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Supply Chain Development
The global aerospace supply chain is rapidly changing. The challenges posed by this transformation are major, but also offer great opportunities for the Québec industry, which is recognized for the expertise and ingenuity of its members.
In a context of globalized world markets, prime contractors are reducing the number of their suppliers, preferring to work with a few intermediary companies that offer integrated solutions and manage numerous subcontractors.
Consequently, the global supply chain is changing, favouring the emergence of integrators who are entrusted with the responsibility for the design, fabrication and assembly of complete systems.
To maintain its leadership position, our industry now has to constantly adapt and innovate to provide an integrated supply chain that is more flexible and aligned with the expectations of prime contractors. Suppliers need to improve their operating practices, increase their innovation capacity, promote partnerships, in short, work together to become stronger.
In the midst of these transformations, Aéro Montréal created the Supply Chain Development Working group. Composed of 13 individuals representing stakeholders in the aerospace supply chain, the group's mandate is to oversee the planning, coordination and implementation of a concerted action plan to respond to the major issues of subcontracting and, ultimately, to increase the competitiveness of Québec aerospace suppliers. It also aims to strengthen the Québec aerospace supply chain vis-à-vis international competition.
Flagship Projects
Members of the working group Supply Chain Development
Louis Marc Pinard
Deputy General Manager and Director, Strategic Planning & Commercial
- Timothy Ayoub, L3 MAS
- Sylvain Bédard, Sonaca Montréal
- Marc Bigras, Groupe Meloche
- Louis Bouchard, Bombardier
- François Cyr, PCM Techfab
- Jacques Dodier, Pratt & Whitney Canada
- Éric Faucher, Hutchinson Aéronautique et Industrie Ltée
- Gilles Isabel, Bell Helicopter Textron
- Jean-Louis Moreau, CAE
- Jean Proteau, APN
- Martin Richard, Héroux-Devtek
- Bassam Sabbagh, JMJ Aéronautique
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Our Christmas Traditions
By NMC - December 14, 2017
Posted in Adult Ministry, Worship, Let's Give It All Away
Christmas is a wonderful time around NMC. There are a flurry of activities, groups that gather for meals and parties, and ministries that plan special events. Middle School Ministry puts together an ugly Christmas sweater competition. KidMin helps kids make gifts for family members. The entire church collects food boxes and hams for our partners at the Revolution Church in Gary. Small Churches rally behind our other regional partners by collecting gifts for Transformation Ministries' Christmas Store or by collecting coats and blankets for our partners at the Devon Oasis Center in Chicago.
Even the building itself brings the feeling of Christmas to life after our decorating team finishes their hard work. This team gathers the Monday after Thanksgiving to string lights and hang garland. They pull out Christmas trees from dusty boxes and fluff the branches. Ornaments are hung and nativity scenes are carefully placed on tables. These sometimes unsung heroes take care to turn NMC into a place that celebrates the birth of Christ. We are so grateful for them, for their time and effort, and for the way they point us back to the beauty of Christ through the beauty of decorations.
Christmas at NMC also means traditions. In the Midwest, we greatly value traditions, especially when it comes to spending them with the ones we love. At NMC, traditions are a way of marking time and gathering people together. They are a way of honoring those who have gone before us and a way of carrying on a legacy passed down to us. Every Christmas at NMC, people can expect two traditions in particular: the KidMin Christmas Musical and the Worship Choir Christmas Concert.
The KidMin Christmas Musical
In September, when the leaves are just beginning to change and eventually fall off the trees, kids at NMC have the opportunity to try out for the singing and speaking parts for annual Christmas musical. It's hard to be in the Christmas spirit when the temperatures still reach 70 degrees and the skies are clear and bright and blue. Even still, these kids practice their songs and rehearse their lines from September until December, preparing for their grand performance in front of family and friends.
This year's performance took place December 9. Our KidMin crew performed "The Christmas County Spelling Bee," telling the Christmas story through a spelling competition. It was a night of laughter and joy as kids nailed their lines and sang with all their might. In that one-hour performance, all the months of hard work paid off, and moments were created for kids to step out of their comfort zones and shine in front of the people who love them the most.
One of our favorite parts of the evening happens when the curtain closes and the stage lights are turned off. Families leave the Worship Center and head to the Grand Hall for cookies and hot cocoa. We don't just love it for the delicious treats. We love to watch families be together. We love to see high-fives and hear words of encouragement. We love to see grandmas hug their grandsons and granddaughters hold on to their grandpas' hands. We love to see families gather together for a picture in front of the massive Christmas tree our decorating team so carefully assembled. There's a feeling of belonging created in those moments, which is exactly why the KidMin musical is such a beloved tradition.
Worship Choir Christmas Concert
A week after our kids perform, our adults gear up for their concert. The Christmas concert tradition seems to be as old as the church itself, but in reality, it has been happening for over 33 years. This year, the choir is under a new director, Tonya Cline, and we anticipate it to be just as lovely and wonderful as the last 33.
This year's performance will include choral pieces, congregational carols, and family vignettes about Christmas. Many unique elements will help create a feeling of connectedness with the ones you love—family or friends. It will include songs like O Holy Night, What Child is This, Away in a Manager, Joy to the World, and so much more.
Perhaps one of the reasons we love the Worship Choir Christmas concert the most is because it helps people, no matter their age, focus on the reason we celebrate Christmas. Songs like Jingle Bells and Rocking Around the Christmas Tree are fun and joyful, but there is something about singing What Child is This that helps us celebrate the beauty and mystery of God becoming human, moving into the neighborhood, and saving us from our sins.
Gather your friends and family and join us this Sunday, December 17. There will be two performances—3:30 and 6 PM. The celebration doesn't just include music. It also includes delicious cookies, coffee, and wassail in the Grand Hall prior to each performance.
There's nothing quite like celebrating Christmas as the Body of Christ. As the NMC staff, we want to invite you to celebrate this incredible season with us whether at one of our Christmas events or during our Christmas services on December 24. It's not just the birth of Christ we get to celebrate, but also God's faithfulness throughout history.
Merry Christmas from the NMC family.


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And despite the fact that there were thousands of zebra on the goal side of the river, the urge to be with the specific group was greater than the threat from the crocodiles. And zebras, in small groups, continued to return to whence they had come.
This was not always a wise choice. The crocs knew the zebra were here. And they cared not for the direction they crossed.
And both zebras got slammed.
Given the size of the crocs it is rather amazing that they made it across.
But not unscathed. If you look closely (after bigafying of course) the larger zebra's left front leg you can see blood spurting out.
But they did make it across. Although I don't think that's the best place for junior to stand. Just sayin'.
Nor was it the best place for mom to rest. Methinks there's a cliche about frying pans and fire that might be appropriate here.
I can only think that junior is in shock here. How else to explain that it does not move away from the leopard?
It seems junior has finally figured this is not the place to be.
Now just when you thought it could not get any worse ...
We thought there would some tug of war action, but the crocs are too big for their own good. They can't lift themselves up over the rocks.
And the prize remained just out of reach.
The leopard ate its fill.
And then washed it down with a nice long drink from the river.
It seems the leopard was rather lucky. Bigafy the image above and look at the cat's left rear leg. It too is injured. An injury that prevents it from running and jumping full bore. This beast will have a difficult time hunting. Thus prey that falls into its lap is a godsend.
We would come back the next morning and the zebra was gone. Did the leopard pull it up into the trees? Did the crocs find a way to get to it? Did lions or hyenas or some other predator claim it as there own? We'll never know. But the fact that there were no remains to be seen leads us to believe the leopard dragged it away.
To recap:
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the river.
Mama zebra is leopard food.
Baby zebra is an orphan.
Crocodiles do all the work and get nothing for their trouble.
Leopard gets a meal or two, but still is injured and can't run.
Leopard gets a meal or two, but still is injured and can't run.
You might want to bookmark this page to review the next time you think you're having a bad day.
My thanks to Laura Keene for the use of her 500 mm lens for some of the above images.


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Allyson Ray
PhD student in Molecular Cellular and Integrative BioSciences (MCIBS)
co-advised by Jason Rasgon
2016 - BS with Highest Distinction in Molecular and Cellular Biology, BS in Psychology University of Illinois
I am broadly interested in the evolutionary interplay between pathogens/parasites and their hosts, utilizing honey bees and their network of parasites and vectors as a model system. What factors determine the success of a pathogens, parasites, and disease vectors over a host? What influences host survival and evolution? How do these features all interact within the superorganism colony? I am investigating these questions through the integration of multiple aspects of bee biology, utilizing genomic and experimental evolution methods to investigate these complex and dynamic processes.
David A. Galbraith, Zachary L. Fuller, Allyson M. Ray, Axel Brockmann, Maryann Frazier, Mary W. Gikungu, J. Francisco Iturralde Martinez, Karen M. Kapheim, Jeffrey T. Kerby, Sarah D. Kocher, Oleksiy Losyev, Elliud Muli, Harland M. Patch, Cristina Rosa, Joyce M. Sakamoto, Scott Stanley, Anthony D. Vaudo, Christina M. Grozinger. "Investigating the viral ecology of global bee communities with high-throughput metagenomics." Scientific reports 8.1 (2018): 8879.
Julia D. Fine, Hagai Y. Shpigler, Allyson M. Ray, Nathanael J. Beach, Alison Sankey, Amy Cash-Ahmed, Zachary Y. Huang, Ieva Astrauskaite, Ran Chao, William Streyer, Huimin Zhao, and Gene E. Robinson. "Quantifying the Effects of Pollen Nutrition on Honey Bee Queen Egg Laying with a New Laboratory-Based System." PloS one 13.9 (2018): e0203444.
2018 - Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research Award
2017 - Braddock Scholarship Award
2016 - Undergraduate Research Achievement Award


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1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis:
I am currently undertaking three placements within the London Market; broking, underwriting and Lloyd's. At my brokers I was an account handler and a placing broker, in which my roles included creating slips, endorsements, dealing with client renewals and broking to underwriters. At the moment I am based in Lloyd's in the Market Intelligence team. I am responsible for maintaining and updating the products, liasing with country managers and supporting international market agenda through project work and events.
2. Have you learnt any new skills or developed existing skills?
Throughout my time so far I have developed multiple skills. On the apprenticeship we have both soft skills training, for example presentation and persuasion skills and technical training. As part of the scheme, we have to work towards our Cert CII and study for our Advanced Level 3 Apprenticeship in Providing Financial Services.
3. To what extent do you enjoy your programme?
I am thoroughly enjoying the programme for various reasons - I feel challenged within my role, I am rarely bored and everyone gets on great together. It is a very sociable industry with things always going on and the apprentices and people within the industry make work alot more enjoyable.
4. How valued do you feel by Lloyd's of London?
I feel extremely valued by Lloyd's. They take our advice on board and are always there to help if we need it. Lloyd's invests alot of time and money into the apprenticeship and want to see us develop both in a business and personal sense.
5. How well organised/structured is your programme?
The programme is well structured. We start off with a months induction to Lloyd's in which we learn about the industry, develop both soft and technical skills and job shadow. The placements are split into either 6 months at a brokers, 6 months at an underwriters and 6 months at Lloyds, or 6 months at a brokers and 12 at an underwriters. We meet monthly with a Bromley mentor to help us gain our qualification as well.
6a. How much support do you receive from your training provider?
There is alot of support from our training provider. We have monthly meetings with our Bromley College mentor in which she explains any queries we may have about the exam or coursework. She is very approachable and is always there to help with any problems that we may have.
6b. How much support do you receive from your employer?
Lloyd's provides sufficient support, they are there when you need them but allow us space in order to develop. They are friendly and approachable, and provide solutions if any problems do arise.
7. How well does your salary/package meet your costs?
The salary is significant in comparison to other apprenticeships; however, travel does take a fair amount out of the wages. The salary covers social costs etc and the discount card for the canteen is very useful.
8. Are there many opportunities outside of work?
There are many opportunities and things to take part in outside of work. The market has created numerous groups to join such as the under 35's in which they run lectures, training and parties. There are many bars and restaurants surrounding the area and people are likely to go out on Thursdays.
9. Would you recommend Lloyd's of London to a friend?
9b. Why?
Lloyd's is a fun and diverse place to work and there are multiple opportunities that arise from being on the scheme. The people in the industry are more than happy to offer their support and help when possbile and you make great friends with both the apprentices and colleagues at work.
10. What tips or advice would you give to others applying to Lloyd's of London?
Research Lloyd's and how the market works and most importantly be yourself. The assessment centre can be quite challening but ensure that you are approachable and well presented and you will do well.
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Peregrine Falcon (擬游隼)
United Arab Emirates (2007)
4th November, 2007. Sharjah
United Arab Emirates (2007)
4th November, 2007. Sharjah
Peregrine Falcon is a common bird of prey in the world, it appears on any places except two poles and high level areas, there are recorded 17 to 19 subspecies of Peregrine. Only two subspecies F. p. pelegrinoides and F. p. babylonicus can be found in United Arab Emirates and rounded countries.
Peregrine Falcon is a nation bird of United Arab Emirates, a rich country lay on Persian Gulf. The stamp illustrate a decorated Peregrine Falcon with Arabic which is a newest nation symbol of this country.


text: Kate and Olivia are getting married next year on the coast of Maine, so we met up with them in their Brooklyn neighborhood and wandered the city near Brooklyn Bridge for their engagement session. Kate dressed in the perfect sparkly tone for Jane's Carousel. I told them to hold really still, experimenting with my shutter speed, and BOOM! This shot just happened. I have to give Kate props for her posing skills, which probably come from the fact that she is a badass photographer too! Can't wait to capture their day next fall.


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Coimbatore: Hondariders performed strongly at the 2018 Indian National Motorcycle Racing Championship here today as Anish Shetty of IDEMITSU Honda Ten10 Racing team finished first inthe Pro Stock 165 class of national championship.
In theSuperSport 165 class, Mathana Kumar scored a double podium once again, while Senthil Kumar registered another win in IDEMITSU Honda India Talent Cup.
Mathana Kumar displayed aggressive spirit by bagging another podium in the 15 lap SuperSport165 class race.
He finished the race in 3rd position in 18:24.464 minutes.
The action-packed race saw Rajiv Sethu improve on his cornering speed, reducing his lap timings to finish fourth.
Rajiv and Sarath Kumar kept the excitement at the peak with Sarath finishing right at his heels in fifthposition.
In theTalent Cup, 17-year-old Senthil Kumar won the race for the second consecutive day.
Senthil finished the 15-lap race in 19:40.847 minutes with a best lap time of 1:17.151 minutes.
The action between Senthil and Anish continued on Day 2 as well as Anish finished the race in second spot while reducing the gap between the two even further.
Abhishek Vasudev started from pole position to round up the podium with a total timing of 19:41.128 minutes.
Abhishek though scored the fastest lap of the race in just 1:16.730.Minutes
The results (Provisional): NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
Super Sport Indian 165cc (Race 2,15 laps): 1. K Y Ahamed (TVS Racing) (18mins, 23.078secs); 2. Deepak Ravikumar (TVS Racing) (18:23. 550); 3. Mathana Kumar (Honda Ten10 Racing) (18:24.464).
Pro-Stock 165cc (Race 2, 15 laps): 1. Anish Shetty (Honda Ten10 Racing) (19:28.918); 2. Kevin Kannan (Rockers Racing) (19:29. 420);3. Mithun Kumar (Honda Ten10 Racing) (19:31.426).
Pro-Stock 301-400cc (Race 2, 15 laps): 1. Amarnath Menon (Gusto Racing) (18:22.762); 2. Satyanarayana Raju (Gusto Racing) (18:25.077); 3. Antony Peter (Vortex Racing) (18:39. 130).
Novice (Stock 165cc, 10 laps): 1. Aditya Rao (Sparks Racing) (13:28.042); 2. Karthik Mateti (Sparks Racing) (13:28. 457); 3. Akshay V Murali (Apex Racing Academy) (13:37.568).
Girls (Stock 165cc, 8 laps): 1. Ann Jennifer (Sparks Racing) (11:55. 766); 2. Nivetha Kumar (First 1 Racing) (12:01. 280); 3. Czimkhy R V (Pvt) (12:11.675).
One-Make Championship:Idemitsu Honda India Talent Cup 2018 organised by MMSC Race 2 (CBR 250, 15 laps): 1. Senthil Kumar (19:40.847); 2. Anish Damodara Shetty (Hubballi) (19:40. 950); 3. Abhishek Vasudev (Bengaluru) (19:41.128).
TVS Open (Apache RR 310 R2) 10 laps: 1. Yashas R L (Bengaluru) (13:16.475); 2. Vivek Pillai (Chennai) (13:20. 907);3. PedduSriharsha (Hyderabad) (13:21.068).
Race 2 (15 laps): 1. Deepak Ravikumar (Chennai) (19:30. 812); 2. S Sivanesan (Chennai) (19:40.844); 3. PedduSriharsha (Hyderabad) (19:47.759).
Novice (Apache RTR 200) Race 2 (10 laps): 1. Karthik Mateti (Hyderabad) (14:10.019); 2. Anand R (Chennai) (14:25. 680); 3. A S Alexander (Chennai) (14:32.877).


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Director of Spiritual Life
Among his multiple roles for a non-profit residential community in Evanston, Illinois, Gerry concurrently serves as its spiritual life director.
Gerry fulfills this role without affiliation to any church denomination.
"God's vision of us, God's vision for us, is one that welcomes all of us — no matter our perceived shortcomings, our perceived failures, the things we have done, the things we have failed to do. All God wants of us is to come and receive his grace."
Gerry Farinas, sermon at Sophia Chapel, Evanston, Illinois, July 9, 2017
Gerry has preached at faith communities in Hawaii and Illinois.


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The Aurora Public Library is bound by the Illinois Records Confidentiality Act (75 ILCS 70/1-2). This act generally prohibits the library from making available to the public any registration, circulation, computer use, or database search record which is related to any named library user. The library respects the rights of its customers to confidentiality. The library will provide information on an individual's record only upon request of the individual or the individual's legal guardian.
Anyone seeking information on an individual's registration, circulation, computer use, or database search record that is not his or her own or that of his or her minor child must obtain a court order. Upon receipt of the court order to reveal confidential information, the Executive Director may consult with the library's legal counsel to confirm that the request complies with the law.
75 ILCS 70/1-2 allows certain exceptions in certain situations. Enforcement officers may request information in emergency situations regarding the identity of suspects, witnesses, or victims where the officer believes there is imminent danger of physical harm, provided:
Under this exception, only information identifying a suspect, witness or victim of a crime may be disclosed to an officer without a court order; all other information remains confidential without a court order.
The library, as a member of the Reaching Across Illinois Systems (RAILS) participates in reciprocal borrowing. It is sometimes necessary for libraries to share information with each other to be able to provide service to the customer and to collect outstanding materials and fines owed. The library will honor requests from other libraries that need this information. Implicit in a customer's agreement to participate in the reciprocal borrowing program is the customer's consent for the various libraries involved to exchange pertinent information as may be necessary to retrieve library materials.
The library also has a reciprocal agreement with the schools which allows sharing of information to retrieve materials and provide service to customers.
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After some extremely successful birding in our previous two days in Arizona (though not devoid of misses), my dad and I departed our lodging in Green Valley before sunrise on the eighth day of our adventure, headed for the Santa Rita Mountains and Florida Canyon.
This would be a pivotal day of our trip, in which we would see a lot of the final opportunities to see a number of targets we had missed on previous days come up. It would be crucial to take advantage of these opportunities and attempt to nail down these birds, as we weren't sure of the next time we'd be in their ranges.
Arriving at Florida Canyon, just off of the road headed to the famous Madera Canyon, site of an unbelievable morning of birding two years ago, my dad and I began making our way up the trail. Our main target here was Rufous-capped Warbler, a species I had seen in Costa Rica back in 2009, but one I was looking forward to getting some more looks at, in the ABA area to boot.
We were also hoping for Black-chinned Sparrow, a top target on this trip, and an overall higher priority species than the warbler.
Over a period of over two hours, we covered around a kilometer of a portion of the trail leading up Florida Canyon. Neither us nor any of the other birders looking, came across any of the Rufous-capped Warblers that frequent this location. However, we were able to come up with a nice total of twenty-five species, that included: Cooper's Hawk, Broad-billed Hummingbird, Dusky and Ash-throated Flycatchers, Hutton's Vireo, Verdin, Cactus Wren, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Orange-crowned, Yellow-rumped and Black-throated Gray Warblers, Painted Redstart, Green-tailed and Spotted Towhees (we ended the trip with four species of towhee recorded), Lincoln's and White-crowned Sparrow and Pyrrhuloxia.
The biggest highlight at this location, however, came in the form of four awesome Black-chinned Sparrows seen along the length of the trail. Although this species can be rather skittish and flighty, a few birds stuck around and provided nice views and photos, which was a real treat. I had been yearning to see this sparrow for quite some time, and it was awesome to finally catch up with it.
After hitting the canyon, my dad and I headed north, en route to Tucson. We had to finally admit defeat on Montezuma Quail, as our last opportunity to see this almost mythical species had come on the road into Florida Canyon, an opportunity we were unfortunately unable to capitalize on. I have now missed Montezuma Quail on two trips to Arizona (with a good deal of effort spent for this bird on each).
We arrived at the Sweetwater Wetlands in Tucson in the late morning hours, as the temperature continued to rise. Our top targets here were not the typical wetlands fare as was expected, but instead two terrestrial species: Red-naped Sapsucker and Cassin's Vireo.
We had been keeping our eye out for these birds at a good deal of very good locations for them over the course of the trip, and had come up empty every time. Our visit to Sweetwater was no exception. We missed them both.
Highlights at this fun (but stinky; don't let the name fool you!) location included thirty-seven species, including numerous waterfowl that were comprised of Gadwall, American Wigeon, Mallard, Blue-winged Teal, Cinnamon Teal, Northern Shoveler, Lesser Scaup, Ruddy Duck, Common Gallinule and American Coot.
Other highlights were Gambel's Quail, Harris's Hawk (one of the specialty birds at this spot), Black-necked Stilt, Gila Woodpecker, American Kestrel, Verdin, Marsh Wren, Curve-billed Thrasher, Orange-crowned and Yellow Warblers, Abert's Towhee, Song and Lincoln's Sparrows and Yellow-headed Blackbird.
After spending some time at the Sweetwater Wetlands, we continued making our way towards Phoenix, stopping at one last location of the day in a last-ditch effort for Ferruginous Hawk and Prairie Falcon, the Santa Cruz Flats.
To cut to the chase, we missed them both. Again. Our last opportunity of the trip for Ferruginous Hawk and Prairie Falcon, birds we had opportunities to see on every single day of the Arizona portion of the trip, was another bust.
At this point, I had gotten pretty fed up with these birds. Looking back, though, I can't wait for my next trip out West to nail down these not-so-little buggers, when I can finally claim victory over two species that have brought me so much trouble. It will be I who will have the last laugh.


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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The voting by cardinals to elect the next pope takes place behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, following a highly detailed procedure that underwent major revisions by Blessed John Paul II and a small, but very significant change, by Pope Benedict XVI.
Under the rules, secret ballots can be cast once on the first day of the conclave, then normally twice during each subsequent morning and evening session. Except for periodic pauses, the voting continues until a new pontiff is elected with at least two-thirds of the votes.
Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, reviewed the rules with reporters at the Vatican Feb. 22.
Introducing Bishop Arrieta, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, said Pope Benedict at any minute might be signing a document with minor changes to the law, but the changes would make sense only if one knew the general laws for a conclave.
Many observers had expected Pope Benedict to clarify that the cardinals have the option of beginning the conclave once all the cardinals are in Rome, even if that occurs sooner than the law's required 15 days after the beginning of the "sede vacante," literally the vacant see, left by the pope's resignation.
Bishop Arrieta told reporters that in his opinion the cardinals could make that decision on their own, without a change to the law, since the law was "clearly written with a 'sede vacante' because of death in mind." However, he also said that as the church's supreme legislator, Pope Benedict, before leaving, also could set the date for the conclave, "although I have no information that he would do so."
The written rules for the conclave, which have developed in reaction to the problems — political and moral — that have arisen throughout history, are "rigid and highly formal," the bishop said.
For example, he said, Pope Paul VI's rules excluded cardinals who were 80 years old or older on the day the conclave began. Blessed John Paul changed the rule to 80 years on the day the papacy became vacant. The change ensured cardinals did not choose a conclave start date specifically to include or exclude a cardinal close to the age of 80.
Under current rules, only cardinals who are under the age of 80 Feb. 28, the last day of Pope Benedict's pontificate — can vote in the conclave. There were 117 cardinals eligible, but Feb. 21 Indonesian Cardinal Julius Darmaatmadja, the 78-year-old retired archbishop of Jakarta, announced he would not travel to Rome because of his health.
In theory, any baptized male Catholic can be elected pope, but current church law says he must become a bishop before taking office; since the 15th century, the electors always have chosen a fellow cardinal.
Each vote begins with the preparation and distribution of paper ballots by two masters of ceremonies, who are among a handful of noncardinals allowed into the chapel at the start of the session.
Then the names of nine voting cardinals are chosen at random: three to serve as "scrutineers," or voting judges; three to collect the votes of any sick cardinals who remain in their quarters at the Domus Sanctae Marthae; and three "revisers" who check the work of the scrutineers.
The paper ballot is rectangular. On the top half is printed the Latin phrase "Eligo in Summum Pontificem" ("I elect as the most high pontiff"), and the lower half is blank for the writing of the name of the person chosen.
After all of the noncardinals have left the chapel, the cardinals fill out their ballots secretly, legibly and fold them twice. Meanwhile, any ballots from sick cardinals are collected and brought back to the chapel.
Each cardinal then walks to the altar, holding up his folded ballot so it can be seen, and says aloud: "I call as my witness Christ the Lord who will be my judge, that my vote is given to the one who before God I think should be elected." He places his ballot on a plate, or paten, then slides it into an urn or large chalice.
When all of the ballots have been cast, the first scrutineer shakes the urn to mix them. He then transfers the ballots to a new urn, counting them to make sure they correspond to the number of electors.
The ballots are read out. Each of the three scrutineers examines each ballot one-by-one, with the last scrutineer calling out the name on the ballot, so all the cardinals can record the tally. The last scrutineer pierces each ballot with a needle through the word "Eligo" and places it on a thread, so they can be secured.
After the names have been read out, the votes are counted to see if someone has obtained the two-thirds majority needed for election. The revisers then double-check the work of the scrutineers for possible mistakes.
At this point, any handwritten notes made by the cardinals during the vote are collected for burning with the ballots. If the first vote of the morning or evening session is inconclusive, a second vote normally follows immediately, and the ballots from both votes are burned together at the end.
When a pope is elected, the ballots are burned immediately. The ballots are burned with chemical additives to produce white smoke when a pope has been ele
cted; they are burned with other chemicals to produce black smoke when the voting has been inconclusive.
The conclave is organized in blocks: three days of voting, then a pause of up to one day, followed by seven ballots and a pause, then seven more ballots and a pause, and seven more ballots.
Slightly changing the rules in 2007, Pope Benedict said that after about 33 or 34 ballots without an election — about 12 or 13 days into the conclave — the cardinals must move to a run-off between the top two vote-getters. The two candidates may not participate in the voting, Bishop Arrieta said, and one of them is elected only once he obtains more than two-thirds of the vote.
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The heat is always on in Queen of the South.
After her drug-running boyfriend is killed for skimming from the cartel for which he works, Teresa Mendoza runs for her life. She skips from the frying pan to the fire and back again in a taut, tense thriller that plays like a movie, with muted colors and interesting camera angles. The series, which was shot in Dallas, premieres June 23 on USA at 9 p.m.
If there's such a thing as a slow thriller, this show fits the bill. QOTS takes the time to build relationships and characters; the audience isn't left unscathed when it all hits the fan. And it does. It seems that the success of Breaking Bad made people want to tell it like it is. QOTS is the latest in a line of successful narcos, including Narcos on Netflix.
Alice Braga (I Am Legend) plays Mendoza, who is at turns scared witless and extremely resourceful. Mendoza is her own spirit guide through twists and turns that lead her to an unexpected destination in the first episode, "Piloto."
She's sweet, if hardened, when we first meet her as a money changer on the streets of Sinalao, Mexico. It's there that she meets Guero, "a Chicano from Texas,' whose first words to her are a compliment. And then he pays a kindness to her that none have matched before. Of course, that leads to being hopelessly in love.
"So what if he was a drug runner," she says in voice-over. And so begins her descent -- or ascent, when you look at it through her eyes. And that's what you'll end up doing. The power of the story will compel you. Mendoza is just someone who finally finds love, a home and a life. Isn't that the dream of everyone?
But as fast as things go up for her, they go down with the same quickness. What she found was a forever love, until it wasn't. (True to form, she's watching Scarface when that happens.) The first flight scene is intense and includes the best argument I've seen for turning down the volume when you're wearing headphones.
Before the episode is over, she's both the trembling deer and the hunter. There's not one bad casting choice: Joaquim de Almeida (24) plays Don Epifanio Vargas, the avuncular cartel head on his way to becoming governor; Verónica Falcón (Days of Grace) is his former wife Camila, a well-coiffed and well-dressed woman of steel; Jon Ecker (Narcos) plays the ill-fated, chivalrous Güero; and Justina Machado (Six Feet Under) imbues Brenda, the brassy, sassy best friend, with pathos.
Viewers learn early that Teresa, indeed, has become the Queen of the South and she's running "the biggest drug empire in the Western hemisphere." There's something freeing about knowing the end of a story, for the viewer and the creation team.
Teresa's entire life is about to flash before our eyes in the series based on the popular novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, La Reina del Sur. A previous adaptation was a wildly popular telenovela for Telemundo.
USA's Queen of the South has the goods to make it a trifecta.


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Everything is so completely gorgeous. Love love love them all xo
Am really excited about the retreat too, cant wait to meet everyone!
Hon creating is creating its all good :)
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Lots of fabulousness Krissy! Especially loving your canvases :).
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What is Arthroscopy?
Dr. Rohit Luthra is the best and leading Arthroscopy Doctor in Pune at Arcus Clinic Kondhwa Pune. Arthroscopy is a minimally invasive surgical procedure on a joint in which an examination and sometimes treatment of damage is performed using an arthroscope, an endoscope that is inserted into the joint through a small incision. Arthroscopic surgery has revolutionized orthopaedic medicine over the years. This versatile procedure can both diagnose and treat many conditions of the joints, greatly reducing both treatment and recovery time.
Arthroscopy Doctor in Pune
Arthroscopy Doctor in Pune uses to look at, diagnose, and treat problems inside a joint. You can have arthroscopy on any joint. Most often, it's done on the knee, shoulder, elbow, ankle, hip, or wrist.
What Happens During the Procedure?
Before the arthroscopy surgery, your doctor gives you an anesthetic.
This may be:
- Local (numbs particular surgery part only).
- Regional (numbs from the waist down).
- General (completely to sleep).
If you are awake, you may be able to watch the procedure on a monitor.
What About Recovery?
You may have some pain in the joint after surgery. Your doctor may prescribe pain medication. He might also prescribe aspirin or other medication to prevent blood clots.
What is Arthritis Management?
Arthritis Management – The focus of treatment for arthritis is to control pain, minimize joint damage, and improve or maintain function and quality of life.
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Meet the GOP's Newest Conspiracy, 'Rangerghazi'
By Jason Stanford
It's easier to explain how three women became the first women to earn their Army Ranger tabs than why Congressman Steve Russell suspects they got preferential treatment. The women passed Rangers School because they stuck with it until they did. The congressman doubts they passed honestly because he won't let go of his preconceptions about women in the military.
Russell is clear that he thinks women should not be allowed into combat positions just because they are women. "There are some things they simply cannot do. I know I run the risk of being called a chauvinist pig by saying that," he said, and he does.
So perhaps it should not have been a surprise what came next. When Capt. Kristen Griest and 1st Lt. Shaye Haver graduated from Ranger School in late April, his office sent a letter to Army Secretary John McHugh demanding a full accounting as to how the women successfully graduated.
Russell's office also reached out to former Ranger instructor Michael "Bubba" Moore. Before he made his Facebook profile private, Moore posted an image of a nametag. Under the "Hello, my name is" part it said, "RANGER and I'm here to f*** b****es and kill terrorists." So he's nice. Moore put Russell's office in touch with People magazine, and suddenly we had "Rangerghazi."
The crux of their fever dream is that the women needed second and third chances to pass certain tests, opportunities, they incorrectly claimed, that male Ranger applicants did not get.
"Don't tell me that you didn't set these chicks up for success," said Moore.
God forbid women should succeed. Col. David Fivecoat, commander of the Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade, said a third of the students get to "recycle" a phase of the training. He admitted that only about 15 students a year recycle every phase, but it does happen every year.
What Russell and Moore complain about is what we should be bragging about. Women were given chances to succeed just like men. If they failed, they got new chances. So did the men. Many women failed and quit. So did many men in Ranger School. The ones who did not give up succeeded, and now they wear Ranger tabs on their uniforms regardless of gender. Grit and determination to succeed are supposed to be good things.
Many people aren't happy that the military is opening combat positions to women, but it shouldn't be any surprise that Russell, an Oklahoma Republican, is the one who thinks he smells a conspiracy. When he ran for Congress after the invasion of Iraq, he angrily defended the intelligence that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
"The record is there. We found evidence of it even in Iraq. That's a big misconception. Oh, there was no WMD, there was no nuclear program. That is false... They were clearly on a path to develop destructive weapons," said Russell in a 2012 campaign interview. When asked for his source, Russell cited his "good buddy."
This is, of course, balderdash. As the head of the Bush administration's Iraq Survey Group told Congress, "We were almost all wrong."
Russell is a no-kidding Iraq war hero, a former state lawmaker-turned congressman, and, as a matter of fact, an Army Ranger himself. But if he thinks the standards were lowered to allow women into his exclusive He Man Woman Haters Club, Army Maj. Gen. Scott Miller has an offer for him.
Miller gave a speech at the Aug. 21 Ranger School graduation where he addressed "noisy and inaccurate" suspicions that Griest and Haver got off easy during the week-long Ranger Assessment Phase.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the week has not changed. Standards remain the same," Miller said. "The five-mile run is still five miles. The 12-mile march is still 12 miles. The mountains of Dahlonega are still here, the swamps remain intact."
But if that wasn't convincing enough, Miller invited skeptics back to Fort Benning to "re-validate their tab."
"To date, we've had zero takers," said Miller.
What about it, Congressman Russell, care to re-take the test, or are you scared of getting beaten by three girls?
Sorry, three Rangers.
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What Regime Change is Donald Rumseld Not In Favor Of?
Other than here in America of course. Now it's North Korea. He's not alone. Our commander of forces over there, General Leon LaPorte, also weighs in. Can't say I disagree with these guys, but how do we do it? Compared to Saddam, this is the major leagues in terms of ground combat.


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In my previous post, I introduced you to some of the basic concepts and terminology of the video editing process. I haven't shown you how to do the edits yet, but we will get there. The comments on my first post provided some good feedback and I appreciate that. Before we get into editing video (in a future post) let's step back and talk about what your goals and expectations should be in working with video.
Video is going to be an excellent way for you to stand out in the crowd. If you don't think video is a popular format, reconsider how many youtube videos are watched on a daily basis! People love videos. (Google does too for that matter.) You are not expected to be a professional videographer nor do you want to invest your valuable time to in hopes to attain to cinematographic oscar greatness. Does that mean that you can post some really poor quality attempt and call that acceptible? No. "Click" - that was the sound of somebody browsing away from you!
My goal is to teach you some basics that will go a long way and make sure we "raise the bar" in what you are able to produce and make public. So you want to do video? Let's talk:
Do you need to use video editing software at all? No, you do not. If you want to simply do a short message (a single clip of video) and upload it - that works! (see example from Tim Maitski - he left me a video comment on my last article)
Have you heard of Dale Chumbley? Well let me introduce Dale to you. He is a real estate agent out in Vancouver, WA. (be sure and check out his intro video on his home page via link above, creative!) Dale is one to look to for not doing it "just like everyone else" does. Do you think he stands out in the crowd? Absolutely. Dale posts very frequently, in fact, his blog is a 365 things to do type of blog (one of the originals, not a 'copy-cat'). So IF he spent hours doing video editing, he would not be able to maintain the frequent schedule. Creating videos can be similar to blogging then. They can be short, uncomplicated, and frequent.
Here's a sample featured place video from Dale:
(simple huh? turn on the camera on your iPhone and begin recording and the audio is rather good for no external mic - my only suggestion to everyone with iPhones... turn the phone into landscape mode to better match the widescreen box where videos need to fit into)
What kinds of video productions can be made? You could do a short agent bio and introduce yourself; You could do a community tour video; You could do a walkthrough video of the house; You could do testimonial videos from select previous clients; You could feature local businesses; and the creative possibilities just go on and on.
Why would you want to learn basic video editing skills? Video editing lets you think non-linearly. Let's say that you are going to feature a local business, a restaurant, and you have a set appointment to come and interview the owner. You're running behind and make your appointment just on time. You record your interview and it went great. Next you go outside and take a nice clip of the front of building and the surrounding area. Later that day, the owner emails you a couple nice photos of the restaurant that were taken at the dinner hour when everybody is there. NOW in your video editing app, you can make a composite all the elements in the whatever order that you want. Maybe you'll put the exterior front clip first even though you didn't shoot it first. Remember the days of recording songs on the radio on your cassette player? You played back the tape in the exact order that you recorded it. Now in the days of iPods and all things digital, you press shuffle and voila!
"Can Realtors® really produce a video worth watching? I mean c'mon! really??" Carl, in my last post commented, "Many agents can't even take pictures, and now you want them to make videos??!!" ... Carl, I agree there are some really sorry looking listing photos out there! So you my reader, if you cannot tell the difference between a good and bad listing photo, then perhaps the video topic isn't for you. But my classroom attendees, I have confidence in you. You are already ahead of the crowd because you are here doing that blogging thing - and that right there has put you ahead of the pack in my eyes. So I'm teaching the type of people that already have proven themselves. You realize that you don't just turn on the camera and hope for the best and then post whatever comes out. If it doesn't work on your early attempts, then don't post it (or do a members only post to get creative feedback). Come back to class, join the newly formed video bloggers group here on AR, and WATCH what others are doing. When you see something you like and have an "aha moment" then you will go back to the drawing board. You don't NEED to do video, but if you try it and it clicks for you then I think you have an advantage and will help you stand out. I'm going to hopefully give you some assistance in your attempts to find out. :)
So this series is not just about how to use video editing software. It is more about sharing and discussing ideas about what you can do to make GOOD videos. Videos worth watching.
If you are ready to get serious about using video in your marketing plan, consider coming to my premium online class called "Video Essentials for Business." That link will take you to the page to tell you more about the class. The class is a set of pre-recorded training videos to teach you what you will need to know to produce quality videos for your YouTube channel. I hope to see you in class! :)
To read more posts about video editing, check out my list of posts in this video series


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Each year, the Captain of Beeston Fields organises a golf trip to another course. This year, Peter Benson, planned a visit to Rockliffe Hall in Darlington, County Durham. The weather held up and stunning blue skies complimented the image of the clubhouse and course.
The results from each game were as follows:
Team competition on Sunday - Winners: Mat Pacel, Ant Fleming, Jake Benson, Ian Roberts. Runners up: Dan Duthie, Angus West, Matt Rippin, Dan Rippin.
Individual competition on Monday - 1st Alex Sowter (39 points), 2nd Ant Fleming (38), Jake Benson (37), 4th Tim McAlinden, (37), 5th Mark Philpott (36), 6th Pete Benson (36).
The Captain, Peter Benson commented; "The weather was very kind to us, the Sunday gave us glorious warm sunshine. Rockliffe Hall provided a fabulous combination of good golf, a great Hotel and excellent service. The Away Day's always give members a great opportunity to mix with others they perhaps wouldn't normally do, and the random draw for the Monday competition, carried out on Sunday evening at Dinner, also helped to mix people up."
Sixty people were involved in the trip and there has been such a fantastic response with how pleased they were with Rockliffe Hall's service and the overall venue:
"Wow! Probably the best away day I have been on, certainly the best hotel I have stayed in, the service courteous and standards high."
"Really enjoyed it! Venue was fantastic. It "made" my Birthday!"
"A great course, fine hotel, lovely weather!"
"Great visit to Rockliffe Hall - hotel, golf course, company, organisation, all excellent."
Peter Benson and the winner, Alex Sowter.
Peter Benson, Alex Sowter and Max Benson.
Many thanks to Pete for organising the event and for the fantastic service from Rockliffe Hall.
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God Is... | Week 7: God is Just
Speaker: Paul Bridgers
Duration: 40 min 11 sec
Ever feel like life isn't fair? Like bad things happen to good people far too often? As humans, we are so quick to want justice and when we see injustice, we wonder, how could God let that happen? Join us for this sermon as we dive into, how we know that God is just, what justice means in a biblical sense and how to answer that age old question, "why does God let bad things happen to good people?"


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After a gruelling session with my physio on Monday we concluded that I may have an isssue with the tendon at the top of my calf. This meant a week of rest with some yoga and stretching thrown in to stay active, as long as there was no pain. Today is Thursday and you won't believe it, I have listened to my orders and am just finished my thrid yoga session of the week with absolutely no other training. I think this was due, not to mention I had free time this week, very weird I must say. Check out Ali Kamenovas classes below for some top class yoga/core sessions. I swear by her sessions for anyone that runs or bikes in particular, as there are loads of poses specific to glutes, hamstrings, hip flexors and of course balance throughout.
I have referred to these yoga classes in posts in the past and feel they are well worth another mention.
Tomorrow I return to the gym, a light session on the bike and maybe a tiny bit of running to test things out. I expect all to be good but now is not the time to rush back either. A little bit of swimming may be the way to go.
The big news this week is that we are nearing entry to the ITERA expedition race 2016, part of the world series adventure racing calender. We have put together an international team, with two Kiwi's coming on board to add experience and endurance to us Irish speed merchants. Exciting times ahead and a serious goal is now set for 2016. My first multi day race and boy am I going to have to dig deep to train and learn how to get myself through this one. As I see it I love team sports and I love adventure racing, so why not compete in an adventure race on a team! I will go into more detail for what is involved once the final decisions are made on entry. Until then it is time to get moving again and try sort out these winter niggles.


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Record-Keeping: Why, What and How?
One of the daily activities that must be done when providing services to others is record-keeping.
How does that make you feel?
No...Really...How does the idea of writing down information about what happened in your day make you feel?
If you're like most people -- it might
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Boyns Information Systems Ltd. is a supplier of IT related Products and Services and both a Managed Service Provider (MSP) of equipment and a Support team to our Customers' staff. We support equipment supplied by us and inherited from other suppliers.
Trading since 1996 and incorporated in 2003.
From rented offices, we purchased an Industrial Building in 2014. Following a complete redesign and refurbishment into bespoke office space which we proudly moved in early 2015. We are now more accessible to the public being more comfortable with greater facilities for staff members.
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Health Insurance Nightmare: Wake-up Call!/
The health system is getting uglier, and you are responsible for more and more of the cost. Those out-of-pocket health expenses are growing fast. More than 25 percent of American families have insurance deductibles of $5,000+ per year.
But families and small businesses can save on health care costs by teaming up with a savvy membership medical practice. If you visit a doctor a few times a year -- or if you have routine tests and scans -- it all adds up. For many, cutting these outlays can easily cover the fees at a membership practice and save much more besides. If you're in "open enrollment" now or soon, there are even more advantages.
At my Oak Park family practice we limit the number of patients to a fraction of what's typical, so we know them well. We can often make decisions about treatment with just a call or an email, and our patients can contact us 24/7 for that service. Most traditional practices have to insist that you come in to be seen, though, even for rather small problems -- otherwise, they won't be paid by insurers. That costs you time and money, not to mention convenience.
Prescriptions add up, too. I can offer free samples of pharmaceuticals on a trial basis to see whether they are effective for the patient. Large medical practices may only make money when they issue a prescription. Some independent and private practices like ours have arrangements with labs for a lower rate, too.
And our practice subscribes, at no cost to you, to an online service called Health Engine that analyzes your insurance to calculate ways to save out-of-pocket costs for surgery or radiology. This service also compares costs among facilities in our area, to show you to the least expensive option for the treatment you need.
For example, if you need your tonsils out I can refer you to an excellent surgeon who may practice at several different hospitals. Health Engine picks the option with the least cost for you. It sometimes contracts with the facility to provide lower costs, too.
As Dr. Eric Crall has written, "Insurance is only intended to 'insure' us against low probability, high-cost events. Our car insurance hasn't spiraled out of control because we still pay for oil changes and tire rotations out-of-pocket.
"So the strategy moving forward to lower cost, for both individuals and employers, is to buy a low cost monthly membership" -- like a gym membership, he adds -- "and complement that with a true catastrophic insurance plan."


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Instapundit ends his blog day yesterday addressing a reader's query. The portion of his comments I wish to highlight are those that most closely frame an aspect of international diplomacy that receives too little consideration by the American general population, I believe. Responding to the lack of US support for "revolution" in most middle eastern countries (with the rare example of after-the-fact accommodation of events), Prof. Reynolds says:
Had we pushed the overthrow of tyrannical Arab regimes post-Iraq (as some unsuccessfully urged) there might have been a wave of truly democratic revolutions, with Iraq explicitly the model, leading to Egypt as the "prize." We are now seeing, at least potentially, such a wave, but the U.S. has been propping up Mubarak — thanks, Joe! — the Saudis, and other despots since we lost our pro-democracy mojo in 2005 after the Cedar Revolution, for reasons that are still not entirely clear.
Grabbing the low-hanging fruit first, we "lost our pro-democracy mojo in 2005" after the extent of our required involvement in such undertakings - and the extent of the added demands on our national resources military and otherwise - were made evident by the concurrent events in Lebanon during a frustratingly demanding period in the Iraq Campaign. Since war is always a political action, a more proper re-statement of a common aphorism would be, politics is war by other means. From this it can be seen that diplomacy is politics between distinct and competing national entities, the limitations of which is always the often arbitrary and ever fluctuating distinction between observing some other country's intra-national events and taking undue advantage of them.
Most especially, being discovered to be more or less directly taking part in such activities is commonly described as "an act of war".
The Iraq Campaign itself can best be described as an entirely externally driven "revolution" within Iraq by US and other Coalition military forces. Direct, attributable US involvement in events in Lebanon (aka: the Cedar Revolution) prior to or during the active phase of the process would have resulted in active opposition coalescing around a separate but adjacent theater of military operations that could easily have dissolved the Iraq Campaign coalition as well as opened yet another active military theater directly engaging Israeli forces (either within or beyond that country's borders).
The potential for militarily disastrous results (from an Iraq Campaign-centric view) was simply too great a likely outcome from direct US involvement in internal political upheaval within Lebanon at the time.
More generally, the strategy of diplomacy is to develop established procedures for actively competing countries to follow that permits them to avoid escalation of their mutual dealings with each other into outright conflict, either direct or through second parties as during much of the Cold War between the USSR and USA (with occasional maneuvers by the PRC during Vietnam, various Korea-related incidents, Taiwan, Tibet and wherever else the PRC leadership thought the candle worth the risk).
It needs be recognised that international diplomacy creates a peculiar conceit within it's regular practitioners, that they can in fact control the outcome of events by indirect means. Not just influence, but predict the response of a necessarily obscured opponent to a given negotiating gambit. This conceit leads to the assumption that whatever arrangements exist between nations must, by virtue of their established and mutually recognised condition, be of greater desirability than virtually any other potential future negotiating effort with some succeeding national controlling government.
Put bluntly, the US "supports" the Mubarak-lead Egyptian government for much the same reasons it did the same with the preceding Sadat-lead government - the mutual delusion between both country's governmental diplomats that they "control" each other's actions through their established conduits and agreements and thereby advance their individual national interests.
Finally (for this blog post anyway), it needs be recognised that any country's reputation is largely the result of how reliable each is seen to be by other countries to live up to it's mutual agreements and acknowledged obligations. The principal strategic reason War is formally declared is to preserve that reputation with the remaining non-belligerent countries of the world. This works to keep them non-belligerent at worst as well as provides a mechanism to recruit them to your side of the dispute.
International diplomacy is largely illusory as a practical matter, but absolutely essential to reducing the necessity for active opposition between national strategic positions. The art and science of Being Seen (and all too frequently even more critically, not being seen) To Be Involved with another country's affairs makes disruption of a recognised government a particularly troublesome concern. So troublesome it mostly leads to avoiding doing any such thing until a result seems to have been achieved by the directly involved participants through their own efforts. Domestic politics decides when and how a country chooses to take a more active part in things extra-national which is why so few diplomats make for effective national leadership in their own right. The underlying motivation for each is mostly mutually exclusive in both intent and objective.


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The horror genre has seen a particularly exciting renaissance in recent years. Now not only are there cutting edge horror movies coming out that are pushing the medium and introducing new voices to the fold, there are also stylized efforts like throwbacks to the '80s or the resurrection of dead franchises.
Something that has been around for nearly as long as horror itself is the subversion of the genre. For as long as people have been getting terrified by horror films, people have been injecting levity and humor into horror to tap into new territory in the genre. There can be straight-up comedy films that take place within the realm of horror or are dealing with frightening subject matter, such as Scary Movie or Ernest Scared Stupid. What can sometimes be more effective though is when a horror film carries a certain self-awareness and sense of humor about itself and the genre, so that it's capable of deflating the terror with its biting wit. So turn off the lights, lock the doors, but also get ready to laugh because Here Are The 15 Funniest Comedy Horrors.
15 Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil
The beautiful thing about Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil is that it operates with an almost Seinfeld-ian logic to its plotting. This is a film all about misunderstandings and events dovetailing in the best worst way possible. Tucker and Dale—played to perfection by the always reliable Alan Tudyk and Tyler Labine—are two happy-go-lucky hillbillies that end up getting mistaken for blood-thirsty murderers.
Tucker and Dale are just trying to enjoy their new summer vacation home as bad timing and unfortunate behavior make them look like psychotic killers. It's a lot of fun to see things progressively get out of hand here, but there is still an element of terror and bloodshed to what's going on. Granted, people are dying due to accidentally killing themselves, not because there's a killer on the loose. All of this just adds to the heightened atmosphere of the film. This is a horror film where the ultimate "murder weapon" is chamomile tea. So this certainly is one of the more comedic horror films that viewers are going to come across.
14 Leprechaun 3
The Leprechaun franchise is certainly one of the more unusual horror series that are out there. Even if Freddy and Jason have been taken progressively less seriously through the years, Leprechaun has two installments set in "da' hood." Leprechaun 3 is an important demarcation line for the series as it marks when these horror films decided to embrace a more comedic angle. The first two Leprechaun films take themselves far more seriously than they should, and the entries from Leprechaun 4 onward go too far in the other direction. Leprechaun 3 is perfect for how it's incredibly self-aware of how ridiculous it's being, rather than this being a horror film that's laughed at for being so bad. It knows exactly what it's doing.
The third Leprechaun film takes the pint-sized killer to Las Vegas and mines tons of material from the change in location. There's a showboating magician who takes up a lot of screen time, a terrifying sex robot that comes to life through a television screen, and a particularly disturbing scene where a woman inflates to the point of explosion. All the while, Leprechaun is singing silly limericks to compliment the carnage.
13 Re-Animator
Stuart Gordon is one of those names in horror: when you hear that name, you know you're about watch something worthwhile. Re-Animator is certainly one of the director's most popular films though, largely because of its unforgettable blend of body horror and comedy. Gordon's film adapts a story by H.P. Lovecraft about Herbert West, a doctor who's created a serum that allows him to bring dead bodies back to life. Gordon does much with the simple premise and pulls off some wonderfully disgusting practical effects in the picture, too. Due to just how absurd all of this is, Gordon turns to humor as a welcome way to highlight that this stuff can be just as funny as it can be scary.
Gordon is smart to show West's experiments often being imperfect and having fun with that idea. For instance, West re-animates the head and body of his attacker separately to add further insult to injury. It allows for hilarious moments like West interrogating a severed head, only for the body to sneak up on him and get the upper hand. It also features one of the best deterrents for plagiarism to ever be on film.
12 What We Do in the Shadows
What We Do in the Shadows gets dangerously close to skewing more towards comedy than horror, but the fact that it's so heavily stylized helps the horror resonate more. This divide perhaps shouldn't be too surprising as the talent behind the film, Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement, are primarily known for their work in comedy. There is such a severe love and understanding of vampires and their mythos here that clearly these two are just as well-versed in horror. What We Do in the Shadows is creatively framed as a mockumentary that explores the lives of five vampires as they cope with the modern world. The film cleverly has each of these vampires resemble a different type of vampire from lore, with the older Petyr resembling Count Orlok from Nosferatu, for example.
The film does a great job juxtaposing the archaic traditions of vampires with modern minutiae and technology. There are plenty of gags dealing with popular vampire fare like hypnosis, familiars, and vampire hunters, with other supernatural elements like werewolves, witches, and zombies also making appearances. The end product here weirdly feels like some version of Big Brother as death and blood sucking is paired with petty house squabbles.
11 Slither
Before James Gunn was crafting Hollywood blockbusters and helming some of the most popular superhero films of the decade, he was getting his kicks off on grimy, gross body horror. Slither tells the story of a space parasite landing on Earth courtesy of a meteorite and then beginning a systematic takeover of the planet's population. Slither's plot might seem eerily similar to Night of the Creeps, which also features a bunch of space slugs turning a town into zombies. Gunn is looking to do more than simply be one of those B-horror films from the '80s, but rather Slither homages and deconstructs those sorts of films.
Gunn's knowledge of the genre helps Slither become something grander, but he's also just a naturally funny storyteller. The film is set in a small town in South Carolina and Gunn makes each of the residents of Wheelsy stand out. The final stages of Grant's mutation are truly a sight to behold (he's more a house than a human) and keeps the fear very much present through the picture. At the same time, it's hard to have people like Nathan Fillion and Elizabeth Banks headlining the cast and it not being funny.
10 The Frighteners
The Frighteners curiously began as an official Tales from the Crypt feature film. However, the project was turning out so well that it ditched the Crypt preface and became a standalone feature. These inclinations were not wrong, with The Frighteners not only being a horror film with a lot to say, but also a gem from Peter Jackson's career that often goes overlooked. He might be able to turn The Hobbit into three films, but there's nothing in the rich, unexplored world that's present in The Frighteners that's not worth returning to? Especially considering how far his grasp on technology and effects has come along (not that The Frighteners is a showcase of dated, clunky CGI, because it's not).
The Frighteners stars Michael J. Fox as Frank Bannister, a ghost hunter of sorts, who actually is friends with spirits and works with them to con the residents of "haunted" houses. What follows is a wildly unconventional dive into the afterlife that even ends up roping the Grim Reaper into things. The Frighteners is a stunning, scary film, but it's also incredibly smart and able to find the bizarre humor in the dire situation at hand.
9 Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn
Evil Dead is a no holds barred scary piece of horror cinema. Evil Dead 2 on the other hand is basically Sam Raimi taking that frightening corpse of a film and shaking it repeatedly until it starts to look funny. Evil Dead 2 is like if the original movie had a sense of humor, it's that simple. Many people account Raimi's franchise and its iconic hero, Ash, as always being hilarious jabs at horror, but it's this film that starts that tradition. Evil Dead 2 showed Raimi and his audience that humor is a crucial part of Ash's world.
The first film certainly has its charms—and the same can be said for the 2013 remake—but it's hard to argue with new additions like trees trying to have their way with people or Ash grafting a chainsaw onto his arm. Somehow throwing slapstick comedy into the Evil Dead cocktail makes the horror pop harder while delivering killer one-liners at the same time.
8 John Dies at the End
John Dies at the End throws its audience into a crazy, frenetic world of normalized horror. There's such an out of control head-over-heels feeling of where this film takes its audience. It's as if Douglas Adams were trying to do a horror film. It's the kind of world where the film's main character can lament the woes of updating his axe over time and turn it into a take on the philosophical question of the Ship of Theseus. Plus, the time shredding, dimension tearing drug featured in the film is called Soy Sauce, so clearly there's a heavy comedic vein to this horror.
John Dies at the End follows two everymen in and out of this dimension as they're visited by things like aliens, ghost doors, and an evil supercomputer named Korrok bent on taking over the universe. There's a lot of dire end of the world territory that's visited here, but David and John's cluelessness towards it all makes it inherently funny. They're infinitely in over their heads. Also, how many horror films are about a dog fulfilling his destiny to save the dimension?
7 Shaun of the Dead
Edgar Wright has grown into one of the most exciting visual filmmakers that is currently working. His ability to mix and dabble within so many different genres has made him a master at whatever he's tackling. Shaun of the Dead is the standard zombie apocalypse story that so many films have explored at this point. What makes Shaun of the Dead different is that it practically reduces the zombie situation to background noise for Simon Pegg's Shaun. He's too preoccupied with trying to set his life back on track, whether that means finding something that inspires him or winning back his girlfriend. Shaun is looking for purpose in his life and this zombie epidemic strangely inspires him to man up and be assertive.
Wright's ability to mix the extremes of zombie carnage with the mundanity of relationship woes is handled effortlessly. This is a film where the jokes just never stop and they're as relentless as the hordes of zombies. Whether it's debating which record should be used to decapitate a zombie or a fight sequence set entirely to Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now," Shaun of the Dead will never stop making viewers laugh and scream.
6 Dead Alive
Dead Alive (or as it's also known as, Braindead) is another early classic from Peter Jackson's career. Jackson might operate with a slick CGI-intensive approach to his filmmaking now, but his foray into zombie territory is an exciting effort full of practical effects. In fact, Dead Alive is considered to be one of the goriest films of all time with the film even wryly being referred to as "splatstick," reflecting both the comedic and bloody urges of the picture.
Dead Alive is a perversely fun time as Lionel's overbearing mother, Vera, gets infected courtesy of a Rat-Monkey and becomes a zombie. As Lionel tries to win the heart of Paquita, he attempts to hide the presence of his mother (and eventually more zombies) in the basement. Lionel's situation keeps getting further out of control with finally a housewarming party getting crashed by zombies. The ensuing battle sees Lionel fighting severed limbs and wielding a lawnmower with the power of Excalibur. Jackson's creations reiterate the grim reality at hand, but the absurdity of Lionel's actions can't be ignored. The gore is so extravagant that people can't help but laugh.
5 Rubber
Rubber is without a doubt the best movie about a sentient killer tire that's ever been made. It's also surely the weirdest film on this list (which is saying something), but it wears its weirdness on its sleeve like a patch on a tire. Quentin Dupieux is a bit of an enigma of a filmmaker. His work always seems like it's trying to fight against the medium itself, with Rubber being a fine example of this. Rubber chronicles the mission of a psychically powered tire named Robert. The film shows the tire "coming to life" and another bewildering sequence depicts the object slowly refining his psychic abilities. It's not long until this tire is blowing up the heads of anyone who rubs him the wrong way.
Dupieux inserts a Greek chorus of sorts into the film that actively comment on how weird this is. Many can't even make it to the end. They're told that this is all being done as an homage to "no reason," and as weird as that is, it makes sense. Dupieux wants to prove that anything can be a frightening serial killer. It doesn't matter if it's a person, an animal, or even a tire.
4 Cabin in the Woods
Cabin in the Woods is a masterpiece in horror writing that puts the entire history of the genre under the microscope. The film innocuously begins with a bunch of teenagers running off to an abandoned cabin in the woods for the usual celebration of vices and sexuality. It's not long before the lives of these teens are put in danger, but the film then very quickly deepens its scope. Cabin in the Woods posits that the usual boneheaded behavior of individuals in horror films is actually being masterminded by a secret underground government facility. What follows is an incredibly sharp dissection of the horror genre that simultaneously attempts to evolve it into something smarter.
The deeper implications present in Cabin in the Woods are a lot to have fun with, but this is also a horror film that descends into utter chaos by the end. The massacre at the facility is one of the most glorious scenes to ever take place in a horror film. Mermen, unicorns, zombies, and every horror trope available are having a free-for-all and it's everything great about horror.
3 Piranha 3D
Joe Dante's original Piranha film (1978) was a biting parody of Spielberg's Jaws, but Alexandre Aja's 2010 remake embraces the satire to an outrageous degree. This is a film that is fueled by scantily clad women and gory shots of razor sharp teeth tearing people to bits. An accomplished horror director, Alexandre Aja, doesn't struggle with injecting real fear and bloodshed into the film. The moments of the piranha letting loose are genuinely unsettling. A number of shots of half-eaten victims will likely stick with viewers long after the film's over.
And yet, Piranha 3D is also a deeply silly movie that gleefully laughs at all of the carnage it's causing. It's a movie that has Richard Dreyfuss essentially playing his character from Jaws again and never failing to make reference to it. Plus, there's Christopher Lloyd acting like a crazy scientist. Aja attempts to take an already silly parody film but make it frightening this time around, and he absolutely succeeds. And it's all in 3D!
2 Scream 2
While many people are quick to praise Wes Craven's original Scream over its sequels, Scream 2 actually expands upon everything that's great about its predecessor. The original Scream re-invented the slasher genre by giving its characters a keen love and awareness towards horror films. Scream 2 elaborates on that by adding the topic of sequels into the film's crosshairs, too. The result is an incredible meta horror experience that drags the slew of shoddy horror sequels under the bus, while brilliantly becoming a good sequel at the same time. This film starts with a screening of Stab—the in-universe film adaptation of the events from the first Scream—as dozens of people are costumed as the killer. It's unreal, but Craven holds all of this insanity together.
Scream 2 benefits from audiences already being invested in the survival of Sidney, Randy, Gale, and Dewey from the previous film, but also having fun with subverting those relationships, too. In addition to the constant digs at the genre, the film is still legitimately scary with a great reveal of its killer. Scream 2 just works as an exceptional piece of horror, while also happening to be one of the most self-aware ones.
1 The Final Girls
The Final Girls deliciously carries over the self-aware, movie obsessed mentality that's present in Scream, but it goes one step further by actually transporting its cast into a slasher film from the '80s. The Final Girls has far too much fun lampooning and taking advantage of the many staples that give slasher films their charm. These characters know that popping open a bra is the best way to lure the killer, and seeing how the cast cleverly use horror conventions against the movie is brilliant. There is also just a lot of fun to have with characters being trapped in a movie, like watching the loop that they're stuck in or even trying to interact with the giant floating letters in the air that are meant to be titles and credits.
The Final Girls is one of the most creative takes on the slasher genre in years, with it also having a moving story at its core about a girl getting over the loss of her mother. There's also a real murderer's row of talent on the picture, with many accomplished names from both horror and comedy helping sell all of this.
This might be a worthy collection of horror, but are there any fundamental pictures that are missing here? Are Zombieland and Jennifer's Body the holy horror gospel to you? Have the charms of the Leprechaun films never pieced through your cold, black heart? Let your choices be known in the comments below!


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