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Recently, I took a look at three reasons to buy shares of Gulfport Energy (NASDAQ:GPOR). Most of the company's production is oil which has provided it with a great balance sheet which will help the company develop its many potential production growth opportunities. Unfortunately, there are no perfect investments, which is why it's important to consider what would make Gulfport a sell.
Relationship with Wexford Capital
Gulport has a very close relationship with hedge fund and private equity manager Wexford Capital. The relationship is so close that the two have partnered on nearly every transaction Gulfport has closed in recent years. Typically, Wexford is the seller of a partial stake of an asset which Gulfport is purchasing. So far, the relationship has been very beneficial for Gulfport, and it's helped to fuel the company's growth.
What is of concern is that Wexford has steadily been reducing its ownership interest in Gulfport. In December 2011, Wexford owned 13.3% of Gulfport's outstanding shares, yet, as of last September Wexford owned less than 1% of Gulfport. So, while the interests might be aligned, the alignment has shifted over the years. This is one area investors need to watch very closely.
Utica just isn't oily
In its most recent investor presentation Gulfport called the Utica "one of the most promising up-and-coming oil-levered plays in North America." However, the Utica isn't turning out to be the top-tier oil-levered play that many top producers had hoped. Instead, the Utica is very gassy which has caused both Chesapeake Energy (NYSE:CHK) and Devon Energy (NYSE:DVN) to scale back on the play. Devon is currently looking to completely exit the play while Chesapeake is paring back its position.
What has become pretty clear is that the Utica isn't the "biggest thing to hit the state since the plow" nor will it develop into a $500 billion powerhouse that former Chesapeake CEO Aubrey McClendon predicted. That's pretty evident when considering that Devon's five wells produced no natural gas and only one well produced a small amount of oil. That being said, one of Gulfport's top wells, the Boy Scout 1H, did produce 37,235 barrels of oil along with 122 million cubic feet of natural gas in its first 32 days. Gulfport might have found the sweet spot, but it would appear to be a very small spot leaving little margin for error.
Getting more aggressive in the Utica
Because the Utica appears to be hit or miss, investors really need to watch Gulfport's capital spending in the play. The company is spending $499 million of its planned $570 million-$590 million capital budget for the year. In essence, it's really putting all of its eggs in one basket which has become less of a sure thing as the industry has invested capital into the play. Again, Gulfport appears to have found the best spot in the play; however, if the sweet spot turns out to be smaller than estimated, then the company could end up wasting a lot of precious capital.
Foolish bottom line
While I like Gulfport a lot, I have enough concerns to keep me on the sideline. In addition to the above concerns, investors have bid up the shares by nearly 150% over the past year due to enthusiasm over its position in the Utica. While the company's position in the play seems to justify that enthusiasm, I'm not willing to pay up for the company's stock in hopes that its big bet pays off.
Fool contributor Matt DiLallo has no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool owns shares of Devon Energy and has the following options: Long Jan 2014 $20 Calls on Chesapeake Energy, Long Jan 2014 $30 Calls on Chesapeake Energy, and Short Jan 2014 $15 Puts on Chesapeake Energy. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.


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Goldmark Gallery is delighted to host a major exhibition of sculpture and drawings by Frank Dobson, opening Saturday 25th June 2016 and running until 24th July. A selection of the work in the show is now available online here.
Frank Dobson (1886-1963) was one of the most important British artists and sculptors of the 20th century. Throughout the 1920s and the early 1930s he built a reputation as an outstanding sculptor and was an important member of the British avant-garde.
(above) 'Reclining Nude Figure' (bronze); (below) 'Rhoda' (left, bronze) and 'Squatting Female Figure with Pitcher' (bronze, right)
Along with Jacob Epstein and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska he represented to Britain and the world what was best and most advanced in Modern British sculpture, his work (like his contemporaries') drawing influence from traditional Asian and African sculpture as much as the classical narratives of Rodin and the statues of Renaissance Rome and Ancient Greece.
(above) 'Study for London Pride' (terracotta); (below) 'Woman with Towel' (left and right)
Though his work is only now beginning to receive due critical attention, his output was widely acclaimed during his time. In 1925 Roger Fry described his work as true sculpture and pure sculpture… almost the first time that such a thing has been even attempted in England, while to critic Raymond Mortimer he represented …probably the best sculptor [this country] has produced for about six hundred years…
(above) 'Woman with Bowl' (left, chalk drawing) and 'Two Figures'; (below) 'Noni' (plaster)
From 1946 to 1953 Dobson was Professor of Sculpture at the Royal College of Art. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1953. With the rise of a younger generation of sculptors led by Henry Moore, Dobson's reputation as an artist was eclipsed and his work came to be seen for a while as outmoded. However, in recent years attention has once again been focused on his substantial achievement, and his originality is now being properly assessed and recognised. He has re-emerged as one of the most important British sculptors of the 20th century.
Writing on the legacy Dobson left behind him, the artist Duncan Grant eulogised Dobson's extraordinary body of work: Frank Dobson, whom I knew and admired was a sculptor of immense integrity and vision, with a feeling for the female form that seemed to wrest it out of the earth and make its very earthiness not only monumental but sublime. I would call him a great sculptor; certainly one of England's greatest.
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If children are our future, then why do we keep hurting them? I have asked myself this question many times, pertaining to my own life as well as the lives of others. As a child, my parents got a divorce, and the courts placed me in the custody of my father. He re-married shortly after, giving both my sister and me a new mother. She brought with her four children from her previous marriage, three daughters and one son. I hated my father for marrying her because of her disrespect for both my sister and me, and when her son sexually abused me at the age of eight, my life only became worse.
"Is it my fault?" "Do I deserve this?" and "Is this normal?" are all questions I asked myself. It was hard for me to speak up because of the fear that no one would believe me. Even as a child I sensed that it was a greater embarrassment to be sexually assaulted as a boy than as a girl. It is not that people do not want to feel compassion for boys that are sexually assaulted, but since it happens more often to girls, people are unsure how to react to the sexual assault of a boy. Rather then addressing the issue, society has chosen to just sweep it under the rug. I felt that by revealing my past, I would be ridiculed and forced to become an outcast. Eventually I decided to step forward, although the events that were about to unfold made me question if I had made the right decision.
Over the next couple of months, all the moving between foster homes and going back and forth to court confused me. During this time I kept reassuring myself that everything would turn out for the best. When I was twelve the courts decided to place me with my grandparents, with whom I still live today. Over time I have come to accept my past, although it continues to be difficult to share it with anyone, especially friends. This experience has opened my eyes to all the tragedies that happen in the world and has given me something on which to base my life.
I struggle through life with the knowledge of my past, but I press on, determined not let it hold me back. Although perhaps painful, I will not forget my past. I believe that by embracing it, I have come to realize that my past is a part of who I am and only by accepting it was I able to overcome it. I have decided that I can either let this pain define who I am or I can turn this pain into inner strength. And it is with this strength that I have chosen to overcome the difficulties and live my life to its fullest potential.
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Valley of the Maze
"You seek the same secrets as the Element Lords, and you risk the same fate. The heart of the Maze holds the last riddle of the Great Beings. Many have entered the Valley in hopes of solving the puzzle. None have ever emerged again."
— Surel, Riddle of the Great Beings
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The Valley of the Maze, sometimes more simply referred to as the Maze Valley, is the site of an ancient fortress of the Great Beings on Bara Magna.
At one point in history, the fortress in the Valley of the Maze on Spherus Magna operated as the headquarters for all known Great Beings. Here, the Great Beings forged the Kanohi Ignika, as part of the failsafe for the Great Spirit project, using the immense heat of the fortress's forges.[1]
During the last stages of the Core War, the Great Beings ordered the Baterra to construct an impenetrable labyrinth around their fortress complex,[AOSR] designed to keep the Element Lords from acquiring the power source housed inside.[2]
The fortress was abandoned by the Great Beings immediately before the Shattering, after which it became part of the planet known as Bara Magna.
During the Baterra's assault on the Skrall following their migration through the Black Spike Mountains, pivotal battles between them were fought in the Valley of the Maze. These nearly always ended in victory for the Baterra, which incited the Skrall to venture further south.[EotS, Ch. 1]
After the meeting held between the Sisters of the Skrall and Tuma and Stronius, the female Skrall agreed to travel to the Valley of the Maze and break into the tower fortress in the hopes of finding the Great Being Angonce and receiving greater psionic powers from him.[EotS, Ch. 8]
Mata Nui ventured to the Valley of the Maze, following the second expedition of the Jungle Agori Tarduk, to obtain knowledge required to reclaim his position as Great Spirit of the Matoran Universe. Traveling through the labyrinthine defenses of the maze, he encountered elementally powered traps and automated Thornax Launchers loaded with artificial Thornax.[GC5] He destroyed a dead end using his Scarab Shield. Finally arriving at the fortress at the maze's center, Mata Nui resolved to gain entry.[GC5]
As Mata Nui vocalized his frustrations at his difficulty in entering the fortress, a voice asked him three consecutive questions posed as a riddle. After hours of deliberation, Mata Nui was able to correctly divine the answers: Unity, Duty, and Destiny. A doorway appeared in the otherwise featureless structure, and Mata Nui descended the winding staircase behind it until he arrived at a chamber containing a lake of lava, finding Tarduk suspended upside down above it.[JE]
Mata Nui rescued the Agori, but had to flee as the chamber began to collapse. As they watched from the outside, Mata Nui realized that what while what was emerging had every semblance of a volcano, including lava, it was a creation of the Great Beings. He scaled the rock and began destroying it until a door was revealed on its hidden metal surface. Within, Mata Nui discovered blueprints for his old body, as well as a screen outlining his purpose of reuniting Spherus Magna. He also learned that a second robot was originally intended to be built, although the Great Beings failed to do so. Tarduk, who had entered the structure against Mata Nui's orders, then reminded him of the ancient, broken robot to the south, and encouraged Mata Nui to search for a power source within the volcano.[JE]
Within the Great Volcano, Mata Nui found a metal box containing the power source that could be used to recharge the robot that the Agori had turned into their home. He departed the maze and returned south to take control of the robot.[JE]
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In an alternate universe, the Great Beings never departed Spherus Magna and chose to remain in the Valley of the Maze, making certain alterations to the fortress. As opposed to being a deathtrap to deter intruders, the maze itself was designed to be less dangerous and more confusing. They also added upgraded crystal and iron fortifications to the exterior of the fortress.
When the Matoran Mazeka and Vultraz were escorted here by the alternate Makuta Teridax, they passed through the many twists and turns of the Maze. They finally arrived at the main gate, guarded by Gorast and Icarax, and entered a council chamber inside the fortress. Here, six Great Beings conversed with the Matoran and decided to detain Vultraz for examination of his affiliation with Shadow. Mazeka elected to bring the alternate Teridax back to the main universe to balance the two realities, and departed with his new companion.[BIA, Ch. 9]
Spherus Magna Alternate Universe
In another alternate timeline, Mata Nui's mission was never interfered with by the Brotherhood of Makuta. He returned to Bara Magna and journeyed to the Valley of the Maze, where power was returned to where it belonged.[RoS, Ch. 5]
The Valley of the Maze is nearly featureless, other than the maze itself, which rises from the ground in the visual pattern represented on Saw Blade Shields.[GC5]
Great Volcano
The Great Volcano is an artificial volcano at the center of the maze that serves as a power plant.[JE]
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Melissa Nelson worked as a dental assistant for more than 10 years.
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The Iowa Supreme Court ruled the dentist acted legally when he let her go.
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The high court sided with a lower court, ruling that Nelson's termination did not constitute sex discrimination under the Iowa Civil Rights Act.
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One summer morning Chuang Tzu's wife became very ill. The village doctors did all they could, but her illness moved too swiftly. Within a few days, her life had been taken from her.
Everyone mourned the loss of Chuang Tzu's wife. She had always been so kind and patient with visitors, especially the young students who would drop by, unannounced, hoping to have a word with the old Master.
Upon hearing news of the death, Chuang Tzu's old friend Huizi came to visit him and offer his condolences. The two men had attended school together as boys, matched wits often, and over time, had become close friends.
Huizi arrived at Chuang Tzu's home. There he saw his old friend, sitting outside, banging on a drum and singing as loudly as possible.
"I expected to find you in mourning", said Huizi. "You loved her for decades. She raised your children, and you grew old together; but here you are, a smile on your face, banging on a drum and singing at the top of your lungs. Don't you think this is a bit much?"
"Not at all", said Chuang Tzu, still smiling. "I mourned for a short while, but then I realized mourning would defy my own teachings."
"People will think you never loved or cared for her" said Huizi, "You must grieve. People need to know how much she meant to you, how fortunate you were to have shared a life with her."
"Yes, I was lucky" said Chaung Tzu. "I spent most of my life with someone I loved, and she loved me in return. Many men will live their entire lives and never know the joy that I had."
Chuang Tzu continued, "That is why I do not mourn."
Chuang Tzu doesn't have the heart to tell his friend the truth. The truth is, the old sage never mourned after his wife's death, not even for a moment. Instead, he celebrated their life together.
A new chapter now begins for him. His wife is not dead. How can anything die when it is still loved by the living? Her physical body has left our world, but everything else about her lives on in Chuang Tzu. He celebrates their lives together through his singing and drumming. He is fully aware that all living beings must leave this world at some point, but that is no reason to mourn.
Huizi, on the other hand, believes that if you don't suffer, it means you don't care. Chuang Tzu considers that to be nonsense, but Huizi is just repeating what he has been taught. He's concerned about the perception people will have of his old friend. Chuang Tzu, of course, couldn't care less.
When Chuang Tzu says, "Mourning would defy my own teachings", he's talking about his teachings on reality. In the game of life, the sage knows that reality is undefeated.
He shared his life with someone he loved. He was happy then, and he is happy now.
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Workers at auto parts manufacturer Creative Foam, Inc.'s Dayton, Ohio facility voted against representation by the United Auto Workers (UAW) by a 63-39 vote. In connection with the union's organizing effort, the union campaigned that many workers' pay rates at the plant were capped at $12.75 an hour, with some workers making as little as $8.50 an hour. Weeks before the vote, the union filed a complaint against Creative Foam with the Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), alleging various unsafe work conditions.
In the continued movement to organize workers in digital newsrooms, the NewsGuild of New York has announced its intention to organize 130 reporters, editors, news assistants, and apprentices at subscription-based legal news site Law360. The employees, who petitioned the NewsGuild for representation, have asked Law360 to voluntarily recognize the NewsGuild and bypass a secret-ballot election. Employee concerns include compensation, overtime practices, story quotas, and a perceived lack of transparency.
In an effort to help improve workplace conditions and organize employees of T-Mobile US, T-Mobile Workers United has announced its intention to open its first field office in Wichita, Kan. T-Mobile Workers United, a Communications Workers of America project comprised of T-Mobile and MetroPCS store and call center workers and technicians, aims to urge T-Mobile to agree to a labor contract covering the 500 workers at the Wichita-based call center.
A National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) regional director ruled that approximately 50 aircraft cleaners at Oregon's Portland International Airport may vote on union representation in a secret-ballot election. The regional director rejected ground operations Menzies Aviation (USA) Inc.'s argument that it was subject to the Railway Labor Act (RLA) and exempt from the Board's jurisdiction. While the RLA covers, and the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) in turn exempts, any company directly or indirectly controlled by any carrier, and Menzies provides services to Alaska Airlines under a master agreement, the regional director concluded that the airline did not exercise meaningful control to make Menzies subject to the RLA. While Alaska Airlines could demand that Menzies remove a worker from assignment and effectively require the discharge of such employee, the regional director concluded that such removal was insufficient to show meaningful control. Menzies Aviation (USA), Inc.
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Paint the personal-computer picture by number, and most of the canvas comes out blue -- Big Blue -- for IBM. Until two years ago, the small-computer industry was untinted by the computer giant's presence. But when IBM entered the market with its Personal Computer, it did so at a critical time. The microcomputer industry had a major problem: lack of meaningful standards.
Most of the machines on the market were incompatible. They would not run the same programs. They stored their data in different formats. They used a number of different operating systems -- the basic programs that control communication to all the basic components in a computer system.
When prices of computer systems were $15,000 or more, standardization wasn't so important. Software tended to be customized for the specific needs of each client. But as costs dropped below $10,000, the basic nature of the market began to change. It became more consumer oriented. And "the closer a market is to the consumer level, the more important standards are," observes Portia Isaacson of Future Computing, an industry analysis firm.
A key in establishing the PC as a standard was IBM's decision to publish details of its hardware and technical specifications for its machine. This made it possible for independent companies to develop both hardware and software that would work with the PC.
The allure of writing for Big Blue generated a software industry stampede to the PC. Of the 1,200 companies writing software before the IBM machine was introduced, more than 900 are now writing for the PC. Some 50 new software packages are being introduced for the PC monthly.
According to IBM-watchers, the success of their microcomputer caught even IBM officials by surprise. Not only did they rapidly capture 40 percent of the market for desktop computers in the $2,000-to-$5,000 range, but the PC fast became the de facto standard for the entire industry. (Some industry analysts now believe IBM will extend its dominance to the home-computer market with its recently introduced PCjr.)
The IBM PC prompted dozens of other manufacturers to turn out machines with the capability to run at least some of the software written for the IBM machine. The first of these work-alikes was produced by a Maryland company, Columbia Data Systems. Jumping so early on the IBM bandwagon, its president, William Diaz, recalls, has resulted in growth "far beyond our wildest expectations." In a year and a half, Columbia has shipped more than 20,000 computers.
While machines with the greatest degree of IBM compatibility have been doing well, a number of computers without this advantage have suffered. Even Apple, IBM's archrival in the microcomputer arena, has recently announced a tox that will allow the Apple II computer to run much of the software for the IBM.
IBM-watching, a well-established practice in the mainframe computer industry, has become rampant in the microcomputer business. At the recent Comdex trade show, speculation about IBM's intentions dominated most conversations. The central issue is whether IBM will continue its policy of openness or whether it will try to return to the secrecy that marks its actions in large computers.
Jean Yates, an industry consultant, argues that IBM will move gradually into a proprietary operating system, connecting its top-of-the-line PCs with its big computers. Such a system, she speculates, will allow these computers to run all the popular PC software but will have proprietary features that will freeze out independent software houses.
Dr. Robert S. Harp of Corona Data Systems, which makes a line of IBM-compatible machines, says next summer IBM will introduce a new machine more powerful than the PC. He says this will run a modified version of a proprietary , IBM mainframe operating system and will also be able to run programs written for the PC.
It is now the software companies that have the greatest vested interest in the PC standard, Future Computing's Mrs. Isaacson points out. According to Bill Godbout, an industry veteran who once worked for Big Blue, even IBM has found itself trapped, at least a little bit, by the success of the PC.
"There will be standards," Mrs. Isaacson asserts. "IBM can choose to lead, counter, or follow them." Even if IBM goes its own way and manages to capture the bulk of the microcomputer sales in major corporations, she says, this won't spell disaster for the industry.
"Only 25 percent of the desks in business are in the major companies," she says. "Before IBM, these were not the focus of the industry. With the PC, people moved opportunistically into direct corporate sales, because they had what the companies wanted. Now, the emphasis should swing back to the other 75 percent."


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Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo has added to his list of achievements by setting a new record in the Champions League.
The four-time Ballon d'Or winner has now scored in all six group games in the 2017-18 campaign - the first to do so since 1992-93 when the tournament introduced the group stage.
Ronaldo has scored nine so far, his latest of which was netted in the first half against Borussia Dortmund, shortly after Borja Mayoral opened the scoring at the Bernabeu.
The 32-year-old, who is on course to earn his fifth Ballon d'Or crown, stands as the leading goalscorer in the competition and that tally has now been extended to 114 goals and counting.
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Let's say you buy a dog, because you bought that dog, do you not have the right to train it as you please? If this dog does not do as you say (for example, if you train it to be quiet at night, and then it barks the whole time), do you not have a right to give it away, or get rid of it? God is the same way. In the bible it says he created us, therefore just as you would have a right to get rid of the dog who disobeys, God has the right to get rid of the disobedient. For example, Sodom and Gomorrah, God did not destroy the righteous, in fact he said if he found only 10 righteous people, he would spare the whole city. (http://www.Biblegateway.Com/passage/?Search=genesis%2016&version=NIV) Please take into account, I have not even gone into the new testament, actually I've only used Genesis.
I do believe that we, as humans, have a moral obligation to trust in the Lord. He saved us from our sins and brought us to life. Without him, there would be no world. And might I ask WHAT acts he's commited to push us away?
God has given us so much and we take it all for granted. We look upon each day and groan because of work/school. But it is another day alive... It is another day that God hath blessed. There are no acts that God has done that causes it to be immoral to worship him. He has shown us grace and compassion when we don't deserve it! The Webster definition of "grace" is "something that God has given us". Who are we to turn away God? How would it be considered immoral to give praise to the creater of life?
These are the kind of ridiculous questions atheists ask that reveal a lack of understanding of the Bible and a misguided view of Christianity. This is just a chance for atheists with no understanding of hermeneutics to once again present the same texts from the Old Testament, and the very few from the New Testament, to make their nonsensical arguments.
That atheists wake up to the same sunshine people of faith wake up to everyday only shows that God is benevolent even to those who hate God.
First the Christian God is real, so the question is it moral to worship Him? Where do morals come from? Are they something that an individual can decide on their own, if so than there would be no moral absolutes would there. For if we believed polar opposites than one of us would be wrong and one right who would decide. So we than the question becomes can we judge God? If God is as I believe, all knowing, all powerful, perfect, good and loving,; the being who created the entire universe in 6 days I would have to defer to Him and trust Him that He knows what is best for us and how to help us. So we cannot judge God we can only trust Him or not, that is your choice.
If God were proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to be real or were to talk among us, we as men wouldn't have the authority to question His acts. If he truly created us all, and has unlimited power we have no means of punishing him, even if we were to judge His actions.
No. If such a God was real it would be wrong and reprehensible for anybody to worship him. Would you worship a human who has murdered, lied, ruined lives, spread diseases and begs to be the most important thing in this universe. I wouldn't. It just isn't sensible nor is it ethical. These Gods should not be worshipped at all!
The Christian god supports the eternal punishment of humans, regardless of their actual moral quality, if they simply happen to worship the wrong god. A god which, by the way, refuses to provide any evidence of its existence since you are supposed to believe by "faith". Even IF we were to disregard the rampant genocide, hatred, violence, sexism, discrimination, and intolerance promoted by the bible this in and of itself would be immoral.
Not a vile detestable brute , a thug of the lowest order who demands constant adoration of his brainwashed flock , there is a name on people like him a bully.The big difference between most decent people and God .., if we saw a child been raped we would intervene , he won't he just sits on his useless ass ...., all powerful yeah right.
The Christian God is actually very cruel in his ways. Having read the Bible myself, I know. In the beginning, he sought to limit mankind in his knowledge, which is, by the way, one of my favorite things, but Adam and Eve ate the fruit, basically giving us our sentience and waking us up. He wanted us to be mindless slaves from the very beginning blindly worshipping him like children. He has turned people to salt just for looking back at a city God was busy destroying. He asked for a young son to sacrificed, and although he stopped the father about to sacrifice his son, the notion that a God would do that is terrible. I want no part of his religion. I am a pagan. Those Gods and Goddesses make sense and usually are not monsters. This one is.
God is perfectly just, and yet he sentences the imperfect humans he created to infinite suffering in hell for finite sins. Clearly, a limited offense does not warrant unlimited punishment. God's sentencing of the imperfect humans to an eternity in hell for a mere mortal lifetime of sin is infinitely more unjust than this punishment. The absurd injustice of this infinite punishment is even greater when we consider that the ultimate source of human imperfection is the God who created them. A perfectly just God who sentences his imperfect creation to infinite punishment for finite sins is impossible.
There is nothing he needs, nothing he desires, and nothing he must or will do. A God who is perfect does nothing except exist. A perfect creator God is impossible.
This God, according to the Bible, is directly responsible for many mass-murders, rapes, pillage, plunder, slavery, child abuse and killing, not to mention the killing of unborn children.
No, it would not be moral to worship and obey a being simply because it is superior than oneself. Only the feeble minded have the submissive attitude towards the superiority complex. Worship, obedience, praise, respect--all should only come to those who truly deserve it. And if the Christian God is real, then it is most certainly not Him.
The answer simply is no... If the god of Abraham were real it would not be moral to associate oneself with such a shallow deity. Think of it this way, he supposedly is omnipotent meaning the words, "can not" mean nothing to him.
Why do we have death, disease, poverty, rapists, murderers & countless other thing that make out world less than perfect? Had I been allotted omnipotence, I would have done a far better job creating a perfect utopian society. Wouldn't anything less than a perfect creation signify a less than perfect creator as well? Where does babies being born with AIDS fit into a perfect gods plan?
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. – Richard Dawkins... IM AN ATHEIST TILL I DIE
God gave humans free will. God has done nothing wrong ever. HUMANS have. Why God allows bad things to happen, is because no ETERNAL Damage is ever done. The world we live in is not real. It is within the consciousness of God's mind.Like when we dream, the characters and places are real while we are dreaming, but when we awaken we realize it was only real in our conciousness


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Hello, I'm back. In tears as I think I have messed up I need to sound off as I need to vent this somewhere out of earshot from DS.
The local authority pulled out of tribunal with a month to go back in December and I received the final statement in January. A month later I received a letter to say that they were ceasing his statement. I contacted IPSEA and they were as amused at this as I was as all his needs are the same, there isn't one reason that the code of practice lists that matches him. I have been contacting the authority regularly to ask what the reasons are for the statement ceasing and haven't had anything back except about a month later they finally stated that they wanted to give me the right to appeal?!
Anyhow, tonight I have collated everything and was putting the finishing touches to my pack before sending it off when I have reread the letter they delivered and it says I had two months from the statement date to appeal not the date I received the letter. I have looked in the code of practice and it does say you have two months from the statement to appeal but I assumed, wrongly I fear, that I would have two months from the date of the letter as I wasn't appealing against the statement - that was perfect as they made all the amendments before I pulled out of Tribunal.
Does anybody know when the two months appeal period should be from - the correct statement or the letter I received?
I am going to ring SEND tomorrow to ask their advice as I think I can submit a late appeal and it will go to a judge to decide if it can go further.
I am in absolute bits. I know I have left it last minute to get it back but I just assumed I had two months to get it done. I wanted to see how he got on trying to go to college before stating my case and for extra evidence The last month has been so stressful. It's hard enough day to day without the extra stress the authority put on us making us try him at college. It's damn cruel on all of us that's for sure.


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Melt-in-the-mouth venison is ideal if you want something tender with lots of flavour. Here it's combined with two classic Christmas ingredients.
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25g butter
3 tbsp rapeseed oil
100g fresh breadcrumbs
3 cloves garlic, peeled and left whole
50g dried cherries (or dried apricots)
2 x 25g packs fresh flat-leaf parsley
2 clementines, zested
20g pack fresh sage
1-1.5kg venison rack, cut in half
1. Preheat the oven to 200°C, gas mark 6. Melt the butter in a large pan with 1 tbsp of the oil. Add the crumbs and garlic and fry gently for 5 minutes, until golden and crisp, stirring the mixture continuously.
2. Finely chop the cherries (or the apricots) with the flat-leaf parsley, clementine zest and sage. Stir into the crisp crumbs, season and set aside to keep warm.
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The highlights, deliverables and performance of The Science and Industry Endowment Fund (SIEF).
The Science and Industry Endowment Fund (SIEF) is a separately constituted trust under the Science and Industry Endowment Act 1926.The Fund invests in science that addresses issues of national priority and contributes to Australia's sustainable future.
Objectives and deliverables
Recognising that science will remain a key driver of Australia's economic, industrial, environmental and cultural development, the Fund invests in research that will contribute to Australia's sustainable growth.
CSIRO Chief Executive Dr Megan Clark is Trustee and awards funding to parties across the National Innovation System. The SIEF Advisory Council provides independent advice and recommendations on funding of proposals from across the National Innovation System. CSIRO manages the Fund on behalf of the Trustee.
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- Fellowships and Scholarships (competitive).
Program performance
The contribution of research can only be measured long-term, but key performance indicators are chosen for early program stages, with additional indicators as programs mature.
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|Projects involving research in areas of national priority2
|100% Research Projects. 76% Promotion of Science.
|100% Research Projects, Research Infrastructure and Special Research Program. 83% Promotion of Science.
|100% Research Projects, Research Infrastructure and Special Research Program. 84% Promotion of Science.
|Projects involving more than one organisation3
|Financial contributions of partners3
|Approximately 57%
|Approximately 69%
|Approximately 68%
|Publications from SIEF projects3
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Proportion of projects involving research in areas of national priority
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- The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder. When fully commissioned, it will be the world's largest, most sensitive survey radio telescope. It is also a precursor to the international Square Kilometre Array radio telescope.
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- anticipating and combating insecticide resistance
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For the Research Infrastructure Program, key stakeholders must jointly submit a suitable proposal. Under the Special Research Program, funds may go to a single organisation, but facilities supported are designed to be collaborative. Most Promotion of Science Program scholars/fellows have co-supervisors from more than one organisation.
Over 60 organisations are involved in SIEF-funded projects, representing national and international research organisations and industry/end users. These partnerships assist SIEF-funded projects to be competitive globally, promote enduring collaborations and create multidisciplinary teams that will benefit Australian science.
Financial contributions of partners
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Number of publications from SIEF projects
Publications are a lagging indicator. Projects generally have a three to five-year lifespan and most commenced relatively recently (2011–12). Publication generally occurs towards the end of the project. Publication numbers have continued to increase year-in-year. As early projects and the initial scholarship and fellowship recipients finish, the publication rate will better represent SIEF's contribution to academic knowledge.
Early-career researchers funded through SIEF projects
In addition to direct funding through the Promotion of Science Program, early-career researchers are also supported by and play a significantly role in most other SIEF-funded projects. In 2013–14, we expanded this performance indicator to capture the number of early-career researchers working through the Research Projects Program. This year, 131 early-career researchers were supported (68 through the Promotion of Science Program, 63 through the Research Projects Program). Within the Promotion of Science Program this was an increase of 62 per cent on the previous year.
See Appendix 4 for more information on SIEF.
- For all projects awarded as at 30 June 2014.
- Data includes Research Projects, Research Infrastructure, Special Research and Promotion of Science programs. Undergraduate degree scholarships are not included: there is no expectation they will address national priorities, collaborate, co-invest or publish. Cumulative for all projects awarded up to 30 June 2014.
- Cumulative for all projects awarded up to 30 June 2014.
- Promotion of Science Program only (including undergraduate scholarships).
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These collections from Raven Records have been posted on this blog previously and I wanted to bring them back again to reiterate what a classic collection of tracks they feature and also for anyone who may not have seen the original posts. They are essential for any serious Australian music aficionado. Here they are again:
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The average person consumes four pints of liquid each day. In the UK, around 20 per cent of this is in the form of soft drinks, with the volume slowly rising. High consumption of soft drinks means that other, healthier drinks are being replaced. Apart from the water, there is very little in soft drinks that is even vaguely beneficial.
Whether still or fizzy, off-the-shelf soft drinks can contain the equivalent of up to 15 cubes of sugar – well over half the recommended daily maximum. This can lead to dental cavities and other health problems associated with high intakes of sugar. The acids in many soft drinks (found in both ordinary and no-sugar varieties) can also cause tooth decay and erosion of the hard enamel on the surface of the tooth. Research has found that dental erosion as a result of drinking acidic drinks and other sources affects about 30 per cent of 13-year-olds. Even Ribena's 'tooth-kind' drink failed dental tests carried out in two different studies.
All soft drinks given to children should be diluted to avoid tooth decay, given with meals if possible and in cups rather than bottles, as sipping drinks causes greater damage.
Other nasties
It's not just the sugar in soft drinks which can cause health problems. Caffeine, found in many fizzy drinks in varying levels, is addictive and can cause hyperactivity, disrupted sleep and withdrawal symptoms in children and adults. In Glasgow, a survey found an unusually high level of orofacial granulomatosis – an oral version of Crohn's disease, which has been linked to a sensitivity to preservatives and flavourings in carbonated soft drinks.
Research in the US has also found links between cola consumption and kidney stones in men. Artificial sweeteners – such as those found in many diet and no-sugar drinks – have also been linked to a number of health problems, although research has yet to prove any conclusive links.
Confused identities
Although the Libby's brand is no longer actually produced by Nestlé, it still owns the brand name. Hanover Acceptances' subsidiary, Gerber Foods – the new licensee of the brand – has an agreement with Nestlé for the Libby's name, and consequently Baby Milk Action still lists Libby's in its Nestlé boycott information, because Nestlé still profits from it. This licensing agreement also applies to other ex-Nestlé brands Um Bongo, Libby's C and Jusante. The Nestlé logo is now absent from all packaging, meaning that people may have been unwittingly buying Libby's brands believing them to be dissociated from the Nestlé empire.
Soft drinks are likely to come in aluminium or steel, glass, plastic bottles or cartons. The volume of packaging used each year is staggering. We use around 6 billion aluminium cans, 225 million plastic containers (mostly plastic bottles) and 6 billion glass containers annually. Less than a third of steel and aluminium cans and only 5 per cent of plastics are recycled in the UK, the remainder being landfilled or incinerated. Glass is the best option, as it can be recycled indefinitely.
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In April 2009, Innocent, the defiantly noncorporate maker of fruit smoothies, juices and veg pots, finally lost its innocence after selling a 10-20% stake to low-scoring US giant Coca-Cola (for around £30m), in 2010 this increased to a majority holding of 58% and in 2013 Coca-Cola increased their stake to over 90%. Innocent joins alumni which include ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's, which sold up to Unilever and Cadbury, which took over the organic chocolate company Green & Black's.
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Submitted by Arthur N1ORC - Amsat A/C #31468 * Expedition 10 Prepares for Progress Activities* On Monday, the Expedition 10 crewmembers prepared for this week's Progress cargo ship activities at the International Space Station. Flight Engineer Salizhan Sharipov removed unneeded electronic equipment from the ISS Progress 15 spacecraft, which is currently docked to the aft end of the Zvezda Service Module. The equipment will be returned to Earth at a later date for use on a future flight. Progress 15 is slated to undock at 1:34 p.m. CST (1934 GMT) Wednesday and then be commanded to burn up in Earth's atmosphere. Progress 15's departure will set the stage for the arrival of Progress 16. The new cargo ship and its load of food, fuel, clothing and equipment are scheduled to launch from Kazakhstan at 4:19 p.m. CST (2219 GMT) Wednesday. It will dock to the aft end of the Zvezda Service Module at 6:04 p.m. CST Saturday (0204 GMT Sunday). In preparation for Progress 16, Commander Leroy Chiao and Sharipov conducted a test of a docking system on the Station. In other activities Monday, the crew participated in Russian biomedical experiments and performed maintenance on Station systems. ---- Via the sarex mailing list at AMSAT.ORG courtesy of AMSAT-NA. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe sarex" to firstname.lastname@example.com
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|Home > Reactive oxygen species production and signalling as a component of salinity tolerance mechanism in cereals
Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) are highly reactive and toxic by-products of the aerobic metabolism, which are overproduced during period of stress. They disturb the cell machinery and induce oxidative damages on important biological macromolecules. Salinity is one of those major abiotic stresses, which affects considerably the growth rate and limits crop productivity. To enhance salinity stress tolerance and find strategies which would cope with global issues related to the rise of salt-affected lands and global food demand, various investigations have been performed. They did mainly focus on the understanding of physiological traits and ion homeostasis responses. However, oxidative stress is also a key part of the plant response to stress, but is still under-investigated. An efficient oxidative stress tolerance mechanism may induce significant improvement in salinity resistance. Nevertheless, recent studies have suggested that ROS play a dual role in cells, both as toxic by-products and as key molecules in complex signalling networks: ROS are essential actors which could influence the expression and regulation of various genes to control many processes, including the stress response. In this project, the production of two ROS, hydrogen peroxide and superoxide, was investigated in roots from various species and genotypes, respectively by DCF-DA and DHE fluorescence. The study gave a basic framework about ROS kinetics accumulation in roots depending on time of exposure to different salt concentrations. Specificities related to growth conditions, plant age and root tissues were also investigated. It was demonstrated that, compared to wheat and even more to pea, barley has a better ability to handle salinity, thanks to a rapid and transient oxidative burst. The aim of this work was also to link the oxidative stress with salinity stress tolerance, which had been investigated in previous studies. Two main conclusions can be drawn from this project: (i) there is a clear correlation between ROS accumulation and K+ leaking studied in previous experiments; (ii) ROS have a significant implication in the signal transduction network. Knowledge about the main mechanisms involved in oxidative stress tolerance and signalling can give a better background in the development of plants with improved salinity tolerance and find adapted solutions to this growing concern.


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YouTube user Azahn Munas has posted a video highlighting the dangers of driving while distracted by your mobile phone.
We've recently written about how the high levels of accidents among young drivers have led the ABI (Association of British Insurers) to call for radical changes to the way we learn to drive, and how driving while distracted causes nearly a million crashes a year. With Britain's young drivers up to 10 times more likely to have an accident than their more practiced counterparts, shocking YouTube videos like these are a great way to spread awareness of the potential dangers of distracted driving and, in turn, increase road safety.
So, if you've ever asked, "why shouldn't you use your phone while driving?", here's your answer!
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Now is the Time
How many times have we dropped everything and spent hours passing traffic during a real emergency, willingly, with no expectation of recognition or thanks? How often have we told the sponsors of a public service event, "yes, we can provide communications for you! You don't have to rent expensive Nextels that never work. And, of course, we do it for free!"
How many times?
- Superstorm Sandy
- Hurricane Irene
- Floods
- Skywarn activations
- Shelter operations
- Great Northeast Blackout
- 9/11
- New York City and Long Island Marathons
- Run for the Wounded Warriors
- Operation Santa
- Countless 'Athons' and public service events in every community
We have always served our communities selflessly. Not because it is required of us, but because we want to.
Right now we face threats to our ability to help others, threats that we would never have imagined a mere decade ago. We have seen our rights eroded on both the state and federal level, including:
- Threats to our spectrum.
- Cell phone and distracted driving laws that fail to clearly exempt Amateur Radio.
- No PRB-1 law on the books in New Jersey and New York.
- Conditions, Covenants & Restrictions in housing developments in all of the 50 states that choke our ability to operate where we live.
- Lack of support on the federal level.
There is no clear advocate for us in Congress. No Barry Goldwater leading the charge to protect Amateur Radio. And certainly, no one on a state level who champions our cause.
Now is the time to put the goodwill we have generated from our acts of service to work for us.
It is imperative that we cultivate the relationships we have created in our communities. Too often we're not even aware of the political importance of the people and groups we serve. This is a critical mistake that must be corrected now!
We are constituents. We have a voice. We MUST use it!
We have to become actively political, not just passive letter writers. This approach can and will insure our future as hams. It is our duty to fight to defend our spectrum and our antennas. Without them, we're not hams, we're SWLs! It is our responsibility to fight for our right to operate mobile.
The only way to do this is through legislation. Otherwise we will continue to see our rights erode over time. What then will we be able to pass on to future hams?
Let's not kid ourselves. This is a time-consuming effort that will take a while to bear fruit. It will require a coordinated effort throughout the Division. We need to develop a strategy that involves recruiting and training volunteer activists who will work with our legislators in pursuit of our goals.
We must do this, and it must start today. I am asking each of you to please provide me with the following information:
- Who are your state representatives?
- Who are your Representatives in Congress?
- Are you politically active in your community? In what way?
- Party affiliation?
- Do you personally know any legislator? Who? Can you get us an appointment to see this legislator?
- Do you know someone (other than yourself) who can introduce us to a legislator? Who?
This information will be used to develop a database that will show us our assets and liabilities as we form our game plan. Our goal: the strengthening of our ability to obtain legislation that supports Amateur Radio's needs.
There is no quick-fix! This is a long term process which I believe will allow us, over time, to develop the political relationships we need in New York and New Jersey that will protect Amateur Radio well into our second century as hams.
I don't have all the answers, but I do see the problem with the way we've approached these issues over the past decade. It's not insurmountable, and I believe in my heart that this can be done! It will require a strong team of dedicated people devoted to the task of making change. I ask for your help.
Please think about this and take the time to respond.
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- At yesterday's NJPW US Press Conference a number of wrestlers were named for the upcoming G1 Special on July 1 and 2. As noted previously, the first show will air live on AXS TV at 8pm EST. Here's the lineup:
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* Billy Gunn
* Briscoe Brothers (Jay & Mark Briscoe)
* Cody Rhodes
* David Finlay
* Dragon Lee
* Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga & Tanga Roa)
* Hangman Page
* Hiromu Takahashi
* Hiroshi Tanahashi
* Jay Lethal
* Jay White
* Juice Robinson
* Jushin Liger
* Kazuchika Okada
* Kenny Omega
* Marty Scurll
* Michael Elgin
* Roppongi Vice (Beretta & Rocky Romero)
* Tempura Boyz (Sho Tanaka & Yohei Komatsu)
* Tetsuya Naito
* Titán
* Tomohiro Ishii
* Volador, Jr.
* War Machine (Hanson & Ray Rowe)
* Will Ospreay
* YOs--tATSU
* Young Bucks (Matt & Nick Jackson)
* Yujiro Takahashi
* Zack Sabre, Jr.
- While it's been confirmed Jay Lethal and Adam Page are in the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship tournament. NJPW also said the IWGP Heavyweight, Intercontinental, Tag Team, and Junior Tag Team Championship will all be defended at these shows.
- Here is yesterday's NJPW U.S. Press Conference which included Cody Rhodes, The Young Bucks, and Kenny Omega:


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The University Bookman asked me to review D.G. Hart's book on how evangelicals have subverted conservative politics. While I appreciate his strength of mind and his craft, I disagree with his thesis that striving for something like a biblical politics is a non-starter. Here's a clip:
As a professor at a Christian college, I must cede to Hart and his argument in this excellent and provocative book that many of us do live and work inside a movement aimed at extending the lordship of Jesus Christ to politics and every other endeavor of human life. Certainly, I can understand how many Christian political ideas and efforts add up to a "betrayal" of conservatism as Hart sees it. But the call to evangelicals to give up this task of developing a Christian politics and attempting to bring it into being through persuasion, office-seeking, and other work is unlikely to succeed.
The first major barrier is the immense effort (specifically of the last quarter century) that has gone into encouraging Christians to "think Christianly" about every area of their lives, including politics. The second barrier is the related lack of desire that evangelicals have to return to something like the early Falwellian position that the church has no business encouraging activism with regard to matters of domestic (such as race) or international policy (such as the Cold War). That form of church-state separation looks in the rear-view mirror very much like the pitiable refuge of those who were more concerned about intra-congregation conflict than with calling for righteous action.
While Hart likely does not intend to frame exactly this message, in some ways the very civil and erudite complaint against overly ambitious Christian politics comes across as a call for Christians to subordinate their faith (or at least a prominent interpretation thereof) to conservatism. He seems to be encouraging a political secularism of the right at exactly the time when Christians have been working vigorously to do away with it as an excuse for not bringing ideas from the church into the public square.
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As we prepare for the holiday season, the Santa Clara SR2S team wanted to share an early gift with you. Now available, both in this blog post and on our Resources page, is our First Year Report for the Santa Clara SR2S program. In it, you will find a comprehensive review of all our activities from December of 2011 through June of 2012.
First Year Look
The First Year Report looks at what our program accomplished between December 2011 (when the program started) and June of 2012 (when the 2011/2012 school year ended). But beyond the accomplishments of those short six months, the First Year Report looks ahead to what our program would like to accomplish in the years to come.
Some of the recommendations in the First Year Report, like bicycle & pedestrian education courses in participating schools, have already been accomplished this fall. Other recommendations, like forming a walking school bus, are projects we hope to take on in upcoming the spring 2013 semester.
Program Baseline
The First Year Report also shows off a lot of the survey data the SR2S team collected in the spring of 2012. This data represents a "baseline" of how students and parents currently travel to and from school. We are going to collect additional survey data in subsequent semesters, and comparisons between the two surveys can tell us about how effective the Santa Clara SR2S program has been in encouraging walking and biking to school.
So how do students get to school now?
Our travel surveys in the spring of 2012 captured more than 8,000 students trips to and from school. We learned that almost one quarter of students walk and bike to school every day, which is great! What's not so great is that almost two thirds of students are driven alone to school. We'll keep tracking student travel patterns over the coming semesters; hopefully the next time we'll see the number of students walking and biking to school take a larger slice of the pie!
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