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Bernard Manning
Bernard John Manning (13 August 1930 – 18 June 2007) was an English comedian and nightclub owner.[1][2]
|Bernard Manning
Manning in 2005
|Birth name
|Bernard John Manning
|13 August 1930
Ancoats, Manchester, England
|18 June 2007 (aged 76)
Crumpsall, Manchester, England
|Years active
|Blue comedy
|Ethnicity, stereotypes, minority groups
|Veronica Finneran
(1986) (her death)
|Bernard Manning Jr
|Notable works and roles
|The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club, The Comedians, The Embassy Club
Manning gained a high profile on British television during the 1970s, appearing on shows including The Comedians and The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club. His act became controversial with the result that Manning was rarely seen on television in the later part of his career, but he continued to perform in theatres and pubs until his death.[3][4]
Early lifeEdit
Manning was born in Ancoats, Manchester. He had Russian Jewish ancestry on his father's side, as well as roots in Ireland, and was brought up a "strict Catholic".[5][6] He named his house in Alkrington[7][8] "Shalom",[9][10] the Hebrew word for "peace". He left school aged 14, joined his father's greengrocery business, and then worked in a Gallaher's tobacco factory,[citation needed] before joining the British Army to do his National Service.[11]
Like many other comedians of the time (including the cast of The Goon Show), Manning had little thought of entertainment as a career, until posted to Germany. Guarding Nazi war criminals (Rudolf Hess, Albert Speer, and Karl Doenitz) at Spandau Prison, Berlin, just after the Second World War,[12] he began to sing popular songs to entertain his fellow soldiers and pass the time. This ability led him to put on free shows at the weekends; when he began to charge admission and audiences did not decrease, he realised that there was a possibility of making money from show business.
On returning to England, Manning continued to sing professionally, and also worked as a compère. He was an effective singer of popular ballads and fronted many big bands in the 1950s, such as the Oscar Rabin Band.[13] Over the years, he began to introduce humour into his compering. This went down well, and Manning slowly moved from being a singer and compère to a comedian.[11] After much work in comedy clubs and northern working men's clubs in the 1950s and 1960s, he made his television debut in 1971 on the Granada comedy show The Comedians.[11] He compèred The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club, which began in 1974.
By the 1980s, Manning had fallen out of favour with television companies, but his appearances on the northern Working Men's Club circuit continued, playing to packed audiences which he claimed sometimes included people from ethnic minorities.[11] Manning never toned down his act, but he had a minor television career revival towards the end of his life, including Channel 4 taking him to Mumbai to perform.[14] In October 2002, he participated in a Great Lives programme for Radio 4. He chose to honour the Roman Catholic nun, Mother Teresa.[11] In 2003, Manning was initially reported to have been booked to play a BNP rally. He denied this, telling the Daily Mirror: "It's a lot of bollocks. I don't know where I'm working. Speak to my agent. I don't know about any BNP nonsense. I would not do it anyway. Do you think I'm fucking barmy?"[15]
In 2006, he appeared at the 45th birthday party of chef Marco Pierre White, with Madonna as one of the members of the audience.[10] In March 2007, he was ranked 29th on the list of the 100 Greatest Stand Up comedians in a poll conducted by Channel 4.[16] In his later life, although he still toured Britain, he tended to appear most frequently at the Embassy, the club on the A664 Rochdale Road. Set up with his father in 1959, Manning owned the club in Harpurhey, Manchester; his son, Bernard Jr., managed it. The club played host to many rising acts, and Manning claimed that the Beatles performed there early in their career.[10]
Personal lifeEdit
Manning's wife, Veronica Finneran, died of a heart attack on 11 November 1986, aged 57. His son Bernard Jr. had already moved out of the family home, so Manning moved back in with his mother. His brother John had died in 1944 at the Battle of Arnhem and in 1995, his elderly mother and two remaining brothers, Jackie and Frank, also died.[10][11]
Manning was a lifelong Manchester City supporter.[17] He was the subject of This Is Your Life on 27 November 1991.[18] For many of his later years, he was a teetotaler and a diabetic.[19]
Having been admitted two weeks earlier for a kidney complaint, Manning died in North Manchester General Hospital at 3:10 pm on 18 June 2007.[4] He was 76.[20] He wrote his own eulogy, which appeared as an obituary in the Daily Mail two days later.[21]
Comedy styleEdit
Race, sex, and religion were all part of the material for many of Manning's jokes. He considered tampons and disabled people unacceptable subjects, although he was challenged on Joan Rivers's show by guest Rupert Everett when he told a joke about a wheelchair user. Manning swiftly responded: "If your brains were dynamite, you wouldn't have enough to blow off your own hat." This left Everett speechless.[22]
In 1994, two black waitresses at a charity dinner at a hotel in Derbyshire took exception to Manning's act and appealed to an industrial tribunal against the management of the hotel for racial discrimination. They lost, later to have the decision overturned at appeal, where they won an undisclosed sum.[23][24] Manning felt that the word "wog" was "a horrible, insulting word I've never used in my life" but defended use of the words "nigger" and "coon" as historical terms with legitimate roots.[11]
Manning's sense of humour often ridiculed the deaths of other prominent people. The death of Roy Castle from lung cancer in 1994 saw Manning tell the following joke: "When Roy Castle's doctor told him that he only had six months to live, he said that he could do it in four!" In 2002, after the death of the Queen Mother, he said that the royal corgis were happy to hear about her death as they would no longer be blamed for urinating on the settee.[25]
Manning's detractors criticised his style of humour, with television presenter Esther Rantzen commenting that "for me, he's always been the villain of comedy".[26] Manning's family and friends said that his controversial ways were all an act. He lived next door to an Indian doctor's family, who have appeared in many newspaper articles over the years to defend Manning as a "perfect gentleman". Satya Rudravajhala, the poet widow of Visveswara Rao Rudravajhala, wrote a eulogy that was published in the local paper, the Middleton Guardian, conveying the family's sentiments.[27]
In interviews with journalists, Manning would remind them of his appearance with Dean Martin in Las Vegas and meeting the Queen. He claimed to be a great believer in family values who never swore in front of his mother, stating: "I dragged myself up by my bootlaces. I don't drink or smoke, I don't take drugs. I have never been a womaniser. I was brought up right with good parents and I have never been in trouble or harmed no-one. And I love my family."[11]
In 2010, BBC Four commissioned Alice Nutter to write a biographical drama based on Manning's life. The screenplay was completed but cuts to the channel's budget led to the piece never being filmed.[28]
- ^ PR-inside.com (18 June 2007). "Controversial British comedian Bernard Manning dies at 76". Archived from the original on 7 October 2007. Retrieved 19 June 2007.
- ^ "Race-row comedian Bernard Manning dies". The Independent. UK. 19 June 2007. Retrieved 19 June 2007.
- ^ "Family Notices: Bernard Manning". Manchester Evening News. 18 June 2007. Retrieved 18 June 2007.
- ^ a b "Comedy star Bernard Manning dies". BBC News. 18 June 2007. Retrieved 18 June 2007.
- ^ "Was Bernard a nice Jewish boy?". totallyjewish.com. 21 June 2007. Archived from the original on 10 February 2009. Retrieved 15 August 2008.
- ^ "Bernard Manning". The Herald. 19 June 2007.
- ^ "Greater Manchester Ward and Borough map". Boundary Commission for England. Archived from the original on 1 March 2007. Retrieved 9 April 2007.
- ^ "Greater Manchester Gazetteer". Greater Manchester County Record Office. Places names – A. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 20 June 2007.
- ^ Mark Hodkinson (29 March 1999). "Interview with Bernard Manning". The Times. UK. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 18 June 2007.
- ^ a b c d Hattenstone, Simon (23 June 2003). "'It's an act, innit'". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 18 June 2007.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Obituary: Bernard Manning". BBC News. 18 June 2007. Retrieved 18 June 2007.
- ^ "Manning penned his own obituary". BBC News. 19 June 2007.
- ^ Dixon, Stephen (18 June 2007). "Bernard Manning". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 18 June 2007.
- ^ Tasteless Bombay mix, Scotland on Sunday, 23 June 2003
- ^ "Manning to play BNP rally... but he denies the booking". chortle.co.uk. 4 August 2003. Retrieved 18 June 2007.
- ^ "One hundred greatest stand-ups". UK: Channel 4. Retrieved 18 June 2007.
- ^ Harper, Nick (16 May 2003). "Bernard Manning". guardian.co.uk. London: Guardian News and Media. Retrieved 18 June 2007.
- ^ "This Is Your Life (1969–1993)". Eofftv.com. Archived from the original on 22 April 2012. Retrieved 13 December 2010.
- ^ Bayman, Hannah (19 September 2003). "Carry on drinking?". BBC News. Retrieved 19 June 2007.
- ^ "Bernard Manning dead". Manchester Evening News. M.E.N. Media. 18 June 2007. Archived from the original on 20 April 2013. Retrieved 18 June 2007.
- ^ Koster, Olinka (20 June 2007). "Bernard Manning: his own obituary in his own words". Daily Mail. UK. Retrieved 26 June 2007.
- ^ 'Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins' Rupert Everett 2006
- ^ "Abuse on the premises". The Independent. London. 13 November 1996. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
- ^ "Burton & Rhule v De Vere Hotels". Retrieved 6 January 2015.
- ^ "Bernard Manning: the oldest and truest punk in town". Spiked-online.com. Retrieved 13 December 2010.
- ^ "Bernard Manning: Heros of comedy". youtube.com. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
- ^ "Manning was no racist, says Asian neighbour". Middleton Guardian. M.E.N. Media. 28 June 2007. Archived from the original on 16 October 2011. Retrieved 13 December 2010.
- ^ Steve Bottoms, 'Struggling to be Human', in the programme for the 2013 West Yorkshire Playhouse production My Generation.
External linksEdit
- Bernard Manning on IMDb
- BBC announcement of Manning's death
- Guardian obituary: Bernard Manning
- Manchester Evening News: Article announcing Bernard Manning's death
- His page at My Manchester
- Banned from the Weymouth Pavilion in 2002
- Bernard's episode of Great Lives on Radio 4 – his admiration for Mother Theresa in October 2002
- Bernard Manning on Chortle
- Bernard Manning's Embassy Club (His Club in Manchester, now an event venue)
- Stars turn out to pay respects to controversial comic Bernard Manning – Evening Standard


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A Sinn Fein councillor claims he has been "inundated" with complaints from both nationalists and unionists about the flying of UVF flags around Banbridge.
Condemning the erection of what he describes as "paramilitary flags", and calling for their removal, Cllr Kevin Savage said: "We have been inundated with calls from concerned residents from both the nationalist and unionist community.
"We have contacted the PSNI as well as the council's community development team.
"To date their conversations with the PUP to have the flags removed have proved unsuccessful."
He continued: "Banbridge is a mixed town. I call on community representatives and other political parties to call for the removal of the flags on the basis of inclusivity and respect.
"Paramilitary flags serve no purpose and will only succeed in raising tensions in the area as we approach the marching season."
Responding to Cllr Savage's comments, Ulster Unionist Councillor Glenn Barr insisted that the flags in question are "historical" and are "not there to offend but to remember."
Hitting back at the Sinn Fein man, Cllr Barr said: "Only last year members of his own party welcomed the Banbridge District Flags protocol (BDFP) - a flags protocol that many other areas in Northern Ireland have indeed adapted. In fact, the very commission that was set up by the OFMDFM on Flags Identity, Culture and Tradition has welcomed the Banbridge District Flags Protocol.
"The Union flag, the Ulster banner and historical flags are part of that protocol, which the councillor he replaced [Brendan Curran] welcomed when it was launched.
"The flags that Councillor Savage refers to are historical, they are not there to offend but to remember.
"I can categorically state that it was local residents who have signed up to the BDFP.
"No paramilitary flags should be flown full stop and local communities have taken great strides to reduce these and hopefully eradicate them altogether.
"Those that are signatories to the Banbridge District Flags Protocol have indeed stepped up to the mark and shown leadership."
Claiming that Cllr Savage has been "extremely quiet" on issues concerning the flying of republican flags and posters, Cllr Barr added: "It is time that Councillor Savage provided leadership to his own community and follows the lead and example shown by the unionist/loyalist community. Instead of attacking the unionist community and creating divisions publicly why doesn't he meet with us to discuss his concerns?"
Responding to the UUP man's challenge, Cllr Savage said: "We would be happy to meet with Councillor Barr to discuss flags flying in the area.
"It is worth noting that many in the unionist community are not happy about the display of flags in the town."
In November 2015, Cllr Savage's predecessor, Cllr Curran, welcomed the launch of the BDFP, saying he hoped it would be "a step in the right direction."
However, he added: "Whilst we welcome any step in the right direction we maintain the view that flags should never be flown to mark out territory and areas such as town centres should be free of flags."
The Leader attempted to contact Banbridge PUP to discuss the flags issue, but they hadn't responded at the time of publication.

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What beckons us to the road, far from home, removed from our culture and comfort zone? For me it is story, newness, connection, surprise: The beautiful, the stunning, the devastating, the far-flung narrative and its power to astound, even to transform. It's the daylong rise out of the dripping 100-degree Amazon, into a snowstorm along the spine of its Andes. It's the impoverished rickshaw driver in New Delhi, Raja Ram, the Lord King, with his haunting soliloquy on the meaning of life and death. Or the young taxi driver, late at night on a darkened South American road, making eye contact in the mirror, asking plaintively, Why don't you have children?
It's the sound of a violin in a Palestinian refugee camp. Mysterious lights flickering across a plain in West Texas. Beethoven's Third Symphony, played at full volume as your car ascends the Wyoming Rockies, hitting its crescendo just as you top a mountain pass.
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Be joyful always. Pray continuously. Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.
~1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
Recently, a child whom I had agreed to babysit for a few minutes before school, wandered through my home, quietly checking things out.
Having never been in our house and not knowing very much about us, she took notice of the full toy box in our family room, asked where the bathroom was, and seemed to hover around wherever I was. In the kitchen, she said "you have such a pretty house. I love your kitchen."
My response was an embarrassed chuckle followed by, "thank you, but I don't really like the wallpaper…or the flooring…or this house."
Then in the hallway, she said "I really like your house. It's so big. And you have a huge TV!" I thought to myself that she should have seen the house I used to live in, which was gorgeous and enormous in comparison to this one.
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CHICAGO – It is Chicago where New York City native Harry Wood is debuting his first play, entitled "Roast," through The Comrades theater company at the Greenhouse Theater Center. The comic drama, about a gathering of stand up comics and relatives to "roast" – rather than eulogize – a deceased fellow comedian, is a World Premiere that runs through August 18th, 2019. For tickets and more information, click here.
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CHICAGO – The long career of Jamie Lee Curtis has taken her from early "scream queen" status to pitching yogurt. But what is lesser known about the popular actress is that she is a child's book author of note. "My Brave Year of Firsts" is her tenth collaboration with illustrator Laura Cornell, and she was at Anderson's Bookshop (Naperville, Ill) last autumn to read excerpts and autograph the book.
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CHICAGO – After what many considered to be a rather dull and boring host in James Franco and an overly perky and strangely excited job by Anne Hathaway, the 2012 edition of the Academy Awards will be hosted by a completely different talent: actor/comedian Eddie Murphy. Rumors spread this past weekend that Murphy was in the running for the position and the Academy confirmed the speculation was true this morning when they officially named Murphy the host.
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Saturday, January 29, 2011
White Oleander
I watched "White Oleander" tonight with Sarah. I cried through half of it. Near the end, Sarah commented, "Some people have really sad lives".
It's a true thing. You won't hear me argue about it. I cried through half of last week.
There are times when I look around and all I see are sad lives. On a good day, I might concede there are happy moments sprinkled into mostly sad lives. And I might even laugh when I say it... but the truth is... sometimes the sadness overwhelms me. This is only Brenda's perception, of course. My perception is usually skewed by imbalances of norepenephrin and other brain hormones I can't spell. And I know that. But, still.... there is just something about the world that isn't quite as it should be. We don't live in Eden, I guess.
We live in bodies that become afflicted with all kinds of sad illnesses and are at risk of all kinds of sad accidents. Ask my dad. He's had rheumatic fever twice, his heart won't stay in rhythm, he's survived cancer, I think he was stung by a jelly fish once.... and his list goes on.... sometimes we call him Job instead of Joe. But there are people with worse stories... And there's nothing happy about physical suffering.
And we also live in relationships that become afflicted. Sometimes people let us down in major ways. Sometimes they just irritate us. Sometimes they hurt other people we love and it hurts us. Sometimes you meet someone who is traveling a road you have traveled, hurt by someone who seems just like the person who hurt you, and you feel their pain deeply in your soul and you wish you could save them the journey you know is ahead.
Sometimes there is death to deal with....
lays offs
hungry children
concentration camps
bad choices
bee stings
birth defects
drunk drivers
feeling fat
being fat
feeling left out &
bounced checks....
If you are looking for a happy ending to this blog post, I don't think one is coming! :-) I keep thinking I am going to turn this around and make a lesson of it... like talk about heaven or Jesus or Philippians 4. But in my current mood.... that would feel weird. Dishonest, even. Not that I don't believe things will be better "yonder over the rolling river"... I do believe that. And I believe we can have joy on this side of the river, too. I believe that focusing on Jesus will bring hope back to the sad reality of this world. But, sometimes if we are honest, we just aren't there. Tonight I am not there. Tonight my heart is heavy thinking about all the sad and hurting souls... probably some right here in my apartment building. Maybe even one right here typing on my computer. I wonder how God sees it all and doesn't become crushed under the weight of it.
Moral of this post: don't watch a heavy, depressing movie when you are already sort-of depressed. (And don't start typing your thoughts into your blog at 11:00 at night if you don't want people to know how you really feel!!!)
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Friday, January 28, 2011
Perfunctory Ponderings and .... Pictures
Sarah.......... Smiling Schoolgirl (Voted best smile in 9th grade!) Libby........ Thirteen on the Thirteenth
Sam & Gregs.......... Best Pizza in 9th grade (or any grade)
Friends..... Faithful, fun and fancy
Sam & Gregs.......... Best Pizza in 9th grade (or any grade)
Friends..... Faithful, fun and fancy
Statistic and Windows Applications................ dropped until later :-)
Economics and Accounting........... continuing on.... loving them! Getting all A's.
Life in general....... fun, hard, sad, happy, sad, happy, sad....
God.... always Good. Always.
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Sunday, January 9, 2011
January Thoughts
1) School starts for me tomorrow (well, except it's closed because of weather.... not sure how that affects me since I'm doing my classes online) and I still can't believe I'm about to do this whole college thing again. Here are my books. Impressive, huh? It's because of these books that blogging will be at a minimum for the next... oh, say... two years!
2) The snow has begun (again) in Alabama. One minute, there was nothing and the next... snow everywhere. (Scroll down for pictures.... I cannot get them in the right order). No school for anyone tomorrow and this is how Jacob is spending the evening. Tomorrow he gets to clean his room. 3) My mom finished Libby's quilt. Rufus is enjoying it tonight.
Watching movies, warm and toastyy....
Watching movies, warm and toastyy....
4) Pictures of the snow... taken moments ago from my balcony.... it's dark, but I did my best.
5) Painted my short little stubby fingernails RED and went in public today. It's 10:30 pm and I haven't chewed it off, yet!
5) Painted my short little stubby fingernails RED and went in public today. It's 10:30 pm and I haven't chewed it off, yet!
6) Thinking alot about fasting after a delicious sermon on the subject today. Trying to figure out what is screaming at me loudest so I can cut it out of my life for a time in order to hear God's voice more clearly. (Unfortunately, I don't think I can fast from my kids!)
7) Spent New Years Eve with my BFF Beth... laughing hysterically all night/morning long. Then the next night, backed into the car of a woman whose mother had died the day before. Nice. Still waiting on the bill from that little moment of excitement.
8) Memorizing Philippians... again... I'm going to make it past chapter 1 this time around. I'm hoping to learn from Paul how to be so God-focused that I could say for myself that "to live is Christ and to die is gain".
9) Just trying to make it to 10 for the sake of completeness.
10) Got a new headboard for my bed.... loving it.... for $16.91 at a thrift store. A kind man helped me cram it in my car. It needs a fresh coat of paint, but if I never get around to it, it will be okay. (Got the lamp at my store!)
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This film is more "real" than any other Jackie Chan film all the way up to The Shinjuku Incident of last year. That's not necessarily a good thing.
Essentially a police procedural that tries to tackle the kidnapping problem faced in Hong Kong, where bigwigs and high rollers are frequently taken and ransomed off for comparatively huge sums.
Where the bad guys aren't paid, or if the good guys try to get tricky the kidnapped guy is often simply killed. A fine line to walk.
Walking that line in Crime Story is Jackie as a cop on the case of a kidnapping that went wrong, leading to the death and serious injury of two cops. Getting in the way of his diligent work is a big fat dirty cop who is played way too obviously as such to be realistic, or maybe Jackie's character was just a dumb ass and doesn't twig to his constant meddling and tampering.
The whole thing is too realistic to be entertaining, and given Jackie is a cop there is more "bang-bang" than "watahhh", (that's guns over fists).
1/ Are there any "WOW!" fights?
The last fight is only OK, and it takes 80 damn minutes to get there!
2/ Are there any "WOW!" stunts?
Just some tricky falls and landings.
3/ Which Jackie is it? Serious / Whimsical / Cocky…
Socially conscious, (stifles yawn).
4/ Does he get to use Jackie-exclusive toys?
No. This is alllll business.
5/ Do stolen relics come up?
6/ Are there hot chicks (that usually can't act)?
No chicks.
7/ Is there a blooper reel over the credits?
8/ Were there injuries on the shoot? Severity?
No. (Apparently.)
9/ Has he still got it?
Who can tell when he must hide his light under a bushel?
10/ Is it a "Jackie Chan" film, or just one he is in?
Too far a departure from the Jackie norm.
Final Rating – 6.5 / 10. There's a reason there is no Crime Story 2.


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This statement above cannot over-emphasize the extent of my discomfort with the VA.
Last week was a bad week. When the Warrior struggles, the Caregiver struggles. There is not much that can help that situation but time but it can wear you the hell down, that's for sure. While my TO DO list contains a number of items, the reality of my situation is that I am lucky to get a couple of things done well and stuff just gets pushed back until that's the thing I do that later day. For the last two hours I have been on eBenefits trying to upload three letters to ask for reopening and increase on three separate issues that my Warrior has been consistently trying to get taken care of.
Here is the thing: its hard not to get angry. Aside from the fact that you are "acknowledged but not compensated" on almost EVERY SINGLE ITEM, the length of time they take to get back to you in regards to those items is just RIDICULOUS. We had already waited a year for a decision and on two items we received "acknowledgement" of them but that they couldn't find information supporting them in the records.
The records that were under a year old.
From the doctor that then had to write a letter explaining to them in detail where it was in the records.
A letter it took me two hours to finally get uploaded and I am not entirely sure it's in the right place.
Let me take a moment to explain that I am not an idiot. Seriously. I am not computer illiterate. My struggle with the eBenefits site is that it is not really user friendly and how you actually accomplish something constantly changes. I am not sure what prompts those changes but when I log on to help with something and the location of it or process for it has been altered, it's a little frustrating. Then, rarely does anything go through the first time. It may take five or six passes for any submission to go through completely. Then the one thing they do consistently is send you an auto email stating you submitted a claim and you have 365 days to provide information for it before they will close it. Every time you hit the submit button, even when it doesn't go through. EVERY TIME. Now imagine you are a Warrior without a Caregiver or a Warrior/Caregiver pair with limited computer skills?
It's not fair.
I think that sometimes we can all sound like tin foil hat wearing, conspiracy theorists but its really hard to not feel completely insane when it seems like THEY ARE MAKING IT HARDER FOR YOU ON PURPOSE TO GET WHAT YOU ARE ENTITLED TO. I can only assume that is so they don't have to make payment for service related issues? What other possible reason could there be to make it so hard that you want to throw the computer across the room and just give up all together?
Or throat punch someone.
Why don't I just go in to see someone? It's just not that easy. Truthfully, as janky as the site can be, its far superior to me actually being able to throat punch someone.
Mostly because I don't want to go to jail. I wouldn't do well in jail. Also, I am resoundingly against violence as an answer for anything.
Any bets on how long it takes them to make a decision on those items uploaded today? I am going to guess about six months because I like to think optimistically.
Today anyway.


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DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Japanese trade minister Hiroshige Seko on Friday urged Nissan Motor Co and Renault SA to maintain a stable alliance and expressed hope that executives from the automakers would take part in productive talks.
The Renault-Nissan alliance has been shaken by the arrest of the automakers' former chairman Carlos Ghosn on suspicion of financial misconduct. Ghosn, the architect of the alliance, resigned as Renault CEO and chairman this week.
"As I have been saying up till now, we think a stable Nissan-Renault alliance must continue. We hope the executives of the two companies can engage in fruitful discussions," Seko told reporters on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Asked whether he met French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire in Davos, he said they had met at a session but only exchanged greetings and did not hold any talks on the automakers' alliance.
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NYPD officials' celebration of their city going twelve days without a murder had their celebration cut short on Friday, when Eric Roman, 28, was shot in the head, leg, and hand in Queens, dying on Saturday in Jamaica Hospital Medical Center.
The NYPD said that the 12-day span without a murder was the longest since the New York Police Department began recording statistics with a computerized program called Compstat in 1994.
Commissioner Bill Bratton, speaking Friday on CBS This Morning, said, "Shhhh! Don't want to jinx it. We're into our 12th day … and 11 is the record, and let's keep it going."
Roman and a friend left a gym and were walking home when two men accosted them. Roman's friend was pistol-whipped, then fled, returning to find Roman wounded and the two men speeding off.
Crime typically drops in winter; the last time New York City went at least 10 days without a homicide, it was also in February.
In another case in Queens on Saturday, a 56-year-old man was found dead in his basement with head trauma. Police are unsure as to whether it was a homicide, although they had interrogated a man who held the victim's credit cards and knew the victim because he did odd jobs for him.
The last homicide before Roman's occurred on Feb. 1; one person was shot in Harlem, and one was shot in the Bronx.


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The More Things Change The More They Stay The Same, China Mountain Zhang
China Mountain Zhang is the name of the main character, often referred to just as Zhang (J AH ng). Zhang, or Rafael, as he is of mixed heritage, is an ABC (American Born Chinese) who lives in New York in a world in which China has risen as the dominant world power. America's capitalism has collapsed and the result is the spread of a socialist state, presumably across the globe, but certainly in parts of the United States, including New York.
I don't believe in socialism but I don't believe in capitalism either. We are small, governments are large, we survive in the cracks. Cold comfort.
What makes this book really sing and differentiate itself from other cyberpunk and post cyberpunk also really help to create a world that feels very real, in that it is also mundane and therefore relatable. The technology has not radically altered life, especially for marginalized individuals like Zhang. Not only does he not have the advantage of being purely Chinese, as his mother is Hispanic and his father Chinese, but he is also a gay man, or "bent." At the same time he also "passes" for Chinese, which affords him some benefits of society in a China dominated world. at the same time knowing that more scrutiny would reveal that he's a deviant, as they also call it.
If to come is the petit mort, the little death—and it seems to me it is because everything is burned away for that brief, explosive time—then waking up in someone's bed is resurrection. It's only a little death and a correspondingly sordid resurrection. It is not life that falls on me so much as obligation. I have engineering at nine A.M. and I am in Haitao's bed. At the hour between dawn I'm rarely in love.
The book follows a few characters in the world, generally moving the narrative forward by years at a time before we come back to Zhang's life again. What is truly striking about the world is that it becomes so believable both because of the problems we already have in a capitalistic society, but also the small details that are placed throughout the world. It truly makes the world seem tedious, laborious, dejected. The change from capitalism to socialism has not actually changed much, or made people as we see them in the novel, happy. There is a pervasive fear regarding gender and sexual orientation. There is still a very clear stratification of class. There is the sense of being an "optimal" citizen by being a good worker. Labour is still not heavily rewarded. Not much then, has changed.
The house seems full. After a while the breathing turns into the ocean...the bed wakes me and I have been dreaming of the Pacific. In my dreams, the sky was full of crows.
What the book slowly becomes about while continuing to show the marginalized characters in this world while all the while, by the way, never filling in the details of how the world got like this until near the end. There are Kite Races, where viewers go and jack into people racing for their lives as they too are linked to the gliders they use to fly. Feeling the pain and aches of the glider as they soar for the pleasure of the audience. It still feels like capitalism. Entertainers make money and are chewed up and spit out at the audience's whims. Technology is used by humanity for various purposes making people's lives easier, while still contributing to their oppression. It is very much the same as we have now.
I always forget that half of the people who watch us fly are waiting to see us die.
While most cyberpunk stories revolve around technology, China Mountain Zhang instead shows you how much the real problem are societal structures and our own complacency in them. How the characters reinforce them, how they are oppressed by them. From a commune on Mars, to the promised land: China itself. Most everyone is trying to study and work there, and everyone has an underlying sense of being scrutinized for all of their decisions, relationships, and status in their environment. A Chinese woman facing problems in New York has a chapter. She is perceived as ugly, and when modern technology makes her "beautiful," she is taken advantage of basically immediately by a man. While this illustrates her point nicely, it was really on the nose and clearly for a story beat. It is irrefutable that attractive women deal with these things today, as they do in a futuristic socialist society. However, I think that it is a misstep to have this message wrapped up so perfectly with this character who isn't given much screen time, and the continual reiteration of how ugly she is...makes it seem as though the implication that only attractive women would suffer abuse of this kind. All the other characters were great and their purposes reinforced by the larger narrative.
In New York I ride a subway system built sometime in the 1900's, here buses segment and flow in different directions. There's a city above the city. a lacework super-structure that supports thousands of four-tower living units and work complexes like the University complex we live in; what they call the xin gonshe, new communes.
In a way, this is the darkest cyberpunk book I've ever read by rooting it all in a world that looks and feels just like ours, even as it was written in '92. The ways in which everyone is oppressed are simply facts of life. There is no real struggle against these machinations; the struggle is for these people to try to find happiness within these established structures, just as people do similarly now. They are all punks in that they are all apart from their respective communities and society in some way and they are all oppressed. But they are not people that take up arms against them. Their resistance and their respective battles are literally their lives. It is not glamorous or romanticized. Eeking out an existence has never been so interesting, poetic, and riveting. This take on what a punk is, is something I resonate with and happily consume.
"Una luz brillara en tu camina. Descubre lo que te has perdido." A Brilliant light in your path. Discover what you have lost.
Sunset used to depress me. But I learned in Baffin Island, you've just got to remember the light, keep it inside you, and wait. The Sun comes back every morning.


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Thank You and Election Results
While we came in second place, there's much to be grateful for.
I want to thank all the volunteers who knocked on doors, hosted house parties, put signs in their window or handed out flyers at Muni stations and grocery stores. Some did all of the above! I also want to thank our generous donors who made my campaign for supervisor possible.
Our community outreach won many new friendships and thousands of votes. Our message and ideas also won hearts and minds – including the sole endorsements of both the San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Examiner. Even our campaign video, an homage to film noir, was named by San Francisco Magazine as one of the most memorable this election season.
Understanding the results
San Francisco uses a ranked choice/instant run-off system for electing supervisors. Voters can rank up to three candidates as their first, second and third choice.
After first-choice votes are counted, the candidate in last place is eliminated. Their second-choice votes are then redistributed to the remaining candidates. This process repeats until one candidate remains and is declared the winner.
There were five candidates in our race. The incumbent received 39 percent of first-choice votes and I came in second.
After multiple elimination rounds and redistribution of votes, this was the final tally:
Yee: 11,816
Engardio: 8,717
Click here to see all vote totals and how votes were redistributed as each candidate was eliminated.
Superstar campaign team
My campaign manager Chris Eldred and field director Sean Brady were first-timers in those roles, but you wouldn't know it. They used innovation and ingenuity against opponents with more resources, seasoned political operatives and institutional support than we had.
We had lots of devoted volunteers and supporters (many appear in the group photo below). I'm really happy they represented multiple generations. The youngest was 17 and the oldest was 74. We all worked together with the goal to give our kids and grandkids a future in San Francisco.
I was impressed with Lowell High School senior Ophir Simayof, who started as a campaign intern and became an integral part of the staff. She's also editor of her school newspaper.
A retired grandmother served as our volunteer accountant. Jan Scott spent countless hours doing all of the financial compliance with the Ethics Commission. The campaign could not function without her accounting skills and attention to detail.
Our campaign team will always remember Sergio Klor de Alva. He was the first person to join the campaign, serving as coordinator, and he greatly influenced our future-focused platform. Sergio was only 24, but had touched many lives in his San Francisco and Oakland communities. When I see Sergio's picture near my desk, I am reminded every day to carry on his giving spirit. Sergio's family set up a memorial fund for young people of limited financial means to pursue work for social change. It's called "Sergio's Live Your Dream" and you can learn more about it by clicking here.
Looking to the future
The work to ensure the next generation has a future in San Francisco will continue. Too much is at stake. In the picture below you will see some of the many people who came together to support a forward-looking campaign. Thank you for being a part of it.


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Wilderness Lodge Lake Moeraki
Enjoy stylish accommodation and fine food in this breathtaking Wilderness Lodge. Join naturalist guides to explore ancient rainforest, kayak lakes and rivers, walk wild beaches, see penguins & other wildlife.
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Experience the splendor of wild New Zealand in comfort and style. New Zealand's premier boutique nature lodge was established by conservationists Anne Saunders and Dr Gerry McSweeney as an eco-tourism alternative to felling native forests.
Few places on earth can match the lodge's stunning natural setting alongside the Moeraki River, surrounded by the ancient rainforests of Te Wahipounamu World Heritage Area.
Walk wild seacoast home to seals and penguins, kayak pristine lakes & let expert guides bring the rainforest to life. Luxurious accommodation, delicious food & warm wilderness hospitality make this an experience of a lifetime.
The lodge is a natural stopping point, midway between the West Coast glacier towns & Wanaka/Queenstown.
Physical address
Wilderness Lodge Lake Moeraki, 8756 State Highway 6, Lake Moeraki, West Coast, New Zealand.
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- Business hours:
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Some Ongoing Projects I'm Working On
I've been busily working on a few different photography related projects at the moment, all of which are at various stages of completion. I'm pretty excited about a few of the things that I have going on so I thought I'd share some of the details.
36 Hours in Paris
I got to spend some time in Paris just before Christmas and I have a nice selection of photos from my visit. I've also written an essay about the trip and I think it's pretty good. I'm still in the final stages of putting it together, but when it's finished I'm releasing it as a nice little e-book. It will be a digital coffee table book of sorts, and it will be formatted for the iPad, but it will be a pdf so you can use it on anything. I'm still working on the page layout side of things, but hopefully I'll have it ready soon. In the mean time, here's a sneak peek at some of the photos from the book
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The Streets of Dublin
A while ago I started this little project to collect and share some of my street photography of Dublin city. It started with a website, and that went through a few iterations until I finally found a format that I was happy with, and since then I've also set up a Facebook page. The Facebook page has really started to take off and I nearly have 3000 followers now, most of which have joined in the last few months. The feedback and success has kind of taken me by surprise and it's actually starting to take up quite a bit of time now. I'm trying to present Dublin in a nice and different (i.e. positive) light, and it's good to see that it is resonating with people. Stop by the Streets of Dublin website or check out the Facebook page for more details.
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Film Candy for Lightroom
The Lightroom version of my popular Film Candy series of Aperture presets is nearly ready to roll. I'm just putting together the documentation and then it will be released. The idea behind film candy was to create a set of special effects presets for creating faded and expired film type effects. That was the original idea, but since then it's spiralled into a more comprehensive set of looks that, rather than try to emulate film, is instead "inspired" by various film looks. There has been three versions for Aperture over the years, and while the Lightroom version won't be exactly the same, it incorporates the general ideas behind the first three Aperture sets. Unlike the Aperture versions though, this is a much bigger and more comprehensive set of presets. It will also come with my own set of customised tools that I use on a regular basis. I've been working on this for nearly a year now, and I've finally reached the point where I'm happy enough with the results to the point that I'm ready to release it. Stay tuned for more information. I'm planning to have it up for sale by the end of the month. In the mean time here are some more examples of Film Candy for Lightroom in action


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Pedal for Families Need Fathers Scotland
Members of Families Need Fathers Scotland are preparing to take part in Scotland's largest sponsored cycle ride - pedalling the 47 miles between Glasgow and Edinburgh to raise funds for the charity.
The money that is raised will help us to assist more parents to maintain contact with their children after separation and support our campaign for shared parenting.
If you want to join them on Sunday September 9th FNF Scotland will pay the £40 entry fee for the event including one-way bus transport for you and your bike if you are raising sponsorship through a Justgiving page or a
sponsor form.
We'll even provide an FNF Scotland t-short to promote the organisation to the 10,000 other riders. To take part fill in the entry information form so that we can submit a group entry - and start collecting sponsors. To take part, the group entry form must be returned to us by 25th August. Contact Ian Maxwell on 0131 556 2440 for further details.


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SCOTT DERUE: As you look back on your life experience, what's the most important piece of advice that you would offer everyone in the room tonight as they look forward and into their futures?
MUNGER: Well, there are a few obvious ones; they're all ancient. Ben Franklin, marriage is just like the most important decision you have and not your business career. It'll do more for you—good or bad—than anything else and Ben Franklin had the best advice ever given on marriage. He said, "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage and half shut thereafter".
It's amazing how if you just get up every morning and keep plugging and have some discipline and keep learning, and it's amazing how it works out okay. And I don't think it's wise to have an ambition to be President of the United States or a billionaire or something like that because the odds are too much against you; much better to aim low. I did not intend to get rich. I just wanted to get independent; I just overshot.Read More


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Favourite lip glosses + SWATCHES
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Ohh I love Essence's Stay with me lipglosses too! They are in beautiful colours!ReplyDelete
Great swatches! I really like the look of the Essence ones :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks hun. The essence lip glosses are great. They are super pigmented and cheap. Do you use essence a lot?Delete
Hi Nika! I saw Essence in store but I don't know if I should buy something from them. Are they worth buying? What have you tried and what would you recommend?ReplyDelete
Oh, you have a beautiful dog!
Thanks Oli! I like some of the Essence stuff. The lipglosses are amazing, i love their nailpolishes, gel eyeliner, brow gel and blush- this one: http://makeupbysparkle.blogspot.com/2013/01/drugstore-blushes.htmlDelete
I am going to try their lipsticks and false eyelashes and write a blog post. Hope I helped you,
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Our signature heritage cure Irish ham is truly delicious. Cured on the bone, it has a distinctive flavour with a hint of smoky hickory undertones.
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Our signature heritage cure Irish bacon is truly delicious. Traditionally cured, it has a distinctive flavour with a hint of smoky hickory undertones.
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This Heritage Cure Oyster Bacon is simply delicious. There is a certain sweetness as it is cured and lightly smoked over beechwood chips.
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Our Mission
Our mission at Growing Tree Chiropractic is to provide our community with a service that will increase the quality of life by restoring function and health through neurologically based, principled chiropractic. We want to make a lasting impact on our community upon health and healing that will effect future generations in a positive manner. We want people to take their own health into their own hands and unlock the God given potential they have inside. We want to get to the root cause of your health problems and help your body to heal naturally, from the inside-out as God intended.
Our Vision
We want to see people in this world live a life full of purpose and hope, to love themselves and one another as God intended, and to have a life filled with laughter and joy. We want to see people live a life free from sickness and disease so people can not only uplift them selves, but also uplift other people in the process.


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Ordinarily, you'd be at the right spot, but we've recently launched a brand new community website... For the community, by the community.
Yay... Take Me to the Community!
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I've been creating theme for a while now, for client site as well as the Open Source themes I've created. I always wanted to have a way for the client to change background colors and setting but never found a satisfactory solution that fitted well with my needs and Dnn.
This is why I decided to create the DnnThemeEditor so that everyone can have a theme editor for their own themes.
The DnnThemeEditor is a Dnn SkinObject that can be re-used for nearly any Dnn Theme. It's easy to set up and is configured using a JSON config file and a theme CSS template. It even has an option to minify the CSS file that the system creates and the changes are instantly visible when you click the save button.
Once you have installed the SkinObject you can use it with as many themes you like within the Dnn install, all changes are stored it the portal folder therefore are unique. Even theme installed under the '_default' portal folder.
Here's a list of functionality:
In the next couple of months, I'll start to convert the open source themes I've created so that you can have the benefit of the DnnThemeEditor.
Heres a demo video that will give you an idea of what you can do with the DnnThemeEditor.
There is also an information site with documentation so that you can configure and use the DnnThemeEditor, www.dnnthemeeditor.com. This is where you can also download the theme editor as well.
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Gateway Building
Buckinghamshire New University
location | High Wycombe year | 2009 value | £27m size | 10,500m2
The new RIBA award winning Gateway Building is designed to engage with the local community and provide an extensive range of functions for the whole student body with 24/7 access. The building successfully delivers a 'fusion' of spaces – including library, lecture hall, gymnasium, cafe and spaces for multi-media and dance – into a single learning and social environment resolving the many acoustic and operational challenges that were faced.
As the main reception for the campus, the facility conveys a distinctive, new identity, in sharp contrast to the existing campus architecture. There are surprising and dramatic views across from the learning resource and academic spaces through into the multi-purpose hall, embedded in the heart of the building, bringing a real sense of life and activity.
Built on a very constrained and sensitive site the design development involved intense and dialogue with the local authority and local community representatives.
As a result of a comprehensive review of the university's space needs, and the existing Queen Alexandra campus in High Wycombe, the Gateway Building is linked at second floor level to refurbished accommodation in the adjacent buildings as part of a campus wide programme of regeneration.


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The Marriott Beach Resort Taba Heights is an impressive resort situated in over 44 acres of lush gardens, pools, waterfalls and featuring a 500 metreprivate sandy beach. Located in the magnificent bay of the Moqbela Valley , the Marriott offers high standards and a wonderful holiday base.
The Marriott Beach resort is located directly on the beach in Taba Heights , within a national conservation park. It features 394 air-conditioned rooms and suites, each equipped with remote control satellite TV, telephone with voice mail and data port, mini bar, high speed internet access, hairdryer, safety deposit box and private balcony or terrace overlooking the gardens.
Marriott Taba Heights has a wide range of facilities are on offer including; a swimming pool (heated section in winter), including a water slide and children's pool, spa that offers a health club with Jacuzzi, an Arabian marble steam room, sauna, weights room and various massages (pay locally), billiards, table tennis, 2 floodlit tennis courts, beach/water volleyball and beach/water basketball are also available, as well as a range of water sports at the dive centre, children's playground and games room with books and cartoon channel and wireless high-speed internet access available throughout the hotel.
There is a generous selection of 5 different types of international cuisines, a beach bar, pool bar and the swim up bar. The Lobby lounge shows live sporting events including English football.
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The Ray Price Capital City Bikefest 7th Annual Tattoo Fest will once again be held in the Raleigh Convention Center in downtown Raleigh, NC. Proceeds from Tattoo Fest go to benefit the USO of NC and the US Veteran's Corps. To book an appointment, please contact the artist directly.
Booth set ups are free of charge, as well as customer/client entry to the event. We rely on a good faith donation from each shop/artist attending upon conclusion of the event Sunday 23rd. 100% of donations excepted go to the USO of NC and the US Veterans Corps. Contact 401 Tattoo for more information about being an artist.
Each artist of shop is responsible for their own temporary permit for this weekend. Inspections will take place Friday 21st morning, 10am-1pm. Application and payment deadline for permit is Sept. 11th. If confirmation of permit has not been received by the 11th, you will not be able to attend. Below are links to the wake county health dept.
Tattoo Permit Application
Contact Wake County Health Dept.
Ambryss Brown at 919-856-6196 for CC Payment
Fax# 919-743-4772.
Please note. Convention center doors are not open to the general public on Friday. But each shop/artist is allowed to tattoo by (appointment only)
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Lynette Kim 12/06/2015 21:58
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Polar Vortex
For the first time in all of the fashion weeks that I've attended since sophomore year of college, I avoided the subway as much as possible. Winter is getting to me.
Aside from what I thought were powerful and empowering collections from the likes of Calvin Klein, Prabal Gurung, Lacoste, Phillip Lim, Alexander Wang, Mr. Self Portrait, WhoWhatWear, Coach, Anna Sui, Ralph Lauren and many others, this season's New York Fashion Week not only took my breath away but it also swept me off of my feet. Of course I'm speaking in a more literal sense that I am figuratively. From sweater/ leather weather to two heat-techs and a heavy parka to raincoats and umbrellas in a matter of days, Mother Nature sure knew how to provide the best weather conditions to challenge all fashionistas who dared brave her wrath this season.
I, for one, thoroughly enjoyed the wind tunnel she created outside of the Artbeam on Monday (aka Day 5 of NYFW.) It's like she knew how much I liked candid hair action in my photos. Or being swept off of my feet even when it's not Valentine's Day.
Crazy wind chills and literally zero cabs in sight and my Lyft being ten minutes away, I opted for a photoshoot. And after my hands and face turned completely numb, I quickly wanted to forgo the idea and seek refuge in a much warmer place preferably with a burger and fries and a shake.
After Jason's fingers have fallen off from clicking the shutter too many times, our Lyft finally arrived. We made a wise decision of heading straight to Black Tap
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If you've never been, you've got to!
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Now in your opinion, who is smarter? Steven Hawking, the brilliant world-renowned physicist/cosmologist/mathematician? Or Trip Lee, the rapper from the inner city? Being someone who has struggled mightily with physics and mathematics (thermodynamics, mechanics, electromagnetism, differential equations, LaPlace and Z transforms, aaargh!) it is tempting to side with the physicist, who clearly has a form of knowledge based on both his God-given intellectual capacity and his vigorous dedication to studying the natural world. But I believe that I will side with Trip Lee. Why? Because where Hawking is clearly advanced in his knowledge of things that are natural, being a born-again Christian, the rapper Trip Lee has knowledge of spiritual things. Whether Lee has a Ph.D. or preschool diploma in spiritual things does not matter. The point is that Lee and Christians like him have accepted enough spiritual knowledge to be saved from sin through Jesus Christ and as a result will be with Him in New Jerusalem for eternity. So, whatever knowledge that Lee has, it is thoroughly adequate and exceedingly useful where it really counts. As for the esteemed Mr. Hawking, unless he repents of his sins and acquires the knowledge of spiritual things that are only revealed to those that are under submission to the Lordship of Jesus Christ, the truth is that he will spend an eternity separated from Jesus Christ burning in a lake of fire. Thus, his great intellect, dedicated study, and many accomplishments will have been of no practical, lasting use to him. With respect to eternity, it will be vain, to no effect, and it would have been better for him had he never been born (Matthew 26:24).
In stating "God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator", this Hawking embraces the knowledge of the world in place and instead of the foolishness of the cross (1 Corinthians 1:18). He thereby despises casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ (2 Corinthians 10:5).
Actually, it goes deeper than that. We know from Romans 1:18-32 that Hawking should have learned enough about God from his pursuit of studying what general revelation reveals about God's existence and attributes in order to worship Him. But instead, Hawking rejected the knowledge of God available to him in general revelation, and neither did Hawking honor God as God or give Him thanks, but instead Hawking worships the creature in place of the Creator. Thus, Hawking is now doing things which are not convenient, which includes denying what general revelation taught Him about God's existence and attributes, and thereby becoming a blasphemer. God chooses the foolishness of the world to confound the wise (1 Corinthians 1:27), which of course makes those who profess themselves as wise to be so in their own eyes only, and instead become fools because of the foolishness of their darkened hearts.
And let us not be deceived … Hawking is worshiping the creature instead of the Creator. By claiming that the universe created itself from nothing, Hawking aligns himself with the religion of metaphysical naturalism, which truthfully is nothing but pantheism with a scientific veneer or exterior. By claiming that the universe created itself, Hawking is stating that the universe itself is god. Or, since Hawking refuses to deny the existence of God and therefore be an atheist or even an agnostic in the classic sense, Hawking is a henotheist (think Mormonism) in that while he does not deny the existence of another god or gods, there is only one god that Hawking is concerned with and therefore worships, and that is the god of the universe, the natural world. Because let us be honest, people. In order to create, one must have the A) power and B) will to create (and not only that but to do so ex nihilo).. Also, after one has exercised this A) power and B) will in accomplishing creation, that entity, that one, is C) lord, ruler, master, or owner of that creation. So, the universe had power within itself, will within itself (self-will) and is lord over itself. It relies on nothing, is sustained by nothing, needs nothing, and answers to nothing. If that is not a description of a god, then what is?
Now Hawking himself would deny that statement because Hawking subscribes to an epistemology that emphasizes randomness, spontaneity. So, he would say that the universe's creating itself was not an act that required the exertion of power controlled by a conscious will, but instead was only a random, spontaneous event. Just as it is possible for matter and energy to form itself out of nothing, but it was also possible for laws and organization to form themselves out of chaos, and ultimately for consciousness and intelligence to similarly develop. But, in the words of Trip Lee's rap song below, Hawking "has it twisted" because Hawking's religion makes the universe his lord and the chaos that he claims has arranged itself into order his master. And of course, who does the Bible call Hawking's master, which is the author of the confusion and chaos that Hawking claims that the universe organized itself from? Revelation 9:11 tells us! "And they had a king over them, [which is] the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue [is] Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath [his] name Apollyon."
Do not get it twisted. You have a Creator. One day, every knee shall bow and tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord of all. Submit to the Lordship of Jesus Christ today so that your Lord will also become your Savior. Do not let Steven Hawking – despite his many accomplishments and great intellectual gifts – be your role model, for (unless he changes as I did when I renounced my own atheism) his eternal fate makes him an unsuitable one. Instead,
Follow The Three Step Salvation Plan
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In this case they centered-in on the width of the foot. Other times they might focus on heel depth — it's all dependent on each individual's need.
Bauer plans on using the scanning technology with all their elite and pro player teams for the 2017-18 season. Given the portability of the lab they'll also be taking it on the road in the U.K. to retailer events.
Getting scanned at your local Bauer dealer will put you in the same database as players like Patrick Kane, Jack Eichel and Auston Matthews.


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