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On Sunday, January 28, Rapsody will attend the 60th Annual Grammy Awards as a nominee. Having won trophies for past feature contributions (Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp A Butterfly), the Roc Nation/Jamla MC is up for Best Rap Album for Laila's Wisdom, the only woman in a category which also nominates JAY-Z, Kendrick Lamar, Migos and Tyler, The Creator. Rap' recently sat down with Ambrosia For Heads founder Reggie Williams for a video interview ahead of the big day, but the Grammys were far from the only topic of discussion. In their conversation, Rapsody reveals for the first time in public the direct correlation between her critically acclaimed sophomore album and the 2000 sophomore album from Erykah Badu, Mama's Gun.
Near the 8:00 mark, the two discuss the sonic inspirations behind the LP. "I don't speak in music the same way as producers; I'm still trying to learn their language," she says, when asked if there was a particular "sound" she had identified as her goal for Laila's Wisdom. Rap' says she put together a playlist of songs for inspiration, which she gave to 9th Wonder. On that playlist were tracks culled from Mama's Gun, including "Time's A Wastin" and "A.D. 2000." She credits the soulful storytelling present on those records as the ingredient she most wanted to translate onto her own work and says Terrace Martin is the one responsible for "making that even bigger, so it sounded updated."
A direct comparison between Mama's Gun and Laila's Wisdom is something Rap' says she embraces. "People ask me, if I had to pick one album that's my favorite of all time, that's one of 'em," she says of Badu's classic. "I listen to that album so much at night and it goes through so many different emotions for me…that's kinda how we wanted to mirror it. Even with the title of the project. Mama's Gun inspired it. It's short and sweet, but it says a lot."
Rapsody also identifies elements of Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly as being present on that foundational playlist in addition to JAY-Z's Black Album, Lauryn Hill's The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, and "some Tribe Called Quest," courtesy of 9th Wonder's input.
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text: Share: Comments Print January 21, 2015 at 6:11 AM Want change? Start by filing an initiative: Tim Eyman submits 17 Posted by Lisa Cowan The Associated Press OLYMPIA — The start of the new year is also initiative filing season in Washington. The secretary of state's office says 37 have been filed so far, led by 17 from initiative activist Tim Eyman. Some of Eyman's initiatives are called the Taxpayer Protection Act, Tougher on Tolls, Bring Back $30 Car Tabs and Let the Voters Decide on Red Light Cameras. But all lawmakers don't necessarily look fondly on the initiative process. Nearly 40 senators are supporting a proposed constitutional amendment that would prevent budget-busting ballot initiatives from being filed unless supporters also include a way to pay for it. Sen. Jamie Pedersen, D-Seattle, who is one of the more than three dozen co-sponsors, said that voters need to be faced with the same choices that lawmakers are when contemplating whether to create programs or eliminate taxes. "From my perspective, the proposed constitutional amendment is really a way of respecting voters by giving them honest information and honest choices about the cost of their choices through the initiative process," he said. Registered votes can file initiatives through July 2. Sponsors need to gather signatures from more than 246,000 registered voters to be placed on the general election ballot. But they should submit at least 325,000 to cover invalid or duplicate names. If the initiative is approved by a simple majority of voters, it becomes state law. Comments | More in Secretary of State | Topics: initiatives


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This year 787 cartoonists joined the contest with 2289 cartoons. The winners were selected among 237 works by 205 artists from 46 countries, selected by a pre-selective committee.
The winners of the 32nd Aydın Doğan International Cartoon Contest, organized by the Aydın Doğan Foundation and considered the Oscars of the cartoon world, were announced yesterday. Albanian cartoonist Agim Sulaj was named the winner of this year's contest.
The works of Sulaj, 50, who lives in Italy, have been published in Italy, Britain, Greece and Turkey. He mostly focuses on poverty, environmental problems and the life of refugees in his cartoons.
His winning cartoon in the contest depicts terror and expresses that terror can hit any country and any person regardless of geography.
The second and third prizes of the 32nd Aydın Doğan International Cartoon Contest went to Iranian artists Mohsen Nouri Najafi and Jalal Pirmarzabad, respectively.
The selective committee of the contest, headed by Michael Kountouris (Greece), gathered on June 15 at Bodrum Işıl Club in the western province of Bodrum.
Other jury members included the authorities of the cartoon world; Ercan Akyol, Latif Demirci, Selçuk Demirel, Piyale Madra (Turkey), Bayram Hajizadeh (Azerbaijan), Godfrey Mwampembwa (Tanzania), Yuko Shimizu (Japan) and Jen Sorensen (U.S.).
Aydın Doğan Foundation Executive Board President Candan Fetvacı said, "The quality of the cartoons in the contest and the difficulty in selecting them revealed once again the respected position of the contest in the world. International artists depicted the world's most important problems – migration, war and terror – in their drawings and expressed their hope for peace."
Sulaj will receive $8,000, while the winners of the second and third prizes, Najafi and Pirmarzabad, will receive $5,000 and $3,000, respectively. The other winners of the contest will get $500.
The winning cartoons of the contest will be displayed at the Milta Bodrum Marina Ottoman Shipyard Kaymakamlık Art Gallery between June 17 and 25.
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Professor Twining and Students Present on Vernal PoolsFebruary 28, 2014
The Cohasset Center for Student Coastal Research, located on Boston's South Shore, invited Environmental Science Professor Jonathan Twining and his students to come present and discuss the importance of vernal pools on February 24 as part of their spring 2014 lecture series.
With the help of senior Meghan Holden ('14) and junior Sarah Andrus ('15), Professor Twining shared his passion for the conservation of vernal pool habitats in his presentation titled "Beside Still Waters: Exploring Vernal Pools." Together with his students, they have certified over 40 vernal pools along the south shore and have shed light on the species that breed in and inhabit these vernal pools.
Professor Twining will be taking his Ecology Lab students out this spring to learn more about vernal pools.


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Associate Pastor
The Chinese Christian Church of Greater Washington, D.C. (www.cccgw.org), a non-denominational, Bible-believing, evangelical church is seeking an associate pastor to primarily lead, grow, and develop a 60-member English-speaking congregation, including teens and children.
Responsibilities include:
● Providing regular preaching from the pulpit
● Teaching and discipling church members to grow in faith and love
● Equipping church members to serve others and share God's word
● Leading outreach opportunities to the community in order to share God's love and the gospel
● Visiting and counseling church members as needed
● Partnering with other pastors, elders, ministers, and deacons to lead the church as a whole
Applicant should be an ordained pastor with at least 10 years of ministry experience, strong Biblical teaching and a passion for building and equipping the body of Christ.
For more information, please contact Elder Mark Ho (301-279-8810). If you are interested in applying, please send a resume and statement of faith to the Pastor Search Committee at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Round two! Manchester City have spent most of the week in South Wales after the fixture list paired the Blues against Swansea City twice in a matter of days. City won the first half of the double header during the week, beating Swansea 2-1 to advance to the fourth round of the EFL Cup, where they will face neighbours Manchester United.
This afternoon, attention shifts back to the Premier League with Pep Guardiola looking it to make ten wins out of ten and Swansea gaffer Francesco Guidolin fighting desperately to save his job. A win could just do that for the Italian, but Pep Guardiola's City will be hungry to maintain their perfect start to the campaign.
Both coaches have shuffled the pack from the cup game with changes to their lineups today. Pep Guardiola has decided to field Silva, De Bruyne, Sterling and Aguero in a fearsome attacking four. The referee is Neil Swarbrick and here are the teams Guidolin and Guardiola have gone with.
Swansea XI: Fabianski, Amat, van der Hoorn, Naughton, Rangel, Fer, Cork, Britton, Routledge, Sigurdsson, Llorente
City XI: Bravo, Sagna, Otamendi, Stones, Kolarov, Fernandinho, Gundogan, Silva (c), De Bruyne, Sterling, Aguero
Today's match is NOT on TV in the UK but radio commentary is scheduled on BBC Radio Manchester. A full list of TV coverage from around the world can be found here.
Follow us at @City_Watch on Twitter for live coverage of the game! Come on City!


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The bubble bag is mainly made of high-pressure polyethylene bubble film cutting, and the bubble film is cut into the required size of the bag, and then the bubble film special bag making machine (hot baking and hot cutting bag making machine) is used for making and processing. Bubble bags are mainly used in the transportation of electronics, instruments, ceramics, handicrafts, household appliances, auto dealerships, kitchens, furniture, hardware tools, glass products, precision instruments, and other products requiring buffer protection.
The principle of bubble bag is that the film contains air to form air bubbles to prevent product impact, to ensure that the product is protected when it is subjected to vibration, and also has the effect of heat insulation and heat insulation, which is suitable for packaging or turnover of various products. Because the middle layer of the air-cushion film is filled with air, it is light, flexible, soundproof, shock-proof, and wear-resistant. It is waterproof, moisture-proof, and pressure-resistant.
Bubble bags are divided into single-sided gas and double-sided. The single-sided bubble bag is suitable for the protection of lighter weight products, and the double-sided bubble bag is strong against the shock of large and heavy items. Single and double-sided bubble bags are suitable for packaging of products in various industries. Single and double-sided bubble bags can be equipped with anti-static bubble bags, as well as different colors and printing.
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Check these last few stragglers out!
Maurice did a fantastic job. these are the bgs that the runners I posted a few days ago will go on top of.
I like how the table cloth looks like that cheap plastic checkered one that you can buy for $4.50 at Target. Exactly the kind you'd find at the Ferget Aboutit Restaurant!
Only two more bgs after this and we're all done!
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Some parts of the world have seen a dramatic decrease in HIV/AIDS diagnoses. However, other regions have struggled. Africa has been the continent most impacted by the epidemic. During April 2018, BAI President and CEO Phill Wilson has been conducting training in Swaziland, Lesotho and Zimbabwe. Here, we provide an overview of the epidemics in these African nations, which have been particularly hard hit.
Swaziland has the highest prevalence of HIV in the world. In 2016, there were 220,000 people living with HIV (PLWH)—a whopping 27.2 percent of adults in the country. That year, there were 8,800 new infections and 3,900 AIDS-related deaths.
The biggest driver of the epidemic in Swaziland is heterosexual sex, and women are disproportionately affected. According to UNAIDS, in 2016, 34.7 percent of women between the ages of 15 and 49 were living with HIV, compared with 19.6 percent of men between 15 and 49. There are a number of reasons contributing to this fact:
- Gender-based violence and abuse are common, so women may not feel comfortable refusing sex or insisting on condom usage.
- Young women are likely to be sexually involved with men who are significantly older than they are, so there is often an imbalance of power in the relationship.
- As many as 12 percent of women between the ages of 15 and 49 are in a polygamous marriage, increasing their risks of acquiring HIV.
There is little data about the epidemic among men who have sex with men (MSM), possibly because homosexuality is illegal. There are also fewer efforts to target gay and bisexual men with education and programs that can prevent transmission than other at-risk populations. A study by UNAIDS (pdf) estimated that 12.6 percent of MSM were living with HIV in 2016.
Swaziland has the highest prevalence of HIV among sex workers in the world, with 60.5 percent believed to be living with HIV in 2016.
The good news is that Swaziland is making progress to fight the epidemic. In 2014, the country adopted guidelines by the World Health Organization (WHO) that recommend that anyone diagnosed with HIV be treated with antiretroviral (ARV) medications, regardless of their CD4 count. Since 2003, ARV treatment has also been free in Swaziland and funded entirely by the government, so people don't have to worry about insurance or expensive medications. In 2016, 79 percent of people in Swaziland who were living with HIV were on ARVs, according to UNAIDS.
Lesotho is right behind Swaziland with the second-highest prevalence of HIV in the world. In Lesotho, there were 330,000 PLWH in 2016—25 percent of the adult population. There were 21,000 new infections that year and 9,900 AIDS-related deaths.
As with Swaziland, women are disproportionately at risk of acquiring HIV. In fact, the prevalence among women rose from 26 percent to 30 percent (pdf) between 2004 and 2014. During that same decade, the prevalence among men remained the same at 19 percent. Gender-based violence and a patriarchal society may be partly to blame because women may not have power in the relationship to negotiate condom usage and other safer sex practices.
Many young women in Lesotho work as factory workers, and the garment industry is located in Leribe and Maseru—two districts that have a high prevalence of HIV. It's estimated that 42.7 percent of factory workers have HIV.
Because homosexuality is illegal, there is limited information on the extent to which gay and bisexual men are affected by HIV in Lesotho. A 2015 report (pdf) by the Lesotho Ministry of Health estimated that between 31 percent and 35 percent of MSM in two particular areas (Maseru and Maputsoe) had HIV.
Finally, sex workers are disproportionately affected, with 79.1 percent of them living with HIV in 2015.
In 2016, Lesotho adopted WHO guidelines for a "Test and Treat" strategy. As a result, any person in Lesotho who tests positive for HIV will be given the option of taking ARVs. A survey taken between November 2016 and May 2017 found that 67.6 percent of PLWH in Lesotho experienced viral-load suppression. Of those PLWH who knew their HIV status, 90.2 percent reported that they were in treatment.
In Zimbabwe, new HIV infections have fallen in the last decade, but much work remains to be done. There were 40,000 new infections in 2016, down from 79,000 in 2010. However, that same year, there were 1.3 million people in Zimbabwe living with HIV, and Zimbabwe had the sixth-highest prevalence of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa at 13.5 percent.
In Zimbabwe, women are disproportionately affected, with 720,000 women living with HIV as of 2016, according to UNAIDS. Gender inequality plays a role. Many women don't have power in their intimate relationships, so their ability to negotiate safe sexual practices may be limited.
Approximately 35 percent of married women have experienced physical or sexual violence from a spouse, according to the 2015 Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey (pdf). Perhaps even more troubling, only 63 percent of women and 69 percent of men in Zimbabwe believe that a woman has a right to refuse sex with her husband if he has had sex with other women. Thirteen percent of women and 15 percent of men believe that a wife does not have the right to ask her husband to use a condom even if she knows he has a sexually transmitted infection (STI).
Sex workers are also heavily impacted by HIV. In Zimbabwe, they have an HIV prevalence of 57.1 percent, UNAIDS says. A study published in 2017 in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome found that 64 percent of female sex workers in Zimbabwe were aware of their status, while 36 percent were not.
In Zimbabwe, homosexuality is illegal for men, yet it is legal for women. Gay and bisexual men who fear being prosecuted may avoid seeking out services such as HIV testing because of fears of stigma and discrimination. In fact, according to UNAIDS, only 14.1 percent of Zimbabwe's MSM even knew their HIV status in 2016.
Zimbabwe adopted a National HIV and AIDS Strategic Plan in 2011, which placed emphasis on education, voluntary male circumcision, condom usage, STI management and dispensing ARV drugs to pregnant women to decrease the risk of mother-to-child transmission. Though the plan came to an end in 2015, the same targets remain in place.
In 2015, 80 percent of girls and women between the ages of 15 and 49 had been tested for HIV and received the results of their test, according to the Demographic and Health Survey. That's up from 22 percent of women in 2006 and 58 percent in 2011. In 2015, 62 percent of men had been tested and received the results of their test. Only 16 percent of men had been tested in 2006. In January 2018, between 2,000 and 2,500 people were estimated to be taking pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).
Tamara E. Holmes is a Washington, D.C.-based journalist who writes about health, wealth and personal growth.


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I am a 53 year old never smoker. At 50 I had a blood test at my yearly gynecology exam that showed cardiac protein levels were high. I went to a cardiologist for stress test and scan of my heart. My heart was great but he noticed "inflammation" on my left lung. I immediately went to a Pulmologist who gave me more blood tests and another scan. I was diagnosed with lupus. I made my way to the rheumatologist who took even more blood tests. It was a false positive. I continued this cycle for another 2 years. My scan did not change so we agreed to scans every 6 months.
On June 28th 2016 I was diagnosed with lung cancer. On July 12 I had a lobectomy and I am now cancer free. I feel lucky. If I did not continue with the scans it would have been much worse. I did not chose this path. I hope others will learn from my story that you have to listen to your body. I want to educate others that the face of lung cancer is me.
First published: September 9, 2016
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Asking an artist to draw for free is like expecting to walk into a football game for free.
Have you ever been able to get a VIP pass to a concert only because you're a huge fan of the singer's music? No, right? Then why would you expect for an artist to draw a portrait of you for free? Art is like kindling a light in the darkness of mere being. However, artists would cease to exist if they don't have any money for food. It may sound eerie, but there are plenty of people who ask to be drawn for free. Only because they came across an artist's Instagram account and they liked his work.
Source: Jon Arton
Jon Arton is an artist from Birmingham, England who has received so many of such requests that he couldn't resist but troll these people.
Arton has been getting requests for free drawings ever since he was a kid.
"I'd spend my time in class doodling insulting images of the teachers."
"It got me in trouble a few times but was worth it for making people laugh."
The fact that people even dared to ask him for free drawings is beyond offensive.
Arton's career has progressed far beyond these free drawings; there are quite a few people who ask him for free sketches every week.
Little did they know that they were asking the wrong person.
"Art isn't really seen as a job/career but more of a hobby which you enjoy, so people assume you would be happy to do it for a little bit of 'exposure.'"
"I wish I could do drawings for free."
"It is something I have done for giveaways to my followers online or for charity. Sadly, I have to fund my expensive pencil habit."
Preferably, pay the artist maybe?
Hope she liked it.
And then came a request for Harry Styles.
And they dance all night to the best song ever!
And then came another request.
It is a never-ending ordeal basically.
It's ironic how they even expect for the drawings to be delivered right away.
And that's after having the audacity to ask for being drawn for free.
I'm already annoyed of uploading these pictures; I wonder how annoyed this guy was drawing them.
A 100 points for Jon Arton's savagery!
Guessing games.
It's called art.
What would you have done if as an artist you were asked to draw for free? Let us know in the comments below!


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The OnePlus 5T has a lot to offer for $500, but you get so much more with the Galaxy S9+.
With the Galaxy S9 series, Samsung isn't reinventing the wheel: the core design aesthetic is the same as last year, but there are a few key upgrades, particularly in the camera department. The pricing hasn't changed all that much either, with the unlocked Galaxy S9+ retailing for $839, a mere $15 more than what the Galaxy S8+ debuted at last year.
If you don't want to shell out over $800 on a phone, there are plenty of alternatives available, and the OnePlus 5T is at the top of that list. Available for $499, the OnePlus 5T offers top-of-the-line specs with great build quality and a software experience that's equatable to the Pixels. So is the Galaxy S9+ worth the $300 premium over the 5T? Let's find out.
What's the same
Like last year, Samsung is the first to roll out a phone with Qualcomm's latest platform, the Snapdragon 845. The chipset is built on the 10nm node but comes with a slew of improvements that include up to a 20% uptick in CPU performance and a huge 30% boost in the GPU department. The SoC also comes with an LTE modem that goes up to 1.2Gbps, and the new Hexagon 685 DSP leverages artificial intelligence.
The U.S. variant of the Galaxy S9+ is powered by the Snapdragon 845, whereas international models receive the Exynos 9810 version. While the Exynos variant offers marginally better battery life, there isn't any noticeable performance difference between the two models.
The OnePlus 5T is no slouch either, with the phone powered by the Snapdragon 835. It may not be the latest chipset anymore, but it is still one of the fastest available today, and OnePlus' optimizations give it an added boost.
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|OnePlus 5T
|Operating system
|Android 8.0 Oreo
Samsung Experience 9.0
|Android 8.0 Oreo
OxygenOS 5.0.4
|6.2-inch Super AMOLED, 2960×1440 (18.5:9)
|6-inch Optic AMOLED, 2160×1080 (18:9)
|Qualcomm Snapdragon 845
or 10nm 64-bit Samsung Exynos 9810
|Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 octa-core
Adreno 540 GPU
microSD up to 400GB
|Rear camera 1
|12MP Dual Pixel, OIS, f/1.5 or f/2.4
|16MP, 1.12μm, f/1.7
Dual LED flash
|Rear camera 2
|12MP, f/2.4
|20MP, 1μm, f/1.7
|Front camera
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|16MP, 1μm, f/2.0
Fast Wireless Charging
Dash Charge
|Water resistance
|Yes (IP68 certified)
|Fingerprint sensor
Iris scanning
Face unlock
|One-touch fingerprint sensor
Face Unlock
|Wi-Fi 802.11ac MIMO, 1.2 Gbps (Cat-18) LTE, Bluetooth 5.0 LE
ANT+, NFC, GPS, Glonass
|802.11ac Wi-Fi, 2×2 MIMO, Bluetooth 5.0, aptX HD
GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo
|LTE Band 1/2/3/4/5/7/8/12/17/18/19/20/25/26/28/29/30/66
3xCA, 256QAM, DL Cat 12, UL Cat 13
|158.1 x 73.8 x 8.5 mm
189 g
|156.1 x 75 x 7.3 mm
162 g
|Midnight Black, Lilac Purple, Coral Blue
|Midnight Black, Lava Red, Sandstone White
The OnePlus 5T launched with Nougat out of the box, but the phone picked up the Oreo update at the start of the year. Thankfully, the Galaxy S9+ comes with Android 8.0 Oreo out of the box. Rounding out the basics, both phones come with 3.5mm jacks.
The Galaxy S9+ has a marginally larger 3500mAh battery — 200mAh more than what you get on the OnePlus 5T — but the battery life is roughly the same on both phones. You shouldn't have any issues getting a day's worth of usage with each phone.
Both the OnePlus 5T and the Galaxy S9+ also come with a variety of storage and color options. The Galaxy S9+ is available in three colors options at launch — Midnight Black, Coral Blue, and Lilac Purple — and OnePlus has introduced several limited edition models of the OnePlus 5T that include Sandstone White and Lava Red.
What the Galaxy S9+ does better
The OnePlus 5T has top-notch build quality, but the design itself isn't all that exciting. That's not the case with the Galaxy S9+ — Samsung's Infinity Display design aesthetic is evocative, and the way the light reflects off the glass back is striking. The Coral Blue color option, in particular, looks stunning, and the phone has thinner bezels when compared to the OnePlus 5T.
The dual curved panel also adds to that immersive experience, and for its part, Samsung has done a much better job eliminating accidental touches when using the phone one-handed. The Galaxy S9+ is a full 16g heavier over its predecessor while offering the same 3500mAh battery, and the added weight works in the device's favor. The OnePlus 5T comes in at 162g, and the weight distribution makes it top-heavy, but the Galaxy S9+ feels reassuringly solid.
Then there's the 6.2-inch Super AMOLED display itself, which is the one of the best panels on a phone today. Samsung has been leading the display industry for a few years now, and its best panels rightfully end up on its own flagships. The panel on the Galaxy S9+ is wonderful, offering saturated colors, excellent contrast levels, and great viewing angles. The panel is brighter than the Galaxy S8+, so you'll have no issues with sunlight readability. I've been testing the phone in India's harsh sunlight, and Samsung's claims hold up.
The Galaxy S9+ offers a class-leading display paired with an outstanding camera.
Samsung also did a much better job when it comes to the audio experience, with the Galaxy S9+ featuring stereo speakers tuned by AKG. The secondary speaker is tucked into the earpiece, and the overall sound that comes out of the dual speakers is noticeably louder and clearer than last year.
The camera is the marquee feature on the Galaxy S9+, with Samsung offering a module with adjustable aperture — allowing it to switch from f/1.5 to f/2.4. There's a new 960fps super slow-motion feature as well, which just looks cool. The Galaxy S9+ also gets a secondary 12MP camera that acts as a telephoto lens, enabling 2x lossless zoom.
Galaxy S9+ on the left, OnePlus 5T on the right.
The OnePlus 5T holds its own in daylight scenarios, but it lags behind the Galaxy S9+ in low-light or artificial lighting. The S9+ just pulls ahead in terms of overall detail and dynamic range.
Then there are the extra features: the Galaxy S9+ offers wireless charging, Samsung Pay, and IP68 dust and water resistance. Wireless charging is a niche feature, but water resistance is a must-have in this segment. There are two features I miss whenever I switch to a non-Samsung phone — that gorgeous AMOLED panel and Samsung Pay. The mobile payments service has near-ubiquitous acceptance thanks to NFC as well as MST, and it's easier and more secure to use.
The Galaxy S9+ also comes with a new "intelligent scan" feature that uses a combination of facial recognition and iris scanning to authenticate, and while the OnePlus 5T also has a face unlock feature, it isn't as secure as what Samsung is offering. I wasn't a fan of the Galaxy Note 8's iris scanning, but Intelligent Scan is significantly faster.
What the OnePlus 5T does better
The OnePlus 5T is one of the fastest phones in the market today, and the OxygenOS optimizations carried out by OnePlus make it fly. It is just as fast and fluid to use as a Pixel 2, and OnePlus tailored the software experience to perfection. The clutter-free user interface is one of the best available on Android, and OnePlus has added enough differentiation in the form of gestures and subtle tweaks to make it stand out.
OxygenOS offers one of the best software experiences available on Android today.
OnePlus also got much better at updates over the course of the last 12 months, with the company consistently rolling out security updates and adding new features to the device every few weeks. The OnePlus 5T received the Android 8.0 Oreo update at the start of the year, earlier than the Galaxy S8.
With the Galaxy S9+ still using the same Adaptive Fast Charge as two years ago (which is limited to Quick Charge 2.0 speeds), the OnePlus 5T has the distinct edge when it comes to charging thanks to Dash Charge. The fast charging standard offloads the circuitry to the wall charger, which means the device itself doesn't heat up while charging. Then there's the fact that you can charge up to 60% in just 30 minutes.
If you're looking to top up your phone's battery in the middle of the day, Dash Charge is one of the best options around.
Finally, the OnePlus 5T has better placement for the fingerprint scanner. Samsung moved the scanner underneath the camera module — making it easier to access — but it's still not at the natural resting position of your finger. You'll end up smudging the camera module more often than not when trying to unlock the device. That isn't an issue on the OnePlus 5T, as the sensor is located in the top-third
Which should you buy? Galaxy S9+
As good as the OnePlus 5T is — particularly in the software department — it misses out on a few key features, like water resistance. That should be a table stakes feature if you're spending $500 on a phone in 2018, and while the situation may change with the OnePlus 6, the feature is a sore omission on the OnePlus 5T.
Overall, the Galaxy S9+ is a much more enticing option. For $330 more, you're getting a phone with a much better camera, gorgeous design, iris scanning, IP68 dust and water resistance, wireless charging, and Samsung Pay. Samsung clearly understands what its fans want from a flagship, and the Galaxy S9+ absolutely nails the basics while delivering premium features that make it stand out.
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Congratulations to William and Sean Heeran for both being promoted in the FDNY on Friday, September 14. Both brothers joined the FDNY after their brother, Charlie Heeran, was killed in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. William was promoted to Lieutenant and Sean was promoted to Captain at the FDNY Officers Promotion Ceremony in Brooklyn on Friday.
"I used to work on Wall Street. I was down there when the planes hit the towers. My brother worked in finance and was killed in the attack. During that time I saw the FDNY working and that was part of the reason I decided to join the Department in 2003. It's a bittersweet moment to get promoted, but it has been great and I am looking forward to learning a lot," William Heeran told the FDNY.
"My father is retired Firefighter Bernard Heeran, FDNY Engine Company 281, so the Department is in our family," Sean Heeran said. "A lot changed when my brother was killed during the attacks on 9/11. I felt like joining this Department was something I had to do. Being promoted today is very exciting. I love this job and I want to be better and keep learning."BLOG COMMENTS POWERED BY DISQUS


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Ben was recommended to us by friends of ours who previously used his services to purchase a house. We knew when we would begin looking and also knew from our friends that he only accepted a limited number of clients at a time. So, we called him early in order to reserve his services a few months down the road. Even though we were not officially signed with him, he spent time answering our questions and helping to get us prepared for the process of buying a house. As we had a house to sell, and didn't know where to start with that, he looked up information and statistics on agents in our area, contacted the ones with the best results, personally pre-screened them, and gave us the top three that he would suggest we meet with in order to make our final decision. Talk about going above and beyond the call of duty. He took time out of his busy schedule to meet with people that he would start working with, in three months, maybe. That's just the kind of guy he is. He actually cares about you and getting you into the house you want.
Our house hunting adventure lasted longer than anticipated. We looked at over 100 homes. Ben never once tried to pressure us into lowering our standards, or to settle for something we didn't want. In fact, he encouraged us to stick to our guns and be patient. He assured us that we were not being unreasonable in trying to find a home that met our needs in the price range we wanted. Most other Realtors would have been pressuring us to lower our expectations, raise our price range, offer more on houses than they were worth, or otherwise lead us astray in order to make the sale and get their cut. Let's be honest, a lot of real estate agents are interested in making as much money as quickly as possible and really don't care how they get there. Ben truly wanted to help us buy the home that we wanted at the price we targeted. He was patient and supportive. When necessary, he made himself available after normal business hours to discuss issues and next steps in order to accommodate our schedules. Due to him choosing to limit his number of clients, you truly get personalized attention. He knows exactly what is going on and is great at communicating and returning calls. I know that real estate agents are often hard to get a hold of. I swear that most of them are ninjas and have had official training in avoiding you. When you do finally get a hold of them, they really don't have a clue as to what is going on. You're just a name on an extremely long list of clients. Ben is different. He is readily available and knows exactly what is going on.
After looking at 120 homes over the course of several months and not finding what we were looking for, we entertained the idea of building a new home. We were hesitant about process due to our lack of experience. Luckily, Ben has extensive experience in both new and existing home purchases. We often relied on his previous experience and vast knowledge to guide us in making choices (amount to offer, when to walk, contract optimization) in both existing and new home negotiations. We whole-heartedly trusted Ben and we knew his opinions and advice were truly in the best interest of getting us the house we want.
Ben has a network of resources that he leverages for you throughout the entire process. His past experience and dealings with them have proven his resources trustworthy and highly skilled. Ben introduced us to a lender who offered very competitive fees and rates. She, like Ben, was interested in helping us succeed in getting the best home for the best price and terms. We spent a lot of time with her on the phone discussing options and the best path forward. In fact, even after we made the decision to go with the builder's mortgage company (due to a builder incentive that could not be matched by outside lenders), she continued to quote us rates in writing in order to leverage the builder's company to offer a more competitive rate - which they did. She even offered up some creative ideas to help us reduce our monthly payment and best of all, the interest we paid over the life of the loan. Because of her willingness to help us in spite of our commitment to another mortgage company, we received a better rate, a lower payment, and saved a ton of money. Thank you, Ben, for building meaningful working relationships with other professionals that benefit your clients.
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Martin Bros. Recipes
Garlic & Herb Chickpea Salad
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Added: June 07, 2018
2 Tbsp Roland Pomace Olive Oil (620390)
2 Tbsp B&G Regina® Fine White Wine Vinegar (341563)
2 tsp McCormick Perfect Pinch® Garlic & Herb Salt Free Seasoning (475751)
1 can Bush's Low Sodium Garbanzos/ Chickpeas (601060), drained, rinsed
1/2 cup Capital City Cucumber (360460), diced
1/4 cup Capital City Red Bell Pepper (361251), diced
1/2 cup Capital City Zucchini (361451), diced
1/4 cup Wholesale Red Onion (361112), diced
PREP | Mix oil, vinegar and seasoning in large bowl with wire whisk until well blended. Add chickpeas, cucumber, bell pepper, zucchini and onion; toss to coat well. CHEF'S TIP! Rinsing chickpeas helps keep sodium down.
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CPU's performance in earlier days were determined by raw speed and number of cores, which was enough. But today it has become more complicated, because the CPU can have powerful graphics component or process several threads per core. The CPU is the first thing that comes to mind when building or buying a PC. It's because a CPU's generation and version determines the motherboard that is to be bought.
When thinking of CPU, only two names strike our mind- Intel and AMD. You can know whether a CPU is mid-range or high-end just by looking at its name. Then it will be much easier to decide which processor to buy.
The cryptic names of AMD processors, including the A series (mid-range) and FX series (high end) reveal a lot about their performance.
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Born in Santa Barbara, CA, Glen Phillips served as the frontman and main songwriter for Toad the Wet Sprocket before launching his solo career in 2001. Toad the Wet Sprocket took shape in 1986, when Phillips was only 14 years old, and the band's debut effort, Bread and Circus, earned them a contract with Columbia Records. However, it was the group's third album—the jangling, orchestral Fear—that truly broke the group, garnering heavy radio play with the singles "All I Want" and "Walk on the Ocean." After three years away from the recording studio, Toad returned to the mainstream with Dulcinea, which again found one of its singles, "Fall Down," in heavy radio rotation. After six albums and a substantial string of hits, the group disbanded in 1998.
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Glen Phillips started his first band, Toad The Wet Sprocket, as a teenager in Santa Barbara, and served as the band's frontman and primary songwriter before launching his solo career in 2001.
Live at the Belly Up, recorded on February 11, 2016 features 19 tracks, including solo material and Toad the Wet Sprocket hits like "Walk on the Ocean," "Something's Always Wrong," and "All I Want." The set, which includes four previously unreleased original songs, serves as a perfect introduction to Phillips' illustrious songwriting career and mesmerizing live show. The performance also features covers of Metric, James Blake and Sean Watkins (of Nickel Creek), who even accompanies Phillips on several tracks. The Phillips and Watkins collaboration Works Progress Administration is also represented in the live set, featuring "End is Now" and "Rise Up" from the album WPA.
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May 1st and after a warm and terribly wet April, Mother Nature has become e confused again. Currently snowing lightly at the KBL, looks to be more early March weather for the May 1st slalom than the day it is.
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Yeah after a great early and middle season this "spring" has been a dud. Late April warm and very rainy, now cold and cloudy with more rain.
I need 2 more days to hit 50 but weather has been cold and rainy and I'm starting to lose interest. Got busy with my youngest son's SAT prep and that has cost me a few ski days. The rest of this week looks like crap except for maybe Saturday, but that's his test day.
I'm starting to hear the fish calling me.
Wish it just stop raining long enough so I can swap tires. This spring...sucked. at least for me
Lets go!
I'll drive.
Yep, pretty shitty. Left a Whiteface ticket unused, really wanted to get some Spring turns in there. Glad I blew work off to ski Sugarbush a couple Wednesdays ago. Here's to a great May at K. Come on Ma Nature, please deliver.
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Strange thing is that it's still winter range in temperatures in a few places out west and Europe(Banff, Snowbird, Winter Park, and may Val Disere and Zermatt) if you seek it. Unfortunately I called it quits a few weeks ago when it look like winter was completely falling off the table so nothing planned.... And the rest of anything that is open is rapidly drawing to a close.
wish i were skiing.....
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Funny, I'd say this was one of my best "spring skiing" years ever. Just not a lot of it spent in New England. Got some great weather in the PA and CA. As for my 2 VT Spring weekends 1 was beautiful and the other very snowy. Guess I lucked out with the timing of things.
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The bungalow floor plan, for example, suits a laid_back and comfortable lifestyle. It is a popular floor plan throughout America. They are smaller than other modern floor plans. However, they are extremely livable because the living area is open and planned for ease of access. The roof hangs low, the rafters and ridge beams are uncovered, and porches are large, with narrowed quadrangular columns.
By and large, almost any residential floor plan can be adapted to a log home, but there are substantial differences and considerations that need to be addressed. One such example is that of room dimensions as they relate to the diameter of the logs you will be utilizing. A custom handcrafted home made from 20" diameter logs will have a different footprint than one requiring 6" milled logs. If this is the first time you will be dealing with a log home manufacturer or architect, make sure you are comparing 'apples to apples' when discussing interior dimensions. If you want a room to be 14' wide, make certain that your designer knows that you want the interior of the room to have 14' of open clearance and not measured from the center of the corresponding logs. Using the example above, your 14' room could shrink to 12' if such presumptions are not understood.


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With Garden's By the Bay gaining recognitions the past years, earning a Guinness Book of World Records badge and an utmost popularity, they have once again showed us how the future looks like, and how it's like to live in an ultramodern city.
Cloud Forest is one of the two conservatories in Gardens by the Bay. It houses the World's Tallest Indoor Waterfall. More than that, it is also awarded as the World Building of the Year during the 2012 World Architecture Festival. Yep, going here means checking out one of the world's record-beating attractions.
Cloud Mountain fronts the entrance to the Cloud Forest and carries with it the Highest Indoor Waterfall in the World. The mountain is actually a super tree of garden, having exhibits and a mini-museum inside. Every tree here gets their energy from the sunlight, including the supertrees! Know more about it here.
Remember your grade school teacher talking about how plants would absorb the abundant rainfall in the tropics, and those plants would gradually release the water to supply the land their on? It's the same concept used here in Cloud Forest. Though the waterfall is manmade and isn't naturally a moist from the clouds, it's one of the main source of life for the living plants in the dome.
As you stroll through the area, you will be surrounded by pure vegetations, some of it are rarely found in a place like Singapore. The Cloud Mountain is full of ferns, bromeliads, orchids, and some pitcher plants, all of which can adapt to living in a vertical wall. So it's really cool to see species that can happily bloom in this conservatory.
As you can see, the conservatory is made up of glass biomes that will give you a bird's eye view of the Lion City, and especially the Marina Bay Sands. There's a suggested route to take for you to fully maximize your visit to the Cloud Forest. It starts on the highest point.
As you walk down your way, you'll be able to see Singapore's skyscrapers outside the clear glass biomes, and encounter some fun facts regarding these species and Cloud Forest itself! I wouldn't upload those pictures anymore because it's more fun to be able to learn them actually.
Don't forget to look through those small fact boards, they're really informative!
Fun fact I read at one of the info boards: Cloud Forest makes up bout 2.5% of the world's tropical forest yet huge concentrations of the plants and animals live here, many live nowhere else.
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Staff Sgt. Travis Griffin, a Kirtland defender killed in action, is the hero of a new children's book written by Staff Sgt. Frank V. Aguilar, 9th Security Forces Squadron, Beale Air Force Base, California. The book memorializes Griffin and raises money for scholarships for Security Forces members and their families.
A new children's book memorializes a Kirtland defender killed in action and raises money for scholarships for Security Forces members and their families.
"Griff's Gift" portrays Staff Sgt. Travis Griffin as a mythical griffin who helps the animals at a run-down pet shop become their best and find homes. It was published in June.
"The story helps children learn and understand loss while simultaneously speaking deeply to those who have been deployed or knew Staff Sgt. Griffin," the author, Staff Sgt. Frank V. Aguilar, wrote in an email.
Aguilar was a senior Airman at Kirtland Air Force Base in 2007, when he was notified he was going on a yearlong deployment to Baghdad. Griffin was also part of the group of about 10 Security Forces members who went.
The Airmen were training Iraqi police officers.
Aguilar said the defenders didn't know each other well, but Griffin brought them together, helped them be their best and made mundane tasks seem almost fun.
On April 3, 2008, an improvised explosive device detonated under his vehicle, killing him. He was 28.
"It really shook us because he was a good NCO," Aguilar said.
Nothing was the same after that, he continued. After returning home, the team members went their separate ways but maintained contact, still talking about Griffin years later.
Aguilar is now part of the 9th Security Forces Squadron at Beale Air Force Base, California.
His children — ages 10, 8, 4 and almost 3 — see him go outside with a photograph of Griffin each April 3 to reflect. However, they couldn't grasp the importance of this man they'd never met, Aguilar said.
He'd already written three stories to help them understand grown-up concepts, so he decided to pen another about Griffin.
Aguilar finished "Griff's Gift" in less than three weeks. He obtained permission from Griffin's mother to create the book.
Aguilar said the story couldn't be only about him and Griffin because Griffin touched a lot of people.
In the story, a griffin — the mythical beast with a lion's body and an eagle's head and wings — is small and cute to be accessible to children.
The griffin teaches the pets to work hard and be their best to win affection and new homes. The pets get adopted, but their griffin friend has to leave.
Thunder, lightning and angry animals symbolize dangers of combat.
A GoFundMe campaign raised a little more than $1,200 for the book to be self-published.
A former Security Forces member — also the wife of a defender who knew Griffin —agreed to illustrate the story at no charge. She uses the pen name Merl Fog.
"I was flattered to think I could be a part of it in any way," she said.
Fog said she felt pressure because she knew a lot of people who loved Griffin and she wanted them to like the pictures.
She was pregnant with her fourth child at the time and had trouble finding time to draw. It took her close to a year to finish.
Aguilar said the illustrations were worth the wait.
"They're beautiful," he said.
Fog said it was different seeing her illustrations in book format, and it was important that her husband was happy with the finished product.
Aguilar said his children like the book, too.
The book is available online from Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
All proceeds go to the Griffin Memorial Scholarship, which provides college scholarships to defenders, their families and Security Forces veterans. For more information about the scholarship, visit www.forgriff.com.


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RBG and The Supremes
RBG and The Supremes
Adrienne BoettingerMonday,6 October 2014
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Are you ready for some SCOTUS?!?! Sadly there are relatively few people who get as excited about the start of a new Supreme Court session as those who willingly spend what amounts to years of their lives watching professional sports. What SCOTUS really needs is a better marketing department. Something similar to the wunderkinds with the NFL where a player can sexually assault someone on the way to his court hearing for murder the day after he's caught teaching preschoolers how to cook meth and still end up not serving one day in prison. Granted, SCOTUS is nowhere near as negatively viewed as Congress, but we've got some ideas on how the Fine Nine can up their game.
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We took an informal poll of people we saw at the bar a few weeks ago and no one could name a single Justice. The closest we got was "that lady with the doily around her neck and the guy who looks like his name should be Vito." If the respondent was at least 35 years old, he or she might have remembered something about Clarence Thomas' pubes and caffeinated beverages, but even those didn't know that Thomas has been sitting on the bench for more than 20 years. A somewhat more formalized poll in 2012 found that 2/3 of the United States couldn't name one single justice, 34 percent could name one, and only 1 percent could name all nine.
SCOTUS needs to do more to get their brand out there. They should treat the first Monday in October and various points of their session like a combo Super Bowl, World Series, World Cup and Black Friday sale at Wal-Mart. Katy Perry should ride a float shaped like an enormous gavel to the steps of the courthouse and sing "Proud to Be An American" with the Zac Brown Band and a youth choir, while the Fine Nine follow behind the float in monster trucks, garbed in camo-style robes.
In fact, the moniker SCOTUS really isn't doing them any favors; it sounds like a scrotum in the shape of a lotus. That's why we're suggesting SCOTUS start referring to themselves as the Fine Nine. Or RBG and The Supremes though Diana Ross may try to sue them and she looks pretty cray cray lately so maybe stick with The Fine Nine. Clearly, RBG is the superstar while the rest are backup singers — except for Scalia who clearly is a mafia version of Jaba the Hutt. If RBG was Jem of Jem and the Holograms, Scalia would be the lead singer of the Misfits. Or the evil mutant who ate the lead singer of the Misfits.
Other ideas to make SCOTUS more popular include a reality show where each justice has to come up with their own line of clothing while trapped on a deserted island, swapping Supreme Court hearings for cage matches, and replacing the entire court with a basket of baby sloths, tiny kittens and playful puppies. Because apparently Americans can't be interested in a group of nine people, who they never elected, who will retain their jobs until they die or retire, and hold near absolute power over the law of the land.
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The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
October 7, 2018 Speaker: Murray Keith Series: Pentecost
Passage: Hebrews 2:1–2:13
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Pastor Murray Keith
Text: Hebrews 2:1-13
Date: October 7th, 2018; Pentecost 20; series B
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
I had a bit of a tough golf season this past summer.
While I really enjoyed my time on the golf course - I didn't play as well as I had hoped.
In particular, I struggled with my approach shots to the green.
I would hit my shot and it would appear to be going right at the flag - but as it got closer to the hole, my ball would start drifting to the right or left and end up landing in the sand or rough - instead of on the green.
This was very frustrating - and I must confess that it led me to at least think some words that a pastor ought not think.
While my golf shots that drifted into the sand and rough were very frustrating, the writer of the letter to the Hebrews warns us of a drifting that is far more serious.
This kind of drifting can have a major impact on our lives – both now and eternally.
He warns us, "Therefore we must pay close attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it."
Drifting away from God and his Word has been happening ever since Adam and Eve chose to drift away from God's clear word of warning in the Garden of Eden when they disobeyed him.
Ever since that moment, God's people have been drifting.
We see this throughout the Old Testament.
God's chosen people, Israel, drifted away from God as they worshipped false idols and disobeyed his Commandments until they found themselves separated from God.
In order to call them back from their drifting - God would allow his people to suffer.
They suffered famines. They suffered defeat by the hands of their enemies.
They suffered as their land was taken over by their enemies, leaving them to wander in the wilderness with no place to call home.
Such hardships have a way of bringing an end to drifting.
They focus you on what is important. They help you recognize how helpless we truly are and how dependent we are on God.
In the face of this suffering, God's people, Israel, did the only thing they could.
They repented for their sins, for their drifting, and begged for God's mercy.
And God forgave them. He would restore them to be a great nation and provide them with all of the blessings they were deprived of when they were separated from him.
But it wouldn't take long and the drifting would start again.
This is a cycle we see happening throughout all history and nothing has changed.
You can see it happening all around us today. God's people are still drifting away from him and from his Word.
Churches that no longer proclaim God's Law and Gospel, but only preach unconditional acceptance - have drifted.
Churches who claim that Jesus is only one of many paths that lead to heaven - have drifted.
Churches who claim that Jesus came to earth to make you healthy and wealthy, to be your life coach, to make life easy for you - have drifted.
These churches have drifted away from God's Word.
Drifting from God's Word continues today - we see it happening all around us.
In fact, when we are honest with ourselves, we see that it is not only happening around us – it is also happening within us as well.
We too have drifted from God and his Word.
We too have allowed our society and culture to carry us away from God and his Word.
How much time do we spend with God? How much time do we spend reading, and learning, and marking, and meditating on God's Word?
How much time do we spend in devotion, in prayer?
It's easy to drift from God's Word when we neglect it, when we are not anchored in it, when we don't know it.
Going with the flow of our culture and society, the busyness of life, putting ourselves, our hobbies, and our desires first – have all carried us away from God and his Word.
We have drifted.
Maybe our guilt and shame over the things that we have done and not done lead us to drift. We focus on and do things that will distract us and take our minds off of our sin.
Maybe our anger towards God over something that has happened in our lives, maybe our anger towards another member of the church, or towards the pastor – maybe anger has bottled up inside of us and has led us to drift from God and his Word.
Maybe we take God's forgiveness and gift of salvation for granted – our apathy has caused us to drift away.
There are so many winds around us that attempt to make us drift from God - and when we are not careful, we can find ourselves separated from him.
And when we do find ourselves separated from God, we do the same as God's people have always done.
We repent. We seek God's grace, forgiveness, and restoration. And we receive it.
"Therefore we must pay close attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it."
What we have heard, what God has revealed to us in the Bible, is the most wonderful Good News that we will ever hear in our lives.
God has removed the separation our sin caused by entering this world by becoming one of us.
Christ Jesus took on our flesh, lived a life free from sin, and took upon himself all of the punishment that our sin deserves.
Now we are declared holy and righteous before God.
Now we have victory over death.
Now we have the certain promise of eternal life.
When we pay close attention to God and his Word, we see the harm that drifting away causes.
We see the damage sin causes in our own lives and in the lives of others.
We see the death.
But we also see the love, forgiveness, restoration, and life that God has won for us through Jesus Christ.
We hear and pay close attention to the life-giving promise, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."
My brothers and sisters in Christ, pay close attention to these words and know that they include you.
When the worries, sufferings, and distractions of life cause you to drift away - pay closer attention to our Lord's promise that you are not left alone in your struggles, in your pain and suffering, or even in your death.
No, our Lord is with you. Our reading from the book of Hebrews tells us, "But we see him for a little while who was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honour because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone."
Jesus has tasted death for everyone, for you, in order to save you.
Jesus has risen victoriously over death and he promises that you will too.
God's Word, his gift of Baptism, his gift of his true body and true blood keep us anchored in his truth and prevent us from drifting away from him.
"Pay closer attention" to the Word of God.
There you will find God's love and peace. There you will find true contentment and happiness. There you will find forgiveness. There you will find God's gift of eternal life. Amen.
The peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus unto life everlasting. Amen.
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You may have noticed that I've been a tiny bit excited about issue 63 of Love Sewing magazine. It feels very surreal, but I was asked to write the reader review of the pattern gift, McCalls 6891. I should warn you at this point that this is quite a long post, so feel free to... Continue Reading →
Fabulous Fiona
I've been really excited to share this make on the blog. My make for Minerva Crafts this month is the Closet Case Patterns Fiona sundress in the dreamiest Robert Kaufman denim which was an absolute joy to work with. You can read all about the dress itself on the Minerva Crafts site now. But I... Continue Reading →
Rayon Kalle for Minerva
Hi there! Today sees the publication of a product review I did for Minerva Crafts a few months ago. I got the chance to try out a dress length Closet Case Patterns Kalle in THE most amazing rayon. I genuinely cannot say enough good things about this Art Gallery Fabrics rayon. Everything about it is... Continue Reading →
Sew My Style; or don't judge a pattern by its cover!
Hi there! Hope you're enjoying some sunshine where you are today? I'm doing a kind of double post this morning, to illustrate why you shouldn't always judge a pattern by its cover! As you may have noticed, I've been taking part in the Sew My Style challenge this year, which takes a different pattern each... Continue Reading →
Aldaia for Minerva
Hi there! Slightly later than usual this month (due to my getting muddled!), my latest blog post for Minerva Crafts is now live. This month I was lucky enough to get some of this lovely, leaf print scuba to play with. I combined it with the Pauline Alice Aldaia dress to make what feels like... Continue Reading →
Penny for a lawn party
Hi all! How's your day going? I've just got back from an extremely civilised afternoon tea in York with a lovely bunch of sewists to celebrate A Little Lawn Party. The journey home was somewhat eventful (thank you to the wonderfully clear signs at York train station that had two of us getting on a... Continue Reading →
Secret pyjamas again!
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Sewing Makes You Love Yourself….. just a little bit more
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Looking back at January
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By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN
Published: June 18, 1982
Federal epidemiologists investigating a serious disorder of the body's immune system that has mostly afflicted male homosexuals reported new evidence yesterday suggesting that the outbreak is linked to an infectious agent.
''We think the findings are important but they don't solve the problem,'' Dr. Harold W. Jaffe, one of the epidemiologists at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, said in an interview. ''They do show pretty convincingly that this is not occurring as a random event among homosexual men.''
No specific infectious agent has been identified, he said, but scientists at the Atlanta facilities are intensifying laboratory efforts to identify a virus, bacteria or other micro-organism as a possible cause.
The immune system breakdown has been implicated in a rare form of cancer, called Kaposi's sarcoma, and seems to lead to a wide variety of serious disorders. Scientists have designated the immune disorder GRID, for ''gay-related immunodeficiency disease.'' They Suspected Infectious Agent
From the time the disorder came to public attention a year ago, epidemiologists have suspected that it might be attributable to an infectious agent, although they have investigated several alternative hypotheses.
The latest clue to an infectious origin came from an intensive medical investigation of a cluster of 19 cases in Los Angeles and Orange Counties in California. It was the first detailed study of such a cluster in the syndrome.
Investigating epidemiologists from the Atlanta center and those in California said that ''within five years of the onset of symptoms, nine patients had had sexual contact with other patients'' with the syndrome.
They made that determination by interviewing the eight survivors among the 19 cases as well as friends of seven of the 11 who died. From those 15 cases, the epidemiologists obtained data on sexual partners for 13.
Of the nine people who had had exposure to other cases, they found that four had had contact with more than one case. Links Are Interconnected
Further, they said, ''The nine patients from Los Angeles and Orange Counties directly linked to other patients are part of an interconnected series of cases that may include 16 additional patients from eight other cities.''
Epidemiologists are planning to conduct further study of the links to the cases outside southern California and to seek similar clusters elsewhere.
''The more cases you put together in a diagramatic fashion, the more that supports an infectious agent, although it certainly does not exclude other possibilities,'' Dr. Jaffe said. ''We would like to see how far we can go pursuing connections outside of southern California.''
Scientists are using ''as many ways as we can think of to identify'' the infectious agent in the laboratory, he said.However, the epidemiologists said in their weekly report that they were still considering alternative hypotheses. One, they said, is that sexual contact with patients with GRID syndrome does not lead directly to the breakdown of the immunological system, ''but simply indicates a certain style of life.''
''The number of homosexually active males who share this life style,'' he said, ''may be much smaller than the number of homosexual males in the general population.''
Still another hypothesis under investigation is that the syndrome is related in some way to drugs, other environmental agents or some other common factors not yet detected.


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PARIS — Marine Le Pen is showing a little leg.
Thigh, actually, in a new campaign poster of her in a short skirt that encapsulates her calculated, canny use of gender in her uphill campaign for the French presidency.
Though she usually wears pantsuits, her aides were quick to spin the image as a blow against Islamic fundamentalism, championing women's rights to dress as they choose.
The feminization of Marine Le Pen in the current campaign is a tactical shift, but an important one. The poster is part of a broader strategy to draw more female voters and soften the image of a party long treated as a pariah in France. The poster also showed her deliberate appropriation of feminism in the service of her party's Islamophobic message.
Before now, Ms. Le Pen has mainly transcended the barriers that hobble many other Frenchwomen in politics, somehow managing to be both woman and genderless at the same time.
Her father helped install her as party leader, pushing aside male rivals, while many other French female politicians have struggled for advancement within their own parties. So many voters focused on her ideology — her party's virulent anti-immigrant, anti-Europe and past anti-Semitic stances — that her gender seemed secondary.
"She's been around so long that it's a little bit like Hillary Clinton — we forget that she's a woman," said Eugénie Bastié, a contributor to the conservative Le Figaro newspaper.
Less so this time around. Ms. Le Pen's strategists are determined to remind voters that she is, indeed, a woman. A slickly produced video shows her as a strong Everywoman — mother, lawyer and patriot of France (whose symbol, Marianne, is a woman). They have made her Marine, to distance her from a tainted family name.
A four-page brochure laid out like a women's magazine includes pictures of her holding one of her three children and calls her "a woman of heart and conviction." She is quoted in the brochure as saying that "women can better perceive injustice" and that women are more inclined to "defense of the weakest."
Christian Delporte, a professor at the University of Versailles-Saint Quentin who specializes in political communication, said that while in the past Ms. Le Pen emphasized her identity as a working woman, the constant refrains about women and motherhood in this campaign helped sanitize the party's image, to a degree.
"What struck me is that even journalists started to refer to her as Marine, not Marine Le Pen," he said. "It's a strategy being a reassuring woman. She made us forget that on the big themes, like immigration, she hasn't changed."
Yet, at the same time, the party's aggressive policies and her own confident, plain-spoken demeanor convey an authority French female politicians say is often denied to them.
At a rally on May Day in the Paris suburb of Villepinte, Ms. Le Pen showed how she can campaign both as a strong, almost masculine figure, and as a woman. She wielded a deft political stiletto, taunting her opponent, Emmanuel Macron, as a weak, long-winded and out-of-touch elitist.
But she also skillfully stoked patriotic themes, promising a better future for the children of France and leading the flag-waving crowd in an a cappella rendition of "La Marseillaise." As Sandrine Rousseau, a Green Party legislator, pointed out, Ms. Le Pen's speaking voice is deep, overcoming what Ms. Rousseau says is a frequent criticism of female politicians as shrill.
On Wednesday night, during a televised debate, Mr. Macron repeatedly dismissed her ideas as "stupidities," but she struck back with equal force, skewering him as soft on terror and a heartless capitalist. It was another example of how Ms. Le Pen bends the usual gender dynamics — her own feisty presence precluded any sense that a man was being condescending or bullying toward a woman.
Romain Lamiot, a 28-year-old longtime National Front supporter who carried his baby in his arms to the Villepinte rally, admiringly called her "punchy," using a term not usually applied to women in French. "She has authority, directness," he said. "She goes in the sea with the fishermen and can drink a beer with the farmers."
"I think men should be men and women, women," said Evelyne Marin, a 53-year-old teacher at the rally. "She's a strong woman, but very feminine. Unhappily, we don't have a man who can be her equal."
Many French female politicians denounce her strategy as opportunistic, given that neither Ms. Le Pen nor her party has emphasized women's rights in the past.
"For me, Marine Le Pen claiming to be waving the flag of women is a fraud," said Valérie Pécresse, who served as budget minister in the right-leaning government of Nicolas Sarkozy and is now the president of the Île-de-France region. "It's not called feminism, it's called nepotism."
The National Front platform planks on women call for equal pay, but largely focus on two major longstanding party priorities: encouraging larger families through a variety of government subsidies and protecting women's freedoms against what is portrayed as oppressive Islamic customs like the veil.
Ms. Le Pen has softened her previous stance on abortion, now saying it should be legal but used only as a last resort. She denounces but is a member of the European Parliament, where of 59 proposals advancing women's rights put forward over 13 years she voted in favor of just three.
Outside her own party, Ms. Le Pen has few female allies rallying to her in solidarity. "She is not defending or promoting women, she is promoting one woman only, herself," said Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, who was also a minister in the Sarkozy government.
She and Ms. Bastié say they believe that Ms. Le Pen has succeeded in part because the appeal of French traditional feminism of the left may be ebbing. "We are looking for a new feminism," Ms. Kosciusko-Morizet said. "And Marine Le Pen has gotten inside this crevice, this lack inside the French political system."
Indeed, parity for women is rare across French society, despite a law obliging political parties to nominate an equal number of men and women as candidates. Just 27 percent of legislators in the National Assembly and 25 percent in the Senate are women. Half of university students are women, but just 15.6 percent are university presidents. Women represent half the audience for radio and 8 percent of radio hosts. There are two women presidents in France's equivalent of the Fortune 500, and not one chief executive.
Ms. Pécresse, president of the Île-de-France, has had to make her own slow way up the ladder of French politics, and she said the journey was arduous. Even after 12 years of paying her dues, she said, men in her own party were reluctant to allow her to run for the prestigious post she just won.
She, Ms. Koscuisko-Morizet and Ms. Rousseau described French politics as an unapologetically macho game. Men simply have easier access to the male-dominated formal and informal political networks so important to winning votes and being chosen to run for local office.
Overt harassment abounds. Ms. Rousseau was one of more than a dozen women who accused a Green Party legislator, Denis Baupin, of forcing himself on them; in her case, he pushed her up against a wall and kissed her against her will. Another regional legislator gave her the traditional French double kiss and pat on the back in greeting — and undid her bra.
In two widely publicized incidents, a female minister wore a flowery dress to testify in Parliament and faced catcalls to take it off; and a legislator started clucking like a chicken when one of his female colleagues began to speak.
And then there are the more subtle barriers, ones that confront American female politicians as well. "When newspapers write a story about a woman in politics, they write about the way she dresses," Ms. Rousseau said. "Of course after one has written that, we cannot be a political leader, manage millions of euros, make war … " Once again, Ms. Le Pen turned that political vulnerability upside down.
Perhaps France's most famous woman, one that the National Front celebrates every May Day, is Joan of Arc. "And we don't all want to end up burned at the stake," Ms. Koscuisko-Morizet said.
Whatever the ironies, and even if Ms. Le Pen falls short, as the polls suggest, political analysts here say that her gender strategy is one of the reasons the National Front has gained ground — although she has long worked at repositioning the party, expelling her father and playing down its anti-Semitic past.
An analysis of the National Front results in 2012 by Nonna Mayer, a sociologist at Sciences Po university and specialist on right-wing French parties, showed that Ms. Le Pen had virtually eliminated a longstanding gender gap, attracting as many women voters as men. She drew strong support from women in low-paid, low-skilled service jobs like cashiers.
"She is proud of being a mother of three children, living out of wedlock, she has divorced twice," Ms. Mayer said. "She gives the image of a modern working woman who does politics."


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The Graduate Certificate in Aged Care Administration articulates with the Graduate Diploma in Health Administration and/or Master of Health Administration programs and credit will normally be given for related topics completed in the graduate certificate.
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AGES8020 Introduction to Social Gerontology (4.5 units)
HACM9100 Leadership in Health and Aged Care (4.5 units)
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Last week, Google released Android 6.0 factory images for the LG-made Nexus 5X, and now the company has also posted Marshmallow factory images for the Huawei-made Nexus 6P, which has recently started shipping in the United States.
Unlike its smaller brother Nexus 5X, there are only two images available for the Nexus 6P: MDA89D and MDB08K. Also, unfortunately, there is no other information available, like whether or not any of these images is for Project-Fi.
For those who aren't aware, factory images are targeted at Android developers and enthusiasts who want to perform a clean install of the firmware. You can download Nexus 6P Marshmallow factory images by heading to the Source link below.
It is very nice
Once an OS is approaching perfection there are minor tweaks an no major overhauls that are. Look at IOS for eg nothing much has changed from 7 to 8 to 9.
How different it looks from Lolipop. NOT !!!


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