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As the financial markets are slowly waking up from the weekend slump, Stada and Viacom are undergoing internal turmoil. Stada is facing opposition from an activist investor group that could threaten to break up the company or lead to a sale, whereas Viacom chief executive is accusing the daughter of the former CEO of planning to oust him and take over the company. Read on to find what else is being discussed among the Sentifi crowd before the markets start a new week.
1/ Stada Arzneimittel: Propose more independent directors to supervisory board [311% increase in voices in the last 24h]
In a move to counter the nominations from activist investor Active Ownership, German generic drugmaker Stada proposes three new independent directors to join its supervisory board. Active Ownership is running a campaign to oust Board Chairman Martin Abend and introduce five nominees on the board. It's speculated this campaign could cause a break-up of the company, or worse, lead to a sale.
2/ Viacom: The battle for the media giant is heating up [242% increase in voices in the last 24h]
Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman accused Shari Redstone, the daughter of former CEO Sumner Redstone, of the manipulation of her father to take over the company, which was against his will. The fight took place after the lawyers of Sumner Redstone removed two longtime board members from a trust that could seize the control of the company. Rumor has it that Shari Redstone has conceived a plan to get rid of Dauman and the entire Viacom board.
3/ Monsanto Company: Faces adverse publicity and a potential merger [237% increase in voices in the last 24h]
Hundreds of thousands of people marched against Monsanto in an attempt to force the company to stop developing genetically-modified crops that are accused of causing cancer in humans against the back drop of a potential merger with Bayer. Dubbed "the most evil company in the world," the company has been struggling with its business which it's taken desperate measure to deal with. Earning forecasts had been cut. Legal disputes are being solved. But none of the efforts is working as its shares have gone down almost 20% this year.
4/ Tim Cook: Makes a surprise visit to Dubai after India [230% increase in voices in the last 24h]
After spending some time with the India Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss manufacturing, Apple CEO Tim Cook paid a visit to Dubai, a move to better the publicity for Apple. The company opened its first retail stores in the United Arab Emirates, one in Dubai and one in Abu Dhabi. Cook was seen shaking hands, taking selfies with customers and employees, and taking interviews.
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5 Countries that Welcome ExpatriatesMarch 25th, 2011 by The JetSetter Team | Comments Off on 5 Countries that Welcome Expatriates
While most of the Middle East seems difficult for Americans to integrate into, the tiny Persian Gulf country of Bahrain scored highest of all on a survey of expatriates living there. Finding new friends and learning the language still presented a barrier but finding a home and good schools and setting up finances was a breeze.
Rounding out the top five countries in the survey were Canada, Australia, Thailand, and Malaysia. Factors that were taken into account were access to modern health care, decent and affordable housing, and social networks in place for expatriates to access. For various reasons, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom placed lowest on the list as the least hospitable places to move. American women
might have a teensy eensy problem with the sort of dress code expected of females in the first region. Our suggestion? Buy burkas. Lots of burkas, mainly in black. Apparently the downside of moving to jolly old England is the absence of affordable housing.
Of course, research like this can only provide a Big Picture view of the host country but if you're intent on moving to the UAE perhaps, and see that it scores lower than a chipmunk walking in a root on the "integration" index, might be worth your time to do more in-depth research and consider that it could be REALLY hard to blend yourself and family into the social fabric. More than one overseas stint has come to an untimely end due to feelings of isolation. Due diligence could go a long ways towards preventing this from happening to you.
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A prime source of Jew-hate is Talmudism itself, which oppressively tyrannizes and micromanages the lives of Judaics born through no fault of their own, into its psychic prison, while Israeli Zionism imprisons Judaics in a permanent war footing with the indigenous people of the Middle East. To free Judaic persons from these two prisons is an act of compassion and charity. We should never forget that our work is pro-Judaic. It is the Talmudic and Kabbalistic rabbis and Zionists who are putting Judaic people on the road to ruin.Orthodox Judaism, which is the scion of the religion of the ancient Pharisees, is above all, self-worship, and pride is the paramount destroyer. In the occult scheme of things, the ideology closest to it was Hitler's National Socialism, in that it shares this predominant characteristic of pathological narcissism.
Source: Jews & Christians are Bamboozled by Judaism – Michael Hoffman – henrymakow.com


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Introduction: Chevrolet Volt Gun Rack
I've been a Volt owner since the end of November. My reasons for buying this car are simple; reduce my dependency on oil from foreign states and to support an American designed, manufactured, and powered automobile. After driving 1100+ miles, I've only used about 2 gallons of gasoline - most of that came from driving it home from the dealership with a depleted battery.
Newt Gingrich recently claimed that you couldn't put a gun rack in the back of a Volt. I'm here to prove that wrong.
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I redacted much of what I was going to say in response to your political statement because it's just is not worth the possible negative vibe.
Point: Nice job on the gun rack. Built an apothecary chest into the back of my 97 geo metro hatchback years ago. Little efficient cars = hardest working not-pickup-trucks ever.
Thanks! I can take criticism just fine, and I'm happy to move the conversation forward in a productive manner. Just to note, I am republican / vote libertarian.
I have an 02 Subaru Forester and that rack will be a nice addition.
Its cool tho. Republican represent!
Putting a gun rack in a chevy volt is like running 57's on a ford ranger
never tell an american he can't take his guns with him !
Stylish. Love it.
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Innitius get granted by European Commission: Phase I for exploring and assessing the technical feasibility and commercial potential of our breakthrough innovation.
Innitius, born in December 2017 for the development of Fine Birth, has since its inception focused efforts to delineate specifically how we can help the specialist in dealing with the problems of premature birth and induction labor on their day-to-day activity.
The Fine Birth technology would allow us to accurately measure the consistency of cervical tissue and emitting a real-time diagnosis of childbirth's related events, where in our first approach to the centers we have identified:
- Preventing the risk of preterm delivery at the protocolary 20th week of gestation examination: Prevention.
- Diagnosis of induction labor success probabilities: Induction.
- Improvement of Threatened Preterm Labour management. Intervention.
Being the last one -Intervention- fixed by physicians as the key application of our device. The next step will be to test if our solution is considered by the users as a " must have " or a " nice to have " in their day-to-day work, and from Innitius we are very pleasured to announce that during the morning of today we received the news that we will have the support of the European Commission through the SME Phase I program to undertake this stage.
Innitius is very pleasured to announce that during the morning of today we received the news that we will have the support of the European Commission through the @H2020SME program to undertake next stage. Click To Tweet
For Innitius, this resolution is not just an economic support for the project, but also an external recognition of the path that we are walking, and we are very happy to share it with you.
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Researchers from Virginia Tech and the University of Washington have demonstrated that a brief, voluntary conversation with an adult led to up to a 20 percent decrease in marijuana use for teenagers who frequently used the drug. The research was published online June 20 in the journal Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, in the article, "Randomized Controlled Trial of Motivational Enhancement Therapy with Nontreatment-Seeking Adolescent Cannabis Users: A Further Test of the Teen Marijuana Check-Up," by Denise D. Walker, Robert S. Stephens, Roger Roffman, Josephine DeMarce, Brian Lozano, Sheri Towe, and Belinda Berg
Walker, research assistant professor of social work and co-director of the University of Washington's Innovative Programs Research Group, said, "Adolescence is a big developmental period for learning adult roles. Smoking marijuana regularly can impede development and school performance, and it sets kids up for other risky behaviors."
But a "non-finger wagging" approach called Teen Marijuana Check-Up could encourage teens to reduce their marijuana use.
"Teen marijuana users have few options for sorting out the disparate information on the risks of smoking marijuana. The programs we are developing and testing will hopefully help fill the gap," said Stephens, chair of psychology at Virginia Tech and director of the addictions lab.
Many teens have concerns about their use of marijuana, "even if they're not sharing them with family or friends," Walker said. If a convenient and easy opportunity to weigh the pros and cons of their drug use is offered that isn't "shaming or blaming," kids will participate in it voluntarily, she said.
The researchers went to high school classrooms and gave short presentations describing myths and facts about marijuana, common reasons why teens smoke it, and its health, and behavior consequences.
The researchers told the students about the study, saying it was intended to give feedback on – not treat – each student's marijuana use. Students could volunteer privately. Of about 7,100 students who heard about the study, 619 volunteered, and 310 met its criterion of smoking marijuana regularly.
The participants, ninth through 12th graders attending Seattle public schools, had two one-on-one meetings with health educators. During the meetings, which lasted 30-60 minutes each over two weeks, the health educators used one of two approaches:
- Motivational interviewing, in which the health educator and student discussed the student's marijuana use and how it might be interfering with the student's life, goals, and personal values, and the health educator told the student about social norms of how much others use the drug.
- An educational approach in which a PowerPoint presentation described current marijuana research and health and psychological effects of marijuana use.
Participants in the motivational interviewing group started the study using marijuana 40 out of the previous 60 days. Three months after counseling they had decreased their use 20 percent, to 32 out of 60 days. After a year they still showed a 15 percent decrease, 34 days out of 60.
Participants in the educational treatment group had slower results, reporting an 8 percent decrease from 38 to 35 days out of 60 days three months after the treatment ended. A year later, they reported using marijuana 34 of 60 days, an 11 percent overall drop.
The researchers called the findings "encouraging in that apparently meaningful reductions in cannabis use resulting from the brief meetings were sustained over a relatively lengthy period of time."
Stephens said, "A unique aspect of this research has been our ability to get teens to voluntarily sign up for the programs. Previous research has focused mainly on teens who are coerced into treatment programs by schools, parents, or the legal system, but there are many more users who may profit from talking to someone about their use if we can give them options that are appealing."
Walker said that the low-burden, low-cost program could be disseminated to drug and alcohol counselors in schools. The program "is supposed to attract people who aren't ready for a full treatment, but are interested in having a conversation with a professional trained to discuss concerns with substance use," she said.
The study was funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Of the co-authors, Josephine DeMarce of Salem, Va., is a 2006 Ph.D. graduate in psychology from Virginia Tech; Brian Lozano of Charleston, S.C., is a 2008 Ph.D. graduate of psychology from Virginia Tech; Sheri Towe of Martinez, Ga., is a Ph.D. student at Virginia Tech; Roger Roffman is professor of sociology and director of the Innovative Programs Research Group at the University of Washington; and Belinda Berg is a health educator with the School of Social Work at the University of Washington.
Founded in 1872, Virginia Tech attracts students from all 50 states and more than 100 countries. The university's eight colleges achieve quality, innovation, and results through teaching, research, and outreach in Blacksburg and at other campus centers in Northern Virginia, Southwest Virginia, Richmond, Southern Virginia, Hampton Roads, and Roanoke.
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While tourism as we know it today is a relatively new concept, travelers around the world have been undertaking walking pilgrimages for millennia. In fact, going on pilgrimage was the often the only opportunity people ever had to leave their native villages.
Mormon Pioneer Trail, USA
In the mid-1800's, members of Joseph Smith's Mormon church were forced to head into the west to find a new home. Mormons followed a 1,300-kilometre trail through five states on their way to a new home in modern-day Salt Lake City. The going was tough, and pioneers passed through difficult but stunning terrain, including Bear River, a massive gorge cut into surrounding cliffs by the Sweet water River. These days, some spots on the trail make for popular pilgrimages. However, many sections of the trail are eminently hikeable and bikeable and are frequented by adventure enthusiasts who enjoy a bit of cultural history alongside natural beauty.
Via Francigena, France & Italy
The Vatican in Italy has long been a beacon for Christian pilgrims, and its star has hardly dimmed in recent years. Naturally, Rome is far more easily accessible these days as compared with the Middle Ages. But back then, it wasn't as difficult as you might think. The Romans were famous for their roads, and the Via Francigena ("the road that comes from France") was a well-traveled, well-maintained route. Pilgrims would come to see the Holy See and its various treasures, but the journey was impressive in equal measure. Today, you can hike the entire route, which officially begins in the English town of Canterbury, just like the pilgrims of yore.
St. Olav's Way, Norway
If you're pressed for time when following St. Olav's Way, you can always take the train. But the 640-kilometer route is best walked with plenty of time in hand in order to enjoy Norway's natural and often secluded natural scenery. Tracing the route of medieval European pilgrims to the tomb of St. Olav in Trondheim, the trail is more difficult than the popular Camino de Santiago in Spain, but often more rewarding. The Nidaros Cathedral, the endpoint of the journey, is worth the effort in itself, though the difficulty often inspires a spiritual sense of accomplishment, too.
Camino de Santiago, Spain
Otherwise known as the ""Way of St. James", the Camino de Santiago is one of the most famous Christian pilgrimages. Each year, tens of thousands of pilgrims and tourists trace one of the many paths from trailheads throughout Western Europe to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain, following routes that date back to the Middle Ages. The pilgrimage takes anywhere from weeks to months to complete, ultimately cutting through rural northern Spain. Pilgrims follow the famous scallop shell symbol on signposts along well-marked routes.
For Christians and non believers alike, the Camino is extremely popular: almost 300,000 pilgrims were issued a certificate of completion (a compostela) in 2010.


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Green Bay's banged-up backfield has been hit with another setback.
Packers coach Mike McCarthy told reporters Thursday that veteran runner James Starks is currently mired in the league's concussion protocol after his involvement in a car accident on Monday, per the team's official Twitter feed.
McCarthy emphasized that Starks is "OK," but his status for Sunday's showdown with the Chicago Bears is obviously up in the air.
Starks, 30, has led Green Bay's backfield in plays (31) and touches per tilt (9.1) since starter Eddie Lacy was lost to a season-ending ankle injury. More recently, though, ex-Seahawks back Christine Michael and receiver-turned-runner Ty Montgomery have carried the load, with the duo combining for 77 yards off 19 attempts in last Sunday's win over Seattle. Starks carried the ball just twice.
McCarthy went on to say Thursday that Montgomery could see up to 20 attempts against the Bears if the game script required it, noting, per the Green Bay Press Gazette: "He can get to that number if he had to."
The injury drains Green Bay's depth, but Starks is far from workhorse material of late. If anything, the door is wide open for Michael -- and even Montgomery -- to take the job for good.


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Suffering 2 – a loving God?
At CCC lately we are feeling like suffering is the right thing to be talking about. If God loves us so much, why do terrible things happen to us? GOOD QUESTION!
Here's our second study on suffering, from the book of Job and Romans 1.
Suffering and a God of love
Job 2; Romans 1:18-32
"I felt so angry with God I could hardly pray". This came through as a text message from a friend, on my phone. When do people feel angry with God? (chat with your neighbour.)
Last week we asked the first question people ask when they suffer: Why? What answer did we find from the Scriptures? Meaningless. Suffering is given no logical explanation. The tapestry of life that has so many loose ends and dark threads from down here, if you saw it from God's viewpoint, it still looks like a mess.
This week we're asking the next question people so often raise: How could a loving God do this?
"I felt so angry with God I could hardly pray". I wonder if you've ever felt angry with God? This friend who texted me, we had a mutual friend a third friend, whose toddler was killed in tragic circumstances. This friend who wrote the text message was coming to terms with the disaster. "I felt so angry with God I could hardly pray", she said. I could hear her asking God, "How could you do this?"
When we experience great suffering, it often creates a faith crisis for us: our trust in God sometimes turns into anger. This is the issue in the second chapter of Job: will Job boil over in anger against God, and curse him to his face? The classic modern example is Basil Fawlty from Fawlty Towers, when he discovers his hotel is on fire: Basil is left shaking his fist at the sky and shouting, "Oh thankyou God, thankyou so bloody much." If you push us far enough, we all tend to react a bit like that don't we. I wonder why?
Athiests sense that we believers have a weak point here. When the boxing day Tsunami devastated the nations around the Bay of Bengal, many newspapers printed articles that said, Here is final proof that there is no God. What sort of God would send such misery? He can't exist.
And many religious people were troubled too. Why would God send such a thing? In the chapters that follow our story, we learn that Job does blame God for his suffering. Over the following 30 chapters, he repeatedly asks, "How could you do this to me?"
The writer CS Lewis thought a lot about this problem of suffering, his answer to it was: 'Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.' Get that? The world has gone deaf to God's word. They need a loud trumpet blast to get their attention. Suffering is that blast. But I'm not sure that makes things any better for us. For if that's true, if the tens of thousands of little children lying dead on the beaches of Asia, if they were a message from God – then what sort of God is that? Would you construct a megaphone out of dead children? I don't find C S Lewis's explanation that reassuring. Indeed later in his life, when his own suffering became intense, C.S.Lewis didn't find his own explanation that reassuring either. He ended up wondering, like Job, "How could God do this? Could it be that He is evil and sadistic?"
In the West, people have worried over this problem for at least a thousand years. God is good, and all powerful, yet the children lie dead on the beaches in great piles. It just doesn't seem to fit.
And it's not just those children. It's our children. When they are bullied at school, or hurt in car crashes, or rushed to hospital in an ambulance. And we think, why is God doing this to my dear child? Does he hate us? Does he want my little girl to suffer?
How could a loving God do this?
The apostle Paul gives an answer to the question, How can a loving God do this? His answer may disturb you. Take a look with me at his letter to the Romans, chapter 1. He's describing how mankind turned its back on God, and fell into evil and all the suffering which it brings. It's the story of Adam and Eve and everyone who came after them, the story of human history. v.21
Though they knew God, they did not honour him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their senseless minds were darkened. Romans 1:21
There's that word 'futile' again, do you remember it from last week – the same word we met in Ecclesiastes. "Futility! Everything is futility said the preacher!" Now Paul says, Because people did not honour God, they became futile. The way God made the world, things were rational, things made sense, but then we fell into this evil, this madness: we humans became futile in our minds. Our world became mixed up, chaotic, it lost its sense or purpose.
Let's hear more of the story: v.25
They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator…Romans 1:25.
Three times Paul describes this exchange, this choice humankind made: Truth exchanged for lies, reality replaced with fantasy, the structure of right relationships all broken up, exchanged for wrong ones. This is the crazy world of Ecclesiastes: meaningless. And now Paul shows us where all this chaos came from: we chose it. We made the exchange.
People these days like superhero stories: spiderman, wolverine and so on. And one favourite kind of superhero story is the origin story, where you get to go right back and find out how they began, how they got their super powers. One particularly dark version of this is in the Bourne movies. Jason Bourne is a kind of superhuman, but he's lost his memory, but he gradually uncovers the truth about himself: He's an assassin, a kind of monster. Who did this to him? In the third movie he finally learns where it all started. It started when he volunteered for it. He chose to become the monster. Paul here is telling the origin story for futile mankind. How did it all start? Go right back to the beginning of this bleeding world of ours, says Paul, and we chose it.
Though they knew God, they did not honour him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their senseless minds were darkened. Romans 1:21
And now that we have plunged ourselves into this, there is no understanding mankind anymore. At the deepest level, our lives don't make sense. It's a kind of madness, listen:
Though they know God's decree, that those who practice such things deserve to die—yet they not only do those things but even applaud others who practice them. Romans 1:32
You see? They actually encourage harm and destruction. Senseless. stupid. That's our race, what we've become. Have you ever noticed how much of life is like that? We harm ourselves! We become our own worst enemies.
How did we get to this place? Nobody has done it to us. We chose this instead of choosing God and his order of things: that was the exchange we made.
I heard a story from a neighbour about one of their family members, a young woman. She was attractive and full of life, and the young men were queing up to take her out, and she wanted to get married, and she married a gangster. She married a drug dealing gangster. Instead of one of the normal boys, she chose someone really interesting. How do you think that went for her? She spent a year in hell, no one could help her: she'd chosen this life for herself. Then her parents found her on their doorstep, with her bags packed. She couldn't take it anymore. We humans were like that, we turned away from God, and chose madness.
Imagine how that girl's father felt when she married the gangster. He would have done anything to stop her. He couldn't stop her. What about God then – how did he feel about what humankind did? The passage is crystal clear that God's reaction is wrath: his strongest disapproval. None of this was God's intention. It was not the path he wanted for us. What does he do? What can a parent do in this situation? Romans 1:28
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind and to things that should not be done.
Three times here Paul tells us God's response was to 'give them over' to their wickedness. Get the hang of this, this is our human story, we need to understand why there's so much suffering and evil. Paul gives us a window here, a lense through which to look at human history, at our own lives too. So much nonsense is spoken about God's wrath: here is what God's wrath is really all about. Mankind wanted a world without God in charge: God let us have one: he let us reap what we had sown. He let us go our own way. That, says Paul, is God's wrath. God effectively says to mankind, If you are determined to live that insane life, I will let you live it. God's wrath isn't about something nasty he's cooked up for us to suffer. It's when he says, "This is not what I want for you, but I will allow you to choose it. To choose for yourselves." He gives us over. That's his wrath.
It's also his love. This is what a loving parent ultimately does, isn't it. They don't keep controlling a rebellious child forever. They let go.
What did it look like, this giving over, this letting us go? It looked like suffering: here's how things ended up, v.29
They were filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, craftiness, they are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, rebellious toward parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
When I read this description, I can't help thinking of zombies. There's a bit of a zombie culture fad around the world these days. Why are people so fascinated with zombies? I reckon they remind us of us! Of each other. You know, the person is a friend, then suddenly they turn, and next thing we know they're attacking us, like Zombies trying to eat our brains. Crazed. Dangerous. That's the picture Paul is painting here isn't it. And it's what we experience every day. People who would like to hurt us. Mankind has turned. We've been infected, and lost our humanity. This is the nightmare we've fallen into, this is what it's like to be given over by God. This is his wrath.
So when Christian people see a Tsunami or a famine or a cancer or a child brain-damaged, and they say, this is God's will, or 'it was meant to be' – we have to say, that's not quite the story the way Paul tells it. All that evil and suffering, whose idea was it? Who made the exchange? Paul hammers this point: it wasn't God, it was us! True, God allows us to make the choice, but it was never what he wanted for us: it wasn't God's will – it was ours! Beware of those slogans people use to cope with suffering, saying It's all God's will when something happens. The story is not that simple is it. And don't be too quick to blame God and get angry with him, and curse him. Because we live in the world we chose – a world that has been given over to futility.
When Jesus was training his disciples in the ways of God's kingdom, he started saying something that upset them all. He taught them, The son of man will be handed over to the Gentiles; and he will be mocked and insulted and spat upon. After they have flogged him, they will kill him."
They didn't want to hear it, it made no sense to them. Jesus – handed over to violence and injustice? The words, handed over, are the same ones Paul uses over and over. We were handed over to madness. And now the Messiah, God's son, comes and he is handed over to the same madness. Our madness. He who had never done wrong, never chosen evil, Jesus who never deserved it. God hands him over to suffer like a sinner. To suffer our fate. To stand in our place. To enter our nightmare. Wrongly condemned, publically shamed and murdered.
Now this is extraordinary. If even Jesus gets handed over, then that changes everything. Our whole way of thinking about our troubles gets turned upside down. We can't look at suffering anymore and say 'God hates us' or 'God is against us'. Would you really say God is against his own son, that he hates Jesus?
And now that Jesus has come and entered into our misery, we can't say, God has abandoned us in our time of trouble. No, because in Jesus we find God has come right here next to us, into the thick of it. Suffering the wrath with us and for us. God has not washed his hands of us. He has rolled up his sleeves and got his hands dirty in our mess.
In fact, when we look at the cross of Jesus, we start to realise that in all our suffering, something else is going on here. Something full of hope. This chaos, this pain, it's not the end of the story. God is at work, even through his wrath, even through this misery. Now because of Jesus it's heading somewhere. Through death comes resurrection.
So what the gospel has to say about human misery is not simple. It is surprising. It is unexpected. It is deeply challenging. Simple explanations like 'it's God's will' don't capture it. Beware of slogans and cliches. People who get angry with God and want to curse him, haven't quite got the hang of it either. Instead of a slogan we need to keep telling the story, the story Paul is telling in his letter to the Romans : How suffering and evil was never God's plan: but that he is allowing it for now, in hope, and that he has come near to deal with it in Jesus. More about that hope next week.
So the take home message from Romans ch. 1 is God is not the author of your misery. When these evils come against you and your loved ones, God is not over there lobbing bombs at you. God is not against you, hurting you. He's over here, actually on your side. It's right to get angry with the world. But not with our Father.
I want to suggest two implications of this. First it leaves room for you to pray. There's nothing harder than praying to a god who's over there lobbing bombs at you. It's a bit alienating! But if there is someone over here on your side who loves you and who will listen: you can talk to that person. And the gospel tells us, that's where God is. The proof of it is in Jesus. The one who stands with us in our grief. The one who carried our load of trouble. The lower you sink down into the pit of misery, the closer you come to the one who reached the bottom: Jesus our sin bearer. Get close to Jesus when you're hurting. Tell him all about it. He knows! He knows.
The other implication is: since God is not behind your troubles, you don't have to be ashamed about them. They are not a judgement on you in particular. Sometimes good people suffer. Sometimes wise, competent people fail. Christians in particular, I believe suffer more than most. And it's not a shameful thing. As we face the wider world, we don't need to put on a brave face and pretend to be healthy wealthy and wise. We can admit, we're struggling. We suffer along with Jesus the sufferer. Don't be ashamed of Jesus crucified, and don't be ashamed of your troubles either.
Well, the woman who married the gangster packed her bags and went home to Dad. Next time we're going to ask, Can we do that? Any way we can get out of this mess and back to our Father? As we will see, the news is good!


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Lithuania's dream of winning the European title in front of their countrymen ended on Wednesday after absorbing a tough 67-65 upset defeat against Macedonia in the quarterfinals of the EuroBasket Men 2011 in Kaunas, Lithuania.
Lithuania looked to be in full control of the game as they managed to resist multiple threats from Macedonia for the entire game, but not until they made a costly mistake down the stretch.
Leading by two points, 65-63, with 17 seconds left in the game, Darius Songaila had a huge defensive rebound off a miss layup from Macedonia, but the former NBA center threw the ball away.
Macedonia's Vojdan Stojanovski found an open Vlado Ilievski, who knocked down a huge three-pointer that gave Macedonia a one-point lead with 11 seconds left in the game. Lithuania had a chance to regain the lead, but Simas Jasaitis missed a jumper, forcing them to foul Ilievski, who knocked down the first free throw and intentionally missed the second one to escape with the win.
"I think we showed that we are one of the best teams in Europe even though many thought our run was down to luck," said Macedonia coach Marin Dokuzovski. "We deserve to be here. We played without pressure; we played very free and with great tempo."
Bo McCalebb led Macedonia with his 23 points, while Stojanovski and Ilievski added 15 and 13 points respectively for Macedonia, who will face defending champions Spain in the semifinals.
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For this weekend drive, we took on a mid-size luxury crossover SUV made by Cadillac: the Cadillac XT5 (short for Crossover Touring 5).
The XT5 was introduced back in 2015 at the LA Auto Show and Dubai International Motor show and made a huge impact on their audience. General Motors the American Car manufacturer replaced one of his best-selling vehicles the SRX crossover with a totally new vehicle the Cadillac XT5, so was it worth it?
Our journey initiated from IMPEX, Cadillac's dealership in Lebanon, showroom to pick up this crossover SUV and witness its impact on the streets of Lebanon.
Our first stop was the busy streets of Beirut on a Saturday morning, the XT5 cuts a dashing silhouette wherever it goes. The exterior of this crossover SUV was a true magnet. The bystanders were admiring the ravishing beauty of this XT5. The front was at the same time aggressive and elegant, the large chrome grille centered by Cadillac's emblem and sieged from both sides by the swept to the sides headlights with LED dripping downwards to form a continuity in design with the vertical fog lights were more than the eye can handle. From the back, the XT5 reminded us that this a true Cadillac as it resembles a lot the magnificent ATS and CTS and the all-mighty Escalade with its Cadillac's signature vertical taillights and a slight hug to the rear fenders coupled with the twin exhausts tips to give the XT5 a family yet sporty design.
From the inside, the XT5 screams Cadillac all over. The design is simple yet elegant and has Cadillac written all over it, the synthetic leather upholstery used on the seats and dashboard adding to it the brushed aluminum trims and the layout of the screen and dashboard are made to perfectly fit the drivers' needs. I personally liked one of the coolest phone slots in the business, tucked under the console-compartment lid. Your phone is kept largely out of sight with just the top edge sticking out and yet is still handy. That not only makes it less obvious to thieves should you leave your phone behind, it may help keep weak-willed phone junkies from playing Words with Friends on the road. Plus, the compartment doubles as a wireless charging station for those with compatible phones. For everybody else, dual USB ports keep devices charged without cords draped everywhere, while standard Android Auto and Apple CarPlay add to the convenience.
What is also noticeable about the XT5, is the layout of the rear seats. Those riding in the rear will enjoy seats that slide and recline, as well as two back-seat USB ports. And what makes it more of a family luxury SUV is the fact that you can fold the back seats creating a flat floor needed when there's a large amount of huge cargo to fit in the back for that long trip you are planning with the wife.
Seated comfortably in our leather seats, we enjoyed the 14 speakers surround-sound system for that acoustic refined experience (the XT5 comes standard with eight-speaker Bose stereo system) as we cruise to our weekend getaway countryside house. The XT5's CUE infotainment system uses a vibrant 8.0-inch high-resolution touchscreen which made our ride a lot easier and accessible to be connected at all times.
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Driving through the beautiful scenery of the Lebanese countryside roads and just before reaching our destination, I noticed the perfect shooting spot with amazing nature-made rock statues and had to stop for a memory photo that will last engraved in our minds. The road to that spot was a combination of gravel and dirt, despite the fact that if you own an XT5 off-roading is not on your mind, however, we had to try since the XT5 driven was an All-Wheel drive (front-wheel drive is the standard option). With enough ground clearance and the AWD system in action, we crossed the narrow out of tarmac pathway and pulled over for that perfect shot.
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In order to compete with the growing segment of mid-size luxury crossover SUV, Cadillac has put an affordable price tag on its standard XT5. Those Cadillac lovers can now own their XT5 without thinking twice about the price. And for those seeking to take it up a notch with a more luxurious vehicle, General Motors has released the XT5 in four trims standard, Luxury, Premium Luxury, and Platinum.
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There was no date at the end of Detroit: Become Human's gameplay demo at E3 2017, but the title is slated for release next year. Speaking with GameSpot, auteur David Cage revealed: "It'll be next year." Sony's being a bit weird with dates: it confirmed any titles with a 2018 target during its press conference are due in the first half of the year, while it would appear those without are looking towards Holiday 2018. Of course it's not announcing any of this because it doesn't want to disappoint.
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MizanHome Team USIM-UTM (R.M.T 2U), the product of a collaboration between Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM) and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), proposes a sustainable, affordable, and innovative net-zero energy smart home which makes use of solar as its main energy source. The total floor area is 140m2 including alfresco decking area and porch area. This modern house design is responding to both culture and environment, while striving for sustainability. Conceptual Approach – "Beyond The Limit" is chosen as the house designated to be flexible arrangement in a modular system and promises the highest level of comfort. The passive cooling strategy by using the element of 'Masyrabiah" function not only as privacy screen but act as filtration device to cool the air on the ground. MIZAN represents M for Mobility, I for Innovative, Z for net Zero energy, A for Affordable, and N for the integration of the Naqli (revealed) knowledge. The house is fully integrated with solar thermal collectors, high efficiency photovoltaic panels and at the same time offering the electric charging point for hybrid electric cars conveniently assessable at the porch area. We formed our concept with consideration 1) Architecture Respond to environment, ecology; climate, humidity and culture 2) Engineering; innovation of technology and energy.
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It's wednesday, I know. But let me tell you about my past weekend anyway.
Some knitting goodness occurred.
It started with this being delivered to my door.
A nice, nice gesture indeed, made by parents. (I'm a lucky woman, I know.)
The perfect way to start any kind of weekend, but a knitting filled weekend especially.
It continued with me hopping in my car with two near and dear knitter-friends of mine and having a nice little knitterly road-trip to Gaspereau Valley Fibres about... an hour outside of Halifax.
What a treat.
And the company I speak of? Even more of a treat than a slice of cheesecake. Like I said, near and dear.
Sheep, chickens, alpacas...
See for yourself.
And of course, tonnes of wool.
All in one beautiful wooden room.
Don't be concerned though. It's a wooden room with windows of course.
With a stunning view of the sheep, chickens and alpacas.
I must confess that I have lived in Nova Scotia for three and a half years now... and this was my first time going there. Why did I wait? I guess I just found enough in Halifax to keep me busy.
And now... after that trip... I will be busy until... well, at least until I graduate.
That's not to say that I won't indulge in one or two more little 'road trips' as such before the planned date of graduation. I just... have more than enough to keep me busy. (for now....)
So, here are the goods.
Some Briggs and Little for felted clogs (a stellar Christmas gift if I do say so myself).
Purchased by Meghan.
Some Mission Falls 1824 superwash wool for a little neck scarf.
Purchased by Meghan.
Some NEON WHITE Blue Sky Pure Cotton.
To make this sweet-as-a-treat 'mini-sweater'.
For me.
(How cool is neon white?!?!?! Sadly... you will have to just believe me though, as the picture does now want to cooperate.)
And I also found myself with some of this in my bag at the end of the day as we felt that a perfect way to end the perfect day would to be to swing by Tangled Skeins and pick up some yarn there.
Sweet Georiga Yarns.
In colourway Blue Fig.
I see... a pair of Pomatomous socks for me out that.
But for now, it shall adorn my houseplant/makeshift-knitterly-xmas-tree.
So, in short, that was my weekend.
Next weekend, I plan on knitting.
And hopefully... I will have some knitting to show you as you are probably growing weary of me showing you all the yarn that I WANT to knit with.
It's coming friends, it's coming.
I swear.
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It's wednesday, I know. But let me tell you about my past weekend anyway.
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I like looking at yarn. Isn't sweetgeorgia's yarn wonderful! Must get back to knitting, I have too much yarn and there are not enough hours in the day .....
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- Anonymous said...
The wools look lovely! I'm looking forward to seeing what you knit with yours. They could, of course, go into the 'stash'! I've just finished one of your Halifax patterns (the Indian Cross stich scarf)and a 'Drops' scarf with some Alpaca (in Heather!)and they really turned out well.
Good Luck with exams and hopefully we'll see you over the holdays.
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The windows are undeniably the part of the house that shows you how much dirt is in the air. Whether the dirt is in the form of dust coming from the outside or in the way of greasy air particles coming from the inside, the window is where they all settle.
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Roger Angell quotes
The great thing about catchers is that they do a lot of different things, and they're basically overlooked.
I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.
I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs.
Once I could persuade these guys that all I wanted to hear from them was what they did - Tell me what you do - once you can persuade someone that this is all you're after, you can't shut them up because we're all fascinated by what we do.


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I went to church in my home congregation this morning. I didn't have to preach anywhere else so I took the opportunity to remind everyone in Maynooth I'm still alive. My old friend Wylie led worship and that giant of an Afrikaner, Dewald, spoke about finances and Dr. Patrick managed to get through a whole sermon without mentioning consumerism. He also missed a chance to wax lyrical about Barth's Dogmatics but we'll forgive him for that.
I was grateful for many things. But when I got home from lunch and opened Twitter I was reminded of something else I should be grateful for. On November 11th, my Presbyterian congregation didn't mention war once. What they remembered was that Jesus is a priest in the order of Melchizedek and on the basis of his indestructible life we have union with God. What they remembered was the grief of the family recently bereaved by cancer, a battle that we never describe as glorious, because death isn't glorious. What they remembered was that it is better to give than receive. I was grateful for the reminders.
Wife-unit went to mass this morning. She had a phenomenal experience of being chastised/consoled by God (his chastisement is always a consolation, isn't it?). What was she reminded of? She was reminded that where her heart is, there too her treasure can be found. No one mentioned war, poppies or fallen soldiers.
Such experiences of a calm focus on the Gospel is unlikely to be repeated when we have to move to Belfast. Our friend Richie has warned us this week that in Northern Ireland, this weekend, simple reflection would be rendered impossible for us because we'd be forced into the difficult job of "remembering". I know I may be preaching to a choir that is really a soloist and the soloist is me and I can't sing so this may be very untuneful, but I have some more arguments against this practice of conflating church with remembering the war-dead that I have to unfurl. Five new arguments to be precise.
1. The difficulty of remembering British soliders
I am an Irishman. Over the years that identity has evolved. When I say I am an Irishman, I now mean that I am from a particular place, an island off the coast of Europe. I largely couldn't give two craps about nationhood or sovereignty or any of that nonsense. But I am from this island. The people of this island, regardless of what abstract political jurisdiction they may live under, are my people. And the fact is that the island I call home has been marred by extensive, cruel and pointless violence committed by British soldiers. The acts that I am thinking of are so numerous that all the books in the world couldn't contain them. But from shooting innocent people dead in Derry in 1972 back to endless small humiliations on the country lanes of Kerry or Roscommon back to genocide committed under Cromwell, the British army has sanctioned actions of terrifying violence against people on this island. And I am not even discussing the barbarity that wasn't sanctioned.
If we're going to remember things, let us remember this.
How am I to be welcomed into communities that insist that the deaths of British soldiers in wars is a thing so worthy it should be part of worship? How am I to share the Gospel with my father and his generation, who were raised by men who risked their lives and lost them in battles against British soldiers if the church that embodies that Gospel tells a story of the past that doesn't include them?
It is bad politics, bad theology and bad history to think you can isolate one strand of people and remember them without remembering their Others. And what that works out as is that it makes us bad neighbours.
In other words: letting the poppy into church violates the Jesus Creed.
2: The difficulty of Paul's teaching.
Paul has a consistent thread to his teaching about refraining from that which would distract or confuse our "weaker brothers". I am thinking specifically here of the food sacrificed to idols section of 1 Corinthians 8 and the more famous passage of Romans 14. In both cases Paul suggests that there are plenty of things in this world that Christians are welcome to participate in but we should be considerate in the use of our liberty lest we cause younger or less mature Christians to stumble.
I have no idea how these passages are usually preached in Irish churches. I suspect our application points are about drinking or playing poker or what have you. But a much more cutting application of this text is around nationalism. I have my doubts that I could argue that patriotism is actually wrong. As such, I suspect that we are at liberty to be patriotic as long as it doesn't spill over into xenophobia. But I have no doubts whatsoever that the use of that liberty must be balanced by our concern for how it impacts our brothers and sisters.
So, If you are British and live in a place with many Irish people, and those Irish people are in your midst, then you should let go of the freedom to be a flag-waver because your common identity and unity in Christ is ontologically more substantial and emotionally more satisfying and fundamentally more real than your allegiance to a nation state.
Paul's teaching applies directly. No one needs to accuse you of wrongdoing for feeling an attachment to Britain. But you do fall into wrongdoing if you let that attachment be a cause of detachment from your brothers and sisters in Christ.
So point 2: our liberty to be patriotic in any form is bounded by our concern for our weaker brothers and sisters.
3. The engagement in Remembrance Sunday implies an outmoded assumed homogeneity.
If you transplanted my congregation into the North, we still couldn't have Remembrance Sunday. Sitting around me today there were Germans, Americans, Israelis, Congoloese, Kenyan, Dutch, South African, Scottish, English, French and El Salvadorean people. There is a racial diversity in Dublin that isn't replicated anywhere in Northern Ireland. The idea of marking Remembrance Sunday in a church service seems to assume something that should no longer be assumed – that we are all from here (wherever here is).
21st Century Christianity in Ireland has already been strengthened hugely by immigrants. Their participation has made a contribution in all parts of our corporate life. And while there may only be 10% of the countries in the world Britain hasn't invaded, the narrative of fallen British soldiers doesn't play a significant role in the minds, life or shared stories of Dutch people or Chinese or Nigerians. As we welcome our brothers and sisters from all over the world, one of the lovely gifts God will give us is an appropriate distance from our native culture. The fact is: immigration means that our native culture is no longer the native culture of our church. That has now been alloyed to the cultures of the people who make up our fellowships. This a good thing, all the way down.
It doesn't mean that we have to pretend we're from nowhere. But it does mean that we have to stop pretending we're all from here. And the stories we tell of ourselves can no longer be the narrow stories we grew up with.
So my third point is that practising Remembrance Sunday slows down our participation in the new and lovely thing of global inclusion that God is doing in our churches.
4. Remembrance Sunday gives a priority to war that is inappropriate.
Christians believe that death is a damnable evil. It is for this reason that Jesus came – to put death to death.
It really doesn't matter how you die. This is an important point that we as Christians must hold on to more firmly than ever in the coming decades. The social mood is shifting strongly towards a pagan concept of the good death. Euthanasia is cast as a compassionate move. Soon, we will rediscover Schopenhauer and people will be arguing that suicide can be noble. The culture we live in is willing to do anything to get out of this life alive. When polled, people want to die quietly, quickly, painlessly and without causing a fuss. That is what we think it means to die well.
In such a culture it is easy to think that if we remember and celebrate the death of soldiers which is often the opposite: loud, slow, painful and with a great deal of inconvenience, then we will successfully oppose the superficial shallowness of the wider world.
But that is a massive mistake. In the face of the fear of death, what is needed is not a thanatos-celebrating glorification of certain kinds of dying. In the face of the fear of death, what is needed is the Gospel.
The Gospel says that everyone is going to die. Between now and then, we are called to live. And we live knowing that death doesn't have the last word.
So it doesn't matter if you die fighting bravely against Germans or if you die fighting bravely against cancer or if you die on a wet Tuesday morning in an accident that happens so suddenly you don't even have a chance to be brave. What matters is that if we live the life we're given, we won't be scared to die.
War is a sin. Christians have historically agreed on this. And sin is not real, it has no ontological reality. It is almost literally an absence of being. Christians have historically agreed on this. So there is no theological or liturgical reason to elevate death in war as a special kind of death. It confuses our witness on one of the most crucial things we have to speak about – death and how we live on after it.
The only reasons I can find for letting this happen are political. So just admit you want to make a special space for the particular politics you embrace in the communal worship of fellow Christians who have no obligation to think like you.
Making a deal of the poppy in our worship services, with its celebration of people who die in war, dulls our ability to proclaim the truth about the deaths we all face.
5. Remembrance Sunday is actually parasitical on ancient Biblical practice.
You'll sometimes find written, in a certain kind of journalism, the claim that the Hebrews invented history. There is some merit in the suggestion. For thousands of years now, Jewish people have been remembering the events that brought them into existence. Their calendar is in fact structured as a commemorative memory device. Their year is centered around the Pesach meal where they gather in families to remember. What do they remember on this Remembrance day?
They remember the deliverance of God from the slavery inflicted by Pharaoh.
It is a small leap from there to the secularised narrative of passover that you see re-enacted in the plot of every war movie where the hero just manages to achieve his mission in the last gasp, against insane odds, thus freeing us from the Kaiser, or the Nazis, or the Soviets, or the Taliban…
Anamnesis, meaning recollection, is the word that the early Christians used to describe the particular act of remembrance that they gathered for each and every week. At their Thanksgiving, which they called Eucharist, they broke bread and drank wine in remembrance of their Lord. We don't need to get into a deep discussion of whether these early Christians believed in transubstantiation or consubstantiation or just loved to eat meals together. What matters is that this is what remembrance meant: that a sacrifice was made to end all sacrifice.
From that, I hope it is a small leap to see the travesty that we have before us because the Nation state and its armed forces occupy this sacred language of anamnesis and manipulate it to their own ends. When they speak of how men who die because pieces of disintegrating metal are fired at great speeds into their stomachs or because of the explosive force of unstable chemical materials unleashed in their vicinity or because the jeep they were driving in crashes one day after a tyre blow-out, when they speak of that as a sacrifice they are piggy-backing on the church's language.
What is a travesty becomes a farce when we let them bring that language into our worship.
The Bible commands us to remember in a specific way that reminds us that no sacrifice is needed because sacrifice is finished. Remembrance Sunday being celebrated in church approaches heresy in the way it occludes this.
I have many more arguments. I want to win you all to peace, not for the sake of having made a good argument but for the sake of remembering rightly who we are. We are not men and women who fight wars. We are not men and women who start wars. We have forgotten that we are sons and daughters of God and therefore are peacemakers. If the Prince of Peace is our Lord, may we ever be distant from war.
Your Correspondent, A poet said that poppies are like a yawn of fire; so too is war.


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- Christmas market
Event planned for the month of December 2020Dates and programme may be subject to change.
Looking for the perfect gift? You are sure to find it at Waterloo's Christmas market, taking place December 13-16 and 20-23, 2018.
Waterloo's Christmas marker invites you to discover its artisans and stall holders. Over 30 lodges will be presenting original products, perfect for surprises and gifts.
One Christmas market, 2 dates, 2 sites
The festivities will stretch along two weekends this year. December 13-16 will be on the Albert 1er Square, right in front of the church, while December 20-23 will set up on the Wellington Esplanade, ice rink included.. Fun all along
Don't miss Santa, who will come to greet the children!
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Mark Dendy takes it off
Choreographer Mark Dendy is provocative. When I saw his performance of Dream Analysis in 1999 at the Joyce Theatre in NYC, I was captivated. Dendy's work was simultaneously theatrical, original, outrageous and electrifying. On the spot, Laurie Burnaby and I decided that we must bring his company to Santa Barbara. The NY Times called Dream Analysis a "phantasmagoric comic spectacle." It was about "a young gay dancer and his psychotherapist, who is in drag, talking their way through a nightmare inhabited by two Martha Grahams, two Vaslav Nijinskys, Judy Garland, a demented Southern mother, an even nuttier aunt, the dancer himself, two sadistic dance teachers and characters from ballets Nijinsky created or performed in. Astonishingly, they are all played by a cast of six." NY Times, Jennifer Dunning, August 29, 1998. Just my cup of tea!
Plans often shift in the presenting world however, and a few weeks before the festival, it was ultimately determined that Dream Analysis was not to be brought here. I believe that Mark had lost interest in it and we were concerned that it might be too edgy for our audiences, so we didn't fight too hard for it. I was repeatedly told in the early years of the festival that Santa Barbara was conservative in its artistic tastes and that I'd better respect that or be prepared to pay the price. It all sounded pretty fuddy duddy to me as we approached the millenium and I was eager to challenge that assumption. But being new to the game, I was also somewhat wary of the warning. We decided to play it safe and said ok to a program of repertory.
Mark likes to challenge issues of gender and gay life in America. For one of the dances on the program the dancers were costumed in grass skirts only. Male and female. The lighting on stage was such that the topless woman dancer was not immediately apparent. There was a noticeable buzz then a weird quiet that swept through the audience when her nakedness became obvious. Happily, the audience loved the work and the program got a standing ovation. I felt as if I'd dodged a bullet. Smiles and congratulations all around. Not so fast. One of my original board members approached me with a decidedly grim look on her face. "I need to speak with you..ALONE," she demanded. Suddenly I was back in junior high. "You have been told that Santa Barbara is a conservative town," she said tartly. "I'm afraid, after this performance, you will never get another grant in this town." Why is it that some individuals have such a unique talent in bringing others down?? I could hardly believe my ears. I was angry at the hypocrisy of such silly standards. I was more determined than ever to prove her wrong.
An unexpected legacy of the Dendy visit was that we got to meet his dancer Larry Keigwin. We were so impressed with Larry's talent that we invited him back the next summer and then the summer after that! We encouraged him to follow his dream and become a choreographer in his own right. He's done so brilliantly and will prove so as our next choreographer in residence March 28-April 24!
Photo by Mark Wakefield. Larry Keigwin and Mark Dendy, Dream Analysis


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TranceAddict Forums (www.tranceaddict.com/forums)
- Music Discussion
-- What's new in your crate? [physical/virtual]
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What's new in your crate? [physical/virtual]
Tobias Schmidt - Destroy (2xLP) - Tresor
Seiji – Seiji2 - Seiji
Patrice Scott – Analog Dreams - Sistrum Recordings
Jay Denham – Lights Out - Holzplatten
Vanished for me too.
Perhaps we posted too much techno?
Frankie Bones - America In Black & White EP (Bellboy Records) (12", EP)
Cajmere - Percolator (Cajual Records) (12")
Martian, The - Particle Shower / The Voice Of Grandmother (Red Planet) (12")
Adonis - No Way Back (The Advent Remixes) (Trax UK) (12")
James Ruskin - Cipher (Blueprint) (12")
Adam Jay - Stick & Move (Uppercut) (12", EP)
DJ Godfather - D.E.T. Only 001 (D.E.T. Only) (12", W/Lbl)
Destination - Definition Of Love (Intec Records) (12")
User - 009A (00A) (12")
Who Knows Dem Ho's? - Who Knows Dem Ho's? (Whack Trax) (12")
Dahlback & Dahlback* - Sweden 10 - Finland 0 (Turbo) (12")
Advent, The - Uncut EP (Neue Heimat) (12", EP)
Co-Fusion - Acorn (Reel Musiq) (12", W/Lbl)
Can't remember if I posted the latter order, and the thread is gone, so can't check! Might as well make this the new thread. ;-)
I dont know. I never deleted, it. Wierd.
|Originally posted by malcolm
Perhaps we posted too much techno?
Neil Landstrumm – Scandinavia Sessions - Tresor (raver friend always used to ask me to "play the song with the bees in it" - lost my old copy some years back, had to replace it)
Various – Five Years Of Bombing - Missile ('nother replacement copy - "New York Minds" is such a bomb track)
Terence Fixmer – Aktion Mekanik Theme - Music Man
(other cool tidbit is that the seller was one Thomas P. Heckmann)
Prince Of Denmark – To The Fifty Engineers [12"]
Ordered a couple of copies of the new Levon Vincent record the other day
|Originally posted by Adam420
Ordered a couple of copies of the new Levon Vincent record the other day
I think the mods deleted it because of that stupid spammer
DJ Sandy vs. Housetrap - Overdrive [Additive]
Echomen - Thru 2 You (Disc One) [Hooj]
Giorgio Moroder - Take My Breath Away [Caus-N'-ff-ct]
Jaimy & Kenny D. - Keep On Touchin' Me [Sondos]
Modulation - Spirits (Remixes) [Vandit]
Paul Johnson - Get Get Down (Remixes Part 2) [Moody]
Paul van Dyk feat. Vega 4 - Time Of Our Lives/Connected [Vandit]
Potatoheads - Mix The Master [Radikal]
R.B.A. - No Alternative [Radikal]
|Originally posted by Adam420
Ordered a couple of copies of the new Levon Vincent record the other day
Genius Of Time – Tuffa Trummer Med Synt
XDB / Kassem Mosse – Ekatem / Omrish
|Originally posted by Woony
Genius Of Time – Tuffa Trummer Med Synt
XDB / Kassem Mosse – Ekatem / Omrish
|Originally posted by Adam420
I was personally quite disappointed with the new Aniara.
Bee Mask - Elegy For Beach Friday [Spectrum Spools]
a fucking wonderful piece of drone, synthy goodness.
Mistakes Are Ok - Remixes (12") [Hivern Discs]
S Crosbie - Dark Arts 02 (12") [Dark Arts]
Andres - Second Time Around (12") [La Vida]
Kyle Hall & Kero - Zug Island (12") [Wild Oats]
Breach - You Wont Find Love Again Remixes (12") [Naked Naked]
Burial - Untrue (2x12") [Hyperdub]
Levon Vincent - Stereo Systems (12") [Novel Sound]
As I've finally started collecting, I'm gonna go ahead and contribute here with a big smile
Only have a dozen records right now, but the following are among them:
*The first Scissor&Thread release with 'Worked' on the A side
*Bob Moses - Hands to Hold [Scissor & Thread]
*Franklin de Costa - She's the one for me [Mule Musiq]
*Holwing [Innervisions]
*Soul Capsule - Overcome [Trelik]
*Some jazz records - Thelonious Monk, Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus
*a couple indie cuts that I used to adore
Right now I'm focusing on getting my hands on a few records I've dreamed of having for a while:
Some Nick Holder stuff (especially the Retrospective EP)
Some more mule musiq cuts
Remix package of dntel's the dream of evan and chan (superpitcher omg)
The Family - Screams of Passion
Burial - Truant/Rough Sleeper
Very small record haul:
Jon The Dentist - Terminate [Additive]
Paul Oakenfold - Ready Steady Go/Southern Sun [Maverick]
Sipping Soma - Superconscious (So Alive) [Plastik]
Aes Dana - Pollen
Not entirely sure why, because it duely arrived on Spotify just after I ordered the CD. Ultimae certainly convince you buying physical is the right option though - not only is the CD sleeve absolutely lavish, but you get loads of post-cards, flyers, sticks of incense and a hand-written thank you note. Awww.
It kind of boggles my mind that there are still people doing jewelcase in this day and age.
It's a really good album, actually. I skimmed it on Spotify when it came online and was a little "Ehhh... why did I snap buy this?" Especially as Aes Dana is not my favourite Ultimae regular by any means. As it turns out, this is probably the strongest album I've heard from him. Rides a nice line between environmental techno, glitchy ambient and deep morning trance.
|Originally posted by Woony
It kind of boggles my mind that there are still people doing jewelcase in this day and age.
Green Velvet - La La Land (Remixes) [Relief]
Jens O. - Man On The Mic [Dropout]
Les Macons De La Musique - No Time To Lose [Afterhours]
Quo Vadis - Sonic Boom (Life's Too Short) [Serious Records]
Skud - Closer [SFP Records]
Stephan M. & Nicky Scanni feat. Nadia Scanni - Go Deeper [SFP Records]
Tame Impala - Lonerism [Modular]
I got that one for Christmas
WK7 / Head High – Do It Yourself (Original Mix) / Rave (Dirt Mix) - Power House
Chicago Damn – The Filth - Chicago Damn
Cursor Miner / Ben Pest – Nonon - Don't
FunkinEven - Heart Pound / Another Space - Eglo
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Appeal following serious collision in Lambeth
News • Jun 30, 2018 02:54 BST
Officers from the Serious Collisions Investigations Unit (SCIU) are appealing for witnesses following a serious collision on Kennington Road junction with Wincott Street.
Police were called by the London Ambulance Service shortly after 12:15hrs on Friday, 29 June to reports of a collision involving a motorcycle and lorry.
Officers and London Ambulance Service attended.
The motorcyclist, a 31-year-old man was taken to a south London hospital with a serious leg injury.
The driver of the lorry stopped at the scene and is assisting police with their enquiries.
Detectives from the Roads and Transport Policing Command are investigating.
They would like to speak with anyone who saw the collision occur, or who may have dash cam footage.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Serious Collision Investigation Unit on 020 8285 1574.


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Social Security claiming is a complex process and when you've just lost your spouse it may not be the best time to be making financial decisions that can not be undone in the future.
Grief manifests differently for different people and, for some, grief directly impacts their decision making process. It's as if the brain just doesn't want to work, at least for awhile.
On the other hand, I've worked with some clients who handle grief by getting busy. They want to dive in to all their financial matters, but rushing things isn't always the best way either.
No matter how you are impacted by grief, I highly recommend that you do not make Social Security claiming decisions on your own, and here's why.
According to an article in a trade journal written by Social Security expert Mary Beth Franklin, an internal report published by the Social Security Administration earlier this year disclosed that agency representatives gave widows and widowers incorrect advice 82% of the time.
That's a scary figure. So what is a person to do?
I recommend that before electing to take Social Security payments of any kind you review your options with a Certified Financial Planner® professional who can research your options with you.
Especially when you've just lost your spouse, relying on the Social Security representatives alone can end up costing you a lot of money.
I've seen the same thing happen when making decisions about when and how to take retirement benefits.
By having a trusted advisor help you through this process you can make decisions based on your unique circumstances. Everyone's situation is different and there is no one best way for everyone.
Social Security rules are complicated and laws change from time to time. Working with a trusted advisor can help ensure you are getting every dollar you are entitled to.