
Artist: The Ball Brothers
After singing a few songs, then as a congregation we read together aloud the following scripture...
Revelation 19:11-16 NASB
The Coming of Christ
Revelation 19:11-16
11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and He who sat on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and wages war.
12 His eyes are a flame of fire, and on His head are many crowns; and He has a name written on Him which no one knows except Himself.
13 He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white horses.
15 From His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may strike down the nations, and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty.
16 And on His robe and on His thigh He has a name written: "KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS."
To God be the Glory
Royal Albert Hall (London)
John 12:12-19 - King Jesus
Pastor Harvey Simpson
The Palms
Again, Denise and I are available for prayer.
Call Harvey at 323-316-7131
Call Denise at 323-316-7132
In Christ,
Pastor Harvey


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JOHNSTOWN – A Vermont man found unconscious along Route 30A on Monday died after being taken to Nathan Littauer Hospital, police said Tuesday.
"[The death] doesn't appear to be suspicious at this point," police Chief Mark Gifford said Tuesday.
He said a city police officer was driving on Route 30A, near Key Bank, when he encountered an unconscious man by the road about 12:30 p.m. Monday.
Gifford said the man was rushed by ambulance to Nathan Littauer Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Gifford said a check of identification of the man indicated he was from Vermont.
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He wouldn't release the man's name Tuesday because the next of kin hadn't been notified yet.
The chief said an autopsy on the man was scheduled to be conducted Tuesday afternoon at the hospital.
Gifford couldn't be reached this morning to provide details about the autopsy.

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Nikon reveals 18-35mm wide-angle and 800mm prime lenses
January 29, 2013 /Photography News/ Nikon has just launched two new lenses, the AF-S NIKKOR 800mm f/5.6E FL ED VR prime lens, and the AF-S NIKKOR 18-35mm f/3.5-4.5G ED, an ultra wide-angle zoom lens compatible with the FX format and offering approximately 1.9x magnification.
The AF-S NIKKOR 800mm f/5.6E FL ED VR offers the longest focal length of 800 mm in the history of NIKKOR autofocus (AF) lenses, as well as a maximum aperture of f/5.6. The 1.25x AF-S TELECONVERTER TC800-1.25E ED is supplied with the AF-S NIKKOR 800mm f/5.6E FL ED VR.
AF-S NIKKOR 800mm f/5.6E FL ED VR primary features
- An FX-format compatible AF-S NIKKOR 800mm f/5.6E FL ED VR with the longest focal length in the history of NIKKOR autofocus lenses.
- Constructed of two fluorite lens elements. The lens is equipped with two fluorite lens elements used in IC steppers and scanners that require extreme precision. The superior transmissivity from the infrared to ultra-violet range demonstrates superior chromatic aberration compensation throughout the visible range.
- Equipped with two ED lens elements for sharp rendering and superior optical performance.
- Nano Crystal Coat effectively prevents the internal reflections that cause ghost and flare.
- When the teleconverter is used with this super-telephoto lens, the electromagnetic aperture built into the lens enables stable exposure control with high-speed continuous shooting.
- Equipped with a vibration reduction (VR) mechanism offering performance equal to an increase in shutter speed of approximately 4.0 steps*.
- A lightweight yet durable super-telephoto lens with the adoption of fluorite lens elements, which helps to reduce the weight of the lens significantly, and a magnesium alloy, which ensures strength and durability.
AF-S TELECONVERTER TC800-1.25E ED primary features
- Designed exclusively for use with the AF-S NIKKOR 800mm f/5.6E FL ED VR. This teleconverter has been designed to produce images exhibiting the same rendering performance as the primary lens.
- When used with the AF-S NIKKOR 800mm f/5.6E FL ED VR, focal length is increased by 1.25x for a focal length of 1000 mm (combined maximum aperture of f/7.1).
- The first teleconverter equipped with an ED lens element.
*Measured according to CIPA standards.
AF-S NIKKOR 18-35mm f/3.5-4.5G ED Primary Features
- An 18-35mm zoom lens that covers the ultra-wide to standard wide-angle range of focal lengths with approximately 1.9x magnification, supports maximum apertures of f/3.5-4.5, and offers compatibility with the FX format
- A compact design that weighs just 385 g makes the lens small and light enough to take anywhere
- A new optical design with superior resolution that makes the most of digital-SLR cameras with extremely high pixel counts, such as the D600
- Constructed with two ED and three aspherical lens elements for superior aberration compensation
- Superior rendering performance at all focusing distances, from minimum 28 cm to infinity
- Equipped with a Silent Wave Motor (SWM) for extremely quiet autofocusing
- Equipped with two focus modes—autofocus with manual override (M/A) and manual focus (M)
- A 7-blade rounded aperture for beautiful blur characteristics
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'Boss Tweet's' Generals Already Run the Show
Friday January 19, 2018
Much has been written about our Twitterer-in-Chief and the tortured response to his presidency, particularly within the GOP. As a recent example, Frank Bruni of the New York Times lamented the fate of Senator Lindsey Graham, who has now become one of Donald Trump's biggest defenders on mainstream shows such as "Meet the Press". Bruni, however, reminds us that during the presidential campaign of 2016, Graham described then candidate Trump as the "world's biggest jackass", even as he now praises POTUS, thereby personifying "his party's spastic, incoherent, humiliating response to Trump across time and its fatally misguided surrender."
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Standing still for a Mannequin Challenge video is a faddish feat, but floating still in zero-G raises the degree of difficulty to the level of a true challenge. And the crew of the International Space Station proves they're up to the task.
French astronaut Thomas Pesquet served as the film director for the video, which went viral on social media soon after its release on Dec. 29. On Facebook, Pesquet explained that the video was shot during the six-member crew's Sunday time off.
Most of the crew members were able to anchor themselves along the walls of the space station's modules with their feet, but Russia's Oleg Novitsky (posing as Superman) and NASA's Peggy Whitson (with the camera) looked as if they had the hardest jobs – that is, staying in one place while floating in midair.
"The result is kind of sci-fi spooky, don't you think?" Pesquet wrote.


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La Pocha Nostra
PROJECT: June 08 @ 7pm Gallery
La Pocha Nostra is back in Chicago!
Two founding members, Guillermo Gomez-Peña & Roberto Sifuentes, and Core LPN troupe member Erica Mott in an evening of recent live art images selected from their performance archives.
ARTIST TALK: June 6 @ 2-4pm Society for Arts
photos by Abi Sampa | interculturalpoltergeist.tumblr.com | lapochanostralivearchive.tumblr.com
La Pocha Nostra (US/Mexico) is a trans-disciplinary arts organization that provides a support network and forum for artists of various disciplines, generations and ethnic backgrounds. La Pocha is devoted to erasing the borders between art and politics, art practice and theory, artist and spectator. La Pocha Nostra has intensely focused on the notion of collaboration across national borders, race, gender and generations as an act of radical citizen diplomacy and as a means to create "ephemeral communities" of rebel artists.


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The "fake magazine" theme continues, so today; one for Jon and one for me.
Photo one is our meal last night. Fantastic roasted pork and potatoes with asparagus... a sure sign of spring!
The second is a trade magazine that I got for many years, with a photo I took of a slug of type that was from the Wisconsin State Journal. (Pennsylvania Oil Company ad)
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Spooooky Trailer and Preview!
Watch our spooooky trailer and read 1st five pages for our zom/rom/com SELF STORAGE! Just in time for New York Comic Con 2015… Click here to check it out.
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Balch Springs Police Officer Fired for Shooting of 15-Tear Old.
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The City of Metter has one City Building Official. The Building Official administers the Metter City Zoning Ordinance, Subdivision Ordinance, Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control Ordinance, Land Use Ordinance, Flood Ordinance, Nuisance Control Ordinance, Property Maintenance Ordinance and issues building permits. This person conducts building inspections, and Code Enforcement of the Zoning Ordinance, Nuisance Ordinance and the Property Maintenance Ordinance.
Contact Metter City Hall, 912-685-2527, or the
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- Building Permit Application
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Federal Loans for Coal Plants Clash With Carbon CutsPublished by MAC on 2007-05-14
Federal Loans for Coal Plants Clash With Carbon Cuts
By Steven Mufson, Washington Post Staff Writer
14th May 2007
A Depression-era program to bring electricity to rural areas is using taxpayer money to provide billions of dollars in low-interest loans to build coal plants even as Congress seeks ways to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
That government support is a major force behind the rush to coal plants, which spew carbon dioxide that scientists blame for global warming.
The beneficiaries of the government's largesse -- the nation's rural electric cooperatives -- plan to spend $35 billion to build conventional coal plants over the next 10 years, enough to offset all state and federal efforts to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions over that time.
The Office of Management and Budget wants to end loans for new power plants and limit loans for transmission projects in the most remote rural areas. But the powerful National Rural Electric Cooperative Association deployed 3,000 members on Capitol Hill last week to push Congress to keep the program intact, arguing that the loans for new coal plants are needed to keep electricity cheap and reliable in rural areas.
Environmentalists have also targeted the program. They say it removes any pressure for the rural co-ops to promote energy efficiency or aggressively tap renewable resources. Rural co-ops rely on coal for 80 percent of their electricity, compared with 50 percent for the rest of the country, and electricity demand at rural co-ops is growing at twice the national rate.
The money comes from the Agriculture Department's Rural Utilities Service, an outgrowth of the Rural Electrification Administration created in 1935 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to bring electricity to farms. More than 70 years later, the goal of providing electricity to rural areas has long been accomplished, but the federal government is still making the subsidized loans.
Rural-utility cooperatives are owned by their customers; they are nonprofit organizations. There are more than 800 co-ops that distribute electricity and more than 50 that own power-generating plants.
James R. Newby, assistant administrator of the Rural Utilities Service, estimates that federal loan rates are 2 to 2.25 percentage points lower than the rates for commercial loans. Some budget experts say the favorable federal loans have reduced the cost of new power generation by 15 percent.
But many of the utility co-ops that are considered rural provide electricity to expanding suburbs, such as the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area, the Atlanta area and parts of Northern Virginia. Others are expanding to meet growing commercial, residential and tourism demands. And some are facing demands from the growing number of ethanol plants, blunting the climate-related benefits of producing ethanol.
"Rather than declare the mission accomplished and disband the expensive subsidy program, Congress continued it and allowed it to become even more generous," a 2004 Heritage Foundation report said.
Ronald D. Utt, co-author of the report and a former official at the OMB, calls the program a "remnant of the New Deal." "Poverty is no longer a characteristic of the agricultural community as it was during the Depression . . . and as areas have grown, the basic clientele are well-to-do people who have nothing to do with agriculture," Utt said. Many of the areas served by co-ops are densely populated and do not need help, critics say.
James J. Jura, chief executive of Associated Electric Cooperative, a co-op that has both government and commercial loans, said much of his region's growth comes from retirement and recreational developments near lakes around Branson in southwest Missouri. The town's Web site boasts of a 17-story luxury condominium complex, a new shopping mall, 17,000 hotel rooms and dozens of theaters. "No, this isn't Manhattan or Las Vegas; it's Branson, Missouri," the site says.
Glenn English, chief executive of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, said rural areas still need help to meet growing power demands at reasonable costs and that burning coal makes sense. He said per capita income of co-op members and consumers is 15 percent below the national average.
The key to the longevity of the Agriculture Department's programs for rural utilities has been the co-ops' powerful political voice. More than 30,000 members gave an average of $41 last year to the co-op association for political contributions. Given their geographic scope, the co-ops can mobilize letter-writing campaigns across a vast number of states and congressional districts.
Rural utilities often assume broader roles in local economies. One co-op, English said, reopened a gas station that went out of business. Another, he said, bought and kept open a beloved Dairy Queen.
"Sometimes they can take over functions even local government can't," said English, a former Democratic congressman. And that, he said, can help keep people from moving away from places like his home town of Cordell, Okla., where the population, now about 3,000, peaked in the late 1920s.
Although presidents over the years have tried to curtail the rural-electricity lending program, it has survived, proving one of the basic laws of legislative thermodynamics: Creating a government program is easier than killing one.
This year is no exception. In his fiscal 2008 budget, President Bush asked Congress to tighten lending rules for rural co-ops. Reps. Allen Boyd (D-Fla.) and Frank D. Lucas (R-Okla.) are gathering signatures for a letter asking that the low-cost government loans be continued.
English chalks it up to "political gamesmanship." "Congress knows that the president expects them to restore that money so that it doesn't look like he's the big spender," he said. "So Congress will tweak it and get it back to where the president wanted it in the first place."
Among those asking for federal loans:
* The Seminole Electric Cooperative in Tampa is planning a $1.8 billion, 750-megawatt coal plant that would boost the utility's generating capacity by 60 percent. The co-op applied for a $1.4 billion loan. If approved, the interest rate for the heavily indebted co-op, which Standard & Poor's says has less than a month's worth of cash, would be as low as the rates for the most rock-solid corporate bonds.
* A group of rural cooperatives plans to build two, 700-megawatt plants in western Kansas.
* The East Kentucky Power Cooperative -- which is fighting the Justice Department over alleged violations of the Clean Air Act -- has received approval for Rural Utilities Service loans to pay for new coal-fired capacity.
English acknowledged that global warming has shifted the debate. But, he said, any climate change legislation should show leniency toward the rural co-ops.
"Rural electric generating cooperatives . . . are in economic situations that make it very hard for them to invest in cutting-edge technologies," he wrote in a letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
English is quick to point out that taxable utilities get tax breaks to encourage wind farms or more-efficient coal plants, and that municipal utilities can sell tax-exempt bonds to raise money cheaply. English wants Congress to give the nonprofit, tax-exempt rural utilities similar incentives, such as no-interest loans.
In March, 10,000 rural-utility executives and spouses attended their annual meeting in Las Vegas. Guests included former CIA director R. James Woolsey Jr., former NFL coach Mike Ditka and singer Charlie Daniels.
English rallied the association's members to fight proposed laws on climate change that might hurt the rural co-ops. Such proposals would mean higher electricity rates, he said, and that would anger voters.
"So are we supposed to tell members of Congress that you've got to be willing to sacrifice your seat for the sake of energy efficiency?" he said. "I don't think the political community wants to take out the knife and commit hara-kiri.


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If we accept the fact that economics is a human discipline designed, in its original sense, to provide for the acquisition and management of household goods, we can perhaps admit that economics is not a wholly "autonomous" discipline that has no relation to other considerations about human life. The fact that economies are nation- and world-wide, themselves highly mathematicized, does not change the principle behind this observation.
Aristotle was quite sure that a household, as well as the polis, needs a certain amount of material goods if other ends like the practice of virtue were to be achieved. On the one hand, human life was not exclusively about such goods, but it still needed them and had to devote vast amounts of time and effort to produce them. On the other hand, there was a situation of too much and too little possible in household and political material goods, just like other areas. That is, any household or economic unit could make money or material goods its sole end, the result of which would be to distort or corrupt the higher ends that both material goods and the households themselves were designed to achieve.
Yet, if we were to have a sufficiency, or better, an abundance of material goods, they first had to come into existence and find their proper purposes in some sort of equitable exchange whereby not everyone had to do everything. The principle of specialization had already existed in Plato's discussion of economics in the latter part of Book II of The Republic. This specialization meant that if everyone was to have more, everyone had to do what he was good at. Plato was very conscious of a tendency to excess here and recognized that a political judgment would somehow be necessary in order that the specialization-exchange would work for the benefit of everyone. A specialist unaware of the limits of his specialty ended up by destroying the purpose of what he was doing. Many want to see this position in Plato as a kind of grab for absolutist control of the economy, but it need not have this pejorative aspect. Plato was noticing something that was very true, namely, the time it takes to specialize makes one inattentive to its limits and overall purpose.
The great invention of the modern economic world, that of the free market of goods, is no doubt the grounds for the perennial hope to provide sufficient amounts of goods and services to increasing numbers of mankind. If there is some overall purpose and ethic to economics and its claims to be a legitimate "science," it is based on this principle: The market works because things are rightly needed and wanted. This need and want, this demand, had to be translated into production and exchange. Thus, exchange, taking from someone by paying, is not an unjust taking away from someone else but a fair transaction of things that otherwise would not have existed. This free-market system has been one of the greatest contributing factors to prosperity and optimism in the world. The collapse of Marxism and the threat of those systems of rule, including the newer ones on the horizon like those stemming from ecology, that want to substitute the state for the free market, was due more than anything to evidence that this purpose of abundant goods could only be achieved in a certain way, with certain principles and moral habits. An individual or nation unwilling to learn them was doomed to failure, to continued poverty, and usually to absolute state control.
The modern world began not with everyone rich and some becoming poor but with almost everyone poor and rather rapidly, should the proper political, economic, and moral means be embraced, becoming rich. This sudden richness did not necessarily come at someone else's expense. Rather, it was produced because of the abundance that exists on this earth and its relation to the human creative mind. As this century has progressed, we have understood that riches and wealth are not questions of property, goods, or even land, but of developed intelligence. The rich nations are not necessarily the ones with abundant resources but those with high levels of intelligence and the enterprise to use it.
What does this have to do with natural law? The natural law, in its briefest statement, is acting reasonably, is the "normalcy of functioning" of a thing. The natural law of a market, so to speak, is its normal functioning, its ability to concentrate reason and good judgment on the production and distribution of goods. The medieval theologians talked of a "just price." At its best, the market price of a thing is the just price of a thing. This conclusion does not mean that there is no such thing as gouging or cheating or any of the other distortions we might find in an actual exchange. It means rather that we do recognize that something is wrong with the system when such things occur. Our reason, our judgment, our natural sense of equity operate in all of our exchanges if we are free to compare, to withhold our purchases, and find alternatives.
In one sense, the fair or just price is related to the origins of Roman law. As the Empire grew, there came to Rome many sorts of products from all over the world. These products were wanted and were offered to be exchanged, but often there was no uniformity of weight, measure, money, or quality. Needless to say, this would cause a great deal of argument and injustice. The wise Romans, needing to come to terms with what at first sight appeared to be a mere civil disorder, appointed a praetor for this situation. He was to deal with the nations, with all those who did not fall under the law of the city itself.
This judge over the years was confronted with thousands of cases of justice in exchange. How does one resolve an argument about what is fair when there are conflicting standards and estimations? As these judges proceeded, they would establish a certain estimate, not apart from the self-interested opinion of the parties involved, for what is just in certain kinds of cases. What the producers, sellers, buyers, and praetors were all trying to do was to establish what is reasonable in such complicated cases. Notice that it was assumed that such exchange was in fact a good thing and that it should go on. But the confusion of language, monies, weights, and estimates made it difficult for the people themselves to come to a clear resolution about what anything might be worth.
The Roman law, in its codification, sought to establish a criterion and a procedure whereby disputes about what is or is not fair could be resolved. This process seems to suggest not that the best form of justice is what the civil judges decide but rather that the freely coming into existence of goods and their exchange require some institutional structure whereby disputes can be resolved so that the market can be what it is. The judges were to stand for what was fair, which is really what the sellers and buyers wanted. The market itself could resolve this by itself were there adequate communication and were human virtue held to some minimum standard. The free market is that market that least needs judges; that is, the one that is already by its normal functioning arriving at a fair price in exchange.
Thus, should we say that natural law has nothing to do with economics? We might reply, rather, that it has everything to do with economics, with the production, exchange, and use of those goods that need not exist but are brought into being by human specialization and enterprise. The market is trying to provide some service or goods in a peaceful way, a way that would include the judgment of justice as reflected in the price, provided that nothing untoward interfered with it.
How many shoes are worth a haircut? This is not at first sight an easy question to answer. Yet, when the market works this relationship out, it will only approach a more or less exact fairness. The equitable price will constantly vary, of course, because in some societies no one wears shoes and in others no one cuts his hair. But there is a kind of reasonable input and equilibrium in most free societies that understands and judges that the relation between the haircut and the shoes is measured by the price that each is willing to pay for the other's specialization. There is an effort to judge the relative worth of a thing. Both shoes and haircuts are needed, and it is well that the world is improved by their mutual coming to be. Of course, if for religious or philosophical reasons, we decide always to go barefoot or let our hair grow, two industries will disappear. But should this happen, then, like the Sikhs, it will be good for the bandanna-on-the-head industry and presumably good for the podiatrist who deals with cut and bruised feet.
These are homey remarks, no doubt, but let us see what we have established. First, some things that do not exist can come into existence because the earth is open to the work of man's hand and labor. Moreover, certain things are needed and wanted for human purposes. The improved things that do come into existence can be made available to someone other than the person who made or transformed the earth into a particular object of use so that someone would want it or demand it. By the principle of specialization, various other things come into existence and are exchanged. There is some effort to decide what is the relative worth of a thing, how many of this equals how many of that.
For everyone to attempt to do everything, moreover, becomes a formula for abiding poverty. A general agreement about this relative worth is measured by a price. Where there are disputes among buyers, makers, and sellers, these disputes can be resolved more or less. The assurance that a mechanism exists whereby disputes can be resolved is one of the primary factors contributing to the willingness of men to produce anything at all. It is also a cause for a sense of fairness in the relations existing among people who have entered into exchange relationships with each other.
But not only are there honest disputes about the relative worth of things, there are also crimes over goods. Robberies and petty theft and fraud exist in all times and places, evidently because there is something disordered in human nature in every economy. The free economy as such neither causes nor cures these things, though it can suggest their dangers. For example, when most stores experience a steady two percent rate of thievery of their goods, this loss is reflected in a two percent increase in the average cost of merchandise the public buys. But some mechanism must account for graver disorders and provide against them. This is the normal function of the civil power. There are indeed certain conditions of a moral nature that ought to be considered before an exchange is legitimate in any free market. The human race is now generally agreed that goods ought not to be produced by slaves, for example, though the topic of the economic effect of Soviet Gulag slave labor did come up not too long ago.
Indeed, the great Aristotle had already remarked that if someone could invent moving statues that could automatically weave cloth, much of slavery would not be necessary. In some way, the Industrial Revolution in all its phases from steam to the computer is contained in this shrewd observation. The natural law would suggest that for the free market to work, some order of polity and court system should itself be set up to provide that the normal workings of the market be not interfered with by the human tendencies to injustice and fraud. In this sense, polity need not be opposed to the economy. When the polity reaches out for more than is natural to its own purpose, it also makes the economy unworkable. When the free market finds no limits, no place to resolve its disputes, no outside judgment on what is bought or sold–say, slaves or fetuses, opium or prescription drugs–it undermines the purpose for which it exists; it becomes, as it were, unnatural.
Implicit in the discussion of the fair or just price is the unjust price. A high price is not necessarily an unjust price and a low price is not necessarily an unfair price. Things that no one wants gradually become unwanted; that is, they become free. Things that attract a high price incite others to imitate them and offer them for a lesser price or a better quality. Moreover, we are familiar with the notions of "underground" economies or "black markets." Often, these markets are signs of a kind of compensatory natural law at work against an over-regulated or inefficient economy. They are testimonies to the fact that there is a right order of production and distribution that is not working properly, either on the moral side of things, that some things ought not to be bought or sold, or on the economic side when markets are not working freely or efficiently.
The natural law, to conclude, is the insistence that everything in exchange, polity, and life stands under the test of a reason grounded in what is. Thus, it is a guarantee that a free market not only has its proper place but it itself, when it does what it should do, is a place where natural reasoning works itself out. This working out must reach to the particulars of what is needed, wanted, and hoped for–of what is right, in the production, distribution, and rewarding of goods and services. Natural law guarantees that something is good and legitimate by providing for a check and a reasoning about what is not good. In this sense, in both politics and economics, it allows each to be what it ought to be when it is left free to act as it should to achieve its own proper end and purpose.


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One of Lyndsi's biggest passions is helping others. After working in the service and sales industry for over ten years, Lyndsi has found no position more fulfilling than being a Real Estate agent. Guiding and advising her clients while making one of their biggest decisions in life is top on her list. She prides herself on being patient, knowledgeable, and an excellent negotiator. Lyndsi is dedicated to her clients and enjoys building lasting relationships along the way. Before starting in Real Estate, Lyndsi earned her degree from California State University, Fullerton. Her education and experience have set the stage for her lifelong Real Estate career. Her friends and family would say she is one of the most loyal people they know. She always wears a smile and is ready for anything.


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Growth in UK M&A appetite – a risky business?
KPMG forecasts published in September 2015 projected that appetite for M&A deals in the UK over the next 12 months would outstrip both the US and the rest of Europe (with appetite in the UK, based on forward price/earnings ratios, expected
to increase by 13%, compared to just 6% in the US and 8% in the rest of Europe).
KPMG forecasts published in September 2015 projected that appetite for M&A deals in the UK over the next 12 months would outstrip both the US and the rest of Europe (with appetite in the UK, based on forward price/earnings ratios, expected to increase by
13%, compared to just 6% in the US and 8% in the rest of Europe).
With deal teams often working to incredibly tight schedules to "get the deal done", we look at the risks associated with accelerated negotiations from a UK contract law perspective, focusing particularly on recent case law which suggests that courts have little
sympathy for parties trying to step back from a bad bargain post-completion, and the practical steps that parties should take in order to minimise these risks.
The risks of a rushed deal: a UK contract law perspective
When faced with recent disputes over the terms of commercial contracts, the courts have proved unwilling to sympathise with parties who have been unwise in their negotiations, instead making it clear that they will not apply commercial common sense simply to rewrite a bad bargain (Arnold v Britton [2015] UKSC 36; Wood v Sureterm [2015] EWCA Civ 839). This marks a subtle but significant shift by the courts, who traditionally stressed the importance of commercial common sense as an aid to contractual interpretation, leading some commentators to criticise what they perceived to be the erosion of the line between merely interpreting a contract and effectively altering it (Investors Compensation Scheme Ltd v West Bromwich Building Society [1998] 1 WLR 896; Chartbrook Ltd v Persimmon Homes Ltd [2009] 1 AC 1101; Rainy Sky SA v Kookmin Bank [2011] UKSC 50).
Specifically, in the case of Arnold v Britton, the Supreme Court held that when interpreting a contract, commercial common sense must not undercut the importance of the actual words used and cannot be invoked retrospectively. The court's view was that "the mere fact that a contractual arrangement, if interpreted according to its natural language, has worked out badly, or even disastrously, for one of the parties is not a reason for departing from the natural language".
This is not to say that commercial common sense will not be applied by the courts, but that lesser weight may be given to it, with the courts favouring the natural meaning of the words used, regardless of whether or not this results in a bad bargain.
Similarly, the courts have re-enforced in recent cases their reluctance to imply terms into a contract simply to make it a fairer one, instead choosing to uphold the principle of freedom of contract, implying terms only where necessary, rather than reasonable Attorney General of Belize v Belize Telecom Ltd [2009] UKPC 10; Rosserland Consultants Ltd v Credit Suisse International [2015] EWHC 384 (Ch)).
Minimising the risks: practical considerations
1. Heads of terms to be reviewed by parties' legal counsel at an early stage
Parties will often involve their lawyers in a deal once the heads of terms have been negotiated and agreed. However, the advantages of involving legal counsel at an earlier stage, whilst these discussions are still taking place, should not be overlooked. Involving lawyers (or at least enabling them to have sight of the draft heads of terms) will help to ensure that the key contractual provisions are considered and dealt with at the outset, particularly those most likely to result in future dispute, for example the nature of the warranties given (and how these relate to any relevant warranty and indemnity insurance, to the extent taken out) and any termination rights to be granted between exchange and completion.
2. Beware of "agreements to agree"
Where parties enter into fast-paced negotiations with a view to completing a deal within a tight timeframe, key provisions can sometimes be left "to be agreed on later". Particular care needs to be taken with this approach as "agreements to agree" are generally unenforceable under English law (Walford & Others v Miles & Another [1992] AC 128). However, where parties can identify certain specific aspects of a deal that are to be negotiated post-completion, it may be possible to draft the relevant contractual provisions so as to minimise the risk that they will be unenforceable. For example, the following provisions were found by the
courts to be sufficiently certain to be enforceable: (i) an undertaking to negotiate in good faith the amount of certain "reasonable costs" payable (Petromec Inc Petro Deep Societa Armamento Navi Appoggio SpA v Petroleo Brasileiro SA [2005] EWCA Civ 891); (ii) a time limited obligation to seek to resolve a dispute by "friendly discussions" prior to referring the dispute to arbitration (Emirates Trading Agency LLC v Prime Mineral Exports Private Ltd [2014] EWHC 2104 (Comm)).
3. All contractual terms should be clear on the face of the document
When it comes to drafting the relevant transaction documents, parties and their lawyers should opt for clear, simple drafting, rather than multi-layered, heavily-negotiated wording. Given (i) the recent shift away from commercial common sense as an aid to contractual interpretation, (ii) the difficulty in persuading a court to imply a contractual term, and (iii) the fact that previous negotiations between the parties are generally inadmissible when courts are asked to consider a contractual dispute, the parties should ensure that all of the relevant terms of the contract are clear on the face of it.
Joanne Maitland is an associate at international law firm Mayer Brown.


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Our Projects
Existing Projects at Al-Inma Medical Services Co. Ltd.
Hayat National Hospital- Riyadh
Hayat National Hospital- Asir
Hayat National Hospital- Jazan
(Established in 2013)
Hayat National Hospital – AlQassim
( Established in 2018 )
About Hospitals
We've given special attention for the buildings designs, the efficiency of medical equipments, hotel & hospitality amenities, and qualified medical & administrative cadres to provide a special work environment that support our vision & compatible with international quality & safety standards. Hospitals site was chosen very carefully to ensure that we are providing & enhancing the network of healthcare for the various provinces and cities in KSA, Where conducting studies done about suggested sites each city based on society's need for health care services.
Medical Cadres at Hospitals
Hiring highly qualified (Doctors nurses & technicians ) according to international standards & specifications through specialized committees. As the need of healthcare services grow up. the number of our healthcare providers (male/ female)at hospitals reached as follows:
- We have more than 100 consultants.
- We have more than 160 specialists.
- We have more than 50 resident doctors & general practitioners.
- We have more than 700 nursing cadres.
- We have more than 400 technical cadres.
On-Going Projects
- Expansion project of Hayat National Hospital- Riyadh (2020).
- Establishing Project of Hayat National Hospital – Abhaa with 300 beds(2020)
Projects under Planning
- Establishing & operating Two hospitals with 480 beds.


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It's been the "Summer of Hell" for New Yorkers just trying to get around the damn city as every element of our public transportation system seemingly breaks down simultaneously. Maybe it's some small comfort to know there's historical resonance in our distress, specifically with London's 1858 "Great Stink," when a heat wave turned the city's ongoing sanitation problems into an urgent public crisis.
Rosemary Ashton goes deep on those wretched weeks in One Hot Summer: Dickens, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858. With the heat and the stench as a backdrop, she recounts months that were momentous in the lives of Charles Dickens—who separated from his wife and massively mismanaged their split in the court of public opinion—and Charles Darwin—who learned another naturalist had reached similar conclusions about the origins of species, providing a kick in the pants to produce something publishable—as well as the efforts in Parliament of the great politician Benjamin Disraeli to pass measures that would actually fix the rancid Thames.
Along the way, she covers the ridiculous Edward Bulwer-Lytton's controversial institutionalization of his wife, Rosina, as well as of the great dudefights of all time—the "Garrick Club affair," a tiff between William Makepeace Thackeray and another lesser-known writer and also Dickens about journalism and the rules of gentlemen's clubs. Meanwhile, Queen Victoria occasionally pops in to complain in her diary about the day's heat. And for those frantically seeking clues for how we can get our elected officials to actually fix our own crisis, she recounts how the stink so inconvenienced Parliament (which of course sits to this day on top of the Thames) that Disraeli finally managed to push through a scheme for fixing the river. Maybe we could trap Cuomo and de Blasio on a F train until they figure out the MTA?
The result feels contemporary and unnervingly familiar—a summer of misery chronicled by prolific newspapers. I spoke to Ashton about this eerily familiar moment in history; our conversation has been lightly edited for clarity and length.
1858 isn't typically thought of as a banner of the Victorian era. Why did you choose to focus so tightly not just on this year, but on the three months of really miserable summer?
I've been writing about 19th century—particularly Victorian—literature and culture and history for many years. But what has struck me in the last five to ten years is, there's always been plenty of material available, but how much more material is now at our fingertips, which then lets you go deeper rather than wider and therefore take a short period of time and dig into the detail. The real reason for that is the digitization and the searchability of so many resources, which we used to have to trek to the archives to look at manually, as it were. We've got the British Library's huge collection of 19th century newspapers, which has been digitized and made searchable. I couldn't have written this book when I started out 35 years ago, because I would still be sitting in the library looking at the newspapers. But now, online, you can put in your search term, your name or your date, and everything comes up in front of your eyes. There's still a cornucopia and an awful lot to sift through, but at least the sifting is now possible.
And that's true with the papers, but it's also true of the Parliamentary papers, the committee notes of all the committees of Parliament, the debates. It's also true of the law courts, and a number of journals and letters of major Victorian figures like Darwin.
These events are fairly well known, but they feel much more materially real when you know they're just sweating all the time, totally hot and miserable. What was it about the conditions of this summer that made the weather such a big deal? They were all aware that they were in the middle of this happening that was "the hot summer." Was it genuinely that bad? Was it sort of a media creation of new penny newspapers?
It wasn't made by the media, but the media certainly picked up on it. And it happens—again, it's just another one of these historical coincidences—that there had been a huge increase in the number of newspapers being published since 1855, because the last taxes on newspapers had been stopped. Before 1855, if you wanted to publish a newspaper, you had to pay a lot in taxes to do so. After 1855, anybody could and many people did charge a shilling, and they would reach an audience of literate working people, the working class, really, and a lot of these newspapers were actually quite radical and quite geared toward the working class. Handily for me, they also write about the lives of working people, so you do get a glimpse in these cheaper newspapers of what it was like for an ordinary person living perhaps in poverty and in a crowded apartment down near the river itself in the heat.
So what you've got is comment—a huge amount of comment. From the venerable newspaper the Times, which cost seven pence, so seven times as much, to these radical newspapers and gossipy newspapers—they were all on the case. As well as Punch, the satirical outlet. And they were all on the case of Parliament. 1858 happened to be the hottest summer so far and there were recordings, and the Times published every day the top temperature yesterday in London down by the river, or whatever it was. People were following this scientifically.
The Thames stank not just because it was hot, but because the population of London had doubled in the first half of the 19th century. Two million people were now using water closets instead of putting their waste matter into pits at the back of their houses which were then emptied by night soil men. In a misguided attempt to improve sanitation, the authorities had decided not to use these pits and heaps, but to give people water closets. Now, that's fine, but the water closets then discharged all the raw human sewage into the rainwater drains, which went into the Thames. They didn't realize this was what they were doing, but they were sending human feces and so on straight into the Thames. The Thames was a tidal river. It doesn't get rid of the load. The load just went up and down, ebbing and flowing, and then unfortunately water companies were taking drinking water out of the Thames. So there was real anxiety, quite rightly, about disease, as well as the intolerable stench of this material going up and down.
It had happened in a couple of summers before, and there were various people arguing, including Bazalgette, who brought forward a proposal two years earlier for cleansing the river. But of course it hadn't been taken up because Parliament said who's going to pay, how much does it cost, is this the proper method of doing it, and so on. But 1858 just was the last straw. Finally, really it was Disraeli who pushed it through, because Parliament was still standing there with handkerchiefs to their noses—they couldn't stand the stink but they still wanted to say, who's going to pay for this, will it be Londoners or will it be the whole of the country and why should my constituents in the north of England pay for cleansing the Thames which we don't get any benefit from? And so on and so on.
So basically it's a combination of this being the hottest summer so far, the terrible business of all the raw sewage going into the Thames, the newspapers just tearing, mocking, and pressing, attacking, and Disraeli coming forward and saying okay, we're going to do something about it.
I enjoyed how the press, when they finally pass this bill to get the ball moving and to cleanse the Thames and to have some sort of a system for dealing with this, didn't let up. They weren't like, oh, well, great, they've fixed it. They just kept hammering at them even after they passed the bill.
Yes they did, and that's quite amusing, really, isn't it? It's partly political—the press were often political and so there were people who did not approve of the Derby/Disraeli Tory government. And it was partly distrust. Who's going to trust politicians, you know? They may not get on with it. They may not do what we want them to do. And also, the body that was tasked with arranging this was the Metropolitan Board of Works, which many newspapers had been arguing for years paid people to sit on this committee but they didn't do anything! There was a sense, is this body of men—all men, of course—is this body of men up to it? Will they actually step up to the plate and do the job? So of course the newspapers thought that it was their job to keep an eye and to keep pressing and to complain if it was going too slowly. And to ask for information. So in a way it's a very modern story, when you think about the kind of relationship between politics and the press.
I think sometimes there's a tendency in the American press to be like, well, we'll be reasonable and well give them a chance. And the press in London in this period is like, no, no chances, you've had your chances, we're not going to shut up until it doesn't stink.
Yes, that's absolutely true. There wasn't much dignity. I mean, the Times was constantly critical as well. They all thought that it was their job to hold the authorities to account and they did so with more or less glee and more or less argumentativeness. But there was a very important factor in this and of course it happens as a researcher, you can now really get into the newspapers of every description, every type, morning papers, afternoon papers, evening papers, weekly papers, conservative, radical, scurrilous gossipy, you name it, all those papers were busy spending at least some of their time keeping an eye on what was going on with the filthy old Thames.
I mean I'm sure they were just as tired of smelling it as everybody else, right?
Absolutely. Yes. And I think also, as now, they thought they were speaking up for the people. For people who were having to live with this. And you would have seen a number of the newspapers—I caught quite a few of them—are rather pleased to be able to say, well, it's a jolly good thing that the river Thames goes under the noses of the Parliamentarians, because now that they're trying to do their work with this stink making it almost impossible, now surely at last they will see that they've got to do something. And of course they did.
When you hear this story, it's often delivered almost as a the punch line—finally Parliament stank so bad they had to fix it or they were going to just die. Is that accurate?
Well, I suppose they wouldn't have died. Although, actually, that's an interesting point, because the main belief at the time in the way that infectious diseases like cholera were transmitted from one person to another was the miasma theory, which was that germs were airborne. So there was a fear that the smell itself could kill. Now that's not true, of course. All these diseases are waterborne and that was being discovered even at the same time, but the discovery that they were waterborne was not quite accepted yet. But even if they were wrong that they weren't going to drop down dead of the smell, but they might well have dropped down dead if they drank the water. So it comes to the same thing in the end.
And it is absolutely true—there was talk of moving, if Parliament could not sit any longer and pass the bills that it needed to pass before the summer vacation, it would have to move to Oxford, or to Edinburgh. These things were suggested and of course, I think it was the 13th of June, there was the famous occasion in which a committee room with people like Disraeli and his great opponent Gladstone and other important cabinet members and parliamentarians, they were sitting discussing something about the Bank Acts I think it was and they actually couldn't sit there any longer because of the smell. And so they were seen to be rushing out of their chamber with their handkerchiefs to their noses. And of course the Times and others pick this up and make a big thing about it and say well perhaps at last, at last something will be done!
Sure enough, Disraeli comes back a couple of days later and he's absolutely brilliant, he tells Parliament we're going to do this. And people get up on their feet, as ever, and say who's going to pay? Who's going to do it? How much will it cost? How long will it take? And he just pushed aside all these tiresome comments and criticisms and reasons to delay and he just railroaded them into accepting that something had to be done. It had to be done now. Londoners would pay but they would pay through a one-penny extra in the year tax over ten years and so on, and he had it all worked it out and they would task the Metropolitan Board of Works and they would make sure that the Metropolitan Board of Works stuck to the task and did it properly, and surely British people could rely upon a group of British men—men, of course, there not being any women in the Parliament or in any positions at that time—surely they could trust them to come up with the goods. That's how he managed to get it through, after a lot of argumentation which had been going on for years but which really did reach the climax this summer.
That classic mixture of strong-arming and flattery.
Absolutely. He flattered them, you see—oh the great British, this is the greatest river, London is the greatest capital city in the world, how shameful that our river is disgraceful in this way, we must do something about it and we can do something about it because we've got the best engineers. Which is true, actually, because Bazalgette was a wonderfully innovative engineer and his method of getting rid of the effluent was astonishing, taking it through intercepting sewers out of the river altogether, and taking the sewers along the north bank and the south bank out of London, into outfalls in the countryside in Essex and at the same time embanking the river with those great stone embankments that we still have, rather than having the muddy foreshore. Chelsea is now a very posh expensive area to live in. It was not at that time because it is right down by the river and of course there was no embankment, it was just muddy, smelly, filthy, rubbishy shore. And it was a very unhealthy place to live. London was made more beautiful.
One of the things I enjoyed that you pointed out—the stereotypical image of this time was women in these giant skirts, and assume that hoop skirts were miserable. But honestly, it sounds like if you were stuck in this summer, the best possible thing you could be wearing is one of those big cage crinolines with just air underneath.
That's right! I was very pleased to discover that, through reading what Darwin's daughter in later life she told her niece—I think it was that, we were very lucky because we did get air through. You didn't have great hanging skirts sticking to your legs. Dresses had been getting wider and wider all the way from the Regency period, from about 1820 really, but the cage hadn't been invented so what people were doing was just wearing more and more petticoats. But more and more petticoats got more and more heavy and more and more hot. And so as it happens, people were experimenting with steel hoops and the steel hoop petticoat came just year before, 1857. So by the time 1858 came along, dresses could be wider than ever, but they were also oddly enough extremely comfortable and airy because you just had this cage hoop underneath. One of the funny things I noted from one of these newspapers is that the crinoline came in very useful for one particular woman, who put a whole lot of stolen stuff inside.
Dickens melts down this summer and makes a series of really severe misjudgments. Not only does he separate from his wife of 22 years, but he also publicly announces it in both the Times and his own paper, Household Words, and even urges the public not to believe any rumors they might have heard about his affairs—thereby encouraging the spread of rumors about his affair with a young actress and leaving him wide open to discussion of his private affairs.
When you're looking at an event like that as a historian, when you're thinking about why he's doing this and what's happening, how much are you factoring in something like this miserable heat wave? Can we look back and attribute some of the irascibility of everyone that summer to the fact that they were so hot and miserable? Or is that too much of a leap to make?
I mean, I do factor it in. You do have to be rather careful, because in a sense when I talk about "hot heads" and "hot-headedness" and Dickens "losing his head" and so on, obviously I'm using the metaphor of heat there. But I'm doing it deliberately because you do see people being more irascible, not being able to cope with conditions. You see people in law courts, the barristers, asking the judge if they can take their wigs off because it's all far too hot and so on. That kind of thing wouldn't happen, you see, if it weren't really extreme and people didn't find themselves really at the edge of whatever mood they were likely to be in.
So I think Dickens really lost his head. Now, he might have lost his head anyway, even if it hadn't been a hot summer, because of course we know that he had fallen in love with an actress the same age as one of his daughters, that he had decided he was going to, he was unhappy with his wife. But it may well be that the way that he set about the PR disaster that he brought on himself by setting out to publicize in the Times and in his own weekly newspaper Household Words that he was separating from his wife—although of course he told lies by saying this statement that it was all amicable and there was nobody else involved—because as soon as he said that, all the newspapers got onto this and said, "Oh? What are these rumors that are going around that he says are not true?" And of course they all got the club gossip and the gossip at the racecourse or the gossip at the Royal Academy exhibitions and so on, the way people in London were gossiping around, and everybody picked up on this story. So Dickens foolishly as well as dishonestly really brought a lot of disfavor on himself. And he did panic. And I think you are more likely to panic when you're physically uncomfortable. I wouldn't claim that it wouldn't have happened if it hadn't been for the hot summer. I just think it's interesting that he lost the plot so completely.


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Does magnesium affect niacin? I have been taking niacin for about five months and have worked my way up to 500mg twice daily with meals. I take the regular niacin and use to get the flush symptoms but they have faded over time. I just started taking 400mg of magnesium glycinate two days ago. Not only did the flush come back after taking the niacin, but it came back very strong and I get very red all the way down to my toes. It lasts about 1 to 1.5 hrs. Is this common?
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I've been reading quite a bit of articles on magnesium and I just needed to know if after starting a magnesium supplement regiment on someone with diabetes, after a while of them taking magnesium, (4-6 wks for example) can I begin lowering the diabetic meds little by little to eventually, hopefully, get rid of them all together?
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Does Magnesium lowers the levels of nitric oxide in the blood?
I heard that NO (nitric Oxide)is a great help for HBP and also Magnesium but, how do they interact?
I was checking into taking L-Arginine as a vasodilator to control HBP but I take 100mgs of Magnesium a day, Would the MAG cancel out NO?
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I love your site, its so great that you made it. My question is about Magnesium.
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My dad has just broken his hip from a fall . he has been on thiazides for years . We got him off those when he had a mild stroke. However hes been put on Verapamil for a while now .
I have queried his magnesium levels, but they have objected to us giving him a food supplement as he isn't eating much. We wanted to give him chelated magnesium as they are giving him calcium and vitamin d for his osteoporosis , and get him off verapamil as we think this is just creating arterial fibrilation due to low magnesium . The only test they do is a blood test.
do you agree with our thoughts on the subject, and is there another reliable test that can be done for real magnesium levels.
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Origins issue 2
|IDW Publishing
|First published
|March 25, 2009
|Cover date
|March 2009
|Written by
|Larry Hama
|Art by
|Mike Hawthorne
|Color assist by
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|Letters by
|Chris Mowry
|Andy Schmidt
The Chimera and the fledgling G.I. Joe team both prepare for the battles to come.
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In a motel north of Las Vegas, an army doctor has been flown in to attend to Snake Eyes, and remarks upon the Ranger's curious tattoo. He goes on to explain to Scarlett that the wounded soldier must be kept immobile for the time being or the damage to his face will become irreparable, even as Snake Eyes flashes back to the Chimera blowing up the plastic surgery clinic. The doctor is sent on his way, whilst elsewhere Hawk explains to Duke that the FBI suspect Chimera of obtaining a watch-list of anti-government groups across the country. The general must now go supervise an operation elsewhere, and hands his subordinate a laptop so they can keep in touch via satellite link.
At Arlington, Stalker attends Snake Eyes' burial, the only person there aware that the coffin really holds Connie's body. The only guest for the event is the Ranger's former commanding officer, who is sombre and withholding, but does speak of the skill with a knife that "the snake-man" possessed. In Montana, meanwhile, the Chimera lies in wait at a diner, and when one of the anti-government rebels from the FBI list enters, he takes the man hostage at gunpoint.
Back at the motel, Duke arrives with Snake Eyes' posthumously awarded Silver Star, before he and Scarlett head off again to get dinner for the three of them. On the road in Connie's van, conversation turns to the consequences accepted when signing on the military, and Duke asks Scarlett whether her commitment had been shaken by an incident in Bosnia, where she narrowly escaped capture during an intel-gathering operation.
In a town near the Nevada/Utah border, Hawk briefs another new recruit, Heavy Duty on his mission: dealing with a bank being held hostage by four outlaw tax-resistors. The general orders no shooting, and the giant soldier complies, taking down three of the armed hostiles without firing a single shot. The fourth, however, flees the scene, and Hawk is forced to interrupt a satellite call with Duke and Scarlett to drive himself and Heavy Duty in pursuit.
At a wood cabin in the wilderness, the Chimera confronts Wilson's group of rebels. When the group's ring-leader invites the Chimera to go ahead and shoot Winston, the terrorist instead gets his attention by revealing twenty pounds of C-4 strapped underneath his jacket. With the floor his, the Chimera proceeds to invite the rebels to join him in doing some real damage to Uncle Sam, but is interrupted again by the rebel leader. For that, the man receives a bullet to the skull, and the remaining rebels quickly fall in line.
At the motel, two crooks break into Snake Eyes' room, intending to rob him. One of the men, however, is an ex-Ranger, and on noticing the Silver Star on the bedside table, insists that they leave the wounded soldier be. The two men leave, unaware that Snake Eyes had a knife in his hand, ready to throw. A short while later, Scarlett and Duke arrive back at the room. They find the signs of forced entry, but soon realize that there's little point in questioning the sole witness...
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Characters in italic text appear only in flashbacks.
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
|G.I. Joe
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"Waitaminute! I'm in charge here—"
"Shall we correct that statement to the past tense...?"
- —The rebel leader falls foul of the Chimera's short temperament and sick burns
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- Heavy Duty sure looks a lot like Roadblock, and that's because when this issue was produced, he was intended to be Roadblock, using an alternate name borrowed from another G.I. Joe character at Hasbro's request, for trademark reasons. Later, during G.I. Joe vol. 2, he would get his original name back, without comment being passed on it in-universe. However, even later, in G.I. Joe vol. 3, Heavy Duty was established as a separate character (Lamont Morris, the traditional owner of the codename), who was an early Joe who later helped recruit his cousin Roadblock. This essentially retconned all of Roadblock's appearances under the "Heavy Duty" name into being this separate individual.
G.I. Joe references[edit | edit source]
- Snake Eyes' tattoo is the traditional symbol of the Arashikage, the ninja clan with which he trained.
Real-life references[edit | edit source]
- Scarlett and the doctor mention the I Ching and Jungian synchronicity.
- The doctor has been flown from Walter Reed Army Medical Center and suggests Scarlett is going to Nellis Air Force Base.
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- Cover A: The bandaged Snake Eyes, by Andrea DiVito and Chris Sotomayor.
- Cover B: Scarlett in front of the letter I, by Tom Feister. Part of a series of covers spelling "GI JOE".
- Cover RI: Virgin version of Cover A.


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So, it's off the publisher after an editorial scrubbing.
"The Red Hand," the latest Frank Nagler Mystery, is now in the final steps as my publisher Imzadi Publishing, readies the manuscript for release.
No publication date has been set, but it's coming.
Thanks to Anita Dugan-Moore for the stunning cover, and Kathleen Tate for her careful copy edit. Kate, I'm sorry I can't spell "gray" and keep inventing ways to mangle the English language.
"The Red Hand" is a prequel to the three other books in the series.
Why write a prequel?
Two reasons.
First, to answer questions about the life of Ironton, N.J. Detective Frank Nagler.
What is it like to be a new detective investigating a horrible series of deaths, labeled "an experiment in death," by the medical examiner? How does Nagler become the soul of his hometown?
What happened to Nagler's wife, Martha, whose memory haunts him in the series?
Why doesn't Ironton, a once thriving manufacturing city, ever seem to turn the corner to prosperity?
These are all themes that are evident in the other three books in the series and will carried into the fifth one, now a work-in-progress.
The other reason is to add to the long story arc represented in the series.
Clues and hints to the origin, for example, of the political and financial morass that is Ironton are laid out. Also, deeper clues about how these issues will be resolved in the fifth book are dribbled throughout "The Red Hand."
A note on style: The story will appear to have a certain herky-jerky quality. That was done to reflect several aspects to the cases: A lack of evidence, tension within the police department, and the one-step-forward, two-steps-back uncertainty of a rookie detective thrust into a murder spree beyond his imagination.
My thanks to the readers who have stuck with this series, and whose support is immeasurable.
I hope "The Red Hand" does not disappoint.
The previous Nagler Mysteries:
"The Swamps of Jersey" (2014) is about political corruption and murder.
Nagler is called out on stormy night to investigate the report of a dead woman in the Old Iron Bog. It is the first event in a chain of events that set the hard-luck city of Ironton, N.J. on edge. Besides the possible murder, the city was flooded when a week-long storm settled in and wrecked homes, businesses, and streets, and Nagler is trying to make sense of a series of letters that claim to expose theft of city funds, except they are so incomplete he wonders if it is really so.
Then there is Lauren Fox, a woman sent to Ironton to jump-start economic development. She and Nagler are attracted to one another and begin to become serious when she leaves town without an explanation. Nagler was an emotional recluse following the death of his wife years before. They had been childhood sweethearts, and her death crushed Nagler.
The story of Frank Nagler picks up two years after "Swamps" in "A Game Called Dead" (2016)
A GAME CALLED DEAD was named a Runner-Up in the 2016 Shelf Unbound Indie Book Contest.
Ironton, N.J., is still a city struggling with its economic and rebuilding troubles, but new heroes emerge. Meanwhile a break-in at the local college leaves two women badly beaten, and one later dies. Following a series of criminal acts in the city, including several that damage the book store owned by Leonard, Nagler's friend, the story takes on a sinister twist. The title comes from the students' name for a video game that has taken on a real-world life. They call it "A Game Called Dead."
The story is tense and propulsive.
"The Weight of Living" (2017) brings Frank Nagler face-to-face with a soulless, manipulative killer whose crimes stretch back decades.
2017: First Place in the Royal Dragonfly Book Awards
2018: Named a Notable 100 Book in the Shelf Unbound Indie Book Contest
2018: Named a Distinguished Favorite in the Independent Press Awards contest.
2018: Named a Distinguished Favorite in the Big NYC Book Contest.
A young girl is found in a grocery store Dumpster on a cold March night wearing just shorts and a tank top. She does not speak to either Detective Frank Nagler, the social worker called to the scene, or later to a nun, who is an old friend of Nagler's.
What appears to be a routine search for the girl's family turns into a generational hell that drags Nagler into an examination of a decades old death of a young girl, and the multi-state crime enterprise of the shadow ringmaster.
The deeper Nagler looks, the more he and his companions are endangered, until the shocking climax that leaves Nagler questioning his actions to both solve the crimes and heal his damaged soul.
The story is entangled, deeply involving and holds an emotional grip.
The Nagler Mysteries are available through Barnes and Noble and Amazon.
The first three books in the series were issued in an anthology edition in 2018. It is available from the sires above in hardcover, paperback and ebook formats. (A handy way to catch up).
An audiobook version of "The Swamps of Jersey" is available on audible.com and Amazon.


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Recently Andy Brice from Successful Software posted a very nice article asking if desktop software is dead.
I personally think that is not dead and that is still very alive. I know inexperienced users that are running installations on their local computers to install their favorite software. And it's very easy to understand from the user point of view as this the oldest form of applications that we know. The most used software apps, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, are all desktop products.


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USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service has extended the deadline for new Conservation Stewardship Program enrollments for Fiscal Year 2014. NRCS Chief Jason Weller says this extension will make it possible for more farmers, ranchers and forest landowners to apply for this important program. Weller says these good stewards ensure their operations are more productive and sustainable over the long run – and CSP can help them take their operations to the next level of natural resource management. Eligible landowners and operators in all states and territories may now enroll in CSP through February 7th. Learn more at www dot NRCS dot USDA dot gov (www.nrcs.usda.gov).
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Built for the 1955 season, the SLR wiped the floor with the opposition in the five races in which it had an uninterrupted run. Stirling Moss, with Denis Jenkinson reading the notes, won the Mille Miglia with the famous "722" car (pictured below). Fangio and Moss were first and second in the Eifelrennen at the Nürburgring, and repeated that performance in the sports-car Swedish Grand Prix. Moss and the American John Fitch shared the winning car in the Tourist Trophy race at Dundrod, with Fangio and Karl Kling second, and Taffy von Trips/André Simon completing the SLR hat-trick.
There was another one-two-three victory in the Targa Florio, with Moss and Peter Collins winning from the Fangio/Kling pairing, and Fitch sharing the third-placed car with Ulsterman Desmond Titterington.
Of course, there was a sixth date on the SLR calendar, the most disastrous motorsport event in the car's single racing season, and the biggest tragedy the sport has ever seen - Le Mans 1955, when "Pierre Levegh" (the pseudonym of French driver Pierre Bouillon) tried to take avoiding action as another car swerved into his path, only for his SLR to be launched towards the too-close spectator enclosure opposite the pits. More than 80 people, including the driver, were killed.
The accident had far-flung ramifications, not least in making race organisers the world over realise they would have to pay far more attention to spectator safety provision. In Switzerland, the authorities placed an immediate ban on circuit racing, which has never been lifted. And although they allowed the SLR to complete its season, the Daimler-Benz directors eventually decided to withdraw from racing altogether. It would be many years before Mercedes returned.
Uhlenhaut's Idea
Although the SLR had no further life except in museums and - more recently - in retrospective events (Moss will be at the wheel of "722" in a return visit to Goodwood during the Festival of Speed on July 11-13, and the car will also be at Hockenheim for the German GP on August 03), its designer, the very engaging Rudolf Uhlenhaut, had already come up with the idea of a closed version, meant for endurance races in which, as things turned out, it would never take part.
He had one built for himself - "my company car" as he liked to call it - and took it to the 1955 Swedish Grand Prix. With the same powertrain arrangement as the sports-racers, including the driveshaft from the clutch to the rear-mounted gearbox running under the driver's seat, super-lightweight Elektron bodywork and a cumbersomely silenced version (the Stuttgart police insisted) of the race engine, this was a phenomenal performer for its day.
For a magazine test, at 4 o'clock in the morning on a specially closed section of autobahn near Munich, it was timed at just over 180mph.
Mercedes actually built two of these "Uhlenhaut Coupés", but they never went into production. Had they done so, they would certainly have been the SLR McLarens of their day. In terms of 1955 performance norms compared with those of 2003, possibly even more than that.
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On July 20, 2017, bids were opened for the contract work to be done on the new Mt. Ararat High School baseball and practice fields adjacent to the Mt. Ararat Middle School field. A base bid and three alternates had been requested. Of the four bids offered, the project was awarded to the bidder with the lowest overall bid. On August 3, 2017, the M.S.A.D. No. 75 School Board unanimously approved the contract with Crooker Construction LLC for both the base bid of $568,877 and Alternate #1 Sewer Replacement for $83,295, for a total contract price of $652,172.
Crooker Construction has begun work with hopes of completing the field by mid-November! The field will then be allowed to grow and stabilize for a year prior to it being used. Because the new fields are a construction zone, we remind everyone that for safety reasons visitors are not allowed on the premises.
The former military housing up Canam Drive was recently purchased by Patriot Brunswick Holdings LLC. That housing project utilizes a private sewer line that runs under the property being developed for the athletic fields. A multi-organization effort including the Town of Topsham, Topsham Sewer District, M.S.A.D. No. 75, and Patriot Brunswick Holdings LLC resulted in an agreement to replace the aged sewer line now. We want to acknowledge and thank all of those involved for the efforts to address this critical issue, in particular, Patriot Brunswick Holdings which will be paying the cost of the new sewer line, enabling us to move forward without jeopardizing the current line. By reaching this agreement, it has ensured that M.S.A.D. No. 75 will not have to incur changes to the original design that may have increased the cost to the School District and potentially delayed the project. Patriot Brunswick Holdings very much wants to work with the Town, the School Board and neighbors to find out what the needs are as they relate to housing. They also plan to be in this community for years to come so would like to make a positive impact on the town.