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12th International Conference on Optics, Photonics & Lasers , will be organized around the theme "Thriving to Change the Research Cycle in Optics, Photonics and Lasers "
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The technique of using some applications to have a non-invasive look into the body as it is done by the use of ionizing radiation, optical imaging, which basically uses a special kind of light which has the properties of photons in order to obtain the images of the body organs and the tissues which include their molecular structure and cellular structure. The main applications of these images are for the clinical purposes where the doctors would be using them to diagnose a patient and also being used by scientists for research activities.
- Track 1-13D Printed Optics and Additive Photonic Manufacturing
- Track 1-2Digital Optics for Immersive Displays
- Track 1-3Unconventional Optical Imaging
- Track 1-4Optical Micro- and Nanometrology
- Track 1-5Optics, Photonics and Digital Technologies for Imaging Applications
- Track 1-6Optical Sensing and Detection
- Track 1-7Imaging in Biology and Medicine
The study and working of electronic devices or systems that source, detect and control light, with a sub-field called photonics is known as Optoelectronics. This is type of system in which the light includes invisible radiations such as infrared, UV, X-rays and Gamma rays along with invisible light. This is the type of device which has got electrical-to-optical or optical-to-electrical transducers.
- Track 2-1Optoelectronic Devices and Materials
- Track 2-2Semiconductor Materials and Applications
- Track 2-3MEMS and NEMS
- Track 2-4Optoelectronic Instrumentation, Masurement and Metrology
- Track 2-5Semiconductor Nanostructures for Electronics and Optoelectronics
- Track 2-6Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits
- Track 2-7Nano-optoelectronics
It is the study of phenomenon which takes place as the consequence of the changes in the optical properties of a material system in the presence of light. Nonlinearity is typically observed at high intensities (for example those which are generated by lasers). Nonlinear optics provides the key technologies which helps in providing radiation sources in various wavelength ranges from x-rays to terahertz. These are basically used in combination with laser technology.
- Track 3-1Micro-Structured and Specialty Optical Fibres
- Track 3-2Semiconductor Lasers and Laser Dynamics
- Track 3-3Glass Photonics: Materials through Applications
- Track 3-4Nonlinear Optics and its Applications
- Track 3-5Adaptive Optics and Computational Imaging
The beginning of the new era with the use of electromagnetic waves for the long distance communications using radios is all about optical technology. The radio waves are longer than the light waves. This whole newly established technology brought some of the main fascinating technologies in to the world. The older mechanical methods were made outdated and the use of these electronics came into existence, which were faster than the previous methods.
These are the optics which belong to the branch of optics and photonics which uses light controlling components to get the images of the celestial objects in the space. The perfect example for this would be a telescope. Astronomical optics has a combination of well machined lenses and mirrors in order to reduce any image distortion and sensitive sensors to detect low levels of light.
- Track 5-1IR applications
- Track 5-2Aperture Synthesis
- Track 5-3Interferometry
- Track 5-4Adaptive Optics for Astronomy and Applications
SES is the technique which involves a reaction of chemical interactions and enormous electromagnetic fields near a surface. It is very sensitive as well as selective and has been exploited in physics, chemistry and biology and medicine. This method is one of the most enormously developing and important technique in the present world. In this method they use Nano sized roughened metal surfaces which are basically made of silver and gold. When these metals made to get excited under the presence of laser, their surface charges get drive thus creating a highly localised light field (plasmonic).
- Track 6-1Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering
- Track 6-2Surface Enhanced Hyper Raman Scattering
- Track 6-3Plasmon Mechanisms of Surface Enhanced Spectroscopy
- Track 6-4Surface Enhanced Spectroscopy on Semiconductors and Dielectrics
- Track 6-5Surface Enhanced Resonance Raman Scattering
- Track 6-6Tip Enhanced Raman Scattering and Related Spectroscopy and Microscopy
- Track 6-7Surface Enhanced Infrared Absorption
- Track 6-8Surfaceenhanced Fluorescence and Luminescence
- Track 6-9Surface Enhanced Terahertz Spectroscopy
- Track 6-10Single Molecule Detection by SES
- Track 6-11Surface Enhanced and Tip enhanced Spectroscopy of Carbon Materials (graphene, nanotubes, fullerenes and others)
These fibre optics are mainly used to carry larger information from one place to another place such that the loss of the information is very less when compared to the ordinary electrical cables because fibres are being uses rather than metals. In this case the fibres don't get any kind of effect from the electromagnetic interferences whereas metals do. These fibres are usually made of silica glass or plastic which have diameter less than the diameter of human hair. These fibres are also used for illumination purpose and imaging especially in the case of aerospace
- Track 7-1Advanced Optical Fibers
- Track 7-2Advanced Optical Sensors
Photonics is the study which involves the usage of radiant light. The fundamental element of this technology is photon. In these applications they use the photon in the same way that electronic devices use the electron. Therefore, the devices which are running on light have more advantages than the devices which are running on the electricity because light travels 10 times faster than the electricity.
This is the technology which generates light and harnesses other radiant energy that is having their quantum unit as photon. These are source of energy which shows best properties. These are being used in almost every activity which is present in the present date which is medicine, science, agriculture, information, industry and entertainment and many more. They always give a successful output.
- Track 9-1Laser Applications to Chemical, Security and Environmental Analysis
- Track 9-2X-ray Optics and Applications
- Track 9-3Frontiers in Optical Metrology and Sensing
- Track 9-4Biophotonics: Photonic Solutions for Better Health Care
- Track 9-5Silicon Photonics: from Fundamental Research to Manufacturing
- Track 9-6Organic Electronics and Photonics: Fundamentals and Devices
This quantum science is all about the study of Nano particles so that the properties of these naturally found Nano materials are being implemented on the synthetic materials which are being processed in the laboratories these days. The synthesised materials could be formed with the properties like high strength, resistance to water, heat and dust particles.
- Track 10-1Metamaterials
- Track 10-2Nanophotonics
- Track 10-3Advances in Ultrafast Condensed Phase Physics
- Track 10-4Quantum Technologies
This is the study which involves the applications of quantum mechanics on the process which involves the light (or photons in other words) and its interactions with the matter. To understand the behaviour of electromagnetic waves there has to be a study of individual photons. This means that the whole field of quantum physics mainly focuses on the study of individual photons.
- Track 11-1Quantum Photonics
- Track 11-2Quantum Dots
- Track 11-3Quantum Lasers
- Track 11-4Quantum Optoelectronics
- Track 11-5Dipolar Quantum Gases and Liquids
- Track 11-6Quantum Indeterminacy
Optical Communication and Networking is the process in which the data or message is being transmitted from the transmitter to the receiver. In which the information would transmitted among various telecommunication networks. These systems can operate in a LAN and in a WAN which is almost equivalent to a metropolitan and regions which may consists of regional, national, international distances.
- Track 12-1Fibre Optics Communication
- Track 12-2Optical Signal Communication
- Track 12-3Advances in Optical Fiber Communications
- Track 12-4Novel Optical Networks Elements
- Track 12-5Design Management and Optical Networks
This is a device that makes the atoms and molecules to stimulate in such a way that they start emitting light of a particular wavelength and amplifies that light which is further made to produce a narrow beam of light or radiation. The process of emission generally covers many types of lights with different wavelengths those are visible, infrared, and ultraviolet. Depending upon the wavelength or the type of light laser systems is developed.
- Track 13-1High-Power Lasers
- Track 13-2Waveguide Lasers
- Track 13-3Laser Solution for Space and the Earth
- Track 13-4Gas Lasers, Chemical Lasers and Excimer Lasers
- Track 13-5MID-IR, Quantum Cascade and THZ lasers
- Track 13-6Ultrafast Chemical Dynamics
- Track 13-7Plasma Technologies
- Track 13-8Fibre Lasers and Applications
- Track 13-9Quantum Information and Measurement
- Track 13-10LEDs
Optics in many manufacturing units is being acting as the main source of increasing the capabilities of current manufacturing processes and has made the new ones to exist. Optics has made everything easy and fast. For instance we can consider light which is being used to process materials remotely even in the harsh environments and vacuum conditions of the manufacturing unit. Even with the use of optics the contamination of the process by the probe beam and the tear and wear of the tools is being reduced without having any sought of surface contact.
- Track 14-1LED/Laser lighting
- Track 14-2Optics and Energy
- Track 14-3Autonomous/Automated Systems
- Track 14-4Remote Sensing
- Track 14-5Non-destructive Evaluation/Non-invasive testing
- Track 14-6Biomimetics
- Track 14-7Smartphone Optics
- Track 14-8Wearable Technology
The fibre laser technology is a technology where the fibre laser uses the optical fibre as the active medium which is been doped with the rare earth elements like neodymium, holmium, yttrium, thulium, erbium, and praseodymium. One should not have to be worried about the type of earth metal which is being used, the only thing which as to be remembered is that the fibre is being used at the centre.
- Track 15-1Laser Color/Flare Marking Technology
- Track 15-2500W CW Fiber Laser
- Track 15-3Dual-Pulsed Laser
The term photonics was first developed as an outgrowth of the practical semiconductor light emitters. It is the science which belongs to physical science department which gives the idea of light (photon) generation, detection and manipulation through various processes like transmission, emission, signal processing, modulation, amplification, switching and sensing.
- Track 16-1Graphene and 2D materials
- Track 16-2Photonic Crystal Materials and Devices
- Track 16-3Organic Phontonics
- Track 16-4Biophotonics and Neurophotonics
- Track 16-5Silicon Photonics
- Track 16-6Photonics for Solar Energy Systems
- Track 16-7Green Photonics
- Track 16-8Integrated Photonics
Lasers are something which can do several works such as reshaping corneas, pulverizing gallstones, killing tumours and reaming arteries and many more. These are some of the techniques which are being employed in today's medicinal world where lasers are being used to diagnose patients and the applications of lasers to biology and medicines has been increasing day by day.
- Track 17-1Biomedical Optics
- Track 17-2Optometry
- Track 17-3Lasers in Cancer Diagnosis and Detection
- Track 17-4Lasers in Dentistry
- Track 17-5Laser Microscopies
- Track 17-6Lasers in Tissue Engineering: Laser Tissue Interaction
- Track 17-7Laser Imaging and Diagnosis
- Track 17-8Lasers Repair Skin and Eyes
- Track 17-9Tissue Optics
- Track 17-10Optical Coherence Tomography
- Track 17-11Biomedical Spectroscopy
- Track 17-12Clinical Technologies and Systems
- Track 17-13Lasers in Ophthalmology


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North Korea's top nuclear negotiator and former spy chief is due to arrive in New York on Wednesday for talks aimed at salvaging a June summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un.
Kim Yong-chol, a veteran of the regime in Pyongyang who will be the most senior North Korean official to visit the US in 18 years, will hold talks with the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, following a flurry of diplomatic activity over the weekend.
The 72-year-old general, the vice-chairman of the ruling Workers' party who has served three generations of the Kim dynasty, stopped in Beijing on Tuesday night, where he was reported to have held talks with Chinese officials before his onward flight.
Trump confirmed that the general was on his way in a tweet on Tuesday morning, after South Korean media reported that he was on a passenger list for a Wednesday flight from Beijing to New York.
The president described the impending visit as a "solid response" to his letter to the North Korean leader on Thursday cancelling their planned summit on 12 June, blaming a bellicose statement from North Korean officials.
US officials had also said that the North Koreans had failed to appear for a planning meeting and did not answer their phones for several days last week. Trump has since claimed that the summit could take place on schedule.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that the Trump administration had indefinitely delayed sanctions on North Korea which had been due to take effect on Tuesday, in a bid to improve the conditions for a summit.
Sarah Sanders, the White House spokeswoman said in a statement on Tuesday: "Since the President's 24 May letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, the North Koreans have been engaging. The United States continues to actively prepare for President Trump's expected summit with leader Kim in Singapore."
Sanders said Trump would meet Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe, on 7 June at the White House in the run-up to a G7 summit in Quebec and the planned summit with Kim.
A team of US negotiators, headed by Washington's current ambassador to the Philippines, Sung Kim, met North Korean officials in the demilitarised zone (DMZ) that divides the two Koreas, on Sunday, and are due to have further meetings there over the course of this week, according to Sanders.
She said a separate team of White House officials, led by the deputy chief of staff, Joe Hagin, was in Singapore, "coordinating logistics for the expected summit". According to the Japanese public broadcaster, NHK, Kim Chang-son, the de facto chief of staff to the North Korean leader, had also flown to Singapore for the talks.
While the Singapore meetings are about logistics, the DMZ talks are about the substance of the talks, and the challenge of bridging a yawning gap between the two parties' negotiating positions. Trump and top US officials have hitherto insisted that North Korea unilaterally and completely dismantles its nuclear weapons programme, handing over warheads, fissile material and related equipment to the US, before receiving any reciprocal benefits. Pyongyang has rejected unilateral disarmament. It sees denuclearisation as a phased and mutual process.
The last member of the North Korean leadership to visit the US was vice-marshal Jo Myong-rok, who went to California and then Washington for a White House meeting with Bill Clinton in October 2000. The two governments came close to a summit meeting and a disarmament agreement, but the plans were derailed by the US presidential election the following month, narrowly won by George W Bush, who cut off all contacts with Pyongyang.
A state department report on religious freedom around the world published on Tuesday estimated that 80,000 to 120,000 political prisoners are in detention camps in North Korea, under "horrific conditions" in remote areas.
Sam Brownback, the US ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, said: "What we know is that you've got a gulag system operating in North Korea, and it's been a terrible situation for many – for many years. You can go on satellite, open-source satellite, and see some of these camps and the situation."
Asked if human rights would come up in a Trump-Kim summit, Brownback replied: "The president is right on point on North Korea. He's very engaged on this, as you know. The secretary [Pompeo] is very engaged on this. And I think they're raising all of these issues."


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For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed.
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EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)For I am the Lord, I change not.—Better, For I Jehovah change not. Because it is the Eternal's unchangeable will that the sons of Jacob, His chosen people, should not perish as a nation, He will purify them by the eradication of the wicked among them, that the remnant (the superior part; see Note on Malachi 2:15) may return to their allegiance. (Comp. Romans 11) Ewald renders the words: For I, the LORD, have not changed: hut ye sons of Jacob, have ye not altered? But the last verb does not mean "to alter;" and, moreover, the former translation is exactly in accordance with the wording of the prayer in Ezra 9:14-15.
Malachi 3:6.
The scriptural revelations of the divine Name are always the basis of intensely practical admonition. The Bible does not think it worth while to proclaim the Name of God without building on the proclamation promises or commandments. There is no 'mere theology' in Scripture; and it does not speak of 'attributes,' nor give dry abstractions of infinitude, eternity, omniscience, unchangeableness, but lays stress on the personality of God, which is so apt to escape us in these abstract conceptions, and thus teaches us to think of this personal God our Father, as infinite, eternal, knowing all things, and never changing. There is all the difference in our attitude towards the very same truth if we think of the unchangeableness of God, or if we think that our Father God is unchangeable. In our text the thought of Him as unchanging comes into view as the foundation of the continuance of the unfaithful sons of Jacob in their privileges and in their very lives. 'I am the Lord,' Jehovah, the Self-existent, the Eternal whose being is not under the limitations of succession and time. 'Because I am Jehovah, I change not'; and because Jehovah changes not, therefore our finite and mortal selves abide, and our infinite and sinful selves are still the objects of His steadfast love.
Let us consider, first, the unchangeable God, and second, the unchanging God as the foundation of our changeful lives.
I. The unchangeable God.
In the great covenant-name Jehovah there is revealed an existence which reverses all that we know of finite and progressive being, or finite and mortal being, or finite and variable nature. With us there are mutations arising from physical nature. The material must needs be subject to laws of growth and decadence. Our spiritual nature is subject to changes arising from the advancement in knowledge. Our moral nature is subject to fluctuations; circumstances play upon us, and 'nothing continueth in one stay.' Change is the condition of life. It means growth and happiness; it belongs to the perfection of creatures. But the unchangeableness of God is the negation of all imperfection, it is the negation of all dependence on circumstances, it is the negation of all possibility of decay or exhaustion, it is the negation of all caprice. It is the assurance that His is an underived, self-dependent being, and that with Him is the fountain of light; it is the assurance that, raised above the limits of time and the succession of events, He is in the eternal present, where all things that were and are, and are to come, stand naked and open. It is the assurance that the calm might of His eternal will acts, not in spasms of successive volitions preceded by a period of indecision and equilibrium between contending motives, but is one continuous uniform energy, never beginning, never bending, never ending; that the purpose of His will is 'the eternal purpose which He hath purposed in Himself.' It is the assurance that the clear vision of His infinite knowledge, from the heat of which nothing is hid, has no stages of advancement, and no events lying nebulous in a dim horizon by reason of distance, or growing in clearness as they draw nearer, but which pierces the mists of futurity and the veils of the past and the infinities of the present, and 'from the beginning to the end knoweth all things.' It is the assurance that the mighty stream of love from the heart of God is not contingent on the variations of our character and the fluctuations of our poor hearts, but rises from His deep well, and flows on for ever, 'the river of God' which 'is full of water.' It is the assurance that round all the majesty and the mercy which He has revealed for our adoration and our trust there is the consecration of permanence, that we might have a rock on which to build and never be confounded. Is there anywhere in the past an act of His power, a word of His lip, a revelation of His heart which has been a strength or a joy or a light to any man? It is valid for me, and is intended for my use. 'He fainteth not, nor is weary.' The bush burns and is not consumed. 'I will not alter the thing that has gone out of my lips.' 'By two immutable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we have strong consolation.'
II. The unchanging God as the foundation of our changeful lives.
In the most literal sense our text is true. Because He lives we live also. He is the same for ever, therefore we are not consumed. The foundation of our being lies beyond and beneath all the mutable things from which we are tempted to believe that we draw our lives, and is in God. The true lesson to be drawn from the mutable phenomena of earth is-heaven. The many links in the chain must have a staple. Reason requires that behind all the fleeting shall be the permanent. There must be a basis which does not partake of change. The lesson from all the mutable creation is the immutable God.
Since God changes not, the life of our spirits is not at the mercy of changing events. We look back on a lifetime of changing scenes through which we have passed, and forward to a similar succession, and this mutability is sad to many of us, and in some aspects sad to all, so powerless we are to fix and arrest any of our blessings. Which we shall keep we know not; we only know that, as certainly as buds and blossoms of spring drop, and the fervid summer darkens to November fogs and December frosts, so certainly we shall have to part with much in our passage through life. But if we let God speak to us, the necessary changes that come to us will not be harmful but blessed, for the lesson that the mutability of the mutual is meant to impress upon us is, the permanency of the divine, and our dependence, not on them, but on Him. We may look upon all the world of time and chance and think that He who Himself is unchanging changeth all. The eye of the tempest is a point of rest. The point in the heavens towards which, according to some astronomers, the whole of the solar system is drifting, is a fixed point. If we depend on Him, then change is not all sad; it cannot take God away, but it may bring us nearer to Him. We cannot be desolate as long as we have Him. We know not what shall be on the morrow. Be it so; it will be God's to-morrow. When the leaves drop we can see the rock on which the trees grow; and when changes strip the world for us of some of its waving beauty and leafy shade, we may discern more clearly the firm foundation on which our hopes rest. All else changes. Be it so; that will not kill us, nor leave us utterly forlorn as long as we hear the voice which says, 'I am the Lord; I change not; therefore ye are not consumed.'
God's purposes and promises change not, therefore our faith may rest on Him, notwithstanding our own sins and fluctuations. It is this aspect of the divine immutability which is the thought of our text. God does not turn from His love, nor cancel His promises, nor alter His purposes of mercy because of our sins. If God could have changed, the godless forgetfulness of, and departure from, Him of 'the Sons of Jacob' would have driven Him to abandon His purposes; but they still live-living evidences of His long-suffering. And in that preservation of them God would have them see the basis of hope for the future. So this is the confidence with which we should cheer ourselves when we look upon the past, and when we anticipate the future. The sins that have been in our past have deserved that we should have been swept away, but we are here still. Why are we? Why do we yet live? Because we have to do with an unchanging love, with a faithfulness that never departs from its word, with a purpose of blessing that will not be turned aside. So let us look back with this thought and be thankful; let us look forward with it and be of good cheer. Trust yourself, weak and sinful as you are, to that unchanging love. The future will have in it faults and failures, sins and shortcomings, but rise from yourself to God. Look beyond the light and shade of your own characters, or of earthly events to the central light, where there is no glimmering twilight, no night, 'no variableness nor shadow of turning.' Let us live in God, and be strong in hope. Forward, not backward, let us look and strive; so our souls, fixed and steadied by faith in Him, will become in a manner partakers of His unchangeableness; and we too in our degree will be able to say, 'The Lord is at my side; I shall not be moved.'Malachi 3:6. I am the Lord — Hebrew, Jehovah; I change not — In my nature or perfections there is no change, or shadow of turning, and therefore I have and always must have an unchangeable hatred to all sin: and my long- suffering also changes not, and therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed — Are not destroyed and sent into eternal misery in your sins. God's wisdom also changes not, but remains the same to dispense rewards to the good, and punishments to the wicked, in the fittest season, and therefore neither the one nor the other are consumed, but preserved to the time appointed of God. Or, the sense may be, Because I am the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever, as my name Jehovah imports, and I am true to my former promises, (see Exodus 6:3-6,) therefore you still continue a people, and are not consumed, as your iniquities deserve. And I will still preserve a remnant of you to fulfil to them the promises I made to your fathers: see Romans 11:29.
I change not - . The proper name of God, "He who Is," involves His unchangeableness. For change implies imperfection; it changes to that which is either more perfect or less perfect: to somewhat which that being, who changes, is not or has not. But God has everything in Himself perfectly. "Thou Alone, O Lord, Art what Thou Art, and Thou Art Who Art. For what is one thing in the whole and another in parts, and wherein is anything subject to change, is not altogether what Is. And what beginneth from not being, and can be conceived, as not being, and only subsisteth through another thing, returns to not-being; and what hath a 'has been,' which now is not, and a 'to be,' which as yet is not, that is not, properly and absolutely. But Thou Art what Thou Art. For whatever Thou Art in any time or "way," that Thou Art wholly and always; and Thou Art, Who Art properly and simply, because Thou hast neither 'to have been' or 'to be about to be;' but only to be present; and canst not be conceived, ever not to have been." "There is only one simple Good, and, therefore, One Alone Unchangeable, which is God."
"Our" life is a "becoming" rather than a simple "being;" it is a continual losing of what we had, and gaining what we had not, for "in as far as any one is not what he was, and is what he was not, so far forth he dieth and ariseth;" dieth to what he was, ariseth to be something otherwise.
"Increase evidences a beginning; decrease, death and destruction. And, therefore, Malachi says, 'I am God, and I change not,' ever retaining His own state of being; because what has no origin cannot be changed."
So the Psalmist says Psalm 102:27, "As a vesture, Thou shalt change them and they shall be changed, but Thou art the Same, and Thy years shall not fail;" and Balaam, controlled by God Numbers 23:19. "God is not a man, that He should lie, or the son of man, that He should repent;" and James 1:17, "with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."
Of this unchangeableness of God, His holy ones partake, as far as they fix themselves on God. "The soul of man hangs upon Him, by whom it was made. And because it was made, to desire God Alone, but everything which it desires below is less than He, rightly doth not that suffice it, which is not God. Hence, is it, that the soul is scattered hither and thither, and is repelled from everything, toward which it is borne, through satiety of them. But holy men guard themselves by cautious observation, lest they should be relaxed from their intentness by change, and because they desire to be the same, wisely bind themselves to the thought, whereby they love God. For in the contemplation of the Creator, they will receive this, that they should ever enjoy one stability of mind. No changeableness then dissipates them, because their thought ever perseveres, free from unlikeness to itself. This therefore they now imitate, striving with effort, which hereafter they shall with joy receive as a gift." To which unchangeableness the prophet had bound himself by the power of love, when he said Psalm 27:4, "One thing I required of the Lord, which I will require, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord." To this unity Paul clave intently, when he said, Philippians 3:13-14 : "One thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and stretching forth to those things which are before, I press forward toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus."
And ye sons of Jacob are not consumed - Man would often have become weary of man's wickedness and waywardness. We are impatient at one another, readily despair of one another. God might justly have cast off them and us; but He changes not. He abides by the covenant which He made with their fathers; He consumed them not; but with His own unchangeable love awaited their repentance. Our hope is not in ourselves, but in God.
I change not—Ye are mistaken in inferring that, because I have not yet executed judgment on the wicked, I am changed from what I once was, namely, a God of judgment.
therefore ye … are not consumed—Ye yourselves being "not consumed," as ye have long ago deserved, are a signal proof of My unchangeableness. Ro 11:29: compare the whole chapter, in which God's mercy in store for Israel is made wholly to flow from God's unchanging faithfulness to His own covenant of love. So here, as is implied by the phrase "sons of Jacob" (Ge 28:13; 35:12). They are spared because I am Jehovah, and they sons of Jacob; while I spare them, I will also punish them; and while I punish them, I will not wholly consume them. The unchangeableness of God is the sheet-anchor of the Church. The perseverance of the saints is guaranteed, not by their unchangeable love to God, but by His unchangeable love to them, and His eternal purpose and promise in Christ Jesus [Moore]. He upbraids their ingratitude that they turn His very long-suffering (La 3:22) into a ground for skeptical denial of His coming as a Judge at all (Ps 50:1, 3, 4, 21; Ec 8:11, 12; Isa 57:11; Ro 2:4-10).
I change not: as he loved righteousness, and hath purposed to defend and reward it, yea, hath promised it shall be well with the righteous, so he now loveth righteousness, and purposeth to deal well with them that love and practise it; these may rejoice, I change not. And so on the other hand, I do, as I ever did, hate wickedness, and will, as I have threatened, punish it; I change not, my mind toward the things or persons that are wicked is the same.
Therefore ye sons of Jacob; either taken for all the natural branches of Jacob, or taken for such as are the sons of Jacob according to the faith, who did indeed fear God.
Are not consumed; since the same hatred of sin and resolution to punish is accompanied with the same longsuffering and patience, that you, sons of Jacob by nature, (but not by imitation,) who have provoked me, and deserve to be destroyed, might yet have time to repent and amend, since my long-suffering changeth not, you are not yet consumed in your sins. So for the good, though they are oppressed and suffer, yet not consumed, for God changeth not, he now doth love as he ever hath loved them, and preserveth them. In brief, God is the same in his wisdom to order the rewards of good and bad in fittest season, and therefore neither the one or other are consumed, but both preserved to the season appointeth of God, the just Judge, and then each shall be dealt with according to what they are.
I change not; being the same today, yesterday, and forever; he changed not in his divine nature and personality by becoming man; he took that into union with him he had not before, but remained the same he ever was; nor did he change in his threatenings of destruction to the Jews, which came upon them according to his word; nor in his promises of his Spirit, and presence, and protection to his people; nor will he ever change in his love and affections to them; nor in the efficacy of his blood, sacrifice, and righteousness; wherefore, as this is introduced to assure the truth and certainty of what is said before, concerning his being a swift witness against the wicked, so also for the comfort of the saints, as follows. The Targum is,
"for I the Lord have not changed my covenant.''
Therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed; such who were Israelites indeed, true believers in Christ; these were not consumed when the wicked Jews were, but were directed to leave the city before its destruction, and go to another place, as they did, whereby they were preserved; and so it was, that not one Christian perished in it; See Gill on Matthew 24:13 and so it is owing to the unchangeable love, grace, and power of Christ, that none of his perish internally or eternally, but have everlasting life.For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob {f} are not consumed.
(f) They murmured against God, because they did not see his help which was ever present to defend them: and therefore he accuses them of ingratitude, and shows that in that they are not daily consumed, it is a sign that he still defends them, and so his mercy towards them never changes.
EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)6. For I am the Lord, I change not] Rather: For I, the Lord, change not: therefore (lit. and) ye, sons of Jacob, are not consumed. The unchangeableness of Him, whose name, Jehovah, "I am," is the exponent of His nature, is appealed to as the ground ("for") of His dealings with Israel. He changes not in His promises and purposes of grace (Romans 11:29); therefore, in spite of their rebellions and provocations, the sons of Jacob are still preserved. It is the same argument that is expanded in Psalm 89:28-37.Verse 6. - For I am the Lord, I change not; or, Jehovah, I change not. This is to show that God performs his promises, and effectually disposes of the allegation in Malachi 2:17, that he put no difference between the evil and the good. The great principles of right and wrong never alter; they are as everlasting as he who gave them. God here speaks of himself by his covenant name, which expresses his eternal independent being, "the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning" (James 1:17). Therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. Because God's eternal purpose stands good, and his "gifts and calling are without repentance" (Romans 11:29), therefore the Israelites are indeed chastised and corrected, but not wholly consumed; they have a place and a nation, and the great promises made to their foregathers will all be fulfilled in due time (Jeremiah 30:11; Micah 7:20). He calls them "sons of Jacob," to remind them of the covenant made with their great ancestor, which was the portion of all true Israelites (comp. Jeremiah 33:20, 21). Orelli would read, "Ye have not made an end," i.e. of your sins; so virtually the Septuagint, which joins this clause to the following verse. But the present text is most probably correct. Zechariah 7:4. "And the word of Jehovah of hosts came to me thus, Zechariah 7:5. Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh (month), and that for seventy years, did ye, when fasting, fast to me? Zechariah 7:6. And when ye eat, and when ye drink, is it not ye who eat, and ye who drink? Zechariah 7:7. Does it not concern the words, which Jehovah has preached through the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and satisfied, and her towns round about her, and the south country and the low land were inhabited?" The thought of Zechariah 7:6 and Zechariah 7:7 is the following: It is a matter of indifference to God whether the people fast or not. The true fasting, which is well pleasing to God, consists not in a pharisaical abstinence from eating and drinking, but in the fact that men observe the word of God and live thereby, as the prophets before the captivity had already preached to the people. This overthrew the notion that men could acquire the favour of God by fasting, and left it to the people to decide whether they would any longer observe the previous fast-days; it also showed what God would require of them if they wished to obtain the promised blessings. For the inf. absol. see at Haggai 1:6. The fasting in the seventh month was not the fast on the day of atonement which was prescribed in the law (Leviticus 23), but, as has been already observed, the fast in commemoration of the murder of Gedaliah. In the form צמתּני the suffix is not a substitute for the dative (Ges. 121, 4), but is to be taken as an accusative, expressive of the fact that the fasting related to God (Ewald, 315, b). The suffix is strengthened by אני for the sake of emphasis (Ges. 121, 3). In Zechariah 7:7 the form of the sentence is elliptical. The verb is omitted in the clause הלוא את־הדּברים, but not the subject, say זה, which many commentators supply, after the lxx, the Peshito, and the Vulgate ("Are these not the words which Jehovah announced?"), in which case את would have to be taken as nota nominativi. The sentence contains an aposiopesis, and is to be completed by supplying a verb, either "should ye not do or give heed to the words which," etc.? or "do ye not know the words?" ישׁבת, as in Zechariah 1:11, in the sense of sitting or dwelling; not in a passive sense, "to be inhabited," although it might be so expressed. שׁלוה is synonymous with שׁקטת in Zechariah 1:11. ישׁב, in the sense indicated at the close of the verse, is construed in the singular masculine, although it refers to a plurality of previous nouns (cf. Ges. 148, 2). In addition to Jerusalem, the following are mentioned as a periphrasis for the land of Judah: (1) her towns round about; these are the towns belonging to Jerusalem as the capital, towns of the mountains of Judah which were more or less dependent upon her: (2) the two rural districts, which also belonged to the kingdom of Judah, viz., the negeb, the south country (which Koehler erroneously identifies with the mountains of Judah; compare Joshua 15:21 with Joshua 15:48), and the shephēlâh, or lowland along the coast of the Mediterranean (see at Joshua 15:33).
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The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that efforts are underway to remove romaine lettuce from California from the supply chain, as they believe an E.coli outbreak likely originated from the Golden State.
In a series of tweets, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said the goal afterwards is to restock the market with untainted produce from different growing regions.
"UPDATE ON OUTBREAK: The romaine implicated in the current outbreak is likely from California based on growing and harvesting patterns," t said. "The goal now is to withdraw the product that's at risk of being contaminated from the market, and then re-stock the market."
"New romaine from different growing regions, including Florida and Arizona, will soon be harvested. We're working with growers and distributors on labeling produce for location and harvest date and possibly other ways of informing consumers that the product is 'post-purge,'" he added. "We want to help unaffected growers get back into production and enable stores and consumers to re-stock."
The FDA issued a pre-Thanksgiving warning earlier this week about romaine lettuce out of an abundance of caution, because the strain that's circulating can lead to kidney failure.
The agency said at least 32 people had gotten sick in 11 states, including California, in cases believed to be tied to tainted romaine.
Not every romaine lettuce head is infected, but the FDA has warned the public not to eat any of it. Grocery stores had been advised to pull products from shelves, and restaurants are urged not to serve it.
Gottlieb said the government is working on long-term solutions to shield unaffected growing regions from being impacted during future outbreaks.
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PRINT VERSION: Attorney General Opinion No. 16-IB22
Attorney General Opinion No. 16-IB22
October 24, 2016
Mr. Peter Kostyshyn
SBI# [Redacted] James T. Vaughn Correctional Center
1181 Paddock Road
Smyrna, DE 19977
Re: FOIA Petition Concerning the State Election Commissioner
Dear Mr. Kostyshyn:
We write in response to your correspondence, which we received on March 7, 2016, alleging that the Delaware Office of the State Election Commissioner ("SEC") violated the public records provisions of Delaware's Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), 29 Del. C. §§ 10001-10007 ("FOIA"). We treat your correspondence as a petition ("Petition") for a determination pursuant to 29 Del. C. § 10005(e) regarding whether a violation of FOIA has occurred or is about to occur.
Pursuant to our routine process in responding to petitions for determination under FOIA, we invited the SEC to submit a written response to your Petition. We received the SEC's response ("Response Letter") on March 21, 2016. We have reviewed your Petition and the Response Letter. For the reasons set forth below, we conclude that the SEC did not violate FOIA as alleged in the Petition.
On December 31, 2015, you submitted multiple FOIA requests to the SEC (the "Requests").[1] Specifically, in separate submissions, you requested campaign finance reporting records for the following individuals on a standard FOIA request form: Charles Potter, Jack Markell, Matt Denn, Catherine Damavandi, John Cartier, Dennis P. Williams, Samuel Prado, and Tom Gordon.[2]
In response to your Requests, the SEC informed you that all of the information that you wished to review was available online at https://cfrs.elections.delaware.gov/.[3] The SEC sent its response to the Howard R. Young Correctional Center, where you have previously resided.[4]
The Petition alleges that the SEC violated FOIA by failing to provide you hard copies of the requested records because, as an inmate, you have no access to a computer.[5]
In its Response Letter, the SEC argues that the records you request are available on its website and, as a result, the SEC provided you "reasonable access" to records as required by FOIA by directing you to the appropriate webpage.[6] The SEC states that it was not aware at the time of its response that you did not have computer access.[7] The SEC notes, however, that "[your] sister, who claims to be [your] attorney in fact, is not incarcerated and so has the same access to a computer as any other member of the public."[8] In the alternative, the SEC states that it will provide the requested records, which total 2,682 double-sided pages of documents, at a cost of $504.40 to be paid in advance.[9] The SEC indicates that this cost reflects 20 free pages and a cost of $.20 for the remaining 2,522 double-sided pages.
Delaware's FOIA provides that "[a]ll public records shall be open to inspection and copying during regular business hours by the custodian of the records for the appropriate body" and "[r]easonable access to and reasonable facilities for copying of these records shall not be denied to any citizen."[10]
When paper records are provided to the requesting party, "[t]he first 20 pages of standard-sized, black and white copies [sic] material shall be provided free of charge" and "[t]he charge for copying standard sized, black and white public records for copies over and above 20 shall be $0.10 per sheet ($0.20 for a double-sided sheet)."[11] Moreover, "[t]he public body may require all or any portion of the fees due . . . to be paid prior to any service being performed."[12]
As an initial matter, we note that that the SEC has not denied your right to view the requested records. Rather, the SEC directed you to a specific public webpage containing all records responsive to your request.[13] Under the circumstances, we cannot find that doing so violated FOIA.
You state that you do not have access to a computer, and you therefore deem the SEC's identification of its public website to be a denial of your request for records. We do not agree with this characterization of the facts. We accept for purposes of this Petition that you have no access to a computer, but we also accept the SEC's counsel's representation that the SEC was not aware of this fact at the time it responded to your Requests.[14] Given its state of knowledge, the SEC's actions satisfied FOIA.
Having been made aware that you do not have access to a computer, however, the SEC has agreed to provide the records in hard copy. The SEC intends to charge photocopying fees, as permitted by FOIA, and the fees proposed appear to satisfy the statute.[15] Likewise, the request for advance payment is expressly permitted by the statute.[16] Thus, we believe that the SEC is providing you "reasonable access" to the requested records in accordance with FOIA.[17]
For the reasons stated, we determine that the SEC did not violate FOIA by directing you to a public webpage containing all of the information that you have requested. Moreover, based on the facts in the record,[18] the SEC's offer to provide a hard copy of the requested documents, at the estimated cost, to be paid in advance, satisfies FOIA. This resolves the issues raised in your Petition, and we consider the matter closed.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Danielle Gibbs
Danielle Gibbs
Chief Deputy Attorney General
cc: Ann Woolfolk, Counsel to SEC (via email)
[1] See Response Letter at Ex. A.
[2] Id.
[3] Petition at Ex. 1.
[4] Id.
[5] See Petition at 1. You also appear to allege that the SEC violated FOIA by sending its response to your requests to the wrong address. See Petition at 1. The SEC has explained that it did, inadvertently, send its response to your previous prison address. Response Letter at 2. This was, at most, a technical violation. No remediation would be required in any event because it is clear that you received the SEC's response.
[6] Response Letter at 1.
[7] Id. at 2.
[8] Id.
[9] Id. (citing 29 Del. C. §10003(m)).
[10] 29 Del. C. § 10003(a).
[11] 29 Del. C. § 10003(m)(1).
[12] 29 Del. C. § 10003(m)(5).
[13] Petition at Ex. 1.
[14] See Response Letter at 2. To our knowledge, inmates do not automatically lose access to computers upon incarceration, so it seems reasonable that the SEC would not have assumed that you had no access to a computer.
[15] See Id. We have reviewed the SEC's calculations and find that the cost estimate reflects a correct application of 29 Del. C. § 10003(m)(1).
[16] See 29 Del. C. § 10003(m)(5).
[17] Of course, if you wish to modify your request, you may do so. We consider this Petition to be resolved, and all future correspondence concerning the Requests should be directed to the SEC.
[18] We note that the SEC included "facts" in its Response regarding your financial condition and your ability to receive assistance from a family member. We did not consider the purported facts because they are not relevant to the arguments presented in the Petition. Neither did we find them sufficiently reliable as presented.


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This week we had Kevin McNeese share God's word with us and it was a powerful message to challenge and inspire us for 2013. You want to make sure to catch this sermon if you were unable to be with us this last Sunday. The message he shared truly is timeless as the title of his message implies, and it was a great reminder of the omnipresence of God in our lives and in our world. There is no place we can go and hide from the presence of God. He is with us in our lowest lows and our highest highs. He is there when we think he is not and he is there when we are expecting him to be. All through our lives we can know beyond a shadow of a doubt that God was, is, and will be with us; in our past, our present and our future.
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COTTAGE GROVE Wis. (January 16, 2018) — Johnson Health Tech (JHT) today named Michael Conlan Managing Director of the JHT-Australia office. Conlan, who joins JHT with extensive experience across the sporting goods and commercial fitness industry, will oversee all operations of the Melbourne-based JHT-AU, including sales, service and operations of both the home-use and commercial business serving Australia and New Zealand.
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"For Johnson Health Tech to become the biggest and best fitness company in the world, we must have world-class leadership in each and every subsidiary we operate," said Jason Lo, CEO of Johnson Health Tech Co., Ltd. "Michael's proven results in his previous roles, including his experience in the sporting goods sector and commercial fitness industry, have prepared him to further build on the progress we've made in the Australian market, and I believe he will help us achieve our goal. We're pleased to welcome him to the JHT family."
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In testimony last week before the U.S. Senate's Health, Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee, Tennessee Insurance Commissioner Julie Mix McPeak and Governor Bill Haslam urged Congress to keep paying cost-sharing payments called CSRs. The Trump Administration has hinted it will halt those payments, a move observers have said could be dangerous for already-precarious markets, consumers and insurers.
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Foreign Direct Investments Grow by 59.1 Percent in March 2016; First Quarter 2016 Level Reaches US$1.3 Billion
Foreign direct investments (FDI) rose by 59.1 percent to post US$364 million net inflows in March 2016 from US$229 million in the comparable period in the previous year.1, 2 The country's sustained favorable economic performance as evidenced by 69 consecutive quarters of positive growth, and growth prospects for the year ahead, helped drive inflows in all FDI components during the period. Non-residents' investments in debt instruments (consisting mainly of loans extended by parent companies abroad to their local affiliates) accounted largely for the increase in net FDI in March. In particular, net investments in debt instruments more than doubled to US$262 million from US$122 million last year. Likewise, net equity capital placements grew by 6.9 percent to US$53 million from US$50 million. This resulted as gross equity capital placements went up to US$135 million, more than offsetting withdrawals of US$82 million. Equity capital placements during the month came mostly from Singapore, the United States, Hong Kong, Japan, and Taiwan. These placements were channeled to accommodation and food service; real estate; manufacturing; financial and insurance; and wholesale and retail trade activities. Meanwhile, reinvestment of earnings declined by 14.3 percent to US$49 million during the period.
On a cumulative basis, FDI yielded US$1.3 billion net inflows in the first quarter of 2016, increasing by 52.1 percent from US$850 million in same period last year. This was on account of higher gross equity capital placements at US$599 million during the period from the previous year's level of US$330 million. Equity capital infusions during the period emanated largely from Hong Kong, Singapore, Spain, the Bahamas, and Taiwan. By economic activity, equity capital were mainly channeled to financial and insurance; construction; accommodation and food service; real estate; and manufacturing activities. Net investments in debt instruments increased by 50.1 percent to US$617 million from US$411 million in the same quarter in 2015. Meanwhile, reinvestment of earnings contracted moderately by 2.1 percent to US$181 million.
1 Based on the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual, 6th edition (BPM6) which uses the asset and liability principle in the compilation of FDI statistics. Under the asset and liability principle, claims of non-resident direct investment enterprises from resident direct investors are presented as reverse investment under net incurrence of liabilities/non-residents' investments in the Philippines (previously presented in the Balance of Payments Manual, 5th edition (BPM5) as negative entry under assets/residents' investments abroad). Conversely, claims of resident direct investment enterprises from foreign direct investors are presented as reverse investment under net acquisition of financial assets/residents' investments abroad (previously presented as negative entry under liabilities/non-residents' investments in the Philippines).
2 BSP statistics on FDI covers actual investment inflows, which could be in the form of equity capital, reinvestment of earnings, and borrowings between affiliates. In contrast to investment data from other government sources, the BSP's FDI data include investments where ownership by the foreign enterprise is at least 10 percent. Meanwhile, FDI data of Investment Promotion Agencies (IPAs) do not make use of the 10 percent threshold and include borrowings from foreign sources that are non-affiliates of the domestic company. Furthermore, the BSP's FDI data are presented in net terms (i.e., equity capital placements less withdrawals), while the IPAs' FDI do not account for equity withdrawals.
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It is generally believed that cutting down crabs it is not as easy as it sounds because without carbs you will not feel full after eating. At least at the beginning of your diet and especially if you are a pasta or bread lover. Even though you have a carbs restriction, it does not mean you need to starve. Fats and protein are also good energy fuel that needs to be included in your diet. Now, if you want to eat were carbs or you are following a keto diet, here is a weekly meal plan you can follow if you are out of ideas. For healthy food delivery option see the rest of the article.
Start this week!
- Monday
In the first day of your diet, you can go with vegetables and Italian baked eggs breakfast.
Take four ounces of cooked salmon, wrap it in lettuce pieces and add a little salsa and some avocado for lunch.
Get some jerky for a snack.
For dinner, you can stick to a little portion of vegetables with cauliflower rice and four ounces of tofu.
- Tuesday
You have got scrambled eggs with veggies all in a mug at breakfast, asparagus-stuffed chicken at lunch, a hard-boiled egg for a snack and for dinner some broccoli slaw fake pasta.
- Wednesday
We have got some cottage cheese and berries for breakfast, burrito salad at lunch, string cheese as a snack and for dinner baked buffalo wings with a side salad.
- Thursday
A little omelet for breakfast, spinach, almond and berries salad at lunch, veggies and hummus as a snack and for dinner get some courgette noodles with Turkey Bolognese.
- Friday
Get some low-carb pancakes for breakfast, Spaghetti squash alfredo for lunch, Low-carb protein bar as a snack and for dinner Baked coconut shrimp.
- Saturday
You have got two-cheese muffins at breakfast; your lunch includes Caprese salad, a handful of almonds as a snack and for dinner cauliflower pizza.
- Sunday
On your last day you get a yogurt with berries for breakfast, Kale salad with steak and avocado at lunch, for a snack you can eat and at dinner a Thai citrus chicken salad.
Laura grew up in a small town in northern Quebec. She studied chemistry in college, graduated, and married her husband one month later. They were then blessed with two baby boys within the first four years of marriage. Having babies gave their family a desire to return to the old paths – to nourish their family with traditional, homegrown foods; rid their home of toxic chemicals and petroleum products; and give their boys a chance to know a simple, sustainable way of life. They are currently building a homestead from scratch on two little acres in central Texas. There's a lot to be done to become somewhat self-sufficient, but they are debt-free and get to spend their days living this simple, good life together with their five young children. Laura is an advocate for people with disabilities.


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The three storey, 5,500 sq m building is situated on the edge of campus with a street presence and bounding defining a sequence of external spaces that join Loughborough University with Loughborough College of Technology on the adjacent site. The building is orientated to optimise use of natural light and ventilation reducing energy consumption.
Ground floor accommodation is separated from the upper levels so that the tidal flow of students attending lectures does not disturb sensitive research activities at upper levels. The first and second floors are organised around a two storey central atrium. PHD students based in the atrium have ready access to the wide range of preparation, research and analysis facilities – and professors – on each side. The end walls of the atria are glazed and an ETFE roof above creates a vibrant working environment.
David Morley Architects has now completed four projects at Loughborough University, with a fifth due for completion in autumn 2009. This includes a post-graduate centre, theECB National Cricket Centre, a 1,300 room student accommodation development andSport Park (an office development to bring together a number of National Governing Bodies of Sport in an active landscape).
David Morley says of the project: 'This building shows how a complex programme of research and teaching activities can be distilled into a simple building that also makes a positive contribution to the campus – I hope we have achieved our aim that the building should speak but not shout.'
The new facility will be opened by the Princess Royal on 12th May


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Paula is LOVING every second of playing in London Below. Read the tumbler here or:
"Starting right now, you can be whatever you want to be: a man or a monster, a hero or a god."
I'm a big fan of following your dreams, and as it turns out, my dreams have most often come true when I've followed my fandom.
After the success I've been lucky enough to see with ElfQuest (my producing partner, Stephanie Thorpe and I created a fan trailer for this 35 yr old global comic we've loved since we were wee that garnered tons of press, the first red carpet at the SAG building, a number of packed comic con panels, and now even the film/TV rights), I wouldn't have been surprised if that was my one golden ticket.
So when I saw Michael (our Richard's) posting online about auditions for a production of Neverwhere, 99% of me thought I didn't stand a chance. I'd loved this story for years, but I wasn't a company member, plays take so much time when I was overextend a bit as it is, and how lucky would I have to be to play another of my top 5 fandom roles. Nightfall and Door? No, too much to hope for.
And yet… to be crazy enough to pursue acting as a career for any extended amount of time, one must love the journey as much as the goal, and even the auditions offer a chance to play in other worlds. I couldn't pass it by.
Imagine being the guy next to me in an aisle in Target when Scott, our director, called to offer me the chance to play Lady Door. That alone might make a funny short film.
So now I find myself with the amazing opportunity to play nightly in London Below. To slink into the skin of a girl I've loved for years. Door's world is one full of danger that she had, up until recently, felt she had an edge over. Her cunning, charm, position and powers held the dark at bay, coloring it instead with wonder and adventure, but now that her family has been taken from her and the only truly safe place she's ever known has been rendered "un," she's struggling to make sense of it all, to define herself, and to survive. Friendship, possibly love, and even hope might be found within the struggle. Or not. Part of that is left up to you.
Now surround her with a menagerie of some of the most amazing characters brought to life by actors who nightly make my jaw drop, pepper in a heap of adventure, danger and thrills, oodles of heart, and a rather healthy dose of humor and it is just DELICIOUS!
Thank you, beyond words, for this opportunity, Sacred Fools, Scott Leggett, all of our producers, Neil Gaiman and Robert Kauzlaric.
And yes, Universe, I've learned my lesson. I will let my fandom be my compass (I'm winking at you, JJ Abrams!) ; )
How about you… man, monster, hero or god, what shall you choose to be?


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Pepper the robot is heading to the airport.
More specifically, the 4-foot high humanoid robot is joining a global restaurateur to engage with customers as they walk by one of the eateries at the Oakland International Airport.
The restaurateur, HMSHost, has teamed with Softbank Robotics America to launch a new pilot program with the humanoid robot starting this week.
Pepper will greet and engage with guests at HMSHost's Pyramid Ale Taproom, offering menu recommendations, directions to travelers and happily chat with them.
If successful, the restaurant company would have the option to introduce Pepper at any of a number of locations throughout the U.S.
HMSHost is part of Autogrill, the world's largest provider of food and beverage services for travelers. The $3 billion company, with a staff of 37,000, has food and beverage operations at more than 120 airports globally.
Anyone who drives on U.S. highways has likely come across an operation of HMSHost, which is the exclusive provider of Starbucks Coffee in airports and motorways in North America, in addition to having partnerships with California Pizza Kitchen, Chili's Too and Tim Hortons, to name a few.
I caught up with Jim Schmitz, vice president of innovation at HMSHost, who sees Pepper as an additional way to increase customer engagement.
"We look at four improvements, in general: the speed of service, customer service, entertaining experiences and information, and we see Pepper as adding improvement especially in the last two," Schmitz said.
HMSHost provided the menus and other relevant information to Softbank Robotics, which then customized Pepper for that location.
Pepper already is a big deal in Japan, working in more than 100 stores and in many homes, as I wrote about here earlier this year (Pepper The Robot Looks To Engage Customers).
Pepper was also in full display at the recent National Retail Federation Big Show in New York, where retailers saw demonstrations of how Pepper could relate with in-store shoppers.
At the airport, one of the challenges of the many restaurants and pubs is to attract travelers to come in, and that's where Pepper comes in.
"Capturing additional customers would be great for us," Schmitz said.
There's also an obvious future marketing play for Peppers, since the robot sports a large and dynamic screen on its front. Through facial recognition, Pepper also can identify some of a person's characteristics even before a discussion starts.
Schmitz sees a future potential of tapping into that real estate beyond the current menus and directions to add couponing, specials and other offers.
Pepper can actively approach travelers and provide additional services, such their flight and gate information and directions to other airport facilities.
"It's all about the entertainment and information factor," said Schmitz.
If this thing is annoying as I think it will be, will "Pepper Spray" work on it ? Jus' sayin'
It actually is quite friendly, Mark, and those I saw interact with it at the recent NRF exposition seemed to have very positive reactions. There also seems to be high interest, based on the lines to interact with it.
Considering that Oakland Airport holds the unofficial record for having the meanest, least helpful police force on the planet, maybe replacing them with oh-so-cute robots will be a plus?
For now, Pepper is just hanging out at the entrance to the eatery, Chuck.
One can hope, Mr. Martin.


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Well, to continue my write-up of the Herman baking experiments that I did this weekend here is the second cake that I tried, a Pear and Ginger Herman Cake.
This was just using the standard Herman recipe but substituting pear for apple and ginger for the cinnamon. To be honest I am not sure that I liked it, I love pears and I was disappointed that I couldn't really taste the pear. If it was supposed to be a ginger cake it would have been great as it was very gingery.
Pear and Ginger Herman Cake
- 170g caster sugar
- 225g plain flour
- 1 tbsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 175ml cooking oil
- 2 tbsp black treacle
- 2 eggs
- 3 pears, peeled and cut into chunks
- 6 pieces stem ginger, chopped into very small pieces
- One portion of Herman
Grease and line a 23cm square cake tin. Pre-heat the oven to 180C/Gas Mark 4.
Sift the dry ingredients into a large mixing bowl. Beat the oil, eggs, treacle and Herman in a mixing jug, add this to the dry ingredients. Add the pears and stem ginger and stir everything well until well combined.
Bake for 45 mins, if after 30 mins the top is looking very brown cover with tin foil, test with a skewer and if it comes out clean the cake is cooked.
General Appearance: Yet another Herman that sunk in the middle! Nice colour though.
Aroma: Sweet and gingery.
Texture: A very moist cake, well risen round the edges but too sticky and dense in the middle.
Taste: Just tastes like ginger, I have a feeling that may be the tablespoon of ginger and six pieces of stem ginger that did that. I am still disappointed that the pear was completely lost, it did however keep the cake very moist.
What other combinations do you think I could put with pear to make a good cake? I was thinking honey or chocolate.
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Yahoo Live and Creamfields are collaborating to produce a live stream of some of the performances and highlights of the festival which will take place over August Bank Holiday weekend.
The broadcast will start on Friday 28 August 2015 at 18.00 and feature sets from the likes of Fatboy Slim, Armin van Buuren, Afrojack, Laidback Luke, Otto Knows and Tiёsto.
To access the stream visit http://www.yahoo.com/creamfields or the Yahoo screen app on mobile or other connected devices such as Apple TV, Roku and Xbox.
Creamfields is one of the biggest dance festivals in the UK with an expected sell-out crowd of 70,000.


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Because the introduction of mass media, scholastic arguments in the field of interactions and also among the daily conversations of residents around the globe, have a tendency to emphasize on the significance of information and entertainment media as tools of political discourse, and also particularly on their function as vibrant pressures to countries' democratization. In USA specifically, scholars and observers place considerable responsibility upon the shoulders of brand-new media for the present state of U.S. polity and also culture.
When the term new media was first introduced, doubters that researched it went into the sphere of hope, trying to assess whether the new technological forms can cultivate engagement, enhance the degree of recognition concerning politics among residents, as well as restore communication. Net chat rooms, talk shows, live TV programs, as well as all interactive multimedia networks of numerous types, fueled and remain to feed this hope, which makes modern doubters believe that the value of national politics could be recognized by the vast majority, reducing lack of rate of interest. But have points changed because of the introduction and also use of these brand-new media forms? Do people feel a lot more equalized and also are they better associated with the political processes that regulate their daily lives?
However, as different researches recommend, new media have changed not the number of people involved, however in fact the scope of their rate of interest in public law and also national politics. That is mostly due to the fact that new media technologies give both brand-new obstacles as well as risks. There is the threat that a new technopoly will additionally colonize day-to-day life, as customers passively soak up 500 plus networks of the same old social kinds. Yet the brand-new technologies also provide people with tools to produce new kinds of society and also to set their very own cultural setting. The frustrating rise in media innovations ready to go into the consumer market as well as attract attention, recommends that there is still hope around for brand-new media to recognize their role in the democratization procedure of contemporary people.
At the exact same time, one needs to remember that a range of research studies argue that a person's crucial media pedagogy ultimately requires the restructuring of the media, education, as well as day-to-day life. Contemporary cultures are creating fascinating new technologies and also enormous social wealth, however it is unequally distributed and usually used as forms of supremacy as well as destruction, rather than to promote human betterment. Vital media rearing must interfere in this tough and threatening situation and battle to get over the worst features of existing societies and cultures by striving to produce much better ones. Vital media rearing in fact unavoidably converges with dynamic politics as well as the task of radical social improvement. To the level that these end results contribute to the democratization of today's people, they are advancing both the theoretical base of evaluation and individuals' political passion, in the present unclear political moment.
An abundant American practice of vital media evaluation and pedagogy can aid people make their means better into the corporate-dominated, advertising-saturated, information-and-communication-based, globe financial order of this century and also past. As more and more people are getting significantly fed up with national politics as theater, confrontation, conspiracy, resentment as well as plan emptiness as well as they do have a hunger for compound, they search for ideas that actually do appear to be attending to the troubles they are experiencing and really feeling in their every day lives, will lead them to locate the political players that will certainly share those pre-occupations and also be able to relate to them at a direct and human degree.


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Saturday, October 4, 2008
Kelantan Toastmasters Club
Isn't it about time there should be a Toastmasters Club in Kelantan, Malaysia? We can have a future District Convention in Kota Bahru.
Perhaps our District can set up a team focused and supported for this noble mission.
How can you help?
1) Are you originally from Kelantan - ask your friends and family to join
2) Offer to help conduct a Toastmasters workshop or speechcraft in Kota Bahru
3) Look out for companies, educational and professional institutions interested to form a Toastmasters Club
The closest Toastmasters club to Kelantan are:
1) Lekor Toastmasters @ Pengkalan Arang, Terengganu
2) Penapisan Toastmasters @Kerteh, Terengganu
3) Vistana Toastmasters @Kuantan, Pahang
USM Kuban Kerian Campus
Reality starts with a seed of thought planted.
Let us all help to start a Toastmasters Club in Kota Bahru or somewhere in Kelantan by 2009 - sooner rather than later .....
1 comment:
- Ikhwan Haqim said...
Hi SLLiew , im interested to join toastmaster club. Is there any in kota bharu ? Thanks
- July 16, 2013 at 8:09 AM
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Happy birthday, Twitter: Remembering NASCAR drivers' first tweets
As Twitter celebrates its eighth birthday, we at Shake and Bake have gone through and found the first tweets sent by some of the sport's most active drivers.
Take a look at how it all began for some of NASCAR's best:
Testing my new account
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— Jamie McMurray (@jamiemcmurray) January 11, 2010
Thanks for following! Follow my website too at http://twitter.com/keselowskiweb. See you at the track.
— Brad Keselowski (@keselowski) May 22, 2009
hanging out at the Coca Cola 600
— Austin Dillon (@austindillon3) May 24, 2009
making first tweet!
— Kevin Harvick (@KevinHarvick) July 21, 2009
excited to do some sprint car racing tonight at eldora speedway in ohio
— Kasey Kahne (@kaseykahne) July 17, 2009
my 1sh tweet didnt work this morning. sorry! i am a rookie at this. on track all day and going to nyc tomorrow!
— Danica Patrick (@DanicaPatrick) May 17, 2009
— Denny Hamlin (@dennyhamlin) September 15, 2009
Welcome to my Twitter. As soon as someone shows me how to use this damn thing I'll introduce you to my Library of worthless information. Ha!
— Clint Bowyer (@ClintBowyer) March 9, 2012
Hello… Hello… Hello? How does this thing work?
— Kyle Busch (@KyleBusch) February 6, 2010
ok, ok, i give. I am going to TRY twitter…..looking forward to getting back to the racetrack, INDY is a huge race, i cant wait!
— Matt Kenseth (@mattkenseth) July 28, 2011
just set up a new twitter account. i will now be tweeting over here.
— Joey Logano (@joeylogano) January 4, 2011
Welcome to the official JeffGordon.com Twitter page!
— Jeff Gordon (@JeffGordonWeb) June 24, 2009
Hey everyone it's Kurt Busch here. Testing the Pro Stock today to get ready for the Gainesville Nationals in March.
— Kurt Busch (@KurtBusch) February 9, 2011
Kentucky's called the bluegrass state but all I see is greengrass and cows.
— Aric Almirola (@aric_almirola) July 16, 2009
Trying to figure out twitter
— AJ Allmendinger (@AJDinger) May 19, 2009
I'm back! Please let us know if you're having any problems. Give me a little time to get set up too.
— Jimmie Johnson (@JimmieJohnson) March 16, 2011
Hey! I'm just learning how to use twitter, so I'll keep you posted
— Brian Vickers (@BrianLVickers) June 16, 2009
New season, new team… why not try out Twitter too? Here goes nothing…
— Martin Truex Jr. (@MartinTruex_Jr) January 30, 2010
Of course, how could we forget what is possibly the most popular first tweet of any driver:
Tonight seemed like as good a night as any to join Twitter. How is everyone doin? #2XDaytona500Champ pic.twitter.com/4k4JVA7fG9
— Dale Earnhardt Jr. (@DaleJr) February 24, 2014
If you're interested in finding your first tweet, head over to: https://discover.twitter.com/first-tweet


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The Cowboys, Tex-Mex, BBQ and big ol' steaks are four things that come up when someone mentions Dallas, Texas. The Big D is all that but so much more. It has an extensive arts and entertainment scene, with the Dallas Opera, the Texas Ballet Theater and the Dallas Black Dance Theater, as well as one of the largest collections of Spanish visual arts outside Spain showcased at the Southern Methodist University's Meadows Museum.
With its early beginnings in oil and cotton, Dallas -- home to the eighth-busiest airport in the world -- has become a noted center of industry and finance. In 2012, it was named one of the top 15 best performing cities in the U.S. by the Milken Institute, which monitors a city's ability to create and sustain jobs and economic growth.
Dallas culinary scene
Leslie Brenner, food critic for the Dallas Morning News, opines that although "wood smoke" has always been very Dallas in terms of cuisine, the Dallas culinary scene is beginning to evolve and get more interesting, adding that much of Dallas social life revolves around dining out.
Options include long-standing mom and pop Tex-Mex favorites like Tupinamba and El Norte Mexican Grill, the cream of the crop of ethnic restaurants such as Royal Thai or Madras Pavillion, one or more of the 81 food trucks rolling through Dallas streets, or one of the newest restaurants to sprout out of Dallas' fertile culinary garden -- Matt McCallister's FT33. McCallister has been named the people's best new chef in the Southwest region for 2013 by Food & Wine. Last year's overall winner, chef Tim Byrnes of Smoke, is also from Dallas.
According to Brenner, the key to the Dallas culinary scene is "casual, approachable, affordable restaurants." Stampede 66 fits the bill by celebrating the quintessential flavors of Texas with a modern twist. From Tex-Mex to down-home crispy fried chicken to chicken liver mousse with a layer of jalapeño gelée, Stephan Pyles' chefs are "walking the line between highfalutin and traditional," according to Taco Trail blogger José Ralat-Maldonado.
Dallas culinary schools
With all of the top culinary schools represented there, education is an integral part of the culinary scene in Dallas. The Greater Dallas Restaurant Association supports the Texas ProStart program, which provides industry support through scholarships and local Iron Chef-like competitions for Texas high school students interested in working in the culinary industry. Scholarships are also available to support current college students enrolled as hospitality majors.
Dallas fared well in the 2013 nominations for the prestigious James Beard awards. Nominees include chef Pyles as well as chefs Jason Maddy of Oak and Teiichi Sakurai of Tei-An and restaurateur Nick Badovinus of the Off-Site Kitchen. It's clear that Dallas is teeming with culinary talent. Attending a culinary school in Dallas, TX, could potentially provide one with the opportunity to work alongside one of these many award-winning and innovative chefs.
"10 chefs, including Nathan Tate and Randall Copeland, were deemed 'worth watching' in 2010. How have they all fared?" The Dallas Morning News, Leslie Brennan, July 3, 2012, http://eatsblog.dallasnews.com/2012/07/10-chefs-including-nathan-tate-and-randall-copeland-were-deemed-worth-watching-in-2010-how-have-they-all-fared.html/
"2012 Best-Performing Cities, 200 Largest Metros," Milken Institute, 2012, http://bestcities.milkeninstitute.org/best-performing-cities-2012-large.html
"Brenner: What defines Dallas dining, what's in the future and is Dallas a better food city than L.A.?" Interview on GuideLive, Dallas News July 28, 2012, http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/restaurants/headlines/20120728-brenner-what-defines-dallas-dining-what-s-in-the-future-and-is-dallas-a-better-food-city-than-l.a..ece
"Dallas Food Trucks," Roaming Hunger, 2013, http://roaminghunger.com/dfw
"Ft33," Eater, Whitney Filloon, March 19, 2013, http://dallas.eater.com/places/ft-33
"James Beards 2013: Seven Dallas Chefs Nominated for Prestigious Food Awards," Dallas Observer, Scott Reitz, February 19, 2013, http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/cityofate/2013/02/james_beard_annoints_dallas_ar.php
"Restaurant review: Stampede 66 elevates and celebrates the many flavors of Texas," Dallas News, DiningGuide, http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/restaurants/restaurant-reviews/20130123-restaurant-review-stampede-66-elevates-and-celebrates-the-many-flavors-of-texas.ece
"Texas ProStart Program," Greater Dallas Restaurant Association, http://gdra.org/texas-prostart-news/
"The Best Tex-Mex Restaurants in Dallas," D Magazine, February 2013, http://www.dmagazine.com/Home/D_Magazine/2013/February/Best_Tex-Mex_Restaurants_in_Dallas.aspx
"The Prado at the Meadows," Meadows Museum, 2012, http://smu.edu/meadowsmuseum/about_Prado_Meadows.htm
"The Top Restaurant Newcomers of 2012," Eater, Whitney Filloon, December 26, 2012, http://dallas.eater.com/archives/2012/12/26/the-top-restaurant-newcomers-of-2012.php
For information on Culinary Schools in Dallas, please visit any school below and request more information.


text: Today on the feast of All Saints of the Benedictine Order, we were overjoyed to welcome another postulant in the person of Dominic Swan. Dominic, who is from Brisbane (that makes three Queenslanders in the community!), had completed his three months of aspirancy, and expressed the desire to be received as a postulant. We give thanks to Our Blessed Lady for this gift, and ask her to lead him along his monastic journey.


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Hi Folks -
So, to review: The Nikon, the Minolta and the Holga weren't enough. Now: Yashica Rangefinder.
Nicely made, though not as heavy/tanklike as a Leica, but I paid about $3950 less for this, so thems the breaks...
45mm f/1.7. Note the markings on the aperture ring for indoors (f/1.7) cloudy/shady (f/4) and sunny (f/8 and above). Shutter speeds are set as Bulb, Auto and Flash.
It even came with the original owners manual and the old-school camera case.