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Each week this season, we'll take a look at the Eagles and their opponent from a fantasy perspective to help with any lineup-related decisions.
Before looking ahead, let's take a quick look back.
What we got right
• Zach Ertz indeed had a great game and Alshon Jeffery didn't against the 'Skins.
• LeGarrette Blount reached the end zone.
• Rob Kelley and Terrelle Pryor struggled.
• Chris Thompson had the best day of any Redskins running back.
What we got wrong
• Jordan Reed, who we pegged at seven catches, 90 yards and a TD, had a modest afternoon. News came out Sunday morning that Reed is dealing with a broken toe, which may have affected his game.
• Jamison Crowder did next to nothing, falling well short of our six-catch projection.
Now on to the Eagles and Chiefs.
• • •
RB Kareem Hunt
Hunt was one of the top stories of Week 1 after his 246 yards from scrimmage and three touchdowns. It was the best debut a running back has ever had.
Hunt will continue to get ample opportunities in Kansas City's ground attack. Charcandrick West, the No. 2 RB, is more of a pass-catcher than a between-the-tackles runner.
If you have Hunt, you're starting him this week, you don't really need any fantasy advice or input.
It's hard to know just yet how good the Eagles' 2017 run defense is. Last season, the Eagles allowed RBs an average of 125 total yards and 5.6 catches per game.
Projected stat line: 70 rushing yards, 5 catches, 40 receiving yards, TD
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WR Tyreek Hill, TE Travis Kelce
Hill is a nightmarish matchup for any team because he's probably the fastest man in the NFL and the Chiefs are so creative with his usage. The Eagles can try different things, jamming him at the line of scrimmage or doubling him on occasion, but Andy Reid is going to figure out ways to get him the ball.
Last season, Hill had seven plays of 34 yards or more, including touchdown runs of 68 and 70 yards. In Week 1 against the Patriots, he had a 75-yard catch-and-run for another TD. If Alex Smith hits him in stride ... good luck.
The Chiefs put Hill in motion a lot and those are the most dangerous situations. He'll take a hand-off on an end-around or serve as a decoy to open running lanes for Hunt or space in the seam for Travis Kelce.
It will be difficult for the Eagles to contain both Hill and Kelce in this game. Given Hill's explosiveness, they could make him the top priority to stop. He has to be defended the way teams defend DeSean Jackson with an over-the-top safety, which means more 1-on-1 coverage for Kelce.
With Hill, all it takes is one play. The Patriots actually played him pretty well aside from the 75-yarder.
Jordan Hicks and/or Malcolm Jenkins could draw the Kelce assignment. The Eagles allowed the fewest receptions and yards to tight ends of any NFL team last season but they didn't face one quite like Kelce.
Hill's projection: 90 yards from scrimmage
Kelce's projection: 6 catches, 72 yards, TD
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WR Alshon Jeffery
After a tough Week 1 matchup with Josh Norman, Jeffery could be in line for a big game if he draws No. 2 Chiefs cornerback Terrance Mitchell.
The way the Chiefs play defense and the way Eagles lined Jeffery up last week, it looks like he'll avoid top corner Marcus Peters for the most part. Mitchell last week allowed 96 receiving yards, according to Pro Football Focus.
Jeffery (6-3/218) has a distinct size advantage on Mitchell (5-11/190). Plus, the Chiefs' pass defense figures to be worse moving forward with Eric Berry (torn Achilles) done for the season.
Projected Jeffery stat line: 7 catches, 120 yards, TD
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RB LeGarrette Blount
The Chiefs allowed three one-yard TDs to Mike Gillislee in the opener against the Patriots but that doesn't necessarily make Blount a good start this week.
First off, Gillislee's TDs were more about opportunity than anything else. Will the Eagles be able to drive inside the five-yard line multiple times against this KC defense?
Blount's best chance at a decent game in this one would involve pass interference calls in the end zone. In that regard, Jeffery could be his best friend this weekend.
The Chiefs have a pretty stout front seven with Bennie Logan at the nose, Justin Houston and Dee Ford generating pressure and Derrick Johnson being the all-purpose linebacker he's always been.
Don't be surprised if the Eagles use Darren Sproles a bit more in this game to avoid the tough middle of KC's defense.
Projected stat line: 35 rushing yards, 0 TD
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TE Zach Ertz
The Chiefs were the only team to allow fewer fantasy points per game to tight ends last season than the Eagles, and just last week they shut down Rob Gronkowski.
But with Berry out, the Chiefs' ability to nullify the tight end drops and they'll likely bracket Ertz with two lesser players. If Jeffery wins his matchup a few times, KC could pull help away from Ertz to aid with Jeffery and that would enhance Ertz's matchup.
Ertz has been on a roll for about a calendar year and I think that continues Sunday even if he doesn't reach the end zone.
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Windows 7 "Starter" on a laptop
I created the universal installation disc from this forums' tutorials.
From this, I installed Starter on a laptop I refurbished, which I was eventually going to give to my daughter for college with some flavor of W7.
I was curious as to how it looked and if it would be suitable for her work. Well, she saw me working on it, and wanted to live with it for awhile. Been using it for about ten days, and she loves it. Boots up quickly; no crapware; she loves IE9's performance; and Wordpad suits her homework just fine.
I know that Starter only came out with OEM netbooks and was not made available to the general public. But, I'm wondering if Microsoft would allow me to purchase a license for it before 30 days elapsed?
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I understand that she likes Windows 7 (even if it is a starter) but
as you say, she is going to be going to college. In the meantime have
have you thought about using the re-arm command so you can get up
to 120 days free legally?
I say this because once she is attending college, she will be entitled to
free copies of Microsoft Windows 7 Professional which if she likes Starter, then
surely she's gonna like that even more!
I explained to a guy yesterday who was after a free copy of Microsoft Office suite 2007
(which by the way is not available through MSDNAA anymore)
that as a student, Microsoft has a worldwide program allowing students access to free or heavily discounted software.
If you didn't already know about this, I suggest you go and have a look at these sites:
MSDN Academic Alliance Home Page (MSDNAA)
Microsoft Office Discount for Students - It's Not Cheating (Microsoft Office discounted for students)
In the meantime, if you would like to rearm the software (Starter), I am not 100% sure
if you ARE able to do it with that version but I can't see why not, and if you give it a go
and it doesn't work then the worst that's gonna happen is that you get thrown an error message.
Type ANY ONE of the following commands into the command prompt (Rus as admin) to rearm. Note that you should wait until lets say the 29th day of your 30 day grace period before rearming if you want to rearm for maximum days and considering that you are only able to rearm up to 120 days.
sysprep /generalize
slmgr.vbs rearm
rundll32 slc.dll,SLReArmWindows
slmgr /rearm
Reboot when finished
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|21 Dec 2011
I don't believe you can buy Starter anywhere, even from Microsoft. It only comes pre-installed on netbooks etc. I think Home Basic is the same deal, so the cheapest version you can buy off the shelf is Home Premium OEM.
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|21 Dec 2011
The suggestion for her to buy Student Upgrade version is best as it nets the Professional version for very little cost.
Then all that has to be done is type Anytime in Start Search box, insert Pro Product Key into Anytime Upgrade, and in 15 minutes or less the additional features will be unlocked and she'll have an activated Pro version.
Save a Win7 backup image externally of Starter in case you want to move Professional to another machine - it lasts for life and can be moved wherever you want it - so that you can easily reimage Starter back onto the machine. Then after Upgrade save a Win7 Pro backup image to use in place of reinstall.
|My System Specs
|21 Dec 2011
Thank you all for your prompt replies.
We don't know if her school is a participant in the MSDN program. TBD.
Too bad that MS won't grant licenses for Starter. It really is a nice tight OS for the casual user.
|My System Specs
|22 Dec 2011
Going to a higher version shouldn't impact performance much if at all, if thats what you are worried about. Each higher version just unlocks extra features. Some you might want like Aero, if it does impact performance you can just turn it off again. Has your daughter tried to change her desktop wallpaper yet? It's NOT an option on Starter.
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There's always been a huge divide between Wall Street and Sesame Street.
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To be fair, traders say that "muppet" is a well-known Wall Street moniker for dopey clients. It's not a Goldman specific term. And the Wall Street parlance may well have originated with the British usage of muppet, which basically means idiot. But as far as we can tell, that slang is just a reference back to Jim Henson's stable of colorful puppets.
But here's the thing. Is it really a fair characterization? The muppets are not to be underestimated, as the recent movie shows.
That's probably especially true in matters financial.
Any trader that tried to stuff a boat-load of overpriced bonds down the throat of Miss Piggy — she has her CFA you know — would have another thing coming. Oscar the Grouch, not exactly a pushover, is widely known to have made millions in junk assets, and Animal remains one of the top traders on the street.
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In response to SD City Attorney: Females in the Media Need Escort to Interview 'Filthy Filner':
Just to be on the safe side, female reporters should consider wearing hazmat suits when entering a room with "Filthy" Filner. And it would be best to have a male colleague open any emails from sources that might be one of Anthony Weiner's addresses. However, use of a male colleague to arrange interviews with Eliot Spitzer is not recommended, as he might decide your male co-worker is a pimp, demand a discount for the time he plans to spend with you, and have you both arrested for prostitution if he doesn't get it.
I see Weiner and Filner are trying the "tough it out and the scandal will go away" strategy, banking on the short attention spans of a media establishment that really doesn't want to craft enduring "narratives" unfriendly to any Democrat. It's worked for Obama so far – the malarkey shoveled to get him through those two or three crucial news cycles after the Benghazi attack paid off. It might work for Weiner too, although things are looking dicey at the moment. But I rather doubt Filner can bluff his way through this.


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Just wanted to show you some of the awesome art that I bought from other artists at Craft Central! There were lots of talented people there, but I need to be a bit realistic about how much art I buy, so I had to restrict myself… here are my fab finds this year:
'Tui' print by Joe McMenamin, an artist and high school art teacher whose work I've admired for a while now. The hand-drawn line detail is incredible, and I love the pop of colour from the powdered ink he uses. You can find more of his work here.
Robin print and a pack of eight greeting cards featuring a range of bird illustrations by Melissa Boardman from Bird Plus Bird. I love the way Melissa manages to capture a bit of each bird's character in her drawings. This little robin looks so inquisitive and alert, just like these birds in real life. Check out Bird Plus Bird's website here.
This final print is a linocut called 'The Readers' by an artist called Penny C. Penny is a self-taught printmaker like me. Something about this print really speaks to me. I can imagine it hanging in a child's room, maybe my own child's room one day.
I'm a big believer in supporting local artists by buying their quality, unique art when I can! If you are too, then you must check out felt, New Zealand's online marketplace for hand-crafted goodness. They've also just released their Christmas catalogue – have a look here!


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Converting Sunlight Into Metabolic Energy
While ubiquitous in nature, melanin, which provides the coloring found in hair, skin, eyes, feathers, scales, etc., is an especially important substance as far as the human condition is concerned. Melanin's role in determining skin color makes it the primary physiological basis for racial differentiation among humans; in fact, entire civilizations have arisen and fallen due to perceptions and misperceptions concerning its nature and signification.
It is for this reason that we have chosen to focus on melanin's lesser known, biological role and how being more pigmented, i.e. darker skinned, or put oppositely, being less intensely de-pigmented, i.e. less light skinned, may have a unique set of health benefits which have been repressed or misrepresented over the course of history, in order to fuel race-based constructs.
Melanin, after all, has a diverse set of roles in various organisms. From the ink of the octopus, to the melanin-based protective colorings of bacteria and fungi, melanin offers protection against a variety of threats: from predators and similar biochemical threats (host defenses against invading organisms), UV light, and other chemical stresses (i.e. heavy metals and oxidizing agents). Commonly overlooked, however, is melanin's ability to convert gamma and ultraviolet radiation into metabolic energy within living systems.
Single-celled fungi, for instance, have been observed thriving within the collapsed nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, Ukraine, using gamma radiation as a source of energy. Albino fungi, without melanin, were studied to be incapable of using gamma radiation in this way, proving that gamma rays initiate a yet-unknown process of energy production within exposed melanin.
Vertebrate animals, in fact, may convert light directly into metabolic energy through the help of melanin. In a review on the topic published in 2008 in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, titled "Melanin directly converts light for vertebrate metabolic use: heuristic thoughts on birds, Icarus and dark human skin," Geoffrey Goodman and Dani Bercovich offer a thought-provoking reflection on the topic, the abstract of which is well worth reading in its entirety:
Pigments serve many visually obvious animal functions (e.g. hair, skin, eyes, feathers, scales). One is 'melanin', unusual in an absorption across the UV-visual spectrum which is controversial. Any polymer or macro-structure of melanin monomers is 'melanin'. Its roles derive from complex structural and physical-chemical properties e.g. semiconductor, stable radical, conductor, free radical scavenger, charge-transfer.
Clinicians and researchers are well acquainted with melanin in skin and ocular pathologies and now increasingly are with internal, melanized, pathology-associated sites not obviously subject to light radiation (e.g. brain, cochlea). At both types of sites some findings puzzle: positive and negative neuromelanin effects in Parkinsons; unexpected melanocyte action in the cochlea, in deafness; melanin reduces DNA damage, but can promote melanoma; in melanotic cells, mitochondrial number was 83% less, respiration down 30%, but development similar to normal amelanotic cells.
A little known, avian anatomical conundrum may help resolve melanin paradoxes. One of many unique adaptations to flight, the pecten, strange intra-ocular organ with unresolved function(s), is much enlarged and heavily melanized in birds fighting gravity, hypoxia, thirst and hunger during long-distance, frequently sub-zero, non-stop migration. The pecten may help cope with energy and nutrient needs under extreme conditions, by a marginal but critical, melanin-initiated conversion of light to metabolic energy, coupled to local metabolite recycling.
Similarly in Central Africa, reduction in body hair and melanin increase may also have lead to 'photomelanometabolism' which, though small scale/ unit body area, in total may have enabled a sharply increased development of the energy-hungry cortex and enhanced human survival generally. Animal inability to utilize light energy directly has been traditionally assumed. Melanin and the pecten may have unexpected lessons also for human physiology and medicine.
If the authors are correct, a longstanding assumption that animals are incapable of utilizing light energy directly is now called into question. In other words, our skin may contain the equivalent of melanin "solar-panels," and it may be possible to "ingest" energy, as plants do, directly from the Sun. We already know that sunlight exposure can reduce the risk of over 30 diseases, and that its primary metabolite in our skin, vitamin D, may reduce the risk of over 200.
Our biological connection and dependence to the sun, in fact, is so profound, that the very variation in human skin color from African, melanin-saturated dark skin, to the relatively melanin de-pigmented, Caucasian lighter-skin, is a byproduct of the offspring of our last common ancestor from Africa (as determined by mitochondrial DNA) migrating towards sunlight-impoverished higher latitudes, which began approximately 60,000 years ago. In order to compensate for the lower availability of sunlight, the body rapidly adjusted, essentially requiring the removal of the natural "sunscreen" melanin from the skin, which interferes with vitamin D production; vitamin D, of course, is involved in the regulation of over 2,000 genes, and therefore is more like a hormone, without which our entire genetic infrastructure becomes destabilized.
While a life-saving adaptation, the loss of melanin likely has adverse health effects, which include losing the ability to convert sunlight into metabolic energy, increased prevalence of Parkinson's disease (which involves de-melanization of the substantia nigra), and others effects which have yet been investigated in any detail. For now, it is important to point out that within the span of only 60,000 years (a nanosecond in biological time), many of the skin "color" differences among the world's human inhabitants reflect how heavily genetically-conserved was the ability of the human body to produce vitamin D. Furthermore, the trade-off involved in maintaining the ability create enough vitamin D within a sunlight-deprived clime by sacrificing melanin may have had adverse health effects that are only now being realized.
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Complete in Him: Finding Hope in Disability and Child Loss
By Chizor Akisanya
Book, £8.99 / Kindle Edition, £5.99
God promises that if we persevere through testing we will become mature and complete. Chizor's story is a hope-giving testament to this.
Chizor Akisanya is a much-loved community leader, wife and mother whose success belies the difficulties she has faced. At birth, she sustained a brachial plexus injury – nerve damage to the muscles in her right arm – which resulted in limited mobility and control. As an adult she faced the grievous additional challenge of losing a much-wanted child. Yet even with her disability and the devastating loss she and her husband experienced, she has persevered in seeking God, daring to believe there is hope and healing in Him.
In this inspirational book, Chizor leads the reader on a faith-filled journey of personal discovery. Having repeatedly experienced the truth that challenges are surmountable with the help of Christ, she encourages those facing trials of their own to find hope in Him. By adopting a positive perspective day by day, Chizor shows how we can discover a completeness in Christ that will overcome every adversity we might face.
About the Author
Chizor Akisanya is an ordained pastor, artist, speaker and mentor to women of varying ages. She is well on the way to becoming an advocate for people living with disabilities and is keen to raise awareness of disability issues within the church community. She practised law for several years and recently took on a senior management position at Jesus House London.


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I first had these at a small bakery with a lunch counter in the basement of a shopping center, no, not in France, but in Singapore about 20 years ago! I never tried to make them until I found a similar recipe for 3-mushroom vol-au-vents in a French cookbook. A couple of tweaks here and there and the dish was just as I remembered. You can make your own puff pasty cups, but who has the time?
I need to double this to fit 6 cases. But it was delish. - 08 Jun 2016 (Review from Allrecipes AU | NZ)


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Tailored American Luxury
A transitional buffet that's highly versatile, with your choice of maple, glass/mirror or blown mirror finish combinations. It features straight tapered legs and four doors that open to reveal three adjustable shelves. With contrasting finishes on its panels and legs, you can make it uniquely yours.
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In addition to technical information, we want to provide you with a sense of what motivates us here at Vitralum Glass Solutions. Of course, we are here to create a successful business, but we understand that success comes from building and nurturing strong relationships. We truly believe that success and happiness are linked to our relationships -- as family members, as co-workers, as clients, as vendors and as citizens. We believe that this company, at its core, is not about glass or frameless shower doors. We know that this company is all about people. In fact, the most important resource we have here at Vitralum Glass Solutions is our people. Our administrative employees, sales representatives and technicians are highly skilled, and they abide by the Vitralum Glass Solutions standards of always aim to excellence. Among them we have students, college graduates, people who have served as missionaries for their church, volunteers, an Eagle scout and a scoutmaster, soccer players and a soccer coach, a former professional boxer, musicians, artists, moms and dads -- they are all GREAT people. Together, they make an awesome team, for which we have great respect and many reasons to be proud.
Through many years of experience, we have become experts at our trade. However, we know there is always room for improvement. We believe that if we improve every day, a little bit at a time, we will be able to accomplish the many goals we have set as a company. One of these goals is to gain national recognition. To achieve this, we work relentlessly looking for ways to innovate, either through our manufacturing process or through the unique products we offer. After accomplishing this goal, we intend for Vitralum Glass Solutions to continue to grow and be recognized as a trusted and respected international brand name.
We know that in order to gain trust, we must be honest and transparent in everything we do. We will never compromise our integrity in order to take advantage of any situation. We have found that in the long term, honesty always pays off. Honoring truth is the only way to build trust and to foster a healthy work environment.
We have similarly learned that taking short cuts doesn't help build a great company. We have to pay the price, we have to work hard, and we have to improve every day learning from our mistakes and finding creative and ethical ways to be more efficient. That's how we became the only glass company in greater Orlando, and even Central Florida, which installs and manufactures its glass in house; this simplifies production and gives us more control over what happens to your glass. Yes, it is more challenging to manage this process, but this is the type of challenge that has pushed us to become leaders in our trade.
We invite you to visit us at either our showroom in Casselberry, or at our manufacturing facilities in Longwood. Again, thank you for visiting our website and we look forward to serving you.


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CHINO, Calif. — An episode of cable TV Showtime's "Gigolos" that featured the show's star Nick Hawk having his manhood molded for a line of adult toys, has men clamoring to have their privates immortalized.
California Exotic Novelties, the company that partnered with Hawk last July to produce a line of adult toys inspired by his television lifestyle said the episode where Hawk gets molded to create a realistic replica that will be the signature piece in his toy collection has spurred an influx of similar requests from men all over the world.
Marketing director Al Bloom said the company's received numerous calls that range from bizarre "product pitches" to people offering to pay for the molding "experience."
The hit show presents a rare and uncensored look into the personal and professional lives of Hawk and four other male escorts in Las Vegas, Nevada.
"I got the first call from a guy in Seattle who said he saw Nick Hawk on 'Gigolos,' getting his 'stuff' cast to create a sex toy. He said he was certainly 'bigger and badder' than Hawk and that we should give him a toy line, too. I couldn't stop laughing," Bloom said.
He added, "Another fella offered to pay us $1000 if we'd mold his manhood. I kept telling him that we don't do moldings as a business and he got quite upset when I turned him down."
Hawk's line of toys won't be released until early next year but the fevered interest has men wondering about what it takes.
To make a molded sex toy, the subject is covered in a thick batter-like substance that sets in about 20 minutes. The material perfectly captures every aspect of the body part. Men generally find the process less than agreeable, however, since the cold temperature tends to affect them adversely.
"The molding process is very fascinating, I guess now that guys have seen Nick Hawk do it, everyone will want to," Susan Colvin, CalExotics President and CEO said.
Bloom added, "Nick really rose to the occasion and was by far, the most prepared and responsive of anyone I've ever seen molded. I've been in this business 40 years, trust me, I've seen a lot of guys go through the process, Nick handled it like the pro he is."
Commenting on the process Hawk said, "I'm a professional, being up for a performance under any condition is what I'm paid to do."
But regular guys will just have to wait to have their own jewels cast.
"We are excited to be introducing the Nick Hawk line of toys, but currently have no plans to mold other gentlemen for any other product collections, or for their person needs. I do want to thank those who contacted us, but we simply can't accommodate such requests at this time," Colvin said.
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And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain Revelation 5:6
It's all a bit of a puzzle, this trying to get an understanding of the universe.
Whether it's wrapping your head around the apparent age (Billions of years) or size (Billions of Galaxies) or complexity of it, or trying to land probes on Mars or Comets to tinker with chemistry sets to get the right reaction for the possible recipe for life, the sheer scope and magnitude of it all makes us, here and now, appear pretty small and perhaps even pointless. Science - at least for some in the field - not only wants to tell us the 'how' these days, but the 'why' as well, and the answer it provides there is essentially, live for the moment, because that's all that's really going on.
It's an answer that seems to be popular everywhere right now. Every time the issue of religion comes up on a public discussion board, you can write down what the general consensus is going to be before you've even looked - science has finished the value of religion (which has only ever given us bad stuff anyway) so away with the hearsay and forward with the facts!
The real world, of course, looks somewhat different. Even if some man-made craft was to gain the correct 'burp' from some space dust, no scientist is able to go back to a primal age and actually show that this was what did the trick here, and even if they could, that still wouldn't undermine the fact, as Fred Hoyle noted (1), that in the first place, the whole basic structure of things has been jury-rigged for the benefit of life, and someone needed to do that.
It would seem there is indeed method amidst the madness. The question then becomes why.
Science leads us to the realm, as Einstein noted (2), of the conviction of a mind and imagination beyond our own, but we need a different manner of wisdom to see the full signature of the one who heaven's glory is seeking to declare. Revelation about the nature, purpose and character of the God behind the realms we observe has been given in the 'shadowy' words and experiences of the Prophets but fully encountered in the person of Jesus Christ, and this is because all of time and space, matter, energy and order, have been made to express one great truth - the magnitude and splendor of His nature, which is the joy of His Father.
In Revelation 13, John defines Jesus as 'the lamb' with regards to His essential nature, especially revealed in the fact that He is "the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world" (Vs 8). In that oh so deep moment described for us in Genesis 1:1, before the days of creation furnish the heavens and earth with all that is good, before the Lord moves beyond the sinking of the foundations of the earth to stretch out the stars and expanse by His wisdom and understanding, before the void of the deep of the darkness and waters are moulded by the work of His Word and His Spirit, another greater work is seeded into all things - Christ, His begotten Son, will be the very one who gives meaning and order to everything, that all things might truly come to express the beauty and richness of His nature (Colossians 1:17).
It doesn't end there, of course.
There would be a moment, notes John, because of the marring of the cosmos by sin, when heaven and earth would be scoured for one worthy enough to open the scroll of God's purposes, and at first, it appeared that there was none. History equally leaves us devoid of value and meaning when Christ is silenced - we are doomed to merely repeat our fatal errors until we sink, miserable, into death, but the sorrow is broken, for the Lamb appears, and heaven leads all of creation in jubilation over the consequences of this (5:1-14). All things now have their place and their purpose, leading finally to the great moment John unveils at the end of his revelation - all of life will become the new city and culture of the Lamb (22:1).
"Religion"is not what is readily ill-defined. Viable 'religion' is really all about intimacy. The reason we must speak of such a wonder as hearsay is because the alternative is truly shocking - God is with us, and wants us to know His ways and become those adopted into His family.
All of history will one day become 'Christ-shaped' - defined and delighting in the love of the Father through His Son, shared by His Spirit.
It means there's so much more going on than just molecules, and Christ wants to make that real to each of us.
(1)'Would you not say to yourself, "Some super-calculating intellect must have designed the properties of the carbon atom, otherwise the chance of my finding such an atom through the blind forces of nature would be utterly minuscule." Of course you would . . . A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super intellect has 'monkeyed' with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question'.
(2)"We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written these books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see the universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations".
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Legendary Agence France-Presse correspondents Bernard Estrade died last week in Paris after a long illness. He was one of the great reporters of his era and a great friend of CPJ.
I got to know Bernard through his wife, Kathleen Hunt, an award-wining foreign correspondent who made the transition to policy and humanitarian work in recent years. Bernard and Kate made a dashing couple at the CPJ benefit dinner, and I always loved catching up with Bernard about the state of journalism (bad) and the state of the world (also bad).
Over the course of his 40-year career with AFP, Bernard covered the world's most important stories, from the Lebanese civil war to the collapse of the Soviet Union. French Minister of Foreign Affairs Alain Juppé paid tribute to Bernard on Friday, praising a career defined by "intellectual rigor, courage and professionalism."
Kate wrote to me on Saturday to let me know about Bernard's passing. "The greatest--albeit heartbreaking--honor was to be with him at the very end, holding his hand, and reassuring him that his brilliance, courage, and unflinching standards as a journalist--especially as a war reporter--would be carried forth by a younger generation," she wrote.
Our condolences go out to Kate, to Bernard's family, and to his many friends. If anyone who knew Bernard would like to contribute their memories, we invite to you post a comment to this blog.


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Diwali is the biggest festival for Hindus.This is celebrated on thirteenth day of Krishna Paksha.The festival is celebrated on great fervous and joy.This festival celebrated on so many country.After the vanquishing of King Ravana of Lanka at the hands of Lord Rama and the return of the Suryavanshi King Lord Rama to his Ayodhya. Fables say that originally when the trio had returned to Ayodhya, the people of Ayodhya had lit the entire state with lamps to welcome their Lord's visit after 14 years exile. It was like a long awaited end to a sad tale and the beginning of a new era of happiness and peace.
Happy Diwali Wishes For Aunty:
To the best aunt in the world, may God continue to bless you with all the desires of your heart, happy birthday!
Dear aunty, another year has passed into your life, and this also means that you have become even wiser and stronger. Here's wishing you many joyous years ahead, Happy Birthday!
On your birthday, I just want you to know how blessed I am to have you as my aunt. Wishing you many happy returns, dear aunt! I love you!
My beloved aunty, thank you for all the life lessons you have taught me. My life would not be this great if not for you. I will forever cherish the wonderful memories we have shared, I love you! Happy Birthday!
You are truly a fantastic aunt and I wish you all the happiness this world can bring. I love you, happy birthday!
Aunts like you are precious and few. For that, I consider myself lucky for having you. Happy Birthday!
Birthday Wishes for Niece
Birthday Wishes for Friends
happy birthday aunt
May this birthday of yours bring you more luck, happiness and success! I wish you a wonderful year ahead and a great life for the many more years to come! Happy Birthday!
On your birthday aunty, I wish you will receive the lost opportunities of yesterday and many more bright chances for tomorrow. Have a great birthday! I love you!


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The book says: Mulligatwny (which literally means 'pepper water') was introuduced into England in the late 18th Century by members of the colonial services returning home from India.
Right from the outset this soup was a challenge.
After purchasing what I thought were all the ingredients, I realised I had overlooked red lentils, which Leyla told me were an intergral part of this recipe. I decided to replace these with a tin of chopped tomatoes, which if nothing else created the characteristic red mulligatawny hue that we all know and love, if none of the actual taste. To beef it out a bit I added some pasta twists which did achieve this beefing aim but also did go a bit slimy due to overcooking. When I finished chopping all the bits for the soup I then realised it had to simmer for an hour and a quarter, this realisation came at 10pm, the mulligatawny was starting to show me why it is often known to soup lovers as one of most testing soups to make, not only in terms of the extensive ingredients list but also the cooking duration. After an hour and a quarter of simmering, the chicken had to be removed from the bone and re-added to the soup and returned to boiling. At around midnight, it was complete.
n.b I also did not have any cloves, so those were omitted and I just used ground peppercorns instead of whole pepper corns, we're unsure if therefore it can truly be a mulligatawny but have re-named this version mulligalawzy or muldoonigatawny.
Verdict: The soup turned out to be delicious, very hearty and warming on a cold winter's day. It had a sort of curried sweet taste, a little like coronation chicken and "buddery"(buttery). *edit* Leyla thinks it's nicer than coronation chicken-something which she hates.
Leyla rating: 9 ladels out of 10
Laura rating: 8 ladels out of 10
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We have another busy show for you this week. We start off by looking into what has been a busy year in terms of M&A activity in the Canadian Small-Cap market – 3 stocks from our Focus BUY list and 3 from our Additional Coverage have been bought out year-to-date. We discuss whether this is a sign of an overheated market, why these specific stocks are being bought for big premiums, and if there are further opportunities. In our Your Stock, Our Take segment we take a question from a listener about U.S. penny stock, American Green Inc. (OTCMKTS:ERBB), which has recently announced they are building an entire town in California based on marijuana, interesting – is it a BUY, SELL or HOLD? Our star of the week is Nelson, BC-based Pacific Insight Electronics Corp. (PIH:TSX), an ambient and direct LED light maker for the automotive industry, which jumped 76% this week after it announced the company was to be acquired. Finally, our dog of the week is Sleep Country Canada (ZZZ:TSX), the well-known mattress sell which had been a star performer since its recent "re-IPO", dropped 10% yesterday on the heels of a mixed Q2 numbers that brought the Sleep Country's premium valuations into question.
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Now, let's dig into the show.
I would like to welcome again, myhost, KeyStone's Senior Equity analyst, father of 1, and a man who, shocked the twittersphere last week by not sending out his first tweet, Mr. Aaron Dunn.
Let's talk M&A – specifically -
Small-Cap Merger & Acquisition Activity in 2017
What prompted this? – another takeover bid this week for Pacific Insight Electronics Corp. (PIH:TSX) – our Star this week – from our Additional Coverage which received an offer at a 75% premium this week.
Takeovers from our Focus BUY Portfolio
There are a lot of things at play here but three factors I see as influential are - Three factors impacting the M&A activity level;
1) Interest rate hikes spur offers – cash is still cheap to finance acquisitions, but the fear is that could become more expensive if rates continue to move higher. Groups which are looking to make an acquisition may be pushed to do it sooner rather than later. Near-term M&A activity increases in the near-term as a result.
2) The rise of private equity – with its greater popularity a number of funds are flush with cash and on the hunt for acquisition targets. That cash has to find a home. In past cycles we have seen several of our recommendations including Sleep Country and GDI Integrated Facility Services Inc. bought at strong premiums by private equity and taken of the public markets for 5-10 years only to return when their segments are hot – "going public" through an IPO once again. We are seeing this cycle once again – it is interesting.
3) Strong U.S. Equity Markets - 5-years of solid growth and companies are flush with cash. This creates more M&A activity, which isn't too surprising – in the later innings of a bull market, you typically see more greed than fear.
Following these takeovers, we have been left with a good deal of additional cash – we think this is a good thing in market that is not broadly cheap. We are happy to sit on the cash and deploy it very selectively.
Your Stock Our Take
We have a question from Sam in Victoria.
American Green Inc. (OTCMKTS:ERBB)
· What is your take on American Green Inc? I read that they are building an entire town in California based on marijuana. Could this be a good move for investors?
· The short answer…our take is that American Green is not an investible company.
· I had to do a double take on the share price and share count.
· It trades at 0.17 cents per share. That's 1/17th of 1 cent.
· I'm not sure I have ever seen a share price that low.
· I also see a share count of over 13 billion shares…I pretty sure that is the highest share count I have ever seen…its more than Apple and Microsoft combined.
· It's also on the Pink Sheets which has the lowest disclose requirements of the OTC's three markets.
· From the OTC's own website, the Pink Sheets have "no minimum financial standards"….generally we avoid pink sheet companies at all costs.
· You are correct that it has recently been made public that the company is in talks to buy a town in California, presumably with the intention of turning it into some kind of a marijuana tourist destination.
· The idea has some promise I suppose…I don't know of any other marijuana themed towns so I'm sure if it was done properly it would attract customers.
· But I personally have no confidence that this would be the company to pull it off.
· They are essentially making no money right now…$9K in revenue in the last quarter.
· Last year they reported $370K in revenue and a net loss of $2.7 million…more than $10 million in net losses over the past 3 years.
· They have a little under $200K in cash on the balance sheet and $700K in debt.
· From what I can see, this company has very little in the form of financial resources to turn this idea into a reality.
· I would not touch it.
Sleep Country Canada; symbol is ZZZ and currently trades at about $35 per share.
Pacific Insight Electronics Corp. (PIH:TSX) – a company that was highlighted in our Breakthrough Small-Cap Report last year.
Pacific Insight designs, develops, and manufacturers electronic products and full service solutions to the automotive, commercial vehicle and specialty markets – primarily for the automotive market the company's products including LED lighting systems, electronic control modules and wire harnesses. It provides some of the interior lighting for Tesla - LED based ambient and direct lighting.
The stock is up 76% this week.
What drove the gains?
On August 1, 2017, Pacific Insight Electronics Corp announced it would be acquired by Methode Electronics Inc. at a price of CAD$18.50. This represents a premium of 76% based on the closing price Pacific Insight on the TSX on July 31, 2017 and a 79% premium based on Pacific Insight' s 20-day TSX volume weighted average price ending on July 31, 2017. All outstanding options and warrants will also be acquired.
For holders, we would recommend tendering shares to the offer as we see it as fair. While it is always possible, we do not see a scenario developing with competing bids such as we witnessed with Sandvine Corporation over the past month.
It is a great return and puts the company in place as our Star of the Week.
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The 5 leading ladies who gave Yoo Yun Suk the title of "February 1990 actress killer"
Jeju Island Gatsby (aka Warm and Cozy), is coming exclusively to DramaFever on May 13! Become a fan of the series HERE to receive new episode alerts.
In a recent interview with Section TV, Jeju Island Gatsby (aka Warm and Cozy) costars Yoo Yun Suk and Kang So Ra joked about his status as the "February 1990 actress killer," a reference to his uncanny habit of working with actresses born in February 1990. Who are the other February 1990 costars on his resume? Let's find out!
1. Baek Jin Hee
Birthday: February 8, 1990
Pride and Prejudice actress Baek Jin Hee paired up with Yoo Yun Suk in the 2010 movie Hoya (18/19). The two played twins who struggle with complicated romantic feelings for each other.
Birthday: February 12, 1990
Park Bo Young's and Yoo Yun Suk's characters had an antagonistic relationship in the 2012 movie Werewolf Boy, but when the cameras weren't rolling, they got along just fine! you can see her next in the upcoming tvN series Oh My Ghost.
3. Go Ara
Birthday: February 11, 1990
Yoo Yun Suk's role opposite Go Ara in Answer Me 1994 sparked what might have been the biggest fan wars of 2013! Even diehard Team Oppa fans have to admit that Chilbngie was pretty adorable...
Birthday: February 18, 1990
Yoo Yun Suk and Park Shin Hye followed up their respective roles in Answer Me 1994 and Heirs by playing a king and queen in the 2014 movie Royal Tailor. After filming, Yoo Yun Suk joked that he wished he had dated his lovely costar.
5. Kang So Ra
Birthday: February 18, 1990
Sharing a birthday with Park Shin Hye, Kang So Ra is the next in line to be Yoo Yun Suk's costar! So far, it looks like his chemistry with her will be just as amazing as with these other February 1990 leading ladies. It must be fate! You can see the two interacting in the extended preview for Jeju Island Gatsby below:
Which one of these February 1990 birthday girls did you like best with Yoo Yun Suk? Share your thoughts in the comments, and don't forget to check out Jeju Island Gatsby on May 13! You can receive new episode alerts by becoming a fan of the series HERE.
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