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107 Medinah Drive
Price$ 369,000
Full Baths3
Half Baths2
Sq Ft3800-3999
Area063-Easley Area
Approx Age31-50
# of Stories2+Basement
DescriptionUpdated 5 bedroom home with 3 full baths and 2 half baths located on the 5th fairway at Smithfield's golf course. House is built for entertaining and the space to do so continues outside with multiple screen porches and decks. Great room with gas logs and a wet bar. Formal Dining room and Living room (could be a home office). Kitchen features granite counter-tops, gas stove, pantry, and a breakfast area. Sun room is on the main level as well. Upstairs is the Master suite with an unbelievable bath. 2 more bedrooms and another full bath is on this level as well. The third level is perfect for your teenagers, grandchildren, exercise room or home office with 2 bedrooms and a full bath. The lower level features a recreation room, kitchenette, half bath, over-sized 2 car garage, a home office or storage room. House has an abundance of storage! All of this and it is located close to shopping and is in the sought after Forest Acres school district. Not a golfer? No worries! Multiple memberships are available depending on your needs.
Room Dimensions
Living Room Size is 15x9
Master Bed Room Size is 16x15
Dining Room Size is 16x11
Bedroom Room 2 Size is 13x13
Bedroom Room 3 Size is 16x11
Bedroom Room 4 Size is 14x14
Bedroom Room 5 Size is 15x14
Breakfast Room Size is 9x11
Great Room Size is 17x16
Bonus Room Size is 27x15
Kitchen Size is 13x13
Style : Traditional
Basement : Full Finished,Full,Walkout,Interior Access
Roof : Architectural
Interior Features : 2 Story Foyer,Cable Available,Ceiling Fan,Countertops Granite,Gas Dryer Hookup,Security System Owned,Sky Lights,Smoke Detector,Walk In Closet,Wet Bar,Second Living Quarters,Pantry – Closet,Pantry – Walk In
Master Bedroom Features : Double Sink,Full Bath,Master on 2nd Lvl,Shower-Separate,Walk-in Closet,Multiple Closets
Specialty Room : Exercise Room,Laundry,Office/Study,Sun Room,Workshop,Bonus Room/Rec Room,2nd Kitchen/Kitchenette
Appliances : Cook Top-Gas,Dishwasher,Disposal,Oven-Convection,Warming Drawer,Microwave-Built In,Microwave-Convection
Fireplace : Gas Logs,Gas Starter,Screen,Masonry
Lot Description : Level,On Golf Course,Sloped Gently,Some Trees,Underground Utilities,Wooded
Heating : Electric,Forced Air,Multi-Units,Natural Gas
Cooling : Central Forced,Multi-Units
Floors : Carpet,Ceramic Tile,Hardwood
Water : Public
Sewer : Public
Water Heater : Tankless
Foundation : Basement
Storage : Garage,Other
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Driveway : Extra Pad,Paved
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Exterior Finish : Brick Veneer-Partial,Vinyl Siding
Elementary School : Forest Acres
Middle School : Richard H. Gettys
High School : Easley
Listing courtesy of Sanders, Sheri - BHHS C Dan Joyner - Easley
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The system is composed of an Aer'ODE software (validated and compliant FDA 21 CFR Part 11, ISO 11137, ...), a spectrophotometer, a thickness gauge (if needed) and a PC. Aer'ODE software totally controls the spectrophotometer and the thickness gauge to ensure the automatic setting of these measuring devices (Absorbance mode, Wavelength, zero of absorbance and zero unit for thickness).
User registration
The access to the different software functions for each user can be configurated in the general parameter section.
Each user has his own password and his own security level (Right limited to measurement of dose, the right to modify the calibration parameters, access to the database, control instruments...)
The logbook, automatically generates, traces all actions performed by user (operator, type of action, date, time...)
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With the readout equipments the Aer'ODE software and a batch of irradiated dosimeters (at doses known), the user can easily determine the calibration curve.
The software determines the best regression curve with F-ratio , R2 and Residual criteria according to ISO/ASTM 51707. The calibration parameters are stored directly in the database and are available for routine doses measurement without transcription errors.
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The software proposes single (FWT, Harwell, GEX, ...) or continuous dose measurements (CTA, Risö...) for dose profile purposes.
This last option gives a distribution of the absorbed dose by the strip of dosimeter with the maximum, the minimum and calculate the average dose.
The serial interfaces directly captures the reading parameters of the dosimeters (Absorbance, thickness). The specific absorbance (OD/t) is calculated through the PC. Based on the calibration curve previously stored in the database, a mathematical calculation allows determining the absorbed dose by the dosimeter in function of the calibrations parameters.
The continuous dose measurement mode allows to obtain an absorbed dose distribution by the dosimeter with the maximal, the minimal and the average value of the dose for a given region of the strip. In addition, a section of the software allows to evaluate the electron beam scanning length and its uniformity.
Electron beam energy evaluation
This procedure is also intended to irradiators implementing an electron accelerator. The continuous measure of dosimeter CTA, Risö B3 irradiated in a wedge of material (aluminium, polyethylen, polystyren ) according ISO/ASTM 51649 allows to evaluate the control parameters of the electron accelerator (most probable energy (Ea), average energy (E), Range (Rp), useful range (R50)...) for energies between 1 and 10 MeV.
Data storage
Following the operator's instructions, the analysis results are stored into the data base. This type of storage gives rapid and reliable access to the data saved at each level of the control systems (calibration, dose measurements, and instrument checks). In addition, data can be directly transferred to spreadsheets software like Excel or linked to a database (eg: Access) to perform additional paper work. A printer then issues the forms necessary for interpretation and storage of information. The files can be opened under Access or Excel.
It is important to note that the use of this device is characterized by a great flexibility. Moreover, Aérial can adapt the Aer'ODE software to the specific needs, requirements and readout instruments of the customer.
Efficiency - reliability
The principle of the Aer'ODE system is a major contribution to the efficient control of dosimetry in an irradiation plant.
Being fully automatic PC controlled, the system is time saving and reduces quite significantly the risk of dosimeter reading errors. As the software runs under Window NT, 2K, XP, Vista operating systems, it is also possible to integrate it into the global control system of a radiation unit.
Quality Assurance
Finally, its routine utilization in dosimetry laboratories contributes greatly to compliance with quality safe requirements in any field related to radiation. In this context, quality assurance specifications are provided with each analysis system so as to carry out the specified tests on a regular basis and ensure its good working condition.

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May 19th, 2011 by Brad Lovell
This morning I drove out to Belrose to help Taleen recover her husbands lost wedding band. I have had many jobs in the past where the ring was actually thrown in the heat of an argument. Now this is very common, and is nothing to be a shamed of. But many customers are too embarrassedto tell me until I start retracing what actually happened. Not Taleen, she told me exactly what happened, and admitted to being extra emotional at the time. In the heat of the moment, Taleen threw her husbands wedding ring out of the car door onto the road side. Once things had cooled down, Taleen and her husband went to retrieve the thrown ring with no luck. They then hired a metal detector and tried searching for the ring, but the ring remained elusive. So Taleen decided to call me to see if I could help. I spent a good 45 minutes searching for the ring in a grassy area on the side of the road. Unfortunately the ring had landed above an underground pipe, which was causing the detector to block signals when swiping over the ring. I was very relieved to finally pull the lost ring out of the grass roots. This whole ordeal had really stressed Taleen out. As you can imagine, Taleen was extremelyexcited to have her husbands wedding ring back in her hands. Taleen it was a pleasure to meet you, and thank you kindly for such a generous reward
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We cannot see Him, hear Him, touch Him, or put Him in a test tube. How can we know anything about Him, or even be sure He exists? It is widely asserted, and accepted, that this is impossible, and therefore Gods existence and nature are unknowable. This agnostic position commits a major fallacy of omission, already briefly mentioned in ch. 5. Let me explain.
First consider another question: How do we know there is a wind? We cannot see it or hold it. But we can see its effects: things blow around, tree branches move back and forth, we hear noise. The only reasonable explanation is that the wind is blowing. If someone refuses to believe a wind exists, we consider him crazy! This is not exactly the same as God, but it is similar in some respects: We cannot see God, but we can see some things He has done. There are many things and events for which the only reasonable, simple explanation is that God caused them. We do not have a right to demand that God show Himself to us when, where, and how we ask Him to. Making such demands is an act of presumption that has already implicitly rejected the existence of a God Who is really sovereign. As for objective experiments, anything you can cram into the proverbial test tube is not God, so that is not a reasonable way to look for evidence of His existence either. This reveals the foolishness of the Soviet cosmonaut who looked out of his spacecraft and reported that he didnt see God. In the vastness of this universe, any human space-flight thus far is totally insignificant, and anything we found that way would not be God. If the cosmonaut really wanted to see God, the way to do it would be to take off his space suit.
So, how can we know anything about God? If He really is God, He can choose when, where, and how to reveal Himself. This is the major and fatal omission committed by those who adopt the agnostic position: it is true that we cannot find God by our own ability and effort, but He can take the initiative in finding us and placing certain events and objects in our path. If He has done so and we refuse to see what He has done, we cannot complain that He did not do something else, nor sit obstinately with our eyes closed insisting that there could be no such things. Well, we can, but it doesnt make sense.
Many people object to this, saying that any explanation that mentions God is not reasonable or simple, but is unscientific, irrational, religious, an escape from finding a natural cause, a step backward toward the Dark Ages, and a hindrance to scientific research. We have already discussed this objection (ch. 5, V); it is reductionism, nothing but science. When we say that some things indicate that God exists and has acted, this is a conclusion from research, and is always open to further research. It is not escaping anything. If some facts really are the result of Gods actions, is science forbidden to discover that truth? Isnt science supposed to be an open-minded search for truth? How can anyone say before we even begin research that we must not conclude that some things are the result of Gods actions? Who seems to be trying to escape something? Who is limiting the progress of research?
This approach avoids the danger of finding only a God of the gaps who explains the gaps in our present ability to understand nature. This error was often committed in the past, to explain comets, lightning, disease, etc. The God of the gaps has far less work to do now than he used to, and is approaching retirement. But the God of the Bible is the God of what we do know, not just what we dont. What we know points to something beyond nature and its laws. Some such things were already introduced in ch. 3, IV, D, and ch. 5, V, responding to materialists reductionist explanations of religion and human nature. Now we will find several more such things even within the physical, material realm where many modern people think Gods activity has been excluded by scientific knowledge.
Atheists capitalize on Christians past errors, and refer derisively to any mention of Gods work as a repetition of the god of the gaps fallacy. There are at least two fallacies in this association. First, it is not a fact that all the gaps in our understanding have been filled by science in the past. This book emphasizes some still-unfilled gaps. Thus atheists are invoking a seriously biased data sample in drawing their conclusion. This is like saying that because some rocks can be dissolved in water, therefore all rocks can be.
The second fallacy is the pretense that it is only religious believers who indulge in various strategies of filling gaps. The only way in which atheists are different is that they have a no-god of the gaps policy. They simply fill the present gaps with unknown laws, which we are assured will be discovered sooner or later by continuing research; these could be described as laws of the gaps. The fact is that there are gaps in our understanding, and there always will be. Some are eventually filled by scientific discoveries, while others are increasingly found to be unfillable in that way. Such gaps include ones discussed in ch. 2, IV, and the mysteries of human consciousness, ethical standards, and sense of purpose, as well as the ones discussed in this chapter, the origin of the universe, of living things, and of the Bible. It takes just as much faith to believe in yet-unknown laws to explain all these as it does to believe in a personal God.
Some Christians are so fearful of repeating the God of the gaps error that they insist we must not find any scientific evidence for God anywhere; this amounts to the separation of faith from fact, ch. 5, I, F, 1. They go so far as to assert that God must have created the universe so as to require no physical intervention forever after, and even claim that it is a lack of faith, or clarity of thought, to believe He would do so. This is treading on dangerous ground, putting our thoughts in Gods mouth, constraining Him to conform to our opinions. The question is what He has in fact chosen to do, and the Bible seems to clearly state that He has chosen to continue acting within His universe. So, while being careful not to imagine such action where it has not occurred, we also must not hamstring God by denying it where it does occur. There is no simple answer, but we must investigate each purported case with a skeptical but open mind.
Earlier chapters discussed the Bibles outlook on science. This chapter uses the scientific outlook on the Bible. So our starting point is that facts about the universe, ourselves, and the Bible exist, and that we are rational, logical beings. We do not begin by assuming that God exists (though there is no other basis for assuming that facts exist and that we are rational!). We simply do not assume that God does not exist, nor even that He can be omitted in the explanation of our life and world. This is the only truly open-minded approach.
The facts that show us that the God of the Bible exists may be summarized in four main points as follows, and each point tells us something relevant to the question of the existence and nature of God.
The first three are factual, objective. They are in this order because they tell us progressively more about God. The fourth point is partly subjective, and some aspects were already discussed in the section on social sciences versus Christianity, which talked about psychological and sociological effects. We will have more to say.
One final comment before we begin discussion of these points: Since the emphasis here is on finding things that God has done, this is not a repetition of the classical purely logical proofs of the existence of God which occupied so much of the energies of pro- and anti-Christian thinkers for centuries. These were called ontological, cosmological, teleological, and so on. These had some validity, but also seemed to contain enough loopholes to be insufficient as proofs. A modern-day incarnation of this approach is Cornelius van Tils presuppositional viewpoint, insisting that it is impossible to be a rational human without at least implicitly believing in the existence of God. I of course believe he is right, but I am not convinced such an argument is logically airtight, and many others both Christian and non-Christian share that lack of being convinced. This is related to the topic of ch 5, V, A, 3, about our inherent personhood, which I consider as something which is simply felt, and beyond logical proof. Be that as it may, I am intending here to stick to observed facts, or truths, though conclusions unavoidably must also draw in some assumptions and logic along the way (ch 5, III).
I The characteristics of the universe
There are at least four important facts about the universe that indicate it had a beginning, and that its beginning cannot be explained by the presently known laws of nature.
This is a very important conclusion. It gives our first valuable clue from science in our search for the correct religious faith. It means that materialism, the belief that matter and energy are all that exists and are either eternal or self-created (whatever that means), has no scientific basis and in fact contradicts what we can observe. This belies materialists claims to a scientific basis for their beliefs.
Agnostics also have a hard time coping with this fact. While they do not deny the existence of a realm beyond the physical universe, they deny that it has any interaction with the universe, and a beginning certainly is an interaction. Perhaps some agnostics grudgingly concede the possibility of an act of creation, and then no further supernatural intervention. This makes them equivalent to the position of deists.
For pantheists and animists, the question of ultimate origins is mostly ignored as unknowable and distant to the point of irrelevance. The existence of our environment, and ourselves, is simply given, and attention is centered on coping with life here and now. There are creation myths, but they are not regarded as serious historicalaccounts. Hinduism has a concept of a cyclic universe, but that seems ruled out by known physical laws.
Deists accept creation; no problem there.
Some Christians conclude that the discovery of a beginning of the universe confirms that the God of the Bible exists and was the cause of the beginning. It does not prove that much. It does mean that there is nothing unscientific about believing the Bibles story of creation: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Modern Christians need not be ashamed to admit that they believe it. In fact its consistency with recent scientific research can be viewed as a confirmation of faith in the Bible; it is the only religious tradition that seems closely parallel to what is now known. All others are unrelated or contradictory.
What are the four characteristics of the universe that indicate a beginning?
A Olbers Paradox: The sky is dark and coldWhy does the sky get dark at night? Only an idiot or a genius would ask this question; we normal people take it for granted. But it really is a profound question. From the time of Galileo and his telescope until the discoveries described in the next sections, the scientific community assumed that the universe is infinite and eternal. But given these assumptions, any line of sight should eventually intersect the surface of a star, just as any line of sight from a point in a large forest intersects a tree. Therefore the entire sky should be as bright as the surface of the sun. Obviously, and fortunately, it is not, and therefore one or both of the assumptions is wrong, and this is the so-called paradox. One proposed explanation was that the light from distant stars is blocked by interstellar dust, but energy must be conserved and cant simply vanish, so that dust would eventually heat up to thesame temperature as the stars and re-emit an equal amount of light, so this explanation fails. The universe must be finite in space, or in time, or both.
This question is named after Heinrich Olbers, who stated it in 1826. But whoever thus named it had not done his homework, because the question had previously been raised by Thomas Digges in 1576, Johann Kepler in 1610, and Edmond Halley in 1721.
B The Second Law of ThermodynamicsThermodynamics was one of the great scientific breakthroughs of the 19th century (see ch. 1). The Second Law means disorder is increasing, or order and usable energy are decreasing. This can be restated in terms of statistics and probability: the state of a system is most likely to change toward a more random, more probable, condition. In any real system with a large number of particles, most likely is an overwhelming certainty.
This may sound very complex, but the principle is familiar to all of us. We are all experts on the Second Law; we just dont know the Second Law when we see it. We straighten and clean our room today, but tomorrow it is less orderly and less clean. A more scientific example is that heat always flows from hot to cold, not cold to hot. A folded piece of paper will never again be flat, and clothing fresh out of the dyer needs to be ironed. Mixed liquids will never separate themselves back into different liquids, or into hot and cold parts. And so on. If someone tells you that his room just cleaned itself, the wind blew all the dust into the wastebasket and the clothes into the closet, you know that person needs to see a psychiatrist.
This has some very profound implications. The universe is a system which is not in a totally random state. It is very non-uniform in density, temperature, and composition. There is a large amount of energy available to do work, and the stars are busy using that energy to shine. Sunlight that streams into space will never again be regathered to heat the Sun. This means that the process of randomization has not yet reached completion, therefore either it has been continuing for only a finite time, or the universe is infinite in size and the part we see is an infinitesimal pocket where the process is not yet complete. This second option is a dubious play of degrees of infinity. Also, an infinite universe does not explain many other things we will mention later about living things and the Bible. If the universe has been here a finite time, then that is the same as saying it had a beginning, which was an ordering process or event, which was different from the processes which we now observe. We will not now discuss whether this beginning should be called supernatural, or creation, . For now, we will just say a beginning.
C The General Theory of RelativityThis set of equations was published by Einstein in 1915. It is a mind-stretching theory that deals with the nature of space and time itself, not merely of objects in space and time. One of its important implications is a non-zero acceleration of space itself, which means the universe cannot simply be stationary forever. Any change leads to the conclusion of a beginning. Einstein considered this impossible, because for generations the scientific world assumed that the universe is eternal and unchanging. So he assumed there should be another term in his equations, the cosmological constant, to cancel this acceleration. But that constant had no physical basis, only a philosophical basis in a materialistic world-view. Einstein later abandoned the constant, and called it the greatest blunder of his life, because of a discovery that was made in the 1920s: the expansion of the universe, which is the topic of the following section.
An interesting side-note is that in recent years the cosmological constant has been resurrected, but not as a return to the concept of an eternal universe. It is a possible factor in the development of the universe since the beginning. In the motion of the distant, early objects seen by the largest telescopes, there are evidences of another force besides the four presently known, because the expansion of the universe seems to be accelerating, instead of decreasing as it would if gravitational attraction were the dominant force. This is still an active area of research and there is no firm conclusion yet. Whatever the conclusion, it is a confirmation not a denial of the concept of a beginning.
D The expansion of the universeEdwin Hubble and others discovered in the 1920s that the light from distant galaxies shows a red shift. This does not mean that their apparent color becomes red, but that their entire spectral pattern is shifted toward the red, or longer wavelengths. He estimated their distance by making the reasonable assumption that smaller, fainter galaxies are more distant. The red shift seems to be proportional to the distance; it is larger for more distant galaxies. The only reasonable explanation thus far proposed for the red shift is that it is a result of the expansion of the universe and in fact of space itself. The distant galaxies have a recession speed, moving away from us, and the further they are the faster they are receding. Notice that this does not say that there is a unique center point anywhere. No matter where you are, everything distant from you will be receding.
This means that Einsteins equations were (perhaps) right the first time. At least he was not wrong in allowing for an expanding universe. The universe is not stationary and eternal, but apparently had a beginning a long but not infinite time in the past. Given a distance and a speed, it is simple to estimate the time of travel. Estimates of the distances of galaxies still have some uncertainty, and the speed should decrease with time if gravitational attraction is the main factor affecting it. Or it may increase if the cosmological constant overcomes that attraction. To estimate this we need to know the average density of the universe, which is not at all well known. So the estimate of the time of expansion of the universe is uncertain, probably between 10 and 20 billion years.
This expansion is only important on the largest scale of the universe. It wont make you taller. Within a cluster of galaxies there are local motions, so that a galaxy is approaching some of its near neighbors and receding from others. For instance, M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, is approaching us. It is the nearest large spiral galaxy, only a little over 2,000,000 light years away, virtually our next-door neighbor, a member of the Local Group of galaxies. Also, the expansion of the universe has no significant effect on the motion of stars within a galaxy, so half the stars we see in our Milky Way are moving toward us and the other half are moving away, mostly due to the rotation of the galaxy.
Scientists in Hubbles time still did not accept the concept of a beginning of the universe, because science could not explain such a beginning. Such remote questions of origins were simply unknowable, and thus ignored. But by the 1940s a few physicists saw that the developing field of high-energy particle physics could be applied to the possible conditions in an explosion that produced the present expanding universe. Around 1950 George Gamow and several others worked out the basic implications of such a theory.
Calculations from the known properties of high-energy particle interactions indicated that such an explosion would produce mostly H (hydrogen, the lightest element, with only one proton) with a little He (helium, the second element, with two protons and two neutrons) and a very small amount of a few more of the lightest elements. They also could explain that all the heavier elements were later produced in fusion reactions in the cores of stars, which finally explained the long-standing question of the origin of the stars tremendous energy output. These elements in the cores of stars were then mixed into interstellar gases when large stars exploded as supernovae, or ordinary stars lost their outer layers in their final stage as a red giant. Another conclusion of the theory is that the initial explosion would produce heat radiation, which would cool as the universe expands, and should now be everywhere, with a temperature of a few degrees above absolute zero, which places it in the microwave range.
This theory has come to be called the Big Bang. Fred Hoyle, a British astronomer, gave it this name in derision, but it was such an appropriate description, and no one could think of a better one, that it quickly became the standard terminology.
There are several important confirmations of the Big Bang theory. First, it correctly predicts the observed chemical composition of the universe, which is in fact (by mass) about 3/4 H (hydrogen), 1/4 He (helium) and about 1% all the heavier elements. However, this alone was not sufficient to win general acceptance for the theory. The predicted heat radiation could neither be confirmed nor disproved in 1950, because at that time there was no equipment that could observe it. So most scientists could still ignore the subject.
Hoyle and others who opposed the Big Bang in the 1950s proposed a steady-state theory of continuous creation of H in an eternal universe. Such creation violated the known laws of conservation of matter and energy, but the estimated rate of creation is so low that measurements cannot prove it does not occur. It was a choice between one sudden big creation or a continuous slow one that could be considered normal, a new law of nature. The second choice became popular for a few years, but failed to account for the facts that became apparent as astronomical observations continued to progress. If the universe is steady, or unchanging, then we should see galaxies in various stages of development, both old and new. But research showed that all galaxies close enough to see clearly have similar ages, and there are no signs of new ones in process of formation. This confirmed the concept of a beginning, and began to shake confidence in the steady state theory.
Then in 1965 the 3K microwave cosmic background radiation was observed by Penzias and Wilson of Bell Labs. The steady state theory then quickly fell out of favor, and almost all scientists accepted the Big Bangtheory. No alternative explanation of this radiation has gained general acceptance. Hoyle and a few others still advocate a modified form of their theory, and cite some observations in support of it, primarily the nature and distribution of some quasars. But that is getting beyond the scope of this book. In the early 1990s, COBE satellite measurements of this radiation provided further confirmation of the Big Bang theory. See ch. 1, VI.
Progress in astronomical instruments has enabled astronomers to see galaxies further and further away, which means we are seeing their condition longer and longer ago. The history of the universe is not merely a matter of theory and deduction from the observed present, as is true of history on the earth. The history of the universe is actually set before our eyes, but the early parts of it are very distant and difficult to observe. As we see it increasingly clearly, it is apparent that galaxies long ago were different than they are now. There were super-bright quasars, rapid bursts of star formation, and a large proportion of spiral galaxies. All this once again confirms that there is change with time, and a beginning.
It also finally solves Olbers paradox. The sky is dark for two reasons: the universe visible to us is limited in both space and time, because there has not been sufficient time for light to reach us from points beyond a certain distance. Also, the expansion weakens the light from the more distant parts that we can see.
The presently known laws of nature can be used to calculate from the present back to a moment (about 10-43 sec) after the beginning of the expansion. Before that time the density and energy is beyond the range of known laws. Either that was a beginning, or there are other laws we do not know yet. But even if there are other laws, that only pushes the question of the beginning back further, and we still must ask where that material and those laws came from. It is doubtful if our research can possibly find out what happened before that, but I wont venture anever: prediction on this point. Science is simply silent about the exact moment of beginning, and before the beginning has no scientific meaning within the presently accepted theories of science. There are some interesting recent (2000) developments in string theory that claim to circumvent this limitation; stand by to see how this develops in years to come.
Hugh Rosss books discuss several attempts to escape the conclusion that there was a beginning. Some scientists have speculated that the universe may be cyclic. They assume that the expansion will eventually slow to a stop, and the universe will then begin to contract, ending finally in a Big Crunch. They also assume that the universe could then bounce back, and thus continue expanding, contracting, and bouncing back again and again forever. But the second law of thermodynamics means that the bounces could not be the same each time, but could only happen a finite number of times. So, this only pushes the beginning further back, but still does not escape the fact that there must have been a beginning. Another problem is that there is no known scientific principle which could cause the bounce. Also, it means there is no scientific confirmation of the Hindu-Buddhist concept of an eternal, cyclic universe. Finally, as already mentioned, it seems that the expansion of the universe is accelerating not slowing down.
Some theorists have referred to a cosmic egg which became unstable and exploded. This too has no scientific basis, but is only another attempt to escape the concept of a beginning. It is merely a personal speculation of scientists trying to evade the implications of a beginning, and has no role in the Big Bang theory.
So we conclude that the universe began between 10 and 20 billion years ago, and that at present science cannot explain the cause of that beginning. This will always be the most that can be said on the basis of science: We havent yet found a natural cause. But the longer this continues to be true, the more credible is the conclusion that there is no natural cause, but that this is an example of an interaction with a larger realm of reality beyond the physical universe. Such interactions are represented by the arrow in the diagram at the end of ch. 2 and discussed in ch. 5.
For more details on the age of the universe, see ch. 7, II, C.
Another conclusion is that compared to the universe
we are extremely small and short-lived. Humans and human life seem insignificant
in this vast and ancient universe. Something inside of us needs to believe
that there is more value and purpose in life than just this little bit
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Cherries: For our Cherry Pies we use only Montmorency cherries. Montmorency tart cherries or sour cherries are bright red when harvested, and they retain that color in our pies.
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Pecans: Our Pecan Pies are only made with San Saba Pecans from San Saba, Texas. For over 40 years, they have been growing, shelling, cleaning, and selling pecans. San Saba Pecans not only fits with Tippin's because of the quality, but also because of the family mindset. The pecans also happen to be size-grade "Mammoth" – because everything's bigger in Texas!
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Monday, August 24 –After a twenty-five year career in venture capital, Ted Dintersmith is now focused on issues at the intersection of innovation and education. We share his address from the TEDxFargo event. ~~~ Coal company royalties payments to the federal government and to states are part of the conflict over attempts to address global warming and other environmental issues. Inside Energy's Leigh Paterson explains. ~~~ Tom Isern has this week's Plains Folk essay, "Eighteen Dead Cows" ~~~ Students at UND are preparing a satellite they'll be delivering to NASA, with a launch scheduled for next spring. Here with an update is PhD candidate Jeremy Straub. ~~~ Extreme North Dakota Racing has another exotic race coming up … a mud run. Caleb Kobilansky tells us about this very messy challenge.


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So why is growth in digital ad revenues so (relatively) slow at The Economist? Are its sales teams trying to sell online and print schedules alongside one another?
We don't know if The Economist insists on doing this. But plenty of media owners do, including many local newspaper chains in the US.
Borrell Associates blames defensive cross-media selling of this kind for the sub-par growth in digital revenues at US local newspaper groups this year.
The report suggests that the online local advertising market in the US will grow by 47% this year. By contrast, most newspaper groups have been turning in digital growth rates at, or around 20%.
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Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 12231
/usr/bin/glib-config: obsolete command present in distribution (and returns wrong value)
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:56 EDT
The command /usr/bin/glib-config from GLIB 1.2 is still present on
Red Hat 6.1 and 6.2 systems (GLIB 2.x) systems.
glib-config --version
returns 1.2.6 for GLIB - hence misleading.
Source for glib-config not found in GLIB 2.x source, but found in
source for GLIB 1.2.
Hence I am guessing that this command is a remnant of upgrading
previous versions (rather than creating distributions from a
new install).
You are most likely confusing GLib and glibc. GLib is a library
of convenience routines used by GTK+, GNOME, and many other packages.
glibc is the GNU C library.
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The reason Paul Smith, who since the beginning of his life facing serious dysfunctionality problems. However, the situation did not hinder him to create great works of art using a typewriter ...!
Paul Smith was born with severe cerebral palsy and nevertheless has created hundreds of works of art using only a typewriter. Because of his disability, his movements are extremely limited, but his determination has no limits. When he was young he discovered that the key to express himself was the typewriter. Using only 10 of its buttons and one of his fingers, he learned how to paint! If you look at the paintings carefully you will notice how utilizing the symbols of the typewriter to create his paintings.
During the 70 years of his artistic activity he has created hundreds of beautiful pieces of art with his typewriter which most of them has offered to his friends and acquaintances!
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Throughout the 1960's, ala 'the Cold War' period, there were consistent references by governments and defense sectors' regarding a relatively new capability, i.e., MAD (mutually assured destruction). Opposing countries, presumably the United States and the former USSR, now Russia, possessed sufficient triads of nuclear (war) capability, i.e., sea, air, and land based-launched missiles and bombs, a consequence of which, if used, would assure mutual destruction and annihilation of both. Indeed, a perverted approach to deterrence.
A somewhat similar analogy is evident today, but its origins do not lie in the delivery of nuclear weaponry, rather in various anonymity of cyber-attacks, or cyberwarfare, designed to destroy functionality and/or substantially disrupt multiple components of a targeted country's cyber-based and interconnected infrastructure, hence, a 'mutually assured disruption' of a country's cyber ecosystem.
Cyber warfare (massive cyber-attack) would produce substantial loss of life in-many-different ways, aside from the seismic power of a nuclear warhead blast. In a MAD context, the outcome of a comprehensive cyberwar would likely produce no definitive winner or loser as often portrayed in conventional wars and/or battles. Instead, the outcome would likely be characterized and measured in almost diminutive contexts based on system redundancies and organizational – system resilience.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, I and others presumed the purposeful aircraft strikes in New York and Washington were probably diversionary, to be followed by attacks, cyber, and otherwise, in the U.S. The probable targets would be public – private components of the national infrastructure whose services and functionality are beholden to interwoven IT systems, which, at the time, were incredulously vulnerable.
Not unlike many others who anticipated this 'follow-up' potentiality scenario, prompted me to contact colleagues, on the morning of 911, employed in various sectors throughout the U.S., one of which was serving at a top-tier university overseeing their 'super-computing' center. My rationale for contacting this individual, lie in the notion that a super-computing center would presumably have the capability to detect, at least the precursors, to impending cyber-attacks which may have already launched and 'were on their way'. To my less than comforting amazement, this rationale, in this instance, at-this-time, proved much flawed. So, regardless of the degree-level of familiarity and/or expertise with computer security and system breach detection, recognizing and mounting effective defenses against multi-dimensional cyber-attacks were relatively new concepts, largely absent sufficient software-hardware to execute effectively and instantaneously.
The capability to thwart, mitigate, or contain the asymmetric, adverse, and inevitable cascading effects that coordinated cyber-attacks would likely produce, by design, presents obvious challenges and substantial costs insofar as preparing companies and organizations to reasonably keep pace with the infinite, asymmetric, anonymous and 'stand-off' methodologies of (cyber) risks and threats which can materialize anytime and anyplace leaving little or no vapor trail to investigate while maximizing disruption and chaos to a company or organization.
There is little doubt today, that management teams, c-suites, and boards, ranging from Fortune ranked firms, SME's (small, medium enterprises), and RBSU's (research-based startups) routinely engage in discussions regarding the practicalities and costs of deploying good-better-best cyber risk mitigation (data-information security) products.
As an intangible asset strategist, risk specialist, researcher, author, and trainer, my experience suggests there are, at minimum, two multi-related reasons why these discussions are inevitable and expanding to every business sector…
• it is a universal and irreversible economic fact that 80+% of most company's value, sources of revenue, and 'building blocks' for growth, profitability, and sustainability today lie in – evolve directly from intangible assets, primarily, intellectual, structural, relationship-social and competitive capital.
• data/information generation, storage, and at will retrieval demands are continually ratcheting up to infinite levels, variously aligned to the rapid recognition and rise of intangible asset intensive and dependent companies.
To be sure, efforts to thwart the actions of the growing global array of ultra-sophisticated economic and competitive advantage adversaries and legacy free players engaged in hacking and/or state sponsored entities capable of delivering highly specific, targeted, or broad-based cyber-attacks are challenges which cannot be dismissed or relegated to the uninitiated or unfamiliar.
I am certainly not suggesting public-private U.S. entities disregard their fiduciary responsibilities or regulatory mandates to safeguard data. Instead, I am suggesting any entities' mandate to mitigate operational disruptions re-examine same in organizational resilience contexts to ensure they bear capabilities to differentiate proprietary information and data on a continuum. For example, differentiating data-information that encompass these factors as valuable – competitive advantage intangible assets, e.g., their
contributory role, value, and materiality to a particular-project, product, and/or the company's mission and/or relevance to reputation and brand.


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In This Issue Summer 2016
The Pulitzer Prize Turns 100
From puppet performances to photography exhibitions, 46 humanities councils celebrate 100 years of the Pulitzer Prize.
Volume 37, Issue 3
This photo by Pulitzer Prize winner Manny Crisostomo will be shown in a retrospective exhibition of his work opening in Guam this September to mark 100 years of the Pulitzer Prize.
—© 2016 Manny Crisostomo
Why Nabokov's Speak, Memory Still Speaks to Us
Fifty years after its arrival, Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited, continues to draw readers.By Danny Heitman
Touring the New World Trade Center with Its Official Biographer
Getting to the bottom of the complicated rebuilding of an American icon.By David Skinner
The Battle of Gettysburg Painted . . . in the Round!
Saved from rot, the Gettysburg Cyclorama puts viewers in the center of the Civil War battle.By Eric Felten
Learning to Be Free While Sitting in a Maximum-Security Prison
Chicago program brings college-level humanities to maximum security.By Nancy Shepherdson
This Shawl Belonged to Langston Hughes (True) and Was Worn by One of John Brown's Men at Harpers Ferry (Well . . .).By Steven Lubet and Rachel Maines
Free State of Jones the Movie Was Partly Inspired by The Free State of Jones the Book.
The Free State of Jones in Mississippi, led by a freethinking farmer, seceded from the Confederacy.By Peter Tonguette
H. L. Mencken Loved to Cover Political Conventions but Had Little Faith in Voters
Mencken was the poet laureate of political conventions.By Danny Heitman
Who Said, "Compression Is the First Grace of Style"? Democritus or Demetrius?
An erroneous citation that lived on for decades in the text of a well-known poem.By Steve Moyer
How Americans View Muslims—And What They Don't See
Muslim Americans have more in common with their fellow citizens than the general public might expect.By Erica Machulak
Six Degrees of Voltaire: How Computer Code Developed to Study the Enlightenment Is Connected to the Panama Papers
A tool developed to explore the epistolary connections of Enlightenment intellectuals is being used to put twenty-first-century "power players" in hot water.By Jennifer Howard
How to Visit a Museum
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NEH's Founding Legislation in Lead Type
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Writers, editors, and thinkers discuss what makes good writing.By David Skinner
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The Pulitzer Prize Turns 100
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NHS Partnership Manager - South West EnglandOur client is a highly regarded international company that operate across a number of medical devices markets. As the company are moving into the phase of growth, they are looking to appoint a NHS Partnership Manager to work across the South West region. In this role you will be responsible for delivering commercial growth at a senior account level and work in partnership with influential decision makers across the Healthcare system, with a view to shaping the agenda for Ostomy and Continence Care across the region. This will be suitable for an individual with a strong understanding of the changing NHS landscape and how it affects the local delivery of healthcare. You will manage the territory as a 'business within a business'. Therefore it is important that you bring a solution focused approach, strong technical understanding and commercial mind-set to the role.Ideal background:- Strong NHS knowledge - Proven track record of working with and influencing key stakeholders within the NHS- Excellent cross-functional working skills- Market access or marketing experience preferredThis is an outstanding time to join the business as the company grows from strength-to-strength and has more products to launch in the medium term. The role comes with an above average financial package designed to attract the best industry performers. Please apply online or contact CHASE on 0131 553 6644 for more details.
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A TEMPORARY CORRECTION, from Bob Doll, vice chairman and chief equity strategist for fundamental equities, BlackRock
Economic data continues to suggest that the recovery should be sustainable. Business and consumer confidence levels have been increasing, and last week's retail sales figures were better than expected. While unemployment remains high, the number of hours worked has been picking up, which should translate into an increase in incomes. All of this is not to say, however, that we are completely out of the woods.
The Greek debt crisis points out the fragility of the global financial system. While it seems clear that the European Union will stand behind Greece, the situation does reinforce the fact that deflationary pressures exist.
The high deficits faced by the United States are a potential cause for concern, but in our view, there is no reason to expect inflation to worsen significantly in the next year or two. Given the background of an improving economy, the Federal Reserve has been starting the process of preparing the markets for greater policy flexibility and, ultimately, tightening, but we believe any interest rate increases are still in the future.
Despite all of the macro uncertainty, corporate earnings continue to be impressive. At this juncture, we are about 80% of the way through the fourth-quarter reporting season, and about 70% of companies have posted better than expected earnings and revenues. The best-performing sectors have been technology and consumer discretionary and the worst have been energy, consumer discretionary and financials.
From a stock market perspective, our analysis suggests that the current period of weakness is corrective and not anything more severe. Looking ahead, the negatives include the fact that there has been such a strong upturn since last spring (which suggests that some potential positive news has already been factored in) and ongoing deflationary threats, such as what is happening in Europe. On the other hand, the positives include low interest rates, accommodative fiscal and monetary policies, strong corporate earnings and the start of improving labor market conditions. Our belief is that these positive factors should win out over the longer term. In the near term, our sense is that the sharpest part of the correction is mostly over, but that we may only be about halfway through in terms of its duration.
THINK GLOBAL, from Phil Maisano, chief investment officer and vice chairman, The Dreyfus Corp.
Some U.S. investors may simply invest too little overseas and are therefore missing out on opportunities to diversify. In 2009, a declining dollar benefited investors that bought overseas assets. While the prospects for continued dollar weakness are not as strong in 2010, international diversification is still important.
Investors that do go global gain access to industry leading companies and potential growth rates that may not be available domestically. For example, the steel industry looks to be a prime beneficiary of the infrastructure builds (and rebuilds) occurring in many countries. According to the World Steel Association, the top nine steel producers in 2008 were foreign-based and the U.S. industry overall accounted for less than 7% of the world steel production. U.S. investors seeking to access the steel industry's future growth must look overseas to best capitalize on increased steel utilization. The same scenario persists in many industries. There are fewer reasons for investors to limit their choices to domestic options. The globalization of the investing universe isn't reversing and investors need to start thinking globally about investment decisions.
Demographics also support looking overseas for growth. While the U.S. represents over 25% of World GDP as of 2008, the latest full year figures available, the U.S. represents just 5% or so of world population. As more of the world population rises from poverty, a larger percentage of world growth should shift overseas and U.S. investors should participate in these opportunities.
THE NEXT TEN YEARS VS. THE LAST TEN YEARS, from Stephen J. Huxley, chief investment strategist, Asset Dedication
A common theme in financial headlines over the past several months has been the fact that stocks lost money over the prior ten years. This was true for 2008 and 2009. From the end of 1998 to 2008, the S&P 500 returned an average of –3% per year, and from 1999 to 2009, it returned –2.7%. These are sad numbers for long-term investors, and advisors should be ready to provide perspectives to worried clients about the next ten years.
One fact that needs to be remembered is that 1998 and 1999 were the final years of the greatest bull market in history. At the end of 1994, the S&P 500 stood at 459. At the end of 1999, it had more than tripled to 1469. If you start from the highest of highs, is it any wonder that it will take a while before you can reach it again?
If we take a broader view and look at all 10-year periods since 1927, average annualized returns on all stocks have averaged 7.7%. As expected, the Great Depression produced worse records, with average annual returns for 1929-39 at –4.1%, for 1930-40, –3.3%.
In the 10-year periods following these terrible records, however, the picture brightens. From 1939 to 1949 and 1940-50, stocks' returns averaged 7.9% and 9.6% per year respectively, above the long-term average. But, of course, a major cataclysm had occurred: World War II.
Thankfully, there do not appear to be any major cataclysms on the horizon right now, though one can never tell. International and domestic political tensions are a perennial source of factors that can cause major bull or bear markets.
Some speculate that domestic politics played a role in the great bull run of the late 1990's (in addition to the Internet and end of the Cold War). In November 1994, a Democratic president – Clinton – lost his party's control of Congress. As Clinton shifted his policies toward the center, the markets took off. If that explanation is correct, and if the Democrats loses control of Congress this year once again, it could set the stage for good investor news over the next ten years. We shall see what happens in 2011.
THE ROAD TO RECOVERY IS NOT WITHOUT HICCUPS, from Steve Romick, president, FPA Crescent Fund
Historically, the period following a banking crisis has been characterized by weak economic growth for years, if not a full decade. The Great Depression lasted until World War II despite consensus views in 1937 that it had ended. Japan's "Lost Decade" had many headlines that mistakenly declared that a recovery was at hand. We're not sure what to call what we're in, but at best it's what many have called the Great Recession. We are confident, though, that the path will not be without hiccups. Over the near term, headlines may trumpet economic growth, albeit benefited by unprecedented and unsustainable stimulus, government guarantees, and low interest rates. As Leon Cooperman, founder and principal of Omega Advisors, recently mentioned, "If you pump enough adrenaline into a dead guy, he'll get up and dance." We do believe that a certain amount of government stimulus was necessary. Without the government's involvement, we could have entered a depression; nevertheless, it will be future generations that will judge whether the government spent wisely on the way to adding trillions of debt.
We are stymied by the problems that we as a nation face, and lack confidence in our ability to divine what will happen. Besides, even if we did get the what right, we still need to get the when right too. When will the stimulus end? What has been its true contribution to GDP? Will the Fed successfully pull back the trillion-plus dollars of excess reserves without kicking off high inflation? In other words, how does the government put the genie back in the bottle?
Under the heading Be Careful What You Wish For, if the U.S. market continues to rally, then the likelihood increases measurably that the Fed tightens. The Fed will need to end a number of lending and market support programs, having already purchased $2 trillion of mortgage-backed securities, Agencies, and Treasuries, and they'll need to remove $1 trillion in excess reserves from the banking system. The Fed has tools to allow for retrenchment, including the new ability to pay banks interest on their deposits. The private sector will then have to step in to replace the Fed. With so much money sloshing around in so many different programs, we believe there will be some bumps along the way—hopefully allowing additional opportunities, but…. We do not expect to be in Pamplona running with the bulls any time soon.
THE CASE FOR MUNIS, from Silver Bridge Capital Management
Last week, Moody's released updated data on default rates of rated municipal bonds. The average five-year historical cumulative default rate for investment grade municipal debt measured just 0.03%, 1970 through 2009, compared to 0.97% for investment-grade corporate issuers. Moody's noted that recovery rates are also stronger for municipal bonds, based on thirty day post-default trading prices, $59.91 vs. $37.50 for senior corporate securities. It's worth noting the bondholders ultimately recovered 100% of their investment in the largest default in municipal history—Orange County, CA.
ARE YOU SPECULATING? From Dorsey D. Farr, principal, French Wolf & Farr
In the 2003 movie Old School, Will Ferrell portrays Frank Ricard, a newlywed who has trouble letting go of his freewheeling bachelor days – a time when he was affectionately known as Frank the Tank. When caught running drunk and nude down the street by his wife and several of her girlfriends, Frank defends himself with a drunken exclamation: "Everybody's doing it!" Predictably, Frank's new bride views his response as insufficient justification for foolish behavior.
Why buy stocks at a 2.1% yield and 20 times earnings while the economy struggles to emerge from the Great Recession? Why buy junk bonds at a mere 7.5% yield or lend the government money for 30 years at 4.5% interest? Well, everybody's doing it. Those feeling inclined to go streaking through the capital markets should recall what happened the last time "everybody's doing it" was justification for foolish investor behavior.
Monday, February 15: Presidents' Day
Tuesday, February 16: Corporate Earnings: Abercrombie & Fitch, Barclays, Kraft, Merck, Quest, Waste Management, Whole Foods
Wednesday, February 17: January import prices, January housing starts, January industrial production. Corporate Earnings: Deere, Hewlett-Packard
Thursday, February 18: January Producer Price Index, January leading economic indicators. Corporate Earnings: CBS, Dell, DirecTV, Hormel Foods, Gooyear, MGM Mirage, Wal-Mart
Friday, February 19: January Consumer Price Index. Corporate Earnings: J.C. Penney
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By Micayla Charles
Do you have an upcoming mobile videoconference? Whether it's for a deposition, a business event, or maybe a MLB morning meeting, these tips will help you ensure your videoconference goes smoothly.
Ensure you have a strong cellular or wi-fi signal – if you do not have a strong signal the other participants will not be able to see or hear you.
Maximize your cell phone's battery life
- Keep your phone on the charger whenever possible
- Adjust the backlighting of your cell to a dimmer setting.
- Close unnecessary application
- Turn off application notifications duration of the videoconference
Check your audio and video feed prior to the beginning of the videoconference, and speak in a normal tone of voice.
To get the best audio possible while participating in a deposition remotely, use an earpiece or headset for listening and mute your end of the line when you are not speaking to limit the background noise.
State your name when you object, so that the court reporter and legal videographer can properly identify you for the record.
Try to ask questions at a little slower pace so that any participants who may have their devices muted can un-mute themselves in order to object before you move on to the next question.
Purchase a cell phone case that has a stand so that you are not holding your device throughout the duration of the deposition. This will eliminate a shaky picture.
Be sure that the room is well-lit so the other participants can see you. If the sun is pouring in behind you it's best to have that the drapes or blinds to cover the window to avoid appearing as a shadow.
Dress professionally and for the camera. Try to wear pastel, solid colors, and avoid polka-dots, stripes, and plaids.
Sit up straight and check the picture boundaries so that you know exactly how far you can move before you are suddenly off the screen.
Try not to look directly at the people on your screen, but instead into the camera lens, which helps develop a more natural interaction between participants.
Limit your physical movements as much as possible, and if you have to move, try to move more slowly so that your movements are not distracting to the other participants and so they don't appear "choppy."
Do not use your phone to respond to e-mails and text messages while you are using it to participate in a mobile videoconference. Everyone will hear the clicks, become distracted, and the sounds can interrupt the audio feed to the legal videographer and court reporter.
Beware of the proceedings- while you may be comfortable sitting at your office desk or in your home, what you do is being seen by all of the participants, the sound is being heard, and it is being recorded by a legal videographer and court reporter.
Finally, remember to put on pants, even if you don't think you need them!
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Wednesday! (Episode 8)
I know a couple of her littlest fans are hoping for some girl power tonight! When they grow up they want to have muscles just like Aunt Kim...
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I hope Kim is the one to say "Just Annihilate Them"! Fun episode title.ReplyDelete
Can't wait to see what all these mysterious Kim quotes from the preview mean either -
"I feel like it's time for the girls to take over this game."
"We're about to make our move."
"We could start sending these guys home."
"This is never going to be the same if we do this."
Looks like Kim will have some fun on a giant waterslide tonight as well! Hope the Possible Fam is having a great week!
Team Kim for the win! Victory is KimMINIENT!
Love love love your sister! And I was right - she was the one to say "Just Annihilate Them!" It fits with her new nicknames we gave her as well - The Spradlinator and The Godmother.ReplyDelete
Such a great episode for Kim all around! Hope Team Kim on your end enjoyed it!


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What was meant by this? We're they referring to the individual states? In this case, I think so.A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
First, the idea of a central federal government was already accepted and was referred to as such. Anything having to do with central government was referred to as federal. State was reserved for referring to the individual states.
Second, the original idea was that the states would support the federal government. One way they did this was by supplying troops when asked to do so by the federal government. If you've ever been to a civil war battlefield, this idea is very clear. Soldiers from individual states fought beside each other and sacrificed as one. If there was a particular part of a battle with a high casualty count, chances are that all of these men would have come from the same state. The idea of a truly federalized army did not come about until after the civil war.
The authors of our constitution had different ideas on how the new United States should be governed, namely either a strong or weak federal government, but they all agreed that they never wanted to be oppressed as they were under British rule. They wanted to guarantee that they would always be free to speak out against our government (the 1st amendment), and that they would be able to oppress tyranny (the 2nd amendment).
Since each state would be expected to maintain a militia, how could they ensure that the people in each state would be able to stand up to oppression? This was especially important since the federal government was incredibly dependent on the individual states. Think of it this way:
When you read our constitution, it's difficult to imagine that the authors ever meant for the federal government to have the kind of authority over the individual as is the case today. We've come a long way in the last 240 years, and in my opinion we've certainly lost our way. It happened very slowly, and most everything seemed like a good idea at the time. Bit by bit, individuals have surrendered their rights away to state government. Bit by bit, the states have surrendered their rights away to the federal government. And bit by bit, our federal government is surrendering our own rights away to justify a better world for all. What kind of world will we live in when all of our rights are gone?Since a well-regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state that is part of a centralized government, it is vital that the right of individual persons to keep and bear arms not be infringed.
In the end, all of this is mute, and I believe that our founding father knew this to be true: That these are all laws created by men, and all men are fallible.


text: Zenfolio | Tom Jackson Photography | Journeys and Migrations: August 2012 Home»Exhibitions»Journeys and Migrations: August 2012 Artist's Statement:Thirty years ago, a camera was invented that would win the hearts of photographers and artists from around the world. Although it would never fulfill the purpose for which it was created, the Holga would be rapidly elevated to cult status amongst those who appreciate the aesthetic potentialities of a camera that produces completely unpredictable results.Designed in 1981 by T.M. Lee of Universal Electronics, Hong Kong and first released in 1982, this small camera had large aspirations. With its minimal design and largely plastic construction, the aim was to make medium-format photography affordable for working-class families across China. However, the rapid adoption of the more consumer-orientated 35mm film format made the camera largely obselete before it had even left the drawing board.Rather than fading into insignificance however, the Holga found a new audience of visual artists that would guarantee the production and development of the camera until the present day. It is the unpredictability of the Holga that so excites the creative mind. Light leaks, mis-focusing, warped film, internal reflections, wild vignetting and point-and-pray exposures all create unique results with every single shutter actuation.This exhibition is a celebration of the unlikely success story of the Holga. Thirty years from it's invention, Leeds-based photographer and educator Tom Jackson has taken the Holga back to it's birthplace and captured a diverse collection of images. The Hong Kong depicted through these images is not the urbane tiger-economy of today and neither is it the military outpost of the Imperial dynasties. This is the city of the mind. Half-remembered locations and events; dream-like and atemporal. The camera reveals itself to be an unreliable narrator, assembling images that could have emerged any time in the last thousand years.This collection is exhibited at Hand Made in Bradford from August - October 2012. © Tom Jackson Photography Powered by ZENFOLIO User Agreement Cancel Continue


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Though a bittersweet farewell, it felt wonderful to plant our feet on good old US soil once again! ……
….. We arrived home yesterday after spending two weeks with our daughter and her family in London, helping with and welcoming a new baby boy. We came home weary and a bit jet-lagged but so thrilled to have been able to be a part of this amazing, memorable experience. We loved every minute of it!
We thoroughly enjoy being in London and spending time with this sweet family, though we have to laugh each time, as we adjust to the cacophony of lovely little voices talking, laughing, playing, singing, crying ……….. you name it!! The sounds are music to our grammy and papa ears but are such a contrast to our quiet, peaceful (empty-nester) home!
As much as we enjoy traveling, it's always nice to return to life and family here in Carolina. We'd been missing our son and daughter-in-law and were delighted when they were able to come for dinner last night. But here's the best part; Lindsay brought dinner and it was fantastic! Loaded with lovely fall flavor, all went back for second helpings. But I'll let the chef tell you more about it ……….. Thanks again Linds!
1 tablespoon extra virginolive oil
1 cup finely chopped onion
2 garlic cloves, minced
1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
2 cups cubed peeled butternut squash (about 1/2 inch-dice)
1 cup chopped parsnips (about 1/2 inch-dice)
1 tablespoon chopped fresh or 1 teaspoon dried sage
1 tablespoon chopped fresh or 1 teaspoon dried parsley
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon all spice
sea salt
freshly ground black pepper
4 chicken sausages diced (I used the sweet apple chicken sausage from Trader Joe's)
1 lb dried pasta shapes (like penne or farfalle)
1/2 cup grated fresh Parmesan cheese, divided
1/2 cup shredded Mozzarella cheese
2 1/2 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons flour
1 1/2 cup milk
1 cup reserved pasta water
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Heat oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. Add onion, red pepper and garlic, sauté about 3 minutes. Add squash and parsnip; sauté 10 minutes or until softened. The vegetables don't need to be completely cooked through as they will continue to cook in the oven. Stir in sage, parsley, nutmeg, allspice, salt and pepper.
4. Cook pasta according to package directions. Drain, reserving 1 cup pasta water.
5. Melt butter in a small sauce pan over medium heat. Add flour and cook for about 3 minutes stirring with a whisk. Add in milk, stirring constantly. Cook about 5 minutes or until thick. Slowly add the reserved pasta water cooking for about 2 more minutes or until thick. The sauce should be able to coat the back of a spoon. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
6. In a large bowl (or the pot you used to cook the pasta) combine the pasta, vegetables, chicken sausage, sauce and cheese (reserving a little Parmesan to sprinkle on top). Stir to make sure pasta is evenly coated. Pour into a large glass baking dish or individual ramekins. Sprinkle with remaining Parmesan.
7. Bake at 375 for about 30 minutes or until lightly browned.
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1.Moisturize Often
Parched skin is more likely to crack and rip than skin that's well-hydrated.
2. Keep a Tight Shave
Calluses are common among those who spend their fair share of gym time lifting barbells, swinging kettlebells, or rowing on an erg. On their own, calluses aren't bad. It's when they build up and start to peel that they cause problems.
3. Chalk, Tape, Gloves, and Grips
Purists may choose to ignore this tip, but gymnastic grips, gloves, tape, and chalk help protect your hands, especially when it comes to workouts with high-volume reps.
4. Blisters: to Pop or Not to Pop?
You need to consider the area of the blister, your current activity and the available resources. "Intact skin helps keep the area clean and prevents against infection," she says. So, if you can rest the affected area for a few days, there's no need to pop a blister.
5.Protect and Heal
If you do get tears and open wounds, keep them clean and covered. In addition to over-the-counter creams like bacitracin, you can look to Mother Nature for equally effective healing agents.
6.Know When to Rest
How do you know when to tape up and power through and when to take a timeout? Gonzalez has a simple rule of thumb: "If it's affecting your workout, you should rest or substitute a different movement." So, if you're experiencing pain a minute into a workout that's heavy on pull-ups, try substituting ring rows, which are not as dynamic and create less friction. Or skip the upper body workout all together and go for a run.
7. Fix Your Grip
The way you're gripping the bar during movements like pull-ups and toes-to-bar may be encouraging blisters and tearing.
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We Fear Silence Present
Chew The Fat! 12th Birthday Party @ The Arches, London
Friday 9th October 2009, 10pm-5am
Room 1 Hosted By Chew The Fat!
Speaker Junk (Herve & Trevor Loveys)
Riva Starr
Doorly (Reclaim The Dancefloor)
Paul 'Trouble' Arnold
The Living Graham Bond
Room 2 Hosted By Urban Nerds
Marcus Nasty
Spyro (Rinse.FM)
Flirta D
Rattus Rattus
Klose One
Chrome Kids
Ordio Kid (Urban Nerds)
Room 3 Hosted By Keyboard Masher
Frank Milan & JB
Plus Special Guest Stan Fontan
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Reaching the ripe old age of 12 is something of an achievement in the fickle world of clubland for many its time to pick up the clubbing pension and head off to Somerset to open a Gastropub. Thankfully not so for Chew the Fat! who are bounding into their 12th year with an exciting music policy, a boisterous young crowd and an atmosphere at all their parties that would get even a real pensioner dancing, should gramps happen to stumble onto the dancefloor by mistake one night.
Whats the secret? Perhaps its their unwavering commitment to hunting out new talent supporting hot new producers such as A1bassline, Raffertie and Bobmo - and installing the supremely talented Foamo as resident. It definitely has something to do with their attitude, or rather their lack of it. Without doubt one of the capitals friendliest parties, theres no room for posing here, just jump onto the dancefloor and get on it. Perhaps its also their constant desire to do something a bit different with live street art regularly staged in the outdoor arch. Whatever their magic formula, its working a treat and theyve pulled out all the stops for their 12th birthday celebration on October 9th.
The Arches, 51-53 Southwark Street, London Bridge, London, SE1 1RU.
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