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The holidays are coming up, and you know what that means—travel. Holiday travel can be some of the most stressful travel, so here are a few tips to decrease some of that holiday travel stress.
1. When to Book – Orbitz put out this guide on when the best days are to book your Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Eve flights. All the best days have passed for Thanksgiving and Christmas this year, but you still have a few days left for New Year's Eve travel! Even if this is not applicable to you anymore, keep it handy for next year.
2. How to Book – Use kayak.com and skyscanner.net, to compare prices before booking. These websites scan airline websites and other travel engines such as Orbitz to find the best deals. They are a great way to compare prices by day of travel across multiple airlines and travel sites. You can also set alerts on Kayak, so that you can monitor flight prices and be ready to book when prices go down. Southwest Airlines is not on Kayak, so check their website separately if you are traveling domestically.
Something to keep in mind - As required by the U.S. Department of Transportation, flights within the U.S. that are booked at least 7 days in advance have a 24 hr cancellation rule. This means that if you cancel within 24 hours of booking a flight, you will get a full refund. So if you find a good fare but aren't quite sure, you have the option of cancelling within 24 hours if you find a better deal or change your mind. Of course, check the airline or travel site's website to be sure before booking.
3. When to Fly – Fly in the morning because this decreases the chances that your flight will be delayed. If you have to book a connecting flight, look for a layover at an airport that doesn't experience much winter weather.
4. What to Pack – TRAVEL LIGHT. Last thing you want to do is to worry about your bag getting lost (especially if it contains gifts), so only take a carry-on bag with you. Ship any gifts you may be bringing ahead of time to your destination. If you are going on a Christmas getaway, consider opening big gifts before or after the vacation, and only take small gifts with you. Believe me, the less you carry, the less stressed you will feel.
5. Where to Sit – This one can be a little tricky, because it depends on the airline's boarding process. When you have a carry-on, you want to choose a seat that allows you to board the plane early in the process. If you are one of the last people to board, there most likely will not be space in the overhead bins for your bag, which defeats the purpose of carrying on! However, if you have a tight layover, you should sit closer to the front so that you can deplane faster and make it to your next flight with enough time to spare. Check your airline's boarding process and choose your seat appropriately. Also, make sure to select a seat when you book, so that you don't forget. If you wait until the day you fly, you won't get your first choice seat.
6. Set Flight Alerts – This is especially important if you are traveling to, from, or have a connecting flight in a location with heavy winters. Set up a flight alert so that you get a text if there is a delay or cancellation. You can check the airlines website or Twitter feed the day before or day of to get updates as well. This lets you act fast and rebook on another flight if necessary.
7. Protect Your Valuables – If you do check in luggage, NEVER place anything valuable in your checked luggage. Always carry valuables with you. Sometimes, if there isn't enough overhead bin space, you might be forced to gate-check your carry-on luggage. Be prepared with a personal bag (daypack, backpack, or purse) or a bag within your carry-on, where you place all of your valuables. If you have to check in your carry-on luggage, keep your personal bag with you or take out the bag within your carry-on, and you are good to go. Not worrying about the security of your valuables = less stress.
8. Check in before you arrive at the airport – I always do this when travelling domestically. You will beat the lines and save yourself some time and stress!
These tips apply to any time you travel, but during the holidays, when there is so much going on and sanity levels are low, they are especially important to remember. Good luck this holiday season and happy traveling!
Nidhi is a Contributor at Sona


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RotoBaller Chris Lacey reviews 6 tight end options for your fantasy football teams. Some of these players may still be available on your waiver wires, and can be solid contributors for Week 13 and the playoff push:
Week 13 Waiver Wire - Tight Ends (TE)
Delanie Walker - TE, Tennessee Titans - 49% owned in Yahoo leagues
Walker had a good game with five receptions for 46 yards. He continues to have solid games each week and has 44 catches on the season, including 10.20 yards per reception with five TDs. He faces the Indianapolis Colts this week and could have another great game with them giving up 243.5 pass yards per game. Consider Walker a high-upside TE1 in PPR leagues.
Rob Housler - TE, Arizona Cardinals - 15% owned in Yahoo leagues
Housler was solid with four catches for 51 yards in his last game. This was his third consecutive game with at least four catches and 50 receiving yards. He does only have one touchdown, but should change if he keeps being productive. He goes up against a Philadelphia Eagles defense that's horrible in pass defense, as they surrender 300.1 pass yards per game. This is the game where he might really breaks out as a legit TE1.
Ladarius Green - TE, San Diego Chargers - 6% owned in Yahoo leagues
Green was great with three catches for 80 yards and one TD last week. This is second straight game he's eclipsed 80 receiving yards. I know the San Diego Chargers have Antonio Gates, but Green is another option to have on your fantasy teams. However if you pick him up off the waiver wire, it would be smart move to sit him against the Bengals and see how he's utilized. They're also one of the better defensive teams in the NFL where they only allow 211.1 pass yards per game. Green is a high-upside stash going forward.
Tim Wright - TE / WR, Tampa Bay Buccaneers - 18% owned in Yahoo leagues
Wright was spectacular in his most recent game as he had eight receptions for 75 yards. It was nice to see him bounce back after two consecutive bad games where he only caught two passes for 32 yards. I would be cautious in starting him against the Carolina Panthers, as they're only giving up 215.9 pass yards per game, and are one of the better defenses in the NFL. But Wright is a decent option, especially in PPR leagues, and has flexibility with the WR eligibility.
Heath Miller - TE, Pittsburgh Pirates - 46% owned in Yahoo leagues
Miller had a nice game with five catches for 41 yards. He's already had three games this season with at least six catches and more than 60 receiving yards. He only has one TD on the season, but is racking up a ton of receiving yards at 382 so far. He could have a challenge in his next game with the Baltimore Ravens 11th in the NFL giving up 226.4 pass yards per game, but is a decent lower-end TE option for PPR leagues where you're hurting at TE.
Jacob Tamme - TE, Denver Broncos - 4% owned in Yahoo leagues
Tamme played well filling in for the injured Julius Thomas with five catches for 47 yards and one touchdown. Thomas is expected to play in this week's game, but if not Tamme wouldn't be the worst option. He's caught eight passes for 74 yards with a 9.25 yards per reception to include one TD. If he does end up playing, he might get slowed down this week facing the Kansas City Chiefs with them allowing only 235 pass yards per game.

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Aram Lee (b.1986, KR) focuses on the reinterpretation and repurposing of matter found within an institution. By reconnecting the broken sequences of an object with critical research Lee extends the timeline of static things. This approach sees her use film and installations to reshape the complex trajectories of objects. Lee's project 'Dutch Wife' is an example of this working method as it embodies her artistic practice of altering the contextual relations that disrupt the colonial legacy.


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On Thursday, April 12, Dr. David A. Powell, French professor at Hofstra University, visited Geneseo to give a presentation entitled "Québec: That French Mystery Up North."
Powell described his fascination with Quebec as unexpected and complex. Québec is the largest of the 10 Canadian provinces, has the largest population, and is the most diverse in climate and topography. Apparently, even though French is the first language in Québec, the cities and people in this province resemble those of North America more than those of France.
"When you go to Montreal, it looks very much like North America - the cars are the same size, the architecture, the disposition of streets and the buildings are similar to any urban center in the North," Powell said. "And yet you have this language around you - a language which was, to me, both familiar and unfamiliar," he said. "It is French, but pronunciations are different, usage of words is different," which was an obstacle for Powell. "How could I know and understand so much, and yet it seems so foreign to me?"
In his presentation, Powel explained a bit of quebecois history. It was under the reign of Louis XIV that France first colonized part of North America. Under Louis XV, colonization spread and the territory flourished, eventually spanning West and South from present-day Labrador (in Northeastern Canada) all the way down through present-day mid-west United States. Just as the English called their colony "New England," this French neighbor was called "La Nouvelle France," or "New France."
In 1759, the English waged war against the French on the newly-claimed soil, but as La Nouvelle France became less of a commodity with limited exportable goods, France decided to renege all obligation to its pan-Atlantic property. England claimed the land south of the present-day border between Canada and the United States, which became official with the 1763 Treaty of Paris. "This meant that an entire population of people had lost their language, their traditions, their customs, their festivals, and their religion," Powell said.
After many more years of heated history, Québec became its own province in 1861. Powell explained the sensitivity of the word "quebecois," which most Americans believe is the proper term to refer to a person who is from Québec. This, however, is false. According to Powell, a quebecois is someone who considers him/herself French by nature, and who wants to disassociate from the identity of being Canadian. Quebecois believe that the province of Québec should become its own nation. This conflict has been apparent over the past 20 years with several discussions on the possibility of seceding from Canada. The first referendum was in 1985, and the vote was largely against. A second took place a few years later, this time with a growing vote in favor of separation. In 1994, the result of the third referendum was almost a perfect divide: the vote was "no" by less than half of a point. Quebec has not had another referendum since. The movement toward sovereignty is subsiding, despite the desire to declare independence, mostly because separating completely from Canada could be "an economic disaster," Powell said.
The people of Quebec never forget that France ended any relation to her overseas property. That sense of lost identity in the people of Quebec is all too apparent in the provincial motto, which is printed on the license plate of every car: "Je me souviens…" or "I remember."


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Indican Pictures announced this past week that actor-turned-producer/director Richard Halpern's no-holds-barred suspense thriller, W.M.D., will makes its DVD debut on Apr. 28.
It's 2007, and the president of the United States (played by John Posey — RoboCop 3, Thirst, etc.) is paying a surprise visit to the troops in Iraq when suddenly a trio of frustrated combat veterans — fresh from a harrowing patrol — violently overcome his personal escort and take him captive.
With a live news feed up and running, the president gets a full blown interrogation as to why the Iraq War has gone so horribly bad since the fall of Saddam Hussein's vaunted Republican Guard. Not only is he brutalized, but an impromptu "waterboarding" is broadcast live.
Of course it won't end well in filmmaker Richard Halpern's tautly-wound thriller … the clock is ticking and both the president and his captors will not be allowed to continue for long. Blood will flow, people will die … and the war will go on.
Also on the release calendar from Indican Pictures this week is the Apr. 21 DVD debut of writer/director Zephyr Benson's Straight Outta Tompkins.
Zephyr Benson, the son of iconic 1970s film star Robbie Benson (Jeremy, Ode to Billy Joe, etc.) is impressive here in his directorial debut, who also produced and stars as Gene, a high school kid who is struggling with the death of mother and the recent abandonment by his father, and now suddenly finds himself way in over his head with Cruz (played by Aaron Costa Ganis), a violent drug lord who has become his "mentor."
It is not as it seems. Gene, gullible and, frankly, needy, is being used by Cruz to tap into his circle of friends (aka: would-be customers) and as the kid goes further and further down this up-scale rabbit hole it becomes apparent that the "getting-out" part will not be pretty. Addiction and violence … and it all started out with such promise.


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BANGKOK • The haze affecting northern Thailand has reached levels that can be considered harmful to health, according to director-general Chatchai Promlert of the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department.
He said on Tuesday that the Pollution Control Department had reported that the levels of dust particles measuring less than 10 micrometres - known as PM10 - had crossed the prescribed safe threshold of 120 in four out of nine provinces where monitoring was conducted. The level of PM10 in the nine regions - Chiang Rai, Chiang Mai, Lampang, Lamphun, Mae Hong Son, Nan, Phrae, Phayao and Tak - was measured at between 68 and 160.
The haze level was considered unhealthy in Chiang Mai, Lampang, Lamphun and Phrae provinces, the Bangkok Post reported.
Mr Chatchai said that he had asked agencies in the North Region to closely monitor the situation and air quality. He advised them to be prepared to spray water to reduce the levels of dust particles if necessary and called for firefighting equipment to be put on standby.
Mr Chatchai also urged people not to burn garbage and agricultural trash, which would exacerbate the situation. He added that people should avoid outdoor activities and wear face masks when outdoors. He also advised people to drive with extra precaution as visibility was compromised.
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This week's awesome album cover comes to us courtesy of 77 year old Wojciech Karolak—a man who always said he was an American jazz player accidentally born in Eastern Europe. He remains one of the most important Polish jazz players to date. The cover here is an aesthetic nod to Warhol and Pop Art, which makes sense given that the album contains many elements of Fusion and pop music. Check out the album's cover and title track below.
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Friday, January 12, 2018
Trump: Halt the 'Hate,' 'Hostility and Anger'
In a bipartisan meeting with Congressional lawmakers on Tuesday, President Donald Trump bemoaned the nation's "system" of inciting widespread hatred, even in the face of good news.
In the meeting negotiating terms of proposed immigration reform and border security measures, Trump said the system is rigged to encourage blind hatred: "Our system is designed right now that everybody should hate each other and we can't have that.
"You know, we have a great country; we have a country that's doing very well, in many respects. We are just hitting a new high on the stock market again. And that means jobs. I look at stocks -- I don't look at the stocks, I look at the jobs, I look at the 401(k)s. I look at what's happening, where police come up to me and they say "Thank you, you are making me look like a financial genius," literally. Meaning about them. "And, their wives never thought this was possible, right?"
This system really lends itself to not getting along. It lends itself to hostility and anger, and they hate the Republicans. And they hate the Democrats.
"And in the old days of earmarks, you can say what you want about certain Presidents and others, where they all talk about they went out to dinner at night and they all got along, and they passed bills. That was an earmark system, and maybe we should think about it."
Google's New Fact-Check Feature Almost Exclusively Targets Conservative Sites
Google, the most powerful search engine in the world, is now displaying fact checks for conservative publications in its results. No prominent liberal site receives the same treatment.
And not only is Google's fact-checking highly partisan — perhaps reflecting the sentiments of its leaders — it is also blatantly wrong, asserting sites made "claims" they demonstrably never made.
When searching for a media outlet that leans right, like The Daily Caller (TheDC), Google gives users details on the sidebar, including what topics the site typically writes about, as well as a sidebar titled "Reviewed Claims."
Vox, and other left-wing outlets and blogs like Gizmodo, are not given the same fact-check treatment. When searching their names, a "Topics they write about" section appears, but there are no "Reviewed Claims."
In fact, a review of mainstream outlets, as well as other outlets associated with liberal and conservative audiences, shows that only the conservative sites feature the highly misleading, subjective analysis. Several conservative-leaning outlets like TheDC are "vetted," while equally partisan sites like Vox, ThinkProgress, Slate, The Huffington Post, Daily Kos, Salon, Vice and Mother Jones are spared.
Occupy Democrats is apparently the only popular content provider from that end of the political spectrum with a fact-checking section.
Ostensibly trying to sum up the crux of the post, the third-party "fact-checking" organization says the "claim" in a DC article that special Counsel Robert Mueller is hiring people that "are all Hillary Clinton supporters" is misleading, if not false.
The problem is that TheDC's article makes no such claim. Their cited language doesn't even appear in the article. Worse yet, there was no language trying to make it seem that the investigation into the Trump administration and Russia is entirely comprised of Clinton donors. The story simply contained the news: Mueller hired a Hillary Clinton donor to aid the investigation into President Donald Trump.
Still, the Washington Post gave the claim, which came from Trump himself, its official "Three Pinocchios" rating. The method applies to several other checks. Claims concocted or adulterated by someone outside the TheDC are attributed to TheDC, in what appears to be a feature that only applies to conservative sites.
Examples of such misattribution and misrepresentation are aplenty.
For instance, using Snopes.com, an organization with highly dubious fact-checking capabilities, Google's platform shows an article by TheDC to have a so-called "mixture" of truth.
The "claim" made, according to Snopes.com, and in-turn Google, is "a transgender women raped a young girl in a women's bathroom because bills were passed…"
A quick read of the news piece shows that there was no mention of a bill or any form of legislation. The story was merely a straightforward reporting of a disturbing incident originally reported on by a local outlet.
And like Snopes, another one of Google's fact-checking partners, Climate Feedback, is not usually regarded as objective.
Snopes and Google also decided to "fact-check" an obviously tongue-in-cheek article in which a writer for TheDC pokes fun at a professor saying the solar eclipse in 2017 was naturally racist.
Even Vox pointed out the absurdity of the educator's literary tirade on Mother Nature's purported racial prejudice, and the damage it might have done to real arguments of apparent racism.
While Snopes got some flak for its choice, no one seems to have noticed the absurdity of the world's go-to search engine providing fact-checks to purposefully irreverent content, rather than hard news stories.
Overall, such inclusion embodies Google's fact-checking services, which, as many presciently feared, are biased, if not also downright libelous.
Underestimating Trump Supporters
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It is disheartening to see the ongoing rift between those conservatives supporting President Donald Trump and those opposing him — a rift that began before Trump and may survive his presidency.
Many conservatives opposed Trump's nomination because they believed he was not a true conservative — not even really a bona fide Republican — but rather a narcissistic opportunist who wanted to take his game show hosting and self-promotional platform to a grander stage.
Many also thought that a Trump presidency, even if it would somewhat forestall the Obama-Clinton agenda, would not be worth the long-term damage it would do to the conservative movement. They believed a Trump victory would embolden the so-called alt-right movement, which they saw as Trump's main base. They saw a mob-like mentality among many of his supporters, saying they were fueled by rage and would rubber-stamp every crazy idea Trump might pursue and also push him to pursue even nuttier ideas.
Admittedly, in the red-hot contentiousness of the primary campaigns, some of the alt-right types did surface as among the most vocal of Trump supporters. Trump supporters seemed to defend anything Trump said or did, even if indefensible.
I admit that during the primaries, I was concerned about Trump's commitment to conservatism and worried that the justifiable outrage of many of his most ardent supporters at the direction the country was headed under Obama was clouding their judgment. Trump was not the answer to the quintessentially anti-conservative and fundamentally leftist Obama.
Then two things happened. The first was that Trump won the GOP nomination fairly and squarely. This meant that he would be facing off against Hillary Clinton, the most corrupt, self-serving and politically opportunistic presidential candidate in decades — someone who had tied herself to the far left and who promised to double down on the Obama agenda.
There is nothing to blunt one's concerns about flaws in a GOP presidential candidate like the sober realization that unless he wins, the abominable Hillary Clinton will be the next president and drive America past the point of returning to anything resembling its founding principles. Only conservatives who didn't view America's trajectory with similar urgency could rationalize their refusal to vote for Trump against Clinton.
This same obliviousness to the urgency of our situation also led to GOP establishment inertia regarding the Obama agenda. The establishment's insufficient energy and willingness to oppose him sowed the seeds of Trump's rise to power. How ironic that the people who remain most opposed to Trump today are to some extent responsible for the emergence of such an unorthodox character to fill the void they helped to create.
The second thing is that I came to realize that I had misunderstood much of Trump's grass-roots support. Yes, grass-roots voters were convinced that there was no difference between the two parties and that only an outsider like Trump could break the mold and inaugurate a new paradigm in Washington. But they were not a mob, and they saw something that others may not have seen.
This epiphany came to me when I was debating a longtime friend who is respected in the community and every bit as conservative as I am but had supported Trump from the beginning. I saw that he was not the exceptional Trump supporter but the typical one, someone who had not given over his critical faculties to runaway emotions but who genuinely believed that Trump, flaws and all, was the answer for these unusual times. As time passed, my epiphany was repeatedly confirmed: Trump supporters are patriotic Americans — not bigots, not political illiterates, not overreacting zealots — who just wanted our country and culture back. It's that simple.
Based on my observation of those on the right who continue to oppose, even revile, Trump at almost every turn, I conclude that their ongoing opposition can largely be traced to disagreement on the two factors I describe — not to mention a healthy dose of stubborn pride, in some cases.
Many of them still deny the urgency in the Obama-Clinton agenda and seem to hold the average Trump supporter in contempt. Another irony emerges as to their willful blindness when it comes to the imminent dangers to America from the Obama-Clinton left. While they claim to have a monopoly on pure conservatism, they frequently hold hands in shared disgust with the leftists still pushing that agenda, and they often diminish the strides Trump has made toward rolling back Obama-era "progress" and advancing conservatism. Their opposition also goes beyond policy, as evidenced by their reflexive sympathy for Trump's Democratic Russia-collusion accusers and their revulsion at conservatives pointing to Obama and Clinton corruption. To them, even to utter criticism against Obama and Clinton is "whataboutism" — an alleged effort to divert attention from Trump's supposed corruption. What they don't realize is their cries of "whataboutism" reveal their own version of the malady; when you point out a Trump success, they say, "What about his character?"
The Trump opponents have a variety of excuses to deny Trump credit for advancing this agenda and discredit those who foresaw the landscape better than they. They can't stand his tone, his manners or his tweets. They view him as temperamentally and mentally unfit for office. Even when he achieves policy success after policy success, they childishly huff that it is only because other people besides Trump are running the White House — that he has delegated foreign policy matters and "outsourced" his legislative agenda. Come on, people.
Well, I don't know whether Trump has morphed into a full-blown ideological conservative, but I do know that he's largely governing as one — and an effective one at that, accomplishing some bold things that few other conservative presidents would have even tried.
Why are some never-Trumpers obsessively bogged down in evaluating Trump's character and competence and preoccupied with sanctimoniously judging Trump's supporters instead of admitting that Trump's supporters are just rooting for America and that Trump's policies are — to this point — moving us back toward the direction of the American dream?
This shouldn't be a contest over who's more conservative; it should be about what's best for the United States. I'm pleased with how things are going. If the conservative movement doesn't come together in the future, I don't think it will be primarily the fault of the Trump supporters.
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Berkshire Hathaway's 2018 annual meeting: 4 things to watch for
Here's what I'm hoping Warren Buffett will discuss on Saturday, May 5.
Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger are set to answer questions from Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-B)(NYSE: BRK-A) shareholders at the company's annual meeting on Saturday. While I'm not expecting any major surprises, here are four things I'll be watching for during the Oracle of Omaha's Q&A session.
More concrete succession plans
This is a big item on the minds of Berkshire's shareholders. Warren Buffett is 87 and his right-hand man Charlie Munger is 94, so while we hope they both live into their 100s, it's fair to say that they won't be at the helm of Berkshire for decades to come.
Over the past few years, we've learned several details of the company's succession plan. Buffett wants his son, Howard, to succeed him as a non-executive chairman and create a system of checks and balances. And both of his two trusted stock pickers, Ted Weschler and Todd Combs, have been given more and more control of Berkshire's investments and most likely will take over when Buffett is no longer in charge.
And just this year, we've learned that Berkshire managers Ajit Jain and Greg Abel have both been named Vice Chairmen, a move Buffett confirmed is a part of his succession plan.
However, there still are some key unanswered questions. Which of the two new Vice Chairmen are next in line for the CEO seat? Does Buffett plan to eventually retire or to remain at Berkshire for as long as he is physically possible? At this year's meeting, I'll be paying attention for any clarification on the succession plan.
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Comments about the cash problem
At the end of 2017, Berkshire Hathaway's cash hoard had swelled to roughly $116 billion. And although the company's first-quarter earnings haven't been announced yet as of this writing, I expect that this number is significantly higher now. While this isn't the worst problem to have, it's still a problem.
Simply put, Buffett and his team would love to find ways to put this money to work, but high stock valuations and a robust economy have made finding attractively priced opportunities difficult, especially on a scale that could have a meaningful impact on Berkshire's bottom line.
There are four main ways Berkshire could deploy its cash. It could acquire businesses, buy stocks, buy back shares, or pay a dividend for the first time in roughly 50 years. I'll be watching for any comments that indicate which direction the company may take.
Will Berkshire announce a dividend?
On that note, there's a realistic possibility that Berkshire will reluctantly decide that paying a dividend to shareholders is a better use of capital than simply leaving it in the bank. Last year's annual meeting was the first time Buffett mentioned a dividend could be coming. He told shareholders that a dividend could be coming "reasonably soon, even when I'm around."
At the time of Buffett's comments, Berkshire's cash hoard was a relatively modest $90 billion or so. There's no question that Buffett doesn't really want to pay a dividend, but he's indicated that he won't simply let the company's stockpile of cash grow indefinitely. Is the current 12-figure sum of cash too much to justify a no-dividend policy?
Is Buffett getting fed up with Wells Fargo yet?
After Wells Fargo's (NYSE: WFC) fake-accounts scandal was revealed in 2016, Buffett said that the bank remained a compelling long-term investment and that he had no plans to sell any of Berkshire's massive stake. At last year's meeting, Buffett reiterated that while the bank made a big mistake by incentivizing cross-selling, it still was a great company.
Since that time, however, much more has happened. The Federal Reserve slapped the bank with a penalty that prohibits Wells Fargo from growing in size until it makes substantial improvements, and the bank was just hit with a $1 billion fine from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) over two additional scandals.
I'd be shocked if Buffett wasn't asked a question about Wells Fargo at the meeting, and I'm curious to see at what point Buffett says "enough is enough."
What not to expect
Having said all of that, there are several things I definitely don't expect to hear. For starters, don't expect Buffett to reveal any stocks Berkshire has bought or sold thus far in 2018 -- you'll most likely have to wait until the company's SEC filings are revealed later in May. Also, don't expect much in the way of specifics about businesses Berkshire is considering. Buffett and his team are eager to answer questions and share some wisdom with investors, but they are notoriously silent when it comes to their current investment activity.
Warren Buffett, the third richest man in the world, according to Forbes, has a salary of only $100,000 a year. Veuer's Sam Berman has the full story. Buzz60
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The first CRISPR-Cas9 trial on embryos in the United States was by far the biggest trial with the gene-editing tool to edit humans.
We're not prepared for 900 days of cosmic rays.
How we'll beat cancer.
But keep drinking your $15 green juice, suckers.
Why shouldn't scientists get the Oscar treatment?
Giant explosions aren't quite as cool as beating cancer, but they're pretty close.
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I sound like an old man when I say that, once upon a time, advent calendars didn't just contain chocolate! Now, these 'Countdown to Christmas' calendars are all the rage and sell in every shop from Woolies to Coles to...everywhere!
Here's a resource that can value add to those calendars if they're all that's available to you.
I've created a document with 25 short sections, one or two sentences each. These can be cut out as little slips of paper that can be folded and inserted inside the doors of advent calendars, in order to make sure the story of the birth of Jesus gets a look in! They tell the story of the nativity and include some of the Church's traditions about Christmas too. They also enable families to have daily conversations about faith.
Click here to download the Advent calendar add-ons.
If you use a more faith-based calendar you can still use these slips to supplement it.
Have a look and see if it would be helpful to you. If you like it, pass on the link to this page so others can use it too!
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Monkfish Stew with Fennel, Carrots & Salsa Verde
I had to make a yummy fish option for my cooking class at Daylesford and I came up with this monkfish stew packed full of delicious vegetables with a classic salsa verde to cut through the soup. This is delicious made in advance and you can just finish it off by cooking the fish at the end. It makes for a fuss free but extremely tasty summer dinner party dish. The salsa verde is also great with lamb.
Serves 2/3
1 tsp unsalted butter
3 tbsp olive oil
3 medium carrots, finely chopped
2 fennel bulbs, thinly sliced,
1 banana shallot, diced
1/2 leek, roughly chopped
5 rosemary sprigs
2 celery sticks, diced
1 tsp cumin seeds,
2 tsp fennel seeds
100g cherry tomatoes, halved
3 garlic cloves, diced
700ml hot vegetable stock
1/2 lemon, thinly sliced
125ml dry white wine
200g monkfish fillet sliced crosswise into 2cm thick chunks
Sea salt and black pepper
Extra virgin olive oil for garnishing
For the salsa verde
4 anchovies
3 tbsp capers
80ml extra virgin olive oil
handful of mint leaves
handful of flat leaf parsley
1/2 garlic clove, diced
1/2 tsp honey
Juice and zest of 1/2 a lemon
Set a large sauce pan to a medium to high heat and add 1 tablespoon olive oil and a teaspoon of butter to melt and when hot add in the monkfish pieces. Season with salt and pepper and fry for 2-3 minutes until lightly golden and then place on to a plate covering with tin foil. In the same saucepan add the rest of the olive oil and then the carrots, fennel, shallot, leek, rosemary sprigs, celery, cherry tomatoes, cumin and fennel seeds and fry for 5 minutes. Next add in the garlic and stir everything around the pan for another 2 minutes. Pour in the white wine and allow everything to simmer for about 2 minutes for the alcohol to evaporate before mixing in the hot vegetable stock and lemon slices. Bring stew to a boil and then to a medium simmer for 10 minutes and then add in the monkfish with it's juices and a generous sprinkle of salt and pepper. Simmer for about 10 minutes more until the fish begins to flake away and the vegetables are cooked. Taste to double check the seasoning and serve hot with the salsa verde drizzled on top. Toasted pine nuts are optional.
While the stew is cooking put all the ingredients together for the salsa verde into a blender and pulse blend to a nice smooth sauce. Taste to check the seasoning and then keep stored in the fridge. It can last for up to 3-4 days.


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You taught me how to love
And turn around and broke me.
You truly showed me you wasn't worthy of my love!
How could I have been stupid to turn my back on him?
He was here before you!
I was fool by a man in sheep clothing!
I have to give it to you
You knock down walls, that nobody could destroy.
Now that there back,
stronger than ever
my heart went cold.
I was stupid for you, when he was what I needed!
Never Again
Will I betray myself for you
Here comes a new me, with new understanding
Never Again
Poem is dedicated to my love journey, I still have a lot of catching up with posted from last year, but do bare with me and enjoy my love journey as I continue it. So thankful for the many lesson, I have went through, I can't complain 🙂


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Green Olympic Games is one of important concepts that Beijing Olympic Games offers, everybody of green Olympic Games has duty. Well-known, car tail gas is serious contaminative source, as the car gain ground, the tail gas that the car causes and noise pollution are increasingly serious. For green Olympic Games, each drive the person should be made from oneself, drive car of " green " , " of nurturance " green drives habit.
Open a source: Retreaded tyre but recycle
70 % are in the use value of a new tyre on tire carcass, and the decorative pattern that easier tatty is tire tread, because this renovates an old tire,be equal to managing resource of 70 % new balata.
Our country abandons the generation capacity of old tire every year to be many 6000, " black pollutes " to becoming a kind of social effects of pollution. The old tire of the developed country renovates rate to already exceeded 80% , and our country still is less than at present 10% , and can renovate carring capacity tire and bus to use tire only, the face-lifting of passenger car tyre is blank still, and in European passenger car tyre face-lifting market is replaced rate for 28.8 % .
Because produce craft to lag behind, market competition is intense, manufacturer of our a few production is jerry, will inferior retreaded tyre puts in the market, bring very big hidden trouble to safety of drive a vehicle. When buying retreaded tyre accordingly, must buy in regular professional store, can be at ease on quality not only so, also can enjoy managing the multiple advantage with environmental protection.
Reduce expenditure: Make oneself day that do not have a car
No matter how environmental protection, want to drive only, the car still wants bad news oil, still have pollution. If do not drive, all trouble were done not have. Of course this is impossible, but one day does not drive, believe a lot of people can be accomplished.
Tell from traffic cost actually, the cost that oneself drive wants far outclass to sit bus, and in embrace a road condition next driving, not only raise oily cost, increase discharge, and exhaustion of body and mind. Be not taken, with us current public transportation system develops lag to have very big concern. Nevertheless this kind of situation can take a favourable turn stage by stage, a lot of cities develop strength in what increase public traffic, extension line road, increase order, long subway, contented citizen gives the need of travel.
September 22 is the world does not have car day, a lot of friends are not quite clear perhaps. " world does not have activity of car day " the earliest traceable the France 1998, nowadays, it already became what many 1500 city participates in the whole world internationally festival. Car advocate need not when did not drive one day this on September 22, can make those who belong to oneself completely do not have car day. It may not be a bad idea, a month a day of it may not be a bad idea, this also is the contribution that makes for environmental protection!
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The Williamsburg Anheuser-Busch brewery will offer tours of its facility to the public for the first time in nearly 20 years this summer.
The series of "pop-up tours" is set to begin on Thursday, June 1, and will take place once a month on select weekends June through September.
Williamsburg Brewmaster Jeff Scott says the community's diminished visibility to the public over time is what inspired him to open the plant up for tours for the first time since 1990.
"We've got a pretty big presence in the community as far as our workforce, but I think people aren't necesarily aware of that," said Scott. "We're proud of our quality and our brands, and we really want to share that and have a little bit more visibility to our community to show some of our pride."
Visitors 21 and older will get to sample beer directly at its source, tasting samples of beer going through the brewery's 21-day aging cycle and directly from a filtered beer tank. The tour will also include a visit to one of the control rooms that the plant used when it first opened in 1972, as well as the plant's brewing, lagering and finishing cellars.
Spokesperson Lauren Schuster says the tour "provides a unique behind-the-scenes look at the art of brewing Budweiser."
Tickets for guests 21 and older are $25, and $10 for those between the ages of 13 and 20. Children younger than 13 will not be allowed on the tour.
Each pop-up tour will last 60 to 90 minutes, and are available on a first-come, first-served basis. For a full tour schedule and advance booking, visit budweisertours.com.
At its monthly meeting on May 10, City Council approved a special-use permit for Magic Touch Auto Detailing on Richmond Road, which will now be able to offer window tinting and interior and exterior detailing in a new retail space at 1455 Richmond Road.
The auto shop currently offers and installs auto decals, stickers and signs. With the new permit, the store's manager Mohammed Bawaieh will expand into the retail space next door. The special-use permit ensures the auto shop complies with the city's adopted comprehensive plan and does not damage or discourage the development of any surrounding businesses, according to Erin Burke, the city's principal planner.
"That side of Richmond Road is unique because those lots are so small, so uses like this are compatable," said Vice-Mayor Scott Foster at the meeting.
Bawaieh says he will look to hire two additonal staff members to serve customers at the new storefront.
"As long as the conditions are met I'm fine with it, and I think it's good to help a business owner expand his business and have additional opportunities," said Council member Barbara Ramsey.
New business networking organization NOW held its first event at the Lauchpad Business Incubator on April 25.
NOW, which stands for Networking Over Williamsburg, aims to facilitate events connecting small businesses and entrepeneurs across the Greater Williamsburg area.
"Their objective is to provide productive networking events that foster building strong relationships to will help everyone succeed in their business endeavors," wrote co-founder Jennifer Metcalf in a news release. "Bringing uplifting seminars and compelling topics of interest will benefit, challenge, and add value to everyone while continuing to grow in their businesses."
NOW will hold its next networking event for small business owners at Habana Hemingway Cafe from 5 to 7 p.m. The event is free, and will feature Salsa dancing lessons afterwards.
Arriaza can be reached at 757-790-9313 or on Twitter @rodrigoarriaza0.


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Commentary: Time to stop the food fight
This editorial appeared in The Sacramento Bee.
California businesses have been sued more than 1,500 times since 2005 for allegedly failing to provide required meal breaks to their workers. Even if they are groundless, the lawsuits cost businesses a bundle.
Most of the lawsuits center on the definition of "provide." Do businesses merely have to make a meal period available to their workers, or do they actively have to ensure that workers stop working and eat before beginning their fifth hour on the job?
Ensuring and documenting meal breaks can be difficult. If a worker eats at his desk, does that qualify as a meal break? Does the worker have to turn off her computer while eating? With large businesses employing thousands of workers, it can be costly and time-consuming to document that all workers go to lunch when they are supposed to.
Senate Bill 807 by Republican Sen. John Benoit of Palm Desert offers businesses needed relief. It would define an employer's responsibility to "provide" a meal period as "making a meal period available without interference." That definition clarifies the rules and makes it more difficult for unscrupulous attorneys to use them to churn up lawsuits of dubious merit. The Benoit measure would also reduce the statute of limitations for violations from three years to just one, making the filing of class-action lawsuits less lucrative.
To read the complete editorial, visit The Sacramento Bee.


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10 things we didn't know last week
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Fifty-two per cent of male officers in the Metropolitan Police were overweight, 22% were obese and 1% were morbidly obese in 2011.
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2. Samantha Cameron was in New York during the 9/11 attacks.
More details (The Daily Telegraph)
3. Colossal squid have the biggest eyes in the animal kingdom, because they need to spot predatory sperm whales.
More details (New Scientist)
4. Thirty-two per cent of bread purchased by UK households is dumped when it could be eaten.
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5. Bees can overwhelm hornet invaders by cooking them inside huge ball of bodies.
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6. Sex-starved fruit flies turn to drink.
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7. The part of a male bird's brain which deals with song shrinks at the end of the breeding season.
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8. Singer Sade was the top earning British musician in the US last year.
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9. Right Said Fred apparently feature in Bashar al-Assad's iTunes playlists.
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10. A Bolivian judge has admitted to "reading" coca leaves to help him make decisions
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Yes, it's true—I'm officially one. A single digit.
No, not me The Person. Me—The Author.
It was May 2013 when I published my 1st historical romance, Music For My Soul. I'd met my editor, Debby Gilbert of Soul Mate Publishing, at a conference the previous fall. The day she offered me a contract for my medieval historical manuscript had to be one of the happiest moments of my life! I'd always wanted to move from unpublished writer to published author. Having achieved that accomplishment was truly a dream come true.
I've been fortunate to have 2 other books come out in the past year. Both Outlaw Muse (October 2013) and A Game of Chance (January 2014) were western historical romances, set after the Civil War.
I've had friends ask, "Which is your favorite book that you've written?" That's hard to answer. It's the same as when my students would ask me, "Who's your favorite class? It's us, right?" I would cleverly tell them "My favorite class is the same as yours. Lunch – because I get to eat and visit with my friends." In truth, at one time or another, each class would be my favorite for one reason or another.
It's the same with my heroes and heroines. Usually, my favorite book is the one I'm currently writing. I'm so into those characters and telling their story. It's easy to get wrapped up in something I'm creating, being in the moment, experiencing events as my characters are doing so.
Of my published novels, I have a tendency to favor the book which has just been released. While I'm sentimental about a book that's already come out, the new release is like the underdog. It doesn't have a track record. It's looking for a home. It wants to find readers who will love the characters and root for them through thick and thin.
So while I keep Madeline & Garrett, Serena & Daman, and Lily & Jed close to my heart . . . I'm about to release Written in the Cards next week—so it looks like Maggie & Ben will be my favs for the near future.
I'm just happy that I've had the great fortune to celebrate Year One of being an author this week. I hope I'll be celebrating my time in publishing for many years to come.


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It's no secret that I'm into Pie Tap Pizza Workshop + Bar…like, really into it. I've truly never had a single thing that I didn't fall head over heels in love with and that sentiment is accurate AF when it comes to brunch, too!
Last weekend we stopped in to check it out and we can wholeheartedly suggest that you do the same.
With two locations in Dallas and one in Plano, Pie Tap is convenient no matter where you live. All three of the locations just so happen to have killer patios, too! From $2 glasses of frosé and smoked salmon pizzas to breakfast classics like pancakes and french toast, I can all but guarantee brunch at Pie Tap will be a win for all.
Here is a peek at some of our favorites!
This is where I wish there was such a thing as scratch-and-sniff websites because if you think this looks great, you'd fall over with how delicious everything smells. The high-quality products and scratch kitchen shine through in each dish.
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Nemesis by Philip Roth
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
It was the best of years, it was the worst of years. The summer of 1944 Newark, New Jersey, that is. That's kind of how I felt about this novel, sort of ambivalent. There is an ennervating nostalgic 'sheen' that coats the polite (almost antiseptic) prose of the narrative - I guess symptomatic of writing in the mode of a reminiscence - in spite of the creeping horror called polio that is terrorizing the children of the community. The character of Bucky is so unfalteringly the schoolyard hero, so without edge as to verge on bland. This despite being raised by his grandparents because his mother died in childbrth and his estranged father is an ex-con. He is apparently utterly without bitterness or anger because his grandfather taught him how to be tough. Bucky does all the right things, defends and cares deeply for the fitness and well-being of his kids as their playground director, and offers his condolences to the families of the ones who suddenly succumb to the childhood scourge. The first real sign of conflict comes when about half way through the novel Bucky, or Mr. Cantor as he is referred to for most of the novel, makes the fateful and 'unheroic' decision to abandon his anxiety-ridden kids and fearful community (not to mention his aging grandma) to escape the ravaged city for Camp Indian Hill in the idyllic Poconos to join his fiancee the unblemished Marcia Steinberg, where they canoe out to an island for lovemaking trysts surrounded by white birches. The decision to leave Newark happens in a flash, engendering some inner conflict but not very much, when it becomes clear to Bucky that life as a member of the upstanding and intact Steinberg family (the very model of an Ozzie and Harriet assemblage) offers escape from his own disjointed roots (of course, he doesn't think of it that way). He does hesitate once in camp for abandoning grandma and the kids - everything just seems way too perfect in the mountains - but I expected much more gutwrenching guilt. The reader knows this can't end well, and thus two things happen at this point in the story; it becomes apparent that this is all a set-up (which is the way it feels from page 1) and, the disastrous ending has been precisely telegraphed. It's all very tidy and we rush to see how Bucky is going to deal with the inevitable. Only in the last few pages, in the present, does the writing start to sing with the depth of Bucky's inner turmoil. But when he starts arguing about theological matters it feels forced, sounding more like Roth than his protagonist. Bucky simply doesn't seem like the type to go there. Still, his anger with himself at the end comes as a refreshing show of genuine emotion.
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Who doesn't like to spice up the ab/core training routine a bit? The top 5 things I get asked by people regarding their programs are:
1. Can I get some more core exercises?
2. How about some more core exercises next time?
3. Can you put in some more core strengthening work?
4. I really want to work my core, can you give me more exercises for that?
5. Core?
Welcome to my life.
Clearly, folks understand the importance of a strong, stable core. If you are involved in any sort of athletics, or you know, any human movement, a strong midsection will absolutely be essential to prevent injuries and increase power output (aka, how fast, explosive, or strong you're able to be).
Well, I've got just the thing for you core-crazy trainees:
PUPP with Kettlebell Drag
Key points:
- Keep feet slightly wider than a normal PUPP (push-up position plank) stance to help control and stabilize the hips. Pretend there is a glass of water on your lower back and you don't want to spill it.
- Speaking of your hips, keep those suckers as level as possible. Glenna does a pretty great job of it in the video (well done, Glenna!).
- Squeeze your butt and abs (do I even need to say that part?) as hard as humanly possible throughout the exercise.
- Start off with a lighter bell because just moving your hands around can be challenging. Once you can keep your hips stable, then move up in weight.
There you have it! Throw a few sets into your workout to get your midsection a power-transferring machine!


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"Change comes about at the margins. People in the center are not going to be the big change makers. You've got to put yourself at the margins and be willing to risk in order to make change. But more importantly, you have got to approach differences with this notion that there is good in the other. That's it. And if we can't figure out how to do that — if there isn't the crack in the middle where there's some people on both sides who absolutely refuse to see the other as evil, this is going to continue."
Living in the Margins
"There is important wisdom to be gleaned from those on the margins. Vulnerable human beings put us more in touch with the truth of our limited and messy human condition, marked as it is by fragility, incompleteness and inevitable struggle. The experience of God from that place is one of absolutely gratuitous mercy and empowering love. People on the margins, who are less able to and less invested in keeping up appearances, often have an uncanny ability to name things as they are. Standing with them can help situate us in the truth and helps keep us honest."
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December Seniors Named at H. Frank Carey
H. Frank Carey has recognized Saher Shafiq and Joseph Savoretti as Seniors of the Month for December.
Saher is engaging, respectful, considerate and a genuinely kind person. Her thirst for knowledge, natural intellect and desire to learn is unmatched. Saher's maturity is evident in every endeavor that she undertakes. Academically, this AP Scholar with Honor student is ranked in the top of her class, and her achievements have been recognized by nomination and acceptance into the English, National and World Language honor societies. She has held several leadership positions as president of Art Palettes, president of 21st Century Scholars, editor of the yearbook, president of Saving Our Society, president of the Desi Society, a contender in the Mathletes, managing editor for Carey Clipper and editor-in-chief of the Poseidon Literary Magazine. Additionally, she is extremely active in community service, speaks five languages and has many achievements in local science fairs and competitions. This senior has applied to a wide range of colleges and universities that include a mix of Ivy League and other highly selective programs.
Joseph is a warmhearted person who shows nothing but sincerity and kindness to those around him. He has demonstrated hard work and perseverance in all subject areas, evident by his acceptance into the National Honor Society as well as the National Technical Honor Society. Joseph stands out in a sea of high-achieving students not only for his academic standards, but for his character and demeanor. This young man is extremely active in school activities as treasurer of the Student Government and student representative for the Class of 2019 Board. He has been a longtime member of the Boy Scouts of America and has earned the prestigious rank of Eagle Scout. He is a skilled musician and knows how to play both the trumpet and the drums. Additionally, he is a member of the Instrumentation and Automation vocational program and has competed in several conferences in the Model United Nations. Those around him admire his determination to succeed and how he leads without knowing it, in a subtle, understated way.
Congratulations to Saher and Joseph!


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The First Seven Days
by Dr. Benjamin Wiker
Mathematician and philosopher of science John Lennox has debated Richard Dawkins, the late Christopher Hitchens, Peter Singer, and Michael Shermer. Always a Christian gentleman Lennox doesn't back down from any fight for the faith. His new book, Seven Days That Divide the World: The Beginning According to Genesis and Science, helps Christians understand the relationship between Genesis and Science.
No doubt you've read John Lennox's The Theory of Infinite Soluble Groups, one of his two books in the prestigious Oxford Mathematical Monographs, or perhaps a dozen or so of the sixty or so technical mathematical papers written by this world class mathematician?
Perhaps not. I know that I couldn't understand even the first paragraph of any of his signal contributions to mathematical theory. In any case, there's no doubt of Lennox's intellectual abilities. Unlike his usual atheist adversaries, Lennox has made his mark—a very big mark—in one of the most demanding of academic disciplines.
And he continues to do so, but now he's twice as busy, given his life as an evangelical Christian apologist. As an evangelical who's also an historian of science, Lennox is in a good position to offer careful reflections on the relationship of Genesis to science.
Whether one ultimately agrees with his reflections, fellow evangelical Christians will want to take them seriously because of Lennox's evident deep faith and scholarship. Certainly, non-believers must take them seriously because of Lennox's intellectual credentials in regard to both mathematics and science.
For Lennox, Christians must avoid three errors when trying to understand the relationship of Genesis to contemporary science.
One is to tie our interpretation of Scripture too tightly to the science of the day. In the day of Copernicus and Galileo, the Ptolemaic science posited a fixed earth with the sun moving around it. Many theologians rejected the notion that the earth moved based upon the authority of the science of their day, and saw Scripture as confirming the Ptolemaic view. The same error occurs today with those who uncritically accept Darwinism and try to mold Scripture accordingly.
A second, related error, one far more common today, is to accept the science of today uncritically, and then maintain that Scripture is concerned only with theology and morality, and not at all with science—a "science teaches you about the heavens, and religion about how to get to heaven" approach.
A third error is to reject science or press it to conform to our view of Scripture. Here, Lennox quotes St. Augustine, a great authority for both Protestants and Catholics. Writing in the early 5th century, Augustine warns his fellow Christians that non-believers often know something about astronomy. "Now, it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these [scientific] topics." To do so, invites unbelievers to "laugh it to scorn." The essential problem, Augustine remarks, is evangelical. If unbelievers "find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well [e.g., astronomy], and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books [i.e., Scripture], how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven…?" In other words, if we show ourselves to be woefully ignorant of science, either distorting or dismissing it, unbelievers will simply dismiss Christianity in turn. We will then have failed in our Christ-mandated goal to go and make disciples of all the nations.
Lennox wants to avoid all three errors in his attempt to understand Genesis. "Let me make my position clear," says Lennox early on. "I am a scientist who believes Scripture to be the Word of God. I am not shy, therefore, of drawing scientific implications from it, where warranted. However, saying Scripture has scientific implications does not mean that the Bible is a scientific treatise from which we can deduce Newton's Laws, Einstein's equations, or the chemical structure of common salt."
We might put Lennox's position this way. Since Scripture is the Word of God, and the Jesus Christ was the Word through Whom all things were made, we should expect to find that Scripture has something significant to say about creation (and hence has implications for science), even though its main purpose is the revelation of salvation. But that doesn't mean we treat Scripture as a detailed science book.
Lennox therefore rejects the Young Earth Creationist position, and the notion that the creation week is simply defined by six literal, consecutive 24-hour days. For him, the evidence against these positions is not simply from science, but from a careful reading of Scripture itself. Scripture leaves the age of the earth indeterminate, and doesn't demand that the six days be six 24-hour periods.
Yet, Lennox thinks that the six-day account leading up to the Sabbath does rightly correspond to "a sequence of creation acts," each beginning with a sudden act of God's creation, a "fiat" day in which "God injected a new level of information and energy into the cosmos, in order to advance creation to its next level of form and complexity."
These "fiat" days, corresponding to the six creation days in Genesis, would each be followed by an "unspecified period of time after that particular creation day" when creation developed the potential of that particular day. Any particular creation day could, then, be followed by millions of years of working out the potential. Thus, while he admits evolution, this evolution has its origin in divine "fiat" days.
For Lennox, this conforms to what we actually find through science. A universe that pops into being from nothing, the sudden appearance of the most primitive life on earth, and the geological evidence that reveals the sudden appearances of new levels of complexity after that.
And the arrival of human beings? Obviously, even science must admit that the general pattern of development follows the biblical account in its order: the earth was here before there was any life, and a variety of life preceded the appearance of human life. But "on the internal evidence of Scripture, the dating of the age of humanity is indeterminate." Even though it is indeterminate, Lennox rejects the purely Darwinian notion that human beings are merely the result of random mutations. Scripture is clear that human beings are somehow specially created in the image of God. "It is simply false to suggest, as some do, that the only alternative to young-earth creationism is to accept the Darwinian model."
For Lennox, human beings really are, in the most important way, the centerpiece of the cosmos, the pinnacle of creation. And here, he brings science in as his witness. The latest science not only show that the universe was created out of nothing, but that it was intricately, finely-tuned, and in fact, finely-tuned for life. To be more exact, the universe and the earth itself are uniquely suited for human life. We are not an accident of evolution; the entire universe has been aiming at us.
While it is science telling us that today, it is obviously a glorious affirmation of what Scripture has been telling us from the very beginning.
Article courtesy of tothesource
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