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Whew! It's been a wonderful trip so far. We have seen the man in the mirror and found out about temptation. Knowing now God never tempts us. We also saw what wisdom looked like up close and personal.
I need to share this picture with you. This is what I see our journey into James-land as. In my minds eye, not only are we studying together, we are meandering down this path that leads to somewhere, to a time past when it maybe wasn't simpler but it was meaningful. The Natchez trail was an important trail, those who took the Mississippi down river could not float their boats back up river, so they broke them apart, sold the wood and walked back home to Memphis or Nashville from Natchez MS. So, as we go through this book, lets float our boat down the trail and break every chain that holds us back as we walk through the woods and let your journey be of greatness in the end.
We will find rest and comfort at the end of the journey, maybe we will find a little place to rest along the way though. Maybe sing some old hymns that touch the soul.
So, as we begin into James-land 2, we know that God has place His Words in the Scriptures, they are inspired by God to teach us what is true. James is for believers, if you have not asked Jesus to live and dwell in you, it's time. It's as easy as ABC. Admit that you need a Savior, Jesus, that you know He died on the cross for you, Believe that He died and rose again on the 3rd day, he came to seek and save you. Confess that you are in need of a Savior and that you want to make a U-turn and give it all to Him to deal with. The pray it. Believe it and know it.
Before we dig into this, let us pray. Heavenly Father, open our hearts, minds, and ears to hear your Word. Speak to us through your Word and let it soak us with truth and love. Let all your anointing in the Word come down on us and help us to remember important stops along the way. In Jesus mighty Name, Amen.
Are you ready for the first part of this journey? This chapter is a bit shorter and yet contains much.
James 2Amplified Bible (AMP)
The Sin of Partiality
2 My fellow believers, do not practice your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of partiality [toward people—show no favoritism, no prejudice, no snobbery]. 2 For if a man comes into your [a]meeting place [b]wearing a gold ring and [c]fine clothes, and a poor man in dirty clothes also comes in, 3 and you pay special attention to the one who wears the [d]fine clothes, and say to him, "You sit here in this good seat," and you tell the poor man, "You stand over there, or sit down [on the floor] by my footstool," 4 have you not discriminated among yourselves, and become judges with wrong motives?
Did you catch that? It doesn't matter what we look like on the outside, it's what we are in the inside. Don't look at the outside appearance, look at the inward man.
5 Listen, my beloved brothers and sisters: has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and [as believers to be] heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him? 6 But you [in contrast] have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress and exploit you, and personally drag you into the courts of law? 7 Do they not blaspheme the [e]precious name [of Christ] by which you are called?
8 If, however, you are [really] fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself [that is, if you have an unselfish concern for others and do things for their benefit]" you are doing well. 9 But if you show partiality [prejudice, favoritism], you are committing sin and are convicted by the Law as offenders. 10 For whoever keeps the whole Law but stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of [breaking] all of it. 11 For He who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not murder." Now if you do not commit adultery, but you murder, you have become [f]guilty of transgressing the [entire] Law.
I know I am not perfect and I have to work at this, what about you?
12 Speak and act [consistently] as people who are going to be judged by the law of liberty [that moral law that frees obedient Christians from the bondage of sin]. 13 For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; but [to the one who has shown mercy] mercy triumphs [victoriously] over judgment.
Those were big stops weren't they? Now let us ask these questions.
Question 1: Jesus spoke of a rich man and Lazarus, where can you find that passage in the Bible?
Question 2: James refers to the "royal law" in verse 9 above. Where is this "law" first introduced in Scripture? (hint: you can search for The Greatest Commandment)
again this is borrowed: It is true that the faith of a person is between them and God. That is to say that no one really knows if a person is truly a Christian but God and the believer. However, true Christianity produces fruit and that fruit is always to the glory of God.
Read more: http://www.whatchristianswanttoknow.com/james-2-bible-study-with-questions/#ixzz3xhZYwxKU
Read more: http://www.whatchristianswanttoknow.com/james-2-bible-study-with-questions/#ixzz3xhZYwxKU
Faith and Works
14 What is the benefit, my fellow believers, if someone claims to have faith but has no [good] works [as evidence]? Can that [kind
of] faith save him? [No, a mere claim of faith is not sufficient —genuine faith produces good works.]
15 If a brother or sister is without [adequate] clothing and lacks [enough] food for each day, 16 and one of you says to them, "Go in peace [with my blessing], [keep] warm and feed yourselves," but he does not give them the necessities for the body, what good does that do? 17 So too, faith, if it does not have works [to back it up], is by itself dead [inoperative and ineffective]
18 But someone may say, "You [claim to] have faith and I have [good] works; show me your [alleged] faith without the works [if you can], and I will show you my faith by my works [that is, by what I do]." 19 You believe that [g]God is one; you do well [to believe that]. The demons also believe [that], and shudder and bristle [in awe-filled terror—they have seen His wrath]! 20 But are you willing to recognize, you foolish [spiritually shallow] person, that faith without [good] works is useless? 21 Was our father Abraham not [shown to be] justified by works [of obedience which expressed his faith] when he offered Isaac his son on the altar [as a sacrifice to God]? 22 You see that [his] faith was working together with his works, and as a result of the works, his faith was completed [reaching its maturity when he expressed his faith through obedience].
23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and this [faith] was credited to him [by God] as righteousness and as conformity to His will," and he was called the friend of God. 24 You see that a man (believer) is justified by works and not by faith alone [that is, by acts of obedience a born-again believer reveals his faith]. 25 In the same way, was Rahab the prostitute not justified by works too, when she received the [Hebrew] [h]spies as guests and protected them, and sent them away [to escape] by a different route? 26 For just as the [human] body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works [of obedience] is also dead.
See, you made it through... That wasn't so bad was it? Did you learn anything new? What did you get out of it?
Here is one man's thought on it.
As we saw in the previous passage anyone can have faith, but faith without works is dead. We need faith to believe and please God (Ephesians 2:8-9; Hebrews 11:6) but faith also produces fruit (Galatians 5:22-25) and the things that we do as a believer should show evidence of that fruit in our life. It is that fruit (works) that continually add to our faith, growing it. When we quench the Holy Spirit (Who produces that fruit) our faith will not grow and therefore it becomes "dead" faith.
In the closing verses James drives his point home by giving some examples of Old Testament people who "proved" their faith by works. He uses a great play on words in the ending verse "For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also". The "spirit" of the body is the breath of life that we have, when that breath leaves us our body physically dies. Likewise, to keep faith alive we must always defer to the power of the Holy Spirit to produce good works so our faith grows. Read more: http://www.whatchristianswanttoknow.com/james-2-bible-study-with-questions/#ixzz3xha6ZqpX
So, you have made it through James 2. So far so good. Only a few chapters left. We will savor these two for a day or so and then walk through 3 tomorrow. Are you ready to continue to soak in God's Word?
Here is some more to ponder on from Into Thy Word.org
Abraham was saved by his faith in God (Gen. 15:6; 22; 26:4-5). What Abraham did was prove his faith by trusting in God and then backing up that trust by his obedience to God's directive, even though it seemed irrational to offer up his only son, for whom he had waited so long.
So, you have made it through James 2. So far so good. Only a few chapters left. We will savor these two for a day or so and then walk through 3 tomorrow. Are you ready to continue to soak in God's Word?
Here is some more to ponder on from Into Thy Word.org
Abraham was saved by his faith in God (Gen. 15:6; 22; 26:4-5). What Abraham did was prove his faith by trusting in God and then backing up that trust by his obedience to God's directive, even though it seemed irrational to offer up his only son, for whom he had waited so long.
· Justified normally means to be reconciled to God as Paul uses this term. James uses it as a proof. It is not just the profession of faith that is important; it is the possession of faith that matters. James is using this term to indicate being aligned with faith, as Paul does. We are justified; this means God declares us righteous before Himself by the merit of Christ's redemptive work alone, by our faith alone. No meritorious deeds are worthy or necessary from us to receive salvation (Eph. 2:8-9). However, as Martin Luther pointed out, not by a faith that is alone.
· Made perfect. The perfect is when true faith is visible and produces fruit. Faith and works are separate definitions and ideas, but they go together synergistically and are never separated from a true follower of Christ.
· Rahab trusted in God and she was saved. She then hid the spies sent from Joshua. She knew the city was judged and doomed and that the Hebrews were God's own. She was willing to sacrifice herself so that God would be honored and so that perhaps her family could be saved too (Josh. 2:1-21; -27; Heb. ).
· Paul also was saved by trusting in God. Then, his life was radically transformed, so he put the same, if not more, energy into equipping the church as he had in trying to destroy it (Rom. 4:1-5). Paul and James do not contradict. Paul tells us outright that faith will have a response to it; thus, Paul and James do not contradict, but rather complement. Salvation is a gift, not a reward (2 Cor. )! Salvation is by His grace, condemnation is by our works. Thus, Paul places the focus of faith on its root saving force while James emphasizes its results. Paul describes the fire of faith and James the smoke; they complement one another well!
· Faith without works is dead/Not by faith alone. Here is the statement that brings the controversy. However, it is misunderstood. James is not saying we are saved by works! He is saying, you are saved, but big deal if you do nothing with it! None of our deeds can save us; salvation comes only by what Christ has done. The point here is there is an evidence for it. In theology, this is called "Antinomianism" meaning to say, Jesus is my Savior, but not to trust in Him, and I do not need to obey His precepts and morals. The balance is that we are saved by Christ alone, by faith alone. However, it will be demonstrated if it has taken root in us.
For us, Christianity is not a once for all simple prayer we pray at a crusade or church. It is not to be just an intellectual acceptance or idea. Rather, it is a lifelong, purpose-driven lifestyle as Jesus as Lord over all (John -30). The prayer may enter us in our new life-not the prayer itself, but the focus of our faith in Christ. This leads to effectual commitment. If no commitment is shown, then we may not have the real faith and trust in the Lord, or at the very least have never ventured any further in our faith journey than when we first received Him. There is a relation between faith and works. One proves the other. All too often, the focus switches to how faith is to be used for salvation, when it is the Bible view that faith is not academic, but needs to be a part of our daily life.
It is purely by His acceptance of us that we are saved (Rom. 3:23-28; 6:23; 7:18; Gal 3:11; 5:17; Eph. 2:8-9; 1 Tim. 1:9; Titus 3:5). There is nothing that we can add to it, such as good works or clean living. Justification means that God's righteousness is covering us, protecting us from His wrath and punishment as a blanket! It is like getting a speeding ticket, going to court, and having the judge declare you innocent, even though you were speeding. To God you are clean, covered by what Christ has done for you. This creates our reconciliation to God; we were in perfect relationship to Him before the fall, and now we are again in harmony. Take great comfort; this does not happen overnight. O
faith has grace to it. We will make mistakes and have setbacks, but He is there for us, carrying us through. Allow Him to do so! ur
The Essential Inductive Questions (for more Inductive questions see Inductive Bible Study):
1. What does this passage say?
2. What does this passage mean?
3. What is God telling me? How am I encouraged and strengthened?
4. Is there a sin in my life for which confession and repentance is needed?
5. How can I be changed so I can learn and grow?
6. What is in the way of these precepts affecting me? What is in the way of my listening to God?
7. How does this apply to me? What will I do about it?
8. What can I model and teach? What does God want me to share with someone?
Additional Questions:
1. Do you consider yourself a person who just thinks, or a person who just does? Do you base your comfort on what you do, or your works? How so?
2. The classic question is if you were arrested for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you? Think about your faith; how genuine is it? We will have ups and downs, but our faith should show growth.
3. How does real, impacting, effectual faith have a result to it? Why does faith not just stand alone?
4. Do you believe that James was reacting against Paul, or that they contradict? How so? Why not?
5. Faith is demonstrated by substance and connection. What has that meant in your life? What can it mean for you and your church?
6. How does your faith answer James' question to "show me?"
7. How would you answer this question from a traditional Catholic: When we say by faith alone, "what good would your salvation be without being transformed from His precepts and into His character?"
8. James is saying that when we do not demonstrate our faith, we are as a lifeless, dead body where the spirit/soul is gone! If we have faith and do nothing with it, it is illogical and absurd. How does this make you feel, or convict you?
9. Faith can easily become just an intellectual exercise. So, what can you do to make sure that you are applying far more to it, such as trust and obedience?
10. If James asked you, "What have you done with your faith?" how would you respond?
11. Remember the WWJD craze a few years ago? What would Jesus do? I did not like that much, because we are not Jesus. It should have said what would Jesus have me do? Thus, what will He have you do about your faith development (Gal. 3:2-6; ; Eph. )?
12. God asks us to demonstrate our Christian life by helping out others in need, especially the poor. What can your church do to be more obedient to this precept?
© 2004 R. J. Krejcir Into Thy Word Ministries www.intothyword.org
I would use these questions if I was teaching face to face, because I believe we can get help from others who have been just as passionate about studying the Word as we are. When I was teaching in the church, I would find so many sources to bring into helping teach what God had placed on my heart. Sometimes, we have to. I gave credit where it is needed.


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Apple Pie Pull-Apart Bread
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Today, my husband took the kids to the bay area for some race fun. I have the WHOLE day to myself, so naturally I used it to get some much needed kitchen cleaning done. You should see my pantry, it's a thing of beauty.
When I was cleaning out the fridge, I found the extra tube of biscuits from last week's moment of weakness, and then I remembered the strawberry pull apart bread I made last spring. That was such a big hit with the kids, but the strawberries I have at home are a little sad looking. Plus, I WANT fall
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- 1 tube of Pillsbury Biscuits {I used Grands Flaky Layers}
- 1 medium apple, cored and thinly sliced
- cinnamon - sugar {1/3 cup of sugar mixed with 1 tsp cinnamon and 1/4 tsp nutmeg}
- Line a bread pan with parchment
- Pre-heat the oven to 350
- Toss the apple slices in the cinnamon sugar and set aside
- Slice each biscuit in half - creating 16 rounds
- coat each round with the cinnamon and sugar
- layer the biscuits alternating with the apple slices {begin and end with biscuit} in the bread pan
- Bake for 20 - 25 minutes {mine took 25}
- ** make sure you check the middle for doneness - if the middle of the loaf is doughy - let bake for an additional 5 - 10 minutes, but check often to make sure it is not getting too brown on top[.
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1988 Best Semiprozine Hugo
The 1988 Best Semiprozine Hugo was presented September 4 at Nolacon II.
- Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown
- Science Fiction Chronicle ed. by Andrew I. Porter
- Aboriginal Science Fiction ed. by Charles C. Ryan
- Interzone ed. by Simon Ounsley and David Pringle
- Thrust ed. by D. Douglas Fratz
See also: Hugo Awards, 1988 Hugo Results, 1987 Best Semiprozine Hugo, 1989 Best Semiprozine Hugo.
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Electronic Dance Music at AlchemistThursday, August 24, 2017 19:06
Nairobi is enjoying a boom in the popularity of electronic dance music, and this weekend the city hosts a performance by a duo of top DJs from Ghana.
This pan African collaboration takes place tomorrow August 26 when the visiting group Jowaa performs together with top rated Kenyan DJ Suraj at the Alchemist in Westlands.
Jowaa comprises Benjamin Lebrave (DJ Bbrave) who runs a digital record label called Akwaaba Music in Accra alongside Ghanaian music producer Gafacci.
Since 2008, Lebrave, who is of joint French and American citizenship but is based in Ghana, has played at gigs around the world including a couple of times in Nairobi.
His performance sets include popular genres of African dance music, Azonto and hiplife of Ghana, coupe decale from Ivory Coast, kizomba from Angola and Congolese soukous.
He also plays Nigerian Afrobeats, which combines his favourite elements, rich rhythms, dance groove and an urban edge.
As a teenager Lebrave was drawn to hip-hop because he loved the beats and this was the foundation of his life as a DJ.
He first heard Ghanaian high-life music in 2003 but was frustrated that so little of the music was available.
After his first trip to Accra, he set up a website called Akwaaba (the word in Twi language of Ghana means 'welcome') in 2008 to make contemporary Ghanaian music accessible to a global audience.
Today, the label boasts not just some of Ghana's top contemporary artists but other electronic music acts from across Africa including Kenya's Just a Band.
Lebrave settled in Ghana in 2011 and met Gafacci who shares his passion for electronic music combined with traditional sounds. This year, they officially formed Jowaa, which allows both artists to combine their experience producing dance beats and playing them to diverse audiences.
Gafacci has produced songs for some of Ghana's top acts like Sarkodie and Ice Prince. He was one of the producers behind the boom of Azonto music, the up-tempo mix of electronic beats with West African rhythms that was derived from a popular dance routine.
While his DJ sets are available for free download on his Soundcloud page, his debut album is set for release on the Akwaaba label in October this year.
During the Jowaa performances, Gafacci plays an innovative set recreating different rhythms on stage using machines and loops while Lebrave plays a more conventional DJ set combining hit songs and rare tracks.
"I like to get the crowd away from their comfort zone by throwing in songs that they may not entirely be used to hearing," he says.
Lebrave explains that the Nairobi event is a showcase of an emerging generation of African artists reinventing what it means to make African music using mostly machines, while still incorporating traditional elements.
"I expect amazing music played for a full house of wildly entertained patrons,' he says of this weekend's gig.
The performance will feature Kenya's top electronic music DJs Suraj.
Suraj is a highly sought-after DJ and producer who creates contemporary electronic music infused with traditional rhythms.
Originally from Kisumu, Suraj Mandavia started out playing the classical South Asian drums tabla and then embraced R & B and hip-hop and eventually became a DJ.
In August he released "Wawere" a combination of lyrics in Dholuo and modern electronic music production and samples.
He also released a compilation featuring two songs by the group Sarabi and set up MIDI Minds, a music production outfit in Nairobi.
READ: Shamsi Music's new album
Big fan base
Suraj has earned a big fan base among electronic music lovers with his shows at top events like Blankets and Wine and the July edition of Koroga Festival.
Suraj also played alongside the world renowned Grammy Award winning DJ Diplo during his Nairobi show in April this year.
During his first visit to Kenya in 2016, Lebrave very impressed by the quality of DJs.
"I witnessed Suraj behind the decks on several occasions and truly appreciated his range, cleverly adapting his style to the time and venue without ever letting go of his distinct personality," he wrote on his blog.
Suraj created a mix called "Tribute to the East" exclusively for Akwaaba records in November 2016.
During their stay in Nairobi this week, Lebrave and Gafacci have been holding a music production and DJ workshop for their Kenyan counterparts.
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Is this shirt great quality? Yes. Does it fit well? Will it hold up to abuse better than most? Yes, yes. But above all, this sweatshirt is ungodly warm. The face mask allows you to breath your own air. It keeps your breath moist and warm when battling the cold, dry winter, and is oddly and awesomely one of the best ways to warm up, allowing you to recycle the warmth you create!
The sleeve cuffs go around the thumb to keep the sleeves down and keep cold air out of the sleeves, and the elastic at the bottom is nice and tight and will do the same. You can skate in the dead of winter in this thing and you will be warm. If you fall, you have a little extra padding on the shoulders and elbows, and the thick material is less likely to shred than most. That said, if it's cold enough for a jacket, you can wear this, and you're probably better off shredding this up a bit than a more expensive coat. I got a little hole in mine from one especially bad fall, but it has definitely held its own against abuse in my experience.


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<bt>It was just before midnight on New Year's Eve and it happened on the steps of the Masonic Temple. A man proposed marriage to a woman just before midnight in front of hundreds of people just prior to the first fireworks, set off as part of the First Night Alexandria celebration. Witnesses said the cheers from people near the couple caused them to believe that the woman accepted his proposal. First Night Alexandria celebrations were a big success this year. A record 13,000 people came to the 28 venues, equipped with 39 stages and 72 performing acts.
It's the new Book Swap at Maury School and Maury needs your unwanted children's books. Maury will gladly accept gently used, age appropriate reading materials — books, magazines and comic books. Donations can be left in the office labeled "Library" or "Book Swap." For further information, contact Ann Garrison, Maury Library Media Specialist at 703-706-4446.
Congratulations and thanks to new Hooffs Run Park Chairpersons Beth and Ian MacPhail, who will lead volunteer efforts for the park due to Nora Graham's departure. Rosemont thanks Nora for her dedicated service to the Park during 2004. Nora reports that the Fairy Castle has just been installed at Hooffs, along with 3 new trees. The trees were planted close to the play equipment to provide shade in the years to come. Sunday at 3:30 p.m. is clean-up time for the Park so please join neighbors at that time. Special thanks to Peter Schenk for his hard work in obtaining and watering the trees and plants in Hooffs Run.
You can make a difference in the City's open space acquisition plan by nominating land in Rosemont for preservation. The nominations deadline for land to be considered for acquisition as open space or park land has been extended until Monday, January 31. For nomination forms or additional information call Aimee Vosper at the Parks and Recreation Department, 703-838-5041.
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If you follow me on social media, or have read some of my recent posts, then you know I work a full-time job outside of the travel industry. What that comes down to, time off is few and far between. I feel as if I have mastered seeing the world on two weeks' vacation a year. *Disclaimer: I don't see as much of the word that I would love. * So how do I make every day an adventure? I see local and I stay local. I live in Atlanta and there is never a lack of activities in the city on any given weekend. Plus add North Georgia and any surrounding city, and I could have a new adventure twice a week for life. There is something to do in any place you live, big or small. So, you can't take a week-long vacation this year for whatever reason? Don't worry. You can still have adventures. I've got you covered.
Rock the Staycation
Where ever you may live, there is surely something new to discover. Or maybe an old favorite you haven't done or seen in a while. Here are some of my favorite things to do on weekends when I can't go far.
Go see a play or musical. I'm very lucky that Atlanta is my hometown, and the Fox theatre has no shortage of events. It's not something I do often, so when it happens, it's a special treat. Much like a vacation.
Georgia is incredible. In two hours, I've got mountains and hiking and waterfalls galore. So on a Saturday, I'll pick a state park and go adventure.
Go explore a small town you don't ever go to. Even if there is no big draw to it (so you think), you can always find something quirky to do. Find an antique store, a cute restaurant, a unique clothes store, café, etc.
Go to a festival. A farmer's market. A state fair. Anything. I love a good fall festival, and Georgia has no shortage of these. I may even do a blog post of my favorite festivals in Georgia, if anyone is interested.
Go to the zoo. Or aquarium. Or the World of Coke. Or a ball game. Or the mall to people watch. Make a day of it, a night of it, or even a weekend of it. A trip to Ikea is like a mini-vacation for me. I always choose to make it special and spend a whole day in the area. Even something as small as an awesome store, can become a day filled with memories.
Weekend Getaways
This is a short one, because I feel that it needs no explanation. My favorite part of travel, the weekend getaway. Yes, I love international travel (writing this from the airport headed towards Amsterdam as we speak) and big trips. Who doesn't? But when you work a job that requires more than a full-time commitment, you do what you can. So go find a new town or city close by! Even if you have been there before, pick one or two new things to do or see in that city. Here is how.
Make the most of the holidays and three-day weekends. Fourth of July? Take the day before and after. Thanksgiving? Take the Friday after. New Years. Christmas. Presidents Day. If you are lucky enough to have a job with holidays throughout the year, take advantage of that time off. *Disclaimer: Holidays are the most expensive time to travel. But it is a price I am willing to pay. You can do it cheap (stay outside of the city center, etc.) but it may not be for everyone. *
DO NOT waste vacation time for small things. That dentist appointment? I schedule it at 4:00 PM and go into work early that day. Car needs an oil change? Saturdays exist for a reason. Everyone has a day off(hopefully, if not I am so sorry!) so use your day off to your advantage. And use your vacation days to see the world.
What is your secret to a great weekend getaway? Or how do you make the most of the city you live? Tell me in the comments below. And as always, following me on social media to hear when the next post is up. XOXO


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It was a magical kind of day! Great shots!
Mid-July and it was a perfect day for a long paddle on Griggs Reservoir. Temperature in the low seventies, little wind, with puffy white clouds dotting a very blue sky. The canoe seemed to glide along effortlessly.
Are we really in Columbus?
It wasn't long before we started seeing birds. First it was a Kingfisher as we entered a cove.
A little further a Double Crested Cormorant enjoys the morning sun.
As does a Painted Turtle.
A little while later, north along the west shore we surprised a Red-tailed Hawk as it enjoyed breakfast. A bad day for the snake.
Continuing on north of Hayden Run.
Several Ospreys were seen just south of the 161 bridge.
In the same area a White Tail Dear made it's way across the Scioto River.
A Green Heron plays hide and seek.
While in the north end of the reservoir we pulled out to explore the "wetlands area".
As is usually the case, my wife was hot on the trail of any wildflowers or birds she could find.
It was hard to head back to our launch but we did have five miles ahead of us before we could call it a day.
It was a magical kind of day! Great shots!
Just absolutely beautiful, I feel like I was there. Somehow, Bob, I think there is another career here for you and Donna. Sandy


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Panagiotis Koustoumpardis
Research & Teaching Associate, PhD
neural networks
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Dr. Panagiotis N. Koustoumpardis is an R&D Engineer and Research & Teaching Associate at the Robotics Group of the Mechanical and Aeronautics Engineering Dept., University of Patras, Greece, where he received a Mechanical Eng. Diploma (1998) and a Ph.D. degree in Robotics. He teaches in the courses of 'Industrial Automation' and 'Robotics'. From 2004 to 2006 he was an Instructor (Robotics course) at the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of Patras. His main research interests are robotics, intelligent control, machine learning, neural networks, intelligent sensor fusion and machine vision for robotics applications and intelligent robotic handling and force control of non-rigid materials as well as human robot cooperation for handling non-rigid materials. He has been involved in the majority of the Robotics Group research projects and he authored 22 publications in journals and conferences. He is an Associate Editor of one journal (International Journal of Automation and Control) and reviewer of 7 journals (Mechatronics - Journal of Engineered Fibers and Fabrics - European Journal of Control - Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing - International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems - Recent Advances in Electrical and Electronic Engineering - American Journal of Computation, Communication and Control). He was a reviewer in 10 international conferences (CSNDSP 2006, ECC (2007, 2013), MED (2009-2012), RAAD (2014-2015), ReMAR 2015) and basic member of the organizing committee of the 1st and 2nd Hellenic Robotic Conference. He is a member of Textile ETP Expert Community, of the Greek Society of Mechanical & Electrical Engineers and of Technical Chamber of Greece.
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Intelligent control
Machine learning
Neural networks
Intelligent sensor fusion
Machine vision
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CANBERRA, April 29 — Aborigines from northern Australia rejected government plans to build a plant for nuclear waste storage in their territories.
Diane Stokes, an indigenous woman from the Warumungu and Warlmanpa tribes in the Northern Territory Muckaty Station, about 125 miles north of Tennat Creek town, opposed to the discharging of radioactive waste on their land.
The government now seeks to build a permanent facility to house the nuclear waste that Australia used in hospitals, industries, agriculture and research.
In 2007, the Labour Party promised a new study to select the site based on inclusion and consent of the community through a process of solid and transparent principles.
Activist Dave Sweeney from the Australian Conservation Foundation, declared there is a lot at stake with radioactive waste that lasts thousands of years and can cause cancer and genetic changes. (PNA/PL)


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If you're into heavy music you know about what went down with Lamb of God front man Randy Blythe this summer. If you follow the news in general you may have heard this story. On June 27 Randy Blythe was arrested in the Czech Republic for essentially manslaughter. Two years prior, a 19 year old fan Daniel Nosek had allegedly jumped on stage (as many as three times) and allegedly was pushed off stage by Randy Blythe in which he fell on his head (even though its clear in black and white that Security pushed him), went into a coma and died a month later. Nobody in Lamb of God knew about this incident until the arrest. Blythe remained in prison until early August garnering tons of a support from not only the metal community but also the music community as a whole.
Randy's out now and they're out on tour with In Flames, Sylosis, Hatebreed and Hell Yeah. They released a great new album "Resolution" back in January. I got the chance to chat with drummer Chris Adler regarding the incident in Prague as well as the upcoming tour and "Resolution." If you want to listen to the extended interview, you can do so here:
Zoiks!: So you've had a pretty eventful 2012 so far.
Chris Adler: Indeed
Z!: You've been building up momentum year after year, you released a great new album and then the stuff with Randy goes down. When he got back was there ever a thought, for even a second, that you wanted to take a break and walk away from this mess that had been created?
CA: For me, no. I think we were all a little uncertain initially if Randy was going to be interested in jumping bank into work. At this point in our career we've been around like you said 16 or 17 years and its been kind of this slow burn, but it's been growing the whole time and to have something like this happen was pretty shocking. So nobody was really sure 100 percent what the future would hold for the band and we were waiting to see how he felt about it. I think everybody certainly wanted to continue, we never wanted to stop to begin with. It was just a shock that left us all kind of wondering what the next step was going to be. Then we heard from Randy's lawyers as it was getting closer to him getting out that he was definitely interested in doing the two Slipknot Fests we did and getting back to work obviously to support the record and keeping our families and the crew and the people that work for us and their families, keeping food on everybody's table. It was good to hear him and we're certainly lucky and happy to be getting back to work this fall.
Z!: The amount of support you guys and Randy got was pretty amazing. How surprised were you to see that level of support?
CA: I spend a fair amount of time on the Internet looking up new music, so I'm not immune to the blogs out there with all the metal fans arguing over who's true metal and who's not. I see all these subdivisions of metal fans and I'm a fan of all different types of heavy music so I still laugh at most of it, but it was really the first time where I saw everybody, well not everybody, but most people coming together for one particular cause. It was really refreshing to see the metal community come together like that. There were bands that we're good friends with, guys that we see everyday like Devil Driver and Machine Head. We were getting calls from them and getting their support, guys like Hatebreed as well. But then to have like Ozzy and Slash, the upper echelon of rock stars come out and give their support too, it was really shocking. I didn't know we had that much of an impact on the rock world. People do look at this particular scenario and see the danger in what could happen if Randy is held responsible. It could mean that any performer or anyone who decides to go on stage is held responsible for the general well being of everybody that walks through that door. That doesn't only affect bands at our level or smaller, but that goes all the way up the chain to bands like Ozzy or even pop stars, it'll be a whole new world if this is how it goes down.
Z!: When you took the stage for the first time after Randy got back how overwhelming was that moment?
CA: It was incredible man, like I said earlier it was quite a shock to have this whole thing happen and we were all questioning as to what the future would be for the band, if there would be a future, if it was going to be all over in a blink of an eye or if we were going to continue. It was like therapy to be on stage again. I think we were all very excited. One of the things that made it so special was that the crowd at both of those festivals we did came over to our stage early and were chanting for a good half n hour straight, "Randy" or "Randy is Free." Not just the name of the band, but they were familiar with the situation and really vocal about their support. There was this renewed energy on stage because we had realized just how fragile what we do is and coming into those shows we had a new appreciation for being on stage with each other and playing the music that we do and also to have that reflected in the crowd response to us and have their support. It almost felt like some sort of reunion show, we wouldn't market it like that but that's how the crowd was supporting us, it was pretty incredible.
Z!: You mention you wouldn't market it like that, but because of this you've gotten a lot of added attention, but you don't seem to be exploiting that attention which I think is really respectable by you guys.
CA: What happened was a tragedy and there is no denying the fact that someone lost their life. We are incredibly sorry that happened and it humbled us. It's one of those things as a performer it's the worst-case scenario. Obviously we didn't intend for that to happen, we don't go into any shows with any sort of malice, but when something like that happens, it shakes you. It's the last thing we'd want to have happen so for us to try and turn it into some sort of marketing ploy seems kind of twisted and its not something we're going to do.
CA: We try to. There are people that we pay, booking agents and management. The reason we pay them is to help us make those kinds of decisions. If we all hand picked every band that was on the tour it would be four bands that nobody has ever heard of because we love them or their our neighbors or something like that. We have to trust in our booking agent and management to help us find bands that will help us and help the tour do well and succeed. Most of the time we have a hand in picking one or two of the bands. On this particular tour I was very interested in getting Sylosis on it. I'm a huge fan of their last album "Edge of the Earth" and their new album "Monolith" just came out and it's incredible. We played a couple of shows with them in Ireland and they blew me away. So we had a band discussion back and forth about which band to bring out and they ended up getting the vote. So we try to be involved in the decision, but we certainly don't want to bring out anybody we don't like or have anybody with some weird racist stuff, we don't want anything like that, but for the most part we're certainly involved.
Z!: All those bands on the bill are pretty amazing live bands. You probably don't need the added motivation, but these bands are going to force your to be on your game. Does that put added pressure on you and if so how exciting is that added pressure.
CA: It does, we always enjoyed kind of being the main support band because it gives us the opportunity to steal the show. So headlining is a whole different thing. Obviously we've done it a lot and its nerve wracking especially when you have great opening bands like we do on this tour playing with us. You can't get up after Sylosis or Hatebreed and have a bad night. You have to kill it every night. There is some pressure on us, but to me that's healthy. It's not competition; we're not trying to out do each other. Back stage we're going to be drinking, playing poker and hanging out after the show as friends, but for the show itself everybody wants to put on the best show they can. When you line up a bunch of heavy hitters you want to make sure that the last guy is carrying the biggest bat, so we're going to do what we can. We're not trying to outshine anybody, but its our show and we're going to make show that people remember that.
Z!: I went to your website www.chris-adler.com, and I was reading the story section and I came across a quote that read, 'I've never heard any one say that their favorite record from any band was the 7th one. Never, that is what I felt we were up against and we had everything to prove.' Your new album "Resolution" is amazing, when you go into prepare for an album what is your goal and how do you prepare?
CA: For me it's about staying in shape and staying in touch with what is going on with heavy music and trying to help the band evolve, that keeps us relevant as opposed to relying on some hit from three records ago and just trying to copy that over and over again. For me it's a physical challenge, playing drums is very physical. I'm spending a lot of time working on myself, going to the gym, running a lot, cutting out drinking and smoking, just kind of normal stuff to get myself in shape. Obviously spending a lot of time rehearsing with the guys, trying different parts, recording different parts, and listening to different parts. Spending a lot of time in the room playing and a lot of time outside the room listening and trying to decide what's best for the song, trying not to overplay or over think. Those two are very hard to manage sometimes. As we kind of get on with our career we're getting better at the song writing process, letting our own egos go and playing for the song.
Coming into "Resolution," like you said it's hard to find a band where your favorite album is their seventh one. We knew that coming in and we were trying to defy the odds on that, so the way we did that, or at least the way I did it was I went back and listened to all the material we recorded and tried to find the places that were our greatest strength and our greatest weaknesses. Then pick out the strengths, not necessarily the hit songs but the songs that stick with the band after the show like, 'why didn't you play "One Gun"' or the weird random B sides that stick with people and find those songs that people somehow seem to latch onto rather than just the hit songs. So I tried to study those and learn what we did right and wrong with those songs and bring the good parts of those into my thought process coming forward.
Instead of relying on my old standard tool belt of drumming, I started taking lessons from Matt Halpern from Periphery, who is more of a fusion drummer, which is very different than what I do. I tried to add a few new things that I could offer the guys or to the writing process. I just tried to make sure I didn't repeat myself, so I can listen to each album and think, 'yes I did get a little bit better.' That was my goal.
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I bought this supplement because I was beginning my campaign in Arcanis, which has a Roman analogue. Eternal Rome is quite accommodating of alternate histories, featuring a "What If?" section in the first chapter. It covers the various regions contemporary with Rome and their opinions of Romans (hint: not very good).
The second chapter digs into the guts of D20 systems and modifies them appropriately: steppe barbarians don't rage, bards are divided into Celtic and Orphic types, druids are more like their historical counterparts (a change near and dear to my heart, as I've been railing against the "hippy druid" portrayal for over a decade), and the new gladiator class is reminiscent of the same class from the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition Complete Gladiator's Handbook. Like the 2nd-edition version, the 3rd-edition version is powerful. This is a fighter class with the uncanny dodge chain and a host of other abilities including bonuses to combat, from weapon styles and preferred opponents. Strangely, this section downplays paladins ("The Romans didn't regard spellcasting as compatible with the virtues of the warrior…") but gives the vigil prestige class access to spells. There are surprisingly few classes focusing on the legendary Roman fighting styles and, to my disappointment, no professional legionnaire core class.
Feats and skills round out the third chapter, many of them superseded by Complete Warrior.
Chapter four is where Eternal Rome distinguishes itself from other supplements with its Fame score. This is the much vaunted distinction between a Roman-style game and a typical fantasy sword-and-sandals epic: politics. Be it senators or gladiators it details a range of bonuses and penalties that come about from being famous or infamous. The equipment chapter is fifth and features the full range of gladiatorial weapons and armor.
Roman magic covers the sixth chapter, which features the usual spells and magic items. It's distinguished by two entries, the evil eye and the Legion Eagle. The Eagle Standard figured prominently in my campaign and the description does it justice, but treats it as an artifact without explaining how these important staples of Roman warfare were created. Making them artifacts changes the role of the wielder (an aquilifer, which was the role of my character in the Arcanis campaign) significantly.
The monsters chapter features such well-trammeled territory as the catoblepas, fury, hippocampus, and siren. There are also two races, nymph and satyr – anyone remember the half-nymph and half-satyr article from Dragon Magazine?
Chapter eight fleshes out the Roman world and places for adventure. Chapter nine is a historical primer, although game masters would be better-suited picking a period in Roman history and doing their own research. The ninth chapter covers Roman culture and is by far the most valuable for a game master planning a Roman campaign. Chapter eleven details Roman religion which is better represented in other works but still relevant here for its cleric rules. The book concludes with an adventure for 4 to 6 1st-level characters in which they visit a Sibyl. I would have preferred fleshed-out NPCs, like the patron Strabo who makes a cameo in the adventure along with a map of his estate.
Eternal Rome takes on a massive topic and does its level best to encompass all of Roman history, myth, and legend in one book. Although it struggles in parts to cover every aspect of Roman life, Eternal Rome lays a solid foundation to launch a campaign. It will still require a considerable amount of effort on the game master's part, and probably a few other gaming supplements, to fully flesh-out a Roman campaign.


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She sounds a lot like my grandmother. That's the first thought I have whenever Rupa Bajwa picks up the phone. It's a quiet, world-weary 'Hello' that comes across the line, all the way from Amritsar, where she currently lives. "Why do you sound so tired?" I ask, from the big bad world of Mumbai. "That's how I am," she replies, in a tone implicating me in the role of noisy city-dweller.
The photograph she sends me is of a young woman with a look that can best be described as pensive. There's a faraway look about her, and a faint, extremely faint, hint of a smile. It is from this combination of grandmotherly voice and pensive visage that comes the quiet violence of Ramchand, protagonist of Bajwa's debut novel, The Sari Shop.
It is a debut that came as a surprise to me, more because I hadn't expected such rich textures – crisp Bangladeshi cottons, dazzling kanjeevarams, soft chiffons, rustling crepes – or sudden streaks of violence when I first spoke to Bajwa, a couple of months before the novel was to be released. She was quiet, still grandmotherly, giggling as we spoke of life, literature, and the merits and demerits of alcohol. When I finally read The Sari Shop, the thing that struck me most was the incongruity of such a novel from the quiet, giggling Bajwa.
The novel documents the life and times of Ramchand, an orphan working at a sari shop in old Amritsar. Unlike the people he works with, he knows, instinctively, that his life is devoid of some larger meaning. A trip to the posh parts of the city reiterates this, prompting him to try and better himself at once. Studying English – with the help of, among other things, the Complete Oxford Dictionary and Complete Letter Writer – becomes the way out.
"He seemed to have appeared in my life on his own," says Bajwa, when I ask her where the idea of a salesman at a sari shop came from. "I had written some short stories a few years ago, and one of them was about Ramchand. The idea and character stayed with me. I could not write as quickly as I wanted to. I had to work towards taking some time off, saving money, and arranging other things. Finally, I managed to take nine months off to complete it. As the protagonist of the novel, I really like Ramchand very much."
It's difficult not to like Ramchand very much. He's simple, charming, and terribly naďve. There is something about him we can all identify with, whether it is his sense of helplessness or the feeling of inadequacy he is so prone to experiencing. He lives alone, in a tiny, messy room, with no one but his thoughts and the odd sexual fantasy for company. Companionship, for him, does not extend beyond Gokul and Hari, his colleagues at the shop. Life outside is rarely more exciting than dinner at a dhaba, a glass of mosumbi juice, or re-runs at the local cinema. It's a sad life, and we learn to empathize.
Bajwa has muted responses to questions about the actual writing process. Where do you do most of it, I ask. "In different places," she replies. "Every room I live in looks pretty much the same – lots of books, pens and paper, my alarm clock..." And what do you wear while writing? I persist, for no apparent reason but to annoy her. "Shut up, Lindsay," she says, muttering about shabby nightgowns and laughing about my threat to print that.
A lot of people have grown to like The Sari Shop. Some liked it so much that they nominated the book for the Orange Prize for Fiction, 2004 – a UK-based literary prize for women. While Bajwa's presence on the long-list (the English writer Andrea Levy won the prize for Small Island) was laudable, even more praiseworthy was the company she kept – Margaret Atwood (Oryx and Crake), Jhumpa Lahiri (The Namesake), Monica Ali (Brick Lane), Rose Tremain (The Colour), and Toni Morrison (Love).
There are two things about The Sari Shop that, in my mind, justified Bajwa's inclusion. First, it is her immense gift for characterisation. Ramchand, Kamla, Gopal, the Kapoors, the Guptas – they are all well-rounded, well-depicted folk, their idiosyncrasies intact. The author captures small-town life perfectly, from the products on display at grocery stores to dishes served at street stalls, the nuances of Hindi detective fiction, translations of film songs, to the importance of saving face that drives the richer women of Amritsar to collect crystal for its snob value.
Did she consciously aim for that realism, or did she want a psychological novel or novel of ideas instead? "This was a first attempt," says Bajwa. "I think no matter what the form or genre of writing, it's okay as long as the core is honest and makes sense to me. I like sense. I don't like nonsense, that's all."
She's not very comfortable discussing terms like Third World literature either. I point out that a lot of writers of fiction in India today opt for the genre of magic realism. Does economics play a role in this decision? Does it imply that Western audiences can swallow magic realism more easily than, say, a novel about grassroots reality? Bajwa is non-committal. "Someone asked me if I was 'pandering to Western readers'. To be honest, I have no clue what my neighbour wants to read, let alone readers anywhere in the world. I mean, how am I supposed to know?"
She asks me to italicise the 'I' in that last statement, telling me it denotes her desperation at questions like these.
Deciding to change track, wisely, I ask her if the novel's appearance on the Orange Prize long list came as a surprise, or if she expected the accolades. "I had heard about the Booker, not the Orange Prize," she says, "so it took me a while to register. As for the accolades, I somehow don't see them like that. I don't take compliments or criticism to heart."
The second thing that I think justifies Bajwa's success is her ability to depict the undercurrents that lie beneath India's seemingly chaotic reality. As Ramchand goes about his dreary routine, things happen. Situations reveal a reality radically different from what he has come to accept. He begins to realise, slowly, that all is not as it seems in quiet Amritsar. There are echoes of a horrifying past, a past that comes in the shape of Operation Bluestar. Then there is Kamla, the wife of one of his colleagues, who takes on the town's elite, blaming them for her husband's unemployment and the eventual collapse of her marriage. The treatment meted out to Kamla is swift, and shocking.
There is, for Ramchand, a sudden loss of innocence. It devastates him, propelling him into the first act of rebellion he has ever committed.
The novel leaves me with further questions. I ask about Kamla, and why she seems almost half-formed when compared to Ramchand. "I wanted her story to be slightly off-stage all the time," says Bajwa. "This was deliberate. Even till the end, Ramchand learns of her fate only through the other shop assistants; I don't describe what happens." I point to many female Victorian writers who used violent female characters that gave voice to their repressed alter egos. Are there parts of Bajwa in Kamla? "Not really," she says. "And if there are, there would be equal parts in Ramchand."
Rupa spent the first 18 years of her life in Amritsar, and began writing at 21. Today, for a 28 year-old, she hasn't done too badly. She is satisfied with the novel as a whole ("There is nothing I would have liked to add") and is hard at work on her next ("I would rather not talk about it.").
Considering her gift for capturing the nuances of settings and space, I ask if she has ever experimented with poetry. "It is a very difficult thing to do well," she tells me. "I have never had an urge to try my hand at it. And I am sure that if I did, the results would be pretty ghastly."
Rupa, my dear, I beg to disagree.
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One of the grimmest episodes in the whole French Revolution took place in 1794 with the forced deportation of thousands of Basques from several border communities in Lapurdi, a forced population transfer (long before Stalin's infamous demographic machinations) that was part of the Jacobin excesses associated with Robespierre's reign of terror and that resulted in deprivation and death for many innocent people; an event we covered in a previous post here.
With the fall of Robespierre and the Jacobins, the Girondins returned to power and set about seeking revenge for their own persecution during the reign of terror. In the Basque Country, this was played out against the backdrop of the deportation, with those responsible being sought out. Thus on June 3, 1795, in Donibane Lohizune, a military judge from the Army of the Western Pyrenees (one of the French Republic's military forces) sentenced six councilmembers from that town, including the former mayor Alexis Pagès, as well as two people from neighboring Azkaine, to prison for their role in the deportation.
For more information on the French Revolution in the Basque Country, check out Philippe Veyrin, The Basques of Lapurdi, Zuberoa, amnd Lower Navarre, available free to download here.


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North Andover Police Department Thrilled with BACS Evidence Management System Including Superior Chain of Custody Documentation to Prosecute Criminal Cases
Auburn Hills, MI – September 25, 2012 – LEID Products, LLC., the leader of electronic locker and cabinet storage with biometric asset protection and control, today announced that the North Andover Police Department in Massachusetts has successfully implemented the BACS Evidence Management System including LEID's Electronic Evidence Lockers and BACS Evidence Management ID Station Kiosk. The department has been using the BACS Evidence System to access and track all evidence moving into and out of the property room for a month and have already achieved better chain of custody, increased accuracy in reporting, and time savings.
Property and evidence control and tracking causes enormous concerns in law enforcement. The process for tracking evidence typically consists of manually filling out property forms, which leads to errors and inconsistent chain of custody records. The BACS Evidence Management ID Station Kiosk houses a biometric ID reader for access verification and the touch screen user navigation. The ID Station is also interfaced to LEID's Electronic Evidence Lockers providing the secure temporary storage of evidence incoming and outgoing from police department property rooms. The system includes complete chain of custody custom software tracking and reporting capabilities to monitor all evidence transfers. Property room managers also have remote management capabilities to access, monitor and manage the system while off site. Additional layers of security can be added with options including: hand geometry scanner, ID card reader, RFID evidence reader, and evidence barcode reader.
The North Andover Police Department no longer uses a manual process for evidence tracking. Evidence tracking is ensured through the BACS system and officers are no longer wasting time tracking down detectives in order to access the evidence room. Beyond tighter chain of custody and time savings, the department now has top of the line reporting features for administrators.
"The North Andover Police Department is very happy with how easy the BACS Evidence System is to use," said Chief of Police, Paul J. Gallagher. "All of our officers agree that the system makes their jobs easier. Dropping off evidence is a much faster process than ever before, and chain of custody has been significantly improved."
The BACS Evidence Management System was introduced at the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Conference in October of 2011, and the company is pleased to be returning to the show this year in San Diego, CA, September 30 – October 2. LEID Products will be located in Booth #4211, where they plan to showcase how evidence 'chain of custody' is electronically tracked and accounted for with the BACS Evidence Management System, limiting liability and consequences of exposure to human error. For a video demonstration, visit LEID Products website.
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When we grow tomatoes over Summer, this is what the kids request I make – real tomato sauce. I've adapted this recipe from Sally Cameron's Grow It Cook It and it's easy to make a double batch if you have more tomatoes. I don't water bath these, but the bottles are sterilised before use and the sauce stored in the fridge or freezer.
2kg of ripe tomatoes, roughly chopped (you can freeze fresh tomatoes until you have 2kg if you're picking smaller amounts and want to stock up to do a batch cook up)
1 large onion, peeled and chopped
3 medium apples, chopped (I use Granny Smith)
1 cup of white vinegar
1 Tbs of salt
500g of brown sugar
1/2 tsp pepper
1/2 tsp of smoked paprika
juice of 1 – 2 lemons
1/2 tsp of ground cloves
1 tsp of ground allspice
2cm piece of fresh ginger, grated (or 1/2 tsp dried ginger)
In a large saucepan or pot place the tomatoes, onions and apples and bring to the boil.
Simmer for around 25-30min.
Allow to cool slightly before either processing with a food mill, pushing through a sieve, or processing in a high spend blender and return the mix to the pan.
Add all of the remaining ingredients, stirring through the sugar, and bring the sauce back up to boil.
Simmer for approx 45min – 1hr until the sauce has thickened and pour the sauce into sterilised jars or bottled while still hot and seal. Allow to cool then store in the fridge until needed.
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10 bold predictions to kick off the 2015 NFL season
I've enjoyed a nice eight-month victory lap since my annual 10 Bold Predictions column from last season. With the rest of my colleagues covering the NFL predicting an Armageddon-ish 2-14 or 4-12 season from the Dallas Cowboys, I said 10 wins and the playoffs. I wrote, "Trust Romo." I said, "Trust the offensive line." I said, with a bit of hesitation, "Trust Dez."
It worked out.
But none of that matters now. It's a new season and you only get one calendar year to enjoy patting yourself on the back and receiving the occasional positive tweet from followers (they exist, I learned!). New season. Ten new predictions. Let's do it.
1. The Philadelphia Eagles will win the NFC.
My journey to this year's predictions column started on a steamy late spring day back in June. I'd been making the trip to select NFL OTA and minicamp practices along the East coast and decided to wet my beak with some Eagles action. I'd been to countless Philly practices over the past two years and knew the deal. On the days he's made available to the media, coach Chip Kelly briefly speaks with reporters under a tent adjacent to the practice fields, EDM music blares from the speakers, and away we go with the fastest-paced practice in the NFL.
But this one in June felt different. There was a vibe unlike that of Years 1 and 2 of the Chip Kelly era. And as crazy as it might have been to see Sam Bradford, Mark Sanchez, Tim Tebow and Matt Barkley all suiting up, taking reps side by side, there was a certain uniformity among the team that seemed to click. The defensive front seven — for years "on the verge" — appeared to have blossomed into a mature, suddenly whole unit. The defensive backs — a bit of an Achilles heel the past two seasons — were better, bigger. And the running backs were like the Traveling Wilburys, a star-studded ensemble of former lead guys working together as one. No egos. Roles for everyone.
In 2013, Kelly won 10 games with many of Andy Reid's players. In 2014, he lost his starting quarterback after a 6-2 start and missed the playoffs. In 2015, the chess master seems to have his own pieces, from top to bottom, and is ready to execute.
I left that practice — one that probably wasn't too memorable for the beat guys who are there daily — feeling like this was Chip's squad. They're faster where they have to be and bigger where they've got to be and appear to be in sync from get-go. Most important, they're healthy. Other contenders have injuries from top to bottom and suffered heart-breaking losses on the practice field this summer, but the Eagles escaped six weeks of high-impact training unscathed.
After a much-discussed offseason in which he seized more control of personnel decisions, re-modeled the front office and jettisoned fan favorites LeSean McCoy and Nick Foles, Kelly — the mad scientist who's turned football on its head — has all eyes on him. The many maneuvers he made this offseason, at times quite Machiavellian, will either be a complete success or a complete bust. At this point, there's really no going back, and there's certainly no in-between.
And I'm all in.
Preseason games mean about as much as gambling tips from your co-workers at the water cooler, but it's hard not to be entranced with what the Eagles' first-unit offense did this summer. The Eagles outscored their opponents 86-17 in the first half of their first three preseason games. Against the Packers in their third exhibition contest, Sam Bradford went 10 for 10 for 121 yards and three touchdowns, and the Eagles scored on all three of his possessions.
There are question marks, of course. The offensive guards. Who knows what we're getting there? And, then there's Bradford's knees. Again. In the Eagles' offense, there are going to be times where pass rushers have clean shots at the quarterback, as Terrell Suggs did in the Baltimore preseason game. How the former top overall pick handles those situations, and the threat of an injury every time he drops back, will be huge.
When I revisited the Eagles later in the summer, it was more of the same stuff I saw in June. Up-tempo, positive vibes and a feeling of 90 guys pulling in the same direction. That list of 90 has been trimmed to 53, and along the way, the John Moffitt and Tim Tebow experiments have come and gone. Kelly has been tinkering with his roster all offseason, but the truth is that he's been building the 2015 Eagles for three years.
They've shown flashes in each of his first two seasons as coach. This is the year the dream comes to fruition. Philly is your team out of the NFC.
2. The Rams will finish their last season in St. Louis by going to the playoffs for the first time since 2004. They'll announce their move to Los Angeles shortly after.
I've been on and off the Rams hype plane so many times in recent years, I have jetlag. For the fourth straight season, the Rams start out with the youngest team in football, and for the fourth straight year, I love them. That's OK. This is the year they put it all together. Lost in all the Sam Bradford love this summer was an awfully strong preseason from the guy St. Louis traded Bradford for: Nick Foles. Signed to a two-year extension a few weeks back, Foles completed 12 of 14 passes in his last two preseason starts, with the only two misses coming on a drop and a receiver falling down. St. Louis has quietly added pieces at every position, and when rookie running back Todd Gurley hits his stride in Week 4 or 5, the offense is going to be a far better unit than expected. I see a nine-win season for the Rams; enough to get them the second wild-card spot in the NFC. I also see them announcing a move to Los Angeles, once and for all, sometime in February.
3. The Buffalo Bills will return to the playoffs for the first time since 1999.
Circle the wagons, Bills fans. The team is legit. New coach Rex Ryan has brought the excitement back to Western New York, but the Bills front office gets credit for assembling the necessary pieces. Quarterback Tyrod Taylor didn't win the starting job by default; he won it by mastering Greg Roman's offense and offering a host of opportunities both with his feet and arm. Re-signing Jerry Hughes was as big a deal as any, and the additions of LeSean McCoy and Percy Harvin will make a difference. The Bills have long been on the cusp defensively, but the offense will finally make the leap in 2015. A new ownership group, a strong offseason and a new optimism will lead to 10 wins and a trip to the postseason.
4. The Steelers and Cowboys will both miss the playoffs.
I don't see either of these great franchises making the postseason in 2015. Ben Roethlisberger may throw for 4,500 yards, but if the defense — particularly the secondary — can't stop anyone in Pittsburgh, the Steelers will struggle to make it back to the playoffs. Everything clicked and hit just right for Dallas a season ago. The expectations are awfully high for 2015 — Super Bowl or bust. I think they're solid on both sides of the ball, but with a killer schedule, the Cowboys will miss the playoffs in the end.
5. David Johnson will lead the Arizona Cardinals in rushing.
Who? That's right. David Johnson, the little-known rookie running back out of Northern Iowa, is going to outpace both Andre Ellington and Chris Johnson in rushing stats. Listen to the fantasy football experts all you want, or take this tip and run with it.
6. Jaguars rookie running back T. J. Yeldon will be a fantasy football monster, topping 1,200 yards and scoring 10 touchdowns.
I know, I know. Fantasy football matters little to the hardcore fan. But with the Jaguars bringing in new offensive coordinator Greg Olson and new weapons at the skill positions and bulking up the offensive line they're going to get big numbers out of Yeldon. The Alabama star wasn't a recipient of big pre-draft hype and made no waves in training camp or the preseason. Just wait until the regular season. He'll lead all rookie running backs in rushing.
7. Von Miller will break Michael Strahan's single-season sacks record.
I'm not sure what to expect from Peyton Manning this season, but I do know the Broncos pass rush is going to be special. With DeMarcus Ware, Shane Ray and the blossoming Sylvester Williams all looking healthy and ready to emerge this preseason, Miller can annihilate opposing tackles off the edge. Justin Houston came just shy of breaking Strahan's 22.5 single-season sacks record a season ago. I think Miller goes for an even 24, breaks the record and then absolutely breaks the bank next offseason in free agency.
8. The Jets will win more games than the Giants.
And not by much. Neither franchise will make the playoffs this year. Another long season for the Jersey teams.
9. Kwon Alexander will be named NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year.
Tampa Bay's first-round pick is starting at quarterback and its two second-rounders will start on the offensive line, but its fourth-round pick could be the best of the bunch. Alexander, a star at LSU, is going to start at middle linebacker in Lovie Smith's defensive scheme. Way ahead of schedule, the 21-year-old could end up being the quarterback of a surprisingly very good D. NFL teams drafted 123 players ahead of Alexander, but he's my pick for Defensive Rookie of the Year.
10. Jay Cutler will have his best year as a pro, and Adam Gase will be the first new head coach hired in January.
Everyone is done with Cutler. I get it. He's a bum. He's a surly dude. He's got nothing left. He can't win. I think he will have his best season as a professional quarterback in 2015. Gase's offense — a derivative of the one Cutler started to master under former Bears coordinator Mike Martz — could be perfect for the big-armed veteran QB. I'm not putting all my eggs in the Bears' basket — they could finish in last place in the NFC North this year — but it won't be because of quarterback play. Cutler is in a good place, and with Gase guiding him, they'll both have big years.
NFC wild-card round
(6) Rams at (3) Seahawks: Seahawks 23, Rams 16
(5) Cardinals at (4) Panthers: Cardinals 27, Panthers 17
AFC wild-card round
(6) Ravens at (3) Colts: Colts 21, Ravens 17
(5) Bills at (4) Bengals: Bengals 16, Bills 10
NFC divisional round
(5) Cardinals at (1) Eagles: Eagles 34, Cardinals 20
(3) Seahawks at (2) Packers: Packers 20, Seahawks 16
AFC divisional round
(4) Bengals at (1) Patriots: Patriots 27, Bengals 17
(3) Colts at (2) Broncos: Broncos 37, Colts 20
NFC championship game
(2) Packers at (1) Eagles: Eagles 34, Packers 24
AFC championship game
(2) Broncos at (1) Patriots: Patriots 24, Broncos 20
Super Bowl 50
Patriots 34, Eagles 30
- Andre Ellington
- Arizona Cardinals
- Ben Roethlisberger
- Buffalo Bills
- Chicago Bears
- DeMarcus Ware
- Denver Broncos
- Green Bay Packers
- Jacksonville Jaguars
- Jay Cutler
- John Moffitt
- Justin Houston
- Kwon Alexander
- LeSean McCoy
- Los Angeles Rams
- Mark Sanchez
- Matt Barkley
- Percy Harvin
- peter-schrager
- Peyton Manning
- Philadelphia Eagles
- Pittsburgh Steelers
- Sam Bradford
- Shane Ray
- Sylvester Williams
- T.J. Yeldon
- Terrell Suggs
- Tim Tebow
- Todd Gurley II
- Tyrod Taylor
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Individual Wildlife Trusts were formed across the length and breadth of the UK by the 1960s, in response to the widespread devastation of our natural habitats. Ancient woodlands, lakes, meadows, moors, islands, estuaries and beaches were all rescued in an urgent drive to save our natural heritage for future generations.
The Wildlife Trusts
There are 47 individual Wildlife Trusts covering the whole of the UK and the Isle of Man and Alderney.
Together The Wildlife Trusts are the largest UK voluntary organisation dedicated to protecting wildlife and wild places everywhere – at land and sea. We are supported by more than 800,000 members, 150,000 of which belong to our junior branch - Wildlife Watch.
Every year The Wildlife Trusts work with thousands of schools and welcome millions of visitors to our nature reserves and visitor centres.
Our vision
'an environment rich in wildlife for everyone'
Our objectives
To create A Living Landscape
To secure Living Seas
To inspire people about the natural world
To encourage individual action for wildlife and the environment
Creating A Living Landscape
The Wildlife Trusts work in partnership with thousands of landowners and businesses across the UK in towns, cities and in the wider countryside.
Using the our existing network of more than 2,000 nature reserves as a cornerstone, The Wildlife Trusts have a recovery plan for the UK's wildlife and fragmented habitats.
Known as A Living Landscape, it is being achieved through restoring, recreating and reconnecting large areas of wildlife habitat, helping to safeguard the ecosystems that we depend on for so much.
Securing Living Seas
The Wildlife Trusts are also working to protect the UK's marine environment and secure Living Seas.
We are involved with many marine conservation projects around the UK, often surveying and collecting vital data on the state of our seas.
Every year we run National Marine Week in August – a two-week celebration of our seas with hundreds of events around the UK.
Inspiring People and Encouraging Action For the Environment
Our overall aim at The Wildlife Trusts is to achieve a UK richer in wildlife – for the benefit of all.
We stand up for wildlife and want to inspire the nation about the nature on our doorsteps.
Whether you fancy getting into the great outdoors or being an armchair supporter, there are opportunities for all.
From volunteering and the chance to get some fresh air on one of our nature reserves, to taking part in one of the many events we run... or perhaps leading one of our junior Wildlife Watch groups to inspire the next generation of naturalists.
HRH The Prince of Wales
Simon King OBE
President Emeritus
Sir David Attenborough OM CH CVO CBE FRS
Professor Aubrey Manning OBE
Vice Presidents
Professor J Chris Baines
Professor David Macdonald CBE DSc FRSE
Julian Pettifer OBE
Professor Sir Robert Worcester KBE DL
Chris Packham
Nick Baker
Bill Oddie OBE
Bill Bolsover CBE
René Olivieri
Chief Executive
Stephanie Hilborne OBE
You can contact The Wildlife Trusts at:
The Kiln, Waterside, Mather Road, Newark NG24 1WT
T: 019636 677711 F: 01636 670001 E: firstname.lastname@example.com W: www.wildlifetrusts.org