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Aerial Video A to Z
Great Big Outline to get you really pumped about Drones (Who is this Guy? What we gonna learn?) (4:19)
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Aerial Video Equipment - PC, Drones, Software, etc.
Equipment - What do you NEED and what do you not? (2:17)
So many Drones - Which one is for me? (7:13)
PC Requirements, just the Need-to-Knows (3:27)
What if I'm using a Mac? (1:03)
Maximizing your drones potential and Best Cinematic Settings for multiple Models (Footage Downloads included) (3:03)
(Optional) Equipment Head to Head - Phantom 3 Standard vs Phantom 4 Pro vs Mavic Pro
Basics of Video - Talk the Talk (yes you need to know this, you apply it all immediately)
Basics of Video - Resolution, Frame Rate, Mp4 vs Quicktime (3:30)
Before the Flight - Improve your production instantly with these settings/plans
Plan your route before-hand, shoot calmly (1:35)
Drone Pilots #1 Amateur mistake. THE HERKY JERKY. Best Settings for Smooth, Cinematic Flying (1:59)
Last touch for the True Cinematic Image - 24fps
(Optional for Mavic owners) Fixing the Mavics Artificial Blurring issue (1:58)
Drone Settings for each drone (if still unsure)
Mavic Pro (original 1st one)
Mavic 2 Pro and Zoom
Phantom 3s - Phantom 4 Advanced/Pro
Flying, Filming, Cinematography - In the Field
Cinematography - Before you Fly - Dos and Don'ts for Great Shots (1:23)
What the heck should you aim for when filming? Photography Principles my friend. (4:15)
Easy and Good Looking shots to go for TODAY to up your game (6:11)
Editing Part 1 - Intro to Video Editing
Basics of Editing - Software
Settings, Optimizing the PC for faster Editing, Keyboard Shortcuts (2:41)
Timeline, Importing your First Video (8:59)
Organizing Multiple Videos on the Timeline Quickly (6:29)
Create a Proxy to Speed up Editing and Maximize an Old PC (2:35)
Editing Part 2 - Planning your edit, 2nd level adjustments, even FASTER movement and timesavers
Choosing your Best Stuff - Move Quickly to Make Selects (3:41)
How to keep people interested - Organizing your Footage (4:55)
Hiding things in Scenery - adjusting Scale, Position, Visibility (3:07)
Titles - Standard Text effects & the Classy and Mature Look (7:43)
Titles in 2019 - Premiere CC Updated Setup (3:53)
Editing Part 3 - Bringing the Fire, Bells and Whistles
Color Correction - Bringing the Footage to Life (7:58)
Color Correction to get the cinematic look (6:25)
Coloring The Correct way (LUTs, Numbers, Coloring window setup) (9:18)
Fixing too bright/too dark footage (2:13)
Adding Music or Audio (5:24)
Finalizing the Edit, Fixing Mistakes, Sharing Online
Tidying Up that Edit to make it SHINE - Effects and Timing (11:18)
Tidying Up that Edit to make it SHINE - FINAL Edits, Effects and Timing (10:13)
Saving your Edit to show the World - Export Settings for Best Quality (4:08)
Live Shoot/Edit from Start to Finish (LONG)
Live Shoot/Edit Top to Bottom Part 1: Shooting (8:43)
Live Shoot/Edit Top to Bottom - Part 2 Organizing/Coloring (3:39)
Live Shoot/Edit Top to Bottom Part 3: Editing with Style (21:50)
Other Tricks and Fixes
Adding Logos and Photos tastefully (Keyframing) (1:42)
Selecting Groups and Clips faster - Separating Audio/Video (0:59)
Fill gaps with Rate Stretch and Frame-Hold (0:28)
Warp stabilizer to fix shaky footage (1:10)
Shooting Slow Motion Correctly & Frame Rates (1:05)
Fixing bad spots in the footage with Masks and Tracking in Premiere Pro (5:27)
Marketing in the 2019 landscape - Business/Marketing Overview (1:36)
Reciprocity Sells in 2019 (4:32)
Website MUST HAVEs to do the selling for you
Six Level Fix to Killer Drone Video + Marketing Webinar 2019
Take advantage of nobody having colorful Resumes - (For RFPs & Consulting) (5:30)
FAQs - Bonus - Comments
Troubleshooting Issues
Search Engines - Social Media - Promotional Stuff
PHOTOGRAPHY - Aerial Photo Pro (1:54)
Hyperlapses - Photo and Video combined NOT with the DJI app-made file (19:47)
Equipment - What do you NEED and what do you not?
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A sunny and dry forecast pattern stays in place across South Florida Thursday as high pressure holds on across the Atlantic.
We'll continue the break in the humidity as mostly sunny skies dominate the region. Expect a beach breeze for the next few afternoons to bring in a moderate risk for rip currents.
The forecast remains dry through the upcoming weekend as our next rain chance holds off until next Tuesday.
Thursday will be partly cloudy with low humidity and highs around 84. Expect a few clouds tonight with temps around 71.
Friday will be partly cloudy, breezy at the beaches with highs around 85. Saturday and Sunday will see breezy conditions at times and will be partly cloudy with highs around 84.
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Hokkaido (hōkī´dō), island (1990 pop. 5,643,515), c.30,130 sq mi (78,040 sq km), N Japan, separated from Honshu island by the Tsugaru Strait and from Sakhalin, Russia, by the Soya Strait. It is the second largest, northernmost, and most sparsely populated of the major islands of Japan. Once called Yezo, it received the name Hokkaido [region of the northern sea] in 1869. Its rugged interior with many volcanic peaks rises to 7,511 ft (2,289 m) in Asahi-dake and, like all of Japan, the island is subject to earthquakes. The Ishikari, second longest river of Japan, traverses W Hokkaido; its valley is an important urban and industrial region. Hokkaido has a humid continental climate and receives much snow. Forests, covering most of the island, are a source of lumber, pulp, and paper (milled in Hokkaido). Coal, iron, and manganese are mined; the Ishikari coal field produces a major part of Japan's supply. Although large areas of the island are unsuited to farming, agriculture is an important occupation. Hokkaido is one of the major fishing centers of the world. The island is the chief winter resort and sports area in Japan; the 1972 Winter Olympics were held there, at Sapporo. Hokkaido's scenic beauty is preserved in several national parks. The population is concentrated largely in the west and southwest. Sapporo, Hakodate, and Otaru are the chief cities. Kushiro is the main port for E Hokkaido.
The island was originally inhabited by Ainu, aborigines of uncertain ancestry. Until 1800 the Ainu outnumbered the Japanese, who had begun (16th cent.) to settle the southwest peninsula; there are now c.16,000 Ainu in Hokkaido. With the Meiji restoration (1868) Japan began the first serious effort to people the island as a means of strengthening the northern frontier. Under a government-sponsored plan to develop the island, Horace Capron, an American agriculturalist, introduced (1872–76) scientific methods of farming. In 1885, Hokkaido was made an administrative unit and was granted a central government. The growth of the railroads helped speed settlement, but despite subsidies, the severe winters discouraged emigration from S Japan. Parts of the island, particularly in the north, are still relatively underpopulated. The completion of the Seikan Tunnel (1988), which carries a rail line connecting Hokkaido and Honshu, has further decreased the isolation of Japan's northernmost island.


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I had this problem when i tried to release my program and I couldn't figure it out and after messing around a bit i figured it out and figured maybe some of you have the same problem. So this is how its done:
Default Directory
1) Package your project ( Package & Deployement Wizard )
2) Once its complete browse to where it was saved ( usually Project folder /Package )
3) Open Setup.LST with Notepad ( it will prompt which program you want to use )
You can change the text at the beginning that says Copying Files, Please wait... to anything you like.
Edit this line: SetupText=Loading Installation, Please wait. . . ( thats my custom text )
4) Scroll down to DefaultDir=$(ProgramFiles)\Project1 and change it to whatever you like.
Change files path
Alright you may need to change where to files are installed for databases and such so this is how you do it:
1) Scroll down to "[Setup1 Files]"
2) Change your custom files from "$(AppPath)" to the path you want it
For my music run by the program its like this:
[email protected],$(AppPath)\Music\,,$(Shared),8/24/09 10:43:51 PM,3649502,0.0.0.0
Thats pretty much all there is. Everythings pretty self explanatory.
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Final meeting on comp plan tonight
The Gloucester Planning Department will hold the last of three meetings scheduled this month from 5-8 o'clock tonight at the Gloucester Library in Main Street Center so the public can hear about the county's comprehensive plan update.
Planning director Anne Ducey-Ortiz said other meetings were held June 15 at Achilles Elementary School; and this Tuesday at the Piankatank Community League building at Harcum. Planner Emily Gibson said survey sheets, distributed at the meetings, ask respondents what they consider to be the largest environmental issues facing Gloucester, if they feel affordable housing is available here, if open spaces are valuable to Gloucester's quality of life, among other topics.
Also, the survey asks respondents their views of how important is it for future growth to be more compact in certain areas of the county, allowing other areas to remain rural. Another question asks if community facilities in Gloucester are adequate.
"What's missing to complete your vision?" the survey asks, with respondents welcome to submit written answers.
For more information about the meetings and the survey, call the Gloucester Planning Department at 693-1224 or visit www.gloucesterva.info/planning.
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Symptoms of a Hematoma from a Head Injury
What are the symptoms of a head injury?
The symptoms of head injury can vary from almost none to loss of consciousness and coma. As well, the symptoms may not necessarily occur immediately at the time of injury. While a brain injury occurs at the time of trauma, it may take time for enough swelling or bleeding to occur to cause symptoms that are recognizable.
Initial symptoms may include a change in mental status, meaning an alteration in the wakefulness of the patient. There may be loss of consciousness, lethargy, and confusion.


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Thermoforming is a manufacturing process where a plastic sheet is heated until it is a pliable forming temperature, formed to a specific shape on a mold, and then trimmed to create a usable product.
Thermoforming is a process that requires a relatively low level of forming pressure. This means that the tooling can be constructed at a fraction of the cost of injection tooling and can be produced in a very short time frame compared to other plastic processes. You can also expect faster production turn around for large volume runs compared to rotationally molded or fiberglass reinforced plastic processes. Quick tooling turn around combined with faster production runs, results in quicker time to market.
Plastics Unlimited started as a thermoforming company almost a quarter of a century ago. We continue to learn and grow as a leading thermoformer every day. Our experienced staff can help find a solution that will work the best for each individual application. We take the time to make sure we completely understand your application so we can provide you with the best materials and processes to ensure the product that we provide for you will be the best possible. We have different sizes and types of thermoformers that allow us to do everything from a few small parts per month to thousands of parts per month as large as 8' x 11'.
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Along with basic composites manufacturing at Plastics Unlimited we have developed and patented an industry changing process called TEC® (Tooless Engineered Composites) This process combines the speed of thermoforming with the strength and durability of composites.
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Thermoforming (Thermoformed Plastic Shell) + Composites (Fiberglass Reinforcement for more overall strength) = TEC®* (Tooless Engineered Composites)
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Give our design team your idea, goals, and design criteria and watch them grow from concept to production. Our engineers are proficient in a variety of design software, including Solidworks, MasterCAM, AutoCAD, and Campro. They utilize Solidworks for designing and reviewing CAD models and drawings in any IGES, Pro/E, Inventor, or STEP file. As your idea springs from the spark of imagination to practical application, we will be there to help you.
Tooling design is the foundation of perfection. Plastics Unlimited's designers and tool makers produce thermoform, composite, and urethane molds in-house. Our designers will work with you during the early stages of the project to draw up exactly what you need. After that, prototype samples are made in house to your specs and corrections are made if needed. Once you are satisfaction with the prototypes, the production tools are made. Our molds have temperature control to make sure consistent parts are formed. Parts are trimmed robotically or on CNC routers. The end product we ship is the result of years of experience, skill, dedication to the craft and premium materials. We manufacture some of the finest thermoformed, composite, and urethane parts in the industry.
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Securing communities from what?
One of my favorite TV programs, The Good Wife, had a story last week of a middle-aged undocumented Mexican arrested as a suspect only because he was near the site of a burglary. The family scrambled to get him out on bail before his name and fingerprints got into "the system." Once there the information would be compared with a database of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement of Homeland Security. If the computer coughed up his name, ICE would be visiting and extract him from the holding pen and process him for deportation.
I don't know if the system works just that way, but the story did depict a real problem with ICE's Secure Communities program. The program, a little more than two years old, has been a favorite of the Obama administration and been used to show the public how hard it is on dangerous criminal aliens. It also boosts the rate of deportations.
More have been deported in these last two years under Obama than in the final years under Bush. The factory raids may have decline – though not entirely disappeared – and the president has stressed that he's going after hardened criminals and employers exploiting immigrant workers. In appearance on Unavision, the Spanish cable channel, listeners called in complaining that his stepped-up rate of deportation is corralling too many here only to make a living for themselves and their families.
Secure Communities seems only to be saving the community from busboys and gardeners, according to an immigration lawyer. In Illinois, where 26 out of 102 counties are in the program, 78 percent of those detained by ICE under the program have no convictions or at most only minor offenses. Florida had similar results. Being an innocent by-stander at an apprehension can get an undocumented a ride out of the country via deportation. ICE recently swept up 160 aliens in Northern Virginia – most previously convicted of a crime or having reenter the country after deportation, but 30 had no criminal record or offense.
Now it has been revealed through a freedom-of-information request that ICE is quite confused internally about how to run the program, is trying to get the sanctuary city of Chicago and Cook County to implement the program fully as a model for the rest of the country, and intends to make the program compulsory for all law-enforcement jurisdictions by 2012. The project hasn't been going well for ICE.
Illinois sheriffs are reluctant to be more cooperative, since it takes officers away from other law enforcement or jail guards away from their duties. Besides it generates additional costs that the city and county – both in serious budget crunches. At a press conference called by the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, some sheriffs expressed their displeasure and unwillingness to cooperate. They were under the impression that Secure Communities was voluntary and so resent ICE's pressure. The New York Times speculates that even the agency doesn't know whether it is or is not voluntary.
At the same ICIRR press conference, a campaign was kick off to promote a state response to Secure Communities – the Smart Enforcement Act. This would enable unwilling counties to opt out of the program, require counties that do participate to report certain information on immigrants flagged by it, and bar use of state funds to deport immigrants not convicted of a crime.


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Welcome to Great Moments in Drunken Hookup Failure, where we showcase three heartwarming true stories of drunken love gone horribly awry. Off we go.
Senior year of college, the last day before Spring break fell on St. Patty's Day. It was also the first day of the NCAA tournament. No, I didn't go to class that day. Turned in a couple papers that morning and then went to a friend's house to smoke before buying beer and heading to a party. We arrived at the party just before tip-off (10:55 central time) and raged through the first two games. From there, we made the rounds, went to four or five other places, the whole time getting beyond shitty thanks to overflowing Jameson and March Madness adrenalin. The night rolls on, and at the end of the second round of games, browning out pretty hard but able to function thanks to the 60 extra pounds of beer-sopping weight I carried at this point, I walk this girl that I'd sort of been talking to home for the night. We kiss a little bit, nothing crazy, and say goodnight. I stop by a greasy spoon on the way home and afterward decide to check out what's going on at the big mid-campus bar, since I could still see and the restaurant was next door.
A couple of my buds are there, and we talk nonsense for a while until, in the back corner of the bar, I see this chick that I'd been friendly with for a few years. Nothing had ever happened between us, but she was cute, she liked to party, and she lived across the street. Drunk as I was, inhibitions sufficiently obliterated, I had no problem heading back to where she was and saying what's up. She responded well to my entreaty and we got along like best buds. By night's end, I'd forgotten about both the girl I walked home earlier and the fact that I'd been drinking and smoking for well over twelve consecutive hours. She was down, I was in, and so on I marched. We actually made it all the way to closing time (2:30 in these parts), having a good time and keeping the party going. Finally she turned to me and said, "You want to walk me home?"
It didn't take long after getting back to her place for the two of us to start tearing into each other. After tossing each other around the kitchen for a while, we make our way back to her room. Everything is exactly as sloppy and rough as you'd imagine it would be. From the outside, I bet it looked like two blind people dancing with each other to different songs playing in separate headphones. Anyway, we make it over to the bed, and we take turns going down on each other. I go first, and enjoy my time down south, which lingered on a little too long, for reasons which should be obvious. She tells me that she's good, that it's my turn, so I flip over. She seems eager, so I lay back and put my hands behind my head, totally relaxed and feeling awesome. So relaxed and awesome, in fact, that I pass out not long after she puts her mouth on my penis.
Next thing I know, I wake up at 10 AM in an empty, unfamiliar, incredibly bright bedroom. Thankfully, the house is also empty. It's take a minute to process the way everything went down, to remember any details, and even so I'm still not entirely willing to admit I fell asleep during a blowjob. In what I later figured was an attempt to hide my shame from myself, I leave her a "Let's do this again sometime" note that read something like, "Nice running into you last night. If you want to hang out again, here's my number," below which I put my digits. She never called. In fact, I saw her plenty over the rest of that year, and she would barely look at me. I found out later that her friends had put the note up on the fridge in their place, meaning lots and lots of people I knew or lived around saw it at some point, though none of them ever told me about it, and I never received any prank calls.
Did I tell my friends that we had sex that night? Yes. Yes I did. Did any confidence I may have had concerning women at the time die a bit every time I did? Yes. Yes it did.
My freshman year of College, I hung out almost exclusively with the guys on my floor, almost all of whom were on the football team. As a result, I ended up frequenting the football team's bars and meeting most of the team. Through this, I met "Kevin," a senior, a captain of the team, and the president of the football fraternity. My dude friends assured me that he was a great guy, and I progressively started hanging out with him more throughout first semester. Though we had come close countless times, we still hadn't hooked up.
Over break, he invited me to come up to New York for a weekend. By the time I bought my ticket, he had already made plans to leave the city that weekend. To make up for our missed connection, he promised to take me out on a date when I returned to school. My dreams of becoming the First Lady were in motion. We decided to see Up in the Air. Because we smuggled a bottle of SoCo into the theatre in truly romantic college fashion, and talked throughout the movie (yeah, we were those people...I apologize), I didn't realize it was an absolutely terrible date movie until I watched it a second time. We got a little handsy on the subway en route to the football bar.
We drank some more at the bar then headed back to his place. Once we got to his room, we immediately started macking and were quickly on his bed sans clothing. He started to go for the gold, but I was on my period and said we couldn't. The gentleman he his, he suggested that we put a towel down and proceed, something I had absolutely no desire to do. So we started cuddling, which was problematic for a few reasons: he's 6'5" while I'm 5'3", he had a raging boner, and the size of his penis (inhumanely large) scared the shit out of me. The cuddling turned slowly turned into him thrusting into my backside and, eventually, titty-fucking my buttcheeks. I didn't know how to respond to this spontaneous "hotdogging," as my friends affectionately call it, so I just pretended to be asleep. The hotdogging stopped and he fell asleep, and I tried to extract myself from his ninja grip on my body. I soon realized that I couldn't get free without waking him and risking more hotdogging, so I was forced to spend the night. My desire to be first lady was so strong, though, that we continued hooking up for a couple months. Still, we never fucked because it proved physically impossible, even with gallons of lube, to fit his monster cock into my body. Fittingly, he now works on Wall Street.
Spring Break 2012, we head to Nashville. Drinking some beers and a self-made rum and coke, 2 female friends with me yell my name and ask "How old are you? 28?" I turn around and there's a moderately attractive blonde with massive tits. I respond that I'm 26, and they introduce me to the blonde whose name went in one ear and out the other. My friends tell me that Blondie is 32, and a mother of 2. So of course, I'm suddenly an old 26, almost 27. Start chatting her up, telling her that her friend, who is my age, is the one who looks 32 and the normal hitting on conversation, while staring at the tits, and it all seems to be working well.
Blondie and her friend are also chatting up my friends, becoming facebook friends with one of them, drunkenly planning on come to visit us in for a party coming up in a couple months. Blondie at one point exchanges email addresses with me, at which point I laugh out loud at the 32 year old's AOL email address. Nevertheless, Blondie wants to continue the party, so she's ready to come back to drink more rum. Flirting is getting heavy, and we're waiting on the cab on the street.
Out of nowhere comes "Hans," a friendly German fellow. "Hans" is chatting us up, and I have doubts as to the authenticity of his German-ness, and he seems to be getting too touchy-feely with Blondie. Naturally I call into question his German-ness, and he insists its real. By now, the cab has pulled up, but I'm too fixated on discrediting "Hans." I'm arguing with "Hans" to the point that he pulls out his "passport," a laminated index card with his pic and some German words on it. I then call him out on the authenticity of the passport, to which he admits its all fake, he's a local Nashvilian. Finally, mission accomplished! Time to bang the 32 year old and finally see the rest of the tits. But its too late, Blondie is now smitten with "Hans." I try to get her to come in the cab and now she's having second thoughts, about leaving her friend and "Hans." I go to get in the cab, and my friends suggest I try one last time. Giving it my all, I literally grab Blondie and start pulling her to the cab, but alas, "Hans" won. I was cockblocked by a dude with a fucking fake German accent.
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For all of you out there that watch LOST religiously, here's a nice theory that basically supports everything we've seen so far. It's not that much of a spoiler – at least for those of us that are up to date on season 4. Lost: A theory on time travel
Lost: A theory on time travel
Article No :250 | March 12, 2008 | by Constantinos Demetriadis
What a great find! I've been a huge fan of Lost since season 1 and am amazed in the way this theory ties together all of the loose ends in the show. Has this person traveled back in time to present us with this knowledge after watching Season 8?
21st century boring you?
Want a way to walk with dinosaurs that isn't sitting really close to the TV to watch an unrealistic 3D diplodocus eat leaves?
You need a holiday in time, or dinoworld
Tick, tick, tick… tick
1.5 million years since fire was lit, 35,000 years after the birth of art, 16,000 years from the first mappings of stars and 600 years since the blueprints of the helicopter were drawn. We sit here thinking, "Y'know the 21st century could have been a bit more, well, silvery." Aside from those metal toasters that'll burn a farmyard animal into your bread and those credit cards with one of the corners cut off a bit. The 21st century has had:
No proper Robots. My house isn't doing stuff for me when I go to work so when I get back it's like a new house and the kitchens in the bathroom. Cars and skateboards don't hover. We can't holiday in space and the so called information super highway is still not bypassing my brain with an LCD screen in my eye and USB ports in my tippy toes.
AHHhhhh, yet as a time traveller you can go to the future where these things should have occurred with a few other things that you probably didn't think about; like a chocolate bar called waffpinuts. A wafer, pineapple and nuts bar wrapped in Kevlar.
Then, go back in time to tell all those people on Tomorrows World that hoodwinked our innocent child eyes, "Hey hey, perm-head, that ain't going to happen you pre-foetus futurist fuck."
And they'd have to believe your aggressive preaching cos you'd bring an almanac from 2008 with all the sports results and next weeks Eastenders from UK-GOLD, so there.
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With Taken 2 currently dominating theaters after making an incredible $50 million this weekend, now's a great time for Liam Neeson to start setting up his next project-- and, as you might expect by now, he'll be putting his action skills to the test again. He's already set to lead Non-Stop, a thriller in which he'll play an air marshal responding to mysterious threats against the lives of the passengers on board. Now an actress has hopped on board to join him, and lucky for Neeson, she's a familiar face.
Julianne Moore, who starred opposite Neeson in the erotic thriller Chloe in 2009, has signed on to play Neeson's love interest, according to THR. She's described as "a feisty passenger who is good with electronics," which suggest they somehow manage to forge a romance on board a doomed plane. I can't be the only one who's now immediately thinking of Speed, and wondering if there will be some Dennis Hopper-style super villain lingering in the background and telling Neeson to keep an eye on that wildcat.
Non-Stop will be directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, who previously guided Neeson through Unknown, the Europe-set thriller that even the makers of Taken 2 acknowledged was pretty damn similar to Taken. If Non-Stop winds up being as much of a Speed riff as it looks, they'll at least be spinning off from an older movie and giving Neeson yet another chance to be a badass. With Taken 3 now on the table, he show no signs of stopping.


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After Subaru discontinued the wild turbo manual versions of the Legacy, there weren't many reasons to buy one. The 2015 Subaru Legacy, however, makes a compelling case for most buyers in this class: It gets 36 highway MPG even with standard all-wheel drive.
The 2015 Legacy is expected to get fuel economy ratings of 26/36 with its 2.5-liter four. That's better than the 2015 Chrysler 200 2.4, or the 2014 VW Passat with its new 1.8-liter turbo four. It's as good as the Honda Accord with its CVT. And none of those cars have a four-cylinder, AWD version. In fact, it's almost as good as the 27/36 rating on the smaller Subaru Impreza.
The 2015 Legacy keeps its four and six-cylinder boxer engines, making 175 and 256 horses, respectively. They all get CVTs now, as the six ditches its old five-speed automatic. There's still no manual or turbo four, though, so go complain to Subaru about that. But the new car does get active torque vectoring, which is a nice surprise.
We already knew the 2015 Legacy would look better than the boxy model it replaces. Yes, it looks like every other entry in this segment, but it isn't ugly.
Inside, however, the Legacy has taken a big step up, bringing Subaru's interiors a little further into the 21st century. But the brand's fans will probably still feel right at home.
Subaru is promoting the safety aspect of the Legacy hard by making a backup camera standard and expanding availability of its EyeSight system for auto-braking and lane-keep assists. Blind spot monitoring and rear cross-path alert are also new options.
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WASHINGTON, Oct 4 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney praised the deficit-cutting framework known as Simpson-Bowles in their debate on Wednesday, but neither candidate has embraced the politically unpopular choices put forward in the plan.
A bipartisan presidential commission - named after its chairmen, Republican Alan Simpson and Democrat Erskine Bowles - proposed in 2010 a combination of spending cuts and tax increases to reduce the federal debt.
Obama and Romney touted the panel's report as a model at the Denver debate, and Romney blasted Obama for not fully embracing the proposal, which seeks to pare a federal budget deficit that has topped $1 trillion in recent years.
"The president should have grabbed that," Romney said during the debate, which was dominated by economic issues.
After the panel unveiled its plan, Obama praised its work but did not adopt its specifics. Republican panel member Paul Ryan, chairman of the House of Representatives budget committee and Romney's vice presidential pick, opposed the commission's plan.
The plan called for about $3 in spending cuts for every $1 in new revenue to achieve its goals.
Romney, despite expressing support for the plan, said he would "absolutely" not back raising revenue as a way to reduce the deficit.
"Simpson-Bowles tried to get at the deficit reduction by a mixture of revenue increases and spending cuts, and Romney's plan is all on the expenditure side," said Howard Chernick, an economics professor at Hunter College in New York.
Even as the Simpson-Bowles plan has taken on new popularity, many experts say it is an easy crutch and that even with unpopular decisions, its math does not add up.
Longtime budget guru Stan Collender calls it a "laundry list of spending and revenue alternatives" that he likened to "budget candy, it is easy to like in theory."
Obama said his $4 trillion deficit reduction plan is based on Simpson-Bowles, but analysts might disagree.
"Obama is closer to Simpson-Bowles although he wouldn't save money by cuts in major entitlements," Chernick said. "Obama does not want to go there."
Social programs known as "entitlements" include the popular Medicare health insurance plan for the elderly and disabled and the Social Security retirement program for the elderly. Simpson-Bowles takes aim at the costs of these programs, a reason some Democrats on the commission voted against it.
The Simpson-Bowles plan also calls for tax rate cuts for all income groups, while Obama has called for raising rates for the richest Americans. The plan proposes slashing many popular tax deductions and adding them back only selectively.
Neither candidate has gotten very specific about which of the nearly $1.1 trillion in annual special tax breaks they would hit to balance the budget. Among these are the mortgage interest deduction and the tax break for charitable giving.
Obama and Romney have both promised not to cut taxes on the middle class. Critics say that position ties both candidates' hands - that there is not enough money available from the wealthy alone to deal with the deficits the country faces.
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In the three years since earning an Oscar nomination at age 14 for her film debut in Joel and Ethan Coen's "True Grit," Hailee Steinfeld has had barely a moment to catch her breath.
Last year, she tackled sci-fi ("Ender's Game) and Shakespearean tragedy ("Romeo and Juliet"). And the 17-year-old high school junior has a cluster of films completed, including "3 Days to Kill," which opens Feb. 21. Penned by Luc Besson and Adi Hasak and directed by McG, the spy thriller-drama finds Steinfeld playing Zoey, the estranged teenage daughter of a dying CIA assassin (Kevin Costner).
Also in the pipeline for the actress, who lives with her family in Thousand Oaks, are the Toronto Film Festival fave "Can a Song Save Your Life?," Tommy Lee Jones' "The Homesman" and the action-comedy "Barely Lethal" — in this one, she's the assassin.
So the Internet was abuzz last week with pictures of you smoking.
I did get a phone call from my dad after those pictures got out.
What did he say when you told him they were actually herbal cigarettes and the pictures were from the set of "Ten Thousand Saints"?
He's like, "It's all part of the game." I get it. It's cool. The movie, which involves a lot of things including smoking, drugs and alcohol, has been an interesting learning experience for me.
Speaking of interesting experiences, what was it like being on location in Paris for "3 Days to Kill"?
Oh, my God, that alone was so incredible! It was my first time spending more than a weekend there. I watched the film for the first time a couple of weeks ago. It's heart-pounding to watch.
There's a quiet moment where Costner teaches you how to dance.
That was one of my favorite scenes in the movie. We had a great, great time. Kevin and McG worked with me in creating something really special.
You also just worked with Tommy Lee Jones, who not only stars in but also directs "The Homesman."
That is a period piece. I don't know if it is sort of classified as a western, but I play a very, very, small part in it. I will say I don't think I have ever been more nervous in my life as I was when I was doing one scene with Tommy Lee Jones. I had like three lines and they wouldn't come out of my mouth. I get nervous about pretty much everything.
Really? Even when you were just 14 and going through the Academy Awards three years ago, you seemed unflappable.
The thing I find as I get older that I think, maybe, I get more nervous because I have become aware of what is actually happening.
When I was 13 and shooting "True Grit" and when I was at the Oscars, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. It took me a very long time to realize just how incredibly special that entire time in my life was. I enjoyed every single minute. But I would do anything to sort of relive it. But I have been so fortunate to have had amazing experiences since then.
You're a home-schooled high school junior. Are you thinking about college?
Last year, I was thinking about it nonstop. The norm is that you go after you graduate from high school. I don't know where in the world I will be next week and I don't know where I will be in a year, so I was sort of worked up over that. I had conversations with my parents and my teachers. That brought to my realization that college is always there. That is a comforting feeling. I hope that I can find a good time to do that.


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Say what you will about "Cops" – at least it's the one reality show where you can usually tell the good guys from the bad guys.
The sad and gruesome murder of a former swimsuit model – allegedly at the hands of her ex-husband, "Megan Wants a Millionaire" contestant Ryan Alexander Jenkins – marks the most shocking example yet of shoddy background checks on reality TV stars and casts new doubt on an already dubious genre of entertainment.
Jenkins, who was found dead in a motel room of an apparent suicide on Sunday, somehow got cast in the VH1 show without the producers learning he had been sentenced to 15 months probation in 2007 on an assault charge in his native Canada. Now Jenkins has reached the height of reality TV infamy after being hunted in the slaying of Jasmine Fiore, who was strangled and mutilated.
Producers for "Megan Wants," an outfit called 51 Minds, said an outside firm vetted Jenkins and stressed he never would have been allowed on the program if his assault rap had come to light. They're investigating what went wrong with the background check.
This is far from the first time that skeletons have rattled their way out of a reality show contestant's closet. Sometimes, the past can be embarrassing, if innocuous, as in the case of "American Idol" hopeful Frenchie Davis, who was disqualified over some racy photos. Other times, the past has proven more troubling: Andre Birleanu, the 2007 runner-up from VH1's "America's Most Smartest Model" – another 51 Minds show – sported a rap sheet that didn't emerge until after the program aired, The Associated Press notes.
Forget about whether the viewer is getting an accurate picture of the folks on the shows. Think of the safety of contestants, especially in reality programs where the characters are forced to live together in remote or enclosed locations, and are placed into situations designed to breed competition, conflict and even romance.
Jenkins, a 32-year-old supposed millionaire, was known as the "smooth operator" on VH1's "Megan." He reportedly met Fiore, 28, in March shortly after filming the series.
The need for more extensive criminal background checks of reality show contestants is a given. The murder case, no matter Jenkins' involvement, demands that the networks running the shows take on a greater role in ensuring proper vetting. It might be too early for the FCC to step in, but there's little doubt Washington is now watching.
VH1, to its credit, pulled "Megan Wants a Millionaire" from the air Friday. But, incredibly, the cable channel has yet to make a decision whether to run the yet-to-be aired "I Love Money 3," another show in which Jenkins participated.
It may be time for all producers and networks with reality shows being filmed or already on the air to take a hard, second look at whether full criminal background checks were performed on all contestants. The grim reality is there could be more Ryan Alexander Jenkinses lurking on our TV screens.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow Hester on Twitter.


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According to Medibank Private figures, in 2015 the average total bill for giving birth to a baby in a private hospital was $8,500. This sum just covered the medical costs of the birth part of the whole having-a-baby process. The doctor visits and antenatal testing throughout pregnancy make up a whole separate amount.
So what can parents-to-be expect to pay for pregnancy and birth? The biggest influence on cost is whether you have your baby in the public hospital system or choose to go privately.
Going public
A fully public patient – that is, all medical care during pregnancy and birth is managed by a public maternity hospital – spends nothing much at all in medical costs of having a baby, unless she decides to have a TV or phone connected in her room, or uses the hospital's disposable nappies during the post-birth hospital stay.
If you opt for a shared care system in which you see a GP for most of your doctor visits who doesn't bulk bill, you will have some out-of-pocket expenses. But otherwise, the hospital covers all mainstream medical expenses throughout pregnancy and birth - even the costs for ultrasounds, blood tests and birth education classes.
Going private
How much it costs to have a baby privately – that is, with an obstetrician of your choice in a private or public hospital – is trickier to estimate because it depends on so many variables.
According to private health insurers NIB, out-of-pocket expenses for a private health pregnancy and birth is anywhere from $2,445 to $8,355 – and that's after a Medicare rebate of between $2,022 and $2,111.
An obstetrician's full fee ranges widely, from $2,000 to $10,000, depending on where you live and how many appointments you have.
It's worth remembering that private health insurance does not cover out-of-hospital expenses like obstetrician appointments – most women will have about 15 by the time they're 40 weeks pregnant – or antenatal tests and screenings.
Capped rebates are available through Medicare. For example, a 12-week ultrasound could leave private patients out of pocket by up to $172 while a standard obstetrician visit could cost up to $114 (which adds up over the pregnancy).
Choosing to be a private patient while having your baby in a public hospital can reduce the out-of-pocket expenses of a private birth. Some private obstetricians also allow their patients to "share care" with a GP.
Be financially informed
If you want to know how much a private birth is going to cost you, ask your obstetrician for what's called an "informed financial consent". This means you and your doctor agree on the set charges for services throughout your pregnancy and ensures you know what you will be paying in advance.
Health insurer NIB advises you also check what happens to the agreed upon fees if you experience complications during pregnancy or delivery, require an anaesthetist or your baby experiences complications and needs to be admitted to hospital.
Also find out if your private doctor charges more than the Medicare benefit schedule fee – if so, you will have to shoulder that extra expense.
And try to get your head around the Extended Medicare Safety Net and the caps in place for obstetric services. There are maximums on the amount of benefits paid for all obstetric services and some pregnancy-related services. See the government fact sheet called Changes to the Extended Medicare Safety Net for more information.


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With the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement negotiation concluded, attention is now turning to the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement. The TPP currently includes the US, Australia, Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, Singapore, Peru, Malaysia and Vietnam. Canada has not joined the negotiation, but there have been periodic rumours that wants in (it was apparently initially asked but declined due to the impact due to the agricultural impact).
Much like ACTA, there have been periodic TPP leaks, particularly on intellectual property issues. Last month, the New Zealand and Chilean proposals leaked online. Yesterday, the big one leaked – the U.S.'s 38 page intellectual property chapter. The U.S. plan is everything it wanted in ACTA but didn't get. For example, the digital lock rules are the U.S. DMCA, complete with exact same exceptions (no more, no less). The term of copyright matches the U.S. term of life of the author plus 70 years, beyond the Berne requirement and Canadian law. The ISP provisions including a copy of the U.S. notice-and-takedown system as well as provisions that go beyond U.S. law. In other words, the U.S. envisions using the TPP to export its copyright law to as many countries as possible while creating backdoor changes to its own domestic laws. Moreover, the chapter extends well beyond copyright, with patent provisions that would restrict countries' ability to restrict patentable subject matter.
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Indiana's growing defense industry is further expanding into the digital battlefield. Governor Eric Holcomb has announced a National Guard cyber battalion will be located in the Hoosier state. The 127th Cyber Protection Battalion will be made up of nearly 100 soldiers focused on cybersecurity and cyber warfare.
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Wagner College Press has re-released two books on the college's early history, partly to mark Wagner's 130th anniversary this year and partly in preparation for a much bigger anniversary 5 years from now: the centennial of our move to Staten Island in 1918. Both books are available at cost (plus shipping) at the Wagner College History online bookstore -- and both can be "previewed" online, in their entirety, on the order pages below. (Just hit the "preview" link under the cover image on the order pages.)
FOUNDING FACES & PLACES: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF WAGNER MEMORIAL LUTHERAN COLLEGE, 1869-1930 is a book of archival photos and interpretive material prepared to accompany an exhibition shown in the Horrmann Library's Spotlight Gallery from September 12 through October 15, 2008, in observance of the 125th anniversary of the founding of Wagner College in 1883. It covers the period beginning in 1869, during Wagner's "prehistory," and runs through the last major building project to be started before the Great Depression: Main Hall, our Collegiate Gothic architectural signature, which recently underwent a complete exterior renovation.
WAGNER COLLEGE: FOUR HISTORIES is the first book-length history of Wagner College, published in conjunction with the school's 125th anniversary in 2008. It contains historical essays by four authors (hence, the title) who presented their work at a forum on September 12, 2008. It was revised in November 2008, and again in February 2009, to incorporate newly discovered information about the college's founders. It was revised in May 2011 to show more detailed information on the tenures of two presidents.


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Is Declan Kidney's time as Ireland boss at an end? © PA Photos
Former Munster stars Alan Quinlan, Mick Galwey and Peter Clohessy are all adamant that Declan Kidney's time as Ireland coach should come to an end after the Six Nations.
Kidney's current contract with the Irish Rugby Football Union finishes after the championship and it seems increasingly unlikely that he will be offered a new deal. His position as Ireland boss came under fire following their back-to-back losses to England and Scotland and last week ex-Irish international Tony Ward called for Harlequins boss Conor O'Shea to replace Kidney.
While O'Shea has ruled himself out of the running, Clohessy, who played under Kidney between 1998 and 2002, claims the coach's time has come to an end. "He's had a great career but I think it's time for him to move on," Clohessy said while speaking at a fundraising event for the Mercy University Hospital foundation. "If I was him, I'd like to think he would be man enough to step down when his contract is over."
And Quinlan, who was part of the Munster side that won Heineken Cup titles in 2006 and 2008, believes that some of Kidney's controversial decisions may have backfired when it came to re-negotiating his Ireland contract. He opted to pick Jamie Heaslip ahead of Brian O'Driscoll as Ireland skipper and also chose Paddy Jackson to start against Scotland in place of Ronan O'Gara.
"He's under serious pressure," Quinlan said. "The decision with the captaincy was always going to be a big one for him. At the time I said there shouldn't be a big deal made of it and it was one of those that if Ireland had a great Six Nations, everybody would have said it was a great decision to make.
"It was a bold decision and it has backfired on him. If you have a player like Brian O'Driscoll on the pitch, he's probably too big a player to not make captain. Jamie Heaslip was maybe intimidated by it, but then again if you're winning matches these issues wouldn't come up.
"The Paddy Jackson decision was another big one. I had said before the game that O'Gara should have started because it was a game that Ireland were under pressure going into and they needed to get the scoreboard ticking-over with penalties. Even though O'Gara's general play hasn't been up to scratch, his goal-kicking is phenomenal."
Ireland have two matches left in the Six Nations and welcome France to the Aviva stadium on Saturday. Regardless of the supporter's possible misgivings over Kidney, Galwey has called on the fans to get behind Ireland.
"At this stage, I think we should be getting behind the team," Galwey said. "We are facing a French side who are coming off the back of three defeats next weekend and they will be fighting for a win at the Aviva. But whatever decisions Declan makes, I think we should respect and support the team.
"We have to remember that Declan has done an awful lot for Irish rugby. even though it's time for him to go. In the middle of the Six Nations, you can't change the coach. We have to stick with what we have for the next two games."
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Archeology for Interpreters > 9. Use What You Know: Highlighted Case Study
This Highlighted Case Study provides you with the opportunity to apply the knowledge and skills you have learned to determine how you would interpret some archeological resources at Manassas National Battlefield Park in Manassas, Virginia.
Although you may never actually interpret the archeological resources at Manassas National Battlefield Park, you can use this Highlighted Case Study to practice using what you have learned about archeology through this guide. The main questions addressed here apply to any archeological site, whether it is historic or prehistoric, in the west or in the east. They are questions that many visitors will ask. Gaining experience with these questions and assessing how they are answered in this case study will help you interpret archeological data you find in any form-from a site report to an ongoing excavation.
There are no answers offered to the questions found in each Use What You Know box. These are offered simply to help you think about how you might address issues that concern archeologists, visitors and yourself. You can ask many of these questions of any archeological site. You are encouraged to think of other issues and questions that you may address as you interpret your park's archeological resources with visitors.
This Highlighted Case Study is an opportunity for you to practice helping visitors to:
- Learn about archeological methods
- Explore how archeological interpretations are made
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- Increase their understanding and concern for the preservation and protection of archeological resources.
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Manassas National Battlefield Park Visit the park website to get an overview of the story. Can you find archeology on the website?
Projects Past and Present: Manassas National Battlefield Park See examples of online interpretation of archeology from African American and battlefield sites at Manassas.
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Sections like this one are located throughout this case study. They contain tips to help you as you plan your interpretive program. You may need to consult historical documents, ethnographic studies and other park-specific materials to help you build your program.
All detailed information about the archeology comprising this case study is taken from:
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McEnroe, a four-time U.
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"To me, it's obviously going to be a lot more difficult at this stage," McEnroe, now a television commentator with ESPN, said on a conference call.
"I don't see at this stage him being able to go through all seven (rounds) and have to beat at least two of these (top) three guys.
"Maybe he would use that type of thing as incentive. When you've won 17, you clearly think you can win another one. To me, there comes a point, even as great as Roger has been for so many years, that it catches up to you a little bit," McEnroe added.
Beaten by the 116th-ranked Sergiy Stakhovsky in the second round at Wimbledon, Federer also lost to Federico Delbonis in the Hamburg semi-finals and 55th-ranked Daniel Brands on home soil in Gstaad.
He fared a little better in Cincinnati last week, reaching the quarter-finals where he was beaten by eventual winner, and U.S. Open favourite, Rafa Nadal.
McEnroe believes that while Federer's experience and ability mean he will still be a factor, grand slam win number 18 may be a step too far now.
"There are certainly scenarios where he could easily still get late into an event and even to a final," McEnroe said. "Andre (Agassi) got to the final of the Open at 35, so there's no reason to believe he couldn't do it.
"At Wimbledon I could see him going late into an event, a final. I could see it on a hard court…but I personally think that at this stage it's going to be quite, quite difficult for him to win another one."
With Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray all displaying better form and consistency, McEnroe expects tough decisions ahead for Federer, especially if he remains well behind those three in the rankings.
"These guys are hungry," said McEnroe. "There's other guys that want get on the board. He's 32. He's going to have to at some stage decide how bad he wants it if he does dip lower in the world.
"I doubt he'll enjoy being in that spot. All these factors are going to start to come into it. Now, he can shut everyone up if he was able to go all the way at the Open and he could still keep himself in the running."
McEnroe also felt that Federer has lost some of his sharpness and balance.
"I think one of the things you notice a little bit is possibly he's slowed down a little bit," the American said. "The balance and the movement are not quite as (Rudolf) Nureyev-like as they were in the past.
"So he's reaching for more balls and therefore miss‑hitting more shots. It doesn't seem like he's been able or willing to make that adjustment where he's got to either play safer or take that extra step to balls."
For McEnroe, Federer no longer seemed to have the same self-belief in his movement about the court.
"That first quick step you got to take to take advantage of a ball, especially how hard as they guys hit it," he said.
"He's so used to being able to go big and hit pretty much everything he wants. And part of why he's so great is because he's stubborn and he believes in himself, so he's unwilling to change a whole lot."
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Conjecturally the Wetherby family are descended from Ralph of Intwood, who held the lands and village of Intwood from Eudo, Steward to William the Conqueror. Intwood consisted of a church, a mill, nine horses, and thirty sheep, as recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086. [4]CITATION[CLOSE]
Williams, Dr Ann. And G.H. Martin, Eds., Domesday Book A Complete Translation. London: Penguin, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0-141-00523-8)
Wetherby is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Wedrebi, thought to derive from wether- or ram-farm or else meaning "settlement on the bend of a river". [5]CITATION[CLOSE]
Mills, A.D., Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4) Local folklore has it that when heavy snow storms hit the county, Wetherby does not get as much because the "Weather Goes By."
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Christ's estimate of his people
"How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices! Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb; honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon." Solomon's Song 4:10, 11
suggested further reading: 1 Thessalonians 4:1–12
When he comes and begins to praise you, and tells you, "That your lips drop as the honeycomb, that all your actions smell of myrrh, and that your love is better than wine, and that the thoughts under your tongue are better to him than wine and milk," what will you say? "Oh, Lord, I cannot say thou art mistaken, for thou art infallible; but if I dared so think thou art mistaken, I should say, "Thou art mistaken in me;" but Lord I cannot think thou art mistaken, it must be true. Still, Lord, I do not deserve it; I am conscious I do not and I never can deserve it; still if thou wilt help me, I will strive to be worthy of thy praise in some feeble measure. I will seek to live up to those high praises which thou hast passed upon me. If thou sayest, "My love is better than wine;" Lord, I will seek to love thee better, that the wine may be richer and stronger. If thou sayest, "My graces are like the smell of ointment," Lord, I will try to increase them, so as to have many great pots filled with them; and if my words drop as the honeycomb, Lord, there shall be more of them, and I will try to make them better, so that thou mayest think more of such honey; and if thou declarest that the thoughts under my tongue are to thee like honey and milk, then, Lord, I will seek to have more of those divine thoughts; and if my daily actions are to thee as the smell of Lebanon, Lord, I will seek to be more holy, to live nearer to thee; I will ask for grace, that my actions may be really what thou sayest they are."
for meditation: Do you serve God because you feel you ought to, out of a sense of duty? Or because you want to, out of a sense of his love and acceptance of you in Christ? God's grace should motivate us to obey him even more than God's law does (Romans 6:15).
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[1] Spurgeon, C. H., & Crosby, T. P. (1998). 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 1) (p. 300). Leominster, UK: Day One Publications.


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Policy Corner: Physical Activity and the Affordable Health Care Act
ACSM issued the following news release June 28 to underscore the importance of physical activity and exercise in discussions of health care policy.
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), awaited amid much speculation for its impact on the act's ongoing implementation, changes nothing about one fundamental truth, according to medical experts and scientists. Leaders of the American College of Sports Medicine point to physical activity and exercise as a powerful prescription for what's ailing the U.S. citizenry, health system and economy. There is widespread and bipartisan support in Congress for effective steps in preventing disease rather than trying to pay for treating people after they get sick, including major promotion of physical activity and healthy lifestyles.
"Americans' lack of exercise will cause seven million early deaths in this decade, according the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services," said Janet Walberg Rankin, Ph.D., ACSM president and an associate dean at Virginia Tech. "With chronic diseases—including heart disease, stroke and diabetes—responsible for seven out of 10 deaths, and with physical activity and exercise shown to help prevent and treat more than 40 chronic conditions, healthy lifestyles must be a part of the health care equation."
"It's good medicine, it's sound science, and it's an economic necessity," said Robert Sallis, M.D., FACSM, a physician with Kaiser Permanente and past president of ACSM who chairs the Exercise is Medicine global health initiative. "Chronic diseases account for 75 percent of the nation's health care spending. Increased physical activity can play a powerful role in treating these problems and, even better, in preventing them from occurring in the first place. If the benefits of exercise could be captured in pill form, it would be the most widely prescribed drug in the world."
Walberg Rankin and Sallis recommend that, given the ability of physical activity and exercise to help people of any age or health status gain and maintain better health, these considerations should be central to any discussion on health policy. "Governments worldwide, from the community level to national legislatures, are wising up to what businesses are already finding out," said Sallis. "Keeping people healthy has a profound impact on the bottom line. Lack of physical activity has an estimated cost of $223 billion to $381 billion per year, which is now going to treat preventable diseases." Exercise can cost next to nothing, with enjoyable activities such as walking available to almost anyone.
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I imagined these days would be a heavenly experience involving lots of rest and any other thing my heart desired. And that is exactly what it has been. In a way.
Last night I went on an 18 mile hilly trail run and ran hard. The weather has become perfect here.
This morning I woke up for an early run and sometime in the middle of the day it struck me that I live quite close to the ocean. At 3:30 pm (yes work ends early here), I rode my bike out to the beach. We live in such a gorgeous part of Denmark. If SR hadn't just told me my blog was at times too sappy, I might expound upon that.
Karrebæksminde Bugt minus cute kids and/or happy couple staring at each other lovingly in profile.
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And the beach in Karrebæksminde - overexposed.
I am lucky to live here. And it was such a beautiful day. But once I met SR something weird happened; being alone just wasn't as fun. And once you have kids, you just want to share things with them. I was a happy person before SR, Natali and The Lorax, but now I have trouble accessing that person I was. Couldn't even relax enough to take my helmet off at the beach, for God's sake!
But I successfully distracted myself the rest of the night with yoga and then triathlon team swimming. A good life, at least on paper.
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