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"An incredible night full of memories that I now have to share with my son." - Anna from Mummy Muckups
Join us for an unforgettable 'Australiana' experience at the AM. Enjoy an Aussie barbeque dinner and get up close and meet live native Australian animals such as crocodiles, pythons and lizards, before coming face-to-face with our resident Muttaburrasaurus, an Australian dinosaur that lived around 100 million years ago. Travel back to Australia's ancient past and hold real fossils. Embark on a tour by torchlight to discover Australian Museum treasures and stories before relaxing in the theatrette to watch a family film. The evening is topped off by sleeping next to some old dinosaur favourites including Stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus Rex. In the morning you will wake to breakfast at our rooftop cafe overlooking Sydney Harbour and Botanic Gardens then have a private viewing of our special exhibition.
Date/s: Multiple Fridays throughout the year, beginning 3 February, 17 March, 12 May, 7 July, 29 Sept, 27th October (more dates may be added subject to availability).
School, Girl Guides or Scout groups are welcome to book private sleepovers Mon - Thurs (02 9320 6364, email@example.com).
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 AM the following day. (Schools can start at 5:15 PM for an earlier bedtime).
Meeting Point: Please meet at the main entrance to the Museum, 1 William Street, Sydney. (The Museum entrance doors will be closed however staff will greet guests at 6:00 PM and take guests into Museum).
Ages: 6 - 14 years. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Adults are not permitted without a child. Adult child ratio of 1:3 required.
$120 members child; $150 members adult
$140 non-members child; $180 non-members adult.
Private or school groups $110 per person (inc. GST) with 60 pax minimum & 100 pax maximum. Supervising teachers and parents are free at a ratio of 1 adult per 15 students. Extra adults pay $110.00 each. Extra adult numbers must be negotiated with AM staff at the time of booking.
No refunds. Any date transfers need to be notified at least 72 hours before event. Changes are made at AM staff discretion. Kids at the AM mailbox will be checked weekly firstname.lastname@example.com. For any urgent matters phone the AM on 02 9320 6000.
To become a Member of the AM and take advantage of the discounted ticket price, visit: https://australianmuseum.net.au/members/
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- Buffet dinner and continental breakfast at our rooftop restaurant
- Encounter live native Australian animals such as crocodiles, pythons and lizards oh my! (Syllabus adapted for school groups. Simply inform AM staff of year group /Stage when booking)
- Torchlight tour of the Museum Galleries, including Wild Planet and Surviving Australia
- Screening of a family friendly film
- Sleep in the Dinosaur Gallery or adjoining Suriving Australia Gallery, next to megafauna, if you would like to spread out.
- Entry into the current special exhibition
- Children receive a goodybag to take home which includes a growing dinosaur egg!
What to bring:
- All sleeping equipment i.e. camping mat, sleeping bag, pillow
- comfortable sleeping clothes
- Torch
- Tooth brush, toiletries and wash cloth (no showers available)
- Ear plugs and sleep mask (optional)
- Please note that the museum is unable to store personal belongings. Please refrain from bringing unnecessary valuables with you and please keep your valuables with you at all times.
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What is the general plan of events?
6:00 PM - Arrive and set up beds in Dinosaur Gallery on Level 2.
6:25 – 6:45 PM Introductions and meet Winny in Atrium
6:45 – 7:30 PM Dinner & Dino Trivia, Level 4
7:30 – 8:15 PM Australian Wildlife Show
8:15 – 9:00 PM Torchlight tour of Museum
9:00 – 9:15 PM – PJ's
9:15 – 11:00 PM Screening of a family friendly film in theatre with Mini-Magnums (1 hr 48 mins)
11:00 PM – Bedtime in the Dino Gallery
Following Day:
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7:15 – 8:00 AM Special Exhibition. Finish.
Can my child go to bed early if they are tired? Yes, however, this will only be possible from 8:30 PM and you will need to stay with your child. Please let staff know if any of your party get sick/hurt and need to leave the Museum early.
Can adults bring alcohol? No. We do not allow guests to bring alcohol into the Museum.
How do I get there? The Australian Museum is located on the corner of College Street and William Street in central Sydney, just across the road from Hyde Park and opposite St Mary's Cathedral. Bus, train and parking information can be found here: http://australianmuseum.net.au/location-parking-and-public-transport. Please note that there is no parking available at the Museum so we have arranged a special flat rate of $15 overnight parking at the Domain for Dinosnore guests. You must show your Dinosnore ticket for validation at carpark office on level 2A blue level.
Can I visit the Museum the day of the program? Yes. Your Dinosnore ticket includes Museum Entry, however, you will not be allowed in the Museum between 5 PM - 6:30 PM or 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM. Much of the Museum will be covered during DinoSnore.
Can younger or older siblings attend? No. The program is not suited to children under 5 years of age.
Do I need to stay with my child for the whole program? Yes. Parental or adult supervision is required at all times.
What if I am running late? If you are running late then please call Security on 02 9320 6335 who can radio event staff when you arrive.
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Buffet Dinner
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• Vegetarian lasagne
• Steamed market fish
• Colcannon Mash potatoes
• Roasted vegetable selection
• Juices, filter tea and coffee (Mini-magnums will be served in the Theatrette for the movie)
Breakfast Buffet
• Mini Danish and croissants
• Individual yogurts
• Cereal selection
• Whole fruit
• Juices, hot chocolate, filter tea and coffee
Please let us know in the booking form if you have any specific dietry requirements or allergies and we will try and accomodate.
Can we bring our own food and beverages into the Museum? No alcohol is to be brought on site by visitors but feel free to bring a water bottle or other beverage. We will be catering for dinner and breakfast so there should be no need to bring food/drink unless you have specific dietry requirements that we cannot cater for. If you think you will need extra snacks then you are welcome to pack these, but make sure you take all rubbish with you when you pack up your sleeping gear.
Where do we sleep? Guests sleep in the Dinosaur gallery. Guests are able to also sleep in the adjoining Suriving Australia Gallery, next to megafauna, if you would like to spread out. Guests are required to bring all bedding and sleeping mat.
Image: Food with a view at the AM's rooftop cafe.
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Giant-screen exhibitor will release sequel for limited timeTORONTO -- Imax Corp. is to release Marvel Entertainment's "Iron Man 2" on its giant screens on May 7, simultaneous with the film's worldwide release by Paramount Pictures.
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I have alluded in my Instagram feed to a new job, and I am currently in week 8. It's been almost six years since my last job change. This opportunity was akin to a big shiny ball rolling across my path and I felt like I had chase after it or I'd always regret not doing so.
Is the work I do for a paycheck, the work I'm put on this earth to do? I don't think so, but I'm now in my late 30s and with an advanced degree, I feel like I am in that sweet spot where my education and work experience has led me to a place where I finally have a decent level of professional competency (imagine that!?). My days are non-stop and often stressful, and on top of that, changing jobs is in and of itself, STRESSFUL. It's hard to not know everyone's name and role and where to put your lunch in the office fridge, or who to call when you can't find the right file on the server. Beyond that, I am in a role where I am the only person who does my job, where I came from a larger company where three people did my same job. It's HARD not to have someone to check my thinking on things or to help me make tough decisions.
What has helped me get through the transition, maintain perspective and not completely freak out/melt down, is taking really good care of myself. That means dropping whatever I am doing and getting ready for bed starting at 8:00pm. It means making sure coffee and smoothies and lunch is made and packed for the next day, and getting regular exercise during my lunch hour, as I have been doing for the last two years. I found a gym nearby my new office (I'm commuting the same distance, but in the opposite direction) and I am keeping my body fueled right.
Here is my rough fueling/fitness plan for the day:
5:15 Rise / drink water
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7:30 ish – Work while drinking 1 quart of green smoothie & refill my Ball quart jar with water (I like these straws / lids)
10:00 – break to eat 1 toasted Food for Life English muffin with PB, drink more water.
noon-1:00 work out / run / shower
1:30 – eat leftovers for lunch at my desk, fill up quart jar and drink water (maybe with a little lemon or apple cider vinegar) throughout the afternoon.
3:30 – break for snack (Lundberg rice cakes with hummus), drink more water.
5:15 – 5:45 commute
6:00-6:45 walk the dog
7:00 – assemble / eat some simple dinner / graze 😉
8:00/8:30 start getting ready for bed / lay out clothes, pack gym bag / read
9:00 / 9:30 – lights out.
Here's what I have learned in the last 8 weeks. When I am RELENTLESS in the consistency of taking care of myself, I am much better prepared to manage stress and change. I hope this might be helpful for you in some way. I would love to hear from you if so. XOXOX


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We believe that when the fisherman delivers, you get this morning's catch. We believe in letting things simmer, allowing flavours to grow. We believe in the treasures of the summertime in Chester: lazy beach days, long evenings, and combing the sand for shells.
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We sat outside on the rooftop patio and enjoyed the breeze and our dinner of Ahi tuna salad and a Portobello sandwich. We had a chaser of strawberry & chocolate mousse cake, of course. To top off the evening, we sat at the bar and listened to excellent live music.
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... And the results are in! QUAD staff voted for their favourite films of 2016. Here's what made their top 8.8. Nocturnal Animals7. Paterson6. Embrace of the Serpent5. Son of Saul4. Mustang3. Anomalisa2. I, Daniel Blake1. SpotlightThere were also notable mentions for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Deadpool, The Revenant, The Hateful Eight and Wiener Dog.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Flamengo beat Emelec 2-1 last night in the Copa Libertadores to keep their dreams of progressing to the knock-out phase alive. Victory in their final group game, at home to Léon of Mexico, would see the Rubro-Negro safely through to the final sixteen of the competition.
An Alecsandro penalty and a last-gasp strike from Paulinho gave Flamengo all three points on a difficult night in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Flamengo were missing key players due to injury, including captain Léo Moura, but their improvised defense stood up to a stern test, especially during the second half.
During the first half, Flamengo enjoyed the lion's share of possession and went ahead after only eight minutes. Emelec defender Naduti handled in the area and Alecsandro converted the resulting spot kick.
Emelec made a change at the interval, bringing on Bolaños for Mondaini as they tried to seize the initiative. The ploy worked as the hosts took the game away from the Brazilians, Fla only managing to hit occasionally on the counter.
Flamengo were holding on but conceded an equalizer twenty minutes from time. Welinton impeded Caicedo in the penalty area and Emelec were awarded a spot kick of their own, which Stracqualursi tucked away.
Emelec sensed the game was there for the taking. Nevertheless, Mengo coach Jayme de Almeida sent on young forward Negueba and he made all the difference. On 92 minutes, he sent Paulinho through to score the game's winning goal in the dying minutes. Flamengo remain in the mix in the Copa Libertadores.
Meanwhile, Botafogo lost 1-0 at home to Unión Espaõla of Chile to dent their qualification hopes. The Glorioso have seven points from five games and will need to beat San Lorenzo in Argentina to go through to the next round.
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The purpose of the Ritual Committee at Congregation B'nai Tikvah is to support the Clergy in their creation and implementation of meaningful Shabbat and holiday services. Committee members encourage participation in synagogue life, provide hands-on assistance for special programs and help shape ritual policies and guidelines. The committee also acts as a sounding board for congregants to voice their ideas and hopes. Our Ritual Committee seeks to enhance the warm, inviting atmosphere for which our congregation is known.


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People hang out at Apple stores. Starbucks' seating is never empty. The local car dealer provides a work-ready mini-office while you wait. Yet nobody wants to go to the local REALTOR's open house?
Why do some customers linger at a place of business, while others rush through? That's the critical question to any business with a retail location, regardless of industry. In real estate, the retail location isn't the branch office, because people down the sidewalk these days are looking at their smartphone, not bits of paper taped to shop windows. Rather, the retail location – the place where the "goods are on display" is the listing itself. And in real estate, not only do we make it hard to actually come see the goods, but once there, we virtually chase people off.
Which makes me wonder: How could we make open houses so compelling, customers would stick around, rather than run right through?
Lots of little ideas come to mind, including:
- Hold open houses on more days of the week, for longer hours, than Sunday during a narrow period in the afternoon.
- Create a welcoming experience when people walk or drive up the driveway. Think, the Ritz-Carlton doorman.
- Engineer an emotional impact on the first step through the door. Beyond cookie smells, consider lighting, sound, even the surface under their feet.
- Create engagement points throughout the property. Use QR codes on appliances and in special rooms. Connect the QR codes to audio descriptions, video clips, websites and images that save directly to their phones.
- Incorporate an activity at the event: a chef, a painter, a musician. Find a way to connect the event and the property.
- Stage a discussion; ask one or two people in your office to come sit in the living room, and just host a casual conversation. Visitors can listen in; or might ask a question of people in a casual discussion.
- Transform a space into a interactive zone. Setup a printer, wireless access point, laptop or two, and a refreshment station at the kitchen table. Don't cover it in paper or paraphernalia. Leave it clean, so consumers can sit down and explore. Let them learn more about the home, maps or community, even check their email. Give them every reason to stay as long as they wish.
- Stop worrying if they're ready to make an offer, and start worrying if you've offered to help enough. Don't grill them about their intentions, their needs, if they brought their checkbook. Instead, grill them a hamburger, and just listen. Make them feel like they are already at home. (PS: The hamburger is a metaphor. Think about it.)


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Obama added that Republican opposition to the bill, which failed to pass by a 58-42 margin at the end of July, "defies common sense," asserting that the bill incorporated both Republican and Democratic ideas.If you're not a political junkie, you might think that only 42 Senators voted for the bill, and thus might be confused as to why they put the number 58 first, since usually the first number is the number of votes for something. But of course, 58 Senators, a clear majority of the body representing a clear majority of the American public, voted for the bill. All Democrats voted for the bill except Harry Reid, who voted against it for procedural reasons. There ought to be some quick-and-easy way to convey to readers what's going on here, but this isn't doing the job. In the meantime, the Republican minority will continue to stymie the government's ability to respond to anything and reap the political benefits.
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21.41 If your heart is not warmed by the sight of Shevchenko mobbing his manager Oleg Blokhin, to the soundtrack of many thousand Ukranians roaring... you have a cold, cold heart. Delightful to see the hosts, despite all of depressing context their nation has provided us, to pull off an unexpected win, and marvellous that it was Shevchenko that did the damage. Sweded hugely disappointing and Ibrahimovic aside had little about them which will worry England. That'll be all from this liveblog. Thanks for your company, I'll talk to you again soon.
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90+4 min Mellberg goes close! Shins a lob over Pyatov, it beats the keeper but ends up on the roof of the net.
90+2 min One more minute of stoppage time to be played. Konoplyanka is down and pretending he's mortally wounded by a minor knee in the back from Elmander. He's substituted, and walking without the aid of crutches. Devych on.
90 min Rest easy, James Milner, we have just seen the worst miss of the tournament so far! Not that easy, but a lovely move, with Zlatan holding off his man and deftly flicking the ball through for Elmander. Ball sits up beautifully for him on the volley but he baloons his chance! Awful finish.
88 min Scrappy. That'll be fine for Ukraine with two minutes left and not an obviously long amount of injury time to be added on. Not sure what's going on here:
Looks like a member of the Blue Man Group in the FUTURE.
86 min Shevchenko being slapped on the back by nervous, grinning compatriots on the Ukraine bench. Unbridled joy and terror in their eyes. Wonderful.
84 min Voronin coming off now, it's Rotan on. These late subs are doing a good job of hampering Sweden's momentum.
82 min Shevchenko is off. What a reception. People seem to really, really like him in this part of the world. Milevskiy's on. I like his beard.
80 min This isn't going to be a pleasant last 10 for Ukraine. They look shattered and Sweden are beginning to realise they need a goal. Willhemson at the heart of everything good they're doing, he puts a decent cross over and Mellberg is in some space beyond the far post but his attempt to volley it back into the danger area is awful. Goes all the way back to Willhemson on the other side, who shoots. Straight at Pyatov. Soren Assmann now making quite a lot of sense:
Aside from Lewandowski and maybe Gomez, the only "big stars" scoring so far are in this game. No Özil, no van Persie OR Huntelaar OR Robben (yesyesyes!DANMARK!), no Benzema. You can't say the pressure on Shevchenko by a whole nation has pressed him down. Compared to others.
78 min Good work from Willhemson on the left, running at his man, beating a couple, but as wingers are wont to do he takes one touch too mane and Gusev is able to hold him off as Pyatov comes out to gather.
77 min If Sweden are going to muster anything positive from this par-boiled egg of a performance Zalatan is going to be involved. Fashions a wonderful shot from nothing in particular and Pyatov can only offer a baffled shovel of a save, and Ukraine hurriedly scramble it clear.
74 min Here's Shevchenko bullying Mellberg and scoring the first of Ukraine's goals:
72 min Sweden's final change, it's Elmander on for Rosenberg.
70 min Another "MAN DOWN!" moment for Ukraine. Yarmolenko is down in the middle of the pitch and Kallstrom plays a nice ball over the top for Elm, who's in behind. He makes contact and gets it up and over Pyatov but it's too high and Pyatov is able to step back and pluck it out of the air.
68 min Wilhemsson on for Larsson now for Sweden as they attempt to un-shellshock themselves. This is turning into a pretty unpleasant performance from them
66 min Svensson's on for Toivonen for Sweden.
64 min The crowd are screaming "Sheva! Sheva!". He's a deity in Ukraine, on a level with the regard with which readers of the Daily Express hold Princess Diana.
62 min GOAL!! Ukraine 2 Sweden 1 (Shevchenko)
A goal for all of Ukraine! Supporters weeping, heads in hands, not believing what they're seeing. A corner from the left, Shevchenko peels off Ibrahimovic and that is a marvellous header from a difficult angle as he hared towards the near post. Iskasson beaten and the hosts are in the lead.
59 min Ukraine have a corner. Pressure building for them. It's too long, but they keep the ball. Gusev tries a shot from just outside the area and it's wide.
57 min Honest, Ukraine were looking done for in the moments before that goal. France v England, Ireland v Croatia, Italy v Spain, we're seeing a lot of goals conceded soon after teams have taken the lead in this tournament.
55 min GOAL!! Ukraine 1 Sweden 1 (Shevchenko)
It had to be. And it had to happen after I'd typed that last update. Gusev speads it left to Yarmolenko who gets past his man with a deft foot-feint and puts a lovely cross towards the near post. Shevchenko easily holds off his marker and heads it in. I'd say those supporting Ukraine in the stadium are reasonably happy.
54 min Sweden at last looking like the far superior team they are. Some pleasing strength and passing in midfield. Selin hobbling for the Ukraine, who are resorting to panicked quick passes when they have the ball.
52 min GOAL!! Ukraine 0 Sweden 1 (Ibrahimovic)
Sweden ignore Selin down on the ground and Toivonen picks out Rosenberg in the box. He passes it back to Toivonen who spots Kallstrom in the box. Not enough on the cross but an awful header from Yarmolenko sends it straight to its intended recipient who has an easy job of squaring to the goal-hanging Zlatan who pokes it past Pyatov like a man that's scored an awful lot of goals.
49 min Loose ball pinging around the penalty area, falls promisingly for Rosenberg.... Goal gaping, and he strikes it well, but it's blocked by Khaceri.
47 min Some intra-liveblog emailer love going on. Here's Andy Holgate:
Footballs most pleasant surprise is our new friend and brilliantly-named Assmann. He often makes more sense than Adrian Childs.
46 min Second half go. Looked like Shevchenko might be hauled off at half time, he wsa clutching his hamstring at one point and has been nursing the all-round ill-health of a man approaching his 70s in recent weeks. He is still out there, despite this.
20.34 That picked up after a pretty dour opening half an hour. I wonder if the England result has had a big impact on the way these teams are playing? A win for one team probably would have made Sweden a little more attacking, as they'd need to stay in touch. The draw means Ukraine feel they have a chance to be unlikely leaders of the group this evening. As such we've got both teams not playing to their strengths. Sweden, so lauded as an attacking force, are deep and narrow and playing on the break. Ukraine, decent defensively, have wasted territory and chances. Would like to see Sweden go for it a lot more in the second half. Not lease because of my gigantic £1 wager mentioned earlier... See you in 15.
Ukraine 0 Sweden 0
45+1 min Just the one minute of added time.
45 min Jonathan Liew on that disappointing volley:
42 min The roar every time Ukraine do something reasonably well, or get on the ball in Sweden's third, must be actively off-putting for the players. Yarmolenko makes it to the byline and finds Konoplianka on the far post. The youngster steels himself for a volley... And screws it miles over. You feel Ukraine are going to need a superb long-range shot or a fluke-tastic close-ranger to score. Their conventional finishing has not been strong.
39 min Ibrahimovic hits the post! Free kick out wide and the Ukraine defence forget what they do for a living, leaving Zlatan in space close to the far post. Heads it, beats Pyatov, but it brushes the base of the post. It's come to life! Kind of! It's a festival of almost-goals!
38 min Great chance for Ukraine! Shevechenko forces a save from Iskasson, it's headed back across goal and cleared to Yarmolenko six yards out... It's deflcted behind for a corner. Too much on it, and Sweden eventually win a goal kick.
35 min It's Ukraine on the ball. It's low on incident. It's not all that good. I thought I did enough fate-tempting at the beginning of this liveblog to avoid this kind of thing... Ooh hand on, here's Voronin, cutting inside at pace in the middle of the pitch and unleashing a fearsome shot from 25 yards. Iskasson beats it away with an unorthodox flourish, and is fortunate to see it fall away from the advancing Yarmolenko. That's a bit better. Both sides rather cancelling each other out, and someone surely needs to have a proper go, given that England and France drew.
31 min There's an awful lot of falling over and minor fouling going on. Zlatan has a shot from 30 yards wide on the right.... and it's out for a throw. Group D is letting the tournament down so far. Oh Group D, why can't you be more like Groups A, B and C?
30 min Nazarenko hammers a free kick into the box from deep on the left. Overhit, as every free kick of this game seems to have been so far. All the way through to Iskasson who takes a high catch. The peerless and sometimes unintelligable Danish correspondent Soren Assmann has this to offer:
If the Swedish away is gorgeous, the Danish home - to be seen on Wednesday - is second overall. Our brothers from the north seem more structural so far. Are there no male fans with blonde pigtails in the crowd today?
28 min Sweden corner, cleared by Khacheri.
26 min Sweden are narrow, and allowing Ukraine to see a lot of the ball out wide. Gusev and Konoplianka look composed on it, but neither has yet produced much of any use. Ball from deep from Selin towards Voronin, the former Liverpool man attempts a handball as it gets away from him and can't even manage that.
23 min A great chance for Shevchenko! Plays a one-two with Yarmolenko and is in behind Granqvist. Tight angle but he screws it harmlessly wide. That.... is not ideal.
21 min Sweden beginning to nudge the match in their general direction. Tymoshcuk slips, Sweden break, Zlatan holds off about seven burly Ukrainians then finds Kallstrom. His cross for Rosenberg looks dangerous, but the striker is offside.
19 min These Ukranian fans may be the happiest people of Euro 2012 to date:
17 min Hairy moment for Ukraine at the back. Ibrahimovic crosses from the left and Pyatov elects to punch. Falls very close to Toivonen, is then cleared towards Larsson who's also lurking in the box, but Ukraine muster the ball clear.
16 min A wonderful fact, that will not change tonight:
14 min Larsson, suitably chastened after his unusually poor free kick a few minutes ago, is brushed aside so Elm can have a go from a similar position. The result is no different, it's overhit, and Zlatan fails to keep it in. Goal kick to Ukraine.
12 min Ukraine break and Kallstrom is penalised, then booked, for a slightly late slide tackle on Gusev. Ukraine will be heartened by their start, but it's a bit like the Czech Republic v Russia at the minute. You sense Sweden, surely the far better team, will step it up and begin to take control once they have the measure of their opponents.
11 min Seb Larsson stands over a free kick out wide on the left. A nation (Ukraine) says a prayer. The prayer, contrary to all scientific studies, works. Larsson overhits it and it's an easy claim in the air for Pyatov.
9 min Please be upstanding for the first pertinent statistical tweet this evening from our friends at Opta:
7 min Gusev and Konoplianka looking promising again for Ukraine. The former looks assured on the right, but overhits a cross. The latter cuts in off the left again and dribbles pas Elm but Mellberg stops him in his tracks.
5 min Good spell from the hosts, right back Gusev (confusingly wearing the number nine shirt) attacking down the flank and pleasingly un-hurried in his picking of a pass. Worked to the other side where Konoplianka shows an early flash of pace and shoots from range. It's wide.
3 min Ukraine just trying to settle in these opening stages. Palpable sense of a lot of people inside a every large stadium expecting far too much. Hard to see if there are loads of empty seats or just loads of people wearing yellow tops.
2 min Duke Addleman on football's pleasing surprises:
How about three? 1. Balotelli's childish ineffectiveness giving way to Di Natale's brilliance. 2. Hart's butterfingered goalkeeping goes blissfully unpunished. 3. The absence of Pele's obligatory outburst of self-aggrandizing pretournament poppycock.
1 min Horrendous kick-off countdown complete, and Sweden get us started.
19.44 The two captains, each their team's best-known players, attack the national anthems in a contrasting way. Shevchenko absolutely belts it out. Ibrahimovic stands stock still and looks angry. Singing is beneath him.
19.40 The teams are out. Sweden wearing their gorgeous away shirt. Possibly my favourite in the tournament. Look at it:
19.34 A stat? A lovely stat in a Tweet? Oh, go on then:
Can't see that being added to here. If I was a betting man I'd be on 2-0 to Sweden. (I am a betting man and am on 2-0 to Sweden, to the tune of one English pound. I'm Batman.)
19.30 Splendid email contribution from Donncha Ó Conmhuí:
Given the rampant blue-and-yellow situation going on in this game, I though I'd note that no two teams have played each other thus far without at least one common colour on their flags. In fact, there are only three group stage matches in which this will not be the case. Try to guess them: I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at how much more interesting it is than watching Martin Olsson and the Fallabouts.
Sweden v England, England v Ukraine and Ireland v Spain? What do I win?
19.26 "IT'S VERY HOT" bellows Jonathan Pearce on the gantry in Kiev. Martin Keown with him, and doing that unnerving thing of speaking directly into the camera after being asked a question. Dusk and expectation in the Fan Mile (note: probably not a mile) downtown:
19.17 In a development that no-one in the world would describe as "surprising" the BBC coverage of this game is currently devoted to dissecting the England performance. Alan Shearer is back in the Salford studio, having been out in Poland for the first game. He's going to have an awful lot of Airmiles in three weeks' time. And be up to date with all of his favourite podcasts.
19.15 Here are the teams:
Ukraine: Pyatov, Gusev, Mykhalyk, Khacheridi, Selin, Yarmolenko, Tymoschuk, Konoplianka, Nazarenko, Voronin, Shevchenko.
Subs: Koval, Kucher, Garmash, Aliev, Shevchuk, Rakitskiy, Butko, Goryainov.
Sweden: Isaksson, Lustig, Mellberg, Granqvist, Martin Olsson, Elm, Kallstrom, Larsson, Ibrahimovic, Toivonen, Rosenberg.
Subs: Wiland, Svensson, Jonas Olsson, Antonsson, Wernbloom, Safari, Holmen, Hansson.
Referee: Cuneyt Cakir (Turkey)
19.12 Ukraine, on the other hand have had a challenging build-up to the competition. Myron Marekevych, the manager they hoped would be taking them to this tournament, resigned after being emboriled in a bribary scandal, then his replacement Yuri Kalitvinstsev lead his team to one win in eight games. Under Blokhin, Ukraine have lost 4-1 to France and 2-0 to Sweden. Tings have picked up since, the first game at this very stadium was a 3-3 draw with Germany. Much is expected from 22-year-old midfielder Yevgen Konoplyanka, who scored an impressive goal in the game against Germany:
19.08 Much talk of Sweden being a potent attacking force these days, with Erik Hamren's team casting off the reputation for defensive carefulness and dire goalless draws with England that they developed during Lars Lagerback's nine years at the helm. John Guidetti, the Swedes' bright young thing (and, I'm pretty sure, a minor Sopranos character) is unfortunately not in the squad. The 20-year-old scored 20 goals while on loan at Feyernoord from Manchester City this season but has "done" his thigh.
18.51 It's finished 1-1 in the France v England match, for the six of you exclusively following this liveblog for their news updates. Also: Europe in financial crisis, it's raining, and David Cameron left his eight-year-old daughter in a pub.
18.46 On closer inspection I reckon that's a cheap knock-off retro shirt, so in answer to my qestion "what more could you want?" - a genuine shirt.
18.45 Just for the record, if you're ever hoping to get your picture in a liveblog I'm writing you can't go wrong with a retro shirt:
The tattiness of this man's shorts and flags suggest to me that he would be carrying quite an unplesant odour. Still: the past! Football shirts from the past! What more could you want?
18.30 Good evening liveblog fans.
It's the game we've all been waiting for!
No, not really, it's Ukraine v Sweden, a game perhaps only matched for not looking like it's going to be very good by Greece v Czech Republic and Premier League fixtures that feature Stoke City.
In fact I'm going to go ahead and call this what it is: the worst game, on paper, of the tournament. (Obviously this title excludes any games that involve England.)
Of course it will now end 8-7 and be fantastic, as the rest of Euro 2012 has been.
There are several other reasons to look on the bright side.
• Ukraine are hosts, so duty-bound to play above themselves and be supported in an exciting, noisy and hopefully-not-racist manner.
• Sweden have Zlatan, who is a wonderful disgrace of a human being.
• Ukraine have Andriy Shevchenko, who is 100.
• I like both of these team's kits and flags.
So we're all in agreement: 10/10, and well worth 90 minutes (plus 75 minutes of multimedia build-up)
Team news and the colours yellow and blue over and over again to follow, stay tuned.
Here's is a thing for you to read:
Oleg Blokhin dismisses racism row and urges Ukraine players to be calm in face of 'tornado' of support


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Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn't work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they're done they're done."
Kurt Vonnegut, Time Quake
When George V died, on the night of January 20th 1936, the German composer Paul Hindemith happened to be in London. Spotting an opportunity, I suppose, he wrote an elegy – the Trauermusik, for viola and string orchestra – the following day, between 11am and 5pm (in an office made available to him by the BBC), and it was given its premiere by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sir Adrian Boult, with the composer as soloist, that evening.
Hindemith must have had something on the go, you would think; either that, or he gave the piece – a full eight minutes of music – some remarkably condensed thought. By contrast, when Anton Webern came to compose his String Quartet op. 28, he spent nine months over the first movement alone, at a rate of sixteen bars of music a month, or a bar every two days. Most of the bars have no more than two notes in them. He wrote therefore at the rate of a single note per day, or thereabouts. Any slower and he simply would not have been composing (and in fairness he went a little quicker with the second and third movements, completing each in a matter of three or four months).
Webern's music operates at an extreme of condensation (a complete performance is only a few minutes long), and in fairness he most certainly did not take it a note at a time, since the whole principle of the work, as of all his work, is of an extreme structural integration. But I would imagine he was pretty handy with the eraser.
I do not know that Webern was a basher and Hindemith a swooper, but I would lay odds. I see the same pattern with my students. Every Monday they settle to do a bit of writing. They have half an hour and a choice of subjects. Some get their heads down and proceed steadily using the eraser copiously; others dash down whatever and then scratch emendations over the top. The former tend to have neat handwriting, the latter less so. I doubt whether there is a correlation between good writing and one approach or the other; good writers tend to read back over longer portions of text more frequently, which might be a characteristic of the basher rather than the swooper; to judge from their manuscripts, both James Joyce and Charles Dickens were swoopers; and so on. Both get there in the end.


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A Loser's History
George Tenet's sniveling, self-justifying new book is a disgrace.
It's difficult to see why George Tenet would be so incautious as to write his own self-justifying apologia, let alone give it the portentous title At the Center of the Storm. There is already a perfectly good pro-Tenet book written by a man who knows how to employ the overworked term storm. Bob Woodward's 2002 effort, Bush at War, was, in many of its aspects, almost dictated by George Tenet. How do we know this? Well, Tenet is described on the opening page as "a hefty, outgoing son of Greek immigrants," which means that he talked to Woodward on background. Further compliments are showered upon him. We discover that his main protector on Capitol Hill, Sen. David Boren, who represented Oklahoma until 1994, had implored President-elect Bush to retain this Clinton-era head of the CIA and if he had any doubts, to "ask your father":
When the younger Bush did, the former President George H.W. Bush said: "From what I hear, he's a good fellow," one of the highest accolades in the Bush family lexicon. Tenet … later led the effort to rename CIA headquarters for Bush, himself a former DCI.
No need to draw a very complex picture here: Tenet knows how the kiss-up and kiss-down game is played. And, for a rather mediocre man, he did well enough out of the arrangement while it lasted. Woodward was even willing to describe him as one who "had developed an understanding of the importance of human intelligence, HUMINT in spycraft." But let's not get ahead of ourselves. I only mean to say that it was a very favorably disposed chronicler who wrote this, in describing Tenet's reaction on the terrible morning of Sept. 11, 2001:
"This has bin Laden all over it," Tenet told Boren. "I've got to go." He also had another reaction, one that raised the real possibility that the CIA and the FBI had not done all that could have been done to prevent the terrorist attack. "I wonder," Tenet said, "if it has anything to do with this guy taking pilot training."
Notice the direct quotes that make it clear who is the author of this brilliant insight. And then pause for a second. The author is almost the only man who could have known of Zacarias Moussaoui and his co-conspirators—the very man who positively knew they were among us, in flight schools, and then decided to leave them alone. In his latest effusion, he writes: "I do know one thing in my gut. Al-Qaeda is here and waiting." Well, we all know that much by now. But Tenet is one of the few who knew it then, and not just in his "gut" but in his small brain, and who left us all under open skies. His ridiculous agency, supposedly committed to "HUMINT" under his leadership, could not even do what John Walker Lindh had done—namely, infiltrate the Taliban and the Bin Laden circle. It's for this reason that the CIA now has to rely on torturing the few suspects it can catch, a policy, incidentally, that Tenet's book warmly defends.
So, the only really interesting question is why the president did not fire this vain and useless person on the very first day of the war. Instead, he awarded him a Presidential Medal of Freedom! Tenet is now so self-pitying that he expects us to believe that he was "not at all sure that [he] really wanted to accept" this honor. But it seems that he allowed or persuaded himself to do so, given that the citation didn't mention Iraq. You could imagine that Tenet had never sat directly behind Colin Powell at the United Nations, beaming like an overfed cat, as the secretary of state went through his rather ill-starred presentation. And who cares whether his "slam dunk" vulgarity was misquoted or not? We have better evidence than that. Here is what Tenet told the relevant Senate committee in February 2002:
Iraq … has also had contacts with al-Qaida. Their ties may be limited by divergent ideologies, but the two sides' mutual antipathy toward the United States and the Saudi royal family suggests that tactical cooperation between them is possible, even though Saddam is well aware that such activity would carry serious consequences.
As even the notion of it certainly should have done. At around the same time, on another nontrivial matter, Tenet informed the Senate armed services committee that: "We believe that Saddam never abandoned his nuclear weapons program." It is a little bit late for him to pose as if Iraq was a threat concocted in some crepuscular corner of the vice president's office. And it's pathetic for him to say, even in the feeble way that he chooses to phrase it, that "there was never a serious debate that I know of within the administration about the imminence of the Iraqi threat." (Emphasis added.) There had been a very serious debate over the course of at least three preceding administrations, whether Tenet "knew" of it or not. (He was only an intelligence specialist, after all.) As for his bawling and sobbing claim that faced with crisis in Iraq, "the administration's message was: Don't blame us. George Tenet and the CIA got us into this mess," I can say, as one who has attended about a thousand postmortems on Iraq in Washington, that I have never, ever, not once heard a single partisan of the administration say anything of the kind. The White House may have thought that it could count on the CIA to present some sort of solidity in a crisis but, as Sept. 11 had already proved, more fool the White House.
In the post-Kuwait-war period, there was little political risk in doing what Tenet had always done and making the worst assumption about anything that Saddam Hussein might even be thinking about. (Who but an abject idiot would ever make a different assumption or grant the Baathists the smallest benefit of the least doubt?) But we forget so soon and so easily. The problem used to be the diametrically opposite one. The whole of our vaunted "intelligence" system completely refused to believe any of the warnings that Saddam Hussein was about to invade and occupy Kuwait in 1990. By the time the menace was taken seriously, the invasion itself was under way. This is why the work of Kenneth Pollack (this time titled The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq) was received with such gravity when it was published in 2002. Pollack had interpreted the signals correctly in 1990—and been ignored—and was arguing that another final round with Saddam was inevitable. His book did more to persuade policy-makers in Washington than anything ever said by Ahmad Chalabi. To revisit these arguments is to be reminded that no thinking person ever felt that the danger posed by a totalitarian and aggressive Iraq was a negligible one. And now comes Tenet, the man who got everything wrong and who ran the agency that couldn't think straight, to ask us to sympathize with his moanings about "Iraq—who, me?"
A highly irritating expression in Washington has it that "hindsight is always 20-20." Would that it were so. History is not a matter of hindsight and is not, in fact, always written by the victors. In this case, a bogus history is being offered by a real loser whose hindsight is cockeyed and who had no foresight at all.


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21 June 2017 Bible Reading
Moab is the name for a mountainous strip of land in the area we know today as Jordan, along the eastern shore of the Dead Sea.
2 Kings 1-2:25
1 Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. 2 Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper room that was in Samaria, and was sick. So he sent messengers, and said to them, "Go, inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover of this sickness."
3 But Yahweh's angel said to Elijah the Tishbite, "Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and tell them, 'Is it because there is no God in Israel, that you go to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron? 4 Now therefore Yahweh says, "You will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die."'" Then Elijah departed.
5 The messengers returned to him, and he said to them, "Why is it that you have returned?"
6 They said to him, "A man came up to meet us, and said to us, 'Go, return to the king who sent you, and tell him, "Yahweh says, 'Is it because there is no God in Israel, that you send to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.'"'"
7 He said to them, "What kind of man was he who came up to meet you, and told you these words?"
8 They answered him, "He was a hairy man, and wearing a leather belt around his waist."
He said, "It's Elijah the Tishbite."
9 Then the king sent a captain of fifty with his fifty to him. He went up to him; and behold,[c] he was sitting on the top of the hill. He said to him, "Man of God, the king has said, 'Come down!'"
10 Elijah answered to the captain of fifty, "If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty!" Then fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.
11 Again he sent to him another captain of fifty and his fifty. He answered him, "Man of God, the king has said, 'Come down quickly!'"
12 Elijah answered them, "If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty!" Then the God's fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.
13 Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. The third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, and said to him, "Man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty of your servants, be precious in your sight. 14 Behold, fire came down from the sky, and consumed the last two captains of fifty with their fifties. But now let my life be precious in your sight."
15 Yahweh's angel said to Elijah, "Go down with him. Don't be afraid of him."
Then he arose, and went down with him to the king. 16 He said to him, "Yahweh says, 'Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word? Therefore you will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.'"
17 So he died according to Yahweh's word which Elijah had spoken. Jehoram began to reign in his place in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, because he had no son. 18 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 When Yahweh was about to take Elijah up by a whirlwind into heaven, Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal. 2 Elijah said to Elisha, "Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me as far as Bethel."
Elisha said, "As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." So they went down to Bethel.
3 The sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came out to Elisha, and said to him, "Do you know that Yahweh will take away your master from your head today?"
He said, "Yes, I know it. Hold your peace."
4 Elijah said to him, "Elisha, please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me to Jericho."
He said, "As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." So they came to Jericho.
5 The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho came near to Elisha, and said to him, "Do you know that Yahweh will take away your master from your head today?"
He answered, "Yes, I know it. Hold your peace."
6 Elijah said to him, "Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me to the Jordan."
He said, "As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." Then they both went on. 7 Fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood opposite them at a distance; and they both stood by the Jordan. 8 Elijah took his mantle, and rolled it up, and struck the waters, and they were divided here and there, so that they both went over on dry ground. 9 When they had gone over, Elijah said to Elisha, "Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you."
Elisha said, "Please let a double portion of your spirit be on me."
10 He said, "You have asked a hard thing. If you see me when I am taken from you, it will be so for you; but if not, it will not be so."
11 As they continued on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated them, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. 12 Elisha saw it, and he cried, "My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!"
He saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes, and tore them in two pieces. 13 He also took up Elijah's mantle that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of the Jordan. 14 He took Elijah's mantle that fell from him, and struck the waters, and said, "Where is Yahweh, the God of Elijah?" When he also had struck the waters, they were divided apart, and Elisha went over. 15 When the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho over against him saw him, they said, "The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha." They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him. 16 They said to him, "See now, there are with your servants fifty strong men. Please let them go and seek your master. Perhaps Yahweh's Spirit has taken him up, and put him on some mountain, or into some valley.
He said, "Don't send them."
17 When they urged him until he was ashamed, he said, "Send them."
Therefore they sent fifty men; and they searched for three days, but didn't find him. 18 They came back to him, while he stayed at Jericho; and he said to them, "Didn't I tell you, 'Don't go?'"
19 The men of the city said to Elisha, "Behold, please, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the land is barren."
20 He said, "Bring me a new jar, and put salt in it." Then they brought it to him. 21 He went out to the spring of the waters, and threw salt into it, and said, "Yahweh says, 'I have healed these waters. There shall not be from there any more death or barren wasteland.'" 22 So the waters were healed to this day, according to Elijah's word which he spoke.
23 He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, "Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!" 24 He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in Yahweh's name. Then two female bears came out of the woods, and mauled forty-two of those youths. 25 He went from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.
Acts 13:42-14:7
42 So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath. 43 Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God. 44 The next Sabbath almost the whole city was gathered together to hear the word of God. 45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.
46 Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, "It was necessary that God's word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles. 47 For so has the Lord commanded us, saying,
'I have set you as a light for the Gentiles,
that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.'"
48 As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed. 49 The Lord's word was spread abroad throughout all the region. 50 But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders. 51 But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came to Iconium. 52 The disciples were filled with joy with the Holy Spirit.
14 In Iconium, they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed. 2 But the disbelieving Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers. 3 Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands. 4 But the multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews, and part with the apostles. 5 When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them, 6 they became aware of it, and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the surrounding region. 7 There they preached the Good News.
Psalm 139:1-24
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
139 Yahweh, you have searched me,
and you know me.
2 You know my sitting down and my rising up.
You perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You search out my path and my lying down,
and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 For there is not a word on my tongue,
but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.
5 You hem me in behind and before.
You laid your hand on me.
6 This knowledge is beyond me.
It's lofty.
I can't attain it.
7 Where could I go from your Spirit?
Or where could I flee from your presence?
8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there.
If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!
9 If I take the wings of the dawn,
and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea;
10 Even there your hand will lead me,
and your right hand will hold me.
11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me;
the light around me will be night";
12 even the darkness doesn't hide from you,
but the night shines as the day.
The darkness is like light to you.
13 For you formed my inmost being.
You knit me together in my mother's womb.
14 I will give thanks to you,
for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Your works are wonderful.
My soul knows that very well.
15 My frame wasn't hidden from you,
when I was made in secret,
woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my body.
In your book they were all written,
the days that were ordained for me,
when as yet there were none of them.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God!
How vast is their sum!
18 If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand.
When I wake up, I am still with you.
19 If only you, God, would kill the wicked.
Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
20 For they speak against you wickedly.
Your enemies take your name in vain.
21 Yahweh, don't I hate those who hate you?
Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
22 I hate them with perfect hatred.
They have become my enemies.
23 Search me, God, and know my heart.
Try me, and know my thoughts.
24 See if there is any wicked way in me,
and lead me in the everlasting way.
Proverbs 17:19-21
19 He who loves disobedience loves strife.
One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.
20 One who has a perverse heart doesn't find prosperity,
and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.
21 He who becomes the father of a fool grieves.
The father of a fool has no joy.


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Hastings storm evacuee 'responsible for stabilising cliff'
A man who had to abandon his home due to storms has been told he is responsible for stabilising a crumbling cliff near his property.
Chris Paraskeva's home was damaged when a section of cliff in White Rock in Hastings, East Sussex, collapsed at the beginning of the month.
The council has told him he must commission remedial works if necessary.
Mr Paraskeva disputes the council's claim that he has some responsibility for the cliff.
His two-bedroom, Grade-II listed house was badly damaged by the collapse, which trapped a 96-year-old man inside a shop.
The man, who was uninjured, was freed after a couple of hours.
In a letter, Hastings Borough Council denied it was responsible for the cliff and asked Mr Paraskeva to urgently instruct engineers to assess its stability and, if necessary, commission remedial works.
'Specialist advice'
The letter said: "From discussions with colleagues and the emergency services we are now aware that this is not the first time sections of the cliff in this area have collapsed, and given the very long period of wet and stormy weather that we are experiencing, we are concerned that there may be more rock falls to the rear of your property.
"The cliff is not owned by the council and we believe it is the responsibility of the land and property owners backing on to the cliff.
"In the circumstances, you are strongly advised to urgently seek specialist advice from suitably qualified structural engineers on the stability of the cliff to the rear of your property, to assess whether or not you need to commission remedial works to the cliff to safeguard your property and people occupying it."
Mr Paraskeva said the council's request is at odds with assurances by Prime Minister David Cameron that help would be on hand for people affected by the storms.
He disputed the local authority's claims that he has some responsibility for the cliff, insisting that Land Registry records show the rear boundary of his property ends at the cliff's base.
Mr Paraskeva, 61, an antiques dealer who is recovering from cancer treatment, said: "The council deny all responsibility for the cliff and they are saying it's mine.
"I would like them to help. They are not being at all sympathetic to people's problems round here. They are just saying, 'It's nothing to do with us'.
"Well, I believe it is, as do my neighbours either side."
Mr Paraskeva said he was waiting for insurance assessors to inspect the damage, but predicted he will not be covered for the rock fall.
A council spokesman said the authority had taken legal advice and been advised that the cliffs were not its responsibility, but that of the property owner in front of the cliffs.
He said: "This is not uncommon, and there are other examples where I know this is the case in Hastings.
"We acted immediately to provide those directly affected by the cliff fall, both property owners and tenants, with temporary accommodation until they could safely reoccupy them, and met with many of them soon after the cliff fall to explain the position, indeed I was at that meeting myself."


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This is a huge question, and while there is a very good answer, a great answer will hopefully be available soon.
The concept of protecting your computer really comes down to protecting your hard drives. No other part of your computer can be attacked.
The good answer is to use a LiveCd. This is a complete operating system that runs completely off your CDROM drive and does not require your hard drives. An option to this is to use a flash drive in conjunction with the liveCD so that your preferences and bookmarks will be available.
The BEST answer would be to use a modified LiveCD that eliminates the possibility of mounting your hard drives or installing software to them. This is very possible to create, however nobody has done it yet.


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Prospective Students
Financing Africa's Growth: Who holds the Key?
Providers and seekers of funds will shed light on existing and emerging opportunities for investments on the continent. Is aid, trade, or private sector financing the answer? After the telecoms boom, what next? Are the merits of Private Equity and Venture Capital investing true for the continent? These questions and many more will be debated as the panel brings together thought leaders from private equity, development finance, and banking industries.
Panel Chair
Philip Gyasi-Yeboah
Professor DeBerry-Spence, Ph.D
, Professor of Marketing, Liautaud Graduate School of Business at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
Ayo Olajiga (KSM '04)
, Chief Representative Officer for Nigeria, First Rand Bank of South Africa
Christian Wessels
, Partner, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants
Michael Wallach (KSM '06)
, Director of Strategic Investments, Sachs Capital Group
Jonathan Bloom
, Deputy Vice President, Millennium Challenge Corporation
Making an Impact through Entrepreneurship and Innovation
How can Africa sustain its current growth trajectory, while making a meaningful and lasting impact on the lives of its citizens? Entrepreneurs represent a special kind of hope for Africa. This panel will discuss how the winds of change are sweeping across the continent in the form of entrepreneurs who are making innovative strides in sectors such as business, education, youth development, health care, and many more.
Panel Chair
Yaa Boakye
Professor Robert Wolcott
, Executive Director of Kellogg Innovation Network (KIN) and Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurship and Innovation,
Kellogg School of Management
Cedza Dlamini
, Founder, the Ubuntu Institute for Young Social Entrepreneurs
Eric Kacou
, Co-founder and CEO, Entrepreneurial Solutions Partners (ESP)
Femi Akinde
, Founder and CEO, SlimTrader
Lola Masha
, West Africa Business Development Manager, Google
Yinka Johnson (KSM '99)
, Head of Project Implementation, First Bank of Nigeria Plc
Interactive Debate: The Role of the Major Emerging Markets in Reshaping Africa's Economies
In recent years, economies in Africa have experienced an unprecedented boost, predominantly due to investments and trade from major emerging market countries like China and India. According to the IMF, trade between China and Africa has been growing by an average of 30 percent a year over the past decade, and likely exceeded $100 billion in 2010. This panel will discuss these emerging African partners and how their activities are changing the face of Africa.
Panel Chairs
Drew Alt & Judith Onugu
Professor Paul Christensen
, Dean of Global Programs & Assistant Professor of Finance, Kellogg School of Management
B.J. Rewane
, Founder and Managing Director, Financial Derivatives Company
Ian H. Solomon
, United States Executive Director, The World Bank
Nicolas Clerc
, EAME Chief Economist , Caterpillar
Sebastian Spio-Garbrah
, DaMina Advisors LLP
Kellogg Africa Business Conference


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Last August, after a campaign led by a coalition of labor advocates and neighborhood organizations, Birmingham became the first city in the Deep South to raise its minimum wage. The increase was relatively modest—it sought to raise the city's pay floor incrementally from $7.25 an hour to $10.10 an hour by 2017—but after six years without a national minimum-wage boost, supporters celebrated the move as an essential step in lifting the city's working poor out of poverty.
Soon after the ordinance passed, minimum-wage initiatives began to gain momentum in two other Alabama cities, Tuscaloosa and Huntsville. These efforts were followed by proposals for wage hikes in the cities of Selma and Mobile. The movement to lift local minimum wages, which had recently won high-profile victories in places like Los Angeles, Seattle, and Chicago, was beginning to spread throughout one of America's reddest states.
This did not sit well with Republicans in Alabama's legislature, however. A month after the Birmingham vote, conservative members of Alabama's House of Representatives began eyeing a bill that would prohibit cities from setting their own minimum wages, thereby rolling back Birmingham's new ordinance. Then in early February—hours after the Birmingham City Council voted for the new wage to take effect on March 1, months sooner than originally planned—David Faulkner, a Republican representing a wealthy suburb of Birmingham, introduced a bill that would roll back his neighboring city's new law and prevent others from setting their own wages. On February 16, the bill passed Alabama's House of Representatives. Suddenly, it looked as though the Deep South's first locally enacted minimum-wage law might never affect a single paycheck.
The move outraged local officials. "Since when did they start dipping into local affairs like this?" Sheila Tyson, a member of Birmingham's city council, said. "We pay our own taxes here, but what are they going to leave us the ability to do?"
Over the past several years, labor groups have launched dozens of campaigns to raise the minimum wage in many of the country's largest cities as well as less likely places like Louisville, Santa Fe, and Albuquerque. The series of high-profile successes that followed provided a bright spot for workers' advocates and buoyed progressives' hopes of a resurgent, more nimble American labor movement.
But state lawmakers, mostly Republicans, are moving quickly to challenge the widening popularity of these local efforts with laws that prohibit local governments from setting their own wages. In recent weeks, in addition to the action in Alabama, legislators in New Mexico, Washington State, and Idaho have considered passing laws blocking localities from lifting their minimum wages. These states joined a number of others that have, over the past year, passed similar measures, often referred to as "local preemption" laws. In June, for instance, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (who is in the news these days for his leading role in the Flint water crisis) signed a Republican-backed bill into law that bars localities in the state from passing ordinances that lift wages wages or mandate paid sick leave. In September, Republicans in Missouri reportedly overrode Governor Jay Nixon's veto of another anti–minimum wage bill.


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Now the real test: Republicans will have to demonstrate they deserved statehouse victory
A new year usually means resolutions.
And with the General Assembly just a week or two away from opening its next session, North Carolina's new Republican majority had better be thinking about a few priorities of its own.
Citizens are skeptical of legislators these days -- any legislators. Part of the reason is that they are politicians, and that usually is not a good thing. Add to that the recent round of ethics concerns out of the North Carolina General Assembly, and you have a pretty good reason for the public to be wary.
But this year, there is an added concern -- it has been many, many years since the GOP has had control of the future of North Carolina.
Some people think the November victory that gave them the majority took the Republicans by surprise -- that they cobbled together a rather weak platform that was long on rhetoric, but short on an actual workable agenda.
And in some ways they are right -- saying you will not raise taxes and that you will cut spending is a great message for the campaign trail, but it has some harsh realities when it comes time to actually make the change.
There are going to be some tough decisions coming down the pike for both the governor and the new Republican majority in the House and Senate. And while a certain amount of the blame for getting here might be laid at the door of the past Democratic leadership, getting out of this mess will be a responsibility the Republicans cannot shirk.
So they are going to need a real plan for 2011 -- words and deeds that will help the state manage and cut a projected $3.7 billion shortfall. And cutting the budget will not just be a matter of slashing here and eliminating positions there. Priorities will have to be set and changes carefully made to make sure that North Carolina moves forward responsibly.
This is not going to be an easy year to be in charge, and while the governor will take the brunt of the questioning and criticism, citizens should keep a close eye on the Legislature, too.
This is the Republicans' time to stand up, to offer ideas and to show that they were the right people to put in charge of North Carolina's next decade.
They have their chance to have their say about not only where taxpayers' money will go, but where it shouldn't. They have the chance to set a new direction, to position North Carolina so it is back in the business of attracting new investment and out of the trap of living beyond its means. They have the chance to be real leaders, game changers.
The voters should expect a lot come January -- and not just the expected scramble to change the district lines across the state, the prize for winning the majority this past November. They should demand that the new majority party show them something more than a clever plan to rig the boundaries so they can stay in power.
And the Republicans should want more, too.
They should want to earn the right to stay in power for decades, with solid ideas, good leadership and an eye to what is best for North Carolina.
Only time will tell if the Republicans have what it takes to get the job done.
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As colder temperatures set in, the appearance of snow and ice is on the horizon. That's why Amica Insurance is offering some tips to help prevent ice dams and the costly damage they can create.
According to the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS), ice dams form when heat from the inside of the house enters the attic and warms the underside of the roof. As snow builds up on the topside, it melts, and the water runs down the roof. That water can freeze near the roof's edge, forming an ice dam and forcing additional running water to back up underneath the roof covering.
Amica is sharing the following tips from the IBHS to stop ice dams from forming:
- Remove debris from gutters and drains so water can properly flow through them.
- Be sure the ceiling is airtight to keep warm, moist air from flowing into the attic space.
- Add ceiling and roof insulation to cut down on the amount of heat entering the attic.
- Put weather-stripping around entryways to the attic, and make sure attic ducts, light fixtures, chimneys and fans are sealed off to stop heat from melting snow.
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Name: Emily Length of time working here: Since December 2014!
Do you have any pets?
I have 2 dachshunds named Moose and Bubba! They are brothers but from different litters; Moose is 10 and Bubba is 8. :)
What do you like to do in your spare time?
I enjoy playing soccer and golfing, spending time with my family, and love watching NCIS!
What is your favorite part about working at PPP?
I love walking into the room and seeing all the dogs happy to see me. I enjoy watching how the dogs interact with each other. The dogs have such fun personalities and I love getting to know them!
Funniest/Favorite PPP moment:
My favorite moment was when Murphy, the yellow lab, all of a sudden started to howl and the rest of the dogs joined in. It was like a doggy choir! :)


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Just to bring this node to an end, I thought I'd mention that I got a static copy of expat installed using Rob's ./configure --enable-static --disable-shared --prefix=/home/reliant/shaw/.local suggestion.
Then I reinstalled XML::Parser as before, and it worked. At that point, I replaced the (linked) Expat.so file on the production server with the (static) Expat.so file from the development server I was working on.
A special thanks to Derby for pointing me in the right direction with ldd and LD_LIBRARY_PATH. He was correct about my LD_LIBRARY_PATH being out of whack. I'm sure the suggestions to fix my LD_LIBRARY_PATH would have worked, but it was easier for me to replace the Expat.so with a staticly compiled copy.
-- Yeah, I'm a Delt.
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